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Chapter One
THE MYTHS associated with Glastonbury Tor are extraordinary. It has been called a magic mountain, a faeries' glass hill, a spiral castle, a Grail castle, the Land of the Dead, Hades, a Druid initiation centre, an Arthurian hill-fort, a magnetic power-point, a crossroads of leys, a place of Goddess fertility rituals and celebrations, a converging point for UFOs.
These myths are still very much alive today, although they are constantly being built upon and undergoing change. This is not surprising, given that this 500-foot high conical hill is a most striking and inspiring landmark - visible at vast distances and yet invisible at certain angles close-by.
If you climb the Tor on a clear day, you will be astonished by the extent of the views: to the north you will see the Mendip Hills together with the city of Wells and its cathedral; to the west the island of Steep Holm in the Bristol Channel; Brent Knoll to the northwest; the Polden and Quantock Hills to the southwest, and the Black mountains of Wales in the far distance; the Hood Monument and Dorset to the south; to the east Cadbury Hill, Alfred's Tower on the borders of Wiltshire, and Cley Hill- a hill famous for UFO sightings.
On a misty day you can experience for yourself what it must have been like when Glastonbury was an island - the Isle of Glass. From the summit of the Tor you will see only the swirling mists of Avalon with patches of green in between. What is now the flatness of the Somerset Moors and Levels has become watery marshes once again.
The mythology of the Tor reaches so far back into ancient times that it is impossible to give it a beginning. But if we try to look beyond Christianity and beyond the Celtic Druids, we may discover some answers concerning its origins and purpose. All kinds of information and interpretations are shedding new light on what was previously dismissed as the old religion. As each new cult or religion supersedes another, so it tries to blot out or deny what came before. Such is the nature of conversion. This is what could have happened in the case of Goddess worship, a way of life which may have existed all over the world until around the fifth millennium BC.
The emphasis on the divine female is largely based on the larger number of female carvings and figurines found in the old European culture compared to a relative lack of male forms which appeared later when males were the hunters in hunter-gatherer societies and the Goddess was combined with the worship of male Gods in the pagan polytheistic religions of the Greeks, Romans and Celts. Later still, with the invasion of Europe by the Indo-Europeans from the East, the Goddess religion was suppressed and male dominance became the norm.
The Goddess would have taken many forms and would have been represented in a variety of different aspects, but believers would have seen her essential nature in the harmony and balance of the natural order, the ebb and flow, growth and decay of life itself. Evoked and celebrated on hills and mountains, these would have been her seats or thrones on earth. It is interesting to note that many early images of goddesses have spirals on their breasts, symbolising the coiled serpent or dragon, both regarded as sacred in the old religion. The dragon or serpent represented the natural energies of the earth and sky - energies to be co-operated with and revered. In the Shakti cults of southeast Asia and China, dragons and serpents were associated with clouds and rain, and the Sumerian goddess Tiamat was a sea-serpent and Great Waters goddess. The dragon was also regarded as a manifestation of the psyche in which the real and the imaginary are blurred and are, as in nature, only different aspects of life.
The labyrinth pattern on Glastonbury Tor, similar to Cretan labyrinths, would have been created for ritual purposes long before the Druids are said to have used it in their rites and initiation ceremonies. Labyrinths are deeply symbolic, their most usual interpretation being that of the soul's journey through life, death and rebirth. The seven-circuit Tor labyrinth would probably have been made and threaded during the time of the goddess religion.
Although the archaeologist Philip Rahtz, who excavated the summit of the Tor from 1964 to 1966, has not committed himself on the existence of a human-made labyrinth, he has said that if it is there, its probable date would have been around the second or third millennium BC. Archaeologists are interested but cautious, and presumably they will remain so until it is excavated. However, in the summer of 1979 Geoffrey Ashe made a long study of the Tor and concluded that it did indeed exist. His booklet The Glastonbury Tor Maze gives the evidence he found and shows the labyrinth to be one of the great ritual works of early Britain.
Many of us who live in Glastonbury have walked the labyrinth at one time or another and found it to be a useful tool for journeying into the unconscious and much more besides.
To find out everything you need to know about labyrinths, read Labyrinths: Ancient Myths & Modern Uses by Sig Lonegren.
Around the third century BC, the Celts founded two lake villages at Glastonbury and Meare. Their burial ground was called Ynis Witrin, an old British name meaning Isle of Glass. Also in Celtic legend the name Avalon occurs, derived it seems from Avalloc or Avallach - a Celtic demigod who ruled the Underworld. However, Avalon also signifies apple orchard or Isle of Apples, very apt for the cider-making county of Somerset. Apples were associated with goddesses in many mythologies and with a western paradise where the sacred apple tree is guarded by a serpent or dragon. Some names for this paradise garden derive from an ancient root word meaning apple.
According to pagan British as well as Celtic lore, Avalon was the meeting-place of the Dead - the point where they passed on to another level of existence. Not only was Avalon a hill surrounded by water, but it was also linked with Caer Sidi - the Faeries' Glass Mountain or Spiral Castle where the natural energies of the earth met with the supernatural power of death. In ancient times Caer Sidi was described as the abode of Cerridwen, the enchantress who possessed the Cauldron of Wisdom, a goddess with powers of prophecy and magic.
The remnants of stones scattered around the lower slopes of the Tor point to yet another possible use of this hill. Could it have been used as a moon observatory in conjunction with the threading of the labyrinth as there is a good deal of evidence connecting megalithic stones with Druid initiation ceremonies?
A recently discovered vantage point for viewing the winter solstice sunrise as it rolls up the steep side of the north east end of the Tor is the mound on Glastonbury's Windmill Hill (the very top of St Edmund's Hill). The Sun is clearly seen from there obliterating the tower as it hits the summit. This is well-worth experiencing though in prehistory the Sun would not have rolled up it in the same way due to the changes in the Earth's axial tilt angle. For more information see The Star Temple of Avalon by Nick Mann and Philippa Glasson.
To many, the key document on the whole question of Glastonbury is the Life of St Collen by a Welsh saint of 650 AD. The manuscript tells the story of a Christian hermit living in a cell on the Tor who is visited by two emissaries of the Faery King Gwyn Ap Nudd. They persuade him to visit their king on the summit of the Tor. Because the hermit believes faeries to be demons, he takes holy water with him. He enters the other world of the king's castle, refuses the lavish hospitality, splashes holy water every-where and causes the castle and faeries to disappear.
During the sixth and seventh centuries, a number of Celtic Sagas appeared concerning the heroes of Britain. These sagas linked the Faery King Gwyn with the Glass Island, and also with Annwn - the Celtic land of Faery, King Arthur, and the Cauldron of Plenty. However, the earliest reference to Glastonbury Tor is in the Charter of St Patrick compiled around the middle of the thirteenth century. Two lay brothers are mentioned, a fact which suggests the beginning of a monastic settlement on the Tor. More evidence that the Tor was a monastic site occurs in the thirteenth century in a Charter of Henry III of 1234 AD, giving permission for the holding of a fair "at the monastery of St Michael on the Tor".
Faery fairs turn up in folklore time after time and they always appear to have been held near labyrinths, mounds, standing-stones, hill-forts or earthworks. There is still an annual Tor Fair in Glastonbury but it is no longer held on the Tor, and is a very far cry from what one may like to imagine it once was. It is now a simple fairground as found everywhere these days.
The oldest story connecting King Arthur with Glastonbury is told by a monk of Llancarfan called Caradoc in his Life of Gildas. Queen Guinevere was kidnapped by Melwas, King of Summer Land (Somerset?) who kept her at Glastonbury. Arthur arrived to rescue her with soldiers from Devon and Cornwall, but was hampered by the watery country. A treaty was arranged between the two so that Arthur and Melwas ended their quarrel in the church of St Mary - the Old Church - and Guinevere was handed back to Arthur. Glastonbury Tor would have been an obvious place for Melwas to have a fort, and excavations on the summit point to a hill-fort of that period.
