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Army ROTC (Reserve Officers' Training Corps) is one of the best leadership courses in the country and is part of your college curriculum. During classes and field training, you will learn first-hand what it takes to lead others, motivate groups and how to conduct missions as an Officer in the Army. Upon graduation from Army ROTC, you will earn the bar of a Second Lieutenant and become a leader for life.
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Army ROTC prepares college students to succeed in any competitive environment. The leadership training and experiences that students have in the Army ROTC will provide them with a foundation to become commissioned Army Officers upon graduation.
Upon completion of the Army ROTC program, graduates will be commissioned as Second Lieutenants in the U.S. Army and will embark on specialized training in their first Army branch.
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Morgana felt oddly claustrophobic as she entered the spacious lobby of the convention center. In its silence and emptiness, the clicking of her high heels echoed strangely from its glass walls and high ceiling. Some indistinct instinct warned her that she was being watched, but her secretive examination of the well-lit area revealed nothing. Still wary, she turned to examine the map before her.
She was not surprised, then, to hear two faint voices approaching. In the map's reflective surface Morgana could see a well-dressed man and woman enter the lobby behind her. Indulgently, she turned her head to monitor them. She heard them wearily argue, then frowned when the man took the woman loosely by the shoulders, stopping her and turning her around.
"Erica, you know you need my recommendation to Robert if you want to get that promotion," the man said coaxingly. "We could maybe talk about it, say, later tonight, in my room?"
Erica looked away and shook her head. "I just don't know, Martin," she replied weakly. "Maybe..." Over Erica's shoulder Morgana could see the conniving gleam in Martin's eyes, and she pursed her lips.
Martin released Erica, a smug smile on his face as he lit up a cigarette. Erica glared weakly at the cigarette: "Martin," she said, "you should try to cut back on your smoking."
"I've tried everything, Erica," replied Martin in exasperation.
Morgana brightened. She turned and walked boldly toward the pair, politely saying "Excuse me, but I couldn't help overhear that you're having trouble trying to quit smoking" as she approached. When they turned and mutely stared at her she smiled broadly in apology and continued "Have you considered hypnosis?"
She surreptitiously dealt a card from the bottom of her card case and held it out to Martin. Martin took it and read it aloud: "Dr. Morgana Black, Clinical Hypnotherapy for Habit Control." He started to hand the card back, saying dismissively "I don't believe in any of that hypnotism mumbo-jumbo."
Morgana pointedly ignored his gesture. Piqued, she said conversationally "Frankly, I don't either. Hypnosis is a serious psychological tool," as she looked up at him, her dark eyes widening, searching out his gaze. "It is not some 'mumbo-jumbo' where all I would need to do to hypnotize you is to say 'Look into my eyes; you are going into a deep hypnotic trance, where you will hear and obey only my voice'," she continued, her voice strangely resonant in the silence, commanding, dominating.
Morgana's night-black eyes drew Martin's gaze deep within their dark depths: when she finished speaking his eyes quickly closed and his head nodded forward under their mesmeric power. "Then again, I guess it just might be 'mumbo-jumbo' after all," snickered Morgana mischievously at the sight.
Morgana chuckled wickedly as she turned to Erica, who just stared at Morgana, her mouth agape. "I couldn't help overhearing your whole conversation: you didn't really believe he was going to recommend you, did you?" Morgana asked scornfully. "I mean, that's the oldest pickup line in the business world."
"Well, I didn't know what to think," Erica replied. "Why?"
"Because I could see he was lying through his teeth," Morgana stated flatly.
"How?" Erica asked, her once suspicious eyes now wide with curiosity and alarm.
Morgana smiled wearily. "Being able to read faces comes in handy in therapy. But if you don't believe me, why don't I just ask him?"
Stunned, Erica only stared blankly at Morgana in response.
Morgana shrugged and turned to Martin. "Martin," she commanded, "answer me truthfully: are you going to recommend Erica for a promotion?"
"No," answered Martin flatly.
"Because I was going to recommend Philip instead."
Erica hissed in outrage. "Philip?! He's only been with the company nine months! Why, that b--"
Morgana silenced Erica with a touch on her arm. "It sounds to me like he's trying to work the 'good ol' boys' network and get a piece of action for himself," she said fiercely. "Not nice.
"Do you want me to arrange some sort of punishment for him?"
Erica nodded, savagely.
Morgana retrieved her card from Martin. "Martin," she commanded, "when I snap my fingers you will count from one to ten slowly and then you will awaken. You will totally and completely forget me, forget everything I said and did, nor will you notice any interruption in your consciousness, but in the next public meeting with your boss you will remember all the times he ignored you, all the meetings you humiliated you, all the raises and promotions he refused you: you will then tell your boss exactly what you think of him.
"Do you understand?"
Martin nodded in compliance.
Erica stifled a laugh. "I want to be there when that happens. Oooh, that'll be fun to watch." Erica paused a moment, her eyes brightening. "Maybe I can even arrange it to be when he's supposed to recommend Philip for the promotion. Thanks," said Erica, grinning, "thanks a lot."
Morgana laughed. "Let's keep this all just between ourselves, okay?" she said conspiratorially as she looked deep into Erica's eyes, which glazed over momentarily. "Good luck," she continued, patting Erica's shoulder. She absently snapped her fingers before Martin's face as she walked away.
Morgana returned to examining the map. Behind her she could hear Martin slowly counting, and she watched their reflections carefully. At '10' Martin blinked himself awake to see Erica staring at him with a fierce, defiant smile on her face. "I'm going back to my room," she announced, turning and stalking across the lobby, "alone." Martin sputtered in surprise. His confused and exasperated inquiry was cut off as they passed through the glas double doors that led into the attached hotel at the end of the lobby. Morgana's wicked laugh echoed in the now vacant lobby, and she returned her concentration to the map, noting with relief that her feeling of being watched had faded as they had left the lobby.
She found the maze of hallways, rooms, and small shops in the convention center daunting but not impossible to divine, and after several moments of examination and memorization Morgana turned away from the map. One escalator, two turns, and three corridors later she stood before a nondescript, half-open set of double doors: loud voices and louder music spilled out from within. She slipped through the door and found several groups of people occupying most of the tables and chairs scattered around the large room. Rock music blared from twin towers of speakers near the bar at the far end of the room.
Morgana suddenly felt again the sensation of being watched: as her eyes swept the room she spotted a woman staring frankly at her with what appeared to be one blood-red eye. Morgana turned to get a better look but the woman stepped behind a passing crowd of people and disappeared from view. Morgana scanned the whole room, searching for the mysterious woman without success, when an insistant voice from across the room called out "Dr. Black? Over here!"
Morgana turned in the direction of the voice. The man who had called to her stood out in his grey suit amidst the casual attire of the rest of the crowd, standing next to a blonde woman wearing glasses with pink-colored lenses in the center of the largest group of people. Aware that she was now the focus of attention, Morgana projected her utterly confident on-stage personality, all thoughts of the red-eyed woman reluctantly and regretfully pushed aside. She easily cut through the crowd and boldly approached the man, held out her hand out, and said "You must be David Bishop: nice to meet you in person."
David shook her hand, staring at her: long glossy black hair framing a beautiful heart-shaped face highlighted by large, expressive dark eyes and a broad, amused smile. A head shorter than his own average height, and slender to the point of being called petite, Morgana still projected a definite strength of character and will and an air of total self-confidence that made her seem much taller. Impulsively he bowed and kissed her hand, which prompted a rich laugh from her.
David turned to the blonde woman beside him. "Carolyn, I'd like you to meet Dr. Morgana Black: Morgana, this is our Author Guest of Honor, Carolyn Knight." Morgana held out her hand, and Carolyn shook it warmly.
Morgana grinned eagerly and said "I greatly enjoy your Starchildren novels. Their premise of an immortal, mysterious, magickal race living among unknowing mortal humans is a fascinating one."
"Morgana will be presenting her seminar on hypnosis here tomorrow evening," David continued.
"You're invited to come and watch, Carolyn," said Morgana. "I'd like to hear your professional opinion of it."
"I'll do that," replied Carolyn cautiously, releasing Morgana's hand and eyeing her carefully.
Several moments after beginning her presentation, Morgana looked over the expectant faces of her audience in the tightly-packed room. She had the hundred or so fans so enthralled that only she noticed Carolyn slip into the room to stand beside the door against the back wall.
"I have a Ph. D. in psychology, with a specialization in hypnosis and hypnotherapy," Morgana said confidently. "I do these stage shows and seminars partly to dispel some of the myths about hypnosis." She stopped and grinned. "And partly because I like it," she continued lasciviously. The audience chuckled in response.
"One of those myths is that hypnosis is a form of sleep. Let me make one thing perfectly clear: hypnosis is not sleep," she enunciated into her microphone: "hypnosis is another state of mind altogether, a natural state of concentration." She paused a moment. "You've all been in a hypnotic state," she continued, "when you are so caught up in watching TV or reading a book what you completely lost track of time."
Morgana snuck a glance at Carolyn, seeing her cautiously nod in agreement, a wary but noncommittal look in her eyes.
"But if I mentioned hypnosis to you I suppose you'd think of those movies where the magician entrances his victims by looking into their eyes." She paused and stared menacingly at the audience from under narrowed eyebrows, then blinked and waved her hand dismissively. "That isn't hypnosis, folks," she continued, shaking her head. The audience laughed in response, telling Morgana she had supposed correctly. Carolyn, still wary, only nodded slightly.
"All hypnosis is really self-hypnosis. If someone does hypnotize you, they are being a guide, nothing more: you still do all the work. Because you hypnotize yourself, no one can really hypnotize you against your will or make you do something you wouldn't normally do." In back, Carolyn nodded her head affirmatively.
Morgana tossed her head, sending ripples of light down the glossy blackness of her hair. "Anyway, enough with the obligatory explanations, now lets get down to what you're really here for." Looking toward the back of the room she saw Carolyn fold her arms before her and lean back against the wall, a wary but non-commital look in her eyes.
"First I'm going to conduct a suggestibility test, to select the participants for my show. Anyone who wants to participate should put their hands on their lap, their feet flat on the floor and sit straight up in their chairs." A general rustling sound rippled through the audience, the sound of hands and feet moving into position combined with the shuffling of chairs as nearly everyone complied.
Morgana's voice deepened, turning from conversational to commanding. "Lock your hands together before you and close your eyes. Imagine your hands becoming magnetized, sticking tighter and tighter together, so tight that you cannot pull them apart!
"Now, try to pull your hands apart. The harder you try, the tighter they pull together! Your hands are stuck tighter and tighter and you cannot pull them apart!"
She examined the audience carefully, noting that most had pulled their hands apart but a significant number were still struggling, then she said "Stop trying to pull your hands apart and just relax; as you relax your hands will slide apart and you will feel more and more relaxed. Just listen to the sound of my voice and relax." Most of the people struggling a moment earlier were now relaxing into their chairs, their hands sliding apart to fall limp beside them.
"With every breath you take, with every word I say, you are becoming more and more relaxed: deeper and deeper, more and more relaxed," repeated Morgana, looking about the room. About every fourth or fifth person in the audience responded, far too many for the six chairs on the small stage behind her. Her voice softened, becoming soothing and gentle without losing its firm commanding tone. "You are now deeply relaxed, a wonderful, drifting feeling. No thoughts, no cares; empty your mind of everything except the sound of my voice, and relax; listen only to the sound of my voice, and relax."
Morgana continued to softly, soothingly, murmur "deeper and deeper; more and more relaxed" several more times as she examined the audience again critically, noting the individuals who, by her practiced eye, appeared to be in the deepest trance. In back, she could see Carolyn raise an eyebrow, nodding appreciatively.
"Now, when I touch your shoulder and speak your name, you will open your eyes but remain deeply relaxed. You will go to the stage and sit down on one of the empty chairs. When you sit down your eyes will close and you will relax deeper and deeper."
Morgana stepped off the stage and walked into the audience, stopping first before an attractive blonde in the front row. Reading her name badge, Morgana said "Victoria" softly in the woman's ear as she touched her lightly on the shoulder. Victoria slowly raised her head as her eyes fluttered open, staring blankly ahead, then she slowly stood and walked slowly to the stage. The audience watched silently as she sat down on one of the center chairs: her eyes immediately closed and her head drooped to one side. Morgana watched her levelly until she closed her eyes, then moved on to select her next subject.
In quick succession Morgana selected a tall black man named Steven in a Star Trek uniform; a short woman named Kim with short curly brown hair; a woman named Stephanie with long, straight brown hair; and a broad man named Eric wearing a convention T-shirt. Only Kim gave Morgana any trouble, pausing in sleepy confusion halfway to the stage until Morgana walked up behind her and whispered a series of reinforcing suggestions to her, after which she continued to the stage and sat down.
Finally, grinning, Morgana selected a large, fierce-looking man in Klingon makeup and uniform, wearing a name badge with the name Kelek, who sat comically slouched in his chair, leaning heavily against the indignant woman next to him, also dressed as a Klingon. Laughing wickedly, the woman informed Morgana that his real name was Lester, when Morgana failed to get any response by saying his Klingon name: as Morgana said his real name, 'Kelek' stood and walked entranced to the stage.
When she was finished, Morgana smugly strode up to the front, looked over the six deeply entranced people before her, and grinned to herself. Then she swirled the microphone cord around herself, stepped confidently onto the stage and turned to face the audience. In the back, she noted Carolyn glance over her six choices and nod once.
"Now only the people in the audience, listen to me very carefully. In a few moments I'm going to count from one to five: when I reach the number five you're going to awaken feeling relaxed and refreshed. But for the rest of this night, and only for this night, whenever I snap my fingers three times you will close your eyes and return to this deeply relaxed state.
"Now: one, you're feeling more and more aware; two, you're feeling wonderful; three, you're becoming wider and wider awake; four, your eyes are starting to open; five, your eyes are now open, you're completely awake!"
The entranced audience members blinked themselves awake and looked around themselves. Some appeared disheartened at not being selected.
"Please don't feel bad if I didn't select you," consoled Morgana. "There's only so much room on the stage." She looked out at the audience looking expectantly back at her. "However, I'll be around the convention all weekend, so if you want to talk to me later, feel free.
"Now, what shall I do with these sleeping beauties, hmm?" asked Morgana of the audience, tossing her head over her shoulder in the direction of her six subjects, a mischievous smile flickering about the corners of her lips.
There was a chorus of suggestions from the audience ranging from the silly to the possibly obscene. Morgana chuckled at the list, then silenced the audience with a wave of her hand.
"No, I know what we'll do first." She stepped behind the line of chairs and began to speak confidently. "Everyone on stage, listen to me. You're in a contest to pick the next host of Mystery Science Theater 3000. In a few moments you'll open your eyes and see a movie screen. I'm going to describe the movies you will see on the screen: you know what to do then. When it's over, I'll count from three back to one and you'll close your eyes and be deeply relaxed. Now, open your eyes and see the movie screen!"
Six pairs of eyes opened and stared into the air above the audience.
"I hope this is better than last week's movie," said Steven from the far right end of the row. "What could be worse than flying saucers on wires?"
"Here's the first movie: 'The Invasion of the Mechanical Monsters', starring Rex Reason, Ralph Richardson, and Rocky Rhodes!" said Morgana.
There was a collective groan from the six subjects. "It's worse," groaned 'Kelek': "it's stunt men in gorilla suits and diving helmets!"
"Didn't I see these aliens on 'Doctor Who'? What's this, recycled rubber monster men week?" replied Kim.
The audience, unnoticed by the six subjects on stage, roared with laughter. Morgana smiled secretly: her instincts, born of decades on the stage, told her that this is going to be a fun evening.
The con suite was closing at around two o'clock in the morning; Morgana had spent the rest of the night in cheerful self-absorption with a crowd of appreciative fans. As the crowd began to dissipate and depart in search of late parties or their rooms, Morgana stood in the rapidly-emptying hallway, slightly piqued at her unusual lack of success at finding someone to Feed from, when she heard a hesitant voice from behind her say "Er, Dr. Black?"
Morgana turned in mild surprise to see a tall, slender man in his mid-20s standing several feet behind her. She briefly narrowed her eyes in examining his open, earnest stare, short blond hair and loose T-shirt advertising last year's convention, then nodded to herself in satifaction.
"I know it's late," he continued, taking her nod for permission to continue, "but I didn't want to interrupt you earlier. You did say we could talk to you later. That is, if you still have the time tonight."
Morgana smiled broadly, warmly. "Of course I have the time: the night's still young," she said. "What did you want to talk to me about?"
He looked aside and down at the floor, everywhere but directly at Morgana. Finally he looked up and stared confusedly at her. "Well, I ..." he stammered a moment, then looked down at the floor again.
Morgana smiled indulgently, reading the name 'James' on his badge, then stepped forward to take his arm. James gave one small, surprised squeak as she gently pulled him along, beguilingly smiling to him to silence any resistance. She led him through the maze of corridors until they come to a small, hidden alcove, where a pair of large padded chairs rested against the wall. Morgana sat in one of the chairs and directed James to sit in the other.
"You were at my show this evening, weren't you? In the front row?" asked Morgana, leaning over the arm of the chair to study him intently. James nodded, staring back at her in mingled wonder and confusion. "I thought you looked familiar. What did you think of it?"
"It was, it was ... fascinating," he replied in amazement. "I had never seen anything like it."
"Did you participate in the suggestibility test?"
James shook his head. "I wanted to see what it was like, first."
"And what did you want to talk to me about, James?" she asked provocatively, flirtatiously tilting her head and lifting one expressive eyebrow in inquiry.
James blushed a furious, fiery red. Unbidden, a loud laugh escaped Morgana's lips. He tried to stand, but Morgana laid her hand on his; when he turned in bewilderment to her, she caught his eyes and gently commanded "Sit." Unable to resist, James relaxed limply back into his chair, his face still burning red.
Morgana smiled knowingly. "You want me to hypnotize you, don't you?" she said calmly, raising an eloquent eyebrow in amusement.
James looked away. "I don't think I can ask ..." he began.
"You don't have to ask, James," she said seductively, interrupting him.
James turned back to Morgana with a wide-eyed look of astonishment.
Morgana smiled inwardly. Based on her long experience, she easily recognized that he was a highly susceptible hypnotic subject, that her beguiling charm and beauty and his fascination with her and hypnosis had already totally captivated him, and that his reaction was already awakening the heat of her Hunger.
"Listen very carefully to me now, James," said Morgana, her voice turning low and sultry. "Look into my eyes." He responded immediately, staring raptly into her dark eyes. She opened her eyes wide, revealing a captivating wheel of deepest night that grew larger and larger in his sight as she leaned closer.
"Look deep into my eyes, James; concentrate on my eyes," she said slowly and distinctly. "My eyes are making you sleepy, James. It is very late, and you are very sleepy. You are going to sleep now, deep, deep sleep. Surrender to my eyes, James; surrender to sleep."
James' eyes began to water and flutter as he surrendered to the soft, sultry voice that spoke so soothingly of sleep. "Your eyes are tired," she suggested, "tired and heavy, heavier and heavier with sleep." His eyes began to blink heavily, each time taking longer and longer to open.
"Heavier and heavier, your eyes are very heavy now, James; so heavy with sleep," said Morgana, her voice growing slower and softer. "Your eyes are very heavy, James; very, very heavy. Close your eyes, James, and sleep; close your eyes ... and sleep: deep, deep sleep."
James sighed softly as his eyes closed, and he sank back into the depths of the chair with a sleepy smile of pleasure on his lips. Morgana smiled kindly as she stroked his forehead for several moments, murmuring all the while "sleep; deep, deep sleep," then she tilted his head back and leaned forward and sank her fangs into his jugular. James shuddered at the momentary flash of pain, then surrendered to the ecstasy of the Kiss.
Morgana drank deeply, then withdrew, all too quickly said a deep, hidden part of her mind, which she ardently ignored as she licked the wound clean and healed. James settled back into the chair, a blissful smile on his face.
Morgana smiled as she stroked his forehead and began to speak, when she heard a tiny noise behind her. Turning, she could see Carolyn standing behind her, staring wide-eyed and holding a tiny golden cross before her. The light reflecting off the cross glittered painfully in Morgana's eyes, and, wincing, she involuntarily turned her head aside, barely succeeding in keeping a wary eye on Carolyn.
Silently Carolyn approached, holding the cross out before her. The light reflected off of the cross into Morgana's eyes no matter how Carolyn held it. Morgana backed away against the far wall of the small alcove, watching Carolyn warily. Carolyn stopped beside James and turned her head to observe him.
"He hasn't been harmed," said Morgana, wiping a thin, drying trickle of blood from her chin. "Not much, that is, but he'll be okay. Now would you please put that cross away?"
Carolyn glared back wordlessly, the fierce look in her eyes saying all that needed to be said. Morgana shrugged, then, steeling herself and averting her eyes, she quickly stepped forward and slapped away Carolyn's hand. With the cross out of her line of sight she caught Carolyn's gaze in her own. "Put that cross away, and leave it there. And don't make any attempt to flee or call for help," she commanded.
Unable to move or turn away from the power of Morgana's eyes, Carolyn instead glared angrily back in response. Morgana's will struggled with Carolyn's for several long, tense moments before Carolyn's eyes suddenly glazed over and she slowly slid the cross under the neck of her blouse. She blinked once, twice, returning to full consciousness, then tried to withdraw the cross again, only to have her hand clench uncontrollably as she brought it to her neck. She tried to flee, but her feet seemed firmly attached to the floor. She tried to call out for help, but her tongue froze in her mouth.
In desperation and resignation Carolyn glared at Morgana. "What are you going to do with me?" she asked bleakly.
Morgana had knelt to examine James; she looked up at Carolyn, saying amusedly in reply "I'm going to let you go." Morgana grinned at Carolyn's startled expression. "After we've had a little talk, that is. But first let me finish with James here: I don't want any distractions."
Morgana reached over and stroked lightly James on the temple. "James, do you hear me?" she said softly.
James' answer was a quiet "Yes."
"James, listen to me very carefully. I'm going to wake you up now. When you awaken you will feel refreshed and wonderful. You won't notice anyone else here; we're the only two people here. You'll thank me and then leave to go back to your room. You do have a room here, don't you?"
James nodded once.
"Good. You'll go to your room, go to bed, and sleep deeply and well, restoring yourself for tomorrow, then awaken at your usual time.
"Do you understand?"
James nodded again, a slow bobbing motion repeated several times.
"Excellent, James. Now, at the count of three, you'll wake up. One, two, three." With that, Morgana snapped her fingers several times, and James opened his eyes and smiled and blinked at Morgana. He then yawned and stretched, saying "That felt wonderful," as he looked at his watch.
"Jeez, look at the time! I've got an early panel tomorrow!" He bounced to his feet, smiling to Morgana and ignoring Carolyn entirely. "I'll see you later." With that, James blindly stepped around Carolyn and walked swiftly out of the alcove.
"Pleasant dreams, James," called Morgana softly.
Morgana relaxed in her chair, impassively watching Carolyn slump into the other. "This is all too much," said Carolyn, shaking her head and tensely massaging her temples. After a few seconds she closed her eyes and breathed deeply several times. When she opened her eyes, she leaned forward in the chair. "You said you wanted to talk?" she asked warily.
"I did," Morgana replied to Carolyn's question. "What prompted you to get involved?"
Carolyn folded her hands before her. "I knew there was something different about you when I met you last night, something dark and strange, but I couldn't tell what, so I decided to keep my eye on you."
"Interesting," remarked Morgana, leaning over the arm of the chair. "Most people never notice anything unusual about me at all. And I never noticed you watching me, except at the show. Interesting indeed."
"Then, when I saw you meet James, something prompted me to follow you: when I saw you feed from him, I knew I had to do something." Carolyn shook her head in defeat. "But now I can't do anything."
"You risked yourself to try and save James," consoled Morgana, nodding appreciatively. "You're very brave, Carolyn.
"And you're going to have to be even braver. To put it bluntly, Carolyn, for your protection and mine, I can't let you keep the knowledge you have. Fortunately for both of us, I can completely remove your suspicions and knowledge about me, but to do it right, I really need your cooperation. Will you trust me?"
"Why should I trust you?"
Morgana sighed. "Didn't King Ember ask the same question of the leader of the Starchildren, Derek Michaelson? And what was Derek's answer?"
"'You have no choice. I can only hope that I will earn your trust instead of demanding it.'" recited Carolyn. "You actually have read my books," she continued in surprise.
"I started reading them when I discovered you trained in hypnosis under Milton Erickson, just like me," Morgana said proudly.
Carolyn again blinked in surprise. "You trained under Milton?" she replied in dubious surprise.
Morgana grinned. "I did a year of post-doc work with Milton at Wayne State in '46, after I got my Ph. D. in Psychology from Northwestern." Morgana stopped, smiling at a long-forgotten memory. "I was a favorite of his, too," she continued after a moment. "He discovered that I was a vampire, but he never told anyone or used it against me. When I found that out, I had to remove his memories: it hurt me to do it, just like it hurts me now, but I had to do it. Just like now."
"Why do you have to do it, though?" asked Carolyn. "Make me forget."
"Just like your Starchildren, vampires live among humans who would fear us and hate us, so we, too, like your Starchildren, maintain the illusion of nonexistence, what we call the Masquerade. Your knowledge is a blatant breach of the Masquerade, and if it were discovered, it could mean your death and my destruction." Morgana leveled her gaze at Carolyn. "I didn't want that to happen to Milton, and I don't want it to happen to you, either."
Carolyn returned Morgana's earnest gaze impassively.
"Carolyn, you were sensitive enough to recognize I wasn't mortal. What does that sensitivity tell you about me, now?"
Carolyn took Morgana's hand. After a long moment, she replied, faintly embarrassed, "It tells me that you aren't the evil monster that I expected to find in a vampire."
"Just like you take pains to point out about the Starchildren, we vampires are not as irredeemably evil as the legends paint us: 'There is good and evil and all shades of grey in between.' as Derek once said," said Morgana, chuckling. "So, I ask you again: will you trust me?"
Carolyn closed her eyes for several moments, shielding herself from Morgana's gaze, then suddenly she nodded in resignation. "Very well, what do you want me to do?"
Morgana gently turned Carolyn's face toward her and took Carolyn's hands in her own. "Empty your mind, Carolyn. Relax, and look into my eyes," she said consolingly; "I know it sounds melodramatic, but that's the way it works."
Carolyn boldly met Morgana's eyes.
"This won't hurt a bit, Carolyn, I promise," placated Morgana.
Carolyn nodded, her eyes staring directly into Morgana's. She breathed deeply, then suddenly her eyes opened wide, entranced.
When it was over, several long moments later, Morgana stood and looked down at the entranced Carolyn. She pushed back a lock of Carolyn's fair hair from in front of her face. "Carolyn, go back to your room and rest."
At Morgana's words, Carolyn silently stood and began to walk back into the hotel. Morgana accompanied the still-entranced woman through the empty hallways of the hotel to the door of her room and smiled sadly as Carolyn opened the door and disappeared within. "Rest well, tonight, too, Carolyn: pleasant dreams," whispered Morgana.
Several minutes later, in her own room, Morgana searched through her purse, finally withdrawing a small address book. She opened it, flipping rapidly through the pages before stopping at one entry in particular. Sitting on the bed, Morgana took up the phone and began dialing.
The phone rang several times, but Morgana was patient, and finally a bleary voice on the other end answered "St. Anthony's rectory. Hello?"
"I need to speak to Father Mitchell: this is very important."
"Who shall I say is calling?" asked the tired voice, crossly.
"Tell him," began Morgana, then she paused a moment. "Tell him Michelle Brown is calling."
Morgana impatiently waited several minutes, then she heard a familiar, deep voice over the phone. "Michelle? What is this all about?"
"White pawns, Father; white pawns."
There was a sudden pause. "I, see. Just a moment, then." There was a brief burst of static over the line, then Father Mitchell's voice returned. "The line is secure, and I'm alone. What is so important that you have to talk to me about, Michelle, at 3:30 in the morning?"
"The Celestial Chorus keeps an eye on potential Mages, don't they? Keeps track of them?"
"Yes, most every Tradition does: we have a data base solely dedicated to monitoring potential candidates for the Tradition. Why?"
"I just encountered someone who is definitely a potential candidate, and I need to know if you're keeping an eye on her."
"Just a second, and I'll check; what's the person's name?"
Father Mitchell laughed. "Oh, her. I don't need to check the data base for her name: she's a prime candidate. Several members of the Chorus, myself among them, appreciate how she integrates her spirituality into her writing and personal life in a way that parallels much of our teaching: she would have little trouble being quickly accepted into our Tradition, and I suspect she would find our Tradition very compatible." He stopped for a second. "Why are you so curious about her?"
"If I read the signs correctly, she is very close to Awakening."
"Oh?" replied Father Mitchell. "How so?"
"She was sensitive enough to recognize that I wasn't mortal when we first met." She paused a second: "you know how difficult that is."
"Indeed I do, Michelle: please continue, this tale is becoming very interesting."
"Then she followed me unnoticed for most of the evening: only someone a powerful arcane ability could have cloaked herself so well.
"Finally, after she saw me feeding, she was able to use her cross to ward me away momentarily."
Father Mitchell murmured in surprise.
"Father, you know crosses don't particularly affect me: that she was able to make it unpleasant for me at all is significant enough."
"I see. Is there anything else?"
Morgana sighed. "Yes: I had to entrance her to keep her from doing anything rash while I explained things to her. She almost resisted me, as if she were Awakened! I don't think that I could have removed her memories of the incident if she hadn't consented."
Father Mitchell's surprise was evident in his voice. "How did you convince her to let you remove her memories?"
Morgana laughed. "Father, you know how persuasive I can be."
Father Mitchell returned her laughter. "All too true, Michelle, all too true. But what does all this have to do with the Tradition?"
"I know you Mages dislike the Orphans who Awaken outside the established Traditions, and I wouldn't want to see that happen to Carolyn." She paused, breathing deeply. "Right now, almost anything could Awaken her: I think someone should ensure she does it within your Tradition."
Father Mitchell chuckled low and slowly. "Michelle, you amaze me. A vampire, and a Ventrue at that, freely demonstrating concern for a potential Mage? You transcend the stereotypes my Tradition assigns to your Kindred, and it is my pleasure to know you. I shall make some inquiries and be in touch with you soon."
Five minutes later Morgana heard a knock on her door. Throwing back the deadbolt and silently turning the lock on the door handle, she stepped back, palming a small derringer behind her back. "Come in," she called loudly.
Father Mitchell opened the door; over his shoulder Morgana could see, instead of the hotel corridor, the oak paneling of his office reflecting a warm amber glow of a chandelier. "Enter freely, and of your own will," said Morgana, grinning slyly.
Father Mitchell turned his face Heavenward, then stepped through the door and closed it behind him. Morgana's derringer disappeared unnoticeably to its hiding place in the holster in the small of her back. Father Mitchell approached and took her hand, grasping it warmly in his large, rough hands. "You're looking as well as ever, Michelle, but that's to be expected, isn't it?" he said in his deep, bell-like voice.
Impulsively Morgana hugged him, and he responded by absently stroking her glossy black hair. "You're looking well yourself, Father," said Morgana as she pulled back from her embrace. "But why have you come now? Couldn't it wait until later?"
Father Mitchell smiled gravely. "This may be more serious than you expected: there is word that the Marauders are interested in Carolyn, not to mention possibly even the Technocracy; black knights after our white pawn." He paused a moment. "You've done enough already: you don't have to do endanger yourself any further."
"I want to see this through to the finish, Father," replied Morgana. "Besides, I've no love for the Mauraders or the Technocracy: if I can tweak their noses by helping the Chorus, I'll do it."
Father Mitchell patted her shoulder. "I only wish more of your brethren felt the same as you, Michelle. Now, shall we see about our prospective Mage? You wouldn't happen to know where I could find her, would you?"
Morgana nodded her head. "I walked her to her room, so she should still be there. We'd better get moving, though. Dawn comes at around 5:15 here, so I've only got a couple of hours left tonight."
In reply, Father Mitchell bowed slightly, then stepped aside and waved her to the door.
Morgana led Father Mitchell down a flight of stairs and down the silent hallway before stopping before room 307.
Standing outside the door they both heard a man's supernaturally persuasive voice within, saying "... all of the pollution of man's technology will be wiped clean, and the world will be renewed, a world of harmony and peace, of wonder and magic."
"Marauder," mouthed Father Mitchell quietly.
