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THE man who calmly stepped in to halt a berserk bull mastiff 's savage attack on a Leominster woman said he could not have lived with himself had he not helped.
Robert Hirschmann used a lightweight chair to loosen the dog's grip on Teresa Stinton who is being treated for "catastrophic" multiple bites and lacerations after the attack at a house in Bridge Street on Saturday.
Ms Stinton had been delivering a parcel early in the evening when she was savaged for around 15 minutes before Mr Hirschmann put himself between her and the dog.
He had been driving past the house on his way home.
"It was just one of those things. I couldn't personally walk away. If something had happened to her I couldn't live with it," said Mr Hirschmann.
Ms Stinton, he said, was on the ground covered "head to toe" in lacerations and screaming for help.
Mr Hirschmann, 41, said that the animal had lunged at Ms Stinton every time she screamed.
But he found a chair to put himself between her and the dog.
"I have just done an intensive first aid course and it's all about looking around to see what you can use in a situation," he said.
He then talked the animal down and was able to get a collar on it and pull it away from Ms Stinton so paramedics could reach her.
The dog died at the scene and a Staffordshire bull terrier also involved in the attack was seized by police.
"If there wasn't a chair there I would've still tried to get the dog off and tried different techniques. The dog wasn't going for me at all," said Mr Hirschmann, who works as a joiner with Leominster firm Browns Carpentry Joinery and Oak Timber.
"If I had gone there when it just started it might've been a different story but it was exhausted by the time I arrived."
Detectives were due to interview Ms Stinton on Wednesday as she recovers from specialist surgery.
She faces more treatment and procedures to prevent secondary infections from her bite wounds.
A post mortem on the dog that died was due yesterday and the findings will determine the course of the investigation and any future charges.
The dog, identified by Mr Hirschmann, as responsible for the attack.
After Mr Hirschmann' heroics, Leominster paramedics Rob Wilde and Pete Savage soon arrived and used a new trauma drug on Ms Stinton.
Colleague Mel Bird, who had just finished a 12-hour shift, arrived seconds later as back-up.
With Mr Hirschmann keeping the dog at bay, paramedic Mr Wilde went to the side of the house where Ms Stinton lay bleeding heavily but still conscious.
The paramedics stabilised Ms Stinton before rushing her to Leominster Police Station where an air ambulance had landed to fly her to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
Mr Wilde said he and his colleagues could not praise Mr Hirschmann highly enough.
Two men, arrested following the attack, were released on police bail.
Commenting on the Hereford Times' Facebook page, Ken Stuch – who claimed he was the owner of the dogs – said he could not explain how sorry he was.
A woman, who was later arrested, has also been released on police bail.
Two other two women, who tried unsuccessfully to help Ms Stinton before Mr Hirschmann arrived, also needed medical treatment.


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Look, Think, Imagine, ConnectWhat to expect during your visit >> Registration begins in September of each year. Register early as programs fill quickly; a minimum of two weeks' notice is required when making your appointment.
Plan your visit
Step 1: Pick your Museum lesson topic. Step 2: Have your information ready: lesson topic(s), number of students, several possible dates and times. Step 3: Make your reservation: call or request online >> Step 4: Prep your students for their Museum lesson: find online resources such as previsit lessons and orientation material, or visit the Wachovia Education Resource Center in person to borrow posters, DVDs, and other teaching materials. Step 5: Check your confirmation and share the trip itinerary and responsibilities with your chaperones.
Guided tours: Tuesday–Friday, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Unguided tours: Tuesday–Friday, noon–5:00 p.m.
Unguided tours: Tuesday–Friday, noon–5:00 p.m.
Student Admission Fees (due upon arrival)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Preschool program (Museum Looks and Picture Books): $100 per class
K–12 programs: Philadelphia public and charter schools free
Philadelphia private and parochial schools $6 per student
All other schools $8 per student
Rodin Museum
Guided tours: same as rates for Philadelphia Museum of Art
Unguided tours: $6 per person
Chaperones (all accompanying adults)
Chaperones are key participants in making students' visits to the Museum as successful as possible. We appreciate the time and attention chaperoning requires. No students may tour the Museum without chaperones or teachers. Student behavior in the Museum is the responsibility of the chaperones and teachers from your school. Please make sure all adults in your group understand and are sympathetic to the Museum rules and regulations. All required chaperones (including teachers) are admitted free.
Please note: The Museum cannot accommodate more than the required number of chaperones on a guided tour.
- Preschool: 1 adult per 5 students
- Grades K-12: 1 adult per 10 students
Please note: The Museum cannot accommodate more than the required number of chaperones on a guided tour.
All Museum programs are available to and inclusive of all students. Please inform the Museum of any accomodations that your students may need when making your reservation. Accommodations include: American Sign Language interpreters, Assistive Listening Devices, materials in alternate formats including large print and braille, or touch tours for students with visual impairments. Restroom facilities are accessible for students with limited mobility. For students with sensory processing disorders, we offer tools and activities that are designed to facilitate their full participation.
Student Lunchroom
During the 2019–20 school year, we will not have lunch facilities for school groups.
School groups are permitted to shop in the main Museum Store. They may enter the store in small groups with chaperoning adults.
Educator's Pass
One free-admission educator's pass will be sent to teachers with a confirmed booking upon request. Please use this pass to visit the Museum in preparation for your class's visit.
K-12 Educators Membership
Save $30 on the membership of your choice (Member through Patron levels). You'll enjoy a year of free access to the Museum, invites to members-only events, $10 guest passes, and discounts on programs, dining, and shopping. Offer valid in person at the Museum or by calling 215-684-7840. Teacher ID required.
Please arrive 20 minutes prior to your scheduled lesson time. Buses will be directed by Security to an appropriate drop-off location upon arrival. Student Center staff will welcome your group and assist you with the check in process. Groups will be admitted at their scheduled arrival time; late arrivals will result in shortened lessons. Groups intending to self-tour before their lesson will be admitted after groups with earlier appointments.
For more information, please contact The Division of Education by phone at 215-684-7580 or by e-mail at .


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After wrestling with photos and Blogger, I'm thinking of hosting my blog elsewhere. I have lots of pictures to post but I keep getting Blogger timeout errors. Stay tuned for updates. There might be a URL change in my future.
A million thank yous to my wonderful SP7, Jody!!!! She sent me a beautiful final package with skin cream, pretty sticky notes, a really cool pen that glows in the dar, candy and, of course, yarn. 🙂 🙂 I really enjoyed my first SP experience and I'm planning on joining SP8. I hope all of you SPers had a good time this round!
I'm just going to link to the pictures I have on my Flickr account so I apologize for a boring text-only post. When I read blogs, I usually look at the pictures first and start reading only if a picture catches my eye. I know, that means I'm really shallow. Agreed. I'm a sucker for pictures.
Over my spring break a few weeks ago, I made a bunch of maternity clothes and used up some fabric scraps for cloth diapers (more here and here). I found a pattern for an all-in-one diaper at One Stop Diaper Shop a few years ago when I was working on one for a cousin. I bought PUL waterproof fabric, birdseye cotton and flannel for the diapers and used fabric remnants for interesting exteriors. I'm really happy with how they turned out. I still have some finishing to do. I can't decide if I want to use snaps or velcro. Any strong opinions out there in blogland?
Also, I've put down a little baby cardigan (another view here) that I think is cute but I suspect the sleeves are too long. I put a lot of work into this because of those edges (gauge is 7sts/in on sz 4 – picking up all of those stitches was such a pain!) I don't know if I can knit the second sleeve and sew the whole thing up. I need some distance from the project so I've put it down for now.
Here is a finished newborn tank. I might take the neckline out and add a button tab to make sure the neck hole is big enough for a newborn's head. We'll see.
Finally, I've returned to one of my favorite patterns. It is so unbelievably simple but I just love it. It's a garter stitch hooded jacket from Phildar Layette Fall 2004. I'm making it out of white Lion Brand Cotton-Ease and using seed stitch instead of garter stitch.


