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The following is a copy of an article written by Spanish writer Sebastian Vilar Rodriguez and published in a Spanish newspaper on Jan. 15, 2008. It doesn't take much imagination to extrapolate the message to the rest of Europe - and possibly to the rest of the world. REMEMBER AS YOU READ -- IT WAS IN A SPANISH PAPER.
By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez
I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible truth - Europe died in Auschwitz. We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.
The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned.
And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.
They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime.
Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts.
And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition.
We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.
What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe ...
The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000; that is ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world's population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
1988 - Najib Mahfooz
1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1990 - Elias James Corey
1994 - Yaser Arafat:
1999 - Ahmed Zewai
Physics: (zero)
1960 - Peter Brian Medawar
1998 - Ferid Mourad
The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000; that is FOURTEEN MILLION or about 0.02% of the world's population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
1910 - Paul Heyse
1927 - Henri Bergson
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1976 - Saul Bellow
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 - Elias Canetti
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1991 - Nadine Gordimer World
1911 - Alfred Fried
1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1968 - Rene Cassin
1973 - Henry Kissinger
1978 - Menachem Begin
1986 - Elie Wiesel
1994 - Shimon Peres
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin
1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1921 - Albert Einstein
1922 - Niels Bohr
1925 - James Franck
1925 - Gustav Hertz
1943 - Gustav Stern
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 - Felix Bloch
1954 - Max Born
1958 - Igor Tamm
1959 - Emilio Segre
1960 - Donald A. Glaser
1961 - Robert Hofstadter
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
1965 - Julian Schwinger
1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
1971 - Dennis Gabor
1972 - William Howard Stein
1973 - Brian David Josephson
1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
1976 - Burton Richter
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
1978 - Peter L Kapitza
1979 - Stephen Weinberg
1979 - Sheldon Glashow
1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 - Robert Huber
1988 - Leon Lederman
1988 - Melvin Schwartz
1988 - Jack Steinberger
1989 - Sidney Altman
1990 - Jerome Friedman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
1995 - Martin Perl
2000 - Alan J. Heeger
1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 - Simon Kuznets
1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
1976 - Milton Friedman
1978 - Herbert A. Simon
1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 - Franco Modigliani
1987 - Robert M. Solow
1990 - Harry Markowitz
1990 - Merton Miller
1992 - Gary Becker
1993 - Robert Fogel
1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
1908 - Paul Erlich
1914 - Robert Barany
1922 - Otto Meyerhof
1930 - Karl Landsteiner
1931 - Otto Warburg
1936 - Otto Loewi
1944 - Joseph Erlanger
1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman
1953 - Hans Krebs
1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 - Joshua Lederberg
1959 - Arthur Kornberg
1964 - Konrad Bloch
1965 - Francois Jacob
1965 - Andre Lwoff
1967 - George Wald
1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969 - Salvador Luria
1970 - Julius Axelrod
1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 - Howard Martin Temin
1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow
1978 - Daniel Nathans
1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
1984 - Cesar Milstein
1985 - Michael Stuart Brown
1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein
1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
1988 - Gertrude Elion
1989 - Harold Varmus
1991 - Erwin Neher
1991 - Bert Sakmann
1993 - Richard J. Roberts
1993 - Phillip Sharp
1994 - Alfred Gilman
1995 - Edward B. Lewis
1996- Lu RoseIacovino
TOTAL: 129! (The updated list boasts 181 Jews.)
% Jewish
100% CA Senators 1996 17% Nobel Physiology and Medicine
85% College age Jews in college 16% Time Most Important 25
76% Most influential intellectuals
(Alan Dershowitz) 15% MacArthur "Genius" Awards 1981-97
60% Yale Grad students 15% Time 20 20th Century Inventors
60% Top Hollywood positions
(60 min) 15% USA Today College Academic Team
40% Lawyers at best NY and DC law firms 14% Clinton Cabinet 1997
20-30% Westinghouse Science Prize 11% Nobel Physics Prize
30% Faculty at elite colleges 10% Pulitzer 1997
30% Supreme Court Law Clerks 10% US Senate
27% Ivy League Survey 10% US college faculty
26% US Law Professors
(Volokh UCLA) 7.7% Corporate Boards
25% ACM Turing Award 7% Forbes HiTech 100 1997
23% Wealthiest Americans 3.0% US Voters 1996
23% Top 100 wealthy Canadians 2.0% US Population
17% Boston Symphony Strings 0.25% World Population
The Jews are NOT promoting brainwashing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non Muslims. The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow themselves up in German restaurants. There is NOT one single Jew who has destroyed a church.
The Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels.
Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems.
Muslims must ask 'what can they do for humankind' before they demand that humankind respects them.
Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel's part, the following two sentences really say it all:
'If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel ." Benjamin Netanyahu
General Eisenhower warned us. It is a matter of history that when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.
He did this because he said in words to this effect:
'Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened'
Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offends' the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it.
It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. In memory of the, 6 million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians, and 1,900 Catholic priests who were 'murdered, raped, burned, starved, beaten, experimented on and humiliated' while the German people looked the other way.
Now, more than ever, with Iran , among others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.
How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center 'NEVER HAPPENED' because it offends some Muslim in the United States?
32 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Those were the old-style Jews. No new awards. No money in primary research.
- 7:20 PM, January 19, 2011
- harvey said...
What, exactly, do the left-wing see in the arabs? The liberals like to think of themselves as modern, compassionate, and freethinkers; why then are they attracted to the arab population, who are primitive, third-world, brutal and jihadist, and fanatical to a dangerous degree?
Jews are extremely smart and talented; its such a shame that they have orginazations and cults which quash it.
- 7:43 PM, January 19, 2011
- Troppenstein's monster said...
Was it the Vaad Harabbonim of Toronto who was dumb enough to be magayer this fraudster? We have enough homeboys without any need for imports.
The convicted fraudster figured he could con the court, as he's conned so many others, into stopping his online nemesis from warning other potential clients about his shady past.
Craig Hutchens, aka Sandy Hutchens, Fred Hayes, Moishe Alexander & Moishe Ben Avraham wanted Brent Hillier silenced and for almost 2 years has used the courts to do his dirty work.
But in a stunning decision this week, Ontario superior court Justice Carolyn Horkins rebuked Hutchens for misusing the justice system.
She overturned a lower court injunction & gave Hillier full reign to continue posting his scathing warnings comparing him to Bernie Madoff until a defamation lawsuit is decided.
For Hillier, it was a relief. "I'm just trying to continue to expose him," he said.
Hutchens is a notorious mortgage lender convicted on 4 counts of fraud & one of trafficking a controlled substance.
With a character reference from his rabbi — the Baptist-raised 51-year-old converted to Orthodox Judaism during his court ordeal — he managed to score a sentence of 2 years house arrest in his comfortable Thornhill home & was soon back in business as head of Canadian Funding Corp.
But allegations he was operating a mortgage fraud continued — from exposes by the Sun to lawsuits in Florida & Colorado.
The convicted conman launched a defamation action against scam.com & won an interim injunction against the website posting "derogatory statements".
The outrageous order went further — allowing Hutchens to enter scam.com offices & search for IP addresses of 4 anonymous posters allegedly libelling him.
Hutchens had OPP officers bang on his door & demand his computer — which Horkins slammed as "ridiculous use of police resources," and "gross misuse" of the court order.
"For years Hutchens has improperly used the courts to be his sword to defeat people who had every right to speak their mind," said Hillier's lawyer, Brian Shiller.
"It was a gross miscarriage of justice that was finally corrected after my client spent $10,000s to defend himself from a man who has victims littered all across North America."
So, look out Moishe Alexander or whatever your current name is.
- 10:27 AM, January 20, 2011
- itchiemayer said...
How current is that list of Nobel Prize winners? If it is reasonably current, then our light is dimming....I hope it's ten years old.
- 2:44 PM, January 20, 2011
- Anonymous said...
The ggod side of Klal Yisroel..........
The entire Lakewood Orthodox community came out to pay their last respects to Officer Chris Matlosz, who was shot in the line of duty last Friday evening.