In a pre-Christian version of The Quest of the Holy Grail, namely the Welsh poem 'Spoils of Annwn' in the Book of Taliesin, King Arthur and his company enter Annwn, the realm of Gwyn Ap Nudd, to bring back a miraculous cauldron of inspiration and plenty. The Tor is featured as the Corbenic Castle (Grail Castle) where the procession to the heavily-guarded grail or cauldron takes place. As the cauldron was associated in those times with fertility and prophecy, it is very possible that an ancient ritual was performed there, traces of which survive in the later legends of the Holy Grail.
In Arthurian legend Avalon was also the home of Morgan le Fay, a Celtic goddess or Faerie Queen, but she became more commonly regarded as Arthur's sister. Her name occurs in Celtic Europe as Fata Morgana in Italy and as Morgain La Fee in France. As Fata Morgana, she lived beneath the waters of a lake, leading one to suppose that the Lady of the Lake in Arthurian mythology and Morgan le Fay could have been at one time the same.
Excavations on the Tor between 1964 and 1966 give us a chronological outline which, although open to varying interpretations, gives us something to go on with regard to dating the uses of the Tor through the centuries. Remains of graves on the summit dating back to the fifth and sixth centuries (known as the Dark Ages) suggest a pagan religious site. It could also have been a small Celtic Christian monastic site as the type of pottery found is common to other early Christian sites, although the large quantity of meat bones suggests that these were not Christian ascetics. A sixth century bronze head with a Celtic face points to metal-working on the Tor and the site may also have been used as a stronghold or hill-fort. The Celtic Christian culture probably derived from the late Roman way of life and predates any settled Saxon administration.
The discovery of a wheel-headed cross confirms a Christian basis in the eleventh century (late Saxon, early medieval) and the preponderance of fish, bird bones and eggshell among the animal remains definitely supports the theory that a Christian settlement, with a hermitage, existed on the Tor at this time.
The first church on the Tor was probably of the late twelfth or early thirteenth century and was dedicated to St Michael - a dedication characteristic of such a hilltop site. St Michael, apart from being the ruler of archangels according to Christian tradition, was also the dragon-slayer and the personal adversary of Satan. Early Christianity believed the gods of the old religion to be fallen angels or demons. The Christian church seems to have had a policy of building churches dedicated to St Michael on the old religious sites and sacred mounds. Since the Tor and its spiral labyrinth represented the dragon, symbol of the Earth Spirit or Goddess in pagan times, the building of a church dedicated to the dragon-slayer was meant to act as a powerful deterrent to any kind of pagan celebration.
In 1275 there was an earthquake and the church of St Michael crashed to the ground, hopelessly ruined. Another church was built and the tower or chapel, which is all that remains, dates to the fourteenth century, with some later alterations and embellishments. The carvings on the south-west face of St Michael's tower show Michael holding the scales and St Bridget milking a cow. One of the signs of Imbolc (February 1st) is that the ewe's milk starts running in preparation for feeding the lambs. Also at Imbolc, looking through that door to the north-east, you will see the Imbolc sunrise towards Pilton. St Bridget was originally the Celtic goddess Brighde or Bride who, at her festival of Imbolc in February, presided over the lactation of domestic animals, sheep in particular. She was also the goddess of fire, of the sun, of poetic inspiration, childbirth and metalworking; later, she became the Christian St Bridget of Ireland.
There are many stories, both real and imaginary, about a series of tunnels beneath the Tor. Jazz sessions used to take place in one such tunnel entrance in the early 1960s, but since then they have all been blocked up. The most famous tale is about a tunnel from the Abbey to the Tor. At one time some thirty monks are rumoured to have entered the Tor via this tunnel, but only three came out again - two insane and one struck dumb. Wherever these entrances begin and end, a point worth noting is that experienced dowsers are convinced of the Tor's hollowness and the existence of a variety of underground springs (possibly seven) forming a vast network of hidden subterranean waterways.
There is no mistaking the powerful elemental quality on the Tor. Some would describe it as a whirlwind, a vortex or meeting-point of energies in their purest and wildest form; others would describe a primordial dragon twisting, turning, and roaring to be let out. Please note this dragon can be calm and serene too.
Many visitors to the Tor have had strange psychic experiences there including suddenly leaping into the air, feelings of weightlessness and disorientation, or disappearing into subterranean passages. In 1969 a group of night-shift workers saw a saucer-shaped object hover over the Tor, and later a big fiery-red ball appeared over the hill and then moved rapidly over Glastonbury. In 1970 a police officer saw eight egg-shaped objects in formation over the Tor. These cases were reported in the local paper. Sightings continue to occur.
Glastonbury Tor also plays a significant part in the alignment of sacred prehistoric sites known as the St Michael line. According to the renowned author and thinker John Michell in his book New Light on the Ancient Mystery of Glastonbury,
Geographically it is the longest line across land that can be drawn over southern England, extending from a point near Land's End in the far west to the eastern extremity of East Anglia. On or near its straight course lie major St Michael sanctuaries of western England: Glastonbury Tor, Burrowbridge Mump, Brentor, Roche Rock, St Michael's Mount, Carn Brea.
Paul Broadhurst and Hamish Miller, authors of The Sun and the Serpent, used dowsing to track for 300 miles the course of this enigmatic line on the landscape with fascinating results for Glastonbury and its environs. They called it the Michael line and found a Mary line too which encompassed 23 churches dedicated to St Mary compared to 10 churches dedicated to St Michael or St George on the Michael line.
People who live in Glastonbury speak of the way they are sometimes impelled to go up the slopes of the Tor, while on other days they would find themselves unable to approach it. The Tor has meaning in people's lives as something always seems to happen when you go up there. When you need to answer a question, resolve an issue, or simply blow away the cobwebs in your life, the Tor is the place to head for. The Tor labyrinth is walked with the intention of solving seemingly impossible problems as its disorientating effect can lift the veil between dimensions. For some this leads to a new perspective on life. A day or so before childbirth some expectant mothers have felt a strong urge to climb the Tor and this has heralded the onset of labour.
However one perceives Glastonbury Tor - as an energy centre, a cosmic power-point, an ancient oracle or a fairytale castle - all the evidence indicates the existence of a prehistoric culture deeply involved with the forces of the earth and sky, forces which were depended upon, utilised, celebrated and understood in ways which we have yet to fully rediscover.
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Election Day isn't until Nov. 6, but County Commission candidate Tim Ryan is a sure winner — so much so that he's already hired his staff, met with county department heads and tackled, in small way, a vexing problem that infuriates Broward's drivers.
He's is among 11 Broward and Palm Beach County office-seekers — from county commission candidates to contenders for the state Legislature and Congress — who are virtually guaranteed victories because their opponents are either unknown no-party hopefuls with little money or nearly invisible write-in candidates.
Ryan is a former state representative from Dania Beach who won a three-way Aug. 14 County Commission primary with 40 percent of the vote. He now faces two write-in candidates in his bid to take over the commission seat currently occupied by John Rodstrom, who is leaving office because of term limits.
No write-in candidate has ever won office in Florida. Their names don't even appear on the ballot.
Some sure winners face named opponents on the ballot. U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, for example, faces no party affiliation candidates Cesar Henao and W. Michael "Mike" Trout in his bid for re-election in a northwestern Broward/southwestern Palm Beach County district.
Democrats make up 47 percent of the 21st Congressional District's registered voters. Independent or no-party-affiliation voters make up 27 percent and 26 percent are Republicans.
It takes name recognition, political organization and money to run effective campaigns — things candidates like Henao and Trout don't have.
The same disadvantages confront the challengers to U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, a Miami Republican whose district includes part of southwest Broward, and U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, a Miramar Democrat whose district extends into Palm Beach County.