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Last week the Montgomery County, Maryland Council wanted to promote its plan to blitz the area with yet more speed cameras. For best effect, council members invited their top salesman, John Damskey, Director of the Montgomery County Police Department Traffic Division. The council made the right choice. The articulate Damskey has a look in his eyes that just says he wants to be the next police chief. The only way that will ever happen is to deliver exactly what the council wants, regardless of the truth.
"In December of 2008 we were asked to provide some statistics to show the benefit of the program," Damskey said.
So he created some: First, a 22% reduction in speed at camera sites. This reflects the obvious phenomenon of people slamming on their brakes when approaching a camera zone. This frequently creates a backup where speeds are 10 MPH or more under the limit. But Damskey's crown jewel was this amazing figure: a 53% reduction in fatalities in Montgomery County thanks solely to the speed cameras.
An impressive figure, until Councilman George Leventhal accidentally rained on Damskey's parade.
"Captain Damskey, the statistic that you cited of a 50% reduction in fatalities certainly got my attention," he gushed. "Is that in a one year period, or two years since the introduction of the program?"
George had all the right intentions. He obviously realized that the bare minimum for a statistical relevance would be one year of data. Since fatal accidents are the most rare, you really would want at least two years of numbers upon which to base any conclusion.
It turns out that Damskey was comparing the first few months of 2009 to the same period in 2008. In other words, he wasn't doing an honest before/after comparison, he cherry picked six months worth of data with cameras in use to compare with another six month of "after" data. It was an after/after comparison where the numbers happened to look good.
It turns out that statistical time periods are the Achilles heel of Maryland photo radar presentations. In a must-read 2002 Weekly Standard article, investigative reporter Matt Labash came up with a similar question for Damskey's colleagues in Howard County.
At a congressional hearing last summer, they were automated enforcement's star witnesses. Wearing their gold-braided dress blues and wielding their Power Point displays, they proceeded to declare their three-year-old red-light camera program an unqualified success, boasting a reduction in collisions of between 18 percent and 44 percent at every intersection where a camera had been installed.
The statistics were impressive. Still, confused as to the time periods being monitored, I called Lt. Glenn Hansen to ask for clarification. "You're right, it's confusing," said the media-friendly Hansen, who runs their program. "You're a writer, maybe you can give us advice on how to do better in the future." It turns out Hansen had no idea what the time periods were either, except that the times measured before and after installation of the camera were equal. But when I obtained accident statistics for all the county-road intersections where cameras had been placed, the numbers didn't square with the ones presented at the congressional hearing.
Labash did a real before/after comparison and found that total accidents actually increased 16%. But let's move along from that. Damskey has more to say, and you need to know Maryland law to understand the full impact of what he was trying to do. MGA Statutes §21–809(j) states:
If a contractor operates a speed monitoring system on behalf of Montgomery County, the contractor's fee may not be contingent on the number of citations issued or paid.
Montgomery County does pay ACS a contingent fee of $16.25 for each citation issued. Damskey explained all the things that ACS does in return for all of that money:
- ACS owns the cameras
- ACS does all maintenance and repair
- ACS does site management
- ACS does IT services
- ACS does name and address acquisition
- ACS does initial review and all data entry
- ACS does payment processing
- ACS does customer service
- ACS does printing and mailing services
- ACS does site construction
- ACS does back office processing
What does Montgomery County do? It "manages" the program, which means in Damskey's view that the county isn't violating the law because managing is operating.
So the next time you're pulled over for speeding in Montgomery County, be sure to tell the officer that you did not break state law because you were not operating the vehicle by Captain Damskey's definition. In fact, the real operator was the friend in the back seat yelling that you needed to hurry up or you'd be late.
So how did the council rate Damskey's performance?
"It was exactly what I was looking for," Council Vice President Roger Berliner said.
Congratulations, you're well on your way to becoming chief one day, Captain Damskey.


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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Shares in Dutch telecoms group KPN, now part of Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim's empire, plunged as much as 15 percent after it cut its dividend for this year and next to meet the higher-than-expected cost of new mobile licenses.
A new player, Sweden's Tele2, also won licenses in Friday's Dutch auction of 4G wireless spectrum, a move likely to increase competition in one of Europe's most lucrative telecoms markets as the winners roll out faster services that allow users to watch video and surf the Internet on the move.
"This is negative news for KPN as we estimate KPN generates about 15-20 percent of group EBITDA (core earnings) from its mobile business in the Netherlands," ING analyst Emmanuel Carlier said on Monday.
The fallout from the auction is the latest blow for KPN after cut-throat competition in text messaging and slowing European economies led it to cut profit and dividend forecasts, its chief financial officer abruptly left and competition authorities launched a probe into possible price fixing.
Some analysts also questioned whether the dividend cut would be enough, suggesting the group might have to sell assets or raise capital to fend off credit rating downgrades.
At 7:30 a.m. ET, KPN shares were down 13.7 percent at 3.997 euros, the second-biggest fall by a European blue-chip stock. The stock briefly touched 3.9 euros, matching a 10-year low hit in November.
The Dutch spectrum auction raised 3.8 billion euros ($5 billion) for state coffers, well above the 800 million euros or so that analysts had predicted.
"This has negative implications for all mobile players in the market," Exane BNP Paribas analysts said in a research note, adding it would raise concerns about the cost of ongoing and upcoming auctions in the rest of Europe.
Slim's investments in European telecoms in KPN and Telekom Austria are below the valuations he bought them and the firms are the worst performers on the European telecoms index this year. KPN, in which Slim's America Movil owns 28 percent, is down 50 percent. Telekom Austria down is 41 percent.
KPN said on Friday it had paid 1.35 billion euros for 15 separate 4G wireless licenses in the Dutch auction, much higher than the 400-500 million euros analysts had expected. Incumbents Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom also won licenses.
As a result, KPN warned it would not pay a final dividend for 2012 and would pay out only 0.03 euro per share for 2013, far lower than already reduced forecasts. The Dutch group had previously cut its dividend forecast for this year to 0.35 euro from an initial 0.90 euros.
KPN had been planning a payout for 2013 of at least 0.35 euro. However, traders and analysts have long expressed concern about the ability of KPN to pay dividends given it has a debt to core profit ratio exceeding its own targets.
Deutsche Bank analyst Matthew Bloxham warned KPN would end 2012 with a ratio of net debt to EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization) of 2.8 times, above KPN's target of 2.5 times.
"We expect leverage to remain above 2.5 times until 2016, assuming a zero dividend policy is maintained until then. We will now have to wait and see if this negative surprise encourages the rating agencies to downgrade KPN's credit rating of Baa2/BBB and, if so, what implications there could be for management's open mind on a possible capital increase," he said.
Fitch, one of the agencies, on Monday cut its credit rating for KPN to BBB- from BBB.
KPN has already been under pressure to sell off non-core assets to keep debt levels under control. Separately on Monday, it said it had sold its Spanish operations to France Telecom, but did not disclose the financial terms of the deal.
In November, KPN agreed to sell some of its German mobile towers for 393 million euros. But it was forced to call off the sale in August of its Belgian mobile business BASE, which it had hoped would raise up to 1.8 billion euros, saying the offers it received were too low.
"If KPN cannot find a buyer for BASE or a partner for network synergies in Germany, then we believe that a rights issue might be the only option left to cut debt," said analysts at Raymond James Euro Equities in a note.
Reporting by Sara Webb; Editing by Erica Billingham and Mark Potter