What a tremendous Kidush Hashem!
- 3:35 PM, January 20, 2011
- "UOJ" - "The Un-Orthodox Jew" said...
We are a blessed people, we must do everything humanly possible to assure that we don't destroy ourselves!
- 4:24 PM, January 20, 2011
- Anonymous said...
Mi Ke'Amcha Yisroel!!
Lakewood, kudos to you!
- 5:33 PM, January 20, 2011
- "UOJ" - "The Un-Orthodox Jew" said...
The percentages of Jews are mind-blowing!
- 6:10 PM, January 20, 2011
- "UOJ" - "The Un-Orthodox Jew" said...
PLEASE let's NOT destroy ourselves!
- 6:12 PM, January 20, 2011
- "UOJ" - "The Un-Orthodox Jew" said...
The updated Nobel prize winners list boasts 181 Jews.
- 6:26 PM, January 20, 2011
- Anonymous said...
Even Olivia Newton John's grandpa was a Nobel-prized Jewish physicist.
- 12:24 AM, January 21, 2011
- Anonymous said...
I watched those videos of the funeral in Lakewood on the Scoop and I cried. Lakewood, you are very special!
RIP Chris
- 11:27 AM, January 21, 2011
- Boor-o Park said...
Check out this bizarre shoplifting incident with a Bucharian putz in Landau's supermarket.
- 11:31 AM, January 21, 2011
- Anonymous said...
The Lakewood Police Department was brought to tears when the turned down Monmouth and saw the thousands of Yeshivaleit lining the street.
- 1:29 PM, January 21, 2011
- Boruch said...
Not to throw a bucket of cold water on this Spainard - but he left out the Inquistion and the Expulsion, didn't he? The pot can't call the kettle black all the time and think that the rest of the world will ignore it. Spain's Roman Catholics and Moslem Moors are still going at it. Neither side is in love with Jews.
The politicization of the Nobel Prize will reconcile the numbers over the course of time. The farce of giving Yassir Arafat the peace prize sent Alfred spinning in his grave, no doubt. Regarding Eisenhower, he was appalled and aghast that humanity could reach such depths. His own staff wanted a coverup and to his credit, he did the opposite.
Denial of the Holocaust is just a continuation of the Holocaust. They can't gas us or line us up so they delegitamize a tragedy or claim that they've undergone equivalent atrocities. Still hear, in my own mind, the pot calling the kettle black.
- 9:38 PM, January 22, 2011
- evanstonjew said...
I see two Orthodox names, the very heimisher yid Shmuel Yosef Agnon, and a winner of the Wolf Prize in mathematics Harry Furstenberg, a graduate of YU. Hopefully there are a few more, but there certainly aren't many. There are also a few people like Wiesel and I.B. Singer who are closely connected to Jewish life. With 14 million Jews in the world and around 2 million Orthodox (14%)it is clear that the with a few exceptions these prizes are going to non-Orthodox Jews. This can be interpreted in different ways. Here's one...assuming Orthodoxy is more or less unchanging, and great intellectual achievements are important, the only way to have both is to give a new spin to Yissachar and Zevulun.
My other observation is that the ratios we see here are pretty much the same when we look at Jews of great accomplishment across the board, the arts, Hollywood, the theater, hi tech start ups, philosophers...you name it. The only possible exception are great entrepreneurs. If we understood why, maybe something could be done? Torah u Madah as a motivator is yielding results that favor the safe and secure. It's an important topic.
- 1:39 PM, January 23, 2011
- Archie Bunker said...
UOJ's Jewish Nobel laureate list is incomplete. There are other MOTs who won the prize including the orthodox Jew Robert (Yisrael) Aumann in economics in 2005.
- 10:17 PM, January 23, 2011
- Kranc Iz Er ("sick is he" in Yiddish) said...
The tale of Gershon Kranczer, the Krancer aka Kranc-iz-er, 16
This is so wonderful, is what Kranczer the "incestuous 'rabbi'" is thinking right now. It's been two months and no one knows where he or his son are hiding out. Nothing, nada, is known about their current whereabouts and nothing, nada is being said about them either.
So what, you might ask, are their da'as Toireh rabbis who backed Kranczer up to lately, like Aron Schechter and Leizer Ginzburg?
Well, they are making the most of rolling in the aura of the late righteous person Yossi Pressburger z"l who died tragically at the age of 48 while on a business trip to Detroit, Michigan. No mention of their deep and unquestioning support of Kranczer the incestuous creep.
Especially heinous and disgusting is the role of the USA Yated newspaper that has totally ignored the Kranczer incest scandal, even though, FOR TWO DECADES the Yated was THE paper in which Kranczer advertised the "services" of his batty Yeshiva Tehila (better: Bechiya) LeDovid for frum boys with leaning disabilities who nebech had nowhere else to turn, and the Yated was the main means through which Kranczer not only recruited boys, but gained respectability in the Agudah crowd that the Yated caters to, and thereby was able to raise funds, charge hefty tuitions, get the respect reserved for a big rov and rosh yeshiva which he brutally betrayed.
But the Yated has neither apologized for foisting and promoting an immoral degenerate scumbag like Kranczer, and not said a word about the scandal that burned its way across all the main secular papers, including the NYT: "Former Yeshiva Principal Sought on Abuse Charges" (Dec 3, 2010), WSJ: "Father, Sons Face Sex-Abuse Claims" (Dec 4 2010), NYP; "NYPD hunting B'klyn dad & sons who abused women in their family" (Dec 4, 2010), NYDN: "Brooklyn Rabbi Gershon Kranczer and sons accused of sexually abusing relatives, young girls: police", and more...
- 7:06 AM, January 24, 2011
- Kranc Iz Er ("sick is he" in Yiddish) said...
The tale of Gershon Kranczer, the Krancer aka Kranc-iz-er, 17
The Yated has done the opposite, instead of issuing calls for identifying Kranczer and his equally degenerate son Osher Anshil hiding out better than Bin laden in caves in some place in Israel, instead the Yated has threatened to out, unmask and reveal...no not Kranczer silly he is supported by gedoilim....but Jewish bloggers and blog owners who have the temerity to speak truth to power and accuse some gedoilim and the Yated and its gang of supporters of enabling and covering up for child molesters and sex abusers in the Haredi communities it seeks to gloss over with its weekly barrage of Pravda-like propaganda also mirrored on its proxy news blog Matzav.com.
So while the Yated and Matzav.com attack honest people like Harry Maryles and openly threaten to seek out and name and destroy Jewish blogs and blogs that do not share the Yated gang's twisted point of view of covering up for gedoilim, absolutely NOTHING is said about scandals in their midst and the efforts that the Yated and Matzav.com should be making to identify, locate, unmask and reveal the whereabouts and the people who are hiding a genuine corrupt criminal creep like Kranczer who is on the run from the law.
This is what is called selective justice and corruption as abetted by and practiced by the Yated AND its gedoilim, not to mention if Kranczer were ever apprehended and sentenced he would be treated as a hero and "victim" the way his fellow family incest practitioner "rabbi" Yisroel Moshe Weingarten who also ran a yeshiva is now being hailed as a "martyr" and not for the piece of scum he really is.
Such is life in the frum world nowadays.
- 7:08 AM, January 24, 2011
- Tropper is Troubled said...
How Tropper reaps some payback from the Yated's hypocrisy and about face, 1
It's not much consolation and it comes too late to save Tropper's name and career that lie in utter ruin, but the Michael Hersh case and the support Hersh gets from Aron Schechter, the head of the Chaim Berlin Yeshiva in Brooklyn, has given Tropper something to smile about, which of course means that all normal fair-minded people should be very worried.
One of Tropper's main critics is Rabbi Dr. Daniel Eidensohn who runs a blog at http://daattorah.blogspot.com/ that for years posted the truth about Tropper and his allies Tom Kaplan and Guma Aguiar (Guma later went his own way and his been fighting Tropper and Kaplan in court) as they pushed their "EJF" conversions-for-sale project that was brought down by Tropper's sexcapades posted online. Rabbi Eidensohn was supported by Rav Moshe Sternbuch in Israel as well as the full BEDATZ in Jerusalem who banned Tropper and EJF years ago.
