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This Fourth Edition of The Pakistan Decapitation Papers is issued with a companion standalone Ebook The Poor-Man's Guide to Modernity. It is recommended that the companion Ebook be perused simultaneously in order to comprehend the diabolical sub-text behind the systematic decapitation of Pakistan. The latter's Chapter 7, Islam and Knowledge vs. Socialization, is perhaps the most pertinent to Pakistanis today. It examines a recipe which can potentially still enable the Pakistani peoples to extricate their ill-begotten nation – now so visibly being destroyed after years of staging by fifth columnists attired in their virginal bride's dress across the board – from the jaws of ignominy.
That same recipe, if forcefully employed globally by the ordinary man and woman on planet earth against their own respective fifth columnists, irrespective of religion, caste, or creed, can in fact set the stage for a new world order that is suited to the pleasurable living of all ordinary human beings, instead of the present one being orchestrated by the elite which is only suited to the pleasurable living of the inhuman oligarchy.
This new Fourth Edition of the Pakistan Decapitation Papers that you now hold in your hands as a printed hardcopy, or, before your eyes as an Ebook, straightforwardly continues in its Volume 3 from where Volume 2 had left off. It is so painful for the author to continue to make these commonsensical and blatantly obvious observations on Pakistan and its peoples, that this is the last edition!
In this tenth year of 9/11, Volume 3 befittingly begins Chapter 1 by revisiting the New Pearl Harbor and the Who Dunnit question. The imperial misidentification of its culprits as the proverbial pirates in order to synthesize the Machiavellian "War on Terror" of the emperor, has been the final harbinger of the decapitation of Pakistan.
However, let the decapitation of Pakistan not all be blamed on the New Pearl Harbor. As this book is evidence, Pakistan was, first and foremost, destroyed by the active connivance of its own military, its own politicians, its own literati, its own press, its own fifth columnists, and by the silent apathy of its 180 million spectating public who are still to become the greatest victims of "imperial mobilization". That fancy phraseology is Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski's, from his layered 1997 blueprint for what's happening along the "arc of crisis" in the "Global Zone of Percolating Violence" today, titled "The Grand Chessboard – American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives". The preceding two phrases are also Zbigniew Brzezinski's, respectively from a January 15, 1979 Time magazine article titled 'IRAN: The Crescent of Crisis', and from Brzezinski's 1997 attempt at his own Mein Kampf.
This scribe's 2003 unpublished book titled "Prisoners of the Cave" (available as an Ebook), had already systematically deconstructed Brzezinski's statecraft. And the scribe's 2011 Ebook "Poor-Man's Guide to Modernity", succinctly updates that analysis to match the empiricism of our times.
None of this is, or has been, rocket science. Nevertheless, to the "likkha-parrha jahils" (the super-learned peoples with college degrees) of modernity, in every nation, it evidently is rocket science. There is nothing this scribe can do about such "learned peoples" of any society. Even so, this volume addresses their "learnedness" once again. These are the very peoples who must experience a metanoia (a change of mind, a rebirth) in order to effectively lead the termination of the abhorrent conditions of our times. The rest of the public by themselves are merely putty in the hands of the demagogues otherwise, oft taken for a ride between bread and circuses on the one hand, and rioting for "revolution" and sloganeering for "democracy" on the other.
Chapter 1 of Volume 3 therefore, is intended to be a self-study tutorial for the "likkha-parrha jahils", whether of Pakistan, or the Middle East, or the West. The learned reader is encouraged to visit the web links for the many voices cited therein in order to give due diligence to this subject which, from day one, has been wrapped in layers upon layers of deception. Only when the first principles of modern statecraft become apparent to the "likkha-parrha jahils", only when the fundamental light bulb of insight into Machiavelli and the Hegelian Dialectic goes off in one's head, shall the rest ever follow. Before then, one will inevitably remain chained by one's neck as the proverbial prisoner of the cave (Plato) despite all of one's fancy qualifications, titles, degrees, and lauded accomplishments. This is true irrespective of nationality, religion, sex, caste, or creed. And it is as true of Pakistanis and Middle Easterners as Americans and Europeans. All peoples today, despite our modernity and our information age, share a common constant companion – the new age of Jahiliya! In addition to the companion Ebook "A Poor-Man's Guide to Modernity", this ignoble fact is further demonstrated in Chapters 2, 3, and 4 of Volume 3. Chapters 5, 6, and 7 comprise this scribe's latest ripostes with various useful idiots and "likkha-parrha jahils" of Pakistan.
Chapter 8 is the anchoring chapter of this short and final volume of The Pakistan Decapitation Papers. Judge for yourself the sublime character of the ordinary Pakistani housewife turned activist that is narrated therein. Can one imagine just ten million activist home-makers like that in Pakistan, and in every nation on earth, coming out of their kitchens!
Chapter 9 is the Epilogue of Volume 3. It is apropos to refer it so as it once again unequivocally underscores the fact that even when the intention of rebellion might be genuine, even when the thirst for independence from empire's mayhem might set an indigenous military patriot's throat on fire in Pakistan, our modernity is a twisted devil. It comes wrapped in multifaceted Hegelian Dialectic. Without acutely comprehending this modernity, there simply cannot be any freedom for any nation and any people, no matter how fervently riled up they might get. That riling up is simply harvested on one or the other side of the Hegelian Dialectic. You are either a "militant" aiding and abetting "insurgency" if you don't like hegemony or have been "tickled" into it, or, are part of empire's Allies douching it with "counter-insurgency" if you don't like the insurgents or just love to play house negro to the white man. Once caught in such a Hegelian Dialectic where both sides are orchestrated by the same powers, there is no escape from that matrix. The Epilogue bears testimony to that sad fact. Until that is overturned, nothing else can.
A nation can surely suffer its fools and still survive, but not its house negroes and fifth columnists. Nor the silence of its peoples. No nation and no peoples can survive its traitors, or an apathetic public drawn mainly to bread and circuses. It was the traitors who enabled the East India Company to colonize the indo sub-continent with treachery in the yesteryear. And it is the traitors who are enabling the owners of the former East India Company to colonize the world with treachery into a one-world government.
Therefore, to continue to describe what has been obvious to this scribe from the very day of September 11, 2001, and what was also visible to the few sighted – that 9/11 was an 'Operation Canned Goods' to launch "imperial mobilization" for the global Fourth Reich of the oligarchs – has already been a matter of "I told you so" for these past ten years. That is not just of zero consolation to this author, but is also of immense pain to see one's own nation destroyed by the handful of slaves and house niggers carrying the White Man's Burden for the white man!
In another day and age, all such house niggers and fifth columnists across the nations of the world, including in the United States of America, along with the puppetmasters behind the scenes, would hang from the tallest gallows many times over. That timeless hope, if there can ever be any consolation for what's being inflicted upon the 'lesser humanity', is the last prayer on each and every lip as they struggle for their final breaths at the nightmarish altar of full spectrum tyranny.
Only the dead have seen the end of war. For those still living, the silent spectators, the unfortunate narrators unpeeling truths protective layers, the bullshit purveyors adding more obfuscating layers, and the henchmen niggers, the travails are only just beginning.
