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Today is options expiry so let's review some transactions for the month of April that ended with today's expiry.
In the Power Funds Account:
Bought 200 QID (Short QQQ) @ $46.74 and Sold 2 QIDDU (April $47 Strikes) for $1.20 to earn 2.5% return. As of close of business today, QID will likely close below strike price so my options will expired worthless.
Plan of action: Sell 2 more contracts for May $47 strikes or July $47 strikes.
In the Mini Funds Account:
Bought 200 DDM (Double Long Dow) @ $74.60 and Sold 2 DDMDW (April $75 strikes) for $2.05 to earn 2.65% return. As of close of business today, DDM will likely close above strike price so my options will be assigned and I'll be in 100% cash.
Plan of Action: Look for opportunities, perhaps XHB or SSO.
In the Arbitrage Account:
Bought 400 XHB (Home Builders) @ $22.72 and Sold 4 XXJDW for $0.70 to earn 3% return. As of close of business today, XHB will likely close above strike so my options will be assigned and I'll be in cash.
Plan of Action: Look for opportunities, perhaps XHB or SSO.
There were other transactions conducted during April however those will be impacted by May 16th expiry. I will run the ETF-Cashinator later in the evening tonight to generate a list of opportunities. Tune in tonight .
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The best 30 year fixed rate loan interest rates at Berkshire Bank (NASDAQ:BERK) have been published at 3.750% yielding an APR of 3.778% today. The FHA options for the 30 year mortgages are being quoted at 4.375% and an APR of 5.002%. The short term, popular 15 year loan interest rates have been offered at 3.000% yielding an APR of 3.050% today.
20 year fixed rate loan interest rates start at 3.625% today yielding an APR of 3.664%.
3/1 ARMs have been listed at 2.875% today yielding an APR of 3ARMPA@ to start. ARM loans in the 5 year category at Berkshire Bank are on the books at 3.125% yielding an APR of 5ARMPA@ at present.

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I was talking to one of my acquaintances in a party few months ago and we were talking about what I was doing in Shipitwise. I said that I'm in customer service, one question lead to another and we finally reached to one of the classics - how much do you get paid. I answered and the reaction was quite surprising - man, you get paid way too much for being in customer service. That kind of pissed me off a bit. Not so much because my ego got punched in the face, but rather what I stand for as an individual.
It surprises me that we still live in an era, where sales people get all the credit and customer service people "are just there to answer your calls". Don't get me wrong, sales people deserve the credit that they are getting because it's one of the highest paying hard jobs and lowest paying easy jobs, but so do we. We are not here to just breathe the air and warm your seat, the quality of your customer service team either makes or breaks your business and it's a fact.
Since numbers never lie, Help Scout has gathered interesting stats about customer service, so here are few examples:
78% of consumers have bailed on a transaction or not made an intended purchase because of a poor service experience;
It takes 12 positive experiences to make up for one unresolved negative experience;
Probability of selling to a new customer - 5-20%. Probability of selling to an existing customer - 60-70%;
91% of unhappy customers will not willingly do business with you again;
Resolve a complaint in the customer's favor and they will do business with you again 70% of the time.
Should I go on? :)
It all starts with your team and who you choose to represent your business. Who would you think much rather help your clients in any way possible in their customer experience journey - rightfully paid, valued, motivated, self-driven people with leader mentality or people who are barely making their ends meet and just do it because they don't know what else to do? The other day I checked one customer service representatives Facebook page, who works for one of the biggest transportation companies in the world. The first thing I saw was a meme about how much does the Mondays suck. What do you think, did I use the services of this company or not? I'm sure I can't speak for all the customers, but in a case like that I much rather use another company than just speak to another representative in that company. I just didn't trust my well-being to that person although he actually might be "cool as a cucumber".
Whether we like it or not, we are all in customer service business. Customer service is the ship and providing services or products is the cargo in your ship. If you don't have a full functioning ship and it has holes in it, no one has an access to your service/product and you will live in isolation, which I'm sure you understand is not really good for your business.
Customer service is not something you do as a job, it's who you are as a person. It's a lifestyle, an attitude, a mentality. It's dedicating your life to serve others and make them happier on a daily basis. I've been service minded since 1989 when I started my journey as a young boy in an amazing family. I had a contagious laugh which made everyone else laugh as well and I was called a Laughing Gull. I gave one of my friends my jacket when she was cold and it was freezing outside. It subconsciously might have been for a kiss on the cheek, but nevertheless. My friend forgot to do his homework and I gave him mine and told the teacher that I forgot to do it and got some kind of penalty which I don't remember anymore. This one I definately didn't do for a kiss on the cheek. :) I open doors for people in any chance I get etc. It's just those small daily gestures that doesn't cost you arms or legs, but goes for a mile. Transfer this to your career and hire people like that to make your business bloom.
When's the best time to start you ask? Yesterday!
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CCI was a little late getting this posted, so unfortunately the opportunity for readers to follow along with this trade has passed. However, hopefully it can still be informative.
This week CCI established an option position to somewhat hedge the portfolio's position in Google (goog) prior to the earning announcement this past Thursday. The rationale and specifics of the iron condor option position is described at a seeking alpha article here.
CCI felt that the bulls and bears in Google would find enough good and bad news respectively in Google's earnings announcement that the stock would trade between $590 and $660 after earnings. That is indeed what happened and this trade achieved max profit as the stock did not move significantly on earnings.


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Here's one sneak peek, though.
I set up a sandbox in the backyard for the kids. Well technically, I set up the empty box, and my husband handled the sand. I could not lift those 50 pound bags! We've been lugging this dang thing from house to house since Sly was a baby - my mom gave it to him as a gift when he was much too young for it. And then we didn't have a yard for a long time. It's good to finally get some use out of it.
The first time the kids played in it was while Tom was watching them on his own. I went out with friends one evening, and suggested playing in the sandbox as a fun activity for them while I was away. I got a text from Tom a little later saying, "this sandbox sucks. There's sand everywhere!!". Teehee.
The kids enjoy it, but I'm not sure how long it will last. We already forgot to put the lid on one day, and now it's filled with pine needles and rain water...
The bride and groom are crowned as "king and queen" of their own home, a new Christian kingdom, which they will guide with wisdom and love as an extension of the Kingdom of God.
The crowns also recall the victorious crown of martyrdom, since every true marriage involves self-sacrifice from each spouse. The word martyr means 'witness,' and the couple will bear witness to Christ's presence in their lives, which requires both to die to themselves and to give their own lives for the other.
This little man has been growing like crazy. He's my biggest baby by far, hitting the 97th percentile for length, and almost as high for weight! At seven weeks old, he started wearing six-month clothes, and I would not be surprised if he's up to the next size soon.
It's actually kind of nice, because it means Sly's hand-me-downs might actually be the right sizes for the right seasons now.
Then I caught her applying some very expensive concealer to one of her dolls.
I think it's time to move my makeup to a safer place!
By the way, if you're wondering why I'm willing to spend a lot of money on concealer, let me show you this.
This is me at age four (with a terrible haircut, so try not to linger on that). My eyes already had noticeable dark circles then. Age and motherhood have not made that problem any better, I assure you.
|my grandmother is on the far left
Look how stricken everyone is. I thought it was fitting that I found this on Memorial Day. It's so easy to think of it as just a fun day to have a cookout, but sometimes it's good to be reminded of what it's really about.


