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The systems of the λ-cube have the axiom $\star:\square$.
I've listed a few meanings that the Curry-Howard isomorphism gives to $t : T$ below. What are the intuitive meanings of $\star$ and $\square$ in each interpretation?
$t : T : \star : \square$
Programs: t is a program of type T. (Possibility: T is a program of type $\star$?)
Proofs: t is a proof of theorem T. It's hard to see T as a proof of $\star$, though.
Set elements: t is a member of set T. (Possibility: T is a member of the universe $\star$ of sets. Then it seems difficult to assign a meaning to $\square$ that avoids the membership $\square : \star$.)
I'd like to fill out this table both vertically and horizontally, with both further interpretations and the missing descriptions of $\star$ and $\square$, and possibly meanings of $T : \square$ for $T \neq \star$.
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Yet they are meat-eating predators, a reality we often overlook. This video, best watched in full screen, ought to keep a few tourists from approaching too close.
Thank you to all of you for loyally checking this site in the last few weeks, thinking perhaps today might be the day something new replaces the April snow story. As I explained earlier in a comment, I was out of town (for Jazz Fest), then returned to an onslaught of budget meetings and Lodging Overlay discussions. Also, we have begun running the river at Barker-Ewing Scenic Trips.
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Is our Official History a Hoax? Russian mathematician says yes!
Have any of you ever heard of Anatoly Fomenko? He's a brilliant Russian mathematician that stirred up controversy in historian academia by claiming that the ancient history of Europe and Russia was a fiction and hoax invented and crafted during the Renaissance of the 1600's. His theory claims that recorded history actually began in 900 AD, and that many of the events in ancient history occurred after 900 AD, including the Roman Empire and the life of Jesus. So he has created a new Chronology of history that differs from the traditional one.
It sounds crazy, but the greatest chess champion in the world, Gary Kasparov, agrees with much of his theory. But of course, just because one is a great chess player or mathematician does not mean one is also a great historian.
Fomenko has written volumes of scholarly books about it. You can find them on Amazon.com. Here are some promo videos about Fomenko's theory and books.
Has history been tampered with? The documented history of human civilization is supposed to reach several millennia back into the past.
And yet if we consider the rate at which civilization is supposed to have progressed, we encounter periods of obscurity and informational vacuum following the alleged decline of every ancient empire, and then everything starts anew. Inventions are presumed lost for centuries, then re-invented by people whose names bear suspicious semblance to those of the ancient inventors. Just how true all of this is? Could history as we know it really be a collation of several chronicles relating to one and the same period of time?
Apparently, this is what the Russian mathematician Anatoly Fomenko claims. He is the author of the first volume in a series of seven that came out in English recently, and generated incredible controversy amongst professional historians worldwide. Many are trying to put the author into one league with numerous paranoid conspiracy theorists and mad inventors - however, all of his work conforms to the highest academic standards and is backed by solid scientific facts; furthermore, some of the most lucid minds of our time support many of the theories put forward by the authors. Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion, says the following in his preface to volume 1:
"Let us consider the factor of a mass character that I shall be referring to as psychophysical. Documented history tells us of the insatiable need of human beings to make discoveries. The vector of technological progress is a strictly vertical one. Every ten years something happens: discoveries, sea voyages, explosions... Everything keeps on changing, we see constant evolution - from Columbus to the landing on the Moon, from crossbows to nuclear bombs. Forwards and upwards. However, the traditional ancient history tells us of periods when humanity apparently remained dormant for centuries - "ancient" Egypt, the mediaeval "Dark Ages" - whole epochs of utter stasis in human thinking. It appears that the inhabitants of ancient Egypt and Rome had a different genetic code, and couldn't be bothered about anything at all, so they froze in their development, the result being a total lack of innovative activity. At the same time, there had been prosperous ancient empires where those among homo sapiens who possessed penchants for arts and sciences could get plenty of opportunities for growth and development. But, alas and alack, all of the prosperous "ancient" empires had ceased their development at some point."
Has history been tampered with? Did events and eras such as the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, the Roman Empire , the Dark Ages, and the Renaissance, actually occur within a very different chronology from what we've been told? Yes, they certainly did! The history of humankind is both drastically shorter and dramatically different than generally presumed.
Why is it so? On one hand, it was usual custom to justify the claims to title and land by age and ancestry, and on the other the court historians knew only too well how to please their masters. The so called universal classic world history is a pack of intricate lies for all events prior to the 16th century. It's likely that nobody told you before, but there is not a single piece of firm written evidence or artefact that is reliably and independently dated prior to the 11th century.
Naturally, after what you've learned in school and university, you will not easily believe that the classical history of ancient Rome, Greece, Asia, Egypt, China, Japan, India, etc., is manifestly false.
You will point accusing finger to the pyramids in Egypt, to the Coliseum in Rome and Great Wall of China etc., and claim, aren't they really ancient, thousands of years ancient? Well, there is no valid scientific proof that they are older than 1000 years!
The oldest original written document that can be reliably dated belongs to the 11th century!
New research asserts that Homo sapiens invented writing (including hieroglyphics) only 1000 years ago. Once invented, writing skills were immediately and irreversibly put to the use of ruling powers and science.
The consensual chronology we live with was essentially crafted in the 16th century by Jesuits.
Early in life, we learn by heart the names and deeds of brave warriors, wise philosophers, fabulous pharaohs, cunning high priests and greedy scribes. We learn of gigantic pyramids and sinister castles, kings and queens, dukes and barons, powerful heroes and beautiful ladies, emaciated saints and low-life traitors. Dr debunks not merely the odd pillar, but the total, entire bastion of historical dating, proposing a 700 to 1000 year fictitious "add-on" section between 400 AD and 1100 AD (or larger) & argues that the conventional chronology sequence of almost EVERYTHING is erroneous.
Even if partially true this would be scary stuff.
Forget forbidden archeology which is for kindergarten....
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Btw, the founder of this theory is supposed to be a mathematics genius from Moscow State University. He has written telephone sized books about it which you can get from Amazon.com. The readers on Amazon said that he does make a compelling case, though they are not sure that everything he says is correct. The thing is, he claims to base his claims on real serious scientific analysis, which historians do not usually do.
