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Excerpt From The Atlantean Necronomicon: The Fall of Christianity
Excerpt From The Atlantean Necronomicon: The Fall of Christianity
Throughout this writing, various references will be made to the Necronomicon Tradition. The meaning of this term and the responsibilities that it places upon the Initiate is an extremely important part of the work. According to H.P. Lovecraft, the term Necronomicon, is derived from the Greek term nekros (corpse), nomos (law), eikon (image): "An image of the law of the dead." This definition could simply be applied to the work of necromancy, but we will soon see that this term encompasses so much more.
Lovecraft also mentions that the Necronomicon was originally called, Al Azif, an Arabic word that he defined as "that nocturnal sound (made by insects) which supposed to be the howling of demons." In pre-Islamic Arabia, the term azif signified the ominous whistling of the Jinn. Parker Ryan supports this conclusion in his essay The Necronomicon Mythos According to HPL:
"Next let's look at Alhazred's title. HPL wrote that Alhazred's title was "Mad Poet." "Mad" is usually written "majnun" in Arabic. Majnun means "mad" today. However, in the eighth century (Alhazred's time) it meant "Possessed by Jinn." To be called Mad or Possessed by Demons would be highly insulting to orthodox Muslims. The Sufis and Muqarribun regard Majnun as complimentary title. They even go so far as to call certain Sufi heroes Majnun"
This is a clear indication that the Necronomicon is a book inspired by the Jinn. The Simon Necronomicon also supports Ryan's observation. In the MAGAN Text we read the following concerning TIAMAT:
"Those from Without
Have builded up charnel houses
To nourish the fiends of TIAMAT
And the Blood of the weakest here
Is libation unto TIAMAT
Queen of the Ghouls"
The term ghoul, is a derivative of the Arabic ghul, meaning jinn. In the works of both Lovecraft and Simon, the Necronomicon is a book that is inspired by the Jinn.
In Arabian and Muslim folklore the Jinn are ugly and evil demons having supernatural powers which they can bestow on persons having powers to call them up. In the Western world they are called "genies." The term Jinn means concealed, or hidden. This is the same definition that we find for the term "occult." In Islamic theology, the Jinn are said to be made from a "smokeless fire," while humans were created out of the Earth. Some accounts report that the Jinn were created before Adam from the "hot wind." It is said that the Jinn live in a parallel world next to mankind, though they are undetected by humans. The Jinn are able to marry and have children, and have domesticated pets similar to mankind. Parker Ryan states the following concerning the Jinn:
"Jinn were powerful creatures of Arab myth. The Jinn, according to legend, came down from heaven (the sky) in the time before Adam. Therefore, they pre-exist mankind and thus called "Preadamites." "Infidel pagans" worship these incredibly powerful beings. The Jinn can "beget young on mankind." The Jinn are usually invisible to normal men. They apparently want great influence on Earth. Much of the magick used in Arab countries concerns the Jinn (protection spells against, or spells to call them up). The Jinn are thus virtually identical with Lovecraft's Old Ones."
Ryan points out that the Jinn can "beget young on mankind." There are many tales throughout the Arab world of humans having intimate relations with the Jinn. A Dictionary of Islam by Thomas Patrick Hughes, B.D., M.R.A.S., states the following concerning the Jinn:
"The Jinn, it has been already shown, are peaceable. They also eat and drink, and propagate their species, sometimes in conjunction with human beings; in which latter case, the offspring partakes of the nature of both parents."
The subject of Jinn-human progeny is highly debated amongst Muslim scholars. However, there is a great deal of evidence supporting the fact that Jinn and humans are able to produce offspring together. The religion of Islam dictates that Allah created both the Jinn and mankind, but the ancient texts of the pre-Islamic era say something different. Hughes continues on page 134:
"It is said that God created the Jann (or Jinn) two thousand years before Adam (according to some writers, much earlier) and that they are believers and infidels and every sect among them, as among men….It is commonly believed that the preadamite Jinn were governed by forty (according to some seventy-two) kings, to each of whom the Arab writers give the name Sulaiman (Solomon); and that they derive their appellation from the last of these, who was called Jann Ibn-Jann, and who, some say, built the Pyramids of Egypt."
The Simon Necronomicon describes TIAMAT as the Queen of the Ghouls, which in light of our discussion, would also make her the Mother of the Jinn. Parker Ryan, in his essay about the Cthulhu Mythos, also asserts that 'Lovecraft's Old Ones are identical to the Jinn of Arab legend. This would indicate that the Elder Gods and the Ancient Ones, which appear in the Simon Necronomicon, are various classes of Jinn who were responsible for creating human beings, as presented in the Enuma Elish and other ancient mythologies. According to Arabic legend, the Jinn were Earth's first inhabitants and will survive the race of mankind. The MAGAN Text states:
"For what is new
Came from that which is old
And what is old
Shall replace that which is new
And once again the Ancient Ones
Shall rule upon the face of the Earth!
And this is too the Covenant!"
The Christian Bible also mentions a race similar to the Jinn:
"Now the serpent was more subtile than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?"
The "serpent" described in the Third Chapter of Genesis must have been one of the Jinn that descended to Earth at an earlier time, as recorded for us in Genesis Chapter One:
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth…. 28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."
This is quite different than what is described concerning the creation of mankind, as found in Genesis Chapter Two:
" And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. …6But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. … 7And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."
We see some differences between the creation account in Genesis Chapter One in comparison with Genesis Chapter 2. In the first Chapter of Genesis, "man" is not created from the ground and the creation of vegetation preceded his creation. In the second Chapter of Genesis, the "human" is created from the Earth. This took place before 'every herb of the field grew in the earth.' Evidently, these two accounts, describe two different events, one pertaining to the Jinn and the other to human beings.
Interestingly, some Judaic Traditions hold the belief that "Cain" was not the son of Adam and Eve, but the son of Eve and the Serpent. Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism by Howard Schwartz, states the following of page 447:
"When Cain was born, Adam knew at once that he was not of his seed, for he was not after his likeness, nor after his image. Instead, Cain's appearance was that of a heavenly being. And when Eve saw that his appearance was not of this world, she said, I have gained a male child with the help of Yahweh. (Gen. 4:1)"
The perspective given by Schwartz seems to explain why Cain's life was spared after killing his brother Abel.
"And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear…Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me…And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him."
There is another aspect of this account that has been overlooked by both occultists and scholars alike, and that is the location of where Cain was taken to after the murder of his half-brother:
"And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden….And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch."
Cain settled in the "east of Eden." This indicates that Cain was indeed a progeny of a supernatural being because in Genesis Chapter 2:8, we read the following:
"And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed."
