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Abingdon farming company convicted of endangering livestock
An Abingdon based farming company has pleaded guilty to five offences which could have endangered the livestock of other farmers.
David Gow and his farming company A.H. Cornish (Appleton) were found guilty at Oxford Magistrates Court, in a case brought by Oxfordshire County Council Trading Standards.
On Tuesday 23 October, David Gow was fined £2,250 and ordered to pay £2,250 costs. A.H. Cornish (Appleton) Limited was fined £800 and ordered to pay £2,104.88 costs.
The trial followed a Trading Standards investigation of David Gow's Abingdon farm, as a result of intelligence received from the Animal & Plant Health Agency (APHA).
The charges included one offence under the Animal By-Products Regulations 2013 and four offences under The Cattle Identification Regulations 2007.
David Gow was convicted of 'Not properly disposing of fallen stock without undue delay' (this puts the livestock of other farmers at risk) and 'Failing to appropriately manage the important traceability aspects of livestock management'.
He had failed to correctly identify and keep accurate records of all livestock. These requirements were introduced as a result of national incidents such as foot and mouth disease and BSE 'mad cow disease'.
Oxfordshire County Council investigating officer Richard Healy said: "Protecting Oxfordshire from animal disease outbreaks protects us all and allows for a thriving rural economy. This case should be noted by those who seek to sidestep the regulations and jeopardise the integrity of the chain from farm to fork.
"Businesses who do not follow the rules can gain an unfair commercial advantage over the vast majority of businesses that trade lawfully."


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Joint Art Exhibition Features Artist and MentorUniversity of Maryland University College (UMUC) celebrates artists Floyd Coleman and Hayward Oubre in a joint exhibition on view Sept. 30 through Jan. 20 at the UMUC Arts Program Gallery, lower level, College Park Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, Adelphi, Maryland.
Coleman taught art for more than 60 years at a variety of universities, including Howard University in Washington, D.C.—work that left him little time to promote his visual arts career. For this reason, he is best known as an authority—and for his publications—on African and African American art.
Though he defines himself as an abstract painter, Coleman's works, which have been exhibited in prominent museums and galleries around the world, include the figurative and surrealist. UMUC's "Rhythmic Impulses," which includes 40 Coleman paintings, represents the artist's first major exhibition in many years.
The exhibit also includes 25 large-scale wire sculptures by award-winning printmaker, painter, sculptor—and Coleman teacher and mentor—Hayward Oubre, who was the first person to graduate with a fine arts degree from Dillard University in Louisiana. Oubre taught at universities across the South until 1980 and continued working on his art until his death in 2006.
Coleman, and Oubre's son-in-law and heir Mervin Anthony Green, will discuss the works on display in the exhibition at the opening reception on Oct. 7. The exhibition and reception are no-cost events.
Sunday, October 7, 2018 3–5 p.m. For more information, call 301-985-7937.
Exhibition Dates September 30, 2018–January 20, 2019
Exhibition Hours 9 a.m.–9 p.m. daily
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Trump Orders Building Of Mexico Border Wall, Targets 'Sanctuary' Cities
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump signed directives on Wednesday to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border and strip funding from cities that shield illegal immigrants as he charged ahead with sweeping and divisive plans to transform how the United States deals with immigration and national security.
The Republican president is expected to take additional steps in the coming days to limit legal immigration, including executive orders restricting refugees and blocking the issuing of visas to people from several Muslim-majority Middle Eastern and North African countries including Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Iran, Libya, and Yemen.
The intent of those proposals is to head off Islamist violence in the United States, although critics have said it soils America's reputation as a welcoming place for immigrants of all stripes.
Trump signed two executive orders, directing the construction of a wall along the roughly 2,000-mile (3,200-kilometer) U.S.-Mexico border, moving to peel away federal grant money from "sanctuary" states and cities that harbor illegal immigrants, and beefing up the force of immigration agents.
"We are in the middle of a crisis on our southern border: The unprecedented surge of illegal migrants from Central American is harming both Mexico and the United States," Trump said in remarks at the Department of Homeland of Security after signing the directives.
"And I believe the steps we will take starting right now will improve the safety in both of our countries," Trump said, adding: "A nation without borders is not a nation."
His plans prompted an immediate outcry from immigrant advocates and others who said Trump was jeopardizing the rights and freedoms of millions of people while treating Mexico as an enemy, not an ally.
Local officials in cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, Washington, San Francisco, and Seattle offer some forms of protection to illegal immigrants. Billions of dollars in federal aid to those cities, often governed by Democrats, could be at risk.
"The American people are no longer going to have to be forced to subsidize this disregard for our laws," White House spokesman Sean Spicer said.
In an interview with ABC News on Wednesday, Trump said construction on the wall would start within months, with planning starting immediately, and that Mexico would pay back to the United States "100 percent" of the costs. Mexican officials have said they will not pay for the wall.
During a White House briefing, Spicer referred to the wall as "a large physical barrier on the southern border."
"Building this barrier is more than just a campaign promise, it's a common-sense first step to really securing our porous border," Spicer added. "This will stem the flow of drugs, crime, illegal immigration into the United States."
Trump's actions could fundamentally change the American stance on immigration, as well as further testing relations with Mexico.
Spicer said Trump's goal was to get the wall project started as quickly as possible using existing government funds and then work with the Republican-led Congress on further appropriations.
"We'll be reimbursed at a later date from whatever transaction we make from Mexico," Trump told ABC on Wednesday. "I'm just telling you there will be a payment. It will be in a form, perhaps a complicated form. What I'm doing is good for the United States. It's also going to be good for Mexico. We want to have a very stable, very solid Mexico."
Trump made cracking down on illegal immigration a key element of his presidential campaign, with supporters at his rallies often chanting: "Build the wall."
"The border wall is about political theater at the expense of civil liberties," said Christian Ramirez, director of the Southern Border Communities Coalition immigrant advocacy group.
"It is not national security policy. Border communities are among the safest in the nation and patrolling them with tens of thousands of heavily armed, poorly trained, unaccountable agents puts lives at risks. This will turn these communities into de facto military zones," Ramirez said.
The cost, nature, and extent of the wall remain unclear. Trump last year put the cost at "probably $8 billion," although other estimates are higher, and he said the wall would span 1,000 miles (1,600 km) because of the terrain of the border.
Many Democrats have opposed the plan and could try to thwart any legislation to pay for the construction in the U.S. Congress, although Republicans control both the Senate and House of Representatives.
Trump said his directive would also end the practice known by critics as "catch and release" in which authorities apprehend illegal immigrants on U.S. territory but do not immediately detain or deport them.
The directives also include hiring 5,000 more U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents used to apprehend people seeking to slip across the border and tripling the number of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents used to arrest and deport immigrants living in the United States illegally.
They also create more detention space for illegal immigrants along the southern border to make it easier and cheaper to detain and deport them.
Many Americans view their country with pride as "a nation of immigrants," and President John Kennedy wrote a book with that title more than half a century ago. Trump successfully tapped into resentment toward the roughly 11 million illegal immigrants already in the United States and said during the campaign he would deport them all.
Trump, who in announcing his presidential bid in June 2015 accused Mexico of sending rapists and criminals into the United States, has also threatened to slap hefty taxes on companies that produce in Mexico for the U.S. market and to tear up the North American Free Trade Agreement among Mexico, Canada, and the United States.
Trump and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto are due to meet next week.
