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Unwined's flagship product. Our Signature collection of candles are housed in recycled wine bottles, made from all-natural soy wax, 100% cotton wick and a blend of essential and artisan fragrances. Eco-friendly and clean burning, these beautifully handcrafted candles are sure to please!
Dreamsicle Fragrance Notes:
Top: Orange
Middle: Sugar
Base: Vanilla, Marshmallow
12 Ounce Soy Wax Candle / Approximate 80 Hour Burn Time

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Why can't I take the History of Rock and Roll or something like that? You know, something actually useful.
I have a custom application (ND6) which has a form that contains many rich text fields. I would say there are close to a dozen spread over several tabbed tables. These fields are used to store attachments of various types and categories. A rich text field may have multiple attachments in it at any given time. It has been noticed that documents with many attachments open slower than documents with only a few. This is particularly noticeable when users are connected from our VPN (with obviously lower bandwidth). I am not looking for a fix, but rather an explanation as to exactly why a document with many rich text fields/attachments loads slower. The server isn't preloading the attachments, so what takes it so long?
You were right on, anti-virus was the culprit. Unbeknownst to me, the Symnatec Anti-Virus client installed on every pc had a "Lotus Notes Auto-Protect" feature enabled. It would scan each attachment before opening the doc.
Opening or deleting documents with large attachments takes as long as it does to download the attachment. Why is that? It seems that the document should open quickly and only take time if you actually want to download the attachment(s). Same with deleting documents with attachments. I deleted 2 documents tonight, one with 40 mbs and one with 60 mbs worth of attachments and it took about 20 minutes (with a broadband connection) just to soft delete them. Emptying the trash is fast but putting docs in the trash takes way too long and locks up Notes until it's done.
Looks like Symantec Anti-Virus is the culprit with attachments and extremely slow speed!I ran a test with SAV enabled for Lotus Notes and a document with an 11 MB file took over 2 minutes to open! When I disabled SAV, the document opened in less than 2 seconds! Yikes!! I'll check with SAV and see what the deal is. Thanks for this info!
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Life is Hard is Rob Iutzwig and Tim Marshall,
independent artists/songwriters from Houston, Texas
Both songwriters have been writing and recording music for over twenty years. They write music in various genres including Rock, Pop, Adult Contemporary, Country, and CCM. They decided to team up in 2010 under the project titled "Life is Hard." Their music has been played on AM and FM radio stations in the United States, Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Life is Hard has countless musical influences spanning many decades and genres. Some of these include The Fray, Collective Soul, Train, Mat Kearney, Jimmy Webb, Jackson Browne, Peter Himmelman, Crowded House, Bruce Springsteen, Rascal Flatts, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Johnson, The Beatles, Rush, U2, Jimi Hendrix, Dave Matthews Band, John Mellencamp, Red Hot Chili Peppers, David Crowder Band, Robbie Seay Band, Kings of Leon, Arcade Fire, The Wallflowers, John Mayer, Pat Metheney, Vince Gill, Keith Urban, Zac Brown Band, Paul Weller and many more.
Life is Hard's first EP was released in 2011.
Their first full-length album "Rise Again" was released in 2013.
In 2014 they released a full instrumental album titled "Instrumentals Volume I."
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Eye Protection: Goggles or Face Shield
- Protect you from hazards—branches, road debris, and insects—which can impair your vision and jeopardize your safety.
- Use gray-tinted eye protection on bright days, yellow-tinted on overcast days, and clear for night riding.
- Should be shatter-resistant and well-ventilated to prevent fogging.
- Keep eye protection scratch-free and fastened securely at all times.
- Note: Sunglasses do not protect adequately. Use goggles or a face shield.


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Deployment projects workflow
Deployment projects are an important feature of the continuous deployment philosophy. Identifying and understanding the key configuration steps for a deployment project will help you to gain a better insight into how a deployment project functions.
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Deployment project prerequisites
There are a number of prerequisites that must be in place before you can start using deployment projects. The prerequisites are:
- A build plan
- Artifacts to deploy (these are produced by the build plan and shared)
Step 1: Create a new deployment project
Creating the deployment project is the first step. Here we will give the project a name and a description, but most importantly we associate the deployment project with an existing Bamboo build plan. This is why we must have a build plan available to associate with our new deployment project.
Learn more about creating a deployment project here.
Step 2: Decide on a release naming scheme
The next step is to configure the release naming scheme for the deployment project. The release naming scheme will define how Bamboo names the releases that you create from your build artifacts for deployment. You can use either a simple release naming scheme, or a scheme that uses global or plan variables already defined in Bamboo.
Learn more about release naming schemes here.
Step 3: Decide who can view and edit the project
You need to decide who can view and edit the deployment project: This is done using the permission scheme. You can add or remove individuals or groups from the scheme, and give them access to either view and/or edit the project.
Learn more about the permissions scheme here.
Step 4: Create a deployment environment
The next step is to create a deployment environment. A deployment environment represents the servers or groups of servers where the software has been deployed, and any tasks needed for the deployment to go smoothly. You can call the deployment environment anything you like, though typical names are QA, Staging and Production.
Learn more about creating a deployment environment here.
Step 5: Customize your deployment environment
Once you have created your deployment environment, you need to set it up to reflect the needs of your project. You can control most aspects of the deployment environment, including:
- Tasks - Run executable tasks during the deployment process, for example downloading a needed artifact from a different plan
- Triggers - Decide which events or schedule points will trigger off deployment of your project to an environment
- Permissions - Decide who can view and edit your deployment environment
- Agents - Control which agents you will use to support your deployment process
- Notifications - Create a notification scheme to keep you informed about your deployment progress
- Variables - Assign variables for your deployment projects
Step 6: Start deploying!
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This post from one of the bloggers on Spike TV's website infuriates me.
The true definition of a butterbody is a woman who has a beautiful face but a body that's gone to butter. It's like the butterface, but in reverse. If you are rich and famous, there is no excuse for being a butterbody. It's your job to look fit and hot. Celebrities are not like normal people. They have the means to pay for a full time trainer and for someone to prepare their meals.
This is really just revolting.


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Based on Fredrick Backman's 2012 best-selling book of the same name, this Swedish hit comedy-drama introduces us to Ove, an elderly man who feels like his life is over. After losing his wife, the short-fused retiree spends his days grumpily enforcing block association rules in his neighborhood. He is your typical unhappy, old neighbor, somebody you would try to avoid. One new family does not give up and befriends Ove, played by an impeccable Rolf Lassgård, despite his best intentions to put them off. As the plot unfolds, however, you learn more about the story behind the man, and, in classic walk-a-mile-in-his-shoes fashion, start to find him rather loveable. After all, nobody is born grumpy and cynical. Naturally, this is a sweet and sentimental film. But an amazing lead performance and a charming, darkly funny script rescue it from drifting too far off the shore. The result is a wholesome, fun, and thoughtful dramedy with a beautiful message.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Actor: Anna Granath, Bahar Pars, Borje Lundberg, Chatarina Larsson, Christoffer Nordenrot, Erik Ståhlberg, Filip Berg, Fredrik Evers, Ida Engvoll, Jerker Fahlström, Jessica Olsson, Johan Friberg, Johan Widerberg, Karin de Frumerie, Klas Wiljergard, Magnus Sundberg, Maja Rung, Poyan Karimi, Rolf Lassgård, Simon Edenroth, Simon Reithner, Sofie Gällerspång, Stefan Godicke, Tobias Almborg
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Diversity has never been hotter in the fashion industry. This year, more non-white, plus-sized, and transgender models have walked the runway than ever before, and a record number of black women have appeared on the covers of glossies worldwide. Alessia Glaviano, senior picture editor at Vogue Italia and director of the Photo Vogue Festival thinks we owe it to the internet. "I believe that nothing would have happened, or not this fast, in terms of inclusivity, if it wasn't for social media," she says. "It's a progressive platform for talking about race, identity, sexuality, and disability."
