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Friday, October 3
Ezra 3: The seventh month (verse 1) roughly corresponds to our September, the time of the Feast of Tabernacles. Accordingly, when an outdoor altar was erected so that the sacrificial worship can be resumed, the first feast day to be celebrated was Tabernacles (verse 4). This seems to be a feast very appropriate to the actual living conditions of the returned exiles, who were still obliged to live in tents, lean-tos, and other makeshift dwellings.
Some preparatory work for the construction of the temple began in the spring of the following year (verses 7-8), and there follows an account of the liturgical dedication of the new temple's foundations, which may have included the floor (verses 10-13). With a lively sense of history the returned exiles dedicated these foundations at the same time of the year when construction had begun on Solomon's temple (cf. 1 Kings 6:1; 2 Chronicles 3:2).
In verse 7 we find several other points of correspondence that tie the construction of the second temple to Solomon's construction of the first: the "cedar logs from Lebanon, to the sea, to Joppa"; the skilled workers from Tyre and Sidon; the provision of food and oil (1 Chronicles 22:4; 2 Chronicles 2:8,10).
Verse 11 gives the refrain of the psalm chanted during the laying of the foundation stone, evidently indicating that the psalm employed on this occasion was Psalm 136 (Greek 135). This makes perfect sense and serves to illustrate the context of certain lines in that psalm. For example, the end of the Babylonian Captivity and the return to the Holy Land are indicated in the lines that read, "who remembered us in our low estate . . . and redeemed us from our enemies." The older members among the returned exiles, who still remembered vividly the splendors of Solomon's temple, wept on this occasion, overcome by emotion (verse 12). They could also see, by examining the dimensions of its foundation, that this next temple will be appreciably smaller than Solomon's (cf. Haggai 2:3; Zechariah 4:10). Eventually the new temple would prove satisfactory only to those who had never laid eyes of the old one.
Saturday, October 4
Ezra 4: At Judah's deportation back in 586, the Holy Land was left rather much at the disposition of those people who would, in due course, be called the Samaritans. (And, purely for shorthand, that is what we will call them here.) They were a hybrid race from the miscegenation of native Israelites and those Gentiles who had been imported into the region by the Assyrians after the fall of Samaria in 722.
In the eyes of those Jews who were now returning home from Babylon, the religion of the Samaritans seemed as compromised as the purity of their bloodlines. If the lessons of the recent Captivity had taught these exiles anything, it was the necessity of avoiding contact—to say nothing of intermarriage–with those who professed to be Israelites but whose identity as Israelites was deeply compromised. In spite of overtures from these native inhabitants (verse 2), therefore, the Jewish leadership steadfastly insisted on a policy of separation from them.
This decision of Zerubbabel and Jeshua (verse 3) commenced an important new development in the history of Judaism (cf. Haggai 2:12; Zechariah 3:9; John 4:9; 4:48). This new attitude contrasted sharply with that of King Josiah a century earlier, for he had invited these same people into the fullness of the Israelite worship and religion. The new policy, however, took into consideration the fact that the religion practiced in the Holy Land had been for a long time contaminated by idolatry and syncretism. The purity of the Jewish faith had been purchased at the great price of the Babylonian Captivity, and the Jewish leadership was not about to risk its corruption once again, thereby creating those same conditions that had led to Jerusalem's downfall.
As we shall see, nonetheless, relatively few women were among the returning exiles. Consequently, many of the latter, who were young, unmarried men, would in due course take wives from the local population, in quiet defiance of their leaders. This defiance would lead to new problems that we will meet in the rest of Ezra and Nehemiah.
As we would expect, the local inhabitants, resentful of their exclusion from the company of the returning Jews, began to resist and confront them. Three stages are discernable in their animosity: their conspiracy to prevent the rebuilding of the temple (verses 1-5), their sustained effort to oppose that project, and their success in the opposition (verse 24).
Several other features of this chapter are worth observation:
First, we note the growing importance of the high priest, who in this book seems to enjoy a political authority nearly equal to the governor. In this book (as in Haggai and Zechariah), the two of them are often mentioned together. Perhaps the roots of this near parity should be sought in the Exile, when the Jews, who no longer had their own king, turned to the priestly families for leadership.
Second, we observe that the extensive Persian Empire (which would soon stretch from the Indus River to the Danube!) was blessed with a remarkably efficient postal system (verses 6-7). This gave cohesion to its political and economic institutions.
Third, our attention is drawn to Persia's system of chancellors, or regional secretaries, who were directly responsible to the capital (verse 17). This institution, which clearly limited the power of the satraps themselves, demonstrated the empire's mistrust of local governments that might become too powerful.
Fourth, we observe that the long final part of this chapter (verses 6-9) interrupts the chronological sequence. It is concerned with a later period of the general story, for it takes place during the reigns of Darius I (Ahasuerus), 485-465, and Artaxerxes I, 465-424. This narrative is inserted into this place, apparently as a further example of ill will on the part of the native population.
Sunday, October 5
Ezra 5: As we have just seen, there was a delay in the completion of the temple. It is worth observing that Holy Scripture has two interpretations of that delay:
First, the more obvious approach takes account of the historical circumstances, as they were observed at the time. This was the interpretation of Haggai, who began preaching in Jerusalem in August of 520 (Haggai 1:1), and Zechariah, whose ministry spanned the years 520-518. These prophets blamed the delay on a lack of resolve on the part of the returning exiles, who had lost their vision and become discouraged. Instead of building God's house, they had spent nearly two decades building their own. They had failed to seek first the king of heaven and its righteousness (Haggai 1:2-10).
As the result of this prophetic intervention, which was implicitly critical of both Zerubbabel and Jeshua, the work on the construction of the temple resumed, somewhat to the suspicion and chagrin of the officers of the Persian Empire's fifth satrapy, the region that included Jerusalem. After all, eighteen years had elapsed since Cyrus had authorized the construction, and there had been two changes of emperors since then. Naturally, no one around seemed to have a copy of that original authorization.
Meanwhile there had been quite a bit of political unrest in the empire, including a rebellion or two and the suicide of an emperor, the sort of unrest that might make anything new look suspicious (verses 2-4). In short, a new building permit was needed, or at least a clarification from the capital. The correspondence involved in obtaining this permit or clarification occupies verses 7-17 of this chapter, and the reply of Emperor Darius will be in the following chapter.
Second, the author of the present book adopts a larger and more theological perspective, less interested in the immediate moral concerns of Haggai and Zechariah. He has not a word of blame for the failure of the returning exiles with respect to the delay. He regards the postponement of the temple's rebuilding, rather, from a more providential perspective. After all, the rebuilding of the temple could not be simply the execution of the will of Cyrus, any more than the building of the first temple could be simply a project executed by David. Neither king was really authorized to build a house for the Lord. The Lord would authorize the building of His own house when He saw fit. Like David, Cyrus would have to wait!
In the case of David, the Lord's will in the matter of the temple was revealed through the word of His prophet, Nathan. In the case of Cyrus, the Lord's will about the rebuilding of the temple was revealed through two prophets, Haggai and Zechariah. The correspondence between these two narratives is consistent with our author's concern to frame his historical survey from a theological perspective.
Monday, October 6
Ezra 6: In his response to the inquiry Darius refers to his empire as "Babylon," a name that was retained even after its conquest by the Persians.
The emperor's letter (verses 3-12) reports on the search in the imperial archives (verse 2) and contains the earlier decree of Cyrus, authorizing the rebuilding of the temple nearly two decades earlier. These pagan documents are incorporated into the narrative here and become, thus, integral to God's inspired Word.