Here is his first volume of work:
History: Fiction or Science?
Now, as to what I think. I don't know. I don't judge or come to quick conclusions about everything. Truth is not handed to you on a silver platter. It's something you gotta DIG for, and even then, you will only get fragments of it. The problem is that many assume that truth is handed to you on a silver platter, and that truth is simply whatever the official version told to us is. That's simply not true.
We all know that history is the propaganda of the victorious. It's very easy for the powers to manipulate history to fit their agenda of things. I'm sure you all know that.
Therefore, it's smart to question things, even cherished beliefs. When you do, you often find that the official version of things is often not the truth. That is the disturbing but liberating realization that you come to eventually.
There's a reason why society is set up so that you don't have much free time. In your youth, school keeps you busy. In your adult life, work keeps you busy. In your spare time, the mainstream media holds your attention with the official version of things. The reason for all this is that if you have too much free time to think about everything, eventually you realize that you are a slave on a prison planet and that most of what you are told are hogwash, lies and gross distortions. That's the scary part, that when you have too much free time, you discover a lot of disturbing things, not just in terms of conspiracies, but about the state of existence itself. We are kept from all that by society that keeps us busy and distracted.
That's what I've learned and what I've discovered anyway. Sorry if that sounds wacky. I'm just being honest about it.
Bottom line: The stuff I posted here is just something to consider and contemplate. If you don't agree with it, then fine. But dismiss it for good logical reasons, not simply because it contradicts the official version of things.
One more thing: Skeptics seem to have a double standard when it comes to evidence. When evidence supports the official version of things, it is accepted and counted. But when it doesn't, then it is dismissed and labeled as "nonexistent or invalid", to justify their "no evidence exists to support any alternative hypothesis other than the official one" claim of skeptics.
But of course, we all have biases and tend to be selective in what evidence we will accept in accord with how well it fits into our beliefs and views (aka confirmation bias). That's human nature. It's just that skeptics tend to be more rigid about it than the average person is.
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I've never trusted skeptics, for the very reason that they are willing to accept the official version of things without a shred of proof but require unrealistic amounts of evidence to accept any other possibility.
I find it interesting that one of the reviews says forget "Forbidden Archaeology", which is interesting because that book goes in the very opposite direction make history much much longer than previously imagined and showing possibly great advancements in millennia old societies.
I am always curious about history, and it is not hard for me to imagine that it could all fall apart with a single discovery.
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Skeptics have a double standard.
Any idea that is counter-cultural and disproves 'the official version of things' is readily accepted with numerous flaws, mis-statements, omissions and logical fallacies.. But when it doesn't disprove 'the official version of things' it is ridiculed immediately.
The numerous CT posts that are now showing up on every sub-forum here are ample example.
Winston's flaw is that because he is a behavioral out-lier in his peer group and family, he projects this mindset on to every single aspect of his reality and identifies with anything that is outside the norm.
Even if it's absurd nonsense.
If it rebels against the status quo, then it must be true.
Gee um, if humans only invented writing 1,000 years ago, that's a lot of "fake" historical coins we'd have to produce and bury into ancient graves and shipwrecks around the world.
I can just imagine this photo caption: "Chinese cops stashing fake Tang dynasty coins in elaborate conspiracy to prove that Chinese writing dates back over 1,000 years".
Another problem is that the history we get is simplified and inaccurate. For example, I have a link below which clearly demonstrates that George Washington was not the first president of the United States.
Here is a Wikipedia entry about Anatoly Fomenko's New Chronology of History. It describes his theories, methodology and arguments. His critics' counterarguments are summarized as well.
Here's the entry on Anatoly Fomenko himself.
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Here is one way to look at it. According to the out of Africa theory, man first left Africa 50,000 years ago. If you take, as a rule of thumb, 25 years per generation, that gives you 2000 generations. In only 2000 generations we went from the Stone Age to where we are now. To me, it seems amazing that so much was accomplished in such a short period of time. If anything, it's a mystery why it didn't take longer.
Ancient history revised? Meh.
How about recent history? I'd be interested in his opinion about a particular Tuesday in 2001.
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Hey Terrence,
Check this out. Your quote above was quoted in an article of The Epoch Times, which put a link back to this thread. Congrats! Some of my points on SCEPCOP was quoted as well.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/603148- ... kepticism/
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Re: Was Ancient History a hoax invented during the Renaissan
Winston? I would like bring up the instituted racism history curriculum in the USA. It makes undermine the achievements of other minorities historical achievements, but makes the white anglo saxon male look like God's angel. Also, white supremacists have cherry picked history. Whites did not begin accepting Mediterraneans until they found out about the Romans and Ancient Greeks. They also cloak the true African history of ancient egypt.
This is true. Basically, everything you've been told your entire life is a lie. Education controls the flow of information so you never learn too much. However, the internet changed this which is why one day it will be censored.
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Re: Was Ancient History a hoax invented during the Renaissan
Wikipedia says Anatoly Fomenko's work is wrong though, because he doesn't explain why we have coins and artifacts from Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece. But of course, Wikipedia is controlled by the establishment as is highly biased on controversial topics. Here is Wikipedia's lengthy debunking of Anatoly Fomenko's historical revisionism.
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Re: Was Ancient History a hoax invented during the Renaissan
They are the same people....The guys in Rome, Egypt, Babylonia, Sumer are still here with us ..they are now living in America.
Its the same blueprint of lies and deception...They are snake people...extremely intelligent..and live like for ever...They don't die...
Death has been made a big deal for humans. Its not really difficult not to die, you can easily live for ever...You just make sure, your amino acid chain in DNA do not break down as you get old and have constant supply of good proteins to your DNA.
Gold, Silver, Copper can do that you...plus other chemicals which are unknown to man due to secrecy.
All history is manipulated because we die...
Also, now they have technology of consciousness transfer, you get a new body with same mind and live for ever...
All our thinking is twisted and it starts with death.
All the skeptic, debunkers will vanish if you never die.
They are heavily invested in making sure that we die one day. It is the greatest scam on earth.
If you think death is natural..You are mind controlled.