Cain was removed from the presence of the Adamites and was placed in the vicinity of the Garden of Eden. He also had a son named Enoch and built a city and named it after his son. If we analyze what is recorded in the creation account of Genesis, we can come to the conclusion that the Enochian language and the famous Book of Enoch describe events and occurrences that took place in the city that Cain built. The city that Cain built is what the Arabs call "Irem Zhat al Imad." Parker Ryan makes the following observation:
"Irem Zhat al Imad" (Irem of the Pillars) is the cities name in Arabic. It is popularly believed by the Arabs that Irem was built by the Jinn under the direction of Shaddad, Lord of the tribe of Ad. The tribe of Ad, according to legend, was a race roughly equivalent to the Hebrew "Nephlim" (giants). In some version of this myth Shaddad and the Jinn built Irem before the time of Adam. The Muqarribun (Arab magicians) have important beliefs about Irem and it's significance….The Muqarribun, whose traditions predate Islam, believe that Irem is a locale on another level of reality, rather than a physical city like NY or Tokyo. (Why Irem is important to the Muqarribun and how they use it will be more fully explained shortly.) The "Pillars" in "Irem of the Pillars" has a hidden meaning. Among Arab mystics pillar is a code name for "elder" or "old one." Thus "Irem of the Pillars" is really "Irem of the Old Ones."
Kenneth Grant asserts in his work, The Nightside of Eden that the City of Irem is the Garden of Eden. Regardless of where these "mysterious cities" are said to exist, such as Enoch, Irem, and etc, we can definitely say that there is a world that exists alongside the world of mankind. There is something else we need to take into consideration first. Genesis 3:15 states:
"And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."
The Biblical text suggests that the Jinn are cursed and will eventually be annihilated. However, this assertion seems to be a calculated response by the ancient monotheistic religions to plunder the Jinn and their progeny. L.A. Waddell mentions this in the British Edda:
"Indeed, the selfsame confusion occurs also in the Egyptian myth, wherein the Semitic priests of the Nile Valley degraded the original pure Sun-worship of Asar or "Osiris" (the Sumerian Asari title of King Dur or Tur) by deliberately introducing into it the Serpent and animal sacrificial cult of their own debased aboriginal Egyptian Mother-Son creed, which was essentially similar to the pre-Adamite Chaldean."
Although Waddell's observations are somewhat bigoted, he does verify the existence of the "pre-Adamite Chaldean." The customs and rites of the "aboriginal Chaldeans" were demonized by the monotheistic religions. Waddell also asserts that the Mother-Son creed existed before the creation of Adam. Therefore, the enmity between the woman's seed and the serpent, mentioned in Genesis, concerns itself with the battle between the Jinn and mankind. Waddell continues on page 73:
"Before the advent of Adam Thor and his Sun-cult, the chief religion in the old world appears to have been devil worship of the Serpent and Wolf cult, with its headship in the matriarch priestess Eldi…"
Waddell later confirms that his matriarch priestess Eldi was also known as the goddess El. It is no coincidence that many angelic names end with "el," as they are of the race of Jinn and keepers of the Moon-Serpent Cult. Waddell also defines "El" as a powerful witch, a dark magician that is "naturally gifted with occult powers." Those who are naturally gifted with occult powers are those who partake in the natures of both parents. Jinn and human, as cited earlier in the Dictionary of Islam.
We can also see resistance to the Moon-Serpent cult's teachings in the Biblical history of Jesus. Jesus was conceived of Jinn-human relations and taught a rite that was Sumerian in origin. Evidence of this is found in his parable of the Good Samaritan. According to 2 Kings Chapter 17, Samaritans were worshippers of the god Nergal.
When one carefully observes Biblical lore, it seems that there were other religious rites that existed in Israel, which were not recorded in the Bible. For example, shortly after leaving Egypt the Israelites were said to have made a golden calf while Moses was receiving the Law. Centuries later, it is recorded in Ezekiel that the Prophet witnessed women weeping for the Babylonian god Tammuz, who was the consort of the goddess depicted as the golden calf during the days of Moses. Evidently, the Israelites weren't constantly turning to the worship of false gods, as claimed throughout the Biblical text, since there has never been a record of any indigenous people who abandoned the worship that their ancestors laid down, so often. It seems more probable that the Bible writers excluded the full history of the religious rites that existed in ancient Israel in an effort to make a certain "priesthood" and its god appear to be superior.
The customs and traditions of the Jinn and their progeny have been demonized by the monotheistic religions of the world today. Waddell continues in the British Edda on page 175:
"The Matriarch El and her son Abel of The Garden of Eden…feverishly mustered all their swarms and allied hordes…for an overwhelming attack upon King Adam and his Goths…This epoch-making battle was the greatest of all battles in the world, as judged by its far-reaching effects; for it led to the political supremacy of Adam's Higher Civilization, and its free propagation over the world –to its immediate extension to Carchemish or Eden, and thence down Mesopotamia to the Persian Gulf within a very short period.."
Waddell describes a battle that occurred between the "aboriginal Chaldeans, who are described as "serpent worshippers," and the invading Sun cult. It seems that these "aboriginal Chaldeans," led by the matriarch EL, were keepers of the traditions that the Jinn had worked so hard to establish, and some of these may have been Jinn themselves. Waddell mentions, in other writings, that the invading Sun cults captured a "stone-bowl," in their war with the "aboriginal Chaldeans." This stone-bowl was the central fetish of the magical rites in relationship to the pre-Adamic race. This bowl was the formulae that opened up a gate, whereby, the sorcerer could communicate with the elders of the parallel world, and benefit from the wisdom contained therein. However, there is another element that prevented the "aboriginal Chaldeans" from opening up this window and communicating with their ancestors, Christianity.
Christians are involved in a spiritual war, whether they realize it or not. Christianity, as we know it today, was developed by the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D. and continued the tradition mentioned by Waddell in their persecution of the aboriginal Chaldeans. Egyptian Belief and Modern Thought by James Bonwick page 182:
"Constatine, a sun-worshipper,, who had, as other heathens, kept the Sun-day, publicly ordered this to supplant the Jewish Sabbath. To make matters worse, the Church, at an early date, selected the heathen festivals of sun-worship for its own,.."
The Christian Church was founded upon the principle structure of ancient Sun worship. Regardless of what domination that exists today, all Christian religions are guilty of honoring the Sun as a symbol of the Christ. The Christian doctrine and the epistles of the Apostle Paul are not inspired scripture, but essays concerning the worship of the Sun. The ignorant are unaware of this fact, and regardless of how many holidays, or perspectives these varying dominations of Christianity insist upon, its makes no difference at all. The only way that Christianity can separate itself from its heathen origins is by rewriting the New Testament.