Rav Moshe Strenbuch condemned Tropper a long time ago, all as continuously posted by Rabbi Eidensohn on his blog.
Rabbi Eidensohn has also been posting about the Michael Hersh case about the abduction by Hersh of his then 16 year old son Isaac and imprisoning him on "Tranquility Bay" on the island of Jamaica. Hersh has launched a big "legal" (?) case against anyone who helped his son over the years, including relatives, rabbis and bloggers. UOJ has been instrumental in getting the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to in counter actions against Hersh to protect bloggers rights: "EFF Urges Court to Block Dragnet Subpoenas Targeting Online Commenters" (July 14, 2010).
The case by Hersh against four "defendants" was recently dismissed: "Hersh lawsuit:Case dismissed with prejudice against most defendants" (Jan 4, 2011), but Hersh has filed an "appeal" (see next link) which then prompted Rabbi Eidensohn to post that there is a good chance that those who are being harassed by Hersh, who is supported by Aron Schechter, may now launch their own counter-case against Hersh, and the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin and its head Aron Schechter for their ongoing support of Hersh's shenanigans: "Hersh appeals dismissal of case - next step might be a countersuit involving Yeshiva Chaim Berlin! (Jan 7, 2011). Rabbi Eidensohn does not make things up on his own and as an honest broker he is privy to things not revealed yet. (Continued...)
- 8:07 AM, January 24, 2011
- Tropper is Troubled said...
How Tropper reaps some payback from the Yated's hypocrisy and about face, 2
So alarm bells have been set off in the Chaim Berlin/Agudah/Yated inner circles and they have gone on the counter-offensive by resorting to their own "fire and brimstone" slanders and bans and attacks on blogs and bloggers they deem to be a danger to their interests. The recent ban on VIN, blogger Harry Maryles, full-page ads in the Yated and Hamodiah against the Internet by the Agudah rabbis, and a recent threat in the Yated to out and name independent Jewish blogs and bloggers they hate, is part of ONE pattern and counter-push to prevent THEM from being dragged to court for various violations of human rights, democratic freedoms and constitutional principles in the USA.
It seems as part of the fall-out, the Yated was caught in a bind because about two years ago they decided to host a weekly column by Rav Moshe Strenbuch's on the weekly Parsha lessons. But last week the column was gone! it may come back because it was VERY popular, but right now it seems it has been stopped by the Yated/Agudah/Chaim Berlin mob that is angry and getting angrier as it looks for soft targets to hit out at in the spirit of "offense is always the best defense"!
As long as Rav Moshe Sternbuch's persona was confined to opposing Tropper, that was okay with Yated publisher and editor in chief Pinchos Lipschutz who lives in Monsey, New York where Tropper is based. Lipschutz knows all the dirt on Tropper and hates him, never publishing in glorifications of Tropper and barely mentioning EJF over the years. Lipschutz was long-ago instructed by his uncle Rav Elya Svei z"l to boycott anything to do with Tropper whom he caalled a "no'ef" (womanizer).
But now thanks to developments in another case Tropper gets a boost from left field, as Lipschutz has dropped AND THEREBY INSULTED IN PUBLIC A TRUE GADOL BEYISROEL Rav Moshe Sternbucha long-time Tropper critic, which brings Tropper much happiness and satisfaction that Lipschutz has had to eat his hat.
Tropper also gets to be happy because it was none other than the same Aron Schechter that always and still does prop him up as his chief "da'as Toireh" gadol-in-chief, is also backing up Hersh to the hilt and he can count on Schechter loyalty forever, in spite of all facts and proofs of Tropper's wrondoings.
So what we see here is a convergence of the Tropper and Hersh scandals and it should be very clear to the people caught in the cross-hairs of the Michael Hersh-Aron Schechter attacks, who they are being attacked by and who is attacking them, that they should take heart, toughen themselves and proceed to protect themselves by whatever legal means they can to counter-sue and proceed with full throttle legal actions against Michael Hersh-Aron Schechter-Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin who are obvioulsly involved in a "take no prisoners" onslaught and therefore the ONLY way to stop them and their immoral actions is by doing to them as they do unto you by taking them to court and making it clear that the legal bullying, threats in the Yated, bans and pronouncements, meant to intimidate and harass critics in silence WILL NOT WORK in afree and democratic society.
Chazak ve'amatz! -- and help wipe that smirk off Tropper's smarmy face!
- 8:09 AM, January 24, 2011
- Moetzes Resign! said...
Since the government took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taxpayers have spent more than $160 million defending the mortgage finance companies and their former top executives in civil lawsuits accusing them of fraud. The cost was a closely guarded secret until last week, when the companies and their regulator produced an accounting at the request of Congress.
The bulk of those expenditures — $132 million — went to defend Fannie Mae and its officials in various securities suits and government investigations into accounting irregularities that occurred years before the subprime lending crisis erupted. The legal payments show no sign of abating.
Documents reviewed by The New York Times indicate that taxpayers have paid $24.2 million to law firms defending three of Fannie's former top executives: Franklin D. Raines, its former chief executive; Timothy Howard, its former chief financial officer; and Leanne Spencer, the former controller.
- 9:17 AM, January 24, 2011
- Anonymous said...
United States, Appellee v. Israel Weingarten, Defendant-Appellant, 09-2043-cr
Decided: January 18, 2011
Weingarten & his family were members of the Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism. Weingarten & his ex-wife have 8 children, the oldest a son born shortly after their marriage in 1979, the next oldest being "Doe," a daughter
When Doe was 9 years old, Weingarten began abusing her sexually. This abuse continued for more than 6 years & worsened over time. When Doe first informed her mother that she had been abused, Weingarten beat Doe with his fists & kicked her between her legs. When Doe was 14 years old, she began to resist Weingarten's advances & threatened to tell others about the abuse. After Doe's mother entered her bedroom to find Weingarten & Doe in bed together, Doe again informed her mother of the abuse. Weingarten warned Doe that she would not be believed because of the respect in which he was held in the Satmar community, and because she would have no evidence of abuse, as he had never had intercourse with her. Doe's mother promised to confront Weingarten, but when she did, Weingarten beat Doe so severely that he would not permit her to return to school for several weeks for fear that her bruises would be seen. When Doe did return to school, she spoke with her principal about what was occurring. Eventually, a rabbi of the Belgian Satmar community brought Doe before a rabbinical court, where she testified against her father. Afterward, the rabbi arranged to have Doe sent to England to live with his daughter & attend school there. Doe remained in England for several months.
Weingarten's criminal charges covered events beginning in 1997, after Doe returned to Belgium. Upon Doe's return from England, Weingarten informed her that the family, resident in Belgium for 13 years, would be moving to Israel because of the bad name she had given them by complaining publicly about the abuse. On Apr 14, 1997, the family traveled from Belgium to Bet Shemesh, Israel. While in Bet Shemesh, Doe, then 16, was sexually abused by her father. She was not permitted to be in public alone & was required to sleep separately from the other children.
On May 13, 1997, Weingarten, his wife, Doe & her younger siblings returned to Antwerp to finish packing for Israel. Weingarten continued to sexually abuse Doe every night, often while her mother slept in the same room. The family returned to Israel where the abuse continued.
On Jul 30, 1997, Weingarten & Doe traveled from Israel to Brooklyn, NY, where Weingarten's father was ill & dying. During the visit, Weingarten sexually abused Doe at her uncle's house. After Weingarten's father died, Weingarten & Doe flew to Antwerp on Aug 19. Alone with Doe in Antwerp for a month, Weingarten sexually abused her "night & day, every day." Doe informed her father that she wanted to return to Israel. Weingarten consented, but as a condition, he required Doe to record a conversation with a male neighbor, in which she was to give the impression that she previously had seduced the neighbor. Weingarten informed Doe he planned to play the tape for rabbis in Satmar, so that they would believe his claims that she was promiscuous & he had never molested her.
