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Damascus 1840
What Henry Makow called 'the most famous instance of Satanic Jewish human ritual sacrifice' took place in Damascus:
The salient points about the Damascus Affair are 1. a prominent Italian Capuchin monk, father Tommaso was ritually slaughtered (and his blood drained) by prominent Cabalist Jews. 2. They confessed and led authorities to his identifiable remains and clothing. 3. The Rothschilds sent a delegation of prominent English Jews to Damascus and pressured all concerned to say the confessions were extracted by torture. 4. The Pope, Gregory XVI, had reliable intelligence and refused to knuckle under. Nor did any future Pope. They also had the testimony of a Moldavian priest, a former Jewish rabbi, that described and explained all the rituals, including the use of Christian blood in Passover matzoh.' (1)
A bestselling book describing this historic event is online, The Matzo of Zion. (2) Matzo is the wafer, allegedly impregnated with the Christian blood, for their Yom Kippur holy day. I challenge anyone to read this book and not believe it was all real. (3) Quoting from it:
5th February, 1840, Jewish Quarter of Damascus, a Jewish testimony
We slew him for his blood, and we put his blood in a glass bottle at Rabbi Moussa Abou Al-Afieh's house, according to the teachings of our religion. The essence of the matter was to obtain the blood because this is what our religion demands of us. Rabbi Moussa Salaniki delivered the blood to Rabbi Moussa AbouAl-Afieh because it is the traditional religious obligation that the Rabbis keep the blood.
Q: "Why is it so necessary to have the blood? Is it true that they put it in the bread? Do all Jews eat from that?"
A: "It is the established traditional religious custom to put blood in the bread for the religious leadership not for the common people. As to the way the bread is made, Rabbi Jacob Al-Intabi remains at the bakery the night of Yom Kippur. The Believers then come to him with flour for bread. He then mixes the blood into the dough to make bread without their knowledge. Afterwards he returns to them the bread he has made from their flour."
We slaughtered him, in order to obtain his blood, which was poured into a bottle and given over to the Rabbi Moses Abu-el-Afieh, and specifically for a religious reason, since we were in need of the blood for the fulfillment of a religious duty."
As far as the blood is concerned, what other purpose could it serve, other than as for the consecration of the Fatir (Festival of the unleavened bread = Jewish Easter)."
The same fate awaited Father Tommaso's assistant, of ending up as blood in a bottle. By April 1840, of the sixteen Jews that had taken part in the double-murder, four were pardoned and ten were condemned to death. Various other local citizens turned up, to testify as to how their loved ones had mysteriously been disappearing over the years, especially young children, and described their suspicions. A German paper commented: 'Although every year in Damascus Christian children disappeared suddenly without a trace, although the Jews were always under suspicion for it, no one dared accuse them, indeed, no one dared to pursue the trail of a well-founded suspicion, so great was the influence which their money procured for them with the corruptible Turkish authorities.' In Damascus the population then awaited the execution of the blood-murderers…. In vain! Instead, the People of the Lie turned up, averring that all this information had been extracted under torture etc – but, this was not so.
Toaff's History
Ariel Toaff, the Professor of Medieval and Renaissance History at the Israeli Bar-Ilan University in Israel and son of the chief rabbi in Rome, has published his Pasque di Sangue, now translated into English Passovers of Blood: The Jews of Europe and Ritual Murders, (English text here ) Commented the Talmud scholar Michael Hoffman: "Toaff's book confirms a shocking and terrifying datum, Orthodox Judaism's hypnotic and nauseating fascination with blood. And not just any blood –the blood of innocent Christians, including children." (4) His book reviews how "Ritual murder accusations have been made against the Jews for thousands of years." (p125)
Israel Shamir is surely a man of sound judgement. Of this book he wrote: 'Toaff discovered many cases of such bloody sacrifices connected with the mutilation of children, outpouring of blood and its baking in Matzo (unleavened bread) spanning five hundred years of European history.' Gosh, fancy that. And will we be called anti-semite if we talk about this?
Toaff was threatened and broke down, finally whining about his magnum opus: "I extend my sincerest apologies to all those who were offended by the articles and twisted facts that were attributed to me and to my book." The Swarm got to him! Shades of David Cole … or indeed of Henry Ford in 1927, renouncing everything he had written in his Dearborne Independent. Or indeed Galileo if you want to make him look really heroic. Again a comment from the discerning Mr Hoffman:
"Originally Toaff was defiant when his book was about to be published in Italian. Within a week of the announcement, however, he was a blubbering wreck, after having received the usual threats to his life and teaching job from the eternally persecuted ones. Soon after, Prof. Toaff ordered his book banned, but not before it had hit the streets of Italy and Italian scholars had it in hand and translated it into English for our benefit. (5)
Commands of the Talmud, relevant to this death-cult (quoted in Matzo of Zion): "If a Jew says anything, which can harm the Jewish people, so should he be killed without mercy; for such an individual redounds to their disgrace; the Talmud does not let him live. .. Whoever places at a disadvantage a religious comrade through declarations which he makes in favor of a stranger [clearly meant by "stranger" is "non-Jew"], and makes some statement against him to the government of the land, which can incur a fine or physical punishment or death, is himself deserving of death. Such a traitor has no hope of another world… and if he has made known only the intention of making such a statement, with respect to the location or to the least detail, he is thus from that moment guilty of the death, and those present are held responsible to strike him dead or to do everything in their power, so that he might die, before he carries out his intention." – the "book of religion," Kethim. Does this mean that Judaism contains at its core a secret-society death-cult?
The English Ban
The Damascus authorities should have made a comparison with the statement by Edward I, the King of England, concerning the expulsion of Jews from England in 1290: basically the King got sick and tired of stories about the ritual murder of Christian children by Jews and decided to kick them out (see especially the section, 'Jewish Ritual Murder in England.') (6) Likewise the Spanish 1492 edict of expulsion included the same complaint. Where did these stories come from? If untrue, why would people keep making them up?
The aspect of crucifixion of goy children in the British expulsion decree keeps turning up down through the centuries, as practiced for the Passover ritual: the process whereby blood is extracted from the dying child, and where the piercings are made. Concerning the nature of Satanic power, a death needs to involve terror and horror and not be instantaneous: the child death needs to be slow and involve experience of terror – that is the essence of the Satanic invocation practice. (Passover is an Easter-time ceremony 'celebrating' the alleged killing of the firstborn son of every Egyptian household, long ago, while they were the host nation of the Hebrew people. Maybe this becomes more 'real' if the death of a present-time host nation child is added?)
Israeli soldiers as we saw not so long ago in Gaza are the only ones that will shoot little goy children for fun, in a sporting manner (7) – not even American soldiers will do that.
Jewish Expulsion-Dates
There have been twelve major nations in Europe from which Jews have been expelled down though the centuries, starting with the British expulsion in 1290. Entire Jewish communities have been expelled from countries, cities or principalities a total of 109 times. None of us are allowed to discuss this awesome continuing theme right through European history: but, it's the uniquely-defining feature of Jewish religion – no other one has such stories! Somebody needs to comb through all the relevant texts and ascertain how many of them involved accusations of ritual 'Goyim' sacrifice. This really needs to happen in a Damascus location for historical reasons.
Jews seem to lack lack the capacity for self-knowledge. How on earth can their Rabbis continue to get away with asserting the notion that, because they have been expelled so many times from Christian (and other) communities, the moral defect must lie totally in those other peoples rather than in 'The Jews' themselves? Surely such thinking can only be the result of indoctrination of Jewish communities by Talmudic Rabbinical precepts, i.e. that Jews alone are human and that everyone else is not? What else can explain such a catastrophically lopsided mindset? These serial expulsions came very much from people discovering what was in the Talmud!