Perhaps God too sheds a tear for the living – the dead have already returned to it.
Zahir Ebrahim,
June 20, 2011
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Foreword The Pakistan Decapitation Papers 4th Edition – A Report on the Banality of Evil
Zahir Ebrahim | Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
As bad as things are in Pakistan today, it will get far worse in the West. The Letter to Muslims, Chapter 2 of vol. 2, examines this tortuous aspect of our zeitgeist.
We can still salvage Pakistan for its 200 million peoples despite all that has transpired in this twisted War on Terror; despite all our traitors, mercenaries, useful idiots, native informants, and house negroes who have sold the public short; and despite the state of un-functioning of the nation, without electricity, water, decent livelihood and affordable living for the 98% of the majority, and a lawlessness that would have been beyond imagination in the 1960s and 1970s when I grew up in the carefree idyllic Pakistan.
One cannot look at Pakistan in isolation on the Grand Chessboard. The world conditions are rapidly percolating towards global governance to culminate in world government. Pakistan has thus far been played for a dumb-ass pawn with copious help from Pakistan's military – the only real power-base in Pakistan whose upper echelons since Pakistan's blood-drenched creation have been entirely beholden to its foreign masters. It is now self-evident that Pakistan's and Israel's creation were crafty ploys by the world superpowers who for the past hundred plus years have only dreamed of global empire and world government. Islamic Pakistan was to be the foil for Zionist Israel – both created in the name of religion. One to be played up to culminate in the "Zion that will light up all the world", the other to be eventually destroyed after it had been calculatingly harnessed to fertilize and birth-pang terror like a condom deliberately pricked by the illicit concubine. What happens to used condoms? That's right! And to unwanted babies? Right again.
Given Pakistan's 'used condom' status, I mean en passant status on the Grand Chessboard, what can Pakistanis realistically do about it? First of all, Pakistanis can do absolutely nothing so long as they are ruled by mercenaries, fools, and uncle toms. Unless that obstacle is removed, there is no sense in day dreaming. I have no idea how to do that – for, even the noble Prophet of Islam had to bow before the tyrannical power of the mercenaries of his time who eventually succeeded in killing his family and hijacking Islam to such a vile degree that today, our mosques are full with apathetic worshippers seeking heaven's glory while God's creation is made to live hell right here on earth.
All I can humbly do, appropriate to my limited vision, experience, and commonsense, is provide the forensic global analysis to explain what the game is on the Grand Chessboard, identify where it's headed, and to coldly opine to my brethren among the remaining 2% population of Pakistan who have turned Pakistan into the 'used condom' of the hectoring hegemons: stop being spineless bastards, for Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned; nor Hell a fury like the plebes scorned.
The time to affect change is now if not already way past. Fait accompli mercilessly awaits right at the edge of the Rubicon after which humpty dumpty cannot be stitched back together again.
Surely, at least some among Pakistan's military is a MA KA LAL who must realize this? Surely, some among Pakistan's literati is a Field Negro who can say NO to the "massa"? Surely, some among Pakistan's ruling class suckled on the liberating bosoms of un-servitude? Illegitimate birth was the fault of our ancestors that, in their unconstrained zeal for a separate nation-state for Muslims which had no parallel in the annals of history, they proved to be no match for the Machiavellian raping-game of divide et impera of the hectoring hegemons. The colonizers knew how to dangle just the right incentives and ripe-conditions before the colonized natives so that the sheep would themselves demand their own slaughter. But illegitimate fucking-around ever since, in every generation, is entirely our own fault. We inherited Pakistan – and our rulers have made the world a far worse place for it, including for the peoples of the sub-continent. The largest forced displacement which saw millions dead on either side of partition, followed by the largest forced dismemberment, followed by playing mercenary army for three decades for America's wars destroying neighboring Afghanistan in the process in a cataclysm whose reverberations are being felt in the 'War on Terror' all across the globe today, and now attempting to do the same to neighboring Iran. In the process of all this anal service to empire, converting Pakistan into a Terror Central from which it has now become impossible to extricate – the legacy of Pakistan. See my 2007 Open Letter to Pakistani General, Chapter 40 of vol. 1.
I am entitled to make these truthful and empirical observations as painful as they are to hear, because I am still a concerned citizen of Pakistan, the only country whose passport I bear, the only place where my heart longs to be despite having lived in the West for the best part of my life, and while others desert the sinking ship seeking foreign passports wherever they can find them, and willingly play House Negro to get visas from the white man, I carry my green one without fear.
I know I have a rendezvous with death – and I shall not fail that rendezvous. That pledge compels me to continually break my silence. To stay deaf, mute and blind, is to be an accomplice. To be a house negroe is to be without dignity. To be of illegitimate birth is to be a bastard. To seed illegitimate births is to be a zani. To pursue virtuous piety in apathy to all this is to be complicit in crimes against humanity as its greatest enablers – as amply demonstrated in the Letter to Muslims in Chapter 2 vol. 2. To feel offended by the plebeian language I employ and not by what the elite have done to Pakistan is to be a hypocrite. I hope this frank Realityspeak is not lost on the profoundly innocent of knowledge weaned on Newspeak 24 hours a day, just as it is evidently entirely lost on the criminal uncle tom rulers of Pakistan. As serendipity would dictate however, it is a profound irony of fate that the same elite who have been instrumental in writing the Requiem Mass for Pakistan, also hold the key to Pakistan's salvation within their grasp – with just a little bit of genuine courage to throw the tea overboard! Ultimately, all have a rendezvous with death – and none shall fail that rendezvous! Neither shall one, the God of the virginal Muslims assures one, cross the razor's edge to heaven's doorway when the virtuous silence of the pious created the hell on earth for everyone.
This Third Edition of The Pakistan Decapitation Papers adds my current writings to the Second Edition, divided into two epochs. The material of the second edition is carried over into the latter half of the book as vol. 1 for the period 2007 – 2009. The first half adds new content from where the second edition had left off to the present, as vol. 2 for the period 2009 – 2010.
Zahir Ebrahim
October 31, 2010
October 31, 2009
Foreword The Pakistan Decapitation Papers 3rd Edition – A Report on the Banality of Evil
Who in Pakistan has not heard of the famous fable of King Solomon the wise. When presented with two women feuding over a baby, each claiming to be the real mother, the king drew his mighty sword to cut the baby in half to give to each quarrelsome woman. One of them, the real mother, cried out: "It's hers, it's hers, please give the entire beautiful baby to her, she is the real mother; I don't want half of the dead!"
Alas, on the face of it, not one among the rulers of Pakistan is the real mother of the Pakistani peoples.
Pakistan has been under the hectoring hegemons' sword the moment the Berlin Wall came down. Almost overnight, with the calculated destruction of the Soviet Union, a new perpetual enemy of mankind was brought to the fore in the continuing game of Hegelian Dialectics to raise a new phoenix of world government from the ashes of the old world order. Variously titled as militant Islam, radical Islam, islamofascism, but most often called Islamism to bring it kinship with the earlier enemies of mankind, namely, Fascism, Nazism, and Communism, though not Zionism, Pakistan has been the unrecognized eye of the storm from day one.
