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Next morning the not-yet-subsided sea rolled in long slow billows of mighty bulk, and striving in the Pequod's gurgling track, pushed her on like giants' palms outspread. The strong, unstaggering breeze abounded so, that sky and air seemed vast outbellying sails; the whole world boomed before the wind. Muffled in the full morning light, the invisible sun was only known by the spread intensity of his place; where his bayonet rays moved on in stacks. Emblazonings, as of crowned Babylonian kings and queens, reigned over everything. The sea was as a crucible of molten gold, that bubblingly leaps with light and heat.
Long maintaining an enchanted silence, Ahab stood apart; and every time the tetering ship loweringly pitched down her bowsprit, he turned to eye the bright sun's rays produced ahead; and when she profoundly settled by the stern, he turned behind, and saw the sun's rearward place, and how the same yellow rays were blending with his undeviating wake.
"Ha, ha, my ship! thou mightest well be taken now for the sea-chariot of the sun. Ho, ho! all ye nations before my prow, I bring the sun to ye! Yoke on the further billows; hallo! a tandem, I drive the sea!"
But suddenly reined back by some counter thought, he hurried towards the helm, huskily demanding how the ship was heading.
"East-sou-east, sir," said the frightened steersman.
"Thou liest!" smiting him with his clenched fist. "Heading East at this hour in the morning, and the sun astern?"
Upon this every soul was confounded; for the phenomenon just then observed by Ahab had unaccountably escaped every one else; but its very blinding palpableness must have been the cause.
Thrusting his head half way into the binnacle, Ahab caught one glimpse of the compasses; his uplifted arm slowly fell; for a moment he almost seemed to stagger. Standing behind him Starbuck looked, and lo! the two compasses pointed East, and the Pequod was as infallibly going West.
But ere the first wild alarm could get out abroad among the crew, the old man with a rigid laugh exclaimed, "I have it! It has happened before. Mr. Starbuck, last night's thunder turned our compasses—that's all. Thou hast before now heard of such a thing, I take it."
"Aye; but never before has it happened to me, sir," said the pale mate, gloomily.
Here, it must needs be said, that accidents like this have in more than one case occurred to ships in violent storms. The magnetic energy, as developed in the mariner's needle, is, as all know, essentially one with the electricity beheld in heaven; hence it is not to be much marvelled at, that such things should be. Instances where the lightning has actually struck the vessel, so as to smite down some of the spars and rigging, the effect upon the needle has at times been still more fatal; all its loadstone virtue being annihilated, so that the before magnetic steel was of no more use than an old wife's knitting needle. But in either case, the needle never again, of itself, recovers the original virtue thus marred or lost; and if the binnacle compasses be affected, the same fate reaches all the others that may be in the ship; even were the lowermost one inserted into the kelson.
Deliberately standing before the binnacle, and eyeing the transpointed compasses, the old man, with the sharp of his extended hand, now took the precise bearing of the sun, and satisfied that the needles were exactly inverted, shouted out his orders for the ship's course to be changed accordingly. The yards were hard up; and once more the Pequod thrust her undaunted bows into the opposing wind, for the supposed fair one had only been juggling her.
Meanwhile, whatever were his own secret thoughts, Starbuck said nothing, but quietly he issued all requisite orders; while Stubb and Flask—who in some small degree seemed then to be sharing his feelings—likewise unmurmuringly acquiesced. As for the men, though some of them lowly rumbled, their fear of Ahab was greater than their fear of Fate. But as ever before, the pagan harpooneers remained almost wholly unimpressed; or if impressed, it was only with a certain magnetism shot into their congenial hearts from inflexible Ahab's.
For a space the old man walked the deck in rolling reveries. But chancing to slip with his ivory heel, he saw the crushed copper sight-tubes of the quadrant he had the day before dashed to the deck.
"Thou poor, proud heaven-gazer and sun's pilot! yesterday I wrecked thee, and to-day the compasses would fain have wrecked me. So, so. But Ahab is lord over the level loadstone yet. Mr. Starbuck—a lance without a pole; a top-maul, and the smallest of the sail-maker's needles. Quick!"
Accessory, perhaps, to the impulse dictating the thing he was now about to do, were certain prudential motives, whose object might have been to revive the spirits of his crew by a stroke of his subtile skill, in a matter so wondrous as that of the inverted compasses. Besides, the old man well knew that to steer by transpointed needles, though clumsily practicable, was not a thing to be passed over by superstitious sailors, without some shudderings and evil portents.