'At one time or another the Jews have been expelled from every country in Europe. And in almost every case it was over the charge of Ritual Murder. The most objective book on this subject available is Jewish Ritual Murder 1938 by Arnold Leese'(8). (Quote)'
250 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Carthage
415 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Alexandria
554 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Diocèse of Clermont (France)
561 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Diocèse of Uzès (France)
612 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Visigoth Spain
642 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Visigoth Empire
855 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Italy
876 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Sens
1012 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Mainz
1182 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – France
1182 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Germany
1276 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Upper Bavaria
1290 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – England
1306 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – France
1322 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – France (again)
1348 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Switzerland
1349 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Hielbronn (Germany)
1349 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Saxony
1349 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Hungary
1360 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Hungary
1370 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Belgium
1380 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Slovakia
1388 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Strasbourg
1394 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Germany
1394 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – France
1420 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Lyons
1421 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Austria
1424 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Fribourg
1424 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Zurich
1424 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Cologne
1432 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Savoy
1438 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Mainz
1439 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Augsburg
1442 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Netherlands
1444 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Netherlands
1446 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Bavaria
1453 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – France
1453 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Breslau
1454 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Wurzburg
1462 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Mainz
1483 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Mainz
1484 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Warsaw
1485 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Vincenza (Italy)
1492 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Spain
1492 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Italy
1495 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Lithuania
1496 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Naples
1496 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Portugal
1498 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Nuremberg
1498 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Navarre
1510 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Brandenberg
1510 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Prussia
1514 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Strasbourg
1515 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Genoa
1519 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Regensburg
1533 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Naples
1541 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Naples
1542 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Prague & Bohemia
1550 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Genoa
1551 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Bavaria
1555 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Pesaro
1557 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Prague
1559 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Austria
1561 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Prague
1567 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Wurzburg
1569 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Papal States
1571 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Brandenburg
1582 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Netherlands
1582 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Hungary
1593 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Brandenburg, Austria
1597 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Cremona, Pavia & Lodi
1614 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Frankfort
1615 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Worms
1619 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Kiev
1648 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Ukraine
1648 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Poland
1649 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Hamburg
1654 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Little Russia (Beylorus)
1656 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Lithuania
1669 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Oran (North Africa)
1669 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Vienna
1670 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Vienna
1712 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Sandomir
1727 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Russia
1738 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Wurtemburg
1740 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Little Russia (Beylorus)
1744 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Prague, Bohemia
1744 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Slovakia
1744 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Livonia
1745 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Moravia
1753 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Kovad (Lithuania)
1761 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Bordeaux
1772 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Deported, Poland/Russia
1775 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Warsaw
1789 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Alsace
1804 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Villages in Russia
1808 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Villages & Countrysides (Russia)
1815 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Lubeck & Bremen
1815 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Franconia, Swabia & Bavaria
1820 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Bremen
1843 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Russian Border Austria & Prussia
1862 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Areas in the U.S. under General Grant
1866 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Galatz, Romania
1880s – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Russia
1891 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Moscow
1919 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Bavaria (foreign born Jews)
1938-45 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Nazi Controlled Areas
1948 — – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Arab Countries
As to why they kept getting caught out (and then expelled), the reason is almost comical……in that it resulted from the peculiar integrity (or perhaps seriousness is a better word) of their devotion to the magical Satanic Blood Ritual. They really wanted the magic to work so they obeyed the rules of the grisly game. The holy Talmud forbids burial of a beast after it has died, and it also defines all non-Jews as beasts. By Jewish law, the burial of beasts is forbidden. After the ritual sacrifice, the Satanic black-magic ritual, the naked, pierced body of the child, once it has been drained of blood, must be thrown on a trash heap. The Jewish rite forbids burial of the body, even though this would conceal all evidence of their crime. I love the way the timid goyim are too polite to raise a peep of objection! Gosh, we might get accused of Denying the Holocaust!
The world needs a PhD, preferably in Damascus, reviewing every one of these and commenting upon the reason for the expulsion, reviewing the Purim and Passover ceremonies, and inferring to what extent a continuous blood-drinking tradition has persisted down through the centuries in Europe, by the learned Elders of Zion. In Jewish-Talmud doctrine the soul resides in the blood – I don't want to say any more; except that, I suspect the vampire legend in Europe derived from this phenomenon.
Also, my impression is – timid, polite goyim please note – that the Renaissance, that tremendous outburst of human optimism, creativity and perception of beauty, happened once the SAKs (Satanic Ashkenazi Khazars) had been chucked out of every European nation – maybe they could hang out in Amsterdam, even though expelled from the Netherlands in 1442 and 1444 – and thereby banking systems, free from the destructive Jewish influence could develop. (Indeed millions are beginning to realize that a banking system that is subject to, rather than master of, the governments it services is precisely what the world needs today.) That situation came to an end in 1643 when Cromwell began their readmission – in return for their funding his army, and acceptance of the bankers' orders about how to remove and kill the sitting King of England, Charles I.(9) (Captain Ramsay's important book, The Nameless War about WW2, for which he was imprisoned). These facts, like so many others, have been expunged from our history books.
The Holy Talmud
For anyone looking for a religion based on filth & perversion, checkout the Talmud comments made by Elizabeth Dilling:
Berakoth. The name of this book supposedly means benedictions, but is as foul a collection of obscenity as one could find, with 405 pages of what is nothing but "privy talk."
The Megillah is a sadistic celebration of drunkenness and bloodlust, the Talmudic admonition being that it is the duty of the Jew to be so drunk on Purim he doesn't know the difference between "Blessed be Mordechai" and "Cursed be Haman." (See Exhibit 299)
SEDER NASHIM (women). This section includes a 13-page introduction to the Soncino edition by Rabbi J.H. Hertz. These books are principally distinguished by their sub-sewer filth and obscenity.
Baba Kamma (the first gate): 719 pages of Talmudic ramblings, a general law on damages being that hurting Gentile property is permissible; injuring Jewish property is like assaulting the Divine, for only "Jews" are "men" and non-Jews rank as animals. This is "brotherhood" as advocated in the Talmud.
You can't beat it! "The main and overall characteristics of the Talmud are: pomp, obscenity and more obscenity, a setting up of laws seemingly for the purpose of inventing circumventions and evasions; delight in sadistic cruelty; reversal of all Biblical moral teachings on theft, murder, sodomy, perjury, treatment of children and parents; insane hatred of Christ, Christians and every phase of Christianity." (Dilling quote) Would any reasonable person want to disagree with her judgement? The sacrificing of goy children to the demon Moloch is casuistically endorsed by this Holy text, she found, (10) which helps to clarify the thrice-repeated damnation uttered by Jesus Christ: "you Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness," (Luke 11:39) and: "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it," (John 8:44) and thirdly,"Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness"(Matthew 23:27). Wow – surprising He wasn't arrested for antisemitism! The Phasisees were regarded as carrying an oral tradition of what was later written down as the Talmud.
Judaism is the sole world religion with a Satanic core text, namely the Holy Babylonian Talmud. As Kevin Boyle has rightly observed, 'The Talmud is an utterly satanic document.' (11) If we define a Satanic text, as one which licenses child slaughter for ritual purposes, then there exist two and only two books in our modern world (of any significance) to which this applies: one by Alistair Crowley penned in 1929 (I refrain from quoting its title) and the other – the Talmud. (12)
Sometimes cleaned-up Talmud-for-goyim texts appear, so note concerning the original version: 'In the uncensored Babylonian Talmud, the hostile, contemptuous and homicidal references and hate-speech are directed at the Goyim, meaning the nations, that is to say, all non-Jews' – (Michael Hoffman, 9 minutes into video.) (13)
Here's a modern web-opinion from Sherry Shriner, in 'New world order and the Talmud' (www.thewatcherfiles.com):
'The Talmud is the Satanic version of the Torah. The Jews have an oral version of the Torah called the Tenach, or which some call the Talmud, but the Talmud a minority of real Jews are familiar with is not the Talmud being used today. The Babylonian Talmud has taken precedence since 1905 … In fact every Jew today is taught through this particular Talmud. It refers to Jesus as an idol, and His worshipers as idolaters. It claims Jesus was into bestiality and is burning in hell in a pool of semen. Now where would that come from? Satan Himself. The books of the Talmud are based on the teachings of the Pharisees. To understand why Jesus held such contempt towards this ancient sect of elitists, Christians must have some knowledge of the books of the Talmud—a set of 63 books written by ancient rabbis. These books contain the legal code which is the basis of today's Judaism and Jewish law. In fact, Talmudic Judaism is primarily a legal system in a literal sense. It has little to do with religion. It is more of an ancient political cult group with many followers who are not openly Jewish. This is why so many Jews openly claim to be Jewish and atheist at the same time.
'In fact the Talmud originated from the ancient Cabal occult and Pharisee sects. Jesus told them they were the Synogogue of Satan. Every Zionist today clings to what they think are the secret teachings of the Talmud. … Today the majority of Jews in Israel are practitioners of Pharisaic law—Talmudic law—which is the enemy of truth, Jesus, and God.'
The Talmud is the textbook used in the training of rabbis. In 2004, Menachem Elon, deputy President of the Supreme Court of Israel, explained whence his country's constitutional authority derived, as it had no written constitution: 'Everything in the Babylonian Talmud is binding on all Israel. Every town and country must follow all customs, give effect to the decrees, and carry out the enactments of the Talmudic sages, because the entire Jewish people accepted everything contained in the Talmud.' That foundation of Israeli law upon the Talmud, has the necessary implication, that the realities of Israeli politics are a continuing nightmare horror for the rest of the world.(14) Here is a no-nonsense contemporary view from the US 'Veterans Today' site:
"Is the Talmud defensible as a holy text? And can Jews ever be accepted by the world so long as they fail to renounce it and make apology? I believe the answer is no. Israel Shahak and others argue, convincingly, that its genocidal doctrine inspires covert evil. I recommend Israel Shahak's excellent Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years, well worth reading." – by 'Cassandra.'
A Russian View
For a learned Russian view, we turn go back to a classic opus by Dr. Vladimir Ivanovich Dal, graphically entitled Searching for the Jews who Murder Christian Babies and How the Jews Use the Babies' Blood" published in 1844, in the wake of the Damascus affair:
"I examined the entire number of horrible events, which are proved judiciously throughout history. The accusation that Jews painfully murder Christian babies around Easter time is impossible to discount as if a mere ghost story and superstition, and it is necessary to be convinced that this accusation is indeed reasonable. .. Of course, no intelligent person will dispute that in countries where Jews are tolerated, from time to time, the corpses of babies were discovered – almost always found in the same distorted condition or, at the least, showing that they suffered a similar violent death…. It is not just murder but, rather, the premeditated painful torture of innocent babies, committed by those who enjoy these torments for the special reasons associated with them…. From whence are these corpses of innocent children, intentionally distorted in the same manner? Why are these corpses only discovered in areas where the Jews reside? And, finally, why do these cases, almost exclusively, occur around Easter time?
