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This is a great way to use up a stale loaf of bread, and is so much nicer than the shop bought version!
- 500g (1lb 2oz) stale, crusty white bread, torn into chunks
- 600ml (1pint) milk
- 200g (7oz) mixed raisins, currants, sultanas and peel
- Grated zest of 1 lemon
- 150g (6oz) demerara sugar
- 2 tsp ground mixed spice
- 2 eggs, beaten
- a 20cm deep square tin, buttered.
Place the bread in a large mixing bowl. Pour half the milk over the bread and leave to stand for at least 1 hour, preferably overnight.
Preheat the oven to 150°C, 130c fan, gas 2.
Stir the raisins, currants, lemon zest, 125g of the sugar, mixed spice, eggs and the remaining milk into the soaked bread. Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and level the surface.
Place in the oven and cook for 1 1/2 hours, or until golden and springy.
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Many living things undergo a process known as development
in which a single cell replicates and divides to form a multicellular organism
with various structures and functions that the original cell did not have.
You are one such organism, growing from a fertilized egg cell in your mother's
womb to the full-sized adult you are today. Along the way, your cells
changed from having features like the original fertilized egg to having
those of the developed cells that make up human tissues like nerve
and skin. This process is known as differentiation.
Plants are also multicellular organisms, and they too undergo this differentiation process. There are many similarities between the way plants and animals like yourself differentiate, and therefore, they make excellent creatures to study the cycle of growth and development.
You will be studying this cycle in a lab in the next few days, and to be ready for it, there are some ideas with which you need to be familiar. The following questions will help you do so.
1. What function does DNA play in all organisms?
2. How does fertilization occur in flowering plants and what does it produce?
3. Why is there identical DNA in all cells of the same plant (provided there are no mutations)?
4. What occurs during cellular differentiation?
5. Does a developing plant embryo undergo differentiation? Explain your answer.
6. What is germination?
7. Describe the physical appearance and function of the radicle and hypocotyl in germinating and sprouting seeds?
8. How can cells create tissues that have different morphology and physiology in spite of the fact that the DNA in all the cells in any organism are identical?
9. Make a labeled diagram of a young radicle and identify the regions where you think the most growth is taking place?
10. If respiration rate (consumption of O2/min/mg tissue) is directly related to rate of growth in a plant, what part of the radicle would have the highest respiration rate? Explain your answer.
11. Hormones play a critical role in the growth and development of plants as well as other organisms; what are the specific hormones that influence radicle development and what effect do they have?.
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dontwantaname wrote:You changed EVER word in that quote!
How the hell is that a quote????
Out, damn'd filt'r! out, I say!—One; two: why, then
'tis time to do't.—Hell is murky.—Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier, and
afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our
pow'r to post?—Yet who would have thought the old man to
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“No more unneeded convention centers, light-speed rail projects, and subsidized fishing stores.”
“More fighting ensues, and Jesse and Iris join the fray, and all seven of the speedsters knock down the much-faster Zoom before regrouping and taking off together at near light-speed.”
“The light-speed rate of change in the 60s, which Ballard cannily emphasised as technological and communications based, as opposed to more commonly referenced societal critiques, is expressed brilliantly by Paolozzi, who cleverly adds a sheen of psychedelic colour — the filter through which society saw, and dealt with, this technological future shock.”
“The light-speed notion is also partly the basis for Einstein's theory of gravity.”
“Of course it's not going to happen at light-speed but you can bet your bottom dollar it will happen, that's a give-in.”
“Then the programs will execute light-speed purchases of that company's stock without human intervention.”
“The chapter ends with an elegant example of the assertion that "nothing can travel faster than light" by describing a "nothing" that can indeed break the light-speed barrier.”
“Its light-speed velocity means its crew has hardly aged, however, and close confinement, coupled with a ship that keeps malfunctioning, has its slightly unhinged characters bickering across the great expanses of the universe.”
“After you've made your first jump beyond light-speed, everything else pales by comparison.”
“He worries his notes and tosses off light-speed trills.”
‘light-speed’ hasn't been added to any lists yet.
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties.
- n. The period of such conflict.
- n. The techniques and procedures of war; military science.
- n. A condition of active antagonism or contention: a war of words; a price war.
- n. A concerted effort or campaign to combat or put an end to something considered injurious: the war against acid rain.
- v. To wage or carry on warfare.
- v. To be in a state of hostility or rivalry; contend.
- idiom. at war In an active state of conflict or contention.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A contest beween nations or states (international war), or between parties in the same state (civil war), carried on by force of arms. International or public war is always understood to be authorized by the sovereign powers of the nations engaged in it; when it is carried into the territories of the antagonist it is called an aggressive or offensive war, and when carried on to resist such aggression it is called
defensive. Certain usages or rights of war have come to be generally recognized and defined under the name of the Laws of War, which in general (but subject to some humane restrictions which in recent times have been greatly increased) permit the destruction or capture of armed enemies, the destruction of property likely to be serviceablo to them, the stoppage of all their channels of traffic, and the appropriation of everything in an enemy's country necessary for the support and subsistence of the invading army. On the other hand, though an enemy may be starved into surrender, wounding, except in battle, mutilation, and all cruel and wanton devastation are contrary to the usages of war, as are also bombarding an unprotected town, the use of poison in any way, and torture to extort information from an enemy: but it is admitted that an enemy may be put to death for certain acts which are in themselves not criminal, and it may be even highly patriotic and praiseworthy, but are injurious to the invaders, such as firing on the invaders although not regularly enrolled in an organized military force, or seeking to impair the invaders' lines of communication.
- n. A state of active opposition, hostility, or contest: as, to be at war (that is, engaged in active hostilities).
- n. Any kind of contest or conflict; contention; strife: as, a wordy war.
- n. The profession of arms; the art of war.
- n. Forces; army. Compare battle.
- n. Warlike outfit.
- n. Specifically— In Roman history, the war between Sulla and Marius (commencing 88 b. c.) or that between Pompey and Cæsar (commencing 49 b. c.)
- n. In English history, the war of the great rebellion. See rebellion.
- n. In United States history, the war of secession. See secession.
- n. of 1828–9, ending in the defeat of Turkey;
- n. of 1853–6 (see Crimean);
- n. of 1877–8, between Russia and its allies (Rumania, etc.) and Turkey, resulting in the defeat of Turkey and the reconstruction of southeastern Europe.
- n. 343–341 b. c.
- n. 326–304 b. c.
- n. 298–290 b. c., ending in the triumph of Rome.
- To make or carry on war; carry on hostilities; fight.
- To contend; strive violently; be in a state of opposition.
- To make war upon; oppose, as in war; contend against.
- To carry on, as a contest.
- Same as worse.
- To defeat; worst.
- A Middle English form of ware.
- A Middle English form of were.
- n. uncountable Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually involving the engagement of military forces.
- n. countable A particular conflict of this kind.
- n. countable By extension, any conflict, or anything resembling a conflict.
- n. uncountable A particular card game for two players, notable for having its outcome predetermined by how the cards are dealt.
- v. intransitive To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).
- v. To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Ware; aware.
- n. A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.
- n. (Law) A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.
- n. Poetic Instruments of war.
- n. Poetic Forces; army.
- n. The profession of arms; the art of war.
- n. a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.
- v. To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.
- v. To contend; to strive violently; to fight.
- v. rare To make war upon; to fight.
- v. rare To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
- n. the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
- v. make or wage war
- n. an active struggle between competing entities
- n. a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious
- n. a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply
- From Middle English werre, from Late Old English werre, wyrre "armed conflict" from Old Northern French werre (compare Old French guerre, guerre, whence modern French guerre), from Frankish *werra (“riot, disturbance, quarrel”) from Proto-Germanic *werrō (“mixture, mix-up, confusion”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”). Akin to Old High German werra ("confusion, strife, quarrel") (German verwirren (“to confuse”)), Old Saxon werran ("to confuse, perplex"), Dutch war ("confusion, disarray"), Old English wyrsa, wiersa ("worse"), Old Norse verri ("worse") (originally "confounded, mixed up"). Compare Latin versus ("against, turned"), past participle of vertere ("turn, change, overthrow, destroy"). More at worse, wurst. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English warre, from Old North French werre, of Germanic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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“While the phrase The war to end war is often associated with Woodrow Wilson, its authorship was claimed by Wells in an article in Liberty, December 29, 1934, p. 4.”
“At the same time, if we have the choice of continued war or a cowardly peace -- _we vote for war_.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘war’.
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Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
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Dearest creature in creation,
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I'm posting this up in the hopes that I may glean some techniques on playing in certain keys a little better.
My favorite keys to play in are (in standard tuning) G, A (kind of, but not a whole lot), D, and E. I can sort of play in C a little bit, but I never really warmed up much to the sound of the conventional C major chord, though I do like playing the Fadd9, Gsus, Am7, and Badd9 a lot. It always seems kind of forced to me. I can play bar chords pretty well, but I've never liked them quite so much for playing in some of the keys like B and F. Of course, I normally would just use a capo to play these keys and also for any sharp or flat keys.
Does anyone have any tips on playing in some of these other keys? And what are your favorites? Does anyone use any of the "unconventional chords" to play in some of these other keys?
Share, share, share!!!!! (and if applicable, include diagrams for some of the chords you've come up with if you feel led) | <urn:uuid:6473f980-c13b-44fe-80f6-4011a26f1ecd> | 2013-05-24T02:05:19Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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|Message in a Bottle|
|Level||42 (Requires 42)|
Message in a Bottle is a quest in Stranglethorn Vale to find the author of a message.
Find the author of the message in a bottle.
The note reads, in fairly good handwriting:
To any that can aid me-
The stars at night are foreign to me and obscured by the jungle trees, but on the clearest days I see Wild Shore to the northwest, and what seem to be large sailing ships to the southwest.
I beg of you, my would-be savior, please help me.
- 3600 XP
Have you come to free me?
DetailsPrincess Poobah, a Tauren female on Jaguero Isle off the south-east coast of Stranglethorn Vale is the author of the message.
- Patch 1.3.0 (07-Mar-2005): Princess Poobah now waits for 60 seconds before despawning after the completion of the Message in a Bottle quest. | <urn:uuid:9df2c5a8-5787-4e5a-8be4-44430dc7cf2c> | 2013-05-24T01:38:21Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Achieving Quality the Final Piece of the Puzzle
Properly calibrated testing equipment ensures quality
In order for a business to generate a high-quality product or service, it is essential to obtain a quality measurement system that will be used to study the integrity of its finished product. In the certification industry, testing equipment is essential to measure the different variables that could potentially alter the quality of a raw material, finished product or final status on a certification report.
The quality of a product or service is compromised if the test equipment used to measure the final quality is not reading accurate results. This is why a flawless calibration system is the final puzzle piece to achieving a high-quality product or service.
What is Calibration?
In this article, calibration will be defined as the comparison between measurements. During the calibration of a test instrument, a device with a known magnitude or assigned correctness, known as a standard, will be used to check the measuring accuracy of a test instrument. Calibration ensures that a measuring instrument is providing results for a sample that fall in an acceptable accurate range. Accurate testing results allow manufacturers or certification agencies to eliminate or minimize factors that could cause inaccurate measurements during production or testing.
Calibration procedures naturally vary depending on the instrument being calibrated. Generally, the test instrument is used to test calibrators, which are one or more test samples that have known values. The results are then used to establish a relationship between the measurement instrument and the known values. The calibration processes eliminate or “zero out” the current instrument error at the specified calibration points. This process basically “teaches” the instrument to produce more accurate results. After a test instrument is calibrated, it will provide more accurate results for unknown values tested during its everyday normal usage. To keep a successful calibration system, calibrations must be done consistently and on a systematic schedule.
When is Calibration Needed?
During the manufacturing or certification process of any product, there may be many different types of test instruments used to determine the quality of a product or service. The question of which test instruments need to be calibrated and which do not is answered by whether or not the test performed and the test instrument used affect the final quality of the product or service.
There are situations in which a test instrument does not need to be calibrated. If the readings of the test instrument are for reference only, and the accuracy of the test results have little or no impact on the quality of the product or service being provided, then you do not need to calibrate the test instrument. It is important to be aware that non-calibrated instruments can appear to be working properly while not providing reliable results.
Sometimes cost is the main reason that people choose not to calibrate a test instrument. It is important to know that there can be huge hidden costs associated with not calibrating a test instrument that should be calibrated. Calibrating test instruments may decrease the number of final product rejects because they do not fall within acceptable tolerances. Besides saving money in some situations, there are health, safety, legal and regulatory concerns that should be considered.
Who Should Perform Calibrations?
Once it is determined which test instruments need to be calibrated, the next step is to determine who will perform these calibrations.
To be sure that the calibration results are accurate, they must be traceable back to standards held at a national measurement institute. In order to maintain formal traceability of measurements, the calibrations should be done by a national metrology institute or a United Kingdom Accreditation Service-accredited (or equivalent) laboratory that has independent third-party accreditation. National Physical Laboratory is an example of one of these national measurement institutes. It is also essential that the appropriate equipment and procedures are used in the calibration process and that trained, authorized personnel are performing the calibrations.
You can choose a non-accredited source to calibrate your equipment, and you can also choose to calibrate your equipment yourself, but keep in mind the confidence that can be placed on the results will be much greater if the calibration source is third-party accredited.
Frequency of Calibration
After you decide who will perform your calibrations, the next question is how frequently an instrument should be calibrated. Just like refueling your car, you should calibrate your test instrument when needed.
Daily or periodic standard checks can provide a good indication of how the test instrument is performing. If these checks show that the instrument performance is stable, then the instrument does not need to be recalibrated. If the history of standard checks show that the instrument is showing a short-term significant shift, then the test instrument should be recalibrated.
Some laboratory standard operating procedures or regulatory requirements may require that the test instrument be recalibrated on a set schedule even when the standard check results do not indicate that a recalibration is needed.
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Liability is an issue even for the best of writers (Part II)
Published: January 8, 2008
As Dorothy K. Fletcher wrote her novel The Cruelest Months, she worked in a motif that would speak to her subject. She came up with the idea of using an excerpt from a literary work to introduce each chapter. Her protagonist was a teacher, so each excerpt would be part of whatever the teacher was using for a particular class. Fletcher had to contact publishers in order to obtain permission for copyrighted works. Maya Angelou allowed the Florida author to use lines of poetry for free; all Angelou wanted was an attribution. But other publishers, like Toni Morrison's, wanted to be paid. "I started by contacting Morrison's publicist," Fletcher said, "and then the publicist forwarded the request to the publisher." For others, Fletcher contacted the publisher directly. Fletcher obtained permission to use 75 words from Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye for $35.
By doing her homework ahead of time, Fletcher saved herself possible headaches. If a writer is unsure what constitutes fair use of someone else's work, it pays to be safe rather than sorry. "If you have the time/opportunity to get permission to use some/all of someone else's work, get it," says attorney Aimee Bissonette. "That eliminates the copyright infringement risk entirely. Otherwise, use no more of the copyrighted work than you need to adequately report on your subject. Avoid using the key bit from the copyrighted work, even if it is only a small amount-think about the trouble the book reviewer got into when the reviewer disclosed a short, but key excerpt from former president Gerald Ford's memoir!"
Bissonette goes on to explain that fair use does allow you to use someone else's copyrighted work in limited instances without permission of the copyright owner. "In determining whether your use qualifies as fair use," Bissonette explains, "four factors must be evaluated." One of those factors is a top priority-your purpose or reason for using the work. "Non-profit, teaching and research uses are allowed more frequently than commercial uses," the attorney says.
The nature or characteristics of the work you want to use is another factor-the use of factual, historic or scientific works is favored over the use of fictional and other highly creative works. A third factor-the amount and/or substantiality of the portion you want to use-requires an evaluation of the quality and the quantity of the work you want to use. "Not a straight word count," Bissonette emphasizes. "Steer away from using large portions of a work or portions of the work that are considered key or central to the work."
Finally, consider the effect of your use of the work on the marketability or value of the work. "If your use negatively affects the sale or value of the work, it is not likely to be viewed as fair use," Bissonette notes, adding that applying these four factors can be difficult. "Unfortunately, copyright law does not provide hard and fast rules. The four factors are intentionally flexible so they can be applied to all different types of copyrighted works."
Other legal claims can arise, such as the issue of plagiarism when a writer is accused of taking credit for ideas or words written by someone else. Or a writer may face problems if someone's email, published or unpublished letters, papers or conversations are published without the subject's permission.
Copyright registration isn't required for the protection of a written work, although traditionally courts will not award damages for copyright infringement of a written work unless the work has been officially registered through the U. S. Copyright Office. Many writers who maintain a blog or Web site are satisfied with using the copyright symbol, a 'c' inside a circle, followed by the writer's name and the original year of publication. While this does satisfy the requirement for a visible symbol, only full registration with the government office will usually result in monetary damages being awarded if your own work is used without permission.
Journalists have the option of liability insurance as protection against copyright infringement and defamation. Publishers are increasingly writing into the contract a clause that leaves the writer holding the bag if a law is broken. It's up to each writer to determine the value of liability insurance, and whether the cost is justified.
As writers increasingly turn to the Web, and self-publishing becomes more acceptable, liability is an issue no writer can ignore. Taking pains to cover yourself from the beginning legally, as Fletcher did with her novel, can save what might be a great deal of pain later on.
Aimee Bissonette is a Minnesota lawyer, teacher and writer who works primarily in the areas of copyright, trademark and rights licensing. She currently is writing a book for Corwin Press on the legal issues associated with technology in K-12 schools. Web: Little Buffalo Law & Consulting.
Visit the U.S. Copyright Office for more information, and to file forms.
--Jan. 8, 2008
Anyone who's worked in a corporate environment knows the meaning of strategic planning. But it's a good tool for writers too. Read my next Web Savvy to learn how successful writers use Web resources to plan for the year ahead. | <urn:uuid:ccbbf3d5-c640-4d40-8387-efbf6b918a92> | 2013-05-24T01:45:33Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Charlottesville - UVa's Mike London wasn't kidding Tuesday when he said the Cavs would move quickly to find a new offensive coordinator. Wednesday, London announced the hiring of Steve Fairchild as new coordinator and quarterbacks coach.
Most recently Fairchild was the senior offensive assistant for the San Diego Chargers after four years as Colorado State head coach. Fairchild replaces Bill Lazor, who resigned his position with the Virginia football program to accept a coaching position in the National Football League. Lazor will be the new quarterbacks coach for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Fairchild boasts 31 years of coaching experience at both the NFL and collegiate levels, including 16 seasons as an offensive coordinator.
"Steve Fairchild brings a wealth of experience to Virginia and when you look at the offenses of the teams he has coached, you see high achievement," said London. "Throughout his career you find Steve was a part of coaching staffs that have had tremendous offensive success and we are really fortunate to have him join our staff.
"I am very excited to join the football program at the University of Virginia," said Fairchild. "I can't wait to get started. I'm excited about the type of football team we can have and anxious to get to Charlottesville and get to work."
Fairchild has worked with many dynamic players in college football and the NFL. He was a part of San Diego State's high-octane offenses that were highlighted by running back Marshall Faulk and quarterback Dan McGwire. During Fairchild's three seasons at San Diego State from 1990-92, the Aztecs enjoyed three straight top-10 finishes in NCAA scoring and total offense categories. Fairchild's first stint at San Diego State was for the 1986 season as the Aztecs' recruiting coordinator and tight ends coach, working with second-round NFL selection Rob Awalt. Fairchild also owns a stop at New Mexico as the offensive coordinator from 1987-89 where the Lobos ranked No. 8 in NCAA pass offense and No. 29 in total offense in 1989. Under Fairchild's guidance Terance Mathis became the first player to have more than 250 receptions, 4,000 receiving yards and 6,000 yards of total offense. | <urn:uuid:8571392f-b9aa-479b-b9d1-a689a23bb2ef> | 2013-05-24T01:31:58Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Twin suicide blasts strike Syrian army; 4 killed
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- Two suicide car bombers struck Syria's army command headquarters Wednesday in Damascus, killing four guards and engulfing a key symbol of President Bashar Assad's embattled regime in flames, state media and witnesses said.
The twin blasts were followed by several hours of gunbattles between rebel fighters and regime forces in downtown Damascus. A reporter for an Iranian TV channel was killed by gunfire near the clashes, and a correspondent for another Iranian station was wounded.
The brazen rebel attacks in the heart of the Syrian capital highlighted their determination to bring down Assad as the country's civil war intensifies. It was the second day of bombings to shake the capital.
A Damascus school that activists said was being used by regime forces as a security headquarters also was bombed on Tuesday, wounding several people.
Near Damascus, two activist groups monitoring casualties said several dozen bodies were found Wednesday in a single location.
Syria's unrest began in March 2011 when protests calling for political change met a violent government crackdown. Many in the opposition have since taken up arms, and activists say the fighting has killed nearly 30,000 people.
Over the past few months, the rebels have increasingly targeted security sites and symbols of regime power in a bid to turn the tide in the fighting.
The rebels' Free Syrian Army claimed responsibility for Wednesday's bombings.
The blasts went off about 10 minutes apart, starting around 7 a.m., near the landmark Omayyad Square, and were heard several miles (kilometers) away.
Syrian state TV aired what it said was security camera footage of the blasts. In the first, a white van is driving on the road outside the military headquarters, then veers to the right and explodes. The second blast goes off inside the compound, with flames rising from behind trees.
Later, the army command building is seen engulfed in flames that sent huge columns of thick black smoke over Damascus for several hours.
The explosions shattered the windows of the Dama Rose hotel and other nearby buildings, as well as windshields of parked cars. Footage by another state-run TV channel, Ikhbariya, showed heavy damage inside the compound, with glass shards scattered across the floor and broken ceiling tiles.
The blasts caused fear among residents of a nearby upscale district, which has largely been sheltered from the violence that plagues other parts of the city.
"What if a random bullet killed one of my kids?" Nada, a 42-year-old mother of three who only gave her first name out of security concerns, said, crying over the telephone. The windows of her apartment were shattered and her furniture was damaged. "I only care about my children and I'm afraid of the gunfire," she added.
Gaith, 63, a retired civil servant who also just gave one name for the same reason, said he rushed to lock the gate of his building to keep rebels from hiding inside. "I don't want my place to collapse on my head," he said.
A Syrian army statement said "terrorists" -- a term the regime routinely uses for the rebels -- in the area simultaneously opened fire randomly to scare people, adding that authorities were pursuing the gunmen.
Witnesses said the explosions were followed by heavy gunfire that stretched on for hours near Omayyad Square and around the military compound. One witness reported seeing panicked soldiers shooting in the air randomly as they ran.
A group of army soldiers standing outside the buildings shouted pro Assad slogans, including: "Shabiha, forever, for your eyes, Oh Assad!" in reference to pro-regime militiamen.
Information Minister Omran Zoubi played down the rebels' ability to strike the nerve center of the Assad regime's battle for survival.
"Everything is normal," he told Syrian TV, which is near the army command center, in a phone call. "There was a terrorist act, perhaps near a significant location, yes, this is true, but they failed as usual to achieve their goals."
Zoubi initially insisted there were no casualties. However, Syrian state TV later reported four army guards were killed and 14 people were wounded, including civilians and military personnel.
The Iranian English language Press TV said one of its correspondents, 33-year-old Maya Nasser, a Syrian national, died in an exchange of fire in the area following the blasts. Another journalist working for Iranian Al-Alam TV was wounded, according to the station.
Press TV said Nasser was shot and killed by a rebel sniper while reporting on air. The station's newsroom director Hamid Reza Emadi blamed Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar because they "provide weapons and militants to kill civilians, military personnel and journalists."
Iran is a supporter of the Syrian regime, while Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar back the rebels.
Damascus, the stronghold of the regime, has been targeted repeatedly by the rebels. Previous bombings raised concerns that the al-Qaida terror network is becoming increasingly active in Syria. Jebhat al-Nusra, an extremist Syrian group, claimed responsibility for many of them.
On July 18, rebels detonated a bomb inside a high-level crisis meeting in Damascus that killed four top regime officials, including Assad's brother-in-law and the defense minister. Other large blasts have targeted the headquarters of security agencies in the capital, killing scores of people this year.
In other developments Wednesday, two activist groups monitoring casualties said dozens of bodies were found in a southern Damascus suburb. The reports could not be independently confirmed because of strict restrictions on foreign media.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 40 bodies, including some of women and children, were found in the suburb of Thiyabiyeh. Rami Abdul-Rahman, the head of the Observatory, said he did not have details about how the victims were killed.
Another group of activists, the Local Coordination Committees, said 107 bodies were found, including women and children killed execution-style. It said the dead included nine members of the Al-Rifaie family whose throats were slit.
An amateur video, which could not be verified, showed the bodies of 18 men lined up on the floor of a room, some of them with marks of deep wounds.
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Time is running out for congressional Republicans and President Barack Obama to strike a deal to avert the fiscal cliff. If the two parties can't come to an agreement before the end of the year, a combination of broad tax hikes and deep government spending cuts take effect . Experts warn of a new recession if Washington goes over the fiscal cliff.
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RUSKIN, Florida (AP) - Fire officials are investigating a house fire in Ruskin that killed an elderly man.
Hillsborough County Fire Rescue identifies the victim as 81-year-old Filiberto Morquecho. He and his two roommates were home at the time of the early Sunday morning fire, but authorities say the two other men were able to get out when the fire started.
Morquecho's body was found inside the home.
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Detroit, MI (Sports Network) - The Detroit Tigers agreed to terms with pitcher
Anibal Sanchez on a five-year contract Monday.
The Tigers won an apparent bidding war with the Chicago Cubs to retain the
Reports last week indicated that Sanchez agreed to a deal worth $80 million.
Sanchez arrived in Detroit with second baseman Omar Infante in a July 23
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xmlsh is derived from a similar syntax as the unix shells (see Philosophy) . If you are familiar with any of these shell languages (sh,bash,ksh,zsh) you should be right at home. An attempt was made to stay very close to the sh syntax where reasonable, but not all subtlies or features of the unix shells are implemented. In order to accomidate native XML types and pipelines some deviations and extensions were necessary. Lastly, as an implementation issue, xmlsh is implemented in java using the javacc compiler for parsing. This made support for some of the syntax and features of the C based shells difficult or impossible. Future work may try to tighten up these issues.
xmlsh can run in 2 modes, interactive and batch. In interactive mode, a prompt ("$ ") is displayed and in batch mode there is no prompt. Otherwise they are identical. Running xmlsh with no arguments starts an interactive shell. Running with an argument runs in batch mode and invokes the given script.
You can run an xmlsh script by passing it as the first argument, followed by any script arguments
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The New York Yankees were the first team to begin regularly wearing uniform numbers. A tradition dating back to 1929.
Other teams before 1929 tried putting numbers on their
uniforms, but mostly on an experimental only basis, usually
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Is Real Madrid obtain the Spanish Football League championship?
Tag Archive: Obtain
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i want to know where will i obtain my coaching badges.
am daniel from ghana.
do i need to travel outside my country for these badges
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What are the requirements to obtain?
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Another Red Line Is Crossed
Another Red Line Is Crossed
There are four or five people in Gaza who now make up what is known as Hamas leadership. The liquidation of each one of them would ensure greater security, say government, IDF and Shin Bet officials. The liquidation of each one of them, says experience, also justifies the killing of people around him, including aides, bodyguards, relatives, neighbors, children, fellow worshipers. Based on the order to assassinate Ahmed Yassin only after he left the mosque, one may understand that the IDF is convinced it is making an effort to minimize collateral damage. Based on these calculations, the fact that seven men who did not deserve death were killed along with Yassin is evidently no great tragedy. Therefore, if we have five leaders deserving of death, then another 35, or 30, or maybe 48 or even 61 deaths, if you throw in the Islamic Jihad targets, too, evidently is no great tragedy either.
Between each of these targeted assassinations, there are also bound to be botched attempts. Several more people will be killed in these attempts "by mistake." How many? Will it be 14, or 22, including three children? The IDF Spokesman will underscore the danger posed by a deserving-of-death terrorist who managed to slip away, and will itemize the list of terrorist attacks he planned, executed, and will execute. And we'll forget about the wounded baby or the worker who was heading home from the market and was killed (not to mention the people killed at protest demonstrations).
You don't need intelligence reports to realize that as far as Hamas is concerned, Yassin's assassination can be considered a "mega-attack" that will elicit a response of commensurate magnitude. Almost certainly, they will not succeed at getting to a high-ranking Israeli, threats notwithstanding. Conceivably, their objective could be a particularly high number of Israeli civilian casualties, instead. Israeli intelligence efforts are now focusing on exposing attempts to avenge Yassin's blood. These intelligence efforts will generate a succession of new deserving-of-death terrorists. Ten men suspected of planning? Twenty worthy of targeted assassination? Just how many people around them is it permissible to kill or injure? Eighty? One hundred?
Sooner or later, the next reprisal terrorist attack will come. Eleven Israeli victims, or 19, dozens of wounded, harsh scenes from the hospital, suffering of the families - these will prove the murderousness of the Palestinians, who kill Jews simply for being Jews. And this terrorist attack, or the one after it, which we will not forget and not forgive, will make it okay to cross another red line. On Monday, they waited for Yassin to leave the mosque. Is the day far off when the helicopter crew obeys an order to launch a missile or bomb at the mosque itself? After which it will be explained: there were four deserving-of-death terrorists inside, each with four armed escorts, and, anyway, the imam there refers to Jews as monkeys and pigs.
And will the day arrive when an Israeli pilot fires a missile or bomb at a Palestinian mourning procession because marching in its two front rows are ranking members of Palestinian organizations, and right behind them are 30 armed masked men waving Kalashnikovs or Qassam launchers? Will that happen after or before the attack on a Jewish target abroad, which would take place after Hamas understands how hard it is, under conditions of a closure, to execute a local terrorist attack?
That is when the new Hamas leaders will sprout. The fact that the intelligence briefings have yet to include them does not mean they do not exist and are not prepared to take risks, be interviewed on television, and become targets of Israeli assassinations. Will this raise the number of those not-deserving-death in their environs that it is permissible to kill to, say, 100? In response to two Palestinian suicide bombings that will snuff out the lives of 30 Israelis, or 50, and another 45 attacks in preparation and three that were foiled, would the payment of 1,000 Palestinians killed be considered a suitable, logical, acceptable tax?
Israel's military and technological superiority is obvious to every Hamas activist in the Gaza Strip who swears to take revenge. The thousands who are prepared to commit suicide are well aware that they have nil chance of getting out of the Gaza Strip, and that most of them will be killed before managing to reach a nearby settlement. In Israel, military superiority was once presented as a precondition for any diplomatic settlement. But in effect it is the substitute that makes any diplomatic settlement superfluous.