"Men," said he, steadily turning upon the crew, as the mate handed him the things he had demanded, "my men, the thunder turned old Ahab's needles; but out of this bit of steel Ahab can make one of his own, that will point as true as any."
Abashed glances of servile wonder were exchanged by the sailors, as this was said; and with fascinated eyes they awaited whatever magic might follow. But Starbuck looked away.
With a blow from the top-maul Ahab knocked off the steel head of the lance, and then handing to the mate the long iron rod remaining, bade him hold it upright, without its touching the deck. Then, with the maul, after repeatedly smiting the upper end of this iron rod, he placed the blunted needle endwise on the top of it, and less strongly hammered that, several times, the mate still holding the rod as before. Then going through some small strange motions with it—whether indispensable to the magnetizing of the steel, or merely intended to augment the awe of the crew, is uncertain—he called for linen thread; and moving to the binnacle, slipped out the two reversed needles there, and horizontally suspended the sail-needle by its middle, over one of the compass-cards. At first, the steel went round and round, quivering and vibrating at either end; but at last it settled to its place, when Ahab, who had been intently watching for this result, stepped frankly back from the binnacle, and pointing his stretched arm towards it, exclaimed,—"Look ye, for yourselves, if Ahab be not lord of the level loadstone! The sun is East, and that compass swears it!"
One after another they peered in, for nothing but their own eyes could persuade such ignorance as theirs, and one after another they slunk away.
In his fiery eyes of scorn and triumph, you then saw Ahab in all his fatal pride.
- 84. Moby-Dick (Chap. 84: Pitchpoling)
- 85. Moby-Dick (Chap. 85: The Fountain)
- 86. Moby-Dick (Chap. 86: The Tail)
- 87. Moby-Dick (Chap. 87: The Grand Armada)
- 88. Moby-Dick (Chap. 88: Schools and Schoolmasters)
- 89. Moby-Dick (Chap. 89: Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish)
- 90. Moby-Dick (Chap. 90: Heads or Tails)
- 91. Moby-Dick (Chap. 91: The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud)
- 92. Moby-Dick (Chap. 92: The Ambergris)
- 93. Moby-Dick (Chap. 93: The Castaway)
- 94. Moby-Dick (Chap. 94: A Squeeze of the Hand)
- 95. Moby-Dick (Chap. 95: The Cassock)
- 96. Moby-Dick (Chap. 96: The Try-Works)
- 97. Moby-Dick (Chap. 97: The Lamp)
- 98. Moby-Dick (Chap. 98: Stowing Down and Clearing Up)
- 99. Moby-Dick (Chap. 99: The Doubloon)
- 100. Moby-Dick (Chap. 100: Arm and Leg (The Pequod, of Nantucket, Meets the Samuel Enderby, of London))
- 101. Moby-Dick (Chap. 101: The Decanter)
- 102. Moby-Dick (Chap. 102: A Bower in the Arsacides)
- 103. Moby-Dick (Chap. 103: Measurement of the Whale's Skeleton)
- 104. Moby-Dick (Chap. 104: The Fossil Whale)
- 105. Moby-Dick (Chap. 105: Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish?--Will He Perish?)