God never intended for his creation to die...That would be diabolically satanic...why would god ever put a set time on his creation....??
You can live for ever like how elites do...The blue bloods...History is manipulated for THIS REASON ALONE...DEATH
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Iran received a downward trend arrow due to the imposition of severe restrictions on nongovernmental organizations and the prosecution of an increasing number of civic leaders.
Human rights violations continued to be committed during 2011 against political and social activists, human rights defenders, ethnic and religious minorities, journalists, students, and women. Freedoms of expression and assembly remained curtailed, and a growing number of prisoners, including juvenile offenders, were executed. The authorities placed the two most prominent opposition leaders, Mir Hussein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, under house arrest and refused to allow the newly appointed UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran to visit the country.
A popular revolution ousted Iran's monarchy in 1979, bringing together an unwieldy coalition of diverse political interests that opposed the regime's widespread corruption, misguided modernization efforts, and pro-Western foreign policy. Subsequently, the revolution's democratic and secular elements were largely subsumed under the leadership of the formerly exiled Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Although a newly drafted constitution incorporated democratic institutions and values, Khomeini was named supreme leader based on the religious concept of velayat-e faqih (guardianship of the Islamic jurist). He was vested with control over the security and intelligence services, the armed forces, the judiciary, and the state media. With Iran in political turmoil, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein considered the time ripe to stop the spread of the Islamic revolution and settle a long-running border dispute. The ensuing Iran-Iraq war, which lasted from 1980 to 1988, cost over a million lives.
After Khomeini's death in 1989, the title of supreme leader passed to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a compromise candidate who lacked the religious credentials and charisma of his predecessor. The constitution was amended, the office of prime minister was abolished, and Khamenei's power was consolidated, giving him final authority over all matters of foreign and domestic policy.
Beneath its veneer of religious probity, the Islamic Republic gave rise to a new elite that accumulated wealth through opaque and unaccountable means. Basic freedoms were revoked, and women in particular experienced a severe regression in their status and rights. By the mid-1990s, dismal economic conditions and a demographic trend toward a younger population had contributed to significant public dissatisfaction with the regime. A coalition of reformists began to emerge within the leadership, advocating a gradual process of political change, economic liberalization, and normalization of relations with the outside world that was designed to legitimize, but not radically alter, the existing political system.
Representing this coalition, former culture minister Mohammad Khatami was elected president in 1997 with nearly 70 percent of the vote. Under his administration, more than 200 independent newspapers and magazines with a diverse array of viewpoints were established, and the authorities relaxed the enforcement of restrictions on social interaction between the sexes. Reformists won 80 percent of the seats in the country's first nationwide city council elections in 1999 and took the vast majority of seats in parliamentary elections the following year, with student activists playing a major role in their success.
The 2000 parliamentary elections prompted a backlash by hard-line clerics. Over the ensuing four years, the conservative judiciary closed more than 100 reformist newspapers and jailed hundreds of liberal journalists and activists, while security forces cracked down on student protests. Khatami was reelected with 78 percent of the vote in 2001, but popular disaffection stemming from the reformists' limited accomplishments, coupled with the disqualification and exclusion of most reformist politicians by the conservative Guardian Council, allowed hard-liners to triumph in the 2003 city council and 2004 parliamentary elections. These electoral victories paved the way for the triumph of hard-line Tehran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the 2005 presidential contest—an election which reflected the public's political apathy and economic dissatisfaction. Although Ahmadinejad had campaigned on promises to fight elite corruption and redistribute Iran's oil wealth to the poor and middle class, his ultraconservative administration oversaw a crackdown on civil liberties and human rights, and harsher enforcement of the regime's strict morality laws.
The new government also adopted a more confrontational tone on foreign policy matters, feeding suspicions that its expanding uranium-enrichment activity, ostensibly devoted to generating electricity, was in fact aimed at weapons production. Beginning in 2006, in an effort to compel Iran to halt the uranium enrichment, the UN Security Council imposed four rounds of sanctions on Iran. However, Tehran's uncompromising nuclear policy created a stalemate in diplomatic negotiations.
In the December 2006 city council and Assembly of Experts elections, voters signaled their disapproval of the government's performance by supporting more moderate officials. Carefully vetted conservative candidates won nearly 70 percent of the seats in the March 2008 parliamentary elections, but many were considered critics of Ahmadinejad, and particularly of his economic policies.
Despite crackdowns on human and women's rights activists and restrictions on internet freedom in the months prior to the June 2009 presidential election, supporters of all candidates seemed to enjoy a relatively relaxed and politically vibrant atmosphere. The Guardian Council approved only three of 475 potential candidates to compete against Ahmadinejad, but all three were well-known political personalities with established revolutionary credentials: Mir Hussein Mousavi, a former prime minister; Mohsen Rezai, a conservative former head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC); and Mehdi Karroubi, a reformist former speaker of parliament and cleric. Mousavi emerged as the main challenger, confronting Ahmadinejad in televised debates.
Polls indicated a close race, but Ahmadinejad was declared the winner soon after the election, credited with over 63 percent of the vote. All three challengers lodged claims of fraud. Protests broke out on a massive scale across the country as voters rejected the official results. The security forces violently cracked down on all public expressions of dissent and tightened government control of both online and traditional media. However, protesters continued to mount periodic demonstrations, using mobile-telephone cameras and the internet to document abuses and communicate with the outside world. Over the course of 2010, however, the government effectively crippled the opposition's ability to mount large-scale demonstrations.
The postelection confrontations created a new political landscape, in which basic freedoms deteriorated and political affairs were further militarized. In February 2011, the government moved to put opposition leaders Mousavi and Karroubi under house arrest. With the reformist opposition pushed to the sidelines, a power struggle between Ahmadinejad and Khamenei spilled into public view in May, when the latter reinstated the minister of intelligence who had been fired by the president. Subsequently a dozen associates of Ahmadinejad and his controversial chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei, were arrested and accused of constituting a "deviant current" within the country's leadership. The president himself was threatened with impeachment and questioning. Deep internal divisions in the conservative camp were expected to intensify in connection with legislative elections set for March 2012.
