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President Barack Obama praised the teenage son of Democratic mayoral hopeful Bill de Blasio for his notorious hairstyle at a New York City fundraiser, recalling he had once sported the same look.
Obama spoke to a crowd of about 250 people at the Waldorf-Astoria event Tuesday night to raise money for the Democratic National Committee.
He introduced the elder de Blasio and pointed out the mayoral candidate's son, Dante, saying he has "the same hairdo I had back in 1978."
The crowd laughed and applauded, and the president went on.
"Although I have to confess, my Afro was never that good," Obama said. "It was a little unbalanced."
Dante de Blasio's hair has become an element of his father's campaign, and even has its own hashtag, #GoWithTheFro.
Obama endorsed de Blasio earlier this week.


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- Presents a re-telling of the well-known fairy tale of a young girl who feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds, proving she is a real princess.
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Foxconn, otherwise known as the company responsible for the iPhone suicide, supposedly just had their CEO fingered by the IRS for tax evasion. Up to $US1.49 billion worth. But it's not so simple.
The accusation that the CEO was under tax evasion investigations came from a former reporter for a Chinese magazine. The accusation was made on her personal blog, and was then denied by Foxconn (whose parent company is Hon Hai) as "a bunch of nonsense." There may be a reason to believe them.
These charges do seem a bit strange when you look at them for more than 10 seconds. The woman claims that the IRS demands the (up to) $US1.49 billion worth be paid up, plus a fine of up to three times that amount. And it gets even stranger when you consider that the same reporter was found guilty of blackmailing the CEO for $US1 million, and was sentenced to a year and ten months. [Chinapost - Thanks Ben!]


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The worshippers of Dajjal had indeed been very busy. They are now paving the way for their 'god' to make an appearance. They are trying their best to make people to forget the Real God - any God for that matter. They want all humankind to be immoral, disregard family values, break up the family unit, be materialistic etc in fact they support the opposite of 'amal makruf nahi mungkar. (encourage good and forbid evil). Killing ,raping, torturing is their pastimes.
From my understanding, the enemy of Ad Dajjal is Imam Mahdi. And from the books that I read about the Imam's coming, is that he will appear in Palestine and will unite the Islamic countries. The reason why the evil Zionists are trying to eradicate the Muslims from Palestine, so that the chances of Imam Mahdi appearing will be nil. However even how smart they are, Allah is indeed above all.
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peace be on you
the system of dajjal is too intelligent to be recognised, truly it stands behind us and points out there is dajjal there is dajjal.
dajjal system does not fear anything but Quran, guess where shall it be?
dajjal has come long ago, its feet are firm in the ground, it will not let Quran be implemented and will do everything to disract and keep muslims from doing tawassum tadabbur tafakkur for if we do so we will realise its trick
we muslims are very innocent and dont understand dajjal.
may Allah give us understanding.
The whole world is like Hazrat Umar but no one is like his sister and brother in law.
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In the latter days he shall appear in The Flesh His Companion , the Sign of The Concealers Of The Truth . Only to the eyes of the Purified Ones . His Mark will be in Your Right Hand ; the symbol of The Evil One . Six Hundred And Sixty And Six . The Number 666 , Three stages of the Number Six . 666 a gift for the barterers with Azazl , rather than accepting the Truth , The 613 Commandments . In reality the facts must be found only with the realization that there are No Numbers In Ancient Hebrew . But rather the Ten First Letters , Thus 6 , 6 , 6 , Is Zaiyn , Zaiyn , Zaiyn , Simply Zionist , The Rothschilds .
Benjamin Disraeli , Moses Montefiore , Rabbi Kalisher of Thorn , Moses Hess , Karl Marx , Arnold Ruge , Jacob Venedy , Frederick Lassalle , Gabriel Risser , Lord Reading Isaacs , Hebert Samuel , Asher Ginsberg , Nathan Birnbaum , Theodore Herzl , Mack Norday , Chaim Weizmann , Nahum Sokolow , Louis Brandeis , Alfred Mond , Samuel Untermeyer , Leon Blum , Albert Einstein , Helen Blavatsky , Adam Weishaupt , Martiner Pasqualy , George Felt , Albert Pike , Adolph Hitler , King Saud , Richard S . Nixon ,
30 in all and their many Sons and Daughters and Devotees . Zion , zion , zion , 6 , 6 , 6 , Ze - iyon , the nucleus of light and fire . He , Azazl , led into ignorance those that dwell on The Planet Earth by way of his signs , which he , Ant - Christ , does right in front of the Beast .
This Is Saying To All Who Dwell On The Planet Earth , That They Should Make A Picture Of The Beast , Which Was Hit With A Sword But Live . He Had Power To Give Spirit To The Image Of The Beast , And That The Image Of The Beast Should Both Speak And Cause As Many Of The People Who Would Not Worship The Image Of The Beast Would Be Killed . The Beast Caused All Nations Of People . Both Big And Small , Rich And Poor , Free And Slaved , To Get A Stamp In Their Right Hand , Or In The Space Between Their Eyes . So That No One Would Be Able To Buy Or Sell Except For Those That Had The Stamp Or The Name Of The Living Beast , Or The Number 6 , 6 , 6 , Of His Name . This Is True Wisdom , So Let Him That Has A Good Mind Count The Number Of The Living Beast . For It Is The Number Of A Human Being And The Number Is 6 , 6 , 6 ,
After that I saw another Anunnagi '' Those Who Anu Sent From Heaven To Qi , Earth '' descending down from the Kesiyl , Orion , Skies and he had great authority . And the Planet Earth was lit up by his brilliance . He cried with a great voice saying Babylon , The Big Is Fallen and it has become the dwelling place of Demons . And the Prison Of Every Unclean And Hated Bird . Because all Nations have Drunk of the Intoxicant of her Punishment of her Fornication . And The Rulers of the Planet Earth have all become very Rich by way of her Luxuries . And I heard another voice from the Kesul , Orion , Skies saying .
