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History Portal Introduction
This guide is for general history research help. For course specific guides, please see the Course Guides link or contact me.
History Ethical Use
Contrary to wide-spread opinion, materials found on the Internet are not free for any use. They may be at no-cost, but you must still gain permission and attribute your sources with proper citation.
The principle of "Fair Use" allows for a limited amount of use for educational (not-for-profit) purposes. Educate to protect yourself both in using others and future use of your own work.
Copyright and Fair Use
Fair Use Checklist (Columbia University)
Image Rights (Harvard University)
How I Learned to Love Fair Use (Mary Minow at Stanford explains how to determine fair use)
Creative Commons Licenses (Allows use in a variety of ways with protection for the creator)
Statement on Standards of Professional Conduct (American Historical Association) applies to students as much as it applies to professionals.
National Council on Public History Bylaws and Ethics
Oral History Society: Is Your Oral History Legal and Ethical? Written for those in the United Kingdom, these guidelines still apply to US historians.
Ethical Blogging: Sourcing Images is oriented towards bloggers, but offers tips on copyright, ethical use, and sources for everyone.
Philadelphia Historical Digital Image Library Statement of Use and Reproduction (Sample of usage permissions)
University of Chicago Author's Permissions Guidelines (publisher of the Chicago Manual of Style)
Primary Sources
Primary Sources for History
Finding primary sources will be the most challenging portion of your search process. Not only determining where to look (not everything is on the web!), you will be dealing with inconsistent language, format issues, and identifying whether what you found is actually primary or not.
Searches including the term 'primary' will usually return an unsatisfactory result set. This is because it is actually difficult to label an item as primary--what it is varies with the need of the researcher and the situation in which the item was created. This example uses articles published about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
"San Francisco Doomed" from The Oakland Tribune, April 18, 1906 is from the time of the event and would be primary source material for historical research on this event and its aftermath.
"Frisco Quake Remembered" from The Birmingham Post and dated April 19, 2006 is secondary if you are researching the 1906 quake. BUT it could be considered primary if you are researching the perception of this event after a period of time (how has memory affected history?), rather than the event itself.
A well-done site that discusses finding primary sources on the web, providing examples and a selection of sites is "Using Primary Sources on the Web". This is brought to you by the members of the the American Library Association's Reference & Users Service Association/History Section.
A search on your topic or person in the CSUSM library catalog (or other library catalogs) can reveal a number of primary sources in our collection. Keyword searches that include the following terms will identify primary materials most of the time:
- Memoir
- Diar* (for diary or diaries)
- Correspondence (this is a LoC subject heading subdivision)
- Letters
- Personal narrative (this is a LoC subject heading subdivision)
- Recollections
- Reminscences
- Journal
Some things to watch out for when searching a library catalog:
- Searching on a personal name. If the catalog uses Library of Congress subject headings, there will be a consistent version used in the subject headings, but additional notes may be added to provide access through common alternatives, spellings, or nicknames. (e.g., Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens)
- Subject headings will use one approved phrase for a topic, but if the subject heading has been updated (very rare), you may need to use older phrasing in your subject search. This is most likely to happen if you are using a print index (the drawers of cards) rather than an electronic index.
There are other tricks to try, contact your librarian for more help.
History Databases with Primary Sources
Accessible Archives
A good source for 19th Century American History; includes newspapers on the Civil War and African Americans.
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998
Newspapers digitized from 37 states chronicling African American experiences and influence in a variety of events from the early 19th through late 20th centuries.
American State Papers, 1789-1838
Collection of U.S. Congressional business after the Continental Congresses and before the U.S. Congressional Serial Set began.
Archive of Americana
Collections of digital documents representing American history and the growth of the nation (American State Papers, U.S. Congressional Serial Set and its maps, and a collection of Hispanic American Newspapers. Search all collections at one time.
Documenting the American South
A collection of primary source documents reflecting Southern U.S. history, literature and culture.
Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980
Spanish and English language newspapers offering news, advertisements, opinion and more from across the nation reflecting contemporary thought and activity.
Los Angeles Times (Historical)
Archived articles beginning with 1881 through 1995, more recent content is found in the database collection in the L subseries.
Making of America Project (Cornell University)
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction (19th century imprints). Focuses more on journal articles.
Making of America Project (University of Michigan)
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction (19th century imprints). Focuses more on books.
New York Times (Historical Collection) Mid-19th Century through 1980, more recent content is found in the database collection in the N subseries.
San Diego Union Newspaper Archive
Our local major newspaper from 1871-1983, more recent content is found in the database collection in the S subseries.
U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980
A record of Congressional activities reflecting public opinion, interactions with the President, treaties and much more. A companion site to this is Congress.gov, listing legislative activity (bills and laws) for 1973-current.
Primary Sources (on the internet)
An increasing number of sites are offering digitized images and text that are of use to the historian. Here is a sampling:
- American Memory (US materials held by the Library of Congress)
- Diennial Historical Census (US Census Bureau)
- (ARC) Archival Research Catalog National Records and Archives' catalog
- Especially useful is the ARC Gallery: Immigration and Naturalization page
- Recommended by Dr. Kang is the WWII photos collection
- US Geographic Summary Data and Boundary Files (IPUMS) recommended for experienced GIS users
- Immigration to the United States 1789-1930 (Harvard Open Access)
- Calisphere (University of California, mostly historical images, but some text)
- AP Archive (Associated Press) offers a wide range of movie and video footage used in a variety of media reports.
- Internet Archive (a mix of text, moving images and sound files)
- UMedia Archive (University of Minnesota, mostly Eastern European immigrant photographs)
- Women in World History: Primary Sources Follow the "Americas" link to see a range of primary documents
- Life Photo Archive (from Google)
- Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History (HEARTH)
Newspapers as Primary Sources
Newspapers are one of the best primary source collections for many topics, but should not be considered scholarly or impartial.
These serve as a reflection of popular thinking and exhibit strong biases based on editorial policies.
This page is devoted to historical newspaper sources. All newspapers (current or historical) that are available in full text at CSUSM in either paper, microfilm or electronic format can be located by a search in the library catalog.
When you consider that newsprint has an approximate shelf-life of 50 years, that explains why so many older newspapers are found on microfilm (shelf-life of 200 years.) Knowing this doesn't make microfilm easier to use, but here at CSUSM, we have indexes to the newspapers when available and have installed microfilm reader-printers that will allow you to scan and save the page you are viewing to your H drive, dropbox, zotero, or email page scans to yourself. As we can, we are adding newspapers in digital form to our collections and those will be found in the database collections.
You can search specific titles of major newspapers from the database list (New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Times (London), and the San Diego Union each have individual archival collections.)
For a more general search, type your research topic (keep it simple) in the Articles+ search box and limit the results to "newspaper articles". This is going to return articles published from a variety of time periods and publications, but you have tools to narrow your results to the left of the results list.
What newspapers do we have?
It is best to have a newspaper title, but if you do not, you can try the word newspaper with a city name, topic or ask the librarian for help!
If you are interested in certain types or geographic divisions of papers, you can do a subject search on 'newspapers' and look through the available subdivisions that reflect more focused topics. Here are some examples of subject headings and sub-headings:
- Newspapers--African Americans--California (newspapers by/about African-Americans in California)
- Newspapers--Albuquerque N M (newspapers published in Albuquerque)
- Newspapers--Bannock Indians (newspapers published by and about a particular group)
- Newspapers--Boston University (school newspaper, generally student-run and written)
- Newspapers--Chinese--United States (Chinese can refer to the subject group or language of publication)
- Newspapers--India (newspapers published in another nation)
- Newspapers --Indians Of North America--South Dakota (Native American newspapers published in a particular state)
- Newspapers--Popular Culture--San Francisco Calif (newspaper on a topic with regional subdivision)
Research in other historical newspaper requires access to backfiles (the term used for older issues) and likely you need to go to a newspaper 'morgue' for hard copies. These may be at a library or a local historical society located in the area you are researching. Many newspapers are not yet indexed or digitized and will require consultation with a librarian or history expert to locate pertinent materials.