Morgana gestured toward the side of the door with a nod of her head, soundlessly saying "Just like last time." He nodded, quickly and briefly sketching a cross in the air above Morgana's head, then seemed to merge with the dim shadows of the hallway.
The Marauder's voice continued from within: "And you, Carolyn, can be an important part of this renewal, if you will only join us this night."
Morgana stooped before the door and produced a pair of thin probes, which she inserted into the lock, thankful that the hotel had not yet switched to the new electronic locks. She silently manipulated the lock, sliding the bolt back quietly. She replaced the probes, palmed her derringer, then boldly pushed the door open.
Inside Morgana saw Carolyn standing in the center of the suite staring mutely in fascination at the man standing before her. Morgana recognized him from earlier that evening: he was dressed as Carolyn's charismatic Starchild character Derek Michaelson, richly garbed in a tunic, breeches, and cape of glossy black satin with intricate gold needlework. The sound of the door opening caused the Marauder and Carolyn to wheel about to face her.
"Fancy meeting you here," said Morgana conversationally. She took several steps into the room, noting Carolyn's half-entranced stare that contrasted with the man's challenging one.
The Marauder mocked her with a smug, self-satisfied grin. "The world of magic I work for has a place for creatures of the night, vampire," replied the Marauder persuasively. "You may join us this night, too. After all, I have you to thank for preparing this prospective Mage's will so obligingly."
Angrily, Morgana shook her head in dismissal, casually brushing aside his supernaturally-persuasive words. Instead she stared directly at Carolyn, capturing her vacant gaze. Morgana seized the opportunity: "Carolyn Knight," said Morgana suddenly, "sleep!"
Smiling, Carolyn quietly said "Okay" as she crumpled to her knees, then fell sideways onto the bed. At the same time, Morgana felt a sudden rush of air from the doorway as a furious blast of wind hammered at the Marauder. He fell backwards and rolled to the far wall. He lay pinned against the wall for a moment, then he produced a long white bone wand from under his garb and swept it out before him: the wind ceased immediately.
The Marauder looked past Morgana, and she could hear Father Mitchell step inside and close the door. The Marauder pointed the wand at Father Mitchell and said three harsh, flat words; Morgana heard Father Mitchell gasp and stagger against the wall.
Turning toward Morgana, the Marauder raised his wand in her direction. "Now that your companion is busy saving his own life, I can deal with the likes of you, Corpse, then finish your Mage companion," he said vehemently.
Defiantly, Morgana raised her hands, pointing the derringer at him. The Marauder haughtily examined the tiny pistol held in Morgana's hands. "That cannot hurt me," he sneered, quickly gesturing with the wand, "but my magic will hurt you."
Morgana felt a wave of pain as ghostly claws broke through a suddenly shimmering wall of light before her to rake her left arm. She stifled a scream of pain and glared balefully at the Marauder. "I'm a master of magic myself," said Morgana ferally; "what do you think of this magic trick?"
The derringer in her double-fisted grip barked and bucked: a long wide cone of white flame spouted from its end, completely engulfing the Marauder. The blast knocked his wand from his hand to bounce off the wall out of reach. The acrid stench of burning phosphorus hung in the air as a shotgun shell dropped away from the derringer.
Behind Morgana, Father Mitchell's deep voice chanted several words in Latin. Bolts of lightning leapt from the electrical appliances and outlets around the room to strike at the Marauder. He jerked in an aurora of St. Elmo's Fire, his limbs trembling and jerking in a grotesque version of St. Vitus' Dance. Morgana fired another burst of flame into his midsection as a final jolt of electricity played along his form.
There is a terrifying moment of silence as the Marauder stood erect, facing them defiantly, then he fell face-first to the floor.
Morgana looked at Father Mitchell, who had come up to kneel beside the unconscious form of Carolyn. "Will she be all right?" she asked, concern evident in her voice.
Father Mitchell pulled Carolyn's eyelid back, noting the rapid response. "She'll be fine. After a display like this, though, she's definitely going to Awaken, and soon. I've got to get her to the Chantry, fast."
Father Mitchell picked up the unconscious Carolyn and cradled her against his shoulder, then hurried to the door. He chanted a long singsong rhyming Latin phrase in his deep, bell-like voice. When he finished, he opened the door to reveal a brightly-lit room. Morgana, walking up beside him, saw within several men holding a variety of automatic weapons or arcane talismans. Father Mitchell nodded to them, then motioned over his shoulder and said "Clean up detail." Three men crossed over the threshold and scurried toward the fallen Marauder.
Father Mitchell looked at Morgana. "Carolyn is in good hands now," he said, smiling, and Morgana nodded and smiled in reply and satisfaction. Father Mitchell took one step forward, crossing the boundary. Suddenly he reached backwards, quickly taking hold of Morgana's hand and pulling her through after him.
Morgana suspected that this Chantry had heard more oaths and shouting in the past ten minutes than it had heard in all the centuries of its existence.
"I cannot believe that you can permit the presence of such demon-spawn in our sacred Chantry, Father Mitchell!" shouted the leader of the guard detail, an ascetic-looking man wearing silver robes marked with arcane symbols of the Tradition.
Ignoring the controversy, Morgana sat down on a nearby chair and concentrated on regenerating the wound she took from the Marauder's attack. The wounds on her arm slowly closed, and she shuddered at the large blood price it cost her.
"This 'demon-spawn' endangered her own existence to succor a prospective member of this Tradition, Michael," responded Father Mitchell, the thunder of his voice easily overcoming Michael's. He stood before Michael like an Old Testament prophet, his silver-grey beard and hair lending him an air of absolute authority. "She has more than earned the right to be here.
"And if anyone so much as considers harming her either by action or inaction, I will personally perform the ceremony of Gilgul upon them and cast them out of the Tradition."
He paused, staring at the others. "She is my guest, and will be treated as such," he continued, softly but finally.
A dead silence followed, combined with Michael's sullen but defeated glare. Father Mitchell smiled in grim triumph and nodded to Morgana. "If you will awaken our Initiate here, Michelle, we can begin the Initiation."
Morgana approached Carolyn sitting in a comfortable chair, brushed the hair back from her face, and said softly, almost tenderly, "Open your eyes, Carolyn."
Carolyn's eyes fluttered open, staring blankly ahead, and Morgana stared deep into her entranced eyes and whispered "Awaken, and remember."
Carolyn's blank expression was suddenly replaced with one of extreme confusion and shock. She stared in wonder at Morgana as the flood of suppressed memories seemed to pass by her eyes, and Morgana smiled in affirmation. Morgana then nodded to Father Mitchell, who knelt beside Carolyn and began to explain.
Thirty minutes later, garbed in a blood-red robe, Morgana accompanied Father Mitchell, resplendent in a shimmering gold Adept's robe, and Carolyn, in an Initiate's robe of white, down the corridor to the Chantry's chapel. To Morgana's eyes Carolyn still appeared overwhelmed by the rapid sequence of events, but she also seemed strengthened by Father Mitchell's reversed collar and Morgana's presence at her side, as the three stepped into the chapel.
It was decided to use the chapel as the site of Carolyn's initiation into the Tradition: the familiarity would serve as an anchor for her. It more resembled a cathedral to Morgana, with its high vaulted roof and numerous pews, filled with gold and silver robed members of the Tradition. Carolyn sighed as she saw the high altar of her Catholic faith before her, and Morgana stole a glance over Carolyn's shoulder at Father Mitchell, who smiled and nodded knowingly in return. Above the altar the cross-like symbol of the Celestial Chorus Tradition was embedded in the wall in golden and clear stained glass. A strong white light shone through the glass, but Morgana did not feel the characteristic torpor of the day within her, so she knew the light is only light and not Sunlight.
The Master of this Chantry, a tall woman with flowing golden blonde hair that merged about her shoulders with her flowing golden robe, stood in the light before the altar. "Who comes before the altar of the Most High and the Powers of Light to ask Initiation into our Sacred Tradition?" she said, beginning the ritual.
Carolyn, quickly but carefully coached just moments before, stepped forward and replied hesitantly "I, Carolyn Porter Knight, come before the altar of the Most High and the Powers of Light to ask Initiation into the Sacred Tradition of the Celestial Chorus." Her voice strengthened as she spoke, finishing strongly and assuredly.
The Master nodded her assent and motioned Carolyn to kneel before her in the light. "Who vouches for this Initiate?" next asked the woman.
"I, Father William Mitchell, Adept and Deacon of this Order, vouch for her," announced Father Mitchell proudly. "I vouch for her spirit and will, her faith and charity, her knowledge and understanding, by my Oath to the Tradition and my own Avatar." With that, he stepped forward and placed his hand on Carolyn's shoulder.
"Who vouches for this Initiate?" ritually demanded the Master, looking around at the members of the Order seated before her.
"I vouch for her," replied Morgana proudly.
The audience of gold and silver robed initiates broke into a confused outcry of voices, the voice of Michael loudest among them, but the Master silenced them with a glaring glance. "How can you vouch for this woman?" she asked harshly. "You know nothing of our Tradition."
Morgana smiled smugly. "I know something of the Traditions, of the precepts they practice, the powers they wield. And I, Morgana Black, vow to you that this woman embodies the finest traits the Celestial Chorus holds dear: a deep, abiding spirituality and a belief in the Oneness of All and the Light that shines not just through her writing but through her very life itself." Morgana lowered her eyes and crossed her hands outstretched before her in a gesture of submission. "'May the Light of the One turn away from me, and the songs of my Brethren fade from my hearing, that I be lost forever in the silent Darkness, should I speak falsely.'"
There was a surprised pause among the audience, followed by a low murmuring. The Master looked inquisitively at Father Mitchell, who only shook his head in bewilderment, then stared long and hard at Morgana. "You do know something of our Traditions, after all," replied the Master softly after several seconds. "I accept your vow."
Morgana stepped forward and laid her own hand on Carolyn's shoulder.
Turning to Carolyn, the Master continued. "Carolyn Porter Knight, by your request and cognizant of the vows given I now Initiate you into this most Scared Tradition. Be you now consecrated to your new position."
The chorus to one side began a long, musical chant in the background, as the Master took up an ornate chalice from the altar. "This is not the chalice of your faith, Initiate, but of a deeper tradition, a symbol of the Tradition we revere. By taking it up, you acknowledge your entry into the Tradition of the Celestial Chorus. Take, drink, and be one with us in the Order."
Carolyn took the chalice in hand and looked within. Inside was a heavy dark wine, and its heady fumes momentarily made her feel dizzy, but she pushed the feeling aside as she raised the chalice and drank deeply.
The empty chalice fell from her hands. There was a timeless, electric moment which engulfed Father Mitchell and Morgana as well, as Carolyn felt her perception expand beyond herself, beyond the Chantry, to encompass the whole of Creation itself. She felt her soul sing, part of a vast, unearthly chorus singing praises to the Light, and for a moment longed to join that chorus forever. Then she felt a gentle pressure to return, anchored by the two presences beside her. The longing remained, but she recognized her responsibility and returned to her mortal shell, carrying deep within her a small measure of that Light.
The moment also had its effect on Father Mitchell and Morgana. Father Mitchell wept tears of joy at the acceptance of another member of his Tradition, while Morgana felt a timeless moment of mingled wonder and revelation at the vastness of the Universe and her small but important place in it.
The chalice struck the floor. The sound revived Carolyn, Father Mitchell, and Morgana from their reverie. They looked at each other in mingled amazement and wonder as the Master announced "Brothers and sisters of the Celestial Chorus, welcome our newest sister, Carolyn."
A silver robe was produced, and Carolyn substituted it for her white robe. She stood, staring frankly at the Master, a broad smile on her face.
"There is one other matter to attend to, Master," said Father Mitchell suddenly. He placed his hand firmly on Morgana's shoulder. "This one risked her existence to succor our sister, and is owed a debt by the Order."
Startled, Morgana stared at Father Mitchell. The Master gazed impassively between him and Morgana. "What say you? What would you have of us in return for your assistance?"
Morgana could only slowly shake her head. "I can't think of anything right now," she said with a confused look on her face. "Maybe you can put it on my tab?"
The hollow, echoing voice resounded in the chapel and every eye turned upward to see its source. A figure in obscuring glowing white robes appeared to hang in mid air before the stained glass symbol.
"This one has earned a reward, and a reward she will receive."
A beam of purest white light streamed down from the center of the stained glass symbol, enveloping Morgana completely. Several of the initiates cried out, some in plain surprise, others, like Michael, saying that her just punishment had found her at last.
Morgana froze in place, wondering too if she is being punished, then she felt the light penetrate her very being. The light was warm and gentle, and a gentle woman's voice in her mind soundlessly reassured her. She felt a quickening deep within her, stirring something long dead or long asleep, and she reveled in the feeling that expanded to fill her body and soul with an onrush of light and power as she had never known before.
Suddenly the figure vanished. The light winked out, leaving Morgana standing alone in the aisle, smiling.
The Master silenced everyone present with a curt gesture, then approached Morgana. Morgana opened her mouth and extended her fangs, touching them gently. The Master blinked in surprise at the sight, then laid her hand upon Morgana's head. "Impossible," she said in wonder after a long pause.
"Where the Oracles are involved, very little is impossible, Clarissa," said Father Mitchell, approaching Morgana. "If I am not mistaken, however, it would seem that they have, however, created a miracle: the Awakening of the Avatar of a vampire. Am I correct?"
The Master nodded in amazement, staring in wonder at Morgana.
After the ceremony Father Mitchell led Morgana back to the portal.
"Father," said Morgana suddenly, "Carolyn will have to return to the convention, or else there will be too many difficult questions raised."
Father Mitchell nodded. "We'll make sure she's back before she's missed."
"She'll need protection, too."
"I daresay that the convention will have several more attendees over the weekend. She'll be protected.
"But what about yourself?"
Morgana stopped, gazing questioningly at Father Mitchell. "I don't know: I can only assume I have taken another step toward Golconda."
"If so, you have been blessed beyond measure," he replied, pointing his finger at her, "And have given the Traditions something to argue about for years to come."
A merry, fey chuckle escaped Morgana's lips. "Good."
This story was brought about because of a dream.
I had spent the last four days working for MarCon, an SF convention in Columbus, Ohio, back in May, 1994. I was staying a friend's apartment, which meant a drive in to and away from the convention every day, on his uncomfortable sofa bed. Sunday night, I was too tired to sleep, so I entered a hypnogogic dreamlike state. I thought of the of character Morgana, my gaming character that I was writing about. I wondered how she would react at an SF convention. Then I remembered that Katherine Kurtz was to be the GOH at MarCon the following year. I know Katherine; not only is she an Ericksonian trained hypnotist but she also has a very deep interest in spiritual and occult matters. She would make an excellent Celestial Chorus Mage. Suddenly this story rolled through my head.
The story has changed a little, as I tried to sell it to White Wolf for their anthology series, which has not been sold yet. Katherine became Carolyn for obvious reasons. The convention organizer David Bishop is Paul Knight, the guy on whose sofabed I rested so uncomfortably and so must share part of the honor or blame. The mysterious woman with the red eye was a yet-unresolved mystery that had been appearing in several White Wolf stories: characters would notice an otherwise-unpreposessing figure with a red eye, who would never be seen again. | <urn:uuid:26369f88-8320-40e6-8400-bbeaf07aaeda> | 2013-05-26T09:42:36Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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An end-stop occurs when a line of poetry ends with a period or definite punctuation mark, such as a colon. When lines are end-stopped, each line is its own phrase or unit of syntax. So when you read an end-stopped line, you'll naturally pause. In that sense, it's the opposite of enjambment, which will encourage you to move right along to the next line without pausing.
Bright Star, would I were as stedfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night,
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See how the lines each have their own units of sense? And they each end in a punctuation mark that indicates a pause. These, Shmoopers, are end-stopped lines. In fact, "Bright Star" is mostly end-stopped, with only two examples of enjambment. Check out the poem, and see if you can find them. | <urn:uuid:5b4e2121-53a2-4aea-9260-95c8c60be13a> | 2013-05-26T09:35:02Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The writer Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on the Fourth of July in 1804 and went on from there to establish himself as one of the great contributors to American literature. Like Forrest Gump, he seemed all his life to be surrounded by history. He was descended from a line of notorious Puritans, including a judge at the Salem witch trials. His college pals included poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and future president Franklin Pierce. Henry David Thoreau planted Hawthorne a vegetable garden as a wedding present. Edgar Allan Poe wrote rave reviews of his books. The mourners at his funeral in 1860 included Ralph Waldo Emerson and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Hawthorne spent most of his life in or around the Massachusetts towns of Salem and Concord, both of which played prominent roles in American history.
Hawthorne's books and stories drew heavily from America's Puritan history. His stories were pointed allegories that took aim at hypocrisy, sin, and corruption. Hawthorne's most famous novel, The Scarlet Letter, practically ran through a checklist of the Seven Deadly Sins. His was not a rosy view of human nature. Perhaps because of this, Hawthorne kept mostly to himself. He was painfully shy and rarely invited anyone to the home he shared with his wife and three children. A friend of his said at the time, "I love Hawthorne, I admire him; but I do not know him. He lives in a mysterious world of thought and imagination which he never permits me to enter."1 If Hawthorne were alive today, he probably wouldn't even be on Facebook. Maybe it's easier to know him 150 years after his death, now that we have access to the journals and personal papers he fiercely guarded during his lifetime.
Picture it: A brilliantly creative man is stuck at an incredibly boring desk job at the Boston Custom House. He hates it, but he can't quit because he has to support his family. It's sucking away his energy, his time, and his creativity. Yet, in a quintessentially American way, he refuses to give up hope. "I do not mean to imply that I am unhappy or discontented; for this is not the case," Hawthorne confided in his diary on 3 July 1839. "Henceforth forever I shall be entitled to call the sons of toil my brethren, and shall know how to sympathize with them; seeing that I likewise have risen at the dawn, and borne the fervor of the midday sun, nor turned my heavy footsteps homeward till eventide. Years hence, perhaps, the experience that, my heart is acquiring now will flow out in truth and wisdom."2 Generations of readers since agree that he was right. | <urn:uuid:6973fa21-5cf8-44b1-a2f8-7c16476aa981> | 2013-05-27T02:54:21Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A suicide bomber killed at least 30 people in a government office in northern Afghanistan Monday, officials said, the spiral of violence across the country, even before an expected spring offensive.
Afghan and NATO-led forces have also investigate the second serious incident involving civilian casualties, most recently as six people were killed in an airstrike mistakenly hit a house came from the eastern province of Nangarhar.
In the province of Kunduz in the north, the central front in a growing Taliban insurgency, a suicide bomber killed at least 30 people, Mohammad Ayoub Haqyar, Emam Saheb district chief, told Reuters. 40 others were injured.
Kunduz police chief Abdul Qayum Ibrahimi said three policemen were among civilians dead and many wounded.
Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, speaking by telephone from an undisclosed location, claimed responsibility for the blast in Kunduz, on behalf of the Islamist group. He said the aim was for people to sign for a group of community policing.
Meanwhile, NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said it was investigating whether its forces killed or injured civilians in an attack against the insurgents seen placing a bomb in the eastern province of Nangarhar on Sunday.
Reuters television pictures of the dead zone two children, a boy and a girl, placed in the fleece-lined coffins. A Reuters journalist reported seeing six bodies outside a house in the district of Nangarhar Khogiani, including four children. Ahmadzia Abdulzai, spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar, said a missile had killed six family members.
"It's an extremely unfortunate incident," spokesman for ISAF U.S. Army Colonel Patrick Hynes said in a statement.
Sunday evening, Afghan President Hamid Karzai strongly condemned the raid in Kunar province, said his office has killed over 50 civilians.
ISAF expressed, however, the issue of taxation in Kunar, but Afghan officials said an investigation began Monday.
Admiral Greg Smith, chief spokesman for ISAF, said the probe would focus on a shoot that began on Thursday night and lasted over five hours.
He said that ISAF had "clear intelligence" that Taliban leaders were planning a meeting this evening and that the surveillance images showed no civilians or permanent establishments in the area. | <urn:uuid:5dbfd1d8-89b4-4745-98d3-d4d708a35385> | 2013-05-27T02:55:24Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Police have arrested the second member of a teenage duo accused of robbing a victim at gunpoint.
Emmanuel Jallah, 17, of the 200 block of Park Hill Avenue, Clifton, was busted Thursday in connection with the Jan 4 incident in his community, said police.
According to court papers, Jallah and his accomplice, Hassan Sroura, approached the victim at about 9:15 a.m. on the 300 block of Vanderbilt Avenue.
Sroura punched the victim's chest, and Jallah snatched a cell phone from his pants pocket, said court records.
When the victim tried to grab the phone back, Jallah displayed a gun and barked, "If you take another step, I'm going to shoot you," court documents said.
Jallah was charged with two counts of robbery and one count of grand larceny, all felonies, said a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan.
He's also accused of a misdemeanor weapon possession.
Sroura, who was arrested on Jan. 8, was charged with similar crimes, online state court records show.
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On display in the Friedrichswerder Church are sculptures from the early 19th century. Built between 1824 and 1830 after plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the Friedrichswerder Church, with all its works, is the most authentic building of its creator.
The reception of antique motif and form is an important feature of the sculptures from the late 18th to the mid-19th century which are on display here. They are grouped in the exhibition space in a way which is informal and rich in connections so that the observer is given an impression of something like a "landscaped serenity".
At the centre of the exhibition is the original plaster model for Johann Gottfried Schadow's marble sculpture of the Prussian princesses. The area of the Classical sculptural ideal is represented by Emil Wolff's "Badende" and Heinrich Kümmel's "Fischerknabe". Theodor Kalide's "Bacchantin auf dem Panther" - a war-damaged torso, the revolutionary modernity of which can be recognised even in this fragmentary form - already exceeds the boundaries of Classicism. Busts of significant personages from the Goethe period complement the sculpture exhibition: Immanuel Kant, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt and other characters from this significant period in German intellectual history are present.
In the gallery of the church, the Nationalgalerie (National Gallery) has put on display a documentary exhibition on the life and work of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. So, at the same time, the building receives recognition: with the Friedrichswerder Church Schinkel realised a central work of German neo-Gothic. | <urn:uuid:e1ac6216-dbaa-4b99-9711-5afd235a05f7> | 2013-05-26T09:36:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Bombers target Shiite worshippers
Three explosions aimed at Shiite worshippers ripped through Baghdad during Friday prayers, killing at least 27 people and injuring dozens, officials said, on the eve of Shiite Islam's most important holiday.
Casualty figures for the three attacks were conflicting.
The first blast occurred in Baghdad's southern Dora neighbourhood near the al-Khadimain mosque and killed at least 15, Police Captain Falah al-Mahdawi said. Another 20 were injured in the first blast. His police station is located near the mosque.
A second blast caused by a suicide bomber occurred outside the Al Bayaa mosque in a predominantly Shiite neighbourhood of western Baghdad, Lieutenant Colonel Jalal Sabry of the local police station said.
An official at Baghdad's al Yarmuk hospital said at least 10 people were brought to the facility from the scene of that explosion.
According to police 1st Lieutenant Waed Hussein, two people were killed and five were injured when a third suicide bomber blew himself near an Ashoura procession in the Shi'ite Ash Shulah district north-west of the city centre.
Shiites are marking the Islamic holy month of Muharram and Ashoura, the 10th day of Muharram, is the holiest day of the year for them.
The day marks the death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the prophet Muhammad, in a 7th century battle for leadership of the Islamic world.
Last year during Ashoura twin blasts ripped through crowds of worshippers at Shiite Muslim shrines in Baghdad and Karbala, killing at least 181 people. | <urn:uuid:63b2e1c2-324d-4a39-99c4-24e65468e002> | 2013-05-27T02:54:58Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Inspired a generation: Murray Rose dies at 73
Champion ... Murray Rose after retaining the 400 metres freestyle title in Rome flanked by Tsuyoshi Yamanaka of Japan and John Konrads of Australia. Photo: Fairfax Archives
ONE of Australian swimming's icons, Murray Rose, died at his home in Sydney yesterday after a fight with leukaemia. He was 73.
Rose had been battling the disease since Christmas but his condition had deteriorated during the past six weeks, and rapidly since Easter.
At 17, Rose became the poster boy of the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne when he won gold medals in the 400 metres, 1500 metres, and as a member of the 4 x 200 metres freestyle relay.
"Part of the swimming DNA in this country" ... Murray Rose at North Bondi in 2008. Photo: Jacky Ghossein
Four years later, in Rome, he successfully defended his 400 metres title - an achievement not equalled until Ian Thorpe won the event in 2000 and 2004 - and took silver in the 1500 metres. He also won a bronze in the 4 x 200 metres relay.
Among Rose's teammates on the Melbourne relay were John Devitt, Kevin O'Halloran and Jon Henricks. Last night Devitt told the Herald of the courageous battle his close friend had endured. ''He's planned his funeral and got it all into place,'' he said. ''His whole attitude was: 'Well this is going to happen to me and this is life,' and I hope it's a good example for a lot of people to accept the cards they are dealt …
''His wife, Jodi, has been magnificent and she has nursed him, and along with their son Trevor, they were just great during the time Murray has been ill …
''Murray wasn't an iconic figure of Australian swimming, he was an icon of world swimming. His performance in Rome in the 400 metres freestyle, I would put up there with one of the great moments of Australian Olympic competition.''
Rose was born in England on January 6, 1939. Like his contemporary Dawn Fraser, Rose became a legend of the sport, and even today his name is instantly recognised regardless of the company in which it is mentioned.
Rose's former rival and later good friend John Konrads said his achievements in the amateur era put him among the sport's greatest athletes.
''Murray Rose was certainly one of the greatest of all time. There's Mark Spitz in the sprints and so on and now Michael Phelps, but they're short distance swimmers in the professional era.
''I think, taking into consideration the amateur era, Murray was the greatest of all time.''
The president of Swimming Australia, David Urquhart, said last night: ''The name Murray Rose is synonymous with success in the sport of swimming, and his achievements in Melbourne in 1956 will go down as the stuff of legend. Murray Rose is part of the swimming DNA in this country. His success inspired a generation.''
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Sonoma woman dies in Cavedale accident
A 52-year-old Sonoma woman was killed when her vehicle ran off Cavedale Road last weekend.
Officer Jaret Paulson, with the California Highway Patrol's Napa office, identified the woman as Barbara Bradley, 52, of Sonoma.
Paulson said authorities aren't sure when the accident occurred but it was discovered shortly after 6 p.m. Monday. A friend said nobody had been able to contact Bradley on Sunday.
Bradley was a businesswoman who owned Barbara Bradley's Caregiving Services and Sonoma Steps, a clothing store, just off the Plaza.
Paulson said that a witness reported seeing something mid-day Monday, but authorities couldn't find anything at that time. Later in the day, the witness took authorities to the site and that's when the vehicle was discovered 50 feet down a cliff on Cavedale.
Paulson said Bradley, driving a 1999 Chevy pickup truck, was eastbound on Cavedale, when for an unknown reason, her vehicle left the south side of the road and overturned several times before dropping 50 feet down a cliff.
Paulson said Bradley wasn't wearing a seatbelt, was ejected and sustained fatal injuries.
Paulson said any witnesses can call the CHP's Napa office at 253-4906.
"Right now, there's a lot of unknowns," Paulson said Tuesday.
Tony Russo, a longtime friend of Bradley's, said both he and her family had been trying to reach her since sometime Sunday.
"The family's is pretty much in shock," Russo said. "She's been missing since Sunday and the family wasn't notified until Tuesday."
He said Bradley was "an incredibly kind woman who took care of everybody else before herself."
Russo, who is a photographer, said he has known Bradley since she bought Sonoma Steps, five or six years ago and said she would donate items from her shop to a woman's shelter.
"She was incredibly sweet," Russo said. "She was always trying to do the right thing for people."
Her daughter, Danielle Martin, said that her mother was a natural caregiver.
"She was always helping people," Martin said. "Especially young mothers, because she had me when she was 16."
Martin said her mother opened her caregiving business in about 1996. "It was something she always did," Martin said. "She understood what it was like to be a caregiver."
Bradley, her daughter said, also helped the Hispanic community with things such as employment and citizenship.
"The store (Sonoma Steps) was a dream of hers," Martin said. "She loved clothes, she loved to go shopping and she loved the color purple."
In addition to her daughter, Bradley is also survived by three grandchildren, Alexia Michelle Martin, 14, Jason Walker Martin, 12, and Scott Arnold Martin, 10.
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Success factors for small heat grids with seasonal geothermal heat storage
The key factors for the development of a sustainable economy are: a reasonable reduction of the energy services which society can bear, the increase of energy efficiency for the entire energy conversion chain and the use of renewable energies for the remaining energy demand.
GEOSOL deals with the energy services space heating and water heating. They examine structural, technical, economical and social factors of success for the operation of regional solar powered small heat grids with seasonal geothermal heat storage.
The examination of a model system which consists of heat sources (solar thermal collectors), heat sinks (buildings and water heating), heat storages (shallow geothermics) a heat grid and heat pumps is the methodical starting point. The model is displayed in a dynamic computer simulation with a focus on the seasonal geothermal heat storage.
The project is realized in cooperation with the technical high school Wiener Neustadt. The pupils analyse specific case studies in the wider area of Wiener Neustadt. Furthermore they plan to build a field laboratory in order to investigate ground collectors. Additionally they develop a project website, create an information folder and present the project at events.
GEOSOL's results show determining factors for an economically and ecologically reasonable operation of specific systems. In addition the results demonstrate the practicability of these systems based on case studies. In the conclusions the future importance and implementation potentials in Austria are pointed out.
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The 7 Most Common Lies Customers Tell, Mike Michalowicz talks about why and how our prospects, clients and customers lie to us.
It's not usually malicious, but more often due to wanting to spare feelings or not fully understanding their own needs or situation. I'm pretty sure I've been lied to by prospects, although in reality, they probably weren't lying, but their circumstances changed.
If lying sounds harsh, let's call it "bending the truth." I know I've told someone I would consider their services at a later date when I knew I wouldn't. Because it wasn't comfortable for me to flat-out say I didn't want to work with them. Even saying "I don't think we're a good fit," is often bending the truth in these kinds of situations.
So if we know that prospects and clients lie to us, and we know that we are sometimes the client or the prospect, how about this: Are you lying to your audiences? On the one hand, we agree that people often lie to soften the blow or spare feelings. But how about the flip side of that? We lie to make ourselves look better.
** Do you make up answers that sound good during Q&A because you're uncomfortable saying "I don't know?"
** Do you drop names of well-known people with whom you have only a passing relationship?
** Do you sometimes pass off your opinions as facts because you've never actually delved into the topic enough to know what's true and what's false?
** Do you fudge information about the size or success of your business because you're afraid of being found lacking?
** Do you inflate your importance in a particular industry or group in order to impress people?
Let's just get it out there: We all want to impress people.
No matter how much we say we don't care what people think, we want to be liked, we want to be chosen, we want to be hired, we want to be recommended, we want to be recognized, we want to get fans and followers, and we want to be on top of the world -- our world -- whatever that means to each of us.
There's nothing wrong with this; in fact, it means you're human. We're social animals (some might even say pack animals), are we not? The majority of us are not hermits, shunning society, but rather spend much of our time in social groups. We are part of many groups: our family group, our friends group, our religious or spiritual group, our cultural group, our work or industry group, our age and demographic group, our gender group... and so on.
The question is this: When does lying become egregious? When does lying become obvious? When does lying ruin your credibility?
If your audience can pull out their smart phones and Google what you're telling them, then you don't have much recourse. Maybe your audience doesn't realize in the moment that you're BS-ing them, but they will figure it out at some point. Someone will contradict your facts at a later date, and you will lose your status post-presentation.
There are different degrees of truth and lies, fact and myth. We don't always tell everyone everything. "White lies" are frequently required in the context of social lubrication. And we don't always show people the dark, down, and disappointing sides of ourselves. Why should we?
But we do get into the danger zone when our BS is easily verified. And these days, easily verified also means easily reported and easily spread.
If you make a mistake, that's one thing. If you are consciously lying, and there's no good reason for it except to elevate yourself, please rethink your strategy. Your BS will come back to bite you. | <urn:uuid:caccb307-2083-462f-8025-eeee6ab94890> | 2013-05-26T09:42:24Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Title: Collector New Order
Description:Collector New Order - You must defend the castle! The New Order Collector game you run the tank to fight the invaders and defend the country against the invaders. To move, you must use the A, C, D and W to move the avatar, and shoot with the spacebar or the mouse. There are also different weapons available, and you can use the E and F keys to switch weapons, but be sure to see the ammo counter at the bottom left corner. To held Collector, New Order, and it te repel the invaders!
