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Item #: SCP-1654
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1654 is stored, encased in a block of concrete neon ice cooled to 23K, in a gyroscopically-stabilized lead-lined storage tank on Storage Area 1654 in █████████████, England. The Area has been fitted with a suite of accelerometers, seismometers and magnetic anomaly detectors to gauge the severity of events. Onsite power and coolant plants are equipped with triple redundancies. Should all onsite power and cooling facilities fail, the Area will draw from the non-Foundation backups in the nearby city of ██ ███, as per Protocol Brownout-Alpha.
D-Class personnel working onsite are to be informed every 15 days of the nature of SCP-1654, in order to trigger a containable Delta-Gibraltar event. Proposals for testing SCP-1654 are to be submitted at minimum 45 days in advance. In the event that a Delta-Gibraltar event lasts for more than 15 minutes, Area 1654 will be flooded with cyclosarin gas until such time as no human beings remain alive within the facility, then bathed in liquid neon coolant for a period of 24 hours to reduce internal thermodynamic activity. All maintenance and cleanup on Area 1654 is to be performed by D-Class personnel with intelligence quotients of less than 90, supervised by remote. D-class personnel assigned to SCP-1654 are to be trained under the cover story that the Area is a high-energy power-generation facility, and are not to be informed that they are in the presence of an anomalous object. Under no circumstances should any non-D-class personnel enter the facility approach within a 30km radius of the facility. Should a Delta-Gibraltar event persist for more than 15 minutes even after the facility has been purged and supercooled, SCP-1654 is to be treated as capable of causing a CK-class reality restructuring event.
Description: SCP-1654 is a copy of the title page of Sir Francis Bacon''s Novum Organum, on a sheet of rag paper approximately 24.2 cm x 30.5 cm, which appears to be from the work''s original printing in 1620. The contents of the title page match other original copies of the work, with the exception of a handwritten note on the reverse side (See Document 1654-NOTE). The page appears to have been torn from the source book after binding. SCP-1654 is surrounded by a roughly spherical spatial discontinuity, 32.3 cm across at its widest point, which is completely impermeable to physical objects and the entirety of the electromagnetic spectrum save light in the visible range. The page has a deleterious effect on the causal nature of spacetime when exposed to human beings. SCP-1654''s anomalous spatial effect, designated 1654-Delta-Gibraltar, is triggered by the fulfillment of three conditions;
- A living human subject must be within 50 meters close physical proximity (See Addendum) of SCP-1654.
- The subject must be aware that SCP-1654 exists as a physical object.
- The subject must be aware that SCP-1654 has properties which are anomalous or otherwise unusual.
If all these conditions are met, 1654-Delta-Gibraltar will commence. At this point, SCP-1654 appears to link cause-and-effect reactions to the perceptions and understanding of the subject who has activated the object. All spatiotemporal laws will function proportionally to the subject''s understanding of how they occur. Should the subject lack understanding, or have only a partial understanding of a cause-effect relationship, that relationship will continue to occur, but grow increasingly unpredictable and unstable with time. As human beings lack a total understanding of all causal relationships in physics, a 1654-Delta-Gibraltar event will invariably cause severe damage to local spacetime for as long as it is allowed to persist. In all cases, Delta-Gibraltar events have resulted in the deaths of subjects who triggered them. The radius affected by Delta-Gibraltar expands beyond 50 meters at a rate of approximately 0.1 cm/s for as long as all trigger conditions are fulfilled. Testing has revealed that reducing the overall temperature within the 1654-Delta-Gibraltar radius to temperatures below 50K reduces the rate of expansion by as much as 65%. Following the end of a Delta-Gibraltar event, local physics will reassert themselves at a rate proportional to the stability and duration of the original event; current containment procedures are in place to ensure that the aftereffects of an event dissipate as rapidly as possible. Cold temperatures seem to increase the rate of re-stabilization; testing is ongoing to determine the precise nature of this relationship.
|Delta-Gibraltar Event #
|Test Performed
|Subject is given a block of balsa wood treated to make it appear to be metal, and a butane torch. Subject is instructed to heat the block until such time as it begins to melt. Subject applies blowtorch. Wood reaches temperatures of over 1600K, but does not combust. Subject is killed by rapid temperature change when all air in the testing area spontaneously liquefies.
|Subject is instructed to perform jumping jacks, and is filmed doing so. During the exercise, three of the subject''s fingers on the left hand are observed to intersect with and partially pass through one wall of the testing area. When questioned, subject reports no awareness of the event. Relevant video recordings are played back. Upon seeing the incident, subject expresses surprise, whereupon their left hand detonates in a 50-kilotonne explosion. Subject and test chamber destroyed.
|15 seconds into Delta-Gibraltar event, subject, along with all matter within Delta-Gibraltar radius excepting SCP-1654, dissolves into a cloud of superheated hydrogen. Testing aborted.
|Researcher D████, demoted to D-Class after [DATA EXPUNGED]
|Subject instructed to observe a Newton''s Cradle device in motion, and to attempt to keep it in motion for as long as possible. After 14 minutes of testing, subject sneezes. Subject killed when one of the components of the device accelerates to approx. 0.1c and exits the solar system on a heading of [DATA EXPUNGED]
|Subject placed in a room containing 30 different chronometers of various designs, then heavily dosed with psychoactive drugs. All test observation systems cease to function after 15 seconds. When D-class personnel re-enter the facility after it is cooled and purged, the contents of the testing chamber are found to have rapidly aged by several centuries.
Excerpt from a memorandum by Researcher ██████████, to all SCP-1654 staff:
I''ve heard some of you say that you need a degree in physics or philosophy to understand why this thing is so dangerous. Not true. Think of the entire universe as a clock, and 1654 as damaged gear. If you spin the gear without realizing that it''s broken, the clock jams and stops, but is otherwise intact. That''s what happens when a D-class triggers a Delta-Gibraltar. 1654 gets so unstable it destroys itself before it can do any damage. But if you go in knowing that the gear''s broken, and try to keep the clock running for as long as possible… well, the problem will spread throughout the entire system, and ruin the clock''s precision. That''s what we''re so worried about. If 1654 is allowed to run for too long, or is triggered by someone who understands physics well enough to keep it somewhat stable, it may generate errors or inconsistencies in the way the universe works which could spread. And then we''d have a Restructuring Event on our hands. As for why cold slows it down? We''re not sure. Maybe if there''s less thermodynamic activity, the structure of spacetime collapses more slowly. Like slowing down the rate at which the gear is turned.
After the destruction of the original Storage Area 1654 on ██/██/████, an additional effect of SCP-1654 was discovered. When SCP-1654 does not undergo a Delta-Gibraltar event of any kind for more than 17 days, the trigger radius for Delta-Gibraltar events will slowly increase. This effect does not seem to be a property of distance; rather, SCP-1654 will become activated by human beings who are aware of it and its properties and who believe themselves to be within a distance of the object they do not believe to be safe or comfortable. The effect seems to target those uncomfortable in their proximity to the object at random. When Delta-Gibraltar events occur, the activation radius resets to 50 meters and the cycle begins again. As a result, a new safe radius of 30 kilometers has been instituted at Storage Area 1654.
Document 1654-NOTE:
The following is written by hand, in Latin, on the reverse side of SCP-1654. The handwriting appears to be consistent with that of Francis Bacon.
"Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect. "
I wrote that phrase not realizing what it would bring to life within me. Has God cursed me with this power? Did I seek knowledge of the functioning of Nature only to have it delivered into my hands? Regardless of this curse which has been afflicted on me, I must act. This page, and the power it contains, cannot continue to taint this Earth. All the laws of the cosmos recoil at it. I wanted to spread my learning to the world, but this accursed thing spreads like a plague of insects. I must send it away. where, I know not. If it falls into the hands of others, then may the Lord have mercy on my soul for I have damned them all.
-Fr. Bacon


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WND Exclusive
Congresswoman: 'Citizen' same as 'natural born citizen'
Comment suggests Founders didn't want special eligibility demand for presidents
Another member of Congress apparently believes "citizen" and "natural-born citizen" – as the U.S. Constitution requires for the presidency – are the same thing.
The word comes from Rep. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., who wrote to a constituent that she's satisfied that Barack Obama is eligible to be president.
That's even though the Constitution raises a different standard for presidents, stating, "No Person except a natural-born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President."
Get the New York Times best-seller "Where's the Birth Certificate? The Case that Barack Obama Is Not Eligible to be President," autographed by Jerome Corsi, Ph.D.
Since the term "natural-born citizen" is not defined in the Constitution, "Where's the Birth Certificate: The case that Barack Obama is not Eligible to be President" author Jerome Corsi drew from the writings of Swiss diplomat Emerich de Vattel, whose work is known to have influenced the Founding Fathers. Vattel wrote in "The Law of Nations" in 1758, "The citizens are the members of the civil society, bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority; they equally participate in its advantages. The natives or natural-born citizens are those born in the country of parents who are citizens."
Corsi said that during research for his book he found the only U.S. Supreme Court case directly on point is Minor v. Happersett, from 1874, in which the court said, "It was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners."
As Obama's birth remains unproven – his "Certification of Live Birth" document released by the White House has been discounted by a long list of experts as a fake – his status as a "natural-born citizen" is unproven. In fact, some have said the document proves his ineligibility, since it lists Barack Obama Sr. as his father, who was not a U.S. citizen.
Noem's letter said that the "Constitution of our nation requires natural born citizenship in order to serve as President of the United States of America." But then she explains that the "Office of Vital Records within the Hawaiian Department of Health has confirmed the birth and citizenship of President Obama."
Nowhere in the letter to her constituent does she explain why the confirmation of "citizenship" equates to meeting the requirement for "natural-born citizenship." Her office did not respond to a WND inquiry for comment.
Her answer appears to align with advice from the Congressional Research Service to members of Congress on how to dismiss such concerns.
WND reported how Jerry W. Mansfield, an information research specialist in the Knowledge Services Group of the CRS, issued a memo to prepare members of Congress to rebut and defuse questions constituents were asking regarding Obama's presidential eligibility under the natural-born citizen requirement of the Constitution.
WND has posted the CRS memo on Scribd.com for download.
Attached to the memo was an attack-piece published by FactCheck.org to dismiss claims that Obama's short-form Certification of Live Birth, originally published during the 2008 presidential campaign by DailyKos.com, was a forgery.
Many of the statements from members of Congress apparently based on CRS material obfuscate the difference between "citizen" and "natural-born citizen" and make assumptions about Obama for which evidence is lacking.
When Obama released an image of a Hawaiian "Certificate of Live Birth" on April 27, after years of stating that the document was not available, the Hawaii Department of Health and governor's office refused to confirm for WND that the image released was an accurate representation of the state's records.
And the questions about Obama's status continue to grow. A recent poll showed fully half the nation wants Congress to investigate his eligibility.
Instead of resolving issues, the image that Obama released to the public on April 27 has raised new ones. For example, during an interview by NBC News' national investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff, former Hawaii health department chief Chiyome Fukino, who has claimed to have examined the "original" documentation in the state archives, said the original document was "half typed and half handwritten."
But the statement conflicts with the document that Obama released on April 27 from the White House, which his staff members described as "proof positive" of a Hawaiian birth. Only the signatures and dates are "hand-written," not half the document.
Also, since then, a numerous experts have challenged the validity of the document Obama released. An extensive report from Mara Zebest, who has contributed as author or editor to dozens of books on computer software, concluded the image clearly is a fraud.
Even Senate Resolution 511, passed in 2008 to declare that John McCain was a natural-born citizen, indicated a natural-born citizen would have to be born of two U.S. parents. McCain's birth in the Panama Canal Zone was regarded by the Senate as an exception that the Founders would have supported. The Senate reasoned that a person should not be disqualified from running for president because the parents were serving in the defense of the nation.
Among the sponsors of that statement was a junior senator named Obama.
The resolution includes two references to "Americans" or "American Citizens" as parents.
Among the statements from members of Congress:
- Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., "I believe that President Obama has met all the requirements of citizenship as set forth by the U.S. State Department, and therefore is eligible for the office of the presidency."
- Rep. Leonard Lance, R-N.J., said concerned citizens need to go to court over Obama's eligibility, even though courts ranging up to the U.S. Supreme Court have refused in dozens of cases already to hear arguments on the merits of the dispute:
- Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.: "Thank you for your recent e-mail. Senator Obama meets the constitutional requirements for presidential office. Rumors pertaining to his citizenship status have been circulating on the Internet, and this information has been debunked by Snopes.com, which investigates the truth behind Internet rumors."
- Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla.: "Presidential candidates are vetted by voters at least twice – first in the
primary elections and again in the general election. President-Elect Obama
won the Democratic Party's nomination after one of the most fiercely
contested presidential primaries in American history. And, he has now been
duly elected by the majority of voters in the United States. Throughout both
the primary and general election, concerns about Mr. Obama's birthplace were
raised. The voters have made clear their view that Mr. Obama meets the
qualifications to hold the office of president."
- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio: "President Obama has provided several news organizations with a copy of his
birth certificate, showing he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4,
1961. Hawaii became a state in 1959, and all individuals born in Hawaii
after its admission are considered natural-born United States citizens. In
addition, the Hawaii State Health Department recently issued a public
statement verifying the authenticity of President Obama's birth certificate."
- U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Fla.: "The claim that Barack Obama is not a citizen of the U.S. is false. This rumor is simply election year politics." She referred questioners to Snopes for documentation.
- Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.: "The courts have held that President Obama is a natural-born American citizen. Moreover, in December 2008, the Supreme Court declined to hear a lawsuit challenging Mr. Obama's eligibility to serve as president, concurring with three other federal courts in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Washington. The courts have confirmed the determination of state officials in Hawaii that health department records prove that Barack Obama was born a U.S. citizen in Honolulu."
- Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga.: "President Obama demonstrated his citizenship during his campaign by circulating copies of his birth certificate, which showed he was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961."
