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Some, looking at the same questions of mystery, looked at the way of things from a non-mysterious viewpoint, and they became philosophers some of them. In turn, some philosophers became scientists, relying not on revelation and authority but on observation, empiricism, informal logic, deduction, induction, evidence, testing for reproducibility and falsifiability: Reason, rationality. Religion they left behind.
And in leaving behind religion, what did this new and strange lot of thinkers leave the world's people? Not much, according to those who found themselves facing a world and life therein as a cold and empty experience of banality and cosmic worthlessness. Science did people no favours by making life materially more comfortable when with the other hand it took away the meaning of life itself.
Here are two words that mean binding: religion and fascis.
Without religion one is not bound to God. Without being bound to a group one is an individual, at best. When one is bound to neither God nor man one is an animal, perhaps. Or a scientist.
For those geniuses who reject revelation and reason there is Romance. For those who have no ties to Life and Man there is the unfettered phantasies of the mind to give meaning to existence, and the Romantic goes for it full tilt. Ecology is Romance gone crazy. Forget God, forget reason, and reify Mother Nature. Be one with the universe if you have no ties that bind. Those for whom there is no open electric paradise let them celebrate diversity and sustainability and the organic. Let them eat Romance.
Romance is a fascism for the atheist. The group is the tie, the volk, the land, the great leader who knows all, the genius who is in touch with his feelings, in harmony with the universe, our guru, the noble savage who lives in a state of nature, the Palestinians. Ecologists. Left dhimmi fascists who fight for the rights of the People and the Land. It's no mistake that Nazis are ecologists. It's mistaken ecologists who become Nazis. No hyperbole here.
Ecologists are not Nazis just because they're ecologists, and ecologists aren't bad just because they're ecologists. We have some deep concerns about the very concept of ecology, but not because we hate rabbits and chickens and like chopping down old trees for the sake of making a wasteland. Ecology makes some sense from a rational point of view. In many ways it's what we might term a good thing. But it's not the only thing, or even important over all. It's about dirt and water and air and material stuff that simply is. It's about animals and birds, none of whom are our friends, though some are pets. Ecology. It's about us.
There has to be some reasonableness in our approach to material conservation of nature and also to its aesthetic appeal. And reason means in this case attitude. We have to step back from ourselves momentarily to ask why we hold the ecological opinions we do, most being based on nothing more than attitude. Our attitude is that nature is a good thing. But what's objective about that? Nary a thing. We look at nature sentimentally, liking it from a distance so long as it doesn't mean cancer-- also a very natural thing. We sentimentalize nature because.... Who knows why? Why? Because everybody else does. Because it looks good depicted in oil paint on velvet. Who knows why? It's irrational and stupid. Loving nature is silly and reserved for pampered suburbanites in the West, and then again for fascists full-blown. Ecology is a German fascist invention, as we've shown here previously. But that doesn't mean that just because we enjoy hiking or camping in the wilderness or that we wish to preserve some old growth forests or what have you that we are Nazis. No, it doesn't mean that. But it means something to be an environmentalist, and ecologist, a nature lover. It doesn't mean necessarily what we might like to think it means. We, in our innocence, can have some very unhealthy ideas, not realizing that what we hold as attitudes are at base disturbing, violent, and hateful.
We begin this essay with a look at the man who coined the term "ecology." What we miss there is that he was an insane anti-Semite. We'll cover that later, this already being roughly eight typed pages.
Below also is the second installment of the Janet Biehl essay on ecofascism. We pay special attention to the slippery slope of irrationality and the manipulative side of ecologism to show that what we take as a pretty surface can lead to falling into a dark pit in the end.
We ended our look at ecofascism last post with Horst Mahler joining the NPD. Below we'll look closer at the party he's joined. We'll see that ecology is a fascist epistemology, though again we say that not all environmentalists are Nazis, though all Nazis are environmentalists.
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel ( February 16, 1834 — August 8, 1919), also written von Haeckel, was a German biologist and philosopher who popularized Charles Darwin's work in Germany. Haeckel was a physician, an accomplished artist and illustrator, and later a professor of comparative anatomy. He was one of the first to consider psychology as a branch of physiology. He also proposed many now ubiquitous terms including " phylum" and " ecology." His chief interests lay in evolution and life development processes in general, including development of nonrandom form, which culminated in the beautifully illustrated Kunstformen der Natur (Art forms of nature).
Haeckel advanced the "recapitulation theory" which proposed a link between ontogeny (development of form) and phylogeny (evolutionary descent), summed up in the phrase "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny". He supported the theory with embryo drawings that have been shown to be inaccurate and the theory has been largely discredited.
Haeckel was also known for his "biogenic theory", in which he suggested that the development of races paralleled the development of individuals. He advocated the idea that "primitive" races were in their infancies and needed the "supervision" and "protection" of more "mature" societies. He extrapolated a new religion or philosophy called Monism from evolutionary science. In Monism, all economics, politics, and ethics are reduced to "applied biology." His writings and lectures on Monism provided scientific (or quasi-scientific) justifications for racism, nationalism and social darwinism. It has even been argued that monism thus became the de facto religion of Nazi Germany. Some scholars disagree, arguing that Nazi ideology was not comfortable with evolutionary theory, which argues for a common descent of all human races.
Ecology is warped for mystical-nationalist ends by a whole series of neofascist groups and parties. Indeed, so multifarious are the ecofascist parties that have arisen, and so much do their memberships overlap, that they form what antifascist researcher Volkmar Wölk calls an "ecofascist network." 8 Their programmatic literature often combines ecology and nationalism in ways that are designed to appeal to people who do not consider themselves fascists, while at the same time they ideologically support neo-Nazi street-fighting skinheads who commit acts of violence against foreigners.
National Revolutionaries
The National Revolutionaries (NRs) manipulatively mix themes of left and right in their uses of nationalism and ecology, in an attempt to cross ideological lines. They draw on an old tenet of right-wing dissent in Germany -- the belief that a 'Third Way' between capitalism and socialism is necessary and that Germany is predestined to lead humankind toward it. 10 The NRs' 'Third Way' is based on nationalism, a socialism "of the specific national way" 11 -- in short, a 'national socialism.' A wing of the NRs today, called the Solidaristen, identifies itself with the Strasser brothers, two 1920s Nazi Party members who took the 'Socialism' in 'National Socialism' seriously and represented the 'left' anticapitalist wing of the Nazis. Today, the Solidaristen and other NRs regard Otto Strasser in particular as the 'Trotsky of National Socialism' because of his 1920s intraparty power struggle with Hitler; Hitler's ejection of this fascist in 1930 was, for them, a betrayal of National Socialism.
Today's leading NR ideologist, Henning Eichberg, calls for the assertion of "national identity" and a "liberation nationalism." Seeking to appeal to left and right, NR publications have supported national liberation movements from across the traditional political spectrum, including the Irish, Basques, Ukrainians, and Afghans, as well as Sandinistas. 12 They regarded divided Germany as an occupied country, "the result of the imperialist politics of the occupation forces," and they sought to "liberate" it -- including Austria. Now that Germany has been freed from this "occupation," the National Revolutionaries are free to concentrate on "reunifying" with Austria.