Consciously or not, this superiority is hidden from the eyes of the average Israeli, who welcomes the assassination of Yassin, but is scared to death of the next terrorist attack. For many, this personal fear is translated into the deceptive sense that Israel itself faces existential threat. The Israeli government seemingly cultivates this fear of existential threat. Therefore, this personal fear is an important factor in the ability of the Israeli military-intelligence-settlement elite, which is aware of its superiority, to cross another red line. It knows it has the backing of a majority of the Israeli public, which is convinced that this time, but really this time, the targeted assassination will bring us closer to a respite and to Palestinian surrender. | <urn:uuid:e32e74ab-36dc-470c-bb7e-94dd797cd667> | 2013-05-24T01:54:36Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Parpolity and Indirect Elections
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications]
What sorts of decision-making institutions and practices would be appropriate for a good society?
In several essays, I have argued that that the main traditional answers to this question are seriously deficient in one respect or another, and that we need an alternative, one which I called parpolity.
The most widely endorsed political system is representative democracy, a system whereby people vote for other people -- representatives -- who rule in their names. Representative democracy has several important flaws.
First, it treats politics as strictly instrumental -- that is, as a means to an end, instead of a value in its own right. But political participation is intrinsically worthwhile: it gives people the experience of controlling their own lives. The more that the task of thinking about how we can collectively manage our lives is delegated to others, the less knowledgeable we become regarding our society, the less we determine our own destinies, and the weaker become our ties of solidarity to our fellow citizens.
A second problem with representative democracy is that representatives for many reasons don't in fact represent their constituents. Representatives say one thing to get elected and then change their positions once in office. They have no real connection to the hundreds of thousands of people they represent. Their different life circumstances lead them to develop different interests from those of their constituents.
We could, of course, "mandate" representatives -- that is, require them by law to to keep their campaign promises. But what happens when circumstances change? Surely, we don't want representatives to be compelled to carry out policies that new developments have made inappropriate or even harmful? Alternatively, we could mandate all representatives to follow the evolving wishes of their constituents as reflected in public opinion polls. But if we do this, then the representatives are rendered technically irrelevant. There is no need for representatives to study or debate the issues because it doesn't matter what they think. All that matters is that they vote according to their constituents' stated wishes. Mandated representatives could simply be replaced by a computer that compiles the opinions of the people and then votes accordingly. But this is really nothing more than a system of direct (referendum) democracy. So if representatives are mandated, they are irrelevant, and if they are not mandated then they will often not be truly representative of their constituents.
Advocates of representative democracy do make some legitimate arguments, however. They claim that it would take too much time for everyone to decide everything. This point is often exaggerated -- people's tolerance for meetings, for example, cannot be judged by their reaction to meaningless meetings today where they have no real power; nevertheless, it is true that not everyone has, or ever will have, unlimited time or enthusiasm for politics.
A second argument on behalf of representative democracy is that representative legislatures are deliberative bodies that debate and negotiate complex resolutions that fairly capture the essence of an issue, whereas the citizenry as a whole would be incapable of such fine tuning. They have to vote a ballot question up or down; they can't reword or amend, even though we know that the precise wording of a ballot question can often skew the results. This is a valid point, one which any alternative to representative democracy needs to take account of.
Direct democracy is an alternative to representative democracy. Under direct democracy people make decisions themselves rather than choosing others to do it for them. There are several variants of direct democracy. One of these is referendum democracy, where every issue is put to the population as a whole. In the past such an approach was simply impossible: there was no mechanism for allowing large numbers of people to cast ballots on a nearly daily basis. But modern technology makes this possible on a vast scale. People could use the internet first to access as much background information as they wanted and then to vote on their preferred options.
But even if technically possible, would we really want to spend all this time exhaustively studying the many hundreds of issues that national legislatures currently take up each year. Those legislators are doing this more or less full-time. Do we all want to invest that same amount of time (while doing some other job as well)? Legislators typically have a staff to make the work manageable. Would each citizen have a staff person? Clearly some means is needed to separate the important issues out from all the rather routine issues that legislators currently deal with.
Beyond this time problem, referendum democracy suffers from another defect: when people make decisions that do not emerge from participation in some sort of deliberative process, their off-the-cuff opinions are more likely to be intolerant and uninformed. Whereas deliberation encourages people to seek common ground and find ways to take seriously the opinions of others, voting in a referendum encourages people to express their pre-existing views on polarized positions.
A second type of direct democracy is where all decisions are made directly by the people living in fully autonomous small communities. Here we can combine the benefits of participation and the benefits of deliberation. But there are nevertheless serious shortcomings with this approach.
First, not all problems are susceptible to small-scale solutions. Pandemics call for a global solution. Environmental problems need a large scale response. Small communities cannot afford expensive technologies, like medical equipment. It is true, of course, that some large-scale technologies create great harm -- like nuclear power plants -- and that much technology is horrendously misused in current society to serve the interests of elites; but this is no reason for us to reject technology out of hand. Technology can reduce human drudgery and provide us the opportunity of undertaking more creative work and leading fuller lives.
Advocates of autonomous communities often reply that their preference for small scale does not prevent communities from cooperating, whether to address environmental problems or to share an MRI machine. But sharing and cooperating need some decision-making procedure involving multiple communities. Otherwise there will be no way to prevent an autonomous community from polluting its neighbors or hoarding medical equipment. And if we have procedures that can prevent the pollution or the hoarding, then the polluting or hoarding communities are no longer fully autonomous.
A second problem with small autonomous communities involves the question of size. Either they are too small, and thus can't function effectively or provide adequate diversity. Or they will be too large to permit face-to-face direct democracy. A meeting of thousands or even hundreds of people is not typically a very participatory experience.
A third type of direct democracy rejects both the self-sufficiency and the referendum models and instead has small councils, linked to one another.
Everyone gets to participate in a primary council that is small enough for face-to-face decision making and for real deliberation. Many decisions will be made in these councils because the decision affects only or overwhelmingly the members of that council. But because there are many decisions that affect more than the people in a single council, the councils affected will have to coordinate their decision-making. This means that councils will have to send delegates to a higher level council. And, if the decision affects more than one of these higher level councils, they would in turn send delegates to a third-level council. And so on.
How would these higher level councils operate? We don't want to have delegates mandated by their sending councils, for then the higher level councils will not be deliberative bodies. As noted previously, there would be no point to anyone speaking or trying to persuade others, or passionately explaining one's special concerns, because all the delegates would have zero leeway -- they would have to vote the way their sending council told them to. This means that no one from council A gets to hear the perspective of people from council B, and there is no possibility of coming to a better position than either A or B alone proposed. On the other hand, if the delegates are not mandated and just do what they want, then we have the problem of delegates becoming like the unrepresentative representatives that characterize contemporary representative democracy.
What makes more sense is to send a delegate who, because she has been part of a council and participated in a deliberative process with its members, understands their sentiments and concerns, and is authorized to deliberate on their behalf with other delegates. But what will prevent this unmandated delegate from becoming an unrepresentative representative? First, the connection between delegates and their sending councils is an organic one, not at all like the connection between constituents and representatives in typical representative democracies. The delegates are part of -- and constantly returning to -- their sending council. Second, delegates will be rotated; no one will be permitted to serve too long as a council's delegate. Third, delegates will be subject to immediate recall. If ever a council believes that its delegate no longer adequately reflects its concerns and sentiments (and all higher-level council meetings are videotaped and easily monitored), then it may immediately replace the delegate with someone else.
Most importantly, however, what prevents the unmandated delegates from usurping power is that the higher-level councils will only vote on matters that are relatively non-controversial. Whenever a vote is close (or when enough citizens or lower councils insist), the issue is returned to the lower councils for a decision.
It might be asked, why not send all issues back to the primary-level councils for a vote? But this is where our concern to avoid overdoing participation with excessive time demands comes in. By sending back contentious issues or those so requested by the citizens or the lower-level councils, we have a check on abuse of power by the delegates to the higher-level councils. But to send everything back would simply be a waste of time.
The notion of nested councils has elicited some confusion, with some seeing the layered councils, each sending delegates to the next higher level council, as simply a system of multiple indirect elections. Indirect elections, however, have serious deficiencies from a democratic point of view and therefore it is essential to understand the problems with indirect elections, as well as the problems of direct elections, and how parpolity seeks to avoid both sets of problems.
In a standard capitalist (representative) democracy, policymakers -- officeholders above the civil service grade -- are chosen in one of two ways. Some are elected and some are appointed. But the appointing is done by individuals or bodies that were themselves elected. Of course, this process can be repeated any number of times, so an official might be appointed by those who were themselves appointed by individuals or bodies who were elected. So rather than referring to elected and appointed officials, we might call them directly elected and indirectly elected.
How subject are these indirectly elected officials to popular control? Some of the factors that make them relatively immune from democratic control are not inherent in the fact that they were elected indirectly. So, for example, U.S. Supreme Court Justices are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate -- which is to say, they are chosen by elected officials (indirectly elected) -- but because they have life terms democratic accountability is remote. The public might find the views of a Justice selected decades earlier abhorrent, but they have no means of removing her during her lifetime.
But life terms are problematic from a democratic point of view even with elected officials. Various rulers have arranged to have themselves elected "president for life" -- typically these "elections" were bogus affairs, but even if they weren't, no electorate, no matter how democratic, should be able to bind future generations or even itself forever.
But what happens when officials who are indirectly elected serve only as long as the elected officials who appoint them, or roughly as long? Are these appointees subject to democratic control?
There are three reasons why democratic control would be relatively attenuated with indirect election compared to direct election.
First, there's the analogy to the children's game of telephone. You whisper something in someone's ear, who in turn whispers it into the ear of the next person and so on. By the time the message gets to the end of the line it typically bears little semblance to the original. And the more whisperers involved, the more the distortion. In a direct election, there's already a problem with the will of the voters being carried out: Representatives don't perfectly match the views of their constituents. But in an indirect election, there are more whisperers: the voters don't match the intermediate official(s) and the intermediate official(s) don't match the final appointee. Thus, the source of the divergence between the voters and the ultimate officeholder has multiple sources -- the divergence between voters and the first intermediate level of officials, and then the divergence between these intermediate officials and the final officeholder -- and will therefore be greater than if there had been no intermediate elections.
The second reason why indirect election does not allow adequate democratic control is related to non-unanimity. Say we have a political system where voters in ten districts each vote for a representative and these ten elected representatives then vote for a single person, A or B, to hold some office. If the voters within each district were unanimous in their desires, and the ten representatives all faithfully reflected the views of their constituents, then the officeholder they would choose would indeed be the choice of the people as a whole. But the situation is different when views within districts are not unanimous. Suppose that in each of seven of the districts the vote was 60% in favor of the representative wanting to choose candidate A and 40% in favor of the representative wanting to choose candidate B. In the other two districts, 20% of the voters favored the representative wanting to choose candidate A and 80% the representative wanting candidate B. When the ten representatives meet, they will vote 7-3 in favor of candidate A. But in terms of the wishes of their constituents, a majority, 52% (.7 x 40% + .3 x 80%) preferred candidate B. With the addition of further layers of indirect voting, the disparity becomes even greater.
The third problem with indirect election is that each layer of representatives doesn't just randomly diverge from those who elected them; the divergence is systematic. The representatives tend to have better skills than those who elected them. It is not surprising that representatives tend to be more outgoing, better speakers, and more politically aware than their constituents. This bias may not skew things all that much, but in an indirect election this bias operates at least twice, once at each election.
Indeed, this was the reason that indirect elections were established in the United States. The founders worried about "[a] rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project" (James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 10), and so some means was needed to minimize these dangers of popular rule. In at least two significant areas, the Constitution used indirect election to this effect.
First, an electoral college was established to choose the president: voters were to elect the electors and the electors were to choose the president. (Keep in mind that, as initially conceived, the electors were not, as they are today, generally pledged to voting for the candidate favored by the voters.) The purpose of this arrangement was to ensure (in the words of Alexander Hamilton in Federalist Paper No. 68) that "the immediate election" of the president "should be made by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station..." Hamilton went on to say that "A small number of persons, selected by their fellow-citizens from the general mass, will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated investigations." This system, said Hamilton, would "afford as little opportunity as possible to tumult and disorder" -- which is to say, to the possibility that the views of the unrefined public might prevail.
The second major indirect election provided for in the Constitution involved the U.S Senate. Until changed by the 17th amendment in 1913, U.S. Senators were not directly elected by the people of the states, but by the (elected) state legislatures. This undermined the will of the people in two ways: one, the Senators had a longer term of office than the state legislators who chose them, and, two, they are indirectly elected. In Hamilton's words (Federalist 27) because Senators were to be chosen "through the medium of the State legislatures which are select bodies of men ... there is reason to expect that this branch will generally be composed with peculiar care and judgment."
That indirect election reduces democratic control has been confirmed empirically. For example, a study found that in the United States elected regulators of electric utilities are more likely to pursue pro-consumer policies than appointed regulators.
But if indirect elections have problems from the point of view of democracy, so too do direct elections. Democratic theory requires that the electorate keep tabs on their representatives: are the representatives acting and voting as their constituents want them to? If citizens can't answer this question, then they can't punish the representatives at the polls, they can't pressure their representatives, and the representatives have little incentive to follow their constituents' wishes.
But keeping tabs on representatives is not easy to do. It is particularly difficult to do in large electoral districts -- where there is a greater number of voters per representative. And direct elections tend to have larger districts than indirect ones for the same end position. (For example, today a directly-elected U.S. senator is elected by all the voters of the state; before the 17th amendment, the indirectly-elected senator was elected by a hundred or so state legislators, each one responsible to a few percent of the state's voters.)
Few citizens read the Congressional Record regularly to check up on their representatives. Few citizens wade through the roll call vote records to determine whether their representatives have voted "the right way." To be sure, various organizations can compile such data to make it easier for the public to assess their representatives' records, but it is still difficult for the average citizen to keep up with anything but the most significant votes.
This is not -- as is often claimed -- a result of voter stupidity. The connection between voters and representatives is quite remote: in the United States a member of the House of Representatives has some 650,000 constituents and, in most states, senators have an even larger constituency (36 million plus in California). Many U.S. voters don't even know the names of their congressional representatives, but this is likely a result of voter powerlessness rather than a cause of it. The average person can master lots of information (think about celebrity gossip or sports statistics), but she has to be connected to that information in some way -- it has to make a difference -- something that's lacking when it comes to political representation on this scale. Why take the effort to learn about your representative when you're not going to be able to use that information to effect meaningful change? At best, you can vote against a bad representative at the next election (if she stands for re-election), but the odds of defeating an incumbent are small. (And the larger the constituency size, the greater the advantages of incumbency.) In short, citizen ignorance is "rational" in a U.S. Congressional election: in a system where real decisions are made by remote politicians, there is inadequate incentive for citizens to make themselves informed.
The larger the size of a constituency, the more difficult is face-to-face contact between representative and citizen, and thus the need for money for media campaigns and so on, which ultimately reduce citizen efficacy.
It is because of the powerlessness of citizens in huge constituencies that many Indian political reformers, following Gandhi, have suggested a decentralized, multi-tiered, bottom-up political system to replace the current system where the elected representative is far removed from the people -- "an average of one million voters for each Lok-Sabha constituency spread over a large geographical area." Currently, to influence the choice of such a large number of voters, candidates resort to money and muscle power, both of which undermine democracy. The result is that the voters "are in no position to hold the candidate accountable nor does the candidate consider himself accountable to these people."
A study of U.S. senate elections before and after the passage of the 17th amendment found that
"The amendment clearly made senators responsive directly to state electorates, so their selection and accountability once in office were based on a democratically stronger standard. A the same time, the amendment made senators answerable to relative political novices, so they could not be held to that standard (whether through electoral sanctioning or selection) as tightly as they were held to their preamendment standard."
In short, both before and after the amendment -- under both indirect and direct elections -- democracy was not well served. The political system of a good society must avoid the disadvantages of both.
Unlike typical direct elections, a good political system must give people an organic connection to those they elect so they can adequately monitor their performance and remove them when necessary. There cannot be large or remote constituencies that render monitoring impossible or even burdensome.
Unlike typical indirect elections, a good political system must ensure that the people's will does not get attenuated through each intermediate level of voting.
The way in which parpolity achieves these dual goals is through the system of nested councils, with delegates to each council level known personally to the council members who elected them. This maintains the organic connection missing from so many direct elections. But at the same time, there are various mechanisms to assure that the will of the people actually emerges. The most significant mechanism is that a petition signed by a given number of people or primary councils can always assure that an issue is returned to the primary level councils (of which every citizen is a member) for a vote. (The petitions, of course, would be electronic, and the number of signatures needed would be relatively small.) Additionally, a higher level council can always decide to send an issue to the primary level for decision. This will make sense whenever the issue is contentious and at all close.
As noted previously, to send every issue down to the primary councils for decision would be exceedingly inefficient. Most people are happy to let minor, non-controversial issues be decided by their representatives -- so long as they have the ability to have their say when they want to.
Other mechanisms to prevent the nested councils from undermining democratic control include: delegates return frequently to their sending councils, any delegate is subject to immediate recall by the sending council, delegates are rotated, and all deliberations and decisions of higher level councils are recorded and accessible to members of lower level councils.
Majorities and Minorities
One of the biggest dilemmas in designing political institutions involves the relationship between majority rule and the rights of minorities. Obviously we reject a political system where the rich or the well-born or the meritocratic rule over the majority. So in that respect, of course we favor majority rule. On the other hand, we would also obviously reject any political system that allowed the majority to exerminate or enslave or oppress the minority. Moreover, we would consider it improper for the majority to tell the minority what they could read or say or believe. Indeed, there are many things we think majorities should not be allowed to do. In many countries there are constitutions that spell out people's rights, which are really no more than restrictions on what the majoritiy can do. (My right to free speech is the same as the First Amendment guarantee that Congress -- that is, the embodiment of the majority -- "shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech....")
A good society ought to have restrictions on the majority, entrenched in some sort of constitution. But, of course, no brief document is going to be able to provide a full elaboration of what these rights entail. Does free speech include pornography? Racial insults? Libel? These sorts of interpretations are typically left up to courts. So in the United States it's the Supreme Court that ultimately decides the actual boundaries of free speech and of other constitutional provisions.
But this returns us to the question of how the Justices of the Supreme Court -- or on comparable judicial bodies in other countries -- are to be chosen. If they are chosen by indirect election and have long or even life terms, then they are removed from majority control. But why should nine individuals, only indirectly elected, who may have taken office when the public had very different views, get to impose their opinions on the rest of us?
On the other hand, if the Justices were chosen by direct election, would they adequately protect minority rights? One can imagine a candidate for Supreme Court Justice running for office on a platform denying rights to criminal defendants or atheists or gays. If the purpose of the Supreme Court is to prevent the majority from oppressing the minority, wouldn't an election by the majority undercut this purpose? Wouldn't an elected court be subject to the same passions and intolerances that permeate the majority? When the U.S. Congress, elected roughly by the majority, voted to ban flag-burning, wasn't it a good thing that there was a Supreme Court not up for election that could declare that law by Congress to be unconstitutional?
There have been various proposed solutions to this dilemma of reconciling majority rule and minority rights.
One approach has been to reject majority rule entirely, insisting that all decisions be made by consensus, which would mean that a single dissenter (or perhaps a very small number of dissenters) could block passage of any law.
Because parpolity emphasizes democratic deliberation, consensus should always be sought. However, to insist on consensus in every case is ill-advised. It is sometimes said that even a large group should be forced to respect and acknowledge the sentiments of a single dissenter who feels strongly on an issue. Respect and acknowledgment are fine; but the question is whether the strong feelings of the one dissenter should invariably be able to block the equally strong feelings of everyone else. To allow the lone dissenter to block action is to deny the overwhelming majority ultimate authority to decide their own fates. There is nothing magical about 50 percent plus one, but it does deserve more moral weight than 50 percent minus one.
Another approach to the majority-minority dilemma has been to insist on absolute parliamentary supremacy: that is, that anything the majority wants to do should be permitted. The argument here is that the protective benefit of Supreme Courts is overstated. Most of the time, the Court reflects rather than checks the passions and prejudices of the majority. (So, for example, in 1986 the Supreme Court upheld state laws criminalizing homosexual relations between consenting adults; when the Court reversed itself in 2003, six out of ten Americans agreed that homosexuality should be legal.) And historically the minority to which the Court seems to have shown the most deference has been the rich. Nevertheless, the long history of majoritarian discrimination against racial, religious, sexual, and other minorities should leave us uneasy about unchecked majority rule.
Parpolity's approach to this dilemma is analogous to the jury model. Choose a small group at random from the population to constitute "council courts." These courts will review decisions made by councils to see if they interfere with basic rights and constitutional protections. Each level council above the primary-level will be assigned a court, with the court assigned to the highest level council being the High Council Court. Like current-day juries, these courts will be deliberative bodies, though unlike juries they would have a term longer than a single case -- perhaps staggered two year terms. As a cross-section of the population, these will be democratic bodies: democratic bodies serving to check the democratic councils. The logic here again makes use of the finding, noted above, that when people make decisions through a deliberative process, the result is likely to be less intolerant than a simple poll of public opinion.
Redesigning political institutions alone cannot assure a decent political system. A good political system needs a good economic system. Put another way, without an economic system that is equitable, democratic, and partipatory, no political system will be able to offer the values we seek. But if we have a partiicpatory economy, with equity in terms of gender, sexuality, and national, ethnic, an religious differences, then parpolity seems to me the appropriate political structure.
Nested councils offer the possibility of a political system that promotes democracy, participation, and equality. But nested councils can only achieve these goals if issues can, whenever desired, be returned to the primary council level for decision.
1. See "Political Vision: Making Decisions in a Good Society," Z Magazine, Oct. 2004, pp. 42-48; "ParPolity: Political Vision for a Good Society," ZNet, Nov. 22, 2005; "Parpolity: A Political System for a Good Society," in Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century, ed. Chris Spannos, Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2008, pp. 25-31. The first half of this essay draws from these other works.
2. See James S. Fishkin, The Voice of the People, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
3. For a discussion of the some of the complications of these terms, see Benjamin Akzin, "Election and Appointment," American Political Science Review, vol. 54, no. 3 (Sept. 1960), pp. 705-713.
4. They can be impeached, of course, but this is supposed to be a remedy only for departures from "good behavior," not for diverging from the will of the people.
5. In the United States, some states have elected judges. Some others have appointed judges where they must be reconfirmed after a fixed period. In New Jersey, for example, "Justices of the Supreme Court and the Judges of the Superior Court shall hold their offices for initial terms of 7 years and upon reappointment shall hold their offices during good behavior..." (NJ Const., Art. VI, sec. VI, paragraph 3).
6. A third indirect election in the Constitution is one that remains in place today: Supreme Court justices are not elected by the voters, but appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate.
7. Today the problem with the Electoral College is only trivially that any particular elector might not vote for the candidate desired by the voters. The so-called "faithless elector" problem is relatively rare and has never made a difference in the outcome -- though it could. Much more serious is that (in every case except two) all of a state's electoral votes are assigned as a block to the candidate who received a plurality of the state's popular vote. So a one-point difference in the vote total in California gives a candidate all 55 of California's electoral votes. This leads to the result that in principle one can be elected U.S. president by winning the 11 most populous states by a single vote in each and not taking a single vote anywhere else in the country. On several occasions, most recently in 2000, the candidate who (was said to have) won failed to receive a plurality of the vote.
8. Timothy Besley and Stephen Coate, "Elected Versus Appointed Regulators: Theory and Evidence," Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 1, no. 5 (Sept. 2003), pp. 1176 -1206.
9. Ranging from 950,000 people per representative (Montana) to 523,000 per representative (Wyoming). See Wikipedia, "List of U.S. states by population," accessed 7/13/09.
11. See, for example, Michael Krashinsky and William J. Milne, "The Effects of Incumbency in U.S. Congressional Elections, 1950-1988," Legislative Studies Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 3 (Aug. 1993), pp. 21-44.
12. Edward L. Lascher, Jr., "Constituency Size and Incumbent Safety: A Reexamination," Political Research Quarterly, vol. 58, no. 2 (Jun. 2005), pp. 269-278.
14. Sean Gailmard and Jeffery A. Jenkins, "Agency Problems, the 17th Amendment, and Representation in the Senate," American Journal of Political Science, vol. 53, no. 2 (2009), pp. 339-40.
15. Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S., 397 (1989), a 5-4 decision.
16. For a more detailed discussion of this matter, see my "ParPolity: Political Vision for a Good Society," ZNet, Nov. 22, 2005, section 5.7.
18. Frank Newport, "Six in 10 Americans Agree That Gay Sex Should Be Legal," Gallup News Service, June 27, 2003. Following the 2003 Supreme Court decision there was a slight backlash.
19. Fishkin, Voice of the People. For more details on the council courts, see my "ParPolity: Political Vision for a Good Society," ZNet, Nov. 22, 2005, section 6.
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The Regional Committee,
1. EXPRESSES its appreciation to the Government of the Republic of Korea for its offer to host the fifty-eighth session of the Regional Committee for the Western Pacific in 2007;
2. CONFIRMS that the fifty-eighth session will be held in the Republic of Korea, provided a satisfactory agreement can be concluded between the Government and WHO by 31 March 2007;
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Hi, welcome to Yu-Gi-Oh! Fanfiction! Thanks for your edit to the User talk:Yung Wun page.
What's up Edit
what's up homie, its been a long time
Young Piece 02:36, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
yup and if you make the rules on this wiki, can we still make are own cards?
Young Piece 19:20, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
I could...I could... --Rasengan888 (talk)(Narutopedia Editor) 22:45, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
My name's Psychid, and I first came to this Wiki on January 5, 2010. Unfortunately, I left this Wiki for a while, because the rest of it was being pretty inactive. But seeing that there's some activity going on here, I thought I'd come back! =D
Anyway, most of the Yu-Gi-Oh! fan fictions I have written can be seen on my FanFiction.Net account. However, I hope to have some of them posted here on this Wiki, for all to see (especially you!)! =D
If you happen to respond to this message, can you please leave it on my talk page, just so that the computer lets me know that I got it? Please, and thank you!
Whatever it Takes Edit
Actually, I didn't really join this Wiki to do any RPing. I joined to post my stories is all. =P
Speaking of which, I might make a blog post to which I express my ideas to what can be done to further popularize this Wiki, since there really isn't much popularity for it. Such ideas include making a delete template (obviously indicating articles put up for deletion), a banned template (to indicate banned users on this Wiki), a G, PG, PG-13, R, and NC-17 template (indicating stories with ratings of G, PG, PG-13, R, and NC-17, respectively), and much, much more!
The Wiki's Very First Blog Post Edit
I have some questions concerning this Wiki in general:
- Can you please show me where the rules for this Wiki are? I'm asking you this because I want to add some rules concerning which fan fictions can and cannot be posted on this Wiki, and any other requirements for such stories.
- I know that I'm a way's away from becoming one, but is it possible to become an administrator on this Wiki? I kind of doubt it because there's, like, only one on this Wiki, and he's been insanely inactive... =\
- If I remember correctly, you said something about "deleting a page" (I put a delete tag on it, BTW). Does that mean you can delete whatever is up for deletion?
Create a Card pageEdit
Hey remember that page that talks about rules, concering creating your own cards, well I for one find that page totally redundant and could simply be merged with the rules page and be more fleshed out at that. I'm not a member so I'm not one to go up and editing "important" pages, so I leave that up to you. It is also up for discussion. Yami Vishnu 03:06, June 24, 2010 (UTC)
The rules I plan on making Edit
Just so you know, I found the guidelines. =D However, here are some rules I would like to add/modify, if that's alright with you:
- Remember when it was stated that articles inappropriate for users at the age of 13 are disallowed? I'm guessing that would go the same for any fan fictions posted on this site. However, thanks to the templates seen on my blog, I would like to change it to/add something like: "Any fan fictions posted on this site must have an appropriate story rating (see this blog for more information). However, any stories posted on this Wiki whose content exceeds the rating of that story will result it in being deleted, as well as a one month ban of your account."
- Another rule will be: "Any fan fiction posted on this Wiki must not be written in script format (i.e. "Bob: Hello, there."). Like most fan-fiction-related sites' guidelines clearly state, script format is strictly forbidden."
- Another rule will be: "Any fan fiction posted on this Wiki must have a proper plot. Any fan fiction posted on this Wiki that has a ridiculous plot whatsoever will result in the story being deleted, as well as a one week ban of your account."
I did Edit
And I left a comment. Let me know what you think. =D
Hmm, being how this is a fanfiction wikia, I feel I think I need to finally post my fanfiction. Should I or should I wait? ANd where would that go exactly? The rules don't say exactly Yami Vishnu 16:41, June 25, 2010 (UTC)
Hey, it seems this site lacks the image of a thing called a LOgo. I'm willing to create one if you'll allow that. If you need some of my work to see if I'm eligable, I'm happy to give that.
CARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES! Edit
For CARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES!, I actually do enjoy turbo duels; I just thought it would be funny to write. =P
Also, a more appropriate term would be story. ;P
For the Adminship... Edit
So, I'm an admin... Edit
...and I see that you and Tennantfan are administrators, as well! =D
However, now that I'm an administrator... I was kind of expecting some things, such as being able to delete articles (ones that are up for deletion, anyway), and ban users (registered ones that have constantly broken Wiki rules, anyway). I'm sure you'll trust me on not abusing my power as admin, but... how exactly do I do both of those things? =/
Also, is it okay if I make a template indicating that we're all administrators?
Hey, I know this is totally random but.....you wanna duel? I really don't like turbo dueling (mostly because I never played the games before to try it) though if it's anything like playing the Duel Terminal, then I am not sure I would like it. Anyway, an RP duel, you up to the challenge? I wanna stomp a synchro in the dust Yami Vishnu 03:49, June 26, 2010 (UTC)
RE RE: DUELU Edit
Alright no prob....but...what exactly is your dueling format, because I don't know. Also, how do I link a article to a cataorgy so I CAN sucessfully, create a character?
Yung Wun Edit
So now that you, Tennantfan, and I are now officially administrators, that means we can do things such as blocking other users who have constantly broken rules. I think the first user we should ban is Yung Wun, since some of his articles seem inappropriate for this Wiki. Think I can do it alone? --Yes, it's PSYCHID! He talks! He does stuff! 13:07, June 29, 2010 (UTC)
Dear God... Edit
"Admin" Template Edit
Since you, Tennantfan, and I are now administrators on this Wiki, I have created a template that informs us about it. Here is the following code:
Modified Rules Edit
In your opinion... Edit
Well, if you think so...Edit
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The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an unlikely leader #150; fuelled by hate, incapable of forming normal human relationships, unwilling to debate political issues #150; and yet he commanded enormous support. So how was it possible that Hitler became such an attractive figure to millions of people? That is the important… More »
Adolf Hitler was an unlikely leader #150; fuelled by hate, incapable of forming normal human relationships, unwilling to debate political issues #150; and yet he commanded enormous support. So how was it possible that Hitler became such an attractive figure to millions of people? That is the important question at the core of Laurence Rees#146; new book.The Holocaust, the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, the outbreak of the Second World War #150; all these cataclysmic events and more can be laid at Hitler#146;s door. Hitler was a war criminal arguably without precedent in the history of the world. Yet, as many who knew him confirm, Hitler was still able to exert a powerful influence over the people who encountered him. In this fascinating book to accompany his new BBC series, the acclaimed historian and documentary maker Laurence Rees examines the nature of Hitler#146;s appeal, and reveals the role Hitler#146;s supposed #145;charisma#146; played in his success. Rees#146; previous work has explored the inner workings of the Nazi state in The Nazis: A Warning from History and the crimes they committed in Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution. The Charisma of Adolf Hitler is a natural culmination of twenty years of writing and research on the Third Reich, and a remarkable examination of the man and the mind at the heart of it all.« Less
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What a sad news.