The only Muslim country with nuclear weapons, also harboring a ready-made psychological-tribal ethos which makes some of its inhabitants easy recruits for enabling the perpetual World War IV with just the right "tickling", Pakistan had to be both harvested for fodder, and setup for destabilization and balkanization. The latter not primarily for the purpose which is most apparent, the riches under its soil, but to continue the path of creating World Order.
The previous four decades since the end of World War II until the dismantling of the Soviet Union, saw most of the world held hostage into two partisan camps of two combating nuclear titans. These bastions of civilization and high-morality of course only exchanged blows in proxy warfare upon poorer nations, but primarily used that Cold War as the pretext to run up a phenomenal expense on arms buildup. That was deemed World War III. The moment that ended, World War IV began right away, albeit it remained poorly recognized as such until 911. The first barbaric invasion of Iraq, followed by the 13 years of strangulation regimes of economic sanctions and silent warfare – which notably elicited the famous affirmation from the US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to the reporting of deaths of half a million Muslim children for a want of medicines "We think the price is worth it" – set the stage for it.
911 created that shock effect of "New Pearl Harbor" upon the American public to provide the full pretext to the remaining superpower left standing after World War III, to launch its final gambit to entirely overthrow the remaining Old World Order. Thus, the past one hundred and twenty years have seen four World Wars, or their preparations, and in each war, three unusual things transpired: 1) existing world order and existing empire were partially destroyed, to be replaced by a transient world order that was to be an incremental baby-step towards the ultimate agenda of world government, and repeat; 2) no territorial expansion occurred for any warring nation; 3) a private financial oligarchy continually emerged the most victorious, consolidating its gains from each war, and each economic boom-bust cycle, to grow more and more powerful. All warring nations ran up astronomical debts to these financial barons who armed all sides of the manufactured conflicts, and also controlled the monetary policy and currency-issue in each of those nations. The victors, as well as the vanquished. The war debt was administered by the Bank of International Settlement, or BIS for short. Who owns BIS and what do its owners want with world government? Was it foreseeable that Pakistan would be put on the chopping block of the war planners?
The collection of Project Humanbeingsfirst's letters and essays comprising this book examines the latter question, of the predictability of Pakistan's sorry fate. Had it not been for her own cowardly and treasonous rulers alternately cowering and thumping their chests while killing their own civilians in the most barbaric way imaginable; and for a public watching in apathy while waiting for Allah to come save them, it was a fate that was completely avoidable! Who gave the mandate to military dictator General Pervez Musharaf to ally Pakistan with the hectoring hegemons in the aftermath of 911? At Nuremberg, the rulers of Pakistan would all hang for creating and maintaining an alliance with the aggressor who committed not just war crimes, but "the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole" as was concluded by Justice Robert Jackson, US chief prosecuting counsel at the Nuremberg Military Tribunals. General Pervez Musharaf treated Pakistan as his private inheritance, and the same is being done by his successors, both military and civilian.
It is my hope that in presenting this volume to them, that they might suddenly recall that six feet under, the maggots can't tell the difference. While surely, the soul extractor can!
For gaining a deeper comprehension of the larger context of one-world government in which Pakistan's dismantling is situated, please acquire the "Monetary Reform Bibliography" from Project Humanbeingsfirst's website, or take the online tutorial titled: "The Hegelian Dialectics of Deception Today's Focus: Anatomy of Modern Lies, Senseless Warfare, Merchants of Death".
These essays and letters are arranged in reverse chronological order (for the lack of a better way to present them). All pertain to Pakistan directly, except three overarching ones which are more general: 1) the letter to the Financial Times of December 11, 2008 (Chapter 46), which is included to demonstrate that when the rest of the documents refer to one-world government, it isn't a conspiracy theory of idle schizoids on some LSD trip ; 2) the report of April 26, 2008, From Balance of Terror to Unilateral Terror on the Grand Chessboard (Chapter 28), which is included to succinctly identify the fundamental political science reality behind the "war on terror" ; and 3) the editorial of October 19, 2009 (Chapter 3), on the Pentagon's Fourth Generation Warfare which gives a bird's-eye view of the conspiratorial orchestration of modern history as the forensic backdrop for situating the ongoing World War IV and how to end it. It would be preferable to read these general essays in that order before proceeding to the predictable sorrows of Pakistan and the impediments to its obvious remedies.
This Second Ebook Edition of Pakistan Decapitation Papers collects several additional reports and letters, and is suitable for hardcopy pretty-printing.
Foreword The Pakistan Decapitation Papers 2nd Edition – A Report on the Banality of Evil
There is many a slip between the cup and lip. Pakistan is still on the map. It is not too late to wage a genuine struggle for independence against the barbarians at the gate who call themselves the hectoring hegemons.
There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free--if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending--if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained--we must fight!
I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!
They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger?
Will it be the next week, or the next year?
Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a Xe guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength but irresolution and inaction?
Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?
Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest.
There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Baluchistan to the mountains of the Tribal Belt!
The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.
It is in vain, sir, to extentuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms!
Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have?
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Once upon a time, so entreated a courageous man whom all honor in the United States of America as their founding father! But when he had spoketh, he wasn't addressing a nation of traitors, mercenaries, native-informants, 'Negroes', and a confused mass of people. The enemy was clearly identified. All he had to do was to rile them up to stand up for their dignity, and their independence.
Today, the enemy is shrouded in obfuscation for the vast majority of Pakistani people. They don't know the enemy. With each suicide bomb blast they bury their dead anew. Whom should they charge for the crime? Osama Bin Laden? With each drone strike, they bury their children anew. Whom should they charge for that crime? Or should they remain in awe of the benevolence of the imperial storm troopers after Iraq and Afghanistan that they used only precision high-tech strikes to kill far fewer innocent men women and children in Pakistan than they otherwise might have with "shock and awe" if General Collin Powel was still around? And feel gratified when it's only their own military (or jihadis) doing it to them – for surely, being dispatched to heaven by fellow Muslims is superior in some way than by infidels alone? What ought the Pakistanis to feel, think, and do? Or simply do nothing and let god sort it all out with the Hectoring Hegemons?
Who is the real enemy responsible for waging World War IV? Is it the mosque, the mullah, the military, the militants, the politicians who turn on a dime, Israel, India, ISI, NATO, America, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, or god who has fated this dastardly destiny so that it can nicely bring about its promised messiah and show the good and wronged people how really mighty powerful and merciful it is so that they may all bow even lower in praise showing up their rear end even higher; who?
Whosoever is the enemy, staying silent 'looking from the side' only invokes the curse of all victims throughout posterity :
"I still curse the killers, their accomplices, the indifferent spectators who knew and kept silent, and Creation itself, Creation and those who perverted and distorted it. I feel like screaming, howling like a madman so that that world, the world of the murderers, might know it will never be forgiven."
I absolve myself, and my progeny from that curse. We have tried our best to be heard.
Zahir Ebrahim
October 31, 2009
Epilogue The Pakistan Decapitation Papers – A Report on the Banality of Evil
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When he was re-elected to a third term in 2005, Chavez made a promise to end euthanasia at the city's animal shelters. He had already been meeting daily with City Councilor Sally Mayer and regularly with breeders and groomers across the city to come up with an animal ordinance that would improve the way the city treats its dogs and cats and increase the number of adoptions. At the time, the city was euthanizing more than 1,000 pets a month.