Eichberg regards Judeo-Christianity as the ultimate root of all present evils, since it is overly intellectual and alienates humanity both from itself and from the divine; it neglects the emotions and the body. Tied in as it is with the logic of productivism, Christianity, Eichberg writes, is the "religion of growth" that must be fought at all costs. To help cultivate 'national identity,' he proposes instead a new religion that mixes together neopagan Germanic, Celtic, and Indian religions with old völkisch-nationalistic ideas. It is to be based on "the sensuality-physicality of dance and ritual, ceremony and taboo, meditation, prayer, and ecstasy. In essence, [this religion] constitutes itself as a form of praxis" against the "religion of growth" since its "sensuous counter-experiences" can restore humanity to closer contact with nature. Sounding like many New Agers in the United States, Eichberg calls for a return to pristine nature, to the alleged primordial sources of people's lives, psyches, and authentic cultures, and for people to heal themselves within as part of healing the ecological crisis, overcoming their own alienation, and rediscovering themselves. 13
National Revolutionaries exploit ecological themes not only to construct primitivistic New Age religions but for political activity as well. During the 1970s they organized around opposition to nuclear energy at about the same time as the citizens' initiative movement did. "With their ecological and antinuclear enthusiasm," observes Walter Laqueur:their cultural anti-Americanism and their support for movements of national liberation in many parts of the world, the "national revolutionaries" tried, in fact, to outflank their left-wing contemporaries. Some regarded Sinn Fein as a model for the German national revolutionaries, others suggested "political Balkanization" in Germany and Europe as a solution to all outstanding questions. 14
Other National Revolutionaries took a different political approach: at the end of the 1970s, they joined the newly emerging Greens, where some of their number succeeded in holding office for a time. In October 1980, the Alternative List of West Berlin, for one, decided they could not work with National Revolutionaries, whom they considered even more dangerous than overt neo-Nazis because they hid their true intentions behind a veil of grassroots democratic and ecological programs. They were mostly driven out of the Greens, at least as far as observers seem aware today. 15
The Freedom German Workers Party 16
Like the National Revolutionaries, the Freedom German Workers Party (Freiheitliche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or FAP) calls for a 'national socialism,' albeit one based on "a sense of community instead of class struggle." The FAP seeks no rapprochement with leftists; it openly and militantly proclaims its support for Nazi ideas, celebrates race and nation, and is pro-Hitler rather than Strasserite. It praises German soldiers, whose "achievements" in two world wars will "still be admired in a thousand years." The FAP is largely controlled by The Movement (Die Bewegung), which seeks to reestablish the NSDAP (the Nazi Party) in the Federal Republic and unite all fascist groups under its aegis. 17
The FAP recruits from among skinheads and soccer fans, and its activities include acts of violence, arson, and racial attacks on foreigners. It advances the crudest 'Germany for Germans -- foreigners out' slogans. 18 When it engages in electoral activity, its programmatic demands have included "German jobs for German workers," "repatriation for foreigners," "no franchise for foreigners," and an end to the "crazy enthusiasm for integration." 19 Germans today must not ruin the "legacy of our fathers," the "cultural landscape"; Alsace-Lorraine, the South Tyrol, and Austria should all be returned to Germany.
FAP Nazis especially loathe "humanistically oriented cosmopolitanism." Marxism, liberalism, and Christianity "have torn humanity from its connectedness to the natural cycles of our earth." No "technical environmentalism" will succeed against the "increasingly obvious ecological catastrophe," they believe. Rather, the "disrupted relations between humanity and the rest of nature" require an "ecological revolution" and a "radical revolution in consciousness" that will "lead humanity to a reintegration with the structure of planetary life." We need a new ethics, they maintain, one in which "humanity, animals and nature are regarded as a unity. Animals are not things" but are "life-forms that feel joy and pain and need our protection." Not surprisingly, the FAP regards abortion as a "crime against the laws of a healthy nature and against God."
In a blatant self-contradiction, their concrete environmental demands are in fact friendly to capitalism: They want "continued economic growth," yet less profit-seeking. "Ecological necessities . . . must be brought into accordance with a functioning economy," they believe, while "the cyclical system of nature should . . . be incorporated into the economic realm."
The Republicans 20
The Republicans, a political party founded by former Waffen-SS member Franz Schönhuber in 1983, have made numerous disavowals of any association with the Nazis -- they present themselves as nothing more than a "community of German patriots." Yet this does not stop them from taking explicitly anti-immigrant stances, especially against Turks, or from exploiting discontents about the influx of foreigners generally, or from maintaining that Germany should be "for Germans." The presence of a "tidal wave" of asylum-seekers in the Federal Republic, they believe, causes "the importation of criminals," "social tensions," and "financial burdens."
The Republicans call for the "preservation of the existence of the German Volk, its health and its ecological living-space [Lebensraum] as a priority for domestic policy. This goal," they add, "will also foster environmental protection." Indeed, ecological dislocations are endangering Germans' "health" -- and by 'health' they mean the 'genetic health' of the German people. Such 'health' has "a higher value than short-term profits and striving for a standard of living." Protecting and maintaining a "healthy environment" not only assures the "security of the means of life of our people" but is "a patriotic duty." The Republicans are stringently antiabortion for German women, yet for the Third World, "meaningful family planning" is necessary to end the "population explosion" and its consequent threat to the environment; without it there will be "natural catastrophe and starvation."
The National Democratic Party 21
The National Democratic Party of Germany (Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands, or NPD), founded in 1964 mainly by people who had been active Nazis before 1945, rose to prominence during the 1960s. This aggressively nationalist party long called for German reunification, while its programmatic literature complains that "two wars within one generation . . . have eaten away at the substantive health of the German people." (It does not mention what those wars did to the Jews, as Ditfurth dryly notes.) The NPD laments the destruction of the environment, which "has disadvantageous effects on the Volk-health." Germans should not be exposed to "chemical dyes" and should be protected from "congenital illness," while people with AIDS should be required to "register." The "preservation" of the "German people" requires that German women prolifically give birth, and therefore the NPD is against the "devaluation and destruction of the family." Since abortion threatens "the biological existence of our people," women who have abortions should be punished. The party calls for maternal and housekeeping training for "feminine youth."
In 1973, the NPD drew up an "Ecological Manifesto" that invoked "the laws of nature" to justify a hierarchically structured, "organic" order that would govern social relationships. 22 It inveighs against "the environment polluted and poisoned by a humanity that lives increasingly isolated in a degraded mass," which "is only the most noticeable symptom of the ruined equilibrium of humanity and nature." In the years since then, the NPD's rhetoric has become increasingly New Age oriented; it now calls for "reachieving . . . an environmental consciousness, so necessary for life." Achieving this consciousness, the 1988 NPD program states, "first requires an inner revolution in human thought. It is not the unlimited accumulation of material goods or boundless consumption that gives meaning to human life and happiness, but the experience of nature, concern for cultural values, and social security in the family and Volk." Indeed, "Volk-consciousness and environmental consciousness are inseparable," since "millions of strangers" threaten "our Volk in its existence."
Fascist didn't hijack ecologism. Fascists founded it and even coined the term. Ecology has been a central concern to German fascism in particular from the beginning of what we refer to as the counter-Enlightenment reactionary times. Thanks to German anti-Semite nature-worshipping mystical loonies we have ecology. No, it doesn't mean that those who donate money to Greenpeace are crypto-fascists. Not really. It does mean, though, that those who support ecology are caught more or less naively in a fascist web. It is this:
Nature is objective or it is not. If it is, then we use the Earth for our Human purposes to the benefit of Man. We do so rationally, not destructively and wantonly. If we take the approach, a matter of uncritical attitude, that Nature is our Mother, then we are irrational, and we are Irrationalist. Take you pick.
The prudent and sensitive person will not destroy the Earth simply to make a fast buck. Neither will he likely be found dancing naked in the moonlight celebrating the summer solstice. We take the attitude that nature is a large clump of stuff swirling around in the universe, and that that clump is for our use to do with the best we can for the sake of Humans and to the least detriment of that which we have no need to meddle with. We allow for aesthetics in nature, landscape appreciation being an essential part of our Human programming, according to, if memory serves, Steven Pinker, because it makes us wish to examine our spaces with an appreciative eye, and therefore to keep our places safe from destruction and invasion. But that is as far as nature goes if one is rational. Nature is an objective Human resource. Or it isn't.
Some, if not many of us are inclined to roll our eyes when another asks: "What is the meaning of life?" We take for granted that there is no meaning, or that whatever meaning there is is what we believe and that's an end of it as far as public dialogue is concerned. But that's most of us. What about those who ask the meaning of life, find that they know, and are determined to make you live according to the discoveries they have? We in the Modern West are immune for the most part from that kind of direct mental and emotional control of our personal opinions. Muslims, of course, are not. And according to the paranoid or obnoxious, Bush and his neo-con conspirators and their Right wing religious bigot allies are determined to force us all int a 1950s parody of their view of reality whether we like it or not, simply so they can continue to dupe us into making money for their international corporations, et cetera. Most of us are able to shrug off the stupidities of our fellows. What do we do though when we share some of those stupidities and don't clearly recognise them for what they are?
