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New York, June 1, 2010--Israel should immediately release the journalists it detained along with hundreds of peace activists on Monday after Israeli forces stormed a convoy of ships carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. According to international news reports and CPJ interviews, Israeli forces arrested at least 20 journalists aboard the humanitarian flotilla; three have since been released.
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The National Gallery of Canada is having a flashback. Its latest exhibition, The Sixties in Canada, is a trip back in time to a decade of unprecedented experimentation, when artists tested the limits and pushed the boundaries of artistic expression. The Sixties in Canada charts the emergence of pop art, minimalism, kinetic and conceptual art through some 80 works by well-known figures like Jack Bush, Michael Snow, Claude Tousignant and Joyce Wieland, along with no less influential artists such as N.E. Thing Co., Gary Neill Kennedy and Roy Kiyooka. Visitors to the exhibition will rediscover the artists who challenged and dissolved the boundaries between artistic disciplines in a way that reflected the societal upheavals of the time.

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Halfway to our destination we had to stop at a farmacia to pick up a small package of Band-Aids to do some emergency blister control on my feet. Humidity and soft flesh inside leather sandals do not make for a comfortable walking experience. And what was I thinking anyway? Although it appeared from the map that our walk would be a short one, I should have known that walking around any city with Michael would turn into the journey of a thousand miles. I knew I should have worn my sneakers. Oh well.
Two bandages and an hour later we arrived at the entrance to Corcovado, hopped on the tram and up the mountain we went. Traveling through a thick forest with lush green trees and colorful flowers, the train crept up the steep hillside, offering intermittent glimpses of the city below through the trees. Disembarking, we were met with the challenge of climbing 200 steps to reach the statue.
In our effort to do as much as we can these first few days, we decided to trek over to Sugarloaf, another famous mountainside in Rio. Sunset atop this landmark will be great, we reason. So we take a bus down to Largo Do Machado, a bustling area, and walk around for more flavor of the city, and then towards Flamengo, catching a glimpse of Sugarloaf in the faraway distance, deciding that it's probably closer than we think. So we decide to try walking there. Again, what was I thinking? Through parks and neighborhoods, past the lagoon and the bay we walk .... and walk .... and walk. At least another eight miles.
Now with five Ban-Aids covering my blistering sandaled feet, we arrived at the base of Sugarloaf. Finally! I was so glad we were there because I felt myself getting grumpy and I just wanted to sit down. But that had to wait because there were no seats on the tram that took us ?? feet into the air in less than five minutes. The view from the top was fabulous. We could see Corcovado in the distance, and I was totally shocked to see the distance we had walked. But we were still not at the very top of the mountain. Up another cable car tram, we arrived at the pinnacle of this attraction - Sugarloaf. Admiring the view with the other visitors, I began to feel a fondness for this beautiful city of friendly people - the River of January, Rio de Janeiro. I think I could actually live here - at least for a few months of the year. I make a mental note to look into it once I make my millions from the sale of my novel. But that will have to wait because by then my feet were aching and my stomach was growling and I had to tend to the more urgent needs of the moment.
Back at the base of the mountain, we hop aboard a bus that is bound for Copacabana. Little did we know that we would be taking the long route, traveling through several areas of the city before finally reaching the familiar sights of Copabana about two hours later. No problem. My feet definitely needed the break. With sushi on our minds, we walked over to the Marriott Hotel and into the sushi bar there to enjoy for Rio-style sushi. A great way to wrap up the day.


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TUPELO – Charged with sending ricin-laced letters to the president and other elected officials, an Elvis impersonator now waits in the Lafayette County Jail, leaving some people wondering about the man they thought they knew.
Paul Kevin Curtis, 45, who grew up in Natchez and has lived in places in north Mississippi including Tupelo, Booneville and Corinth, seems to have been convinced that he had insider information related to a scheme of North Mississippi Medical Center that involved selling body parts.
He posted online on a number of different websites that he discovered a refrigerator full of body parts while working there as a janitor from 1998 to 2000.
Through people he met in person and online, Curtis spread his beliefs about the hospital. At the same time, he continued his efforts in songwriting and as an Elvis impersonator, an interest he shared with his brother.
Curtis appears to have maintained up to eight different Facebook profiles, posting on them comments on many different topics ranging from his music interests to sympathy about deaths in the recent explosions in Boston to his anger related to people associated with the alleged body parts scheme.
A woman who asked not to be identified recalled Thursday having Curtis perform 12 years ago at her daughter's first birthday. She received emails from him that started as harmless but then turned more conspiratorial, enough that she stopped reading them.
However, she still has a hard time believing the musical performer would send envelopes laced with poison to President Barack Obama, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker and Lee County Justice Court Judge Sadie Holland.
"If Kevin is found guilty I pray he receives help," she said. "Clearly, he suffers from a mental or emotional breakdown."
In a lawsuit filed in 2000 by Tupelo attorney Jim Waide, Curtis claimed he was fired from NMMC for complaining about poor work conditions. A hospital spokeswoman said Curtis was fired from the hospital, but not for reasons he stated.
The hospital spokeswoman also said NMMC has a contract with Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency that takes organs from the hospital for transplantation in other hospitals and does not receive payment for the organs.
Waide said he later withdrew from the case out of concerns for Curtis' mental health.
Also on Thursday, Curtis' family released a statement acknowledging awareness of his mental health struggles and medical diagnoses of bipolar disorder. The family said Curtis led a healthy, functional life when he took medication but didn't always take it.
"When Kevin is taking is his medication as prescribed, he is a loving, compassionate person," said his brother, Jack Curtis. "Our family is hopeful that the federal government will do something to provide some assistance for Kevin's mental illness."
Curtis' online postings are similar to the endings of letters sent to elected officials. "This is Kevin Curtis and I approve this message," he wrote online.
"I am KC and I approve this message," the letters to the president and senator said.
Wicker said Thursday in Washington that he met Curtis, who was working as Elvis, at a party Wicker and his wife helped host for an engaged couple about a decade ago.
"My impression is that since that time he's had mental issues and perhaps is not as stable as he was back then," Wicker told The Associated Press.
A divorced father of three children, Curtis still maintained a close relationship with his ex-wife, Laura Curtis, who lives in Booneville.
However, the Associated Press reports that Curtis' ex-wife called the police on him in 2007 to report that he was extremely delusional, anti-government and felt the government was spying on him with drones.
Curtis relayed regularly on social media, especially Facebook, conspiracy theories and his claim of government actions aimed at framing him in order to keep him quiet. He claims repeatedly in online statements that he became a "person of interest" after accidentally discovering "dismembered body parts and organs" at NMMC.
Curtis became increasingly convinced over the next decade that he was being targeted, arrested and monitored by law enforcement because he had knowledge of a secret bone, tissue and organ harvesting industry "that is making billions of dollars for corrupt mafia related organizations and people."
Despite growing evidence in the case, some friends and fans of Curtis are standing firmly behind him and attest to his innocence. Rebecca Polston, an Indiana woman who met Curtis in 1994 at an Elvis tribute contest, said she believes the charges are part of yet another conspiracy.
"I just think that he is being framed because of all he knows from just other conspiracy stuff," she said. "Somebody just said, 'It's time, sucker. I'm gonna get ya.'"
Polston is a enthusiastic fan of both Elvis and Curtis and said she believes Curtis is being framed by "somebody that knows how he signs his emails." She said, "I said to him a few days ago, he is doing the right thing and some people in the government, they do not like that."
Another Indiana woman with whom Curtis frequently interacted online, who identified herself as Nancy Lee Smith Hakes, supports Curtis and described their relationship as "very close" and "personal."
Having known him for 13 years, Hakes said she does not believe Curtis could be guilty.
"In my personal opinion, I can't see him doing anything that would cause personal harm to anyone even if he did disagree with what they were doing," she said. "He just isn't that kind of person."
One of the last messages Curtis posted on Facebook around 2 a.m. the day of his arrest, is a photo and obituary of a Estelle Kohn. Kohn served as the deputy director of the National Whistleblowers legal Defense & Education Fund.
There is no evidence of a link between Curtis and Kohn though he posted a widely reported statement about being "on the hidden front lines of a secret war."
A Tupelo woman who asked to not be named said she became friends with Curtis when she met him in 2003. She said Curtis likely wrote of his admiration for Kohn because he identified with her.
