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Survey of London: Volumes 33 and 34, St Anne Soho. Originally published by London County Council, London, 1966.
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Oxford Street
In the parish of St. Anne, Nos. 1–103 (odd) Oxford Street lay within the Portland estate. Nos. 105–125 (odd) lay within the Pulteney estate and this section is described on page 290.
The part of Oxford Street discussed here probably remained undeveloped until the 1670's. (fn. 2) A few names of ratepayers for houses here can probably be first identified in the ratebooks in 1674. This part of the street was perhaps half built by 1685, and in 1691 (the intervening ratebooks being missing) was fully occupied by houses. The early ratepayers included Joseph Girle, for four or six houses, 1676–8, Doctor [Nicholas] Barbon in 1677, and John Meard from 1679. The tax assessments of the residents in the street in 1693 were at rather low figures. (fn. 3)
As in many parts of Soho Fields, the rebuilding which took place in Oxford Street in the 1720's and 1730's was only partial: it included, however, the construction of a new court, Goodwin or Godwin Court. (fn. 4) The building tradesmen who were active about this time included the bricklayers, Thomas Davis of St. James's, Westminster, (fn. 5) and Thomas Lucas of St. Giles in the Fields; (fn. 6) the carpenters, Samuel Cotterell of St. Anne's, (fn. 7) Francis Hatt of St. Mary's, Newington Butts, (fn. 8) John Hoff of St. Anne's, (fn. 9) John Jackson of St. Anne's, (fn. 10) Richard Richardson of St. Andrew's, Holborn, (fn. 11) John Saville of St. Anne's (fn. 12) and Francis Tredgold of St. Marylebone; (fn. 13) and the glazier, William Bignell of St. Anne's. (fn. 14) Of these, Hoff, Jackson and Tredgold took building leases (for sixty-five years) from the Portland family in 1733–4, (fn. 15) while the others had sub-leases or assignments from other lessees of the Portlands. Other building tradesmen and builders' merchants occur as parties to leases or mortgages and were probably involved in the rebuildings. (fn. 1)
Rocque's map published in 1746 (Plate 4) shows five courts or yards opening off this part of Oxford Street, and Allen's Court on the Pulteney estate: unlike the courts west of Wardour Street, in St. James's, none of these in St. Anne's parish now survives.
Tallis's street view of 1838–40 shows this part of the street lined with modest buildings, mostly single-fronted houses of three or four storeys, generally two windows wide. All had shop fronts. In the latter half of the nineteenth century the businesses carried on here were very diversified, without any predominant trade. All but a few of the houses shown by Tallis have now been replaced, some by single-fronted buildings of midVictorian date, and others by larger premises of later date combining several sites.
No. 43 is shown by Tallis as a three-storeyed house, but a floor has been added. The front, two windows wide, is plainly finished in stucco, with a storey bandcourse and a narrow cornice at second-floor level.
Nos. 45–49 (odd) are three mid-Victorian houses of uniform design, each four storeys high and three windows wide. The brick and stonedressed fronts combine Gothic and Renaissance motifs, such as the stilted segmental arches of the first-floor windows, and the pedimented dormers of the middle house, which projects from its neighbours.
No. 51 has a stucco-faced front, four storeys high and two windows wide, the openings being dressed with architraves and cornices, as shown by Tallis.
No. 53, formerly the Shamrock and before that the Primrose public house, has a four-storeyed front of red brick and stone, floridly detailed and crowned with a gable. It was probably built c. 1890 (despite the date 1900 on the front) to a design by the architect Edward Clark. (fn. 16)
No. 61, formerly the Old Queen's Head public house, is a stone-faced building dated 1880, eclectic Renaissance in style, its chief feature being the curious truncated cupola above the angle turret.


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Boston Properties to Buy Macklowe's Debt-Ridden 510 Madison Ave. in NYC for $280.5M
- Aug 23, 2010
August 23, 2010
By Barbra Murray, Contributing Editor
Lender issues, lawsuits, a vacant tenant roster and a fire. A boatload of problems have surrounded the brand-new office building at 510 Madison Ave. in Midtown Manhattan, but change is in the air now that Boston Properties has committed to acquiring the fee title to the 350,000-square-foot office building. The Boston-based REIT will fork over $280.5 million to an affiliate of the 30-story office structure's developer, Harry Macklowe of New York City's Macklowe Properties.
Originally conceived as a condo-hotel property, 510 Madison sits in Midtown's Plaza District. SLCE Architects and Moed de Armas & Shannon Architects designed the boutique office building with assistance from Harry Macklowe. The price tag on 510 Madison represents the equivalent of the total principal and accrued interest on the premier property's debt, which consists of a senior mortgage loan and a senior mezzanine. There had been a junior mezzanine loan attached to the asset, but Boston Properties acquired the debt at a discount from a third party for $22.5 million in an all cash deal on August 10.
Bad luck found 510 Madison before its completion. There was the fire that broke out at the building in February 2009 and then there was the lawsuit involving hedge fund Jay Goldman & Co., which had pre-leased space in late 2007 under a 10-year agreement.
Completion of the building brought no relief. Although it carries the distinction of being the Plaza District's only new office facility, 510 Madison was erected at a time when the Manhattan office market–and every other major metropolitan office market across the country–had taken a plunge. And there's more. SL Green Realty Corp., Manhattan's largest office landlord, acquired some of 510 Madison's debt late last year, and a few months ago, made a move to foreclose on the property.
The origination of the deal for Boston Properties to acquire 510 Madison had much to do with its history with Macklowe; in 2008, the REIT formed a joint venture to acquire Macklowe's 2 million-square-foot General Motors Building in New York City for approximately $2.8 billion. "The relationship we have with Harry Macklowe did help us," Arista Joyner, Investor Relations Manager with Boston Properties, told CPE. "It's a great building with a great design and it will fit nicely in our portfolio." That portfolio includes neighboring 540 Madison. "The properties are different, but we looked at the acquisition of 510 Madison with more of a comparative type analysis to 540 Madison."
While a deal for Boston Properties to take full ownership of 510 Madison is in place, Harry Macklowe will not end his involvement with the property once the transaction reaches completion. When Boston Properties takes over the reins, Macklowe will maintain a connection as a project consultant/advisor and Co-Chairman of the Marketing and Leasing Advisory Committee for 510 Madison.
With nary a name on the tenant roster, Boston Properties will have its hands full in its attempt to lease up 510 Madison, but the REIT is not in the least intimidated by the building's vacancy or the market. "It's a premier building with a great location and great amenities, so we're very excited about it," Joyner said. "Once the transaction closes, we're going to go out and market it and lease it up. It typically takes 12 to 18 months to lease up a project like this."
If it can be done, Boston Properties, which will keep real estate services firm CB Richard Ellis Inc. onboard to handle marketing, may very well be the one that can do it, if history is any indication. Doug Linde, president of Boston Properties, spoke on the issue of the company's track record during its second quarter earnings conference call on July 28. "Since 2005–and I use 2005 as our benchmark, because that's really when we started seeing the last major recovery in the office business–Boston Properties has averaged about 4.3 million square feet of leasing per year, and about 1.6 million square feet in the first six months of any one of our calendar years," he said. "So, to date in 2010, we've completed 2.5 million square feet of leasing, obviously, way above trend."