- 106. Moby-Dick (Chap. 106: Ahab's Leg)
- 107. Moby-Dick (Chap. 107: The Carpenter)
- 108. Moby-Dick (Chap. 108: Ahab and The Carpenter)
- 109. Moby-Dick (Chap. 109: Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin)
- 110. Moby-Dick (Chap. 110: Queepueg in His Coffin)
- 111. Moby-Dick (Chap. 111: The Pacific)
- 112. Moby-Dick (Chap. 112: The Blacksmith)
- 113. Moby-Dick (Chap. 113: The Forge)
- 114. Moby-Dick (Chap. 114: The Gilder)
- 115. Moby-Dick (Chap. 115: The Pequod Meets The Bachelor)
- 116. Moby-Dick (Chap. 116: The Dying Whale)
- 117. Moby-Dick (Chap. 117: The Whale Watch)
- 118. Moby-Dick (Chap. 118: The Quadrant)
- 119. Moby-Dick (Chap. 119: The Candles)
- 120. Moby-Dick (Chap. 120: The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch)
- 121. Moby-Dick (Chap. 121: Midnight -- The Forecastle Bulwarks)
- 122. Moby-Dick (Chap. 122: Midnight Aloft -- Thunder and Lightning)
- 123. Moby-Dick (Chap. 123: The Musket)
- 124. Moby-Dick (Chap. 124: The Need)
- 125. Moby-Dick (Chap. 125: The Log and Line)
- 126. Moby-Dick (Chap. 126: The Life-Buoy)
- 127. Moby-Dick (Chap. 127: The Deck)
- 128. Moby-Dick (Chap. 128: The Pequod Meets The Rachel)
- 129. Moby-Dick (Chap. 129: The Cabin)
- 130. Moby-Dick (Chap. 130: The Hat)
- 131. Moby-Dick (Chap. 131: The Pequod Meets The Delight)
- 132. Moby-Dick (Chap. 132: The Symphony)
- 133. Moby-Dick (Chap. 133: The Chase -- First Day)
- 134. Moby-Dick (Chap. 134: The Chase -- Second Day)
- 135. Moby-Dick (Chap. 135: The Chase -- Third Day)
- 136. Moby-Dick (Chap. 136: Epilogue)


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Septuagenarian Dustin Hoffman makes his directorial debut with Quartet, a slight but immensely charming romantic comedy that is perfectly performed by a regal cast headlined by Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, and Pauline Collins. Oscar-winning screenwriter Ronald Harwood (The Pianist) adapted his 1999 play, which was inspired by Tosca's Kiss, a 1984 documentary about a home for retired opera singers in Milan. In Quartet, the setting is Beecham House, an opulent English estate that is home to Britain's finest retired opera singers and musicians. Beecham's residents are a spry, if aged, bunch. They may no longer be young, but their zest for life remains undiminished. This youthful exuberance is readily seen in flirty Wilfred Bond (a delightful Billy Connolly), whose randy but innocent talk generates much of the film's laughter, and in perpetually happy Cissy (Pauline Collins), a sweet soprano in the early stages of dementia. More serious is tenor Reginald Paget (Tom Courtenay). He teaches a music-theory class to local students who are more interested in rap than opera. But Reggie's sedate world, and indeed, the entirety of Beecham House, is upended when diva extraordinaire Jean Horton (Maggie Smith) reluctantly arrives. As one resident says, "She's as large as life and twice as terrifying." And Jean more than lives up to that billing, as Smith expertly spouts tart retorts to unwitting underlings that would make Downton Abbey's Lady Grantham proud.
Reggie is unhappy to see Jean, not because of her reputation, but because he was once married to her for an all-too-brief time. To say things ended badly between them is an understatement: He's never forgiven her for breaking his heart, and worse, he's never fallen out of love with her. Now here she is again, and her presence sends him into a funk, as he is forced to recall their painful past. But as fate -- or script contrivance -- would have it, the financially flailing Beecham House is hosting a fund-raiser in an effort to prevent it from closing its doors. Wouldn't it be great if these four honored opera stars, who once sang together in a quartet and all now conveniently live at Beecham, reunited one last time to perform at the benefit? That would certainly sell a lot of tickets.
There's just one problem: Jean doesn't want to do it. "I was someone once," she says. She would prefer to live on her past laurels, rather than risk tarnishing her revered reputation. But Wilfred, Cissy, and eventually Reggie insist that she join them. What follows is fairly predictable, but also wholly satisfying. Hoffman obviously loves his actors (no surprise there) and lets them shine at every opportunity. He also gives ample screen time to real-life opera sensation Gwyneth Jones, who plays Beecham's reigning diva before the arrival of Jean, and allows her an aria.
Hoffman, who is a trained pianist and once dreamed of becoming a jazz musician, pushes Quartet's sumptuous music to the forefront, and it's as important to the film as Harwood's delicate, witty script. The only surprising thing about Quartet is that Hoffman spent 45 years in front of the camera before he decided to step behind it. His assured debut, thin on plot but rich in performance and atmosphere, is a loving tribute to seniors, much like himself, and their ability to contribute meaningfully to society. And it serves notice that this talented rookie director just may have a future behind the camera.