CSUSM Holdings of notable titles Print/microfilm/electronic
We have the following titles, with hard copies and microfilm on the 4th floor of the Kellogg Library. For papers without extensive archives, contact information has been posted for possible archival access.
Los Angeles Times (1881- on)
Archival Collection Online: Los Angeles Times (1881-1988)
Print: Latest in paper, older issues in the Microfilm Collection F-2
Current issues: ProQuest Direct
New York Times (1851-on)
Archival Collection Online: New York Times Historical Collection (1851-2008)
Print: Latest in paper, older issues in the Microfilm Collection F-3. NON-CSUSM users--You can use the NYT archives search to access free full text (prior to 1923) or use the citation information to access the article in our microfilm collection.
Current issues: ProQuest Direct
San Diego Union Tribune (1871-on) Note this title has changed several times over the years.
Archival Collection Online: 1872-1983 San Diego Union Newspaper Archive
Print: Latest in paper, older issues in the Microfilm Collection F-1
Current issues: from February 2, 1992 in ProQuest Direct
See also: Lower California Frontier: Articles from the San Diego Union, 1870, (book) edited by Florence C. Shipek located in 4th floor Stacks at F1246 .S2 V.2 This provides selected articles from the Union published in 1870 prior to the microfilm series.
Escondido Times Note this title has changed several times over the years.
Online formats: 1893-1995
North County Times (San Marcos city edition)
Print: Latest 2 months in paper
Business Office: 207 Pennsylvania Ave. Escondido, CA 92025 (760) 745-6611
North County Times
Photographic negatives from 1968-2001
Currently only a collection-level record but it will be updated with an inventory to the envelope-level soon. If you are looking for images before this update, send your requests to firstname.lastname@example.com for assistance
San Diego Voice and Viewpoint
Print: Latest 2 months in paper
Business Office: 1729 N. Euclid Ave. San Diego, CA 92105 (619) 266-2233
Wall Street Journal (1980-on)
Latest in paper, older issues in the Microfilm Collection F-4
Current issues: from 1984-on in ProQuest Direct
Irish Times
Microfilm Collection F-144 for years 1916-1988 (some gaps)
1995-on in ProQuest Direct or Factiva
Times (London)
Archival Collection Online: Times (London) digital archive 1785-1985
Collections (multiple titles in one resource)
Early American Newspapers
Microfilm Collection F-47
America's Historical Newspapers, (1690-1998)
America's Historical Newspapers (includes subsets that may be searched individually)
- African American Newspapers, 1827-1998
- Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980
- San Diego Union Newspaper Archive 1872-1983
Online with free full text
Older California newspapers are available in the California Digital Newspaper Collection. Titles include The Californian (first California newspaper in 1846) and regional titles.
Chronicling America at the Library of Congress is the clearing house for the National Digital Newspaper Program. The California Digital Newspaper Project is a part of this nation-wide effort.
Penn State's Historical Newspapers Online is a very comprehensive and detailed listing of full-text historical US newspapers.
News Archives for US papers is an assortment of papers and sources for browsing
Elephind provides a list of a number of large free access digitized newspaper collections.
Foreign Newspaper Archives (examples)
Mexico Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de Mexico 1722-2006 (note, not all are available open access and all materials are in Spanish)
Ireland Belfast Newsletter Index 1737-1800 An index to the early years of the oldest continually-published English-language newspaper.
Canada Saskatchewan News Index 1884-2000 Index to newspapers from the region. A limited number of full-text articles are also available.
Australia TROVE: Digitised Newspapers and More
Focused Interest Archives (examples)
Union List of Digitized Jewish Historic Newspapers, Periodical and E-journals 1811-2018 with the bulk of titles early 20th Century, many titles are in German or other non-English languages and some titles listed are accessed only through subscription.
Catholic News Archive 1831-1978
Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection -- Japanese Diaspora Initiative 1891-1938, titles in English and Japanese, published in Hawai'i and the Americas.
Full Text Print (Local availability)
The major universities in San Diego County all have historical newspaper collections. Titles and date ranges can be browsed through their online catalogs or the joint catalog system, CIRCUIT.
Public Libraries
San Diego County Library System AND San Diego Public Library have historical newspaper collections. Titles and date ranges can be browsed through their online catalogs or the joint catalog system, CIRCUIT.
Check city libraries (Carlsbad, Oceanside, etc.) as they are not members of the county or SD Public system, so have separate online catalogs.
Historical Societies
San Diego History Center has a list of titles with larger runs. An article from the Journal of San Diego History at http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/1965/october/index-46/ discusses historical newspapers and their use.
Indexes do not provide full-text to the articles, but act as a directory to tell you when an article was written addressing your research topic. Even weekly newspapers have so many different articles is one issue and cover so many topics in one issue, it is difficult to locate the desired information unless you have a specific citation. Indexes provide a faster means to your information goal as opposed to guessing at a date and browsing the issues.
Some papers have print or digital indexes. Please refer to the guide for Newspapers for more information or consult the librarian.
History on the Internet
Internet Sources
Where to Look
Examples of one-stop shopping for quality resources on the web.
- Directory Of Open Access Journals freely-available full text online journals.
- Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World
- Hathi Trust Digital Library (Gathered from university collections, these are full text or citations of a variety of works from the 19th and early 20th Century)
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project (Fordham University) provides access to the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook, Medieval Studies Sourcebook and Modern History Sourcebook
- Labryrinth (Medieval Studies)
- Luminaria: Medieval, Renaissance and 17th Century materials
- NetSerf a mixed collection of material, does offer some useful links to medieval texts and a glossary of medieval terms
- New York Public Library Digital Gallery (a large and growing number of drawings, paintings, photographs and other primary source images in collections divided by subject, time period or geography)
- Online Medieval and Classical Library provides searchable, digitized collection of early texts
- ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies is a peer-reviewed collection of articles for scholarly use, translations of medieval works and more.
- Perseus Digital Library
- UCLA Library: Online Campaign Literature Archive (Los Angeles area)
- Voice of the Shuttle: Anglo Saxon and Medieval emphasizes literature and the study of literature.
- WWW-VL History Central Catalogue
Search Strategies
As the internet continues to grow, the amount of useless, broken, and suspect information also grows. Here are some easy tricks to help reduce the clutter and make sure you have the best.
- Limit your searches to domains that are likely to return better quality material.
- EDU domains are university servers. Many universities are digitizing their special collections and offer digital repositories of their scholars' works.
- GOV limits searches to US federal, state and local governments.
- MIL limits to US military servers and they are very active historians.
- ORG can be worthwhile to check out as many of these sites are museums or organizations of specialists in the area of history you are researching.
- Consider alternative terms and spellings, keep in mind that just because you spell it one way doesn't mean it has always been spelled that way, especially in earlier times.
- VERIFY information you find against other reputable sources--the site you are looking at should provide a bibliography to follow up on.
- Investigate the site's author--who are they and what are they trying to accomplish?
- Check the search engine's help pages--they have lots of focused search tips.
Thesis History
Upon your successful thesis defense and signed approval by your committee, your thesis is added to the CSUSM Scholarworks collection in perpetuity as an Electronic Theses/Dissertation (ETD)!
To get your hard work into the collection, there are guidelines and more importantly, deadlines, from your department, the CSUSM Graduate Office, and Library:
Overview of the Masters of Arts in History at CSUSM
CSUSM Office of Graduate Studies and Research
Masters Thesis, Project or Comprehensive Exam Information and Forms
Want to see what other CSUSM History Theses look like? Search SCHOLARWORKS >Theses, Dissertations and Graduate Research > History
Tutorials & Helps
History Tutorials & Helps
A collection of sites to expand your skill set.
Learning to Do Historical Research: A Primer for Environmental Historians and Others
An exceptionally well-done site and not just for the historian researching environmental history!
Using Manuscripts and Archives: A Tutorial
From Yale University, so the examples are specific to Yale, but very helpful.
BBCi Ancient History
History 'lite'; useful for some topic ideas.