"He thinks he is a whistle blower," she said, "because he has blown the whistle" on the alleged conspiracy.
Other Facebook posts from the days immediately prior to Curtis' arrest include a picture of a certificate of membership from the MENSA society and photos of a small-caliber pistol.


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BINGHAMTON, NY – Binghamton University students, faculty and staff aim to bring joy to the lives of needy families though various holiday drives scheduled for the coming weeks.
As part of the annual Hand to Heart Holiday Project, thousands of donated items will be sorted into more than 1,200 gift bags starting at 9 a.m. Monday, December 6, in the basement lounge of O' Connor Hall located in the Dickinson community. Sorting should take a few hours and then bags will be delivered to the Salvation Army and the Wyoming Conference Children's Home for distribution. Each year Residential Life and the National Resident Hall Honorary team up with the Salvation Army and the Children's Home to make the holiday season a little brighter for needy Binghamton-area children.
The 21st annual Student Association Holiday Drive will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, December 7, in the Old Union Hall. Hundreds of gifts ranging from toys to clothing to food certificates will be collected and distributed to over 100 individuals in the Binghamton School District. Tables will be set up to sort the gifts, which will then be transported to the schools and distributed to the families.
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Often overlooked in discussions of the USA FREEDOM Act passed in June are the changes made to the National Security Letter (NSL) statute. The law addresses some of the more obvious problems with NSLs but fails, by a long shot, to bring them up to the standard required by the U.S. Constitution. Most critically, USA FREEDOM did not fix the problem of overbroad, potentially eternal gag orders or the fact that the NSL statute relegates the court to little more than a rubber stamp.
We're excited to announce that Canarywatch has added its 50th canary: First Look Media, the parent company for The Intercept—the news site created by journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill.
"Warrant canary" is a colloquial term for a regularly published statement that an internet service provider (ISP) has not received legal process that it would be prohibited from saying it had received, such as a national security letter.
When is a government rule not a rule? Making that question difficult, when it should be simple, seems to be the government's leading strategy in a hearing this week in Twitter Inc.'s lawsuit challenging the government's squelching of its transparency report. Twitter wants to provide a closer look at how often federal agents are demanding private user data for surveillance, and part of its suit fights back against the government's rules on what it can and cannot publish. But the Justice Department has asked a federal judge in Oakland to dismiss portions of Twitter's lawsuit because, it says, the rules the government cited in denying Twitter the ability to be more transparent aren't really rules. They're more like guidelines, the agency says. If you're having flashbacks about ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' and a certain Captain Barbossa, you're not alone. More on that later.
"Warrant canary" is a colloquial term for a regularly published statement that an internet service provider (ISP) has not received legal process that it would be prohibited from saying it had received, such as a national security letter. The term "warrant canary" is a reference to the canaries used to provide warnings in coalmines, which would become sick from carbon monoxide poisoning before the miners would—warning of the otherwise-invisible danger. Just like canaries in a coalmine, the canaries on web pages "die" when they are exposed to something toxic—like a secret FISA court order.
Last year, EFF took a huge step toward eliminating a highly problematic government surveillance tool—national security letters (NSLs). EFF clients won a major victory when a district court found that the NSL gag provision, which allows the government to bar recipients from speaking about NSLs without judicial review, is a prior restraint on speech in violation of the First Amendment.
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Turns out, far too much has been written about great men and not nearly enough about morons. Doesn't seem right.
The player in your avatar played for a University that wasn't a major player until 1979 when it hired a pipe smoking rough neck coach that promised a NC in 5 years. It has been done before, can and will be done again. In today's age it just takes more money than it used to. Louisville has plenty of that.
Well, there you go. The meeting today with players was about Sugar Bowl stuff. He did not tell them anything about his decision.
He has called another meeting with players at 7:30 tomorrow morning but SID Kenny Klein says that here is no news conference scheduled at 8 AM or anytime tomorrow. That sounds like he's likely gone. I guess he was "cut like that". But oh well, we've still got Teddy Bridgewater and whomever the new coach is next year is getting a very, very good football team. I'm guessing Tom Jurich will look at Vance Bedford and Shawn Watson first, but hopefully he gives Mario Cristobal a call as well.
Knoxville sports talk radio host has said that 2 separate UT sources have told him that Strong has informed UT that he is staying in Louisville.
Well, who knows now. I guess we'll find out for certain tomorrow.
Butch Jones to Colorado
Also Pete Thamel of SI is reporting it's official that Charlie Strong has turned down UT and will sign an extension with Louisville that will place him in the upper echelon of ACC coaches. To add to that former U of L runningback Vic Anderson just tweeted that he spoke to Strong himself and that he is staying at U of L.
So far tonight the U of L players have been messing around with fans on the Twitter all night. During tonight's meeting Strong told them that he make a decision that is "in the best interest of the team". I'm just guessing that since they have been messing with people and were generally in a good mood when the left the meeting (per local media) that they were more or less told that Strong was sticking around and to keep it confidential. Now we can move on and concentrate on a tough defensive team in UF in the Sugar Bowl.
Add 4 star QB commit Kyle Bolin to the list of players that have been told that Strong is staying.
Sonny Dykes to Cal. Didn't help LA Tech that they turned down their bowl invite pissing him and the players off
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Corylus avellana, Cornus mas, Crataegus monogyna and Prunus spinosa in a bush close to Deisermillen, Grevenmacher, (NE-.lu). Several interesting fungi (Ascomycetes) are on Corylus and Crataegus not visible here because their fructifications are below 1mm in size. Pics are taken with a Ricoh R10 at 24mm focus. Gonna rep...


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As Ive said in my earlier post Episode II sets available in Sweden! the new Attack of the Clones System and Technic sets has been available at this side of the pond since April the 22nd so I thought Id write down my reviews of the sets and contribute to the forum for you. Since Im a former (in a way I still am) model kit builder and collector I thought my views of the sets could be interesting for you guys as Ive been very much into building and collecting model kits that are as accurate as possible compared to the original filming miniatures etc.
However, to be honest with you guys I dont know too much yet about the original filming miniatures from Attack of the Clones and I havent even seen too many pictures of the vehicles and spaceships but Ill try and do some good reviews of the sets anyway.
Okay... Lets rock.
The box:
This is a traditional Cornflakes box issue as I like to call them but unlike the boxes being released in the US of A theres no additional markings of being a building toy that contains small parts and piece count isnt mentioned either and it comes with a plain Star Wars logo.
The instruction booklet:
Is in full color and 24 pages long and takes you through building first the Yoda and Count Dooku mini figure along with his speederbike on pages 2 to 11 and second the crane on pages 12 to 19 while the rest of the pages are used to show off the other Star Wars sets available. But theres no instructions included for the alternative models that are being shown off on the back of the box but its of no loss at all for me at least as Ive got no interest at all in them and then again theyre pretty easy to build for the avid LEGO enthusiast so no problems at all.
Included in the box was also one LEGO and one Episode II flyer.
Parts and construction:
Parts came in one big and one small plastic bag and the construction was straight forward.
The set itself:
All in all this is a very nice little set and of course very easily to build for this big kid and it comes with Count Dooku mini figure and his Speederbike as well as a Yoda mini figure and a crane to go but a larger scene would have been nice but of course the set is made for the kids.
The Yoda mini figure do have stubbies for legs indeed and his head seems to be made of vinyl as earlier reports said but shorter footies would have been much better for this fellow as hes a rather short and tiny guy but at least we now have a Yoda mini figure to play with.
The only real low down with this set is Count Dookus Speederbike as the printings on the blue new parts (whatever their correct name is) thats on top on the tail/engine section to the right and left were totally off compared to one another on my sample at least. Anyone else?
As debated on many other websites Count Dookus lightsaber is indeed curved and like many others I thought this was a molding error made by LEGO until I saw the Hasbro? toy version of the lightsaber that had a curved handle and after that I knew it was a special saber.
Ill give this set a total amount of three out of five lightsabers for the Jedi Master himself.
Price in Swedish Crooner: 119.00 SEK or $11.55.
Maybe all this is old news but anyway I love to contribute to this very excellent forum.
Kindest regards,
Lars Olsson in Sundsvall, Sweden.