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DrawingML Charts 3D Mode & Outline Rendering to PDF, XPS in SharePoint
DrawingML Charts 3D Mode & Outline Rendering to PDF, XPS in SharePoint
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Aspose development team is product to announce the release of Aspose.Words for SharePoint 2.9.0. This new release supports rendering of DrawingML Charts 3D mode and VML perspective shadows rendering. This release also improved some important features such as style handing in Tables, resiliency code for ODT, RTF and DOCX, outline rendering to PDF and XPS, Multi-level bookmark rendering, memory performance for large documents, DML Charts, pagination of footnotes, text wrapping and many more other features. Some very important features and fixes in this release are given below
- Improvements in style handing in Tables, Format Revisions
- Improvements and resiliency code for ODT, RTF and DOCX
- DrawingML Charts 3D mode rendering implemented
- VML perspective shadows rendering implemented
- Outline rendering to PDF and XPS improved
- Multi-level bookmark rendering supported
- PDF rendering performance improved for documents with images
- Improved clipping of text boxes
- Fixed issue with missing footnotes in complex page layout
- Improved memory performance for large documents
- 3D color for VML extrusion effect is supported
- DML Charts enhancements: surface charts rendering, moving average trend lines rendering and more
- Only final revision is rendered for documents with revisions
- Improved pagination of footnotes
- Implemented character paragraph indents
- Fixed positioning of a table broken across pages when it has repeated header rows
- Improved table row wrapping around floaters
- Fixed issue with Arabic-Indic numerals inside SDT
- The HTML parser inside Aspose.Words now conforms to the HTML 5 Specification.
- Supported MS Word 2010 text effects (e.g. shadows, outlines, 3d-looks etc.) roundtrip for DOCX.
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- Generation of ordinal/cardinal list labels in Spanish and Portuguese.
- Improved text wrapping, it now uses correct shape boundaries with 3d effects, rotations, shadows etc for Square/Top-Bottom wrapping types.
- Added support for the "Balance SBCS characters and DBCS characters" compatibility option.
- DrawingML Charts rendering enhancements: overlap option, depth grid lines, trend lines, subcharts for pie charts.
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(Reuters) - Iran expects the United States to launch a military strike on "at least two countries" in the Middle East in the next three months, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told state-run Press TV.
In an interview recorded on Monday, Ahmadinejad did not specify whether he thought Iran itself would be attacked nor did he say what intelligence led him to expect such a move.
The United States and Israel have refused to rule out military action against Iran's nuclear program which they fear could lead to it making a bomb, something Iran denies.
"They have decided to attack at least two countries in the region in the next three months," Ahmadinejad said in excerpts broadcast on the rolling news channel on Tuesday.
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Are you a contractor? If you work for someone else, it is important to know whether you are working for that person in an employed capacity or in a self-employed capacity as an independent contractor.
Your employment status will determine the charge to tax on income from your employment or self-employment. It will also determine the class of NICs, which are to be paid.
Umbrella Companies employ you for tax purposes and complete central returns for all their contractors. It's less hassle and more flexible for you but take home pay is typically less than that the limited company option.
The best option for you depends on your plans, 'one off' contract or 'contractor for life'? [Read More...]
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Freelance contractors enjoy greater freedom that comes with having several short term contracts rather than working for a single permanent employer. It gives them greater flexibility in the work/life balance.
They can choose to take some time off when one contract ends, before accepting a new contract.
In comparison, a full-time employee is limited to taking time off by the number of holiday days in their contract. Also, a permanent worker cannot pick and choose what type of work they do. If their line manager gives them a task - it has to be done!
Contractors also get some tax breaks that their full time counterparts do not. There will be some business expenses that contractors can use to off-set against their tax bill. But it's critical to understand exactly what items HMRC allow contractors to claim. This can be confusing and complex - but there is a simple solution!
More and more contractors are discovering what's called an 'umbrella company'. This is an alternative to setting up and running your own one-man limited company. Not only is the umbrella company route cheaper, it is also a lot less hassle.
The umbrella company does all the administration and paperwork on behalf of the contractor. It takes care of the red-tape, deals with HMRC for you and stays up to date with the ever changing employment laws that affects contractors.
There are over 100 umbrella companies to choose from, so the choice is huge. Picking the right umbrella company that suits you means balancing price, customer service and features carefully. You don't want the cheapest company if they have terrible service and make you wait a long time for your salary to come through.
A personal recommendation is one of the best ways to decide which umbrella company service to use, but if that's not possible check out the feedback from other contractors.
Question about tax return expenses category? What is a scale rate expense? Do you know your tax breaks when working from home? Read the articles below and See how using an umbrella company could simplyfy your life as a contractor.
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IR35 is an HMRC tax law designed to increase government tax revenues. It prevents contractors avoiding tax. Contractors could benefit financially if their contract was outside of the IR35 laws.
Guide to Agency Workers Regulations AWR
The Agency Workers Regulations (AWR) affects temporary contractors who are directly supervised by the end-client. It's likely to affect you if your contract falls within IR35.
Understanding Umbrella Companies
If, like thousands of others, you're thinking about a life of contracting you'll need to use a limited company of some description - and they come in different shapes and sizes.
Ltd Company Contracting: The best approach for a freelancer
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Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is a non-ministerial department of the British Government primarily responsible for the collection of taxes. Do you understand what they expect from a contractor?
One minute guide to contractor Limited Company VAT
Money for nothing! As unbelievable as this may seem, HMRC actually give contractor limited companies money for doing nothing - really.
Contractors Pay Employers National Insurance
Because of various UK/EU employment laws, if you want to work as a contractor you must trade through a limited company (of one kind or another). Think of it simply as having limited company 'status'.
New Contractor: Employee, Self Employed or Umbrella?
Anyone can be a contractor and use their skills to earn you a decent income. Employee, Self Employed, Sole Trader or Umbrella Company? either way, you need to know what life as a contractor means and how best to go about it.
It's the basics... Compliance with Tax, VAT, PAYE and fiscal arrangements is mandatory for contractors regardless of whether you use an umbrella company or your own limited company.
Incredible then that there are still rogue umbrella companies and limited company accountants who expose their contractors to fraud. Umbrella Compare provides THE solution, we thoroughly vet all umbrella companies and limited company accountants that we list [Read more...].
Umbrella Compare provides a holistic overview of contracting with the aim of helping new and old contractors find the right payroll solutions. Contracting should be about focusing on the contract, not payroll, accounting, HMRC and bureaucracy.


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The entire cruise was delightful
Sail Date: May 09, 2010
Ship: Celebrity Summit
Cabin Type: Balcony
Traveled As: Couple
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Review SummaryCarpets were beginning to show wear, but the ship was kept very clean and the staff served and treated us royally.
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The seroprevalence of antithyroid peroxidase antibodies in bipolar families and bipolar twins: results from two longitudinal studies
The seroprevalence of antithyroid peroxidase antibodies in bipolar families and bipolar twins: results from two longitudinal studies - Descarga este documento en PDF. Documentación en PDF para descargar gratis. Disponible también para leer online.
International Journal of Bipolar Disorders
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First Online: 20 January 2017Received: 09 September 2016Accepted: 04 January 2017
BackgroundPrevious studies of our group among bipolar offspring and bipolar twins showed significant higher prevalence's and levels of antithyroid peroxidase antibodies TPO-Abs in offspring and co-twins without a mood disorder compared to controls, suggesting that TPO-Abs might be considered as vulnerability factor trait marker for BD development.
ObjectivesHere we elucidate, in the same cohorts, but now after 12- and 6-year follow-up, whether TPO-abs should be considered as a 'trait' marker for BD. The present study aims to investigate whether TPO-Abs 1 are stable over time, 2 are associated with lithium-exposure, 3 share a common genetic background with BD and are related to psychopathology.