In spite of Cyrus's requirement that the temple be completed at royal expense (verses 4,8), we know that it was the Jews themselves who paid for the work and supplies (2:68).
Five years were required to finish this work, and the temple was completed on March 12, 515, which was a Sabbath day that year. It was solemnly dedicated that same spring, on Friday, April 1 (cf. 1 Esdras 7:5; Josephus, Antiquities 11.4.7 §107). There seems to have prevailed the idea, already clear in Solomon's dedication of the first temple (cf. 1 Kings 6:1; 2 Chronicles 3:2), that such a dedication was appropriately associated with the Passover (verses 19-22). This association will prompt Christian readers, surely, to remember that in the Gospel of John Jesus is identified both as the New Temple and as the Lamb of God.
The second temple was a humble structure, as we have seen, because the circumstances of the people were humble. Whereas Solomon had offered a thousand bulls at the dedication of the first temple, these returned exiles could afford only a hundred (verse 17).
We may also note at this point that we hear no more of Zerubbabel, who is not mentioned at all in regard to the temple's completion. One suspects that he returned to Babylon to live out his remaining years.
In the chapter's final verse the Persian Empire is referred to as Assyria, so persistently do conquered territories tend to retain their more ancient names.
Tuesday, October 7
Ezra 7: Now we come to the ministry of the man for whom this book is named. There are two parts to this chapter. The first (verses 1-10) is a summary of Ezra's journey, and the second (verses 11-26) the original letter of authorization for his mission.
Our treatment of this section will follow the traditional view that Ezra arrived at Jerusalem in 458, thirteen years before Nehemiah. Those historians who date his arrival thirty or even sixty years later are obliged to presume that there are mistakes in the transmission of the text, along with other hypotheses that seem improbable to me. I believe that the traditional date, 458, is the safest and most likely date for the events narrated in the present chapter. Accordingly, we are going to presume that the Artaxerxes in these texts is Artaxerxes I (465-425), not Artaxerxes II (404-358). Thus, the "seventh years of Artaxerxes" was 458. Thus, there is a lapse of 57 years between chapter 6 and chapter 7.
Ezra, raised in a priestly family in Babylon (verses 1-5), had evidently never before been to Jerusalem. We shall see him to be a resolute sort of person, the confident and forceful leader who sees things in black and white, a man little given to carefully nuanced views, a person who inspires trust because he conveys a sense of certainty. It may be reasonably argued that Ezra would not have made a good discussion leader or talk-show host.
He surely was, however, a persuasive and decisive speaker. He is called a scribe (sopher, perhaps more accurately translated as "bookman") in the law of Moses (verse 6).Indeed, there is a fairly strong tradition, which includes the scholarly Saint Jerome, that Ezra was an important editor of the Pentateuch (and author of the closing chapter of Deuteronomy, which records the death of Moses) while he was still living in Babylon.
Ezra came to Jerusalem with a retinue of clergy for the temple worship (verse 7), authorized by a letter from the emperor (verses 11-28), as well as arrangements for finances and appointments for the temple. Ezra was not the high priest, but he was of a priestly family. He was, in fact, a descendent of Seriah (verse 1), the last high priest to die at Jerusalem prior to the Captivity. His own son, Jehozadak, was deported to Babylon 120 years before Ezra's journey to Jerusalem (1 Chronicles 6:14).
It is clear from this letter of Artaxerxes that the Persian government expected Judea to be ruled according to the law of Moses (verses 25-26). An important and explicit item in that authorization exempted the temple and its clergy from royal taxation (verse 24). This should not surprise us, because we know that Darius made a similar exemption for the priests of Apollo at the temple in Magnesia.
Throughout the present chapter Ezra acts alone. In the next chapter he will be joined by other leaders, who will accompany him.
Wednesday, October 8
Ezra 8: We come now to what appear to be the memoirs of Ezra himself, beginning with a list of the companions who accompanied him from Babylon to Jerusalem (verses 2-14). They are listed according to twelve families, a number reminiscent of the original twelve tribes of Israel. He lists his own family first (verse 2, compared with 7:5). We observe that the total number (1151) includes only men, but we are justified in thinking that at least some women and children accompanied them, perhaps to a number equal to the men themselves. Ezra, when he gathered this assembly together for the trip to Jerusalem, was disappointed that no Levites had joined them, so he immediately took steps to remedy that shortage (verses 15-20).
A time of prayer and fasting would prepare them for the journey (verses 21-23). The sacred vessels, destined for the service of the temple, were handed over to the priests for safe-keeping (verses 24-30).
With so large a retinue, the journey to Jerusalem required a hundred days (verse 31, compared with 7:8) and was followed by a respite of three days (verse 32). This rest by the waterside puts the reader in mind of the three days Israel spent beside the Jordan prior to the entrance into the Holy Land (Joshua 3:2).
Verses 35-36 shift the account to a writer other than Ezra.
Thursday, October 9
Ezra 9: In this chapter Ezra has been living in Jerusalem for four months, during which time he had been busy in a variety of pressing matters. He had conveyed a great deal of wealth to Jerusalem and had done so, in fact, without armed guard. Along the way he had recruited more Levites to augment the Levitical staff at the temple, which at this time was fifty-seven years old. The journey itself had lasted from April 8 to August 4 of the year 458 (7:9).
Therefore, the events of this chapter, four months later, occurred in late December of that year; it was a dreary rainy season (10:9), the sort of atmosphere that might depress the human spirit anyway.
This was not a good time for bad news, but bad news is just what Ezra received. He learned of a serious spiritual problem in Jerusalem, the widespread intermarriage of priests with non-Jews, a thing unthinkable among the Jews back in Babylon.
Ezra did not take the news calmly (verse 3). He prepared himself to deal with the problem, but he would not address the people about it until he had taken it up with the Lord. He made his prayer with uplifted hands at the time of the vesperal sacrifice (verse 5), at which it was usual to pray with uplifted hands (cf. Psalms 141 [140]:2).
We should especially note in his prayer that he did not separate himself from this sin of the people, even though he himself had not committed it; the sin pertained to "us" (verses 6,7,10,13,15). Ezra was an effective intercessor, in part because of this solidarity he maintained with those for whom he prayed.
Friday, October 10
Ezra 10: Word got out, evidently, that Ezra's spirit was disturbed, because he found quite a crowd of distressed people waiting for him when his prayer was over (verse 1). What ensues in this chapter is best ascribed to what must have been the singular moral stature and authority of Ezra. It was surely not the "mob psychosis" that one modern commentator ascribes to the scene. The dynamics had to do, rather, with the towering moral presence of Ezra himself, standing forth among the people, fortified by his fasting and his prayer on their behalf.
He was thus able to persuade them to take steps deeply repugnant to very deep instincts and warmly cherished preferences. From a concern for the purity of Israel's faith, he was able to convince them to relinquish their wives and children. He did not do this, moreover, in an impassioned or imperious tone. On the contrary, his words to the people were more restrained than the words he used when speaking to God.
All the returned exiles were gathered at Jerusalem for a "command appearance" (verses 7-9), assembling in the rain, cold, wet, and doubtless a bit discouraged. Ezra then read them the riot act. Under this barrage of rain and prophetic invective, the men became cooperative. Understandably, nonetheless, their moral situation, their "case of conscience," was more than slightly complicated, involving many details that could not be settled immediately (verse 13). Consequently, a commission was established to work out the particulars associated with the dissolution of all those marriages.
