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"Through me, Kings rule." (Proverbs 8:15)
Not money. Not power. Not family.
King Solomon is talking about wisdom. In the very short term, money, guns, family and friends will get you ahead. But in the long haul of life, wisdom rules.
You may have heard the saying, "A wise man learns from his own mistakes." I must admit, I grew up believing in such things. You can't imagine the cosmic shock I received when I realized that, in Judaism, we call that the definition of a fool. In Ethics of the Fathers, "Ben Zoma says, Who is a wise? Someone who learns from everyone...." (4:1)
"Everyone" does not mean that everyone has something you can learn from; it means what's important is not who says something, but what he is saying. It means that living with a mistake is worse than realizing your mistake.
In other words, when someone wants to tell you something, don't worry about who he is or the way he says it. If you get caught up in those things then you just don't get it.
If you are going to get anywhere in life you need to know your mistakes, and in at least this one area, just about anyone can help you. Think about it. Don't you see the mistakes of the people around you? Now, if they could see their mistakes, see how counter-productive they are, in the same way you do, for sure they would stop.
So what's the problem? They don't see the mistakes the way you see them. They see them the way they see them, and not only that, they don't want to listen to you telling them.
Sounds pretty stupid doesn't it?
Well, look in the mirror; that's us! Everyone around us sees our mistakes, too, and if we would listen, oh, how much better life would be.
Simply put, listen to anyone who wants to teach you something. Looking stupid is so much better than being stupid. That is what Ben Zoma is trying to teach us. It's much better to know you built a boat that won't float before you set sail than after.
Yehuda quite possibly reaches the bottom of the barrel in embarrassing moments. I just can't imagine facing an accused prostitute, accused by me that is, and realizing "she is more righteous than me." (Yehuda's words, Genesis 39:27).
Yehuda didn't have to admit his guilt. It was quite clear from Tamar's remarks that she was not going to publicly name him. But Yehuda knew that even though in his eyes she was a disgrace, he also knew he had to learn from her - from everyone - and it is so much better to learn from your mistakes than to keep repeating them.
If the world produced people who never sinned, great. But as King Solomon (Koheles 7:20) pointed out, "There is no one in the world who does not sin." In the world we have, not making mistakes is not an option, but learning from your mistakes is. Rare as it may be.
Rare, but not difficult. We actually live this way in the area of health. When it comes to an infection, malady, sore, rash or any number of bothersome complaints, we will listen to just about anyone.
When it comes to health, we are naturally wise. Be wise when it comes to life.
It is no accident therefore, that from Yehuda come the kings of Israel.
"Learn from all men" means, don't let your insecurities stop you from listening. Wisdom is more important than that. The key is not how much you know but how much you desire to know.
A wise man learns from the mistakes of others, a fool has to learn from his own mistakes, and insanity is even worse: The insane don't even do that! A crazy person is someone who keeps making the same mistakes over and over expecting different results.
People are naturally wise in health, as I mentioned above. Many are natural fools when it comes to business or parenting: they will learn, but only from their own mistakes. "Mind your own business" is a reflection of that sentiment, as is "Where did I go wrong?" when it comes to parenting.
Obviously, you would do much better in business if you tried to be wise. Your children would appreciate the upgrade, too. Unfortunately though, many would rather learn from their own mistakes than get it right the first time.
But being crazy, that's really crazy! But, unfortunately, not uncommon. How many people do we see marry two or three times or more, and after each one remark, "Why can't I seem to make it work?" Or words to that effect. Don't try telling him; he wasn't really asking. He isn't willing to learn, even from his own mistakes. He just wants a different result!
Where else are people crazy? The meaning of life.
A person's beliefs are almost sacrosanct and cannot be challenged no matter how absurd. And absurd it is. Nothing impacts the nature of our lives more than the values that shape them. But not challenging those values, even when they clearly are not working, is the ultimate in crazy.
So, if you want my advice, listen to the advice of others. It's a lot better than being crazy.
Question 1: Who was the last person to give you a piece of advice or criticism?
Question 2: If you rejected it, rethink it.
Question 3: Ask three people to give you some advice or criticism.

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Saturday, November 2, 2013
Garifuna music trailblazer Chichi Sosa
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Honduran multi-instrumentalist Rolando "Chichi" Sosa has quietly played a crltical role in the development of Afro-Caribbean Garifuna music over the past two decades. He's composed and performed with Garifuna music's greatest star, the late Andy Palacio, as well as current stars Aurelio Martinez, Danny Michel and many others. He helped put together the all-star band Garifuna Collective which worked with many artists including the grondbreaking Umalali Garifuna Women's Project.
Recently Chichi extended his musical scope to work with the well-regarded retro Caribbean band Kobo Town. But he's rarely taken center stage himself - until now, as he leads his own band in NYC.
Chichi drops by tonight to share his music live and on cd and share the story of this rich music and culture from Central America and the Caribbean.
Be sure to give Chi Chi a facebook "Like" via https://www.facebook.com/chichi.eci!
Special thanks to Pablo Blanco of Elite Carib International for bringing Chichi to WFMU and the world.
This Week's Playlist:(* = new)
The Velvet Underground:
Ride Into the Sun
/ The Quine Tapes (Bootleg Series Volume 1)
/ Polydor
(0:00:00 )
From The Matrix, San Francisco CA, November 24, 1969
Goat: Diarabi / World Music (0:15:50 )
Ibrahim Tatlises: Cemo / Ayağında Kundura (0:18:52 )
Erkin Koray: Goca Dünya / Meçhul: Singles and Rarities / Sublime Frequencies (0:21:49 )
/ Foras Road
(0:26:41 )
A Grammy Nominee for world music, we hear, though it's not official yet
Najma Akhtar: Neend Koyi / Qareeb / Triple Earth (0:29:39 )
The Nile Project:
Kulina Wahed
/ Aswan
(0:36:45 )
From the webstie: The Nile Project was founded in 2011 by Egyptian ethnomusicologist Mina Girgis and Ethiopian- American singer Meklit Hadero to address the Nile Basin's cultural and environmental challenges. Using music, education, and innovation programs, the Nile Project inspires, informs, and empowers university students to work together to foster the sustainability of their ecosystem... The Nile Project curates collaborations among musicians from the 11 Nile countries to expose audiences to the cultures of their river neighbors. These musical experiences foster cross-cultural empathy and inspire environmental curiosity to shift the Nile from a divisive geopolitical argument to a uniting East-African conversation. In partnership with local universities, interactive workshops and free online courses educate students and help them discover their unique roles in creating a more sustainable Nile Basin (nileproject.org)
Pedrito Martinez:
Gitana te Qiero
/ Rumba de la Isla
(0:47:08 )
GIG: This Monday night @ Brooklyn Bowl
Roberto Rodriguez: El Danzon de Moises / El Danzon de Moises / Tzadik (0:52:42 )
Har-You Percussion Group: Tico / Har-You Percussion Group (0:58:30 )
Rolando Chichi Sosa: Live on WFMU (1:10:52 )
Rolando Chichi Sosa: All Eyes on Me / Forthcoming (1:25:15 )
Rolando Chichi Sosa: Two-Faced / Forthcoming (1:34:14 )
Rolando Chichi Sosa: Beiba / Forthcoming (1:42:12 )
Rolando Chichi Sosa: Live on WFMU (1:48:46 )
Lisandro Meza Y Su Conjunto: La Cumbia Negra / Various Artists: Beginner's Guide to Cumbia / Nascente (1:58:58 )
Boveo y Sus Vallenatos: Pena de Amor / Various Artists: Beginner's Guide to Cumbia / Nascente (1:59:37 )
Juaneco y su Combo: Caballito Nocturno / The Birth of Jungle Cumbia / The Vital Record / * (2:01:24 )
La Santa Cecilia: La Negra / Treinta Días (2:03:16 )
Anibal Velasquez: Cumbia / Mambo Loco / Analog Africa (2:07:28 )
Los Orientales: Bailando en la Campina / Various Artists: Peru Maravilloso / Strut / * (2:09:04 )
Rita Rose: Bottateanchi bhaji / Various Artists: Konkani Songs / Trikont (2:12:32 )
Carmo Rod: Nach Athanche / Various Artists: Konkani Songs (2:14:38 )
Sachal Studios Orchestra:
Take 5
/ Sachal Jazz - Interpretations of Jazz Standards & Bossa Nova
/ Luv N' Haight
(2:19:45 )
GIG: Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater, Columbus Circle, Friday November 22 at 8 pm with special guest Wynton Marsalis.