ResultsIn bipolar offspring and twins, the prevalence of TPO-Abs is stable over time rs = .72 p < .001 resp. rs = .82, p < .001 and not associated with lithium use. At follow-up, an increased prevalence of TPO-abs was again observed in bipolar offspring 10,4% versus 4% and higher TPO-abs titers were still present in co-twins of bipolar cases compared to control twins mean 1.06 IU-ml SD .82 versus mean .82 IU-ml SD .67, although statistical significance was lost.
ConclusionsAlthough our results show a trend toward an increased inherited risk of the co-occurrence of BD and thyroid autoimmunity, large-scale studies can only draw final conclusions. Nationwide epidemiological and GWAS studies reach such numbers and support the view of a possible common autoimmune etiology of severe mood disorders and chronic recurrent infections and autoimmunity, including thyroid autoimmunity.
KeywordsThyroid peroxidase antibodies Bipolar disorder Offspring Twins Prevalence AbbreviationsTPO-Absantithyroid peroxidase antibodies
AITDautoimmune thyroiditis
BDbipolar disorder
DBODutch bipolar offspring
FH-RDCfamily history research diagnostic criteria
IRRincidence rate ratio
MDmood disorders
SCID-IStructured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV
SDstandard deviation
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Autor: G. Snijders - L. de Witte - E. Mesman - S. Kemner - R. Vonk - R. Brouwer - W. A. Nolen - H. A. Drexhage - M. H. J. H
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Mumbai, Aug 21 (IANS) Actress Neetu Wadhwa will next be seen in a dance sequence in popular TV show "Kumkum Bhagya".
"I am really glad to get the opportunity to perform as a celebrity guest in the popular show. My selection has been done by Ekta Kapoor herself. I was informed that she loved me for my cute face. Even my dance was loved by all," Neetu said in a statement.
"I am on cloud nine. Will love to continue to be part for Ekta's show as she is a humble person and helps artists to grow. Working with her is always blessing from God," she added.
Neetu, who has previously appeared in shows like "Laagi Tujhse Lagan", "Mamta", "Raja Ki Ayegi Barat" and "Yeh Tera Ghar Yeh Mera Ghar", will be seen dancing on numbers like "Mehboob mere" from "Fiza" and "Mashallah" from "Ek Tha Tiger".
Garima Vikrant Singh joins 'Nimki Mukhiya'
Actress Garima Vikrant Singh has been roped in to play actor Abhishek Sharma's mother in upcoming TV show "Nimki Mukhiya".
"I am feeling blessed to be a part of this show. I'll be playing a grey-shade character. Hope my audience love me and supports me," Garima said in a statement.
Garima has previously appeared in shows like "Gustakh Dil", "Choti Bahu Season 2", "Phir Subah Hogi" and "Ishq Ka Rang Safed".
"Nimki Mukhiya" will be aired on Star Bharat starting from August 28.
My daughter, sister are my lifeline: Dolly Sohi
Actress Dolly Sohi, who is currently seen as actor Paras Kalnawat's mother in TV show "Meri Durga", says she is very close to her daughter and her sister, and can't think of her life without them.
"My sister and my daughter are the ones who are my lifeline. I can't think of a life without them. They are the only people who give me a lot of energy and freshness to keep focusing and keep working hard. I am blessed to have them in my life," Dolly said in her statement.
Dolly has previously done shows like "Kalash", "Peshwa Bajirao" and "Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani".
"Meri Durga", aired on Star Plus, also features Vicky Ahuja, Srishti Jain and Satya Tiwari.
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G-Worldwide Entertainment act Sugarboy drops the first single "Kilamity" off his soon to be released debut album; a dance hall track featuring label mate Kiss Daniel. The track which was produced by Luis AMG is a sample of what to expect on the "Believe" album scheduled for release on the 22nd of April.
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I am putting this up for my friend Kayleen as this is the second time ever creating a card for a challenge as she only started making card 7 months ago, she was over at my place today and I said why not give it a go .
I found this card challenge site called - Fusion
This is what is required for the challenge:
Kayleen has done both and this is her creation:
Kayleen has used the pinks, purples and flowers and also the sketch.
She has had so much fun and now hopes to do more.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Silence 4 - My Friends
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I was just going to say that good music seems to have been interrupted by a misguided attempt at control. Domination. The eternal quest for leadership by some who should have never BEEN leaders in the first place....ReplyDelete
but, no.
The music was interrupted because I wanted to comment on how it was nice to hear some good music.
OK, nuf said.
Now, back to the music!
there seems to be a haitus going.ReplyDelete
That isn't bad. It's good to assess your personal environment, whether physical or mental.
You may not get a lot of roaming around time as you have such a great blog. A GREAT blog!
So, in my last post, I have an e-dress to a guy named Matt Blum.
Heck...you probably already heard of him.
His nudes? Real.
His manner of photography?
He makes them comfortable, and then also makes them laugh... and that's saying something.
Go ahead...
It's OK to relax and enjoy things from the world, sometimes, eh?
Hey boneman, thanks for your comments in my blog. My english is bad (I wrote this with my brother's help) so I'm usually unable to answer the comments back, but they are truly appreciated (I always ask my brother to read them to me).ReplyDelete


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Douchbag fo sho :)
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Huge huge huge TURNOFF! The whole "I'm a douchebag and I will fight you if you look at me funny" shi.t isn't attractive at all, that and my brother wears that shi.t as if it's a huge designer label. Seriously he has caps and shirts and it's just weird and I don't like it all.
Ahaha my ex used to do MMA and he wore them all the time, AND he was a douchebag. So now if I saw a guy wearing it, I might just laugh to myself.
in shape or not, when I see a guy wearing one I always think he's a douchebag
I don't consider people who wear those shirts to be arrogant a**holes. I actually own a few myself I've never thought of them as trying to tell people that I could beat them up.
I wouldn't think anything more then he likes ufc or something, nothing wrong with that just a t-shirt
I have a tap out shirt that I wear (usually to sleep in)
when I first read your question, I internally pronounced tapout as 'ta-poo' LOL.
yea, I guess I'd assume he was an arrogant a**hole :p
No, I think he likes wresting.
I have an autograph from the wrestler TAZ, and he signed it "tapout" so I always think of Taz too.
...That has never crossed my mind... No I wouldn't think that
No I don't judge people by appearance lol
maybe he doesn't know what it means? lol. hahaha.
I just think whatever. Not much to think about
I wouldn't expect him to be. I would know he is
Its a double edged sword. I like that Tapout sponsors up and coming fighters who have no made the big time and allows them to make enough money to help pay for training and give them a shot to get to the big time. But I've been beating the "Tapout is a poser brand" drum for a long time too. Same with Affliction.
LOL! My friends and I crack jokes about them. "Yo, I wear Tapout guy. Don't you wish you were just like me?" in a stupid voice.
Usually someone who thinks UFC is a sport. (UFC is not... MMA is. UFC is just a corporation.) Lol.
UFC is trying to make their brand, the sport. Kind of like the Kleenex brand has taken over what a tissue is. I always want there to be a powerful rival though, keeps the UFC honest, and putting on great fight cards. So here's to hoping Bellator gains some serious traction over the next year.
The WEC was up there as a contender, but since the merge, there is no other big rival. =P
Its crazy.. The UFC is just monopolizing the entire sport of MMA... Not to bash the UFC or anything but I prefer a wider selection than just one corporation. =P
I have a ton of TAPOUT shirts - but I have the body to rock them. if you are out of shape wearing one - then you are a doucheee.
Excuse me while I pull off my TAPOUT shirt and show you. could you please hold my drink - but don't stir it.
MMA is good. But people who sport Tapout sh-t are more often than not douchey idiots.