The law went into effect in October and it follows a nationwide trend of get-tough approaches to pet overpopulation. In Albuquerque, all cats and dogs older than six months must be microchipped and sterilized, unless owners pay an annual fee of $150 to keep their dogs able to reproduce and another $150 for every new litter. Dogs can be restrained by a chain for only one hour every day, and people who want to have more than four dogs must obtain an additional permit. There is even a provision in the new law that requires dog owners to clean up after their pets in their own yards every week. While authorities won't be checking backyards for hardened poop, Chavez says that additional animal control officers have been hired, to make sure any animals they pick up have been neutered or spayed.
Lisa Peterson, a spokesperson for the American Kennel Club, considers the Albuquerque ordinance draconian, but acknowledges it is part of a nationwide trend. Ordinances similar to Albuquerque's have been passed or are being considered by 138 local communities, along with many states. She is concerned that the new laws punish responsible pet owners and breeders, and could even jeopardize the existence of some breeds. In Denver, for example, pitbulls are outlawed completely. This has forced owners to flee the city or go underground, where they keep their dogs behind closed shades and take them out only under the cloak of darkness. In 2006 alone, more than 800 of the dogs known for their ferocity have been rounded up in Denver, most of them destroyed.
Often, these laws follow vicious, sometimes deadly, dog attacks and are driven by a concern for public safety. They are also a response to overwhelming numbers of feral cats and puppy litters and reflect a desire to provide them more humane conditions. In Albuquerque, for example, 30,000 animals are brought to the city's two shelters every year. And that doesn't include animals that pass through private shelters and rescue networks.
It's a grassroots phenomenon, says David Favre, a professor at the Michigan State University College of Law, who has studied animal rights laws for 20 years. Feral cats, spaying and neutering, local shelters these are all local problems that don't get the ear of folks at the federal and state levels. "It is not unlike the environmental movement when I was in law school. Animal welfare is a growing social interest."
It's too soon to tell how effective these laws will be. "We're in the experimentation phase," Favre says. "We're taking the American approach of trying a hundred different things and then seeing what works best in 10 years." The Denver ordinance has survived court challenge, but earlier this year a Toledo, Ohio, ordinance that allowed only one pitbull per household was struck down by an appellate court, which said the law was unreasonable and discriminatory.
To bring even more attention to the issue in Albuquerque, Mayor Chavez now brings a selection of shelter pets to news conferences, department meetings and public appearances. In most cases, the pets find new homes on the spot. The city's euthanasia rate has been cut in half, and Albuquerque is now adopting out more pets than it kills. Chavez's long-term goal: to be able to brag that Albuquerque is a city where all animals that are suited for adoption find homes. "We can't be a complete city as long as we euthanize animals," he says.

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CAMBRDIGE, Mass.– The Harvard men's and women's fencing teams had 12 of their athletes chosen Tuesday when the NCAA Men's and Women's Fencing Committee announced the field of 144 competitors that will participate in the 2012 National Collegiate Men's and Women's Fencing Championships.
Harvard qualified a maximum of 12 athletes allowed to participate for each team (two per weapon in each gender). Ohio State University will play host to the championships March 24-25 in Columbus, Ohio. The Crimson was one of five teams (Ohio State, Princeton, Notre Dame, St. John's and Harvard) to qualify the maximum number of entrants.
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I was really excited to see that some of my kids also have a love for golden oldies. Today, for our second day of Christmas kindness, we took Christmas cards and bananas to all the residents at my Nana's (great grandmother) nursing home. Miles thought that the nursing home, full of it's copious amounts of attention and ogling, was the bees knees.
The girls (Sadie + her BFF) preferred the prep work of making all the Christmas cards. But the boys loved doling out bananas and giving hugs to the residents. Noah always smiled politely and said, "Merry Christmas" while Miles preferred the more practical, "Here's yo' nana!" as he slapped a banana down on their laps. To each his own!
|Making the cards. There was LOTS of glitter involved.
|Noah giving our Nana a Christmas card.
How amazing is it the my children still have their great-great grandmother around?!
*My Christmas playlist is now up under the my music tab*
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Posted a 10-14 dual singles record, including a 6-3 mark against Big Sky competition…played at four different positions in the singles lineup, going 0-1 at No. 3, 2-6 at No. 4, 7-4 at No. 5, and 1-3 at No. 6…lost his final four matches of the season, but three of those losses were played with a sprained ankle…prior to that four-match losing streak, he had won eight of 11 singles matches…was 5-17 in dual doubles play, including a 3-3 record at No. 1 with teammate Niranjan Ram.
2013 Season
Did not play because of a back injury, and will receive a medical hardship from the NCAA
Prior to Sacramento State
Played two seasons (2011-12) for Seminole State College in Seminole, Okla…played at Nos. 1, 2 and 3 in the Trojans' singles lineup during his two years while combining to win five fall tournaments and posting a 34-8 spring dual record…that includes a 15-2 mark his sophomore season…helped Seminole State to its first-ever No. 1 national ranking in the ITA Junior/Community College Men's Rankings during his freshman season…the Trojans combined for a 34-11 dual-match record during his two seasons, including a fifth place finish at the 2011 NJCAA National Championships, and a ninth place finish at the 2012 postseason event.
A psychology major…son of Zdravko Katic and Trine Foss Andersen…played 15 years for the KB Tennis Club of Copenhagen, where he won multiple junior U16 and U18 tournaments, including a Danish doubles national championship…won three Danish team championships with KB, and was also periodically ranked as the No. 1 juniors player in Denmark as an U16 and U18 player.


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Well this my first blog and I will start by saying welcome to my Blogspot.
My name is Lillie, I am 32 years old and a mother of 4 (Josh 14, Matt 6, Mia 4 and Chance 2)
I love be a mom (even if they drive me crazy sometimes). What being a mom means to me is to protect and prepare my children for their future as adults. Our number one priority as a mother is to do the best we can, but remember no one is perfect and we all make mistakes. We weren't given a handbook when we left the hospital to tell us how to raise our kids. We learn as we go along. Parenting is defintly a great adventure, but can be a long journey that never ends. But I believe it is all worth it in the long run. I hope in my many adventures along the way that my children will always be by my side to learn about life and what it may bring
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The Danube Exodus: The Rippling Currents of the River by Hungarian artist Péter Forgács and the Labyrinth Project immerses museum visitors in the stories of German and Jewish refugees fleeing World War II
July 18, 2002
Los Angeles--The Danube Exodus: The Rippling Currents of the River, on view August 17 through September 29, 2002, at the Getty Research Institute, presents visitors with a unique interactive media experience that immerses them in the sights and sounds of Jewish and German refugees fleeing in opposite directions along the same path to avoid the onslaught of World War II. This exhibition is a collaboration between Hungarian artist Péter Forgács, the Getty's design team, and the Labyrinth Project, a research initiative on interactive narrative at the University of Southern California Annenberg Center for Communication.