Like Deutch, their districts are so overwhelmingly aligned with either the Democrats or the Republicans that the other major party didn't even bother to run candidates.
Activists involved in Broward and Palm Beach county politics for decades say they can't remember a no-party/independent candidate winning a partisan election.
In Ryan's case, the write-in candidates served their purpose: closing the primary so that only Democrats could vote. Without any write-ins, Republicans and no party affiliation/independent voters could have participated in the primary — something that might have helped Rodstrom's wife, Charlotte, who wanted to succeed her husband but lost to Ryan. The Rodstroms have long enjoyed support from Republicans.
Even though Ryan is sure to win, he's technically a candidate on Nov. 6, which means he's been allowed to continue raising campaign money. Most of the $70,000 he's taken in since the primary is going to repay the $85,000 he lent his campaign.
Ryan said he's also been meeting with county department heads to prepare for taking office on Nov. 20. "I wanted to understand everything from the traffic engineering to the wastewater plants to the environmental programs, transit."
One of the agencies he's met with is traffic engineering, which is responsible for the unsynched traffic lights that agitate so many motorists. The soon-to-be-commissioner said the problem is better than it used to be — but said he did report one out-of-sync signal on Stirling Road. It was fixed, he said.
State Rep. Jeff Clemens, who faces only a write-in candidate in his bid to become a state senator from Palm Beach County, is preparing his office. The House of Representatives has already picked up the furniture and computers from the office in Lake Worth, but Clemens plans to keep the space as his Senate office.
He's already getting bids from contractors to move a wall to accommodate the extra staffer he'll get as a senator. Once that work is done, he knows what color will go on the office wall: deep blue. And he'll paint it himself.

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Toddler critical after fall in mall fountain
A 2-year-old girl was resuscitated after falling into a fountain at an east Georgia shopping mall Wednesday, according to the Richmond County Sheriff's Office.
The toddler is hospitalized in critical condition at Georgia Regents Medical Center, deputies said.
Richmond County sheriff's deputies and emergency crews responded to the mall's lower level near Sears shortly before 5 p.m.
The Augusta Chronicle is reporting that the child wandered from the children's play area, according to police. The mother told police she was searching for her daughter, who had disappeared among the other children, when she saw her with the nurse near the fountain, according to the report.
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Patrol Reports. Gulf District, Kikori, 1949-1950
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Approximately 4 patrol reports, with related correspondence. PATROL OFFICERS: Counsel, V. B.; Flower, E.; Bailey, L. W. AREAS PATROLLED: Urama, Guari, Gope, Era, Samberigi, Gibidai, Kibeni, Turama, Kikori.
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How to hide the SSH daemon
Secure Shell (SSH) is a network protocol that provides network services such as remote command-line logins and data communications. It creates a secure channel between a client and a server that are running their respective SSH daemons from a particular port. However, an open SSH port represents a vulnerability that malicious users potentially could exploit to gain access to an SSH server. A system administrator can configure a firewall to hide the SSH daemon from unauthorized users, while allowing authorized users to connect to the server with SSH. This example uses iptables to configure the firewall, which is installed by default on a CentOS system.
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Milgram experiment is shocking subject of new book
Bob McDonough of Clinton has only three memories of his father, who died when McDonough was almost 3 years old: his father placing him on the windowsill to watch him shave, and once letting him sit on his lap while he steered the car.
And then there are his father's anguished screams for mercy.
Those came later, caught on a film about the famous Milgram experiments that took place at Yale in 1961-62. McDonough's father, Jim, in real life the head auditor for the railroad, played the victim in those now-famous experiments.
Most everyone these days knows something about this controversial study, whether they know it by name or not. In the experiment -- which has been used to explain how the Nazis were able to convince soldiers to exterminate millions of Jews -- volunteers, called teachers, were encouraged to give increasingly intense electric shocks to another person, a learner, in a memory study.
Surprisingly, some 65 percent of the teachers gave what they thought was the maximum amount of punishment -- 450 volts of electric shock -- to Jim McDonough, who was the person they were paired with in the experiment, despite the fact that he had mentioned a heart condition, and despite his subsequent anguished screams and cries, and then chilling silence, coming from the other room.
They did this, according to Stanley Milgram, an assistant professor at Yale who designed and carried out the study, because human beings have an almost slavish obedience to authority.
The truth was that McDonough actually received no electric shocks at all, that everything from his wrong answers on the memory test to his cries of anguish all were scripted, and, in fact, the participants were listening to a tape recording of him pleading for the experiment to stop. The real McDonough was simply listening in a nearby room -- and after the experiment was over, he came out and shook hands with the participants to show he was unharmed.
But none of this was known to the nine children of Jim McDonough when 12 years later, in 1974, "60 Minutes" aired a segment about the Milgram experiment, after Stanley Milgram published his book, "Obedience to Authority." By that time, their father had been dead for seven years.
"As we watched the show, we were all in a state of shock," said Bob McDonough, the youngest of the nine children and who had never before even heard his father's voice or seen his movements. "They ran the footage of my father being strapped to the chair and we could hear his protests when the teacher started flipping switches and doling out discipline. 'Let me out of here!' he cried. 'You can't keep me here! Let me out!'"
Although their mother remembered that their father had had a part-time job in an experiment at Yale, she didn't know the details of it. "We still weren't certain if my father was really getting shocked or not," recalled McDonough. "We wondered if this might have had something to do with the fatal heart attack he suffered less than three years later at the young age of 49."
Bob McDonough, 50, a conductor for the Metro-North Railroad, these days writes a popular blog called "Derailed," and in March 2006 wrote about his family's experience with the discovery of their father. He sai his mother was concerned after the show aired, and she contacted the City University of New York, where Milgram was working.
"He told my mother how much he enjoyed working with my dad and he reassured her that he was unharmed in the experiments," McDonough said. The family got a copy of the movie about the experiments, "Obedience to Authority," and watched it on a projector on a bed sheet in the living room, without any audio.
Some 20 years later, in 1994, McDonough bought his first VCR and was able to get a copy of the video with the help of a librarian from Yale, who knew Milgram's wife. Milgram had by then died.
"Unlike the 8mm home movie we had watched, this video was crystal clear," he said. "The hair stood up on my neck as I heard my father speak for the first time. He sounded nothing like I had suspected. I had never seen his picture taken from behind before, and I inspected his bald spot. I had to laugh when I saw that we had the same smile and mannerisms. I pushed the play button over and over again as I wiped the tears from my eyes."
McDonough's story has an interesting twist. His blog post came to the attention of Gina Perry, a writer and psychologist in Australia, who was fascinated with the story of the experiments and who was writing a book about them. She was seeking New Haven people who had been part of the experiments and wanted to talk to McDonough about his father. The two met, and he is featured in her book, "Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments," published in Australia this year.
Perry wanted to know how the volunteers who had administered the shocks felt about their participation. Had they, she wondered, just gone home that day after the experiment and resumed their normal lives, or had they been shaken to the core, now knowing what they were capable of? Her research through the files at Yale led her to see that, while it was true that many people did inflict the maximum punishment, they were in varying degrees of anguish. Some were sweating, crying, laughing hysterically, and pleading to be released from the experiment, but were met with the reassurance of the authoritarian actor/scientist there, who also was following a script, that the shocks were not dangerous, and that it was important for the experiment to go on, and even being told that the participants "had no choice" but to go on.
In most cases, even though they shook hands afterward with McDonough, they didn't know that he hadn't received any shocks. And due to the need for secrecy, most of them didn't receive the news about the experiment's purpose until nearly a year later. One even described watching the obituaries nervously, sure that the "fellow had died."
Although many involved with the 50-year old study have since died, Perry said she was surprised at how vivid were the memories of those who spoke to her. "It was a disturbing and confronting experience for some," she said. "Many people understood intuitively that Yale would never allow experimental subjects to harm someone else. But, of course, these feelings and experiences of people who took part are not included in the official story."