"hey look that douche thinks he can fight"
Your known as a douchebag if you wear those? why?
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To be honest... I'm really having to dig deep to make myself write my blog posts. I skipped on Saturday because I was too sick to think straight, but yesterday was simply because I was happier working on my classroom website. I'm not sure why my passion for this blog is starting to fizzle, but I'm scared about it. Very scared.
To be honest... I really think I lost a part of me when I gave up on my old blog title. When I was a weight loss blogger, I had purpose. I had a mission. Maybe I'm living with inside thoughts that because I failed at weight loss, I will fail at writing about other topics. All I know is that drive that got me out of bed every morning to sit down at this computer and write about my thoughts and feelings has started to wear down. Maybe it's just a dry spell. I don't know. I have been writing for over two years, after all. But, whatever it is, I'm not sure I can shake it.
To be honest... I'm really enjoying the fact that there's chilly weather upon my area and it appears that fall is finally here. That makes me very happy. I'm so done with hot weather. Stick a fork in me I'm done. I'm not as thrilled about fall allergies, but I'll gladly take them so that I can wake up each morning and need to put on my fuzzy slippers. I'll take the allergies so that I can curl up in a blanket at night while sitting on the couch watching my favorite TV shows. And I'll most definitely take the allergies so that I can sleep with my thick, warm, down comforter at night.
To be honest... It just hit me that maybe my writing situation isn't a bad thing. When I was a passionate blogger, I was dealing with some pretty hard times. I was going to college. That wasn't easy. I was facing rejection from not being able to find a teaching job. I was struggling with my constant setbacks with my weight loss situation. My writing came because I wasn't really happy. Wait, that's not really right to say. I should probably say my writing came from the situations in my life that made me unhappy. Sitting here, this very second, it's occurred to me that maybe I'm having so much trouble writing because everything is so good in my life right now. I have the job I've wanted my entire life. I have financial stability. I have my health. I have a family that's happy and thriving in their new surroundings. Life is better than it's ever been. I wonder, is this why I'm suddenly struck with major writing block? Because I only know how to write when there's some kind of upset in my life? Something to seriously think about.
To be honest... I just realized that there is one part of my life that still isn't perfect. That would be the relationship with my mom. It's been a few weeks, now, since I last spoke to her. And to be really honest, I could have picked up the phone and made amends at any point during this time - but I can't. For years I've always felt like I was the child that needed to be there for my mom. I've let situations that bothered me slide right off my back because I never wanted to upset her. This disagreement we're having is stupid. I could be the bigger person and end it, but I'm tired of always being the one to walk around on eggshells. What about my feelings? To her, we had a silly disagreement over a fishing pole. To me, she made it very clear how much more important her other granddaughter is to her over my child. But, regardless, I know that if I hurt my child - no matter how silly I think the situation is - I'd be the one to put things right.
To be honest... I can't believe I sound so much like a Debbie Downer after declaring that life is peachy. I need my writing sense of humor back! There was once a time that I could write something and actually chuckle to myself or crack a smile. Where'd that part of me go? Geez.
To be honest... I should probably give up on trying to come up with more confessions today and go get ready for work.


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I put one foot in front of the other.
I'm always.
Walking out the door.
It's never difficult to change.
You do need to take the first steps.
Thanks to the work of Rankin/Bass Productions and their use of "Animagic" (a stop motion animation process using figurines) with Mickey Rooney singing musical numbers in creating a classic.


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7695?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Aaron T. Myers updated HADOOP-7695: ----------------------------------- Attachment: HADOOP-7695.patch Here's a patch which addresses the issue. Uma, there's not much reason to check that {{invocationHandler}} is null, since that object is likely not in fact a proxy object, so it should be safe to call {{toString()}} on it. I also prefer to explicitly include {{null}} in the string, instead of {{proxy}} which happens to be {{null}}, to make things more clear. Does this look OK to you? > RPC.stopProxy can throw unintended exception while logging error > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-7695 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7695 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Bug > Components: ipc > Affects Versions: 0.24.0 > Reporter: Aaron T. Myers > Assignee: Aaron T. Myers > Fix For: 0.24.0 > > Attachments: HADOOP-7695.patch > > > {{RPC.stopProxy}} includes the following lines in case of error: > {code} > LOG.error("Could not get invocation handler " + invocationHandler + > " for proxy " + proxy + ", or invocation handler is not closeable."); > {code} > Trouble is, the {{proxy}} object is usually backed by {{WritableRpcEngine}}, which will fail in the event {{toString}} is called on one of its proxy objects. See HADOOP-7694 for more details on that issue. Until that's addressed, we might as well change the log message in {{RPC.stopProxy}} to not call {{toString()}} on {{proxy}}. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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I am sitting here just wondering where did the month go and then I realize how quickly the year is just flying by! We have had so much going on this summer we are just exhausted and no rest in sight!
The summer started with Stephen planning on moving out - he finally landed a job and is now waiting to be bumped up to full time hours and get a couple of paychecks put away so he can make his move. Timeline end of September.
We got the pool opened but have yet to get in it! The weather has been really rainy and when it is nice we are either at work or have other committments that prevent us from getting in and relaxing. This is our second year of little to no pool use - so I am thinking of taking it down - though I know Mark will balk.
Thomas came up for two weeks the beginning of July It is always good to have him in house and this summer especially as he heads off to college in the fall.
Speaking of bad weather it's been lightning and raining and tornadoes all over the midwest. We took a lightning strike near the house a few weeks ago which fried our pool pump and the clothes washer (only 3 years old top of the line....errrrr!!!) So we replaced the pump and ordered a new washing machine and then we had another storm July 2 which evidently succeeded in breaking just one of the power lines coming into the house. Unfortunately the line that broke was not the power feed, but the line that controls how much power comes through into the house. So when we got home ready for a nice holiday weekend we could not use any appliances in the house, could not run the AC, we were getting surges and drops so we called ComEd and put in a work request and of course they never showed up. So - we decided we could use just one appliance at a time - no AC but one appliance - not having had a washer for over a week I needed to do laundry - so we put the brand new washer which was delivered in the middle of this crisis on a surge protector and I started loads. Sunday I went to throw the last load into the dryer (on it's own isolated 220 line) and when I pushed the start button on the drier I had electricity flying out of the outlet next to the drier - which of course is where the washer is plugged in! It blew the surge protector - lots of smoke and smell - but luckily the washer was safe.
Com Ed finally came out on Monday acknowledged their broken line and fixed it in 20 minutes. I was irritated no end - because I not only have replaced about $1,000 worth of appliances, there is more that I have not yet replaced and worst of all my three day weekend was ruined! All in all the storms this year have cost us the pool pump, the washer, 2 mother boards, 1 hard drive in a laptop, a hub unit, 2 surge protectors (up in smoke), and the air filter from the bedroom.
Oh well Life goes on! Last week I did a quick trip to Cleveland for work - always interesting and this past weekend Mark and I volunteered at the Lions Club Annual Senior Picnic - held at the American Legion we had lots of seniors, good food, good fun. Bingo and prizes for everyone.
This weekend - starting today I will be volunteering at the Taste of Roselle - the American Legion booth will have Dove bars as usual, and the Auxiliary will be selling quilt raffle tickets on the quilt that was donated to us by Meliss - Nancy Vrba's sister. It's a beautiful queen size - I'll try to get a pic in the sunshine and post it next week with details.
Tuesday night August 4 we will be at Turner Pond in Roselle handing out hotdogs and sodas again for the National Night Out. This is always fun as we work side by side with Harris Bank staff. Harris is a very generous underwriter for this event and many other community events and organizations - I highly recommend their banking services. That's it for today ! Hope you have a happy and safe weekend ! Ciao!!