History Toolkit
Geared towards the general novice history researcher, an especially helpful page is "How to Read 18th Century British-American Writing".
Style Guides
Examples of how to cite common sources.
Is it Scholarly?
A guide to the features of scholarly publication from North Carolina State University.
Professional Sources
History as a Profession
As a history researcher, you will be considering careers that will use your history expertise and how to 'break into' the field. Become informed as to options and develop connections to practicing professionals. One way to do this is by getting involved in professional organizations and networking. Here are some ways to do that...
Professional Organizations
- American Historical Association
- Organization of American Historians
- Phi Alpha Theta (student honor society)
- Phi Alpha Theta (CSUSM Chapter)
- Anahita-L
- H-Net Discussion Networks (a variety of offerings for specific history interests)
Career Information/Ideas
- Occupational Outlook Handbook (use the search box in the left navigation bar to search "historian"
- Careers for Students of History (American Historical Association)
- Careers for History Majors (American Historical Association)
- And think about speaking to me about a library career (yes, I will always plug for librarianship as a great career, especially for historians)
Need Help?
Judith A. Downie
Special Collections and History Librarian
760-750-4374 OR 760-750-4312 (Archives)

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Also Read: How To Recover Lost Data After Android 8.0 Oreo Update
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Also Read: How To Recover Photos From Android Phone After Factory Reset
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Yoga Chain, Pet Supply Manufacturer To Launch IPOs This Week
Following a number of real estate investment trusts, tech companies and pharmaceuticals, six companies are set to join the public markets this week.
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Federal Street Acquisition Corp. (FSACU) will issue 40 million shares at $10 Thursday on the Nasdaq. The Boston-based firm was founded in 2017 as a blank-check company to acquire a health care business.
Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (KALA) will issue 6 million shares between $14 and $16 Thursday on the Nasdaq. The biopharma firm develops and commercializes treatments for eye diseases using its Mucus Penetrating Particles technology.
TPG RE Finance Trust, Inc. (TRTX) will issue 11 million shares between $20 and $21 Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange. The mortgage REIT, managed by TPG, specializes in commercial real estate debt.
Yogaworks, Inc. (YOGA) will issue 5 million shares between $12 and $14 Thursday on the Nasdaq. The 30-year-old firm operates more than 40 yoga studios in New York, Los Angeles, Orange County, Boston, Baltimore and the Bay Area.
Petiq, Inc. (PETQ) will issue more than 5.6 million shares between $14 and $16 Friday on the Nasdaq. The company partners with veterinarians to market a portfolio of pet medications, supplies and treats.
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An Original Character-only Journal Roleplay based on humanized versions of playing cards. Characters live in a place called the Deck, which can be accessed from anywhere in the world. Typically, only people who have heard of the Deck can enter it, but it is possible for some to simply stumble in. There are also those who are Deck-born and have lived there all their lives.
Each character has a Rank, varying from Two through the Face Cards, and belongs to a Suit (Hearts, Clubs, Spades and Diamonds,) just like in a regular deck of cards. Newcomers start out as Twos, but can move up through the Ranks through things called Challenges. Lower Ranks are typically more serving/working-class, while higher Ranks are more involved in the running of their specific Suit.
The community can be found here. Not to be confused with the the TV show.
This game provides examples of:
- Anyone Can Die: Not even the Royals are exempt from this.
- Babies Ever After: Best seen in the Alternate Universe "Grimverse." Which isn't so grim after all.
- Bright Castle: The Diamonds Castle is known as the Crystal Palace for a reason.
- Death by Origin Story: In the heroes and villains AU, Andrew's brutal murder and Argine's presumed death are the driving forces in the appearance of Eileen's powers and she and her brother's vigilantism. Also Edgar and several other family members/friends of player-controlled characters in canon.
- Death Is a Sad Thing
- Fictional Country
- Finishing Each Other's Sentences: Heroes/Villains-verse heroic twins Eileen and Darren, thanks to Twin Telepathy. And, well. General telepathy.
- Full-Name Ultimatum:
- Gratuitous Foreign Language: Of the Welsh, Italian, Chinese, Gaelic, Greek, Farsi, French, Irish, Russian, ASL, BSL, Spanish and Polish varieties.
- Heroic BSoD: Chives, after Urania telling him she was pregnant.
- Lonely at the Top: The Queen of Diamonds Rachel commonly experiences this.
- Non-Player Character: In great abundance— the Deck can't run on only player-controlled characters, after all!
- Not Quite Dead: A rarely-occurring trope, most notably witnessed in the return of the the Spade King David after an assassination attempt by his wife and Queen, Athena.
- Overly Long Name: See the Appolonideses, the Berthiers, and the Fitzgeralds for some examples.
- Past Right Now
- Standard Royal Court
- Tangled Family Tree: One of the Alternate Universes, the "Lord of the Cards"-verse, has this. Can likely also be seen in many old Deck families due to interbreeding.
- You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: Or Heartbreaking, in the case of Rachel calling her beloved niece by her proper name instead of the usual, fond, "little one" in Marcus' execution.
Characters in this game provide examples of:
- Absent-Minded Professor: Fin, the Clubs' resident professor.
- Angsty Surviving Twin: Calypso after Echo's death.
- The Ace: Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
- Badass Normal: Just about everyone in the Deck.
- The Caligula: The former Spade King.
- The Good King: Andrew, Ceiro.
- The High Queen
- Ice Queen: Queen of Diamonds Rachel and her Ace, Säde.
- Little Miss Badass: The twelve-year-old Ace of Clubs Eileen in a nutshell.
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Artest, Bibby lift Kings over HornetsFeb 6, 2007 - 7:28 AM SACRAMENTO, California (Ticker) -- Thanks to Ron Artest and Mike Bibby, the Sacramento Kings continued their home-court dominance over the New Orleans Hornets.
Artest scored 21 points and Bibby added 19 as the Kings raced out to an early lead and held off a Hornets' third-quarter rally en route to a 105-99 victory.
Sacramento has won three straight, while the Hornets lost for the second time in their last seven games.
"We played well together," Bibby said. "Everybody was running, and we had a lot of easy transition points. I tried to push the ball and just try to make easy baskets for everybody, and it worked."
"The gameplan was to make sure we got back on defense in transition and don't give up any open looks," Hornets coach Byron Scott said. "I told the team at halftime, if we want to look at a tape of what not to do, this was perfect. For whatever reason we didn't come ready to play."
The Kings have won 11 consecutive games at home over the Hornets, who have not won in Sacramento since January 12, 1997.
Sacramento used a 10-0 run to take a 40-24 lead after the first quarter and led, 63-50, at halftime. Bibby made 6-of-7 shots in the first half and Artest added 12 points.
"It was all right but we didn't sustain it throughout the whole four quarters," Artest said of the Kings' fast start. "We had to really fight for that win. Hopefully next time we can hold onto that lead, keep a team down and make it really hard for a team to get back into the game."
"We put ourselves in a situation where we had to fight back the whole game," Hornets guard Desmond Mason said. "When you do that, you tend to run out of gas or get mentally tired or frustrated. I think that's what happened to us. We got behind the eight ball early."
Bibby rebounded from a poor performance in a 94-87 win over the Denver Nuggets on Saturday when he shot 25 percent (4-of-16) from the floor and from the arc (2-of-8).
"Mike has been having a difficult time making shots, but he's not giving up," Artest said. "That gives me confidence. He knocked big shots at the beginning and one big shot at the end. He was in a nice rhythm tonight."
The Hornets trailed, 76-60, midway through the third quarter before they embarked on a 17-4 run, capped by Paul's three-point play with 2:34 left that sliced Sacramento's lead to 80-77.
The Hornets closed to 91-90 on Tyson Chandler's jumper with 6:38 to play but never got closer. They trailed, 100-97, with 32 seconds left before Artest sank two free throws for a 102-97 advantage.
Kevin Martin, who scored 14 points, made both of his free throws with 15 seconds left to give the Kings a 105-99 lead.
Paul led the Hornets with 24 points and Mason scored 17.
"We weren't aggressive early offensively, and we dug ourselves too deep of a hole," Paul said. "When we finally fought back, it was too late."