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Espoo, Finland — July 17th 2014 — Angry Birds will soon be flying South to this year's San Diego Comic-Con to meet our fans and present our brand new cinematic trailers for Angry Birds Transformers and Angry Birds Stella. To celebrate the world's most impressive comic bash, we are issuing new Angry Birds Comics with IDW with an exclusive variation issue cover!
Outside the Convention Center both fans and media can hang out with Angry Birds Stella at the Stella Pop Up Experience in Petco Park – no badge required! Come and experience Angry Birds Stella, enjoy refreshments in our lounge, print out custom shirts while charging your phone, see the first gameplay demo of the upcoming game. Plus, if you drop by in an Angry Birds Stella inspired costume, you are in for an exclusive giveaway.
Earlier this summer we announced our epic collaboration with Hasbro on Angry Birds Transformers. Fans and media are welcome to visit the Hasbro booth inside the Convention Center to see the Comic-Con exclusive trailer – more information to follow!
Of course, a Comic-Con visit wouldn't be complete without some comics! IDW has put out limited edition Comic-Con exclusive variants of the new Angry Birds Comics. Check out their booth inside the Convention Center for comic giveaways and signings. Also be sure to drop by the Kids Comics panel on Sunday the 27th July at 10 – 11am in Room 4.
Follow us with hashtags – #angrybirdsstella,#angrybirdstransformers and #birdsdisguised at #sdcc for last minute giveaways around San Diego!
About Rovio Entertainment Ltd.
Rovio Entertainment Ltd, the creator of Angry Birds™, is a global industry-changing entertainment media company headquartered in Finland that creatively combines digital with physical, breaking the boundaries of traditional content delivery. What started as a casual game in 2009 became an international phenomenon within a few months of its release. Today Angry Birds is not only the most downloaded game of all time, it is a worldwide known entertainment brand reaching out into publishing, licensing, animations, books and location based entertainment. Rovio's animated Angry Birds feature film is slated for July, 2016. www.rovio.com


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Your rhetorical volley is irrelevant and off-topic as it has nothing whatever to do with Unicode.
My simple, clear, plain point is that the Perl reverse function is broken because when it reverses what is simply, clearly, plainly a Unicode string with grapheme clusters or jamo in it, it gets it wrong.
Perl's built-in string reverse function is not fully Unicode-conformant. That's all.
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Project Description
Commercial Building Interior Signage Maker
Commercial Building Interior Signage Quick Details
- ITEM No: IS-0195
- Material: Trim/ Returns-Stainless steel, Face/Back-Acrylic
- Lighting method: Front light and Back light
- Size/Font/Color: Customized
- Certification: CE, RoHS (UL can be offer if need)
- Working Temperature: -40 ℃~60 ℃
- Lead time: Shipped within 7days after payment
Product Description of Commercial Building Interior Signage
We are Channel Letter Factory, each letter is manufactured separately in the form in which it appears in the logotype, including Commercial Building Interior Signage, Storefront Sign Letters, and Exterior Wall Mounted Signs. The LED Illuminated Letters are mounted separately on a raceway, highlighting them against the background.
In Front Back Lit Channel Letters, both the front surface and the back of the letter are illuminated, which creates an impressive halo effect around the letters. For backlighting, the letters are mounted on the background using studs and the LED lights are mounted on a plate on the back of each letter.
To make the constant light color in both directions, the front face and backs can be made of transparent acrylic. If clients have the special color need, we often stick vinyl offer numerous color choices for the front surface.
IS LED SIGN also do Custom Office Lobby Signs, Indoor Wall Mounted Signs, Exterior Channel Letters, Acrylic Channel Letters, Metal Sign Letters &Numbers, etc. Contact us to check out what is you really need, today.
The Process of Frontlit & Backlit Channel Letters
- 1. The metal sheet is cut by a computer-controlled laser machine based on vector design files(.cdr/.eps/.ai/.scv, etc), this creates the back case and trim border of the channel letters.
- 2. The returns are welded at trim by bending a 2-3 inch wide (50–80 mm) metal strip to form the 3D letter shape. The trim and returns can be painted colors base on PMS.
- 3. A translucent acrylic face is cut to fit inside the letter shape.
- 4. Waterproof LED modules are installed on the board for double side
- 5. With 5-10mm thickness clear acrylic as the back base.
- 6. When illuminated at night, channel letters draw the eyes of passers-by.
|Face:3mm thick acrylic
|Trim & Returns: 0.6-0.8mm thick SS or galvanized sheet
|Inside: Waterproof LED modules(White, Green, Red, etc)
|Back: 5-10mm clear acrylic
|Customized design
|Customized from PMS color
|Output: 12V, Input: 110V-240V
|Light Source
|LED modules/Exposed LED/LED strips
|3 years
|Normal 6-8cm, and can be customized
|Average lifetime
|Over 35000hrs
|CE, RoHS (UL can be supplied if need)
IS LED SIGN Factory Cooperation cases:
IS LED SIGN Manufacturer can custom LED Illuminated Letters, such as Frontlit Channel Letters, Halo Lit Sign Letters, Frontlit & Backlit Channel Letters, LED Acrylic Letter Sign; Non-Illuminated Signs, such as3D Metal Letters, Flat cut Metal Signs, PVC Letters Wholesale; Vintage Marquee Letters, Table Letters, Neon Sign, etc.
These can be used all kinds of indoor & outdoor stores /shopping mall/semi-outdoor building/ hospital/ hotel/ bar/ salon/ company name/ street direction/ home decoration/ wedding set, etc.
Commercial Building Interior Signage Maker – IS LED SIGN
1. More than 10 years experienced Illuminated Channel Letters supplier.
2. We are a factory manufacturing LED Channel Letters; Non-illuminate Channel Letters; Acrylic LED Channel Letters; Neon Signs; OPEN Sign; LightBox; Vintage Marquee Letters &LOVE Table Letters.
3. Good product come from good materials and technique.
4. The professional design team and sales department for your service all the question will be answered within 12 hours.
5. 100% QC inspection Before Shipments.
6. CE/RoHS/UL listed. Competitive price.
Interior Signage Packing
Packing is of particular importance in foreign trade. Our company has excellent packing to confirm the consignment will arrive in good order and condition.
a). Inner packing: with a bubble to protect the product
b). Exterior packing: three-ply wooden case
If the package is small, we will send it by Express(DHL, FedEx, TNT, Ups etc.).If a big package, we will suggest sending by air or by sea.
Please check the goods immediately when you get it. If any problems, please contact us at once.
Shipping of Commercial Building Interior Signage
» About small package, we will send it by Express(DHL, FedEx, TNT or UPS)which will arrive in 3-7 days.
» About large package of the order, we will suggest sending by air or by sea. CNF, FOB, and CIF are available.
» When placing an order, you are expected to choose a proper method of transporting goods, meanwhile pay for the order.
» We will ship the order within 4-7 business days after confirming your order and receiving your payment.
» We will try our best to ship consignments as fast as we can. In case of any delay, we will let you know in advance.
» The quotation and shipping freight does not include any import taxes, customs fees, brokerage fees, import duties, and any other taxes.
» The Buyer is responsible for any import taxes, customs fees, brokerage fees, import duties, and any other taxes.
Q1: What is the warranty for your products?
A1: The Warranty for acrylic is 5 years; For LED is 4 years; for the transformer is 3 years.
Q2: What is the working temperature?
A2: Working a wide temperature from -40 °C to 60 °C.
Q3: Can you manufacture custom shapes, designs, and letters?
A3: Yes, We can make the shapes, designs, logos, and letters that customer need.
Q4: How to get the price for my product?
A4: You can send the details of your design to our email or contact our online trade manager
A4: All of the above prices are calculated by the widest point; if the length and width exceeds 1meter, then they will be calculated by square meter
Q5: I don't have the drawing, can you design it for me?
A5: Yes, we can design it for you according to your effect you want it to be
Q6: What is the lead-time for average order? What is the shipping time?
A6: The lead-time for average order is 3-5 days. And 3-5 days by express; 5-6 days by Air press.;25-35 days by Sea.
Q7: Will the sign suit for the local voltage?
A7: Please rest assured, the transformer will be provided then.
Q8: How do I get my sign installed?
A8: The 1:1 installation paper would be sent with your product.
Q9: What kind of packing you are using?
A9: Bubble inside and three-ply wooden case outside
Q10: My sign will be used in outdoor, are they waterproof?
A10: All the material we used are anti-rust and led inside the sign are waterproof.