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After mulling over Alan Belcher and Wallace Gilberry's bets for the past several days, UFC middleweight Michael Bisping (pictured) has finally issued a response – and he did so in true Bisping fashion, no loss. Last week, Belcher took exception to Bisping's promise that he would knock him out in the opening round of their UFC 159 scrap. The wager "The Talent" laid out was if Bisping KOs him within the first five minutes, he will get the British flag with Bisping's face tatted on his chest. If Belcher knocks out "The Count" in the first frame, then Bisping has to get the same hideous Johnny Cash tattoo on his left arm that Belcher sports. A few days later, Belcher's NFL buddy Gilberry upped the ante by offering up his $300,000 Rolls-Royce Phantom. Gilberry requested the Brit to put up something of equal value. After shooting a not-so-funny skit to mock Belcher and Gilberry, Bisping called his opponent "Alan 'TalentLESS' Belcher" before going on an extended rant – directed mostly at Gilberry. "Alright, now that we got that out the way, realize how stupid you look, Belcher – sat with Wallace Douche-berry in the back of the Phantom making these big stupid bets," Bisping stated. "It's pointless. April 27, UFC 159, you're getting knocked out. You know it, I know it, we all know it. "So take your Phantom, keep it. Because Gilberry, you're gonna need that when you're broke and your NFL career is dried up … you're gonna need that car to go sell it, because you're gonna be on food stamps pretty soon, I'm sure." Alrighty, then. UFC 159 takes place April 27 inside Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. The middleweights co-headline the pay-per-view broadcast. Best believe Gilberry will be sitting front and center. Please click the media player below to watch Bisping's response:
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In this all-new edition of "E! Investigates," series host and investigative journalist Laura Ling sits down with six women who have faced unspeakable tragedies and seemingly insurmountable odds, yet lived to tell their stories. Kidnapping; a horrifying fall; sexual abuse by a teacher; attempted murder and a cancer death sentence. These stories are featured, along with an exclusive interview with Sarah Shourd, one of three young American hikers falsely accused of espionage and imprisoned in Iran, when the all-new one-hour special "E! Investigates: Stories of Survival" premieres Tuesday, December 18th at 10:00pm ET/PT only on E!
Midsi Sanchez was a mischievous, spirited eight-year-old who was abducted by a serial child rapist/killer and kept for nearly three days -- much of the time bound in chains -- before managing to escape. Now grown, with a child of her own, Midsi tells the horrifying story of her abduction and what happened before she made her way to freedom: "I remember thinking, 'I'm never gonna get out of here.'"
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In January 2010, the company formerly known as XELER8 and now known as Bazi International, Inc. sent out a press release announcing a partnership with a marketing organization. In March 2011, Bazi began showing up on the shelves of 7-Eleven stores.
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Dwight: I need to confess.
Beckett: Yeah, take a number.
Castle: You should know it, you're engaged to a genius.
Beckett: Yes, a genius at annoying me.
I think we all just kickstarted our day.
Castle: Do I smell coffee?
Beckett: If you do, it was made by elves.
Castle: To the things we missed.
Beckett: And to those we didn't.
Beckett: I'm not choosing our song off of a list that includes Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar on Me"
Castle: That song, I'm sure ignited many a strip club romance back in 1987.
Castle: Does it say we're getting married in space?
Beckett: No, it's not going to happen babe.
And if they are going to write about you I want it to be the truth. I want it to be about us.
He's a nut job but he's probably not our killer.
Beckett: So you weren't gazing loving into her eyes?
Castle: She had spinach in her teeth.
Castle: How about we have a winter wedding?
Beckett: Didn't we say we wanted to do it outside?
Castle: Oh, right. Frostbite isn't very festive.
Ryan: Rather than pick a name for my kid you should pick a date for your wedding.
Castle: Pick a date for my wedding? I was planning on bringing her.
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Bullets that are too far away to hear back home
But words that will forever ring just as loud in my ears
Delivered from the lips of a uniformed man
The sympathetic sentence any mother fears to hear
I turn away as if ignoring his presence
Will make this unwanted reality go away
But he repeats that he is sorry for my loss
Those words are the last thing I remember of that day
I find myself looking out of the back yard window
On the swings in the garden I still see my boy play
I am bringing drinks out to him and his brothers
Under the sun, on the grass, on endless summer days
Those memories like photographs in frames on the wall
Now show my son with a wife and child of his own
A husband and father torn from their loving arms
In to the mass grave-in-waiting of a war zone
His old bedroom was already a shrine to him
Even before his blood soaked deep in to the desert sands
We waited for him to return from his first tour
Knowing the boy we'd said goodbye to would come home a man
Although we brought him up with morals and beliefs
Compassion and bravery were born within him
For the country he loved his life has been cut short
Now in silence he lays in a flag adorned coffin
Pride gives way to grief and grief gives way to anger
As right now everything is overshadowed with pain
The world wakes up this morning no closer to peace
We wake up knowing we won't see our son again
He's just another news story in a newspaper
You can turn the page over and the sadness is gone
But for us it lingers and I cant help but wonder
How many more sons and daughters will become fallen ones
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thanks Kerry. I would love this to be a song. Would be a challenge fitting all the lyrics in though. But that doesnt mean it cant be done
Man, you are magical with your last sentences!!! They have an echo to them after you read it.