Kinan Azmeh: Tulina's Carmona / Kinan Azmeh & Elastic City / * (2:39:17 )
Ojo Sembrono: Jathilan / Jathilan / Jaranan / * (2:44:14 )
DVA: Francé Trancé / Fonok / Indies (2:47:43 )
The Velvet Underground:
Some Kinda Love
/ The Quine Tapes (Bootleg Series Volume 1)
(2:49:47 )
From The Family Dog, San Francisco, November 8, 1969
Listener comments!
Sat. 11/2/13 6:08pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
The Velvet Underground were an amazing band in this World. Václav Havel would've backed me up on that...
Sat. 11/2/13 6:16pm
Sat. 11/2/13 6:16pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...they even had an International line-up, w/ John Cale being Welsh, & Nico (sort of a member) East European - Warhol even being of East European descent...& just New York City being a World City to such an extent...
Sat. 11/2/13 6:23pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...naturally, the implications set in more & more since Lou's passing...; in a very real way, the Velvets invented the very idea of an Alternative in the first place - & who here hasn't been swept up in that titanic influence ??...
Sat. 11/2/13 6:27pm
Sat. 11/2/13 6:35pm
Kristina Koffee:
Good evening. I was able to come out to Barbes last week, and man I'm glad I did. Couldn't stay the whole time but wow Uri Sharlin and Mariachi Flor de Toloache were really something.
Sat. 11/2/13 6:44pm
Hello all..Just wanted to thank you Rob (& Irene) for a wonderfu Barbesl shew last week of course I scored my usual, a vintage FMU TShirt. Nice to be a local yokel sometimesl!
Sat. 11/2/13 6:50pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
- great 1st set.
Sat. 11/2/13 6:52pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
- yeah - a few different flavors last week & all great ! ; where I live it ain't no City, so I especially appreciate you bringing me the Live culture like that...
Sat. 11/2/13 6:54pm
@RevRab... Happy 50 tomorrow, hope you're off!!
Sat. 11/2/13 7:01pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
- no, but I've been unemployed enuff in life I don't mind, really - unless I want to get all Marxist about the whole rotten deal
...We astrology enthusiasts consider the birthday the 'solar return' - & I actually took off my shirt & sunned myself on my lunch break today! The sun came out just long & warm enuff for it - in NorthNewEngland!: that doesn't happen often in early Nov. !...People have been generous enuff, I can @ least have a drink or something...
Sat. 11/2/13 7:02pm
Rob W:
Kristina, glad you could make it to Barbes and glad you liked it! Everybody loved Mariachi Flor de Toloache - I'll have them on again sometime.
Sat. 11/2/13 7:08pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...on Underwater Theme Park early Thur. A.M.s - Meghan has been doing her travelog of the entire African continent! I brought up this week that a lot of Latin percussion is virtually unaltered from West African Vodoun ceremonial drumming. The original meaning of 'Mambo' is a Vodoun Priestess. Fascinating to me...
Sat. 11/2/13 7:15pm
Kristina Koffee:
@RR that's really fascinating. Didn't know that about Latin percussion. I studied a bit of Haitian history back in school and that spurred my interest in the incredibly rich and interesting world of Voudoun. Thx for sharing :)
Sat. 11/2/13 7:17pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
- yeah - he has some music for us guys alright!...
...yeah - for a while I got fascinated w/ the connections from Rock to Blues to West African Ceremonial practices - & they are surprisingly many & direct.
Sat. 11/2/13 7:18pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...by way of the Caribbean - btw...
Sat. 11/2/13 7:24pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
- 22 instruments!
Sat. 11/2/13 7:31pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
I often say it - but I hope it bears repeating; I have a special admiration for people who can just pick up an acoustic instrument & deliver the goods by their lonesome like this. Also a pleasure to hear something other than typical American Blues-Rock rhythms & patterns (as much as they are imprinted on my deepest core)...
Sat. 11/2/13 7:34pm
Kristina Koffee:
@RR definitely. Not always as simple as just being curious and open but I'd say often that's all it takes! One's perception of "I'm just not suited for this" is the biggest obstacle in delivering the goods :D
Sat. 11/2/13 7:38pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
I think of Dylan in the 'No Direction Home' documentary saying he could hear a song once or twice & learn it; 'I had an agile mind.' Yeah - no kidding !
Sat. 11/2/13 7:42pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...this music is really impressively rhythmically accomplished - & emotionally affecting too !
Sat. 11/2/13 7:48pm
Kristina Koffee:
Already like this song based solely on what just transpired here. :D
Sat. 11/2/13 7:50pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
This just in from the BBC about the Pussy Riot protestor :
Sat. 11/2/13 7:53pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...I admit that her being a lovely young & vulnerable looking woman prejudices my feelings about it...
Sat. 11/2/13 7:55pm
Rob W:
Happy 50th RR, welcome to the club!
Sat. 11/2/13 7:57pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
- Thx Rob! ; They tell me that the fear of the big round # is worse than the reality : / ...
Sat. 11/2/13 7:58pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
- Thx Mr. Sosa ! Such a strong performance.
Sat. 11/2/13 8:00pm
Kristina Koffee:
Yes, thanks to Rolando chichi sosa :D @RR Troubling news. With or without a hunger strike...2 years in the that prison system is more like 10... Unrelated: Happy birthday!
Sat. 11/2/13 8:04pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Thx KK!
...Russia's adjustment after the fall of the USSR is understandable - but Bad Economy too often leads to fascistic Nationalism, almost anywhere (as WWII followed the Depression) - & whatever Putin's accomplishments for his country - he's an ex-KGB turd (if I may so boldly editorialize)...
Sat. 11/2/13 8:10pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
- & as an American, I'm not saying the U.S. government is beyond critique. I'm just sayin'.
Sat. 11/2/13 8:12pm
Kristina Koffee:
"That's the way it's done in the US and that's the way it's done in Russia" sums it all up for me. Not defending him in any way whatsoever but his cavalier attitude is entertaining to say the least.
Sat. 11/2/13 8:14pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
- I wouldn't say I'm 'entertained' by it - any more than Duhbya 'entertained' me - but forgive me for getting Political in a Cultural zone here...
Sat. 11/2/13 8:20pm
Kristina Koffee:
@RR Speaking as someone from the Eastern Bloc... culture amounts for a lot but not everything. Some things are universal. It's all good, brother. I'm just here for the ride.
Sat. 11/2/13 8:22pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
- Blessings, KK ; you're the one brings the insight that one year in those conditions is really like 10...
Sat. 11/2/13 8:29pm
Kristina Koffee:
Take five, but five or what?
Sat. 11/2/13 8:32pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
- altho' the U.S.A. has kept people who may not be dangerous for much more than one year in Guantanamo - & other places - w/out due process...just to be fair, & @ risk of prolonging political theme...
- I love hearing tabla & sitar & Indian music & influences; almost think that's too cliche/post-hippie for World Music aficionados - oh well !...
...w/ Indian music, could be 'Take Sixteen' maybe : ) ...
Sat. 11/2/13 8:33pm
Ken From Hyde Park:
Gosh, another TSP almost done. How time flies!
Sat. 11/2/13 8:43pm
Kristina Koffee:
@Ken really, how the time flies. a mere 3 hours. :(
Sat. 11/2/13 8:45pm
Rob W:
How time flies... how did Revolution Rabbit and I get to be 50 - ? Ah well...
Sat. 11/2/13 8:48pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
I was born almost exactly when the term 'Beatlemania' was coined. I always say I wasn't coming out until they arrived !
Sat. 11/2/13 8:49pm
Kristina Koffee:
@RobW Truly believe that your attitude is all that counts. Lots of friends younger than me and you scared to death every birthday. No way to live. Thanks again for a great show.
Sat. 11/2/13 8:49pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
..as a birth-order baby, I've always felt mentally five - so perhaps a simple decimal error - ?!?!...
Sat. 11/2/13 8:51pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
- Rob - a flawless three hours. As Ever - Thanks for bringing us the World. Really.