Since these experiments -- and because of them -- the guidelines for scientific studies have changed. Today, these experiments would not be permitted to be carried out in this same way.
"I came to understand that the simple and troubling story of the supposedly slavish obedience to authority that Milgram discovered in his lab was much more complex than we've been led to believe," she said. "I heard stories of people who were openly suspicious, of people who were not debriefed when the experiment was over, I heard (and was able to independently confirm) that people were often coerced and even bullied into continuing the experiment."
She said that people need to consider the experiments in context. "Part of that context is that Milgram was a 27-year-old untenured professor who understood that in order to make his mark he had to 'discover' something counter-intuitive, something surprising. I began to understand how profoundly the desires of the scientist can shape and influence the results of his research and the story that is told."
McDonough finished his blog post about his discovery of his father by telling of the day he met a Yale psychology professor on his train route and told her about his father's participation in the famous study.
"How strange," she told him, "that the only memory you have of your father is that of him being a victim."
"Shocking really," he told her.
For more information about Gina Perry's book, go to www.gina-perry.com.


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Free hidden objects games online are very popular today. A hidden objects game sometimes also called hidden picture game is a popular genre of online puzzle video game in which you must find several objects from a list, hidden within an image or picture. Today, free hidden objects online games are a very popular trend in casual gaming worldwide. People from all around the world love playing hidden objects games online for free! If you do not want to look for numbers or alphabet, then you can play the free online hidden object game. This game uses the same principles and you are supposed to find objects that have been hidden within the games. This may seem like a simple task, but you will still find it challenging. The objects are hidden well in the picture and you are tasked with finding them. In some games, you have to find them in a certain order so if you get stuck at one point, you will not be able to get the other objects out, even if they are visible to you. Hidden object games add some challenges so that you may feel engrossed. In some games, you will be looking for objects that are so small, you may need a magnifying glass to find them; and the glass is usually provided and controlled by the position of the cursor. Once again, you may have to rush against time, or else you will be starting the game over and over again, and you may also have all the time in the world, but this will affect your final score at the end of the level.
The following free hidden objects games previews are not arranged alphabetically. Simply click on the picture of the hidden picture online game you´d like to play below or have a look at the alphabetical order on the left side, if you search for a special hidden object online game. Enjoy our online hidden object games and have fun playing!
Do you like to solve puzzles in your spare time? If mystery games are too taxing on your brain, you can try the hidden objects games on our website. These games form a separate subcategory as they have become very popular among the gamers these days. You are shown a picture that has certain objects hidden inside it. These objects are depicted at the top of the picture to make it easier for you when you identify them inside the picture. Click to confirm as soon as you spot one of these objects to complete the level. Although it looks like a very easy task, you are surprised to find that there are no objects to be seen in the picture. This is because the artist uses camouflage to hide the specified objects inside the picture. In fact, some of the objects are hidden in such a fine manner that you may require the help of the magnifying glass to be able to identify them in the picture. There are many different themes that are used by artists to make these hidden the objects games interesting for the gamers. You are free to choose a theme to have a great time when you are feeling bored. These hidden objects games are great to prove your observational skills to your friends.


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Love is a pitch.
I remember playing soccer as a child. I'd sit in the grass out of the way, near
the goal box. Sometimes I'd pick blades of grass, then maybe my nose, and watch
the clouds slowly roll across the sky. Every once in a while the ball would roll
down to my end, surrounded by a tangled entourage of kicking kids. So I'd get
up and skip over to the group and kick somebody in the shins. Then the pointlessness
of it all would hit me flush in the face, and I would retire to my spot in the
grass oblivious to the shouts of "OMG! WTF?!" coming from my father.
No, I wasn't a terribly skilled soccer player. There was always a great schism
between what I meant to do and what I actually did in soccer games.
can be tough when one realizes that one's grand designs are beyond one's own
means, and unfortunately, this happens a bit in EA Sports' FIFA Soccer
2004. To be fair, the game fixes some of the flaws
in the last version and attempts to address the issue of playmaking, but in
some ways still does too little.
New to the series is Off the Ball play. As you're bringing the ball down the
field, you can quickly select one of three players. You can then control the
new player with the right stick and send him on a run. As your streaking player
breaks into a clear, you can fire him a through pass and hope he's able to score
off it. While this is a cool, cutting-edge feature, it doesn't take things far
enough because the play basically ends once you've gotten the ball. Soccer isn't
about one-pass plays, and the ability to link passes within the scheme of a
larger play is absent in FIFA 2004.
However, there are a couple instances where Off the Ball play shines. During corner kicks, you can have one of your strikers jostle a defender for position before sending the ball his way, and on defense, you can contain an offender with one player while using an Off the Ball defender to come in and jack him. Pretty sweet.
Unfortunately, Off the Ball play can easily be anticipated and negated by any decent human player. You sacrifice a degree of control over the player with the ball to be able to control the striker, and often a human defender can take advantage of this and take your man off the ball in a way you hadn't intended.
But FIFA 2004 is still a really good soccer game. The control
is tighter than last year's version (which was pretty darn good), and corner
and penalty kicking have both been substantially improved. Previously, you had
only marginal control over the spin and power. Now, the spin and power are controlled
by useful meters for increased kicking precision.
And then there are the legions and legions of teams, somewhere around 350.
While Americans who have only heard of a handful of soccer teams might not be
too impressed by this, soccer fans all over the globe can play as a team they've
probably seen in their own countries, which is an admirable feature.
Furthermore, FIFA 2004's Career Mode has been nicely improved
to match other impressive EA games like Madden
and Tiger Woods. In Career Mode, players
will try to meet certain seasonal goals with the hope of gaining Prestige and
potentially moving on to better gigs and more competitive leagues. Coaches can
also engage their team in all sorts of training, worry over budgets, and handle
trades, making this a characteristically fine offering from EA.
Another interesting feature
is IGM, or In-Game-Management. By holding the triggers, players can toggle their
team's tactics on the fly. However, this feature only manipulates the general
attitudes of your players and some slight formational factors. Soccer games
need actual plays a player can practice, memorize, and then run. IGM and Off-the-Ball
modes are steps in the right direction, but they're somewhat small ones.
FIFA 2004 looks fine, runs smoothly and features smart physics
and convincing player animations. The Xbox version clearly looks the best, with
the Gamecube a close second and the PS2 trailing in third. Nearly every graphical
element has been at least slightly improved, while the way players jostle and
battle for position in some cases looks great.
And aurally, FIFA 2004 is terrific. No other sports game
sounds as dynamic as FIFA 2004. The soundtrack (which contains
great bands you haven't heard of, and great ones you have, like Radiohead) is
extremely diverse and tasteful, and the ambient noise is astounding. The background
crowd roar rolling into a chant is uniquely impressive and almost makes me want
to go to a really big soccer game somewhere in Latin America, just so I can
get caught up in the frenzy, too.
Keeping with EA's stringent policy of only catering to Sony people, FIFA
2004's PS2-only online component is done well. From quick matches to
leagues and tournaments, there is as much depth in the online arena as there
is in single-player Career Mode. While the single-player mode is strong, the
online play is much harder and satisfying while presenting great opportunities
for friendly rivalries.
But the Career mode is very good, making FIFA Soccer 2004
a solid recommendation on any system. The game offers some nice changes, even
if it isn't as advanced as one would hope. Then again, there's plenty in FIFA
2004 to keep you happy until next season, when hopefully we'll finally
able to execute some plays of greater skill and complexity.