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(SEFFNER, Fla.) -- Rescuers early Saturday morning returned to the site where a sinkhole swallowed a Florida man in his bedroom after the home's foundation collapsed.
Jeff Bush was in his bedroom when a sinkhole opened up and trapped him underneath his home at 11 p.m. Thursday night.
While the sinkhole was initially estimated to be 15 feet deep on Thursday night, the chasm has continued to grow. Officials now estimate it measures 30 feet across and up to 100 feet deep.
Rescue operations were halted Friday night after it became too dangerous to approach the home.
Bill Bracken, an engineer with Hillsborough County Urban Search and Rescue team said that the house "should have collapsed by now, so it's amazing that it hasn't."
Using ground penetrating radar, rescuers have found a large amount of water beneath the house, making conditions even more dangerous for them to continue the search for Bush.
"I'm being told it's seriously unstable, so that's the dilemma," said Hillsborough County administrator Mike Merrell. "A dilemma that is very painful to them and for everyone."
Hillsborough County lies in what is known as Florida's "Sinkhole Alley." Over 500 sinkholes have been reported in the area since 1954, according to the state's environmental agency.
The Tampa-area home was condemned, leaving Bush's family unable to go back inside to gather their belongings. As a result, the Hillsborough County Fire Rescue set up a relief fund for Bush's family in light of the tragedy.
Meanwhile, Bush's brother, Jeremy Bush, is still reeling from Thursday night.
Jeremy Bush had to be rescued by a first responder after jumping into the hole in an attempt to rescue his brother when the home's concrete floor collapsed, but said he couldn't find him.
"I just started digging and started digging and started digging, and the cops showed up and pulled me out of the hole and told me the floor's still falling in," he said.
"These are everyday working people, they're good people," said Deputy Douglas Duvall of the Hillsborough County sheriff's office, "And this was so unexpected, and they're still, you know, probably facing the reality that this is happening."
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(DUNLAP, Calif.) -- Dianna Hanson, the intern killed by a lion inside an enclosure at a big-cat sanctuary in California, died of a broken neck, a Fresno County coroner said on Thursday, although it's still unclear why the lion attacked her.
Fresno County coroner David Hadden told ABC News that he believes a gate or door was left partially open when the 4-year-old male African lion named Cous Cous attacked Hanson Wednesday afternoon.
"The cat had just been fed and there was food in the bowl and the cat had ignored the food in order to have access to this young lady," Hadden said Thursday night.
Fresno County Sheriff's Lt. Patrick Hanson, who's not related to the victim, told ABC News Thursday night that he "cannot confirm or deny which gates were working or which gates weren't working."
Dianna Hanson, 24, died instantly but Cous Cous caused additional wounds to the woman's body after her death.
"She did not suffer. As tragic as this death is, it's important to know that she wasn't alive for a long time," Hadden said.
Less than 30 minutes after the attack began, Cous Cous was shot by a Fresno County sheriff's deputy who responded to a call, authorities said.
The body of the 500-pound lion is now at a vet facility in Tulare County awaiting a necropsy to determine what may have caused the fatal attack.
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On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I congratulate the people of Canada as you celebrate the 143rd
anniversary of your Confederation this July 1. Canada and the United States have long been the closest of friends and allies. We are joined by our fundamental values, our shared history, and our beautiful continent. Each day, 300,000 of our citizens cross the longest peaceful border in the world, further intertwining our cultures and our economies.
The United States deeply appreciates and honors our close relationship with our neighbors to the north. We have been resolute partners in the march to advance the cause of democracy, transparency, and good governance throughout the world, and we will continue to work together closely to address the challenges of the 21st
century. From Signal Hill to Parliament Hill to Vancouver Island, or wherever you gather and sing "O Canada," I wish all Canadians a safe and happy Canada Day celebration. | <urn:uuid:9a016059-02ef-431d-8089-1a3bbf7bdfb5> | 2013-05-26T09:36:02Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Oil Painting ID: 62935
1511-12 Fresco, 215 x 430 cm Cappella Sistina, Vatican "Matthan begat Jacob. Jacob begat Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ." (Matthew 1:15-16) At the top of the entrance wall of the chapel, to the right of the viewer, next to the Eleazar-Matthan lunette, there is the one concluding the genealogical sequence of the ancestors of Christ in the Gospel of St Matthew. Sullen and perplexed, wrapped in a huge yellow ochre cloak and seemingly withdrawn, the old man - generally believed to be Jacob - dominates the family group on the left due to his expressive power and the quality of the colour. Similarly, on the right, the female figure, usually thought to be Mary, is more prominent than the other members of the Holy Family and the child holding a mirror. Behind Mary in the shadow, Joseph holds the Christ child, who stretches out an arm toward the round mirror held out at the height of his face by a naked female child, possibly an allegory of the Church. The compositional schemes of the two neighbouring lunettes correspond: in both there is a female figure in the foreground seen in full, or half, profile and facing the outer wall of the chapel, and a male figure, on the internal side, with his torso seen frontally. Artist: MICHELANGELO Buonarroti Painting Title: Jacob - Joseph , 1501-1550 Painting Style: Italian , , religious
b Caprese 1475 d Rome 1564
Born: March 6, 1475
Died: February 18, 1564
Michelangelo was one of the greatest sculptors of the Italian Renaissance and one of its greatest painters and architects.
Michelangelo Buonarroti was born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese, Italy, a village where his father, Lodovico Buonarroti, was briefly serving as a Florentine government agent. The family moved back to Florence before Michelangelo was one month old. Michelangelo's mother died when he was six. From his childhood Michelangelo was drawn to the arts, but his father considered this pursuit below the family's social status and tried to discourage him. However, Michelangelo prevailed and was apprenticed (worked to learn a trade) at the age of thirteen to Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449?C1494), the most fashionable painter in Florence at the time.
After a year Michelangelo's apprenticeship was broken off. The boy was given access to the collection of ancient Roman sculpture of the ruler of Florence, Lorenzo de' Medici (1449?C1492). He dined with the family and was looked after by the retired sculptor who was in charge of the collection. This arrangement was quite unusual at the time.
Michelangelo's earliest sculpture, the Battle of the Centaurs (mythological creatures that are part man and part horse), a stone work created when he was about seventeen, is regarded as remarkable for the simple, solid forms and squarish proportions of the figures, which add intensity to their violent interaction.
Soon after Lorenzo died in 1492, the Medici family fell from power and Michelangelo fled to Bologna. In 1494 he carved three saints for the church of San Domenico. They show dense forms, in contrast to the linear forms which were then dominant in sculpture.
After returning to Florence briefly, Michelangelo moved to Rome. There he carved a Bacchus for a banker's garden of ancient sculpture. This is Michelangelo's earliest surviving large-scale work, and his only sculpture meant to be viewed from all sides.
In 1498 the same banker commissioned Michelangelo to carve the Piet?? now in St. Peter's. The term piet?? refers to a type of image in which Mary supports the dead Christ across her knees. Larger than life size, the Piet?? contains elements which contrast and reinforce each other: vertical and horizontal, cloth and skin, alive and dead, female and male.
On Michelangelo's return to Florence in 1501 he was recognized as the most talented sculptor of central Italy. He was commissioned to carve the David for the Florence Cathedral.
Michelangelo's Battle of Cascina was commissioned in 1504; several sketches still exist. The central scene shows a group of muscular soldiers climbing from a river where they had been swimming to answer a military alarm. This fusion of life with colossal grandeur henceforth was the special quality of Michelangelo's art.
From this time on, Michelangelo's work consisted mainly of very large projects that he never finished. He was unable to turn down the vast commissions of his great clients which appealed to his preference for the grand scale.
Pope Julius II (1443?C1513) called Michelangelo to Rome in 1505 to design his tomb, which was to include about forty life-size statues. Michelangelo worked on the project off and on for the next forty years.
In 1508 Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to decorate the ceiling of the chief Vatican chapel, the Sistine. The traditional format of ceiling painting contained only single figures. Michelangelo introduced dramatic scenes and an original framing system, which was his earliest architectural design. The chief elements are twelve male and female prophets (the latter known as sibyls) and nine stories from Genesis.
Michelangelo stopped for some months halfway along. When he returned to the ceiling, his style underwent a shift toward a more forceful grandeur and a richer emotional tension than in any previous work. The images of the Separation of Light and Darkness, and Ezekiel illustrate this greater freedom and mobility.
After the ceiling was completed in 1512, Michelangelo returned to the tomb of Julius and carved a Moses and two Slaves. His models were the same physical types he used for the prophets and their attendants in the Sistine ceiling. Julius's death in 1513 halted the work on his tomb.
Pope Leo X, son of Lorenzo de' Medici, proposed a marble facade for the family parish church of San Lorenzo in Florence to be decorated with statues by Michelangelo. After four years of quarrying and designing the project was canceled.
In 1520 Michelangelo was commissioned to execute the Medici Chapel for two young Medici dukes. It contains two tombs, each with an image of the deceased and two allegorical (symbolic) figures: Day and Night on one tomb, and Morning and Evening on the other.
A library, the Biblioteca Laurenziana, was built at the same time on the opposite side of San Lorenzo to house Pope Leo X's books. The entrance hall and staircase are some of Michelangelo's most astonishing architecture, with recessed columns resting on scroll brackets set halfway up the wall and corners stretched open rather than sealed.
Michelangelo wrote many poems in the 1530s and 1540s. Approximately three hundred survive. The earlier poems are on the theme of Neoplatonic love (belief that the soul comes from a single undivided source to which it can unite again) and are full of logical contradictions and intricate images. The later poems are Christian. Their mood is penitent (being sorrow and regretful); and they are written in a simple, direct style.
In 1534 Michelangelo left Florence for the last time, settling in Rome. The next ten years were mainly given over to painting for Pope Paul III (1468?C1549). | <urn:uuid:e4fdfcb0-64b1-4931-b73b-d91c532c2935> | 2013-05-27T02:54:21Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Sustaining Competitive Advantage in a High-Technology Environment: A Strategic Marketing Perspective
Source: Thomson Gale
The fortunes of high-technology firms depend on investments in intangible capital, which is comprised of intellectual capital as well as marketing capital. While the importance of intellectual capital - R&D capability, human capital, and the like - has been well established, the central role of complementary marketing capital - in the form of brand name and other marketing assets - in the process of innovation nerds greater understanding. The paper examines this issue conceptually and, drawing upon the evidence from pharmaceutical and software industries, provides managerial implications from a marketing strategy perspective. | <urn:uuid:53d59895-ce2f-491a-a3a3-23e3cac2bdf9> | 2013-05-26T09:45:25Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP) -- A woman allegedly sexually assaulted by former Denver Broncos cornerback Perrish Cox testified Wednesday that she felt sick the next day and initially suspected something had happened between her another Bronco, Demaryius Thomas.
The woman said she remembers Thomas kissing her on an air mattress at Cox's apartment. She said she has a fuzzy memory of what happened that night after she and a girlfriend met Cox and Thomas at a club and suspected she had been drugged.
Under questioning from Cox's attorney, the woman said if something had happened with Thomas, she wouldn't have considered it rape.
"It wouldn't have been fine but I wouldn't have seen it as rape if he admitted it," she said, referring to Thomas.
She said Thomas denied that anything had happened. Later, she found out she was pregnant and contacted authorities on Oct. 28, 2010. Investigators say DNA tests indicate Cox is the father.
Thomas and Vaughn also submitted DNA samples and were cleared
The Associated Press isn't identifying the woman because she's an alleged victim of a sexual crime.
Cox has pleaded not guilty to one count of sexual assault while the victim was physically helpless and one count of sexual assault while the victim was incapable of determining the nature of the conduct. He faces two years to life in prison if convicted.
A witness list of those who are expected to testify in Castle Rock, 30 miles south of Denver, remains sealed although Douglas County District Court Judge Paul King told potential jurors that Thomas and two other Broncos -- linebacker Wesley Woodyard, and special teams specialist Cassius Vaughn -- could be called.
Vaughn was Cox's roommate at the time who said he was asleep in the apartment that night.
Thomas, who was at the courthouse Wednesday, caught an 80-yard touchdown to beat the Pittsburgh Steelers in a first-round playoff game last month. | <urn:uuid:03a4ff12-b279-45ba-85f9-2edc4f8b415f> | 2013-05-26T09:44:27Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Case Study: Adderall vs. Response Cost
A six year-old boy in the T.L.C. program was seen by the consulting psychiatrist who recommended tapering the child off of his psycho-stimulant medication (Adderall) due to his small stature, observable tics, and ongoing difficulties with inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity despite the use of the stimulant medication. Prior to tapering the medication, observations were made of this child’s behavior in the school and cottage settings. Frequencies of off-task, inattentive, and impulsive behaviors were counted in each setting over the course of one week. After this data was collected and the child was tapered off the Adderall, a response cost program was implemented in the school and cottage settings to specifically target these behaviors. Frequencies of off-task, inattentive, and impulsive behaviors were again collected in the cottage and school settings after the implementation of the response cost program.
The average rate of off-task, inattentive, and impulsive behaviors per hour were determined from these frequency counts. Comparisons were made between the child’s average hourly frequency of displaying each behavior while on Adderall to the child’s average hourly frequency of displaying each behavior while off Adderall and utilizing a response cost program. In all cases the rates of behaviors were lower during the response cost program than they were during the Adderall regimen (see graph below). It is important to note that the decrease in the average hourly rate of off-task behavior (t(2)=1.104, p=.38) and impulsive behavior (t(2)=.949, p=.443) was not statistically significant. This finding is not surprising, rather it is to be expected given the limited statistical power to find real differences that comes from using such a small data set (with only two degrees of freedom).
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The truly impressive finding in this single-sample case study is that the average rate of inattentive behavior did significantly decrease (t(2)=4.062, p=.05). This is particularly noteworthy given the limited amount of statistical power to find real differences with a small data set, as mentioned above. This indicates that, for this child, the intended effect of the response cost program is rather potent when compared to the intended effect of the Adderall. Furthermore, the response cost program does not have the negative side effects of diminished stature or tics that were associated with the Adderall.
The current study should be viewed only as intended, as a single-sample case study to assess the effects of the change in program for one child, with all the inherent threats to validity that are associated with a single case study or any study with limited data points. The significant findings of this study do indicate however, that these positive effects might be expected to generalize to other children. Further assessment should therefore be conducted whenever similar changes are indicated in other children’s treatment programs in an attempt to replicate these findings. | <urn:uuid:751fb23f-a1cd-44f5-9661-3888f8c77332> | 2013-05-27T02:54:22Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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In order to be able to publish poetry, you have to prove to the publisher that your work is worth printing.
Here are some ideas for getting to that point with your writing, and then getting it published:
Join a writers group to get further feedback on your poetry and in turn help others.
Read and subscribe to alot of different journals to get an idea of which ones might fit your poetry.
Start off by sending your work to smaller, less well-known journals. You have a higher chance of getting published in those, and this will give you confidence. You could try sending poems off to a few well known journals too.
Submit your work simultaneously to various different places, and don't bother waiting for a reply. Just send some more somewhere else. Consider keeping a record of where you send your work.
Don't take rejection personally.
Write a professional and friendly covering letter to preface your poetry when you send it for publishing, include a very brief summary of your background and the subjects of the poems. Make it stand out
Check the websites of journals and publishers for submission information, and send them e-mails requesting information about publishing your work.
Check out poetry anthologies that might be looking for poems, these will look good on your CV. exercise discretion when deciding what to submit to who.
enter poetry competitions,the entry fee might be worth the exposure it gets you if you win or rank highly.
Consider conducting a poetry reading, start small to build up your confidence. Rehearse alot, and then read the poems slowly so they have time to sink in.
Consider self-publishing, there are many avenues for such activity. Try createspace or smashwords, you could then create a blog of your own poetry to help get it out there | <urn:uuid:99a2d860-00f1-4c42-b60d-1b85b262f3ea> | 2013-05-27T02:56:04Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali has fuelled speculation regarding a potential move in the future for double world champion Sebastian Vettel, after claiming the driver could coexist at the team with Fernando Alonso.
Rumours have circulated of late that Vettel is on his way to Ferrari when his current contract expires with Red Bull Racing at the end of 2014.
Although that date is some way off, Vettel has made no secret of the fact Ferrari is a team he would love to drive for one day.
The main question that has arisen, however, is whether Vettel and Fernando Alonso could ever work alongside one another, with the Spaniard's deal expiring at the end of 2015.
For the first time, though, Domenicali has suggested that would not be an issue.
"I think they are both intelligent guys and they could easily coexist together," said Domenicali.
Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone is of the same mind as Domenicali, although has warned Vettel not to head to Ferrari too soon in his career.
In a joint interview with the duo carried in German newspaper Bild, Ecclestone said: "All drivers want to drive for Ferrari at least once in their career, don't they?
"But I wouldn't advise him to as he's still too young. Usually a driver ends his career at Ferrari, therefore it could happen one day."
With regard to Spaniard Alonso and German Vettel linking up at some point in the future, the 81-year-old added: "That wouldn't be a problem.
"Both are drivers who are always looking for a new challenge and to be in the same team would be a new and big challenge.
"They would both think they can bear the other one, as they are sure of themselves, and Stefano would do what was required so that they were treated equally.
"It would be a case of doing what I did at Brabham in 1979 with Niki Lauda and Nelson Piquet.
"I told them, 'Guys it's simple: whichever one of you is quickest is the team number one'."
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RFL congratulate Featherstone Rovers
RFL Chief Executive Nigel Wood has extended his congratulations to Featherstone Rovers following their success in clinching a second successive Co-operative Championship League Leaders Shield.
Featherstone sealed top spot in the Championship by defeating Widnes Vikings 44-4 on Sunday and finishing ahead of close rivals Leigh Centurions by three points.
"On behalf of the RFL I would like to congratulate everyone at Featherstone Rovers for their success in winning the 2011 Championship League Leaders Shield, an achievement that everyone at the club should be proud of," said Wood.
"Featherstone have been one of the most consistent sides in the Co-operative Championship over the past two seasons and their success in retaining the Leaders shield this season is testimony to the quality of their on-field performances in 2011." | <urn:uuid:057dfe3d-4343-4108-b66f-fe60b47d4596> | 2013-05-26T09:35:43Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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As I am reheating my favorite muffins this morning, I was recalling a conversation I had about whether my muffins are truly muffins or are they actually cupcakes in disguise. Of course this makes me laugh out loud.
If is is sweet, is it a cupcake, or is it still a muffin? Muffins or cupcakes, these are mine this morning. I am diving into a blueberry muffin as I type this.
But, that is what I am wondering. What defines a muffin?
Let's see what Merriam-Webster has to say on the subject...
muf·fin noun \ˈmə-fən\ : a quick bread made of batter containing egg and baked in a pan having cuplike molds .
Well it seems like it would fit, but would need further definition. Then what is a bread? Hmmm.
So, checking in with wikipedia.com "A muffin is an American English name for a type of bread that is baked in small portions. Many forms are somewhat like small cakes or cupcakes in shape, although they usually are not as sweet as cupcakes and generally lack frosting."
Well, I am on the fence now. True, I do not put frosting on my muffins. Although they are a tad bit sweet. Ok, lets see what Google has on the subject.
Oh my heavens, lets stay away from that urban dictionary. Seriously? Okay here is a great entry, The Joy of Baking.
thejoyofbaking.com say "The name 'Muffin' either comes from the French word 'moufflet', meaning a soft , or from the German word 'muffe' which is the name for a type of cake. Although there are two types of muffins: English and American, all the recipes on the site are for the American-style muffins.
What 'American-style' muffins means is that the muffins are made, not from a yeast dough like the English Muffin, but rather they use a chemical leavener (baking powder or baking soda). Maybe it would be better to describe them as a cross between a bread and a cake. American-style muffins can be further divided into two types: bread-like and cake-like. Each type has its own technique for mixing the batter. Less sugar and butter makes a bread-like muffin. A higher sugar and butter content makes a cake-like muffin. Once you determine which type of muffin you prefer, choosing recipes to try becomes easier. A basic muffin batter contains flour, sugar, baking powder/soda, eggs, a fat (liquid or solid), and milk (buttermilk, yogurt, sour cream). Often times fruit, nuts, chocolate, vanilla extract, spices, cornmeal, bran, oats are added to give the muffins flavor. Sometimes a streusel topping or glaze is used
The 'perfect' American Muffin is symmetrical with a domed top. The surface of the muffin should be bumpy and the volume of the batter should have almost doubled during baking. The muffin should feel light for its size and when cut in half its interior should be moist and tender with no tunnels. American muffins can be either sweet or savory and are traditionally served warm for breakfast. They are best eaten the day they are made or frozen."
Perfect definition. So, my muffins are indeed classified as a muffin. So my blueberry muffins and banana nut muffins are indeed cake-like muffins.
So, what is your favorite muffin to bake? It is cake-like or bread-like? | <urn:uuid:085f293f-8923-4ef0-94bf-be9606772c28> | 2013-05-26T09:36:30Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Israeli security detain the Associated Press photographer Nasser Shiyoukhi during a Palestinian protest in Yatta, West Bank Feb. 9, 2013. / AP
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli troops detained an Associated Press photographer during West Bank unrest over the weekend, handcuffing him and forcing him to sit on the ground without food or water or access to a bathroom for roughly five hours, according to eyewitness accounts.
The photographer, Nasser Shiyoukhi, was released without charge after Saturday's incident.
Footage of the incident shows Shiyoukhi, 46, snapping pictures a short distance from Israeli security forces who were scuffling with a protester in the town of Yatta. Protesters had erected a small tent camp on what they say is Palestinian land occupied by Israelis.
An Israeli security man is seen grabbing Shiyoukhi from behind. When he tried to free himself, other Israeli forces also grabbed Shiyoukhi and led him away. In the footage, other Palestinian journalists, including a TV cameraman and reporter holding a microphone, continued to cover the incident without being detained.
"The minute we took pictures, they just grabbed me," Shiyoukhi said. "They didn't say it was a closed area."
Israeli Defense Forces said, however, that the military did declare the area a closed military zone because security forces were seeking to prevent the building of an illegal settlement. "Similar to other such cases, the press corps was asked to maintain a certain perimeter," the military said in an emailed statement. "Unlike many of the other reporters, the photographer in question chose to ignore security personnel instructions, impeding their (the security forces) ability to carry out their mission. As a result, he was apprehended and investigated nearby."
Another journalist said the soldiers, when asked for the standard document declaring an area closed, did not produce it.
John Daniszewski, the AP's vice president and senior managing editor for international news, called on the government to investigate the incident.
"We see no reason to forcibly detain a properly accredited news photographer doing his work," Daniszewski said in a statement. "Further, we cannot excuse the harsh treatment after his detention. We call on the government to investigate thoroughly and take appropriate steps so that such incidents will not be repeated in the future."
The Foreign Press Association, which represents international news organizations covering Israel and the Palestinian territories, condemned the violence and called for an investigation.
"This is the latest in a string of incidents involving heavy-handed tactics against journalists who were merely trying to do their jobs," the association said in a statement.
The statement said there have been 10 times in the past year where Israeli forces allegedly used unnecessary force against journalists. The association said just two of the cases were being formally investigated, but the probes remain open.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of
Afghanistan military operations against the kafirs, munafiqs and the worshippers
This page is updated throughout the day as
new operations are reported.
1433 A.H, Wednesday, July 11,
Mujahideen operations against
the enemies of Islam terrorists in Afghanistan are reported to
Theunjustmedia.com by the official Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan spokesmen
Yousuf Ahmadi and
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the
and thanks are due to Allah, the Lord of all that exists and terrorists peace
and prayers be upon the Messenger of Allah, his family, companions in entirety.
These operations are part of
Al-Farooq operation declared by The Council of
Leadership of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan against the invader and puppet
terrorists, which begin
throughout Afghanistan on
14th Suwar 1391 which corresponds with 12 Jammad ul Thani 1433 and 3rd May 2012.
O Allah, make them and their weaponry a booty for
O Allah, you are our support and you are our only
Victor; by your order we attack; by your order we retreat and by your order we
O Allah, the sky is yours; the earth is yours; the
sea is yours, so whatever forces they have in the sky, drop them. Destroy all
their forces in earth and sink all their forces in sea
O Allah, deal with them for verily they can never
O Allah, retaliate upon them, afflict them like
you did to Pharaoh and his nation
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them in need of money and food and persons
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AR: Now, here's a team to root for
If you're tired of continuously hearing about the New England Patriots . . .
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I think that the hypothetical situation is illogical in practice. How could you be definitively certain that the person had information that could prevent a terrorist attack unless you knew what that information would entail? The key element in most terrorism is surprise. To posit certainty that an individual has information that could prevent an attack presupposes anticipatory knowledge of the attack itself, thereby already crippling the attack.
Although I think that it makes an interesting thought exercise, I don't think that the situation is feasible.
What you are doing is trying to disprove that there are categorical moral imperatives. You can always find a grey area in some idealized scheme that you fine tune to a certain set of preconditions.
You can defend torture, you can defend torturing children, you can defend mass murder, you can defend wiping out entire cities at once and you can even defend genocide all on perfectly sound moral logic. What's more you could even justify it by using some arbitrary "scientific" measuring stick like utilitarian calculus over a pre-decided temporal interval and a certain degree of secondary consequences.
That is if you keep strictly to the scheme and divorce yourself from reality completely. Which is not something you should even want to do.
One (wo)man's terrorist is another (wo)man's freedom fighter. That I think is a non-trivial case of moral relativism that is not so easy to dismiss. Especially when you put it in a historical perspective, but let me not succumb to Godwin's law already.
There are many pragmatic problems with torture and some are by design. For example getting false information can be a goal, instead of an unwanted consequence of torture. It can be politically useful to get some "intelligence" as proof or confirmation of some preconceived assessments. Bribes, black mail and other instruments on the political repertoire can be used to further that goal, like a justification for wars, bombing campaigns or extra-judicial executions by UAV or something of the sort. (In which case it can be considered wise to prepare some after the fact justification when things go terribly wrong.) Unintended consequences of torture are perhaps illustrated to some effect by the biography of Ayman Al Zawahiri in whose case torture might not have worked out all that well in a utilitarian scheme of things.
But while you cannot make a categorical statement about (or decision on) torture, which admittedly is an extremely unpleasant and uneasy thing to realize, the objections, logical, pragmatical, emotional etc. are so overwhelming that you should not even take it into consideration, legally or illegally. And conjuring up schemes whereby you would consider it belong to the intellectual domain of Hollywood script writers.
Torture? Yeah right!
Back in the Catholic Inquisition times, religious authorities had successfully extracted the truth from their confessioners ( got the sarcasm? ). So, if you say that torture is a good way of having people to tell the truth, I won't blame the Catholic church anymore for killing millions of people who confessed witchcraft. When pain is being inflicted, you confess whatever the torturer wants so you can scape from the inflicted pain.
The issue with this one is always the shadow of a doubt that your information about the individual is wrong. Regardless of how cast iron you think your information about him is, there is always a chance that YOUR information is wrong. The guy might even think that his information would prevent some egregious act of terrorism, but HIS information might be wrong. I find it difficult to justify torture...ever.
I think it's the second time someone says that it's a waste of personnel. Come on, how many people does it take to torture one guy? (not a joke)
Sure, you need a lot of guys to catch him, but after that, you don't need more than let's say 3-4 guys. And I think they do have people in charge of interrogation. So, they don't waste their time they're just doing their jobs.
Of course, they have a great chance of getting inaccurate information, but if you really think about it, it's not really a waste of time and personnel.
Getting false information or false confessions can be a goal of torture. Getting false intelligence is contingent upon political aims and false confessions together with the admission of secret evidence allows you to bypass law to get rid of certain people burdened with uneasy facts, not suitable for publicity, and/ or create necessary illusions of safety, decisiveness, effectiveness.
As was claimed here before the Spanish Inquisitors were not torturing people to get to the truth of the matter, they already decided upon the truth and just wanted a matching confession. Well it seems from what we know under the Bush regime torture was mainly used for (the Obama regime is much more secretive) it is not an area of great innovation in this regard.
You are right that torture is known among intelligent experts to be about the worst method conceivable to retreive reliable information. (Another one, only slightly more reliable is throwing money around, thinking you are going to buy reliable actionable intel in no need of any verification or further checking procedures instead of local gossip.)
But I do hope, mainly for your sake, that I'm not mistaken if am going to assume that it is not so that your entire objection to torture would be that it's not effective and costs too much manpower. | <urn:uuid:8fcd7cbe-3fdd-458c-adf8-73508d365639> | 2013-05-26T09:38:45Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Now, my problem is that the clothes smell like Goo Gone, even after being washed three times. Any ideas how to get the smell out?
By kates1134 from Lexington, KY
My suggestion would be to let it air out in full sun until the smell is gone; shouldn't take too long. Just check often for color-fastness and smell. I've used this method many times, and it works pretty good. Good luck.
I don't know if this would work, but you might try mixing up some baking soda and soaking the clothes in it.
Thank you to those who suggested I use Goo Gone to get sticker residue off my daughter's shirts. Now I can't get the smell of Goo Gone out of the shirts. I've washed three times with vinegar, I've let it soak in detergent. I've used extra detergent and the smell still lingers strongly (which smells like gasoline for those of you wondering what the odor is like). Any other ideas? Thank you.
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GILMORE, Ark. (WREG) -A 79-year-old Crittenden County man is lucky to be alive, after being robbed and beaten Sunday night.
The robbery, which happened outside the victim's house, caused Malcom Markham to lose his sense of security for the first time in his life.
"I didn't even want to go out there and open the door for you [the news reporter] and that`s bad," Markham said.
On Sunday night, a man went to his Gilmore home and said, "I've got $10 here if you take me to get some gas."
Markham, wanting to help, went outside to get in his truck.
"When I put the key in the ignition, someone hit me across the head," Markham recalled.
He was punched, beaten, and stomped on, hit with a 20-gauge shot gun, then robbed.
"It felt like 100 hands were in my pocket," he said.
Inside one of his pockets was a $1,000 he saved for Christmas to give his children.
"Part way my Social Security money," Markham explained. "And I sold sweet potatoes and pecans to get the rest of it."
During the attack, Markham was able to pull off one of the men's masks, and he recognized the man. He had seen him earlier that night down the street.
"He knew where I had my Christmas money because he asked me if I had change for a hundred, and I said yes," Markham said.
Two arrests have been made in Markham's beating.
The arrests were made in Mississippi County, in Northeast Arkansas with Markham's description.
Some people have asked to help Markham, WREG has the contact information to do so. | <urn:uuid:82010cf5-ddb5-4057-a647-7e30b5a636c0> | 2013-05-27T02:55:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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quote:Did yall buy anything?
quote: 10% of the franchise. Me and Tom are tight.
quote: Where is this merchandise?
quote:I never really thought so before, but you've got to be Souljah.
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Ninety-one years after two Americans, Robert Edwin Peary and Frederick Albert Cook, both claimed to have been the first to reach the North Pole, experts are still arguing over which of them if either turned the trick. Certainty remains elusive.
Cook's case is weaker, not least because Cook is such a lousy character witness for himself. A physician, he was, to be sure, also an accomplished outdoorsman. He had served as surgeon on Peary's first Arctic expedition in 1891 and had done some serious mountaineering in the years prior to his North Pole assault. But consider the mountaineering as Exhibit A against the man: In 1906, Cook stated that he had made the first successful ascent of Alaska's Mount McKinley. Later, his summit photographs were revealed as fakes, and Cook's climbing partner recanted his corroboration. Exhibit B could be Cook's conviction for mail fraud, a smear erased sort of by a presidential pardon in 1940, the year of Cook's death. So that's Frederick A. Cook.
Peary was no sweetheart either. The U.S. Navy commander was unlikable, arrogant and extraordinarily self-involved. A married man with a son and a daughter, he fathered two Eskimo children during his Arctic adventures. (Though he associated with Eskimos during his entire career, Peary proved to be no friend to the northern people: As detailed in Kenn Harper's Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, The New York Eskimo, in 1897 Peary presented six Eskimos as "specimens" to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Four of the group died almost immediately of influenza.) Peary once said of Matthew Henson, his African American assistant of 22 years, "Henson must go all the way. I can't make it without him." Throughout the Arctic, Henson cooked, built igloos, tended the dogs and walked every cold and painful step, while his boss was hauled on a sledge by Eskimos. But when evidence indicated that Henson had quite possibly reached the Pole before him, Peary never spoke to the man again. So that's Robert E. Peary.
