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- Be patient: Longfellow wrote "good thing comes to those who but wait." The Cubs had not won a World Series since 1908. This drought was the longest in baseball. But it ended. When going through difficult times, remember, as King Solomon once put it, "This, too, shall pass."
- Honor the past: On my Facebook feed, so many friends posted pictures of deceased parents wearing Cubs hats. Baseball unites generations. Like faith, It reminds us we are part of a team, an idea, much larger than ourselves.
- Have a plan: When he came to Chicago in 2011, Baseball operations President Theo Epstein said, "I've got a plan." He followed it. The Cubs executed on it. What do you want to achieve in life? Plan for it. Of course, you may need to make mid-course adjustments. But consistentency and persistence pay off.
- Celebrate good times: We live in anxious times. That makes celebrating all the more important. Joy is infectious. When we celebrate our joy, we spread the spirit to others. Here in Chicago, even White Sox fans are celebrating the Cubs.
- Hope is powerful: Cubs fans know all the legends of curses and superstitions. Yet, we know they don't matter. Hope does. Hope gets us through painful times. One man held a sign at the final game that said, "Now I can die in peace."
- Momentum defies statistics: The Cubs defied all odds by winning three games in a row rally back from earlier losses. Momentum is powerful. It can push us to overcome pain and loss. If we start with small victories in our life, we can gain the energy to help us get big ones.
- Trust: Facebook has made it possible for everyone to broadcast their game analysis to the world. Whenever a coach makes a decision, some people mock or question it. But sometimes we just need to trust. In life, God has our back. It may not always seem that way, and we have lots of questions, but sometimes we just need to act, and trust that everything will be okay.
- Life can feel lonely: A good friend wrote before game seven about remaining a Cubs fan through the long drought and painful years of loss. Whether we are baseball fans or not, we will face those periods in life. And we will feel alone. But faith reminds us we are never truly alone. And Cubs fans knew that last night.
- We are a community: A few years ago I read a book arguing that the San Francisco 49ers of the 1980s helped the city of San Francisco come together and overcome its many tragedies of the 1970s. Chicago faces many challenges. The Cubs may help bring us together to confront them.
- Great achievements take time: It took the Israelites 40 years to reach the Promised Land. It took the Cubs 108 years to win another World Series series. The the best things in life are worth waiting for. They take time to come to fruition. And we are lucky enough to live in such times.
The greatest teachers of the Bible did not tell stories. They did not simply proclaim laws.
They lived what they taught. They also invited others into it.
Think of people from whom you learned. Did they just say things? Or did they live them? The most important things are not always taught. They are caught. One of those values is hospitality.
Hospitality as a Way of Life
In Hebrew, the language of the Bible, hospitality is known as Hachnasat Orchim. The phrase means "welcoming guests." This translation does not, however, do justice to the force of the Hebrew words themselves.
Welcoming guests is not just a nice thing to do. It is not simply a display of good manners. It is not even something we do because we want to be good role models for our children or our community.
Hospitality is a way of life. And it is that brings happiness and joy.
How to Make Your Home Welcoming
In the middle ages Jewish practice was to build a door on all four sides of one's house so that a guest would have no hassle coming in.
This custom suggests that our concern in maintaining our home should be not be the decor inside. It is not the landscaping or architecture of the home. Our concern is that we not make it too difficult for people to visit.
Front-Porch People
That custom seems out of place today. Today, as cultural anthropologists have pointed out, we tend to spend our time in the backyard rather than front porch.
The backyard is more private, and is frequently fenced in. It does not lend itself to the casual conversation and openness of the front porch.
The Bible, however, tells us be a"front-porch people." Rather than not turn our home into a fortress, we can turn it into an oasis, a place of conversation and kindness.
Ultimately, hospitality creates community. It builds empathy. It opens up our lives and creates the enduring that lead to happiness and satisfaction.
How Do You Practice Hospitality in Your Life?
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Many heroes emerged on 9/11. The firefighters and police officers who entered the burning building and debris stand out. Their memories continue to bless and inspire us today.
Among the overlooked heroes, however, was a group hunkered down in several white tents. The tents stood by the New York City medical examiners office.
Inside them was a rotating cast of pray-ors. They recited passage from the biblical book of psalms. They were following an ancient Jewish practice of continuously reciting psalms for the deceased between the time of death and burial.
It took months for some bodies to be identified and buried, and thousands of volunteers prayed without interruption in those tents for three months!
How It Started
The practice of reciting psalms immediately after death likely began thousands of years ago as a plea for God to show mercy upon the soul of the departed and ensure they not end up in purgatory. It continues today as a way of acknowledging and expressing our emotions, and focusing the mind away from the contemplation of death.
It also acknowledges our connection with the dead, suggesting we are part of one community. The living feel a responsibility for reciting psalms on behalf of the deceased.
One Community
That certainly proved true after 9/11. The number of volunteers grew every week. The practice not only brought comfort to the mourners and their families.
This continuous prayer affected many neighbors and workers near the site. Several police officers stopped in the tent and asked for their favorite psalm to be read.
Another volunteer at the time said the praying "gives a sense of comfort and familiarity to these unstable times." It is, he said, "a consolation, a way of grieving, and a way of being responsible." This volunteer summed up the way prayer adds to our well-being during times of despair.
As we remember all those who perished on 9/11, perhaps we can comfort in the words of that most familiar psalm. "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me." May God continue to be with us, and all those who remember.
In seminary, one moral dilemma seriously divided the class. The question was whether to give money to the homeless on the street in downtown Cincinnati, where the seminary was located.
This question concerned me directly, as I was also interning in Chicago and encountered several homeless people on my walk to the synagogue.