The weak, unsatisfactory searching of investigators, the different tricks of Jews, their impudent and stubborn denial, not infrequently a bribery, the confidence by the majority of educated people that an accusation is merely the infamous slander and, finally, the humanity of our criminal laws–all these things saved the Jewish culprits, nearly every time, from deserved execution. And they–by using their machinations, by giving false oath assurances of innocence, and by using false propaganda that suggested such accusations were merely the result of accomplished injustice with slander built on them–almost always were well prepared for such accusations. The Jews punished those who demonstrated credible evidence against them. In the year 1817 [in Russia], a law was enacted on February 28 that the Superior Command announced on March 6: It was prohibited to even suspect the Jews of such crimes, and the opinion that the Jews needed non-Jewish blood was called a prejudice. Meanwhile, an examination of the places where the secret training of Talmudists took place recognizes the realization of this mutilation-murder, and the impartial view put forth in these case productions convinces, without doubt, the truth of their validity."
The rules involved for sacrifice are strangely reminiscent of Alistair Crowley's black-magic instructions, as to how an 'intelligent' young white boy aged 9 or under was ideal. Dr. Eric Bischoff, a famous German Jewish scholar, found the explicit authorization of the practice of Jewish ritual murder in the Thikunne Zohar, Edition Berdiwetsch, 88b, a book of cabalistic ritual, as follows:
"Furthermore, there is a commandment pertaining to the killing of strangers, who are like beasts. This killing has to be done in the lawful (Jewish) method. Those who do not ascribe themselves to the Jewish religious law must be offered up as sacrifices to the (Jews) High God (Satan)."
In this text it specifies the young white child required – Also if no gentile victim can be obtained, dried blood from a previous victim may be used. However, Jewish law is specific that the victim at Passover must be a White Child under seven years of age, who must be bled white, crowned with thorns, tortured, beaten, stabbed, and finally given the last blow by being wounded in the side, the dagger prescribed to be in the hands of a rabbi, in a complete re-enactment of the crucifixion of Christ. This black-magic re-enactment of the Crucifixion was a major theme stated in the expulsion of Jews from England in 1290.
Two recent Russian cases make clear that modern police departments lack confidence, when coming up against satanic ritual murder – if indeed they are not complicit.
Kiev Ritual Murder, September 2006: Ukrainian papers reported a ritual murder commited in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, beginning of September. The Kiev web site Ura Inform titled an article on the subject as "Does the Ghost of Beilis Wander Over the Dnieper River?" Beilis was a Russian Jew who went on trial in Kiev for the ritual murder of a 10-year-old Christian boy in 1913. "This time, the victim was also Christian, a Russian Orthodox activist and journalist Cyrill Berezhnoi. His naked body was found on September 8 near a subway station not far from the bank of the Dnieper river. The Ukrainian police claimed without further investigation it had purportedly been a suicide.
"Nobody believes the police in Kiev. First, Mr Berezhnoi had no reason to commit suicide. Second, he was a strong Christian believer and the suicide is a mortal sin for every Christian. Third, he had wounds on his body which are typical for a ritual murder. Fourth, the police doctors in Kiev did their best to conceal the nature, the place and the number of the wounds cutting the body in autopsy exactly through the wounds. Fifth, the police refuses to give the body to the parents wishing to bury it."
2. Ukraine Ritual Murder January 2011, Cossacks accuse Talmudic Jews of recent twin ritual murder of two young children in Ukraine. The characteristic slow death, of being first bled dry:" the traces of knife wounds show that the child was first slowly ex-sanguinated, and then assassinated with one or two knife blows, showing 'a ritual murder…Talmudic or Cabalistic rite.'.The other girl had her body cut into four parts. There is public fear, and belief in the high social status of the Satanist-perpetrators. They vanished on January 4th, their bodies were found on the 29th, with police estimates that they had been killed a week earlier. So they were kept for a couple of weeks to build up their terror, then after the deed the corpses were kept for a week to help disguise the fact that no sexual assault had taken place.
"The ritual nature of both murders is confirmed, first, by the fact that one girl was slain with knives, and the other was cleaved in four parts. And the first knife wounds were minor, which is typical for the Talmudic or Cabalistic rite, when the right method is to exsanguinate the victim".
"Another proof of that is the fact that girls were killed one week before they are discovered. Mucous membranes of their genital organs were rotten. If the murderers were Satanists, then the victims would have been raped before the murders. But according to Talmudic canons, an intercourse with living Christian girls is bestiality. The bodies of the girls were thrown out a week after the murder exactly to conceal that they were not raped and died as virgins.
"According to Talmudic canons, the blood of Christian children and Christian virgins is especially valuable. The murder was not committed by one person – every ritual murder means a system. This system works, the crime occurred somewhere in apartment houses nearby, and most likely the murders have a high social status, and only a lack of a firm position of the authorities prevents their capture.
"If a person occupies a high social position, a public post in the first place, he could be seen, he could be identified, but people are simply afraid to speak, and they watch the strange stance of the authorities. For example, they are afraid to tell that they saw a respected person entering a car with the girls. Accordingly, our Christian children in the Russian city of Sevastopol are without protection today. The authorities do not fulfill their basic function – protecting children. Therefore, we, the Russian Christian community will keep this issue under control, we will not allow to shift off these brutal murders on innocent people. And we say that those who committed them will not avoid punishment", the leader of the "Sobol" concluded.
Will they not? For any nation to thrive it has to oppose the Predator, and that means understanding the Way of the Predator. The Swarm will prevail, if the victim-community responds in an atomic manner, each person having their private anguish. Down through the centuries, revelations of such practices here described have led to anti-Jewish pomgroms, but today we require a non-violent response – personal violence would only reinforce the schizoid mentality of denial. What could the city of Kiev have done? No-one comes forward with evidence, and the authorities presume this is because they are too frightened to do so. This act challenges the notion of a secular society – the perpetrators are hidden, the deaths 'pointless' from any secular viewpoint, the bodies left in a conspicuous place, i.e it was some kind of public act. Then everyone lives in fear, which would in part have been the aim of the exercise.
A public response is here desirable. Kiev should open up evening classes on the Talmud, on Jewish ritual sacrifice and on the millennia-long history of a hundred Jew-expulsions from different cultures; should re-publish Toaff's book in Russian, plus the Matzo of Zion and the British expulsion order of 1290, or those parts relevant to human sacrifice; also the book by Dr Vladimir Dal; and should put up posters around any building containing a copy of the Talmud with quotes from it – eg how about:
Ch. I: The Christians and their Christian Churches say and do the opposite of truth. They contradict our (Jewish) truth. They are not different from the worshipers of the idols. The duty of the Jew is to work against these churches and the Christians. The Bible of the Christian is nothing more than the doctrine of sin, declared clearly. The duty of the Jew is to burn the Bible anywhere it is found.
Ch. I, Para IV: The duty of the Jews is to curse the Christians three times everyday, and to pray to God to destroy them all, especially their kings and their governments. This precept applies especially to their religious leaders; it is necessary to stir hatred against the Christians. God gave the Jews the right to take possession of the Christian wealth by all possible ways and means, whether by trade, or by kindness and gentleness, or by cheating and deception, even by theft.
Ch. IV, Para II: A Jew must be convinced that the Christian is a savage animal, and he must treat him as such. The Jews must not do good or evil with an idolater, but must use all efforts to destroy the Christians. If a Jew saw a Christian on the edge of a very deep abyss (pit), he must push him, until the Christian reaches the bottom of the abyss (pit). (15)
– for a start. By such means the invisible hierarchy of the SAKs would be drawn out into the public domain, compelled to protest.
Many thousands if not tens of thousands of children go missing every year in the UK. Police need to become able to recognise the incisions made for the slow, blood-draining ritual death. Slow-terror-while-the-blood-is-being-drained is the purpose and method of Satanic invocation.
Concluding remarks
The People of Earth do need to become aware of a Satanic core agenda and what this means. The problem – one could say – is that a deity Yahweh did once really exist, did once really guide the Hebrew people, but, is no more. Religious invocations, rites and prayers will not invoke this being, who has not actually been around for the last two thousand years. So, something else has had to be done instead…
'Jew' ostensibly has a fourfold definition: the member of a state, the Jewish state; or, of a race, the Jewish race; of a religion, the Jewish religion; or of a culture, the Jewish culture. None of these are very helpful. A real definition might be (as per Henry Makow): a secret society like the Freemasons whose ordinary members are unaware of the core agenda. (16) Formally we should define 'Jew' as an ethnic group, whose members lack the capacity for self-knowledge over their collective actions and agenda. Thus they collectively project Untruth – in the nicest possible way.
It might help here to meditate upon the fourfold aspect of the 'We' that speaks through the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Illuminati, Banker, Mason and Jew. (N.B. I suggest that the Okhrana or Russian Secret Police had absolutely norole in composing this document at the end of the 19th century).
We live in a secular age, when ordinary folk don't want to believe that blood ritual has been happening or that it would 'do' anything even if it were performed. Jesus Christ called for His disciples to be 'wise as serpents' and it needs that kind of wisdom, that is a bit occult and is not worldly knowledge, to perceive the danger. Alistair Crowley did practice child-sacrifice ritual (as detailed in his book) and did I suggest have power of some kind. Try to appreciate how much greater is that occult satanic power if practiced jointly by a group of top rabbis. Yes it does really exist.