Linde attributes Boston Properties' leasing successes to, among other factors, its strategy of owning and operating premier assets designed to accommodate customers' needs. But it's more than its high quality portfolio that bolsters the REIT's confidence. "Many of the companies that value the physical attributes of our buildings, our operating expertise, our financial strength and our stability, are also businesses that think about expansion or consolidation in our assets during challenging economic environments," he noted.
The transaction is on track to close on September 1.

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Olympic Gold Medal Gymnast Gabriel "Gabby" Douglas visited Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum this week at Fisherman's Wharf to get the first look of her wax statue.
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That was quick. It's been just a few days since the Pentagon put out a plan for the most teeny-tiny of budget trims. (You can read the document for yourself here.) And already, Congress is making noise about reversing the cuts. Congress Daily has the scoop:
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner, R-Va., is expected to scrutinize any Navy proposal to reduce its aircraft carrier force to 11 and decommission the USS John F. Kennedy, according to a spokesman.Although Warner has not commented on specific details of the forthcoming fiscal 2006 defense budget, the chairman "remains convinced of the importance of carrier-based air power to America's efforts against terrorists who train in remote areas of the world," the spokesman said in a statement Monday. "It took five carriers to win in Afghanistan -- and he will keep that in mind as he reviews the department's budget," which is expected to be submitted to lawmakers Feb. 7.The spokesman said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called Warner last week to inform him of the broad outlines of this year's Pentagon budget, which is still being formulated."It is clear that the Department of Defense will not be exempt from the overall budget tightening that the administration intends to put forward this year," the spokesman said, adding that Warner "believes that it is fair for the department to play a role in the overall budgetary discipline this year, as long as the reductions are consistent with preserving our national security and military readiness in the war on terror."Media reports of the Kennedy's retirement last week immediately sparked opposition from Florida lawmakers. Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., last week said the Pentagon's proposal is "short-sighted, short-term thinking, and long on wrong-headedness." Crenshaw said removing a carrier from commission "is not like flipping a switch. She can't come back on in a moment's notice should we need her desperately."Crenshaw said he sent a letter to President Bush expressing his concern about the proposed cut in the carrier fleet. "I'm going to do everything in my power to convince the president that our national security demands at least 12 carriers, if not more," he said.THERE'S MORE: Also, it's interesting to note that Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman stand to take the biggest hits in the proposed Pentagon rollbacks. Boeing, which has been drifting from scandal to scandal in recent years, would remain relatively untouched, with a $5 billion shave off of its missile defense program.AND MORE: Over at the Red Herring, Jennifer Kho takes a look at the possibilities of these cuts sticking. She quotes a certain scruffy blog editor.AND MORE: Your choice -- read Defense Tech today, or the Washington Post tomorrow. On page A1, DC's big paper weighs in on the Defense Department's budget trim proposal.AND MORE: It's not just the Congressmen who are squirming. Air Force secretary James Roche is starting to talk about getting back the $10 billion cut from the F/A-22 jet program, too. Future funding for the plane "could be restored," Roche tells the Star-Telegram, "if we can make the case that requirements justify more than the number that this budget would yield."


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With more than 10 million participants, Microsoft's consumer Insider program has successfully engaged with fans and built a global test platform to learn how people really use computers. But there's one big flaw in the program: It's been for consumers, not for enterprises—until now.
There's likely a good reason for the Insider program's historic consumer focus: How can a business work with untested and untried software that's not known to have bugs, including many that aren't even identified at this stage? Enterprise IT is all about minimizing risk, not bringing new risk into the organization, so the consumer focus of the Insider program makes practical sense.
But enterprises are big business for Microsoft, and their needs are different than those of consumers. Enterprises use different software and hardware, and they run PCs in a very different manner. Where home users have PCs that at most access workplace joins for a minimal level of management, PCs in corporate fleets are controlled by Active Directory and System Center, locked down and managed to keep valuable data safe. Then there are applications: At home they're usually off-the-shelf software, while in businesses there's a mix of purchased and custom code.
Taking code as it comes is risky, even as new development models and tools have reduced the kinds of that my InfoWorld colleague . IT teams have long memories, and given past breakages it's not surprising that many organizations lag even the current branch for business where they've begun Windows 10 migrations.
What's needed is a way of getting the latest enterprise builds in the hands of IT departments so that they can test them, yet not disrupt their day-to-day operations with unsanctioned consumer releases.
To do that, IT needs the ability to select appropriate people to be on a different release ring from the rest of the organization. Perhaps they're members of the IT team, who are best able to identify issues and report them to Microsoft. Perhaps they're a cadre of users chosen to try out new tools across the company, who have had additional training and a list of features they're tasked to explore in detail, along with tools to capture internal evaluations—as well as a quick path back to a stable corporate release if a build appears particularly unstable.
Although that is all possible with the consumer Insider program, it's only possible with Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro. Without an Enterprise Edition Insider release, you can't test key features in advance of a new Current Branch for Business release. Most enterprises use the Enterprise Edition, so that version needs to be available in the Insider program.
Windows Insider for enterprises is here
With the launch of its new Windows Insider Program for Business, Microsoft is beginning to address this gap. Users with Azure Active Directory credentials can use them instead of a Microsoft account to register for the Insider program, and they will get the beta (development) builds of Windows 10 Enterprise rather than the consumer Home or Pro versions.
Microsoft already offers a set of group policy objects (GPOs) to control whether users get access to the consumer Insider program, and these same Active Directory controls will work with the Business version of the program. That does mean you'll need to run a hybrid Active Directory infrastructure, so the same Azure Active Directory accounts that sign up for the newest builds have Active Directory permissions for the appropriate Insider rings. You can also opt for device management tools like Intune to provision the same policies.
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Choosing a release cycle is easy. In your organization profile, edit your release preferences. If you want all your users to be on First Release, choose it as an option for everyone. But if you prefer to test with a smaller group, you can search for and add employees one at a time, which works well for small groups, or you can import text files with lists of email addresses, which is better suited for large groups.
Consumer Office 365 users have access to an even more rapid set of updates, with the Office Insider program and its Fast builds. These come out on an almost weekly schedule to let you try out new features, like the recently released Editor pane in Word that brings together spell- and grammar-checking.
If you want the same cadence for test users on your enterprise Office 365 deployment, go with the Office Deployment Tool to put testers on the Insider Fast level. Download and install the latest Office Deployment Tool release and edit its configuration.xml file, changing the OfficeClientEdition section's channel setting to
InsiderFast. You can then push the setup.exe and the edited configuration.xml files to testers, running setup with your new configuration to download the latest release from Microsoft's Office update servers.
Microsoft's shift to a continuous-delivery model for both its OS and core applications is a big change, to which IT departments need to adjust. Thanks to Apple and Google, users are accustomed to regular updates on their home systems and are starting to expect the same from work. To stay ahead, you'll need to adopt an accelerated testing model, using Insider programs and Fast release branches to get on top of changes quickly.