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Sam stayed away from Sylvia's school for a couple of days, until the pain from his cracked rib had turned from a sharp stabbing sensation every time he inhaled to a constant ache. He didn't dare take the painkillers the doctor at the Montefiore Hospital emergency room had prescribed, for fear that someone would notice. Instead he took double doses of ibuprofen every couple of hours, and slept fitfully in his sweltering apartment.
He had nightmares every night, about Feng. Sam had been in a few schoolyard fistfights as a kid, and one serious fight in the Air Force, when he and a couple of other airmen had been jumped by local punks outside a beer hall in Frankfurt. But even that was not the same as choking the life out of a man as he looked him in the eye.
When he finally went back to the basement classroom, he found that he and Isabella were the only students. Sylvia was visibly nervous as she lectured, lighting up new cigarettes before the old ones were half-smoked, and her answers to his questions were sarcastic. Isabella sat with a half smile on her face, listening but taking no notes.
Finally Sam raised his hand. "What happened?"
Sylvia paused and looked at him. "Feng's dead. Don't you read the papers?"
Across the room Isabella giggled.
"I know that, but what happened? What's going on?"
Sylvia rolled her eyes, then sat down heavily in her chair. "I don't know. Nobody knows — except whoever did it, and they're keeping quiet. Someone whacked Feng. He had guards, including a bailong bound to his house. That's a dragon, just so you know. It took someone with a lot of juice to get past that kind of protection. Everyone's afraid this is the start of a major fight among the higher-ups, maybe even the Sages. Shimon's parents took him someplace upstate. I don't know where MoonCat is. You two are the only ones dumb enough to show up here. And me, I guess."
"I thought the whole point of having an organization like the Apkallu was to prevent this kind of thing."
Sylvia glared at him. "It is. We've got regular crime in New York, but that's no reason to give up on having police, right? Same thing. Welcome to the real world."
"Is there anything we can do?"
"Yeah, you can get a Great Dane and four stoners and figure out who did it in time for the next commercial." She stubbed out a cigarette in the ashtray while taking a drag from the one in her mouth, then Sam could see her force herself to relax. "Look, the smart thing would be for you two — and me — to keep our heads down, figure out who's likely to come out on top, and go start sucking up to them now, beat the rush."
"Like Mr. Stone?" asked Sam?
Sylvia snorted. "That guy? Don't make me laugh. If he does wind up in charge you can bet someone else is pulling his strings."
"Who would you recommend, then? I don't know who most of the higher-ups are."
Sylvia looked thoughtful. "Well, Feng was a Master of the House, one of the Circle of the West. There are a bunch of others. Stone's one, though I don't know how the hell he ever made it that high. I don't know who else would be making a play for the Norumbega Circle. Maybe the Count, but . . . I don't know."
"Is — is MoonCat okay?" Sam asked. Lucas had reassured him, but he wanted confirmation.
"Well, somebody blew the roof off her house and killed her father, so I'm guessing she might be kind of sad right now. Poor kid. Her mom's not what you call the nurturing type, either. No crying in front of the servants."
"I wish there was something we could do to help," said Sam. After Alice and Tommy died, people had brought him a lot of casseroles. He didn't know how to make a casserole.
Sylvia looked up at Sam, then at Isabella. "You want to help? Find out who bagged Feng." She frowned. "Okay, kids. Class dismissed for a few days. Get the hell out of here and watch your backs. We'll resume after the July Fourth weekend."
The next morning Sam was awakened by a knock on his apartment door. Through the peephole he could see Moreno standing outside, looking a little disdainfully at the filthy hallway. He was dressed in a sharp-looking mohair suit, and a turquoise stickpin shone vividly against his wine-colored tie. Sam took a breath to calm himself, and opened the door.
"May I come in?"
"You are welcome in this house today," Sam answered.
"I hear you want to help out. I'm always looking for good people. Too many Apkallu just want to bang movie stars and go shopping, or spend all their time in the Otherworld banging succubi and going shopping."
"Well, I heard about Mr. Feng and I'd like to do something. Sylvia said it could be the start of some kind of magical gang war."
"Oh, it's definitely the start of something. This wasn't an accident and it wasn't some spur-of-the-moment thing, either. Whoever took down Feng put a lot of preparation into it. High-powered magic. He was the Master of the Norumbega Circle, which is a pretty important slot. Norumbega's New York. So at the very least we're going to see some infighting among people who want the job. Plus I know for sure that Taika Feng's out for blood. I won't lie: This is going to be ugly. You still want in?"
"Absolutely," said Sam. "What do you want me to do?"
"Well, why don't you just ride along at first. Meet people, see how I do the job. Ever been a detective?"
"Sort of." He'd done image analysis in the Air Force — but of course that had been Samuel Arquero, not William Hunter. "But not professionally."
"Just keep your eyes open, then. An extra pair always helps."
Sam took a quick shower and changed clothes. From the other room Moreno asked, "So: Why are you still living in a dump?"
"Rent's expensive in New York," Sam called back.
"You're still worried about money? I'll give you a name: Wall Street guy, more money than God. Owes me a favor. He'll hire you for some no-show consultant job, half a mil a year. That'll put you in a better class of dump, anyway. You can work out some other deals on your own."
When Sam emerged from his bedroom in his only jacket and tie, Moreno gave him an appraising glance but didn't say anything. His own bespoke-tailored perfection was a silent rebuke.
"Before we go, one more thing," said Moreno. "Eresikin William Phillips Hunter iginudug Ruax. Speak only the truth to me, now and forever. Were you involved with Feng's death, or know anyone who was?"
"No," said Sam, and he didn't even have to pretend to be resentful.
"Sorry, but it's important. If you can't handle being honest I'll remove the command and that'll be the end of it."
"No, I understand."
They drove downtown in Moreno's Citroen, listening to classic Bossa Nova music on the car stereo. Sam thought about the music, the car, and Moreno's Kennedy-era suits. "Mind if I ask you a question? How old are you?"
Moreno chuckled. "Just turned forty-seven. No magic keeping me young; not yet. I haven't decided if I want that."
"Why wouldn't you?"
The answer took longer than Sam expected. "Well . . . some things are easy enough. You can prevent diseases, get rid of cancer, maybe fix injuries. But real aging, that's hard to stop. Oh, there are spirits which can do it, but they're powerful and smart enough to demand payment. And they don't work cheap. Not at all." He was silent for a moment, then went on. "In fact, you'll see what I mean later today. One guy we're going to visit has been around New York since 1877."
"He's a hundred and forty years old?"
"Probably older than that. He claims to be as old as the pyramids, but he's only an initiate of the Lodge, not a Sage, so I have my doubts. None of the Seven Sages is more than about five hundred."
Five hundred years old. Sam tried to imagine it: seeing the world go from the days of Cortez and Michelangelo to the city flowing past outside the car window. "How do they manage? It must be like living on Mars for them."
"Too true," said Moreno. "It's a damned good thing the higher-ups spend most of their time in the Otherworld. They've got no idea how things work in the world nowadays."
Moreno parked his Citroen in a crosswalk right in front of the building where Feng had died, and took a large metal suitcase out of the trunk before leading Sam inside. For safety the ground floor was now surrounded by scaffolding, and Sam could see that the penthouse was swaddled in blue tarps. The building manager obeyed Moreno's command to give them complete access to the penthouse, lent them a key card for the private elevator, and then forgot all about them.
The penthouse was a mess. The fire had set off the sprinklers, so everything was sooty and wet. Moreno obviously knew his way around, and Sam let him lead the way up to Feng's workroom.
The power was off, so the only light was what leaked through the layers of blue plastic on the outside. It was like walking through an undersea cave.
"Can you see what happened here?" Sam asked as they went carefully up the iron spiral stair. "With magic, I mean?"
"I wish. No, magic can screw with your perceptions of time, but nobody's been able to actually travel into the past. Can't predict the future, either. I do have some tools that the subur cops don't have, though. When you touch something you establish a connection. All I need to do is find a mark made by whatever killed Feng, and then call it to me."