There is a much deeper aspect involved in the customs and rituals of Christianity that are an apparent attack against the world of the Jinn and their progeny. The Christian Bible contains over four-hundred references to the word "wicked." Throughout its seeming righteous damnation of the "wicked," through prayers, scriptural texts, and etc, the naïve Christian is unaware, along with most monotheistic disciples, that the term "wicked" originates with the word wizard, or sorcerer. This means that on any given day, there are hundreds of millions of Christians pronouncing judgments against sorcerers and witches by their use of certain prayers and recitation of various scriptural texts. This is how the ancient Adamites were able to keep the doors of reality shut in regards to the Jinn. These practices were later adapted by the early leaders of the Christian Church. It is for this very same reason that we find many areas of the world, where the ancient shamanistic rites, so dear to the "pre-Adamite" tradition flourish, are also the same areas where extreme poverty and natural disasters occur. However, the doctrine of Christianity with all its hypocritical dogma, followers, and leaders, is soon to end. The Overlan Monthly printed an article in 1910 A.D. entitled God's Chosen People; states the following on page 543:
"These beasts are to rule the world until the end of Gentile times of world domination, October, 1914, which will also be the end of the Jewish times of Divine disfavor…The Prophet pictures the end of Gentile times and the manifestation of the Ancient of Days, whose throne was like a fiery flame..,"
Regardless of the use of ancient divination to keep the door to the world of the Jinn closed, it will serve them no good. The Jinn, in the Arab world and the Necronomicon Tradition, are called "those of fire." We find in Christian doctrine that the "Ancient of Days' is described as seated on a "fiery throne."
The year 1914 was a significant year not only to Christian cultists, but human society in general with the inception of World War 1. The events that followed align perfectly with Lovecraft's description of Cthulhu rising:
"That cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the secret priests would take great Cthulhu from His tomb to revive His subjects and resume His rule of earth. The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom. Meanwhile the cult, by appropriate rites, must keep alive the memory of those ancient ways and shadow forth the prophecy of their return."
The Simon Necronomicon properly aligns the powers of the Ancient Ones, also known as the Jinn, with TIAMAT. It is here that we see the reality and meaning of the events that occurred in 1914. TIAMAT is the primordial aspect of the goddess INANNA/ISHTAR, whose sacred number has been "15" from times memorable. The Mystery of Numbers by Annemarie Schimmel, makes the following observation on pages 213, 215:
"Fifteen represents the zenith of lunar power,..Fifteen was a sacred number to Ishtar, perhaps derived from the more important Ishtar-number, 5, perhaps also because it forms 1/4 of the 60, the number of the highest god in Babylonia. Ancient Niniveh, the city devoted to Ishtar, had 15 gates,…The Old Testament counts the generations of Israel between Abraham and Solomon as 15, and from Solomon to Zedekiah again as 15. .Fifteen plays an important role in one of the most common magical squares, which built around, the sacred 5, always offers 15 as a sum. Although legend attributes a Chinese origin to this square, it was known in Babylonia where it was connected with Ishtar. Combined with the star of Ishtar, with its 8 beams, the diagonals always add up to 15."
When we look at the year 1914, we also see that it is the year of TIAMAT's rising, and so it is marked appropriately as the year of Ishtar's return. 1 + 9 + 1 + 4 = 15. The Gate of Communion has been opened once again, and the matriarch EL, is seeking to find her children, as we have seen a decline in Christianity since the year 1914 and an increase amongst those practicing the occult arts.
In a very short time, those who are of Jinn-human progeny, as well as others initiated into the "pre-Adamic" ways of the Jinn, will enjoy a return to full goodness and power and sit on thrones amongst the kingdoms of men.
The Necronomicon Tradition, as found in the works of Lovecraft and the Simon Necronomicon, are stellar systems that were established before the race of Adam, or the "sons of Marduk" and are thereby known as the Atlantean Mysteries. These workings are called Qliphotic by many occultists, but we find this system to be a cosmological treaty pertaining to the world of the Jinn. Simon states the following in the Necronomicon:
"The method of the NECRONOMICON concerns deep, primeval forces that seem to pre-exist the normal archetypal images of the tarot trumps and the Golden Dawn telesmatic figures. These are forces that developed outside the Judeo-Christian mainstream, and were worshipped and summoned long before the creation of the Qabala as we know it today. Hence, the ineffectiveness of the Golden Dawn banishing procedures against them. They are not necessarily demonic or qliphotic in the sense that these terms are commonly understood in the West, they just simply represent power sources largely untapped and thus far ignored by twentieth-century, mainstream consciousness."
The Necronomicon Tradition has been veiled in secrecy before the race of Adam was created, and still many of us who are of Jinn-human progeny cannot reveal our dual heritage publicly. It is not so strange to our ears to know that one of our parents were possessed during the time of conception, or we may have enter the shell of the embryo from the world that lies beyond time and space, as we attempt to recollect the meaning of our heritage. It is not an easy path to follow. If you want to be effective in this work, then maximize the system to its fullest capabilities. I have seen people jump from one thing to the next, but the mastery comes in the perfection of a craft, not in the paranormal effects that a working can create. The system is one that reveals our heritage, but it is also one that initiates us into the workings of the chthonic mind. Know thyself!
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Bus crashes, catches fire in southern India; 45 passengers killed
Omer Farooq, The Associated Press
HYDERABAD, India -- A packed bus crashed into a highway barrier and burst into flames Wednesday in southern India, killing 45 passengers who were locked inside the cabin after the driver escaped, officials said. The driver, a bus cleaner and five passengers managed to escape through a window in the front of the overnight bus, according to the transportation minister of southern Andhra Pradesh state, Botsa Satyanarayana. The other passengers were trapped inside the sleeper bus, which had an automatic locking system that could be controlled by the driver, said local police official Pradeep, who goes by one name.
Only three of the 45 charred bodies could be identified, state Information Minister D.K. Aruna said. "Authorities are gathering the DNA samples from the bodies" to use in identifying the rest, he said. Police detained the driver and the bus cleaner for questioning, and filed charges including negligence against the bus operator, Jabbar Travels, the transportation minister said. The bus was carrying 50 passengers, seven over its capacity, he said. The bus, travelling overnight from Bangalore to Hyderabad, was passing another vehicle when it crashed into the roadside barrier in Mehabubnagar in Andhra Pradesh, police official Naveen Kumar Chand said. The diesel tank then caught fire, and flames engulfed the bus. The victims included a baby, a couple celebrating their 23rd wedding anniversary and several software engineers returning home to Hyderabad from jobs in Bangalore, the transportation minister said. Angry relatives gathered at both the Bangalore and Hyderabad offices of Jabbar Travels, forcing police to send officers to keep order. Police were also searching for the company's owners in Bangalore, the main city in the neighbouring southern state of Karnataka. India has the highest annual road death toll in the world, according to the World Health Organization. More than 110,000 people are killed every year in road accidents across the country, according to police. Most crashes are blamed on reckless driving, poorly maintained roads and aging vehicles. Wednesday's crash happened more than 1,200 kilometres from India's capital, New Delhi

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Clippers beat Jazz for 5th straight victory
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Los Angeles Clippers closed out a grueling stretch of 20 games in 31 days with their first five-game winning streak since 2006.
There are bigger things on their horizon, though. Next up is a game at Dallas, with the defending NBA champions right behind the fourth-place Clippers in the Western Conference standings.