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When a ruthless cattle baron is determined to do anything to get his hands on Sadie Buchanan's ranch, including running off her ranch hands and killing her cattle, she hires the infamous gunslinger Jake Wagner to protect her property.
Despite the fact that they butt heads right from the start, Sadie is helplessly drawn to the ruggedly handsome cowboy, even when he warms her bottom repeatedly for her willful and sometimes reckless behavior.
But all the cards are put on the table when Sadie bets the cattle baron that she, Jake and her small band of cowpokes can get more cattle to market than anyone in their right mind would attempt.
It's all or nothing for Sadie, her ranch and the dangerous cowboy she's fallen for hard.
Jake was at the bar when Sadie walked in, a drink in his hand and a heavily made-up saloon girl on either side of him. The man was so interested in whatever the more buxom of the two women was whispering in his ear he didn't notice Sadie march across the room to stand in front of him. She wrinkled her nose. Good gracious, he reeked of whiskey even from this distance.
The chatter in the saloon all but ceased. Even the piano player had stopped tinkling the keys.
The saloon girl who wasn't attached to his ear gave her a haughty look. She had curly, dark hair and a beauty mark painted on her cheek. "Can we help you?"
Sadie folded her arms and returned the woman's superior gaze with one of her own. "As a matter of fact, yes. You can start by taking your hands off him."
She was surprised Jake heard her over the sweet nothings the big-breasted strumpet was cooing in his ear, but he jerked his head up at the sound of her voice.
The dark-haired saloon girl lifted a brow. "And who are you to tell us what to do? His wife?"
Sadie wanted to laugh. She'd rather end up a spinster than marry a no-good, drunken lout like Jake Wagner. "I'm his employer."
Both women looked confused at that. Which was rather surprising. Sadie thought for sure everyone in town would know she'd hired a new foreman. If they hadn't before, they would after this.
She glared at Jake. "I didn't pay you all that money in advance so you could come to the saloon and drink it all, you know."
The good-for-nothing man had the nerve to flash her a grin that was both infuriating and heart-stopping at the same time. "Now, don't go getting your pantaloons in a bunch, Miss Sadie. I didn't spend all the money on whiskey."
His words were only slightly slurred, which was rather amazing considering how much he'd probably drunk. She clenched her jaw. "I didn't pay you all that money so you could some here and spend it on saloon girls, either. I expect more from my foreman."
Jake regarded her lazily. "Why don't you get along back to that ranch of yours and do what you do best, and I'll stay here and do what I do best?"
She clenched her hands into fists to keep from slapping that smug face of his. "And what exactly do you do best, Mr. Wagner? Get drunk?"
The saloon erupted into laughter around them. Sadie was glad someone was amused.
"I'm not drunk," he said.
She let out a snort. "Oh, please! You're as drunk as a fiddler's clerk."
That earned her more laughs from the saloon's patrons.
Jake pushed himself away from the bar. Sadie hadn't realized how tall he was when he'd been sprawled out in the chair in front of her desk, but he positively towered over her. It was all she could do not to take a step back when he bent his head and put his mouth to her ear.
"Stop this right now and go back to the ranch like I told you."
If Sadie had been paying attention, she would have realized his words weren't slurred like before, but his nearness—combined with the feel of his warm breath on cheek—made it difficult to concentrate. Annoyed with herself for being so weak, she stepped back to give him a fierce look.
"I don't take orders from you, Mr. Wagner. You take them from me," she told him coldly. "Is that clear?"
Jake regarded her, his eyes locked with hers in a battle of wills, but Sadie wasn't about to waiver.
"Looks like the little lady put you in yer place, but good," a man laughed from the other side of the room.
"I'll go with you, but when we get back to the ranch, you and I are going to have a talk," he growled.
Sadie jerked her arm free of his grasp. Which was probably something she couldn't have done if he hadn't let her. She spun on her heel and headed for the door again. Jake stumbled after her. How could he seem stone-cold sober one minute, and drunk as a skunk the next?
"I don't know why I let Ned talk me into hiring you," she muttered as she led the way to the stable where she'd left the wagon. The sun was low in the sky now, bathing the street in shadows. "Who ever heard of a gunslinger managing a ranch anyway? You're nothing but an outlaw who will work for anyone who pays your outrageous fee."
She was in the stable before she realized Jake hadn't made a single comment during her entire rant. The drunken lout had probably passed out in the street. Mouth tight, she spun around, prepared to drag him the rest of the way, only to stop short when she saw him standing behind her, arms folded across his broad chest, a scowl on his handsome face.
"Are you finished?" he asked.
Her brow furrowed. "How do you do that? Sound drunk one minute, and sober as I am the next?"
"I told you before. I'm not drunk."
"Really? Then why do you smell like you just took a bath in a tub of whiskey?"
"Because I doused myself in the stuff before I went into the saloon."
"I did. I told you to go back to the ranch."
"I meant before I went in there and made a fool of myself."
Jake snorted. "I didn't know you were going to follow me. I expected you to be at the ranch doing woman's work."
Sadie's eyes narrowed. "Woman's work? You mean like sewing quilts and washing clothes?"
Chauvinist pig. "Because those are the only things a woman can do, right?" She tried to rein in her temper, but it was quickly nearing its boiling point again. "I'll have you know I've been doing a lot more than sewing quilts and washing clothes out at the ranch since my father died, Mr. Wagner."
"Maybe that's why you're in the predicament you're in."
The words cut Sadie more deeply than she wanted to admit, maybe because she'd often wondered if she was partly to blame for making the ranch such an easy target. But she'd be damned if she was going to let a gunslinger like Jake Wagner take her to task for it. Before she even realized what she was doing, she lifted her hand and slapped him hard across the face.
The sound of it echoed in the stable, but Sadie barely heard it. Instead, she stood there, shocked by what she'd just done. She'd never hit anyone in her life.
Sadie opened her mouth to ask him what in tarnation he was talking about, but all that came out was an "oomph," as he sat down on a bale of hay and threw her over his knee.
"What—?" she began, but the rest of her words ended in a startled gasp as Jake's hand came down on her upturned bottom.
The barbarian was spanking her!
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1. To celebrate which influential thinker's birthday is January 12 i.e. today observed as 'National Youth Day' in India?
2. What distinction has the prodigy Magnus Carlsen achieved recently?
3. Which Asian country will host the inaugural Summer Youth Olympic Games in August 2010?
4. Fill in the blank: The United Nations has declared 2010 to be the 'International Year of ______'
5. 'Makara Sankranthi' celebrates the transmigration of Sun from which 'rashi' (zodiac) to which Makara rashi?
6. What was the surname of the siblings Barry, Robin and Maurice who made up the popular band Bee Gees?
7. The State Peace and Development Council runs the affairs in which of India's neighbours?
8. Joseph Nicephore Niepce is considered an inventor and a pioneer in which now common field of visual communication?
9. If Antananarivo was your Capital city, in which country are you in?
10. After which drug were the two Anglo-Chinese Wars fought in the 19th century named?
11. Aptenodytes forsteri is the scientific name of which big flightless bird?
12. Playing for which club did James Vaughan set the record for being the youngest scorer in the EPL at 16 years and 271 days?