When we look at the ecofascist movement as above and see how fascists have created ecology from the ground up and have hooked so many well-meaning people into what on the surface seems to be a motherhood issue of protecting the Earth from wanton destruction for the sake of unrestrained protfit for the few at the expence not only of the many but of the future of the Human race, created ecology not simply for the sake of protecting nature as an invaluable resource but as a fascist and racist violent and genocidal mystical ideology, then we find that motherhood isn't as attractive as we might have originally thought. Our pandering to the sentimental cliches of the day lead us into the pristine valley of death. We find we've been lead astray. We find ourselves tricked into wandering into the bushes with someone who means us harm. We're not getting what we bargained for. All the smiling faces and promises of fun are turning out to be a Nazi-esque house of nightmares. Those people ask what is the meaning of life, and they conclude, seriously and fatally that the meaning of life is a revival of a primitive and violent life of Nature where the strong kill the weak, where the outsider is an enemy to be killed, where death is a good thing because it fits into the meaning of life as they see it, and it is ecologically sound to practice murder and rampage against others if one can.
Ecology is not a pretty day in the park: it is a hatred of Modernity, a hatred of cities and the people who live in them, a hatred of cosmopolitian people, those not mystically joined to the soild of the volk, the people of the wrong ethnicity or race. And they take this meaning of life so seriously that they will actually commit murder to make their visions come true. For the ecologist, murder is nature and nature is murder. That they consider to be a good thing.
We'll continue with part three of this essay from Biehl in a future post. Please return, and feel free to comment on anything you feel is unfair or uninformed. Unlike Muslims, we don't kill those who disagree with us.


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Abbe May is a rock singer-songwriter from Perth, Australia. Known for her an extraordinary voice - a stirring howl borne on the melancholic balladry of a grieving heart. As confrontational as it is vulnerable, her characteristically anguished howl and moan conceals an undercurrent of hot-blooded intensity within the poetry and grunge-fuelled candour of her music and band The Rockin' Pneumonia (consisting of: Abbe May (Vocals, Guitar, Ukelele), K.T Rumble (Lead Guitar), Rodeo Stone (Bass), Pickett (Drums, Vocals)). Her debut album "Howl and Moan" was recorded over the summer of 2007 and mixed in the autumn of 2008.

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Monday, August 2, 2010
17 Steps Forward, 237 Steps Backwards (1)
In my case, I have that stupid song Hocus Pocus by Focus rumbling through my head.
Play it if you dare....BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
Anywho, I though for today, I would blow off the multiple layers of dust bunnies (mom & dad, grandma & grandpa, children, grand children, great grand children, great-great grandchildren) and drag out a topic that I haven't touched upon in quite some time (like early last year).
Over a year ago, February '09 to be exact, I gave everyone the 411 on how economically trashed my state is and how they were gonna to attempt to balance the budget on the backs of the 50,000+ state workers without making the hard choices elsewhere.
Let me tell you about the fabulous going away prizes that I and my co-workers won for the 2009/10 fiscal year.
1} Four furlough days. Yes, me and 49,000 of my closest co-workers won an all expense trip (on our dime of course) to spend quality time with our families. In exchange for contributing 4 days our pay towards the state budget, we get......a promise that no layoffs would be considered until 2012.
2} No cost of living adjustments or raises. No qualms with that, both as a taxpayer and a state worker. I actually agree with this although some weenie politicians chose not to share the pain equally, so all correctional employees got their retro raises (but they are getting theirs in the long run).
3} A retirement incentive program. Yes, if you chose to retire in June or July, you were forced...err...coerced...ummm....strongly encouraged with arm jacked up behind your back to participate in the retirement program. What was in it for you? An extra 3 years added on so as to increase your pension. What did the state get? A 3 year delay in paying out your time, which was followed by paying out your time in 1/3 increments for the next three years (2012-14)....maybe.
Up next: The plan for fiscal year 2010/11.
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Lots of shafting of state employees here in Montana as well.ReplyDelete
None of those would tend to make me feel comfortable.ReplyDelete
Hocus Pocus by Focus. Say that 10 times really fast.ReplyDelete
My neighbor works for the state government and has that furlough thing, too. She says at least she's off most Fridays.ReplyDelete
Your state sounds about as economically smart as mine. I hate it when the fat cats in state government are unaffected but the workers who make everything run smoothly keep getting spit on. Sorry, G.ReplyDelete
I'm a little worried about what that plan is going to be fore the fiscal year 2010/11. It doesn't look good. :)BeaReplyDelete
Chris: I think it's an equal opportunity shafting nationwide. The only difference is how economically F'd your state is determines how deep the shaft gets rammed.ReplyDelete
Charles: What really bothers me is that whenever there's a budget crisis, its expected that 1.4% of the population will carry the burden of solving the problem. I went through this grief back in '03 and about the only thing I can say with certainty is that I'll still be employed with the dust settles.
Bearman: I never hear this song on radio anymore. Not even the classic rock formats will play this d.j. bathroom break song.
Lynn: Ours are built into the three busy holidays of the year, July 4th, Thanksgiving and Christmas. It really bites all the way around.
R: Just wait to you see Wednesday's and Friday's post have to offer.
I think that the states that are more known for all kinds of expensive fun/aid for the masses are the ones that will take longer to dig themselves out from this. At least yours will do it with a shovel, mine will do it with just a spoon.
Bea: It does get a little worse for this upcoming FY. Just wait for Wednesday's post.
No fun being pushed around like a chess piece.ReplyDelete
That is for sure.ReplyDelete
Kind of hard to make plans for the future when someone else is making the moves and controlling the board.
Could be worse- I just found out some folks are getting $1 hour raises yearly while mine were cut to .20 cents per hour. All our time was cut last Aug '09 by 5 hours per week, adding up to thousands in paycuts while doing the same amount of work in less time- weekly hours only back to 40 finally in July '10... Was supposed to get my .20 cents in June- still waiting!ReplyDelete
Private Co.s can do whatever they want!
What, you mean you want to make a living wage instead of living at poverty level?ReplyDelete
How can you ask for such a thing?
I can sympathize. When I worked in the private sector, I busted my butt off to get my raises, and one time they sliced 5 cents off my 25 cent raise because they wanted to show that no one gets a full raise....except maybe upper management.
Go on, give me your best shot. I can take it. If I couldn't, I wouldn't have created this wonderful little blog that you decided to grace with your presence today.
About that comment moderation thingy: While yes, it does say up above I can take it, I only use it to prevent the occasional miscreant from leaving thoughtless and/or clueless comments.
So remember, all of your comments are greatly appreciated and all answers will be given that personal touch that you come to expect and enjoy.
G. B. Miller


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We've been having issues with our internet so I got a little behind on this. Again. We have had a busy busy May and June is going to be just as busy so sorry in advance if there is a delay in posts. We go Thursday for Collins 6 month appt. so I hope to have a Collins update on Thursday or Friday. Until then, enjoy some pictures of our little cutie.
May 7- Trying on her life jacket.
May 8- Afternoon play
May 9- Sitting like a big girl in the bath
May 10- Chillin at the parade
May 11- Pedi with mommy
May 12- Woah red eyes
May 13- Cutest smile followed by her new silly face she does
May 14- Night night
May 15- Stripes and polka dots. Gotta keep that bald head out of the sun.
May 16- Get pissed Collins
May 17- "Nom Nom this toy feels good on my gums"
May 18- Entertaining ourselves at Amy's graduation
May 19- FAIL! I can't believe I have 0 pics on this day. ggrrrr
May 20- I could eat this cuteness
May 21- So happy on my 6 month birthday
May 22- Watching Aiden at tball
May 23- Lounging with mommy
May 24- Swinging with my friend Braxton
May 25- Peek a boo!
May 26- "Daddy, please take this stupid thing off me!!"