Sat. 11/2/13 8:54pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...as Billy Bragg says - we're Badder than we used to be !
Sat. 11/2/13 8:58pm
Mike East:
im late for tsp, but on time for vu
Sat. 11/2/13 9:00pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
- They're now Officially Timeless.
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In conclusion, the ultrastructural characteristics of duodenal enterocytes from the FHL5 patients presented herein appeared identical to those from reported MVID patients (
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Targeted disruption of Munc18 recapitulates intestinal features of FHL5.
In order to analyze the molecular mechanism underlying MVID-like enteropathy associated with FHL5, we first generated a disease model cell line. For this, we used CaCo2 cells, a human enterocyte model cell line, which is able to establish enterocyte polarity in culture (
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). Using CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing, we specifically targeted the STXBP2 locus. This resulted in a complete loss — KO — of Munc18 protein level ( Figure 4A ). To control for potential off-target effects by genome editing, we reintroduced a HA-Strep-TactinII–tagged (HS-tagged) version of WT Munc18 (HS-Munc18_gR) and the reported mutation/deletion of FHL5 patient 2 (HS-Munc18_gR-d232) in Munc18-KO cells ( Figure 4A ). The 232del mutant was exemplarily chosen for further mechanistic studies. Both cDNAs harbor additional noncoding mutations, rendering them resistant to the targeting sequence used for CRISPR/Cas9. Since loss of enterocyte polarity is a feature of intestinal FHL5, we subjected the model cell lines to cyst formation, an assay for challenging the establishment of epithelial polarity ( 26 ). Indeed, loss of Munc18 resulted in a significantly decreased single central lumen formation in comparison with the WT CaCo2 cells. This effect could be reverted upon the reintroduction of the HS-Munc18_gR. However, HS-Munc18_gR-d232 failed to revert the phenotype ( Figure 4, B and C ).
Loss of Munc18 disrupts enterocyte polarity. () Western blot showing CaCo2 WT, Munc18-KO (gMunc18), and Munc18-KO cells reverted with HS-tagged, gRNA-resistant Munc18 WT and d232 mutant. () Quantification of single lumen formation (bounds of boxes represent 25th/75th percentiles, lines within boxes indicate medians, and whiskers represent minimum/maximum; statistical significance was tested by Student's test; *** < 0.005, ≥ 100 cysts/experiment, 3 independent experiments). () Polarity is disrupted upon Munc18 depletion (gMunc18) in a 3D cyst formation assay in comparison to WT. Reexpression of HS-Munc18_gR reverts the phenotype, while HS-Munc18_gR-d232 does not. Actin is labeled in red an nuclei in blue; basal actin stain is seen in reaction to extracellular matrix (e.g., Matrigel). () Loss of Munc18 results in loss of apical microvilli (arrows) and subapical vesicle accumulation (arrowheads) in CaCo2 cells. Scale bar: 1 μm. () Reexpression of HS-Munc18_gR reverts the Munc18-KO phenotype. The brush-border microvilli are indicated with arrows. Scale bar: 10 μm (); 1 μm ().
To analyze the morphology in greater detail, WT, KO, and reverted cells were grown on porous membrane supports in order to establish enterocyte polarity. In KO cells, EM revealed a reduction and shortening of apical microvilli and an aberrant accumulation of subapical vesicles ( Figure 4D ). The detected ultrastructural aberrations were specific for the loss of Munc18, as the reverted cell line displayed a regular enterocyte ultrastructure ( Figure 4E ).
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The CCRI Admissions Department has been selected to receive a Rhode Island Partnership for Success mini-grant in support of its North End Opportunities for College and Career Access Awareness Program, coordinated by Deb Watson, associate director of Enrollment Services, and Jude Tomasino, associate director of Admissions/Transfer.
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Herbs, vegetables, and glorious sunshine
Yesterday was green, blue & bright yellow from dawn to dusk. (And if there were a few clouds, I didn't notice them.) A perfect summer Sunday for crops to grow & gardeners to weed, water, inspect, repot and of course, view brilliant colour & light through the camera's lens.
Though most of the excitement & growth is in my community garden plot, I'll begin with the balcony's stars, all highly recommended for culinary, olfactory & aesthetic reasons:
Left pot: four varieties of thyme: 'Doone Valley', 'Golden Lemon', Tabor', Thymus fastinoi
Centre pot: 'Alma Paprika' Pepper
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Rosemary officinalis 'Blue Spire'
'Sea of Red' Lettuce - for those of us who eat with our eyes as well as our mouths
Now, on to Plot 6A, which totally astounds me when I visit it daily. I did not know plants could grow this quickly. Because light is limited on my balcony, I'm used to a much, much slower growth rate.
Front row, left to right: chard, spinach, cucumber, eggplant, tomato
Middle row, left to right: chard, tomato, beets, eggplant, pepper, tomato
Back row, left to right: peas, beans, carrots, beets, eggplant, tomato
In a future post, I'll describe the specific vegetable varieties as well as my planting strategy & design. I've held off because my approach has been evolving to what is now a "mash-up" of square-foot gardening & crop rotation following Mark Diacono's sequence outlined in Veg Patch: River Cottage Handbook No. 4 (i.e., legumes -> brassicas -> roots & onions -> potatoes/Solanaceae).


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Many people, when seeing the word "Paranormal"
sneer, laugh, or hide behind the mask society has told them they
must show around such things, or risk being laughed at themselves,
and that anyone who believes in such must be ignorant, stupid or
Actually, I've always loved science, but I've never been so damned
arrogant or stupid as to think we mere Mortals know anything but
a blip, a fraction, of this ancient, vast Universe. I've
seen way too much strange stuff to consider the world "simple
and mechanical". This Universe is not clockwork.
Here I'll talk of those things I've personally experienced,
and are in chronological order.
Many folk have encountered a place that gives them
the "heebeejeebees", hehe ;) It is mostly fear of unknown,
fear due to old legends and myths, fear due to what other people
tell you, and such like. Sometimes though, it's not so simple.
When I was a kid, about 8 or so, a great friend
took me a long walk through the beautiful woods near our town, gorgeous
place! But at one place, I got a terrible feeling of fear, being
a kid, only thing I could associate such a feeling of dread with
was "vampires", from film etc, I remember that quite vividly.
Of course kids do get such fancies, but this was
There's nothing very unusual about the place I mention,
I don't want to describe in case I bias anyone who tries to examine
the area. There are no objects, no legends, nothing as to why
it such give such a feeling, because it's not just me, many people
have experienced the same creepiness.
There is an old graveyard nearby for family pets, from 1700 to 1800s,
of the noble family who's land it was on, but, this graveyards in
opposite direciton, quite some distance away, and has no bad associations
with it, quite the reverse.
It's outdoors, so no odd draughts, electrical fields
or whatever.
So, just a bad, lingering childhood fancy? What
of the other people though? People can take frights in the solitary
surroundings of forest, but...why that spot? Why haven't other areas
given me such a eerie feeling? I've been in lots of forests and
woods, so why only that place? I honestly don't know. I do not believe
it's as simple as chidlhood fright lingering, other areas as a kid
have bad associations to me, but don't give me the creeps!
There could be a mundane reason, but I can't think
of one that makes sense.
2) UFO sighting, Moffat, Scotland,
Moffat is a beautiful, small town in the hills of
the Borders of Scotland. A truly lovely area :) It was and maybe
still is, heavily used by the RAF and American airforce for low
fly training, so it was common to see Tornadoes and other craft
whizzing above at only a hundred foot above your head, hehe.
One night, we were staying therewith a friend, I
was a young teenager at the time, along with my mother, her friend
and daughter. Their home was in the bottom of the valley, which
is about 600 yards across at bottom, 600' to 1000' high hillsides,
the valley is long and very sinous. I can't recall the exact day
or month, just that it was a perfectly still, clear night, no clouds,
warm but not hot.
Some commotion outside made us go out to look...
A UFO was flying around.
Not what you'd expect to see! Many people had come out to see it,
animals were barking, or excited by the thing. It was a dark object,
triangular in section, that is, through the side, it had glowing
lights on each of it's three apexes, if I recall correctly, one
was blue and I think the other two white.
It occluded the stars behind it, so I knew it was a solid object.