Doe returned to Israel in Sept 1997. She & her mother contacted the rabbi in Belgium who had previously been involved in sending Doe to England, who then assisted Doe in returning to school there. Although Weingarten later traveled to England & confronted Doe, police intervened, she obtained a protective order against him, and no further abuse occurred. Doe remained in England, but eventually moved to NY, where she married a man from the Satmar community. The marriage lasted only a year, after which Doe abandoned her religious life, left NY, and legally changed her name.
- 10:54 AM, January 24, 2011
- "UOJ" - "The Un-Orthodox Jew" said...
EJ's point is well taken and is a reason that I encourage higher education for our children.
We well know that the vast majority of our children are not necessarily willing, able, or capable emotionally of being rabbonim, rosh yeshivas (of merit)...or disposed to living that type of life.
But they are bright to extremely bright and can excel in Torah studies and the sciences. One should encourage that path for the majority of our children.
There are potentially hundreds if not thousands of "Milton Friedmans" in our collective communities that must be encouraged to pursue the path that can contribute to shleimus for them and society.
Milton Friedman was technically "OTD" or strayed from his Orthodox upbringing; simply because his parents could not find a way to reconcile Torah studies and his genius and love for the sciences.
Today --- that is totally possible and each parent should indeed be encouraged to maximize their child's potential within the framework of Orthodox Judaism.
- 11:34 AM, January 24, 2011
- BT Archipelago said...
Was Guma("yehuda dovid kaplan")released from the mental institution where he was put by the "HoRav" Tom Kaplan family?(See "Forbes 400")
- 5:24 AM, January 25, 2011
- Guma Aguiar recovered said...
"BT Archipelago said...Was Guma("yehuda dovid kaplan")released from the mental institution where he was put by the "HoRav" Tom Kaplan family?(See "Forbes 400")"
Guma was hospitalized by his own mother Ellen Kaplan and his wife Jamie because he was acting irrationally, what's called having a "breakdown" and that he needed help to stabilize. His uncle Tom Kaplan was NOT the one who had anything to do with getting him that help, and Tom Kaplan is NOT a "rabbi" either, in fact Tom and his wife Daphne Recanati are supposedly not even religious while Guma is a sincere BT.
Seems Guma Aguiar was released a while ago (it's not exactly clear when) and returned to the USA, not known where to either, but he has been keeping a low public profile. This was noted online and there was a post about it at http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2010/11/video-guma-aguiar-talks-about-his.html : "Video: Guma Aguiar Talks About his Breakdown" (November 23, 2010) with a link to a Chabad publication that in turn links to a recent interview to an Israeli TV channel, see Video: Guma Aguiar Talks About his Breakdown from a 5 minute YouTube video "Guma Agayar Talks About Chabad" that has Guma saying he: "Feels good to be in Israel...I feel great...what happened to me last year could happen to anybody...I was under a lot of pressure... I needed some time to recover...one thing that has given me strength over the last 11 months has been Chabad and the Rebbe...if you are learning from the Rebbe how to be a better person...those things can help you deal with past tragedies that I have been through..."
- 5:45 AM, January 26, 2011
- Anonymous said...
Let's not forget John von Neumann
,probably the one of the greatest mathematician of all time whom
Ike called the USA's greatest
strategic asset. He worked on the
bomb at Los Alamos and aided
in the development of many fields
including meterology. see Wikipedia.
- 2:20 AM, February 13, 2011
- Tofu said...
Shmarya also tummeled about this hoax as if it was fact
- 8:36 AM, April 07, 2014
- Nuchem said...
- 8:41 AM, April 07, 2014
- Newly revealed said...
Horav Mendlowitz n"y,
Regarding your taynos on R' Elchonon Wasserman going down with the Baranovitcher talmidim, a rov tells me he has gone digging in archives & seen correspondence between Rav Elchonon and the Kahn family in London, and the Sassoon family regarding an idea he had in summer 1939 to transfer the whole Baranovich yeshiva to Letchworth in England where the Sassoon's had an estate. He was quite serious about the idea but WW2 broke out before they could do it.
- 6:04 PM, April 07, 2014
- UOJ said...
I would very much like to see the correspondence.
- 6:37 PM, April 07, 2014
- Newly revealed said...
The correspondence is still privately in the hands of those families. I mistakenly assumed at first that the rov had gone digging in archives. He explains that he saw the letters in the early 1970s before he left a British yeshiva to come to BMG Lakewood.
- 12:38 PM, April 09, 2014


text: The International Consumers Electronics Show 2014 kicked off, and many manufacturers already unveiled a bunch of their products. Morphie, a popular case maker, recently unveiled their latest Morphie Space Pack which does not only improves the battery life of iPhone 5/5S, but also provides users with extra storage space. The Morphie Space pack comes with a 1700 mAh battery, as well as an option to choose from 16GB or 32GB storage space. It works via lightning port on the iPhone 5/5S, and provides users with additional storage as well as doubles the battery life. The 16GB model costs $149.95 while the 32GB versions is going to set you back by $179.95. The new Space Pack is set to ship on March 14th.

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text: Nadia Tuffaha, Sr. Content Marketing ManagerNovember 26, 2018Whether your customers are avid gamers or just dabble from time to time in a mobile game, there's no escaping the gaming industry's influence as one of the largest and most popular forms of entertainment. Growing Market In fact, gaming has become one of the most lucrative entertainment industries with revenues expected to reach $137.9 billion in 2018 and more than 2.3 billion active gamers globally. Mobile gaming continues to generate the largest chunk of revenue and will grow +25.5% YOY. This year, mobile games alone will generate $70.3 billion or 51% of the global market and is expected to become a $100 billion market by 2021. Technology Backed Experience A huge component of enabling this growth is reliable interconnection that delivers games to gamers seamlessly with a high-quality user experience. No matter how brilliantly crafted a game is, it can become unplayable without the right behind-the-scenes infrastructure. Lag time and loss of connection would equate to a "game over" scenario for your users literally but also in the sense of losing them as a customer. Your game is only as good as your gaming data center and connectivity experience. The demands on bandwidth and data processing are only going to sky rocket in the coming years. The Demands of 5G Gaming is expected to be at the forefront of 5G-led innovations and will account for 90% of 5G AR data by 2028. It's expected that 5G mobile games will generate $100 billion in revenue per year by that time as well. New and improved features such as immersive, in-game virtual reality experiences with accessories like responsive haptic clothing will not only potentially propel us into a Ready Player One-like future but also make lightning-fast connectivity and low-latency critical. IT Infrastructure Considerations Experiencing lag time is extremely frustrating when trying to get to the next level of a game. It can even destroy users' loyalty to a gaming provider. In order to provide a high-quality, seamless user experience, consider the following: 1. Scale to accommodate millions of new users APAC territories are generating the highest total global game revenues, the majority of which is mobile. India has the highest estimated growth rate of smartphone users which is expected to grow 15.6% in 2018 to reach 337 million. With this expected global growth, it's important to future-proof your IT environment so you can go from 1 cabinet to multi-megawatts if need be. And depending on how popular your game becomes, you'll want your data center to be prepared to handle an increase in demand with the drop of a hat. You should never have to place restrictions on your business growth. 2. Simplify your hybrid and multi-cloud access Cloud gaming, or Gaming-as-a-Service (GaaS), is expected to expand the market on a scale not seen since the introduction of mobile gaming. So having a solid and seamless cloud strategy will be necessary. To avoid complexity, look for solutions that allow you to access multiple clouds through one, secure connection to allow for easier provisioning and higher performance. 3. Deliver a fast, consistent, and reliable user experience Enable direct and secure connectivity with your gaming ecosystem by privately connecting cloud service providers, content delivery networks, social networks, and your game partners 4. Resiliency: keep your data safe and secure Unexpected changes can happen at any time, whether it's a bad storm or a power outage, so it's critical to have dependable redundancy and disaster recovery designs in place to prevent any downtime. 5. Proximity to major markets Low latency is crucial when delivering the best gaming experience. The closer your IT infrastructure is to your end users, the better your chances are of delivering an uninterrupted and high-quality experience. By distributing your architecture closer to the edge of your population centers, gaming performance is optimized for your users. As the gaming industry continues to grow and become more data-intense, it's essential for streaming video game providers to enable growth throughout the life cycle of the game, the developer, and the provider. ShareGo to BlogTopicsData CentresInterconnectionCloudColocationSustainabilitySecurityLatest Blog PostsDon't miss these inspiring speakers at MarketplaceLIVE 2019Healthcare's Path Towards Digital Transformation3 Ways to Get Inspired at MarketplaceLIVE 2019Sign up for Blog Updates


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Republican lawmakers passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in December, with one provision requiring private colleges with an endowment greater than $500,000 per student to pay a 1.4 percent tax on annual endowment returns. Harvard is one of 35 institutions nationwide affected by the act. Administrators have estimated the University would have had to pay $44 million in taxes if the legislation had applied in fiscal year 2017.