Asked about Trump's wall, Republican U.S. Senator John McCain said a physical barrier was not enough to secure the border and called for the additional use of observation towers, drones, and other technology.
"Walls can be easily breached," McCain, whose home state of Arizona borders Mexico, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program.
(Reporting by Julia Edwards Ainsley; Additional reporting by Mica Rosenberg, Doina Chiacu, Andy Sullivan and Susan Heavey; Writing by Will Dunham; Editing by Alistair Bell and Peter Cooney)
IMAGE: Construction on the area around the port of entry from Mexico to the United States continues next to the border wall in San Ysidro, California, U.S., January 25, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake


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Criminals disguised as police and soldiers have been tormenting residents in sections of Clarendon. Head of the Clarendon Police Division, Assistant Commissioner Fitz Bailey, said that they have received several reports of men dressed in police vests and camouflage entering the Farm and Effortville communities.
"We have heard of reports of people coming down into the community with high powered weapon," Bailey said.
The Clarendon police have taken five persons into custody in connection with the seizure of a large amount of motor vehicle parts found in a section of the Farm community.
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Deputy Superintendent Hornet Williams says a large amount of car parts were seized along with army fatigue, camouflage and police vests and nine M16 rounds.
"Persons operating in the Farm area are impersonating police and are using the items to carry out crimes in the area but we know who they are and the police will not relent in their efforts to apprehend such persons," Williams said.
Major Basil Jarrett, civil military coorperation and media affair officer of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), told THE WEEKEND STAR that he doubts the camouflage that was recovered is the one that the JDF now use.
"Anyone who doesn't know what a soldier uniform looks like needs to come from under the rock he/she has been living under," Major Jarrett said. "We have done a major campaign last year to let the public know that we have changed the uniform."


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Eclipse 27 September 2015Posted: September 27, 2015 Filed under: Uncategorized 1 Comment
Did you see it? We were out walking the dogs and the sky was completely clouded over. Sometime around 9:15 we spotted it through a lucky break in the clouds — the moon was about 1/2 eclipsed. We went to a better viewing spot and the sky, unexpectedly, went from heavy clouds to clear in less than 15 minutes and them we saw the whole thing.
Apparently, when the moon is completely covered, it is called 'totality.'
Tryffyd / U-Con 2015Posted: September 24, 2015 Filed under: art, exquisite corpses | Tags: arts 2 Comments
In what time I have, I have been working on various things that I can't post yet… but because I want to post something, here is the current drawing of the carnivorous plant for Exquisite Corpses v2. I'm going for that 18th century Botanist's guide look. Click to enlarge.In other news, I'm considering renting a table at UCon 2015 in Livonia, MI to sell art and meet people. Don't know if I can swing it, but will at least look into the possibility. I will need to figure out ways of packaging art for easy sale and safe transportation and suppose I should look into getting one of those dongle things that plug into your phone or tablet so I can take credit cards. UCon is November 20-22nd this year.
Plastic Soldier PartsPosted: September 22, 2015 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: arts Leave a comment
This is from a few months back (6/27/2015). Sometimes life throws barricades in your way.
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Last week I finished this for 'Owlknight' publishing / Thorin Thompson. This illustration is going to be used as a part of the credits for the adventures that Owlknight publishes… to display the names of all the PCs who died in the course of a given adventure's playtest… so Thorin will put the names of the deceased on the tombstones. Based on the large numbers of tombstones he requested in the image, I think he expects mortality rates to be high.
In search of Henry DargerPosted: September 18, 2015 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: arts Leave a comment
Henry Darger, the artist and eccentric, came to my attention a few years ago. These days his work is going under the gavel at places like Christies and getting shown in Paris. In his lifetime, Darger lived as a recluse, barely surviving on poverty level wages, living alone in rented rooms. The people who knew him (his landlords and fellow tenants) only discovered his artistry when Darger was on his death bed. Luckily, his landlord, Nathan Lerner, recognized that the heaps of drawings, books, collages and other items were not 'junk' and didn't simply toss it all to make room for another tenant. These days, it seems that most of the rest of the word agrees with Lerner. People who wouldn't have looked twice at a dirty, shabby old Darger while he was alive are buying his works, visiting his exhibitions, etc. I'm not claiming to be smarter than anyone else — I doubt I would have recognized Darger for what he was if I had met him in his lifetime. And given his reclusive nature, I doubt Darger would have been able to psychologically bear the public scrutiny involved in becoming a famous artist in his lifetime.
Stories like this make me wonder how much fascinating stuff, produced by weirdos, outcasts and recluses, ends up in dumpsters after they die.
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I don't know who drew this but I really like it.
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I am Diana Smith and I live in Utah with my kids and husband. I grew up in Southern California and moved to Utah in high school. I am a graphic designer and run an online shop called Livy Love Designs where I create artwork for all types of: nurseries, offices, kitchens… just about anything!
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What do the poster boys of Indian startup worldâFlipkart, Myntra and BookMyShowâhave in common? Itâs Accel Partners, which has invested in all of them. At the recently concluded second edition of Techcircle Startup 2014 conference in Bengaluru, we interviewed Subrata Mitra, partner, Accel Partners, at a live session, where we quizzed him about his experiences and learnings from investing in companies like Myntra, Flipkart, BookMyShow and Mu Sigma. Here are the excerpts of the interview.
What do you look for while investing in a startup? What struck you about Sachin Bansal of Flipkart or Mukesh Bansal of Myntra?
Today our investment portfolio is just north of 50 companies. Apart from the Flipkarts and the Myntras, we also invested in firms like BookMyShow, which is rare and different. The company was already profitable when we invested in it and hence the metrics were different. They had a running business and were already leaders in the Indian movie ticketing space; therefore the decision-making was different from when we invested in Flipkart, Myntra or even Mu Sigma.
For this set (Flipkart, Myntra, etc.), the determining factor was primarily the quality of the team. What I mean is that these companies had people who came with a lot of belief in what they were trying to do. In Sachin and Binny Bansal's case, the belief was that 'the quality of service that an Indian e-commerce company should provide to its customers should be better than any company in the world'.
We actually had a lot of interaction with them before we finally took the investment decision. And what we found out was that they were tremendously passionate people and would come by our office every other day and tell us about the mini-steps that they covered. The beauty of it was that they knew why they were coming and we knew why they were coming, but they never actually urged us to invest in them.
The biggest challenge while investing in Flipkart was that we knew it had to raise a lot of money. But we were a $60 million fund; so how do we play a role in a company that would need to raise over $100 million going forward?
Did you ever imagine that Flipkart would actually become this big?
No way. I still remember the conversation I had with Sachin and Binny around the time we were signing the deal. I was asking them: assuming that you are going to get to a $100 million exit, are you happy to have 15 per cent eachâconsidering the dilution that will happen in the follow-on roundsâof a $100 million business? And the answer was: yes definitely; why not?
Isn't having the right business model also critical?
It depends on the stage of the company. We have always looked at the founding team as the number one requirement and the business model as the second one. Myntra is the classical example of this since it is actually the third or fourth business modelâdepending on how you look at itâthat is starting to scale. When we started we never had a clue that it would end up here. So I would reiterate that having the right team that can actually look at all these business models, put up an unbiased analysis of it and make weighted decisions to tweak the model accordingly, is very important.
And the fact is that in India you do not need to get it right the first time. There are enough opportunities. In a nascent market like India, if the team is good and can maneuver a little bit and find the right thing in the second or third attempt, you can still make it big.
