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Netizen Report: #TheDayWeFightBack Edition
From top left: mural by War Design art collective in Bogota, Colombia; public protest in Manila, Philippines (photo by @leannejazul) ; public rally in San Francisco, US (photo by Ellery Biddle); anti-surveillance cartoon by Egyptian artist Doaa Eladl.
Sonia Roubini, Bojan Perkov, Hae-in Lim, Ellery Roberts Biddle, and Sarah Myers contributed to this report.
Global Voices Advocacy's Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in Internet rights around the world. This week's report begins on the Internet, where people and groups all over the world came together and took a stand against mass surveillance on February 11, #thedaywefightback. Citizens took to the streets and to the web, pushing online campaigns, calling elected representatives, hosting hackathons and organizing public protests — and over 244,000 people signed the Thirteen Principles on International Communications Surveillance, urging governments worldwide to uphold human rights standards when it comes to online privacy.
February 11 was also a great day for potent discussion about the different ways in which surveillance takes shape and effects citizens in different countries. On Advox, Yemeni activist and scholar Walid Al-Saqaf and Iranian-Canadian researcher Mahsa Alimardani each wrote editorials exploring the issue in different countries in the Middle East, where surveillance is often the norm, whether online or in real life. Probing at western digital rights communities’ shift of focus towards surveillance, Al-Saqaf wrote,
I cannot accept the idea that the fight has now moved to the area of surveillance and away from free speech. While this may be the case where censorship is limited or non-existent, it is certainly not applicable to many countries living under authoritarian rule.
Free Expression: “Too much freedom, and you might start hitting your wife,” warns Turkish gov’t
Riot police in Turkey used tear gas and water cannons last weekend to break up over 2,000 protesters demonstrating against the country’s new Internet legislation. The new bills, which passed on February 6, will require ISPs to make web user data available to authorities and will allow Turkey’s telecommunications authority to block websites, all without prior court approval.
As if it its views weren’t clear enough already, the Turkish government recently launched an advertising campaign featuring a woman with a bruised face and a caption suggesting that too much freedom online can lead to violence.
Thuggery: Azeri journalist takes exile from Turkey over harmful tweets
Mahir Zeynalov, a journalist for Turkish newspaper Today’s Zaman, has been barred from entering the country by the Turkish government after posting several tweets viewed as critical of high-level state officials. Zeynalov elected to return to his native Azerbaijan after officials threatened to expel him under an article of Law 5651 that allows for the deportation of foreigners “whose residence in Turkey is considered detrimental to public security and political and administrative requirements.”
Telecom authorities in Venezuela are threatening to fine local media for covering student protests that have dominated social discourse in recent weeks. A series of student demonstrations [es] — over issues ranging from poor conditions in university residence halls to national political reform — intensified this week after several students were arrested on dubious charges of “association” with criminal activity. From Caracas, Global Voices author and attorney Marianne Diaz writes,
As opposition leaders summon rallies around the country, people are expected to turn to social media to learn about the development of the demonstrations, which likely will not be reported on any public or mainstream news platforms.
Three Kazakh bloggers were sentenced to ten days in jail for engaging in “minor hooliganism” after they were excluded from a “blogger luncheon” hosted by the mayor of Almaty, Kazakhstan’s capital. The incident has divided Almaty’s blogging community, some of whom—including the three detained bloggers—have painted the invitees as “corrupt” and “tamed.”
Indonesian Twitter celebrity Benny Handoko was found guilty of defamation and sentenced to a year of probation after he called a former member of the Prosperous Justice Party a crook in a series of tweets.
Industry: Facebook boots Syrian opposition groups
Facebook’s recent decision to shut down pages belonging to Syrian opposition groups have dealt a blow to activists who had been relying on Facebook to communicate and report on the war’s atrocities. Some activists speculate that regime supporters are taking advantage of Facebook’s “Community Standards” that allow users to report on pages they believe are violating the site’s terms of service. While some pages with graphic imagery may in fact violate terms, some question whether Terms should be amended in response to unique situations such as this, where Facebook serves as a vital platform for information and documentation.
Twitter released its fourth transparency report, covering the second half of 2013. The report shows that the total number of user data requests rose by 22 percent compared to the previous report. The company received 1410 requests from 46 countries, most coming from the United States (59%) and Japan (15%), with France and the UK next in line. Twitter did not disclose all information on US government requests under national security laws, including FISA.
Netizen Activism: Keeping #Euromaidan alive, despite the cold
Activists in Ukraine are fighting to keep the Euromaidan protest movement alive through web-based projects, social media, and art. Updates on Euromaidan are available at their Public Relations Secretariat page and at Kraplya.com.
European Digital Rights, an association of 35 European digital rights organizations, launched Wepromise.eu, which urges political candidates to sign a “Charter of Digital Rights” promising to uphold a set of principles if elected. In turn, voters promise to elect candidates who sign on to the charter.
The Web We Want, a global campaign supporting digital rights activism around the globe held a cartoon contest to support #TheDayWeFightBack. Seventeen-year-old Paraguayan cartoonist Francisco Javier ¨Frankiano¨ Cardozo Baudry won the grand prize with his contribution ¨Do Not Fear, I care about you,¨ a multi-frame comic showing how surveillance is affecting every aspect of the lives of young Internet users today.
Command and Control – The State of Journalism in China, 25 Years After Tiananmen — Nieman Reports
Belarus: Time for Media Reform – Index on Censorship
Democracy in Crisis: Corruption, Media, and Power in Turkey — Freedom House
Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the Front Lines in 2013 – Committee to Protect Journalists
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Lebanon: New Stamp to Commemorate Armenian Genocide
Lebanon will have a new national stamp released to commemorate the Armenian Genocide. Announcing it on Twitter, Minister of Telecommunications Nicolas Sehnaoui stressed the symbolic importance of the stamp:
Today we signed the order to launch the production of a new national stamp honoring all the victims of the Armenian Genocide
— Nicolas Sehnaoui (@NicolaSehnaoui) January 28, 2014
This stamp which will be on envelopes sent to all corners of the globe will be our shout-out to the world to recognize the Armenian Genocide
It is also a statement to our fellow Armenian citizens that they are a core component of our Lebanese society and that we are proud of them
Photo of the new stamp which will be produced in memory of the Armenian Genocide pic.twitter.com/AGB0pKOebn
An estimated 1 to 1.5 million Armenians were killed in present-day Turkey (then under Ottoman rule), starting from April 1915, in what became known as the Armenian genocide.
Armenian activists and supporters have taken this opportunity to remind the world of the importance of recognizing the Armenian Genocide:
@NicolaSehnaoui thank you for honoring the victims of the genocide, a devastating chapter in the history of the 20th century.
— nanor (@nanor) January 28, 2014
Should be used on the turkish embassy's docs ;) “@NicolaSehnaoui: the new stamp in memory of the Armenian Genocide pic.twitter.com/QXLR9rlSrR”
— Adham Hassanieh (@AdhamMG) January 28, 2014
@NicolaSehnaoui I am sending envelopes to turkey with such stamps
— Sari Aquismaia Árab (@Aquismaia21) January 28, 2014
@NicolaSehnaoui thank you dear for your contribution to the #ArmenianCause #RecognizeArmenianGenocide
— Garo Beujekian (@GaroBeujekian) January 28, 2014
London-based historian Rory Yeomans notes its historic importance:
@NicolaSehnaoui @Zinvor So much for Hitler's boast: "Who now remembers the Armenians?" The whole world, it seems :) #NeverForget
— Rory Yeomans (@roryyeomans) January 29, 2014
Turkish Twitter user Mehmet Kosucu thinks otherwise:
@MFATurkey @NicolaSehnaoui Please warn with this hostile minister in Lebanon,who thinks hostility towards TR is very easy.
— Mehmet Kosucu (@MehmetKosucu) January 29, 2014
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Lebanese blogger spoofs Study on Middle Eastern Women Dressing
The question “How should Middle Eastern Women Dress in Public” posed by the University of Michigan is attracting hilarious spoofs online. The content is so rich that an additional post to our first one was necessary.
When Washington Post Max Fisher shared the original image on Twitter, he wasn't expecting this response by WSJ blogger Tom Gara:
I have the most amazing haters, you guys. They’re so creative! http://t.co/2AoT6ZTAYC pic.twitter.com/ZIYL3SgxV0
— Max Fisher (@Max_Fisher) January 9, 2014
But the spoof that got the most attention was undoubtedly Karl Sharro's of KarlreMarks:
An Arab university ran this fascinating poll about what is most appropriate for American women to wear in public. pic.twitter.com/uIta80i1f8
— Karl Sharro (@KarlreMarks) January 9, 2014
Interviewed on PRI, he explained his motivation:
“It's almost like putting Muslim women on a scale from 1 to 6, from being fully covered to not being covered at all, which I think is pretty absurd.”
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Facebook Teams Up with Russia's Top Search Engine
Yandex gets to drink from Facebook's firehose. Images mixed by Kevin Rothrock, pulled from YouTube captures.
Scholars and researchers of the Russian Internet can rejoice this week, for Russia's leading search engine, Yandex.ru, is now the second website in the world, after Bing in the United States, to gain access to Facebook firehose data [ru]. This means that Yandex can now search Facebook's streaming API and provide live results for all public posts. The new deal with Facebook is limited to users based in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Turkey. Currently, only Yandex's blogs-specific search feature is capable of returning Facebook results, but the company's spokesperson told TechCrunch on January 13, 2014, that Yandex hopes to incorporate Facebook links in its general Internet search results soon.
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Mapping the ‘Urban Commons’ of Rio de Janeiro, Istanbul and Athens
Street protest of teachers in Rio de Janeiro (Oct 7, 2013). Photo shared on the Facebook page Mapeando o bem comum do Rio de Janeiro (Mapping the commons in Rio de Janeiro, in Portuguese)
A group of activists, artists, social scientists and students of various studies are working to map the urban commons of Athens, Istanbul and Rio de Janeiro. Urban commons refer to non-private or institutional resources which are shared by all and generated as a result of collective participation. The “commons” include natural resources, urban public spaces, creative works and even cultural traditions and knowledge which are exempt from copyrights.
The project Mapping the Commons is part of a survey carried out by Pablo de Soto (@pablodesoto), a doctorate student of the Communication School of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. The hypothesis raised by de Soto is whether it is possible to map out the commons through collective creativity as a form of debating the control governments have over society's commons:
Which is the commonwealth of the contemporary metropolis and how can it be located? How are the commons being protected from enclosure by totalitarian neoliberalism’s public-private enterprises? Which new practices of commoning are emerging in the cycle of struggles that began in 2010-11? What are the advantages and the risks of such a cartography in times of crisis and rebellions?
In practice, the research method proposed by the project is based on nomadic and temporary workshops where the urban commons are discussed, parametrized, charted and represented in short videos.
Mapping Rio's commons
In October 2013, the researcher brought [es] the project to Rio de Janeiro, thus starting the mapping of the “practices of common doing” in Brazil, as explained [pt] in the Portuguese language page of Rio's project:
O Brasil, como América Latina toda, é um país especial nas práticas dos commons. O comum bebe de tradições ibéricas (faixanais, rossios, propriedades comunais), da cultura afro (quilombos, criação cultural coletiva, propriedades conjuntas) e indígenas (propriedade coletiva, malokas). Do mutirão ao conceito de ‘comunidade’ que substitui a palavra ‘favela’, o Brasil é uma celeiro de práticas do comum. Porém, o mercado e o capitalismo estão castigando o comum sem piedade.
Brazil, as the whole of Latin America, is a special country regarding practices of the commons. The “common” derives from the Iberian traditions (faixanais, rossios, communal properties), from the African culture (quilombos, collective cultural creation, joint properties) and from the indigenous cultures (collective property, malokas). From the mutirão (crowdsourcing) to the concept of “community” which replaces the word “favela” (slum), Brazil is a storehouse of common practices. However, both the market and capitalism are punishing the common without mercy.
Taking on the concept of “rebellious cities”, coined by social theorist David Harvey, de Soto adds that recent protests in Rio de Janeiro – “the demonstrations, the popular assemblies, the urban interventions” – point to a new demand for the right to the city, “a new common and participative space of coexistence”. He also explained to the English-language audience of the website that:
Rio de Janeiro, a city branded as “the marvellous city” has probably one of the most exuberant assets for natural and cultural commons in world. Those commons are disputed in a metropolis of enormous inequality and historically under state of exception.
Present days where the city is going to host mega events as the World Cup and the Olympic Games, where conflicts of housing evictions flourish in many areas, where protests that began last June have pointed to the mobility as a common and the right to the city, have opened an excellent opportunity for a political discussion on the urban commons.
#MapeandoOComum (#MappingTheCommons). A mapping workshop on “The struggle for the shared commons” took place in Rio de Janeiro from November 21-23.
The Mapping the Commons activities, which took place in Rio last October, included the seminars Metrópoles globais e Cidadania Insurgentes (Global metropolis and emergent citizenships) [pt] and O que pode a cidade? (What can the city?) [pt]. Working groups were created to take care of the parametrization and the mapping of the commons in Rio. The process has been disseminated through Facebook on the page Mapeando o bem comum do Rio de Janeiro (Mapping the commons in Rio de Janeiro) [pt]. The final presentation of the results of the project took place on December 14.
Athens, Istanbul and the commons
Before being introduced in Brazil, the Mapping the Commons research project had already been discussed in workshops in Athens (2010) and in Istanbul (2012). The videos which resulted from these workshops were also presented in Rio.
The rescue of Gezi Park, for instance, and the popular turmoil which took hold in the central area of Beyoglu, Istanbul in 2013, when the population camped on site against the demolition of the park as part of a urban renewal project, were the subject of the research.
The video below shows how the rescue of the commons in Istanbul turned into political strife after the police reacted with brutality against the demonstrators:
The video produced in the Greek capital, Athens, focuses on language issues, taking as a starting point the literature by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt in their book Commonwealth:
Language like affects and gestures, is for the most part common, and indeed if language were made either private or public — that is, if large portions of our words, phrases, or parts of speech were subject to private ownership or public authority — then language would lose its powers of expression, creativity, and communication.
A philosophical elucidation about the commons, as suggested [pt] by de Soto on the project's Facebook page, can be found on Iohannes Maurus's blog [es], which links the theme with Marx's perspective.
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Turk-Arab Youth Congress: Middle East Needs Greater Regional Cooperation
Participants at the annual Turk-Arab Youth Congress (TAYC) in Istanbul, Turkey at the end of October called for a future in which Turks and Arabs work together at all levels for a better future of the region.
The Congress emphasized the need for Turks and Arabs to recognize their common heritage as well as conform to their own standards instead of those set by the West.
Since 2012, the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Youth Assembly (IMMYA), a platform for Turkish youth, has held the Turk-Arab Youth Congress (TAYC). The congress is a platform in which Arab and Turkish youth and intellectuals can meet, talk about ideas and bring about a new vision for the region's future. The sessions and workshops are intended to create a comprehensive understanding for the participants and policy makers about the ground issues and challenges that region faces in order to explore new ideas and approaches for the present and future.
The theme for this year's TAYC in Istanbul, Turkey, was “justice”, and the topics covered included: creating regional and global civil aid networks, and rethinking regional and global economic institutions. Young people belonging to 24 different Arab countries took part in the congress this year and zealously asked questions about their future, especially against the backdrop of uprisings and political unrest in the Middle East. The three-day (October 25, 2013 to October 27, 2013) program consisted of workshops, sessions and NGO presentations.
The description of the Facebook page of Turk Arab Youth Congress stated the following goals:
1.To draw a vision for the future of the New Arabic World.
2.To create the platform for the youth to meet with the Arab & the Turkish intellectuals
3.To share and to document the “Street Experience” of the demonstrations from the people of revolution
Image courtesy Gulay Kaplan. From Turk-Arab Youth Congress Facebook Page.
On the first day, notable intellectuals and advisors to some political parties in Turkey delivered opening speeches. Panel discussion were conducted to explain the current scenario of the region and future implications.
The Twitter account (@Turk_Arab) of the Turk Arab Youth Congress (TAYC) shared a steady stream of opinions and statements from the speakers. Some noteworthy ones are:
Miss Summeyye Erdogan, Advisor to the Chairman of AK party, told young people to remain united despite the divides between them:
Miss Sümeyye Erdoğan : “Turkey and Turkish people have never considered the neighbours as a tool for their own sake, we are brothers!” #tayc
— Tr&Ar Youth Congress (@Turk_Arab) October 25, 2013
The Director and Coordinator of TAYC 2013, Oguzhan Mailmail (@oguzhan Mailmail) welcomed the participants on the first day and explained the goals of the congress to them.
Sumeyye Erdoğan: We do not accept borders driven among us in this geography. #tayc2013 @GenclikMeclisi @Turk_Arab
— Oğuzhan Mailmail (@OguzhanMailmail) October 25, 2013
Dr. Kerem Kinik (@drkerem), President of Doctors Worldwide, gave a presentation on “togetherness” and suggested that young people share their pain and suffering and speak out against oppression:
@Turk_Arab @GenclikMeclisi #R4BIA dedi @r4biaplatform pic.twitter.com/qUxb9tBt2G
— Dr Kerem KINIK (@drkerem) October 25, 2013
@Turk_Arab @GenclikMeclisi said #R4BIA @r4biaplatform
Turk Arab Youth Congress (@Turk_Arab) tweeted:
An emphasis on togetherness from Dr Kerem Kınık! @drkerem #tayc2013 @GenclikMeclisi pic.twitter.com/u4GOrET3ED
Omar Salha (@o_salha), founder of Ramadan Tent and a doctoral fellow working on global diplomacy, conducted sessions on the intervention of international organizations in local conflicts and politics. He considered the interaction with the participants an insightful one:
Great two sessions&insightful comments, debates&discussions. Look forward to presenting ‘Role of Diplomacy in the Middle East’ @Turk_Arab
— Omar Salha (@o_salha) October 26, 2013
Izzy (@islam_altayeb), a Middle East analyst, tweeted:
In a decade or so, we will be overwhelmed by a new generation of Middle Eastern poets, writers & artists. Sorrow gives birth to beauty.
— Izzy (@islam_altayeb) October 23, 2013
The “Economic and Financial Commission” was moderated by Muzammil Thakur (@M_A_Thakur), an advocate for the cause of Indian occupied Kashmir:
اللجنة الاقتصادية والمالية في ورشة عمل مع @M_A_Thakur #TAYC2013 pic.twitter.com/8WK9ELhoS9
The economic and financial committee at the workshop
Merve Serire (@karakurukiz), who studied economics at Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey, moderated the social, humanitarian and cultural commission:
اللجنة الثقافية والإنسانية والاجتماعية في ورشة عمل مع @karakurukiz #TAYC2013 pic.twitter.com/wOp9GEPEU6
The cultural and humanitarian and social committee at the workshop
As an example of the impact of the platform, Dorra Amara (@DorraAmara) from Tunisia and Merve Serire (@karakurukiz) from Turkey became close at the Congress. Amara tweeted this picture:
Who rule the world? Who lead the future? @karakurukiz @Turk_Arab #TAYC2013 pic.twitter.com/TQAJaCeny2
— Dorra Amara (@DorraAmara) October 26, 2013
At the end of all the sessions and workshops, the participants were asked to devise solutions for the Syrian refugee problem. Representative from each workshop shared information with all the participants in an evaluation conducted on the evening of October 26 and October 27, 2013:
@Turk_Arab Gençlik Kongresinde 2. gün oturumları değerlendirilmesi yapılıyor #tayc2013 #TAYC2013 pic.twitter.com/cRhQFEQiH4
— İBB Gençlik Meclisi (@GenclikMeclisi) October 26, 2013
@Turk_Arab Assessment of second day sessions at Youth Congress. #tayc2013 #TAYC2013
A short video clip, highlighting the overview of the congress can also be viewed through the following link:
It is evident that events of such nature are giving the Muslim youth a chance to channel their energies in the correct direction. They are discussing their future as they alone can better understand the dynamics of their respective countries. Apart from political harmony and unity, people across the borders can interact with each other. This is significant for Arab region that is going through disharmony and uncertainty.
Thumbnail image by author. Translations by Amira Al Hussaini & Baran Mavzer.
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Overwhelmed by Syrian Refugees, Bulgaria Seeks EU Aid
Bulgaria, as the closest EU country to Syria, is seeing more than its fair share of the average 5,000 refugees that are fleeing Syria every day. Unprepared and inexperienced in dealing with this influx of refugees seeking shelter, food and protection, Syria has requested assistance and financial aid from the European Union. Meanwhile, some Bulgarian ministers have allegedly proposed to use some of the new funding to put up a 30-kilometer barrier fence along the border with Turkey to prevent illegal entry.
Open Democracy reports in more detail:
Geographically, Bulgaria is not that remote from Syria. Sharing a border with Turkey, Bulgaria is the EU member state closest to Syria if one is travelling by road or railway transport. Therefore, as the most likely first point of entry into the Union, Bulgaria must be well equipped to meet the challenges that will ensue with the new expected waves of Syrian refugees in the coming months. Unfortunately, that appears not to be the case.[...]
This week it is expected that the European Commission will make a final decision as to whether Bulgaria will receive financial aid to cope with the situation. In the meantime, Kristalina Georgieva, the European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, has warned that the Bulgarian authorities lack experience of dealing with similar situations and have failed in crisis planning.
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Video: Anti-fascist Solidarity from Turkey to Greece
“We made this video to tell you we are with us. We had nothing more in mind.”
A moving video with testimonials of anti-fascist solidarity from Turkish activists in the memory of Greek rapper Pavlos Fyssas, slain by neonazis in Athens last month, was uploaded on YouTube, subtitled in Greek. The video was set to a dirge written by Turkish composer Zülfü Livaneli and Greek lyricist Lefteris Papadopoulos, and performed by famous Greek singer and political Maria Farandouri, an icon of the struggle against the Greek military junta in the late 60′s.
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Warring across Syria's border with Turkey - English edition
Warring across Syria’s border with Turkey - English edition
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In Oncupinar in southern #Turkey, close to the Syrian border, Ahmed sits huddled with his wife and four young children. They have been refugees for going on seven months, since a missile slammed into their Aleppo home.
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Serbia, Turkey, Slovenia and Brazil on Winning Streak at Girls’ U18 Volleyball World Championship
As the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) blog reports, the Serbian, Turkish, Slovenian and Brazilian under-18 girls’ national volleyball teams showed outstanding results on the weekend of July 27-28, some with a perfect win-loss ratio. Full stats and results are available and regularly updated on the Federation's website.
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France Sees Shades of its Revolutionary Past in Turkey's Revolt
The recent unrest in Turkey has left eight dead and more than 4,000 injured as well as exposed political divides and ineptitudes in the country that straddles Europe and Asia.
But the consequences of the massive protests, which grew from a movement to stop the destruction of Istanbul's Gezi Park for a redevelopment project in Taksim Square, have extended far beyond the borders of Turkey.
Members of the European Union, led by Germany, have used these clashes as an excuse to postpone negotiations on Turkey's entry into the European Union from late June until autumn. The website Cameroonvoice [fr] specified:
La chancelière Angela Merkel a déclaré la semaine dernière que les événements en Turquie ne correspondaient pas aux “notions européennes de la liberté de réunion et d’expression”.
The Chancellor Angela Merkel declared last week that the events in Turkey do not correspond to “European ideas of freedom of assembly and expression.”
At the same time, the events in Turkey seem to have generated questions about identity in France and throughout Europe tied to the prospect of Turkey's entry into the European Union. The French are asking themselves variations of, “Do we share the same values?”
Erdogan: The demonstrations are Twitter's fault, by khalid Albaih on Flickr, CC by-nc-sa/2.0
Not so different?
Many French media outlets have based their analyses of the EU matter on the events of June in Turkey, trying out a number of different analogies. As if this large neighbour, who might soon become part of the family, and its revolts offered the French a mix of complete exoticism and familiar reality. As Henri Goldman writes on his blog [fr]:
Un peu partout, on compare Taksim à Tahir, le Printemps turc au Printemps arabe. Sur les images qui circulent, ce sont les mêmes couches sociales,– étudiants, classes moyennes instruites… – qui tiennent le haut du pavé. Celles-ci nourrissent leurs aspirations à partir du kit culturel cosmopolite qui se diffuse par internet et constitue désormais le bagage commun des courants « branchés » des sociétés en transition. Le mode de mobilisation aussi les rapproche : des mots d’ordre lancés à travers la toile et qui essaiment en réseaux sans quartier général où n’importe quelle consigne est reprise pour autant qu’elle réponde à l’attente, indépendamment de qui la lance.”
Everywhere, Taksim is being compared to Tahir, the Turkish spring to the Arab spring. In the images making the rounds, we see the same social groups – students, educated middle classes… – leading the field. They feed their ambitions with the cosmopolitan cultural kit spread over the Internet and which now forms the stock ideas of the “fashionable” schools of thought in societies in transition. The means of mobilisation brings them together too: slogans begun on the Internet which spring up in networks without headquarters, where any instructions are repeated so long as they correspond to expectations, no matter who starts them.
Others, particularly in France, have seen the protest as a new “May '68“, referring to the Paris social revolution of 1968, sometimes in a desire to identify with the protesters. Chems Eddine Chitour's blog [fr] does just that:
“Les médias occidentaux pensaient et pensent que le dernier «domino» allait tomber. Ils ont présenté cette colère comme celle d’une Turquie ultralaïque qui en a marre de l’AKP et tout est fait pour forcer l’analogie avec les places Tahrir et partant avec les tyrans arabes. Pas un mot d’une analogie avec mai 1968 en Europe au sortir des trente glorieuses bâties sur la sueur des émigrés. Quand Daniel Cohn-Bendit et ses camarades avaient mis à mal le gouvernement de De Gaulle ce n’était pas pour du pain comme la plupart des révoltes dans les pays arabes, mais c’était pour secouer un ordre ancien en interdisant d’interdire…”
Western media outlets thought and think that the last ‘domino’ was going to fall. They have presented this anger as that of an ultra-secular Turkey, fed up with the AKP, and the analogy with Tahrir Square and the doing away with Arab tyrants is pushed to its limits. Not once has the analogy been drawn with May 1968 in Europe, at the end of the so-called golden years, built on the sweat of immigrants. When Daniel Cohn-Bendit and his fellow students took action against De Gaulle's government, it was not because they were starving, like most of the uprisings in Arab countries, but to shake up an old order by not allowing it to suppress them…
The European Parliament officially condemned the brutal repression of the demonstration. But Ex-Expat [fr] commented on a France 24 article which describes the ongoing demonstration:
Les seuls Européens en Turquie sont ceux au Taksim et leurs sympathisants!”
The only Europeans in Turkey are those in Taksim Square and their supporters!
A video showing the protesters in Taksim Square singing “Do you hear the people sing?” taken from the musical Les Misérables about the Paris uprising of 1832, demonstrates the link between the protesters and Europe:
From Gezi Park to Turkey's EU integration
“Taksim ist überall!” – “Taksim is everywhere!” Hamburg, Germany, 8 June, 2013. By Rasande Tyskar on Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0
The “European values” Angela Merkel spoke of are the values picked up by online media outlets, sliding almost systematically from the subject of the Gezi and Taksim demonstrations to that of Turkey's integration into the EU. Franck Proust [fr], a member of the European Parliament for the French UMP Party, reiterated the position of the French right-wing. Coralie Morallet explains [fr] on the regional news website Objectif Gard (Southern France):
Un accord de partenariat: oui, mais l’adhésion à l’Europe : Non! La Turquie n’a rien d’européenne. Nous ne partageons pas la même culture, ni les mêmes racines judéo-chrétiennes, ni les mêmes aspirations politiques“
A partnership agreement: yes, but accession to Europe: no! Turkey is not European. We don't share the same culture, nor the same Judeo-Christian roots, nor the same political aspirations.
A comment from Joël Toussaint [fr] responded:
L’Europe partage des racines judéo-chrétiennes qui ont été plantées… en Turquie! Le premier Concile de Nicée date de 325 et le premier Concile de Constantinople fut tenu en 381. (…) L’arrogance trouve sa racine dans l’ignorance… M. Proust saute à pieds joints sur le prétexte que lui fournit Erdogan et met ainsi le pied dans le plat. Il procède à un exercice d’amalgame entre le peuple turc et ses dirigeants. La démagogie politique dans toute sa splendeur!”
Europe shares Judeo-Christian roots which were sown… in Turkey! The first Council of Nicea was in 325, and the first Council of Constantinople took place in 381. (…) Arrogance is rooted in ignorance. Mr. Proust jumps feet first into the pretext given by Erdogan, and ends up putting his foot in it. He is conflating the Turkish people with their leaders. Political grandstanding in all of its glory!
The majority of comments were very pessimistic [fr] as to the outcome of the integration process:
(…) Vouloir absolument européaniser le digne successeur de l’empire ottoman est une vue de l’esprit, une vision idyllique de la future Union européenne. Ce n’est pas parce 5% de la population adhère aux idées et valeurs de l’UE que les 95% d’anatoliens vont le faire, ni parce que Constantinople est devenu Ankara que la mentalité des dirigeants ottomans – kémalistes ou islamistes (modérés ?), a changé.”
Demonstration of solidarity with #OccupyGezi in Wroclaw, Poland. By David Krawczyk on Flickr – CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
(…) Insisting on europeanising the worthy successor of the Ottoman Empire is an illusion, an idyllic vision of the future of the European Union. Just because 5 percent of the population adhere to the ideas and values of the EU doesn't means that 95 percent of Anatolians will do so. Just because Constantinople has become Ankara, it doesn't means that the mentality of the Ottoman leaders – whether Kemalist or (moderate?) Islamist – has changed.
But there are some who turn the spotlight on the values shared with the protesters themselves across European borders: against police violence, arbitrary detention of protesters and journalists, and for freedom of expression and freedom of assembly. As Cameroonvoice [fr] affirmed:
De l’Azerbaïdjan au Sénégal tout le monde compatit avec les manifestants de la place Taksim, pas avec Erdogan”, conclut Hakan Günes, professeur de politologie à l’université de Marmara.”
“From Azerbaijan to Senegal, everyone sympathizes with the protesters in Taksim Square, not with Erdogan”, concludes Hakan Günes, Professor of Political Science at the University of Marmara.
And the more that Turkey's Prime Minister's Recep Tayyip Erdoğan turns to conspiracy theories [fr] to denounce the influence of the European Union, Western media, social networks (especially Twitter), the more he risks isolating himself on the world stage. It is ironic, then, that it it is precisely with regards to the fear of the other and conspiracy theories that Sema Kaygusuz, a Turkish writer [fr], sees similarities between Turkish and American societies:
La Turquie est un pays où tout le monde a peur de l’autre. Les Kémalistes ont peur des islamistes, les islamistes ont peur des laïques, les femmes ont peur des hommes, les enfants ont peur des adultes… C’est la mentalité américaine : on est toujours en danger.”
Turkey is a country where everyone fears the other. Kemalists fear Islamists, Islamists fear secularists, women fear men, children fear adults… It's the American mentality: we are always under threat.
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Online and Off, Information Control Persists in Turkey
Demonstrators at Gezi Park. Photo by Nevit Dilmen. (CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported)
Demonstrators in Turkey have occupied Istanbul’s Taksim Square since last May, in a movement that began as an effort to protect a city park, but has evolved into a larger mobilization against the ruling party’s increasingly autocratic stance.
Prime Minister Erdogan and the ruling AKP party have used many tools to silence voices of the opposition. On June 15, police began using tear gas and water cannons to clear out the large encampment in the park. But this effort also has stretched beyond episodes of physical violence and police brutality into the digital world, where information control and media intimidation are on the rise.
Since the protests began, dozens of Turkish social media users have been detained on charges ranging from inciting demonstrations, to spreading propaganda and false information, to insulting government officials. Dozens more Twitter users were reportedly arrested for posting images of police brutality, though the legal pretense for these arrests is unclear. A recent ruling in an Ankara court ordered 22 demonstrators detained on terrorism-related charges.
Prime Minister Erdogan made his view of social media known when he described social media as “the worst menace to society” at a June press conference. It is worth noting that Erdogan himself is said to maintain a Twitter account with over 3 million followers and 2,000 tweets (some Turks question whether the unverified account is really him, or an unofficial supporter.) While the Turkish government has had limited, if any, involvement in tampering with social media access thus far, government officials appear eager to take further action.
Roots in traditional media
Although current circumstances appear to be testing the limits of Turkey’s information policy framework, the country has a long history of restrictive media policy and practice. In 2013, Turkey ranked 154 out of 166 on the Reporters Without Borders’ Annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index, due in part to the fact that since 1992 18 journalists have been murdered there, 14 with impunity. In responding to protest coverage, authorities have fined, detained and even beaten members of the press. Institutional censorship has also been prevalent: When clashes between protesters and police escalated, activists noted that CNN Turk aired a documentary on penguins while CNN International ran live coverage of the events in Taksim Square.
Dubbed the “the world’s biggest prison for journalists” by Reporters Without Borders, Turkey has been particularly aggressive in arresting Kurdish journalists under Turkey’s anti-terrorism law known as Terörle Mücadele Yasası.
Controlling digital expression
As of 2012, 45% of Turkey’s population had regular access to the Internet. The country’s leading ISP, Türk Telekom (TT), formerly a government-controlled monopoly, was privatized in 2005 but retained a 95% percent market share in 2007. Türk Telekom also controls the country’s only commercial backbone.
Internet Law No. 5651, passed in 2007, prohibits online content in eight categories including prostituion, sexual abuse of children, facilitation of the abuse of drugs, and crimes against (or insults to) Atatürk. The law authorizes the Turkish Supreme Council for Telecommunications and IT (TIB) to block a website when it has “adequate suspicion” that the site hosts illegal content. In 2011, the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights reported that 80% of online content blocked in Turkey was due to decisions made by the TIB, with the remaining 20% being blocked as the result of orders by Turkey’s traditional court system. In 2009 alone, nearly 200 court decisions found TIB decisions to block websites unjustifiable because they fell outside the scope of Law 5651. The law also has been criticized for authorizing takedowns of entire sites when only a small portion of their content stands in violation of the law.
Between 2008 and 2010, YouTube was blocked in its entirety under Law 5651 because of specific videos that fell into the category of “crimes against Atatürk”. During this period, YouTube continued to be the 10th most visited site in Turkey, with users accessing the site through proxies. The ban was eventually lifted when YouTube removed the videos in question and came under compliance with Turkish law. Sites likes Blogspot, Metacafe, Wix and others have gone through similar ordeals in Turkey in recent years. An estimated 31,000 websites are blocked in the country.
In December 2012, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found that Turkey had violated their citizen’s right to free expression by blocking Google Sites. While Turkey justified the ban based on Sites’ hosting of websites that violated Law 5651, the ECHR found that Turkish law did not allow for “wholesale blocking of access” to a hosting provider like Google Sites. Furthermore, Google Sites had not been informed that it was hosting “illegal” content.
In 2011, Turkey proposed a mandatory online filtering system described as an effort to protect minors and families. This new system, dubbed Güvenli İnternet, or Secure Internet, would block any website that contained keywords from a list of 138 terms deemed inappropriate by telecom authority BTK. The plan was met with public backlash and protests causing the government to re-evaluate the system and eventually offer it as an opt-in service. While only 22,000 of Turkey’s 11 million Internet users have so far opted for the system, opponents of Güvenli İnternet decry it as a form of censorship, disguised as an effort to protect children and families from “objectionable content”.
New policies could further restrict social networks
As the protests continue, the Turkish government is working to use legal tools already at its disposal to increase control over social network activity. Transportation and Communications Minister Binali Yildirim has called on Twitter to establish a representative office within the country. Legally, this could give the Turkish government greater ability to obtain user data from the company. But these requests have not received a warm response from Twitter, which has developed a reputation for protecting user data in the face of government requests. While Twitter has “turned down” requests from the Turkish government for user data and general cooperation, Minister Yildirim stated that Facebook had responded “positively”. Shortly thereafter, Facebook published a “Fact Check” post that denied cooperation with Turkish officials.
Turkey’s Interior Minister Muammer Güler told journalists that “the issue [of social media] needs a separate regulation” and Deputy Prime Minister Bozdag stated that the government had no intention of placing an outright ban on social media, but indicated a desire to outlaw “fake” social media accounts. Sources have confirmed that the Justice Ministry is conducting research and drafting legislation on the issue.
New media expert Ozgur Uckan of Istanbul’s Bilgi University noted that “censoring social media sites presents a technical challenge, and that may be why officials are talking about criminalizing certain content, in an effort to intimidate users and encourage self-censorship.”
While the details of these new laws remain to be seen, it is likely that they will have some impact on journalistic and activist activities in the country, especially in times of rising public protest and dissent.
Greg Epstein is an intern for Global Voices Advocacy and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. This post is also available on EFF's website.
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Brazil Stockpiles Arsenal of Non-Lethal Weapons Ahead of World Cup
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This post, written by Bruno Fonseca and Natalia Viana for Agência Pública, was originally published as a report entitled “Bomba brasileira na pele turca” (Turks Feel a Brazilian Bomb Firsthand) and is part of the special coverage #IndústriaBrasileiraDeArmas (Brazilian Weapons Industry) on the weapons lobby and industry in Brazil. The story will be published in a series of three articles on Global Voices Online. This is the third part of the series.
Check out the second post: Brazilian Weapons Firm Exports Arms to Arab Countries
The Brazilian federal government agreed to the purchase of thousands of non-lethal weapons from Brazilian arms firm Condor – the same company that furnished the tear gas used against protesters in Turkey – to be used by the police forces in all the host cities of the 2013 Confederations Cup and the 2014 World Cup for the sum of 49.5 million reais (22 million US dollars).
The agreement with Condor S.A. Indústria Química, signed on 26 November, 2012 to last until 31 December, 2014, provides for the supply of different types of weapons, such as 2,200 non-lethal short distance kits, which include pepper spray and pepper foam, tear gas grenades with traceable chips, indoor and outdoor moral effect grenades and explosive light and sound grenades; besides that, 449 non-lethal short distance kits with rubber bullet cartridges and impact expansible cartridges – bullets that expand when they touch the skin, avoiding perforation.
Apart from that, the agreement includes the purchase of 1,800 electric weapons for launching energized darts – the so-called Taser guns, 8,300 moral-effect grenades, 8,300 light and sound grenades, 8,300 triple smoke tear gas grenades, and 50,000 pepper spray canisters.
Find the entire agreement here.
The tear gas exported to Turkey was also bought by the Brazilian federal government for use during the 2014 World Cup and Olympics. Photo by Agência Pública. Used under a Creative Commons license
Condor's non-lethal weapons are largely employed by police forces all over the country as well as by the federal government. Federal programs buy such weapons, for instance, to be used by the Unities of Pacifying Police (UPPs, initials in Portuguese) in Rio de Janeiro and by police forces in 12 States involved in the program “Crack, É Possível Vencer” (Crack Cocaine, It's Possible to Win) including shock pistols, Taser guns, and pepper spray. The Brazilian government has already allocated 49 million Brazilian reais (approximately 22 million US dollars) to Condor just to pay for the weapons to be used during the Confederations Cup this year and in the 2014 World Cup.
The Brazilian tear gas exported to Turkey was also bought by the federal government to be used during the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games.
In April 2012, according to Transparency Portal [a website created by the federal government to inform on government's expenditures with the World Cup 2014], the federal government spent 1.5 million reais (approximately 669,000 US dollars) on the purchase of non-lethal ammunition from Condor to be used by the army to “ensure law and order in the residential compounds of Alemão and Penha”. Among the items which were purchased there were 1,125 explosive light and sound grenades (GL 307), 500 multi-impact pepper grenades (GM 102) and 500 smoke grenades, 29,500 rubber bullet cartridges and 700 random movement tear gas grenades (GL -310) – the same which were used against the protesters in Turkey.
In June, the government purchased weapons from Condor for the security of Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, amounting to a total of 1.3 million reais (approximately 579,000 US dollars). Among them were more than 900 pepper spray canisters, 1,300 triple tear gas grenades, 870 explosive light and sound grenades, and 5,000 12-calibre cartridges with rubber bullets.
Justice?
While the Brazilian Agency for the Promotion of Exports and Investment encourages the export of arms to countries such as Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, the use of the same non-lethal arms is questioned by the Brazilian justice.
In November 2012, the federal prosecutor for citizen's rights decided to investigate the damage brought by these arms to the health in the country. At the request of the organization Tortura Nunca Mais (Torture Never Again) from São Paulo, a working group comprising representatives of the Ministries of Justice, Defense and Health and of the Secretariat of Human Rights from the Presidency, as well as the Federal and State Police and the Municipal Guards, was created with the aim of monitoring bills on the subject. This was deemed necessary as there is no national rules to guide decisions and ensure an acceptable use of such weapons.
The working group shall also carry out a comparative study about police-training programs as well as studies about the consequences to the health of people targeted by these weapons, especially those that make use of electric shock and chemical components. Wilson Furtado, from Torture Never Again, observed:
Nossas polícias estão usando este tipo de armas supostamente não-letais de maneira ostensiva… O policial, em vez de deter a pessoa, atira e pronto, atingindo principalmente jovens que estão protestando.
Our police are using this type of allegedly non-lethal weapons ostensibly…Instead of arresting the person, the policeman fires the non-lethal weapon and that is it, targeting mainly the young people during their protest marches.
The organization asks for rules that regulate the use of non-lethal weapons, defining the type of authorized weapons and norms of purchase, control and use, as well as the mechanisms of information to citizens.
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Brazilian Weapons Firm Exports Arms to Arab Countries
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This post, written by Bruno Fonseca and Natalia Viana for Agência Pública, was originally published as a report entitled “Bomba brasileira na pele turca” (Turks Feel a Brazilian Bomb Firsthand) and is part of the special coverage #IndústriaBrasileiraDeArmas (Brazilian Weapons Industry) on the weapons lobby and industry in Brazil. The story will be published in a series of three articles on Global Voices Online. This is the second part of the series.
Check out the first post: Brazilian Tear Gas Used Against Turkish Protesters
Condor's stand in the Brazilian pavilion in Turkey in May 2013. Some of the items on display were the same which would be used against the Turkish population less than one month later. Agência Pública/Used under Creative Commons license
Less than one month before the beginning of recent anti-government protests in Turkey, the Brazilian government backed a meeting between national weapons firms and foreign buyers in Istanbul. During the International Defense Industry Fair 2013 in Turkey from May 7 and 10, the Brazilian Agency for the Promotion of Exports and Investment (Apex Brasil) and the Brazilian Defense and Security Industries Association (ABIMDE [en]) – whose vice-president, Carlos Frederico Queiroz de Aguiar, is president of Condor – set up an eye-catching display in the Brazilian pavilion.
In the area set aside for Condor, a showcase displayed a variety of metallic projectiles, grenades, and cans of colored sprays, the same as those which would be used a few weeks later in the streets of the same country. Beneath the name of the company in red were ballerina grenades and “diverse defense solutions” – according to the industry jargon – such as 13 types of 40 x 46mm incapacitating munitions for launchers.
Apex hadn't responded to questions about Condor and other Brazilian firms’ incentive in Turkey by the time of this report's publication. According to the Turkish newspaper Sozcu, Minister of Commerce Hayati Yazici stated that in the last 12 months, the country imported 628 tons of tear gas and pepper spray, mostly from Brazil and the United States. These imports were valued at 21 million US dollars.
Condor is the only Brazilian firm that sells weapons to the government of Turkey, according to a statement from their press secretary. In addition to long range projectiles and ballerina grenades, Condor also produces tear gas and pepper sprays, smoke bombs, rubber bullets and stun guns, known as Taser guns.
In 2011, the firm confirmed the sale of weapons to Arab countries, although they denied selling weapons directly to Bahrain, where police cracked down on protesters the following year. Among their clients was the government of the United Arab Emirates, which sent troops in support of the Bahraini government.
In April 2013, Condor signed yet another contract with the government of the UAE, valued at 12 million US dollars, to supply 600,000 units of non-lethal munitions. The agreement was announced during LAADEXPO 2013 [en], the largest defense and security exposition in Latin America, which took place at Riocentro in April.
In February 2013, ABIMDE participated in another weapons fair, this time in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Again, Condor participated in the event as the only Brazilian firm producing non-lethal weapons.
Use of non-lethal weapons questioned in Brazil
Last June 3, 2013, Brazil signed the Arms Trade Treaty at the United Nations. According to the text, which aims for the elimination of weapons trade for genocide, terrorists, and international organized crime, “trade in conventional weapons would be regulated, establishing standards for their export and promoting more transparency in their transfer.” Considered a great advance for a country which avoids transparency regarding the sale of Brazilian weapons – the Minister of Development, Industry, and Foreign Trade refuses to divulge the numbers of firms which export weapons, for example – the treaty doesn't have specific definitions about the trade of non-lethal weapons. Condor's products are sold to more than 40 countries.
The Ministry of Development, Industry, and Foreign Trade refuses to divulge data on Brazilian companies which export arms. Agência Pública/Used under Creative Commons license
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Brazilian Tear Gas Used Against Turkish Protesters
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This post, written by Bruno Fonseca and Natalia Viana for Agência Pública, was originally published as a report entitled “Bomba brasileira na pele turca” (Turks Feel a Brazilian Bomb Firsthand) and is part of the special coverage #IndústriaBrasileiraDeArmas (Brazilian Weapons Industry) on the weapons lobby and industry in Brazil. The story will be published in a series of three articles on Global Voices Online. This is the first part of the series.
In 2012, when the inscription “Made in Brazil” marked canisters of tear gas used against pro-democracy demonstrators in Bahrain, allegedly causing the death of more than a dozen people including a five-day-old baby [en], the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Relations (Itamaraty) announced [en] that it would investigate whether there were any irregularities in the export of Brazilian tear gas.
However, one year later, Itamaraty states that it is simply observing the case without conducting investigations or taking measures.
In an indignant response, American-Saudi activist Rasheed Abou-Alsamh, the author of a news report from January 2012 denouncing the use of Brazilian tear gas against pro-democracy protesters in Bahrein, wrote [en]:
O Itamaraty deve achar que somos ingênuos.
Itamaraty must find us naive.
In the absence of restrictions [from the Brazilian government] on the exportation of non-lethal arms, the same tear gas, manufactured by the firm Condor SA in Rio de Janeiro, is now employed by the Turkish police in repressing the growing protests against the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which have spread to more than 60 locations throughout the country, leaving hundreds wounded and estimates of 2,000 arrested.
Amnesty International confirms the use of Brazilian tear gas during the protests – which began after a peaceful protest against the removal of 600 trees in Taksim Square in Istanbul. American professor Suzette Grillot, who is in the capital city of Ankara, photographed one of the Brazilian canisters used by the police and told Agência Pública:
Um membro do nosso grupo encontrou a cápsula na noite de ontem (3 de junho) em Ankara.
A member of our group found the canister last night (June 3) in Ankara.
An American professor photographed one of the Brazilian tear gas projectiles used by Turkish police. Image: Suzette Grillot/Used under Creative Commons license.
Brazilian tear gas has been used since the beginning of the protests in Istanbul on May 31. One participant of the Occupy Gezi movement, who preferred not to be identified for fear of reprisal, explains:
Naquele dia, havia apenas um grupo pequeno de ambientalistas. A polícia invadiu o parque às 5h da manhã enquanto essas pessoas dormiam nas barracas. Os policiais queimaram barracas e atacaram os manifestantes com gás lacrimogêneo. Os policiais deveriam atirar os projeteis de gás para cima, mas eles miram nas pessoas. Alguns perderam a visão por serem atingidos diretamente (pelos projeteis), outros são atingidos nos braços e pernas. Existem centenas de vídeos mostrando efeitos do gás: lágrimas, náusea, vômito, dificuldade em respirar.
That day, there was just a small group of environmentalists. The police invaded the park at five in the morning while these people were sleeping in their tents. The police burned tents and attacked the protesters with tear gas. The police should have shot the gas canisters up, but they were aiming at people. Some lost their sight by being directly hit [by the canisters], others were hit in the arms or legs. There are hundreds of videos showing the effects of the gas: tears, nausea, vomiting, difficulty breathing.
The UN Office on Human Rights asked Turkey to conduct an independent investigation into the conduct of its security forces regarding the protests. The spokesperson for the UN High Commission for Human Rights, Cecile Pouilly, stated:
Estamos preocupados com relatos de uso excessivo de força por agentes legais contra manifestantes.
We are concerned with reports of excessive use of force by law enforcement agents against the protesters.
“Non-lethal” weapons do kill
The shell photographed by the American Suzette Grillot is the remains of a long range tear gas canister (GL 202) produced by Condor, a leader in the production of this type of weapon in Latin America. The canister can reach an average distance of 120 meters (394 feet) and should be targeted before or above obstacles such as walls and barricades “in order to remove people and disperse groups of law-offenders,” according to the manufacturers own description. However, Condor states on its site that incorrect use of the canisters can cause serious damage to health — and even death.
Another photo taken by demonstrators shows a random movement tear gas grenade (GL 310), also known as the “ballerina.” Upon impact with the ground, the bomb bounces back up moving in various directions, spreading the gas over a greater area and avoiding the possibility of the “target” throwing it back in the direction of the police force. The company’s site states that the grenade can ignite fires when it comes in contact with flammable materials.
In a photo made public by demonstrators, the weapons GL 310 and Gl 202 from Condor are shown (1st and 3rd items from left to right). The 2nd weapon from the left is from Nonlethal Technologies, a company from the United States, which is the principal exporter of non-lethal weapons to Turkey, alongside the Brazilian Condor/Used under Creative Commons license.
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Composer's Ode to Turkish Protesters
German musician Davide Martello performed live during the protests in Istanbul's Taksim Square.
This track is dedicated to the Soldiers of Light, the victims of this insane violence by the turkish government. Composed during the protests in Istanbul two weeks ago… live in the crowds on Taksim Square.
That's how the musician describes his composition which is available for download on Soundcloud.
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« Résister ou partir » : le choix d'Halil, Allemand d'origine turque
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Delphine Nerbollier
Allemand d'origine turque, Halil Gülbeyaz s'est installé il y a peu à Berlin. Athée, alévi, engagé à gauche, cet écrivain et journaliste est aussi père de deux enfants. Pour myeurop, il explique son choix et partage son regard sans concession sur la politique d'#Erdogan comme de #Merkel. (...)
#Portraits #Allemagne #Turkey #immigration #islam #minorité #Turquie #union_européenne
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What Do Brazil and Turkey Have in Common?
Brazil and Turkey are thousands of kilometers away from each other, but they have something in common: both countries went out to the streets to protest for their rights as citizens and are now struggling against the excessive violence and oppression from the police.
V for Vinegar is a website created to track protests and promote petitions about relevant causes in each country: in Brazil, for the demilitarization of the Police [pt], and for the immediate end to the violence in Turkey [tr].
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Censorship and Police Brutality Mark Three Weeks of Turkish Protests
This post originally appeared on the author's own blog, Azadolu.
It's been three weeks since massive protests started across Turkey. Since their start on May 31, the country has witnessed media censorship, police brutality, protests by the thousands and the deaths and injury of protestors. Here is the summary of past three weeks:
In the early stages of the demonstrations, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan defined protesters as “Capulcu“, which translates to looters from Turkish. This action backfired when protesters embraced the label. Protesters even made a music video by changing the lyrics of the song “Everyday I am Shuffling” to sound “Everyday I am Capulcuing”:
Media Censorship:
Even though Turkish mainstream media self-censored the protests, social media was active and is still active in covering the protests. CNNTurk, NTV and Haberturk (the main news channels of Turkey) were all involved in self-censorship. After CNNTurk published a documentary about penguins instead of covering the protests, Twitter user emre erdem tweeted [tr] with sarcasm:
@emreerdem Memlekwt yerinden oynuyor CNNTURK'te penguen belgeseli var, medyamizi seveyim…
The whole country is shaking, but there is a documentary about penguins on CNNTurk. Love our media…
The protests against media censorship continued in front of the NTV headquarters, since the station chose to play down the anti-government protests. Its partner company, Garanti Bank, which is a national bank, was targeted by protesters too – many of whom stopped using its services. The bank announced it had lost around 1,500 customers.
And recently, BBC suspended its cooperation with NTV, after the latter refused to air their programme “World Agenda”.
The programme was prepared by Selin Girit, who tweeted:
@selingiritBBC suspends partnership with Turkish news channel @ntv over television censorship on a piece about press freedom. @bbcworld@bbcturkce
Seven Turkish newspaper ran the same headline on the protests. Photograph shared by @ozlemmisler on Twitter
There were also some interesting coincidences in the Turkish media's coverage of the protests. Seven different newspapers had the same headline on the same day. Twitter user Ozlem Isler shared a photograph of the newspapers:
@ozlemmisler 7 gazete ayni manset! pic.twitter.com/LGN5D9EaGU
Seven newspapers, same headlines! pic.twitter.com/LGN5D9EaGU
Police Brutality:
Police brutality was the biggest concern of protesters. A video of policemen detaining a protestor showing on-lookers trying to protect the protestor by throwing whatever they could find on the policemen draws home the sentiment many harbour against police heavy-handedness. Here is the video:
Twitter user Capulcu S A explains the togetherness of the nation against police brutality:
@Sedat2Aral Never been like this… Doctors, Journos, students, artists, actors, business men…all turkey helping each other against Police brutality.
Ethem Sarisuluk's death after being shot by police was certainly the most heartbreaking moment of the protests. The policeman, who killed the protestor, is still missing. Sarisuluk was among four people killed and around 5,000 injured during the protests. The mayor of Ankara, the capital city of Turkey, said on a live TV show [tr] that it wasn't the police who killed him; that it was the other protesters, who killed him by throwing a rock at him. This video, which appeared online following the death, tells a different story. It shows a policeman running away with a gun, after what appears to be shooting a protestor at close range [Warning: graphic]:
You can learn more about police brutality during the protests here.
Social Media: “The Worst Menace to Society”
In return, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan vented off his anger at social media and called it “worst menace to society“. Twitter user Pelin explains the reason behind Erdogan's anger by sharing the Bloomberg report about Twitter usage in Turkey during protests:
@BettySpades Data shows why Twitter is a menace to Erdogan. Impact of social media on the gezi protests: #occupygezi#direnankarahttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-10/twitter-really-is-a-menace-to-erdogan.html …
Erdogan was also angry at the protesters who took shelter in a mosque during the police attacks. He told media that protesters dishonored the mosque by entering it with their shoes on, and that they drank alcohol in the mosque. This video here shows the opposite of what Tayyip Erdogan said. In the video, protesters are seen taking refuge in the mosque, with doctors treating injured people (Warning: graphic video):
Contradicting Messages:
Huseyin Avni Mutlu, the governor of Istanbul, also gave contradicting messages. On his Twitter account, he wrote there will not be any attacks on Gezi Park, where the protests began, by the police. Just hours later, the police attacked Gezi Park:
@Valimutlu GEZİ PARKI ve TAKSİM’e KESİNLİKLE DOKUNULMAYACAK,SİZLERE ASLA DOKUNULMAYACAKTIR.Bu sabah ve bundan sonra polis kardeşlerinize emanetsiniz.
Gezi Park and Taksim will not be touched, nobody will touch you. You are entrusted to your police brothers since this morning and henceforth.
Twitter user Utangac Adam replied to the governor:
@UtangacAdam Büyüklerimiz “İnsanlığın okulu yok” derdi.Şimdi ne demek istediklerini daha iyi anlıyorum… @Valimutlu
Our elders would always say “There is no school for learning humanity”. Now, I understand them better…
Prime minister Erdogan arranged several rallies for his supporters, including in Ankara and Istanbul. Erdogan threatened the protesters to clear Gezi Park by calling them terrorists. After his statement on clearing the Gezi Park from protesters, Turkish police attacked Gezi Park on June 16, and took control over Taksim Square and Gezi Park.
Passive Resistance: Standing Man Protests
Now the protests have turned into a passive resistance. The Duran Adam (Standing Man) protests started by a performance artist, Erdem Gunduz, who stood at Taksim Square without moving for three hours. Similar protests spread quickly all over the country. Poet Bejan Matur said on her Twitter account:
@bejanmatur duran adam;tc tarihinin gördüğü en sofistike eylem;.iktidarın asla baş edemeyeceği şahane bir performans.
Standing Man is the most sophisticated protest in the history of Turkish Republic. A great performance that the ruling party cannot deal with, ever.
Turkish people showed their desire for democracy, human rights and environmental conservation over the last three weeks. Even though the policemen were fierce, politicians were angry and the media was silent, they continued on their journey for a better life. Perhaps this video of protesters cheering sarcastically for more teargas to be thrown on them by the police speaks volumes of their ambition for a better country and a better tomorrow:
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Adventist scientists in the Philippines create association to promote mission
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The Philippine Adventist Scientist Association (PASA) has officially been established after a group of 42 people, including 37 scientists, met for the first National Adventist Scientists Conference in Palawan, Philippines. The purpose of PASA is to motivate and empower Adventist scientists to use their profession for the church’s mission.
Besides electing the PASA officers, this meeting’s objective, which took place from May 20 to May 21, was to promote the goals of creation science, recognize the contribution of Adventist scientists to the church and community as well as reminding the members of their mission in their respective field.
Initiated by the Southern Asia-Pacific Division (SSD) Vice-President Bienvenido D. Mergal, the idea of PASA came from observing the Geoscience Research Institute Committee’s (GRICOM) goal to establish a database of scientists in every division.
“Because of that [GRICOM’ goal], I thought of organizing a Philippine-wide Adventist scientists association,” Mergal said. “Being a husband to a scientist, I feel that scientists here in the Philippines are the most neglected group of people. I believe that if we organize and equip these people then they can be a good instrument and part of the mission.”
The first meeting was attended by Dr. Jim Gibson, Director of Geoscience Research Institute (GRI) of the General Conference and though most attendees were scientists there were also some administrators present, like SSD President Saw Samuel. Guest speakers presented on the topic of creation science and the ethics of human cloning.
For the future, some of PASA’s projects include the publishing of a yearly scientific journal as well the organization of yearly scientific conferences.
“We will make PASA as a premier scientist portals for Adventist Scientists in the division territory if not worldwide.” said PASA President, Jose Oclarit. “We will have a yearly scientific conference. We will publish an Adventist science journal. This journal should be peer reviewed and circulation should be worldwide.”
Additionally, PASA officials and members wanted to welcome more scientists in the future.
“What makes me happy is the vision that they have, which is to use this group for evangelism.” Mergal said. “This is about reaching out through science and becoming an active instrument in God's work.”
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New CRN Data
The U.S. Climate Reference Network (CRN) of high-quality observing stations continued to expand in Alaska last summer, with three new stations being added at Ivotuk, Deadhorse, and in the Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge; the latter station is located 44 miles east-southeast of Ruby. This brings the number of CRN stations in Alaska to 16. I thought it would be interesting to look at the temperature data provided thus far by these new observing sites and to make a comparison with existing nearby stations.
Starting with Ivotuk (which I mentioned here), the chart below shows the daily temperature range in black shading and the daily mean temperature with the gray line. The blue shading indicates the difference between the daily mean temperatures at Ivotuk and Umiat; the two stations are not exactly similar (more than 100 miles apart, and over 1500' elevation difference), but Umiat is a well-known benchmark for interior North Slope climate. We see that Ivotuk was generally colder than Umiat through early November, but the extreme warm event of mid-November pushed temperatures above freezing at Ivotuk on six separate days. Umiat, down in the Colville River valley, only briefly rose above freezing on the 11th (still a remarkable achievement).
The chart for Deadhorse is shown below, with the comparison being made between the CRN site and Deadhorse airport. The distance between the two locations is about 2 miles, with the CRN site located just to the south along the haul road. The CRN site has become slightly but consistently colder than the airport in recent weeks, but the temperature rose above freezing at both locations on November 12.
Finally, the chart for Ruby 44 ESE is shown below. The relatively large diurnal temperature range in September, characteristic of the interior, stands out compared to the other two stations in the Arctic. The nearest longstanding and regularly reporting station is Tanana, about 75 miles to the northeast. In the second chart below I've included a comparison of the daily minimum temperatures, which were notably colder at Ruby 44 ESE than at Tanana during several of the colder spells of the late autumn. For instance, the CRN site observed sub-zero temperatures on October 7, which was the first day that sub-zero temperatures were observed anywhere in Alaska.
The apparent ease with which this new CRN station at Ruby 44 ESE has reached relatively low temperatures led Rick Thoman to speculate informally that it might be a good candidate for observing -70 °F during a robust cold snap. Other than the Chicken COOP station, which reported -72 °F in 2008, the -70 °F level has not been seen in Alaska since January 2000 (Manley Hot Springs); and only 3 sites have reported it since the great cold snap of 1989 (the aforementioned two, and Chandalar Lake in 1999).
Posted by Richard James at 5:14 PM
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NL7Y November 29, 2014 at 6:21 PM
Nowitna River CRN. Yes it's likely a cool spot in winter given the drainage of cold air from upstream. Hope the bears leave it alone. They dearly love to walk the perimeter of lakes in Spring after hibernation looking for snacks of vegetation and young wildlife. Anything new or unusual captures their interest:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/64°30'06.0%22N+154°07'47.0%22W/@64.50167,-154.12972,7897m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?sid=NWTA2
Brian B November 30, 2014 at 10:19 PM
Good stuff Richard. Unfortunately the NCDC doesn't make the acquisition of this data very user friendly. Neither of the three CRN sites you mentioned are part of the GHCN database – whereas all the other CRN data is. Perhaps they are still too new.
Richard James December 1, 2014 at 7:36 AM
I agree, it's a nuisance to get the data the way it is currently set up. I expect NCDC will get around to adding the new stations to GHCN sometime in the next few months.
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KAMALA HARRIS AND THE FREE HEALTHCARE FANTASY
The Torah Code's desription of this lady is spot on - with no indication yet that she will be elected President. Posted on 1/31/2019.
Senator Kamala Harris is running for President. Her platform is based on free healthcare for everyone, extremely high taxes to pay for it, open borders so a hoard of illegal and sometimes diseased aliens can flood our country to overrun our healthcare system. She wants to help save us from ICE agents that she sees as KKK. And she loves Iran. The lady is a prime example of the insanity that has seized control of the Democrat Party. On all matrices below, KAMALA HARRIS is the axis term. On Figure 1 at the same absolute skip and hugging her name is ENEMY. USA is also at the same absolute skip. HEALTHCARE is at skip +1, as are EXPENSIVE and LEPROSY. There is also an ELS of IRAN. If we extend the matrix 6 columns to the left we pick up BORDER in the open text. That's shown on the small matrix on Figure 1. The more significant matrix is Figure 2 which adds 8 columns on the left but subtracts 27 columns on the right. This allows us to see both BORDER and PLAGUE. We lose USA, IRAN and LEPROSY, but Leprosy was the plague spoken of in the text. Figure 1 was found against odds of about 656,467 to 1 while Figure 2 was found against odds of about 19,716,035 to 1.
Figure 1 below: Kamala Harris is strongly encoded with HEALTHCARE, EXPENSIVE, ENEMY, and USA. She favors IRAN. The statistical significance of Figures 1 and 2 are shown further below. Figure 2 which adds PLAGUE and BORDER shows the full consequences of her policies.
Spreadsheets for Figures 1 and 2 plus Figure 2. The shift to the left reveals a much more significant matrix and it lets us know the true threat to our security if we follow fools like Harris.
STATISTICAL AND POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF FIGURES 1 AND 2. As per my standard protocol, no statistical significance is assigned to the axis term, here the 5th lowest ELS found for a transliteration of KAMILA HARRIS in (wrapped) Torah. The most significant a priori term seen all matrices is HEALTHCARE. For calculations related to Figure 1 I combined the large and small matrices shown to arrive at a combined matrix measuring 17 rows by 49 columns (833 letters). As such, odds against HEALTHCARE being at skip +1 (best case scenario) on Figure 1 are about 122 to 1. On the smaller, 408-letter Figures 2 they are about 249 to 1. In scanning over the spreadsheets it's apparent that the next most significant term on Figure 1 was USA which was found against odds of about 15 to 1. In comparison to that, on Figure 2 there was reference to a PLAGUE against odds of about 75 to 1. In the current border crisis a major concern relates to illegal immigrants bringing in all sorts of contagious diseases. Without a wall at our border there would be no stopping them.
The spreadsheet shows that Figure 2 is about 30 times more significant than Figure 1. Therefore we will focus on it. EXPENSIVE was the next most significant term. This is the major problem with Harris's proposal. Estimates are that her plan would cost the U.S. an additional 32.6 trillion dollars over the next decade. That's a huge number that's hard for us to relate to, so let me put it this way. In 2019 the estimated population of the United States was 328,127,915. If we divide the 32,800,000,000,000 cost of Harris's fantasy by 328,127,915 people, we find that the average cost per person would come to $9,752,294.31. More than 9.75 million dollars per person? This shows us that Senator Harris has clearly lost all connections to reality - a problem that is all too common with extreme liberals like her. EXPENSIVE was at skip +1 on Figure 2 against odds of about 28 to 1.
BORDER was the next most significant term, found in the open text against odds of about 23 to 1. Harris is against any wall at the border. She is fine with technology like drones, but drones can only film people coming across the border. They can't stop them from coming and bringing in diseases.
I sought two synonyms for ENEMY and one of them at a special case skip on the 408-letter matrix against odds of about 8 to 1. However, it only took 10 rows by 2 columns to show KAMILA HARRIS and ENEMY. Of those 20 letters, 9 are for KAMILA HARRIS, so the real odds against a match this close were over 308 to 1. What about IRAN? Remember that I cut it when I downsized the matrix to produce Figure 2, but it was on Figure 1 against odds of about 2.57 to 1 (not very significant). Again, Figure 1 was found against odds of about 656,467 to 1 while Figure 2 was found against odds of about 19,716,035 to 1.
Now, let's see what she had to say about the Iran nuclear accord and President Trump dumping it:
Today’s decision to violate the Iran nuclear deal jeopardizes our national security and isolates us from our closest allies. This nuclear deal is not perfect, but it is certainly the best existing tool we have to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons and avoid a disastrous military conflict in the Middle East.
“As the international community and the Administration’s own national security team has confirmed multiple times, Iran remains in compliance with the deal. In the absence of an Iranian violation, it is reckless to break this agreement without presenting any plan on how to move forward. Instead of establishing a comprehensive, strategic national security policy, this Administration is far too focused on scoring political points.”
No, Kamala, the deal would not at all prevent their acquiring these weapons. At best, it would only slow it down by 10 years, and three and a half of those years are now behind us. When it comes to nuclear weapons in the hands of Muslim terrorists, a deal that isn't perfect is a deal that invites our death. All of the missile tests by Iran show that it aims to put nuclear warheads on their rockets. I am in favor of force to remove the threat unless it can be shown that we have a deal to shut down Iran's missiles the way our ICBMs were shutdown by UFOs at Malmstrom Air Force Base on March 16, 1967. There is plenty about this incident online, however I interviewed a retired Air Force colonel who was at Malmstrom during the incident. He confirmed the story to my wife and me. Further details about the incident are here.
One last thought. We live in interesting times. The Government can track everything we do, and they seem to be close to being able to track our thoughts. The military follows everything I write (in real time), but one particular site - online as I write this - chooses to let me track their tracking of me. I have, in fascination, watched what they read while waiting for me to finish this article. One item they looked at (again) makes clear how closely I have tracked them. The series of articles that they examined on January 30, 2019 seems to have an ominous implication. I won't spell it out here, but I will (again) ask these people to contact me. They appear to be waffling between good and evil. To them I say: As you know, I love the military. Don't make a mistake like that was made by a few misguided personnel at Abu Ghraib Prison. Stick with Army regulations and our Constitution. The series of articles that you accessed in conjunction with this one might have been made to suggest where I should focus next in my research. But you have been here about once per hour over 4 years now. If you're that intrigued by what I know and what I learn, let's take the guess work out of what we're all doing.
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What is your opinion of 'Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed'?
Ben Stein’s new film has undoubtedly caused controversy. What is your opinion?
Posted: May 5th 2008
John Sargeant www
The film tries to suggest that far from credible scientific research and body of evidence for evolution being undermined in academia it is creationists that are subject to a witch hunt for believing in intelligent design.
Not only is that a falsification of what is going on, it then makes the age old evolution = atheism = Nazism. The point is rammed home with images of Nazis, and the song “Imagine” is used (Yoko is taking them to court for that).
The problem for supporters of science is whether showing this film up for what it is promotes the film or is necessary because this film shows the undermining of science by politicizing religious belief to do so.
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The film has three messages: Intelligent Design is being Expelled from academia by Big Science, evolution leads to atheism and evolution led to Nazi atrocities. No, no and no.
Intelligent Design isn’t being expelled, it’s flunking out. The evidence does not support it. Any research done in its name is an attempt to lend it credibility and discredit the alternatives rather than find the actual truth, and therefore really isn’t science. There is no actual ID theory, only a vague hypothesis. (Great talking point there: even if evolution is “only a theory”, ID isn’t even that.) Proponents trying to advance ID in spite of the preceding are seen as impeding real science, and are discredited as scientists. Their careers suffer in the same way as if they were trying to promote astrology over astronomy, or alchemy over chemistry.
Prominent biologists and devout Christians Ken Miller and Francis Collins will tell you that evolution does not necessarily lead to atheism. Even Richard Dawkins, who evolution did lead to atheism, will recommend Miller’s books to believers. Evolution simply refutes the Argument from Design as it relates to living things, and encourages one to look for similar natural origins for other phenomena. There are plenty of other reasons why people believe in gods. Saying that evolution leads invariably to atheism is like saying that the design argument is the only good argument for theism. (Certainly, some others are no worse.)
The Nazis practiced eugenics, which is a form of artificial selection and has nothing to do with Darwin’s theory. By trying to exterminate the Jews and propagate the Aryan race, they were doing what farmers and animal breeders had already done for thousands of years. In canine terms, they were building a stock of a pure breed and putting down the mongrels (from their perspective, of course).
Hitler didn’t say anything about Darwin or evolution in Mein Kampf. His hatred for the Jews echoed a long history worldwide of leaders attempting ethnic cleansings.
Darwin and “Darwinians” never presented natural selection as a guide for living and breeding anyway; it is simply the way life has developed so far. Proper, civil human behaviour is very anti-Darwinian indeed on the face of it, even if it got that way by Darwinian means, and so it should be.
I want to point out one particularly ironic image that was produced to counter Expelled’s publicity: a Nazi belt buckle saying “GOTT MIT UNS” with “DARWIN” newly scrawled over “GOTT” apparently by Ben Stein. The Wehrmacht buckle actually says, and always said, “God is with us.”
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I haven’t seen it, but I have seen Ben’s remarks on various chat show clips. They seem to indicate that the negative reviews are not exaggerating what he says, or quoting him out of context. I probably won’t get to see it unless it’s on broadcast TV here (Ireland), which is unlikely: this may be a Catholic country, but they’re not that fundamentalist. 8)
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For anyone not familiar with the film, the wikipedia entry is very thorough.
With the huge media hype and controversy surrounding the film, the producers were in a perfect position to show the world exactly why Intelligent Design is an idea that should be taken seriously. By all accounts they have missed the opportunity to do so. This seems to confirm what was already very clear; ID proponents are empty-handed.
The Expelled film has two main premises: That scientists critical of the theory of evolution are being silenced by the mainstream scientific community, and that Darwinism leads to genocide.
The Expelled Exposed site reveals that the alleged marginalisation of creationists by 'big science’ has been grossly exaggerated, and in some cases blatantly fabricated.
The idea that Darwin’s ideas have a share in the blame for the holocaust is pure fantasy.
Firstly, Hitler didn’t need Darwin’s ideas at all. His horrific plan was an implementation of artificial selection, which had already been practiced for millenia (Darwin’s contribution was to show that evolution also happens without man deliberately trying to steer it in certain directions).
If Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection does deserve a share of the blame for the holocaust, then so do roads, railway systems, and Christianity (Hitler frequently used Christian themes in his speeches). Furthermore, we should be blaming Isaac Newton and his evil 'Gravity’ theory for enabling German rocket scientists to plot the trajectories of their weapons.
To the best of my knowledge Intelligent Design offers no testable claims, no mean of falsification, and no reason to take it seriously except as a threat to the public’s (especially children’s) appreciation of critical thought, and understanding of what science actually is.
To help combat the misinformation contained in Expelled, it is helpful to link to the Expelled Exposed site whenever you publish the word expelled online. Like this: Expelled. This will increase the visibility of the site in search engines.
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logicel
The IDiots (proponents of creationism thinly disguised as 'science’), being the dogmatic fools that they are, are simply switching their tactics from school boards (they were throughly trounced at the Dover Trial, where a Bush appointed conservative Christian ruled that ID is religion and can not be taught in science classes) to state legislation. At present, in America, there are a number of state bills supposedly focused on 'academic freedom.’
The movie 'Expelled’ is an attempt to popularize this bogus concept and give support to the IDiots’ attempt to squeeze their intellectually dishonest wares into science class rooms via a new strategy.
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Apple disables Walkie-Talkie app on potential eavesdropping glitch
hocus-focus/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Apple has disabled the Apple Watch's Walkie-Talkie app because of a glitch that could allow a user to eavesdrop on someone else's iPhone without their knowledge or consent, the company said on Thursday.
"We were just made aware of a vulnerability related to the Walkie-Talkie app on the Apple Watch and have disabled the function as we quickly fix the issue," Apple said in a statement to ABC News. "We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience and will restore the functionality as soon as possible."
The company added that there no known reports of the bug being exploited for eavesdropping.
"Although we are not aware of any use of the vulnerability against a customer and specific conditions and sequences of events are required to exploit it, we take the security and privacy of our customers extremely seriously. We concluded that disabling the app was the right course of action as this bug could allow someone to listen through another customer’s iPhone without consent,” the company said.
The security flaw was first reported by TechCrunch.
It is the second such eavesdropping bug in the last six months. In February, the company fixed a bug that allowed users to eavesdrop on other iPhone users before a FaceTime chat began.
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Church calls for peace after synod meeting
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The Episcopal Church of Sudan held a three day business meeting in mid-November, and released a communiqué calling for peace in the countries where it operates. The church organization covers congregations in both Sudan and South Sudan.
Signed by the Archbishop, the leader of the clergy and the leader of the lay representatives, the document began with a reaffirmation of core commitments. The first one is to serve Jesus by proclaiming the Gospel.
The ECS synod reaffirmed its commitment to serving Jesus Christ in both Sudan and South Sudan through the continued proclamation of the Gospel, through national and international advocacy efforts for peace and reconciliation between the communities of conflict in Sudan and South Sudan, and through service delivery in the areas of healthcare, education and social development.
The post-synod document also declared with a bit of detail what efforts the church would take in each of four areas: proclaiming the Gospel, National and International Adocacy Efforts, Service Delivery and Stewardship and care of our environment.
In Proclaiming the Gospel, the church described its effort as:
In order to proclaim the gospel, the ECS will continue its efforts of high-level political and grassroots evangelisation in order to reach all the communities of the Sudan and South Sudan. The ECS will also continue to adhere to the traditions of the Anglican Communion through use of the Prayer Book and training to new and existing pastors on the meaning of Anglicanism.
The Episcopal Church of Sudan strongly condemned the persistent aerial bombardment of civilian territories, summary executions of innocents, and combat in civilian areas in the Nuba Mountains, Southern Blue Nile, Upper Nile State and Unity State. They went on to urge both governments [Sudan and South Sudan] to resolve any differences peacefully and not to resort to war and killing of the innocent civilians who yearn for peace. They said,
The ECS will remain a beacon of the hope of Jesus Christ so that the people of Sudan and South Sudan, traumatised by decades of devastating civil war, recognise the renaissance of their time and the hope of this new beginning.
Additionally the church will endeavour to mobilise their own local resources in order to improve and establish basic services [education and healthcare provision] to all people in Sudan and South Sudan.
To be good stewards over the land God has given us, the church said that they must ensure that our natural resources and our environment are not destroyed through carelessness or vandalism. Archbishop Reverend Daniel Deng Bul Yak and other representatives ended the communique with a prayer:
God bless Sudan
God bless South Sudan
God bless the Episcopal Church of the Sudan
An Episcopal Church of Sudan congregation would welcome any visitors who want to learn more about Jesus Christ, or Christian worship. There is a congregation in Port Sudan. Why not make a visit?
http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/news.cfm/2011/11/23/ACNS4985
Al Jezeera reports that 30,000 jobs are expected to be lost for labourers in Port Sudan. A recently made decision to mechanize the unloading of ships will greatly reduce the need for workers.
The Red Sea State government is interested in helping the workers find alternate employment or create businesses, in order to reduce the negative impact of unemployment on so many people. Government officials from the Ministry of Human Resource Development and the International Labour Organization and the country representative of the United Nations Development Programme and the Microfinance Bank of Sudan and others were meeting to address the real problem.
Officials will explore ideas such as training and education support, and alternate jobs within the Maritime Port Authority.
Hussein Mohamed Khalifa, deputy head of the union longshoremen, said that there is a disregard of the dilemma faced by thousands of workers. He expressed his fear that this may lead to negative reactions.
Workers fear unemployment and the inability to keep up with the cost of living. Grinding poverty may come to some of them.
Story at Al Jezeera [Arabic] [English]
Previous $79 millionUS expansion of Port Sudan Harbour. June 2006.
Port Sudan harbour website
Description of Sudanese ports
The TED talks are coming to Port Sudan on January 21, 2012 in Alsalam Hall.
TED conferences are a worldwide phenomena. They offer excellent speakers who talk about their special areas of expertise in technology, entertainment and design. Almost 1000 talks are available in Arabic [subtitles]. People can watch the videos online. They are designed to run only 18 minutes or less.
The plan is that about 1000 participants will come to see the presentations. Topics will be about solutions that work to advance the process of education in rural areas. Urban areas often get good education. How can rural students also get a good education? Perhaps there are strategies or technologies that will show how it can be done.
The hope is that the intellectuals, businessmen and educators will learn from the examples of the speakers and from one another. Can Sudan improve the education of the Beja and all the citizens in the country?
Sourced from Port Sudan Online.
بيان هام من مؤتمر البجا حول انضمامه للجبهة الثورية السودانية
ظل شعب البجا يرزح لسنوات طويلة, في واقع متردي وبائس يعاني اهله من الفقر والمجاعات والامراض الفتاكة, ولم يجد من النظام الحاكم في السودان سوى الازلال؛ والاستبداد؛ والاستعلاء؛ والتقتيل ؛والتهميش؛ وموجات الغلاء الطاحن؛ والعطالة.
جماهيرنا الاوفياء
في اطار استعادة كرامة الانسان السوداني عامة, والبجاوي خاصة, انخرطت قيادة مؤتمر البجا في مشاورات مكثفة مع العديد من التنظيمات والحركات السودانية المسلحة, واستمرت في العديد من المدن في الداخل عبر الوسائط المتاحة وخلصت في نهايتها الى إعلان انضمامنا الى جبهة القوى الثورية السودانية التى ادرنا مع مكوناتها الاساسية العديد من الحوارات منذ وقت مبكر في لندن, خاصة بعد إن وجد ميثاق الجبهة الثورية السودانية, ترحيبا حارا من قبل جماهير الحزب, وشعب البجا, لطرحه قضية اسقاط النظام بشكل واضح لا لبس فيه, عبر العمل المشترك, الذي يزاوج مابين العمل السياسي السلمي والعمل الجماهيري المسلح.
إذ يعلن مؤتمر البجا إنضمامه للجبهة الثورية, فانه يعاهد شعبنا الابي ببذل الغالي والنفيس من اجل تحقيق الهدف النبيل, وهو اسقاط هذا النظام, وبناء سودان الديمقراطية؛ والعدالة؛ والرخاء ؛والمساواة.
اهلنا الشرفاء
إن شعب البجا الذي عانى لسنوات من التهميش, والافقار المتعمد , والموت الجماعي, حان الوقت لينتفض لاسترداد كرامته, وحقوقه المسلوبة خاصة وان الازمة السياسية التي تمر بها بلادنا بلغت زروتها, وإن الوقت حان لتخرج مواكبنا هادرة, تهتف باسقاط هذا النظام الاجرامي, الذي ارتكب ابشع الجرائم في حق الشعب وازله وافقره, ومارس الابادة الجماعية, في أبشع صورها, والتي تقف مجزرة بورسودان شاهدة عليها.
شبابنا الشجعان
نخاطب فيكم الروح البجاوية, التى لاترضى الضيم والذل والهوان, ان تهبوا جميعا وتواصلوا الطريق الذي إختطه طلاب مدينة كسلا, وشباب القضارف, الذين استبسلوا في مواجهة هذا النظام وهم عزل الا من ايمانهم بضرورة اسقاط هذا النظام, ونتمنى عاجل الشفاء للجرحى منهم , ونناشد أبناء البجا بل كل السودانيين, بالوقوف مع الجرحى والمصابين من الطلاب, ونقول لهم ان نضالنا سيتستمر الى ان تتحقق الغاية المنشودة باسقاط هذا النظام, واستعادة الديمقراطية وحقنا في العيش بكرامة في بلادنا التى ورثناها عن الاجداد, واننا سنسير في طريق قادة مؤتمر البجا العظام الذين خلفوا لنا مجد وتراث نضالي كبير.
ولا يفوتنا في هذا المقام ان نتوجه بالتحايا والتقدير لرفاقنا في قيادة الجبهة الثورية القائد مالك عقار, الاستاذ عبد الواحد نور, الدكتور خليل ابراهيم , القائد مني اركو مناوي, والقائد عبد العزيز الحلو, والاستاذ ياسر عرمان , لهذا التحالف التاريخي, ونقول لهم من هنا نبدأ كتابة تاريخ جديد للشعب السوداني والشعوب المهمشة.
بجا حديد
د. محمد ابو امنة
المكتب القيادي لمؤتمر البجا
[translation by machine - google]
Important statement of the Beja Congress about joining the Sudanese Revolutionary Front
The people of Beja suffer for many years, in fact worsening and miserable suffering people from poverty and starvation and deadly diseases, did not find the ruling regime in Sudan only Alszlal; and tyranny; and arrogance; and murder; and marginalization; and the waves of price rises grinding; and inertia.
Our fans loyal
As part of restoration of human dignity Sudanese general, and Bedjaoui private, engaged the leadership of the Beja Congress in intensive consultations with many organizations and movements, the Sudanese armed forces, and continued in many cities in the interior through the media available and concluded at the end of the announcement of our accession to the Front, the revolutionary forces of Sudan, which we turned with key components of many debates since early in London, especially after that found the Charter of the Revolutionary Front of Sudan, warmly welcomed by the masses of the party, and the people of the Beja, to put the issue of dropping the system is clear and unambiguous, through joint action, the mating between peaceful political action public action, armed.
The Beja Congress announced to join the RUF, he pledge to make our people proud dear to them in order to achieve the noble goal, bringing down the system, and building democratic Sudan; and justice; and prosperity; and equality.
Our people honest
The people of Beja, who suffered years of marginalization and impoverishment deliberate, and mass death, it is time to rise up to recover his dignity, and rights of the deprived, especially since the political crisis experienced by our country was Zrutha, and it was time to get out Moakpna outrageous, shouting to bring down this criminal regime, which committed the worst crimes against the people and the removal of the impoverished, and March of genocide in its worst forms, which stand witness the massacre of Port Sudan.
Our brave young people
Speak to you, the Spirit Abajouih, which Atrdy injustice, humiliation and disgrace, that Thbwa all and you continue the road trodden by students of the city of Kassala, young Gedaref, who heroically in the face of this system and are removed except by faith in the need to bring down the system, and wish speedy recovery to the wounded of them, and call upon the sons of Beja but all the Sudanese people, to stand with the injured students, and tell them that our struggle Setstmr that achieved the ultimate goal to bring down the system, and the restoration of democracy and our right to live in dignity in our country which we inherited from our forefathers, and we go on by the leaders of the Beja Congress bone who left us the glory of and the heritage of a great struggle.
We can not fail in this respect must turn Balthaaa and appreciation to our comrades in the leadership of the RUF leader Malik Agar, Professor Abdul Wahid, Dr. Khalil Ibrahim, leader Minni Arko Minawi, leader Abdul Aziz al-sweet, and Mr. Yasir Arman, because of this historic alliance, and tell them from here we start write a new history of the Sudanese people and marginalized people.
Baja iron
D. Mohammed Abu safe
Office of the Beja Congress leader
Old Beja Congress Logo. The new logo has two knives, and no gun.
From a published report.
The Beja Congress, a Sudanese armed opposition group, announced on Tuesday that they had joined the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF).
The SRF is a newly formed alliance of armed opposition groups in the country since November 11. It comprises Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), Sudan Liberation Army-Abdul Wahid (SLA-AW), Sudan Liberation Army-Minni Minnawi (SLA-MM) apart from the Beja Congress.
A statement issued by the Beja Congress said that its decision to join would help restore human dignity in Sudan in general and specifically with respect to the Beja minority.
The movement said that it had engaged in intensive consultations with many organizations and movements in eastern Sudan and had arrived at the decision to join the SRF.
The statement reinstated that the Beja people had been languishing for many years. “In fact the misery and suffering of the people is increasing due to poverty, starvation and other deadly diseases. The ruling regime in Sudan is subjecting its people to humiliation and tyranny. They are arrogant and killing the marginalized people,” the statement read.
It also pointed out the inaction of the government in the wake of the current economic crisis and inflation.
The newly created Sudan Revolutionary Front says its aim is to overthrow the Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party through all means, including violence. The group consists of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North, the Justice and Equality Movement, and two factions of the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army.
The group said it believes Sudan’s government is at a weak point economically, politically and militarily. [Read this analysis of Bashir's problems.]
“The [Khartoum] regime is imploding and will vanish, like other corrupt regimes around us that have come to rely on repression to retain power,” the group said. “It has humiliated our people and dismembered our homeland. Should its rule continue, it would lead to further division in Sudan.”
Eric Reeves, a Sudan expert at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, said the group could force Khartoum to face the “daunting prospect of fighting resource-draining wars on several fronts, with the likely shut-down of oil extraction and transport from the south.”
Khartoum’s National Congress Party said the Sudan Revolutionary Front is planning to carry out acts of sabotage to lead Sudan into a crisis. The official news agency quoted a ruling party spokesman, Yassir Yusuf, as saying that the government of South Sudan should “distance itself and lift its hand to stop providing assistance to rebel movements in Sudan.”
Meanwhile South Kordofan governor Ahmed Haroun called the SRF a “miserable alliance.”
Radio Dabanga and Washington Post.
UPDATE: For further analysis of the political efforts to reduce the impact of the SRF, read this piece that is aggressively critical of Umma party leader Sadig Almahdi.
SIDE NOTE - OFF TOPIC. There are now 300 posts on this blog. You get current news about the Beja people on this blog, and for learning more about the Beja people, please visit adroub.net
When a river is dammed, the water that collects in the lake above the dam stops moving, and the sediment that was carried in the flowing stream sinks to the bottom of the lake.
After some years, when enough sediment has settled, the size of the reservoir for holding water shrinks, and it becomes more difficult to manage the flow of water into irrigation systems or the turbine systems that generate electricity.
It may be possible to raise the dam, to make it higher. This will make a different lake in the same place. The Roseires Dam has been reconstructed to make it higher.
In Egypt, the dam at Aswan was rebuilt a few miles upriver, to create a Lake Nassar, because the dam in original location couldn't be built any higher.
Of course, other factors beside sediment collection have to be considered. These may include environmental issues, cost of operation, the need for more electricity, etc.
Water released from lake
Below is an amazing time lapse video showing the first stage of deconstructing a dam. It was used by an electrical company. Federal law demanded that certain environmental features should be built, and the company didn't want to pay those costs, which were going to be higher than just abandoning the dam.
A tunnel was cut into the dam at the bottom, and as the water is released in a rush, the sediment behind the dam is washed out, creating a new river bed. The dam later will be cut apart and removed.
Watch the video made in October 2011 and discover how much of the lake wasn't very deep. It was about half full of sediment. Fascinating.
Explosive Breach of Condit Dam from Andy Maser on Vimeo.
Spate Irrigation Problems
Many farmers who work in the regions around Kassala use spate irrigation. This involves building a small dam [about 2 feet high] that is very long, in a "u" shape. The dam essentially surrounds a field on the low side of flat land. This catches the water, which soaks into the land, charging it like a sponge, so that the land is moist. This allows a crop to be planted and grow even after the rainy season is over.
When it rains the water can't run off, and water from land uphill from the field will flow into the dammed area. This uphill water will bring soil with it, which will settle in the standing water. After a few seasons, enough sediment may collect in the field so that it is no longer useful because water will no longer make a "lake" above the dam.
An American from Illinois USA, and a Sudanese Beja met up in Cairo and now make music together. Miguel Merino and Ahmed Said Abuamna want to record an album of original Beja-style songs.
Using the fundraising website kickstarter, they hope to raise $15,000 by December 8, 2011 for this project to go ahead.
Their promo page has some great pictures of Beja dress and musical instruments.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/otaakband/miguel-merino-and-otaak-band/
Click to enlarge. Photo taken July 2011, by Yasser El-Rasoul
The Beja Congress has launched a new website. {in Arabic}
In English [machine translated] try google. To read further, get more text translated from Arabic to English, just refresh or reload your page. It seems that google translates only a select number of words at a time [1,000?].
I wonder if the BejaCongress.net team could archive posts by the month to make page loads easier...
President Afwerki has been the only president of Eritrea since its independence from Ethiopia in 1993. Yet there is hope for democratic rule in the country.
A meeting of over 500 people is set for November 21 in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia where they will discuss a process to establish democratic rule in Eritrea. The "National Congress" is organized by the Eritrean National Commission for Democratic Change. Here's a list of "civil societies" that are expected to participate. Most of these have been created during 2011.
Semere T. Habtemariam describes the role and task of opposition groups. In an extended essay, he analyses the existing rule of President Afwerki, and then explores the growing opposition to his rule. He ends with six ideas that opposition groups need to adopt if they are to be successful in changing Eritrean society. He makes a transition in the centre of the essay with these comments.
"The Eritrean people have not seen better days; injustice, oppression and hardship have been part of their normal life. This psychological make-up is hard to shrug off.
"The opposition faces an impossible mission of changing this psychological make-up of the people. The general messages of democracy, human rights and free press do not instinctively resonate with the masses. It is very hard to effectively articulate the intangible, invisible, future and disastrous effects of poor management and leadership. It is natural for the common people to reason: If Isaias Afwerki was good enough to lead us in our liberation struggle; he must then be good enough to rule us in liberation."
UPDATE: A demonstration of Eritreans who were calling for democracy in Eritrea and the ouster of President Afwerki was held in London, England recently. Other Eritreans were attending a meeting inside the fancy banquet facility "the Decorium" A video above was uploaded on October 23, 2011.
http://youtu.be/vi2YoDU_AKc
Portions of the Eritrean community have protested before. Here are two videos, posted in March and April 2011, of gatherings outside the Eritrean embassy on White Lion Road in London, England.
http://youtu.be/SutIjNcsPKM
http://youtu.be/jFna8sxjgow
Kassala Police say that there a confrontation between themselves and smugglers of sorghum. A child was shot and killed.
What's the reality? Reports say a 13 year old was killed by police. No reports on how that happened. Citizens were enraged, and threw stones at riot police and set fire to two police cars the next day, on Tuesday, November 1, 2011. Another child was shot by police and seriously injured.
Kassala is the centre of demonstrations over the rising price of foodstuffs, for a few weeks now.
Read the complete account at AllAfrica.
Another account has these details.
Police used teargas to break up a protest in eastern Sudan on Tuesday after police killed a 13-year old boy while chasing a truck, a witness said.
Hundreds of residents gathered in the city of Kassala near the border with Eritrea on Tuesday after the 13-year boy died. A 12-year old boy was also injured during the chase.
"Police used teargas to disperse the protest. People are very angry," said [unnamed] witness.
A police spokesman said the boy had been killed accidentally when police opened fire on a truck they suspected was carrying smuggled food. He said police in Kassala are investigating the incident.
Sudanese Online.
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Simulacra & Hyperreality Within the Paradigm of Architecture
Up to now, assignments relating to architecture have worked within the modernist meta-narrative focusing primarily on formal issues. Previous projects have examined the subject of architecture non-linguistically. Our approach has been (ideally) modernist. We have re-presented the subject formally thus having subordinated linguistic interpolation (labels.) Presumably, meaning was derived from an intrinsic internal resonance between the sublime and form but we (necessarily) function within western aesthetic paradigms assuming their universality thus implying innateness.
We now explore the opposite extreme and using architecture as a social metaphor, examine the ideological underpinnings of postmodern society. Generally, architecture reifies economic, political, social, religious, industrial, etc. societal elements. Contextually, it functions primarily iconically. It easily assumes the role of an egalitarian mechanism we may use initially to explore the interpolation of language between subject and perception, and then the similar interpolation of ideologies. Revelations regarding various agenda should be inescapable and should consequently help guide the creation of your project.
This project explores meaning. Our perception of reality is colored and limited by interpretation. It is interpolated by language rich with layer after layer of meaning. Our past projects have through formalism, attempted to remove interpolation but we must ultimately question if form and color are innate. The subject is therefore questioned and we are left only with language and consequently must view our concept of reality skeptically.
Jean Baudrillard, in Simulacra and Simulation[i] discusses Jorge Luis Borges’ “On Exactitude in Science”[ii].
“If we were able to take as the finest allegory of simulation the Borges tale where the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up exactly covering the territory (but where, with the decline of the Empire this map becomes frayed and finally ruined, a few shreds still discernible in the deserts — the metaphysical beauty of this ruined abstraction, bearing witness to an imperial pride and rotting like a carcass, returning to the substance of the soil, rather as an aging double ends up being confused with the real thing), this fable would then have come full circle for us, and now has nothing but the discrete charm of second-order simulacra.
Abstraction today is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor survives it. Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory — precession of simulacra — it is the map that engenders the territory and if we were to revive the fable today, it would be the territory whose shreds are slowly rotting across the map. It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire, but our own. The desert of the real itself.
In fact, even inverted, the fable is useless. Perhaps only the allegory of the Empire remains. For it is with the same imperialism that present-day simulators try to make the real, all the real, coincide with their simulation models.”[iii]
This project may be representational or may be conceptual. You may choose to document simulacra within an architectural genre or you may choose to create your own. You are not strictly limited to photography and may add to or modify your photographic project with other media. Be prepared to discuss your project with me. The project must be shot outside of class. Film processing must not be done during class either. Class time is reserved for printing, discussion and other aspects of production not previously listed.