Smith confirmed the new legislation will affect the budget of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which receives almost half of its income from the endowment.
"It will have an impact on us," Smith said. "It is taking money we could've used for academic programs, could've used for financial aid, could've used for a bunch of other things we try to accomplish here."
According to Smith, administrators are still working to understand the bill's impacts in detail. In the meantime, Smith said he plans to refrain from making "long-term commitments."
"I just don't know how big of an impact this is going to be and how badly it's going to hit us. So we're trying to do things in the short term to continue to innovate and push our programs forward," Smith said. "If you came in and asked me to commit a whole bunch of money for the next ten years, I'd say, 'Come back and talk to me in six months.'"
Other top administrators have spoken out against the bill. At a Faculty meeting on Tuesday, University President Drew G. Faust called the bill a cause for concern. She also wrote that the tax would affect the University's ability to fund financial aid in a December emailed statement.
"The provision will constrain the resources that enable us to provide the financial aid that makes college more affordable and accessible and to undertake the inquiries that yield discoveries, cures, innovation and economic growth," Faust wrote.
Provost Alan M. Garber '76 wrote in a November email to Harvard affiliates that an earlier version of the bill "would broadly reduce benefits that support higher education."
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences funds several major endeavors, like an ongoing effort to renovate the College's upperclassmen Houses, and also provides resources for Harvard's financial aid program. Recent lackluster endowment returns have constrained the division's budgets.
According to last year's FAS fiscal report, the endowment created a "larger than budgeted deficit once again." This financial shortfall was one reason FAS has decided to slow down the House Renewal Project, Smith wrote in the report.
Smith did say on Wednesday, though, that the faculty is working to ensure that current ongoing projects like House renewal won't be impacted.
"We're committed to doing House renewal," Smith said. "We're trying to figure out the best ways to make it work without doing something completely crazy that cuts into the financial aid system."
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Late in 2011, we started the process of creating our next actual play podcast. Following in the wake of our well received Victoriana series, we wanted to take on something a little larger in scope. It was decided that we would play Star Wars Saga Edition, set it in the Old Republic and make the entire story adversarial.
One year later, having just finished final cast recording, we all sat down and discussed the meta-knowledge involved in the story.
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Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Stewart Granger, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley, James Donald, James Hayter, Rosemary Harris, Paul Rogers, Noel Willman, Peter Dyneley
The 1954 MGM extravaganza "Beau Brummel" was the third making of this story, based on a play by Clyde Fitch. Can't see the name Clyde Fitch without hearing Bette Davis biting the name off in "All About Eve." Wish I'd been watching "All About Eve." MGM has given this story of the narcissistic George "Beau" Brummel and his friendship with the Prince of Wales a lavish, sumptuous color production and, if the scenery and costumes weren't enough, thrown in Elizabeth Taylor for good measure. She is, of course, rapturously beautiful as the confused Patricia, attracted to Beau but betrothed to a safer choice. Stewart Granger was a good actor, always solid and attractive, with a powerful voice, but he had a tendency to be unexciting. Also, and this is just an opinion, he did better in macho action films. One of the posters pointed out that Elizabeth Taylor was thrown in to show that Beau was heterosexual, but the poster wasn't sure. He is a bit of a fop and not suited to the talents of Granger, who is on the boring side here. The acting honors go to Peter Ustinov and Robert Morley, as the Prince of Wales and his father. These performances could be considered over the top, but they're only over the top because no one else is doing anything. The actual story is treated in a superficial manner, with not much of a look into Beau's politics or much else. Just okay. I think if you have a large flat-screen TV it would be fun to watch.


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Apple has released iOS 9 beta 4 to developers. This is the 4th developer beta since the initial iOS 9 beta was released after the WWDC keynote in early June. iOS 9 adds support for multitasking on iPad, a new Notes app, and a new improved Proactive search system.
Two weeks ago, beta 3 added support for Apple Music, Beats 1, and Apple's new News app. As with other beta releases, there were also other numerous tweaks and improvements.
Today's release comes right on schedule according to some developers. In the past, Apple has usually had a two or three week window between beta releases. This should remain true up until iOS 9 goes public right along side new iPhone App Development hardware this fall.Developers can download this beta now either through the Developer portal or on device as an over-the-air update. The update is between 300 MB and 350 MB. A new Xcode beta is also available with support for iOS 9 beta 4.


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Lorenzo E. Salazar
Bishop President
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Veteran & Missionary
Lorenzo E. Salazar (1924 – 1991) was the sixth Bishop President of the Apostolic Assembly. He is the only one to have been a veteran and the first missionary to become Bishop President. Born April 1, 1924 his mother came to the Apostolic faith at brother Nava's church when he was still young, he practically grew up in the Assembly. He left the church, but after tasting the world renounced it, and was baptized in 1944. Soon after, he served in the military during the Second World War. After his return he soon went to the missionary field in El Salvador and Nicaragua from 1951 to 1955. During his time as missionary he met and married sister Crucita Gaitán in 1953.
Revival before the King's Arrival
He served as Secretary of Missions and Bishop of the new Los Angeles District. In 1970 he would be elected Bishop President. His presidency brought stability after a decade of changes; he organized the first Pastoral retreats and legislative congresses. During his tenure, missionaries were sent to Spain and the Caribbean. Bishop Salazar was the first President to graduate with a theological degree, a Master of Divinity (M. Div.) from Fuller Theological Seminary. Lastly, he is the greatest Apostolic Assembly hymn writer after Marcial de la Cruz; among his hymns are "Fuente de Misericordia" and "Los Diez Mandamientos." He died surrounded by family on September 23, 1991 in La Mirada, California.


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Here we have the paint colours for The Boy's bedroom. The colour pendulum has swung 180〫from warm-slash-dark to cool-slash-light!
Aside from choosing paint colours, what have we done so far?
1) Lo gave the ceiling a single coat of white.
2) I sanded, primed, and painted the trim twice in your basic white. That was a job I did NOT find the joy in, I tell you. I looked for it too. But dang it, it was nowhere! Thankfully, I'm on the other side of it now so we're all good.
3) After much research, Lo installed an outlet in the closet. He had to cut through the drywall to do it but managed with minimal damage. I applied several coats of drywall mud to the area in question and sanded the Dickens out of it. You can't even tell anything was done there. Thing of beauty!
4) Patched all holes in walls with drywall mud. Sanded, dusted and washed the walls.
5) The Boy and I decided to tape off some areas of the window wall for a touch of fun. The idea being that the original red colour would show through in stripes when the tape was removed. Here's a peek at the effect...
7) I was relieved to finally cut in the actual fancy-named paint, "Beige Chanterelle" of which we applied two coats. Lo rolled it on. Unsure of it at first, I am liking it more now but still getting used to it. Thank Pete, it's about 4 million times better than red and orange.
8) I painted the closet in "Vienna Lake", a colour The Boy chose. Here's a glimpse of all the colours playing together...


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Southern Baptist Sharron Angle (& others)
Southern Baptist Sharron Angle misjudged the electorate in Nevada, and lost.
Amanda Marcotte makes a coherent argument that Angle's Mama Grizzly racism is to some conservatives an unbearable contradiction of her femininity. A deal breaker:
This contradiction exposed why it's so critical to the fundamentalist worldview that women stay at home and abandon ambition. In this world, women are supposed to be the light, the caretakers, the homemakers, those who smooth feathers and wipe brows. Aggression, meanness, ambition, and even lustiness are considered more masculine traits, even by the public at large. As Dave Weigel reports, the Republicans are beginning to feel that Sharron Angle, at least, spent too much time in the public eye. The longer the public stares at a Mama Grizzly, the more painful the contradiction between her ideals of femininity and her actual behavior.