Most of the class said yes. We are not, Jewish tradition tells us, to "close our hand to an impoverished neighbor."
The dilemma arises, however, because the neighbor referred to in the Talmud is a fellow Jew, and the tradition was shaped in a time when people lived in small villages, not major urban centers. Does the same practice apply today?
We never resolved the exact disagreement, but we did arrive at a consensus. We should try to have either a sandwich to give or a coupon for a McDonalds or other easily accessible restaurant. Why? Because those in need are fellow human beings, and each of us is created in the image of God.
What we have is not solely ours. "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it," the Bible tells us. (Psalm 24)
In other words, what we own does not ultimately belong to us. It belongs to God, and we are stewards of it for all of God's creation.
In modern America, this approach can feel counter-cultural. If we got it, we earned it, and it's ours to do with what we please. We think a homeless person or a beggar must have done something wrong with their life, and it's not our problem or responsibility to fix it.
Yet, the Bible reminds us we share one earth, and were created by one God. We are to "love your neighbor as yourself." (Leviticus 19)
Are we looking out only for ourselves? Are we looking only for those we know or who look like us? Or are we truly doing for each of God's children what we pray they would do for us? What do you think?


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9 August 2010
Hungary and Germany!!!
You have waited long enough! Hey all in favour of The Hives playing Budapest and 3 date run of Germany including myself! See ya´ll in crowd with a falafel and some beer. Later Arson
2 August 2010
Putte i Parken!
Ahhhh sweet relief... It was great to be back on stage in front of the people from the Swedish sticks. The likeminded youths had gathered to see their favve band rock out and how we delivered. For me it was a special night indeed as I had missed the last 3 shows because of my mysterious tummy mayhem. Oh well... once again my legs were kegs of dynamite and my guitar a falcon in flight as I reclaimed my stage right position. Check here for some youtube gossip. Click yo! Later! Arson
20 July 2010
Arson back!
Holy Mother of Magsjuka- Nick Arson is back!!! The fever and the tummy aches and the cramps and vomiting had me in a chokehold and a straight jacket. I was unable to strike back with any sort of means and was forced into bed for a full week. Sorry bout cancelling shows on y'all: Borlänge, France and Poland- you know how much I would have loved to be there. I heard an eagle whisper in my ear however that Wolverine B. did his part and served you chilled riffs in gold pints with straws of opal on silver plates. Not bad for a filler-inner eh?! But now to public joy and cheer- The Master of the Telecaster, The Main Garcon of Arson, The True Galore Troubadour and The Hot Son Who Was Born Out of a Shotgun - Yours Truly, Nick Arson is back in the outfit. And hey! I'm not taking it off until 2015. Until then- Sail on! - Arson

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Lewis Hamilton yesterday displayed humility and contrition as he looked back on a Monaco Grand Prix he has written off as "a bad weekend at the office". It has emerged Hamilton wrote a letter to FIA president Jean Todt apologising for his post-race outburst in which he criticised the stewards.
Hamilton's misguided "maybe it's because I'm black" remark in the wake of a raft of penalties he has received this season resulted in an initial trip to make peace with the stewards. The letter to Todt was necessary to avoid any disciplinary action from the FIA, with Todt suggesting the 26-year-old may have ended up with a six-race ban.
Hamilton has also revealed that he personally telephoned Felipe Massa and Pastor Maldonado offering his apologies to them after he described them as "ridiculous" during his rant.
The McLaren star felt they were in the wrong when it came to his failed overtaking manoeuvres on the duo that landed him with two drive-through penalties, the second one retrospectively.
But in the cold light of day, with the heat having died down from the situation, Hamilton was able to take stock and reflect on his "behaviour and my weekend".
"So I wrote a letter to the FIA to apologise, a sincere letter of apology to Jean, and I got a great letter back," said Hamilton. "After that I was able to put it behind me and I am very grateful to be here."
Hamilton appreciates in the heat of the moment he said the wrong things, letting the pressure of this year's world title fight get to him. "We all know what it is like to be under pressure, to put pressure on yourself to succeed. We all have good and bad days in the office, and that was definitely one of my worst weekends in the office.
"I have gone back and had a few days at home, training, refreshing my mind and now I feel completely refreshed and looking forward to a more positive weekend."
In attempting to further explain away what unfolded in Monaco, he added: "When you are competitive and at the pinnacle of motorsport it is not easy to overtake. Every move you make is questionable, and when you're like me and you do a lot of overtaking, sometimes you get it right, sometimes you don't."
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Hi Sweeties! :)
I just wanted to leave a quick post! Some of you were concerned about me! I'm fine and just have a lot to do at the moment, but hopefully I can be back to posting before the week is out! Thank you all so very much for all of your comments and sweetness! I love you and have missed you!
You are my sweeties,
Shelia :)
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Enjoy your respite. With as much energy as you seem to have my friend...you probably need to charge your batteries! We cannot all be like the energizer bunny! I see that you are well loved here and I see why...you exude love and kindness to everyone you meet it would seem. What a wonderful thing. Great to meet you again and look forward to doing it again.
ReplyDeleteWe have missed you!!! I now know what work you went to for me on those two bathrooms. I struggled but I was able to put some photo's of the cottage up. I sent them to you for pictures of the bathrooms!:) I gave a peek of the upstairs one..I figured if they were curious they would go to Note Song for them. :)
Thanks again for all you did.
I am learning..one..that I am not a very good photographer..and that I forget to do details..although I did remember to do a light switch! BIG DEAL! :) Hugs and can't wait to see you again. I hope all is going alright for you. Everyone needs a bit of a rest now and then. Take good care, Shelia!!