"Is that safe?"
"No," Moreno admitted, sounding alarmingly casual about it. "If you want to wait downstairs, go now."
"I'll stay. Is there anything I can do to help?"
Moreno took a folded tarp out of the suitcase and spread it on the wet sooty floor before kneeling. "Grab that brazier over there and get a fire going."
It took Sam a while to find anything dry enough to burn in the brazier. He noticed that the bookshelf was empty. Someone — Moreno? Feng's wife? — had taken away all the magical notebooks. Eventually he found a blank notebook which would catch, and fed the little blaze with bits of wood that hissed until they caught.
Meanwhile Moreno made a circuit of the room with a flashlight, looking carefully at walls and furniture. He finally gave a pleased-sounding grunt and began to pry away part of the decorative wood molding on one side of the doorway. Sam could see deep gouges in it where the div's claws had struck the wood.
Moreno drew the Second Sign of Saturn on the tarp in charcoal, put the scarred piece of molding in the center, then set up other items along the edge: a plastic food-storage container with holes punched in the lid, a bone-handled bronze knife, a pouch of tobacco, a bag of dried rowan leaves, and a bundle of black feathers. He handed Sam the tobacco and rowan leaves, then opened the plastic container and took out a very lively black rat.
"Sorry about this, little guy," said Moreno to the rat. "It's the wrong month and the wrong day of the week so I need some extra juice." He looked over at Sam. "I'm going to call it up. Feed in the tobacco while I'm doing the summoning, then dump in the rowan as soon as it appears. Oh, and if I tell you to run, don't argue. Understand?"
"Got it. Tobacco, then rowan, run away if you tell me."
The tobacco was some kind of high-end pipe blend, so the room filled with a pleasant raisiny smell as it burned. Moreno began the incantation in what sounded like Sanskrit, and on his third repetition he sliced the rat's head off with a single stroke of the knife, and squeezed the blood out of the limp body onto the scarred wood in the center of the sigil.
Sam had already seen the div, but he was still shocked when it appeared in the air over the tarp, all eyes and claws and hunger. He dumped the rowan leaves into the brazier as Moreno tossed the rat aside and brandished the bloody knife at the monster. Sam could see the thing straining at Moreno, as if some invisible barrier stood between them, but after a minute it stopped and Sam heard its voice for the first time.
"No eat," it said, sounding like a whisper in a cave.
"Speak," Moreno commanded. "Who sent you here?"
"None sent. Bound, then free."
"Who bound you?"
"What was his name?"
Moreno gave an irritated sigh. "By what name did he bind
"The Lord of Ruin and the child-swallower."
"What did he look like?"
"Flesh in cloth."
"Shit," Moreno muttered, then more loudly, "Be gone from this place, and do not return. Go!" He shook the knife at the div, showering it with the last of the rat's blood. It lunged at Moreno one final time but vanished before its claws could touch him.
As soon as it disappeared, Moreno dropped to his knees, utterly exhausted. After a moment he spoke, sounding a little shaky. "I think you'd better clean up. I don't feel so good."
Sam did a quick but efficient tidying job, dumping the ashes from the brazier and the rat carcass into the plastic container, wiping down the knife, and stowing everything back in Moreno's suitcase. By the time he was done, Moreno had recovered enough strength to get down to the elevator and walk to his car.
Before pulling out into traffic Moreno took a bottle of pills out of the glove compartment and swallowed a couple of them dry. He looked over at Sam and gave him a wry smile. "Just Tylenol. That thing left me with a bitch of a headache."
"Did you find out anything?"
"Not really. Whoever did this was smart. I was hoping whoever bound it used his own name, but no luck. There's no way I can do a lineup of every Apkal in New York for a div to pick out the one who bound it, so that's a dead end."
"So," said Sam, trying not to sound pleased at Moreno's failure, "What now?"
"Now we go talk to some people."
Moreno drove west to Eighth Avenue, then turned north, veering onto Broadway at Columbus Circle, and finally hung a left on Seventieth Street. He slid the car neatly into a no-parking zone and led Sam to an older building decorated with fantastic Assyrian winged bull sculptures with bearded men's faces. A pair of Art Deco sphinxes perched over the doorway.
Some of the carved stone faces were watching them.
After the physical security at Feng's place, Sam expected another rooftop fortress with a private elevator, but Moreno led the way into a public elevator and pressed the button for one of the middle floors. As soon as the doors closed, he cleared his throat and said, "You may see some weird stuff here. Let me do the talking. Just keep quiet, be polite, and pay attention to everything. Okay?"
The doors opened onto a hallway, nicely decorated and impeccably tidy, but otherwise unremarkable. Moreno knocked on the closest door, and the two of them waited.
A handsome young man opened the door. He was barely out of his teens and wearing no shirt — revealing an amazing physique, like a dancer or a gymnast. "Who's this?" he asked Moreno, nodding toward Sam.
"New initiate. Goes by Ace. I need to talk to Zadith."
"The Master's busy right now. I can tell him you stopped by, maybe set up an appointment."
"I'd rather talk to him now," said Moreno.
"That's not an option."
"Can we come in?"
"No. You're not welcome. Now go away."
Moreno regarded the shirtless young man for a long moment. "If I have to come back here, I'm going to bring something with me. Do you want that? Does your boss want that?"
"There's no need for that," said the young man. "He's just not ready for people to see him right now."
Moreno said nothing.
"Can I get him cleaned up, at least?"
"Sure. Can we come in?"
The young man sighed and stepped back. "You're welcome in this house today."
"Thank you," said Moreno, and led Sam inside.
As they passed through the door, Sam felt a sudden flash of vertigo. The apartment beyond was huge, extending off in every direction, filling the entire floor. He realized the hallway outside had been an illusion — a very convincing one, too. Even his Inner Eye hadn't noticed anything amiss.
The young man led them to a big living room, with a wall of windows covered by heavy curtains. The other three walls were bookshelves. Whatever flaws the Apkallu might have, they certainly were a well-read bunch, Sam thought. He remembered an old joke: Knowledge is power, power corrupts, therefore school is evil.
The two of them waited for about ten minutes before the young man returned, now wearing a collarless linen shirt. "The Master will see you now," he announced.
He led them to an interior room lit by a single dim lamp. The floor was covered by layers of Persian carpets and heaps of silk cushions. In the far corner where the light was weakest, a man wearing silk pajamas and an embroidered skullcap reclined in a kind of nest of silk cushions.
He wore white gloves and stockings, and had a scarf wrapped around his neck, so that the only part of him exposed to view was his face. It was incredibly withered and shrunken; the hairless skin was papery and drawn tight over the bones, and his closed eyes were sunk in hollows. He was brown all over — not the normal color of a dark-skinned person but more like a sheet of paper just about to burn. The teeth in his lipless mouth looked too big.
The young man hurried to the old man's side and took up a position behind him, partly supporting him. With one hand he took up a jar and used his other to gently rub lotion on the old man's face on the cheeks and around the mouth.
"Who are you?" the old man whispered.
"Moreno. Initiate of the House. Agaus and Mitum-bearer."
"He doesn't have it," the young man murmured as the old man stirred nervously.
"I come begging your help, Master Zadith," said Moreno. "Hei Feng is dead. Someone was able to get a beast strong enough to overcome his bailong protector into his house. You were his teacher. Do you know who might have done this?"
"He was disloyal," whispered the paper-skinned man. "Disobeyed me. Impatient. Made enemies. I warned him."
"Who were his enemies?"
"The man with you. Who is he?"
"This is Ace, a new initiate."
"I want to help find out who killed Mr. Feng," said Sam. Zadith looked at him, though his papery eyelids were still tightly shut.
Moreno made a quick palm-down gesture to Sam. "Who were Feng's enemies?"
"White. Il Conte. Taika. None of them did it."
"Wait, Taika? His wife?"
"None of them. Too obvious. Find the least likely." The old man gestured and his young helper rubbed more lotion onto his mouth.
"That could be anyone." Moreno sighed, then bowed slightly.