"It's big because it could mean the difference between the fourth and fifth seed," said Blake Griffin, who had 24 points in the Clippers' 105-96 win over the Utah Jazz on Saturday night.
Chris Paul led the way with 26 points, Randy Foye added 17 points and DeAndre Jordan had 10 rebounds for the surging Clippers, who have won six in a row at home and are a game behind the first-place Lakers in the Pacific Division, but are just 11-13 on the road.
The Clippers hadn't won five consecutive games since opening the 2006-07 season with a 5-1 record.
"It ain't a huge milestone," Paul said. "You've got to strive for more than that. Every win now is crucial. We got to expect to win. The mindset is changing and that's a good thing."
Al Jefferson led the Jazz with 26 points, while Paul Millsap added 18, Gordon Hayward 14 and C.J. Miles 13. Utah lost its third in a row after closing within four points in the third quarter.
"Everybody was hitting shots. They are one of the most active teams in the league," Jefferson said. "Chris Paul makes everybody around him better. You could put Chris Paul on any team in the NBA and he'll do that. He's just that type of player."
Paul left the game with a bruised right elbow at 7:37 of the third. He was dribbling the ball as Devin Harris tried to poke it away when he winced in pain. He left the bench and returned with 11 minutes left in the fourth.
"It's like a stinger. I just couldn't feel my last two fingers," he said, his elbow wrapped under his shirt as he headed out after the game.
Paul finished with six assists, giving him 185 in March and breaking the franchise record of 179 for a single month set by Norm Nixon with the San Diego Clippers in 1983.
Utah came out of halftime with a 12-4 run that cut their deficit to four points. Foye got the Clippers going with a 3-pointer before Griffin scored six in a row, capped by a two-handed dunk off Foye's alley-oop pass. Eric Bledsoe, who came in while Paul was out, scored five straight and restored their lead to 75-61.
The Clippers kept their momentum going in the fourth, leading by 17 early on Nick Young's dunk. The Jazz got within eight on two free throws by Millsap in the midst of Paul and Griffin teaming to score 11 straight for the Clippers, who led 98-84.
"They just didn't miss shots," Millsap said. "We had guys in their faces and they just didn't miss."
The Jazz outscored the Clippers 12-6, including consecutive 3-pointers by Miles, to end the game.
"We fought back enough to give ourselves a chance, but it just wasn't enough to get over the hump," Utah coach Tyrone Corbin said.
Utah closed to 57-45 at halftime after trailing by 19 points early in the second. Hayward scored the Jazz's final six points, including a dunk, while the Clippers missed all three of their free-throw attempts in the final 1:23. Jordan had the highlight dunk of the second quarter, taking an alley-oop pass from Paul and slamming it in one-handed.
The Clippers shot 68 percent from the floor and 75 percent from 3-point range, making 6 of 8, in the first quarter. They built a 31-14 lead from the start before settling for a 38-22 advantage going into the second.
"You can't give a team as good as they are on their home court 38 points in the first quarter," Jefferson said. "If a couple of shots could have gone in and if we could have gotten a couple more loose balls and rebounds, we wouldn't have been in that situation. For the most part, we played pretty good D, but they were just on fire."
NOTES: The Clippers finished March with an 11-9 record as the first team since the Cincinnati Royals in February 1967 to play 20 or more games in a single month. ... The Clippers went undefeated in a homestand of at least five games for just the third time in franchise history. They last did it twice in the 1978-79 season. ... Griffin scored at least 20 points for the sixth straight game. ... The Clippers lead the season series 2-1, although Utah has won 10 of the last 13 meetings. ... Both teams were playing back-to-backs. The Clippers improved to 8-4 in the second game. The Jazz had lost to Sacramento on Friday night.


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The fear of the unknown, or just the love of food?
We had just finished dinner the other night after work at one of our favorite pizza joints. It's a local's spot that serves up terrific oven baked pizzas, assorted pastas, and Italian plates. One of those spots where you can order up normal human sized plates, or dive head-in and be a total gluttonous
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There is a little known sect of Islam called the Druze. They are a small group mostly located in Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan. Their faith is similar to that of other Ismaili Shi'a Islam with a little bit of Gnostic Unitarianism thrown in for good measure. What makes the Druze interesting though is the number one Pillar of their faith:
1. (Truth in words) Speak the truth to other Druze. However, lying to unbelievers to defend yourself or the community is OK.That's right, rule number one of Druzism is that you don't talk about Druzism. And if you do talk about Druzism, feel free to lie through your teeth about it. This, of course, makes it completely impossible for outsiders (especially anthropologists) to study their religion. As Daniel Dennett put it in Breaking the Spell:
But if it was true, this would create a dilemma for any anthropologist: the usual method of questioning informants would be a hopeless wild-goose chase, and if he made the ultimate sacrifice and converted to Druze himself so as to gain entrance to the inner sanctum, he would have to admit that we on the outside shouldn't believe his scholarly treatise, What the Druze Really Believe, since it was written by a devout Druze (and everybody knows that the Druze lie).This naturally leads you to a Liars Paradox: if all Druzes lie about their religion then how do we know that they are telling the truth about their First Pillar? Maybe the Druze have become expertly adept at knowing when to tell the truth and when to tell a lie. They know to mix honest fact in with complete bullshit to constantly befuddle anyone trying to discover what they really believe.
And that seems like an admirable quality to me. Since beliefs are so immutable and silly in the first place why should we treat them so seriously? Lie about your beliefs as often as you can. Completely confuse your friends by telling them you are a Baptist Pagan. Mindfuck your family by saying that you believe every word of both The Urantia Book and Dianetics. Tell them that you believe six impossible things all at the same time! It's not like they can prove you wrong anyways. Follow the path of apologetics everywhere by coming up with the most twist pretzel logic in the history of man. And tell them that Eris made you do it.


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"Don't give up the ship. Fight her till she sinks." – Captain James Lawrence, US Navy, 1813
For Christmas last year I received a gift from a friend of mine. It was a big, navy blue flag with bold white letters that reads, "Don't give up the ship." Confused at first, I did some research to see where that quote came from. It didn't take long to find out that this command was given by U.S. Navy Captain James Lawrence, who ordered his crewmen to not give up during a battle against the British warship HMS Shannon even though he himself was mortally wounded.
Do you have a "fight her till she sinks" attitude?
So much of success in survival (and life) is mental. More people have made it through unspeakable survival scenarios (and achieved lofty goals) because of the sheer refusal to give up the ship. Mental perseverance is at the core of survival.
I hung the flag up in our media room at Willow Haven which you can see below. Now, it's a visual reminder to me every time I go into that room. Visual reinforcement of important skills is never a bad idea.
Practice makes perfect.
There is only one way to master survival skills – practice. Whether physical or mental, all survival skills worth having are the result of trial, error, failure and repetition. For example, to master fire by friction (rubbing two sticks together), one must develop special techniques, strengthen certain muscle groups and understand specific steps in order to be successful. These skills don't come from books or videos or verbal instruction. They only come from hands-on practice.