Visitors to The Danube Exodus installation use a touchscreen interface to navigate through three different, yet intersecting tales. Set in 1939, one story tells of Eastern European Jews fleeing Nazi persecution, trying to reach a ship on the Black Sea that will transport them to a new home in Palestine. A parallel or counter story, set one year later in 1940, following the Soviet re-annexation of Bessarabia, tells of émigré Germans abandoning their adopted Bessarabian homeland to return to Germany. Both groups were transported along the Danube River by Captain Nándor Andrásovits—an adventurer and amateur filmmaker who documented not only these historic journeys but also his own explorations of Central Europe. The third story is that of the captain and the river.
The exhibition also includes early 18th-century maps of the Danube River and drawings of the region from the special collections of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute. The project was launched during Forgács' residency at the Getty Research Institute in 2000-2001 in response to the theme "Reproductions and Originals" and will kick off the 2002-2003 theme—"Biography."
"The innovative and interdisciplinary approach of this exhibition is a powerful demonstration of the Getty Research Institute's commitment to extending the boundaries of art and its historical meaning," said Thomas Crow, director of the Getty Research Institute and member of USC's art history faculty. "The Danube Exodus is a one-of-a-kind experience that we are thrilled to be able to present to Los Angeles."
"The Danube Exodus creatively blends images and sounds of the past using technology from the present," said Elizabeth Daley, executive director of the Annenberg Center and dean of the USC School of Cinema-Television. "And through this melding of old and new, installation visitors from this century can glean a fascinating perspective on one of the most turbulent moments in the last century."
Three Perspectives Flow Together
The Danube Exodus: The Rippling Currents of the River springs from film footage shot over a half century ago by Andrásovits, captain of the Danube river steamer Erzsébet Királyné (Queen Elizabeth). Having originally crafted this "found footage" into an award-winning one-hour film for Dutch television, Forgács teamed up with the Labyrinth Project to transform the material into an immersive experience that compels viewers to compare what Forgács calls the "incomparable duet of the German-Jewish exodus."
"Art is not what can be physically seen in the installation," said Forgács. "Rather, art is that certain intangible thing that each visitor will see. Art is happening in the visitor's mind," he added.
Through its use of touch-screen technology, the installation allows visitors to experience history as a stream of moments and memories that can always be understood in new ways, with each new intersection and reverberation made possible by shifting combinations of design, choice, and chance.
"What our interface designers found most challenging and exciting was the ongoing process of re-orchestrating the captain's original footage—as it moved from one medium or historic moment to another, with its meanings constantly changing and its narrative field constantly expanding," said Marsha Kinder, the noted USC cinema professor who started the Labyrinth Project, which has been producing interactive documentaries and electronic fictions in collaboration with independent artists since 1997. "Visitors are drawn into this process," she added, "not only by choosing what they see and hear, but also by bringing their own personal memories and associations to this haunting material."
From the 18th to 21st century
After viewing the early 18th-century maps and drawings of the Danube region compiled by Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsili that are on display in the exhibition gallery, visitors can proceed to the installation space to navigate through three adjacent arenas. On their left, they encounter the story of the Jewish exodus through a large projection of silent footage of that particular story. They also have access to background material and interviews with passengers on two large monitors with touchscreen interfaces and headphones. On the visitors' far right, a parallel story unfolds with a similar format devoted to the Bessarabian Germans. In the central space, the implicit comparisons between the Germans and Jews play out powerfully and poetically on five large adjacent screens, as do the multi-layered readings of the captain and the river. The resulting effect is that of being immersed in a dramatic clash between giant images vying for control over the narrative space. Visitors will be able to use a touchscreen interface to select orchestrations that interweave the three narratives in new ways.
The mesmerizing power and impact of the experience in the central space is further augmented by an audio mix that includes ambient sounds of the river and harbor, the mechanical rhythms of ships' engines, regional music from the period, songs and prayers of the refugees, voice-overs of the captain and his passengers, and the haunting minimalist music of composer Tibor Szemzö, who has collaborated with Forgács on all of his previous films.
Related events
U.S. Premiere Screening: A Bibó Reader
The Getty screens Péter Forgács' latest film, A Bibó Reader, in which the artist uses found footage and original music by Tibor Szemzö to pay homage to the great Hungarian political thinker István Bibó (1911-1979), who served as minister of state in 1956 during the Hungarian revolution. A Bibó Reader screened earlier this year at the Cannes film festival.
September 5, 7:30 p.m.
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Discussion Panel: Biography on Film
Panel discussion with Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Mark Jonathan Harris and artist Péter Forgács on their approach to biography in the highly charged context of the Holocaust. Special guests include Michael Roth, president of the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland; Michael Renov, professor of critical studies in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California; Robert Rosenstone, professor of history at the California Institute of Technology; János Varga, head researcher, historian, and archivist at the Hungarian National Film Archive; and panel moderator Marsha Kinder, director of the Labyrinth Research Initiative on Interactive Narrative at the University of Southern California Annenberg Center for Communication.
September 12, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center
Performance: Free Fall Oratorio
This multimedia project, based on the award-winning video Free Fall (1996-97) by artist Péter Forgács and composer Tibor Szemzö, presents a moving and intimate picture of the Hungarian Holocaust. Performing live against a backdrop of moving images, vocalists from the Gordian Knot Company of Hungary chronicle the family memories of amateur filmmaker and Holocaust survivor, György Petö, whose home movies form the basis of Free Fall.
September 14, 8:00 p.m.
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
All events are free and open to the public, but seating reservations are required. For information and seating and parking reservations, please call 310-440-7300 or visit www.getty.edu.
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About the USC Annenberg Center for Communication:
The Annenberg Center for Communication was established in 1993 through a $120 million endowment given to the University of Southern California by Ambassador Walter H. Annenberg. Through the numerous projects and initiatives it sponsors, the center supports active research that addresses practical problems in the convergence of technology and communications. It is directed by a team of respected leaders from arts and entertainment, as well as science, technology, and business, who all embrace the cross-disciplinary approach sought in the center's projects. For more information, please visit the ACC Web site www.annenberg.edu.
The Labyrinth Project is a research initiative at the center, funded in part by the Rockefeller Foundation. Under the direction of Marsha Kinder, chair of the Critical Studies Division at the USC School of Cinema-Television, the Labyrinth Project explores ways to combine the compelling visual language of narrative cinema with the interactive potential and database structures of new media. For additional information about the Labyrinth Project and its activities, please email the group at email@example.com or visit their Web site www.annenberg.edu/labyrinth.
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Adoptive mamas...what's better than a million dollars??? That's right! It's new pictures!!! Actually it is picture in the singular, but I am SO grateful to have it. A facebook friend of mine works to send in supplies to the Congo through the United Methodist conference that sponsors Miles' orphanage. I heard a rumor that new pictures of the Jamaa Letu (Miles' orphanage) kids might be circulating. So I thought I'd just shoot him a message and see if he could dig through his photos for a picture of our little guy! And he had one!!!!! (Can you tell how excited I am from all the exclamation points?) And here he is: (We think this picture was taken on New Year's Day- so it is only 11 days old!)
It is just so good to see his little face (even if he is doing something kinda weird with his eye.) His hair looks like it has grown a little bit, but he looks smaller to me- like maybe he's lost a little weight. I don't know- it's so hard to tell from a picture. I can't wait to finally see that boy smile! Not too much longer.