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THE people who crowded Mrs. Hulme's unaired and undecorated drawing-room were, to say the least of it, oddly mixed. Among good, steady, high-nosed folk, with whom conventional propriety was as sacred as the Decalogue and the religion of white kid gloves that for which they had the most practical respect, were to be found seedy foreigners who had no investments outside their sharpened wits; obscure artists whom the Academy rejected and the picture-dealers would not endorse; shabby literati, said to be capable of great things but page: 39 achieving only small ones, and living by methods unknown to men of letters in the mass; handsome women, with invisible husbands and curiously constant male friends; unengaged actresses, whose jewels, fine dresses and pretty little broughams did not suffer from their enforced want of work; and every shade and kind of Bohemianism extant. There were no limits to the breadth and depth of Mrs. Hulme's hospitality; and as there were no restraints, from dress to certificates, and the only stipulation demanded was the power to amuse or the capacity for being amused, she got round her what Mr. King called a 'job lot'—and a job lot of even more unscoured character than that which Silk Buckingham drew into the net of his famous Institute.
Her evenings were singularly pleasant. There was always good music by professionals, for whom this was a kind of unpaid and unfruitful advertisement. Sometimes page: 40 there was an impromptu charade; or a pretty aspirant gave the walking scene of Lady Macbeth, or Juliet on the balcony, as a proof of her powers—if only that stout sleek impresario in the huge white waist-coat and heavy golden chain would make her the leading lady at so much the week. Or a clever imitator reproduced Buckstone, or O. Smith, Paul Bedford or Webster, Wright or Liston, Farren, 'Little Munden,' or Robson, to the life, and the stock catch-words 'brought down the house' as at the real thing. Sometimes there was a spell of table-turning, or of mesmeric experiments, when young sensitives acted according to order, and proved the truth of craniology by showing love or hate, devotion or disdain, as this bump was touched or that indicated. And always there was plenty of wit and laughter, with a subtle suspicion of garlic and tobacco, and an ever-present sense of hunger and impecuniosity.page: 41
The steady folk were scandalized by the free-and-easy tone of these evenings, as well as by the slightly ragamuffin look of some of the guests, and the more than slightly doubtful antecedents and conditions of most of them. But as Mrs. Hulme was a woman of good birth, passably rich, heirless, and of an age when scandal had ceased to make merry with her name—it had made very merry indeed in times past—she somehow managed to hold on with respectability, while she towed her queer cargo behind and kept her own head above water.
She had lived a great deal abroad, where it was supposed she had adopted her loose ways and put off more than her English stays. And the pernicious influence of all that bad foreign example to which she had been subjected was her excuse with those who could not approve yet would not renounce. Thus, nothing page: 42 worse was said of her, by even the strictest of the Pharisees who consorted with her, than:
'What a pity it is that Mrs. Hulme knows such very odd people! She is really too kind-hearted and indiscriminate!'
If they were odd, however, they were all, according to their hostess, personages of latent distinction and the unrecognised geniuses of the future. What a hot-bed of compressed talent it was!—the crozier heads of forth-coming far-spreading fronds! What nameless Raffaeles in long hair and thread-bare coats discoursed learnedly on 'method' and 'touch,' 'technique' and 'morbidezza;' on Turner's skies and Stansfield's seas; on Chalon's grace and Etty's flesh-tints; on the power of Maclise and the versatility of Mulready! What cotyledonous Beethovens sprung the notes and broke the strings of that Broadwood 'grand' which was Mrs. Hulme's most important bit of furniture!— page: 43 and what fascinating Malibrans that were to be sang 'Robert! toi que j'aime!' looking at that stout impresario in the big white waistcoat, who had their fortune in his pocket if only he would put his hand therein to find it!
And those black-bearded counts and fair-haired barons, with coats buttoned to the chin and not a line of linen to swear by—they were all great men in their own country, and most of them were inventive geniuses, with that potential wealth beyond the dreams of avarice we have heard of so often before, in the shape of unpatented inventions—wanting but so few pounds to set agoing for the certain realization of those dreams! Among them were some good ideas which have since been taken up and worked out into practicality. But it is sad to think that many a germ of what is now an accomplished fact, bringing an enormous fortune to the manipulator, had its origin in the brains of page: 44 these poor unfriended foreigners,who scarcely knew where to get the bread and meat that should keep body and soul together.
Mrs. Hulme herself, always sitting in her own especial arm-chair by the fireplace, was not the least remarkable in an assembly where no one was common-place. She was a woman of about seventy, whose love of personal ease had conquered all that personal vanity some vestige of which most women keep to the end of time. She was loose and stout, and with no more shape than the typical sack tried round the middle. Her grey hair was thin and wispy, and brushed straight off her bold full brow; and she wore no cap, as do other women of her age, but only a small black lace kerchief, tied round her face and knotted under her chin. She was always dressed in black stuff, with a grey woollen knitted shawl on her shoulders. She wore black mittens on her soft white flaccid hands; and among her page: 45 numerous old-fashioned rings was one large onyx. This she said held her quietus.
'The day when I can no longer laugh,' she said to me quite cheerfully; 'the day when I have to confess that I am beaten, that life is at last played out, and that humanity has become to me more revolting than ridiculous—then I shall open this and bid you all "Good-night."'
She made no secret of her intention to commit suicide when life should be no longer enjoyable. She had no fancy for dregs, she used to say, with her strange laugh, at once so cynical and so pleasure-loving, so mocking, so sensual and so humorous. And the knowledge that she could die when she chose, without pain or confusion, helped her to live. It was her staff of strength, without which the road would be both rough and tiresome—and perhaps already too long.
I may as well say here as later, that she page: 46 carried out her intention, and did one night take that great leap into the dark which she always said she would take when tired of the light. When she found out that she had an internal tumour, which would probably become cancerous, she put her affairs in order; gave her last Bohemian evening, where she surpassed herself in the audacity of her speech and the brilliancy of her wit; and then, with her finger between the pages of her pocket Rabelais, she drew down the thick curtain between herself and the House of Life, and so ended the play for ever. She left all she possessed to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and other kindred institutions; dumb brutes being, according to her, less bestial than men.
She was the first person I had ever heard speak of suicide in this philosophical manner—as a thing to be discussed like any other—an act of free will and intelligence, good page: 47 or evil according to conditions, but not necessarily a sin, a mystery, a shame, a dread. And her words made on me one of those ineffaceable impressions which are the birth-hours of thought.
Of course the first time she spoke to me I was shocked—and more. My father had never mentioned the subject without horror, as murder of the worst kind—impiety of the most damnable character—the one sin which could never be repented of. Cato might be pardoned, because Cato was a heathen; but a Christian who had the true knowledge was outside the pale of forgiveness—and God Himself had limited His own power. But the thing was altogether forbidden; and even discussion was an irreligious tampering with evil. It was to be simply abhorred in silence, like any other infamy. Yet I remember when a poor fellow, a clergyman, cut his throat not far from Eden, my dear father would not page: 48 allow a harsh word to be spoken of him, but said only:
'The mercy of God is infinite. Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.'
For here, as so often in his life, personal charity was stronger than dogmatic harshness, and the man pitied what the theologian condemned.
Of this teaching I naturally retained the impress, and looked on self-murder as one of those crimes which have no two sides and for which there is no kind of palliation. And now, here was Mrs. Hulme calmly upholding not only the moral right, but even the social value, of suicide, and proclaiming her own intention of one day practising what she professed!
Two years ago a new arithmetic would have seemed to me as possible as a new moral code. Theology might be, and was, an uncertain quantity, but morality was as fixed as the everlasting hills. But now, I page: 49 confess it, my absolutes were beginning to dissolve. My old principles were laughed out of court by my Paphian friends the Free-lovers, with whom the sanctity of marriage was effaced in favour of the imperialism of love—by the hedonism of Mrs. Hulme, with whom duty was a superstition and pleasure the final cause and great end of existence.
Yet these people were neither criminals nor savages. They were thoughtful, kindly, cultivated, conscientious; and the ordinary theological writ about the depravity of the human heart did not run among them. Still, they made morality discretionary and not compulsory; and changed the granite stability of right and wrong into a nebulous kind of individualism, where all was convertible according to convenience, and nothing was radical and superior to conditions.