Leave her . O my kindred , so that you don't become a Binder Of Partners With Her In Her Sins , So That You All Will Not Get Her Plagues . For Her Sins Have Piled On Top Of Each Other So That They Reach Right Up To The Kesul Orion , Skies , And The Thehos , Remembers Her Wrong Doing
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666 is the number of the Antichrist's name (Revelation 13:18).
I have studied the subject of the Antichrist for thirty eight years. I am an expert.
First of all, the Antichrist involves two separate persons that unify as one. I will explain.
The Antichrist "man" will be an end times figure who will be of Roman blood, which is of the people who destroyed the temple and sanctuary, Daniel 9:26-27. Specifically, he will be descended from the Julio-Claudian family.
He will be a Jew. Which means his mother has to be a Jew. He will initially be embraced as Judaism's king messiah. Jesus referred to him as another coming in his own name, they the Jewish religious leaders would accept. Judaism currently views Jesus as a failed king messiah.
He confirms the covenant with many for 7 years, Daniel 9:27. In Deuteronomy 31:10-11, there is a requirement that the Mt. Sinai covenant, the law, be confirmed every 7 years. 7 years is right in the text.
I inquired of a Jewish (Judaism) well qualified counter (Christian) missionary if the Jews were following those instructions. He told me, no, because it has to be done at the place of God's choosing which is the temple mount. Of course, muslims control the temple mount, so the Jews are prevented from following their religion in that respect. The same goes for why the Jews don't make the animal sacrifices.
I know muslims here aren't going to like to hear this, but the Gog/Magog war of Ezekiel 38/39 is going to remove the muslim control of the temple mount.
When that happens, the Antichrist man is going to show up and will deceive the Jews as being their messiah by setting the 7 year interval of confirming of the law (Deuteronomy 31:10-11) back on track.
Half -way through that 7 years, he will betray the Jews and go into the temple and declare that he is God (2Thessalonians2:4). The Antichrist man will be slain for doing so. He is represented by the wounded head on the beast in Revelation 13:1.
In Revelation 13:3, it indicates that the Antichrist man recovers miraculously. It is during that recovery process, that the Antichrist man become the Antichrist beast. Or just "beast".
What happens is that the slain Antichrist man will be incarnated by the beast spirit of another individual coming out of the bottomless pit. That beast was in the bottomless pit even back in John's day (Revelation 17:8), indicated by the phrase "was, and is not".
The bible doesn't say who that individual is. imo, it is Nimrod, because he founded the tower of babel, in rebellion against God. He was also an Assyrian. In Genesis 10:8, it said he became a giborim which indicates that he underwent some sort of biological change to be the like nephilims.
In Revelation 13, the Antichrist beast (the slain/recovered Antichrist man incarnated by the spirit of Nimrod) reigns with terror for 42 months. The 666 requirement is found Revelation 13:18. No-one knows the name of the Antichrist man. The number of his name is "666". In the ot, Adonikam coming out of the Babylonian captivity had 666 descendants. In Ezra 8, the last three sons are listed by name - Eliphelet, Jeuel and Shemaiah. One of those is number 666. The Antichrist man's name could be that name.
13And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore males.
imo, based upon some information in Daniel 7 and 8, the Antichrist man's home country of origin is Macedonia - not a guarantee.
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666 was most probably a code for Nero, the Roman emperor who persecuted Christians. On another note, one early manuscript of the NT (P115) states that the number of the Antichrist is not 666 but 616. It seems the "inspired" authors of the NT could not agree as to the correct mark of the Antichrist. How shocking!
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 6, by Edward Gibbon, [1788], at sacred-texts.com
After a tedious and troublesome navigation of seventy-seven days, this religious squadron cast anchor before Venice; and their reception proclaimed the joy and magnificence of that powerful republic. In the command of the world, the modest Augustus had never claimed such honors from his subjects as were paid to his feeble successor by an independent state. Seated on the poop on a lofty throne, he received the visit, or, in the Greek style, the adoration of the doge and senators. 54 They sailed in the Bucentaur, which was accompanied by twelve stately galleys: the sea was overspread with innumerable gondolas of pomp and pleasure; the air resounded with music and acclamations; the mariners, and even the vessels, were dressed in silk and gold; and in all the emblems and pageants, the Roman eagles were blended with the lions of St. Mark. The triumphal procession, ascending the great canal, passed under the bridge of the Rialto; and the Eastern strangers gazed with admiration on the palaces, the churches, and the populousness of a city, that seems to float on the bosom of the waves. 55 They sighed to behold the spoils and trophies with which it had been decorated after the sack of Constantinople. After a hospitable entertainment of fifteen days, Palaeologus pursued his journey by land and water from Venice to Ferrara; and on this occasion the pride of the Vatican was tempered by policy to indulge the ancient dignity of the emperor of the East. He made his entry on a black horse; but a milk-white steed, whose trappings were embroidered with golden eagles, was led before him; and the canopy was borne over his head by the princes of Este, the sons or kinsmen of Nicholas, marquis of the city, and a sovereign more powerful than himself. 56 Palaeologus did not alight till he reached the bottom of the staircase: the pope advanced to the door of the apartment; refused his proffered genuflection; and, after a paternal embrace, conducted the emperor to a seat on his left hand. Nor would the patriarch descend from his galley, till a ceremony almost equal, had been stipulated between the bishops of Rome and Constantinople. The latter was saluted by his brother with a kiss of union and charity; nor would any of the Greek ecclesiastics submit to kiss the feet of the Western primate. On the opening of the synod, the place of honor in the centre was claimed by the temporal and ecclesiastical chiefs; and it was only by alleging that his predecessors had not assisted in person at Nice or Chalcedon, that Eugenius could evade the ancient precedents of Constantine and Marcian. After much debate, it was agreed that the right and left sides of the church should be occupied by the two nations; that the solitary chair of St. Peter should be raised the first of the Latin line; and that the throne of the Greek emperor, at the head of his clergy, should be equal and opposite to the second place, the vacant seat of the emperor of the West. 57