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I don't mean to mislead you...Ek Balam has not been rebuilt to the extent of Chichén. It contains at least 45 structures, roads, is surrounded by stone walls, and covers 12 square kilometers, but is mostly in ruins and covered by undergrowth. Only one facade of the large pyramid is restored, but there are heiroglyphs, beautiful sculptures and other monuments. Several buildings have been rebuilt, but much of the site is still covered in trees and vegetation. You have to look more carefully. You have to walk on dusty trails. To me, this is part of the attraction.
There is also a beautiful cenote on the grounds, suitable for swimming and snorkeling. The cenote is owned by the local ejido, and you've got to pay additional fees to enter. I didn't go this time, but I am told it's worthwhile.
It is certain that under-visited treasures like Ek Balam will become more popular as time passes. As if to make the point, when I was coming down from the pyramid or "Acropolis" of Ek Balam, several van-loads of day trippers from Cancún approached with their guide, and some began to climb. One of the young women stopped short and stared up at the height of the structure. Fashionably turned out in heels, revealing tropical mini-skirt, bikini top and jewelry, she was dressed more appropriately for being "seen" at a resort poolside lunch than climbing ruins. I do believe her jaw dropped for a second as she took in the massive stairway in front of her. But she quickly returned her attention to the Blackberry in hand and while eyeing text messages, commented, "There's no elevator?"
This is the sort of package-tourist that has made Chichen Itza what it is today.
So I suppose that with tourism growing and the Yucatán state government's frequent promises of new projects to "detonate" tourism growth in the area (for reasons I can't fathom, they always say "detonate"), it is inevitable that sites like Ek Balam will receive more visitors in the future. Let's hope that as visits in the region increase, these wonderful places can be developed in sensitive ways that permit them to retain some of their innocent, underdeveloped qualities.
I guess it's a good idea to spread the visitors around, rather than have a small number of famous sites, places like Chichén Itzá, suffer most of the impact. This also would more evenly distribute the economic benefits of new jobs.
The good news is that there are many fantastic places like Ek Balam in the Yucatán. I plan to write about more of these in future posts.


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Teachers who use formative assessment as part of their everyday classroom toolbox…
- quickly identify important evidence of student learning and separate it from distracting information,
- readily perceive meaningful patterns among their students' responses to questions and tasks,
- implement a broad range of formative assessment strategies automatically and flexibly as part of their regular routine and
- gather and use evidence from the current instructional context to make advantageous decisions about the next steps of instruction, minute-to-minute and day-by-day.
Because formative assessment strategies and techniques produce so much information about student learning, formative assessment experts must be adept at recognizing which information is critical evidence for moving teaching and learning forward and which information is not.
Formative assessment experts must be well versed in the common misconceptions inherent to their subject matter, as well as typical errors of student thinking, so that they can quickly recognize those cognitive patterns in their students' responses to questions and tasks. Likewise, they must have a firm grasp of appropriate learning interventions.
The use of formative assessment strategies and the activation of specific thought patterns—like comparing evidence of student learning to the goals of a lesson—must be automatic for formative assessment experts, so they can quickly process the evidence they elicit to determine what their students get and don't yet understand.
These root proficiencies are at the heart of formative assessment expertise, but it is the ability to put them all together that truly makes the formative assessment expert. Accomplished formative assessment teachers work fluently and automatically within the current instructional context to address students' immediate learning needs in real time—rapidly processing evidence of student thinking and learning, automatically considering the learning targets, then making advantageous decisions about the next steps of instruction to move learning forward, sometimes with a plan B or even C in mind.
In this view, the teacher functions as an educational diagnostician who—using formative assessment techniques instead of a stethoscope—listens carefully to student thinking; processes it against what he or she knows about the subject at hand, how students learn, and the goals of a lesson. Thus informed, the teacher prescribes appropriate learning interventions.
The end goal of developing formative assessment expertise is an accomplished assessment for learning classroom—a subtly teacher-engineered learning environment that encourages students to behave as active directors of their own learning. While the teacher consistently uses formative assessment strategies and techniques to methodically gather evidence of student learning, both teacher and students use that evidence to keep student learning moving forward. For example, in light of what the evidence reveals, the teacher may reshape or extend a lesson or engage students in working together to achieve the intended learning.
When teachers see themselves as learners, are open to new ways of teaching and are willing to modify their current teaching practice through repeated cycles of systematic practice and reflection, they can gradually arrive at this accomplished level of formative assessment practice.
While it stands to reason that it takes time and targeted attention on formative assessment to build the necessary expert capacity to create and manage an accomplished formative assessment classroom, we believe it is this expertise that ultimately equips teachers to navigate the complexity of both their classrooms and students' minds.
It's important to keep in mind that expertise grows gradually—is incrementally constructed over time—as a result of practice and the ongoing opportunity to reflect on that practice in a systematic way. Practice alone is not enough; thoughtful practice makes the difference.


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P.D. Stuart – a word from the author) The Jesuits, who are they?
They are men of every sort, full of subtle deceit and abominable deception. And they behave as though they were above all laws, like a self-anointed aristocracy – they are the worst kind of monks. Be it also known that the modus operandi of the members of this great secret society is to carry on their work in silence, darkness, and concealment. And so, they will surely deny all that is said about their society in this volume: they will deny their own books, they will even deny their real doctrines and their bloody oaths. For that is their strategy.
But I guarantee you that, apart from their bald denials, it will be impossible for them to gainsay what shall be revealed in this book, when we quote the originals of their own letters, and works the name, the page, chapter and verse.
Let the reader reflect on this most audacious passage found in the writings of the Jesuit scholar Anthony Escobar. In his Secret Instructions Escobar treats us to what is perhaps the most innovative principle of Jesuitism: "It is lawful […] to make use of the science aquired through the assistance of the devil, provided the preservation and use of that knowledge do not depend upon the devil, for the knowledge is good itself, and the sin by which it was aquired has gone by." (Anthony Escobar, Theologiæ Moralis, Tomus iv. Lugduni, 1663 Tom iv., lib. xxviii., sect. I, de Præcept I, c. 20, n. 184, reprint 1652 – Ed. Bibl. Acad. Cant. – in Mainz , 1723) Such are their effronteries. Such are their nostrums – my, my, what intriguing doctrines these men have – they will sell their souls on eBay.
Yes, I promise you that there will be many things that will surprise you, much that will shock you, and some that may even confuse you, but that in the end you will see the entire conspiracy revealed – laid bare, open, and naked before your eyes. Indeed, as Professor Morse said, "the array of facts and arguments going to prove the existence of such a conspiracy will astonish any man who opens the book with the same incredulity as we did."
My sincerest hope is that humanity will hereby be aroused – rulers, statesmen, men in positions of trust and authority, thinking men and women of all classes, everywhere – to the realization of the importance of these facts. Or else, we are doomed. For the deadly serpent is already coiled at our feet, ready to strike.
Comte de Montlosier gave this thunderous assessment of the agenda of the Great Secret Society:
A vast system – no, let us not mince words, a vast conspiracy – has arisen against Religion […] and Society. I saw it in its first stirrings, I have followed its progress, I see now as it prepares to crush us beneath its ruins ...
On this prediction of Montlosier we can count with the accuracy of a calculating machine.
As to conspiracy theories, the reader will find a superabundance of proof within this book. To the skeptical reader, your doubts are quite understandable, for as J. Edgar Hoover, the ex-FBI Director and founder, once wrote, the conspiracy is so immense that "the individual […] coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous […] cannot believe it exists [… the] mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst."