DALLAS -- Charlie Wilson, the former U.S. congressman from Texas whose funding of Afghanistan's resistance to the Soviet Union was chronicled in the movie "Charlie Wilson's War," has died. He was 76.
Wilson died Wednesday at Memorial Medical Center-Lufkin after he started having difficulty breathing while attending a meeting in the eastern Texas town where he lived, said hospital spokeswoman Yana Ogletree. Wilson was pronounced dead on arrival, and the preliminary cause of death was cardiopulmonary arrest, she said.
Wilson represented the 2nd district in east Texas in the U.S. House from 1973 to 1996 and was known as "Good Time Charlie" when he was in Washington.
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Beijing: In a new move to affirm its sovereignty over the disputed Diaoyu Islands, China on Saturday released geographic coordinates of the islands, while a state-run daily asked the Chinese military to be "prepared" and intensify its deterrence against Japan.
The State Oceanic Administration (SOA) announced details about the exact longitude and latitude of the Diaoyu Island and 70 of its affiliated islets. It published location maps, three-dimension effect graphs and sketch maps for the islands, Xinhua reported.
The agency said in a statement that the announcement aimed to help people understand the information concerning the Diaoyu Island and its affiliated islets.
The statement came after the Chinese government announced Monday the base points and baselines of the territorial waters of the Diaoyu Island and its affiliated islets as well as names and coordinates of 17 base points.
In previous statements released this week, the SOA said a country has the same sovereignty over its territorial sea as it does over territorial land, and such sovereignty extends to the seabed and subsoil as well as the air space above it.
China's permanent representative to the UN Li Baodong met UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and filed a copy of the Chinese government's Diaoyu Islands baseline announcement.
Meanwhile, state-run Global Times Saturday asked the Chinese military, including a corps that controls conventional and nuclear missiles, to intensify its deterrence against Japan following the island row.
An article in the daily said: "China should be confident about strategically overwhelming Japan. The People's Liberation Army's Navy and Air Force, as well as its Second Artillery Corps are advised to increase their preparation and intensify their deterrence."
The Second Artillery Corps controls China's missile forces and it is responsible for both ballistic and cruise missiles, with varying ranges and differing payloads.
"China will not shy away if Japan chooses to resort to its military. As friction escalates, it is more likely for Japan to retreat in the face of unreliable US security assurances and China's strengthened strategic combat capabilities," it said.
"For China, triumphing will cement cohesion and public confidence in the country. We cannot back off and we must win."
The daily said six Chinese surveillance ships carried out a patrol mission in waters around the Diaoyu islands Friday.
"The move marks China's disdain for Tokyo's so-called 'control' over the islands," it said.
The disputed islands in the East China Sea, also claimed by Taiwan, lie on a vital shipping route and are surrounded by large hydrocarbon deposits beneath them.
Japan says it has controlled the islands since 1895 until its surrender at the end of World War II.
The islands were controlled by the US from 1945 to 1972 and subsequently returned to Japan's control. China claims the islands' discovery and control since the 14th century.
Tokyo says its rivals only became vocal over the issue in the 1970s upon the discovery of valuable minerals.
The Global Times article said that China's maritime enforcement will serve as a strong deterrent against Japanese rightwing activists who seek to land on the islands.
"The situation would further change if China seized Japanese nationals who illegally enter China's sovereign waters," it added.
In a related incident, thousands of protesters rallied at the Japanese embassy in Beijing, RIA Novosti reported.
A sea of protesters wielding Chinese flags broke through a ring of police officers at the embassy and hurled eggs, plastic bottles and other debris at the building, the report said.
Protests against Tokyo's move have continued all week at various locations, including at Japanese missions, car dealerships and restaurants.
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Middle class girls choose beauty over health: Narendra Modi
New Delhi: The usually measured Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has trigged a controversy by blaming vegetarianism and figure conscious Gujarati girls for high rate of malnutrition in the state.
In an interview to the Wall Street Journal, Narendra Modi said, "Gujarat is by and large a vegetarian state. And secondly, Gujarat is also a middle-class state. The middle class is more beauty-conscious than health-conscious—that is a challenge. If a mother tells her daughter to have milk, they'll have a fight—she'll tell her mother, 'I won't drink milk. I'll get fat."
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The BJP leader also used the opportunity to highlight his administration success in economic growth and ensuring adequate power supply.
Criticising the Centre for the power blackout across the country last month, the Chief Minister said the central government should learn from Gujarat government and do the needed changes in the power sector.
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The computing giant Microsoft has made its first-ever quarterly loss after it wrote off some of the value of its online advertising business.The loss came after it wrote down the value of Aquantive by $6.2bn (£3.94bn, 5bn euros), which failed to bring the profits expected by Microsoft.
That led to a $492m loss in the three months to the end of June, compared with a profit of $5.9bn a year ago.
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Revenue for the three months to June rose by 4% to $18.06bn.
Excluding the adjustment for the asset write-down, and the holding back of some income related to the launch of its Windows 8 system, Microsoft profits beat those expected by investors.
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Microsoft says the update of the Windows systems is the most important redesign in more than 10 years.
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Curated by Gustavo Prado
" . . . a giant leap for mankind,” continues the celebrated phrase from July 20, 1969, uttered by Neil Armstrong when he touched down on the lunar surface. Why did curator Gustavo Prado resort to this as the title for his text on the world of entertainment captured by Pedro Meyer?
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Jessica loves her yearly backpacking trip with her father, but this year everything has changed. This year Jessica has to share her vacation with her new stepmother and her spoiled new stepsister, Amy. Jessica tries to salvage her holiday by sneaking off for a day hike alone, but Amy follows. Jessica is certain that Amy will ruin the day. Amy rises to the challenge of the rigourous hike and Jessica learns that Amy is not as spoiled as she thought. When Amy is injured and night falls, Jessica must face the challenge of hiking through bear country in the dark.close this panel
I landed heavily on the rough wood of the dock. Somehow I tripped over the rope in my hand and fell sideways. But I never let go of that rope. I scrambled to my feet and eased the boat against the dock. Dad stepped off to tie the stern rope while I tied the bow. I waited for him to say, "Nice work," or "Well done," or maybe, "Sorry I yelled at you," but he didn't even look my way. He patted the pockets of his shorts. "Anyone seen my wallet?" he asked.
Amy appeared from nowhere. "I'll get it, Dad," she said and disappeared into the cabin.
I stared after her. Dad? Since when was he her dad? This kid wanted everything that was mine.
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Several decades ago, Thailand had over a 100,000 elephants. Today it has only about 5000 or so left and sadly even these are living in peril (In the world there are only 35,000 to 40,000 wild elephants left). Around 1989 Thailand banned logging because of the excessive depletion of its forest cover (not because thousands of wild elephants had been killed and brutalized by the industry). This left the elephants unemployed. Many died from neglect because they are, once tamed, just like cows - or maybe even worse because they don't produce milk or cheese and their upkeep is expensive because they require tonnes of food daily. Some went on to the entertainment industry - amusing people by being forced to perform tricks, give rides, and sometimes even beg. | <urn:uuid:dfffeaac-7c22-4c09-99cc-466c8320f5d5> | 2013-05-27T02:56:11Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Typing schemes which allow inheritance from super to sub types are a common way of representing information about the world. There are various systems and theories which use such representations plus some inferencing rules to deduce properties of objects, about which the system has only partial information. Many such systems have problems related to multiple inheritance, and have some difficulty in drawing conclusions which we as humans see as intuitively simple. We present a model of typing based on a lattice of feature descriptors. A type is represented by two important points in the lattice representing core and default information. The use of two points allows some information to be monotonic whilst other information is nonmonotonic. We give some operations which can be used in default reasoning about an object, based on knowledge about the relationships between the points in the lattice which are defined as types. We then work through some specific examples, showing the conclusions which we reach with this system. We compare the expressiveness of our system to some of the well known work in the area of default reasoning using inheritance. | <urn:uuid:697d8a1f-1d8f-4cbe-9af5-6f9fcf4a72bf> | 2013-05-26T09:36:21Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Fractions may have numerators and denominators that are composite numbers
(numbers that has more factors than 1 and itself).
How to simplify a fraction:
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- Divide both the numerator and denominator by the common factor.
- Repeat this process until there are no more common factors.
- The fraction is simplified when no more common factors exist.
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State prosecutors will not press criminal charges against a Connecticut woman who owned a 200 pound chimpanzee that mauled her friend Charla Nash, leaving her blind and grotesquely disfigured.
Connecticut State attorney David Cohen called the attack a "horror" and said the facts were "uncontroverted."
But he declined to press charges against Sandra Herold who owned the chimp named Travis, saying Herold had not acted recklessly when she asked Nash to help cage Travis because the animal had never previously attacked someone.
"The investigation has not discovered any evidence that Mrs. Herold was aware of the risk that the chimpanzee posed and disregarded it. The animal had not previously exhibited violent behavior, especially toward the victim, Ms. Nash, with whom he interacted regularly, and who was present that day specifically because it was thought that she could help in controlling the chimpanzee," Cohen said in a statement.
"Additionally, there is no record of the State Department of Environmental Protection warning Mrs. Herold in any way that the animal could be dangerous and pose a threat to people," he said.
Cohen said investigators who conducted a necropsy found no signs of illness, but did find trace elements of the anti-anxiety medication Xanax. At the time of the attack Herold said she gave the ape some of the pills in a teacup, but later withdrew that comment.
The chimpanzee attacked Nash in February when Herold asked her friend and an employee in her home-based towing company to help lure the animal back into its room-sized cage.
Herold kept the ape in her home and regularly ate meals with the animal seated at her dining table.
Nash's family has filed a civil suit against Herold for $50 million and wants to sue the state for $150 million.
Chuck Willinger, Nash's attorney said the state's decision not to press charges will not affect the civil suit.
"The Nash family appreciates the time and effort by the Conncticut State Attorney in investigating. Though we have some difference of opinion on the facts of the matter, we reconcile to that decision. Frankly, a criminal prosecution is not going to undo what happened to Charla," Willinger told ABCNews.com.
"The family remains focused on Charla's care and rehabilitation," he added. "The state attorney's decision will have no impact on the civil litigation."
In response to the civil suit, Herold's lawyers have claimed that Nash was an employee and as such her injuries should be covered by workman's compensation and not through a civil suit.
In an interview with Oprah Winfrey last month, Nash publicly revealed for the first time the extent of injuries: missing fingers, lips, nose and eyes. Today Nash remains in the Cleveland Clinic in stable condition, but under the constant supervision of medical staff.
At the time of the attack, there was no law on the books banning Connecticut homeowners from keeping chimpanzees. In June the state legislature added gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans to the list of animals that cannot be privately owned in the state.
Nash, 56, must drink all of her meals with a straw though a small hole where her mouth used to be. She told Winfrey she longs for the day when she might be able to eat "a hot dog or piece of pizza." | <urn:uuid:6232eb86-9dc3-49ce-9fc5-a16fe2fc0858> | 2013-05-26T09:38:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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VMF-323 - Death Rattlers
Marine Fighting Squadron in WW2
By Stephen Sherman, Feb. 2001. Updated July 1, 2011.
Late in World War Two, when the Americans had fought their way to Okinawa, Marine Corps aviation seemed to have left its hardest fighting behind, in the Solomons. Then the Japanese began large-scale kamikaze raids on the U.S. forces on Okinawa. Suddenly the Marine fliers had more aerial combat than they had seen in over a year.
The most successful Marine Fighting squadron of 1945 was VMF-323, the "Death Rattlers," under the command of 23-year George Axtell. In a just a few weeks, they shot down 124.5 Japanese planes and counted a dozen aces.
First commissioned at Cherry Point, North Carolina in , the squadron moved to El Centro in January, 1944. Shortly, over 30 of its pilots were transferred out, and Major Axtell had to rebuild the squadron, now at Camp Pendleton.
They shipped out for Hawaii in July. After stints at Emirau, Espiritu Santo, and Manus, they boarded the escort carrier White Plains (CVE-66), bound for Okinawa. Among the replacement pilots that the squadron picked up at Espiritu were 2nd Lieutenants John Ruhsam and Bob Wade. 323 flew into Okinawa's Kadena airfield (code named Ruby Base) in early April, 1945 - for their first combat of World War 2.
Situated just 325 south of Kyushu, Okinawa had to be taken, in preparation for invasion of the Home Islands. After many delays, the largest amphibious assault of the Pacific War took place on April 1, 1945; half a million soldier and sailors, fifteen hundred Allied ships, and thousands of planes participated. While the ground forces slowly and bloodily worked their way into the Japanese stronghold on the southern part of the island, the Air Defense Command, under Brig. Gen. William J. Wallace, USMC, focused on the kamikaze threat.
Since late 1944, faced with overwhelming U.S. air power and a dwindling core of trained pilots, the Japanese turned more and more to their terrifyingly effective last-ditch weapon - the suicide bomber. Flown by pilots who only knew how to take off and dive into their target, the kamikazes destroyed more Allied shipping in the Pacific than had been sunk in the previous 3 years of war. To face this threat, General Wallace had three USAAF Fighter Groups (10 squadrons) and four Marine Air Groups (MAGs), comprising 15 squadrons. VMF-323 was part of MAG-33. Four of these 25 squadrons were specialized night-fighting outfits, such as Bruce Porter's VMF(N)-542. The air units also flew ground support missions, napalming and rocketing Japanese strongholds.
The kamikaze raids against Okinawa began on April 6-7, when 350 Japanes suicide planes attacked. Two days later, MAG-33 began operations from Kadena airfield. On April 12-13 came another kamikaze attack of 185 planes. John Ruhsam shot down a Zero that day, as did five other VMF-323 pilots. While the Japanese didn't directly hurt VMF-323, on take-off, a 323 pilot crashed into four other F4U's; .50 caliber ammo cooked off. Four men were killed and eight planes destroyed.
The Japs threw another 165 suicide planes at Okinawa on the 15th; again the Marine fliers of 323 did their part, dowing six raiders. Lt. Fred Zehring chased one into a hillside, but couldn't pull out himself and was killed. More kamikazes on the 16th. 60 miles north of Ie Shima, a 323 patrol knocked down 2 Hamps, 2 Jacks, and a Lily bomber. When Lt. Dewey Durnford saw his first baka (a small, manned rocket-powered craft carried up to within sight of its target by a bomber), he cried out, "It was carrying a papoose!"
Despite the successes by the Marine and Navy fliers, some kamikazes got through. On the 16th the destroyer Pringle was sunk and the carrier Intrepid damaged. The Navy's great ace Eugene Valencia and his "Mowing Machine" also achieved great success against the kamikazes.
April 22, 1945 was the biggest day in the Death Rattlers' WWII saga. Eighty kamikazes attacked the radar picket ships at dusk. Flying CAP, the pilots of 323 downed 23 (and 3/4!) enemy aircraft. Three of them "made ace" that evening: the Exec, Major Jefferson Dorroh - 6 kills, CO Major George Axtell - 5, and Lt. Jeremiah J. O'Keefe - 5. All this within half an hour!
April 28 - Bogeys!
April 28 brought yet another air raid against Okinawa. Jerry O'Keefe describes his flight that day in Eric Hammel's Aces in Combat: The American Aces Speak, Vol 5.
After the excitement and publicity of our unusual April 22 fight, I expected that aerial action would again become quiet. Our primary mission was to help protect the hundreds of ships that were unloading off Okinawa. Many of our missions consisted of picket duty, in which our Corsairs would be assigned to orbit over one of the U.S. Navy's radar picket destroyers stationed to the north of Okinawa.
That day, I was part of a flight of twelve Corsairs led by Major Axtell. I was in my usual place as the skipper's section leader and Bill Hood was flying on my wing. The weather was sunny and clear. Heading east at approximately 12,000 feet, I spotted five unidentified planes at about 8,000 to 10,000 feet. I called the rest of the flight that I saw five bogeys. I suspected they were Japanese, because the group was composed of five planes, instead of the usual four, eight,or twelve planes we usually had.
I asked Major Axtell to allow my section to investigate. With his approval, I began a slow turn to the south and began bearing down on the bogeys from above and behind.
O'Keefe and Hood got closer, armed their machine guns and positioned themselves at 5 o'clock and 7 o'clock to the bandits. The bandits were old Imperial Army fixed-gear Ki-27 Nates headed for a kamikaze run against the U.S. ships. Unaware of the Corsairs, the Japanese pilots made no move to evade. O'Keefe opened fire on the leader at 300 yards, hitting it around the cockpit. The Nate exploded. He streaked by the enemy in a shallow dive, pulled up and found a single plane diving for the ocean. He flew straight down on its tail and exploded it.
He later learned that Bill Hood had downed two and Axtell one.
May 4 - Counter-attack
After holding out in southern Okinawa, around Shuri Castle, for almost a month, General Ushijima ordered a counteroffensive for May 4. While well-planned, the ground atttack came to nothing, except the faster death of 5,000 Japanese soldiers. The coordinated kamikaze attack was more successful, killing 98 sailors on the destroyer Aaron Ward and sinking the Little, Luce, and Morison.
That morning Captain Joe McPhail was leading a 4-plane division, with 2nd Lt. Warren Bestwick on his wing. 2nd Lt. John Ruhsam led the second section, with 2nd Lt. Bob Wade on his wing. They had climbed into their slippery, cold Corsairs in the pre-dawn darkness, jostling gear and banging shins. They headed north, reported in to radar control, and climbed out. At 20,000 feet they found a lone Ki-27 Nate, which Ruhsam fired at and then promptly overran. Jojo McPhail flamed it. A good start, but when Bestwick's F4U started pouring black oily smoke, he returned to the field.
Working with a ground-based radar controller, Ruhsam swung around in wide descending turn when a Val appeared in front of him. At 800 feet he opened up and the Val's rear gunner fired back. Wade was occupied with a Val of his own. Ruhsam maneuvered below and behind his target, to avoid the rear gunner. He was so close, he had to drop back to 100 feet before he fired; when he did the Val instantly exploded in a ball of flame. Incredibly another crossed directly in front of him. All Ruhsam had to do was press the trigger button and watch the Val fly into the stream of bullets. Wade also shot down his Val. Ruhsam pounced on a Nate, which eluded him, only to fall victim to Wade's gunfire.
This was a new type of aerial combat - lots of targets flying slowly at low altitude that basically didn't fire back. Normal tactics of gaining altitude and speed to engage fiercely dangerous fighters didn't apply. In this situation, the Corsair pilots had to slow down and conserve ammunition - so impotent and plentiful were the kamikazes. Ruhsam and Wade continued pulling G's, twisting around, blasting the incoming Japanese planes whenever they could. Ruhsam chased on Val down to the wave tops, only to run out of ammunition. He considered ramming or chopping off his tail with his prop, but suddenly Wade's bullets sprayed the enemy. The Val pilot panicked and turned left, digging a wing into the water and flipping over into it.
Back at Kadena base, adrenalin still pumping, the pilots took stock. Wade and Ruhsam had downed four planes apiece. In a record-breaking day, the Death Rattlers had destroyed 24 (and 3/4!) Japanese airplanes.
After the first week of May, the large daytime kamikaze attacks diminished. Increasingly, the main aerial defensive problem was the nighttime bombers, which came over singly or in pairs. Nightfighting squadrons like Robert Baird's VMF(N)-533 and Bruce Porter's VMF(N)-542 took up the challenge.
VMF-323 began strikes against Japan in June, 1945 and moved to Awase airfield on July 15, where it continued operating until the war ended.
Post WarThe Death Rattlers also served in the Korean War, flying Corsairs on ground attack missions. Its lineage continues today in the USMC, with VMFA-323.
C.O. George Axtell made a career of the Corps, and rose to the rank of Lieutenant General.
- Aces in Combat: The American Aces Speak, Vol 5, by Eric Hammel - O'Keefe's story and many other WWII aces
- Aces Against Japan, Vol. II, by Eric Hammel - Ruhsam's and many other stories of WW2
- Corsair Aces of World War 2, by Mark Styling
- History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II, by Robert Sherrod, 1952
- 323 Death Rattlers Web Site (now defunct) - dedicated to VMF-323, VMA-323, VMF(AW)-323 and VMFA-323 from World War II to the present | <urn:uuid:79400e1a-1696-4983-9fd6-d403d1da807f> | 2013-05-26T09:35:49Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Based on the survey findings, Pearson
employed the office of the famous naval architect John G. Alden to design their new model, slated to be named the Countess 44. A
master of the art, Mr.
Alden delivered Pearson a beautiful, seaworthy design that would sail
like the devil, but also had the
auxiliary power and spacious interior to rival a powerboat. This
was not a boat intended for a hoarde of salty male crew, surviving
on canned food and sterno, taking bucket baths and sleeping in narrow,
cramped bunks while they tossed their way across an ocean.
Heeding well the survey's results, Alden's Countess was
a boat to be crewed by a civilized couple or two, an elegant
little group who held high in esteem matters of privacy, comfort,
hygiene and dining, but who still wanted to travel far and
Alden gave the Countess a ketch rig to keep the sail area
manageable for the hypothetically small crew, and a beefy 109 HP engine
to ensure that the Countess would skip along whether a breeze was afoot or not
the changes were agreed upon by all parties involved, the Bell's custom
Countess was built by Gruman Allied Industries in Portsmouth, Rhode
Island. It was 1965 and she was the 4th Countess built, unique
amoung her sister ships as the only sloop. Mr. and Mrs. Bell
christened her SARABANDE.
George Bell went on to become a special assistant
to President Nixon under the President's counsel Charles
Colson, known as Mr. Nixon's "hatchet man" and whom the Watergate
scandal exposed to be not a nice man, to put it mildly. Mr.Bell passed away in
The boat was purchased by the psychologist Dr. Howard Kern of Norfolk, Virginia. Dr. Kern promptly moved aboard and sailed to the Carribbean to lauch a successful new career chartering tourists on happy jaunts around the islands in conjunction with a luxury hotel. No doubt SARABANDE contributed to many a fantastic vacation throughout those sunny years!
Around 1990, Dr. Kern, like George Bell, also
passed away at a relatively young age, and the boat was again offered at an estate sale. She was purchased by Mr. Joseph Sanacore of
A serious lifelong sailor, Joe outfitted SARABANDE with all the
modern sailing conveniences, important safety features, and the latest in
navigational technology. He spared no expense, and his choices did much
to rejuvenate the 25 year old boat. He spent the next 16 years sailing SARABANDE
We met Joe Sanacore in the fall of 2005 because he was cleaning out his
basement. Walking home from work one evening in
the next few weeks, the sailing stuff continued to appear on the curb and we
grew more and more interested in meeting whomever was tossing it. At
last, one night we spotted a salty-looking gentleman on the stoop. He was gazing abstractedly at the
most recent garbage batch, wreathed in cigarette smoke and enjoying the early evening air.
"Are you the one who's been throwing away all the sailing stuff?", we asked.
"Are you the ones who keep digging through my trash?" he replied.
Joe invited us in, introduced us to his lovely lady Janet, and we had a fascinating night sharing sailing stories and talking boats. At the time, we owned our little CAL 25, and we had just put her on the hard for the winter. Toiling in the marina yard to winterize our little boat, we'd seen the travelift bring a very tough-looking bluewater boat up on land; she had everything we'd read about in cruising books, she was huge, and we were extremely impressed by her. We’d window-shopped for plenty of cruisers, but we’d never seen one quite like this one before, and we wondered about this amazing boat.
"About 45 feet long? Red bottom paint?
That would be my boat," he said casually, gesturing to a beautiful painting of SARABANDE on his wall.
Joe was our new hero, and the friendship was off to a great start.
Incredibly, one year later, erroneously believing himself to be getting older, and not wishing to fall prey to the possible “curse” that befell George Bell and Howard Kern, Joe chose us as SARABANDE's new owners. She needed a little work, and we agreed to bring her back to her former glory. Joe’s amazing generosity has changed our lives in such a dramatic way that we bless him nightly, and our grandchildren will know his name and what a wonderful kindness he paid us. Joe knows every inch of SARABANDE and all her quirks, and he's been such a fantastic source of advice and technical know-how. We can't believe our good fortune, and we won't let him down in our promise to take her out on the ocean where she belongs in all her glory.
What exactly is a 'sarabande'?
A "sarabande" is defined by Merriam-Webster as "a stately court dance of the 17th and 18th centuries resembling the minuet". Sounds a little boring, eh? Yet her second owner Howard Kern described a sarabande as “a lively Spanish Dance” in his charter brochure. Music historian Carl Engel, in his 1922 essay "Jazz: A Musical Discussion" for The Atlantic Monthly agrees with Howard, asserting that it was a rather risque dance before turning more respectable: | <urn:uuid:70da15b7-c40d-4331-a8c2-d150d6e19e10> | 2013-05-27T02:55:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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BAGHDAD (AFP) — A mortar attack in the vicinity of Baghdad earlier this week killed two US soldiers and wounded four others, the American military said Saturday.
Those wounded in the incident on Wednesday were transported to a nearby medical centre for emergency treatment, a statement said.
The deaths took US military losses since the March 2003 invasion to 3,817, according to an AFP tally based on Pentagon figures.
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Rounding at 37,000 Feet
Anyone who has flown long-distance flights has heard the call: "If there is a doctor on board, please identify yourself to a flight attendant." But it's impossible to understand how that call induces the urge to flee to the lavatory and hide unless you are one of those unfortunate few who are on the hook, which is to say that you are qualified to respond, but you really really don't want to.
"But Gee," I can hear you think, "Aren't you an ER doctor? Isn't this sort of thing second nature to you? Don't you revel in the adrenaline and glory?" Well, yes. But. First of all, there is the performance anxiety thing. I'm used to working with a very small audience. In Economy class, there may be 300 people watching me try to do my thing, and I'm just not used to that many people being in the exam room -- and I know they are very interested in what's going on. Also, being an ER doc, I am terminally paranoid, and over the Atlantic Ocean there's just no easy way to differentiate the Very Bad Things[tm] from the more common complaints which occasionally represent Very Bad Things[tm]. So that also is anxiety-provoking. And then there's the potential that things might turn bad, and then it's a flog to run a code in the limited space available.
So, on Olympic Air, somewhere over the mid-atlantic, the dreaded call goes out. I cringe and try to sink deeper into my seat, hiding my face behind my magazine. Finally, seeing that nobody else responded, I gave a deep sigh and pushed the call light. It was a 60-70ish guy in First Class with abdominal pain which radiated through to his back. Great, I thought to myself, It's an Aortic Aneurysm. (see? I told you I was paranoid.) But his belly was soft with no pulsatile mass, good femoral pulses, and clinically, I thought the pain was much more suggestive of a kidney stone. I gave him some ibuprofen and said I'd check on him later.
I tried to sleep, but maybe an hour later, the attendant approached me again . . . there's another patient for you. Sheesh. This is an older fellow with a history of heart disease who has epigastric pain and nausea. How the hell am I supposed to tell heartburn from angina over the Atlantic? I asked the attendant if there was a defibrillator on board, thinking maybe I could at least look at the ST segments, but the Greek-speaking attendant seemed to not understand the question. I mimed shocking somone with paddles, and his eyes got very big, but then said, no, they didn't have anything like that. The patient said he has had typical chest pain with his heart attacks and this felt much more like his stomach. Then he threw up and felt a little better. I rooted through the medical kit and found something which looked like Greek meclizine and gave it to him. I checked on the first guy and he said he felt a lot better.
A couple of hours later, they roused me from a deep sleep (this was an overnight flight), to apologetically tell me that there was a third passenger in need of attention. Oh. My. God. This elderly lady was having trouble breathing and they had gotten an oxygen mask on her. Well, her lungs were clear and her pulse was normal and she seemed really panicky and her traveling companion said she had been under a lot of stress and hated to fly. So probably a panic attack. I told the flight attendant to keep her on oxygen for another half an hour (purely for placebo value) and told the patient in my most authoritatively reassuring tone that she would be feeling better by then. I then checked on the kidney stone (sleeping) and the nauseated fellow (much better, thank you). I went back to the galley and hung out with the crew, drinking coffee for half an hour, then went back to the panicky lady who had in fact experienced a miraculous recovery.
The flight crew was very nice and gave me a free bottle of champagne as a gift. And I swore I would never again admit that I was a doctor on an airplane flight.
The time in Greece was lovely. We started off on the island of Kos, Hippocrates' birthplace, and I got a cool T-shirt with the Hippocratic Oath on it, in Greek. As it happened, that was the only clean garment I had for the flight home (this time on Delta). This time we made it most of the way across the Atlantic before the call came for a doctor. I waited and waited and nobody else responded. Finally I decided that I couldn't very well walk around with the fricking Hippocratic Oath on my chest and not help out, so I gave in and rang the bell.
As I stood up, I saw an elderly man about ten rows in front of me, standing in the aisle in the tripod position, labored breathing, gray and sweating. That must be my patient, I thought. He doesn't look good. He couldn't tell me anything (too short of breath), but his traveling companion cheerfully informed me that he had had a heart attack only two weeks ago, and just got out of the hospital with congestive heart failure and had a pacemaker put in. Oh, is that all? His pulse was about 150, way too fast, and his blood pressure was also very high. When I asked, he nodded "yes" that he was having chest pain.
I figured that most likely he had gone into an irregular heart rhythm as a consequence of his heart failure and the low oxygen pressure in the cabin. I got out the defibrillator and moved him to an empty seat in business class because I figured that if he was going to code, I wanted room to work it. He looked that bad. I rooted through his med bag (a cornucopia of heart meds) and gave him aspirin, nitro, lasix, and metoprolol. And oxygen, of course. Then I went to talk to the pilot. We were two hours out from JFK, he said, but we could get down just a bit sooner by landing at Halifax, Nova Scotia. I tried really hard not to let the knowledge that I had a connecting flight affect my decision-making. Tough decision. Finally, I said that I thought he could make JFK but we should expedite it. I heard the engines spool up as the pilot accelerated the plane.
So I sat up in first class with him to keep an eye on him (The Wife eventually joined me when I didn't return to our seats in coach), and he progressively improved. His pulse came back towards normal with a second dose of metoprolol, and by the time we landed (almost 40 minutes early) his color was much better and his breathing was a lot easier. I wrote up a little report for the paramedics/ER, and after the fastest landing and shortest taxi I have ever had, the medics bustled him off the plane.
Again, the flight crew was really nice (and almost pathetically grateful, which was appropriate, since an unscheduled landing would be just about the end of the world to them). They took my business card and promised me a "nice little something." Lord knows what that'll be -- probably a fruit basket. It was rather a pain in the butt, but at least the guy really needed me, and it was gratifying to see him get so much better.
And I have resolved that from now on, I will fly with an iPod in my ears, cranked up so loud I cannot hear a single overhead announcement ever again.