It made no sound. It didn't hover like a helicopter, which shake
and vibrate a lot, this thing could hover dead still, no downdraft
(which is ferocious with a helicopter, no trees or such were being
affected), and it moved a round in a very smooth, graceful manner,
completely unlike any vehicle in the air I have ever seen then or
then it was joined suddenly by 2 more of it's ilk,
which just seemed to come down from way up high. These things then
flew around, in an area roughly 200' to 800' above us, quite a small
area across the valley like maybe a circle 600 yards or so across,
They could speed up from standstill to incredible speed and be across
the far side of the valley in a split second, and stop dead. That
is IMPOSSIBLE. They could do right angled turns, IMPOSSIBLE for
any flying vechile we know, or any damn thing of mass, to do. They
must have been going MACH4 or so at times, by rough guess by end
of those sprints, but no sound.
One hovered between two very large trees, for some
time, giving me a good distance and rough size of the vehicle. the
first tree was about 250 to 300 yards away, next was 600 to 700
yards away. Trees were massive 80'+ or so high. the vehicle hovered
up near the height of the closer tree but beyond it a bit, so it
must have been some 30' to 40' long. As said, triangular in section,
now because it was black and seemed to reflect no light what so
ever, I can't tell any detail, it may have been more complex than
merely triangular, but it's shape could only be seen by what it
passed in front or behind of.
Not long after this, all three vehicles flew up
into the sky, and vanished. The performance had went on for a good
20+ minutes. Most of the town had seen it, lot of folk of course
wouldn't talk about it afterward to avoid being laughed at. Similar
strange things were seen all across Southern Scotland that night,
as I recall it was on the news and in the Dumfries newspapers.
What was it? well I can assure you, no bloody aircraft
I have ever seen can or COULD fly like that, it's beyond known abilities.
So, it was either some super secret military craft with a power
source and propulsion way beyond anything our entire science knows
about, or it was an alien vehicle, or something totally beyond our
The Border region there area is a fault zone, so
folk may come up wit the "oh it was magnetic fields causing
delusion" stuff, which I regard that as utter crap. Not only
was this seen by folk seperated by a mile or more apart, it was
seen across 150 miles of land. The magnetic force needed to induce
delusions is apparently 15,000 times+ the Earth's magnetic field
strength. A force THAT powerful over an area THAT big would have
caused absolute damn havoc and stood out like a sore thumb, there
should heve been aurora, electricla discharges, things being magnetized
etc if such a field existed. But, no, no such things occured.
The faults in the Borders are weak anyway, producing
no more than 3 on the Richter scale and the like every dozne years
maybe. Most Humans liv eon or near fault lines! They cause the geogrpahy
we like and exploit. So if UFO's are caused by "fault lines"
then every bugger along the Pacific RIng of Fire should have seen
several! ;)
Everyone saw the *same damn thing*, folk AND animals,
were all following the same points in the sky as I was, I looked...if
folk were delusional, and imagining this, how the hell could they
and many animals look at same areas in sky, over such a large sized
area, AND have the exact same story?
Oh and I had binoculars, so I had a damn good look
at it all.
Nor could it have been a mirage. no wavering, perfectly
clear, small object, high speed, no distortion etc.
I do not regard this as "paranormal",
it had no feeling of "the unnatural" to me, it was a "UFO
sighting", maybe one day we'll find out what it was, but I
believe it was a thing of the ordinary world, just not something
we understand as yet.
I didn't find it at all scary, jsut deeply intriguing
and positive.
Have a look at the Belgian UFO scares of late 80s
and 90s. They had a UFO on 3 groudn radar and 2 fighter aircraft's
radar, etc. UFO's are real, but what they are, is another
(The Second Sight)
Now, I can't be exactly sure when I started having
these, early teens but not exact date.
I keep having dreams where I see things, exactly
as I see them normally, through my eyes, but of things I do and
see in the future. These are NOT "deja vu", these are
literal things which occur precisely as I see them, and when it's
say, a news item on the TV, I sure as hell can't have deja vu about
a specific event in a foreign country!
These dreams are also very...difficult, unlike other
dreams, they stick out. I'll try and explain this as best as I can:
Normal events have an order, a causality
to them, cause and effect, the flow of time. A door opens, a person
appears, and welcomes you...you expect and have no problem with
the normal flow of events. But when it's not expected, it is very
upsetting, for example, a black car seems to come from nowere on
a dark night and scares the hell out of you, though you were in
little or no danger. This is because you didn't expect the car,
it wasn't seen due to dark night, so the jarring of your normal
sensibilities is shocking.
Premonitions have a similar very jarring feel to
them. To me, they feel like a "mental concept made of spiky
steel wires, that your brain doesn't want to touch, and rolls around
in your mind trying to make sense of it"
These dreams made me realize that our minds works
with "mental concepts", a car for example, is not the
words "car", in our minds, a "car" is a complex
mental construct. I imagine these like the shape of a virus, a central
body surrounded by many spikey attachments: the "car"
is in the centre, and all the things we associated with "car",
such as "travel", "petrol", "trips",
"speed" etc, are attached to it and form "hooks"
we use to link it to other mental constructs, to build our understanding
of the world.
Each item links to another by the "hooks",
buidling up a complex web of udnerstanding, not mere dry facts!
Our memories/thoughts are NOT like sheets of paper, but incredibly
complex, changing webs.
So these dreams of premonition are "uncomfortable"
because they do not have the "hooks" properly associated
with them, because they lack a sense of time and place etc. For
example, you see a newspaper in a dream, with some important news
event. Even though it says "LOCKERBIE BOMBING" on the
front cover and shows the picture, you cannot understand it, because
it lacks any sense of normal menaing or comprehension, you didn't
go into a shop, you didn't see the newsaper, you didn't buy it....therefore
it's "alien", you cannot really graps it even though you
should be able to.
Things which are outside the normal timestream,
the normal flow of events, are excruciatingly difficult to comprehend,
no matter how simple they are.
Most of these dreams were mundane, like opening
the fridge to ge tmilk, meeting a friend etc. Some though were of
disasters and upsetting events etc. Most vivid one I recall was
the Lockerbie Bombing
I told my friends what I had seen 2 weeks before it had happened,
I just didn't know WHAT I had seen meant or where it was: fire,
flames dark night, a busy road, houses.
When it came on the TV that terrible night, the TV showed the exact
scene, of the burning houses.
Now I have ME/CFS a nasty illness which ruins your
sleep, amongst many other things, the sleep distrubance is one of
it's major sysmptoms, but has also messed up my "future"
dreams, I rarely have them now, or, maybe I just don't remember
them so much, I dont' know.
For weeks before the Boxing Day Tsunami, I had dream after dream
of dams breaking, floods, towns washed away...I think I was seeing
the tsunami, and vague memories of it were triggering off more normal
dreams based off the horror.
9/11 I had a dream that didn't make sense untilit
occured in reality: I saw a tiny (sized) movie on the Internet of
a plane crashing into a building, the 9/11 attacks...I thought it
was a clip from a new Spider Man movie or something because I simply
couldn't make any sense of it.
My pals knew these things weren't a joke as I was
right time and time again.
Very difficult to live with that stuff, I wondered
if time was set in stone and we couldnt' change our own fate, our
own path. But I had a few dreams where things went...soft, bendable,
fuzzy in the middle, hard to describe, it was showing that although
maybe the start and end of a series of events couldnt' be changed,
MY actions could be changed :)
From all this, I personally believe that our minds
can exist outside Time, maybe they exist in some weird quantum state,
where time doesn't exist, there is no past or future, it's all a
jumble and can be seen at whim?
I'm Scots, and there's a lot of this kind of ability
about, but most folk simply don't want to talk about it. Some of
Louis L'Amour's "Sackett" books describe incidents of
the "Second Sight",so I believe many people have such
experiences, but it's not talked about much, alas.
One night when I was about 13, there was a strange
presence in our house, there was a smell like lavender and roses.
Wondering what was going on I investigated with my Mum, who was
in a right state about this.
Best as I can describe it, there was a presence,
it radiated watmth and love, compassion and understanding, there
was no ego, no room for hate or harm, just mind blowingly..."good".
Kindess, love, understanding :)
Now, my family isn't religious or superstitious
in the normal sense of the uses. Lot of my family are Mormon, some
are atheists, some Protestant of various types, but we sure aren't
ignorant or zealots.