It is reasonable to assume that the work of the commission had to do with the disposition of property claims and rights of inheritance. In those days, after all, couples did not simply fall in love and get married. Pre-nuptial agreements, in the form of inter-family contracts, were the rule, not the exception. Virtually all of those marriages, therefore, involved complex financial arrangements, in the form of dowries and transferred inheritances. If the people were to conform to the strict rules laid down by Ezra, all such matters had to be adjusted. In the lengthy list of the offenders (verses 18-44), we observe many family names that we saw in the census record in the second chapter.


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Amateur reviewer watching every Warner Bros. cartoon from Bosko to Cool Cat.
Sunday, 17 March 2013
255. Detouring America (1939)
Release date: August 26, 1939.
Series: Merrie Melodies.
Supervision: Tex Avery.
Producer: Leon Schlesinger.
Starring: Robert C. Bruce (Narrator), Mel Blanc (Mr. Butterfingers/Cow Puncher/Full-Grown Papoose/Mosquito/Praire Dog/Fawn) and William Days (singing part).
Story: Jack Miller.
Animation: Rollin Hamilton.
Musical Direction: Carl W. Stalling.
Sound: Treg Brown (uncredited).
Synopsis: Travelogue parody of a look all-round America.
Last WB credit to animator Rollin Hamilton, as well as animation credit. He pretty much disappeared into oblivion, until his death in 1951. Also, probably well-known as a fact amongst WB fans for being the first Warner Bros. cartoon that was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short in 1939 since 1932's It's Got Me Again! However, the cartoon lost to Disney's The Ugly Duckling (also Disney's last Silly Symphony) - as Disney dominated the entire decade of the Best Animated Short category. I imagine that Leon Schlesinger had finally omitted his cartoons to be entered for the Oscars, whilst before that, it was rumoured he had boycotted the Academy Awards before that - due to Disney continuously winning them.
This is also Robert C. Bruce's first cartoon he did for Tex Avery's travelogue parodies; and all the other credits I've foolishly credited to Bruce such as Pingo Pongo - will be changed.
The America travelogue begins as Bruce narrates: 'We take you on an educational tour of the United States'. The first stop is New York City, and we get a decent horizontal pan of large New York building backgrounds by Johnny Johnsen.
We get a new through the narrator's comments of the Empire State Building, who explains it with such awe. At the height of more than 1250 metres, and made from steel and granite. What's next--it turns out there is a crowd at the sidewalk of the building of a human fly attempting to climb the Empire State Building as the sign reads 'HUMAN FLY will climb building at 2 o'clock' - but the narrator remarks 'We'll see him'. Of course; that is going to be the running gag of the cartoon as already indicated.
The travelogue then moves over to see a military academy whose reputation is considered the most outstanding in the country. During the 'Reveille' call - students rush for roll call. We find a group of soldiers marching as the narrator compliments on the discipline and marching. As the camera trucks back, it turns out that their legs are not routined or straight which is some very funny personality animation.
Moving on to the next sequence -we move down south of America in a jungle where a scientist is on the hunt looking for a rare mosquito which is known to have been lurking in the area. Whilst the unsuspecting scientist is looking around the wild forest with his magnifying glass, 'a disease carrying mosquito strikes!'.
The mosquito lands on the scientist's hand. He uses his other hand and smacks the mosquito who shouts 'OUCH!'. The way Mel Blanc delivers the line, as well as his flamboyant and sense of comic performances is absolutely hilarious and believable.
Now the visual pun itself is just plain silly but amusing. The narrator comments: 'Hey this doesn't look right' and it turns out the cow-puncher is a Jerry Colonna caricature.
The cowpuncher comments, 'Ah, so you're wondering, too?' which I can only interpret it was a line Colonna used in a radio show. Then continues to punch the cow. Then we interrupt the travelogue as the human-fly appears in a shot in the middle of climbing up the Empire State Building in this long-shot. The narrator looks at the human fly climb up with pleasure: 'Well - our friend certainly has courage...what a way to make a living'...of course; he will return later in the cartoon.
As the background fades, the eskimo has walked the entire way to the Virginia State Line where over there with the Southern scenery in the backgrounds (steamboats, plantations, etc). The singing part of the hitchhiker is provided by William Days.
The whole gag itself is displayed as some gag where it is supposed to have a huge climax, but instead the eskimo just brings him back to Virginia. It's a very corny gag but it has been censored on Cartoon Network. Though I do find the walk cycle of the eskimo just carrying him all the way to Virginia not giving a hoot, is rather amusing, and I also love the fact he just dumps him there and leave.
The pan through the forest is very slow but also quite effective through colourful Johnsen backgrounds which certainly do dominate the cartoon as well as many of Avery's spotgags.
Of course; the tree backgrounds that overlaps the other background were done by overlays; so it would've evidently been painted separately, but, think of the back painting as one big canvas. The narrator the continues as we look through the river as we find giant California redwoods sailing through the rivers, and in the narrator's words 'cut and bloated, down the rivers to make the homes of tomorrow'. As the logs continue to land, traffic signs pop up as logs from the other side of the river flow past before the logs go past. It's a really corny and gentle gag itself. I love how this just satirising the seriousness and the beauty side of detouring travelogues--Avery managed to pull it off well in this sequence.
As the travelogue looks further at Wyoming - we come across some of the plain fields where they are homes of an American praire dog. A praire dog then pops out of his hole and grabs out a pair of binoculars from underneath. Other dogs look behind him to see.
Through the binoculars he looks through the plain parts of Wyoming to find anything; and all that is seen is a tree. In that point-of-view shot; he trucks back to the tree, and shouts out 'TIMBER' as the whole group of dogs follow.
Of course, a little subtle childish joke by Avery where they have found the perfect spot for them to piss. Meanwhile out in the California desert, we find an occasional prospect who hopes of looking for gold, and digs for it. He manages to find a small golden pebble. After a subtle eye-take, he whispers to the audience: 'Don't tell a soul, I found it at last...gold'. Then a whole group of diggers arrive at the exact same spot digging for gold which is rather amusing as it is shown as a superstition. We return to see the human-fly once again continuing his climb up the Empire State Building; and the narrator declares the height he's reached to would mean a fall of death.
As we look at in Indian village in South Dakota; we find an Indian doctor who already has a patient and the patient is asking for snake oil. After stepping inside; guzzling the snake oil remedy - the old Indian slithers out of the teepee like a snake which is just nuts!
I do like the 'Wa-Hoo' sign at the top. Another sequence we see is where a mother is carrying her papoose on her Papoose. She stops carrying him and remarks: 'Here's where you get off. You big boy now'. The huge overgrown Indian baby screams, 'Aw ma! I don't want to get off' and cries on her shoulder. Love the fact the baby is overgrown. Moving onto the next scenario in the Indian village is the Indian snake dance. It is revealed to be actual snakes performing the rain dance which is just a ridiculous, corny gag but I do like the jerky timing of the snakes dancing.
The narrator announce of the trembling sounds of the geyser as he speaks. Afterwards; only a drop spits out and lands in a spittoon. A similar gag would be reused in Crazy Cruise. The timing of the pressure is really great.
In another part of the park is a 'timid, little fawn' who approached a wooden cabin in the middle of the woods. The fawn shyly walks over and then bangs on the door, 'Hey in der! How about a handout!'.
After a series of spot-gags all through the cartoon; we then conclude the cartoon with the human fly who is struggling but has managed to make it all the way up the Empire State Building. Some great character animation of the human fly's fingers who is struggling to hold on. The name of the human flyer (Mr. Butterfinger) is asked by the narrator: 'Would you like to say a word to your friends here in the audience?' He responds: 'Yes - HEEEEELP!' as he struggles to keep on holding. The scream and even build up of the gag is a little realistic and amusing.