So I asked (practically begged) for a picture and it happened. Now if I beg you to make that chip-in meter (on the left) move will you do it? It hasn't moved all day!
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A Jandaya parakeet (Aratinga jandaya) standing on a branch
Watercolour drawing 15 ¼ x 11 ½ inches; 38.5 x 29 cm..
Signed Sarah Stone lower left corner
Drawn circa 1785
Sarah Stone was the daughter of a fan painter ("…somewhat in the style of Watteau…") and was born in London in or about 1760. Her initial (and, indeed, probably only) training was from her father, and her technique as a natural history watercolourist reflects the curious demands of the fan-painters' trade. She usually (as in the present painting) uses a highly prepared (sized) paper, and has a miniscule technique akin to that of a miniaturist, where the emphasis is on a punctilious precision and exactitude, but with a lively palette of well-saturated colours.
She married Midshipman, later Captain, John Langdale Smith in 1789, the same year that she painted Australian birds, reptiles and mammals from specimens brought back to England by the First Fleet surgeon John White. These were subsequently published in his work titled Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales. The signature on the present work "Sarah Stone" dates the watercolour to before her marriage on 8th September 1789, and before the Leverian Museum was moved from Leicester House to the Rotunda in Albion Place on the south bank of the Thames.
The present species was described in detail in 1781 by John Latham (1) (1740-1837) as the "yellow-headed parrot" but (to Latham's chagrin) given its Linnaean name by the German ornithologist Johann Friedrich Gmelin (8 August 1748 – 1 November 1804) who had published his own version of Linnaeus' Systema Naturæ before Latham resorted to Linnaean nomenclature in 1790. It is likely that the present drawing was taken from a specimen brought back from Brazil and both described by Latham and exhibited in Lever's museum.
The jandaya parakeet or jenday conure (Aratinga jandaya) is a small Neotropical parrot with green wings and tail, reddish-orange body, yellow head and neck, orange cheeks and black bill native to wooded habitats in northeastern Brazil. It is a member of the Aratinga solstitialis complex of parakeets very closely related to, and possibly subspecies of sun parakeet. The bird has a wide range but is locally rare in the wild; they are common in avicultur where they are known as "jenday conures".
(1) Latham is known as the 'Father of Australian ornithology' from his scholarly description and classification of birds brought back to Europe from the earliest expeditions there. He was a friend and correcpondent of both Lever and Sir Joseph Banks.


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I wish to inform all my fellow re-enactors and friends about our new group The White Horse Living History Society We will be concentrating on the Norman and Anglo Norman periods of history 1066 to 1315. We hope to be running events quite soon and will be sending out invites to people to come fight, swap war stories, drink and be merry. As most of you will know I have had my own issues with re-enactment in this country and the politics involved. Fellow re-enactors at the time suggested that I should remember the reasons I became a re-enactor and to play with the people I wanted to play with. It was very sound advice and this is what the 'White Horse' will be all about, having fun! We have gathered 10 members into the fold 10 like minded people who just want to have fun share their experiences and knowledge. I look forward to to seeing you all at some stage at any of our events.
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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) � State officials say the cost of a gallon of home heating oil in Maine has dropped six cents in the past week to an average of $3.70.
Still, the current price is 14 cents higher than at the same time last year.
The Governor's Energy Office reported Monday that the drop in heating oil and kerosene prices may be due to a projected surplus in global oil output for the last quarter of 2012. Decreased turmoil in the Middle East, combined with fewer transportation and production problems in some parts of the world, are considered to be factors.
The lowest prices for heating oil were in the southwest of the state, where it averaged $3.63 per gallon. The highest prices were in the northern reaches, where the average was $3.84.


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Paul Ryan jabbed at President Barack Obama on the campaign trail Tuesday over a remark from four years ago about frustrated voters clinging to guns and religion.
"I'm a Catholic deer-hunter. I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion," Ryan said at a campaign rally in Carnegie, Pa. The comment was a reference to comments Obama made at a fundraiser in April 2008 in San Francisco.
Speaking at a family-owned steel-supply company, Ryan accused the president of treating Medicare "like a piggy bank to fund Obamacare."
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He planned to make an afternoon stop at the American Helicopter Museum & Education Center in West Chester before an evening fundraiser in Center City, NBC 10 Philadelphia reported.
Mitt Romney, meanwhile, was attending private fundraisers to raise cash ahead of next week's GOP convention.
Obama was set to fire back at Romney's vice presidential running mate over $115 billion in education cuts in Ryan's budget plan later Tuesday, The Associated Press reported.
Obama will appear at Capitol University in Columbus, Ohio and at a community college in Reno, Nevada.
According to The New York Times, the president is burning through his campaign funds faster than he can raise them. Last month, Obama's campaign spent $91 million more than the $75 million the Democrats raised, with nearly $40 million spent on advertising alone. Romney and his camp raised $101 million in July, outgunning Obama by $25 million and spending less than half of what Obama spent on advertising.
Obama made a surprise visit to the White House briefing room yesterday, where he defended the tone of his campaign, saying his criticism has never been "out of bounds." Obama also heaped criticism on Republican Rep. Todd Akin for his comments on rape and abortion, which he used as an example to draw distinctions between his views on women's health issues and those of Republicans.
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James Rivington: "for fear of hurting your interest"
Eighteenth-century booksellers and printers didn't confine themselves to selling printed matter. In his second latter to Knox, dated 26 June 1774, Rivington asked the younger man if he wanted to be the Boston agent for "Maredant's Antiscorbutic Drops."
In June 1774, Knox married Lucy Flucker, daughter of the royal secretary of Massachusetts. Soon after hearing that news, Rivington sent three letters, longer than any previously, congratulating the young bookseller on his marriage. At the same time, Rivington:
- told Knox that he'd recommended his shop to officers of the 23rd Regiment of Foot (the Royal Welch Fusileers), then being transferred from New York to Boston.
- sent him four chests of contraband tea to sell.
In that city, Rivington was already known in mid-1774 as a pro-Crown printer, though he still did jobs for Patriots as well. I suspect he thought that Knox's marriage would draw the young bookseller into the Loyalist party in Boston. So he was throwing business in Knox's direction.
On 1 December, Rivington sent Knox 300 copies of a Patriot pamphlet by Philip Livingston (shown above) titled "The Other Side of the Question; or, A Defence of the Liberties of North-America: In Answer to a Late Friendly Address to All Reasonable Americans, on the Subject of Our Political Confusions." He told Knox that he hadn't enclosed the original, Loyalist pamphlet:
The friendly address I do not send to you for fear of hurting your interest, it was forwarded to me by [Boston printers] Mills & Hicks to be printed, my reasons for not troubling you with these very warm, high seasoned pamphlets, is that your very numerous friends, on the patriot Interest, may be greatly disgusted at your distributing them; but if you are not so very nice as I apprehend from the state of your interest &c and are willing to have these sort of articles I will secure them for you from time to time. A piece is printing, in the Hudibrastic stile which will sell but I greatly fear you will not like. Pray explain yourself on this head directly, for I mean to shew every expression of my attention to you.Thus, although Rivington recognized that Knox's "interest" and "very numerous friends" were on the Patriot side, he dangled the prospect of business selling Loyalist material. Undoubtedly that would have pleased Lucy's father, Thomas Flucker, and his colleagues in the royal government.