Even though we come from a working class family, reading and learning
were a big thing, and, even the "religious" folks weren't
extreme or overt, or obnoxious about it. Faith was important:
concern for others love, love of life, and kindly humour, but not
"churchiness" if you know what I mean? We had a spiritual
outlook but not "blind sheep", dogmatism or the damn sectarian
crap that is such a blight across Scotland and Ireland
oh there were a couple of nitwits, every family has some, hehe,
but in general, that sort of stuff was NOT liked or encouraged,
neither ignorance, stupidity or sectarianism. Our folks have friends
and distant family from every race creed and colour under the Sun.
Life is so *precious*.
So, I am not going to call this thing "God,"
or the "Holy Spirit" (though I think that's closest to
what it may have been), because everybody's bloody religion
wants to own and control everything....well, tough luck, sunshines,
you do NOT CONTROL THESE POWERS!!! NO BUGGER ON EARTH CONTROLS THESE!!
Jeesh, these things are so...beyond us, it's like
2 flees arguing over which of them owns the man who owns the dog
the two fleas live on, lol!! ;)
This thing was of absolute GOOD, it meant only weil
to all, and was amazing :) But ,these things are oh, dangerous,
because you see aferwards in stark clarity how much of what we Humans
do is such pathetic, sad, shabby crap, we don't live up to what
we really are. You can't stand the lies, the cruelty, the bullshit,
the hate, and it makes it hard to live with such. :(
I believe in "God" and that "God"
is "good", but what those words mean, who/what God is....beyond
us, we just put our OWN beliefs on such things.
You want to believe in God and Jesus, Yaweh and Moses, Allah and
Muhammed, Ahura Mazda and Zoroaster, Odin or Tyr, Queatzacoatl,
or whatever....hey, fine by me, people see these things through
what their own eyes will let them see!!! You can't own or control
them, people will see in them what their own hearts chose to
let in.
But there is no bloody room in "Good"
for hate, murder, wicked lies, religions controlling people and
"Owning God", and all the other crap. God is, the
rest is people
Theis was a few years after the encounter with "Good".
We'd moved into a new house. A friend of ours had been talking about
spirits and mediums and getting involced in such. Now, frankly I
know most such stuff is flim-flam, and that most pagans are not
evil-doers and the other malarky nitwits accuse of them of. I'm
sure "God" would rather someone was a good pagan or atheist,
than a lousy "Christian" or another "denomination",
lol ;)
Anyway, she was a nice perosn, but there was an
increasing feeling of, something horrible being around her. One
day in town I saw folk flinching and getting out of her way, even
tourists, who couldn't have known her, but there was nothing to
explain such behaviour as she was nice in person, manners and appearance.
She was saying the "thing" was leaving her drained and
tired though, why anyone would allow such a thing to "haunt"
them is beyond me.
From what a friend told me, and from other bits
and bobs, while this was going on, a local farmer had chased a coven
off his land one night at the end of a shotgun,and I do NOT mean
Wiccans or other such harmless folks. I mean actual black
magic. Most such assholes are just using it as an excuse for sexual
kinks and illicit thrills, some though, are more dangerous.
One night our friend came into our house and the
sensation of evil was overpowering. My mum said she saw mist forming
on the floor and it got terribly cold, I instead looked up, and
saw "it".
The ceiling seemed to recede far into the distance
like one of the trick shots they do in some films. There was a loathsome
darkness, filled with floating "eyes", or souls, and it
looked at me, I mean relaly looked at me.
When you look at another perosn, you do see somewhat into
them as a person, you know that's a person, and usually, their feelings
etc. If you look into the eyes of some of the mentally unhinged
or foul, you know that's not "right".
Well, looking into the "eyes" of "Evil",
not only did I know it recognized me, I realized it was incredibly
intelligent. I used to be bloody clever, this was a lot smarter
than me by orders of magnitude.
I it was all ego, hate, nihilism, it wanted everything corrupted
and destroyed. it didn't want ot rule, but to infect (with it's
hate/nihilism) and destroy all creation. And it was "alien",
now, I do not mean "alien from another planet", no, I
mean completely bloody "wrong", you cannot imagine that,
nor knowing that it was sentinet/intelligent...you cna't imagine
such things. They *are real*.
I have a great imagination, stories art etc, but
it's MY imagination, you cannot imagine things that are "alien",
completely outside the normal world.
Incredibly distressing.
Sometime later a relative came to visit, and the
town now gave her the creeps, we hadn't discussed this, she said
it soon as we saw her.
I mostly shut this episode out of my mind as it
was too horrible. Then years later I was reading a comic and saw
a depiction of a demonic being, a "darkness with eyes"
which they called a "Lloigor". Brought it all back.
The comic was just released ("Zenith" storyline in 2000AD).
This was long before the Net, and so years later I looked this name
up, wondering how they knew of what I had saw, was it a coincidence?
In the fictional Mythos of H P Lovecraft, a writer had described
the "Lloigor" as living in the borders of Scotland. Now
I hadn't read any such book, I knew damn well what ones I had as
I loved reading and had a hell of a memory. Kind of horror books
I was reading back then were James Herbert, not Lovecraft. You can
read about this stuff here, not the critter I saw bar the "Zenith"
obviously, fictional, various writers adding/changing
the entire idea/description over time. But, the image of "darkness
with eyes", that wasn't done until the comic version, which
occured long after me seeing the damn thing.
Now If was was trying to hoodwink folk or build
myself up in their eyes, I wouldn't mention such a thing, but I'm
almost pathologically honest, lol ;)
I just think people have touched up on this horrible
thing at times.
This is the thing I believe responsible for much
of Man's woes. No it can't make people do evil deeds, but
it can influence them. It is a horror of despair and nihilism. Killing
by poison and suffocation are it's favourites, the lack of life,
the lack of energy. Suicide murders are "good" for it
too, the killer is dead and can't redeem themselves and leave nothing
but pain and hate behind it, that's how it works, by spreading hate
and fear and pain, pushing weak folk into doing evil things.
Satan, Lucifer, Ahriman, call it what you will.
It is the enemy of All that exists.
Been a few other minor things as well, but that's
the main "soild" ones. I leave you to sort things out
for yourself. Idiots that sneer, are ignorant.
From my experiences, our world of Causality, of
Time, is not the way spirits etc work. We are anchored in it, they
are not.
Despite all the recent stupid crap, Good and Evil
are real. Alas for centuries, bigots and zealots used them
as tools, and were used by Evil. They demanded that they and they
alone knew and controlled passage to "God". Jeesh *rolls
eyes*. Ants do not build and own the motorway, but they can make
it a messier place...
Trying for moderation is good, but not when it goes
too far into cowardice. Zealotry is just fear, cowardice and ego
gone mad.
Life's never easy, but it's up to the individual
to walk it THEIR way, all you have the right to do is offer assistance,and
try to stop those who'd do actual harm, not things you dislike,
but actual harm, and even then you have to be damn careful. You
CANNOT fight Evil with Evil, because only Evil wins! Evil begets
evil. "By their fruits ye shall know them"
People in groups get more and more mad and stupid,
the group becomes everything, the ethos it's meant to be about is
ignored as increasing the group's power, destroying its enemies
becomes paramount. It leads to a cycle of incestous, spiralling
madness, we've seen it form the boardrooms of the banks, the crematoria
of Auschwitz.
WAKE UP PEOPLE, you are sleep walking your way to
Hell. Not the "Hell of the Churches", but ignoring every
damn wonderful thing we have, that makes us Human, turning
a wonderful world into a rubbish dump and our souls into haunted
shadows. Of selling your souls for cheap geegaws. Of being afraid
of petty little idiots and following them regardless of common sense,
to the point you support evil deeds, torture, wars, mass murder,
robbery on grand scales, pollution that wrecks continents....
Anyway, as a fella once said "May your God,
go with you" :)


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Nokia, the world's largest maker of mobile phones, said Monday it filed complaints against wireless technology company Qualcomm in Germany and the Netherlands.
The Finnish company requested declarations that Qualcomm's patents are exhausted on products sold in the European Union with a Qualcomm license. If the courts agree with Nokia, Qualcomm would not be able to enforce patents in Europe on Nokia handsets that use Texas Instruments chipsets.