But as soon as festivity and form had given place to a more serious treaty, the Greeks were dissatisfied with their journey, with themselves, and with the pope. The artful pencil of his emissaries had painted him in a prosperous state; at the head of the princes and prelates of Europe, obedient at his voice, to believe and to arm. The thin appearance of the universal synod of Ferrara betrayed his weakness: and the Latins opened the first session with only five archbishops, eighteen bishops, and ten abbots, the greatest part of whom were the subjects or countrymen of the Italian pontiff. Except the duke of Burgundy, none of the potentates of the West condescended to appear in person, or by their ambassadors; nor was it possible to suppress the judicial acts of Basil against the dignity and person of Eugenius, which were finally concluded by a new election. Under these circumstances, a truce or delay was asked and granted, till Palaeologus could expect from the consent of the Latins some temporal reward for an unpopular union; and after the first session, the public proceedings were adjourned above six months. The emperor, with a chosen band of his favorites and Janizaries, fixed his summer residence at a pleasant, spacious monastery, six miles from Ferrara; forgot, in the pleasures of the chase, the distress of the church and state; and persisted in destroying the game, without listening to the just complaints of the marquis or the husbandman. 58 In the mean while, his unfortunate Greeks were exposed to all the miseries of exile and poverty; for the support of each stranger, a monthly allowance was assigned of three or four gold florins; and although the entire sum did not amount to seven hundred florins, a long arrear was repeatedly incurred by the indigence or policy of the Roman court. 59 They sighed for a speedy deliverance, but their escape was prevented by a triple chain: a passport from their superiors was required at the gates of Ferrara; the government of Venice had engaged to arrest and send back the fugitives; and inevitable punishment awaited them at Constantinople; excommunication, fines, and a sentence, which did not respect the sacerdotal dignity, that they should be stripped naked and publicly whipped. 60 It was only by the alternative of hunger or dispute that the Greeks could be persuaded to open the first conference; and they yielded with extreme reluctance to attend from Ferrara to Florence the rear of a flying synod. This new translation was urged by inevitable necessity: the city was visited by the plague; the fidelity of the marquis might be suspected; the mercenary troops of the duke of Milan were at the gates; and as they occupied Romagna, it was not without difficulty and danger that the pope, the emperor, and the bishops, explored their way through the unfrequented paths of the Apennine. 61
Yet all these obstacles were surmounted by time and policy. The violence of the fathers of Basil rather promoted than injured the cause of Eugenius; the nations of Europe abhorred the schism, and disowned the election, of Felix the Fifth, who was successively a duke of Savoy, a hermit, and a pope; and the great princes were gradually reclaimed by his competitor to a favorable neutrality and a firm attachment. The legates, with some respectable members, deserted to the Roman army, which insensibly rose in numbers and reputation; the council of Basil was reduced to thirty-nine bishops, and three hundred of the inferior clergy; 62 while the Latins of Florence could produce the subscriptions of the pope himself, eight cardinals, two patriarchs, eight archbishops, fifty two bishops, and forty- five abbots, or chiefs of religious orders. After the labor of nine months, and the debates of twenty-five sessions, they attained the advantage and glory of the reunion of the Greeks. Four principal questions had been agitated between the two churches; 1. The use of unleaven bread in the communion of Christ's body. 2. The nature of purgatory. 3. The supremacy of the pope. And, 4. The single or double procession of the Holy Ghost. The cause of either nation was managed by ten theological champions: the Latins were supported by the inexhaustible eloquence of Cardinal Julian; and Mark of Ephesus and Bessarion of Nice were the bold and able leaders of the Greek forces. We may bestow some praise on the progress of human reason, by observing that the first of these questions was now treated as an immaterial rite, which might innocently vary with the fashion of the age and country. With regard to the second, both parties were agreed in the belief of an intermediate state of purgation for the venial sins of the faithful; and whether their souls were purified by elemental fire was a doubtful point, which in a few years might be conveniently settled on the spot by the disputants. The claims of supremacy appeared of a more weighty and substantial kind; yet by the Orientals the Roman bishop had ever been respected as the first of the five patriarchs; nor did they scruple to admit, that his jurisdiction should be exercised agreeably to the holy canons; a vague allowance, which might be defined or eluded by occasional convenience. The procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father alone, or from the Father and the Son, was an article of faith which had sunk much deeper into the minds of men; and in the sessions of Ferrara and Florence, the Latin addition of filioque was subdivided into two questions, whether it were legal, and whether it were orthodox. Perhaps it may not be necessary to boast on this subject of my own impartial indifference; but I must think that the Greeks were strongly supported by the prohibition of the council of Chalcedon, against adding any article whatsoever to the creed of Nice, or rather of Constantinople. 63 In earthly affairs, it is not easy to conceive how an assembly equal of legislators can bind their successors invested with powers equal to their own. But the dictates of inspiration must be true and unchangeable; nor should a private bishop, or a provincial synod, have presumed to innovate against the judgment of the Catholic church. On the substance of the doctrine, the controversy was equal and endless: reason is confounded by the procession of a deity: the gospel, which lay on the altar, was silent; the various texts of the fathers might be corrupted by fraud or entangled by sophistry; and the Greeks were ignorant of the characters and writings of the Latin saints. 64 Of this at least we may be sure, that neither side could be convinced by the arguments of their opponents. Prejudice may be enlightened by reason, and a superficial glance may be rectified by a clear and more perfect view of an object adapted to our faculties. But the bishops and monks had been taught from their infancy to repeat a form of mysterious words: their national and personal honor depended on the repetition of the same sounds; and their narrow minds were hardened and inflamed by the acrimony of a public dispute.