This is so beautiful...tragic, of course, but beautiful.
Pretty powerful piece and an interesting perspective on things. Usually people only think about how the wife and the children would react to a soldier dying in the field of battle, never any of the other members. I enjoyed this.
That really worked up some feels, great job on emotional impact. It really makes you question if we would ever fight wars if everyone could feel the pain of losing someone so important.
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War has always seemed so pointless to me but although I disagree with it I never can stop thinking about how brave the guys and girls out there fighting are. Equally I think about the families. Everyday must be a nightmare wondering if they are going to hear bad news.
War has always seemed so pointless to me but although I disagree with it I never can stop thinking about how brave the guys and girls out there fighting are. Equally I think about the families. Everyday must be a nightmare wondering if they are going to hear bad news.
Life is sorrow. This was a sad but true write. The leaders should die alongside the men, it would make thought clearer for them.
very true. I am sure they wouldnt find it as easy to risk their own lives.
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I kept telling people "I'm Okay" so many times that I began to believe it myself.
But every time I moved I was reminded that the hurt was still there.
But every time I moved I was reminded that the hurt was still there.
I am sorry if you have been through a similar situation to the subject discussed in the poem. It must be truly awful.
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BALTIMORE | When the Washington Nationals were stuck in a three-game losing streak June 6 and needed a big-time pitching performance to get out of their funk, they turned to John Lannan.
When the Nationals were stuck in a four-game slide June 17 with their manager's job possibly on the line and facing a must-win game at Yankee Stadium, they turned to Lannan.
So did it surprise anyone Sunday when a Washington club desperately trying to avoid a sweep at the hands of the Baltimore Orioles not only turned to the young ace of its young rotation but had all the faith in the world he again would come through and win?
"We expect that out of him now," manager Manny Acta said after Lannan went 7 1/3 strong innings en route to a 5-3 victory at Oriole Park. "These types of outings every five days, when we're struggling, he's given us a chance to be in the ballgame."
There's a word for pitchers who build a reputation for snapping losing streaks: They're called stoppers, and it has become clear Lannan has taken on that role for the Nationals.
Beginning with that complete-game victory over the Mets on June 6, the 24-year-old lefty established a new benchmark for success. In five starts since, he's 3-0 with a 2.19 ERA, having never allowed more than three runs in an outing.
"It makes me feel better," Lannan said. "Last year, I would have a quality start or two in a row, and then I would kind of fall off and give up five or four [runs] in a start. I'm finally finding some consistency, which is great."
Great for Lannan, who now finds himself 5-5 with a 3.45 ERA. But also great for a Washington club that is watching its Opening Day starter develop into the true leader of a rotation that doesn't boast anyone over 25.
"I think he is [the leader] without a lot of hoopla or anything like that," Acta said. "I think the other kids realize that, too. He doesn't have the 95, 96 mph fastball, but he leads by example. … I think a lot of the other kids look at him - even if a couple of them played with him in the minor leagues - as the leader of this rotation right now."
Lannan would be the first to admit he wasn't in top form Sunday. He allowed the Orioles' leadoff man to reach base in each of the game's first four innings, three with walks. But he battled, got some big defensive plays behind him and emerged having allowed only one run until the eighth inning.
Perhaps the game's key moment came in a tenuous spot in the second inning. Baltimore had scored a run and still had men on first and third with no outs. Lannan, though, got rookie sensation Matt Wieters to hit a sharp grounder to first baseman Nick Johnson. Johnson stepped on the bag, then realized Luke Scott had strayed too far off third base and fired a throw across the diamond that set in motion a 3-5-2 double play.
"It was huge," Lannan said. "In that situation, you need some kind of play like that. That really helped out."
So, too, did a pair of home runs hit by the Nationals - one from a likely source, one from a not-so-likely source.
Adam Dunn got things started with a two-run, fourth-inning blast that traveled 442 feet. The ball landed on Eutaw Street behind the right-field stands and one-hopped the B&O; Warehouse. Only a handful of men have accomplished that in the 18 years Oriole Park has been open for business.