May 27- I love to smile, smiling's my favorite- Elf
May 28- Pretty girl


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It has been a rough couple of days for my family. My 18 year old nephew was seriously injured Sunday night in a car accident. He was a passenger in a vehicle who's driver failed to yield while turning, the car was T-Boned in the passenger side and Anthony took the brunt of the impact. He was life-flighted to Atlanta Medical Center.a big shout out to the trauma team at the hospital..they took excellent care of him! He was critical when he arrived and is still in serious condition. He has 2 broken legs, 2 broken ankles, fractured/dislocated hip, kidney and liver lacerations. Along with numerous other small cuts and bruises.
Please keep him in you prayers along with my brother and his wife. This is their only child.


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Ozil's contract at the Emirates expires at the end of the season, meaning that he is free to negotiate a pre-contract deal with clubs outside England from January.
As a result, his future at Arsenal, who he joined in 2013 from Real Madrid, has been in doubt for some time.
However, Ozil's agent Dr Erkut Sogut has suggested that his client could yet stay in north London.
He said: "Ozil wants to play another two to three years in the English Premier League. Our contacts with Arsenal continue and are going in a positive way."


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Undergraduate study
All of our courses provide students with the opportunity to undertake a year-long period of professional development in industry. This takes place after the first two years of study and on completion students gain an additional qualification which we call the Diploma in Professional Studies (DPS).
Additionally, some placements can be relatively short and can be fitted into the Easter or Summer break, others involve working for the year between second and third year of your studies. There are also some great opportunities for placements abroad.
Examples of organisations that have successfully offered this opportunity to Arts, English and Drama students include Alexander McQueen, Airbus, Marks and Spencer's, Next, Walt Disney, ASOS, Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), UBS and Warner Bros. Watch the video below to hear students from our School who have undertaken placements talk about their experiences:
Student Benefits
- Gain a substantial period of work experience (45 weeks or more) and develop transferable skills that are sought after by Graduate Recruiters, learning on production whilst facing the real world of work.
- Gain a recognised qualification upon successful completion (Diploma of Professional Studies).
- Earn a salary whilst gaining experience.
- Networking with Employers allows Students to make useful contacts in the industry which you are interested.
- Students assume responsibility for a range of demanding and challenging experiences building on their independence.
- Improves chances of students securing a Graduate role and makes Loughborough students more employable.
- Students put theory into practice.
- Add substantial work experience to your CV.
- Increase your chances of securing a graduate position with the company you worked for on placement.
Benefits for the Employer
- Opportunity for students to make a positive contribution to the Company resulting in advantages such as saving money, improving efficiency and contributing to innovative projects.
- Raise the organisation's profile within the University and with its students.
- Enable the employer to see the student in action for a year before deciding whether or not to offer employment after graduation.
- Provide the employer with the opportunity to undertake specific project work which might not otherwise be possible.
- Help a company to build closer links with Loughborough University with a view to further collaboration.
University Expectations
- A placement that enhances a student's knowledge.
- A placement that allows personal and professional development.
- Regular communication from employers that includes feedback about the progress.
- A fair and valid recruitment and selection process.
- Appropriate planning before students arrive and support during placement.
Enterprise in Teaching
All our taught course programmes include elements of enterprise education. We base these on a tiered structure that engages all students at the first level and leads to increased involvement for those who have a particular interest or aptitude for enterprise and business. Much of our enterprise education is delivered by our own staff (and those in our collaborating university schools), by visiting fellows and practising designers, and by companies who work with us to support enterprise-led project work and student placements. Programmes include work-based learning modules taught in Part C, which aim to develop students understanding of theatre or the writing industries whilst working within a chosen professional environment or an area of the writing industries.
How can we support you?
Although it is your own responsibility to find your own placement, we offer exceptional help and support. The School of Arts, English and Drama have their very own Placements Officer, dedicated towards maximising the benefits for students by encouraging and supporting students looking to secure placements and those that are out on a placement year, including working with Employers to make available relevant placements to our students. Additionally, Students are actively supported by the University's Careers and Employability Centre and the School's placement tutors.
For further information please email Joanne Pirie-Scott.


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Dear readers,
Do I even have any readers? The Bristol Blog has readers and it's all doom and negativity! Where are you, readers? What's the Bristol Blog got that I ain't got? Come on, is it really that great?
Stay tuned and maybe I'll spill some beans about the Bristol Blog.
-- Jackie
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
What makes the Bristol Blog so darned special?
Posted by Jackie Majerus at 9:09 AM
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The Bristol Blog is so yesterday. Extra Big Scoop is so today!ReplyDelete
- Sergeant SchultzJanuary 13, 2010 at 2:04 PM
Bristol Blog is inhabited by three cranky republicans, three ex-mayors, one current mayor, three councilpersons, two ex-councilpersons, two union leaders and four city hall employees. It is stale, boring and vicious.ReplyDelete
But be careful what you wish for. Before you know it Positively Wrong, anomonoius WestConn Stoodent and Joey Garlic will be sullying the pages of your pristine and professional blog.
Leave the loonies to Steve and work to attract only bloggers with nice attitudes and IQs in the triple digit range.
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Jesus Step by Step
Hi Mom!!!
Shepherds come to the manger
Kneeling at the manger (sorta)
Better hurry back to the sheep!
I always sign my forum posts and emails, "Blessings, Sandwich" (Sandwich is my user name). I want to be aware of the blessings in my life and be looking for them all the time.


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This poster presented at the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Conference 2016 discusses the pneumonia diagnostics study. The pneumonia diagnostics project aimed to identify the most accurate and acceptable tools to support pneumonia diagnosis in Cambodia, Ethiopia, South Sudan, and Uganda. The devices tested were the MK2 ARI timer & beads, MK2 ARI timer, Rrate smart phone and respirometer feature phone applications
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The problem with atheism and agnosticism
I've been a huge fan of defining atheism as the lack of belief in deities, and in defining agnosticism (as it applies theologically) to the lack of knowledge in the existence of deities. This allows for fun venn diagrams on the kind of atheist or theist that people claim to be (agnostic atheist? gnostic theist? etc.,), and doesn't everyone love fun venn diagrams?
…but…it also causes a lot of confusion. Most people just don't use the words in that way.
On a private message board, the topic reared its ugly head again. The topic title: "People who claim to be "just agnostic": why aren't you atheists?"
(Notwithstanding what my answer would have been: i.e., "Because they may be theists!")…Eventually, there was one poster who responded thusly:
"Atheism, in general, the critique and denial of metaphysical beliefs in God or spiritual beings…. Instead of saying that an atheist is someone who believes that it is false or probably false that there is a God, a more adequate characterization of atheism consists in the more complex claim that to be an atheist is to be someone who rejects belief in God.
-Encyclopedia Brittanica
"atheism is the position that affirms the nonexistence of God. So an atheist is someone who disbelieves in God"
-Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
"It's true that I don't believe in God, but that doesn't mean I'm an atheist"
-Albert Camus
"An atheist has to know more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no God."
-Carl Sagan
How about a compromise. You guys can keep calling your selves agnostic-atheists or whatever you want, While myself and 99 percent of the people who use the term go with the definition that dictionaries, encyclopedias, philosophers and scientists use.
While I wasn't all that excited about the quote-mining (it's nearly as bad as when atheists argue, "but the second definition of an atheist in a dictionary is disbelief." And x, y, and z person also use this definition! Clearly, the dictionary [and other authorities] is not compelling and may not reflect how words are used in a daily sense), what got me was the "compromise."
Even in a semantic war, the fact is that the vast majority of the people are not going to be able to understand (and will probably not adopt) this particular system of agnosticism and atheism. At the very least, even if most atheists use this framework for defining atheism from agnosticism and theism, the problem is that most self-proclaimed agnostics and theists don't, and atheists are outnumbered. (99% to 1%? I don't know. But it's not pretty.)
So, for a person to declare himself an atheist will require constant clarification and correction — because he can be sure that the person he is talking to will interpret his words different than how he interprets them. (I've written about this elsewhere. To summarize: if you can reasonably expect someone to take your definition of a word in a different way than you intend, then are you being honest if you do not clarify your different usage of the word?)