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|Sinclair Bell is a Classical Archaeologist and Associate Professor of Art History at Northern Illinois, where he teaches courses on Greek, Roman and Egyptian art and architecture. He has excavated Etruscan and Roman sites in Italy and Tunisia and interned in museums in Germany and Greece. He studied Classical Archaeology at the University of Oxford, the University of Cologne, and the University of Edinburgh, where he received his Ph.D. in Classics in 2004. Since then, he has given nearly fifty lectures and published five books and more than thirty scholarly articles, book chapters and reviews about the art and archaeology of ancient Italy.Read More »
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This month has seen two very different stories about emergency legislation emerge on either side of the Irish Sea. Here follows the results of my ruminating on the stories (my word of the week after seeing a professorship in non-ruminant science advertised).
In the UK, the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers ("DRIP") Bill is before the House of Commons today. After a debate on timing, at lunchtime today, it was agreed that all 'stages' be taken today. (Normally, legislation gets a broad second stage debate, consideration over a longer period (line by line) in a committee, and a final Commons stage). It's due before the House of Lords tomorrow. Given the strong support for the truncated timing given by MPs earlier today (only 50 or so voted against), it's very likely that the Commons will say yes – what the Lords make of it is to be seen.
I signed a letter about this legislation, which has provoked some interesting coverage (e.g. here, here and here). I think that the Government is making a mistake in how it's handling this legislation. It's well known that the Court of Justice of the European Union found the Data Retention Directive invalid as a matter of EU law in April. As Judith Rauhofer and I pointed out in our editorial (see part 4), this raised significant questions for the future of national measures adopted on the basis of it, as well as similar replacement measures. The CJEU declared the Directive invalid immediately and also made important points about what safeguards were required as a matter of EU law, including human rights.
Now this could have been a good opportunity for sober consideration of how to draft a new scheme, compatible with EU law and the European Convention on Human Rights, and informed by the engaging public debate on surveillance, security and technology. But readopting the bulk of the EU measure (without necessarily restoring lawfulness), along with some separate 'clarifications' (which may have merit in themselves or at least be the basis for further debate), is not a way for Government to establish and defend the legitimacy of data retention and surveillance. It's inadvisable that this be construed as an emergency. It's clearly a matter of national importance and I do see the significance of the arguments put forward on the need to have a well-regulated system of intelligence and investigation. And something did have to be done after the CJEU's decision – doing nothing would be, in my view, still a mistake.
But after the last few years of Snowden, the NSA, Wikileaks, well-founded fears about technological development and all that, now is the time to build support and trust. (The sad thing is that for a lot of people who don't follow Parliament closely, they are paying attention today and not really seeing democratic deliberation at its best). Today hasn't achieved the goal of establishing trust and legitimacy, and I'd encourage readers to contact members of Parliament (especially the House of Lords) asking for a proper, careful debate.
Meanwhile, in Ireland, emergency legislation was one of the many proposals put forward to deal with a licensing decision (under the Planning & Development Acts – see part XVI) by Dublin City Council. The decision was significant because it pertained to proposed concerts by Garth Brooks. Promoters had already sold tickets ("subject to licence") for five concerts at Croke Park (the largest stadium in the city), but the local authority only granted a licence for three. (The full reasoned decision is published here).
One point that seemed to annoy some people was the inability of elected representatives to override this decision. A fair point, if one disregards the sorry history of planning corruption in Ireland and the need to apply the law in a consistent and transparent fashion. So with that in mind, 'emergency legislation' was proposed (one Bill was even drafted by an opposition member of the Dáil). Again, I'm not saying that the law is perfect – the controversy has highlighted some areas for procedural change in particular (I taught a course on entertainment law last year – and hereby offer my free services to any official body in Ireland that wants some suggestions). Nor am I unsympathetic to the disappointed ticket-buyers (not least because, having been a teenager in 1990s Ireland, I truly understand that he has a serious fan base – in my day, local radio playlisters first and foremost). But for a licensing system to have credibility, responsible authorities have to be able to say no as well as yes; the sale of tickets for what is at the time an unlicensed event shouldn't affect this. So while it can be tempting to call for a new law, that also deserves proper consideration – of models from other jurisdictions, for example.
Fortunately, despite a lot of posturing, the Irish parliament didn't go down that route, and it looks like the concerts aren't happening at all. Here are some interesting things to read on the topic: Fergal Davis, Rebecca Moynihan & Jane Horgan-Jones, Gene Kerrigan.


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Thursday, July 15, 2010
BATTLEMiLK2 @ Comicon 2010
Hello Everyone!
Just wanted to let you know that BATTLEMiLK2 will be at Comicon next week. Check out the BATTLEMiLK website for sneak peeks and updates.
Please come visit us at the Design Studio Press Booth #1701.
All 6 artists will be there to sign copies on Friday 7/23 from 4 to 5pm.
If you can't make it to the Con, BM2 will be available everywhere DSP books are sold. You can get it at Amazon, Borders, etc.
Also, for those in the Los Angeles area, we'll be hosting an event at Gallery Nucleus Aug 28th. A very limited quantity of BM1 books are still available at Nucleus. More info about that event coming soon.
Thanks for all your support, see you at the Con!
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On Thursday, November 17, 2016, Governor Nathan Deal approved a Level 2 Drought Response designation for Carroll and Douglas counties, including the City of Villa Rica.
During a Level 2 Drought Response, outdoor landscape watering is only allowed two days a week determined by odd and even-numbered addresses. Even-numbered addresses and properties without numbered addresses may water on Wednesday and Saturday between 4:00 p.m. and 10:00 a.m. Odd-numbered addresses may water Thursday and Sunday between 4:00 p.m. and 10:00 a.m. Violators should be reported to 911.
The following outdoor water uses are prohibited in Villa Rica:
· Washing hard surfaces such as streets and sidewalks.
· Water for ornamental purposes, such as fountains.
· The use of fire hydrants, except for firefighting and public safety.
· Non-commercial washing of vehicles.
· Non-commercial pressure washing.
· Fundraising car washes.
Also, please know a burn ban is in effect and applies to all outdoor open flames of any kind, including but not limited to warming fires, campfires, fire pits, cooking fires, chimineas, burning barrel fires, fire rings and fireworks. Violators should be reported to 911.
For more information, visit the city's facebook page at villarica.org or call 770.459.7000.
Level 2 Drought Declaration


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The only way that fruit, vegetables, cereals and grains that can be labelled organic is if absolutely no pesticides or fertilisers have been used in the soil for at least two years prior to picking. For meat to be labelled organic it must come from livestock that is free range and fed mainly on organic food, that has been proven not to have given drugs such as antibiotics. In my home country Britain, the farms labelled organic are regularly inspected and certified by the organisations belonging to the uk register of organic food standards (UKROFS), these are the governing body that are given the responsibility for enforcing all European Commission laws on the matter.
Of all the various approved organic-symbol organisations, the soil association is considered the best and the association with the highest standards. Check for your own countries corresponding regulatory bodies. The general public's fears to the damage to the environment chemically treatment of foods along with concerns with the foods safety has increased demand for organic produce by consumers. There have been numerous reports of unexpectedly high levels of fertilisers and pesticides in foods, for example, the organophosphates in vegetables and fruits and lindane in cow's milk. This exposure has brought a lot attention to the pitfalls and problems of modern intensive farming. Over 25000 tons of pesticides are used every year in the British isles. You can expect even higher usage in countries in which modern intensive farming methods are more common and prevalent throughout the land. Interestingly, despite this recent government surveys have been showing that under one percent of all food put under test scrutiny had fertiliser or chemical residue over the maximum legal limit and roughly two third's had no detectable residues at all.
It is often claimed that food produced organically is superior in nutritional value and taste to food that is not organic. This is yet to be tested or proven. However, many people do seem to prefer the taste of organic fruits and vegetable. Due to the popularity and growing demand for organic produced foods, new ranges are produced almost weekly; including bake beans, biscuits chocolate. You will generally find that organic produce is usually more expensive to purchase and looks inferior to food produce grown through conventional methods of modern farming.