Hugs and love,
P.S. I am hoping you like the way I presented the cottage. I tried!!I was so excited to see a post from you! I immediately started doing the happy dance and clicking over here as fast as I could (and it's not easy to do both of those at the same time)! So glad to read that you are doing well. I want you to do what is best for you, but I also want you to know that I miss you, and I hope you'll be back soon. laurie
I'm so pleased you would come to see me and so please leave me a comment and I'll do my very best to respond back to you. Be a sweetie...Shelia :)


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Mr Animal had a midlife crisis.
I hit a button before I completed my thought when I sent you a rep yesterday (or the day before). Anyway, I was going to say, I don't believe in Hell. It doesn't jive with me. Pete actually touched on it a bit in one thread.
Ever since you made that comment, I picture this every time I see you get riled up in a post.
Hi AntiFed, I believe it was you who posted a great quote by a political theorist explaining why enforcers were a worse evil than politicians because they enforce bad laws without question. Do you remember this quote and who it was by? (Maybe Chodorov, Chomsky or someone else).
Sending Positive energy your way! I love you, more!
New thread about the latest Vermin Supreme ad is up. Check it out and share with friends/family!
Check this out. An exchange with a friend of a friend of mine on Fedbook who is a cop. (also in the bestest picture thread nao) This policing for profit attitude is apparently quite pervasive. The future is EPIC fail. :'(
Where's donna been? I hope she's okay. The health forum is dying - I don't think it can survive on orgasms and rabbit fever for long.
FINALLY got youtube working. Here's a vid of the cello suite you wanted to hear me play in the vid thread: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...ogy%29/page249
Hey, comrade-I cleaned my inbox a bit for you. PM whatever you were trying to whenever you get the chance. ~hugs~
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Hi there,
Here is my video related with C major triads, part II lesson by my instructor Pedja Simovic. Enjoy it, Angel
3 Sep 2009
I'll try to be breif as we don't have very much time now.
Background: I play since I got my first guitar at the age of 16. I attended some classes in the beginning just to know the basic chords and "1" pentatonic scale form which has been my lonely friend for ages unil I decided to take this thing seriously. So I get involved in GMC last year for that reason. I've been playing in several rock bands during the last couple of years with no success. Styles: Every time that I take the guitar the 'blues feeling' finds its own way through basic licks and a little bit of distortion. It comes out naturally. I also play blues rock and rock in general. However, I'm dying for openning myself up to other styles in terms of playing. Listenings: I lisen everything. Some things I like better than others. So I try to play the things that I like which is the natural way! According to styles I'll name just a few classics of my favorite bands/players: (no preferences) Blues: All classics from country blues to modern. Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Elmore James, the three Kings... Blues Rock: Fleetwood Mac, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Allman brothers, Grateful dead Rock: Led Zeppelin, ACDC, Humble Pie, Deep Purple, Guns & Roses, Santana, the Stones... Country Rock: the Eagles, Flying Burrito Brothers, Willy Nelson Pop Rock: Red Hot Chilly Peppers Progressive: Rush, Pink Floyd, Yes, Dream theater jazz: Wes Montgomery, Jimi Smith, George Benson, Ronny Jordan, Django... Funk: The Meters, Funkadelic Soul: Otis Reding, Aretha Franklin and so on...Eric Johnson, Rory Gallager, SRV, Buckedhead... (I don't have very much knowledge about metal though. However, I've been listening recent Paul Gilbert albums and I loooove it!!. Strengths I huge pasion for music and the guitar as well. Weaknesses My self-confidence sometimes. Objectives My first objective is to learn in order to improve my skills in guitar playing in general. I would like to know the scales, the modes and fast Rock licks!!! I wish I could be faster and thread although I don't want to get obsessed with it. I get stunned every time that I see those guys playing like Van Halen!!! that's ok but... I prefer few notes explaining more than a huge diarrea of half tones. Just a reasonable intermediate with more melodic intention and feeling will do by now. Duendezillo |
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John Wall
Motion Pictures, Wizards Training Camp; John Wall: 'You know I'm nice'
►Kyle Weidie | Dec 15, 2011
Media Day for the Washington Wizards fell right on the heeds of Training Camp ending on Thursday afternoon. It was a bit of a frenzied whirlwind, as expected, and more coverage...
John Wall Loses in 'Call of Duty' to Dwight Howard: "Ringers Got Us"
►Adam McGinnis | Dec 15, 2011
It began with Chris Miller of Comcast SportsNet Washington innocuously asking Wizards rookie Shelvin Mack what he likes to do with his teammates to relax. It ended up with team's young...
ShareBullets: John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins Think About The Future
►Kyle Weidie | Dec 5, 2011
Best of Wizards/basketball-related links, in bullets. But first, John Wall's glasses help him and DeMarcus Cousins see into the future… John: "I see the future, and I'm going to have my...
An NBA Lockout Life: From John Wall In Alaska To Yi Jianlian In China
►Kyle Weidie | Nov 21, 2011
While some Wizards are attempting to eat spoonfuls of cinnamon… While some NBA players, including John Wall, are avoiding bullets at a place called the Juliet Supper Club in New York City…...
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A D.C. pic, links, other pictures, commentary, video, etc. LINKS. > John Wall, in this photo, seems...
The #NBArank of John Wall
►Kyle Weidie | Oct 7, 2011
John Wall: Damn good at basketball, which rhymes. So it's good his name is not John Facade or John Rampart. Anyway, in the ESPN.com #NBArank project he's ranked 40th in the...
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►Kyle Weidie | Oct 2, 2011
A D.C. pic, commentary, links, video, pictures, etc… Do we even know this John Wall kid? Watching him play at...