In response to worsening conditions in the country, the UN Human Rights Council in March 2011 established the mandate for a special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran. Ahmed Shaheed, a former Maldivian foreign minister, was entrusted with the post, but the Iranian government refused to allow him into the country. None of the United Nations' thematic special rapporteurs have been able to visit Iran since 2005. Shaheed published an interim report in September, expressing concern over flagrant human rights violations including widespread use of secret and public executions and repression of ethnic and religious minorities.
Iran is not an electoral democracy. The most powerful figure in the government is the supreme leader, currently Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He is chosen by the Assembly of Experts, a body of 86 clerics who are elected to eight-year terms by popular vote, from a list of candidates vetted by the Guardian Council. The supreme leader, who has no fixed term, is the commander in chief of the armed forces and appoints the leaders of the judiciary, the heads of state broadcast media, the Expediency Council, and half of the Guardian Council members. Although the president and the parliament, both with four-year terms, are responsible for designating cabinet ministers, the supreme leader exercises de facto control over appointments to the Ministries of Defense, Interior, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence.
All candidates for the presidency and the 290-seat, unicameral parliament are vetted by the Guardian Council, which consists of six Islamic theologians appointed by the supreme leader and six jurists nominated by the head of the judiciary and confirmed by the parliament, all for six-year terms. The Guardian Council generally disqualifies about a fourth of parliamentary candidates, though some are able to reverse these rulings on appeal. The Guardian Council also has the power to reject legislation approved by the parliament. Disputes between the two bodies are arbitrated by the Expediency Council, another unelected, conservative-dominated body, headed by former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
Opposition politicians and party groupings have faced especially harsh repression since the 2009 presidential election, with many leaders—including former lawmakers and cabinet ministers—facing arrest, prison sentences, and lengthy bans on political activity. Beginning in February 2011, the former presidential candidates and prominent opposition leaders Mir Hussein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, along with their wives Zahra Rahnavard and Fatemeh Karroubi, were kept under strict house arrest without trial. They were still being held incommunicado at year's end, with only limited access to family members.
Corruption is pervasive. The hard-line clerical establishment and the IRGC, to which it has many ties, have grown immensely wealthy through their control of tax-exempt foundations that dominate many sectors of the economy. The administration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has gravely damaged fiscal transparency and accountability through the abolition of independent financial watchdogs and the murky transfer of profitable state companies to the IRGC and other semigovernmental conglomerates. Iran was ranked 120 out of 183 countries surveyed in Transparency International's 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index. A $2.6 billion banking embezzlement case that emerged in 2011 involved at least seven Iranian state-owned and private banks, exacerbating concerns about rampant corruption in Iran.
Freedom of expression is severely limited. The Ministry of Culture must approve publication of all books and inspects foreign books prior to domestic distribution. The government directly controls all television and radio broadcasting. Satellite dishes are popular, despite being illegal, and there have been increasing reports of dish confiscation and steep fines. In September 2011, the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) jointly called on the UN General Assembly and the International Telecommunication Union to condemn the Iranian government's efforts to jam satellite broadcasts, disrupt and hack websites, and intimidate journalists.
The authorities frequently issue ad hoc orders banning media coverage of specific topics and events. The foreign media are banned from covering demonstrations. Cooperation with Persian-language satellite news channels based abroad is also banned. Shortly after a documentary about Khamenei was aired on BBC Persian television in August 2011, six independent documentary filmmakers were arrested on allegations of collaborating with the network. Since then, the Iranian government has ratcheted up pressure on BBC Persian by arresting, questioning, intimidating, and confiscating the passports of relatives of BBC staff.
The Press Court has extensive power to prosecute journalists for such vaguely worded offenses as "mutiny against Islam," "insulting legal or real persons who are lawfully respected," and "propaganda against the regime." The use of "suspicious sources" or sources that criticize the government is also forbidden. Numerous periodicals were closed for morality or security offenses during 2011, including the independent newspapers Shahrvand-e Emrooz and Roozegar. According to an August 2011 Human Rights Watch report, at least 40 publications have been shut down since 2009. Iran leads the world in the number of jailed journalists, with 42 behind bars at the close of 2010 and many serving lengthy prison sentences. Several dozen other journalists were arrested, coerced into self-incriminating confessions, and released on exorbitant bail payments. The Committee to Protect Journalists reported in June 2011 that 18 journalists had been forced into exile in the past 12 months.
Internet penetration has skyrocketed in recent years, and web-based citizen journalism flourished after the 2009 presidential election, as many Iranians used mobile-telephone cameras and social-networking sites to provide some of the only independent coverage of the crackdown. However, recognizing the internet's rising influence, the government has forced service providers to block a growing list of "immoral" or politically sensitive sites, and the country has developed one of the most expansive and sophisticated internet surveillance and filtering frameworks in the world. Key international social-media websites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were blocked after the 2009 election, and the number of disabled political sites continued to increase in 2011, hampering the opposition's ability to communicate and organize. A special Iranian police unit was formed in 2011 to counter "cybercrimes."
Iranian filmmakers are subject to tight restrictions, and many have been arrested or harassed since the 2009 election. In October 2011, an appeals court in Tehran upheld the conviction of prominent director Jafar Panahi, who was sentenced to six years in prison and a 20-year ban preventing him from travelling abroad or engaging in any artistic activity.
Religious freedom is limited in Iran, whose population is largely Shiite Muslim but includes Sunni Muslim, Baha'i, Christian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian minorities. The Special Court for the Clergy investigates religious figures for alleged crimes and has generally been used to persecute clerics who stray from the official interpretation of Islam or criticize the supreme leader. Ayatollah Seyed Hussain Kazemeini Boroujerdi, a cleric who advocates the separation of religion and politics, is currently serving 11 years in prison for his beliefs. Ayatollah Ali-Mohammad Dastgheib and Ayatollah Yusuf Saanei, both ardent critics of the postelection crackdown, have been harassed and had their properties attacked by plainclothes security agents.
Sunnis enjoy equal rights under the law but face discrimination in practice; there is no Sunni mosque in Tehran, and few Sunnis hold senior government posts. In August 2011, the chief religious authority of the Sunni community in Iran asked the supreme leader to allow Sunnis to freely observe their religious holidays and Friday prayer ceremonies, and expressed concern over discrimination against Sunni citizens.