I don't think Knox's response to this invitation survives. When he discussed politics in earlier letters, his tone was moderate and his positions were Whig but not radical. He tried to maintain friendly ties. The only hint that Knox might become a Loyalist was his marriage with the financial prospects it brought—but apparently that was enough for Rivington to send out feelers.
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text: Don't Pass Me By song I listen for your footsteps coming up the drive, Listen for your footsteps but they don't arrive, Waiting for your knock dear on my old front door, I don't hear it, Does it mean you don't love me anymore? I hear the clock a-ticking on the mantel shelf, See the hands a-moving but I'm by myself, I wonder where you are tonight and why I'm by myself, I don't see you. Does it mean you don't love me anymore? Don't pass me by, don't make me cry, don't make me blue, Cause you know daring I love only you, You'll never know it hurt me so, How I hate to see you go, Don't pass me by, don't make me cry I'm sorry that I doubted you, I was so unfair, You were in a car crash and you lost your hair, You said that you would be late, about an hour or two I said that's all right I'm waiting here, just waiting to hear from you. Don't pass me by, don't make me cry, don't make me blue, Cause you know daring I love only you, You'll never know it hurt me so, How I hate to see you go, Don't pass me by, don't make me cry "Don't Pass Me By" Song by the Beatles from the album The Beatles Released 22 November 1968 Recorded 5 June 1968 Genre Country rock Length 3:46 (mono version) 3:51 (stereo version) Label Apple Writer Richard Starkey Producer George Martin The Beatles track listing 30 tracks Side one "Back in the U.S.S.R." "Dear Prudence" "Glass Onion" "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" "Wild Honey Pie" "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" Side two "Martha My Dear" "I'm So Tired" "Blackbird" "Piggies" "Rocky Raccoon" "Don't Pass Me By" "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" "I Will" "Julia" Side three "Birthday" "Yer Blues" "Mother Nature's Son" "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" "Sexy Sadie" "Helter Skelter" "Long, Long, Long" Side four "Revolution 1" "Honey Pie" "Savoy Truffle" "Cry Baby Cry" "Revolution 9" "Good Night" "Don't Pass Me By" is a song by the Beatles from the double album The Beatles (also known as the White Album). Lead vocals were performed by Ringo Starr. It was Starr's first solo composition. Please note the text from Wikipedia is imported without editing or authentication. Don't Pass Me By (White) Don't Pass Me By (Anthology 3)


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The peloton of the Tour de France might be unfamiliar territory to most triathletes, but sooner or later you're likely to find yourself training or racing in a bunch. Group rides are a great way to put in some miles, learn new skills and meet other triathletes, but before you join the bunch, here are a few skills to master.
Pedal smoothly
First things first: you need to learn to ride steady on your own. Many beginners use too low a cadence, so the bike surges forward with every pedal stroke - this can be annoying and even dangerous in a group. Try to ride at least at 90 revolutions per minute (rpm) on every ride. Keeping your cadence high will also allow you to adjust to speed changes in small increments, rather than braking or all-out acceleration. To keep your rpm constant, change gear frequently to match the terrain and wind conditions. Remember: don't look down as you shift gear. Practise solo until you can do it by feel.
Get close and be predictable
Packs are often formed of one or two lines of riders to maximise the wind-breaking benefits. To feel the draft, go with one or two other riders to a quiet, flat road and practise riding single file. Gently move laterally about a foot or so to find the space where there is the least wind resistance. That's the spot you want to ride in. This position will depend on where you are relative to the wind.
Fuel right
Group rides usually last for an hour or more, so it's important to eat and drink consistently, but it's even more important to do so without taking your eyes off the road. Open energy bars before you set off, for easy access when you're on the move, and keep snacks in the most reachable, outside part of your jersey pocket. Practise reaching into your pockets as well as grabbing your water bottle while riding alone before doing so in a group.
Take turns at the front
Putting in some time on the front means every rider shares the work. When you're ready to drop off from the lead, let the rider behind know with a hand or voice signal, check over your shoulder for cars, gradually pull out of the line and then ease up just enough to slowly drift to the back of the group. Next, ride two by two, trying to get within arm's reach of the shoulder next to you. You should be near enough to carry on a conversation without those behind you hearing what you're saying - really, that close. Build to a group of four or six riders before you join a larger pack.
Look ahead
No matter where you are in the pack, it's essential that you watch the road surface in front of the group. Those at the front should point out dangers ahead - holes, rocks, dogs and the like - but everyone is responsible for sharing this awareness. Gaining confidence in lifting your gaze from the wheel in front of you takes time, but you can jump-start it by going to a grass field with a friend and riding single file to practise. You'll find it's not so hard if you both ride steadily and predictably.


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Black holes, the ultradense collapsed objects predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity, are often depicted as voracious feeders whose extraordinary gravity acts like a one-way membrane: Everything is sucked in, even light, and virtually nothing leaks out.
Now, for the first time, astronomers may have a chance to watch as a giant black hole consumes a cosmic snack.
In March or April, a gas cloud that has been hurtling toward the center of the Milky Way is expected to collide with Sagittarius A*, a black hole that lies just 26,000 light-years from Earth. (The actual event, of course, took place 26,000 years ago.)
The cloud is as massive as three Earths — no match for the black hole, which has the mass of four million suns.
"This is a rare opportunity to witness spoon-feeding of a black hole," said Avi Loeb, a theoretical astrophysicist at Harvard. "Will the gas reach the black hole, and if so, how quickly? Will the black hole throw up or spit the gas out in the form of an outflow or a jet?
"The experience is as exciting for astronomers," he went on, "as it is for parents taking the first photos of their infant eating."
If the black hole devours a sizable chunk of the cloud, a digestive process that could take many months to years, fireworks could ensue. Heated to billions of degrees as it spirals inward, the doomed gas cloud may emit a last gasp of radiation, ranging from radio waves to X-rays.
But even if the encounter proves a dud, it may still provide insight about the feeding habits of big black holes, which are believed to reside at the center of nearly every large galaxy.
"We will learn something no matter what happens," said Andrea Ghez, an astronomer at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has monitored the galactic center since 1995.
The action is likely to unfold in two acts, said Stefan Gillessen of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany. His team discovered the gas cloud, G2, in 2011.
The first stage could come just weeks after the cloud, already stretched into a spaghetti-like strand by the black hole's gravity, makes its closest approach to Sagittarius A*. Models suggest that will occur around March 31, give or take three weeks, Dr. Gillessen said.
At closest approach, the cloud's distance from the black hole will still be about 200 times Earth's distance from the sun. Nonetheless, the passage might be near enough for G2 to plow into the outer edge of the swirling disk of matter believed to surround and feed the black hole.
The shock wave generated by that encounter may create X-rays and radio waves that could be detected by telescopes. If the cloud contains a star at its center, as some astronomers have proposed, it may produce a stronger shock and generate more light, said Sera Markoff of the University of Amsterdam.
