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London Olympics mascots: menacing or magic?
Sinister. Disturbing. Creepy. Frightening.
The official mascots of London's Olympic and Paralympic Games - Wenlock and Mandeville - have been called all of those things, but organizers are hoping to tack on a more positive title: merchandising magic.
The futuristic-looking pair have popped up all over London, casting their one-eyed gaze at tourists and locals alike from posters, statues and a slew of Olympic merchandise ranging from key chains to cutlery.
Bloggers and other commentators, however, have been skewering the duo for scaring children and projecting a creepy surveillance-state image of the Olympic games.
Wenlock - named after an English town in Shropshire that helped inspire the modern Olympic games - and Mandeville, whose name pays tribute to the hospital considered the birthplace of the Paralympic Games - look more like surveillance robots than humans or animals.
In place of a face, each have one large, staring eye - a camera, according to Olympic organizers, to let them ''record everything.''
They have legs, but no feet; arms bearing ''friendship bands'' in the colors of the Olympic rings, but no fingers. Both of their heads have "taxi light'' in the middle, a tribute to London's famous black cabs.
Wenlock's head is round, while Mandeville has ridges atop his noggin. They peer out of official London Olympics snow globes, adorn backpacks and towels, decorate magnets and mugs.
Olympic mascots over the years have raised the question: What were they thinking? (Turin's humanized snowball and ice cube in 2006, anyone?) But even Sydney's spiky echidna managed to look cute and cuddly, while a barrage of critics say Wenlock and Mandeville are anything but.
''It's not so friendly,'' said Jenny Zhang, looking at a Wenlock while in London from China for business. ''We don't see a smiling face, it's not a friendly eye. It's just watching you.''
Since they were selected as the official mascots back in 2009, detractors have had a field day with the pair, questioning how faceless monsters fashioned out of ''drops of steel'' - the duo's creation story - won out over 100 other designs by artists and agencies.
Their watchful eyes -described in many forums as toy versions of London's omnipresent CCTV lenses - seem to have caused the most discomfort, drawing Orwellian comparisons and references to surveillance states. Wenlock figurines in police gear have come under fire from dozens of online commenters decrying the ''fascist playthings'' and ''totalitarian toys.''
Actor Ewan McGregor tweeted his disappointment Friday after seeing plastic mascot statutes in London's Regents Park: ''With this country's artistic heritage this one eyed joke made me sad.''
Despite the vocal backlash, mascots are proving to be an important part of the London 2012 product range, according to the city's Olympic organizing committee. It said in an email that soft toys of Wenlock and Mandeville were a ''consistent best seller.''
Organizers would not provide a breakdown of sales so far, but said Wenlock and Mandeville items make up around 20 percent of the total London 2012 licensed merchandise, which is expected to generate more than 1 billion pounds ($1.6 billion) worth of sales.
Despite the ever-present mockery, visitors to the mascots' official website have created more than 105,500 personalized avatars, and mascot statues in London seem to be inspiring more curiosity than criticism.
On a recent afternoon, some tourists gawked at the life-size statues while others hung off them for photos.
Six-year-old Nimaran Sandhu's face lit up when she saw a Wenlock statue.
''It hasn't got a face and I think it's funny,'' she told a reporter, adding with a giggle that Wenlock looked ''fat.''
Alessia Goldthorpe, 5, rattled off facts about Wenlock and Mandeville to her father in the same park before declaring that she likes Wenlock.
''He's happy!'' she exclaimed.


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When you look into your jewelry box, you see:
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C. A few good pieces that are worn all the time. You do own a few "fun" earrings
When it comes to perfume, you:
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B. Have one scent for special occasions
C. Have a few favorites and enjoy them
When it comes to clothes shopping, you:
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B. Prefer comfortable clothing and aren't interested in trends
C. Combine classic pieces with a few trends; you only need a few fun pieces
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Alaska: The Final Frontier
(not counting space)
The state that makes Wyoming look like Times Square
Baja Yukon
|Motto: "JESUS CHRIST IT'S A BEAR! GET IN THE CAR!", "Right on!"
|Official language(s)
|English, American, Eskimo, Bear, Fish, SarahPalinese
|Communist Fascism
|‑ Supreme Leader
|Ayatollah Palinini
|State Flower
|Opium Poppy
|State Bird
|Mosquito, Kingfisher
|State Fish
|Kingfisher-eating salmon
|Holy shit, my toe turned black and fell off
Alaska is the United States of Canada's northernmost province. It was obtained from the Vikings in 1867 after the American government agreed to let the Vikings relocate to the comparatively tropical land of Minnesota. Alaska is named after the popular dessert, Baked Alaska. The name "Baked Alaska" is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning "puffy cake", or more literally "the object towards which the flame does not melting the ice cream".
Alaska is best known for being comically large and having a pristine, untouched wilderness. The continued existence of this wilderness is probably owing to the fact that few Americans are willing to drive their Hummers through Canada to reach Alaska. As a result, only the really awful states have a smaller population. Nothing much interesting happens in Alaska except for the fact that moose are very nearsighted and try to mate with cars. Now that's something to see!
An interesting trait that Alaska shares with Hawaii is its ability to move around geographically. Go ahead, try and find Alaska on a map of the United States. Got it? Now try again with a different map. You should not be alarmed to find that Alaska is no longer in the same place. Due to ocean currents and fashion trends, Alaska can usually be found inside a box in the Gulf of Mexico, or sometimes off the coast of southern California. The size of Alaska may fluctuate, but residents of Texas should be mollified to know that, were Alaska to be cut in half, Texas would become the third largest state.
Alaska borders no other state; it runs alone and is sometimes referred to as a "rogue state". As such, it plays by its own rules and answers to no man. Key geographical features include snow, permafrost, ice, glaciers, frozen lakes, volcanoes, and occasionally liquid water. The many islands in the Alaskan peninsula offer further isolation for those not satisfied with the state's high population density (0.0003/sq mi). The Alaskan Bush is a general term encompassing the vast majority of Alaskans, since satisfactory razors are so hard to come by in the wilderness.
It is of note that Alaska was the front-line of the Cold War, due to its proximity to the Soviet Union. Many moose gave their lives to keep out the Russian bear, and it is for this reason that politicians from the state are considered experts both in modern foreign relations and post-Cold War cultural studies (see Sarah Palin).
Land Ownership and Protected Lands
The northeast corner of Alaska is covered by the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), a nineteen million acre preserve that is the home of a single bear (unrelated to the aforementioned Russian bear). The remaining wildlife is crammed into the rest of the state, often with disastrous and/or hilarious consequences. The fauna of Alaska is further challenged because of the existence of the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska, which encompasses twenty-three million acres. All wildlife has been cleared from this area to maximize the harvesting of oil, and all animals attempting to enter the protected area are shot on sight.
Of the land area in Alaska, the State of Alaska owns 24.5%; another 10% is managed by several wealthy Eskimos. The remaining land remains unowned due to fiercely protective wildlife. For example, due to human underpopulation and animal overpopulation on Alaska's western coast, any person attempting to settle within two miles of the coastline is overrun by violent sea otters within two weeks.
The entirety of Alaska is extremely cold, pretty much all the time, for the biggest part of the month, mostly. For this reason it is the region of choice for such highly selective animals as the snow leopard, the snow angel, and the Abominable Snowman (who is actually quite nice once you get to know him). Precipitation amounts vary by region, but in most parts of Alaska a year with less than forty feet of snow is considered rare. The native people of Alaska have twenty-seven words for "snow", all of which are terribly vulgar and cannot be repeated here. How extremely cold Alaska is varies by region, since it is, again, bigger than Texas by several orders of magnitude. We're not talking about some uniform-temperature wuss state here. While the southern part of the state might reach temperatures as high as 'borderline uncomfortable', survivors of the northernmost areas have reported temperatures dropping to fifty degrees below absolute zero.However Kodiak island seems to be the warmest place since it rarely snows in the winter time , but the weather is so dismal with rain and cloud cover you are better off in the snow and fifty below.