13. Leveret is the young of a…?
14. What is the nationality of the popular actress Catherine Zeta Jones?
15. Which South American country is called 'Corazon de America' or 'Heart of America' because of its central location?
1. Swami Vivekananda
2. He has become the youngest ever chess player to be ranked world No.1
3. Singapore
4. Biodiversity
5. Dhanu
6. Gibb
7. Myanmar
8. Photography
9. Madagascar
10. Opium
11. Emperor penguin
12. Everton
13. Hare
14. She is Welsh
15. Paraguay


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If you can't afford a laptop or even your own computer, there's no need to do without your own desktop, programs and document space. As long as you have a removable thumb drive with over 1GB space on it then Ceedo Personal provides you with your own start menu that provides access to personal software no matter what computer you connect it to.
Once you've downloaded Ceedo Personal, start the installer and then choose the drive that you want to install it upon. You can run the trial for free for up to 45 days, after which it costs $39 to register.
Ceedo runs on any portable hard disk or flash drive, which you can then carry around in your pocket. If you need to access your desktop, go to the nearest available PC and plug in the drive. Ceedo Personal automatically starts and you can use the custom menu to access your programs and data.
The host computer provides you with the processing power and all other resources, including the keyboard, mouse, screen and printer, but all programs run from your portable drive. You can install new programs by visiting the Ceedo Programs directory. Browse through the categories available and select a program and click Download to install it.
Ceedo saves all your work and application settings to your portable drive. When you disconnect it from the host computer, all traces of your work are removed. It's worth noting that Portable Apps provides a very similar service for free.
It's very handy to carry your workspace around with you and Ceedo provides an intutive interface, but there are free alternatives like Portable Apps.


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Some philosophers, such as the great writer, translator, and thinker Edmond Bordeaux Szekely, believed humans were once a frugivorous creature, but have been altered due to centuries of unnatural feeding. However, it is not humanity's biological form which has changed, it is the food itself, which has been altered and hybridized.
When the earliest humans first began cultivating crops and fruit trees, they unwittingly also began to protect these crops and fruit trees from natural selection (which, as we have seen in Lesson 9: Origins, does occur within a species, but cannot create a species). The cultivated crops were cross-bred for better taste, longer durability, strong skins, etc., yet at the same time were growing genetically weaker as the unfittest strains were allowed to survive as long as they "tasted better" or "lasted longer." Eventually, certain crops and fruit trees were grown for so long in protective environments (away from wild Nature) that they no longer had sufficient "genetic energy" to survive in wild Nature untended. These foods I have termed "hybrid foods."
Hybrid foods are foods which will not grow in Nature. My colleague, Dr. David Jubb, tells us that hybrid foods are "missing vital electrics." They are foods which must be nurtured and protected by humans or else they will be overcome by birds, insects, worms, fungi, and bacteria.
Most fruits sold in large supermarkets are cross-bred and hybridized to some degree, but are still excellent foods; often they are still capable of reverting back to a wild or semi-wild state. Fruits, such as avocados, cherimoyas, jalapeno peppers, and tomatoes are great examples of these. As a general guideline, fruits which have been hybridized too far include all seedless fruits or fruits with non-viable seeds. These fruits should be avoided, because they are genetically altered and weak.
Also, grafted trees produce awkward fruit, often without seeds. Grafting is a process whereby one variety of fruit tree is united to another variety of the same fruit tree. Many varieties of orange trees are actually two trees in one. The root stock is of a totally different variety than the stem and branches. Again, focus on the seeds, if they do not exist, or are not viable, then avoid those foods.
Genesis 1:29 actually warns of the danger of hybrid foods. The verse advises us to eat only herbs bearing seed and fruits bearing seed
Seedless foods are so hybridized they can no longer reproduce. The inability of hybrids to reproduce stems from a deficiency in the procreative cells. Hybrids can lack a double set of chromosomes in their reproductive cells, and this leads to the inability to produce viable seeds.
Common hybrid fruits include: seedless apples, bananas, several date varieties (especially medjools), kiwis (their black seeds are not viable), seedless pineapples, seedless citrus fruits, seedless grapes (raisins), seedless persimmons, and seedless watermelons.
The standard bananas we all know are excessively hybridized foods. I was raised on bananas and this was difficult for me to accept! The black "seeds" found in the common banana are not seeds at all, but are non-viable remnants of what should be hard, pellet-sized seeds. I transitioned away from bananas by eating fewer and fewer until I finally let them go.
Hybrid fruit is not only unnaturally high in sugar, but is also "off" in its mineral ratios. I have noticed that I can eat super-sweet wild berries in massive abundance and get no unusual reaction or high at all. I have also noticed that if I eat a mildly sweet hybrid fruit a get a "weird" reaction from just a small amount - seedless grapes send me into "la-la" land (sugar high).
Hybrid foods are devoid of the proper mineral balance all wild foods contain. Excessive hybrid fruit consumption leads to mineral deficiencies. It is not only that hybrid fruits and sweet/starchy vegetables (carrots, beets, potatoes) themselves are unbalanced in minerals, it is that an overconsumption of hybrid sweet fruit and sweet/starchy vegetables causes the body to bring heavy minerals from the bones into the blood to buffer the hybrid sugar, which is not completely recognized and dealt with by the liver and pancreas. The minerals and the sugar are then spilled off into the urine. So, in the long-term, hybrid sweet fruit and sweet/starchy vegetables can actually overstimulate you, causing you to lose minerals.
Common hybrid vegetables include: beets, carrots, corn, and potatoes.
Most of the vegetation people eat is not found growing wildly in Nature. The fields in which they grow are protected from natural forces. The natural insects are poisoned with pesticides, the soil microbes are poisoned with fertilizers. Crops grown chemically are artificial -their cultivation is unnatural.
Common hybrid nuts and seeds include: cashews, oats, rice, and wheat. Common brown, white and "wild" rice are hybrids. Commercial "soft" wheat is a hybrid plant.
Common, controversial alfalfa sprouts (often criticized for containing toxins) are hybrid foods. Clover sprouts are a better, more natural choice and should be chosen over alfalfa.
Most commercially available legumes are hybrids. I once grew lentils from seeds. Only one of hundreds grew to fruition. When I harvested the lentils from that one plant, each lentil displayed an amazingly beautiful design on the seed surface - totally unlike the dull orange/brown lentils available from the store. Amazingly, the lentil plant had reverted back to its natural state!
Most primitive peoples, and all wild primates, eat foods from at least 100 varieties of plants. The majority of the world's population now, on civilization's various diets, consume only 13 varieties of plants: bananas, beans, beets (beet-derived sugar), corn, oranges, potatoes, rice, wheat, soy beans, sugar cane, sweet potato, cassava, and coconut. The first 9 of these 13 listed are such hybridized foods that they are either seedless or produce seeds incapable of surviving independently in Nature. Due to the deficiencies of nutrients in hybrid foods, this situation presents an enormous health challenge for the world; and yet, it also presents a tremendous opportunity to improve the health of the world.