Degrees From The Palace Five Laundrymen, Washington, D.C. Pro Basketball Team
►Kyle Weidie | Sep 21, 2011
Let me take you back in the history of basketball, one which we are certainly NOT doomed to repeat. To the 1920s, Washington, D.C. …. Photos via Shorpy.com. [1925. Bob Grody...
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►John Converse Townsend | Sep 19, 2011
Highlights of John Wall's improved jump shot plus a mini-duel with Michael Beasley at "Clash of the Superstars" in Washington, D.C. The NBA's unofficial stand-in—this summer's suite of pro-am games—have drawn...
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►Kyle Weidie | Sep 16, 2011
Commentary, links, John Wall, a poll, (not that kind of poll), etc., … BaSkEtBaLl NeVeR sToPs Dude, bro, chum, mate, chap, bloke, scallywag… Derrick Rose, Rajon Rondo, Chris Paul (probably as...
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As I get ready to take an extended summer vacation off to a location across the ocean, I can't...
Watching the 2011 NBA Draft Lottery Through Wizards-Colored Glasses
►Rashad Mobley | May 20, 2011
I should have known that the NBA Draft Lottery was not going to fall in the Washington Wizards favor when I walked into the media area. Two members of the Cleveland...
Spread 'Em For John Wall
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Critique of the NBA often surrounds the narrative of one player dribbling around then shooting. But when you have a 20-year old athlete whose combination of speed and size is already...
Dissecting John Wall's Rookie Quotes
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The highlights and good times from John Wall's rookie year represent the icing on the big ol' cookie (or cake) that vested hype-machine types gladly diddle themselves to while resting assured on pillows encased...
John Wall Plays The Waiting Game
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John Wall is so fast, but he's always waiting. He breezes past defenders with more than quickness, aided by long strides and big steps. Still, he often waits. In attacking the...
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John Wall's vision and speed are the main reasons Flip Saunders knew he would be drafted No. 1 overall by the Washington Wizards this past summer. Everybody else obviously knew it...
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Looking for us? Sad bench shots never die. All the questions seem the same. The answers all come out of a box. But dammit these people are working … the media...
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…he was alone in an abandoned locker room, folded in an office chair with enough lumbar support to carry the weight of his woes. John Wall has been chosen to be...
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Surprise, surprise. Or wait … I should actually say that we saw this coming. Actually, let's take a step back for a second. John Wall, in his individual effort, will not...
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Microsoft resurrects the infamous Clippy for new Office training game
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He's back. The talking paperclip. And no, he is not less annoying than before.
Microsoft has seen it fit to build a sequel to the application 'Ribbon Hero,' a training tool that masqueraded as a game, designed to help people learn the ins and outs of Office. Why, you might ask, would Microsoft do such a thing? Because, and honestly this baffles us at TNWmicrosoft, people are still afraid of the Ribbon interface of Office 2007 and 2010.
"We're hunting for awesome startups"
Run an early-stage company? We're inviting 250 to exhibit at TNW Conference and pitch on stage!
How the masses have not yet manged to adjust to intuitive interface changes that improve their beloved productivity line is confusing. Still, Microsoft wants to combat the problem because they want to sell more copies of Office. It only makes sense.
Right, so Ribbon Hero 2. We aren't sure what to tell you about it because it is a game that is built on using Office. That handicap aside, the game is not too boring. If you are one of those Luddites who still fears the most recent versions of Office you might want to try it out.
If not, do not play. Why not? Because the subtitle of the game is "Clippy's Second Chance;" the game is an exercise in helping Clippy get home. Screw Clippy, he was annoying as frack for years. He can get home by himself. If you play you are only encouraging him.
Microsoft should take the graphic artists and UI personnel that helped build Ribbon Hero 2 and send them to Hotmail, where they are actually needed.
What follows is Microsoft's short clip explaining why you should play Ribbon Hero 2 – it won't be much encouragement, but here it is for completeness:
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The state of Iraq is perilously close to collapse. As we report today, 1.6 million people have been forced to flee the country since the invasion in 2003 and a further 1.5 million have been displaced internally. This is one of the largest population movements in the Middle East since the formation of the state of Israel. The once great metropolis of Baghdad is now effectively a dozen small cities, each patrolled by its own sectarian militia. Only the Kurdish regions in the north of the country are unscathed. And even the future of that enclave of relative stability is in doubt as Iraq hurtles, apparently inexorably, towards final break-up.
There is no way of knowing for sure how many have been killed since the invasion, but it is clear that hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died at the hands of coalition troops, sectarian death squads and insurgent bombers. Many Iraqis now say life is even more intolerable than it was under the iron fist of Saddam Hussein.
All this bloodshed seems to have provoked a moment of clarity in Washington. President Bush spoke at the weekend of his readiness to "change tactics" in Iraq. And a diplomat at the State Department gave an interview in which he claimed the US has acted with "arrogance" and "stupidity" in Iraq. More hints have emerged that the Congress-commissioned Iraq Study Group, led by the former Secretary of State James Baker, is preparing to outline an exit strategy. Meanwhile, here in Britain, the Foreign Office Minister, Kim Howells, expressed the hope over the weekend that our own troops will be withdrawn within a year.
But dig a little deeper and it is clear that delusion and dishonesty still hold sway in the minds of our leaders. Tony Blair was still arguing last week that a withdrawal of troops would lead to a disaster in Iraq. And President Bush continues to stress that "our goal is victory". These two architects of the 2003 invasion are still unable - or unwilling - to accept the comprehensive failure of their policy in Iraq.