Natural Resources
Undoubtedly, Alaska has the most untapped natural resources in all of the United States. These include oil (black gold), snow (white gold), ice (clear gold), gold (yellow gold) and Face (ugly gold). Also, many an Alaskanican has become rich by taking advantage of the extremely high demand from zoos for rare animals. Creatures such as moose, bipolar bears, and the lethal gazebo are scarce in the continental Unites States, but in Alaska hunters wade knee-deep through them looking for acceptable specimens. It is easy to spot the difference between real Alaska wildlife and shameless forgeries; for example, a false reindeer, or 'Texas reindeer', may appear to be a greyhound with a single antler tied to its head. Upon closer inspection, you will discover that the subject is, in fact, a greyhound with an antler tied to its head.
Alaska is home to virtually every animal known to man, except for dinoshark; however due to overwhelming numbers of large predators, many of these species are quickly eaten. Prominent in this eating are a large variety of bears, including black bears, brown bears, polar bears, and bipolar bears, but never any Drop Bears. Man-Bear-Pigs are running rampant in the state, Orca whales patrol the shoreline, and always-hungry wolves roam in packs through the central part of the state. In short, being a small animal in Alaska is not a pleasant experience.
Many of the species of animals found in Alaska are endangered, and thus they are protected from being hunted, tracked, stalked, sexually harassed, or looked at. Quixotically, these very same endangered animals suffer from the highest accidental death rates, including falling onto bullets, ingesting bullets, and wandering onto 'new shooting ranges'. Attacks on humans are rare, as most large predators share humans' opinion of 'people don't taste good'.
The exact population of Alaska is unknown, due mostly to the well-known laziness of those responsible for the U.S. Census. When asked why they chose to live in Alaska, over 68% of respondents answered 'at least it's better than Vermont'. The average age in Alaska is just 28. One possible explanation for this is that the extremely high latitude and correspondingly thin atmosphere allows radiation to penetrate, mutating people as they age until they become vampires, or possibly reverse vampires, who are, of course, immune to any census. Approximately 75% of the Alaska population is white. Nearly all of the remainder is Native American, except for the Filipinos and salmon that control the exotic oasis of Ketchikan. Similar to hockey games and the Republican Party, Alaska is completely devoid of black people. For every 10 people who live in Alaska, 1 of them is a Cereal Killer. The rich and lush forests are fertilized with dismembered body parts. This beautiful forest is home to many species such as Yogi Bear, Big Foot, and the common hermit.
Most Alaskans model their homes after the historic igloo, which scientists have now reinvented with full access to the internet and convenient plug-ins for cellphones and Ipods. Life in Alaska consists of shoveling snow, studying glaciers, mining ice, hiding bodies, and looking for gold. It ends with the inevitable suicide. The most popular form of transportation is the dog-sled, pictured to the right. The life expectancy of the average Alaskan male is 43. Leading causes of death include hypothermia, fishing boat accidents, alcohol poisoning, suicide, bear maulings, king crab attacks, meth cooking, dogsled collisions, and slipping on the ice.
Film Career
During the 90s a TV comedy series Northern Exposure covered the inner workings of a town named Cicely. Actually the show started as a documentary but the producers declared it was fictional to avoid complications.
Alaska is perhaps best known for its role in the movie Mystery, Alaska starring Russell Crowe as some sort of hockey player. In the film, Alaska plays the role of the place where everything happens. Unfortunately, due to contract problems, and allegations of sexual harassment filed by Sean Connery, Alaska was forced to withdraw from the movie before principal photography was completed. As a result the last few scenes of hockey games were filmed outdoors in California in August; however, most of the movie patrons seeing this film were hockey players themselves, and failed to notice the change.
Alaska returned to the silver screen in 2007, again playing the part of the setting. The film, Into the Wild, is a harrowing documentary about a young man who decides to hitchhike to the northern wilderness to see if he can survive the great outdoors. Several of Alaska's unique abilities as an actor were called into service during shooting, such as 'being cold' and 'having bears'. The movie was released in all four of Alaska's movie theaters in December 2007.
Alaska is a mooseocracy. Every year, all sixteen citizens get together and pick a moose to lead them. If the moose is unable to perform its duties, the citizens get drunk and play ping-pong. Several of the most famous moose in history were once leaders of Alaska. These include Bullwinkle J. Moose and Joe Moose (cousin of the legendary Joe Camel). Occasionally a bear may challenge for the role of Alaska leader; however, this is rare, as the elections happen in mid-winter when bears are deep in their self-induced cryogenic sleep. Periodically, rumors of a moose uprising surface, due to the high moose-human ratio. To date no such uprising has occurred, but experts speculate that it is only a matter of time before total control of Alaska is owned by moose. At that time the moose will likely attempt to secede from the Union, which will in turn lead to yet another American Civil War between humans and non-humans.
Alaska's economy revolves around the puzzling fact that for some reason people want to visit it. Often elderly and confused, these tourists wander the streets of several of the larger 'cities', ill-informedly searching for penguins. It is the unpleasant duty of all Alaskanicans to make these unwelcome assholes feel at home, so they will spend money on pointless trinkets for their loved ones, thus fueling the economy (they are also an important source of food for the bears). Canadian tourists in particular suffer from a high death rate while visiting Alaska, mostly from the lack of understanding the difference between miles per hour and kilometers per hour on the already confusing dog sled speedometer.
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- May 28, 2007 - 3:56pm749 repliesmaryeJoined:May 26, 2007Also DVDs, CDs, MP3s... Post requests and offers here. Please note that while trading, vining, etc. are welcome here, trading, vining, and other unauthorized copying and distribution of commercial releases, including those of the Grateful Dead, is not. Thank you.
- July 15, 2023 - 11:29amdacptJoined:April 9, 2012tapes if still available
I'm interested in the tapes U posted about in Feb
If still available I can be reached at email@example.com
- March 21, 2023 - 6:42pmitsinmyheadJoined:November 26, 2010Tape Collection for Trade
Live cassette collection of 600-700 pieces.
Looking to trade for CD Box Sets, almost any genre.
Most Dead stuff already gone but lots of other good stuff.
Some 60s, lots of 70s & 80s rock and folk. A nice eclectic assortment, many off-beat under-the-radar artists. Many NY radio station live folk & singer-songwriter stuff.
Send message here with your email addy - i check frequently and will reply with the details.
- February 26, 2023 - 8:12pmrockthingJoined:August 2, 2020You can probably get an…
You can probably get an estimate of shipping costs by measuring the approximate weight and size of the box they would fit into. Naturally, as you say, the destination is also a factor.
The size of the final package will determine the price scale which increases in steps by weight.
There will be a price scale for domestic shipping, and different price scales depending on overseas regional codes. The codes often seem to be determined as much by postal infrastructure as they are by proximity.
These rates should all be posted on the website of whatever delivery service you choose, be it USPS, FedEx, or whatever. These days some services have better coverage in different regions, while another is better for a different region.
For example, when I ship stuff to the US, I use a courier service, something like UPS, but when I send things to Europe, it's better to use a Post Office product.