"Thank you, Master Zadith, for speaking to me. I'm grateful for your help."
Zadith's young servant led them back to the door. "What about you?" Moreno asked him at the last moment. "You hear anything about Feng?"
The young man shrugged. "I don't know. Master Zadith makes me forget everything I hear. Next time you come I won't remember you." With that, he shut the door behind them.
"He didn't tell us much," said Sam as the rode the elevator down.
Moreno chuckled. "Are you kidding? I learned all kinds of interesting stuff. First, it really wasn't Zadith. I was waiting for him to make a big show about avenging Feng's death. He didn't care. Second, he really doesn't know anything. If he did, he'd have tried to trade for it."
"Who were those other people he named?"
"White and the Count you'll see tomorrow. Taika's Feng's wife."
"You think she did it?"
"She's too smart for that." The elevator doors opened and the two of them remained silent until they reached Moreno's car.
"So what's up with Zadith?" Sam asked once the car doors were shut. "How old is he, really?"
"My guess is that he's about two hundred. Acts older, but everything he knows about Egyptian history before Napoleon sounds like he got it from a book. His problem is that he's dead.
Other Apkallu make deals to stay young, stretch their lives out to four or five hundred years. Zadith's got another plan. He's done a kind of spirit-binding to keep his spirit attached to his body, and he's done everything he can to preserve it."
"Like a mummy."
"Exactly like a mummy. There's rumors — you'll hear them — about old Sages still alive in the Sahara or the mountains around Kermanshah. Living mummies like Zadith. Might be true."
Sam was only half listening. He had glanced out of the window as the car turned onto Central Park West, and saw a little girl in a sparkly purple dress perched on the low wall around the park. She waved at him.
"Are we done today? You said I'd meet some people tomorrow."
"Not quite. One name Zadith didn't mention. We're having lunch with Miss Elizabeth. Then I'm going to knock off for the day."
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Things You Can't Do On Bed Rest, No Matter How Much You Want To
I've spent a fair amount of time on bed rest. When I was pregnant with my second child, my anemia was out of control and my daughter didn't care — she wanted out. To attempt to keep her inside for as long as possible, so that I could receive more blood transfusions, I was told to keep to my bed and do only minimal activities each day. I learned a lot during those long weeks, mostly about the things you can't do on bed rest. While it isn't buckets of fun, it's survivable, and honestly, it just adds to the list of things to avoid during pregnancy.
Strangely enough, bed rest isn't as often prescribed as it was when I was pregnant with my daughter six years ago. This is because there are multiple risks associated with bed rest, including thromboembolism (blood clot) and related stroke, according to HealthLinkBC. Also, recent studies suggest that it might not be as effective at preventing preterm labor as previously thought, the article noted. Beyond that, compliance for bed rest tends to waiver, according to the journal Birth Issues in Prenatal Care. It's a lot harder than you think to lay about all day, even if it sounds relaxing. But, if your doctor prescribes you bed rest, it's something to listen to, and knowing these five things to avoid can help you stay as healthy as possible.
1. Lifting Anything Heavy
According to the Cleveland Clinic, lifting anything heavy is straight out when you're on bed rest. My doctor told me not to lift anything heavier than my Stephen King book or my dinner plate. (To be fair, both of those things could double as light weights. I was hungry and I love a big book.)
2. No Sex Or Foreplay
Bed rest is boring and the more bored I was, the more sex I wanted to have. Alas, I couldn't do anything about it because you can't have sex or get aroused on bed rest, according to The University of Washington Medical Center. That means no nipple touching, masturbation, oral sex, and definitely no penetration. It's the chastity belt of prescriptions.
3. Activity That Lasts More Than An Hour
The Cleveland Clinic noted that activities lasting longer than one hour are against the rules when you're on bed rest, too. That includes simple things like bathing, cleaning, cooking, and can even include sitting up, depending on the recommendation of your OB-GYN. If you have to get up to do something, you need to be back in bed or on your couch ASAP.
4. Worry Yourself Sick
This one is probably the hardest one on the list to achieve. It is our natural inclination to worry. But worrying won't help, and it will just do bad things to your blood pressure and make you want to stress eat potato chips and ice cream. Postpartum Progress reported that bed rest itself can increase your risk of depression and anxiety, so it's worth focusing on being calm and as stress-free as possible. I know — it's hard not to worry yourself into a hole. But try to remember that you're doing everything you can and being the best mom you can be.
5. Leave The House For Anything Other Than Doctor Visits
This may seem obvious, but according to the University of Washington Medical Center, it definitely needs addressing. Short trips to the doctor's office are the only acceptable trips you can take when you're on bed rest. Everything else must be eliminated. I know that I always wanted to go to Shake Shack or a quick trip to Whole Foods, but it was forbidden. By the end of bed rest, cabin fever is a real thing.
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Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
By Elizabeth Gilbert
Faced with the possible deportation of her love, Filipe, Gilbert has come to the conclusion that she must again get married. This is something that neither she nor Felipe thought they would do again. Having gone through an awful divorce (as witnessed in Eat, Pray, Love) Gilbert is very skeptical of the institution of marriage.
I think this is the reason I love her. I can relate to her. Although I am married and haven't personally gone thorough a divorce, I was definitely jaded by my parents divorce and decided early on it is much better to be happily divorced than unhappily married. Yes, I am married, but I made sure that nowhere in our vows did it say anything about "till death do us part" because I just don't believe it. My husband is fully aware of my "issues" (both with marriage and otherwise). I have to admit part of me hoped that Committed would bring me some reassurance, and it kind of did. Gilbert seemed to jump into her research with a clear plan to "figure it all out." One of my favorite lines is after she is talking to her mother about things given up for marriage as opposed to things gained.
Therefore, the tidy ultimate conclusion is…???
It was slowly becoming clear to me that perhaps there was never going to be any tidy ultimate conclusion here. My mother herself had probably given up long ago trying to draw tidy ultimate conclusions about her existence, having abandoned (as so many of us must do, after a certain age) the luxuriously innocent fantasy that one is entitled to have mixed feelings about one's own life.
In Committed, Gilbert bounces back and forth between her stories—including conversations with people she met while waiting for Felipe to be allowed back in the United States and her extensive research on the subject of marriage. I found it fascinating to learn about the various histories and different rituals in other cultures. Gilbert has an incredible talent for recreating her conversations and adventures and I enjoyed every minute of it.
**Source: Personal copy bought with personal money.


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"By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith." Hebrews 11:7
I was not baptized until I was 42. After this, I was handed a list of one hundred and five spiritual job titles, and told to check which ones that God was telling me to do. I read each line carefully, and when I reached the bottom of the list, I realized there was not one line which I could in all honesty check off at that time. So I read the list again, and wrote at the bottom, None of the above. The pastor seemed somewhat aghast. Now, if this pastor had handed that same list to Stan Deyo, he could have hand written at the bottom, All of the above, and then some. If that sounds unlikely, check out this commentary on the newest edition of The Cosmic Conspiracy found at www.epubbud.com.
An URGENT revelation concerning the developing "Alien/UFO" situation is the main thrust of this edition. It is a warning which MUST be read for your own survival!… The book also unveils the "Gray Project" from the original "Majestic 12" group and discusses the group which just recently took the power away from them. It uses many new photos and images to explain what is about to happen to the people of Earth with special emphasis on the use of HUGE craft over our major cities….. As part of this discussion, a unique, scientific approach to the truth of the "Face on Mars" issue is given. A more plausible and practical explanation for the event (sans alien culture) and technology is developed. Many people seem to be entranced by the popular hypothesis that the face is a sign of an ancient, technologically advanced, Martian civilization which even pre-dated mankind itself. This edition warns of the use of this whole "face on Mars" farce as a softening item for the public announcement of alien cultures here on earth in our immediate future. This edition also has an update on the secrets of the Great Seal of America (which appears to be the latter day "Babylon" spoken of in Biblical prophecies).