While they were most in a cloud of dust and darkness, the Pope and emperor were desirous of a seeming union, which could alone accomplish the purposes of their interview; and the obstinacy of public dispute was softened by the arts of private and personal negotiation. The patriarch Joseph had sunk under the weight of age and infirmities; his dying voice breathed the counsels of charity and concord, and his vacant benefice might tempt the hopes of the ambitious clergy. The ready and active obedience of the archbishops of Russia and Nice, of Isidore and Bessarion, was prompted and recompensed by their speedy promotion to the dignity of cardinals. Bessarion, in the first debates, had stood forth the most strenuous and eloquent champion of the Greek church; and if the apostate, the bastard, was reprobated by his country, 65 he appears in ecclesiastical story a rare example of a patriot who was recommended to court favor by loud opposition and well-timed compliance. With the aid of his two spiritual coadjutors, the emperor applied his arguments to the general situation and personal characters of the bishops, and each was successively moved by authority and example. Their revenues were in the hands of the Turks, their persons in those of the Latins: an episcopal treasure, three robes and forty ducats, was soon exhausted: 66 the hopes of their return still depended on the ships of Venice and the alms of Rome; and such was their indigence, that their arrears, the payment of a debt, would be accepted as a favor, and might operate as a bribe. 67 The danger and relief of Constantinople might excuse some prudent and pious dissimulation; and it was insinuated, that the obstinate heretics who should resist the consent of the East and West would be abandoned in a hostile land to the revenge or justice of the Roman pontiff. 68 In the first private assembly of the Greeks, the formulary of union was approved by twenty-four, and rejected by twelve, members; but the five cross-bearers of St. Sophia, who aspired to represent the patriarch, were disqualified by ancient discipline; and their right of voting was transferred to the obsequious train of monks, grammarians, and profane laymen. The will of the monarch produced a false and servile unanimity, and no more than two patriots had courage to speak their own sentiments and those of their country. Demetrius, the emperor's brother, retired to Venice, that he might not be witness of the union; and Mark of Ephesus, mistaking perhaps his pride for his conscience, disclaimed all communion with the Latin heretics, and avowed himself the champion and confessor of the orthodox creed. 69 In the treaty between the two nations, several forms of consent were proposed, such as might satisfy the Latins, without dishonoring the Greeks; and they weighed the scruples of words and syllables, till the theological balance trembled with a slight preponderance in favor of the Vatican. It was agreed (I must entreat the attention of the reader) that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father and the Son, as from one principle and one substance; that he proceeds by the Son, being of the same nature and substance, and that he proceeds from the Father and the Son, by one spiration and production. It is less difficult to understand the articles of the preliminary treaty; that the pope should defray all the expenses of the Greeks in their return home; that he should annually maintain two galleys and three hundred soldiers for the defence of Constantinople: that all the ships which transported pilgrims to Jerusalem should be obliged to touch at that port; that as often as they were required, the pope should furnish ten galleys for a year, or twenty for six months; and that he should powerfully solicit the princes of Europe, if the emperor had occasion for land forces.
The same year, and almost the same day, were marked by the deposition of Eugenius at Basil; and, at Florence, by his reunion of the Greeks and Latins. In the former synod, (which he styled indeed an assembly of daemons,) the pope was branded with the guilt of simony, perjury, tyranny, heresy, and schism; 70 and declared to be incorrigible in his vices, unworthy of any title, and incapable of holding any ecclesiastical office. In the latter, he was revered as the true and holy vicar of Christ, who, after a separation of six hundred years, had reconciled the Catholics of the East and West in one fold, and under one shepherd. The act of union was subscribed by the pope, the emperor, and the principal members of both churches; even by those who, like Syropulus, 71 had been deprived of the right of voting. Two copies might have sufficed for the East and West; but Eugenius was not satisfied, unless four authentic and similar transcripts were signed and attested as the monuments of his victory. 72 On a memorable day, the sixth of July, the successors of St. Peter and Constantine ascended their thrones the two nations assembled in the cathedral of Florence; their representatives, Cardinal Julian and Bessarion archbishop of Nice, appeared in the pulpit, and, after reading in their respective tongues the act of union, they mutually embraced, in the name and the presence of their applauding brethren. The pope and his ministers then officiated according to the Roman liturgy; the creed was chanted with the addition of filioque; the acquiescence of the Greeks was poorly excused by their ignorance of the harmonious, but inarticulate sounds; 73 and the more scrupulous Latins refused any public celebration of the Byzantine rite. Yet the emperor and his clergy were not totally unmindful of national honor. The treaty was ratified by their consent: it was tacitly agreed that no innovation should be attempted in their creed or ceremonies: they spared, and secretly respected, the generous firmness of Mark of Ephesus; and, on the decease of the patriarch, they refused to elect his successor, except in the cathedral of St. Sophia. In the distribution of public and private rewards, the liberal pontiff exceeded their hopes and his promises: the Greeks, with less pomp and pride, returned by the same road of Ferrara and Venice; and their reception at Constantinople was such as will be described in the following chapter. 74 The success of the first trial encouraged Eugenius to repeat the same edifying scenes; and the deputies of the Armenians, the Maronites, the Jacobites of Syria and Egypt, the Nestorians and the Aethiopians, were successively introduced, to kiss the feet of the Roman pontiff, and to announce the obedience and the orthodoxy of the East. These Oriental embassies, unknown in the countries which they presumed to represent, 75 diffused over the West the fame of Eugenius; and a clamor was artfully propagated against the remnant of a schism in Switzerland and Savoy, which alone impeded the harmony of the Christian world. The vigor of opposition was succeeded by the lassitude of despair: the council of Basil was silently dissolved; and Felix, renouncing the tiara, again withdrew to the devout or delicious hermitage of Ripaille. 76 A general peace was secured by mutual acts of oblivion and indemnity: all ideas of reformation subsided; the popes continued to exercise and abuse their ecclesiastical despotism; nor has Rome been since disturbed by the mischiefs of a contested election. 77