You will have two weeks to complete this project.
(The following is from Wikipedia)
“The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth–it is the truth which conceals that there is none.
The simulacrum is true.”[iv]
Simulacra and Simulation is most known for its discussion of images, signs, and how they relate to the present day. Baudrillard claims that modern society has replaced all reality and meaning with symbols and signs, and that the human experience is of a simulation of reality rather than reality itself. The simulacra that Baudrillard refers to are signs of culture and media that create the perceived reality; Baudrillard believed that society has become so reliant on simulacra that it has lost contact with the real world on which the simulacra are based.
Simulacra and Simulation identifies three types of simulacra and identifies each with an historical period:
1.First order, associated with the pre-modern period, where the image is clearly an artificial placemarker for the real item.
2.Second order, associated with the industrial Revolution, where distinctions between image and reality breaks down due to the proliferation of mass-produced copies. The items’ ability to imitate reality threatens to replace the original version.
3.Third order, associated with the postmodern age, where the simulacrum precedes the original and the distinction between reality and representation break down. There is only the simulacrum.[v]
Baudrillard theorizes the lack of distinctions between reality and simulacra originates in several phenomena:
1.Contemporary media including television, film, print and the Internet, which are responsible for blurring the line between goods that are needed and goods for which a need is created by commercial images.
2.Exchange value, in which the value of goods is based on money rather than usefulness.
3.Multinational capitalism, which separates produced goods from the plants, minerals and other original materials and the process used to create them.
4.Urbanization, which separates humans from the natural world.
5.Language and ideology, in which language is used to obscure rather than reveal reality when used by dominant, politically powerful groups.
A specific analogy that Baudrillard uses is a fable derived from On Exactitude in Science by Jorge Luis Borges. In it, a great Empire created a map that was so detailed it was as large as the Empire itself. The actual map grew and decayed as the Empire itself conquered or lost territory. When the Empire crumbled, all that was left was the map. In Baudrillard’s rendition, it is the map that people live in, the simulation of reality, and it is reality that is crumbling away from disuse.
The transition from signs which dissimulate something to signs which dissimulate that there is nothing, marks the decisive turning point. The first implies a theology of truth and secrecy (to which the notion of ideology still belongs). The second inaugurates an age of simulacra and simulation, in which there is no longer any God to recognize his own, nor any last judgement to separate truth from false, the real from its artificial resurrection, since everything is already dead and risen in advance.[vi]
Thus, Baudrillard further distinguishes three orders of simulacra associated with three historical periods: first order simulacra belong to the pre-modern era in which images were clearly copies or representations of some original; second order simulacra arise with the industrial revolution, photography and mass reproduction technologies in the nineteenth century – the image obscures (dissimulates) and threatens to displace the real; third order simulacra are part of our postmodern era; the image is said to completely precede and determine the real, such that it is no longer possible to peel away layers of representation to arrive at some original.
It is important to note that when Baudrillard refers to the “precession of simulacra” in Simulacra and Simulations, he is referring to the way simulacra have come to precede the real in the sense mentioned above, rather than to any succession of historical phases of the image. Referring to “On Exactitude in Science“, a fable written by Borges, he argued that just as for contemporary society the simulated copy had superseded the original object, so, too, the map had come to precede the geographic territory, e.g. the first Gulf War: the image of war preceded real war.
Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory – precession of simulacra – it is the map that engenders the territory and if we were to revive the fable today, it would be the territory whose shreds are slowly rotting across the map.[vii]
With such reasoning, he characterised the present age as one of “hyperreality” where the real object has been effaced or superseded, by the signs of its existence. Such an assertion — the one for which he is most criticised — is typical of his “fatal strategy” of attempting to push his theories of society beyond themselves. Rather than saying, that our hysteria surrounding pedophilia is such that we no longer really understand what childhood is anymore, Baudrillard argued that “the Child no longer exists”.[viii] Similarly, rather than arguing — as did Susan Sontag in her book On Photography — that the notion of reality has been complicated by the profusion of images of it, Baudrillard asserted: “the real no longer exists“. In so saying, he characterized his philosophical challenge as no longer being the Heidiggerian/Leibnizian question of: “Why is there something, rather than nothing?”, but, instead: “Why is there nothing, rather than something?”[ix]
[i] Poster, Mark; Baudrillard, Jean (1988). Selected writings. Cambridge, UK: Polity. ISBN 0-7456-0586-9.
[ii] On Exactitude in Science . . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.
Suarez Miranda,Viajes de varones prudentes, Libro IV,Cap. XLV, Lerida, 1658
From Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions, Translated by Andrew Hurley Copyright Penguin 1999
[iii] Jean Baudrillard. Simulacra and Simulations. Op cit.
[iv] Jean Baudrillard. Simulacra and Simulations. Op cit.
[v] Hegarty, Paul (2004). Jean Baudrillard: live theory. London: Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-6283-9.
[vi] Ibid.
[vii] Ibid.
[viii] In the essay “The Dark Continent of Childhood” in the essay collection Screened Out, 2002.
[ix] In the essay “The Dark Continent of Childhood” in the essay collection Screened Out, 2002.
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Bonkers Blog March 2012
24 March (Part 2) - Strange behaviour
There are some councillors who one would never suspect of posting an obscene blog. Simon Windle, Steven Hall (I spelled his name right this time!), Alex Sawyer, Val Clark, John Fuller, either of the Bacons, probably not even John Waters or Katie Perrior. They just don’t seem the type. Some of the others probably wouldn’t have a clue how to do it, but that still leaves quite a lot who might have had a hand in it. It may also leave quite a lot who would like to see the culprit hung out to dry along with their leader who has allowed it all to happen on her watch and seemingly attempt a cover up. The thoughts of a few have filtered through via various channels indicating their stance on the matter.
Obviously these fall into two categories. Those who are disgusted and say they are pretty sure they know who did it and those that claim not to have a clue who did it but wished they did.
The odd thing is that one ward has two councillors in the first camp who offer nods and winks but a third who says he hasn’t a clue who did it. You would think three councillors in the same ward would share their information. How come two think they know who did it and the other one says the reverse? Unless of course… perish the thought.
Labour party councillors are excluded from consideration because none have any logical reason to be obscene bloggers.
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Release Day Blitz: Fear the Beard (The Dixie Wardens Rejects MC #2) by Lani Lynn Vale
Posted March 30, 2017 by bookstobreathe in Book Blitz/Promo, New Release / 0 Comments
Title: Fear the Beard
Author: Lani Lynn Vale
Series: The Dixie Wardens Rejects MC #2
Published by Dixie Wardens Inc
Genres: Erotic Romance, MC Romance
Tally is a twenty-year-old single mother struggling to finish nursing school. Has she made mistakes in life? Sure, but her daughter isn’t one of them. She works hard, she studies even harder, and she’s only a few weeks away from graduating.
She’s living her life the best she knows how when she witnesses a near miss motorcycle accident between a car and a biker. A biker that happens to be the most talked about teacher at her college. The moment she meets those startling blue, narrowly-escaped-death eyes, she realizes quickly that life as she knows it has changed. No longer will she be content to let life pass her by, even if it puts everything she’s worked so hard for in jeopardy.
Tommy is a highly skilled doctor. A teacher. A veteran. A fully-patched member of The Dixie Wardens MC. He’s lonely, but also set in his ways. What will it take for this man to accept that he needs to make some changes in his life? Apparently, it’ll take a guy in a truck, who’s preoccupied with his phone rather than focused on the road, nearly plowing into him on his bike at seventy miles per hour. Oh, and a twenty-something year old nursing student witnessing the entire thing from only a few feet away.
It only takes a second, a single heartbeat in time, as he looks into her worry-filled eyes to realize that he’d give anything for a single night with her. He may lose his job in the process, but after that one incredible night turns into an amazing weekend, he knows it’s worth the risk for the promise of her forever.
Genre: Erotic MC Romance
Cover Model: Jacob Wilson
Photography: Furious Fotog
I leaned back in my chair, letting my pencil drop onto the couch beside me, and stared at him.
He worked his jaw, his hand coming up to allow his fingers to scratch his beard.
He looked so freakin’ sexy, even doing innocuous things like touching his majestic beard.
It really was majestic…and longer than I remembered.
Was he growing it out? I wonder what it would feel like rubbing against the inside of my thighs?
“That look won’t get you anywhere right now,” he murmured.
I bit my lip.
“I…” I didn’t have anything to say to that.
I really shouldn’t be thinking about it.
I shouldn’t be thinking about how his cock filled me up. I shouldn’t be thinking about the erection I could now see straining his pants. I shouldn’t be wishing I could take it out and swallow it…
“Stop,” he snapped.
I’d bitten my lip, but my eyes remained on his cock.
And the next thing I knew, there was a two hundred and thirty-pound man on top of me, pinning me to the couch.
I gasped, taken aback at the suddenness.
He used my gasp against me, slamming his mouth to mine as he thrust his tongue into my mouth.
I moaned.
He tasted like chocolate.
I’d seen him eating M&M’s in class when I’d passed his classroom door on the way to my own.
I’d also been insanely jealous of that candy.
I wanted to melt in his mouth. I wanted to be the thing that he enjoyed the taste of.
He thrust his leg in between my thighs, and I parted them without hesitation before wrapping my arms around his shoulders and pulling him even closer to me.
I forgot what I was doing. I forgot where I was. I forgot everything, focusing only on the feel of his body on mine. The taste of his mouth. The smell of his skin.
Beard Mode
(The Dixie Warden Rejects MC #1)
Aaron ‘don’t ever call me Fatbaby’ Sims is lucky to be alive. Or at least that is what everyone keeps telling him. He doesn’t feel lucky, though. He’s scarred, has more than a little bit of a bad attitude, and there isn’t a single day that goes by that he doesn’t wish his wife would’ve just finished off the job.
After being denied his old position at the fire department, he leaves, and doesn’t look back. He heads straight to Alabama and into the semi-welcoming arms of The Dixie Wardens MC. There he becomes a part of a brotherhood that forces him to get back in the land of the living.
Imogen is a smart girl. A girl who doesn’t always make the best decisions.Her heart is in the right place when she walks into that prison, but it doesn’t take long for her to realize that her heart shouldn’t have had any say so in the matter. Especially when one wrong move lands her in the arms of a scarred man that looks frightening enough to scare any sane woman away.
Immediately enthralled by the angry man, she tries to get closer to him. But the harder she tries to get to know him, the further he pushes her away.
The only thing Aaron wanted to do after his now ex-wife was sent to jail was escape. Escape the awful memories. The pity-filled eyes. The curious glances.
He does a damn fine job at ensuring he draws as little as attention as possible, but then that annoying woman with her startling blue eyes starts hammering away at his resolve. Makes him feel when he doesn’t want to feel.
Imogen comes into his life and carves out a place for herself, obliterating his defenses one heated kiss at a time. It doesn’t take long, and he realizes he’s in deep. Too deep to ever want to come out.
Imogen will know what it’s like to be loved by a reject.
Son of a Beard
(The Dixie Wardens Rejects MC #3)
Truth Alan Reacher was a biker. He was a bladesmith. What he was not, was a fool.
The moment he walked in on his girl screwing his cousin on his bike, he does the only thing he can do.
He ditches the bike seat—and the girl—riding right out of her life without a backwards glance.
That is until he’s forced to attend the marriage of his cousin to his cheating ex-girlfriend. The only bright spot of the entire thing was watching some chick go off on the groom—the groom’s ex-fiancé—right in the middle of the bouquet toss.
Verity Ruthann Cassidy was supposed to be here today attending this wedding as the bride, not watching the festivities as a guest from the chairs she’d painstakingly purchased covers for while her fiancé—now her ex-fiancé—screwed around on her with another woman.
The icing on the wedding cake that she refuses to eat? She’s forced to attend the wedding due to her mother being the wedding planner. However, the night doesn’t turn out quite the way she expects it due to the hot-as-hell biker sitting in the chair directly beside her. The man gave one hell of a speech during the reception that sounded like something that could have come straight out of her own mouth, and she enjoyed every single second of it.
Thrown together under similarly lousy circumstances, the two newly single jilted former lovers of the happy couple decide to go to Vegas on what was to be Verity’s honeymoon trip.
One thing leads to another, and the next thing they know, their night has gone from a celebration of being single to a marriage—to each other. Verity and Truth now have to figure out if everything that happens in Vegas should stay in Vegas.
I’m Only Here for the Beard
(The Dixie Wardens Rejects #4)
Coming May 31st!
Sean is a man with needs—needs that a lot of women were ready and willing to fulfill. Yet, the only woman that he wants to fulfill them dumped him for another man. A man who’s a member of his MC and is someone he has to see every single day and twice on Sundays. He’s bitter and angry. He’s definitely not in the right frame of mind when it comes to dealing with women. Which is unfortunate for his new partner, Naomi, a fresh-out-of-school and totally green paramedic.
Naomi’s got enough problems on her plate. A brother who’s self-destructive and doesn’t care who he takes down with him. A man who she’s in love with but who doesn’t love her. A job that she hates because it is a constant reminder of what she can’t have. Desperate to distance herself from her problems, she runs, taking the first job in her field that she finds willing to take on someone with so little experience. The last thing she needs is a perpetually pissed off partner, especially when he sets her blood on fire. But life doesn’t ask how much you can handle when it dishes out challenges. It just keeps piling them on until you’ve bested them or you’ve buckled under them.
Sean really doesn’t want to like his new partner, Naomi. He just wants to be left alone to live his life however he damn well pleases and without complications.
Naomi doesn’t care what he wants, she can’t be anything but herself. It isn’t long before she’s breaking down his walls and making him feel again. She’s trying to pull him closer and he’s pushing her away.
It’s not long before Sean sees the error of his ways.
It’s too bad, though, that by the time he realizes she’s the one, Naomi’s already gone.
About Lani Lynn Vale
Lani Lynn Vale is a USA Today Bestselling Author of over thirty titles. She is married with three children, two dogs, two cats, a donkey, and a couple (a couple also meaning over twenty) chickens.
When she’s not writing, you can find her curled up in her favorite chair reading.
Lani is married with three children, and lives in the Great State of Texas.
By Lani Lynn Vale
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A thrilling, alt-history adventure
* WINNER of the Young Adult section of the New Zealand Book Children's Awards
* Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards
Fifteen year old Willem lives in hiding in a small Belgian village on the edge of the great Sonian Forest. Willem and his mother have been living in secret for most of his life, since his father, a famous magician, fell out of favour with the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
It is a world not much different from our own, in which small 'saurs' are a part of everyday life. Some are farmed, some are pets, others, more dangerous are avoided. There are rumours of even greater 'saurs' roaming the uncharted islands of the Americas.
When a girl from the village is killed, it becomes obvious that there are hidden terrors in the forest and that they are connected with Napoleon's plans to conquer Europe.
But Willem has a secret that could interfere with the emperor's plans and Napoléon will stop at nothing to find him.
War is coming, and young Willem is no longer safe, for Gaillemarde is just a stone's throw from the fields of Waterloo -- fields which will soon run red with blood.
The first book of the Battlesaurus duology
Suggested Age Range: 12yrs +
Rating: (17 ratings by visitors to this site)
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...a compelling and powerful read....
- NSW Premiers Literary Awards Judges - April 2016
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With Battlesaurus, Brian Falkner has done the seemingly impossible: he has made the premise of battle-trained dinosaurs fighting in the Napoleonic Wars thoroughly believable.
It is 1815 and Willem — who is not really Willem — at 15 has been in hiding his whole life. His father was a master magician in Napoléon’s court but, when he ran foul of Napoléon’s plan to battle train the creatures that roamed the forest, he was killed in retribution.
His wife and child escaped into hiding, but now dinosaurs are ravaging the English and only Willem, the boy who is a ‘greater conjurer than the father’, stands between Napoléon and his prize
Battlesaurus is a cracking read. From the slow reveal of the terror in the forest, to the secrets of Willem’s past, through to the espionage and ultimate betrayal, the pacing and plotting is excellent, yet never at the expense of the character development.
Falkner brings a sensitive and compassionate hand to his extensive cast.
Each character is flawed in their own way, courageous at times, witty at others.
It is a combination that makes for a compelling and powerful read.
a well-constructed, imaginative slice of world alternative history...
- Kinderlit Canada - April 2016
In my real life, away from Kinderlit, I would probably never pick up a book like Battlesaurus: Rampage at Waterloo; I’m not one for alternate histories, and the dinosaurs-at-The Battle of Waterloo premise comes off, to me, as profoundly gimmicky.
(Profoundly gimmicky, incidentally, is why I generally avoid alternate histories.)
Essentially, this is the story of that fabled battle, but in another dimension, where dinosaurs roamed the Earth alongside man.
Europe is full of smaller grade dinosaurs, such as raptors, which make the forests treacherous; North America is unsettled, over-run as it is by dino-giants, like T-Rex.
Napoleon, whose French army is battling against the coalition forces, headed by the British and the Prussians, is struggling.
Struggling, that is, until he unleashes his greatest weapons: Giant dinos, imported from the Americas and weaponized.
Of course, there’s one person (why is there never more than one?) who can stop him: A teen conjurer with a penchant for soothing dinosaurs.
Can Napoleon stop him before he can stop Napoleon?
Seasoned author Brian Falkner (he of the Recon Team Angel series) handles all of the tricky bits with aplomb, and his ability to build tension is really quite marvelous; it builds to such a degree, in fact, that it feels at certain points that it might rip the book apart.
The set-up might be a bit of a tough sell for reluctant readers, or those intimidated by history with which they aren’t familiar, and the dialogue could feel a bit stilted to those same readers, as Falkner endeavours (and succeeds) to capture an early 19th century pattern of speech.
Additionally, despite the ferocious looking “saur” being ridden by a French soldier on the front cover of the book, this is not a mile-a-minute actionfest.
(It becomes one, eventually, but the build up is quite long.)
The adventurous, seasoned young reader will be well-rewarded, and I would be unsurprised to discover that Battlesaurus, Rampage at Waterloo has become a favourite for many.
Not a book built to draw for reluctant readers, no, but a well-constructed, imaginative slice of world alternative history, and proof that Brian Falkner, like a French soldier astride a majestic T-Rex, is a force with which to be reckoned.
Thrilling and positively addicting...
- School Library Journal - January 2016
Falkner gives Napoleon a toothy secret weapon in this decidedly alternate history.
Part historical fiction, part dinosaur fantasy mash-up, this book will appeal to history buffs and dinosaur fanatics alike.
The battle scenes between Napoleon's army and the British are depicted in incredible detail, making readers feel as if they are right in the midst of the fight . . .
The first of a promising duology that readers will find thrilling and positively addicting.
one can only hope that Falkner is a swift writer...
- Booklist - January 2016
This alternative history asks, what if Napoleon won the battle at Waterloo . . .
The novel quickly ramps up to suspense, immersing the reader in the swiftly moving plot.
Characters are very well drawn, capturing the reader's sympathy.
With an ending wide open for a sequel, complete with a plot-thickening cliff-hanger, one can only hope that Falkner is a swift writer
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MIZ 26 23 49
MSST 33 35 68
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Carter's 22 points lead Mississippi St over Missouri 68-49
Bulldogs feel prepared after conference games (2:29)
Guard Tyson Carter discusses Mississippi State's road to the postseason and how SEC opponents have geared them up for the challenge. (2:29)
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Tyson Carter came to Mississippi State two years ago as a super-skinny shooter who coach Ben Howland hoped would grow -- literally and figuratively -- into a larger role on the team.
Gaining the pounds hasn't come easy, but the points are starting to come in bunches.
Carter scored a season-high 22 points, Quinndary Weatherspoon added 20 and Mississippi State led the entire game in a 68-49 victory over Missouri on Tuesday night.
"Tyson had it going," Howland said. "He really did a great job. Made big shots."
Carter shot 7 of 12 from the field, including 4 of 8 from 3-point range. The 6-foot-4 junior's production has come at a good time: He's averaged 15 points over the past four games since starting guard Nick Weatherspoon was suspended for an undisclosed violation of team rules.
Carter's gained about 20 pounds since coming to Starkville two years ago, though he grinned and said it "doesn't look like it." Even though he'll never be a bruiser, he's gained enough strength to find cracks in the defense and create space to make shots.
"It's just playing harder, playing tougher," Carter said. "Three years brings a lot of experience. You learn ways not to get pushed around as much."
Mississippi State (21-7, 9-6 Southeastern Conference) has won five straight league games for the first time since 2008. Now the Bulldogs are essentially assured a spot in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2009 and Howland said the discussion has turned to improving their seed on Selection Sunday.
"I'm so excited for our players," Howland said. "For me, it's all about the players and their chance to experience and compete in the NCAA Tournament. I got to do it twice as a player and it's the greatest experience you can have in college basketball."
Weatherspoon, a senior, passed 1,900 points for his career and made 3 of 4 3-point attempts. Reggie Perry had 15 points and nine rebounds. Abdul Ado blocked five shots.
Missouri (12-15, 3-12) lost its fourth straight game. The Tigers were competitive in their previous three losses to Ole Miss, Kentucky and Florida and hung close in this one for much of the night, but they couldn't overcome a tough night on offense.
Missouri's 49 points were a season low. The Tigers shot just 33 percent from the field and had 15 turnovers. Torrence Watson led Missouri with 12 points. Jeremiah Tilmon added 11.
"We just couldn't get baskets to go for us," Missouri coach Cuonzo Martin said. "They made enough to win the ballgame."
Mississippi State dominated most of the first half, pulling out to a 27-12 lead with 6:46 remaining. Missouri rallied to cut the deficit to 33-26 by halftime, but could get no closer than five points during the second half.
SEVEN-MAN ROTATION
Because of Nick Weatherspoon's suspension, Mississippi State's regular playing rotation has been cut to seven players.
So far, it hasn't been an issue. Howland credited his team's endurance for the five-game winning streak.
Carter played 37 of 40 minutes. Quinndary Weatherspoon played 35. Lamar Peters and Perry played 34.
"Those seven guys who played tonight, they're unbelievably well-conditioned right now," Howland said.
Missouri: The Tigers continue to compete, but fell apart in the second half of this one. Missouri has two of its final three regular season games at home.
Mississippi State: It wasn't a pretty performance, but the Bulldogs controlled this one the entire night. Carter's consistent scoring over the past two weeks has been a plus, Perry doesn't look like a freshman anymore and Ado has added 11 blocked shots over the past two wins.
Missouri: The Tigers host South Carolina on Saturday.
Mississippi State: The Bulldogs travel to Auburn on Saturday.
More AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25
2018-2019 Southeastern Conference Standings
LSU 16-2 - 28-7
Tennessee 15-3 1 31-6
Kentucky 15-3 1 30-7
Auburn 11-7 5 30-10
South Carolina 11-7 5 16-16
Mississippi State 10-8 6 23-11
Ole Miss 10-8 6 20-13
Florida 9-9 7 20-16
Arkansas 8-10 8 18-16
Alabama 8-10 8 18-16
Texas A&M 6-12 10 14-18
Missouri 5-13 11 15-17
Georgia 2-16 14 11-21
Vanderbilt 0-18 16 9-23
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Bitcoin Blasted As A 'Failed Experiment' After Massive 70% Cost Crash
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Bank of America's Q2 profits beat forecasts
In 'no rush' to complete deal to rewrite NAFTA
Mexico's foreign minister Luis Videgaray, in Washington with Guajardo for meetings with USA officials, also struck an optimistic note, saying "we are getting close" when asked about the likelihood of reaching a breakthrough.
Lighthizer was speaking in Washington during the latest round of high-level talks between USA and Mexican officials to rejig the North American Free Trade Agreement, known as NAFTA, with a deal still elusive a year after the renegotiation began.
Canadian officials have insisted they're unfazed by being left out of the discussions because it's allowing the USA and Mexico to sort out tough bilateral issues, such as their differences on autos. Now, he says, the U.S. Is pursuing a more bilateral approach to talks - working with either Mexico or Canada alone, rather than in a group.
But some observers have refused to buy that argument.
Trump himself said he was in "no rush" to conclude the talks, repeating his oft-stated complaint that the 24-year-old trade agreement had been a "disaster" for the United States.
"We're not negotiating with Canada right now", said Trump, who has frequently complained about Canada's supply-managed dairy sector.
In a jibe to Canada, Trump repeated his claim that the country's tariffs and trade barriers were "too high", which was why the USA wasn't even talking to them right now. But we'll see how that works out.
Trade negotiators have sounded optimistic in recent weeks.
Meetings also took place at the office of the U.S. Trade Representative, where one official said most of the talks are coming along well.
The U.S. and Mexican governments have both expressed optimism the entire NAFTA renegotiation could be concluded before the end of the month. Lighthizer told Trump, "I'm hopeful that in the next several days we'll have a breakthrough".
"We have much better alternatives than that".
He said technical discussions would continue Monday and that he would return Tuesday to continue the high-level talks.
The U.S. and Mexico are resolving their differences on agricultural products covered under NAFTA after the Trump administration withdrew some of its sweeping demands, bringing the nations closer to an overall deal, according to five people familiar with the discussions.
Astronomers have discovered a "mini-moon" orbiting the Earth
Well, for one thing, they break the solitude of the moon, proving our planet is frequently orbited by more than just one object. He added that they still do not know whether the asteroids are fragile sand piles, monolithic rock blocks, or a mix of both.
Best Buy bought the company behind senior-friendly JitterBug phone
The big electronics retailer, Best Buy , has said that they will be acquiring the health tech company GreatCall for $800 million. GreatCall not only gives Best Buy more services to sell them, it offers the Geek Squad a broader customer base to reach out to.
Jose Mourinho told Man United star doesn’t look like £30m signing
Antonio Valencia has spent nine seasons at Old Trafford and was named as the first choice captain for the majority of last season. Should he fail to win back the fans and some silverware, sacking him would be the only sensible thing to do.
Bledisloe Cup 2018: Black Ferns and All Blacks double header sold out
Australia , who were frustrated by referee calls all afternoon, then lost full-back Israel Folau to a possible ankle injury as Naholo dismantled their defence, twice.
Pakistan welcomes Afghan govt's ceasefire offer to Taliban
This month the Taliban fought an intense battle with Afghan forces to control the strategically important city of Ghazni. The Taliban had taken control of part of Bulcheragh district and more than 50 government forces were missing, he added.
N Korea Urges S Korea to Not Succumb to Sanctions Pressure
Pompeo traveled to Pyongyang last month to flesh out the Trump-Kim agreement, but returned to the United States with little outcome.
Pathetic Manchester United prove Jose Mourinho warning true in Brighton embarrassment
How many more signings did Jose Mourinho want in the summer? Anthony Martial replaces the Chile worldwide in the starting XI. Marcos Rojo is another option, but the Argentina defender is still nursing an injury picked up at the World Cup.
Kevin Spacey's First Movie Since #MeToo Earned Just $126 On Opening Day
For reference, the top performing movie over the weekend was "Crazy Rich Asians", which took $25.2 million from 3,348 locations. The ensemble crime-drama Billionaire Boys Club quietly opened Friday in 10 theaters scattered in select states across the U.S.
Golf behind Timberwolves' draft mishap in 2009? Curry thinks so
"I don't know if that ever came out - that's a story", Curry said on "The Bill Simmons Podcast," as transcribed by CBS Sports. The stunning story will be sure to devastate the Timberwolves fans, even though it was over nine years ago now.
Nick Jonas & Priyanka Chopra Announce Their Marriage Engagement
Sophie shared the photo Nick and Priyanka first announced their engagement with and captioned it, "Wow". Hours earlier, Nick, 25, and Chopra, 36, both confirmed their engagement on Instagram .
Motorola One with display notch, 3,000mAh battery gets certified, launch imminent
The device will also house a smaller 3,000mAh battery compare to the 3,780mAH battery that's being rumoured for the One Power. They have been leaked in renders and live images a number of times and we're fairly sure what they are going to look like.
PUBG Mobile exceeds 100 million downloads on Android and iPhone
For more information, please visit the official PUBG MOBILE accounts on Facebook , Twitter and YouTube . Moreover, PUBG Mobile also recently exceeded 14 million daily active users (DAU).
Gunman who killed five at Florida airport to get life in prison
Santiago was living in Anchorage, Alaska, when he flew to Fort Lauderdale with a handgun checked in his luggage. Esteban Santiago was sentenced Friday in Miami federal court to five consecutive life terms, plus 120 years.
Quebec announces plan to compensate taxi drivers after Uber's arrival
In 2016, taxi drivers held protests in Montreal against Uber, saying the company would have a negative impact on their business. There are 7,600 taxi licences in Quebec and more than 4,500 will receive the maximum compensation, according to the province.
Iran to unveil new fighter jet, develop missiles: Defence minister
Iran has developed a large domestic arms industry in the face of global sanctions that have barred it from importing many weapons. The timing of the drills is unusual, as Iran's navy usually conducts annual exercises later in the autumn, officials said.
Huawei Mate 20 Lite : Its design, revealed by a leak
A recent leak of the Mate 20 Lite shows that the screen will also come with a notch, just like the Nova and P20 series. We're a tad lost in translation here as we don't know whether this next part is referring to the Mate 20, or the Pro.
Giuliani Goes Full Orwell: ‘Truth Is Not Truth’
And, of course , any meeting with regards to getting information on your opponent is something any candidate's staff would take. Giuliani joined Trump's legal team in April. " Donald Trump says 'I didn't talk about Flynn with Comey, '" he said.
Kiki Bertens rallies past Simona Halep for Western & Southern Open title
The set went to a tie-break and, after scoring four points in a row, Bertens later saved championship point before taking the set. The Dutch number one did not face a break point in the final set and dropped just three points on serve.
Etzebeth returns for Springboks, Pumas include Figallo
Argentina failed to win a game in the Rugby Championship a year ago for the first time since 2013. All but one of the Argentina squad for the Rugby Championship play for the Jaguares.
Chainz Married His Longtime Girlfriend And We Wish We Were There
2 Chainz actually proposed to Kesha twice. once at the BET Awards in 2013, but he never sealed the deal back then. On Saturday, the rapper Wednesday longtime lady love Kesha Ward in a star-studded ceremony in Miami.
Duke's Alex O’Connell suffers broken bone near eye
Duke posted a dominant win in its penultimate Canadian exhibition game on Friday night, routing the University of Toronto, 96-60. Just like Wednesday's game, the arena was awash in Duke blue, thanks in part to a ticket pre-sale to the school's alumni.
Essential Phone in Halo Gray getting big discount at Amazon
You are in luck! Amazon is the seller of this Essential Phone model, meaning you don't have issues with warranty and returns. Reviews of the Essential Phone since its launch have been mixed, however there is one thing that a lot of them can agree on.
Migrant spouse of pregnant woman detained on way to hospital
Then she chose to leave, and pick up and drop off her children with someone, before heading to the hospital around 5 p.m. Arrona-Lara is now in ICE custody pending removal proceedings with the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)".
Federal court reinstates clean water rule delayed by Trump administration
The CWA prohibits the unpermitted discharge of pollutants, including the deposit of soil or fill material, in "waters of the United States".
After Decade-Long Absence, Google Mulls Relaunching in China
I think if we were to do our mission well, I think we have to think seriously about how we do more in China", Mr Pichai said. According to media reports, Google will not seek another contract when the current Project Maven contract expires in 2019.
Magnitude 6.6 quake hits North East of Raba, Indonesia - USGS
The quake destroyed more than 70 thousand houses, hundreds of schools and dozens of hospitals, as well as six bridges. It is reported by the national Agency for the elimination of consequences of natural disasters on Thursday, August 16.
Trump defends Manafort: "It’s a very sad day for our country"
A motion by AP, BuzzFeed , CNN, NBC, the New York Times , Politico and the Washington Post asked US District Judge T.S. They sent a note to the judge asking to wrap up at 5 p.m. instead of 5:30 p.m. because a juror had an event to attend.
Dozens Overdose In Connecticut Park On Tainted Synthetic Marijuana
NASCAR champion Truex needs sponsor to keep team intact
Jimmy Butler Hits on Dwyane Wade’s Wife, Wade Responds With Warning
Adorable, high maintenance fat cat Bruno seeks a permanent home
Time is running out for Brexit deals, warns Danish minister
Palestinian delegation sets out from Gaza for Egypt
Microsoft, Amazon release preview of Alexa, Cortana integration
How Far Will Lebron James and the Lakers go Next Year?
Redick shares chilling auto service experience
Danny Cipriani charged with misconduct by RFU over Jersey assault
OPEC sees lower 2020 demand for its oil, points to surplus
Amazon Prime Day 2019: 5 Tips for Finding Great Business Deals
Shure To Certify Microphones & DSPs To Work With Microsoft Teams
Trump blasts Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency, says US only has 'one real currency'
China's trade with BRI countries stays robust in H1
Traina Thoughts: Dairy Queen Worker Fired After Innocent Moana/Marijuana Mix-Up
Which Fast Food Place Has the Best French Fries?
USA regulators approve Facebook fine of about $5 billion
Starbucks to sell tie-dye frappuccino starting July 10
Federal Liberals blame Ontario PCs for Bombardier layoffs
China letting USA down by not buying US agricultural goods
Bitpoint Exchange Hacked for $32 Million in Cryptocurrency
Volkswagen to invest $2.6B in Ford's self-driving operations
Pelosi spars with progressive party members
Maxine Waters Grills Fed Chair Powell on Trump - And Crypto
ECB ready to ease again as inflation goal is 'some distance away'
US Fed officials see "strengthened" case for rate cut, minutes show
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John Bachir
Co-Founder and CTO of Medstro
Why it's a good idea to put a newline at the end of every file
I will today settle one of the great issues of our time: whether or not to always put a newline at the end of a file.There are two reasons why it's a good idea, and zero reasons why it's a bad idea.
Let's consider these files:
The first reason: when using various command . . .
sane_timeout: a replacement for Ruby's standard library Timeout
Ruby's Timeout library had a serious problems before 1.9: it would sometimes not timeout. This was solved by system-timer(see the readme for more background). But in 1.9, we finally have a Timeout thatreliablytimes out, joy. However, it still has some problems.
As some quick background, here is the basic usage:
require . . .
The somewhat peculiar behavior of Ruby's Thread#raise
Here's something that's perhaps not entirely obvious: when you call Thread#raise, the exception will be raised at whatever point of execution that thread happens to be at.
require 'thread'
t = Thread.new{
sleep 0.1
sleep rand(4) * 0.1 . . .
Ruby Thread#kill and ensure blocks
Here's something interesting in Ruby: If a thread is killed and the portion of code that was running has a corresponding ensure block, that block will be executed before the thread is killed. This is nice in that the utility of ensure is maintained (IO objects will be closed, etc.), but it's perhaps unintuitive that the semantics of . . .
PostgreSQL hstore
With its newish hstore extension, Postgres now has the ability to store schemaless data, like MongoDB, Riak, and other newfangled data stores. I've been wanting to play with it for a while and recently started on something that I thought might benefit from it. Inside model A, I'm storing an arbitrary number of rows of model B, which . . .
Passing multiple blocks to a Ruby method
Something I've wanted to toy around with for a while -- here's a little pattern for passing multiple blocks to a Ruby method. This is something I find myself wishing for now and again, although at the moment I can't think of what one of those use cases were.
def generate_continue_object(*args)
args.each{|a| puts a.inspect . . .
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Help wanted in pedestrian collision investigation
Region of Peel– Investigators from the Major Collision Bureau are seeking the assistance of the public in locating the driver of a vehicle involved in a fail to remain collision with a pedestrian on March 17, 2019.
Shortly after 4:25 a.m. 21 year-old Navindra Sookramsingh was walking southbound on West Drive between the intersections of Clark Boulevard and Orenda Road in the City of Brampton. He was struck by a southbound vehicle in the southbound lane on West Drive. The collision was witnessed by the driver of a northbound vehicle.
It has since been determined that on March 17, 2019 at approximately 4:33 a.m. the male pedestrian had collapsed in the southbound curb lane of traffic on West Drive, south of Clark Boulevard. The male was ill at the time and he was in the process of getting up when he was struck by the southbound 2003-2007 Toyota Corolla.
The Toyota stopped momentarily after the collision and then drove away at a normal speed. It is possible the driver is unaware that he collided with a person.
Section 199 of the Highway Traffic Act makes it incumbent on a person who is knowingly involved in a collision to report the collision to police.
The victim is 21 year-old Navindra Sookramsingh from Brampton he remains in a Rehabilitation Center where he is recovering from serious life altering injuries resulting from this collision.
Police are appealing to the driver of this vehicle to contact them immediately.
Investigators from the Major Collision Bureau are seeking the public’s assistance in locating the vehicle and driver responsible for this collision. Police are asking citizens to be vigilant and report any similar vehicles with minor front end damage to them.
To assist the public, a photo of the suspect vehicle can be viewed by visiting our website.
Anyone with information on this collision as well as those with dash cam footage or surveillance cameras, are asked to call investigators with the Major Collision Bureau at (905) 453–2121, ext. 3710. Anonymous information may also be submitted by calling Peel Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS(8477) or by visitingpeelcrimestoppers.ca.
Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Visit the Peel Regional Police YouTube Channel and our Livestream page.
Easter weekend stats
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) wrapped up its provincial seat belt campaign over the Easter Long Weekend with more than 1,000 charges laid against unbuckled drivers and passengers who failed to keep themselves safe.
While the OPP is pleased to report a zero fatality weekend on roads, officers focused on all unsafe behaviours that placed drivers and passengers at risk, laying more than 10,200 traffic-related charges across the province.
The number one offence committed by drivers was speeding, with more than 6,400 speeding charges laid.
During last year’s long weekend seat belt campaign, officers laid over 1,500 seat belt charges, more than 6,500 speeding charges and close to 11,000 traffic-related charges overall.
The weekend charges serve as an important reminder to drivers and other road users that when the OPP targets one particular behaviour during a traffic safety campaign, officers are highly committed to and well-resourced for enforcing all traffic laws.
Masseur Arrested for Sexual Assault
Region of Peel– Investigators from the Special Victims Unit have arrested and charged a man in relation to a sexual assault investigation.
On Saturday, March 16 the victim, a 48 year old woman from Brampton, attended a health and wellness spa in the City of Brampton to receive a massage, when she was sexually assaulted.
On Thursday, April 18, 2019 Napoleon Arenas a 62 year old man from the City of Brampton acting as a masseur, was arrested and charged with sexual assault. Napoleon Arenas was held for a bail hearing and attended the Ontario Court of Justice in the City of Brampton on Friday, April 19, 2019.
Napoleon Arenas is not a licensed massage therapist but may have practiced as a masseur in other cities.
Anyone with information relating to this investigation are asked to call investigators from the Special Victims Unit at (905) 453-2121, ext.3460. Information may also be left anonymously by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS(8477), or by visiting peelcrimestoppers.ca.
Caledon OPP Easter Long Weekend stats.
Caledon OPP officers stopped and charged numerous unbuckled drivers throughout Caledon during the Easter Long Weekend Campaign.
The following charges were laid by the Caledon OPP during the campaign:
• Seatbelt X 42 charges,
• Speeding X 176 charges,
• Stunt X 13 charges,
• Distracted driving X 10 charges, and
• Other Highway Traffic Act X 74 charges.
Seatbelts can help to protect a driver or a passenger in a collision and minimize injuries. Those who do not wear their seatbelts while in a vehicle put themselves at a greater risk of severe injury or even death. Through enforcement, engagement, and education, the OPP demonstrates its commitment to keeping all our road users safe.
To participate in OPP Child Car Seat Clinic organized by the Caledon OPP Auxiliary officers, please call 905-584-2241 to enquire about upcoming events.
Imparied driver blew almost four times the legal limit
On Friday, April 26 at about 5:25 p.m. uniformed Caledon OPP officers responded to a single motor vehicle collision at Mount Pleasant Road and Caledon King Townline South in the Town of Caledon.
En route to the call, officers received information that the sport utility vehicle that was involved in the collision had left the scene at a high rate of speed. The officer located the suspect vehicle and conducted a traffic stop. As a result, an approved screening device test was administered on the driver, which he failed.
The driver was then placed under arrest, and transported to the Caledon Detachment, where further tests were conducted. A reading of 310 mg of alcohol in 100 ml of blood was registered as a result of those tests.
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Open up audio for the riff and follow the tabs. Open the song that you're covering in another window on your internet browser. Play through the song and trace the chords and notes with the tab that you looked up. Try to follow the numbers on the tab with the notes that are being played in the song. Try to get an understanding for which chords the artist is playing before trying to duplicating it.
Entering into the site and having a good look round reveals that it is almost easier to say who Guitar Tricks is NOT for. And basically that would be anyone who doesn't want to play the guitar. Joking apart, what I wanted to say is that the member area is very easy to understand; even if you're starting learning guitar from scratch you'll find it really easy to use.
I concur, lots of very good lessons on Guitar Tricks. However, one thing I don’t see commented on is that for most of the song lessons and some technical lessons you cannot download and print the music (which I understand for published songs because it is protected) but the on-screen music notation doesn’t scroll with the video lesson, jam track etc. (like it does on several other lesson sites). All that is visible is one 8 or 12 bar section of the song. In other words, short of memorizing the song, there is no way to play along. Made the comment to GT customer support and they said essentially – Yeah we know. My analogy is a canoe without a paddle. Not totally useless but almost.
Practice playing individual notes. Holding down a string and producing a decent sound can sometimes be more challenging than it looks. If you don't hold down a string hard enough, you'll get a muted note and if you hold down the string too close to the fret your guitar will buzz. Practice picking in an up and down motion on your string with the other hand. Continue doing this until you feel comfortable moving up or down the neck to a different note. Practice playing the notes back and forth until you become comfortable strumming.
You Don’t Have to Be a Shark is filled with personal anecdotes and life lessons you might have learned in business school (or at least you think you might have). By drawing from my own life experiences, I will teach you how to how to use pure sales techniques to be more successful in every aspect of your life. My philosophy is simple: great salespeople are made, not born, and no one achieves success in life without knowing how to sell. You Don’t Have to Be a Shark will teach you all that and more. Available now! Order your copy today.
My business was created because of one of the most powerful forces in the universe–love. My daughter desperately wanted to play guitar like her daddy. Like most new guitar students, she was having trouble learning to play. It pained her to quit but she was frustrated and was going to give up. My daughter came to me and said, “Daddy, can’t you do anything to help me play guitar?” I invented the ChordBuddy because I love my daughter and now, she plays and teaches guitar just like her daddy.
Here you'll find the JustinGuitar range of books. Method Books include The Beginner's Course and the Intermediate Method. Songbooks include the Beginner Songbook (our biggest seller, over 100,000 copies sold), Volume 2 (an equal, not a sequel!) and a selection of Intermediate Level Songbooks in various styles: Acoustic, Rock, Pop and Vintage (hits from the 60's-80's). These start with "Beginner Plus" which are great for Beginner's consolidating their knowledge and then move onto songs using barre chords and more complex techniques for Intermediate players. There's also a Beginner Ukulele Songbook! I just have one Transcription Book at the moment, the Blues Lead Guitar Solos Book, but more are in the works. Due to the popularity of my site in Germany, we have two titles translated into German!
When my granddaughters were young, Missy worked tirelessly to create lesson plans for my granddaughters in order to keep them interested in music. For example, if my younger granddaughter (3rd grade at the time) was unmotivated to practice in her workbooks at home, Missy would spend part of a lesson just talking with my granddaughter about what music she was currently enjoying. Then Missy would incorporate that music into her lesson plan. As a result, my granddaughter became once again motivated to practice. Missy makes lessons fun while still teaching technique.
Wow! This post really seems to have helped a lot of folks get started with the guitar. It has been read by – I kid you not – millions of aspiring guitarists. Thank you! As many of you have noted in the comments below, no, I’m not selling anything here related to playing the guitar. My motivation to write this post was that musicians, and especially guitar teachers, can often make learning the guitar sound way too hard. It’s actually easy.
Determine the guitar riff that you want to learn. Listen to acoustic guitar songs that you enjoy and choose one that you'd like to learn. When finding your first song, try to find a song that has an easy chord progression. Listen to the song and determine how many chord changes it has and the speed in which the song is played. If there aren't that many chords or the song seems simple to play, you should choose that song as your first song to learn.
Open string harmonics have a nice chime or bell like sound. To play an open string harmonic, lightly rest the tip of your finger on a string just above a fret wire without actually pressing down, then pick the string. It may take a couple of tries at first but when you succeed the harmonic is on mistakable. The easiest frets to sound an open string harmonic are 5,7,12 on every string but every fret has them if you hit it just right. You can also learn how to tune a guitar using harmonics.
If you alternate fretted notes with open strings you can create a cascading sound of awesomeness. The video below describes how you can take a scale and substitute as many fretted notes as you want with open strings (E, A, D, G, B, E). The beginning of the lick in the video starts off by descending the G Mixolydian scale (G, A, B, C, D, E, F) from G: G (fretted), F (fretted), E (open), D (fretted), C (fretted), B (open), A (fretted), G (fretted). The video below shows the rest of the lick. This second video demonstrates descending and ascending scales while using open strings!
Tony started playing guitar at the age of 14. At age 18 he relocated to Minneapolis, Minnesota to attend Music Tech of Minneapolis. Through the years he has played throughout the upper midwest and most currently in the Ark-La-Tex area, With his band, SUPERUNKNOWN. Tony teaches all styles of Rock, Metal, Blues, Progressive, Latin Rock and Classical.
You Don’t Have to Be a Shark is filled with personal anecdotes and life lessons you might have learned in business school (or at least you think you might have). By drawing from my own life experiences, I will teach you how to how to use pure sales techniques to be more successful in every aspect of your life. My philosophy is simple: great salespeople are made, not born, and no one achieves success in life without knowing how to sell. You Don’t Have to Be a Shark will teach you all that and more. Available now! Order your copy today.
Electric guitar: Well the world of electric guitars is in some ways more complex, as there are all kinds of different looks and technologies. And it’s not good enough to just have a guitar, you need to buy an amplifier as well. I will just recommend mid-level stuff that’s worked for me based on my preferences, but if you like “stuff” and collecting gear, you’ll find playing the guitar to be a deeply satisfying hobby :)
Richard Bennett on justinguitar.com! Richard Bennett (www.richard-bennett.com) "There's an abundance of guitar information out there on the web, some good, some not. I stumbled across Justin Sandercoe's site a year ago and now tell everyone about it. The lessons are conveyed so clearly, concisely and in the most congenial way. The site is laid out logically as well so you can to go straight to your area of interest... beginner, blues, rock, folk, jazz, rhythm, fingerpicking... it's all there and more. Spend ten minutes with Justin and you'll not only play better but feel better too. From novice to know-it-all, everyone will learn something from Sandercoe."
I have to admit – I’ve always wanted to be a rock star ! When Travis entered the tank I knew Chordbuddy might be the only way for me to achieve my dream. Years later we know who the real rock star of this story is – Travis. I did this deal because I could see the passion he had for teaching guitar. He truly wants to share music with the the world and developed a foolproof system for learning one of the most common instruments. More than that – I loved that he invented ChordBuddy so his daughter would share his love for music – true dedication to his craft and his family! Four years after making the deal, there is no shortage of ChordBuddy success stories and I know that this simple and innovative product is the only guitar learning system you’ll ever need to be a rock star like Travis.
Success! You’ve decided to make your living doing something you love! You’ve learned so much and come so far, but there are so many styles and variations that you could likely go on finding new and different ways to play guitar forever. Taking the time for a lesson every so often can refresh your playing immensely. New skills lead to new and better songwriting, and more impressive performances, so try to meet with an instructor every month or two.
In conclusion of our review of GuitarTricks.com, we can say that GuitarTricks is a huge video guitar lesson database, which is suitable for all player skill levels. Because of the wide variety of material available in the website, it might be tempting to skip around, which could cause you to miss some necessary skill lessons. Guitar Tricks is a incredibly affordable online video guitar lessons site with many helpful tools that are of true benefit to guitar students, therefore it comes with our highest recommendations.
You can turn on a backing track and play along with whatever your creativity wants that day. If do not always have access to a band, having the jam station works just like having your own band! They even have the sheet music below each jam which is very helpful. The jam station is great to use if you are a creative musician looking for some inspiration.
* Detune dive bomb - A.K.A. Poor man's dive bomb. On guitars with non locking string nuts, you can simulate a dive bomb by turning the tuning key of the low E string down while the note is ringing. This trick is great when used on hard tail bridge guitars with no floating tremolos. You'll have to know how to tune a guitar by ear if you intend to use this trick frequently.
My granddaughters took voice, guitar, and piano from Missy from the age of third grade through high school. I selected Missy due to her experience: classically trained on piano and voice during her formative years, studied at Berklee College of Music, Boston, toured the country as a solo singer/songwriter, and played world-famous and iconic venues, including the late CBGBs in New York City and the Bluebird in Nashville. You can find her on iTunes, and one of her students, Paul Thomas Mitchell (a.k.a. Tommy Mitchell) was on the hit television show, America's Got Talent.
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To get good touch in your strumming hand, it’ll take longer than 10 hours. It’s about reps. Try to consider the amount of finesse you are hitting the strings with. Do a little research on palm mutting and other useful strumming techniques. If it sounds nasty at first, that’s cool. Your fingers and wrists will start to adjust. Focus on getting quality sounds out of the guitar.
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Building State Machines
As we've seen, State Machines are created from tables. When a State Machine is created, it gets put into something called a State Space Device. State Space Devices can hold as many State Machines as you wish, and State Machines in a State Space will run in parallel and share state and terminal values. In most situations, you will build standalone State Machines, one per State Space.
Standalone State Machines
Most of the time, you will be building stand alone State Machines. These are the easiest State Machines to build. You create them by running a single Script. The standalone State Machine Script is called the StateMachine Script, and it's in the top level of your Virtual Devices Scripts.
The Standalone State Machine Script has only one required parameter, the "file_name" parameter. It tells the Script where the table for the State Machine is located. It also takes an optional "table_name" parameter. If your table file has more than one table defined inside it, the "table_name parameter says which table to use. If your file only has one table in it, the "table_name" parameter is not necessary. If there is more than one table in the table file, you need to use the parameter.
The StateMachine Script takes the following parameters:
file_name :
the file name with the State Machine table(s) in it. The file must be a YAML file whose name ends with ".yaml" or ".yml". The file name is the complete name of the table file. The Scripts page lists all files by their complete names (often they begin "Scripts/..."). If you are not sure what you table file's complete name is, copy and paste the name from the Scripts page.
The StateMachine Script takes the following optional parameters:
table_name :
the table name of the table defining the State Machine's behavior. Table names are defined in the table file. There is one table name for each table. You will find it right before the ":" at the top of each table. You only need this parameter when your table file has more than one table in it.
Two Examples
If you want a state machine called "sm" built from a table in a file called "Scripts/user/sm_file.yaml", run the StateMachine Script with the parameters listed below:
id: "sm"
file_name: "Scripts/user/sm_file.yaml"
If your sm_file.yaml file has two tables in it named "table1" and "table2", you need to tell the Script which table to use. To build the same State Machine using "table2", run the StateMachine Script the with these parameters:
table_name: "table2"
When you build your "sm" State Machine, its terminal names will be the same as the signal names in the "sm_file.yaml" table. By default, State Machines inherit their terminal names from their table's signal names. If you want different terminal names, you can override the defaults.
If the "sm_file.yaml" creates a State Machine with terminals named "a", "b", "c", and you want the "b" terminal named "my_b" and the "c" terminal named "my_c", you need to override the defaults. To override the default terminal names, you supply them as additional parameters when calling the StateMachine Script. For this example, call the StateMachine script with the following parameters:
run_script("Scripts/Device/Virtual/StateMachine", file_name:"Scripts/user/sm_file.yaml", id:"sm", table_name:"table2", b:"my_b", c:"my_c")
Building Multiple State Machines - the State Space Device
In most cases, you will have one state machine per State Space (see the Standalone section). In these cases, State Space is a container for a single state machine. We build these kinds of State Machines by running the top level StateMachine Script. But we can build State Space Devices holding multiple State Machines. It's a little more complex, because we have to build them up a piece at a time. The advantage is the State Machines will share state and terminals while running in parallel. It's like having a bunch of standalone Devices wired together, sharing state and terminals - without the wires.
Perhaps you have something that functions like one giant state machine, but it's actually built out of many smaller state machines. Or you may have a giant state machine which is built out of state machines borrowed from other designs. In these cases, State Space can be a container for all the littler state machines, and it can also wire those state machines together. Putting your state machines together into a common State Space makes your design more modular, easier to build, and easier to replicate. If you've got a bunch of state machines all talking to each other, you can put them into a common State Space. A common State Space can save you wiring and make your system easier to understand.
Building Multiple State Machines in State Space
State Machines are built by first declaring a State Space. State Space is built by running the StateSpace Script in the StateSpace Scripts directory. The StateSpace Script takes no parameters (other than the common "id" parameter). A newly built State Space is a blank slate, an empty space with no input or output terminals, no State Machines, and no tables. Its purpose is to hold state machines and State Machine Tables.
Tables are loaded into State Space using the loadTablesFile Script in the StateSpace directory. The loadTablesFile takes the following parameters:
state_space_id :
the ID of the State Space that will receive that State Space tables
the file name with the State Space tables in it. The file must be a YAML file whose name ends with ".yaml" or ".yml". The file name is the complete name of the tables file. The Scripts page lists all files by their complete names (often begin "Scripts/..."). If you are not sure what you tables file's complete name is, copy and paste the name from the Scripts page.
An example of a State Space tables file is listed here. The same tables, written in expanded YAML, are listed here.
State Machines are created in State Space by instantiating a (previously loaded) table. Tables are instantiated into State Machines by running the StateMachine Script in the StateSpace directory. Note, this is not the same Script as the standalone Script. This one is in the StateSpace directory. The StateMachine Script takes the following parameters:
the ID of the State Space where the State Machine will be instantiated. The State Space ID is the "id" parameter used when creating a State Space.
the table name of the table defining the State Machine's behavior. A table's name is defined in a tables file. There is one table name for each table, right before the ":" at the top of each table. The first table in the above example table file has the name "not".
After running the StateMachine Script and providing the "state_space_id" and "table_name" parameters, the Script will ask for a second set of parameters. These parameters define the StateMachine input and output terminals and any internal state.
Note: The State Machine terminals and internal state one provides are not checked for uniqueness. It is possible to have State Machines sharing terminals or internal state in a State Space. Generally, one uses unique terminal and internal state names for each State Machine in a State Space and there is no sharing, but one can share, if one needs to share. State Machines in different State Spaces cannot share.
State Space Devices and Name Spaces
The State Space Device is both a container for holding state machines and also a bit like a (software) name space. State machines with the same terminal names, in the same State Space, share their signals. Putting it another way, state machines with the same terminal names, in the same State Space, are implicitly wired together. That's not the same as the names used in a state machine table. It's the names you give to the state machine signals when you instantiate it in State Space.
If you had a simple state machine which toggled it's output when it's input received an "on" event, you might instantiate it in state space, "ss1", like this:
run_script("Scripts/Device/Virtual/StateSpace/StateMachine", state_space_id:"ss1", table_name:"toggle", input:"in1", output:"out1")
The State Space Device now contains a single state machine with two terminals, "in1" and "out1". If you wanted to put a second state machine into the "ss1" State Space, you might do this:
For this second state machine, the input and output terminal names are now "in2" and "out2", which are different from the terminals of our first state machine.
At this point, we have a State Space Device with two separate inputs, "in1" and "in2", and two separate outputs, "out1" and "out2", and 2 separate state machines. If you wanted to put a third state machine inside, but have it share its input with the input of the second state machine, input "in2", you might run:
This third state machine and the second state machine share input terminal "in2". Their inputs are effectively wired together. But no wires are needed, because they have a common terminal name, "in2", and the state machines are in the same State Space.
In summary, to build StateMachines in State Space:
Create a State Space using the StateSpace Script.
Load the State Machine tables one needs into the State Space using the loadTablesFile Script.
Instantiate State Machines using the StateMachine Script in the StateSpace directory.
State Machines in the same State Space whose terminals or internal state have the same name will share them. If one doesn't want to share anything or is worried about inadvertent sharing, use the standalone StateMachine Script.
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CyberExpress is anything but a conventional shopping mall; it is a sprawl of distinctive retail environments spread over three floors of the Airport Express Station in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The idea behind the project was to produce a unique shopping experience in various areas while carrying through a common hi-tech theme.
CyberExpress is made up of eight retail shopping ‘worlds’…..
Entertainment World
The “Media Alley” walkway guides shoppers through a wide selection of CDs, videos, books and magazines, enhanced by several listening domes with video monitors and large 42″ plasma screens. “Cyber Dancers” is an interactive video program that features robots on a plasma screen. Shoppers can morph their facial image onto the heads of the Cyber Dancers, select the desired music, and make the robot move around to the beats of the music.
The place to go where audio, visual, mobile and handheld electronics and computer hardware are on display. “Electronic Alley” provides a visually stunning, high-energy passageway flanked by Touch Panels and flat-screen monitors showing video images and multi-color lighting.
Cosmetics World
Positioned as a 21st century cybergarden, this area includes a virtual forest of huge futuristic trees (weighing 20 tons each) that display colorful twinkling lights and fiber optic flower buds, beckoning shoppers to the zone where technology and beauty become one. “Colour Me” and “Manga” kiosks allow customers to copy or animate their faces onto a computer screen, then select different cosmetic looks. Results can be emailed to friends or printed on keepsake magazine covers.
Sports images are projected on the glass walls and surrounding floors, while a wide array of sports and fitness kiosks put consumers to the test.
This product world features the “Fiber Optic Lit Runway,” where programmed color variations from luminous focal walls and computer graphic monitors entice shoppers to browse fashion brand apparel for men and women. An interactive “Dress Me Up” computer kiosk offers consumers the opportunity to match apparel, shoes and accessories.
Kiddies World
Here, you’ll find games and educational toys. A popular attraction is the “Cyberquarium,” where children can create and adopt virtual cyber-fish that can be emailed to family members and friends worldwide. Twenty different fish heads, bodies and tails create a total of approximately 8,000 cyber-fish combinations.
The film was carefully scripted to include the multitude of key points, locations and features of the interactive shopping mall, before design work started on the characters to lead us around this cyber world. Architectural plans and CAD files loaded into Maya where the entire mall was created and brought to life. All the worlds had to feature and each needed to lead neatly to the next as if taking a journey around this amazing architecture. The film was created almost entirely within Autodesk Maya and composited in Autodesk Discreet Flame. The rooftop scene was shot motion control in a studio and then combined with 3d models in Flame. The short version of the film was cut down after the full film was finished and used as a promotional commercial.
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Текст песни группы Def Leppard - Too Late for Love - Pyromania (1983)
(Def Leppard Too Late for Love - Original Song Lyrics)
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Somewhere in the distance, I hear the bells ring
Darkness settles on the town as the children start to sing
And the lady 'cross the street, she shuts out the night
There's a cast of thousands waitin' as she turns out the light
But it's too late, too late, too late
Too late for love
Too late, too late, too late
London boys are gazin', girls go hand in hand
With a pocket full of innocence, their entrance is grand
And the queen of the dream, stands before them all
She stretches out her hand as the curtains start to fall
Too late, too late, it's too late
Standin' by the trapdoor, aware of me and you
Are the actor and the clown, they're waiting for their cue
And there's a lady over there, she's acting pretty cool
But when it comes to playin' life, she always plays the fool
But it's too late, too late, it's too late
Too late, it's too late, too late
Is it all too late?
Much too late?
Can't you see it's all too late?
Yeah, it's too late
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Mayor Stan R. Brookshire
Dear Stan:
For the last two or three years, I have been trying to
carry too heavy a burden of state and community activities,
to the detriment of my health, my Observer responsibilities,
and my relations with my family. I simply have to lighten
the load.
Accordingly, I would like to resign from the Mayor's
Community Relations Committee, effective immediately. And
I would be highly pleased if you would see fit to appoint
as my successor David Gillespie, Associate Editor of The
Observer.
David directs our editorial page. He is steady, experienced,
and dedicated to the objectives sought by your committee.
I need not say that I stand ready at any time in the future
to help with any special problem that may arise, should my
assistance be needed.
Serving on this committee for the past several years has
been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. My
esteem and admiration for you, for Dr. Cunningham, and for
the other community leaders who have worked so hard at this
difficult problem is beyond expression.
C. A. McKnight
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Digital Collection Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee Records, 1960-1969
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Brookshire, Stanford R., 1905-1990
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OCR Transcript January 2, 1964 Mayor Stan R. Brookshire City Hall Charlotte, North Carolina Dear Stan: For the last two or three years, I have been trying to carry too heavy a burden of state and community activities, to the detriment of my health, my Observer responsibilities, and my relations with my family. I simply have to lighten the load. Accordingly, I would like to resign from the Mayor's Community Relations Committee, effective immediately. And I would be highly pleased if you would see fit to appoint as my successor David Gillespie, Associate Editor of The Observer. David directs our editorial page. He is steady, experienced, and dedicated to the objectives sought by your committee. I need not say that I stand ready at any time in the future to help with any special problem that may arise, should my assistance be needed. Serving on this committee for the past several years has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. My esteem and admiration for you, for Dr. Cunningham, and for the other community leaders who have worked so hard at this difficult problem is beyond expression. Sincerely, C. A. McKnight CAMcK:mw cc: Dr. John R. Cunningham
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In W.Va., Teachers Turn Trump's 'Fake News' Attacks Into Teachable Moments
By Benjamin Herold on February 21, 2017 9:59 AM
The controversy at West Virginia's Ripley High started to snowball in mid-January, shortly after then-President-elect Donald Trump used a press conference to lambaste the cable-television outlet CNN as "fake news."
The exchange went viral on social media. A small group of strongly pro-Trump students at Ripley took up the incoming president's rallying cry. And in the weeks that followed, a broad swath of teachers and students in this small-town community of 3,200 near the Ohio line suddenly found themselves tiptoeing over uncertain ground.
Even CNN 10, the cable channel's classroom-friendly digital news program, whose host is known more for his silly puns than any political bias, became an occasional lightning rod. Some Ripley students suggested that the program should be replaced by Fox News.
"I try to make sure my students see all sides on every issue," said civics teacher Jo Phillips, who grew up in Jackson County, which Trump won with 73 percent of the vote and whose county seat is Ripley.
"But so much is happening so fast," Phillips said. "We're on overload right now."
'Fake news' and schools
Schools everywhere are facing similar pressures. As the country's partisan political divide has grown, Americans' distrust of those on the other side has become more intense. And for years, researchers have warned about young people's inability to gauge the reliability of online information. Those forces converged during the 2016 presidential campaign, when an explosion of blatantly false election-related stories hit the internet and social media.
Seemingly overnight, "fake news" became a phenomenon. Just as quickly, the phrase turned into a ubiquitous catch-all, used to discredit any reporting one might find disagreeable.
Its most prominent platform is President Trump's Twitter feed, where the president has repeatedly used the term to lash out at CNN and other news organizations.
.@CNN is in a total meltdown with their FAKE NEWS because their ratings are tanking since election and their credibility will soon be gone!
-- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 12, 2017
Congratulations to @FoxNews for being number one in inauguration ratings. They were many times higher than FAKE NEWS @CNN - public is smart!
Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.
-- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 6, 2017
-- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2017
With public confidence in the news media at a record low, many of the president's supporters (and 25 million Twitter followers) have delighted in such tactics.
But even some conservative observers say the president's attacks are corrosive, especially in schools.
Actual "fake news" is a real problem, but CNN doesn't qualify, said Don Irvine, the chairman of the nonprofit Accuracy in Media, a conservative-leaning media watchdog.
When President Trump tars the news channel, suggesting without evidence that everything it produces is false, students are taught a dangerous lesson, Irvine said.
"If the administration wants to put out facts that show a specific story is wrong, fine," he said. "But if they're going around talking about 'fake news,' and it's not really true, how are students taught to discern what is real and what is fake?"
Media literacy in the classroom
That's where groups like Media Literacy Now, a Watertown, Mass.-based nonprofit, come in.
If more students are actually paying attention to the news and to government, that's something teachers can build on, said Erin McNeill, the group's president.
And if a student complains about a news outlet being biased, that's a teachable moment, McNeill said.
It's all about leveraging students' interests to cultivate their critical-thinking skills.
"I don't think it's a teacher's role to say, 'These are legitimate news sources,' or 'This is fake news,' " McNeill said. "A better approach is to guide the students' investigation—have kids compare how different outlets cover the same topic, help them look for the bias in every source, and teach them to apply the same critical-thinking questions to everyone."
That was the approach used by Kelley Adcock, a 9th grade remedial-English teacher at Ripley High, when students at the West Virginia school recently began discussing a post they'd seen on Facebook, about pop star Madonna's profane and inflammatory remarks at the Women's March in Washington the day after Trump's inauguration.
"In my experience, these discussions usually start with something that touches a kid personally," Adcock said.
And when students feel disenfranchised, it can be particularly challenging to get them to move beyond their initial emotional reactions, she said.
"The politicians hate us, the cops hate us, our teachers hate us, so why should we pay attention to anyone?" Adcock said, describing the perspective of some of her students.
Some common prompts can help move the discussion forward.
Who published the story? Where did they get their information? What sources were cited? What perspectives were left out? How was this story covered elsewhere?
When Adcock avoids telling her students what to think, and instead focuses on tools and strategies for how to think, she starts to see movement. Students' minds aren't changed, Adcock said. But their language might soften, and they may become more willing to research other perspectives.
It takes time, though. And as the teachable moments at Ripley have piled up one on top of the other, time has been in short supply.
Students had questions about a dossier of salacious, unverified allegations about Mr. Trump, described in a CNN report and then published in full by Buzzfeed. Some students were upset at the prospect of watching the inauguration on the left-leaning cable-news channel MSNBC. Others disputed the reliability of Gallup's presidential-approval ratings, saying they had seen more favorable numbers for the president on Fox News.
Ripley teachers responded with discussions about anonymously sourced reports, tips for identifying bias, and lessons on interpreting polling results.
Keeping up has been exhausting. But the stakes have never seemed higher.
"If you show your class something about identifying biased media, and the kids take that home to a parent who thinks one of those news sources is the Bible, that parent is going to be in the school board office, screaming for your job," Adcock said.
'The boy who cried wolf'
Jane Elizabeth, the manager of the accountability-journalism program at the American Press Institute, said she feels for teachers dealing with such challenges.
She's also grateful.
"Teachers are so well equipped to handle these topics. They do it all the time, from climate change to sex education," she said.
Ripley seniors Olivia Ludtman and Jordan Whited agreed, for the most part.
"Some of our teachers do a really good job trying to show all sides and helping us know what to look for," Ludtman said. "But there are some who you know are for one side or another, and they want you to be on their side."
At home, both Ludtman and Whited said, their families stick mostly to Fox News, local TV stations, and the local newspaper.
Both students follow Trump on Twitter and spend lots of time on social media.
Unlike some of their classmates, they like CNN 10, bad puns and all.
The network's cable news programming is another story, however.
"Take the inauguration. CNN showed more of the nonviolent protests instead of what was actually happening," Whited said, referring to episodes of vandalism and violence that received significant attention on conservative media.
Notably, however, neither student attributed the episode to CNN being "fake news."
"There's going to be bias in any station you watch," Whited said. "But if Trump is going to call CNN that, he should actually investigate what they're saying, not try to embarrass them on national television."
As difficult as the past few months have been, Phillips takes some measure of satisfaction from such analysis.
And recently, Phillips said, she's noticed things getting a little easier. The more relentlessly President Trump attacks CNN and other news outlets, she said, the less seriously some of her students seem to take his claims.
"It's like the story of the boy who cried wolf," Phillips said. "After a while, you kind of start thinking, 'How could it possibly always be fake?'"
Photo: President Donald Trump calls on a reporter during a news conference, Feb. 16, in the East Room of the White House. Photo by Andrew Harnik/AP
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It's been a busy year here at High School & Beyond, with stories about mysterious financial-aid hackers, big testing screwups, and big questions about the value of high school diplomas and bachelor's degrees. Cue drumroll: Here are the stories about high school and college that were the most popular this year.
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It was a symbolic and powerful choice: Michelle Obama chose to make her final remarks as First Lady to a gathering of school counselors. Wiping away tears, she praised them for giving "the power of hope" to young people.
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These two organizations garnered a lot of attention when they teamed up to announce that they'd provide free SAT preparation. This post about another free-test-prep project grabbed a lot of eyeballs, too.
8. Students Say Schools Do Poor Job of Preparing Them for College
Are our high schools doing a good job getting students ready for postsecondary education? One of the biggest stakeholder groups for that question—students themselves—weighed in with a pretty dark response. Barely half of the 55,000 students surveyed in this study gave their schools good marks for college preparation.
7. FAFSA Application Tool Shut Off Due to Security Concerns, IRS Says
A hacker tried to get access to the tax records through an online tool designed to help students complete the Federal Application for Free Student Aid, or FAFSA, and the feds responded by shutting it down. The move meant that students had to return, temporarily, to a more labor-intensive way of submitting family tax information if they wanted to complete their aid applications. (Investigators restored the tool after making security fixes. The also discovered that the hacker was trying to get President Trump's tax information.)
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4. Feds Announce FAFSA Security Changes, Sparking New Worries
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Comments: 1 - Date: September 16th, 2008 - Categories: Safety
Although a digital native by any criteria, I am often finding myself out of touch with the even younger generation. I learned to read long before I learned to type. But this younger generation is making Internet buddies before they can talk and playing Tetris online before they can read. Two recent incidents made me feel like an old fuddy-duddy. First, there was the New York Times article linked above, about parents creating profiles for their babies on social networking sites such as Totspot.com. Second, I returned home this summer to find my six-year-old brother entirely engrossed in playing Webkinz.
As children begin using the Internet at younger and younger ages, parental concerns about safety have become more prescient. An eight-year-old is naturally going to approach the Internet with more naiveté than a preteen. How do parents navigate these shifting waters? What responsibilities do websites aimed at young children have for their safety?
The most popular websites for children have addressed the issue of safety head on. Chat on Webkinz, which I played around with alongside my brother, only allows a preprogrammed list of questions such as, “Which Clubhouse room is your favorite” in the KinzChat Area or filters all messages through a dictionary excluding numbers, proper nouns and inappropriate language. (KinzChat Plus Area). The oft-mentioned Club Penguin, a virtual world where players interact with each other as penguins, has similar safety features in its chatrooms.
But Webkinz and Club Penguin are most popular among the younger set. More problematic is when children reach an age when they are not only more eager to shake off parental supervision but also savvy enough to do so. Emily Yoffe, in “What Kids Like to Do Online – A Slate Investigation,” found that several sixth graders were underwhelmed by Club Penguin because advanced access to the site required a fee of $5.95 per month or $57.95 per year fee, involving money and of course, parents.
All the kids had enough insight into economics and psychology to know that asking their parents would not only get a “No” but draw undue attention to their leisure activities. “I only do what’s free, but you get bored quickly,” Anna said
Although the sample size of this Slate survey was small and entirely unscientific, it sheds light on the general attitudes of preteens toward Internet safety and parental involvement. A 2007 “Safer Internet for Children” study by the European Commission surveyed boys and girls 9 to 10 years old and 12 to 14 years old in 29 European countries. All of the children were well aware of the dangers on the Internet, from viruses to pornographic sites to bullying. Striking, though not really surprising, is their attitudes toward parental involvement.. A lack of technological know-how on the part of parents is often cited as a reason kids prefer not to get them involved. “My parents don’t teach me, I teach them!” was the response of one boy in the European Commission study. And parental involvement is important, but they are not the sole gatekeepers
Parents are of course privileged informers, but they are sometimes perceived as excessively
protective, which can lead, among some, to relatively intrusive behaviour or behaviour perceived
as such (checking of the websites consulted, checking of e-mails) and hence a loss of privacy and
self-censorship. In this respect, children’s peers, classmates, friends and brothers and sisters
are interlocutors who are sought out more readily.
So as important as it is to monitor the activities of their children though, it’s also important not to over monitor. Drawing upon my own experience, I’d agree with that. While doing online research for a school project on witchcraft in fifth grade, I stumbled across a web site with a warning page cautioning that the content was not appropriate for children under the age of 16. I immediately went to my parents to ask permission. What my father did was launch into an angry lecture about Internet use, cut off my Internet access for a week, and demand a meeting with my teacher. I understand my parents’ concern, but my fifth-grade self found the episode completely embarrassing. Their reaction – overreaction I’d argue even now, I had gone to them after all – made me reluctant to ever ask them for permission online again. Whereas I used to ask permission every time I logged on (dial-up with limited hours – those good ol’ days), I began sneaking online after school.
Although this tug and pull regarding privacy between parents and children is natural in the process of growing up – a friend was recently complaining that her father had friended her on Facebook – parents don’t need to stand by helplessly. The key, and also the goal of the Born Digital book, is to foster a dialogue among parents and children and educators and policymakers. Internet use is yet another facet in the tricky job of parenting. The safety of younger children can be regulated by restricting and monitoring Internet use, but older children will eventually demand more freedom and privacy. How do we make this transition? I obviously write this post from the perspective of a child (though an fairly old child), so I would be interested in hearing parents weigh in!
-Sarah Zhang
Comment by auntlee - September 20, 2008 @ 11:08 am
For a fun way for parents to jump-start a discussion about common-sense internet and social networking safety, here’s a website that includes an instructional video and a very easy quiz.
http://www.auntlee.com/safety/
The video is a selection of silly clips supposedly posted to the MySpace pages of the famous auntlee.com puppy and some of her friends. The clips demonstrate mistakes kids can make online.
The 10 question quiz covers the topics of cyber-bullying, privacy, safety, dangers of spyware and malware, etc.
The quiz doesn’t really focus on stranger-danger type concerns but rather gently and humorously reminds the reader that it’s possible to hurt people’s feelings, to mislead people who don’t realize you’re joking, to remember that online postings can be seen by anybody and that postings are often impossible to remove once posted.
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Review: Batgirl: Batgirl Rising trade paperback (DC Comics)
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I had just read Caleb's review of Batgirl #14 before I started Batgirl Rising, so I went in with some trepidation about story and art. Put simply, by the time I finished, Bryan Q. Miller's Batgirl might very well be one of my new favorite series. It's so good.
I'm a Spoiler Stephanie Brown fan. I do also like former Batgirl Cassandra Cain. Roundabouts Batman: No Man's Land to Batman: Fugitive, when Cassandra was Batgirl and Spoiler dated Robin as a member of his supporting cast, it seemed the pieces fit pretty well. Moving forward to nowadays, though, with Batman "dead" and a general trend toward consolidating characters across the DC Universe (fewer Atoms and Green Arrows, not to mention fewer ancillary Batman supporting cast members like Orpheus and Onyx) the roles played by Spoiler and Batgirl seem rather redundant; it rather seems time for one true iconic Batgirl to join the Bat-family, and I think that Batgirl is Stephanie Brown.
(I realize I'm breaking the hearts of a good number of Cassandra Cain fans, of whom I count myself in that number. Just go with me on this for a bit.)
The first best part of Miller's new series is how familiar it feels, if you like that sort of thing. Stephanie Brown is a hopeful college freshman, as the first Batgirl Barbara Gordon was. She is, Miller includes with a wink and a nod, a part-time library clerk, echoing one of Barbara's first jobs. She has a love-hate relationship with Robin Damien Wayne (though more of the sibling-type than Barbara and former Robin Dick Grayson, given that Damien's only ten-years-old). And, whether you like the utility garter or not, there's something about Stephanie's brighter (albeit purple-hued) costume that just shouts "Batgirl." Cassandra was a darker, angsty Batgirl for a darker time, but it's not that darker time any more.
And Miller's take on Batgirl is not just lovingly familiar, it's also faithful. In a fit of inspiration, Miller echoes the "candle scene" where the Dick Grayson once swore an oath to Batman on becoming Robin, but here Barbara, now Oracle, swears her own oath to help Stephanie as Batgirl. Barbara similarly supported Cassandra, but there's an "official-ness" to echoing the oath, letting alone that the new Oracle/Batgirl relationship speaks a bit more to the historic Batgirl personality -- funny, zany, a little looser than Batman. Like Mark Waid on Flash or Marv Wolfman introducing Tim Drake as Robin, Miller hits the right notes of new and old that make Stephanie easy to accept as Batgirl in a way that feels almost inevitable.
Did I say funny? What surprised and impressed me most about Batgirl Rising is just how funny it is. It's not just the one-liners, though Miller has those down pat ("I'm almost fifty percent sure nothing could go wrong," and then Barbara teasing Stephanie about her banter and Stephanie doing the same to Damien); it's also situational, as when Stephanie's defeat of a fire-based villain accidentally freezes Damien in a block of ice. And not only did I think artists Lee Garbett and Trevor Scott achieve just the right mix of cartoony and serious, they're funny, too -- see the scene of Damien as the odd kid on the college campus, managing to stand under the only tree with no leaves and two ravens. Great stuff.
Obviously having Bruce Wayne really dead is an unworkable situation, but Batgirl Rising goes a long way toward answering why the "world without Bruce" story is worth telling. Batgirl aside, Barbara and Dick take an almost parental role in this story, trying to fight crime and keep their respective sidekicks safe. They have an argument toward the end of the book that's not about the actual conflict but rather a reflection of how much they both miss Bruce; their resolve at the end to pick up and continue Bruce's mission is inspirational in its heroism.
I'm not thrilled that Tim Drake is this amorphous Red Robin, but otherwise through Batgirl Rising I get it -- I see how Dick as Batman and Damien as Robin and Stephanie as Batgirl with Oracle on the side could be a viable status quo for the Bat-verse, and I'm sorry for only a moment that we know, as the characters don't, that Bruce is on his way back not too long from now.
Miller gives the reader a lot to look forward to for next time. Aside from Oracle and Batgirl's burgeoning partnership, there's Oracle's mentoring of the paralyzed former Teen Titan Wendy Harris; here again, Miller creates something new while echoing in Oracle and Wendy the relationship between Batman and angry Robin Jason Todd, or even in Alfred's caring for the traumatized Bruce Wayne. There's also a romantic triangle that's nicely unique, in that Commissioner Gordon is trying to set up his daughter with Detective Nick Gage, who Batgirl herself has her eye on. It's not the same old thing, and it's clear Miller's given the characters' interrelation some thought; it shows through in reading this book.
From the first page, as Stephanie is about to stop a deadly teen drag race, Miller's book feels like nothing so much as Chuck Dixon's original Robin series -- this isn't a Batman book with another character in the lead, but rather a story of a specific hero trying to stop crimes specific to her own skill set, as Dixon did with Tim Drake. I've mentioned before that as I've watched the Teen Titans title go through a rough patch, I've at times wondered if the era of the teen superhero isn't over -- if it's all smarmy jokes and bickering, what's the point? Instead, Miller offers a new take on Batgirl that, with no disrespect to what came before, feels like a Batgirl title. I liked this one, and I'm looking forward to the next.
[Contains full covers (by Phil Noto, no less) and variant covers. Printed on glossy paper.]
Next time, we follow Batgirl and the rest of the Bat-family to Metropolis for Sterling Gates's World's Finest. Don't miss it!
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Zach 9/23/2010 09:49:00 AM
Great review, as usual. I picked up Batgirl Rising yesterday mainly because I knew you'd be reviewing it this week, and boy am I glad I did. If it weren't for the matter of cost, I'd be adding this title to my pull list - especially now that Dustin Nguyen is taking over art duties. But I'm willing to tradewait for this one because it's also a fantastic example of storytelling; I read the whole thing in one sitting, which I almost NEVER do with trades longer than four issues (we get seven here - an added plus!).
I'll be honest, I was reticent about this title. Writers kind of ran out of ideas with Cassandra (One Year Later, anyone?), and Stephanie's been mishandled more often than not. Fortunately, Miller knocked it out of the park; he really gets the character, and he's the first writer I've seen who didn't make "Batman Reborn" feel like a layover point between status quos. (Hopefully, with Bruce globetrotting in "Batman, Inc.," we'll still get the Dick Grayson status quo in place. Never thought I'd be cheering against Bruce's return, but at the rate Morrison's titles are being delayed, Bruce probably won't return until 2011 as it is.)
Batgirl Rising was funny - I laughed out loud in a lot of places (but I should have expected that, since Batgirl #14 opens with Supergirl making a "That's what she said" joke) - but it was sincere, as well. I think Miller's got a winner here. If Cassandra ever comes back, I hope it's not at the expense of Stephanie losing the cowl. I'm DYING to see how Miller handles Bruce's almost certain indignation upon his return, but it's not like Stephanie would care.
great review. I also picked this one up. Its a great book with beautiful art and wonderful characterization.
PS: thank you for mentioning the paper quality of the book.
collectededitions 9/24/2010 10:05:00 AM
Miller's Stephanie Brown is kind of like Geoff Johns's Booster Gold or Beau Smith/Dave Gibbons/Peter Tomasi's Guy Gardner, in that Miller seems to get this editorially-flawed character despite the flaws, runs with it, and makes the character all the better for those flaws. And indeed, this was one of the first I felt "Batman Reborn" could really work; in the scene where Robin and Batgirl stand in front of the towering Batman, it's been a while since we've seen a Bat-family that looks like a Bat-family.
My hope is that when Bruce returns -- rejuvenated, I imagine, and with a new perspective on things having been dead/time-lost, that he has absolutely no misgivings about Stephanie as Batgirl. That he takes one look, says "You've been doing the job and Oracle approves," and that's it. This "you're not qualified" silliness, still repeated in the final issues of Robin, seems like so much misogyny, and it's time I hope that the Bat-characters move past it.
I agree. I think Bruce should embrace the new batgirl as a member of the bat family. He should say something along the lines of:
Oracle approves of you, thats good enough for me. By the way good job on the scarecrow case.
Come to think of it, Tim Drake got a major boost on his way to being Robin by saving Bruce in a Scarecrow case, too.
Aalok Madhusudan Joshi 9/24/2010 05:05:00 PM
Yeah,that happened in a trade called ROBIN: A HERO REBORN....it's the lead story titled IDENTITY CRISIS...the trade also collected the original ROBIN mini by CHUCK DIXON & TOM LYLE....what's stranger,there was another trade called TRAGEDY & TRIUMPH...that collected a story BEFORE IDENTITY CRISIS, called RITE OF PASSAGE where Tim's mother gets killed by the Obeah Man & a story after ROBIN called THE JOKER'S WILD (ROBIN II).....or the story can be seen in a 3 parter from BATMAN 455-457,one of the umpteen titles IDENTITY CRISIS....well,there's a mini series, there was a SUPERMAN 4 parter in 1996 by MARK WAID & TOM PEYER, a one shot by PETER MILLIGAN & TOM MANDRAKE on which the episode of BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES was based from DETECTIVE COMICS 633.....makes you wonder how much some editors can love a particular title or maybe it's like PROMETHEA...the "idea" travels from mind to mind through the ages......OK I'll stop now...
Carl Walker 9/24/2010 06:00:00 PM
CE, Caleb is pretty much your opposite in terms of the percentage of current DC output he enjoys, so I'm surprised you took his bad review as any kind of warning for yourself. The strange thing is, I probably agree (with regret) with him more often than I do with you, yet I find what you have to say more interesting. Go figure!
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Experiments In New Formalism
I am not good with rigidity when it comes to writing. I like to write on my own schedule, about whatever emerges when my pen hits the page. I can’t be bothered with memorizing metrical patterns or when lines should repeat, so I am famously bad at form poems. I signed up for a form slam once and nearly withdrew from the competition out of sheer embarrassment when my sestinas and villanelles turned out less than pleasant to listen to.
Last week I mentioned that Dana Gioia’s essay on New Formalism really got under my skin when he asserted that contemporary poetry has no idea how or when to employ form, and therefore has no ear for language. It made me want to, in spite of my deep and serious aversion, write a form poem, and not only do it right, but do it well. Easily said, but pretty difficult to execute. Unless you have the right tools, of course. (Here’s where it gets weird.)
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I’ve been itching to write a poem about Danny Williams, tragically disappeared filmmaker and Warhol lover, ever since I first saw the documentary A Walk Into The Sea for the first time a handful of years ago. (If you’ve never heard of the movie, you’re not alone. But it is available for instant viewing on Netflix and very worth it, so go! See!) In fact, after seeing the film, I’ve been thinking about writing a series of poems about the revolving cast of characters in Warhol’s Factory, but I could never figure out where to begin. So much about everyone of that specific cultural moment is myth or hearsay, and writing about people I have no personal connection to is rather difficult for me unless I can find an access point. So the Warhol poems got shelved indefinitely.
Until Monday night, when I decided it was finally time to write Danny Williams a poem. I cued up the movie and took notes from start to finish, filling four pages of my notebook; you can see the distilled version of those noteshere. Initially, my idea was to write a found poem, using only dialogue from the first person interviews. But as I scrawled away and then typed up the quotes, I realized how repetitive the information was. How many people uttered some iteration of, “I don’t remember Danny Williams,” and then revised their statements, the truth building on the initial lie until something completely new and very real had come from the original obfuscation.
It seemed the perfect opportunity to write in form. The repetition was already there, it was simply my job to shape that repetition. Working from my notes, I started building a pantoum using the documentary dialogues. Words were tweaked here and there, but the final product is almost entirely composed of found text from the film. When starting a poem from scratch, form intimidates me. But with all the raw material laid out in front of me, it helped to organize all that talk into a compact, evocative story. Where normally it’s difficult for me to write about strangers, the form became my access point for speaking comfortably about someone I can never meet. It imposed a distance from the subject that made it easier to pick out which pieces of information were important enough to present to a reader multiple times, while reminding of the way the layered truth comes about in the documentary.
Repetitive forms lend themselves especially to this layered version of the truth. Check out contributor to our up-coming art issue Cassandra de Alba’s sestina, “Tchaikovsky, 1944,” in this month’s issue of Printer’s Devil Review for an example of contemporary formalism gone incredibly right. Contributor to our Gender, Sex, and Sexuality issue and Side B‘s representative in the BILiNE anthology, Sean Patrick Mulroy, has a poem called“wight,” that consists of two blank sonnets based on some pretty upsetting footage of Brittany Murphy from her last public appearance before her death. Amy Newman’s poem, “The Letting Go,” is another bit of neo-formalist excellence, and her book Dear Editor invents something of a new form by collecting cover letters as poems in their own right. And though there are plenty of literary journals that may turn up their nose at such formal experiments, online lit mag Radius solicits submissions of invented forms with instructions, seeking poets who are not only willing formalists, but inventors as well as authors.
Tags writing, anarcho-poetics, new formalism, A Walk Into The Sea, Andy Warhol, Danny Williams
On Poetry And The Academy
I’m going to start by saying that I don’t read a lot of theory when it comes to poetry–I tend to get annoyed with the holier-than-thou tone of a lot of critical writing, essays that end up so far removed from the original subject matter that ultimately what is said could be in reference to any situation or details disdained. But I recently had a birthday, and my grandma gave me a collection of critical essays entitled Can Poetry Matter? The collection is built on its title essay, which has a lot of points I generally agree with. Dana Gioia makes plenty of convincing arguments therein that I fully agree with, most of them about how poetry’s shift from the artistic community to the academic community has institutionalized the art. In my favorite moment, he diagnoses why this shift is dangerous:
Today poetry is a modestly upwardly mobile, middle-class profession—not as lucrative as waste management or dermatology but several big steps above the squalor of bohemia… The campus is not a bad place for a poet to work. It’s just a bad place for all poets to work. Society suffers by losing the imagination and vitality that poets brought to public culture. Poetry suffers when literary standards are forced to conform with institutional ones.
Unfortunately, he contradicts himself in a later essay, “Notes On The New Formalism,” claiming that the dearth of formal training evident in contemporary poetry has caused a generation of poets unaware of how their work sounds aloud, and wholly ignorant of how ugly their verse is. His argument attempts to impose the institutional view of poetry–poems as rigidly organized syllabic structures instead of intuitive art objects–on a world where free verse reigns supreme, and has since the modernists he so lauds.
When Gioia speaks about free verse as the death of attention to sound in poetry, I get uncomfortable. Not just because it seems hopelessly reductive, but because free verse, by its very nature, is the most democratic of poetic forms. One need not have any kind of formalized poetic education in order to write a successful free verse poem. There is no rhyme scheme to memorize, no feet to count out, no binding metrical pattern to organize the writing. Because of this fluidity, free verse can be used by any person to enter the world of poetry. It is how I fell in love with the medium. It is the bridge poetry has into the layperson’s world, the one Gioia so craves in Can Poetry Matter?, where the academic guardianship of poetics acts as an affront to all things holy about being a poet.
In the same way that Gioia abhors the idea that poets must teach to eek out a living, I abhor the idea that a poem must be written in recognizable metrical pattern or formal structure for it to be well-crafted. Full disclosure: this difference of opinion is likely owed to the fact that I cut my teeth in the spoken word community. This happenstance is what inspires my biggest issue with Gioia’s reasoning; “Notes On The New Formalism” claims that poets have lost track of the importance of the sounds of words in their work. He assumes no one reads their work out loud. He could not be more wrong. The proliferation of poetry readings in every major city I’ve ever visited makes him a liar. The rampant popularity of slam poetry among young poets makes him a liar.
It is fully possible that a lot has changed in the poetry world since Gioia first penned his essays. But what is more likely to be the case is that the poetry community exists in deeply divided factions. Poetry’s most visible home has become college campuses, without a doubt. Poets, more now than ever, make their living teaching. Despite this change in the way poetry fits into our culture, it can still be found outside of the academy’s sphere of influence, and thus, outside the rules the academy has for what makes a poem.
I was in New Jersey this past weekend and ended up in a dive bar for drinks with a few close members of my family. After the atrocious cover band finished up their last set, the bartender put on a hip-hop mix that was mostly Lil Wayne songs. My uncle said, “You hear patterns in this, don’t you?” and we got into a discussion about the literary devices at play in contemporary hip hop. I thought of a poet I know who structures poetry workshops for kids in juvenile detention around Lil Wayne songs. That’s definitely not what Gioia was thinking of when he begged for form to be taught to budding poets, but I think it speaks to all of the roads we can take and still end up with a poem.
Tags Can Poetry Matter, anarcho-poetics, new formalism, Dana Gioia
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Legal Aid Restrictions for Bar Reports
Last week the Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) announced new restrictions on legal aid for Bar Reports. A Bar Reporter is commissioned to investigate a child's circumstances and to report to Child Welfare Hearings. For reports after 18th February 2013 the cost payable to a Bar Reporter instructed to carry out these reports will be limited to £3000 (excluding VAT and outlays). The limit will not apply in privately funded cases.
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Scottish Research: Legal System May Favour Fathers
According to The Herald a study by the Centre for Research into Families and Children at Edinburgh University shows 8% of children in contact disputes in family courts in Scotland are compelled to visit or stay with a parent who is alleged to have committed domestic abuse. The report by Dr Kirsteen Mackay shows rather than the system being biased against dads, the reverse may be true, with the system favouring fathers over mothers. The study, Hearing Children in Court Disputes Between Parents, calls for more specialised training for sheriffs, court reporters and solicitors in dealing with children.
The Centre for Research on Families and Relationships briefing is available here.
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Global approach to family law
The reform of family law is a constant source of debate in the UK, and in France it is very much the same situation. Article: Law Society Gazette.
Appointment of President of the Family Division
The Right Honourable Lord Justice Munby appointed as President of the Family Division. Story: Judiciary of England and Wales.
Family judges seek protection from parents in 'unsafe' courts
Dangerously inadequate security arrangements during family cases leave officials vulnerable to attack, say judges. Story: The Guardian.
UK in family breakdown 'epidemic'
The UK has one of the highest rates of family breakdown in the Western world with just two thirds of children living with both parents, according to research by a global development organisation. Story: The Independent.
A view from the litigant in person
"A few weeks ago, I got chatting to a woman in my local pub – let’s call her Susan – who is embroiled in a legal battle in the family courts" Blog: Law Society Gazette News.
Vive la différence?
Rhona Adams, Partner in the Family Law Team at Morton Fraser explores why Scots lawyers need to be alert to the differences in English law surrounding divorce cases. Blog Morton-Fraser
Young people wish for quicker family justice system
The family justice system should work faster to stop children and young people from suffering “trauma and stress”, according to a group of young people with family court system experience. Story: Children & Young People Now.
GPs in crossfire as separated parents seek access to children's records
Increasing numbers of family doctors seeking advice on whether they should give information to separated parents. Story: The Guardian.
Sharing Mum & Dad
How do parents share the bringing up of their children after they separate? Dispatches investigates the emotive subject of parental access and rights. The Call Kaye programme on BBC Scotland picked up on the subject the following morning (interview with Tim Lovejoy from 15:30 15/1/13).
Scottish property tycoon jailed in legal cash battle
Scots property dealer said to be worth £400 million has been jailed for six months after a High Court judge ruled he disobeyed orders to provide financial details to his estranged wife and was in contempt of court. Story: The Herald
Fast-track court for rape trial
The trial of five men accused over the fatal gang rape of a young woman on a bus in India is to be shifted to a special fast-track court. Story: The Herald
Law Society backs down over reforms to legal aid
The Law Society of Scotland is backing down on protests against legal aid reforms after weeks of court walkouts and a series of high-level meetings with the Justice Secretary. Story: The Herald
Children's tsar: 'Stop sending kids to jail'
Scotland's children's commissioner has called for offenders aged 16 and 17 to be kept out of prison, and the introduction of specialist youth courts to help prevent the creation of "career criminals". Story: The Herald
Marie Campbell and Dave Francis originally recorded my preferred version of Robert Burns poem "Auld Lang Syne" in 1996. About 4 years ago Dave send me the link to You Tube. I'm ashamed to say I ignored his email as I'm not a great fan of Sex in the City and it was a few months later before I realised the song was featured in part of the soundtrack of the film. It's very different from the usual rendition and well worth a listen.
Happy New Year and all the best to everyone for the 2013.
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Peeling the onion by wendy orr
When each of the drivers seeks her absolution for his part in her injuries, Anna feels singularly ill-equipped, both emotionally and psychologically, to deal with their problems. Background to the Writing of Peeling the Onion After my accident, I gradually had to accept that total recovery was unlikely, and that my life had changed forever.