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"No one knows what it's like to be the bad fish, to be the sad fish, behind blue eye."
"Jokes about an eyeball washing up from the sea? Now that's what I call... *sunglasses* ...aqueous humor."
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Did you ever think about just backing out of it and getting a c/s?
Would you rather go through all the labor and delivery, or the c/s recovery?
I know some people will have repeat c-sections w/o a problem and some will. Some will be able to have a VBAC and some won't. I know this isn't exactly what you were asking for but I wanted to give a disclaimer first. My friend just had her second repeat c-section and had major complications due to the repeated c-section (cutting scar tissue, etc). She is having a rough recovery and on top of that has a 2 1/2 years old son, which makes recovery even more difficult. So in her case I am not sure if she would have rather waited a few more days or not. (She was on modified bedrest for hypertension & didn't want to be on it any longer, usual end of pregnancy discomfort, etc.)
Well, in my case, my first c-section was because my son was "too big to fit" and I was unable to deliver him vaginally. He wasn't a large baby, either, at 6 lbs. 10 oz. Erin was a VBAC because she was born so very early (25 weeks) and there was no issue of her being too big. With Laura, however, I was 35 weeks and the doctors could not tell me exactly how big was "too big." I had also had a LOT of premature labor with her prior to the 35 weeks. They said I could go through labor and possibly be able to deliver her vaginally, or it was possible that she would not fit and I'd have to have a c-section anyway. I opted to just have the c-section and not risk hours of labor and then having to have one anyway. My c-section recovery with DS wasn't too bad and I preferred that over the episiotomy recovery after Erin; however, my c-section recovery after Laura was a bit tougher, possibly because I already had two kids to deal with in addition to the new baby, or possibly because of my age and/or the fact that Erin and Laura were born less than a year apart. Would I have done anything any differently in hindsight? Probably not.
Erin had a c-section with Katie with her OB was afraid the pushing of delivery was not safe for her with her having a shunt for hydrocephalus. When she was pregnant with Nathan, however, she saw a neurosurgeon rather than just a neurologist and he said that with monitoring, there was no reason she could not at least attempt a vaginal delivery. In the end, she had to have an emergency c-section with Nathan anyway because of placental abruption.
No personal experience here I heard from my friend who had a c-section with her first she recovered pretty well and with her 2nd that was a planned c-section she was up and moving the next morning without any issues. She told me she felt great. However, I do not know anyone who has had a VBAC in "real life". The doctors here are really closed minded to that. My friend just wanted to get it over with too.
I'm having a planned c-section. I have to because my pelvic area is too narrow to give birth naturally as was discovered after 46 hours of labor, my daughter's head stuck in the canal, and an emergency c-section. No way do I want to attempt that again. Even if I didn't have a narrow pelvic area I'm too gun shy do go through labor again. My recovery from my c-section was easier than my labor. My only fear this time is that they will try to take me early and I really want to go 40 weeks.
My sister attempted a VBAC. Her first was breech, and she had a really tough recovery from the c-section. She went into labor naturally with her second, but labor stalled so the doctors recommended she have the c-section. She had been in labor for hours with little progress so she heeded the doctor's advice. It ended up being the right decision for her to repeat the section because her DS was sunny side up anyways, and her recovery was way better the second time around. She said she doesn't regret experiencing labor, but if she had known how things were going to turn out she would have just gone with the c-section again.
I had a c-section my first time after I dilated to 10 cm and my doctor wasn't comfortable with the heart rate levels of the baby when I was pushing. I opted for a VBAC the second time because I was mad at the decision the first time. I had no regrets or doubts about it I knew I had to try. It was a successful VBAC and we had the same heart rate problems but I doctor knew about the history. DS#2 is healthy and smart and vibrant and I never regretted the decision. Also big babies were an issue for me too but I still went for it. My first was 9.9 and my second at 37 weeks at 8.3. I just make them big even though I am only 5'3".
Interesting enough there is a correlation between asthma and c-sections. My c-section baby had bad asthma until he was 5 with attacks putting him in the ER. My VBAC baby doesn't have a single allergy issue at all. I always thought it was interesting.
Me (35) DH (35) DS #1 (5) DS#2 (3)
I had 5 vaginal births before my 1st c-section. I didn't have a tough recovery. It was very typical. I had twins to care for, but I didn't have any trouble. The pain was way more than with my vaginal births and I needed more time to recover but not more than a typical c-section recovery. Compared to my vaginal births it was horrible, but as far as c-section recoveries go, it would be considered a cakewalk. C-section complications are pretty common ime. Uterine infections, incision infections, scar separation all seem to happen more often than not. I had a slight issue with my incision but it was easily treated. My problem with my c-section was that the actual birth didn't feel like birth. I don't want to offend anyone. My c-section was necessary which is why I had it, but I certainly didn't enjoy it. With my vaginal births I was actively involved in the birth process. I was working with my contractions, making decisions, pushing my baby out. Once they were born they were put immediately into my hands. I decided what was done to them and when. I kept them with me and was the first person to hold them. I was the first person they saw. With my c-section, I felt completely out of control. I wasn't doing anything, I was having things done to me. I had not involvement in what was being done to me. My babies weren't gently born and then passed immediately to me, they were tugged and yanked out of my uterus and with a brief glance at them they were rushed to a hard table where they were very roughly wiped down and suctioned and poked. They weren't being held by me or anyone else. Their first sight was of masked nurses and bright lights. I didn't have control over what was being done to them and when. It was definitely a more traumatic way to be born for both me and them than if they'd been born vaginally. When I conceived my 8th child I knew I wanted a VBAC. Imagine my surprise when my doctor told me I had a vertical rather than transverse incision. Still he supported my desire to VBAC, but I had some new issues during that pregnancy that I didn't really understand. In the end I agreed to a repeat c-section mainly out of fear and confusion. If I had to do it over again I would have made a different choice. Had I known how common it is for VBAC moms to have a much longer labor and a very long prodromal labor, I wouldn't have panicked and would have stuck it out. In the end, complications from that surgery nearly cost me my life. C-sections are put forth as safe and routine, but they come with very real risks to both mom and baby and especially to mom and especially to future pregnancies. If there's an option to avoid one, then I personally would do whatever I had to to avoid one. If I hadn't had a repeat c-section I might have had more children. Probably would have had more children. But having 2 c-sections with vertical incisions, I knew that any future pregnancies would result in another c-section, and 2 was already too many. I had a tubal ligation because I never wanted to have another c-section.
Mary Jane, doula and mom of Vada, Brynna, Tea, Moira, Kyan, Ambria, Aslan, and Anakin.
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” ~ Dr. Seuss
I had two c-sections and a VBAC and I can tell you without a doubt, vaginal all the way!! My 1st c-section was bad and I had a painful recovery, but my 2nd wasn't bad... but in comparison to my vaginal recovery, it was NIGHT AND DAY. Seriously, I was amazed at the difference.
I am embarking on a 5th c-section. I have to deliver at 36 weeks or before becuase my uterus is weak...
if you have the option to try for a vbac, then do it...a c-section is a MAJOR surgery and you can die from them(I know unlikely) but you can...
I wish I had the option at all, but I never did....
I had a VBAC almost three months ago, and am so glad that I did but I was pretty emotionally attached to having a VBAC, and I would have regretted not trying for it. On the other hand, while I anticipated feeling empowered from having a successful VBAC, I felt totally humbled by the experience because birthing really wasn't something I consciously did (well, except for drinking castor oil to get things started, lol), but my body really did all the work.
Recovery wise was interesting; I didn't have particularly difficult recoveries with either, but either way you go it just takes time. The recovery from the vaginal birth took longer than I anticipated it would but was totally typical of a first time vaginal delivery, and definitely hindered by chasing my three year old through a two story house on my own. I think if I'd had someone else there to help I would have recovered faster. My labor was quick and 100% unmedicated, and the high and the adrenaline from the actual birthing part was amazing - right after when the nurses offered me ibuprofen I told them "no thanks!" because I felt zero pain. A couple hours afterwards though, I was ringing that nurse bell!
All in all, I'm so grateful to have had a successful VBAC and would do it again in a heartbeat.
I had a C-section the first time after a 18 hrs of labor and three hours of pushing and baby got "stuck". I was told that my pelvis Is too narrow. Recovery was okay. But having to have that C-section was really upsetting to me
For my second baby I opted for a vbac Which was also a long labor not as long as the first But then two hours of pushing And the baby was in distress and i spiked a fever So they had to use a vacuum which popped off twice And the third time did the trick. My vbac Was successful however I had awful tearing And the recovery from that was pretty dreadful.
We are contemplating a third child And to answer your original question I do sometimes Think about just opting for a C-section. I would really like to do a vaginal delivery and hope for the best. But I'm scared. The doctors told me that they were worried if I didn't push that baby out with the third vacuum attempt they would have had to do an emergency C-section which would have been very dangerous And difficult for them because he was so far down.
I understand the risks of C-section are far greater than for a vaginal delivery But I would not want to go through the experience of having the baby stuck again and having an emergency C-section like that.
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The fish family that includes herrings, shads, sardines, and menhadens is a large, global family with 216 species. Most species are tropical and almost all species are found in oceans, although some are found in freshwater as well. Fish in this family are small to medium-sized, from 2 to 75 cm long. They generally have torpedo shaped bodies that are laterally compressed. Fish in this family are strong, fast swimmers, generally travel in large schools, and they typically feed on plankton. They are some of the most important commercially fished species in the world.
Tanya Dewey (author), Animal Diversity Web.
having body symmetry such that the animal can be divided in one plane into two mirror-image halves. Animals with bilateral symmetry have dorsal and ventral sides, as well as anterior and posterior ends. Synapomorphy of the Bilateria.
uses smells or other chemicals to communicate
having the capacity to move from one place to another.
specialized for swimming
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Jesus' Parables About Making Choices centers on six choices we make as we grow and uses scripture from the parables for each. They are: Choosing to Grow Up, Choosing to Help, Choosing to Try, Choosing to Be Humble, Choosing to Listen, and Choosing to Prepare.
A study guide is included for each chapter to help make this experience beneficial for both you and a small group. Leader and participant suggestions are provided along with reflection/discussion questions, group activities, and prayer. There are six sessions. | <urn:uuid:144f6778-7bb7-4376-923f-a97b67118cf1> | 2013-05-26T09:36:02Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
ALWAYS WITH THIS SELF-STYLED DESCRIPTION OF FREEMASONRY IN MIND, WHAT ONE IS SEEKING, BEING EITHER ALLEGORY OR SYMBOLS, BY ITS VERY NATURE CANNOT BE FOUND WITHIN NON-FICTION.
The "beginning" is the place and time that identifies where and when Zoro-Astrian Freemasons first began Gabriel's public quest for a New World Order.
It means at the time and place of the introduction of the Caucasian race, ie: The Caucasus.
Please note that the spelling of the word "beginning" includes two versions of the word "GIN"; one reading left to right, the other right to left. These are two Masonic clues placed side by side. Masons use clues in order to communicate their presence. Two such clues usually mean that the message which follows will be of interest to Masons.
A Mason priest's goal is to gin (as in a cotton gin). He culls (ie : Divides in order to Conquers). From a large group of 'originals', Masons will cull a small group of elite (ab) thereby creating "ab"originals (ab which means "out of"), as in abnormal (out of the normal).
In ancient times, the donkey (ass) carried secret messages down from the mountain stronghold of the controllers of Kurdistan, into the valleys of the Zab rivers below. Often the messages were concealed within the vaginas of female donkeys where it was hoped no one would think of looking. A horse might have been stolen along the way but a "stubborn donkey" was of li ttle interest to the highwaymen who preyed upon caravans. Mule trains made it through safely, as they were viewed as symbols of poverty not worth preying upon. This is also why the donkey became the symbol of the Democratic Party in the USA. The diversion caused by the arrival of Democrats upon the political scene enabled out-of-office Republican controllers to "pass" (read ass) the laws that created the Federal Reserve and the Income Tax Act early in the twentieth century.
The donkey is a primary key. A key unlocks a door. The door marks the beginning, or point of entry or exit. A donkey also symbolizes the masses. That is why donkeys are also called asses. Like donkeys, people can be led, as long as they are also pushed from behind (kicked in the ass). Management lead, while unions push the employees into acceptance. Both Management and Unions are really working as a team together. Both work either overtly or covertly for the same controller (the controlling shareholders). No one really "cares" about the employees, they only pretend they do. As in politics it is this hypocrisy that makes all of their jobs simpler to carry out.
The word ass written in French is "cul". Cul is linked to the English word "cull" which means to "gin". It means to divide. The first place that our controllers established as their stating point, when they came out of the mountains eight thousand years ago, was called Assyria (read ass). When they began their first recorded journey west, in the fourteenth century AD, they created the National Assembly (read ass) of those peopl e culled from the masses who would govern France on their behalf. Likewise, when they came to Canada, they created a National Assembly in Quebec (read ass). Also, once the newly "culled" natives, now known as "aboriginals", were to be re-included into their ancient plan for "The End Times", Zoro-Astrian Freemasonry then fashioned the "Assembly of First Nations" (read ass). The appearance of the word "ass" in each of these entities is not a coincidence. It is the main clue hinting at the presence of Zoro-Astrian Freemasonry control.
NOW, as an exercise that will help me to overstand whether or not you in fact comprehend this first "principle", please try and find other words which contain the letters 'ass' or 'cul', and then see if you can link these words meaning to something else which is linked to the word 'beginning'. When you do, please Email these words back to me and we will examine their connectivity together.
One of the greatest charms of the book is the space between the lines, which reportedly, only the initiated can thoroughly comprehend. In its scope it comprises alchemy, chemistry, science in general, philosophy, metaphysics, morals, biology, sociology, theosophy, materialism and theism. It excels Bulwer-Lytton's "Coming Race" or any work by Jules Verne. It equals Dante's "Inferno" and Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress". To a small group of elite Freemasons Etidorhpa is neither a puzzle nor a surprise, even when they deny this in public.
The speech of affection is the g-race of Etidorhpa's lips, and kindness the adornment of her spir-it; the incarnation of the spirit of the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians. Functioning brains will be fascinated by its so-called wisdom. It is not written for an Oxford graduate with a cut-and-dried mind filled with twaddle after a model formed by others.
Etidorhpa is a corner stone of Zoro-Astrian Freemasonry's "business plan", a foreshadowing of a New World Order. In the lines it is the most important book of the nineteenth century: between the lines it ranks with Basil Valentine and Albert Pike. Scott, Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats and Tennyson set the stage--Etidorhpa was Freemasonry's operator's manual for the twentieth century. Paracelus, Roger Bacon, Galvin and Mesmer smile over it in a manner that reminds one the Mona Lisa.
"Every thought you indulge in is circumscribed. You presumably attempt to throw a thought-line forward, and yet you step backward and spin it in words that have been handed to you from the past, and, struggle as you may, you cannot liberate yourself from the nightmare. Attempt to originate an idea, and see if you can escape your word-master?"
"Scientists think in language scientific. Poets think in language poetic. Educated people use words in thinking of their subjects, words that came to them from the past, and enslave their intellect. Thus it is that the novelist cannot make fiction less real than is fact; that scientists cannot commence at the outside, and build a theory back to the phenomena understood.
In each case the foundation of a thought is a word that in the very beginning carries to the mind a meaning, a something from the past. Each thought ramification is an offshoot from words that express ideas and govern ideas, yes, create ideas, even dominating the mind. We speak of ideas when we intend to refer to an image in the mind, but in reality we have no ideas outside of the word sentences we unconsciously reformulate. Define the term idea correctly, and it will be shown that an idea is a sentence, and if a sentence is made of words already created, there can be no new idea, for every word has a fixed meaning. Hence, when we think, we only rearrange words that ca rry with themselves networks of ideas, and thus play upon their several established meanings. How can people so circumscribed construct a new idea or teach a new science?"
"Language is slowly progressing, but no new word adds itself to a language; it is linked to thought-chains that precede. In order to create a word, as a rule, roots are used that are as established in philology as are building materials in architecture. When a new sound is thrust into a language, its intent must be introduced by words already known, after which it conveys a meaning derived from the past, and becomes a part of mind sentences already constructed, as it does of spoken language. Language has thus been painfully and slowly evolved and is still being enlarged, but while new impressions may be felt by an educated person, the formulated feeling is inseparable, from well-known surviving words."
Then, how can I use words with established meanings to convey to your senses an entirely new idea? If I use new sounds, strung together, they are not words to you, and convey no meaning; if I use words familiar, they reach backwards as well as forward. Thus it is possible to instruct you, by a laborious course of reasoning, concerning a phenomenon that is connected with phenomena already understood by you, for your word-language can be thrust out from the parent stalk, and can thus follow the outreaching branches. However, in the case of phenomena that exist on other planes, or are separated from any known material, or force, as is the true conception that envelops the word eternity, t here being neither connecting materials, forces, nor words to unite the outside with the inside, the known with the unknown, how can I tell you more than I have done?"
"You are word-bound."
None-the-less let us begin our journey into the unknown, unknown that is, to all but CBCTV Zoro-Astrian Freemason priests and the artificial intelligence program (AI), their "Unknown Superior".
Re~member, you are learning to decipher coding.
"Freemasonry is a SYSTEM of MORALITY veiled in ALLEGORY and illustrated by SYMBOLS". (The letters J&A being two principle cues, Q's or clues, of Freemasonry, as they also appear in the name Jaques, in the King James version of the Bible, and in the initials of the illustrator of Etidorhpa...JAK)
Also, in Mason-talk, the letter "K" symbolizes the word "mission". When viewed as a pictograph the letter "K" infers a change, or re-direction from the original, following an initiation. Later, that new direction is provided with support from below--from the underground.
As far as the alphabet's pictographs are concerned, the Desdemona type face can be accepted as being the Masonic "standard".
ETIDORHPA AND THE ACCOUNT OF A REMARKABLE JOURNEY: THE END OF THE EARTH;
THE STRANGE HISTORY OF A MYSTERIOUS BEING by JOHN URI LLOYD (1896)
With many illustrations by J. Augustus Knapp. With added chapters from the 11th edition. The strange history of a myster ious being and the account of a remarkable journey into the Earth as communicated to Llewellyn Drury.
Fiction? None but the ignorant would believe that! The author was an advanced student of Zoro-Astrian Freemasonry and in his sensational book he has tried to place before his fellow man a tremendous reality which he discovered, concerning this earth of ours, and life on it, and in it, and beyond it.
First, the characters are designed as pictographs and each character is then given a phonetic value as well as a secret alpha and numeric value.
It is also important to realize that, since the days of the Tower of Babel (allegory), each of the world's 6000 languages were written, or converted along the way, to meet Freemasonry's standards which were set at the very beginning. This fact alone, which is the basis of all philology, leaves no doubt that the ancient Zoro-Astrian priests of Persia are behind this vast 8000 year old conspiracy which is supported by international war, trade, politics, organized religion, banking and secret societies.
The scientific establishment tends to reject, suppress or ignore evidence that conflicts with accepted theories, while denigrating or persecuting the messenger.
by Will Hart
"THE BRAIN POLICE" AND "THE BIG LIE"
Any time you allege a conspiracy is afoot, especially in the field of science, you are treading on thin ice. We tend to be very sceptical about conspiracies--unless the Mafia or some Muslim radicals are behind the alleged plot. But the evidence is overwhelming and the irony is that much of it is in plain view.
The good news is that the players are obvious. Their game plan and even their play-by-play tactics are transparent, once you learn to spot them. However, it is not so easy to penetrate through the smokescreen of propaganda and disinformation to get to their underlying motives and goals. It would be convenient if we could point to a plumber's unit and a boldface liar like Richard Nixon, but this is a more subtle operation.
The bad news: the conspiracy is global and there are many vested interest groups. A cursory investigation yields the usual suspects: scientists with a theoretical axe to grind, careers to further and the status quo to maintain. Their modus operandi is "The Big Lie"--and the bigger and more widely publicised, the better. They rely on invoking their academic crede ntials to support their arguments, and the presumption is that no one has the right to question their authoritarian pronouncements that:
1. there is no mystery about who built the Great Pyramid or what the methods of construction were, and the Sphinx shows no signs of water damage;
2. there were no humans in the Americas before 20,000 BC;
3. the first civilization dates back no further than 6000 BC;
4. there are no documented anomalous, unexplained or enigmatic data to take into account;
5. there are no lost or unaccounted-for civilizations.
Let the evidence to the contrary be damned!
Personal Attacks: Dispute over Age of the Sphinx and Great Pyramid
In 1993, NBC in the USA aired The Mysteries of the Sphinx, which presented geological evidence showing that the Sphinx was at least twice as old (9,000 years) as Egyptologists claimed. It has become well known as the "water erosion controversy". An examination of the politicking that Egyptologists deployed to combat this undermining of their turf is instructive.
Self-taught Egyptologist John Anthony West brought the water erosion issue to the attention of geologist Dr Robert Schoch. They went to Egypt and launched an intensive on-site investigation. After thoroughly studying the Sphinx first hand, the geologist came to share West's preliminary conclusion and they announced their findings.
Dr Zahi Hawass, the Giza Monuments chief, wasted no time in firing a barrage of public criticism at the pair. Renowned Egyptologist Dr Mark Le hner, who is regarded as the world's foremost expert on the Sphinx, joined his attack. He charged West and Schoch with being "ignorant and insensitive". That was a curious accusation which took the matter off the professional level and put the whole affair on a personal plane. It did not address the facts or issues at all and it was highly unscientific.
But we must note the standard tactic of discrediting anyone who dares to call the accepted theories into question. Shifting the focus away from the issues and "personalising" the debate is a highly effective strategy--one which is often used by politicians who feel insecure about their positions. Hawass and Lehner invoked their untouchable status and presumed authority. (One would think that a geologist's assessment would hold more weight on this particular point.)
A short time later, Schoch, Hawass and Lehner were invited to debate the issue at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. West was not allowed to participate because he lacked the required credentials.
This points to a questionable assumption that is part of the establishment's arsenal: only degreed scientists can practice science. Two filters keep the uncredentialled, independent researcher out of the loop: (1) credentials, and (2) peer review. You do not get to number two unless you have number one.
Science is a method that anyone can learn and apply. It does not require a degree to observe and record facts and think critically about them, especially in the non-technical social sciences.
In a free and open society, science has to be a democratic process.
Be that as it may, West was barred. The elements of the debate have been batted back and forth since then without resolution. It is similar to the controversy over who built the Giza pyramids and how.
This brings up the issue of The Big Lie and how it has been promoted for generations. The controversy over how the Great Pyramid was constructed is one example. It could be easily settled if Egyptologists wanted to resolve the dispute. A simple test could be designed and arranged by impartial engineers (if that itself is not an oxy~moron) that would either prove or disprove their longstanding disputed theory--that it was built using the primitive tools and methods of the day, circa 2500 BC.
Why hasn't this been done? The answer is so obvious, it seems impossible: they know that the theory is bogus. Could a trained, highly educated scientist really believe that 2.3 million tons of stone, some blocks weighing 70 tons, could have been transported and lifted by primitive methods? That seems improbable, though they have no compunction against lying to the public, writing textbooks and defending this theory against alternative theories. However, we must note that they will not subject themselves to the bottom-line test.
We think it is incumbent upon any scientist to bear the burden of proof of his/her thesis; however, the social scientists who make these claims have never stood up to that kind of scrutiny. That is why we must suspect a conspiracy. N o other scientific discipline would get away with bending the rules of science. All that Egyptologists have ever done is bat down alternative theories using underhanded tactics. It is time to insist that they prove their own proposals.
Why would scientists try to hide the truth and avoid any test of their hypothesis? Their motivations are equally transparent. If it can be proved that the Egyptians did not build the Great Pyramid in 2500 BC using primitive methods, or if the Sphinx can be dated to 9000 BC, the whole house of cards comes tumbling down. Orthodox views of cultural evolution are based upon a chronology of civilization having started in Sumeria no earlier than 4000 BC. The theory does not permit an advanced civilization to have existed prior to that time. End of discussion.
Archaeology and history lose their meaning without a fixed time line as a point of reference.
Since the theory of "cultural evolution" has been tied to Darwin's general theory of evolution, even more is at stake. Does this explain why facts, anomalies and enigmas are denied, suppressed and/or ignored? Yes, it does. The biological sciences today are based on Darwinism.
Pressure Tactics: The Ica Stones of Peru
Now we turn to another, very different case. In 1966, Dr Javier Cabrera received a stone as a gift from a poor local farmer in his native Ica, Peru. A fish was carved on the stone, which would not have meant much to the average villager but it did mean a lot to the educated Dr Cabrera. He recognized it as a long-extinct species. This aroused his curiosity. He purchased more stones from the farmer, who said he had collected them near the river after a flood.
Dr Cabrera accumulated more and more stones, and word of their existence and potential import reached the archaeological community. Soon, the doctor had amassed thousands of "Ica stones". The sophisticated carvings were as enigmatic as they were fascinating. Someone had carved men fighting with dinosaurs, men with telescopes and men performing operations with surgical equipment. They also contained drawings of lost continents.
Several of the stones were sent to Germany and the etchings were dated to remote antiquity. But we all know that men could not have lived at the time of dinosaurs; Homo sapiens has only existed for about 100,000 years.
The BBC got wind of this discovery and swooped down to produce a documentary about the Ica stones. The media exposure ignited a storm of controversy. Archaeologists criticized the Peruvian government for being lax about enforcing antiquities laws (but that was not their real concern). Pressure was applied to government officials.
The farmer who had been selling the stones to Cabrera was arrested; he claimed to have found them in a cave but refused to disclose the exact location to authorities, or so they claimed.
This case was disposed of so artfully that it would do any corrupt politician proud. The Peruvian government threatened to prosecute and imprison the farmer. He was offered and accepted a plea bargain; he then recant ed his story and "admitted" to having carved the stones himself. That seems highly implausible, since he was uneducated and unskilled and there were 11,000 stones in all. Some were fairly large and intricately carved with animals and scenes that the farmer would not have had knowledge of without being a palaeontologist. He would have needed to work every day for several decades to produce that volume of stones. However, the underlying facts were neither here nor there. The Ica stones were labeled "hoax" and forgotten.
The case did not require a head-to-head confrontation or public discrediting of non-scientists by scientists; it was taken care of with invisible pressure tactics. Since it was filed under "hoax", the enigmatic evidence never had to be dealt with, as it did in the next example.
Censorship of "Forbidden" Thinking: Evidence for Mankind's Great Antiquity
The case of author Michael Cremo is well documented, and it also demonstrates how the scientific establishment openly uses pressure tactics on the media and government. His book Forbidden Archeology examines many previously ignored examples of artifacts that prove modern man's antiquity far exceeds the age given in accepted chronologies.
The examples which he and his co-author present are controversial, but the book became far more controversial than the contents when it was used in a documentary.
In 1996, NBC broadcast a special called The Mysterious Origins of Man, which featured material from Cremo's book. The reaction from the scient ific community went off the Richter scale. NBC was deluged with letters from irate scientists who called the producer "a fraud" and the whole program "a hoax".
But the scientists went further than this--a lot further. In an extremely unconscionable sequence of bizarre moves, they tried to force NBC not to rebroadcast the popular program, but that effort failed. Then they took the most radical step of all: they presented their case to the federal government and requested the Federal Communications Commission to step in and bar NBC from airing the program again.
This was not only an apparent infringement of free speech and a blatant attempt to thwart commerce, it was an unprecedented effort to censor intellectual discourse. If the public or any government agency made an attempt to handcuff the scientific establishment, the public would never hear the end of it.
The letter to the FCC written by Dr Allison Palmer, President of the Institute for Cambrian Studies, is revealing:
At the very least, NBC should be required to make substantial prime-time apologies to their viewing audience for a sufficient period of time so that the audience clearly gets the message that they were duped. In addition, NBC should perhaps be fined sufficiently so that a major fund for public science education can be established.
I think we have some good leads on who "the Brain Police" are. And I really do not think "conspiracy" is too strong a word--because for every case of this kind of attempted suppression that is exposed, 10 other s are going on successfully. We have no idea how many enigmatic artifacts or dates have been labeled "error" and tucked away in storage warehouses or circular files, never to see the light of day.
Data Rejection: Inconvenient Dating in Mexico
Then there is the high-profile case of Dr Virginia Steen-McIntyre, a geologist working for the US Geological Survey (USGS), who was dispatched to an archaeological site in Mexico to date a group of artifacts in the 1970s. This travesty also illustrates how far established scientists will go to guard orthodox tenets.
McIntyre used state-of-the-art equipment and backed up her results by using four different methods, but her results were off the chart. The lead archaeologist expected a date of 25,000 years or less, and the geologist's finding was 250,000 years or more.
The figure of 25,000 years or less was critical to the Bering Strait "crossing" theory, and it was the motivation behind the head archaeologist's tossing Steen-McIntyre's results in the circular file and asking for a new series of dating tests. This sort of reaction does not occur when dates match the expected chronological model that supports accepted theories.
Steen-McIntyre was given a chance to retract her conclusions, but she refused. She found it hard thereafter to get her papers published and she lost a teaching job at an American university.
Government Suppression and Ethnocentrism: Avoiding Anomalous Evidence in NZ, China and Mexico
In New Zealand, the gov ernment actually stepped in and enacted a law forbidding the public from entering a controversial archaeological zone. This story appeared in the book, Ancient Celtic New Zealand, by Mark DoutrÚ.
However, as we will find (and as I promised at the beginning of the article), this is a complicated conspiracy. Scientists (Government investigators and Judges) trying to protect their "hallowed" theories while furthering their careers are not the only ones who want artifacts and data suppressed. This is where the situation gets sticky.
The Waipoua Forest became a controversial site in New Zealand because an archaeological dig apparently showed evidence of a non-Polynesian culture that preceded the Maori--a fact that the tribe was not happy with. They learned of the results of the excavations before the general public did and complained to the government. According to DoutrÚ, the outcome was "an official archival document, which clearly showed an intention by New Zealand government departments to withhold archaeological information from public scrutiny for 75 years".
The public got wind of this fiasco but the government denied the claim. However, official documents show that an embargo had been placed on the site. DoutrÚ is a student of New Zealand history and archaeology. He is concerned because he says that artifacts proving that there was an earlier culture which preceded the Maori are missing from museums. He asks what happened to several anomalous remains:
Where are the ancient Indo-European hair samples (wavy red brown h air), originally obtained from a rock shelter near Watakere, that were on display at the Auckland War Memorial Museum for many years? Where is the giant skeleton found near Mitimati?
Unfortunately this is not the only such incident. Ethnocentrism has become a factor in the conspiracy to hide mankind's true history. Author Graham Hancock has been attacked by various ethnic groups for reporting similar enigmatic findings.
The problem for researchers concerned with establishing humanity's true history is that the goals of nationalists or ethnic groups who want to lay claim to having been in a particular place first, often dovetail with the goals of cultural evolutionists.
Archaeologists are quick to go along with suppressing these kinds of anomalous finds. One reason Egyptologists so jealously guard the Great Pyramid's construction date has to do with the issue of national pride.