For another example, back when I was trading blank tapes and postage for someone to dub shows for me, I put the tape in an envelope, weighed it, and bought the return postage for that envelope before including both the stamped return evenlope and the tape into second package, which, of course, also had to have postage. So, if all you're asking for is postage, that's totally reasonable. The only hold up is that no one knows how much the postage will be yet. It's hard to put your hand up and say, "Me," under those circumstances.
Another concern for international shipping is whether eyebrows will be raised at customs inspection, but there is no way to predict that. Essentially the tapes would be a gift with no commercial value.
I suppose collectors more knowledgable than myself could probably guesstimate the weight based simply on the number of tapes, but if you can somehow weigh the boxes, a ballpark figure should be just a few clicks away. Then, if someone from Kansas, or someone from Germany, or like myself, from Japan, or wherever, shows interest you can quickly refer to the chart and have an idea how much they should expect to send to you. You don't want to settle on a price, and then find out that isn't enough to cover shipping, right?
It also saves you packing everything up, taking it to the post office, and then having the buyer back out because postage was far more than expected. I reckon people would like to know what they're getting into before going forward. Personally, I imagine it's gonna be more than I can afford right now. Can't spend money I don't have, regardless of the quality of your collection. However, at this point, even if I was seriously considering your offer, imagination is the only thing I have to go on. See what I'm saying?
I completely agree with you, these vintage tapes could still provide a lot of joy to someone.
A lot of people still listen to tapes.
It would be a travesty to have them end up in the garbage.
- February 21, 2023 - 3:14pmDeadHead1974Joined:March 9, 2015tapes
It is over 300 tapes; closer to 400.
I would like a decent home for this carefully collected batch of tapes.
I don't know how much shipping would cost as it is a large collection from the late 1960's to the early 1990's. I suppose it depends on where you are located. I am in California north of San Francisco.
There are JGB tapes in the collection as well.
A lot of effort went into this and money too.
If you cannot pay the amount necessary to ship it with the Casio cases that they are in (its about 6 of them full), I don't know what to suggest.
Thank you for your interest.
- February 17, 2023 - 5:33pmrockthingJoined:August 2, 2020All's quiet on the Deadhead front
Pretty quiet around here, I see.
At the moment I'm extremely short on spare change for shipping, and raise that the question of international customs' interest in, or perhaps ignorance of such content. I do find myself salivating, but ya can't spend what ya ain't got.
Hopefully you can hang on to them until a more stable enthusiast turns up.
Roughly how many tapes are there?
What do you reckon domestic shipping will be?
Might be easier to find a taker if they know how much postage will be needed.
A lot of people probably filled up while the Internet Archive was still open trading on all formats.
I for one still have a tape deck, sadly didn't binge on the Archive when I could have, and can't afford the string of limited edition official releases that are so tantalizing.
Good luck!
- January 21, 2023 - 9:51amDeadHead1974Joined:March 9, 2015Grateful Dead /JGB tape
- January 21, 2023 - 9:49amDeadHead1974Joined:March 9, 2015Grateful Dead /JGB tape
duplicate post
- January 13, 2023 - 10:41amDeadHead1974Joined:March 9, 2015Grateful Dead tape collection
I have an extensive collection of tapes that are fairly well organized and in Casio zip cases.
I started the collection in 1985 and I still have it in its entirety today.
Some of the tapes are duplicates of the same show, both AUD's and SBD's.
Let me know if you are interested.
I believe the total number of tapes I have is well over 300 ranging from the late 1960s (including a few of the Acid Tests, Egypt and other rarities).
If you are willing to pay the cost of shipping and perhaps a few extra bucks to help with transport, lets talk.
I'd like a good new home for this pampered collection.
Please advise, thank you. :)
- January 6, 2023 - 5:14amjkirk322Joined:January 6, 2023Tapes
Hi! Any chance you still have those tapes! Huge dead head hoping for some love!
- January 6, 2023 - 5:13amjkirk322Joined:January 6, 2023Tapes
Hey brother, any chance you have anymore tapes available. Dying to listen to some!


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Whether alien persons otherwise entitled to retirement, survivors, and disability benefits under sections 202 and 223 of the Act may be paid such benefits for months in which they are outside the United States, depends upon several factors, including their citizenship status and the countries in which they reside. This ruling summarizes the provisions of section 202(t) of the Social Security Act, as amended, concerning restrictions on payment of benefits to alien beneficiaries outside the United States. It also lists the countries which have been found, as of September 30, 1976, to meet the requirements of section 202(t)(2)(A) and (B); the countries which do not meet the requirements of section 202(t)(2)(A), and the countries which meet the requirements of section 202(t)(2)(A) only.
Citizens or nationals of the United States otherwise entitled to retirement, survivors, or disability insurance benefits under sections 202 and 223 of the Social Security Act may continue to receive their benefits while outside the United States, subject generally to the same conditions as beneficiaries who are in the United States, and subject further to the provisions of sections 203(c) and (d) of the Social Security Act (concerning deductions which may be required for noncovered remunerative activity outside the United States) and to regulations of the Department of the Treasury governing the payment of U.S. checks and warrants abroad.
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Section 202(t) of the Act provides in effect that, subject to exceptions discussed below, monthly retirement, survivors, and disability insurance benefits may not be paid to an alien beneficiary for any month which occurs (1) after he has been outside the United States throughout 6 consecutive calendar months and (2) before the first calendar month throughout which he has been in the United States. For purposes of the preceding sentence, after an alien beneficiary is outside the United States for any period of 30 consecutive days, he is deemed to be "outside the United States" continuously, until he has returned to and remained in the United States for 30 consecutive days. Thus, an alien beneficiary who meets none of the exceptions must either return to the United States at least every 30 days, or for 30 consecutive days during each 6-month period, in order to continue to draw benefits.
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The Social Security Amendments of 1967 (P.L. 90-248, sec. 162(c)(3) provide (in the case of an alien residing in a restricted country) that payment of any accrued benefits which are being withheld by the Treasury Department on June 30, 1968, may not exceed an amount equivalent to the last 12 months' benefits. Such payment may be made only to the entitled individual, or if he is deceased, only to a person entitled to monthly benefits on the same earnings record as the deceased for the month in which he died. In no case can such payments be made until the payee is in an unrestricted area.
An alien beneficiary may, however, receive his benefits no matter how long he remains outside the United States, if section 202(t)(10) above is not applicable, and any one of the following exceptions is met:
The beneficiary was, or could upon filing application have become, entitled on the same earnings record to a monthly benefit for December 1956, under section 202 of the Act; or
The worker on whose earnings record the benefit is based had been in service covered by the Railroad Retirement Act which was treated as employment covered by the Social Security Act pursuant to section 5(k)(1) of the Railroad Retirement Act; or
The beneficiary is outside the United States while in the active military or naval service of the United States; or
The beneficiary is entitled as a survivor on the earnings record of a worker who either (1) died while in the military service of the United States, or (2) died as the result of a disease or injury incurred or aggravated in the military service of the United States and he was discharged or released from such service under conditions other than dishonorable; or
The withholding of benefits would be contrary to an existing treaty obligation in effect on August 1, 1956, between the United States and the country of which the beneficiary is a citizen.
The Secretary has determined that the Treaties of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation between the United States and the following eight countries constitute "treaty obligations" within the meaning of exception (E) above:
Germany, Federal Republic of (West Germany) Israel Netherlands (with respect to survivors benefits only) Greece Italy Nicaragua Ireland Japan
The effect of this determination is that alien beneficiaries who are citizens of these countries will not be denied the benefits for which they have qualified (subject to the limitations noted with respect to the Netherlands), regardless of the duration of their absence from the United States.