- Sen. Robert Casey, D-Pa.: "I am
confident that Mr. Obama meets all the constitutional requirements to be our 44th
president. Mr. Obama has posted a copy of his birth certificate on his campaign
website and submitted an additional copy to the independent website
FactCheck.org. The birth certificate demonstrates that he was born in Honolulu,
Hawaii in 1961, thereby making him a natural-born citizen eligible to be
- U.S. Rep. Wally Herger, R-Calif.: "As you know, some questions were raised about whether President Obama is a
natural born citizen. There was a recent lawsuit arguing that he is not
eligible for the Presidency for this reason. I understand that the Supreme
Court considered hearing this lawsuit, but it ultimately turned down the
request to have the case considered before the full court. I further
understand that the director of Hawaii's Department of Health recently
confirmed that President Obama was born in Honolulu and has personally
verified that her agency has his original birth certificate on record. As
you know, the U.S. Congress certified his election on January 8, and he was
sworn into office on January 20, 2009. While I may disagree with President Obama on a multitude of issues, he has
been elected as President of the United States through a fair process and
has shown sufficient documentation, via a state birth certificate, that has
been verified as being authentic. In short, therefore, I do not believe
sufficient evidence was brought to light to conclude that President Obama
was ineligible for the office."
- U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes, D-N.H.: "President Obama publicly posted his
birth certificate on his campaign website which confirms that he was born in
Hawaii in 1961. This birth certificate confirms that President Obama is a
natural born citizen of the United States, above the age of 35, and is
therefore qualified to be President of the United States of America. If you
would like to view President Obama's birth certificate, I encourage you to
go to the website http://fightthesmears.com/articles/5/birthcertificate."
- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, "The Constitution and federal law require that, among other things, only
native-born U.S. citizens (or those born abroad, but only to parents who
were both American citizens) may be President of the United States. In
President Obama's case, some individuals have filed lawsuits in state and
federal courts alleging that he has not proven that he is an American
citizen, but each of those lawsuits have been dismissed. This includes a
recent decision by the United States Supreme Court to not review an
"application for emergency stay" filed by a New Jersey resident claiming
that the President is not a natural born citizen because his father was born
in Kenya. Furthermore, both the Director of Hawaii's Department of Health
and the state's Registrar of Vital Statistics recently confirmed that Mr.
Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961 and, as such, meets the
constitutional citizenship requirements for the presidency. If contrary
documentation is produced and verified, this matter will necessarily be
resolved by the judicial branch of our government under the Constitution."
- Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa.: "On June 13, 2008, the Obama campaign released a copy of his birth
certificate after numerous claims were made about his eligibility to hold the office of
President. The released copy created additional questions, because it
contained a blacked out department file number and was apparently missing a seal,
and it was impossible to detect raised text, a common characteristic of
official documents. There were satisfactory answers to such questions, however: the
department file number had been blacked out to prevent hackers from breaking
into the Health Department's system, and the State places the seal on the
back of the certificate. The website Factcheck.org investigated the matter and
provided high-resolution photos taken at multiple angles that revealed the
raised text and the seal on the back of the document. … Accordingly, it
has been concluded that President Obama has met the constitutional
qualifications to be President of the United States."
- U.S. Rep Vic Snyder, D-Ark.: "According to State of Hawai'i officials, the Hawai'i State Department of Health has President-elect Obama's original birth certificate on record in accordance with that state's policies and procedures.
- Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.: "The U.S. Constitution is our nation's supreme law and cannot be circumvented for any reason. It is my understanding that state officials in Hawaii have attested to the validity of President Obama's birth certificate showing that he was born in that state, which would make him a U.S. citizen. I also have read that both of Hawaii's major newspapers ran birth announcements in August 1961 documenting President Obama's birth in Honolulu. Based on these documents, most members of Congress from both parties appear satisfied that the president is a U.S. citizen. That would preclude any effort to remove him through the impeachment process, which requires a majority in the House of Representatives and two-thirds of the Senate, on the basis of his constitutional eligibility for office."
- Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., "As a senator representing Colorado, I want to speak very clearly on this issue. President Barack Obama is a 'natural born' citizen of America, and he is eligible to be our nation's Commander in Chief. The legality of his birth certificate has been verified by numerous federal agencies, third party investigative groups, national media outlets, and primary source documentation. The United States Department of State and the Hawaii Department of Health have both verified the legality of the 'Certification of Birth' document provided by President Obama. In addition, highly regarded 'fact check' websites such as factcheck.org, snopes.com, and politifact.com support the findings of the federal agencies through their own independent investigations."
- Sen. Mark. R. Warner, D-Va., "The facts have consistently shown that President Obama was born in the United States. As a natural-born American citizen, he is fully eligible to serve as president of our country."
- Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., "Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution specifies the qualifications for this executive office. It states that no person except for a natural born American citizen is eligible to run for President of the United States. Also, the candidate must be at least thirty-five years of age and have resided in the United States for at least fourteen years. President Obama meets these constitutional requirements. If you were not already aware, on April 27, 2011 the White House released a copy of President Obama's long form birth certificate. He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961. According to the Fourteenth Amendment, all persons born in the United States are considered citizens of the United States. Under these criteria, President Obama, a 47-year old U.S. citizen, who has resided in the United States for longer than fourteen years, is eligible to be President.
- Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., "Independent and official investigations as well as legal proceedings have validated President Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as President of the United States. The Health Director and Head of Vital Statistics for the state of Hawaii (an official source) has also examined and declared the authenticity of the birth certificate and most recently President Obama released his full birth certificate. If change is to take place it's likely to come in the form of an election. This is part of the reason everyone needs to make sure we vote for the people who will represent our views correctly. This is also why we must continue to talk to our friends and relatives in other states about their own elected officials and encourage them to let their voices be heard."
Expressing doubt:
- Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., in a posting on Canada Free Press by Dean Haskins, "I believe that there should be a more formal process of review and validation as a matter of routine certification of candidates. The office of the presidency is undermined if Americans don't have confidence that the candidates for the highest office in the land are qualified for the position as required by the Constitution. … "
- Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, "Many of the issues, like the birth certificate, are within the jurisdiction of the courts, not Congress. Our power over the president is impeachment for 'high crimes and misdemeanors.' We learned from Clinton that lying, even under oath, probably doesn't rise to those standards … so I'm looking for the crime. Perhaps his violation of the war powers act? It's something my colleagues and I are considering."

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On Saturday we were invited to the Columbus Literacy Council's Alphabet Attractions gala! The event was hosted at the Jessing Center (the event space at the Josephinum) and all of the tables had a book theme. Our table was Ants at the Picnic, which I had actually never heard of before, but seems very popular since it is currently sold out on Amazon. It was a fun event with dinner and a silent auction. Literacy is so important to a community's success, the more people we can help the better the community becomes (less poverty, crime, and unemployment)! If you would like to volunteer or donate, check out Columbus Literacy's website here.
mexican stuffed shells (didn't get to them last week)
salmon burgers and asparagus
double decker chicken tacos
cheeseburgers and spinach salad
spinach artichoke mac and cheese
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On February 12th, an unusual series of trucks left CERN in the early morning, directed to the ESA ESTEC Center, located in Noordwjik, Holland. The trucks were transporting the fully integrated AMS-02 spectrometer, together with all kind of ground support equipment needed to operate the spectrometer during space qualification tests.
In the week preceeding the departure for ESTEC, the AMS-02 spectrometer has been exposed to high energy particle beams at CERN (proton, electrons, photons) to calibrate the performances of the various subdetectors and, most important, of the whole spectrometer. The superconducting magnet operated smoothly at a current of 400 Amperes. All detectors did show excellent performances.
Two kind of tests were going to be performed at ESTEC: EMC (Electro Magnetic Compatibility) tests, to ensure that the payload and the ISS are compliant from the point of view of the electromagnetic radiation radiated and received, and TVT (Thermo – Vacuum Tests), to verify the complex thermal behaviour of the spectrometer when exposed to the extreme temperatures of space. In particular, the TVT tests will provide a measurement of the thermal load on the Superconducting Magnet, a fundamentally important parameter to define the endurance of the magnet in the rather warm environment of the ISS.