Thus it was that I first began to see the page: 50 moral law as a question of evolution and social arrangement, void of extrinsic divine ordination—that, while recognising some laws as better and making more for progress than others, I had to confess, also, that nowhere has been said the final word, and that nothing has received its last and unchangeable form—that everything on earth is relative—from colour by juxtaposition, to crime by the circumstances surrounding it.
In manner Mrs. Hulme was kindly, brusque, unconventional, familiar. She never rose from her chair, let who would enter the room; and she kept a seat immediately behind her for her favourite of the evening, to whom she laughed and talked over her shoulder. That beside her was for the last comer, who was expected to vacate it when another visitor entered. If he delayed, he was ordered off without ceremony. She called women by their Christian names, and page: 51 men by their surnames, without prefix or distinctive title; and she treated all young people like children, rebuking, encouraging or caressing, according to her mood, as if these young heroes had been so many boy-babies at her knee.
In religion an atheist; in theoretical politics a socialist; despising human nature, and therefore tolerant of its weaknesses and indifferent to its vices; mocking, cynical, irreverent; without tenderness of sentiment to make her sympathetic with earnestness, yet marvellously kind-hearted and generous to excess, she stripped every question that she touched of all sacredness, all mystery, all poetry, all divinity, and reduced it to a standard as prosaic as the market-price of a pound of tallow-candles. She scoffed at the idea of hidden mysteries, and denied the peculiar sacredness of things because they are unknown. She saw no difference in kind, only in degree, and page: 52 swept the whole universe into the same abyss of contempt.
'The Divine Life to be found in bugs and blue-bottles?' she said with her mocking laugh when I, still under the influence of Adeline Dalrymple, spoke as I had been taught. 'So you make yourself a deicide every time you catch the one or scrunch the other? The Divine Life energizing itself in a stinging-nettle or a dandelion? What rubbish! Reduce your pretty fancy to reason, and you will find that your divinity means, on the one hand, bigness and complexity of organism—on the other, that which pleases and profits yourself. You vapour about the beauty—a condition of the Divine Life—of a lily; but you will dig up and destroy that stinging-nettle aforesaid. A beautiful woman is of course very divine—but that flea biting her neck? that midge making a bump on her forehead? Pshaw! You have a great deal yet to learn, my dear page: 53 boy, and a great deal more to unlearn. We shall have to scrape those brains of yours clear of all the superstitious whitewash plastered over them, if you are to do any good in life or see things as they are.'
'Say what you will,' I answered, 'there must be something at the back of creation; and life did not come of itself.'
'How do you know that?' she said drily. 'If you do not know one thing you do not know another; and one unlighted candle is as good as another when you are in a dark room and have no matches.'
According to Mrs. Hulme, we come from nothing and return to nothing—or, rather, we are simply old material re-combined and re-incorporate. We are mere phenomena of the hour—mere phantasmagoria in time and appearances flitting though space—no more stable than clouds, no more individually valuable than so many melon seeds. If any secret meaning lies at the back of page: 54 life, we have not found the key yet, and never shall. But she denied any secret meaning at all, and treated the whole thing as a huge cosmic joke and energized satire.
'A fortuitous concourse of atoms—creatures bound by the material circumstances which have formed them—brought into the world without their own consent and by no action of theirs—dependent on time and place, food, parentage, and weather for what they are and do—and then credited with an immortal soul to be punished or rewarded for deeds done in the flesh!—those deeds as necessarily the result of material conditions over which the individual has no more control than has the acorn when it springs into an oak and not an ash—than has the piece of wax when it is moulded into the likeness of Jupiter, or battered out into the mask of Silenus! What logic! What reasoning! And this is the nineteenth century! And you are one of those who page: 55 "lead public opinion." The blind leading the blind, with a vengeance, and the ditch as the consequence!'
'But what do you make of free-will?' I asked. 'We all have free-will, and can choose the bad or the good at pleasure; we are not the mere slaves of material conditions.'
She measured my head with her two hands. Among other things, she was a phrenologist, and believed in George Combe as well as in Lavater.
'A simple question of proportion,' she said. 'Intellectual, moral, animal:—which of the three is largest, there will be the thing you call "free-will"; that is, self-governance through the preponderance of the intellect—passions which are uncontrollable because of the weight of the cerebellum—or the higher range of social instincts because of the size of the coronal region. The mind is like a muscle—it cannot go beyond its page: 56 own power. A weak arm cannot raise a heavy weight; a small intellectual and moral development cannot overcome a large animal region. The doctrine of free-will, like all the rest of human life, is a delusion. It has its economic uses. So has the belief in heaven and hell—in the eve of God and the claws of the devil. But economic uses, because men are ignorant and therefore superstitious, do not make a lie the truth, nor delusion a reality.'
'Then you would destroy the conscience?' I asked.
'What is conscience?' she returned. 'The public opinion and fleeting ideas of a certain time and era individualized. Is that an absolute?'
'If it is not, then all human virtue goes to the wall,' I answered. 'Your theories leave us neither spiritual influence nor eternal laws of right—neither truth nor conscience.'page: 57
She laughed in her mocking Voltairean way.
'Eternal laws of right, spiritual influence, truth, the absolute, conscience!' she said. 'And pray, my dear, what do you make of any of these, outside external conditions? Point me out one virtue which has not been merely the expression of the needs of the time, cherished because of social exigencies;—tell me of one that has been absolute from the beginning anywhere, and in all stages of civilization—and then we can talk of the divine illumination of conscience and the eternal rule of right. Go over the list. Truth, which is the most necessary of all as the mutual defence-work and protection between man and man—the concordat of society and the basis of association; Chastity, on which the family is founded, the family being in its turn the foundation of society; Justice, which is the taproot of law—these, the very elements of all the rest, are es- essentially page: 58 sentially geographical, chronological, social. So also is magnanimity; so charity, liberty, patriotism, temperance—and all the rest. The whole fabric from end to end is a matter of growth and modification; and this absolute rightness, this divine illumination of the conscience, about which you ecstatics talk such egregious nonsense, is the mere result of external education, like proficiency in mathematics or clever combinations in chemistry.'
'Then right and wrong do not exist?' I said.
'As unchangeable principles?—no!' was her answer. 'Where do you find them? In the Bible? Surely there least of all! But in no place—none! Polygamy, honoured as well as lawful in the East, is prostitution in the West. Mohammed sanctified what David and Solomon and the patriarchs had all practised and what Christ and later Judaism forbade. Who is to page: 59 choose between the two systems, and pronounce arbitrarily on either? Slavery, supposed by the Jews to have been expressly sanctioned—and limited—by Jehovah; practised by all barbarous peoples and a main feature in the civilization of Greece and Rome; upheld in the United States as morally allowable, divinely ordained, and valuable for the general good—has become to us of late years an accursed thing, and we have put it away from us. But the doctrine of a man and a brother is one of quite modern growth. It is not even essentially Christian. Yet before the rights of man were preached you cannot say that slavery was a crime. There can be no fault where there is no better knowledge. You might as well say that belief in dreams, touching for the king's evil, or any other foolish outcome of superstition, was a crime. It was only ignorance. And he who would condemn page: 60 ignorance must begin with the new-born babe.'
'You make life very uncertain, and leave no solid foot-hold anywhere,' I said.
'Do you think so? I do not. On the contrary, I find in my belief the greatest certitude,' she answered.
'How? Where?' I asked.
She laughed again.
'In a paradox, my dear—in the universal phantasmagoria and mirage that it all is—the universal delusion and maze of everything,' she said. 'There is no reality except illusion. There is no absolute standard—only the opinion of the day; and morality, truth and right, change their names and dresses according to time and place, just as our winter is the Australian summer, and the despised donkey of the London costermonger is the honoured ass of the Eastern dignitary. We are no better than blind puppies abandoned by their mother, and we know very little page: 61 more than they. We do not even understand the material of the basket in which we find ourselves, nor our relations with the rest of the stable where we have been littered.'
'I cannot push God out of the world,' I said. 'He is the Absolute; He is the Truth; the Life of the universe and the Soul of the soul of man '! '!
'All in capitals?' she said, lifting her upper lip, but with no sting in her good-tempered contempt. 'All right; I congratulate you, my dear boy. You have found the key to the riddle which the world has so long sought in vain. Give me your talisman. Teach me your method. It is worth knowing.'
'My talisman?—Love!' I answered fervently, thinking of Adelina Dalrymple.