For me, there have been several times that when I haven't clarified up front, I've been misinterpreted…and that misinterpretation has inevitably required the clarification anyway. At the end of the day, people always conclude: "…So you're really just an agnostic."
…So, I'm really just an agnostic?
In the past few weeks, I've been having some discussions with "just agnostics" that make me appreciate the distinction between them and myself. I'm not at the point of saying that the framework is broken and they are a "third" option to atheism and theism (or, that if they are a third option, the three-option model is the one that has been previously established…you know: "believe in god" for theism, "neither believe god exists nor believe god does not exists" for agnosticism, and "believe god does not exist" for atheism.)
Rather, this contingent of people seem to be that which truly sits on a fence…not in the sense of there being an actual fence to sit on, but in the sense of having six reasons for theism, half a dozen reasons for atheism. On the one hand, here are several deficiencies of theism they not. On the other hand, here are several significant horrors they find within atheism. In the balancing of the strengths and weaknesses they perceive, there is no decisive argument either way.
In this way, they are not only agnostic about whether god exists, but they are agnostic about whether they do or do not believe god exists.
I've thought this is a confused position. How can you not know whether you believe or do not believe? (If you don't know you believe, that's probably a sign you don't believe, I have said.) But these people willingly admit that they are confused, so why not take a confused position?
I don't think I'm in that boat. So, I would have to say I'm not "just agnostic."
But I also don't claim to believe god doesn't exist. I don't believe he/she/it/they do/es. I don't believe he/she/it/they do/es not. I can't even process what the term is supposed to mean in real life (which is why, unfortunately, reading testimonies, reading scriptures, and reading about miracles and the priesthood and this and that….all of these often feel like reading fantasy — sometimes it sounds really nice, but what kills the entire endeavor for me is the fact that I just can't get absorbed into it. It doesn't have any applicability for me. That universe is parallel to mine, and never intersects…)
That is what is so strange with talking to theists who have had really big spiritual experiences. I have to take for granted that they've had some kind of monumental experience, but I have absolutely no framework of reference for talking about it. (I understand other atheists, and especially other ex-Mormon atheists, differ…since they came from a position of having these spiritual experience and then over time ceasing to attribute it/them to deity.) I don't think my life is dull/drab/mundane/boring, but then again, if it were, I can't say I'd know what I was missing out on.
I think trying drugs or trying the God helmet would be interesting to see what it was all about.
So, for a person to declare himself an atheist will require constant clarification and correction — because he can be sure that the person he is talking to will interpret his words different than how he interprets them.
Oh, I don't mind having to clarify. Sometimes semantic shift needs a little push.
Explain to me again why you dislike Dawkins' framing of it as a probability scale, as in what probability you would give the phrase "God exists."
I think you said it was because it assumed that people could actually grasp the probability of such a statement, or maybe that probability wasn't a good way to define it? Is it because you don't have an answer to that particular question? I'm curious, would you say that you think that God (as defined by Mormonism, for example) probably does not exist, or do you keep yourself completely clean from forming even a vague probabilistic view of the question?
I like that framing because at least it acknowledges that there is a fuzzy line between the people that call themselves "agnostics" and the self-proclaimed atheists. It allows one to define the level of uncertainty/certainty they have about the question, even if it's just a shot in the dark. It seems to me that self-proclaimed "agnostics" are willing to give a lot more probability to the assertion.
Another semantic problem that annoys me is that it's always in terms of "God", as though everybody was clear what "God" is. It skews the questions being asked from the beginning, as though the dichotomy was between "God" or "not God". The phrase "do you believe in God?" assumes some common ground between the asker and the askee that the askee may not want to grant in the first place, like what "believe in" means and what the hell "God" is supposed to be. The more specific the definition of "God", the easier it is to dismiss it on Dawkins' probability scale.
Maybe I'm just incredibly crappy at statistics?
If so, then that makes two of us.
I think there is more to go on about whether or not a specifically defined god exists than about whether it rained on a particular day billions of years ago. The specific claims about God are what make this easier. What about Russell's teapot? Wouldn't you say with reasonable certainty that it doesn't exist, without committing yourself to the dreaded zero probability fallacy? If you say it is any object rather than specifically a teapot, then there is less to go on, and it is more probable. Now if you went the other way with the claim and specified the orbit coordinates to within a micrometer, it just makes the claim less probable. Or would you disagree? How would you describe the change in likelihood between the broad and the specific claims? Do you believe there is a change in likelihood at all?
What if I were to claim that there is a person in the Oval Office right now? Could be, right? What if I were to claim that there was a clown in the Oval Office right now balancing on a ball while juggling cats. Which claim is more likely to be true?
Mormon God, however, is completely physical. Flesh and bones, lives on or near Kolob (I forget), has a son named Jesus who did a lot of magical stuff and came back to life yadda yadda, appeared to Joseph Smith, said a lot of things to Joseph Smith (a LOT of things), helped him restore the one true church, etc.
I used to believe it, but now when I think about it it's a pretty clear no, I don't think so. It's not merely that I lack a positive belief in it, it's that I have found that what I've been taught to believe all my life had many logical inconsistencies, contradictions, and outright lies and falsehoods. As much as I wished it was true, I couldn't escape the conclusion that it was almost certainly not true.
Now if someone approached me with an extreme deist version of God, completely hands off and separate from the physical universe, I have no reason to believe or disbelieve in such a being, because by its very definition it is unknowable. The question of whether I believe that such a thing exists is meaningless because you can't even have enough information to even ask such a question.
Christ! All this probability mess.
Remember that one story? (probably not, but here it is, from an article about Stephen Hawking's latest book)
"A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls. This law was meant to protect the poor fish from a distorted nature of reality, since bent light might show them an odd portrayal of their surroundings.
Hawking and Mlodinow bring up the incident to make the point that it is impossible to know the true nature of reality. We think we have an accurate picture of what's going on, but how would we know if we were metaphorically living in a giant fishbowl of our own, since we would never be able to see outside our own point of view to compare?"
Atheist, agnostic, whatever I am; I'm at least some what of a convert to post-modernism.
Duly noted. Or, to connect with something I had said, perhaps believers also believe that the poor track record of leaders with respect to speaking for a deity has no bearing on whether that deity exists or not…even though their belief in the *particulars* of that deity is dependent on what those leaders have said about it.
If you google that quote, it should take you to the article. Hawking's been very we-don't-need-a-god lately.
Ha, that's why I was careful and said "At least some what of a" post mod. I've had somebody describe to me how it was possible that someone from the NT era come over to Mesoamerica with NT scriptures and that's why NT verses are dispersed throughout the BoM (isn't that one story about the guy who rafted over all the way from Egypt just the most vindicating thing ever?). Hope we were on the same page when I read "share something in common". I think I took it as "if it's plausible, then we might as well act like it happened or bash anyone who rules it out".
And I agree. If we all have a distorted nature of reality, we at least share it, and so it's workable for us. But even though there may be unforeseen this and that, I feel pretty comfortable in saying I know a certain religion is false. Don't know about god, but I can say for sure that a belief system isn't true (Scientology at the very least).
Ha, oh god. That type. Why haven't I come across that type yet?
Maybe I need to take a break from Mormanity (ever visit good 'ol Jeff Lindsay's blog?).
It'd be pretty refreshing to hear a Mormon say "I know, it's completely ridiculous. But what do you think about the community?"
As for Scientology, at least there's the South Park episode!


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Announcing a new project: The Department of Local Affairs
I'm just beginning my major public project for 2014, The Department of Local Affairs. I'll be making travel guides of everyday information about any given neighborhood. This project is a kind of antidote to tourism. The Department of Local Affairs … Continue reading
End of the year grant nomination.
Just a quick note to say that I was nominated for a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Individual Artist grant. My e-gallery portfolio is up here. (Much of this will look familiar to browsers of this site.)
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This hike is not for the faint of heart or the average out of shape person. You have to consider yourself at least somewhat athletic to even attempt this hike, so if you're considering it, start training now. Here's what you'll need to keep in mind: If you're planning on climbing the cables when they're up, you need to obtain a permit by entering the lottery … Continue reading Tips for Hiking Half Dome, Yosemite National Park


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Atlas General Insurance Services LLC, a national multi-line program manager, has hired Charles Lasher as SVP of commercial operations. Lasher will be responsible for development, implementation and distribution of small-to-medium sized niche managed programs for various commercial segments nationwide.