Mental stamina is no different. Each and every day we have opportunities to practice mental stamina. I call this muscle group the giveupmaximus.
Strengthen your giveupmaximus one small decision at a time.
Each time you flex your giveupmaxiumus by refusing to give up, it gets stronger. Alternatively, each time you give up (even on seemingly insignificant tasks), this muscle group gets weaker. Each decision to give up (not flex) makes future opportunities to give up easier and easier. Flex your giveupmaximus as often as possible. Don't give up on even the little tasks you attempt throughout each day. Refusing to give up on the little things will pay huge rewards when you need stamina for the tasks that really matter.
When you pull a shopping cart from the corral on your way into a grocery store and it's stuck to another one, don't give up and choose a different one. Follow through with your decision to take that cart and "unstuck" it. Not only have you flexed your giveupmaximus, but you're also not leaving the problem for someone else to solve. I've gone back to my truck to get tools to unstick a grocery cart before. Make the little things personal. Little flexes build subconscious stamina. We are faced with hundreds of opportunities to strengthen our giveupmaximus each and every day. Take them!
Failure is not failure; giving up is failure.
Develop a new perspective about failure. Failures are rarely final attempts. You haven't failed until no more attempts are possible.
Giving up is final. Giving up relinquishes all future attempts to try. Failure is a step in the right direction, a learning opportunity.
As Henry Ford famously stated, "Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
Giving up develops counterproductive, anti-survival qualities including low self-esteem, unfulfillment and resentment toward others. The more one gives up, the easier giving up becomes. It's a vicious cycle that destroys willpower and fuels long term frustration. This is the give up snowball effect. Overtime, giving up on small tasks reduces the endurance necessary to push through larger and more complex goals and dreams. We are a product of the little decisions we make each day.
Large tasks and goals can feel overwhelming – even if your giveupmaximus is in good shape. In survival scenarios, goals and tasks are complicated with life-threatening elements and are easily clouded by fear, confusion and panic. Even small tasks can feel daunting.
For large tasks that may feel too big to conquer, I suggest breaking them down into manageable chunks. I call this goalienteering, named after the sport of orienteering. Orienteering is a sport where you use a map and compass to navigate from point to point toward a final destination. Reaching each individual point along the way makes the final destination achievable. The little destinations between are critical! The same is true with life and survival goals. Practice goalienteering now, so that you know how to do it when your life may depend on it.
Fight till you sink.
Become a person who will fight till you sink. The world needs us, now more than ever. Practice each day flexing your giveupmaxiumus on the seemingly insignificant tasks and chores to build endurance for the day when everything might hang in the balance. Don't Give Up the Ship! Fight her till she sinks!
Remember, it's not IF but WHEN.


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The number of pixels in an image determines how far you can enlarge your digital images in print. Each pixel represents a square in an image. The more squares there are, the greater the clarity of an image when enlarged. Usually, the general accepted standard for professional printing is 300 pixels per inch (ppi). For ordinary printing, it's 200ppi which is more than enough for ordinary use. The difference is seen when the image is enlarged to its maximum size for which a picture can be printed.
How big a pixel can be depends on how far away the print is when viewed. Working out the maximum printable size for the number of pixels for your image is simple. You can use the tools in any manipulation software such as Photoshop and Elements. The image size window will show you the printable size for the set number of pixels per inch. You can hen change the pixel concentration to make the image bigger or smaller.
There is a confusing question regarding pixels and dots. The resolution of digital images is measured in pixels which is an image file that has no physical dimension. It is only when pixels are displayed or printed where their size is visible. Pixels per inch help calculate just exactly how big an image can appear for a particular use. Printers and paper are sold based on how many dots per inch (dpi) is their capacity. Printers can also have the option to allow you to choose dpi settings you require.
Dots per inch vary from pixels per inch in a way that dpi rating is a way of describing how small a dot of ink the printer can create on paper. The more dots of ink in a printed image it has, the finer the detail in the final outcome. This is only apparent when you use paper that has the capacity to show it. If you're using ordinary paper, it would only be a waste of ink to use higher dpi settings.
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"Given how much scurrilous chatter surrounded the sisters, and how far they bent the truth to suit their ends, MacPherson is often tasked with choosing between rival tall tales. However, she resists the temptation to pick the most flattering story and cast the sisters simply as progressive heroines. Both were willing to use their femininity, as well as their feminism, to get what they wanted; Victoria especially could be self-centered and obsessed with her own persecution; and both sisters became conservative in later life, publicly repudiating most of their "sex radical" beliefs.The Los Angeles Review of Books has a detailed review of The Death Penalty, Volume I: The Seminars of Jacques Derrida translated by Peggy Kamuf (University of Chicago Press).
They left New York for London in 1877, in the wake of the Beecher trial, and "decided to use draconian measures to sanitize their image." Like many of their most outlandish ruses, it worked — within a few years, both were married to wealthy Englishmen. By the early 20th century, they were recognized as suffrage pioneers, although to improve society they now prescribed religion and eugenics rather than female emancipation."
"Jacques Derrida's The Death Penalty (Volume I), the first half of a two-year seminar he gave from 1999 to 2001 in Paris and then again at American universities, offers a new perspective on the vexing, seemingly intractable debates that surround capital punishment in this country. The book's appearance will undoubtedly be greeted with enthusiasm by those who have read and appreciated Derrida's writings for some time (and there are many), but do its observations and arguments have the potential to reach a broader audience? During his lifetime, Derrida's scholarly work exerted enormous influence on academic practices around the world, profoundly changing the ways people in numerous disciplines thought and wrote about thinking and writing. Like Jean-Paul Sartre or Michel Foucault, Derrida also came to enjoy considerable celebrity beyond the ivory tower. Profiled in news features and documentary films, he met with world leaders and figured in pop songs. His impact beyond the academy was registered in more subtle ways, as well. To this day, many who have never read a word of his work casually use the verb "to deconstruct." For his part, Derrida expressed considerable unease about the "temptation" for intellectuals to "renounce the academic discipline normally required 'inside' the university and to try instead to exert pressure through the press and through public opinion, in order to acquire an influence or a semblance of authority that has no relation to their own work.""Common-Place reviews three books on emancipation in a piece titled, "The (Not So) Distant Kinship of Race, Family, and Law in the Struggle for Freedom." Books reviewed are Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. Hébrard's Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation (Harvard University Press), Sydney Nathans's To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker (Harvard University Press), and Mark Auslander's The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family (University of Georgia Press).
Two pieces this week, one in the Washington Post and a second in the New York Times, write about Peniel E. Joseph's Stokely, A Life (Basic).