The journeys of three emperors were unavailing for their temporal, or perhaps their spiritual, salvation; but they were productive of a beneficial consequence - the revival of the Greek learning in Italy, from whence it was propagated to the last nations of the West and North. In their lowest servitude and depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures of antiquity; of a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy. Since the barriers of the monarchy, and even of the capital, had been trampled under foot, the various Barbarians had doubtless corrupted the form and substance of the national dialect; and ample glossaries have been composed, to interpret a multitude of words, of Arabic, Turkish, Sclavonian, Latin, or French origin. 78 But a purer idiom was spoken in the court and taught in the college; and the flourishing state of the language is described, and perhaps embellished, by a learned Italian, 79 who, by a long residence and noble marriage, 80 was naturalized at Constantinople about thirty years before the Turkish conquest. "The vulgar speech," says Philelphus, 81 "has been depraved by the people, and infected by the multitude of strangers and merchants, who every day flock to the city and mingle with the inhabitants. It is from the disciples of such a school that the Latin language received the versions of Aristotle and Plato; so obscure in sense, and in spirit so poor. But the Greeks who have escaped the contagion, are those whom we follow; and they alone are worthy of our imitation. In familiar discourse, they still speak the tongue of Aristophanes and Euripides, of the historians and philosophers of Athens; and the style of their writings is still more elaborate and correct. The persons who, by their birth and offices, are attached to the Byzantine court, are those who maintain, with the least alloy, the ancient standard of elegance and purity; and the native graces of language most conspicuously shine among the noble matrons, who are excluded from all intercourse with foreigners. With foreigners do I say? They live retired and sequestered from the eyes of their fellow-citizens. Seldom are they seen in the streets; and when they leave their houses, it is in the dusk of evening, on visits to the churches and their nearest kindred. On these occasions, they are on horseback, covered with a veil, and encompassed by their parents, their husbands, or their servants." 82
Among the Greeks a numerous and opulent clergy was dedicated to the service of religion: their monks and bishops have ever been distinguished by the gravity and austerity of their manners; nor were they diverted, like the Latin priests, by the pursuits and pleasures of a secular, and even military, life. After a large deduction for the time and talent that were lost in the devotion, the laziness, and the discord, of the church and cloister, the more inquisitive and ambitious minds would explore the sacred and profane erudition of their native language. The ecclesiastics presided over the education of youth; the schools of philosophy and eloquence were perpetuated till the fall of the empire; and it may be affirmed, that more books and more knowledge were included within the walls of Constantinople, than could be dispersed over the extensive countries of the West. 83 But an important distinction has been already noticed: the Greeks were stationary or retrograde, while the Latins were advancing with a rapid and progressive motion. The nations were excited by the spirit of independence and emulation; and even the little world of the Italian states contained more people and industry than the decreasing circle of the Byzantine empire. In Europe, the lower ranks of society were relieved from the yoke of feudal servitude; and freedom is the first step to curiosity and knowledge. The use, however rude and corrupt, of the Latin tongue had been preserved by superstition; the universities, from Bologna to Oxford, 84 were peopled with thousands of scholars; and their misguided ardor might be directed to more liberal and manly studies. In the resurrection of science, Italy was the first that cast away her shroud; and the eloquent Petrarch, by his lessons and his example, may justly be applauded as the first harbinger of day. A purer style of composition, a more generous and rational strain of sentiment, flowed from the study and imitation of the writers of ancient Rome; and the disciples of Cicero and Virgil approached, with reverence and love, the sanctuary of their Grecian masters. In the sack of Constantinople, the French, and even the Venetians, had despised and destroyed the works of Lysippus and Homer: the monuments of art may be annihilated by a single blow; but the immortal mind is renewed and multiplied by the copies of the pen; and such copies it was the ambition of Petrarch and his friends to possess and understand. The arms of the Turks undoubtedly pressed the flight of the Muses; yet we may tremble at the thought, that Greece might have been overwhelmed, with her schools and libraries, before Europe had emerged from the deluge of barbarism; that the seeds of science might have been scattered by the winds, before the Italian soil was prepared for their cultivation.
54 At the time of the synod, Phranzes was in Peloponnesus: but he received from the despot Demetrius a faithful account of the honorable reception of the emperor and patriarch both at Venice and Ferrara, (Dux . . . . sedentem Imperatorem adorat,) which are more slightly mentioned by the Latins, (l. ii. c. 14, 15, 16.)
55 The astonishment of a Greek prince and a French ambassador (Memoires de Philippe de Comines, l. vii. c. 18,) at the sight of Venice, abundantly proves that in the xvth century it was the first and most splendid of the Christian cities. For the spoils of Constantinople at Venice, see Syropulus, (p. 87.)
56 Nicholas III. of Este reigned forty-eight years, (A.D. 1393 - 1441,) and was lord of Ferrara, Modena, Reggio, Parma, Rovigo, and Commachio. See his Life in Muratori, (Antichita Estense, tom. ii. p. 159 - 201.)
57 The Latin vulgar was provoked to laughter at the strange dresses of the Greeks, and especially the length of their garments, their sleeves, and their beards; nor was the emperor distinguished, except by the purple color, and his diadem or tiara, with a jewel on the top, (Hody de Graecis Illustribus, p. 31.) Yet another spectator confesses that the Greek fashion was piu grave e piu degna than the Italian. (Vespasiano in Vit. Eugen. IV. in Muratori, tom. xxv. p. 261.)
58 For the emperor's hunting, see Syropulus, (p. 143, 144, 191.) The pope had sent him eleven miserable hacks; but he bought a strong and swift horse that came from Russia. The name of Janizaries may surprise; but the name, rather than the institution, had passed from the Ottoman, to the Byzantine, court, and is often used in the last age of the empire.