The beneficiary is a citizen of a country which the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare has found to have in effect a social insurance or pension system of general application which pays periodic benefits (or their actuarial equivalent) on account of old age, retirement, or death (sec. 202(t)(2)(A)) and such benefits are payable without restriction to otherwise eligible citizens of the United States while outside the country, regardless of the duration of their absence (sec. 202(t)(2)(B)); or
The worker on whose earnings record the benefit is based either resided in the United States for a period or periods of time aggregating 10 years or more or acquired at least 40 quarters of coverage under the Social Security Act before the month for which the benefit is payable.
Under section 20(t)(4) of the Act, however, exception (G) above is not available for any month after June 30, 1968, to an alien outside the United States who is a citizen of a country which (1) had in effect a social insurance or pension system of general application which pay periodic old-age, retirement, or death benefits, but does not pay such benefits to otherwise qualified U.S. citizens while outside the country; or (2) has no social insurance or pension system of general application, if at any time within 5 years prior to January 1968 (or the first month thereafter for which his benefits are subject to suspension because of absence from the United States), payments to individuals residing in that country were withheld by the Treasury Department under the Act of October 9, 1940 (31 U.S.C. 123) referred to supra.
To date, the Secretary has made the following determinations under exception (F) above, notices of which have been published in the Federal Register. As additional determinations are made, they will also be published in the Federal Register:
|Argentina (effective July 1968)
|Malta (beg. Sept. 1964)
|Austria (except from January 1958 through June 1961)
|Mexico (beg. March 1968)
|Barbados (beg. July 1968)
|Belgium (beg. July 1968)
|[*]Netherlands (beg. July 1968)
|Norway (beg. June 1968)
|Bulgaria (effective February 1971)
|Peru (beg. Feb. 1969)
|Canada (beg. Jan. 1966)
|Philippines (beg. June 1960)
|Poland (beg. March 1957)
|Colombia (beg. Jan. 1967)
|Portugal (beg. May 1968)
|Congo (Kinshasa), (beg. July 1961)
|San Marino (beg. Jan. 1965)
|Costa Rica (beg. May 1962)
|Spain (beg. May 1966)
|Cyprus (beg. Oct. 1964)
|Sweden (beg. July 1966)
|Czechoslovakia (beg. July 1968)
|Switzerland (beg. July 1968)
|Denmark (beg. April 1964)
|Trinidad and Tabago (beg. July 1975)
|Trust Territories of the Pacific (Micronesia) (beg. July 1976)
|El Salvador
|Finland (beg. May 1968)
|United Kingdom
|France (beg. June 1968)
|Upper Volta (beg. Oct. 1960)
|Gabon (beg. June 1964)
|Western Samoa (beg. Aug. 1972)
|Guyana (effective September 1969)
|Ivory Coast
|Zaire (effective July 1961) (formerly Congo Kinshasa)
|Jamaica (beg. 1968)
|Liechtenstein (effective July 1968)
The effect of inclusion under List 1 is that, beginning January 1957, unless otherwise specified, beneficiaries who are citizens of such countries may be paid regardless of the duration of their absence from the United States.
|Saudi Arabia
|Sierra Leone
|Somali Republic
|Korea (South)
|South Africa
|Republic of Sudan
|Dominican Republic
|Malagasy Republic
|"Stateless" Individuals
The effect of inclusion under List 2 is that citizens of such countries may not receive benefits while outside the United States (under the conditions set out in the third paragraph of this ruling), unless they can qualify under one of the following exceptions: (A), (B), (C), (D), or (G) above.
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
(Incl. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania)
|New Zealand
[*] Prior to this date, alien beneficiaries who were citizens of the Netherlands could, under the "treaty obligation exception" in section 202(t)(3) of the Act, receive only survivor benefits while outside the United States.


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Only a few detail images have been posted to Toyota's Facebook page, with just badges to help us guess what kind of capability they might have. But with captions like "conquer the great outdoors" and "this is gonna be an epic ride," I'm starting to get my hopes way the hell up that these things are going to be serious entrants in the sparely populated factory-ready rough n' tumble off-road genre.
Yeah, you can put together a pretty wild Ram without going further than the Mopar catalogue, Nissan's Pro4-X trucks aren't awful and of course Toyota's had TRD pickups for ages. But the Ram Runner is largely unknown, and the Japanese trucks were never meant to approach the extremeness of a real high-performance off-roader like the Raptor.
The new Toyotas have black badges, black wheels, and the Tundra's got a 5.7 V8. We'll know more when the curtain comes up on February 6. I'm going to Chicago tomorrow to camp out and try and learn everything I can about these bad boys, so stay tuned.


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. » Protesters who set up camp in the state Capitol building earlier this week finally got to meet with Gov. Rick Scott late Thursday, and they urged him to push for the repeal of Florida's "stand-your-ground" law and to take steps to combat racial profiling.
In a conference room near his office suite, Scott met for nearly an hour with seven leaders of the protest, which began Tuesday. They described their frustration about last weekend's acquittal of George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin and their own experiences of being racially profiled.
Zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in the shooting death of Travyon Martin who was unarmed. His attorneys argued that he shot Martin in self-defense, but the case sparked an outcry because Martin was black and Zimmerman identifies himself as Hispanic.
Saying the 17-year-old's death happened on Scott's watch, the protesters renewed their request that the Republican governor call state legislators into special session to repeal the law which justifies the use of deadly force when a person's life is in danger.
"There has to be a comprehensive approach to make sure every child in Florida can feel safe again," Gabriel Pendas told the governor.
Scott listened intently and took copious notes on a yellow legal pad. But at the end of the meeting he told them directly that he supported keeping the "stand-your-ground" law intact and he would not call a special session.
Scott, who said he had spoken earlier in the evening with Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, instead said he would call for a day of prayer Sunday for unity.
He also urged the protesters to talk to local legislators if they wanted to change state law and offer them examples of why they believe it may lead to more violence.
"If you believe stand-your-ground should be repealed tell them why," Scott said.
It is considered unlikely the GOP-controlled Legislature would revisit the stand-your-ground law, which had the strong backing of the National Rifle Association.
The governor also asked them to give him ideas about how to combat racial profiling.
Near the end of the meeting, Scott told them: "I appreciate you and I look forward to seeing you again."
After the meeting, protesters reiterated that Scott should show leadership and call legislators into special session. They said they would remain in the Capitol until he agreed to their demands.
"We're not here to play games," said Phillip Agnew, who is executive director of the Dream Defenders, one of the groups that organized the protest. "… We're very serious about this. And it pains our heart that we do live in a state where a child can be killed just for the way he looks."
The protesters marched on the Capitol Tuesday and began occupying Scott's office. The group has refused to leave the building and they have brought in pillows and mats to sleep in the hallway while supporters have brought them food.
Scott has been out of town for much of the week and his arrival at the Capitol on Thursday evening was his first since the protest began.
The meeting between Scott and the protesters was polite. He spent time asking the protesters whether they were in college and what part of the state they were from.
For their part, they spoke to him about the problems that confront young people in the state especially those who are black or Latino.
Melanie Andrade, who said her family came from the Cape Verde Islands to work at Disney World, told the governor how she lived in a gated community in central Florida but that she and her brother would constantly be asked for ID by police even when they were standing in their own driveway.
Andrade and other protesters said some of the problems they have witnessed could be addressed by passing a comprehensive law named after Trayvon Martin that would not just deal with self-defense laws but would address racial profiling.


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Small, tidy, and colonial in flavor, Bermuda lies 750 miles off the coast of North Carolina, but is a territory of the United Kingdom. While it "has probably reached its limit for cruise ships," "the water is clean, the beaches are well managed," and "the pastel houses are eye candy."