Yes, it may not be a great enough cartoon and it's certainly not an Avery classic - but I guess the idea of Tex's travelogue parodies were really hyped-up when he first made them and had encouraged him to make many more. Then again, I do understand the idea of it being hugely popular as travelogues were made to inspire folks to travel as well as imagination; and the idea of parodying them was considered very clever, even though its very dated. Nevertheless, I will admit it is one of Tex's, probably, better travelogue parodies he did. Many of the jokes were rather amusing, particularly the build-up, but then again this is just a typical spot gag for me, but I will have to give credit towards Blanc for his really hysterical voices he puts in this cartoon, especially the mosquito and human flyer at the end. You also must give credit to Johnny Johnsen for his marvellous and meticulous background work in this cartoon as well as the many travelogues he did for Tex; as they certainly require a lot of realism and detail and Johnsen is very versatile as a background painter.
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White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu grabbed the MLB home run lead on Friday night, but Orioles slugger Nelson Cruz took it back tonight with this two-run shot off Nationals right-hander Stephen Strasburg in the first inning. He's now up to 28 home runs on the year.
John Lackey couldn't be reached for comment. By the way, Cruz has already passed his home run total from last season and is just five away from matching his career-high. The Orioles still have 73 games left to play this season after tonight.


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In 2013 Wee Care Developmental Centre begins 40 years of unique care and excellent teaching of little children in the HRM.
In 1973, the Wee Care Developmental Centre was established by the Cerebral Palsy Association for children with cerebral palsy. This made Wee Care the first daycare in Eastern Canada developed to meet the needs of children with physical disabilities and developmental delays.
In 1974, Wee Care also welcomed all children with special needs. The HMCS Iroquois adopted Wee Care as a philanthropy project — They continue to help Wee Care to this day. The IWK Children's Hospital continued their liaison with us. Wee Care carried on working with other community organizations.
In 1985, Wee Care recognized the importance of an integrated setting and began providing services to all children. Physiotherapy services were introduced at Wee Care.
In 1986, the community rallied together to renovate the building that had been Wee Care's home since 1973. These improvements continued until 1990.
In 1987, Wee Care became a Metro United Way agency. Funds donated through the United Way allow Wee Care to provide on-site rehabilitative services such as physiotherapy.
In November of 1991, Wee Care's home was destroyed by a fire. The generosity and support of the people of Nova Scotia enabled them to re-open just one day after the fire, operating at the Bethany United Church on Dutch Village Road. Wee Care held its 1st Annual Fundraising Auction to support the replacement of items lost in the fire.
From 1992-1995, children and staff worked, played and grew in a space that was generously donated by the congregation of the Bethany United Church. Occupational therapy services were introduced at Wee Care. Obstacles for the ground breaking were overcome and capital funding and fundraising for the new building were complete. Ground breaking took place at Wee Care's original site, 5217 Young Street.
On a stormy April 1, 1997, Wee Care moved into phase one of its new building. With help from the community and HMCS Iroquois, Wee Care moved from Bethany United Church into the new building. By April 14 of the same year, an infant program was created to enable Wee Care to accommodate children as young as six months. Wee Care's program was also expanded from 24 to 42 children.
During 1998/1999, the HMCS Iroquois, along with local businesses and organizations provided funds and volunteers to build our new deck, playground and "Snoezelen" multi-sensory room.
In 2000 Thyssen Elevator and the general community installed an elevator in our centre.
In 2003 "Wee" celebrated a milestone — our 30th Anniversary — in the newly improved and fully completed building Wee Care Developmental Centre – Veith House.
In 2006 "Wee" extended our playground to introduce an infant/toddler playspace, water park, and sports pad – all of which are wheelchair accessible.
In 2007 "Wee" expanded into a neighbouring building, introducing 12 new childcare spaces.
There are no worries when your children are at Wee Care, you know they are getting the professional help they need to reach their potential in a loving and caring environment. The love and attention the children receive all day long certainly has to contribute to their growth as individuals.
One of the gifts I know Wee Care will give Tyler is the ability to care about, share with, understand and respect all children whatever the challenges they face in life. I know that during his years at Wee Care, Tyler will learn this by example and share his understanding with others.
We are so proud. There are no words to express the feelings we have, the gratitude for all the work, patience and caring that has been given to Katrina. In ten months, a child who was classified as "delayed" has become a very happy, outgoing, lovable child. The never ending list of things that she can now do and say are like a miracle.
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I e-mailed you some thoughts the other day regarding the role of women in our society from suffrage to women in the workplace, and a general overview of how this simple change has led us to a place where much has changed. Sometimes, I believe it is difficult to wrap our heads around the difficulties many have with navigating extremely difficult decisions, in a time when so much more is demanded of us, or our families. The role of women in our society has changed from home nurturers to working mothers, and it has left "the family unit" unprotected in a sense. I am not saying that I don't believe in the progress of women in society, but I am saying that in our society where half of all women are working, we have a more difficult time keeping our families in tact. Throw in a divorce, and things become much, much more difficult.
People, responding to progress and how it affects them and their families, are using the technologies available to "manage" their lives as they see fit. 2012 isn't the time of Ozzy and Harriet anymore, and I feel badly for people who grew up in that generation, and seeing them try to adapt to this new era. But the reality is, our society – our families – have changed. Whether it is birth control to delay the start of the family, or modern medical technology to help start the family later in life. This includes, what you discuss here, abortion. Something which you and I are in agreement about.
I just got done reading another piece on the Catholic Channel by Elizabeth Duffy, "Apprenticeship in Empathy". http://www.patheos.com/Catholic/Apprenticeship-in-Empathy-Elizabeth-Duffy-05-03-2012.html. It is a very heartfelt piece about listening to others, and sometimes how difficult it can be to put our self-interest to the side. I hope more people would make the decision that George Will made 40 years ago. I would like to believe that I would do that, but understand the incredible challenge that comes with that decision. It is a decision I thank God everyday that I don't have to make.
I actually clicked each link. My jaw dropped at what was written.
Oops. This was addressing the links in Mark's post, not the link in John's comment. Must have hit something wrong there.
John, has objective good and evil ever changed?
Kevin. Objective good and evil is what it is. The end result is wrong. There is no argument from me here. But, we didn't get to that point in one fell swoop. My point is, that we got there over time…with a decision, or decisions, to bring women into the workplace. So, here's my question for you…does the end result that occurs on occasion make the decision to allow women more freedom, and greater opportunity for work, make it morally wrong? Because, to address objective good and evil, and it's end result in sin, you have to go back and invalidate ALL of the steps that got us there.
"Despite the Administration's efforts to respond to concerns registered by the religious community in their February notice, some folks — including Members of Congress — have called for additional modifications. During the Senate's recent consideration of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, S. 21, Senator Blunt offered an amendment that would have not only allowed religiously affiliated organizations to deny contraceptive coverage but also allowed an employer to arbitrarily choose to deny coverage of other preventive services such as cancer screenings or flu shots for men and women. I voted against bringing this amendment up for a vote because it would have set sweeping new precedent regarding an employer's ability to choose what is or isn't included in their employees' health coverage regardless of religious affiliation. . "
The means isn't justified by the end, and the end is not justified by the means.
Having said that, perhaps this is a teaching moment- if women are abandoning their traditional, some would say Ordained Role (by either God or DNA- I just saw a Life is Worth Living rerun from 1953 discussing the UNIQUE roles women can play in the family, the business community, and the Catholic Church- Fulton Sheen is a genius) then maybe we need FATHERS to step up and fulfill their role as family's protector.
I don't think I follow, John. To address objective good and evil, we don't have to trace back through every step, because women and men have free will, and at every step of the way they must make the choice to do or not do evil.