Don't miss this Millennium Edition. You won't have another chance – IF we are correct in our analysis of coming events. For 20 years, this book has been sold "under the counter" in America. The official resistance to the ideas and facts in this book was huge. Now, with the Internet, we are able to circumvent the normal controls on the release of this sort of information to the American people. In Australia (where the ex-patriot, Texan author lives) this book sold the equivalent of a "million-seller" in America. TV shows, documentaries and investigations have been launched as a result of this book which is now read in over 22 countries. It is one of the major books of this century; and was inspired after a 'near death' experience the author had in 1969. The first 200 pages of the book tell about the author's discovery of a new method of aircraft propulsion using ionized plasma gases over a circular craft in 1970…. It tells about the author's recruitment by an ultra-secret, international research and development organization to finish his propulsion research in Australia…. It discusses the 'conspiracy' behind the US Government, the United Nations, The United States of Europe, The coming Arab Confederation and the Club of Rome to establish a new, global, political power to dominate the peoples of Earth. A mathematical and 'lay' language explanation of the error in Einstein's relativistic limits to traveling faster than light's speed is also given in detail with illustrations. Photostats of key documents which substantiate the assertions are in the appendices of the book. In this latest and, perhaps, last edition of The Cosmic Conspiracy, the author has added 60 new pages to the original 200-page version.
Stan Deyo's writings, lectures and television documentaries speak for themselves. They are controversial without a doubt; BUT they are also extremely popular in many countries. He has given over 150 public lectures in America, Australia and New Zealand. He has lectured for Nexus Magazine at their annual symposia in Australia. At least fifteen related books have quoted his work. The leaders in UFO research in America often quote his work and his appearances on the Art Bell Radio Show. President Ronald Reagan and His Royal Highness, Prince Charles put copies of "The Cosmic Conspiracy" in their personal libraries. He has been an invited guest to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, the USAF Space Command Headquarters in Colorado, the Pentagon, The Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, the Hopi Indian Nation, the Australian Club (a round table branch of the Royal Institute for International Affairs in Melbourne), Edwards AFB's high altitude test facility, the private office of the honorable Joh Bjelke Petersen when he was the Premier (Governor) of Queensland, Australia and the Alcyone (Jacques Cousteau's sail-less research ship). Mr. John Schuessler, former Director of Space Flight Operations for McDonnell Douglas at the N.A.S.A. (Houston) has met and worked with Mr Deyo. John once wrote of Stan, "He is one of the true critical thinkers of our times".
Mark Thorton is a features writer for "The West Australian" which is West Australia's leading newspaper. In a weekend edition of the paper dated 9 June 1990, Mark wrote a full-page, color article about Mr. Deyo. These excerpts tell the tone of the article: "This inventive thinker is a latter-day da Vinci… Scientist, inventor, adventurer, artist, author, teacher… these labels barely describe a remarkable man living in our city." He looks like actor, Anthony Hopkins with a beard and a Texan accent." "If you met him at a party he would be the sort of man you would be prepared to stop and chat with for a while, But listen to him talk for just five minutes and you would probably want to stick around for hours hanging on his every word." "Friends have painted a complex portrait of him – one splashed with tints of Leornardo da Vinci, Nostradamus, Indiana Jones, John the Baptist and the archetypal gardenshed scientist. It is a description which, though sounding outrageously presumptuous, is borne out by his lifestyle. Like da Vinci, he illustrates all his inventions and theories in shaded sketches. On his computer he designs three dimensional working models of some of his inventions, which he then sculpts in fiberglass."
"In 1984 Mr Deyo received a letter from Dr Fredrick Tatford, a former director of the British Atomic Energy Authority and an acquaintance of Dr Albert Einstein. Dr Tatford shared Mr Deyo's interest in the physics behind extraordinary field effects such as those produced in the famous "Philadelphia Experiment" in the US in 1943, an experimental attempt to create an invisibility field, the results of which are still classified. Dr Tatford asked Mr Deyo to explain in writing what he thought happened during the experiment and was so impressed with the layman's theories and deductions that he confirmed Mr Deyo's practical descriptions of what happened despite their being classified."
Susan Jean McCrone in a book review for "The National Exchange" in Chicago wrote, "This is one of the most important books I have read in a long time. I literally could not put it down."
From the Author:I have been more surprised than anyone concerning the popularity of a book which I thought might get me shot. As bizarre as the facts I have quoted in the book may seem to some, they are real. My conclusions could be argued; but current events are saying that I wasn't far off the mark with a lot of the things I deduced, reported and theorized in that book.
I once owned the first edition of The Cosmic Conspiracy, and I still own The Vindicator Scrolls, Volume I. I keep the latter book as a conversation piece which I bring out, whenever visitors are overstaying their welcome. I have listened a few times to Stan Deyo on The Hagmann and Hagmann radio show. When once he was asked what we needed to do to survive Planet X, or some other disaster from outer space, he advised us to put 12 feet of dirt on the roof of our house. Maybe you have done that already, and felt in hindsight, "Oops. I forgot to reinforce the roof." Your insurance doesn't cover your mistake? Did you complain to Prince Charles for his part in promoting this genius?
Well since I don't possess a copy of The Cosmic Conspiracy first edition anymore, and I certainly am not about to part with my shekels for the 2010 Millennium Edition, I refer you to radiantlunatic.com for a partial transcript. On about page 10 of this pdf, we read, "This book… is written in three levels of understanding or codification. Kabbalistic gematria and symbolism have been used to veil certain messages from some while enlightening others. I am sure the reasons for this will become most obvious as the world events of the next 18 months unfold. Let us begin with a 'precious mechanism':
Interested, I looked upon that sculptured place…
Challenged to find the one piece missing:
Hailed the topmost third – that capstone grace.
This I knew: it was not lost.
Hark: soon returns the Word, …and Order.
Until that hour, this is my chair:
service to some degree like: Commander Noah."
Well, uhhh, three levels of codification. Do I meet level one if I follow the yellow brick road, I mean, the italics? So Stan Deyo is Commander Noah? Yeah, okay, he has a website called Millennium-Ark.com, which involves emergency preparedness. And, wait!! Look, his little poem has been centered so that it forms the Holy Grail!!
Underneath these intriguing words it is signed Stan Deyo, on the 28th of the 11th, 1978. Further down the road, about page 55 we find a reference to a 1977 announcement from President Carter who mentioned a topmost Pentagon project code-named: (guess what?) "Noah's Ark". Apparently this referred to "a system of some 96 'bunkers' and 'bolt holes' which have been established at various places on or near the earth to house approximately 6500 key officials in case of a nuclear war". I think I am getting it; this is Commander Noah's Scavenger Hunt. We have been given a time limit to find his clues, and whoever rushes back first gets to ride out the Tribulation on Stan Deyo's space ship.
So why does Stan Deyo.com have its sister site called the Millennium-Ark, rather than the Tribulation Ark? Who needs to be on the Deyo spaceship/ark during the Millennium? A thousand years of the reign of Jesus Christ on earth. Sounds good to me. Now who wants to avoid that? Probably someone like Commander Noah, the Supreme Master Numberer. Let us turn to Revelation 20:1-3 to read, "And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season." Satan is looking for his own ark, to escape the prophetic words of God.
Stan Deyo claims to be a Judeo Christian, whatever that is. On page 5 of The Cosmic Conspiracy, he asserts, "…the only sure way to finish on the good side is to make your commitment to GOD through your personal Doorway to GOD, through Jesus of Nazareth, THE Messiah". Now that is a peculiar way of wording the gospel. Deyo is a Jewish Kabbalist, and favors the Talmudic interpretation of the Scriptures, freely interpreting passages as he sees fit. He is also known to be a dreamer and somewhat of a seer.
Given his reputation as Mr. Untouchable in the Alternative News Media, I would like to suggest that perhaps some see him as having the gifts noted in Daniel 5:11-12, which says, "There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers; forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and showing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation."