Here is a representative sampling of additional anonymous comments from the panelists. They are not necessarily the views of the National Geographic Society:
"Bermuda is an endless pink suburb. Pastel building with white roofs that catch rainwater. All is manicured; most open spaces are golf courses or parks. Tourism is tightly controlled, though there are perhaps too many cruise-ship visits."
"History and nature both have their place on this long-settled island."
"One of the best managed small islands. Good public transport and strong zoning keep tourism under control."
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"Has an excellent bus-and-boat public transportation system. A number of visitors use it, and the tourist board would be wise to promote this to visitors even more. Government has limited most households to one car; no rental cars are available. So traffic in and out of Hamilton isn't as bad as it could be. The downside is the high number of mopeds. While fun, they are also noisy and polluting."


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'Give me Liberty'.
British artist Dave Gibbons published his first comics in the fanzine Fantasy Advertiser in 1970. Shortly afterwards, he found employment at the Fleetway agency, through which he worked for DC Thomson and IPC Magazines. He was part of the original team of artists that worked for 2000 AD, starting in 1977. Gibbons worked on series like 'Harlem Heroes', 'Ro-Buster', 'Judge Dredd' and 'Rogue Trooper', as well as the new rendition of 'Dan Dare'. Other work by Gibbons around this time appeared in Buster, Hotspur, and Wizard. For Marvel UK, he worked on series like 'Doctor Who' (the lead story in Doctor Who Weekly/Monthly) and 'The Iron Legion' from 1979.
Although continuing to work for British publishers, Gibbons shifted focus to the US by working for DC Comics in the 1980s. He drew titles like 'The Flash', 'Green Lantern' and 'The Legion of Super-Heroes', but is best known for the limited series 'Watchmen', which he made with Alan Moore in 1986-87. This critcally acclaimed book is a milestone in the re-evaluation of comic superheroes, and was one of the major publications in the 1980s.
'Originals' (2004).
In addition, Gibbons also worked with Frank Miller on 'Give Me Liberty', the 'Martha Washington' series ('Martha Washington Goes to War' 'Martha Washington Stranded in Space', 'Martha Washington Saves the World'), and on an alternative comic version of the Bible.
'Ground Zero' (1998).
In the 1990s, Gibbons went to work on 'Rogue Trooper' again, and took on comics scriptwriting. He has done scriptwork for A1 magazine, and worked on projects like 'Batman versus Predator' with artist Andy Kubert and 'World's Finest' with Steve Rude. For Dark Horse, he scripted the miniseries '1963', illustrated by Mike Mignola. In 1997, he teamed up with Angus McKie and produced 'The Dome Ground Zero', a comic created entirely on the computer. From 1998, he cooperated with Moore again on 'The Spirit: the New Adventures' at Kitchen Sink Press. Recent projects with DC Comics include the six-issue limited series 'The Rann/Thanagar War' and 'Green Lantern Corps: Recharge'. Dave Gibbons has also done work with electronic media, designing the world and characters used in the CD-ROM game 'Beneath a Steel Sky'.
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|North Ridge, right at end
|Colonial Drive
|Topsfield Road, 5th left
|Congress Street
|Topsfield Road, 2nd right
|Cottage Street
|Washington, right after Mineral
|Country Club Circle
|Extension of Country Club Way
|Country Club Way
|Turnpike North, right before Rowley Line
|County Road
|Route 1a, from Popular to Hamilton Line
|County Street
|Extension of County Road to East Street
|Court Lane
|Country Club Way, 3rd right
|Courtland Way
|Topsfield Road to Longmeadow, 1st right
|Cove Road
|Little Neck, Bay Road, 4th left
|Crestwood Road
|Jeffrey's Neck to Ocean Drive, 2nd right
|Currier Park
|High Street, 2nd right after bridge
|Damon Avenue
|East Street to Newmarch, 4th right
|Dartmouth Road
|North Ridge to Colby, right, then left
|Depot Square
|Intersection Market and Washington
|Dix Road
|Linebrook to Edge, 1st left
|Dornell Road
|High Street to Avery, 2nd left
|Drumlin Way
|Essex Road, 1st right
|Dudley Way
|Topsfield Road, Kennedy Drive, Heard Drive, Route, at end
|Dunkirk Road
|Plover Hill to Bayview, 1st right
|Eagle Court
|ICC, C.C. Way to Hawk Hill, 1st right
|Eagle Hill Road
|Jeffreys Neck Road, 2nd left
|East Street
|High Street to Newmarch Street
|Edge Street
|Linebrook Road, 5th right
|Elm Street
|South Main Street, 1st left
|Emery Lane
|Linebrook, Pineswamp, 1st right
|Essex Road
|Route 133, from County Road to Essex Line
|Estes Street
|Saltonstall Street, 1st right
|Fairview Avenue
|Topsfield Road, 3rd right
|Fairways, The
|Country Club Way, 2nd right
|Farley Avenue
|Topsfield Road, 6th right
|Farragut Road
|Topsfield, Wayne, Lafayette, next right
|Fellows Road
|County Road, Lakeman's Lane, 1st right
|Fifth Street
|Estes to Kimball Street, 4th left
|Fille Street
|Linebrook to Belle, 1st right
|First Street
|Estes to Kimball Street, 1st left
|Fourth Street
|Estes to Kimball Street, 3rd left
|Fordham Road
|North Ridge to end, turn right, 3rd left
|Fowlers Lane
|Town Farm Road, 1st right
|Fox Creek Road
|Argilla Road, left at #208
|Fox run Road
|Linebrook Road, Pineswamp, 1st left
|Gala Way
|Little Neck-bay Road-5th left
|Gay Head Road
|Grasshopper / Shoreview - 1st right
|Goldfinch Way
|North Ridge, 2nd right
|Goodhue Street
|Off Waldingfield Road to Hamilton
|Granite Court
|Hammatt, Brown Square, 1st right
|Grants Court
|Turkey Shore to Woods Lane, Next right
|Grasshopper Lane
|Jeffreys Neck, 1st right
|Gravelly Brook Road
|Topsfield Road, Right at Topsfield Line
|Green Street
|North Main, Bear right, Crosses County Street
|Greens Point Road
|Town Farm Road, 3rd right
|Haddington Field
|1st right Off Stonebridge (at Rotary)
|Hammatt Street
|Off Central Street to Washington and Depot Square
|Harborview Road
|Jeffreys Neck, 2nd right
|Hawk Hill Lane
|#9; Country Club Way, right after Southpoint
|Haywood Street
|Topsfield Road, 2nd left
|Heard Drive
|Topsfield Road to Kennedy, turn left
|Heartbreak Road
|Essex Road, 1st left
|Heartbreak Hill
|Argilla Road, left at #66
|Heatherside Lane
|Essex Road to Lakeman's, first left
|Hemlock Drive
|County Road, next left South of Cable
|Herring Way
|North Ridge, 4th right
|Herrick Drive
|Linebrook Road to Newbury, 1st right
|Hickory Lane
|Turnpike South, 2nd right, to old right
|High Street
|From North Main and East to Rowley
|Highland Avenue
|East Street, Spring Street, 1st left
|Highwood Lane
|Country Club Way, 1st right after edge
|Hillside Road
|Top of Plover Hill to Little Neck Road
|Hilltop Road
|Little Neck, end of Bay Road, extreme left
|Hodgkins Drive
|Topsfield Road to Kennedy, turn right
|Hodges Way
|Intersection end of Island Park
|Hood Farm
|Linebrook Road to Boxford Road, 2nd right
|Hovey Street
|East Street, 3rd right
|Horse Shoe Road
|Candlewood Road / Fellows Road / Sagamore Road
|Howe Street
|Linebrook Road, right after edge
|Howard Street
|Linebrook to Randall, last left, then right
|Ipswich Causeway
|Between Island Park and Little Neck Road
|Ipswich Woods
|Topsfield Road left after Colonial
|Intervale Way