People becoming addicted to bread, corn chips, French fries, baked potatoes, and even carrot juice, because these foods come from hybridized plants that contain an addicted quantity of sugar and a low-level of minerals.
I have noticed that hybrid foods are attacked by different forms of fungi than wild food. Hybrid foods are much more susceptible to early decay. For example, I can have extremely hybridized yellow seedless grapefruits outside in my back patio in the Sun alongside seeded ruby red grapefruits. The Ruby reds will last months out there as they ripen to perfection (citrus ripens best in the sun, on the ground), however, the yellow seedless grapefruits will be overcome by bright to dark green mold outlined by white. You will never see this type of mold attack a wild fruit.
From these types of observations, I can see clearly now how hybrid fruit, for example, can feed fungal conditions in the body, such as candida. Whereas non-hybrid or wild fruit would not lead to such a condition.
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A house renovation that gave new meaning to love thy Neighbour
The poodle walker.
Week 1 – Demolition. the driveway and garage have gone
Week 2 a call from the builder – Troy. "Don the Council are on site and the police are on their way"
I arrive.. there's a massive trailer almost blocking the street, packed with dirt and building material.
I park up, as I'm walking to the site.. A neighbour
Walks by with his poodle. We have never met. I say "good morning" with pride cos
I'm the guy building this beautiful home.
"when are you getting rid of the fucking asbestos." Was his reply.
Troy greets me.
"There's been a complaint. The council has an asbestos inspection going on now.
All work stops" . "And the cop?" I'm not sure but its regarding the asbestos. Will let you know.
"All's good Don" Troy assures me. "There was no sign of asbestos when I priced the job" . "the Architect had checked also."
Have to wait for a few days for the results .
I leave thinking about the enormous trailer and the poodle walker.
Those Teeth
Week 3. Another early call from Troy.
" get down here your neighbour is going ballistic."
Works halted… "can't you sort it.? "
"No you better…"
That big trailer has gone …a digger Is excavating in the front where the new garage is going.. "we're excavating right on the neighbours boundary."
Troy ..tells me . But there's more. Each morning the corner pegs had been removed. Start again each day for 3 or 4 days.
Some one is pissed. I'm about to meet Neil and Denise.
As Troy and I approach the boundary . I say with pride cos I'm the guy
Building this beautiful house. "Good morning" . Then Denise retorts.
Oh you're a fucking vhhhjjh , expletives , bully fuck.
Flowers you c word …my ffff bulbs ….I breathe in …[Those teeth.
It's like American gothic zombie Apocalypse]. " you fucking arrogant"""
She goes on …[How does she chew I'm thinking, with those teeth.?]
I'm wiping the spit off my face.
Translation. " My garden of bulbs and flowers Is gonna be wrecked by your building.
"let me say first of all. We're gonna be neighbours for 30 yrs more or less.
"Let's find a way forward. Or its gonna be a long 30 years for us all"
I go and huddle with Troy and clean up my face.
Troy's got an idea. Let's scoop up the garden keeping it whole with our digger.
And put it your front yard then return it with new top soil as a living garden when we finish the build
She wants this in writing by 7:30 am the next day.
I'm there at 7:25 am to give it in writing. "Good morning"
Those teeth are more calm .. "you'll be hearing from my ffn lawyer. " snatching the letter
11:30 ring from Neil she wants you to put
10k into an escew account. I say no. My offer is the best I can offer.
He accepts.
I go tell Troy the good news and he has some for me
The Demo guy was working odd hours.
At 3 to 5 am. The trailer had asbestos from other jobs. The cops had
Complaints on him. He moved his trailer to an access way behind the
Local shops and pissed off more of the neighbourhood
We wrote a letter to each household in our street,apologising and inviting all to the house warming. One should love thy neigbour.


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[FRANKFURT] Consumer confidence in Germany is stable, continuing to shrug off, at least for now, terror warnings and economic uncertainties regarding the massive influx of refugees, a poll found on Wednesday.
"The consumer climate remains unfazed by the increased risks. However, the heightened threat of terrorism, as well as growing concerns in the population that Germany may not be able to cope with the influx of refugees and asylum-seekers could unnerve consumers in the coming months," market research company GfK said in a statement.
"This would have a lasting effect on the consumer climate." Looking to February, GfK's headline household confidence index was forecast to remain steady at 9.4 points.
"The consumer climate is stabilising at overall high levels," GfK said.
"Both economic expectations and the propensity to spend are rising slightly, while income expectations have taken a knock," it added.
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I'm going to sell my wares at the Rock & Shop Market in Durham on April 6th. Hopefully you can stop by and say hello! I've never sold offline before (excluding my retailers and that West Elm thing), so I've been collecting a few odds and ends to set up my table and display my products. I needed a "Wit & Whistle" sign, and this is what I've come up with. A rustic lettered sign like this would be perfect in so many scenarios—at a wedding, used for holiday decor, in a nursery, etc. Use your imagination! Here's how to create your own.
you'll need:
wooden letters (from your local craft store)
wood stain (I used Minwax Dark Walnut 2716)
disposable gloves
sponge brush
oil rubbed bronze spray paint (optional)
tiny screw eyes (2 for each wide letter and 1 for each narrow letter—size #216-1/2 x 1/2″)
1/16 inch drill bit
piece of tape
Sand any rough splintery spots on the wooden letters.
In a well ventilated area, use a sponge brush to stain the letters following the instructions on the wood stain packaging. Wear disposable gloves so you don't end up with stain all over your fingers.
If desired, cover the screw eyes with a coat of oil rubbed bronze spray paint. That way they'll look rustic instead of shiny and new. (This step is optional and only for anal-retentive people like me.)
When the stain is completely dry, plug in your drill, hold it like a gun, and rev it a few times (just for fun).
Next grab your 1/16 inch drill bit, which is easy to spot because it's the cutest little drill bit ever. (Note, that if you aren't using size #216-1/2 x 1/2″ screw eyes, you may need a different size drill bit.) Drill holes in the top of each letter. For narrow letters drill one hole in the top center, and for wide letters (like W or H) you'll want two holes in the top so they hang straight. Secure the letters before drilling to keep your fingers out of harm's way. I clamped my letters into a little work bench like this.
After drilling, twist a screw eye into each hole.
Lay the letters out on the floor in the correct order and space them the way you want them to hang. Unwind a length of twine long enough to connect all the letters, plus a few extra feet on each end.
Wrap a piece of tape around one end of the twine so it's easier to thread through the screw eyes. (You know, like the plastic piece on the end of a shoelace.)
Thread each letter onto the twine one and a time, knotting them in place. Make sure the letters are spaced evenly as you go along. If a letter hangs crooked, you can twist the screw eye to adjust the angle.


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Ghost Train
Brian Carpenter's Ghost Train Orchestra's CD "Hothouse Stomp" is heavily influenced by music from the Harlem Renaissance period of the 1920s and 30s. For their Fall show poster, we were very inspired by posters from the Savoy Ballroom, Cotton Club and the Federal Theatre Project/WPA Vaudeville posters of that era. Screen printed on cream stock with two-color combinations of blue with warm red and dark brown with warm red.