If you are actually suggesting (I really hope you are not) that we should reconsider whether it was right to give women more freedom because it eventually led to some men and women making evil choices, such as to abort a child, then I am flabbergasted. Not only is that suggestion extremely offensive to me, a woman and feminist, but it also fails logically. For one thing, people were perfectly capable of committing evil (including the evil of abortion) long before women were given more freedom. For another, more freedom has led to a decrease in other kinds of evil, stemming from the way women were treated. Then, as I stated above, there is the issue of free will. If one argues that women should not have gotten more freedom because it ultimately led to the evil of abortion, then why not take that argument ALL the way back, and say humans should not have gotten the freedom of free will in the first place, because that led to all sin, all evil?
I am not suggesting that women go back in the home at all. What I am saying is that there are outcomes associated with those decisions – some immediate, some long term. In essence, I was answering an earlier comment from Kevin about objective good and evil. According to the church, a morally good act requires the goodness of its object, of its end, and of its circumstances together.
My question is how far back do you take it?
My question is how far back do you take it?
How about to 'not killing people because they're inconvenient'?
Maybe I'm looking at this simplistically, but it seems to me that it really is about personal responsibility in large part. I think the issue of "giving more freedom to women" is too large and amorphous, and full of countless good actions and outcomes to ever be able to state definitively "it was a bad idea that led to more evil." I don't think I am expressing myself well, but I feel that looking that far back to place the blame of abortion on it is a mistake. Especially because other aspects of society that have nothing to do with feminism are also part of the causation of abortion — such as the attitude that certain men have always had that they can sleep around and father children and never take responsibility for them, or the outgrowth of scientific endeavor (which is a good thing) that can encourage some people to think that if we can do something medically then there is nothing wrong with it, and the American streak of individualism that leads some people to think they have no obligation to help others in need.
Which is not to say we should not be examining and critiquing those social trends and large-scale effects that do encourage abortion, or at least cause some women to think it is their only option.
You keep saying 'giving women more freedom'. I understand Man's freedom to come from God, a result of the Imago Dei. So who is giving women more freedom?
And I'll say it forthrightly: the entrance of woman into 'the workforce' may be among the most brutal a horrendous of Modernity's changes.
Its at least as bad as the entrance of men into 'the workforce'.
What George Will has written about his son is quite touching, but I feel I must address a point that always comes up with Down Syndrome, namely whether it is actually wrong to get an amnio or some other pre-natal testing. While Will is right that there is no "cure" for D.S. (although there are some super promising results coming from the administration of medication normally used to treat Alzheimer's), D.S. can cause a number of medical problems that may need to be addressed at birth or even in utero. I know this for a fact — if I had not had an amnio telling me Beadboy1 had D.S., he would not have survived birth.
It is not knowledge that is evil, but how we use it.
Beadgirl, just out of curiosity, did the amnio give you information that wouldn't have shown up, or would have come too late to be useful, at the routine 20-week ultrasound?
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Which indicates there has been a change in the resolution of ultrasounds since I looked into this back in 2003 for my son.
It is entirely possible that when Beadboy1 was born, however, that this tech had not been developed yet.
Well, he was born in 2004, so technically it was possible, but I don't remember if it was available for me. All I knew was that the blood test came back indicating a higher likelihood of D.S. than normal, and that given my personality, there was no way I could go through the next few months agonizing but not knowing. (And despite conventional wisdom, amnios are not as risky as people think.) It allowed us to come to terms with the diagnosis and to let our family members adjust to the news, it allowed us to educate ourselves about the condition and the benefits available in our city, and it caused us to monitor the pregnancy much more than we otherwise would have, which led to us realizing there was a life-threatening problem at the end.
Thanks, I was just curious. When I was pg in 2000 and the time came in week 16 for the triple screen, I discussed it with my OB: since I would be having an ultrasound in a few more weeks, would there be any advantage to the baby in knowing about any abnormalities at week 16 instead of week 20? She said no, so I didn't bother to have the triple screen or amnio.
Other commenters have spoken about women having the freedom to leave the home and take jobs elsewhere. Poor and working-class women, including mothers of families, have been doing just that for generations, leaving their families to work in factories and plants, and as domestic workers in other peoples' homes throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. In many cases, much chaos in their homes and families ensued because of their absence. With the father out working and the mother out working, the children are left to fend for themselves as best they can. Often doesn't end well.
It wasn't until the 1960s that the neo-Bolshevist Left on the East Coast began pressuring the majority of middle and upper-middle-class women to leave their homes and enter the workplace. By 1980 their project had largely succeeded. So that the chaos that lower and working class families suffered could be brought to middle class homes as well. (When I say "neo-Bolshevist" I mean that quite literally: did you know that in the former Soviet Union everybody *had* to take outside jobs – men, women, everybody. No exceptions. Not only was it illegal to be a stay-at-home Mom in the former USSR, but even to express a desire to stay at home and care for her family could get a female comrade imprisoned or even shot as a "reactionary", as a "counterrevolutionary," as "an enemy of the People." The Socialist State is not about your damned family, your damned private life; it is about productivity!)
So guess where the DNA derives from in our contemporary neo-Bolshevist feminist notion that women who don't work outside the home are "missing out", "not contributing", "not living up to their full potential," "stunting their children", "taking society backwards" ? Marx, Stalin, and Lenin, that's where from, like much of the feminist rubbish that's flung around out there. And, yes, I have read feminist authors and studied feminism, having had a near-lethal dose of it in college. Luckily, I happened to be studying sociology, was also reading Marx and the Trotskyites, and made the connection between Marxist thought (ca. 1918 thru the 1930s) and its clear intellectual heir, feminist thought (ca. 1980s).
I think the increasing absence of mothers in the home, along with the dissolution of the family (no-fault divorce was another brainchild of the Bolshevik Revolution – 1918, along with legalized abortion, and the open acceptance of relationships based on homosexual practices – sound familiar?) is to blame for much of the failure in our schools during the last 50 years, along with the spread of drug abuse and STDs among our young people, the increase in other forms of delinquency, of psychiatric illness, and of suicide among children and teens, and general poor outcomes and bad outlooks for many, many of our young people with us today. Other factors have contributed to putting our young people at risk, of course, but the real downhill slide got underway when many, many mothers left home to go to work. I remember. I was there.
When Moms were at home, Moms ruled the neighborhoods. That was actually important work, although it went unacknowledged at the time: we kids were free to roam the streets and live it up every day after school, because if anything bad happened, a Mom who at least was acquainted with who your Mom was, was no more than a door or two away. Do you know that the biggest infractions we had in our public schools were kids chewing gum, and once a kid in my class got into trouble for bringing a frog to school. Now we have kids bringing guns to school, families filing assault charges against students on school busses, girls having multiple abortions . . .
Look, if a family can't make ends meet, and both adults must work to earn needed cash, then that's the reality: you gotta do what you gotta do to keep a roof over the heads and food on the table. However, if the family can possibly pare down, double up, move to a fixer-upper in a cheaper area, take the bus, wear hand-me-downs, and, yes, buy mayonnaise at Costco in order that Mom can stay home with the kids – or at least be at home from work when they arrive home, then that would be a good thing. A superb thing. And, Moms, don't let anybody tell you different.
It makes me sick at heart to think of what we have lost in this country – in our homes, in our neighborhoods, in our communities – due to the pressure on women to work outside the home. I would give anything for a Time Machine that would allow me to travel back to the early '60s, and to say to all the women and girls I met, "When they tell you to leave home, don't listen; they're lying; they'll ruin everything."