'Yes? love? Love of what?—of whom? Love between the sexes?—sometimes not a very celestial matter,' she said.page: 62
'Love in Nature,' I repeated.
'So!' she said drily. 'The Divine may be there for you, but for myself, I cannot for the life of me find God in a stagnant horse-pond, nor in a ploughed field spread over with dead fish. And I confess I see Him no more in hawks and tigers, bogs and weeds, than in this bundle of passions, weaknesses, appetites, treacheries, and impulses we call man. But your Pantheism, to be logical, must include man as well as beasts and roots and stones and trees.'
'And why not?' I answered. 'Man is the base of our ideal God—he is the best we know.'
'In which case all I can say is—bad is the best, and very bad too; and your divine tabernacle is wonderfully in need of repair, and a very ramshackle concern all through.'
'That which He has made must have something of Himself in it,' I said. 'Nature, page: 63 and with nature man, are both the expressions of the thought and power of God.'
'You believe in direct creation?' she returned, as if with surprise. 'You believe that we are consciously and intentionally made as we are, by a Supreme Being who could have done so much better for us if He would? How odd! If I were to think so, I should go as mad as if I were locked up in a torture-chamber where I had to witness the agonies of others, and be twinged myself as a gentle reminder of consanguinity. To believe that this world, with all its pain and misery, its disease and death and ignorance, is the deliberate work of an Omnipotent and Omniscient Deity, seems to me the most blasphemous assumption—if there be such a thing as blasphemy—the most illogical and self-contradictory idea, as well as the most derogatory to the character of the God proclaimed, that the mind can conceive. No, my dear, I make no God responsible for page: 64 all this misery! It was not by the direct act of a Supreme Power that Pompeii and Herculaneum were destroyed—that we are born by torture and have to die in agony—that we have to protect ourselves from the elements which else would annihilate us—that we have to labour if we would live, and to suffer if we would enjoy—no Conscious Power is responsible for all this. It is the Law—that thing of which we know neither the origin nor the issue—Law without consciousness, without favour, without discretion, without individualism—Law as cold and stony as one of the old Egyptian gods, sitting through all eternity, their hands resting on their knees, deaf to the cries of men, dead to their prayers, and unmoved by all that passes before them, whether it be the blood of slain men or the laughter of little children.'
All this kind of talk fascinated while it half-terrified me. It had on me the same page: 65 effect as conjuring up the devil and the practice of the Black Art must have had on a mediæval student. It was peeping into forbidden places and listening to forbidden sounds. The boldness of Mrs. Hulme's negations; the cynicism of her morality; her contempt for all those things which have ever been most sacred to man, and which were then my holiest treasures of faith; her keen wit; her kind heart and the barrenness of her spiritual nature—all made her a study of singular interest to me. But my interest was mixed with dread and my affection for her was dashed with reprobation. I was in a new world when with her; and I had not yet polarized myself. My enthusiasm was pitied as the fever of youth; my principles of deepest root were shown to be unworkable in actual life; the 'counsels of perfection' to which I yet clung were set aside as moral fairy tales, without substantiality or reasonableness; my faith in page: 66 the essential qualities of vice and virtue was treated as a superstition on all fours with Aubrey's astral spirit, the properties of the herb moly, and the gift of invisibility lying in fern-seed. When I spoke of the absolute, I was met by the relative, the evanescent, the apparent; and I was becoming familiarized with the doctrines which made all life mere vapoury phenomena, where nothing is new, nothing is true, and nothing signifies.
As I have said, Mrs. Hulme's contempt for humanity made her latitudinarian all through. She was philosophically tolerant of lying and deceit, of selfishness, treachery, unchastity, and all the rest, because she expected nothing better.
'They have broken the eleventh commandment and been found out,' she used to say. 'Everyone does the same, but some manage better than others, and fasten their doors with a closer lock. It is all that question of the lock—you may be sure of that, my page: 67 dear! Behind the door everyone is pretty much alike. An Archbishop is only a chevalier d'industrie made honest because he has no need to cheat. Take away his lawn sleeves and put him into a jockey's jacket, and in place of a saint you will have a blackleg. It is only a matter of dress and assignment.'
'Do you allow no good in human nature?' I asked, a little impatiently. 'What do you leave us?'
'Well, I leave you Nero and Domitian and Caligula and all that lot—Lucrezia Borgia and the Marchioness de Brinvilliers—Gilles de Retz and the whole crew of inquisitors—and a crowd more; all own brothers and sisters, founded on the same ground-plan as your saints and heroes, and all divine tabernacles according to you. What more do you want?'
'Oh, Mrs. Hulme! how can you live without faith in God or love for man?' I page: 68 said with real pain. 'I should die if I were out in the wilderness as you are—if I were so desolate and deserted.'
A sudden look of tenderness came into her face and moistened her eyes. She leaned forward in her chair and took my hand between both her own.
'What a child you are still, my six-foot-two dreamer!' she said. 'When you were a little fellow, did you not suck your thumb before you went to sleep? I am sure you did! You suck your mental thumb still. It served you then for comfort—was as good as a lollipop. So are your beliefs and aspirations, your vague adorations and baseless certainties, now! It is almost a pity to take them from you prematurely. The day came when of your own accord and by the law of growth you left off sucking your thumb and yet went happily to sleep; and the day will come when you will cease to idealize human nature, and yet you will find page: 69 life tolerable when you have left off believing in its pretty fables.'
'And I am to find no one good, no one true or faithful?—not though I know and love you?' I asked, masking emotion under playfulness.
She patted my head.
'What a pretty speech!' she said. 'I despise flattery, my dear, but I love it all the same. When I hear beautiful music, I know it is only a cunning combination of sounds made by lifeless material. But it stirs my blood, for all that it comes out of the bowels of a cat and the wood of a tree—nient' altro! So thank you for your nice little bit of humbug, which is pleasant to hear and which I do not in the least believe. So far from thinking me good, you think I am a horrible old woman, given over to the devil and all his works, and destined to be damned to all eternity.'
'I do not,' I answered. 'I do not agree page: 70 with you, but that does not prevent my respecting you.'
'How should you agree with me?' she said, with her mocking little laugh. 'I am old, you are young; I know, you believe; I have proved, you hope. We are not on the same platform. It is impossible. But you will come to me in time;—that is, if you are made of stuff that matures and ripens and does not wither green—nor become fossilized before it has fructified.'
'And then I shall despise humanity?' I said.
'Yes, my dear—despise, pity, aid and not condemn it,' she answered. 'It is a poor thing; but it cannot help itself, any more than a snake can help its poison-fang or a jelly-fish its want of backbone. It is so, and no one is to blame. But, being this poor thing, do not talk to me of the divinity lying within it, nor of the omnipotence, the love which energizes this grossly cruel and imperfect world.'page: 71
This was the kind of thing which Mrs. Hulme perpetually said to me; and I wonder now how my belief in goodness and the right survived her efforts to kill it. It did. I could not be brought to that terrible contempt which seemed to her the key of all wisdom—the awful mirror bought of truth by knowledge. I must love. I must be able to feel reverence, and to trust; and to live among the dry bones as she did would have ruined me for ever. If I had doubted those whom I loved, I should have doubted of God. And this was to me that mysterious sin against the Holy Ghost on which my young imagination had been so often exercised.
No; Mrs. Hulme was wrong. There was more than blind Law under which we lived—there was Divine Providence ever leading us, like little children, step by step, higher and higher. There was more than the irresponsible animal in man—there was page: 72 his soul, his conscience, his love, his aspiration, his truth. And there were always some who were absolutely good—had I not loved Adeline Dalrymple?—and right and wrong were facts, not fancies.
So I fortified myself against my old friend's cynicism, and for her dead negation substituted my own fervent affirmation, and made sure that I had the Truth in front of me. And I was still actuated by principle, and did my best to put into practice those counsels of perfection which had always stirred my soul and, so to speak, fired my spiritual ambition. But I made a terrible fiasco of my worldly matters in the process, and put back the dial-hand of fortune for as many degrees as it had gone forward.
For instance: I had written a novel, for which Mr. Colbourn, one of the great publishers of novels of that time, had agreed beforehand to give me three hundred pounds. Now, three hundred pounds, in page: 73 those days of hard work and narrow gains, was a small fortune; and I had reckoned on it with the satisfaction of certainty. But my book was an unconventional and daring sort of thing; and when it was finished I began to think it was not quite the kind Mr. Colbourn had anticipated when he bargained for it. He came to me on the day when I told him it was completed; and he had the three hundred pounds in his pocket-book. When he took out the notes I laid my hand on his.