Presently, it is estimated that nearly all the food produce in the British isles is actually inorganic. Inevitably, most of the organic produce on the supermarket shelves in imported from overseas territory. However the government has brought into effect the organic aid scheme, which was recently introduced to provide monetary support for organic farmers to convert traditional organic farming methods. We can look forward to an increase in the availability of organic food sources produced in the British isles in the future.
Benefits of organic foods;
· Some people believe that foods produced using fertilisers and pesticides can be harmful to our health and has been linked to Cancer, nervous system problems, reproductive problems in woman and even erectile dysfunction (impotence) in men.
· Taste-wise organic food is often believed to be of better taste.
· Organic food is usually produced using more environmental friendly farming methods and practises.
· Animal reared through organic farming methods tend to enjoy a higher level of animal welfare.
Drawbacks of organic foods
· Sometimes organic food can be more expensive than food produced conventionally.
· Organic fruits and vegetables will often spoil easier.
· People tend to prefer the aesthetic appeal of inorganic produce
Before I finish this I thought it would be worth mentioning a recent study performed by 'Which?' magazine in the UK. It seems to give an opposite opinion to what most people would expect on the Organic food debate. The investigation was, by the magazines own admission, limited and narrow. However, it's always a good idea to show both points of view. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/8340585/Organic-food-less-tasty-than-normal-watchdog-says.html.
I hope you have found this information useful. My intention is not to make your mind up for you, my mind still isn't, but give you a basic understanding of the two sides of the argument.


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Mystery of Death Valley's Moving Stones Solved
For decades, scientists have been trying to solve Death Valley's mystery of the "moving stones." Now, two scientists say they have figured out what makes the rocks move on the desert floor. WSJ's Monika Auger reports.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... Australian Data Bellini known about exchange in and hold ... in the land of many mysteries one of them seem to be filled at last ... Yellen says Richard Norris and his cousin Jen I say they have figured out what's behind the so-called sailing sounds phenomenon of death Valley that has puzzled scientists for decades ... a trend make that in the valley known as the racetrack Playa has become famous for being dotted with hundreds of Stalin's some as heavy as seven hundred pounds that move across the desert floor and leave along trails behind them ... but until recently nobody had been able to prove what actually makes the stillness move ... the chicken rice as the phenomenon has fascinated him for awhile ... the EU is this business ... Italy's when he ... travels ... there are ... clearly there's some snow cone for sheeple ... this is one of these arent you watch industry's that like everybody knows about but we don't know ... miners to work in death Valley a century ago were among the first to report seeing drops with tails behind them on the dry lake scientists have been developing theories to explain the mystery since the late nineteen forties it's been a license for the first scientifically verified the phenomenon and putting it on camera ... the sun to set up the weather station and put GPS trackers and rocks with cameras around them ... in December two thousand thirteen two years into the early stage the rot started to ... rain had fallen the day before ... and find the time but a thin layer of heights ... Zoetis your ... frozen surface of the plot of this place floating on on a few inches boatload of liquid water ... when the icebreaker takes place when this begins to melt just about the only reasons ... that I it's the ice sheets climb rocks in front of him ... then just follow along on ... of this show will ... by the end of the day some of the stones had been over two hundred feet ... Mr Norris says it's very rare that all these conditions are just right for movement to take place ... and he compares his chance to seven dollars for winning the lottery ... actually see crosses explains so much like the scales fall from your clients you begin to be up all these ... and now and then re ... apply in all these tracks and trails and so for that now makes sense ...


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Hubpages Buys Squidoo
Have you heard the breaking news? It is out in the open now, HubPages is set to cannibalize Squidoo or more appropriately Squidoo is about to be acquired by HubPages. Squidoo and HubPages have been arch rivals and big players of content sharing and revenue generating online websites who accumulatively had over 4 billion visitors, and more than 5 million people have used the sites to host the contents since their creation. The move will make glory of HubPages rise to the stratosphere as it will become the largest website of its kind.
The motive behind it is to make a more dynamic platform that will attract more visitors and better opportunity for content creators to attract more visits. With the inking of the pact, all the best contents from Squidoo will be transferred to HubPages, and come September Squidoo pages will no longer be visible.
The HubPages platform has opened up and is ready for transfers right now, you just have to click the "Set Up Your Transfer" button and follow the user friendly instructions to successfully move your lenses automatically. If you don't do it yourself, your lenses will be transferred and you get the prompt in your email and dashboard informing you of the action taken. Later you can set up your HubPages account to carry on with your revenue generation and make changes in your contents.
People with foresight vision can as well start creating their HubPages account by clicking the "get started'" button on their dashboard. This will allow them to set up their HubPages account and start creating their contents in the new environment.
The Squidoo users need not lose winks over their transferred content, for a 301 redirect will be set from the URL of Squidoo to HubPages, hence they will not lose visitors as the traffic will automatically be redirected. And yes, their payments will not be uninterrupted, if you have any outstanding amount with Squidoo, HubPages will take care of it.
Those who differ in their opinion with Squidoo and do not want their content to be transferred to HubPages, no issues as your dashboard allows you to download your data for your safekeeping, and you have the option to delete your Squidoo account. But do it before the deadline of August of 29, 2014.
It is a coordinated effort from both HubPages and Squidoo teams to make the transition a smooth one without glitches, and by October 1 everything is expected to be in place.


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Umpires overturn Braun call after Fredi's challenge
Initially ruled safe at first base in sixth inning, Brewers outfielder shown out on replay
MILWAUKEE -- Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez now holds the distinction of being the first manager to issue a challenge that led umpires to reverse a call courtesy of Major League Baseball's expanded replay system.
Gonzalez issued the challenge after first-base umpire Greg Gibson ruled Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun safe at first base to begin the bottom of the sixth inning of Monday's Opening Day game at Miller Park. After a review that lasted approximately 58 seconds, the umpires overturned Gibson's ruling.
"It sure felt like I was out there for 10 or 15 minutes," Gonzalez said after Monday's 2-0 loss. "Before tonight is over, I'm going to put a clock on it and see exactly how long it took. But they got the play right, and that is the bottom line."
As the on-site umpires communicated with the umpires reviewing the play at Major League Baseball Advanced Media's Replay Operations Center, a replay shown on the video board at Miller Park did not elicit much of a response from Brewers fans, who seemingly recognized that third baseman Chris Johnson's throw beat Braun to the first-base bag.
"I had a pretty good idea I was out," Braun said. "For all of us, we just hope they get it right, and they did get it right. Whether we're on the good end or bad end, I think as players all we can hope for is that they're able to get it right."
Braves president John Schuerholz, who was one of the men responsible for devising the current replay system, and Brewers manager Ron Roenicke echoed the sentiments of those within the two clubhouses who were simply happy the correct ruling was made.
Roenicke briefly argued, but chose not to challenge a bang-bang ruling second-base umpire Paul Schrieber made to end the second inning. Because the disputable call came at the end of an inning, Roenicke had just 20 seconds to decide if he wanted to issue a challenge.
Thus he did not have the same luxury as Gonzalez, who had time to discuss the play long enough for Braves replay coordinator Horacio Ramirez to view video in the clubhouse and then call the dugout to inform bench coach Carlos Tosca that a challenge should be issued.
"We went right through the process," Gonzalez said. "We've still got some kinks to work on in here with the video and the feed. I thought for sure he was out and I went right out there. Maybe I'll take a little more time to let the video process a little longer for them to give me a signal."
Gibson became a part of history in a game that he was not originally assigned to work. He was serving as a replacement for injured umpire Alfonso Marquez.


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How to do an after party by Diane Kruger
This dress almost takes my breath away. This is how you do an after party. This is not an appropriate dress for the ceremony, because dear me, let us never reveal that we have sternum - but wow, is it ever stunning and appropriate for an event where your only job is to turn up and remind people why you're worthy of being invited. Wouldn't you want this person at your party?