Can you clear the rumours surrounding the Flipkart-Myntra merger?
So if you were to draw global parallels, Flipkart is more like Amazon, while Myntra is like ASOS. Myntra wants to excel in fashion, primarily in women's fashion, and within that build a number of private label brands that can have their own dedicated websites going forward. We are launching three such brandsâone each for young men and women and a third one focusing on Indian dresses for women.
Flipkart, on the other hand, should continue to do everything that is horizontal. They are very good at cell phones and need to be really good at laptops and accessories, etc. However, this is just my thought process and Sachin and Binny could differ.
Can you list three or four areas where the board led the trajectory of Flipkart?
The first one was setting up the company metrics. When we got in, the company was doing 100 books a day, but we rapidly wanted to expand into categories like mobile and electronics. We had several months of discussions at the board level about how to go about doing the same.
The other thing when we got scared was when Sachin and Binny came and said they wanted to try out COD. But looking back, we wouldn't have been where we are if we did not do that. Then there were many more discussions over the years on topics like what kind of team members we need to bring in, where is the scale and supply chain side going to come from, etc.
There have also been some missteps, particularly Flyte...
You can call it a misstep, but we have retracted it and it is not as if we will never launch it again. In fact, I would call the timing of Flyte a misstep and not the product itself. A startup is all about trying small experiments. However, since we were so big, the small experiment was also worth a couple of million dollars. But it didn't hurt us and at some point we thought that there are many things that are already happening; hence, we should focus on them and take a step back on Flyte.
What are the key lessons learnt from investing in these high-profile companies?
I will start with Mu Sigma. It was the first time we were being investors and we didn't even know what it meant in the true sense. Because of this our association was that of a co-founder than an investor. I was amazed with Dhiraj C Rajaram's (founder of Mu Sigma) sales abilityâhe would never walk away from a customer without getting something, even if it was just the next meeting. He would almost always make us believe that every time he walked into something, the result would be positive. So the lesson learnt was just be die-hard positive about what you are trying to do.
In comparison, Sachin and Binny are the epitome of execution. These are two guys who can think big and make it work. The interesting part is that both of them have completely different DNAs. While Sachin is an emotional, big thinking, 'let's go and do itâ kind of guy, Binny is one who will say 'I know we need to do it, but let's figure out how'. And that's why the combination works so well.
Flipkart also went through a bad PR stretch with ED probing FDI into the company, among other things. What advice did you provide?
What I told them is that every PR is good PR; you just need to live through it. If somebody knows your name, it could not hurt; you just need to 'massage the message' in a way that it turns out to look positive. And the fact that Flipkart is still there as the largest company to potentially ever come out of India, I think those PR guys should retrospect on what they talked about.
Do you subscribe to the view of 'Topi Investments' in Indian e-commerce? Do you think Flipkart raising so much capital at such high valuation is justified?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I might like and be willing to pay a lot more money for something that you will not. But that aside, there are some standard metrics that get applied to companies like Flipkart and Myntra. There are five or six parameters that we the board level look at, which include GMV, net MV, gross margin, net margin and finally contribution margin. Contribution margin is the contribution made to the bottom-line by, say, each bottle of water you sell.
The negatives come when you add GNA, which is engineering, sales and marketing team, etc. All of these, as well as other parameters are considered, and then a final valuation is done.
Can you rate Accelâs top five portfolio companies in terms of return expectations?
1. Flipkart
2. Freshdesk
3. BookMyShow
4. Myntra; because our holding has come down drastically
5. Power2SME; it is too early to tell
Who is the largest homegrown competitor to Flipkart? How many times is Accel right now into Flipkart?
The largest homegrown competitor to Flipkart is Snapdeal. Currently, we are a little less than 300 times in Flipkart.
Can you name two anti-portfolio companies of Accel?
The first one is InMobi. We didn't even come to know of it, since we were too early in the game when it happened. We should have probably hustled more for it. The second one is Snapdeal. We wanted to make the investment, but Kunal Bahl decided to go with someone else.
What is the one thing that keeps you awake in the night?
What keeps me awake is the number of people (in India) who have ever shopped online for physical goods from an e-commerce store; it's around 20 million. Also, the average basket size of Indian's shopping online is one sixth of China. The total market size of physical goods in e-commerce was $2 billion in 2013. If this market does not get to about $20 billionâwhich is not big since the US is a $250 billion market while China is about to cross $250 billionâwe will not reach critical mass and maybe all of these companies will start tapering at some point.
But if it starts getting to $10 billion and beyond, I think Myntra, Flipkart and even Snapdeal could succeed.
How has the startup ecosystem in India changed?
There are all kinds of startups today, but where we are gravitating towards are the products companies that are coming out of India. We have had phenomenal successes in the services space and some of the biggest examples are iYogi and Mu Sigma.
All entrepreneurs should understand that building a company for 2x takes as much time and effort as it takes to build 1,000x; obviously you need more management, more bandwidth and more money. But once you are beyond 10-20x, other things will follow. Examples of the same are Flipkart and Mu Sigma. So be patient in analysing what you are getting into because the opportunities are truly global today.
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Helen Keller took Iboga?
Well no. But the transformational experience she went through could be likened to that which can be achieved through an Iboga experience. How? Because le bois sacre, the sacred wood - Iboga, has the ability to provide insight. Neural pathways exist in the mind. They can be active and they can be inactive. I have always personally sought out psychedelics as a tool to open up neural pathways that I may not be using. Iboga definitely helped me with this. I recently read this quote from David Bohm (world renowned physicist and natural philosopher whom I admire immensely) and I instantly saw a relevance to iboga
"I thought of another case where you can see the power of perception. It was this case of Helen Keller—you may have heard of her, she was blind, deaf, and dumb. When she couldn't communicate she was rather like a wild animal. They found this teacher, Ann Sullivan who played a game, as it were, to put the child's hand in contact with something, that was her only sense, and scratch the word on her hand. First it was clearly nothing but a game—she didn't understand what was going on. Then Helen Keller recalls that one morning she was exposed to water in a glass and the name was scratched, and in the afternoon to water in a pump, and the name was scratched, and suddenly she had an insight, a shattering insight, and it was that everything has a name. If water was one thing in all its different forms, this one name, water, could be communicated to the other person who used the same name. From there on she began to use language and in a few days she learned words. In a few days she was making sentences and her whole life was transformed. She was no longer this violent wild person but entirely different. So you can see that this perception transformed everything." - David Bohm Interview
Helen Keller went on to study at university and to publish many books.
As soon as Helen Keller understood the abstract concept that a name existed to describe water in different states she connected a neural pathway in her mind. An understanding that she could not attain previously because of her lack of sensory input data. This new connection allowed her to make major changes in her life - to finally begin to learn and understand language, to read, to write and to study. To create a new life experience for herself. It was the concept, an insight. A knowledge that everything has a name became an experience for Helen Keller.
Experiential knowledge.
Everything exists as thought first and foremost.
This story of Helen Keller and the amazing perseverance of her teacher, should inspire us all that we can change our reality. The physical circumstances that appear to bind you are first created by you. The life you are living is the one you have created.
Helen Keller behaved like a wild animal at times because she could sense that there was more to life than she was getting. When there is a conflict in your life, what you believe, as opposed to what you receive, it becomes a problem. A frustration that could evolve as an emotional state such as depression, a constant repetitive action or if sustained for too long, a physical state, such as a malady or sickness.