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Qualcomm makes money from selling chips and collecting licensing fees from Nokia and other wireless equipment manufacturers. It is embroiled in several legal and trade disputes with Nokia. The current licensing agreement expires April 9.
The complaints were filed in the Regional Court of Mannheim, Germany, and in the Hague District Court, the Netherlands.
Nokia shares closed up 1.8% at $22.06 on the Helsinki Stock Exchange.
Nokia said it has invested some $40 billion in research and development, and has built one of the industry's biggest intellectual property rights portfolios with more than 11,000 patent families.
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Sitting on a milk crate in the sun across from the burned-out shell where seven members of the Dawson family were killed, allegedly for standing up to neighborhood drug dealers, Jetta Simpson looks down at a button on her jacket. It reads, simply, "Believe."
"It means I believe the police should have been doing their job," she says. "And I believe the Dawsons are in the right place, they're with Jesus Christ they're in his hands now. Other than that, I don't know anymore."
Ms. Simpson's button comes from an ad campaign started last spring by a group called "Believe Baltimore." The goal is to get people in this rusting industrial city, where an estimated 1 in 8 residents is addicted to narcotics, to believe they can rid their streets of drugs. But on this block of worn row houses, many of which are boarded up, a battle over what kind of faith, if any, to have in the future, has gripped residents.
Now, after the weekend funerals of Angela Dawson and her five school-age children, the optimists are galvanized and determined to take back their streets. But there's an undercurrent of cynicism, too, born of years of tragedies that faded in the public's mind almost as fast as news cameras disappeared. For some, it's left a feeling that nothing will ever improve.
The outcome of this quiet battle of wills could determine whether this decaying neighborhood can be reclaimed by families, local churches, and small-store owners or whether it will continue to deteriorate, after 30 years of urban flight and neglect that made these streets ripe for drug dealers.
"I don't think anybody can predict today what [the killings'] long-range impact is going to be," says former Mayor Kurt Schmoke. "There's outrage at the perpetrators ..., but there's also a real concern that the law-enforcement establishment didn't serve the Dawson family well."
Angela Dawson is one woman who did believe. Her example is now fueling both sides as they struggle to come to terms with the tragedy.
When the dealers started plying their trade near Mrs. Dawson's home, she did exactly as the police had asked. She called the precinct and identified the dealers. She even confronted them face to face. She was slapped once and had bricks thrown through her windows. Two weeks before the killings, firebombs were tossed into the first floor of her row house.
After that, Dawson asked police for protection. They offered to move her and her family to a new location. But Dawson's goal was to reclaim her own neighborhood, and she declined. Two weeks later, in the dark of early morning of Oct. 16th, a neighbor with a "drug history" allegedly kicked in the front door, doused the first floor with gasoline, lit it, and ran. Dawson and her five children died in the fire. Her husband succumbed a week later from his injuries.
It is because the Dawsons did as police asked that some here on Preston Street are now deeply skeptical. "It seems like everybody who talks to the police gets killed," says Rodney Clayborn, a construction worker who lives on the block. "I think people here are going to be more scared now."
Neighborhood in decay
A man named Jimmy with tightly braided cornrows and a few missing front teeth agrees. He contends that this neighborhood needs far more than better police protection to heal. And he points to himself as proof. He's been an addict for more than 30 years. He's tried the outpatient programs but always ends up "dibbling and dabbling" again with drugs.
"I've been trying to get into a long-term program, but I can't," he says. "I want to get help, but they don't want to give me no help because I don't got no insurance."
Mr. Clayborn agrees that more drug treatment is needed, but so are jobs and job training for the young men who linger on street corners with nothing better to do. Yet with the economy in a tailspin and huge city and state budget deficits, he's not optimistic those jobs will come any time soon.
Still, many others here in the Oliver neighborhood and across Maryland refuse such skepticism and are, instead, galvanized by Dawson's tragedy. A tent filled with hundreds of teddy bears, balloons, and bouquets now stands as a tribute in front of the burned-out house. Thousands of people, like James Gross who lives across town, have come by in the past two weeks to pay tribute and drop dollar bills in a bottle to help pay the family's funeral expenses.
"Enough is enough. People are getting tired of things like this," he says, shaking his head. "It could have been any of our sons or nieces and nephews."
Mayor Martin O'Malley has put out a 15-point "action plan" that includes a dramatically increased police presence and a crackdown on parole violators, as well as nurturing community involvement in crime watches and mentoring. The city also plans to turn the Dawson home into a memorial.
"That neighborhood is going to be a key for the mayor for the next year or so because of this tragedy," says Gerry Shields, a top aide to Mayor O'Malley. "It opened our eyes as to what was going on over there."
Activists who've been organizing here for the past four years say they're appalled that it took the deaths of a whole family to get City Hall's attention. But now that they've got it, they're determined to use it. A group called Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development (BUILD) has gone to police with a plan that would allow residents to report drug dealers to a neutral board that would, in turn, alert police. The goal is to allow residents like Dawson to finger the dealers without fearing retaliation. BUILD is still waiting for a response from police.
They also have faith that this neighborhood can be transformed into a haven. And they point to a neat, flourishing development of family-owned homes in West Baltimore that, 10 years ago, looked just as bedraggled as Preston Street.
It took community and church involvement, as well as low-interest loans and subsidies, to allow families to buy their own homes. "I'm optimistic that it will turn around here as well but not because of the politicians and the city government," says Pastor Robert Burley, a member of BUILD whose church is here. "It's going to be turned around by the people who are beating the streets, getting trash taken care of, and vacant lots clean. It's going to get turned around by the people who live here and want to see it change."


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The Burlington Five: Learned Societies Fight for their Homes
The Times, 18 January 2004
Tomorrow, January 19th , in the High Court (Chancery Division), a case opens that threatens the entire future of the most scholarly institutions in this country. The five learned societies in the courtyard of Burlington House off Piccadilly - the Linnean Society, devoted to all branches of biology, sheltering under the archway, with the Geological Society opposite, the Royal Astronomical Society and the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society of Chemistry - are all, to put it bluntly, facing eviction, because the government fancies the rooms for itself.
London, and Britain as a whole, may lose a stupendous resource. In the eighteenth century, Britain reinvented itself intellectually, fostered by devoted clubs of coffee-house amateurs and George III gathered several learned societies, with the Royal Society itself, at Somerset House, an extraordinarily ambitious project to make London rival Paris. They moved to Burlington House in 1874, taking over purpose-built premises, equipped with libraries and meeting rooms: the only unfulfilled part of the grand Victorian dream was that the University of London would also move in, at the back of the Royal Academy.
Today's crisis arises because only one organisation, the Royal Academy, actually has a contract, having cannily bought a 999-year lease for a sovereign - a coin allegedly given, appropriately, by Queen Victoria. Although the rest spend fortunes on their grandly crumbling premises, they pay no rent. They are here by the generosity of a long-dead monarch. Under John Major's government, the Crown began to feel less generous. Under Labour, the interest grew ominously fervent. Different heavyweights have muscled in, notably John Prescott, since the buildings now come under the Office of Deputy Prime Minister. Why should these allegedly 'snobbish', 'standoffish' institutions occupy 'a tied cottage' in the middle of London (as one M.P. put it)? Rumours circle that the courtyard is destined to be a glitzy grand hotel, or offices for the new Ministry of Constitutional Affairs. In April 2002, an inquiry of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee commented that 'withdrawing current arrangements would impact on the good work that the Burlington House societies are able to do. This would be a net loss to Science.' The government were not persuaded. The current case, brought by the government, and defended by the five societies, will determine exactly what right the societies have to be there. They aren't squatters, exactly - if they were, they would have the rights they need. They may have 'rights of estoppel' - honouring a presumed agreement. But instead, it is argued, they are 'tenants at will'. If so, the will of the landlord - the government - may be harsh.