Mark Silk makes the only slightly related argument that Angle and Christine O'Donnell would have done better if neither had been so much the culture warrior:
I would submit that Angle and O'Donnell lost not because of radical Tea Partyism but because they smelled too much of the unwanted social conservatism of yesteryear.
Who represents that social conservatism better, or better underlines the clarity of other analysts, than Angle's fellow Southern Baptist, SBC ethics czar Richard Land? His post-election analysis was first an echo of aging rightist Richard Viguerie (one more chance for the Republicans). Then, almost as though we held national referenda in this country, Land asserted a rejection of "Obamacare," a repudiation of judicial decisions with which he disagrees, a rejection of same-sex marriage and so on.
More about which, later.
What N.C. Southern Baptist fundamentalists want in an editor?
About the abrupt resignation of North Carolina Biblical Recorder Editor Norman Jameson John D. Pierce of Baptists Today writes
In 2000, Herb Hollinger retired from the helm of Baptist Press — the Southern Baptist Executive Committee public relations arm that masquerades as a legitimate news service. In a meeting shortly afterward, longtime editor of Louisiana's Baptist Message, Lynn Clayton, asked then-SBC Executive Committee President Morris Chapman what kind of person would be chosen to lead BP.
Without hesitation, Chapman responded: "Someone loyal to me and the conservative cause." While he expanded on that response, there was no mention of competence or experience, just loyalty to those looking for help in carrying out their Fundamentalist agenda. Chapman found such a person in Will Hall. North Carolina will find one too.
The public opinion future belongs to same-sex marriage advocates
The Southern Baptist Convention's LifeWay Research found in "a wide-ranging August, 2009, survey" that:
Six in 10 American "Millennials" – those born between 1980 and 1991 – see nothing wrong with two people of the same gender getting married.
That's a slam/bang majority in a nation where for all age groups public opinion analyst Nate Silver has concluded that change toward approval is accelerating and the majority view is currently "too close to call."
Silver mapped the data into an illustration which suggests, like the year-old SBC Lifeway results, that the future belongs to same-sex marriage advocates:
How 'forgiveness' becomes cover-up for church sexual predators
Christa Brown calls our attention to a story of a Southern Baptist church's negligence in dealing with a preacher's sexual abuse of his adopted children. She quotes from the Anchorage Daily News:
Church officials knew the oldest daughter, Renee, was being abused long before Diana did. One of them, according to Renee's sworn testimony, told her to forgive her father and not tell anyone what he had done. It was three years before Renee got the courage to speak up again. By then, her father had started in on her two little sisters.
You see in that horror why sexual predators regard churches as attractive environments.
For example, one predator told a researcher [.pdf]:
I considered church people easy to fool…they have a trust that comes from being Christians…They tend to be better folks all around. And they seem to want to believe in the good that exists in all people … I think they want to believe in people. And because of that, you can easily convince, with or without convincing words.
Thus forgiveness becomes cover-up, with hellish results for victims.
Oops? Again? In the case of FBC Jax Watchdog
Oops is in a way how FBC Jax Watchdog was robbed of his anonymity.
Formerly anonymous blogger Thomas A. Rich's identity was made public after an unnecessary investigation whose details are still being unearthed in court.
Although some evidence pertaining to the involvement of State Attorney Angela Corey was somehow inadvertently destroyed.
Really, and that destruction is cited as part of an argument against deposing Corey as part of the proceedings.
"Oops!" indeed.
Another injustice.
What IMB message did the SBC messengers stay away from in droves on Wednesday?
Jerry Rankin, president of the International Mission Board, told the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) on June 15:
…there are 11,000-plus distinct, ethnic people groups in the world, and more than 6,400 of those are still unreached with less than 2 percent of them who have heard the gospel. … [and] after sending out more than 900 new missionaries in 2008 and reaching a record level of 5,624 missionary personnel overseas, the IMB is having to cut back to no more than 5,000 missionaries by the end of 2010 due to budget restrictions.
Read the complete account by Lonnie Wilkey of the Tennessee Baptist and Reflector [here].
Send records of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force deliberations to WikiLeaks
Controversy over the decision to seal for 15 years the record of deliberations by the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Great Commission Resurgence Task Force is easily stilled. One person with access need only provide the complete record to WikiLeaks.
Before the SBC meets in Orlando, Fla.
Thereafter, assuming WikiLeaks can be prompted to republish with suitable dispatch, everyone who is so inclined can contemplate the deliberations at his or her leisure.
Although those who wish to cast thoroughly well-informed votes on related decisions in Orlando may have to set aside more time for reading/listening and less for sleep, they're responsible people and can be relied upon to make the necessary sacrifice. If they're afforded that opportunity.
Oh no, Rubio! From outRichardLandish to uh-oh?
Promoted by SBC ethics czar Richard Land as a credible 2012 Republican presidential nominee, Mario Rubio is under Internal Revenue Service investigation.
The Miami Herald reports that Rubio is one of three former Florida Republican Party credit card holders being scrutinized for their alleged use of party credit cards to pay personal expenses.
Whether a full-fledged criminal investigation is merited has not been decided, and Rubio adviser Todd Harris told the Miami Herland, "There is absolutely nothing to this."
The principal effect, as Talking Points Memo suggests, is likely to be on the dynamics of Rubio's fight with Florida Gov. Charlie Crist for the Republican senatorial nomination, without which Rubio becomes another Land loser.
Is Rubio for president 2012 another outLandish prediction?
After making a scandal of himself in opposition to health reform, Southern Baptist Convention ethics czar Richard Land has in an interview with Politico promoted former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio as a credible 2012 Republican presidential nominee who has "more experience than Obama had."
The gimlet-eyed journalists at PolitiFact poured that outLandish claim through their fact-filter and emerged with a "barely true." Even that conclusion is a stretch. It assumes, for example, Rubio is elected to the U.S. Senate and serves two years — although he has yet to win the Aug. 24 Fla. Republican primary.
Sarah Palin benefitted from Land's dubious blessings. In 2008 he sang her praises as a potential vice presidential nominee in an interview with Brian Goldsmith of CBS, mentioning Southern Baptist Mike Huckabee only as an afterthought.
Republican presidential nominee John McCain chose Palin as his vice presidential nominee and after a brief popularity bubble, she helped sink his candidacy. Then, Palin the public servant went home to abandon the governorship of Alaska.
Palin's former prospective son-in-law Levi Johnson said at the time that she left in pursuit of cash. The dollar figures have since born Johnson out. Matthew Mosk of ABC News reported:
Since leaving office at the end of July 2009, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee has brought in at least 100 times her old salary – a haul now estimated at more than $12 million — through television and book deals and a heavy schedule of speaking appearances worth five and six figures.
Along the way health reform in which Land and Palin both invested so much vilifying energy and who both contributed to the "death panels" howler which copped a "lie of the year" award, passed.
When Land comes to anoint you, candidate Rubio, if you're really interested in public service, then for heaven's sake outrun him.
Court allows FBC Jax Watchdog case against Assistant State Attorney to proceed
A Florida federal district court refused this week to dismiss the claim by blogger Tom Rich (FBC Jax Watchdog) that Assistant Fla. State Attorney Stephen Siegel violated Rich's right to speak anonymously, and trampled on the Establishment Clause because defendants had no secular purpose for their actions.
The lawsuit alleges Siegel issued subpoenas that helped Jacksonville police officer Robert Hinson — who was a member of First Baptist Church of Jacksonvilla, Fla. — identify Rich when there was no evidence of criminal activity.
Dismissed in the same action were civil claims against State Attorney Angela Corey for her office's role.
Rich's claims against the police officer and against First Baptist were unaffected because they weren't involved in this motion to dismiss.
Emerging standards for unmasking anonymous bloggers were certainly not met in Rich's case.