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moreResearch data is expensive and precious, yet it is seldom fully utilized due to our ability of comprehension. Graphical display is desirable, if not absolutely necessary, for fully understanding large data sets with complex interconnectedness and interactions. The newly developed GGE biplot methodology is a superior approach to the graphical analysis of research data and may revolutionize the way researchers analyze data. GGE Biplot Analysis: A Graphical Tool for Breeders, Geneticists, and Agronomists introduces the theory of the GGE biplot methodology and describes its applications in visual analysis of multi-environment trial (MET) data and other types of research data.
The text includes three parts: I) Genotype by environment interaction and stability analysis, II) GGE biplot and multi-environment trial (MET) data analysis, and III) GGE biplot software and applications in analyzing other types of two-way data. Part I presents a comprehensive but succinct treatment of genotype-by-environment (G x E) interaction in order to provide an overall picture of the entire G x E issue and to show how GGE biplot methodology fits in. Part II describes and demonstrates the numerous utilities of a GGE biplot in visualizing MET data. Part III describes the "GGE biplot" software and extends its application to the analysis of genotype by trait data, QTL mapping data, diallel cross data, and host by pathogen data. Altogether, this book demonstrates that the GGE biplot methodology is a superior data-visualization tool and allows the researcher to graphically extract and utilize the information from MET data and other types of two-way data to the fullest extent.
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John Allen in Rome: There are so many consultants in Rome these days, it's a wonder Pope Francis can cross Vatican grounds without bumping into one.
John Allen in Rome: There are so many consultants in Rome these days, it's a wonder Pope Francis can cross Vatican grounds without bumping into one.
The unidentified man doused himself with gasoline he carried in a bottle then lit himself aflame at the end of the colonnade near Piazza Pio XII.
John Allen in Rome: According to Vatican statistics, Catholic education is a growth industry these days, especially in the global south.
John Allen in Rome: The Vatican on Thursday awarded contracts to two major international consulting firms to reorganize its communications operations.
Pope Francis said Christmas is an occasion of joy but also a lesson in humility, when the faithful are called to imitate the example of God-made-man.
The pope made his remarks Wednesday during his weekly public audience in St. Peter's Square.
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As a former Greenpeace insider, Patrick Moore wasn't surprised by the heated reaction from the left on his explosive testimony about climate change last week before a Senate committee.
Mr. Moore drew headlines for disputing the environmental movement's doomsday scenario, depicting climate change over the past century as "minor warming" and arguing that "there is no scientific proof that human emissions of carbon dioxide are the dominant cause."
As a result, Mr. Moore came under fire for "climate denial" from the liberal group Media Matters for America. He has been persona non grata at Greenpeace for years.
Mr. Moore dismisses such criticism as an "ad hominem personal attack that doesn't have anything to do with the subject at hand." At the same time, he doesn't mind taking a swipe at those who advocate drastic emissions reductions in the name of stopping climate change.
"I describe the climate change movement as a combination of an extreme political ideology and a religious cult all rolled into one," said Mr. Moore. "It's a very, very dangerous social phenomenon. It causes them to think they have the right to dictate what we do."
The Canadian ecologist has long been a thorn in the side of Greenpeace, which carries two statements on its website disputing his credentials as an environmentalist.
"While it is true that Patrick Moore was a member of Greenpeace in the 1970s, in 1986 he abruptly turned his back on the very issues he once passionately defended," says a Greenpeace statement. "He claims he 'saw the light' but what Moore really saw was an opportunity for financial gain."
Mr. Moore often is described as a Greenpeace co-founder, which Greenpeace officials dispute, but it's safe to say that he was there almost from the start. The group that became Greenpeace was founded in 1970; Mr. Moore joined a year later and quickly assumed a leadership role.
"I don't claim that has necessarily any overwhelming importance, whether I was a founder or not, but the fact is I was there at the beginning, even before it was called Greenpeace," said Mr. Moore. "I was on the first voyage, and I played a very central role in the organization for 15 years."
He said he left because he was alarmed by the shift in the organization's goals. Greenpeace was originally about saving the environment and ending the threat of nuclear war. Over time, he said, the "green" overtook the "peace."
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Has anyone ever experienced having a guardian angel? I will share my experience.