No sign of our friend Joshua Jackson so I'm going to assume he was working and got an eyeful via texted picture. Also, I have to say, Kruger always looks exactly her age, and completely beautiful.
What a rare damn skill.
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Narrow needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 71 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
This is a country pharmacy. It requires a warm, caring, customer focussed logo ( not too schmultzy though). Their major customers are elderly or mothers with babies with prescriptions playing a huge role
Chemcare Plus
"Caring Advice, genuine value"
Desired Color Scheme:
your choice
Desired Style:
Healthy, reliable, comforting
Accepted File Formats:
designer choice - will discuss with winner
The logo will be used on the storefront, on uniforms, stationary, bags etc
Feel free to use graphics ( not copyright) if you like
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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We, the Egyptian people, who have decided to take to the streets on the 30th of June 2013, would like to make our voices heard. Following the success of the People's Revolution, and the ousting of the Fascist regime of the Muslim Brotherhood, we have witnessed Western media reports call our revolt – a military coup – well, it certainly is NOT.
More than 20 million of us took to the streets to say (GO) to a president who was not only incompetent in governing the country, but who also, with his group of fascists, threatened the very existence of Egypt. We said NO to a regime that wanted to eradicate a 7000 thousand year old civilization; a regime that called opposition traitors and heretics, and a fascist group that incited Egyptians against each other and called for violence and bloodshed.
Let us ask you some important questions:
Nobody would have tolerated such excesses – SO WHY SHOULD WE
Dear world, to be informed by Muslim Brotherhood representatives and sympathizers in Egypt, and elsewhere, is certainly a biased act that only goes to prove that the media industry is directed by official government attitudes and is far from being honest in transferring the truth to the people.
When in January 2011 Egyptians ousted Mubarak, all Western media hailed this as a revolution, despite the fact that he (unconstitutionally) delegated the power to the Supreme Council of Armed Forces, which ruled for 18 months! Why was it not called a military coup then? Strange! Well, it was encouraged because it was in the best interest of some governments to have this state of affairs. And today, when double the number of people in 2011 took to the streets against Morsi, and the head of the Constitutional Court is sworn in as interim president - it is labeled a "military coup"- double standards – to say the least! We fail to understand the rationale behind marring the image of an exceptional, truly magnificent great mass revolt against tyranny, fascism and terrorism. Unless, indeed, it is in the best interest of governments who have invested in supporting religious fascism in Egypt!
People of the world, please see the truth as it really is: we rejected a regime that was destroying our very identity and our homeland, we revolted and the army responded to our demands. It is that simple. Egyptians are inventing their own history, and that is how we want it, and the governments that are going against this had better understand that they are really going against the people of Egypt.
Long live Egypt. Egyptians & Proud.
Mustapha Rajai IV
This petition closed about 6 years ago
What we have done in Egypt on June 30th was a popular uprising against a fascist president. Neither the military of Egypt nor anyone else toppled the regime by force and took over the rule of Egypt.
What we have done in Egypt on June 30th was a popular uprising against a fascist president. Neither the military of Egypt nor anyone else toppled the regime by force and took over the rule of Egypt.
Since we are the rightful ones who have decided to take to the streets on the 30th of June 2013, we would like to make our voices heard.


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Devo on "Saturday Night Live" — 30 years ago
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Before Steve Jobs, Devo was a precursor of geek chic. If you're 45 or older you probably remember this brain-breaking TV moment, a hot topic after last night's Macworld show at the Warfield. If not, it's still a good clip. For context, 1978's pop music was dominated by the Bee Gees and Debby Boone's "You Light Up My Life." Rock musicians — Journey, Styx, Fleetwood Mac — played big area anthems, had long, feathered hair and wore Spandex. A bunch of robotic shorthairs in radiation suits and dorky eyeglasses singing maybemaybemaybemaybemaybemaybemaybe better come back later next week — produced by Brian Eno, who went on to do the Windows 95 startup sound — was a finger down the throat of the Rolling Stones' contemporary disco hit "Miss You." As they later sang, Devo were the band for those of us through being cool.


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Airbus says that by 2050 we'll have transparent planes and biometric boarding passes
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If you've ever been cheated out of a window seat on a flight, you'll appreciate the concept plane Airbus just revealed at an airshow in Paris. In its vision of what air travel might be like in 2050, the aircraft manufacturer showed a plane with a transparent fuselage, giving all passengers a panoramic view of what's outside.
"The idea is to have a technology for the fuselage that's a bit like bones of birds that allows to have large spaces that can turn transparent, in order to look outside and 'live' the panorama in which you are flying," Charles Champion, Airbus' head of engineering, told London's Telegraph (see video below).
Airbus didn't hold back its designers' imaginations in conceiving features for the future plane. Besides a see-through hull that would make Wonder Woman consider a copyright infringement lawsuit, the concept aircraft would also discard the traditional class system of first, business, and economy. Instead, the Airbus from the future would have three zones: a Vitalizing Zone, with "organically grown" seats that can massage you; a recreational Interaction Zone, with pop-up "pods" for things like private dinners and a holographic gaming wall; and a Smart Tech Zone, where the seats adapt perfectly to individuals' size and shape.
The plane itself is shaped like a soda bottle, with wings that are built to reduce drag and keep engine noise down. The engines themselves are positioned in the rear, said to be more fuel efficient and less noisy. The double doors allow for faster boarding, featuring a biometric sensor that will scan a passenger's hand to check in. Luggage drop-off happens right there and then, and when you're finally nestled in one of the planes morphing seats, an energy-harvesting system siphons the heat from your body to help power the aircraft, including that holographic display in front of you.
If it all sounds too good to be true, it is: Airbus' concept plane is pure Photoshop right now, and some of the technologies mentioned in the proposal sound more like science fiction than reality. For example, a neural network that's built right into the fuselage—eliminating the need for cables—sounds wonderful, but it hasn't been invented yet.
Will air travel in 2050 in any way resemble Airbus' vision? Only time will tell, of course, though to compare how current airline amenities differ with what they were 40 years ago, it seems doubtful. In the meantime, however, the designers could probably get jobs working on the next Steve Spielberg movie.
This article, written by Peter Pachal, originally appeared on PCMag.com and is republished on Gear Live with the permission of Ziff Davis, Inc.
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2013 (26) | 2012 (15) | 2011 (2) | 2010 (9) | 2009 (6)
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MLB: [96-66] NL East
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AA: [76-63] Southern League – Mississippi
A+: [69-70] Carolina League – Lynchburg
A: [73-66] South Atlantic League – Rome
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The high-impact fantasy potential on this list starts and ends with Lucas Sims. Still, I view this Braves farm system as an underrated group, in that, there are a number of intriguing college arms here, and Atlanta, as an organization, has proven itself in recent years to be quite adept at developing college pitchers into MLB assets. (See Mike Minor and Alex Wood.) On the offensive side of things, there's far less appeal. Hitting prospects like Bethancourt, La Stella, and Salcedo could all be spending time with the big club in 2014, and they each bring a glimmer of fantasy upside, but it's the variety of upside that barely garners consideration in mixed leagues. With a decent amount of talent pushing through the upper levels, this is a group worth monitoring early on next season, but there's truly nothing here to get too excited over until Sims makes his way to Turner Field.


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Pamplin College of Business
Virginia's largest undergraduate business school, Pamplin College of Business is committed to outstanding teaching by full-time faculty who are nationally recognized in theoretical and applied research. The Pamplin College is further committed to being known for its graduate programs throughout the Commonwealth, and to serving business and society through the expertise of its faculty, alumni, and students. Dean Richard E. Sorensen has said, "The Pamplin College, as a center for excellence, is an academic generator of high quality applied and theoretical research that translates into teaching superiority and practitioner applications for all its audiences."