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42 results for "Bibliographies"
Alba amicorum voor 1800
Catalogue of the alba amicorum (to 1800) in private or public collections in the Netherlands, including provenance and reference literature.
Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA) (CSA) (ProQuest XML)
Abstracts, 500+ journals, health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, education; from 1987
Art & Architecture Source
Art, hundreds of academic journals and books, full-text in multiple languages; thousands of images.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
Religion, international bibliography, articles (1.8 million), 1908 to present, over 60 languages, over 300 journals full text
Biblia Sacra
Bibliography of Bibles printed in The Netherlands and Belgium from 1477 on. With information on printers etc. and images
Bibliografie van de Friese taal- en literatuurwetenschap (BFTL)
Bibliography of literature on Frisian language and literature. Frisian and Dutch
Bibliografie van de Literaire Tijdschriften in Vlaanderen en Nederland (BLTVN)
Dutch and Flemish literature, bibliography, references to literature on Dutch literary studies, poetry, plays; in Dutch
Bibliografie van de Nederlandse taal- en literatuurwetenschap (BNTL)
Dutch and Flemisch language and literature, bibliography; references to literature on Dutch linguistics and literary studies; in Dutch
National history of the printed book in the Netherlands with images, terms, biographies, auctions, links, bibliography and full text
Book History Online (BHO)
The international bibliography in the field of book and library history, continuation of the Annual Bibliography for the History of the Printed Book and Libraries (ABHB).


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I've now been back from Vermont & the end of my Brewcation for just over a week and I'm finally going over my notes & starting to work on individual posts for each brewery or brewpub I visited… and something is becoming pretty clear: I really got something very unique from each place I visited, making for a really well balanced trip overall! I thought that, to tide you over until I get all the posts up, I would write up a short little summary highlighting the one thing that really stood out for me at each of the breweries/brewpubs I visited! Here they are, in the order in which I visited them on my trip!
Tag Archives: Rock Art
VT Brewcation!1 Apr
The Hops Honey is taking over Vermont!!!
Well, their breweries and brew-pubs at least! I've got 9 days to try & cover as much beer-ground as I can up here in gorgeous Vermont, and I'll be doing a post over the next few weeks about each of the breweries I visit. Here's my itinerary – it's ambitious… but I'm determined to make it all happen!


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Wed, 27 November 2013
We are pleased to present a reading by Rafael Campo, recorded at the 2006 Port Townsend Writers' Conference.
It all started in 1974 with the founding of the Port Townsend Writers' Conference by novelist Bill Ransom, who envisioned an egalitarian, non-hierarchical conference where the emphasis was on the craft of literary writing.
Such writers and welcomers as Jim Heynen, Carol Jane Bangs, Sam Hamill, Rebecca Brown, and many others continued this emphasis on the writing craft over the next few decades, and the Conference has become an annual pilgrimage for many.
Whether you're seeking to create or revise new work, find writing community, or simply desire a writing retreat in an inspirational location, Centrum is at the heart of the thriving Pacific Northwest literary scene. The list of Port Townsend Writers' Conference faculty members is long and distinguished.
Direct download: PTWC-2006-Rafael-Campo-Reading-final.mp3
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Welcome to New Beacon Hospice
New Beacon Hospice provides compassionate hospice care coupled with clinical excellence across the United States in the communities we serve. Our goal is to enrich the quality of life as life's journey nears its completion. Through supportive, loving, comfort care we offer patients and their families comfort for body, mind and spirit.
Our Mission
New Beacon Hospice is an affiliate of CURO Health Services and its family of hospice care providers. The mission of CURO Health Services and its hospice affiliates is to honor life and offer compassion to individuals and their caregivers when facing a life-limiting illness.
Our Core Values
- Choose the right attitude, message and priority.
- Be accountable for all thoughts, words, and actions.
- Embrace and drive change. Pursue growth and learning.
- Demonstrate humility and servant leadership.
- Select great people, treat them with respect, help them, and communicate effectively.
- Celebrate small successes on our journey to greater success.
- We are here for our patients and each other. Be passionate about what we do. Be innovative and efficient in everything we do.


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A Kwik-Fit car repair centre in Scotland is being taken to court by the Performing Rights Society (PRS), who claim that music broadcast on the radio that the mechanics listen to whilst working constitutes broadcasting said music to other staff and customers. The PRS are after £200,000 damages. Not surprisingly, Kwik Fit want the case thrown out, but so far it hasn't been so.
I'm not a lawyer, and there may well prove to be a legal case to answer. However, I find this quite staggering. As I understand it, the staff were playing the radios for their own benefit, not broadcasting the music to customers. It would seem to be somewhat akin to the cigarette companies coming after me for 'enjoying' somebody else's smoke after they exhaled it!
I like this little parable, found on Slashdot, which sums the situation up perfectly:
'Nasrudin was walking down the street one day, and came upon a man arguing with a merchant who was selling stew out of a street stall. According to the merchant, the man spent all day hanging around next to the stall, inhaling the aroma of the stew, but not buying anything; the merchant was demanding compensation for the service that he provided.
Nasrudin, hearing this, took the man's money purse, held it near the merchant's head, and shook it gently for a few moments. Then he said: "Now you're even. He's smelled your food, and you've heard his money jingle."'


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Yesterday, a camera crew for Discovery Canada stopped by Trossen Robotics to interview Andrew Alter and get some footage of his mech, Insanity Wolf. This footage, along with footage taken at RoboGames/ Mech Warfare 2012 will be part of a segment for Discovery's Daily Planet show. The segment will be focusing on everything Mech Warfare.
Andrew gave the crew a tour of Trossen Robotics, showing off our Laser CNC, our robot army and the rest of our facilities. The crew was eager to get some great shots of Insanity Wolf, even putting themselves in the line of fire to land the perfect shot.
The segment will air later this month and it will be available online on Discovery Canada's Website. We'll keep you posted with a direct link as soon as its available.


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Maine Representative and gubernatorial candidate Mike Michaud surprised a lot of people when he admitted to the media on Monday that he is gay. He says he's coming out now because he wanted to head off what he's calling a campaign of whispers about his sexuality.
The announcement comes one day before incumbent governor Paul LePage is set to launch his re-election campaign.
We talk with our democratic political analyst Ethan Strimling and guest republican analyst Charlie Summers about the announcement and its timing.