To any objective observer it is clear that Iraq is in a state of disaster already. And it also evident that our troops are failing to stop the sectarian killing. The US government's push to establish security in Baghdad this month only succeeded in boosting the death toll further. And even the head of the British Army, Sir Richard Dannatt, believes that our presence, far from keeping a lid on the fighting, is making the security situation worse.
We are constantly told that troop withdrawals will begin when Iraq's security forces prove able to take on more responsibility themselves. Yet this promise has no credibility. For one thing, there is no reason to believe that the Iraqi security forces will be able to impose order where British and American troops have so comprehensively failed. For another, Iraqi forces are simply not trusted by the population. Given that many sectarian death squads wear police and army uniforms, this is hardly unsurprising.
Yet Mr Blair and Mr Bush - in public at least - continue to argue that progress is being made and that ultimate success in Iraq is attainable if we will only summon up the will to complete the job. The truth is that can be no "victory" for President Bush or our Prime Minister. The hubris of these two men has broken a nation and placed the armies of Britain and America in the midst of an undeclared civil war. Their political legacies have been written in blood. All that remains now is the question of how our forces can be extracted from this carnage without making a catastrophic situation even worse.


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The Serbian side scored eight goals in their previous two European ties on Irish soil but had to settle for just one in front of a sell out 5,500 crowd at Turner's Cross. Premiership managers Sam Allardyce of Bolton Wanderers FC and Portsmouth FC's Harry Redknapp were at the game, reportedly to watch towering Crvena Zvezda striker Nikola Žigić, but the only striker to score on the night was Behan - albeit at the wrong end. Defender Marko Perović swung in a corner on 37 minutes and Behan inadvertently sent it past goalkeeper Michael Devine with his knee.
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A woman of the Evenki tribe, who won't reveal her name, tells her story. She tells it to the rain and fire, to the objects in her deerskin bag, to her birch-bark vase. She spends a day telling it – dawn, midday, dusk – moving at even pace through the 90 years of her life.
She and her clan live in the mountains and valleys of north-eastern China. It's a life lived in the open, moving from camp to camp; they stay for a time, until the moss in the area has been depleted and there isn't enough to feed the reindeer, then the camp is abandoned and they resettle somewhere else. Life is hard here. People leave, people ail and die; there's violence, the threat of wolves and bears – nature at its most violent. But there's no self-pity in this woman's story – life's hard, people die, that's the way it goes. It might be better tomorrow. She can't imagine living anywhere else. The closeness to natural origins matters especially – knowing that this flame came from striking stone against flint, being able to see the stars at night. Animals are to be used for hides and food ("there isn't a woman alive who doesn't like squirrel meat") but there's tenderness felt towards them, too. It's a world of reindeer and birch bark, of bonfires, shamans and spirits, omens and dances, and rituals of birth and death.
Much can change in 90 years. Even the Evenki, once so isolated, soon feel the incursions of the outside world. They're in border territory, so first it's the Russians who come over to the camp with things to barter. Then, in 1932, the tribe hears news that the Japanese have arrived; soon afterwards their men are taken away to train with the Japanese army. Next come the Soviet forces. By the end of the story, most of the hunting clan have relocated into built settlements, loggers have moved on to the mountain, the shaman's spirit headdress donated to the local folk museum.
The Last Quarter of the Moon is about a life, and a lifestyle, as distant from ours as you can imagine; and entirely different from what English-readers might have come to expect of a Chinese novel. But the story is masterfully told, with simplicity and empathy, in a direct and credible voice that not only feels unlike a translation, but unlike a fiction at all.
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Zoë and her grandmother (Mamère) went off in search of the prince. The "prince" is Godfrey of Bouillon (~1060-1100) one of the leaders of the First Crusade. He was the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099). Bouillon was an important place in the Middle Ages. The ruins of the castle attest to its glory days.
Godfrey was the son of Eustace II, Count of Boulogne and Ida of Lorraine. Eustace II fought with William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings. His father was Eustace I, Count of Boulogne who married Matilda of Leuven (Louvain). (She was the daughter of Lambert I, Count of Leuven (~950-1015). We have many Belgian ancestors.)
Eustace I and Matilda are Zoë's direct ancestors via their other son Lambert II, Count of Lens (1025-1054). We descend from his daughter Judith of Lens whose mother (wife of Lambert II) was Adelaide of Normandy, sister of William the Conqueror.
The majority of people reading this blog are also descendants of these people. You just don't know it.
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- AnonymousFriday, July 23, 2010 12:24:00 AM
I've once heared that only 6000 individuals of the world's population living 2000 years ago contributed to the genomes of the people living today.
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I'm assuming that the vast majority of Sandwalk readers have European ancestors. A reasonable assumption, I think.
If that's true then read Are You a Descendant of Charlemagne? and tell me where you find a flaw in the logic.
If you are a descendant of Charlemagne, which is very likely, then chances are you are also a descendant of one of the people listed in my posting.But perhaps it's also true in that case?
I just read my own comment again, and it doesn't seem to convey the wittiness that I was trying to make at the time. So, let me answer myself: No, it is definitely not true. Y-Adam, the most recent common ancestor male, who all living males are descended from through males only, lived a lot longer time ago than Charlemagne. 90k to 60k years ago, apparently.Yeah its true that many people who check out your blog on Bouillon are related to the Bouillon kingdom. My mother's side of the family are descendants of the huegenot Louis Boulier. My Great grand father told my grandmother that the origins of our family reside at Castle Bouillon and have to do with Ireland. I also have ties to The Royal Society and The Donnachaidh Sociey of The Bruces through my Great Grand parents on my father's side of the family . My Great Grand parents are Thomis Amis and Mary Robertson.
sincerely Mark Alan Greeni am a descendant of ida of lorraine and eustace II, on my father's side, through their son eustace III, according to wikipedia the only one with issue. and i am european, dutch actually.
and i am jewish and i live in today's "kingdom of jerusalem", i love about 20 minutes away fro jerusalem... so being related to godfrey isn't that great, oh well you can't pick your relatives...