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Fifty years ago, 20 major publishers (including several Catholic publishers) were producing social studies and history textbooks for American schools.
Today there are five major publishers, and none are Catholic.
No social studies/history series distinctively for Catholic schools had been published since the 1960's. This meant that teachers in Catholic schools were forced either to use out-dated materials or secular textbooks that often (and increasingly) carried anti-Catholic bias and distortions.
In addition, secular textbooks have steadily diminished in quality and quantity. Textbooks have become image-heavy, the space formerly given to text has been diminished, and the language has been "dumbed down."
At the same time, the national system of textbook review—which is dominated by a few big states such as Texas and California—has politicized textbook production. History textbooks are now written more to please committees of "professional reviewers," activist organizations and agenda-driven sectors than to convey accurate historical fact.
As a result, contemporary K-12 history and social studies textbooks have become bland. They offer little besides pictures and gimmicks to awaken interest, not to mention wonder, in students. Not surprisingly, there has been a dramatic decrease in historical literacy.
Catholic schools lacked not only Catholic tools (such as an integration of the significant contributions of Catholics throughout more than 2,000 years of history), but also the high-quality materials that have historically made Catholic education superb.
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The Sony SmartWatch 3 is sleek and snappy and has some appealing features for those on-the-go. The review committee used this watch during activities, at work, in the sun and on-the-go, here's what we found…
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Thank you for making the DW comics! It is the best fan fic there is to the series! I've read it many times and I absolutely love it!
Thank you! I really enjoy making them too, when I get the chance. Hope you've kept up with the others since "The 10 Doctors" as well.
I just read 'The Ten Doctors'-what an epic! It really is very well done, though exhausting... My only (very) minor gripe would be not enough Sarah Jane Smith. By the way, Romana and Grace would make an interesting team...
Oddly I was never really a huge fan of Sarah Jane Smith. I found her a bit grating. Odd that she turned out to be one of the all time favorite companions.
But thanks very much for reading it! It was quite exhausting to draw as well!
okay, where did you keep the DW comics?
I like the adventures of Gonk, haha.
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An Interview with John Migliore, Director and Star of The Friday Night Death Slot
by Mike Haberfelner
June 2015
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Your new movie The
Friday Night Death Slot - in a few words, what is it about?
It's about a horror host who is screening shorts, trailers, cartoons
and commercials during his late night show and a viewer with nothing
better to do than watch.
were your inspirations for cooking up The
Friday Night Death Slot?
have always loved films like The Kentucky Fried Movie and Amazon Women on
the Moon. I even like The Groove Tube! They're not exactly anthologies,
because everything comes flying at you from every possible direction,
though they are mostly comedy-based. I wanted to do the same thing with The
Friday Night Death Slot, but I really wanted it to have more of a
horror angle.
You just have to talk
about your horror host character Johnny
Ghoulash for a bit, and also his past appearances! And your
thoughts on horror hosts and their shows as such?
always loved horror hosts. They add a little fun to the movies I already
love, so how can that be a bad thing? I grew up on The Hilarious House of
Frightenstein, which was filmed in my hometown of Hamilton, Ontario.
Ghoulash started out as a character that appeared in Matt Cloude's
Midnight in the Mortuary series. He was in a segment entitled, Ghoul
Schoul. From there, he went on to his own series entitled Partially
Devoured Movies. The first six episodes are currently on Roku at
Zombee TV, but there are 10 more episodes awaiting release. Hopefully, sometime
soon. Johnny also appeared in his own feature-length film, Johnny Ghoulash
Escapes From Creightonville.
Johnny Ghoulash
can you tell us about The
Friday Night Death Slot's brand of humour?
It's a
sick, demented kind of humour in a lot of places. The kind of humour most
horror fans can get behind, I would guess! The movie also has a lot of
parody moments, so if you know the references, or the genre that is being
lampooned, it's definitely more fun. There are places where the humour is
more subtle, but more often than not it is just plain silly. In your
review, you mentioned that it would likely make a great party movie.
That's really what we were hoping to achieve.
its many vignettes, The
Friday Night Death Slot covers a very wide field when it comes to
approach to horror - so what kinds of horror are you into more than
others, and why?
I love all kinds of horror. Sometimes I go
through stages. There was a while there where I saw every zombie movie
ever made. Then, every slasher movie. Then, every exorcism movie. Right
now, I'm enjoying supernatural ghost stories. That's something I wanted to
capture in my film. All those different genres within the greater genre of
horror. Nothing quite like variety! I guess the reason for my love of all
things horror come from reading Famous Monsters of Filmland as a kid. I
always wanted to see everything they ever wrote about...
Maybe related to the last question,
which vignettes were the most fun, which were the most challenging to
shoot? And which are your favourites, actually?
I'm happy
to say we had fun shooting all of the segments. The vignettes that had
larger casts were the most fun just because so many people were involved.
The Heebie Jeebies was a blast to shoot, so were FireCRACKER and
Frank Einstein. The hardest segment to shoot was probably Spring
Cleaning. We
had to travel to Quebec for the location we wanted, and there was so much
blood to deal with on set. It was incredibly messy and I wanted to make
sure our main actress, Faith Rayah was as comfortable as possible. It's
hard to pick favourites, but lately I've enjoyed re-watching Not For The
Faint of Heart and Eat the Rich.
Do talk
about your directorial approach to your stories at hand?
directorial approach changed with each segment. Each one was so different.
If the vignette was based in a certain time period, I did my best to make
it feel like it was directed in a style appropriate for that time. There
was no dialogue in The Devil's in the Details, so I had to make sure the
story was clear without words. Severance Package was intentionally more
wordy than other segments, and that meant a different style of direction
as well. In Spring Cleaning I utilized split screen effects a lot. It was
my homage to Brian DePalma!
can you tell us about your assistant directors Kyle Hytonen [Kyle
Hytonen interview - click here] and Darren Hutchings, who each
directed an episode themselves, and what was your collaboration like?
and I worked together very closely on The Heebie Jeebies. We hashed out
the main story together and researched all the crazy 1920s catch phrases
used in the segment. Kyle wrote the script and directed it. I edited it
and did all the effects. Kyle is a great guy to work with on set. He's
easy going and makes things very comfortable with his approach. I look
forward to working with Kyle again. Hopefully soon!
Darren is a super nice
guy and very talented. His segment was called Leap Year Massacre and he
produced it entirely. I only worked as an actor on that one. In fact, it
wasn't originally created for The
Friday Night Death Slot, but I was
ecstatic to have it become part of the film.
star in quite a number of the movie's vignettes - so what can you tell us
about your characters, and your approach to them? And do you actually
write your characters with yourself in mind?
Playing so
many roles myself seemed like a good idea at the time. I figured it would
be a good way to showcase my abilities. As time went on, it proved to be
harder and harder to act and direct at the same time. I think in upcoming
projects I'll do one or the other and not both. The characters I like to
portray are usually out of their minds and a little over the top. My
approach often has to do with capturing the madness I want to portray in
the character. Sometimes it is a little more sublte, but most often it is
bordering on outrageous. When I started working on this film with Andre
Guantanamo, we weren't sure we would attract other actors to be part of
our little film. We wrote things with ourselves in mind at first, and then
expanded as more actors entered into the picture.