The case of the Takla Makan Desert mummies in western China is another example of this phenomenon. In the 1970s and 1980s, an unaccounted-for Caucasian culture was suddenly unearthed in China. The arid environment preserved the remains of a blond-haired, blue-eyed people who lived in pre-dynastic China. They wore colorful robes, boots, stockings and hats. The Chinese were not happy about this revelation and they have downplayed the enigmatic find, even though Asians were found buried alongside the Caucasian mummies.
National Geographic writer Thomas B. Allen mused in a 1996 article about his finding a potsherd bearing a fingerprint of the potter. When he inquired if he could take the fragment to a forensic anthropologist, the Chinese scientist asked whether he "would be able to tell if the potter was a white man". Allen said he was not sure, and the official pocketed the fragment and quietly walked away. It appears that many things get in the way of scientific discovery and disclosure.
The existence of the Olmec culture in Old Mexico has always posed a problem. Where did the Negroid people depicted on the colossal heads come from? Why are there Caucasians carved on the stele in what is Mexico's seed civilization? What is worse, why aren't the indigenous Mexican people found on the Olmec artifacts? Recently a Mexican archaeologist solved the problem by making a fantastic claim: that the Olmec heads--which generations of people of all ethnic groups have agreed bear a striking resemblance to Africans--were really representations of the local tribe.
STORMTROOPERS FOR DARWINISM
The public does not seem at all aware of the fact that the scientific establishment has a double standard when it comes to the free flow of information. In essence, it goes like this... Scientists are highly educated, well trained and intellectually capable of processing all types of information, and they can make the correct critical distinctions between fact and fiction, reality and fantasy. The unwashed public is simply incapable of functioning on this high mental plane.
The noble ideal of the scientist as a highly trained, impartial, apolitical observer and assembler of established facts into a useful body of knowledge seems to have been shredded under the pressures and demands of the real world. Science has produced many positive benefits for society; but we should know by now that science has a dark, negative side. Didn't those meek fellows in the clean lab coats give us nuclear bombs and biological weapons? The age of innocence ended in World War II.
That the scientific community has an attitude of intellectual superiority is thinly veiled under a carefully orchestrated public relations guise. We always see Science and Progress walking hand in hand. Science as an institution in a democratic society has to function in the same way as the society at large; it should be open to debate, argument and counter-argument. There is no place for unquestioned authoritarianism. Is modern science meeting these standards?
In the Fall of 2001, PBS aired a seven-part series, titled Evolution. Taken at face value, that seems harmless enough. However, while the program was presented as pure, objective, investigative science journalism, it completely failed to meet even minimum standards of impartial reporting. The series was heavily weighted towards the view that the theory of evolution is "a science fact" that is accepted by "virtually all reputable scientists in the world", and not a theory that has weaknesses and strong scientific critics.
The series did not even bother to interview scientists who have criticisms of Darwinism: not "creationists" but bona fide scientists. To correct this deficiency, a group of 100 dissenting scientists felt compelled to issue a press release, "A Scientific Dissent on Darwinism", on the day the first program was scheduled to go to air. Nobel nominee Henry "Fritz" Schaefer was among them. He encouraged open public debate of Darwin's theory:
Some defenders of Darwinism embrace standards of evidence for evolution that as scientists they would never accept in other circumstances.
We have seen this same "unscientific" approach applied to archaeology and anthropology, where "scientists" simply refuse to prove their theories yet appoint themselves as the final arbiters of "the facts". It would be naive to think that the scientists who cooperated in the production of the series were unaware that there would be no counter-balancing presentation by critics of Darwin's theory.
Richard Milton is a science journalist. He had been an ardent true believer in Darwinian doctrine until his investigative instincts kicked in one day. After 20 years of studying and writing about evolution, he suddenly realized that there were many disconcerting holes in the theory. He decided to try to allay his doubts and prove the theory to himself by using the standard methods of investigative journalism.
Milton became a regular visitor to London's famed Natural History Museum. He painstakingly put every main tenet and classic proof of Darwinism to the test. The results shocked him. He found that the theory could not even stand up to the rigors of routine investigative journalism.
The veteran science writer t ook a bold step and published a book titled The Facts of Life:
Shattering the Myths of Darwinism. It is clear that the Darwinian myth had been shattered for him, but many more myths about science would also be crushed after his book came out. Milton says:
I experienced the witch-hunting activity of the Darwinist police at first hand?it was deeply disappointing to find myself being described by a prominent Oxford zoologist [Richard Dawkins] as "loony", "stupid" and "in need of psychiatric help" in response to purely scientific reporting.
(Does this sound like stories that came out of the Soviet Union 20 years ago when dissident scientists there started speaking out?)
Dawkins launched a letter-writing campaign to newspaper editors, implying that Milton was a "mole" creationist whose work should be dismissed. Anyone at all familiar with politics will recognise this as a standard Machiavellian by-the-book "character assassination" tactic. Dawkins is a highly respected scientist, whose reputation and standing in the scientific community carry a great deal of weight.
According to Milton, the process came to a head when the London Times Higher Education Supplement commissioned him to write a critique of Darwinism. The publication foreshadowed his coming piece: "Next Week: Darwinism - Richard Milton goes on the attack". Dawkins caught wind of this and wasted no time in nipping this heresy in the bud. He contacted the editor, Auriol Stevens, and accused Milton of being a "creationist", and prevailed upon Stevens t o pull the plug on the article. Milton learned of this behind-the-scenes backstabbing and wrote a letter of appeal to Stevens. In the end, she caved in to Dawkins and scratched the piece.
Imagine what would happen if a politician or bureaucrat used such pressure tactics to kill a story in the mass media (if such free press really exists). It would ignite a huge scandal. Not so with scientists, who seem to be regarded as "sacred cows" and beyond reproach. There are many disturbing facts related to these cases. Darwin's theory of evolution is the only theory routinely taught in our public school system that has never been subjected to rigorous scrutiny; nor have any of the criticisms been allowed into the curriculum.
This is an interesting fact, because a recent poll showed that the American public wants the theory of evolution taught to their children; however, "71 per cent of the respondents say biology teachers should teach both Darwinism and scientific evidence against Darwinian theory". Nevertheless, there are no plans to implement this balanced approach.
It is ironic that Richard Dawkins has been appointed to the position of Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He is a classic "Brain Police" storm trooper, patrolling the neurological front lines. The Western scientific establishment and mass media pride themselves on being open public forums devoid of prejudice or censorship. However, no television program examining the flaws and weaknesses of Darwinism has ever been aired in Darwin's home country or in America. A scientist who opposes the theory cannot get a paper published.
The Mysterious Origins of Man was not a frontal attack on Darwinism; it merely presented evidence that is considered anomalous by the precepts of his theory of evolution.
Returning to our bastions of intellectual integrity, Forest Mims was a solid and skilled science journalist. He had never been the center of any controversy and so he was invited to write the most-read column in the prestigious Scientific American, "The Amateur Scientist", a task he gladly accepted. According to Mims, the magazine's editor Jonathan Piel then learned that he also wrote articles for a number of Christian magazines. The editor called Mims into his office and confronted him.
"Do you believe in the theory of evolution?" Piel asked.
Mims replied, "No, and neither does Stephen Jay Gould."
His response did not affect Piel's decision to bump Mims off the popular column after just three articles.
This has the unpleasant odor of a witch-hunt. The writer never publicly broadcast his private views or beliefs, so it would appear that the "stormtroopers" now believe they have orders to make sure "unapproved" thoughts are never publicly disclosed.
TABOO OR NOT TABOO?
So, the monitors of "good thinking" are not just the elite of the scientific community, as we have seen in several cases; they are television producers and magazine editors as well. It seems clear that they are all driven by the singular imperative of furthering "public science education", as the president of the Cambrian Institute so aptly phrased it.
However, there is a second item on the agenda, and that is to protect the public from "unscientific" thoughts and ideas that might infect the mass mind. We outlined some of those taboo subjects at the beginning of the article; now we should add that it is also "unwholesome" and "unacceptable" to engage in any of the following research pursuits: paranormal phenomena, UFOs, cold fusion, free energy and all the rest of the "pseudo-sciences". Does this have a familiar ring to it? Are we hearing the faint echoes of religious zealotry?
Who ever gave science the mission of engineering and directing the inquisitive pursuits of the citizenry of the free world? It is all but impossible for any scientific paper that has anti-Darwinian ramifications to be published in a mainstream scientific journal. It is also just as impossible to get the "taboo" subjects even to the review table, and you can forget about finding your name under the title of any article in Nature unless you are a credentialled scientist, even if you are the next Albert Einstein.
To restate how this conspiracy begins, it is with two filters: credentials and peer review.
Modern science is now a maze of such filters set up to promote certain orthodox theories and at the same time filter out that data already prejudged to be unacceptable. Evidence and merit are not the guiding principles; conformity and position within the established community have re placed objectivity, access and openness.
Scientists do not hesitate to launch the most outrageous personal attacks against those they perceive to be the enemy. Eminent palaeontologist Louis Leakey penned this acid one-liner about Forbidden Archeology: "Your book is pure humbug and does not deserve to be taken seriously by anyone but a fool." Once again, we see the thrust of a personal attack; the merits of the evidence presented in the book are not examined or debated. It is a blunt, authoritarian pronouncement.
In a forthcoming installment, we will examine some more documented cases and delve deeper into the subtler dimensions of the conspiracy.
About the Author:
Will Hart is a freelance journalist, book author, nature photographer and documentary filmmaker. He lives and does much of his research in the Lake Tahoe area in the USA, and writes a column titled "The Tahoe Naturalist" for a regional publication. He has produced and directed films about wolves and wild horses.
Friday, December 25, 2009
St. John is the capital and largest city of New Brunswick, is on the inlet of the St. John river 277 miles northwest of Halifax. It has good harbor, and steamers run Boston. Shipbuilding, timber trade, and fishing are carried on, and there are important city was destroyed by fire in 1877, but has been rebuilt.
St. John is the capital of Newfoundland, (new found Dna) is on the east coast of island. 1,076 miles northeast of Montreal, and rope, being only 1,730 miles from Cork. It has a harbor, two railroads, and a number of manufactures.
The Knights of St. John of Jerusalem are a celebrated military and religious order of the middle ages , it was founded about 1048 in a hospital built by merchants of Amalfi at Jerusalem for the care of pilgrims(Trojan horse) to the Holy Sepulcher. This Order, which at various times in the progress of its history received the names of Knights Hospitaller , Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights of Rhodes, and lastly, Knights of Malta, was one of the most important religious and military orders of knighthood which sprang into existence during the Crusades which were instituted for the recovery of the Holy Land.(the is No L DNA).After the conquest of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099, the hospital servants were joined by many from the Christian army, who resolved to devote themselves to the service of poor and sick pilgrims(easy access to dna). They soon became an order, which was military as well as religious, their chief undertaking being the protection of pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. For this purpose commanderies were set up in the Mediterranean towns, and the members of the order became known as Hospitallers. Saladin forced them to retire to Acre in 1191, the last Christian stronghold in Palestine, which they held with great bravery for a century, but then after a terrible siege were compelled to sail to Cyprus.
In 1310 the knights captured Rhodes and seven neighboring islands from the Greek and Muslim pirates, and for over 200 years waged successful war against the Turks. In 1523 Sultan Solyman captured Rhodes, and after a short stay at Crete, Charles V. gave the Hospitallers the island of Malta, with Tripoli and Gozo. In 1565 the Corsair Dragut after capturing Tripoli, laid seige to Malta and at the end of four months was beaten off with a loss of 25,000 men. By 1798 the order was of of little importance, and Malta was surrendered to the French. Certain branches are still kept in Europe.
In the 12th century a bitter rivalry sprang up between the Hospitallers and the Knights Templar, which was fought out in 1259, the former being victorious. On the suppression of the Knights Templar in 1312, their 9,000 manors in different parts of Europe were added to the 19,000 already possessed by the Hospitallers. The brethren were divided into three classes, knights, chaplains and serving brothers, these last being fighting squires who accompanied the knights on their expeditions. The Hospitallers wore a red coat over their armor; their badge was a Maltese cross, enameled white and edged with gold; their motto was "pro fide," to which was afterwords added "pro utilitate hominum" "(for the faith and for the serving men")
In one of the old lectures of the last century, this dedication in Freemasonry to the two Saints John is thus explained:
"Q. Our Lodges being finished, furnished, the decorated with ornaments, furniture, and jewels, to whom were they consecrated?
A. To God.(Neanderthaler)
Q. Thank you, brother; and can you tell me whom they were first dedicated?
A. To Noah, who was saved in the ark.
Q. And by what name were what name were the Masons then known?
A. They were called Noachidae, Sages, or Wise Men.
Q. To whom were the Lodges dedicated during the Mosaic dispensation?
A. To Moses, the chosen of God, and Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel, who was eminent patron of the Craft.
Q. And under what name were the Masons known under that period?
A. Under the name of Dionysiacs, Geometricians, or Masters in Israel.
Q. But as Solomon was a Jew, and died long before the promulgation of Christianity, to whom were they dedicated under the Christian dispensation?
A. From Solomon the patronage of Masonry passed to St, John the Baptist.
Q. And under what name were they known after the promulgation of Christianity?
A. Under the name of Essenes, Architects, or Freemasons.
Q. Why were the Lodges dedicated to St. John the Baptist?
A. Because he was the forerunner(Trojan Horse) of our Saviour, and, by preaching repentance and humiliation, drew the first parallel of the Gospel.
Q. Had St. John the Baptist any equal?
A. He had; St John the Evangelist(Sesame Seesaw).
Q. Why is he said to be equal to the Baptist?
A. Because he finished by his learning what the other began by his zeal, and thus drew a second line parallel to the former; ever since which time Freemasons' Lodges, in all Christian countries, have been dedicated to the one or the other, or both, of these worthy and worshipful men.
The sun/son a.k.a. pseudo hermaphrodite , in the Egyptians mysteries, was symbolized by Osiris, the principal object of their rites, and whose name, according to Plutarch and Macrobius, signified the prince and leader, the soul of the universe and the governor of the stars. Macrobius says that the Egyptians worshiped the sun as the only divinity; and they represented him under different forms, according to the different phases of his infancy at the winter solstice in December, his adolescence at the vernal equinox in March, his manhood at the summer solstice in June, and his old age at the autumnal equinox in September.
Among the Phoenicians, the sun was adored under the name of Adonis, and in Persia under that of Mithras. In the Grecian mysteries, the orb of the day was represented by one of the officers who superintended the ceremony of initiation; and in the Druidical rites his worship was introduced as the visible representative of the invisible, creative, and preservative principles of nature. To the ancient worshipers, the movements of the heavenly bodies must have been something more than mere astronomical phenomena(the plan of the destruction of all peoples on the surface of the planet and the birth of the new psuedo hermaphroditic slave) ; they were the actions of the deities whom they adored, (new slave) and were invented with the solemnity of a religious character.
But, above all, the particular periods when the sun reached his greatest Northern and Southern declination, at the winter and summer soltices, by entering the zodiacal signs of Cancer and Capricorn, marked as they would be by the most evident effects on the seasons, and on the length of the days and nights, could not have passed unobserved, but, on the contrary, must have occupied an important of their ritual. Now these important days fall respectively on the 21st of June and the 21st of December. Hence, these solstitial periods were among the principal festivals observed by the Pagan nations. Du Pauw remarks of the Egyptians, that "they had a fixed festival at each new moon; one at the summer, and one at the winter solstice, as well as the vernal and autumnal equinoxes."
The Druids always observed the festivals of midsummer and midwinter in June and December. The former for a long time was celebrated by the Christian descendants of the Druids. The eve of St. John the Baptist variously called midsummer eve, was formerly a time of high observance amongst the English, as it still is in the Catholic countries. Bonfires were everywhere lighted, round which the people danced with joyful demonstrations, occasionally leaping through the flame.
The festival of the 25th of December was celebrated by the Druids in Britain and Ireland, with great fires lighted on the top of the hills. . . . .On the 25th of December; at the first moment of the day, throughout all the ancient world, the birthday of the god Sol was celebrated. This was the moment when, after the supposed winter solstice and the lowest point of his degradation below our hemisphere, he began to increase and gradually to ascend. At this moment, in all the ancient religions, his birthday was kept; from India to the Ultima Thule, these ceremonies partook of the same character: everywhere the god was feigned to be born and his festival was celebrated with great rejoicings.
The earlier ecclesiastical priests of the church had appropriated two days near those solstitial periods to the memory of two eminent saints, incorporated these festivals by the lapse of a few days into the Masonic calendar, and adopted these worthies as patrons of the Order. To this change, the earlier Christian Masons were the more persuaded by the peculiar character of these saints. St. John the Baptist by announcing the approach of Christ, and by the mystic ablution to which he subjected his proselytes, and which was afterwords adopted in the ceremony of initiation into Christianity, might well be considered as the Grand Hierophant of the Church; while the mysterious and emblematic nature of the Apocalypse assimilated the mode of instruction adopted by St. John the Evangelist to that practiced by the Fraternity. We are thus lead to the conclusion that the connection of the Saints John with the Masonic institution is rather of a symbolic character than of an historical character.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Monday, December 21, 2009
George Bush and John Kerry's
SKULL AND BONES SOCIETY
AGENTS OF THE BIRDMEN WHO RUN THE WORLD
ECCLESIASTIC THEOSOPHY. The word theosophy comes from the Greek theos, meaning "overlord," and sophia, meaning "wisdom." Loosely translated, it means "divine wisdom." It is a secret system of morality incorporating aspects of Buddhism and Brahmanism which is veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.
This kind of Ecclesiastic monkish philosophy has existed since pre-history, and much later, was the belief system of the ancient Greek philosophers Pythagoras and Plato. It's principles were extensively described by the philosopher Plotinus in his 'Enneads' in the 3rd century AD. (Also, see Arius and the Persian Aryans)
The first principle claims that there is an ancient pre-historic genetic principle about which there is little knowledge, due mostly to a state-sponsored "Eyes Wide Shut" Arian-Mede school of human engineering and programming aimed at the general public.
Secondly, the universe is an eternity in which smaller universes, universes interpreted to the masses by Brotherhoods of Friends and Societies of tollgating Hi-jackers which alternately appear and disappear cataclismicly, like lava from an erupting volcano. All living souls--bings, beings or boeings--are ultimately identified with a Neanderthal over-soul and his Cro-Magnon angels, which is itself an aspect of the little known Sima/Sial principle of the Orphic Egg, the singularity.
Following physical birth, because of programming, every earthly soul (one who leaves temporary footprints in sand or ripples in water) is obliged to go through a series of rebirths, or reincarnations, within the same lifetime. When the first persona dies (after experiencing a new reality), the soul (being) is then reborn as another greater or lesser persona, ie: the role and character that one assumes in public or society; one's current public image or personality, as distinguished from the real continuing work-in-progress, the evolutionary inner self, which itself quickly returns to its eternal quest for other new learning experiences, and eventually, to remembrance with the Moho singularity.
MADRAS, India. The capital of Tamil Nadu State in southern India, Madras is the country's fourth largest city. It is located in the northeastern corner of the state on the Coromandel coast of the Bay of Bengal.
Madras was the first center of post Atlantis Dravidian culture, which was present before Aryan invaders conquered the Indus valley in about 1500 BC. Madras is the shortened name of the fishing village Madraspatnam, where the British East India Company built Fort St. George and a trading post in 1639-40.
The apostle Thomas is believed to have been martyred just outside the city in AD 78. The place where he was buried is the site of a basilica, built in 1896, that reportedly has some of his relics. St. Mary's Church is the oldest (1680) Protestant church in India.
The name BIRDMEN is a code word for the most ancient caped crusaders, "The Sons of Martha", (Genetic) ENGINEERS who wear dresses in public; a secret society of University based scientists that controls Ecclesiastic Freemasonry and thereby, Organized Religion, National Media, Courts of Appeal and all Governments.
UPS: At Akhunbabayev Square, at the western end of Navoi Street in Tashkent Uzbekistan, north of the Himalayan Mountains (K2), is the 16th-century Kukeldash "madrassah", a radical Islamic institution of higher education. (Uzbekistan and neighboring nations have large Muslim populations.) North of the square is another 16th-century madrassah and a 15th-century mausoleum. This is where the human engineering programme for "suicide bombers" such as Brian Nichols, Timothy McVeigh, the Columbine and Minnesota school assassins, the Washington snipers and that used by the insurgents in Iraq, etc., was first implanted in the minds of the Mongolian hordes who overran Europe under Attila the Hun, in 451 AD.
SEESAW : kamikaze. 1. Of or relating to a suicidal air attack: a kamikaze mission. 2. Slang. So reckless in behavior or actions as to be suicidal: kamikaze hot rodders. [Japanese : kami, divine + kaze, wind (from legendary name of a typhoon that in 1281 saved Japan by destroying the Mongol navy).]
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Sinai is a mountain in the northwestern part of Arabia, known as the place where Moses received the tables of stone, inscribed with the ten commandments. The mountain is a single peak in the great rocky mass which almost fills the peninsula of Sinai, a point of land shut in between the two arms of the Red Sea, the Gulf of Suez and Gulf of Akaba. There are three separate mountains, Mount Katherine being usually thought to be indicated by the name Sinai. This mountain has two peaks, the northern one, known as Mount Horeb, and the southern one, called the Mountain of Moses. This southern peak is generally agreed upon as the place of the giving of the Law, though it is still disputed. At its foot is the Church of St. Catherine, built about 527 by the Emperor Justinian; a little higher up, the chapel of St. Elias and on the summit a little pilgrim church. The whole peninsula, as well as the bold, jagged mountains, have a stern, treeless aspect, though palms, acacias and tamarisks grow in the ravines. The Arabs range over the region with their sheep and goats. There are many caves among the mountains which have been the abodes of hermits, and many inscriptions on the rocks which date back to the early Christians. See Sinai and Palestine, by Stanley; Desert of the Exodus.
Palms are a natural order of useful and important plants, generally with tall and slender stem, without branches, and having the compound leaves issuing directly from the top. The outer case of the stem is covered by a hard, sandy polished casing, enveloping a soft, pulpy and fibrous interior which can be easily removed. They are natives of the tropical regions, and when young the stems form a nutritious food, and when older some yield a farinaceous substance, while the young bud on the end is composed of juicy leaves which are esteemed a delicate vegetable. Many, again, yield a sweet sap which is made into sugar, drinks, wines, spirits and vinegar. The leaves are made into thatch roofs, mats, baskets, hats, umbrellas, fans, thread, cord and clothing, and in some of the old eastern countries the records are written on dried leaves. Some of the principal species and their characteristics are, the chamaedorea, a native of Brazil, which is used for bridges, the ash of its burnt fruit for salt and produces a nourishing cabbage; the betel nut palm; the cabbage palm; the sugar palm, from which a brown sugar is made and whose distilled sap forms an intoxicating drink; the sago palm, from whose stem the sago of commerce is taken, and many others. See A Popular History of Palms, by Seeman.
Palmetto, the American species of palm, is found in California and Florida, often growing to the height of 50 feet and having leaves 5 feet long. The most important is the cabbage palmetto. Other kinds of this species grow in the Bermudas, along the Mediterranean shores and in Arabia. The characteristics are the same as those of the palm, only that they are not so tall. Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter, takes its name from the usage of blessing branches of the palm, or of other substituted trees, and carrying them in the procession in memory of the triumphal entry of Christ into Jerusalem. The custom can be traced back to the 8th century. In the Roman Catholic Church the priest blesses the branches and hands them to the worshipers as they pass out, and when the hymn, "All glory praise and honor" is sung by the choir and the congregation outside, the doors are opened and the people return. The branches are taken home and burned and the ashes used on Ashe Wednesday.
The Triumphal Entry1 Now when they drew near Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Loose them and bring them to Me. 3 And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord has need of them,’ and immediately he will send them.”
4 All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying:
5 “ Tell the daughter of Zion,
‘ Behold, your King is coming to you,
Lowly, and sitting on a donkey,
A colt, the foal of a donkey.’”
6 So the disciples went and did as Jesus commanded them. 7 They brought the donkey and the colt, laid their clothes on them, and set Him on them. 8 And a very great multitude spread their clothes on the road; others cut down branches (palm) from the trees and spread them on the road. 9 Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying:
“ Hosanna to the Son of David!
‘ Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’
Hosanna in the highest!”
10 And when He had come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, “Who is this?”
11 So the multitudes said, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee.”
Jesus entry to town was on a d(o)nk(e)y the original vehicle.
Palmer from the Latin, palmifer, a palm bearer. A name given in the time of the Crusades to a pilgrim, who, coming back from the holy war after having accomplished his vow of pilgrimage, exhibited upon his return home a branch of palm bound round his staff in token of it.
Edward Henry Palmer, was born at Cambridge, on August 7, 1840, and while a boy learned the Gypsy language. Afterward he acquired Italian and French. In 1860 he began the study of the Orient at Cambridge, and in 1867 graduated with third-class honors in classics. In 1868-70 he was working for the Palestine exploration surveying Sinai, and in 1871 became professor of Arabic in Cambridge. In 1882 he was sent by the government to win the Sinai tribes over to Britain, and prevent the destruction of the Suez canal by Arabs, and made two expeditions, on the second of which from Suez with Captain Gill and Lieutenant Charrington he was betrayed and murdered at Wady Sudr on Aug. 11, 1882. His remains and those of his companions now repose in St. Paul's. See his Life by W. Besant.
Erastus Dow Palmer was an American sculptor born in Pompey, New York, April 2, 1817. He was a joiner by trade, and made carvings first of animals and leaves in wood. Seeing a cameo head, he cut on a shell a portrait of his wife and his success induced him to try working in marble. Two bas-reliefs, Morning and Evening , The Sleeping Peri; The Angel at the Sepulcher, in the cemetery at Albany; Immortality, Faith and Sappho, also bas-reliefs, are some of his best known works. He has executed busts of Alexander Hamilton, Washington Irving, Commodore Perry and others, and a statue of Robert Livingstone for the state of New York, cast in bronze. The Landing of the Pilgrims, in the capitol at Washington, is one of his largest works.
Ray Palmer, an American clergyman, was born at Little Compton, Rhode Island, Nov. 12, 1808. He graduated at Yale College, and studied theology, beginning his work as a minister at Bath, Maine. Most of his life was spent in Albany, New York, where he was one of the most prominent clergymen of the Congregational church. He is best known by his hymns, some of which are found in nearly every church collection, and one of which, My Faith Looks Up to Thee, is widely used and very popular. Besides many hymns, he has written Closet Hours; Remember Me, or the Holy Communion; Home, or the Unlost Paradise, a poem; and Earnest Words. He died in March 29,1887.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
TIMELINE OVERVIEW OF CBTV TAX COLLECTING PRIEST~HOODS
AND THEIR ILLUSIONARY TRANSFER OF POLITICAL POWER
FROM ATLANTIS TO COSMETIC POLITICIANS WORLDWIDE~!
13951 BC ~ Atlantis : MOHO~Mandan Pilgrims (most recent descendants of HOMO-Erectus : see sketch by clicking on the right), the 'Cult of the Bald Turkey Vulture Priest~Hood' also popularly known as 'The Magi' (originally symbolized by a Winged Lion-headed Male Human holding a Pair of Keys in one hand and dressed with a gem studded vest complete with a replica of the Zodiac on his chest ; the whole coiled by a Snake that appears to enter his Mouth), depart from the continent of Atlantis (Antarctica) as newly Freed~Masons and sail north on the Atlantic ocean, making their first stop on the north-west coast of Africa (Mauritania).
Once there, these Sea Peoples disembark their priceless cargo of freshly Genetically Modified Tan Colored Human Organisms which they have named The Shepherd Kings. That done, they then sail on into the Mediterranean Sea, making their way East where they finally disembark, discharging the balance of their remaining slaves, and then climb up into the Caucasus Mountains. There, they will open the first foreign branch plant of Atlantis' ancient human cloning laboratory, (in today's Kurdistan), somewhere between Lake Van (Turkey) and the Caspian Sea (Azerbaijan).
Soon after, these immigrant CBTV troglodytes of Atlantis begin the first construction of what is to become numerous underground cities, while simultaneously, others among the m continue to further improve and genetically modify New Man; until eventually, they succeed in fabricating a completely new white race, which they style Caucasian, on a mountain plateau to which they give the name ~MEDIA~.
11792 BC ~ Canaan: Descendants of the west African Tan colored Shepherd Kings have by now migrated across north Africa, making stops at both Chad and Egypt along the way, before turning north, until they finally reach their destination in Canaan (Phoenicia), which they then proceed to make into their first semi-permanent middle-Eastern settlement.
9633 BC ~ Cappadocia: The Watchers are now well established at the heart of Asia Minor (east-central Turkey). They then launch their first shock n' awe campaign of fire, brimstone and water on the dark-skinned original peoples below, by detonating a number of nuclear devices that explode and open up the land bridge between the Mediterranean Sea and the valley to its north; thereby flooding the valley (and the original peoples who happened to live there ~ at a place which has now become the modern day Black Sea).
The resulting tidal waves also cause flooding as far away as Canaan, frightening the inhabitants (Mandaeans) away from the lowlands and moves them further up into the mountains of Cappadocia, or even further still to the East into the desert, plains and marshes of the lower fertile crescent of ancient Babylon (Iraq).
7474 BC ~ Anatolia: The Watchers and their so-called 'giant' offsprings, Priests who are now embedded among both the Tan and White races (Nephil im), are soon viewed as Sons of Gods and noble elite, by the black local peasants. They begin to take hold of community leadership positions; by acting out the part of Dog~Priest, Historian Pipe Carrier and/or Shaman among the original black peoples, especially taking charge of distributing the news, whenever any seemingly mysterious or cataclysmic event follows either natural or man-induced earth-crust displacements caused by volcanos. The Magi are into Magic, and Magic to them is the Science that the people don't yet understand.
5315 BC ~ Babylon: The introduction of planned agriculture and animal husbandry on privately owned farms, whose food products can now be stored in fortified buildings defended by an army, sets the stage for the introduction of fiat money, currency paid in return for voluntary labor, which can then be spent on food distributed by a centralized food cartel.
A new organized religion also makes its first appearance. It is Zarathustra (Zoro~Astrianism), a protestant cut-out from the Magi religion of the north (Kurdistan and Persia), and comes complete with promises of a glorious after-life following death for its devoted followers, thereby allowing an uninformed populace to simply dream about this possibility throughout their own entire servile lives, while the Priest~Hoods and Brother~Hoods line their pockets at the trough.
3156 BC ~ Egypt: A new version of the organized religion of Babylon, which itself had focused on a symbol of the concrete spiral or Ziggurat, is now exported to Egypt, where the tax-collecting DOG Priest~Hoods of Heliopolis first introduce the concept of a mono-theistic God during the reign of Egypt's 18th Dynasty of the Pharaohs (Kings). Later they would also modify the main symbol of Atlantean Freemasonry; changing the original spiral Ziggurat which itself represents our DNA's double helix, into squares, each of which they then pile one upon the other, in ever reducing size. This 'Hydraulic Society', Egypt, then proceeds to build a number of these structures which they call Pyramids, culminating in the construction of the Great Pyramid, the Sphinx and the underground RosTau, along the banks of the Nile (recently diverted blue and white Nile rivers), at the Giza plateau.