59 The Greeks obtained, with much difficulty, that instead of provisions, money should be distributed, four florins per month to the persons of honorable rank, and three florins to their servants, with an addition of thirty more to the emperor, twenty-five to the patriarch, and twenty to the prince, or despot, Demetrius. The payment of the first month amounted to 691 florins, a sum which will not allow us to reckon above 200 Greeks of every condition. (Syropulus, p. 104, 105.) On the 20th October, 1438, there was an arrear of four months; in April, 1439, of three; and of five and a half in July, at the time of the union, (p. 172, 225, 271.)
60 Syropulus (p. 141, 142, 204, 221) deplores the imprisonment of the Greeks, and the tyranny of the emperor and patriarch.
61 The wars of Italy are most clearly represented in the xiiith vol. of the Annals of Muratori. The schismatic Greek, Syropulus, (p. 145,) appears to have exaggerated the fear and disorder of the pope in his his retreat from Ferrara to Florence, which is proved by the acts to have been somewhat more decent and deliberate.
62 Syropulus is pleased to reckon seven hundred prelates in the council of Basil. The error is manifest, and perhaps voluntary. That extravagant number could not be supplied by all the ecclesiastics of every degree who were present at the council, nor by all the absent bishops of the West, who, expressly or tacitly, might adhere to its decrees.
63 The Greeks, who disliked the union, were unwilling to sally from this strong fortress, (p. 178, 193, 195, 202, of Syropulus.) The shame of the Latins was aggravated by their producing an old MS. of the second council of Nice, with filioque in the Nicene creed. A palpable forgery! (p. 173.)
64 (Syropulus, p. 109.) See the perplexity of the Greeks, (p. 217, 218, 252, 253, 273.)
65 See the polite altercation of Marc and Bessarion in Syropulus, (p. 257,) who never dissembles the vices of his own party, and fairly praises the virtues of the Latins.
66 For the poverty of the Greek bishops, see a remarkable passage of Ducas, (c. 31.) One had possessed, for his whole property, three old gowns, &c. By teaching one-and-twenty years in his monastery, Bessarion himself had collected forty gold florins; but of these, the archbishop had expended twenty-eight in his voyage from Peloponnesus, and the remainder at Constantinople, (Syropulus, p. 127.)
67 Syropulus denies that the Greeks received any money before they had subscribed the art of union, (p. 283:) yet he relates some suspicious circumstances; and their bribery and corruption are positively affirmed by the historian Ducas.
68 The Greeks most piteously express their own fears of exile and perpetual slavery, (Syropul. p. 196;) and they were strongly moved by the emperor's threats, (p. 260.)
69 I had forgot another popular and orthodox protester: a favorite bound, who usually lay quiet on the foot-cloth of the emperor's throne but who barked most furiously while the act of union was reading without being silenced by the soothing or the lashes of the royal attendants, (Syropul. p. 265, 266.)
70 From the original Lives of the Popes, in Muratori's Collection, (tom. iii. p. ii. tom. xxv.,) the manners of Eugenius IV. appear to have been decent, and even exemplary. His situation, exposed to the world and to his enemies, was a restraint, and is a pledge.
71 Syropulus, rather than subscribe, would have assisted, as the least evil, at the ceremony of the union. He was compelled to do both; and the great ecclesiarch poorly excuses his submission to the emperor, (p. 290 - 292.)
72 None of these original acts of union can at present be produced. Of the ten MSS. that are preserved, (five at Rome, and the remainder at Florence, Bologna, Venice, Paris, and London,) nine have been examined by an accurate critic, (M. de Brequigny,) who condemns them for the variety and imperfections of the Greek signatures. Yet several of these may be esteemed as authentic copies, which were subscribed at Florence, before (26th of August, 1439) the final separation of the pope and emperor, (Memoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions, tom. xliii. p. 287 - 311.)
73 (Syropul. p. 297.)
74 In their return, the Greeks conversed at Bologna with the ambassadors of England: and after some questions and answers, these impartial strangers laughed at the pretended union of Florence, (Syropul. p. 307.)
75 So nugatory, or rather so fabulous, are these reunions of the Nestorians, Jacobites, &c., that I have turned over, without success, the Bibliotheca Orientalis of Assemannus, a faithful slave of the Vatican.
76 Ripaille is situate near Thonon in Savoy, on the southern side of the Lake of Geneva. It is now a Carthusian abbey; and Mr. Addison (Travels into Italy, vol. ii. p. 147, 148, of Baskerville's edition of his works) has celebrated the place and the founder. Aeneas Sylvius, and the fathers of Basil, applaud the austere life of the ducal hermit; but the French and Italian proverbs most unluckily attest the popular opinion of his luxury.
77 In this account of the councils of Basil, Ferrara, and Florence, I have consulted the original acts, which fill the xviith and xviiith tome of the edition of Venice, and are closed by the perspicuous, though partial, history of Augustin Patricius, an Italian of the xvth century. They are digested and abridged by Dupin, (Bibliotheque Eccles. tom. xii.,) and the continuator of Fleury, (tom. xxii.;) and the respect of the Gallican church for the adverse parties confines their members to an awkward moderation.
78 In the first attempt, Meursius collected 3600 Graeco-barbarous words, to which, in a second edition, he subjoined 1800 more; yet what plenteous gleanings did he leave to Portius, Ducange, Fabrotti, the Bollandists, &c.! (Fabric. Bibliot. Graec. tom. x. p. 101, &c.) Some Persic words may be found in Xenophon, and some Latin ones in Plutarch; and such is the inevitable effect of war and commerce; but the form and substance of the language were not affected by this slight alloy.
79 The life of Francis Philelphus, a sophist, proud, restless, and rapacious, has been diligently composed by Lancelot (Memoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions, tom. x. p. 691 - 751) (Istoria della Letteratura Italiana, tom. vii. p. 282 - 294,) for the most part from his own letters. His elaborate writings, and those of his contemporaries, are forgotten; but their familiar epistles still describe the men and the times.
80 He married, and had perhaps debauched, the daughter of John, and the granddaughter of Manuel Chrysoloras. She was young, beautiful, and wealthy; and her noble family was allied to the Dorias of Genoa and the emperors of Constantinople.