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Can you believe it? It's been two whole years since Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor was released on the PlayStation 4 and impressed us enough to bag our 2014 Game of the Year award.
To mark this occasion, Monolith has shared quite a few interesting Shadow of Mordor stats over the two course of two years, and yep, there's a lot of Uruk heads that got killed along the way. Additionally, the devs themselves share a fair bit during their time developing the game.
"For the intro stealth tutorial I was in charge of hooking up the animations. (The sequence where you're tasked with sneaking up on Talion's wife and surprising her with a bouquet of flowers.) We didn't have the finished animations right away, so I needed to find something placeholder to get the tutorial playable. I looked through all of our existing combat animations for the most romantic paired animation between two characters. The first pass that went out to the team was Talion's sneaky surprise being greeted by a firm headbutt from Ioreth."
-Brian Frantz, Designer, Systems
"During development, it was so much trial and error to get Captain showdowns to work. And when we finally saw the first examples, we could see that those moments were going to be great! Getting the camera framing just right, the Uruk's eyes looking directly at the camera, their lips synced, and the right dialog hooked up made the showdowns way more emotionally powerful than I admittedly thought was possible."
-Chris Hoge, Lead Designer, Systems
"It was difficult to pick out just one memory from working on SoM. Every day in the QA department was outstanding. Imagine, everyone you work with having a smile on their face for weeks and weeks, knowing they were helping make something great – something they could be proud of in the end. In the beginning, we were cocky fighter pilots, ready to do battle. By the end, we were war-weary soldiers, trading stories at the local saloon.
The most important experience for me was getting to work with such talented, creative, and funny people. Talion gave us all mountains of valuable experience, but more importantly, tons of friendships to carry with us when our journey had ended."
-Drew March, QA Analyst
"I remember one of my tasks was to verify presentations from Captains. Now normally this wouldn't stand out, however one Captain – Nazû, decided to say Hi. "Cool," I thought, "say 'Hi,' then I'll come defeat you." Well, when the presentation was all said and done, the camera panned back to me, all the way from across Núrn. Turns out, Nazû is an omniscient being and was able to spot me from nearly a mile away. From Executioner's Watch, all the way to where you first enter the zone. I saved a photo of him, and named him "Nazû, the Showdown Sniper". Became my email signature for a while."
-Donald Filmon, QA Analyst
"I have particularly fond memories of our 2014 E3 experience… We had recently announced. and E3 was the first time the public was getting a chance to really check it out. Mike Forgey and Ryan Ladeen were giving round after round of packed gameplay demos and the crowds wereloving it. I was on line duty and the level of crowd excitement and anticipation was amazing! It was so cool to hear all the positive comments coming from people awaiting (patiently!) their chance to see the demo.
To top it off, the steady stream of awards arriving at the booth was crazy! It was overwhelming to see and feel all the love being focused on the game – from critics, members of the press, and the public alike! Mike was losing his voice from non-stop demo commentary, the lines were constantly packed. I'm pretty sure I wore a pair of shoes out during the event, but it was beyond worth it. I felt very privileged to be a part of such a kick-ass project."
-Dayna Smith, Associate Producer
"Out of all the things I implemented to get mounted movement working, the seemingly simple act of dismounting the damn Beasts was the part that was iterated on the most, because it broke the most. There was a period during development where it seemed every week QA found a new way to horribly break dismounting, and I'd have to rework huge chunks of the logic to account for a new edge case that would send the player falling through the world or something. You're welcome!"
-Ian McCoy, Senior Designer
"Among other things, I made all the bugs in Shadow of Mordor! Or, rather, I made all the insects. People typically don't like to hear about buggy games."
-Matt Rapelje, Senior Technical Artist
"During the launch of Lord of the Hunt, I came in one weekend and whipped together a quick and dirty prototype of Photo Mode. I showed Matt Allen (Director of Technical Art, and all-around nice guy) on Monday morning and he loved it! It was approved to be a real feature, and I even got to do the VO for the announce video.
But now, revealed for the first time, is the very first Photo Mode picture from the prototype. Enjoy!"
-Reed Gonsalves, Software Engineer, Gameplay
The Shadow of Mordor stats, which is compiled in an infographic, can be seen below. You might want to avert your eyes if you're part Uruk or know an Uruk.
Given this update, are we nearing the official announcement of Shadows of Mordor 2? Let's hope, no? We'll make sure to give the latest update if and when Monolith shares any news.
[Source: Monolith (Tumblr)]


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Level 3 Communications (NYSE: LVLT) sees South Africa as the next growth area for its Vyvx broadcast unit, so it has established a new Point of Presence (PoP) located in Johannesburg.
Out of this new PoP, Level 3 will enable companies in South Africa to more rapidly transmit live sports, breaking news and other video content to the international community.
Likewise, companies in North America, Western Europe and Latin America will be able to use the PoP to deliver their broadcast content more readily to South Africa.
The competitive provider's instincts seem to be on the right track, as it has already enabled one of Level 3′s South African broadcast customers, Telemedia, to provide its local broadcast network customers with on-net access to a global network footprint.
While South Africa has traditionally not had many options for bandwidth, that trend is in changing due to the installation of a number of new submarine cable systems that are in the process of being built on both the East (SEACOM, EASSy) and West Coast (WACS, GLO-1, ACE, and Main One) coasts of the country. SEACOM, for example, connects South Africa and Eastern Africa with Europe and Southern Asia.
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text: While no one seems to be expecting to see much actual mining at the Isua project in Greenland any time soon, I thought its new Chinese owner, General Nice (俊安集团), was worth a closer look, since so little has been written about the company. So I've put together a 'backgrounder' with highlights from my recent, and not so recent, research on General Nice for everyone to enjoy. Admittedly Isua, an asset which, by all accounts, its new owner plans to simply sit on for the time being, isn't the hottest topic in the grand scheme of things, but I think the story makes up for that medium-to-low hotness with a flashback to the Shanxi coal rush, with its polluted skies and wild bribing, and a showdown with the ousted ruler of Burkina Faso. Go read the whole thing (still being edited but already up) and confound your fellow dinner-party guests with more General Nice trivia than a barrel of General Nice wine can wash down.


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Don't mind me I'm just sitting here watching Top Model and eating my leftover pumpkin seeds. Can you believe another week has gone by? It seems like only yesterday that Bianca was being a bitch, Shannon was boring us to tears and we were deprived of any new Tyra-isms.
Angelea starts the show and says most people were upset to see Kayla go but everyone is pumped Bianca sashayed away.
Lisa runs through the mansion doors loudly announcing her winning picture for — I don't know — the DVR to hear.
In what I am now dubbing the True Blood room, Laura (Jason Stackhouse) and Allison (Vampire Jess, obviously), are conversating. Laura tells Allison she's really proud of how far she's come, particularly that she is now being asked to speak at venues. Allison either speaks back to Laura and tells her what a great person she is, or she's sharing these sentiments with her pillow. She's sweet though and tells us she's working on being more extroverted and gaining some charisma.
TYRAmail comes and forget every bad thing I've ever said about this cycle. The producers must know the way to my heart is with an adorable Asian baby. Madison is no ordinary cute Asian baby either; this girl gives makeup tutorials over YouTube and I've been a big fan of hers ever since my friend Mina sent me this fantastic makeup brush tutorial. She "really loves" a lot of things but I totally trust her.