These Pyramids are symbolic of the fact that although each sector of the religious, political, trade and military systems are independent of one another, they all owe their existence to the secret society, Ecclesiastical Freemasonry, and their Unknown Superior ~THE MEDIA~, that meets in the Mason lodge located therein, and that each branch of the system shares a common goal that they must all strive together to achieve. The Pyramid's capstone reminds them all, that by tollgating a percentage off of all economic activity in the country, only in this manner they will eventually guarantee each and every Priest or Brother of the various antipodean Priest~Brother~Hoods, a fair share of the common 'pie'.
Unbeknownst to most of Free~Masons however, the missing capstone of the Great Pyramid is intended to symbolize the Atlantean CBTV Priest~Hood's ultimate goal; which is the eventual replacement of both male and female genders with a Genetically Modified Unisex clone, a Super~Slave that will combine in IT the best features of both genders, those that are most appropriate to a great slave (THE NEW WAY). The capstone, having been removed and moved across the Red Sea to Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, is only to be re-installed upon the Great Pyramis once slavery has permanently become the function of a SUPER HERM~APHRODITE SLAVE.
997 BC ~ Israel: Atlantis' migrant Tax Collectors' center of 'cosmetic political power' is transferred from Egypt to the 1000 year old tribe of Abraham, the former Mesopotamian TAN Hyksos, styled The Shepherd Kings, who now call themselves Hebrews. Leaving behind their recent occupation of Egypt, the Hebrews have reestablished themselves in Canaan (Palestine), which they rename Israel. Later, in 588/86 BC, the elite leaders of the Hebrew tribe are sent back to Babylon to attend an indepth training course in the latest advanced techniques of human manipulation. They specialize in learning an ancient Sumerian art which teaches "how to pro-actively use both--organized religion, combined with a dynamic monetary system--in order to better control the world's population without requiring the use of military force". For just that purpose, mono-theistic Christianity is introduced into Europe and the West, while Buddhism, and later Islam, replace the two original versions of Persian religion, Magi~Zoroastrianism, which had previously been passed on to India and the Far East as national religions.
1178 AD ~ The Franks: Germa ny, a land populated by migrating Hebrew tribes since the Diaspora (586 BC), remain under the direct control of the MOHO~Mandan CBTV Priest~Hoods of the East, who themselves have recently relocated their home-base from Kurdistan to Greenland. Germany now divides itself into two parts; sending the western tribe of Franks to settle across the Rhine and Alps, in a land which they have now call France. Later, under the guise of military expeditions, Crusades, undertaken by European Christians in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries and said "to conquer Jerusalem for Christ", Atlantean Persian Freemasonry of the middle-East use this contrived opportunity to teach the Christians with new courses in group dynamics, similar to those taught earlier to Hebrew Priests; first, to St. Bernard's Knights Templar, and then, to other Christian Priest~Hoods who agree to locate permanent offices in both Jerusalem as well as the Basque Country in the Pyrenees mountains.
From this location in Basque Country, the Basques can then keep one close 'eye' on the Vatican in Rome, and a second 'eye', on their 'Yes Man', King Louis IX of France, while they also oversee the rediscovery of America. Ecclesiastical Freemasonry and its secular wing, Grand Orient Freemasonry, then lead the movement to establish Freemason Lodges in other European countries, beginning with Scotland, where the St. Clair family is called upon to establish the Scottish Rite who will report to France's Grand Orient Lodge, becoming an antipodean to the York Rite of England who report directly to the Germans.
Is abelle, the secular Quean of Spain, then contracted with Columbus, Cortes and Cartier, to begin setting the boundaries of a soon to be rediscovered North America, one based upon the needs and pre-set longevity determined by Atlantean instructions, which are written down in the Hebrew Cabala's 'Book of Enoch' (a name which translates to "the mission of ONE", the Herm~Aphrodite).
(This is a work in progress and more information is to be added later)
Although many educated people are aware that the Sumerians, Egyptians and Hittites once communicated in this manner, few are aware that the characters in the Roman alphabet which are still in use today, are also pictographs. These pictographs symbolize modern concepts that could not even be conceived of by the general population when they were first created, yet, their significance was of such prime importance to the Benedictines priesthood who first drew them, that these drawings were used to code and illuminate the most secret information of all times; the secrets of Ecclesiastical Freemasonry.
Line drawings of the Roman characters of our alphabet, since they were first drawn by Basque priests in the font style which is now called Desdemona, depict the 'business plan' of the Cult of the Bald Turkey Vulture (CBTV) of ancient Kurdistan. This seemingly coincidental evidence forms part of a much larger body of evidence, that when linked together confirms the true meaning of an ancient concept we have come to know as 'The Phoenix'.
The Phoenix is a bird in Egyptian mythology that reportedly lived in the desert for about 500 years and then consumed itself by fire, later to rise renewed from its ashes. As such, it is an allegory for the ancient Library at Alexandria. As well, it is used to describe a person or thing of unsurpassed excellence or beauty; a model of excellence or perfection of a kind, such a s an unflawed diamond weighing at least 100 carats (a symbol for 'the way'). Phoenix is also a constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor.
Tucana is a constellation in the polar region of the Southern Hemisphere near Indus and Hydrus, containing the smaller Magellanic Clouds. Sculptor is a constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Cetus and Phoenix. It is also called Sculptor's Workshop. Cetus is a constellation in the equatorial region of the Southern Hemisphere near Aquarius and Eridanus. Aquarius is also a constellation in the equatorial region of the Southern Hemisphere near Pisces and Aquila, the 11th sign of the zodiac in astrology which is also called Water Bearer. Eridinus is a constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Fornax and Cetus. [Greek Eridanos, mythical river associated with the myth of Phaeton.]
The Zodiac is the stellar calendar and timeline used to delineate the CBTV 'business plan', which itself defines the ultimate goal of the Priest~Hoods at a time which they have styled "The End Times". The Zodiac, in astrology, is a band related to a period of time divided into 12 equal parts called signs, each 30Á wide. A 500 year period of the Phoenix represents one quarter of the time within each sign of the Zodiac; which are also described as being either ascending or descending.
Now, do you get my drift?
Yet, can you still be surprised if I tell you that the PRIEST~HOODS TAXMAN (CBTV), and not your GOVERNMENT, created this and every other cou ntry of the world for the sole purpose of stealing your, and the original people's, birthright?
Yes, your ultimate superiors are in fact the PRIEST~HOODS (priests and hoods). In Canada their political headquarters are located within the ESTRE region of the Eastern Townships of Quebec; while in the USA they are in Des Moines (the monks) IOWA, from where they control your elections, beginning with 'the primaries'.
PS: PROMIS software, as originally developed by Bill Hamilton of INSLAW INC., is the one software that can best make these types of connections. PROMIS software was stolen from Bill Hamilton by the Agnew led US Justice Department and marketed to police forces all around the world.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
The first key is the word Liber which, in the Mason dictionary, means ‹The BookŠ. The Book is the second book depicted in Masonry‰s important symbols. It is shown as an open book (Enoch - The Book of Truth) with the words ‹I am the truthŠ printed on it. One allegory for this symbol is ‹The Book of RuthŠ, which itself is found in the Bible.
The Book of Ruth is a tale about two women. This book relates to Freemasonry‰s step-by-step systematic plan, ie: Seduction and Tenacity lead to land acquisitions. The Book of Ruth also includes a second level of symbolism. Where Ruth is arrived at by ignoring the first ‹TŠ in truth, it also reveals ‹a symbol within a symbolŠ. By dropping the letter ‹RŠ, in Ruth, we arrive at Uth, which phonetically converts to Youth, and eventually to Uth-a, the current home state of the Mormons.
Liber is also the root word of Liber-als, of Liber-a-tion and of Liber-ace. These words are all symbols of the newly grafted gender which is to be introduced in the End Times by the C~BC~TV Predator Priests who secretly control Masonry‰s B-R-ass.
HER-MA-PH-RO-DITE is the name of the new third gender that will merge both male and female, mother and father, into a single body. It is symbolized by Scottish Rite Freemasonry‰s two-headed eagle, t he Phoenix. This is symbolic of the new species which the C~BC~TV Predator Priests expect will eventually assure them ‹Eternal LifeŠ, by taking them into the universe, past our solar system. They plan to terra-form a new plan-et located within the beneficial range of a younger sun (youth). This is the Masonic solution to creating Eternal Life. The word Predator is symbolic of their journey Ö it ‹pre dates gold Š. Silver is #2 and in Masonry #2 is always more important than #1.
The second key is the word Tor. It means Hill or Rocky Peak, as is found in both Devon and Cornwall. Devon was the name used by former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney on his secret Swiss bank account. As well, the word Torah is symbolic of the number 5 which, itself, is symbolic of Freemasonry. It also stands for the first 5 books of the Bible, Masonry‰s bib, or apron. It may be very significant that Tor Bay is located 5 miles north from St. John‰s, Newfoundland. Also, a Torch, as it is used in the Olympics, is a symbol which refers to the secret Mission of Tor. ‹TorŠ is also the root of the name Toronto (onto Tor).
Tori, is of Torus, which is a ‹donught shaped chamber or tunnelŠ. It signifies the underground Troglodyte network which is being used by C~BC~TV Predator Priests, since 58,800 BC, or as Masons are taught, ‹Time ImmemorialŠ. Finally, a Tory is a Jacobite. The name identifies those who share power with ancient Predator Priests. #2 is #1.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
It is found on mountain peaks 5,500 to 12,000 feet high. The Hindus hold the deodar in great veneration. American white cedar is found in swamps in the United States, south of Ohio, and Massachusetts. It grows 30 to 70 feet high. Its timber will remain a long time under water without rotting, and so is used much for fences and shingles and city pavements. Red cedar is a native of North America and the West Indies.
Its bright red wood is hard and lasting. It also has a pleasant smell which moths do not like, and so clothes chest and closets are made of it. Red cedar is also used for lead pencils and in cabinet work. The trees are usually not more than 30 feet high, but the California red cedar is of immense size. Cigar boxes are made of Spanish cedar, which is really a kind of mahogany. In scriptural symbology, the cedar-tree was the symbol of eternity, because its substance never decays nor rots.
Hence, the Ark of the Covenant was made of cedar; and those are said to utter things worthy of cedar who write that which no time ought to obliterate. The grove of trees known as the Cedars of Lebanon consists of about four hundred trees, standing quite alone in a depression of the mountain with no trees near, about six thousand four hundred feet above the sea, and three thousand below the summit. About eleven or twelve are very large and old, twenty five large, fifty of middle size, and more than three hundred younger and smaller ones. The older trees have each several trunks and spread themselves widely round, but most of the others are of cone-like form, and do not send out wide, lateral branches. In 1550 there were twenty-eight old trees; in 1739, Pococke counted fifteen, but the number of trunks makes the operation of counting uncertain. They are regarded with much reverence by the native inhabitants as living records of Solomon's power, and the Maronite Patriarch was formerly accustomed to celebrate there the festival of the Transfiguration at an altar of rough stones.
Monday, December 14, 2009
1 Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground.
2 And he said, “Here now, my lords, please turn in to your servant’s house and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way.”
And they said, “No, but we will spend the night in the open square.”
3 But he insisted strongly; so they turned in to him and entered his house. Then he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
4 Now before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both old and young, all the people from every quarter, surrounded the house.
5 And they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them carnally.”
6 So Lot went out to them through the doorway, shut the door behind him,
7 and said, “Please, my brethren, do not do so wickedly!
8 See now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please, let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them as you wish; only do nothing to these men, since this is the reason they have come under the shadow of my roof.”
9 And they said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one came in to stay here, and he keeps acting as a judge; now we will deal worse with you than with them.” So they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near to break down the door.
10 But the men reached out their hands and pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.
11 And they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they became weary trying to find the door.
Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed
12 Then the men said to Lot, “Have you anyone else here? Son-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city—take them out of this place!
13 For we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the face of the LORD, and the LORD has sent us to destroy it.”
14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, “Get up, get out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city!” But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be joking.
15 When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, “Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city.”
16 And while he lingered, the men took hold of his hand, his wife’s hand, and the hands of his two daughters, the LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.
17 So it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that he[a] said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.”
18 Then Lot said to them, “Please, no, my lords!
19 Indeed now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have increased your mercy which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, lest some evil overtake me and I die.
20 See now, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one; please let me escape there (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.”
21 And he said to him, “See, I have favored you concerning this thing also, in that I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken.
22 Hurry, escape there. For I cannot do anything until you arrive there.”
Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
23 The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Zoar.
24 Then the LORD rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the LORD out of the heavens.
25 So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
26 But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
28 Then he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain; and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land which went up like the smoke of a furnace.
29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt. | <urn:uuid:8d382392-9c5c-4289-a51c-372395de7796> | 2013-05-26T09:42:31Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Ok. Just to make sure I don't make a stupid mistake. I'll turn off the fridge, then add the saddle valve, make sure the hose has been purged of air. Hook up the refrigerant. Turn on the fridge and let it run for 5-10 min. Then I'll let refrigerant in for about 5 seconds, give it about 10 min and then check the evaporator coils. If coils not frosted completely then repeat. Does this sound about right? Thanks. | <urn:uuid:04457922-6b8c-48da-92b3-8d40848acce7> | 2013-05-26T09:36:37Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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JRuby is an open source implementation of the Ruby programming language that targets the Java virtual machine (JVM). It allows the popular Ruby on Rails framework to be used in a Java environment and interoperate with Java code. JRuby offers better performance than the standard C-based Ruby reference implementation in some cases.
Nutter and Enebo were hired by Sun in 2006 to work on JRuby full-time. When Oracle’s acquisition of Sun created uncertainty about the future of JRuby in 2009, they left the company and went to work for Ruby hosting provider Engine Yard. The two remained with Engine Yard until now. Alongside the revelation that Nutter and Enebo are joining Red Hat, Engine Yard announced that it has partnered with the Linux vendor and will continue to support the advancement of JRuby.
Red Hat jumped into the Java middleware market with its 2006 acquisition of JBoss. The company has become a major Java stakeholder and has made considerable investments in Java technology. This makes Red Hat a good fit for employing the leading JRuby contributors. The Linux distributor has a longstanding commitment to open development and will likely be a good steward for the project.
An interesting bit of language stuck out in the announcement. In addition to JRuby, the two developers will also be working on "JVM languages" at Red Hat. I couldn’t help but wonder if there is a connection to Red Hat’s intriguing Ceylon project, an effort by Hibernate creator Gavin King to create a new language that will run the Java virtual machine. Red Hat certainly seems to be interested in expanding the JVM as a platform. | <urn:uuid:f4370a0c-bf8d-43ae-b35a-500c95517519> | 2013-05-26T09:36:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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WASHINGTON -- Splitting 5-4, the Supreme Court yesterday rejected the Clinton administration's plan to use statistical sampling to make up for individuals who get overlooked in the 2000 census.
The court ruled that the allocation of House of Representatives seats after the next census must be based on a head count.
The decision was a major setback for cities, for the Democratic Party and for a key part of its following: minorities, who are more often missed in counts by census-takers. The "undercount" in the 1990 census left out more than 4 million people, mainly urban minorities and children, according to the Census Bureau.
The justices left open the possibility that sampling could be used to adjust population figures for two purposes -- dividing up $180 billion in federal aid to the states and redrawing election districts at other levels of government.
It ruled narrowly that the census law does not permit sampling during the count every decade that is used to reapportion the 435 House seats among the states. It did not rule on the broader question of whether sampling is unconstitutional.
However, four of the justices in the majority said "a strong case can be made" that sampling is unconstitutional. It would have taken five votes to establish that proposition.
The challenge to the Clinton administration's plan for the first-time use of sampling in the decennial census was made by the House, by four counties and by individual voters in 13 states. The court did not rule on whether the House could challenge the plan but found that the other challengers had made their case.
The court majority decided an actual count -- in person, or by mail with follow-up, in-person contacts -- is the only method allowed by federal census law for House apportionment.
"From the very first census, the census of 1790," Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote for the majority, "Congress has prohibited the use of statistical sampling in calculating the population for purposes of [House] apportionment."
To Baltimore's dismay
Baltimore, one of the cities in which minority population is thought to be undercounted in every census, could lose some access to federal money if sampling is not allowed for federal funding purposes after the 2000 census. The city's relative power in the the General Assembly also could be adversely affected.
News of the decision frustrated officials in Baltimore, where one of every four dollars spent in the city's $1.8 billion annual budget comes from the federal government.
City leaders, including Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke, supported census sampling, noting that the majority of Baltimore's population -- 60 percent -- is black.
In the 1990 census, an estimated 4.4 percent of the nation's African-American population was not counted, the biggest segment being males ages 18 to 34.
Baltimore officials say minorities tend to be undercounted because, if they are poor, they do not own property and are less likely to respond to census surveys.
"It's a shame," said Gloria Griffin, a city planner helping to organize a group to ensure a more accurate Baltimore census. "Those poor souls who really need [the federal aid] are not going to get it."
If sampling is done next year for purposes other than House apportionment, it could result in two versions of the nation's 2000 population: one for allocation of seats in the House, a second for everything else.
But sampling can occur next year only if Congress approves the necessary money. Republicans strongly oppose sampling, because it appears to favor Democrats.
Yesterday's decision, because of its limited scope, reignited that partisan controversy as it bears upon the Census Bureau's legal authority to use sampling techniques to calculate national, state and local populations for these key purposes:
Dividing $180 billion in federal funding for social programs -- an allocation keyed to population;
Calculating where to draw the lines for House election districts, once the seats have been apportioned among the states, and districts for state legislatures and local governing bodies -- keyed to population within states.
House Speaker Dennis Hastert repeated the GOP opposition after the court's ruling, saying: "The [Clinton] administration should abandon its illegal and risky polling scheme and start preparing for a true head count."
President Clinton appears to have no intention of abandoning support for sampling within the limits that the Supreme Court ruling may permit. He reiterated his support for sampling in his State of the Union message last week, and the White House noted pointedly yesterday that the high court had not ruled sampling to be unconstitutional.
House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt, a Missouri Democrat, interpreted the ruling to mean that the Census Bureau is required to do sampling for purposes of redistricting and distribution of federal funding. | <urn:uuid:829e8e3a-11c6-44d1-8a06-5414b99d0f67> | 2013-05-26T09:36:58Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The stepson of a Chicago policeman was sentenced to 30 years in prison for murder during a free-wheeling Criminal Court hearing Tuesday in which he denied the shooting and accused the judge of ``preaching`` to defendants.
Jerome Murray, 20, of East 125th Place, killed Andres McCoy, 18, as Murray rode in a car Feb. 6 near 117th Street and Wentworth Avenue, said Assistant State`s Attorneys John Eannace and Richard Pullano. They said Murray yelled gang slogans and then opened fire at a group of youths, hitting McCoy. McCoy`s friends rushed the wounded youth to safety when they saw the gunman`s car returning after the first shots, the prosecutors said. McCoy died shortly afterward and four witnesses identified Murray as the killer.
Murray was turned in by his stepfather, Pullman District Officer Ernest Williams. But Murray insisted he was innocent, claiming he was elsewhere when McCoy was shot.
Before he was sentenced, Murray also claimed that Judge William Cousins walked to the lockup in back of his courtroom one day and urged the defendants there to ``recognize and acknowledge`` their errors and pray to God for a
Cousins, who has a reputation for running his courtroom with impeccable formality and strict propriety, angrily called the accusation a ``Paul Bunyanesque lie.``
``Everything I do is right out in open court-everything,`` he said. ``I don`t talk to defendants, period.``
Murray testified that he was in the lockup when the judge began
``preaching`` to the eight or so inmates there. He couldn`t remember the date or time of the alleged sermon, nor could he recall the other inmates who were in the lockup with him. But according to his testimony, the judge spoke as if he felt every one of the accused men was guilty.
Cousins said he was ``deeply disturbed`` by the accusation. Later, when he sentenced Murray, Cousins said Murray behaved as though he lived in an urban ``jungle`` that didn`t follow the moral codes of civilization.
Pullano argued that Murray deserved a strict sentence for the murder because of the ``cold-blooded`` nature of the crime.
Murray`s mother and stepfather were on hand for the sentencing. ``My son didn`t kill the boy!`` his mother told the judge.
The defense presented another youth who at one time said that he-not Murray-was guilty of the murder. But the youth said he admitted to the crime because Murray`s friends threatened to kill him, and the judge later said the entire case revealed an ``absolute moral bankruptcy.``
Murray will be eligible for parole after he serves 15 years. | <urn:uuid:a416b0c2-9d66-4543-ae86-a0b53464e285> | 2013-05-26T09:36:07Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Fashion designer Joseph Abboud always has appreciated the written word. Before joining the fashion industry he studied comparative literature, first at the University of Massachusetts, then at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he became fascinated with the European sense of style. Abboud started his own menswear label in 1986 after working for Ralph Lauren for three years, but it was a book, he says, that gave him confidence to strike out on his own. "I don`t want to sound corny, but the Christmas present I... | <urn:uuid:cccb0258-f3cd-4706-b279-c266bd998fa3> | 2013-05-27T02:56:56Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Morgan Stanley suffered a setback in a Florida court Wednesday when a judge ruled that the bank helped Sunbeam Corp. improperly inflate its financial condition as it pursued a takeover of Coleman Co. in 1998.
In a related ruling, Florida Circuit Court Judge Elizabeth Maass also ruled that Morgan Stanley's outside counsel, Kirkland & Ellis, could withdraw and she postponed the start of trial until April 4.
Morgan Stanley has already been taken to task by Maass in the past for what she concluded was its failure to produce e-mail documents requested by Coleman and for stonewalling the court.
"In sum, [Morgan Stanley] has deliberately and contumaciously violated numerous discovery orders," the judge wrote. "The other discovery abuses outlined call into doubt all of Morgan Stanley's discovery responses. The judicial system cannot function this way."
Maass also ordered that Morgan Stanley's behavior be reviewed with the jury and that jury members be instructed that they may consider these failings when deciding whether punitive damages were appropriate.
In 1998, MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc., controlled by billionaire investor Ronald Perelman, sold camping equipment maker Coleman to Sunbeam for $1.5 billion in Sunbeam stock. But the value of the shares plunged when Sunbeam's weak financial condition came to light amid an accounting scandal.
Sunbeam, the maker of blenders and other appliances, filed for bankruptcy protection in 2001.
In a 2003 lawsuit, Coleman claimed that Morgan Stanley -- which advised Sunbeam and underwrote $750 million in notes to help fund the purchase -- knew or should have known about Sunbeam's financial condition. Coleman has asked for nearly $900 million in damages, but that could be tripled to about $2.7 billion under the state court's rules.
A Morgan Stanley spokesman said that the investment bank disagreed with the court's ruling and that "far from being a part of the Sunbeam fraud, Morgan Stanley was [a] victim of that fraud, losing $300 million."
The firm lost $300 million on a loan it made to the appliance maker at the time of the Coleman transaction.
"In the event of an adverse verdict, we believe we have grounds for an appeal and intend to pursue them to the fullest extent," the spokesman said.
A MacAndrews & Forbes spokeswoman said: "While the war Morgan Stanley is waging is not over, a just conclusion to this case is now clearly in sight." | <urn:uuid:b8ce6a38-0893-47e4-b1df-ab2ba48bdd02> | 2013-05-26T09:36:01Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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February 24, 2009 |
With their floppy ears, shiny brown eyes and whimsical grins, they were the faces that launched a legal battle extending from Paris to Beijing. On Monday, a French judge ruled that the 18th century Chinese bronze heads depicting a rabbit and a rat can be auctioned off this week at Christie's in Paris as part of the estate of the late designer Yves Saint Laurent.
July 9, 1990 |
For more than 25 years Joseph Chapman has made his living, in part, by breaking into museums. "I walked through the museum like I was a visitor and then at the end of the day I went into a men's room stall and hid there," said Chapman, 60, a ruggedly built man who speaks about art with reverence. The story he was telling took place in 1965 at the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, Tex. "At 5 o'clock I heard the toggle switches go and everything got dark and quiet," he said.
June 15, 1990 |
In the tiny Texas town of Whitewright, hard on the Oklahoma border, a scandal is brewing in which a man who raised prize orchids and ran a hardware store before his death 10 years ago may have been the perpetrator of one of the largest art thefts ever recorded. His name was Joe T. Meador, by all accounts a quiet, unassuming man who served honorably in World War II and ended his service stationed in what is now East Germany in 1945.
December 8, 2009
Villazon to sing again Star tenor Rolando Villazon says he will make his comeback at the Vienna State Opera in March after recovering from throat surgery. The singer announced in April that he needed surgery to remove a cyst on his larynx and has been resting his voice in order to make a proper recovery. Villazon said on his website Monday that he will perform the role of Nemorino in Gaetano Donizetti's "L'Elisir d'Amore" -- known in English as "The Elixir of Love" -- in the Austrian capital on March 22. It will mark his first public appearance after surgery and will be followed by more stints in a slew of other cities, including Berlin, Paris and Zurich.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 20, 1990 |
An armed man in a "ninja-style" mask tied up a part-owner of a Van Nuys art agency and distribution house, then escaped in the company's van with artworks reportedly worth more than $1 million, police said Tuesday. The robber, who police said might have had accomplices, took more than 1,000 artworks, including three oil paintings and hundreds of lithographs and serigraphs from Eagle Limited's warehouse near the Van Nuys Airport.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 10, 2008 |
The thief, or thieves, was either very smart or very, very lucky. The side door of the home in the hills of Encino was unlocked on the Saturday morning in late August. The elderly owners were in a back room, otherwise occupied. The maid had stepped out. So the thief stepped in -- and made quick work of the wealthy real estate investors' multimillion-dollar art collection. Marc Chagall's "Les Paysans," gone. Diego Rivera's "Mexican Peasant," a blank spot on the wall. Arshile Gorky's "Cubist Still Life," ditto.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 24, 1988 |
Bill Martin's case file reads like an Erle Stanley Gardner sampler. There is the Case of the Crafty Sword Swiper, the Unmasking of the Unscrupulous Pawnbroker, Mystery at the Ebell Club. These are not the recollections of a worn and crusty private detective or a crime novelist. They are recent cases of stolen art that Martin handled as the Los Angeles Police Department's art-theft specialist, working in a world of exotic locales and twisting plots.
August 6, 1988 |
News that Italian police are investigating the possibility that a classical Greek statue recently acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum might have been smuggled out of Sicily a decade ago has caused an international uproar. (On Friday, an Italian magistrate said he believed the Aphrodite sculpture bought by the Getty for $20 million was not stolen from Sicily as indicated in earlier reports this week, but the case there is awaiting final evaluation.
August 3, 2002 |
Like critics trying out adjectives to describe a perplexing canvas, investigators and art experts are looking at the theft this week of two Maxfield Parrish paintings from a West Hollywood gallery and straining to understand. Most find the thief's work "sophisticated." But they also label the $4-million disappearance "disturbing," "puzzling" and "weird." Parrish, whose works of vibrant color and billowing clouds have fetched auction prices as high as $4.
March 20, 1990 |
The wood-paneled offices are tucked away on the fourth floor of the Explorers Club in Manhattan--a nice bit of symbolism--and serve as a central clearing house in the international search for stolen art. When the phone rang on Monday, it was no surprise that the FBI was on the other end of the line. | <urn:uuid:4dd1f75b-0a25-466c-ae68-26b793e86b71> | 2013-05-26T09:43:40Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Wayne Stephenson, a backup goalie on the Flyers' second Stanley Cup championship team, died on June 22 in Madison, Wis. He was 65.
No cause of death has been revealed.
Stephenson was the starting goalie in one of the most famous games in Flyers history - a 4-1 victory over the Soviet Red Army at the Spectrum on Jan. 11, 1976.
"On behalf of the Philadelphia Flyers, I would like to personally send my condolences to Nedina and the entire Stephenson family," Comcast-Spectacor chairman Ed Snider said yesterday in a statement.
"Wayne joined us after we captured our first Stanley Cup in 1974, and provided steady support in helping us as we went on to win our second consecutive championship. | <urn:uuid:01c760f5-da96-4d4d-98c2-0a28315f682b> | 2013-05-26T09:44:32Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Lady Gaga has slammed one of her lifelong pals and mentors for ''taking advantage'' of her, but now insists she has her ''spirit back''.
''Today is a really happy day for me. The past year was a challenge, and I'm so happy to have my spirit back. I felt in chains at times," Contactmusic quoted her as writing on Little Monsters website.
''Then there were all the personal moments. Betrayed by lifelong friends, mentors I've had for years suddenly taking advantage of me, and a massive struggles with my body image.
According to speculations, the 26-year-old was referring to her disagreement with director Joseph Kahn over a scrapped ' Born This Way' video treatment. The ' Poker Face' hitmaker also talked about her previous record label disagreements.
''Whether is be the record label disagreeing with me on single choices, or directors who could only create an idea of 'gaga' or what I've 'done before' and not able to move forward, and there was also of course the incessant dragging of the most important single of my career in dead-beaten-horse-mud," she added. | <urn:uuid:c13c0628-5cd1-45ea-afe5-99294dc80302> | 2013-05-27T02:56:55Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I was fired.
July 21, 2011 5:55 PM Subscribe
I was fired. How do I handle my job search/interview situation?
posted by noonknight to work & money (11 answers total) 4 users marked this as a favorite
The reality of it is that I got into a loud, aggressive, short altercation with a fellow employee. The other fellow was provoking me, and I flipped out.
I know I should have handled this a bit better, but I think the substance of the altercation wasn't a good reason for the firing. There was no violence, nor the threat of violence.
The manager that fired me said that she consulted with her superior and the result was that I was let go.
The kicker: There was an unrequited-love dynamic between me and the manager. She probably was getting me out of her sight to reduce the anguish she feels as a single mother. She has, over the last few years, been dumped repeatedly. Seeing me every day was, I feel, a big part of the decision. How she presented the situation to her superior was undoubtedly key in the decision.
The job isn't glamorous: pizza delivery.
I will probably look for the same work at a different company.
I have done this for over 10 years.
How should I address the reality of this on applications and in interviews? Lie? Tell the truth? How should I tell this truth to a prospective employer? | <urn:uuid:3963dc48-e140-42f9-94a1-7571e8eddbcb> | 2013-05-27T02:58:09Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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She was denied a PhD by universities in the United States, (she graduated from Cornell in 1877) so she went to Europe, and in 1882 received the first PhD in linguistics given to a woman by the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She came home to the United States as Dean of Bryn Mawr College, the first women in the United States to hold the title of Dean. She said
"A woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society."
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Spark plugs are instrumental in making a gasoline engine run. They shoot out a spark of electricity into the compressed mixture of air and gasoline within an engine's cylinders. This ignites the mixture and forces the cylinder's piston down. The motion of the piston is what creates power.