'No,' I said; 'let it stand over. Take the manuscript; and if you do not like it, I let you off the bargain.'
He did not like it, and I lost my money. But I kept my sense of honour, of truth, and fair-dealing; and was not that better?
When I told Mrs. Hulme what I had done, I really thought the end of our friendship had come. She raved at me for my folly, my absurd pride, my presumption page: 74 even, in pretending to arrange Mr. Colbourn's business for him. What right had I to teach him the lesson of not buying a thing he had not seen? Who was I, to think myself wiser than a sharp man of business who knew what he was about a great deal better than I could tell him? So she stormed. But at last she ended by taking my face between her large, soft, flaccid hands, and kissing me on the forehead.
'You are a fool,' she said in her queer cynical way; 'about the biggest out of Bedlam. But,' she added more softly; 'you are a good fool—which is something.'


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Family: Troglodytidae, Wrens view all from this family
Description ADULT Has reddish buff upperparts overall, with subtle dark barring on tail, more striking dark and pale barring on wings, bold dark and pale streaks on back, and a streaked crown; supercilium is buffy. Underparts are buffy brown overall, but palest and whitish on throat. JUVENILE Similar to adult, but colors and markings are duller overall.
Dimensions Length: 4-4 1/2" (10-11 cm)
Habitat Locally common summer visitor (mainly May-Sep) to wet meadows and marshes where sedges predominate. Winters in similar habitats (plus coastal marshes) in southeastern U.S.
Observation Tips Easiest to find when vocal on breeding grounds.
Range Southeast, Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, New England, Western Canada, Texas, Eastern Canada, Florida, Plains
Voice Song is a dry rattle preceded by a couple of sharp chip, chip notes; call is a sharp chip.
Discussion Superficially similar to Marsh Wren, but separated by voice, habitat preference, and subtle plumage differences: Sedge has paler, warmer buff plumage overall, with more conspicuous barring on wings and more extensively streaked back. Like many other wrens (including Marsh), male builds several "dummy" nests that are not used. Sexes are similar.


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Binghamton University to host New York African Studies Association Conference
BINGHAMTON, NY – Binghamton University's Institute of Global Cultural Studies will host the 38th Annual Meeting of the New York African Studies Association (NYASA) on Friday, April 5, and Saturday, April 6, at the University Downtown Center, located at 67 Washington Street, Binghamton.
NYASA is a non-profit membership association that focuses on advancing the discipline of Africana Studies. The theme of the conference is "Global Africa, Triple Heritage and Pax Africana: Looking Back and Looking Forward."
This year's convention will celebrate Binghamton University Professor Ali Mazrui's 80th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his publishing career. In April, NYASA will inaugurate an annual Ali Mazrui Book Prize for the best Africanist book of the year, for his latest book, Julius Nyerere: An African Titan on a Global Stage (co-author: Linda Mhando, 2013).
During his career, Mazrui popularized the term, "Pax Africana," used in reference to Africa's ability to assert its own authority. He also coined the terms, "Africa's triple heritage" and "Global Africa".
The Institute of Global Cultural Studies (IGCS) aims to develop multi-disciplinary approaches to the study of international cultures. The organization has invited abstracts of papers, proposals for presentations, panels and roundtables about various topics related to the theme of the conference, including Islamic Law and Politics in Africa, Caribbean Impact on Africa, and The Obama Presidency: Gains and Losses.
For more information, including registration fees, visit http://www.binghamton.edu/igcs/ or www.nyasa.org or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The fact is that to balance the budgetary expenditures of 2012 with income taxes, it would take an income tax rate of 100% on everyone earning down to $100,000. If the govt then spent more, the tax would have to move down to lower incomes ... that is JUST for Federal expenditures. That does NOT include costs of running state and local govts.
I keep mentioning, but no one seems to notice, that in addition to the income tax, we pay TONS of other taxes that are hidden in other ways we don't notice. I have my cell phone bill in front of me to pay. The program I have is $40 for 700 minutes. (It's amazing how cheap that is, since I "upgraded" from a plan of $39.99 for 450 minutes). On that bill are Fed tax of $1.72 and PA gross receipts tax (sounds a bit like the tax proposed on medical devices) of 2.25. There is also a "regulatory charge" of .16 (I suspect that is another tax passed through the utility from the govt). Total: $4.13. That comes to 10% of the original bill. We would be very upset if the Fed proposed a 10% sales tax on phone service ... but this tax is there, but nobody ever talks about it, or the legislation that imposed that tax on EVERY cell phone bill.
EVERYBODY pays that tax who pays their own cell phone bill ... even the family of 4 earning a lot less than most of those on this forum. Those who get social services that provide them with a free cell phone don't have to worry about that 10% "tax". Cell phones were once considered a luxury. Today they are practically a necessity for most working people. As a Realtor, if I didn't have a cell phone, it would be unthinkable that I could conduct my business today. So, if we were complacent when these taxes were enacted because they would only apply to "the rich", we were snookered. The same is true of your land-line, except the percentage is even higher.
Obama and the Dems continue to add in their speeches that we ALL have to sacrifice ... are you really willing to believe that they will stop at $200,000 earners? Unless we take a very serious attitude toward cutting spending, there is simply NO WAY that we will ever balance a budget, much less get out of debt.
Look at where Susana Martinez started at cutting expenses ... with govt expenses that favored elitism for the high-level govt employees over the taxpayers. Just imagine the savings that could be made if ALL Fed employees, including the legislators!, were made to join the SS program. That, alone, would make a big dent in the expenditures; and if all the funds in that retirement program were put into the SS program, it would solve a large part of SS funding ... and if those legislators were dependent upon SS, just think how fast they would find a way to make it secure for the future.


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This is especially critical at this time, because DNF, Roger, Buzz, and other assorted libs, socialists, and Obama toadies wonder how I can insinuate they are approaching unAmericanism, when their views of GWB are no different than my views of BHO.
Bill Whittle has succinctly produced how most conservatives see your man-child POTUS....what he has done to this great countries esteem...how he has belittled our friends, and uplifted our enemies. And you wonder why we are so adament about removing him from office??? How can you be so blind????
You watch this compilation of his deeds to date, and tell me he's just making occasional faux paus. You don't see an agenda here? How sycophantic must you be? You continue to follow the MSP, comedy channel "news spewers", the AP stories that are ripped and read over almost every small town radio/TV station that are promoters of this administration beyond any in history, and you don't see an agenda?
For those that care, watch this. I'd appreciate your comments.


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La Terrazza su Capri
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- Pets allowed
- Air conditioning
- Parking available
- Disabled access
- Breakfast
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|Via Tito Livio, 80122 Napoli, Italy
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The Terrazza su Capri is a Bed & Breakfast that offers a type of tourism that is not limited to the site visit, but combining the meeting with the locals, with representatives of civil society from which to have guidance and support to knowledge Naples, shining city, to be revealed to fans.
You will live on the hill of Posillipo, in the most panoramic and quiet residential district of the city on the west branch of the Gulf of Naples, a few steps from here there is the marina of Mergellina and the boarding of the ferries to the islands of Capri, Ischia and Procida.
The promenade of Via Caracciolo, the center of chic in the Piazza dei Martiri, Via dei Mille, Via Chiaia are a ten minute drive or a pleasant walk of about 25 minutes.
Also the district of Vomero, with its shops, malls and the beautiful hills of St. Martino and the Museum of Castel Sant Elmo Duke of Martina are about ten minutes away by car.
The owners of La Terrazza su Capri are Rosanna Carità and Vittorio Savarese Rosanna, married since 1977, our 3 children Mark 33, Darius 30 and Federica 24 are all university graduates, autonomous and independent, their ex - rooms are dedicated to our new guests. I am an engineer, entrepreneur still busy at work, Rosanna beautiful and energetic, she managed the family and the children, with the same care it devotes to guests. In the picture we are on the road ..... in B & B.