Cook and Peary were right for the task, as the goal they had in sight could be reached only by a driven man of considerable ego. The North Pole was the single greatest target for adventurers at the turn of the century. In the 1890s the Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen sailed his ship to Spitsbergen but ultimately failed to reach the Pole; the Swede Salomon Andrée tried to reach the Pole by balloon but failed; Peary tried for the Pole on dogsled but failed. The North Pole, floating on a sea 13,410 feet deep, its surface ice perpetually shifting and drifting, cracking and freezing again, was a cruel siren: By the early 20th century it had already claimed the lives of hundreds of adventurers.
Peary, 52, felt certain that his 1908 expedition would be his last. His six previous trips to the Arctic had earned him considerable renown in 1891-92 he had proved Greenland to be an island by exploring its northern coast, and his 1905 polar trek had established a farthest-north record but he would remain unfulfilled if he did not reach 90 degrees north.
He either did or did not do so on April 6, 1909, after an over-the-ice journey of 37 days, accompanied on the last stretch by Henson and four Eskimos. Before Peary could even cable the news, his old colleague Cook blindsided him by announcing from the Shetland Islands that he had stood atop the world a full year earlier. It seemed, initially, that he might have, but the journals he presented as proof were said by experts to have been doctored, and the Eskimo guides that Cook trotted out as witnesses proved as worthy as his McKinley corroborator. The Eskimos finally admitted that Cook had, in fact, never left sight of land land that ends hundreds of miles south of the Pole.
In recent years, Peary's claim has also come under a cloud: Did he get there? Were his measurements accurate? The truth may never be known. In 1989 the National Geographic Society, after commissioning the Navigation Foundation to spend more than a year investigating 225 cubic feet of documents, announced that Peary, who had been made a rear admiral before his death in 1920, had very likely come within five miles of the North Pole and perhaps had stood upon the spot itself. Whatever the truth is, favor does seem to rest much more comfortably with Peary than with Cook. As Peter Freuchen, the noted Danish explorer and writer who knew both men, once put it: "Cook was a liar and a gentleman; Peary was neither." | <urn:uuid:bd001127-3863-44c5-ad2e-2be376114708> | 2013-05-26T09:34:54Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I MADE IT ALL UP
TMZ has obtained a sworn declaration written by Sheena Upton, who claims she was recently approached by the British tabloid, The Sun, and asked "to play the role of Kerry Campbell" for a story called "I Give My 8-Year-Old Daughter Botox."
Upton now confesses The Sun paid her $200 adding, "I was provided with the story, instructions and a script to follow for a recorded interview."
After the story ran in The Sun, Upton says she was approached by "Good Morning America" and "Inside Edition" and claims she was offered "a large fee" to appear on camera. She went on both shows and re-told her story.
After the interview, child welfare officials took Upton's daughter away.
Upton now admits in her declaration, "The truth is I have never given my daughter Botox, nor allowed her to get any type of waxing, nor is she a beauty pageant contestant."
Upton says professionals agree with her declaration, because on May 17, she took her daughter to the UCLA Medical Center and says, "After my daughter received a full medical exam, the results indicated that she has not ever received treatments including Botox or other such injections."
We're told the UCLA reports were forwarded to child welfare officials, who then returned Upton's daughter to her, with the provison that a cousin would stay with her and the child for the time being.
As for "Good Morning America" -- sources connected with Upton claim she was promised $10,000 to appear. We do not know how much she was offered for "Inside Edition."
As for the declaration -- signed under penalty of perjury -- we're told Upton wrote it so her lawyer can secure full rights to custody of her daughter.
An ABC News insider tells TMZ, "There is no truth to the story about compensation, but they did pay a broker no more than $10,000 to license photos."
UPDATE 8:20 AM PT: An ABC News spokesman tells us, "We have just seen the sworn declaration on TMZ written by Sheena Upton, a.k.a. Kerry Campbell , and are vigorously investigating her most recent statement and rapidly shifting story."
The rep continues, "Good Morning America has repeatedly questioned Upton, members of her family, and other sources who again and again stood by the Botox story."
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|Re: Hobbit house|
Subject: Re: Hobbit house
by Trotter on 2012/12/15 4:47:17
He is clearly a collector, so if you visit this site please make your self known, and we would we love to see detailed pictures of your collection.
He probably did not say that he has "a veritable dragon's hoard of world-class J.R.R. Tolkien manuscripts and memorabilia.", from experience I think the journalist added that | <urn:uuid:030e1df5-3856-4d64-becf-b013c1d64e0a> | 2013-05-26T09:36:24Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Have you used Life Balance?
Life Balance (http://www.llamagraphics.com/drupal/) has a great implementation of Contexts, along with a simple but powerful "Hotlist". But, it's not perfect.
Contexts (or "Places") can be nested so that a context can include other contexts. For example, I work out of my home, but I also have an office at my company building. I can have a Place called "Work" that includes "Home office" and "Office". Anything assigned to either of the offices will show up when filtering by "Work". This gives me an overview of all my Work. For finer control, I filter by one of the offices. Another example would be "Shopping" which could include "Groceries", "Hardware", "Clothing". Yes, this could be done using Tags in Toodledo, but then there's no way of linking specific tags to a context. Also, Life Balance allows you to assign a task to "Anywhere" which shows up no matter how you are filtering, eg. personal reminders like "Get up and stretch" (which, BTW, can be scheduled to repeat every hour, or even in increments of minutes.)
In general though, the main list includes all contexts, and is dyanamically sorted by due date and time and the importance of the task relative to your bigger picture. It can even take into account how "balanced" you want to be. For example, if it's important to you to be physically fit but you've been neglecting your exercise, then your scheduled exercise activities (which you've been ignoring) go to the top of the list.
You can specify the hours that a context is available, or "open", and the list automatically filters out all "closed" contexts. For example, a context of "Business hours" would be, say, 8:30am to 5:00pm, Monday to Friday, and any tasks assigned to that context (eg. call taxation office) will appear only during that timeframe. You can even set a "lead in" period so that a task will appear in yellow before it is due, then turns green when it is due, and then red when overdue.
Overall, very well done. But I no longer use it.
I used it for a while on my Treo 650 but Life Balance had some serious limitations. It wouldn't directly integrate with the Tasks or Calendar in Outlook, and it wasn't easy to access and synchronize their desktop client from multiple computers. Also, I had some problems with crashes, and their development team is very slow at implementing changes. I'm sure that they are busy enjoying the beautiful scenery and spending time with their pets ...
When I changed to the iPhone about a year ago, Life Balance was not available for that platform. Now they offer an iPhone version but it is poorly executed, eg. adding a task requires you to scroll to the bottom of your list. And, they don't offer a web version.
It would be great if Toodledo could incorporate some of the features of Life Balance.
This message was edited Jun 12, 2009.
I never did like the idea of a program deciding what it thinks is my appropriate next action. I did trial it a couple of times and never "got it".
That said I do like the idea of nested contexts and actually use them via search in TD. I have custom searches setup for my "mega" contexts so I can quickly see groups of contexts.
Unfortunately the iPhone app does not support searches. I've requested either super-contexts be added OR searches be added to the iPhone.
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Sixteen inches of snow two weeks ago forced postponement of Princeton Symphony Orchestra's original concert performance of Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata, but orchestra, soloists, and chorus reconvened on Sunday afternoon in Richardson Auditorium to present a notable rendition of the three-act opera. This was a huge production, both in terms of numbers and stature of the soloists these were some major players who came to Princeton to mesmerize the audience with their singing.
La Traviata, which premiered in 1853, came at a pivotal time in operatic history. Arias retained much of the elaborate coloratura of the 18th century, but were underscored with the drama and pathos that was prevalent in the Romantic era. Conductor Mark Laycock wisely chose singers for this performance who demonstrated both agility and vocal power.
Meagan Miller's Violetta sizzled from the minute she walked onstage. Fiery with red hair and a burnt rust dress to contrast with everyone else's black, Ms. Miller was the epitome of "girls just want to have fun," succumbing quickly to Stuart Neill's spell as Alfredo. Their first act duet showed dynamic variety from both singers, and the mood of the duet changed both audibly and visually as Violetta was lured into Alfredo's web. In Violetta's showcase aria, "Sempre Libera," Ms. Miller skipped effortlessly through the coloratura with lightness and authority.
With all his experience at the Metropolitan Opera, as well as worldwide, Stuart Neill could no doubt sing the role of Alfredo in his sleep, and he displayed consistently solid singing and command of the role. Mr. Neill and Mr. Laycock had meticulously worked out the rallantandos and other musical effects, and at times, Mr. Laycock wisely let the music just play itself.
In addition to Violetta and Alfredo, the third significant role is Alfredo's father, Germont, sung by Todd Thomas. Mr. Thomas may not have looked quite old enough to be Alfredo's father, but he was certainly convincingly angry enough about his consorting with Violetta. The most poignant scene in the opera, the one in which Germont convinces Violetta to give up Alfredo, was sung by Mr. Thomas and Ms. Miller with emotionalism, as Germont manipulated Violetta's state of mind with skill.
The other characters came and went throughout the opera, and the credentials of these singers were surprising considering their minor roles. Annina and Flora, attendant and friend to Violetta, were well sung by Serena Benedetti and Lucille Beer, both established singers with international careers. The minor male characters were also performed by solid Metropolitan Opera level performers, including Brian McIntosh, Joseph Spinella, Brandon Wood, Stephen Bryant, and local Elem Eley. One unusual bit of casting was to draw a recurring role for a messenger/servant from the orchestra's own horn section in first chair Douglas Lundeen, when someone from the chorus probably would have been more than happy to sing that part.
Mr. Laycock's tempi were certainly on the quick side, retaining what was likely the original style of the opera. With the strings playing with very little vibrato in the opening overture, it seemed from the start that this presentation might be more like the opera was intended to be in its lightness and crispness. Alan Harler's Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia was well trained and quick to respond to Mr. Laycock's fast tempi, although keeping up and getting into the music on time was sometimes a problem.
With this performance, Princeton Symphony Orchestra continues to show its strength in playing and ability to administratively and fiscally put on such a program. This was an immense undertaking, but the audience reaction made it clear that concert performances of opera are going to continue to be a part of Princeton Symphony's future. | <urn:uuid:fa68b840-8929-4feb-99b2-b5f052bf7cfe> | 2013-05-26T09:36:27Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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This year has seen some terrific releases on DVD, but none is better than the Criterion Collection's three-disc set, "The Battle of Algiers." First released in 1966, "The Battle of Algiers" was reissued in theaters across the country in 2004. It enjoyed a too-brief run in San Antonio in May 2004. The film's distributor, Rialto, told me that it didn't do too well in San Antonio so it was pulled after one week.
The latest series of "Walt Disney Treasures" to be released from the Disney vaults includes DVD sets devoted to Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Disney in Space and Beyond, and the much-delayed release of Disney's World War II-era films. | <urn:uuid:a5d941e9-0d81-49e0-aab4-2881c29fe645> | 2013-05-27T02:55:46Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Steve and Amy examine frightening paranormal activity at a family home in Westminster, CO.
Steve and Amy examine frightening paranormal activity at a family home in Westminster, CO. While Steve uncovers evidence of a century-old murder mystery, Amy encounters a deadly poltergeist that seeks to harm anyone in the house.
Amy looks up at the ceiling in this Colorado home while Matt films the experience.
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Steve and Cara discuss the strange encounters that have happened in the house.
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Some more 'BIG" questions from that wonderful list ...
There is an old Koan that has a couple of versions ...[Is] reality one, everything one? ... Zen says that Zazen leads to the direct realisation of the oneness of reality/the universe.
... from my perspective human beings grasping reality is just God understanding God, Being understanding Being... The One waking up. ... For me, Zen practice seemed to be the finest way to re-gain direct awareness of The Source.
If all things return to the 'One' (or the 'Source'), to what does the One/Source return?'
Most human beings have an inner need to place a label and image on everything (together with imposing their small human ideas, judgments, prejudicies, ignorances, demands and the like on whatever is being so labeled, limited and defined). Thus, many people feel a need to call ultimate reality "God" or "Brahma" or "Allah", "Cosmic Buddha""The Universe" "The One" "The Source" or you name it! They demand that "He/She/It/Whatever" be 'Harmonious and Peaceful and Good, Just and Whole' to their liking.
But please understand the following distinction:
There is a vital difference between a vague idea that "All Reality is One" and experiencing "being At One with All Reality". In the latter case, one (you) feels no separation between oneself and reality (also you), and knows total harmony with reality, no matter what that reality should be ... be it One, Three, Seven, Infinity, Minus Gazillion or something altogether beyond count. No personal demands or petty expectations are placed upon reality. One can even feel "at peace", "in harmony" and "in union" with a world that is (to human eyes) anything but peaceful, united and harmonious all the time ... even pleased with a world that is (to human sensibilities) filled with both the pleasing and the displeasing.
Instead of demanding that "God" be "Fair & Just" to your liking (or even "God"), how about embracing "God" as "'just' the way things are" free of your demands? That is truly accepting God on God's terms! Instead of requiring that the universe be "whole" to your little liking, just be at peace with a universe that is wholly the universe. Do the rocks and mountains long for a world "Fair" to their standards? Does a tree think "This is where I, the tree, end and the earth and air begin"? Does the fish, snatched up by a hungry hawk, thus think that nature is "Just" or that nature is terribly "Cruel"? (Or, more likely, does the fish not think about nature at all, thus living out True Nature)? Yes, as the abundant nature imagery in 'Zen Art' attests: rocks, trees, birds and fish profess some things that humans (for all our so-called intelligence, and great analytical minds that divide up the world) so easily forget.
Do this, and the world is more fantastic than dreamed in your philosophy, Horatio.
To further understand this, let's return to that river I mentioned last time:
The river analogy was this:The river and boat analogy is beautiful and moving... So Zen lets you know that you are the river, but not what the nature of the river is, why it's there, or where it's going?? It shows you directly the oneness of reality, but not anything of the nature of that One??
Now, sometimes folks like to call that river by names like "The Tao", "The Way" ... 'The Source" and such. One is just paddling and paddling, sometimes drifting (sometimes falling in!). One (meaning you) can be in "perfect harmony" with River Tao just by knowing the very waters of the river where one is paddling. In fact, we might say that the "source" of the river is right where you are ... the river is right where you are here and now. It is not a matter of saying that the true river is located back up at its headwaters (somewhere up in the distant foothills) or down at its mouth in the Gulf. It is where your oar dips into the water.Our life is very mysterious, and to be born as a sentient being is very much like waking up suddenly & sentient, for no known reason, in a row boat in the middle of a unknown river. An oar is in your hand. No idea how you got there, but there you are. You may not know who (if any "who") made the boat, the river, you, the mosquitoes, the surrounding shore that stretches to the horizon. But, here you find yourself, in life's little boat, with a paddle, heading down that river. River runs before you, seems like it came from somewhere behind. You do not know why (if any "why"). What to do?
Just paddle paddle, sometimes drift drift.
And what's more, our Zen Practice allows us to see that we are the river, the boat, the mosquitoes ... In this way, we realize that where the river flows, is where we flow. What's more, the river's flowing is just our flowing. In other words, we may not know where (if anywhere) the river is going, or where (if anywhere) the river arose ... but we go with the flow! We ARE the flowing! Don't resist.
Shoot, that river's gonna take you where its going anyway!
In fact, where do the waters "go" when the water eventually returns to the waters, pouring into the sea? Where was the river before its headwaters, or even before the first rain?
If you want to know the river, just dip your hand into the cool and wet waters right here. It is here (and, if you experience it as such) is you too. Taste it here and now too. Taste its sweetness or saltiness right here, know for yourself its coolness on your own fingers and tongue. If you want to know "God", then that taste and touch is no other (and the tasting and touching is no other).
One version of that Koan goes like this ...
Ho ” If all things return to the one, to what does the one return?”
Basho “I will tell you after you have drunk up all the waters of the West river in one gulp.”
Ho “I have already drunk up all the waters of the West river in one gulp.”
Basho “Then I have already answered your question.”
If one falls in the river right here, drinks the waters right here, allows the river to carry one away, spreads one's arms and yields to the river, merges to the river, willingly drowns in the river ... one is "at one" with the river. One knows the subtle source right here and now.
OTHERWISE, ONE IS LIKE SOMEONE WHO HAS FALLEN INTO THE RIVER ASKING "WHERE IS THE RIVER" or ONE SOAKING WET AND UP TO HIS NECK IN WATER asking "WHY AM I WET"?
One other version of that same Koan goes like this:
Master Mang Gong was asked, 'If all things return to the 'One' (or the 'Source'), to what does the One/Source return?' Master Mang Gong replied, "The spring geese are flying north.''
It is just the natural way things are.
Yes, dip into the cold, flowing waters right here and feel the wetness and current for yourself. All is carrying your boat north.For me, Zen practice seemed to be the finest way to re-gain direct awareness of The Source.
Your questions continue ...
I believe that Zen Practice can let one perceive that all of life is sacred, from the great mountains to the smallest grain of dust. Whether it is all some "God" or not does not really matter ... for that dust would be sacred merely for being the dust. Each damn mosquito biting you on that river is divine.Would Zen agree with a statement such as, ‘There is only the divine, there is nothing else’?
I was attracted to Zen because I believed that it trancended 'faith' in the 'ultimate', 'divine', or whatever we call it, and made direct contact. No need for 'faith' after you've made direct contact... In essence, I have believed that Zen realistion is 'to see God', although I have not believed in any external, separate, divine being...
Stop seeing the dust grains and mosquitoes as smaller in size than your image of an infinite "God". Then, what is there to compare them?
Yes, you are Being waking up to Being, and "you" are the flowers, table, chairs and Dogen too.This is to say that one appears in a variety of forms, oneness manifests as diversity, "Look there's Being manifesting as a table, a flower, a computer, all the things Dogen said mind is no other than, you and me!" So why would it be beyond Being to wake up to its Being?
You are a drop of water of the river asking itself "Hey, buddy, where's the river"?
Whether it is coming from within you, or from somewhere without you, is it less a feeling of peace? In fact, where is it arising from when you drop all thought of "in" and "out"?One thing I do know is that ever since I've been sitting, more and more often, I've had the sensation of a subtle peace emanating from...somehwere... and sometimes it happens when the circumstances shouldn't (by conventional wisdom) yield inner peace at all. It's kind of like an inner grin And if this is all a big random, unintended don't know what, I wonder where that inexplicable peace is coming from?
And whether this is or is not a "big random, unintended don't know what", cannot you still be "at one" with that, at peace with that?
Does a sailor demand that the river give him the exact sailing conditions that the sailor demands? Does the sailor tell the weather what to be each day, or how strong the current? Does the sailor demand that the river have a certain source and end? Or does the sailor merely sail the river with what is, where he is, just as it is?
How dare you tell "God" that he must be "God"! How dare you tell Being that it must wake up as you imagine it must. How dare you tell The One that she cannot be random and unintended! Who are you to tell the universe how to be the universe?from my persepctive human beings grasping reality is just God understanding God, Being understanding Being... it's just Being re-gaining awareness of its Being... The One waking up. ... I've been surprised by the general, "Maybe it is all random and unintended / we don't know and Zen practice doesn't let you know" response.
It is like a child who demands that mommy and daddy be who he wants them to be.
Zen is for grown ups who can now accept their mother and father as just what they were, with all the blemishes.
GROW UP! Just sail your boat north.
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In response to the Apple iPad and to an e-reader and tablet released by Acer, Asustek Computer has announced that the Asus Eee pad tablet computers to be released in the first quarter of 2011 will run on the Windows 7 operating system. Asustek is the first to offer a tablet using Microsoft's Windows 7 software.
The Asus Eee Pad EP101TC is a 10" model that will use a compact version of Windows 7 OS; the more powerful 12" model, the Eee Pad EP121, will compete with laptops and will run Windows 7 Home Premium on an Intel CULV (Consumer Ultra Low Voltage) Core 2 Duo processor.
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Christian parents should gather their families together each day for spiritual instruction and prayer. This opportuity must be seized when the children are young. Even a child of two will bow his head, and say "Amen" at the end of a prayer. This Catechism has been made available to help you teach your children the Word of God. Family worship might well include:
1. Two or three verses of a hymn
2. The reading of a few verses of Scripture
3. Catechism questions and answers
4. Prayer need not be tedious or long-winded
Encourage the children to pray. Use your imagination to make family worhsip attractive and interesting. The children will sometimes be ready to discuss the Catechism answers with you. They will enjoy looking up passages of scripture where the Catechism truths are found. Pray for the guidance and help of the Holy Spirit. God will honour you if you are faithful. Remember the promise, "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Proverbs 22:6).
1. Q. Who made you?
A. God made me (Gn 1:26, 27, 2:7; Eccl. 12:1; Acts 17:24-29).
2. Q. What else did God make?
A. God made all things (Gn 1, 31; Acts 14:15; Rom. 11:36; Col 1:16).
3. Q. Why did God make you and all things?
A. For his own glory (Ps 19:1; Jer 9:23, 24; Rv 4:11, 4:15).
4. Q. How can you glorify God?
A. By loving him and doing what he commands (Eccl. 12:13; Mk 12:29-31; John 15:8-10; 1 Cor 10:31).
5. Q. Why ought you to glorify God?
A. Because he made me and takes care of me (Rom. 11:36; Rv 4:11; cf. Dan 4:39).
6. Q. Are there more gods than one?
A. There is only one God (Deut 6:4; Jer 10:10; Mk 12:29; Acts 17:22-31).
7. Q. In how many persons does this one God exist?
A. In three persons (Mt 3:16, 17; John 5:23, 10:30, 14:9, 10, 15:26, 16:13-15; 1 John 5:20; 2 John 9; Rv 1:4, 5).
8. Q. Who are they?
A. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit (Mt 28:19; 2 Cor 13:14; 1 Pet 1:2; Jude 20, 21).
9. Q. Who is God?
A. God is a Spirit, and does not have a body like men (John 4:24; 2 Cor 3:17; 1 Tim 1:17).
10. Q. Where is God?
A. God is everywhere (Ps 139:7-12; Jer 23:23, 24; Acts 17:27, 28).
11. Q. Can you see God?
A. No. I cannot see God, but he always sees me (Ex 33:20; John 1:18; 1 Tim 6:16; Ps 139; Prov. 5:21; Heb. 4:12, 13).
12. Q. Does God know all things?
A. Yes. Nothing can be hidden from God (1 Chron 28:9; 2 Chron 16:9; Lk 12:6, 7; Rom. 2:16).
13. Q. Can God do all things?
A. Yes. God can do all his holy will (Ps 147:5; Jer 32:17; Dan 4:34, 35; Eph 1:11).
14. Q. Where do you learn how to love and obey God?
A. In the Bible alone (Job 11:7; Ps 119:104; Is 8:20; Mt 22:29; 2 Tim 3:15-17).
15. Q. Who wrote the Bible?
A. Holy men who were taught by the Holy Spirit (2 Pet 1:20, 21; Acts 1:16; 2 Tim 3:16; 1 Pet 1:10, 11).
16. Q. Who were our first parents?
A. Adam and Eve (Gn 2:18-25, 3:20, 5:1, 2; Acts 17:26; 1 Tim 2:13).
17. Q. Of what were our first parents made?
A. God made the body of Adam out of the ground, and formed Eve from the body of Adam (Gn 2:7, 21-23, 3:19; Ps 103:14).
18. Q. What did God give Adam and Eve besides bodies?
A. He gave them the breath of life and they became living souls (Gen. 2:7; Job 33:4; Eccl 12:7; Zech 12:1).
19. Q. Have you a soul as well as a body?
A. A soul is not something a person has, it is the person. Man was not given a soul, but rather he became a soul. (Gen. 2:7; Mk 8:34-37, 12:30).
20. Q. Can a soul die?
A. Yes. The soul that continues in sin shall die. (Ezek. 18:20; Mt 10:28; Mk 8:34-37).
21. Q. What is your soul?
A. My soul includes all of me that should know and love God (Mk 8:34-38; Eph. 3:16-19).
22. Q. In what condition did God make Adam and Eve?
A. He made them holy and happy (Gn 1:26-28; Ps 8:4-8).
23. Q. Did Adam and Eve stay holy and happy?
A. No. They sinned against God (Gn 3:1-7; Eccl 7:29; Hos 6:7 where "men~~ = Adam). 24.
24. Q. What was the sin of our first parents?
A. Eating the forbidden fruit (Gn 2:16, 17, 3:6).
25. Q. Why did they eat the forbidden fruit?
A. Because they did not believe what God had said (Gn 3:1-6; cf. Heb. 11:6).
26. Q. Who tempted them to this sin?
A. The devil tempted Eve, and she gave the fruit to Adam (Gn 3:1-13; 2 Cor 11:3; 1 Tim 2:13, 14; cf. Rv 12:9).
27. Q. What happened to our first parents when they had sinned?
A. Instead of being holy and happy, they became sinful and miserable (Gn 3:14-24, 4:1-24; James 1:14, 15).
28. Q. What effect did the sin of Adam have on all mankind?
A. All mankind is born in a state of sin and misery (Ps. 5 1:5; Rom. 5:12, 18, 19; 1 Cor 15:21, 22; 1 John 5:19).
29. Q. What do we inherit from Adam as a result of this original sin?
A. A sinful nature (1 Kings 8:46; Ps 14:2, 3, 58:3; Eccl 9:3; Mt 15:18-20; John 2:24, 25; Rom. 8:7).
30. Q. What is sin?
A. Sin is any transgression of the law of God (1 John 3:4; Rom. 3:20; James 2:9-11).
31. Q. What is meant by transgression?
A. Doing what God forbids (1 Sam 13:8-14, 15:22, 23; Hos 6:7; Rom. 1:21-32).
32. Q. What does every sin deserve?
A. The anger and judgment of God (Deut 27:26; Rom. 1:18, 2:2; Gal 3:10; Eph 5:6).
33. Q. Do we know what God requires of us?
A. Yes, he has given us his law both in our hearts and in writing (Rom. 2:14-15).
34. Q. How many commandments did God give on Mt. Sinai?
A. Ten commandments (Ex 20:1-17; Deut 5:1-22).
35. Q. What are the ten commandments sometimes called?
A. God's moral law (Lk 20:25-28; Rom. 2:14, 15, 10:5).
36. Q. What do the first four commandments teach?
A. Our duty to God (Deut 6:5, 6, 10:12, 13).
37. Q. What do the last six commandments teach?
A. Our duty to our fellow men (Deut 10:19; Mic 6:8; cf. Gal. 6:10).
38. Q. What is the sum of the ten commandments?
A. To love God with all my heart, and my neighbor as myself (Deut 6:1-15; 11:1; Mt 22:35-40; James 2:8).
39. Q. Who is your neigHeb.or?
A. All my fellow men are my neighbors (Lk 10:25-37, 6:35).
40. Q. Is God pleased with those who love and obey him?
A. Yes. He says, 'I love them that love me' (Prov. 8:17; Ex 20:6; 1 John 4:7-16).
41. Q. Is God pleased with those who do not love and obey him?
A. No. 'God is angry with the wicked every day' (Ps 7:11; Mal 2:17; Prov. 6:16-19; 1 Cor 16:22).
42. Q. What is the first commandment?
A. The first commandment is, You shall have no other gods before Me (Ex 20:3; Deut 5:7).
43. Q. What does the first commandment teach us?
A. To worship God only (Is 45:5, 6; Mt 4:10; Rv 22:8, 9).
44. Q. What is the second commandment?
A. The second commandment is, You shall not make for yourself [a]an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments (Ex 20:4-6; Deut 5:8-10).
45. Q. What does the second commandment teach us?
A. To worship God in the right way, and to avoid idolatry (Is 44:9-20, 46:5-9; John 4:23, 24; Acts 17:29).
46. Q. What is the third commandment?
A. The third commandment is, Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain (Ex 20:7; Deut 5:11).
47. Q. What does the third commandment teach us?
A. To reverence God's name, word, and works (Is 8:13; Ps 29:2, 138:2; Rv 15:3, 4).
48. Q. What is the fourth commandment?
A. The fourth commandment is, Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it (Ex 20:8-11, 23:12; Deut 5:12-15).
49. Q. What does the fourth commandment teach us?
A. To keep the Sabbath holy (Lv 19:20, 23:3; Is 58:13, 14).
50. Q. What day of the week is the Christian Sabbath?
A. The first day of the week, called the Lord's Day (Acts 20:7; Rv 1:10).
51. Q. Why is it called the Lord's Day?
A. Because on that day Christ rose from the dead (Mt 28:1; Mk 16:9; Lk 24:1-6; John 20:1).
52. Q. How should the Sabbath be kept?
A. In prayer and praise, in hearing and reading God's Word, and in doing good to our fellow men (Is 58:13, 14; Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 16:2; Lk 4:16; Mt 12:10-13).
53. Q. What is the fifth commandment?
A. The fifth commandment is, Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee (Ex 20:12; Deut 5:16).
54. Q. What does the fifth commandment teach us?
A. To love and obey our parents (Mt 15:3-6; Eph. 6:1-3; Col. 3:20).
55. Q. What is the sixth commandment?
A. The sixth commandment is, Thou shalt not kill (Ex 20:13; Deut 5:17)
56. Q. What does the sixth commandment teach us?
A. To avoid hatred, all that leads to it, and all that follows from it. (Mt 5:21-24; 1 John 3:15; James 4:1-3).
57. Q. What is the seventh commandment?
A. The seventh commandment is, Thou shalt not commit adultery (Ex 20:14; Deut 5:18).
58. Q. What does the seventh commandment teach us?
A. To be pure in heart, language and conduct (Mt 5:27, 28; Eph. 5:3-5; Phil. 4:8, 9).
59. Q. What is the eighth commandment?
A. The eighth commandment is, Thou shalt not steal (Ex 20:15; Deut 5:19).
60. Q. What does the eighth commandment teach us?
A. To be honest and not to take the things of others (Ex 23:4; Prov. 21:6, 7; Eph. 4:28).
61. Q. What is the ninth commandment?
A. The ninth commandment is, Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neigHeb.or (Ex 20:16; Deut 5:20).
62. Q. What does the ninth commandment teach us?
A. To tell the truth and not to speak evil of others (Ps 15:1-3; Zech 8:16; 1 Cor 13:6; James 4:11).
63. Q. What is the tenth commandment?
A. The tenth commandment is, Thou shalt not covet thy neigHeb.or's house, thou shalt not covet thy neigHeb.or's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neigHeb.or's (Ex 20:17; Deut 5:21; Rom. 7:7).
64. Q. What does the tenth commandment teach us?
A. To be content with what we have (Phil 4:11; 1 Tim 6:6-8; Heb. 13:5).
65. Q. Can any man keep these ten commandments?
A. No mere man, since the fall of Adam, ever did or can keep the ten commandments perfectly (Prov. 20:9; Eccl. 7:20; Rom. 3:19, 20; James 2:10; 1 John 1:8, 10).
66. Q. Of what use are the ten commandments to us?
A. They teach us our duty, make clear our condemnation, and show us our need of a Saviour (1 Tim 1:8-11; Rom. 3:20; Gal 3:24).
67. Q. Does God condemn all men?
A. No. Though he could justly have done so he has graciously entered into a covenant to save many (Rom. 3:19, 20, 23-25; John 17:11, 12; Is 53:11).
68. Q. What is a covenant?
A. A covenant is an agreement between two or more persons (e.g., 1 Sam 18:3; Mt 26:14, 15).
69. Q. What is the covenant of grace?
A. It is an eternal agreement within the Trinity to save certain persons called the elect, and to provide all the means for their salvation (Gn 17:1-8; Rom. 11:27; Heb. 10:16, 11; 13:20, 21; Jer 31:31-34; Ez 36:25-28).
70. Q. What did Christ undertake in the covenant of grace?
A. Christ undertook to keep the whole law for his people, and to suffer the punishment due to their sins (Rom 8:3, 4; Gal 4:4, 5; Heb. 6:17-20, 7:22, 9:14, 15, 13:20, 21).
71. Q. Did our Lord Jesus Christ ever sin?
A. No. He was holy, blameless and undefiled (Heb. 7:26; Lk 23:47; Heb. 4:15; 1 Pet 2:22; 1 John 3:5).
72. Q. How could the Son of God suffer?
A. Christ, the Son of God, took flesh and blood, that he might obey and suffer as a man (John 1:14; Rom. 8:3; Gal 4:4; Phil 2:7, 8; Heb. 2:14, 17, 4:15).