Sufi Muslims have also faced persecution by the authorities. Since the leader of the Sufi order Nematollahi Gonabadi was arrested in 2009 and sentenced to four years in prison, the security forces have repeatedly clashed with the members of this order in Gonabad and Kavar, arrested numerous adherents, and shut down their websites.
Iranian Baha'is, thought to number between 300,000 and 350,000, are not recognized as a religious minority in the constitution, enjoy virtually no rights under the law, and are banned from practicing their faith. Baha'i students are barred from attending university and prevented from obtaining their educational records. Under Ahmadinejad, concerted efforts to intimidate, imprison, and physically attack Baha'is have been carried out by security forces, paramilitary groups, and ordinary citizens with impunity. Hundreds of Baha'is have been executed since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, and at least 100 were in prison in 2011, including seven main Baha'i community leaders who were sentenced in 2010 to 20 years in prison on charges of espionage and "engaging in propaganda against Islam." In May 2011, at least 30 Baha'is were arrested in coordinated raids in Tehran, Karaj, Isfahan, and Shiraz. The imprisoned individuals were involved in an online university initiative that provided higher education to Baha'i students.
The constitution recognizes Zoroastrians, Jews, and Christians as religious minorities, and they are generally allowed to worship without interference, so long as they do not proselytize. Conversion by Muslims to a non-Muslim religion is punishable by death. In 2011, 34-year-old Protestant pastor Yousef Naderkhani, who had converted to Christianity at age 19, was sentenced to execution by hanging, though the sentence was not carried out by year's end. The non-Muslim minorities are barred from election to representative bodies (though five seats have been allocated to the Armenian Christian, Chaldean Christian, Zoroastrian, and Jewish minorities), cannot hold senior government or military positions, and face restrictions in employment, education, and property ownership.
Academic freedom is limited. Scholars are frequently detained, threatened, and forced to retire for expressing political views. Students involved in organizing protests face suspension or expulsion in addition to criminal punishments. Since the 2009 presidential election, the IRGC-led Basij militia has increased its presence on campuses, and vocal critics of the regime face increased persecution and prosecution. In October 2011, Peyman Aref, a political science student at Tehran University, was publicly lashed 74 times for insulting Ahmadinejad, hours after he completed a one-year prison term. Meanwhile, on Khamenei's orders the government announced increased scrutiny over degree programs in the humanities to ensure their commitment to Islamic principles. In September, the country's top humanities university, Allameh Tabatabai, eliminated 13 branches of social sciences, including political science, history, sociology, philosophy, pedagogy, and journalism.
The constitution prohibits public demonstrations that "are detrimental to the fundamental principles of Islam," a vague provision that was regularly invoked to deny permit requests after the 2009 presidential election. Vigilante and paramilitary organizations that are officially or tacitly sanctioned by the government—most notably the Basij and Ansar-i Hezbollah—regularly play a major role in breaking up demonstrations. These forces even deny mourners the right to attend the funerals of political activists. An emblematic case occurred in June 2011, when security forces disrupted the funeral of Ezatollah Sahabi, a nationalist-religious leader. During the violent confrontation between the security forces and the mourners, Haleh Sahabi, the deceased's daughter and a political activist on furlough from a two-year prison term, sustained beatings and suffered a fatal heart attack. In reaction to her death, imprisoned journalist Reza Hoda Saber started a hunger strike that resulted in his death a few days later. Peaceful, nonpolitical demonstrations are increasingly met with brutal violence. In August 2011, environmentalist protests to protect Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran resulted in the arrest of 60 protesters and injuries to 45. In addition, under the pretense of "countering immoral behavior," the government regularly disrupts private gatherings.
The constitution permits the establishment of political parties, professional syndicates, and other civic organizations, provided that they do not violate the principles of "freedom, sovereignty, and national unity" or question the Islamic basis of the republic. Human rights discourse and grassroots activism are integral parts of Iranian society. However, the security services routinely arrest and harass secular activists as part of a wider effort to control nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Although permits are not required by law, the Interior Ministry has been issuing them and shutting down organizations that do not seek or qualify for them. In 2011, the government began reviewing a new bill on the establishment and supervision of NGOs that could unduly restrict and severely impede their activities; the process continued at year's end.
Iranian law does not allow independent labor unions, though workers' councils are represented in the Workers' House, the only legal labor federation. Workers' public protests and May Day gatherings are regularly suppressed by security forces. Leading workers' rights activist and trade union leader Mansour Ossanlou has become the symbol of the labor rights situation in Iran. Serving a five-year prison sentence since 2007 on charges of "acting against national security," he is reportedly suffering from several health problems in prison.
The judicial system is not independent, as the supreme leader directly appoints the head of the judiciary, who in turn appoints senior judges. Suspects are frequently tried in closed sessions without access to legal counsel. Political and other sensitive cases are tried before revolutionary courts, where due process protections are routinely disregarded and trials are often summary. Judges deny access to lawyers, commonly accept coerced confessions, and disregard torture or abuse during detention.
Pressuring lawyers to abandon the cases of political and social detainees is another widespread government practice in Iran. If the lawyers persist in fulfilling their duties, they can face harassment, interrogation, and incarceration. Since 2009, at least 42 attorneys have been prosecuted. In one prominent case, human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was sentenced in January 2011 to 11 years in prison and a 20-year ban on professional activity and travel. An appellate court in September reduced the prison term to six years and halved the professional and travel ban, but one of the attorneys representing Sotoudeh was jailed. Sotoudeh was reportedly in poor health and had gone on several hunger strikes behind bars.
The country's penal code is based on Sharia (Islamic law) and provides for flogging, amputation, and execution by stoning or hanging for a range of social and political offenses; these punishments are carried out in practice. Iran has the highest number of executions per capita in the world, with hundreds carried out each year. While many are executed for drug-related offenses, a number of political prisoners convicted of moharebeh (enmity against God) also receive death sentences. Iran's overall execution rate has increased significantly under Ahmadinejad. In January 2011 alone, it was reported that 83 people, including three political prisoners, were executed. By September, there had been more than 200 officially announced executions, including over two dozen public hangings, while at least 146 others were carried out in secret, without the knowledge of the inmates' lawyers or relatives. The total number of executions in 2011 was reportedly as high as 600.