|Topsfield Road to Longmeadow, left at end
|Island Park
|Jeffreys Neck Road 3rd right, after Harborview
|Island Road
|Main Road On Plum Island
|James Road
|From Howe Street to Dix
|Jay Road
|North Ridge, 1st left
|Jeffreys Neck Road
|East Street to end, Bear left
|Jewett Hill Drive
|High Street last right at Rowley Line
|Jones Court
|ICC-C.C. Way, right after Southpoint
|Joy Lane
|Second right Off Town Farm Road
|Juniper Street
|Topsfield to Oakhurst, 1st right
|Jurdin Hill Road
|East Street to Newmarch, 5th right
|Jutland Way
|3rd left Off Little Neck Road
|Kennedy Drive
|7th right Off Topsfield Road
|Kent's Corner
|Waldingfield Road / Goodhue Street
|Kimball Avenue
|1st left Off High Street after bridge
|Kimball Street
|Estes Street to end
|Kingfisher Road
|2nd left Off North Ridge Road
|Kings Way
|Little Neck, Bay Road, 2nd left
|Kinsman Court
|Popular to Payne, 1st left
|Labor in Vain Road
|Turkey Shore Road to end, turn right
|Lanes End
|1st right Off County Road
|Lafayette Street
|Topsfield to Wayne, Bear right
|La Sallette Shrine
|Off Topsfield Road (Now Turner Hill)
|Lakeman's Lane
|5th left Off County Road
|Leblanc Drive
|Off Avery Street
|Leslie Road
|1st right On Linebrook after Route 1
|Liberty Street
|3rd left off Central Street
|Lilac Meadows
|1st right Off Mitchell Road
|Lillian Drive
|3rd right Off Linebrook after Route 1
|Lincoln Way
|2nd right Off #67 Maplecroft (Tuner Hill)
|Linden Street
|1st right Off Argilla Road
|Linebrook Road
|Central to Lord Square turn left
|Little Neck Road
|Jeffreys Neck Road to end, Bear right
|Locust Road
|1st left Off Town Farm Road
|Loneys Lane
|Manning to Warren, 1st right
|Longridge Drive
|ICC, Country Club Way, Choate Lane 2nd right
|3rd left Off North Ridge Road
|Lords Square
|End of Central Street to High Street
|Lowes Lane
|3rd left On High Street after Bridge
|Longmeadow Drive
|Topsfield Road, right after Scott Hill
|Macy Lane
|2nd left Off #57 Maplecroft Lane (Turner Hill)
|Manning Street
|Central Street right at Fire Station
|Maple Avenue
|Central to Liberty 1st right
|Maplecroft Lane
|1st left of Haddington Field (Turner Hill)
|Maria Drive
|High Street to Paradise, 1st right
|Market Street
|Central to Topsfield and Depot Square
|Market Square
|Intersection of Market Street / South Main Street
|Marshview Road
|3rd left Off Newmarch
|Mary's Way
|Off Topsfield Road (after Longmeadow)
|Masconomet Road
|Off County Road across from Cable Emergency
|Mayfair Court
|1st right Off Colonial Drive
|Area Off Kennedy Drive
|Meadowview Farm
|Off Essex Road, after Lakeman's Lane
|Meadowview Lane
|Off Drumlin Way
|Meetinghouse Green
|Off North Main
|Merganser Road
|4th left Off North Ridge
|Middle Road
|Little Neck Off Bay Road
|Mile Lane
|3rd right Off Linebrook Road
|Mill Road
|5th left off Topsfield Road
|Mineral Street
|Central Street 2nd right or left
|Mitchell Road
|3rd right after bridge on High Street
|Moray Lane
|1st right of Haddington Field (Tuner Hill)
|Mount Pleasant Avenue
|2nd left Off Washington Street
|Mulholland Drive
|Jeffreys Neck to Little Neck Road 1st left
|Nabbys Point Road
|2nd right off Newmarch Street
|Nags Head Road
|right off Main Street Rowley, just beyond line
|Newbury Road
|Linebrook Road, West, right after Pond Edge
|Newburyport Turnpike
|Route 1
|Newmarch Street
|East Street to end, bear right
|New Mill Place
|off Brownville opposite Mount pleasant
|Northgate Road
|Essex Road, 2nd left
|North Main Street
|at Market Square turn up hill
|North Ridge Road
|Jeffreys Neck Road to end, bear left
|Notre Dame Training
|First left off Jeffrey's Neck Road
|Notre Dame Novitiate
|2nd left off Jeffrey's Neck Road
|Nuthatch Road
|North Ridge, 5th left
|No Perley Avenue
|Washington Street to Broadway, 3rd right
|Oakhurst Avenue
|Topsfield Road, right after Bush Hill
|Oakwood Knoll Road
|Linebrook to, Newbury Road, 2nd right
|Ocean Drive
|Jeffreys Neck, 1st left
|Old England Road
|Popular to Woods Lane 1st right
|Old Essex Road
|Essex Road to Northgate 1st right
|Old Ipswich Way
|Off Kimball Avenue
|Old right Road
|Linebrook, 5th left, Crosses Turnpike
|Palamino Way
|County Road, Lakeman's, Fellows, 1st right
|Paradise Road
|High Street Next right after Mitchell
|Partridge Berry Place
|Linebrook to Boxford, 1st right
|Pasture Way
|Off Mulholland Drive
|Payne Street
|Argilla, 1st left, to Poplar
|Peabody Street
|Topsfield Road, 3rd left
|Peatfield Street
|Saltonstall, Estes Street 1st right and left
|Perley Avenue
|Topsfield Road, 5th right
|Periwinkle Lane
|Jeffreys Neck, Ocean Drive, 1st right
|Pillowlace Lane
|Linebrook Road, 5th right after Turnpike
|Pine Street
|Linebrook Road, 4th left
|Pineswamp Road
|Linebrook Road, 3rd left P
|Pintail Road
|North Ridge, 6th left
|Pitcairn Way
|Linebrook to Plains - 1st right
|Plains Road
|Linebrook, 1st left West of Turnpike
|Pleasant Street
|Washington, left after Broadway
|Plover Hill Road
|Little Neck Road, 2nd left
|Plum Sound Road
|Little Neck-straight at gate
|Pond Edge Lane
|Linebrook Road, 2nd left West of Route 1
|Poplar Street
|At intersection County Road and County Street
|Post Road Lane
|High Street right after Paradise
|Prescott Road
|Topsfield Road, Wayne, Lafayette, right at end
|Putnam Road
|Topsfield Road to Wayne, bear right
|Prospect Street
|High Street to Rowley, 1st left
|Quay Road
|North Ridge, 7th left
|Randall Road
|Linebrook, 2nd right West of Turnpike
|Ready Marsh Way
|Town Farm Road left Near #75
|Redwood Drive
|Topsfield Road to Cedarview, 2nd right
|Riley Avenue
|Washington, 1st left
|River Court
|Estes Street 1st left
|River Road
|Little Neck-end of Middle Road On right
|Riverbank Lane
|Labor in Vain, 1st left
|Riverside Drive
|Labor in Vain, 2nd left
|Roberts Road
|Randall Road to Charlotte, next right
|Rocky Hill Road
|Argilla, 2nd left
|Rose Court
|Linebrook, Howe, Birch-2nd right-near James
|Rosewood Drive
|Off 226 High Street Condo Development
|Ruth's Way
|Off Essex Road, Opposite Bruni's
|Ryan Avenue
|Washington to B'way, right on Bernville, last left
|Safford Street
|Topsfield Road, 4th left
|Sagamore Road
|Essex, Candlewood Road, 2nd right
|Saltmarsh Road
|Labor in Vain, 1st right
|Saltonstall Street
|Topsfield Road, 1st left, to Union
|Sand Pebble Drive
|Pineswamp, right after Fox Run
|Sawyer Street
|East Street to Wainwright right at top
|School Street
|High Street left after Kimball Avenue
|Scottins Lane
|East Street 2nd right
|Scotts Hill Road
|Topsfield Road, right after Warner
|Seaview Road
|Jeffreys Neck, Ocean Drive, 3rd right
|Second Street
|Estes to Kimball Street 2nd left
|Sixth Street
|Estes to Kimball Street 5th left
|Shagbark Wood
|Left off Arrowhead
|Shoreview Drive
|Off Grasshopper Lane
|Short Street
|Central Street to Lords Square, immediate right
|Skytop Road
|Northridge Road to Goldfinch left plus right
|Soffron Lane
|Hammatt, Brown Square 2nd right
|Southern Heights
|County Road, 2nd right
|Southern Manor
|County Road, 3rd right
|South Main Street
|Market Street to County Road
|South Village Green
|1st right off So Main Street
|South Point Lane
|Country Club Way, right after Highwood
|Spring Street
|East Street at County Street 1st left
|Spillers Lane
|East Street Newmarch, 1st right
|Stage Hill Road
|Little Neck Road, Plover Hill, 4th right
|Stonebridge Road
|Turner Hill Estates
|Stone Hill Drive