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FAIRFIELD, Conn. – The Fairfield Daily Voice accepts signed letters to the editor. Send letters to email@example.com.
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Last year, the District 9 (vote at FLHS) RTM members, all Republicans, voted in lockstep for an illegal plan that would have dissolved our local district. I asked them all to vote against the plan, which has since been ruled illegal by a Superior Court Judge. I received no answer. So, after the vote, I wrote them again to express my disappointment.
Only two of the five responded. One response was a polite recitation of party talking points. At least it was polite. Another of the reps, Ellen Jacobs sent me an email that was so partisan and so full of errors (on information she should have straight before sending out to a constituent) that I read it several times in disbelief. The other three Republican RTM representatives, once again, did not even bother to respond.
On November 5, cast your vote for Kathleen Griffin, Kathryn Gussen and Donna Karnal – three women who care about our town and will make a difference for ALL VOTERS in District 9. They are all seasoned, educated professionals who can put aside partisan differences and get the work done.
Kathleen Griffin has previously served on the RTM with distinction and deserves another opportunity to do so. Kathryn Gussen is a licensed attorney who has worked hard on the Board of Assessment Appeals. Donna Karnal is an entrepreneur with a Masters in Conflict Resolution – certainly something of value on the RTM!
Vote Griffin-Gussen-Karnal on Nov. 5. Balanced. Responsible. Leadership!
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Let Me Tell You A Story Through The Lens
I stumbled upon Elin Høyland's photography at Künstlerhaus Bethanien during a very busy opening night just about a month ago. It was the last room I went into and the only artist of the show I didn't manage to speak with. She was displaying a series of intimate photos she took of two siblings, Harald and Mathias Ramen. They worked and lived together their entire lives in their home on the Norwegian country side. She would visit them sporadically throughout many years – from 2001 onwards – until a book with the photo series was finally published in 2011.
The Art Of Storytelling With A Camera
During our long skype interview (Berlin-Oslo), she tells me about what inspired this project. Høyland was originally interested in photographing two people that had a special connection to each other, where they could not exist without the other; an exclusive one-of-a-kind bond. As an anthropologist, she mentions her interest in the concept of sameness and the love between two people.
Granted, this kind of relationship between two brothers is not exactly what comes to mind when speaking about a strong connection – our hungry hearts tend to crave for romance stories. Despite this, when stopping to consider the love between siblings, the tenderness about family company and the desire to live together long after their parent's passing does hold a certain poetic resonance, especially after looking at these photographs.
Elin tells me that the process of photographing the two brothers was long and enriching; she had to build a relationship based on trust and respect. An important part of her priorities is to know that it is not only about taking, but also about giving when it comes to entering the lives of others. She slowly learned how to work with them, trying to fulfill her esthetic wishes without being invasive. "When you work with people, you have to give as much as you take, it is a collaboration. I was very fortunate that they let me enter their private home and interact with their daily reality."
A particular challenge came about with the issue of nudity. She asks me: "Have you been to Scandinavia? Do you know what our relationship with nudity is?" I haven't been there yet, but I do know that they enjoy it while bathing in hot waters. "Yes," she said,"But like most things, it is a generation gap. For them it wasn't normal to be naked in public. I was almost sure that when I asked they were going to say no. I was nervous about asking, but I gathered the strength and directed the question to them. Surprisingly, they said yes. After some time, I heard from other people in town that no one had ever seen them naked and that I had performed a miracle."
During our talk, I mention to her the references her work led me to: Diane Arbus, for one, and the movie "Amour" by Michael Haneke. The common thread to the well known photographer was that she usually also photographed two people. Elin adds, "Yes, I also share with her the desire to photograph people who are nobody, who are not known to society – outcasts – to bring them into light and let them shine. I'm not interested in people that are always in the media, that everyone sees. I'm interested in that other people, the hidden people, the ones that go unnoticed to society."
In regards to the movie "Amour," it narrates the end of a love story, the physical wearing out of a life long couple who forces the husband to take care his very ill and very dear wife. The connecting point to that narrative is that Elin is fascinated "by growing old; by a lived life. I want to see different layers of time and experience in a person."
Elin has many stories to tell, she lived in Berlin during the '80s and in Nicaragua in the '90s. That trip to South America left a significant trace: it is when she decided to become a photographer. Right there, in that land where she saw so much going on, so many stimuli that she wanted to capture, she realized that writing was not the only medium to take it all in. After that, when she had already gained her degree as an anthropologist, she decided to study Photography. Today she works full time with various projects, one of them includes photographing people in the privacy of their homes.
Upon the end of our talk, I asked Elin Høyland to please define her work with three words. She said "honesty," "intimacy" and then a mixture of "natural" and "back to basic." When putting the three concepts together and observing her photographs, the result is very accurate: we experience the intimacy in the life of others with honesty and transparency. While looking at her photography, we are reminded of the most natural, central and basic of feelings: love.
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"…the idea was to simply open packages of [expired] paper and process them to see what kind of atmospheric damage may have happened to the paper over all those decades in between me finding it and it being stuffed away on the shelf…" -Alison Rossiter, galleryIntell video profile
In this video profile, by galleryIntell, Alison Rossiter speaks about her series entitled Lament. She speaks in depth about her process of creating her one-of-a-kind photograms.
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'Knives holds a hand out in front of HexFang and Yorun, gesturing towards the grieving stranger. "He wishes to risk his life in grief. You know you will survive the waters; can you guarantee he will?" He turns to the man on the dragon's back and tries to reach beyond the pain and grief. "Who told you you could get her back this way? Could it be the evil one trying to cause you more pain?"
Yorun swallows hard and shares that the tales of the Lake are generations old; they were told in his village since he was young. Many in the area believe the stories. 'Knives shakes his head and grimaces as he is convinced. Jumping onto HexFang's back behind Yorun, he says "This foolishness is noble indeed, but I will honour the dead. If she wants to stay in those lands, I will come to make sure you honour her request. But if she wishes to return, my soul claws my provide some use." He then flashes his sharp claws in the midday sun.
HexFang empties a canteen borrowed from Aar, handing it to 'Knives. "You got five breaths, make them count".
Lorrias aproaches HexFang. "Good luck, friend; I'm looking forward to your return and your findings!"
Hyln, still uneasy about the lake and it's stories, can't believe what is happening in front of him. "You plan to jump into the lake?" Looking at 'Knives he adds: "And you want to join her? This is foolish! A lake, a portal to the lands of death… whatever it is, it will surely not bring a soul back from the lands of the dead! And even if you were to reach this place, you might not make it back! Please, reconsider your options." Hyln pleads.
Hexfang stares at the lake, grimacing at the stench of the place. "Well I'm as good as a dead man anyway. This man would rather live in a world with his daughter, or no world at all. 'Knives is unexpected, but im more surprised the Wizard's not jumping at a chance to go to the land of the dead. But I think he's just waiting for us to make sure this isn't just some terrible smelling lake."
"I want to make sure what should not leave that place does not leave that place. It worries me if we can pass in what may be able to pass out." 'Knives shifts to find a comfortable place to sit among the scales. There isn't one. HexFang begins to bow under the weight of the Tabaxi. Yorun thanks the two for their help and steps away from the lakeside, choosing to wait until HexFang can confirm the legends of the lake. Once everyone is ready, HexFang strides away from the side of the lake to get a run-up, charges forward and leaps up, spreading and flapping her wings as though to try and fly. She makes it three feet before quickly folding her wings as she realises she can't carry this much weight into the air. Moments before they hit the water all the fur on 'Knives' body bristles. He takes a deep breath and holds on for dear life.
Gemscale watches HexFang's actions with newfound respect. Unsure of what to do while they go swimming, Gemscale talks to Yorun. "Tell me about your daughter. What did she do for a living? I know it is hard to lose someone but I would like to hear about her if you would like to share."