Contrary to Iran's obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the judiciary continues to execute juvenile offenders. Two minors were publicly hanged in Bandar Abbas in April 2011, and a 17-year-old boy was executed in September. More than 100 juveniles reportedly remained on death row. The government announced in 2008 that it would no longer execute minors, but it later clarified that the death penalty remained an option under the parallel "retribution" system, in which the sentence is imposed by the victim's family rather than the state. This would expose male offenders over the age of 15 and female offenders as young as nine to capital punishment.
Although the constitution prohibits arbitrary arrest and detention, such abuses are increasingly employed, and family members of detainees are often not notified for days or weeks. Suspected dissidents are frequently held in unofficial, illegal detention centers. Prison conditions in general are notoriously poor, and there are regular allegations of abuse, rape, torture, and death in custody. In a letter to Iranian authorities published in May 2011, 26 prominent political prisoners reported ill-treatment, prolonged solitary confinement, torture, and systemic due process violations during their interrogation and detention.
The constitution and laws call for equal rights for all ethnic groups, but in practice these rights are restricted by the regime. Minority languages are prohibited in schools and government offices. Minority rights activists are consistently threatened and arrested. Ethnic Kurds, Arabs, Baluchis, and Azeris complain of discrimination. Kurdish opposition groups suspected of separatist aspirations, such as the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI), are brutally suppressed. The Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK), a separatist militant group linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) of Turkey, has conducted a number of guerrilla attacks in recent years and was declared a terrorist organization by the United States in 2009. Iranian efforts to combat the PJAK have included raids into Kurdish territory in neighboring Iraq.
Sexual orientation is also a subject of government scrutiny. The penal code criminalizes all sexual relations outside of traditional marriage, and Iran is among the few countries where individuals can be put to death for consensual same-sex conduct.
Women are widely educated; a majority of university students are female. However, women currently hold less than 3 percent of the seats in the parliament, and they are routinely excluded from running for higher office. Female judges may not issue final verdicts, and a woman cannot obtain a passport without the permission of her husband or a male relative. Women do not enjoy equal rights under Sharia-based statutes governing divorce, inheritance, and child custody, though some of these inequalities are accompanied by greater familial and financial obligations for men. A woman's testimony in court is given only half the weight of a man's, and the monetary damages awarded to a female victim's family upon her death is half that owed to the family of a male victim. Women must conform to strict dress codes and are segregated from men in some public places. There has been a crackdown in recent years on women deemed to be dressed immodestly. Women's rights activists, especially members of the One Million Signatures Campaign, continue to face repression. In 2011, two prominent members of the campaign, Bahareh Hedayat and Mahboubeh Karami, were sentenced to nine and a half and three years in prison, respectively.


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Saturday's Teach-in was absolutely amazing, with over a dozen of today's most influential speakers and educators bringing to the attendees an incredible mix of passion, history, and motivation. Walter Williams, our main history speaker, received a standing ovation from the crowd. One person was overheard saying that the presentation changed his life. Try and get that out of your average college lecture, right?
From the paradoxical mix of Julius Nam and Marshall Burns in our religion break-out, to Sister Buffy and Jim Williams discussion moderated by Ange-Marie Hancock, participants had a chance to delve deeply into the hidden history of the LGBT movement that many had never seen before. And boy, is it rich!
Now it's time to take that information and apply to the struggles we're a part of today. Here's what you can do:
First, join us on Wednesday, May 12th, and each Wednesday thereafter to participate in the burgeoning Equality Network. We will be discussing actions relating specifically to the upcoming Decision Day, among other things. More information on the Facebook page / Equality Network blog.
Second, as you are aware, the California Supreme Court will be issuing its decision on whether or not to repeal Proposition 8 by June 3rd. We are asking people to gather the Day of the Decision at Santa Monica and San Vicente at 7:00 PM for a rally and a march. Please find out about this event on the Facebook event page.
Also, the Saturday after Decision Day, an event called Meet in the Middle will be taking place. The entire LGBT population of California will be converging on Fresno to show our power and support of LGBT civil rights everywhere!
More than anything, it's important that you take the lessons learned at the Teach-in to empower yourself, and keep in mind that you are part of a rich ancestry of LBGT people, reaching back through history to the dawn of time. We are a critical part of our civilization, and we must never allow ourselves to be closeted by the forces of hatred and homophobia! Use your knowledge to make change!
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In today's busy society, people are continually searching for ways to reduce stress, relax and, in general, improve their health.
Licensed massage therapist Sherry Winkel of Therapeutic Touch, LLC in Kiel invites people to experience those things and more.
Massage therapy tends to increase general health and well-being of clients and can provide both physical and emotional benefits to the body. The basic goal or intention of massage therapy is to reduce stress, relax muscles, diminish pain, bring the body back into balance, promote overall wellness, and increase circulation.
It can also lower blood pressure, reduce anxiety, increase range of motion, and enhance the immune system, to name a few benefits.
Some types of massage therapy offered at Therapeutic Touch, 317 Fremont St., are relaxation, therapeutic (deep tissue), touch for health, craniosacral therapy, lymphatic, Raindrop Therapy, Polarity Therapy, and facial massage. Some people may inquire about neti pot applications and/or ear candling as a means to help alleviate sinus pressure, and others how to use essential oils, about nutrition, general wellness, and more.
"Massage therapy is one way to help ease our body back into balance," Winkel said. "We do need to look at other areas of our life as well to work toward a balanced body though. Some ways to assist the body to regain balance along with massage therapy would be to get regular exercise, make stretching part of your daily routine, add breathing exercises, and have a quiet time each day. Making some dietary changes such as eliminating/cutting back on caffeine, sugar, white flour, and preservatives and drinking more purified water can make a noticeable difference. Try any of the above suggestions one at a time and you will likely notice a positive change."