What can
you tell us about the rest of your cast, and why exactly these people?
cast was so great all around. Many of them were friends or people we had
worked with on other productions, so we knew we could count on them and
their abilities. Andre Guantanamo was the first person I talked to about
the movie and how I wanted to go about shooting it. He's a very talented
actor and I'm proud to have him in almost every segment! The same goes for
Deborah Jayne Reilly Smith. She has a lot of versatility which really
helps in a film like this one. I wish I had time to mention everybody.
They all did a great job.
talk about the shoot(s) as such for a bit, and the on-set atmosphere?
film was shot over a year and a half, quite often in between other
projects. Thankfully, that worked with the type of format we had chosen
for the movie. Every set up was a little different. Sometimes we were on
location, other times in front of the green screen. The atmosphere was
positive. At least, I hope so, because I really believe that it is the
director that sets the atmosphere! That was another great thing about
working with Kyle and Darren. They have a very pleasant and positive
manner that really rubs off on the rest of the cast and crew.
you can tell us about critical and audience reception of your movie yet?
really at this time. We're a few weeks away from our premiere at this
point. We've applied to a number of festivals and hope to get the chance
to bring our film to a larger audience soon.
future projects you'd like to share?
My next film is
entitled Space Monsters Must Die. I'm just entering into the
pre-production stage. It will have a bunch of monsters and their alien
masters trying to take over the world. It will definitely be heavily
influenced by my love of Japanese monster films! I'll also be portraying
Major Foht in Brett Kelly's Skipper Smith and the Very Important Thing.
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There's an old Greek story about the creation of humankind which sidesteps most of that. It goes something like this.
Young Kore (Persephone's childhood name) was wandering by a river one day. As she forded her way across it, she was pleased by the clayey texture between her toes. She stopped on the opposite bank and scooped up some of that lovely mud.
She modeled it into a familiar bifurcated form, but it wouldn't keep its shape. She worked some humus into the clay, to give it more body, and that helped. Bits of humus showed here and there, and the slightly fluffy look of it inspired her to give the dolly a nice topping of shreddy mould for hair.
Her father strolled up and asked what she was up to. She showed him her handiwork, as charmingly pleased with herself as only a kid can be.
Zeus admired it and said it was very nice, and what was she going to do with it?
She said she wasn't sure. "But would you make it come alive, Papa? Please-please-pleeeeease?"
Zeus looked down at her wide, bright eyes and rosy cheeks, her face alight, and fidgeting in a pleased sort of way. Only one thing to do.
He turned on his endless vision and looked up to see who was near the Olympian Fire. One of his nephews was standing there, staring at it. Zeus turned on his bullhorn voice and bellowed up to Olympos, "Hey, Prometheus! Oy, Prometheus, I need you!"
Prometheus looked away from the Fire and said, "What's up, Big Guy?"
Zeus hated it when people called him Big Guy (it lacked class), but he swallowed his irritation. "Toss me down some of that Fire, smartass, okay?"
Prometheus grinned good-naturedly, scooped up a handful of the divine flame, and lobbed it in an underhand toss.
Zeus caught it in midair, massaged it into shape, then carefully pressed it against the clay creature in his daughter's hands. It baked the clay and filled it with life.
The little clay dolly twitched, gasped, and sat up. It rubbed its face and opened new eyes. It rubbed its head, now sporting a fluffy head of soft hair. It spoke: "Holy crap." Pause. "Well, that was weird."
Kore bounced up and down, causing the creature to splay its legs and hang on for dear life.
"I want lots of them! And I want to call them Kores, like me! Look how cute they are," she declared ungrammatically, staring at the singular creature.
"They should be called Zeus-lets, kiddo. You're hardly old enough to be naming dollies, let alone species! I gave it life and I'm the grownup. I'll decide what happens to it. Understand?"
Gaia, who had had quite enough of her rotten grandson lately, made her presence known with a rumble. "Do you ever tire of being the biggest brat in the room, Zeus? I gave my flesh for the creature, so it should be named after me! Lots of little Gaia-citas running around. Should brighten things up considerably around here."
Zeus found himself in a serious disagreement, where he had expected a minor battle of wills with a child.
It didn't help that Prometheus and the rest of the Olympians had turned to watch, and were encouraging all sides indiscriminately: "Go, you kid!" "Give it to the Big Guy!" "Hey, Grandma rocks, she should have it!" Zeus personally saw Apollo, alone, change his vote three times. And he wasn't the most changeable, either.
It was a floor show.
He caught Gaia's eye. "Arbitrate?"
She lifted her chin. "If you can find an impartial arbiter."
Zeus looked around and saw nearly every face animated with opinions. Even Hades had something to say. Naturally, he was rooting for the kid, just to spite Zeus.
Nearly every face. One face alone was still, and it was still behind bars. Zeus's father, and former opponent, was just quietly watching.
He turned to Gaia. "How about Kronus?" (That's the original name of Saturn, to you Latinites.)
Gaia was surprised. Also mighty pleased -- she considered all her sons mentally weak, but Kronus was the best of the bunch and had taken her side when no one else would. If he was acceptable to his arch-enemy Zeus, he was certainly acceptable to her. "Kronus it is," she said, and everyone turned with her to look at him.
Kronus's eyes lifted. The ages of imprisonment had left his eyes deep and dark with shadows. It took some time for him to bring himself fully into the light again. His brother Iapetus gave him a surreptitious hand.
As he stepped into the center of the watching gods and took up the mantle of judgement, bright white light filled the space they were in. It chased away every shadow, prying into every nook. Nothing remained hidden.
He cleared his throat softly. "I can't pretend I didn't see and hear every bit of that. I'm a little surprised you asked me, so before I go further, I need one word from each if you."
He paused and made sure he had their attention. Even the restless child was riveted by the lines and hollows on his great face, the aeons of thought marking his brow. "Swear before all Olympos that you'll be bound by my decision. All of you. Because greater good or greater ill may come of this than any of you can now see."
Surprised, but trusting him, Gaia nodded. "Of course."
Enthralled, Kore whispered, "Yes."
Boxed in and suddenly wishing he'd named anyone else, even Hades, Zeus grumbled, "Oh, Hell." Beat. "All right."
Kronus nodded, and shifted position. "Then this is how I rule.
"Zeus, you did a thorough job of giving this creature life, and therefore gave it a future and everything that goes with it: thoughts, wishes, actions, an ability to affect the world. That is a heavy burden to lay on something that didn't ask for it. It will need a strong ally, a knowing guide, a wise governor. You will be all that and more, because, having given this thing life, you should help to make that life worth having."
Zeus blinked and stepped back, as if punched in the gut. Not what he'd been thinking at all.
Kronus turned to Kore, who blanched and tried to shrink. He smiled at her as gently as he was able. "Kore, you made something beautiful, and it was intelligently and cleverly made. Well done."
She tried to smile. She was certainly proud at his praise, but overwhelmed. Never had she been in the center of so much light; it hurt and frightened her, but she didn't want to show it.
Kronus went on, "You asked that there be lots of them, and so there shall be. You will get your wish."
Kore nodded with a big, shy motion of her head.
Kronus added, "You made it out of clay and in your hands it was lifeless. Do you remember?"
Kore nodded again.