"She was a weaver by trade. She always made the most beautiful bolts. We would trade them with the local caravans; she was in demand by neighbouring villages." He begins to weep at the memories, and Zadkiel approaches thoughtfully. He raises a hand as if to clasp it onto the man's shoulder, but rethinks it and simply offers condolences for the loss.
Yorun continues to explain that their life was simple, and brought few dangers. Their village was sedate and happy, the hundred or so inhabitants each working hard every day. Once they let in that "Evil Queen" on her royal tour, and gave her the village chief's lodgings, she turned into her true form of the large black Dragon, Dargyntad. It burned down the village, tortured the survivors and made off with Eriadne and some others. They were further abused and beaten, and more besides.
HexFang and 'Knives dive into the putrid pool, the viscous fluid being incredibly difficult to swim through. After just over a minute, the Tabaxi struggles with breath, his eyes stinging in the foul water. Bringing out the empty flask, he opens it in order to take a breath of air… only for the flask to immediately fill with the salty brine. Struggling for breath, he kicks and struggles among the scales on HexFang's back. Feeling the struggle, HexFang urges herself faster and continues quickly through the simple underwater tunnel. It turns parrallel to the ground above after a few feet and continues westward for a few hundred feet. A light can be seen ahead, just a hundred feet more… and then the air in HexFang fails her. She has run out of breath, along with 'Knives. Struggling against the strengthening current, the two barely able to see, a strange hand plunges into the water and grasps HexFang's claw tightly and pulls her up. The Dragon and Tabaxi gasp deeply as they feel the air against their skin.
They emerge soaked with awful and dirty water. A strip of rotting flesh from an unknown creature clings to HexFang's leg. After getting a few lungfuls, 'Knives blearily looks around the cavern they've emerged into. It's a largely empty place, although a cobbled-together desk, bookshelf and lamp made from what appears to be driftwood and broken furniture are sat nearby. Upon them are a few thin stone tablets bound with metal rings and a few books. The mysterious benefactor stands before 'Knives and HexFang; he is a tall, gaunt man with skin hugging his skeletal features. His lips have begun to recede and his hair has mostly come away. He wears a moth-eaten shirt that was at one time worn for more fancy affairs, and plain cotton trousers. His feet are bare, revealing feet with a blue hue to them and rotten, curled toenails. With a wide grin and a flitter in his mouth that might have been a bug moving between teeth, he greets the would-be swimmers. "Hail, travellers. Here for the sights or the experience?"
What do you do?
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Alfred Jeffress is a reclusive philanthropist, humanitarian and eccentric billionaire. He made his fortune trading rare and exotic goods. He spent nearly a decade on an extended galactic tour. Jeffress is known for organizing galaxy-wide treasure hunts.
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22 SEP 3301: Alfred Jeffress launched a galaxy-wide treasure hunt for pilots to find a mysterious object which he hid in space. The press release contains this riddle to lead people to the treasure: "A vision of the Devil and Orion's hounds will start you on your path." The first person who delivers it to a specified location wins the competition.[1]
04 NOV 3301: "The treasure hunt organised by the billionaire and philanthropist Alfred Jeffress has come to an end, with a pilot by the name of Commander Woodhouse claiming victory. Hundreds of people took part in the competition, but ultimately there could only be one victor." [2]
23 DEC 3301: "The third treasure hunt from eccentric billionaire Alfred Jeffress has come to an unexpected end, with not one but two pilots claiming the grand prize. Commanders MAX RED and Sync Mercy completed the treasure hunt within seconds of each other, prompting Jeffress to declare them both winners." [3]
24 MAR 3302: "Following a long hiatus, reclusive philanthropist Alfred Jeffress has announced a new treasure hunt, and once again he is offering a share of his vast personal fortune to the winner."[4]
29 MAR 3302: "A pilot by the name of Commander Oriza claiming victory. Thousands of people took part in the competition, but ultimately there could only be one victor. As with Jeffress's previous treasure hunts, competitors were required to solve a series of riddles to find the mystery object at the centre of the search – a relic from Earth's past. The clues took pilots to Persephone in the Avalon system, then to Arrhenius Terminal in Bard and finally to the Algol system." [5]
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- ↑ https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/5639e8f19657ba733caa55b5
- ↑ https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/23-DEC-3301
- ↑ https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/56f41b729657ba5637de99bf
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Born on September the 8th of 2015 after an order of a member of this association, Philou is inspired from picture of this little funny clown. ^^
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Pergolas are archways that give your backyard life and personality. In order to build one of these structures in a stress-free manner, there are plans you need to make first.
Before building one of these archways, you need to see if a permit is required. If you are part of a homeowner's association, check with them or possibly with your local city building department. Typically, areas that get extreme weather will require a permit because the pergola needs to be sturdy and safe. You will also require permits depending on what you are doing to the pergola. If installing electric wiring, for instance, then you will definitely need one.
If you don't have any experience building these archways, it's probably best to let a contractor oversee the project. Find one that is licensed and has prior experience with these types of work. These professionals, offering experience and resources, can do many things. They will inspect the area before the project starts. They'll make sure there are not any sewer and electrical lines near the area, and any potential red flags are marked off appropriately.
Like with many projects, you need to think about the materials you want to use with the pergola. There are many great choices today, including redwood, cedar, and pressure treated pine. Wood is a popular choice because of its affordability and the natural beauty it brings to the area.


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To go on loving you and all that I've put you through; it's not your fault, it's mine. That I didn't mean for this, this distance to happen and I blame myself for everything. And if only I had known, maybe things would be different.
I have dreams of how things are suppose to be. Very few times in my life, I haven't got what I wanted. I go after it and I get it. But this time, I wake up at night, thinking how I miss that feeling, of that feeling of you. Missing your kisses, missing your smile, missing us. I miss home.
I think our love is so perfect; and when I look in the mirror I remember to keep smiling. I'm strong enough to never give up. I won't give up, but maybe I should have held your hand tighter, held you longer, I could have been even stronger; I don't know.
All I know is, I will, we will, get through this; it's just the waiting that delays us. I hope it doesn't take another fifteen days; only thing is; a heart just wants what it wants.


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With a ~10 day selay, Beyond the Wall is now available here.
Forced to stay in Morson a while longer, Ash takes a job at the local movie theater. Something about the place seems off from the get go, but curiosity drives him to stay and, for a while life seems great. Then Ash finds something carved into the floor under the carpet at the theater.
Things spiral out of control, when that voice decides to pay him a visit, letting him know that it's not over. And that voice isn't the only thing to survive and cross over into reality.
Can Ash figure out what's going on in time to safe a friend? A building? And most importantly himself?
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What good is owning your own shop…
March 28, 2010
If you can't take a day off to go on a field trip?!
I got the opportunity to go to see Disney on Ice with Lukas' kindergarten class today… did I mention it was Princesses on Ice?! Don't know if it was more fun for me or him… ok… it was more fun for me.
I wanted to buy souvenirs so badly! 🙂 Is it weird that I got misty eyed when I saw Mickey and Minnie? The kids all just lit up… like they were seeing real celebrities. So cute. We had a wonderful time. Love this little man.
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Most often when I tell people I do my laundry with soap nuts they ask "What are soap nuts?" And that's an excellent question, because they aren't very well known yet, even though they are amazing. Soap nuts are not actually nuts, but they are a berry that grows on a tree from the Sapindus trees. These trees grow in warm locations, and all the ones I have seen for sale have come from India. I believe they are called nuts because they look a lot more like nuts than berries. But the really cool thing about them is that when the husk of the dried berry gets wet it releases saponin, which is a surfactant, which is what makes soap useful to clean with. So essentially, soap nuts a like soap from a tree. Awesome! The really awesome thing about soap nuts is they are hypoallergenic, grey water safe, and environment friendly. Even the most mild homemade laundry detergents usually contain borax and washing soda, which is none of the above. The only down side to soap nuts is that they are imported, but for me the benefits outweigh their long distance travel so I use soap nuts almost exclusively.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
My current dream project
As for American Idol last night! WOW! So much better than the Lennon/McCartney weeks. They were BORING! I thought the 3 weakest performances were Ramiele Malubay, Chikezie, and Jason Castro. Micheal Johns and David Cook were UNBELIEVABLE. Brooke was not impressive, but I really hope she stays. I have given up on Kristy Lee Cook leaving so I just won't mention her. I am looking forward to seeing Kimberly Locke perform. Season 2 is still my favorite season.