Here, however, I hope to offer some solvents for your doubts. For I am fully aware that these facts and discussions in my book may be at first quite surprising to some, even shocking. No doubt there are those who will smile and say that this is no more than an enthusiastic working up of the imagination: mere conspiracy theories, by which to "allure and tickle weak minds". And so, upon the very subjects indicated and the above-mentioned connections, I will now offer details. For I know the state of minds today, and it does not enter into my plan to ignore any theme, any fact, which might persuade the doubter or convince the sceptic. To those who wish to sleep, sleep on, but let us not be naïve at our gross expense.
Chapter XXXII – Skull and Bones
"It's part of who I am" – The highest moral authority
During his presidential campaign of 2000, George W. Bush gave a 90-minute talk (on July 31) with the managing editor of the Illuminati controlled TIME magazine (so says Jesuit Professor Carroll Quigley: see later chapter titled "The Rhodes Gang"). At one point in the interview, Walter Isaacson asked Mr. Bush whether it troubled him at all that he had been initiated into the secret Society of Skull and Bones, to which Bush responded exuberantly, "No qualms at all. I was honored."
The problem with that response is that the secrets of this order mark its members as infidels and debauchees, with skeletons in their closets.
The reason the "literary society" of Skull and Bones is of particular concern is that its members are required to take an oath (see later) that completely absolves them from – takes precedence over – allegiance to any nation or king or government or constitution, including the negating of any subsequent oath which they may be required to take, that conflicts with the interests of the order. To whom then do they swear their ultimate allegiance? We must go back to the origin of the order to see the roots that sustain these branches.
Now, there has been a certain amount of deliberate falsehoods put out by some who belong to the order called Skull and Bones. I now offer a very different, and we hope more correct view. As we shall see, Skull and Bones is merely a chapter of the German Illuminati, founded by the Jesuit, Adam Weishaupt.
The history of Skull and Bones)
The masterminds behind the formation of Skull and Bones were William Huntington Russell and Alphonso Taft. Russell, while on a student tour of Germany, met Adam Weishaupt and was initiated by him into the Illuminati. In 1832, Russell took his newfound wisdom (or "illumination") back to America. A year later, in 1832, a group of Yale undergraduates, led by Alphonso Taft and Russell, formed a society called, "The Skull and Bones," modelled after the old Phi Beta Kappa Society of 1776 and set up as Chapter 322 of the German Illuminati. Today Skull and Bones' corporate name is The Russell Trust Association, which financies Skull and Bones, and also supervises the order's adherence to the tradition.
Alphonso Taft would later become both President and Chief Justice of the United States – one of four Justices known as the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse". Indeed, "Skull and Bones leads the list in influence, age, and society standing," among American secret society.
Why have I alleged that Skull and Bones is a Chapter of the German Illuminati formed by Adam Weishaupt? What evidence is there to support this? There is a world-wide secret society called the Brotherhood of Death Society, whose symbol is also the skull with two crossed bones. At this point we want to draw a comparison between Skull and Bones and the order known as the Thule Society, which many commentators have said is the German chapter of the Brotherhood of Death Society. It is known that Adolf Hitler joined this society in 1919, under the leadership of Dietrich Eckhart. As Eckhart revealed on his deathbed: "Follow Hitler! He will dance, but it is I who have called the tune. I have initiated him into the Secret Doctrine, opened his centers in vision, and given him the means to communicate with the powers."
Skull and Bones' symbol is also a skull with two crossed bones, but with the mysterious number "322" underneath. It is claimed that certain documents exist which state that Skull and Bones is Chapter 322 of a corps of a German University, and that this German Secret Society (the Thule Society) was the basis for the founding of Skull and Bones at Yale University in 1832. In 1876 the headquarters of Skull and Bones was broken into and a document was found inside with the these words: "From the German Chapter. Presented by Patriarch D.C. Gilman of D. 50."
There are indeed some very striking similarities. Like the Thule Society, members of the Order of Skull and Bones are initiated into the society by what is called "sexual magic ritual". "The [ritualistic] death of the initiate will be as frightful as the use of human skeletons and ritual psychology can make it." The Thule Society performed sexual rituals in their practices, likewise, Skull and Bones also incorporates sexual activities into their initiations (for which see later). Additionally, The Thule Society, were "concerned with raising their consciousness by means of rituals to awareness of evil and nonhuman intelligences in the universe, and with achieving means of communication with these intelligences." Likewise, the initiates of Skull and Bones believe that they are "born again", a term that in the Bones vocabulary means "enlightenment", not the usually meaning given to it in the Christian Gospels.
Significantly, in the book Proofs of a Conspiracy (previously cited) Prof. Robison described the initiation ceremony into the "Regent Degree" of the Illuminati, and according to author Kris Millegan, in his book Fleshing Out Skull and Bones, "It [the Illuminati's initiation ceremony] bears a striking resemblance to the […] ritual for entry into Skull and Bones at Yale."
The oath taken by the Illuminati requires the initiated to disregard all bonds of allegiance whether to father, mother, brothers, sisters, relations, friends or to the king, magistrates, and any other authority to which loyalty, obedience, or service may have been sworn. The particular passage reads: "faithfulness and everlasting obedience to all superiors and regulations of the order […] you are free from the so-called oath to country and laws: swear to reveal to the new chief […] what you may have seen or done, intercepted, read or heard, learned or surmised, and also seek for and spy out what your eyes cannot discern. Honour and respect the Aqua Tofana (a slow poison) as a sure, prompt, and necessary means of purging the globe by death of those who seek to vilify the truth [their ideology] and seize it from our hands [...] in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit."
"You must be born again": Initiation by Don Quixote
Let us look more closely at Skull and Bones and its grotesque Illuminati initiation ritual. On April 23, 2001, ABC News reported on a Hidden Video Capture of the Skull and Bones initiation ritual. From this video we know that the initiation takes place on the campus of Yale University in a building called "The Tomb". Ron Rosenbaum, columnist for the New York Observer, hid out on the ledge of a nearby building and videotaped the nocturnal initiation ceremony in the Tomb's courtyard. He says that in the room "The death's-head logo stamps everything from crockery to painted borders on the wall." There were three people officiating – one dressed like the pope, another like Hiram Abif (the Masonic Messiah) and a third like a Don Quixote.
Why the Skull and Bones ritual would have as officiants Bonesmen dressed like the pope, Hiram Abif, and Don Quixote? Let's look at this a bit closer. However, we need not strain for an answer: the pope represents the supremacy of Catholicism, in Hiram Abif we have the well known representative of Freemasonry. But who is this character Don Quixote?
The Jesuit Carroll Quigley once said, "look at the real situations which lie beneath the conceptual and verbal symbols." So let's take his advice. Quixote was satirically characterized as the epically famous "madman" of Azpeitia. If we start with Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, the author of Don Quixote, we discover that not only was he a "strict Roman Catholic" it is believed that he also attended a Jesuit school in 1566: "Cervantes is likely [to have] enrolled in a Jesuit high school (colegio)." Next we find that Cervantes' book Don Quixote expressly refers to the pope as "His Holiness the Pope" and "his holiness Pope Pius V of happy memory." (pp. 138, 331).
Interestingly, Pope Gregory XII used almost identical words to Cervantes in his letter, dated December 12, 1580, inciting Catholics to murder Queen Elizabeth I: "that guilty woman (Elizabeth) of England […] is the cause of so much injury to the Catholic faith […] whosoever sends her out of the world with the pious intention of doing God service […] especially having regard to the sentence pronounced against her by Pius V of holy memory."
So who was this character represented by the original "Don Quixote" of whom Cervantes wrote so affectionately? "It was Ignatius Loyola," says English commentator John Bowle. Was Bowle right?