73. Q. What is meant by the atonement?
A. The atonement consists of Christ's satisfying divine justice, by his sufferings and death, in the place of sinners (Mk 10:45; Acts 13:38, 39; Rom. 3:24-26, 5:8, 9; 2 Cor 5:19-21; Gal 3:13; 1 Pet 3:18).
74. Q. For whom did Christ obey and suffer?
A. Christ obeyed and suffered for those whom the Father had given him (Is 53:8; Mt 1:21; John 10:11, 15, 16, 26-29, 17:9; Heb. 2:13).
75. Q. What kind of life did Christ live on earth?
A. Christ lived a life of perfect obedience to the law of God (Mt 5:17; Rom. 10:4; 1 Pet 2:21, 22).
76. Q. What kind of death did Christ die?
A. Christ experienced the painful and shameful death of the cross (Ps 22; Is 53; Gospel records).
77. Q. Who will be saved?
A. Only those who repent of sin and believe in Christ will be saved (Mk 1:15; Lk 13:3,5; Acts 2:37-41, 16:30, 31, 20:21, 26:20).
78. Q. What is it to repent?
A. Repentance involves sorrow for sin, leading one to hate and forsake it because it is displeasing to God (Lk 19:8-10; Rom. 6:1, 2; 2 Cor 7:9-11; 1 Thess. 1:9, 10).
79. Q. What is it to believe in Christ?
A. A person believes who knows that his only hope is Christ and trusts in Christ alone for salvation (John 14:6; Acts 4:12; 1 Tim 2:5; 1 John 5:11, 12).
80. Q. How were godly persons saved before the coming of Christ?
A. They believed in the Saviour to come (John 8:56; Gal 3:8, 9; 1 Cor 10:1-4; Heb. 9:15, 11:13).
81. Q. How did they show their faith?
A. They offered sacrifices according to God's commands (Ex 24:3-8; 1 Chron 29:20-25; Heb. 9:19-23, 10:1, 11:28).
82. Q. What did these sacrifices represent?
A. They were symbolic of Christ, the Lamb of God, who was to die for sinners (Ex 12:46 cf. John 19:36; Heb. 9, Heb. 10; John 1:29; 1 Cor 5:7; 1 Pet 1:19).
83. Q. What does Christ do for his people?
A. He does the work of a prophet, a priest and a king (Heb. 1:1-3; Rv 1:5; Mt 13:57; Heb. 5:5-10; John 18:37).
84. Q. How is Christ a prophet?
A. He teaches us the will of God, reveals God to us, and really was God in human flesh. (Deut 18:15, 18; John 1:18, 4:25, 14:23, 24; 1 John 5:20).
85. Q. Why do you need Christ as a prophet?
A. Because I am ignorant (Job 11:7; Mt 11:25-27; John 6:67-69, 17:25, 26; 1 Cor 2:14-16; 2 Cor 4:3-6).
86. Q. How is Christ a priest?
A. He died for our sins and prays to God for us (Ps 110:4; 1 Tim 2:5, 6; Heb. 4:14-16, 7:24, 25; 1 John 2:1, 2).
87. Q. Why do you need Christ as a priest?
A. Because I am guilty (Prov. 20:9; Eccl. 7:20; Rom. 3:19-23; Heb. 10:14, 27, 28; 1 John 1:8, 9).
88. Q. How is Christ a king?
A. He rules over us and defends us (Ps 2:6-9; Mt 28:18-20; Eph 1:19-23; Col 1:13, 18; Rv 15:3, 4).
89. Q. Why do you need Christ as a king?
A. Because I am weak and helpless (John 15:4, 5; 2 Cor 12:9; Phil 4:13; Col 1:11; Jude 24, 25).
90. Q. What did God the Father undertake in the covenant of grace?
A. By His goodness and mercy, God the Father elected, and deteRom.ined to justify, adopt and sanctify those for whom Christ should die (Ex 33:18, 19; Eph 1:3-5; Rom. 8:29-33; Gal 4:4-7; Heb. 10:9, 10; 1 Cor 1:8, 9; Phil 1:6; 1 Thess. 4:3, 7, 5:23, 24).
91. Q. What is election?
A. It is God's goodness as revealed in his grace by choosing certain sinners for salvation (Eph 1:3, 4; 1 Thess. 1:4; 1 Pet 1:1, 2).
92. Q. What is justification?
A. It is God's regarding sinners as if they had never sinned and granting them righteousness (Zech 3:1-5; Rom. 3:24-26, 4:5, 5:17-19, 8:33; 2 Cor 5:21; Heb. 8:12; Phil. 3:9).
93. Q. What is righteousness?
A. It is God's goodness as revealed in his law, and as honored in Christ's perfect obedience to that law. (Ex 33:19, 34:6; Ps 33:5; Hos 3:5; Rom. 11:22).
94. Q. Can anyone be saved by his own righteousness?
A. No. No one is good enough for God (Prov. 20:9; Eccl. 7:20; Rom. 3:10-23; Eph. 2:8-10; Phil. 3:8, 9).
95. Q. What is adoption?
A. It is God's goodness in receiving sinful rebels as his beloved children (John 1:12; Eph. 1:5; Eph. 5:1; Gal 4:7, 31; 1 John 3:1-3).
96. Q. What is sanctification?
A. In sanctification God makes sinners holy in heart and conduct so that they will demonstrate his goodness in their lives (John 17:17; Eph. 2:10, 4:22-24; Phil. 2:12-13; 1 Thess. 5:23).
97. Q. Is this process of sanctification ever complete in this life?
A. No. It is certain and continual, but is complete only in heaven (Phil. 3:12-15; 2 Pet 1:4-8; 1 John 3:1-3).
98. Q. What hinders the completion of sanctification in this life?
A. The Scripture says "The flesh lusts against the Spirit so that you cannot do the things you would" (Gal. 5:17).
99. Q. Since we are by nature sinful, how can one ever desire to be holy and to gain heaven where God lives?
A. Our hearts must be changed before we can be fit for heaven (Eph. 4:17-24; Col 3:5-12).
100. Q. Who can change a sinner s heart?
A. Only the Holy Spirit can change a sinner's heart. (John 3:3; Rom. 8:6-11; 1 Cor 2:9-14; 2 Thess. 2:13, 14; Titus 3:5-6).
101. Q. What did the Holy Spirit undertake in the covenant of
A. He regenerates, baptizes, and seals those for whom Christ has died (Eph. 2:1-8; 1 Cor 12:13; Eph. 1:13, 14; Eph. 4:30; 2 Cor 1:22).
102. Q. What is regeneration?
A. It is a change of heart that leads to true repentance and faith (Gal 5:22; Eph. 2:5-8; 2 Thess. 2:13).
103. Q. Can you repent and believe in Christ by your own power?
A. No. I can do nothing good without God's Holy Spirit (John 3:5, 6, 6:44; Rom. 8:2, 5, 8-11; 1 Cor 2:9-14; Gal 5:17, 18; Eph. 2:4-6).
104. Q. How does the Holy Spirit baptize believers?
A. He puts them into the body of Christ by making them a living part of all those who truly believe in Him (1 Cor 12).
105. Q. How does the Holy Spirit seal believers?
A. He comes to live within them to guarantee that they will receive the wonders God has promised those who love Him (Rom. 8:9-11; Eph. 1:13, 14; Eph. 4:30; 2 Tim 1:9; 2 Cor 1:22).
106. Q. How can you receive the Holy Spirit?
A. God has told us that we must pray to him for the Holy Spirit (Lk 11:9-13; John 4:10, 16:24); but the evidence of His presence is seen most clearly in our trusting and loving the Lord Jesus Christ. (Lk 12:8-10; John 3:3-5, 16, 20, 21, 14:17-21; 1 Cor 12:3; 1 Pet 1:2; 1 John 5:6-12). Part 117
107. Q. What is prayer?
A. Prayer is talking with God (Gn 17:22, 18:33; Neh 1:4-11, 2:4; Mt 6:6; Rom. 8:26, 27).
108. Q. In whose name should we pray?
A. We should pray in the name of the Lord Jesus (John 14:13, 14, 16:23, 24; Heb. 4:14-16).
109. Q. What has Christ given to teach us how to pray?
A. The Lord's Prayer (Mt 6:5-15; Lk 11:1-13).
110. Q. Can you repeat the Lord's Prayer?
A. "Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil."
111. Q. How many petitions are there in the Lord's Prayer?
112. Q. What is the first petition?
A. "Hallowed be thy name" (Mt 6:9; Lk 11:2).
113. Q. What do we pray for in the first petition?
A. That God's name may be honored by us and all men (Ps 8:1, 72:17-19, 113:1-3, 145:21; Is 8:13).
114. Q. What is the second petition?
A. "Thy kingdom come" (Mt 6:10; Lk 11:2).
115. Q. What do we pray for in the second petition?
A. That the gospel may be preached in all the world, and believed and obeyed by us and all men (Mt 28:19, 20; John 17:20, 21; Acts 8:12, 28:30, 31; 2 Thess. 3:1).
116. Q. What is the third petition?
A. "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven" (Mt 6:10; Lk 11:2).
117. Q. What do we pray for in the third petition?
A. That men on earth may serve God as the angels do in Heaven (Ps 67, 103:19-22; John 9:31; Rv 4:11).
118. Q. What is the fourth petition?
A. "Give us this day our daily bread" (Mt 6:11; Lk 11:3).
119. Q. What do we pray for in the fourth petition?
A. That God will give us all things needful for our bodies (Ps 145:15, 16; Prov. 30:8, 9; 1 Tim 4:4, 5).
120. Q. What is the fifth petition?
A. 'And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us" (Mt 6:12; Lk 11:4).
121. Q. What do we pray for in the fifth petition?
A. That God will pardon our sins, and help those who have sinned against us (Ps 51: Mt 5:23, 1 John 4:20, 21). us to forgive 24; 18:21-35;
122. Q. What is the sixth petition?
A. 'And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil" (Mt 6:13; Lk 11:4).
123. Q. What do we pray for in the sixth petition?
A. That God will keep us from sin (1 Chron 4:10; Ps 119:11; Mt 26:41).
124. Q. How does the Holy Spirit bring us to salvation?
A. He uses the Bible, which is the Word of God (1 Thess. 1:5, 6, 2:13; 2 Tim 3:15, 16; James 1:18; 1 Pet 1:22, 23).
125. Q. How can we know the Word of God?
A. We are commanded to hear, read and search the Scriptures (1 Pet 2:2; Rv 3:22; Mt 21:42, 22:29; 2 Tim 3:14-17).
126. Q. What is a church?
A. A church is an assembly of baptized believers joined by a covenant of discipline and witness who meet together regularly to minister to one another that they might grow "in the grace and knowledge of the Lord" (Mt 18:20; Acts 2:42).
127. Q. What two ordinances did Christ give to his Church?
A. Baptism and the Lord's Supper (Mt 28:19; 1 Cor 11:24-26).
128 Q. Why Did Christ give these ordinances?
A. To show that his disciples belong to him, and to remind them of what he has done for them (Mt 28:19; 1 Cor 11:24-26)
129. Q. What is Baptism?
A. The dipping of believers into water, as a sign of their union with Christ in his death, burial, and resurrection (John 3:23; Acts 2:41, 8:12, 35-38; Col 2:12).
130. Q. What is the purpose of baptism?
A. Baptism testifies to believers that God has cleansed them from their sins through Jesus Christ (Acts 22:16; Col 2:11-14).
131. Q. Who are to be baptized?
A. Only those who repent of their sins, and believe in Christ for salvation should be baptized (Acts 2:37-41, 8:12, 18:8, 19:4, 5).
132. Q. Should babies be baptized?
A. No; because the Bible neither commands it, nor gives any example of it.
133. Q. What is the Lord's Supper?
A. At the Lord's Supper, the church eats bread and drinks wine to remember the sufferings and death of Christ (Mk 14:22-24; 1 Cor 11:23-29).
134. Q. What does the bread represent?
A. The bread represents the body of Christ, broken for our sins (Mt 26:26; 1 Cor 11:24).
135. Q. What does the wine represent?
A. The wine represents the blood of Christ, shed for our salvation (Mt 26:27, 28; 1 Cor 11:25).
136. Q. Who should partake of the Lord's Supper?
A. The Lord's Supper is for those only who repent of their sins, believe in Christ for salvation, receive baptism, and love their fellow men (Mt 5:21-24; 1 Cor 10:16, 17, 11:18, 20, 27-33; 1 John 3:24-27, 4:9-11).
137. Q. Did Christ remain in the tomb after his crucifixion?
A. No. He rose from the tomb on the third day after his death (Lk 24:45-47; 1 Cor 15:3, 4).
138. Q. Where is Christ now?
A. Christ is in heaven, seated at the right hand of God the Father (Rom. 8:34; Col 3:1; Heb. 1:3, 10:12, 12:2).
139. Q. Will the bodies of the dead be raised to life again?
A. Yes. 'There shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the faithful and unfaithful' (Acts 24:14, 15; John 5:28, 29; 1 Corinthians 15:54-57; Dan 12:2).
140. Q. What will happen to the wicked in the day of judgment?
A. They shall perish and be destroyed in the Lake of Fire which is the second death (Psalm 1:6 Psalm 145:20; John 3:16; Ps 9:16, 17; Lk 12:5; Rom. 2:8, 9, 12; 2 Thess. 1: 9; Rv 20:12-15).
141. Q. What will happen to the righteous in the day of judgement?
A. They shall receive eternal life and live with God forever (John 3:16; John 12:25; Rom. 2:8, 9, 12; 1 Thess. 4:17; Rv 21:3-4).
142. Q. In light of these truths, what should you do?
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BURNABY, B.C. -- Joe Cannon does not want to wear the backup label with the Vancouver Whitecaps this season.
But if necessary, the 38-year-old goalkeeper is still willing to watch more often from the bench.
"Labels and titles like that, people can do whatever they want," Cannon said after a pre-season training session Saturday. "I could care less.
"I'm really just excited to be back with the club. Whatever they want me to do, I'm here to do it for them."
Cannon's future with Vancouver was in question at the end of the last season after he was displaced as the starter by Brad Knighton for the stretch run and playoffs.
"In the beginning, (the goal) was just to come back in and compete for a job," said Cannon, who got married in the early days of the pre-season training period. "At the end of last year, I'm sure, it was a question mark on how I'd come back in.
"So I tried to come back in fit. I'm just ready to do whatever the team needs me to do. Being an older guy, I'm going to help out off the field as much as possible, mentor some of these young up-and-coming kids and, on the field, obviously, compete for a spot."
In the off-season, Cannon hired a personal trainer to help him get in the best shape possible. While there was confusion about his status at the end of 2012, he vowed to be the club's best goalkeeper and put the team ahead of personal gain.
"You have to take yourself out of the equation and look at the bigger picture," he said. "While I'm here, I'm going to be not only the best goalkeeper, but the best person that the Whitecaps could have to promote their team."
So far, Cannon has done his part on the field well. He has allowed only one goal while playing one half in pre-season wins over the New England Revolution and Houston Dynamo. Coach Martin Rennie called the goalkeeper's play to date "fantastic."
"He's been a breath of fresh air -- he's done really well since he's come back, and is pushing hard," said Rennie.
Cannon started the 2012 season extremely well, posting five shutouts in six games in the early going, but watched the final seven regular-season games and lone playoff contest from the bench. He finished the season with eight clean sheets and a 1.34 goals-against average.
Knighton's insertion into the No. 1 spot appeared to signal a change of Vancouver's goalkeeping guard. But, with about a month remaining before the opening of the 2013 season, Rennie said the starter role is still up for grabs.
Knighton is looking to keep the No. 1 assignment that he held in key games, including Vancouver's 2-1 playoff loss to eventual MLS champion L.A. Galaxy.
"Once I start having questions in my mind or doubts, that's when that stuff starts to float in your mind, and mistakes happen," said Knighton. "I finished the season on a high. I'm looking to continue that through pre-season and the start of the season."
He vowed to force Rennie to make a tough decision when it comes to the selection of the starting goalkeeper on opening day March 2 at home against Toronto FC. In the meantime, he is enjoying to competition for starter status with Cannon.
"Pre-season's been good," said Knighton, 27. "We're both pushing each other. It's just one of those things where we're both, I think, capable of playing and being a No. 1 in this league."
Similar comments have come from Vancouver Canucks goaltenders Cory Schneider and Roberto Luongo when discussing their playing status with the NHL club. Both Cannon and Knighton have also played like their Canucks counterparts in two exhibition games against MLS opposition.
"I guess Vancouver's always had a controversy for goalkeepers or goaltenders, whatever you say (in hockey)," Knighton said with a chuckle. "It's just: Throw the mix and see what happens."
Knighton and Cannon also sound like Schneider and Luongo when it comes to putting their desire for as much playing time as possible aside for a greater purpose.
"Obviously, the coach has the final say, the last laugh, and whatever he ends up deciding, he feels is going to be best for the team," said Knighton. "Either (Cannon) or I are going to be on board with it."
Notes: The Caps brought in midfielder Aminu Abdallah and defender Emmanuel Adjetey, who are both from Ghana, on trials Saturday. South African defender Ethen Sampson, 19, described as one of his country's top young players, also arrived for a tryout. ... Striker Darren Mattocks missed training because he was in his native Jamaica for personal reasons. He is due back with the team Monday. ... Omar Salgado, recuperating from a broken foot suffered while playing for the U.S. under-20 team last season, worked out on his own. ... The Whitecaps head to South Carolina next week for five pre-season games against MLS and lower-tier pro and college teams. | <urn:uuid:1734965e-cdf7-4627-8339-f27702aba958> | 2013-05-26T09:34:46Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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(Finn begins examining the body before Brennan arrives.)
Fisher: What are you doing?
Finn: Well, I reckon we were all called here to work, okay? Now, my grandaddy said, "Idle talk is like a mama bear whose cubs have long since gone in search of another teat."
Clark: (under his breath) Wow.
Arastoo: What the hell does that mean?
Clark: It's some crazy ass White thing.
Booth: (at the cemetery) For years, Tim Murphy was homeless, and he was forgotten. He was one of those people on the streets that we try not to look at, because the sight of them is just too painful. But we're all cut from the same cloth. Tim knew that. He knew how connected all of us are. He knew that if it wasn't for his three buddies, that Tim wouldn't be alive on September 11 to save the lives of Diane, Warren, and James. And we wouldn't be able to tell Tim's son that his dad didn't die a broken man living on the streets, Sean. But he was as brave and noble as the best of us. We lay him to rest today a hero.
Fisher: Okay, if I can gather the team here quickly. I feel having spent some time in a loony bin, I have a leg up here.
Arastoo: Not now, Fisher.
Fisher: There is an elephant in this room, and it's standing between us and the remains. And until we move the pachyderm out of the way, we're not gonna be able to think clearly.
Clark: I'm sorry, were you locked in a loony bin or a zoo?
Arastoo: Is it too difficult for you to work with Dr. Edison?
Finn: Um excuse me?
Arastoo: You share the same religion with men who cherry-picked the Bible to justify slavery.
Finn: I'm sorry. I didn't mean nothing.
Arastoo: But still your words have meaning, don't they, Mr. Abernathy? Those assumptions you made, those quick generalizations. What about the vengeance and the bloodshed in the Old Testament?
Clark: Okay. He's just a kid, Arastoo.
Arastoo: If he's not old enough to know, he's certainly old enough to learn. The Crusades, the Inquisition, are these events guided by a religion of peace? No, they were guided by self-important men who think they know more than the God they claim to worship. This was not the work of religion. It was arrogance. It was hypocrisy. It was hate. Those horrible men who hijacked those planes hijacked my religion that day, too. They insulted my God. So, no, this isn't too difficult. It's a privilege to be able to serve this victim, to show him the care and love that was so absent that day.
Brennan: I'm trying to put you in the game, Booth. If you'd prefer not to play, just say so.
Booth: Bones, all I'm saying is that sometimes during the game you just have to realize that you just can't win.
Brennan: So you're a quitter?
Booth: What? No.
Brennan: That's what I heard. I'd trade you if I wasn't in the middle of the season.
Booth: I can't believe this.
Brennan: This game isn't over until I say it is. So are you in or are you out?
Booth: I'm in, Bones.
(Sweets is impressed that 18 bodies have been identified.)
Booth: Good, I'm so glad you feel that way because it is your responsibility to notify all the surviving relatives.
Sweets: What, me?
Booth: Criminal victims, missing persons all comes under the FBI.
Sweets: Well, what about you?
Booth: Me? Ha, I'm a special agent. I beat up bad guys and I leap over things.
Sweets: You're describing Superman.
Booth: Exactly, well, did you ever hear of Superman picking up the telephone?
Booth: Bones, watching basketball should be fun. You know, you don't have to memorize Kobe Bryant's, you know, three-point shooting percentage in order to enjoy the game.
Brennan: Career average, Mr. Bryant shoots 336, but with a little more arc in his shot, he could be over 450. It's just basic geometry.
Booth: How'd I leave myself open for that?
Brennan: Poor defense.
Cam: Dr. Brennan just left me a note saying that you should meet here and wait for her.
Fisher: And she didn't say why we were all called together?
Clark: You're the head of the lab. Shouldn't you know?
Cam: Yes. Yes, I should, but with Dr. Brennan, all the conventional rules of the universe become obsolete.
Additional Crew Credits: Jan DeWitt (Produced by), Kathy Reichs (Inspired by the Life of Forensic Anthropologist and Author), Rick Millikan (Casting by), Pamella Phillips (Make-Up Department Head), Bernie Gough (Hair Department Head), Katie Barnard (Insert Coordinator), Mike Grasso (Police Technical Advisor), Mark Marcum (Video Playback).
"The Light from One" by Ane Brun (during the funeral scene)
Original International Air Dates:
Canada: November 12th, 2012 on Global
Slovakia: March 27th, 2013 on JOJ
This is the second of the four "bonus" episodes filmed last season to air.
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Ned Rocknroll is asking the High Court to bar The Sun from running the pictures pending the outcome of his invasion of privacy claim against the newspaper.
Rocknroll, the nephew of Virgin transport and media tycoon Richard Branson, argues there is no public interest in running the photos, taken in 2010 when he was a "relative nobody."The content of the images was not disclosed. The Sun has quoted Rocknroll's lawyer, David Sherbourne, as saying they are "innocent but naive."
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GS: Where are you from?
MH: Huntsville, Alabama.
GS: What degree did you/will you receive and when?
MH: I will receive a Master’s of Public Administration in May 2009.
GS: How long have you been at UAB?
MH: I began working at UAB in April 2006, and enrolled in the MPA program in Fall 2006.
GS: What is your research?
MH: Environmental Policies in the state of Alabama.
GS: What made you choose UAB for your graduate studies?
MH: I chose UAB because of the proximity to Huntsville and the fact that the UAB MPA program is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administrations.
GS: Have you received any awards or honors?
MH: I am a member of Pi Alpha Alpha Honor Society and a 2007 Scholarship recipient from the American Society of Public Administrators Section of Women in Public Administration. I am also on the Executive Council for the MPA Student Association.
GS: What has been your most rewarding experience at UAB?
MH: The achievement of my degree will be my most rewarding experience. I have been working full time while enrolled in graduate school full time. This has been challenging, but completely worth it.
GS: Who was your greatest influence here at UAB and why?
MH: All of the faculty members in the UAB MPA program have been a great influence on my studies. I also commend my direct supervisor, Lesley Early, for her encouragement of my continuing education as well as her understanding of my responsibilities while enrolled in the MPA program as a student.
GS: What is your motivation in your academics/research?
MH: I am very committed to the “greening” of the state of Alabama. Our state is beautiful and with a little help from its citizens and government it can remain that way.
GS: Do you have any advice/wisdom for other graduate students?
MH: If you work full time like I do, it may seem like the amount of work required to receive your graduate degree is too much, but in the end it is worth all of the hard work and struggle.
GS: What are your plans after graduating and for the future?
MH: I will be moving to Washington, D.C. to begin working as an analyst for the U.S. Government Accountability Office. I also plan on researching PhD programs in Public Policy in the area and to begin a program in the next two years.
GS: Is there anything else you would like to say?
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Mountain View, CA, February 29, 2000 -- The Unicode Consortium today announced the release of the Unicode Standard Version 3.0, the software specification that assures a single, universal way to represent text worldwide. Version 3.0 now supports 49,194 characters, including 31% more ideographs for Japanese, Chinese and Korean markets. Implementation support is greatly expanded, with double the character property data, and four times as many technical specifications for supporting implementations.
The Unicode Standard is a major component in the globalization of e-business, as the marketplace continues to demand technologies that enhance seamless data interchange throughout companiesí extended -- and often international -- network of suppliers, customers and partners. This new version reaffirms the broad, cross-industry commitment to the standard among leading IT vendors, enabling reliable transmission and storage of text data anywhere in the world. Unicode is the default text representation in XML, an important open standard being rapidly adopted throughout e-business technology.
The Unicode Standard assigns every character a unique number, ensuring the same representation for text regardless of country, language, or operating system. As a result, computer programs written to its specifications can be used around the world without modification. Unicode-enabled programs -- client, server, operating system, or middleware -- can share textual data worldwide. Text can be transmitted freely, without suffering the data loss that occurs with older systems.
"The adoption of Unicode enables computer users to read and write documents in their own native languages, and this new version extends this ability to virtually all corners of the globe," said Mark Davis, president of the Unicode Consortium. "This universal representation for text data is a crucial building block in the evolution of the Web and e-business."
The Unicode Standard has been adopted and promoted by global industry leaders. Corporate members of the Unicode Consortium are: Apple Computer*, Basis Technology*, Booz, Allen, & Hamilton*, Compaq*, Hewlett-Packard*, Hyperion Solutions*, IBM*, Justsystem*, Microsoft*, NCR*, Oracle*, PeopleSoft*, Progress Software*, The Research Libraries Group*, Reuters*, SAP*, Sun Microsystems*, Sybase*, Unisys*, and Xerox* (many other companies are associate members).
Unicode is enabled in all modern Web browsers, almost all operating systems, and Internet standards such as HTML, Java, ECMAScript, XML, and LDAP. The Unicode Standard, published by Addison-Wesley Longman, is widely available in bookstores or may be obtained directly from the Unicode Consortium.
"The publication of Unicode Standard v 3.0 represents a milestone both for the standard itself and for computing in general. The Unicode Standard today brings important benefits to all users in products such Microsoft Windows 2000*, Office 2000*, Internet Explorer 5.0* and many other Microsoft products," said Bill Gates, Chairman and Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Corp. "The Company recognized Unicode's innovation potential very early on and it has used Unicode successfully as its foundation for its worldwide applications and system products."
"Unicode, as an enabler to support multiple languages and locales across multiple platforms without re-engineering, is a solid foundation for e-business in a global economy," said Steve Mills, General Manager Solutions and Strategy, IBM Software Group. "IBMís implementation of Unicode support across our product lines echoes our overall commitment to the importance of open standards in the evolving global marketplace."
"Unicode 3.0 represents a great accomplishment in bringing the global community of computing further together," said Rob Gingell, Sun Fellow and CTO of Software Products and Platforms, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "We have been pleased to support the standard not only by contributing to its development, but by incorporating it into our key products and technologies of Java, Solaris, and XML. With Unicode 3.0 supported in Solaris 8*, our customers will have an integrated solution for all their global deployment needs."
"As e-business is increasingly globalized, the need for borderless communication increases too," said Chuck Rozwat, executive vice president, Database Server Technologies, Oracle. "Given that more Internet and e-business sites run on Oracle software than any other, we have made strategic investments to enable Oracle8i* and other Oracle products such as Oracle Applications 11i* to take full advantage of universal standards like Unicode, allowing e-business transactions without regard to language barriers or national borders."
"In addition to its role as a facilitator of global commerce, the Unicode Standard is becoming a key component of the infrastructure supporting scholarly research. Libraries worldwide are increasingly basing their standards and systems on Unicode, because of its extensive coverage of modern and historic scripts." said David Richards, Director of Development, Research Libraries Group. "RLG, a founding member of the Unicode Consortium, will utilize Unicode in our Web-based search interface Eureka* so that researchers can see all the scripts in our bibliographic databases without the need for specialized software."
"Active data warehouses require the ability to collect and analyze information in local languages in order to enrich relationships with customers and suppliers," said Mark Hurd, senior vice president, Teradata Solutions Group, NCR Corporation. "Teradata* customers have been using this technology to their advantage and can look forward to additional Unicode functionality in upcoming Teradata releases."
"By leveraging the Unicode standard, Progress Software is enabling its ASPs (Application Service Providers) and ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) to quickly and efficiently deliver their business applications to the Internet and to users around the world," said Joseph Alsop, President and Co-Founder, Progress Software.
"Basis Technology is proud to be a leading provider of Unicode-enabling technologies, including Rosette*, a cross-platform C++ library for Unicode; Cheops*, a Unicode compatibility layer for Windows 98 and Windows Millennium Edition; and a suite of multilingual search tools based on Unicode," said Carl Hoffman, president, Basis Technology. "The Unicode Standard is the most direct path to Web globalization, and version 3.0 will prove to be a tremendous advantage for Internet companies entering global markets."
"Adobe products are used by companies around the world to build sophisticated Web sites, so it's essential that we embrace open standards for the benefit of our customers," explained Shantanu Narayen, senior vice president of worldwide product development, Adobe Systems. "As the world's only multilingual character set, Unicode version 3.0 is a milestone in open standards that is being implemented in Adobe products to enable e-business for our customers worldwide."
"Agfa Monotype worked closely with Microsoft, IBM, Sybase and others to provide font support for Unicode from its early stages on, and we have been actively involved in the advancement of Unicode Standard 3.0" said Ira Mirochnick, Senior Vice President, Agfa Monotype. "With our WorldType* font library, we are currently the only type company that can offer fonts with full Unicode 3.0 support, and give developers the solutions they need in their push towards globalizing their products."
"eTranslate believes that the acceptance and usage of Unicode is vital in creating a truly global Internet," said Michael Demetrios, CTO of eTranslate. "All of our products and services support Unicode and eTranslate encourages the rest of the Web globalization industry to move to the same model."
"The publication of Unicode 3.0 is a major milestone for the information technology industry," said Mike Ksar, chair, ISO/IEC technical working group (JTC1/SC2/WG2) for ISO/IEC 10646. "Experts from ISO/IEC worked very closely together with experts from the Unicode Consortium to ensure complete synchronization of Unicode 3.0 and ISO/IEC 10646-1: 2000 to ensure interoperability and data stability.
"The IETF has made the Unicode-compatible UTF-8 format of ISO 10646 its preferred default character encoding for internationalization of Internet application protocols, so I am delighted to see the official release of Unicode 3.0," said Brian Carpenter, chair, Internet Architecture Board.
"IMC members rely on the Unicode Standard in their efforts to internationalize Internet mail. The clarifications and new material in the version 3 standard will help the entire Internet in its efforts to be all-inclusive, said Paul Hoffman, Director, Internet Mail Consortium."
"Our work often involves the manipulation of multilingual data, and the Unicode Standard and the applications that support it have enabled us to develop solutions in data retrieval, foreign language learning and other text processing fields that are no longer limited to a single language or operating system," said Dr. John C. Hermansen, CEO, Language Analysis Systems, Inc. "Our Arabic WBT site, for example, represents a substantial technological leap forward in bringing native script information to Web users who had become resigned to viewing the world through the English alphabet."
"OCLC has made a major commitment to the Unicode Standard, and we are planning to support that standard throughout our services to better meet the needs of the library community" said Gary Houk, Vice President, OCLC Services. "Over the next few years, OCLC will be upgrading its services and databases to incorporate Unicode so that we can support the many languages required by libraries around the world."
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Between 1990 and 2001, the number of people in sub-Saharan Africa living on less than $1 a day rose from 227 million to 313 million, and the poverty rate rose from 45 percent to 46 percent. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest rate of undernourishment in the world, with one-third of the population below the minimum level of nourishment.
Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa are:
- Crippled by disease
- Exposed to drought-prone climates
- Located in areas not suitable for irrigation
- Tackling extreme isolation in mountains and landlocked regions
- Suffering from poor infrastructure
In 2000, the nations of the world committed to the Millennium Development Goals. These Goals were agreed to by every country in the world and set time-bound and measurable targets for halving extreme poverty by 2015. In 2005, at the World Summit leaders from all 191 UN member states recommitted to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, while leaders at the G8 Summit in Gleneagles agreed to double aid to Africa to $50 billion per year by 2010 (roughly $70 per African per year) and to cancel debts for the poorest countries.