While you may have your five senses, you could have limited your happiness through your own sensory data, through a lack of observation. You may have learnt bad habits or maybe in your formative years ages 1 to 7 (when your mind is in theta state), you were not in a place that established good belief systems for you. Plant medicines, such as iboga, allow and aid in an opening up of your neural pathways, to think in different ways, to change habitual thought patterns, and experience becomes knowledge.
Never are you bound to continue on one path. Everything is open to change, everything exists at once, multiple lifetimes, probable personalities all existing as one living entity.
If you have not had success on your own. Iboga can help as a guide, just as Ann Sullivan helped Helen Keller, to connect neural pathways. But it's no free ride. Ultimately, you still need to do the work.
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Today's guest blog comes from Cllr Helen Godwin, Cabinet Member for Women, Children and Families.
Like so many other Bristolians, I was really excited to hear the news last weekend that Greta Thunberg has chosen to come to speak in Bristol.
Our city has led the way in declaring both a Climate and Ecological Emergency and putting the environment at the heart of our plans for the future and we are proud to listen to our young people through the Youth Council and the work of the Bristol Children's Charter.
Greta's commitment, resilience and passion for making climate change pivotal to global political discussion can only be admired. Her ability to inspire young people has had an impact in my own family; my children's awareness of the delicate future of our planet can be attributed to her worldwide campaigning.
As my children are primary aged I have been considering all week whether it would be appropriate to take them out of school to hear Greta speak tomorrow. It feels like a once in a lifetime event and opportunity to hear from a young woman who has used her voice so powerfully to change the world. However, the statement released by Avon & Somerset Police and Bristol City Council has led me to reconsider. The main concern for tomorrow has to be the safety of children, and, as a parent I respect the concerns that the police have in terms of safety, especially of primary aged children.
The nature of the Youth School Strikes is 'organic' and as such it is really difficult for a city to plan for crowd sizes, transport implications and moving people around. We simply do not know how many people are planning to come to Bristol or the exact plans of the organisers. Bristol is a city with a long history of protest, and we are rightly proud of this and everyone who wants to take part tomorrow should be able to do so proudly and safely.
For those families who decide not to come to College Green tomorrow, I know that many schools are planning to do extra activities during the school day – I've pulled together some of these for inspiration!
- Encourage all students to walk or cycle to school
- Host a class litter picking competition in your local area
- Ban the plastic with a plastic free day (including no plastic school chairs!)
- Make some placards out of recycled materials to wave outside the school gates
- Come up with a student climate plan for the year ahead with pledges everyone can sign up to which will reduce their carbon footprint.
In January, the Mayor and I hosted 10 schools and their eco-groups. We discussed how we can make our schools greener, how we can work together as a city and built eco-bricks. We also had a fascinating discussion in the council chamber on school strikes. Everyone agreed that they had had a positive impact on the climate change agenda and the children all concluded that along with protest there must be real action.
Bristol's fight to save the planet will continue long after Greta leaves Bristol tomorrow, but her words and inspiration will stay with us as we work together across all ages.


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Grant, Alison D; Bansi, Loveleen; Ainsworth, Jonathan; Anderson, Jane; Delpech, Valerie; Easterbrook, Philippa; Fisher, Martin; Gazzard, Brian; Gilson, Richard; Gompels, Mark; +10 more... Hill, Teresa; Johnson, Margaret; Leen, Clifford; Orkin, Chloe; Phillips, Andrew N; Porter, Kholoud; Post, Frank; Walsh, John; Sabin, Caroline A; United Kingdom Collaborative HIV Cohort Study Group; (2009) Tuberculosis among people with HIV infection in the United Kingdom: opportunities for prevention? AIDS (London, England), 23 (18). pp. 2507-2515. ISSN 0269-9370 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/QAD.0b013e3283320dfd
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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the incidence of, and risk factors for, tuberculosis among HIV clinic attendees in the United Kingdom. DESIGN AND METHODS: Observational cohort study of 27 868 individuals in the United Kingdom Collaborative HIV Cohort collaboration, 1996-2005. RESULTS: Among individuals not taking combination antiretroviral therapy (cART), tuberculosis incidence was considerably higher among individuals of black African vs. white or other ethnicities {incidence rates 9.9 [95% confidence intervals (CIs) 7.2, 12.6], 2.5 [95% CI 1.8, 3.0] and 4.4 [95% CI 2.7, 6.0] episodes per 1000 person-years, respectively}. Tuberculosis incidence decreased with time after starting cART; among black Africans, incidence was consistently higher and remained substantial (5.3 per 1000 person-years) at 24 months and longer after starting cART. The strongest independent risk factors for tuberculosis after cART start were most recent CD4 cell count: adjusted rate ratios (aRR) 10.65 (95% CI 6.11, 18.57), 3.40 (95% CI 2.05, 5.65), 1.77 (95% CI 1.06, 2.96) and 1.84 (95% CI 1.09, 3.12) for individuals with CD4 cell counts less than 50, 50-199, 200-349 and 350-499 cells/microl, respectively, compared with at least 500 cells/microl; and black African vs. white ethnicity [aRR 2.93 (95% CI 1.89, 4.54)]. HIV risk group, shorter time on cART, later calendar period and unsuppressed viral load were also independently associated with incident tuberculosis. CONCLUSIONS: Tuberculosis incidence among people attending UK HIV clinics is substantial, particularly among those with non-white ethnicity and low CD4 cell counts, even after starting cART. Earlier HIV diagnosis is needed in order to implement interventions to prevent tuberculosis; tuberculosis preventive therapy should be considered in addition to cART.
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Achieving the best presentation of a book's content was a significant challenge in developing the new version of CogNet. When a catalog search presented a PDF chapter from a book, the source of the book was not obvious to the user. MIT Press turned to Data Conversion Laboratory for help solving that problem. The solution is a one-page opening to all book chapters that includes MIT Press and CogNet branding along with other relevant information on the source of the content. Those additional pages are created dynamically from the original document's XML metadata.
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Reformed Dogmatics, vol. 2, p. 369, this quote was compiled by Andrew Myers.
The Word must be preached to all without exception; the Gospel must be offered to converted and unconverted. Some object to this as if it would make the offer of grace too general. But the Lord Jesus has commanded it. 'Many are called, but few are chosen.' (Matt. 22:14; 20:16) 'Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.' (Matt. 28:19) 'Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature.' (Mark 16:15)
Indeed, God not only calls to all who hear His Word, but He also communicates various gifts to them. Speaking of persons who do not come to conversion, the apostle says that they were once enlightened, have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come. (Heb. 6:4,5) God sometimes grants to reprobates special gifts, also relating to His Word, giving a certain pleasure in it, which nevertheless does not lead to salvation.
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San Diego County health officials have reported several ticks trapped in routine monitoring along Lopez Canyon Trail in Sorrento Valley have tested positive for tularemia.
This is the first reported finding of tularemia in the county this year, prompting officials to urge the public to remember to protect themselves and their pets when hiking.
The best way to do that, County officials said, is to start by wearing insect repellent, proper clothing and by using insect control products on their pets that kill fleas and ticks.
Tularemia, or "rabbit fever," can be spread through soil contaminated with the droppings or urine of sick animals such as rabbits.
Infection can also occur from the bite of infected insects (most commonly ticks and deer flies) as well as exposure to soil and vegetation. Hunters who skin animals without gloves and are exposed to infected blood through an open wound are also at risk.