She added, "Start today, take charge of your health, and take the time to start listening to your body. Make massage therapy a part of your health regime and call today for an appointment."
Jeanne Stoelting, a licensed massage therapist, also works at Therapeutic Touch, LLC. She can be reached at (920) 286-0141, or the office at 894-7976.
Winkel is a certified massage therapist in Wisconsin, an Associated Polarity Practitioner, nationally certified, and continues to take educational seminars. She is a member of American Massage Therapy Association and American Polarity Therapy Association.
Sherry's business hours are Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays by appointment only, and other hours by request depending on availability. Call 894-7976 to schedule an appointment. Gift certificates also are available and can be used as gifts for all kinds of occasions.


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What is a "BTU load" and where do I find this information?
"BTU" stands for British Thermal Unit and is the measure of how much (volume) gas your appliance requires to turn on. On most appliances, this information will be on an easy-to-find metal tag on the unit or in the appliance specification documents. Your Nicor Gas Service Representative needs this information to ensure the natural gas service line from the street and the meter are sized properly. If you are unable to find the BTU information for your appliance, please contact the equipment manufacturer.
How do I know that I need to increase pressure or determine that pressure is already greater than 1/4#?
Most residences do not require pressure above 1/4#, our standard pressure at residential meters. If you are having new appliances installed, please ask your qualified heating or plumbing professional if the appliance requires more pressure than 7" of water column (pressure requirement ranges are usually notated as X"–Y" w. c.)
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LONG BEACH – The California Republican Party this week endorsed Long Beach Councilman Gary DeLong for the city's seat in Congress.
DeLong's selection, released on Sunday, puts him as the GOP's pick over veteran politician Steve Kuykendall, a former South Bay congressman who also represented Long Beach in the state Assembly.
According to filings with the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder, the pair will face Democratic State Sen. Alan Lowenthal, D-Long Beach, for the open 47th Congressional District seat.
Republican small business owner Sanford Kahn is also running, as are frequent candidate Peter Mathews of Long Beach, a Democrat and college professor, and Democrats Usha Shah, a community volunteer, and Jay Shah, a retired physician who ran against County Supervisor Don Knabe in 2004 and 2008 and against Rep. Dana Rohrabacher in 2010. The Shahs of Long Beach are husband and wife, according to Jay Shah's campaign website.
Others on the Republican slate of endorsements:
70th Assembly District (most of Long Beach, Signal Hill and San Pedro) – Republican Martha Flores-Gibson, a Long Beach educator and business owner. Flores-Gibson is challenging Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal, D-Long Beach. Flores-Gibson lost a bid to unseat Lowenthal in 2010.
58th Assembly District (parts of Cerritos, Artesia, Bellflower, Norwalk, Downey and north to Montebello) – Downey business owner Patricia Kotze-Ramons. Kotze- Ramons faces a crowded field of Democrats: Sultan "Sam" Ahmad, Artesia businessman and financial consultant; Tom Calderon, Montebello businessman and health-care advocate; Daniel Crespo, Bell Gardens City Council member and probation officer; Cristina Garcia, Bell Gardens educator; Luis H. Marquez, Downey City Council member and businessman.
63rd Assembly District (Hawaiian Gardens, Lakewood, Paramount, Lynwood) – Cudahy certified public accountant and corporate executive Jack Guerrero. The otherwise all-Democratic field includes Diane Martinez, a Paramount City Council member and teacher; Anthony Rendon, a Lakewood educator and nonprofit group director; and Cathrin "Cat" Sargent of Lakewood.
Fourth District Supervisor Don Knabe is unchallenged in his bid for a final term.
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Kingston and Zuma Lend Gavin Their Fashion Expertise
The Rossdale boys hit up an Urban Outfitters in LA yesterday accompanied by a nanny rather than their usual platinum blonde, Gwen Stefani. Kingston made funny faces in some oversized sunglasses and held hands with his littler brother while Gavin scoped out the maxi dresses. Gwen was busy in the studio with No Doubt as her adorable guys shopped away. Gavin had both his sons and Gwen there to cheer him on over the weekend when he reunited with his band, Bush, for a show, though he lamented the fact that his friend Mario Batali couldn't make it. The Stefani-Rossdale family is settling into the Fall at home, and as of tomorrow it's officially October, which means a month full of dressing up and pumpkin patch visits for costume-loving Kingston and Zuma!


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What Macroeconomists Should Know about Health Care Policy
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- CHAPTER 3: Facts and Myths about Health Care and the Health Sector
- CHAPTER 4: Health Policy Challenges and Issues Confronting Nations
- CHAPTER 5: Conceptual Framework for Classifying Health Systems
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CHAPTER 4: Health Policy Challenges and Issues Confronting Nations
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WE OFFER YOU A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE, Perfect environment for creative exchange and collaboration.
BELGRADE ART STUDIO RESIDENCY is a non-profit international art program designed to bring talented artists, creative practitioners, researchers and writers from around the world to experience a unique cultural environment dedicated to art. Selected artists are invited to live and work in specially designed studio for a period up to 6 months. By bringing the creators of art in a unique setting the Program aims to situate art at the very heart of historical Belgrade.
Art studio is open year-round, providing ARTISTS/WRITERS /CURATORS / CREATIVE PRACTITIONERS/ RESEARCHERS/SCHOLARS/THINKERS/PHOTOGRAPHERS with much-needed space and time to work on a project of their choice. The applications are reviewed by an art committee whose efforts ensure that a broad range of artistic disciplines, styles, and national origins is represented. The selection process aims to integrate artists and researchers in a spirit of openness and curiosity about creativity in its diverse forms and contexts.
Residency in a private air-conditioned fully furnished apartment which is unique and has character, in Dorcol historic building, built in 1921-23. (approximately 80 square meters. It has 4.20 m high ceilings, large windows in two directions and a beautiful floor plan). Living in Dorćol has its charms, it could be like living in Kreuzberg in Berlin or Manhattan in NYC. A sense of history, with the pieces of furniture from 1920s and original wooden floor, windows, doors and a fully functional kitchen for the self-catering of residents, bathroom, dining/sitting room, studio. A painting studio is equipped with easels, stool, ample wall space, both natural and artificial lighting and a small library.The space was renovated over the course of a whole year and decorated following an ''eclectic luxury'' approach that combines vintage design with contemporary art. The space is filled with original art and vintage objects sourced in galleries and antique shops across Serbia and Europe. The result is a very personal, inviting space that skillfully mixes contrasting elements with surprising results.