Spark plugs also have another job -- they pull heat away from the combustion chamber. That means spark plugs can get very hot. In general, cars have a spark plug for every cylinder in the engine. For instance, a four-cylinder engine will have four spark plugs. However, there are exceptions to the rule -- a vehicle with a HEMI engine will have two spark plugs per cylinder.
Spark plugs wear out over time. As they get older, they may not spark properly. This affects your engine's performance and results in a loss of power. But replacing your spark plugs isn't like other car repair projects -- it's much more straightforward and only requires a few tools. You don't need to be a skilled auto mechanic to change your car's spark plugs. In most cases, you can switch out an old set for new plugs in about an hour.
Before changing your spark plugs, you should consult your vehicle's owner's manual. You're looking for two things: how often you should change your spark plugs and where the spark plugs are located on your engine. For most vehicles, the rule of thumb is to replace your spark plugs every 30,000 miles (48,280 kilometers).
You should also make sure the engine is cold before you start -- spark plugs can get very hot! Even after other parts of your engine have cooled down, the spark plugs may still be too warm to touch. Let your engine cool down for a couple of hours before you begin. | <urn:uuid:d6c4ea78-0410-45a1-91fc-0d2db828d70a> | 2013-05-26T09:42:36Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I think it is possible, but depends in how clipped the signal is. Let me explain: think about a softly clipped signal. Clipping is present only in the greatest peaks, and therefore appears for a short time lapse.
This kind of method could detect the clipped intervals and ''soften'' them, based in the previous behaviour of the signal. An statistical approach would probably work, but it is not a trivial task. Of course, you have a probability of guessing how the original signal actually was, so you will probably add some distortion. Hopefully, the result will be better than the clipped version.
On the other hand, if the signal is heavily clipped, the chance of guessing it right is unarguably lower. The signal could be anything but a peak: it has time to do lots of things until the clipping stops.
The recovered signal using the stated method would be the blue one, while in fact any signal (e.g. the green one) could have actually happened in the lapse of time we don't have info about.
Just when I thought I had come across a great idea, Wikipedia told me that I'm not the first to think about this:
Several software solutions of varying results and methods exist to counteract this problem: Sony Sound Forge, iZotope Rx2, Adobe Audition, Nero Wave Editor, and a plugin in the Audacity LADSPA package come with clip restoration software. There is also an Audacity plugin called Clip Fix that uses cubic splines to attempt to restore a continuously differentiable signal.
Please excuse the poor quality of my hand-drawn figures ;) | <urn:uuid:bcef7480-eb36-4805-b801-c1f7aa6f2d1e> | 2013-05-27T02:54:56Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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If Your Child Farts In A Forest, And You Laugh, Will Anybody Hear It And Judge You?
So, you are at a cafe with your two-year old - who is sitting, quietly and sweetly, sipping the warm milk that she refers to as "coffee' - when she blows a loud, ripply fart.
Oh! she exclaims. I make a noise out my bum!
And you laugh.
And she asks, quite reasonably, under the circumstances: that funny?
And you say, no, sweetie. Just say 'excuse me,' please, when you make noises from your bottom.
But she persists. THAT FUNNY?
At the next table, two older ladies are watching and listening closely.
What are you supposed to say? It IS funny. But you're juvenile, and you don't want your daughter to grow up to be juvenile, and you certainly don't want her going to daycare and announcing that she can make noises out her bum and then doing her best Jim Carrey imitation. You don't want that at all.
So you contain your giggle, and lie. No, it's not meant to be funny. Mommy's being silly.
And then she farts again and exclaims S'CUSE ME MAKE NOISE OUT MY BUM. And you laugh out loud, spitting a little latte onto the table as you do.
You're not going to be very good at this whole 'raising cultured children' thing, are you? | <urn:uuid:39149ea9-6c17-4794-a937-5dc7e4416075> | 2013-05-26T09:42:13Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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E. Cobham Brewer 18101897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
The, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846).Charlotte (b. Thornton, Yorkshire, April 21st, 1816; d. Haworth, March 31st, 1855); Jane Eyre (1847); Shirley (1849); Villette (1852); The Professor (1856). Life by Mrs. Gaskell (1857). See Charlotte Brontë, by Wemyss Reid (1877); Swinburnes Notes on Charlotte Brontë (1877); Charlotte Brontë, by Birrell (1887); and The Brontës in Ireland, by Dr. William Wright (1894).Emily (b. ibid., 1818; d. Haworth, 1848): Wuthering Heights (1847).Anne (b. ibid., 1820; d. Scarborough, 1849): The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Agnes Grey (1847). | <urn:uuid:fb9afbfb-b89d-4653-adf7-41d20ffa2782> | 2013-05-26T09:35:28Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Sublime Porte (The).
The Ottoman empire. It is the French for Porta Sublma, the lofty gate. Constantinople has twelve gates, and near one of these gates is a building with a lofty gateway called Bab-i-humajun. In this building resides the vizier, in the same are the offices of all the chief ministers of state, and thence all the imperial edicts are issued. The French phrase has been adopted, because at one time French was the language of European diplomacy. | <urn:uuid:bad887ab-93ca-4ef4-afa0-5156f76d7040> | 2013-05-26T09:35:26Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Girondists (g soft).
French, Girondins, moderate republicans in the first French Revolution. So called from the department of Gironde, which chose for the Legislative Assembly five men who greatly distinguished themselves for their oratory, and formed a political party. They were subsequently joined by Brissot, Condorcet, and the adherents of Roland. The party is called The Gironde. (179193.)
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Christa, my almost six-year-old, comes and stands next to me.
"How tall am I?" she asks.
I do a quick calculation without stopping my dinner preparations.
"You're up to my waist."
She jumps up and down, shouting, "Yippee! I'm getting taller! I'm almost a grown-up!"
Such is the challenge of raising a caboose kid--one born twelve years after her sister, Amy, fourteen years after her sister, Katie Beth, and seventeen years after her brother, Josh.
She so wants to catch up with her much older siblings. She wants to grow up now.
Reality is: I can't speed up her life, just as I can't slow down my three oldest kids' lives.
I stop all the chopping and dicing and put my arms around my oh-so-eager-to-be-older daughter and tell her, "Don't be in such a rush, Sugarplum. Enjoy your life now. Have fun now."
It's not the first time I encouraged her to enjoy being a child and I know it won't be the last. I don't want her to wish away her childhood. I don't want her to always be looking for the fast-forward button on her life. She'll be all grown up--and probably taller than me--all too soon. | <urn:uuid:e61a211f-f43d-4fe3-a62d-1e68b6ad33ef> | 2013-05-27T02:54:30Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I was under the impression that reducing the weight of your wheels is important. However, I'm noticing that many of the extremely high-end aerodynamic rims are actually heavier than cheaper rims by ...
There are claims often made that, eg, "An ounce of weight at the rims is like adding 7 ounces of frame weight." This is "common knowledge", but a few of us are skeptical, and our crude attempts at ...
I'm a heavy man, and I find I'm breaking spokes on my rear wheel fairly often. Is there a particular wheel I can buy or anything I can do to prevent this? Edit: I was having the problem with a ... | <urn:uuid:2ee3243a-dfa2-4e14-9514-c0da2cf4bff6> | 2013-05-27T02:54:58Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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What's the Latest Development?
While the U.S. sorely lacks a national space agenda, China has recognized the development of space-based solar energy as essential to the betterment of its place in the world. According to the China Academy of Space Technology (C.A.S.T.), "the state has decided that power from outside the earth, such as solar power and the development of other space energy resources is to be China's future direction." In space-based solar power, China sees a sustainable energy source capable of supplying its blossoming economic industries.
What's the Big Idea?
Beyond feeding its economy, China sees the development of space-based energy technologies as important for "social development, disaster prevention and mitigation, and cultivating innovative talents through an increased space effort the likes of which haven't been seen since the Apollo program." In the list of technologies C.A.S.T. plans to develop, many can be used to benefit other kinds of space ambitions, suggesting that energy is but one of China's missions for the development of space. | <urn:uuid:752109af-49fe-4e58-b6f9-c0f5039cbd60> | 2013-05-26T09:42:26Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Russain Five
The Russian Five consisted of Vyacheslav Fetisov (D), Vladimir Konstantinov (D), Sergei Fedorov (RW), Igor Larionov (C) and Vyacheslav Kozlov (LW).
The Russian Five often noted for their skill and ability on the ice together. The unit playing an instrumental role during the Red Wings' success of that decade. The five greats put on a show for years, while dominating the 1990's they helped bring the Stanley Cup to the City of Detroit.
Fetisov was traded to the Detroit Red Wings in 1995. During that year he helped them make to the finals, only to lose to his former team the Devils. Slava won back to back Stanley Cups with the Detroit Red Wings in 1997 and 1998.
He is considered one of the best defensemen of all time.
Fetisov along with Larionov was highly influential in breaking the stumbling block that halted, Soviet players from entering the NHL.
Vladdie was another great defenseman. Probably the most prominent aspect of his career was being aggressive, specializing in getting opponents off their game.
Konstantinov was more than a pest, as some had taken to calling him; he was a skilled player. He earned the NHL +/- Award in 1995, of + 60. That has been the highest rating since Wayne Gretzky finished with a +70. In 1996–97, his final season, Konstantinov was second best to (Brian Leetch) for the Norris Trophy. Which is given to the league's best defenceman.
Igor Larionov known as "The Professor" for his superb passing ability. He was a very creative, playmaking center-ice man.
Larionov won three Stanley Cup Championships with the Detroit Red Wings in 1997, 1998, and 2002. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2008. Larionv was the leader at the time playing the center position.
Larionov was one of five members of the Red Wings' "Russian Five" unit in the mid-1990s. He and Fetisov were looked on as father figures by the team's other Russian players, which included Sergei Fedorov, Vyacheslav Kozlov and Vladimir Konstantinov.
Fedorov was described as "three great players in one". Fedorov was described as "three great players in one". In 1993 he won the Hart Memorial Trophy (Most Valuable Player). Fedorov won the Frank J. Selke Trophy (1994 and 1996), which is awarded to the league forward who demonstrates the most skill in the defensive component of the game.
Alternate Captain Member of the Russian Five, which became a vital part of the first Stanley Cup Championship since 1955. Sergei really anchored the Russian Five and the Red Wings to keep their names alive and recreate the legacy Detroit once had as the top team in the NHL.
Slava Kozlov was a gifted forward with a deceiving shot and excellent playmaking abilities. Kozlov is not a mean, hard hitting player. He is more of a playmaker and most of all, a goal scorer. He brings leadership to his team and is effective in both offensive and defensive situations.
Vyacheslav Kozlov is a two-time Stanley Cup champion in 1997 and 1998 for the the Detroit Red Wings. He was probably one of the most underrated players on the team, but when it came down to it he proved his scoring ability time after time. Kozlov scored the game winner in double OT to send the Red Wings to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time in 29 years.
Scotty Bowman had two veterans in Fetisov and Larionov who came in to be the back bone of great play. The other three were the cream of the crop. Growing up in the Soviet system wasn't easy. The younger players were encouraged and motivated by their role models. The two veterans in turn acted as under-hand coaches to the Soviet proteges.
The Red Wings went against the traditional NHL line and assembled a old school Russian line. Puck handling, speed, scoring ability and clean hitting, was the way of The Russian Five. The idea of The Russian Five paid major dividends, bring three Stanley Cups to Hockey Town during the 1990's. | <urn:uuid:e67b7d71-6ef4-4478-b0f8-ae9645a8ff2d> | 2013-05-26T09:36:59Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Throughout the history of the United States, equality for all people has been fought for and won time and time again. Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence ”that all men are created equal,” and over time equal rights have been gradually extended to different groups of people. However, equality has never been achieved without heated debate, despite our country’s founding principle that all people are created equal in the first place.
The language used to seek equality has remained familiar over time. Posters demanding equal rights (pictured) contain messages we have all seen or heard. One of my theories is that since the human life span is finite, the message of equality has to be relearned by each generation as it comes to realize that more work needs to be done.
If humans lived longer, would full equality across racial and gender lines have been acquired by now? Ask yourself: Would women suffragists from the 1920s, who so vehemently demanded the right to vote, think it was fine for African Americans to be denied this same right? It depends. My theory also includes the caveat that empathy for others does not always translate into citizens banding together for the greater good. Then again, the social evolution of the United States is progressing. This progression is the reason the language and message of equality remains relevant.
Equality is a shared goal that not everyone enjoys. Racial intolerance for one group is no different than bigotry for another. Denying equality for a particular group plays into the kind of discriminatory trap that makes no sense if one applies the very same principles of equality indiscriminately. All people are created equal, period.
The Declaration of Independence was written with the hope of possibility. Think about it—the signers of this document were declaring a new and independent country! Jefferson’s words made a statement about human rights that became the foundation for a country unlike any other in the world. The signers never anticipated that their vision would eventually embrace so many different kinds of people, but that is the beauty of it. The Declaration was groundbreaking because it provided a foundation of principles and moral standards that have endured to modern times and that accommodate human evolution and its capacity for acceptance.
Stepping back and viewing all these posters as a whole, one could come to two conclusions. First: the human race does not learn from history. Second: humans repeat the same mistakes over and over. However, I believe that the preservation and repurposing of the messages of protest in all their different forms are evidence that we do learn from history, and that we apply these tactics when the moment calls for them.
Similar to my previous posts on Race-Based Comedy and Race in Advertising, this post is a small glimpse into a bigger topic that welcomes further discussion. These subjects would be commonplace in a college syllabus, but is there any reason why we shouldn’t introduce dialogue about such issues into our daily lives? At the dinner table, instead of asking your kids how their day was at school and receiving a one-word answer, try bringing up issues that are important to you. If you care about some form of injustice and you voice your opinion honestly, your kids may sense the gravity of the conversation and weigh in with something just as meaningful. | <urn:uuid:3c86c75d-667b-4a1e-8c02-c28489d487b3> | 2013-05-27T02:54:37Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I learned a bit ago that two of my classes-- African-American Literature and Russian Literature-- are somewhat connected, in the form of the founder of modern Russian literature, Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Пу́шкин).
Pushkin's father descended from one of the Russian gentry's oldest families who traced their history to the 12th century, while his mother's grandfather was Ibrahim Petrovich Gannibal, a former Eritrean who was abducted when he was a child and ended up in Russia and became a great military leader, engineer and nobleman after his adoption by Peter the Great.
And from James Weldon Johnson's Preface to The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922):
Is it not curious to know that the greatest poet of Russia is Alexander Pushkin, a man of African descent; that the greatest romancer of France is Alexandre Dumas, a man of African descent; and that one of the greatest musicians of England is Coleridge-Taylor, a man of African descent?
The fact is fairly well known that the father of Dumas was a Negro of the French West Indies, and that the father of Coleridge-Taylor was a native-born African; but the facts concerning Pushkin's African ancestry are not so familiar.
When Peter the Great was Czar of Russia, some potentate presented him with a full-blooded Negro of gigantic size. Peter, the most eccentric ruler of modern times, dressed this Negro up in soldier clothes, christened him Hannibal, and made him a special body-guard.
But Hannibal had more than size, he had brain and ability. He not only looked picturesque and imposing in soldier clothes, he showed that he had in him the making of a real soldier. Peter recognized this, and eventually made him a general. He afterwards ennobled him, and Hannibal, later, married one of the ladies of the Russian court. This same Hannibal was great-grandfather of Pushkin, the national poet of Russia, the man who bears the same relation to Russian literature that Shakespeare bears to English literature.
Here is an extremely interesting and informative PBS Frontline page on Pushkin's genealogy.Posted by smit2174 at October 15, 2005 1:45 PM | TrackBack | <urn:uuid:d2ea8d7a-01cc-46ed-85eb-b94a793565dc> | 2013-05-26T09:36:28Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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New Scientist: The National Research Council has only just released a report written in 2007 that warns of the vulnerability of the US power grid to terrorist attack. The report also indicates that such an attack could be devastating because it could leave large areas of the country without power for weeks or months. The major weaknesses of the power grid are its overall size, the lack of security at many of its facilities, the age of many systems, and the grid’s already overstressed state. All of those concerns suggest that failures could cascade through the system as it tries to compensate for damage. The report also indicates that weaknesses may exist in the computer systems at many facilities. But because the report was written five years ago, recent cyberthreats such as the Stuxnet virus, which targeted Iran’s nuclear facilities in 2010, are not examined in depth in the report. To improve the strength and security of the grid, the report suggests investing in mobile backup transformers, updating facilities and equipment, and funding more research into the nature of the grid. | <urn:uuid:b4a5a017-609d-4aa4-9768-171277f97c77> | 2013-05-26T09:41:12Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Donna Lund's Aug. 22 First Person essay"Girls, Girls, Girls"may appear to be a cute story about the so-called differences between boys and girls, but it is actually a telling example of how gender stereotypes continue to be accepted in American society. Ms. Lund writes fondly about her granddaughters' frilly dresses and girly squeals, juxtaposing them with her sons' gruff avoidance of any conversation beyond sports. Are boys and girls really so divided? If they are, it's because American families mistakenly continue to raise them that way.
As an only child, I was brought up to appreciate "masculine" and "feminine" pastimes and modes of expression. I liked shopping for clothes with my grandmother, but I also loved working on cars with my grandfather. I never loved playing or talking about sports, but neither did I like doing or talking about my makeup. Sure, I shed plenty of tears, but I also slipped into sullen silences. And I spent most of my time reading, writing and drawing -- activities associated with both genders.Raising children to explore who they are regardless of how society prescribes their behavior often results in well-rounded, happy children who become confident, successful adults. Most importantly, it disrupts the idea that men and women behave in essentially different ways -- the very idea that, less than a century ago, prohibited women from most careers, most athletics and most political activity, including the right to vote. | <urn:uuid:3c98038f-cd20-4911-9cba-1be88174aac7> | 2013-05-27T02:55:31Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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11 Benefits of Being Positive!!
Being positive is not just a nice way to live. It’s the way to live. It really does pay to be positive and the benefits include enhanced health and longevity, happiness, career advancement, athletic performance, team building and financial success. In this spirit here are 11 benefits of being positive.
1. Positive People Live Longer – In a study of nuns, those that regularly expressed positive emotions lived on average 10 years longer. (The Nun Study)
2. Positive work environments outperform negative work environments. (Daniel Goleman)
3. Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people. (Martin Seligman)
4. Positive leaders are able to make better decisions under pressure. (Heartmath.org)
5. Marriages are much more likely to succeed when the couple experiences a 5 to 1 ratio of positive to negative interactions whereas when the ratio approaches 1 to 1, marriages are more likely to end in divorce. (John Gottman)
6. Positive people who regularly express positive emotions are more resilient when facing stress, challenges and adversity. (Several Studies)
7. Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions where as negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems. (Barbara Fredrickson)
8. Positive thoughts and emotions counter the negative effects of stress. For example, you can’t be thankful and stressed at the same time. (Several Studies)
9. Positive emotions such as gratitude and appreciation help athletes perform at a higher level. (Heartmath.org)
10. Positive people have more friends which is a key factor of happiness and longevity. (Robert D. Putnam)
11. Positive and popular leaders are more likely to garner the support of others and receive pay raises and promotions and achieve greater success in the workplace. (Tim Sanders) | <urn:uuid:c540c24b-b7c6-482b-861e-b53a8b7ea6f8> | 2013-05-26T09:35:37Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Russia, which gets an extra piece, is in some ways the most powerful country in Diplomacy. It is also one of the most vulnerable, insofar as it is surrounded by four potentially hostile countries. (Only Germany and Austria-Hungary is in such bad shape in this regard, an important fact for this question.)
The Three Emperors' Alliance between Russia, Germany and Austria was originally started by GERMANY's Bismarck (in real life). But as the strongest of the three, perhaps Russia could be the greatest beneficiary?
The idea is to use the weaker Teutonic powers to knock out the stronger enemies, England and Turkey. Russia gets Norway and Edinburgh in the north, Rumania and two, maybe three Turkish supply centers in the south. And in any event, secures both flanks.
Then Russia might ally with one Teutonic power against the other, or possibly with France and Italy against the two Teutonics. If they were playing a "short" game, where any three countries with a total of 18+ supply centers can declare themselves co-winners, they'd have the game won right there.
How would this compare with more "traditional" strategies, like the "juggernaut" of allying with Turkey?
I've never played Russia "on my own" but once "inherited" a Russian game from someone who had to leave early and had an alliance with Turkey. | <urn:uuid:a36b0780-1a16-4c97-8542-d13bb0bcaa54> | 2013-05-27T02:54:28Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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-Marie Gouze was born into a petit bourgeois family in 1748 in Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, in southwestern France. Her father was a butcher and her mother was the daughter of a cloth merchant. She believed, however, that she was the illegitimate daughter of Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan and his rejection of her claims upon him may have influenced her passionate defense of the rights of illegitimate children.
-In 1765 she married Louis Aubry, a caterer, who came from Paris with the new Intendant of the town. This was not a marriage of love. Gouze said in a semi-autobiographical novel (Mémoire de Madame de Valmont contre la famille de Flaucourt):
"I was married to a man I did not love and who was neither rich nor well-born. I was sacrificed for no reason that could make up for the repugnance I felt for this man."
Her husband died a year later, and in 1770 she moved to Paris with her son, Pierre, and took the name of Olympe de Gouges.
-In 1773, according to her biographer Olivier Blanc, she met a wealthy man, Jacques Biétrix de Rozières, with whom she had a long relationship that ended during the revolution. She was received in the artistic and philosophical salons, where she met many writers, including La Harpe, Mercier, and Chamfort as well as future politicians such as Brissot and Condorcet. She usually was invited to the salons of the Marquise de Montesson and the Comtesse de Beauharnais, who also were playwrights. She also was associated with Masonic Lodges among them, the Loge des Neuf Sœurs that was created by her friend Michel de Cubières.
Surviving paintings of de Gouges show her to be a woman of beauty. She chose to cohabit with several men who supported her financially. By 1784 (the year that her putative biological father died), however, she began to write essays, manifestoes, and socially conscious plays. Seeking upward mobility, she strove to move among the aristocracy and to abandon her provincial accent.[
-1784, she wrote the anti-slavery play Zamore and Mirza. For several reasons, the play was not performed until 1789. De Gouges published it, however, as Zamore et Mirza, ou l'heureux naufrage (Zamore and Mirza, or the happy shipwreck) in 1788. It was performed as L'Esclavage des nègres in December of 1789, but shut down after three performances. Subsequently, it was published in 1792 under the title L'Esclavage des noirs.
-She also wrote on such gender-related topics as the right of divorce and argued in favor of sexual relations outside of marriage.
-As an epilogue to the 1788 version of her play Zamore et Mirza, she published Réflexions sur les hommes nègres. In 1790, she wrote a play, Le Marché des Noirs (The Black Market) which was rejected by the Comédie Française; the text was burned after her death. In 1808, the Abbé Grégoire included her on his list of the courageous men who pleaded the cause of "les nègres."
-A passionate advocate of human rights, Olympe de Gouges greeted the outbreak of the Revolution with hope and joy, but soon became disenchanted when égalité (equal rights) was not extended to women.
-In 1791, she became part of the Society of the Friends of Truth, an association with the goal of equal political and legal rights for women. Also called the "Social Club", members sometimes gathered at the home of the well-known women's rights advocate, Sophie de Condorcet. Here, De Gouges expressed, for the first time, her famous statement:
"A woman has the right to mount the scaffold. She must possess equally the right to mount the speaker's platform."
-That same year, in response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, she wrote the Déclaration des droits de la Femme et de la Citoyenne (Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen). This was followed by her Contrat Social (Social Contract, named after a famous work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau), proposing marriage based upon gender equality.
-She became involved in almost any matter she believed to involve injustice.
-She opposed the execution of Louis XVI of France, partly out of opposition to capital punishment and partly because she preferred a relatively tame and living king to the possibility of a rebel regency in exile. This earned her the ire of many hard-line republicans, even into the next generation—such as the comment by the nineteenth century historian Jules Michelet, a fierce apologist for the Revolution, who wrote, "She allowed herself to act and write about more than one affair that her weak head did not understand." Michelet was also part of a generation of men who opposed any political participation by women. He disliked de Gouges for this reason.
-As the Revolution progressed, she became more and more vehement in her writings.
-On 2 June 1793, the Jacobins arrested her allies, the Girondins, imprisoned them, and sent them to the guillotine in October. Finally, her poster Les trois urnes, ou le salut de la Patrie, par un voyageur aérien (The Three Urns, or the Salvation of the Country, By An Aerial Traveler) of 1793, led to her arrest. That piece demanded a plebiscite for a choice among three potential forms of government: the first, indivisible republic, the second, a federalist government, or the third, a constitutional monarchy.
-After being arrested, the commissioners searched her house for evidence. When they could not find any in her home, she voluntarily led them to the storehouse where she kept her papers. It was there that the commissioners found an unfinished play titled La France Sauvée ou le Tyran Détroné (France Preserved, or The Tyrant Dethroned). In the first act (only the first act and a half remain), Marie-Antoinette is planning defense strategies to retain the crumbling monarchy and is confronted by revolutionary forces, including De Gouges herself. The first act ends with De Gouges lecturing the queen for having seditious intentions and on how to lead her people. Both De Gouges and her prosecutor used this play as evidence in her trial. The prosecutor claimed that Olympe's depictions of the queen threatened to stir up sympathy and support for the Royalists, whereas De Gouges stated that the play showed that she had always been a supporter of the revolution.
-She spent three months in jail without an attorney, trying to defend herself. The presiding judge denied De Gouges her legal right to a lawyer, on the grounds that she was more than capable of representing herself. It seems as though the judge based this argument on De Gouges's tendency to represent herself in her writings.
-Through her friends, she managed to publish two texts: Olympe de Gouges au tribunal révolutionnaire, where she related her interrogations and her last work, Une patriote persécutée, where she condemned the Terror.
-The Jacobins, who already had executed a King and Queen, were in no mood to tolerate any opposition from the intellectuals. De Gouges was sentenced to death on 2 November 1793, and executed the following day for seditious behavior and attempting to reinstate the monarchy. Olympe was executed only a month after Condorcet had been proscribed and just three days after the Girondin leaders had been guillotined. Her body was disposed of in the Madeleine Cemetery.
Olympe's last moments were depicted by an anonymous Parisian who kept a chronicle of events:
"Yesterday, at seven o'clock in the evening, a most extraordinary person called Olympe de Gouges who held the imposing title of woman of letters, was taken to the scaffold, while all of Paris, while admiring her beauty, knew that she didn't even know her alphabet.... She approached the scaffold with a calm and serene expression on her face, and forced the guillotine's furies, which had driven her to this place of torture, to admit that such courage and beauty had never been seen before....
That woman... had thrown herself in the Revolution, body and soul.
But having quickly perceived how atrocious the system adopted by the Jacobins was, she chose to retrace her steps. She attempted to unmask the villains through the literary productions which she had printed and put up. They never forgave her, and she paid for her carelessness with her head."
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Time of Transmission Received: Unknown.
Location of Transmission Source: Edge of Galaxy.
Planet of Transmission Origin: Avalon.
The wars of the galaxy became too fierce. We chose to hide. We created the most powerful cloaking devices to erase ourselves from all memory of the galaxy. Behind our mask, we remained safe. We remained hidden until fate decided to find us.
"I have brought you here today to discuss this Orange Transparent material that was recently discovered on our moon. The future of our existence now stands on the edge of a knife. If the foreigners were to learn of what we possess, it would mean the end of our people."
"It is a curse! We must cover it up! It should be as if it were never found! We cannot risk exposure!"
"Why not? Why must we continue to hide in the dark while the rest of the galaxy advances themselves? We should trade the Orange Transparent material for weapons and great riches! This is finally our chance to make the ancient emblems of our people the greatest and most respected in all the known universe!"
"I fear that the symbol of our people is a relic and nothing more. If the foreigners truly wanted us to be a part of them again, then fate would have guided them here to Avalon."
Fate did guide the foreigners to us, but not as we had hoped. They swarmed us. And within days, our peaceful civilization collapsed.
All we wanted was peace, but the foreigners brought war.
TRANSMISSION 241986.1129 IS ANYONE THERE?
"My name is Semaj Nagirrac. My planet of Avalon has been... been... destroyed. We don't know who the foreigners are. All we know is they were after a transparent orange material we discovered on our moon. I'm not sure how valuable is, or how useful it could be. All I know is these... monsters have done everything in their power to get their filthy hands on it. This is a picture of their master."
"His armor and weapon are made from this stuff. It is extremely strong and has devastated our forces."
"If you receive this message, please help us. We have plenty of this material to supply you with if that is really what you foreigners want. Please heed our call. We have no other choice but to trust you."
"Sir! We need to move out. Scouts indicate a heavy concentration of foreigners headed this way. They must be looking for survivors!"
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Grupo Televisa has almost completed its Spanish-language coverage of the 2006 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament on its two HD channels that serve the population of Mexico. The company poured a large sum of money to upgrade its infrastructure before the start of the tournament, and when it concludes, Grupo Televisa will continue using it to broadcast general programming via its local stations in HD.
The company is using Miranda’s monitoring, channel branding and signal processing systems to support its HD coverage of the tournament. Grupo Televisa installed Miranda’s HD-capable Kaleido-K2 multi-image display processor, PresStation master control switching and channel branding system, and a broad range of distribution and signal processing modules in the network’s Mexico City facilities.
Miranda’s 32-input Kaleido-K2 multi-image display processor enables Grupo Televisa personnel to monitor both local and remote production. Fully integrated with the network’s routing switchers, master control switching and facility-monitoring-over-IP systems, the system allows HD, SD and analog video to be displayed in high resolution, up to 1920 by 1200 pixels on the facility’s Tamuz LCD displays, with comprehensive signal probing reported on-screen, or via SNMP for logging and strategic views. | <urn:uuid:d9cc2a04-a903-4731-be36-a0fd0e188b9a> | 2013-05-26T09:38:01Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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(Getty)American judoka Nick Delpopolo has been expelled from the Olympics for testing positive for tetrahydrocannabinol, or as it's more commonly known, THC. It's the chemical found in marijuana and hash.
According to a statement released by the USOC, Delpopolo is embarrassed and blamed the positive test on an "inadvertent consumption of food that I did not realize had been baked with marijuana." That's either an amazing excuse or Delpopolo is cursed with the worst friends on the planet.
OK, a little tip: Friends of Olympians. Sneaking pot brownies on a friend is never a good idea. But doing it when he's going to be competing in the Olympics, something he's worked for his entire life and that comes with a whole lot of drug testing, is downright terrible.
[ Related: Shining moment for judo medalist ]
Delpopolo's Olympic accreditation was canceled, and the IOC asked for the international judo federation to look into further action. The USOC, which said it is committed to clean competition, supported the disqualification. This is the first expulsion from an in-competition test.
Delpopolo hopes he will get a chance to redeem himself.
"I look forward to representing my country in the future, and will rededicate myself to being the best judo athlete that I can be," he said.
Delpopolo competed in the 73 kg (160 pounds) weight class last Monday. He went 2-1, and was eliminated in the repechage round.
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These delightful little cookies are light and buttery, but the almond cream filling adds a fluffy substance to the cookies. This is an all time favorite cookie recipe, although it's smart to save it for special occasions since they are sinfully rich.