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PUBLIC COMMUNICATION - Health Canada Endorsed Important Safety Information on NUVARING
July 30, 2014
Subject: New usage restrictions for NUVARING® (etonogestrel / ethinyl estradiol slow release vaginal ring)
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For many people in Bonn, particularly teenagers and students, the Stadtgarten season at Alten Zoll is already an institution. An extension almost of the numerous teenagers often seen and heard in the shade of the University trees strumming guitars as the sun goes down. I'm sure that opening act in 2018, Cynthia Nickschas, has been one of those strummers. This time around though she had an audience of well over 2000 picnicking on the grass beside her. French electro Folkies Fergessen, Indie-Rockers Koj and Jazz quartet Radius completed the opening weekend of music under the setting sun.
A nervous sounding Tweet from Cynthia Nickschas on Friday evening announced she still had no idea exactly what she and her band would be playing in an hour or so. It's the sort of nervous energy that this talented young lady seems to thrive on. Her problem is an enviable one – she certainly now has a lot more excellent material to choose from since the recent release of new CD 'Egoschwein', whose 14 tracks is a lesson that many a young band with their 5 track cd's could learn from. An excellent interview with Cynthia in the General Anzeiger will have brought her to the attention of a wider audience, and deservedly so. Cynthia Nickschas is as natural a part of Bonn's music scene as the Stadtgarten Season itself and long may both continue with their magic.
Electro-Folk band from France, Fergessen, were an altogether Rockier and more complex proposition. I didn't catch their set, but there were apparently problems with the sound system initially. My thanks to Sabine Büttner for supplying pictures to the first evening – a perfect start weatherwise, and musically an interesting, if challenging, mixture.
Much of the same can be said of Saturday's two bands. There was not much that Koj and Radius had in common other than sharing the same stage on the same evening. 'Deep, dark, Indie' is the description this Münster based band give of their music. 'With dramatic, raw soundscapes'. I don't know how it went down on the band's recent dates supporting Beth Ditto, but I found it all a little grey and depressing on such a beautiful Summers evening. Certainly, something to chew on with the cheese and ham laid out on the on the picnic blankets. The tortoise-shell spectacles worn by singer Alina Slegers compounded the intensity of the band's sparse musical landscape in a visual way. It was all very serious, and certainly worth a listen at home, but not the ideal music on a sunny evening.
So what was the ideal music? Maybe some light, inspirational jazz perhaps? Enter Radius.
A mix of John Scofield meets Brad Mahldau, joined by Jimi Hendrix and Joshua Redman, is the band's own interpretation of their style and, as that decsription suggests, they are a pretty eclectic bunch of musicians in the best sense of the word. Thomas Kimmerle chose the band to promote this years 'Jazz Tube' Festival (DETAILS HERE) and a masterstroke it was too. If you've been a regular Jazz Tuber then you will have seen Stefan Rey and Jonas Vogelsang on numerous occasions. The two prove to be very inventive writers as the evening's music proved. Modern Jazz to a funky groove is a good description although I like very much the extra Rock Music dimension that Vogelsang brings to the bands musical table . Sparingly used but very effective. He can also play very laid back runs that were especially welcome on this hot Summer evening.
Stefan Rey is also a master at changing style but keeping the quality on both electric and Contrabass, which is the great strength of Radius. It all looks effortless, and, take note Koj, FUN! Constantin Krahmer on keys and Alex Bernath on drums need to be on their toes with these compositions and always are – the sign of a real Band. Each an excellent soloist but also an excellent team player. Bernath's enthusiasm was such that he kicked through the back of his bass-drum – needing some quick thinking and a roll of gaffer-tape to make it to songs end. Heroes all – even those behind the scenes. Bernath has quite a musical pedigree too: Robert Coleman (James Brown guitarist) : "Alex is so steady and funky, if James Brown was here tonight, Alex would be his new drummer". Chuck Leavell and Branford Marsalis are gigs appearing on Bernath's CV.
Need I say more? Not that any of that really matters to the 2000 or so picnickers camped in the fading light of a glorius day by the Rhine. It's wonderful music to relax to. Life is good, music is the healer once again. The first week down and already Stadtgarten is weaving it's Summer magic. How it continues? Find out HERE


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hey Karina,ReplyDelete
my son has terrible skin (eczema), it goes along with his terrible asthma. I never ever put any type of scented bubbles, lotions or anything like that on his skin, it starts to flare up. I use a lotion I get from my docs, but I only use that when he's bad as it's a steroid cream, I love love kiehls lotion, or aveno eczema cream is great, and I use that most days just to keep him a little softer, and I buy that at Walmart!
You know we think your absence is ... new baby????? that's my guess ;)
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I guess new baby!! :) I'd love to know what you use, I have horrible skin and it is sort of looking like my baby might have inherited it from me!ReplyDelete
I was just in a training with Avene yesterday and the rep was telling me about some amazing success stories with little ones and eczema.http://www.avene.co.nz/atopic-skin-eczema/ReplyDelete
What a sweet boy! Clean babies are my FAVORITE. I hope our boys can be well at the same time so they can play soon. I need a play date :)ReplyDelete
Naww this is so sweet! I love bath time with my baby girl too. Ever since she was an infant it was a guaranteed happy half hour!! They are just so kissable straight after the bath, even more than every other minute of the day!!! I hope all is well xxReplyDelete
I laughed, because when I think bath time, I think "dad's home!" too!ReplyDelete
Love that little one! I can't wait to see him again :)ReplyDelete
Cutest blog design!ReplyDelete
Ps. Love the photo of him and all his friends t the end smiling!
Cutest blog design! And that last photo is just beyond darling!ReplyDelete
My son's room, looks almost exactly like that too, paint was darker but we had a GIANT girraffe just like yall! So fun!ReplyDelete
Love your new blog look :) So I just HAVE to share this story because its amazing, and you brought up eczema... and I literally found the most life-changing products. My little sister has had terrible eczema her whole life and had tried literally everything. I was shopping one day at the mall and came across this new store called "LUSH." I walked in and was immediately blown away at their products. Long story short, I bought two things and gave them to my sister to try out, and within 3 days, her eczema was 100% gone. yes. gone. period. She uses the products everyday and she hasn't had any eczema ever since. I was so impressed with her story that I bought some for my son's really dry skin, and it cleared it up as well. I told my brother about it and he uses it on his daughter who had the same amazing results. The products we use are a lotion bar that is used in the bath, and it's called "King of Skin" and the second is a lotion you put on after the bath and that is called "Dream Cream." Lush is amazing and I love it because it's all organic, handmade, and eco friendly. They use real ingredients, which make it one of the cleanest lotions you can find. No phthalates, parabens, chemicals, etc. Seriously, it has changed my life. Sorry for the long post, I just had to share. And again, love your blog!ReplyDelete
I love your new blog look! Have you heard of the company LUSH? We use their lotion bar, "king of skin" and their lotion, "dream cream" and it completely got rid of my sons eczema in a day. I was so impressed, i gave it to my sister and niece and their eczema has completely gone away as well. And my sister had really, really bad eczema... and three days after using it, it was gone and she hasn't had one issue since. I LOVE Lush! Life-changing. (and its super clean stuff... no phthalates, parabens, chemicals, etc... and they use all organic, handmade, real ingredients. Amazing, amazing products.) Anyway, again... love your blog and your gorgeous family!ReplyDelete
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IVM Chemicals water-borne coatings for exterior have been chosen to protect and guarantee the maximum resistance to atmospheric agents for the innovative wooden structure of China Pavilion, the largest foreign Pavilion built at EXPO 2015.