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Hi, Thanks for visiting my blog!! That's a really cool schoolhouse you got on your property!! Look forward to seeing more of your work!!! God Bless!
- March 27, 2008 at 5:02 AM
Thanks for the comment about my baby food jars :)
I, too, love this season of idol. This is only the second year we've watched it, but I like far more people than last year. I actually think Kristy Lee Cook is getting a little better each week. I agree w/ you about the weaker performances on Tuesday though. Last night I could not believe that Syesha was in the bottom 2. I was going to be upset if she had to leave.
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Thanks for visiting my blog! It is awesome to get visitors. I love the school house, it has a bell and everything! I think it totally rocks!
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- noel joy said...
omg! that is the coolest thing ever. what a cool school house! i can't wait to see what you do with it. what an awesome place for a scrap room!
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That is so amazing! Kudos to you for knowing the value of beautifu old buildings.
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The court cases of First foreign convention on Opto-Electronics and utilized Optics 2014, IEM OPTRONIX 2014 offers the learn contributions awarded within the convention through researchers from either India and overseas. Contributions from tested scientists in addition to scholars are incorporated. The e-book is geared up to permit easy accessibility to numerous issues of interest.
The first half comprises the Keynote addresses by way of Phillip Russell, Max Planck Institute of the sunshine Sciences, Erlangen, Germany and Lorenzo Pavesi, collage of Trento, Italy.
The moment half specializes in the Plenary Talks given via eminent scientists, specifically, Azizur Rahman, urban collage London, London; Bishnu buddy, President, The Optical Society of India; Kamakhya Ghatak, nationwide Institute of know-how, Agartala; Kehar Singh, Former Professor, India Institute of know-how Delhi; Mourad Zghal, SUPCOM, collage of Carthage, Tunisia; Partha Roy Chaudhuri, IIT Kharagpur; S ok. Bhadra, CSIR-Central Glass and Ceramic examine Institute, Kolkata; Sanjib Chatterjee, Raja Ramanna Centre for complicated know-how, Indore; Takeo Sasaki, Tokyo college, Japan; Lakshminarayan Hazra, Emeritus Professor, collage of Calcutta, Kolkata; Shyam Akashe, ITM collage, Gwalior and Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan, collage of Waterloo, Canada.
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When Easton world traveler Robert Bull went to Russia 20 years ago, he never expected to fall in love. He had recently lost his wife to breast cancer and was looking for time alone with his camera and the eclectic scenery along the Volga River.
"I was taking a picture of the church at the Kazan Kremlin," Bull recalls. "There were all these wires hanging down. ... All the sudden I hear this voice behind me, 'What you going to do about all those wires?' That's how we met."
Robert and Lois have since married and traveled the world together. "It's wonderful to be 88 and have such interests," Lois said of her husband. "He is gardening or delivering food or whatever." He also plays tennis once a week.
Robert was a professional photographer for years. He was one of the first to film football games for coaches with Winik Films. "If you drew a line from Pittsburgh to Washington [D.C.], we did all the NCAA stuff there."
The NFL then came knocking on his door. Then it was the NBA. But this hardly has any effect on him. As a young man in the Army during World War II, he was given official copies of 680 portraits of Allied leaders commissioned by President Roosevelt. The original portraits are in the Library of Congress. His head and heart have been full of steam ever since.
For 75 years he's been a drummer, and in the twilight of his life he finds himself spending more and more time with his three bands -- a four-piece horn group called The Bantam Band, the Swing for Jazz Quintet and his big band project, Golden Angels Jazz Band. He arranges all the music.
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Something old is roaring back. One of the Romney campaign's surrogates, who appeared at a rally with him the other night, spoke of the intensity and joy of the crowd "I worked the rope line, people wouldn't let go of my hand." It startled him. A former political figure who's been in Ohio told me this morning something is moving with evangelicals, other church-going Protestants and religious Catholics. He said what's happening with them is quiet, unreported and spreading: They really want Romney now, they'll go out and vote, the election has taken on a new importance to them.
There is no denying the Republicans have the passion now, the enthusiasm. The Democrats do not. Independents are breaking for Romney. And there's the thing about the yard signs. In Florida a few weeks ago I saw Romney signs, not Obama ones. From Ohio I hear the same. From tony Northwest Washington, D.C., I hear thesame.
Is it possible this whole thing is playing out before our eyes and we're not really noticing because we're too busy looking at data on paper instead of what's in front of us? Maybe that's the real distortion of the polls this year: They left us discounting the world around us.


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Svana Raknisdóttir made her way along the shore. She walked lightly, but her feet made fine impressions in the wet, black sand. They were still small, pretty feet which did not show her age, unlike her face, which was netted in wrinkles. Her frail, slender form in its blue dress and apron-skirt and red cloak stood out against the grayness of the sea as she stepped into the water, while it advanced on the Iceland coast.
Rakni Hrafnsson, her father the freeman, was tall and long-armed. She remembered when he said goodbye, kissing her on the cheek, his beard causing her face to itch. He wore blue-black wool and sable. The wooden stockfish-racks were hung full with drying cod outside the huts, but the fishermen and the slaves were silent. Rakni pressed a silver trefoil brooch into her small, childish hand.
Summers and winters had passed, and each day she used to come to the shore. Her father's ship left forty years ago, filled with men at the oars with spears and axes and round shields, and did not return. It was her elder brother, Ulfkell, who had looked after the farm, he whose eyes were like coals in the firepit. He was once called Sheepslayer; as a boy of five, it was said, he went adventuring and came across a stray sheep, which he killed with his knife. But he also had three men now to his credit, and no one had mocked him with that name in many years. And yet it was what came to the lips of his killer, Vigolfr, as he spat on Ulfkell's corpse on the yesterday.
Ulfkell Raknisson was fiery, but not wise enough in his younger years to keep the farm prosperous and in his later years to defend it from their many enemies. He was thought dangerous and volatile, and after Rakni did not return from sea his neighbors withdrew from association with Hrafnsheimr. No man took Svana from her father's hearth, and the years wore on.
Svana kept walking. The sands were rough, even on the feet that had walked through them often. Rakni killed him. He deemed Máni's attentions unseemly. Rakni killed him, and blood was on his hands when he spoke with me. Barely a man… fifteen….
She was in deeper now, and her dress was soaking above her knees. She let her arms fall to the side, and the water ran between her fingers. "Kristr, Hvíta-kristr," she murmured. "The ravens fly over the sea."
The sun came through the clouds, illuminating her and sparkling on the water. She loosened her cloak and raised up the trefoil brooch. It was black against the sun, black like a carrion-bird. A wave caught her and she fell. Her cloth became heavy, and the brooch slipped from her fingers. She heard the song of the sea as she began to sleep.
When her eyes opened she was on the black sands. A white-bearded holy man stood in front of her, and he helped her to her feet. Then he cast his stainless linen cloak around her shoulders.
"I am Bishop Jónas," he said. "Come to the white mountain, swan of Hrafnsheimr. It is almost nightfall."
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I enjoyed this book. The mystery was intriguing and while at times I think the action dragged a little for the most part I was highly engaged.
Although the story starts out following a sixteen year-old girl, she eventually fades into the background and the bulk of the narrative is really about her father and Helen. There's a fair amount of correspondence in the book but it all sounds as though it were written by the same person. There's also a bit too much dry history. It also gets a little repetitive to have most people they encounter say "you know, Dracula was based on a real person." I was already aware of that, as, I imagine, are a good number of the readers of this book and even if they weren't, having it happen once or twice in the story would have sufficed.
The story involves a great deal of travel and it's easy to see the author's admiration for Eastern Europe's history, traditions, architecture and peoples. Reading about that history and reading Kostova's portrayal of life under Communism was at least as interesting as the Dracula mystery itself.
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