To prevail in this instance, Rich must now prove the violations he alleges. But even at this juncture, the case is a caution for those who would twist legal authority to unmask an anonymous blogger without compelling legal justification. Abuse of power has a price.
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San Antonio – The fourth-ranked Tiger baseball team's ninth-inning rally fell short in Friday night's 7-5 loss to Birmingham-Southern (AL) College.
Trinity opened the game with a bang, getting a leadoff triple from Logan Morrison and an RBI groundout off the bat of Jake Martin to take the quick 1-0 lead.
A pitcher's duel broke out after that as the two teams combined for just one hit over the next three innings.
Birmingham-Southern took advantage of a leadoff walk in the top of the fifth to tie the game after a wild pitch and a single.
The Tigers put the first two batters of the bottom half of the fifth on base, and Morrison brought in the go-ahead run with a sac fly lineout to left field.
The scoring continued in the sixth as the Panthers took their first lead of the game with two runs on two hits and a walk to make it a 3-2 advantage.
A pair of one-out walks in the bottom of the inning led to another run as MJ Metz tied things up with his run-scoring groundout.
Both teams were held scoreless in the seventh, but Birmingham got a two-run homer in the eighth to reclaim the lead. The Panthers then added two more insurance runs in the ninth to go ahead 7-3.
Those runs proved to be key as Trinity mounted a two-out rally in the ninth. Rafe Chaumette doubled in Morrison to start the scoring with two outs, then a hit batter and a walk loaded the bases.
Pinch-hitter Nathaniel Prete battled to earn a walk that drove in another run that made it 7-5, but the Panthers escaped with a called third strike to end the game.
Trinity suffered its first loss of the young season, while Birmingham evened its record to 2-2 this year.
Rafe Chaumette picked up three of Trinity's seven hits on the night, going 3-5 with a double.
Logan Morrison was 1-2 with a triple and two runs scored, reaching base three times.
Mark Tindall pitched into the sixth inning, allowing just two runs on three hits and striking out five batters.
Ian Hussian (0-1) allowed four runs over 3.1 innings of relief and was charged with the loss, though he did record four strikeouts.
The Tigers and Panthers resume their weekend series with a 1:00 p.m. game on Saturday, February 16.


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Returns the arc-cotangent of a number.
|The number you want the inverse cotangent of.
|* Added in Excel 2013.
* The arc-cotangent is the inverse of the COT function.
* The angle returned is in radians between 0 and PI.
* If "number" is not numeric, then #VALUE is returned.
* You can use the DEGREES function to convert from radians to degrees.
* For a working example refer to the Quant > Trigonometric Functions page.
* For the Microsoft documentation refer to support.office.com
|1 - How many degrees is the arc-cotangent of 0.5 radians.
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Each time San Antonio thinks that fate has handed them a battered and tired Seattle team to play at Key Arena, the second place Silver Stars end up staring down the barrel of an easy defeat at the hands of the Storm. The first time, the Storm had a back to back East Coast road trip before flying back to play the Silver Stars. This time, the Storm had a hard fought game against Indiana here before the 12 hour flight from hell on the way to Tulsa, the loss of Sue Bird to a back injury, and a flight back to Seattle to play San Antonio again. Both times, the Storm showed that they have all the makings of one of the best teams in WNBA history with crushing defeats of their foes from the south.
On Tuesday night, the Storm learned that Sue Bird would be sitting on the bench and only used in a complete emergency. The Storm took that in stride, with Tanisha Wright leading the way at point with 11 points and 12 assists for her second double double in the past two games. Svetlana Abrosimova filled in next to T and added her energy and flash to the team with 11 points and sterling defense. Each of the Storm's guards did a great job of feeding All-Star Lauren Jackson, who had one of those nights when she could have knocked down 40+ points and 20+ boards if she had played an entire game. Instead, she drained 31 points and had 15 boards, including 6 offensive ones in 32 minutes of play. Our Aussie baller positioned herself to win a second straight WNBA Player of the Month award and is setting herself up to be a consensus MVP this year.
But the key to the Storm's win was a smothering defense that kept Sophia Young and Michelle Snow, two players voted into the All-Star game this past week, to 6 and 9 points respectively. Once again, post players are having a hard time putting up points and getting rebounds off of the Storm. Only a killer third quarter by Becky Hammon kept the Silver Stars in this game at all. Watching her duel with LJ in the third was a highlight of the game for me.
The Storm now has a day off and a few days to practice before heading down to LA to play the Sparks again, this time minus Candace Parker. The Sparks have not been playing well at all, having lost four in a row since losing their leader. Coach Agler is hoping to have Sue back on Saturday, but I expect that he will treat her conservatively and sit her if there is any issues remaining with her back.


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DTS Surround Sound Formats
A Guide to Multi-Channel Surround Sound
DTS Surround Sound formats represent the second most popular lineup of sound formats available today. Many audiophiles feel that DTS deliver better sound.
In this guide to DTS sound, we look at the different surround formats from DTS Digital Surround to the latest DTS-HD audio designed to complement the picture quality of Blu-ray and HD DVD.
DTS - Digital Theater Systems
A full line of surround sound formats
DTS, or 'Digital Theater Systems' - constitute a full lineup of multi-channel surround sound formats for use in both commercial applications, as well as in the home.
Like Dolby Digital, DTS started as a moviehouse application in around 1991 through its DTS Digital Surround sound format - a 5.1 multi-channel surround sound format that is more commonly referred to as simply 'DTS'.
The first theatrical release using DTS surround sound came in 1993 with Jurassic Park - a year after Dolby Digital debut with Batman Returns. It has since then started to steadily invade the home; the first home video release came in 1997 on laser disc - again with Jurassic Park.
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DTS Digital Surround has now become the second most popular audio format in use today - this despite the fierce competition from Dolby Digital in both theatrical and home use, and from SDDS (Sony Dynamic Digital Sound) in theatrical applications. Furthermore, even though DTS is not compulsory on DVD releases, a large number of titles have so far been released for home entertainment on DVD-video with a DTS surround sound track as an alternative to the mandatory Dolby Digital soundtrack.
Today, the family of DTS surround sound formats includes a variety of newer versions; these range from DTS-ES - a 6.1/7.1 competitor to Dolby Digital EX, DTS Neo:6 - a six-channel competitor to Dolby matrixed Pro Logic format, and DTS 94/26 - a lossy yet high-resolution format used in some DVD-Audio releases.
DTS line of multi-channel audio formats also includes DTS Virtual, a format designed to provide a surround sound experience on a two-channel audio playback setup. And as with Dolby, you will also find a number of high definition audio formats, including DTS-HD Master Audio - DTS competitor to Dolby TrueHD; the latter is used as an optional surround sound format on HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs.
Most of today's home theater receivers and HTIB solutions incorporate DTS decoders capable of decoding a variety of DTS sound formats in addition to the more popular Dolby Digital (AC-3), Dolby Digital EX, and Dolby Pro Logic formats.
INDEX of DTS Surround Sound Formats
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DTS High-definition Audio Formats
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DTS Digital Surround
DTS Digital Surround™ is the most popular DTS surround sound format in use today and the second most popular 5.1 surround sound format after Dolby Digital.
As already indicated under our introduction, this DTS sound format is available both as 5.1-channel surround sound in movie theater applications as well as an optional soundtrack on some DVD-Video movies for home theater viewing.
Many audiophiles and home theater enthusiasts alike argue that DTS - due to its higher raw-bit rate and lower compression - is capable of delivering better sound than Dolby Digital. But is it really so? In reality, this has turned out to be a rather hotly debated issue. At the same time, one has to keep in mind that raw bit-rate and compression levels alone cannot be taken as a direct measure of sound quality. We discuss this issue in further detail in our article: Dolby vs. DTS Sound.
At present, the number of DVD-Video titles with a DTS surround sound track is still on the lower side compared to Dolby Digital. Partly, the reason is that unlike Dolby Digital, this DTS surround sound format is optional when it comes to DVD-video.
However, there is a second major reason for this lack of presence of DTS Digital surround. DTS Digital Surround is not used by HDTV and digital satellite broadcast media.