81 Graeci quibus lingua depravata non sit . . . . ita loquuntur vulgo hac etiam tempestate ut Aristophanes comicus, aut Euripides tragicus, ut oratores omnes, ut historiographi, ut philosophi . . . . litterati autem homines et doctius et emendatius . . . . Nam viri aulici veterem sermonis dignitatem atque elegantiam retinebant in primisque ipsae nobiles mulieres; quibus cum nullum esset omnino cum viris peregrinis commercium, merus ille ac purus Graecorum sermo servabatur intactus, (Philelph. Epist. ad ann. 1451, apud Hodium, p. 188, 189.) He observes in another passage, uxor illa mea Theodora locutione erat admodum moderata et suavi et maxime Attica.
82 Philelphus, absurdly enough, derives this Greek or Oriental jealousy from the manners of ancient Rome.
83 See the state of learning in the xiiith and xivth centuries, in the learned and judicious Mosheim, (Instit. Hist. Eccles. p. 434 - 440, 490 - 494.)
84 At the end of the xvth century, there existed in Europe about fifty universities, and of these the foundation of ten or twelve is prior to the year 1300. They were crowded in proportion to their scarcity. Bologna contained 10,000 students, chiefly of the civil law. In the year 1357 the number at Oxford had decreased from 30,000 to 6000 scholars, (Henry's History of Great Britain, vol. iv. p. 478.) Yet even this decrease is much superior to the present list of the members of the university.


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Kerala, INDIA
In development
Kissan Krishideepam is a weekly agricultural based informative television program produced by the Indian Institute of Information Technology and management Kerala (IIITM-K) targeted at the entire farming community of Kerala. It forms the forward selective dissemination of dynamic information of value to farmers across entire Kerala. The television program is backed by a toll-free telephone call center and the KISSAN-Kerala portal for asynchronous interaction between viewers (farmers) and to get feedback from the viewers. The Krishideepam program is telecast through satellite channel (three times per week) and at the end of the program, the toll free numbers are being advertised to ensure the interaction between the farmers and the scientists. Apart form this, the DVD`s and CDs are also available for the farmers to view the programme as part of continuous learning. The contents are highly interactive. The video contents are mounted online in collaboration with Google YouTube. The biggest boon is the toll free call centre (1800-25-1661), from where farmers can also take expert advice.
Krishideepam is the only agricultural program in the Malayalam channels where the programs are produced directly by the highly qualified, agricultural professionals and research/extension officers from the Department with the help of Media professionals and IT savvy engineers who have several years of field experience. Hence the program has established high level of authenticity, reliability and maintains the superior quality.
Krishideepam is the only program, which provides interactive discussion and follow up action soon after the telecast. The toll free number (1800-425-1661) provides an ample opportunity for the farmers to interact directly with the agricultural experts and seek advises and suggestions soon after the program. The farmers post their questions through the interactive portal (www.kissankerala.net) of kissan kerala and seeks the authentic advisories.
KISSAN-KRISHIDEEPAM TV programme is the first of its kind in whole of India. Care has been taken to see that the programme is given an interesting and catchy presentation, at the same time imparting authentic technical information primarily focusing towards the farming community across Kerala.
Krishideepam is the unique program where each episode carries different segments. Krishideepam has identified more than 16 unique segments, which is an unique presentation style. Eg:- Parichayam, Thullikal, Crop advisory services, technical know-how, method demonstration, weather information, market analysis, question-answer sessions, talk shows, interviews by experts, kissan news, farm advisory etc. are few among them. There is also two repeat telecast of this program.
To translate the rich academic and practical agricultural information aggregated through the KISSAN-Kerala Network into viewer friendly video/multimedia content to be disseminated through the television network to the doorsteps of the farmers.
To provide the farmers with right information of regional relevance regarding best farming practices, soil and water management, forecast and precautions on pest and disease incidences, weather and market information etc., which are of practical utility, in time.
To empower the farmer with news and information regarding government schemes, assistance from other related agencies, research findings of practical relevance etc., to enable them to take advantage of the various development programmes initiated by various agencies in the farming sector in an integrated manner, in time, without being exploited by any of the intermediaries.
To develop and sustain a platform for interaction between farmers and experts in a more appealing and acceptable form.
To initiate a system for healthy feed back from the beneficiaries of various developmental activities initiated by the government.
To influence a positive change in the agriculture scenario by empowering the farmers with latest information; hence enhance the total agricultural productivity.
Winner of the Manthan Award South Asia 2008, E-Education CATEGORY
Agriculture education for farmers and the using medium like TV, satellite, telephone, CD/DVDs and Internet clearly indicates that how powerful the oral media could be for the empowerment of the likes of farmers. Kissan Krishideepam in Kerela by Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Kerala is doing exactly that. The project aims at providing 'right information at the right time in the right context' to the farmers across the entire state of Kerala and is unique in more than one way. Krishideepam is the first television program directly produced and telecast by State Agricultural Department as part of e-governance, and well received by the farming community in Kerala. The integrated model of the project ensures the speedy aggregation of relevant information from various sources, and disseminate through cross media platforms. Also, the project is supported with an agri-data center with fully professional management to cater various information requirements of the farming community in Kerala.
The programme has completed 247 continuous weekly episodes during the last 5 years over the ASIANET channel, and has gathered widespread acclaim from Kerala and beyond.
The program is telecast during prime time, all Fridays at 5.30 PM and it is very much convenient for the farming community. This ensures maximum viewership and we are sure this far exceeds the viewership of programmes telecast at the same time on other TV channels.
The program reaches globally where the NRI malayalees are greatly benefited and inspired by this program.
The program has established its own digital production facilities with a professional technical back up and project management.
Tremendous feedback is being received on the quality of the programme, both in terms of content as well as style of presentation
The program is produced 100% in digital format, which gives high quality outputs with clarity.