Recently God sent me a Guardian Angel. I'm very grateful and happy that he has appeared in my life.💃❤Though physically far away, yet he feels so near. He makes up for what I lack–namely a sense of urgency and detail-oriented(ness). Qualities that I really admire.
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These recent events in life has conjured up memories of a beloved cartoon of my adolescence. I was addicted to a certain Japanese animated TV show called 'Sailor Moon'. The main character was a clumsy school girl named Serena (Usagi meaning bunny in Japanese) and her Guardian Angel was Darien (Mamoru meaning protector in Japanese). They met again on earth after being reincarnated to save the world. Anyway, long plot short; it was a good training/preview video for me as a young girl. I suggest all to check it out–recently it has been remade in computer CG. Super exciting for the hard core fans!
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February 22, 2010 The slide guitarist has played with The Allman Brothers and Eric Clapton, and has made seven records with his own band — all before turning 30. He demonstrates his lyrical playing and his inclusive take on Southern rock live.
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Defense Microelectronics:
DOD-Funded Facilities Involved in Research Prototyping or Production
GAO-05-278: Published: Mar 11, 2005. Publicly Released: Mar 11, 2005.
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The Department of Defense's (DOD) ability to provide superior capabilities to the warfighter is dependent on its ability to incorporate rapidly evolving, cutting-edge microelectronic devices into its defense systems. While many commercial microelectronics advances apply to defense systems, DOD has some unique microelectronics needs not met by industry. Therefore, to maintain military superiority, DOD has the challenge of exploiting state-of-the-art commercial microelectronics technology and focusing its research investments in areas with the highest potential return for defense systems. Given the importance of advanced microelectronics to defense systems and the rapid changes in these technologies, Congress asked GAO to (1) identify and describe DOD and federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) facilities that receive funding from DOD for microelectronics production or research prototyping and (2) describe how DOD coordinates investments in microelectronics research.
At the time of our review, eight DOD and FFRDC facilities that received funding from DOD were involved in microelectronics research prototyping or production. Three of these facilities focused solely on research; three primarily focused on research but had limited production capabilities; and two focused solely on production. The research conducted ranged from exploring potential applications of new materials in microelectronic devices to developing a process to improve the performance and reliability of microwave devices. Production efforts generally focus on devices that are used in defense systems but not readily obtainable on the commercial market, either because DOD's requirements are unique and highly classified or because they are no longer commercially produced. For example, one of the two facilities that focuses solely on production acquires process lines that commercial firms are abandoning and, through reverse-engineering and prototyping, provides DOD with these abandoned devices. During the course of GAO's review, one facility, which produced microelectronic circuits for DOD's Trident program, closed. Officials from the facility told us that without Trident program funds, operating the facility became cost prohibitive. These circuits are now provided by a commercial supplier. Another facility is slated for closure in 2006 due to exorbitant costs for producing the next generation of circuits. The classified integrated circuits produced by this facility will also be supplied by a commercial supplier. DOD has several mechanisms in place aimed at coordinating and planning research conducted by the military services and defense agencies. One key mechanism is identifying defense technology objectives--the specific technology advancements that will be developed or demonstrated across multiple joint capabilities and technology areas. As of February 2004, there were almost 400 defense technology objectives; five of these were identified as microelectronics. DOD also collaborates with industry to review and assess special technology areas and make recommendations about future electronics and microelectronics research.
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Friendly, efficient staff. Your drink never gets low, the food is good. We go there regularly for Sunday Buffet. Never a problem of any kind. The owner is on site and walking, looking.
I hadn't been to this restaurant in many years (20 or so) but remembered their hot and sour soup was excellent back in the day. We decided to try it again yesterday, and it did not disappoint, the best I have ever had without a doubt.
The food in many Chinese restaurants seems to vary only in the sauce it's in, not in the preparation, but at Evergreen, the dishes are distinctive. The lunch buffet includes three soups, I believe, in addition to the main dishes. The hot and sour soup is my favorite of all the Chinese restaurants I've gone to -- just enough vegetables,...
I went to this place not expecting much with my friends I ordered the lo mein and it was just barley better than i expected i still had a great time with my friends and the staff was nice and friendly
if you like chinese food, its rather good and hot.. a buffet table during lunch hours, you can get in and out quickly and the food is good.
It is worth the drive to find this restaurant in a corner of a shopping center near Lake Carroll. Wonderful owners supervise the daily operations and ensure great food for an inexpensive price.