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It's been another hectic day. On impulse, you grab an extra-large candy bar during your afternoon break. You plan to take just a few bites. But before you know it, you've polished off the whole thing — and, at least temporarily, you may feel better.
Rest assured you're not alone. Stress, the hormones it unleashes, and the effects of high-fat, sugary "comfort foods" push people toward overeating. Researchers have linked weight gain to stress, and according to an American Psychological Association survey, about one-fourth of Americans rate their stress level as 8 or more on a 10-point scale.
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In the short term, stress can shut down an appetite. A structure in the brain called the hypothalamus releases corticotropin-releasing hormone, which suppresses appetite. The brain also sends messages to the adrenal glands atop the kidneys to pump out the hormone epinephrine (also known as adrenaline). Epinephrine helps trigger the body's fight-or-flight response, a revved-up physiological state that temporarily puts eating on hold.
But if stress persists — or is perceived as persisting — it's a different story. The adrenal glands release another hormone called cortisol, and cortisol increases appetite and may also ramp up motivation in general, including the motivation to eat. Once a stressful episode is over, cortisol levels should fall, but if the stress doesn't go away — or if a person's stress response gets stuck in the on position — cortisol may stay elevated.
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Stress also seems to affect food preferences. Numerous studies — granted, many of them in animals — have shown that physical or emotional distress increases the intake of food high in fat, sugar, or both. High cortisol levels, in combination with high insulin levels, may be responsible. Other research suggests that ghrelin, a "hunger hormone," may have a role.
Once ingested, fat- and sugar-filled foods seem to have a feedback effect that inhibits activity in the parts of the brain that produce and process stress and related emotions. So part of our stress-induced craving for those foods may be that they counteract stress. And, as Mary Dallman, a University of California researcher, has written, it's a small step from cooling off strong emotions caused by intense stress to using the same sort of food to quiet lesser feelings caused by milder or chronic stress.
Of course, overeating isn't the only stress-related behavior that can add pounds. Stressed people lose sleep, exercise less, and drink more alcohol, all of which can contribute to becoming overweight.
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Some research suggests a gender difference in stress-coping behavior, with women being more likely to turn to food and men to alcohol or smoking. A Finnish study that included more than 5,000 men and women showed that obesity was associated with stress-related eating in women but not in men. Other research has shown that high stress levels lead to weight gain in both women and men, but the effect is typically greater in men.
Harvard researchers have reported that stress from work and other sorts of problems correlates with weight gain, but only in those who were overweight at the beginning of the study period. One explanation: overweight people have elevated insulin levels, and stress-related weight gain is more likely to occur in the presence of high insulin.
How much cortisol people produce in response to stress may also factor into the stress-weight gain equation. Several years ago, British researchers designed an ingenious study that showed that people who responded to stress with high cortisol levels in an experimental setting were more likely to snack in response to daily hassles in their regular lives than low-cortisol responders.
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If stress seems to be affecting your appetite and bulging your waistline, one simple step you can take is to ban high-fat, sugary foods from your refrigerator and cupboards. Keeping those "comfort foods" handy is just inviting trouble.
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Meditate: Countless studies show that meditation reduces stress, although much of the research has focused on high blood pressure and heart disease. Meditation may also help you be more mindful of food choices. With practice, a person may be able to pay better attention to the impulse to grab a fat- and sugar-loaded comfort food and inhibit the impulse.
Exercise more: Intense exercise increases cortisol levels temporarily, but low-intensity exercise seems to reduce them. University of California researchers reported in 2010 that exercise — and this was vigorous exercise — may blunt some of the negative effects of stress. Some activities, such as yoga and tai chi, have elements of exercise and meditation.
Visit with friends: Social support seems to have a buffering effect on the stress people experience. For example, researchers have found that the mental health of people working in stressful situations, like hospital emergency rooms is better if they receive social support. But even those of us who live and work in situations where the stakes aren't as high will be better off with a little help from friends.
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Clegg is now deputy prime minister, a post that as far as anyone can tell involves keeping Cameron's seat warm when he's not there (literally) and bringing him coffees and cakes when he is. He recently made an official visit to Germany, where he spoke in German, presumably proffering a formal apology for his German cactus arson.
Cameron's real right-hand man is George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer (a fancypants name for finance minister), who last week delived the axe blow to what the Tories see as a bloated budget bequeathed by Labour. The new budget is a bit of a gamble (as was the last), with Obama telling Cameron, "Chill, dude," taking the philosophy that our nebulous malevolent overlords the markets are at heart a video ho, wooed by the flash of cash and the swagger of a rapper borrowing record label money to lease a Bentley, or in the markets' case, a country borrowing yuan to lease a future.
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The New Jersey ruling opening the door to gay marriage in the state is a last minute boon to Republicans. While Democrats will say that Republicans are using the politics of division (as they supposedly did in 2004) to get votes in November, the reality is that the Republicans never put gay marriage on the agenda — it was the Democrats. And here again, they shoot themselves in the foot.
Nothing gets the evangelical groups up in arms like gay marriage. I'm against it, but I am not all that fired up on the issue. However, that group who was tuning out just got a wake up call. A Democratic House and a Democratic Senate means no defense against judicial activists, (I doubt any federalists or strict constructionists will make it past a Democratic Senate) and certainly no laws stopping this behavior will be pondered on a House agenda driven by San Francisco liberal Nancy Pelosi.