|Old right, 1st left after Turnpike
|Summer Street
|North Main, 2nd right
|Sunset Drive
|Topsfield Road, Cedarview, 1st right
|Tansey Lane
|At Turkey Shore and Labor in Vain
|Timber Hill
|End of Farley Avenue
|Town Farm Road
|High Street right before bridge
|Topsfield Road
|Market Street to end, bear left
|Turkey Hill Lane
|Off Pineswamp Road
|Turkey Shore Road
|County, Popular, 1st left
|Turner Hill
|Off Topsfield Road, Old La Sallette Shrine
|Turnpike Road
|U.s. Route 1 / Old Name Newburyport Turnpike
|Union Street
|Market Street to 1st left
|Upland Lane
|Fellows Road to 1st left at #36
|Upper River Road
|County Road, right after Essex Road
|Valley Drive
|Little Neck Road, Plover Hill, Hillside, 3rd right
|Vermette Court
|Washington, 3rd left
|Vincent Road
|Jeffreys Neck, Ocean Drive, 5th right
|Wainwright Street
|East Street 2nd left
|Waldingfield Road
|County Road, right after Lakeman's
|Ward Street
|County Road, across from South Village Green
|Warner Road
|Topsfield Road, Mill Road, 1st right
|Warren Street
|Central, Manning, 1st right
|Washington Street
|End of Hammatt turn right
|Water Street
|Green Street left before bridge
|Wayne Avenue
|Topsfield Road, 1st right
|West Street
|Turnpike South, last left
|Wildes Court
|Central, Between Market and Hammatt
|Willowdale Road
|Topsfield Road, left after #300
|Wimbledon Court
|ICC-C.C. Way-Highwood, 1st right
|Winter Street
|Topsfield, Safford, Cherry to end
|Woods Lane
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DROP AGGREGATE [ IF EXISTS ] name ( aggregate_signature ) [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]
where aggregate_signature is:
* |
[ argmode ] [ argname ] argtype [ , ... ] |
[ [ argmode ] [ argname ] argtype [ , ... ] ] ORDER BY [ argmode ] [ argname ] argtype [ , ... ]
DROP AGGREGATE removes an existing aggregate function. To execute this command the current user must be the owner of the aggregate function.
Do not throw an error if the aggregate does not exist. A notice is issued in this case.
The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an existing aggregate function.
The mode of an argument: IN or VARIADIC. If omitted, the default is IN.
The name of an argument. Note that DROP AGGREGATE does not actually pay any attention to argument names, since only the argument data types are needed to determine the aggregate function's identity.
An input data type on which the aggregate function operates. To reference a zero-argument aggregate function, write * in place of the list of argument specifications. To reference an ordered-set aggregate function, write ORDER BY between the direct and aggregated argument specifications.
Automatically drop objects that depend on the aggregate function (such as views using it), and in turn all objects that depend on those objects (see Section 5.13).
Refuse to drop the aggregate function if any objects depend on it. This is the default.
Alternative syntaxes for referencing ordered-set aggregates are described under ALTER AGGREGATE.
To remove the aggregate function myavg for type integer:
DROP AGGREGATE myavg(integer);
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American Gulag...
Coming Soon
By Alan Stang
It was Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian writer, who made the "gulag archipelago" part of our language. He won the Nobel Prize for the book of that name, lived here in exile and was mentioned in the media almost every day until he made the fateful speech at Harvard, one of many universities founded to spread word of Jesus Christ.
On June 8th, 1978, Solzhenitsyn told a Harvard audience that "convergence" of the Soviet and American systems was doomed. "Convergence" has of course been one of the main purposes of the conspiracy for world government since the beginning. While he spoke, it was well under way.
Solzhenitsyn also made these telling comments: "As humanism in its development became more and more materialistic, it made itself increasingly accessible to speculation and manipulation at first by socialism and then by communism. So that Karl Marx was able to say in 1844 that communism is naturalized humanism.," Humanism is of course the official government religion of this country. Maybe he didn't know that.
He concluded as follows: "There is a disaster, however, which has already been under way for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness. . . . To such consciousness, man is the touchstone in judging and evaluating everything on earth. Imperfect man, who is never free of pride, self-interest, envy, vanity, and dozens of other defects. We . . . have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility. We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life."
With these remarks, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was confronting and exposing the insane Communist monsters who have usurped control of this country. Before that speech, the Communist media had made him an international celebrity, perhaps because the conspiracy for world government found his revelations about the horrors of the gulag temporarily useful. After that speech, he disappeared from public consciousness like a comet. Today, few Americans can remember his name.
What did Solzhenitsyn say about the gulag? "At what exact point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away. When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses the threshold of one's home? . . . ." The same questions that are bothering you now. Solzhenitsyn bitterly laments the Russian failure to resist:
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . ."
Apparently, they had no guns. Solzhenitsyn does not mention them. But he believes that axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else they had, could have done the job. He continues:
". . . After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you,d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur"what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!"
One is reminded of "Death Wish," starring the late Charles Bronson. The architect hero was not a terrorist, i.e., he did not kill indiscriminately. He did not kill the innocent. He was mild, even harmless, until the guilty attacked. Then, he brought out the hog leg and went to work. Whenever he did so, the theater audience cheered. Acting alone, he turned New York on its ear. Other inmates, inspired, began to do the same. Criminals were indignant. Didn't these New Yorkers know that packing heat was illegal? Crime fell. Imagine the effect of an epidemic of Bronsons.
That is what Russians should have done, says Solzhenitsyn. Of course, they didn't do it. They "burned in the camps later" lamenting that fact: "If . . . if . . . We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. . . . We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."
They lost everything because they were too cowardly to act, because they didn't love freedom enough. Of course, they were Russians, not Americans. Instead of SWAT and IRS CID, they had Organs. For centuries, they had lived under tyranny, benevolent or otherwise. They were emerging from that tyranny when the Communists perpetrated their coup by seizing a few buildings in Petrograd. They didn't know what Communism was. They could not look back at what the Communists had done.