But why should we care? What lies behind those grand doors? A lot of history, for one thing. At a meeting of the Linnean Darwin read his paper on the origin of the species, and his portrait hangs here beside that of his rival, Alfred Russel Wallace. The Linnean's great history stretching back to the time of Joseph Banks. Before Christmas, the busts on the curving marble staircase were wreathed in bay and holly, with the odd glittery butterfly perched on a distinguished balding head. In the green reading room, with its green under-water atmosphere, tall columns rise to an elegant balustraded balcony, and in the library opposite, where mounting files threaten to cascade off desks - and where you can access 400 periodicals in a host of languages - one corner is crammed with coffee and tea-making clutter, crowned with a purple knitted tea-cosy, beneath a print from 'Tea-Blending: a Fine Art', from the Libraries' Insch Tea Collection.
The true treasures lie deep below, in its strong-room, ruled by the Librarian Gina Douglas and containing the letters, travel diaries, working papers and books of Carl Linnaeus, the tough Swedish genius who established the botanical naming system we use today, sold by his widow to pay for dowries for her three daughters. A heavy iron door swings back. Gina opens a volume of bound letters to reveal a note from Rousseau to Linnaeus, breathing excitement and admiration. She pulls back a drawer, and here are the skeletons of strange dried fish, while another gleams with dragonflies and insects (the mammals got moth in 1897 and became 'a nuisance'.) A time-machine, a microcosm of Enlightenment exploration and classification, the room is the setting for a dramatic episode in A.S.Byatt's novel 'The Biographer's Tale' when the lights go out and the hero feels his way blindly along Linnaeus' leather-bound volumes. 'It would be an intellectual and aesthetic disaster, and a scandalous loss to London', says Byatt, 'if the Linnean collection were moved from its perfect surroundings simply for the
benefit of civil servants'. Each society is strikingly different, but their energy flows across this 'synoptic' courtyard, as the Secretary of the Linnean, John Marsden, neatly described it. A member of the Astronomical Society designed the layout of the courtyard fountains, reflecting the pattern of the planets at Newton's birth. The Chemists, in their last open week exhibited a painting of 'The Dream of the Virgin' from the Antiquaries - when a Courtauld team analysed it they found, under the gold paint, an image of Jesus crucified on the Tree of Life. Modern science meets art history.
This is a courtyard of heroes, past and present. The chemists look back to Joseph Priestley, Faraday and Roscoe; to Henry Perkin who invented modern dye-stuffs, including the colour 'mauve', founded the modern organic chemical industry; to the Nobel prize winner Dorothy Hodgkin and her fellow crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale; more recent Fellows have included Nobel prize-winners Alexander Todd, who worked on the molecules that make up DNA, and Sir Harry Kroto, who discovered the C60 molecule known world-wide as 'Buckminster Fullerene', and Dr Simon Campbell, who led the team that discovered Viagra. A first President of the Astronomers was William Herschel, and the names of its Fellows include Charles Babbage, who conceived the computer, Bernard Lovell, founder of Joddrel Bank ,Sir James Jeans, Arthur Eddington, the prime expositor of relativity in Britain and to Fred Hoyle and Sir Patrick Moore - as well as the current Astronomer Royal.
Across the way, the roll-call of the Antiquaries, the oldest of the societies here, founded in 1715, runs from William Stukeley, Josiah Wedgwood and Sir William Hamilton, of vases and volcanoes fame, to Mortimer Wheeler and on to David Starkey and the historians and archeologists of today. To Starkey, the threat to the societies is an outrage: they were the engine of Britain's intellectual awakening, far more than the universities, and sum up the great tradition of private scholarship outside academia including men like Darwin, Gibbon and Macaulay. 'Not only is the court case a disgrace, it is a terrible illustration of the way government puts their own interests above public welfare. The Burlington House scheme was conceived of monumentally - it was important, and deliberate, that the site was in the centre of things, and that the buildings themselves were a visible symbol of the ideal of learning. Who would dream of moving the British Museum to Surbiton?' he asks.
All the Burlington Five play a part in public issues. Because they are not part of any academic institution, and take no money from government or industry, they can tackle ministers and address the public without accusations of axe-grinding. They are hubs of local, national and international networks, with members from local societies as well as advanced research bodies. The charge of elitism falters when you see how they welcome students and visitors, find the Kent Field Club newsletter alongside 'Biodiversity News', grasp a brochure on 'Chemistry in the Community', or watch the Astronomers' Monica Grady on television giving her Royal Institution Lectures on 'Voyage through Space and Time'.
They look to past and future simultaneously. The Antiquaries may have splendid teas, and ceremonies involving a tricorne hat and a mace, but their talk is of new excavations, antiquities lost in Iraq, bills in Parliament. The Astronomers and Geologists are concerned for the fate of the Beagle on Mars, since Colin Pillinger is a Fellow of both. The Geologists' treasures included William Smith's famous 'Map that Changed the World' - the first national geological map - but today they provide the secretariat for the cutting-edge All-Party Group on the Earth Sciences. The Chemists advise the government on white papers and pour out material for schools.
They can also promote research that universities shy away from because it has no quick direct outcome, and thus doesn't attract grants. The Linnean, for example, was among the first bodies to alert us to the perils of global warming - a stance that then seemed cranky. They took the lead in investigating DNA and applied this knowledge through modern classification techniques like cladistics, tracing evolutionary pathways and mapping life on earth in a way that is just as radical as Linnaeus and Darwin were in their day. We may feel that these societies have 'nothing to do with us'. But they do. They are still pioneers, though rich in history. But none are cash-rich: economic rents in central London will cripple them unless they sell off their treasures. Sir David Attenborough is one of many prepared to step forward and put their case. A Fellow of the Linnean, he feels it a great honour to belong to it since it has shaped our understanding of the world, and of natural history. 'It has always', he says, 'been a source of pride to me that London is a civilised city - and when visitors come from abroad, you can take them into that courtyard and say, 'Look - this sums it up. Ahead of you are the arts - the Royal Academy - and to left and right are history and the sciences - botany , astronomy, chemistry and geology. If ever a place was redolent of learning and culture, the Burlington courtyard must be supreme.'
If the Burlington Five are forced to leave, the capital will not only lose wealth from the past, but the curiosity and vital energy that are the life-blood of the future. A cause we should all be fighting for.


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As a child, I always wanted to swim with dolphins. And, if I'm honest, as an adult as well.
Swimming with dolphins has become a cliché in the repertoire of half-formed dreams, wishes and wonderings of those who realise that their time on this earth has limits. Yet it wasn't until I sat down to write this post that it occurred to me to question why.
I've been lucky, catching sight of dolphins in the wild off the shores of Oman, Tenerife and even Dingle in Ireland (although, to be fair, it was dolphin singular in that last case.) Each time, even in Ireland, sunbeams sparkled across the waves, almost daring onlookers with their brilliance.
"Are you sure?" they seem to say. "You're sure you want to see dolphins? Look closely, then, and prepare yourself for staring into the light of the sun itself."
Wet dolphins reflect light like diamonds. They're also fast: blazing through the water, throwing crescents above the sea while they race besides the boat.
Yet today there wasn't going to be a boat. I was standing in the Dolphin Research Center in Florida – and training, instead of chasing, was the name of the game.
To the sound of whooping and hollering, we lazed through the Florida Keys sunshine to meet the team, led by aficionado Mary Stella.
"Y'know," she says to us in a sunshine state drawl. "If I were a dolphin, I'd want to be born here."
There's a tricky moment, I think, when talking to anyone who deals with animals in captivity. For a start, you have to remember to avoid the word captivity, a task that inexplicably becomes impossible as soon as you have to remember to do it.
Research centres, sanctuaries and programmes like these are clearly gallons of water away from cramped zoos and performing circuses. And there's no doubt in my mind that Mary, and the other members of the team, show far more devotion towards the animals in their care than I do.
I've written before about my unease and unanswered questions about aquariums – and my eyes and mind have been opened by the replies in the comments sections.
Yet still, as someone besides me murmurs under his breath about wanting to live free in the oceans, questions arise and I just wish we could talk more openly about one or two things.
Perhaps burned by the press in the past, the staff remain cautious today.
The Dolphin Research Center lives, no soaks, in the Florida sunshine. The trainers wear splash vests and swim suits and the dolphins really do seem to wear smiles.
Nets and fences carve up the ocean into spaces for the dolphins, who roam freely in between.
"During Hurricane Wilma," says Mary, "the water covered the walkways and the dolphins could have left. But they didn't."
This is exactly the kind of thing I wish they'd talk more about. They're a specialised research centre, performing robust tests into dolphin counting, object permanence (remembering where you left the car keys,) foetal echocardiography and more.