Police departments should become equipped to deal with occult crime, trained to deal with murders where no sexual violation or theft has taken place but instead signs of ritual abuse are evident. At present police departments shun such like the plague because of the public and media ridicule that they know will cause them to lose the case, with libel charges in the aftermath. Police should stop prosecuting the 'war on terror' which victimizes and tortures innocent Muslims, getting them to confess to nonexistent 'terror' intent. Police of any nation having a problem with missing kids need to record such unsolved cases by date of disappearance, keeping them gender-separated: do they peak around New or Full Moons, especially the Full Moon after the Spring Equinox? The Damascus case described above, was a New Moon murder (ie when the Jewish months begin).
Path of Healing
The SAKs have a specific skill, that of being able to manipulate your perception of reality. They do run Hollywood after all. Supremely, the SAKs have conjured up an image of six million Jews having being gassed by Germans. The imposition of this provably false belief on most of humanity could well be evidence of black magic at work. There can be little doubt that the 'blood ritual' is connected with the ability of Talmudic Jews to exercise an extraordinary power of Satanic enchantment over the collective consciousness of all humanity. There is more at work here than mere flesh and mere blood. Powers and Principalities, the very hosts of heaven and all the lower orders are surely energised by the sincerity of our appellations and rituals. Perhaps our current great crisis exists, as SSPX Bishop Williamson and Professor Michael E. Jones suggest, because of our own collective abandonment of Christ, the Son of the Good Father, the principle of 'Logos'.
Never will you hear any scrap of evidence for the existence of such cyanide gas chambers, or for a single corpse dead from cyanide in WW2, nor any documentary evidence for any such program, etc. – but surely, you already know that? So, shift all those story-books into the fiction department. Or yet, with deep fervor do you not still believe such a thing? It's been drummed into you nonstop through schooling and you know how socially damned you would be, were you seen to doubt it? O no, what would your friends say?
Then, more recently, Israel-Mossad was centrally involved in perpetrating 911 Please study this issue. The facts of the matter are crystal clear.
Jesus Christ had the ability to speak words, that sufficiently infuriated people that they picked up stones to stone Him – another time He goaded them until they picked Him up to carry Him to the edge of a cliff to throw Him over (Luke 4:29). Perhaps the reader will re-consider his/her own passivity in the face of the ongoing horror that is the history of today? Perhaps the reader will recognise the importance of raising the issue of the Holocaust 'gas chambers,' or indeed the murder of 20-30 million Russians by the predominantly-Jewish Cheka, characterized by the horrible cruelty and sadism of those deaths? (18)
The SAKs manipulate your perception of reality, using words. As in, 'the blood libel,' as if it were just a libel, as in 'The Protocols of Zion forgery' – as if it were a forgery. If it was a forgery then a forgery of what? They have power in this respect.
The power of Satanic enchantment projected by Talmudic Jews could be summed up by a sign, in Hebrew, next to the swimming pool at Auchwitz (now well restored by the authorities), which says, in effect
"This was not a swimming pool."
Though it clearly IS a swimming pool with a diving platform at one end. Somehow everybody seems to believe that this was not a swimming pool, i.e. the notice works. Such is the power of the propaganda that has been disseminated about Auschwitz that to even mention the existence of the swimming pool is sufficiently disturbing for most people that they raise their voices and proclaim one a Nazi.
This is the staggering reality.
Cognitive dissonance rules.
Lies are truth.
Ignorance is strength.
How far we have fallen.
By the way, British school children are most welcome in Auschwitz. Subsidised 3-day break available for £99. Their tour of the camp does not include the swimming pool, nor the only real gas chamber on the site, the one with blue-stained-walls that was used for delousing prisoners' clothing, i.e for keeping them healthy and fit for the work that was the camp's true purpose.
There used to be one religious movement that was well-aware of this topic, and which spoke out about it – the Catholic Church. It spoke out very courageously, but World War II put an end to all that! 'The Holocaust' story is the perennial shield of the SAKs against all accusations of iniquity. The People of the Lie use the charge of 'antisemitism' to damn anyone trying to describe their true being – thereby stealing the identity of the Palestinian people who are the real semites, the SAKs having no drop of Semitic blood in them. Jesus Christ was a Palestinian, now the most tortured nation on Earth. The not-so-Catholic church now whines about 'the Holocaust' and affirms to a dissident priest that belief in it is compulsory. (19) That sounds just like what Jesus taught! The brave wartime pope Pius XII gets slagged off for not having denounced 'the Holocaust' – well of course he didn't, it never happened. The Goyim need to try and acquire a bit of backbone.
Earth cannot expect a happy future, if places of worship containing a copy of the Holy Babylonian Talmud, are permitted. People need to realize that they do not want that Power operative, it's too strong! It nourishes a collective hive – the People of the Lie. The Talmud does not have a deity in it, in that sense it's not a religious text. As Michael Hoffman has put it, it's a religion of self-worship.
Icke Gets it Wrong
The main figure in the modern world who speaks about Satanic power is David Icke. With terrific skill he avoids using the 'J' word and is thereby able to give public talks. Listen to the opening words of his recent interview – so, so wrong:
You've got the ancient gods which were translated into god, which are worshiped by the religions unknowingly, and the same with the secret societies, and the same gods – demonic entities as they are called in this case, that are worshiped by the Satanists, are the same gods, that are worshiped by the secret societies and the religions, but unknowingly, in Satanism its knowingly – these gods, these non-human entities….
Ancient divine powers initiated the great world religions of the ancient world, initially polytheistic, then monotheism evolved. Those we may indeed call gods, and we presumably all have different ways of picturing that, that's fine. However, entities that require human blood-sacrifice are demonic entities and these are not the same thing! If they draw nourishment from human torment, they are not gods but something very different. Only bloodsuckers from Hell will be invoked by the child-sacrifice rituals of Purim and the Passover.
David you are so, so wrong, why not take a break until you figure this one out?
* Why did Jews get expelled from Alexandria in AD 415, a city then renowned for its wonderful eclectic religious tolerance? A clue here comes from the historian Flavius Josephus, who lived at Alexandria during the 1st century of the Christian era:
'Antiocchus Epiphane, entering the Temple of Jerusalem, is said to have been surprised to find a Greek, stretched on a bed and surrounded by exquisite foods and rich dishes. The prisoner's report was extraordinary and horrifying. The Greek said that he had been captured by the Jews and taken to the Temple and concealed from everyone, while they force-fed him on all sorts of foods. At first, it the unusual circumstances in which he found himself did not greatly displease him until the sanctuary attendants revealed the fate waiting in store for him: he was fated to die, the predestined victim of homicidal Jewish sacrificial practices. "(The Jews) carry out this (rite) every year, on a pre-established date. They catch a Greek merchant and feed him for a whole year. They later take him into a forest, kill him and sacrifice him according to their religion. They then savor the viscera, and in the moment of sacrificing the Greek, they swear their hatred of all Greeks. They then dump the remains of the carcass into a ditch". Flavius Josephus reports that the history recounted by Apione was not invented by him, but was, rather, derived from other Greek writers, an indication that its dissemination must have been much more widespread than we are led to imagine based on the two only surviving accounts, i.e., of Damocritus and Apione' (Toaff p.126)
Can our Jewish friends kindly advise us, we politely ask, whether there is any period in the history of European civilization, in which such ghastly stories are not to be found, attributed to one race and no other? (20)
Every one of the main books here alluded to, is fully readable online. The discerning reader will not fail to comprehend the reason for this, namely that the SAKs can today suppress printing of a book of which they disapprove (but, well done Dr Toaff, for having his book available in public for one week.) Thus, the smartly-published 'Reckless rites Purim and the legacy of Jewish violence' by Eliot Horowitz 2006 describes the charges with an academic, fence-sitting agnosticism: such an attitude being not easy to forgive, on this topic.
Vladimir Dahl, 1844 Searching for the Jews who Murder Christian Babies, and How the Jews Use the Babies' Blood. (Could a bookshop today, have that title in its window?) (from the Russian)
Sir Barnett Abrahams, The Expulsion of the Jews from England 1895
Arnold Leese Jewish Ritual Murder 1938
Dr Hellmut Schramm,, Jewish Ritual Murder, a Historical Investigation,Berlin 1943 (from the German)
Mustafa Tlass, The Matzo of Zion. 1986.
Ariel Toaff Passovers of Blood: The Jews of Europe and Ritual Murders, 2007
Not one of these gets referenced in Wiki's 'Blood Libel' page.
Postscript: Rabbinical brainwashing and the 'Holocaust' religion (believed by nearly all, Jew and non-Jew alike) seem to have convinced Jews that 'anti-Semitism' (the uncaused hatred of all Jews by the gentiles) is real. This has created an extraordinary collective loyalty of Jews to their leadership.
The truth is that THE GROUP LOYALTY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE ACTS AS A SHIELD BEHIND WHICH SATANISTS OPERATE. NOT ALL THESE SATANISTS ARE JEWS. THEY ARE, HOWEVER, SUPREMACIST. THEY ARE PURSUING TOTAL POWER OVER THE REST OF US.
Their tools, as The Protocols boast, are "Force and Make-Believe". Most Gentiles are trapped inside the same mind-prison as 'The Jews' but Jewish people are in a privileged position to break this Satanic power in a way that gentiles cannot. Before power can be broken, it must be divided (as all good Frankfurt School Psychologistsand Imperialists knew).
The Jewish people need to decide whether they are the only humans or whether the rest of us are too. If they so decide….that we, the goyim, are made of the same stuff as themselves, then they need to break from their leadership. They must expose the Talmud and its precepts and its horrible doctrines; and begin to draw souls away from the perdition in which devotion to such ideas will inevitably result.