We love the beach, our Naples and would like to introduce you to its best
The Rooms
The Guest Rooms are part of a ground floor apartment on two levels, the lower level is completely independent and dedicated to guest rooms that were renovated in April 2011. Coming up via a flight of stairs from the terrace in front of the rooms, access to a wide terrace where you can see the sea and Capri and have, usually, the breakfast.
The building is located at 9, Via Tito Livio, off the main road Via Petrarca, of moving away from a few hundred meters to the benefit of peace and tranquillity at any hour of the day.
The B & B la Terrazza su Capri has two rooms with a total of four beds, which become six by adding two beds, one for each room, one bathroom is dedicated to both chambers.
The two guest rooms are adjoining and the bathroom is adjacent to the room "Gold Sand", both rooms have a private entrance on the front terrace which is accessed through a gate directly outside independent from the main house,
House rulesCheck In: from 17 p.m. to 22.00 p.m.
Check out: no later than 11 a.m.
Pet : allowed
Children: welcome
General Cleaning and change Towels: every 5 days
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Naples, a city with a thousand resources, tradition, culture, food, perfumes and the sea. Silhouetted against the horizon two icons unmistakable short, the shadow of Vesuvius, (threat or protection?) And the promise of beauty of Capri. There is a small oasis of courtesy, comfort, beauty and exquisite hospitality in a care of small details and at the same time a delicious availability. Where? The terrace of Capri, a structure from which, upon awakening, you can enjoy the thrilling pleasure of embracing the Gulf of Naples and almost touch the magic of Capri. A stone's throw from the village of Mergellina, on the noble Posillipo hill, in a quiet atmosphere, you will discover that even in Naples you can hear a rooster crow. Here, among the colors of Bougainville, the blue of the sea mingles with the sky and the night show of lights from the sea, you will be received a nice and refined guest, sociable and empathetic, which will anticipate your requests, provide for the your needs and will welcome you as a friend long overdue. Hard to be dissatisfied by the structure, an elegant room with all amenities, not the least of complete autonomy. Hard not to be conquered by the host. We'll be back! Daniela and Fabrizio
Napoli, una città dalle mille risorse, tradizione, cultura,
gastronomia, profumi e il mare.
Si stagliano nel breve orizzonte due icone inconfondibili, l'ombra del
Vesuvio, (minaccia o protezione?) e la promessa di bellezza di Capri.
C'è una piccola oasi di cortesia, comfort, bellezza e squisita
ospitalità fatta di cura di piccoli dettagli ed al contempo di una
deliziosa disponibilità. Dove? La terrazza su Capri, una struttura
dalla quale, al risveglio, potrete assaporare l'emozionante piacere di
abbracciare il Golfo di Napoli e toccare quasi con mano la magia di
Capri. A due passi dall'antico borgo di Mergellina, sulla nobile
collina di Posillipo, in una atmosfera tranquilla, scoprirete che
anche a Napoli è possibile sentire un gallo cantare. Qui, tra i colori
dei Bouganville, l'azzurro del mare che si confonde con quello del
cielo e lo spettacolo notturno delle luci dal mare, troverete ad
accogliervi un simpatico e raffinato ospite, socievole ed empatico,
che anticiperà le vostre richieste, prevederà le vostre esigenze e vi
accoglierà come un amico atteso da tempo. Difficile essere
insoddisfatti dalla struttura, una elegante camera dotata di tutti i
comfort, non ultimo quello della completa autonomia. Difficile non
essere conquistati dall'ospite.
Torneremo! Daniela e Fabrizio
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well i wanted to write you that it should just work now. but then i read the datasheet you provided a third time :-)sending and receiving probably works right now. the problem is your receiver's output signal. it's 0 volts for LOW but only 0.8 volts for a HIGH. arduino expects 5V with a little (!) tolerance. you need to amplify the signal, which should be no hard task. but i don't think i'm the best person to help you here. i guess a single transistor could do the job. there should be plenty of infos on the internet.keep us updated!best, kuk
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As we enter the Memorial Day weekend I just wanted to take a few seconds of your time and say thank you.
Last night, 20 Scouts from my Troop joined with about a thousand Scouts from our District for the 40th Annual Flag placement ceremony at Willamette National Cemetery.
All of the units of the district presented their unit flags and their American Flags as a Marine Color Guard presented the Colors. Speeches from the Veterans Administration Cemetery Director and a Veteran of the Iraqi Campaign were made. They kept their speeches short this year due to the rain, but the point each made was about Duty and Honor and how being Boy Scouts we live those values and strive to be men and women of Character.
After the Flag was lowered to half staff and the bugler played taps the units were dismissed to begin placing small flag on the grave markers of the 133,174 men and women that have served our Great Nation interned there.
We took the time to stop and visit our most honored, Medal of Honor recipients buried at the top of the cemetery. A brief explanation of the selfless sacrifice these men made in the service of their Country and then we were off to our Troops designated area.
The Scouts placed the flags at the bottom of the marker, centered on the marker. They read the name and gave the Veteran a crisp Scout Hand Salute. For most of those honored Veterans, our Scouts will be the only visitor they received this weekend.
After we completed our assigned area, we moved on to help with some other areas, particularly Troops and Packs that are smaller and needed more help.
When we completed the placement of the Flags, I gathered the Troop up and thanked them for what they had done.
As a Veteran myself, I wanted them to know that on behalf of all Veterans, especially those of us that have served abroad in conflict, we appreciate what they did. Placing the flags so that on Memorial day, when the cemetery is packed with visitors, they see the never ending sea of red, white, and blue banners that mark the resting place of one that selflessly served their Country.
A visual reminder that for Freedom we must pay… and we pay with the lives of our men and women that choose to serve.
A reminder that so many give so much to guarantee that we maintain the life that we have here in America, all politics aside, they do it because they loved our Country and know that it is the greatest place on Earth.
So this Memorial Day weekend.. be safe and enjoy, but remember, we can because of Veterans.
Let me share you with you a poem I wrote eight years ago. It was originally published on a site called JD's Bunker.
Rise up
Rise up O' men of Valor,
A Nation in debt to thee
For the freedom of this Republic,
You fought and died for me.
Rise up O' men of Honor,
The fields of battle did you go
From Lexington and Concord,
To the Bulge and all its snow.
Gettysburg to Normandy
Vietnam and Somalia
You gave it all for me.
For without you we do not share
The freedom of this nation,
Is ours because you were there.
Freedoms blood soaked on foreign lands
A soldier's cry with outstretched hands
Do not forget the price they paid,
They gave it all for Freedoms sake.
Rise up O' men of Valor
Your Honor and Courage reign.
For the price of Freedom you understood
But paid it just the same.
Memorial Day 2000
© Gerald J. Schleining-US ARMY


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|Stripers and Coastal Gamefish Stripers, Blues, Inshore tuna!
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|Echo JeffG - Thanks for the reference sites.
that is exactly the knot giving me grief--the non-slip mono loop...
...maybe I will get over it.
Thanks for the feedback all.
|Knot library is a great site. It shows the non-slip mono loop which I have used for the past several seasons. This knot hasn't failed me yet - even going down to 8lb fluro for bonefish and those guys know all about impact!
Was gonna draw one up but this site (stren) has it nailed already...
here you go...
Seems so unlikely but it is the surgeons knot principle applied to a hook eye.
Worthwhile also:
Knot library
all of the illustrations are very clear.
More knots, but not as clear from Maxima...
Maxima knot page
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free book of knots
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Can anyone recommend websites or other resources for tying the palomar knot (& others...)?
Interesting feedback. I guess I should have pointed out that the most recent cases the breakage has occurred on the first fish/hit of the day, so it has not been a case of post-fight abrasion. I had not really thought about imperfections in the metal of the hook eye, I suppose that could play a part, but my gut sense was that these were impact related. Funny thing is that I had heard other people complain about this with these knots and just shrugged it off the last few seasons because it never happened before.
I guess my point is that I am losing confidence in this knot unfortunately. Maybe stronger tippet is the answer, or higher quality hooks. I just don't like losing fish and I do like the free swinging fly, particularly for dead drifting in curents or rips (good side to side motion).
Tom, I have nothing against 20 lb. per se, I just prefer 12 or 16 in certain applications.
my .02 on this topic (good topic BTW) is that some flies are greatly enhanced by the loop knot, others don't need it. So the advantage applies to only a subset of the flies you fish. Unless there is some other advantage I don't know about besides increased motion to the fly?