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March 31, 2012
This posting introduces Ernest Gaines's 1993 novel A Lesson Before Dying, which I have been reading with my students. The two postings that follow highlight their responses to the novel.
Set in the share-cropping world of rural Louisiana in the late 1940s, this novel features the teacher-student relationship between Grant Wiggins, a thirty-five year old African American teacher, and Jefferson, a twenty-one year old, semi-literate African American on death row for a murder he did not commit.
Jefferson has, in fact, committed theft, as his attorney acknowledges at the murder trial, explaining to the all-white jury that his impoverished client panicked at the scene of the murder, looting the liquor store cash register as the murderers and their victim, the owner, lay dead at his feet. But surely, he reasoned, this black "boy" could not be smart enough to plan a robbery and murder: "Why, I would as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this" (8).
Initially, Grant resents and resists his new charge, thrust upon him by his Tante Lou, to go into the local jail and, over the few months before Jefferson's execution, to persuade him to go to his death feeling like a man, not like a "hog." How, Grant wonders, can anyone expect him to reverse the legacy of slavery, the three-hundred-year-old cultural conviction that black 'boys' need not expect education or justice, need not aspire to the American Dream.
In addition to tracing these interconnected themes of racism and justice, of literacy and liberty, this masterful novel also explores the relationship between Grant and Reverend Ambrose, the parish preacher, and between Grant and Vivian, a strong woman and committed teacher stuck in a bad marriage she seeks to end. Naturally, the old black preacher and the young black agnostic come into constant conflict, for Ambrose wants Grant to teach Jefferson to "kneel" before he dies; instead, once committed to the process, Grant insists that he will teach Jefferson to "stand." Grant and Vivian also experience tension but of a much different sort, for their truly tender love story gets entangled with her Catholic faith and with a passionate cane-field conception that precedes her divorce. Yet the conflict with Ambrose and the tensions with Vivian open Grant's eyes to the futility of his own anger, a transformation that softens his heart and strengthens his resolve to coax Jefferson to his feet. By the end, Jefferson walks to his death, having learned from Grant how to write his way to manhood; in turn, the student has taught his teacher the value of compassion, courage, and community.


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Strong sales across all of Sony's PlayStation hardware range over the past financial year have left the electronics giant feeling confident that it can still fend off Microsoft's Xbox 360.
During the financial year ended 31 March 2008, Sony sold 9.2m PlayStation 3 consoles globally – an increase of 5.6m on the previous financial year's total. That's over-the-counter sales, not shipments to shops, the company stressed. Software sales for the console also increased by 44.6m units, to nearly 58m.
Unfortunately, Microsoft has yet to publish a directly comparable console sales figure. Last month, it said it had sold 19m 360s since the console made its debut, in the US in November 2005. Sony's numbers show PS3 sales total 12.8m units since the machine first went on sale, in November 2006.
Nintendo claims to have shipped 25m Wiis in much the same period.
Sony Computer Entertainment UK spokesman David Wilson told Register Hardware, that Sony is "very pleased" with the PS3's global sales performance for the past 12 months.
"We've quietly beavered away and it's paying off," he said. "Software titles have been an issue, but things are improving and Grand Theft Auto IV has been a huge success for us."
Wilson didn't mention recent GTA IV sales figures from market watcher Chart-Track, which revealed that the Xbox 360 version of the game outsold the PS3 release 62 per cent to 38 per cent.
Although Wilson said little about what's driving gamers to splash their cash on a PS3 – games or Blu-ray Disc support – he claimed that games will still be the big sales factor going forward.
If you thought that the death knell had already rung for the PS2, then think again. Sony also revealed that although sales for the unit dropped by 980,000 compared to the previous financial year, the company still shifted 13.7m PS2s globally.
But the real success was the PlayStation Portable (PSP) – a firm favourite among Japanese gamers - which notched up sales of 55.5m units globally for the year – an increase of around 800,000 units.


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Judge releases affidavit in Nichole Cable murder
State police detective: Dube kidnapped Cable before her death
A judge Wednesday afternoon unsealed the affidavit in the death of a 15-year-old girl from Glenburn that details how she died while being kidnapped.
Detective Thomas Pickering of the state police said in the affidavit that investigators learned that Kyle Dube, 20, of Orono, had a Facebook account in which he allegedly contacted the victim, Nichole Cable. A witness said that Dube had wanted to have sex with Cable but she refused his advances.
Dube allegedly contacted Cable with a false identity on Facebook as Bryan Butterfield and she agreed to meet with him on May 12 to get marijuana, the affidavit said.
Pickering talked with Kyle Dube's brother, Dustin Dube, and he repeated what Kyle Dube said to him.
"He (Kyle Dube) waited in the woods wearing a ski mask; that he had duct tape; that he jumped out of the bushes and took Nichole; that he duct taped her; that he put Nichole in his father's pickup truck; that when he removed Nichole from the truck she was dead ... Kyle intended to kidnap Nichole and hide her; that he would later find her and be the hero," the affidavit said.
Kyle Dube buried the body in woods near the Dysart's gas station in Old Town. He also told his girlfriend where he had left the body, the affidavit said.
The ruling on the affidavit came after the attorney for Dube and lawyers for two news organizations clashed Wednesday in a Bangor courtroom over the news organizations' motion to unseal the affidavit explaining why Dube was charged in Nichole Cable's death.
Justice William Anderson impounded the affidavit last week after Dube's lawyer cited Dube's right to a fair trial and other concerns.
The Associated Press and the Portland Press Herald contended probable cause affidavits may be sealed only under rare circumstances that don't apply in this case.
The defense on Wednesday further asked that search warrant documents be sealed until Dube's trial.
A grand jury also indicted Dube on charges of murder and kidnapping charges on Wednesday as well.