But diversity isn't just a trend, it's a reality. Years before #diversity began to take off, forward-thinking publications such as Vogue Italia were already poking holes in the industry's representation problem, with initiatives such as the July 2008 "all black" issue. Vogue Italia is known for being adventurous, for setting a standard for cutting-edge fashion photography. Over the years has given artistic freedom to commissioned photographers such as Steve Meisel, Ellen von Unwerth and Miles Aldridge, who have shot stories unlikely to be seen elsewhere, engaging with themes such as plastic surgery and domestic violence.
"It's been in our DNA since the beginning," says Glaviano. "We've always been really engaged and committed to this part of fashion that can be very strong and influential.
"I've never believed in boundaries and labelling things," she adds. "No one cares that Michelangelo was commissioned to create the Sistine Chapel. What they care about is the final result."


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Is the shape of a genome as important as its content?
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- October 29, 2010
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- The Wistar Institute
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- The complex associations between genes may be defined in part by the three-dimensional structure of the all of the chromosomes form together: the shape of the genome, according to researchers. By mapping out the structure of the fission yeast genome, they demonstrate how this non-random arrangement positions groups of genes together. This structure is not merely the shape of the genome, but also a key to how it works.
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If there is one thing that recent advances in genomics have revealed, it is that our genes are interrelated, "chattering" to each other across separate chromosomes and vast stretches of DNA. According to researchers at The Wistar Institute, many of these complex associations may be explained in part by the three-dimensional structure of the entire genome.
A given cell's DNA spends most of its active lifetime in a tangled clump of chromosomes, which positions groups of related genes near to each other and exposes them to the cell's gene-controlling machinery. This structure, the researchers say, is not merely the shape of the genome, but also a key to how it works.
Their study, published online as a featured article in the journal Nucleic Acids Research, is the first to combine microscopy with advanced genomic sequencing techniques, enabling researchers to literally see gene interactions. It is also the first to determine the three-dimensional structure of the fission yeast genome, S. pombe. Applying this technique to the human genome may provide both scientists and physicians a whole new framework from which to better understand genes and disease, the researchers say.
"People are familiar with the X-shapes our chromosomes form during cell division, but what they may not realize is that DNA only spends a relatively small amount of time in that conformation," said Ken-ichi Noma, Ph.D., an assistant professor in Wistar's Gene Expression and Regulation program and senior author of the study. "Chromosomes spend the majority of their time clumped together in these large, non-random structures, and I believe these shapes reflect various nuclear processes such as transcription."
To map both individual genes and the overall structure of the genome, Noma and his colleagues combined next generation DNA sequencing with a technique called chromosome conformation capture (3C). They then used fluorescent probes to pinpoint the exact location of specific genes through a microscope. With these data, the researchers were able to create detailed three-dimensional computer models of the yeast genome.
Using this novel approach, the researchers can view genes as they interact with each other. Noma and his colleagues can view where highly active genes are located, or see if genes that are turned on and off together also reside near each other in the three-dimensional structure of the genome. In total, the Wistar researchers also studied 465 so-called gene ontology groups -- groups of genes that share a related purpose in the cell, such as structure or metabolism.
"When the chromosomes come together, they fold into positions that bring genes from different chromosomes near each other," Noma said. "This positioning allows the processes that dictate how and when genes are read to operate efficiently on multiple genes at once."
This structure is not merely an accident of chemical attractions within and among the chromosomes -- although that is certainly a part of the larger whole -- but an arrangement guided by other molecules in the cell to create a mega-structure that dictates genetic function, Noma says. He envisions a scenario where accessory molecules, such as gene-promoting transcription factors, bind to DNA and contribute to the ultimate structure of the genome as the chromosomes fold together.
"I believe we are looking at a new way to visualize both the genome itself and the movements of all the various molecules that act on the genome," Noma said.
According to the Wistar scientists, their techniques are scalable to the human genome, even though fission yeast only has three chromosomes. In fact, the researchers found signs of "transcription factories" -- clusters of related genes that are read, or "transcribed," at discrete sites -- which have been proposed to exist in mammals.
This study was funded through a National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award.
Co-authors of this study include post-doctoral researchers Hideki Tanizawa, Ph.D., Osamu Iwasaki, Ph.D., and Atsunari Tanaka, Ph.D., and Research Assistant Joseph R. Capizzi, who are all members of the Noma laboratory. They worked in collaboration with Priyankara Wickramasinghe, Ph.D., Mihee Lee, Ph.D., and Zhiyan Fu, Ph.D., of Wistar's Bioinformatics Facility.
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- H. Tanizawa, O. Iwasaki, A. Tanaka, J. R. Capizzi, P. Wickramasinghe, M. Lee, Z. Fu, K.-i. Noma. Mapping of long-range associations throughout the fission yeast genome reveals global genome organization linked to transcriptional regulation. Nucleic Acids Research, 2010; DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq955
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Diablo III System Requirements
Blizzard doesn't announce their system requirements or recommendations until shortly before a game is finished. They don't know before then, since the final stages of programming include lots of optimizations to lower the machine load and streamline the program. Their goal is to keep their games playable on reasonable systems, without sacrificing performance or graphics.
As a result, fans were left to guess and conjecture at Diablo III's system requirements for years. This page preserves those early hints and investigations, below the official information which Blizzard finally revealed in December 2011.
Diablo III Minimum System Requirements[edit | edit source]
From the official page:[[1]]
Windows[edit | edit source]
- Windows® XP/Vista/7 (latest service packs) with DX 9.0c
- Intel Pentium® D 2.8 GHz or AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 4400+
- NVIDIA® GeForce® 7800 GT or ATI Radeon™ X1950 Pro or better
- 1 GB RAM (XP), 1.5 GB (Vista/7)
- 12 GB available HD space
- DVD-ROM (required for retail disc versions only)
- Broadband* Internet connection
- 1024x748 minimum resolution
Mac[edit | edit source]
- Mac® OS X 10.6.8, 10.7.x or newer
- Intel® Core 2 Duo
- NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT or ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 or better
- 12 GB available HD space
- DVD-ROM (required for retail disc versions only)
- Broadband* Internet connection1024x768 minimum resolution
* Be advised that some wireless connections do not meet the minimums required to be a true Broadband Internet connection. Wireless results may vary.