1. See Makow's book Illuminati, The Cult that Hijacked the World, 2009, p.139
2. Written by the Syrian Defence Minister Mustafa Tlass in 1986, it became a best-seller translated into many languages. The International outrage was led by US Secretary of State George Schultz, and 'Rabbi Hier has asked the foreign ministers of all major Western countries to register official complaint.'
3. For further documentation of the event, see Debacle in Damascus by Harrell Rhome PhD
4. Note from Toaff's book re Mediaeval Europe: 'There was a thriving market in such delicacies as blood, powder made of blood and bloody matzo. Jewish vendors sold it accompanied with rabbinic letters of authorization; the highest value was blood of a goy katan, a gentile child, much more usual was blood of circumcision.'
5. The little-extolled heroes here involved should not go unmentioned. Quoting a French foreword, "Dans la situation d'urgence créée par ce retrait et cette volte-face si impromptue, l'AAARGH a décidé de numériser le livre pour le mettre sous les yeux d'un public qui ne pouvait plus l'obtenir de son libraire." See http://vho.org/aaargh/engl/engl.html Well done AAARGH! (I forget what it stands for)
6. Or read the online book Sir Barnett Abrahams, The Expulsion of the Jews from England http://vho.org/aaargh/fran/livres10/expulsion.pdf
7. For how Talmudic-Israeli law tells soldiers to kill in this way, see Israel Shahak, Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years, 1994, p.79.
8. It's a fine little book by Arnold Leese, but a far more thorough treatise is that by Dr Hellmut Schramm,, Jewish Ritual Murder, a Historical Investigation, translated from the German and fully online. It quotes from The Zohar explicit directions for the blood-sacrifice. Schramm paid with his life for this work.
9. Oliver Cromwell was paid by financier Manasseh Ben Israel in Amsterdam to execute Charles 1, described in William Carr's classic Pawns in the Game 1958 Ch.2 if you don't mind his rather blood-curdling language: 'The Jewish money-lenders, directed by the High Priests of the Synagogue of Satan, had had their revenge because Edward I had expelled the Jews from England. Oliver Cromwell received his Blood-Money just as Judas had done.' The letters between Cromwell and Ebenezer Pratt fixing the deal, his money in return for Charles I's head, were dated June 16 and 12 July, 1647. Carr's book cannot be recommended too highly.
10. Elizabeth Dilling, The Jewish Religion, its Influence Today 1964 : "No one with a grain of common decency could have anything but the utmost denunciation for murdering children in orgies of blood and obscenity. But the Jewish Talmud permits this, today, in the book of Sanhedrin, its supreme "repository" of the criminal law, justified as giving one's "seed to Molech." She gave details: "Burning children to the demon Moloch is permitted today by the supreme legal authority of the so-called "Jewish" religion, which is the Babylonian Talmud, and, in particular, the Talmud book of Sanhedrin, Folios 64a-64b. Remember, the book of Sanhedrin is, according to its Introduction in the Soncino English translation of 1935, the "chief repository of the criminal law of the Talmud. (See Exhibit 43)" To justify child sacrifices to Moloch, the Talmud once again cites Scripture, which clearly condemns such pagan practice, and then reverses the clear meaning of the Scripture with hairsplitting "exceptions" to justify these sacrifices." (See Exhibits 66, 67, 68, and 69). She added, "Strange that so many court trials have been held for so many centuries in so many different countries without any foundation whatever except some groundless prejudice?" Hmm, sounds like the definition of anti-semitism?
11. Kevin Boyle: For his judicious selection of Talmud text quotes see here.
12. See 'History of Jewish Ritual Sacrifice' by Willie Martin.
13. Ted Pike 'Have you read the Talmud lately?' Also his 1-hour film, The Other Israel. Pike emphasizes that both the Zohar and the Talmud are normally present as the two chief books in a synagogue.
14. In 2009, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to accept the The Goldstone Report, concerning Israel in Gaza: its Article1690 explicitly described Israel as a terrorist organization.
16. The Cross of Bethlehem by Roy Tov: 'The Zionist-Pharisaic cabal will stop at nothing in order to go on with their Business of War'. (interview of author with Christopher Bollyn)
17. Hugh Schonfield, The Passover Plot, New Light on the History of Jesus, 1965, p.149.
18. Juri Lina, Under the sign of the Scorpion http://jyrilina.com/ In the Shadow of Hermes A reliable source Mark Weber endorsed the twenty million figure: The Jewish role in the Bolshevik Revolution
20. For comparison, two major non-European blood-cults were those of Carthage, its Baal-cult child-sacrifice lasting into the 2nd century AD, and that of the Mayans and Aztecs, terminated by the Spanish conquest.


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Lunch line going into Le Cave at 21 rue Raynouard
- Creator: Unknown
- Category of People: WWI Driver
- Published in Images
In the fall of 1914, the United States had three ambassadors in Paris: Robert Bacon, who had returned to take charge of the American Ambulance, Myron T. Herrick who, at the request of a newly-elected Wilson, had remained to complete work begun on the eve of the war, and the newly-appointed William G. Sharp.
The Development of relief work, in and out of war.
I flew to China for the first time, in 1986, to be a student of Mandarin for six months in Beijing.
In the early 70's, I was the odd one to study Chinese in France. In those days, what inspired me, besides Pearl Buck's novels and "The Blue Lotus", was the challenge of a difficult language. I quickly became fascinated with Chinese characters ...
The day after my arrival in Beijing, my roommate flew in from the U.S. and, by coincidence, her name was also Anne. That greatly puzzled our new Chinese friends...
Shortly after my arrival, I purchased a second-hand bicycle...
In the 80's, Northern China was bitterly cold in the winter, outdoors as much as indoors, despite central heating.
The Chinese cuisine we ate everyday was not what we expected.
Chinese students were free to mingle with us but we were aware of being watched all the time.
At some point, I had to remind the Administration of my college that I was supposed to teach as well as study. All vacancies for English teachers were filled so they decided, with my consent, to set up a French class.
From Rednecks to Red China is a collection of anecdotes related to my stay in Beijing in 1986, which I started to write in the late 90's. I was fortunate enough to be part of a brand new AFS programme with China, sixteen years after my year in high-school in Texas.
[introtext] But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system [link], and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness.
Any Quote in introtext.
The AFS motto "Walk Together, Talk Together" is taken from the ancient Sanskrit proverb
Walk together, talk together,
all ye peoples of the earth;
then and only then
shall ye have peace.
It was used in AFS publications as early as 1952 and widely used in the 1960s. There were several songs.
The American Field Service (AFS) Fellowships for French Universities was a scholarship program established in December 1919. The Fellowship program funded students on the graduate level to travel to and from France for advanced study, and were awarded each year to qualified candidates selected from American and French colleges and universities.
Accounts of the War from Journalists, Tourists, Troops and Medical Staff

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The tangled web of autism symptoms and genetic markers has left researchers searching for patterns and trends in unusual places. New work examining the subtle symptoms shared by close relatives has underscored the disease's heritability. Findings published online August 2 in Archives of General Psychiatry add to the growing list of familial clues about the disease: shared eye-movement deficits.
Researchers working at the University of Illinois at Chicago's (U.I.C.) Center for Cognitive Medicine have found a striking trend: those with autistic relatives are more likely to show disrupted eye movement similar to their afflicted relation.
Large-scale genetic studies have turned up nuanced and conflicting results about the genetic basis of autism and its myriad symptoms. Other research has discovered that many people with an autistic relative or child might themselves have some subtle behavior variant as well, such as obsessive-compulsive tendencies or communication problems.
Eye movement is easier to study neurologically than complex social and behavioral patterns—in large part because "we know a lot about what parts of the brain are involved," says Matthew Mosconi, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the U.I.C. and lead author of the new study. And the new findings examine basic deficits unclouded by social tendencies, such as the aversion many people with autism spectrum disorder have to looking at faces.
To monitor test subjects' eye movements, fluidity and response time, the researchers used exacting projection and recording equipment. They tested 57 people (ages eight to 54) with immediate family members who had autism and 40 volunteers who did not have a family history of mental disorder. None of the subjects were themselves autistic or had other developmental disorders.
Subjects were tested for their rapid eye movement that allows focus to shift on multiple objects in the field of vision (aka saccade) and ability to follow objects moving across the visual field, known as smooth-pursuit.
Although not everyone with autism exhibits eye-movement deficits—and not everyone has both of the types studied—those who do, display a very specific and measurable difference that is extremely rare in the general, unaffected population, Mosconi says. "So when you do see some subtle deviation, that's very important," he notes.
The oculomotor deficits are subtle enough to "require very sensitive lab tests" to detect them, Mosconi says. Other differences in behavior and communication that have been found in some first-degree nonafflicted relatives of people with autism are more noticeable and can sometimes be detected in casual conversation.
Family members' eye-movement capabilities were not strongly correlated with their scores on other cognitive or social-behavioral tests, a result that Mosconi calls "exciting." Although weak relationships are often a disappointment in disease research, he says, this trend was illuminating "because that tells us that we're getting at a different part of the puzzle"—to which "there are so many pieces," he notes.
Studying individuals and families who have these eye abnormalities might eventually be able to shed light on the genetics behind the affected parts of the brain, Mosconi notes. "We wanted to move even a step closer—to try to attach these broader characteristics to genes," he says. Evidence that eye-tracking trouble is prevalent in some autistic individuals and their families suggests that abnormalities in the cerebellum—which helps control motor skills, attention and language—might be to blame. And that would mean that researchers could next "look in a much more focused way [for] specific genes that might be involved in cerebellar development."