Kronus said, "Then, in the fulness of time, you will be responsible for them in that state again. When they live out their spans and return to being lifeless, they will return to your hands."
Kore's eyes widened. So did Hades', because a new shadow -- distinctly like the shades of his realm -- descended on Kore's form and began to soften the light that nearly blinded her. Her mother Demeter, riveted by the shadow, was so tense you could string her in a bow, but there was nothing she could do.
Kronus turned last to Gaia. "You gave your flesh to make this flesh, so its flesh is your responsibility. Provide this species with food aplenty, and ensure its fertility so that it will perpetuate itself time out of mind."
Gaia, hiding her relief, nodded. She didn't know what she had been expecting, but hadn't expected to get off so lightly for stooping to Zeus's level in the first place.
Then Kronus stopped briefly and gave her a Look, and she felt she had just been privately chewed out for that very thing. She dropped her gaze and gave a little nod, accepting the silent rebuke.
Kronus looked upwards and scratched his chin. It made a scrunchy sound, since he hadn't shaved. "As for what to call it," he mused aloud, "I see no point in choosing one of your names over the others. It's now a shared task and no one of you should have more credit -- or more responsibility -- than you already do."
He looked at the little thing, sitting peacefully cross-legged and wondering what all the fuss was about.
Its mud was now good flesh, and the crisp, short fibers of humus peeking through were transformed into crisp, short hair. It saw Kronus peering at it, with his huge wise face alight with interest. It smiled brightly up at him and gave a big enthusiastic wave with both arms, exposing more crisp patches underneath.
Kronus smiled as inspiration dawned. He remarked, "It does look like it was made with humus. We'll call it homo."
And so it was.
The much shorter translation from Pseudo-Hyginus's "220 Fables" is here:


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Returns / notices: notices and returns: introduction
For APs ending after 31 March 2010, a company served with a notice to deliver must deliver a company tax return through the Corporation Tax Online Service with appropriate attachments. The company must also pay any CT or CT-related liability electronically for any accounting period.
The only exceptions to submitting returns electronically for accounting periods ending after 31 March 2010 is where HMRC has agreed that the company can be treated as exempt on religious grounds or due to insolvency.
The notice to deliver specifies a time limit for filing the return, normally 12 months after the end of an AP. Failure to comply with the time limit renders the company liable to penalties.
As part of the filing obligation the company must complete a return form CT600.
The company tax return consists of:
- the completed return form
- accounts in iXBRL (inline Extensible Business Reporting Language) format, if it is a registered company, or in iXBRL or PDF if it is an unincorporated charity, club or society, or non-resident and not a registered company (without a permanent UK establishment)
- computations clearly showing how the return figures have been derived from figures in the accounts in iXBRL format.
The whole company tax return, including the return form, the accounts and the tax computations, have to be delivered online using either HMRC's own filing software or approved third party software that produces a company tax return meeting HMRC specifications.
Non-resident companies either involved in the development of land or property within the UK or needing to declare the disposal of an interest in land or property within the UK must also file a complete tax return including those with a one day or short AP
If the company fails to provide any part of the information required and in the correct format, the return may be considered unsatisfactory and the company may not have met the filing obligation imposed on it.
However, there is validation in the Corporation Tax Online Service that enables HM Revenue & Customs to take the view that if the return includes accounts and computations in iXBRL format where required, we will accept it as a valid company tax return unless and until close scrutiny as part of a general compliance review shows that it is not. Even failure to include accounts and computations in the correct format should not be considered a sole reason to reject a submission.
Any statements and reports needed to satisfy the notice form an integral part of the return, and a self assessment cannot be made until a company has fully met its filing obligation. Failure to include items, or providing them in the wrong format is a technical issue and should be looked at as part of the risk assessment of the return; it is not something that should lead to 'rejection' as part of processing the return.
Every company tax return must contain a self assessment of the amount of tax payable for that AP.
A company may amend its return if it wants to change an item or items contained in a return previously made for an AP.
There are rules to ensure that if a company is sent a notice, it can make a return for an AP or APs even if the period specified in the notice is not an AP.
If a company that is outside the charge to CT, because, for example, it is dormant, is served with a notice, it must make a nil return to satisfy the notice.


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Caring for a Sick Child
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When it comes to kids, sometimes it seems like every season is cold season. The most aggravating part? You can't magically make them healthy and happy. However, there are some tricks of the trade to help soothe their symptoms.
Sleep on it.Sleep is essential for recovery, because it helps the body fight viruses. While your sniffly child sleeps, a cool mist humidifier or vaporizer placed in her room can moisten the air and help ease congestion and coughing.
Drink up.Fluids also are essential. When children are sick, sore throats and stuffy noses tend to make them breathe through their mouths. This can cause a dry mouth and increase the loss of body fluid. When caring for a sick child, make sure she stays hydrated with plenty of fluids, such as filtered water and fruit juices. Plus, liquids can help soothe sore throats.
Cuddle up.For many children, sickness can be pretty scary. So, the best thing you can do is get close—and stay there. For example, let your sick child lie on the couch where she can see you, instead of alone in a bedroom. And, because illness makes some kids clingy, simply letting your child rest in your arms can allow her to forget her symptoms long enough to fall asleep soundly. Try applying Vicks® VapoRub™ to your child's chest (for children older than age 2) if a cough is present. The cool menthol vapors can be very soothing. If you are looking to simply calm and soothe your child, consider Vicks® BabyRub™.
Try Puffs PlusTry to keep your child's airways as clear as possible. Try Puffs Plus® with the Scent of Vicks® non-medicated facial tissues, which are infused with soothing lotion and the comforting scent of Vicks. Most older toddlers can be taught how to blow their nose, but if your child is too young, use a nasal aspirator (a syringe that sucks the mucus from the nostrils). Clearing up the sniffles before meals and at bedtime can make eating and sleeping more comfortable.
Splish, splash—give a bath.When caring for a sick child, give her temporary relief from a fever with a lukewarm bath. Plus, baths are a great distraction from the misery of a cold or flu.
When your kids are sick, they just aren't themselves. And even though you don't always have the magical cure, sometimes the best prescription is a little TLC to help send them on the road to recovery.
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The Cardinal Mother's Day Sin
This one's easy: forgetting.
It really is the worst.
At some point, most of us have had that "oh cuss" moment where it suddenly dawns on us that we didn't make any preparations for our moms on their special day. That terrible thought has been the birth of countless grocery store bouquets and boxes of gas station chocolate, all purchased in haste on the way to mom's house for brunch.
Those of us who've walked shamefully into mom's house empty handed can testify: few things feel worse than disappointing mom, especially if she's as saintly as mine.
Unfortunately, this epidemic isn't limited to Mother's Day. As any major gift-giving event approaches, we're all iundated with advertisements advertising "last-minute" sales, gift ideas, and ways to make it look like we totally didn't forget and are actually incredibly thoughtful.
This wouldn't be such a popular marketing tactic if it didn't work like gangbusters.
And it works because people forget.
I've certainly done it. Maybe you have, too (or you know somebody who has).
Your brain is great for solving problems, but demonstrably terrible at reminding you of things you need to know, when you need to know them.
Thankfully, we're not up a creek in this regard. The fact is, we have the tools at our disposal that can help us never forget again (or, at least, very rarely—nobody's perfect, after all).
For me, that's Evernote.