Diablo III Recommended System Requirements[edit | edit source]
From the official page:[[2]]
Windows[edit | edit source]
- Windows® Vista/7 (latest service packs)
- Intel® Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 5600+ 2.8 GHz
- NVIDIA® GeForce® 260 or ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 or better
Mac[edit | edit source]
- Mac® OS X 10.7.x or newer
- Intel® Core 2 Duo
- NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 330M or ATI Radeon™ HD 4670 or better
Video Card Information[edit | edit source]
Blizzard tech support maintains lengthy lists of video cards sorted by High, Medium, and Low Performance. Refer to those for specific details of your own hardware:
Diablo III Demo Systems[edit | edit source]
Prior to the beginning of the Diablo III Beta test, and the ultimate release of the official system specs, fans derived information from any available source. One useful data point was the machines used at game demos. Here's the system info from the machines assembled to demo Diablo III at the G-Star show in Seoul, Korea in 2010. [3]
- CPU: Intel Core i7 870 (45nm, Soket 1156, 2.93GHz)
- Motherboard: Intel DH55HC (intel H55)
- RAM: EK Memory DDR3 10600 2GBx2EA
- Video Card: GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 460 1GB WindForce or ZOTAC GeForce GTX 460 1GB
- Hard Drive: Seagate Momentus XT 500GB
- Power Supply: Acbel iPower 500
- Case: Bestech Guardian
- Monitor: Orion TopSync 24
Some photos of the machines during their set up process can be seen below.
Demo Machines are Monsters[edit | edit source]
Knowing the specs of demo machines at game shows isn't necessarily very useful for predicting the actual game requirements, though, as Bashiok explained in 2009. [4]
They were insane.
There's a few reasons why it doesn't matter what those machines were though.
Most machines are lent to us by hardware vendors. It's in our interest to have our games look good and run well, and it's in their interest to show off the latest and greatest their company has to offer. So generally they're top of the line, using all the newest and best hardware.
Because we're working with a pre-release version we work with the hardware that's going to be on the show floor to build a final show floor build. The game hasn't hit (obviously) final QA and hardware compatibility testing as it would before release to the public, so we need to ensure it's going to run smoothly on this one specific set of hardware for the show.
It can also help, to a degree, overcome some potential technical hurdles we could run into with a pre-optimized build of the game. Throw more CPU/RAM/3D processing at it, and generally those pre-optimized problems won't throw a wrench into the brief glimpse of a game that isn't finished yet.
So, the combination of having hardware vendors showing off the latest and greatest, coupled with our interest to have a unoptimized version of the game look good, leads to show floor specifications that are probably way beyond what even the final "Recommended" specs for the game would be, let alone "Required".
Diablo III's Technology[edit | edit source]
Diablo III is made completely in 3D, using custom in-house physics and graphics engines. The game is currently native to DirectX 9, and will not require DirectX 10 to run. The game will probably use a slightly higher level of system requirements than StarCraft II, which used Havok & DirectX 9, and is the closest thing we can compare the game to.
You can read more on StarCraft II's requirements and DirectX compatibilities as well as shader info here:
- Graphics Requirements Confirmed - The most prominent part of the system requirements, the graphics requirements released from Blizzard document.
- StarCraft II System Requirements - System requirements analyse from available information.
- Kalos' Chronicles - Technical articles for StarCraft II.
Here is a Blizzard quote on the system specs: [5]
Starcraft 2 System Requirements[edit | edit source]
Fans often ask about Diablo 3's system requirements. While Blizzard won't make those known until much closer to the game's launch, we can look at the SC2 minimm requirements for some insight. Here's what Blizzard says, on their B.net support page. [6]
PC Minimum System Requirements[edit | edit source]
Due to potential programming changes, the Minimum System Requirements for this game may change over time. Mac Requirements
- Windows® XP/Windows Vista®/Windows® 7 (Updated with the latest Service Packs) with DirectX® 9.0c
- 2.6 GHz Pentium® IV or equivalent AMD Athlon® processor
- 128 MB PCIe NVIDIA® GeForce® 6600 GT or ATI Radeon® 9800 PRO video card or better
- 12 GB available HD space
- 1 GB RAM (1.5 GB required for Windows Vista®/Windows® 7 users)
- DVD-ROM drive
- Broadband Internet connection
- 1024X720 minimum display resolution
PC Recommended Specifications:[edit | edit source]
- Windows Vista®/Windows® 7
- Dual Core 2.4Ghz Processor
- 512 MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800 GTX or ATI Radeon® HD 3870 or better
Mac Minimum System Requirements:[edit | edit source]
- Mac® OS X 10.5.8, 10.6.2 or newer
- Intel® Processor
- NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT or ATI Radeon® X1600 or better
- 12 GB available HD space
- 2 GB Ram
- DVD-ROM drive
- Broadband Internet connection
- 1024X720 minimum display resolution
Mac Recommended Specifications:[edit | edit source]
- Intel® Core 2 Duo processor
- 4 GB system RAM
- NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600M GT or ATI Radeon® HD 4670 or better
Compatible Operating Systems[edit | edit source]
- Windows XP compatible
- Windows Vista compatible
- Mac OSX compatible


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November 16: If you want to spend your next vacation in one of the most beautifully designed villas in Lonavala, Alibaug, Karjat, or Goa, you should book with Vistara Stays.
Vistara Stays, a leading provider of vacation rentals, has more than 400 villas available for rent in popular tourist destinations, including Goa, Lonavala, Alibaug, Igatpuri, Nasik, Mahabaleshwar, and Karjat.
Rentals from this company's private collection of villas are unlike any other property on the market. Visitors can expect the "Best Stays, Best Service, and Best Rates" promised by the company.
Vinay Agrawal, a prominent businessman in the hospitality sector in Maharashtra, founded Vistara Stays. When Vistara was founded, the idea was to provide a luxury travel service catered to millennials and the contemporary generation.
According to Vistara Stays' founder, Vijay Agarwal, "gone are the days when you would want to find a beach-facing hotel or villas; Vistara stays have beautifully well-curated villas that can make your journey epic." Our goal is to help our guests create lasting experiences with us. Visit us, and we'll make sure your holiday is jam-packed with exciting activities and relaxing spa treatments.
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Bubble Letterzzz Y Necklace
This necklace comes with the Bubble Letterzzz pendant Y
necklace: sterling silver - 24K gold plated
pendant: brass - 24K gold plated
length: 50 cm
chain: fine venetian chain
pendant size: 2,0 cm x 1,2 cm
Designed in Berlin and manufactured in Germany.
The necklace comes in a Too Dreamy velvet-lined case including the postcard
"Bubble Letterzzz A-Z"
Our Terms are payment in full within 7 days. All goods remain the property of Too Dreamy Jewelry until paid for in full.
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We always send our jewelry via recorded post.
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Every unique item of Too Dreamy jewelry is handcrafted with love, passion and care at our Berlin studio. Using only the very finest materials sourced via traditional, family-owned businesses in Germany, we strive for the highest standards of quality at all stages of our creative process. Our products use 24 karat gold plated sterling silver and 24 karat gold plated brass.
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Off We Go, Over Hill Over Dale, Anchors Aweigh, From the Halls of Montezuma, and From Aztec Shore to Arctic Zone…
JBAB Home Educators is a homeschool support group for military families living in the greater DC area that offers a variety of activities for its members. We welcome homeschool families from every branch of the military, DHS, and Coast Guard, whether you are active duty, reserve, or retired. If you have access to Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, JBABHE may be a great connection for you!
Benefits of a JBABHE Membership:
-Access www.jbabhe.com which provides access to the calendar, forum, and more
-Communicate with veteran homeschoolers for support and homeschooling resources
-Access information on local activities and area special events
-Access information about community service volunteer opportunities
-Print Student ID and Teacher ID Cards (via the website)
-Participate in JBABHE group classes, field trips, events, clubs, and sports with access to multiple base facilities (*some costs or fees may be required depending on activity*)
-Obtain a discounted membership to Home School Legal -Defense Association (HSLDA)
-Participate in age-specific social events and clubs
-Participate in annual proctored group testing
-Participate in academic based fairs, conferences, and competitions
-Access information for additional military-focused student/family events
-Attend multiple free clothing-swaps and book/curriculum swaps
*Our organization is governed by a Constitution and By-Laws, which may be accessed and reviewed through the "JBAB Board Info" section of the website after signing up.


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Death in Guantánamo: Suicide or Dryboarding?
On June 10, 2006 three Guantánamo prisoners were found dead in their cells. Two days later, a Department of Defense news release described these deaths as suicides. The news release quoted Camp Commander Harry Harris, who described these suicides as acts of asymmetric warfare meant to advance al Qaeda's cause in the war on terror.
The news release was categorical with regards to the self-inflicted nature of the deaths. And the Camp Commander was equally certain of their hostile intent. Yet, the news release was curiously guarded about the manner of these deaths—the three "appear" to have hanged themselves with nooses made of bed sheets and clothing, it said.
The deaths of these three individuals was the subject of an investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). The much awaited report of this investigation concluded that these deaths were indeed self-inflicted. Yet, a close reading of the heavily redacted material released by the NCIS raises more than a few questions, both for this and for other researchers, regarding the exact circumstances of these deaths—to wit:
- Is it possible to tie one's own hands?
- Is it physically possible to hang yourself bound, masked, and gagged?
- Why was there a bloody T-shirt around the neck of one of the prisoners found hanging in his cell? (NCIS1113)
- Rigor mortis had begun to set in on the prisoners when they were discovered. Consequently, they had to have been hanging for two hours before they were discovered. According to Standard Operating Procedures, each of the prisoners had to be visually inspected every 10 minutes. That means 6 inspections per prisoner per hour, or 36 inspections overall. How could the guards have missed the hangings in 36 visual inspections? (NCIS1025, NCIS1070, NCIS1078f, AUTO693-8, AUTO588-7)
- Why were the neck organs (the larynx, the hyoid bone, and the thyroid cartillage) removed from one of the corpses? According to subsequent autopsies done privately, these would be essential in establishing whether or not hanging was the cause of death (AUT693-5)
- Why is there a page missing from a log book begun on the day the deaths were discovered and recording the entries and exits to the cell block where the suicides took place? (NCIS1354)
Incidentally, the information that the dead prisoners were gagged with rags came out before the NCIS report was even begun. This information was provided by Col. Michael Bumgarner, one of the Guantánamo commanders. Speaking to The Charlotte Observer, Col. Bumgarner said that the prisoners that had hanged themselves "each had a ball of cloth in their mouth either for choking or muffling their voices".
The deceased were known officially as Ali Abdullah Ahmed (ISN 693), Mana Shaman Allabardi al Tabi (ISN 588), and Yasser Talal al Zahrani (ISN 93). Their lifeless bodies were found hanging in cells A5, A12, A8, respectively, of Alpha Block, Camp 1, Camp Delta (NCIS938).
The Testimonies of Several Guards And One Commander
In January 2010, Scott Horton published an explosive article in Harper's Magazine. In it he told about Staff Sergeant Joseph Hickman, who was guarding the entrance to Camp Delta on the night of the deaths. Early that night, Sergeant Hickman saw a white van come and pick three prisoners from the Camp and drive them to a secretive facility within the Guantánamo Naval Base. Then, about an hour before the bodies were found hanging in their cells, the van returned and backed up to the entrance of the clinic as if to unload something. Hickman went to the clinic and a medical corpsman informed him that three dead prisoners had been delivered to the clinic. The corpsman furthermore told him that they had died because they had rags stuffed down their throats, and that one of them was severely bruised.
Specialist Tony Davila, also serving at Guantánamo at the time, was likewise told, according to Harper's, that the prisoners had died as the result of having rags stuffed down their throats.
The article in Harper's Magazine adds two critical questions to the nine raised thus far:
- Who were the three prisoners taken to the secret facility on the evening of the deaths?
- What happened to them there?
In addition to this, two Guantanamo guards other than the ones mentioned thus far told Horton that no prisoners were taken from the regular cell blocks to the clinic that night. And several guards confirmed to him also that Bumgarner had acknowledged the gagging early on. Indeed, according to Harper's, the Colonel called a meeting of personnel on the morning of the deaths; at that meeting, he is said to have told those in attendance that
you all know three prisoners in the Alpha Block at Camp 1 committed suicide during the night by swallowing rags, causing them to choke to death (The Guantánamo Suicides, §5)
"He also told them," Horton continued, "that the media would report something different. It would report that the three prisoners had committed suicide by hanging themselves in their cells. It was important, he said, that servicemen make no comments or suggestions that in any way undermined the official report. He reminded the soldiers and sailors that their phone and email communications were being monitored."
The Dryboarding Of Ali Almarri
Ali Saleh Almarri is a citizen of Qatar that entered lawfully the United States in September 2001. Ostensibly, he had come with his wife and five children to pursue graduate studies at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois—the same institution from which he had earned a Bachelor's degree in 1991. On December 12, 2001 Mr. Almarri was arrested by the FBI as an alleged material witness of the terrorist attacks of September 11 (Complaint, §§14-15).
Mr. Almarri was initially detained at the Peoria County Jail. From there he was transferred to the Metropolitan Correction Center in New York City, and then back to the Peoria County Jail in May 2003. By then, Mr. Almarri had been detained without charge for 17 months, most of which he had spent in solitary confinement (Complaint, §§15-16, 21).
On June 23, 2003, President Bush designated Mr. Almarri an enemy combatant, and had him transferred to the Consolidated Naval Brig in Charleston, South Carolina, the same prison that once housed alleged dirty-bomber Jose Padilla, former Guantánamo prisoner Yasser Hamdi, and former Guantánamo Chaplain James Yee. Mr. Almarri remained at the brig until February 2009. By then, he had been held for more than seven years—all without charge; all in virtual isolation (Complaint, §§25-26).
In 2009, President Obama transferred Mr. Almarri's case to the federal court system, where he pleaded guilty of supporting al-Qaeda and was sentenced to fifteen years. He is now held at the supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. Receiving a reduced sentence for time served and the harsh conditions of his confinement, he is due to be released in January 2015 (Federal Bureau of Prisons Website).
By December 2011, Mr. Almarri had spent ten years in custody. Of these years, the most brutal were the first year-and-a-half he spent at the Consolidated Naval Brig, from June 2003 to October 2004. There he was held incommunicado—meaning that he was denied any contact with the outside world, including his family, his lawyers, and even the International Committee of the Red Cross. His only human contact then was with government officials during interrogation sessions. Or with guards when they delivered trays of food through a slot in his cell door, escorted him to shower, or took him to a concrete cage for "recreation" (Memorandum, p. 4).
During this period, Mr. Almarri was held in a 6-by-9-foot cell, denied basic necessities, including adequate clothing, recreation, and hygiene items such as a toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, and toilet paper. Sometimes the water to his cell was cut off for up to 20 days. If Mr. Almarri needed water to drink or to wash himself, he had to ring a buzzer. Brig staff would often fail to respond for several hours. Brig staff also interfered with Mr. Almarri's practice of his religion. A devout Muslim, he was denied water to purify himself, a prayer rug, and a kofi to cover his head during prayer. When he used his shirt as a substitute, he was punished by having his shirt removed. He was prohibited from knowing the time of day and the direction to Mecca, thus preventing him from properly fulfilling the Muslim requirement of praying five times a day. The only religious item he was permitted was a Koran—but it was sometimes taken away and desecrated (Memorandum, pp. 5-6).
While held incommunicado, Mr. Almarri was subjected to a brutal interrogation regime which included stress positions, prolonged exposures to cold temperatures, extreme sensory deprivation, and threats of violence or death to self or to others. Interrogators, for example, told Mr. Almarri that they would send him to Egypt or to Saudi Arabia to be tortured, sodomized, and forced to watch as his wife was raped in front of him. They also threatened to make him disappear so that no one would know where he was (Memorandum, pp. 4-5).
But of all the interrogation techniques that Mr. Almarri endured, there is one that is, potentially, of great importance for an accurate interpretation of the deaths at Guantánamo in 2006. Yet, it would have gone unnoticed were it not for a recent article by Tony Bartelme in the Charleston Post and Courier.
Indeed, on one occasion, interrogators decided to stuff Mr. Almarri's mouth with cloth and cover his mouth with heavy duct tape—a technique of controlled suffocation that Mr. Almarri's lawyer, Andrew Savage, has called dryboarding. Dryboarding is not just a criminal practice; it is a potentially lethal procedure as well. As he was being dryboarded, Mr. Almarri tried to relieve the pain caused by the duct tape by loosening the tape with his lips. He succeeded. Taking note of this, the interrogators taped his mouth again. But this time more tightly. At this point Mr. Almarri began to choke to death. Panicking, the interrogators acted quickly and removed the tape, thus managing, narrowly, to keep Mr. Almarri alive (Memorandum, p. 5).
This account of the events is apparently undisputed. Ms. Joanna Baltes, who appeared on behalf of the government in the sentencing of Mr. Almarri, seems to have acknowledged that this incident took place. She also recognized that this procedure was inconsistent with the Army Field Manual (Sentencing, pp. 259, 261). There are no signs, however, that anyone has been held accountable for carrying it out.
Video recordings of this incident exist, but have been repeatedly denied to Mr. Almarri's legal team on grounds of national security (Sentencing, p. 261; Andrew Savage, personal communication).
Suicide or Dryboarding?
The dryboarding of Mr. Almarri raises an unavoidable question: Did the three individuals found hanging in Guantánamo die from dryboarding rather than by hanging? If so, they would be cases, not of multiple suicide, but rather of torture leading to multiple loss of life.
Whether the Guantánamo prisoners died from hanging or from dryboarding is something for a thorough, independent, and transparent inquiry to determine—none of which the NCIS investigation was. For, if it had been thorough, it would have disposed of all the questions we raised above; if it had been independent, it would not have been carried out by the Navy, which runs the Guantanamo Naval Base; and if it had been transparent, it would not have censored more than half of its report.
Be that as it may, it is clear that dryboarding can dispose, singlehandedly, of all the questions we have raised thus far—especially the questions regarding the need for gagging with cloth and for using masks or mask-like contraptions. They would be nothing short of essential to the task at hand.
The dryboarding hypothesis would also explain the binding of the hands, the fact that no hanging was observed after 36 visual inspections, the removal of the organs of the neck, and the missing pages in the log book—the latter being attempts at destroying evidence of a crime. It would also void the need for dubious appeals to self-binding and hobbled hangings. Similarly, it would identify the prisoners taken from Camp Delta and reveal their fate.
And the violent conditions necessitated by dryboarding could account for the bruising and bloodied T-shirt. Even the guarded description of the manner of death in the early news release would make sense within a dryboarding scenario.
But there is more. Two of the documents in the NCIS report affirm that the rags in the mouths of the deceased were socks. One of these socks was described as white athletic; the other as white nylon (NCIS1073f, NCIS1091). Interestingly, the cloth used in the dryboarding of Mr. Almarri was also a sock (Andrew Savage, personal communication).
The Guantánamo Testimonials Project calls for a thorough, independent, and transparent investigation into the June 10, 2006 deaths at Guantánamo and, more broadly, for a thorough, independent, and transparent inquiry into all the practices and policies of detention enacted since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
CSHRA Note
To view in full the documents cited in this report, click here.
This report appeared first in Truthout on November 3, 2011. The author wishes to thank Andrew
Savage, Heather Hill, Candace Gorman, James Yee, Terry Mustafa Holdbrooks, and
Brandon Neely for help writing this article, the contents of which are the sole
responsibility of the author (Almerindo E. Ojeda).
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It is often said that "life imitates art." With the rapid development of computing power and technology, it also seems that life is also integrating with art.
Ever since the explosion of Hollywood and film industry at large, the future has been depicted with technological wonders and terrors alike.
Will our lives one day involve Hollywood technology seen with Predator cloaking devices, Star Trek virtual rooms like the holodeck, or even "virtual worlds" on the level of The Matrix?
Newer developments such as "face hacking" could be another facet which is taking humanity closer to a virtual reality more immersive than a computer screen or gaming console ever could.
Face Hack/Face Map: Lifting faces and reality in the digital age. (Image Source: Design Boom)
Just what is face hacking?
If you have not seen or heard of it, you can see it described in the YouTube video below…
Face-hacking, a subset within the broader technology known as projection mapping technology, is considered to be about a year old. It is a technology struggling to be defined by descriptive phrases than a word or two. Phrases such as "special augmented reality" or "video mapping" can be interchangeable with "face-hacking. Sounds confusing? It could be because language, developed over time, is having a difficulty keeping up with technological advances.
The newer tech jargon term, "face-hacking" is used to describe live, real time, projections made onto moving 3-Dimensional objects—specifically the human face. The face, after the application of small sensors, essentially becomes a 3-Dimensional screen which interfaces back to a computer and complex projector system.
However, as mentioned earlier, face-hacking is really a subset of another, older, technology now known as projection mapping.
Projection Mapping: From Disney to Lady Gaga.
Entertainment uses of projection have been around for ages, in many ways rooted in centuries old pinhole cameras, Leonardo da Vinci's Magic Lantern, as well as the tripped-out psychedelic swirls of the 1960's and beyond.
Projection mapping is the technology of projecting on a non-flat surface which can trace its popular application roots for a 3-dimensional effect back to none other than Disneyland's themed ride known as The Haunted Mansion.