The theory that Loyola (the first Jesuit General) is the man represented in the figure of Don Quixote, as first mooted by Bowle, hangs on a passage in the book Don Quixote where the angry Biscayan, the enemy of Don Quixote, is made a native of Azpeitia – the name of the obscure Spanish village where Loyola was born. It is interesting to note that Quixote the "madman" of Azpeitia had wild visions of fighting with a dragon. Likewise, Ignatius Loyola claimed to have fought with Satan, who is referred to in the Bible as the winged "serpent" and "the dragon" (Revelation 12:3,9,17).
Further, in the story Don Quixote is said to have "composed a rosary" in honour of the Virgin Mary, who is typecast as the girl whom he loves "untouched by any man" who "still possesses […] virginity". A clear reference to the Virgin Mary – the idol of Loyola and the Jesuits. Even their mother church is named Mary.
In another book Our Lord Don Quixote (1905), Catholic professor Miguel de Unamuno draws parallels between Don Quixote and the life of the founder of the Jesuit Order, Ignatius of Loyola, their "Lord". And the Jesuit-trained Voltaire wrote, the only difference between Loyola and the Quixote, is that "Don Quixote had a horse and an esquire, but Ignatius was not provided with either."
Another link to the Jesuits is the use of the skull and crossbones emblem. Earlier we saw that when a Jesuit of the lower rank is to be elevated to a position of command, he is conducted into a chapel of the order, where he swears an oath under "a banner of yellow and white [the colours of the pope], and […] a black banner with a dagger and red cross above a skull and crossbones." Bonesmen likewise take an oath of inviolate secrecy while standing before a skull and cross-bones. So, here we see that the Skull and Bones initiation ritual, like that of the Jesuits uses the occult icon of the skull and crossbones.
It is also curious that the emblem of the skull and crossbones is also the symbol of the chancellor for the Knights of Columbus. Interestingly, at the initiation of mason the initiate is placed in a coffin and then lifted up, and when he opens his eyes he is confronted with a human skull and crossed bones? Are these similarities between the initiation of Skull and Bones, the Jesuits and Freemasons just another coincidence?
Albert C. Stevens (the respected historian) also makes this interesting connection between the Masonic Kappa Sigma society, founded in 1867 at the University of Virginia, and Skull and Bones. On page 355, Stevens states, "The badge [of Kappa Sigma] is an inverted crescent of gold, attached to and below which, by four of its points, is a five-pointed star [the pentagram] with the letters Kappa Sigma in its center […] At the top, on the crescent, a skull and bones are engraved. At the left, the crossed keys [a symbol of the pope's power]. And at the right, crossed swords." Is this all mere coincidence?
Returning to Quixote. Note, too, that "the hero [Don Quixote] is not one whom the author [Cervantes] desired to revile or to malign," rather, says Charles Francis Horne, "never was a satire like this, which leaves us full of love and sympathy for the object [Quixote, i.e. Loyola]." Thus, in the initiation ceremony of Skull and Bones, the pope, the Masonic Hiram Abif, and the Jesuit icon, Don Quixote, are all figures of admiration and emulation. Not surprisingly, then, many of the leading politicians in America, Bush, Clinton, Kerry, Rice, etc., bend and fawn before the Roman pontiff.
It is also quite interesting to note that Pope Benedict XVI (when he was Cardinal Ratzinger) also praised the character Don Quixote. In his book Principles of Catholic Theology the Pope referred to the madman Don Quixote as "a crusader for truth even if the defense of it should cost him his life." Did not Loyola, that "ingenious gentleman" and crusader, teach the members of his order to defend the Catholic faith at all hazards, even at the cost of their lives? Is that what Pope Benedict XVI is suggesting to his flock? Is this one of the Principles of Catholic Theology?
To continue with the initiation. The Skull and Bones initiate is made to "face a skeleton, and at its feet are a crown and a sword." During this ritual the Bonesmen shriek out, "Eulogia! Eulogia! Eulogia!" as the initiate is escorted into the inner temple (Room 322), where he is made to sign his name to an oath of utmost secrecy. He is then made to stand before a picture of Judas Iscariot, whose name is shouted aloud three times.
The initiate is next led to the most important part of the ritual, and pushed to his knees before a human skull filled with blood, which skull is resting at the foot of a human skeleton called "Madame Pompadour". The other Bonesmen cry: "Drink it! Drink it! Drink it!" This mockery of the Christian sacrament is known as the "Black Mass". When he is done drinking, the initiate is whipped in the face with the tail of the person dressed as the Don Quiote (the classic literary character symbolic of Ignatius Loyola). He is next taken quickly before the Bonesman dressed like the Pope. The initiate must bend and "kiss the Pope's slippered toe". This very fact – kissing the slippered toe of the pope – shows that their first allegiance is to the pope! Just as the "faithful" Catholic kisses the toe of the bronze statue of St. Peter, inside the Basilica at Rome, so too, the Bonesman must kiss the pope's slippered toe at his ritual initiation into the Order.
But that is not all. The candidate is then shoved to his knees in front of Don Quixote. As the shrieking Bonesmen fall silent Don Quixote taps the supplicant on his shoulder with a sword and says: "by order of our order, I dub you a Knight of Eulogia." This is significant! Not only does the initiate kiss the pope's toe, more importantly, the initiate is welcomed into the order by the figure symbolizing the Jesuit General, Don Quixote: "I dub you a Knight of Eulogia." This lurid "melodrama" culminates in a ritual of mock sacrifice of a naked female.
The religion of Skull & Bones: is Bush Christian?
The sitting President, George W. Bush, is worryingly "religious". The President claims that he is on a "divinely" appointed mission! We shall see a little later.
The Bonesmen use the Greek word: eulogia ("blessing") and are referred to as Knights of Eulogia, because, according to the lore of Skull and Bones, a Roman goddess called Eulogia, after ascending to heaven in 322 B.C., came back to earth in 1832 to found their society. Students of history will know that the Greek general, Alexander the Great died in 322 B.C. and was buried in Memphis, Egypt, and that his body was dug up and reburied in the Gnostic capital of Alexandria. As it turns out, the home of Skull and Bones, on the campus of Yale, is a windowless structure built to look like a mausoleum (a tomb) in a Greco-Egyptian style.
Is Bush a Christian? Judge for yourself.
At one stage in the ritual initiation of Skull and Bones the initiates must "lay naked in coffins and tell their deepest and darkest sexual secrets as part of their initiation". (Esquire, September, 1976, p. 85) Satanic high priest Anton LaVey explains the significance of this in his book The Satanic Rituals – Companion to the Satanic Bible: "The ceremony of rebirth takes place in a large coffin […] This is similar to the coffin symbolism that […] is found in most lodge rituals." Curiously enough, during the 1988 Presidential Campaign, a TV reporter asked Vice-President George H. W. Bush Sr. (father of President George W. Bush) whether he was a Christian. Bush Sr. initially stammered, but then said, "if you mean born again, then, yes, I am a Christian." Now, was that a misleading statement on the part of George Bush Sr.? Is he a Christian or just "born again" Bonesman?
Just to set the record straight, so that Christians don't get confused about Bush's "born again" lark: Skull and Bones believe that on the night of initiation, the initiate "dies to the world and [is] born again into the order." When an initiate enters the coffin during his initiation, he is considered to have "died to self and to this world", and born again into the Order. He is not born again in Christ.
Here is part of a 2000 interview (original transcript) given by the son, President George W. Bush Jr.: "Time) But you sure shared a lot of the same upbringing: Andover, Yale, even Skull and Bones. Did you have any qualms, say, about joining an elite secret club like Bones?