It's the perfect tool to capture gift ideas while you're out and about, lying in bed, whenever they happen to pop into your mind. My workflow looks like this:
I have a notebook in Evernote called "Gift Ideas." Everybody who receives regular gifts from me has a note in this notebook (each of my kids, my mom, my girlfriend, and others). When a gift idea comes to me, I just add it to the note dedicated to the intended recipient.
Super easy.
And I can configure the note to pop up on my phone a week (or several weeks) before I need to have the gift ready, so I can set it and forget it. I'll know about it when I need to.
(there's a reason Evernote's tagline is "Remember Everything.")
But you have to know how to operate the machine.
For my money, you can't do better than Evernote for remembering just about anything, including gift ideas.
In a few days, I'm going to publish a full-blown case study where I'll show you step-by-step how I created an epic birthday celebration for my girlfriend recently. Gift ideas/research, cooking a huge meal, the whole nine. The case study will also show how I can save gift ideas to Evernote in just a few taps of the ol' iPhone.
My lady loved the party, by the way; I was bestowed the coveted title of "most awesome boyfriend."
And Evernote was my ace in the hole.
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The police investigation into abuses of parliamentary expenses has now cost the taxpayer more than £840,000.
Up to 13 officers have been working on cases since the scandal broke in May 2009, said Scotland Yard.
The figures, disclosed in response to a freedom of information request by the Press Association, suggest the final bill for bringing errant MPs and peers to justice could exceed £1million.
So far former Labour MPs David Chaytor , Eric Illsley and Jim Devine, and ex-Tory Lord Taylor of Warwick have been convicted of fiddling expenses. But the costs of bringing the prosecutions are not yet known, and police are still examining other cases.
The Yard's bill up to the middle of last month was estimated at £840,000. Some £820,000 of that was so-called 'opportunity costs', where officers could have been used on other duties.
The police costs are not the only ones for cleaning up the corrupt system that was operating at Westminster.
The Commons authorities initially spent about £150,000 fighting disclosure of expenses details, and more than £2million processing and censoring receipts after they finally admitted defeat.
MPs have repaid £1.2million since May 2009 – but that is roughly the same amount it cost to carry out the audit of their claims by Sir Thomas Legg.


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Think about interesting people or ideas here at ONW. Talk to your friends. Ask around. Come up with original ideas.
This feature will be due by the end of 3rd quarter, just before spring break.
Step #1: Watch 3 stories and fill out a "beat sheet." Download the beat sheet here.
This website has great short features and documentaries.
Step #2: Write a project proposal as a blog post. Use this template for your proposal.
Steps #1-2 are due before you leave for Winter break!


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crab colonialism
"one of the most arduous migrations on Earth"
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- Women as 'systematic' colonisers: Sarah Sharp, '"Your vocation is marriage": Systematic Colonisation, the Marriage Plot and Finding Home in Catherine Helen Spence's Clara Morison (1854)', Scottish Literary Review, 11, 1, 2019, pp. 27-45
- The treaties are numbered: Gina Starblanket, 'The Numbered Treaties and the Politics of Incoherency', Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2019
- The settler colonialism of indeterminate people: Matthew Hill, '"Half-breeds", squatters, land speculators, and settler colonialism in the Des Moines-Mississippi confluence', MA dissertation, University of Northern Iowa, 2019
- Hysteresis is the onset of settler colonialism: P. O'B. Lyver, P. Timoti, T. Davis, J. M. Tylianakis, 'Biocultural Hysteresis Inhibits Adaptation to Environmental Change', Trends in Ecology & Evolution, May 2019
- Black and Indigenous (and in a double bind): Rocío Gil Martínez de Escobar, Becoming Legible: The Racial Making of the Negro Mascogo/Black Seminole People in the Coahuila-Texas Borderland, PhD Dissertation, CUNY, 2019
- Environmental struggles are decolonial struggles: Karl Forst, 'First Nations sovereignty, Environmental Justice, and Degrowth in Northwest BC, Canada', Ecological Economics, 162, 2019, pp. 133-142
- Settler-colonial expulsions today (on the global settler-colonial present): Aram Ziai, 'The legitimation of expulsion in development discourse. A comparative analysis of World Bank projects in sub-Saharan Africa', DPS Working Paper Series, 6, 2019
- Racial exclusion in an inclusive settler society (peopling is governing): Benjamin Bryce, 'Undesirable Britons: South Asian Migration and the Making of a White Argentina', Hispanic American Historical Review, 99, 2019, 2, pp. 247-273.
- Settlers as victims (too?): Rosario Pollicino, Postcolonial Trauma in the Mediterranean: The Italian-Libyan Transnational Community, PhD dissertation, The University of Western Ontario, 2019
- Livia Wick reviewing Space and Mobility in Palestine by Julie Peteet, Anthropological Quarterly, 92, 1, 2019, pp. 283-287
- The study of settler colonialism is compatible with the study of labour! Fred Burrill, 'The Settler Order Framework: Rethinking Canadian Working-Class History', Labour / Le Travail, 83, 2019, pp. 173-197
- Is the study of settler colonialism compatible with the study of labour? David Camfield, 'Settler Colonialism and Labour Studies in Canada: A Preliminary Exploration', Labour / Le Travail, 83, 2019 pp. 147-172
- Consultation is not negotiation: Elissa Whittington, Settler-colonial politics in B.C.'s consultation and accommodation policy: a critical analysis, MA Dissertation, University of Victoria, 2019
- Ethnographic settler empires: Andre Kobayashi Deckrow, São Paulo as Migrant-Colony: Pre-World War II Japanese State-Sponsored Agricultural Migration to Brazil, PhD Dissertation, Columbia University, 2019
- Settler fantasies now: Cailín E. Murray, 'Locating the Wild Man: Rain Forest Enchantments and Settler Colonial Fantasies Amid the Ruins of the Anthropocene', Journal of Historical Sociology, 32, 2019, pp. 60–73


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Monday, July 1, 2013
Review: Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead
Liar & Spy is the long-awaited follow-up to When You Reach Me (which I loved). Set in present-day Brooklyn, it's about seventh-grader Georges (named after Georges Seurat) who has had to move from a house into an apartment after his dad lost his job. His mother is a nurse and works as much as she can.
Georges is bullied at school, not least because of his name; even though the 's' is silent he is often called gorgeous. The book opens with a science lesson and we hear about the taste-test that the class will have at some point - the teacher will give them a sample of a chemical which most people can taste but not all. There is an urban myth about those who cannot taste it - that they will find true love or die tragically - so there's a lot of anticipation.
In his new apartment block, Georges becomes friendly with a similarly aged boy called Safer and his younger sister Candy, and Safer and Georges form a Spy Club. Safer's demands on Georges become more and more morally questionable as they spy on the mysterious Mr X upstairs.
Initially, I though this was going to be a crime novel with the boys solving a mystery but it's not that at all. It's a snap-shot of Georges' life at a turning point - with his family circumstances drastically changed and the feared taste-test coming along; Georges has to make some decisions and take control of his life. He has been following his mum's philosophy of each short-lived moment being a small dot which makes up a whole - as in Seurat's paintings - but his dad reminds him that life is also what's happening now. Georges also has secrets, as does Safer and these are finally revealed leaving Liar & Spy ending on a much happier note than I'd been expecting. Can't wait to see what Rebecca Stead writes next.
Lira & Spy has been longlisted for the Guardian children's fiction prize 2013.