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What was supposed to happen:
A young Christian girl, home grown in the heart of Nebraska, sent to aid a sweety New Zealander with her heart mission of encouraging young mothers to lead a life of joy and happiness. My job was to help her ministry flourish, while providing a submissive, cheerful countenance and a willingness to serve her husband and children. It was the ideal situation; sheltered, volunteer work, biblical training, a woman of God serving men and their helpmeets.
What really happened:
Mr. Colin Campbell is used to getting his own way. He really doesn't question his position in the house. He simply assumes a full power authority, including over his wife, and treats everyone equally: like his attendants. He actually believes that anything he wants, he can order to happen and it will!
After church one day, I passed out with dizziness and fatigue. I was taken to the er, unconscious. As I slowly came to, I heard Mr. Campbell, loudly informing the doctors and nurses that this was all an act, that I was seeking attention and nothing more. He roughly shook me awake and ordered me out of the bed. Against the doctor's incredulous protests, I stumbled out to his car. He took me to his house, telling me that my next deceptive move would be faking a pregnancy. I was too out of it to protest his treatment, so he took that as a willing confession. I slept fourteen hours at his place, waking up in terror because I had somehow forgotten to breathe.
Mrs. Campbell is a very firm believer in the submissive role of the wife. I saw her, many times, come to Colin with a most valid point, only to be thoroughly shot down and treated like a nuisance. Her reaction to that was to quietly do her husband's will, and praise him for his keen mind. When he obviously knew nothing about a subject, say about a suicidal teen who just wanted to be believed, he would come to his own conclusion about what was really wrong. If the teen complained about her father abusing her, he instantly informed her that her misery was caused by her rebellion toward her father. No dad is perfect, and a girl should never question him. Because he is working under God's authority. Even if that means fingering his daughter in the night.
The Campbell kids. Namely, the girls... The girls all lived on their dad's land. And I got to know Pearl and Serene the best. Specifically Pearl. Serene was a very flaky, lively woman with way too much responsibility that she ignored. Several times I watched her 6 year old girl drop baby boy on his head, or her 2 year old boy step on nails and go unattended for most of the day. I stayed away from her house because horror was inevitable there.
I lived with Pearl, though. She was the most modern of the sisters. I wore her jeans and shorts, thrilled to wear pants for the first time in years. I watched star trek with her boys, and converted them into little trekkies. Her husband, a quiet, agreeable man, accepted me as one of his own little brood. I loved him.
But the girls were obsessed with their dad. In a really creepy way. One night, we went to supper at Colin and Nancy's. After supper, while Charlie (Pearl's husband) was out with the kids playing, Pearl curled up on her father's layup and kissed him on the lips. She lay in his lap for several minutes. I felt sick, and later asked her why she did that as a grown woman. She explained that although she WAS a mother now, she was still her dad's little girl, and she loved to please him by letting him hold his beautiful daughter. I wondered if it was strange that I felt so disturbed, but I never got over that.
When Colin decided that I was a habitual liar, he told the girls that I had infiltrated their children's pure minds and that they would do well to catch every lie the kids told, because the devil was now in the camp. And so I watched, as Pearl's 11 year old daughter, Serene's 8 year old son, and 6 year old girl were severely punished for presumed lies. Pearl's daughter agreed to do the dishes. When she got sidetracked, Pearl found her, called her a liar, and punished her. The daughter, one of the sweetest children I ever met, was very broken and confused-she hadn't lied, or hadn't meant to. And when Serene's son ran through her garden, she screamed that he could not go on a weekend outing planned Weeks before with his dad. He protested, saying he hadn't been running through to play, he was catching his brother. She then accused him of lying. His dad stripped him naked and beat him for several minutes. I was in shock with the brutality of the punishment, and all because of me. Or so Colin made it seem.
Evangeline was just...psycho. I didn't dare go near her house alone. Her pet wolf, Congo, has been known to bite the children, let alone adults. I once observed him kill Pearl's daughter's Dalmatian, as an 8 month pregnant Vangie danced in and out of the fight, pulling them apart with her bare hands, dogs snapping at her swollen belly. Inside her house was insane. She had a one room house. Eleven children! A king-sized bunk bed next to the kitchen sink. Mom, dad, and baby slept in the bottom bunk, and ALL ten siblings shared the top. She dominated her quiet husband, and raised her boys to be fierce, judgmental, and superior. The boys often struck their younger sister when they deemed she wasn't watching the baby well enough. It was seriously like stepping into a third world country. I always left in a daze, thankful for a bed of my own and a sense of personal space.
The Campbells gave me quite an experience. The only person who treated me kindly was Charlie, and he was looked down on by everyone except Pearl. A few years later, in an interview, Colin described me as disturbed, mentally, a psychological liar, needing help, and yet he NEVER once attempted to give me any help while I was under his roof. He said that I had no respect for my father, but refused to believe me when I gave a very valid reason not to respect him. He pronounced himself one of the saaviest preachers of his time. Now he's producing a series of articles called Meat for Men. Heh heh.. He doesn't get out much.
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In generic type or method declarations, you can qualify a type parameter with constraints. A constraint is a requirement that types used as type arguments must satisfy. For example, a constraint might be that the type argument must implement a certain interface or inherit from a specific class.
Constraints are optional; not specifying a constraint on a parameter is equivalent to constraining that parameter to Object.
where type-parameter: constraint list
One of the type parameters, to be constrained.
constraint list
constraint list is a comma-separated list of constraint specifications. The list can include interfaces to be implemented by the type parameter.
The list can also include a class. For the type argument to satisfy a base class constraint, it must be the same class as the constraint or derive from the constraint.
You can also specify gcnew() to indicate the type argument must have a public parameterless constructor; or ref class to indicate the type argument must be a reference type, including any class, interface, delegate, or array type; or value class to indicate the type argument must be a value type. Any value type except Nullable<T> can be specified.
You can also specify a generic parameter as a constraint. The type argument supplied for the type you are constraining must be or derive from the type of the constraint. This is called a naked type constraint.
The constraint clause consists of where followed by a type parameter, a colon (:), and the constraint, which specifies the nature of the restriction on the type parameter. where is a context-sensitive keyword; see Context-Sensitive Keywords for more information. Separate multiple where clauses with a space.
Constraints are applied to type parameters to place limitations on the types that can be used as arguments for a generic type or method.
Class and interface constraints specify that the argument types must be or inherit from a specified class or implement a specified interface.
The application of constraints to a generic type or method allows code in that type or method to take advantage of the known features of the constrained types. For example, you can declare a generic class such that the type parameter implements the IComparable<T> interface:
// generics_constraints_1.cpp
// compile with: /c /clr
using namespace System;
generic <typename T>
where T : IComparable<T>
ref class List {};
This constraint requires that a type argument used for T implements IComparable<T> at compile time. It also allows interface methods, such as CompareTo, to be called. No cast is needed on an instance of the type parameter to call interface methods.
Static methods in the type argument's class cannot be called through the type parameter; they can be called only through the actual named type.
A constraint cannot be a value type, including built-in types such as int or double. Since value types cannot have derived classes, only one class would ever be able to satisfy the constraint. In that case, the generic can be rewritten with the type parameter replaced by the specific value type.
Constraints are required in some cases since the compiler will not allow the use of methods or other features of an unknown type unless the constraints imply that the unknown type supports the methods or interfaces.
Multiple constraints for the same type parameter can be specified in a comma-separated list
// generics_constraints_2.cpp
// compile with: /c /clr
using namespace System;
using namespace System::Collections::Generic;
generic <typename T>
where T : List<T>, IComparable<T>
ref class List {};
With multiple type parameters, use one where clause for each type parameter. For example:
// generics_constraints_3.cpp
// compile with: /c /clr
using namespace System;
using namespace System::Collections::Generic;
generic <typename K, typename V>
where K: IComparable<K>
where V: IComparable<K>
ref class Dictionary {};
To summarize, use constraints in your code according to the following rules:
If multiple constraints are listed, the constraints may be listed in any order.
Constraints can also be class types, such as abstract base classes. However, constraints cannot be value types or sealed classes.
Constraints cannot themselves be type parameters, but they can involve the type parameters in an open constructed type. For example:
// generics_constraints_4.cpp // compile with: /c /clr generic <typename T> ref class G1 {}; generic <typename Type1, typename Type2> where Type1 : G1<Type2> // OK, G1 takes one type parameter ref class G2{};
The following example demonstrates using constraints to call instance methods on type parameters.
// generics_constraints_5.cpp
// compile with: /clr
using namespace System;
interface class IAge {
int Age();
ref class MyClass {
generic <class ItemType> where ItemType : IAge
bool isSenior(ItemType item) {
// Because of the constraint,
// the Age method can be called on ItemType.
if (item->Age() >= 65)
return true;
return false;
ref class Senior : IAge {
virtual int Age() {
return 70;
ref class Adult: IAge {
virtual int Age() {
return 30;
int main() {
MyClass^ ageGuess = gcnew MyClass();
Adult^ parent = gcnew Adult();
Senior^ grandfather = gcnew Senior();
if (ageGuess->isSenior<Adult^>(parent))
Console::WriteLine("\"parent\" is a senior");
Console::WriteLine("\"parent\" is not a senior");
if (ageGuess->isSenior<Senior^>(grandfather))
Console::WriteLine("\"grandfather\" is a senior");
Console::WriteLine("\"grandfather\" is not a senior");
"parent" is not a senior "grandfather" is a senior
When a generic type parameter is used as a constraint, it is called a naked type constraint. Naked type constraints are useful when a member function with its own type parameter needs to constrain that parameter to the type parameter of the containing type.
In the following example, T is a naked type constraint in the context of the Add method.
Naked type constraints can also be used in generic class definitions. The usefulness of naked type constraints with generic classes is limited because the compiler can assume nothing about a naked type constraint except that it derives from Object. Use naked type constraints on generic classes in scenarios in which you wish to enforce an inheritance relationship between two type parameters.
// generics_constraints_6.cpp
// compile with: /clr /c
generic <class T>
ref struct List {
generic <class U>
where U : T
void Add(List<U> items) {}
generic <class A, class B, class C>
where A : C
ref struct SampleClass {};