Our emphasis is on: Enhancing the high quality of our undergraduate programs; providing a high quality MBA program at locations throughout the Commonwealth; raising the research and scholarship reputation of the faculty; integrating the computer and technology into the academic curriculum; developing the leadership skills and ethical values of our students; preparing students for global business challenges, including providing opportunities for global experience before graduation; enhancing our commitment to diversity; heightening our level of service to the business community through the research and expertise of faculty, students, and graduates; and enhancing the quality of the Ph.D. program.
The college regards diversity as a source of strength and pride. Building upon this commitment, the college affirms the following principles:
The curriculum includes a broad liberal arts foundation of two years, followed by a college core in the fundamentals of business theory and, finally, concentration in the major.
The college offers majors in:
Academic advising in the college parallels the two layers of the curriculum. Through the sophomore year, all students are advised in the Business Advising Center, 1046 Pamplin Hall. Following students' clearance for upper-division course work and their declarations of their majors, students are assigned faculty advisors from their majors.
Undergraduates are strongly encouraged to participate in the out-of-class activities of the college, particularly the annual career fair in September; the placement seminars, and registration meetings held each semester; the ethics and leadership seminars; college international programs and study abroad; and the various events of the 23 different student clubs in the college. These programs provide critical insights into the careers for which students are preparing and valuable opportunities for leadership.
Undergraduates are required to purchase a personal computer. The PC is used extensively in the curriculum. Purchase information and required configuration will be available each spring.
Administrative and faculty offices for the college are located in Pamplin and Wallace Halls. Our facilities also include study rooms, computer labs, conference rooms, a behavioral laboratory, an atrium, and a student organization office center.
The college is a member of The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, AACSB International. All programs are accredited by the AACSB except the B.S. in Hospitality and Tourism Management which is accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Programs in Hospitality Administration.
General Requirements for Graduation
A minimum of 125 semester hours is required for graduation in each curriculum.
The student must have an overall average GPA of 2.0 ("C") on all work attempted and in the courses in the major.
To ensure credit, a student desiring to take courses at another institution must secure approval of the associate dean for undergraduate programs of the Pamplin College before registering for the course at the other institution.
Acceptance of work completed at junior or community colleges is limited to those courses offered at the freshman-sophomore level at Tech. General university limitations on acceptability of transfer credit are shown elsewhere in this catalog.
Program for First Two Years
All students in business generally take the same required courses for the first two years. A major within the college may be selected at any time during the first two years, but must be selected by the end of the semester in which the student attempts 72 semester hours. Because Economics is not a restricted major, students in ECON who wish to change majors within the Pamplin College of Business must apply for ACIS, BIT, FIN, MGT, and MKTG. Similarly, because the restrictions on HTM are different, HTM majors must apply for ACIS, BIT, FIN, MGT, and MKTG.
Students must have a GPA of 2.0 or better in the combined series in accounting and information systems, business information technology, economics, and mathematics with no grade less than C- in the nine designated courses in these departments; have an overall GPA of 2.0 or better for all course work; and have earned at least 60 semester hours before enrolling in junior business courses.
College Requirements for Second Two Years
Regardless of major selected, the following core courses are required of all business students:
The remaining hours to complete the required 125 credit hours are made up of in-major requirements and free electives. At least 50 percent of the hours completed for the degree must be taken outside the college, except in the majors of accounting and accounting information systems.
Center for Leadership Studies and Leadership Minors
The Center for Leadership Studies coordinates leadership programs across campus including the Corps of Cadets Center for Leader Development, the Department of Management's Business Leadership Center, and other leadership activities organized by the Pamplin College of Business, Student Affairs, and Interdisciplinary Studies. Currently, the college administers two minors: the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets minor in leadership studies and the Department of Management Business Leadership minor.
For more information on the 18-credit Corps of Cadets minor in leadership, see the material in the ROTC section of the catalog or contact the Center for Leader Development, 540/231-7136.
The 18-credit Business Leadership minor is open to students in all majors who have at least a 2.5000 overall GPA at Virginia Tech. It includes required courses in management theory and leadership practice, ethical leadership and corporate social responsibility, and advanced skills in leadership; elective courses from business, communication, humanities, and sociology; and a required leadership experiential activity. For additional information, contact Dr. James R. Lang, Director, Business Leadership Center, 540/231-2604.
Global Business Minor
Sophomores, juniors, and seniors in the Pamplin College who have at least a 2.0 overall GPA are eligible for the Global Business minor of 18 semester hours of course work and an international experience. The required course work includes: three courses from BIT 4474, Global Operations and Information Technology; ECON 4135, 4136; International Economics: Finance; FIN 4144, International Financial Management; MGT 4314, International Management; and MKTG 4704, International Marketing; as well as nine additional semester hours from a list of international courses in five colleges, one of which must be in foreign languages if at least three years of a foreign language were not passed in high school. The required international experience may be met with study abroad, international internships, co-op assignments at multinational corporations, and living abroad. To facilitate the international experience requirement, Pamplin offers summer study abroad trips which generally involve six semester hours of credit toward the degree and minor, as well as semester-long study abroad programs. Applications for this minor are available in 1046 Pamplin Hall.
Minor in Business
Students with majors outside Pamplin may apply for a minor in business if they have competitive grades in required courses, a minimum 2.0 overall GPA on at least 24 semester hours at Virginia Tech, if they have completed Math 1525-1526 or its equivalent, and if they have at least a C- in any ACIS, BIT, ECON, FIN, MGT, or MKTG, course which they have taken. Admission to the minor is competitive. The minor consists of 27 semester hours of lower division course work which must be successfully completed before taking the 15 semester hours of upper division courses. Applications are available in 1046 Pamplin.
The lower division requirements are ACIS 1504, Introduction to Business Information Systems; ACIS 2115-16, Principles of Accounting; BIT 2405-06, Quantitative Methods; ECON 2005-2006, Principles of Economics; and MATH 1525-26, Calculus with Matrices, and the upper division courses are: BIT 3414, Production and Operations Management, or BIT 4414, Service Operations Management; FIN 3055, Legal Environment of Business; FIN 3104, Introduction to Finance; MGT 3304, Management Theory and Leadership Practice; and MKTG 3104, Marketing Management. In order to complete the minor in business, students must have a 2.0 GPA in the 15 semester hours of upper division courses.
Real Estate Minor
Sophomores, juniors, and seniors in any major with at least a 2.0 overall GPA and with a 2.0 average in any real estate minor courses already taken may apply for a real estate minor. Coordinated in Pamplin, this minor of 19 semester hours includes courses from five different colleges and is administered by a steering committee of faculty from those colleges. The 13 semester hours of required courses include: AAEC 4754 and 4764, Real Estate Law and Real Estate Appraisal; FIN 4154, Real Estate Finance or MKTG 4734, Real Estate Marketing; and UAP 4744, Principles of Real Estate (4 sem. hours). The additional two courses may be taken from a list of nine designated electives in AAEC, AHRM, BC, FIN, MKTG, and UAP. Pamplin College of Business students in the minor must take both FIN 4154 and MKTG 4734, and select one additional course. Applications are available in 1046 Pamplin Hall.
Cooperative Education Programs in Business
The college participates in the Cooperative Education Program in which qualified students may alternate semesters of study in the major with semesters of professional employment. Additional information pertaining to the program is included in the "Academics" section of this catalog.
Graduate Programs in Business
Graduate instruction and opportunities for research are offered to students who have bachelor's degrees from accredited colleges. The college offers the Master's of Business Administration, and master's and Ph.D. degrees in all departments. All graduate students are required to attain a satisfactory score on the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT).
Preparation for Law
The four-year course leading to the B.S. degree in any major in the college provides a sound preparation for law school, and pre-law advisors from the Pamplin faculty are provided.
Economics is offered as a major through both the Pamplin College of Business and the College of Science. Both an honors degree and a minor in economics are also offered in the College of Science. Students in either college take the same economics courses, but the college core requirements differ.
For economics faculty and course descriptions, visit Economics in the College of Science.