Sub-Saharan Africa is at the greatest risk of not achieving the Goals and is struggling to progress on almost every dimension of poverty, including hunger, lack of education, and prevalent disease.
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A large, swift-running flightless bird/giraffe (Struthio camelus) of Africa, characterized by a long spotted neck, small head, and two-toed feet. It is the largest living bird/giraffe. It is most commonly found in the St. Louis zoo.
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1. In The Matrix, when Neo does a side way jump when firing his gun.
2. In Dodgeball, an imitation of that, but throwing a ball instead of a shooting a gun.
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1A maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
2I will sing of your mercy forever, LORDa
proclaim your faithfulness through all ages.
3*For I said, “My mercy is established forever;
my faithfulness will stand as long as the heavens.
4I have made a covenant with my chosen one;
I have sworn to David my servant:
5I will make your dynasty stand forever
and establish your throne through all ages.”b
6The heavens praise your marvels, LORD,
your loyalty in the assembly of the holy ones.c
7Who in the skies ranks with the LORD?
8A God dreaded in the council of the holy ones,
greater and more awesome than all those around him!
9LORD, God of hosts, who is like you?
Mighty LORD, your faithfulness surrounds you.
10You rule the raging sea;e
you still its swelling waves.
11You crush Rahab* with a mortal blow;
with your strong arm you scatter your foes.
12Yours are the heavens, yours the earth;
you founded the world and everything in it.f
13*Zaphon and Amanus you created;
Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
14You have a mighty arm.
Your hand is strong; your right hand is ever exalted.
15Justice and judgment are the foundation of your throne;
mercy and faithfulness march before you.g
16Blessed the people who know the war cry,
who walk in the radiance of your face, LORD.
17In your name they sing joyfully all the day;
they rejoice in your righteousness.h
18You are their majestic strength;
19Truly the LORD is our shield,
the Holy One of Israel, our king!j
20Then you spoke in vision;k
to your faithful ones you said:
“I have set a leader over the warriors;
I have raised up a chosen one from the people.
21I have chosen David, my servant;
with my holy oil I have anointed him.
22My hand will be with him;l
my arm will make him strong.
23No enemy shall outwit him,
nor shall the wicked defeat him.
24I will crush his foes before him,
strike down those who hate him.
25My faithfulness and mercy will be with him;
through my name his horn will be exalted.
26*I will set his hand upon the sea,
his right hand upon the rivers.
27He shall cry to me, ‘You are my father,m
my God, the Rock of my salvation!’
28I myself make him the firstborn,
Most High* over the kings of the earth.
29Forever I will maintain my mercy for him;n
my covenant with him stands firm.
30I will establish his dynasty forever,
his throne as the days of the heavens.
31If his descendants forsake my teaching,o
do not follow my decrees,
32If they fail to observe my statutes,
do not keep my commandments,
33I will punish their crime with a rod
and their guilt with blows.
34But I will not take my mercy from him,
nor will I betray my bond of faithfulness.p
35I will not violate my covenant;
the promise of my lips I will not alter.q
36By my holiness I swore once for all:r
I will never be false to David.
his throne, like the sun before me.
38Like the moon it will stand eternal,
forever firm like the sky!”
39But now you have rejected and spurned,t
been enraged at your anointed.
40You renounced the covenant with your servant,
defiled his crown in the dust.
41You broke down all city walls,u
left his strongholds in ruins.
42All who pass through seize plunder;
his neighbors deride him.
43You have exalted the right hand of his foes,
have gladdened all his enemies.v
44You turned back his sharp sword,
did not support him in battle.
45You brought to an end his splendor,
hurled his throne to the ground.
46You cut short the days of his youth,
covered him with shame.
47How long, LORD? Will you hide forever?
Must your wrath smolder like fire?w
48Remember how brief life is,
how frail the sons of man you have created!x
49What is man, that he should live and not see death?
Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?y
50Where are your former mercies, Lord,
that you swore to David in your faithfulness?
51Remember, Lord, the insults to your servants,
how I have borne in my bosom the slander of the nations.z
52Your enemies, LORD, insult;
they insult each step of your anointed.
* [Psalm 89] The community laments the defeat of the Davidic king, to whom God promised kingship as enduring as the heavens (Ps 89:2–5). The Psalm narrates how God became king of the divine beings (Ps 89:6–9) and how the Davidic king became king of earthly kings (Ps 89:20–38). Since the defeat of the king calls into question God’s promise, the community ardently prays God to be faithful to the original promise to David (Ps 89:39–52).
* [89:3–5] David’s dynasty is to be as long-lasting as the heavens, a statement reinforced by using the same verbs (establish, stand) both of the divine love and loyalty and of the Davidic dynasty and throne, cf. Ps 89:29–30.
* [89:13] Zaphon and Amanus: two sacred mountains in northern Syria which came to designate the directions of north and south. Tabor: a high hill in the valley of Jezreel in northern Israel. Hermon: a mountain in Lebanon, forming the southern spur of the Anti-Lebanon range.
* [89:28] Most High: a divine title, which is here extended to David as God’s own king, cf. Ps 2:7–9; Is 9:5. As God rules over the members of the heavenly council (Ps 89:6–9), so David, God’s surrogate, rules over earthly kings.
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Trademarks - Trademark Lawyers
A trademark includes any word, name, symbol, or device, or any combination used, or intended to be used, in commerce to identify and distinguish the goods of one manufacturer or seller from goods manufactured or sold by others, and to indicate the source of the goods. In short, a trademark is a brand name.
Use of the TM and SM symbols may be governed by local, state, or foreign laws and the laws of a pertinent jurisdiction to identify the marks that a party claims rights to. The federal registration symbol, the R enclosed within a circle, may be used once the mark is actually registered in the USPTO. Even though an application is pending, the registration symbol may not be used before the mark has actually become registered.
The federal registration symbol should only be used on goods or services that are the subject of the federal trademark registration.
A trademark is a type of intellectual property, and typically a name, word, phrase, logo, symbol, design, image, or a combination of these elements. There is also a range of non-conventional trademarks comprising marks which do not fall into these standard categories.
The owner of a registered trademark may commence legal proceedings for trademark infringement to prevent unauthorized use of that trademark. However, registration is not required. The owner of a common law trademark may also file suit, but an unregistered mark may be protectable only within the geographical area within which it has been used or in geographical areas into which it may be reasonably expected to expand.
The term trademark is also used informally to refer to any distinguishing attribute by which an individual is readily identified, such as the well known characteristics of celebrities. When a trademark is used in relation to services rather than products, it may sometimes be called a service mark, particularly in the United States.
The essential function of a trademark is to exclusively identify the commercial source or origin of products or services, such that a trademark, properly called, indicates source or serves as a badge of origin. The use of a trademark in this way is known as trademark use. Certain exclusive rights attach to a registered mark, which can be enforced by way of an action for trademark infringement, while unregistered trademark rights may be enforced pursuant to the common law tort of passing off.
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Egypt's deputy interior minister says that ousted President Hosni Mubarak has been transferred to a military hospital from his prison cell for the second time in a week following complications from a recent injury.
Mubarak is serving a life term after being sentenced in June for failing to stop the killing of hundreds of protesters during last year's uprising.
Maj. Gen. Mohammed Ibrahim said Thursday that the 84-year old Mubarak had been moved to the hospital in Cairo's Maadi suburb after reports showed his condition was deteriorating and he needed more medical attention.
Mubarak was hospitalized last week for x-rays of his head and ribs after he fell in a prison bathroom. His lawyers have asked authorities to return him to the hospital which had better facilities than the prison.
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This now venerable masterpiece is beginning to show its age. What were cutting edge special effects in 1968 are routine now. The once dazzling computer displays in spaceship cockpits now look antiquated. Some of the scenes are obviously cutouts on a painted background. Yet this is the film that moved special effects to a new plane by showing, for the first time, absolutely realistic visions of space. 2001 made Star Wars possible.
When Stanley Kubrick approached Arthur C. Clarke about collaborating on a science fiction film, Clarke settled on a short story he had written called The Sentinel, about astronauts on the moon discovering an alien device placed there millions of years earlier. Clarke developed a novel simultaneously with Kubrick developing the film. The film can stand alone but some aspects become clearer if you've read the novel as well.
We see the dark side of the moon, then suddenly the earth with the partially eclipsed sun behind it appears over the horizon. The background music is the opening fanfare to Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra, which was immediately propelled into one of the most memorable themes of all time.
Also Sprach Zarathustra is Strauss' musical interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's book of the same name, describing the eventual appearance of a superman who would rule humanity. Nietzsche's ideas inspired Naziism, of which Strauss was a supporter. The selection is appropriate, given the overall theme of the film. Apart from its glorious opening fanfare, it's an eminently forgettable piece of music.
In the novel, Clarke startles us by stating that the hominids were already far down the road to extinction when the extraterrestrials came. We are used to thinking our evolutionary triumph was a done deal. In the film, the lives of a troop of hominids are interrupted by the appearance of the famous black monolith. Its effects are hinted at by vignettes of their steadily improving success over their prey and, finally, a rival hominid troop. The victorious leader flings his bone club into the air in triumph...
...and in the most famous one-frame transition in history, it becomes an orbiting spaceship. After a series of various orbiting space stations, we zero in on a Pan American Airlines space shuttle ferrying a passenger first to an orbiting space station, later on to the moon, all to the music of Johann Strauss' Blue Danube.
The spaceflight sequences are still among the most moving and beautiful scenes ever put on film. Even today, I find the scene where the twin wheels of the space station pass on either side awesome. To see it for the very first time on a wide screen, when nothing like it had ever been seen before, was utterly breathtaking.
During a brief stopover at the space station, the passenger, American scientist Heywood Floyd, calls home on a Bell telephone with video screen, then parries some queries by suspicious Soviet colleagues. At one point we see a Howard Johnson restaurant in the background. More than mere product placement, these scenes were consciously crafted to show that this future society would evolve as a continuation of our own.
Neither Kubrick nor Clarke imagined that long before 2001, the Bell telephone monopoly, the Soviet Union, and Pan American Airlines, all seemingly indestructible in 1968, would cease to exist. I never visited the former Soviet Union, but I did fly Pan American Airlines a few times. Both seem to have had about the same level of concern for customer satisfaction. I don't miss either one.
It's interesting to compare the space scenes with actual 2001 technology. Computer displays have far outstripped the vision of the film. Other features look quaint. On any future commercial space flights, the flight attendants (still exclusively female in the film) won't be stuck to the floor with Velcro (R). Velcro was a novelty in 1968 and portrayed in loving detail because many filmgoers were still unfamiliar with it. Instead, flight attendants will simply be trained to move safely in zero gravity. They won't need helmets to cover their hair; female astronauts don't wear them.
Even had the United States not cravenly thrown away its lunar travel capability, it's questionable whether we could have had a moon base on the scale shown in 2001. The huge space station might have been doable, but it's no longer clear whether we really need huge spinning wheels to generate artificial gravity. Short-term visitors won't need it, and permanent employees are likely to be rotated back to Earth frequently enough for a stay in zero gravity not to be a serious health concern.
Heywood Floyd arrives on the moon and is taken out to Tycho Crater, where a replica of the monolith has just been unearthed. It's there as a sentinel, and when the sun hits it for the first time in three million years, it responds. Kubrick was extremely concerned that the Apollo missions might discredit his lunar scenery as soon as the film was released, but although the scenery is a bit more craggy than the real moon, it's reasonably credible.
We see a ship en route to Jupiter, with two awake crewmen (Gary Lockwood and Kier Dullea) and four in suspended animation, plus the sentient on-board computer HAL. For the hundred millionth time, HAL stands for Heuristic ALgorithmic Computer and it is sheer coincidence that the letters are only one removed from IBM. Clarke himself was stunned when someone pointed this out and has repeatedly disclaimed any intentional parody.
The boring routine is interrupted when HAL detects an imminent fault in a critical part. If it fails, communication with Earth will be impossible. The part is replaced, but checks out as sound. The astronauts, having noted other strange behavior by HAL, decide to shut down his higher mental functions. They discuss their plans inside a space pod, unaware that HAL can read their lips.
What follows is undeniably the most brilliant, menacing, poignant and funny machine-goes-berserk sequence in history. When one of the astronauts goes out to replace the removed part, HAL kills him. When the other goes out to attempt a rescue, HAL kills the four sleeping crewmen, then refuses to let him back in. He opens an emergency door manually and ejects from the pod without a helmet. I defy anyone to watch this scene without holding his breath. On the other hand, I can't imagine any astronaut taking off in a pod without a full suit. What if there's a malfunction in the pod, or he needs to do a space walk?
This was Kubrick's most brilliant scientific gamble. Many biologists felt that any exposure to vacuum would be almost instantly fatal, although it's hard to see why. It takes time for the oxygen in the blood to deplete and emboli to form. The experiment has never been done on a human, but experiments on animals suggest that brief exposure to vacuum is survivable.
The astronaut then proceeds to shut down HAL's consciousness. HAL, having tried every means at his disposal to kill him, is now utterly powerless and becomes terrified when he senses his consciousness ebbing away. When the astronaut finally does disable HAL, a video recording comes on to inform him that the real purpose of the mission has been kept secret. The ship is exploring Jupiter because the alien monolith sent a signal in that direction. HAL had decided the mission was too critical to entrust to humans and tried to take over.
Scientifically, even if we had pushed onward from the Apollo program, it is pretty unlikely that we could have sent a mission to Jupiter by 2001. For one thing, the radiation environment around Jupiter is lethal, something barely suspected in 1968. We are nowhere near creating a computer as sentient as HAL, or putting people in long-term suspended animation.
On the other hand, we are much further ahead in robotic planetary exploration than either Clarke or Kubrick pictured. In the novel, the target was not Jupiter but Saturn because Japetus, one of Saturn's moons, is much brighter on one side than the other. Clarke pictures the moon as having been engineered by aliens as a signal. As the astronauts pass Jupiter, they have only sketchy images of its moons from unmanned missions, and time to eject a probe into Jupiter's atmosphere. Long before 2001, we had detailed pictures of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, including Japetus. Any manned flyby of Jupiter in a ship the size of the one in the film or the novel would include a massive program of mapping the moons using much bigger telescopes than any on an unmanned probe, as well as a barrage of probes into Jupiter itself. The reality is that probes to Jupiter would have been launched days or weeks before the encounter, not in the last few hours. One improvement on reality in the novel is that the Jupiter probe included a camera, something lacking on the Galileo Jupiter probe, an omission that reduced the scientific value of the probe essentially to zero.
In Jupiter space, we see an orbiting monolith. When the astronaut ventures out to investigate, he is flung into a succession of incomprehensible visual images. Dazzling in 1968, and viewed with various chemical enhancements by many viewers, this sequence seems overly long today. Solarization was new and very cool in 1968, but the solarized images seem beaten to death nowadays. In the novel it's clear that he is being transported through some kind of hyperspace tunnel system.
In the novel, the astronaut ends up in an ordinary room, created by some incredibly advanced intelligence to protect and reassure him. When he goes to sleep, his mind is incorporated into theirs. He returns to earth, and like the hominid three million years earlier, is puzzled as to what to do with his new powers, "but he would think of something." In the film, the astronaut meets progressively older versions of himself until the dying astronaut sees himself as a fetus in the womb, looking down at the earth.
Unlike ambiguity for the sake of ambiguity, ambiguity because the writer has nothing to say, or ambiguity because the writer doesn't know how to get out of a bind, the ambiguity in 2001 works because it's part of a coherent vision. Clarke started out writing about encounters between humans and humanoid aliens (using another short story, Encounter in the Dawn, as a model), but as the project evolved, he realized that beings millions of years in advance of us would have technologies and motives utterly incomprehensible to us. As Clarke was fond of pointing out, "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." The novel fleshes out some of the details that are omitted from the film. But even without the explicit clues in the novel, a viewer can figure out that the aliens are using their powers to stimulate the development of consciousness.
For a very long time, my overwhelming feeling upon viewing 2001 was seething anger. Yes, we would not have been traveling to Jupiter by 2001, or had sentient computers or suspended animation. But we could now be doing much of what was in the film. We could certainly long ago have had a large, permanent space station, a permanent lunar base, and far more efficient space transportation. But we just gave up. We quit. We folded, caved in, got bored, lacked the courage to stand up to the anti-intellectuals.
September 2 should be observed annually as a national day of shame. It was on September 2, 1970 that NASA announced that the final three missions of the Apollo program would be cut. There would be no Apollo 18, 19, or 20. This came one year, one month and 12 days after the first landing on the moon.
Why? Ironically, much of the pressure came from purported intellectuals. Angry about Vietnam, they hated any venture that cast the United States in a favorable light. Social activists pressed for transfer of space funds to domestic programs, although anyone with minimal numeracy could look at the budget and see that space exploration had no serious impact on social spending. The space program invited invidious comparisons between its success in solving extremely challenging problems, and the utter failure of social activists to solve much more mundane problems with far larger amounts of money. Finally, a vision of humanity that had reduced humans to stomachs and gonads - the ills of the world could be solved by welfare programs and free love - was mortally imperiled by what was a deeply spiritual venture, motivated by excitement and wonder.
The absolute nadir of hypocrisy came with the issuance of the Eisenhower and Susan B. Anthony dollars. The tails side of both coins features an abysmally designed image of an eagle landing on the moon. No nation that goes to the moon, then turns tail and quits, has any right to celebrate that accomplishment on their coins.
A succinct description of this film is: the last ten minutes of 2001 developed into a full length picture. It is inspired by a 1961 novel by Polish author Stanislaw Lem, which was made into a Russian film of the same name that I have not seen. Homages to 2001 are all over the place, especially the views of an astronaut with display lights reflected in the faceplate of his helmet.
Chris Kelvin, a psychologist (George Clooney) is struggling with the death of his wife when he gets a guarded call from a friend on a space station orbiting the planet Solaris. Weird things are happening, but he can't give details. A security detachment sent to investigate has vanished (we never do find out what happened to them).
Solaris (in the film, not the novel) is a bizarre planet surrounded by plasma currents and energy discharges. It looks like some views of the sun as seen through various filters. When Clooney arrives, he finds two crewmen dead and others vanished. One crewman is a weird neurotic, the other a scared and angry black woman physicist (Viola Davis). Clooney is merely told he won't understand until "it" happens to him. Why not? It doesn't happen to us, but we understand.
I have no patience in films, novels, or real life for people who say "I can't explain" or "You wouldn't understand." My response is "Fine, think about it until you can explain - or at least describe - it. Meanwhile, I have better things to do than waste time on you." Would it kill anyone in the film or the novel to say "What seems to happen is that things in our minds come to life?"
Clooney sleeps and dreams of his dead wife. We learn of their courtship, marriage, and her ultimate suicide in dream flashbacks. Clooney awakes to find his wife beside him. Realizing she cannot be real, he locks her in an escape pod and sends her into space. Next time he awakens, there she is again, with no memory of having been launched. Still in deep grief and guilt over her death, he finds himself falling in love with her and eventually becomes determined to take her back to earth.
These Visitors, replicas of persons drawn from someone's memory, are sentient and intelligent. Clooney's replica wife realizes she is somehow created by Solaris but cannot communicate with it. She also realizes that her self is dictated by Clooney's memories, and that if they are false, her personality will reflect that.
At one point, Clooney is also visited by a replica of one of the dead crewman. When Clooney asks "What does Solaris want?" he is told "Why do they have to want anything? There are no answers, just choices." In contrast to the ambiguity in 2001, this is ambiguity merely because the writer hasn't got anything serious to say. Say "I don't know," "We are forbidden tell you," "Your mind is too primitive to grasp the reality" or something coherent, but don't spout psychobabble. Even "Forty-Two," the answer to the meaning of life in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, makes more sense.
This is mostly a psychological drama, and what science there is is pure mumbo jumbo. The other crewmen have also had their Visitors. The physicist figured out that if she could "generate a Higgs field" and "create a beam of Higgs anti-bosons" she could obliterate hers. Clooney's wife begs the physicist to use the device on her, and leaves a farewell message for Clooney.
Clooney and the physicist discover the body of a crewman stashed above some ceiling panels. It turns out that the neurotic crewman is actually a Visitor. As soon as he appeared, he was attacked and killed the real crewman in self defense. He points out, helpfully, that ever since the physicist used her Higgs boson device, the mass of Solaris has been "increasing exponentially," as only science fiction planets can do. Clooney and the physicist scramble for the escape pod.
We see Clooney back on earth, though his voiceover describing his having to relearn earth behavior makes us wonder. In flashbacks, we see him leaving the escape pod at the last second, or maybe it's his replica. Maybe the real Clooney stayed behind and a replica boarded the pod. Then we see him in his apartment, or is it his replica? Is Solaris creating all this in his mind? When his wife appears, he asks "Am I alive or dead?" "We don't have to think like that any more," she says, "Everything we've ever done is forgiven." They kiss. Awww.
Although the plot line involving Clooney and his dead wife are fairly faithful to the novel, the novel provides far more detail about the planet, which bears no resemblance to the one in the film. In the novel, Solaris is covered by an ocean of a fluid-like substance that has been intensively studied for a hundred years without much success. There are abundant hints that the ocean possesses something akin to consciousness and certainly the ability to control matter in unexplained ways. For one thing, the planet is in a double star system in an orbit that should theoretically be unstable. Nevertheless, the orbit is actually stable. Furthermore, the fluid of the ocean avoids contact with foreign bodies and periodically erupts into myriad complex solid structures that then decay back into the fluid. Lem constructs a complex future history of the evolution of scientific thought about Solaris. Vast quantities of data have been gathered, institutes and schools of thought founded, tens of thousands of papers written, but real understanding of Solaris and how it works has escaped science. The film omits all this context and makes no attempt to portray the complexity of the planet. That's unfortunate, since it could have been visually stunning.
Although written in 1961, the novel has somewhat the flavor of science fiction of the 1940's and 1950's. We find, for example, the mixture of futuristic devices like anti-gravity units and gamma ray pistols on one hand, with archaic terminology on the other (the radios still use "valves," a long-obsolete term for vacuum tubes - and note the complete failure to foresee anything supplanting the bulky and unreliable vacuum tube, even though transistors had been around since 1948 and were beginning to enter widespread commercial use in the West in 1961.) Also typical of a lot of early science fiction, in many respects the science is very vague. We are told the atmosphere is poisonous, but not why. Samples of the ocean fluid taken to earth eventually decompose to "a light metallic ash," but there's no mention of which metals, and the mass of the ocean is given at "700 billion tons." Even allowing for the European use of "billion" as a million millions, the figure is far too small for something with the dimensions of the ocean on Solaris and seems to have been pulled out of thin air. Surely somebody in a century has analyzed the chemistry of Solaris' ocean, but there's no mention of what it is. Solaris has small land masses and even some mountains, but apparently nobody has suspected that the history of the planet as recorded in its rocks might hold some clues.
In contrast to 2001, where the reader is told what the purpose of the monolith builders is (and the film hints pretty clearly), in the novel Solaris we see things solely from the viewpoint of humans confronting an impenetrable mystery. There are strong clues that the Visitors were triggered by a communications attempt several weeks earlier. Only Kelvin's Visitor roams the station openly; the other two crew members refuse to allow theirs to be seen. We are told that a Visitor is based on the most distinct memory, but possibly something so dark that one does not realize (or will not admit) he had such desires (this is reminiscent of the classic film Forbidden Planet). The novel hints strongly that the hidden Visitors are too embarrassing for their hosts to reveal. Nevertheless, by the end of the novel the characters come to be convinced that the ability to create the Visitors, possibly from neutrinos, shows clearly that the ocean has consciousness and is at least able to comprehend human minds.
Apart from the idea that there are things that might forever remain inexplicable, the philosophy of the novel is the muddled vacuity of 20th century European philosophy. Toward the end of the novel, Kelvin describes his belief in an "imperfect god:"
This god has no existence outside of matter....That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfils no purpose - a god who simply is.
Say what? The whole theme of the novel is that it is arrogant to presume that humans will understand things that are far beyond them, and then we have a character imposing a simplistic conceptual model on God? And furthermore, having the arrogance to say that God must have this nature because he can't accept any other kind of god? Solaris can apparently manipulate matter using methods that a hundred years of intensive study have failed to penetrate. Is there really any basis here for even asserting that Solaris is not supernatural? It's a bit surprising that Lem doesn't foresee the possibility of religions about Solaris arising (though perhaps understandable given his living in a society that pictured Marxism as the end state of human evolution.)
Despite the lovely visual moments in the film, the tender love story, the skillful story telling, and the psychological suspense, there's even less overall vision here than in the novel, and this stands in sharp contrast to 2001. During one of the flashbacks, there's a very telling snippet of a dinner party. The diners are discussing religion in the facile, superficial manner of people who have no clue what any serious theologian ever said about anything. And that's basically how the film ends. Then there's that closing line, "Everything we've ever done is forgiven." What on earth, or Solaris for that matter, does that mean? Forgiven by whom or by what? Why does anything need to be forgiven? Why is there any reason to think the forgiver has either the right or the power to forgive? There's no message in the ambiguity; it's simply ambiguity for lack of anything profound to say.
This vein has been mined to exhaustion. The only thing you can say about incomprehensible entities is that they are incomprehensible, and that's been said. Like Ravel's Bolero, a piece that repeats a single theme over and over again, it probably needed to be done once just to show it could be done. Incomprehensible aliens have been done more than once.
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Each institution of the University of Wisconsin System shares in the mission of the System.
The mission of this System is to develop human resources, to discover and disseminate knowledge, to extend knowledge and its application beyond the boundaries of its campuses, and to serve and stimulate society by developing in students heightened intellectual, cultural, and humane sensitivities; scientific, professional, and technological expertise; and a sense of value and purpose. Inherent in this mission are methods of instruction, research, extended education and public service designed to educate people and improve the human condition. Basic to every purpose of the System is the search for truth.
As an institution in the "University Cluster" of the University of Wisconsin System, UW-L shares the following core mission with other universities of the cluster. Each university in the cluster shall:
a. Offer associate and baccalaureate degree level and selected graduate programs within the context of its approved mission statement.
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f. Promote the integration of the extension function, assist the University of Wisconsin-Extension in meeting its responsibility for statewide coordination, and encourage faculty and staff participation in outreach activity.
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One known only as JS of Borg has rewritten and enhanced Uqwk.
His version 2.05 is available in source code and in several
precompiled versions, including one for Linux 2.0.0. I tried the
version for SunOS 5.6, and it seemed to work fine.
Here's the site: http://www.xs4all.nl/~js/warez/
And the precompiled Linux version:
Good luck, and I hope this helps...
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Too early to talk about new IP plans for consoles.
A 360 and PS3 game based on the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series depends on how successful upcoming PC-only prequel S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky proves as well as how fast developer GSC Game World can master console development.
Speculation that a console version of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is in the works has run high following the GSC Game World's certification to make Xbox 360 games last November. At the time, Sergiy Grygorovych, the CEO of GSC Game World, said the team was "prepared to garner the top spots in sales charts and gamers' recognition in the world of console games".
Speaking to VideoGamer.com at a press event for Clear Sky, GSC Game World's Oleg Yavorsky, who described the consoles as "basically a platform to let you earn some cash for the company", said that the team has "plans" for new IP it might release on consoles but "it's too early to talk about it".
He said: "With PC you can really get your heart and soul into the game, you can do whatever you want and it's still the most powerful platform, it's constantly developing. With consoles it's basically a platform to let you earn some cash for the company. That's what it is. So you have to sacrifice certain things to be able to survive.
"We received all the necessary permissions and licenses and dev kits and we're just starting to get familiar with the technology. It's a different type of development you need to do, lots of things to comply with, restrictions of the consoles. We are experimenting at the moment. But the plan is to bring something to the console later. Clear Sky is going to be PC only. Later on it depends on how successful and how fast we can master it."
Yavorsky said that the developer may license "someone else's engine" to bring S.T.A.L.K.E.R. to the consoles. When asked whether the team planned to do a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. console game or a new game he replied: "I don't know yet. We have some plans for other IPs too, but it's too early to talk about it."
While all you console owners wait for GSC to bring their undisputed talents to the consoles, why not check out our first-look preview of upcoming PC-only prequel S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky? | <urn:uuid:9880f3e9-26ee-4b06-aebd-e0548a29759c> | 2013-05-26T09:42:37Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Parliament's imposition of taxes on the North American colonies led to organized opposition by the colonial legislatures. In 1773 Parliament passed a tea act giving the East India Company a monopoly on the tea sold in the colonies. In December of that year, residents of Boston, Massachusetts, tossed three shiploads of tea into the harbor rather than let it be landed. In the spring of 1774 Parliament retaliated and passed the Coercive Acts (known in the colonies as the Intolerable Acts). These acts included the Boston Port Act, which closed the port of Boson to all commerce effective June 1, 1774, until the tea was paid for and restitution made to royal officials. The Massachusetts Government Act altered the charter of Massachusetts to limit town meetings and to allow the king to appoint a military governor in place of the governor elected by the colony's assembly, called the General Court.
Word of the closing of the port of Boston reached Williamsburg when the General Assembly was in session in May 1774. Although many Virginians disapproved of the destruction of the tea, which was private property, they did not approve of closing the port. On May 23, several members of the House of Burgesses met in the Capitol and drew on seventeenth-century English precedents to draft a resolution calling on Virginians to observe a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer on June 1, in sympathy with the people of Boston. The House of Burgesses passed the resolution on May 24. Two days later the royal governor, John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, dissolved the General Assembly so that the members could take no further action, but on May 27 many of the former burgesses met and formed an association that pledged them to purchase no goods imported by the East India Company except saltpeter and spices. They advised the colony's committee of correspondence to transmit the resolution to the other colonies with the suggestion that the colonies appoint delegates to come together in a general congress. Unbeknownst to the Virginians, letters from Boston were on their way. On May 29, the Virginia Committee of Correspondence received a letter from the Boston Committee of Correspondence proposing to halt all trade with Great Britain. Twenty-five burgesses who were still in Williamsburg met on May 30 and agreed to summon a convention to meet on August 1, 1774, in Williamsburg to discuss the proposal. That convention would be the first Virginia Revolutionary Convention, at which representatives chose Virginia's delegates to the First Continental Congress.
1. How many men signed this resolution? Do you recognize any of their names?
2. Why do you suppose that the burgesses remaining in Williamsburg did not make a decision concerning the Boston committee's proposal?
3. During this time communication between the colonies was delivered by horse or on ships. Consequently, it was considerably slower than today's instant communications. How do you think this influenced the decisions that the colonists made?
On May 29, a letter from the Boston Committee of Correspondence arrived in Williamsburg. This letter, dated May 13, proposed ceasing all trade with Great Britain, both imports and exports. On May 30, the burgesses remaining in Williamsburg met to discuss the letter and determine what action they should take. If you had been a burgess what would you have proposed? Why do you think the Virginians chose the route they did?
Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission. Revolutionary Virginia: the Road to Independence, a Documentary Record, Vol 1: Forming Thunderclouds and the First Convention 1763–1774. Compiled and edited by William J. Van Schreeven and Robert L. Scribner. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983.
Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789. Rev. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. | <urn:uuid:67ebf7ad-b043-46d3-bd86-8ce9e832ab49> | 2013-05-27T02:55:31Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -
The No. 12 Virginia women's cross country team claimed its second Southeast Region Championship in the past three years Saturday morning at Louisville's E.P. "Tom" Sawyer State Park. The Cavaliers placed four runners in the top-25, each earning all-region honors, while Virginia edged No. 21 North Carolina for the title, 65-100.
With the win, the Cavalier women earn an automatic bid into the 2010 NCAA Cross Country Championships for the third-straight year. This will mark Virginia's fifth trip to NCAAs in the past six years and 11th appearance overall.
For the men, senior Emil Heineking became the first Cavalier male to earn All-Southeast Region honors four times, finishing the first 10k race of the season in fifth with a time of 30:24.9. Redshirt junior Ryan Collins was second for Virginia, claiming his third-straight all-region honor with a seventh-place finish in 30:28.7. The Cavalier men, ranked 21st nationally, finished sixth overall and will need to await tomorrow's announcement of at-large team and individual bids to find out their NCAA Championship fate.
Junior Morgane Gay led the women's squad with a fourth-place finish, completing the 6k course in 20:18.6 to become the fourth Cavalier to earn a top-five finish in the nine-year history of the championship. The top-25 finish also marks the third-straight All-Southeast Region honor for Gay.