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She doesn't look like an alive person, rather like a doll made of yellow-grey wax. I am wondering why the webmaster accepts the work like this.
One of the worst photosets of Gracie I've ever seen. High ISO and blurred photos. Awful! Nudero, please use a flashlight!
simply fabulous ! the concept plays well none the less , also . it came together quite lovely like a five star restaurant , or whatever a really nice restaurant with great food rates as when even by and by my perception really barely matters apart from actually having been at any photo arrangements by and by and whatever .... though any hoot , whatever ... i am at peace with my person and by so mean no discord amongst any offerings in part to any artistry thereof throughout by anyone ?! .... cheers !
Always an instant hard cock for Gracie!!!
The last page of this set is the best. Gracie has come a long way. The light is a little too diffused . Would love to see her tan lines a bit more.
Checkers stole my thunder, I was going to say: #33, a woman's bottom doesn't get much better than this!
OOOF indeed. : )
And Gracie stole my heart, many, many photo shoots ago.
I hate photo series which was photoshoped or blured! I want see every mole and every wrinkle.
I amnot blind. Gracie is a beautiful model which has an amount of moles on her face.
Either is the quality of the jpegs poor. You could see this, when looking at her hair.
Poor post processing, once again a set that seems well shot, with a lovely model, ruined by heavy handed white washing, may as well be a 3-D render.
Sucky photography notwithstanding, last few sets of this model don't seem very inspired. She looks bored throughout the shoot. Still a nice model but just doesn't seem to be into it, at least on these metart shoots.
I have always had a thing for Gracie, she has a perfect body to go with that beautiful face. Every time I think about checking out a new day at MetArt I hope she along with a couple other models are the days photo shoots. I could look at her every day and still want more Gracie.
I'm gaga for Gracie!
Always " impeccable " Gracie is one a few naked models that could quietly work in fashion industry because of her natural " grace " and , above all, her perfect body. She is tall and she does have endless legs,
Gracie always looks amazing no matter who shoots her, but these last three sets with Nudero, which I assume were shot at the same time, are a cut above. Love the hairstyle, love the outfits, love the variety of wide, medium, and intimate close-up shots. Some particularly lovely rear views in this set, especially. #33 is going to haunt my daydreams today, for sure. OOOF.
I know exactly what you mean and feel with #33 and I would add #64 too as a delicious fantasy to fill my day. 8)
Clockers... I agree with you about the Nudero sets (what a name for someone shooting nudes!) with Gracie. It's just that I wish she'd quit waving that damn derriere of hers in my face. Makes me feel like a bull in a Spanish Plaza de Toros Las Ventas. Now, if she were waving it IN PERSON, I might feel different about it. 🤭
Talk about nominative determinism! We're lucky he's not named Weddingsero or Mallportraitsero. ;)
I love Gracie. A lovely girl with perfect proportions and natural talent. I love the perfect trim job and I'm glad to see this style coming back into favor with the girls. Neat and tidy and yet mature and shows her nature hair color.
#23... I dunno... makes me want to either kiss or bite my monitor's screen. 😮
Sorta wish you had a scratch-n-sniff monitor, Arkie?
Invent one! You'll get rich!
♥ ♥ ♥Thanks very much Gracielinshka for showing us Your eternal amazing beauty from head to toes!!! It is every time a pleasure to watch at Your perfection... angelic face, small perky breasts, flat stomach, dream pussy, ass to die for, perfect legs, cute feet, smooth soft skin... Everything is perfection!!! Happy new year adorable and of course, I'm waiting for a lot of new photo shootings and videos next year...♥ ♥ ♥


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Jan de Koning wrote:
> The term "evolution" does NOT evoke purposeless. I don't know were you got
> that idea from. Nothing is purposeless in this world. Everywhere and in
> every subject, God is involved. Just taking one word out of context to say
> it is involves purposeless and is therefor against God is very
> dangerous. It might mean that other words are for God? We know
> better. We know that none of our works is sinless. I find the searching
> out one word, and saying it is against God a dangerous business.
> Personally, I find it extremely dangerous when certain Christians take out
> one theory and declare it against God and His Christ, and by doing so
> estrange many students from the Christ of Scriptures. I met several of
> these when I was still teaching, who were on their way out of the church,
> and thus out of community with Christ, because somebody told them that they
> were not Christians if they "believed" in "Evolution." My answer took
> weeks of talking, but came down to: "Do you believe, that our faithful God
> is trying to fool us in nature?"
It is often said to me that people "talk past" one another on this list.
I certainly have to agree with that. I did not make up the notion that
random mutation plus natural selection was the evolutionary theory. That
was Darwin's idea, not mine. In talking about the secular world, I like
to use secular documents. They are ones that are used to teach our
children in public schools. Here is a quote from an encyclopaedia on the
" Darwin's theory of the evolution of species through natural selection
starts from the premise that an organism's traits vary in a non
deterministic? way from parent to offspring, a process
called "individuation" by Darwin. This theory does not make any
specific claims as to how this process works, although more recent
scientific discoveries in genetics explain several
mechanisms that occur in the process of reproduction: in the case of
both asexual and sexual reproduction, random mutation (including DNA
transcription errors); in the case of sexual
reproduction (which mixes the DNA of two parents into an offspring),
gene flow and genetic drift are also important mechanisms. Competition
(typically among males to impregnate
females) for mates produces sexual selection - a process which Darwin
considered secondary to ecological in most species."
Note the term "random mutation".
The fact that Christians disagree is no surprise. Of course we do.
Unfortunately, most disagree by saying that man was directly created by
God some 10,000 years ago. When I talk to anyone who disbelieves in
evolution, it is because the above definition of evolution is the one
that think is meant. Hence, they elect to believe that evolution is not
You really do miss my point, Jan. I am trying to say that if the above
theory is what is taught in schools (and it is), and then Morris and
other Christians accept that definition, the ball game is lost. The
correction has to be a scientific one, acceptable for non-Christian
schools --- not a theological one that cannot be taught in public
schools. There is adequate scientific reason to do so, but it will
happen only if we try.
This is not to discredit anything that you say, Jan. I agree completely
with you and George, that God is in control and His methods are whatever
He wishes. I wonder if He wishes that we would make an effort to correct
the current secular notion of evolution. Maybe not.
Walt Hicks <email@example.com>
In any consistent theory, there must
exist true but not provable statements.
(Godel's Theorem)
You can only find the truth with logic
If you have already found the truth
without it. (G.K. Chesterton)
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text: Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > It doesn't make sense not to care about such things as they have real > bearing on the viability of a product/project. And customer > satisfaction does mean something. I do care about such things (they > are not the ONLY things) and they are reasons *to use* Open Source and, > particularly, CentOS. I fail to see you logic, please elaborate on that. Why should I care what 5 other people are running when I get a better bang for my buck with a technology I use, costs less and provides me a means to contribute back into the community pool. > You use the VIC client, which does not require the VIC server but can > connect directly to any ESX/ESXi host. After you install ESXi you > navigate to the box with a web browser and there is a link to download > VIC directly from the host. yes, but there is technology shortcomings there, it requires me to invest in Windows as a base OS, which in turn means a lot of other legal and vendor lock in issues. Anyway, I think the point is made, Vmware is by far the most locked in product out there, offers medium to low performance compared to other similar products, however has a lower user ability threshold to get into. - KB


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