The result is that, before this ruling, the stakes could be rationalized as low by some voters and that the idea got put to death. Now the stakes are high to the evangelical vote (and others who don't want to see gay marriage rammed down the throat of the American public without so much as a simple consultation,) and there is a tangible issue that they don't want to lose that's now on the line.
The Foley story is old news and few people but the party faithful read all the hit piece books that come out in October. People see this ruling, and they're paying attention. It just gave the Republican faithful another big reason to come out and vote in two weeks.
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[I sent this message three times but did not get a response.] Would someone please DTRT, then ack? If the fix is simple enough, it should be installed in Emacs 22. ------- Start of forwarded message ------- X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=failed version=3.1.0 To: address@hidden From: Nikolaj Schumacher <address@hidden> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:13:53 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: modification hooks called only once in c-mode Hello, occasionally modification hooks seem to be called only once in c-mode (and derivatives). This happens in both released and CVS version of Emacs 22, but not in Emacs 21. To reproduce, evaluate the following: (defun test-bug-hook (overlay afterp beg end &optional r) (message "%s hook called" (if afterp "after" "before"))) (defun test-bug () (let ((beg (point)) ov) (insert "foobar") (setq ov (make-overlay beg (point))) (overlay-put ov 'face 'highlight) (overlay-put ov 'insert-in-front-hooks '(test-bug-hook)))) 1) Create a new buffer in fundamental-mode, evaluate (test-bug), and insert a char before the overlay. Result: before hook called after hook called 1) Create a new buffer in c-mode, evaluate (test-bug), and insert a char before the overlay. Result: before hook called The hook is never called after the change. In GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-apple-darwin8.10.1, Carbon Version 1.6.0) of 2007-07-16 on wednesday Windowing system distributor `Apple Inc.', version 10.4.10 configured using `configure '--prefix=/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources' '--with-carbon' '--without-x' '--libexecdir=/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec' 'CFLAGS=-arch i386 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -DUSE_ATSUI -O2'' regards, Nikolaj Schumacher _______________________________________________ bug-gnu-emacs mailing list address@hidden http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-emacs ------- End of forwarded message -------
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Lord Stirling's News Blog EUROPE
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On the Road to the Third World War.
Armageddon also means that the Second Coming of Christ is near.
Special Report: Ukraine War
Ukraine Junta likely to block Russian humanitarian aid convoy ~ link ~ The Zionist/Globalist puppet coup junta in Kiev seems to have one strategic goal with Russia and that is to get it directly involved in a war over the Ukraine so that Israel and America will have a free hand to begin a General Middle East War!!! Stirling
Almost 300 lorries of humanitarian aid left the Moscow area bound for Luhansk on Tuesday morning.
Russian TV showed the cargo, said to include hundreds of tonnes of grain, baby food and medicine, which will go to civilians trapped by fighting in the area held by pro-Russia rebels.
Ukraine Coup Junta says it WILL DENY ENTRY to Russian Aid Convoy ~ link ~ If Russia has to fight in the Ukraine, I suspect that they will do a coup d'main and drop paratroopers and special forces on Kiev and seize the coup leaders while sending a armored force into eastern Ukraine. It will be bloody but not last over a week and then the Russians will reinstall the coup ousted legitimate elected President. If NATO military force enter the battle then all-out World War III will have begun!!! Stirling
"We will not consider the possibility of any movement of the Russian column on the territory of Ukraine," said Valeriy Chaly, deputy head of Ukraine's Presidential Administration, on Tuesday. He also said any consignment should be loaded onto transport provided by the Red Cross and that Russian personnel would not be permitted to escort it.
Russian media say some 2,000 tons of aid, from baby food to sleeping bags, was en route to east Ukraine, where some 1,300 people have been killed in fighting between pro-Russia forces and government forces. On Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow and Kiev had agreed on a humanitarian mission under the authority of the Red Cross.
Russia launches another 'war game' on the northeast: 30 airplanes and helicopters and 3,000 paratroopers ~ link ~ Good training for a coup d'main in a out-of-the-way place!!! Stirling
We were about 12 hours early, because later that same day, Itar-Tass reported that some 3,000 paratroopers will be airlifted in two districts of Russia's north-western Pskov region as part of command and staff exercises of the 76th air assault division starting on Monday, Airborne Force spokeswoman, Major Irina Kruglova said. As a reminder, Pskov is located right next to the Baltics, bordering Estonia and Latvia, both of which have been on a rather belligerent diplomatic track with the Kremlin, and thus will likely result in a substantial escalation in Russia-Baltic tensions, not to mention Ukraine as well, now that Putin is no longer counter-un-de-escalating, again. But back to the latest, greatest, and certainly not last drill, "over 3,000 personnel will be airlifted by 15 Il-76 planes," the spokeswoman said.
The punchline: The mass landing of paratroopers in an unknown terrain will be held for the first time in military drills of this level, the spokeswoman said. As long as the surprise terrain is not "Kiev"...
Ukraine Junta blocks Russian humanitarian convoy and accuses Kremlin of sending "disquised military gear" ~ link ~ link ~ You know everything coming from the Zionists and Globalists is a lie, they lie all the time about everything. That strongly reflects their satanic nature. The convoy has not yet made it to the Ukraine border, therefor they have NOT examined it and cannot say what is in all these trucks. However, as the Red Cross is involved it is highly unlikely that there are any weapons in these trucks! Just more lying bullcrap from the monsters who are driving the entire world to Armageddon!!! Stirling
However, with the trucks currently in transit from a point southwest of Moscow and set to enter Ukrainian territory through a customs checkpoint in the Kharkiv region, according to former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, a snag has appeared: Ukraine, which previously blessed the Russian convoy's entry into the country has had a change of heart and has announced it would not allow the convoy in its current state.