Complimentary pick-up and drop-off for arrival and departure, welcoming traditional serbian meal, private Belgrade City tour, a studio representative always on hand to help out and lots more, check out http://belgradeartstudio.com/studio-accommodation/
Each resident is responsible for their own funding, though Belgrade Art Studio can help with this process. Please note that there is only one artist or an artist couple at a time in the residency. Every participant can bring along one family member or partner that will pay 50% of the price as well as a pet, free of charge.
We offer one fellowship per year to artists and creatives of outstanding talent. A fellowship covers the full cost of Belgrade Art Studio residency for a week. (travel not included). Only artists who have completed the financial assistance section of the online application will be considered for fellowship. You must submit this information at the time of application.
Our financial aid package cover up to a maximum of 40% of the cost of a residency (the total amount of our aid packages varies based on a combination of merit, need, and time of year; the maximum aid is more readily available for residencies scheduled between November and April). Only artists who have completed the financial assistance section of the online application will be considered for financial aid package. You must submit this information at the time of application.
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Restaurant Review
One Up Elevated Lounge
A view to kill and food to fill
You've probably noticed the structure that houses One Up Elevated Lounge, located Downtown on Central and Third Street. It's the building leaning ominously over the street, looking ready to fall on its face. This is appropriate, because everything about One Up seems designed to inebriate. In addition to the exhaustive list of beer, wine and specialty drinks at One Up, many of the tapas come in wine-based sauces. Others are accompanied by shot glasses of booze meant to complement the dish. And the "Recessionista Fridays" happy hour menu (5 to 8 p.m.) includes $3 well drinks and Coronas, $4 draft beers, and a free taco bar.
The dishes that don't come with alcohol all seem, uncoincidentally I suspect, to taste very good with alcohol. Most likely when you leave One Up you'll have a full belly and a buzz on—but you might not leave for a while. Shorty and I arrived Friday afternoon and left that night only after finally prying ourselves off our cushy lounge chairs (and the bluesy honky-tonk of Felix y Los Gatos playing live on stage).
From the inside, those leaning windows are just as vertigo-inducing as they appear from the street. It's almost like being in a glass-bottom boat, with great views of all of the Downtown riffraff.
The place has an open floor plan divided into distinct lounging zones. There are the tall chairs and tables by the windows, patio furniture on the outside deck, couches in the center, an area of lounge/
The decor is slick and unobtrusive, with minimal art, solid earthtone-colored walls, cool lamps and ceiling fixtures, and candles at every table. The clientele is a cross-section of Albuquerque—we saw suits, tattoos, cowboy hats and a T-shirt that announced "Slayer Fucking Slayer." At 7 p.m. on Friday evening, it was busy but not suffocating.
The dishes that don't come with alcohol all seem, uncoincidentally I suspect, to taste very good with alcohol.
The food is tapas-style and, for the most part, impressive. A bowl of mussels in a butter and wine sauce with thyme and tomatoes was extraordinarily savory, complete with toasted ciabatta bread on the side for dipping. Also top-notch, a similar dish of baby clams with chipotle, pine nuts and smoked chorizo yielded a tart, smoky flavor. Calamari salad came together successfuly as crispy shoestring squid on balsamic-dressed leaves. Even though the concept of Kobe beef hamburgers is kind of bull (Isn't the whole point that Kobe is tender? What burger isn't tender?), I was very happy with my Kobe sliders. They came with tasty aioli and shoestring onions in a light batter, which made for great dipping in our leftover mussel and clam broth.
Less impressive were crab cakes, which, though beautifully plated, were small and tasted like the crab was from a can. And, the accompanying shot of ginger sake notwithstanding, the ahi tuna poke was disappointing, if not false advertising—far from raw, it was heavily marinated and cooked. The tuna was sinewy.
A gin and tonic was generously strong, a cucumber Mojito dangerously drinkable. My "Rude Cosmo"—made from Patron silver tequila, Cointreau, and cranberry and fresh lime juice—was rather like a melted Margarita, strong and tasty.
One Up is ideal for dates. It's lively but not too loud. You have to lean in just a bit to hear each other, but not so much that you'll spray her with squid spittle. After just two gin and tonics, Shorty was wasted—which isn't saying much, but still, I was grateful.
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• P.E.I. mussels
• Clams
• Cucumber Mojito
• Window seats
• Happy hour
One Up Elevated Lounge
301 Central NW (second floor)
242-1966, oneupabq.com
Hours: 4 p.m. to midnight weekdays; 4 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. weekends. Closed Sunday.
Vibe: Noah's Ark meets the Hotel California
Price range: $8 (coconut chicken satay) to $15 (the P.E.I. mussels). $4 happy hour specials.
Booze: Uh, yeah.
Extras: Credit cards accepted. Patio seating. Check website for live music schedule.


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This episode: Once again into the Baldur's Gate breach, after all these years! Things kick right off with a stolen sword and a dungeon crawl. And just who is the mysterious woman bearing down on the Sword Coast with an army, anyway?
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A major new expansion to Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition adds areas, action, and adventure to the original!
"Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist." -Plutarch
Though Sarevok is dead and his plan for war averted, peace eludes the citizens of Baldur's Gate. A crusade marches from the north, seizing supplies, forcing locals into military service, and disrupting trade along the Sword Coast. A charismatic warrior known as the Shining Lady leads this army, her background shrouded in mystery. Can the rumors be true—is she, like you, the child of a god?
The closer you get to the Shining Lady, the more you realize your father, the dead Lord of Murder still casts a long shadow upon your path. Baldur's Gate has put its faith in you, but you must determine whose interests you truly serve before you face the Shining Lady among the ruins of Dragonspear Castle…
Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear adds a new chapter to the Bhaalspawn saga. The events occurring between Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II are at last revealed in this 25-hour expansion pack for Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition.