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Senators accused Facebook on Thursday of concealing and ignoring the ills its apps, including Instagram, pose to children and teens amid a widening outcry over revelations from internal research leaked by a whistleblower.
"We now know that Facebook routinely puts profits ahead of kids' online safety. We know it chooses the growth of its products over the well-being of our children," said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. "The question that haunts me is how can we, or parents, or anyone trust Facebook?"
His fellow Democrat, Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, compared Facebook to "Big Tobacco: pushing a product they know is harmful to the health of young people, pushing it to them early, all so Facebook can make money."
Fielding their questions was Antigone Davis, the social media giant's global head of safety. She testified remotely before the Senate Commerce subcommittee on consumer protection and got a bipartisan grilling over what the company knew, and when, about Instagram's effects on teenagers' mental health.
Republicans also slammed the company for not doing more to address the many risks identified by its own researchers and employees and exposed in a Wall Street Journal series.
"This is your company's reporting. You knew this was there. You knew it was there, but you didn't do anything about it," said Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., the subcommittee's ranking member, referring to internal documents about the prevalence of sex trafficking on Facebook.
On Monday, the company announced it was "pausing" work on Instagram Kids, a platform intended for users under 13. That was not enough, the lawmakers told Davis at the hearing. They pressed her to commit Facebook to broader changes, including making its research public and agreeing not to launch any products for children under 13 with features that quantify popularity such as "likes" and follower counts. They also called for new regulations on privacy and protecting children's safety online.
Facebook vows not to retaliate against whistleblower for Senate appearance
Criticism of Facebook has escalated in recent weeks since The Wall Street Journal published a series of articles based on a trove of internal research and communications leaked by a company whistleblower.
Among the findings: One in three teenage girls said Instagram makes their body image issues worse. A small number of teens even traced their suicidal thoughts directly to the app.
On Thursday, Davis said that "we strongly disagree with how this reporting characterized our work" and that the research "showed that many teens say that Instagram is helping them with hard issues that are so common to being a teen."
She said Facebook takes "the privacy, safety and well-being of all those who use our platform very seriously, especially the youngest people on our services." The company conducts this sort of research, she said, "to make our platform better, to minimize the bad and maximize the good, and to proactively identify where we can improve."
Facebook made some of the research about Instagram and teens public late Wednesday, with heavy annotations that downplayed and cast doubt on some of the findings. Senators on Thursday accused the company of "cherry-picking" its data.
Davis said Facebook is working to release more documents, with appropriate protections for privacy. But she also dismissed their impact, saying, "I want to be clear: This research is not a bombshell."
"I beg to differ with you, Ms. Davis. This research is a bombshell," Blumenthal retorted. "It is powerful, gripping, riveting evidence that Facebook knows of the harmful effects of its site on children and that it has concealed those facts and findings."
The same subcommittee is slated to hear on Tuesday from a Facebook whistleblower who has turned over documents to Congress, Blumenthal said. He pressed Davis to commit that Facebook will not pursue legal action against the whistleblower.
"We've committed to not retaliating for this individual speaking to the Senate," she said.
As Facebook defends work on tweens, Zuckerberg hopes to change subject to the metaverse
Even as Instagram head Adam Mosseri acknowledged Monday that the company would suspend plans to build a version of Instagram for kids ages 10 to 12, he doubled down on Facebook's commitment to the idea.
"I still firmly believe that it's a good thing to build a version of Instagram that's designed to be safe for tweens," he told NBC's Today show.
The aggressive stance the company is taking against the whistleblower's revelations and public criticism illustrate how its strategy in crisis has shifted away from apologizing.
"Facebook's brand is bad, and I think Facebook, you know, would freely admit that," said Katie Harbath, a former public policy director at the company. "But, you know, nobody else is gonna come and defend the company besides themselves."
Facebook doesn't want to just play defense. It also wants to turn the page — to Silicon Valley's latest favorite buzzword: the metaverse. That's an ambitious effort, drawn from science fiction, to move more of what we do every day in the physical world into a shared digital world.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg says it's Facebook's future.
"In this next chapter of our company, I think we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company," he told tech journalist Casey Newton this summer.
But critics say, before Facebook creates a new digital world, it needs to fix its current social network.
"They've been able to weather these storms over and over again," said Yael Eisenstat, who worked at Facebook on elections integrity for political advertising in 2018.
"What I think is different this time is that I don't think they're fully understanding that internal employees have questions now."
Editor's note: Facebook is among NPR's financial supporters.
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Beyond Pluto
In July 2005, a team from the California Institute of Technology announced the discovery of a possible "tenth planet" temporarily called 2003 UB313. This most distant object so far found in our solar system is just slightly larger than Pluto and takes 560 years to make a very skewed orbit of the Sun. Most planets circle the Sun very near the same plane as Earth's orbit, but the new object's orbit is off this elliptic plane by about 44 degrees. Astronomers studying this object nicknamed it "Xena" and in 2006 discovered it had a moon, nicknamed "Gabrielle."
2003 UB313's size helped spark the drive for a decisive definition of a planet. Under a proposal presented at the start of the International Astronomical Union's triennial assembly in 2006, the union would have added three more planets to the solar system: 2003 UB313, the asteroid Ceres, and Pluto's satellite Charon. This could have opened the door to dozens more planets being added as more large planet-like objects were found beyond Pluto.
After much debate, the union decided to classify 2003 UB313, Pluto, and Ceres as dwarf planets. Furthermore, Pluto was declared the prototype of a new, as yet unnamed, class of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), including 2003 UB313. Other recently found TNOs expected to be declared dwarf planets in this class are Varuna (2000), Ixion (2001), Quaoar (2002), and Sedna (2004).
The 2006 IAU General Assembly reduced the solar system from nine to eight planets on the vote of less than 5% of nearly 9,000 members. The new president, Catherine Cesarsky—the first woman to head the union—will have to deal with refining the decisions made at the assembly. A number of astronomers are unhappy with the outcome of the vote and it is expected that the 2009 general assembly in Rio de Janeiro will have more to say on the subject.
On September 13, 2006, the IAU announced the official name of the object formerly known as Xena. The new name, which had been submitted by Michael Brown, is Eris, the Greek goddess of strife or discord. Eris's moon is now Dysnomia, daughter of the goddess Eris, spirit of lawlessness.
The goddess Eris is most famous for having started the Trojan War after being snubbed at a wedding. Not having been invited with the rest of the gods and goddesses, she tossed a golden apple into the crowd of guests inscribed kallisti, or "for the prettiest." This led to an argument among the goddesses Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite over which deserved the apple. Matters escalated, ultimately leading to war. This seems appropriate for the name of a object which sparked intense debate among astronomers and the general public about the definition of a planet, leading to Pluto getting kicked out of the club amidst vocal protests.
(In more recent mythology, Eris is the central figure in Discordianism, and a recurring character on the Cartoon Network's The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. Appropriately she also appeared, as "Discord," on Xena: The Warrior Princess.)


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Five reports or releases on the Comptroller's website release in the past five years reveal irregularities, with financial problems in Clermont, Greenpoint, Kinderhook, Hudson, New Lebanon and the Germantown school district. (Town of New Lebanon 2010M-239; Town of Clermont 2010M-55, Audit Finds $19,000 in Questionable Charges in The City of Hudson, July 9, 2007; Germantown Follow Up, January 29, 2010; DiNapoli Investigation Leads to Embezzlement Guilty Plea, March 01, 2011)
How did this HUGE local story not get in the paper? This report is hot: New Lebanon is not looking good. This is 5 days old! Here is the meat:
Internal controls over wire transfers were not appropriately designed and operating effectively to safeguard Town assets. The Board did not establish written policies or procedures for wire transfers. Consequently, online access to the Town's bank accounts is not effectively limited. For example, the Supervisor, bookkeeper, and accountant (who is not a Town employee) all have online access to the Town's bank accounts via a shared user name and password. In addition, the Town does not require confirmations from the bank prior to wire transfers being completed. Furthermore, all 41 of the wire transfers we tested, totaling $949,498, lacked documentation identifying the individual who initiated the transfer, and five of those, totaling $62,195, lacked documentation as to the purpose of the transfer. Due to these control weaknesses, the Board cannot be sure who initiates wire transfers, or if they are appropriate.
Internal controls over purchasing were not adequate. As a result, Town officials made purchases of highway materials totaling $84,570 without properly soliciting or awarding bids, and made procurements of goods and services, such as for the rental of equipment, totaling $36,356 without using requests for proposals or solicting written quotes, as required. The failure to comply with legal requirements and Town policies increases the risk that the Town could overspend for goods and services.
Internal controls over IT are not appropriately designed. The Board has not established policies or procedures for the back up of Town and Court data and remote access to the Town's computers, or adopted a formal disaster recovery plan. Additionally, backup copies of the Town's financial data are not stored in a remote location or tested to ensure that the data can be restored. In addition, the Court's case management application has not been backed up, or tested, since January 2009. As a result, there is an increased risk of loss of important data along with a serious interruption to Town operations, such as not being able to process vendor claims or operate the Justice Court.
Clermont giving away the store?
The Board has not adopted a policy nor have Town officials developed procedures to govern the level of unreserved, unappropriated fund balance to be maintained and/or to determine whether the amount maintained is reasonable. In recent years, the Board has generally adopted highway fund budgets that under-estimated revenues and over-estimated expenditures, which generally resulted in annual increases to the amount of total fund balance. Actual sales tax revenues were also higher than estimates in the general fund over this time period, contributing to that fund's excessive fund balance. Further, Town budgets have not always included sufficient appropriated fund balance to help offset highway fund property taxes in ensuing years' budgets. These budgeting practices have resulted in excessive general fund and highway fund balances. At fiscal year end December 31, 2009, the general fund unreserved, unappropriated fund balance was reported at $322,688, 102 percent of the ensuing year's total budgetary appropriations of $316,395. The highway fund unreserved, unappropriated fund balance was $175,279, 64 percent of the ensuing year's total budgetary appropriations of $274,215. Collectively, these factors have contributed to the highway fund levying more property taxes than necessary to fund operations. In addition, Town officials did not properly establish a capital reserve fund, totaling $97,305, in the highway fund.
The Town's procurement policy does not address the procurement of professional services. As a result of this lack of policy direction, the Town spent about $100,750 for professional services without seeking competition and did not enter into written agreements with these service providers. In addition, the Town, in conjunction with two neighboring towns, acquired a used paving machine for $28,000 without complying with competitive bidding requirements. As a result, Town officials may have paid more than necessary to procure these professional services and the paver. Additionally, the Town paid a contractor $6,000 prior to services being rendered without the legal authority to do so. This and two additional payments to the contractor, totaling $18,000, did not follow proper claim voucher processing procedures. Making payments prior to services being rendered or goods being delivered increases the risk that a vendor could collect payment and then not deliver the agreed upon services. Furthermore, the practice of making payments outside of the normal claim voucher process increases the risk of unauthorized or inappropriate payments being made and not detected in a timely manner.
During our audit period, Town officials donated approximately $24,000 in Town funds to outside service organizations. We believe that $10,000 of the donations were not appropriate because they were for events considered social in nature, which did not further legally authorized Town purposes. While some of these monies were for allowable youth programs promoting a Town purpose, the Town did not have a written contract with the organization providing the service, as required by law.


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I have earlier wrote article about SQL SERVER – Get Numeric Value From Alpha Numeric String – UDF for Get Numeric Numbers Only and it was very handy tool for me. Recently blog reader and SQL Expert Christofer has left excellent improvement to this logic. Here is his contribution. He has provided Stored Procedure and the same can be easily converted to Function.
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[CleanDataFromAlpha] @alpha VARCHAR(50),
@decimal DECIMAL(14, 5) OUTPUT
DECLARE @ErrorMsg VARCHAR(50)
DECLARE @Pos INT
DECLARE @CommaPos INT
DECLARE @ZeroExists INT
DECLARE @alphaReverse VARCHAR(50)
DECLARE @NumPos INT
DECLARE @Len INT
-- 1 Reverse the alpha in order to get the last position of a numeric value
SET @alphaReverse = REVERSE(@alpha)
-- 2 Get the last position of a numeric figure
SET @NumPos = PATINDEX('%[0-9]%', @alphaReverse)
-- 3 Get the lenght of the string
SET @Len = LEN(@alpha)
-- 4 Add a comma after the numeric data in case it's no decimal number
SET @alpha = SUBSTRING(@alpha, 1, (@Len - @NumPos + 1))
+ ','
+ SUBSTRING(@alpha, (@Len - @NumPos + 2), 50)
-- Check if there is a zero (0) in the @alpha, then we later set the @decimal to 0
-- if it's 0 after the handling, else we set @decimal to NULL
-- If 0 no match, else there is a match
SET @ZeroExists = CHARINDEX ( '0' , @alpha ,1 )
-- Find position of , (comma)
SET @CommaPos = 1
SET @CommaPos = PATINDEX('%,%', @alpha)
IF (@CommaPos = '') BEGIN
SET @CommaPos = 20
SET @Pos = PATINDEX('%[^0-9]%',@alpha)
-- Replaces any aplha with '0' since we otherwice can't keep track of where the decimal
-- should be put in. We assume the numeric number has no aplhe inside. The regular way
-- to solve this is to replace with ", but then we miss the way to find the place to
-- put in the decimal.
WHILE (@Pos > 0) BEGIN
SET @alpha = STUFF(@alpha, @pos, 1, '0')
SET @Pos = PATINDEX('%[^0-9]%',@alpha)
IF (@alpha IS NOT NULL AND @alpha != '') BEGIN
SET @decimal = CONVERT(DECIMAL(14, 5), SUBSTRING(@alpha, 1, (@CommaPos - 1))
+ '.'
+ SUBSTRING(@alpha, (@CommaPos + 1), 20))
-- Since we in this case don't want to set 0 if where is no numeric value, we set NULL to be safe
IF (@decimal = 0 AND @ZeroExists = 0) BEGIN
SET @decimal = NULL
If you run above SP as shown below it will work
DECLARE @myRetVal DECIMAL(14,5)
EXEC [CleanDataFromAlpha] 'ABC355,88ghf', @myRetVal OUTPUT
SELECT @myRetVal ReturnValue
ReturnValue --------------------------------------- 355.88000 (1 row(s) affected)
I once again want to thanks Christofer for his excellent contribution.
Reference: Pinal Dave (https://blog.sqlauthority.com)


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Back in June I wrote a post about the Visitors and Residents mapping process. Since that posting I have run mapping sessions with people in various roles from a range of institutions. This has helped me to refine and simplify the process.
During those sessions I got requests to produce a V&R mapping kit that people could use to run the process with groups at their institution. I haven't got as far as I would like with that yet but in the meantime I have extracted the most relevant 10 minute segment from the original mapping video. I'm hoping that anyone who watches this extract will have all the info they need to create their own map.
A single engagement map is all that is required for an individual and should drive a useful discussion if the mapping is done in a group situation. It should also be useful to then create a map of your department/library/project/group. This way you can assess the digital footprint (The character and visibility of your group online) of your section of your institution and the various modes of engagement you may, or may not, be using. It's worth noting that if you are mapping with students some of them may relate better to the word 'course' instead of 'institutional' on the vertical axis of the map.
I have collated a few maps from various people (including my own from the video) on this Padlet wall so you can get a sense of how varied the process can be depending on the context of the individual:
The maps on the wall have no commentary attached to them to preserve anonymity.
The mapping process originates from research funded by Jisc


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I have a Bose SoundTouch which I can control from my iPhone or iPad using its SoundTouch app. I've never had an issue until a few days ago. Whenever I select a song, it just stays on the blue screen and nothing happens. No sounds, no information of the song or artist. Just blue. It's the only music service that doesn't work and Bose customer service says it's 100% a Spotify issue. I've done most of the obvious troubleshooting so far (reset, sign out/in, reinstall, etc...). Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you in advance!
Solved! Go to Solution.
I can confirm that it has not been fixed. This issue is still active and is afectinc my ST30 and ST10
Hi Mario et al at Spotify.
I know it doesn't explain why (some) others have gotten their connection to work and some not. But I've had these issues on and off in the past as well. And now I decided to do some troubleshooting of it, and I think I may have found an issue which probably affects more people that just myself. (And I should perhaps mention that I work as a networking professional and have specialized in WiFi specifically the past 16 or so years (and with that comes a lot of LAN and IP network troubleshooting which is more generic.)
The problem I've found is that when the Spotify app (I'm running iOS 13.3.1 on an iPhone 😎 does a search for the speaker(s) it sends a multicast DNS request on the local LAN to address 126.96.36.199 on UDP port 5353 (multicast DNS, mDNS) asking for _spotify-connect._tcp.local
However, it does so with an IP TTL of only 1. And though the thought behind doing so (which most likely is to limit it to only the local subnet), is good, it overlooks the real meaning of the IP TTL and what the RFC for Internet Protocol says.
The problem arrises in certain networking devices which are having different smart mechanisms to deal with mDNS (aka Bonjour). In my case I have access points from Aerohive Networks, which are enterprise class access points with something they call a "Bonjour Gateway" which is meant do help intelligently re-advertise certain select services across VLANs, based on configurable policy. However, even if not doing any re-advertising they still inspect the IP header (even in bridge mode) to inspect and decide if there is a Bonjour Gateway policy that requires them to do something. This inspection does, in accordance with RFC 791 (Internet Protocol, IP) require them to decrease the TTL before forwarding since they "process the IP header". (It says about the Time-to-live field: "This field is modified in internet header processing." and "If the field contains the value zero, then the datagram must be destroyed" (which is what happens before forwarding the packet).
The limitation to advertise only on the local subnet is dealt with through the destination IP address, which falls in the 184.108.40.206/24 subnet, which according to RFC 5771 disallows the traffic to be forwarded off-link (the local link network). Further more, it's worth noting that mDNS queries issued by Apple apps have an IP TTL of 255 (AirPrint, Airplay etc) and searches for Google Chromecast (not sure what piece of software triggers it in my case, but I see it in my wireless packet capture from my iPhone) has an IP TTL of 2. The ONLY queries observed with an IP TTL of 1 are those for Spotify Connect.
I have also generated my own traffic to test my theory, and whenever I generate traffic to 188.8.131.52 with UDP port 5353 and IP TTL of 1 it does not get repeated out in the BSSID by the AP, but if I change the destination IP or the UDP port it does (which indicates that it's the Bonjour Gateway functionality specifically). Also, if I change the IP TTL to 2 with the same test method, it get repeated (even if the payload is rubbish).
I think that Aerohive are not the only ones that do mDNS inspection, and therefore I suspect that more people are hit by this without even knowing that they have such a feature.
So in conclusion: If Spotify developers could just increase the IP TTL for these Spotify Connect discovery datagrams to 2 (or why not just do like Apple and set it to 255? (as explained above, the IP TTL is _not_ the way to limit traffic propagation to link local network only) this would likely eliminate the problem for at least some of the users.
Thanks for the feedback. In what build/version for iOS should I expect to see this change?
Por una parte Spotify no reproduce la música desde el Bose SoundTouch y por otra parte ya no me salen enseña en la app de Stotify las bocinas Bose que antes si eran opción de reproducir en, que puedo hacer, esto era algo sumamente simple
I can't access Spotify via my Bose soundwave 4 system and speakers. Was fine til a couple of weeks ago. Tried rebooting, reinstalling apps, unplugging devices, unplugging router, logging in and out of account still, get the above page/ message. Help!
I have been using my Bose Soundtouch system to play Spotify for years. I don't do that often but I do. At recent try, when I clicked on a song, the app just go to a blank player and get stuck. I noticed I can't find my Cinemate from the Spotify app in "Device Available" tab as well. I can still play other web base service using my Soundtouch App. I can safely say that it's a Spotify issue. Please look into that for us. Thanks.
Hey there folks,
Thanks for keeping us in the loop!
f you're having trouble connecting to your speakers, we'd recommend going through the following steps first:
If after that you're still having issues, it'd be great if you could leave a comment with the following details:
Let us know how you get on. We'll be on the lookout for your replies 🙂
It's september 2020 and I also still have this problem, except on Samsung A51. Please fix!
Yeah I have the same problem and no unplugging it does not fix it. It might fix it temporarily but the problem returns pretty quickly.
Its either a Bose firmware issue or a Spotify issue and given the history of the Spotify softwares instability, I would bet on the latter...
Thanks for reporting this to us. We're sorry to hear that you still experience the issue and we want to forward your feedback to the right team here.
To do that we'll need the info and confirmation that you're tried all the steps in @Xenia's post above.
We appreciate your cooperation with this and we'll keep an eye out for your replies.
Take care!
Thanks for keeping us in the loop!
If you've already tried some troubleshooting but you're still having troubles, it would be really helpful sharing the details @Xenia requested here so we can get this reported with the right folks.
Keep in mind we'd recommend including as many details on what's exactly happening as possible (for example, the exact steps you take when this happens) - this helps the teams investigating better reproduce this on their end.
We'll be keeping an eye out for your replies, thanks!
Hey there @MoRiley50,
Thanks for keeping us in the loop and sharing that!
We hope you don't mind us marking your post as solution so other users experiencing this can give it a go to see if that works for them as well.
If there's anything else we can help with, don't hesitate to give us a shout.
Have a lovely day 🙂
Similar issues to many above. To be clear:
As per a post above:
"If after that you're still having issues, it'd be great if you could leave a comment with the following details:"
I recall seeing a Spotify update during the week to the iPad app. This loss of speaker has happened after that, though no idea if that has caused any change or not.
It's been fine for ages, it's stopped appearing within the last few days.
Also, I see you have marked the thread as solved based on a post a couple up where someone describes what they tried. Solved does seem a bit extravagant based on one person and a post that perhaps many, myself included, won't even understand.
Any suggestions?
As I have all my SoundTouch devices (SoundTouch 130, SA-5 and a SoundTouch Wireless adapter) in my cottage, I'm not able to test with the SoundTouch app since it doesn't present the services until it has contact with at least one compatible speaker.
BUT, after the fix to the bug I reported back in May got fixed (and it seems it's fixed in your version on the iPad as well) I've not had any problems.
As a wireless networking professional I can imagine that many of the problems reported in this thread are down to the network. There's often a lot of focus on the two peers in the playing: the app on the phone/table and the speaker. But the fact of the matter is that the networking infrastructure has a significant role in this as well. And though you would think that a wifi network is a wifi network, they can differ quite a bit as well.
It's not too uncommon by wifi vendors (whether it's access points (bridging devices) or routers/gateways (combined routing/NAT:ing and bridging)) to try to optimize traffic by filtering out traffic that is considered potential network hogs, and this often includes multicast traffic and/or broadcast traffic.
Since I can't look at how the SoundTouch device does discovery for the other services (the Spotify discovery is Spotify specific) I can't give the answer right now. But it could be that it uses broadcast traffic either to the global broadcast or local broadcast address (255.255.255.255 or 192.168.1.255 (if your network is 192.168.1.0/24)), and that the router/AP filters traffic for multicast but not for broadcast. What I do notice is that when using the Deezer app itself, it uses regular AirPlay discovery with mDNS. But Bose's app could use something else. (And theoretically there could be other things that affect the method chosen.)
Ideally one would do wireless packet captures to record the traffic and see what's actually sent and received. But this of course requires more skills than operating the Spotify app.
But until I get around to doing a more comprehensive guide on how to record wireless traffic (not promising one, but I'm tempted to do one based on all the problems people have, and the fact that wireless packet captures are really the best way to troubleshoot things like this) I would look in the wireless router or access point admin interface and look for any kind of broadcast or multicast suppression. You can also check if different radio interfaces(2.4GHz (802.11b/g/n/(and maybe even 802.11ax, since that supports 2.4GHz as well) and 5GHz (802.11a/n/ac/ax) are not segregated/isolated. If you have the same SSID (network name) on both radios there's no real way of controlling which channel your phone and speaker connect to. Of course, the segregation scenario is not likely to apply if other music services do work from the app. (But could be applicable for those struggling to get connection at all.)
Have the same issue here with Bose Wireless Adapters, they drop from Spotify and the Bose App. Once I connect on my LAN cabled PC, they're fine again. But I cant play anything from the Bose App, or Spotify until I reconnect when on the LAN. Very annoying!
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Hello, friends!
The nice folks at Silhouette sent me some of their new double-sided adhesive to try out. And I played with it. And then people got sick (and by people I mean basically every single person that lives here has taken 1-2 sick days in the last 2 weeks). So, I'm finally at the computer and telling you about it. And the good news is that you still have through tomorrow to take advantage of the current Silhouette promotion. (Like, maybe if your Valentine forgets to get you something and you decided to get yourself something instead…not that I've ever done that…)
Here are the details up front:
use code "CRAP" and GO HERE to take advantage of any of the promotions, between now and February 14th.
OK, so the adhesive!
Remember like 3 years ago when I used the Silhouette sketch pens to make some art for above my bed? Well, we got some new bedding and the blue paper looks ridiculous. I decided to update the contents of the frames using the double sided adhesive and some flocking powder.
However, that is the only one you'll see a picture of because I had a few problems.
The short explanation is this: the double-sided adhesive works fantastic on less intricate designs. Something like the teeny tiny inside cuts on a doily? Not so much. I did finally discover that weeding (removing the negative space pieces) whilst everything was still on the mat helped, but I'm still not up for 5 more frames worth of doilies…yet.
I went for some more basic cuts and the results were fantastic.
Some sparkly aqua glasses on a bucket for Macy to store her glasses in:
And a basketball embellished jar for Keller to store his change in:


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Electrical Machines I
Electrical Machines I. Instructor: Dr. Debaprasad Kastha, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. Electrical machines are basically electromechanical energy conversion devices which convert electrical energy to mechanical energy and vice versa. There are different types of electrical machines that are used, although their basic operating principles are somewhat similar, they are very different from their point of view of construction and usage. This course will talk about two types of electrical machines, namely the transformer and the dc machine. (from nptel.ac.in)
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
The Real Cult Menace (Part One): "Waco" in Slow Motion
"I hope very much that others who will be tempted to join cults and to become involved with people like David Koresh will be deterred by the horrible scenes they have seen over the last seven weeks.... There is, unfortunately, a rise in this sort of fanaticism all across the world. And we may have to confront it again."
Bill Clinton, speaking -- appropriately enough -- on Hitler's birthday, 1993, as the incinerated Mt. Carmel religious sanctuary still smoldered following the murderous federal assault of April 19.
When armed intruders came to kidnap their children, the members of El Dorado's FLDS community looked instinctively toward their leaders. This was because they deferred to their leaders in all things, both temporal and spiritual.
The residents of YFZ Ranch had been relentlessly indoctrinated in the belief that "obedience is the first law of heaven," and that their duty, when a priesthood leader instructed them to do something, was simply to obey -- and that if the thing required of them was wrong, God would still reward them for their obedience.
Obedience uber alles -- reflexive, unquestioning obedience -- is the most important defining trait of any sect, party, or organization worthy of being called a cult. And yes, the military -- service in which begins with the systematic extirpation of an individual's identity, will, and capacity for independent judgment -- does qualify, at least in some ways, for that description.
The FLDS Church has never been belligerent or militaristic, but it is unambiguously a cult built around institutionalized awe focused on an unaccountable Leader, and unqualified obedience to a leadership caste.
This made things exceptionally easy for those who set out to steal children from FLDS mothers. Rather than confronting hundreds of individuals capable of taking initiative to protect the most precious mortal gifts they'd ever receive, the kidnappers simply ingratiated themselves with the cult's leadership elite, which could -- and did -- order the cult's membership not to resist the attack on their families.
"Everyone was really pleased with how well things went," insisted Tela Mange of the Texas Department of Public Safety following the successful child abduction. "There were no shots fired, no incidents. We credit that to the time the sheriff [Schleicher County Sheriff David Doran] and the Texas Ranger captain spent developing a relationship with the leadership at the ranch."
In an interview with the El Dorado Success newspaper, Sheriff Doran described how that "relationship" with the FLDS leadership operated during the initial stages of the raid.
A representative of the Federal Thug Caste preens for the cameras atop an armored vehicle following the annihilation of Mt. Carmel's Branch Davidian community in 1993. This time, the children were seized without direct armed violence, which probably meant a long ride home for Da Boyz from Midland.
"[W]e rolled up to the gate just as the perimeter was being sealed around the ranch and the roads leading to the property were being blocked," recalled Doran. "Fairly soon I received a call on my cell phone from Merrill Jessop" -- the Bishop, or Overseer, of the FLDS community at the ranch. Jessop "was out of town, and someone from inside the ranch had called to alert him to our presence. He knew about our perimeter and the fact that we were waiting at the gate.... I told him to get a couple of men with authority to come to the gate. They did, but they still delayed us an hour and a half before they let us in."
The "us" referred to by Doran included several people from the Texas State Department of Child Abduction, who were acting on a hot-line call from a "victim" that they must have known, even then, was a fraud.
"We asked to see the girl who called for help, but they wouldn't produce her," Doran recalled, omitting mention of the fact that the girl in question doesn't exist -- a fact, once again, that the Texas Rangers (and therefore Doran and the CPS childnappers) must have known. The warrant presented by Doran directed him and his associates "to search anywhere and everywhere in order to find the girl and put her in touch with CPS."
Then a superseding warrant was issued "expanding the search to include looking for evidence of other crimes." The basis of that second warrant, Doran admits, was the supposed fact that once he and other law enforcement agents gained access to the property under false pretenses, they
"witnessed evidence of other crimes." We have subsequently been told that the "evidence" consists of the community itself and its religious teachings, which dictate that girls look upon marriage and child-bearing as the highest calling of their existence.
Doran admits that the operation to seize the FLDS children -- which included the use of military equipment from the distant Midland County Sheriff's Department -- had been planned, in detail, well in advance of the bogus call from "Sarah." The key to the entire operation, however, was the cooperation of FLDS leaders in ordering their followers not to resist:
"At one point, when it appeared we were going to have some trouble, I called Merrill Jessop from my cell phone. I put him on speaker phone and he told the women to cooperate. He said it several times.... The women's mood changed immediately and they handed over the children." (Emphasis added.)
There is no stronger human impulse than the instinct to protect one's children. In a well-balanced personality, this instinct is stronger than any other physical need or appetite, including the reproductive urge itself.
Yet these women immediately surrendered physical custody over their children to hostile strangers -- many of them armed and prepared to do lethal violence -- because their priesthood leaders told them to.
Herein lies one real, and growing danger, of cults and cult-like organizations: They cultivate in their adherents an unhealthy deference to people in positions of supposed authority, and that cultivated submissiveness is transferable.
There is something akin to unintended hilarity in the assumption, prominently stated in the "Cultural Competency" tip sheet about the FLDS that was distributed to CPS workers, that one symptom of the sect's cult mindset is a deep distrust of government. While the FLDS do believe that they possess an exclusive franchise on religious truth, and are expansively distrustful of most other people, their attitude toward government was one of unhealthy trust and dependence.
This was a community that faithfully paid extravagant property taxes on the YFZ ranch, including the temple -- taxes that helped pay the County Sheriff who would later conspire to steal their children.
It was FLDS leaders who contacted local officials to describe the curriculum being used in the community's private, home-based schooling program. By doing so the FLDS leadership actually went beyond what Texas education law required.
And it bears repeating that the FLDS church was wired in to both the welfare state and the warfare state.
In anticipation of the raid, many accounts retailed the familiar rhetorical trope claiming that the FLDS had a "stockpile" of weapons cached in is "compound" (a "compound" is any dwelling, no matter how flimsy -- it could be a Quonset hut, a wikiup, or a tarpaper shack -- that is under attack by armed agents of the State). Rumors put into circulation by unnamed "officials" described how the FLDS property had a warren of underground tunnels, huge stores of weaponry, and deadly booby traps.
None of this was true, of course. And given what happened to this community once it was helpless in the face of state aggression, it's a species of shame that the FLDS didn't make preparations of some kind to repel the child-nappers.
After all, isn't the practice of stockpiling arms the only attractive trait of the typical apocalyptic cult?
I'm kidding, but only sort of.
It's obvious that a heavily armed cult possessed of a deluded sense of mission would be a public menace. Indeed, we are ruled by just such people.
The real danger I see from smaller, private (or quasi-private) cults like the FLDS is not that their rulers will abet armed insurrection, but rather that they will instill a sense of submissiveness that smooths the way for State crimes against those unfortunate enough to belong to cults.
Sheriff Doran explains that the Waco episode "played a huge role" in the planning and execution of the YFZ raid "in the sense that everyone I know in Texas law enforcement is determined to make sure something like that never happens again. That's why I prefer talking. There's always more time to talk and the longer you talk the greater the chance you can work things out. It's when you stop talking that things can go wrong."
But something did go wrong: More than 400 children were stolen from their mothers by a corrupt government that acted in violation of every principle of due process. What Doran means, of course, is that this crime was accomplished without overt violence. Nobody was killed, so nothing went "wrong."
I'm irresistibly reminded of something Cicero said in one of his Philippics against Marcus Antonius: "This is what a favor from gangsters amounts to: He refrains from murdering someone, then he expects praise for displaying compassion in sparing his victim's life!"
El Dorado is Waco Revisited. This time the children weren't gassed and burned to death, or gunned down when they tried to flee the flames. Instead, this time they were simply stolen with little pretense of legality, because the leaders of this cult effectively ordered the members to surrender them without a fight. And therein resides the real cult menace.
Ah, but you say this only applies to isolated, eccentric communities like renegade offshoots of the Adventist and Mormon denominations? Those who believe this are completely -- and perhaps tragically -- wrong, as the next installment will demonstrate....
Obiter dicta
Please forgive my atypically long absence from this space. I just returned from a trip to Los Angeles, where I spoke at the Spring Convention of the United Republicans of California (an assembly of Ron Paul-aligned Republicans), and was an invited guest speaker at a local Bible Missionary Church.
On sale now!
Dum spiro, pugno!
23 comments:
I think our neo-feudal corporate lords got scared at the WTO riots in Seattle and have been in high gear ever since. Absolute total control is their goal for they feel they are gods and we are a flock of cattle. All this DNA stuff in the news, Swat Teams for Daycare, Gropenfuhrers at the airport is all predictive programming to get us bovines used to the usurpation of all rights. Refuse, resist however you can whenever you can. Wake up those that are reachable give up on braindead jonestown kool aid drinkers they are goners anyway. Words and truth are weapons, what the inbred globalist fascists scum fear more than anything is those that have no fear.
- April 30, 2008 at 1:52 AM
Source: Rogue Government - Lee Rogers
FEMA announced recently that they will be conducting a national disaster exercise called National Level Exercise 2-08 (NLE 2-08) from May 1st through May 8th. The purpose of this exercise is to prepare and respond to multiple incidents including natural disasters and terrorist incidents. Specifically the exercise involves a Category 4 hurricane impacting the Mid Atlantic Coast and the National Capitol Region as well as multiple terrorist attacks in Washington State, an accidental chemical agent release in Oregon and assorted aerospace events in North American airspace. Considering that the U.S. government conducted drills and exercises like Operation Northern Vigilance, Tripod II, among others to serve as cover for the government sponsored false flag terror attacks of 9/11, we need to pay close attention to these government sponsored drills and exercises. A similar scenario also occurred during the 7/7 terror attacks in London. On that day, drills depicting events mirroring the actual terror attacks were run at the exact same time the bombings took place. The odds of these being two completely random events is so incredibly unlikely that it boggles the mind. NLE 2-08 is a wide ranging exercise that will include not only FEMA but the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Transportation Command, the National Guard, USNORTHCOM, NORAD and Canada Command. Much like TOPOFF-4/Vigilant Shield 08 a martial law exercise that took place last year involving many of the same government institutions, we definitely need to keep track of NLE 2-08.
Below is taken from FEMA's press release on this upcoming drill.
The Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Exercise Program (NEP) will conduct National Level Exercise 2-08 (NLE 2-08) a combined functional and full scale exercise from May 1 through May 8. NLE 2-08 will merge the objectives of U.S. Northern Command's (NORTHCOM) Ardent Sentry 2008 exercise, FEMA National Continuity Program's (NCP) Eagle Horizon 2008 exercise (formerly known as Forward Challenge), and FEMA Disaster Operation's Hurricane Preparedness Exercise (HPE).
The purpose of NLE 2-08 is to exercise national capabilities to prepare and respond to multiple incidents including both natural disasters and terrorist incidents. The exercise was designed to include scenario elements addressing hurricane preparedness and response, national continuity capabilities, and Defense Support to Civil Authorities coordination in response to weapons of mass destruction terrorist attacks. The exercise venues involve a Category 4 hurricane impacting the Mid Atlantic Coast and the National Capitol Region and multiple terrorist attacks in Washington State.
Also during NLE 2-08, the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP) will test it's response to an accidental chemical agent release at the Umatilla Chemical Depot in Oregon. Canada will also participate through their Staunch Maple Exercise.
The exercise allows Federal officials to implement continuity plans, test communications connectivity, operations and procedures for performing essential government functions from alternate locations, and interagency coordination. Additionally, it serves to demonstrate that essential functions can be effectively conducted during threats and emergencies.
USNORTHCOM expanded upon the FEMA NLE 2-08 press release revealing other specific government agencies that will be involved in this exercise.
North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command will exercise their response abilities to a variety of events during an intensive eight-day national level exercise in May.
National Level Exercise 2-08 will run May 1-8 and will exercise national capabilities to prepare and respond to multiple incidents including both natural disasters and terrorist incidents. The exercise will include hurricane preparedness and response and Defense Support to Civil Authorities coordination in response to a weapon of mass destruction terrorist attack.
USNORTHCOM's primary exercise venues for NLE 2-08 include locations in Washington and Oregon. Exercise scenarios include multiple terrorist attacks in the state of Washington, an accidental chemical agent release in Oregon, a Category 4 hurricane impacting the mid-Atlantic Coast and the National Capitol Region and aerospace events throughout North America.
NLE 2-08 will also involve agencies including the Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, U.S. Transportation Command and the National Guard. Canada Command will participate through its Staunch Maple exercise.
"Exercises like NLE 2 – 08 give us the opportunity to work with other federal agencies, state and local officials, as well as Canada, in the response to multiple events," said Gene Pino, NORAD and USNORTHCOM Joint Training and Exercise director. "This allows us to look at processes and procedures to identify strengths and weaknesses by stressing the system so that we can be better prepared in the future."
It is especially concerning that this exercise is designed to test continuity of government operations considering the fact that last year George W. Bush signed NSPD-51 a directive which will give the President dictatorship powers over all three branches of government in the case of a catastrophic emergency. The directive provides a broad and wide ranging definition of what a catastrophic emergency is and can include anything from a natural disaster to a terrorist attack to a number of different scenarios that are being depicted in this drill. If this isn't used as cover for a false flag terror attack, it could certainly be used as a warm-up to ensure that continuity of government operations will work properly when they decide to go forward with their martial law plans.
Not only this, but we are seeing a constant barrage of propaganda on how evil Iran and Syria is. Last week the Associated Press and others reported that a new Al-Qaeda audio tape of Ayman Al-Zawahri was found by CIA front group IntelCenter essentially saying that the 9/11 truth movement are anti-Semites and work with Iran. The AP couldn't even confirm if the audio tape was authentic and IntelCenter provided no specific source of the material, but that didn't prevent them from using a headline giving validity to the contents of the tape. The fact of the matter is, IntelCenter produces the majority of these fake Al-Qaeda videos and this latest release is being utilized to help the establishment powers in the White House. In addition, the CIA released a video tape which they claim is proof that North Korea is supplying Syria with nuclear technology. Syria's ambassador to the United States called the contents of the tape laughable. Many have speculated that the U.S. government would stage some sort of nuclear terror attack in an American, European or an Israeli city to justify an invasion of Iran. This drill would certainly provide them with some cover to do this.
It is impossible to say if the intelligence apparatus would use this 8-day exercise to pull off some sort of false flag terror attack. However, considering the admitted history of government and military exercises being run as cover for false flag terror attacks, it is certainly a possibility. It is important that we shine as much light on these types of drills and exercises so if a terror attack takes place, we can expose the true culprits. - April 30, 2008 at 1:57 AM
I'm an American!
Yeh, I remember when the Feds came after the Branch Davidians, but I wasn't a Branch Davidian and neither were my friends and family; so I did not care. (Still don't care.) I sat and watched the Mt. Carmel weirdos on television and laughed as the Davidians became incinerated while I became inebriated. Then they came for the FLDS freaks, but I wasn't a cultist; I am a 'free thinker', an American male of superior secular quality and intellect who pursues what most other typical American secular males live for:
hot sex, 'kegers', Van Halen, career, car-talk, money, partying, boobs, etc.
So why would I care for a bunch of religious oddballs? Hey, nobody I know at work 'does church', not even the older versions like Catholicism. I believe there is only a few Evangelical Christian nuts at our work site, but they don't mingle with their normal co-workers too much at all. Besides, even if my buddies at work were slightly interested in the pie-in-the-sky religion they wouldn't have the time. Sunday is for recuperation from Saturday beerfests and one nighter sleep-overs with that whore you met at the night club. It's all meaningful. Many of my buddies have to pay child support to two to three different American 'bitches' for four to five kids they accidently fathered. Hey fellas, wear a condom! I never leave home without a few tucked away in my wallet and glove box. Anyhoo....So why should I care if the State goes after any and all religious people? Take 'em all away! The Baptists, the Catholics, the Methodists, the Mennonites, the Orthodox, the Lutherans, the Mormons, the Muslims should all be watched closely by government. If you're not a normal, non-religious American, the State, by sheer virtue of its immense armed and organized power, will eventually shut your little church down and send you dangerous religious zealots to psychiatric prison camps. Society would finally reach nirvana once those people are locked away.
-Joe Wolb - April 30, 2008 at 3:18 AM
Well spoken. It there had been actual crimes, the husbands would have been grabbed.
But they just wanted the children:
Sam - April 30, 2008 at 4:24 AM
Jessica Dixon, director of the child advocacy center at Southern Methodist University law school in Dallas, finally found the "mot juste" I was grasping for. She called the kidnapping at Eldorado FLDS a "a class-action child removal," an event which ought to be illegal on its face.
http://tinyurl.com/69kqd6 - April 30, 2008 at 4:55 AM
Good to see you back, sir. I was beginning to get worried about you.
- April 30, 2008 at 5:09 AM
Anyone that believes in the United States Constitution is a "hater," and "racist," if you belive Mark Potok and the Southern Poverty Law Center, who by the way labeled the FLDS sect in Texas a "Hate Group" several years ago. Just a coincidence that the ranch was raided as it was after the fraudulent phone call of a black female sympathetic to the SPLC and its agenda? The SPLC lists any pro-American anti-illegal immigration group as a "Hate group." Don't believe it? Go check it out for yourself, the SPLC and the ADL are on the forefront of shutting down any attempts by American citizens to close down the border with Mexico.
The greatest problem the SPLC faces on a daily basis is that there aren't enough real haters around to advance its agenda, which isn't that big of a deal for the SPLC and Potok, because when they need a "hate group" to blame something on, they just make them up as they go along. - April 30, 2008 at 6:25 AM
I remember Mt Carmel. Spent a few days down there during the crisis protesting the ATF/FBI. Not that it did any good. Also protested Reno and Clinton when they were in town for the same reason (but there were numerous reasons to protest).
Clinton/Greenspan's inflation took the wind out of the sails though -- people are a lot more docile when they think they are getting rich.
The one upside of this bubble popping is people may be a bit more critical of what their overlords do to them -- the ones who aren't pleading for "salvation" that is. - April 30, 2008 at 7:31 AM
The really nice thing about this blog lies in the fact that no other commentors have taken Mr. Wolb's satire seriously. If such views had been posted to the web version of my local paper, there would have been a dozen readers protesting such idiocy.
That said, I'm not sure where you're going with this, Will. Should the FLDS leadership and members have goaded the FBI and local LEOs into a Waco-style holocaust by resisting? Or are you implying that the FLDS members' prior acceptance of federal aid was their undoing? In short, what would you have had them do to not lose their children?
I mean to be neither critical nor dense about your comments. But this issue does quite well present a larger question that most of us may have to face in the coming years. If the day comes that state agents arrive at my farm, seeking to forfeit my animals, foodstuff, weapons, etc., thereby destroying my family's homestead, what good will resisting do at that point? I would argue that resistence would, in fact, lead to the loss of my children. So-called "patriots" (those who now swear they will cry molon labe!) claim such resistence is vital. But my view is that resistence must be as a group, and must be now.
But the only established groups I see offering such "cover" are those seeking secession for their regions, such as the Second Vermont Republic, the League of the South, or the Northwest Homeland movements.
Shouldn't we, in fact, attempt to bring our own regions out of the union, in pursuit of our own self-preservation?
I'd be most interested in your views on this particular approach, Will. - April 30, 2008 at 9:14 AM
- zach said...
It would seem that cults should be well trained in the use of semi-automatic centerfire rifles.
- April 30, 2008 at 10:07 AM
How very "convenient" that another warrant is issued to blanket the other lying piece of paper. Will, you stated the obvious by pointing out that Sheriff Doran really knows how to communicate with people, especially those who pay his bills, by lying through his teeth. Has anyone shed more light upon how the well timed phone call arrives just before a massive assault with assets pulled in from distant counties... sorta in the blink of an eye when in reality it was planned far ahead of any such call.
I wonder exactly how this "relationship" between the sheriff and the FLDS leadership could be described. He says he likes "talking". Exactly what does that mean? Is it more like, "Hands up!" or is it a cordial cup'a joe kinda howdy-do? Inquiring minds would like to know. Maybe he'd be so kind as to release the unedited tapes along with the phone call that gave the green light to operation "Kinder-Kidnap" - April 30, 2008 at 11:01 AM
Thank you, Will, for noting a primary difference between cults and simply oddball religion: domination. I note CNN gives an almost fair statement regarding CPS falsely labeling adults as "children" just to up the body count of "abused females".
- April 30, 2008 at 11:13 AM
LOL! I was looking at the comments, which i enjoy immensely and got some arpa.net port sniffs in the firewall. You must be doing something right.
- April 30, 2008 at 11:18 AM
A way to stop some of this over-reach of "lawful" kidnapping and other such contortions of law is to revive the militia of the several states. In this case, the militia might have been called out to prevent the illegal kidnapping. Read Edwin Vieira's book "Constitutional Homeland Security, Volume 1" and get with your state senator/representative on how to re-institute this check on runaway government. My state of Oklahoma has a provision for the state militia in the constitution but it is not fleshed out.
Additionally, as the churches are finding out, you take the king's money (511c tax exemption or in this case, child welfare), you do the king's bidding. Since the State did apparently pay for these kids, maybe it does "own" them. Louis - April 30, 2008 at 11:24 AM
Well, when you consider how the Prez basically told the state governors that the Feds control their respective national guard. You get the inkling that an independent state "militia" may be nigh impossible unless the states were to grow some and tell them to shove it.
- April 30, 2008 at 11:50 AM
- John Polomny said...
I would like to think that people will wake up and rebel against this tyranny but my view is it just will not happen. I recently read a book by Harry Browne entitled "How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World". The interesting point that Mr. Browne makes is that we allow ourselves to fall in to traps. Identity traps, utopia traps., etc..The jist of the book is that we should focus on the things we can control to enhance our freedom as we will waste our time trying to convince a majority that our "view" is the correct one ie wasting time and money in politcal campaigns etc. Even if you convince a majority that you are correct there are still to many ifs involved. For example if you want less taxes move to a state or country with lower taxes. My grandfather left Russia after the Czar fell as he realized there was a good chance he would live in chaos for many years irregardless of whether the Bolsheviks or Monarchists prevailed. It worked out for our family. My view is you really have to adopt a more international viewpoint if your goal is personal freedom. There are many places where one can live and never be bothered by any government officals. The economies are just not developed enough to allow for the government to have the resources to screw around with the average person. These places may not allow trips to Starbucks or the nail salon but if your goal is lower taxes and more personal freedom then moving to another country is an option. I am reminded of a recent anecdote from a newsletter that I recieve where the writer of the newsletter interviewed a government offical and a private businessman about the propects for investment in a developing country on the periphery of the EU. It was interesting in that the difference between a statist and a free soveriegn individual were evident from their answers to the same questions. With regard to taxes the government offical went on about fair share and how the government needed to get more revenue by encouraging compliance blah blah blah. The businessman when asked the same question just laughed and answered, taxes, who pays taxes. This guy just realized that the state may have wanted to collect revenues but just does not have the resources to do anything about it. These FDLS people could have moved to Mexico or Central America and built the same facility and probably would have never been bothered. However it seems a major revenue source for them was welfare fraud. You want to be in the system then dont get pissed when the system wants to be inside you. It would seem it is true you can't get a little bit pregnant. Dont get me wrong I enjoy and agree with the viewpoint expressed by Mr. Grigg and a majority of the commenters on this blog but my view is my time is better spent arranging my life in a way to maximize the freedom I control and minimizing state control over my life. If that means leaving the US so be it. I would like to think that if I had lived in Germany in 1936 I would have had the foresight to know it just wasnt going to turn out very well and would have emigrated.
- April 30, 2008 at 3:23 PM
- dixiedog said...
"I hope very much that others who will be tempted to join cults and to become involved with people like David Koresh will be deterred by the horrible scenes they have seen over the last seven weeks.... There is, unfortunately, a rise in this sort of fanaticism all across the world. And we may have to confront it again."
Actually, as the Waco episode played out on the tube, I wasn't even mindful of this apparently intended effect. Above all, it instead solidified in my mind, and wiped away any lingering doubts, that government alone indeed was the greatest threat to genuine liberty. The part that didn't sink in as quickly, unfortunately, is the fact that the government structure in America specifically is reflective of the people, us.
I'd always been a low-intensity cynic concerning the bureaucratic aspects of government at least. Since I lived and grew up (literally and figuratively) in a few "minority" majority communities from the mid 70s 'til I joined the AF in '84, I saw its affirmative action/minority handiwork clearly in the communities, schools, and later on in the workplace. I lost my naivety early on in life, but not my overall view of government as a whole. I still viewed government on the whole (outside the welfare/subsidy state apparatus) as filled with largely well-meaning individuals.
Waco changed that. In addition, I'd finally managed to hammer into my mind that our federal, state, and local government positions are filled with people we all likely mingle with daily. IOW, as I've said many times before, it's a coarse reflection of the people.
I used to think prior to the Clinton years that government, like any entity, possessed a few bad apples and that the subsidy culture was a separate sub-culture (largely minority-centric) and that the now much abused and overused cliché of minority welfare mamas and their ilk were the core of that sub-culture.
I couldn't have been more wrong in believing that nonsense. - April 30, 2008 at 3:23 PM
What exactly does this quote from anonymous refer to? (Pardon my ignorance...)
Anonymous said...
LOL! I was looking at the comments, which i enjoy immensely and got some arpa.net port sniffs in the firewall. You must be doing something right. - April 30, 2008 at 3:50 PM
I'm always hoping a state will show some testicular fortitude and exercise 10th amendment rights. I know it's about as likely as pigs sprouting wings but hope is free.
- April 30, 2008 at 7:54 PM
Given Texas CPS's reputation for failing to 'protect' children from abuse once in their 'watch care', one must question where these 460+ children will be placed.
Is anyone independent of the Texas CPS overseeing placement, health, safety, and the ongoing care of these children?
Innocence and unique dna pedigree might command high value on the global market.
"Ben Johnston, a DynCorp aircraft mechanic for Apache and Blackhawk helicopters in Kosovo, filed a lawsuit against his employer. The suit alleged that that in the latter part of 1999 Johnson "learned that employees and supervisors from DynCorp were engaging in perverse, illegal and inhumane behavior [and] were purchasing illegal weapons, women, forged passports and [participating in] other immoral acts."
The suit charges that "Johnston witnessed coworkers and supervisors literally buying and selling women for their own personal enjoyment, and employees would brag about the various ages and talents of the individual slaves they had purchased."
"DynCorp is just as immoral and elite as possible, and any rule they can break they do," Johnston told Insight magazine."
The absolute absence of compassion for these mothers and children is beyond calculated evil - it is past feeling, an abomination.
I can think of only one entity capable of inspiring such trance like robotic behavior on the part of law enforcement, the governor, CPS, the court system, the media and all of us watching with bated breath for the next visual update of another's suffering.
I don't know where the fathers are or what role they played in this unbelievable exercise. I will reserve judgment until I do know. - April 30, 2008 at 11:01 PM
to anon @ 1450PM your computer has thousands of "ports" that allow things in. For example the common internet port is 80, the FTP (file transfer protocol) default port is 21 and so one. Some ports on a windows os machine if left open can allow hackers and malicious code in to your machine. As i was perusing the comments i was getting netBIOS scans which is not common network traffic. A firewall is software that shows every connection attempt to your computer and what port they are trying to access. Arpa net is no longer DOD but someone was using that to hide their IP address and "sniff" my ports for an opening. Sorry if i confused you even more *hehe* i realize everyone is not a computer nerd.
- May 1, 2008 at 3:13 AM
"LOL! I was looking at the comments, which i enjoy immensely and got some arpa.net port sniffs in the firewall. You must be doing something right.
The poster indicates he believes the gov't is trying to check out his computer. ARPANet is original network owned by the gov't way back when the Net was born. Those with some technical skill can read logs generated by firewall software listing every address used to attempt a connection to the address on which the firewall runs. In this case, it's not his computer connecting out on the Net, but someone else on the Net trying to connect back to him. He believes the Feds were checking him out. - May 1, 2008 at 6:48 AM
Thanks to both Anonymous @ 2:13AM and Broken...
I actually have a rudimentary understanding of how the ports on a computer work (which is why I use a firewall myself at home). I was curious about the use of Arpa.net to sniff those ports.
I appreciate both of your insights... - May 1, 2008 at 12:40 PM


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These fragile peach-like fruits, with their perfumed aroma and ultra-sweet flavor, contain impressive amounts of beta-carotene. They are also a fair source of potassium, and supply a good amount of fiber.
Apricots are known as, "Moons of the Faithful" in China where they originated. Their cultivation spread westward from China to Persia and the Mediterranean, eventually coming to the New World with Spanish settlers.
It is interesting to note that both the fresh and dried apricot are a main food staple of a tiny Hunza principality in the Himalayas, who are known for their extreme longevity, excellent health, and an almost exclusive vegetarian diet.


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8 great entry-level recording apps
Apple GarageBand '09
Entering into the world of computer-based recording is neither as expensive or as difficult as it used to be. Today's entry-level DAWs (digital audio workstations) are not only more powerful than previous generations, they're also far easier to use. Here's MusicRadar's guide to the best of them.
If you've got a Mac, your search for an application that will enable you to easily produce complete songs should stretch no further than the software that came installed on your computer when you bought it. Shipping with a selection of decent-sounding software instruments and, as of the '09 version, a suite of virtual guitar amps and effects, GarageBand sets the standard for entry-level DAWs.
Avid Pro Tools M-Powered Essential
A Pro Tools system for £79? You better believe it. Although the software is very much trimmed down (you can only use 16 audio tracks and eight virtual instrument tracks per project), it's certainly not dumbed down, and the supplied Structure Essential plug-in gives you 60+ sounds to play with. £79 gets you the app and a Fast Track audio interface, KeyStudio keyboard or USB mic.
Cockos Reaper 3
Reaper is a cult favourite among those in the know: in many respects, it adheres to standard DAW conventions but has a 'single screen' approach that appeals to beginners. More unusually, it weighs in at just a few megabytes and can even be booted from a USB stick. And with a demo version that's fully-functional and won't expire, trying it is a no-brainer.
Cakewalk Music Creator 5
Cakewalk has been offering affordable versions of its recording software for years, but Music Creator 5 is arguably the most user-friendly release in its history. Based on Sonar technology but bearing more than a passing resemblance to GarageBand, it ticks all the boxes for Windows-users who want plenty of functionality at a low, low price.
Steinberg Cubase Essential 5
This is a direct descendent of the full Cubase 5 software, and as such comes with the same interface and audio engine. New features for this version include HALion One, which contains almost 240 instrument sounds, the PitchCorrect plug-in and the Beat Designer. This may be an entry-level application, but you're unlikely to outgrow it in a hurry.
Ableton Live Intro
Replacing Live LE in the Ableton product line, Intro is a 21st century, performance-friendly recording solution at a knockdown price. You can use up to 64 audio and unlimited MIDI tracks, and audio of up to 32-bit/192kHz quality is supported. A 7GB library of sounds comes included, and new users will appreciate the step-by-step tutorials and song templates.
Propellerhead Software Record
For years, Propellerhead's Reason software studio has been seen as a fine choice for anyone who makes all of their music 'in the box', and in 2009, the company finally released a product that allows you to record audio. And guess what? Record is brilliant, being the perfect tool for songwriters and guitarists who want a 'real' looking mixer and logical workflow. Shop around and you'll be able to pick it up for less than £200.
Apple Logic Express 9
If, as a GarageBand user, you start to feel that you've outgrown your software, there's a ready-made 'next step' in the shape of this 'lite' version of Logic. Pleasingly, though, it's very similar to the Logic Pro 9 that ships as part of the Logic Studio bundle, giving you features such as Flex Time, Amp Designer and Pedalboard. Make no mistake: this is a serious DAW.


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I don't know what possessed me, to be honest, given how busy this term was shaping up (and is turning out) to be. And yet now that I'm about 600 pages along, I think my instinct was a good one. Though the book is long, and that in itself makes certain demands, its leisurely pace and even tone make it a kind of calming retreat from the rapidity of the rest of my activities. The action (if that's the right word) unfolds so gradually that it makes Trollope's novels look like thrillers, but it's certainly Trollope I am reminded of, rather than Dickens or George Eliot (both cited often as comparisons in the excerpted reviews that lead off my edition). Like Trollope, Seth exudes a quiet confidence in the intrinsic interest of people going about their business. Also like Trollope, he seems unconcerned about literary language: the prose is commonplace and persistent, not poetic or philosophical--though it can be evocative, nonetheless, partly because of its attention to details:
But even when he closed his eyes to cut out the dry brightness of the afternoon light and the monotonous fields stretching out to the huge visible quadrant of dusty sky, the sounds of the train bore in on him with amplified volume. The jolting and clicking of the train as it rocked sideways and slightly upwards, the sound of it going over a small bridge or the whooshing of a train rushing past in the opposite direction, the sound of a woman coughing or the crying of a child, even the dropping of a coin or the rustle of a newspaper, all took on an unbearable intensity. He rested his head on his hands, and stayed still. (542-3)I assume reviewers have compared Seth to Dickens or George Eliot because A Suitable Boy is very long and has the breadth of character and incident typical of Victorian realist novels. But (so far at least) A Suitable Boy gives me none of the sense of underlying design you get from Dickens, or at least from the great later novels like Bleak House or Little Dorrit, in which the multiplicities are charged with significance because they develop a common idea. There's also no narrative presence: no metafictional reflections, and no philosophical commentary providing perspective or a sense of purpose to the abundance of specifics. At this point, I would say that I can't discern the "aboutness" of A Suitable Boy: it just is. That's not necessarily a flaw, though I do find myself wondering sometimes, as characters and details accumulate, why they are necessary, whether there is anything more at stake than creating a narrative that reproduces the crowding of people and incidents in real life. The 19th-century novelists alluded to seem far more self-conscious about the constructedness, the artifice, of their results; this is why the chargesof naive realism seem so misplaced in their cases, but it does not seem so far off, about Seth.