Our sweet DS daughter is 2 mos. now. These people are sad examples of what happens when your pleasure becomes your god. I'm sorry these people can't experience the joy of loving one of these sweet lambs. It is there loss, and a big one!
I gotta stop in the middle of the links here…The link behind "unforgivable" is to a Baptist Christian church? The Baptists are calling the actress to participated in the offensive "Family Guy" episode a "retard"? Who's side are these Baptists on?
Landover baptist is a satire site, not a real Baptist church.
Ok. That can be the only explanation. Very nasty people…
Very nasty people, indeed.
They (or those like them) used to come and spew on a website for parents of autistic kids I used to read, leaving such delightful nuggets as, "Kill all autistic kids before they spread more autism!"
As I said—deeeee-lightful. /Sarc.
Knowing how much "Progressives" actually hate the mentally defective is what finally turned me, for good and for all, against the left
And it's all a foretaste of things to come. Many, in our society today, aren't real crazy about normal children, either—or their parents, whom they now refer to as "Breeders". As the Leonard Cohen song says, "We don't like chidlren anyhow."
It also says "I have seen the future, Baby! It is murder!"
We need to pray.
And, freedom is a relative thing. Let's be honest; most women aren't "fulfilling" themselves becoming the board of directors of mega-corporations, or heading huge and influential companies. They're working in service jobs (which, we were told, was the wave of the future, unlike those nasty old capitalistic manufacturing jobs), or as waitresses, hair dressers, in day care centers or senior center, as "paralegals" (you do the work, the lawyer gets the credit), as "Nurse practitioners" (you do the work, the doctor gets the respect, and the big paycheck) or as fry cooks, or anything they can get. Service jobs dont' pay that well, for either men or women, and women have to compete with men, and illegal immigrants, to get them.
Am I glad women can work, and earn their own paychecks? Yes. It gives women a sense of independence, and can help them escape unpleasant family situations. Do I think work, all work, is somehow more fulfilling than raising a family, and is automatically liberating? Heck no! If you've ever worked as a drone in some gigantic corporate hive, pushing papers or try to sell something to the public, you'll know what I mean.
Women should be by law as free as men to take any job they wish, and to climb as high up the ladder as any man. Men, women, and families, however, should place the optimal well-being of any children and families they may have as THEIR paramount priority. And the children should have the benefit of experiencing their mother relaxing with them, snuggling dreamily with them, quietly listening to their troubles, playing in a carefree way with them. . . not "I'm busy, we'll do this later!" "Does this have to be now?" "Mommy has 10 minutes, so hurry up with that." . . . each time! This loving leisure time is the time in which the child learns what it means genuinely to love and to be loved, to give of oneself, to belong to another, in short . . . to be a fully alive human being.
And plenty of wealthy, successful persons were never given the opportunity to become that – fully alive human beings, capable of truly giving of themselves, capable of real love. I have known and worked with some of them. They have $800 suits and drive imported sports cars, and are on their fourth marriage. It's very sad.
If it makes it any easier for people to side with Marion, guys like me are what happens when you grow up with your mother completely absent. Do you really want to see how much time you can spend away from them before they get this damaged?
God bless you, Mr. Garrett, and may Mother Mary, the sweet Mother of us all, be with you.


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Here's a look behind the scenes during day 1 of transforming our campus into a toilet fair.
Exhibitors begin to construct their display for the Reinvent the Toilet Fair in Seattle on May 14, 2012.
A researcher from Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology and EOOS assemble a prototype (exhibit 19). The toilet diverts urine and recovers water for flushing. The urine and feces will be safely transported to a decentralized processing
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Researchers from the National University of Singapore assemble a prototype (exhibit 28). Their toilet uses biological charcoal (biochar) to dry and combust feces. The heat generated will be used to extract water from urine by boiling it under pressure.
Researchers from the Stanford University and the Climate Foundation assemble a prototype (exhibit 35). Their self-contained system pyrolyzes (decomposes at high temperatures without oxygen) human waste into biological charcoal.
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Yesterday I heard that the Account-Center for Warhammer will be down today.. (forgot to check it yesterday and can't do it right now..sorry for that).
What does it mean? Well.. not much, but it raised the hope that the free character transfer away from Drakenwald will be enabled. This are actually good news for the remaining players left on Drakenwald.
The server is right now not a lot of fun..it's "active" only between 20:00 and 22:00 ..and even then scenarios are not popping up well (99% just the 6 vs. 6 ones and even they just once a hour). In open RvR you hardly find anyone. This lack of competition not only leads to low renown gained per hour numbers, but also to a decline in quality of the fights. It's just not fun and engaging to fight against a door or outnumbered opponents.
The folks of Drakenwald tried to push for a free server transfer for some time and now it will finally happen.. so everybody is happy?! Well.. some didn't want to wait for 3 month and so payed the money for a paid transfer. The announcement that only transfers from Drakenwald to Karak Norn are available was not well responded, because some went to Badlands and their chars may now get divided on two servers. I was stubborn and didn't want to pay, so I get free transfers now to Norn, which is anyways my preferred destination.
What do I expect? At first more enemies..therefore more fighting going on. This is good as RvR needs fighting and lots of enemies… so do scenarios. So this will be nice!?
I do have some concerns though as I've heard that many rr100 premade groups are roaming on Norn, which is quiet bad, because right now there is still some heavy power gap between rr100 and below and I don't want to get steamrolled all the time. I would like to have a good mix of easy and really hard enemies… just variety and not always the same fights. I don't need new maps or other content in a PvP game..just a variety of fighting and therefore different enemies with different tactics, etc..
Well.. I still have the hope that the RvR bolster in the next patch will level the playing field so that rr100 is an advantage, but not the real decisive factor in a fight. I am allowed to dream, right? ;)
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One of the biggest problems any school system seems to face, at least in the United States, is the rapid obsolesence of their computer equipment, as technology advances at a far faster pace than even the most generous school budget will allow.
Harrison described that many of the computers found around the various schools his office supports are Pentium 75, 90, and 95 MHz machines--hardly enough power to run something like Windows. Using the LTSP approach "allows us to leverage all those old machines," he explained.
The concept behind K12LTSP is very simple--hook up a number of thin-clients running Linux to a central terminal server, which serves as the file, Web, and application server all in one. Since X is network-transparent, Linux is already perfectly built to run in such an environment.
While the final mix of applications available to the client will vary from lab to lab according to Harrison, the basic core set of applications remains the same: an office suite with word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation applications (OpenOffice.org), an e-mail appication (Ximian Evolution), and a Web browser (Mozilla).
Because all of the power in the lab system is found in the terminal server, the clients can be as stripped down as the lab personnel want them to be. Often, Harrison said, they will strip out even the hard drive and leave only a floppy drive for a boot floppy. Sometimes not even that, if a boot PROM has been set up for that machine instead.
In his role at Multnomah ESD, Harrison often saw many computer labs that were set up with Windows clients. Given the instability of Windows, the constant threat of viruses, and the sheer ingenuity of the average high school student, maintaining these labs could often require a full-time staff member--significantly raising the bar on the costs of such a lab.
Using the K12LTSP model, labor costs immediately plummeted. Sometimes down to almost zero.
"Two years ago we installed 25 K12LTSP thin-clients in classrooms all over at our K-8 school," Nelson said. "I have not had to work on a single one of those machines since then. All updates and management are done on a single application server."
Harrison and Nelson both added that since the application server is also connected to the Internet, many of the updates and management issues are handled remotely.
The roles each of these men play in the K12LTSP is very specific, Nelson explained.