Each talks about peeling layers off, but the tone and message of each is different. She will never be able to do karate again.
In fact, some of the arguments in that book were presented as philosophies that angered Anna the most. I really felt empty, just like Anna. From the time that she learned to read, she wanted to be a writer, and wrote stories, plays and poetry. The three poems in this novel would be great for comparison in a poetry unit.
The resulting sense of disorientation and loss of identity was horrific. Anna then realizes that she is not in love with him; it is merely the trauma Peeling the onion by wendy orr the accident that has kept them together. She felt herself going up a long, dark, skinny tube, about to reach the light when she realized she wanted to be outside the car with Hayden.
They have a son James and a daughter Susan who are now grown up. She ends up having to complete her senior year of high school over two years, with the help of tutors and all kinds of therapists.
Rather, it is the portrait of a determined young woman taking two steps forward for every step back in the face of shocking adversity.
It would have helped me when I was dealing with arthritis. I knew that if the book was read by anyone, it would be read by someone who had been through something similar, and I had a responsibility not to let that person down by making them feel that they could have coped or recovered better; that their own bitterness, rage or despair was shameful or wrong.
At first, Anna believes she will get better quickly and everything will go back to normal. Wendy started writing seriously in In she had a serious car accident: Hayden, the driver of the car she was in, feels guilty and responsible for her pai Author: Of course, in any novel, no matter how fictitious the plot, the author uses their own knowledge of emotions and feelings in building the characters and story.
Peeling the Onion Jenny rushes in; stops and turns pale at the sight of my scaffolded neck. I felt it would be wrong - almost evil - to sanitise the experience; to have Anna accepting her disabilities without rage or hate; to be rational, calm and grateful for help.
And with each draft, as the characters solidified in my mind, so did the differences between what was true for me, and what I believed to be true for my seventeen year-old protagonist.
Ironically, it is the rock bottom, primitive fear of facing her repressed near-death experience that gives her the strength to begin working her way back into whatever her new life will be. Finally she is able to remember what happened right after the accident.
After the excitement of her first book, publishing highlights have been: However she lost her nerve when she finished high school, so studied Animal Care for a year, then moved to London and studied Occupational Therapy.
There will be no more karate and no tour of Europe by bicycle…. And I think that maybe this is what best friends are for, not to be brave for you, but to tell you this is real, and it stinks.
I faced the same problem: She has broken her neck and really messed up her legs, thumb, and cognitive abilities. So many people suggested I read that book, but I did not find it comforting at all.Wendy Orr was born in Edmonton, Canada, but with a father in the Air Force, grew up in various places in France, Canada and Colorado.
From the time that she learned to read, she wanted to be a writer, and wrote stories, plays and poetry. Peeling the Onion is about a girl named Anna who gets into a car accident that changed her entire life.
She was a normal year-old popular girl whose favorite activity was karate (Orr, ).
peeling like an onion, shedding papery protection, and superficial skin-tearing, skinning, ripping off the layers-the firm and curving flesh But, So summary Anna wanted to be a regular person like everybody else but people just can't bear to see her face ruined and her neck broken. It was all because of the car crash on Woodshed Road.
Peeling the Onion by Wendy Orr is an interesting book.
It tells a story about a girl named Anna Lockwood who got into a life changing car accident at 17 years old.
This book is very truthful and well written.4/5(34). Editions for Peeling the Onion: (Paperback published in ), (Paperback published in ), X (Hardcover published in Peeling the Onion is a book about self, relationships, and healing that comes from the inside out.
Anna go Wendy Orr author of Peeling the Onion writes a compelling novel about Anna and a car accident that changes everything for her/5.
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Confessions of a Pole Addict
Ashleigh Butler
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Oh, so you’re a soccer player? How do your parents feel about that? I bet your boyfriend loves that, you must play soccer for him all the time right? Do you make much money playing soccer? Soccer players must be really freaky in the bedroom! I don’t understand how you can wear those soccer boots though, I would never wear them. Why do you post your soccer pictures on your Instagram – it’s basically pornography? There are so many other ways you could be getting fit, why play soccer when you could just go to the gym?
These reactions seem totally ridiculous in the context of ‘normal’ sports. But these questions are all too common for my sport of choice. I’ve been called a ‘slut’ and told that my Instagram is ‘pornographic’. A quick google search will even find articles that go so far as to say my sport “in part plays into rape culture” – written by a prominent female psychologist! What the fuck? If pole dancers get branded this way, can we start linking dart players to violent stabbings already?
Words: Ashleigh Butler, Pictures: The Black Light
In some ways the assumptions some people make about the erotic nature of my sport do make a little sense. But while many critics claim that pole dancing started as a form of sexual entertainment for men, it actually started as a circus act most commonly known as ‘Chinese pole’. It was not until the 1920’s that poles moved from circus tents into bars. Nevertheless, the erotic origins of pole cannot be denied. Many women are still employed in this industry, many of whom are my friends, and I am by no means anti-stripper.
“When we pole dance I still think it’s delightfully sexy, but now it’s so much more than an erotic performance for men.”
Like so many things that have morphed dramatically over time, pole dancing has been reclaimed by the very people it originally used for the entertainment of others. Something that originally could once have objectified us, now empowers us.
“When I see a girl on a pole I see strength, empowerment and confidence. Pole dancing has become a popular alternative for women’s fitness over the last decade and it’s about time we break the stigma that’s often still attached to it.”
When I began pole dancing three years ago I was curious, excited and amazed to have found such a great bunch of people and such a killer workout that was actually fun! But I was also ashamed to tell my family and friends.
“Basically, I was scared they’d think I was a slut.”
No matter how confident and empowered I felt in the studio, outside I was paranoid about running into one of the other girls from class. So believe me when I say – I get it. I understand why some people don’t know how to tell their family and friends, and why people don’t know how to react when I confidently say “I am a pole dancer.”
The fitness benefits of pole dancing are incredible, but for me the most game-changing benefit of being a pole dancer is the body confidence it promotes. I was completely and utterly shocked when I walked into my first class to find that I wasn’t walking into a room of girls with perfect bodies, but instead was greeted by a group of women of all shapes and sizes. Pole dancing does not discriminate between those who are small, those who are large and those in-between.
“This sport taught me how to love my body; how to look in that ever-so-frightening mirror and think, “Damn girl! You got this; fat rolls, cellulite and all!” It truly changed the way I look at myself. I know I’m not the only one who feels this way.”
I spent my teen years claiming to be terrible at sport because I can’t catch a football, I suck in teams and I look like a disabled giraffe when I try to run. Never did I think I could become an athlete, and look damn good doing it. But here I am, booty shorts and all, owning my sport and my body at the same time.
When I encourage people to start pole dancing their excuses are usually one of two things – “I’m not strong enough” or “I don’t have the body for it”. Not strong enough? No worries! That’s why we invented beginner pole classes – to improve your strength. You don’t have “the body for it”? Do you have two arms and two legs? Yes? Well then you definitely have the body for it. Even if you’re missing a limb or two I’m sure we’d be able to figure something out!
I often wonder why people; both guys and girls, react so negatively to this sport that has done so much for me and plenty of others like me.
One issue many people have with pole dancing is our outfits – or rather, the lack thereof. Have you tried holding onto a bar of slippery metal while wearing a pair of woollen gloves? It’s not going to happen. Our skin is our grip, therefore we need less clothing to be able to hold onto the pole. I don’t believe that what we wear as pole dancers in any way differs to the outfits of a gymnast or a swimmer. Not only because these sports also wear minimal clothing but because they wear clothing which best enhance their athletic ability. You don’t see a swimmer doing laps in their tracksuit, nor would you expect them to for ‘decency’ reasons. Even most conservative people don’t tell me to wear more clothes at the beach, so don’t tell me to cover up in my sport!
I suspect the objections people have run deeper than just being offended by skimpy outfits. Our society is still somehow scared of empowered independent women who embrace their sexuality. For decades women have been taught to be ashamed of their sexuality; a proper lady would never express her sexuality outside the closed door of her bedroom. The sex industry is more than 80% female dominated but these women are shamed for, god forbid, enjoying their jobs! Why must women be shunned for sexual expression?
“It’s a bullshit complex we are given from a young age that women cannot have the same attitudes as men about sex.”
While pole dancing in a dance studio is nowhere near a job in the sex industry, it is a powerful tool that empowers women to embrace their sexuality and get fit at the same time.
Pole dancing should not be underestimated – it’s fucking hard work. Our bodies are always covered in an assortment of odd placed bruises which we like to call “pole kisses”. We risk our lives hanging upside-down, metres from the ground, only holding on by the back of our knee. Our hands become torn and blistered on a permanent basis and things called “pole burns” will make you bleed in all sorts of sensitive places.
“We literally put our blood, sweat and tears into this sport. It is our passion, our addiction and our life.”
Why should we continue to allow people to describe this hard-core sport as no more than “gyrating and twirling around a pole”?
“Nurses, school teachers, bus drivers, lawyers and real estate agents are pole dancing for sport right now. So why should we continue to let pole dancing be ‘shameful’? It is a damn hard work out and it promotes body confidence – what more should a sport do?”
For more of the amazing Ashleigh head to her blog here!
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Spinny March 16, 2017
Love those Chinese pole outfits you’re wearing. Please stop trying to deny that the pole DANCING you do (and the clothes and shoes you’re wearing) originated in STRIP CLUBS. Ask your instructor who he/she learned from, then track him/her down and ask again until you reach the original, it’s going to be a stripper or former stripper not a Chinese pole athlete. The very first pole instructor in the world was a stripper.
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1 am frequently requested by parties
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Inasmuch as Jerseys are attracting,
just now, so much attention, giving
rise to so many inquiries, I think a
brief account of the breed of sufficient
public importance to justify its publication.
Jersey cattle take their name from
the place of their nativity—Jersey Island—one ofthe Islands of the Brittish
Channel. This small Island is densely
populated and long famous (or its breed
of milk cattle. On this Island twenty
acres of land constitutes a farm of unusual dimensions, while two or three
acres is the average. Every family aspires to keep from one to four cows,
just as their circumstances will permit,
and whether the number be one or more,
the animal is the subject of more than
Ordinary care and attention, and like
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advantages, it does not pay to keep any
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breeding, therefore, of a race superior
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series of generations they have developed
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superior butter it will make, is without
a rival in the world. The Jersey cow
having been bred for many generations
with special reference to this point is a
thorough-bred butter cow, capable of imparting that excellence to her off-spring
with unerring certainty.
The cattle are small in size, not as
large as the scrnb, native to this country,
and are not as a rule very handsome in
their shape, as no attention to their
breeding on the Island was given to any
other point than the one above mentioned. They are remarkable for their
docility, their early maturity, and
their thrift and hardiness. They are
superior for the richness of their milk,
the quanity and quality of their butter.
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family circle, of which they have almost
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qualities due to a systematic breeding
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if you desire them to beso, and will make
to the'eow, upon an average, about 300
lbs of butter annually, when properly
managed and cared for.
This butter is far superior to ordinary
butter, being more firm in its consistence
—weighing 3 oz. more than other butter
when moulded in the same mould, of
deeper yellow in color, and better
flavored.
In regard to their breeding, I think
they are the most prolific of all breeds,
beginning their gestation at nine months,
and their maternity at eighteen months
if you will let them. This early breeding does not impair their vigor or produce premature decay as has been claimed by some, but only diminishes the
site of the animal, which is no objection as size is no consideration when a small cow will yield
as much butter as a large one, and takes
jless feed and space in her care and
| management.
Three years ago a Herd Book was es-
A VIEW OP THE CENTENNIAL ART GALLERY, AT PHILADELPHIA.
The materials of this building are granite, glass, and iron. No wood is used in the construction, and the building is thoroughly fire-proof. The structure is
365 feet in'length, 210 feet in width, and 59 feet in height, over a"spaciousbasement 12 feet in height, surmounted by a dome.
tablishcd for Jersey cattle, and one of
the rules adopted is that no animal shall
be entered for record whose pedigree
can not be traced to registered or imported stock. Prior to the establishment
of this register, the pedigrees of Jersey
cattle were not kept in preservation ;
consequently there are many Jersey
cattle in the country, decendants from
the earliest importations, pure and carefully bred, that cannot be registered,
and are known as unregcttered ttock.
Some of Jt is even superior in its intrinsic value to the cattle of more recent
importation, but because there offspring
oannotbe registered, does not command
from professional breeders so large a
price or ready sale. To this class of stock
I would commend the farmer of limited
means who only wants the breed for his
individual use, and not chiefly for the
sale of colors.
The price of registered Jerseys,
that of Herd Book Short-Horns,
already advanced to the hundreds,
appears to be on the increase. I
frequently asked by my neighbors which
is the more profitable, Jersey's or Short-
Horns?
The answer to this question depends
entirely upon the circumstances and
conditions of the farmer who proposes
to engage in this breeding.
To s> farmer owning a large farm of
rich grain producing land, in a county
where he can either produce or purchase
grain cheaply, I would say breed Short-
Horns ; but to one owning a small tract
of land, or land chiefly adapted to grazing, living near a butter market,I would
say take the Jerseys. The one is preeminently a beef, the other pre-eminently a butter cow, choose between them
with reference to the object in view.
Either one if properly managed will pay
a hundred per cent, more than the
ordinary cow. *
A pure bred Jersey cow at $300 will,
if properly cared for, yield on an average
$100, in butter and $7.5 in offspring,
annually, which is a better per cent, on
the investment than an ordinary cow at
$40. D. W. Voyles.
New Albany, Ind.
GREAT PUBLIC SALES OF SHORT-
HORN CATTLE.
We are requested to call particular
attention to the omission in our first
insertion of the advertisement of the
great Stock .Sales at Chicago, April 6th,
7th, 8th, and 9th, of the eight head of
Princess heifers, belonging to Messrs.
Elliott & Kent, of Des Moines, Iowa.
This valuable and rare blood will form
fluite an attractive feature of the great
By reference to our advertising columns, it will be observed that on the
7th of April next, C. C. Parks, of
Waukegan, Illinois, will sell his entire
herd of Short-Horns, consisting of 139
head. On the day following, April 8th,
Elliott at Kent, of Des Moines, Iowa,
will sell at Dexter Park, Chicago, Illinois, their entire herd of CO head, and
on the next day, April 9th, at the same
place J. II. Kissinger & Co., of Clarks-
ville, Missouri, will sell about 40 head
from among the best of their celebrated
herd. Waukegan is 35 miles north of
Chicago, on thc Milwaukee division of
the Chicago and North-Western Railroad. Parties wishing to attend all
three of these sa'les, can do so with but
little more expense than to attend only
one of them. We have no catalogue of
either of the last two named sales, and
cannot say as to the quality of the stock
to be sold at them, only as we can gather
from the advertisements, and from the
general character of the herds. It
would be safe to say, however, that there
are many animals in both lots that have
wide reputations as premium takers, and
that they have descended from some of
the best heyls in America and have pedigrees that will be satisfactory to the
most fastidious. We have a copy of the
catalogue of the Glen Flora herd, and
after having looked it carefully through
are prepared to say that we doubt very
much whether there has ever been collected into one herd in America so many
animals with such exceedingly rich and
fashionable pedigrees. There is hardly
a cross in any pedigree that could be
considered objectionable. Many of the
pedigrees are rich in the blood of
Favorite (252). The foundation or lower
crosses are of the best quality, and bulls
used in top of the pedigrees are among*
the most fashionable. There is one,
Miss Wiley, descended from imported
Miss Hudson, by Hermese (8145); 3 Rose
of Sharon, descended from Rose of
Sharon, by Belvidere, (1700); 6 Bright
Eyes, descended from Bright Eyes, 2d,
by Lord George Bcntiuck, (9317). This'
family has from four to six crosses of pure
Bates blood. There is one pure Louan,
and 17 others that have the same foundation, bein_ descended from Jenny Lind,
by. Louan, (11698); Cambria, by Bertram,
2d, (3144); 1 pure Mazurka, 4 of the
celebrated J. family, 3 Rose of Oxfords,
and 19 of the popular and fashionably
bred family— the G Wynnes, together with
many others of equality and purity of
pedigree. There are in the catajpgue
118 females, G2 of which are under 3
years old, and but 5 of thc others that'
could be considered old; 53 of the
females are roan in color, 37 of them
red, 20 of them red and white, and 0 of
them white.
This sale will be the great one of the
season, and we should not be surprised
if it should prove to be the best, with
one exception, ever made in the world.
Those who wish to attend the sale for
the purpose of buying something from
this superior herd, can obtain a copy of
the sale catalogue, by addressing C. C.
Parks, Waukegan, Illinois. See, his
advertisement in this paper.
For the Indiana Farmer.
A VISIT TO PROSPECT FARM.
Prospect Farm, near Petersburgh,
Kentucky, some four miles from Law-
renceburgh, Indiana, is owned by Mr. J.
C. Jenkins, and is a farm as well adapted to the raising of stock as the great
State of Kentucky affords.
Mr. Jenkins takes great pleasure in
showing his stock to visitors.
After inspecting the stables, we were
shown among the Short-Horns. We
first took a look at Louan's Duke of
Geneva, got by 7th Duke of Geneva,
(7934): lst dam, 4th Louan, of Parkland,
by 2d.Duke of Geneva; 2d dam, Louan
10th, by Duke of Airdrie, and his pedigree is perfect in Bates blood. He
stands at the head of the herd, and is as
fine a Duke as it has been my pleasure to
see for some time.
There were also a number of young
bulls, (some for sale); among which we
noticed, Prince Geneva, 2d, got by 7th
Duke of Geneva, (7934); lst dam, Indian Princess 3d, by Victor 7th (6274);
2d dam, Indian Princess lst, by Representative, (4308); also, Miss Wiley's
Geneva, got by 7th Duke of Geneva; lst
dam, Miss Wiley 15th, by Washington
Turley, and a fine lot more of fine color
and pedigree.
The cows are a very fine herd, numbering about forty-five—reds, roans,
whites, and all the fashionable colors.
Among the cows, we were struck with
the appearance of Rose of Sharon 5th,
got by the 7th Duke of Geneva; lst
dam, Rose of Sharon 3d, by Loudan's
Duke 4th, (5906); 2d dam, Rose of
Sharon 2d, by Noble, (5997), and her
pedigree dates back to J. Brown's red
bull, (97). She is as fine a heifer as is
to be found anywhere, and is second to
none in the country.
We were next shown a fine herd of
Cotswald sheep—some eighty in n
ber. Among which are one imported
buck, two or three imported ewes, and
all are direct from imported stock.
The buck, last season, sheared over
twenty pounds of wool, (I have forgotten
the exact amount). The whole flock is
as fine as there is to be found, and one
sheep will outweigh any three scrubs.
I next visited the stable where the
thoroughbred horses were kept. But
most of them were out, so I only got a
glimpse of some stallions—all of which
are from the best stock of the country.
His thoroughbred horses number forty
I was also shown some Chester White
and Berkshire pigs, but the exact number of them I have forgotten.
About this time I was taken to the
house, it being dinner time. Nothing
would do but I must have dinner, and it
was one of those dinners that none but
a Kentucky lady can get up—and served
by Mrs. Jenkins, in a motherly style,
made it all the better. I shall never
forget the hospitality shown me while
Mr. Jenkins takes great pains to make
the visits of all those who call as pleasant as possible. It will pay your readers
to visit Prospect Farm, and see the
stock. But do not come home without
purchasing something in which Mr.
Jenkins makes a specialty.
Thos. W. W. Sunman.
Spades, Indiana.
The Pharos says;._ " Logansport will
see more activity in building this year
than any year since its incorporation."
The Township Trustees of La Grange
county, paid IG96.71, on account of
sneep killed by dogs during the past
An organization of citizens has been
effected at New Albany, to start for
the mining districts of Arazona this
spring.
A most remarkable religious revival
has been in progress for many weeks in
the Methodist Church, Danville, with
over a hundred accessions.
It is reported that a colored miner at
the Otter Creek shaft, near Brazil, made
$00 by 16 days' work at 70 cents per ton.
Mining pays at that rate.
On account of failing health, Luther
S. Gray, Auditor of Howard county, has
been compelled to resign his office. His
Deputy, J. C. Ware, has been appointed
to succeed him.
A boy in Huntington county, while
engaged in loading a gun, carelessly fired
it off, sending the load through the back
and kidneys of a_ man by the name of
Grey, whowas painting the house, causing death in a short time.
The Knox County Agricultural Society held its annual meeting last week
and elected Directors for tne current
year. The old officers were re-elected.
The Board purchased 15 acres of laud
at $150 per acre for the use of the Society.
The Bluffton Chronicle reports that
at the close of the ninth week of the
revival meeting at the M. E. Church at
that place, the congregation decided by a
unanimous vote to continue the meetings. About three hundred new members have been added during the meeting.
The Rockport Republican says that
more than a million pounds of tobacco
have been bought in Rockport this season, and had the yield have been
even, an average one, three times
that amount would have been on that
market. The improvements in Hamilton's tobacco factory will make it 1S4
feet long; and 120 feet wide. Tbe central portion will be three stories high,
with cellar under the whole. In the
rear will be a shed 100 feet long and 20
feet wide, for storing tobacco in hogsheads.
HILLING vs DRILLING.
SUFFOLK HORSES.
We briefly noticed two weeks ago the
importation of three of these English
Draft Stallions by Mr. J. D. Campbell,
of this city. Two of the animals are in
stables near us and we have taken a
look at them. They are of a bright chestnut color, large and finely formed. The
sire of Glensford, the largest of the two,
took the first prize at the Royal Show in
England in 1869, and second at the Suffolk show same year, and second at the
Royal show in 1872 and a prize of £15,
at the Royal show in 1873.
We are glad to note any effort towards
improving our farm horses and do not
doubt but the admixture of the Suffolk
blood will have a marked effect in this
Mr. Campbell spent several months in
England examining different breeds of
horses and selected the Suffolk as iu his
judgment the most perfect breed he
found there. So far as we have learned
his importation is the only one of this
breed that has been made to this county.
Editor Indiana Farmer:
I have been watching the discussion
of the "hill and drill" question in the
Faejier, and I wish to suggest a point
or two which seems to have been overlooked.
First; The preparation of the ground
before planting is of the utmost importance, and if properly done the crop is
almost assured as well as half cultivated. In order to do this all other work
must be well in hand before plough
time, so the crop may have the farmer's
undivided attention. Then, never plough
or work the ground wet, as this is the
great cause of its becoming hard, lifeless and clody, and also ofthe hard ridge
complained of iu drill corn. Better
plant late than plough wet. Dcn't try
to beat everybody else. From the 10th
to the 20th of May is soon enough to
plant. Put in the time before this,
pulverizing the soil and killing the
thousands of weeds which will have
germinated. By planting after the
ground is warm and dean, the corn will
come right up and get the start of the
weeds, birds, moles &c, and the cut
worms will generally have had their day.
You can begin to plow about as soon as
if planted 10 days sooner, and my experience is that in one month the corn
will be ahead of that planted early and
in the ordinary way. I would rather
risk corn with two plowings after being
properly put in, than with five where it
has not. This may account for "Daris,'
success with two plowings and his opponents failure with four and five. My
observation has been that drill corn can
be planted and cultivated with less work
than hill planting. By the way, we had
the subject up in our Grange and I
noticed that those who have tried drilling were in its favor, while those who
have not, were against it. So, if one
don't want to be converted better not
try it. The fact that drill corn has
generally been planted two thick is no
argument against the method. Put 6 to
10 stalks in the hill and you will not get
much corn either. Yet this is urged <.
with great persistence against drill
planting.
In conclusion, let everything be done}
thoroughly as the large crop always
pays while the half crop never does.
Benj. B; Beeson.
Transcript 1 am frequently requested by parties making inquiries in regard to Jersey Cattle, to write them all about them. It is impossible in ausweringso many communications by letter to give the desired information to those wholly unacquainted with this famous breed of cattle. Inasmuch as Jerseys are attracting, just now, so much attention, giving rise to so many inquiries, I think a brief account of the breed of sufficient public importance to justify its publication. Jersey cattle take their name from the place of their nativity—Jersey Island—one ofthe Islands of the Brittish Channel. This small Island is densely populated and long famous (or its breed of milk cattle. On this Island twenty acres of land constitutes a farm of unusual dimensions, while two or three acres is the average. Every family aspires to keep from one to four cows, just as their circumstances will permit, and whether the number be one or more, the animal is the subject of more than Ordinary care and attention, and like the horse among the Arabs, practically becomes one of the members of the family. To a people so limited in agricultural advantages, it does not pay to keep any but tho very best milk cattle, and the breeding, therefore, of a race superior in the butter producing qualities has . lpng been an object of special care with ' the inhabitants of that Island. Such has been the success attending their efforts in this direction, that after a series of generations they have developed a cow, whose excellence for the richness of her milk, and the large amount of superior butter it will make, is without a rival in the world. The Jersey cow having been bred for many generations with special reference to this point is a thorough-bred butter cow, capable of imparting that excellence to her off-spring with unerring certainty. The cattle are small in size, not as large as the scrnb, native to this country, and are not as a rule very handsome in their shape, as no attention to their breeding on the Island was given to any other point than the one above mentioned. They are remarkable for their docility, their early maturity, and their thrift and hardiness. They are superior for the richness of their milk, the quanity and quality of their butter. • Their docility is due to their close relation and intimate association with the family circle, of which they have almost constituted a member for so many generations; their superior butter making qualities due to a systematic breeding only from such as were remarkable for this point of excellence in theirancestry. They do not yield a large flow of milk, twelve quarts being pei haps about the daily average, and the milk yielding about s30 per cent, of very superior cream; but while they do not give so large a flow of milk, they keep up for the year, a greater general average than cattle that give three times as much when flush, but for only two or three months in the year. They are perpetual milkers if you desire them to beso, and will make to the'eow, upon an average, about 300 lbs of butter annually, when properly managed and cared for. This butter is far superior to ordinary butter, being more firm in its consistence —weighing 3 oz. more than other butter when moulded in the same mould, of deeper yellow in color, and better flavored. In regard to their breeding, I think they are the most prolific of all breeds, beginning their gestation at nine months, and their maternity at eighteen months if you will let them. This early breeding does not impair their vigor or produce premature decay as has been claimed by some, but only diminishes the site of the animal, which is no objection as size is no consideration when a small cow will yield as much butter as a large one, and takes jless feed and space in her care and | management. Three years ago a Herd Book was es- A VIEW OP THE CENTENNIAL ART GALLERY, AT PHILADELPHIA. The materials of this building are granite, glass, and iron. No wood is used in the construction, and the building is thoroughly fire-proof. The structure is 365 feet in'length, 210 feet in width, and 59 feet in height, over a"spaciousbasement 12 feet in height, surmounted by a dome. like has and am tablishcd for Jersey cattle, and one of the rules adopted is that no animal shall be entered for record whose pedigree can not be traced to registered or imported stock. Prior to the establishment of this register, the pedigrees of Jersey cattle were not kept in preservation ; consequently there are many Jersey cattle in the country, decendants from the earliest importations, pure and carefully bred, that cannot be registered, and are known as unregcttered ttock. Some of Jt is even superior in its intrinsic value to the cattle of more recent importation, but because there offspring oannotbe registered, does not command from professional breeders so large a price or ready sale. To this class of stock I would commend the farmer of limited means who only wants the breed for his individual use, and not chiefly for the sale of colors. The price of registered Jerseys, that of Herd Book Short-Horns, already advanced to the hundreds, appears to be on the increase. I frequently asked by my neighbors which is the more profitable, Jersey's or Short- Horns? The answer to this question depends entirely upon the circumstances and conditions of the farmer who proposes to engage in this breeding. To s> farmer owning a large farm of rich grain producing land, in a county where he can either produce or purchase grain cheaply, I would say breed Short- Horns ; but to one owning a small tract of land, or land chiefly adapted to grazing, living near a butter market,I would say take the Jerseys. The one is preeminently a beef, the other pre-eminently a butter cow, choose between them with reference to the object in view. Either one if properly managed will pay a hundred per cent, more than the ordinary cow. * A pure bred Jersey cow at $300 will, if properly cared for, yield on an average $100, in butter and $7.5 in offspring, annually, which is a better per cent, on the investment than an ordinary cow at $40. D. W. Voyles. New Albany, Ind. GREAT PUBLIC SALES OF SHORT- HORN CATTLE. We are requested to call particular attention to the omission in our first insertion of the advertisement of the great Stock .Sales at Chicago, April 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th, of the eight head of Princess heifers, belonging to Messrs. Elliott & Kent, of Des Moines, Iowa. This valuable and rare blood will form fluite an attractive feature of the great sales. By reference to our advertising columns, it will be observed that on the 7th of April next, C. C. Parks, of Waukegan, Illinois, will sell his entire herd of Short-Horns, consisting of 139 head. On the day following, April 8th, Elliott at Kent, of Des Moines, Iowa, will sell at Dexter Park, Chicago, Illinois, their entire herd of CO head, and on the next day, April 9th, at the same place J. II. Kissinger & Co., of Clarks- ville, Missouri, will sell about 40 head from among the best of their celebrated herd. Waukegan is 35 miles north of Chicago, on thc Milwaukee division of the Chicago and North-Western Railroad. Parties wishing to attend all three of these sa'les, can do so with but little more expense than to attend only one of them. We have no catalogue of either of the last two named sales, and cannot say as to the quality of the stock to be sold at them, only as we can gather from the advertisements, and from the general character of the herds. It would be safe to say, however, that there are many animals in both lots that have wide reputations as premium takers, and that they have descended from some of the best heyls in America and have pedigrees that will be satisfactory to the most fastidious. We have a copy of the catalogue of the Glen Flora herd, and after having looked it carefully through are prepared to say that we doubt very much whether there has ever been collected into one herd in America so many animals with such exceedingly rich and fashionable pedigrees. There is hardly a cross in any pedigree that could be considered objectionable. Many of the pedigrees are rich in the blood of Favorite (252). The foundation or lower crosses are of the best quality, and bulls used in top of the pedigrees are among* the most fashionable. There is one, Miss Wiley, descended from imported Miss Hudson, by Hermese (8145); 3 Rose of Sharon, descended from Rose of Sharon, by Belvidere, (1700); 6 Bright Eyes, descended from Bright Eyes, 2d, by Lord George Bcntiuck, (9317). This' family has from four to six crosses of pure Bates blood. There is one pure Louan, and 17 others that have the same foundation, bein_ descended from Jenny Lind, by. Louan, (11698); Cambria, by Bertram, 2d, (3144); 1 pure Mazurka, 4 of the celebrated J. family, 3 Rose of Oxfords, and 19 of the popular and fashionably bred family— the G Wynnes, together with many others of equality and purity of pedigree. There are in the catajpgue 118 females, G2 of which are under 3 years old, and but 5 of thc others that' could be considered old; 53 of the females are roan in color, 37 of them red, 20 of them red and white, and 0 of them white. This sale will be the great one of the season, and we should not be surprised if it should prove to be the best, with one exception, ever made in the world. Those who wish to attend the sale for the purpose of buying something from this superior herd, can obtain a copy of the sale catalogue, by addressing C. C. Parks, Waukegan, Illinois. See, his advertisement in this paper. For the Indiana Farmer. A VISIT TO PROSPECT FARM. Prospect Farm, near Petersburgh, Kentucky, some four miles from Law- renceburgh, Indiana, is owned by Mr. J. C. Jenkins, and is a farm as well adapted to the raising of stock as the great State of Kentucky affords. Mr. Jenkins takes great pleasure in showing his stock to visitors. After inspecting the stables, we were shown among the Short-Horns. We first took a look at Louan's Duke of Geneva, got by 7th Duke of Geneva, (7934): lst dam, 4th Louan, of Parkland, by 2d.Duke of Geneva; 2d dam, Louan 10th, by Duke of Airdrie, and his pedigree is perfect in Bates blood. He stands at the head of the herd, and is as fine a Duke as it has been my pleasure to see for some time. There were also a number of young bulls, (some for sale); among which we noticed, Prince Geneva, 2d, got by 7th Duke of Geneva, (7934); lst dam, Indian Princess 3d, by Victor 7th (6274); 2d dam, Indian Princess lst, by Representative, (4308); also, Miss Wiley's Geneva, got by 7th Duke of Geneva; lst dam, Miss Wiley 15th, by Washington Turley, and a fine lot more of fine color and pedigree. The cows are a very fine herd, numbering about forty-five—reds, roans, whites, and all the fashionable colors. Among the cows, we were struck with the appearance of Rose of Sharon 5th, got by the 7th Duke of Geneva; lst dam, Rose of Sharon 3d, by Loudan's Duke 4th, (5906); 2d dam, Rose of Sharon 2d, by Noble, (5997), and her pedigree dates back to J. Brown's red bull, (97). She is as fine a heifer as is to be found anywhere, and is second to none in the country. We were next shown a fine herd of Cotswald sheep—some eighty in n ber. Among which are one imported buck, two or three imported ewes, and all are direct from imported stock. The buck, last season, sheared over twenty pounds of wool, (I have forgotten the exact amount). The whole flock is as fine as there is to be found, and one sheep will outweigh any three scrubs. I next visited the stable where the thoroughbred horses were kept. But most of them were out, so I only got a glimpse of some stallions—all of which are from the best stock of the country. His thoroughbred horses number forty head. I was also shown some Chester White and Berkshire pigs, but the exact number of them I have forgotten. About this time I was taken to the house, it being dinner time. Nothing would do but I must have dinner, and it was one of those dinners that none but a Kentucky lady can get up—and served by Mrs. Jenkins, in a motherly style, made it all the better. I shall never forget the hospitality shown me while there. Mr. Jenkins takes great pains to make the visits of all those who call as pleasant as possible. It will pay your readers to visit Prospect Farm, and see the stock. But do not come home without purchasing something in which Mr. Jenkins makes a specialty. Thos. W. W. Sunman. Spades, Indiana. The Pharos says;._ " Logansport will see more activity in building this year than any year since its incorporation." The Township Trustees of La Grange county, paid IG96.71, on account of sneep killed by dogs during the past year. An organization of citizens has been effected at New Albany, to start for the mining districts of Arazona this spring. A most remarkable religious revival has been in progress for many weeks in the Methodist Church, Danville, with over a hundred accessions. It is reported that a colored miner at the Otter Creek shaft, near Brazil, made $00 by 16 days' work at 70 cents per ton. Mining pays at that rate. On account of failing health, Luther S. Gray, Auditor of Howard county, has been compelled to resign his office. His Deputy, J. C. Ware, has been appointed to succeed him. A boy in Huntington county, while engaged in loading a gun, carelessly fired it off, sending the load through the back and kidneys of a_ man by the name of Grey, whowas painting the house, causing death in a short time. The Knox County Agricultural Society held its annual meeting last week and elected Directors for tne current year. The old officers were re-elected. The Board purchased 15 acres of laud at $150 per acre for the use of the Society. The Bluffton Chronicle reports that at the close of the ninth week of the revival meeting at the M. E. Church at that place, the congregation decided by a unanimous vote to continue the meetings. About three hundred new members have been added during the meeting. The Rockport Republican says that more than a million pounds of tobacco have been bought in Rockport this season, and had the yield have been even, an average one, three times that amount would have been on that market. The improvements in Hamilton's tobacco factory will make it 1S4 feet long; and 120 feet wide. Tbe central portion will be three stories high, with cellar under the whole. In the rear will be a shed 100 feet long and 20 feet wide, for storing tobacco in hogsheads. HILLING vs DRILLING. SUFFOLK HORSES. We briefly noticed two weeks ago the importation of three of these English Draft Stallions by Mr. J. D. Campbell, of this city. Two of the animals are in stables near us and we have taken a look at them. They are of a bright chestnut color, large and finely formed. The sire of Glensford, the largest of the two, took the first prize at the Royal Show in England in 1869, and second at the Suffolk show same year, and second at the Royal show in 1872 and a prize of £15, at the Royal show in 1873. We are glad to note any effort towards improving our farm horses and do not doubt but the admixture of the Suffolk blood will have a marked effect in this direction. Mr. Campbell spent several months in England examining different breeds of horses and selected the Suffolk as iu his judgment the most perfect breed he found there. So far as we have learned his importation is the only one of this breed that has been made to this county. Editor Indiana Farmer: I have been watching the discussion of the "hill and drill" question in the Faejier, and I wish to suggest a point or two which seems to have been overlooked. First; The preparation of the ground before planting is of the utmost importance, and if properly done the crop is almost assured as well as half cultivated. In order to do this all other work must be well in hand before plough time, so the crop may have the farmer's undivided attention. Then, never plough or work the ground wet, as this is the great cause of its becoming hard, lifeless and clody, and also ofthe hard ridge complained of iu drill corn. Better plant late than plough wet. Dcn't try to beat everybody else. From the 10th to the 20th of May is soon enough to plant. Put in the time before this, pulverizing the soil and killing the thousands of weeds which will have germinated. By planting after the ground is warm and dean, the corn will come right up and get the start of the weeds, birds, moles &c, and the cut worms will generally have had their day. You can begin to plow about as soon as if planted 10 days sooner, and my experience is that in one month the corn will be ahead of that planted early and in the ordinary way. I would rather risk corn with two plowings after being properly put in, than with five where it has not. This may account for "Daris,' success with two plowings and his opponents failure with four and five. My observation has been that drill corn can be planted and cultivated with less work than hill planting. By the way, we had the subject up in our Grange and I noticed that those who have tried drilling were in its favor, while those who have not, were against it. So, if one don't want to be converted better not try it. The fact that drill corn has generally been planted two thick is no argument against the method. Put 6 to 10 stalks in the hill and you will not get much corn either. Yet this is urged <. with great persistence against drill planting. In conclusion, let everything be done} thoroughly as the large crop always pays while the half crop never does. Benj. B; Beeson. 2$ 8^
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How Brands Are Winning With Vine Videos: 10 Examples
By Kristin Hodgkinson
Do you use Vine as part of your Twitter marketing?
Have you seen how other companies are using it?
Twitter originally introduced Vine to encourage creativity among users, but marketing teams quickly saw the value.
In this article I’ll show you 10 fun ways companies are using Vine in their Twitter marketing.
Find ten examples of Vine video from brands.
#1: Dunkin’ Donuts’ Super Bowl Vine
Last year, during ESPN’s Monday Night Football pregame show, Dunkin’ Donuts unveiled the first television commercial made completely on Vine. It featured a team of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee cups taking on and defeating a team of milkshakes in a makeshift football game and was a huge hit.
Dunkin’ Donuts’ ground-breaking TV commercial targeted Monday Night Football’s large audience.
Dunkin’ Donuts kept their football momentum going when they released three more Vine commercials during the Super Bowl. Each one re-enacted memorable Super Bowl moments from years past—something the audience could appreciate. Genius.
#2: M&C Saatchi Sydney’s “Quit”
Brevity adds impact to hard-hitting agendas like this anti-smoking campaign. M&C Saatchi created several individual Vines to succinctly convey their message: stop smoking.
The six-second Vine simply reads, “Before this video restarts, another smoker will die.” Powerful stuff.
Six seconds is plenty of time to share your message.
Creative director Ant Melder said Vine was the best medium to spread the message because “Every six seconds, a smoker dies of smoking-related diseases.”
#3: Sony’s “Inception” Vine
This Vine from Sony is a play on the popular movie Inception. The ad whisks viewers inside the frame of the phone, into the phone inside that phone and then back again. The infinite loop of this ad is the kind of mind-boggling stuff people love.
Sony’s clever twist on pop culture drew attention to their new product.
The unexpected video shows off not just one, but two of Sony’s best products in a non-intrusive way. Don’t forget to look at the caption—it’s an exceptional Inception pun.
#4: Adidas’ World Cup Soccer Balls
Adidas’ clever Vine below shows the evolution of the World Cup soccer balls (or footballs for those of us outside the United States), from the 1970 design that debuted in Mexico, right up to this year’s polychrome ball that hurtled around the stadiums in Brazil.
Take advantage of popular current events.
The World Cup is always a huge draw. Adidas capitalized on the tournament’s popularity and global audience with this Vine.
#5: Disney’s “Show Your Disney Side” Competition
Disney initiated a Vine-based competition called Show Your Disney Side. They invited Disney fans to get creative with the Vine app and submit a video that reflects their true devotion to the brand.
The #disneyside Vine campaign brought out the creative side of fans.
Not that many people need an incentive to show their Disney side, but it didn’t hurt that daily winners received $ 1,000 and the grand prize winner received a free Disney vacation plus $ 10,000 funding for an extended Vine series. Overall, Disney’s Vine contest was a huge success and provided a way to gather creative user-generated ads to promote the company.
#6: Sesame Street’s “You Shall Not Pass!”
Sesame Street used this Vine to let Twitter followers know when to tune in for its Lord of the Rings spoof, “Lord of the Crumbs”—complete with the popular line from Gandalf’s encounter with the Balrog, “You shall not pass!”
Sesame Street appeals to adults and children with their fun spoof.
Sir Ian McKellen himself makes a surprise cameo appearance for a six-second téte-a-téte with his Muppet counterpart as he heads into the iconic Hooper’s store. This Sesame Street Vine is some real marketing wizardry.
#7: Airbnb’s “A Simple Journey”
Like Disney, Airbnb used a Vine marketing campaign to capitalize on consumer interaction. But rather than sift through thousands of Vines to pick daily- and grand-prize winners, they crowdsourced a whole bunch of them and created the first-ever short film made completely of Vines.
Combining several Vines into a short movie worked for Airbnb.
Airbnb’s completed film tracks a piece of paper as it journeys around the world (literally). The film debuted at the Sundance festival before it took the online world by storm.
#8: Oreo’s “All Cookies Must Dunk”
Oreo released this Vine, referencing the surprising death of a character from season 1 of Game of Thrones.
Oreo lost its head with this Vine campaign.
The company took one of the most popular lines from the show, “All men must die,” and put their signature twist on it: “All cookies must dunk.” Another social media win for Oreo.
#9: Volkswagen “Around the World”
In this walk down memory lane, the Volkswagen team tells the story of a 1955 Beetle that travelled the world three times and lived to tell the tale.
A clever trip around the world.
It’s obvious that the Vine is pieced together as a stop-motion collage of old photographs. But did you notice those pictures are arranged to show the Beetle doing a steady 360-degree rotation to show off its design? Brilliant.
#10: GE Science Lesson
General Electric asked, “How much science can you fit into 6 seconds?” and challenged people to create and submit science projects as Vines. Over 300 Vines were submitted—and they are so cool.
You don’t have to use the hard sell to get engagement.
GE’s Vine campaign fit with their science and technology culture and reinforced that science can be fun. They hosted the campaign on Tumblr (popular with the audience they were trying to reach) and included #6secondscience so viewers could keep up with submissions.
One reason the campaign worked so well is that while GE hosted the Vine event, it wasn’t an elaborate commercial. People were eager to contribute content that was shared far and wide.
Since its official introduction in 2013, Vine has grown to be one of the best marketing tools for social media. In a Twitter stream filled (mostly) with text, these six-second videos stand out, especially if they’re funny.
The creative opportunities afforded by this simple app are endless. If you’re a social media marketer and haven’t tried Vine, what are you waiting for? They’re popular with audiences, so why not include them as a Twitter marketing tactic?
What do you think? Have you seen a particularly good marketing Vine? Have you used Vine as part of a campaign? Leave us your comments below and share the Vines you love.
Tags: kristin hodgkinson, twitter marketing, twitter vine, vine, vine clip, vine compilation, vine example, vine for business, vine marketing, vine tactic, vine video
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News and resources on experimental films
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The Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) is an interdisciplinary contemporary arts center for innovative visual, performing and media arts located in downtown Los Angeles inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex. Each season REDCAT presents a far-reaching roster of work by globally renowned artists, inside one of the most versatile and technologically advanced presentation spaces in the world.
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Recent Films by Robert Beavers: The Poetry of Living Space
By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 25/10/2018 - 02:49
Robert Beavers is a master of 16mm personal filmmaking whose films (From the Notebook of... 1971/1998, etc.) are landmarks of independent cinema. Following his magnum opus 18-film cycle, My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure, Beavers released several works that are considered among the great films of recent decades. Beavers’ focus is on intimate spaces and how they reflect qualities of human character and life.
Friday, October 26, 2018 - 20:30
REDCAT - Los Angeles, United States
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Ism Ism Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America
By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 20/09/2017 - 15:45
Los Angeles Filmforum launches Ism, Ism, Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America (Ismo, Ismo, Ismo: Cine Experimental en América Latina) this weekend, Sept 22-24, at REDCAT! Ism, Ism, Ism is an unprecedented, five-month film series —the first in the U.S.—that surveys Latin America’s vibrant experimental production from the 1930s through today.
Friday, September 22, 2017 (All day) to Sunday, September 24, 2017 (All day)
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Laura Kraning: Spectral Landscapes
By Anonymous on Mon, 19/09/2016 - 03:08
Laura Kraning’s uncanny moving image work combines richly detailed imagery and sound to transform unseen places into liminal landscapes of the imagination. Plays of light and movement specific to each location summon what is absent in the visible—the past that continues to haunt the present.
Read more about Laura Kraning: Spectral Landscapes
Ross Lipman: Urban Ruins, Found Moments
By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 30/03/2010 - 16:30
Tuesday March 30th, 8:30 pm
Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.
Ross Lipman in person.
Read more about Ross Lipman: Urban Ruins, Found Moments
In the Inner Space
11/07/2019 (All day), 21/07/2019 (All day) (Screenings)
26/07/2019 - 15:00 (Screenings)
Depth of FIeld. Ar, Fogo, Terra, Água: Carte Blance to Ana Vaz
12/07/2019 (All day), 14/07/2019 (All day), 17/07/2019 (All day), 28/07/2019 (All day) (Screenings)
30/07/2019 - 17:00 to 21:00 (Screenings)
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We give you the latest sporting results from this weekend.
HSBC World Sevens Series
The Blitsbokke suffered a 19 – 7 loss to England on Sunday in the Vancouver. They have however qulified for their sixth consecutive final in the HSBC World Sevens Series, held in Canada. They are still enjoying a 23 point lead on the log, after gaining 19 points on sunday, this still keeps them atop of the log, with England behind them with 103 points. In third place are defending champion Fiji on 100 points.
Kazuyoshi Miura who plays for Yokohama FC, has become the oldest professional footballer to score a goal at the age of 50. Yokohama FC played against Thespa Kusatsu and the only goal scored in the was by Kazuyoshi. Miura took the title of oldest goalscoring footballer from former England International, Sir Stanley Mathews who previously held the record.
In The FA Cup Tottenham Hotspur reigned supreme over Millwall as they just dominated, hand Millwall a 6-0 beating. Son Heung-min stole the match, scoring a hat-trick, and Vincent Janssen scored his first goal for Tottenham. Now all eyes are on the Chelsea vs Manchester United game on Monday night, will Mourinho get his revenge?
After this weekend’s results of the six nations, the Springboks have dropped their world ranking, they are now ranked 7th, after Wales beat Ireland 22-9, which pushed them up to 6th above South Africa.
England also gave Scotland quite a beating this weekend, defeating them by quite a large margin, 62 – 21.
Top 10 in latest World Rugby standings:
1. New Zealand - 94.78
2. England - 91.02
3. Australia - 86.35
4. Ireland - 83.18
5. Scotland - 82.18
6. Wales - 82.16
7. South Africa - 81.79
8. France - 81.21
9. Argentina - 79.91
10. Fiji - 76.46
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Jazz Composers' Symposium: John Hollenbeck & Claudia Quintet
Event Type: Symposium
Facility: School of Music (MUS)
Presented By: School of Music
John Hollenbeck is a composer whose output is truly "beyond category" -able to translate the
traditions of jazz and new music into a fresh, eclectic, forward-looking language of his own invention.
A drummer and percussionist possessed of a playful versatility and virtuosic wit, John formed Claudia
to be a �band� with a sound determined not just by the compositions but by the performers
themselves. The Quintet (Drew Gress - bass, Matt Moran, vibes, Red Wierenga - accordion, & Chris
Speed - clarinet/sax), formed in 1997, has released 6 recordings proving that genre-defying music is
for everyone! John�s awards include 4 Grammy nominations, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and
recognition as a �rising star� in the Downbeat Critics Poll.
Purchase Tickets: http://www.ticketmaster.com/jazz-composers-symposium-john-hollenbeck-tampa-florida-05-18-2017/event/0D00510C81507576?artistid=2276790&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=4
Location: Concert Hall-Stage
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FWA Q&A: Gavin Hamilton
GAVIN HAMILTON on sending a cheque back to Gavin Hamilton...dinner with Cristiano Ronaldo...and a honeymoon nightmare in South Korea
Have you ever worked in a profession other than football?
I worked elsewhere in newspapers and magazines before switching to football. I also worked in a library (Camberwell not Highbury) where the main job was stopping people nicking the books (and that was just the staff).
Most memorable match?
My office complain that I only attend games if sliverware is being handed over. Not strictly true but I’m lucky enough to have been to almost every major final, domestic and European, since the mid-1990s. If I had to pick one game, it would be the 1999 European Cup Final in Barcelona.
The one moment in football you would put on a DVD?
Alan Pardew’s header at Villa Park, Palace-Liverpool FA Cup semi-final, April 1990. Hopeless Al became Super Al in an instant.
Best stadium?
I love the walk from Lotto metro station in Milan to the San Siro at night. The stadium emerges from nowhere, lit up like a giant spaceship.
...and the worst?
Every stadium is special to somebody, it’s what makes the game unique. But I don’t miss Plough Lane.
Your personal new-tech disaster?
Nothing career-threatening, usually to do with my lack of ability to connect to wi-fi.
Biggest mistake?
Nothing I can admit to in public.
Have you ever been mistaken for anyone else?
Only the cricketer Gavin Hamilton. I once got a cheque for £500 from The Sun for a column on the Cricket World Cup, which was nice. I was working elsewhere at News International at the time and I actually sent the cheque back, thinking it would help my career. It didn’t, but I hope he got his money eventually.
Most media friendly manager?
One of the first managers I had dealings with was [Crystal Palace’s] Alan Smith, who used to give out his players’ home phone numbers. It’s been downhill since then, though I’ve always found Roy Hodgson very agreeable. In Europe, the Dutch managers – Van Gaal, Rijkaard, Hiddink – have been great value. It’s partly a language thing - Dutch-English makes people sound more interesting than they probably are.
Best ever player?
In my lifetime, Maradona, though Messi is pushing him closer every season. Imagine if Maradona had played in the Champions League every year... I also loved Van Basten, such an elegant striker. Those old enough to have seen him play swear Di Stefano is the greatest.
Best ever teams (club and international)?
The Barcelona side that won the European Cup at Wembley two years ago was sensational. Brilliant individuals but a wonderful team ethic as well. Again it’s hard to compare different eras, but Brazil 1970 would give Spain 2010 a run for their money.
Best pre-match grub?
Arsenal shade it over Chelsea. It’s the Ben and Jerry’s.
Best meal had on your travels?
A seafood extravaganza in Madeira with my colleagues from A Bola when we interviewed Cristiano Ronaldo. We were presenting him with the ESM Golden Shoe and he insisted on receiving the award in Funchal, his home town. Not only was he away from the watchful eye of Man United, so we got a great interview, but we also had a slap-up meal afterwards.
Fortunately nothing poisonous but there have been plenty of rough burgers, late night at train stations.
Best hotel stayed in?
I have the English vote in UEFA’s Best Player in Europe award, when UEFA put us up in the very lovely Meridien Beach hotel in Monaco. But, generally, at FIFA and UEFA events, I get to spend a lot of time in the lobbies of top hotels, watching how the other half lives.
On Jeju Island for the 2002 World Cup. The Koreans had the bright idea of hosting matches there to promote the island as a “honeymoon paradise”. But I pity any marriage that spent its first night at this place. There was no mattress, just a wooden bed frame and a plastic sheet, and everything reeked of disinfectant, it was like sleeping in a pub toilet.
Favourite football writer?
Brian Glanville is still an inspiration, for remaining so enthusiastic after all these years and for his ability to swear so eloquently in so many different languages. I’m always amazed at the hours put in by the daily correspondents, Henry Winter and others.
Favourite radio/TV commentator?
John Murray is a fantastic commentator, informative and emotional without imposing his own opinions on a match. Martin Tyler and Clive Tyldesley are rightly top of the TV tree. I’ve been impressed with Sam Matterface for talkSPORT.
If you could introduce one change to improve PR between football clubs and football writers what would it be?
If clubs made a different player available for interview after training every day, they would soon see the benefits. Unfortunately, Barclays Premier League clubs smell money even where it doesn’t exist. Launching their own magazines and TV stations has made them think they can control the media when actually the opposite is true.
One sporting event outside football you would love to experience?
I’d like to try the Cricket World Cup, I’ve got an idea for a column.
Last book read?
Capital by John Lanchester, a terrific state-of-the-nation novel. Most of the best football books of recent times seemed to have been written by Jonathan Wilson although Dave Conn’s book on Man City was brilliant.
Favourite current TV programme?
Curb Your Enthusiasm. There’s a bit of Larry David in everybody.
Your most prized football memorabilia?
Nothing much though I’ve kept the teamsheets from the 1998 World Cup Final, with and without Ronaldo in the starting Xl.
Advice to anyone coming into the football media world?
Learn a language, it will always give you something extra, and if you can spend some time in another country, it will give you a different perspective. Embrace change, half the jobs we’ll be doing in 10 years’ time don’t exist yet because the technology hasn’t been developed.
Gavin Hamilton is Editor, World Soccer.
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Finally gets a girlfriend
Girlfriend is a gold digger
MFW utterly miserable
This is the most Apple thing I've ever read.
fuck bitches, make money.
Aekami-ran
Fluorine uranium carbon potassium bismuth technetium helium sulfur germanium thulium oxygen neon yttrium.
Rafflesiac
Iodine Germanium Titanium...shit.
LOL. Nice, Aekami-senpai~ XD
Eh, Jessica Lee is the real mastermind behind that one. O.o I just stole it as a response to ana. XD
tantalum Iridium Gallium einsteinium barium gallium Nickel indium Ytterbium radium californium
Kelnish
thats a random thought all right
Elements, Totenkopf, elements.
They spell things.
They spell amazing things.
Oh, lol. I thought it was yours. XD
If Kill la Kill gets dubbed, and I hope it does, I'm very curious how it would sound.
Seeeeeeettttttttthhhhhhhhh! Speak to mmmeeeeeeeeeeee!
I wonder if he fell asleep... XD o.O;
PRINT FASTER, PRINTER. DON'T GET FCKING STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF A PAGE FOR NO APPARENT REASON. YOU OR GOOGLE CHROME'S RETARDED PRINTING SETTINGS ARE MAKING ME STAY AWAKE FOR LONGER THAN I HAVE TO. THIS IS WASTING PRECIOUS INK TOO. FCK.
Hmmm. Makes me wonder. What happened to Ornstein? If genuine Faith is yellow and lightning-based, then tainted Faith has to be the color of Hex magic. That, or it's because Intelligence is mixed into the equation. Makes me wonder if it was an unintentional corrupting of sorts, or if he intentionally gave up on Faith in its pure form and dabbled into Hexing territory.
My legs are fucking with me. I can't climb up the stairs, walk properly and squat or bend without pain at the thighs.
How did it come to this?
Hope it's nothing serious. Or have you done something workout-typish thing, maybe it's just "normal" muscle pain?
Did you exert your legs more than usual, like with a marathon or something?
After a one-day Tae Kwon Do class I took, my legs ached for days.
I did nothing. That's what's mind-boggling about the whole thing. I did nothing and I got this muscle pain like damn.
They're so painful that I can't do shit anymore.
Nihilm
That sucks :(
Are you eating meds for that tuberculosis? Could it be a side effect (of meds or tubi)?
Yeah. Could be effects of tubi, or the side effects of the meds.
Come on weather, when are you going to snow? Don't get my hopes up and not snow, dammit! I'm probably the only person in the whole of New York City that wants it to snow, so come on, you're being loved, weather, come on, and snow! Not that you really care what anyone wants, since you've been freaking stubborn this whole winter and now into spring, but whatever. Just snow, so that we can justify this damn cold!
Now that I think about it, this coldness annoys me.
http://psnyomi133.tumblr.com/post/80737631092/melnathea-have-a-senketsu-cheering-for-u
Yes, I do. But damn, side effects? Fuck this shit.
Ascarde
What thread is the most insane on Beast's Lair?
It's sort of an injoke that I've seen that veterans generally make out Beast's Lair to be this weird, insane othermension, but honestly it's not really a whole lot different than any other board.
What thread have you read or seen that just shouts "We're crazy!" or what you'd never want people who've never heard of Beast's Lair to see?
Petrikow
I would show you but the I guess the Polls forum was deleted for that reason.
Regardless of how weird and outlandish or how not weird and outlandish a community actually is, in my experience, every animangame community that I've ever been a part of thinks that it's the most bizarre, insane, and wacky place that has ever existed. I don't particularly think this place is all that strange. All it is is that it's Beast's Lair, lol.
Then what thread best captures the spirit of Beast's Lair?
http://forums.nrvnqsr.com/showthread.php/1913
Depends on what Beast's Lair is to you. I can't honestly answer that question in any other way than "the random thoughts thread or the random forumite info thread or the I confess thread (which I've never seen outside of Beast's Lair)". I have been with Beast's Lair since 2005 or 2006, but I almost never venture out of the realm containing the forum games, and when I do, I typically don't post anyway. Beast's Lair for me, therefore, is simply the Seventh as a whole. What makes it specifically Beast's Lair, and not just a simply random area, is that a majority of the people here have been interested in, liked, or been a fan of one or more Type Moon works.
EDIT: Also, oh god that Great Cats Village.
The Questions thread is the biggest thread for a reason and it features all the things that people would identify with this place.
7th used to be bigger back on old BL but right now I don't think it comes close to being its core.
Nope, not at all. It doesn't even come close to the old 7th either. It's really just remnants with some new, some old, and some returning people.
But really, concisely, for the full BL experience in a concise manner I recommend this thread (http://forums.nrvnqsr.com/showthread.php/595-Fate-compelete-material-IV-Extra-material)
Translations, lore arguments and inevitably, Sakura derails until the thread loses the handle off itself.
Yeahay! Yaaaaay~!
To answer Ascarde's question, I think a single thread can't do that. I think there is no one single thread that summarizes BL as a whole. If there is, it has to be part GD, part 7th, part RP, etc.
The RP forums could literally be another website. Let's not involve them in this.
That said, the fact of the matter is that it is still part of this website and can be legitimately considered.
All this talk of representativeness reminds me of the Sun's Cafe for some reason...lolololol.
This is what I was thinking.
Should we make a recommended anime/manga thread? It'd be pretty convenient, maybe.
http://forums.nrvnqsr.com/showthread.php/2460-Need-anime-recommendations
just hijack the old personal one, and turn it into an all-purpose thread.
im here bitch you wanna go
Be honest with yourself there is functionally almost no crossover between the two
Verg KT Race Me You Spin Tang Toby (Fran if he counts he barely posts anymore) etc
There aren't even THAT many people exclusive to it. It's like, Sei, Snacks, Ego, Blue, few more
Verg Race Tang Fran srsly
Race goes into GDGD and Fanfic every now and then.
Verg posts fanfic (not as much as he used to but christmas specials still a thing)
Tang literally TMGD poster
Fran yeah
You know I love the RP people, but let's not kid ourselves, Verg, Tang and Fran barely posts outside of RPs anymore while KT has always been pure RP and it's not just a few more; Hero, Erl, Hyuy, Mereo, Dranes, Morm on the top of my head.
>hyuy
I can safely say that most the people I see on #notes, I barely actually see on the forum, so I am guessing they are all in the RP section.
HYuy lives in the Muvluv thread he doesn't even post in RP. Erl, Mereo, Dranes (and Zagrin literally the same person) and Morm I can give ya tho.
Actually no, some of them are BL1 illegal immigrants that popped over from people confusing #beastslair as a channel about beast's lair. Others are people that went the #beastslair route and just don't post anymore (but were active BL2 members).
Which is unacceptable, old people should go to the designated old people IRC. I'm looking at you, Ragnar.
MissingMandible
The Taurox Standard/Prime rules were leaked today for Warhammer 40K. Still debating if Taurox Prime is worth the point cost.
There's like, not much to talk about right now. When FSN animu/Tsuki remake info/Mahoyo trans/DDD3 happens, I expect some people to pop back in the upper half of the board.
I expect more traffic when the cancer leaves GD and it becomes fun again.
Blackfield is almost down, now Christemo has to go.
Christemo
Sorry babe, I'm not going anywhere <3
Sure, just thought I'd through my 2 cents in there
Rping is literally writing fanfiction collaboratively though. And they are both cancerous. GD and polls are the good parts of this forum. And altima murdered one directly.
never5get polls
literally the best forum
Sherrinford
(This is the first time since I've been here that I want to change avatar, but don't know what to use.)
QT "Final Dandy" face?
I would totally watch 300 if they replaced the Persians with the Bugs from Starship Troopers.
Fuck this shit.
Indeed. :(
(Seriously, Universe, can you please stop bullying our Mousie!!!)
Oh, shut the fuck up.
Regarding my question, I actually think I've found it.
Look at those tags.
havent you changed your avatar a lot
actually how long have I been using this avatar. I used to have a policy to change it every 4 to 5 months but that went to shit when I went and used Kunagisa for a year lol.
Doing some spring cleaning and while dusting my book case, three shelves decide they're going to slip off the brackets. Now the bottom half of the bookcase is structurally compromised and I've got to figure out a way to switch mine with my brother's while he isn't home.
Take your brother out to some woods and ditch him by taking the only car. By the time it takes for him to jog/walk back, you would have had enough time to swap them out.
What kind of moron would let themselves be pushed into a corner and become trapped while letting four, powerful enemies gang up on them? >,__,>;
Goddamn noobs. I'm fine with casuals, but noobs on the other hand... >__>;
everyone is a n00b at some point, rainie. cut them some slack. and if they perpetually suck, then just leave.
Goddamn, what's this bothering, uncomfortable feeling?
I guess it's just another day in my life today.
Hmmm... Kaaay...
I know that feel. I think it's mostly physical. Used to happen to me during the time I wake up. Then after an amount of time passes, I return to my usual self. Can either be completely physical, or some thought(s) of a negative nature is being suppressed and it's manifesting itself as a bad feeling.
I had a really weird dream today, about Gon and Killua learning at some Hillbilly alien Hunters led by Kiritsugu and Irisviel.
CAPTAIN! CAPTAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!
HitokiriNanaya
You know you have problems when you dream about getting eaten by boxes and turned into Santa Claus
What ya' mean here by "hillbilly", eh?
Man, playing Dark Souls 2 reminds me of life lessons. Oh, Life Souls~ Lol. XD
can i get a break yet? no? ok.
Misheard
Logged into the forum after, what, months just because I saw Seika had kudos'd my JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Stand porn.
Welcome back, even if only for a while.
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CANT STOP LAUGHING
Hen_Ichi
Sometimes I feel that I am actually just some side character in some RPG.
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Cata-chan~!
What's a Cata-chan? O.o
What's a Cata-chan? O.oHe's playing with words about my avatar. It's a female Catachan Jungle Fighter.
To be specific, a female fighter from the Catachan unit of the planet Catachan...
...If I said it correctly.
Jesus christ. I think Seth is one of the only DS2 players/phantoms who can actually be of great help--noting the fact that it was just the two of us who fought the bosses and it was mostly him who dealt the damage. Everybody else is just lmaonade.
I feel stuffed again.
*eats you*
Stuffed Mouse~!
I would play with you guys but I am like double your level. >>;
Sinon
http://i.imgur.com/SZ7YZI0.jpg
Is this mapo tofu?
It looks like mapo tofu, yes, though the amount of sauce in there kinda looks lacking. Was there pork in it, and was it spicy? D=
Yes, there was pork but not much and yes it was spicy.
Sounds pretty mapo tofu-ey to me. Man, you made me want some. I should really go and get some authentic mapo though rather than the watered down stuff at the local Chinese restaurant.
I would give you some of mine but we've already finished it.
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Lol that again.
My white guy always gives up.
It'd be fun to play with ya~ ^w^
You're prolly around 200 or more, right? owO;
Malt soya milk is like coffee. I swear it is like such.
I think I am at 120-130 right now actually, I haven't really played all week so I dont honestly remember.
It seems that I'm getting sick. Arghnajdclneuafkj
I'm 109. Teh summoning range is not far off. OwO
Quick~ Hinder its progress before it progresses further~
It's possible that it's been in me for a few days now getting ready to make me actually feel sick, so. :<
I like lumpia. I really like lumpia. Food items wrapped around in some sort of rice paper or flour sheet are usually good.
I really like lumpia, too.
I really resent the fact that I've been drinking so much coffee (read 2 cups a week) the last three weeks.
the stress has worn your immune system to shit. hope for a swift recovery. need break immediately.
Encounter A
Host: *does a gesture animation while in teh elevator and while it is going down*
Gravity: "I am not amused."
Host: *falls off and dies*
Encounter B
Gold Phantom: *falls off teh elevator*
Gravity: "I like you guys...so..."
Gold Phantom: *descends by bouncing up and down mid-air, hovering on teh elevator, towards the lower floor*
Summer is here. The heat has made me so dizzy.
Bend over, here it comes again.
It snowed in my city last night. We're still in that half frozen part of spring.
Your zone, maybe. Not in my zone. Not in the tropics.
That feeling when you've slogged through a disjointed mess of a doorstopper, only to come to the realisation that you're probably still going to wing the exam with Google and bullshitting...
It's a liberating sort of despair.
Finally home from J-Popcon 2014. I never want to walk again. 12 hours of walking/standing (the latter being arguably even worse) per day + a 4 hour rave on Saturday. Totally worth it, but i feel like I have no bones in my feet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPDlwDX8haQ
This is fun. O.o
all of the banned cards. all of them.
Yeah, pretty much.
i feel blegh. just need a break.
I need like a legitimate multi-day break, not a "take the afternoon off" break (though I would definitely appreciate an afternoon off as well).
I feel sticky.
NPCs are so cute. I love the way they track your movements by turning their heads. So cute~ <3
That from DS2?
Yes. Though, I'm sure a lot of games do it~
Yeah quite a few modern game do.
Its kinda creepy if you think about it; a bunch of silent people always following your every movement with their eyes, saying the exact same thing whenever you try talking to them...
Yep~
What if real people did that...everyday...
Yay~ XD
http://i.imgur.com/IQgb2Fb.jpg
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW YEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
These damn neighbors of mine can't shut their karaoke in the middle of the night.
I have neighbors who have loud sex, and play loud music...everyday... ;-;
LOL... T-T
"Ukrainian consonants /k/ and /t/ are pronounced by putting the tip of the tongue to the upper teeth, not the gums of the upper teeth as in English. In addition both sounds lack aspiration."
I really don't think that that's a correct statement for /k/. O.o
On a related note, the Ukrainian for "I vomited" is apparently "ya blyuvav" or "ya blyuwaw." It certainly sounds like you vomited if you have to say that, lol.
Sounds like that kind of comedy when the boke(teh funny, idiot role) blames the tsukkomi(serious role) for his own actions. Haha. XD
Manzai is fun.
Banzai for Manzai! \(^w^)/
Lolol, here's another note that seems to be wrong.
""та" meaning "and" is used after vowels and "і" meaning "and" is used after consonants."
Meanwhile, the only examples of "i" being used to mean "and" are both after vowels, lol. "Tse i te," meaning "this and that," and "mama i tato," meaning "mommy and dad."
This book just feels like it hasn't been proofread.
yo zex
eushully has taken april fools to announce a new game
http://www.eukleia.co.jp/eushully/eu16_140401/top_140401.jpg
I hope it isn't a cocktease
Last year (or was it the year before? idk) they made they turned their website into a 404 ad page spam site so I know they normally do april fools.
やあ、ようこそ、エウシュリー公式サイトへ。
このRed Bullはサービスだから、まず飲んで落ち着いて欲しい。
うん、「また」なんだ。済まない。
でも、この意外に面白そうな企画に見えるので
真っ白な次回作をこれから考えるのにもうハードルが上がっていると思う。
「ソロモンの扉のほうが良かったな」って言われるしね。
天秤のＬa ＤＥＡ。のマスターアップに苦戦しているけど
こういった遊び心はを忘れないでいきたい。
そう思って、このページを立てたんだ。
じゃあ、みんな、歳の数だけ腹筋しようか。
大事に鍛えてくれよ。
ah wait nvm
Lol. Interesting how languages can be odd. Can't be one "and" for both vowel and consonant.
Reminds me of the German language where there are, like, what, gender for things. Owo
And that book... Sad when we can't fully trust a reference. :(
lol, i'm still hype for memoria in what was it, 26 days? still, as long as they have a continuous and strong enough fanbase, i get to look forward to actually fun games. even their troll games are fun.
http://www.history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/civil_war/images/Artwork/tm.jpg
It makes me sad because the author is from my university, lol. And it seems to be such a great book too. AND THE AUTHOR HIMSELF IS UKRAINIAN (or at least graduated with his PhD from Kyiv State University).
Yeah, gender and different words based on phonetic contexts is pretty funky, but by no means unusual. Lots of languages have grammatical gender (perhaps more accurately called "class," especially when you get to languages that have more than 3 "genders"), and some languages even have words that differ based on whether they follow or precede consonants or vowels...
For example, in Korean, the topic marking particle is "eun" after consonants, but "neun" after vowels. That said, this one is just "eun" with either nothing in front of it or an "n" in front of it. Let's take a different example where the "word" or "marker" is completely different, similar to the "ta" vs. "i" in Ukrainian. In Japanese, the subject marking particle is "ga," as you may know. Korean also has "ga" as a subject marking particle, but it also has "i." Just like in the Ukrainian book's explanation, "ga" is used after vowels and "i" after consonants.
Whereas the "ga" doesn't differ in Japanese (e.g. Joe ga, John ga), it does differ in Korean by whether the sound before it is a vowel or a consonant (e.g. Joe ga, but John i).
There are definitely weirder linguistic features out there. XD
chipathy
its barely monday
damn, starting the quarter exhausted is the best way to ensure that i'm not gonna fail at the last second.
yeah, I'm mad hype for memoria.
gonna fail general relativity and flunk out of college because of memoria. so much hype.
Holy crap, lol. All these variations remind me of a game where it goes "Soul Arrow, Heavy Soul Arrow, Great Soul Arrow, Great Heavy Soul Arrow." XD
It's like having kids and naming them (using the names above as examples) as John, Jan, Jhon, Jaun, or Joe, Jo, Joh, Jho, etc. XD
Now that ya remind me, I remember the it, he, she stuff, right? Masculine, feminine, neuter stuff I think~
Yup, it's funky~ XD
It's especially fun when the form of the word more often than not doesn't tell you very much about the gender or class of the word...grammatical gender in German is hard. DX
April 1st, 2014, 12:50 AM
Just found out about the Scintillan Fusiliers, who are Imperial Guardsmen from the planet Scintilla. They look like they belong in the A.merican Revolutionary War, but with lasers.
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Now, I'm obviously a hard-core Warhammer 40k fan, but I have to ask "Why?"
Apparently, I can not type A.merican without the text going bonkers. I hate this holiday >_<
Yep. No clues would suck.
Also, hard. Heheh. Hard.
So apparently A-merica and F-uck are equal thanks to April Fools or something like that. Transitive property of equality ftw.
So gently and sweetly make love to YEAH!! gently and sweetly make love to YEAH
That's actually cool, though. I like it.
And lemme try to type Amer!can.
"American."
Well, A-merica and f-uck are nearly equal, as the first one has a YEAH!!! appended to it, while the latter doesn't. O.o
I wonder what it would be like if they ever fought the Praetorian Guard.
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Whew. That was close. You saved my butt and bacon, Aekami-senpai~ Thought the word replacements were a random modification or somethin'. XD
Well, A-merica and f-uck are nearly equal, as the first one has a YEAH!!! appended to it, while the latter doesn't. O.oWell, for Amer!ca, it becomes F-uck YEAH!!
Normal F-uck wouldn't need the YEAH!!
And "G∀R" becomes "no homo (balls don't touch)".
So "g∀rotte" becomes "garotte".
2:18. 18 minutes after when I wanted to be done, but whatever, at least it's done. Now to print out stuff for tomorrow's workday, go to the bathroom, and go to sleep.
man, this year's shit is lame. just letter sequence replacement.
Huitante
Even more, the difference between "та" and "і" is more of a stylistic thing. "та" has certain special connotations to it and also is used as "but". There's an "i" variant, "й", reads as short i, specifically for using after vowels. In general, the rule is to pick a conjunction to provide the least amount of clustered vowels or consonants and make the sentence flow better.
Everything is going to the dogs, folks. Everything is going to the dogs.
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
A random thought? OK...
I suspected today was going to be a horrible day at the Internet. How right I was.
Everything is going to the cats, folks. Everything is going to the cats.
so fixed
very better
much fitting
I see. O.o Thank you for the explanation. Unfortunately, it doesn't solve the problem that the book seems to be a little lacking in the proofreading side. Hopefully the professor's classes are taught better. XD
That said, you mentioned the "й." Is that another form of the "i" conjunction following vowels, or were you just mentioning a letter that tends to follow vowels?
Ukrainian seemed to be rather easy phonologically when I first looked at it, and then as I started to read the book, it turns out there's all sorts of wonderful phonological quirks that makes the language hurt my mouth in a way even Russian didn't do. *shot*
Form of the "i" conjunction. Though there's a small group of words starting with "i" in which it can be replaced with "й" as well if previous word ends with a vowel. іти - йти (to walk) is a common example.
Similar situation with "у" and "в" - as interchangeable prepositions they mean "in", and certain words have two forms - starting with "у" or "в".
This stuff, as I said before, is for making flow of the speech more smooth, and usually when picking the right form "i-й" or "в-у" the sound at the beginning of the next word should also be taken in account. There's a bunch of exceptions too :neco_arc:
I feel sorta better right now, just needing some bath.
Ah, I see. Yes, the "i-й" or "в-у" thing was explained early on in the book.
This language is getting more and more interesting. O.o Were I not a language dabbler, I'd say I'd stay with this one, but that would be a lie. So I guess it just means that I'll dabble with it longer than I normally do. XD
"Oh, my Satan."
Sorry but I lost it. XD
Speaking of Satan, I finished up Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi today, and in one of the episodes, one of the characters says that she's a "Whisper" and that she whispers and whispers to people to do destructive things, and I was like "LOL SHE'S SATAN" because the devil/shaitan in Islam is a whisperer who whispers to people, urging them to sin. O.o
deviousj
Remembered why I stopped making grilled cheese. Not remotely filling.
April 2nd, 2014, 12:03 AM
LOL. She probably is Satan. XD
And nice info on the shaitan thing. I find myths and religions interesting~
I eat two and I feel full. I guess one isn't enough to be filling.
Yeah, I made just one.
Religion, particularly Abrahamic, is another of my favorite things to learn about after languages.
Oh, I see. Perhaps you could make another one, or just have something instead~~?
Me, too~ Is it the religion with the Lilith thing?
Did I mention something about Lilith at some point? I don't remember. O.o
Either way, Lilith does figure into Jewish religion and mythology, so it is among the topics that I'm interested in. "Abrahamic" isn't a religion in and of itself, but a group of religions that claims Abraham as its common ancestor. Specifically, this refers to primarily Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, but in a broader sense, it may be applied to their offshoots as well.
Nope~ I was interested in the Lilith part coz it just seemed to contrast with Christianity's Adam and Eve thing.
Ooooh. I didn't know that religions can be grouped based on a common ancestor~ That's interesting.
Only Islam, Judaism and Christianity are group as such, I think. Even Buddhism and Hinduism can't be grouped despite both of them coming from India.
Nah. Aekami-senpai meant that they are both connected to Abraham or something like that. I think by "ancestor", he meant the ancestor person kind, not the ancestor place kind.
Wikipedia mentions Indian religions (including Hinduism and Buddhism) and East Asian religions as well, so it seems that religions can be grouped also based on geographic origin and most probably reciprocal influence, as these religions have influenced each other through the centuries.
But yes, I did mean that the three religions claim that their prophetic line leads up to Abraham as an important prophetic source.
I know. That's why I said something about the religions from India, because they originated by place, not by a person.
Oh, I know. It's possible for that to happen, countries as ancestors. Not just ancestors, actually. Other things, too. My point was that we were specifically talking about Abraham.
Holy crap, the Beyblade anime dub is amazingly shitty. Like it sucks even more than Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh!...
I hate it when I run out of fanfiction to read.
Days go by waiting for an update to any of the stories that I'm following, leaving me with nothing to do.
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April 2nd, 2014, 01:22 PM
I get closer to madness day by day. I hope I'm wrong.
http://i.imgur.com/7WnNwIh.jpg
Uhhh, Mousie... I think you're wrong... I mean, insane people don't know their nuts. Mad people don't know their mad.
Maybe you're just troubled by something?
http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=6agIGudxBdY
The Nudist Beach invasion in the comments is lol. I wonder what the songwriter thinks about all of those random-ass people talking about NUUUUUUDISTOOOOO BEAAAAACHIIIIII in his comments.
The invasion is probably because of people searching for "Ping Pong Circulate" the colloquial name for Aikurou Mikisugi and Houka Inumuta's theme and because the repetitious "lyric" of "Ping Pong Circulate," even down to the way its sung seems to be taken from the Country Earl song. O.o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOt0tW26hRY
I've got bipolar disorder, man. That's a diagnosis. Mad people can also know they're mad too, it just depends on how they take it.
The Joker knows he's nuts and that doesnt stop him.
April 3rd, 2014, 12:17 AM
It's another idle day, I see.
Bipolar disorder doesn't make a person mad (unless the magnitude is that high). If you know you have bipolar disorder, then you are aware, and that awareness is a huge key against bipolar disorder. If the magnitude is not that high, it would most likely just interfere with everyday life, because the huge disadvantage that bipolar has is that it has that spectrum where the mood shifts from "very happy" to "very sad".
Do you exhibit the symptoms of bipolar disorder?
When I'm not on my meds, I do.
It is certainly disruptive: I feel emotions in extremes. If happy, I don't care about anything around me. If sad, it's painfully depressing. And if angry, oh I sure did beat my little brother with an iron candlestick over a dispute regarding washing plates. While feeling extremes certainly helped me in making fanfiction and writing in general, I don't wanna beat up my siblings anymore, so I decided to take it to the psychiatrists. I went through different medicines, some of them severely affected my general health, before I finally got Olanzapine and Lamotrigine.
So yeah, you can be aware of it and certainly have it.
Sounds like I'm getting laryngitis, lol. This is wonderful.
Poor otouto... O.O
Anyways, it's good that you decided to take it to the psychiatrists. Coz extreme emotions are definitely a bad. Yep.
Also, ganbaru (stand firm). :) Don't let your emotions get the best out of you. *bro-hug*
I'll try to, I'll try.
Okay~ :)
That sucks, I've never had that before.
One of the Team Managers here is dressed as Chie today. It's weird.
This is the second or third time I've had laryngitis in my life, I think.
I wish it would rain just a bit.
I'm working on a project for myself, and it has to do with Mechs. Right now, I need someone that is good with guns. When I'm stuck with just imagining it, I kinda suck at scale.
Okay, the mechs are like Super Heavy Infantry. They stand at twenty-five feet tall, do not fly or hover but run and walk, have posable hands, arms and fingers, and weild weaponry like a normal infantryman holds an assault rifle.
What I need help with is their weaponry: Would a quad-barrel rotary gun that fires 25mm rounds make sense as the standard weapon for something of that size? What about a 120mm Cannon that acts as a hand-held heavy weapon that is magazine fed? What would the reach be for a Flamethrower when adjusted to be wielded by a twenty-five foot mech?
Is it like something your writing?
Yes. Any help is appreciated.
Whut...
Infections suck. :(
Used to have tonsillitis all the time. It was troublesome. >o<;
I wish the weather here would stop being tsundere. >.>; XD
As long as the daytime weather stays above 50, I'll be happy.
I would like for summer to come already... >.<
Me too, because then I'll be starting at my new internship. Also because I just want to run the air conditioner, lol.
Yep. I've always disliked winter, and fall. Spring is okay I think. But summer is the best. XD
i like chocolate.
I'm fine with all of the seasons except summer here...when they're not being bitchy. This winter was a bitch, and I don't like that.
You've reminded me to get more chocolate cake numnums.
Yeah. Too hot a summer is nutz~ But I hate winter in general though. Makes me feel lazy. Makes me wanna hibernate... >__>;
How hot does you guy's summers get?
High 80s to mid 90s normally, I guess? And lots and lots of humidity.
Varies between mid 80's to low 100's whith high humidity in the summer for me.
Gotta love Nebraska. Bitter cold in the winter and extremely hot during the summer. Spring and fall do whatever the heck they want to do.
I like summer in my home state of California better. Mid 80s to high 90s with low to moderate humidity. This high humidity thing makes me mad.
For some reason, I've never really played Persona before, but I wanna bone Naoto Shirogane so much.
20-30 degrees Celcius, rarely goes over 30.
reading taiyou no ie makes my teeth hurt.
too much diabeetus
I wanna bone Kujikawa so much.
Jer your use of heart butt reminded me I was due for a change of set up >>
it isn't heart butt, it's heart farts. propelled forward by constant gaseous emissions of love.
I was actually going to change it, but I just haven't gotten around to it.
For H-game people with "harems", Shiki and Shirou have really crappy harem ends.
Ciel Not-At-All Good, UBW Rin's Harem (meh), and Bad End 40 (Sakura gets the harem)
What's wrong with Ciel and Arc lor
Are you from Malaysia or Singapore or something? O.o
I've been eating more vegetables nowadays.
i don't know if daimidaler is genius or just entertainingly shitty. but i'm probably gonna watch a few more episodes before dropping it.
I'm probably going to sit this anime season out. Like I usually do, lol. I wonder how long it's been since I stopped looking forward to what was going to be airing.
...you know, I'm not sure I ever actually did look forward to what was going to be airing. How the heck did I watch so much anime in the past then? O.o
How the heck did I watch so much anime in the past then? O.o
Lower standards, perhaps.
Social circles and time to do things in high school.
For me, it's this. I never looked up the "Anime for <weather> <year>" thing.
Yeah. I get this one. Also had lower standards when it comes to games.
Holy Hell do Tauroxes take forever to put together.
I hate Falkner's Pidgeotto's Roost move. What the hell, lol.
Do you lack Electric-types? Or Rock-types?
I abused my Pokewalker to get a Volt Tackle Jolly Pikachu with a Light Ball and swept Faulkner like dirt out the door.
I don't have any Electric-type Pokemon, and I have a Rock-type (Onix), but it was traded from that guy who wanted a Bellsprout. I didn't want to use it unless I was desperate to beat Falkner.
I don't have a Pokewalker to go with this Japanese game, because the Pokewalker that goes with my French HeartGold is in California. I don't know if the two would be compatible with each other anyway, lol.
And I'm a very simple Pokemon player. O.o I just ignore personality, lol.
Which starter did you pick? And what is your team?
And I usually ignore personality and special training unless in rare circumstances (like finding 10 Pikachu from the Pokewalker and deciding to pick the best one).
I already beat him, so it doesn't matter, but if you want to know just out of curiosity, I had Chikorita, Rattata, Hoothoot, Bellsprout, Sentret, and Pidgey when I battled him.
Chikorita?
Taking the MAN's route I see. You have good taste.
I went with Cyndaquil myself.
I'm part of the Totodile Master Race.
Bow before my final evolution Godzilla/Crocodile hybrid!
The only time I didn't go with a Chikorita was when I was playing a more or less not translated but otherwise all the script was screwed up ROM of Gold, and I chose Cyndaquil at that time. When I finally obtained an actual copy of Gold when it finally came out in English, I chose Chikorita and have never looked back, lol.
I still have my Gold, somewhere. Had every single pokemon at some point or another, including Mew and Celebi.
The magic of cloning made things easier to trade legendaries.
My English Gold is screwed up because of screwing with Gameshark. My Japanese Gold and English silver are lying around somewhere.
Every time I play that gen, my first captures are always geodude and spearow.
The way you say this almost makes me think you have real gold lying around somewhere.
Old habits die hard.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UUUUUU--
Lol, this guy in House had a stroke, causing the right side of his face to droop...and then in the next scene, he's talking to someone but the left side of his face was droopy. Whoops. O.o
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Polls refute pols on Roads & Transit package
by Goldy — Thursday, 4/12/07 , 11:44 pm
Washington isn’t a state with a reputation for achieving consensus, but if there’s one thing on which nearly all the political insiders agree, it’s that the $16.5 billion Sound Transit/RTID Roads & Transit package that’s headed to the ballot this coming November is as good as dead.
I’ve heard it from Democrats and Republicans, from liberals and conservatives, from package supporters and package opponents. I’ve heard it from politicians I trust, and from politicians I emphatically don’t trust. And everybody agrees that the package is just too big and too expensive for our skeptical electorate to approve at the polls.
But… um… I guess I should’ve asked some actual voters, because a new poll shows quite solid support for the package, both before and after respondents are informed of the details.
61% of respondents supported the package when presented on an “uninformed basis” with no persuasive messaging:
“A transportation package has been proposed that would increase the sales tax by 6/10 of 1%, and the car license tab by 8/10 of 1%. It would fund $16.5 Billion dollars in road, highway, and mass transit improvements in Pierce, King, and Snohomish Counties”.
When respondents were informed of the package’s costs, but not its elements, support dropped to 49%:
“This package will cost the typical household $150 in additional sales tax each year, plus $80 in license tab tax for every $10,000 of your car’s value.”
Not surprising. But then once voters are informed of the major components of the package, support rebounds to 63%, and remains at this level after positive (66%) and then negative (61%) messaging is presented. (FYI, the poll was conducted by Moore Information and EMC Research, April 1-4, and consisted of 800 registered voters with a 3.5 percent margin of error.)
The imminent, inevitable failure of the Roads & Transit package has become a rallying cry for supporters of creating a new regional transportation commission. “We’ve got to do something to restore the confidence of voters,” I’ve been told on more than one occasion. But if these poll numbers are even remotely accurate, it looks like a substantial majority of voters are confident enough in our current transportation planning to spend $16.5 billion expanding light rail and making other critical transportation improvements.
So much for the common wisdom.
Richard Pope spews:
What does the Northwest Regressive Institute have to say about increasing the sales tax by another 0.6% to 9.5%?
Goldy, voters overwhelmingly rejected a 1% sales tax increase for education, so why are you so quick to believe 60% will say “yes” to a .6% increase for roads?
If you grab that $400 million Clay Bennett wants, you only need $16.1 billion more. It’s not enough by itself, but every little bit helps.
If you grab the $200 million NASCAR wants … see the principle here?
For everyone except the government, when you want to buy more of something, you have to buy less of something else, so the total amount coming out of the pot stays the same.
Why doesn’t it work that way for government? Why do pols always asssume they can keep coming back to taxpayers of limited means for more and more and more and more and more more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more?
This tax package won’t create a Tim Eyman; it’ll create 10 Tim Eymans. Has anyone thought of that?
The first thing that needs to happen is planners must sharpen their red pencils and turn $16.5 billion into a fraction of that amount.
The 520 bridge is an excellent place to start.
The pols and WSDOT, in drafting their transportation wish list, assumed a 6-lane bridge (compared to the present 4-lane bridge) will be needed to handle population and traffic growth.
They must think $10 tolls on both bridges will have no effect on traffic volumes. They are wrong. Commuting across the lake will become unaffordable for the modestly paid pink-collar workers who fill the cubicles of Seattle’s and Bellevue’s office towers. And it’s not just $200 a month of tolls these workers will have to pay to continue commuting across the lake. To continue driving across the lake, they’ll also have to pay $200 to $300 for parking, higher vehicle tab fees, higher sales taxes on cars and car repairs, and, I predict $3 gas will become a thing of the past in the not-distant future. Unless employers are prepared to pay bank tellers and phone receptionists $75,000 a year, the thousands of workers who staff Seattle’s and Bellevue’s office will find cross-lake commuting out of reach.
Then, traffic volumes will plunge. I say a 4-lane replacement bridge is enough. And that, by itself, will shave costs enormously.
But I wouldn’t stop at paring down the size of the 520 project. We need to ask sharp questions about why a very simple structure made of a very cheap material — concrete — which is 7,600 feet long costs $4.4 billion when a very complicated structure made of a much more expensive material — steel — which is 5,400 feet long costs $849 million. That doesn’t compute.
And voters, not to mention pols, also should be doing mental calculations about what will happen to projected gas tax revenues when high gas prices push fuel economy up. Let’s say gas doubles to $6 but your vehicle’s fuel economy doubles from 20 mpg to 40 mpg. You’re not saving anything — it still costs you just as much to commute to work — but you’re doing it with half the gas which means gas tax revenues drop by 50%. Has anyone besides me thought about that?
I said in a previous post that $10 tolls, $400-a-month parking, and $10 gas will erect a financial Berlin Wall between Seattle and the eastside communities. Most of the traffic volume across the bridges comes from the tens of thousands of modestly paid cubicle slaves who work in Seattle and live in Bellevue, or vice versa — a lifestyle that cannot and will not continue if those cost levels are imposed, unless employers are willing to pay $100,000 a year for semiskilled office labor. I don’t see that happening. What I see happening is cross-lake commuting becoming a luxury of the affluent. You could probably skip the new bridge and handle that traffic with a single ferry boat across Lake Washington.
Maybe WSDOT should buy and refurbish the Kalakala.
While I support paying for 520 with tolls, I think a high tolls will motivate many people to take the roundabout routes via I-405, causing further congestion in that corridor while leaving a 6-lane 520 bridge underutilized.
520 would become, in effect, an HOV lane for those who able and willing to pay. Everyone else would sit in stalled traffic through Renton and Kirkland, burning more gas and spewing more emissions than ever.
It would also become harder for employers in Seattle and Bellevue to recruit office workers who live on the other side of the lake, and they’d probably have to pay them more money to induce them to make the expensive commute.
Puddybud Now has a Doppelganger spews:
PelletHead: Did you eat the wrong batch of Sharkansky carrots?
Maybe senility does a Rabbit good. I agree with everything your wrote.
For instance: NYS Thruway was to have a sunset clause on the tolls back in the early 90s. 2003 (last year published) tolls were at $438,705,000 because there is no other best way to get from NYC to Albany or Buffalo to Albany. Once the beast is unleashed it will be there forever.
Also, I thought you Moonbat!s placed responsible “candidates” up for election to determine the best funds use. We all know the cost overruns will be much higher than projected because of the environmental impact studies, donks for xyz environment caper, donks for not in my back yard protestations.
So how will this $16.5 BILLION really be accounted for?
In addition, the tolls are usually cash money that goes out the door to foreign countries as the governmental bodies involved lease these rights to foreign countries in exchange for upfront money.
“I’ll pay you on Tuesday for a hamburger today.”
re 6: You’re not the enemy. It’s the Vigueries of the world who sold you this bill of goods you call “conservatism.
YOS LIB BRO spews:
PUDDYSTUPID: NO PROBLEM!! THAT EYMAN AUDITING DEAL WILL SAVE THE TAXPAYERS HERE! DONCHA REMEMBER? YOU VOTED FOR IT!!!
thor spews:
This new data is consistent with every other piece of research on this topic: the majority of voters of the region are way ahead of special interests and they want more action on transportation.
We do have a legislative session underway, so special interests produce rhetoric to support their slant on any number of things. And then key legislators pick up the rhetoric to try to hoodwink reality, bluster, turn into political pundits, badmouth things that they aren’t completely satisfied with, and attempt to move their own special turf and extort concessions. (Anybody come to mind?)
There is no public groundswell for new high paid elected elected officials to do anything – let alone do more delaying dithering debating on transportation projects. Better to put those tax dollars into real transportation improvements in a timely way.
Compare this regional ballot measure to where things were on I-912 in July of 2005 when no one thought that that gas tax roll-back initiative with some 400,000 signatures could be defeated that year as gas prices soared. They were all dead wrong.
When the various lobbies get done with their focused horse trading in Olympia this year they will wake up. Best to ignore the vapid rhetoric spewing from Olympia during these days and pay attention to what real people are saying: get on with it.
Sighhhhh
Goldy is likely correct. Most people are willing to pay directed taxes for things THEY need.
The problem is that we STILL lack any sense of a long term transportation and traffic plan.
Light rail is everybit as important as the beardless young version of Goldy says. But, light rail needs to be done along with other sorts of planning and that is nt happening.
Look at Capital Hill. The panned station is njo where near a parking facility. Presumably a lot of folks will use this as there route to the airport. How? The bus ride to Broadway may take as long as the drive to SeaTaC.
Look at Aurora … or didn’t you know that Aurora IS the AllCan, is the Viaduct?
Look for ANY major roads, other than freeways and viaducts, through Seattle! There are NONE. Major NS roads never are the broad boulevards one sees in other big cities .. e.g. Comm Ave or Mass Ave in Boston. We have dinky, narrow wagon wheel paths that are barely wide enough for two cars. Add a bus or a trolley anf there is NO room for anything, not even a bike!
Look over the water to far off Redmond-Issaquah-Bellevue … has no one noticed the traffic flow in the AM and PM. Seattle has become a bedroom! Folks drive out of here to work in the AM and back at night! This si OK by me, but doesn’t it necessitate a rethinking of how we route light rail?
Finally, look at B-B-B-Boeing. Zeus, Appolo and Raven willing, the lazy B will live long and prosper in Everett. The Lazy B is a manufacturer! It makes planes and jobs. Hopefully, the plane factory will lead to other job centers, but this means we need good commercial transport … aka freeway or toll roads that connect Vancouver BC to San Fran.
Does anyone see Aurora/the viaduct as an answer?
The bottom line, the lack of regional transportation planning makes everything more expensive in the long run and hurts the public support Goldy talks about because people do not see the long term benefits.
I am hardly qualified but here are my thoughts:
1. The Viaduct
Dump it. All the data says we do not need it for commercial traffic and it is absurd to consider Aurora as a viable NS corridor.
Instead create a FULL CITY traffic plan including creating better pathways, esp. boulevard size roads, on the waterfront, connecting MLK/Rainier to Lake City Way, replacing the Mercer mess with a functional road around Lake Union, AND creating a cityy wode transp[ortation plan … busses or whatever but DOIT!
2. NS
Seattle is not a sensible stop on a freeway. In the long tterm the rgion needs either to expand 405 or build 605.