They should know, then, psychologically speaking, that just because an animal doesn't try to escape, doesn't mean it wants to stay. There's the phenomenon of learned helplessness, whereby animals realise that no matter what they do, they cannot break through a certain barrier. Eventually, when that barrier is removed, they no longer try. It leads animals to starve themselves when food is plenty; it's thought to explain why abducted children stay with the adults who molest them. After enough failed attempts, animals simply learn that it's too dangerous to keep on trying.
Of course, this may have nothing to do with the dolphins here. The science geek inside me would just have liked to explore it as a possibility.
As it is, just a short afternoon here opens up all kinds of questions about animal training (and yes, that includes husbands who won't pick up their socks, children who won't tidy their rooms, women who won't stop nagging and writers who won't stop using clichés.)
In each pen, we see different stages of training. In the main one, the adult males leap into the air, turning somersaults, twisting and shimmering beneath the sun to the whoops of encouragement from the team.
"We use positive reinforcement here," Mary explains, as the males munch their way through a coolbox load of fish and good cheer. "We don't punish."
Behind me, I see what happens when something goes wrong.
Two small platforms bob into the water, where children take turns at touching or training the young dolphins. With a deft, quiet signal, everyone walks away.
"What happened?" I ask.
"Someone did something they're not supposed to," replies one of the trainers, leaving me to wonder whether we're talking about child or dolphin.
"Dolphins are just like you," says Mary, when I try to find out what happened. "They get grumpy. They have mood swings, too."
A scurrilous accusation.
Across the way, a baby dolphin takes its baby flips through the training routine. It wins a fish each time it correctly touches the target pole. The next stage involves correctly identifying its name as a symbol – a cross or a crescent or a circle, say, – next to the target pole.
"Dolphins pick out the symbols with echolocation," explains Jennifer, a Senior Education Officer. "They can only see for about 10 metres – and they can't see well ahead."
Besides the merry baby in training, baby humans are at play.
At the Dolphin Research Center, you can pay to swim with dolphins. You can also, as I saw, learn to paint with them as well.
This is dolphin training at its most subtle. The trainer before us, sporting a hat and a trademark suntan, merely touches his fingers and thumbs together in the slightest of moves to exact the most intuitive of responses.
"You want a photo?" he says. "You don't need to ask me. Look."
At a quiver of his fingers, the mother dolphin pauses from painting to swim by and pose.
It's impressive. Even breathtakingly, cliché-ridden, awesomely so.
The boy's face fills with delight as he braces the T-shirt against the dolphin's paintbrush, while I still can't explain why dolphins, rather than tarantulas, pigeons or rats, hold such appeal.
Perhaps it comes down to this worldly-wise quote from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
"Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars and so on — whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man — for precisely the same reasons."
Or perhaps, it comes from another:
- The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish
As for me, I still have more questions and, in spite of that, I'd still love to swim with dolphins.
In the meantime: So long and thanks for all the tweets.
I visited Florida as a guest of Virgin Holidays as part of a Florida Photo Safari both at the Dolphin Research Center and elsewhere. The usual, exciting, disclosure policy applies…
PS – You can swim with dolphins at the Dolphin Research Center


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Cowboys and Aliens Movie Review
Cowboys and Aliens Movie Review
This movie surpasses expectation. When trailers played in theaters, audiences heckled. But, the producers delivered a fast moving, easy to follow plot. Just enough mystery and suspense, along with a few laughs, balance the film.
All of the characters develop and mature naturally. The reveal of nature and hearts unfolds organically as the plot unfolds. It will be advisable for makers of recent superhero movies to get some consulting from director Jon Favreau or writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.
Anti-Christian Disinformation
One slimy practice Hollywood continues in this film is the debasement of Christianity. Recently, in Pirates of the Caribbean, Higher Tides, an evangelist character seemed to always be saved, as if by the hand of God. In the end of Pirates, however, he accepts the assistance of a demon and is taken to Hell. In Cowboys and Aliens, the same detraction is at work. A preacher character is in this movie, too. He has some good characteristics: He encourages others, gives his time for others, helps the main character in a time of need, and finally sacrifices his life to help a boy. But, he says to Doc, "You have to earn God's presence." That is a lie from Hell!
That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast (a letter from Paul to the church at Ephesus: Ephesians Chapter 2, verses 7 to 9, KJV).
New World Order Frontloading
In recent years it seems, almost every movie promotes some thought or interpretation suggestion that promotes the satanic "New World Order." Most people now understand that government and powerful organizations seek to control power and wealth. What they miss is the ultimate goal: a literal reconfiguration of the power structure of the entire planet.
Movies are often (always?) written with an idea to lead, or at least add to, your thoughts. Cowboys and Aliens did not deviate from this standard. As in so many previous films, we receive the "bad alien" followed by "good alien." The identity of the alien is not completely obvious, and is not revealed in this review. However, the "good alien" does save the day.
Where is the 32?
As always, this movie has the mark of the Satanists- their secret number 32. This time, it is the number of soldiers Colonel Dolarhyde lost at the battle of Antietam: 328 men.
Aliens are Demons
In this movie, they add something new. I have not noticed this idea previously: The characters decide the "aliens" are demons. I doubt Hollywood is deviating from its unholy allegiances. This appears to be more psychological front-loading. Everyone speaks of the "aliens" as demons after the opening scenes of the movie. However, when the characters are attempting to ascertain the nature of their attackers, someone asks the preacher if they are demons. The preacher initially says something like, "Well, it does match the description." When challenged, however, the preacher insists he did not say they are demons, "I did not say they are demons!"
By attributing the notion to the man who reads the Bible, Hollywood means to belittle the notion that "aliens" are anything but beings evolved from "rain upon the rocks" which produced a "primordial soup." The character who turns out to be an alien explains coming from "beyond the stars." That is called "the heavens", and it is where fallen angels fall from in Revelation.
They also come from under the earth.
When the "aliens" come, they will come both from the ground and from the sky, just like in this movie.
Deceiving Movie-goers
People who go to the cinema and watch movies like Cowboys and Aliens, I am Number Four, Superman/Batman: Apocalypse and many others have a greatly increased chance to believe that the people coming are not demons at all, coming to fulfill the judgments of Revelation. Instead, they will believe they are just another life form, like on Star Trek or Farscape. And, these movie-goers, who do not also read and study their Bibles and pray regularly, will actually anticipate and hope for the arrival of the "good aliens".
New Agers Believe Aliens are Friends
All the New Agers are already squirming hoping for salvation from a dying planet via good space aliens. In I am Number Four and Legend of the Guardians, you find more information. In Number Four, the good aliens remain, to continue helping, just like in Transformers. In Legend of the Guardian, the "good" owls (who exist only in myth until the youth discover they are real), remain to "establish order and lead into a new world."
Do you know that if an alien abductee gets born again as a child of God, the abductions stop? It is because aliens are demons and greatly fear that a child of God will call on Jesus in their trouble, or will bring God's Word into action. Just quoting God's words of protection binds demons from harming. They don't abduct Christians with faith in the Word except by error.
I find it to be extremely presumptuous to think that any "being" from another planet or galaxy is a demon of hell. I am a preacher's daughter and have been a true born Christian for many years now, and I see nowhere in the Bible that says we are the only beings God created in His image. As a matter of fact, I see no reason to believe that God has not created multitudes of other "humanoid beings" many ages older than us in galaxies different than us, as He is a God of creation and an eternal God. What do you think He was doing before He created us? What do you think He will be doing when this world dies away? We are not His beginning and ending, He will live and create beyond any aspect of us. Furthermore, I rather doubt that Hollywood is intentionally using Satanic symbols and messages to turn us from Christianity. Who knows which of us is right? Only God. However, I would look a little further before making such bold claims.
good review about Cowboys and Aliens. this is the first time that I heard that aliens are demons
Thank you for this fascinating analysis of "Cowboys and Aliens." Your words are surely provocative.
You wrote: "this movie has the mark of the Satanists- their secret number 32"
This is the first I have heard of this secret number. Interesting.
Yes I do. I also reviewed "Cowboys and Aliens" :)
Very good, Thank you for posting :) Voted Up, Useful, and Interesting