The disadvantages include double the tippet for the fish to see (I know I can see them a lot better), a weaker knot than say a palomar, increased wind resistance, susceptibility to imperfections in hook eyes (although I have seen them fail by 'opening' up which indicates a fault of the knot's strength).
Since I switched to Tiemco, Daichi, and other high QC brands ($$ I know) the eye imperfections have become a rarity not to mention the chemically sharpened points. Mustads are a great value, but I won't risk my precious few steelhead, salmon, cow striper or bonefish opportunities on a cheap hook.
Anyway, I am a straight palomar knot kind of guy, with a clinch now and then - only when the tippet is so short a palomar would put the blood knot to the taper too close to the fly and the fish are breaking so I don't have time to replace the shortened tippet.
Yesterday I started the day with a palomar knot, hit a sequence of hard fighting stripers in an inlet, then sight cast on the flats landing stripers up to 33", then landed a medium sized bluefish in the 6-7 pound class w/o steel, all on the same knot. After the rare blufish landing the tippet was hosed but the knot is still on the eye of the fly.
When I used to fish trout a lot and went to fine leaders I stopped losing those hard fighting holdovers to popped knots on spider-web fine tippets by switching to a palomar. Haven't switched back since.
On the down side it takes a little more tippet to tie a palomar than an improved clinch, although much less than a loop knot takes. Also people who haven't practiced it a lot get a curly-cue effect from over-tightening when drawn shut. It's possible to impact no pressure on tippet if the loop is drawn down correctly.
Anyway, the best thing to do is to fish with what *you* have confidence in, everyone's needs and opinions vary to some extent and within their target areas they might be 100%. My observations over the years have led me to the simple approach of using on super-tough little knot called the palomar.
|jeff, what's wrong with 20Lb floro? most of the guys I know use it as thier standard. Tom D
Jeff ---- I experienced having some hooks in a pkg not having the eye of the hook closed as well as the majority of the of its remaining brothers. This again can result in the loop lodging in that imperfection and abrading causing seperation on the strike or during the play.
Interesting topic. In fact this same subject came up on another board recently. It seems that the cause was thought to be related to abrasion caused by an imperfect finish at the eye of the hook. I've not personally experienced this phenomenon although it would make sense. I'm a great believer in loop knots for fly connection for anything other than droppers or dry flies. I also try to remember to change leaders after a prolonged fight with a large fish and always start the day with a whole new setup. I figure a couple of bucks worth of mono to be a fair price to pay for eliminating one possible cause of losing the fish of a lifetime.
loop knots
I beacme a firm believer of using a loop knot to connect my fly to tippet a couple seasons ago--I REALLY believed and still do believe the fly gets better action.
However, already once this year I lost what felt like a nice fish on a hard strike when the line broke at the tip of the loop where it hits the fly eye, and yesterday in the Harbor my companion had the same thing happen.
Just to be clear, the knot is not failing, it returns intact, but the loop is split in two where the fly should be.
I'm not even sure what loop knot I tie, but I guess it doesn't even matter since it appears the impact of the hook eye against the loop is causing the breakage.
The knot is growing out of favor with me, despite my belief that the free swinging fly is the way to go.
Any one else have this problem? Is there a solution besides using 20 lb tippet...
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On Saturday, the snow was finally gone, the air was semi-warm, and the clocks were set to spring ahead in the wee hours of the 10th. So it seemed the perfect day to head south, cross the Pell Bridge, and hit some of Newport's top beer spots. (We know there are other spots to hit; please send your recommendations to bottlescansclap firstname.lastname@example.com.)
We started with a quick tour of three bottle shops. BRIDGE LIQUORS is right off the Pell's first exit. They have a small but solid selection; their Facebook had promised a fresh batch of Ithaca's Flower Power, and we grabbed a six-pack. Then we crossed over the line to Middletown to visit SANDY'S LIQUORS (which we had frequented long ago in our college days, when it was called Marty's). The range of beer is similar to Bridge's, and we were about to get a rack of Widmer Brothers' Brrr, a hoppy winter warmer which had eluded us during the brrr season, when we saw a couple of four-packs of Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout. We had resolved to not buy any more of the pricey beer (and thought we wouldn't be typing about it again in this space for nine months or so), but then we turned and saw three cases of the stuff, and a small hand-written sign indicating it was on "special" for $19.99 (most stores had it for $27)! So: one more four-pack (we're on a budget). Did I mention it was $19.99?!? And that they have three cases of it??
Our last bottle shop stop was at VICKERS' LIQUORS on Bellevue Avenue, and what a difference 2.9 miles makes: they also had multiple cases (!!) of BCBS, but their four-packs were $29.99. There were other rarities on the shelves: bombers of Bourbon County Coffee and Cherry, and a few Stone Enjoy Bys, and a very impressive (if pricey — hey, it's Gatsby's 'hood) array of top-level stuff.
So here's a tip for you folks in Providence and Warwick and Cranston who can't believe this stuff flies off the shelves so quickly: cross the Pell Bridge . . . .
OK, enough beer-gawking, time for beer-drinking. We headed to Broadway, which has the state's best walkable stretch of beer bars on the same side of the same road: it's .3 miles from POUR JUDGEMENT (32 B'way) to MALT (150) to NOREY'S STAR (156, literally next door). (It's .2 miles from Julian's to the Avery to the E & O Tap, but those are on three different streets). Add the 36 high-quality taps at Yesterday's (just around the corner from B'way in Washington Square) and the offerings at the trad-style Fastnet Pub, and you have a peerless pub crawl.
We had to pace ourselves (despite having our designated driver) and stuck to the trio on the west side of Broadway. The aggregate numbers are an embarrassment of riches: Pour has 18 drafts, two dozen bombers and 30 12-ounce bottles; Malt has 26 taps (and two casks) and 70 or so bottles; Norey's has 14 taps and boasts 130 jaw-dropping bottle offerings, an astounding selection of top-rated and ultra-rare beers. They say their list defines "beer due diligence." You can do your research or just dive in at random — either way, you're in for a sublime experience.
We started with a Founders Red's Rye Pale Ale at Pour Judgment. The place is comfortable and low-key, with a great CD jukebox. Malt is a tad upscale (it's the former home of Tucker's Bistro), with a gorgeous bar. We indulged in their IPA flight ($7.50), with five-ounce pours of Long Trail, Harpoon's Rich & Dan's Rye, Uinta's Hop Notch and Green Flash's Imperial (they'll be mixing up their flight themes). And Malt is also serious about their whiskey; they have a formidable list.
We dug in at Norey's for two pours (and dinner); it's a sleek room with lots of delightfully funky touches (especially the diner-style stools at the bar). We finally got a taste of Founders' Bolt Cutter Barleywine (15% ABV) and Widmer Brothers' Barrel Aged Brrrbon (9.4%); both selections were extraordinarily good. We're already planning a return trip — those 150 bottles won't cross themselves off our list.
As we passed through Main Street in East Greenwich on our way home, we had a brainstorm: that bustling road needs a primo beer spot. It'd be the perfect (almost) halfway point for the fusion of Julian's and Norey's, which are near-doppelgangers vis-à-vis beer selection, menu, attitude, and décor. Juley's — Norian's? — would be a supreme destination.
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Course Details
Maintenance Fundamentals
Key Content:
Although we have an outline syllabus, as below, this is flexible and the tutors will patiently deliver the course entirely around your needs and how quickly you want to progress.
- A bike and its parts
- What you can do without tools
- Basic tools and how to use them
- Setting up your bike correctly - saddle, handlebars, levers
- Pre-ride bike check - spot things before they go wrong
- Punctures - taking the wheel out, tyre removal, mending the puncture, replacing inner tubes, replacing the tyre and wheel
- Chains - mending broken chains
- Brakes - cable adjustment
- Gears - indexing (lining up the lever clicks with the gear changes)
- Useful things to carry on your rides
- Emergency repairs - what to do when.....
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Course outcomes:
This course is absolutely to enable you to gain confidence with your bike, how it works and how easy it is do simple things.
Please contact the Courses & Training Helpline to find out if this course is available for booking: 01483 238 337
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To attend this course you need to want to find out how to look after your bike, and be willing to get your hands just a little bit dirty.
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Once you have completed this course, should you want to learn more maintenance skills, tips and tricks, you can progress on to the Road and Trailside Maintenance course.