3. EW
Recognize that Seattle is a bedroom might mean building lightrail TO/FROM Bellevue and Redmond.
One Jew’s ignorant opinions probably do not matter.
Let’s see — we voted for a 0.4% sales tax and a 0.3% MVET back in 1996 to build Sound Transit. Eleven years later, we have a state of the art light rail system reaches from Everett to Tacoma and moves 150,000 people per today. Not to mention a commuter rail system of similar distance along a different path.
Since Sound Transit has been such a resounding success so far, people should have no problem approving another $17 billion.
Roger Rabbit @ 5
You will get kicked out of the Democrat Party for making such sensible suggestions!
Here is another one — why not simply impose tolls each way on both of the existing Lake Washington bridges, without building anything new? This would reduce traffic volume and increase the use of busses. There would be no need to build an expanded bridge anywhere, and we would save billions.
And if the 520 bridge sinks, raise the tolls on I-90 even higher and have a couple of ferries put at Evergreen Point.
The original Mercer Island floating bridge cost only $8.8 million in 1940.
http://archives.seattletimes.n.....laced+cost
How much did the replacement cost in the early 1990’s, after the original bridge sunk?
Apparently, it only cost $76 million to replace the old Lacey V. Murrow floating bridge after it sunk in 1990:
http://archives.seattletimes.n.....urrow+cost
So obviously $4.4 billion is a big rip-off for the Evergreen Point SR 520 bridge. But that is what we get for letting Democrats ruin this state for the past 25 years. Extremely high taxes and very little to show for it.
Richard Dork spews:
“A transportation package has been proposed …”
“It would fund $16.5 Billion dollars in road, highway, and mass transit improvements . . . ”
The terms used are slanted to get positive results.
I’d like to see all the actual questions. Who paid for this poll?
Think of what those numbers would look like if they said “Sound Transit and something called RTID want limitless taxes. These two governments will have boards you can’t vote anyone off of, and they will have the right to cut back on the deliverables promised after the election. The taxes would last forever. The total amount collected by ST and RTID over the next five decades out of our community likely would top $50 billion, and we’d still have to raise taxes on you just to pay for SR 520 (but we won’t say now what those additional taxes will be). ST can’t do anything on time and under budget. Still support it?”
In other words, the “negative messaging” might not have been all that negative.
And, “mass transit” sounds good in the abstract, but if you start talking about trains that only a fraction of those you are asking taxes from would use regularly, well, the numbers definitely would drop and drop and drop.
A 16.5 billion dollar transportation package, and it will cost an extra 6/10 of a percent on the sales tax, pushing my sales tax up to 9%, and an additional 8/10 of 1% annual excise tax on vehicles.
And for this extra money, we’ll be getting:
1. A 4.5 billion dollar floating bridge.
I notice that the rebuild of the Hood Canal bridge was far cheaper than this. Yes, it’s only a two lane bridge, but it is also somewhat more complicated, and has to stand up to salt water issues.
Regardless, if we simply multiply the cost of the Hood Canal bridge by three (if we must construct six lanes, even though four seems to be working) we still come up with only around two billion dollars.
I’m also wondering why this is a part of this package, as I was under the impression that there was already money set aside for this, and that the additional money would be coming from tolls.
So, are we planning to give a really big tip to the bridge builder? And who is the state looking at for this contract anyway? Please don’t tell me that Bechtel is at it again.
2. “Road, highway and mass transit improvements”?
This could be anything from filling in a couple of potholes and cleaning the garbage out of a few Metro busses, to actually doing something worth lots of money.
Anyone have a good link that would give us some idea which is true?
I think that there might be a case made for the additional taxes, but someone is going to have to do a really thorough job of explaining exactly where the money is going and what it will be used for.
What *exactly* was the content of the “positive” and the “negative” messaging?
Is this poll, and the results, posted anywhere?
This is a really interesting blog entry by Goldy. Hey Goldy, where’d you get this info. about this poll from?
@12 It would be more accurate to say “Most people are willing to make others pay directed taxes for things THEY want.”
For example, Bellevue commuters flying across 520 in their Beamers will thank the working-class families of Georgetown and Beacon Hill who pay sales taxes for a shiny new bridge.
@17 Concrete rusts in saltwater? I learn something new every day!
Roger Rabbit’s Plan To Reduce 520 Bridge Construction Costs
It seems that back in the ’60s and ’70s a lot of dreamers began building ferrocement sailboat hulls with visions of cruising the seven seas. Few, if any, of these projects were completed and today these uncompleted projects litter marinas, ports, and shorescapes all the way from Long Beach to Bellingham.
Why not round up all these abandoned ferrocement boat hulls and use them as pontoons for the new bridge? After all, they were designed to float, and probably do float (at least as good as anything WSDOT builds), and best of all, they’re free. Plus, we’d be ridding our coastline of visual blight. Those concrete boats are good for something after all!
That should cut the cost from $4.4 billion to $100 – 200 million, mostly for gas to truck the “pontoons” to the construction site. Can’t beat that deal.
And maybe we could offset the remaining costs with TV royalties. Call up Dave Letterman’s agent and ask if they’re interested in our new bridge making a special guest appearance on his show’s “Will It Float?” segment.
Commentator spews:
Could you post the entire poll, including all questions, all answers, who paid for the survey, how the questions were worded and most important who’s the sample? What percent are from Sno, King and Pierce? Also how accurate has this pollster been in the past?
Cothmart spews:
Bet ya’ dollars-2-donuts the money behind this slanted survey comes from some entity that would get rich off ST2/RTID taxes. My guess would be that a pavers’ union, or Parsons Brinkerhoff, or some other entity of that ilk wrote the check to the pollsters.
The odds that we’ll get any details beyond those shown in the original blog entry from DG are Zip, Zilch, and Zero.
Roger Rabbit must be eating new vita carrots, he actually is making sense tonight.
I’d call and let him do a segment on the Imus show …oops
Goldy is out off town on this one however, the people in this state are feeling rather reamed out these days, especially after this legislative session.
Saturday, 4/14/07 at 1:01 am
Hey GS (and the rest of you wingnut freaks), make sure you read my posts about the FAA in the new thread, you’ll really like what the Smirking Chimp’s political appointees are doing to our air transportation system! Their population-reduction plan means more room for you on the freeways!
Bonzo spews:
Saturday, 4/14/07 at 2:49 pm
Good post, Goldy. It’s no surprise anti-rail pundits like Joel Connelly and Ted Van Dyk are trying to claim doom and gloom – they WANT the transit & roads measure to fail this November.
And given the strong support for regional rail and roads projects, about the only thing they have left in their holsters is the hysterical spreading of doubt.
Just read Ted Van Dyk’s ranting every two weeks in the P-I:
-On top of the existing backlog, elected officials soon will ask private interests to underwrite a ballot campaign this fall for a crushingly cost-ineffective Sound Transit regional light rail system as well as new local roads. They’ll be kidding, right? –
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/.....ted12.html
Van Dyk may not know it, but according to the poll Goldy posted, he’s condemning the PUBLIC, not those (popular) “corrupt” politicians he always harps on. Do these cranks ever wonder to themselves why those politicians keep getting re-elected by wide margins????
Van Dyk and other rail opponents http://www.bettertransport.info/pitf try to pretend buses stuck in traffic (BRT) can replace rail in a growing metropolitan region. They claim we should use developing countries (like Colombia – where car ownership rates are at 5%) as the transportation model for Pugetopolis to follow. Van Dyk has got to be kidding, right?
If Ted Van Dyk ever decided to take the bus one day, he might come to the realization how dishonest his arguments really are.
And then there’s Joel Connelly, “hero of the middle class,” taking his lead from a billionaire:
The “Big One” will very likely come this fall, when voters in four central Puget Sound counties are asked to fork up $15 billion or so for highways and Sound Transit light rail projects.
-“We are headed for a train wreck in November,” said John Stanton, co-founder of Western Wireless –
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/.....oel16.html
Look, I can see why the public should remain skeptical about multi-billion dollar projects. It’s our money they are spending, after all. But it is also we who benefit from those projects, in terms of jobs, mobility, the local economy, and more free time spent outside a traffic jam on I-5, I-90 or I-405.
Connelly, Van Dyk, John Carlson and Kemper Freeman wouldn’t have a problem if the $16 billion were only to be spent on freeways, along with a few crappy buses. It’s rapid transit – and light rail specifically – which has remained as the bane of their existence for over a decade.
But now we know just how small a segment of the population their views are representative of.
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Among their biggest challenges is slowing down a guy named Sam Bradford, who until just before the regular season was their starting quarterback.
To do that, the Eagles are asking for a little help from their fans Sunday when they oppose Bradford and the Minnesota Vikings at Lincoln Financial Field (1 p.m., Channel 29, WIP 94.1-FM).
The Vikings are a just a few years removed from going winless on the road, finishing 0-7-1 away from home in the 2013 season.
Robinson and Hunter are each tied for the Vikings' lead with four sacks this season. Vaitai had an terrible debut against the Redskins, allowing two sacks and several pressures that disrupted the offense's rhythm. "It'll be fun to get to play against him". That defense is the best in the National Football League, and will give any team they face fits. The loss of right tackle Lane Johnson to a 10-game suspension hurt against the Redskins.
Vaitai and his teammates on the line will have their hands full trying to block the double A-gap blitzes Vikings coach Mike Zimmer likes to either use or fake using to draw blocking help toward the middle, which can create openings on the outside. "There have been ups and down, but it feels like the Eagles finally have their guy". "Zimmer is the master of it". "It's his baby. He probably didn't invent it, but he's mastered it". They fly off the ball now. They're not afraid to take a check down. They know what teams have done to try to counter it. I think we only threw 22 times last game, and we only had 11 completions. The Vikings don't have an offensive turnover all season. He'll turn 35-years old next year and has had his share of injuries.
As for Bradford, he leads the National Football League in completion percentage (70.4), is second in passer rating (109.7) and has thrown 125 passes without an interception. But that's not what this game is about, even though the Eagles traded to draft Wentz with Bradford on the roster before trading him to the Vikings.
Within weeks, however, Bradford's future in Philadelphia was cast into question when the Eagles brokered a deal with the Cleveland Browns for second pick in the draft - and promptly snapped up highly rated rookie Carson Wentz. Also, Eagles coach Doug Pederson confirmed that rookie Halapoulivaati Vaitai will retain the starting right tackle job despite struggling against the Redskins last week. He's getting better every week.
"From their standpoint, they got a good quarterback". This is a fascinating matchup that should tell us a lot about where both teams stand in the playoff hunt. The Vikings have stifled wide receivers this season, but they've allowed passing yardage to running backs and tight ends.
Bradford played well statistically down the homestretch with the Eagles last season. His acquisition meant the Eagles get a first-round pick next year and a conditional pick that can be as high as the second round if the Vikings advance to the Super Bowl. Wentz and company will have their work cut out for them this week, as the undefeated Minnesota Vikings come to town. But he threw a costly interception - his only one so far this season -on October 9 against Detroit in the Eagles' first loss after a 3-0 start.
In their last eight road games, the Vikings have posted a record of 7-1 record. We know a lot about him. He finished 2015 on a relatively strong note, though, as he distanced himself from the one-year anniversary of his most recent ACL reconstruction.
Minnesota and we'd be going back to play the Eagles, I would've thought I'd be on the other side of it. It was good that get that padded practice in on Wednesday.
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"Cabin D"
Published in: Supernatural Tales #17
Reprinted in: Every House Is Haunted
eShort
Date: April 2010 (Supernatural Tales)
October 2012 (Every House Is Haunted)
January 2013 (eShorts)
Ordering: Supernatural Tales
Every House Is Haunted
(Kindle) (iBooks) (Google) (Kobo) (Nook)
Notes: "Cabin D" received an honourable mention in The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 3 edited by Ellen Datlow.
As a fan of haunted house stories, I've tried my hand at writing a few of my own over the years.
I always try to put my own spin on the trope, in this case using a haunted building not so much as a place where bad things happen as a bad thing in and of itself. A structure that simply wants to kill the people who enter it.
Check out the story and see for yourself. No reservations necessary.
Reviews: None yet.
A new Mereville Group novelette, "Go Fish," has been sold to Tor.com.
A new short story, "Infantum," is now available in the latest issue of Strange Aeons.
"Eyes Like Poisoned Wells," a new Felix Renn story, is now available in the anthology Shivers VII.
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Advice for new developers
From iPhone Development Wiki
Revision as of 00:55, 29 July 2015 by Britta (talk | contribs) (→Advice about submitting paid products: note about requirements)
So you're working on your first tweak, and you're getting ready to release it on a default repository - or you've released a few tweaks already, and you want to improve what you're doing. Exciting! Here's some help for the next steps, especially if this is your first experience in building a small business or not-for-profit public project.
You're invited to edit this page and add more, especially if you're a developer who has released a few things already and has advice for people starting out.
1 Before you release your tweak
1.1 Advice for improving your marketing and installs/sales
1.1.1 How to name your tweak
1.1.2 How to write a short description
1.1.3 How to write a long description (depiction)
1.1.4 How to price your tweak
1.1.5 How to get the word out
1.1.6 How to get your tweak localized (translated) into more languages
1.2 Advice about submitting paid products
1.3 Advice for choosing whether to make your tweak free or paid (or to include ads)
1.3.1 Some good things about releasing free tweaks
1.3.2 Factors to consider if you're thinking about putting ads in your tweak
1.4 Advice for choosing open vs. closed source
2 After you release your tweak (but read before releasing it)
2.1 Advice for testing and releasing updates
2.2 Advice for handling criticism and improving support
2.2.1 Improving the experience of using your product
2.2.2 Improving your support
2.3 Advice for dealing with piracy
2.3.1 Understanding reasons for piracy that aren't lost sales
Before you release your tweak
Advice for improving your marketing and installs/sales
You can encourage many more people to download or buy your tweak if you put some effort into marketing it.
This section includes a lot of advice based on Sebastien Page's great talk from JailbreakCon 2014 - you can watch it for more explanation. He's the main editor of iDownloadBlog.
How to name your tweak
There are a couple of popular ways to name a tweak:
A descriptive name, like MailUnlimitedPhotos - these are great for simple tweaks.
A brandable name, like Zephyr - these are great for big tweaks that are here to stay.
When naming a tweak, make sure the name is easy to spell so people can find it when searching Cydia.
Before you release it, search Cydia to make sure a similarly named tweak doesn't exist yet. This is related to another important pre-publishing step: also search to find out if a tweak with a similar function is already available on the default repositories! If your tweak is very similar to something that exists already, potential users might not be very excited about it, so it can make sense for you to pause and add something new before releasing it.
Also, avoid using other people's trademarks or brand names in the name of your product, to avoid making those companies annoyed at you. For the Cydia Store, saurik does not accept products with names with potential trademark problems, and you should also avoid that kind of name for free products. So for example, if you're making a tweak for CoolApp, don't call it CoolAppPlus or anything else that could potentially confuse anyone into thinking it's an official product by that company - instead, call it something original that doesn't include the name "CoolApp", like FreezeToolbar. Making up a unique original name reduces the likelihood that the company will come after you for trademark infringement, and it's also stronger for your tweak's branding - for example, it means that people can more easily find information about your product via Google, instead of being buried in the results for CoolApp.
Related: avoid using other people's logos, icons, or other visual trademarks in your product icon or graphics. If you make a tweak that modifies an app, don't use that app's icon as your tweak's icon. You might borrow an element of that app's icon (such as a similar color), but your icon needs to be mostly original - it needs to avoid confusing anyone into thinking that it's an official product.
How to write a short description
Two examples of short descriptions (in grey).
This short description displays on Cydia's "Changes" tab, under the name of your tweak. You have to make a good impression in approximately 39 characters or less! You should use this field to accurately and simply describe the tweak. Use important keywords because these words are used in Cydia's search feature.
Be clear and concise. Saying your tweak is the "best" or "greatest" in your short description is usually a waste of your precious few characters, since everyone thinks their tweak is the best - instead, it's helpful to use this space to provide a summary of what the tweak does, so people know whether they should tap to find out more. You also don't need to repeat the name of your tweak in the short description.
How to write a long description (depiction)
Instead of only a dry list of features, iFile also gives you a way to understand it and a reason to buy it: a comparison to Finder in OS X and an explanation that it's useful for advanced customization.
A great tweak description page (called a "depiction" inside Cydia - see saurik's explanation of it) should include:
An accurate and clear description of the tweak and what it does.
An explanation for why people might need it. This is a great place to make your tweak stand out - explain to people that it'll make their life easier, or impress their friends, or make their phone look really cool, or whatever it does.
Instructions for how to use it.
Information about its iOS version and device compatibility.
Screenshots.
A YouTube video if possible, demonstrating the tweak.
A changelog, updated when you release updates. People appreciate knowing what's new.
It's also great to link to reviews of your tweak on blogs. Remember that you can email your repository manager to update the description without necessarily having an updated package as well.
Good examples: Auxo 2 and Pluck 2.
How to price your tweak
See #Advice for choosing whether to make your tweak free or paid (or to include ads) for details about the pros and cons of free tweaks and tweaks with ads.
If this is a paid tweak, the Cydia Store is flexible when it comes to pricing - ask your repository manager for help if you want to set up temporary discounts or a different kind of pricing scheme. You can use discounts as a marketing tool ("if you bought my previous tweak, get my new one at a discount").
If you haven't sold software much before, there's a lot of existing great advice about pricing that you can adapt for your Cydia Store product. For example, here's a long article about how to price software: Don't Just Roll The Dice, by Neil Davidson - it's helpful for thinking about pricing psychology.
If you want to provide a free trial of some kind, you can do that with the Cydia Store as well - for example, MyWi has a time-limited trial, and iFile has a limited-features trial. See Cydia Store Integration for information about the API. This does mean you have to build DRM to manage your trial system; see Advice for dealing with piracy for more about DRM.
How to get the word out
Reaching out to blogs is great!
Make a list of jailbreak bloggers and learn about their tweak preferences. Connect with them and explain why you think they will like your tweak. Send pre-release versions of the tweak so bloggers can have a look at it first. Gift the tweak to the blogger (there's an option for this in Cydia Connect) if it's not free. If the reviewer liked your tweak, keep them posted about future updates - they might want to post again if you do a major update.
Monitor the comment section to collect feedback and answer questions.
How not to reach out to blogs: don't be a stalker, and don't send 47 emails or tweets. Be open to criticism, and don't be sour if a blog doesn't cover your tweak.
How to get your tweak localized (translated) into more languages
Many jailbreakers are multilingual! They may be fine with reading English but prefer to use their device in their native language, so providing localizations is a great way to make more users happier. Ideally a localization includes more than just translated strings - for example, different languages have different punctuation for dates and numbers - but starting with translated strings is reasonable.
Often developers ask their fans to contribute volunteer translations. You can also try asking people on this list of /r/jailbreak members willing to be translators. It's best to offer volunteers a free copy (if it's a paid product), credit them in your tweak or depiction somewhere, and thank them a lot. For a couple examples of ways people have asked for volunteer translations, see this GitHub repository for IfFound² or this one for rpetrich's projects, or this custom system for AnyAttach. You can also use a tool like Transifex.
If you'd like to hire professional translators to work on your project, Tethras is one service flexible enough to work with people developing for jailbroken iOS as well as normal iOS; you can email them if you have questions about this.
Advice about submitting paid products
Products sold via the Cydia Store (or via PayPal with your own payment system) must comply with PayPal's Acceptable Use Policy. PayPal's policy includes that you may not sell products that:
"violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation"
"infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction"
"are considered obscene"
If you submit a product to be sold via the Cydia Store, saurik can also decline it for other reasons. The reasons may include the following, although he makes decisions on a case-by-case basis and this isn't a comprehensive list. These reasons can usually be summarized as: the product has too much risk of causing unhappy customers who will request refunds, and/or the product has too much risk of causing problems with PayPal or the law. Cydia Store products shouldn't:
Have faulty or malicious DRM - see Tweak DRM for guidance. Bad DRM makes customers angry.
Have marketing that promotes copyright infringement. For example, the product's description and screenshots should not show pirating apps, music, movies, or games.
Be likely to stop working right away or frequently. For example, a tweak may be likely to break right away or frequently if it targets a specific App Store app that gets updated often, especially an app that tries to prevent being modified. Even if the tweak developer tries to update the tweak frequently, there is too much risk of customers having a product that isn't working for them and getting angry.
Be a game emulator. Unfortunately the Cydia Store can't sell these, since PayPal considers emulators to be supporting copyright infringement.
Have major moral/ethical problems, especially ones that PayPal and the law are not going to like. Products marketed as "break your friend's device with this tweak" or "spy on your partner's device with this tweak" are not likely to get approved for the Cydia Store.
The Cydia Store payment system is not required for distributing paid products via Cydia. You can sell a product on a default repository using your own payment system, as long as the repository manager approves. You can also sell a product on your own repository using your own payment system.
Advice for choosing whether to make your tweak free or paid (or to include ads)
There are obvious benefits to making a paid tweak (money), and there are less obvious but also very important benefits to making a free tweak. You have to choose which is right for you - it's great to get paid for your work, and it's also great to release things for free.
See also: #How to price your tweak.
Some good things about releasing free tweaks
It builds your reputation: Especially if you're new to releasing tweaks, people don't really know who you are yet, and they sometimes prefer to install and buy products from developers they trust - the jailbreaking community is small enough that people do recognize names. Releasing some things for free means that tons of people can try your work and start building trust in you as a developer. Gathering an audience of fans means that your later products will be more successful!
It gives you a feeling of satisfaction: A free tweak is accessible to all jailbreakers, which is potentially millions of people. It can be very fun to see that many thousands of people are using and enjoying your work.
It causes less obligation and less worry: If you know you don't want to do a lot of maintenance work for your tweak (such as updating it for upcoming iOS versions), releasing a paid tweak could make people annoyed at you. People have lower expectations for free tweaks in terms of updates and support (although not zero expectations - people will still expect the tweak to work properly as described).
It contributes to the community: Cydia having good free tweaks available (along with paid tweaks) makes the jailbreaking community healthier and more fun. For example, newcomers to jailbreaking usually start with installing free tweaks, and if they install great stuff that they really like, that means they're more likely to stick around and be enthusiastic about jailbreaking in general.
Factors to consider if you're thinking about putting ads in your tweak
Will it annoy people? Releasing a tweak with ads is less common than releasing a non-commercial free tweak or a paid tweak. Non-commercial free tweaks have a lot of advantages (as described above) and paid tweaks have advantages as well (money), but ads can be a little bit annoying to your users without making a lot of money.
Is it worth it? Related to the first factor, will ads make you enough money to be worthwhile? Mobile ads often don't make much money unless you have a large audience frequently looking at the ads. Do some research (or ask fellow developers) to find out some numbers.
Will it confuse your users? Put the ads in a place that is obviously associated with your tweak - for example, on the tweak's settings page. If you put ads in some part of iOS or an app that your tweak modifies, your users may be very confused about where those new ads came from (they may have installed your tweak as part of a large queue of tweaks, for example). If they're surprised by the ads, they may be concerned that malware has infected their phone. In general for free ad-supported products, you should note on your package description in Cydia that the tweak has ads and that the ads will show up in x place. It can also be appropriate to explain the ads on your settings page, saying something like "To support our development of [name of product] as a free product, we've set it up to display ads in [describe place]."
Will it confuse pirates? Do you have a paid product and you're putting in ads only for pirate users and not for paid users? Consider that people who "try before they buy" may be confused - they may think the real product will have ads as well. You might consider putting a friendly note on your settings page saying something like "This is a 'trial' version with ads on this settings page. Please purchase this product for $x from the [BigBoss/ModMyi/whatever] repository to help support development; the legitimate version doesn't have ads."
Will people ask to remove ads for a fee? If you want to have an "in app purchase" that removes ads from your product for a small fee, the Cydia Store can support that if you'd like to use it. Your licensing system can verify devices against the Cydia Store payment service via the Cydia Store API (see Cydia Store Integration).
Will it cause clickfraud? Remember not to put ads in places where people are very likely to accidentally click those ads. Tricking people into clicking ads is considered "click fraud" by ad networks, which is against their terms of service, and they may ban you from their ad network for doing that. Asking or encouraging people to click ads is also considered clickfraud. Make sure to read your ad network's policies - for example, here are the Google AdSense policies.
Will it make people very angry? People don't consider it appropriate for paid products to also include ads. They will complain a lot if you try that.
Advice for choosing open vs. closed source
You might also consider releasing your tweak's code as an Open Source Project, typically published on GitHub. The main benefit is that your code can help other developers learn how to do new things, especially beginner developers who are interested in reading sample code. You may also be able to find other people who want to collaboratively contribute to your open source project.
If you want to publish your code, remember to pick a license for your code to specify what other people are allowed to do with it. The top of the Open Source Projects page also explains this, but here's more detail. By default, if you don't pick a license, your code will remain fully copyrighted by you, and other people will only legally be allowed to read it and learn from it (they won't be able to reuse any portion of it or redistribute it) - if that is what you want, you should make a clear note of this copyright status in your README to avoid people getting confused into thinking they're allowed to republish your code because the code is available to view. If you want people to be able to fully reuse and redistribute your code (including allowing commercial/paid redistribution of your code), you need to specify that by adding a "free software" license to your code (in your README and/or in a LICENSE file), such as the MIT or GPL licenses - see How to choose a license for your own work and Choose A License for advice on which license to choose. GitHub also explains how to add a license to your repository.
Note though that people can ignore licenses - if you publish your code and say in the README something like "this is copyrighted code; please don't redistribute this, especially not for money", people can ignore your wishes and try to submit your work to a default repository as a free or paid package. This happens occasionally; if you notice that a default repository has accepted a package because they didn't realize it's made of code copied without permission, please send the repository manager a report of the problem.
Often people publish open source code for their free tweaks, but you can also publish the code for a paid tweak. That probably won't even reduce your sales much, since most people don't know how to compile projects (or don't want to bother), or know it's better support the developer, so they'll still buy it via Cydia.
After you release your tweak (but read before releasing it)
Advice for testing and releasing updates
You know you need to test your initial version thoroughly, but it's also very important to test your updates thoroughly before pushing them. This is true for free packages as well as paid products. Small changes can have unexpected side effects, and problems with updates can be very frustrating for users and reduce their trust in your work (even if you publish a fixed update quickly). You can ask friends to try test versions on different devices with different tweak setups to check for problems.
(What does "small changes can have unexpected side effects" mean? Changing one part of your code to fix or add something can break seemingly unrelated things in your tweak. A good practice is to make a checklist of all the major features of your tweak, including common actions that users might do, including changing settings. After you make a set of improvements to your tweak, take a moment to go through the checklist and test that list of common actions. This checklist step might feel a little repetitive but probably won't take very long. It's a simple form of regression testing. After you do the checklist, ask other people to try the product on their own devices, since jailbroken device setups can vary widely.)
If you don't know anyone to help you test, you can try asking on the developer IRC channels, where you can find fellow developers and help each other. This is also an interesting reason to maintain a Twitter account as a developer - fans who like your work will follow you for updates, and you can ask a few of them to be beta testers for updates. A lot of people are happy to volunteer to test packages that they enjoy using. Be extremely cautious if you're distributing a beta version of a paid tweak - you will want to stick to close friends and fellow developers, because untrustworthy people may leak the beta to their friends and to pirate repositories. (That kind of leak has happened more than once and can be a big headache.)
You can use Theos to make a .deb package for distribution (see Packaging for more advice), and your testers can use iFile or dpkg (or similar) to install the .deb file. If you'd like to maintain a beta repository to help you distribute beta versions to testers, see Repository Management for advice.
Advice for handling criticism and improving support
If your tweak is rejected from the repository you submitted it to, that's not the end of the world. It happens. The important thing is to listen carefully to any feedback that you got from the repository manager (they have a lot of experience and expertise) and to continue improving your work and learning new things. That way, you will learn to accept failure and learn from your mistakes, as well as gain even more determination to develop for the jailbreak community.
Also, don't fear criticism. It comes along with with success and having lots of real people use your work. Learn to ignore the bad, and if possible, learn from the mistakes that cause the criticism. Try to look for the deeper problems and patterns that cause complaints, so that you can fix the core problems. Hate emails also happen. Reply politely or simply ignore the hate, do not let it gnaw away at you. If you find yourself getting angry about something legitimate but critical that a person has said about your work, take a breath, step away from the computer, and take a break before responding so that it's easier to respond calmly.
Improving the experience of using your product
You can help yourself minimize support problems and angry users by providing helpful explanations for your product, especially if your product is complex, contains numerous features or is not very intuitive. If you keep getting questions about the same thing, consider whether you can improve your explanations so that you don't get that question.
Make sure your package description in Cydia includes a complete description of the product. Videos are really helpful here too. Ask a friend or beta tester to look at your package description and give you advice for improving it, since it's easy to forget to include something that seems obvious to you (as the person who made the product) but is not obvious to other people. See also: #How to write a long description (depiction).
In your preference pane, take some care to explain the details. Maybe add a demonstration video linked from the preference pane (hosted online to not waste the precious space in our devices). If you can't fit the objective of an option in the cell, set it up as a single group with a footer text explaining what the option does.
Improving your support
This is a nice article about the basics of improving your email support, including: manage expectations (such as being clear upfront in the tweak description about the level of support you can provide), use annotated screenshots to help explain things, put some documentation and FAQs online so that people can read it and you can link to it, don't take things personally, tell a customer when you have fixed their bug, and never send an email in anger.
If you're working on a paid tweak that has a lot of users, consider using a professional support ticketing system for email support instead of just using your personal email account. A service like Zendesk can help you stay organized, including setting up auto responses based on email keywords for frequently asked questions. Other options similar to Zendesk include Freshdesk and Helpscout.
There are some examples of developers maintaining public support forums to assist in helping their users:
BTStack using Uservoice
CocoaNuts using Uservoice
LockInfo using Get Satisfaction
Some developers have created subreddits for discussion of their tweaks. These include /r/Convergance, /r/cylinder, /r/DynamicText, /r/FlexTweak, /r/nintype, /r/LockHTML3, /r/ProWidgets, /r/Springtomize, and /r/XPasscode.
It can be helpful to write some public documentation on the web and link to it from both the package description in Cydia and from your tweak's settings. Here are some examples:
AirBlue Sharing FAQ
iFile FAQ - which is linked from the iFile package description in Cydia. The developer also has several other pages online with detailed documentation for particular features: File Browser, File Viewers, and Web Server and File Transfer. He also has public lists of Known Issues and Feature Requests.
Advice for dealing with piracy
If you build a way to check whether your tweak is pirated, you may be surprised to see a high piracy rate compared to purchase rate, and this can feel pretty disappointing - it feels disrespectful, and it feels like you're losing a lot of money. But for a variety of reasons, many pirates aren't actually able to buy tweaks - in other words, these are not sales you would have been able to make. It's best to try not to spend a lot of effort worrying about this and to instead focus on your paid users and the fun parts, like improving your tweak and spreading the word about it. (See the marketing section above for advice about increasing sales!)
If you're considering building systems to prevent piracy, see Tweak DRM for lots of advice (philosophical, practical, and technical).
Even though piracy can be really frustrating and discouraging, we have to treat all users and their devices with at least a basic amount of respect - it is not OK to harm devices in revenge for piracy, and writing nasty email replies isn't a great idea either. There are many pirates who decide to start buying tweaks after getting to know developers better (such as via Twitter or /r/jailbreak) and starting to see them as fellow humans who do hard work that is worth supporting. There are also pirates and even tweak crackers who get to know the community better and decide to switch to development and selling tweaks, or other forms of contributing to jailbreaking in helpful ways.
Understanding reasons for piracy that aren't lost sales
Context that may be helpful:
Some jailbreakers are too young to have a credit/debit card or bank account, or too young to legitimately register a PayPal or Amazon Payments account. Their parents may not be willing to purchase tweaks for them. Sometimes young people in the United States can use cash to go to a store and buy pre-paid debit cards like Vanilla Visa, but not everyone has access to doing that. Also, not every young person has the opportunity to make money (limited opportunities in their area, parent requirements, etc.).
Some jailbreakers live in countries where it's very hard or impossible to get a PayPal or Amazon Payments account, including countries that PayPal doesn't serve at all. It may also be harder to get a credit/debit card than it is in your country. It's less common, but there may be trade sanctions between their country and the US, so US companies like PayPal and Amazon aren't allowed to do business with them.
Some jailbreakers don't realize that they're pirating tweaks. This can easily happen if their friend jailbroke their device and installed pirate repositories for them, or if they trusted YouTube instructions without paying attention to Cydia's piracy warning for repositories.
Some jailbreakers use piracy to "try before they buy" because they want to be really sure that the tweak works for their setup in the way that they want, even though this strategy has its own problems. (Pirate repositories often have outdated versions, incorrectly configured conflicts/depends, poorly-cracked DRM, and other problems.) They may use a pirated version for a while and then buy the package if they decide it works well for them. To give potential customers more confidence to purchase without pirating, it helps to include a great demo video and lots of detail in your package description. With some extra work it's also possible to use the Cydia Store API to allow users to trial the full package for a limited time, or to require payment for particular features (similar to an in-app purchase).
Some jailbreakers don't have the money to afford tweaks. This might seem counterintuitive - that they have an expensive device and perhaps an expensive service contract but can't afford a tweak. But there are many situations where this makes sense: they may have received their iOS device as a gift, or they may have purchased it a long time ago when they had more money available, or they may have purchased a used older device. They may have an inexpensive pay-as-you-go service plan instead of a fancy service contract. They may also live in countries with lower salaries and lower cost of living, where the equivalent of a few US dollars represents hours of work for them instead of less than an hour.
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Alternatives to Grading Student Writing. Ed. Stephen Tchudi. NCTE: Urbana, 1997.
Assessing Writing: A Critical Sourcebook. Eds. Brian Huot and Peggy O’Neill. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008. Print.
Danielewicz, Jane and Elbow, Peter. A Unilateral Grading Contract to Improve Learning and Teaching. College Composition and Communication. 61(2). December 2009. Print.
Evaluating Writing: The Role of Teacher’s Knowledge about Text, Learning, and Culture. Eds. Charles Cooper and Lee Odell. NCTE, 1998. Print.
Keesing-Styles, Linda.’The Relationship between Critical Pedagogy and Assessment in Teacher Education’. Radical Pedagogy 5.1 (2003).
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Wilson, Maja. ‘Why I Won’t Be Using Rubrics to Respond to Students’ Writing’. The English Journal . 96.4 (2007): 62–66. Print.
Apple, Michael W. Educating the ‘Right’ Way: Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality. 2nd ed. Routledge, 2006. Print.
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Shor, Ira. Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change. 1st ed. University Of Chicago Press, 1992. Print.
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Buckingham, David. Media Education: Literacy, Learning and Contemporary Culture. 1st ed. Polity, 2003. Print.
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Jackson, Francesina R. “Seven Strategies to Support a Culturally Responsive Pedagogy.” Journal of Reading 37.4 (Dec 1993), 298-303.
Ladson-Billings, Gloria. “But That’s Just Good Teaching! The Case for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy.” Theory Into Practice 34.3 (Summer 1995), 159-165.
Shea, Renee H. “Exploring Language and Identity: Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” and Beyond.” ReadWriteThink. NCTE, 2012. Web. 7 Feb 2012.
Dialogic Teaching
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Stewart, Trevor Thomas. ‘A Dialogic Pedagogy: Looking to Mikhail Bakhtin for Alternatives to Standards Period Teaching Practices’. Critical Education 1.6 (2010).
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Hill, Marc Lamot. “Using Jay-Z to Reflect on Post-9/11 Race Relations.”The English Journal 96.2 (Nov 2006): 23-27. Print.
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By Park Moo-jong
It was not a TV comedy show. It was a low-grade reality show our "esteemed" lawmakers produced and starred in during the ongoing annual National Assembly inspection of the administration.
As expected and worried over, too, the procedure to check the government degenerated into a familiar scene of rival lawmakers engaging in a war of words and browbeating witnesses they summoned from its very start last week.
Needless to say, the highlight of the show telecast live was the war of silly questions and clever answers between two female lawmakers and a national baseball manager who appeared as a witness.
In short, the stars ― Reps. Sohn Hye-won of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea and Kim Su-min of the minor opposition Bareunmirae Party ― only ruffled a few feathers with the poor and absurd questions they asked the witness, Sun Dong-yol.
In other words, the two could only prove their poor preparations and shallow knowledge of the sport, apparently obsessed with an idea of self-aggrandizing through the live relay of the inspection session about the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
As well-reported, Sun, a living baseball legend of Korea dubbed a "national treasure-class pitcher," attended the Oct. 10 Assembly session for the audit of the ministry affairs over his roster selections for the 18th Jakarta Palembang Asian Games this summer.
His team cruised into the finals against Japan to win its third straight gold medal at the Asian Games, earning a coveted exemption from mandatory military service for nine players out of the total 24. In comparison, all the 20 members of the gold-winning soccer team had it good.
Sun was called to the Assembly as the first-ever sportsman-witness after a civic group opposing the military service exemption formula filed a report to the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission, alleging that Sun violated the anti-graft law by picking underperforming players.
Yet, no lawmaker asked Sun about the standards for the selection of players or came up with evidence for Sun's alleged unfair choices.
Now, let's look into the words the lawmakers and Sun exchanged.
Rep. Kim, 32, elected by proportional representation, asked Sun if he considered his boys' military service status when organizing the team. Sun simply replied, "No. I did not give undue favors to particular players."
Then, Kim showed "proudly" the stats of two players, without unveiling their names, to Sun and pressed him to pick a player for his Asiad team. Sun picked "player B" who has a far better record than "player A," (who was later confirmed) Oh Ji-hwan, shortstop for LG Twins, who was chosen for the Asian Games.
Rep. Kim claimed Sun only looked at three-month stats of the KBO players, which led him to pick Oh. Alas, the stats were last year's, not the latest. Kim brought with her old records.
I wonder if Rep. Kim could understand what Sun told her. "If you are a coach, you have to use a player who is currently in good shape."
Adding salt to the wound were the bizarre questions by Rep. Sohn Hye-won, an outstanding expert in brand-making and publicity. Claiming she is a baseball expert herself, she took issue with Sun's annual pay of 200 million won ($180,000) as the national coach. It seems she does not know a national soccer team manager used to receive much more than Sun. And how about her income?
She also made little of Sun's team's Asiad victory, saying, "Everybody thinks winning (the gold medal) is not that difficult." Is she right? She must be ignorant that the players endure sweat and tears for the championship.
She also pressed Sun out of nowhere to "either apologize or resign," even if it is not Sun who should do so. It's Sohn who should apologize for her nonsensical questions.
It is no wonder the two lawmakers immediately became targets of public criticism on social media.
It is not only the two lawmakers, Reps. Sohn and Kim, who show similar attitudes in the annual Assembly audit of the administration to keep the executive branch in check.
Most lawmakers fail to ask witnesses proper questions and appear not to be attentive to their replies. In many cases, also like that of manager Sun, a witness used to spend only 30 seconds during the audit session after waiting for more than half a day.
Some were not asked any questions at all, even if they waited for a long time, helplessly due to partisan feuds over the proceedings of the session and other issues. Many lawmakers tend to assert their views and tell witnesses off, rather than asking questions. Their signature way of "handling" witnesses is scolding them as an exercise of their power.
The lawmakers should keep in mind that they are totally exposed to the public during the audit session as they are mostly relayed live through various media outlets, including YouTube.
There should be no cases like the baseball legend, Sun, in the days to come. No politician is supposed to scold sternly a sports team manager: "Why did you choose the players that way?"
The Assembly inspection should rather have focused on whether or not the privilege to exempt gold-medal winning athletes or other excellent artists from conscription is fair.
Park Moo-jong (emjei29@gmail.com) is a standing adviser of The Korea Times. He served as the president-publisher of the nation's first English daily newspaper from 2004 to 2014 after working as a reporter since 1974.
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Sailors are often made to feel like second-class citizens, but not at this show! Sailor’s Cove — formerly Strictly Sail Miami — features the world’s leading sailing exhibitors, gear and accessories, plus daily seminars in the Cove’s pavilion and on the water.
Chart Your Course
Let’s be honest, while the boat show itself is mind-blowingly awesome, getting to and from its highly scenic but off-the-beaten-path location is, to put it politely, much less so. This year the transportation situation benefits greatly from a handy new app and onsite transportation screens from RaftUp Technologies. Both provide arrival and departure updates for water taxis and shuttle busesdesigned to allow for better planning. They also have the added benefit of lowering the blood pressure when you do have to wait for the next available transport. Another big change for 2019 — this one of keen interest to Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach attendees — is the highly-anticipated high-speed Brightline, which drops riders a convenient 15-minute shuttle ride from the show. Residents of South or North Miami-Dade County can also leave their cars at home and take the Metrorail from any station to the Historic Overtown/Lyric Theater Station. From there, simply head next door to the Brightline MiamiCentral Parking Garage and hop on the bus to the show. Similarly, those in Broward and Palm Beach who don’t find the Brightline depots convenient can take Tri-Rail to the Historic Overtown/Lyric Theater Station. Of course, the most beautiful way to arrive at the show remains via the Water Taxi, which you can pick up at Bayfront Park, American Airlines Arena and the Miami Yacht Show. NOTE: You must already have your admission ticket to board a water taxi. Free shuttle bus service is also available at the show’s 3 convenient downtown parking options — the American Airlines Arena, Brightline MiamiCentral Parking Garage, Hickman & West Lot Garages (book your space early!) as well as from the Miami Yacht Show. Limited general parking is available at Historic Virginia Key Beach, but this is the Unicorn of parking (something highly desirable but difficult to obtain). Similarly, there’s dedicated Handicapped Parking available at Parking Lot C/Seaquarium. Also, Uber and Lyft have a special drop-off and pick-up area within walking distance to the show. Perhaps the ultimate indulgence is Valet Drop-Off & Pick-Up, available at the front entrance of the show near Whisky Joe’s. Guarantee your spot by purchasing your Valet Parking Online and simply drive up, drop off your car and head into the show. All valet and general parking can be conveniently booked at MiamiBoatShow.com.
The 10 Commandments Of Boating
Thou shalt have no false captains. He who pays for
the boat gets to set the rules.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s boat, electronics, equipment or guests.
Thou shalt not take thy boat’s name in vain, even when working on it and things go wrong and you find yourself “in the weeds”, or “seaweed”, as it were.
Thou shalt keep the Sabbath day for cruising.
Thou shalt not anchor too close to a boat with bikini-clad women aboard lest thy spouse smite thee.
Thou shalt return with as many people as thou left with, no matter how annoying the crew member or boat guest in question may be.
Though shalt not wake a sailboat at anchor, even if it is the “cow-tipping” of the seas.
Thou shalt never leave thy fenders out while cruising. It’s just plain wrong.
Thou shalt not run out of beer.
Thou shalt have fun. This is the most important of all the commandments.
Bring Your TastebudsBring Your Tastebuds
Gourmands can rest easy, the excellent food & wine continues at the Miami Boat Show — yes, there will be gourmet bites and sips at MIBS! New this year, arriving from wine country, is the Meiomi Home, which resembles a Coastal California bungalow right down to the kitchen/wine tasting room where Meiomi will educate showgoers and provide samples of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Rosé and Sparkling Wine. The palate will be further tempted by a wealth of delicious offerings to both waterside and upland, including a trio of sit-down, full-service restaurants: the Latin Café, Knife Steakhouse and SuViche. Additional fun fare from Sushi Maki, Killer Melts, Moty’s, King of Racks BBQ, B.C. Tacos, Ocean Breeze, HipPops and Ministry of Kaapi are also on the mouthwatering menu.
Going Green For The Ocean Blue
The Atlantic Ocean is one of the things that puts South Florida on the map. Oceans are the planet’s life support system, generating half of the oxygen we breathe and contain more than 97% of the world’s water. They provide at least 1/6 of the animal protein people eat. Simply put, to survive and prosper, we need healthy oceans. Inspired? The new Conservation Village has experts ready to discuss environmental issues from marine ecosystem restoration and protection to game fish conservation and more. Plus, there are several ways you can help make a difference. Start helping immediately by purchasing a reusable water container at the show to take advantage of the unfiltered water stations that have been added to this year’s show.
Pair of wineglasses against the yacht
VIP Life
You don’t have to drop $2 million on a yacht to be a Boat Show VIP…but it wouldn’t hurt. Other options involve dating an influencer, getting your own television show (reality or otherwise), or arriving in a limo getting off the phone saying “Yes, Mr. President, I’ll get right back to you.” A better tactic is plunking down $125 for the all-inclusive VIP Experience; a bargain when you realize all you get. The benefits start with single-day entry into the show and access to the plush air-conditioned VIP lounge and VIP deck with spectacular views of the Miami skyline and the mammoth show. Where the bodacious added-value comes in is the complimentary food and drink from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., which is highlighted by a Grill & Carvery by The Knife Steakhouse, Mr. Bing Shaved Ice Cream, happy hour hors d’oeuvres, an open bar and a lavish coffee bar; MiamiBoatShow.com/VIP.
No dive training. No wind-blown hair. Just sit back and enjoy an up-close & personal look at the magnificent undersea world. You’ll never miss an extraordinary sight from a Triton Submersible. A completely transparent pressure hull provides visibility in every direction and they’ve positioned the sphere to get you as close to the action as possible. The cabins are maintained at a constant atmosphere and are both climate- and temperature-controlled. Hand stitched leather seats and an integrated sound system help to make each Triton a comfortable place to be. Unlike SCUBA, Triton subs are not limited by depth, exotic gas-mixes or decompression tables. Dives of 12 hours are easily achievable, giving you plenty of time to discover elusive creatures or fully enjoy the wonders of a coral reef; TritonSubs.com.
Bet You Don’t Have One Of These!
Everyone’s talking about the boats at MIBS, but if you have one already, you’re going to want to head to the tents where the cutting-edge gadgets and gizmos reside.
Space-Age Viewing
No one needs an underwater ROV, which oddly enough only makes it more appealing. Looking like an alien spaceship, the Power Vision PowerRay Wizard Underwater ROV offers 4K UHD at 25 fps for some pretty spectacular underwater films. Set it to 1080p live streaming, put on VR goggles and you’re swimming with the fishes. It also takes 12MP stills. The Angler package includes a detachable PowerSeek FishFinder; Powervision.me.
Beyond Smartphones
Forget Wi-Fi. Forget 4G. If you absolutely positively must stay totally connected offshore, the answer is a Globalstar Sat-Fi Satellite Hotspot. Not only does it offer the industry’s fastest data speeds, allowing you to send more in less time, but Sat-Fi is a VoIP-to-satellite bridge allowing you to send and receive satellite calls through your existing smartphone. The system allows up to 8 users to share a single connection; WestMarine.com.
Even with the latest technological advances, real sailing takes work, which is why you’ll be intrigued by VR Regatta. This immersive sailing experience allows veterans and newcomers alike to experience the waters of the Akalana Islands — a faux Caribbean location. Explore, race, or simply enjoy a peaceful moonlit sail. While having fun you’ll suddenly realize you’ve learned the basics of sailing, including steering and speed management; MarineVerse.com.
A Yachtsman’s Oasis
While the fabulous new site of the 2019 Miami Yacht Show is garnering the headlines, we didn’t want that to overshadow the following not-to-be-missed aspects of this year’s exciting show, starting with the premiere night opening evening celebration that will feature entertainment, cocktails and local fare. Of course, there’s no better way to attend the show than with The Windward VIP Experience, which offers guests a premium open bar, gourmet food, happy hours and private events all set in an exclusive climate-controlled venue. The $200 per person per day program includes show admission, valet parking and tender service to and from SuperYacht Miami. With the Miami Yacht Show’s reputation for drawing ultra-high net worth individuals and large crowds comes other cultural and luxury experiences that perfectly complement the Miami Yacht Show weekend. Taking place next door is Art Wynwood, a leading contemporary and modern art fair produced by Art Miami, the top-ranked international art fair by attendance in the U.S. Similarly, the Watches & Wonders and Miami Concours in the Miami Design District will feature programs that will be of interest to show attendees who are also watch and exotic car aficionados or those just looking to continue to make a wonderful day last longer. Shuttle transportation from Miami Yacht Show to the Miami Design District is available Friday through Sunday; MiamiYachtShow.com.
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Sweating For Sarah
Published on September 22, 2008 By KFC Kickin For Christ In Republican
I had the priviledge to sweat for Sarah yesterday along with about 60,000 other people who came from near and far to catch a glimpse of this little lady as she came to our neighborhood. It was worth it. Here's a few observations on the day.
It was very crowded. More than was expected showed up to this party. Many came hours early to get a good spot only to find themselves in a very long line that snaked around the town for about two miles. When we biked into town at about 1:45 with our tickets in hand, we said "forget it, I'm not getting into that line."
We found out later one of our friends stood in that line for three hours showing up at 10:30 am only to find out that many who made it past the screenings got in with no tickets. I found out tonight that was because there were so many people that showed up they didn't know what to do with all these people. They expected maybe 15,000 or so. They had no expectation that about 60,000 would show up. On the news they said that was about 30 times what Biden has been drawing for a crowd.
Speaking of Biden, I heard a rumor that was going around while we were there. It seems there's some talk that Biden may end up with some sort of medical condition and Hillary would then be called back to duty. I find this totally ludacris and as far as I'm concerned, a dead end for Obama if he resorts to such a tactic. It would certainly mean death to his campaign if he tries to pull such a stunt.
We walked around taking in the many sights to see. The movie theatre erased their featured movie titles and put up a Sarah Palin welcome instead. Many were dressed in patriotic colors and cutsie theme outfits. There were vendors selling their wares. I wanted to buy a campaign button but was too cheap to fork over the five bucks for it. When I inquired about a cute pink lipstick hat they said $20 and I passed on that as well.
We walked around dismayed we couldn't get in close to the action without standing two miles away in a very long line so we opted instead to scope out a good spot outside the barriers put up just for this occasion.
All aound the square they had big screens for all those on the outside and many came with their chairs and were content to sit right there on the sidewalks facing these screens. So we continued scoping the place out. It was about 2 pm and Sarah was scheduled to show up at 4:30.
I found a spot that was about 150 feet from the stage but from the outside of the barriers and not too crowded. Well not at first. There was a cop standing there and he said I couldn't go past him as he was securing the spot behind him. So I stood right there in front of him and made myself a little family with those around me for three hours while I stood there.
It was hot. Not unbearably hot but quite warm. I was dressed in white shorts and a black sleevless Nike top and sandals so I was ok. I had a water that was not going to make the duration. Near the end because so many had passed out during the afternoon they started passing out thousands of dollars worth of free water and cokes. Hands were eagerly stretched out trying to grab either the bottled waters or the large cups filled with ice cubes and water. I was able to stand on the metal fencing and reach over and get two cups. I passed the first to my right to a lady who said she was faint and I shared the second with a lady on my left whom I had never met before that day. Normally speaking I would have never done such a thing but the two of us started up a friendship that continued today when we met to go line dancing together. Later story on that.
As I said, many people were passing out during this time. The Rescue people were busy but it was hard for them to manuever with their stretchers in and out of the crowds trying to reach someone who was down. I noticed, as they were carrying the people away, that they were not dressed properly. Many of the ones who passed out had long pants on, many of them in black pants. Most in some sort of long sleeves as well. I saw one woman in nylons! Jeepers I didn't even know they made them anymore especially down here. We had one lady go down behind me. Others were piling water and ice all around her head and neck area.
While all this was going on, secret service and helicopters were buzzing around. It's a dead giveaway when you see a man walk by you talking to his cuff links.
During the three or so hours while we were standing around waiting many speakers got up to give their rah rah speeches to stir up the crowd. We had a country music star, Aaron Tippin play for us.
My husband actually talked with one of the representatives running in our district today at work. She was one of the featured warm up speakers before Sarah and said she was very intimidated up there. It wasn't just the very large crowds that unnerved her but the snipers on all the rooftops. She never spoke under such circumstances before. So can you imagine Sarah standing there cool as a cuke during her speeches?
Finally when it was becoming unbearable to keep on standing in one place the excitement grew into a frenzy when on the very large screens we saw the bus arriving with Sarah and her family. Within a few minutes, after a slew of press came out the door, her daughters first emerged as they were first introduced. Then it was her husband and then finally Sarah. She stood about a 100 yards or so from me, turned and waved in my direction and then headed right into the crowd and up to the podium. The only way I could see her when she spoke was to watch the screen because people were standing on something in front of the stage that blocked our view.
She wore a long sleeve tan or beige little suit jacket with a skirt that may have been some sort of dark denim. We all thought she must have been roasting. Her girls and husband stood up there alongside her and Piper spoke about going to Disney yesterday. Piper thanked everyone for letter them come to Florida.
In 23 minutes it was over. She didn't say anything new. She spoke about paying taxes and patriotism. She spoke about McCain being the only candidate for President who actually has fought for us. She spoke about government being held accountable and being given back to the people. You know, the usual.
Then it was over but she spent alot of time signing autographs and shaking hands. It must have been awfully hot for her to do so for as long as she did. So we turned and started towards our bikes.
We checked out the vendors again passing them by seeing they hadn't come down on their pricing and headed for our locked bikes as everyone else headed for their golf carts. Boy you should have seen the long line of golf carts all over the place. Other people who drove from great distances had to walk miles just to get there since they were only allowing golf carts for the most part. We whizzed by everyone on our bikes. It was great!
As we unlocked our bikes I asked my husband, "so what do you want to do now?" Do you know what he said?
"I'd like to recapture the last four hours of unproductive time I've lost."
Sour puss!
The first thing Sarah responded to was a sign that was held in front of her. She said "how appropriate. There's a sign here that says "sweating for Sarah."
Then she went on to make comparisons between Florida and Alaska. Of course it was a stretch for her to do so but she tried her best.
CharlesCS
Very interesting. It would seem people love "Evil" Sarah. You know, I'll admit I have not been keeping up with politics for many years. But I don't ever recall anyone running for President or VP being called evil. She is different, that's for sure, but why this need to call her evil so bluntly?
lulapilgrim
Good report KFC. I wish I could have been there too. I think FOX News gave 80,000 as the number there.
Your story gives me a new appreciation for the rigors of both ends of political campaigning. Gotta be tough!
Tova7
She better be careful or the rock star symbolism will leech over onto her. haha.
I heard the rumor about Biden stepping down and Hillary taking his place. I don't like it, but it would probably get all those Hillary voters who turned to Palin back on the Dem side.
No doubt, for a few weeks it'd be a turn off, but come poll time people will be less concerned with how she got on the ticket, and more concerned with the fact she IS.
I was thinking yesterday the Dems needed Hillary as the top of the ticket and Obama as the bottom because he has "Sarah" appeal, not PRESIDENTIAL appeal. Meaning, he seems like a second, not a first.
Oh well. Their candidate, their problem. I just hope their problem doesn't become OUR (the rest of the nation's) problem.
Glad you made a new friend. Hope that works out for you.
Dr Guy
Can we say Thomas Eagleton? 1972? For Obama's sake, he better not try it. Or he is toast.
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Many Palestinians Suffer Effects Of Teargas Inhalation In Jerusalem IMEMC - "Many Palestinians suffered, Wednesday, the severe effects of teargas inhalation, after Israeli soldiers invaded Abu Dis town, southeast of occupied East Jerusalem, and Hizma town, northeast of the city, and fired gas bombs during ensuing clashes." - id 13/9/2017
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Palestinians demand removal of church patriarch Al Jazeera - Protesters are demanding the removal of Patriarch Theophilos III over his involvement in selling church land [ry] 11/9/2017
Israel’s Jewish-Only Right of Return Displaces Palestinians for 2nd Time (VIDEO) IMEMC News & Agencies - "SHAMASNEH FAMILY MEMBER: [Translated] They carried me by force, and my back hurts me while they carried me. How can you kick out someone from his house in the night and there’s still a case at the court? Is this a state? We should not keep saying this is a state. This is a state, this is not a state. This is no less than a gang." ca 8/9/2017
Lessons from popular resistance in Jerusalem Mustafa Barghouti - Al Ahram "In one day, Jerusalem embraced the principles of the first three Intifadas; self-reliance, self-organisation and challenging the occupation...Perhaps this exemplary unity was what astonished the occupation authorities which was mostly accustomed to exploiting Palestinian divisions and fomenting them with every possible means...The task is how to build on this model and its characteristics and develop Palestinian popular resistance on the national scale." ca 8/9/2017
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Civic Life Sports Schools Business Food Our Homes Letters/Opinions Calendar
Published July 10th, 2019
Swim team snack shack profits sink under county regulations
By John T. Miller
Jon Llama, center, of Agave Restaurant in Concord, oversees catering the home meets for Campolindo Cabana Club. Photo John T. Miller
A routine water quality check by the county health department at the Sun Valley pool in Lafayette a couple of years ago turned disastrous for the team's snack bar, essentially forcing its closure.
The health department official discovered that not only were the facilities inadequate, but they didn't have an operation permit for it. Adding to these troubles was the discovery that they had never filed a use permit.
The use permit had never been filed because the pool was in operation before the city was incorporated. It was brought under question when a neighbor complained about noise at the pool. The permits, along with an Environmental Impact Report, lawyers' fees and other expenditures, ended up costing over $100,000.
The person in charge of the snack shack, Beth Kring, says, "We used to net about $1,200 at each home meet and provide food for the coaches. Now, we have a food truck come in, and all we get are eight free meals for the coaches and long lines at the truck."
The team had to set up a fundraising arm to try to make up for the lost money. They've held lapathons, raffles - with donated prizes from community members - and numerous other fundraisers, in addition to selling magnets and team apparel at the pool.
A spokesperson for another pool in the Lamorinda area, who asked to remain anonymous, said, "The snack shack has become a four-letter word! We had to spend over $20,000 in facility improvements. The county makes it nearly impossible to run a snack shack."
Some clubs have let outside restaurants take over the snack shack, essentially having their home meets catered. One such case is Campolindo Cabana Club in Moraga, which, after having a food truck sell at the curb - with the attendant long lines - has its home meets catered by Jon Llama of Agave Restaurant in Concord.
"We have the license and insurance and everything else covered, so the pool just provides the volunteers in the snack shack," says Llama. "The restaurant kicks back 4% to the club as a community service."
The Cabana Club had to remodel and upgrade the kitchen, and the monetary kickback is a far cry from what the snack bar used to make.
One swim team that's been able to continue business as usual at its meets is the Moraga Country Club, since it has a full commercial kitchen to accommodate the 81 points of the county health code that must be followed.
Al Ranganian, the director of food and beverages for the MCC, says, "Depending on whether it's a morning or night meet, we sell pancakes, breakfast burritos, salads, sodas, ice cream, and more. We have warmers to hold the temperatures at appropriate levels and post sell-by dates on the salads."
The money from the sales goes into the general fund for the MCC, while profits from the team's sale of wrapped candies go to help pay for bonuses to the coaches.
At Sun Valley, Kring says, "We are considering converting the coaches' room at the pool into a quality snack shack and finding somewhere else for them to meet, but it would be costly."
Although this article represents only a small sample size of the numerous swim clubs in the Lamorinda area, it becomes apparent that the county health regulations have made it prohibitive for many of them to continue to fundraise at former levels unless they upgrade to commercial quality kitchens.
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Kniffen, Fred B.; Gregory, Hiram F.; Stokes, George A.: The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana: From 1542 to the Present / Peterson, John
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Running the Dogs through the Trees
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Grammatische Relationen im Pāli und die Entstehung von Ergativität im Indoarischen
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Can Peirce Be a Pragmaticist and an Idealist?
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Towards a Common European Industrial Policy? The Case of High Definition Television
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The Researcher And The Underachiever: Never The Twain Shall Meet
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Staff report comparing figures for minority and female employment in the federal government, 1975 and 1977, and in forty-four selected agencies, 1977, prepared for the Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities of the Committee on Education and Labor, United States, House of Representatives
The Resource Staff report comparing figures for minority and female employment in the federal government, 1975 and 1977, and in forty-four selected agencies, 1977, prepared for the Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities of the Committee on Education and Labor, United States, House of Representatives
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United States, Congress | House | Committee on Education and Labor | Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities
Washington, U.S. G.P.O, 1978
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CIS Microfiche Accession Numbers: CIS 78 H342-10
At head of title: 85th Congress, 2d session. Committee print
"May 1978."
Staff report comparing figures for minority and female employment in the federal government, 1975 and 1977, and in forty-four selected agencies, 1977
prepared for the Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities of the Committee on Education and Labor, United States, House of Representatives
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The Resource Order prohibiting gaming
Order prohibiting gaming
Virginia, Convention, (1776 : May 6-July 5)
Stephen, Adam, 1718-1791
Contains an order issued by the Commanding Officer [Adam Stephen] of the 4th & 5th Virginia Regiments stationed in Suffolk prohibiting gaming. Includes transcription of document
These records are part of the Convention of 1776 record group (RG# 89)
Order prohibiting gaming, 1776 May 25
Revolutionary Convention Papers
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Agency history record describes the history and functions of the Virginia Convention of 1776. (Search Virginia Convention as author).
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Microfilm available on Misc. Reel 618.
The five revolutionary conventions that provided Virginians with an alternative government between August 1, 1774, and July 5, 1776, grew out of an extralegal meeting of twenty-five members of the House of Burgesses at the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg on May 30, 1774. The burgesses considered methods of protesting the closing of the port of Boston by British authorities as a punishment for the Tea Party held there in 1773. A boycott of British goods was agreed upon, and a call was issued for the full House to convene at Williamsburg on August 1, 1774, in open defiance of Lord Dunmore, the royal governor, who had prorogued the assembly. The dates of the conventions were: first, August 1-6, 1774; second, March 20-27, 1775; third, July 17-August 26, 1775; fourth, December 1, 1775-January 20, 1776; fifth, May 6-July 5, 1776. This fifth convention adjourned and was replaced the next day by the new state government organized under the Virginia Constitution of 1776.
Salmon, John S., comp. A GUIDE TO STATE RECORDS IN THE ARCHIVES BRANCH OF THE VIRGINIA BRANCH OF THE VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES. Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1985
Location of other archival material
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Mad About Madrid
The Madrid Travel Guide
Democrats in Madrid To Hold 4th July Gig
June 5, 2006 Alun John
Just got an email from the Democrats Abroad – Madrid Spain Chapter. They are hosting:
a 4th of July party open to the public on July 4, starting at 19:00, at Ribs Arturo Soria, calle Gregorio Benítez 4, Madrid. (Metro Arturo Soria). Everyone is welcome,
including families with children. Admission is free. Party-goers are encouraged to wear red, white and blue. The party will feature live rock and R&B music by Guns and Butter.
I’ll probably get an email from Republicans Abroad next saying they’ve got some gig going on (wonder if they’d say that everyone is welcome!). For more information, call Sue Burke.
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Festival Madrid en Danza opens
March 28, 2006 April 5, 2014 Alun John
From the 28th March to the 23rd April, 2006 Madrid will hold the Festival Madrid en Danza (Madrid Dance Festival). It will consist of 27 shows in both Madrid and the wider community. Groups from Spain (Madrid, Cataluña y Galicia) and foreign dance groups (Italy, France, the UK, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Hungary) will take part.
According to the Guia del Ocio, these are some of the shows to look out for:
Gallotta. (from France)
Teatro Madrid. 6th to 8th April
Teresa Nieto.
Teatro La Abadía. 17th to 19th April
Prove.
Pradillo. 18th and 19th April
Metro.
Centro Cultural de la Villa
19th to 21st April
Ballet de Basilea.
Teatro Albéniz. 20th to 22nd April
Cinemas and Films in Madrid (V.O.S)
If you just fancy going to the cinema to watch a Original Version film, or even one in Spanish, 20 Minutos has a neat cinema guide. Simply select from cinema, film or genre and it will give you full details including price, time and address. For original version, look out for "V.O".
Happy San Patricio Day!
March 17, 2006 Alun John
If you’re in Madrid today and looking for somewhere to enjoy St Patrick’s Day, take a look at El Mundo’s ‘special’ on places to enjoy your Guinness. Irlandeses por un día tells you which places to go for food and good music. Use the Google Translation tool to get a ‘rough’ translation into your language. For a complete list of Irish pubs, have a look at the Irish Bars in Madrid on this site.
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Café de Chinitas at the Teatro de la Zarzuela
March 16, 2006 May 3, 2017 Alun John
From the 17th to the March, 2006 to April, 2nd the Ballet Nacional de España, under the direction of its director José Antonio, is putting on a programme at the
Teatro de la Zarzuela. The costumes and staging are inspired by Salvador Dalí.
In 1940, Dalí was responsible for the scenery and costumes for a flamenco show which took place in New York and which features “Federico García Lorca’s world of popular music
in the background”. José Antonio is actually quoted as saying:
Who would say no to uniting Dalí and Lorca through Flamenco?
It sounds like it could be a wonderful show and one that you shouldn’t miss if you’re in Madrid (I know I won’t!).
The second part, Elegía, is a personal tribute to Antonio Ruiz Soler, the legendary dancer who died 10 years ago. The show counts on the collaboration of Chano Domínguez y Grupo and Esperanza Fernández is the invited guest. The Madrid Regional Orchestra provides the music for the show.
Teatro de la Zarzuela
c/Jovellanos, 4
Tues – Sat: 8pm; Sun: 6pm
Price: 11 € to 32 €
Box office (902 33 22 11)
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Suite Española Presents Clave Flamenca at Teatro de Madrid
March 9, 2006 Alun John
The Suite Española has been enchanting audiences across the world for the past 21 years, with their innovative flamenco style. Over the next 17 days – from the 9th – 26th March, 2006 – they will be doing exactly the same in Madrid’s Teatro de Madrid. The Madrid audience will be the first to see ‘Clave Flamenca’, which is a homage to the composers Albéniz, Tárrega y Sarasate. The members of Suite Española will turn the creations of these composers into different flamenco rhythms, all of which will be sung, played and danced to by two female vocalists, a violinist, flautist, percussion and ten dancers.
The second part of the show is dedicated to Garnata, a story of a beautiful Jewish woman who, in the times when Granada was both Jewish and Arabic, breaks the hearts of both Jews and Arabs. It is sure to be a wonderful night of music and dance.
Tues & Wed: 7.30 p.m.; Thurs & Fri: 8.30 p.m.
Sat: 7 p.m. & 10 p.m; Sun: 6 p.m.
Prices/Ticket Sales
10-22 Euros; Reduced Price: Tues & Wed (18 Euros)
Groups (over 20): 12 Euros
Tickets can be bought from the Box Office or through Entradas
Teatro de Madrid (Avda de la Ilustración s/n)
Metro: Barrio del Pilar
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Fame (Fama) – The Musical – Debuts in Teatro Calderón
February 5, 2006 Alun John
From the 1st February, 2006 Madrid will be able to offer residents and visitors yet another musical. The latest offering is Fame (Fama in Spanish), based on the popular series from the 1980’s and which will run at the Teatro Calderón .The Madrid version, obviously in Spanish, features singers, dancers and actors from both Spain and Latin America. Much like the series, the musical charts the story of the aspiring performers of the High School for the Performing Arts in New York, with all the usual themes: drugs, finding themselves and their sexuality.
Tuesday- Thursday: 8.30 p.m.
Friday and Saturday: 6 p.m. and 10.30 p.m.
Sunday: 7.30 p.m.
Box Office or El Corte Inglés
32-50 Euros
Sudor y lágrimas, 20 años después (El Mundo Preview)
Two for One Offer on Top Madrid Musicals
January 30, 2006 Alun John
I just came across an offer which Top Ticket Line is running between the 29th January and 4th February. If you buy tickets for two of the top musicals on in Madrid at the moment – Cabaret, Mamma Mia or Victor, Victoria – you will have one of them free. You can find more details on the TopTicket website.
XIV Flamenco Festival Kicks off at the Teatro Albéniz
Though the XIV Flamenco Festival has officially been going on since the 23rd January, 2006, the main venue Teatro Albéniz opens its doors to the Flamenco public on the 31st January until the 4th February. For Flamenco aficionados the principal peformers will be: Manolo Sanlúcar, Enrique Morente, Fosforito, Miguel Poveda, La Macanita, Antonio El Pipa y Óscar Herrero. More details, incuding dates, can be found on the El Mundo website.
Alice in Wonderland (dressed by Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada)
December 29, 2005 Alun John
From the 27th December to the 8th January, 2006 the Centro Cultural de la Villa (beware! painfully bad website) will be putting on the play Alice in Wonderland (Alicia en el País de las Maravillas). The work is an adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s book, full of verse and song, and featuring probably the most colourful collection of clothes ever put together for any work of Alice in Wonderland. The clothes have all been designed by top, Spanish fashion designer Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada, which should mean that it will be a very colourful experience.
Opening Times:Tuesday – Sunday: 12pm, 5 pm and 7.30pm
Price: 8-10 Euros
Location: Centro Cultural de la Villa (Jardines del descubrimento s/n.)
Metro: Colón or Serrano
Retiro Ice Rink Opens for Christmas
For the second year running the Retiro Park will once open up an ice rink for the general public. It opens from 11am to 9pm until the 8th January, 2006. Each session lasts 45 minutes and costs 4 Euros (ice skates included).
Madrid Opens Ice Rink for Christmas
Children the Central Focus of Christmas in Madrid
Christmas Lights Around Madrid
Christmas Nativity Scenes and Markets in Madrid
If you’re looking for activities to keep the kids occupied this Christmas, the City Council of Madrid has pretty much covered all bases. Aside from the numerous events that will be going on for children, they have made sure that some of the city’s locations/centres will purely cater for kids. The Patio Central and the Patio del Norte of Conde Duque will put on theatre, music and workshops – the funds they get from putting these on will go towards a Foundation which helps out children in hospital.
The Plaza de Colón will be converted into a children’s factory where children will be able to visit the three wise men (don’t forget children’s toys are traditionally given on the 6th January by these men from the East!); go on toboggan rides and carousels; see children’s plays; see toys from the ‘old days’ and go on a train ride.
If you’re around on the 5th January, you can see the huge procession of the Three Wise Men (Cabalgata de Reyes) which will go around the main streets of Madrid: Puerta de Alcalá, Cibeles square, calle Alcalá, Puerta del Sol, and Calle Mayor before finishing in the Plaza Mayor.
One further must do thing at Christmas is to visit ‘Cortylandia’ in the department store of El Corte Inglés in the Puerta del Sol. Every year they put on a show on the outside facade of the store which youngsters always love – the theme is often to do with a latest blockbuster film, like the Lion King. This year, I think it is related to the Little Mermaid. Afterwards, why not head of to the Chocolatería San Ginés for some chocolate con churros.
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Festival de Otoño
September 29, 2005 Alun John
Starting on October 6th and running for a full month, Madrid will host its yearly autumn festival, the Festival de Otoño. The festival showcases dance, music and theatre companies from around the world and is held in the major Madrid theatres: the Teatro de la Zarzuela, Teatro Madrid, the Círculo de Bellas Artes and Teatro Albéniz, to name but a few. Here is a brief overview of some of the artists and performances which will feature during this month:
Joan Manuel Serrat; Elza Soares; Dead Capo; La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Hespèrion XXI and Racalmuto
Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale and Measure for Measure (in English); Sophocles’ Antigone (in Brazilian); Macbeth and Othello (in Lithuanian) and Stupidity and Versión Original Subtitulada (in Spanish) – all plays have subtitles in Spanish
Dance companies from Spain, UK, Belgium and France will be performing across the theatres of Madrid.
The website also has a list of venues, with accompanying prices and addresses.
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Los Tarantos – the First Flamenco Musical Arrives in Madrid
Billed as the first Flamenco Musical, ‘Los Tarantos’ opens its doors this Sunday to Madrid’s public in the Teatro Albéniz. Los Tarantos is based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the book "Los Tarantos" by Alfredo Mañas and the Oscar-nominated film, which featured the dancers Carmen Amaya and Antonio Gades and was directed by Rovira Beleta. In place of the Capulets and Montagues you have the Tarantos and Zorongos, gypsy families who live in Barcelona.
More than 20 artists appear on stage, with a mixure of dancing, singing and guitar playing. The musical score is by Chicuelo, one of the most important composers and guitarrists of flamenco today and well-known flamenco artist Tomatito, the choreography is by Javier Latorre. Auditions for the parts took the production team all over Spain and the main parts have been taken by Ana Salazar (Juana) and bailaor Juan Carlos Lérida (Ismael), with Carmelilla Montoya (Soledad) and Candy Román (Rosendo).
The show runs from Sunday 11th September 2005 to October 2nd 2005.
Timetable: Tues-Fri: 8.30pm; Sat: 7pm and 10.30pm & Sun: 7pm
Venue: Teatro Albéniz
Address: c/Paz, 11
Metro: Sol
Price: 24-38 Euros (Tuesday: 16-30 Euros)
The flamenco musical ‘Los Tarantos’ lands in Madrid (Flamenco World)
Romeo y Julieta calés (El Mundo)
‘Tarantos’, un musical español sobre un Romeo y Julieta calé (Terra)
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Flamenco in the Metro
September 1, 2005 Alun John
From the 12th to the 16th September, the metro station of Nuevos Ministerios will be putting on a flamenco show every single evening at 10 p.m. Among the guests who will be taking part are: Manuela Carrasco (flamenco dancer), El Lebrijano (flamenco singer), Antonio El Pipa (flamenco dancer), Falete (flamenco signer) and Tomatito (flamenco guitarist). Entry is free to these events but it would probably be advisable to get there quite early.
Metro: Nuevos Ministerios
Related link: “Cumbre Flamenca” en el Metro de Madrid (Zona Musical)
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Blogger Night recap
Thank you to the adventurous group of writers who came out to Carmen last night for our first Blogger Night at the Opera. It was something of a marathon, with those intermission chimes looming like a school bell at the end of an assignment-packed study hall. But they did it, and here's some of what they had to say (click the links for full posts):
Maddie Greene of Dane101:
Is it hyperbolic to say that I'm sitting here at the intersection of New Media and Old Art?...A few passers-by have expressed amazement, amusement, or ouright disbelief that we're live-blogging, which I take as decisive victory...It's certainly a noisily appreciative audience-- a pleasure to note, since Madison audiences can be reticent with their applause and cheers...Second intermission. Katharine Goeldner's voice sounds like caramel and bonfires-- she sings warmly and brings a beautiful danger to the role. A co-worker of mine is in the chorus and it's great fun to track him in his various costumes. (Hi, Will!) I had no idea how many famous songs come from this opera. In the women's bathroom more than one woman was humming "Toreador" under her breath.
Emily Mills of The Lost Albatross:
So far so good. It's easy to forget (or just not know in the first place) that a lot of the music from "Carmen" has permeated our popular culture...And I had to laugh - Carmen is one of the girls who works at a cigarette factory and, naturally, almost all of them smoke. Very un-PC, all that puffing and tobacco enjoyment. Had this been written and produced in modern times, I suspect the cigarette factory might have been replaced by, say, a solar cell manufacturing plant. Hah! The bells are chiming, back to it...The main lesson I'm taking from this story is that women are tricksy, and men are easily duped fools. Basically, a tale as old as time. But told with such flare! And plenty of soaring lyrics, dance, and color. Can't complain, really. I do appreciate the high drama and production value, and frankly, there just isn't enough of this in mainstream culture these days. Unless you count "Glee," which I do, but it's only one show after all.
Jake Stockinger of The Well Tempered Ear:
The audience applauds loudly at the end of the first Flamenco song and dance. The atmosphere is ripe with Spain. The music is infectious among the audience members, some in suits and expensive dresses, others dressed much more casually...Whether you look at the sets, costumes and lighting; listen to the singing and instrumental playing; or take caught up in the acting — this enjoyable production is thoroughly virtuosic. It has juice...Is there consistently high quality throughout the roles and the various scenes and acts? Yes, and it continues in a cast that is well matched and well balanced, and in a staging that is effective, unpredictable and at times even daring. It all makes for art that is entertaining, which is exactly what Bizet had in mind when he wrote the work as a comic opera.
Katie Vaughn of Liberal Arts:
Tonight's performance is sold out, and I think that's really cool. I've often thought about how great it would be if an arts event created as much anticipation and brought out as many die-hard fans as the sporting events that help create our city's reputation. So it's fun not only to watch what's happening tonight, but also to be a part of it...I liked the visual contrast between the soldiers, including Don Jose, in their sunflower gold jackets and the townspeople, whose clothes were as sun-bleached as the building walls of the setting. Like the soldiers, Carmen stood out from everyone else. While other woman working in the cigarette factory looked somewhat dull, she shined in a bright white top and raven hair. The soldiers weren't the only ones captivated by her. I don't know how anyone in the audience could keep their eyes off her languid movements and sultry singing....I must say, I'm surprised by how vibrant, physical and sensual this production has been. And I mean that in a good way. This has been different from any other opera I've seen.
Mollie Shambeau of Style File:
Looking around a little more, I’m realizing that “fashion at the Madison Opera” is as diverse is it comes. There is glitter and there are floor length gowns…there are blazers, plaid shirts, argyle sweaters, jeans, slacks…everything! The theme here is ‘anything goes’—and I love it....It’s so fun to see all the components from my backstage tour actually on stage! The wigs were one of my favorite parts to see in action—they truly look like they’re made for the women (good work, Jan!)...The Spanish skirts are fantastic—very flowy, the kind of skirt you wear and just HAVE to dance in. Another note: many of the gypsy women are wearing peasant tops , very much like the one’s I’ve seen on the market today...I think my final verdict on this show is that it’s something everyone should experience at least once in their life. I, for one, hope to experience it more than once, as it was absolutely breathtaking. I don’t have the eloquent, perfect words to describe it like a true show reviewer (maybe someday…), but for now, I’ll just say: Wow.
Sarah DeRoo of In the Know:
First intermission and I have to say that I’m enjoying myself. It’s overwhelming to take in every little part of this massive production...I’ve decided that the character of Carmen (played by Katharine Goeldner in her Madison Opera debut) is my idol. 1. She’s sexy. You should see how the men swoon for her and the women (all but one, so far) follow her. 2. Outwardly, she’s sassy, brash, and appears onstage in Act I with a confident swagger—head held high. 3. She’s unapologetic. Takes no prisoners. Fights with the women…takes on the men. Basically, she rocks. And she can sing. What more can you want?...The curtain has drawn. Bows have been taken to a standing ovation. Patrons are streaming out of the packed house. We should be proud, as a community, that we have an opera company to call our own. I know I am...Final cough drop count: 11.
Posted by Madison Opera at 12:50 PM
Marika said...
I think the presence of bloggers at the opera adds another facet to what is already the most complex musical genre. On another note, is that John Barker talking to Jake in the picture???
Thanks for noticing.
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MAN(1)
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man - display system documentation
man [-k] name...
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An implementation may provide information for values of name other than the standard utilities. Standard utilities that are listed as optional and that are not supported by the implementation either shall cause a brief message indicating that fact to be displayed or shall cause a full display of information as described previously.
The man utility shall conform to the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 12.2, Utility Syntax Guidelines.
The following option shall be supported:
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LANG Provide a default value for the internationalization variables
that are unset or null. (See the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 8.2, Internationalization Variables for the precedence of internationalization variables used to determine the values of locale categories.)
LC_ALL If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of all
the other internationalization variables.
Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to multi-byte characters in arguments and in the summary database). The value of LC_CTYPE need not affect the format of the information written about the name operands.
Determine the locale that should be used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error and informative messages written to standard output.
NLSPATH
Determine the location of message catalogs for the processing of LC_MESSAGES .
PAGER Determine an output filtering command for writing the output to
a terminal. Any string acceptable as a command_string operand to the sh -c command shall be valid. When standard output is a terminal device, the reference page output shall be piped through the command. If the PAGER variable is null or not set, the command shall be either more or another paginator utility documented in the system documentation.
ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS
Default.
The man utility shall write text describing the syntax of the utility name, its options and its operands, or, when -k is specified, lines from the summary database. The format of this text is implementationdefined.
The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.
OUTPUT FILES
The following exit values shall be returned:
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred.
CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS
The following sections are informative.
APPLICATION USAGE
It is recognized that the man utility is only of minimal usefulness as specified. The opinion of the standard developers was strongly divided as to how much or how little information man should be required to provide. They considered, however, that the provision of some portable way of accessing documentation would aid user portability. The arguments against a fuller specification were:
* Large quantities of documentation should not be required on a system
that does not have excess disk space.
* The current manual system does not present information in a manner
that greatly aids user portability.
* A "better help system" is currently an area in which vendors feel
that they can add value to their POSIX implementations.
The -f option was considered, but due to implementation differences, it was not included in this volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001.
The description was changed to be more specific about what has to be displayed for a utility. The standard developers considered it insufficient to allow a display of only the synopsis without giving a short description of what each option and operand does.
The "purpose" entry to be included in the database can be similar to the section title (less the numeric prefix) from this volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 for each utility. These titles are similar to those used in historical systems for this purpose.
See mailx for rationale concerning the default paginator.
The caveat in the LC_CTYPE description was added because it is not a requirement that an implementation provide reference pages for all of its supported locales on each system; changing LC_CTYPE does not necessarily translate the reference page into another language. This is equivalent to the current state of LC_MESSAGES in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001-locale-specific messages are not yet a requirement.
The historical MANPATH variable is not included in POSIX because no attempt is made to specify naming conventions for reference page files, nor even to mandate that they are files at all. On some implementations they could be a true database, a hypertext file, or even fixed strings within the man executable. The standard developers considered the portability of reference pages to be outside their scope of work. However, users should be aware that MANPATH is implemented on a number of historical systems and that it can be used to tailor the search pattern for reference pages from the various categories (utilities, functions, file formats, and so on) when the system administrator reveals the location and conventions for reference pages on the system.
The keyword search can rely on at least the text of the section titles from these utility descriptions, and the implementation may add more keywords. The term "section titles" refers to the strings such as:
man - Display system documentation ps - Report process status
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .
IEEE/The Open Group 2003 MAN(P)
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LiQuids In
A "few particularly priggish pedants" (p.18). That's what sociologist Zygmunt Bauman calls those who, like me, think Reality TV shows are sometimes less than real. Actually his new book Liquid Fear contains some good insights into Big Brother etc., which I'll quote at length:
"... 'real' is what they show. And what they show is the inevitability of exclusion, and the fight again being excluded, are what that reality boils down to (p.18).
When confronted with a photographically/electronically contrived image, nothing seems to stand between us and reality; nothing that may arrest or divert the eye ... The knowledge which 'reality TV' spells out would otherwise be diffuse, sliced into bits and pieces and notoriously difficult to collate and make sense of (p.19).
That world, as 'Reality TV' has vividly shown and convincingly proved, is all about 'who sends whom to refuse tip'; or, rather, who'll do it first, while there is still time to do to the others what they would dearly wish, given the chance, to do to you - and before they manage to act on their wishes" (p.25).
Okay, so Bauman blots his copy by making the example hang on hapless Craig Coates, and claims 'there is no way to repeal evictions altogether' (p.25) - exactly what they did to smuggle Princess Nikki Graheme back into the house the following year. But to an extent, it's hard to disagree with the idea that society gets the reality TV it deserves.
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Digest digested
My ramblings appear in a new publication.
In the book there's a "short but thoughtful piece from Gary Barnfield [sic] who deserves an entry for his title alone" (p.218). Full marks to the publishers for finding a way to sell the consumer things which are already freely available. I'll have two bags of rain with that please.
Campus diversity and academic freedom
David Horowitz is angry. According to him, the American campus is in the grip of the far left. Consequently, such campaigns as Students for Academic Freedom are the way forward. It has been suggested that university hiring policies should reflect "balanced" quantities of Democrats and Republicans, backed up by an Academic Bill of Rights. Whatever is wrong with the (often marginal) left in the universities, more political intervention will further cut into academic freedom.
What's more, it's often hard to recognise the portrait Horowitz paints, especially outside the humanities. Instead, experience shows "...how completely (if subtly) the university is politicized by the existing power structure ... the concept of professionalism, enshrined by the current academic establishment, is revealed as wholly impotent in preserving scholarly standards of critical independence". And who tells us this?
David Horowitz.*
*See From Yalta to Vietnam (Pelican, 1971 ed.), p.21.
Blogging reconstructed
The new issue of Reconstruction is dedicated to blogs and blogging. Check it out.
Juxtaposition of the Week
Tickled by this email from my online DVD rentals company:
"Dear Graham,Good news! We've just posted The Saddest Music In The World to you, so please look out for it."
Yes, that sounds really cheerful. Great news indeed.
The Duff Tufty Club
Far be it from me to stick up for happy slappers, but a recent story in Metro tickled me:
"A video showing laughing youngsters spraying lighter fuel on a friend's bare bottom before setting it alight provoked outrage yesterday. Footage of the stunt carried out by a self-confessed 'idiot squad' was posted on website YouTube in the 'entertainment' category" ('"Buttocks on fire" video condemned, Metro 22 November 2006, p.7).
Quite rightly, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents called the action "absolutely ridiculous". But surely there was nothing accidental about it, and RoSPA is extending its brief here.
All Wells that's not ended yet...
H.G. Wells once penned a semi-autobiographical novel in which he "realized building was the enemy". Elsewhere he envisioned, as a vision of hell, London as "a gigantic glass hive" with a population of 33 million (see John Carey, The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1800-1939 pp.118, 123).
These days it seems we have a government that sees building as the enemy, echoing the authoritarian Wells. My sickbed reading includes James Heartfield's detailed rebuttal of this viewpoint. James seems pretty relaxed about the prospect of 33 million Londoners. Quite right too.
Jukebox unplugged
Taking a break from blogging until further notice.
Petty jibe of the month
"Professor Alan Johnson teaches at Edge Hill University, and is the founder and editor of Democratiya. A co-author of The Euston Manifesto, he edits it's 'Social Democratic Futures' pages." Not very well I would wager, given the way - at the time of writing - that he uses the apostrophe in the previous sentence.
Why the sniping? Because for Euston Manifesto supporters, an individual's typing errors are fair game. What's good for the goose ...
Pot, kettle …
An old reality TV quotation that I forget to use during Big Brother this summer:
Melinda Messenger reveals
If you could evict any housemate who would it be?
"I would probably go for Lisa because she can't say what she feels, she is very inarticulate. When she said about spaghetti on her pillows you were like what is she coming out with?"
(Friday 16 June Day 30, 22:16)
Quite. Winner Pete on the other hand had none of Lisa or Melinda's problems with articulacy...
PS. Quite rightly, Attila the Stockbroker says it all about spam:
OH FOR THE DAYS WHEN SPAM WAS JUST A MONTY PYTHON SKETCH
Thanks to the internet
my wife is a very happy woman.
My penis is now forty-seven feet long
it stays erect for weeks at a time
and it is garlanded
by hundreds of genuine Rolex watches
acquired with the millions I have won in various Albanian lotteries
and the billions generously deposited
in my accounts
by the grateful executors of the wills
of innumerable African tribal chiefs
all mysteriously deceased along with their entire extended families
in improbably gruesome lawnmower accidents in Liechtenstein.
'My account with Lloyds has been suspended!'
(I don't have one.)
My wife's breasts enlarge and reduce
spontaneously as we use our 95% discounted software
to gaze at the pictures of our free timeshare apartments
enjoying continuous multiple orgasms whilst admiring our genuine Chinese historical artefacts purchased online from Hong Kong. Our garden is full of imported rubber.
Not rubber sex toys or even rubber boots just: rubber.
I have more free Coldplay MP3s than you could wave a suicide note at.
I also have 'Kate Moss Suction Power'.
I don't know what that is but I am hoping that it may be useful next time the toilet needs unblocking.
I now know the Cyrillic alphabet and the Polish for 'are you embarrassed about your size?'
Every morning a new surrealist word juxtaposition appears in my inbox
as the spammers seek to avoid the filter.
Applicator fornicate!
Consonant clitoris!
Hay fever padre!
Crabmeat be Paris!
Out evoke in robins!
Bestiality service charge!
Decomposing lark’s vomit engulf Crystal Palace!
(Ok, I made the last one upbut all the others are genuine...)
And to prove that truth is indeed stranger than fiction in our brave new world my website is recommended as one of the top fifty stockbroking sites on many search engines. Now that really is Pythonesque.
In the Nick of timelessness
It must be that time of year again. Nick Cohen has just published/repeated his annual installment of RCP gossip and sectariana, this time in the New Humanist. Unlike last year's effort, he makes a concession to the thoughtfulness of Munira Mirza. Maybe he thinks she's a "cutie".
The odd up-to-date reference in Cohen's article suggests that he at least embellishes his single transferable rant, not letting his word-processing software do all the work. But he still goes in for the same lies about the 1980s politics that I took part in:
"reform ... would prolong the ‘capitalist’ system and avert the glorious moment when communism came. Its members were ‘revolutionary defeatists’ in the old jargon of Leninism, who campaigned for the world to get worse so it might one day be better."
Supposedly damning, but completely untrue. My Leninist campaigns always revolved around reforms - decriminalising homosexuality and abortion, scrapping immigration controls, "work or full pay" as a solution to unemployment, and so forth. It was better to campaign around these demands than to do the "one solution, revolution" line to be found elsewhere on left.
And revolutionary defeatism means working for the defeat of your own national rulers in wars and colonial conflicts, rather than a more general sense that "the worse it gets for them, the better it gets for us". (Cohen probably knows this, not least because his co-thinker Oliver Kamm has just busted the SWP for having a secret revolutionary defeatist position in 2003.) Tweaking the cliche, clearly Cohen's not one to let the truth get in the way of the same old story.
Mooks
You heard me right. The BBC drama Spooks, known as MI-5 in the USA, is now a staple feature of the schedules. When Season 1 debuted back in 2002, the old leftie in me lacked enthusiasm for a TV series glorifying the security services. More personally, seeing how actor Peter Firth had lost his curly perm in the years since The Flipside of Dominick Hide was an intimation of mortality.
Over time, Spooks has grown on me. True, it had/has elements of the torture-fest that characterises 24. Having once been in a movie with Jenny Agutter - although I remember her more than she remembers me - I also revisited her stint on the show and enjoyed it.
More recently, Spooks has been getting on my nerves. Unlike Stephen Pollard or Melanie Phillips, I'm not getting my knickers in a twist about the alleged anti-semitism on the show (the "it was Mossad wot done it" punchlines). In fact, season 5 episode 9 writer Neil Cross - who, coincidentally, I also in a film with - is fairly selective in his use of Mossad death squads.
No, the real problem with recent storylines is their predictability. If the drama hinges on being betrayed by allies, the CIA, double agents and people who aren't what they seem, then it can be shocking. If the betrayals take place each week, the shock is diminshed. It makes for bad drama, akin to the Hollywood typecasting of the late J.T. Walsh as a case in point. (If you turn up to work in a movie and he's playing your boss, start applying for work elsewhere immediately.) Come on Spooks, sort it out.
And don't get me started on those "ethical" storylines, where MI5 is defeating genocide and saving the planet ...
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Celebrating 50 years of Broadcasting
By Andrew Jones
Dr Rene Villanueva celebrated 50 years in the broadcasting industry in Belize on January 15, 2018. Over the years he has had numerous encounters with persons from all walks of life. We spoke to a few of those persons and asked them how they met Dr Villanueva Sr. (The Chief).
Dr Rene Villanueva was instrumental in the implementation of TV news in Belize and his contributions to the broadcasting industry in Belize have been tremendous. As a tribute to him and his 50 years in broadcasting we spoke to past and present Belizean media personalities as well as other individuals from the private sector who have recognized Dr Villanueva’s input in nation building.
Meet Melvin Flores, a Belizean who migrated to Northern Ireland and continues to work in the communications industry. He had a short stint on Estereo Amor and has worked closely with Dr Rene Villanueva. Upon Dr Villanueva’s 50th anniversary in broadcasting, Melvin Flores submitted a personal message in honor of Chief’s anniversary.
The below video is a compilation of the congratulatory messages recorded especially for Dr Rene ‘Chief’ Villanueva on the celebration of his 50th anniversary in broadcasting.
The videos featured in this article were produced by Multi Media Systems.
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Pictures from our live sex show at HustlaBall Berlin (NSFW)
Oct 30, 2015 /13 Comments/in Photos /by Jesse
As promised, here are a few photos from the live sex show that Dirk and I performed on stage at HustlaBall Berlin! As part of our show — which took place on the main stage in front of several hundred people — Dirk flogged me for a few minutes with one of these, then I turned him around and returned the favor. Then I carried him over to a sling which was conveniently placed on stage, and fucked him for about 15 minutes. Neither of us came — that’s really difficult to do on stage with so many people watching — but I came close!
The German magazine Siegessäule, which interviewed me about HustlaBall (you can read the entire interview here), asked the following question: “When you fuck on stage, is it similar in any way to what you practice privately as a couple in bed, or is it completely different? How are your feelings about it, and during it?” I replied:
It’s very different. Although we pay attention to each other while we’re on stage, we understand that we’re performing for the crowd. It can be difficult to see into the audience, though, so judging the crowd’s reaction is tough. So what I generally try to do is to put on the type of show that I, as an audience member, would like to see on stage, then hope that people enjoy what they see. When Dirk and I do live shows together, we’re constantly checking in with each other to try different positions and keep the audience engaged. But the passion between us is genuine, whether it’s on-stage, in front of a camera, or in our bedroom.”
Afterwards, a few people came up to tell us how much they enjoyed the show, because it felt like we were really into it, and into each other. That felt pretty great to hear, cuz that means we did our job well.
A member of the HustlaBall staff was filming everything in high-definition video, but I haven’t seen the footage yet. I hear there may be more pictures too (like of the flogging session). As soon as receive any more footage, I’ll share it with you guys. In the meantime, I hope you enjoyed these pictures!
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Postcards from Berlin: Our recent trip to HustlaBall (pics and video)
Oct 26, 2015 /4 Comments/in Photos, Videos /by Jesse
Thanks to the the generosity of the folks at HustlaBall, Dirk and I performed at KitKatClub for the annual HustlaBall Berlin event. That club is pretty amazing… it’s labyrinthine, has a great sound system, and even has a swimming pool! The HustlaBall guys were great to us, flying us there and putting us up for three days at the Axel Hotel right in Schöneberg, one of Berlin’s gay neighborhoods. (Dirk had actually flown out a week early so he could focus on writing music, which he did rather spectactularly.)