The first program was launched on 1st November 2003 (The first episode was aired through Asianet Channel at 10.30 AM)
Today the influence of visual media has crossed all the barriers of rural-urban biases and is becoming the most powerful tool in decision making in all the sectors including farming. Moreover the programmes and schemes implemented by the government and other related agencies for the empowerment of farmers are hardly carried to the masses through these media with adequate emphasis.
For the first time in the country, KISSAN-Kerala is building the capability for aggregating at regular intervals such validated information from all over the state using state-of-the-art IT. In this project, we are complementing this capability with a media strategy to provide the farmer with balanced and validated information make the best out of his resources and efforts. A core team of subject experts possessing media and IT skills handles the selection, validation and production of the krishideepam program. The program has a proper blend of balanced, updated and timely farm information, appealing presentation, reliability and feedback, which are essential to sustain a system of this kind.
Krishideepam is a program directly produced and telecast by State Agricultural Department as part of e-governance.
Digital Knowledge Center (DKC) is an initiative of Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) & National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) to function as an 'Online repository' of best digital contents for development in India and South Asia.
With the incoming of new technology in ICT and digital content technology along with various technology delivery platforms, a lot many interventions in digital content have been taking place in South Asia. Interventions are visible in all major areas – Education, Learning, Health, Governance, Entertainment, Localization, Commerce, Culture, Environment, Tourism, Infrastructure and so on. Creation of digital content, its deployment, service delivery and usage has increased each day.
While these developments are taking place, it is equally critical to have these interventions and practices shared, exchanged, and deployable from one place to another. For this to happen, one needs to have a resource bank available for learning, sharing and replication. Digital Knowledge Centre works as such a platform in audio-visual documentation format, which provides solutions to many of our social, economic, cultural and governance challenges.


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My Hometown on Monday - The Pingrey Family in census - week 14
Last week, week 13, along with the photo of the six sisters, I included this census report of the family.
In the 1910 U.S. Census, the W. H. (Wilson H.) Pingrey family is listed - actually in Orange Township, Guthrie County, Iowa, near Coon Rapids:
W.H. Pingrey, 44, Aug 1855, parents born in Vermont, married Lucretia in 1879
Lucretia Pingrey, 37
Grace O. Pingrey, 19 (Grace)
Jessie B. Pingrey, 18 (Jessie)
Mary G. Pingrey, 16 (Gertrude)
Frederick W. Pingrey, 15
Franklin A. Pingrey, 12
Jennie M. Pingrey, 10 (Maud)
Ada L. Pingrey, 7 (Adah)
Bertha L. Pingrey, 5 (Bertha)
plus two others.
This week, week 14, I want to share some additional selected census information for this family in 1920 and 1930. Let's start with the information from the photo caption:
Grace, Mrs. Chas. Carpenter
Jessie, Mrs C. E. Wolfe
Gertrude, Mrs. Albert Carpenter
Maud, Mrs. Chas. Cretsinger
Adah, Mrs. W. E. Macklin
Bertha, Mrs. Chas. W. Thomas
1920 census
Name: Grace O Carpenter Home in 1920: Union, Carroll, Iowa Age: 34 years
Household Members:
Grace O Carpenter, 34, Farmer, wd
Virginia C Carpenter, 12
Bethane L Carpenter, 9
Dale P Carpenter, 8
Stanton C Carpenter, 6
1920 Census
Household Members:
Albert G Carpenter, 39
Mary G Carpenter, 35
Hudson A Carpenter, 11
Russell W Carpenter, 9
Maurice R Carpenter, 7
Mary A Carpenter, 5 1/12
Clara L Carpenter, 3 8/12
Maude L Carpenter, 3 8/12
Edward C Carpenter, 1
1920 Census
Name: Wilson H Pingrey Home in 1920: Coon Rapids, Carroll, Iowa
Household Members:
Wilson H Pingrey, 64
Lucretia Pingrey, 57
Fred W Pingrey, 35
Pearl Bower, 34
Bertha Kennedy, 31
Sarah Love, 25
Wilson, Financier
Fred, Salesman Realty, son
Pearl, F, Merchant, Dry Goods Store, Roomer
Bertha, F, Bookkeeper, Bank, Roomer
Sarah Love, F, Teacher, Public School, Roomer
1920 census
William E. Macklin, 28, born in China, parents in Canada and Michigan, Veterinary
Ada L. ", 26,
Jean L., 3, daughter
William E., 2, son
John D. Son, 3/12
1930 census
Name: C E Wolfe Home in 1930: Union, Carroll, Iowa
Household Members:
C E Wolfe, 51
Jessie L Wolfe, 48
Wilson Wolfe. 18
Thomas P Wolfe, 11
Frances Matthews, 39
CE Wolfe - Med Doctor, General Prac
Frances, F, Boarder, Teacher, Public School
1930 census,
Name: Charles M. Cretsinger Home in 1930: Orange, Guthrie, Iowa
Household Members:
Charles M Cretsinger, 41
Maud J Cretsinger, 40
Leora Cretsinger, 11
Linette Cretsinger, 10
Frances Cretsinger, 1 1/12
1930 census
Name: Charles W. Thomas Home in 1930: Union, Carroll, Iowa
Household Members:
Charles W Thomas, 36
Bertha L Thomas, 35
Helen M Thomas, 17
Bette L Thomas, 10
Marion F Thomas, 9
Majorie A Thomas, 7
Russell O Smith, 21
1930 census
Name: Frank Pingrey Home in 1930: Union, Carroll, Iowa
Household Members:
Frank Pingrey, 41
Mabel Pingrey, 32
Dorothy Pingrey, 18
Margaret Pingrey, 16
Wilson Pingrey, 15
Kenneth Pingrey, 11
1930 census
Name: Fred W Pingrey Home in 1930: Union, Carroll, Iowa
Household Members:
Fred W Pingrey, 45
Joe Fesck, 75 - Laborer
Families are Forever! ;-)