But with genetic or other profiles for autistic risk still far off, Mosconi notes that simple tests such as those for eye movements or cognitive deficits could be used in the meantime to indicate a couple's risk of having an autistic child. And he and his colleagues are looking into shoring up the specificity of odds; some of the eye-movement patterns were specific to autism whereas others had similarities to other disorders, such as schizophrenia.
Although this study was relatively small and not designed to develop theories about disorder heritability risk and eye-movement abnormalities, Mosconi notes that potentially "there would be greater risk [of having a child with autism] if both parents are showing it."
But more research needs to be done to home in on how these patterns correlate with risk. And because not all of those with autism exhibit eye-movement abnormalities, it would not be a universal test. Nevertheless, eye and other cognitive exams are highly practical. "They're quick and sensitive tests, which is exciting," Mosconi says.
Relatives of Those with Autism Show Eye-Movement Deficits
Parents or siblings of people with autism are more likely to have some of the same visual-tracking problems that their affected relatives have
The tangled web of autism symptoms and genetic markers has left researchers searching for patterns and trends in unusual places. New work examining the subtle symptoms shared by close relatives has underscored the disease's heritability. Findings published online August 2 in Archives of General Psychiatry add to the growing list of familial clues about the disease: shared eye-movement deficits.


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|File:Discogs logo.svg
Type of site
|Available in
|English (US), English (UK), German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, French
Portland, Oregon, United States
|Zink Media, Inc.
|Created by
|Kevin Lewandowski
|Database, online shopping
|Advertisement (logging-in removes all ads), Marketplace Seller Fees
|Alexa rank
|472 (Global: January 2019[update])[1]
|443,637 (January 2019[update])[2]
|November 2000
|Current status
Discogs (short for discographies) is a website and crowdsourced database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are located in Portland, Oregon, US.[3] While the site lists releases in all genres and on all formats, it is especially known as the largest online database of electronic music releases, and of releases on vinyl media. Discogs currently contains over 11 million releases, by over 5.4 million artists, across over 1.1 million labels, contributed from over 456,000 contributor user accounts — with these figures constantly growing as users continually add previously unlisted releases to the site over time.[4][5]
The discogs.com domain name was registered on 30 August 2000,[6] and Discogs itself was launched in November 2000 by programmer, DJ, and music fan Kevin Lewandowski originally as a database of electronic music.[7]
The site's original goal was to build the most comprehensive database of electronic music, organized around the artists, labels, and releases available in that genre. In 2003 the Discogs system was completely rewritten,[8] and in January 2004 it began to support other genres, starting with hip hop. Since then, it has expanded to include rock and jazz in January 2005 and funk/soul, Latin, and reggae in October of the same year. In January 2006 blues and non-music (e.g. comedy records, field recordings, interviews) were added. Classical music started being supported in June 2007, and in October 2007 the "final genres were turned on" – adding support for the Stage & Screen, Brass & Military, Children's, and Folk, World, & Country music genres, allowing capture of virtually every single type of audio recording that has ever been released.
On 30 June 2004, Discogs published a report, which included information about the number of its contributors. This report claimed that Discogs had 15,788 contributors and 260,789 releases.[9]
On 20 July 2007 a new system for sellers was introduced on the site called Market Price History. It made information available to users who paid for a subscription – though 60 days information was free – access to the past price items were sold for up to 12 months ago by previous sellers who had sold exactly the same release. At the same time, the US$12 per year charge for advanced subscriptions was abolished, as it was felt that the extra features should be made available to all subscribers now that a better, some may say fairer, revenue stream had been found from sellers and purchasers. However, at the beginning of 2008, the Market Price History was also made free of charge for all users, still giving up to a 12-month view of historical sales data for any release.[citation needed]
Discogs publishes information indicating the number of releases, labels, and artists presently in its database,[4] along with its contributors:[5]
|Master Releases
|30 June 2004
|none *
|By mid 2004 releases crossed the quarter million mark.
|none *
|In 2006 releases passed the half million mark.
|25 July 2010
|By mid 2010 releases crossed the 2m mark.
|4 March 2014
|By mid 2014 labels had crossed the half million mark.
|11 June 2014
|In mid 2014 releases were passing the 5m mark.
|26 December 2014
|By late 2014 contributors surpassed the 200k mark.
|30 May 2015
|By mid 2015 releases surpassed the 6m mark.
|31 March 2016
|By early 2016 releases surpassed the 7m mark, and master releases passed a million.
|19 January 2017
|By early 2017 releases surpassed the 8m mark,[10] and labels passed a million.
|25 October 2017
|By late 2017 releases surpassed the 9m mark,[11] and artists surpassed the 5m mark.
|28 June 2018
|On this date in 2018 releases surpassed the 10m mark.[12]
|28 March 2019
|On this date in 2019 releases surpassed the 11m mark.[13]
* Note: the Master Release function was made available from 30 April 2009.
Other projects[edit]
Discogs has so far created a further six online databases, for collating information on related topics.
In mid 2014, a side project website called VinylHub[14] was started, in order for users to add record shops and stores from around the world, with information concerning location, contact details, what type of items they stocked, et al.
In late 2014, the company released a new beta website called Filmogs.[15] Users can add their physical film collections (on DVD, Blu-ray, LaserDisc, or any other type of physical film release) to the database, and buy and sell film releases in the global marketplace.
Gearogs was launched as a beta in late 2014, at the same time as Filmogs.[16] The site lets users add and track music equipment, including items such as synths, drum machines, sequencers, samplers, audio software, and any other electronic music making equipment.
At the start of 2015, the company began Bibliogs as another beta project.[17] Users can submit information about their books, physical or electronic, different versions and editions, and also connect different credits (writers, illustrators, translators, publishers, etc.) to these books. 21,000 books were submitted by the end of 2016. The project was in beta phase until 15 August 2017[18] when it reached more than 31,000 book titles, and rebranded without explanation to Bookogs.com, because of legal issues with the old name Bibliogs, and removed 'Beta state' notice from the main page. The next day the 'Marketplace Beta' feature was presented.[19]
Comicogs[20] launched around the same time as Bookogs, as a means for comic collectors and enthusiasts to catalog their collections and create an archive of comic releases. Similar to Bookogs, users can contribute comics, manga, graphic novels, and strips to the database, along with information on credits, publishers, writers, etc. 18,000 comics were submitted by the start of 2018. The Comicogs marketplace was launched on 23 August 2017,[21] allowing users to buy and sell comics from across the world.
In September 2017, the company launched Posterogs.[22] Posterogs was the only Discogs site to launch a database and marketplace simultaneously.[23] The scope of Posterogs was left broad at the time of launch, with the company opting to let the community define what type of posters, flyers, or similar, should be included in the database. As users have contributed items to the database, while non-music related items are fully acceptable for inclusion, much of the primary focus seems to be music posters, such as gig/tour posters, album promo posters, and promotional flyers - which is in keeping with Discogs' music theme, though there are also many film posters in the database. As with all other databases, users can save posters to their 'Collection' and 'Wantlist', in addition to buying and selling in the marketplace.
In mid-August 2007, Discogs data became publicly accessible via a RESTful, XML-based API and a license that allowed specially attributed use, but did not allow anyone to "alter, transform, or build upon" the data.[24][25][26] The license has since been changed to a public domain one. Prior to the advent of this license and API, Discogs data was only accessible via the Discogs web site's HTML interface and was intended to be viewed only using web browsers.[27] The HTML interface remains the only authorized way to modify Discogs data.[25]
On 7 June 2011 version 2 of the API was released.[28] Notable in this release was that a license key was no longer required, the default response was changed from XML to JSON, and the 5000 queries per day limit was removed (although a limit of 2000 image lookups per days was introduced).
On 1 November 2011 a major update to version 2 of the API was released.[29] This new release dropped support for XML, data is always returned in JSON format, however the monthly data dumps of new data are only provided in XML format.
On 1 February 2014 Discogs modified their API so that image requests will now require OAuth authorization, requiring each user of third-party applications to have a Discogs "application ID", with image requests now limited to 1,000 per day. Additionally the Premium API service was dropped.[30]
On 24 June 2014 Discogs deprecated their XML API in lieu of a JSON-formatted API.[31]
Discogs also allows full XML downloads of its Release, Artist, and Label data through the data.discogs.com subdomain.
The recommendations API is not publicly available.[32]
Contribution system[edit]
The data in Discogs comes from submissions contributed by users who have registered accounts on the web site. The system has gone through four major revisions.
Version One (V1)[edit]
All incoming submissions were checked for formal and factual correctness by privileged users called "moderators", or "mods" for short, who had been selected by site management. Submissions and edits wouldn't become visible or searchable until they received a single positive vote from a "mod". An even smaller pool of super-moderators called "editors" had the power to vote on proposed edits to artist & label data.
Version Two (V2)[edit]
This version introduced the concept of "submission limits" which prevented new users from submitting more than 2-3 releases for moderation. The number of possible submissions by a user increased on a logarithmic scale. The purpose of this was two-fold: 1) it helped keep the submission queue fairly small and manageable for moderators, and 2) it allowed the new user to acclimatise themselves slowly with the many formatting rules and guidelines of submitting to Discogs. Releases required a number of votes to be accepted into the database - initially the number of votes required was from 4 different moderators but in time the amount was decreased to 3 and then 2.