The party was a lot of fun. It started out with the HustlaBall awards, which is a major porn award ceremony for the European gay porn industry. Dirk was nominated for best top — he’s performed in a few Euro videos in the past year — but that honor went to Angel Cruz. It was very cool that Dirk was nominated, though, and NakedSword director Mr. Pam (who hosted the event) invited him up on stage to address the crowd with his deep, sexy voice:
Later in the evening, the fine folks at Barcode Berlin dressed us up in their sweet gear, then Dirk and I performed no less than three live shows, one in the VIP area and two on the main stage. We flogged each other — which was interesting, because I don’t have a lot of experience wielding a flogger — and then we fucked each other in a sling that was conveniently placed on stage. I’m hoping to having photos and video from the shows soon (waiting on the HustlaBall guys for that). And once the festivities were over, Dirk and I took a few days to explore Berlin and take in some of the sights.
Here are a few pictures from the event and from our sightseeing excursions. We hope that HustlaBall Berlin will have us back next year!
Off to Berlin!
Reunited with Dirk!
HustlaBall Photo Booth
HustlaBall Pre-Party
With Ronny Matthes of VICE Magazine
Backstage with Armond Rizzo
With Adrien, HB Berlin photographer
Backstage with Mr. Pam
With Titan Man Ameyric DeVille
With our friend Mike at Prinzknecht
Post-HustlaBall breakfast
View from our window
Outside Berghein
About sex…
Sebastien, who owns the gym where we worked out
Heading underground…
Berlin Wall monument
Inside the Sony Center
View of the Holocaust Memorial
Armadillos for breakfast AGAIN?!
Back in our own bed!
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The personified anti-stereotype: My German VICE magazine interview
Oct 22, 2015 /3 Comments/in Interviews /by Jesse
During HustlaBall Berlin last weekend, reporter Ronny Matthes (shown with Dirk and me in the photo above) from VICE magazine‘s Berlin bureau approached me to ask me a few questions for an article he was writing about the event. I don’t speak a lick of German, so the interview was conducted in English, and then translated. Thanks to Google Translate — plus the help of my friend Troy Webb, who speaks fluent German — I’m posting my best interpretation of my portion of the article below. I have to say, though, I’m rather tickled by the following phrase: “Jesse Jackman is the personified anti-stereotype of a porn star.”
If you’ve spent even a small part of your existence consuming gay porn, then HustlaBall is like a candy shop, because there’s homosexual eye candy running around everywhere. Some of the porn stars I’ve known since my early teenage years; these days, they’re accordingly haggard-looking or overly botoxed. And some are quite out of it. When I interviewed absolute megastar Brent Everett, I have to say afterwards that there was only stammering on the tape.
“It’s such an honor to be here” won’t make it into the Olympus of coherent sentences, but the complete opposite is also possible. Jesse Jackman is the personified anti-stereotype of a porn star. When I met Jesse — who was there with his husband Dirk Caber — we had an intellectual discussion about HIV prevention and sexual ethics in the midst of dozens of drunken, celebrating men who were popping ecstasy tabs into their mouths. “I have a degree in Japanese and another in computer science,” Jesse recounted. He also likes classical music (he plays piano) and blogs for the Huffington Post about politics, art, and issues of personal importance.
But what was Jesse’s answer to this crucial question: Top or Bottom? “I do both. But in the porn industry, I bottom more, because I think there is a demand for bigger, more muscular guys who do.” In fact, Jesse is quite large [1.85 m, or 6′ 1″] compared to other performers. So far I haven’t seen a professional here of more than about 1.70 m (5′ 6″), coming up only to my shoulder. At 42 years old, Jesse is also older than the average porn star. But he isn’t planning on retiring anytime soon. “I’m doing this as long as I enjoy it,” he said, “and there’s no end in sight.”
You can find the entire article in English here, and in German here. I’m also posting a few photos from HustlaBall below… more to come, including (hopefully) some video from when Dirk and I did our live shows!
Dirk and me at HustlaBall Berlin 2015
Backstage at HustlaBall Berlin 2015
Me and Dirk at HustlaBall Berlin 2015
Mr. Pam and me at HustlaBall Berlin 2015
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Why Not Offer a 'Third Way' to
Let Doctors Ask About Guns?
By David Codrea, August 1st 2014
JPFO writer contributor, © 2014.
"Pediatricians Have the Right to Ask About Guns," Russell Saunders, a "pseudonym for a pediatrician in New England [who] writes about medicine, gay rights issues and popular culture" asserts in his latest offering to...uh...at The Daily Beast.
"A Florida law will prevent doctors from advising their patients on gun safety, even though research shows physician counsel on the matter keeps kids safer," he insists.
Noting that "asking" is quite a different matter from "advising," the glaring lack of a link to the aforementioned "research," so we can see for ourselves who is behind it, what their methodologies and scope of inquiry were, who peer-reviewed it, and if they have any obvious agendas and conflicts of interest that might color their findings, is obvious. That last part's not unheard of, you know.
"When I ask parents if there are firearms in the home, and if so how they are secured, it is for the sole purpose of keeping their children safe," Dr. "Saunders" complains, linking readers to "a statement expressing dismay at the court's benighted decision" by the American Academy of Pediatrics (of which I am a member)."
"Research has shown that physician counseling about gun locks and safe storage, tailored to a child's specific age and development, increases the likelihood a family will take the steps to store their firearms safely," the AAP declares authoritatively. Dang if they aren't missing a citation to the specific "research" as well.
Ah well. It's not like "progressive science" for the benefit of furthering government controls isn't dependent on "faith-based initiatives" anyway, as long as we're willing to climb over, tunnel under or break through that "wall of separation" whenever the doctrine of state worship can be advanced.
"We are concerned about a chilling effect on the speech of our physicians, and that their First Amendment rights are being trampled," Dr. Mobeen Rathore, High Priest ... no, make that President of the Florida chapter of the AAP complained. "Who is in a better position to determine what is relevant to a patient's care? The government or the physician? This puts the government in the exam room."
In case you haven't noticed, doc, they're already there. And when asked on what Constitutional grounds, just like we ask where they get authority to infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms, your fellow gun-grabber and Speaker at the time responded with a contemptuous "Are you serious?"
As for who is in a better position, when it comes to matters of gun safety, we'll get to that in a bit.
But let's examine your complaint about the trampling of your First Amendment rights. I can't help but notice you and "Saunders" are free to lay out your case for all the world to see, and no one is stopping you or closing down your websites, or keeping The Beast and other "legitimate news media" outlets from giving you essentially free ad space masked as cutting-edge "journalism."
This has strictly to do with matters of professional conduct regulated via a state licensing apparatus that you have no problem with when someone else's ox is getting gored, say, those who can document the trampling of Second Amendment-recognized rights. Would you say a lawyer who discloses attorney-client privileged information is having his First Amendment-protected speech abridged? Should doctors, who are looked upon as authoritative experts on medical matters, be able to freely make non-medical diagnoses and issue non-medical prescriptions? As such, this falls under what Timothy Wheeler, MD comprehensively demonstrated is a boundary violation, that is, unethical physician conduct.
"The AAP, ACP, and AMA are members of the Handgun Epidemic Lowering Plan (HELP) Network, based in Chicago. HELP is an exclusive advocacy group dedicated to banning guns.," Wheeler explained. "Physicians who disagree with HELP's anti-gun agenda are barred from attending HELP's conferences, a policy unthinkable in any scientific organization. HELP's founder and leader Dr. Katherine Christoffel has compared guns to viruses that must be eradicated.
"[T]he AAP has adopted its 'gun safety instruction' patient materials from the gun-ban lobby Handgun Control, Inc. (HCI). The AAP and Handgun Control, Inc.'s informational wing the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence advise families in their STOP pamphlet, 'The safest thing is to not have a gun in your home, especially not a handgun.'" Wheeler continued. "And any doctor should know that patient counseling based on these materials is politics, not medicine."
There's plenty of evidence as to the life-protecting benefits of guns in private hands, and looking only at abuse while ignoring those hardly seems good science, making it fair to question whether Dr. "Saunders" & Co. dispensing advice really does fulfill his stated "sole purpose of keeping ... children safe."
How does he know anyone following his "advice" by not owning guns, or if they do, by locking them up separately from ammunition (and thus useless in a defense situation), won't be setting their kids up for more pitchfork child murders, or keeping a responsible and trained child from defending herself against a home intruder? Just what are "Saunders'" qualifications anyway? Just because he's highly educated, trained and experienced in one field hardly makes him a subject matter expert in all.
Perhaps that's where we can establish a "third way" between those like the AAP, who want to be able to give everyone a Mr. Mackey "Guns are bad, m'kay?" lecture, and Dr. Wheeler, who takes a hard line against agenda-driven boundary violations. "Progressives" love "third way" proposals, if nothing else to get people's guard down on matters of principle and let the camel slip its nose under the tent, so if they're to be consistent, they ought to love this idea.
I know that's a big "if." But perhaps we can at least establish that they're being inconsistent (yet again).
Some years back, working with the late Joe Horn, a retired Los Angeles Sheriff's Deputy and risk management consultant, I developed a "Physician Qualification and Liability Form" based on his essay "Don't Borrow Trouble" and it's follow-on, Part II. While it may be too late at present for Florida, at least until the expected appeal is resolved, how about if physicians who wish to ask and advise on guns do a little something for their patients first, as a way of establishing their expert qualifications, indemnifying against bad advice, and heading off boundary violation complaints?
How about if the doctors fill out our form and warrant they have reviewed applicable scientific literature pertaining to defensive gun use and beneficial results of private firearms ownership, or alternatively, are knowingly engaging in home/firearms safety counseling without certification, license or formal training in risk management, and that they have not reviewed applicable scientific literature pertaining to defensive gun use and beneficial results of private firearms ownership?
How about the advising physicians then disclose if they are engaged in an activity for which they are not certified, such as Firearms Safety Counseling, and if their medical malpractice insurance carrier will cover lawsuits resulting from neglect and lack of qualification?
And how about if the gun quacks further attest that, should a patient follow firearm safety counseling and remove from the home and/or disable firearms with trigger locks or other mechanisms, and if the patient or a family member, friend or visitor is subsequently injured or killed as a result of said removal or disabling, their malpractice insurance and/or personal assets will cover all actual and punitive damages resulting from a lawsuit initiated by the patient, the patient's legal representative, or the patient's survivors?
Think they'll go for this "third way"? Why not print out the form and present it to any doctor asking you about guns and see?
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David Codrea is a field editor at GUNS Magazine, penning their monthly "Rights Watch" column. He provides regular reporting and commentary at Gun Rights Examiner and blogs at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. David Codrea's Archive page.
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Video & Voice
Presence in the Pursuit
– Main Menu –Home Who Is Michal? - Bio - Theatrical Headshot and Resume - Commercial Headshot & Resume What Has She Done? - Credits - Video & Voice - Drama – Video - Comedy – Video - Commercial Voice Over - Promo Voice Over - Other Projects - Press Contact Michal Sinnott Gallery - Michal - Headshots - Stills Blogs - What’s New - Presence in the Pursuit
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Playing Tracey De Santa in “Grand Theft Auto V”
by Michal Sinnott
A coastal Virginia native and a professional actress since the ripe age of seven, Michal has appeared in dozens of stage plays and over fifty principal / starring roles for radio, television, and film. Her film work includes roles in Spike Lee’s "Inside Man," "Quid Pro Quo" with Vera Farmiga and Nick Stahl (Sundance Premier 2008), and lead / supporting roles in the upcoming indie features, "Walking Away," "Independently Blue," and "HorrorCon." Television credits include a recurring role on "One Life to Live" and three separate characters for "Law and Order: CI," as well as principal / starring roles for ABC, NBC, and CBS. In addition to acting, she is also an accomplished kid's acting teacher and screenwriter and is currently producing her Sundance Screenwriting Lab Finalist feature, "Born That Way," through her production company, Cross Country Productions. A former flight attendant for a military charter, she has traveled extensively, having visited over 25 countries on six continents. She currently splits her time between Los Angeles and Staten Island, NY, where her husband Joseph and she have a rambling old Victorian fixer-upper. They have two dogs, Wylie and Jasper, that provide a much needed dose of reality and sanity to their life and work.
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David Manley of Up In Arms
By baovo
David Manley is an exceptionally talented artist who has created an entire world of puppets, and also the awesome music video for our song Electricity featuring puppet Ming & Ping! David and his team at Up In Arms have a show for children called “Helping Drew” with a very good message about anti-bullying. Here’s a bit that David wrote about his discovery of our music:
I was lucky to be a teenager in the 80’s and have my music tastes blossom with a steady diet of synthpop pioneers like Erasure, Eurythmics, Depeche Mode, Thompson Twins and Human League. I also idolized 80s pop gods Michael Jackson, Prince, Cyndi Lauper and Madonna. Music in the 80s was dramatic and full of fun and flair.
As the music spotlight veered away from synthpop, I relied on the internet and sites like A Different Drum to discover the next new wave of synthpop talent. I believe it was 2006 when one of my online music excursions brought me to an article on Ming & Ping and a free download of their Bright Sunlight (HOT4U Remix). I was hooked. Everything that I loved about 80s synthpop was front and center in their delivery, complete with a fashion aesthetic ripped from the pages of Smash Hits circa 1985.
In 2006, I had also rediscovered puppetry, a passion from my youth that began with Jim Henson’s Muppets on Sesame Street and, later, The Muppet Show. There was an inherent goodness, quest for light and love that encompassed both my taste in music and passion for puppetry. In 2007, Ming & Ping released their album Causeway Army and set my synthpop soul on fire once more. What a gem! What charisma! They have proven themselves worthy to carry the torch for a new synthpop age. As Causeway Army surrounded me in its lush soundscape on repeat listenings, I kept coming back to the song Electricity as a favorite and looked forward to M&P’s possible video in hopes it would match some of the imagery that was playing in my mind. At the end of 2008, my puppet building skills were getting better and by May of ’09, I was inspired to create my own Ming & Ping puppets with the idea of creating a Ming & Ping puppet music video. By this time, the Causeway Army campaign had ended and M&P were on to recording their next album and began their “Ming & Ping Spicy Show” series on their Youtube channel. With a local friend, I story-boarded a music video for Electricity, shot and edited it and sent it off to M&P in hopes they would enjoy it. I was ecstatic and honored when the guys wrote back telling me they loved what I had done and wanted to feature it in a new episode of their Spicy Show.
Puppetry has since become my career and, in the spirit of the love and peace that puppetry and music has always meant to me, I produced an anti-bullying puppet show [Helping Drew] with a talented writer which I’m currently touring to elementary schools. Additionally, while working with a theatrical academy for elementary-school-aged through teen students, I present a 2-hour workshop teaching them the basics of puppetry. The Ming & Ping puppets, with their flowing, spiked hair and cool neck ties, are favorites among the students. When they ask about the origins of the different puppets, I get a certain satisfaction in telling them that Ming & Ping are an actual synthpop duo in LA whom the puppets were modeled after. Maybe it will inspire them to discover some spicy new music.
Helping Drew promotional video from Up In Arms on Vimeo.
David’s puppet company is Up In Arms at upinarms.biz. Additional production photos and upcoming projects are featured on the Up In Arms Facebook page facebook.com/upinarmspuppets.
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Free Download: Ming & Ping Spicy Jamz Vol. 2
Melinda March 6th, 2013 12:53AM
David, you’re so talented in so many ways! I’m so proud to share your updates on Drew and it gives me a second to brag about you as well!
Keep up the awesome work!
Ming & Ping March 6th, 2013 3:51AM
And he’s as cool and humble as can be! What a great guy! :)
プレイボーイ ポロシャツ September 9th, 2013 5:36PM
メガネ オークリー
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Sunan Ibn Majah Hadith
Chapter no: 14, The Chapters on Business Transactions hadees, hadis, hadith
171 Hadiths In This Chapter. Page 1 Of 18
Narrated / Authority Of: Aishah
that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: 'The best (most pure) food a man consumes is that which he has earned himself, and his child (and his child's wealth) is part of his earnings."
Narrated / Authority Of: Miqdam bin Madikarib
(Ar-Zubaidi) that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: "No man earns anything better than that which he earns with his own hands, and what a man spends on himself, his wife, his child and his servant, then it is charity."
Narrated / Authority Of: Ibn Umar
that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: 'The trustworthy, honest Muslim merchant will be with the martyrs on the Day of Resurrection."
Narrated / Authority Of: Abu Hurairah
that the Prophet (saw) said: 'The one who strives to support the widow and the poor is like a Mujahid who fights in the cause of Allah, and like one who stands in the night (in voluntary prayer) and fasts by day."
Narrated / Authority Of: Muadh bin Abdullah bin Khubaib
from his father, that his paternal uncle said: "We were sitting in a gathering, and the Prophet (saw) came with traces of water on his head. One of us said to him: 'We see that you are of good cheer today.' He said: 'Yes, praise is to Allah.' Then he spoke to the people about being rich. He said: 'There is nothing wrong with being rich for one who has piety, but good health for one who has piety is better than riches, and being of good cheer is a blessing."
Narrated / Authority Of: Abu Humaid As-Saidi
that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: "Be moderate in seeking worldly things, for everyone will be facilitated for which he was created."
Narrated / Authority Of: Anas bin Malik
that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: "The one who has the most concerns is the believer who is concerned about both his worldly affairs and his Hereafter." (Da'if) Abu Abdullah said: "This Hadith is Gharib Ismail, alone, has narrated it."
Narrated / Authority Of: Jabir bin Abdullah
that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: "O people, fear Allah and be moderate in seeking a living, for no soul will die until it has received all its provision, even if it is slow in coming. So fear Allah and be moderate in seeking provision; take that which is permissible and leave that which is forbidden. "
Narrated / Authority Of: Qais bin Abu Gharazah
"At the time of the Messenger of Allah (saw) we used to be called brokers, but the Messenger of Allah (saw) passed by us and called by a name that was better than that. He said: 'O merchants, selling involves (false) oaths and idle talk, so mix some charity with it."'
Narrated / Authority Of: Ismail bin Ubaid bin Rifaah
from his father, that his grandfather Rifaah said: "We went out with the Messenger of Allah (saw) and the people were trading early in the morning. He called them: 'O merchants!' and when they looked up and craned their necks, he said : 'The merchants will be raised on the Day of Resurrection as immoral people, apart from those who fear Allah and act righteously and speak the truth (i.e. those who are honest)."'
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Grammy Moments Look a Lot Like Other Grammy Moments
The telecast's efforts to create one-of-a-kind moments end up feeling off the shelf.
St. Vincent and Dua Lipa on the Grammys
A few quick Grammys-related thoughts:
- The Grammys have tried to make “Grammy Moments” the telecast’s calling card. The idea of creating one-of-a-kind live moments is a promising one, and when it works as it did spectacularly when St. Vincent and Dua Lipa provocatively joined “Masseduction” and “One Kiss,” but when it fails, it’s a wipeout. Post Malone (of course Post Malone) sang by himself, then walked through a tunnel while singing “Rock Star” to find Red Hot Chili Peppers, strap on an inaudible guitar, and churn along while they played “Dark Necessities” as if he wasn’t there.
As Grammy telecasts go, it was better than recent ones and only occasionally cringeworthy. Katy Perry sang Dolly Parton’s “Here You Come Again” like she wanted the song to drop and give her 20, and Jennifer Lopez remade Motown as J-Lotown. The video tribute package to Recording Academy CEO Neil Portnow conspicuously included female artists who sang the praises of the guy who told them last year that their poor representation among the Grammy winners and performers was because they needed to “step up.” The fact that he got as much airtime as the Aretha Franklin tribute should embarrass the Grammys.
Still, for me the glaring takeaway from the Grammys is how little faith the telecast shows in its artists and their music each year. The blueprint for a “Grammy Moment” that producer Ken Ehrlich defaults to year after year is to put a singer onstage alone with a piano (Kacey Musgraves, Shawn Mendes) or guitar (H.E.R., St. Vincent) and start their songs in ways that they didn’t start on the records that earned him or her nominations. That stark, quiet start usually slowly builds (though not in Musgraves’ case), adding the band and eventually strings and/or a gospel chorus--again, in ways that didn’t happen on the record. Thankfully, St. Vincent’s duet with Dua Lipa developed in a far more interesting way, but Ehrlich’s adherence to that dynamic produces a specific kind of whisper-to-a-scream, widescreen drama that is alien to many of the artists presented in that way, and it makes very different artists seem oddly similar.
The best moments came when artists were most themselves. Janelle Monáe’s “Make Me Feel” was a five-minute immersion into her world that begged for five more when it started to break out in Prince-ly, James Brown-like jam after she joined her band on the walkway in front of the stage. Brandi Carlile’s radical earnestness isn’t my thing, but her performance of “The Joke” worked as a passionate, artifice-free “Here is my truth” moment. I was ambivalent about the Dolly Parton tribute as a whole, but Dolly’s ability to assert her persona and musicianship in the constantly shifting cast around her (inCLUDING Katy PERRY and the worker drones Little Big Town) made the tribute seem necessary.
Monáe, Carlile, and St. Vincent and Dua Lipa showed how well the show could work when it respected the artists’ visions and the specifics of the music they were being recognized for. Unfortunately, Ehrlich’s production team fills too much space with by-the-numbers combinations to let those moments become the telecast’s artistic voice.
- Speaking of #grammysdontgetit, the telecast could only be watched online through CBS.com’s pay window, CBS All Access. That meant that fans of Camila Cabello, Dua Lipa, Chloe X Halle, and Post Malone who most likely experience music and television through their phones had to decide if they cared enough to pay to see them. These are the Grammys’ future viewers, and they’re put on the outside looking not in but at something else entirely. To make matters worse, only some performances are available on YouTube so they’re not going to enter the world virally either. In the streaming era, CBS and the Recording Academy doubled down on exclusion.
- Drake hiding backstage was the worst kind of bet-hedging, seemingly absent and adding to the number of hip-hop artists in effect boycotting the Grammys for its lack of respect until he won an award. Then he appeared, which selfishly made the issue not whether or not the Grammys embrace hip-hop but whether it loves his hip-hop. The Grammys then fumbled and cut off his acceptance speech, which won’t help get other rappers back at the show and almost did the unimaginable as it made Drake sympathetic.
- The Grammys clearly engineered the show to say that they don’t have a problem with women. Host Alicia Keys with Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Jada Pinkett Smith and Michelle Obama made a strong statement when the five appeared on stage together, but they said little that came from the unique perspectives that their success has earned them, and none of it specifically spoke to women. Smith came the closest to saying something that mattered when she said, “Every voice deserves to be honored and respected.” The segment used as much firepower as the Grammys could muster in 2019 to settle an age-old debate. Now we know—music’s good!
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Maze Alpha X Review: Budget Phone With 18:9 Screen
In September 2017 we reviewed the Maze Alpha. It’s a solidly built ‘bezel-less’ phone that’s surprisingly inexpensive at under £150.
Now, Maze has launched a follow-up which is just as on-trend: the Alpha X with an 18:9 screen.
Maze Alpha X: Price
Again, the price is less than you would guess from the on-paper specs: you can buy it from GearBest for only £158.
This makes it one of the cheapest 18:9 phones we’ve seen yet. Don’t forget you’ll likely have to pay import duty (at 20 percent) and a handling fee, so the total price is closer to £200.
You can get it in blue as well, but GearBest sells only the black model.
Maze Alpha X: Features and Design
Side by side it’s obvious which phone is which: the taller, narrower screen immediately identifying the newcomer. It’s an LG display with 2160×1080 pixels which equates to 401ppi.
Being an IPS screen, viewing angles are fine and it’s relatively bright. Colours are also decent, if lacking the punch you get from (admittedly more expensive) AMOLED screens.
Maze hasn’t simply shoe-horned the taller screen into the same chassis for the ‘X’, even though both phones have 6in displays.
In order to retain a front-mounted fingerprint sensor the Alpha X is a few millimetres taller, but it’s marginally lighter at a still-hefty 210g.
The bezels are slim, but not the smallest around: the top bezel still has to house the earpiece speaker and a notification light.
This weight gives a reassuring feel to the build quality and with an alloy frame and glass both front and rear, is easy to mistake for a phone that costs a lot more.
Unfortunately the frame is easily scratched and, on the black model we received, a simple scrape against a metal keyboard left obvious marks on the Alpha X with the black coating removed to reveal the silver metal underneath.
No case is provided in the box but, oddly, you do get a glass screen protector. Why this isn’t installed by the factory is a mystery.
The overall design is almost indistinguishable from the original Alpha with a headphone socket on top, USB-C at the bottom (along with mono speaker) buttons on the right and SIM tray on the left.
As the screen is pushed as close to the top as possible, the front camera is located at the bottom and you’re instructed to flip the phone upside down to take a selfie: an essential chore if you don’t want photos offering a view up your nostrils.
Internals are basically the same as the Alpha with a Helio P25 octa-core processor, Mali-T880 GPU and either 64 or 128GB of storage.
However, there 6GB of RAM as standard rather than 4GB.
Strangely, you get a different main camera on the 128GB version, and neither version has the dual-camera setup of the original Alpha.
With the smaller 64GB capacity you get a Sony IMX258 13Mp sensor, but an Omnivision OV16880 16Mp sensor on the 128GB.
There’s still the option to use a microSD card up to 256GB to expand storage, and dual-standby nano SIM slots.
Despite the low price, you get 802.11ac Wi-Fi. There’s no NFC (absent from a lot of Chinese phones) but there is Bluetooth 4.1 and an FM radio.
Battery capacity is marginally less than the Alpha at 3900mAh, but in practice it makes no noticeable difference. You’ll still be charging the Alpha X each night.
Performance in our benchmarks was also pretty much identical, which is unsurprising. It’s also in line with what you’d expect from a phone at this price: benchmark results are lot lower than more expensive phones.
In general, performance is fine if you’re relatively undemanding of your phone. It’ll handle casual games, email, web browsing and similar tasks.
But don’t expect the kind of instant app-loading times you get with a top-end phone.
We were sent the 64GB / 13Mp version to test, but although it’s a Sony sensor, cameras are not the Alpha X’s strong point.
It’s strange Maze decided to go back to a single camera after dual cameras on the first Alpha, but the quality of those cameras was poor in any case.
The Alpha X is better, but it’s still no better than you’d expect from a budget phone. Colours are great, unlike the green-tinted photos from its predecessor.
If you just want to share photos on social media, they’re perfectly adequate. Closer inspection on a big PC monitor reveals soft focus, noise and a general lack of sharp detail though.
The camera performs best in bright conditions, and poorly in low light. HDR isn’t automatic, but selecting the mode does make a big difference:
Video is recorded at a maximum of 1080p at 30fps. Audio is decent but the video suffers from the dreaded wobble or ‘jello’ effect unless you keep the phone perfectly still.
There appears to be software stabilisation (which could be introducing this wobble effect) that’s applied after you shoot the video as the image jerks around if you walk while videoing.
The stock camera app has few features, even in the ‘Pro’ mode. But it does at least allow you to alter the white balance.
One feature we hate is that when you swipe up or down, it flips to the front camera. That’s a real pain if you’re trying to use exposure compensation: if you miss the slider even slightly, it swaps to the other camera.
At the front it an 8Mp selfie camera (again suing a Sony sensor). It does a decent job and there’s the expected beauty mode you can play with.
We criticised the Alpha for lacking an app tray, but that’s present on the Alpha X. And, for the most part, Maze hasn’t mucked around with Android so you get a near-stock version with all Google apps present.
The fingerprint scanner doubles as a home button, so you can hide the on-screen navigation controls most of the time and get the most from the big screen (you can also pinch to zoom in on videos so they occupy the whole screen). A short tap is the same as the back button, and a long press takes you to the home screen.
Should I buy the Maze Alpha X?
If you’re after an affordable phone which doesn’t look like a budget phone, the Alpha X is a fine choice. It’s a little heavy, but you’ll struggle to find another phone with a 6in, 18:9 screen at this kind of price.
You could play it safe and go for a Motorola Moto G5 or another phone widely available in the UK from our best cheap phones roundup, but the Alpha X is a bit quicker, has a bigger, wider screen and its cameras are roughly on a par with the Moto.
It’s still a budget phone though, so if you demand slick performance you’ll have to spend more. But for anyone after a ‘bezel-less’ phone under £200, it’s decent value.
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Topics: gop, Sarah Palin, Sen. Jim DeMint, Senate race, tea party, ted cruz, texas
Sarah Palin came to Texas to rally for Tea Party Republican Senate candidate Ted Cruz, pictured next to Palin. Also in photo are Cruz’ wife, Heidi, and South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint. ( Photo: AP/Houston Chronicle, Johnny Hanson)
Ted Cruz gets high-profile Tea Party boost from Sarah Palin
by Will Weissert and Nomaan Merchant Associated Press Follow @NBCLatino
8:40 am on 07/28/2012
THE WOODLANDS — Sarah Palin told a cheering crowd late Friday that America needs to get back to its “clinging to God and guns” roots, as the tea pea party’s biggest names made a series of last-minute, high-profile appearances around Texas to support insurgent conservative U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz.
The former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate spoke to more than 1,000 boisterous and sweating Cruz supporters gathered under a mercilessly early-evening sun on a grassy knoll in The Woodlands, a well-to-do Houston suburb. She told them that “to make America great, we don’t need a fundamental transformation, we need a fundamental restoration.”
“Fighters like Ted Cruz can lead the charge for us,” Palin said.
Cruz, the former Texas Solicitor General, is locked in a fierce and increasingly nasty battle with the mainstream Texas GOP choice, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, for the Republican nomination to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. The pair face a runoff Tuesday because neither won a majority in a nine-Republican senatorial field during the state’s May 29 primary.
Palin jokingly called Texas “Alaska’s little-sister state,” and said that President Barack Obama and defenders of politics-as-usual “believe they are smarter than you are.” She said the tea party is unapologetic in its pro-religion, pro-Second Amendment and anti-abortion convictions — adding that the grassroots tidal wave that began two years ago is just getting started.
“And 2010 was just a step in that long march towards that real reform we need. Texas will you keep fighting?” she asked. The crowd bellowed: “Yes!”
Palin noted that Texas Gov. Rick Perry previously gave her the black boots that she was wearing on stage Friday to match her black top and black skirt, saying: “At least, in one case, he made a good decision.”
That was a reference to the governor’s endorsement of Dewhurst, who has overseen the Texas Senate since 2003. When her mention of Perry drew only light applause, Palin added: “We’ll all be a team again once this is over,” suggesting that Texas conservatives will move quickly to mend a large and growing rift that the Cruz-Dewhurst contest has opened within the state’s Republican Party.
Wearing jeans and a broad smile, Cruz introduced Palin, calling Obama a “clueless, out-of-touch, socialist” and saying that “the tea party movement is fundamentally about accountability.”
Also appearing at the rally was South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, who predicted a Cruz landslide and said it would shock traditional Republicans as much as Democrats.
“Tuesday night, when they find out what happened here in Texas, Republican leaders in Austin and in Washington aren’t going to sleep very well,” DeMint said, referring to the state capital.
It was DeMint’s second appearance with Cruz on Friday. He spoke alongside the candidate earlier in the day in Dallas, along with fellow tea party voices in the U.S. Senate, Mike Lee of Utah and Kentucky’s Rand Paul.
During the Dallas event, Cruz again criticized a Dewhurst circular that puts his face in front of a Chinese flag — a reference to Cruz’s Houston-based law firm’s representation of a Chinese company in an intellectual property dispute with an American manufacturer.
“I observed that for a long time, it has been considered the very basis of gutter politics to impugn another candidate’s patriotism,” Cruz said in Dallas. “That ad was a blatant falsehood.”
He accused Dewhurst of “flooding the airwaves” with attacks, including ads about his past legal work for a Pennsylvania developer embroiled in a judicial corruption scandal.
Paul, the son of U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Lake Jackson, Texas, said he didn’t know Dewhurst but didn’t like the ads he had seen. “That disqualifies you from office,” he said.
Dewhurst spokesman Matt Hirsch countered that Cruz had run “a relentlessly negative campaign from Day One.”
“Ted Cruz is now using his D.C. supporters as a shield to hide from the fact he chose to represent American job killers,” Hirsch said in a statement. “Texans know that David Dewhurst has produced conservative results, and that is why they are politely telling the D.C. insider crowd to shove it.”
Dewhurst was campaigning in Tyler in East Texas on Friday, but a group of veterans supporting the lieutenant governor gathered in The Woodlands prior to Cruz’s event to voice their support for him.
Tea party groups have targeted Dewhurst as too moderate. While the lieutenant governor has overseen some of the most conservative legislative sessions in Texas history, he has also occasionally compromised with Democrats on key bills.
To finance his campaign over the last two weeks, Dewhurst has loaned his campaign an additional $8 million, bringing the total spent from his own pocket to $24.5 million. Texas has 20 media markets, making it one of the most expensive states in which to mount a major campaign.
According to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission, Dewhurst wrote four checks to his campaign since July 13. He had already loaned it more than $16 million. Cruz, meanwhile, has gotten millions from national conservative groups, including the anti-tax Club for Growth, based in Washington.
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Learning How to Lie
This is a pretty cool album. It’s got a bit of a punk rock element, but overall lands more in the territory of singer/songwriter music. The punk edge comes mostly from the vocals, but sometimes the music has it, too. Sometimes this is hard edged. At other times it’s mellow. It’s always strong.
The rhythm section starts this and it powers out into a hard rocking jam. This is part punk, part metal and all rock and roll.
Plastic Lady
I love the cool retro texture to this number. It’s got a lot of style and magic in the mix.
This is a balladic number. It has symphonic orchestration in the mix. The vocals, though, land it more along the lines of punk rock inspired music. It’s a pretty tune, either way.
There’s a tasty riff to this rocker. The vocals are punky. Horns and more lend some jazzy, soulful elements.
The title track is another cool rocker with some great retro textures.
Rough Time in Paris (Around, Around)
I really love this song. It’s got a folk rock vibe to it. It’s retro textured in a lot of ways.
In the Fall
Here’s a cool rock and roller. It has some nice honky tonk piano and tasty harmonica.
Bound for the Sun
A mellower tune, there is a lot of country music built into this.
So Far Down
I love this cut. It’s got a great funky, jazzy groove to it.
Acoustic guitar driven balladic rock, this has symphonic orchestration built into it. It’s got a real classic rock feeling to it.
Can't Knock 'Em Out
The punk meets classic rock edge is back here. This gets a bit of a parental advisory on the lyrics.
When Levon Sings
This one has a lot of classic rock and folk in the mix. It reminds me a bit of The Band. It’s a great way to end the set in style.
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Democrats pour money into NC as polls show tight race, Burr with an edge
September 21, 2016 Donna King News
Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Deborah Ross waves to supporters at the Democratic Party Headquarters in Raleigh after winning the North Carolina primary on Tuesday
WASHINGTON, D.C. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is shifting money from Florida and Ohio to focus on N.C. and other key states. The shift comes as a new Elon University poll shows Burr and Ross in a virtual dead heat with Ross getting about 44 percent of voters polled and Burr getting 43 percent, within the margin of error. Libertarian Sean Haugh claimed about four percent and seven percent of respondents said they were undecided.”We may have simply recorded a short-term blip, but we also might have found an emerging trend,” said Jason Husser, director of the Elon Poll. “We suspect Burr’s numbers have potential to shift in coming weeks given a campaign cycle with huge advertising budgets.”Those advertising dollars are about roll in. The DSCC just announced that it plans to spend an additional $4.2 million in N.C. The group is one of the top spenders for Democratic senate candidates and has cancelled television ad buys in Florida and Ohio to invest almost $10 million in ads to help Deborah Ross in N.C. and Evan Bayh in Indiana, among others.In a press release this week Ross said,”The state is on fire with anger at the do-nothing Congress and the hard-right agenda of the state legislature. People are eager to be heard and I’m a good listener.”A former state legislator and the former executive director of the N.C. ACLU, Ross has been criticized for opposing the convicted sex offenders registry. Shehas also struggled with name recognition, something her campaign has tried to combat with a list of appearances across the state and an aggressive media strategy. Meanwhile, a 12-year senior senator with extensive foreign policy experience as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Burr has support among conservatives and the military communities, but spent much of the campaign season working in D.C.”It’s no surprise that Deborah Ross’ liberal D.C. allies want to distract voters from her dangerous career as a top lobbyist for the ACLU, pumping millions of dollars from the radical left into North Carolina,” said Burr campaign spokesman Jesse Hunt. “No amount of money can rewrite Ross’ record of standing up for convicted criminals instead of the safety of North Carolinians.”The shift of party money also indicates bleak election day prospects for Ohio senate Democratic candidate Ted Murphy, as well as Florida’s Democrat Patrick Murphy, who is trying to unseat former Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio.The Elon University Poll surveyed 799 registered voters and was conducted by live interviewers through cell phones and landlines from Sept. 12-16, 2016. Responses are from those self-identified registered voters who say they are likely to vote in the Nov. 8 election and has a margin of error of +/- 3.86 percentage points.
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April 15, 2017 Dillon Whitley Article
ALBEMARLE — Winemakers in this part of N.C. are not content simply letting their product ferment. Like any other industry, wineries are always looking for ways to innovate and introduce their products to new people […]
Democrats boycott meeting to delay Trump nominee votes
January 31, 2017 Donna King News
WASHINGTON, D.C. Democrats in the U.S. Senate chose to boycott the Senate Finance Committee meeting Tuesday in an effort to delay the confirmation of two of Pres. Donald Trump’s cabinet nominations. The rules of […]
NC man pleads guilty to plotting Islamic State attack
November 29, 2016 Joseph Ax News
ASHEVILLE A 20-year-old Asheville man accused of murdering his neighbor and offering to pay someone to kill his own parents pleaded guilty Tuesday to plotting mass shooting attacks in the name of Islamic State.Justin […]
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JDSU on track with business split
New 'Lumentum' company looks to Laser 2000 to expand fiber laser customer base beyond Amada.
JDSU's Corelight laser platform
The optical components and lasers division at JDSU – soon to become a separate company known as “Lumentum” – has reported a slowdown in sales of high-power fiber lasers.
At $195.2 million, divisional revenues were up very slightly compared with a year ago, but that masked a 20 per cent sequential decline in commercial laser sales, to $31.5 million.
Alan Lowe, who currently heads up the division and is set to become Lumentum’s CEO when the JDSU split takes place later this year, attributed the decline to a seasonal slowdown in a quarter that included the Chinese New Year, as well as what he believes is a temporary slump in sales of high-power fiber lasers.
“Third quarter fiber laser revenue was just under $10 million, following three consecutive record quarters,” he told an investor conference call. “Fiber laser sales were down due to customer inventory management.”
However, he reckons that sales of fiber lasers will bounce back towards the end of calendar 2015, as Lumentum looks to sell the “Corelight” products recently launched at the Photonics West exhibition beyond development partner Amada, and starts to feel the benefits of a new partnership with Laser 2000.
Laser 2000 distribution deal
JDSU signed an exclusive deal with the Munich, Germany, distributor last month, and when questioned about that agreement by investors Lowe said:
“This puts a lot more feet on the street [sic], knocking on doors and opening up opportunities for us to sell fiber lasers outside of our main partner. That's the primary reason for the agreement with Laser 2000. They're a good group of people and they have a sales force that's already out knocking on doors.”
Lowe added that JDSU’s new kilowatt-class direct-diode and high-power fiber lasers should complement the firm’s existing products in the “macro” segment of the laser materials processing market.
“We still don’t have revenues outside of our main customer, Amada,” he said. “[But] we have a whole portfolio of products that we announced at Photonics West that I think over the next year or so we should be able to add to our customer base.”
Regarding some of the other lasers in the JDSU portfolio, aimed at “micro” scale materials processing applications, he said:
“Higher-power versions of our Q-switched solid state and ultrafast lasers specifically designed for OEM machine tool applications are being designed into our customers' tools now. Manufacturing these lasers using our low-cost contract manufacturing model positions us well in the micro material processing market.”
Overall, he is expecting the commercial lasers division to grow at an average rate of around 5 per cent each year following the Lumentum separation – although revenues from high-power fiber lasers, direct-diode sources, and ultrafast lasers should expand at more like 15 per cent.
Gesture sensing migrates to PCs
However, Lumentum’s overall sales will remain dominated by products destined for applications in various forms of optical communications. These came in at $163.7 million in the latest quarter – exactly the same figure reported this time last year.
Among the major variables in that part of the Lumentum mix are sales of devices used in 3D sensing applications. And although they have declined to a low point in recent months, Lowe is hopeful that new deployments in high-end PC applications will help to spark wider uptake.
“We expect 3D sensing revenue to gradually recover as we have started to shift production units for new PCs and other electronics device applications,” he said. “We believe this business could strengthen further over the longer-term as more consumer electronic devices increasingly incorporate 3D sensing capabilities.”
When questioned about that, JDSU’s CEO Tom Waechter declined to say whether or not JDSU was working with Intel on those PC applications, but noted:
“[The] PC applications that we're participating on are typically high end today. When or if that transfers down into the mid-range or the $599 PC, that’s really where the sweet spot is. We're not there yet, [but] I would say that when that happens we should be able to see that business pick up dramatically.”
At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas earlier this year, Intel's CEO Brian Krzanich said in a keynote talk that 2015 would go down as a turning point in the history of consumer electronics - thanks in part to 3D and gesture sensing based on photonics:
"We’re going from a two-dimensional world to a three-dimensional world," he said. "This additional dimension will change how we experience computing. We've given the PC eyes and ears."
Central to his thesis were both the gesture-controlled devices enabled by the optical technologies and sensors in platforms like RealSense – which can see and understand depth, allowing the focus of a photo to be altered after it is captured - and wearable technologies like wristbands and fingertip pulse oximeters.
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Faraar
Action Crime Drama Thriller Romance
Release Date: 21st November 1975
Actors: Sanjeev Kumar Sharmila Tagore Amitabh Bachchan Sulochana Latkar Anupama Jayshree T. Leena Das Sajjan Rajan Haksar Amit Kapur D.K. Sapru Master Bhagwan Brahmachari Murad Brahm Bhardwaj Vinay Uma Dutt Kabir Babu Raju Shrestha A
Description: Raj (Amitabh Bachan) is an artist who lives with his single sister and widowed mother. Nita is assaulted and dies; the killer goes scot free. Raj takes revenge and finds himself on the run from the law. On the run he is reunited with his old flame Asha (Sharmila Tagore). While sparks fly, they both realize that they still love each other and yet they respect social values. How Raj, Asha, Mala and Sanjay (Sanjeev Kumar) resolve the knotty issue of unrequited love while the law is chasing Raj is the story skilfully narrated in the film through a series of flashbacks. Can Raj take a hostage and escape the police dragnet? Will Asha find the courage to help Raj? How will Sanjay reconcile his duty as a police officer with his love for his family. Though there are elements of Bombay filmi formulas and the film does drag on in parts, good acting, direction and storyline keep the viewer in a state of "what next" to the very end.Raj (Amitabh Bachan) is an artist who lives with his single sister and widowed mother. Nita is assaulted and dies; the killer goes scot free. Raj takes revenge and finds himself on the run from the law. On the run he is reunited with his old flame Asha (Sharmila Tagore). While sparks fly, they both realize that they still love each other and yet they respect social values. How Raj, Asha, Mala and Sanjay (Sanjeev Kumar) resolve the knotty issue of unrequited love while the law is chasing Raj is the story skilfully narrated in the film through a series of flashbacks. Can Raj take a hostage and escape the police dragnet? Will Asha find the courage to help Raj? How will Sanjay reconcile his duty as a police officer with his love for his family. Though there are elements of Bombay filmi formulas and the film does drag on in parts, good acting, direction and storyline keep the viewer in a state of "what next" to the very end.
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Unilag student arrested for stealing boyfriend’s ATM card to buy iPhones
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Like UNILAG, Bayero University to launch radio, TV stations
Bayero University, Kano, is working towards the establishment of a community radio and television stations, says Mohammad Yahuza Bello, the institution’s vice-chancellor. According to Guardian, Bello made the disclosure at …
University of Lagos to set up refinery soon – Vice-Chancellor
The University of Lagos, UNILAG, would soon set up conventional and standard locally-built refineries to boost the nation’s refinery capacity, according to the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe. The institution’s vice-chancellor, …
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Resistance in the South West
Thousands march in the Southern Colombian town of Pasto to demand land rights and an end to militarization and large-scale mining .
On October 12, 2012, a few days before historic negotiations between the FARC and Colombian government started, thousands marched in the Colombian city of Pasto, Nariño to show their dissatisfaction with the current administration and their desire “to construct peace with social justice.”
After two days of public meetings and demonstrations in rural areas, campesinos (peasant farmers), indigenous people, afro-colombians, women and students converged on the small provincial capital to make their voices heard.
Riot police blocked protestors upon their arrival at the Plaza de Nariño, the central square in Pasto.
Police eventually allowed the crowd to enter, but then attacked the peaceful group, releasing tear gas and arresting some.
The demonstration was organized by the Nariño branch of the People’s Congress, a popular assembly that democratically adopts and carries out political mandates outside of official government channels. The Congress’ aim is to promote a ‘dignified life’ for Colombians, in part by proposing alternatives to the national development plan handed down by the Colombian government.
Large-scale mining -- a major component of the government’s national development plan -- was one of the key grievances voiced in the October 12 protest. The Committee for the Integration of the Colombian Massif - CIMA estimates that the Colombian government has issued 992 exploration licenses in Nariño, covering 6,913 square km, or 20% of the department (province).
This has sparked public outrage, as peasant farmers and small-scale miners fear the further militarization of resource-rich regions where attacks on community leaders are on the rise. In one recent incident, CIMA leader and outspoken critic of large-scale mining, Rober Daza Guevara, was arbitrarily arrested at a road block.
Social organizations in Nariño have opened a dialogue with the provincial government around mining issues and hope to make their voices heard at the national level. Their ability to popularly mobilize -- as evidenced by the large turn out on October 12th -- suggests that they are a force to be reckoned with.
The CIMA and PASC are both members of the REDHER (Red de Hermandad y Solidaridad con Colombia)
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Located next to Bellevue Public School and close to Cooper Park. Bellevue Park is on Bellevue Road off Victoria Road and also accessible from Birrigia Road to the north. Take Bellvue Road from New South Head Road, or follow Old South Head Road to Victoria Road.
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Westfields and Bondi Junction Mall are a short walk up Old South Head Road where you will find plenty of food options.
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An unlikely trio traveling through time to battle unknown criminals in order to protect history as we know it.
Genres: Action, Drama, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Actors: Abigail Spencer, Matt Lanter, Malcolm Barrett, Paterson Joseph, Sakina Jaffrey, Claudia Doumit, Goran Visnjic, Chad Rook, Matt Frewer, Daniel DiTomasso, Susanna Thompson, Hector Hugo
The Last Man on Earth - S02
This is the story about the life and adventures of the last man on earth. Phil Miller was once just an average guy who loved ...
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Actors: Will Forte, Kristen Schaal, January Jones, Mel Rodriguez, Cleopatra Coleman, Mary Steenburgen
Justice League - S04
Forces of evil, chaos, and destruction await. Not even protectors like Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, the Flash, Hawkgirl or the Martian Manhunter may ...
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Season 4 opens with a lost oriental city in the jungle controlled by a tyrant using a fire breathing dragon. Tarzan meets up with Jane ...
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In this final season, David is kidnapped by convicts who escaped from a women's prison and risks blowing his cover to prevent an assassination. Will he ...
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Season 2 opens with He-Man discovering a statue called, the Grimalken, from the temple of the Cat Folk. However, a young feline, Katrina, warns He-Man that the ...
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Adventure goes into overdrive in the amped fourth and final season of Knight Rider! In this season we will see KITT gets new features, and ...
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Favourite Dingo Dollar “all set” for Saturday’s £100,000 Sky Bet Chase at Doncaster
Posted by racenews on Monday, January 21, 2019 · Leave a Comment
Ante-post favourite Dingo Dollar is one of 14 five-day acceptors for the feature Listed Sky Bet Chase (3.15pm) at Doncaster this Saturday, January 26.
The prestigious three-mile handicap chase, with boosted record prize money of £100,000 in 2019, headlines a quality seven-race Doncaster programme which also includes three G2 contests and the Sky Bet Extra Place Races Handicap Chase (3.50pm, 13 entries).
Dingo Dollar (Alan King, 11st 5lb) is the 5/2 clear market leader with Sky Bet after finishing a good third behind Sizing Tennessee in the G3 Ladbrokes Trophy Handicap chase at Newbury on December 1.
The seven-year-old scored twice over fences last season, including enjoying a decisive course and distance victory in a February novices’ chase, and finished runner-up under top-weight in Ayr’s Novices Championship Handicap Chase in April.
His trainer Alan King is seeking a third Sky Bet Chase triumph, after Ziga Boy captured back-to-back renewals in 2016 and 2017.
Jerry Wright, co-owner of Dingo Dollar, said today: “All is well with Dingo Dollar and he is all set for the Sky Bet Chase.
“We have made a second entry for him at Cheltenham on Saturday, but that is purely precautionary if the ground did happen to come up fast at Doncaster, which looks very unlikely given the forecast.
“The Sky Bet Chase has been the plan since he ran well in the Ladbrokes Trophy. He won a three-mile novices’ chase at Doncaster last season, so we know he likes the track and we are very much looking forward to it.
“Although there was a lot of comment at the time saying that it wasn’t the strongest renewal of the Ladbrokes Trophy, the second [Elegant Escape] and the fourth [Beware The Bear] have both won competitive races since, and the fifth [West Approach] was a good second in the Long Walk Hurdle.
“I think the form stacks up pretty well and if Dingo Dollar replicates his performance there on ground that was softer than ideal, then he should go pretty close.
“He is only a seven-year-old and Alan said right at the beginning of the season that he will have two targets, with the early-season target being the Ladbrokes Trophy and the spring target being the Scottish Grand National.
“He ran a great race at Ayr on his final start last season and both Alan and Wayne (Hutchinson, jockey) said it would be great to take him back there.”
O O Seven (Nicky Henderson, 11st 9lb, 7/1 with Sky Bet) and Go Conquer (Nigel Twiston-Davies, 8/1) have already clashed over course and distance this season on December 15, with O O Seven prevailing by a half-length in a thrilling finish.
The Sky Bet Chase weights are headed by 2017 Cheltenham Gold Cup secondMinella Rocco (Jonjo O’Neill, 11st 12lb, 16/1), who has not been seen out since falling in the G1 Irish Gold Cup at Leopardstown in February, 2018. In the meantime, he has undergone a wind operation.
Last year’s Sky Bet Chase runner-up Warriors Tale (11st 10lb, 8/1) is one of three remaining entries for trainer Paul Nicholls. Warriors Tale gained a deserved success on his latest start in the Grand Sefton Handicap Chase, staged over the Grand National fences, at Aintree on December 8.
The Nicholls trio is completed by Art Mauresque (11st 9lb, 10/1), who was just touched off in a valuable G3 handicap chase at Ascot on his latest start, and three-time chase winner Favorito Buck’s (10st 4lb, 16/1).
Willie Boy (Charlie Longsdon, 11st 2lb, 12/1) is set to tackle three miles for the first time after scoring by 11 lengths in handicap chase over just shy of two and a half miles at Wetherby on December 26.
The same applies to Calipto (Venetia Williams, 11st, 16/1) who won by four lengths in a two and a half-mile handicap chase at Wincanton on January 5.
North Yorkshire trainer Peter Niven, who won the Sky Bet Chase twice as a jockey, has targeted the race with Brian Boranha (10st 10lb, 16/1). The progressive eight-year-old has not raced since landing the Durham National Handicap Chase at Sedgefield in October.
Singlefarmpayment (Tom George, 11st 4lb, 10/1) and On Tour (Evan Williams, 10st 4lb, 16/1) both ran well in valuable contests last time out.
Singlefarmpayment went down by a short-head to Cogry in a G3 handicap chase at Cheltenham in December, while On Tour finished third in the Veterans’ Handicap Chase series final at Sandown Park on January 5.
Becher Handicap Chase fifth Federici (Donald McCain, 10st 1lb, 25/1) and course and distance winner Monbeg River (Martin Todhunter, 10st 4lb, 20/1) complete the 14 acceptors.
Michael Shinners, Racing PR Director at Sky Bet, said: “We are delighted that the prize fund for the Sky Bet Chase has risen to £100,000 in 2019.
“Trainer Alan King saddled Ziga Boy to back-to-back wins in the 2016 and 2017 Sky Bet Chase and he is responsible this year for Dingo Dollar, who has a good profile for the race and is Sky Bet’s clear 5/2 favourite.”
Sky Bet Chase – Sky Bet prices:
5/2 Dingo Dollar;
7/1 O O Seven;
8/1 Go Conquer, Warriors Tale;
10/1 Art Mauresque, Singlefarmpayment;
12/1 Willie Boy;
16/1 Brian Boranha, Calipto, Favorito Buck’s, Minella Rocco, On Tour;
20/1 Monbeg River;
25/1 Federici;
Doncaster’s seven-race programme starts at 12.55pm and ends at 4.25pm.
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Movie Review: ‘Anti Matter’ Is A Great Psychological Thriller
Bradley Smith September 3, 20172017-09-03T05:40:25-05:002017-09-03T05:40:32-05:00
Anti Matter is one of the most pleasant surprises I have seen all year. It is a psychological horror thriller that beautifully blends science and philosophy giving the audience an edge of their seat experience and thought-provoking concepts that will have them scratching their heads for days.
Oxford PhD student, Ana (Yaiza Figueroa), and her two friends are working on wormholes and teleportation, potentially discovering methods that will change humanity forever. At first, it seems to be working. It is not as flashy as Star Trek, but they are able to teleport inanimate objects. Then, they move on to living creatures, including worms, bunnies, and cats (much to one cat’s humorous objection), among others. Objecting to the use of animals are animal rights protesters right outside their lab, some dressed as animals, including a few with monkey masks.
The tone starts lighthearted. Ana and her friends are exploring new frontiers, laughing, and overall having a good time. The tone changes when they decide to do human trials. Specifically, Ana tries the experiment on herself. Soon after, she finds herself unable to maintain new memories, she has weird dreams, her friends become increasingly distant or aggressive toward her, and strange occurrences begin happening; for example, she gets attacked by an unknown assailant in a monkey mask (there was a reason I noted it in the last paragraph).
As the movie progresses, Ana becomes increasingly desperate to figure out what happened in the experiment that she no longer remembers. Even the audience will start to feel the pulse pounding tension. The film delves into philosophy a bit when Ana theorizes that there may be more to humans than just the matter that they tried to teleport; raising some very good discussion worthy questions.
Overall, I found this film to be enjoyable. The cast is (mostly) excellent, with some top-notch performances and the main characters are relatively well developed. The story is intriguing, terrifying, and plausible; at least a few parts gave me chills. Sci-fi fans will enjoy it, but so will thriller fans who know very little about science; there is some science talk, but it is not too dense that a layman cannot follow along.
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Fo’ with the Foes: Toronto Raptors
November 11, 2015 C. Smith Preview 2
This edition of “Fo’ with the Foes” – Philadunkia’s advanced scouting series which with the help of an accomplished journalist from around the NBA beat or blog world, previews upcoming 76ers’ games – features tonight’s opponent, the Toronto Raptors, who are currently on a three game losing streak, but remain in 1st place in the Atlantic Division.
After the jump, I’ll look a Fo’ key items for tonight’s game. Additionally, we’ll get a little more insight into this Toronto team the Sixers face tonight from our colleague Sam Holako at raptorsrepublic.com, as Sam will answer Fo’ questions on his Raptors squad from us here at Philadunkia.
Here are Fo’ key items I will be watching for tonight from the Sixers end…
1) Keep DeRozan in Check: Yes, I know I write this every time the 76ers play the Raptors, but that’s because slowing DeRozan down is THE KEY to competing with Toronto. The Raptors have won 8 straight against the Sixers and DeRozan has been the main reason for their success, as he simply killed the Sixers’ last two years. In 2013-14 DeRozan boasted a 31.3 ppg. average vs. Phialdunkia’s home team. Last season that average fell dramatically (21.7 ppg.) because of an 8 point effort on 1/24/15 (4-14 shooting night). However DeRozan closed the 2014-15 season series against the Sixers with a ridiculous 35 point performance in early March. Tonight, I have no idea how the Sixers are going to do it, but Brown & Co. need to keep DeRozan under 30 points if they want to keep this game competitive.
2) The 3-Ball: Both teams have struggled to shoot the three pointer this season. The 76ers rank 24th in the Association (30%) and Toronto is not much better — ranked 22nd and hitting only 32%. The Sixers will be without Robert Covington again tonight. Meanwhile starting SG Nik Stauskas has hit a brutal stretch from behind the arc — 9-37 in his last 4 games. When informed on his recent shooting numbers “Sauce Castillo” commented, “Jesus”. On the Toronto side of things, tonight the Raptors will be without the services Terrence Ross and DeMarre Carroll, the team’s two best three point threats. IMO the squad that splashes home the greater number of treys tonight will be victorious.
3) Kyle Lowry vs. TJ McConnell: I thought the Sixers undrafted rookie more than held his own against former NBA MVP Derrick Rose on Monday night, so I am very eager to watch him match-up against the Toronto’s ultra quick, All-Star point guard and his highly publicized new physique. Lowry is obviously very skilled and is a tough defensive assignment for any player in the League. Additionally, he will be playing in front of his hometwon family and friends which will give him extra motivation. However, TJ is extremely savvy for a rookie and is one of the most fundamentally sound perimeter defenders I have seen in some time. He should be up to the challenge.
4) Brett & Jah: His 15 rebound performance on Monday night gave us a taste of what type of work Okafor can do on the glass when he is focused on the task. The Sixers will be without Nerlens Noel again tonight, so if the Sixers are to compete for 4 quarters tonight, Jah will be will need to control the boards for Brett Brown against the Raptors. In return I want to see Brown call Jah’s number often tonight in the 1st quarter. Okafor posted an outstanding second half vs. Chicago (7-15 on FGAs) that helped produce his first career double-double. I want to keep that momentum going tonight for Jah. Honestly, if it were not for a few tough rolls off the rim in the 1st half and a host of missed FTs, Okafor scores 30+ vs. Chicago.
Q&A with Sam Holako at raptorsrepublic.com:
Philadunkia: I ran into Philly native Kyle Lowry while he was home this summer and the physical change he executed on his body was very obvious. What impact have you seen on his game from the work he put in this off-season?
Sam Holako at Raptors Republic: The numbers speak for themselves: 18.9pts 5.2reb 6.5ast 2.4stl (all but the assists a career high) all within the confines of the offense, in a much more efficient manner, and in the same about of minutes as he played last season. He’s quicker, more active, gets to the line more, and doesn’t have the visible fatigue he displayed last year while carrying the team. All this makes the contract he signed last year a bloody steal.
Philadunkia: The Raps have dropped 3 in a row, including a Tuesday night loss to the lowly NYK. What have been the key issues for Toronto in this losing streak?
Sam Holako at Raptors Republic: Not having DeMarre Carroll in the line-up is the main issue; dude is already an integral component of this team, with no real viable backup when he’s out injured (especially with Terrence Ross injured as well). I’ll admit, losing against the Knicks hurt, especially since we own their 1st rounder this year.
Philadunkia: How worried are you about DeMarre Carroll’s plantar fasciitis issues?
Sam Holako at Raptors Republic: The problem is two-fold really: plantar fasciitis can only be treated with rest, and the dude is a kamikaze-type player when he’s on the court; so juggling that is going to be a challenge for Casey. The downgrade on the defensive end speaks for itself, but on offense, the loss of his corner threes and the aggressive cuts he makes towards the rack are putting more pressure on Lowry, DeRozan, and Valanciunas to make something happen against defenses that have an easier time to rotate and collapse since the spacing he would have normally created isn’t there anymore.
Philadunkia: Former 76er Jerry Stackhouse is now an assistant coach for the Raptors. What are you hearing about Stack’s role / what he brings to the Toronto staff?
Sam Holako at Raptors Republic: Carroll spoke quite highly of the impact of having him around had before the season started. Basically, it’s just good to have someone on the staff not too far removed from the game (even if his offensive profile is exactly what we DON’T want guys doing lol). I’d also venture that he can help a lot with the defense of the wing players – even though he’s probably teaching offense more, having to guard ‘Old-Man-Tricks’ has to help, right?
Thanks to Sam for his time and answers. Give him a folllw @rapsfan.
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Need for Speed Shift (PS3)
Developer: Slightly Mad Studios
Release Date: September 15, 2009 (US)
Release Date: September 18, 2009 (UK)
Release Date: September 24, 2009 (AU)
E for Everyone: Mild Violence
OFLC: RP
The Consensus: Need for Speed: Shift Review
By Rory Manion | Sep 15, 2009
The best Need for Speed yet.
Excellent cockpit camera; intense, edge-of-sanity racing logic.
Might not be obnoxious enough for some people.
How Our Ratings Work
A racer-hating friend of mine asked a characteristically contrarian question while I was extolling the virtues of Need for Speed: Shift to him via instant messenger: "Who cares," he asked. "What's the point?" I was stupefied and annoyed and immediately replied that the point of a racing game is to race, much like the point of a shooter is to shoot and the point of a puzzle game is to solve. But after firing up Shift for a few more laps, I came up with a better argument: The point of a racing game is to present auto racing in such a way as to make it thrilling to anyone that bothers to play, be they grease monkey or Luddite. By that metric, Need for Speed: Shift is one of the best racing games I've ever played.
If you're a number-munching automotive aficionado with a penchant for judging games the way an accountant judges a financial portfolio, know that this is a racing game dedicated to the act of racing rather than the actors, more intent on refining the experience of driving rather than celebrating car culture with scads of vehicles. If you're the type whose subconscious bean-counter insists that Shift doesn't include enough automotive toys to play with, try to temper that impulse with the knowledge that this is undoubtedly the fastest and most dangerous-feeling sim yet produced.
Different racing games demand different roles: In the Forza series you play the learned Zen master, exploiting curves with a calm derived from hours of exposure to tracks. Project Gotham asks for style over substance and a quick e-brake finger. Shift? It requires your inner rodeo rider to keep super-cars just barely under control in a sea of aggressive opponents. And this intensity is, to my surprise, best transmitted via a brilliantly constructed cockpit camera.
Quiz serious sim enthusiasts about must-have features for a racing game and a cockpit camera angle will likely top off more lists than one would expect. Until Shift, I had never quite understood the obsession. Cockpit cams have always seemed obtrusive to me, generally lacking in function -- an unwelcome and superfluous step on the way to more agreeable angles. So you can take it as high praise when I say that my finger has rarely graced the view toggle since my initial lap around the test track. Developer Slightly Mad Studios managed to design a cockpit view that very nearly mimics the experience one would have in a vehicle simulator, sans hydraulics.
The difference lies in the disconnect: Typical cockpit cams seem to be bolted to a headrest rather than attached to a human who's independent of the vehicle. In Shift, your driver's head flops and bobs with every bump and turn, thrusts forward with each tap of the brake. Combine these cues with intense speed and the cacophony of superchargers and traction-free tires and you've got a genuinely nerve-wracking racer. Put it this way: While playing horror games, I often shout at enemy A.I. to ease my tension. This is the first time I've ever trash-talked an overtaken opponent in a racing game.
Though you'll often feel like you're just on the verge of careening into a Burnout-style catastrophe, the only ill effects suffered for smash-ups are, if you'll excuse the play on words, ill effects. Crash an Aston Martin through a crowd of lagging jalopies and the worst you're likely to experience is a jolt, a graying-out of vision followed by a lasting blur, and the groans of your driver. Damage is all but inconsequential, even with the settings maxed; at one point my Lancer ably brushed off a 200-mile-per-hour trip into a retaining wall with nothing but a slight leftward drift to show for it. Bad behavior is incentivized by a driver progression system that promotes aggressive tactics like violently overtaking opponents. Precision driving nets similar rewards, but the easiest path to victory typically flows directly through some other jerk's bumper, meaning that masterful navigation usually loses out to brute force.
But who cares, really? The barons of Simulation Racing Land may, understandably, frown on a 350Z with a shorn-off hood doing 180mph down a straight, but everyone else will be too enthralled to notice. Shift is a monument to the joy of driving fast, and sacrificing the fun of racing to placate those few who desire vindictive realism would have been a mistake. Car control can be made as punishingly accurate as desired; that ought to be enough to make up for some physics fudging.
Notably absent from Shift: the redacted Gs and too-cool-by-half characters so prevalent in contemporary EA sports titles. You won't be tradin' or grindin' or crashin' anymore, and the conspicuous branding and self-defeating trend-chasing that brought us Fight Night Round 3's Burger King(TM) Brand Whopper(TM) Hits Man-Smashing Exhibition and turned Need for Speed: ProStreet into an obnoxious MTV commercial are gone. Shift definitely isn't that game, and with any luck, Need for Speed is no longer that franchise.
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Magazine Feature September/October 2010
The Free Library of Philadelphia’s Senior Center: Comfy and Stimulating
by Martha Cornog, Joseph McPeak, and Trace Ray on May 10, 2013
Through a system-wide survey taken in 2007 to assess the number and variety of library programs over a three-month period, we learned that only 1 percent of more than 3,500 public programs of the Free Library of Philadelphia (FLP) system had been targeted specifically to adults over age 65. Recognizing that the population of Philadelphia had a much larger component of seniors than 1 percent, we realized that FLP was leaving this group drastically underserved. But it was only as we investigated further that we realized how drastically.
According to 2000 census data, 14.1 percent of Philadelphians were over age 65, second only to Miami out of 23 cities studied by the Brookings Institution in relation to aging populations.1
Additional data indicated that this 14 percent is not only likely to grow but to be especially in need of library services. A report from the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging (PCA) suggested that although our city’s overall population is projected to decline by 7 percent over the next 20 years, the 55-and-older group will grow by 11 percent during the same period. Currently, Philadelphia houses over 1.5 million people, with 24.5 percent living below the poverty level— nearly double the national rate of 13.3 percent—and the proportion of elders living in poverty is higher in Philadelphia than in Pennsylvania overall, 19 percent compared to 11 percent.2 Obviously, the freely available services, programs, and resources provided by FLP for people of all ages and from all backgrounds are especially crucial for these disadvantaged groups.
In addition, the recent downshift in the economy has intensified the need of all ages, but especially disadvantaged groups, for library services. Since the economic downturn, large numbers of over-55ers are using the library for free computer workshops to prepare for prospective jobs, and also for checking out leisure materials.
Certainly, we anticipated that the library could offer a multitude of resources to over 65-ers for many reasons. From a historical perspective, it is an exciting time to grow older. Never before has it been possible for so many people to live so long and so well. Taking on new careers—and beginning new marriages— after age 55 have become commonplace and even expected options. Improvements in health and life expectancies have spurred a phase shift in public attitudes. Seniors are widely recognized as worthwhile contributors to our society and are increasingly in demand for paid and volunteer responsibilities. They are seasoned, dependable, and simply priceless. So this refreshingly enthusiastic group of new older people wants to know about nearly everything to prepare for the rest of their long and productive lives—and libraries can help them reach new peaks of achievement and make new beginnings.
Judging from increasing discussion about senior programming in the library literature as well as on conference agendas,3 library initiatives involving this expanding group of patrons are increasing nationwide. So as we venture onto new ground, we are pushing to learn from others’ experience as well as our own. We noticed that although countless libraries house children’s areas and a good many have teen nooks, apparently only a relative few have senior areas. However, because the FLP’s information and resources relevant to seniors have been dispersed throughout ten departments at the Parkway Central branch, we decided to implement a dedicated space for on-site senior activities as a priority.4 We recognized that we needed to make the library a more inviting place for older adults to visit, browse, and interact, so it seemed like a good plan to set up a dedicated point of focus.
Preparation and Funding
Central Senior Services (CSS) was visualized as a center specifically for older adults on the first floor of Parkway Central within the Government Publications Department. The area is located close to the barrier-free entrance to the building. Moreover, it is the location of Parkway Central’s access technology workstations (ATWs), work centers for the visually impaired that have been in place since the fall of 2000. We envisioned that the Government Publications staff would oversee CSS.
As plans for the center began to gel, we first sought funding via the Office of Commonwealth Libraries from the federal Library Services and Technology Act, and we received a grant for $26,500 to help support the new center. Secondly, we approached the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation, which awarded FLP a total of $143,621 over five years.
Gradually, the design took shape. Plans for the center came to include space for print and large print materials housed in attractive display units, computer stations dedicated to older adults, the ATWs, a conference area to allow semi-private information exchange, and comfortable seating. The grant funds were meant to cover a part-time dedicated librarian to supplement staff from Government Publications, magazines and large-print books displayed in the area, dedicated laptops, and the reconstruction needed to carve out a space originally within Government Publications. A design consultant was engaged to assist in working out these details.
Meanwhile, a marketing study was conducted of 160 seniors surveyed at local senior centers and housing facilities. More than half expressed interest in senior-focused events at Parkway Central, and most preferred them during the day. Topic choices ranged from a high of 48 percent for exercise and nutrition down to 15 percent for sports (see table 1).
The part-time librarian was selected from a pool of applicants. Besides the FLP system, Philadelphia is home to a number of academic and special libraries as well as the Drexel University iSchool, ensuring a broad range of experienced and talented possible candidates. Richard Levinson, the chosen individual, provides assistance to patrons in the center as well as serving as outreach coordinator for promotions and programming. As a result of working with a large base of Philadelphia institutions serving seniors and older adults, Levinson has developed an impressive network of supporters (see “Getting the Word Out” on page 48).
As the opening day for the facility grew closer, a fine collection of travel guides, large print fiction, and a selected mix of health, arts, and other leisure subjects— DVDs as well as books—took their places on the shelves. After some late stage fine-tuning in room configuration, the furniture, dividers, and workstations were delivered and installed with only two days to spare before the launch date. Meanwhile, Levinson had begun outreach for grand opening festivities as well as for future programming. Finally, CSS officially opened on August 26, 2009.
The Menu of Events
Right away a bit of spice got on the menu as part of the first quartet of programs through the new center. Fall Focus on Health included presentations about four facets of health and wellness that concern most people:
Live to Be 100!
Doctors Are from Mars . . . Communicating with Your Doctor
Sexy at 60 or 70+
What Every Hospital Patient Should Know: Surviving Your Hospital Stay
Attendance at this first round of presentations varied from 12 to 37 people, and the enthusiastic notes jotted down on the program evaluation cards convinced us that we were on the right track. “The best!” wrote someone attending the sexuality program. “Very interesting and informative,” commented another about the hospital program. “We can take control of our own care by asking the right questions.” A frequent visitor sent in a letter: “I have been impressed with the quality of the speakers and the care and attention each gave to his or her presentation . . . I want to thank you and the sponsors of this excellent new program.”
For a later presentation, My Life as an Actor, a veteran of the professional stage from the Philadelphia area talked about the joys and limitations of acting from a home base other than New York or the west coast. The following week, a vivacious teacher of improvisational acting conducted an interactive workshop to enhance enjoyable spontaneity in everyday life. Both programs drew high praise: “Excellent presentation”; “wonderful, wonderful, and wonderful”; “would like to see more improv.”
Throughout the winter, a series of visits was scheduled from an APPRISE counselor who assisted patrons personally with questions about Medigap plans and Medicare Part B enrollment. APPRISE is a free counseling service of the Pennsylvania Department of Aging and the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging, designed to help older Pennsylvanians with Medicare matters. Counselors are specially trained volunteers who can answer questions and provide objective, easy-to-understand information about Medicare, Medicare Supplemental Insurance, Medicaid, and long-term care insurance. Since some senior centers in the area are hosting “Medicare enrollment” workshops held by insurance company representatives, APPRISE sessions provide an unbiased and much needed corrective. In the same pragmatic spirit, a lawyer with Pennsylvania’s SeniorLAW Center attracted a good crowd to hear about consumer fraud.
The season of spring brings renewal, and so the theme for February/March workshops focused on New Beginnings for Seniors:
Looking for Love after Age 50
Travel Bargains and Opportunities for Seniors
Creating Your Own Memoirs
All told, some 14 programs were held, and feedback gathered from attendees has helped guide the planning for forthcoming events.
Sit, Savor, Surf
Central Senior Services at a Glance
Mission: Create a place for seniors that blends a warm, welcoming environment with state-of-the- art knowledge and information resources.
Size: 480 square feet, fully wheelchair-accessible, and close to handicapped access to the building.
Five laptop computers (all computers and workstations are loaded with the Microsoft Office Suite);
Consultation cubicle enclosing a table and four chairs to allow semi-private sessions;
Books and magazines: The most popular magazines are housed in a beautiful wooden display rack that compliments the décor of the room, while the four bookcases are stocked with a pristine collection of meticulously selected materials for seniors. The collection holds more than 100 largeprint books, 20 magazine titles, and a special collection of more than 60 DVDs. The collection has its own budget and will receive updated material continuously;
Access technology workstations (ATW) offering Zoom Text and JAWS screen-reader software, located inside the CSS. The Braille reader/embosser is just a few steps away. A scanner is attached to one ATW workstation to convert print material to a format that screenreader software can read aloud;
Closed circuit TV nearby, which magnifies print material placed under the camera lens;
Regulation National Library Service tape player;
Large video display screen at entrance that continuously loops announcements and programs; and
Desk and laptop for staff librarian on duty.
While the events aim to offer spice for every taste, the heart of CSS is the space itself with its collections, furniture, and equipment. Comfortable chairs for leisure reading are essential as well as laptops with databases and Internet connections, a special workstation for large-print reading, and a variety of books as well as newspapers and magazines in regular and large-print formats. One of the computers, part of the Access Technology program, offers Zoom Text and JAWS screen accessibility software. Zoom Text allows users to easily enlarge any part of the screen content, whereas JAWS enables the laptop to read selected sections of screen content aloud. Only a few steps from CSS, another Access Technology unit features a Braille reader/embosser (see idebar). Statistics kept of CSS use show an average of about five user sessions per day on the equipment.
A valuable staff addition has been librarian Susan Golding, who came on board in September 2009. Seniors have appreciated her computer expertise, especially with the CSS laptops, and they call on her for help on providing “how to” answers to their technology questions. Her familiarity with government agencies and their workings has also been a big plus for our seniors. Over the first few months—roughly 100 days—that the center was open, CSS staff logged more than 900 reference questions on a variety of topics.
Finding useful information to answer visitors’ questions is made easier through dozens of links to senior-valuable Web resources, available via a dedicatedsection of the FLP’s website. Categories offered include paid employment, volunteer work, brain power, entertainment, creative expression, education, travel, and senior-focused. Librarians are always available to help with questions and concerns.
Throughout the planning process and continuing forward into the full operation of CSS, Levinson has worked closely and persistently with dozens of Philadelphia organizations relevant to over-55ers’ concerns and services. One of the most valuable has been an informal partnership with the PCA, which has an extensive network of outlets and cooperating groups/individuals. Milestones, PCA’s online and print newsletter, has featured many articles about CSS.
To promote the center’s kickoff and grand opening event, Levinson delivered hundreds of postcards and bookmark-style announcements to a variety of apartment buildings, senior centers, and other locations in the area (FLP is fortuitously situated close to more than a dozen such organizations). Phone calls were made to activities directors in the senior centers to follow up on the invitation. In addition, FLP did a mailing to more than fifty senior centers within a ten-mile radius, and PCA announced the new center on its website. Levinson mailed press releases to the twenty-plus news weeklies in the area, and several articles resulted. Radio spots about the center ran on the public services station (WHYY) for three days prior to the opening. Promotional materials were also sent to the offices of all the members of the Philadelphia City Council.
To increase the audience for the numerous CSS events on an ongoing basis, FLP benefits from notices on PCA’s website and newsletter for getting the word out. For a more personal touch, Levinson “circuit rides” among the nearby retirement facilities, dropping off flyers and talking to in-house activity directors. Flyers are also left at selected supermarkets, business centers, and theaters. Moreover, upcoming programs and services are included in FLP’s monthly calendar and posted on www.freelibrary.org.
As part of “circuit-riding,” Levinson spoke at the Senior Citizens and Caregivers Expo held at Philadelphia’s African American Museum, distributed flyers, and chatted with attendees about CSS programs and services. A number of people made positive comments about FLP or told a personal story. Levinson also participated in an editorial focus group convened by Healthy Aging, a new magazine for Philadelphia-area seniors scheduled to launch in the fall of 2010. Currently, he is exploring informal partnerships with area pharmacies about displaying CSS flyers.
In finding speakers and facilitators for these events, CSS staff members have made contact with numerous other Philadelphia organizations, including:
Drexel University School of Public Health
Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia
Mayor’s Commission on Services to the Aging
Mayor’s Office of Community Services
Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia Gray Panthers
Theater Alliance of Greater Philadelphia
Wilma Theater
In working with these organizations, we look to identify current gaps in services to older adults so as to plan for the role that the library will have in addressing these needs in the future.
The CSS has already attracted a loyal group of regular users in addition to new patrons, who come in to use a computer in a supportive, unpressured environment or to take advantage of the large-print materials via the comfortable seating. Reference interactions with our older adult users tend to be more intensive and lengthy than the average reference transactions.
For the grand opening in August 2009, the CSS welcomed some forty seniors to watch the ribboncutting ceremony, plus local reporters, as well as representatives of our state legislature Senator Vincent Hughes and Darrell Clark of the Philadelphia City Council. Over the first five months of the center, 210 people attended programs. In the same period there have been more than 900 reference questions and more than 500 sessions on the laptops and other equipment. Some typical questions have concerned:
Section 8 housing information needed by a homeless patron
How to find English as a Second Language help for improving writing skills
Locating computer training courses
Finding organizations to assist job seekers
Identifying a great public health speaker for a church-sponsored program
For the local Social Security Administration: what publications the agency can use to reach seniors
One senior is taking a college course online but does not have a home computer. Naturally, she finds it very challenging to complete her assignments—not only because she has no computer but because use of computers elsewhere in the library system is time-limited. CSS computers do not have strict time limits. Said Levinson, “She was thrilled to have found us.”
So far, there have been no problems beyond occasional dozers and visits from younger people attracted by the comfortable chairs. Others can visit, but the computers are reserved for seniors.
Several out-of-state librarians paid a visit recently. “We don’t have anything like this,” commented an academic librarian from the Midwest, while a retired librarian from the South was impressed by such a “nice facility.” A legally blind regular comes nearly every day to watch television and videos on an Access Technology computer that allows screen enlargement. “I depend on you guys so much for entertainment and information,” he says. Every week several new faces appear to swell the ranks of the habitués who may stay to read or work, or shop for reading material to check out.
Central and Local
CSS builds from and draws on long experience at the branch level with older Philadelphia library patrons. Individual FLP branches have offered and continue to offer large-print books, Medicare workshops, caregiver support groups, tax assistance for retirees, special computer workshops including Generations Online—an elder-friendly software package designed to help seniors become computer savvy—horticulture workshops, tai chi, yoga, and line dancing as well as other programs.
For decades, librarians have serviced assisted living centers, senior centers, and adult daycare centers to provide our homebound patrons with library and community news, bestsellers, and the extremely popular adult story hours. To finally have a dedicated space and program series for seniors is truly a milestone.
Conclusion: Pay It Forward
We expect that the early years of CSS will establish liaisons, patterns, and precedents that will carry forward as FLP undertakes the challenging project of renovating and expanding its historic Parkway Central headquarters building.4 As the expansion goes forward, CSS’s successes will serve to inform the staffing, services, physical space, programming, and resources facility so that the new Parkway Central provides a welcoming and highly useful destination for the region’s older adults. FLP views the current center as a first step towards expanding and improving services to this currently underserved group and is committed to incorporating the recommendations that result from the new facility into the expanded headquarters building, and possibly applying the model to other library locations.
Options for staffing a future CSS include training seniors and older adults to eventually take a volunteer role in implementing programs and assisting in the center. Certainly, the relationships with partner organizations developed or expanded during the current center will continue long after the grant period.
If we reawaken to the realization that aging can bring experience and excellence, we expect that CSS will get better and better over the coming years. We look forward to learning from our successes and setbacks as well as from other libraries that have established senior centers in their own communities.
Fact Sheet: Philadelphia City, Pennsylvania, Census 2000 Demographic Profile Highlights, American FactFinder, Washington: U.S. Census Bureau, 2000, www.census.gov (accessed Aug. 30, 2010).
Abby Spector and Jessica Stein Diamond, Looking Ahead: Philadelphia’s Aging Population in 2015 (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Corporation for Aging, 2006): 14, 57, http://www.pcacares.org/Files/2015_report.pdf (accessed Aug. 30, 2010).
Carrie Straka, “ALA Annual Conference: As Baby Boomers Age, It’s Getting More and More Important to Shape Library Services to Meet Their Needs,” Library Journal 134, no. 12 (July 15, 2009), www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6671137.html?q=Baby+Boomers (accessed Aug. 30, 2010); Bo Xie and Paul T. Jaeger, “Computer Training Programs for Older Adults at the Public Library,” Public Libraries Vol. 47, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 2008): 52–9; Kathy Mayo, “The Challenges and Opportunities of Serving America’s Elders,” presented at the American Library Association’s Annual Conference, July 9-15, 2009, Chicago.
See informative material and slide show about the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Parkway Central Expansion Project at http://libwww.freelibrary.org/expansion (accessed Aug. 30, 2010).
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Marriage Equality – Kitsap County Joins the Nation in Celebration
While there is more work to do on many levels, today’s history making Supreme Court decision is worth celebrating. In social justice work, in order to keep from being overwhelmed and getting burned out, we need to celebrate even small victories, and today was more than just a small victory, it was a huge one.
Kitsap County joined folks around the nation in celebrating with at least two Bremerton bars hosting. One celebration was at the Honor Bar near Evergreen Park, and another was at the Toro Lounge downtown Bremerton.
The Supreme Court decision has far reaching impacts, and it is hard to know where to begin. However, I found some statements from a variety of organizations that I thought worth sharing. I have been working towards marriage equality for about 15 years, and many folks have been doing more for longer. Even though getting to this point in marriage equality has taken a long time, in some ways it seems like it happened fast. I guess because once the marriage equality ball started rolling through the states it really picked up speed.
The decision today is a positive thing for families all over the United States, including military families that include same sex spouses. Since Kitsap County is a “Navy Town” the decision today affects many military families here. The American Military Partner Association posted in their blog:
“Nationwide marriage equality is a tremendous victory, and the progress made for LGBT service members and their families in just a few short years has been profound.” Before today’s decision “… even after so many states gained marriage equality, and even though the military recognized the legal marriages of our members, once they stepped off their military installation, the laws of the state often took precedence. Even if they lived in an equality state, it was very likely they would eventually be transferred; with no guarantees their new assignment would be in another equality state. They lived in fear of their families losing the everyday legal recognition others often take for granted, like married tax status, the ability to make healthcare decisions for your spouse, or enrolling your child in school.”
The Kitsap Sun talked with the spouse of a Sailor on the USS Stennis in this article:
www.kitsapsun.com/news/local-news/supreme-court-ruling-erases-uncertainty-for-local-families-on-the-move_13438317
The effects of today’s Supreme Court ruling are so far reaching that, in a joint effort, the American Civil Liberties Union, Freedom to Marry, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, Human Rights Campaign, Lambda Legal and National Center for Lesbian Rights created a page of information for families with questions about how this affects them:
http://marriageequalityfacts.org/
Lambda Legal was a key player in the legal part of the process and posted this on their blog:
“What a day! After decades of work by Lambda Legal and many others, we have at long last secured the freedom to marry for all same-sex couples throughout the entire United States. Today’s moving and inspirational decision in Obergefell v. Hodges is one for the history books.”
This victory for marriage equality is about love and families, and Kitsap PFLAG joins PFLAG National in celebrating the Supreme Court decision. PFLAG National board president Jean Hodges made this statement today:
“Today feels like a wedding that the entire country was invited to, and the whole PFLAG family is right up front with hearts overflowing and tears in our eyes. By affirming the rights of all loving couples to commit to each other with the full weight of legal protection that marriage affords, the Supreme Court has affirmed a founding principle that we must all continue to strive for: a more perfect union.”
The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young people ages 13-24. On their blog they describe how youth are affected by this decision in a positive way:
“Today we celebrate the Supreme Court’s landmark decision to uphold marriage equality across America. This historic ruling not only affects couples who have been fighting to obtain the basic civil right to get married, but also the many youth who live in families with same-sex parents. Today, all youth, including those who identify as LGBTQ, can have hope that they will grow up in a nation that is moving towards respecting all human rights.”
One of the highlights for me today was President Obama’s expression of support. Part of what he said this morning about the Supreme Court decision is:
“This ruling is a victory for Jim Obergefell and the other plaintiffs in the case. It’s a victory for gay and lesbian couples who have fought so long for their basic civil rights. It’s a victory for their children, whose families will now be recognized as equal to any other. It’s a victory for the allies and friends and supporters who spent years, even decades, working and praying for change to come.”
for the complete transcript of what President Obama said today go to:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/06/26/remarks-president-supreme-court-decision-marriage-equality
To all of you that have played a part in getting us to where we are today, even if that part was just coming to the understanding yourself of how marriage equality is the right thing – Thank You!
~Marcie
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DotF: Sanchez continues to put up big numbers in AzFL
November 14, 2015 by Mike Leave a Comment
Your browser does not support iframes. Your browser does not support iframes. C Gary Sanchez was named MVP of the Arizona Fall League Fall Stars Game last weekend, going 1-for-3 with a two-run home run off Rockies LHP Kyle Freeland, the eighth overall pick in the 2014 draft. Sanchez also threw out a runner trying to steal second. Eric Longenhagen said he clocked his pop time at 1.82 seconds. That’s nuts. A 1.9-second pop time is great. The videos are above. Sanchez been a monster in the AzFL.
In other news, Matt Eddy has posted this year’s collection of six-year minor league free agents. Here are the Yankees farmhands now on the open market:
RHP: Andury Acevedo (AAA), Scottie Allen (AA), Joel de la Cruz (AAA), Diego Moreno (AAA), Wilking Rodriguez (AAA), Cesar Vargas (AAA)
LHP: Jose De Paula (AAA), Aaron Dott (AA)
C: Francisco Arcia (AA), Juan Graterol (AAA), Kyle Higashioka (AAA)
3B: Cole Figueroa (AAA)
SS: Ali Castillo (AAA), Jose Rosario (AA)
OF: Ericson Leonora (Hi A), Rico Noel (AAA)
1B Kyle Roller also became a free agent, says Eddy. Moreno, de la Cruz, DePaula, Figueroa, and Noel all spent time with the Yankees this past season. (De La Cruz was called up but didn’t pitch.) Allen was acquired from the Diamondbacks for Juan Miranda way back in the day. Castillo is probably the best prospect of the bunch but he’s a fringy light-hitting utility type at best. Good prospects don’t get to minor league free agency.
Thanks to the minor league free agents and the recent UTIL Jose Pirela trade, the crop of Yankees farmhands playing winter ball thinned out considerably this week. Here’s the weekly update.
OF Tyler Austin: 18 G, 18-16 (.269), 11 R, 4 2B, 3 HR, 7 RBI, 9 BB, 16 K, 7 SB, 2 K (.269/.355/.463) — very quietly tied for fourth in the AzFL in steals
OF Dustin Fowler: 12 G, 15-48 (.313), 11 R, 2 2B, 1 HR, 6 RBI, 2 BB, 7 K, 7 SB (.313/.340/.417) — tied with Austin for fourth in steals
C Gary Sanchez: 18 G, 23-77 (.299), 12 R, 4 2B, 1 3B, 7 HR, 19 RBI, 3 BB, 16 K, 4 SB, 1 CS, 1 HBP (.299/.329/.619) — leads the league in homers and RBI by two each … last time someone hit 7+ homers in the AzFL was 2011, when Robbie Grossman (seven) and Mike Olt (13!) both did it … Sanchez has another week to pad his total
SS Tyler Wade: 14 G, 9-41 (.220), 6 R, 2 2B, 6 RBI, 6 BB, 7 K, 2 SB, 1 CS (.220/.313/.268) — life outside Single-A ball has been tough
RHP Domingo Acevedo: 6 G, 0 GS, 10 IP, 9 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 7 K, 1 HR, 2 HB (2.70 ERA and 1.20 WHIP) — all three runs came in one outing, so his other five appearances have been scoreless
LHP Ian Clarkin: 5 G, 5 GS, 20.1 IP, 26 H, 13 R, 13 ER, 13 BB, 12 K, 2 HR, 1 HB, 1 WP (5.75 ERA and 1.92 WHIP) — looks like he has one start left in the AzFL season
LHP Chaz Hebert: 5 G, 0 GS, 11.1 IP, 7 H, 5 R, 3 ER, 9 BB, 9 K, 1 WP (2.38 ERA and 1.41 WHIP) — Eric Longenhagen said Hebert topped out at 91 mph with a low-80s slider, an upper-70s changeup, plus a cutter in the Fall Stars Game … on the 20-80 scouting scale, Longenhagen gave the changeup a 55, the slider a 50, and the cutter a 45 … 50 is MLB average so that’s three pitches right at average … that’s really good!
LHP Tyler Webb: 8 G, 0 GS, 10 IP, 12 H, 8 R, 8 ER, 3 BB, 7 K, 1 HR, 1 WP (7.20 ERA and 1.50 WHIP) — he’s making up for lost time after missing the second half with a finger injury
Dominican Winter League
IF Abi Avelino: 1 G, 0-1, 1 K — appeared in one game two weeks ago and hasn’t played since … believe it or not, that’s pretty common in the Caribbean winter leagues … they’re very competitive and he may have been dropped from the active roster because the team didn’t think he could help them win
SS Jorge Mateo is listed on a roster but has not appeared in a game yet. At this point, I’m guessing he won’t play at all. He had a long season and he ended the year on the DL, remember, so the Yankees can hold him back from winter ball.
Mexican Pacific League
RHP Gio Gallegos: 12 G, 0 GS, 8 IP, 14 H, 11 R, 10 ER, 4 BB, 12 K, 2 HR, 1 WP (11.25 ERA and 2.25 WHIP) — woof
RHP Luis Niebla: 6 G, 6 GS, 30.2 IP, 24 H, 15 R, 14 ER, 17 BB, 20 K, 2 HR, 2 HB, 1 WP (4.11 ERA and 1.34 WHIP)
Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League (Puerto Rico)
IF Cito Culver: 6 G, 2-19 (.105), 1 R, 1 BB, 6 K (.105/.150/.105)
RHP Bryan Mitchell: 3 G, 3 GS, 13.1 IP, 11 H, 6 R, 4 ER, 5 BB, 11 K, 1 HB, 1 WP (2.70 ERA and 1.20 WHIP) — the season doesn’t end until early-January but I don’t think Mitchell will pitch that long … either way, there’s still time for him to make a few more starts and throw a few more innings after working out of the bullpen for much of the regular season
2B Angelo Gumbs is listed on a roster but has not appeared in a game yet.
Venezuelan Winter League
OF Ben Gamel: 23 G, 22-82 (.268), 8 R, 4 2B, 3 HR, 15 RBI, 10 BB, 17 K, 3 SB, 1 CS (.268/.337/.427) — between the regular season and winter ball, he’s up to 152 games played this year … long season
OF Teodoro Martinez: 28 G, 28-105 (.267), 14 R, 2 2B, 2 3B, 11 RBI, 4 BB, 12 K, 2 SB, 2 HBP (.267/.304/.324) — he’s still in the organization apparently … the Yankees signed him out of an independent league at midseason when they needed some healthy outfielders and that’s not usually a job with a lot of staying power
RHP Luis Cedeno: 5 G, 0 GS, 5 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, 1 HB, 1 WP (5.40 ERA and 1.80 WHIP) — remember when he was nursing that sub-1.00 ERA early in the season?
RHP Jaron Long: 6 G, 6 GS, 33.2 IP, 36 H, 12 R, 11 ER, 7 BB, 15 K, 2 HR, 2 WP (2.94 ERA and 1.28 WHIP) — he’s up to 188.1 innings on the year
RHP Mark Montgomery: 11 G, 0 GS, 9.2 IP, 8 H, 7 R, 7 ER, 5 BB, 13 K, 1 HR (6.52 ERA and 1.34 WHIP) — relief prospects will break your heart
IF Thairo Estrada is listed on a roster but has not yet played in a game.
Filed Under: Down on the Farm Tagged With: Ali Castillo, Andury Acevedo, Cole Figueroa, Diego Moreno, Ericson Leonora, Francisco Arcia, Joel De La Cruz, Jose DePaula, Jose Rosario, Juan Graterol, Kyle Higashioka, Kyle Roller, Rico Noel, Scottie Allen, Wilking Rodriguez
Capuano, Drew, Young become free agents; Yanks outright Santos, Moreno to Triple-A
November 2, 2015 by Mike Leave a Comment
Drew. (Jim Rogash/Getty)
At 9am ET this morning, a total of 139 players officially became free agents. Here’s the full list. Only three of those 139 players are Yankees: Chris Capuano, Stephen Drew and Chris Young. The Yankees hold exclusive negotiating rights with them until 12:01am ET this Saturday, when free agency officially begins. Here’s the offseason calendar.
Also, the Yankees activated both Sergio Santos and Diego Moreno off the 60-day DL and outrighted them to Triple-A Scranton today, the team announced. Santos refused the assignment and instead elected free agency. Moreno could not elect free agency since this was his first outright assignment, but he’ll become a minor league free agent in a few days anyway.
Santos, 32, appeared in only two games with the Yankees this season before blowing out his elbow and needing Tommy John surgery. He started the season with the Dodgers, was released in early-June, then signed with the Yankees a few days later. Santos’ most notable act as a Yankee was escaping a bases loaded, no outs jam against the Marlins on June 15th.
Your browser does not support iframes. Moreno, 28, threw 10.1 innings across four appearances for the Yankees this season as part of the bullpen shuttle. They originally acquired him from the Pirates as part of the A.J. Burnett salary dump trade a few years ago. Moreno had surgery to remove bone chips from his elbow late in the season and did not pitch after August 1st.
Moreno’s most notable act as a Yankee was throwing 5.1 hitless and scoreless innings of relief against the Rangers on July 28th, after Capuano failed to escape the first inning.
Rico Noel was outrighted off the 40-man roster earlier this month, so between that move and today’s moves, the Yankees now have four open spots on the 40-man roster. They’ll be filled when Domingo German (elbow), Jacob Lindgren (elbow), Chase Whitley (elbow), and Mason Williams (shoulder) are activated off the 60-day DL in the coming days.