They did not have the benefit of more than two centuries of liberty. They did not have the untrammeled American spirit. They did not have thousands of retired Marine Corps snipers who still can stick it in your eye, and other thousands of retired Screaming Eagles who still can bring death from the sky. They did not have the guns. They did not have the .50 caliber rifle. They were not Americans. They had not stood with Stonewall Jackson.
What kind of resistance is Solzhenitsyn talking about? He is clearly not talking about a military unit, not even about a militia or any group at all. He is talking about what we might call leaderless, unorganized resistance, what later in the century, in Vietnam, Americans called "targets of opportunity," the people acting individually, their acts adding up to a devastating whole, a "life wish." There would have been nothing to infiltrate and no leader to kill.
By then, the Russian people had the moral right to do whatever they could get away with, like the German people under Hitler, like anyone living under a totalitarian dictatorship. The dictators had cancelled the law, which is a contractual agreement, so the people who had been defrauded no longer were required to perform. If you sign a contract to buy a house, and the owner refuses to vacate, you don't need to make payments.
Of course, nothing I have said so far has any application here. Not at all. In fact, do not"do not"do not even contemplate doing what Solzhenitsyn says he and his fellow Russians should have done. After all, have not our Communist media utterly discredited him? I recall it simply because I am a history buff and it is interesting history. This is nothing more than a book review.
Certainly, I am not suggesting anything. It would be presumptuous to tell you what to do. Your own principles and circumstances will guide you. As Frank "The Chairman" Sinatra, warbled, "I did it my way!" And to paraphrase the liberaloid mantra, "If it feels right, do it."
A word should be said about Romans 13. For many years, pulpit pansies in the pay of the powers that would like to be have preached that Romans 13 teaches unconditional obedience to government. Whatever government does, according to this teaching, we have to endure it, because God has installed government for good.
Yes, He has, but since the men who run government are men, the chance is great that they will go bad. That is why God did the job Himself, through His judges, until His children demanded a king. Through Samuel, He warned them what a king would do. He would eat out their substance, etc. When stiff-necked Israelites would not yield, He gave them Saul. Guess what? God was"is"right. Scripture is full of cases of government run amok. When that happens, God sends someone to overthrow it.
King Jabin, the government, was oppressing the people. Jael lulled Sisera, his commanding general, to sleep and then nailed that old boy to the ground with a spike through his temples. Scripture says Jael is "blessed above women." The children of Israel sang about her in celebration of her exploit.
Eglon, king of Moab, oppressed the people. Ehud parked a knife in his belly. His majesty was so fat his belly closed around the knife, so that for a while the coroner couldn't find the cause of death until crime scene investigators showed him the weapon. Scripture says Ehud was a deliverer whom the Lord had raised up.
Wasn't Paul a notorious jailbird? Wasn't Peter? Wasn't Jesus a criminal? He must have been, according to today's pansy preachers, because the government"the Sanhedrin and the Romans"said He was. Didn't He destroy property and use violence when He kicked the moneychangers out? Didn't He break the law Himself?
If you preach that the government can do no wrong and must be obeyed blindly whatever it does, that is where you must wind up. Romans 13 means that you must obey and defer to government as long as it does what God installed it to do. When government stops doing what God installed it to do"stops clearly and incontrovertibly"your obedience is no longer required. Weren't our Founding Fathers criminals?
Is God a Nazi? That is the question. If you subscribe to the preaching of today's pansy preachers, you believe He is. You believe you must obey Hitler because he is the government. You believe you must defer to whatever crimes the government commits because of what some pansy preacher says about Romans 13.
So you see, pal, the fact that you may put your collar on backward or have three first names, etc., cuts you no slack here. And by the way, those pansy preachers revere Martin Luther King, Jr. Wasn't King in the Birmingham jail when he wrote his famous letter from Birmingham jail (if he wrote it)?
Wasn't he there because he defied the government? Which governments does Romans 13 say we must obey? Regular readers will also remember that today's Christianity has been infiltrated from top to bottom by Communists, starting even before World War II. Could that be the reason today's pansy preachers pervert Romans 13? Are they deliberately trying to neutralize the faithful?
The gulag is coming, tovarish. What will you do?
"Published originally at EtherZone.com : republication allowed with this notice and hyperlink intact."
Alan Stang has been a network radio talk show host and was one of Mike Wallace's first writers. He was a senior writer for American Opinion magazine and has lectured around the world for more than 30 years. He is also the author of ten books. Go to www.stangbooks.com to read about Alan Stang's blockbuster new novel, He, about the greatest hero of all time, Jesus Christ.
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[This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.]
Last week, OSVDB enhanced the search results capability by adding a considerable amount of filter capability, a simple "results by year" graph and export capability. Rather than draft a huge walkthrough, open a search in a new tab and title search for "microsoft windows".
As always, the results will display showing the OSVDB ID, disclosure date and OSVDB title. On the left however, are several new options. First, a summary graph will be displayed showing the number of vulnerabilities by year, based on your search results. Next, you can toggle the displayed fields to add CVE, CVSSv2 score and/or the percent complete. The percent complete refers to the status of the OSVDB entry, and how many fields have been completed. Below that are one click filters that let you further refine your search results by the following criteria:
- Reference Type – only show results that contain a given type of reference
- Category – show results based on the vulnerability category
- Disclosure Year – refine results by limiting to a specific year
- CVSS Score – only show entries that are scored in a given range
- Percent Complete – filter results based on how complete the OSVDB entry is
Once you have your ideal search results, you can then export them to XML, custom RSS feed or CSV. The export will only work for the first 100 results. If you need a bigger data set to work with,
we encourage you to download the database instead.
With the new search capability, you should be able to perform very detailed searches, easily manipulate the results and even import them into another application or presentation. If you have other ideas of how a VDB search can be refined to provide more flexibility and power, contact us!


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Oxatrex, Concentrex 100 Tabs [10mg/1tab]
|Buy Oral Steroids
|Active Substance
|Anavar [Oxandrolone]
|Active Life
|8-12 hours
|Average Dose
|15-60 mg/daily
- Ex Tax: $119.00
- Brand: CONCENTREX
- Product Code: Oxatrex, Concentrex
- Availability: In Stock
Oxatrex (Anavar Tablets) 100 tabs
Anavar has so powerful fat loss properties, that sometimes bodybuilders are calling "fat burning steroid". If an athlete is looking to boost his performance, Anavar will not provide lots of lean mass, instead it will help to build a solid muscle tissue. This drug as well provides a number of benefits, when it comes to muscle preservation and metabolic activity. Is not only helping to reduce body fat, but also preserves lean muscle tissue when on a diet with limited calorie intake. It could be one a perfect option for those bodybuilders who are looking to achieve a leaner, tighter body overall. Another benefit is the fact that doesn't aromatize or convert to DHT. It is considered quite safe and one of the few steroid, that can be used by women as well. Anavar as well prevents muscle wasting, making it an excellent oral cutting agent. It increases muscle hardness and maximizes lifting strength, while helping reduce excess body fat.
Benefits of Anavar Steroid:
- Users using this compound will become vascular after 5-6 days of using it
- Is well known to produce superhuman strength without all the usual gains
- Fat burning
- Liver toxic much less than other drugs
- Doesn't aromatize
- Improving bone density
|Buy Oral Steroids
|Active Substance
|Anavar [Oxandrolone]
|Active Life
|8-12 hours
|Average Dose
|15-60 mg/daily
Tags: anavar, oxandrolone, women steroid