From static displays of the statues found within The Haunted Mansion in 1969, to a David Bowie tribute performed by Lady Gaga at the 2016 Grammy Awards, the technology of projection mapping is ever-evolving.
Singing Statues: The Haunted Mansion's Grim Grinning Ghosts haven't stopped performing since 1969. (Image Source: Projection Mapping Central)
Technology, Entertainment, and Illusion: Intel and Lady Gaga collaborated for a David Bowie tribute at the 2016 Grammy Awards.
Today, companies such as Christie are innovators within the projection mapping industry. On their website, Christie states the following about the technology's use:
"Projection mapping is an exciting projection technique that uses specialized software and other technologies to warp and blend projected images so they fit perfectly on irregularly-shaped "screens" such as buildings, interior spaces and natural landscapes. The result – almost any surface can be masked to become a dynamic video display of 2D and 3D images that can transform what is reality for the audience into illusions and images of infinite possibilities – ideal for advertising, branding, entertainment, public art, and trade show presentations.
It isn't all just entertainment, fun, and games. One can quickly see cyber, military and security uses as well.
Companies like Christie, as well as better known defense industry giants such as Lockheed Martin, continue to invest heavily into virtual training with the mantra that it saves money and lives. The technology is projected for continued growth and utilization by the military. Meanwhile, combat simulators, have been using virtual scenarios and projection technology for training for some time now.
Lights, Cameras, Combat: British Royal Artillery save on artillery rounds with some virtual training during Exercise Steel Sabre (Image Source: Wiki Commons)
Like other technological advances throughout history, seen in all aspects of warfare ranging from weaponry and explosives, to supply and logistics, the intended use of the technology is important. Technological planning and design are all done with an eventual outcome and purpose in mind. The same could be said for the printing press, rocketry, or projection mapping.
Inevitably, and hopefully, other considerations come to mind with new technologies. How to spend one's time, interacting with other humans, emotional development, and the potential to be manipulated through new interactive media platforms, are things that should be considered. Most people probably do not want technological advances to be seen as consequences in retrospect.
How will jobs, entertainment, or even overall perceptions of reality change?
Will we get closer to The Matrix and farther from reality?
1999 film The Matrix: Morpheus informs Neo that 'real' can be defined as "simply electrical impulses interpreted by your brain."
Check out the below video with 3-D projections on moving objects, blocks, walls, etc. It is more of an artistic short film or display and might not be on the The Matrix level – but you can see how virtual rooms or actual "holodecks" could be on their way to becoming reality.
With the above video, one can see the production value for concerts, plays, trendy night clubs, light shows against buildings or entire walls, as well as many other entertainment venues.
It might not be long before kids are threatened by parents with "no time in the virtual room until their grades improve!"
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Right now students are out of school in 185 countries. According to UNESCO, that's roughly 9 out of 10 schoolchildren worldwide.
The world has never seen a school shutdown on this scale. And not since Great Britain during World War II has such a long-term, widespread emptying of classrooms come to a rich country.
To get a little perspective on what this all might mean, I spoke with several experts in the field known as "education in emergencies." Some have been part of the response to national, longterm school interruptions caused by war, refugee crises, natural disasters and epidemics like Ebola. Others have studied the breakdown and recovery process. Again, there is no situation that is precisely similar to what schools around the world are going through now, but here are some lessons these experts have learned from other education emergencies.
From New Orleans and Rwanda: It can take years for students to recover the learning they've lost.
Hurricane Katrina closed most public schools in New Orleans for the entire fall term of 2005. Most of those students enrolled in other schools elsewhere, from Baton Rouge to Houston and beyond. In many cases, the schools they enrolled in were of higher quality than the schools they had left — because the schools in New Orleans were extremely low-performing before the storm.
So, you might think that the learning interruption wouldn't be that bad. You'd be wrong.
Doug Harris at Tulane University was part of a research team tracking students as they returned to New Orleans and re-enrolled in newly reorganized schools. He says it tooktwo full school years — from the spring of 2006 to the spring of 2008 — for those returning students to fully recover their lost learning. There's "suggestive evidence," he says, that the negative impact was worse for low income and African American students.
Harris says that what hurt these kids' learning wasn't just the interruption in class time. The economic impact and emotional trauma were probably just as important. So was the dislocation itself: the experience of enrolling in new and unfamiliar schools where Katrina "refugee" students were not always welcomed.
All of these factors — social dislocation, economic uncertainty — apply in spades to the coronavirus situation, says Harris. So, he says, we should expect something similar in terms of recovery time. "The social and economic situation always bleeds into the school," he says.
One paper that compared various communities that were affected, to different degrees, by the Rwandan genocide in 1994 found that affected children caught up in educational attainment by 2010 — 16 years later.
Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Philippines, Sri Lanka: Continuity efforts won't reach everyone, but they are still necessary.
Amid the coronavirus shutdown, many children in the United States can't access distance learning because they lack computers and Internet access, and some are struggling to participate because they have a learning disability.Nevertheless, the federal government so far has guided school districts to keep trying to push ahead with interim efforts to keep students learning anyway, while doing their best to reach as many students as they can.
"The choice to do nothing, because it can't reach all immediately, ends up just exacerbating existing inequalities," says Sarah Dryden-Peterson, a researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education with experience in sub-Saharan Africa.
She adds that, whether any assistance is offered during school closures or not, families with the means will work hard to help their children access education anyway. She says this was the case recently during Hong Kong's school closures, where families who could afford to sent their children abroad to school.
Dryden-Peterson's view tracks with what the international aid community considers to be best practice, agrees Rebecca Winthrop, co-director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. "Don't stop helping people just because you can't help everyone, but definitely have a pro-equity lens."
Syria, Venezuela, Myanmar, West Africa: Children are at risk for toxic stress — but continuity efforts can help.
Even the most fortunate of U.S. children are going through a version of what's called an "adverse childhood experience"right now. That's the term researchers use for a traumatic event in a child's life, such as physical or verbal abuse, a divorce, or the death, incarceration or substance abuse of a parent. The effect of these experiences is cumulative — experiencing four or more of them is considered a major risk factor for long term physical health problems, including conditions like cancer and heart disease.
Sarah Smith is the senior director of education at the International Rescue Committee. She says that when social disruption interrupts education, we should expect effects on brain development, especially for students who already had a risk factor or two in their biology or their family life.
"Their social and emotional well-being is at risk," she says. "And they're more likely to experience, for instance, toxic stress, which is just a disruption in their brain development." This, Smith adds, can have not only short-term consequences for emotional and physical health, "but also long-term consequences for their overall well-being, their ability to hold down a job, their ability to learn in school later if they get back into school, and their fiscal health."
However, Rebecca Winthrop notes that efforts that keep teachers in touch with students can help reduce these effects. "If provided in a way that ... continues learning in some form, they can be a real protective factor against anxiety and depression for kids."
New Orleans, Syria: Expect high school graduation and college-going rates to take a hit.
Doug Harris at Tulane says that, based on what he saw in New Orleans after Katrina, he expects the current shutdown to drive down high school graduation rates and college enrollments. Harris notes that college enrollments in New Orleans have yet to return to pre-Katrina levels, particularly at institutions that primarily serve low-income students, such as the University of New Orleans.