Filed Under: Transactions Tagged With: Chris Capuano, Chris Young, Diego Moreno, Sergio Santos, Stephen Drew
Even with no standouts, the revolving door has been an effective last man in the bullpen
September 1, 2015 by Mike Leave a Comment
Pinder. (Presswire)
As you know, the Yankees have had a revolving door in their bullpen all season, using the last reliever spot or two — sometimes more, they’ve had an eight-man bullpen at times — to shuttle in fresh arms as necessary. Every team does it to some extent, but the Yankees have done it to the extreme this year, and it’s all by design. The plan coming into the season was to use the Triple-A and Double-A depth to constantly bolster the bullpen.
“(We had) from Double-A on up a lot of really interesting power arms from the left and right side that were under control, with options,” said Brian Cashman to Joe Lemire recently. “We talked all winter about where we could be in a situation where we’re really taking a guy every ten days. Call a guy up, max him out, send him back out and get a new guy up. It’s just kind of a revolving door.”
According to Lemire, the Yankees had made 106 transactions — that’s call-ups, send-downs, and designate for assignments — heading into last Tuesday’s game, easily the most in baseball. The other 29 clubs were averaged 67 such transactions this year. That’s kinda crazy, but it was the plan all along. The depth is there, might as well use it, right? No sense in going short-handed for a few days when you have capable pitchers a phone call away.
I count a dozen pitchers who have been on the bullpen shuttle this season, not including Chris Capuano, who always seems to find his way back onto the roster even though the Yankees keep trying to stick him in their Triple-A rotation. Of those 12 pitchers, eight have been called up multiple times. Here are how those eight relievers with multiple call-ups and send-downs have fared this season:
HR/9
Caleb Cotham 3.2 9.82 7.49 25.0% 0.0% 50.0% 4.91
Nick Goody 3.1 5.40 4.02 20.0% 13.3% 66.7% 0.00
Chris Martin 16.0 5.63 2.81 20.3% 4.1% 54.5% 0.56
Bryan Mitchell 17.2 2.55 3.18 20.3% 6.8% 49.1% 0.51
Diego Moreno 10.1 5.23 4.29 17.8% 6.7% 40.6% 0.87
Branden Pinder 23.1 2.70 5.01 19.0% 10.0% 30.4% 1.54
Jose Ramirez 3.0 15.00 6.79 10.0% 20.0% 38.5% 0.00
Nick Rumbelow 9.2 2.79 3.54 22.5% 7.5% 39.3% 0.93
TOTAL 87.0 4.34 3.91 19.6% 7.7% 42.2% 1.03
MLB RP AVG
– 3.63 3.74 22.1% 8.5% 45.5% 0.90
Just to be clear, this includes Mitchell’s time as a reliever only. Overall, the eight up-and-down relievers have been below-average at pretty much everything other than limiting walks this year. You can play with the numbers if you want — remove Ramirez because he’s no longer with the organization and it’s a 3.83 ERA (3.84 FIP) in 84 innings, for example — but I don’t see the point in that.
Overall, this group of eight pitchers have collectively performed worse than the league average reliever. They aren’t replacing the league average reliever, however. They’re the last reliever in the bullpen, and the last reliever in the bullpen is generally very bad. The Blue Jays, for example, have gotten a 6.80 ERA (4.37 FIP) in 41.2 innings out of Todd Redmond, Scott Copeland, and Jeff Francis this year. The Royals and Pirates have used Joe Blanton. See what I mean?
By last reliever in the bullpen standards, the revolving door has been serviceable this year. Not great — out of all these guys, the only one who has really stood out and made you think he could an impact pitcher long-term is Mitchell, who is a starter by trade — but serviceable. The advantage is always having a fresh reliever. That’s the whole point of shuttling them in and out, to make sure Joe Girardi always has a fresh arm available.
How do you value something like that? I’m not sure we can put a number on it. Have a fresh “last guy in the bullpen” every night ensures the regular relievers won’t have to pick up any mop-up innings throughout the year, which can happen from time-to-time. Sometimes these guys get exposed — remember Pinder against the heart of the Blue Jays order in extra innings a few weeks ago? — but that happens with every mop-up man.
All things considered, the revolving bullpen door has succeeded at giving Girardi a fresh bullpen arm while providing the team collectively competent innings. These guys haven’t been great by any means — they’ve had their moments, but so does everyone — but the Yankees haven’t needed them to be. Soaking up innings in low-leverage spots is a thankless job. Rather than have one or two guys do it, the Yankees have used eight.
Filed Under: Death by Bullpen Tagged With: Branden Pinder, Bryan Mitchell, Caleb Cotham, Chris Martin, Diego Moreno, Jose Ramirez, Nick Goody, Nick Rumbelow
Game 115: The Day After
August 15, 2015 by Mike 2,720 Comments
(Presswire)
My heart is still pumping after that game last night. That was something else. Been a while since a baseball game made me feel that way. But today is a new day, and what happened yesterday is in past. The Yankees have another game this afternoon and a chance to win the series over the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre. I’d like that, especially after last weekend.
The Yankees have the right guy on the mound this afternoon in Masahiro Tanaka, who has been really homer prone of late, but also pretty good. Last weekend he held the Jays to three hits — two solo homers — in six innings and could have gone out for the seventh because he’d only thrown 80 pitches. Hopefully Tanaka goes deeper into the game today and keeps the ball in the park. Here is Toronto’s lineup and here is New York’s lineup:
CF Jacoby Ellsbury
LF Brett Gardner
RF Carlos Beltran
DH Mark Teixeira
3B Chase Headley
1B Greg Bird
SS Didi Gregorus
C John Ryan Murphy
2B Stephen Drew
RHP Masahiro Tanaka
It is cloudy, cool, and humid in Toronto this afternoon, and there is some rain in the forecast, so I’m guessing the Rogers Centre roof will be closed. This afternoon’s game will begin at 1:07pm ET and you can watch on YES. Enjoy.
Roster Move: The Yankees have recalled Caleb Cotham and designated Chris Capuano for assignment, the team announced. I guess that means Bryan Mitchell is available for long relief work again.
Injury Update: Forgot to mention this in the recap last night, but x-rays on Ivan Nova’s finger came back negative following last night’s game. He took that hard-hit grounder to the hand in the third inning. It got him in the ring finger. Nova stayed in the game and didn’t seem to have any problems afterward … Diego Moreno will have bone chips removed from his elbow, Brian Cashman announced. Moreno had been pitching when them for years, but they didn’t become a problem until recently.
Filed Under: Game Stories Tagged With: Caleb Cotham, Chris Capuano, Diego Moreno, Ivan Nova
Game 113: If Greg Bird Can’t Save Them, No One Can
The Yankees have lost five straight games and they’ve scored six runs in those five games. Four of the six came in one game. The Blue Jays already won today — it was their 11th straight win — so the Yankees have to snap their losing streak tonight just to keep pace in the AL East. They’re in chase mode now.
Earlier today the Yankees called up first base prospect Greg Bird, and it sure seems like the team is acknowledging they are worried Alex Rodriguez and Mark Teixeira may wear down (or are wearing down) in the second half. Bird is here to back up both guys and it seems likely he will play more than Garrett Jones did. That’s a pretty safe bet. Here is the Indians’ lineup and here is the Yankees’ lineup:
DH Alex Rodriguez
C Brian McCann
SS Didi Gregorius
RHP Nathan Eovaldi
It’s cloudy and cool again in Cleveland with only a tiny bit of rain in the forecast. Nothing that will cause a postponement or anything. Tonight’s game will begin at 7:10pm ET and you can watch on WPIX locally and MLB Network nationally. Enjoy the game.
Roster Moves: Bird was called up, obviously. Nick Goody was sent down to clear a 25-man roster spot and Diego Moreno was transferred to the 60-day DL to clear a 40-man roster spot, the Yankees announced. Goody pitched in each of the last two games and would have been unavailable tonight. The Yankees are back to a four-man bench and seven-man bullpen.
Injury Update: Michael Pineda (forearm) threw his first bullpen session since landing on the DL and everything went fine. He said he “felt 100%.” Pineda will make his first minor league rehab start with Double-A Trenton on Sunday. He’s scheduled to throw 45 pitches. Looking at the calendar, Pineda could make three rehab starts and then be activated to start on September 1st, the day rosters expand. It lines up perfectly.
Filed Under: Game Threads Tagged With: Diego Moreno, Michael Pineda, Nick Goody
Game 104: End of the Road Trip
August 2, 2015 by Mike 1,437 Comments
(David Banks/Getty)
The three-city, ten-game road trip ends today. The Yankees are 5-4 in the first nine games of the trip, which is a bit disappointing considering they won four of the first five games. The offense has certainly shown up this trip (66 runs scored in the nine games) but the pitching has not (50 runs allowed).
Ivan Nova gets the ball this afternoon after leaving his last start with arm fatigue, which the Yankees insist is just a normal dead arm phase following Tommy John surgery. The rotation is really starting to become an issue — the starters have allowed 35 runs in 45.2 innings on the trip — so a solid outing from Nova would be very appreciated. Here is the White Sox’s lineup and here is the Yankees’ lineup:
1B Mark Teixeira
RHP Ivan Nova
It is cloudy and very windy in Chicago this afternoon. I don’t know if that means the ball will be flying out of the park or getting knocked down. We’ll find out soon enough. Either way, first pitch is scheduled for 2:10pm ET and you can watch on YES locally and TBS nationally. Enjoy the game, folks.
Injury Updates: Diego Moreno has been placed on the DL with irritation in the back of his elbow, Joe Girardi announced. Moreno said he doesn’t think it is serious but he will see Dr. James Andrews tomorrow … Beltran is good to go today. He sat yesterday in part due to soreness in his foot. He fouled a couple pitches into his foot the last few days.
Roster Updates: Chris Capuano has cleared waivers and accepted his outright assignment to Triple-A Scranton after being designated for assignment a few days ago. He’s starting for the RailRiders today. Capuano could have elected free agency, but he would have forfeited about $2M in free agency by doing so. My guess is we’ll see him again when rosters expand in September … Branden Pinder has been recalled to replace Moreno on the roster.
Filed Under: Game Threads Tagged With: Branden Pinder, Carlos Beltran, Chris Capuano, Diego Moreno
Game 99: Bullpen Game
July 28, 2015 by Mike 2,671 Comments
(Tom Pennington/Getty)
In the interest of self-preservation, the Yankees are pushing everyone in their rotation back a day and using a spot sixth starter tonight. Except there’s no spot starter. It’s going to be a bullpen game — Chris Capuano and Adam Warren are expected to throw roughly 50 pitches each, then the rest of the relievers will take over from there. It’s not ideal, but there aren’t any other options right now.
On the bright side, the Yankees have won eight of ten games since the All-Star break and have a nice little seven-game lead in the AL East. The division looked wide-open coming into the season and we all kinda waiting for some team to got hot and run away with things, and would you believe it, that team ended up being the Yankees. Still a lot of season left though. Seven games is a nice lead but a guarantee of nothing. Here is the Rangers’ lineup and here is the Yankees’ lineup:
RF Chris Young
2B Brendan Ryan
LHP Chris Capuano
It was another disgustingly hot day in Arlington — not that the weather in New York has been any better — and the temperatures will again be in the 90s for tonight’s game. Gross. First pitch is scheduled for 8:05pm ET and for some reason the game will air on FOX Sports 1. Not YES, not WPIX, FOX Sports 1 only. Weird. Enjoy the game.
Roster Move: Diego Moreno was called up from Triple-A Scranton and Nick Goody was optioned down, the Yankees announced. Moreno had been working as a starter for the RailRiders — though he’s not yet stretched out beyond 55 pitches or so — and is better able to give length tonight if necessary.
Injury Update: Ivan Nova said he expects to throw his regular bullpen session and make his next start after leaving last night’s game with “arm fatigue.” Apparently he’s been told it’s common for a dead arm phase to follow Tommy John surgery.
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Final Fantasy 7 Remake Re-Revealed
Final Fantasy VII Remake / May 10, 2019
More to come at E3.
By Lucy O'Brien
At PlayStation's State of Play today, we got a new look at Final Fantasy 7 Remake since development moved in-house.
The new trailer focused primarily on Aerith and Cloud, and we were given a glimpse of new character models, combat, and story beats (we see Aireth give Cloud a flower, as she did in the original). Check it out below.
The trailer finished with the promise that we would see more to come in June - likely E3.
It's not entirely unsurprising. Final Fantasy 7 Remake director Tetsuya Nomura Nomura told IGN at E3 2018 Final Fantasy 7 Remake has moved past the conceptual stage and into full development, and that PR would start in earnest post the release of Kingdom Hearts 3.
In May of 2017, it was revealed development on Final Fantasy 7 Remake had moved from a third party developer to in-house at Square Enix. We haven’t really gotten a substantial look at Square’s Final Fantasy 7 Remake since PSX 2015.
Lucy O'Brien is Executive Editor of Features at IGN. Follow her on Twitter.
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Jeff Schewe – b.1954, Chicago, Illinois
I turned to photography because I was a frustrated painter. With photography there is an ability to create an image with spontaneity and freshness that painting does not allow. Over the years, I’ve still kept my love of light and design originally nurtured with painting. It is with a painterly sensitivity that I now approach my vision and perspective in photography.
I like to shoot any subject as long as I can bring with it a unique viewpoint. Though my first exposure to photography was in the traditional darkroom, I now work by using a computer to digitally manipulate my images. The allure of total power and control over my images that digital imaging allows is so seductive that I now no long even maintain a darkroom. However, though my images are manipulated, I strive to work in a totally photo-realistic manner.
Jeff Schewe has been an award winning Advertising Photographer in Chicago for over 25 years. He is accomplished in tabletop, location, portraiture and particularly accomplished in computer imaging.
Jeff shoots a variety of subject matter and likes to control as much of the production as possible. He does this by making his own models, designing and building his own sets, painting backgrounds and employing computer imaging. He has been doing his own imaging for over 15 years in house on his high-end Macintosh systems.
Jeff Schewe is a Photoshop Guru’s Guru. He’s on the inside of the development and testing of Photoshop and has helped guide and direct many features since Photoshop 4.0. Short of some of the Photoshop engineers, there’s probably not many people who knows Photoshop like Jeff.
As an indication of his skills and knowledge of fine art printing, he has been named an Epson Stylus Pro. He is a past Apple Master of the Medium and has been inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame. He speaks regularly at Photoshop World.
He is the coauthor of Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop, Camera Raw, and Lightroom (along with the late Bruce Fraser) and is also coauthoring a book with Martin Evening titled Photoshop For Photographers: The Ultimate Workshop.
Jeff has a variety of video tutorials available with Michael Reichmann of the Luminious Landscape on digital printing, Camera Raw and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
Along with his his former and current partners; Martin Evening, Mac Holbert, Seth Resnick, Andrew Rodney, the late Bruce Fraser and the late Mike Skurski, he is a principal and founder of Pixel Genius LLC, a software developer for Photoshop related image processing such as PhotoKit, PhotoKit Sharpener and PhotoKit Color.
Illinois State University 1973-1974: Art Major
Rochester Institute of Technology 1975-1977:
Associates Degree with honors in Photographic Arts
Bachelor of Science with highest honors in Professional Photography
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ZC Rubber Opens Second Retail Location in Thailand
ROOGOO TIRE(CHINA) CO., LTD. 2017-09-14
ZC Rubber has opened its second Goodride Autospace store in Samut Sakhon province in Thailand. The 1600-square-meter store has six service and will not only sell Goodride tires but also provide express services including lubricant, brake, balancing and alignment.
The building of Autospace stores in Thailand is the first step for ZC Rubber to develop the service network in the global market, according to the company.
Autospace, starting in 2015, is the service brand of ZC Rubber in automotive aftermarket. Earlier this year, the company opened its first overseas Autospace store in Rayong, Thailand.
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We created the iOS version of Pocket Planes and another company, Mobage, ported it to Android for us. In late 2015 they decided to remove our apps and several other apps from their platform. Only our apps that were previously ported by Mobage (Tiny Tower, Pocket Planes and Pocket Frogs) are affected. All others will remain on the Google Play store.
We have since re-released Tiny Tower and Pocket Frogs on Android but the Mobage version data is non-transferrable.
We have no current plans to re-port the iOS version of Pocket Planes to Android though a future sequel or major update could possibly support Android.
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LONG BEACH, Calif. (Dec. 3, 2018) – The Grand Prix Association of Long Beach announced today that Robby Gordon’s SPEED Energy Stadium SUPER Trucks series has signed a multi-year agreement to return and race at the Grand Prix of Long Beach starting in 2019.
Very popular with Grand Prix fans, the Stadium SUPER Trucks series features high-horsepower trucks that not only race around the world-famous 1.97-mile, 11-turn Grand Prix racetrack but also jump high in the air utilizing a series of temporary ramps placed throughout the circuit.
The SPEED Energy Stadium SUPER Trucks will run practice and qualifying on Friday with races on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Last year, Gavin Harlien (Sat.) and Matt Brabham (Sun.) earned Long Beach wins.
“To be able to come back and continue our great relationship with the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach for the seventh consecutive year is something awesome,” said Gordon. “The venue location, the atmosphere, the excitement, and fun make the Grand Prix of Long Beach one of the premier events in the world, and Stadium SUPER Trucks is excited to have it on the schedule for 2019 with a new multi-year deal.”
“I know our fans will be delighted to have the SPEED Energy Stadium SUPER Trucks back at Long Beach this year,” said Jim Michaelian, president and CEO of the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach. “For many years, they have proved to be a thrilling attraction and a highlight of the race weekend.”
Featuring a wide variety of on- and off-track activities for the entire family, the Grand Prix will be headlined by the IndyCar Series, as well as the BUBBA burger Sports Car Grand Prix, featuring the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. In addition to the Stadium SUPER Trucks, the weekend will include the Motegi Racing Super Drift Challenge under the lights on Friday and Saturday nights, the powerful sports cars of the Pirelli World Challenge and the Historic IMSA GTO Challenge.
Ticket prices for the three-day event, which have not increased from 2018, range from $33 for a Friday General Admission ticket to $147 for a three-day ticket that includes Saturday and Sunday reserved seating in grandstand upper levels. Pre-paid parking packages are also available, along with handicapped seating, IndyCar Series Paddock access passes, Super Photo tickets and an array of VIP Club packages.
Fans can select and pay for their Grand Prix of Long Beach seats, parking and paddock passes online at gplb.com. Ticket orders can also be placed by calling the toll-free ticket hotline, (888) 827-7333. A printed ticket brochure that includes a circuit map, ticket prices, order form and other information is also available.
Fans can also follow the Grand Prix of Long Beach on Facebook at GrandPrixLB, Twitter @GPLongBeach and Instagram at GPLongBeach.
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Flowers come out as ‘rarest tree’ beats extinction
Posted on July 12, 2013 by Simon Pipe
Desperate efforts to save St Helena’s bastard gumwood tree are bearing fruit – or rather, flowers.
Dr Phil Lambdon and his team had to delicately pick up pollen grains with brushes and “paint” them on to blossom of the only known surviving tree.
Only one in every ten thousand pollen grains was thought likely to germinate.
But five young plants have now flowered for the first time as a result of the rescue operation, according to an updated version of St Helena’s first State of the Environment report.
In 2009, the lone tree at Pounceys was encased in a case of mesh to stop insects landing on it with pollen from nearby false gumwood trees – which would have resulted in impure hybrids.
Only if pure plants could be raised would the species be saved from extinction.
It had already been officially declared extinct in the wild, because the trees at Pounceys had been planted there in the endemics nursery.
But after the rescue mission began in 2009, a surviving wild tree was found growing on a remote cliff.
That brought hopes of raising new trees with a healthy mix of genes.
In fact, the bastard gumwood was already thought to have been lost once before.
In 1868, only a single specimen of the species was known, at Black Field in Longwood. And when it died, the species – unique to St Helena – was thought to be extinct.
But in 1982, another single tree was discovered by Stedson Stroud, growing out of a cliff close to Horse Pasture.
That tree died in August 1986, but a cutting and at least 19 seedlings were successfully raised at Pounceys, near St Paul’s Cathedral.
But conservationists struggled to get them to produce viable seedlings.
Gradually, all but one of them died off, and Dr Phil Lambdon’s rescue effort was launched with funding from the UK government.
The situation was made more desperate because the tree’s seeds have an in-built resistance to its own pollen.
Insects were even captured in areas where the false gumwood did not grow, and let into the protective cage to increase chances of pollination.
By 2011, some 200 seedlings were ready to be planted out on land provided by St Helena National Trust.
The story of the mission’s success – so far – appears in the new version of the State of the Environment Report.
It says: “Bastard Gumwood have temporarily been brought from the brink of extinction: from two lone survivors which gave poor seed set, with average germination of 0.001%.
“The first five plants from this programme have now flowered for the first time.
“Seed set has improved and an average germination of 1% has been achieved, giving a 1000% increase in viability.”
A report on the UK Overseas Territories Conservation Forum website tells how planting bastard gumwoods on High Hill is helping to recreate St Helena’s depleted cloud forest.
It says they could help encourage rainfall on the island, just as tourism is set to increase demand for water.
Island’s large bellflower ‘could be lost’ to genetic mix-up
New books on St Helena plant life – launching July 2013
Fight to save dying plants species – BBC story and pictures on bastard gumwood
Queen presents MBE to Stedson
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October 10, 2011 - Dorene DiNaro
The Office of Student Services and Central New Mexico College were recently awarded funding in the amount of $4.2 million by the U.S. Department of Education for the UNM, CNM STEM Undergraduate Pathway (STEM UP) project.
The project partners UNM with CNM to improve systemic pathways and increase student transfers from two-year to four-year institutions in STEM technical education opportunities that adequately prepare Hispanic and low-income students for STEM careers.
“We are very fortunate to receive this award focused on creating institutional change to increase our capacity to serve Hispanic and low-income students,” says Tim Gutierrez, associate vice president for Student Services at UNM. “By increasing our ability to serve Hispanic and low-income students we will increase our capacity to serve all students.”
STEM UP focuses on three main components including transfer centers, transfer initiatives, and degree transfer articulation agreements between CNM and UNM. Through these components, the project aims to ensure successful STEM enrollment, retention, transfer and graduation of Hispanic and low-income population in our state.
“I am thrilled that the CNM-UNM partnership that has been strengthened substantially in recent years is becoming even stronger through this STEM UP grant program,” says CNM President Katharine Winograd.
“It’s imperative that our community and our country produce many more graduates in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. We also need to provide low-income and minority students with the support and opportunities they need to pursue degrees and careers in science, technology, engineering and math, which this grant also addresses,” she says.
The project will provide assistance in navigating newly created degree articulation agreements, and specialized advisement and student advocates at both institutions. Each campus will house specific STEM services including advisement, tutoring and peer mentors.
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Italian protesters take on police during mass march against austerity budget (PHOTOS)
Published time: October 19, 2013 19:29
Edited time: October 20, 2013 01:40
A group of people clashes with policemen near the Economy minister during an anti-austerity protest on October 19, 2013 in Rome. (AFP Photo / Filippo Monteforte)
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Violence broke out between police and demonstrators in Rome on Saturday as tens of thousands took to the streets to protest Italy’s new budget.
Fifteen protesters were arrested and at least 20 police officers were injured, according to the Corriere della Sera newspaper.
“We are laying siege to the city!” chanted the crowd, as a small minority pelted the police and government buildings with water bottles and eggs.
A group of protesters turned over garbage bins and set some of them on fire in front of the Economy Ministry.
Members of the Guardia di Finanza protect themselves as they stand in front of the Economy minister during clashes on the sidelines of an anti-austerity protest on October 19, 2013 in Rome. (AFP Photo / Alberto Pizzoli)
Police say they confiscated tear gas canisters and rocks from some of the radicals in the predominantly youthful crowd and found chains stashed away along the route of the march.
Organizers estimated that 70,000 people took part in the protest, while authorities placed the number closer to 50,000.
“With this budget the government is continuing to hurt a country which is already on its knees,” said Piero Bernocchi, leader of the left-wing COBAS trade union that was behind the demonstration.
“Even after austerity has proven to be disastrous, with debt rising, the economy crumbling, and unemployment soaring, they still continue with these policies.”
Thousands of people march during an anti-austerity protest on October 19, 2013 in Rome. (AFP Photo / Alberto Pizzoli)
Earlier this week, Prime Minister Enrico Letta - who is presiding over a fractious Left-Right coalition - presented the 2014 budget that immediately came under a firestorm of criticism from both sides of the political spectrum.
Left-wingers criticized the document for freezing state sector pay and pensions, while right-wingers and businesses said it failed to stimulate growth with insufficient cuts to Italy’s oppressive corporate taxes.
People try to broke the windows of an Unicredit bank agency during an anti-austerity protest on October 19, 2013 in Rome. (AFP Photo / Alberto Pizzoli)
Italy annually spends around 800 billion euro – a sum it cannot afford as it struggles with a recession that started more than two years ago. The latest budget aims to cut the deficit to 2.5 percent – still worse than most of Europe.
On Friday, a general strike paralyzed transport links in the country and forced the cancellation of flights in and out of Rome.
But Saturday’s protests weren’t just about pay. Some called for the government to abandon an expensive fast-train link with France. Others demanded that Italy provide more social housing. Many bemoaned the country’s treatment of immigrants, who have suffered several tragic incidents in recent months as they attempted to reach the coast of Italy.
Letta has gone on television to defend his government, but dissenters have not been placated and say that even bigger demonstrations will be staged next week.
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Noelia Cotela Riveiro letter, Kidnapped in state killing centers in Spain
NOELIA COTELO RIVEIRO LETTER, KIDNAPPED IN STATE KILLING CENTERS IN SPAIN
Posted by boletintokata on October 8, 2013
First it is remarkable to say that unfortunately I'm not "a tortured prisoner" I am "another tortured prisoner" in this supposedly rule of law and democratic country. From the dungeon where I am, in an isolation bunker, where I have spent six years locked up by the only fact of rebelling against the injustices and atrocities that the executioners make us here within to the ones with courage enough to reclaim, to uprise and make them hardly earn the bread they receive from the state for mistreating, violate our rights, physically and mentally torturing, or even killing with complete impunity.
Using the abstract term of "reinsertion" State keeps me 23 hours a day locked in a dungeon of three meters square. Having to go to a cage-like courtyard where barely get sun and, of course only because the outlawed FIES regime remains [Special Chase Inner Files, forbidden prisoner classification still in use in Spain]. Scattered from my family , my land and far away from my loved ones. This is the prison underworld of which no one speaks for fear of not being believed.
Doing a quick review of my stay in these killing centers I want to relate my passing through, and public denounce the facts that happens, here. C. P. Brieva Prison: the jail where reigns the inmates submission and prevails the word of the executioners. In this prison I have been tortured, have break me a wrist bone which took 30 days plaster, fruit of the usual daily beatings. It keeps me totally incommunicated (phone, parlor, meetings, and mail) as usual, even jailers reporting my mother in order to maintain my isolation. I have been handcuffed, mechanical restraint and stranded many times, after being tortured, and the night of 23th October 2012, after being handcuffed, I woke up to feel the hands of a state servant touching my body. How nobody do nothing? Because this rotten oppressive system encourages the perpetrators enjoy impunity. I'm still alive, but many brothers and comrades have been cruelly killed when "theoretically " serving sentences. Induction to suicide by restraining the oppressive jail regime; aggressions out of hand that kill us (after we appear hanged as if suicide) adulterous methadone to nullify (and clean way to kill us, "overdose"), humiliation, vexes and even vegan comrades die in prison for deny applying the "Terminal Illness patient release" Art.
C. P. Brieva , CP Picassent , C. P. Albolote ... death camps and slaughterhouses of the State. We are 75,000 prisoners in Spain, with too much pain, torture and suffering (as prisoners as relatives). so I want to call the bonds of solidarity that unite to urge and fight for the abolition of torture, the abolition of prisons and the FIES regime, and for anyone else have to live these experiences that marks for life. Let us join voices and fists in live or death to fight for our rights and our freedom.
AGAINST PRISON SOCIETY AND THEIR HIRED MURDERER! BY ANARCHY !
Noelia Cotelo Riveiro , CP Albolote in Granada
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Ebooks ➡ Nonfiction ➡ Religion and Spirituality ➡ Christian Theology / General
The Complete Book of Enoch: Standard English Version
THE COMPLETE BOOK OF ENOCH
Standard English Version
Dr. Jay Winter
Copyright © 2015 by Dr. Jay Winter
Winter Publications
Some rights reserved. This book may be reproduced in any fashion with the express condition that it remains distributed free of charge. This manuscript is to remain free and be accessible to the public domain.
Translated from the original Ethiopic manuscript and logically organized.
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Winter, Jay.
The Complete Book of Enoch: Standard Version / by Dr. Jay Winter --
1.Theology 2.Ancient History 3.Angelology 4.Demonology 5.Biblical Scriptures
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Introduction – About the Book of Enoch
THE BOOK OF ENOCH
Book 1 – Watchers – Ch. 1 – Blessing of Enoch
Book 1 – Watchers – Ch. 2 – The Creation
Book 1 – Watchers – Ch. 3 – The Fallen Angels
Book 1 – Watchers – Ch. 4 – Intercession of Angels
Book 1 – Watchers – Ch. 5 – Book of the Words of Righteousness
Book 1 – Watchers – Ch. 6 – Taken by Angels
Book 1 – Watchers – Ch. 7 – The Holy Angels
Book 2 – Parables – Ch. 1 – The First Parable
Book 2 – Parables – Ch. 2 – The Second Parable
Book 2 – Parables – Ch. 3 – The Third Parable
Book 3 – Book of Noah – Ch. 1 – Birth of Noah
Book 3 – Book of Noah – Ch. 2 – Calling Enoch
Book 3 – Book of Noah – Ch. 3 – Judgement of Angels
Book 3 – Book of Noah – Ch. 4 – Secrets of the Parables
Book 4 – Kingdom of Heaven – Ch. 1 – Enoch is Taken
Book 4 – Kingdom of Heaven – Ch. 2 – The Luminaries of Heaven
Book 4 – Kingdom of Heaven – Ch. 3 – Heavenly Tablets
Book 4 – Kingdom of Heaven – Ch. 4 – One Year to Record
Book 4 – Kingdom of Heaven – Ch. 5 – Visions
Book 5 – Epistle of Enoch – Ch. 1 – Guidance of Enoch
Book 5 – Epistle of Enoch – Ch. 2 – Wisdom of Enoch
Book 5 – Epistle of Enoch – Ch. 6 – Revelation of Enoch
Dead Sea Scroll Chart[
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Book of the Giants
Evidence of Giants
Testament of Solomon
References to Enoch in Other Manuscripts
About the Book of Enoch
(Also known as “Ethiopian Enoch”)
The Book of Enoch (also known as 1 Enoch) was once cherished by Jews and Christians alike, this book later fell into disfavor with powerful theologians – precisely because of its controversial statements on the nature and deeds of the fallen angels.
The Enochian writings, in addition to many other writings that were excluded (or lost) from the Bible (i.e., the Book of Tobit, Esdras, etc.) were widely recognized by many of the early church fathers as “Apocryphal” writings. The term “apocrypha” is derived from the Greek word meaning “hidden” or “secret”. Originally, the import of the term may have been complimentary in that the term was applied to sacred books whose contents were too exalted to be made available to the general public.
In Dan. 12:9-10 we hear of words that are shut up until the end of time and, words that the wise shall understand and the wicked shall not. In addition, 4 Ezra 14:44ff. mentions 94 books, of which 24 (the OT) were to be published and 70 were to be delivered only to the wise among the people. Gradually, the term “apocrypha” took on a pejorative connotation, for the orthodoxy of these hidden books was often questionable. Origen (Comm. in Matt. 10.18; p. 13.881) distinguished between books that were to be read in public worship and apocryphal books. Because these secret books were often preserved for use within the esoteric circles of the divinely – knit believers, many of the critically – spirited or “unenlightened” Church Fathers found themselves outside the realm of understanding, and therefore came to apply the term “apocryphal” to, what they claimed to be, heretical works which were forbidden to be read.
In Protestant parlance, “the Apocrypha” designate 15 works, all but one of which are Jewish in origin and found in the Septuagint (parts of 2 Esdras are Christian and Latin in origin). Although some of them were composed in Palestine in Aramaic or Hebrew, they were not accepted into the Jewish canon formed late in the 2nd century AD (Canonicity, 67:31-35). The Reformers, influenced by the Jewish canon of the Old Testament, did not consider these books on a par with the rest of the Scriptures; thus the custom arose of making the Apocrypha a separate section in the Protestant Bible, or sometimes even of omitting them entirely (Canonicity, 67:44-46). The Catholic view, expressed as a doctrine of faith at the Council of Trent, is that 12 of these 15 works (in a different enumeration, however) are canonical Scripture; they are called the Deuterocanonical Books (Canonicity, 67:21, 42-43).
The three books of the Protestant Apocrypha that are not accepted by Catholics are 1-2 Esdras and the Prayer of Manasseh. The theme of the Book of Enoch dealing with the nature and deeds of the fallen angels so infuriated the later Church fathers that one, Filastrius, actually condemned it openly as heresy (Filastrius, Liber de Haeresibus, no. 108). Nor did the rabbis deign to give credence to the book’s teaching about angels. Rabbi Simeon ben Jochai in the second century A.D. pronounced a curse upon those who believed it (Delitzsch, p. 223). So the book was denounced, banned, cursed, no doubt burned and shredded – and last but not least, lost (and conveniently forgotten) for a thousand years. But with an uncanny persistence, the Book of Enoch found its way back into circulation two centuries ago.
In 1773, rumors of a surviving copy of the book drew Scottish explorer James Bruce to distant Ethiopia. True to hearsay, the Book of Enoch had been preserved by the Ethiopic church, which put it right alongside the other books of the Bible. Bruce secured not one, but three Ethiopic copies of the book and brought them back to Europe and Britain. When in 1821 Dr. Richard Laurence, a Hebrew professor at Oxford, produced the first English translation of the work, the modern world gained its first glimpse of the forbidden mysteries of Enoch.
Most scholars say that the present form of the story in the Book of Enoch was penned sometime during the second century B.C. and was popular for at least five hundred years. The earliest Ethiopic text was apparently made from a Greek manuscript of the Book of Enoch, which itself was a copy of an earlier text. The original was apparently written in Semitic language, now thought to be Aramaic.
Though it was once believed to be post-Christian (the similarities to Christian terminology and teaching are striking), recent discoveries of copies of the book among the Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran prove that the book was in existence before the time of Jesus Christ. But the date of the original writing upon which the second century B.C. Qumran copies were based is shrouded in obscurity. It is, in a word, old. It has been largely the opinion of historians that the book does not really contain the authentic words of the ancient biblical patriarch Enoch, since he would have lived (based on the chronologies in the Book of Genesis) several thousand years earlier than the first known appearance of the book attributed to him. Although in the book he commands his son Methuselah to preserve the book unto future generations, which in itself is a call to copy the books he wrote so they might not be lost to the ages.
Despite its unknown origins, Christians once accepted the words of this Book of Enoch as authentic scripture, especially the part about the fallen angels and their prophesied judgment. In fact, many of the key concepts used by Jesus Christ himself seem directly connected to terms and ideas in the Book of Enoch. Thus, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that Jesus had not only studied the book, but also respected it highly enough to adopt and elaborate on its specific descriptions of the coming kingdom and its theme of inevitable judgment descending upon “the wicked” – the term most often used in the Old Testament to describe the Watchers.
There is abundant proof that Christ approved of the Book of Enoch. Over a hundred phrases in the New Testament find precedents in the Book of Enoch. Another remarkable bit of evidence for the early Christians’ acceptance of the Book of Enoch was for many years buried under the King James Bible’s mistranslation of Luke 9:35, describing the transfiguration of Christ: “And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, ‘This is my beloved Son: hear him.” Apparently the translator here wished to make this verse agree with a similar verse in Matthew and Mark. But Luke’s verse in the original Greek reads: “This is my Son, the Elect One (from the Greek ho eklelegmenos, lit., “the elect one”): hear him.” The “Elect One” is a most significant term (found fourteen times) in the Book of Enoch. If the book was indeed known to the apostles of Christ, with its abundant descriptions of the Elect One who should “sit upon the throne of glory” and the Elect One who should “dwell in the midst of them,” then the great scriptural authenticity is accorded to the Book of Enoch when the “voice out of the cloud” tells the apostles, “This is my Son, the Elect One” – the one promised in the Book of Enoch.
The Book of Jude tells us in verse 14 that “Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied…” Jude also, in verse 15, makes a direct reference to the Book of Enoch (2:1), where he writes, “to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly…” The time difference between Enoch and Jude is approximately 3400 years. Therefore, Jude’s reference to the Enoch’s prophesies strongly leans toward the conclusion that these written prophesies were available to him at that time.
Fragments of ten Enoch manuscripts were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The famous scrolls actually comprise only one part of the total findings at Qumran. Much of the rest was Enochian literature, copies of the Book of Enoch, and other apocryphal works in the Enochian tradition, like the Book of Jubilees. With so many copies around, the Essenes could well have used the Enochian writings as a community prayer book or teacher’s manual and study text.
The Book of Enoch was also used by writers of the non-canonical (i.e. apocryphal or “hidden”) texts. The author of the apocryphal Epistle of Barnabas quotes the Book of Enoch three times, twice calling it “the Scripture,” a term specifically denoting the inspired Word of God (Epis. of Barnabas 4:3, 16:5,6). Other apocryphal works reflect knowledge of the Enoch story of the Watchers, notably the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and the Book of Jubilees.
Many of the early church fathers also supported the Enochian writings. Justin Martyr ascribed all evil to demons whom he alleged to be the offspring of the angels who fell through lust for women-directly referencing the Enochian writings. Athenagoras, writing in his work called Legatio in about 170 A.D., regards Enoch as a true prophet. He describes the angels which “violated both their own nature and their office.” In his writings, he goes into detail about the nature of fallen angels and the cause of their fall, which comes directly from the Enochian writings.
Many other church fathers: Tatian (110-172); Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons (115-185); Clement of Alexandria (150-220); Tertullian (160-230); Origen (186-255); Lactantius (260-330); in addition to: Methodius of Philippi, Minucius Felix, Commodianus, and Ambrose of Milanalso-also approved of and supported the Enochian writings.
The twentieth-century discovery of several Aramaic Enochian texts among the Dead Sea Scrolls prompted Catholic scholar J.T. Milik to compile a complete history of the Enochian writings, including translations of the Aramaic manuscripts. Milik’s 400-page book, published in 1976 by Oxford (J. T. Milik, ed. and trans., The Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976) is a milestone in Enochian scholarship, and Milik himself is no doubt one of the finest experts on the subject. His opinions, based as they are on years of in-depth research, are highly respected.
One by one the arguments against the Book of Enoch fade away. The day may soon arrive when the final complaints about the Book of Enoch’s lack of historicity and “late date” are also silenced by new evidence of the book’s real antiquity. Such evidence would be perhaps the return of Enoch, of whom there is no record of ever dying but rather still living in the Kingdom of Heaven. It is appointed unto man once to die, so Enoch has to die once in order for that Scripture to be fulfilled. Spiritual scholars have attributed the fulfilment of the prophecies of Enoch being revealed in Revelation 11 of which we find the return of Enoch with a second reprimand of the world for three and a half years. Wearing sackcloth and perhaps with Elijah for company – we may finally be able to account of his life and times after hearing what he has to say in those days to come – until we see him finally die, lay lifeless for three days and then rise up into the heavens yet again.
- David Chariot
Book 1: The Watchers
Chapter 1[
**]The Words of the Blessing of Enoch
1 The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect and righteous, who will be living in the days of tribulation, when all the wicked and godless are to be removed.
2 And Enoch, a righteous man whose eyes were opened by God took up his parable and said, “I saw the vision of the Holy One in the heavens, which the angels showed me, and from them I heard everything, and from them I understood as I saw, but not for this generation, but for a remote one which is for to come.”
3 Concerning the elect I said, and took up my parable concerning them: “The Holy Great One will come forth from His dwelling,
4 And the eternal God will tread upon the earth, even on Mount Sinai and will appear in the strength of His might from the heaven of heavens.
5 And all shall be smitten with fear and the Watchers shall quake, and great fear and trembling shall seize them unto the ends of the earth.
6 And the high mountains shall be shaken and the high hills shall be made low, and shall melt like wax before the flame.
7 And the earth shall be wholly rent in sunder and all that is upon the earth shall perish, and there shall be a judgement upon all.
8 But with the righteous He will make peace.
And will protect the elect,
And mercy shall be upon them.
And they shall all belong to God,
And they shall be prospered,
And they shall all be blessed.
And He will help them all,
And light shall appear unto them,
And He will make peace with them.
9 And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones to execute judgement upon all, And to destroy all the ungodly: And to convict all flesh Of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed, And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”
**]The Creation
1 Observe ye everything that takes place in the heaven, how they do not change their orbits, and the luminaries which are in the heaven, how they all rise and set in order each in its season, and transgress not against their appointed order.
2 Behold ye the earth, and give heed to the things which take place upon it from first to last, how steadfast they are, how none of the things upon earth change, but all the works of God appear to you. Behold the summer and the winter, how the whole earth is filled with water, and clouds and dew and rain lie upon it.
3 Observe and see how in the winter all the trees seem as though they had withered and shed all their leaves, except fourteen trees, which do not lose their foliage but retain the old foliage from two to three years till the new comes.
4 And again, observe ye the days of summer how the sun is above the earth over against it. And you seek shade and shelter by reason of the heat of the sun, and the earth also burns with growing heat, and so you cannot tread on the earth, or on a rock by reason of its heat.
5 Observe ye how the trees cover themselves with green leaves and bear fruit: wherefore give ye heed and know with regard to all His works, and recognize how He that liveth for ever hath made them so.
6 And all His works go on thus from year to year for ever, and all the tasks which they accomplish for Him, and their tasks change not, but according as God hath ordained so is it done.
7 And behold how the sea and the rivers in like manner accomplish and change not their tasks from His commandments.
8 But ye have not been steadfast, nor done the commandments of the Lord, But ye have turned away and spoken proud and hard words With your impure mouths against His greatness. Oh, ye hard−hearted, ye shall find no peace.
9 Therefore shall ye execrate your days, and the years of your life shall perish, and the years of your destruction shall be multiplied in eternal abomination, and ye shall find no mercy.
10 In those days ye shall make your names an eternal abomination unto all the righteous, and by you shall all who curse, curse. All the sinners and godless shall imprecate by you. And for you, the godless there shall be a curse.”
11 And all the righteous shall rejoice, and there shall be forgiveness of sins, and every mercy and peace and forbearance.
12 There shall be salvation unto them, a goodly light.
13 And for all of you sinners there shall be no salvation but on you all shall abide the curse of the beast.
14 But for the elect there shall be light and joy and peace, and they shall inherit the earth.
15 And then there shall be bestowed upon the elect wisdom, and they shall all live and never again sin either through ungodliness or through pride: But they who are wise shall be humble.
16 And they shall not again transgress, nor shall they sin all the days of their life, nor shall they die of anger or wrath but they shall complete the number of the days of their life.
17 And their lives shall be increased in peace, and the years of their joy shall be multiplied in eternal gladness and peace all the days of their life.
**]Fallen Angels
1 And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters.
2 And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: “Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.”
3 And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: “I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.”
4 And they all answered him and said: “Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.”
5 Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.
6 And these are the names of their leaders: Samlazaz, their leader, Araklba, Rameel, Kokablel, Tamlel, Ramlel, Danel, Ezeqeel, Baraqijal, Asael, Armaros, Batarel, Ananel, Zaqlel, Samsapeel, Satarel, Turel, Jomjael, Sariel. These are their chiefs of tens.
7 And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them.
8 And they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants.
9 And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind.
10 And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another’s flesh, and drink the blood. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.
11 And Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all colouring tinctures.
12 And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways.
13 Semjaza taught enchantments and root−cuttings, Armaros the resolving of enchantments, Baraqijal taught astrology, Kokabel the constellations, Ezeqeel the knowledge of the clouds, Araqiel the signs of the earth, Shamsiel the signs of the sun, and Sariel the course of the moon.
14 And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven.
**]Intercession of Angels
1 And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel looked down from heaven and saw much blood being shed upon the earth, and all lawlessness being wrought upon the earth.
2 And they said one to another, “The earth made without inhabitant cries the voice of their cryingst up to the gates of heaven.”
3 And now to you, the holy ones of heaven, the souls of men make their suit, saying, “Bring our cause before the Most High.”
4 And they said to the Lord of the ages, “Lord of lords, God of gods, King of kings, and God of the ages, the throne of Thy glory standeth unto all the generations of the ages, and Thy name holy and glorious and blessed unto all the ages! Thou hast made all things, and power over all things hast Thou, and all things are naked and open in Thy sight, and Thou seest all things, and nothing can hide itself from Thee.
5 Thou seest what Azazel hath done, who hath taught all unrighteousness on earth and revealed the eternal secrets which were in heaven, which men were striving to learn; and Samlazaz, to whom Thou hast given authority to bear rule over his associates.
6 And they have gone to the daughters of men upon the earth, and have slept with the women, and have defiled themselves, and revealed to them all kinds of sins. And the women have borne giants, and the whole earth has thereby been filled with blood and unrighteousness.
7 And now, behold, the souls of those who have died are crying out making their suit to the gates of heaven, and their lamentations have ascended and cannot cease because of the lawless deeds which are wrought on the earth.
8 And Thou knowest all things before they come to pass, and Thou seest these things and Thou dost suffer them, and Thou dost not say to us what we are to do to them in regard to these.”
9 Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spake, and sent Uriel to the son of Lamech and said to him, “Go to Noah and tell him in my name ‘Hide thyself!’ and reveal to him the end that is approaching, that the whole earth will be destroyed, and a deluge is about to come upon the whole earth, and will destroy all that is on it. And now instruct him that he may escape and his seed may be preserved for all the generations of the world.”
10 And again the Lord said to Raphael, “Bind Azazel hand and foot, and cast him into the darkness: and make an opening in the desert, which is in Dudael, and cast him therein. And place upon him rough and jagged rocks, and cover him with darkness, and let him abide there for ever, and cover his face that he may not see light. And on the day of the great judgement he shall be cast into the fire.
11 And heal the earth which the angels have corrupted, and proclaim the healing of the earth, that they may heal the plague, and that all the children of men may not perish through all the secret things that the Watchers have disclosed and have taught their sons. And the whole earth has been corrupted through the works that were taught by Azazel, to him ascribe all sin.”
12 And to Gabriel said the Lord, “Proceed against the bastards and the reprobates, and against the children of fornication and destroy the children of the Watchers from amongst men. Send them one against the other that they may destroy each other in battle, for length of days shall they not have. And no request that they make of thee shall be granted unto their fathers on their behalf; for they hope to live an eternal life, and that each one of them will live five hundred years.”
13 And the Lord said unto Michael, “Go, bind Samlazaz and his associates who have united themselves with women so as to have defiled themselves with them in all their uncleanness. And when their sons have slain one another, and they have seen the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them fast for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth, till the day of their judgement and of their consummation, till the judgement that is for ever and ever is consummated. In those days they shall be led off to the abyss of fire and to the torment and the prison in which they shall be confined for ever.
14 And whosoever shall be condemned and destroyed will from thenceforth be bound together with them to the end of all generations. and destroy all the spirits of the reprobate and the children of the Watchers because they have wronged mankind.
15 Destroy all wrong from the face of the earth and let every evil work come to an end, and let the plant of righteousness and truth appear, and it shall prove a blessing; the works of righteousness and truth shall be planted in truth and joy for evermore.
16 And then shall all the righteous escape and shall live till they beget thousands of children, and all the days of their youth and their old age shall they complete in peace.
17 And then shall the whole earth be tilled in righteousness, and shall all be planted with trees and be full of blessing.
18 And all desirable trees shall be planted on it, and they shall plant vines on it and the vine which they plant thereon shall yield wine in abundance, and as for all the seed which is sown thereon each measure shall bear a thousand, and each measure of olives shall yield ten presses of oil.
19 And cleanse thou the earth from all oppression, and from all unrighteousness, and from all sin, and from all godlessness, and all the uncleanness that is wrought upon the earth destroy from off the earth.
20 And all the children of men shall become righteous, and all nations shall offer adoration and shall praise Me, and all shall worship Me. And the earth shall be cleansed from all defilement, and from all sin, and from all punishment, and from all torment, and I will never again send upon it from generation to generation and for ever.
21 And in those days I will open the store chambers of blessing which are in the heaven, so as to send them down upon the earth over the work and labour of the children of men. And truth and peace shall be associated together throughout all the days of the world and throughout all the generations of men.”
22 Before these things Enoch was hidden, and no one of the children of men knew where he was hidden, and where he abode, and what had become of him. And his activities had to do with the Watchers, and his days were with the holy ones.
23 And I Enoch was blessing the Lord of Majesty and the King of the ages, and lo! the Watchers called me, Enoch the scribe, and said to me: “Enoch, thou scribe of righteousness, go, declare to the Watchers of the heaven who have left the high heaven, the holy eternal place, and have defiled themselves with women, and have done as the children of earth do, and have taken unto themselves wives.
24 Say to them: ‘Ye have wrought great destruction on the earth and ye shall have no peace nor forgiveness of sin.’
25 And inasmuch as they delight themselves in their children the murder of their beloved ones shall they see, and over the destruction of their children shall they lament, and shall make supplication unto eternity, but mercy and peace shall ye not attain.”
26 And Enoch went and said: “Azazel, thou shalt have no peace, a severe sentence has gone forth against thee to put thee in bonds and thou shalt not have toleration nor request granted to thee, because of the unrighteousness which thou hast taught, and because of all the works of godlessness and unrighteousness and sin which thou hast shown to men.”
27 Then I went and spoke to them all together, and they were all afraid, and fear and trembling seized them. And they besought me to draw up a petition for them that they might find forgiveness, and to read their petition in the presence of the Lord of heaven.
28 For from thenceforward they could not speak with Him nor lift up their eyes to heaven for shame of their sins for which they had been condemned.
29 Then I wrote out their petition, and the prayer in regard to their spirits and their deeds individually and in regard to their requests that they should have forgiveness and length.
30 And I went off and sat down at the waters of Dan, in the land of Dan, to the south of the west of Hermon, I read their petition till I fell asleep.
31 And behold a dream came to me, and visions fell down upon me, and I saw visions of chastisement, and a voice came bidding me to tell it to the sons of heaven, and reprimand them.
32 And when I awaked, I came unto them, and they were all sitting gathered together, weeping in Abelsjail, which is between Lebanon and Seneser, with their faces covered.
33 And I recounted before them all the visions which I had seen in sleep, and I began to speak the words of righteousness, and to reprimand the heavenly Watchers.
**]Book of the Words of Righteousness
1 The book of the words of righteousness, and of the reprimand of the eternal Watchers in accordance with the command of the Holy Great One in that vision I saw in my sleep.
2 What I will now say with a tongue of flesh and with the breath of my mouth, which the Great One has given to men to converse therewith and understand with the heart.
3 As He has created and given to man the power of understanding the word of wisdom, so hath He created me also and given me the power of reprimanding the Watchers, the children of heaven.
4 “I wrote out your petition, and in my vision it appeared thus, that your petition will not be granted unto you throughout all the days of eternity, and that judgement has been finally passed upon you.
5 Your petition will not be granted unto you. And from henceforth you shall not ascend into heaven unto all eternity, and in bonds of the earth the decree has gone forth to bind you for all the days of the world.
6 And previously you shall have seen the destruction of your beloved sons and ye shall have no pleasure in them, but they shall fall before you by the sword.
7 And your petition on their behalf shall not be granted, nor yet on your own even though you weep and pray and speak all the words contained in the writing which I have written.
8 And the vision was shown to me thus: Behold, in the vision clouds invited me and a mist summoned me, and the course of the stars and the lightnings sped and hastened me, and the winds in the vision caused me to fly and lifted me upward, and bore me into heaven.
9 And I went in till I drew nigh to a wall which is built of crystals and surrounded by tongues of fire: and it began to affright me.
10 And I went into the tongues of fire and drew nigh to a large house which was built of crystals and the walls of the house were like a tesselated floor made of crystals, and its groundwork was of crystal.
11 Its ceiling was like the path of the stars and the lightnings, and between them were fiery cherubim, and their heaven was water.
12 A flaming fire surrounded the walls, and its portals blazed with fire.
13 And I entered into that house, and it was hot as fire and cold as ice. There were no delights of life therein; fear covered me, and trembling got hold upon me.
14 And as I quaked and trembled, I fell upon my face and I beheld a vision, and lo! there was a second house, greater than the former, and the entire portal stood open before me, and it was built of flames of fire.
15 And in every respect it so excelled in splendor and magnificence and extent that I cannot describe to you its splendor and its extent.
16 And its floor was of fire, and above it were lightnings and the path of the stars, and its ceiling also was flaming fire. And I looked and saw therein a lofty throne, its appearance was as crystal, and the wheels thereof as the shining sun, and there was the vision of cherubim.
17 And from underneath the throne came streams of flaming fire so that I could not look thereon.
18 And the Great Glory sat thereon, and His raiment shone more brightly than the sun and was whiter than any snow.
19 None of the angels could enter and could behold His face by reason of the magnificence and glory and no flesh could behold Him.
20 The flaming fire was round about Him, and a great fire stood before Him, and none around could draw nigh Him; ten thousand times ten thousand were before Him, yet He needed no counselor.
21 And the most holy ones who were nigh to Him did not leave by night nor depart from Him. And until then I had been prostrate on my face, trembling and the Lord called me with His own mouth, and said to me: “Come hither, Enoch, and hear my word.”
22 And one of the holy ones came to me and waked me, and He made me rise up and approach the door, and I bowed my face downwards.
23 And He answered and said to me, and I heard His voice: “Fear not, Enoch, thou righteous man and scribe of righteousness. Approach hither and hear my voice.
24 And go, say to the Watchers of heaven, who have sent thee to intercede for them: ‘You should intercede for men, and not men for you. Wherefore have ye left the high, holy, and eternal heaven, and lain with women, and defiled yourselves with the daughters of men and taken to yourselves wives, and done like the children of earth, and begotten giants as your sons.
25 And though ye were holy, spiritual, living the eternal life, you have defiled yourselves with the blood of women, and have begotten with the blood of flesh, and, as the children of men, have lusted after flesh and blood as those also do who die and perish.
26 Therefore have I given them wives also that they might impregnate them, and beget children by them, that thus nothing might be wanting to them on earth.
27 But you were formerly spiritual, living the eternal life, and immortal for all generations of the world. And therefore I have not appointed wives for you; for as for the spiritual ones of the heaven, in heaven is their dwelling.
28 And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling.
29 Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men and from the Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; they shall be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called.
30 And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the earth, and cause trouble. They take no food, but nevertheless hunger and thirst, and cause offences.
31 And these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from them.
32 From the days of the slaughter and destruction and death of the giants, from the souls of whose flesh the spirits, having gone forth, shall destroy without incurring judgement, thus shall they destroy until the day of the consummation, the great judgement in which the age shall be consummated, over the Watchers and the godless, yea, shall be wholly consummated.
33 And now as to the Watchers who have sent thee to intercede for them, who had been aforetime in heaven, say to them: “You have been in heaven, but all the mysteries had not yet been revealed to you, and you knew worthless ones, and these in the hardness of your hearts you have made known to the women, and through these mysteries women and men work much evil on earth.”
34 Say to them therefore: “You have no peace.”
**]Taken by Angels
1 Angels took and brought me to a place in which those who were there were like flaming fire, and when they wished, they appeared as men.
2 And they brought me to the place of darkness, and to a mountain the point of whose summit reached to heaven.
3 And I saw the places of the luminaries and the treasuries of the stars and of the thunder and in the uttermost depths, where were a fiery bow and arrows and their quiver, and a fiery sword and all the lightnings.
4 And they took me to the living waters, and to the fire of the west, which receives every setting of the sun.
5 And I came to a river of fire in which the fire flows like water and discharges itself into the great sea towards the west.
6 I saw the great rivers and came to the great river and to the great darkness, and went to the place where no flesh walks. I saw the mountains of the darkness of winter and the place whence all the waters of the deep flow.
7 I saw the mouths of all the rivers of the earth and the mouth of the deep.
8 I saw the treasuries of all the winds, I saw how He had furnished with them the whole creation and the firm foundations of the earth.
9 And I saw the corner−stone of the earth, I saw the four winds which bear the firmament of the heaven.
10 And I saw how the winds stretch out the vaults of heaven, and have their station between heaven and earth: these are the pillars of the heaven.
11 I saw the winds of heaven which turn and bring the circumference of the sun and all the stars to their setting.
12 I saw the winds on the earth carrying the clouds: I saw the paths of the angels.
13 I saw at the end of the earth the firmament of the heaven above and I proceeded and saw a place which burns day and night, where there are seven mountains of magnificent stones.
14 Three towards the east, and three towards the south. And as for those towards the east, was of coloured stone, and one of pearl, and one of jacinth, and those towards the south of red stone.
15 But the middle one reached to heaven like the throne of God, of alabaster, and the summit of the throne was of sapphire.
16 And I saw a flaming fire. And beyond these mountains is a region the end of the great earth: there the heavens were completed.
17 And I saw a deep abyss, with columns of heavenly fire, and among them I saw columns of fire fall, which were beyond measure alike towards the height and towards the depth.
18 And beyond that abyss I saw a place which had no firmament of the heaven above, and no firmly founded earth beneath it: there was no water upon it, and no birds, but it was a waste and horrible place.
19 I saw there seven stars like great burning mountains, and to me, when I inquired regarding them. The angel said: “This place is the end of heaven and earth. This has become a prison for the stars and the host of heaven.
20 And the stars which roll over the fire are they which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord in the beginning of their rising, because they did not come forth at their appointed times.
21 And He was wroth with them, and bound them till the time when their guilt should be consummated for ten thousand years.”
22 And Uriel said to me: “Here shall stand the angels who have connected themselves with women, and their spirits assuming many different forms are defiling mankind and shall lead them astray into sacrificing to demons as gods.
23 Here shall they stand, till the day of the great judgement in which they shall be judged till they are made an end of. And the women also of the angels who went astray shall become sirens.”
24 And I, Enoch, alone saw the vision, the ends of all things: and no man shall see as I have seen.
**]The Holy Angels
1 And these are the names of the holy angels who watch mankind.
2 Uriel, one of the holy angels, who is over the world and over Tartarus.
3 Raphael, one of the holy angels, who is over the spirits of men.
4 Raguel, one of the holy angels who takes vengeance on the world of the luminaries.
5 Michael, one of the holy angels, to wit, he that is set over the best part of mankind and over chaos.
6 Saraqael, one of the holy angels, who is set over the spirits, who sin in the spirit.
7 Gabriel, one of the holy angels, who is over Paradise and the serpents and the Cherubim.
8 Remiel, one of the holy angels, whom God set over those who rise.
9 And I proceeded to where things were chaotic. And I saw there something horrible: I saw neither a heaven above nor a firmly founded earth, but a place chaotic and horrible.
10 And there I saw seven stars of the heaven bound together in it, like great mountains and burning with fire.
11 Then I said: “For what sin are they bound, and on what account have they been cast in hither?”
12 Then said Uriel, one of the holy angels, who was with me, and was chief over them, and said: “Enoch, why dost thou ask, and why art thou eager for the truth? These are of the number of the stars of heaven, which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and are bound here till ten thousand years, the time entailed by their sins, are consummated.”
13 And from thence I went to another place, which was still more horrible than the former, and I saw a horrible thing. A great fire there which burnt and blazed, and the place was cleft as far as the abyss, being full of great descending columns of fire. Neither its extent or magnitude could I see, nor could I conjecture.
14 Then I said: “How fearful is the place and how terrible to look upon!”
15 Then Uriel answered me, one of the holy angels who was with me, and said unto me: “Enoch, why hast thou such fear and affright?”
16 And I answered: “Because of this fearful place, and because of the spectacle of the pain.”
17 And he said unto me: “This place is the prison of the angels, and here they will be imprisoned for ever.”
18 And thence I went to another place, the mountain of hard rock.
19 And there was in it four hollow places, deep and wide and very smooth. How smooth are the hollow places and deep and dark to look at.
20 Then Raphael answered, one of the holy angels who was with me, and said unto me: “These hollow places have been created for this very purpose, that the spirits of the souls of the dead should assemble therein, yea that all the souls of the children of men should assemble here. And these places have been made to receive them till the day of their judgement and till their appointed period, till the great judgement upon them.”
21 I saw a dead man making suit, and his voice went forth to heaven and made suit. And I asked Raphael the angel who was with me, and I said unto him: “This spirit which maketh suit, whose is it, whose voice goeth forth and maketh suit to heaven?”
22 And he answered me saying: “This is the spirit which went forth from Abel, whom his brother Cain slew, and he makes his suit against him till his seed is destroyed from the face of the earth, and his seed is annihilated from amongst the seed of men.”
23 The I asked regarding it, and regarding all the hollow places: “Why is one separated from the other?”
24 And he answered me and said unto me: “These three have been made that the spirits of the dead might be separated. And such a division has been make for the spirits of the righteous, in which there is the bright spring of water. And such has been made for sinners when they die and are buried in the earth and judgement has not been executed on them in their lifetime.
25 Here their spirits shall be set apart in this great pain till the great day of judgement and punishment and torment of those who curse for ever and retribution for their spirits. There He shall bind them for ever. And such a division has been made for the spirits of those who make their suit, who make disclosures concerning their destruction, when they were slain in the days of the sinners.
26 Such has been made for the spirits of men who were not righteous but sinners, who were complete in transgression, and of the transgressors they shall be companions but their spirits shall not be slain in the day of judgement nor shall they be raised from thence.”
27 The I blessed the Lord of glory and said: “Blessed be my Lord, the Lord of righteousness, who ruleth for ever.”
28 From thence I went to another place to the west of the ends of the earth. And I saw a burning fire which ran without resting, and paused not from its course day or night but regularly.
29 And I asked saying: “What is this which rests not?”
30 Then Raguel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered me and said unto me: “This course of fire which thou hast seen is the fire in the west which persecutes all the luminaries of heaven.”
31 And from thence I went to another place of the earth, and he showed me a mountain range of fire which burnt day and night.
32 And I went beyond it and saw seven magnificent mountains all differing each from the other, and the stones were magnificent and beautiful, magnificent as a whole, of glorious appearance and fair exterior: three towards the east, one founded on the other, and three towards the south, one upon the other, and deep rough ravines, no one of which joined with any other.
33 And the seventh mountain was in the midst of these, and it excelled them in height, resembling the seat of a throne: and fragrant trees encircled the throne.
34 And amongst them was a tree such as I had never yet smelt, neither was any amongst them nor were others like it: it had a fragrance beyond all fragrance, and its leaves and blooms and wood wither not for ever: and its fruit is beautiful, and its fruit resembles the dates of a palm.
35 Then I said: “How beautiful is this tree, and fragrant, and its leaves are fair, and its blooms very delightful in appearance.”
36 Then answered Michael, one of the holy and honored angels who was with me, and was their leader.
37 And he said unto me: “Enoch, why dost thou ask me regarding the fragrance of the tree, and why dost thou wish to learn the truth?”
38 Then I answered him saying: “I wish to know about everything, but especially about this tree.”
39 And he answered saying: “This high mountain which thou hast seen, whose summit is like the throne of God, is His throne, where the Holy Great One, the Lord of Glory, the Eternal King, will sit, when He shall come down to visit the earth with goodness. And as for this fragrant tree no mortal is permitted to touch it till the great judgement, when He shall take vengeance on all and bring to its consummation for ever. It shall then be given to the righteous and holy. Its fruit shall be for food to the elect: it shall be transplanted to the holy place, to the temple of the Lord, the Eternal King.
40 Then shall they rejoice with joy and be glad, and into the holy place shall they enter; and its fragrance shall be in their bones, and they shall live a long life on earth. Such as thy fathers lived; and in their days shall no sorrow or plague or torment or calamity touch them.”
41 Then blessed I the God of Glory, the Eternal King, who hath prepared such things for the righteous, and hath created them and promised to give to them.
42 And I went from thence to the middle of the earth, and I saw a blessed place in which there were trees with branches abiding and blooming.
43 And there I saw a holy mountain, and underneath the mountain to the east there was a stream and it flowed towards the south. And I saw towards the east another mountain higher than this, and between them a deep and narrow ravine: in it also ran a stream underneath the mountain.
44 And to the west thereof there was another mountain, lower than the former and of small elevation, and a ravine deep and dry between them: and another deep and dry ravine was at the extremities of the three mountains.
45 And all the ravines were deep and narrow, of hard rock, and trees were not planted upon them. And I marveled at the rocks, and I marveled at the ravine, yea, I marveled very much.
46 Then said I: “For what object is this blessed land, which is entirely filled with trees, and this accursed valley between?”
47 Then Uriel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered and said: “This accursed valley is for those who are accursed for ever. Here shall all the accursed be gathered together who utter with their lips against the Lord unseemly words and of His glory speak hard things. Here shall they be gathered together, and here shall be their place of judgement.
48 In the last days there shall be upon them the spectacle of righteous judgement in the presence of the righteous for ever: here shall the merciful bless the Lord of glory, the Eternal King. In the days of judgement over the former, they shall bless Him for the mercy in accordance with which He has assigned them.”
49 Then I blessed the Lord of Glory and set forth His glory and lauded Him gloriously.
50 And thence I went towards the east, into the midst of the mountain range of the desert, and I saw a wilderness and it was solitary, full of trees and plants. And water gushed forth from above. Rushing like a copious watercourse towards the north−west it caused clouds and dew to ascend on every side.
51 And thence I went to another place in the desert, and approached to the east of this mountain range. And there I saw aromatic trees exhaling the fragrance of frankincense and myrrh, and the trees also were similar to the almond tree.
52 And beyond these, I went afar to the east, and I saw another place, a valley of water. And therein there was a tree, the color of fragrant trees such as the mastic. And on the sides of those valleys I saw fragrant cinnamon. And beyond these I proceeded to the east.
53 And I saw other mountains, and amongst them were groves of trees, and there flowed forth from them nectar, which is named sarara and galbanum. And beyond these mountains I saw another mountain to the east of the ends of the earth, whereon were aloe−trees, and all the trees were full of stacte, being like almond−trees. And when one burnt it, it smelt sweeter than any fragrant odour.
54 And after these fragrant odours, as I looked towards the north over the mountains I saw seven mountains full of choice nard and fragrant trees and cinnamon and pepper.
55 And thence I went over the summits of all these mountains, far towards the east of the earth, and passed above the Erythraean sea and went far from it, and passed over the angel Zotiel.
56 And I came to the Garden of Righteousness, and from afar off I saw numerous trees, and these great−two trees there, very great, beautiful, and glorious, and magnificent, and the Tree of Knowledge, whose holy fruit they eat and know great wisdom.
57 That tree is in height like the strangler fig, and its leaves are like the Carob tree, and its fruit is like the clusters of the vine, very beautiful: and the fragrance of the tree penetrates afar.
58 Then I said: “How beautiful is the tree, and how attractive is its look!”
59 Then Raphael the holy angel, who was with me, answered me and said: “This is the tree of wisdom, of which thy father old and thy aged mother, who were before thee, have eaten, and they learnt wisdom and their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked and they were driven out of the garden.”
60 And from thence I went to the ends of the earth and saw there great beasts, and each differed from the other; and birds also differing in appearance and beauty and voice, the one differing from the other.
61 And to the east of those beasts I saw the ends of the earth whereon the heaven rests, and the portals of the heaven open. And I saw how the stars of heaven come forth, and I counted the portals out of which they proceed, and wrote down all their outlets, of each individual star by itself, according to their number and their names, their courses and their positions, and their times and their months, as Uriel the holy angel who was with me showed me.
62 He showed all things to me and wrote them down for me; also their names he wrote for me, and their laws and their companies.
63 And from thence I went towards the north to the ends of the earth, and there I saw a great and glorious device at the ends of the whole earth.
64 And here I saw three portals of heaven open in the heaven: through each of them proceed north winds: when they blow there is cold, hail, frost, snow, dew, and rain. And out of one portal they blow for good: but when they blow through the other two portals, it is with violence and affliction on the earth, and they blow with violence.
65 And from thence I went towards the west to the ends of the earth, and saw there three portals of the heaven open such as I had seen in the east, the same number of portals, and the same number of outlets.
66 And from thence I went to the south to the ends of the earth, and saw there three open portals of the heaven: and thence there come dew, rain, and wind. And from thence I went to the east to the ends of the heaven, and saw here the three eastern portals of heaven open and small portals above them.
67 Through each of these small portals pass the stars of heaven and run their course to the west on the path which is shown to them.
68 And as often as I saw I blessed always the Lord of Glory, and I continued to bless the Lord of Glory who has wrought great and glorious wonders, to show the greatness of His work to the angels and to spirits and to men, that they might praise His work and all His creation: that they might see the work of His might and praise the great work of His hands and bless Him for ever.
Book 2: The Parables
**]The First Parable
1 The second vision which he saw, the vision of wisdom, which Enoch the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan, the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, saw.
2 And this is the beginning of the words of wisdom which I lifted up my voice to speak and say to those which dwell on earth: “Hear, ye men of old time, and see, ye that come after, the words of the Holy One which I will speak before the Lord of Spirits. It were better to declare to the men of old times, but even from those that come after we will not withhold the beginning of wisdom.”
3 Till the present day such wisdom has never been given by the Lord of Spirits as I have received according to my insight, according to the good pleasure of the Lord of Spirits by whom the lot of eternal life has been given to me. Now three Parables were imparted to me, and I lifted up my voice and recounted them to those that dwell on the earth.
4 The first Parable.
When the congregation of the righteous shall appear, and sinners shall be judged for their sins, and shall be driven from the face of the earth:
5 And when the Righteous One shall appear before the eyes of the righteous, whose elect works hang upon the Lord of Spirits, and light shall appear to the righteous and the elect who dwell on the earth, where then will be the dwelling of the sinners, and where the resting−place of those who have denied the Lord of Spirits? It had been good for them if they had not been born.
6 When the secrets of the righteous shall be revealed and the sinners judged, and the godless driven from the presence of the righteous and elect.
7 From that time those that possess the earth shall no longer be powerful and exalted: And they shall not be able to behold the face of the holy, for the Lord of Spirits has caused His light to appear on the face of the holy, righteous, and elect.
8 Then shall the kings and the mighty perish and be given into the hands of the righteous and holy.
9 And thenceforward none shall seek for themselves mercy from the Lord of Spirits for their life is at an end.
10 And it shall come to pass in those days that elect and holy children will descend from the high heaven, and their seed will become one with the children of men.
11 And in those days Enoch received books of zeal and wrath, and books of disquiet and expulsion.
12 And mercy shall not be accorded to them, saith the Lord of Spirits.
13 And in those days a whirlwind carried me off from the earth, and set me down at the end of the heavens.
14 And there I saw another vision, the dwelling−places of the holy, and the resting−places of the righteous.
15 Here mine eyes saw their dwellings with His righteous angels and their resting places with the holy.
16 And they petitioned and interceded and prayed for the children of men, and righteousness flowed before them as water, and mercy like dew upon the earth: Thus it is amongst them for ever and ever.
17 And in that place mine eyes saw the Elect One of righteousness and of faith, and I saw his dwelling−place under the wings of the Lord of Spirits.
18 And righteousness shall prevail in his days, and the righteous and elect shall be without number before Him for ever and ever.
19 And all the righteous and elect before Him shall be strong as fiery lights, and their mouth shall be full of blessing, and their lips extol the name of the Lord of Spirits, and righteousness before Him shall never fail.
20 There I wished to dwell, and my spirit longed for that dwelling place, and there heretofore hath been my portion. For so has it been established concerning me before the Lord of Spirits.
21 In those days I praised and extolled the name of the Lord of Spirits with blessings and praises, because He hath destined me for blessing and glory according to the good pleasure of the Lord of Spirits.
22 For a long time my eyes regarded that place, and I blessed Him and praised Him, saying: “Blessed is He, and may He be blessed from the beginning and for evermore. And before Him there is no ceasing. He knows before the world was created what is for ever and what will be from generation unto generation.”
23 Those who sleep not bless Thee: they stand before Thy glory and bless, praise, and extol, saying: “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Spirits: He filleth the earth with spirits.”
24 And here my eyes saw all those who sleep not: they stand before Him and bless and say: “Blessed be Thou, and blessed be the name of the Lord for ever and ever.” And my face was changed; for I could no longer behold.
25 And after that I saw thousands of thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand, I saw a multitude beyond number and reckoning, who stood before the Lord of Spirits.
26 And on the four sides of the Lord of Spirits I saw four presences, different from those that sleep not, and I learnt their names: for the angel that went with me made known to me their names, and showed me all the hidden things.
27 And I heard the voices of those four presences as they uttered praises before the Lord of glory.
28 The first voice blesses the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.
29 And the second voice I heard blessing the Elect One and the elect ones who hang upon the Lord of Spirits.
30 And the third voice I heard pray and intercede for those who dwell on the earth and supplicate in the name of the Lord of Spirits.
31 And I heard the fourth voice fending off the Satans and forbidding them to come before the Lord of Spirits to accuse them who dwell on the earth.
32 After that I asked the angel of peace who went with me, who showed me everything that is hidden: “Who are these four presences which I have seen and whose words I have heard and written down?”
33 And he said to me: “This first is Michael, the merciful and long−suffering: and the second, who is set over all the diseases and all the wounds of the children of men, is Raphael: and the third, who is set over all the powers, is Gabriel: and the fourth, who is set over the repentance unto hope of those who inherit eternal life, is named Phanuel.”
34 And these are the four angels of the Lord of Spirits and the four voices I heard in those days.
35 And after that I saw all the secrets of the heavens, and how the kingdom is divided, and how the actions of men are weighed in the balance.
36 And there I saw the mansions of the elect and the mansions of the holy, and mine eyes saw there all the sinners being driven from thence which deny the name of the Lord of Spirits, and being dragged off: and they could not abide because of the punishment which proceeds from the Lord of Spirits.
37 And there mine eyes saw the secrets of the lightning and of the thunder, and the secrets of the winds, how they are divided to blow over the earth, and the secrets of the clouds and dew, and these I saw from whence they proceed in that place and from whence they saturate the dusty earth.
38 And there I saw closed chambers out of which the winds are divided, the chamber of the hail and winds, the chamber of the mist, and of the clouds, and the cloud thereof hovers over the earth from the beginning of the world.
39 And I saw the chambers of the sun and moon, whence they proceed and whither they come again, and their glorious return, and how one is superior to the other, and their stately orbit, and how they do not leave their orbit, and they add nothing to their orbit and they take nothing from it, and they keep faith with each other, in accordance with the oath by which they are bound together.
40 And first the sun goes forth and traverses his path according to the commandment of the Lord of Spirits, and mighty is His name for ever and ever.
41 And after that I saw the hidden and the visible path of the moon, and she accomplishes the course of her path in that place by day and by night−the one holding a position opposite to the other before the Lord of Spirits.
42 And they give thanks and praise and rest not. For unto them is their thanksgiving rest.
43 For the sun changes oft for a blessing or a curse, and the course of the path of the moon is light to the righteous and darkness to the sinners in the name of the Lord. Who made a separation between the light and the darkness, and divided the spirits of men, and strengthened the spirits of the righteous in the name of His righteousness.
44 For no angel hinders and no power is able to hinder; for He appoints a judge for them all and He judges them all before Him.
45 Wisdom found no place where she might dwell, then a dwelling−place was assigned her in the heavens.
46 Wisdom went forth to make her dwelling among the children of men and found no dwelling−place.
47 Wisdom returned to her place and took her seat among the angels.
48 And unrighteousness went forth from her chambers: Whom she sought not she found and dwelt with them, as rain in a desert and dew on a thirsty land.
49 And I saw other lightnings and the stars of heaven, and I saw how He called them all by their names and they hearkened unto Him.
50 And I saw how they are weighed in a righteous balance according to their proportions of light: the width of their spaces and the day of their appearing, and how their revolution produces lightning: and their revolution according to the number of the angels, and they keep faith with each other.
51 And I asked the angel who went with me who showed me what was hidden: “What are these?”
52 And he said to me: “The Lord of Spirits hath showed thee their parabolic meaning: these are the names of the holy who dwell on the earth and believe in the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.”
53 Also another phenomenon I saw in regard to the lightnings: how some of the stars arise and become lightnings and cannot part with their new form.
**]The Second Parable
1 And this is the second Parable concerning those who deny the name of the dwelling of the holy ones and the Lord of Spirits.
2 And into the heaven they shall not ascend, and on the earth they shall not come. Such shall be the lot of the sinners who have denied the name of the Lord of Spirits. Who are thus preserved for the day of suffering and tribulation.
3 On that day Mine Elect One shall sit on the throne of glory and shall try their works, and their places of rest shall be innumerable. And their souls shall grow strong within them when they see Mine Elect Ones.
4 And those who have called upon My glorious name: Then will I cause Mine Elect One to dwell among them.
5 And I will transform the heaven and make it an eternal blessing and light and I will transform the earth and make it a blessing: and I will cause Mine Elect Ones to dwell upon it: But the sinners and evil−doers shall not set foot thereon.
6 For I have provided and satisfied with peace My righteous ones and have caused them to dwell before Me: But for the sinners there is judgement impending with Me, so that I shall destroy them from the face of the earth.
7 And there I saw One who had a head of days, and His head was white like wool, and with Him was another being whose countenance had the appearance of a man, and his face was full of graciousness, like one of the holy angels.
8 And I asked the angel who went with me and showed me all the hidden things, concerning that Son of Man, who he was, and whence he was, and why he went with the Head of Days.
9 And he answered and said unto me: “This is the Son of Man who hath righteousness. With whom dwelleth righteousness, and who reveals all the treasures of that which is hidden. Because the Lord of Spirits hath chosen him, and whose lot hath preeminence before the Lord of Spirits in uprightness for ever.
10 And this Son of Man whom thou hast seen shall raise up the kings and the mighty from their seats and shall loosen the reins of the strong, and break the teeth of the sinners. Because they do not extol and praise Him, Nor humbly acknowledge whence the kingdom was bestowed upon them.
11 And he shall put down the countenance of the strong, and shall fill them with shame. Darkness shall be their dwelling and worms shall be their bed. They shall have no hope of rising from their beds because they do not extol the name of the Lord of Spirits.
12 These are they who judge the stars of heaven, tread upon the earth, and dwell upon it.
13 All their deeds manifest unrighteousness and their power rests upon their riches.
14 Their faith is in the gods which they have made with their hands and they deny the name of the Lord of Spirits.
15 They persecute the houses of His congregations and the faithful who hang upon the name of the Lord of Spirits.
16 And in those days shall have ascended the prayer of the righteous and the blood of the righteous from the earth before the Lord of Spirits.
17 In those days the holy ones who dwell above in the heavens shall unite with one voice and supplicate and pray and praise, give thanks and bless the name of the Lord of Spirits on behalf of the blood of the righteous which has been shed.
18 And that the prayer of the righteous may not be in vain before the Lord of Spirits, that judgement may be done unto them and that they may not have to suffer for ever.”
19 In those days I saw the Head of Days when He seated himself upon the throne of His glory, and the books of the living were opened before Him, and all His host which is in heaven above and His counselors stood before Him.
20 And the hearts of the holy were filled with joy because the number of the righteous had been offered, and the prayer of the righteous had been heard, and the blood of the righteous been required before the Lord of Spirits.
21 And in that place I saw the fountain of righteousness, which was inexhaustible; and around it were many fountains of wisdom. All the thirsty drank of them and were filled with wisdom and their dwellings were with the righteous and holy and elect.
22 And at that hour that Son of Man was named in the presence of the Lord of Spirits, and His name before the Head of Days.
23 Yea, before the sun and the signs were created, before the stars of the heaven were made, His name was named before the Lord of Spirits.
24 “He shall be a staff to the righteous whereon to stay themselves and not fall and he shall be the light of the Gentiles, and the hope of those who are troubled of heart.
25 All who dwell on earth shall fall down and worship before Him, and will praise and bless and celebrate with song the Lord of Spirits.
26 And for this reason hath He been chosen and hidden before Him, before the creation of the world and for evermore.
27 And the wisdom of the Lord of Spirits hath revealed Him to the holy and righteous for He hath preserved the lot of the righteous because they have hated and despised this world of unrighteousness and have hated all its works and ways in the name of the Lord of Spirits: For in his name they are saved and according to His good pleasure hath it been in regard to their life.
28 In these days downcast in countenance shall the kings of the earth have become and the strong who possess the land because of the works of their hands. For on the day of their anguish and affliction they shall not save themselves and I will give them over into the hands of Mine Elect.
29 As straw in the fire so shall they burn before the face of the holy: As lead in the water shall they sink before the face of the righteous and no trace of them shall any more be found.
30 And on the day of their affliction there shall be rest on the earth, and before them they shall fall and not rise again. There shall be no one to take them with his hands and raise them for they have denied the Lord of Spirits and His Anointed One. The name of the Lord of Spirits be blessed.
3l For wisdom is poured out like water, and glory faileth not before Him for evermore.
32 For He is mighty in all the secrets of righteousness and unrighteousness shall disappear as a shadow and have no continuance. Because the Elect One standeth before the Lord of Spirits and His glory is for ever and ever and His might unto all generations.
33 And in Him dwells the spirit of wisdom, and the spirit which gives insight, and the spirit of understanding and of might, and the spirit of those who have fallen asleep in righteousness.
34 And He shall judge the secret things and none shall be able to utter a lying word before Him for He is the Elect One before the Lord of Spirits according to His good pleasure.
35 In those days a change shall take place for the Holy and Elect, and the Light of Days shall abide upon them and glory and honor shall turn to the holy.
36 On the day of affliction on which evil shall have been treasured up against the sinners. And the righteous shall be victorious in the name of the Lord of Spirits and He will cause the others to witness that they may repent and forgo the works of their hands.
37 They shall have no honor through the name of the Lord of Spirits yet through His name shall they be saved, and the Lord of Spirits will have compassion on them for His compassion is great.
38 And He is righteous also in His judgement and in the presence of His glory unrighteousness also shall not maintain itself: At His judgement the unrepentant shall perish before Him.
39 And from henceforth, I will have no mercy on them.” saith the Lord of Spirits.
40 In those days shall the earth also give back that which has been entrusted to it. Sheol also shall give back that which it has received, and hell shall give back that which it owes.
41 For in those days the Elect One shall arise and He shall choose the righteous and holy from among them.
42 For the day has drawn nigh that they should be saved.
43 And the Elect One shall in those days sit on My throne and His mouth shall pour forth all the secrets of wisdom and counsel for the Lord of Spirits hath given to Him and hath glorified Him.
44 In those days shall the mountains leap like rams and the hills also shall skip like lambs satisfied with milk, and the faces of the angels in heaven shall be lighted up with joy.
45 And the earth shall rejoice and the righteous shall dwell upon it and the Elect shall walk thereon.
46 And after those days in that place where I had seen all the visions of that which is hidden, for I had been carried off in a whirlwind and they had borne me towards the west.
47 There mine eyes saw all the secret things of heaven that shall be, a mountain of iron, and a mountain of copper, and a mountain of silver, and a mountain of gold, and a mountain of soft metal, and a mountain of lead.
48 And I asked the angel who went with me, saying, “What things are these which I have seen in secret?”
49 And he said unto me: “All these things which thou hast seen shall serve the dominion of His Anointed that He may be potent and mighty on the earth.”
50 And that angel of peace answered, saying unto me: “Wait a little, and there shall be revealed unto thee all the secret things which surround the Lord of Spirits.
51 And these mountains which thine eyes have seen, the mountain of iron, and the mountain of copper, and the mountain of silver, and the mountain of gold, and the mountain of soft metal, and the mountain of lead.
52 All these shall be in the presence of the Elect One as wax before the fire, and like the water which streams down from above and they shall become powerless before his feet.
53 And it shall come to pass in those days that none shall be saved either by gold or by silver and none be able to escape.
54 And there shall be no iron for war. Nor shall one clothe oneself with a breastplate. Bronze shall be of no service, and tin shall not be esteemed, and lead shall not be desired.
55 And all these things shall be destroyed from the surface of the earth.”
56 And I looked and turned to another part of the earth, and saw there a deep valley with burning fire. And they brought the kings and the mighty, and began to cast them into this deep valley.
57 And there mine eyes saw how they made these their instruments, iron chains of immeasurable weight.
58 And I asked the angel of peace who went with me, saying: “For whom are these chains being prepared?”
59 And he said unto me: “These are being prepared for the hosts of Azazel, so that they may take them and cast them into the abyss of complete condemnation, and they shall cover their jaws with rough stones as the Lord of Spirits commanded.”
60 And Michael, and Gabriel, and Raphael, and Phanuel shall take hold of them on that great day, and cast them on that day into the burning furnace, that the Lord of Spirits may take vengeance on them for their unrighteousness in becoming subject to Satan and leading astray those who dwell on the earth.
61 And in those days shall punishment come from the Lord of Spirits, and He will open all the chambers of waters which are above the heavens, and of the fountains which are beneath the earth.
62 And all the waters shall be joined with the waters: that which is above the heavens is the masculine, and the water which is beneath the earth is the feminine.
63 And they shall destroy all who dwell on the earth and those who dwell under the ends of the heaven. And when they have recognized their unrighteousness which they have wrought on the earth, then by these shall they perish.
64 And after that, the Head of Days repented and said: “In vain have I destroyed all who dwell on the earth.”
65 And He sware by His great name: “Henceforth I will not do so to all who dwell on the earth and I will set a sign in the heaven and this shall be a pledge of good faith between Me and them for ever. So long as heaven is above the earth and this is in accordance with My command.
66 When I have desired to take hold of them by the hand of the angels on the day of tribulation and pain because of this, I will cause My chastisement and My wrath to abide upon them.” saith God, the Lord of Spirits.
67 Ye mighty kings who dwell on the earth, ye shall have to behold Mine Elect One. How He sits on the throne of glory and judges Azazel and all his associates, and all his hosts in the name of the Lord of Spirits.
68 And I saw there the hosts of the angels of punishment going and they held scourges and chains of iron and bronze.
69 And I asked the angel of peace who went with me, saying: “To whom are these who hold the scourges going?”
70 And he said unto me: “To their elect and beloved ones, that they may be cast into the chasm of the abyss of the valley.”
71 And then that valley shall be filled with their elect and beloved, and the days of their lives shall be at an end, and the days of their leading astray shall not thenceforward be reckoned.
72 And in those days the angels shall return and hurl themselves to the east upon the Parthians and Medes.
73 They shall stir up the kings, so that a spirit of unrest shall come upon them and they shall rouse them from their thrones that they may break forth as lions from their lairs and as hungry wolves among their flocks.
74 And they shall go up and tread under foot the land of His elect ones but the city of the righteous shall be a hindrance to their horses.
75 And they shall begin to fight among themselves and their right hand shall be strong against themselves.
76 And a man shall not know his brother nor a son his father or his mother till there be no number of the corpses through their slaughter and their punishment be not in vain.
77 In those days Sheol shall open its jaws and they shall be swallowed up therein. Their destruction shall be at an end. Sheol shall devour the sinners in the presence of the elect.”
78 And it came to pass after this that I saw another host of wagons, and men riding thereon, and coming on the winds from the east, and from the west to the south.
79 And the noise of their wagons was heard, and when this turmoil took place the holy ones from heaven remarked it, and the pillars of the earth were moved from their place, and the sound thereof was heard from the one end of heaven to the other, in one day.
80 And they shall all fall down and worship the Lord of Spirits. And this is the end of the second Parable.
**]The Third Parable
1 And I began to speak the third Parable concerning the righteous and elect.
2 Blessed are ye, ye righteous and Elect for glorious shall be your lot.
3 And the righteous shall be in the light of the sun and the elect in the light of eternal life.
4 The days of their life shall be unending and the days of the holy without number.
5 And they shall seek the light and find righteousness with the Lord of Spirits.
6 There shall be peace to the righteous in the name of the Eternal Lord.
7 And after this it shall be said to the holy in heaven that they should seek out the secrets of righteousness, the heritage of faith.
8 For it has become bright as the sun upon earth and the darkness is past.
9 And there shall be a light that never ends and to a limit of days they shall not come.
10 For the darkness shall first have been destroyed and the light of uprightness established for ever before the Lord of Spirits.
11 In those days mine eyes saw the secrets of the lightnings, and of the lights, and the judgements they execute, and they lighten for a blessing or a curse as the Lord of Spirits willeth.
12 And there I saw the secrets of the thunder, and how when it resounds above in the heaven, the sound thereof is heard.
13 And He caused me to see the judgements executed on the earth, whether they be for well−being and blessing, or for a curse according to the word of the Lord of Spirits.
14 And after that, all the secrets of the lights and lightnings were shown to me, and they lighten for blessing and for satisfying.
15 In the year 500, in the seventh month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the life of Enoch.
16 In that parable I saw how a mighty quaking made the heaven of heavens to quake, and the host of the Most High, and the angels, a thousand thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand were disquieted with a great disquiet.
17 And the Head of Days sat on the throne of His glory, and the angels and the righteous stood around Him.
18 And a great trembling seized me, and fear took hold of me, and my loins gave way, and dissolved were my reins, and I fell upon my face.
19 And Michael sent another angel from among the holy ones and he raised me up, and when he had raised me up my spirit returned; for I had not been able to endure the look of this host, and the commotion and the quaking of the heaven.
20 And Michael said unto me: Why art thou disquieted with such a vision? Until this day lasted the day of His mercy; and He hath been merciful and long−suffering towards those who dwell on the earth.
21 And when the day, and the power, and the punishment, and the judgement come, which the Lord of Spirits hath prepared for those who worship not the righteous law, and for those who deny the righteous judgement, and for those who take His name in vain, that day is prepared, for the elect a covenant, but for sinners an inquisition.
22 When the punishment of the Lord of Spirits shall rest upon them, it shall rest in order that the punishment of the Lord of Spirits may not come in vain, and it shall slay the children with their mothers and the children with their fathers.
23 Afterwards the judgement shall take place according to His mercy and His patience.”
24 And on that day were two monsters parted, a female monster named Leviathan, to dwell in the abysses of the ocean over the fountains of the waters.
25 But the male is named Behemoth, who occupied with his breast a waste wilderness named Duidain, on the east of the garden where the elect and righteous dwell, where my grandfather was taken up, the seventh from Adam, the first man whom the Lord of Spirits created.
26 And I besought the other angel that he should show me the might of those monsters, how they were parted on one day and cast, the one into the abysses of the sea and the other unto the dry land of the wilderness.
27 And he said to me: “Thou son of man, herein thou dost seek to know what is hidden.”
28 And the other angel who went with me and showed me what was hidden told me what is first and last in the heaven in the height, and beneath the earth in the depth, and at the ends of the heaven, and on the foundation of the heaven.
29 And the chambers of the winds, and how the winds are divided, and how they are weighed, and how the portals of the winds are reckoned, each according to the power of the wind, and the power of the lights of the moon, and according to the power that is fitting: and the divisions of the stars according to their names and how all the divisions are divided.
30 And the thunders according to the places where they fall, and all the divisions that are made among the lightnings that it may lighten, and their host that they may at once obey.
31 For the thunder has places of rest assigned to it while it is waiting for its peal; and the thunder and lightning are inseparable, and although not one and undivided, they both go together through the spirit and separate not.
32 For when the lightning lightens, the thunder utters its voice, and the spirit enforces a pause during the peal, and divides equally between them; for the treasury of their peals is like the sand, and each one of them as it peals is held in with a bridle, and turned back by the power of the spirit, and pushed forward according to the many quarters of the earth.
33 And the spirit of the sea is masculine and strong, and according to the might of his strength he draws it back with a rein, and in like manner it is driven forward and disperses amid all the mountains of the earth.
34 And the spirit of the hoarfrost is his own angel, and the spirit of the hail is a good angel.
35 And the spirit of the snow has forsaken his chambers on account of his strength; there is a special spirit therein, and that which ascends from it is like smoke, and its name is Frost.
36 And the spirit of the mist is not united with them in their chambers, but it has a special chamber; for its course is glorious both in light and in darkness, and in winter and in summer, and in its chamber is an angel.
37 And the spirit of the dew has its dwelling at the ends of the heaven, and is connected with the chambers of the rain, and its course is in winter and summer: and its clouds and the clouds of the mist are connected, and the one gives to the other.
38 And when the spirit of the rain goes forth from its chamber, the angels come and open the chamber and lead it out, and when it is diffused over the whole earth it unites with the water on the earth. And whensoever it unites with the water on the earth.
39 For the waters are for those who dwell on the earth; for they are nourishment for the earth from the Most High who is in heaven: therefore there is a measure for the rain, and the angels take it in charge.
40 And these things I saw towards the Garden of the Righteous.
41 And the angel of peace who was with me said to me: “These two monsters, prepared conformably to the greatness of God, shall feed.”
42 And I saw in those days how long cords were given to those angels, and they took to themselves wings and flew, and they went towards the north.
43 And I asked the angel, saying unto him: “Why have those angels taken these cords and gone off?”
44 And he said unto me: “They have gone to measure.”
45 And the angel who went with me said unto me: “These shall bring the measures of the righteous and the ropes of the righteous to the righteous. That they may stay themselves on the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.
46 The elect shall begin to dwell with the elect, and those are the measures which shall be given to faith and which shall strengthen righteousness.
47 And these measures shall reveal all the secrets of the depths of the earth. And those who have been destroyed by the desert, and those who have been devoured by the beasts, and those who have been devoured by the fish of the sea. That they may return and stay themselves on the day of the Elect One; for none shall be destroyed before the Lord of Spirits, and none can be destroyed.”
48 And all who dwell above in the heaven received a command and power and one voice and one light like unto fire.
49 And that One with their first words they blessed and extolled and lauded with wisdom.
50 And they were wise in utterance and in the spirit of life.
51 And the Lord of Spirits placed the Elect one on the throne of glory. And he shall judge all the works of the holy above in the heaven, and in the balance shall their deeds be weighed.
52 And thus the Lord commanded the kings and the mighty and the exalted, and those who dwell on the earth, and said: “Open your eyes and lift up your horns if ye are able to recognize the Elect One.”