"With "Stokely: A Life," the historian Peniel E. Joseph says he set out to "recover" Stokely Carmichael, the man who popularized the phrase "black power" and led the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, known as SNCC, a man whose diminished historical footprint, Mr. Joseph writes, "impoverishes our understanding of the most important movement in our national history.""New Books in History talks with Jose Angel Hernandez, author of Mexican American Colonization during the Nineteenth Century: A History of US-Mexico Borderlands (Cambridge).
"Americans talk a lot about the flow of Mexican immigrants across their southern border. To some that flow is seen as patently illegal and dangerous. To others it's seen as unstoppable and essential for the functioning of the U.S. economy. Everyone agrees that something must be done about it though, in fact, little is ever done. It's an American problem that seems to have no American solution. But, as José Angel Hernández points out in his pathbreaking book Mexican American Colonization during the Nineteenth Century: A History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (Cambridge University Press, 2012) , it's not just an American problem: it's also a Mexican one and always has been. "On HNN, Rot, Riot, and Rebellion: Mr. Jefferson's Struggle to Save the University that Changed America (University of Virginia Press) by journalists Rex Bowman and Carlos Santos is reviewed.


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Congrats again, Liz! He's so adorable. You are an amazing mama. Adjusting with each new child is so hard in it's own way. Don't be too hard on yourself- you may not feel like it, but you are a champ. Love you my friend.ReplyDelete
I loved having two. Watching them together makes it all the more sweet.ReplyDelete
Darling kids. :)
had to comment, because that first paragraph is exactly how i feel... whenever i leave the house i realize it was a bad idea, i just want to stay at home with my shirt off to nurse, and i drain my iphone battery by lunch. haha!ReplyDelete
except i only have a newborn and not a toddler... i have NO idea how you mothers of more than one do it.
your boys are darling!
"…I can't help but sigh with contentment." – That was a beautiful statement! I think it sums up the feelings of every mother in the world. Being a mother is a wondrous feeling. Seeing your kids well and healthy is also the most priceless gift you can receive. Taking care of them, especially when they are sick, can be tiring. But once you see them recover and become well, all those sleepless nights will just be a distant memory.ReplyDelete
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Medical marijuana bill unveiled
Flanked by more than 150 advocates from around the country, Oregon Democrat Earl Blumenauer on Monday put forward his legislation allowing states to legalize medical marijuana in an effort to end the confusion surrounding federal pot policy.
Blumenauer's legislation, which has 13 co-sponsors — including GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California — would create a framework for the FDA to eventually legalize medicinal marijuana. It would also block the feds from interfering in any of the 19 states where medical marijuana is legal.
At a press conference outside the Capitol, Blumenauer didn't attack the Drug Enforcement Administration for targeting marijuana dispensaries or blame the Justice Department for forcing marijuana businesses to operate in a legal gray zone. Instead, he pitched his legislation as a solution to the confusion surrounding federal marijuana policy.
(PHOTOS: 9 pols who talked pot)
"Frankly, the people in the federal hierarchy are in an impossible position," Blumenauer said, adding: "It gets the federal government and the Department of Justice out of this never-never land."
On the heels of successful referendums legalizing marijuana in both Colorado and Washington state, Blumenauer and Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) introduced legislation to end federal marijuana prohibition and set up a scheme to tax the drug.
The activists surrounding Blumenauer had just come from a four-day conference on medical marijuana, and many of them were veterans of campaigns to legalize the treatment in their home states. Some held a sign that wouldn't be out of place at a tea party rally against the Affordable Care Act — "GET POLITICS OUT OF MY MEDICINE."
(Also on POLITICO: Jimmy Carter okay with marijuana legalization)
Karen Munkacy, a doctor who helped lead the pro-medical marijuana side of a successful referendum in Massachusetts, said her breast cancer diagnosis forced her to "choose between breaking the law and suffering terribly. And I chose to suffer terribly."
Scott Murphy, an Iraq War vet, said medical marijuana could help returning soldiers handle post-traumatic stress disorder or physical injuries. Murphy noted 22 veterans killed themselves each day in 2012.
"If medical marijuana could help just one veteran, it would be worthwhile," he said.
Blumenauer's bill isn't likely to pass, but Americans for Safe Access Policy Director Mike Liszewski said bills in four states — New Hampshire, Illinois, New York and Maryland — have a chance of becoming law this year. In New Hampshire, where backers fell just a few votes short of overriding a governor's veto last year, advocates are "really confident." The state's new governor, Democrat Maggie Hassan, supported medical marijuana as a state legislator.


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WASHINGTON — A police officer with the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) died after sustaining injuries during the Capitol riots, according to U.S. Capitol Police. Brian D. Sicknick, 42, was a 12-year veteran of the force who was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher during the riots, according to three sources.
"Officer Sicknick was responding to the riots at the U.S. Capitol and was injured while physically engaging with protesters," USCP said in a statement. "He returned to his division office and collapsed. He was taken to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries."
Sicknick served in the New Jersey Air National Guard, deploying repeatedly to the Middle East. He is the sixth Capitol Police officer ever to die in the line of duty.
The Associated Press reported that Sicknick's family does not want to make his death a political issue, as there are still questions about what happened.
"Brian is a hero and that is what we would like people to remember," Officer Sicknick's brother, Ken Sicknick, said in a statement."
The force's union Chairman Gus Papathanasiou originally told WUSA9 that the officer had passed away earlier in the day Thursday, but then said he was still on life support until his family was able to see him. It was confirmed that he had passed away by USCP's communications director around 9:30 p.m.
"Officer Sicknick was killed while doing his job—defending those trapped in the Capitol building amid a violent attack on our democracy," Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said in a statement Friday. "His death is a tragedy, and those responsible must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. My prayers and those of the entire Commonwealth go to his family, his loved ones, and his fellow officers who work every day to protect the seat of American democracy from those who would seek to destroy it."
The White House said Sicknick's death was a reminder that law enforcement runs toward danger, while Speaker Nancy Pelosi said "the perpetrators of Officer Sicknick's death must be brought to justice."
Flags at the Capitol were lowered to half staff Friday in honor of Office Sicknick.
The U.S. Attorney's office declined to discuss the investigation, which is being done jointly by the FBI and DC Police. But investigators said that if the medical examiner finds he was hit in the head and that contributed to a stroke and his death, that would be murder. And because it happened on federal property, those responsible would be charged with murder in federal court.
The North America Building Trades Union is offering a $100,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest.
The news of Sicknick's condition came minutes after US Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund resigned from his position. The announcement of Sund's resignation came Thursday evening after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the president of the Capitol Police Officer's Union both called for him to step down.
Outside of the officer's death, four initials deaths were reported from the riots Wednesday, including the fatal shooting of a woman by Capitol Police. She was shot when climbing into the House Chamber, according to information released by DC Police. Three others died from medical emergencies, DC Police said.
Videos posted to social media saw badly outnumbered Capitol Police officers trying to hold the line Wednesday against a pro-Trump mob, some of whom were armed, intent on pushing its way into the Capitol. More than 50 Capitol and D.C. police officers were reportedly injured while responding Wednesday.