"Our development cycle generally goes something like this, Nelson stated, "'Eric, the kids in classrooms need the software to do xyz.' 'Paul, there's no way to do that. It can't be done. Well, wait a minute, let me work on that...'
"Eric is brilliant and the best problem solver I've ever seen. I'm a teacher who is good at using technology with kids. I understand what works in classrooms and what teachers need. I tell Eric what we need, he makes it happen. I also do all the documentation and manage the [K12LTSP] Web site, press releases, etc.," Nelson added.
Both men have taken their successful tools on the road, as well. Through personal assistance and the information on their K12LTSP Web site, "we've helped many schools install Linux file servers, too many to recount," Nelson said, "We've hosted many workshops and clinics. We host an install fest in our school every month. We have tremendous support from our local user group PLUG. We've also done training through the StRUT program to help teachers use donated PCs."
StRUT, a computer recycling program, has been instrumental in getting low-cost clients prepared for many new computer labs.
Asked to summarize the benefits of their program, Nelson stated: "We paid less than $200 for each of the clients and all the software we use is free. It is reliable, fast, immune from viruses and malicious student tampering and the kids like it. Even our superintendent uses a Linux thin-client. What's not to like?"
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The appropriate birthday gift for a 10-year-old girl is determined by considering her hobbies and interests, but generally include electronics, room accessories, music-related items and personal journals. A girl of that age is finding her voice and defining her personality, but usually wishes to keep in step with her peers.
Anything hi-tech is likely to please a 10-year-old, as girls this age are into trendy gadgets and connecting with friends via technology. Since most young girls of this age wish to create their own private world, accessories for her room would make a good 10th birthday present. Gift cards to download music and games, a ticket to a concert, fashionable trinkets and sporty clothing are appropriate ideas for a birthday gift as well. The giver may also pique her interest in reading and writing with a popular young adult novel, leather journal or diary.


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My first encounter with the works of Salem Gnan, activist, was an important call he made to the UK Guardian on February 21, as cited in the post "Bombing His Own People." Really? Three reports of Libyan gov attacks on Tripoli came in that day, within an hour and a half. The latter two were to al Jazeera and called it aerial bombardment, but the first call, Mr. Gnan's, said the city was being shelled from the sea. As the Guardian reported:
5.07pm – Libya: Salem Gnan, a London-based spokesman for the National Front for the Salvation of Libya, says eyewitnesses in Tripoli have told him the navy has opened fire on parts of the capital.Yeah, on that "finish" to the "popular uprising" ... Even with massive help of all kinds from some of the most powerful nations on Earth, it's finally been approximately finished, eight months, thousands of very real bombs, missiles, and rockets, and tens of thousands of deaths later.
"We have just heard that the military ships are bombing an area in Tripoli and many people have been killed although we don't know how many at the moment because people have just called to tell us it is happening."
Gnan said the navy appeared to be bombing a residential area outside the city centre as part of a desperate crackdown by Gaddafi's troops.
"He is even turning the ships on his people now. His plan is to use absolutely everything he can to stop what is happening."
Gnan said he had had also had reports of ongoing shooting around Gaddafi's residence in Tripoli and said more people were taking to the capital's streets as darkness fell.
"This is going on because if it stops that means it is finished. This will be the last act." He said people were travelling to Tripoli from across the west of Libya for a "final showdown."
I have had calls from people in towns and cities all across Libya. Those in the east can not get out but those in towns and cities in western Libya, everybody is saying: "We are going to Tripoli." The plan is to come from everywhere and go to Tripoli to sack the city, for the finish.
And on the bombings reported by Mr. Gnan and others, as explained at the above link, they apparently did not occur. There's still to date been no other evidence produced, of any variety, for something that should have been quite video-recordable and should have left plenty of physical evidence. Evidence like bomb parts, flattened buildings, and specific dead people in situ or shown with compatible injuries. Only "confirmations"(repetitions) of these same baseless reports ever emerged.
Reader Felix dropped some great research on Mr. Gnan in comments beneath that piece. The below is derived primarily from these.
The group he swears allegiance to is the National Front for the Salvation of Libya (NFSL - Wikipedia), a Natural-Seeming Front for those Salivating over Libya. With the basic premise that Libya neededto be "saved"from Gaddafi's revolutionary system, it's been a long-time CIA-connected training ground for anti-Gaddafi activists. Founded in 1981, it was staging both sit-ins (see below) and armed attacks by mid-1984. According to Medialens:
US official records indicate that funding for the Chad-based secret war against Libya also came from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, Israel and Iraq. The Saudis, for instance, donated $7m to an opposition group, the National Front for the Salvation of Libya (also backed by French intelligence and the CIA). But a plan to assassinate Gadafi and take over the government on 8 May 1984 was crushed.As Felix notes, the NFSL is also "the same group which organised the ill-fated protests outside the Libyan People's Bureau in 1984." This resulted in the Murder of policewoman Yvonne Fletcher on April 17. A bare three weeks before the daring NFSL attack against Gaddafi's compound, the regime allegedly shot itself in the foot by ordering embassy personnel to shoot at their cousins in central London in broad daylight. [see also here] Several Libyan kids were injured, and one cop, Fletcher (the only female officer there), was thoroughly killed on accident, greatly souring Anglo-Libyan relations just ahead of the NFSL's offensive. It was well-fated for their purposes.
More than two decades later, the front has apparently matured to a less violent group, focused more on talking, and feeding with the greatest ease Western misconceptions of Libya. As war broke out on the streets in 2011, they fused with other groups to create the National Conference for the Libyan opposition in support of the uprising. Their members went on full-tilt with the propaganda, and Mr. Gnan did his part, seeding the lies above.
He apparently learned from his follow-up callers that day that air attacks are the most potent thing to allege, and three days later was telling the Guardian all about more such, near the capitol if not in it:
3.47pm: Salem Gnan, a London-based spokesman for the National Front for the Salvation of Libya, whom we have spoken to regularly this week, says the situation in his home country today is "very bad".No other sources mention bombing on Az Zawiyah (which is given here both correctly and as above), about 30 miles west of Tripoli and the closest "rebel-held" city in those days. That it would be bombed on the same day they said a speech by the leader was recorded there is doubly strange. A government attack is alleged on Feb. 24, but with no photo or video proof, and I remain less than convinced. These reports mentioned land-based shooting that killed several insurgents (ten by this source) and damaged the central mosque's minaret. All available videos show the protesters carrying machine guns and RPGs, firing them in a vague and possibly fake gun-battle, burying some of the previous day's dead, and hearing a fiery sermon about Libya's youth, the bombing of which was not filmed. All these and other events there happened in the city's main square, showing how little they really controlled - certainly not the part of town Muammar himself was in that day. (See the whole chronology at the fall of Az Zawiyah.)
Gnan says he was called by his niece this morning who lives in al-Zawiya, scene of bitter gun battles between Gaddafi loyalists and protesters and supposed location of Gaddafi's speech this afternoon (see 3.25pm).
She said they are bombing the town and lots of mercenaries have been flown in. People had been going to a gathering to hear speeches this morning when the planes came and bombed them. More than 30 people were killed. It is very bad. My sister's daughter was crying and crying on the phone but the people will not stop fighting.
Until now, I've heard nothing at all about alleged bombing there. Gnan's niece is a cold liar. Or simply confused. Or did he make the stuff up himself? Why did he feel a need to pass on such bogus information, and how did he know which lies to tell? Was he connected to some CIA-type networkof plotters and propagandists engaged in psychological warfare or something?