Version Three (V3)[edit]
V3 launched in August 2007. Submission limits were eliminated, allowing each user to submit an unlimited number of updates and new entries. New releases added to the database were explicitly marked as "Unmoderated" with a top banner, and updates to existing items, such as releases, artists, or labels, were not shown (or available to search engines or casual visitors) until they were approved by the moderators.[33]
Version Four (V4)[edit]
This system launched on 10 March 2008. New submissions and edits currently take effect immediately. Any time a new release is added or old release edited, that entry becomes flagged as needing "votes" (initially, "review," but this term caused confusion). A flagged entry is marked as a full yellow bar across a release in the list views and, like version three, a banner on the submission itself – although, initially, this banner was omitted.
Any item can be voted on at any time, even if it isn't flagged. Votes consist of a rating of the correctness & completeness of the full set of data for an item (not just the most recent changes), as assessed by users who have been automatically determined, by an undisclosed algorithm, to be experienced & reliable enough to be allowed to cast votes. An item's "average" vote is displayed with the item's data.[34]
The ranking system has also changed in v4. In v3, rank points were only awarded to submitters when a submission was "Accepted" by moderator votes. While in v4, rank points are now awarded immediately when a submission is made, regardless of the accuracy of the information and what votes it eventually receives, if any.[35]
Discogs-aware metadata software[edit]
Tag editors[edit]
- ASMT MP3 Tagger – single release tagger
- foobar2000 – freeware media player and music management software with a plugin
- Helium Music Manager – music management software with a plugin
- Jaikoz – shareware OS X/Windows/Linux spreadsheet-based tag editor
- Kid3 – open-source project, tagger for all common music formats
- Mp3tag – freeware tag editor, batch and spreadsheet interfaces
- OrangeCD Catalog – music management software
- puddletag – a free and open-source tag editor written for PyQt
- taghycardia[36] – freeware, automated MP3 tagger
- Tagog – Linux audio file tagger
- TagScanner[37] – freeware tag editor with Discogs, FreeDB, TrackType.org support
- The GodFather – freeware tag editor
- The Tagger – MP3 and AAC formats tag editor for OS X
- TigoTago – spreadsheet-based tag editor
- MP3 Filenamer – online MP3 file name generator, based on Discogs release data
- Discogs Bar – Discogs navigation and search control toolbar for Firefox
- Album Art Downloader – Discogs cover art downloads
- WWW::Discogs – Perl module for interfacing with the Discogs API
- XLD (X Lossless Decoder) – a CD ripper and audio file converter for OS X
- Music Collector – Music database software by collectorz.com
- Discographic for Discogs. Client for Apple devices for iOS. https://www.fluido.es/discographic
See also[edit]
- List of online music databases
- Global Electronic Music Marketplace
- ↑ "Discogs.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
- ↑ "Discogs contributors". Discogs.com. 4 January 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- ↑ "Whois discogs.com". www.whois.com. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Explore on Discogs". Discogs. 28 Mar 2019. Retrieved 28 Mar 2019.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Discogs Contributors". Discogs.com. 28 Mar 2019. Retrieved 28 Mar 2019.
- ↑ "DisCogs.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. 2016. Retrieved 2016-02-09.
- ↑ Carnes, Richard (26 March 2010). "Discogs: Vinyl revolution". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
- ↑ "What/Why v2.0". Discogs.com. Archived from the original on 22 June 2004. Retrieved 2 October 2008.
- ↑ "Discogs". Web.archive.org. Archived from the original on 29 June 2004. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
- ↑ SoLil (7 January 2017). "8 Million Releases In The Discogs Database!". blog.discogs.com. Discogs.com. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
- ↑ SoLil (4 October 2017). "Discogs Music Database Reaches 9 Million Releases". blog.discogs.com. Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
- ↑ Moon_Ray (29 June 2018). "Discogs Reaches 10 Million Releases In The Database". blog.discogs.com. Discogs.com. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
- ↑ "Another Milestone In Just Nine Months: 11 Million Releases On Discogs!". Discogs Blog. 2019-03-28. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
- ↑ "VinylHub". vinylhub.com. Discogs.com.
- ↑ "Filmogs". filmo.gs. Discogs.com.
- ↑ "Gearogs". gearogs.com. Discogs.com.
- ↑ "Bibliogs". bookogs.com. Discogs.com.
- ↑ "Bibliogs is Now Bookogs". bookogs.com. Discogs.com. 15 August 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- ↑ "The Bookogs Marketplace is here! Start Selling Books Online". blog.discogs.com. Discogs.com. 16 August 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- ↑ "Comicogs". comicogs.com. Discogs.com.
- ↑ "Start Selling Comics on Comicogs! New Marketplace Launched". comicogs.com. Discogs.com. 23 August 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- ↑ "Posterogs". posterogs.com. Discogs.com. 6 September 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- ↑ "Track Your Poster Collection; Buy and Sell on Posterogs!". posterogs.com. Discogs.com. 6 September 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- ↑ Lewandowski, Kevin (August 2007). "Open Data + API". Discogs (Discogs News forum post). Retrieved 27 August 2007.
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 Lewandowski, Kevin (August 2007). "Discogs Data License". Discogs. Retrieved 27 August 2007.
- ↑ Lewandowski, Kevin (August 2007). "Discogs API Documentation". Discogs. Retrieved 27 August 2007.
- ↑ "Terms of service changes". Discogs (forum thread). 15 June 2005. Retrieved 27 August 2007.
- ↑ "API v2.0". Discogs. 7 June 2011. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
- ↑ "API v2.0 Improvements". Discogs. 1 November 2011. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
- ↑ "API Changes". Discogs. 1 January 2014. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
- ↑ "API Changelog". Discogs. 24 June 2014. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
- ↑ "Discogs API Documentation". Discogs. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
- ↑ "Discogs News - Discogs Version 3 - Part 1". Discogs. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
- ↑ Lewandowski, Kevin (February 2008). "Restructuring of Moderation/Voting System". Discogs. Retrieved 17 March 2008.
- ↑ Various (October 2008). "Fastest grown user". Discogs. Retrieved 29 August 2008.
- ↑ "taghycardia - mp3 folders and tags normalizer". Tag Hycardia. taghycardia.info.
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Nationalist Group Wants Texas Secession on GOP Primary Ballot
Texas already seceded once — in 1861. But the Texas Nationalist Movement wants a repeat a century and a half later, and thinks the March GOP primary is the place to start.
Texas already seceded once — in 1861, by popular vote in a statewide election.
But the Texas Nationalist Movement wants a repeat a century and a half later, and thinks the March GOP primary is the place to start.
The Nederland-based Texas independence group is circulating a petition aimed at getting a non-binding vote onto the GOP primary ballot over whether "the state of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation."
Their goal? 75,000 signatures from registered voters by Dec. 1 — more than the 66,894 the Texas Secretary of State's office says the group needs to get the language on the ballot.
Even if the Texas Nationalist Movement gets enough signatures, such a vote would be little more than symbolic. Academics agree that Texas cannot secede from the United States, and point to a post-Civil War Supreme Court ruling, Texas v. White, as evidence.
But that hasn't stopped the Republican Party of Texas from rolling its eyes at the secessionists. Texas GOP communications director Aaron Whitehead said the Republican party certainly doesn't welcome outside groups trying to doctor the party ballot.
"Historically the executive committee of the Republican Party has chosen what goes on this," Whitehead said, "and it's party preference that it stays that way."
The Texas Nationalist Movement, which hasn't yet verified how many signatures it has, doesn't buy the argument that the state can't secede. Daniel Miller, the group's president, points to the state Constitution, and in particular, the provision that gives Texans the right to "alter, reform or abolish their government in such manner as they may think expedient."
Miller said the group is going around the state party because past interactions with the GOP weren't fruitful.
"We have had our hand slapped," Miller said. "We have been rebuffed, and not just us as an organization, but essentially anyone in any position inside the party that has advocated for this position has been rebuffed."
Whitehead said there is zero relationship between the GOP and the secessionists, and added that his response to such a ballot proposal would be the same if it were "a resolution giving everybody a unicorn or a resolution for secession."
If the Texas Nationalist Movement does get the signatures it needs, the Secretary of State's office says it will be the first time a referendum from a citizen group is put on the Republicans' statewide primary ballot. Miller acknowledges a majority vote for the referendum wouldn't be binding, but hopes it would be enough evidence of support to get state leaders to take the issue seriously long-term.
"The end game for us is to have a binding referendum on Texas independence, much like the people of Scotland had in November of last year," Miller said.
The 2014 vote over Scottish independence from the United Kingdom failed.
Volunteers from the Texas Nationalist Movement are at work across the state, scurrying to get signatures. Miller is optimistic; he says the organization itself has over 200,000 members.
"Texas and Washington, D.C. are on very different paths, and the people of Texas obviously recognize that," he said. "... The Texas Nationalist Movement message has been one not of reaction to grievance but one of a future we can build as an independent nation."
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For as long as I can remember, cookies and Christmas go hand in hand. My grandmother used to spend day after day making all kinds of delicious Christmas treats. No one came to visit without getting a plate of goodies to take home. As I've gotten older, I try to do the same for my family and friends. Mathlete loves oatmeal cookies so it only makes sense to include some version in our holiday baking. My favorite are white chocolate cranberry oatmeal cookies.