But other videos from the day also went viral, including one of a Capitol Police officer appearing to agree to a selfie during a live stream by a member of the group that had breached the building. At the point the video was taken, the mob had already violently pushed its way past the Capitol Police line and caused the evacuation of two Congressional office buildings, plus the lockdown and eventually evacuation of both chambers of Congress.
Within just a few hours, the video had been captured and re-uploaded by dozens of other accounts, some of which had drawn hundreds of thousands of reactions on Twitter alone.
A GoFundMe has been set up in Sicknick's name that was started by an officer with the Capitol Police Department. WUSA9 has confirmed that the proceeds of the GoFundMe will go directly to the family of this fallen officer.
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Economics as currently presented in textbooks and taught in the classroom does not have much to do with business management, and still less with entrepreneurship. The degree to which economics is isolated from the ordinary business of life is extraordinary and unfortunate.
That was not the case in the past. When modern economics was born, Adam Smith envisioned it as a study of the "nature and causes of the wealth of nations." His seminal work, The Wealth of Nations, was widely read by businessmen, even though Smith disparaged them quite bluntly for their greed, shortsightedness, and other defects. The book also stirred up and guided debates among politicians on trade and other economic policies. The academic community in those days was small, and economists had to appeal to a broad audience. Even at the turn of the 20th century, Alfred Marshall managed to keep economics as "both a study of wealth and a branch of the study of man." Economics remained relevant to industrialists.
In the 20th century, economics consolidated as a profession; economists could afford to write exclusively for one another. At the same time, the field experienced a paradigm shift, gradually identifying itself as a theoretical approach of economization and giving up the real-world economy as its subject matter. Today, production is marginalized in economics, and the paradigmatic question is a rather static one of resource allocation. The tools used by economists to analyze business firms are too abstract and speculative to offer any guidance to entrepreneurs and managers in their constant struggle to bring novel products to consumers at low cost.
The degree to which economics is isolated from the ordinary business of life is extraordinary and unfortunate.
This separation of economics from the working economy has severely damaged both the business community and the academic discipline. Since economics offers little in the way of practical insight, managers and entrepreneurs depend on their own business acumen, personal judgment, and rules of thumb in making decisions. In times of crisis, when business leaders lose their self-confidence, they often look to political power to fill the void. Government is increasingly seen as the ultimate solution to tough economic problems, from innovation to employment.
Economics thus becomes a convenient instrument the state uses to manage the economy, rather than a tool the public turns to for enlightenment about how the economy operates. But because it is no longer firmly grounded in systematic empirical investigation of the working of the economy, it is hardly up to the task. During most of human history, households and tribes largely lived on their own subsistence economy; their connections to one another and the outside world were tenuous and intermittent. This changed completely with the rise of the commercial society. Today, a modern market economy with its ever-finer division of labor depends on a constantly expanding network of trade. It requires an intricate web of social institutions to coordinate the working of markets and firms across various boundaries. At a time when the modern economy is becoming increasingly institutions-intensive, the reduction of economics to price theory is troubling enough. It is suicidal for the field to slide into a hard science of choice, ignoring the influences of society, history, culture, and politics on the working of the economy.
It is time to reengage the severely impoverished field of economics with the economy. Market economies springing up in China, India, Africa, and elsewhere herald a new era of entrepreneurship, and with it unprecedented opportunities for economists to study how the market economy gains its resilience in societies with cultural, institutional, and organizational diversities. But knowledge will come only if economics can be reoriented to the study of man as he is and the economic system as it actually exists.


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Iron Fist Boxing is the original, real-time 3D MMA fighting app. Don't be fooled by imitations, if you want authentic, heart-racing action, incredible next generation graphics and the absolute ultimate in gaming challenge.
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Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: 1. (Capitalized) Relating to Sisyphus, king of Corinth. 2. Extremely difficult to the point of futility.
Notes: The major issue associated with this word is whether it should be capitalized. There is no question of capitalization when referring to the actual king of Corinth. However, we feel that such a use is so rare as to leave open the door to spelling today's Good Word with a lower case "s". This word is used far more often as a common adjective, despite the opinion of my spellchecker. It should parallel quisling and boycott, so the spelling we prefer is much more consistent. The noun to this adjective is sisyphism.
In Play: This word works well in describing the current situation in Washington: "President Obama faces what has become a sysiphean task of getting his programs through Congress." However, the scale need not be so heroic: "It took a sisyphean effort on the part of Maud Lynn Dresser to get Natalie Cladd to come to her party."
Word History: Today's Good Word is based on Sisyphus, Greek Sisyphos, a name dissolved in the mists of time. Sisyphos was the harsh king of Corinth, who so offended Zeus that he was condemned in Hades to roll a stone perpetually uphill. The stone was so heavy that when Sisyphos reached the top of the hill, the stone would push him back to the bottom. Nonetheless, he was condemned for all eternity to repeat the process. (Our thanks are due Trent Palelei for undertaking the wholly unsisyphean task of suggesting today's Good Word.)
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RIM on the edge of a big move?
BlackBerry maker could open DevCon today by showing off a tablet, which would be a bold, but helpful move to keep it from falling behind in the connected mobile device game.
Research In Motion is known for basically one thing: making reliable smartphones that brought e-mailing from a phone to the mainstream. But it might be branching out very soon.
The Canadian company is the largest smartphone purveyor in the U.S., and despite the surging sales of Apple iPhones and Google Android-powered devices, RIM has held its ground--for now. Its BlackBerry accounts for 41 percent of smartphones in the U.S., and is second overall worldwide after Nokia.
But even though RIM has been able to hold on to its lead in smartphones, Apple's iOS software and Android are not staying put there. Both are moving on to bigger, more powerful mobile devices: touch-screen tablets. The iPad's runaway success has created a new device category for consumers who want to buy something that's lighter than a laptop and easier to type and browse on than a smartphone. And almost everyone is jumping in: Dell, HP, and Samsung are looking to get a piece of this market early on, too, which analysts expect to hit 15 million units this year, and more than 20 million next year.
RIM, somewhat surprisingly, is one of those with its eye on this market. Since the spring, reports have leaked out that the company was testing a tablet to work in conjunction with its smartphone. RIM was found to have bought the domain name "Blackpad.com," which has led some to nickname the yet-to-be confirmed device "BlackPad."
Word came last week that the company might even introduce the device today, when President and Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis and other execs take the stage at the annual developer gathering, RIM DevCon, in San Francisco. The device is not expected, however, to ship until closer to the end of the year.
If it does offer a sneak peek, it's a bold move to do it in the same venue Apple uses to announce its new iPhone every year (San Francisco's Moscone Center), but not more so than RIM actually making a tablet in the first place.
If RIM trots out a sister device to the BlackBerry, like a touch-screen tablet, it's a sign that the company isn't resigned to letting Apple and Android steal its market share without a good fight.