He later, on the defection of Libyan spy chief Moussa Koussa, spoke to the AP (via the Guardian 31 March 2011):
London-based Libyan dissident Salem Gnan suggested Koussa could provide a trove of information on Gadhafi's inner circle, the country's shadowy past and the dictator's increasing desperation. Koussa is Libya's "black box and curator of Gadhafi's top secrets," Gnan said. "He will uncover it all. He has got all the names, the documents and the information."His supposed value (in solving generally fictitious crimes) was well-enough known, by Koussa and by his new hosts, first in London, then in Qatar. By trading on these, apparently, he got a cushy deal, effectively immune from prosecution so long as he helped inform the war effort. He reportedly has, and in so doing, helped fulfill the largely-French plot going back to late 2010, that many suspect Koussa was the main architect behind (see here).
Salem Gnan, if he doesn't work for Koussa, certainly helped his cause against Gaddafi and helped reinforce the reputation of his boss (sorry) as he stepped up to the bargaining table.
Felix adds some more (will work in later):
I think you can see Salem Gnan, سالم قنان here in a London demonstration (probably outside the Knightsbridge embassy) in this YouTube video uploaded on 17 February. (I think this is him too on 6 October recently,interviewed by Alaan. In May he seemed to be in Nalut. Also here on Al Arabiya 18 April.
(Nalut seemed a key town for rallying of westerners for an assault on Tripoli in August)
Salem Masoud Gnan is stated to be a lawyer but has directorships of several companies, EXCEL PHARMACY LTD of 23 Church Road, Isleworth TW7 4PR, but also of TOTAL MEDIA SERVICES AND MANAGEMENT LIMITED of 3A MONTAGU ROW, LONDON
W1U 6DZ and AGNAN LOCUM LTD of 32 WOODSTOCK GROVE, SHEPHERDS BUSH W12 8LE.
More interestingly, he is a director of the Oxford based Centre for Libyan Studies of Suite 220, 286 Banbury Road, OX2 7DL, a charity. Funding? The directors in 2008 were :Mustafa Rugibani
Youssef El Megreisi (Company Secretary)
Omar Abdulatef (Chairman)
Doctor Fathi Sikta
Mohamed Ali Ahdash
Salem Gnan (Appointed 25.03.2008)
Accountants Shaw Gibbs LLP
264 Banbury Road
Oxford OX2 7DY
Mr Gnan, if it is the same person, now apparently styles himself Salem Gnan Alnaluty ,and according to his facebook page has relocated to Sweden recently. He has uploaded the Guardian live blog from February translated into arabic to his page,"This a translation in Arabic of our live blog on the uprising in Libya", along with the London video and an inconsequential Al Bayda video of 23 feb and the theatrical mass rape allegation video.


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I have a blackberry curve and have always visited the quiltingboard on it during lunch breaks, traveling, anywhere anytime. BUt lately I have been having a LOT of trouble when trying to go to a specific topic. I'm not having trouble on other sites.
Once in awhile it will go to the topic, but most of the time when I click on a topic it will take me to the quiltingboard home page that lists all the sections.
Does anyone else have this problem as of late? PLEASE HELP! I LOVE to be able to visit when traveling and will be going to Des Moines show this weekend and its a 4 hour or longer drive.
I have already cleared my history, freed up a bunch of memory, and nothing helps.
I know I sound desperate, but I get soooo booorrreeeddd when traveling. So i guess I kinda am.


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The New York shop picks up that part of the Zyrtec media business from Campbell Mithun Esty, Minneapolis, which will retain TV buying for the brand. Zyrtec got its first TV support a few months ago, with creative from Lyons Lavey Nickel Swift, New York, a unit of Omnicom Group.
The commercials picture a businessman climbing a rock wall that, seen from above, spells out the brand name.
Due to Food & Drug Administration prescription-drug TV ad restrictions, the commercial cannot specify it is an allergy drug.
"Despite the trend recently, where a lot of agencies are getting fired after many years, I'd like to think of this as a reward for a job well done," said Michael Gross, Paragon president.
Paragon already handles buying for Pfizer's two other prescription brands supported by DTC ads-the $14 million Cardura prostate drug account and the $15.5 million business for Diflucan antifungal.
The Pfizer business at Paragon now totals $59 million in billings.
Pfizer recently pulled back its print campaign for Cardura, created by Cline, Davis & Mann, New York, also an Omnicom agency (AA, March 24), due to disappointing results from a follow-up study of the campaign.
The marketer said it was "still confident DTC is the way to go, but we will refocus" the campaign.
As yet, no new work has appeared.
The Zyrtec move comes at a time of heated competition in the allergy category, where that prescription brand holds the No. 2 spot-with sales of $170.7 million-but well behind leading brand Claritin from Schering-Plough Corp., with $763.4 million in the $1.39 billion prescription antihistamine market.
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Sea Planes on Clear Lake
For those of you old enough to remember, there used to be a TV program called Fantasy Island where the opening sequence featured Hervé Villechaize announcing the incoming passengers with the famous, "The plane! The plane!" line. Well almost the same thing happened here Friday as a plane very similar to the Grumman Widgeon used on the show was taxiing on Clear Lake. Then, moments later it took off and circled around the Featherbed Railroad.
Unlike Fantasy Island, we don't plan our raising our rates to $50,000 for a three-day stay and we can't promise miracles, but we do hope people have a great getaway and we love to assist with planning and coordination. We can make all sorts of reservations and appointments, but with Lake County's relaxed attitude usually you won't have to.
We don't know why this vintage sea plan was circling the Featherbed Railroad but it's a safe guess to think that the plane is being readied for the upcoming Clear Lake Splash In, the largest seaplane festival west of the Mississippi. The Splash In is the same day as the super popular Pear Festival and promises a wide number of activities for people who don't have planes as well as those who do.
As mentioned, on the same weekend is the Pear Festival which is another Lake County tradition and features all sorts of food, music, vendors and more.
If you don't already have your reservations for the weekend of September 26-28, or for any upcoming date, now might be a great time to make those. There are still rooms available and with two terrific events plus all the usual assortment of activities in Lake County, you should have a great time.
And, just think, you will be saving tens of thousands of dollars compared to a vacation on Fantasy Island. Plus, we don't even have a white suit. Or a bell-ringing plane spotter.
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Four days after opening CityVille on Facebook, Zynga is calling the new game its biggest-ever launch. Some 290,000 people played the title in its first 24 hours, according to the Zynga, with 25 percent continuing long enough to set up a franchise in a friend's city, an action that takes at least 15 minutes of game play.CityVille's first-day performance is only important in context, though. Zynga had two other major releases this year: Treasure Isle and FrontierVille, in April and June respectively. Both games had slower starts than CityVille, followed by rapid growth:
It does look like CityVille's growth will continue to surpass FrontierVille, from this early vantage point. However, note the hockey-stick growth that Treasure Isle enjoyed beginning on its sixth day in the wild; it's unlikely that CityVille will be able to surpass those gains, which left Treasure Isle at its peak of 27 million monthly active users after just one month.Treasure Isle can't necessarily be repeated, since Facebook made some of its biggest viral channel changes the same month that game was launched. As for CityVille, Zynga tells TechCrunch that its growth is primarily organic, not from advertising.
The list of techniques Zynga used to create CityVille's early growth spurt would likely be quite long, but as we noted on its first day out, it includes email campaigns and inciting new players to invite their friends over from FarmVille. There are also social mechanics like staffing your government buildings with friends, which helps push out invites and interaction between players. Our preview lists more, including an in-game economy that creates money and goods from connections.
Zynga's cross-promotional abilities can't be rivaled by any competitor — it's simply too large in comparison to others — but given CityVille's growth so far, the title will likely serve as a template for the next round of new social games.
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