The Vindicator Scrolls, Volume One, was written by Stan Deyo, and published December 1989. On page 202 under "The Mysteries Scroll", he discusses Dreams and Visions, asking Will Death Be the End of You? On this page he says, "You may not get another chance to save yourself from oblivion". On page 205, he says, "Death will be a transition from this reality into an everlasting oblivion,…because of either their ignorance of their stubborn rebellion against G*D's established order of things. Informing you of your options to remove your state of ignorance has been my charge; may G*D find my service in this satisfactory when I stand before Him- as all of you will do one day, too." Now the thing which stands out here is that Deyo believes that those who do not make it to heaven will end up in a state of everlasting oblivion. This is quite different from spending eternity in hell, as the Scriptures teach. And there is a vast gulf which exists between saving yourself or being saved by faith, by believing on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, as Savior.
Much of Stan Deyo's books center on his research, whether it is anti-gravity, space ship propulsion methods, or his quest to locate the historical locations of the Garden of Eden or Atlantis. I have no problem with this at all, but it is a mere Scavenger Hunt, compared to searching the scriptures to find eternal life. The very fact that Stan Deyo, who claims physical descent from the Jewish race, places the Kabbalah and the Talmudic traditions of the fathers over the scriptures, shows a heart of guile. It was the Pharisees and the traditions of the elders that put Jesus Christ to death. The Christ he is hoping will return to rescue him is not the Jesus Christ who came in the flesh, was crucified and shed his blood on the cross for the forgiveness of our sins, and rose from the grave three days later.
I do not see that Stan Deyo, as Commander Noah of his Millennium-Ark, shows any of the characteristics of the real Noah. And if he continues to hang out with the Alternative News Media types who by their actions, deny Christ, and flatter his ego, instead of showing him what saith the Scriptures, he will find at the end of his life, not heaven, not oblivion, but hell.


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My Grandmother's Love Letters
There are no stars tonightBut those of memory.Yet how much room for memory there isIn the loose girdle of soft rain.
There is even room enoughFor the letters of my mother's mother,Elizabeth,That have been pressed so longInto a corner of the roofThat they are brown and soft,And liable to melt as snow.
Over the greatness of such spaceSteps must be gentle.It is all hung by an invisible white hair.It trembles as birch limbs webbing the air.
And I ask myself:
"Are your fingers long enough to playOld keys that are but echoes:Is the silence strong enoughTo carry back the music to its sourceAnd back to you againAs though to her?"
Yet I would lead my grandmother by the handThrough much of what she would not understand;And so I stumble. And the rain continues on the roofWith such a sound of gently pitying laughter.


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Gamers enjoying the Watch Dogs game created by Ubisoft but not signed up for the games season pass will be pleased to know that new content is now available in the form of the newly available Watch Dogs Bad Blood.
The Watch Dogs Bad Blood DLC was made available to season pass holders just over 5 days ago and is now available for anyone to purchase. Check out the launch trailer after the jump.
Watch Dogs Bad Blood provides players with access to Street Sweep contracts, a dynamic new system of side missions offering a wealth of new challenges.
"A first for Watch_Dogs, Street Sweep contracts are playable in co-op, friend or public sessions, allowing two players to work together to combat Chicago's criminal groups. The popular online Hacking and Tailing modes, as well as the ctOS mobile companion app, are fully playable with T-Bone in Watch_Dogs Bad Blood.
In addition, Watch_Dogs Bad Blood features exclusive weapons, perks and outfits, including the remote-control car, Eugene, T-Bone's latest creation, which can be upgraded with both offensive and defensive perks."
"Watch_Dogs Bad Blood builds upon what made Watch_Dogs a record-breaking success by delivering a potent combination of action-adventure missions, seamless multiplayer modes and open world exploration.
In Watch_Dogs Bad Blood, players take on a new campaign starring Raymond "T-Bone" Kenney, the brilliant and eccentric hacker from the original campaign. Players pick up T-Bone's story as he's planting a false trail at Blume and receives a panicked phone call from his former Blume colleague, Tobias Frewer, in desperate need of help. T-Bone decides to help Tobias, but quickly realizes the details of his old friend's story aren't adding up…"
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Updated: 7/30/2019
As we gather around questions concerning gender and sexuality and the church, we invite you to utilize this webpage for event reminders, resources, and opportunity to share thoughts and concerns.
First, please read, or re-read, this letter from the COS council to the congregation sent this January. This letter reminds us of the scope of our conversations, and that the "goal of these discussions is to wrestle together with these issues of sexuality and marriage so that we can grow in knowledge and understanding, humbly, respectfully, and above all, led by the Holy Spirit. Our goal is to stay mindful that in our relationships and sexuality, as in all areas of life, we are responding to the wonderful reality of our salvation, not trying to work our way to salvation through a single right doctrine or action. Our goal is not to announce or establish a policy on these matters at the level of our congregation, our
As we seek to learn together and love each other more, please join us for events:
Upcoming: August 11 8:30-9:50 am
As COS continues to deepen our discernment about sexuality and life together in Christ, please join us on Sunday August 11 from 8:30 – 9:50 am in room 3 off the café.
Two RCA pastors currently writing a book on marriage and celibacy will share their work: Two Ways of the Cross: Rediscovering Marriage and Celibacy in Light of the Contemporary Sexuality Debate.
How do the two vocations of marriage and celibacy witness in their own unique, complementary ways to the gospel? In what ways do they witness to the cross, and the new creation? Steven Rodriguez and Kevin Slusher, two pastors committed to spiritual friendship, one married with children, one gay and committed to a life of celibacy, each bring a unique perspective to these questions. Breakfast foods and coffee will be on hand! Please contact Pastor Andrew with any questions.
Past Event: Sunday School GPS (God's People Seeking) – February 24 at 9 am • Growing Good Fruit in the soil of Difference.
This is an event that grows largely out of a stated desire from our Crossing Over summary: 'It is our hope and intent that the members of the congregation shall experience a rich fellowship with each other, bridging age, gender
Read our Recap and Reflections of the February 24 GPS.
Read Gary Burge's Story from February 24 GPS
Past Event: IGSS (Intergenerational Sunday School) – March 3 at 9 am • We'll continue our discussions from the previous week on gender and sexuality. Children in grade six and younger should report to the youth room at 9 AM. Those in grade 7 and older can report to the café area, as usual. Part of our time will be spent listening to some of the discoveries that were made by our high school students at their winter retreat last weekend focused on gender, sexuality, and the church.
Link to article "Like the Wideness of the Sea" by Lewis Smedes
Past Event: Sunday School – March 10, 17, and 24 at 9 am • Dr. Nick Wolterstorff will use the adult education time (GPS) over three weeks to talk about how he has come to hold his current convictions on same-sex marriage. Session One will include a story of Nick's own movement from embracing the traditional rejection of same-sex marriage to his present affirmation of it. Session Two will look at the relevant biblical texts. Session Three will include a panel of those in the community so we can hear their stories in their own voice.
Past Event: Sunday, April 14, at 9 am, GPS continues its series on sexuality and gender and the life of the Church by hosting a conversation with Calvin Theological Seminary Professor Gary Burge. Gary Burge is a COS member who joined the Calvin seminary faculty in the fall of 2017 after completing 25 years as a professor of New Testament at Wheaton College and Graduate School. As a New Testament scholar, Gary will help in describing how a traditional position is often read, presented, and understood. Join us as we continue to wrestle together with these issues of sexuality and marriage so that we can grow in knowledge and understanding, humbly, respectfully, and above all, led by the Holy Spirit.
Past Event: Sunday, April 28: Join us this week at 9 am for a GPS panel discussion on: "Living Together in Difference". Our events and discussions surrounding gender and sexuality and the church raise some big questions. Why is sexual orientation so difficult to discuss for churches? How can COS live successfully with a diversity of views on sexual orientation? What does "successfully" even mean in this discussion? How can COS approach these conversations with a sense of hope? This GPS panel will include Barb Doorlag, Mary Loeks, and Dale Cooper as they share thoughts on these questions and insights into what has been formative for them as they approach conversations around sexual orientation.
Check back here often as more events are added.
We also invite you to use the form below to share with the Gender Advisory Group any questions or concerns you have as we seek to engage our questions with a sincere and deep faith, in humility, ready learn from each other, our diverse stories, and our study of scripture.