Taking a look at the reported specs, the device could be competitive. Little bits and pieces have leaked out: it's purportedly 7 inches, with a touch screen, front- and back-facing cameras for video conferencing, a 1Ghz chip from Marvell, and Wi-Fi access.
There are a few interesting things about RIM's choices here, based on the leaked details. The choice to not include cellular service isn't unusual: Apple offers a Wi-Fi only option on its iPad in addition to a model with 3G service from AT&T. But how it might overcome that would be by allowing the tablet to connect wirelessly to a BlackBerry to use its 3G connection for data.
The last time we saw that idea, a companion device, was Palm's ill-fated Foleo, which was the beginning of the end for the company.
But this isn't quite the same situation and could work for RIM's target audience: business folks. It's not as broad as the one Apple and Samsung are aiming for (basically everyone), but with a recognizable name and a trusted brand among large companies, RIM could be on to something here with enterprise users who already have a BlackBerry.
Targeting an audience that's not primarily composed of consumers could explain what RIM might do with the software. Reports say that the device would be powered not by BlackBerry OS 6, but by new software from QNX Software Systems, which RIM acquired earlier this year. Not much is known about how its implementation would work in a tablet, but The Wall Street Journal's sources said that QNX could eventually replace the software used in BlackBerrys too.
But the mobile game requires more than just having hip hardware these days. As Google and Apple have figured out, the key to selling mobile devices is having killer apps--for smartphones and tablets. RIM has to attract more developers, and has its work cut out there. BlackBerry App World has been open for business for almost a year and a half and has just over 10,000 applications, which is miniscule compared to Apple's 250,000 and Android's 100,000.
That's why the majority of the keynote will likely focus on appealing to people who make software for the BlackBerry. RIM's expected keynote announcements include unveiling a new social-apps platform that will expand the device-to-device BlackBerry Messenger service to other apps.
We don't know exactly how that expansion will work, but maybe a device-to-device data push could include sending music, video, and app recommendations, maps, or games from one BlackBerry to another.
Other announcements will center on payment and billing options, new tools for business-oriented app developers, and a demo of how RIM wants its developers to use the emerging Web standard HTML5, which both Apple and Google have embraced.
RIM has the spotlight and an opportunity to grab some of the attention away from its two biggest rivals. What will they do with it? Check back today at 1 p.m. PDT for our live blog coverage of the opening keynote speech.
CNET's Jessica Dolcourt contributed to this story.


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Tuesday, 18 June 2013 03:42 PM EDT
Enroll America, a nonprofit group at the center of the political fight over President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law, launched a multi-state grassroots campaign on Tuesday to help sign up millions of uninsured Americans for health coverage in the coming months.
The group, which has strong ties to the Obama administration and the healthcare industry, announced plans for more than 50 events in 18 states, including California, Florida and Texas, as part of its "Get Covered America" campaign. The events include canvassing neighborhoods and speeches at churches and other local venues to explain the need for health insurance, particularly among younger people, whose participation could determine whether "Obamacare" succeeds or fails.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates 7 million Americans will sign up for health coverage on new state-based insurance exchanges that will begin enrollment on Oct. 1. The administration needs that figure to include 2.7 million younger, healthier consumers. The total number of exchange enrollees is expected to surge to 22 million by 2016.
Enroll America is part of a much broader national outreach effort that will include hospitals, healthcare companies and providers, community organizers, media groups and federal, state and local officials. The challenge will be to overcome huge public skepticism, particularly for young and healthy consumers, that the new plans are worthwhile.
"The common theme here is that we are beginning our work of talking to consumers and giving them the information that they need to make their decisions come the fall about the healthcare options available to them," said Enroll America President Anne Filipic.
A main objective, she said, is to create "an echo chamber" of information about available healthcare benefits for an estimated 78 percent of nearly 50 million uninsured Americans, who are not aware of the coming changes. To help with the effort, Enroll America plans to expand its staff to 200 from the current 50 and train thousands of volunteers over the coming weeks.
Other reform advocates are gearing up their own campaigns. Organizing for Action, a group created out of Obama's 2012 campaign apparatus, launched its own public outreach effort on Monday with national TV ads on cable news stations.
The White House and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are also expected to kick off a public education campaign aimed exclusively at young people before the end of this month.
Enroll America's ties to the administration have become a political focus for congressional Republicans angered by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' efforts to rally private sector support for its operations.
In a conference call with reporters, Filipic declined to answer repeated requests for details on the group's budget.
Sebelius says she has spoken to three healthcare companies about the group and asked for financial donations from two other entities -- tax adviser H&R Block and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Republicans claim that her actions may have violated the law or federal ethics rules, a charge the administration denies. Reform advocates fear the uproar will discourage contributions to the group and undermine the reform effort.
"We feel really good about where we're headed with this. We've seen a lot of enthusiasm and we feel good about having the resources needed to launch a major education and enrollment campaign," said Filipic, a former Obama White House aide.
Enroll America started in 2010, before Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, with the express goal of enrolling the uninsured. It was founded by a handful of patient advocacy groups led by Families USA with an initial budget of $1 million.
Its board has since grown to include representatives from Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Kaiser Permanente, the American Hospital Association and the Catholic Health Association of the United States. Dozens of other companies and organizations are on its advisory council.
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After months of negotiations, Google has renewed the content licensing deal that allows it to publish full-text news articles from the Associated Press on Google sites such as Google News.
"We look forward to future collaborations, including on ways Google and AP can work together to create a better user experience and new revenue opportunities," wrote Josh Cohen, a Google senior business product manager, in an official blog on Monday.
Cohen's brief statement provides no details about the length of the agreement extension, its dollar value or the stipulations on how and what content can or can't be used by Google.
Google didn't immediately respond to a request for further comment.
In January of this year, with negotiations apparently stalled, Google stopped hosting AP stories on Google News, although the licensing agreement signed in 2006 was still active. It's not clear if between January and today the agreement at some point lapsed entirely.
The apparently rocky negotiations between Google and AP are emblematic of the tense, love-hate relationship Google has with news organizations.
Publishers are split. Some value the traffic they get from Google News. Others feel that Google profits disproportionately from indexing their news sites' content for free, re-publishing their headlines, thumbnail images and blurbs, and linking back to the sites.
Google has historically claimed that crawling and indexing news websites' content and publishing linked headlines and blurbs is protected by the fair-use principle in U.S. copyright law.
The tension has grown as newspapers and magazines have seen their ad revenue drop significantly in recent years, while Google's revenue and profits have risen. Google makes most of its revenue from online advertising it matches to content on its search and content sites, and on those of its ad network partners. The publishing industry has been generally slow in transitioning its ad business model from the print medium to the Internet.
In 2005, wire service Agence France Presse sued Google, alleging that by linking to AFP articles from Google News, Google was guilty of copyright infringement. That lawsuit was settled in 2007 when Google and AFP signed a content licensing agreement, similar in nature to the one between Google and the AP.


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