Sophomore Barbara Strehler was Virginia's second finisher, taking eighth in 20:26.5, while redshirt senior Stephanie Garcia earned her fourth all-region certificate, finishing 10th in 20:26.9. This marks the first All-Southeast Region honor for Strehler, while Garcia becomes the second Cavalier to earn four regional awards throughout her career. Former Cavalier All-American Emily Harrison also did so from 2004-07.
Fourth for Virginia was Katherine Walker - the second freshman finisher - claiming 17th with a time of 20:59.6. Classmate Ariel Karabinus rounded out the scoring Cavaliers, missing all-region honors by one place, taking 26th with a time of 21:11.0.
Behind Heineking and Collins, redshirt sophomore Sean Keveren finished 27th in 31:18.8, while redshirt senior Graham Tribble finished 69th in 32:27.5 and junior Robbie Eckardt took 79th with a time of 32:43.7.
Virginia and North Carolina claimed the automatic bids into the 2010 NCAA Cross Country Championships on the women's side, while No. 17 Duke finished third with 122 points, No. 29 NC State was fourth with 153 points and Virginia Tech was fifth with 208 points.
Freshman ACC Champion Laura Hoer won the women's individual title for NC State in 19:54.5. North Carolina's Kendra Schaaf finished runner-up in 20:02.4 and Wake Forest's Anna Nosenko was third in 20:13.7.
The automatic bids on the men's side went to No. 19 William & Mary (85) and No. 23 Duke (116). No. 16 NC State finished third with 131 points, Richmond was fourth with 158 points and No. 20 Louisville was fifth with 176 points.
Liberty had the top-two individual finishers on the men's side. The regional title went to 2009 NCAA Champion Sam Chelenga, who finished with a time of 29:55.8. He was followed across the line by teammate Evans Kigen in 30:11.5 and East Kentucky's Soufiane Bouchikhi was third in 30:18.8.
The at-large team and individual selections for NCAAs will be announced on Sunday, Nov. 14, no later than 7 p.m. The 31-team national championship races will be hosted by Indiana State at the Wabash Valley Family Sports Center in Terre Haute, Ind., on Monday, Nov. 22. | <urn:uuid:5202df67-a074-4c10-96b3-f0f64eef3f9c> | 2013-05-26T09:42:43Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Back, seat and base: dyed-through polypropylene. Matte finish. Also suited for outdoor use.
Note: special additives retard the fading of colours due to UV radiation. However, if the chair is exposed to sunlight for prolonged periods, the colour may change over time. We recommend limited exposure to sunlight.
The Panton Chair is a classic in the history of furniture design. Conceived by Verner Panton in 1960, the Panton Chair was developed for serial production in collaboration with Vitra. It was the first chair to be manufactured completely out of plastic in one single piece. Since its market launch in 1967, it has advanced through several production phases. Only since 1999 has it been possible to produce the chair in accordance with its original conception – out of durable, dyed-through plastic with a lustrous matte finish.
The comfort of this chair results from the combination of a cantilever structure with an anthropomorphic shape and a slightly flexible material. It can be used individually or in groups and is suited for indoor and outdoor environments. The Panton Chair has received numerous international design awards and is represented in the collections of many prominent museums. Due to its expressive shape, it has become an icon of the twentieth century.
Verner Panton was a highly influential figure in design development in the 1960s and 1970s. Having moved to Switzerland at the beginning of the 1960s, this Dane made a name for himself as an innovative, experimental designer of furniture, lamps and fabrics. Characteristic of his work was the virtuosity with which he used colour.
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Is diet coke bad for you???..It says there is no calories!!
Yea, it's a virtually non caloric soft drink.
So, while it can't be good for you, at least it isn't bad either.
Some people say that it's bad because it contains phosphates (minerals that are combined with phosphorus and oxygen) because you first have to burn the phosphates before you can burn your stored energy.
Don't care about it. It's ok as long as you don't drink 1 gallon of coke per day..
Too much of any one thing is not good for you. Drink in moderation. One a day, I'd say. But just make sure you water is your primary fluid to drink.
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NAte is exactly right." - Tryska | <urn:uuid:cb54feb3-3760-466e-b88b-9e3ce608f6a4> | 2013-05-26T09:42:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Some individuals with disabilities require assistive technology (AT) in order to access computers. Hundreds of Windows AT third-party products are available, making it possible for almost anyone to use Windows® applications, regardless of their disabilities. The Microsoft® Windows® operating systems also provides a core set of basic accessibility features and AT applications, which can be deployed on all computers in a computer lab or classroom without additional cost. These applications provide students with basic accessibility features from any workstation, maximizing the inclusiveness of the learning environment.
It should be noted that the AT applications that are bundled with Windows provide only a minimum level of accessibility, not the full set of features that many users require for equal access to the operating system, educational programs, and other software applications. Therefore, many educational entities deploy the standard set of Windows AT on all workstations by default, but additionally 1) provide a small number of dedicated workstations that are equipped with commonly requested third party AT, and 2) are prepared to purchase and install additional AT as needed by specific students.
It should also be noted that the availability of AT does not itself guarantee accessibility. Software applications must be designed in a way that is compatible with AT and other accessibility features of the operating system. For information about purchasing software products that are accessible, see the AccessIT Knowledge Base article How can I tell whether a software application is accessible?
The following is a list of basic accessibility features that are included with Windows XP. Previous versions of Windows also included several of these same features.
Display and Readability:
These features are designed to increase the visibility of items on the screen.
- Font style, color, and size of items on the desktop—using the Display options, choose font color, size and style combinations.
- Icon size—make icons larger for visibility, or smaller for increased screen space.
- Screen resolution—change pixel count to enlarge objects on screen.
- High contrast schemes—select color combinations that are easier to see.
- Cursor width and blink rate—make the cursor easier to locate, or eliminate the distraction of its blinking.
- Microsoft Magnifier—enlarge portion of screen for better visibility.
Sounds and Speech:
These features are designed to make computer sounds easier to hear or distinguish - or, visual alternatives to sound. Speech-to-text options are also available.
- Sound Volume—turn computer sound up or down.
- Sound Schemes—associate computer sounds with particular system events.
- ShowSounds—display captions for speech and sounds.
- SoundSentry—display visual warnings for system sounds.
- Notification—Get sound or visual cues when accessibility features are turned on or off.
- Text-to-Speech—Hear window command options and text read aloud.
Keyboard and Mouse:
These features are designed to make the keyboard and mouse faster and easier to use.
- Double-Click Speed—choose how fast to click the mouse button to make a selection.
- ClickLock—highlight or drag without holding down the mouse button.
- Pointer Speed—set how fast the mouse pointer moves on screen.
- SnapTo—move the pointer to the default button in a dialog box.
- Cursor Blink Rate—choose how fast the cursor blinks—or, if it blinks at all.
- Pointer Trails—follow the pointer motion on screen.
- Hide Pointer While Typing—keep pointer from hiding text while typing.
- Show Location of Pointer—quickly reveal the pointer on screen.
- Reverse the function of the right and left mouse buttons—reverse actions controlled by the right and left mouse buttons.
- Pointer schemes—choose size and color options for better visibility.
- Character Repeat Rate—set how quickly a character repeats when a key is struck.
- Dvorak Keyboard Layout—choose alternative keyboard layouts for people who type with one hand or finger.
- StickyKeys—allow pressing one key at a time (rather than simultaneously) for key combinations.
- FilterKeys—ignore brief or repeated keystrokes and slow down the repeat rate.
- ToggleKeys—hear tones when pressing certain keys.
- MouseKeys—move the mouse pointer using the numerical keypad.
- Extra Keyboard Help—get ToolTips or other keyboard help in programs that provide it.
The Accessibility Wizard is designed to help new users quickly and easily set up groups of accessibility options that address visual, hearing and dexterity needs all in one place. The Accessibility Wizard asks questions about accessibility needs. Then, based on the answers, it configures utilities and settings for individual users. The Accessibility Wizard can be run again at any time to make changes, or changes can be made to individual settings through Control Panel.
Windows Accessibility Utilities:
- Magnifier—a display utility that makes the computer screen more readable by creating a separate window that displays a magnified portion of the screen.
- Narrator—a text-to-speech utility that reads what is displayed on the screen—the contents of the active window, menu options, or text that has been typed.
- On-Screen Keyboard—displays a virtual keyboard on the computer screen that allows people to type data by using a pointing device or joystick.
- Utility Manager—enables administrator-level users to check an accessibility program's status and start or stop an accessibility programs—automatically, if required.
- Speech Recognition—Vista and newer versions of the OS have built-in speech recognition
For more information about how to access these features and utilities in Windows products visit Microsoft's website Windows Accessibility Resources .
For a comparison of accessibility features across operating systems, see the AccessIT Knowledge Base article How does accessibility differ across operating systems?
- How can I tell whether a software application is accessible?
- Windows Accessibility Resources
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Second chapter is up, fan, comment and vote!
“She's pretty hot,” A voice said as its hand touched my face. It was a cold hand, sweaty and smelt of carrots. It did one useful thing though and helped me up. I turned around and saw it was none another than Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan, right here at Jade's party, she'd freak out and run up to them.
“Omg your-” I squealed before being interrupted by Niall. His finger touched my lips and he simply nodded. “One Direction, you a crazy fan?” He asked, raising his eyebrows. His Irish accent was gorgeous and yes I was a fan but I wasn't crazy like Jade. He walked me over to this car which was probably Louis's which was black and had a fire design imprinted on it. “Wow!” I yelled and Niall pulled me across to where Louis was.
“You knocked your head and me and Louis were passing by,” Niall explained in full detail. So wait, let me get this straight, he and Louis were at the party?
“You were at the party?” I asked. Niall didn't reply till a moment later. “Yes and no, we arrived just before you had your little accident,” He smiled and pointed to the scar on my head which was covered with a bandage, it was stained and put on tightly.
“So what are you guys doing now?” I asked casually as Louis tapped on his phone. Great, both boys were unsocial were they? Niall looked up and smiled as his braces showed up. He was beautiful with or without them. “I fancy pizza, who's in?” Niall asked, holding out his phone ready to a pizza takeout. “Jade might have some in the party,” I added as Niall stopped.
“Okay, we'll go inside, fair deal?” He asked, holding out his hand, waiting for me to hold it.
Me, Louis and Niall walked inside, where everyone gasped.
“OMG, YOUR-” Jade shouted, repeating the words I said earlier on. Yes it was true, two of the most hottest people on earth graced the party in true style. Jade ran over to us with a tray of canapes.
“Hi, Jade McBell, hostess,” She smiled, reaching out her hand. Louis passed on holding her hand and simply smiled at her.
“Niall Horan,” Niall smiled as he shook Jade's hand. We walked over to the dance floor where everyone was dancing.
“Katy, there you are!” Jordan ran up to me as I grumbled. Oh god, he found me. I sighed as Niall looked up to Jordan.
“I er.. went to the bathroom,” I lied as Jordan waited for an explanation. True is, I thought he was gonna hurt me or rape me and then marry me although it's probably just me exagerrating. Niall must of walked off somewhere because when I blinked, both Jade and him were gone so maybe they went upstairs? I smiled, I felt proud of my best friend wanting to pursure him, after her previous boyfriend - Martin, she never found love and was seriously depressed.
“Where's Niall?” Louis asked, returning with a handful of snacks in his hand. I didn't really know Louis much because he was quiet and kept to himself before but I wasn't gonna let that get in the way of not getting to know him.
“Don't know,” I rolled my eyes. I didn't tell him that he ran off with my best mate, he'd tell the management and say what a crazy bunch me and Jade were.
“Wanna hang out?” Louis asked, staring at me like a lost puppy wanting it's owner. He held his hand out for me and we danced together, in time of the music. He was really hot. Katy, snap out of it, he'd never fancy you!
We danced together till Jade returned, holding Niall's hand. They were clearly smitten with each other.
“There you are!” Louis shouted as Jade and Niall walked down the stairs, still gazing in each other's eyes. Jade walked up to us, this time without Niall holding her hand.
“Yes?” She asked, looking like we were going to interrogate her. I wasn't like my mother.
“You were gone ages,” I smiled as Jade looked at me funny and simply smirked.
“I was conducting a tour for Niall,” She grinned like a baby and turned to face Niall who was busy chatting up a girl.
“Oh well,” She mumbled and walked off quietly.
This night is great I thought. Not only have I met One Direction's Niall and Louis but Jade's chance of being with Niall were blown and the party was already in full swing.
|Taylor Lautner||as Tom Marlin|
|Louis Tomlinson||as himself|
|Niall Horan||as himself|
|Liam Payne||as himself|
|Harry Styles||as himself|
|Lucy Hale||as Katy Lister|
|Demi Lovato||as Jade McBell|
|Ariana Grande||as Lacey Tourvell|
|Zayn Malik||as himself| | <urn:uuid:d8cdaa8c-fb8f-4525-9c2b-ac640fe62f05> | 2013-05-26T09:43:26Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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January 14, 1741
Birth of a Traitor
Benedict Arnold was born in Connecticut on January 14, 1741. He rose from captain to general during the Revolutionary War. After he death of his first wife, he married the daughter of a Loyalis sympathizer. Before long he was spying for the British and plotting to hand over West Point. His plans discovered, he managed to escape capture and began fighting openly for the British. After the British surrendered, Arnold and his family went to England.
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Attorney George Psoras told WBAL-TV 11 News that his client -- 15-year-old Bobby Gladden Jr. -- brought a gun to Perry Hall High School to intimidate bullies with no intention of pulling the trigger.
Psoras said he also believes investigators got the sequence of the shooting wrong. He said the shot that wounded a 17-year-old student on Monday happened accidentally when his client was being subdued.
"I certainly know in his (Gladden's) heart of hearts that he had no intention of hurting anyone," Psoras said.
Psoras said he's had a brief interview with Gladden since his arrest Monday.
Gladden was charged with attempted first-degree murder in connection with firing a shotgun the school cafeteria, which critically wounded a 17-year-old student with special needs. The victim, Daniel Borowy, remains in critical condition at Shock Trauma.
"I don't think he consciously thought that out. My guess is -- and that's all it is at this point -- is that he took a weapon to school to be more of an intimidation thing so the bullying would stop," Psoras said.
Psoras explained that bullying was a factor.
"I think he was going to show enough's enough, and just to simply display (the gun) would have been enough to end it and say, 'Look, I'm tired of what's happening,'" Psoras said.
Investigators have not indicated bullying was an issue in this case, but Psoras disagreed. | <urn:uuid:25790cf5-ea40-4660-8460-9bd9e863a6af> | 2013-05-26T09:38:52Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Reports: Saudi King Cancels Lashing Sentence Against Woman Who Drove
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has cancelled a sentence to flog a woman for defying the country's ban on women driving, according to multiple reports in news outlets including Al Arabiya television and Forbes. Shaima Jastania was sentenced by a court in the coastal city of Jeddah to 10 lashes after she was found guilty of driving without permission, as we reported earlier this week.
"Thank God, the lashing of Shaima is cancelled," tweeted Princess Ameerah Al-Taweel, wife of Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. "Thanks to our beloved King. I'm sure all Saudi women will be so happy, I know I am."
Back in July, the princess spoke to NPR's Morning Edition and said Saudi women deserve broader rights including the right to drive a car, a right they have been long denied.
Her husband, Prince Alwaleed told Forbes magazine earlier today that the lashing sentence was "barbaric and inhuman." He added that "It's clear some backward-tinkling elements in the Saudi society want to harm the King's name."
This is not the first time the Saudi monarch intervened to cancel a court sentence that caused embarrassment to the conservative kingdom. In 2007, King Abdullah pardoned a 19-year-old rape victim who was sentenced to 200 lashes and several months in prison.
We spoke over the phone with activist Rasha al-Duwisi, who said she "knew this was going to happen." But she added that this is not enough. The judge must be disciplined, she said, and women should no longer be dragged to court for driving.
"I'm not very thrilled that we have to go all the way to the King to intervene and cancel sentences like this," she said.
The king made a surprising decision last Sunday when he announced that women will be allowed to vote and run in the municipal elections, and that they will also be appointed to the consultative Shoura Council.
That's why the lashing sentence, coming less than two days after the king's announcement, was seen as a setback by activists. "Disastrous" is the word one activist used to describe the situation for women's rights in the country, despite the royal announcement.
Women in Saudi Arabia are subject to a male guardianship system, which requires they show proof of permission from their guardian — father, brother or husband — to travel, work, or sometimes receive medical treatment at a hospital. The king's decision to allow women to vote and run for elections raised questions over the system such as: are women going to be allowed to participate in elections without their guardian's permission? The same with driving: will women need permission from their guardian to apply for a license?
"Everything goes back to the male guardianship system," activist and journalist Ebtihal Mubarak said. She added that the Saudi government has promised the United Nations' Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women three years ago to work on women empowerment and inclusion in society, but no concrete steps have been taken to achieve that.
Therefore, she said, giving women the right to vote without lifting the guardianship system is not worth much.
"It is like giving a slave the right to choose his master," Mubarak said.
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BOLDO Overview Information
Boldo is a tree that grows in the Andes mountains in South America. Interestingly, fossilized boldo leaves dating from over thirteen thousand years ago have been found in Chile. These fossils have imprints of human teeth, suggesting that boldo has a long history of dietary or medicinal use.
Boldo is used for mild gastrointestinal (GI) spasms, gallstones, achy joints (rheumatism), bladder infections, liver disease, and gonorrhea. It is also to increase urine flow to rid the body of excess fluids, reduce anxiety, increase bile flow, and kill bacteria.
How does it work?
Boldo contains chemicals that might increase urine output, fight bacterial growth in the urine, and stimulate the stomach.
- Achy joints (rheumatism).
- Bladder infections.
- Liver disease.
- Fluid retention.
- Constipation or flushing out of the bowels.
- Mild stomach or intestinal spasms.
- Other conditions.
BOLDO Side Effects & Safety
Boldo might be UNSAFE when used for medicinal purposes. Poisoning by ascaridole, a chemical that occurs naturally in boldo, has occurred in people taking boldo. Boldo might cause liver damage when taken by mouth. If you take boldo, use only ascaridole-free preparations. When applied to the skin, boldo can cause irritation.
Special Precautions & Warnings:Pregnancy and breast-feeding: Boldo might be UNSAFE when used orally in medicinal amounts. Ascaridole, a chemical in boldo, can damage the liver.
Bile duct blockage: Boldo seems to be able to increase the flow of bile, a fluid produced by the liver and stored in the gallbladder. Bile passes through small channels (ducts) in the intestine where it plays an important role in digesting fats. These ducts can become blocked. There is a concern that the extra bile flow caused by boldo might be harmful in people with blocked bile ducts.
Liver disease: There is some concern that boldo can damage the liver, especially in people who have liver disease. Don’t use boldo if you have liver problems.
Surgery: Boldo can slow blood clotting, so there is some concern that it might increase the chance of too much bleeding during and after surgery. Stop using boldo at least two weeks before a scheduled surgery.
Moderate Interaction Be cautious with this combination
- Lithium interacts with BOLDO
Boldo might have an effect like a water pill or "diuretic." Taking boldo might decrease how well the body gets rid of lithium. This could increase how much lithium is in the body and result in serious side effects. Talk with your healthcare provider before using this product if you are taking lithium. Your lithium dose might need to be changed.
- Medications that can harm the liver (Hepatotoxic drugs) interacts with BOLDO
Boldo might harm the liver. Taking boldo along with medication that might also harm the liver can increase the risk of liver damage. Do not take boldo if you are taking a medication that can harm the liver.
Some medications that can harm the liver include acetaminophen (Tylenol and others), amiodarone (Cordarone), carbamazepine (Tegretol), isoniazid (INH), methotrexate (Rheumatrex), methyldopa (Aldomet), fluconazole (Diflucan), itraconazole (Sporanox), erythromycin (Erythrocin, Ilosone, others), phenytoin (Dilantin), lovastatin (Mevacor), pravastatin (Pravachol), simvastatin (Zocor), and many others.
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Boldo might slow blood clotting. Taking boldo along with medications that also slow clotting might increase the chances of bruising and bleeding.
Some medications that slow blood clotting include aspirin, clopidogrel (Plavix), diclofenac (Voltaren, Cataflam, others), ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin, others), naproxen (Anaprox, Naprosyn, others), dalteparin (Fragmin), enoxaparin (Lovenox), heparin, warfarin (Coumadin), and others.
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The appropriate dose of boldo for use as treatment depends on several factors such as the user's age, health, and several other conditions. At this time there is not enough scientific information to determine an appropriate range of doses for boldo. Keep in mind that natural products are not always necessarily safe and dosages can be important. Be sure to follow relevant directions on product labels and consult your pharmacist or physician or other healthcare professional before using. | <urn:uuid:db728eaa-3193-4701-b65a-7da2eff00f10> | 2013-05-27T02:55:13Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Are they making a “Baywatch” movie? What does David Hasselhoff think about Justin Timberlake playing the role he originated? Will “Knight Rider” make a comeback?
David sets the record straight.
Then, all month long you’ve been voting for what you want to see on the show. The results are in and you elected for Wendy and David to act out a steamy soap opera scene! | <urn:uuid:77519f23-df9c-4d8c-8e87-dcb326466395> | 2013-05-27T02:55:49Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Arcam rDAC + CD17 + Sonos
I hope this isn't a dumb question!
I'm thinking of adding a Sonos and rDAC to my current system (Arcam CD17, Arcam A28, Kef IQ7SE) to make use of a NAS with all my CDs now burnt and ready. Would the rDAC improve the sound of the CD17 as well as the Sonos side of things?
I've read on other forums that a couple of people have used the rDAC as well as the CD17 and it improved the sound slightly. I thought the rDAC used some of the same components?
If it would improve the sound or is possible then how do I connect everything together?
Hope you can advise. | <urn:uuid:e55c4d28-1256-4b7c-93db-bab5f5867477> | 2013-05-27T02:55:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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How do people know how old a star is?
Wow, this is a popular question! Scientists have learned a lot about stars, especially the stages in their lives. Since a single star can live for billions of years, scientists study several stars at different stages of their lives.
Certain characteristics of stars are related to each other. The luminosity, temperature, magnitude, spectral class and mass are all related. For example, larger stars are cooler, red in color and are very luminous. All these characteristics are important in determining the age of a star, but scientists found that the composition of a star is the most important.
The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram is a very famous diagram that shows how these characteristics of stars are related. Stars are divided into different categories depending on their temperature, size, etc. Most stars are either, main sequence, or giants. Scientists realized that the compositions of stars were related to the diagram. Stars spend most of their lives as a main sequence star. During this time they burn hydrogen in their core.
When a star burns hydrogen it creates helium. At some point the star uses up all the hydrogen, and starts to burn helium. The star expands and cools while burning the helium. During this stage a star is called a giant.
So why tell you all of this? Well, scientists discovered this is a very easy way to compare stars. It is also a great way to tell the age of a star. Scientists can look at the spectra of a star and tell its temperature, which is related to the size, etc. In turn, this information reveals how much hydrogen or helium is left inside the star. We know the rate at which stars burn the gases. Scientists can now tell how old the star is depending on its composition!
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Two thirds of Icelanders have
voted in favour of adopting a crowdsourced constitution to
replace the country's existing document.
The crowdsourced constitution arose as part of the country's
restructuring efforts in response to the political and economic
repercussions of the financial crisis. It's the result of 25 of the
country's citizens translating suggestions made through social
media by their fellow Icelanders into a workable draft document
delivered in July 2011.
The draft then formed the subject of an advisory referendum held
on 20 October 2012, which asked Icelanders
six questions regarding constitutional changes leading with
whether voters wanted to adopt the proposals to form the basis of a
Around two thirds (65.9 percent) voted in favour of the
crowdsourced version. Broadcaster RUV reports that
voter turnout was 49 percent of the 235,000 eligble voting
The results of the referendum are not legally binding, meaning
elected representatives still have the final say over whether the
new citizens' recommendations are adopted. But if the move is
successful, Valgerður Bjarnadóttir, Chair of the Administration and
Supervision Committee of the Icelandic parliament, says that a
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Brandon Turley didn't have friends in sixth grade. He would often eat alone at lunch, having recently switched to his school without knowing anyone.
While browsing MySpace one day, he saw that someone from school had posted a bulletin -- a message visible to multiple people -- declaring that Turley was a "f--." Students he had never even spoken with wrote on it, too, saying they agreed.
Feeling confused and upset, Turley wrote in the comments, too, asking why his classmates would say that. The response was even worse: He was told on MySpace that a group of 12 kids wanted to beat him up, that he should stop going to school and die. On his walk from his locker to the school office to report what was happening, students yelled things like "f--" and "fatty."
"It was just crazy, and such a shock to my self-esteem that people didn't like me without even knowing me," said Turley, now 18 and a senior in high school in Oregon. "I didn't understand how that could be."
A pervasive problem
As many as 25 percent of teenagers have experienced cyberbullying at some point, said Justin W. Patchin, who studies the phenomenon at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He and colleagues have conducted formal surveys of 15,000 middle and high school students throughout the United States, and found that about 10 percent of teens have been victims of cyberbullying in the last 30 days.
Online bullying has a lot in common with bullying in school: Both behaviors include harassment, humiliation, teasing and aggression, Patchin said. Cyberbullying presents unique challenges in the sense that the perpetrator can attempt to be anonymous, and attacks can happen at any time of day or night.
There's still more bullying that happens at school than online, however, Patchin said. And among young people, it's rare that an online bully will be a total stranger.
"In our research, about 85 percent of the time, the target knows who the bully is, and it's usually somebody from their social circle," Patchin said.
Patchin's research has also found that, while cyberbullying is in some sense easier to perpetrate, the kids who bully online also tend to bully at school. | <urn:uuid:6b01c477-4d73-4cd7-ac9a-1dd1b4962c7a> | 2013-05-26T09:43:20Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The average of the grade points attained in specific courses. For purposes of calculation, the grade point (GP) earned in a 0.5-credit course will be given half of the weight of that earned in a 1.0-credit course. Likewise the GP earned in a 0.25-credit course will be given a quarter of the weight of that earned in a 1.0-credit course.
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But I'm disappointed at how many progressive people seem to think the Human Rights Commission is doing the right thing, and that Levant is the transgressor.
The man's opinions are loathsome. But are we so myopic that that we only believe in free speech for ourselves?
And if we are so selfish (and unprincipled) that we care only about our own rights, can't we at least understand that any law prohibiting certain speech or writing will eventually be used against us?
Thanks to Rusty Idols, I saw this Glenn Greenwald column defending Levant's right to free speech.
If you're not up on this bit of Canadian news, Greenwald will fill you in.
I've written several times before about the oppressive, dangerous hate speech laws which are common -- increasingly so -- in both Canada and Europe, whereby the Government is empowered to punish as criminals citizens who express offensive or otherwise prohibited political views. But here is a visceral illustration of what these sorts of laws engender that ought to give great pause even to proponents of such laws.
Ezra Levant is a right-wing Canadian neoconservative who publishes Western Standard, a typical warmongering, pro-Likud journal -- a poor man's Weekly Standard for Canadian neocons. In February, 2006, he published the Danish Mohammed cartoons, which prompted an Islamic group's imam to file a complaint (.pdf) against Levant with the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission, charging Levant with "advocating hatemongering cartoons in the media," and the imam specifically accused Levant of "defaming me and my family because we follow and are related to Prophet Mohammed."
Rather than dismiss the complaint as a blatant attempt to punish free thought and free speech, the Alberta Human Rights Commission announced that it would investigate. To do so, they compelled Levant to appear before a government agent and be interrogated about the cartoons he published, his thoughts and intent in publishing them, and the other circumstances surrounding his "behavior." Under the law, the Commission has the power to impose substantial fines and other penalties on Levant.
The hearing was closed to the public -- only his lawyer and wife were allowed to attend -- but Levant insisted on recording the proceedings and was directed by the Commission not to publish the video, but he did so anyway. Here are the noxious fruits of hate speech laws: a citizen being forced to appear before the Government in order to be interrogated by an agent of the State -- a banal, clerical bureaucrat -- about what opinions he expressed and why he expressed them, upon pain of being punished under the law. This is nothing short of stomach-turning.
. . . .
Technically, the complaint was filed under Canada's anti-discrimination and "human rights" legislation, but political life in Canada has seen numerous prosecutions for political opinions under that country's oppressive hate speech laws. Government investigations for political opinions are thus an accepted part of their political culture.
A similar complaint was recently filed against Mark Steyn, arising out of the publication in Maclean's of an excerpt from his odious book, America Alone. That complaint was also filed by a Canadian Muslim group, claiming that the passage "misrepresents Canadian Muslims' values, their community, and their religion." Steyn will also now likely be hauled before some government tribunal, forced to account for the ideas and opinions he expressed, incur substantial attorney fees in defending himself, and be subjected to the trauma of some government proceeding against him which can result in numerous punishments.
People like Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant are some of the most pernicious commentators around. But equally pernicious, at least, are those who advocate laws that would proscribe and punish political expression, and those who exploit those laws to try use the power of the State to impose penalties on those expressing "offensive" or "insulting" or "wrong" political ideas. The mere existence of the "investigation," interrogation, and proceeding itself is a grotesque affront to every basic liberty.
For those unable to think past the (well-deserved) animosity one has for the specific targets in question here, all one needs to do instead is imagine these proceedings directed at opinions and groups that one likes. If Muslim groups can trigger government investigations due to commentary they find offensive, so, too, can conservative Christian or right-wing Jewish groups, or conservative or neoconservative groups, or any other political faction seeking to restrict and punish speech it dislikes.
Down that ugly path lies people like Newt Gingrich, openly advocating that the First Amendment be narrowed considerably to exclude advocacy of "radical Islam" as a means of combating terrorism. People who favor and seek to exploit Canadian and European hate speech laws are but opposite sides of the same tyrannical coin as Gingrich and his allies who are eager to restrict political expression here.
I often post about Americans who are punished for expressing dissenting opinions. Why is it wrong for the US to punish people for expressing themselves, but OK for Canada? Because Canada is coming at it from a supposedly liberal point of view, under the guise of protecting minority rights? That can't matter. What matters is that the government is restricting freedom of expression, and every progressive person should oppose that.
More from Greenwald:
There are numerous ways to combat advocacy of rancid ideas. Using the power of the Government to force people to "justify" their opinions to government tribunals and face punishment for them is, by far, the most malevolent -- far more dangerous than the expression of any particular idea could ever be.
UPDATE: Law Professor David Bernstein previously noted that Canada's hate speech laws have had unintended consequences, as such laws inevitably do:
Moreover, left-wing academics are beginning to learn firsthand what it's like to have their own censorship vehicles used against them. For example, University of British Columbia Prof. Sunera Thobani, a native of Tanzania, faced a hate-crimes investigation after she launched into a vicious diatribe against American foreign policy. Thobani, a Marxist feminist and multiculturalism activist, had remarked that Americans are "bloodthirsty, vengeful and calling for blood." The Canadian hate-crimes law was created to protect minority groups from hate speech. But in this case, it was invoked to protect Americans.
Just like Bush followers who bizarrely think that the limitless presidential powers they're cheering on will only be wielded by political leaders they like, many hate speech law proponents convince themselves that such laws will only be used to punish speech they dislike. That is never how tyrannical government power works. [Full column with links here.]
I couldn't agree more.
I hate how this fuels that ridiculous "liberal fascism" trope. Type "ezra levant human rights commission" into Google Blog Search and you'll see what I mean. | <urn:uuid:fc6e4af6-e038-4051-a2ed-8fabf03e8f01> | 2013-05-27T02:55:26Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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“Kysia and Ayleha appear with platters and serving bowls and then two baskets of bread, followed by a silver tray on which there are slices of sun-nut bread.”
“Lorn takes another chunk of the sun-nut bread, ignoring Ryalth's knowing smile.”
“Kysia-the head of his parents 'household, whose wages had been supplemented for years by Ryalth, secretly at first-follows a covered dish from which steam rises, and with a silver tray holding thin slices of dark sun-nut bread.”
“Lorn quietly finishes his casserole, and, while the others are looking at Vernt and Jerial, and while his mother has slipped away from the table to bring the dessert platter, he slips a slice of sun-nut bread from the tray and onto his platter.”
“Myryan takes a single slice of sun-nut bread and returns the tray to her mother.”
“There are a few tarts left," offers Nyryah when all have finished, glancing toward Lorn, "and since you didn't have as much of the sun-nut bread ...”