53 And the Lord of Spirits seated him on the throne of His glory and the spirit of righteousness was poured out upon Him.
54 And the word of his mouth slays all the sinners, and all the unrighteous are destroyed from before his face.
55 And there shall stand up in that day all the kings and the mighty, and the exalted and those who hold the earth, and they shall see and recognize how He sits on the throne of His glory.
56 And righteousness is judged before him and no lying word is spoken before him.
57 Then shall pain come upon them as on a woman in travail when her child enters the mouth of the womb and she has pain in bringing forth.
58 And one portion of them shall look on the other and they shall be terrified, and they shall be downcast of countenance, and pain shall seize them when they see that Son of Man sitting on the throne of his glory.
59 And the kings and the mighty and all who possess the earth shall bless and glorify and extol him who rules over all, who was hidden.
60 For from the beginning the Son of Man was hidden and the Most High preserved Him in the presence of His might, and revealed Him to the elect.
61 And the congregation of the elect and holy shall be sown and all the elect shall stand before him on that day.
62 And all the kings and the mighty and the exalted and those who rule the earth shall fall down before Him on their faces and worship and set their hope upon that Son of Man, and petition him and supplicate for mercy at his hands.
63 Nevertheless that Lord of Spirits will so press them that they shall hastily go forth from His presence, and their faces shall be filled with shame, and the darkness grow deeper on their faces.
64 And He will deliver them to the angels for punishment to execute vengeance on them because they have oppressed His children and His elect.
65 And they shall be a spectacle for the righteous and for His elect: They shall rejoice over them because the wrath of the Lord of Spirits resteth upon them and His sword is drunk with their blood.
66 And the righteous and elect shall be saved on that day, and they shall never thenceforward see the face of the sinners and unrighteous.
67 And the Lord of Spirits will abide over them, and with that Son of Man shall they eat and lie down and rise up for ever and ever.
68 And the righteous and elect shall have risen from the earth and ceased to be of downcast countenance.
69 And they shall have been clothed with garments of glory and these shall be the garments of life from the Lord of Spirits: And your garments shall not grow old. Nor your glory pass away before the Lord of Spirits.
70 In those days shall the mighty and the kings who possess the earth implore to grant them a little respite from His angels of punishment to whom they were delivered, that they might fall down and worship before the Lord of Spirits and confess their sins before Him.
71 And they shall bless and glorify the Lord of Spirits, and say: “Blessed is the Lord of Spirits and the Lord of kings, and the Lord of the mighty and the Lord of the rich, and the Lord of glory and the Lord of wisdom, and splendid in every secret thing is Thy power from generation to generation, and Thy glory for ever and ever.
72 Deep are all Thy secrets and innumerable, and Thy righteousness is beyond reckoning. We have now learnt that we should glorify and bless the Lord of kings and Him who is king over all kings.”
73 And they shall say: “Would that we had rest to glorify and give thanks and confess our faith before His glory! And now we long for a little rest but find it not. We follow hard upon and obtain not, and light has vanished from before us, and darkness is our dwelling−place for ever and ever.
74 For we have not believed before Him nor glorified the name of the Lord of Spirits but our hope was in the sceptre of our kingdom, and in our own glory.
75 And in the day of our suffering and tribulation He saves us not and we find no respite for confession that our Lord is true in all His works, and in His judgements and His justice, and His judgements have no respect of persons.
76 And we pass away from before His face on account of our works and all our sins are reckoned up in righteousness.”
77 Now they shall say unto themselves: “Our souls are full of unrighteous gain, but it does not prevent us from descending from the midst thereof into the burden of Sheol.”
78 And after that their faces shall be filled with darkness and shame before that Son of Man, and they shall be driven from his presence, and the sword shall abide before his face in their midst.
79 Thus spake the Lord of Spirits: “This is the ordinance and judgement with respect to the mighty and the kings and the exalted and those who possess the earth before the Lord of Spirits.”
80 And other forms I saw hidden in that place. I heard the voice of the angel saying: “These are the angels who descended to the earth, and revealed what was hidden to the children of men and seduced the children of men into committing sin.”
Book 3: The Book of Noah
**]Birth of Noah
1 And after some days my son Methuselah took a wife for his son Lamech, and she became pregnant by him and bore a son.
2 And his body was white as snow and red as the blooming of a rose, and the hair of his head and his long locks were white as wool, and his eyes beautiful. And when he opened his eyes, he lighted up the whole house like the sun, and the whole house was very bright.
3 And thereupon he arose in the hands of the midwife, opened his mouth, and conversed with the Lord of righteousness.
4 And his father Lamech was afraid of him and fled, and came to his father Methuselah.
5 And he said unto him: “I have begotten a strange son, diverse from and unlike man, and resembling the sons of the God of heaven; and his nature is different and he is not like us, and his eyes are as the rays of the sun, and his countenance is glorious.
6 And it seems to me that he is not sprung from me but from the angels, and I fear that in his days a wonder may be wrought on the earth. And now, my father, I am here to petition thee and implore thee that thou mayest go to Enoch, our father, and learn from him the truth, for his dwelling−place is amongst the angels.”
7 And when Methuselah heard the words of his son, he came to me to the ends of the earth; for he had heard that I was there, and he cried aloud, and I heard his voice and I came to him.
8 And I said unto him: “Behold, here am I, my son, wherefore hast thou come to me?”
9 And he answered and said: “Because of a great cause of anxiety have I come to thee, and because of a disturbing vision have I approached.
10 And now, my father, hear me: unto Lamech my son there hath been born a son, the like of whom there is none, and his nature is not like mans nature, and the color of his body is whiter than snow and redder than the bloom of a rose, and the hair of his head is whiter than white wool, and his eyes are like the rays of the sun, and he opened his eyes and thereupon lighted up the whole house.
11 And he arose in the hands of the midwife, and opened his mouth and blessed the Lord of heaven.
12 And his father Lamech became afraid and fled to me, and did not believe that he was sprung from him, but that he was in the likeness of the angels of heaven; and behold I have come to thee that thou mayest make known to me the truth.”
13 And I, Enoch, answered and said unto him: “The Lord will do a new thing on the earth, and this I have already seen in a vision, and make known to thee that in the generation of my father Jared some of the angels of heaven transgressed the word of the Lord.
14 And behold they commit sin and transgress the law, and have united themselves with women and commit sin with them, and have married some of them, and have begot children by them.
15 And they shall produce on the earth giants not according to the spirit, but according to the flesh, and there shall be a great punishment on the earth, and the earth shall be cleansed from all impurity.
16 Yea, there shall come a great destruction over the whole earth, and there shall be a deluge and a great destruction for one year.
17 And this son who has been born unto you shall be left on the earth, and his three children shall be saved with him: when all mankind that are on the earth shall die he and his sons shall be saved.
18 And now make known to thy son Lamech that he who has been born is in truth his son, and call his name Noah; for he shall be left to you, and he and his sons shall be saved from the destruction which shall come upon the earth on account of all the sin and all the unrighteousness, which shall be consummated on the earth in his days.
19 And after that there shall be still more unrighteousness than that which was first consummated on the earth; for I know the mysteries of the holy ones; for He, the Lord, has showed me and informed me, and I have read in the heavenly tablets.
20 And I saw written on them that generation upon generation shall transgress, till a generation of righteousness arises, and transgression is destroyed and sin passes away from the earth, and all manner of good comes upon it.
21 And now, my son, go and make known to thy son Lamech that this son, which has been born, is in truth his son, and that is no lie.”
22 And when Methuselah had heard the words of his father Enoch−for he had shown to him everything in secret−he returned and showed to him and called the name of that son Noah; for he will comfort the earth after all the destruction.
**]Calling Enoch
1 And in those days Noah saw the earth that it had sunk down and its destruction was nigh.
2 And he arose from thence and went to the ends of the earth, and cried aloud to his grandfather Enoch.
3 Noah said three times with an embittered voice: “Hear me, hear me, hear me.”
4 And I said unto him: “Tell me what it is that is falling out on the earth that the earth is in such evil plight and shaken, lest perchance I shall perish with it?”
5 And thereupon there was a great commotion , on the earth, and a voice was heard from heaven, and I fell on my face.
6 And Enoch my grandfather came and stood by me, and said unto me: “Why hast thou cried unto me with a bitter cry and weeping?
7 A command has gone forth from the presence of the Lord concerning those who dwell on the earth that their ruin is accomplished because they have learnt all the secrets of the angels, and all the violence of the Satans, and all their powers, the most secret ones.
8 And all the power of those who practice sorcery, and the power of witchcraft, and the power of those who make molten images. For the whole earth: And how silver is produced from the dust of the earth, and how soft metal originates in the earth. For lead and tin are not produced from the earth like the first: it is a fountain that produces them, and an angel stands therein, and that angel is preeminent.”
9 And after that my grandfather Enoch took hold of me by my hand and raised me up, and said unto me: “Go, for I have asked the Lord of Spirits as touching this commotion on the earth.
10 And He said unto me: “Because of their unrighteousness their judgement has been determined upon and shall not be withheld by Me for ever. Because of the sorceries which they have searched out and learnt, the earth and those who dwell upon it shall be destroyed.”
11 And these, they have no place of repentance for ever, because they have shown them what was hidden, and they are the damned: but as for thee, my son, the Lord of Spirits knows that thou art pure, and guiltless of this reproach concerning the secrets.
12 And He has destined thy name to be among the holy and will preserve thee amongst those who dwell on the earth. And has destined thy righteous seed both for kingship and for great honors, and from thy seed shall proceed a fountain of the righteous and holy without number for ever.”
13 And after that he showed me the angels of punishment who are prepared to come and let loose all the powers of the waters which are beneath in the earth in order to bring judgement and destruction on all who dwell on the earth.
14 And the Lord of Spirits gave commandment to the angels who were going forth that they should not cause the waters to rise but should hold them in check; for those angels were over the powers of the waters.
15 And I went away from the presence of Enoch.
**]Judgement of Angels
1 And in those days the word of God came unto me, and He said unto me: “Noah, thy lot has come up before Me, a lot without blame, a lot of love and uprightness.
2 And now the angels are working, and when they have completed their task I will place My hand upon it and preserve it, and there shall come forth from it the seed of life, and a change shall set in so that the earth will not remain without inhabitant.
3 And I will make fast thy seed before me for ever and ever, and I will spread abroad those who dwell with thee: it shall not be unfruitful on the face of the earth, but it shall be blessed and multiply on the earth in the name of the Lord.”
4 And He will imprison those angels, who have shown unrighteousness in that burning valley which my grandfather Enoch had formerly shown to me in the west among the mountains of gold and silver and iron and soft metal and tin.
5 And I saw that valley in which there was a great convulsion and a convulsion of the waters.
6 And when all this took place, from that fiery molten metal and from the convulsion thereof in that place, there was produced a smell of sulphur, and it was connected with those waters, and that valley of the angels who had led astray burned beneath that land.
7 And through its valleys proceed streams of fire where these angels are punished who had led astray those who dwell upon the earth.
8 But those waters shall in those days serve for the kings and the mighty and the exalted, and those who dwell on the earth, for the healing of the body, but for the punishment of the spirit; now their spirit is full of lust, that they may be punished in their body.
9 For they have denied the Lord of Spirits and see their punishment daily, and yet believe not in His name.
10 And in proportion as the burning of their bodies becomes severe a corresponding change shall take place in their spirit for ever and ever; for before the Lord of Spirits none shall utter an idle word.
11 For the judgement shall come upon them because they believe in the lust of their body and deny the Spirit of the Lord.
12 And those same waters will undergo a change in those days; for when those angels are punished in these waters, these water−springs shall change their temperature, and when the angels ascend, this water of the springs shall change and become cold.
13 And I heard Michael answering and saying: “This judgement wherewith the angels are judged is a testimony for the kings and the mighty who possess the earth.
14 Because these waters of judgement minister to the healing of the body of the kings and the lust of their body; therefore they will not see and will not believe that those waters will change and become a fire which burns for ever.”
**]Secrets of the Parables
1 And after that my grandfather Enoch gave me the teaching of all the secrets in the book in the Parables which had been given to him, and he put them together for me in the words of the book of the Parables.
2 And on that day Michael answered Raphael and said: “The power of the spirit transports and makes me to tremble because of the severity of the judgement of the secrets, the judgement of the angels: who can endure the severe judgement which has been executed, and before which they melt away?”
3 And Michael answered again, and said to Raphael: “Who is he whose heart is not softened concerning it, and whose reins are not troubled by this word of judgement that has gone forth upon them because of those who have thus led them out?”
4 And it came to pass when he stood before the Lord of Spirits, Michael said thus to Raphael: “I will not take their part under the eye of the Lord; for the Lord of Spirits has been angry with them because they do as if they were the Lord. Therefore all that is hidden shall come upon them for ever and ever; for neither angel nor man shall have his portion, but alone they have received their judgement for ever and ever.”
5 And after this judgement they shall terrify and make them to tremble because they have shown this to those who dwell on the earth.
6 And behold the names of those angels: the first of them is Samjaza, the second Artaqifa, and the third Armen, the fourth Kokabel, the fifth Turael, the sixth Rumjal, the seventh Danjal, the eighth Neqael, the ninth Baraqel, the tenth Azazel, the eleventh Armaros, the twelfth Batarjal, the thirteenth Busasejal, the fourteenth Hananel, the fifteenth Turel, and the sixteenth Simapesiel, the seventeenth Jetrel, the eighteenth Tumael, the nineteenth Turel, the twentieth Rumael, the twenty−first Azazel.
7 And these are the chiefs of their angels and their names, and their chief ones over hundreds and over fifties and over tens.
8 The name of the first Jeqon: that is, the one who led astray the sons of God, and brought them down to the earth, and led them astray through the daughters of men.
9 And the second was named Asbeel: he imparted to the holy sons of God evil counsel, and led them astray so that they defiled their bodies with the daughters of men.
10 And the third was named Gadreel: he it is who showed the children of men all the blows of death, and he led astray Eve, and showed the shield and the coat of mail, and the sword for battle, and all the weapons of death to the children of men. And from his hand they have proceeded against those who dwell on the earth from that day and for evermore.
11 And the fourth was named Penemue: he taught the children of men the bitter and the sweet, and he taught them all the secrets of their wisdom. And he instructed mankind in writing with ink and paper, and thereby many sinned from eternity to eternity and until this day. For men were not created for such a purpose, to give confirmation to their good faith with pen and ink. For men were created exactly like the angels, to the intent that they should continue pure and righteous, and death, which destroys everything, could not have taken hold of them but through this their knowledge they are perishing, and through this power it is consuming men.
12 And the fifth was named Kasdeja: this is he who showed the children of men all the wicked smithings of spirits and demons, and the smitings of the embryo in the womb, that it may pass away, and the bites of the serpent, and the smitings which befall through the noontide heat the son of the serpent named Tabaet.
13 And this is the task of Kasbeel, the chief of the oath which he showed to the holy ones when he dwelt high above in glory, and its name is Biqa.
14 This angel requested Michael to show him the hidden name, that he might enunciate it in the oath, so that those might quake before that name and oath who revealed all that was in secret to the children of men.
15 And this is the power of this oath, for it is powerful and strong, and he placed this oath Akae in the hand of Michael.
16 These are the secrets of this oath and they are strong through his oath: The heaven was suspended before the world was created, and for ever.
17 And through it the earth was founded upon the water and from the secret recesses of the mountains come beautiful waters from the creation of the world and unto eternity.
18 And through that oath the sea was created and as its foundation He set for it the sand against the time of anger, and it dare not pass beyond it from the creation of the world unto eternity.
19 And through that oath are the depths made fast and abide and stir not from their place from eternity to eternity.
20 And through that oath the sun and moon complete their course and deviate not from their ordinance from eternity to eternity.
21 And through that oath the stars complete their course and He calls them by their names, and they answer Him from eternity to eternity.
22 And this oath is mighty over them and through it their paths are preserved and their course is not destroyed.
23 And there was great joy amongst them, and they blessed and glorified and extolled because the name of that Son of Man had been revealed unto them.
24 And he sat on the throne of His glory and the sum of judgement was given unto the Son of Man, and He caused the sinners to pass away and be destroyed from off the face of the earth, and those who have led the world astray.
25 With chains shall they be bound and in their assemblage place of destruction shall they be imprisoned, and all their works vanish from the face of the earth.
26 And from henceforth there shall be nothing corruptible; For that Son of Man has appeared and has seated himself on the throne of His glory.
27 All evil shall pass away before His face and the word of that Son of Man shall go forth and be strong before the Lord of Spirits.
Book 4: The Kingdom of Heaven
**]Enoch is Taken
1 And it came to pass after this that his name during his lifetime was raised aloft to that Son of Man and to the Lord of Spirits from amongst those who dwell on the earth.
2 And he was raised aloft on the chariots of the spirit and his name vanished among them.
3 And from that day I was no longer numbered amongst them and He set me between the two winds, between the North and the West, where the angels took the cords to measure for me the place for the elect and righteous.
4 And there I saw the first fathers and the righteous who from the beginning dwell in that place.
5 And it came to pass after this that my spirit was translated and it ascended into the heavens I saw the holy sons of God.
6 They were stepping on flames of fire: Their garments were white and their faces shone like snow.
7 And I saw two streams of fire and the light of that fire shone like hyacinth, and I fell on my face before the Lord of Spirits.
8 And the angel Michael seized me by my right hand and lifted me up and led me forth into all the secrets, and he showed me all the secrets of righteousness.
9 And he showed me all the secrets of the ends of the heaven, and all the chambers of all the stars, and all the luminaries, Whence they proceed before the face of the holy ones.
10 And he translated my spirit into the heaven of heavens and I saw there as it were a structure built of crystals and between those crystals tongues of living fire.
11 And my spirit saw the girdle which girt that house of fire and on its four sides were streams full of living fire, and they girt that house.
12 And round about were Seraphin, Cherubic, and Ophannin: And these are they who sleep not and guard the throne of His glory.
13 And I saw angels who could not be counted. A thousand thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand encircling that house.
14 And Michael, and Raphael, and Gabriel, and Phanuel, and the holy angels who are above the heavens go in and out of that house.
15 And they came forth from that house, and Michael and Gabriel, Raphael, and Phanuel, and many holy angels without number.
16 And with them the Head of Days, His head white and pure as wool, and His raiment indescribable.
17 And I fell on my face and my whole body became relaxed, and my spirit was transfigured; and I cried with a loud voice with the spirit of power and blessed and glorified and extolled.
18 And these blessings which went forth out of my mouth were well pleasing before that Head of Days.
19 And that Head of Days came with Michael and Gabriel, Raphael, and Phanuel, thousands and ten thousands of angels without number.
20 And He came to me and greeted me with His voice, and said unto me: “This is the Son of Man who is born unto righteousness, and righteousness abides over Him, and the righteousness of the Head of Days forsakes Him not.”
21 And he said unto me: “He proclaims unto thee peace in the name of the world to come; for from hence has proceeded peace since the creation of the world, and so shall it be unto thee for ever and for ever and ever.
22 And all shall walk in his ways since righteousness never forsaketh Him.
23 With Him will be their dwelling places, and with Him their heritage, and they shall not be separated from Him for ever and ever and ever.
24 And so there shall be length of days with that Son of Man and the righteous shall have peace and an upright way in the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.
**]The Luminaries
1 The book of the courses of the luminaries of the heaven, the relations of each, according to their classes, their dominion and their seasons, according to their names and places of origin, and according to their months, which Uriel, the holy angel, who was with me, who is their guide showed me.
2 And he showed me all their laws exactly as they are, and how it is with regard to all the years of the world and unto eternity, till the new creation is accomplished which dureth till eternity.
3 And this is the first law of the luminaries: the luminary the sun has its rising in the eastern portals of the heaven, and its setting in the western portals of the heaven.
4 And I saw six portals in which the sun rises, and six portals in which the sun sets and the moon rises and sets in these portals, and the leaders of the stars and those whom they lead: six in the east and six in the west, and all following each other in accurately corresponding order: also many windows to the right and left of these portals.
5 And first there goes forth the great luminary, named the sun, and his circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and he is quite filled with illuminating and heating fire.
6 The chariot on which he ascends, the wind drives, and the sun goes down from the heaven and returns through the north in order to reach the east, and is so guided that he comes to the appropriate portal and shines in the face of the heaven.
7 In this way he rises in the first month in the great portal, which is the fourth. And in that fourth portal from which the sun rises in the first month are twelve window−openings, from which proceed a flame when they are opened in their season.
8 When the sun rises in the heaven, he comes forth through that fourth portal thirty mornings in succession, and sets accurately in the fourth portal in the west of the heaven.
9 And during this period the day becomes daily longer and the night nightly shorter to the thirtieth morning.
10 On that day the day is longer than the night by a ninth part, and the day amounts exactly to ten parts and the night to eight parts.
11 And the sun rises from that fourth portal, and sets in the fourth and returns to the fifth portal of the east thirty mornings and rises from it and sets in the fifth portal.
12 And then the day becomes longer by two parts and amounts to eleven parts, and the night becomes shorter and amounts to seven parts.
13 And it returns to the east and enters into the sixth portal, and rises and sets in the sixth portal one−and−thirty mornings on account of its sign.
14 On that day the day becomes longer than the night, and the day becomes double the night, and the day becomes twelve parts, and the night is shortened and becomes six parts.
15 And the sun mounts up to make the day shorter and the night longer, and the sun returns to the east and enters into the sixth portal and rises from it and sets thirty mornings.
16 And when thirty mornings are accomplished, the day decreases by exactly one part, and becomes eleven parts, and the night seven.
17 And the sun goes forth from that sixth portal in the west, and goes to the east and rises in the fifth portal for thirty mornings, and sets in the west again in the fifth western portal.
18 On that day the day decreases by two parts, and amounts to ten parts and the night to eight parts.
19 And the sun goes forth from that fifth portal and sets in the fifth portal of the west, and rises in the fourth portal for one−and−thirty mornings on account of its sign, and sets in the west.
20 On that day the day is equalized with the night, and the night amounts to nine parts and the day to nine parts.
21 And the sun rises from that portal and sets in the west, and returns to the east and rises thirty mornings in the third portal and sets in the west in the third portal.
22 And on that day the night becomes longer than the day, and night becomes longer than night, and day shorter than day till the thirtieth morning, and the night amounts exactly to ten parts and the day to eight parts.
23 And the sun rises from that third portal and sets in the third portal in the west and returns to the east and for thirty mornings rises in the second portal in the east, and in like manner sets in the second portal in the west of the heaven.
24 And on that day the night amounts to eleven parts and the day to seven parts.
25 And the sun rises on that day from that second portal and sets in the west in the second portal, and returns to the east into the first portal for one−and−thirty mornings, and sets in the first portal in the west of the heaven.
26 And on that day the night becomes longer and amounts to the double of the day: and the night amounts exactly to twelve parts and the day to six.
27 And the sun has traversed the divisions of his orbit and turns again on those divisions of his orbit, and enters that portal thirty mornings and sets also in the west opposite to it.
28 And on that night has the night decreased in length by a ninth part, and the night has become eleven parts and the day seven parts.
29 And the sun has returned and entered into the second portal in the east, and returns on those his divisions of his orbit for thirty mornings, rising and setting.
30 And on that day the night decreases in length, and the night amounts to ten parts and the day to eight.
31 And on that day the sun rises from that portal, and sets in the west, and returns to the east, and rises in the third portal for one−and−thirty mornings, and sets in the west of the heaven.
32 On that day the night decreases and amounts to nine parts, and the day to nine parts, and the night is equal to the day and the year is exactly as to its days three hundred and sixty−four.
33 And the length of the day and of the night, and the shortness of the day and of the night arise−through the course of the sun these distinctions are made.
34 So it comes that its course becomes daily longer, and its course nightly shorter.
35 And this is the law and the course of the sun, and his return as often as he returns sixty times and rises for ever and ever.
36 And that which rises is the great luminary, and is so named according to its appearance, according as the Lord commanded.
37 As he rises, so he sets and decreases not, and rests not, but runs day and night, and his light is sevenfold brighter than that of the moon; but as regards size they are both equal.
38 And after this law I saw another law dealing with the smaller luminary, which is named the Moon.
39 And her circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and her chariot in which she rides is driven by the wind, and light is given to her in measure.
40 And her rising and setting change every month and her days are like the days of the sun, and when her light is uniform it amounts to the seventh part of the light of the sun.
41 And thus she rises. And her first phase in the east comes forth on the thirtieth morning: and on that day she becomes visible and constitutes for you the first phase of the moon on the thirtieth day together with the sun in the portal where the sun rises.
42 And the one half of her goes forth by a seventh part, and her whole circumference is empty, without light, with the exception of one−seventh part of it, the fourteenth part of her light.
43 And when she receives one−seventh part of the half of her light, her light amounts to one−seventh part and the half thereof.
44 And she sets with the sun, and when the sun rises the moon rises with him and receives the half of one part of light, and in that night in the beginning of her morning in the commencement of the lunar day the moon sets with the sun, and is invisible that night with the fourteen parts and the half of one of them.
45 And she rises on that day with exactly a seventh part, and comes forth and recedes from the rising of the sun, and in her remaining days she becomes bright in the thirteen parts.
46 And I saw another course, a law for her, how according to that law she performs her monthly revolution.
47 And all these Uriel, the holy angel who is the leader of them all showed to me, and their positions, and I wrote down their positions as he showed them to me, and I wrote down their months as they were, and the appearance of their lights till fifteen days were accomplished.
48 In single seventh parts she accomplishes all her light in the east, and in single seventh parts accomplishes all her darkness in the west.
49 And in certain months she alters her settings, and in certain months she pursues her own peculiar course.
50 In two months the moon sets with the sun: in those two middle portals the third and the fourth. She goes forth for seven days, and turns about and returns again through the portal where the sun rises, and accomplishes all her light and she recedes from the sun, and in eight days enters the sixth portal from which the sun goes forth.
51 And when the sun goes forth from the fourth portal she goes forth seven days, until she goes forth from the fifth and turns back again in seven days into the fourth portal and accomplishes all her light: and she recedes and enters into the first portal in eight days.
52 And she returns again in seven days into the fourth portal from which the sun goes forth.
53 Thus I saw their position, how the moons rose and the sun set in those days.
54 And if five years are added together the sun has an overplus of thirty days, and all the days which accrue to it for one of those five years, when they are full, amount to 364 days.
55 And the overplus of the sun and of the stars amounts to six days: in 5 years 6 days every year come to 30 days: and the moon falls behind the sun and stars to the number of 30 days.
56 And the sun and the stars bring in all the years exactly, so that they do not advance or delay their position by a single day unto eternity; but complete the years with perfect justice in 364 days.
57 In 3 years there are 1,092 days, and in 5 years 1,820 days, so that in 8 years there are 2,912 days.
58 For the moon alone the days amount in 3 years to 1,062 days, and in 5 years she falls 50 days behind to the sum there is 5 to be added 62 days.
59 And in 5 years there are 1,770 days, so that for the moon the days 6 in 8 years amount to 21,832 days.
60 For in 8 years she falls behind to the amount of 80 days, all the 17 days she falls behind in 8 years are 80.
61 And the year is accurately completed in conformity with their world−stations and the stations of the sun, which rise from the portals through which it rises and sets 30 days.
62 And the leaders of the heads of the thousands, who are placed over the whole creation and over all the stars, have also to do with the four intercalary days, being inseparable from their office, according to the reckoning of the year, and these render service on the four days which are not reckoned in the reckoning of the year.
63 And owing to them men go wrong therein, for those luminaries truly render service on the world−stations, one in the first portal, one in the third portal of the heaven, one in the fourth portal, and one in the sixth portal, and the exactness of the year is accomplished through its separate three hundred and sixty−four stations.
64 For the signs and the times and the years and the days the angel Uriel showed to me, whom the Lord of glory hath set for ever over all the luminaries of the heaven, in the heaven and in the world that they should rule on the face of the heaven and be seen on the earth and be leaders for the day and the night and all the ministering creatures which make their revolution in all the chariots of the heaven.
65 In like manner twelve doors Uriel showed me open in the circumference of the suns chariot in the heaven, through which the rays of the sun break forth: and from them is warmth diffused over the earth, when they are opened at their appointed seasons.
66 And for the winds and the spirit of the dew when they are opened, standing open in the heavens at the ends.
67 As for the twelve portals in the heaven at the ends of the earth, out of which go forth the sun, moon, and stars, and all the works of heaven in the east and in the west.
68 There are many windows open to the left and right of them, and one window at its season produces warmth, corresponding to those doors from which the stars come forth according as He has commanded them and wherein they set corresponding to their number.
69 And I saw chariots in the heaven, running in the world, above those portals in which revolve the stars that never set.
70 And one is larger than all the rest and it is that that makes its course through the entire world.
71 And at the ends of the earth I saw twelve portals open to all the quarters from which the winds go forth and blow over the earth.
72 Three of them are open on the face of the heavens, and three in the west, and three on the right of the heaven, and three on the left.
73 And the three first are those of the east, and three are of the north, and three after those on the left of the south, and three of the west.
74 Through four of these come winds of blessing and prosperity and from those eight come hurtful winds: when they are sent, they bring destruction on all the earth and on the water upon it, and on all who dwell thereon, and on everything which is in the water and on the land.
75 And the first wind from those portals, called the east wind, comes forth through the first portal which is in the east, inclining towards the south: from it come forth desolation, drought, heat, and destruction.
76 And through the second portal in the middle comes what is fitting, and from it there come rain and fruitfulness and prosperity and dew; and through the third portal which lies toward the north come cold and drought.
77 And after these come forth the south winds through three portals: through the first portal of them inclining to the east comes forth a hot wind.
78 And through the middle portal next to it there come forth fragrant smells, and dew and rain, and prosperity and health.
79 And through the third portal lying to the west come forth dew and rain, locusts and desolation.
80 And after these the north winds: from the seventh portal in the east come dew and rain, locusts and desolation.
81 And from the middle portal come in a direct direction health and rain and dew and prosperity; and through the third portal in the west come cloud and hoarfrost, and snow and rain, and dew and locusts.
82 And after these four are the west winds: through the first portal adjoining the north come forth dew and hoarfrost, and cold and snow and frost.
83 And from the middle portal come forth dew and rain, and prosperity and blessing; and through the last portal which adjoins the south come forth drought and desolation, and burning and destruction.
84 And the twelve portals of the four quarters of the heaven are therewith completed and all their laws and all their plagues and all their benefactions have I shown to thee, my son Methuselah.
85 And the first quarter is called the east because it is the first. And the second, the south, because the Most High will descend there, yea, there in quite a special sense will He who is blessed for ever descend.
86 And the west quarter is named the diminished because there all the luminaries of the heaven wane and go down.
87 And the fourth quarter named the north, is divided into three parts: the first of them is for the dwelling of men: and the second contains seas of water, and the abysses and forests and rivers, and darkness and clouds; and the third part contains the garden of righteousness.
88 I saw seven high mountains, higher than all the mountains which are on the earth and thence comes forth hoarfrost, and days, seasons, and years pass away.
89 I saw seven rivers on the earth larger than all the rivers: one of them coming from the west pours its waters into the Great Sea.
90 And these two come from the north to the sea and pour their waters into the Erythraean Sea in the east.
91 And the remaining, four come forth on the side of the north to their own sea, two of them to the Erythraean Sea, and two into the Great Sea and discharge themselves there and some say, into the desert.
92 Seven great islands I saw in the sea and in the mainland: two in the mainland and five in the Great Sea.
93 And the names of the sun are the following: the first Orjares, and the second Tomas.
94 And the moon has four names: the first name is Asonja, the second Ebla, the third Benase, and the fourth Erae.
95 These are the two great luminaries: their circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and the size of the circumference of both is alike.
96 In the circumference of the sun there are seven portions of light which are added to it more than to the moon, and in definite measures it is s transferred till the seventh portion of the sun is exhausted.
97 And they set and enter the portals of the west, and make their revolution by the north, and come forth through the eastern portals on the face of the heaven.
98 And when the moon rises one−fourteenth part appears in the heaven: the light becomes full in her : on the fourteenth day she accomplishes her light.
99 And fifteen parts of light are transferred to her till the fifteenth day her light is accomplished, according to the sign of the year, and she becomes fifteen parts, and the moon grows by fourteenth parts.
100 And in her waning decreases on the first day to fourteen parts of her light, on the second to thirteen parts of light, on the third to twelve, on the fourth to eleven, on the fifth to ten, on the sixth to nine, on the seventh to eight, on the eighth to seven, on the ninth to six, on the tenth to five, on the eleventh to four, on the twelfth to three, on the thirteenth to two, on the fourteenth to the half of a seventh, and all her remaining light disappears wholly on the fifteenth.
101 And in certain months the month has twenty−nine days and once twenty−eight.
102 And Uriel showed me another law: when light is transferred to the moon, and on which side it is transferred to her by the sun.
103 During all the period during which the moon is growing in her light, she is transferring it to herself when opposite to the sun during fourteen daysher light is accomplished in the heaven, and when she is illumined throughout, her light is accomplished full in the heaven.
104 And on the first day she is called the new moon, for on that day the light rises upon her. She becomes full moon exactly on the day when the sun sets in the west, and from the east she rises at night, and the moon shines the whole night through till the sun rises over against her and the moon is seen over against the sun.
105 On the side whence the light of the moon comes forth, there again she wanes till all the light vanishes and all the days of the month are at an end and her circumference is empty, void of light.
106 And three months she makes of thirty days, and at her time she makes three months of twenty−nine days each, in which she accomplishes her waning in the first period of time, and in the first portal for one hundred and seventy−seven days.
107 And in the time of her going out she appears for three months thirty days each, and for three months she appears twenty−nine each.
108 At night she appears like a man for twenty days each time, and by day she appears like the heaven, and there is nothing else in her save her light.
109 And now, my son, I have shown thee everything, and the law of all the stars of the heaven is completed.
110 And he showed me all the laws of these for every day, and for every season of bearing rule, and for every year, and for its going forth, and for the order prescribed to it every month and every week: And the waning of the moon which takes place in the sixth portal: for in this 4 sixth portal her light is accomplished.
111 And after that there is the beginning of the waning which takes place in the first portal in its season, till one hundred and seventy−seven days are accomplished: reckoned according to weeks, twenty−five and two days.
112 She falls behind the sun and the order of the stars exactly five days in the course of one period, and when this place which thou seest has been traversed.
113 Such is the picture and sketch of every luminary which Uriel the archangel, who is their leader, showed unto me.
**]Heavenly Tablets
1 And in those days the angel Uriel answered and said to me: “Behold, I have shown thee everything Enoch and I have revealed everything to thee that thou shouldst see this sun and this moon, and the leaders of the stars of the heaven and all those who turn them, their tasks and times and departures.
2 And in the days of the sinners the years shall be shortened and their seed shall be tardy on their lands and fields.
3 And all things on the earth shall alter and shall not appear in their time: The rain shall be kept back and the heaven shall withhold it.
4 And in those times the fruits of the earth shall be backward and shall not grow in their time, and the fruits of the trees shall be withheld in their time.
5 And the moon shall alter her order and not appear at her time.
6 And in those days the sun shall be seen and he shall journey in the evening on the extremity of the great chariot in the west and shall shine more brightly than accords with the order of light.
7 And many chiefs of the stars shall transgress the order and these shall alter their orbits and tasks and not appear at the seasons prescribed to them.
8 And the whole order of the stars shall be concealed from the sinners and the thoughts of those on the earth shall err concerning them. And they shall be altered from all their ways. Yea, they shall err and take them to be gods.
9 And evil shall be multiplied upon them, and punishment shall come upon them so as to destroy all.”
10 And He said unto me: “Observe, Enoch, these heavenly tablets and read what is written thereon, and mark every individual fact.”
11 And I observed the heavenly tablets, and read everything which was written and understood everything, and read the book of all the deeds of mankind, and of all the children of flesh that shall be upon the earth to the remotest generations.
12 And forthwith I blessed the great Lord the King of glory for ever, in that He has made all the works of the world.
13 And I extolled the Lord because of His patience and blessed Him because of the children of men.
14 And after that I said: “Blessed is the man who dies in righteousness and goodness concerning whom there is no book of unrighteousness written, and against whom no day of judgement shall be found.”
15 And those seven holy ones brought me and placed me on the earth before the door of my house, and said to me: “Declare everything to thy son Methuselah, and show to all thy children that no flesh is righteous in the sight of the Lord, for He is their Creator.
16 One year we will leave thee with thy son, till thou givest thy commands, that thou mayest teach thy children and record for them, and testify to all thy children; and in the second year they shall take thee from their midst.
17 Let thy heart be strong, for the good shall announce righteousness to the good; The righteous with the righteous shall rejoice and shall offer congratulation to one another.
18 But the sinners shall die with the sinners and the apostate go down with the apostate.
19 And those who practice righteousness shall die on account of the deeds of men and be taken away on account of the doings of the godless.
20 And in those days they ceased to speak to me, and I came to my people, blessing the Lord of the world.
**]One Year to Record
1 And now, my son Methuselah, all these things I am recounting to thee and writing down for thee! and I have revealed to thee everything, and given thee books concerning all these: so preserve, my son Methuselah, the books from thy fathers hand, and see that thou deliver them to the generations of the world.
2 I have given wisdom to thee and to thy children and thy children that shall be to thee, that they may give it to their children for generations, this wisdom that passeth their thought.
3 And those who understand it shall not sleep but shall listen with the ear that they may learn this wisdom and it shall please those that eat thereof better than good food.
4 Blessed are all the righteous, blessed are all those who walk in the way of righteousness and sin not as the sinners.
5 In the reckoning of all their days in which the sun traverses the heaven, entering into and departing from the portals for thirty days with the heads of thousands of the order of the stars, together with the four which are intercalated which divide the four portions of the year, which lead them and enter with them four days.
6 Owing to them men shall be at fault and not reckon them in the whole reckoning of the year: yea, men shall be at fault, and not recognize them accurately.
7 For they belong to the reckoning of the year and are truly recorded for ever, one in the first portal and one in the third, and one in the fourth and one in the sixth, and the year is completed in three hundred and sixty−four days.
8 And the account thereof is accurate and the recorded reckoning thereof exact; for the luminaries, and months and festivals, and years and days, has Uriel shown and revealed to me, to whom the Lord of the whole creation of the world hath subjected the host of heaven.
9 And he has power over night and day in the heaven to cause the light to give light to men, sun, moon, and stars, and all the powers of the heaven which revolve in their circular chariots.
10 And these are the orders of the stars, which set in their places, and in their seasons and festivals and months.
11 And these are the names of those who lead them, who watch that they enter at their times, in their orders, in their seasons, in their months, in their periods of dominion, and in their positions.
12 Their four leaders who divide the four parts of the year enter first; and after them the twelve leaders of the orders who divide the months; and for the three hundred and sixty there are heads over thousands who divide the days; and for the four intercalary days there are the leaders which sunder the four parts of the year.
13 And these heads over thousands are intercalated between leader and leader, each behind a station, but their leaders make the division.
14 And these are the names of the leaders who divide the four parts of the year which are ordained: Milkiel, Helemmelek, and Melejal, and Narel.
15 And the names of those who lead them: Adnarel, and Ijasusael, and Elomeel – these three follow the leaders of the orders, and there is one that follows the three leaders of the orders which follow those leaders of stations that divide the four parts of the year.
16 In the beginning of the year Melkejal rises first and rules, who is named Tamaini and sun, and all the days of his dominion whilst he bears rule are ninety−one days.
17 And these are the signs of the days which are to be seen on earth in the days of his dominion: sweat, and heat, and calms; and all the trees bear fruit, and leaves are produced on all the trees, and the harvest of wheat, and the rose−flowers, and all the flowers which come forth in the field, but the trees of the winter season become withered.
18 And these are the names of the leaders which are under them: Berkael, Zelebsel, and another who is added a head of a thousand, called Hilujaseph: and the days of the dominion of this are at an end.
19 The next leader after him is Helemmelek, whom one names the shining sun, and all the days of his light are ninety−one days. And these are the signs of days on the earth: glowing heat and dryness, and the trees ripen their fruits and produce all their fruits ripe and ready, and the sheep pair and become pregnant, and all the fruits of the earth are gathered in, and everything that is in the fields, and the winepress: these things take place in the days of his dominion.
20 These are the names, and the orders, and the leaders of those heads of thousands: Gidaljal, Keel, and Heel, and the name of the head of a thousand which is added to them, Asfael: and the days of his dominion are at an end.
**]Visions
1 And now, my son Methuselah, I will show thee all my visions which I have seen, recounting them before thee.
2 Two visions I saw before I took a wife, and the one was quite unlike the other. The first when I was learning to write: the second before I took thy mother I saw a terrible vision.
3 And regarding them I prayed to the Lord. I had laid me down in the house of my grandfather Mahalaleel I saw in a vision how the heaven collapsed and was borne off and fell to the earth.
4 And when it fell to the earth I saw how the earth was swallowed up in a great abyss, and mountains were suspended on mountains, and hills sank down on hills, and high trees were rent from their stems and hurled down and sunk in the abyss.
5 And thereupon a word fell into my mouth and I lifted up to cry aloud, and said: “The earth is destroyed!”
6 And my grandfather Mahalaleel waked me as I lay near him, and said unto me: “Why dost thou cry so my son, and why dost thou make such lamentation?”
7 And I recounted to him the whole vision which I had seen, and he said unto me: “A terrible thing hast thou seen, my son, and of grave moment is thy dream vision as to the secrets if all the sin of the earth: it must sink into the abyss and be destroyed with a great destruction.
8 And now, my son, arise and make petition to the Lord of glory, since thou art a believer that a remnant may remain on the earth, and that He may not destroy the whole earth. My son, from heaven all this will come upon the earth, and upon the earth there will be great destruction.”
9 After that I arose and prayed and implored and besought, and wrote down my prayer for the generations of the world, and I will show everything to thee, my son Methuselah.
10 And when I had gone forth below and seen the heaven and the sun rising in the east, and the moon setting in the west, and a few stars, and the whole earth, and everything as He had known it in the beginning then I blessed the Lord of judgement and extolled Him because He had made the sun to go forth from the windows of the east, and He ascended and rose on the face of the heaven, and set out and kept traversing the path shown unto Him.
11 And I lifted up my hands in righteousness and blessed the Holy and Great One and spake with the breath of my mouth, and with the tongue of flesh which God has made for the children of the flesh of men that they should speak therewith, and He gave them breath and a tongue and a mouth that they should speak therewith:
12 “Blessed be Thou, O Lord, King, Great and mighty in Thy greatness, Lord of the whole creation of the heaven, King of kings and God of the whole world.
13 And Thy power and kingship and greatness abide for ever and ever, and throughout all generations Thy dominion; and all the heavens are Thy throne for ever, and the whole earth Thy footstool for ever and ever.
14 For Thou hast made and Thou rulest all things and nothing is too hard for Thee.
15 Wisdom departs not from the place of Thy throne nor turns away from Thy presence.
16 And Thou knowest and seest and hearest everything and there is nothing hidden from Thee for Thou seest everything.
17 And now the angels of Thy heavens are guilty of trespass and upon the flesh of men abideth Thy wrath until the great day of judgement.
18 And now, O God and Lord and Great King, I implore and beseech Thee to fulfil my prayer to leave me a posterity on earth and not destroy all the flesh of man and make the earth without inhabitant so that there should be an eternal destruction.
19 And now, my Lord, destroy from the earth the flesh which has aroused Thy wrath but the flesh of righteousness and uprightness establish as a plant of the eternal seed and hide not Thy face from the prayer of Thy servant, O Lord.”
20 And after this I saw another dream, and I will show the whole dream to thee, my son.
21 And Enoch lifted up and spake to his son Methuselah: “To thee, my son, will I speak: hear my words−incline thine ear to the dream−vision of thy father.
22 Before I took thy mother Edna, I saw in a vision on my bed, and behold a bull came forth from the earth, and that bull was white; and after it came forth a heifer, and along with this came forth two bulls, one of them black and the other red.
23 And that black bull gored the red one and pursued him over the earth, and thereupon I could no longer see that red bull.
24 But that black bull grew and that heifer went with him, and I saw that many oxen proceeded from him which resembled and followed him.
25 And that cow, that first one, went from the presence of that first bull in order to seek that red one, but found him not, and lamented with a great lamentation over him and sought him.
26 And I looked till that first bull came to her and quieted her, and from that time onward she cried no more.
27 And after that she bore another white bull, and after him she bore many bulls and black cows.
28 And I saw in my sleep that white bull likewise grow and become a great white bull, and from him proceeded many white bulls, and they resembled him. And they began to beget many white bulls, which resembled them, one following the other, many.
29 And again I saw with mine eyes as I slept, and I saw the heaven above, and behold a star fell from heaven, and it arose and eat and pastured amongst those oxen.
30 And after that I saw the large and the black oxen, and behold they all changed their stalls and pastures and their cattle, and began to live with each other.
31 And again I saw in the vision, and looked towards the heaven, and behold I saw many stars descend and cast themselves down from heaven to that first star, and they became bulls amongst those cattle and pastured with them amongst them.
32 And I looked at them and saw, and behold they all let out their privy members, like horses, and began to cover the cows of the oxen, and they all became pregnant and bare elephants, camels, and asses.
33 And all the oxen feared them and were affrighted at them, and began to bite with their teeth and to devour, and to gore with their horns.
34 And they began, moreover, to devour those oxen; and behold all the children of the earth began to tremble and quake before them and to flee from them.
35 And again I saw how they began to gore each other and to devour each other, and the earth began to cry aloud.
36 And I raised mine eyes again to heaven, and I saw in the vision, and behold there came forth from heaven beings who were like white men: and four went forth from that place and three with them.
37 And those three that had last come forth grasped me by my hand and took me up away from the generations of the earth, and raised me up to a lofty place, and showed me a tower raised high above the earth and all the hills were lower.
38 And one said unto me: “Remain here till thou seest everything that befalls those elephants, camels, and asses, and the stars and the oxen, and all of them.”
39 And I saw one of those four who had come forth first, and he seized that first star which had fallen from the heaven, and bound it hand and foot and cast it into an abyss.
40 Now that abyss was narrow and deep, and horrible and dark.
41 And one of them drew a sword, and gave it to those elephants and camels and asses: then they began to smite each other, and the whole earth quaked because of them.
42 And as I was beholding in the vision, lo, one of those four who had come forth stoned them from heaven, and gathered and took all the great stars whose privy members were like those of horses and bound them all hand and foot, and cast them in an abyss of the earth.
43 And one of those four went to that white bull and instructed him in a secret without his being terrified: he was born a bull and became a man, and built for himself a great vessel and dwelt thereon; and three bulls dwelt with him in that vessel and they were covered in.
44 And again I raised mine eyes towards heaven and saw a lofty roof, with seven water torrents thereon and those torrents flowed with much water into an enclosure.
45 And I saw again, and behold fountains were opened on the surface of that great enclosure, and that water began to swell and rise upon the surface and I saw that enclosure till all its surface was covered with water.
46 And the water, the darkness, and mist increased upon it; and as I looked at the height of that water, that water had risen above the height of that enclosure, and was streaming over that enclosure, and it stood upon the earth.
47 And all the cattle of that enclosure were gathered together until I saw how they sank and were swallowed up and perished in that water.
48 But that vessel floated on the water, while all the oxen and elephants and camels and asses sank to the bottom with all the animals, so that I could no longer see them, and they were not able to escape, perished and sank into the depths.
49 And again I saw in the vision till those water torrents were removed from that high roof, and the chasms of the earth were leveled up and other abysses were opened.
50 Then the water began to run down into these, till the earth became visible; but that vessel settled on the earth, and the darkness retired and light appeared.
51 But that white bull which had become a man came out of that vessel, and the three bulls with him, and one of those three was white like that bull, and one of them was red as blood, and one black: and that white bull departed from them.
52 And they began to bring forth beasts of the field and birds, so that there arose different genera: lions, tigers, wolves, dogs, hyenas, wild boars, foxes, squirrels, swine, falcons, vultures, kites, eagles, and ravens; and among them was born a white bull.
53 And they began to bite one another; but that white bull which was born amongst them begat a wild ass and a white bull with it, and the wild asses multiplied. But that bull which was born from him begat a black wild boar and a white sheep; and the former begat many boars, but that sheep begat twelve sheep.
54 And when those twelve sheep had grown, they gave up one of them to the asses, and those asses again gave up that sheep to the wolves, and that sheep grew up among the wolves.
55 And the Lord brought the eleven sheep to live with it and to pasture with it among the wolves: and they multiplied and became many flocks of sheep.
56 And the wolves began to fear them, and they oppressed them until they destroyed – cry aloud on account of their little ones, and to complain unto their Lord.
57 And a sheep which had been saved from the wolves fled and escaped to the wild asses; and I saw the sheep how they lamented and cried, and besought their Lord with all their might, till that Lord of the sheep descended at the voice of the sheep from a lofty abode, and came to them and pastured them.
58 And He called that sheep which had escaped the wolves, and spake with it concerning the wolves that it should admonish them not to touch the sheep.
59 And the sheep went to the wolves according to the word of the Lord, and another sheep met it and went with it, and the two went and entered together into the assembly of those wolves, and spake with them and admonished them not to touch the sheep from henceforth.
60 And thereupon I saw the wolves, and how they oppressed the sheep exceedingly with all their power; and the sheep cried aloud.
61 And the Lord came to the sheep and they began to smite those wolves and the wolves began to make lamentation; but the sheep became quiet and forthwith ceased to cry out.
62 And I saw the sheep till they departed from amongst the wolves; but the eyes of the wolves were blinded, and those wolves departed in pursuit of the sheep with all their power.
63 And the Lord of the sheep went with them, as their leader, and all His sheep followed Him: and his face was dazzling and glorious and terrible to behold.
64 But the wolves began to pursue those sheep till they reached a sea of water. And that sea was divided, and the water stood on this side and on that before their face, and their Lord led them and placed Himself between them and the wolves.
65 And as those wolves did not yet see the sheep, they proceeded into the midst of that sea, and the wolves followed the sheep, and those wolves ran after them into that sea.
66 And when they saw the Lord of the sheep, they turned to flee before His face, but that sea gathered itself together, and became as it had been created, and the water swelled and rose till it covered those wolves.
67 And I saw till all the wolves who pursued those sheep perished and were drowned.
68 But the sheep escaped from that water and went forth into a wilderness, where there was no water and no grass; and they began to open their eyes and to see; and I saw the Lord of the sheep pasturing them and giving them water and grass, and that sheep going and leading them.
69 And that sheep ascended to the summit of that lofty rock, and the Lord of the sheep sent it to them.
70 And after that I saw the Lord of the sheep who stood before them, and His appearance was great and terrible and majestic, and all those sheep saw Him and were afraid before His face.
71 And they all feared and trembled because of Him, and they cried to that sheep with them which was amongst them: “We are not able to stand before our Lord or to behold Him.”
72 And that sheep which led them again ascended to the summit of that rock, but the sheep began to be blinded and to wander from the way which he had showed them, but that sheep wot not thereof.
73 And the Lord of the sheep was wrathful exceedingly against them, and that sheep discovered it, and went down from the summit of the rock, and came to the sheep, and found the greatest part of them blinded and fallen away.
74 And when they saw it they feared and trembled at its presence, and desired to return to their folds.
75 And that sheep took other sheep with it, and came to those sheep which had fallen away, and began to slay them; and the sheep feared its presence, and thus that sheep brought back those sheep that had fallen away, and they returned to their folds.
76 And I saw in this vision till that sheep became a man and built a house for the Lord of the sheep, and placed all the sheep in that house.
77 And I saw till this sheep which had met that sheep which led them fell asleep: and I saw till all the great sheep perished and little ones arose in their place, and they came to a pasture, and approached a stream of water.
78 Then that sheep, their leader which had become a man, withdrew from them and fell asleep, and all the sheep sought it and cried over it with a great crying.
79 And I saw till they left off crying for that sheep and crossed that stream of water, and there arose the two sheep as leaders in the place of those which had led them and fallen asleep.
80 And I saw till the sheep came to a goodly place, and a pleasant and glorious land, and I saw till those sheep were satisfied; and that house stood amongst them in the pleasant land.
81 And sometimes their eyes were opened, and sometimes blinded, till another sheep arose and led them and brought them all back, and their eyes were opened.
82 And the dogs and the foxes and the wild boars began to devour those sheep till the Lord of the sheep raised up another sheep a ram from their midst, which led them. And that ram began to butt on either side those dogs, foxes, and wild boars till he had destroyed them all.
83 And that sheep whose eyes were opened saw that ram, which was amongst the sheep, till it forsook its glory and began to butt those sheep and trampled upon them, and behaved itself unseemly.
84 And the Lord of the sheep sent the lamb to another lamb and raised it to being a ram and leader of the sheep instead of that ram which had forsaken its glory.
85 And it went to it and spake to it alone, and raised it to being a ram, and made it the prince and leader of the sheep; but during all these things those dogs oppressed the sheep.
86 And the first ram pursued that second ram, and that second ram arose and fled before it; and I saw till those dogs pulled down the first ram.
87 And that second ram arose and led the little sheep. And those sheep grew and multiplied; but all the dogs, and foxes, and wild boars feared and fled before it, and that ram butted and killed the wild beasts, and those wild beasts had no longer any power among the 49sheep and robbed them no more of ought.
88 And that ram begat many sheep and fell asleep; and a little sheep became ram in its stead, and became prince and leader of those sheep and that house became great and broad, and it was built for those sheep.
89 A tower lofty and great was built on the house for the Lord of the sheep, and that house was low, but the tower was elevated and lofty, and the Lord of the sheep stood on that tower and they offered a full table before Him.
90 And again I saw those sheep that they again erred and went many ways, and forsook that their house, and the Lord of the sheep called some from amongst the sheep and sent them to the sheep, but the sheep began to slay them.
91 And one of them was saved and was not slain, and it sped away and cried aloud over the sheep; and they sought to slay it, but the Lord of the sheep saved it from the sheep, and brought it up to me, and caused it to dwell there.
92 And many other sheep He sent to those sheep to testify unto them and lament over them.
93 And after that I saw that when they forsook the house of the Lord and His tower they fell away entirely, and their eyes were blinded; and I saw the Lord of the sheep how He wrought much slaughter amongst them in their herds until those sheep invited that slaughter and betrayed His place.
94 And He gave them over into the hands of the lions and tigers, and wolves and hyenas, and into the hand of the foxes, and to all the wild beasts, and those wild beasts began to tear in pieces those sheep.
95 And I saw that He forsook that their house and their tower and gave them all into the hand of the lions, to tear and devour them, into the hand of all the wild beasts.
96 And I began to cry aloud with all my power, and to appeal to the Lord of the sheep, and to represent to Him in regard to the sheep that they were devoured by all the wild beasts.
97 But He remained unmoved, though He saw it, and rejoiced that they were devoured and swallowed and robbed, and left them to be devoured in the hand of all the beasts.
98 And He called seventy shepherds, and cast those sheep to them that they might pasture them, and He spake to the shepherds and their companions: “Let each individual of you pasture the sheep henceforward, and everything that I shall command you that do ye. And I will deliver them over unto you duly numbered, and tell you which of them are to be destroyed and them destroy ye.”
99 And He gave over unto them those sheep.
100 And He called another and spake unto him: “Observe and mark everything that the shepherds will do to those sheep; for they will destroy more of them than I have commanded them. And every excess and the destruction which will be wrought through the shepherds, record how many they destroy according to my command, and how many according to their own caprice: record against every individual shepherd all the destruction he effects. And read out before me by number how many they destroy, and how many they deliver over for destruction, that I may have this as a testimony against them, and know every deed of the shepherds, that I may comprehend and see what they do, whether or not they abide by my command which I have commanded them. But they shall not know it, and thou shalt not declare it to them, nor admonish them, but only record against each individual all the destruction which the shepherds effect each in his time and lay it all before me.”
101 And I saw till those shepherds pastured in their season, and they began to slay and to destroy more than they were bidden, and they delivered those sheep into the hand of the lions.
102 And the lions and tigers eat and devoured the greater part of those sheep, and the wild boars eat along with them; and they burnt that tower and demolished that house.
103 And I became exceedingly sorrowful over that tower because that house of the sheep was demolished, and afterwards I was unable to see if those sheep entered that house.
104 And the shepherds and their associates delivered over those sheep to all the wild beasts, to devour them, and each one of them received in his time a definite number: it was written by the other in a book how many each one of them destroyed of them.
105 And each one slew and destroyed many more than was prescribed; and I began to weep and lament on account of those sheep.
106 And thus in the vision I saw that one who wrote, how he wrote down every one that was destroyed by those shepherds, day by day, and carried up and laid down and showed actually the whole book to the Lord of the sheep − everything that they had done, and all that each one of them had made away with, and all that they had given over to destruction.
107 And the book was read before the Lord of the sheep, and He took the book from his hand and read it and sealed it and laid it down.
108 And forthwith I saw how the shepherds pastured for twelve hours, and behold three of those sheep turned back and came and entered and began to build up all that had fallen down of that house; but the wild boars tried to hinder them, but they were not able.
109 And they began again to build as before, and they reared up that tower, and it was named the high tower; and they began again to place a table before the tower, but all the bread on it was polluted and not pure.
110 And as touching all this the eyes of those sheep were blinded so that they saw not, and their shepherds likewise; and they delivered them in large numbers to their shepherds for destruction, and they trampled the sheep with their feet and devoured them.
111 And the Lord of the sheep remained unmoved till all the sheep were dispersed over the field and mingled with them and they did not save them out of the hand of the beasts.
112 And this one who wrote the book carried it up, and showed it and read it before the Lord of the sheep, and implored Him on their account, and besought Him on their account as he showed Him all the doings of the shepherds, and gave testimony before Him against all the shepherds.
113 And he took the actual book and laid it down beside Him and departed.
114 And I saw till that in this manner thirty−five shepherds undertook the pasturing, and they severally completed their periods as did the first; and others receive them into their hands, to pasture them for their period, each shepherd in his own period.
115 And after that I saw in my vision all the birds of heaven coming, the eagles, the vultures, the kites, the ravens; but the eagles led all the birds; and they began to devour those sheep, and to pick out their eyes and to devour their flesh.
116 And the sheep cried out because their flesh was being devoured by the birds and as for me I looked and lamented in my sleep over that shepherd who pastured the sheep.
117 And I saw until those sheep were devoured by the dogs and eagles and kites, and they left neither flesh nor skin nor sinew remaining on them till only their bones stood there: and their bones too fell to the earth and the sheep became few.
118 And I saw until that twenty−three had undertaken the pasturing and completed in their several periods fifty−eight times.
119 But behold lambs were borne by those white sheep, and they began to open their eyes and to see, and to cry to the sheep.
120 Yea, they cried to them, but they did not hearken to what they said to them, but were exceedingly deaf, and their eyes were very exceedingly blinded.
121 And I saw in the vision how the ravens flew upon those lambs and took one of those lambs, and dashed the sheep in pieces and devoured them.
122 And I saw till horns grew upon those lambs, and the ravens cast down their horns; and I saw till there sprouted a great horn of one of those sheep, and their eyes were opened.
123 And it looked at them and their eyes opened, and it cried to the sheep, and the rams saw it and all ran to it.
124 And notwithstanding all this those eagles and vultures and ravens and kites still kept tearing the sheep and swooping down upon them and devouring them: still the sheep remained silent, but the rams lamented and cried out.
125 And those ravens fought and battled with it and sought to lay low its horn, but they had no power over it.
126 All the eagles and vultures and ravens and kites were gathered together and there came with them all the sheep of the field, yea, they all came together, and helped each other to break that horn of the ram.
127 And I saw till a great sword was given to the sheep, and the sheep proceeded against all the beasts of the field to slay them, and all the beasts and the birds of the heaven fled before their face.
128 And I saw that man, who wrote the book according to the command of the Lord, till he opened that book concerning the destruction which those twelve last shepherds had wrought, and showed that they had destroyed much more than their predecessors, before the Lord of the sheep.
129 And I saw till the Lord of the sheep came unto them and took in His hand the staff of His wrath, and smote the earth, and the earth clave asunder, and all the beasts and all the birds of the heaven fell from among those sheep, and were swallowed up in the earth and it covered them.
130 And I saw till a throne was erected in the pleasant land, and the Lord of the sheep sat Himself thereon, and the other took the sealed books and opened those books before the Lord of the sheep.
131 And the Lord called those men the seven first white ones, and commanded that they should bring before Him, beginning with the first star which led the way, all the stars whose privy members were like those of horses, and they brought them all before Him.
132 And He said to that man who wrote before Him, being one of those seven white ones, and said unto him: “Take those seventy shepherds to whom I delivered the sheep, and who taking them on their own authority slew more than I commanded them.”
133 And behold they were all bound, I saw, and they all stood before Him.
134 And the judgement was held first over the stars, and they were judged and found guilty, and went to the place of condemnation, and they were cast into an abyss, full of fire and flaming, and full of pillars of fire.
135 And those seventy shepherds were judged and found guilty, and they were cast into that fiery abyss.
136 And I saw at that time how a like abyss was opened in the midst of the earth, full of fire, and they brought those blinded sheep, and they were all judged and found guilty and cast into this fiery abyss, and they burned; now this abyss was to the right of that house.
137 And I saw those sheep burning and their bones burning.
138 And I stood up to see till they folded up that old house; and carried off all the pillars, and all the beams and ornaments of the house were at the same time folded up with it, and they carried it off and laid it in a place in the south of the land.
139 And I saw till the Lord of the sheep brought a new house greater and loftier than that first, and set it up in the place of the first which had beer folded up: all its pillars were new, and its ornaments were new and larger than those of the first, the old one which He had taken away, and all the sheep were within it.
140 And I saw all the sheep which had been left, and all the beasts on the earth, and all the birds of the heaven, falling down and doing homage to those sheep and making petition to and obeying them in every thing.
141 And thereafter those three who were clothed in white and had seized me by my hand who had taken me up before, and the hand of that ram also seizing hold of me, they took me up and set me down in the midst of those sheep before the judgement took place.
142 And those sheep were all white, and their wool was abundant and clean.
143 And all that had been destroyed and dispersed, and all the beasts of the field, and all the birds of the heaven, assembled in that house, and the Lord of the sheep rejoiced with great joy because they were all good and had returned to His house.
144 And I saw till they laid down that sword, which had been given to the sheep, and they brought it back into the house, and it was sealed before the presence of the Lord, and all the sheep were invited into that house, but it held them not.
145 And the eyes of them all were opened, and they saw the good, and there was not one among them that did not see.
146 And I saw that that house was large and broad and very full.
147 And I saw that a white bull was born, with large horns and all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air feared him and made petition to him all the time.
148 And I saw till all their generations were transformed, and they all became white bulls; and the first among them became a lamb, and that lamb became a great animal and had great black horns on its head; and the Lord of the sheep rejoiced over it and over all the oxen.
149 And I slept in their midst: and I awoke and saw everything.
150 This is the vision which I saw while I slept, and I awoke and blessed the Lord of righteousness and gave Him glory.
151 Then I wept with a great weeping and my tears stayed not till I could no longer endure it: when I saw, they flowed on account of what I had seen; for everything shall come and be fulfilled, and all the deeds of men in their order were shown to me.
152 On that night I remembered the first dream, and because of it I wept and was troubled−because I had seen that vision.
Book 5: Epistle of Enoch
**]The Guidance of Enoch
1 And now, my son Methuselah, call to me all thy brothers and gather together to me all the sons of thy mother; For the word calls me, and the spirit is poured out upon me that I may show you everything that shall befall you for ever.
2 And there upon Methuselah went and summoned to him all his brothers and assembled his relatives.
3 And he spake unto all the children of righteousness and said: “Hear, ye sons of Enoch, all the words of your father, and hearken aright to the voice of my mouth for I exhort you and say unto you, beloved:
4 Love uprightness and walk therein.
And draw not nigh to uprightness with a double heart,
And associate not with those of a double heart,
But walk in righteousness, my sons.
5 And it shall guide you on good paths, and righteousness shall be your companion.
6 For I know that violence must increase on the earth,
And a great chastisement be executed on the earth,
And all unrighteousness come to an end:
Yea, it shall be cut off from its roots,
And its whole structure be destroyed.
7 And unrighteousness shall again be consummated on the earth,
And all the deeds of unrighteousness and of violence,
And transgression shall prevail in a twofold degree.
8 And when sin and unrighteousness and blasphemy,
And violence in all kinds of deeds increase,
And apostasy and transgression and uncleanness increase,
A great chastisement shall come from heaven upon all these,
And the holy Lord will come forth with wrath and chastisement,
To execute judgement on earth.
9 In those days violence shall be cut off from its roots,
And the roots of unrighteousness together with deceit,
And they shall be destroyed from under heaven.
10 And all the idols of the heathen shall be abandoned,
And the temples burned with fire,
And they shall remove them from the whole earth,
And they shall be cast into the judgement of fire,
And shall perish in wrath and in grievous judgement for ever.
11 And the righteous shall arise from their sleep,
And wisdom shall arise and be given unto them.
12 And after that the roots of unrighteousness shall be cut off, and the sinners shall be destroyed by the sword and the blasphemers destroyed in every place, and those who plan violence and those who commit blasphemy shall perish by the sword.
13 And now I tell you, my sons, and show you the paths of righteousness and the paths of violence.
14 Yea, I will show them to you again that ye may know what will come to pass.
15 And now, listen to me, my sons,
And walk in the paths of righteousness,
And walk not in the paths of violence;
For all who walk in the paths of unrighteousness shall perish for ever.”
**]Wisdom of Enoch
1 The book written by Enoch − Enoch indeed wrote this complete doctrine of wisdom, praised of all men and a judge of all the earth for all my children who shall dwell on the earth. And for the future generations who shall observe uprightness and peace.
2 “Let not your spirit be troubled on account of the times; For the Holy and Great One has appointed days for all things.
3 And the righteous one shall arise from sleep, shall arise and walk in the paths of righteousness and all his path and conversation shall be in eternal goodness and grace.
4 He will be gracious to the righteous and give him eternal uprightness, and He will give him power so that he shall be with goodness and righteousness.
5 And he shall walk in eternal light.
6 And sin shall perish in darkness for ever and shall no more be seen from that day for evermore.”
7 And after that Enoch both gave and began to recount from the books.
8 And Enoch said: “Concerning the children of righteousness and concerning the elect of the world, and concerning the plant of uprightness, I will speak these things.
9 Yea, I Enoch will declare unto you, my sons: According to that which appeared to me in the heavenly vision, and which I have known through the word of the holy angels, and have learnt from the heavenly tablets.”
10 And Enoch began to recount from the books and said:
11 “I was born the seventh in the first week, while judgement and righteousness still endured.
12 And after me there shall arise in the second week great wickedness, and deceit shall have sprung up; and in it there shall be the first end.
13 And in it a man shall be saved; and after it is ended unrighteousness shall grow up, and a law shall be made for the sinners.
14 And after that in the third week at its close a man shall be elected as the plant of righteous judgement and his posterity shall become the plant of righteousness for evermore.
15 And after that in the fourth week, at its close, Visions of the holy and righteous shall be seen, and a law for all generations and an enclosure shall be made for them.
16 And after that in the fifth week, at its close, the house of glory and dominion shall be built for ever.
17 And after that in the sixth week all who live in it shall be blinded, and the hearts of all of them shall godlessly forsake wisdom.
18 And in it a man shall ascend; and at its close the house of dominion shall be burnt with fire, and the whole race of the chosen root shall be dispersed.
19 And after that in the seventh week shall an apostate generation arise, and many shall be its deeds, and all its deeds shall be apostate.
20 And at its close shall be elected, the elect righteous of the eternal plant of righteousness to receive sevenfold instruction concerning all His creation.
21 For who is there of all the children of men that is able to hear the voice of the Holy One without being troubled?
22 And who can think His thoughts?
23 And who is there that can behold all the works of heaven?
24 And how should there be one who could behold the heaven, and who is there that could understand the things of heaven and see a soul or a spirit and could tell thereof, or ascend and see all their ends and think them or do like them?
25 And who is there of all men that could know what is the breadth and the length of the earth, and to whom has been shown the measure of all of them?
26 Or is there any one who could discern the length of the heaven and how great is its height, and upon what it is founded, and how great is the number of the stars, and where all the luminaries rest?
27 And now I say unto you, my sons, love righteousness and walk therein; for the paths of righteousness are worthy of acceptation but the paths of unrighteousness shall suddenly be destroyed and vanish.
28 And to certain men of a generation shall the paths of violence and of death be revealed and they shall hold themselves afar from them, and shall not follow them.
29 And now I say unto you the righteous: Walk not in the paths of wickedness, nor in the paths of death, and draw not nigh to them, lest ye be destroyed.
30 But seek and choose for yourselves righteousness and an elect life, and walk in the paths of peace, and ye shall live and prosper.
31 And hold fast my words in the thoughts of your hearts and suffer them not to be effaced from your hearts; For I know that sinners will tempt men to evilly−entreat wisdom so that no place may be found for her, and no manner of temptation may minish.
32 Woe to those who build unrighteousness and oppression and lay deceit as a foundation; For they shall be suddenly overthrown, and they shall have no peace.
33 Woe to those who build their houses with sin; For from all their foundations shall they be overthrown and by the sword shall they fall.
34 And those who acquire gold and silver in judgement suddenly shall perish.
35 Woe to you, ye rich, for ye have trusted in your riches and from your riches shall ye depart because ye have not remembered the Most High in the days of your riches.
36 Ye have committed blasphemy and unrighteousness, and have become ready for the day of slaughter, and the day of darkness and the day of the great judgement.
37 Thus I speak and declare unto you: He who hath created you will overthrow you and for your fall there shall be no compassion, and your Creator will rejoice at your destruction.
38 And your righteous ones in those days shall be a reproach to the sinners and the godless.
39 Oh that mine eyes were a cloud of waters that I might weep over you, and pour down my tears as a cloud of waters: That so I might rest from my trouble of heart!
40 Who has permitted you to practice reproaches and wickedness?
41 And so judgement shall overtake you, sinners.
42 Fear not the sinners, ye righteous; For again will the Lord deliver them into your hands, that ye may execute judgement upon them according to your desires.
43 Woe to you who fulminate anathemas which cannot be reversed: Healing shall therefore be far from you because of your sins.
44 Woe to you who requite your neighbor with evil; For ye shall be requited according to your works.
45 Woe to you, lying witnesses, and to those who weigh out injustice, for suddenly shall ye perish.
46 Woe to you, sinners, for ye persecute the righteous; for ye shall be delivered up and persecuted because of injustice, and heavy shall its yoke be upon you.
47 Be hopeful, ye righteous; for suddenly shall the sinners perish before you, and ye shall have lordship over them according to your desires.
48 And in the day of the tribulation of the sinners your children shall mount and rise as eagles, and higher than the vultures will be your nest, and ye shall ascend and enter the crevices of the earth, and the clefts of the rock for ever as coneys before the unrighteous, and the sirens shall sigh because of you and weep.
49 Wherefore fear not, ye that have suffered; For healing shall be your portion, and a bright light shall enlighten you, and the voice of rest ye shall hear from heaven.
50 Woe unto you, ye sinners, for your riches make you appear like the righteous but your hearts convict you of being sinners, and this fact shall be a testimony against you for a memorial of evil deeds.
51 Woe to you who devour the finest of the wheat and drink wine in large bowls, and tread under foot the lowly with your might.
52 Woe to you who drink water from every fountain; For suddenly shall ye be consumed and wither away because ye have forsaken the fountain of life.
53 Woe to you who work unrighteousness and deceit and blasphemy: It shall be a memorial against you for evil.
54 Woe to you, ye mighty, who with might oppress the righteous; For the day of your destruction is coming.
55 In those days many and good days shall come to the righteous−in the day of your judgement.”
1 Believe, ye righteous, that the sinners will become a shame nd perish in the day of unrighteousness.
2 Be it known unto you that the Most High is mindful of your destruction and the angels of heaven rejoice over your destruction.
3 What will ye do, ye sinners, and whither will ye flee on that day of judgement when ye hear the voice of the prayer of the righteous?
4 Yea, ye shall fare like unto them against whom this word shall be a testimony: “Ye have been companions of sinners.”
5 And in those days the prayer of the righteous shall reach unto the Lord and for you the days of your judgement shall come.
6 And all the words of your unrighteousness shall be read out before the Great Holy One and your faces shall be covered with shame, and He will reject every work which is grounded on unrighteousness.
7 Woe to you, ye sinners, who live on the mid ocean and on the dry land whose remembrance is evil against you.
8 Woe to you who acquire silver and gold in unrighteousness and say: “We have become rich with riches and have possessions and have acquired everything we have desired. And now let us do what we purposed: For we have gathered silver and many are the husbandmen in our houses. And our granaries are full as with water.”
9 Yea and like water your lies shall flow away for your riches shall not abide but speedily ascend from you; For ye have acquired it all in unrighteousness and ye shall be given over to a great curse.
10 And now I swear unto you, to the wise and to the foolish for ye shall have manifold experiences on the earth.
11 For ye men shall put on more adornments than a woman and colored garments more than a virgin; In royalty and in grandeur and in power, and in silver and in gold and in purple, and in splendor and in food they shall be poured out as water.
12 Therefore they shall be wanting in doctrine and wisdom and they shall perish thereby together with their possessions.
13 And with all their glory and their splendour, and in shame and in slaughter and in great destitution their spirits shall be cast into the furnace of fire.
14 I have sworn unto you, ye sinners, as a mountain has not become a slave and a hill does not become the handmaid of a woman.
15 Even so, sin has not been sent upon the earth but man of himself has created it, and under a great curse shall they fall who commit it.
16 And barrenness has not been given to the woman but on account of the deeds of her own hands she dies without children.
17 I have sworn unto you, ye sinners, by the Holy Great One; That all your evil deeds are revealed in the heavens and that none of your deeds of oppression are covered and hidden.
18 And do not think in your spirit nor say in your heart that ye do not know and that ye do not see that every sin is every day recorded in heaven in the presence of the Most High.
19 From henceforth ye know that all your oppression wherewith ye oppress is written down every day till the day of your judgement.
20 Woe to you, ye fools, for through your folly shall ye perish: And ye transgress against the wise, and so good hap shall not be your portion.
21 And now, know ye that ye are prepared for the day of destruction: Wherefore do not hope to live, ye sinners, but ye shall depart and die; for ye know no ransom; for ye are prepared for the day of the great judgement, for the day of tribulation and great shame for your spirits.
22 Woe to you, ye obstinate of heart, who work wickedness and eat blood: Whence have ye good things to eat and to drink and to be filled? From all the good things which the Lord the Most High has placed in abundance on the earth; therefore ye shall have no peace.
23 Woe to you who love the deeds of unrighteousness: Wherefore do ye hope for good hap unto yourselves? Know that ye shall be delivered into the hands of the righteous, and they shall cut off your necks and slay you, and have no mercy upon you.
24 Woe to you who rejoice in the tribulation of the righteous; For no grave shall be dug for you.
25 Woe to you who set at nought the words of the righteous; For ye shall have no hope of life.
26 Woe to you who write down lying and godless words; For they write down their lies that men may hear them and act godlessly towards neighbors.
27 Therefore they shall have no peace but die a sudden death.
28 Woe to you who work godlessness and glory in lying and extol them: Ye shall perish, and no happy life shall be yours.
29 Woe to them who pervert the words of uprightness and transgress the eternal law, and transform themselves into what they were not into sinners: They shall be trodden under foot upon the earth.
30 In those days make ready, ye righteous, to raise your prayers as a memorial, and place them as a testimony before the angels that they may place the sin of the sinners for a memorial before the Most High.
31 In those days the nations shall be stirred up and the families of the nations shall arise on the day of destruction.
32 And in those days the destitute shall go forth and carry off their children and they shall abandon them, so that their children shall perish through them: Yea, they shall abandon their children sucklings, and not return to them and shall have no pity on their beloved ones.
33 And again I swear to you, ye sinners, that sin is prepared for a day of unceasing bloodshed.
34 And they who worship stones, and grave images of gold and silver and wood and clay, and those who worship impure spirits and demons, and all kinds of idols not according to knowledge, shall get no manner of help from them.
35 And they shall become godless by reason of the folly of their hearts and their eyes shall be blinded through the fear of their hearts and through visions in their dreams.
36 Through these they shall become godless and fearful; For they shall have wrought all their work in a lie and shall have worshiped a stone: Therefore in an instant shall they perish.
37 But in those days blessed are all they who accept the words of wisdom, and understand them, and observe the paths of the Most High, and walk in the path of His righteousness, and become not godless with the godless; For they shall be saved.
38 Woe to you who spread evil to your neighbors; For you shall be slain in Sheol.
39 Woe to you who make deceitful and false measures, and who cause bitterness on the earth; For they shall thereby be utterly consumed.
40 Woe to you who build your houses through the grievous toil of others, and all their building materials are the bricks and stones of sin; I tell you ye shall have no peace.
41 Woe to them who reject the measure and eternal heritage of their fathers and whose souls follow after idols; For they shall have no rest.
42 Woe to them who work unrighteousness and help oppression, and slay their neighbours until the day of the great judgement.
43 For He shall cast down your glory and bring affliction on your hearts, and shall arouse His fierce indignation and destroy you all with the sword; And all the holy and righteous shall remember your sins.
44 And in those days in one place the fathers together with their sons shall be smitten and brothers one with another shall fall in death till the streams flow with their blood.
45 For a man shall not withhold his hand from slaying his sons and his sons sons, and the sinner shall not withhold his hand from his honored brother: From dawn till sunset they shall slay one another.
46 And the horse shall walk up to the breast in the blood of sinners and the chariot shall be submerged to its height.
47 In those days the angels shall descend into the secret places and gather together into one place all those who brought down sin and the Most High will arise on that day of judgement to execute great judgement amongst sinners.
48 And over all the righteous and holy He will appoint guardians from amongst the holy angels to guard them as the apple of an eye until He makes an end of all wickedness and all sin, and though the righteous sleep a long sleep, they have nought to fear.
49 And the children of the earth shall see the wise in security, and shall understand all the words of this book, and recognize that their riches shall not be able to save them in the overthrow of their sins.
50 Woe to you, Sinners, on the day of strong anguish, Ye who afflict the righteous and burn them with fire: Ye shall be requited according to your works.
51 Woe to you, ye obstinate of heart, who watch in order to devise wickedness: Therefore shall fear come upon you and there shall be none to help you.
52 Woe to you, ye sinners, on account of the words of your mouth, and on account of the deeds of your hands which your godlessness as wrought; In blazing flames burning worse than fire shall ye burn.
53 And now, know ye that from the angels He will inquire as to your deeds in heaven, from the sun and from the moon and from the stars in reference to your sins because upon the earth ye execute judgement on the righteous.
54 And He will summon to testify against you every cloud and mist and dew and rain; for they shall all be withheld because of you from descending upon you, and they shall be mindful of your sins.
55 And now give presents to the rain that it be not withheld from descending upon you, nor yet the dew, when it has received gold and silver from you that it may descend.
56 When the hoarfrost and snow with their chilliness, and all the snow storms with all their plagues fall upon you, in those days ye shall not be able to stand before them.
1 Observe the heaven, ye children of heaven, and every work of the Most High, and fear ye Him and work no evil in His presence.
2 If He closes the windows of heaven, and withholds the rain and the dew from descending on the earth on your account, what will ye do then?
3 And if He sends His anger upon you because of your deeds, ye cannot petition Him; for ye spake proud and insolent words against His righteousness: therefore ye shall have no peace.
4 And see ye not the sailors of the ships, how their ships are tossed to and fro by the waves, and are shaken by the winds, and are in sore trouble?
5 And therefore do they fear because all their goodly possessions go into the sea with them, and they have evil forebodings of heart that the sea will swallow them and they will perish therein.
6 Are not the entire sea and all its waters, and all its movements, the work of the Most High, and has He not set limits to its doings, and confined it throughout by the sand?
7 And at His reproof it is afraid and dries up, and all its fish die and all that is in it; But ye sinners that are on the earth fear Him not.
8 Has He not made the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein?
9 Who has given understanding and wisdom to everything that moves on the earth and in the sea?
10 Do not the sailors of the ships fear the sea? Yet sinners fear not the Most High.
11 In those days when He hath brought a grievous fire upon you, whither will ye flee, and where will ye find deliverance?
12 And when He launches forth His Word against you will you not be affrighted and fear? And all the luminaries shall be affrighted with great fear and all the earth shall be affrighted and tremble and be alarmed.
13 And all the angels shall execute their commandst and shall seek to hide themselves from the presence of the Great Glory, and the children of earth shall tremble and quake; and ye sinners shall be cursed for ever, and ye shall have no peace.
14 Fear ye not, ye souls of the righteous and be hopeful ye that have died in righteousness.
15 And grieve not if your soul into Sheol has descended in grief, and that in your life your body fared not according to your goodness but wait for the day of the judgement of sinners and for the day of cursing and chastisement.
16 And yet when ye die the sinners speak over you: “As we die, so die the righteous, and what benefit do they reap for their deeds? Behold, even as we, so do they die in grief and darkness and what have they more than we? From henceforth we are equal. And what will they receive and what will they see for ever? Behold, they too have died, And henceforth for ever shall they see no light.”
17 I tell you, “Ye sinners, ye are content to eat and drink, and rob and sin, and strip men naked, and acquire wealth and see good days. Have ye seen the righteous how their end falls out, that no manner of violence is found in them till their death?
18 Nevertheless they perished and became as though they had not been, and their spirits descended into Sheol in tribulation.”
1 Another book which Enoch wrote for his son Methuselah and for those who will come after him, and keep the law in the last days.
2 Ye who have done good shall wait for those days till an end is made of those who work evil; and an end of the might of the transgressors.
3 And wait ye indeed till sin has passed away, for their names shall be blotted out of the book of life and out of the holy books, and their seed shall be destroyed for ever, and their spirits shall be slain, and they shall cry and make lamentation in a place that is a chaotic wilderness, and in the fire shall they burn; for there is no earth there.
4 And I saw there something like an invisible cloud; for by reason of its depth I could not look over, and I saw a flame of fire blazing brightly, and things like shining mountains circling and sweeping to and fro.
5 And I asked one of the holy angels who was with me and said unto him: “What is this shining thing? For it is not a heaven but only the flame of a blazing fire, and the voice of weeping and crying and lamentation and strong pain.”
6 And he said unto me: “This place which thou seest−here are cast the spirits of sinners and blasphemers, and of those who work wickedness, and of those who pervert everything that the Lord hath spoken through the mouth of the prophets − the things that shall be.
7 For some of them are written and inscribed above in the heaven, in order that the angels may read them and know that which shall befall the sinners, and the spirits of the humble, and of those who have afflicted their bodies, and been recompensed by God.
8 And of those who have been put to shame by wicked men: Who love God and loved neither gold nor silver nor any of the good things which are in the world, but gave over their bodies to torture.
9 Who, since they came into being, longed not after earthly food, but regarded everything as a passing breath, and lived accordingly, and the Lord tried them much, and their spirits were found pure so that they should bless His name.
10 And all the blessings destined for them I have recounted in the books.
11 And he hath assigned them their recompense, because they have been found to be such as loved heaven more than their life in the world, and though they were trodden under foot of wicked men and experienced abuse and reviling from them and were put to shame, yet they blessed Me.
12 And now I will summon the spirits of the good who belong to the generation of light, and I will transform those who were born in darkness, who in the flesh were not recompensed with such honor as their faithfulness deserved.
13 And I will bring forth in shining light those who have loved My holy name, and I will seat each on the throne of his honor.
14 And they shall be resplendent for times without number; for righteousness is the judgement of God; for to the faithful He will give faithfulness in the habitation of upright paths.
15 And they shall see those who were, born in darkness led into darkness, while the righteous shall be resplendent.
16 And the sinners shall cry aloud and see them resplendent, and they indeed will go where days and seasons are prescribed for them.”
**]Revelation of Enoch
1 I swear unto you that in heaven the angels remember you for good before the glory of the Great One: and your names are written before the glory of the Great One.
2 Be hopeful; for aforetime ye were put to shame through ill and affliction; but now ye shall shine as the lights of heaven, ye shall shine and ye shalll be seen, and the portals of heaven shall be opened to you.
3 And in your cry, cry for judgement, and it shall appear to you; for all your tribulation shall be visited on the rulers, and on all who helped those who plundered you.
4 Be hopeful, and cast not away your hopes for ye shall have great joy as the angels of heaven.
5 What shall ye be obliged to do?
6 Ye shall not have to hide on the day of the great judgement and ye shall not be found as sinners, and the eternal judgement shall be far from you for all the generations of the world.
7 And now fear not, ye righteous, when ye see the sinners growing strong and prospering in their ways, be not companions with them, but keep afar from their violence; For ye shall become companions of the hosts of heaven.
8 And, although the sinners say: “All our sins shall not be searched out and be written down,” nevertheless they shall write down all your sins every day.
9 And now I show unto you that light and darkness, day and night, see all your sins.
10 Be not godless in your hearts, and lie not and alter not the words of uprightness, nor charge with lying the words of the Holy Great One, nor take account of your idols; for all your lying and all your godlessness issue not in righteousness but in great sin.
11 And now I know this mystery, that sinners will alter and pervert the words of righteousness in many ways, and will speak wicked words, and lie, and practice great deceits, and write books concerning their words.
12 But when they write down truthfully all my words in their languages, and do not change or minish ought from my words but write them all down truthfully − all that I first testified concerning them.
13 Then, I know another mystery, that books will be given to the righteous and the wise to become a cause of joy and uprightness and much wisdom.
14 And to them shall the books be given, and they shall believe in them and rejoice over them and then shall all the righteous who have learnt therefrom all the paths of uprightness be recompensed.
15 In those days the Lord bade to summon and testify to the children of earth concerning their wisdom: “Show unto them; for ye are their guides and a recompense over the whole earth.
16 For I and My son will be united with them for ever in the paths of uprightness in their lives; and ye shall have peace: rejoice, ye children of uprightness. Amen.”
The Dead Sea Scrolls
This chart showing a listing of what scrolls were found in the Qumran caves is important to note in regards to the texts found therein as they include an associated body of work that is one in the same. Parts of the Book of Giants were found regarding Enoch in the caves as well. It would appear that whoever the scribe or group of people who stored away these scrolls, intended them for safe keeping as they represent a body of knowledge that has, curiously enough, been largely fought since their inception. When a researcher gets to a certain point they tend to realize that some information and studies surpass the understanding of the intellect alone but rather sequesters the heart to comprehend such mysteries of which the mind is unwilling.
The Book of the Giants
The Book of the Giants was published in not less than six or seven languages. From the original Syriac the Greek and Middle Persian versions were made. The Sogdian edition was probably derived from the Middle Persian, the Uygur from the Sogdian. There is no trace of a Parthian text.The book may have existed in Coptic. The presence of names such as Sām and Narīmān in the Arabic version proves that it had been translated from the Middle Persian. To the few surviving fragments (texts A-G) I have added two excerpts, the more important of which (H) probably derives from a Syriac epitome of the book. Naturally, Manichæan authors quoted the book frequently, but there is only one direct citation by a non-Manichæan writer (text O). With the exception of text O, all the passages referring to the Book of the Giants (texts J-T) go back to Syriac writings (apparently). They are, therefore, to be treated as quotations from the Syriac edition. E.g. the Parthian text N is not the product of a Parthian writer who might have employed a Parthian version of the book, but was translated from a Syriac treatise whose author cited the Syriac text.
In their journey across Central Asia the stories of the Book of the Giants were influenced by local traditions. Thus, the translation of Ohya as Sām had in its train the introduction of myths appertaining to that Iranian hero; this explains the “immortality” of Sā(h)m according to text I. The country of Aryān-Vēžan = Airyana Vaēǰah, in text G (26), is a similar innovation. The “Kögmän mountains” in text B may reflect the “Mount Hermon”. The progeny of the fallen angels was confined in thirty-six towns (text S). Owing to the introduction of the Mount Sumeru, this number was changed (in Sogdiana) to thirty-two (text G, 22): “the heaven of Indra . . . is situated between the four peaks (cf. G 21) of the Meru, and consists of thirty-two cities of devas” (Eitel,Handb. Chinese Buddhism, 148, on Trayastriṃśat).
Manuscript Mapping Key
(bed) = damaged letters, or uncertain readings,
[bed] = suggested restorations of missing letters.
= visible, but illegible letters.
[. . .] = estimated number of missing letters.
[ ] = a lacuna of undetermined extent.
(84)] = same, at the beginning of a line.
[(85 = same, at the end of a line.
In the translation parentheses are employed for explanatory remarks.
Bolded text of the translation fragments are of great importance and correlation with the books of Enoch.
NOTE: The text from multiple of these manuscripts is badly damaged but between the various versions of the book in different languages we have a general picture of what the Book of Giants is discussing if the book's very title isn't enough for the reader alone. Logical estimates according to the historical texts which tell of these giants living, seem to be around 3500BC and the manuscripts (presumably) being copied several times throughout the ages (considering any scribe would find copying an epic like this more than just a "great job," they probably did it for free; which explains why so many manuscripts exist of the book) are more than likely around 3000+ years old.
Translation to English
(Frg. c) . . . hard . . . arrow . . . bow, he that . . . Sām said: “Blessed be . . . had [he ?] seen this, he would not have died.” Then Shahmīzād said to Sām, his [son]: “All that Māhawai . . ., is spoilt (?).” Thereupon he said to . . . “We are . . . until (10) . . . and . . . (13) . . . that are in (?) the fiery hell (?) . . . As my father, Virōgdād, was . . .” Shahmīzād said: “It is true what he says. He says one of thousands of giants. For one of thousands . . . .”. Sām thereupon began . . . Māhawai, too, in many places . . . (20) until to that place he might escape (1) and . . .
(Frg. j) . . . Virōgdād . . . Hōbābīš (a giant) robbed Ahr (a mortal man) of Naxtag, his wife. Thereupon the giants began to kill each other and [to abduct their wives]. The creatures, too, began to kill each other. Sām . . . before the sun, one hand in the air, the other (30) . . . whatever he obtained, to his brother . . . . imprisoned . . . (34) . . . over Taxtag. To the angels . . . from heaven. Taxtag to . . . Taxtag threw (or: was thrown) into the water. Finally (?) . . . in his sleep Taxtag saw three signs, [one portending . . .], one woe and flight, and one . . . annihilation. Narīmān saw a gar[den full of] (40) trees in rows. Two hundred . . . came out, the trees. . . .
(Frg. l) Enoch, the apostle, . . . [gave] a message to [the demons and their] children: To you . . . not peace. [The judgment on you is] that you shall be bound for the sins you have committed. You shall see the destruction of your children. ruling for a hundred and twenty [years] . . . . (50) . . . wild ass, ibex . . . ram, goat (?), gazelle, . . . oryx, of each two hundred, a pair . . . the other wild beasts, birds, and animals and their wine [shall be] six thousand jugs . . . irritation(?) of water (?) . . . and their oil shall be . . .
(Frg. k) . . . father . . . nuptials (?) . . . until the completion of his . . . in fighting . . . (60) . . . and in the nest(?) Ohya and Ahya . . . he said to his brother: “get up and . . . we will take what our father has ordered us to. The pledge we have given . . . battle.” And the giants fought them together . . . (67) “[Not the] . . . of the lion, but the . . . on his . . . [Not the] . . . of the rainbow, but the bow . . . firm. Not the sharpness of the blade, [but] (70) the strength of the ox (?). Not the . . . eagle, but his wings. Not the . . . gold, but the brass that hammers it. Not the proud [ruler], but the diadem on his [head. Not] the splendid cypress, but the . . . giants of the mountain . . .
(Frg. g) . . . Not he that engages in quarrels, but he that is true in his speech. Not the evil fruit(?), but the poison in it. (80) [Not they that] are placed (?) in the skies but the God [of all] worlds. Not the servant is proud, but [the lord] that is above him. Not one that is sent . . ., but the man that sent him”. Thereupon Narīmān . . . said . . . (86) . . . And (in) another place I saw those that were weeping for the ruin that had befallen them, and whose cries and laments rose up to heaven. (90) And also I saw another place [where there were] tyrants and rulers . . . in great number, who had lived in sin and evil deeds, when . . . (Note here that this passage is in the style of Enoch and is likely one of the many books Enoch gave to Methuselah to “preserve even unto future generations.”)
(Frg. i) . . . many men and women were killed, four hundred thousand Righteous . . . with fire, naphtha, and brimstone . . . And the angels veiled (or: covered, or: protected, or: moved out of sight) Enoch. Electae et auditrices (100) . . . and ravished them. They chose beautiful women, and demanded . . . them in marriage. Sordid . . . (103) . . . all . . . carried off . . . severally they were subjected to tasks and services. And they . . . from each city . . . and were, ordered to serve the . . . The Mesenians [were directed] to prepare, the Khūzians to sweep [and] (110) water, the Persians to . . .
[On the Five Elements]
(Frg. e) (112) . . . slaying . . . righteous . . . good deeds . . . . elements. The crown, the diadem, [the garland, and] the garment (of Light). The seven demons. Like a blacksmith [who] binds (or:shuts, fastens) and looses (or: opens, detaches) . . . . who from the seeds of . . . . and serves the king . . . . (120) . . . offends . . . when weeping . . . with mercy . . . hand . . . (125) . . . the Pious gave . . . ? . . . presents. Some buried the idols. The Jews did good and evil. Some make their god half demon, half god . . . (130) killing . . . the seven demons . . . eye . . .
(Frg. b) . . . various colours that by . . . and bile. If. . . . from the five elements. As if (it were) a means not to die, they fill themselves with food and drink. Their (140) garment is . . . this corpse . . . and not firm . . . Its ground is not firm . . . Like . . . (146) . . . imprisoned [in this corpse], in bones, nerves, [flesh], veins, and skin, and entered herself [ = Āz] into it. Then he ( = Man) cries out, over (?) sun and moon, the Just God’s (150) two flames . . . ? . . ., over the elements, the trees and the animals. But God [Zrwān ?], in each epoch, sends apostles: Šīt[īl, Zarathushtra,] Buddha, Christ, . . .
(Frg. h) . . . evil-intentioned . . . from where . . . he came. The Misguided recognize the five elements, [the five kinds of] trees, the five (kinds of) animals.