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The Espadrille
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Working in an office full of women, it's become very apparent that espadrilles are more than a trend. In fact, they are a very well received and highly reliable accessory that appear warm season after season, ready for their call to duty. And one by one, I've watched several of my work comrades walk down (ba dum ch!) the espadrille road themselves.
First it was Alison who turned up in a ladylike wedge in classic canvas from Castaner – in tandem with her signature feminine frocks it's as if the shoes were made for her. Shortly after, by coincidence or maybe a sign from a higher power, I stumbled upon a Soludos sale and, unable to control myself, obtained three styles (they're different colors, ok?)
And Natalie, well, we know she's still on a journey of committing to a pair of her own. What's stopping her, I don't know because she talks about them constantly.
But we're not the first collective to realize the full potential of the espadrille – 13th century Spanish artisans beat us to it, followed by YSL in the 70s and Joseph Altuzarra in current times. The humble shoe is comfortable, versatile (easy to pack, wear, and transition day to night) and just plain cute.


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By Guest Bloggers Kristi Marion Johnson and Emily Eileen Carter
July is a hot month full of pool parties, baseball games and the most patriotic of American holidays, Independence Day! Boost the American spirit and bring red-white-and-blue to the table and poolside with these kid-friendly recipes. Plus all of these are easy enough for the kids to make themselves!
Watermelon "Sparkler" Pops
~ blueberries
~ mini-marshmallows
~ watermelon
~ skewers
~ star-shaped cookie cutter
- Slice watermelon to a thickness slightly thinner than the star cookie cutter (roughly half an inch).
- Let the kids place 8-10 blueberries on the skewer, alternating with mini-marshmallows.
- Use the star-shaped cookie cutter to cut out star watermelon slices.
- Place watermelon star on top of the skewer stick.
Patriotic Popcorn
~ 4 cups plain popcorn (popped)
~ 16 red candy melts
~ 16 blue candy melts
~ optional: mini marshmallows & red & blue M&M's®
- Melt the red and blue candy melts in separate bowls in the microwave at half power for 1 minute, then stir. Melt again for 30-second intervals, stirring after each, until melted.
- Place half the popcorn in large bowl and drizzle blue candy melts, gently turning with a large spatula.
- Place the other half of the popcorn in a bowl and drizzle red candy melts over mixture, turning with a clean large spatula.
- Let each popcorn mixture cool for one hour, or until candied popcorn has cooled, then toss the red and blue popcorn together in a large bowl (with optional mini-marshmallows and red and blue M&M's®).
Blueberry Cobbler
~ 4 Tablespoons butter
~ ¼ cup sugar
~¼ teaspoon salt
~ 1 teaspoon baking powder
~ 2 cups fresh blueberries
~ ½ cup steel-cut oatmeal
~ ⅔ cup all-purpose flour
~ ¾ cup whole milk
- Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Put butter in an 8-inch square or 9-inch round glass dish, microwave to melt butter.
- Mix sugar, baking powder and salt in small bowl. Add oats, flour, and milk; whisk to form a smooth batter.
- Place blueberries in glass dish; then pour batter over blueberries.
- Bake until batter browns and fruit bubbles, 30 to 40 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature with whipped cream or a small scoop of vanilla ice cream, if desired.
Thank you to Forsyth Family magazine for letting TMoM share this article today!


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Due to an unfortunate change of policy, starting July 1st 2020, a valid hunting or fishing license will be required for everyone 18 or older attempting to access any State Wildlife Area or State Trust Land. This includes the Dome Rock Trail which was previously open to all hikers at no charge. Read more at cpw.state.co.us
Dome Rock State Wildlife Area is located west of Highway 67 about halfway between Divide and Cripple creek. A network of trails is available throughout the area including connecting trails to the Mueller State Park to the north. The main feature is the huge granite Dome Rock located in the west part of the area. This spectacular hike will take you through canyons, past numerous rock outcrops, beautiful meadows, a creek with beaver dams and more. Enjoy views of Pikes Peak and huge golden aspen groves in fall.
Dome Rock Trail (#46) starts at the Parking Area off the Frourmile road. Following the creek the trail descends through a narrow canyon. Once you reach an open meadow with beaver dams stay on the right. There will be few spots on this trail where you will have to cross the creek. Sometimes you can get across by hopping on larger rocks but plan on getting wet or taking your shoes off.
After about 2.3 miles you will reach the remains of Jack Rabbit lodge. A connecting trail to the north leads to the Mueller State Park. The trail west of ruins is only open July 16th through November 30th due to the Bighorn Sheep lambing season. Another 2.3 miles down the trail you will reach the overlook of the Dome Rock itself. This is great place for a picnic and possibly a turning point for a 9 mile round trip trail.
You may choose to do a full loop by returning via Spring Creek Trail (#43). Circling the Dome Rock from the south the trail climbs taking you through large aspen groves that are particularly worth seeing in the fall. The trail later merges with Willow Creek (#40). As you reach the top of the ridge, views to the south and Pikes Peak to the east open up. Eventually you will descend back to the starting point at the parking lot.
Distance: Dome Rock overlook - 4.6 miles one way / Full loop via Spring Creek Trail - 10.5 miles
Directions: Take US-24 west. Turn south on US-67 in Divide. Drive for 5.4 miles and then turn right on 4 Mile Road. Drive another 2 miles on the dirt road and the trail head parking lot will be on your right side.
Comments: Have you hiked this trail? Please leave your review / comments / updates or photos.


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De Klerk died after a battle against cancer at his home in the Fresnaye area of Cape Town, a spokesman for the FW de Klerk Foundation confirmed on Thursday.
It was de Klerk who in a speech to South Africa's parliament on February 2, 1990, announced that Mandela would be released from prison after 27 years.
The announcement electrifying a country that for decades had been scorned and sanctioned by much of the world for its brutal system of racial discrimination known as apartheid.
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Amid gasps, several members of parliament left the chamber as he spoke.
Nine days later, Mandela walked free.
Four years after that, Mandela was elected the country's first Black president as Black South Africans voted for the first time.
By then, de Klerk and Mandela had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for their often-tense cooperation in moving South Africa away from institutionalised racism and toward democracy.