There are economic factors for teenagers. "Their parents just lost their jobs and they've got younger siblings to take care of while their parents are out trying to find work and trying to manage things," he explains. "So I think, unfortunately, we're going to see a spike in the high school dropout rate."
Sarah Smith at IRC looks at the developmental reasons teenagers are particularly at risk for leaving school. "Adolescence [is] a period of rapid change and rapid development," she says. "So if they're experiencing adversity while they're going through adolescence and another period of change, it can be very detrimental."
Younger children, Smith adds, can be more resilient to a disruption like this, as long as they are with their immediate family, who are ideally the most important sources of support in their lives. But when it comes to teenagers, the important people are "more likely to be peers and mentors. If those ties to those people are disrupted, that can really affect their overall well-being."
Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Rwanda: School systems are sometimes entirely remade.
Sometimes, the major disruption that closes schools becomes an opening for dramatic changes to the structure of the school system. New Orleans became an all-charter district. Puerto Rico, after the devastation of Hurricane Maria in 2017, passed a law reorganizing the school system and creating charters and voucher programs. And education reforms in Rwanda emphasized broader access, student-centered teaching techniques, and a shift in the language of instruction from French to English.
Harris' research, along with others, has showed generally positive effects for reforms in New Orleans, although they were not without tradeoffs. Students who returned to New Orleans in 2006 had caught up academically by 2008, and they continued to make gains for the next five years in test scores and educational attainment. That progress, Harris says, has since leveled off. Rwanda has also been generally recognized for prioritizing educational progress and access in the recovery from the genocide.
In Puerto Rico, by contrast, the picture is far from rosy. The indictment of the education secretary on corruption charges earlier this year was a bad sign for educational progress. Patricia Virella, at Sarah Lawrence College, a scholar who is originally from Puerto Rico, says that, in her opinion, the closure of many public schools created a loss that was cultural, not just educational: "the pride of learning, the culture of Puerto Rico, and being taught by teachers who understand our culture."
In the United States, education secretary Betsy DeVos has long been a champion of alternatives to public schools, including homeschooling, vouchers and charter schools. In the wake of coronavirus-related school closures, she's proposed "microgrants" that would go directly to families to supplement children's education. If enacted, this would essentially constitute a federal homeschool voucher program, a big change in federal policy.
Liberia, Sierra Leone, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Myanmar, Somalia, China: Media can be part of the solution.
"During the Ebola crisis in West Africa in 2014,radio was usedas a way to be able to reach all children with school-based lessons," says Harvard's Sarah Dryden-Peterson.
She's seen similar efforts in recent months, for example, "where primary school students in China have been learning via television broadcast."
In refugee contexts, currently with the Rohingya in Myanmar and with Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Turkey, Sarah Smith of the IRC says her organization is working with Sesame Workshopto produce media content to help support early education and social and emotional learning.
Dryden-Peterson also says that while mass media is standardized and widely accessible, it should also be balanced with more individualized, lower-bandwidth, efforts.
"We see Somali refugee teachers, for example, using social media to provide feedback on assignments to students, even when they're living at great distances from each other. Simple text messages or short videos that can be accessed without broadband."
None of these efforts can necessarily keep students progressing at the same rate academically as they would if school were in session. The intention, says Dryden-Peterson, is instead "to build a shared sense of stability and belonging." In other words, to keep kids feeling connected to the school community and to their education.
All of these experts told NPR that when students return to their classrooms — in the U.S. and around the world — it will be in a new world. They will need lessons and school structures that help them cope with the new realities, that give them hope and the skills they need to be part of solutions. This might mean assessing student's new starting points, summer school, remediation or acceleration. It might mean studying public health and epidemiology. It will certainly mean social and emotional supports that help children, teachers, and families recover from this unprecedented break.
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The Act in Restraint of Appeals (1533) was the start of a political process that effectively transferred the power of the Catholic Church to the king, Henry VIII and his advisors/government. The Act was passed by a Parliament that was anti-clerical as it was and had listed its grievances against the Church as early as 1529. Rather than have a king foist the act on the people – at a time when religion was a hugely important factor in the lives of all people – Thomas Cromwell came up with the idea of giving the act a political and democratic edge. By going through Parliament, it appeared as if the will of the people had been listened to as the MP's in Parliament represented the people (in theory). Therefore, no one could argue that just a few had imposed the act on the nation. Thomas Cromwell took great care in drafting the act. It had to serve the king's wish, which was to give his divorce from Catherine of Aragon a legal basis, therefore giving legitimacy to his marriage to Anne Boleyn.
"Where by divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles it is manifestly declared and expressed that this realm of England is an empire, and so hath been accepted in the world, governed by one supreme head and king having the dignity and royal estate of the imperial crown of the same, unto whom a body politic, compact of all sorts and degrees of people divided in terms and by names of spirituality and temporalty, be bounden and owe to bear next to God a natural and humble obedience; he being also institute and furnished by the goodness and sufferance of Almighty God with plenary, whole and entire power, pre-eminence, authority, prerogative and jurisdiction to render and yield justice and final determination to all manner of folk resiants or subjects within this realm, in all causes, manners, debates and contentions happening to occur, insurge or begin within the limits thereof, without restraint or provocation to any foreign princes or potentates of the world; the body spiritual whereof having power when any cause of the law divine happened to come in question or of spiritual learning, then it was declared, interpreted and shewed by that part of the said body politic called spirituality, now being usually called the English Church, which hath been reputed and also found of that sort that both for knowledge, integrity and sufficiency of number, it hath been always thought and is also at this hour sufficient and meet of itself, without the intermeddling of any exterior person or persons, to declare and determine all such doubts and to administer all such offices and duties as to their rooms spiritual doth appertain. For the due administration whereof and to keep them from corruption and sinister affection the King's most noble progenitors, and the antecessors of the nobles of this realm, have sufficiently endowed the said Church both with honour and possession. And the laws temporal for trial and propriety of lands and goods, and for the conservation of the people of this realm in unity and peace without ravin or spoil, was and yet is administered, and executed by sundry judges and administers of the other part of the said body politic called the temporalty, and both their authorities and jurisdictions do conjoin together in the due administration of justice the one to help the other. And whereas the King his most noble progenitors, and the nobility and commons of this said realm, at divers and sundry Parliaments as well in the time of King Edward I, Edward III, Richard II, Henry IV, and the other noble kings of the realm, made sundry ordinances, laws, statutes and provisions for the entire and sure conservation of the prerogatives, liberties and pre-eminences of the said imperial crown of this realm, and of the jurisdictions spiritual and temporal of the same, to keep it from the annoyance as well as the see of Rome as from the authority of other foreign potentates attempting the diminution or violation thereof as often and from time to time as any such annoyance or attempt might be known or espied. And not withstanding the said good estatutes and ordinances made in the time of the King's most noble progenitors in preservation of the authority and prerogative of the said imperial crown as is aforesaid, yet nevertheless since the making of the said good statutes and ordinances divers and sundry inconveniences and dangers not provided for plainly by the said former acts, statutes and ordinances have risen and sprung by reason of appeals sued out of this realm to the see of Rome, in causes testamentary, causes of matrimony and divorces, rights of tithes, oblations and obventions, not only to the great inquietation, vexation, trouble, costs and charges of the King's Highness and many of his subjects and resiants in this his realm, but also to the great delay and let to the true and speedy determination of the said causes, for so much as the parties appealing to the said court of Rome most commonly do the same for the delay of justice; and forasmuch as the great distance of way is so far out of this realm, so that the necessary proofs nor the true knowledge of the cause can neither there be so well known nor the witnesses there so well examined as within this realm, so that the parties grieved by means of the said appeals be most times without remedy."