Donetsk says its ready for urban warfare with Coup Junta forces ~ link ~ Europe has not seen anything like this since 1945!!! Stirling
Ukraine's eastern city of Donetsk is under heavy bombardment of government forces as Ukrainian troops tighten their grip on the strongholds of pro-Russian fighters.
The newly-elected Prime Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Alexander Zakharchenko, on Saturday called for a ceasefire with Kiev to prevent a possible "humanitarian catastrophe" but added that if the Ukrainian army moves into Donetsk the pro-Russians will hold their ground.
"We are ready to have a ceasefire to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe, but will not surrender under any circumstances," said Zakharchenko in a written statement.
"The fight will be for every street, for every house, for every meter of our land," he added.He warned that such circumstance would turn the city into a new "Stalingrad," a reference to the Soviet Union's refusal to surrender the city of Stalingrad to the Nazis during World War II.
Russia dispatches large humanitarian aid convoy to the Ukraine ~ link ~
Russia's Emergencies Ministry dispatched on Tuesday some 300 trucks carrying over 2,000 tons of humanitarian aid toward the border with Ukraine, the Russian official sources say.
On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin told Jose Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, that Russia, in cooperation with representatives of the Red Cross, is sending a humanitarian convoy to Ukraine.
The European Commission has warned Russia against any unilateral actions in Ukraine "under any pretext, including humanitarian."
Moscow has been urging Kiev to give permission for the shipment of humanitarian aid to the residents of the eastern regions of Ukraine, but the government in Kiev supported by the West has rejected the calls.
Three nations are at grave risk if Junta shelling leads to Gorlovka chemical leaks say experts ~ link ~
Millions of people will be affected if shelling of the village of Gorlovka by the Ukrainian army leads to leaks at local chemical plants, experts warn, adding that the toxic clouds are also capable of spreading around the world.
A spokesman for Ukraine's largest chemical plant, Stirol, made headlines on Monday after releasing a video appeal, in which he said that "irresponsible actions" by the military, who are fighting the anti-Kiev rebels in the area, may cause a massive ecological disaster.
Ron Paul slams mainstream news media's MH17 'war propaganda' and claims US government "knows a lot more than it's telling us" ~ link ~ Yep.
Edgar Cayce on Russia, WWIII, etc. ~ link


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Title: | Race relations and civil rights: a southern point of view; February 28, 1963 |
Date: | 1963 Feb. 28 |
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Monday, April 19, 2010
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Congratulations to Shane Mangus for winning the Best Cthulhu category in the One Page Dungeon Contest. His triumphant entry, "Raid on Black Goat Wood", is available in PDF at his website.
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I hope everyone enjoys the adventure. I have plans to expand it from a one page dungeon to a full blown module. For those that take the time to play "Raid on Black Goat Wood" I would love to hear from you to see how it ran for your group. Look under my Google profile on http://swordandsanity.blogspot.com/ for my email address. - April 19, 2010 at 8:12 AM
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I expressed and purified a recombinant protein under denaturing condition, 8M urea using Qiagen Ni-NTA column Everything was OK till the purification step. I got single bands for purified protein. But during dialysis the protein precipitated. I tried to redissolve it using 1%DMSO and also by altering pH but it did not work. How to resolubilize the protein. Please suggest ASAP. Thanks !
protein precipitates after dialysis
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Posted 12 February 2002 - 09:28 AM
The critical step in dialysis with 8M urea is 1M to 1,5M urea and if there is precipitate at this molarity, it's finish. You can see qiagen manual about refolding.
Good luck
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What's happening is you are removing the denaturant that kept your proteins in solution.
When You dialyze denatured proteins you have to make sure that folding is favored as opposed aggregation.
The precipitates you see probably are your proteins aggragated.
Like i said, i had the same thing. I was planning on denaturing my aggregates again with 6M urea or GuHCl. then dilute the proteins sufficiently enough such that foldign is favored. but i haven't tried it yet.
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Rob, we're not sure yet... I'll post an update to this thread when I know. Thanks!
there are up to three weeks remaining before the app is available. hopefully it will be quicker than that. thanks
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Creating an ebook version of this text is probably the single more important decision made in the past several years. For the first time since 1997, I did not purchase Baseball Prospectus in 2011. Even us old folks can learn to forgo the large tomes. Of course this begs the question - will past editions be available for purchase? On a separate issue, while I understand Amazon does dominate the market of ereaders, it is important to promote industry standard epub version / non-proprietary based versions which allows one to transfer the license across multiple readers. I purchased my copy from Sony for less than some of the proprietary versions.
Agree that the release of an ebook is a monumental step. Just a heads up, though, the price for the Kindle version is $9.99, but the link above says it's $7.99. Worth every penny...
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And I'm not talking about STEM skills, although they're critical. Or the ability to speak multiple languages, which needs to be more common in the U.S. Or even the readiness of college graduates to take a place in the economy, which a majority of employers report is lacking.
But really — what about the skills for the future? I'm not sure what we'll call those skills. I'm not even sure they're skills, to be honest, but here's what I do know:
People are living longer and will want/need to have longer careers.Smart machines are taking over the most routine workplace tasks.Data – big, medium and small – is changing the way decisions are being made at every organizational level.Text isn't the only way we communicate any more.Organization structures and behaviors are changing due to social technologies.We say "Global," but what that really mean is that innovation and growth will be primarily driven through the integration of differing cultural norms and diversity.
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