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- Complexity: easy
- 1 1/2 cups soft butter
- 1/2 cup whipping cream
- 3 cups flour
- Granulated sugar
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- 1 1/8 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp almond extract
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- Divide the dough into quarters, roll out one section at a time, and keep the remaining sections chilled. Roll out the dough on a floured cloth. You want the dough to be about 1/8 inch thick once rolled out. Cut the dough into 1 1/2 inch rounds - for this you will want a floured circular cookie cutter or small biscuit cutters. Make sure you have an even number of cookies since they will be put together into little cookie sandwiches.
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The Facts About the Proposed ODEC Power Plant
Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (ODEC) has proposed building a 1,500 megawatt, coal-fired power plant—the Cypress Creek Power Station—in Dendron in Surry County, Va., or on an alternative site in neighboring Sussex County, Virginia. If built, the plant would be the largest coal-fired power plant in the Commonwealth. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) is very concerned that the plant will add significant additional pollution to an already polluted Chesapeake Bay, threaten human health, and exacerbate climate change and sea level rise in the Chesapeake Bay region.
Nitrogen Pollution—More Will Hurt the Bay
A primary goal of the federal-state Chesapeake Bay cleanup is reducing nitrogen pollution. The Dendron plant would add 1.9 million more pounds of nitrogen pollution* to the air above the Chesapeake Bay and surrounding lands. Air modeling predicts that 118 tons of this nitrogen—the equivalent of an additional major sewage treatment plant—will be deposited directly onto the Chesapeake Bay watershed, a system already so plagued by excess nitrogen pollution that the Bay is on the Environmental Protection Agency's official "dirty waters list." Nitrogen pollution promotes excess algae growth in the Bay that clouds the water, stunts underwater grasses, and robs the water of oxygen vital to fish, crabs, and oysters. Nitrogen pollution is a chief cause of the massive "dead zones" that appear annually in the Bay.
Mercury—A Toxic Threat to People and Wildlife
A primary goal of the federal-state Chesapeake Bay cleanup is a Bay free of toxic chemicals. The Dendron plant would release 44 pounds of mercury* into the air. Already, approximately 1,300 miles of Virginia rivers and nearly 40,000 acres of Virginia lakes are contaminated by mercury, including the Meherrin River, parts of the Nottoway, Blackwater, Mattaponi, and Pamunkey rivers, Dragon Run, Lake Drummond, Lake Whitehurst, Lake Trashmore, Chickahominy Lake, and Harrison Lake. All are within a 60-mile radius of the proposed Dendron site, the area of greatest mercury fallout. Mercury is toxic to humans, especially fetuses, infants, children, and pregnant women. Mercury affects learning ability, language, motor skills and, at high levels, causes permanent brain damage.
Nitrogen Oxides—More Smog, More Health Problems
Ozone smog and soot released by coal-fired power plants are associated with increased risk of asthma, heart and respiratory problems, increased absences from school and work, increased hospitalizations, increased medication, and increased risk of premature death. The Dendron plant would release 6.2 million pounds of nitrogen dioxide* (NOx); this is 8.5 times more NOx pollution than now produced by the entire County of Surry.
NOx is a major component of ground level ozone (smog). NOx pollution from the power plant would threaten air quality in Surry County and worsen existing smog problems in Hampton Roads and Richmond, two regions soon to be designated by EPA as unhealthy for smog. According to EPA, power plants are the second-largest source of NOx in the atmosphere; in Virginia, power plants produce 18 percent of the annual airborne NOx pollution. Air modeling predicts the Dendron plant will cause more than 264 tons of sulfur and 286 tons of soot to settle onto the Chesapeake Bay watershed, contributing to hazy air, health concerns, and acid rain.
Greenhouse Gases—Worsening Climate Change, Sea Level Rise
Climate change caused by excess greenhouse gases will worsen sea-level rise in the Chesapeake Bay region, the second-most vulnerable area in the United States to sea level rise. This poses significant threats to the region's environment, economy, and military. The Dendron plant would release 11.7 million tons of carbon dioxide* into the air each year, adding more greenhouse gases to the earth's atmosphere and exacerbating climate change problems. Recent scientific studies suggest that increased carbon dioxide levels in the Chesapeake Bay may increase the acidity of Bay waters and seriously threaten restoration of the native oyster. Coal-fired power plants are among the worst greenhouse gas polluters. To date, no technology exists to feasibly capture and contain carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants (carbon sequestration).
Alternatives to a New Coal-Fired Power Plant Are Available
Energy Efficiency and Conservation—A 10 percent reduction in energy through efficiency and conservation will reduce Virginia's 2016 estimated power shortfall by 97 percent; a 14 percent reduction in energy through efficiency and conservation will eliminate all shortfalls and produce an excess 1,055 megawatts of electricity.** Renewable Energy—Virginia has enough untapped renewable energy resources, including wind, tidal, solar, biomass, municipal solid waste, and others, to develop nearly 44,000 megawatts of electricity.**
* ODEC-provided estimates as of February, 2010
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AOL Inc. will sell over 800 of its patents and their
related patent applications to Microsoft and will grant
Microsoft a non-exclusive license to its retained patent
portfolio for aggregate proceeds of $1.056 billion in
After the sale is completed, AOL will continue to hold a
significant patent portfolio of over 300 patents and
patent applications spanning core and strategic
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From January 2005 through January 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Lieutenant Colonel Rich Creed served as the operations officer for 2nd Battalion, 34th Armor - part of 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division - in the Ba'qubah area of...
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Report states LA Port Statistics Control Division: Vol.1 No.22. Port of LA statistical data using charts and graphs on personnel, embarkations, debarkations, cargo lifted, postal service, and prisoners of war from Sept.1942 until Oct.1943.
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But in fact the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises. ~ ...
Specifically as used by the Reformed theological tradition, what is meant by the term "covenant"? How is this different than other forms of agreements under assorted names in English like contract, ...
In church traditions that subscribe to Reformed theology it is common to refer to God's relationship to men in terms of covenants -- agreements between God and His people in which God makes specific ...
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The little girl who suggested Abraham Lincoln grow a beard lived her adult life in north-central Kansas.
Grace Bedell was just 11 years old when she wrote a letter on Oct. 14, 1860, to the man who was then just the Republican nominee for president of the United States.
In her letter, Bedell told Lincoln that her father had just brought home a picture of him from the fair, and she believed he should grow a beard. "You would look a great deal better, your face is so thin," she wrote. "All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you and then you would be president."
After being elected president, Lincoln stopped at her hometown in New York and told the little girl he had taken her advice.
Six years later, when she was 17, Grace married George Billings, who was a sergeant in the Union Army during the Civil War, and moved to the state whose early troubles had made Lincoln famous — Kansas. They settled in Delphos, where Grace lived until her death in 1936.
Grace and George are both buried in the Delphos Cemetery. Her letter to Lincoln ended up in the Detroit Library, but there is a memorial to Grace and her famous letter in the Delphos town square.
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The most important thing about Hannah is she loves to play soccer.
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The edges of the Unsaid: Transgressive practices in the Fiction of Kathy Acker.
Doctoral thesis, University of Central Lancashire.
This thesis is the first full-length study of the fiction-of Kathy Acker, a radical and transgressive American female writer (1947-1997).
The study maps the development of Acker's fiction by focusing on the political dimension of her aesthetic strategies. It explores the politics of plagiarism and appropriation; the subversive representation of gender and sexual politics; and the anarchistic impulse of Acker's work. The main theoretical and political approaches employed are: feminist theory, poststructuralism,
abjection and anarchism.
The study begins with an introduction to Acker's life, since there is a significant if problematic autobiographical impulse in her writing, and her socio-cultural context. It proceeds to a detailed critical exploration of work published between 1968 and 1986, drawing attention to Acker's affinities with a poststructuralist project. Acker's strategies of juxtaposition, paradox, and contradiction, alongside her
fragmented, non-linear, digressive narratives, are read as a form of social critique. Her use and abuse of the white, male, Euro-centric canon is examined in light of the
construction of female sexuality, and Acker's focus on phallocentric language as a source of subjugation is also considered. The study then argues for and interrogates
Acker's move towards a more affirmative narrative strategy before looking in detail at her fiction of the 1990s - fiction which, until now, has received slight attention.
Through close readings of her later novels, the study illustrates how Julia Kristeva's concept of the abject is fruitful for an examination of Acker's work, and examines cross-cultural intertextuality (from the horror film to the avant-garde). It also relates the trope of piracy that is present in Acker's later works to the political ideology of anarchism. The conclusion to the thesis argues that Acker's strength lies in her uncompromising belief in the avant-garde, and details her sustained attempt to make critically incisive political art.
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(A) Procedure after sexennial reappraisal:
(1) After the appraisal is completed the county auditor shall total the "true value in money" of land, building and total of agricultural, industrial, commercial and residential property in each taxing district, and shall prepare and file an abstract of these true values with the department of taxation, which abstract shall be considered as a tentative abstract of appraised values only. Each tentative abstract should be submitted prior to the second Monday in June.
(2) In order to achieve uniformity of assessment among the eighty-eight counties, and keeping in mind that there are variations in cost schedules, depreciation schedules, etc., used by the various appraisal firms, the staff of the department of taxation, upon receipt of the "appraised value" abstract as prepared and filed by a county auditor, will review the appraisal in the field in the light of the information it has collected relative to recent real property sales and other information relating to real property values to determine whether all real property has been uniformly appraised at "true value in money" as defined by rule 5703-25-05 of the Administrative Code. After such review the staff shall recommend to the tax commissioner whether the commissioner should accept the reported appraisal value as a reasonable estimate of true value as of tax lien date of the year of reappraisal or reject the values and order the auditor to make the changes needed to insure that the appraisal values are a reasonable estimate of true value in money as of tax lien date of the year of reappraisal. The county auditor shall be informed of the staff's recommendation.
(3) The commissioner shall then transmit to the auditor a tentative order, which is not a final order of the commissioner, which shall contain the recommendations of the commissioner as to any changes in aggregate values, or in any class thereof, in the county or any taxing district thereof. After a review of such tentative order the auditor shall submit to the commissioner, on or before the first Monday of August, a final abstract of taxable values and a final abstract of the current year's true value of land valued under section 5713.31 of the Revised Code, as both are required under section 5715.23 of the Revised Code. The commissioner shall review the final abstracts and make the determinations required by section 5715.24 of the Revised Code and issue a final order, if necessary, under section 5715.25 of the Revised Code.
(4) Unless such an order is appealed, as provided in section 5715.251 of the Revised Code, the county auditor shall then proceed to determine the "taxable value" of each and every parcel of real property by multiplying the true value of each and every parcel in each and every class of real property in the county by thirty-five per cent as prescribed by rule 5703-25-06 of the Administrative Code.
(B) Procedure after update:
(1) The county auditor of a county in the third calendar year following a general reappraisal shall analyze local real estate sales that have occurred in the last three preceding calendar years together with other related information pertaining to real property values in the county. These studies should be designed to enable the auditor to increase or decrease the taxable valuation of parcels in accordance with actual changes in valuation of real property which occur in different subdivisions, neighborhoods, or among classes of real property in the county.
(2) As early as possible in the third calendar year following a sexennial reappraisal the department of taxation will notify the county auditor of its preliminary estimate of changes in real property tax values needed for that tax year. This estimate will be based on an analysis of real property sales that occurred in the county during the preceding three calendar years and other studies of real property values. These estimates should be compared to information available locally including the auditor's own studies of the local real estate market and other related factors.
(3) After consideration of available information the county auditor shall proceed to comply with paragraphs (C) to (F) of rule 5703-25-06 of the Administrative Code to increase or decrease the true and taxable value of each parcel of real property in the county by an amount which will cause all real property on the tax list and duplicate to be valued as required by law.
(1) If a county auditor is not satisfied with the recommendations or preliminary estimates provided by the staff of the department of taxation under paragraph (A) or (B) of this rule a conference with the commissioner may be requested. Such application shall be made by the filing of a written application within thirty days after receipt of the recommendation. The application shall specify the reasons for requesting such a conference.
(2) After complying with paragraph (A) or (B) of this rule the county auditor shall then prepare and file with the department of taxation the statutory abstract of taxable real property value and the abstract of current agricultural use values required by section 5715.23 of the Revised Code, wherein there is to be set out the "taxable value" of the real property in the county.
(3) The county auditor shall not lay before the county board of revision the returns of the assessment of real property for the current year in accordance with the provisions of section 5715.16 of the Revised Code, nor the abstract required to be filed with the tax commissioner under the provisions of sections 5715.23 and 5715.24 of the Revised Code, until and unless the property records required by rule 5703-25-09 of the Administrative Code for each and every parcel are in the auditor's possession and open to the inspection of any interested person.
(4) On the general tax list and duplicate of real and public utility property compiled and prepared under the pertinent provisions of section 319.28 of the Revised Code, only the taxable value of the land, building and total of the real property shall be listed. The taxable value of land qualified to be taxed at its current agricultural use value, pursuant to section 5713.30 of the Revised Code to be entered on said tax list and duplicate shall be thirty-five per cent of its current agricultural use value as determined under rules 5703-25-30 to 5703-25-36 of the Administrative Code. The replacement cost figures, depreciation figures, etc., shall be placed on the auditor's property record as provided in rule 5703-25-09 of the Administrative Code. Changes in true and taxable values made in the update year in compliance with paragraphs (C) to (F) of rule 5703-25-06 of the Administrative Code shall also be recorded on the property record. Any changes ordered by the board of revision, board of tax appeals or tax commissioner in said taxable values shall, together with the date of change, be noted on the tax list and duplicate as provided in section 319.28 of the Revised Code, and the property record as required by rule 5703-25-09 of the Administrative Code. | <urn:uuid:8619e551-a62e-4b24-bd19-3dd8247b3421> | 2013-05-27T02:54:44Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Most Popular New Year's Resolutions
As 2011 comes to an end, many of us are reflecting on the year's accomplishments and shortfalls. As tradition holds, many of us are also examining what we can resolve to do better in 2012.
I try not to limit myself to one single resolution, but to improve as many aspects of my life as I can. USA.gov lists the most popular New Year's resolutions, and provides these resources to help you achieve your goals. | <urn:uuid:54a0d24b-bd9a-446a-baae-86634eb88ee1> | 2013-05-27T02:54:30Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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|Bangladesh Table of Contents
Christianity's first contact with the Indian subcontinent is attributed to the Apostle Thomas, who is said to have preached in southern India. Although Jesuit priests were active at the Mughal courts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the first Roman Catholic settlements in what became Bangladesh appear to have been established by the Portuguese, coming from their center in Goa on the west coast of India. During the sixteenth century the Portuguese settled in the vicinity of Chittagong, where they were active in piracy and slave trading. In the seventeenth century some Portuguese moved to Dhaka.
Serious Protestant missionary efforts began only in the first half of the nineteenth century. Baptist missionary activities beginning in 1816, the Anglican Oxford Mission, and others worked mainly among the tribal peoples of the Low Hills in the northern part of Mymensingh and Sylhet regions. Many of the Christian churches, schools, and hospitals were initially set up to serve the European community. They subsequently became centers of conversion activities, particularly among the lower caste Hindus.
The Ministry of Religious Affairs provided assistance and support to the Christian institutions in the country. In the late 1980s, the government was not imposing any restrictions on the legitimate religious activities of the missions and the communities. Mission schools and hospitals were well attended and were used by members of all religions. The Christian community usually enjoyed better opportunities for education and a better standard of living. In the late 1980s, Christianity had about 600,000 adherents, mainly Roman Catholic, and their numbers were growing rapidly.
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Nov 17, 2003 - 11:55 am
10/30/03 I successfully underwent a radical prstatectomy. During the 14 day period with the catheter there was continuous leakage outsite of the catheter. After removal of the catheter 11/12/03 there has been continued leakage especially when standing. I realize it is only 18 days post surgery and 5 days without the catheter but I would like to know if this sounds unusual as part of the recuperative process? | <urn:uuid:867f8cb5-55a2-4a76-971c-eb8be7858802> | 2013-05-26T09:43:30Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Third Annual Report of the American Seamen's Friend Society, Presented at the Meeting May 9, 1831: With the Constitution, A List of Officers of Said Society, and An Appendix.
Names in this online transcription include Aldis, Allen, Anderson, Austin, Babock, Baker, Baldwin, Bannister, Bartlett, Bethune, Biddle, Blanchard, Bliss, Boardman, Bouton, Bowland, Braman, Brand, Brantley, Breckenridge, Brewster, Brigham, Brightham, Brower, Brown, Brundage, Buckingham, Bulkley, Burnham, Burtis, Bythewood, Caldwell, Camp, Carroll, Chambers, Chandler, Chase, Chester, Chew, Church, Cleaveland, Coit, Cone, Coombs, Corning, Cowles, Cox, Crowell, Cumming, Curtis, Dana, Darragh, Dart, Dashiell, Davenport, Davis, De Witt, Dennis, Dimmick, Douglass, Ducachet, Duncan, Dwight, Edmonston, Edwards, Ellingwood, Ely, Emerson, Everest, Fanshaw, Fenner, Ferry, Field, Finley, Flagler, Fleming, Foot, Frelinghuysen, French, Frost, Gamble, Gibbs, Gibson, Giraud, Greene, Grimke, Haines, Hale, Halsey, Halsted, Hawes, Heminway, Henshaw, Hewitt, Hickok, Hildreth, Holden, Holmes, Howard, Hubbard, Humphry, Hunter, Huntington, Huntting, Hurd, Ives, Jackson, Jenkins, Johnson, Jones, Kimball, Knox, Krebs, Lanman, Lawrence, Leavitt, Lee, Leffingwell, Lewis, Lowrie, Lyon, Maclay, Markoe, Marshall, Mason, McCalla, McComb, McCullock, McCullough, McDowell, McEwen, McIlvaine, McLean, McLellan, Melick, Mettimore, Mills, Milnor, Milton, Mitchell, Moores, Mounsey, Napier, Nevins, Nitchie, Olyphant, Page, Parker, Patterson, Pearson, Pell, Perit, Perkins, Phelps, Pomeroy, Porter, Price, Proudfit, Putnam, Ralston, Rathbone, Reed, Reid, Rice, Richardson, Robb, Rockwell, Ross, Seaver, Shepherd, Shepley, Simpson, Skinner, Smith, Snodgrass, Somers, Southard, Spencer, Spring, Squier, St. John, Stanton, Starr, Stewart, Stricker, Stuart, Sturges, Swan, Talmage, Tappan, Taylor, Tenney, Thresher, Torrey, Tracy, Turk, Tyler, Van Dyke, Van Rensselaer, Van Sinderen, Vandyke, Varick, Vernon, Walker, Waterbury, Waterman, Wheeler, Wheelwright, Whitlock, Whittlesey, Wickes, Williams, Wills, Wiltsie, Winslow, Winthington, Woods, Woolley, Wyckoff.
This page features a historical book or original document that was transcribed during 2009 as part of the Genealogy Today Subscription Data collection -- a project focused on capturing details about the lives of your ancestors, from their early years in school, through college and then into their careers, hobbies and group activities. The list of family names above represents unique last names of individuals found in these American Seamen's Friend Society records.
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The company I'm currently working with is "moving to the cloud" (isn't everyone these days?)
In this case, they are moving to AWS, and they want a simple and effective way of managing multiple (SQL) servers within AWS without requiring manual work.
They have a (single) SQL Server production server running on AWS.
What they want is to be able to start new instances of EC2 servers at will running SQL Server (for various purposes) and synchronize it with the production server in some automated way. They are very open about what can be used in order to make this work: It could be a set of T-SQL scripts, POSH scripts, freeware tools, commercial tools (or any combination of them.) It doesn't matter the tool, as long as it isn't too complicated to setup and maintain, they just want the job done.
So my question is, what would you recommend for this kind of thing?
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5.8 magnitude earthquake. There was a lot of chatter generated by it, probably disproportionate to the magnitude of the event. There were a few news items that might be of interest to some of you. First, contrary to initial reports, there was some building damage in Virginia and the DC area, including the collapse of finials on the National Cathedral's main tower. Second, PhysOrg explains why the earthquake was felt over such a large area, from Georgia north to Quebec and west to Wisconsin. Scientific American has a list of the top ten East Coast earthquakes. Finally, here is an interesting bird-related note from the National Zoo:
The first warnings of the earthquake may have occurred at the National Zoo, where officials said some animals seemed to feel it coming before people did. The red ruffed lemurs began “alarm calling” a full 15 minutes before the quake hit, zoo spokeswoman Pamela Baker-Masson said. In the Great Ape House, Iris, an orangutan, let out a guttural holler 10 seconds before keepers felt the quake. The flamingos huddled together in the water seconds before people felt the rumbling. The rheas got excited. And the hooded mergansers — a kind of duck — dashed for the safety of the water. | <urn:uuid:888fe84b-8541-4cec-97f6-504bbe4d5df0> | 2013-05-26T09:42:21Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Word Origin & History
O.E. cocc, O.Fr. coq, O.N. kokkr, all of echoic origin. O.E. cocc was a nickname for "one who strutted like a cock," thus a common term in the Middle Ages for a pert boy, used of scullions, apprentices, servants, etc. A common personal name till c.1500, it was affixed to Christian names as a pet diminutive,
cf. Wilcox, Hitchcock, etc. Slang sense of "penis" is attested since 1618 (but cf. pillicock "penis," from c.1300); cock-teaser is from 1891. A cocker spaniel (1823) was trained to start woodcocks. Cock-and-bull is first recorded 1621, perhaps an allusion to Aesop's fables, with their incredible talking animals, or to a particular story, now forgotten. French has parallel expression coq-à-l'âne.
in various mechanical senses, such as cock of a faucet (late 15c.) is of uncertain connection with cock
(n.1), but Ger. has hahn "hen" in many of the same senses. The cock of an old matchlock firearm is 1560s, hence half-cocked "with the cock lifted to the first catch, at which
position the trigger does not act."
seeming contradictory senses of "to stand up" (as in cock one's ear), c.1600, and "to bend" (1898) are from the two cock nouns. The first is probably in reference to the posture of the bird's head or tail, the second to the firearm position. To cock ones hat carries the notion of "defiant boastfulness"
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adjective, un·ru·li·er, un·ru·li·est.
not submissive or conforming to rule; ungovernable; turbulent; intractable; refractory; lawless: an unruly class; an unruly wilderness.
Origin: 1350–1400; Middle English unruely, Related forms
equivalent to un- un-1
+ ruly, ruely
governable, controllable; see rule
disobedient, unmanageable, uncontrollable, stubborn, disorderly, riotous. Unruly, intractable, recalcitrant, refractory describe persons or things that resist management or control. Unruly suggests persistently disorderly behavior or character in persons or things: an unruly child, peevish and willful; wild, unruly hair. Intractable suggests in persons a determined resistance to all attempts to guide or direct them, in things a refusal to respond to attempts to shape, improve, or modify them: an intractable social rebel; a seemingly intractable problem in logistics. recalcitrant and refractory imply not only a lack of submissiveness but also an open, often violent, rebellion against authority or direction. Recalcitrant the stronger of the two terms, suggests a stubborn and absolute noncompliance: a recalcitrant person, openly contemptuous of all authority. Refractory implies active, mulish disobedience, but leaves open the possibility of eventual compliance: refractory students, resisting efforts to interest them in their studies. | <urn:uuid:b81a4067-4119-4c91-9877-6b04fcd649ce> | 2013-05-26T09:36:46Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Date: February 1940
Creator: Holbrook, Helen S. (Helen Shepard), b. 1882.
Description: A guide to planning a laundry center at home. Describes various types of equipment and machinery available for washing, drying, and ironing. Describes the products used for laundering and the recommended laundering methods for specific fabric types.
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Date: August 2007
Creator: Sarasti, Israel A.
Description: Reciprocal teaching comprehension-monitoring is a reading comprehension instructional procedure that combines four instructional strategies: predicting, summarizing, questioning, and clarifying to enhance students' comprehension of text. The procedure is a dialogue between the teacher and the students. During reciprocal teaching instruction, the teacher and students take turns leading the dialogue in order to enhance the students' comprehension-monitoring skills. The research on reciprocal teaching has included meta-analyses, group designs, qualitative designs, and single-subject research designs. These studies have identified gaps in the literature to include the measurement of treatment fidelity and treatment acceptability, as well as the psychometric properties of the instruments used to measure daily reading comprehension growth. These gaps were investigated in this study. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of reciprocal teaching comprehension-monitoring with a group of fifteen 3rd grade students reading at grade level. Specifically, this study investigated the use of curriculum-based measurement maze probes (CBM-maze probes) to formatively assess the reading comprehension growth of the students. Additionally, this study implemented treatment integrity procedures and investigated the acceptability of reciprocal teaching and the CBM-maze probes through a treatment acceptability rating scale. A multiple baseline across groups with three phases (baseline, intervention, follow-up) was employed. ...
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Motion of a weakly conductive viscous jet accelerated by an external electric field is considered. Nonlinear rheological constitutive equation applicable for polymer fluids (Oswald–deWaele law) is applied. A differential equation for the variation of jet radius with axial coordinate is derived. Asymptotic variation of the jet radius at large distances from the jet origin is analyzed. It is found that the well-known power-law asymptote for Newtonian fluids with the exponent 1/4 holds for more general class of fluids, i.e., pseudoplastic (shear thinning) and dilatant (shear thickening) fluids with the flow index between 0 and 2. Dilatant fluids with the flow index greater than 2 exhibit power-law asymptotes with the exponents depending on the flow index. Results can be applied for the analysis of viscous polymer jets in the electrospinning process. | <urn:uuid:827acd3b-76ec-48a0-aa50-60d3e413a306> | 2013-05-27T02:56:02Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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4 images. Coronation of Rose Queen, 28 December 1951. Marcia Long, Princess; Barbara Fisher, Princess; Diana Dial, Princess; Sharon Kelley, Princess; Carolyn Sue Graves, Princess; Anne Cotington, Princess; Nancy Thorne, Queen; Leon Kingsley, President of Tournament of Roses, crowning her.; Caption slip reads: "Hold for 9 PM. Photographer: Rustan. Date: 1951-12-28. Reporter: Massard. Assignment: Coronation of Queen.Left to right - 57-58: Marcia Long; Barbara Fisher; Diana Dial; Queen Nancy Thorne; Sharon Kelley.85-86: Carolyn Sue Graves and Anne Cotington, with Leon Kingsley (Tour't of Roses Comte. President) crowning the queen." | <urn:uuid:bb660f7b-03c6-42b9-9a64-461dd4c1d13c> | 2013-05-26T09:43:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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December 16 will be the seventh anniversary of the killing of Deyda Hydara, the dean of Gambian journalism. It is also the 20th anniversary of the first issue of The Point, the courageously independent-minded daily that Hydara founded and directed for many years. He was murdered in a drive-by shooting as he drove himself and two staff members home from an evening of somber celebration at The Point's premises. He had received multiple death threats in the preceding weeks and months. In his last column, he vowed to keep fighting to the end for Gambians' right to speak their minds. | <urn:uuid:2ea06d24-5645-4d6f-8ec8-25c286911b0a> | 2013-05-26T09:42:17Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Verify voice gateway is added to Operations Console and is reachable
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You added the voice gateway to the Operations Console in Add the Voice Gateway to the Operations Console. Verify that the gateway is defined to the console and is "reachable" as follows:
- Using VNC Viewer or a similar program, access the CVP server or virtual machine and start the Operations Console program: Start > Programs > Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal > Operations Console.
- Log into the Operations Console using the password you established during the CVP installation process.
- From the Operations Console menu, select: Device Management > Gateway. You should see a list of all the gateways you have defined. Each gateway's status should be Configured.
- Using the radio button to the left of the gateway name, select the gateway you are using for these exercises and click Edit.
- Select IOS Commands > Show Version. After a few seconds you should see the version information that the Operations Console retrieved from the gateway.
- If you do not receive the version information, be sure the gateway is properly defined to the Operations Console; select: Device Management > Gateway > select the gateway > Edit. Refer to Add the Voice Gateway to the Operations Console for additional information about defining the gateway. Be sure that the console has the proper username and password for the gateway; otherwise, it cannot access the gateway. | <urn:uuid:97d99e01-e952-4a8c-a2f2-3544d8a7b831> | 2013-05-26T09:35:50Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Dragons are creatures with nearly unlimited life spans. They can survive for long periods of time, and no one has found a dragon that has died of old age. Adolescence is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling’s wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the beginning of maturation. Once they hit adolescence, hatchlings change quickly, maturing to their full forms in only 2 years.
Dragons don’t communicate with each other verbally, but they will growl to scare off predators and frighten prey. Young dragons will emit an extremely high-pitched squeal when they are frightened. To communicate, they use telepathy with each other and to speak to other creatures.
Stone dragons have a tough outer covering made of a stone-like material. They eat rocks, using the minerals they contain for nourishment and to keep up their stone outer shell. They rarely move, and are the heaviest of all types of dragons. Although they have wings, indicating flight ability, no one has ever seen a stone dragon flying. | <urn:uuid:c1b1b32b-74fc-4c07-a483-c7afd1f5be5d> | 2013-05-26T09:41:09Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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According to ex-New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, "Colombia has probably the best cocaine, the best heroin, and the best marijuana in the world. And the best coffee".
Typically, coca thrives in warm, moist valleys between 1500 and 6000 metres above sea level. The plant grows to a height of up to eight feet. The leaves are rich in vitamins, protein, calcium, iron and fiber. The cocaine content of the leaves ranges from O.1% to 0.9%; like the user, it tends to get higher with altitude. Chewing coca also counters the symptoms of 'mountain sickness' and oxygen-deprivation. The daily dose of the average coquero is around 200mg.
Chewing coca leaves with a dash of powdered lime is a nutritious and energising way to induce healthy mood without causing an unsustainable high. Unfortunately, it is not very good for one's teeth.
Stictly speaking, the leaves aren't actually chewed. Typically, the dried coca leaf is moistened with saliva. The wad is placed between the gum and cheek and it is gently sucked. The invigorating juices are swallowed. Lime-rich materials such as burnt seashells or a cereal are used to promote the separation of the leaf's active alkaloid.
Shamans from some traditional Indian tribes still smoke coca leaves for magical purposes. Inhaling the sacred vapors induces a trance-like state. Coca enables a shaman to cross 'the bridge of smoke', enter the world of spirits, and activate his magical powers. Alas the leaves don't travel well; and this ancient usage is uncommon in the urban industrial West. | <urn:uuid:fe06e328-b9ea-4cd3-9807-f73a6695a323> | 2013-05-26T09:42:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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What information do we collect? How do we use it?
When you submit information, we offer the use of a secure server. The secure server software (SSL) encrypts all information you input before it is sent to us. Furthermore, all of the data supplied is protected against unauthorized access.
Will Rocky Mountain Research Center disclose the information it collects to outside parties?
Rocky Mountain Research Center does not give, sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others outside of RMRC other than to process your requests. | <urn:uuid:3b62d6e5-005a-42e5-95c8-34ac0f3ea88d> | 2013-05-26T09:41:04Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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