(160) . . . On the Hearers>
. . . we receive . . . from Mani, the Lord, . . . the Five Commandments to . . . the Three Seals . . . (164) . . . living . . . profession . . . and wisdom . . . moon. Rest from the power (or: deceit) . . . own. And keep measured the mixture (?) . . . trees and wells, in two . . . (170) water, and fruit, milk, . . . he should not offend his brother. The wise [Hearer] who like unto juniper [leaves . . .
(Frg. f) . . . much profit. Like a farmer . . . who sows seed . . in many . . . The Hearer who . . . knowledge, is like unto a man that threw (the dish called) frōšag (180) [into] milk(?). It became hard, not . . . The part that ruin . . . at first heavy. Like . . . first . . . is honoured . . . might shine . . . (188) six days. The Hearer who gives alms (to the Elect), is like unto a poor (190) man that presents his daughter to the king; he reaches (a position of) great honour. In the body of the Elect the (food given to to him as) alms is purified in the same manner as a . . . that by fire and wind . . . beautiful clothes on a clean body . . . turn . . .
(Frg. a) . . . witness . . . fruit . . . (200) . . . tree . . . like firewood . . . like a grain (?) . . . radiance. The Hearer in [the world ?], (and) the alms within the Church, are like unto a ship [on the sea] : the towing-line (is) in the hand of [the tower] on shore, the sailor (210) is [on board the ship]. The sea is the world, the ship is [the . . ., the . . . is the ?al]ms, the tower is [the . . . ?], the towing-line (?) is the Wisdom. . . . . . . (214) . . . The Hearer . . . is like unto the branch (?) of a fruitless [tree] . . . fruitless . . . and the Hearers . . . fruit that . . . (220) pious deeds. [The Elect,] the Hearer, and Vahman, are like unto three brothers to whom some [possessions] were left by their father: a piece of land, . . ., seed. They became partners . . . they reap and . . . The Hearer . . . like . . .
(Frg. d) . . . an image (?) of the king, cast of gold . . . (230) . . . the king gave presents. The Hearer that copies a book, is like unto a sick man that gave his . . . to a . . . man. The Hearer that gives [his] daughter to the church, is like . . . pledge, who ( = father ?) gave his son to . . . learn . . . to . . . father, pledge . . . (240) . . . Hearer. Again, the Hearer . . . is like . . . . stumble . . . is purified. To . . . the soul from the Church, is like unto the wife of the soldier (or: Roman) who . . . infantrist, one shoe . . . who, however, with a denarius . . . was. The wind tore out one . . . he was abashed . . . from the ground . . . ground . . .
(Frg. m) . . . (250) . . . sent . . . The Hearer that makes one . . ., is like unto [a compassionate mother] who had seven sons . . . the enemy [killed] all . . . The Hearer that . . . piety . . . (258) . . . a well. One [on the shore of] the sea, one in the boat. (260) [He that is on] shore, tows(?) him that is [in the boat].1 He that is in the boat. . . . sea. Upwards to . . . like . . ? . . like a pearl . . . diadem . . .
(Frg. M 911) . . . Church. Like unto a man that . . . fruit and flowers . . . then they praise . . . fruitful tree . . . (270) . . . [Like unto a man] that bought a piece of land. [On that] piece of land [there was] a well, [and in that well a bag] full of drachmas . . . the king was filled with wonder . . . share . . . pledge . . .
(Frg. n) . . . numerous . . . Hearer. At . . . like unto a garment . . . (280) like . . . to the master . . . like . . . and a blacksmith. The goldsmith . . . to honour, the blacksmith to . . . one to . . .
B. Uygur
LeCoq, Türk. Man., iii, 23. Bang, Muséon, xliv, 13-17. Order of pages according to LeCoq (the phot. publ. by Bang seems to support LeCoq’s opinion).
(First page) . . . fire was going to come out. And [I saw] that the sun was at the point of rising, and that [his ?] centre (orḍu) without increasing (? ašïlmatïn ?) above was going to start rolling. Then came a voice from the air above. Calling me, it spoke thus: “Oh son of Virōgdād, your affairs are lamentable (?). More than this you shall [not] see. Do not die now prematurely, but turn quickly back from here.” And again, besides this (voice), I heard the voice of Enoch, the apostle, from the south, without, however, seeing him at all. Speaking my name very lovingly, he called. And downwards from . . . then
(Second page) . . . “ . . for the closed door of the sun will open, the sun’s light and heat will descend and set your wings alight. You will burn and die,” said he. Having heard these words, I beat my wings and quickly flew down from the air. I looked back: Dawn had . . . ., with the light of the sun it had come to rise over the Kögmän mountains. And again a voice came from above. Bringing the command of Enoch, the apostle, it said: “I call you, Virōgdād, . . . I know . . . his direction . . . you . . . you . . . Now quickly . . . people . . . also . . .
C. Sogdian
M 648. Small scrap from the centre of a page. Order of pages uncertain.
(First page) . . . I shall see. Thereupon now S[āhm, the giant] was [very] angry, and laid hands on M[āhawai, the giant], with the intention: I shall . . . and kill [you]. Then . . . the other g[iants . . .
(Second page) . . . do not be afraid, for . . . [Sā]hm, the giant, will want to [kill] you, but I shall not let him . . . I myself shall damage . . . Thereupon Māhawai, the g[iant], . . . was satisfied . . .
D. Middle-Persian
Published Sb.P.A.W., 1934, p. 29.
. . . outside . . . and . . . left . . . . read the dream we have seen. Thereupon Enoch thus . . . . and the trees that came out, those are the Egrēgoroi (‘yr), and the giants that came out of the women. And . . . . . over . . . pulled out . . . over . . .
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E. Sogdian
T iii 282. Order of pages uncertain.
(First page) . . . [when] they saw the apostle, . . . before the apostle . . . those demons that were [timid], were very, very glad at seeing the apostle. All of them assembled before him. Also, of those that were tyrants and criminals, they were [worried] and much afraid. Then . . .
(Second page) . . . not to . . . Thereupon those powerful demons spoke thus to the pious apostle : If . . . . by us any (further) sin [will] not [be committed ?], my lord, why ? . . . . you have . . . and weighty injunction . . .
F. Middle-Persian
T ii D ii 164. Six fragmentary columns, from the middle of a page. Order of columns uncertain. Instead of A///B///CDEF, it might have been: BCDEFA, or even CDEF///A///B.
(Col. A) . . . poverty . . . [those who] harassed the happiness of the Righteous, on that account they shall fall into eternal ruin and distress, into that Fire, the mother of all conflagrations and the foundation of all ruined tyrants. And when these sinful misbegotten sons of ruin in those crevices and . . . .
(Col. B) . . . you have not been better. In error you thought you would this false power eternally. You . . . all this iniquity . . .
(Col. C) . . . you that call to us with the voice of falsehood. Neither did we reveal ourselves onyour account, so that you could see us, nor thus . . . . ourselves through the praise and greatness that to us . . . -given to you . . ., but . . .
(Col. D ) . . . sinners . . . . . is visible, where out of this fire your soul will be prepared (for the transfer) to eternal ruin (?). And as for you, sinful misbegotten sons of the Wrathful Self, confounders of the true words of that Holy One, disturbers of the actions of Good Deed, aggressors upon Piety, . . . -ers of the Living. . . ., who their . . .
(Col. E) . . . and on brilliant wings they shall fly and soar further outside and above that Fire, and shall gaze into its depth and height. And those Righteous that will stand around it, outside and above, they themselves shall have power over that Great Fire, and over everything in it. . . . . . blaze . . . . souls that . . .
(Col. F) . . . they are purer and stronger [than the] Great Fire of Ruin that sets the worlds ablaze. They shall stand around it, outside and above, and splendour shall shine over them. Further outside and above it they shall fly (?) after those souls that may try to escape from the Fire. And that . . . .
G. Sogdian
T ii. Two folios (one only publ. here; the other contains a wyδβ’γ cn pš’qṯ δywtyy “Discourse on the Nephīlīm-demons”). Head-lines: R: pš’n prβ’r “. . . pronouncement”, V: iv fryštyt δn CC “The four angels with the two hundred [demons . . . “. (Presumably this is where Enoch is addressing the 200 fallen angel leaders who petitioned him to take their case to God. It also coincides with the text later on revealing that four angels imprisoned multiple demons but precisely how many is not specified.)
. . . they took and imprisoned all the helpers that were in the heavens. And the angels themselves descended from the heaven to the earth. And (when) the two hundred demons saw those angels, they were much afraid and worried. They assumed the shape of men and hid themselves. Thereupon the angels forcibly removed the men from the demons, (10) laid them aside, and put watchers over them . . . . the giants . . . . were sons . . . with each other in bodily union . . . . with each other self- . . . . and the . . . . that had been born to them, they forcibly removed them from the demons. And they led one half of them (20) eastwards, and the other half westwards, on the skirts of four huge mountains, towards the foot of the Sumeru mountain, into thirty-two towns which the Living Spirit had prepared for them in the beginning. And one calls (that place) Aryān-waižan. And those men are (or: were) . . . . in the first arts and crafts. (30) . . . . they made . . . the angels . . . and to the demons . . . they went to fight. And those two hundred demons fought a hard battle with the four angels, until the angels used fire, naphtha, and brimstone . . . .
H. Sogdian
T ii S 20. Sogdian script. Two folios. Contents similar to the “Kephalaia”. Only about a quarter (I R i-17) publ. here. The following chapter has as headline: ’’γšt š’nš’y cnn ’β[c’n]pδ[yh w]prs = Here begins: Šanšai’s question the world. Init. rty tym ZK š’nš’[y] [cnn] m’rm’ny rwγšny pr’yš[t’kw w’nkw ’]prs’ ’yn’k ’βc’npδ ZY kw ZKh mrtγmyt (’skw’nt) oo ckn’c pyδ’r ’’zy mrch ’zγyr’nt = And again Šanšai asked the Light Apostle: this world where mankind lives, why does one call it birth-death (saṃsāra, Chin. shêng-szŭ).
. . . and what they had seen in the heavens among the gods, and also what they had seen in hell, their native land, and furthermore what they had seen on earth,—all that they began to teach (hendiadys) to the men. To Šahmīzād two(?) sons were borne by . . . . One of them he named “Ohya”; in Sogdian he is called “Sāhm, the giant”. And again a second son [was born] to him. He named him “Ahya”; its Sogdian (equivalent) is “Pāt-Sāhm”. As for the remaining giants, they were born to the other demons and Yakṣas. (Colophon) Completed: (the chapter on) “The Coming of the two hundred Demons”.
I. Sogdian
M 500 n. Small fragment.
. . . . manliness, in powerful tyranny, he (or: you ?) shall not die”. The giant Sāhm and his brother will live eternally. For in the whole world in power and strength, and in . . . .
[QUOTATIONS AND ALLUSIONS
J. Middle-Persian
T ii D ii 120, V ii 1-5: and in the coming of the two hundred demons there are two paths: the hurting speech, and the hard labour; these (belong, or: lead) to hell.
K. Sogdian
M 363.
(First page) . . . before . . . they were. And all the . . . fulfilled their tasks lawfully. Now, they became excited and irritated for the following reason: namely, the two hundred demons came down to the sphere from the high heaven, and the . . . .
(Second page) . . . in the world they became excited and irritated. For their life-lines and the connections of their Pneumatic Veins are joined to the sphere. (Colophon) Completed: the exposition of the three worlds. (Head-line) Here begins: the coming of Jesus and [his bringing] the religion to Adam and Šitil. . . . you should care and . . .
L. Coptic
Kephalaia, 171 16-19: Earthquake and malice happened in the watchpost of the Great King of Honour, namely the Egrēgoroi who arose at the time when they were . . . . and there descended those who were sent to confound them. (Genesis 11)
M. Coptic
Kephalaia, 92 24-31: Now attend and behold how the Great King of Honour who is ἔννοια, is in the third heaven. He is . . . with the wrath . . . and a rebellion . . ., when malice and wrath arose in his camp, namely the Egrēgoroi of Heaven who in his watch-district (rebelled and) descended to the earth. They did all deeds of malice. They revealed the arts in the world, and the mysteries of heaven to the men. Rebellion and ruin came about on the earth . . .
N. Parthian
M 35, lines 21-36. Fragment of a treatise entitled ’rdhng wyfr’s = Commentary on (Mani’s opus)Ārdahang.
And the story about the Great Fire: like unto (the way in which) the Fire, with powerful wrath, swallows this world and enjoys it; like unto (the way in which) this fire that is in the body, swallows the exterior fire that is (lit. comes) in fruit and food, and enjoys it. Again, like unto (the story in which) two brothers who found a treasure, and a pursuer lacerated each other, and they died; like unto (the fight in which) Ohya, Lewyātīn ( = Leviathan), and Raphael lacerated each other, and they vanished; like unto (the story in which) a lion cub, a calf in a wood (or: on a meadow), and a fox lacerated each other, [and they vanished, or: died]. Thus [the Great Fire swallows, etc.] both of the fires. . . .
M 740. Another copy of this text.
O. Arabic, from Middle-Persian ?
Al-Ghaḍanfar (Abū Isḥāq Ibr. b. Muḥ. al-Tibrīzī, middle of thirteenth century), in Sachau’s edition of Beruni’s Āthār al-bāqiyah, Intr., p. xiv: The Book of the Giants, by Mani of Babylon, is filled with stories about these (antediluvian) giants, amongst whom Sām and Narīmān.
P. Coptic
Keph. 9323-28: On account of the malice and rebellion that had arisen in the watch-post of the Great King of Honour, namely the Egrēgoroi who from the heavens had descended to the earth,—on their account the four angels received their orders: they bound the Egrēgoroi with eternal fetters in the prison of the Dark(?), their sons were destroyed upon the earth.
Q. Coptic
Manich. Psalm-book, ed. Allberry, 1427-9: The Righteous who were burnt in the fire, they endured. This multitude that were wiped out, four thousand . . . . Enoch also, the Sage, the transgressors being . . .
R. Coptic
Man. Homil., ed. Polotsky, 6818-19: . . . evil. 400,000 Righteous were slain by the giants and many more . . . . the years of Enoch . . .
S. Coptic
Keph., 117 1-9: Before the Egrēgoroi rebelled and descended from heaven, a prison had been built for them in the depth of the earth beneath the mountains. Before the sons of the giants were born who knew not Righteousness and Piety among themselves, thirty-six towns had been prepared and erected, so that the sons of the giants should live in them, they that come to beget . . . . who live a thousand years.
T. Parthian
291a. Order of pages unknown.
(First page) . . . mirror . . . image. . . . distributed. The men . . . and Enoch was veiled ( = moved out of sight). They took . . . Afterwards, with donkey-goads . . . . slaves, and waterless trees (?). Then the arch angels Michael, Raphel, Gabriel, and Istrael . . . and imprisoned the demons. And of them . . . . seven and twelve. (Possibly a numerical indication as to how many demons the archangels imprisoned?)
(Second page ) . . . three thousand two hundred and eighty- . . . the beginning of King Vištāsp.. . . . in the palace he flamed forth ( or: in the brilliant palace). And at night . . ., then to the broken gate . . . men . . . physicians, merchants, farmers, . . . at sea. ? . . . armoured he came out . . .
U. Parthian
T ii D 58. From the end ( . . . r š t) of a hymn.
. . . gifts. A peaceful sovereign [was] King Vištāsp, [in Aryā]n-Waižan Wahman and Zarēl . . . . The sovereign’s queen, Khudōs, received the Faith, the prince . . . They have secured (a place in) the (heavenly) hall, and quietude for ever and ever . . .
V. Sogdian
M 692. Small fragment. Order of pages uncertain.
(First page) . . . because . . . the House of the Gods, eternal joy, and good . . ? . . For so it is said: at that time . . . Yima was . . . in the world. And at the time of the new moon (?) . . . . the blessed denizens of the world . . . all assembled . . . all . . .
(Second page) . . . they offered five garlands in homage. And Yima accepted those garlands . . . And those . . . that . . . . and great kingship . . . was his. And on . . . them . . . . And acclamations . . . And from that pious (?) . . . he placed the garlands on his head . . . the denizens of the world . . .
RECONSTRUCTED SUMMARY OF THE
BOOK OF GIANTS
CHAPTER ONE: The Watchers are grieved over the sins of mankind, and petition God to let them descend to the earth to teach the sons of men righteousness and to rebuke them. God grants their petition. Azazel is sent to prepare the way for the Watchers. Azazel prepares the way, and the Watchers descend and they begin to teach them righteousness and justice. Enoch is chosen by the Watchers to serve as a mediator between men and the Watchers.
CHAPTER TWO: The daughters of men lust after the attractive Watchers, and seduce them; Azazel, with Shemhazah’s help, instigates the fall of the 200 Watchers and their followers. The Watchers fall from their glorious nature, and become bound to fleshly bodies as a consequence of their joining sexually to flesh. They begin to reveal to their wives heavenly and earthly secrets.
CHAPTER THREE: The Watchers have their own families with humans and also with animals, and those that were defiled by them give birth to Giants. These Giants begin to grow to massive sizes, and become full of greed and corruption. They kill many dragons and the sons of Cain worship them for protecting them. The children of Cain are no longer able to sustain the Giants with their offerings of vegtables and grain so the Giants turn on them and kill them and begin to eat them. The Giants develop a taste for blood and begin eating any moving thing including each other. The Watchers teach some of the secrets they were appointed over to keep from the sons of men. The Giants imitate the sins of their fathers, and take for themselves wives and animal mates, and they beget Naphil and Eliyo. God seeing all this wickedness, sends Enoch to declare to Shemhazah and the fallen Watchers that they will be soon punished for causing the earth to be corrupted.
CHAPTER FOUR: Enoch is sent by the righteous Watchers to rebuke the fallen Watchers and to declare to them their doom. He comes to Azazel first and condemns him as the principal sinner amongst the fallen Watchers. He then summons Mahaway to him and has him gather all the Watchers for his message. Enoch enters the assembly of the fallen Watchers, and gives them the message of doom. They weep and lament and beg Enoch to present to God their petition for mercy and a second chance – to restore them to their former glory and that their sons might have eternal life. They required a messenger to talk to God because God had since stopped talking to them after their transgression. Enoch hears their case and tells them he will talk to God on their behalf.
CHAPTER FIVE: Enoch, having written the petition of the fallen Watchers and discussing it with God, receives a vision from God as a response, and Enoch writes the vision for the fallen Watchers in a book and gives the book to them. Enoch declares to them they will not be forgiven, and describes for them his ascent into the presence of God, where he was given a message for them.
CHAPTER SIX: Enoch received from God an answer for the fallen Watchers: he is told to tell them why they were not given permission to have sex, and what their punishment is because of it, and he foretells unto them the miserable doom and fate of the offspring of the fallen Watchers, and foretells to them that they will become evil spirits and will not have eternal life but that their years will be no more than 500. After hearing this the fallen Watchers and their Giant sons take up stones to throw at Enoch but the holy Watchers shield Enoch from their deadly blows and lift Enoch up into the heavens to escape their earthly wrath against Enoch the messenger. (This is perhaps the first time that anyone ever attempted to “kill the messenger.”)
CHAPTER SEVEN: Hobabesh kidnaps another Giant’s wife, and starts a war amongst the Giants. When the war was ending, one of Ohyah’s companions was killed by Mahaway. Ohyah mourns with his father Shemhazah about his friend, and they curse Mahaway. Mahaway defends himself, appealing to the words of his father Baraqel as justification. Ohyah gets angry and attempts to kill Mahaway, but Gilgamesh and the other Giants prevent Ohyah from doing so, and they ward off Ohyah’s murderous intentions. (This is where we learn about Gilgamesh slaying dragons, or dinosaurs and being a hero for the normal sized men of that time.)
CHAPTER EIGHT: Gilgamesh has a dream, but interprets it as indicating the Giants will not be punished. The Giants celebrate but aren’t entirely convinced, and subsequent to this, Ohyah and Hahyah have dreams of their own. They seek the interpretation of the dreams, but none of the Giants can declare to them what the meaning of their dreams are, so the Giants have Mahaway go to Enoch in order to learn from him the meaning of the dreams and to learn what the fate of the Giants will be. Mahaway flies to Enoch, and Enoch greets Mahaway, and Mahaway explains why he came, and Enoch proceeds to give Mahaway the answer, and he writes it down in a tablet, and gives a second tablet as well to Mahaway intended for Shemhazah and the Watchers, and he sends Mahaway back to the Giants with the two tablets.
CHAPTER NINE: Mahaway flies back to the Giants with the two tablets. And Mahaway tells them of his journey to Enoch and of Enoch saving his life, and tells them that Enoch had given him two tablets and revealed everything they had wanted to know form him. The first tablet is read. The Giants discuss the contents of the first tablet after it is finished being read, and realize they are doomed, and they lament over their miserable fate. They then have the second tablet read. Enoch tells
Shemhazah that he and the other fallen Watchers will soon be bound, but that the Giants should repent and pray, for they still have a chance to benefit from reformation of their lives.
CHAPTER TEN: Shemhazah urges his two sons Ohyah and Hahyah to reform their lives in the hopes that they will be yet given mercy. Ohyah and Hahyah listen to the advice of Shemhazah and attempt to convince the Giants to reform themselves, teaching them through proverbs where true success is found. The Giants seek to reform their lives. Enoch is sent to declare to the Watchers that within 120 years, they would all be bound in a dark prison of punishment for their sins, and that their sons would all be destroyed from off the face of the earth. Noah begins to build the Ark. Around this time, only Azazel is bound.
CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Giants lament over Azazel being bound, and then they and the Watchers, seeing that they were not bound or destroyed vaunted themselves. When this happened, Gabriel the archangel was sent to incite the Giants to commit civil war against themselves and their offspring, and they all began to kill each other, and the Watchers beheld the destruction of their families. When the war of the Giants ends with few survivors, all of the fallen Watchers are subsequently bound by the angels into the dark prison of punishment.
CHAPTER TWELVE: Noah goes into the Ark, and the flood comes, and begins to kill all life, but not all the Giants are killed by the flood. In order to fix this, Yehuweh sends the Leviathan, and the Leviathan begins to kill all the Giants and their sons who survived. Ohyah alone survives the attacks of the Leviathan, and kills the Leviathan. The archangel Raphael is sent by Yehuweh in order to punish Ohyah for killing the Leviathan, and to finally restore the earth to purity Ohyah is killed and bound in the dark prison of punishment with the fallen Watchers. The flood being over, and the Giants and their sons still remaining on the earth without bodies, become evil spirits, and are given a law by an angel of Yehuweh how they are to live if they want to avoid being sent to the dark prison of punishment that the Watchers were sent to. And this explains how the Nephilim came to be on the earth after the flood.
Fossilized remains of giant human skeletons have been found all around the world. Ranging in size, many of them have been recovered with giant weapons, armor, and strange artifacts dubbed OOPARTS (Out of Place Artifacts). The current worldview model for humanity doesn’t support the existence of a giant human race (according to evolution). These enormous ancient human beings were worshipped throughout various world religions of which tell of many of them slaying dragons. It is important to note that the term “dragon” was replaced by the word “dinosaur” in 1871 by Sir. Edward Owen. Hence, any reference in ancient literature to dragons, is a reference to dinosaurs according to the ontology of the word change associations involved. The following is a brief report of recovered giant fossilized human remains of which most end up in private collections of the elite of society save a few who have found their way to museums around the world. Although in recent years many of these museums have been selling these remains to private collectors for large sums of money their discoveries remain documented and undisputed by reasonable scholars without hidden agendas. Take a look at the evidence and decide for yourself if there were “Giants on the earth in those days.” – Genesis 6:4
Perhaps the best place to start off with providing evidence of the existence of giant human beings is Crete. Crete was once known in old times as Arcadia. The Greek historian Herodotus had written about another historian, Eustathius who had said that Arcadia was once called Gigantis, or “The Land of Giants,” because of the giants who had formerly lived there. It was also known as the Greek Garden of Eden. This connection between Arcadia, giants, and to the Garden of Eden makes sense, because the 4th century Roman author Servius in his Commentary on the Eneid says, that the Arcadians often reached the age of 300 years.—Grotius.
Several of the world’s most influential authors all throughout history verify these accounts of giants, gods, and the island of Crete. People such as Diodorus Siculus, Pliny, Strabo, Plutarch, and Plato, just to name a few. In addition to these historical accounts by some of the world’s most trusted authorities, there is also the science with real life giant bones that have been found on Crete. In fact, the largest bones that have ever been found were discovered on this very same island, which may prove this was truly the home or the Land of Giants.
During the Cretan war from 205–200 BC a massive giant skeleton was discovered on the island. This giant was measured at the length of thirty-three cubits, which equates to nearly 42 feet. The Roman Lucius Flaccus was a notable eye witness to the gigantic bones, and the Greek writer under Roman Emperor Hadrian, Phlegon of Tralles also mentions the discovery of several giant skeletons. In the included chart of giant fossilized remains findings around the world features the 36 foot skeleton found by the Carthaginians.
In the The Geography of Strabo, Volume 1 By Strabo, he writes about these giants that were discovered in city founded by the biblical Corinthians who used to reside in the modern day island of Crete;
“Somewhere in this neighbourhood is the mountain Bermius,2 which was formerly in the possession of the Briges, a Thracian nation, some of whom passed over to Asia and were called by another name, Phrygians (Phryges). After Thessalonica follows the remaining part of the Therman Gulf, extending to Canastneum. This is a promontory of a peninsula form, and is opposite to Magnesia. Pallene is the name of the peninsula. It has an isthmus 5 stadia in width, with a ditch cut across it. There is a city on the peninsula, formerly called Potidsna, founded by the Corinthians, but afterwards it was called Cassandria, from king Cassander, who restored it after it was demolished. It is a circuit of 570 stadia round the peninsula by sea. Here giants were said to have lived, and the region to have been called Phlegra. Some consider this to be a mere fable, but others, with greater probability on their side, see implied in it the existence of a barbarous and lawless race of people who once occupied the country, but who were destroyed by Hercules on his return home, after the capture of Troy. Here also the Trojan women are said to have committed the destructive act of burning the ships, to avoid becoming the slaves of their captors’ wives.”
There are more stories and eyewitness accounts of giant people and bones being found on the island of Crete, than anywhere in the world as this information is current. In addition to the eyewitness accounts and bones that have been found here that help verify this history with some science, there is more scientific evidence in the form of the tools that these giant people had used. Tools such as the massive double headed axes that have been found in Crete. These axes are said to be from up to 1700 years before Christ and were also the main religious symbol of the ancient Cretans. They date to the Second Palace and Post-Palace periods (1700 – 1300 BC)”. The Minoan name for the double axe is “labrys”, thus the word labyrinth may originally have meant the “House of the Double Axe,” an ancient reference to the invention of the double axe which is attributed to giants.
This biblical story may give us a clue as to what eventually had happened to these giants from Crete:
The sons of Joseph were authorized to invade the “Land of the Giants” and Og, the king of Bashan, and the last sovereign of the Ashtoreth dynasty, encountered Moses at Edrei, where he fell “with his sons, and all his people, until there was none left alive, and they (the Israelites) possessed the land,” Numbers. xxi. 33, 34, 35.
Deuteronomy 2:11 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
Deuteronomy 3:13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
Joshua 12:4 And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
Joshua 13:12 All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.
Fossilized human footprints have also been discovered in Sweden, and in Mexico. Giant skeletons have been discovered throughout the United States and giant fossilized remains are not solely exclusive to the lands of Crete but rather world-wide. Photos of giants from recent times are all a part of important natural history. An article from Strand magazine (December,1895) reprinted in “Traces of the Elder Faiths” of Ireland by W.G. Wood-Martin mentions this fossilized giant discovered during mining operations in County Antrim, Ireland:
“Pre-eminent among the most extraordinary articles ever held by a railway company is the fossilized Irish giant, which is at this moment lying at the London and North-Western Railway Company’s Broad street goods depot, and a photograph of which is reproduced here. . . This monstrous figure is reputed to have been dug up by a Mr. Dyer whilst prospecting for iron ore in County Antrim. The principal measurements are: entire length, 12ft. 2in.; girth of chest, 6ft. 6in.; and length of arms, 4ft. 6in. There are six toes on the right foot. The gross weight is 2 tons; 15cwt.; so that it took half a dozen men and a powerful crane to place this article of lost property in position for the Strand magazine photographer to do her work.”
The below is the picture of the giant published in Strand Magazine 1895:
Near Crittenden, Arizona, in 1891, workmen excavating for a commercial building came upon a huge stone sarcophagus eight feet below the surface. The contractor called in expert help, and the sarcophagus was opened to reveal a granite mummy case which had once held the body of a human being more than twelve feet tall – a human with six toes, according to the carving of the case. But the body had been buried so many thousands of years that it had long since turned to dust. Just another silent witness to the truth of Genesis, which tells us that there were giants on the earth in those days, the excavation of over a dozen skeletons 8 to 12 feet tall, around the world shocked archaeologists.
If you have already read through the Book of Giants then you may understand why on so many Sumerian artifacts that we find depictions of giant humans being served by lesser humans in stature. As the Book of Enoch testifies, and as other texts of the same body of knowledge tell us, some men worshipped these giants only to have them eventually turn on them.
The associated text in the Book of Giants that pertains to this particular Sumerian tablet is the following:
“. . . they took and imprisoned all the helpers that were in the heavens. And the angels themselves descended from the heaven to the earth. And (when) the two hundred demons saw those angels, they were much afraid and worried. They assumed the shape of men and hid themselves. Thereupon the angels forcibly removed the men from the demons, (10) laid them aside, and put watchers over them. . . . the giants . . . . were sons . . . with each other in bodily union . . . . with each other self- . . . . and the . . . . that had been born to them, they forcibly removed them from the demons. And they led one half of them (20) eastwards, and the other half westwards, on the skirts of four huge mountains, towards the foot of the Sumeru mountain, into thirty-two towns which the Living Spirit had prepared for them in the beginning. And one calls (that place) Aryān-waižan. And those men are (>or: were) . . . . in the first arts and crafts. (30) . . . . they made . . . the angels . . . and to the demons . . they went to fight. And those two hundred demons fought a hard battle with the four angels, until the angels used fire, naphtha, and brimstone. . .” – Book of Giants – Sogdian Manuscript
Of such cities mentioned in the Book of Giants other authorities on the antiquities of history make note:
Cristoforo Buondelmonti (1386-1430) was an Italian monk, traveler, and a pioneer in promoting first-hand knowledge of Greece and its antiquities, who had written about a Cretan city named Sarandopolis that was formerly inhabited by giants, and where modern eparkhia of Setia derived its name.
The San Diego Giant
The mummy remains of a giant were unearthed in a cave near San Diego, California. It was discovered by a party of prospectors, and was displayed at the Atlantic exposition while, a number of Smithsonian scientists were there. They asked permission to examine it and when consent was given applied their tapes and found that it measured eight feet four inches from crown to heel. The body lied rest in a ten foot coffin. The exhibitor agreed to sell it for $500 to the Smithsonian of which sold it in more recent days to an “unknown private collector.” The following photo is the San Diego Giant:
In terms of the life spans of the giants we find that it was appointed to them 500 years to live:
Enoch 4:12 And to Gabriel said the Lord, “Proceed against the bastards and the reprobates, and against the children of fornication and destroy the children of the Watchers from amongst men. Send them one against the other that they may destroy each other in battle, for length of days shall they not have. And no request that they make of thee shall be granted unto their fathers on their behalf; for they hope to live an eternal life, and that each one of them will live five hundred years.” – Enoch Book 1: Watchers Ch.4:12
Notice how that is specific to a definite degree? Well it would seem that their days were numbered as a curse and that perhaps they couldn’t die until 500 years had been allotted to them. Keep in mind that God was not pleased at all with that the fallen angels had done and was using this as a testament against them for breaking His laws. They wanted their giant sons to have the eternal life like they had but God denied their plea for this. Although the exact contents of the petition the fallen angels had Enoch deliver to God is not known this verse appears to be a logical response to one of the things the fallen must have included in it regarding their sons length of life.
Furthermore, in regards to their hybrid status (half man, half angel) of existence we are encountered with the terms and conditions of their afterlife as the Book of the Words of Righteousness tells us:
Enoch 5:28 And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling.
Enoch 5:29 Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men and from the Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; they shall be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called.
Enoch 5:30 And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the earth, and cause trouble. They take no food, but nevertheless hunger and thirst, and cause offences.
Not having souls, once the giants had died they became roaming spirits of the earth. Being able to inhabit the bodies of men and women, animals, and other “forms.” Only when reading through the Testament of Solomon do we find evidence of these evil spirits residing on earth until the final judgement.
Solomon 1:70. And there came before my face another enslaved spirit, having obscurely the form of a man, with gleaming eyes, and bearing in his hand a blade. And I asked: “Who art thou?” But he answered: “I am a lascivious spirit, engendered of a giant man who died in the massacre in the time of the giants.” I said to him: “Tell me what thou art employed upon earth, and where thou hast thy dwelling.”
Closing notes and my own personal observations:
Being a former evolutionist (macro), finding about OOPARTS and fossilized giant human beings around the world compelled me to look for answers outside the modern scientific religion and into the accounts of historians, scribes, and the body of knowledge of the divine. The earth and its artifacts seem to testify to its own past so long as we pay attention to the ancient reporters who so diligently made the happenings of ancient times known to us through the preservation of their observations. The more one goes looking for evidence pertaining to giants, the more one finds. The bulk of information pertaining to these giants seems to be clustered on the body of biblical knowledge of which no other codex contains more references or information about. This mystery itself seems best solved by pouring over the evidence with diligent study performed by reading with not the eyes but rather the heart.
1. Testament of Solomon, son of David, who was king in Jerusalem, and mastered and controlled all spirits of the air, on the earth, and under the earth. By means of them also he wrought all the transcendent works of the Temple. Telling also of the authorities they wield against men, and by what angels these demons are brought to naught.
Of the sage Solomon.
Blessed art thou, O Lord God, who didst give Solomon such authority. Glory to thee and might unto the ages. Amen.
2. And behold, when the Temple of the city of Jerusalem was being built, and the artificers were working thereat, Ornias the demon came among them toward sunset; and he took away half of the pay of the master workman’s little boy, as well as half his food. He also continued to suck the thumb of his right hand every day. And the child grew thin, although he was very much loved by the king.
3. So King Solomon called the boy one day, and questioned him, saying: “Do I not love thee more than all the artisans who are working in the Temple of God? Do I not give thee double wages and a double supply of food? How is it that day by day and hour by hour thou growest thinner?”
4. But the child said to the king: “I pray thee, O king. Listen to what has befallen all that thy child hath. After we are all released from our work on the Temple of God, after sunset, when I lie down to rest, one of the evil demons comes and takes away from me one half of my pay and one half of my food. Then he also takes hold of my right hand and sucks my thumb. And lo, my soul is oppressed, and so my body waxes thinner every day.”
5. Now when I Solomon heard this, I entered the Temple of God, and prayed with all my soul, night and day, that the demon might be delivered into my hands, and that I might gain authority over him. And it came about through my prayer that grace was given to me from the Lord Sabaoth by Michael his archangel. He brought me a little ring, having a seal consisting of an engraved stone, and said to me: “Take, O Solomon, king, son of David, the gift which the Lord God has sent thee, the highest Sabaoth. With it thou shalt lock up all demons of the earth, male and female; and with their help thou shalt build up Jerusalem. But thou must wear this seal of God. And this engraving of the seal of the ring sent thee is a Pentalpha.”
(A Pentalpha otherwise known as the seal of Solomon.)
6. And I Solomon was overjoyed, and praised and glorified the God of heaven and earth. And on the morrow I called the boy, and gave him the ring, and said to him: “take this, and at the hour in which the demon shall come unto thee, throw this ring at the chest of the demon, and say to him: ‘In the name of God, King Solomon calls thee hither. And then do thou come running to me, without having any misgivings or fear in respect of aught thou mayest hear on the part of the demon.”
7. So the child took the ring, and went off; and behold, at the customary hour Ornias, the fierce demon, came like a burning fire to take the pay from the child. But the child according to the instructions received from the king, threw the ring at the chest of the demon, and said: “King Solomon calls thee hither.” And then he went off at a run to the king. But the demon cried out aloud, saying: “Child, why hast thou done this to me? Take the ring off me, and I will render to thee the gold of the earth. Only take this off me, and forbear to lead me away to Solomon.”
8. But the child said to the demon: “As the Lord God of Israel liveth, I will not brook thee. So come hither.” And the child came at a run, rejoicing, to the king, and said: “I have brought the demon, O king, as thou didst command me, O my master. And behold, he stands before the gates of the court of thy palace, crying out, and supplicating with a loud voice; offering me the silver and gold of the earth if I will only bring him unto thee.”
9. And when Solomon heard this, he rose up from his throne, and went outside into the vestibule of the court of his palace; and there he saw the demon, shuddering and trembling. And he said to him: “Who art thou?” And the demon answered: “I am called Ornias.”
10. And Solomon said to him: “Tell me, O demon, to what zodiacal sign thou art subject.” And he answered: “To the Water-pourer. And those who are consumed with desire for the noble virgins upon earth, these I strangle. But in case there is no disposition to sleep, I am changed into three forms. Whenever men come to be enamoured of women, I metamorphose myself into a comely female; and I take hold of the men in their sleep, and play with them. And after a while I again take to my wings, and hie me to the heavenly regions. I also appear as a lion, and I am commanded by all the demons. I am frustrated by the archangel Uriel, the power of God.”
11. I Solomon, having heard the name of the archangel, prayed and glorified God, the Lord of heaven and earth. And I sealed the demon and set him to work at stone-cutting, so that he might cut the stones in the Temple, which, lying along the shore, had been brought by the Sea of Arabia. But he, fearful of the iron, continued and said to me: “I pray thee, King Solomon, let me go free; and I will bring you all the demons.” And as he was not willing to be subject to me, I prayed the archangel Uriel to come and succour me; and I forthwith beheld the archangel Uriel coming down to me from the heavens.
12. And the angel bade the whales of the sea come out of the abyss. And he cast his destiny upon the ground, and that destiny made subject to him the great demon. And he commanded the great demon and bold Ornias, to cut stones at the Temple. And accordingly I Solomon glorified the God of heaven and Maker of the earth. And he bade Ornias come with his destiny, and gave him the seal, saying: “Away with thee, and bring me hither the prince of all the demons.”
13. So Ornias took the finger-ring, and went off to Beelzeboul, who has kingship over the demons. He said to him: “Hither! Solomon calls thee.” But Beelzeboul, having heard, said to him: “Tell me, who is this Solomon of whom thou speakest to me?” Then Ornias threw the ring at the chest of Beelzeboul, saying: “Solomon the king calls thee.” But Beelzeboul cried aloud with a mighty voice, and shot out a great burning flame of fire; and he arose, and followed Ornias, and came to Solomon.
14. And when I saw the prince of demons, I glorified the Lord God, Maker of heaven and earth, and I said: “Blessed art thou, Lord God Almighty, who hast given to Solomon thy servant wisdom, the assessor of the wise, and hast subjected unto me all the power of the devils.”
15. And I questioned him, and said: “Who art thou?” The demon replied: “I am Beelzebub, the exarch of the demons. And all the demons have their chief seats close to me. And I it is who make manifest the apparition of each demon.” And he promised to bring to me in bonds all the unclean spirits. And I again glorified the God of heaven and earth, as I do always give thanks to him.
16. I then asked of the demon if there were females among them. And when he told me that there were, I said that I desired to see them. So Beelzeboul went off at high speed, and brought unto me Onoskelis, that had a very pretty shape, and the skin of a fairhued woman; and she tossed her head.
17. And when she was come, I said to her: “Tell me who art thou?” But she said to me: “I am called Onoskelis, a spirit which has been made into a body, lurking upon the earth. There is a golden cave where I lie. But I have a place that ever shifts. At one time I strangle men with a noose; at another, I creep up and prevent them from their true natures. But my most frequent dwelling-places are the precipices, caves, and ravines. Oftentimes, however, do I consort with men in the semblance of a woman, and above all with those of a dark skin. For they share my star with me; since they it is who privily or openly worship my star, without knowing that they harm themselves, and but whet my appetite for further mischief. For they wish to provide money by means of remembering me, but I supply a little to those who worship me fairly.”
18. And I Solomon questioned her about her birth, and she replied: “I was born of a voice untimely, the so-called echo of a man’s ordure dropped in a wood.”
19. And I said to her: “Under what star dost thou pass?” And she answered me: “Under the star of the full moon, for the reason that the moon travels over most things.” Then I said to her: “And what angel is it that frustrates thee?” And she said to me: “He that in thee is reigning.” And I thought that she mocked me, and bade a soldier strike her. But she cried aloud, and said: “I am subjected to thee, O king, by the wisdom of God given to thee, and by the angel Joel.”
20. So I commanded her to spin the hemp for the ropes used in the building of the house of God; and accordingly, when I had sealed and bound her, she was so overcome and brought to naught as to stand night and day spinning the hemp.
21. And I at once bade another demon to be led unto me; and instantly there approached me the demon Asmodeus, bound, and I asked him: “Who art thou?’‘ But he shot on me a glance of anger and rage, and said: “And who art thou?” And I said to him: “Thus punished as thou art, answerest thou me not?” But he, with rage, said to me: “But how shall I answer thee, for thou art a son of man; whereas I was born of an angel’s seed by a daughter of man, so that no word of our heavenly kind addressed to the earth-born can be overweening. Wherefore also my star is bright in heaven, and men call it, some the Wain, and some the dragon’s child. I keep near unto this star. So ask me not many things; for thy kingdom also after a little time is to be disrupted, and thy glory is but for a season. And short will be thy tyranny over us; and then we shall again have free range over mankind, so as that they shall revere us as if we were gods, not knowing, men that they are, the names of the angels set over us.”
22. And I Solomon, on hearing this, bound him more carefully, and ordered him to be flogged with thongs of ox-hide, and to tell me humbly what was his name and of his business. And he answered me thus: “I am called Asmodeus among mortals, and my business is to plot against the newly wedded, so that they may not know one another. And I sever them utterly by many calamities, and I waste away the beauty of virgin women, and estrange their hearts.”
23. And I said to him: “Is this thy only business?” And he answered me: “I transport men into fits of madness and desire, when they have wives of their own, so that they leave them, and go off by night and day to others that belong to other men; with the result that they commit sin, and fall into murderous deeds.”
24. And I adjured him by the name of the Lord Sabaôth, saying: “Fear God, Asmodeus, and tell me by what angel thou art frustrated.” But he said: “By Raphael, the archangel that stands before the throne of God. But the liver and gall of a fish put me to flight, when smoked over ashes of the tamarisk.” I again asked him, and said: “Hide not aught from me. For I am Solomon, son of David, King of Israel. Tell me the name of the fish which thou reverest.” And he answered: “It is the glanos by name, and is found in the rivers of Assyria; wherefore it is that I roam about in those parts.”
25. And I said to him: “Hast thou nothing else about thee, Asmodeus?” And he answered: “The power of God knoweth, which hath bound me with the indissoluble bonds of yonder one’s seal, that whatever I have told thee is true. I pray thee, King Solomon, condemn me not to go into water.” But I smiled, and said to him: “As the Lord God of my fathers liveth, I will lay iron on thee to wear. But thou shalt also make the clay for the entire construction of the Temple, treading it down with thy feet.” And I ordered them to give him ten water jars to carry water in. And the demon groaned terribly, and did the work I ordered him to do. And this I did, because that fierce demon Asmodeus knew even the future. And I Solomon glorified God, who gave wisdom to me Solomon his servant. And the liver of the fish and its gall I hung on the spike of a reed, and burned it over Asmodeus because of his being so strong, and his unbearable malice was thus frustrated.
26. And I summoned again to stand before me Beelzeboul, the prince of demons, and I sat him down on a raised seat of honour, and said to him: “Why art thou alone, prince of the demons?” And he said to me: “Because I alone am left of the angels of heaven that came down. For I was first angel in the first heaven being entitled Beelzeboul. And now I control all those who are bound in Tartarus. But I too have a child, and he haunts the Red Sea. And on any suitable occasion he comes up to me again, being subject to me; and reveals to me what he has done, and when he is ready, he will come in triumph.
27. I Solomon said unto him: “Beelzeboul, what is thy employment?” And he answered me: “I destroy kings. I bring destruction by means of tyrants. And my own demons I send on to men to be worshipped, in order that the latter may believe in them and be lost. And the chosen servants of God, priests and faithful men, I excite unto desires for wicked sins, and evil heresies, and lawless deeds; and they obey me, and I bear them on to destruction. And I inspire men with envy, and desire for murder, and for wars and sodomy, and other evil things. I bring about jealousies and murders in a country, and I instigate wars. I will destroy the world.”
28. So I said to him: “Bring to me thy child, who is, as thou sayest, in the Red Sea.” But he said to me: “I will not bring him to thee. But there shall come to me another demon called Ephippas. Him will I bind, and he will bring him up from the deep unto me.” And I said to him: “How comes thy son to be in the depth of the sea, and what is his name? “And he answered me: “Ask me not, for thou canst not learn from me. However, he will come to thee by any command, and will tell thee openly.” So I said to him: “Tell me in which star you reside.” To which he answered, “The one called by men the Evening Star.”
29. I said to him: “Tell me by what angel thou art frustrated.” And he answered: “By the holy and precious name of the Almighty God, called by the Hebrews by a row of numbers, of which the sum is 644, and among the Greeks it is Emmanuel. And if one of the Romans adjure me by the great name of the power Eleéth, I disappear at once.”
30. I Solomon was astounded when I heard this; and I ordered him to saw up Theban marbles. And when he began to saw the marbles, the other demons cried out with a loud voice, howling because of their king Beelzeboul was also subject to the power the Most High had given me over him.
31. But I Solomon questioned him, saying: “If thou wouldst gain a respite, discourse to me about the things in heaven.” And Beelzeboul said: “Hear, O king, if thou burn gum, and incense, and bulb of the sea1, with nard and saffron, and light seven lamps in an earthquake, thou wilt firmly fix thy house. And if, being pure, thou light them at dawn in the sun alight, then wilt thou see the heavenly dragons, how they wind themselves along and drag the chariot of the sun.”
32. And I Solomon, having heard this, rebuked him, and said: “Silence for this present time, and continue to saw the marbles as I commanded thee.” And I Solomon praised God, and commanded another demon to present himself to me. And one came before me who carried his face high up in the air, but the rest of the spirit curled away like a snail. And it broke through the few soldiers, and raised also a terrible dust on the ground, and carried it upwards; and then again hurled it back to frighten us, and asked what questions I could ask as a rule. And I stood up, and spat on the ground in that spot, and sealed the demon with the ring of God. And forthwith the dustwind stopped. Then I asked him, saying: “Who art thou, O wind?” Then he once more shook up a dust, and answered me: “What wouldst thou have, King Solomon?” I answered him: “Tell me what thou art called, and I would fain ask thee a question. But so far I give thanks to God who has made me wise to answer your evil plots.”
33. But [the demon] answered me: “I am the spirit of the ashes (Tephras).” And I said to him: “What is thy pursuit?” And he said: “I bring darkness on men, and set fire to fields; and I bring homesteads to naught. But most busy am I in summer. However, when I get an opportunity, I creep into corners of the wall, by night and day. For I am offspring of the great one, and nothing less.” Accordingly I said to him: “Under what star dost thou lie?” And he answered: “In the very tip of the moon’s horn, when it is found in the south. There is my star. For I have been bidden to restrain the convulsions of the hemitertian fever; and this is why many men pray to the hemitertian fever, using these three names: Bultala, Thallal, Melchal. And I heal them.” And I said to him: “I am Solomon; when therefore thou wouldst do harm, by whose aid dost thou do it?” But he said to me: “By the angel’s, by whom also the third day’s fever is lulled to rest.” So I questioned him, and said: “And by what name?” And he answered: “That of the archangel Azael.” And I summoned the archangel Azael, and set a seal on the demon, and commanded him to seize great stones, and toss them up to the workmen on the higher parts of the Temple. And, being compelled, the demon began to do what he was bidden to do.
34. And I glorified God afresh who gave me this authority, and ordered another demon to come before me. And there came seven spirits, females, bound and woven together, fair in appearance and comely. And I Solomon, seeing them, questioned them and said: “Who are ye?” But they, with one accord, said with one voice: “We are of the thirty-three elements of the cosmic ruler of the darkness.” And the first said: “I am Deception.” The second said: “I am Strife.” The third: “I am Klothod, which is battle.” The fourth: “I am Jealousy.” The fifth: “I am Power.” The sixth: “I am Error.” The seventh: “I am the worst of all, and our stars are in heaven. Seven stars humble in sheen, and all together. And we are called as it were Goddesses. We change our place all and together, and together we live, sometimes in Lydia, sometimes in Olympus, sometimes in a great mountain.”
35. So I Solomon questioned them one by one, beginning with the first, and going down to the seventh. The first said: “I am Deception, I deceive and weave snares here and there. I whet and excite heresies. But I have an angel who frustrates me, Lamechalal.”
36. Likewise also the second said: “I am Strife, strife of strifes. I bring timbers, stones, hangers, my weapons on the spot. But I have an angel who frustrates me, Baruchiachel.”
37. Likewise also the third said: “I am called Klothod, which is Battle, and I cause the well behaved to scatter and fall foul one of the other. And why do I say so much? I have an angel that frustrates me: “Marmarath.”
38. Likewise also the fourth said: “I cause men to forget their sobriety and moderation. I part them and split them into parties; for Strife follows me hand in hand. I rend the husband from the sharer of his bed, and children from parents, and brothers from sisters. But why tell so much to my despite? I have an angel that frustrates me, the great Balthial.”
39. Likewise also the fifth said: “I am Power. By power I raise up tyrants and tear down kings. To all rebels I furnish power. I have an angel that frustrates me, Asteraôth.”
40. Likewise also the sixth said: “I am Error, O King Solomon. And I will make thee to err, as I have before made thee to err, when I caused thee to slay thy own brother. I will lead you into error, so as to pry into graves; and I teach them that dig, and I lead errant souls away from all piety, and many other evil traits are mine. But I have an angel that frustrates me, Uriel.”
41. Likewise also the seventh said: “I am the worst, and I make thee worse off than thou wast; because I will impose the bonds of Artemis. But the locust will set me free, for by means thereof is it fated that thou shalt achieve my desire. For if one were wise, he would not turn his steps toward me.”
42. So I Solomon, having heard and wondered, sealed them with my ring; and since they were so considerable, I bade them dig the foundations of the Temple of God. For the length of it was 250 cubits. And I bade them be industrious, and with one murmur of joint protest they began to perform the tasks enjoined.
43. But I Solomon glorified the Lord, and bade another demon come before me. And there was brought to me a demon having all the limbs of a man, but without a head. And I, seeing him, said to him: “Tell me, who art thou?” And he answered: “I am a demon.” So I said to him: “Which?” And he answered me: “I am called Envy. For I delight to devour heads, being desirous to secure for myself a head; but I do not eat enough, but am anxious to have such a head as thou hast.”
44. I Solomon, on hearing this, sealed him, stretching out my hand against his chest. Whereon the demon leapt up, and threw himself down, and gave a groan, saying: “Woe is me! Where am I come to? O traitor Ornias, I cannot see!” So I said to him: “I am Solomon. Tell me then how thou dost manage to see!” And he answered me: “By means of my feelings.” I then, Solomon, having heard his voice come up to me, asked him how he managed to speak. And he answered me: “I, O King Solomon, am wholly voice, for I have inherited the voices of many men. For in the case of all men who are called dumb, I it is who smashed their heads, when they were children and had reached their eighth day. Then when a child is crying in the night, I become a spirit, and glide by means of his voice. In the crossways also I have many services to render, and my encounter is fraught with harm. For I grasp in all instants a man’s head, and with my hands, as with a sword, I cut it off, and put it on to myself. And in this way, by means of the fire which is in me, through my neck it is swallowed up. I it is that sends grave mutilations and incurables on men’s feet, and inflict sores.”
45. And I Solomon, on hearing this, said to him: “Tell me how thou dost discharge forth the fire? Out of what sources dost thou emit it?” And the spirit said to me: “From the Day-star. For here hath not yet been found that Elburion, to whom men offer prayers and kindle lights. And his name is invoked by the seven demons before me. And he cherishes them.”
46. But I said to him: “Tell me his name.” But he answered: “I cannot tell thee. For if I tell his name, I render myself incurable. But he will come in response to his name.” And on hearing this, I Solomon said to him: “Tell me then, by what angel thou art frustrated?” And he answered: “By the fiery flash of lightning.” And I bowed myself before the Lord God of Israel, and bade him remain in the keeping of Beelzeboul until the angel Iax should come.
47. Then I ordered another demon to come before me, and there came into my presence a hound, having a very large shape, and it spoke with a loud voice, and said, “Hail, Lord, King Solomon!” And I Solomon was astounded. I said to it: Who art thou, O hound?” And it answered: “I do indeed seem to thee to be a hound, but before thou wast, O King Solomon, I was a man that wrought many unholy deeds on earth. I was surpassingly learned in letters, and was so mighty that I could hold the stars of heaven back. And many divine works did I prepare. For I do harm to men who follow after our star, and change them to. And I seize the frenzied men by the larynx, and so destroy them.”
48. And I Solomon said to him: “What is thy name?” And he answered: “Staff” (Rabdos). And I said to him: “What is thine employment? And what results canst thou achieve?” And he replied: “Give me thy servant, and I will lead him away into a mountainous spot, and will show him a green stone tossed to and fro, with which thou mayest adorn the temple of the Lord God.”
49. And I Solomon, on hearing this, ordered my servant to set off with him, and to take the finger-ring bearing the seal of God with him. And I said to him: “Whoever shall show thee the green stone, seal him with this finger-ring. And mark the spot with care, and bring me the demon hither.” And the demon showed him the green stone, and he sealed it, and brought the demon to me. And I Solomon decided to confine with my seal on my right hand the two, the headless demon, likewise the hound, that was so huge; he should be bound as well. And I bade the hound keep safe the fiery spirit so that lamps as it were might by day and night cast their light through its maw on the artisans at work.
50. And I Solomon took from the mine of that stone 200 shekels for the supports of the table of incense, which was similar in appearance. And I Solomon glorified the Lord God, and then closed round the treasure of that stone. And I ordered afresh the demons to cut marble for the construction of the house of God. And I Solomon prayed to the Lord, and asked the hound, saying: “By what angel art thou frustrated?” And the demon replied: “By the great Brieus.”
51. And I praised the Lord God of heaven and earth, and bade another demon come forward to me; and there came before me one in the form of a roaring lion. And he stood and answered me saying: “O king, in the form which I have, I am a spirit quite incapable of being perceived. Upon all men who lie prostrate with sickness I leap, coming stealthily along; and I render the man weak, so that his habit of body is enfeebled. But I have also another glory, O king. I cast out demons, and I have legions under my control. And I am capable of being received in my dwelling-places, along with all the demons belonging to the legions under me.” But I Solomon, on hearing this, asked him: “What is thy name?” But he answered: “Lion-bearer, Rath in kind.” And I said to him: “How art thou to be frustrated along with thy legions? What angel is it that frustrates thee?” And he answered: “If I tell thee the name, I bind not myself alone, but also the legions of demons under me.”
52. So I said to him: “I adjure thee in the name of the God Sabaoth, to tell me by what name thou art frustrated along with thy host.” And the spirit answered me: “The ‘Son of Man,’ who is to suffer many things at the hands of men, whose name is the figure 644, which is Emmanuel; he it is who has bound us, and who will then come and plunge us from the steep, under water. He is noised abroad in the three letters which bring him down.”
53. And I Solomon, on hearing this, glorified God, and condemned his legion to carry wood from the thicket. And I condemned the lion-shaped one himself to saw up the wood small with his teeth, for burning in the unquenchable furnace for the Temple of God.
54. And I worshipped the Lord God of Israel, and bade another demon come forward. And there came before me a dragon, three-headed, of fearful hue. And I questioned him: “Who art thou?” And he answered me: “I am a caltrop-like spirit, whose activity in three lies. But I blind children in women’s wombs, and twirl their ears round. And I make them deaf and mute. And I have again in my third head means of slipping into the body. And I smite men in the limbless part of the body, and cause them to fall down, and foam, and grind their teeth. But I have my own way of being frustrated. Jerusalem being signified in writing, unto the place called ‘of the head.” For there is fore-appointed the angel of the great counsel, and now he will openly dwell on the cross. He doth frustrate me, and to him am I subject.”
55. “But in the place where thou sittest, O King Solomon, standeth a column in the air, of purple…1 The demon called Ephippas hath brought it up from the Red Sea, from inner Arabia. He it is that shall be shut up in a skin-bottle and brought before thee. But at the entrance of the Temple, which thou hast begun to build, O King Solomon, lies stored much gold, which dig thou up and carry off.” And I Solomon sent my servant, and found it to be as the demon told me. And I sealed him with my ring, and praised the Lord God.”
56. So I said to him: “What art thou called?” And the demon said: “I am the crest of dragons.” And I bade him make bricks in the Temple. He had human hands.
57. And I adored the Lord God of Israel, and bade another demon present himself. And there came before me a spirit in woman’s form, that had a head without any limbs, and her hair was dishevelled. And I said to her: “Who art thou?” But she answered: “Nay, who art thou? And why dost thou want to hear concerning me? But, as thou wouldst learn, here I stand bound before thy face. Go then into thy royal storehouses and wash thy hands. Then sit down afresh before thy tribunal, and ask me questions; and thou shalt learn, O king, who I am.”
58. And I Solomon did as she enjoined me, and restrained myself because of the wisdom dwelling in me; in order that I might hear of her deeds, and reprehend them, and manifest them to men. And I sat down, and said to the demon: “What art thou?” And she said: “I am called among men Obizuth (This is Lilith self-identifying by one of her many names.); and by night I sleep not, but go my rounds over all the world, and visit women in childbirth. And divining the hour I take my stand; and if I am lucky, I strangle the child. But if not, I retire to another place. For I cannot for a single night retire unsuccessful. For I am a fierce spirit, of myriad names and many shapes. And now hither, now thither I roam. And to westering parts I go my rounds. But as it now is, though thou hast sealed me round with the ring of God, thou hast done nothing. I am not standing before thee, and thou wilt not be able to command me. For I have no work other than the destruction of children, and the making their ears to be deaf, and the working of evil to their eyes, and the binding their mouths with a bond, and the ruin of their minds, and paining of their bodies.”
59. When I Solomon heard this, I marvelled at her appearance, for I beheld all her body to be in darkness. But her glance was altogether bright and greeny, and her hair was tossed wildly like a dragon’s; and the whole of her limbs were invisible. And her voice was very clear as it came to me. And I cunningly said: “Tell me by what angel thou art frustrated, O evil spirit?” By she answered me: “By the angel of God called Afarôt, which is interpreted Raphael, by whom I am frustrated now and for all time. His name, if any man know it, and write the same on a woman in childbirth, then I shall not be able to enter her. Of this name the number is 640.” And I Solomon having heard this, and having glorified the Lord, ordered her hair to be bound, and that she should be hung up in front of the Temple of God; that all the children of Israel, as they passed, might see it, and glorify the Lord God of Israel, who had given me this authority, with wisdom and power from God, by means of this signet.
60. And I again ordered another demon to come before me. And it came, rolling itself along, one in appearance like to a dragon, but having the face and hands of a man. And all its limbs, except the feet, were those of a dragon; and it had wings on its back. And when I beheld it, I was astonished, and said: “Who art thou, demon, and what art thou called? And whence hast thou come? Tell me.”
61. And the spirit answered and said: “This is the first time I have stood before thee, O King Solomon. I am a spirit made into a god among men, but now brought to naught by the ring and wisdom given to thee by God. Now I am the so-called winged dragon, and I chamber not with many women, but only with a few that are of fair shape, which possess the name of Touxylou, of this star. And I pair with them in the guise of a spirit winged in form, copulating with them. And she on whom I have leapt goes heavy with child, and that which is born of her becomes filled with lust. But since such offspring cannot be carried by men, the woman in question breaks wind. Such is my role. Supposed then only that I am satisfied, and all the other demons molested and disturbed by thee will speak the whole truth. But those composed of fire will cause to be burned up by fire the material of the logs which is to be collected by them for the building in the Temple.”
62. And as the demon said this, I saw the spirit going forth from his mouth, and it consumed the wood of the frankincense-tree, and burned up all the logs which we had placed in the Temple of God. And I Solomon saw what the spirit had done, and I marvelled.
63. And, having glorified God, I asked the dragon-shaped demon, and said: “Tell me, by what angel art thou frustrated?” And he answered: “By the great angel which has its seat in the second heaven, which is called in Hebrew, Bazazeth. And I Solomon, having heard this, and having invoked his angel, condemned him to saw up marbles for the building of the Temple of God; and I praised God, and commanded another demon to come before me.
64. And there came before my face another spirit, as it were a woman in the form she had. But on her shoulders she had two other heads with hands. And I asked her, and said: “Tell me, who art thou?” And she said to me: “I am Enêpsigos, who also have a myriad names.” And I said her: “By what angel art thou frustrated?” But she said to me: “What seekest, what askest thou? I undergo changes, like the goddess I am called. And I change again, and pass into possession of another shape. And be not desirous therefore to know all that concerns me. But since thou art before me for this much, hearken. I have my abode in the moon, and for that reason I possess three forms. At times I am magically invoked by the wise as Kronos. At other times, in connexion with those who bring me down, I come down and appear in another shape. The measure of the element is inexplicable and indefinable, and not to be frustrated. I then, changing into these three forms, come down and become such as thou seest me; but I am frustrated by the angel Rathanael, who sits in the third heaven. This then is why I speak to thee. Yonder temple cannot contain me.”
65. I therefore Solomon prayed to my God, and I invoked the angel of whom Enépsigos spoke to me, and used my seal. And I sealed her with a triple chain, and (placed) beneath her the fastening of the chain. I used the seal of God, and the spirit prophesied to me, saying: “This is what thou, King Solomon, doest to us. But after a time thy kingdom shall be broken, and again in season this Temple shall be driven asunder; and all Jerusalem shall be undone by the King of the Persians and Medes and Chaldaeans. And the vessels of this Temple, which thou makest, shall be put to servile uses of the gods; and along with them all the jars, in which thou dost shut us up, shall be broken by the hands of men. And then we shall go forth in great power hither and thither, and be disseminated all over the world. And we shall lead astray the inhabited world for a long season, until the Son of God is stretched upon the cross. For never before doth arise a king like unto him, one frustrating us all, whose mother shall not have contact with man. Who else can receive such authority over spirits, except he, whom the first devil will seek to tempt, but will not prevail over? The number of his name is 644, which is Emmanuel. Wherefore, O King Solomon, thy time is evil, and thy years short and evil, and to thy servant shall thy kingdom be given.”
66. And I Solomon, having heard this, glorified God. And though I marvelled at the prophecy of the demon, I did not credit it until it came true. And I did not believe their words; but when they were realized, then I understood, and at my death I wrote this Testament to the children of Israel, and gave it to them, so that they might know the powers of the demons and their shapes, and the names of their angels, by which these angels are frustrated. And I glorified the Lord God of Israel, and commanded the spirits to be bound with bonds indissoluble.
67. And having praised God, I commanded another spirit to come before me; and there came before my face another demon, having in front the shape of a horse, but the behind of a fish. And he had a mighty voice, and said to me: “O King Solomon, I am a fierce spirit of the sea, and I am greedy of gold and silver. I am such a spirit as rounds itself and comes over the expanses of the water of the sea, and I trip up the men who sail thereon. For I round myself into a wave, and transform myself, and then throw myself on ships and come right in on them. And that is my business, and my way of getting hold of money and men. For I take the men, and whirl them round with myself, and hurl the men out of the sea. For I am not covetous of men’s bodies, but cast them up out of the sea so far. But since Beelzeboul, ruler of the spirits of air and of those under the earth, and lord of earthly ones, hath a joint kingship with us in respect of the deeds of each one of us, therefore I went up from the sea, to get a certain outlook in his company.
68. “But I also have another character and role. I metamorphose myself into waves, and come up from the sea. And I show myself to men, so that those on earth call me Cynospaston, because I assume the human form. And my name is a true one. For by my passage up into men, I send forth a certain nausea. I came then to take counsel with the prince Beelzeboul; and he bound me and delivered me into thy hands. And I am here before thee because of this seal, and thou dost now torment me. Behold now, in two or three days the spirit that converseth with thee will fail, because I shall have no water.”
69. And I said to him: “Tell me by what angel thou art frustrated.” And he answered: “By Iameth.” And I glorified God. I commanded the spirit to be thrown into a phial along with ten jugs of sea-water of two measures each. And I sealed them round above the marbles and asphalt and pitch in the mouth of the vessel. And having sealed it with my ring, I ordered it to be deposited in the Temple of God. And I ordered another spirit to come before me.
70. And there came before my face another enslaved spirit, having obscurely the form of a man, with gleaming eyes, and bearing in his hand a blade. And I asked: “Who art thou?” But he answered: “I am a lascivious spirit, engendered of a giant man who died in the massacre in the time of the giants.” I said to him: “Tell me what thou art employed upon earth, and where thou hast thy dwelling.”
71. And he said: “My dwelling is in fruitful places, but my procedure is this. I seat myself beside the men who pass along among the tombs, and in untimely season I assume the form of the dead; and if I catch any one, I at once destroy him with my sword. But if I cannot destroy him, I cause him to be possessed with a demon, and to devour his own flesh, and the hair to fall off his chin.” But I said to him: “Do thou then be in fear of the God of heaven and of earth, and tell me by what angel thou art frustrated.” And he answered: “He destroys me who is to become Saviour, a man whose number, if any one shall write it on his forehead, he will defeat me, and in fear I shall quickly retreat. And, indeed, if any one write this sign on him, I shall be in fear.” And I Solomon, on hearing this, and having glorified the Lord God, shut up this demon like the rest.
72. And I commanded another demon to come before me. And there came before my face thirty-six spirits, their heads shapeless like dogs, but in themselves they were human in form; with faces of asses, faces of oxen, and faces of birds. And I Solomon, on hearing and seeing them, wondered, and I asked them and said: “Who are you?” But they, of one accord with one voice, said1: “We are the thirty-six elements, the world-rulers of this darkness. (Eph. 6:12) But, O King Solomon, thou wilt not wrong us nor imprison us, nor lay command on us; but since the Lord God has given thee authority over every spirit, in the air, and on the earth, and under the earth, therefore do we also present ourselves before thee like the other spirits, from ram and bull, from both twin and crab, lion and virgin, scales and scorpion, archer, goat-horned, water-pourer, and fish.”
73. Then I Solomon invoked the name of the Lord Sabaoth, and questioned each in turn as to what was its character. And I bade each one come forward and tell of its actions. Then the first one came forward, and said: “I am the first decan of the zodiacal circle, and I am called the Ram, and with me are these two.” So I put to them the question: “Who are ye called?” The first said: “I, O Lord, am called Ruax, and I cause the heads of men to be idle, and I pillage their brows. But let me only hear the words, ‘Michael, imprison Ruax,’ and at once I retreat.”
74. And the second said: “I am called Barsafael, and I cause those who are subject to my hour to feel the pain of migraine. If only I hear the words, ‘Gabriel, imprison Barsafael,’ at once I retreat.
75. The third said: “I am called Arôtosael. I do harm to eyes, and grievously injure them. Only let me hear the words, ‘Uriel, imprison Aratosael’, and at once I retreat.”
76. The fifth said: “I am called Iudal, and I bring about a block in the ears and deafness of hearing. If I hear, ‘Uruel Iudal,’ I at once retreat.”
77. The sixth said: “I am called Sphendonaêl. I cause tumors of the parotid gland, and inflammations of the tonsils, and tetanic recurvation. If I hear, ‘Sabrael, imprison Sphendonaêl,’ at once I retreat.”
78. And the seventh said: “I am called Sphandôr, and I weaken the strength of the shoulders, and cause them to tremble; and I paralyze the nerves of the hands, and I break and bruise the bones of the neck. And I, I suck out the marrow. But if I hear the words, ‘Araêl, imprison Sphandôr,’ I at once retreat.”
79. And the eighth said: “I am called Belbel. I distort the hearts and minds of men. If I hear the words, ‘Araêl, imprison Belbel,’ I at once retreat.”
80. And the ninth said: “I am called Kurtaêl. I send colics in the bowels. I induce pains. If I hear the words, ‘Iaôth, imprison Kurtaêl,’ I at once retreat.”
81. The tenth said: “I am called Metathiax. I cause the reins to ache. If I hear the words, ‘Adônaêl, imprison Metathiax,’ I at once retreat.”
82. The eleventh said: “I am called Katanikotaêl. I create strife and wrongs in men’s homes, and send on them hard tempers. If any one would be at peace in his home, let him write on seven leaves of laurel the name of the angel that frustrates me, along with these names: Iae, Ieô, sons of Sabaôth, in the name of the great God let him shut up Katanikotaêl. Then let him wash the laurel-leaves in water, and sprinkle his house with the water, from within to the outside. And at once I retreat.”
83. The twelfth said: “I am called Saphathoraél, and I inspire partisanship in men, and delight in causing them to stumble. If any one will write on paper these names of angels, Iacô, Iealô, Iôelet, Sabaôth, Ithoth, Bae, and having folded it up; wear it round his neck or against his ear, I at once retreat and dissipate the drunken fit.”
84. The thirteenth said: “I am called Bobêl, and I cause nervous illness by my assaults. If I hear the name of the great ‘Adonaêl, imprison Bothothêl,’ I at once retreat.”
85. The fourteenth said: “I am called Kumeatêl, and I inflict shivering fits and torpor. If only I hear the words: ‘Zôrôêl, imprison Kumentaêl,’ I at once retreat.”
86. The fifteenth said: “I am called Roêlêd. I cause cold and frost and pain in the stomach. Let me only hear the words: ‘Iax, bide not, be not warmed, for Solomon is fairer than eleven fathers,’ I at once retreat.”
87. The sixteenth said: “I am called Atrax. I inflict upon men fevers, irremediable and harmful. If you would imprison me, chop up coriander and smear it on the lips, reciting the following charm: ‘The fever which is from dirt. I exorcise thee by the throne of the most high God, retreat from dirt and retreat from the creature fashioned by God.’ And at once I retreat.”
88. The seventeenth said: “I am called Ieropaêl. On the stomach of men I sit, and cause convulsions in the bath and in the road; and wherever I be found, or find a man, I throw him down. But if any one will say to the afflicted into their ear these names, three times over, into the right ear: ‘Iudarizê, Sabunê, Denôê,’ I at once retreat.”
89. The eighteenth said: “I am called Buldumêch . I separate wife from husband and bring about a grudge between them. If any one write down the names of thy sires, Solomon, on paper and place it in the ante-chamber of his house, I retreat thence. And the legend written shall be as follows: 'The God of Abram, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob commands thee -- retire from this house in peace.' And I at once retire."
90. The nineteenth said: “I am called Naôth, and I take my seat on the knees of men. If any one write on paper: ‘Phnunoboêol, depart Nathath, and touch thou not the neck,’ I at once retreat.”
91. The twentieth said: “I am called Marderô. I send on men incurable fever. If any one write on the leaf of a book: ‘Sphênêr, Rafael, retire, drag me not about, flay me not,’ and tie it round his neck, I at once retreat.”
92. The twenty-first said: “I am called Alath, and I cause coughing and hard-breathing in children. If any one write on paper: ‘Rorêx, do thou pursue Alath,’ and fasten it round his neck, I at once retire.”
93. The twenty-third said: “I am called Nefthada. I cause the reins to ache, and I bring about dysury. If any one write on a plate of tin the words: ‘Iathôth, Uruêl, Nephthada,’ and fasten it round the loins, I at once retreat.”
94. The twenty-fourth said: “I am called Akton. I cause ribs and lumbar muscles to ache. If one engrave on copper material, taken from a ship which has missed its anchorage, this: ‘Marmaraôth, Sabaôth, pursue Akton,’ and fasten it round the loin, I at once retreat.”
95. The twenty-fifth said: “I am called Anatreth, and I rend burnings and fevers into the entrails. But if I hear: ‘Arara, Charara,’ instantly do I retreat.”
96. The twenty-sixth said: “I am called Enenuth. I steal away men’s minds, and change their hearts, and make a man toothless. If one write: ‘Allazoôl, pursue Enenuth,’ and tie the paper round him, I at once retreat.”
97. The twenty-seventh said: “I am called Phêth. I make men consumptive and cause hemorrhagia. If one exorcise me in wine, sweet-smelling and unmixed by the eleventh aeon, and say: ‘I exorcise thee by the eleventh aeon to stop, I demand, Phêth (Axiôphêth),’ then give it to the patient to drink I at once retreat.”
98. The twenty-eighth said: “I am called Harpax, and I send sleeplessness on men. If one write ‘Kokphnêdismos,’ and bind it round the temples, I at once retire.”
99. The twenty-ninth said: “I am called Anostêr. I engender uterine mania and pains in the bladder. If one powder into pure oil three seeds of laurel and smear it on, saying: ‘I exorcise thee, Anostêr. Stop by Marmaraô,’ at once I retreat.”
100. The thirtieth said: “I am called Alleborith. If in eating fish one has swallowed a bone, then he must take a bone from the fish and cough, and at once I retreat.”
101. The thirty-first said: “I am called Hephesimireth, and cause lingering disease. If you throw salt, rubbed in the hand, into oil and smear it on the patient, saying: ‘Seraphim, Cherubim, help me!’ I at once retire.”
102. The thirty-second said: “I am called Ichthion. I paralyze muscles and contuse them. If I hear ‘Adonaêth, help!’ I at once retire.”
103. The thirty-third said: “I am called Agchoniôn. I lie among swaddling-clothes and in the precipice. And if any one write on fig-leaves ‘Lycurgos,’ taking away one letter at a time, and write it, reversing the letters, I retire at once. ‘Lycurgos, Ycurgos, Kurgos, Yrgos, Gos, Os.’”
104. The thirty-fourth said: “I am called Autothith. I cause grudges and fighting. Therefore I am frustrated by Alpha and Omega, if written down.”
105. The thirty-fifth said: “I am called Phthenoth. I cast evil eyes on every man. Therefore, the drawing of the eye causes me much suffering, it frustrates me.”
106. The thirty-sixth said: “I am called Bianakith. I have a grudge against the body. I lay waste to houses, I cause flesh to decay and all else that is similar. If a man write on the front-door of his house: ‘Mêltô, Ardu, Anaath,’ I flee from that place.”
107. And I Solomon, when I heard this, glorified the God of heaven and earth. And I commanded them to fetch water in the Temple of God. And I furthermore prayed to the Lord God to cause the demons without, that hamper humanity, to be bound and made to approach the Temple of God. Some of these demons I condemned to do the heavy work of the construction of the Temple of God. Others I shut up in prisons. Others I ordered to wrestle with fire in the making of gold and silver, sitting down by lead and spoon. And to make ready places for the other demons in which they should be confined.
108. And I Solomon had much quiet in all the earth, and spent my life in profound peace, honored by all men and by all under heaven. And I built the entire Temple of the Lord God. And my kingdom was prosperous, and my army was with me. And for the rest, the city of Jerusalem had repose, rejoicing and delighted. And all the kings of the earth came to me from the ends of the earth to behold the Temple which I built unto the Lord God. And having heard of the wisdom given to me, they paid homage to me in the Temple, bringing gold and silver and precious stones, many and divers, and bronze, and iron, and lead, and cedar logs. And woods that decay not they brought me, for the equipment of the Temple of God.
109. And among them also the queen of the South, being a witch, came in great concern and bowed low before me to the earth. And having heard my wisdom, she glorified the God of Israel, and she made formal trial of all my wisdom, of all disciplines in which I instructed her, according to the wisdom imparted to me. And all the sons of Israel glorified God.
110. And behold, in those days one of the workmen, of ripe old age, threw himself down before me, and said: “King Solomon, pity me, because I am old.” So I bade him stand up, and said: “Tell me, old man, all you will.” And he answered: “I beseech you king, I have an only-born son, and he insults and beats me openly, and plucks out the hair of my head, and threatens me with a painful death. Therefore I beseech you avenge me.”
111. And I Solomon, on hearing this, felt compunction as I looked at his old age; and I bade the child be brought to me. And when he was brought I questioned him whether it were true. And the youth said: “I was not so filled with madness as to strike my father with my hand. Be kind to me, O king. For I have not dared to commit such impiety, poor wretch that I am.” But I Solomon on hearing this from the youth, exhorted the old man to reflect on the matter, and accept his son’s apology. However, he would not, but said he would rather let him die. And as the old man would not yield, I was about to pronounce sentence on the youth, when I saw Ornias the demon laughing. I was very angry at the demon’s laughing in my presence; and I ordered my men to remove the other parties, and bring forward Ornias before my tribunal. And when he was brought before me, I said to him: “Accursed one, why didst thou look at me and laugh?” And the demon answered: “Prithee, king, it was not because of thee I laughed, but because of this ill-starred old man and the wretched youth, his son. For after three days his son will die untimely; and lo, the old man desires to foully make away with him.”
112. But I Solomon, having heard this, said to the demon: “Is that true that thou speakest?” And he answered: “It is true; O king.” And I, on hearing that, bade them remove the demon, and that they should again bring before me the old man with his son. I bade them make friends with one another again, and I supplied them with food. And then I told the old man after three days to bring his son again to me here; “and,” said I, “I will attend to him.” And they saluted me, and went their way.
113. And when they were gone I ordered Ornias to be brought forward, and said to him: “Tell me how you know this!” and he answered: “We demons ascend into the firmament of heaven, and fly about among the stars. And we hear the sentences which go forth upon the souls of men, and forthwith we come, and whether by force of influence, or by fire, or by sword, or by some accident, we veil our act of destruction; and if a man does not die by some untimely disaster or by violence, then we demons transform ourselves in such a way as to appear to men and be worshipped in our human nature.”
114. I therefore, having heard this, glorified the Lord God, and again I questioned the demon, saying: “Tell me how ye can ascend into heaven, being demons, and amidst the stars and holy angels intermingle.” And he answered: “Just as things are fulfilled in heaven, so also on earth they are fulfilled the types of all of them. For there are principalities, authorities, world-rulers, and we demons fly about in the air; and we hear the voices of the heavenly beings, and survey all the powers. And as having no ground (basis) on which to alight and rest, we lose strength and fall off like leaves from trees. And men seeing us imagine that the stars are falling from heaven. But it is not really so, O king; but we fall because of our weakness, and because we have nowhere anything to lay hold of; and so we fall down like lightnings in the depth of night and suddenly. And we set cities in flames and fire the fields. For the stars have firm foundations in the heavens like the sun and the moon.”
115. And I Solomon, having heard this, ordered the demon to be guarded for five days. And after the five days I recalled the old man, and was about to question him. But he came to me in grief and with black face. And I said to him: “Tell me, old man, where is thy son? And what means this garb?” And he answered: “Lo, I am become childless and sit by my son’s grave in despair. For it is already two days that he is dead.” But I Solomon, on hearing that, and knowing that the demon Ornias had told me the truth, glorified the God of Israel.
116. And the queen of the South saw all this, and marvelled by glorifying the God of Israel; and she beheld the Temple of the Lord being built. And she gave a shekel of gold and one hundred myriads of silver and choice bronze, and she went into the Temple. And she beheld the altar of incense and the brazen supports of this altar, and the gems of the lamps flashing forth of different colors, and of the lamp-stand of stone, and of emerald, and hyacinth, and sapphire; and she beheld the vessels of gold, and silver, and bronze, and wood, and the folds of skins dyed red with madder. And she saw the bases of the pillars of the Temple of the Lord. All were of one gold (Manuscript too badly damaged to read) apart from the demons whom I condemned to labor thereon. And there was peace in the circle of my kingdom and over all the earth.
117. And it came to pass, which I was in my kingdom, the King of the Arabians, Adares, sent me a letter, and the writing of the letter was written as follows:
“To King Solomon, all hail! Lo, we have heard, and it hath been heard unto all the ends of the earth, concerning the wisdom entrusted in thee, and that thou art a man merciful from the Lord. And understanding hath been granted thee over all the spirits of the air, and on earth, and under the earth. Now, forasmuch as there is present in the land of Arabia a spirit of the following kind: at early dawn there begins to blow a certain wind until the third hour. And its blast is harsh and terrible, and it slays man and beast. And no spirit can live upon earth against this demon. I pray thee then, forasmuch as the spirit is a wind, contrive something according to the wisdom given in thee by the Lord thy God, and deign to send a man able to capture it. And behold, King Solomon, I and my people and all my land will serve thee unto death. And all Arabia shall be at peace with thee, if thou wilt perform this act of righteousness for us. Wherefore we pray thee, condemn not our humble prayer, and suffer not to be utterly brought to naught the eparchy subordinated to thy authority. Because we are suppliants, both I and my people and all my land. Farewell to my Lord. All health!”
118. And I Solomon read this epistle; and I folded it up and gave it to my people, and said to them: “After seven days shalt thou remind me of this epistle. And Jerusalem was built, and the Temple was being completed. And there was a stone, the end stone of the corner lying there, great, chosen out, one which I desired lay in the head of the corner of the completion of the Temple. And all the workmen, and all the demons helping them came to the same place to bring up the stone and lay it on the pinnacle of the holy Temple, and were not strong enough to stir it, and lay it upon the corner allotted to it. For that stone was exceedingly great and useful for the corner of the Temple.”
119. And after seven days, being reminded of the epistle of Adares, King of Arabia, I called my servant and said to him: “Order thy camel and take for thyself a leather flask, and take also this seal. And go away into Arabia to the place in which the evil spirit blows; and there take the flask, and the signet-ring in front of the mouth of the flask, and hold them together towards the blast of the spirit. And when the flask is blown out, thou wilt understand that the demon is in it. Then hastily tie up the mouth of the flask, and seal it securely with the seal-ring, and lay it carefully on the camel and bring it me hither. And if on the way it offer thee gold or silver or treasure in return for letting it go, see that thou be not persuaded. But arrange without using oath to release it. And then if it point out to the places where are gold or silver, mark the places and seal them with this seal. And bring the demon to me. And now depart, and fare thee well.”
120. Then the youth did as was bidden him. And he ordered his camel, and laid on it a flask, and set off into Arabia. And the men of that region would not believe that he would be able to catch the evil spirit. And when it was dawn, the servant stood before the spirit’s blast, and laid the flask on the ground, and the finger-ring on the mouth of the flask. And the demon blew through the middle of the finger-ring into the mouth of the flask, and going in blew out the flask. But the man promptly stood up to it and drew tight with his hand the mouth of the flask, in the name of the Lord God of Sabaôth. And the demon remained within the flask. And after that the youth remained in that land three days to make trial. And the spirit no longer blew against that city. And all the Arabs knew that he had safely shut in the spirit.
121. Then the youth fastened the flask on the camel, and the Arabs sent him forth on his way with much honor and precious gifts, praising and magnifying the God of Israel. But the youth brought in the bag and laid it in the middle of the Temple. And on the next day, I King Solomon, went into the Temple of God and sat in deep distress about the stone of the end of the corner. And when I entered the Temple, the flask stood up and walked around some seven steps and then fell on its mouth and paid homage to me. And I marvelled that even along with the bottle the demon still had power and could walk about; and I commanded it to stand up. And the flask stood up, and stood on its feet all blown out. And I questioned him, saying: “Tell me, who art thou?” And the spirit within said: “I am the demon called Ephippas, that is in Arabia.” And I said to him: “Is this thy name?” And he answered: “Yes; wheresoever I will, I alight and set fire and do to death.”
122. And I said to him: “By what angel art thou frustrated?” And he answered: “By the only-ruling God, that hath authority over me even to be heard. He that is to be born of a virgin and crucified by the Jews on a cross. Whom the angels and archangels worship. He doth frustrate me, and enfeeble me of my great strength, which has been given me by my father Satan.” And I said to him: “What canst thou do?’‘ And he answered: “I am able to remove mountains, to overthrow the oaths of kings. I wither trees and make their leaves fall off.” And I said to him: “Canst thou raise this stone, and lay it for the beginning of this corner which exists in the fair plan of the Temple?” And he said: “Not only raise this, O king; but also, with the help of the demon who presides over the Red Sea, I will bring up the pillar of air, and will stand it where thou wilt in Jerusalem.”
123. Saying this, I laid stress on him, and the flask became as if depleted of air. And I placed it under the stone, and the spirit girded himself up, and lifted it up top of the flask. And the flask went up the steps, carrying the stone, and laid it down at the end of the entrance of the Temple. And I Solomon, beholding the stone raised aloft and placed on a foundation, said: “Truly the Scripture is fulfilled, which says: ‘The stone which the builders rejected on trial, that same is become the head of the corner.’ For this it is not mine to grant, but God’s, that the demon should be strong enough to lift up so great a stone and deposit it in the place I wished.”
124. And Ephippas led the demon of the Red Sea with the column. And they both took the column and raised it aloft from the earth. And I outwitted these two spirits, so that they could not shake the entire earth in a moment of time. And then I sealed round with my signet ring on this side and that, and said: “Watch!” And the spirits have remained upholding it until this day, for proof of the wisdom entrusted unto me. And there the pillar was hanging of enormous size, in mid air, supported by the winds. And thus the spirits appeared underneath, like air, supporting it. And if one looks fixedly, the pillar is a little oblique, being supported by the spirits; and it is so to day.
125. And I Solomon questioned the other spirit which came up with the pillar from the depth of the Red Sea. And I said to him: “Who art thou, and what calls thee? And what is thy business? For I hear many things about thee.” And the demon answered: “I, O King Solomon, am called Abezithibod . I am a descendant of the archangel. Once as I sat in the first heaven, of which the name is Ameleouth -- I then am a fierce spirit and winged, and with a single wing, plotting against every spirit under heaven. I was present when Moses went in before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and I hardened his heart. I am he whom Iannes and Iambres invoked homing with Moses in Egypt. I am he who fought against Moses with wonders with signs."
126. I said therefore to him: “How wast thou found in the Red Sea?” And he answered: “In the exodus of the sons of Israel I hardened the heart of Pharaoh. And I excited his heart and that of his ministers. And I caused them to pursue after the children of Israel. And Pharaoh followed with me and all the Egyptians. Then I was present there, and we followed together. And we all came up upon the Red Sea. And it came to pass when the children of Israel had crossed over, the water returned and crushed all the host of the Egyptians and all their might. And I remained in the sea, being kept under this pillar. But when Ephippas came, being sent by thee, shut up in the vessel of a flask, he fetched me up to thee.”
127. I, therefore, Solomon, having heard this, glorified God and adjured the demons not to disobey me, but to remain supporting the pillar. And they both swore an oath, saying: “As the Lord thy God liveth, we will not let go this pillar until the world’s end. But on whatever day this stone fall, then shall be the beginning of the end of the world.”
128. And I Solomon glorified God, and adorned the Temple of the Lord with all fair-seeming. And I was glad in spirit in my kingdom, and there was peace in my days. And I took wives of my own from every land, who were numberless. And I marched against the Jebusaeans, and there I saw a Jebusaean, daughter of a man: and fell violently in love with her, and desired to take her to wife along with my other wives. And I said to their priests: “Give me the Sonmanites (i.e. Shunammite) to wife.” (Song of Solomon 6:13) But the priests of Moloch said to me: “If thou lovest this maiden, go in and worship our gods, the great god Raphan and the god called Moloch.” I therefore was in fear of the glory of God, and did not follow to worship. And I said to them: “I will not worship a demon. What is this proposal, that ye compel me to do so much?” But they said: “It is to be done according to our fathers.”
129. And when I answered that I would on no account worship demons, they told the maiden not to sleep with me until I complied and sacrificed to their gods. I then was moved, but crafty Eros brought and laid by her for me five grasshoppers, saying: “Take these grasshoppers, and crush them together in the name of the god Moloch; and then will I sleep with you.” And this I did. And at once the Spirit of God departed from me, and I became weak as well as foolish in my words. And after that I was obliged by her to build a temple of idols to Baal, and to Rapha, and to Moloch, and to the other demons.
130. I then, wretch that I am, followed her advice, and the glory of God departed from me; and my spirit was darkened, and I became the sport of idols and demons. Wherefore I wrote out this Testament, that ye who get possession of it may pity, and attend to the last things, and not to the first. So that ye may find grace for ever and ever. Amen.
CLOSING STATEMENTS / ANALYSIS
The Testament of Solomon is important for several reasons. Primarily because it deals with the spirits of the fallen giants. You see, since the giants were born of the fallen angels through women, their spirits were different to that of men. They, unlike mankind, doesn’t go to the grave in rest awaiting a resurrection and judgment. They can roam the earth as they wish or until they are imprisoned by God. In this testament did Solomon encounter the spirits of the giants which further amplifies the existence of their fallen nature. That, even after the death of the giants, they still lived through other bodies and forms.
With a clear hatred of mankind, as was demonstrated during their fleshly lives, so too do they continue carrying out their vengeance upon mankind after their fleshly bodies expired. Not being confined to flesh, but able to inhabit flesh, and any form of matter – became their existence after their deaths. Disembodied spirits they would become. As you’ve read, Solomon summoned them to come before him. After Solomon’s death, despite his very noble attempt to seal up the vessels containing the demons (spirits of the giants), did a group of nine knights find them. The Knights of the Templar, or Knights of the Temple Mount. They named themselves this because they excavated Solomon’s temple for nearly a decade before they finally found what they were looking for: Solomon’s ring, and the vessels he had sealed up the demons in.
After the knights had returned to Europe with their finds did the Catholic church honor them and give them riches beyond belief. They invented the modern day checking system and began bank rolling anyone they could. They black mailed several lords with threats of demonic activity, and even sometimes delivered on their promises. This of course didn’t go unnoticed and eventually the Catholic church had them burned at the stake for consorting with the devil. Many of them died on Friday the 13th but not all of them were slaughtered. The ones who escaped would later form Freemasonry and the Illuminati. And so the book goes, you may be through with the past but the past isn’t through with you.
External References to Enoch
Genesis 4:17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
Genesis 4:18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
Genesis 5:18 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
Genesis 5:19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
Genesis 5:22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
Genesis 5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Luke 3:37 Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan,
Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
Jude 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
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Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Enoch 4:5 And it came to pass after this that my spirit was translated and it ascended into the heavens I saw the holy sons of God.
Enoch 4:10 And he translated my spirit into the heaven of heavens and I saw there as it were a structure built of crystals and between those crystals tongues of living fire.
BOOK OF JUBILEES
Jubilees 1:15 And in the second week of the tenth jubilee of Maleleel took unto him a wife Dinah, the daughter of Barakel, the daughter of his brother’s brother and she bore him a son in the sixth year and he called his name Jared for in his days the angels of the Lord descended on the earth, those so named the Watchers. – (This verse seems to foreshadow the life and times of Enoch considering Jared was his earthly father.)
Jubilees 1:22 And he testified to the Watchers, who had sinned with the daughters of men; for these had begun to unite themselves, so as to be defiled, with the daughters of men, and Enoch testified against them all.
Jubilees 10:17 And in his life on earth he excelled the children of men save Enoch because of the righteousness, wherein he was perfect. For Enoch’s office was ordained for a testimony to the generations of the world, so that he should recount all the deeds of generation unto generation, till the Day of Judgment.
Jubilees 19:24 And in his seed shall my name be blessed, and the name of my fathers, Shem, and Noab, and Enoch, and Mahalalel, and Enos, and Seth, and Adam.
Jubilees 19:25 And these shall serve to lay the foundations of the heaven, and to strengthen the earth, and to renew all the luminaries which are in the firmament.
Jubilees 19:27 Jacob, my beloved son, whom my soul loves, may YAHWEH bless you from above the firmament, and may He give you all the blessings wherewith He blessed Adam, and Enoch, and Noah, and Shem; and all the things of which He told me, and all the things which He promised to give me, may he cause to cleave to you and to your seed forever, according to the days of heaven above the earth.
Jubilees 21:10 And eat its meat on that day and on the second day, and let not the sun on the second day go down upon it till it is eaten, and let nothing be left over for the third day; for it is not acceptable and let it no longer be eaten, and all who eat thereof will bring sin upon themselves; for thus I have found it written in the books of my forefathers, and in the words of Enoch, and in the words of Noah.
Jubilees 38:8 And Simeon and Benjamin and Enoch, Reuben’s son, went forth on the west side of the tower, and fifty men with them, and they slew of Edom and of the Horites four hundred men, stout warriors; and six hundred fled, and four of the sons of Esau fled with them, and left their father lying slain, as he had fallen on the hill which is in ‘Aduram. (This Scripture is a spiritual symbolism of Elijah another righteous man whom God took up who will be witnesses to the whole world Revelations 11. Adding to this and what makes one draw this spiritual insight is that this verse is not talking about the same Enoch who wrote the Book of Enoch but rather Ruben’s son. If you make note of the same name use you may find that important when considering the Elijah and Elisha paradox…)
ENOCH & ELIJAH IN REVELATIONS
[_Although Enoch is not mentioned directly by name, nor is Elijah, these are the only two biblical characters who never died. The Bible is very specific in regarding its records of people dying. It makes mention of when these biblical patriarchs die over and over again. Going out of its way to record them and yet there is no record of Enoch or Elijah dying anywhere in the whole of the body of biblical knowledge. So, then we have in the last book of the Bible, Revelation at chapter 11 the appearance of two prophets wearing sack cloth. Biblical scholars and myself included believe these two men to be none other than Enoch and Elijah. What they do in Revelations fits with the lives they lived completely. See for yourself and test the Scriptures to find out if it’s Enoch and Elijah… The following is the chapter in question. Keep in mind, this happens in the future. _
Revelation 11 – King James Version (KJV)
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.
15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
16 And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,
17 Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.
18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
This eBook includes the complete book of Enoch which has been translated from the Ethiopic. The Book of Noah, Testament of Solomon, Book of Giants, and a few other extras are also included in this third ePUB edition. The introduction by David Chariot is perhaps the best short form explanation of the book for those who are familiar with the book and those who are just discovering it. Enoch has been logically organized into chapter/verse settings and canonized in this English version which will resemble the King James Version of the Scriptures. Additionally, an XML file has been included with archaeological evidence of fossilized giant humans found throughout the world. All known fragments of the Book of Giants has been included in this edition along with a listing of external references to Enoch in other manuscripts such as the Book of Jubilees and other Scriptures. This is a standardized reference material regarding the body of knowledge presented in the Book of Enoch.
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