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NFL makes knee and thigh pads mandatory for 2013-14 season
Published Saturday, August 3, 2013 7:14AM EDT
Seattle Seahawks players wear thigh and knee pads on Aug. 2, 2013 during NFL football training camp in Renton, Wash. The pads are newly mandated by the NFL, and during the season, any player caught not wearing them will be removed from the game until he is properly padded. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
With safety in mind, the NFL is making players wear knee and thigh pads this season -- even if some of them don't like it.
The mandatory leg padding is back for the first time since 1994, when it was dropped because it was too tough to enforce. If you think such a rule couldn't provoke much emotion, think again. Players have strong, if mixed feelings about the extra protection.
"Everyone is concerned about carrying more weight" says NFL vice-president of football operations Merton Hanks, a Super Bowl-winning safety with the 49ers in the 1990s. "But I think the major point of mandating pads for everyone except punters and kickers is equity for all.
"Besides, we saw last year how Adrian Peterson ran in thigh pads and knee pads and what he was able to do."
Players in the trenches, running backs like Peterson who take the most (and hardest) hits, and the linebackers who deliver those shots tend to favour anything that enhances protection. "Skill position" players such as receivers and defensive backs, leery of anything they think could slow them down a tick, aren't embracing the change.
"There might be some minor gripes, but we think the game will be as exciting and safe as ever," Hanks said.
Minor gripes? Try these:
-- "This is new, and it (stinks). It's different running around with these things in," said Titans safety Bernard Pollard, who won the Super Bowl with Baltimore last February. "I mean, this is what the league is going to. Do we like it? No. Can we do anything about it? No."
-- "It's a great pendulum that's swung, and it's swung too far," added 49ers star defensive lineman Justin Smith. "But that's the way it goes. The rule's the rule. You go with it."
-- "I don't know what I can say without getting into trouble, so I don't want to say anything," said Ravens receiver Torrey Smith, one of the NFL's top deep threats. "Whatever they think is going to help us. I guess it will save you from a thigh contusion or a bruise or something. I don't know. It's not going to help with anything else."
Even players who agree with the concept aren't completely sold on the rules change.
"It's necessary. I'm not sure it needs to be mandated," said Lions receiver Nate Burleson, who is entering his 11th season. "I'm not going to complain that the league is trying to protect us, but I'd rather not have to wear those pads. With skill guys, it's about look and feel. Visually, we look lighter when you don't have pads on your legs."
The pad protests date back to the seasons when Bill Parcells was coaching the New York Giants to a pair of Super Bowl wins -- in the 1986 and '90 seasons.
"It was a constant battle for me," says Parcells, who made the Pro Football Hall of Fame this year. "I was always one that was very adamant about wearing pads and I would fine my players if they didn't wear them. Now, some of them got away with it and would take them out once the game started. You're not thinking about those things when the game is going on.
"I'm glad that they are enforcing that because I think the players sometimes don't know what is in their own best interest. I've seen many injuries in my experience that came when proper equipment was not worn and could have been prevented."
Finding the proper equipment, or at least versions state-of-the-art enough to remove some reservations about their affecting performance, has taken years. Richard Kent, a Ph.D in mechanical and aerospace engineering, and deputy director for the Center for Applied Biomechanics at the University of Virginia, was charged by the NFL to independently evaluate pads for potential use in games.
Kent studied about six dozen varieties of thigh pads, from traditional loose pads that go into a pocket in the pants to girdles that are padded and have a wide range of materials and designs. Pretty much anything a player might call a thigh pad was up for review.
He also looked at 10 versions of knee pads, which aren't nearly as common in sports. He put them through experiments similar to crash dummy tests to come up with coverage and impact standards that would offer protection and comfort without inhibiting players.
"We reached out to every team and manufacturer to give me everything players might want to put under their pants as pads," said Kent, who has worked for six years on biomechanical football issues. "We got boxes and boxes of pads and evaluated all of these.
"We looked at impact based on what per cent protection does each pad give compared to a bare thigh. If you were to put a bare plate over a thigh and it gets hit wrong, it is much worse than having nothing at all there. And that is certainly true with some thigh pads; we need to ensure they are protective."
One shocker: Kent found that some padding not only didn't offer protection, but actually added to the danger of injury, particularly contusions.
Still, some pads reduced the pressure from a hit to the thigh to 10 per cent of what it would be with no protection. Some 37 pads that Hanks calls "high performance" were recommended.
Uniform police will be out in full force to make sure players are wearing them.
Hanks explains that during pregame warm-ups, league inspectors -- 32 former players -- will check for the knee and thigh pads. They will mark down any violations or make note of players who need to tweak a pad, and give the info to a team representative so players can make adjustments.
Once a team comes out for the game, if there is a violation, at a dead ball the inspectors will notify game officials. They will alert the coach that the player must be removed from the game until he is properly padded. That player will be inspected again before being allowed back in the game.
"You have to come out of the game and your coaches will not be happy about that," said former Giants running back Joe Morris, who works as an NFL uniform inspector.
Even worse, players will face league discipline for the violations. Just imagine a repeat offender getting suspended for his wardrobe -- or lack of it.
"The hardest thing is practicing in these pads," Morris said, "and when you get used to it, then everyone will feel comfortable. They will have the opportunity to do that in preseason.
"But you can be sure the first time Tom Coughlin or Mike Tomlin sees a guy can't go into the game because of that, they are not going to be happy. You're supposed to be in game uniform, and that includes the knee and thigh pads."


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Next week is the Learning Solution conference organized by the E-learning guild in Orlando. I will present concurrent session 311, Wednesday at 14.30 in the International Center Room. I will present my ideas about new learning metaphors and will show some examples of possible solutions. A great opportunity to get feed back on this ideas and I hope to get some new ideas from the audience too. The organization told me they are expecting 140 people to attend this session, which would be really great, I'm looking forward to it.
I will do two other presentations as well. On Wednesday at 4 and Thursday at 3 I will present on the 'Learning Technology Showcase' stage. We will show how easygenerator enables the 'Next generation of e-Learning'. Easygenerator is also present with a booth (#409) at the Expo. I hope to meet a lot of you in Orlando. For those who will not attend the conference I include my presentation and I will report through this blog about the conference and my findings on Learning metaphors.
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The Eat The Fat Off is a brand-new weight loss program that cleanses the body and sheds unwanted fat quickly and safely. It allows almost anyone to lose 21 lbs in just 21 days – or more than a pound a day!
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Credit: The Institute for Inclusive Security
(WOMENSENEWS)–As the 20th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide approaches with a Memorial Day on April 7, the Institute for Inclusive Security is inviting Web visitors to focus on the accomplishments of the leadership of women in that devastated nation.
Rwanda now boasts the world's largest female legislative representation, at 65 percent of parliament, and the country has seen a dramatic increase in life expectancy and an equally remarkable economy that is significantly reducing poverty.
In its online media package, How Women Rebuilt Rwanda, the institute, which is based in Washington, D.C., and Cambridge, Mass., tells the story of how women rebuilt their society and brought peace across sectarian lines after the slaughter of a million people in 100 days two decades ago.
With the country in ruin and the male population vastly reduced by killing and exodus, the post-genocide population, 70 percent female, was left to handle the aftermath. "Mothers took in orphaned children and organized support groups for widows," reads the site. "Women moved from cleaning buildings to reconstructing them. They farmed and started businesses. Throughout the country, they created stability in the aftermath of unspeakable violence."
The site reprises the forceful role of women in the country's truth and reconciliation process, drafting and passing a constitution requiring 30 percent female representation in parliament and the formation of legislative bodies.
It offers biographies and interview opportunities with an array of leading women; government ministers, academics, diplomats, doctors, teachers, social workers, advocates of women and children.
One of those highlighted is Alice Karekezi, who spearheaded "a coalition against gender-based violence that led to the labeling of incitement of rape as a crime of genocide, in the landmark 1998 conviction of Jean-Paul Akayesu," a former mayor in Rwanda.
Focus on Aloisea Inyumba
The site's major tribute goes to the late Aloisea Inyumba, a youthful politician who toured her devastated country to learn of its needs and devised programs to help rebuild it. "She was a vocal advocate of work to find homes for orphans and homeless youth, helping convince families to adopt hundreds of thousands of children without regard for ethnicity," says the site.
Inyumba, who died in 2012 of an illness, was an early member of Women Waging Peace, a network that is part of the Institute for Inclusive Security and includes more than 2,000 female peacemakers from conflict areas around the world.
Ambassador Swanee Hunt, who founded the institute in 1999, offered this tribute to Inyumba: "At age 26, as Rwanda's first minister of gender and social affairs after the genocide, she helped design the burial of some 800,000 victims of the massacres. She devised a system to care for half a million orphans. 'Each One Take One' was her motto as she urged every mother to add at least one more child to her family. Hutu women adopted Tutsi children and Tutsi women took home Hutu babies."
As head of the Commission for Unity and Reconciliation and as governor of Kigali-Ngali Province, Hunt writes that "Aloisea went from village to village helping victims articulate their tragedies. Later she covered the country again, preparing for the reintegration of almost 100,000 perpetrators released from prison."
The website also includes this video interview with Inyumba.
The Institute for Inclusive Security has in-depth programs to promote and assist women as peacemakers in Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, Pakistan, Sudan and South Sudan and Syria.
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Global Game Jam 2011 part 3
So I have managed to scrounge up about 4 hours of sleep. We are now in the final lap of the game. The game is pretty much playable and has gotten a few bugs. Cleaning those up and moving on to the polish.
There is about 12 more hours to the game jam. Look forward to sleeping :p
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