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Note: Do not physically connect the USB video adapter to your computer until you are instructed to (Step 5).
Prior to installing this device, please ensure that your operating system is up to date (for example, you have installed the most recent service pack).
To install the driver:
- Download the latest drivers from the StarTech.com website (http://www.startech.com/Support). You can find the part number and product ID on the product's packaging.
Note: Windows will typically save the files to the Downloads folder that is associated with your user account (for example, C:\Documents and Settings\your_name\My Documents\Downloads).
- Once the download is complete, right-click the zip folder that you downloaded, select Extract All, and follow the on-screen instructions.
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As a species, at some point we're going to need to get off this rock and find another suitable place to live. The problem, of course, is that the vast distances involved in space travel that goddamn rule about not traveling faster than the speed of light really limit our options.
Project Orion was an effort in the 1950s to try to push those limits as far as possible. Proposed by physicist Stanislaw Ulam in 1946 and then led by Ted Taylor and Freeman Dyson, the goal of Project Orion was to create a space faring vehicle that could attain a significant fraction of the speed of light.
You can't do this with chemical rockets, solar sails have obvious problems for long range exploration, and anti-matter engines are unforgiving of even the tinniest of mistakes. So what's a potential spacefaring race to do? Nuke your way to the nearest star. Seriously.
Basically you have a cylindrical shape ship with a specially designed rear pusher plate (like in the NASA-produced artist's depiction to the right) that is designed to transfer the energy from nearby nuclear explosions into momentum that accelerates the ship.
Then you just have to set off a series of nuclear explosions. Lots of nuclear explosions. As in setting off 300,000 one-megaton devices one after the other every 3 seconds for 36 days. Hypothetically, that would get the interstellar ship accelerated to a rate of 8 to 10 percent of the speed of light (half that if you want to include enough fuel to slow down once you arrive near where you're going).
Ten-percent of the speed of light puts Alpha Centauri at a one-way trip of 44 years.
Dyson, Taylor and others worked on the project until 1964 and found solutions to a number of technical problems that would have to be overcome, such as how to deal with the inevitable failed nuclear detonation. They even did some tests using conventional explosions to propel a test launch vehicle.
The program came to an end with the signing of the Comprehensive-Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty which forbid the use of all nuclear testing/detonation that was not conducted underground. According to Wikipedia, the United States tried to insert an exception for nuclear-powered space flight but the Soviets weren't having any of that.
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So lets see if I can come up with a conception of God that will irritate the hell out of everyone. OK. Assuming God exists what do I think It/Him/She/They is/are? I think that God is the 99%. By that I mean the 99% of you that is actually running your body and mind right up from creating new red blood cells to most of your "higher" brain functions. Another way to think of it is whenever you refer to yourself as "I" you are referring to less than 1% of the total of what "you" actually are. The 99% is responsible for at least 99% of the stuff we human beings do. Like writing. Art. Emotions. Habits. Instinct. The memories we have even though we can't remember them. The source of that "hidden" momentum that keeps you in your habits, both good and bad, sometimes right to the point of death. (We could discuss how voluntary a habit is that someone would rather keep it up even knowing full well that it will kill them but that's for another day.) The 99% encompasses a structure so vast and complex that compared to the piddling 1% of the "I" it may as well be godly. Thou Shalt Create A Mind And Body From A Few Coils of DNA could be merely the first of the 676,000,000,000,000,000 commandments. If there's something that nags at you about this its the chilling plausibility of it. Slap a few emergent properties on the 676 quadrillion commandments one of which is the construct called "I" Our friend "I" does what he does very well, which as far as I can make out is a kind of organizer of the individual human being as a personality. This is what gives the group what it absolutely needs to survive: individual members who will react differently to the same thing. Oh, there's a lot more than that to it, I'm sure but at the moment I'm just not sure what that is. Often my personality seems an impediment to potential reactions rather than something that allows me broader access. Uh. And by personality I include stuff like the tendency to write abstruse and self absorbed stuff about neurophilosophy.
But wait it gets better. What if the effect multiplies across groups of people. It can be downright spooky when you start thinking of it. What do you imagine the effect is of billions of individual members of a group who are almost entirely unconscious of their behavior and yet who have to act in concert anyway? Anyone who watches a flock of birds flow around each other or a school of fish flitter like a single thing should be able to feel that chill down their spine. I consider it the height of arrogance to think we human beings are not moving in concert like this. Not only that but we do it like human beings so there's a lot more involved than "just" flickering through the air to catch the wind under your wings so you can remain aloft. I'm unprepared to do anything more than speculate on the scope of this and the effects on human society (how do you test something like this? At best its an intuition. More likely its a point of view I've adopted to learn something.)
The analogy can and does go deeper when you consider that individual neurons act in concerts that would make any Ninth Symphony sound like blowing your nose in comparison and that further the effects of these cells acting in concert are tangible changes in the physical world all the way from equations solved to bowels emptied.
Back to the 99% and the 1%. Another way of looking at it is our brains which house the 99% of us that is actually running the show as well as the 1% of us that we call "I" are communicating with each other both through conscious means, like speech but also through a myriad of nonverbal and/or unconscious methods. Trends. Historical periods where stuff like writing and formalized systems of ethics pop up mere centuries apart in different places in the world.
Its hard, I know, since the "I" is predicated on NOT knowing about this far more than it is on knowing about it, "I" as an individual fundamentally do not want to see it this way and for all "I" know if too many people did it might gum up the works.
So if God, Goddess, The Gods are projections both into and our of the 99% of our selves and our species that we as individual nodes of the Racial Memory, Overmind, the Collective Unconscoius the Genetic Memories or whatever we want to call it where does that leave us?
Right back where we started. The theists will insist that this thing they pray to is outside of and apart from themselves and they will be right, as far as it goes. The atheists will insist that the parts of themselves they are not conscious of aspects of their physical make up and this only and they will be right as far as it goes.
Either way there is nothing supernatural about this model. I'd be fascinated to hear from anyone who considered there to be ways to test it. Supernatural is a misnomer anyway. I consider it what people say when we encounter any perception at the edge of the design limits of our conscious minds. Contemplatives in many traditions have used prayer, diet, meditation, sensory deprivation, sleep deprivation, physical trials, sacramental drugs, sex, art, and the list goes on in order to jigger with their nervous systems so they can access stuff people don't usually access. Fill me with enough dogma before hand, and I'd probably tell you it was the Great Pumpkin and Her Choirs of Squash talking to me too.
So where does that, dear reader, leave me? Not back where I started. But how exactly? First, that the source of my adopting this perspective and the means by which it replaced my previous points of view is entirely unconscious to me. I can give you a list of books I've read but I could not tell you how my point of view changed. I consider the fact that it happened at all to be chalked up on the side of my 99% unconscious model and I'd be right as far as it goes. A more thoroughgoing rationalist than I would turn around and say that my unconscious processes (regardless of percentage points I might like to quibble over) were recalibrated by choices I made that led to new information and they'd be right as far as it goes. Second, that the further "I" move myself away from being only able to perceive stuff from my individual and/or tribal point of view, the clearer that POV becomes regardless of (I say again regardless of) the nagging little detail that said POV still retains most of its flaws. I have noticed this all along. This matters because one of the things I'm clear on is that this model and my use of it has grown out of that impulse. Not that I'm asking anyone else to accept this, but its only fair to put all my cards on the table even when they are intuitional cards which is pretty much all I got once you press me. Its almost as if the books you read help you more in clearing stuff away than they do adding stuff. The reason I'm OK with my intuitions is that I've proven to myself by now that they work for me. I offer you mine because, well, I need something to write about and this is the stuff that occupies my thoughts and most of what I actually do, really. And the only conceivable way its going to be of any use to anyone else besides me is if I do a good job of communicating it to all of you who aren't me. So I do claim to be able to perceive a lot of my and other human behavior more clearly even if I'll spare us examples at this point. Third I'm able to look at a whole lot of human beings, including myself, with a lot more forgiveness and tolerance and, um, love. For someone like me, who is pretty pleased with his own cleverness and does not suffer fools gladly I can see now that I might have profited somewhat from a bit more of that tolerance stuff they kept droning on and on about all those years. To follow that further, it helps me appreciate the Human Ecology all the better. To see that even if I personally fear and distrust groups and people who I actually have good reason to fear that I might be benefitting from them anyway. This is a hard hard hard pill to swallow, especially with no owner to stroke my throat and help me get it down. I offer this insight to anyone whose eyes hadn't glazed over long before now because it has been very very useful to me to be able to separate my personal and authentic dislikes, things about me that I judge and believe to be at least not mental or moral deficits, from the value that the people I fear and distrust have to the species as a whole which, of course, in the end winds up as being value to me.
Maybe we are supposed to be in opposition. Maybe that is exactly what our value to each other is, as well as the danger to each other. My question to everyone reading this and me writing it is how do we keep the good aspects of that opposition (or dare I say competition?) while taking things like warfare and mass destruction out of it? Can it even be done? At this point I'm going to answer in the affirmative. If pressed I'd have to say that I have no proof as to why other than my observations of individual human beings. We usually have to get to the point of crisis deepening to destruction before we will change, but we can and do change. So I've got faith that we can do this because I think that the 99% of us wants to live. I mean, I want to live. Confirmed in my folly as I am I do have a sense of self preservation. More about all this later.
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No. You have it all wrong. GOD is a giant giraffe from the planet zorg-zorg who travels to earth from time to time and drops off a book or two and sips on some water in the lake of enchantment before his long trip back to zorg-zorg. Could anyone propose a way to test this theory?
The concept of God is a concept. It has no basis in reality. The "I" in your mind is not 1% of your makeup. It is you, all of you and not something separate. Gods are concepts in our subjective minds that have no foundation in objective reality because they do not exist.
They only exist inside people's heads as concepts that sometimes appear real to them, thus creating a (god) delusion that prevents them living with what I call reality, a worldview created by people using critical thinking skills and reasoning to forge a shared vision that has none of the garbage of gods despoiling it.
Here we go again, I would rather plant leeks than waste my time with this woo-woo, sadly I don't need that many leeks...oh yes, French Tarragon, I'll go plant my tarragon.....;p)
"OK assuming god exists"
I stopped right there, that's where the writer and I part company.
I know 'leeks' exist, I'll go plant them, and see if 'god' shows up to help. I also know I'll find a few worms.....
Don't think of them as worms. They are in fact remotely sent Noodly Appendages of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Yes, and the worms do seem to be 'heaven sent' at times....