DTS Neo:6
DTS Neo:6 provides up to six full-bandwidth matrix decoded channels from stereo matrix content; it is available on all DTS-ES equipped receivers, and is fully compatible with all two-channel (stereo) content mastered on CD, VHS, DVD, etc.
It is the DTS equivalent to Dolby Pro Logic II and Pro logic IIx matrix sound decoders, and is fully compatible with all stereo sources. Neo:6 can be used to generate a seamless 5.1, 6.1 or 7.1 surround soundstage - depending on the audio playback setup. Note however that in the case of a 7.1 setup, the 2 rear surround channels would actually play in mono.
While it is a fact that matrix content in general cannot produce the same precise localized soundstage as that generated by discrete multi-channel surround, yet Neo:6 technology can do a remarkable job towards delivering a natural surround soundfield with relatively precise localization.
DTS Neo:6 also supports a music mode that expands stereo non-matrix recordings into five or six-channel surround sound. When used in this manner, it yields a relatively soft-focused overall sound while still maintaining the integrity of the original stereo content.
DTS Extended Surround
DTS ES (Extended Surround) is the extended version of the DTS Digital Surround, and Dolby Digital EX counterpart. It provides a 6.1 DTS surround sound format over either a 6.1 or a 7.1 audio playback setup, and is fully backward compatible with DTS 5.1 digital surround.
This DTS surround sound format includes two variants, DTS-ES Matrix and DTS-ES Discrete 6.1, depending on how the sound was originally mastered and stored.
DTS-ES Matrix provides 5.1 discrete channels plus an extra sixth back surround audio channel that is matrixed over the two rear surround channels; for this purpose, DTS-ES Matrix is also noted as DT-ES 5.1.
DTS surround sound processors that are compatible with the ES codec look for 'flags' built into the audio coding and un-fold the rear-center channel sound from data that would otherwise be sent to rear surround speakers. This extended DTS surround sound format happens to be more popular than the discrete version.
DTS-ES Discrete provides 6.1 discrete channels, with a discretely recorded back surround channel. This means that the audio data for this extra 6th channel is stored separately from the audio content for the other channels. This DTS surround sound format is also at times referred to as DTS-ES 6.1. Note that when this format is played over a 7.1 set-up, the two back surround channels would play in mono.
Devices carrying the DTS-ES logo handle both DTS 6.1 Matrix and DTS 6.1 Discrete decoding, while still offering DTS 5.1 capabilities.
In contrast, Dolby's competing Dolby Digital EX codec, which also boasts a center back surround channel, can only handle matrixed data and does not support a discrete 6th channel.
It should be remarked that when it comes to the consumer implementation of ES DTS Surround Sound:
The center back surround channel is always matrixed into the Left Surround (LS) and Right Surround (RS) channels.
A discrete center surround channel can optionally be encoded.
A DTS-ES 6.1 Discrete decoder will play the discrete center surround channel and will subtract the discrete center surround channel from the matrixed LS and RS channels.
Any DTS-ES track, discrete or not, is fully compatible with 6.1-matrix decoders because the matrixed tracks are always present.
Any ES DTS surround sound track is also fully compatible with 5.1 decoders because the center back surround channel information is matrixed into the LS and RS channels and will be heard in and between the LS and RS speakers.
DVDs with DTS-ES encoded sound remains rare - irrespective of whether this is discrete or matrixed - with matrix content being more common.
DTS Digital Out
Digital Out
DTS Digital Out is not some DTS surround sound format in itself; rather, the DTS Digital Out logo indicates that the unit reads and passes the DTS raw bit stream via the device's digital output to a device equipped with a DTS decoder.
This is a necessary feature for playback of a DTS soundtrack through a DTS-capable decoding receiver or preamplifier equipped with digital inputs.
DTS Interactive
DTS Interactive is a DTS surround sound encoder that is capable of converting a stereo or multi-channel audio signal to a DTS Digital Surround format bitstream - on the fly - for transport and playback through a home theater system.
This yields for more realistic surround sound effects during interactive video games.
This is somewhat equivalent to Dolby Digital Live, which is found on PC and console-based video game applications; the main difference is that DTS Interactive is mainly intended for use during multi-channel interactive playback for PlayStation games when connected to a DTS-equipped AV receiver.
DTS Virtual
DTS Virtual down-converts 5.1 or 6.1-channel DTS surround sound to stereo while still providing a realistic simulation (hence the term 'virtual') of surround sound for playback over two-channel equipment such as headphones.
DTS Virtual is DTS's equivalent to Dolby virtual surround sound technology. It makes use of advanced virtual surround algorithms to manipulate audio signals with sonic spatial cues by applying varying delays and phase-shifts between the different channels. The whole process is based on extensive room-modeling technologies to reproduce the sonic spectrum and dynamics of a properly placed 5.1 multi-speaker system in a typical room environment.
As with Dolby Virtual Speaker technology, DTS Virtual technology suffers from the same limitations - with the most important being a rather restricted listening area; the latter limits the use of virtual surround sound technologies for the small room environment.
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The quote that forms the title of this post comes from Otto T. Mallery (1881-1956), perhaps best known for his book Economic Union and Durable Peace. It came to my attention recently while listening to Blueprint for Armageddon Part 1 on Dan Carlin's most excellent Hardcore History podcast.
As the quote indicates, countries that are economically interdependent have too much to lose by going to war against their trading partners. Therefore, a globalized economy should be an effective way to reduce wars. However, as Carlin points out, the era leading up to World War 1 was a period of unprecedented globalism and wealth. How, then, could the richest countries in the world find themselves embroiled in the most brutal war the world had ever seen?
We see a similar argument echoed much more recently by Thomas Friedman in The Lexus and the Olive Tree. He calls it the "Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention."
No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's.
The appearance of McDonald's is a signal that a country has developed a middle class that is wealthy enough to support a chain of fast food restaurants. And with their bellies stuffed full of Big Macs and Happy Meals, who would want to mess that up by going to war–particularly against anyone with a vested interest in their fast food chain? They have too much to lose.
Ironically, shortly after Friedman's book was published, NATO warplanes bombed Yugoslavia, and angry protestors destroyed all of the McDonald's restaurants in that city. So much for the theory–or so it appeared.
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To keep the elephants away.
Does it work?
You don't see any elephants around here, do you?
The way I see it, countries go to war out of self-interest, and they avoid war for the same reason. The fact that the object of their aggression may be part of their supply chain makes little difference to what amounts to a simple cost/benefit scenario on the part of the aggressor. For example, the ancient Vikings were happy to trade with other countries, until they realized they could simply take the goods instead. Think of it as a form of vertical integration–with guns. Organized crime organizations make similar moves all the time. Russia has exhibited similar behavior recently in Ukraine.
That said, I do think economic interdependence has certainly helped to reduce the likelihood of war. It's just a mistake to think of it as a cure-all. Think of the dampening effect Europe's dependence on natural gas has had on the Ukraine situation, for instance. It didn't prevent Russia's aggression, but it certainly stopped it from exploding into a much broader conflict. As anyone who has taken grade 5 history knows, when trade happens, we exchange far more than goods. We also exchange values, ideas, technological innovations and so on. Most importantly, we come to see our neighbors as human beings. And the more human the other becomes, the harder it is for us to considering killing them. Incidentally, that's why I think multi-national corporations tend to get a worse rap than they deserve. Sure, there are some bad actors out there, but I think they prevent far more wars than they cause. Furthermore, their economic involvement in the far corners of the globe help to bring all sorts of previously unknown injustices to light.
Trade or no trade, armies will still cross borders, but they cross them far less frequently than they did in the past, the conflicts don't last nearly as long, and the aggressors are unilaterally condemned by the global community. Compared to how such actions were viewed in the past, when kings were literally expected to go to war against their neighbors in the spring, I'd call that progress.
I'm not saying international trade is solely responsible for this reduction in aggression, but it is certainly preferential to the economic and cultural isolation practiced by nations like South Korea and much of the Arab world–and the outside world's treatment of these countries as social pariahs. If we engage our enemies economically, I'm confident we will have far less reason–and far less desire–to engage them militarily, and vice versa.


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