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[Contents Introduction GODS AND DEVILS, SATANISTS AND CHRISTIANS 1. So go on then, what is Satanist? 2. Do you believe in God? Do you worship the Devil then? 3. Do you hate Christians? 4. Go on then, rant a little about "The Church". 5. What about Churches of Satan then? RITUAL 6. Ok, what about Satanic ritual? RELATED GROUPINGS 7. Now don't rant, but what about Pagans? 8. Any words on Atheists? 9. Dare I ask... Crowley and Thelema? SATANISTS IN HISTORY 10. Are there any famous Satanists? 11. Whooooah! Some of these people definitely weren't known for their beliefs in "personal freedom" were they? DOCTRINES 12. Do you believe in magic? 13. So what do you believe in? 14. Why do you wear an inverted cross or an inverted pentagram? APPEARANCE AND SUBSTANCE 15. Why use the word "Satanist" when you know people will get the wrong idea? 16. So what do you get out of it, then? 17. Are you going to try and convert me? 18. Why do you have a "Responsibility in free speech" link on your page? 19. Is "Hi baby, I am a Satanist." a good chat up line? 20. I want to ask some more questions. 21. Is this finished? 22. How honest is this? =========================================== FAQ PROPER BEGINS HERE -- bobo] [Introduction] Someone suggested that I write a Frequently Asked Questions page on "Satanism". I have collected a few questions together and answered them from my point of view. If you read and understand this you will realise that writing a generic "Satanism FAQ" is impossible. I have been as honest as I am willing to be in this. I admit, I have not explained some things fully because I don't feel the urge to. I have not told any outright lies though. I shall no doubt be slated for doing this, both by Satanists and non-Satanists but I don't care. So go on then, what is Satanism? Although later I will claim that Satanism has little to do with religion, it is always easiest to start with the Bible and the arch-angel Lucifer. At this point it is easier to assume that God exists and the Bible has some degree of truth to it. Lucifer was, in angel terms, next to God. God is infallible and would not have created a "broken angel" and so, it seems that Lucifer was the closest God had to a peer when it came to chummy philosophical chats over a cup of tea. Lucifer didn't always agree with God and in a more famous argument thought that God was a bit off, giving man everything he wanted and treating them like pets and should, perhaps, be given "free will". Eventually, Lucifer offered man (or in this case, woman) free will and the human race was cast out of Eden to live their own free lives. In this case, the bringer of light showed man the light. The word "Satan" is a descriptive term, it is not Lucifer's name. It means "accusor". Interestingly, you won't find any bad references to Lucifer in the bible. Lucifer as a devil rather than an accusor is an invention of the middle ages when it was convenient to have something to pin blame onto. A "Satanist" in the pure sense is simply someone who won't automatically accept something because it's the way it always has been, a "Satanist" in the pure sense is someone who will have a strong belief in free will, a "Satanist" in the accepted sense is someone who believes in their personal freedom to do pretty much anything they want to. Do you believe in God? Do you worship the Devil then? Personally, I don't believe in God in the clear cut way the Bible presents it. The Devil is a relatively modern invention, the bad guys in biblical times were actually false gods, and there was never any hint that the arch-angel Lucifer was false. Lucifer's only "crime" was to tell God he was a bit of a control freak and to give man freedom. It is interesting to note that God sent his son to earth to preach pretty much the same thing and to repledge man's eternal freedom. I don't worship false Gods, I don't worship the arch-angel Lucifer. In fact, I don't worship anything or anybody. I do respect Lucifer's courage in speaking out against God but then it would seem, so did God. Do you hate Christians? Generally, I have found most of the Christians I have ever met to be nice and fair people. By definiton, Christians believe in the teachings of Jesus. There can be little doubt historically that Jesus existed, whether he was the son of God or just an inspired leader and speaker, is another matter though. Most of what Jesus said was all generally sound stuff. He didn't like what was happening with the church, he spoke out against it, he attacked the temples. He taught freedom, he asked people to listen, to think and to understand. In fact, everything Jesus did was perfectly in fitting with Satanistic beliefs, he was himself an excellent example of a Satanist. True Christians who have read the teachings of Jesus and understood them for themselves are generally nice people and good friends. People who call themselves Christians, and instead follow the warped teachings of Paul who went on to found the Catholic church have a rather strange (and often completely misguided) view of what Jesus was and did. Go on then, rant a little about "The Church". Aaaah, thank you. I started above by mentioning Paul and the start of the Catholic Church. Jesus spoke out against the temples and the established church so it seems strange to me that Paul would then go and create it all again in Jesus' name. All Churches are about power and control; the elders of the churches want to look after their flocks, and, at the same time, fleece them for everything they can get. A huge amount of bad has been done in the name of various churches but this is not a "bad things the church has done" FAQ. How people can read the teachings of Jesus and then believe that they are not worthy to talk to God themselves, or that only the Pope is worthy to listen to God is beyond me. Incidentally, I don't just have a downer on the Church of Rome... Martin Luther is often hailed as the creator of the modern church and the person who accused (that word again, notice) the Catholic church of speaking crap. Luther was, however, as big a control freak as any of the corrupt popes and when the Jews didn't come to join his church as he expected, he started a vicious and renewed wave of anti-semitism with articles like: The Jews and their lies. I don't think all churches are bad, but it's very hard to find ones that aren't. What about Churches of Satan then? The Church Of Satan is a wonderful organisation. It is quite a shame LeVei is dead since he was a wonderful example of Satanism in action. I am not sure of the exact figures, but for about $100 a year your average screwed up teenager would not only get a really cool black membership card with a red pentagram on it but they'd also get a set of laws to live their life by and a group of people to identify with. He must have made a fortune out of a need to belong, and good luck to him. There are churches of Satan that profess to teach ritual and will tell a new Satanist how they should act. Personally, I can't see the point, but then I have never been in one nor seen the need to be in one. Ok, what about Satanic ritual? Bunkum! And it's all written in medieval gibberish too! To be fair, like "Christian" ritual, a lot of true "Satanic" ritual is merely there to reinforce various beliefs for the various churches of different types of Satanic belief. Most other Satanistic ritual was written by the people who used "Satanism and Devil Worship" as an excuse to burn loads of old women, you can usually spot it because it all tends to be based on Christian things with the word "God" replaced with "Satan" or, simply the Christian stuff spoken backwards. If you are into this sort of thing, the only ritual I have ever thought interesting was "Das Tierdrama" which basically takes the congregation back to animal roots and then shows them how man's evolution makes them more than animals. Oddly enough, such quotes as "Not to kill without eating, that is the law, are we not men?" seem a tad odd when it tends to be man that kills without eating rather than animals. Maybe I just don't understand this mass, which is highly likely. Now don't rant, but what about Pagans? No no, I shan't be wound up... I shall not rant on and on about Wiccans. There are far too many different types of Pagans to say anything sensible on this matter but, since someone mentioned Wiccans anyway, all I have to say is that to my mind, they are far more biggoted and closed minded than most Christians I have ever met and, to make matters worse, their music is as unbelievably dire as the gods they worship. And why do their gods wear such awful clothes? At least Egyptian ones dress well! There see, I didn't rant much, did I? Any words on Atheists? Of course! Shoot the lot of them. Most normal people don't call themselves Atheists. Atheists tend to define their whole being by the fact that they don't believe in God and then they seem to think that it is their job to ram this belief down your throats and bore you senseless with loads of trivial crap about why there can't be a God. It requires a great deal of devotion and belief to be an Atheists in the same way as it takes a great deal of devotion and belief to be a Born Again Christian. Dare I ask... Crowley and Thelema? Of course you dare! I shan't be too snide, honest. Crowley admitted openley to writing much of his stuff to insult the intelligence of his readers. As a poet, he made a very good member of the Plymouth Bretheren. Crowley is probably best known for "The Book of the Law". This book is an excellent example of how the bible should have been written in that firstly, it is incredibly short and secondly, the first "law" in the book says that no-one should attempt to interpret this book for another person (where would the church be if the Bible demanded that then?). I suspect Crowley was a repressed mathematician, and this somewhat effected his mental wellbeing. This is getting way out of the scope of this FAQ though so go and look at a Thelema FAQ instead. Thelemites believe the following things... Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law, love under will. Every man and every woman is a star. I find nothing wrong with "Do what thou wilt" but personally, I have a problem with the latter two. Maybe I should update my opinion of Crowley to include the fact that deep down he was a big softy and a nice guy at heart. One word of warning, never get into a discussion about numerology with anyone who professes to be into Crowley. Are there any famous Satanists? Interesting question, and a hard one to answer. The obvious answer is that Lucifer is quite a famous one, a less obvious answer, and one I get ranted at for saying is that Jesus nearly also fits the bill of a Satanist especially the strange ideas he had about us being sheep, and his Father being a shepherd... When people start calling you sheep you have to worry about their intentions. I guess it is perfectly logical that Jesus would hold similar beliefs to Lucifer really though when you think about it. On a more serious note, pretty much anyone who is famous for having beliefs that went against the norm and was willing to speak out. Leonardo Da Vinci fit this well though he was so scared of the death penalty that his "speaking out" is still only recently coming to light. There has been a lot of critical examination of his works with the aim of showing he was deliberately speaking out against the church (see especially Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince's book "The Templar Revelation") but Da Vinci was still a brilliant scientist and hardly any of his inventions and thoughts were overly compatible with the age. In some ways, it is a shame that Leonardo lived under so much control and in so much fear; the world may well have been very different if that were not the case. Gallaleio, Newton, Darwin, Livingstone and the Teletubbies all spring to mind... On a more "negative" note PR wise, so do Rhodes, Hitler, Luther and Stalin. Whooooah! Some of these people definately weren't known for their beliefs in "personal freedom" were they? Nope... You are right there but it is their right to believe that they can enslave other people. This is where Satanism stops being quite so nice and fluffy as libertariasm. Whilst Satanists believe firmly in their own personal freedom they don't necessarialy believe in your personal freedom. Without mincing words, and using medieval language that can be taken in more than one way, Satanists believe basically "Do what you want". Most Satanists have a deep seated contempt for people they view as having no free will of their own and no particular desire to help them. It has to be said that "love and respect for your fellow man" is not a great fundamental of Satanism. Do you believe in magic? Glad you asked. The simple answer is yes. The complicated bit is the definition of "magic". Simply speaking, an act of magic is an act of causing a change of state in something. I once saw an excellent article on this somewhere but I have lost it. Really simplifying things, if you do something directly to get a result (like hitting someone, and making them fall down) then you have done an act of lower magic. If you were to indirectly influence things around you to cause someone else to hit the person and for them to fall down, you would be performing higher magic, and the 3rd party would be a "demon". Some people are good at "causing things to work out". Whether they do it by direct means or some means you can't quite put your finger on, they are still performing magic. Some people are really good at this and should really be classed as quite powerful practitioners of the art but a lot of them don't know they are doing it, or how they are doing it. The mumbo jumbo of a lot of the "magical sects" is an attempt to define means of performing this influence on the world, maybe it works, maybe it doesn't but most of them look really silly. Karl Jung had a lot more sense to say about this sort of thing anyway, as does the Kabbalah. Incidentally... The mumbo-jumbo brigade will insist on mispelling the word "magic" in an attempt to confuse things. They claim it is to differentiate it from the art of the stage magician. Personally, I think that good stage magicians are far better practitioners of magic than people who dance naked around fires and wear dirty rags, but there you go! So what do you believe in? This is a biggie... Obviously, personal freedom is one of the major ones. I would also say truth as well although I am an excellent liar so I can't use the excuse that honesty is easier than lies. That story is something parents tell kids, but it's a lie in itself, lying is almost always easier than telling the truth and these honesty obsessed authority figures seem to have no problems telling their kids about strange fat blokes in red suits who come down the chimney delivering presents every Christmas. Oooh, I have one... I believe in Fairies (and I don't spell it Faeries, that seems to be like the Magic/Magick argument). People who believe in fairies have a much easier life than the cynical buggers who don't. If you don't believe me, try it sometime! Why do you wear an inverted cross or an inverted pentagram? The symbols of Satanism are traditionally the inverted pentagram and the inverted cross. They are both middle aged inventions but I can't see any harm in a symbol so I opted for the inverted pentagram. I wear it mostly to remind myself what I profess to believe in because sometimes, it's not the easiest belief system in the world to keep. I wear a small inverted pentagram. It was made for me, in white gold, by Lionel Pepper. I had another one before but I gave it away. I don't own a ring with pentagrams on it (actually, I do, but only as a joke!). I don't own one of those huge 1 foot wide pentagrams you can buy from Goth shops. I don't have any pentagrams tattooed to my eyelids or whatevever. I really can't see why Pagans have a tendency to wear all of this crud but I guess it goes with their general lack of dress sense. One thing I never really understand is why both Christians and Pagans have this tendancy to wear their symbols outside their clothing. They must take a special effort to untuck it, and keep it in the right place because most of them are on quite small chains. Very strange! Why use the word "Satanist" when you know people will get the wrong idea? The answer to this one depends on my mood. Sometimes the answer will be that I object to the medieval re-definition of the word into something bad; sometimes I will say that I merely want people to assume I am something I am not, for a quiet life. In truth, I mainly use it because it is the proper word for what I believe though sometimes, I will qualify it by calling myself a "philosophical Satanist". Someone once asked me "If it is a descriptive term, then why do you capitalise it?" I never could think up a good answer to that. Telling people you are a Satanist is quite useful if you want to filter people. If they are biggoted, and closed minded, they will just go away, if not, they won't care less and some will even ask you a bit more about it. I am always intrigued though by how many people think I secretly dance around bonfires on cold dirty moors stabbing chickens or babies (I mean, apart from anything, I would use a nailgun!). What so you get out of it then? Smelly Pagans usually avoid me at parties. If that's not a good thing then I dunno what is! Are you going to try and convert me? Nope. This path is one you take yourself. I am not even going to tell you where to start. If you are interested follow some of the links on my homepage. If you are really interested, ignore them because they are mostly crap. Why do you have a "Responsibility in free speech" link on your page? A few people have asked me this... They are a Christian organisation and I tend to agree with what they say. Simple as that. Is "Hi baby, I am a Satanist." a good chat up line? Not sure, I have never tried it. I think for it to work properly you'd have to use it on people in black leather jackets, purple silk clothes and an odour of patchoulli. You may want to flash your Church of Satan membership card and add that you are looking for virgins to stab with your dagger too to get the full effect. I want to ask some more questions. I want a wee, mail them to me, and I shall see if any are worth entertaining. Is this finished? No, you daft gobbin. It says at the top that it is still in the draft and proofread stage. Whether it will ever get out of that and be published is another matter. How honest is this? That is really for me to know, and for you to decide. If you have read thus far then you will have formed some opinions of your own anyway. As you may realise, honesty to others isn't really something Satanists hold strong to so it is highly likely that this whole FAQ is nothing more than a tissue of lies. Whilst it may not appear obvious why I would lie, if you accept Satanism as the worship of the Devil then you could also accept that I am trying to make Satanism seem clean, honourable and nice in order to lure people into a false sense of security whilst I twist their minds and steal their children for midnight sacrifices. Have a nice day. ============================================= TITLE: Michael's [alt.!]Satanism FAQ! VERSION: 500301 [copied from Michael's website (where I found several hidden version dates! including: 1998-09-19 & 2000-09-09) URL: http://www.lorry.com/Docs/sfaq.html ) NOTE: I hope he sends me updates. :> COPYRIGHT: usenet copyright 2003-2666 Michael Lawriel all rights reserved. EDIT: reformatted slightly in transits, additions and editing decisions: bobo
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