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New York Times sports reporter Jere Longman doesn't approve of a certain Olympic female track and field athlete. His piece on the front of Sunday's sports section, "For Lolo Jones, Everything Is Image," rubbed in the fact that Jones hasn't won an Olympic medal, casts doubt on whether she will do so on Wednesday, and sneeringly claimed that Jones "will be whatever anyone wants her to be -- vixen, virgin, victim -- to draw attention to herself and the many products she endorses." Even worse: She's a Christian and fan of Tim Tebow.
A photo caption read: "Lolo Jones has received more attention than any other American track and field athlete based on what some have called a cynical marketing strategy that is long on hyperbole and short on achievement."
Judging from this year's performances, Lolo Jones seems to have only a slim chance of winning an Olympic medal in the 100-meter hurdles and almost no possibility of winning gold.
Still, Jones has received far greater publicity than any other American track and field athlete competing in the London Games. This was based not on achievement but on her exotic beauty and on a sad and cynical marketing campaign. Essentially, Jones has decided she will be whatever anyone wants her to be -- vixen, virgin, victim -- to draw attention to herself and the many products she endorses.
Women have struggled for decades to be appreciated as athletes. For the first time at these Games, every competing nation has sent a female participant. But Jones is not assured enough with her hurdling or her compelling story of perseverance. So she has played into the persistent, demeaning notion that women are worthy as athletes only if they have sex appeal. And, too often, the news media have played right along with her.
In 2009, Jones posed nude for ESPN the Magazine. This year, she appeared on the cover of Outside magazine seeming to wear a bathing suit made of nothing but strategically placed ribbon. At the same time, she has proclaimed herself to be a 30-year-old virgin and a Christian. And oh, by the way, a big fan of Tim Tebow.
If there is a box to check off, Jones has checked it. Except for the small part about actually achieving Olympic success as a hurdler.
Then Longman really got tough, comparing Lolo Jones to former tennis star Anna Kournikova, a beauty who apparently disgraced herself by only making the top 10 in the world tennis rankings.
"It reminds me of Anna Kournikova," said Janice Forsyth, the director of the International Centre for Olympic Studies at the University of Western Ontario.
This was a reference to the former Russian tennis player whose looks received far more attention than her relatively meager skills.
"It's really a sad commentary on the industry Lolo is in," Forsyth said. "Limited opportunities are there for women to gain a foothold unless they sell themselves as sex kittens or virgins for sale. I don't know if this is Lolo being Lolo or part of a marketing scheme to remain relevant in an Olympic industry where if you are not the Olympic champion, you are nothing."
The Times liked Forsyth's catty comments so much they were blared in a banner over Longman's piece. He even faulted Jones for her confessional mode, which is usually catnip for sports media:
Yet [fellow Olympian Dawn] Harper acknowledged being startled by the extent to which Jones has revealed details about her own dissolute childhood in Des Moines. Her father spent time in prison. Her family lived for a period in a Salvation Army basement. She had a brief and desperate career as a child shoplifter.
"I've had family issues as well, but I'm not willing to say all of them just so it can be in the papers," Harper said. "I don't want that for myself or my family."
In June 2010 Longman signed on to arguments by French socialists who blamed the failures of the French soccer team on President Nicolas Sarkozy: "Some opposition politicians said the players' behavior represented the selfishness fostered by the governance of President Nicolas Sarkozy, who had been called President Bling Bling for his flashy style."
Jay Nordlinger at National Review found Longman offensive:
"The author refers to Anna's 'relatively meager skills.' Yeah, relatively meager compared with like four other women in the whole wide world....[NR's Patrick Brennan] calls the Times piece 'shockingly mean-spirited.' I agree. Frankly, I'm not sure that the Times has ever run so negative a piece about Fidel Castro -- a man who has presided over a totalitarian dictatorship with a gulag since 1959....[Jones is] an Olympic hurdler....she won three NCAA titles. Then national titles. Then world titles. She holds the American record in the 60-meter hurdles."
Longman concluded:
After stumbling four years ago, she is back on her feet, back in the Games. Back in position to be appreciated for her athletic skill, not merely her sex appeal. Back in position to undress her opponents, not herself.


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