When I tried to read A Suitable Boy before, I was frustrated at the absence of a glossary. I still find it a disadvantage, though inevitably you acquire a working understanding of what things are. I've been thinking this time, though, that that absence, certainly a deliberate choice on Seth's part, may make a kind of tacit statement about the novel. Though it is definitely a learning experience for me to read the book, it is not, itself, set up with me in mind, or at least with my education in mind: it is a not a didactic book for outsiders about "understanding India." It is "just" (and I don't mean that pejoratively) a novel about India, or, better, about people in India. It's my problem, not Seth's, if I don't know what a 'ghazal' is, or a 'munshi' or a 'dupatta.'


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Yesterday the House of Deputies—one of the two Houses in The Episcopal Church's bicameral system of governance – passed resolutions D019 and D002. The House of Bishops had done the same on Saturday afternoon. Both resolutions add "gender identity and expression" to the Church's nondiscrimination canons. D019 addresses access of lay people to the life and governance of the church – so, for instance, it clarifies that transgender people can be Eucharistic ministers, vestry members, retreat attendees or leaders, etc. D002 affirms that transgender people can be ordained leaders. These resolutions addressed an already/not yet phenomenon: already trans people are vestry members, Deputies to General Convention, Eucharistic ministers or Lectors; already, transgender people are priests and deacons in a handful of dioceses in this church. But now we affirm and underscore that practice. Transgender people are not just in Massachusetts, Washington State, and California. We are, as the saying goes, everywhere.
We knew that the resolutions were on the Deputies' calendar for the day, so a number of TransEpiscopal members listened in the gallery, once more on the edge of our seats.
As the House moved quickly down their calendar list, our resolutions quickly approached. But just as D019 came up, a problem emerged. A combination of factors had caused a delay in the Spanish translation of several complex resolutions. As a result, the House would need to delay the vote until at least the afternoon session, maybe longer.
We adjourned to Steak n' Shake.
After a raucous lunch (pressure release being a good and necessary thing) we said goodbye to Tina Beardsley who was flying back to the UK. We very much miss her and so appreciated her warmth and wry humor—by the end of her stay, Tina and roommate Rev. Gari Green had practically developed a Midwest/UK vaudeville act.
Back in the Deputies gallery, D019 quickly came to the floor. Once more, backers were ready to roll. We heard from Sarah Lawton of the Diocese of California, whose sister is trans. We heard from Deputy Dante Tavolaro, transman from Rhode Island. We heard from Rev. Carla Robinson, transwoman from the Diocese of Olympia. From a bevy of young adults, including Sam Gould from the Diocese of Massachusetts, and Natalie Venatta of the Diocese of Kansas. A Deputy from Alaska spoke of trans people in his congregation. There were innumerable allies, just as in the hearing before the Ministry Committee. People from across the United States—all manner of regions, and not simply the coasts—stood up and spoke passionately in support. There were some people opposed to the move, and they were more represented on the floor of the House than in the hearing, though still a clear minority. As expected – and as happened in the House of Bishops in 2009 – they tried to amend the resolution to remove the specific language from the canon. In support of this move, a Deputy from the Diocese of Albany ridiculed the growing list of protected categories, saying she felt slighted "as a red-head" for not being included despite being a minority of the population. My mom and sister are both red heads. I can only imagine how fiercely they would have responded to that comment.
In any case, the supportive Deputies were more than ready for the amendment, and it was soundly defeated. A vote on the original resolution followed quickly, and at 3:15pm it passed by a landslide. Debate had lasted for a half hour.
D002 came up directly afterward. In many ways, as in the House of Bishops, the debate was a continuation of the previous one. The amendment tactic having failed, however, it was not tried again. Once more Deputies from all around the church, North and South, Midwest, East and West, got up and spoke in support. Sarah Lawton of California spoke of her experience with trans clergy, saying we as a church will be "richly blessed" if we open our ordination process explicitly to trans people. Carla Robinson spoke of the rigorous process she underwent for ordination in the Diocese of Olympia, even after having been ordained in the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod. She wanted to make the supportive atmosphere she experienced in that process more widely accessible. Then a Deputy from Alabama in a plaid sport coat and bow tie (in honor of Gregory Straub, Secretary of the General Convention, who is known for his crazy sport coats) got up and began speaking. At first I couldn't tell if he would speak in favor or against. But then he said that we are to make God's kingdom present here on earth, and read from Isaiah 56:4-5:
For thus says the Lord:
To the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths,
who choose the things that please me
and hold fast my covenant,
I will give, in my house and within my walls,
a monument and a name
better than sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
that shall not be cut off.
These were a people, he said, that formerly had not been allowed access to the assembly. They had been a people cut off—unwelcome because of what we might refer to as their gender identity and expression—but now they were welcomed. "We must name what God has named," he said.
TransEpiscopal members were sitting in a row in the gallery. When he said that, we all just lost it. I tweeted
#GC77 Dio Ala: we r to establish kingdom here on earth, now. Let not eunuch say I am a dry tree (Is 60); we must name what God has named
And then:
#GC77 Dep from Alabama: wow, you absolutely made my day #TransEpiscopal
Shortly thereafter, debate finished. Again, as expected, and as happened in 2009, a Deputy (Diocese of Albany) requested a vote by orders. This tactic makes it more difficult to pass legislation. Instead of a voice vote, in which a simple majority suffices, a vote by orders tabulates by each diocesan deputy team (what's called a Deputation). The votes of evenly divided deputations count as "no" votes. The most contentious resolutions tend to be tabulated in this way. It also delays the results, as they must be certified. So, as Deputy business continued, we waited. We stood up and sang "Be Thou My Vision." A fifteen minute recess came and went. Still no results. We were on the edge of our seats once more. Finally, a question emerged as to when we would hear the results. Secretary Straub let President of the HoD Bonnie Anderson know that she had the results already. No, she said, she had not yet received them. But then—aha!—she realized they had been before her for some time. All of us seated in the gallery roared.
She read them aloud: we had done it. A landslide.
At 4:48pm I tweeted:
#GC77 D002 PASSES!!!! By a lot!!!
And then:
#GC77 D002: Y lay: 94; Y clg: 95; N lay: 11; no clg: 16; Divided lay: 5; Divided clg: 0; thus, No + Divided lay: 16; No + Divided clg: 16
It had passed by 85%.
We were Transfigured.
- The Rev'd Dr. Cameron Partridge


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The Registration Act, 1908 is a Consolidating Act and not an Amending Act. It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir . The Preamble of the Act states "An Act to consolidate that enactments relating to the Registration of Documents". The object of such consolidation is the reduction in to a systematic form of the whole provisions contained in number of statues relating to the Registration of documents. Registration system was almost unknown to the Indian people due to the lofty ethics. But time gradually began to change and the need for compulsory registration was felt, especially in the declining Moghul period of the 18 th Century so that no one could claim any interest on any forged document or Sanad during or on the eve of the British Rule. Provincial laws were passed from time to time for the establishment of offices of registration.
By Act VIII of 1871, the office of the Registrar General was abolished under the altered designation of "Inspector General of Registration" as an office of record and registry and the limitation of the duties to Inspection and General Superintendence.
After several amendments, the present Registration Act (XVI of 1908) came into force on 1 st January 1908 . The provisions relating to the registration of documents were scattered about in seven enactments and the object of passing of this Act was to collect these provisions and incorporate them in one Act. Even after that it has gone through several amendments and the Registration Act,1908 was adapted with some changes finally.
The objects of the law of registration are :
1) to provide conclusive guarantee of the genuineness of document
2) to afford publicity to transactions
3) to prevent frauds
4) to afford facility of ascertaining whether a property has already been dealt with and
5) to afford security of title deeds and facility of proving titles in case the original deeds are lost or destroyed.
But registration does not effect to the following :-
6) Registration is not by itself absolute proof of the execution of a document
7) mere registration does not prove title nor prove bonafides;
8) registration does not confer validity upon an instrument which is otherwise ultravires or illegal or fraudulent. There are XV parts and 91 sections in the Registration Act, which deals with the Registration Establishment, registrable documents – compulsory & optional registration, time for presentation of documents; presenting documents for registration, enforcing the appearance of the executants and witnesses, presenting wills and authorities to adopt, deposit of wills, effects of registration and non-registration, the duties and powers of Registering officers, refusal to register etc.
Some of the important sections of the registration Act are:-
There are many other important sections and in case of any difficulty the said Act may be consulted.
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