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This print is from an original oil painting, modified slightly through the wonders of technology. Printed on archival Epson Heavy Matte paper, the final image measures 8" x 10" on 8.5" x 11" paper, leaving a border for framing. Each print is then signed and titled. Watermark will not appear on your print.
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A painting from a series that I'll be developing for the foreseeable future: The Wayward Whales. If you've been following my work, I'm sure you've noticed that much of my focus is on the ocean. Not to get all preachy, but it's in trouble. You can read more about that here. With this on my mind, I found myself daydreaming about what would happen if the ocean became uninhabitable to the point that whales took to the sky. Or, will the oceans rise and turn the planet into an entire world of Atlantis? Will whales drift past sunken cities and other relics? I'm attempting to leave it up to the viewer to decide…
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Bechoros 60- Erachin 6 - Issue #161
Two Percent Precedent
If one delegates an agent to take terumah from his grain without giving explicit instructions as to how much the terumah should be, the agent must evaluate what his intention was. Should the agent have no clue as to what his intention was, he should separate one fiftieth of the amount of grain as terumah, because this is the percentage given by the average person.The Torah commanded us to set aside a portion of our grain as terumah, which is presented to the kohen. Although the Torah specified no amount, and one could fulfill this command by giving one kernel of grain from an entire warehouse, our Sages set some standards. They directed the generous man to devote one fortieth of his grain to terumah, The average man one fiftieth and allowed the miserly one to get away with one sixtieth.
Why was one fiftieth established as the norm?
The Talmud Yerushalmi cites as the source the tax placed on the spoils of the war against the Midianites which were divided between the soldiers and the rest of the people. From their half the non-combatants were required to set aside one fiftieth of all the slaves and livestock taken from the Midianites as a gift for the "Levites who guard the Sanctuary of Hashem." (Bamidbar 31:30) This was viewed by our Sages as a guideline in determining one fiftieth as the normative amount for terumah.
Women and the Megillah
Even though the reading of Megillas Esther on Purim is a mitzvah restricted to a defined period of time, and women are generally exempt from time-oriented commands, there is the same obligation for women to hear the reading of the Megillah as there is for men.The reasons, explains Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi, is because they too were involved in the miracle of rescue from the genocidal plot of Haman.
There are two different approaches towards understanding the meaning of this involvement. Rashbam (Pesachim 108b) explains that it was a woman - Esther - who was the catalyst of the miracle. Tosefos finds difficulty with this approach, because the words "they too" indicate that the women did not have a primary role. The explanation favored by Tosefos is that they too were threatened by the genocidal decree, and are therefore equal beneficiaries of the miracle.
Rashi, in our section of the Talmud, writes that since woman have an obligation equal to that of men a woman is eligible to read the Megillah, and the man hearing her reading fulfills his obligation. This opinion, however, is contested by the Baal Hilchos Gedolos, who rules that the obligation of a woman is to hear the Megillah but not to read it, while a man's duty is to read it. His hearing it read by another man is, however, considered as if he read it himself. It is for this reason that women do not read the Megillah for a man. (Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 689:2)


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In Ukraine, it appears that massive protests are escalating. Today, protesters took over a government ministry building in the capital, Kiev, and they've extended their barricades further into the city. At least three protesters have been killed in clashes with riot police. And the protests have spread to other parts of Ukraine, especially in the west. The protests began two months ago when Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich backed away from a deal with the European Union and instead tilted toward closer relations with Russia. Protesters were further inflamed when the government imposed new laws restricting the right to protest.
NPR's Moscow correspondent Corey Flintoff joins me now from the center of Kiev. He's in Maidan Square. And, Corey, you're just back in Kiev after time in Moscow. How have things changed since the last time you were in Ukraine?
COREY FLINTOFF, BYLINE: Things have changed surprisingly, Melissa. I'm looking around at the tent camp that's been built in the central square here in Kiev, and it's much more permanent. It's a tent city, essentially. There are tents built from one end of the square to the other. And there are enormous barricades now, mostly built up with bags filled with snow and then frozen. So this is now a fortified tent camp and it's going to be very, very difficult for the government or the riot police to dislodge these protesters. They are very determined.
BLOCK: And what about the tone of the rhetoric that you're hearing there?
FLINTOFF: Well, it varies quite a lot. The main protest leaders have been urging the crowd to maintain a sort of truce, at least until we hear more from the government. And the truce has largely been obeyed. It's been fairly quiet today. And, in fact, the areas where there were significant clashes over the past four days have been fairly quiet. I do see people here in what amounts to battle gear. They're wearing helmets and various kinds of homemade armor and carrying various kinds of homemade weapons - batons and sticks and that sort of thing. So they're obviously - they seem very ready to fight, if need be.
BLOCK: Corey, you went today to that government building the protesters were able to take over. What did you see there?
FLINTOFF: Well, it's basically a government office building. It's the office of agricultural policy. It's about a six-story building. And it was taken over this morning by about 30 protesters. We talked to their leader, who is now the supervisor of the building. He said that the government employees there let them come in, and there was no resistance whatsoever. They moved in and they're planning to house people in the halls of this office building. They think they can house as many as 3,000 people in what essentially will be a warm space and allow the protest to carry on longer.
BLOCK: Just get them out of the cold.
FLINTOFF: Exactly right.
BLOCK: Corey, there have been talks, negotiations of some sort between President Yanukovych and the leaders of the opposition. Is there any sense that those are bearing fruit in any way?
FLINTOFF: Well, it's very hard to tell what's going on. At one point, we were hearing that it sounded like Yanukovych might be willing to compromise. He's discussed the idea of having an amnesty for protesters who've been arrested and releasing them and making changes in the government, a government shakeup that would remove some of the officials who have been involved in violence against the protesters and presumably to put in someone who would be more acceptable to them.
BLOCK: I did read, Corey, that when the opposition leaders came out after those talks to address their crowds in the street, that they were greeted with jeers. It's not clear to me that the opposition leaders control the masses in the streets.
FLINTOFF: That's absolutely right. There's a big leadership problem here. The rank and file protesters have been increasingly dissatisfied with the fact that this sort of triumvirate that's been leading them - the leaders of three separate parties - haven't been able to settle either on a single program, a single policy toward the government. They haven't been able to make decisions in an effective way. And, you know, they just haven't been able to lead very well. And people are getting tired of it. That's why the leaders are getting so much guff from the rank and file. They want this triumvirate to decide on a single leader who can speak for them and can start making effective, decisive actions.
BLOCK: That's NPR's Corey Flintoff from the center of Kiev, Ukraine. Corey, thanks so much.
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