The encounter could have another effect: Disruptions in the cloud might alter the direction in which radio waves vibrate as they travel through. Simultaneous observations with telescopes tuned to different radio wavelengths have a chance of discerning the waves' twists, giving astronomers new details about the cloud's properties, said Geoffrey Bower, a radio astronomer with Asiaa, the Taiwanese astronomy organization, in Hilo, Hawaii.
But most of the potential fireworks are at least a year away, perhaps decades. That is how long it may take material torn from G2 to spiral inward through the black hole's feeding disk, coming 100 times closer to the hole than it is now. At that location, gas becomes hot enough to radiate at high intensity before it is swallowed.
Moreover, astronomers think that if the gas cloud is to be swallowed, it will have to lose much of its angular momentum, or orbital rotation, around the black hole.
Although theorists have proposed that friction in the disk reduces the material's rotation, "the simulations on our computers are not capable enough to track the descent," Dr. Gillessen said.
If the gas takes a relatively short time to spiral inward, it would indicate that the black hole's disk is viscous, like honey, and that it easily robs the gas of its rotational speed. A much longer time — decades, for example — would indicate that the disk has a lower viscosity, like water, allowing the gas to circle many times before it goes down the drain.
Dr. Loeb, of Harvard, said the radiation produced by the dregs of G2 could explain past observations that Sagittarius A* is both dim and a poor eater — able to consume only one ten-thousandth of the food supply available to it at large distances.
Several other clouds in the black hole's vicinity may provide future fodder for Sagittarius A*. But even if G2 is its last meal for the foreseeable future, there is more excitement to come. Next year, the Event Horizon Telescope, an array of radio telescopes that has already examined Sagittarius A*, will gain enough acuity to discern the light that just misses being dragged into Sagittarius A* but is bent by the black hole's gravity into a halo that frames it. (That is so acute that the array could make out an orange on the surface of the moon, said the project's leader, Sheperd Doeleman, an astronomer at the M.I.T. Haystack Observatory and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.)
Deviations from the predicted shape of the halo would indicate that Einstein's theory of gravity needs revision. And in 2018, a bright star called S0-2 will further test the theory by coming considerably closer to Sagittarius A* than the gas cloud does at its closest approach. The star's orbit and light will reveal whether Einstein's equations correctly describe gravity near a supermassive black hole.


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Taiyeb-Ali, T.B. and Toh, C.G. and Siar, C.H. and Seiz, D. and Ong, S.T. (2009) Influence of abutment design on clinical status of peri-implant tissues. Implant Dentistry, 18 (5). pp. 438-446. ISSN 1056-6163
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Objective: To compare the clinical soft tissue responses around implant tooth-supported 3-unit bridges using tapered abutments with those using butt-joint abutments. Methods: In a split-mouth design study, 8 mm Ankylos (Dentsply Friadent, Germany) implants were placed in the second mandibular molar region of 8 adult Macaca fascicularis monkeys about I month after extraction of all mandibular molars. After 3 months of submerged healing, 3-unit metal bridges were constructed. Clinical data was collected by the author who was blind to the abutment selections. Implants were clinically evaluated using Waite plaque index, sulcus bleeding index, probing pocket depth (PPD), probing attachment loss (PAL), and width of keratinized mucosa at baseline (BL) and 3-month and 6-month intervals. Stability of the implant was assessed using Periotest device at BL and after 6 months. Results: At BL, all the clinical variables did not differ statistically between the tapered and the butt-joint groups except for PPD (P < 0.05), where the meat? PPD was greater in the butt-joint group (2.75 +/- 1.02 mm) as compared with the tapered group (1.97 +/- 0.65 mm). At the 3-month assessment, there was no difference in all clinical variables. After 6-month loading, no significant difference between these 2 groups was detected in all these variables, with the exception of PAL (P = 0.05) where mean PAL was greater for implants with the butt-joint abutments (0.91 +/- 0.86 mm) in comparison with the tapered abutments (0.50 +/- 0.88 mm), and mean Periotest values (PTVs) that indicate the tapered-abutment implants (PTV = -4.5 +/- 1.60) were more stable than butt-joint-abutment implants (PTV = -1.5 +/- 3.59) with P < 0.05. Conclusions: The differences in these mucogingival responses between these 2 groups at BL (during seating of abutments, especially of butt-joint abutments) and after 6-month loading indicated enhanced peri-implant soft tissue stability around the tapered abutments of this system. There was also enhanced-PTV in the test group for clinical mobility assessment after 6-month loading. (Implant Dent 2009; 18:438-446)
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A group of Greater Tainan residents affected by an underground railroad project yesterday protested outside the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) headquarters in Taipei as the party officially announced the nomination of incumbent Greater Tainan Mayor William Lai (賴清德) for re-election next year.
"Stop robbing us, Lai! Stop playing dumb, DPP," the protesters shouted, urging the party not to nominate Lai unless he would talk with them to settle the dispute.
"We've always been diehard loyal supporter of the DPP and Lai, but now we are very disappointed with him and the party," a protester surnamed Chen (陳) said. "After all, the DPP is no different than the Chinese Nationalist Party [KMT] and Lai is no different than Miaoli County Commissioner Liu Cheng-hung [劉政鴻] when it comes to the expropriation of private land."
The dispute concerns a project which was drafted by the Railway Reconstruction Bureau (RRB) under the Ministry of Transportation and Communications in 1995 to place a section of railroad tracks that runs through downtown Tainan underground.
According to the original plan, properties belonging to 407 households on the eastern side of the current surface tracks will be "borrowed" to build temporary tracks during construction of the underground tracks and the land will be returned to the owners to rebuild their houses after the construction is completed.
However, in 2009 the RRB decided to permanently expropriate the land, build the underground tracks underneath the properties belonging to the 407 households and resettle the residents in apartment complexes to be built outside the city's urban area. The decision triggered protests by the residents.
Wang Chin-chao (王欽昭), a 67-year-old resident whose house in the city is to be torn down, was upset.
"I've been living in the city center for more than 40 years in a townhouse and now the city government is asking us to move to an apartment in the middle of nowhere," Wang said. "The city government is not resettling us for free — we have to buy the apartment with our own money, which means that my son will become indebted."
Wang said the compensation from the city government would not be enough to purchase a new apartment and thus his family would have to get a housing loan.
Chen Chih-hsiao (陳致曉), a spokesman for the residents' self-help organization, said that despite a promise the DPP made in August that the party or Lai would talk with the affected residents, no one has contacted them so far.
Responding to the protest, DPP spokesman Lin Chun-hsien (林俊憲) said the party would refer the petition to Lai.
Meanwhile, Lai was nominated as the DPP's candidate in the Tainan mayoral election in the Central Executive Committee meeting yesterday.
Commenting on the case, Lai said yesterday that the project has been assessed by a Control Yuan report as legal and his administration has been promoting better communication with affected residents.
The project does not move the underground railway eastward, Lai said.
"Profiteering for business conglomerates was not an issue, as the expropriated lands would be used as roads, rather than private properties. Neither were the concerns about the environmental impact assessment and administrative process, because we have completed the evaluation and held public hearings as required," Lai said.