This is the worst chinese place i have ever been. what a joke. I felt like I was eating other things than just chicken and "steak". At one point the employees carried out a sacrificial chicken slaughter right in front of me for "entertainment". Also, when I said i would not pay, they threatened to ninjy chop my family. Needless...
I haven't eaten any kind of Asian food for years now because I had a bad experience a while back but my friends urged me go here and after much hesitation I went and boy it was good. From the food to the service and atmosphere I was impressed! If you like type of food please try it from here...
I have been comming here for 20 years and have never been disappointed . The owners are the best ! Very nice people. And the food is great and consistent. It's by far the best Chinese in the area
I have eaten here several times and the food is always very good I normally I order it to go and they never mess up my order also its always ready by the time I get there
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Reintervention for arch obstruction after stage 1 reconstruction does not adversely affect survival or outcome at Fontan completion
ABSTRACT To determine the effect of reintervention for coarctation after stage 1 reconstruction for hypoplastic left heart syndrome and variants on survival, suitability for Fontan, and morbidity at Fontan.
A retrospective review of echocardiograms, catheterizations, hospital records of patients who underwent stage 1 reconstruction from January 2002 to May 2005, with a cross-sectional analysis of hospital survivors, was performed. Kaplan-Meier curves were derived for patients alive more than 30 days after stage 1 reconstruction.
A total of 176 patients underwent stage 1 reconstruction. Forty-three patients (23%) underwent balloon angioplasty (n = 43) or surgical intervention (n = 4) for re-coarctation. Median time to intervention was 123 (1-316) days. Seven of 43 patients (16%) underwent more than 1 balloon angioplasty. Thirty-nine patients underwent intervention before stage 2 reconstruction, and 4 patients had intervention between stage 2 reconstruction and Fontan. Kaplan-Meier curves showed no difference in freedom from death or transplant between patients who did and did not undergo intervention for re-coarctation. Fontan completion was performed in 107 patients. By echocardiogram, the prevalence of moderate to severe ventricular dysfunction between groups was similar at Fontan; however, significant atrioventricular valve regurgitation was more common in patients who required intervention (28/33 vs 40/65, P = .02). Overall Fontan mortality was 2% and not different between groups. Length of stay was not different between patients with and without re-coarctation.
Reintervention for coarctation after stage 1 reconstruction is common. Hemodynamic differences between groups did not affect Fontan completion, mortality, or hospital length of stay. Follow-up is necessary to determine the impact of re-coarctation on longer-term mortality and morbidity.
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Article: Letter by Giardini et al Regarding Article, "Maladaptive Aortic Properties in Children After Palliation of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome Assessed by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging"Circulation 05/2011; 123(19):e594; author reply e595. DOI:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.002949 · 14.43 Impact Factor
Article: Aortic Arch Obstruction After the Norwood Procedure for Hypoplastic Left-Heart Syndrome Is it Inevitable? Is it Preventable?Journal of the American College of Cardiology 08/2011; 58(8):877-9. DOI:10.1016/j.jacc.2011.03.050 · 16.50 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Outcomes in patients with ventricular dysfunction undergoing superior cavopulmonary connection (SCPC) are not well known. We reviewed records of patients undergoing SCPC at our center from December 2005 to October 2009 and studied those whose pre-SCPC echocardiograms demonstrated at least moderate systemic ventricular dysfunction. Of the 213 patients undergoing SCPC, 19 (9%) met inclusion criteria. Diagnoses were hypoplastic left heart syndrome (n = 18) and rightward unbalanced atrioventricular canal with pulmonary stenosis (n = 1). In those surviving >2 months after SCPC, ventricular function was assessed by echocardiography 4.9 (range 3.5 to 9.7) months after SCPC and was improved in ten of 17 (59%), unchanged in six of 17 (35%), and worsened in one of 17 (16%) patients. After SCPC, three patients died, and one underwent heart transplant 21.9 months after SCPC. Transplant-free survival was attained by 15 of 19 (79%) patients during follow-up of 33.0 months (range 10.8 to 51.4). Fontan completion was performed on six survivors on reaching an appropriate age. Ventricular dysfunction before SCPC is not uncommon and occurs primarily in patients with a morphologic right ventricle. Ventricular performance improves in the majority of patients after SCPC, and midterm outcomes are comparable with previous reports, suggesting that these patients remain candidates for staged palliation.Pediatric Cardiology 11/2011; 33(4):547-53. DOI:10.1007/s00246-011-0147-x · 1.31 Impact Factor