Suddenly the models' wombs are aching, which is probably a nice distraction from the fact that they're basically being schooled on makeup tips and going viral with your brand by a six-year-old.
Jay Manuel greets the ladies and tells them their next challenge will be to write their own song and shoot their own music video for it. Here's where I need to step in and try to stop this misconception once and for all. Attention Reality Stars/Shows/Producers: There is absolutely NO NEED for every person on television to have a song out these days. Stop. This. Mess. I'm only kidding about that last one, Tyra's song is kind of a jam and Yoanna from that cycle is too hot! Also, seriously, if you say you're going to "make a viral video," you don't understand what it is.
Jay gets my first reality bitchslap of the night when he says, "Think about how 'going viral' worked for Rebecca Black and Justin Bieber." Again, Justin became who he is because lesbians are all the rage these days. Also, he has talent and my friend Dana was in charge of most of his publicity at the beginning stages of his career (true story) so I'm pretty sure he owes a lot to her and maybe his hair stylist. Rebecca Black became popular because she is the girl we all can't stand and therefore obsess about. For those of us with an overwhelming hatred towards Lea Michele, Black is someone whose appearance is similar enough to pour our anger into because her celebrity is even less-justified.
Lisa is pumped about this challenge because I guess she's doing music now. Poor Vampire Jess is being drained of all of her powers because she's stressing about trying to come up with a song and then ultimately singing it.


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The Tupolev TU-95MS Bear, that is. :-) By Vladimir Zhyhulskiy https://simviation.com/1/search?submit= ... p&x=27&y=9 and a fun, lumbering aircraft that's still flying in the real world, predating the B-52 by years. Essentially the fastest prop around, those contra-propped turbines propel this beast along at respectable velocities and range. Showing her here in screenshots captured from 1 of 3 "Bright Skies" sets I'm working on. Screenshots are a great help in polishing light, saturation, and color balancing to the many sky textures. Goal: Realism.
Sun setting time...
Many small lakes and ponds to our immediate east here, border of the Sandhills of Nebraska.
Striking sky and clouds can really make a screenshot. Sets the mood.
Nice 2-D cockpit actually. Oval instrument displaying from widescreen, as with all the others. Am missing my old 3 x 4 format monitors sometimes.
She has a fair VC, though my flying mostly utilizes magnification 1.5X (30 degree of view) with basic flight information along the top left once I get airborne and stable. The view presented by my monitor being 30 degrees wide, I place myself at just the right distance from the screen so it's 30 degrees field of view in real life as well. Most would find this technique unusual, strange even, though for the proper perspective realism I wouldn't fly any other way after over a decade of doing so. The landings are delicious. Perspective: Use it or lose it. :-)
Never had a bad landing with this smooth bird, even in crosswinds with some turbulence thrown in. When I was younger, flying Mach 2 while burning off my hair from the virtual friction was cool. Now I'm perfectly content to fly heavies smoothly and gracefully.


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Sunday, September 21, 2008
Remembering martial law
Jose F. Lacaba
The way it was
When word got around a few years ago that a class suit was going to be filed against the Marcoses, I took note of it more as a news item than as a personal issue. I virtually ignored the forms that had come in the mail, asking me to recount the torture I had undergone under martial rule.
One week before the deadline for the submission of the depositions of torture victims, a friend called and asked why I hadn't submitted mine. My friend said that, if not enough depositions were submitted to the Hawaii court, the Marcoses would be proven right in their contention that they were not world-class torturers and executioners, and they would be justified in asking for a dismissal of the case.
What needed to be done, my friend pointed out, was not primarily to get financial reparation for the harm that had been done to us, but to prove to the world that the Marcos regime had indeed been guilty of widespread and systematic torture and extrajudicial executions. If the class suit said there were around 10,000 victims of human-rights violations under Marcos, then it needed to get as close to 10,000 depositions as it could.
My friend's arguments persuaded me to write the following account, which was submitted along with the requisite forms just a few days before the deadline set by the court for the submission of depositions:
At dawn of April 25, 1974, on the second year of martial law, I was awakened by shouts of: "Open up! We are the authorities!" I looked out and saw that the house was surrounded by armed men taking cover behind jeeps and cars that had their headlights on.
As soon as I opened the door, the first man who came in shoved the barrel of his rifle into my stomach. Then somebody spun me around and forced me to lie face down on the floor. In that position, I was stepped on, kicked in the ribs, hit in the back and on the back of the head with rifle butts.
After the house had been searched and my two house companions were in custody, someone who acted as though he was in command (I would learn later that he was a first lieutenant, but not the head of the raiding party) dragged me into the bathroom and asked if there was a tunnel underneath us. I couldn't help giving a short laugh, struck by the absurdity of the question. Angered by my response, he gave me a sudden blow in the chest with his closed fist. The lieutenant was an Arnold Schwarzenegger pumping-iron type, and at that time I was a 111-pound weakling. That single punch sent me reeling against the bathroom's tiled wall.
The sun was up when we were taken in separate cars to Camp Crame in Quezon City, to the headquarters of the 5th Constabulary Security Unit (5CSU). After some routine questioning and filling up of forms in the office, I was taken to the back, the troops' sleeping quarters. Constabulary officers and enlisted men--including a buck private who was himself under detention, for murder--took turns making me a punching bag.
Mostly I was pummelled with fists in the chest and the stomach. I was seated on the edge of a steel cot. My tormentors and interrogators sat in chairs or stood before me, hitting me each time a question was asked or an answer was unsatisfactory. Troopers passing by, on their way to their lockers or wherever, felt free to hit my nape or the back of my head with open palms or karate chops.
At one point I was made to half-squat with arms outstretched. One of my torturers then took a broom and slowly, methodically beat my shins with the broom's wooden handle. Although he seemed to be hitting me with very little force, the cumulative effect of the beating caused my shins to swell and made it sore and sensitive for a few days.
At another point I was made to lie down with the back of my head resting on the edge of one steel cot, both my feet resting on the edge of another cot, my arms straight at my sides, and my stiffened body hanging in midair. This was the torture they called higa sa hangin (lying down in air), also known as the San Juanico Bridge, named after the country's longest bridge, built during martial law and dedicated by Marcos to his wife Imelda.
"Lying down in air" is difficult enough, since you have to contend with the pull of gravity. But even before gravity could take its toll, somebody standing close by would give me a kick in the stomach and bring my body down to the floor. The steel cot scraped skin off my nape as I slid down.
I was forced to "lie down in air" twice. The third time I simply refused to get up. I stayed crumpled on the floor and said, "You may as well just kill me. Go ahead and kill me." That was when the torture stopped for the day.
I had been continuously tortured for about eight hours. Incredibly enough, we even had a lunch break. I forced myself to finish up the horrid prison food on the aluminum army tray that they placed before me, hoping that when they resumed hitting me in the stomach I would throw up in their faces. I never did.