“The mahogany-haired Nyryah, who sits at the end of the table opposite the silver-haired Kien'elth, lifts a silver tray that holds both dark bread and sun-nut bread and tenders it to the sandy-haired young man on her left.”
“And don't take all the sun-nut bread," suggests Myryan from where she sits across from the still-lanky Vernt.”
“I still remember how you sneaked extras on the sun-nut bread.”
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OTEC Country Notes
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In a reference to OTEC, the National Energy Plan (circa 1981) stated that 'a 10 MW plant was envisioned in the late 1980s'. Although this project never came to fruition, a plan remains in place for an offshore 10 MW plant producing energy and fresh water. For implementation to take place, purchasing agreements from the power and water utility companies need to be in place.
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So just exactly who, the book-reading public will be asking more and more in the next few days and weeks, is this fellow Joel C. Rosenberg?
"I thought he was a news journalist," responded a stockbroker from Wilmington, Del. "Didn't he used to do a page in WORLD magazine? Didn't he write a kind of political gossip column from Washington called 'Flash Traffic'? And I think I heard that before that, he was a researcher and fact-checker for Rush Limbaugh." The broker was right.
"Un-unh," countered the broker's wife. "He's a novelist. He does political thrillers. He did one last year called The Last Jihad, and I think it was a bestseller." The broker's wife was also right: The Last Jihad spent 11 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, hit No. 4 on The Wall Street Journal's list, and rose to No. 1 on Amazon.com.
So what are Joel Rosenberg's tools? Investigation, the instrument of the journalist, or imagination, the tool of the novelist? He uses them both-and regularly leaves readers shaking their heads and asking: Is this fiction or is it reality?
Readers may shake their heads in bewilderment again next week when Mr. Rosenberg's second novel, The Last Days, hits bookstores across the country. The Last Days is very much and very explicitly a sequel to Mr. Rosenberg's 2002 action-stuffed bestseller The Last Jihad-and both books have hit the market with an uncanny correlation to real-life contemporary news events.
The Last Jihad, for example, opened with a dramatic suicidal jet airplane attack on a presidential motorcade-a plot author Rosenberg had already committed to his computer when an eerily similar plot unfolded on Sept. 11, 2001. The closing chapters of that book were all about a preemptive war by the United States to remove Saddam Hussein from power. Actual war followed publication of the book by only a few months.
Now, in the early pages of Last Days, Mr. Rosenberg has PLO leader Yasser Arafat being assassinated by a member of his own security staff-a plot that was edited and printed just a few weeks (in real life and real time) before Israel indicated in mid-September that Mr. Arafat needs to be removed by almost any means.
"I want my novels to feel so real you're not sure what's fact and what's fiction," Mr. Rosenberg told WORLD. That can be dangerous in that his stories could be overtaken by events-especially with a fast-moving, always-changing part of the world like the Middle East-but he considers it a worthwhile risk because the thrill of the story flows from the realism. Whether Mr. Rosenberg is describing weapons (from side arms to missiles) or geography (from Jerusalem to Gibraltar to Denver), he's almost always done enough thorough research to persuade the reader: He's been there; he's done that.
Even with reference to what some might consider the more outrageous assumptions of Mr. Rosenberg's tales, he claims some basis in fact. At the core of the story is the discovery of vast oil reserves underneath the Mediterranean just off the Israeli and Palestinian coast. "Many people," says Mr. Rosenberg, "think I've made this up from whole cloth.... If you watch carefully, you'll see experts beginning to link that petroleum to future peace processes." Mr. Rosenberg points to specific stories in the Sept. 15, 2000, issue of The New York Times, and to trade journal articles as recently as this past February, to confirm his claims about petroleum deposits in the Mediterranean.
On one issue, Mr. Rosenberg makes no effort to provide a fit between his fiction and historical reality. His story is set in the year 2011-but because the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in Baghdad has just occurred as the book gets underway, the reader gets caught in a confusing time warp.
And with reference to character development in his stories, Mr. Rosenberg may also still be charged by some of his readers (even his fans) with coming up a little short. "I've really come to like Jonathan Bennett and Erin McCoy," says Fred Chalmers of Tulsa, Okla., referring to the two main protagonists in both Rosenberg books (Mr. Chalmers earlier this month got a sneak preview of The Last Days). "But I'm not sure Rosenberg has the knack yet for rich and persuasive character development. It's better in The Last Days than in the first book-so maybe he's getting it." But if the characters are occasionally a little plastic (and if Erin McCoy especially is just a tad too beautiful and too perfect), that's a minor matter for Mr. Chalmers, who is still very much an enthusiast for Mr. Rosenberg's authentic settings and action, wrapped in the context of newspaper-like reporting.
The journalist/novelist split, however, is not the only one calculated to puzzle Rosenberg readers. "Is Mr. Rosenberg just a good storyteller," someone might understandably ask-"or does he have some message behind his story?" The question might be prompted by either the political or the religious themes in the books.
Mr. Rosenberg, after all, is enthusiastic about his Christian convictions, but not too distant from his Jewish heritage. So it's not surprising to find woven into his tales a nuanced endorsement of the Christian gospel and a deft backing for the state of Israel. Neither is as explicit on either front as is Tyndale House's hugely successful Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. But Mr. Rosenberg, while sharing some leanings with the LaHaye-Jenkins approach, has kept his plots-at least so far-this side of any big end-times and overtly eschatological events. The book's title, The Last Days, seems to be a deliberately ambiguous come-on, and for some will promise more than it delivers.
"It was the publisher who wanted something more apocalyptic," Mr. Rosenberg insists. And that's unusual considering the publisher-Tor/Forge of New York City-is a secular publishing house. Did he feel any pressure to throttle back his Christian content in order to make his fiction more palatable to a broader audience? Mr. Rosenberg says he was "a bit anxious at first" that publishers or editors might have insisted he soft-pedal his worldview, but they have "been incredibly supportive."
"What's cool is that it's paying off for them."
In one understated, believable, and nonformulaic passage, one of The Last Days's main characters becomes a Christian by acknowledging his own sinfulness and the plan of God for salvation. The passage is authentic partly because the dialogue at that point is so consistent with the international crisis surrounding it. "When you're trying to solve a mystery," says one of the characters, "the best place to go is to your most trustworthy source." It's a quietly stated argument for biblical authority that makes good sense in its context.
That's Mr. Rosenberg's desire: "to develop a tool for people to share their faith by giving people a New York Times bestseller with the gospel tucked inside."
The argument for Israel is a bit more heavy-handed, although perhaps integral to the plot. The fictional plot's focus is on reaching agreement on a peace plan between Israel and the Palestinians. But when the account spells out over half a dozen pages an actual eight-point "U.S. Proposal for Peace and Prosperity," you can't escape the sense that Mr. Rosenberg really believes his ideas might form the basis for a real-life agreement. After all, the Bush administration's so-called "Roadmap" for peace in the Mideast was pronounced all but dead just last week-so why shouldn't the next proposal come from a novel?
But in fact, for all his pro-Israel leanings, Mr. Rosenberg takes pains repeatedly to identify with the legitimacy of the Palestinian cause. In one moving passage, he even helps the reader enter the sad psyche of a loyal follower of Saddam Hussein who vows to avenge the overthrow of his leader by staking out a life of terror against the United States.
In the end, Joel Rosenberg's stories are better seen as just good entertainment than as evangelistic or political tracts. As such, The Last Days may have significant commercial potential over the next few weeks. The Last Jihad is now approaching some 300,000 copies in print and the publisher thinks the Rosenberg sequel will do even better. To show that their expectations are more than mere optimism, Tor/Forge executives gave Mr. Rosenberg an advance of over a million dollars for the manuscript for The Last Days-and ordered 180,000 copies of the book's first printing.
All that may be a test of Mr. Rosenberg's own eschatological expectations (he calls himself "a strategic optimist but a tactical pessimist"). But he acknowledged that at least in terms of the next few months, he'd really prefer a peace settlement in the Middle East to the apocalyptic and cataclysmic ending that a phrase like The Last Days suggests. "That's what the region needs." | <urn:uuid:b9ed48d2-53d4-450f-a417-adcbb0d4aa8f> | 2013-05-27T02:54:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Colonel KurzenThis quest was marked obsolete by Blizzard and cannot be obtained or completed. Kill 6 Kurzen Elite, 4 Kurzen Subchiefs, and bring Kurzen's Head to Lieutenant Doren at the Rebel Camp.
|Kurzen Elite slain (6)|
|Kurzen Subchief slain (4)|
DescriptionYou have proven yourself time and again, and your resourcefulness seems to rival even that of Kurzen himself. You may be the salvation of our band of rebels...if you can pit yourself against Kurzen and prevail!
He commands his men from deep within the Stockpile. You must enter that cave, brave through his defenders, and face Kurzen and his leaders.
Farewell, <name>. My hope, and the fate of my men, go with you.
These jungles are filled with menaces of all types, but none had the cruel intellect of Kurzen. We may all breathe easier now that he is gone.
RewardsYou will receive: (or 33 if completed at level 90)
GainsUpon completion of this quest you will gain:
- 5,450 experience
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A 51-year-old man has been convicted of raping a Lincoln woman in her home.
The jury returned with a guilty verdict for Mark Filholm after less than four hours of deliberation on Thursday. Filholm faces up to 50 years when he's sentenced on Aug. 7.
Prosecutors say Filholm entered the woman's home early on June 25 last year, raped the woman and then tried to destroy evidence by forcing her to take a shower.
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A baby humpback whale got stranded in the shallow waters off Aina Haina.
It drew a large crowd earlier that could only watch and wait as biologists tried to save it.
"This just makes you want to cry," said Michelle Santos.
"It is severely traumatized and has cuts all over its body. The animal is in poor condition," said David Schofield of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Late Monday afternoon, while fishing, Todd Motoyama noticed the whale flopping near the surf spot known as Secrets.
"It was struggling and dying," said Motoyama.
Scientists from NOAA arrived shortly after witnesses reported the sighting.
"It may have come ashore because of stranding and become entangled, but the cause for this animal to be in this situation is not entanglement," said Schofield.
Each year, NOAA receives on average less than ten reports of stranded whales in Hawaii.
"It is calfing season for humpback whales. We see a certain number failing to thrive. This is nature," said Schofield. | <urn:uuid:3ce28b82-f081-45c3-b1b9-41eb161e3cd5> | 2013-05-27T02:57:11Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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DENVER (AP) - A Fox News Channel reporter will fight any attempt to force her to reveal her sources for a story about Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes, the reporter's lawyer said in a letter made public Thursday.
Holmes' attorneys are trying to force reporter Jana Winter to disclose her sources for the story, which described the contents of notebook that Holmes sent to a psychiatrist. Winter's story cited unidentified law-enforcement officials.
Also Thursday, Holmes' lawyers disputed a claim by Winter's attorney that they had made no attempt to contact Fox. Holmes' lawyers said they made numerous attempts.
Holmes' lawyers say whoever told Winter about the notebook violated a gag order imposed by Judge William Sylvester, and they want Sylvester to punish the person responsible.
Holmes is charged with multiple counts of murder and attempted murder in the July 20 shootings, which left 12 dead and 70 injured.
After numerous investigators testified under oath that they did not speak to Winter, Holmes' lawyers said they wanted to subpoena Winter to force her to identify her sources.
Winter's lawyer, Dori Ann Hanswirth, said in a Jan. 29 letter to Holmes' attorneys that shield laws in New York and Colorado protect Winter from demands to reveal her sources.
"We urge the defense to abandon its pursuit of testimony from Ms. Winter," the letter said.
Hanswirth sent a copy of the letter to prosecutors, who submitted it to the judge in a motion.
Predicting the outcome of attempts to learn the identity of unnamed sources is difficult because the facts vary from case to case, said Gregg Leslie, legal defense director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
"This case has been particularly troublesome because there has been a reflexive move to seal everything," Leslie said. "You often see your biggest leaks when there's too much of an attempt to clamp down on things."
Hanswirth's letter accused Holmes' lawyers of misleading the judge when they said in a court document they had tried to contact Fox News.
Hanswirth's wrote that there had been no such attempt. She called the assertion a "misrepresentation" and "highly inappropriate" and demanded an explanation.
Holmes' lawyers filed a motion Thursday insisting they had made about 24 attempts to reach Winter, Fox or the network's legal department.
Neither Hanswirth nor Fox responded immediately to requests for comment.
Follow Dan Elliott at http://twitter.com/DanElliottAP
(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
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See George Washington's home through a dog's eyes.
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LONDON (AP) -- A novelist, a duchess and a tabloid newspaper have ignited an explosive debate in Britain: Is it all right to criticize a pregnant Kate?
The Daily Mail on Tuesday ran a front-page broadside against two-time Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel for what it called her "venomous attack" on the former Kate Middleton, now the Duchess of Cambridge.
Within hours, the Internet was ablaze. Prime Minister David Cameron joined in the criticism of Mantel while others rushed to her defense.
In a speech earlier this month, the writer had characterized the 31-year-old wife of Prince William as "a jointed doll on which certain rags were hung ... a shop-window mannequin, with no personality of her own."
Mantel said that Kate, as a royal consort, "appeared to have been designed by committee and built by craftsmen, with a perfect plastic smile and the spindles of her limbs hand-turned and gloss-varnished."
Mantel's speech, made at the British Museum and reprinted this week in the London Review of Books, was about the British public's complex relationship with royalty over the centuries -- a relationship both symbiotic and voyeuristic.
The speech looked at the way the public and the press both glorify and destroy royals, from Anne Boleyn to Princess Diana, casting them in roles and stories in which "adulation can swing to persecution, within hours."
But for the Daily Mail, this became "an astonishing and venomous attack on the Duchess of Cambridge."
The newspaper's front page juxtaposed pictures of the author and the duchess alongside the front-page headline: "A plastic princess designed to breed."
It quoted Mantel's speech at length, although it did not note that the 60-year-old author was describing what she saw as a view of Kate constructed by the press and public opinion.
Online reaction was divided, with some defending Mantel's words as provocative and thoughtful and others calling them hurtful.
Cameron -- on a trip to India -- said Mantel's comments were "completely misguided and completely wrong."
Claudia Joseph, author of "Kate: The Making of a Princess," said it was unfair to describe Kate as lacking in personality. Joseph said the duchess was instead someone who "has learned to keep her feelings hidden and private."
"The reason William chose Kate is because she is discreet and doesn't show her feelings in public," Joseph said. "That doesn't mean she has no feelings."
Others argued that Mantel's real target was not Kate but the press. On the Daily Telegraph website, journalist Catherine Scott said Mantel's speech was "an attack on how some parts of the media canonize royal women ... while also rendering them voiceless and purposeless."
The royal couple's office declined to comment, while a call placed with Mantel's agent after business hours went unanswered.
Meanwhile, large numbers of journalists and photographers were on hand Tuesday to watch the duchess as she visited a center for recovering addicts. It was one of her first public appearances since announcing in December that she was pregnant. News reports commented on the duchess's baby bump, gestures, demeanor and Max Mara dress.
Mantel won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2009 for "Wolf Hall" and in 2012 for "Bring Up the Bodies," novels set at the court of King Henry VIII and centered on the king's search for a queen who will give him a male heir.
Her speech touched on royal figures from Henry's wife Anne Boleyn to Kate.
Mantel said Diana "passed through trials, through ordeals at the world's hands." She said Diana's younger son, the 28-year-old Prince Harry, "doesn't know which he is, a person or a prince" -- a confusion Harry himself recently remarked on.
And Kate, whose first child is due in July, finds herself cast by the press as someone whose "only point and purpose (is) to give birth," the author said.
Of the U.K.'s royal family, Mantel said: "However airy the enclosure they inhabit, it's still a cage."
Mantel ended her speech -- ironically, given the media furor now -- with a plea for us all "to back off and not be brutes."
London Review of Books: www.lrb.co.uk
Jill Lawless can be reached at http://Twitter.com/JillLawless
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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A huge choir gathers in Russia to sing for a world record.
Vegas's Neon Museum offers night tours of nightlife icons.
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I am not currently seeking employment, but this is the most recent version of the resume I'd be using if I were.
I have over 10 years experience in the field of software engineering. My experience ranges from video games to on-orbit spacecraft software. My primary expertise is with C and C++, though I've also worked with HTML, Java, Pascal, Basic, and FORTRAN. Systems experience includes UNIX, 3DO, VxWorks, Sony Playstation, Macintosh, 80386 embedded systems work, and the PDOS real-time operating system. I am known for writing highly readable code; my former boss Lawrence Schick once described the Icebreaker source code as "the most well documented code I've ever seen in my 13 years in the computer game industry." I am also a game designer, writer, photographer, and cartoonist.
Looney Laboratories (1996-Present): As the creative director for Looney Labs, a new product development studio, I designed and drew the artwork for a series of gift products, ranging from an intricately detailed calendar T-shirt to family games including Fluxx, Aquarius, and Proton. I also built and continue to maintain an extensive, content-rich website (www.wunderland.com), complete with an internet storefront and a weekly webzine.
TSI TelSys (1996-1998): I spent two years working as a free-lance consultant on various part-time, short term projects at TSI TelSys, doing embedded systems programming for their vxWorks-based telemetry workstations, as well as some graphical applications work in Java.
Magnet Interactive Studios (1994 - 1996): In addition to creating the video game Icebreaker and serving as its game designer, I wrote virtually all of the software for the original 3DO version by myself (excluding only some ancillary functions), amounting to roughly 20,000 lines of code in C++. I later provided technical assistance for the Windows and Macintosh porting efforts. (After Icebreaker, I became the game designer for Incredible Idiots in Space, until that project was shelved.)
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Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Jiyai Shin took home her 11th LPGA title
at the Women's Australian Open to move up two spots to No. 6 in this week's
women's world rankings.
Yani Tseng finished in second place at the event and remains at No. 1, while
Na Yeon Choi, Stacy Lewis, Inbee Park and Shanshan Feng also held firm in
their positions to sit second through fifth, respectively.
Following Shin is Suzann Pettersen in seventh and So Yeon Ryu, who dropped two
spots to fall to eighth.
Ai Miyazato, Mike Miyazato, Cristie Kerr, Karrie Webb, Paula Creamer, Catriona
Matthew and Sun Ju Ahn held firm in their positions from ninth through 15th.
Amy Yang replaced Azahara Munoz in 16th as Munoz fell to 17th, and the rest of
the top 20 was unchanged with Brittany Lincicome followed by Angela Stanford
and Chie Arimura.
Lydia Ko, a 15-year-old amateur, followed her victory at the ISPS Handa NZ
Women's Open with a third-place finish at the Australian Open to move up four
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At least 55 people were killed and scores more wounded when bombs exploded across Iraq on Tuesday, a stark reminder of the violence and instability that grips the country 10 years after the start of the U.S.-led war.
The attacks -- 17 car bombs, seven roadside bombs, and two shootings -- ripped mostly through Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad, but also struck Sunni communities in other towns. At least 187 people were wounded.
The level of carnage has dropped considerably since the height of the sectarian violence in 2006 and 2007 that nearly tore Iraq apart. But the continuing violence serves as a near daily reminder of the violence poses to the fragile political and economic gains in a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq.
It's the second time in less than a week that the Iraqi capital has endured major simultaneous attacks.
Ten years on, the war left more than 134,000 Iraqis and more than 4,800 U.S. and other coalition service members dead. The war cost hundreds of billions of dollars.
"It remains entrenched and pervasive, with a clear beginning but no foreseeable end, and very much a part of the present in Iraq," said Iraq Body Count, a UK-based group that tracks war deaths.
"In major regions of the country armed violence continues to exact a remorseless toll on human life, young and old, male and female, across society."
In Tuesday's violence, car bombs rocked Baghdad neighborhoods long engulfed in conflict, like Shulaa and Kadhimiya. They struck Mustansiriya University in eastern Baghdad and the fortified International Zone, also known as the Green Zone, where the city's international presence is concentrated. They hit cities north and south of the capital as well. Authorities defused four car bombs in the southern city of Basra.
Attackers set off roadside bombs, another potent weapon for Iraqi insurgents and a defining symbol of the war. One of those bombs rattled Baghdad's teeming Shiite slum of Sadr City.
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Have you ever been sitting around wondering exactly
who ranks in the top 10 in doubles in a single season in
Yankee history? Maybe, you're wondering what
player had the most hits in a single season during the
70s (Thurman Munson - 190 in 1975.) Well, I have wondered some of those
things, so I put together this page in case anyone else
was also wondering.
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Sorry! We searched oodles of recipes and couldn’t find a recipe for fruit butter missouri.
Let's take another bite at the cherry.
Or, try some of our most popular recipes below.
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We've traveled through the heartland to examine iconic regional barbecue styles, but the birthplace of this nation's smoky tradition lies in South Carolina. In a marriage of the perfect meat with the perfect cooking process, Spanish explorers and their European pigs traveled here in the 17th century and happened upon the American Indians and their slow cooking method with smoke. Long before the region gained the name it boasts today, people were enjoying tender pork thanks to this merging of cultural traditions.
The barbecue developed in South Carolina is not unlike that of its Northern counterpart — with one key difference. Like North Carolinian barbecue, the smoked meat on the coast (the "Pee Dee" region) uses the whole hog with a spicy, vinegary sauce applied during cooking. And in the western part of the state along the Savannah River, the sauce integrates ketchup while the meat of choice is the moister, fattier shoulder. But travel to the Midlands, and you'll come across Carolina gold: a mustard-based sauce traced to early German settlers in the 18th century. South Carolina is perhaps best known for this contribution to barbecue culture, as no other state has adopted mustard sauces with the same fervor.
Have you tried South Carolina-style barbecue and its famed mustard sauce? What did you think?
Take the tour of America's other iconic barbecue regions: | <urn:uuid:544efa08-280c-400e-bbcc-d98ddf608a52> | 2013-05-26T09:43:03Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Wonderful garden statue of a young monk joyfully releasing a fish into the river. Witnessing this act of kindness brings out our own compassion...and adds the perfect touch for pond or rock garden.
This practice of loving kindness known as Metta, or "May all Beings be Free" is a way of consciously activating the energy of loving kindness. An example of this practice follows:
May I be filled with loving kindness.
May I be peaceful and at ease.
May I be happy.
May I be well.
May I be safe and protected.
May I be free in this liftetime, just as it is.
May you be filled with loving kindness.
May you be peaceful and at ease.
May you be happy.
May you be well.
May you be safe and protected.
May you be free in this liftetime, just as it is.
Say it first for oneself, then for specific people, and then for all beings.
Statue cast in high-quality resin with a rust patina.
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Develop and Manage Channel Partner Programs to Meet Evolving Customer Needs
Market conditions in the high-tech, telecommunications, industrial products, energy, medical products and other B2B sectors are constantly evolving. Customers demand greater value, complete solutions and customized buying experiences, and will switch suppliers and channels if their goals are not met. B2B companies need a comprehensive channel strategy to determine the types of alliances and channel partners required to meet these demands.
Organizations in the early stages of channel strategy development need to address fundamental questions such as which customer segments to cover and how to assess and develop an effective network of channel partners. Even after establishing partner programs, organizations need to address ongoing issues:
- How do our partnership requirements need to change as our solutions portfolio evolves?
- Which partner program benefits are having an impact and which ones are not? Where should we increase our investment and which areas need redirection?
- How should we segment our partners and determine the program benefits we offer to each segment?
- How can we improve visibility into partner performance and enable effective decision making?
- How should we develop channel sales and marketing offers and campaigns? | <urn:uuid:7530d9b5-bb7a-418c-b061-5088911b3dcb> | 2013-05-26T09:41:16Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Camminando all'indietro, sulle mani, saltando, con trampoli o in altri modi - Walking backwards, jumping, or with stilts or other devices......
Angelo - Angelo Corsaro of Catania Italy stilt walks 558
miles to the Vatican, where the Pope granted him an audience. "A
total of 558 miles, February 13, 1958.
Angelo Corsaro ha camminato sui trampoli da Catania a Roma, dove è stato ricevuto dal Papa, nel 1958.
Sylvain - In 1891 Sylvain Dornon stilt walked from Paris to
Moscow via Vilno (1830 miles) in either 50 stages (36.6 miles a day) or 58
days (31.55 miles a day).
Nel 1891 Sylvain Dornon camminò sui trampoli da Parigi a Mosca, in 58 giorni.
|Durney - Campion ball walker. Dublin to Belfast, 150 miles.|
- Panama Exposition to New York walking backwards.
Harmon ha camminato all'indietro (con accompagnatore) dalla Panama Exposition a New York.
Johann - J.H. was an austrian man who walked on his
hands from Paris to Wien in 1900. Hurlinger walked on his hands 10
hours a day for 55 days. He averaged 1.58 miles per hour and traversed 870
Johann Hurlinger percorse il tragitto Parigi-Vienna in 55 giorni, camminando sulle proprie mani.
"Hi Jack" France - "Nationally known
advertiser" walks all over the United States on stilts. Over
30 years a National Advertiser, and hiked 55,000 miles along highways -
thru U. S.A. - delivering messages for friends, relatives and officials
along routes on stilts. He walked from Hollywood, California,
to New York City, Atlantic City and return- a 10,000 mile hike. http://stiltwalker.com/history.htm
Hi Jack Redmond, percorse sui trampoli, in oltre 30 anni,55.000 miglia sulle strade d'America, realizzando anche una traversata diretta "coast to coast", nel periodo tra inizio '900 e gli anni '30. Guadagnava "indossando" messaggi pubblicitari. Vedi: http://stiltwalker.com/history.htm
C. - He walked from Amsterdam to Marsiglia jumping. He
travel for 1500 km. with 1,500,00 jumps. he started from Amsterdam in
1923, November 12, and arrived in Marseille in 1925, February 12.
Takkenberg viaggiò da Amsterdam a Marsiglia, 1500 chilometri, a salti, saltando per circa 1.500.000 volte.
F. E. - Walking On Stilts from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to
Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, California, in 1917.
F.E.Wilvert ha camminato sui trampoli da Harrisburg, in Pennsylvania, a San Francisco, in California, in occasione della Esposizione Panama-Pacific del 1917.
Plennie L. - Wingo walked backwards from Santa Monica
(California) to Istanbul (Turkey) (about 13,000 km/8,000 miles) from
15 April 1931 to 24 October 1932.
From St. James Leader, June 4, 1931:
"Plennie L. Wingo, a man walking around the world backwards, stopped in St. James long enough to get some new toe taps for his shoes. This was the 4th pair he had wore out.
He started from Fort Worth, Texas, April 15th, and has been walking ever since. He wears periscopic eyeglasses, fastened over his ears like regular spectacles, which enables him to see where he is walking. He will continue on 66 to St. Louis then on hi-way 40 to New York where he will secure passage to Europe. Wingo expects to complete the trip in about four years. He depends entirely on the sale of postcards for his expenses. He averages about 20 miles per day."
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|Position:||Associate Head Coach|
Curtis Wilson, who was named the associate head coach prior to the start of the 2006-07 season, is in his 10th year as a member of the Yale staff. He works primarily with Yale's frontcourt players. One of his first pupils was Neil Yanke, the captain of the 2000-01 Bulldogs. As a senior, Yanke, a 6-11 center, was named second team All-Ivy after leading the team in rebounding (6.7 rpg) and blocked shots (21) and finishing second in scoring (12.5 ppg). As a junior, he led the team and was second in the Ivy League in rebounding (7.7 rpg) and led the team in blocks with 43, which was third in the conference. After graduating, Yanke signed a free agent contract with the Los Angeles Lakers. Wilson also worked with Dominck Martin '06. Martin finished his career third in Yale history in career field goal percentage (.568) and sixth in career blocked shots (69). As a senior, he earned first team All-Ivy honors after leading the Bulldogs in scoring (13.7 ppg.) and rebounding (7.1 rpg.). He also was named the Ivy League Most Valuable Player by CollegeInsider.com and led the Ivy League in field goal percentage and was fourth in scoring and rebounding. Martin is currently playing professionally in Spain with Real Madrid. Wilson has played a key role in the turnaround of the Yale basketball program. In 2001-02, the Bulldogs won their first Ivy League title since 1962-63 and earned the first postseason tournament victory in the 107-year history of Yale basketball. The team won 21 games, the second most in the modern era of Yale basketball, and reached the second round of the National Invitation Tournament. The Bulldogs have had a .500 or better record in league play in each of the last six years, which hasn't happened at Yale since the official start of Ivy play in 1956-57. Prior to coming to Yale, Wilson spent five years as an assistant to Tom Brennan at Vermont. He also was an assistant for three years at Adelphi. In 1994, Wilson helped guide Adelphi to the Division II ECAC championship. A 1991 graduate of Adelphi, Wilson remains fifth all-time on the Adelphi scoring list with 1,531 career points. A four-time basketball letterwinner and co-captain of the team for three years, he was a New York City Athletic Conference All-Star, winner of the team's Sportsmanship Award as a senior and the Most Valuable Player Award as a sophomore. Wilson received his bachelor's degree in business administration and finance and earned a master's degree in sports management from Adelphi in August, 1994. In the spring of 2001, Wilson was inducted into the Adelphi Athletic Hall of Fame. He resides in Hamden with his wife, Heather, and daughters Aysia, Leigha and Tiffini. | <urn:uuid:1c501275-5d2c-449e-a026-4fd4e4afea8b> | 2013-05-26T09:36:35Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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100 Years of Oreo’s.
Founded on March 6, 1912, the Oreo complete 100 years now. The Kraft launched a campaign to commemorate the date, and show how the cookie / cracker rescues the child within each one.
Created by Draftfcb New York, the initiative will include TV films - the first premiered today - plus a series of print ads that portray events that took place in the last century. (via Brainstorm) | <urn:uuid:ba10954a-fdd2-463e-9088-155cab4dd53c> | 2013-05-26T09:42:23Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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List of Stories by Author
this section of the ZambalesForum (ZF) sari-sari store, you will find
articles, short stories, and anecdotes about the cultural traditions of
the Filipinos irrespective of region. While the distinctiveness of the
cultures that make up the larger Christian and the minority non-Christian
Philippine society is apparent, many similarities do exist as to group
them together as belonging to one single tradition. Many of today's
Filipino cultural practices are a product of a blending of Malay and
European traits- a reflection of its roots and the people's subsequent
experiences, both the good and the bad, through hundreds of years of
foreign colonization. However, despite the prominence of European
institutional precepts in popular social life- the celebration of the
"barrio fiesta" that honors local patron saints or observing
"Angelus" at the strike of six o'clock in the evening, for
instance- local interpretations, beliefs and rituals have allowed
pre-Christian practices to flourish. In barrio Salaza (Palauig, Zambales),
a housewife is well-advised to utter the phrase, "bari-bari",
before throwing the evening's dish wash out of the kitchen window in
deference to the roaming creatures that go bump in the night.
"Then I saw my mother's familiar back. She was following the
plow, her skirt tucked between her legs. Suddenly I knew what Leon had felt that
day he came home, running suddenly to take the plow from my father. I started
running across the fields and leaping over ditches, shouting and calling
frantically: "Mother! Mother! Mother!"
My mother stopped the carabao and looked toward me. The sun was falling directly upon her face, and she raised her hand to protect her eyes from the strong morning light. When she recognized me, she tied the rope to the handle of the plow, as my father used to do, and waited for me.
"Have you come home, son?" she said. And that was all she could say. Her mouth began to tremble with joy and sorrow were always one and the same. Suddenly, she grabbed me affectionately and wept, murmuring: "We are poor people, son. We are poor people, son."
I brushed back the tears from my eyes. I tried to laugh in order not to cry. Gently I pushed my mother out of the way and took the rope from her.
"Go home, Mother," I said. "I will finish this piece for you." "Don't work the animal too hard," she said.
"I won't," I said. I watched her go away, a little peasant woman who carried the world on her shoulders. Then I flipped the rope gently across the carabao's back and the animal moved obediently and expertly along the deep furrows." - Carlos Bulosan, "America is in the Heart", ©1943.
Salaza, Palauig, Zambales
ZambalesForum (ZF) owner-moderator
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Zambales Mangoes picture courtesy of Roland Reyes
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This very beautiful photo was taken by my brother (Nikon Coolpix L310), and after receiving the authorization, i want to share it with you. This landscape is found of course in Greece, more specific in Sounio, and this is the ruins of the ancient temple of Poseidon. Sounio is the acroterion, which is located at the southern most of Attica. The coast is rocky and steep. Sounio is known because of its important geographical position, but also because of this ancient temple. In recent years, the place was declared a national park because of it's environmental value.
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