Bush) No qualms at all. I was honored. I was fairly nonchalant. I didn't view it as a great heritage thing. I didn't take it all that seriously.
Time) Demystify it a bit for those who might think it's a cross between a Masonic Lodge and the Trilateral Commission. Did your father show up for your initiation, like your grandfather showed up for his?
Bush) Without revealing all the great secrets? I got a few of my old club mates who could demystify it right off the bat. My dad didn't tap me. Someone a year ahead of me tapped me. There was an entry celebration. I can't remember whether my dad showed up or not."
Note that President Bush did not deny that Skull and Bones was a Masonic Lodge, rather he confirmed that he could not reveal "all the great secrets". In fact that same 2000 interview, Bush said of his family's historical involvement in Skull and Bones: it is "my heritage. Its part of who I am." Indeed it is: his father, George H.W. Bush Sr. is also a "born again" member. Bush once said, to understand people you have to look at their family.
So, what exactly is Bush's mission? "I'm here for a reason," Bush told his chief political aide Karl Rove after the September 11 attacks. Close friends of the President speak of his views in similar terms: "I think, in his frame, this is what God has asked him to do," said one close friend. One senior administration official said, "[Bush] really believes he was placed here to do this as part of a divine plan." The question is: what divine plan is he referring to, God's or someone else's? We can guess the answer from a statement that Bush made two years into his presidency: "The best way to honour Pope John Paul II […] is to take his teaching seriously […] and put his words and teachings into action here in America." Perhaps this explains what President Bush meant when three years later in 2004 he told the Knights of Columbus that he was their "friend in […] administration", and that together they would work "to change America"! Is President Bush a Catholic, you ask? Really, dear reader, you are far too inquisitive!
On March 23, 2001, a day after promising to put the pope's teachings into action in America, Bush was speaking at the Catholic University of America, and he reminded his audience that the former president of the Soviet Union had called the pope "the highest moral authority on earth." Why did Bush feel the need to remind his audience of this? Does Bush also regard the pope as "the highest moral authority on earth?"
Perhaps Bush and the Russian President were referring to a papal statement made on July 18, 1870 by Pope Pius IX: "We declare it to be an article of faith that the Roman Pope possesses infallibility in any doctrine relating to faith and morals. If anyone shall oppose this our decision, which God forbid, let him be accursed."
Intelligent reader, whenever you hear a man express such views, as freely as Bush does, you can be sure that he is either a Jesuit, a tool of the Jesuits or that he has been "poisoned by their maxims". Take your pick, the conclusions are not far different. Bonesmen do not kiss the pope's ring at their initiation ceremony for no reason!
The Belfast Telegraph, April 14, 2007 reported: "US President George W. Bush will meet with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican in June." This meeting took place on June 25, 2007. Both men exchanged gifts. Why would the President of the United States of America go to Rome to kiss the ring of a mitred king of the Vatican? Bush had a "closed-door discussion" with Pope Benedict! As one of my acquaintances asked, "what did Bush and Benedict say to one another during those 35 minutes of privacy following the journalists' departure from the Pope's [private] library?" Equally fascinating is the significance of Benedict's "message-packed" gift to the U.S. commander-in-chief: a rare first edition of the autobiography of John Carroll of Baltimore. John Carroll was the first Catholic Archbishop of the United States and founder of the first Jesuit university in America: Georgetown University!
How profound of D.S. Phelan (a priest) to say, "the pope is the ruler of the world. All the emperors, all the kings, all the princes, all the presidents of the world are as these altar boys of mine." Why do you doubt this? Have we not seen photographic, video and Television images of three U.S. presidents kneeling in homage before the bier of Pope John Paul II.
Robert Higgs comments of the power of the pope: "observing the many government leaders gathered at the Vatican for the funeral of Pope John Paul II, we might well have suspected that the world's politico-military chieftains need what the Pope has more than the Pope needs what they have."
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Back to Bloggin'
A lot of time has passed since I last posted anything to this site. We haven't given up on brewing. In fact, the opposite is true; we started brewing so much that I couldn't keep up with this site. We brewed over 35 batches of beer since I last posted ten months ago! I was unable to post a brew-day write-up about each of them, so I sort of gave up altogether. My goal going forward is to journal any brew days that are interesting for any reason – new process, new ingredients, new equipment, experiments, group brew days, that sort of thing. And, more importantly to me, I need to get back into taking detail tasting notes for each batch. This is a good place to post them.
Speaking of new equipment…
Last summer we set out to design and build our ideal brewery – one that we won't outgrow, one that will last the rest of our days in the hobby. I think I succeeded. Above is a single tier, three vessel, dual pump, 15 gallon HERMS brewery. The core details are:
- Stout Tanks and Kettles 20 gallon tangential inlet combi-tank (brew/whirlpool kettle)
- Stout Tanks and Kettles 15 gallon MLT with bottom drain
- Stout Tanks and Kettles 15 gallon HLT with HERMS coil
- Blichmann Floor Standing Burners, mounted in…
- Brew Stand bolted together from strut channel
- Chugger Pumps
- Convoluted Counterflow Chiller
- Control Panel for pumps and HLT burner
I aim to create a complete write-up describing the step-by-step process for brewing on this thing. A video sounds like a decent idea as well. If you have questions about our setup, please leave them in the comments below and I'll address them in future detailed coverage.
We've only brewed on this new system a half dozen times or so, but the process is starting to get dialed in. Will this system make us better brewers? Probably not. But it was fun to build and is even more fun to brew on.
Everyone wants to know what it cost to build. The answer: a lot. You can make great beer on a much simpler, less expensive system. But this is a hobby and you can put as much into your hobby as you want, and for us this was money well spent. Perhaps tomorrow I'll document my brew day for this site…
8 Responses to "Back to Bloggin'"
Jack, would love to observe a brew day on your system…and pitch in where I can. Let me know if that could work.
I am a homebrewer living in Sydney Australia and I believe you have my dream brew system! Just wondering mate if you might have a schematic for your Brew System. I am going to build something very similair with 20 and 30 gallon Stout tanks. However I am not the most electrically enclined person and would love to get a map on which to built the electrics for my Herms brewery.
Thanks and Cheers
Paul in Sydney
Cheers, Paul. Thanks for the compliment. I'm not much of an electrician, but I did manage to draw a schematic that worked for me in Visio. My CP has manual switches for the pumps. The HLT burner is controlled, and the BK burner is completely manual. There's an on-off-auto switch for the HLT buner and the controller manages a standing-pilot furnace valve. Here's a screenshot of it. Hope it helps.
Cheers and Thanks Jack!
I am still in the dark a bit as I am a aircraft engineer but I am mechanical not electrical plus over here we have the added problem of most schematics you see online for herms systems are for 120v and over here we are 240v. Plus I think I want semi automated with the room to maybe go with a BCS system down the track. So baby steps but I think I will go with a home electrician when it comes to wiring. Better to be safe when your mixing gas and electric! Cheers Mate
Hi Jack,
I have spent a lot of time researching brew stands and I really like yours. Would you be able to provide me with a parts list?
Thank you,
I am attempting to build something similar to your stand here. I want the burners (blichmann) to be mounted like yours. What size of bolt was needed to mount them? It looks like you mounted it using a 90 degree bracket to the underside of the channel?
Lyle, I can dig up a parts list and post it soon.
Even, you're correct, it's bolted to the lower channel using a 90 degree bracket and mounted directly to the upper channel using unistrut channel nuts. The holes on the blichmann legs are different sizes – upper and lower – and I don't remember what size the bolts were offhand. I think the uppers were 3/8″ and the lowers were 1/4″.