I can no longer remember the exact sequence of events, but in the days that followed, during the fortnight when we were incommunicado and our families went desperately from camp to camp looking for us, I experienced various other forms of harassment and torture.
Once, while a deposition was being taken, the sergeant conducting the interrogation suddenly kicked me in the chest. We were both seated in one corner of the 5CSU office, face to face, and I insisted on answering only questions pertaining to myself, refusing to answer those that would implicate other people. After the nth "I prefer not to answer that question," he raised his booted foot and gave me a kick in the chest that sent the chair on which I was seated skidding clear across the room. When the chair hit the wall, I fell to the floor.
On another occasion, a lieutenant reviewing my deposition made me stand in front of an air conditioner going full blast while he interrogated me. And he smiled when he saw that I was shivering uncontrollably.
On still another occasion, another lieutenant ordered me to close my eyes in the course of an interrogation. A hand that I assumed to be the lieutenant's then slapped my closed eyes and my nape repeatedly, almost rhythmically.
Once, the detained soldier who had been one of my torturers on my first day took me out of the cramped prison cell that I shared with about 30 other political prisoners. He gave me a tongue-lashing for having poked fun at his rather unusual name. While he was spewing saliva in my face, his fellow soldiers gave me a few jabs in the ribs.
One day I was led out of the small prison cell, handcuffed, and made to board a jeep with three or four of the men who had tortured me on my first day. I thought for sure this was it, they were going to take me to wherever their killing fields were and blow my brains out. Instead, we went to a military hospital, the V. Luna in Quezon City. I recognized the place because it was there that my father, a war veteran, had died of cancer about a dozen years earlier.
It now seemed to me that my torturers were humane after all, that they would have me treated for the bruises on my nape and shins. But as soon as we were inside a doctor's clinic in one of the wards, I was blindfolded with my own snot-splattered handkerchief, made to lie down on the examination table, and injected with what I would later surmise to be a "truth serum." In a couple of minutes I felt like I had downed half a case of beer. My head swam, and my body seemed to float. Once again the third degree began. I can remember talking drunkenly and trying to give misleading answers that would still somehow sound credible to my interrogators.
I don't know how long the interrogation took before I finally lost consciousness. It was dark when I was roused from sleep, taken to the jeep, and brought back to my prison cell. They had to half-carry me all the way. My legs felt like jelly, and I didn't seem to have any control over any part of my body, although I kept mumbling my own mantra: "Mind over matter, mind over matter..." The mantra didn't work.
About two weeks after my arrest, I was taken to the office of the lieutenant who had slapped my closed eyes. He said my wife and my mother were in the other room. They had finally found my place of detention. But the lieutenant said he would only allow me to see them if I would name one name and give one address of a person involved in the underground resistance. "Have pity on your wife and your mother," he said. "They would very much like to see you." After a few moments of agonizing, I said I couldn't do it. He eventually let my wife and my mother come in and talk to me for about ten minutes, but not after subjecting them for a much longer time to the mental torture of knowing I was just in the other room and fearing they would not be allowed to see me.
I was detained without charges for close to two years. In the first six months of detention, I was made to wash cars and clean the enlisted men's incredibly filthy latrines. Halfway through my detention I experienced a recurrence of the pulmonary tuberculosis of which I had already been cured before martial law. I had to be confined for about a month at the Quezon Institute, a hospital that specializes in tuberculosis cases. Three shifts of prison guards kept me company.
On the basis of close to 10,000 depositions similar, I suppose, to the one above, the Hawaii court declared the Marcoses guilty of human rights violations and ordered them to pay a billion plus, in dollars, as reparation to the claimants in the class suit.
It was, I thought, primarily a moral victory. I joked about what I would do with the loot, but I didn't really believe there was any way the government or the Marcoses would give a billion plus, in dollars, to victims of human-rights violations, quite a number of whom remain not only nonconformist but also active, militant, even dissident.
Today the papers tell me that a deal is being worked out: if the Marcoses and the government agree to pay 100 million dollars, the claimants will drop all charges against the Marcoses. This is supposed to be a win-win-win solution.
I don't know what to think. I have friends among both those who defend and those who denounce the deal, and I don't know what to think. I could be a million dollars richer, but if the Marcoses are absolved of their crimes against humanity, then what I wrote about how I was tortured would turn out to be a lie, a figment of my overheated imagination.
18 comments:
- dana batnag said...
hi sir! ngayon ko lang nakita ang blog mo...hindi ako masyadong nagsa-surf, e. sarap basahin ng mga entries. wala ka bang bagong libro?
sana dumami pa ang mga nagsusulat sa martial law. i don't think the kids today know what we mean when we describe it as a "dark" time. kahit ako nga, hindi naman ako nagdaan sa mga pinagdaanan ninyo. kailangang hindi makalimutan para pag naulit,..
- September 26, 2008 at 9:16 AM
- dana batnag said...
by the way, i added you to my blogroll, hope you don't mind. pwede na kong maging fan now that you're no longer my boss :)
- September 26, 2008 at 9:22 AM
- tina said...
i know i read about that proposed deal in the newspaper when it came out, but i don't remember the part about the human rights victims having to drop the charges. great big what-the-f___?? it's entirely absurd. honestly.
it's disturbing how little my generation knows about martial law. i'm a fifth-year student at up. some of my batchmates and the younger students in my department, as well as one of my former math teachers, actually believe that the marcoses were wrongly accused of human rights violations, and that the philippines was "safer" and "quieter" due to martial law. as far as i can tell this is what they heard from their parents, or from their teachers. i'm ignorant as to the details myself, but my family is aware of the torture (although i don't think anyone in my family personally knows anyone who was tortured) and keeps track of the marcos cronies who are still in power. i've had teachers who were tortured during that time and have mentioned it in class. i guess for us it's a matter of what our elders have told us about it, and how interested we are in verifying what we've been told. i was born the year after the edsa revolution; martial law isn't even a memory for me.
i'm glad that the survivors of that era continue to talk about what happened; it's doesn't just refresh the memories of the ones who lived through it, but passes on these same memories to those who have no idea what it was like. this is the kind of thing that just shouldn't be forgotten.
- September 27, 2008 at 7:46 AM
- Noel Vera said...
Hi, Pete, teaching a bit of Philppine history here in Pennsylvania, to youths in a situation far (but not too far to yours). Thanks for this account. I just showed 'Imelda' to them, and pointed you out; they wanted to know more about your experiences. This is just about perfect. Could I print this out and have them read it? Thanks.
- October 24, 2008 at 11:49 AM
- Ka Pete said...
Re: "i added you to my blogroll, hope you don't mind."
No, I don't mind. Will check out your blog.
Re: "Could I print this out and have them read it?"
No problemo. Balitaan mo na lang ako kung ano ang reaction nila. Maybe my post on my brother Eman, another martial-law story, can be a companion piece.
- October 24, 2008 at 3:23 PM
- Noel Vera said...
I'd love to see a piece on Emman, yes.
- October 25, 2008 at 10:45 AM
- Ka Pete said...
The piece on Eman is one of my April postings on this blog.
- October 25, 2008 at 7:39 PM
- Noel Vera said...
Pete, This is what I got. Might not be much, they are not a very eloquent bunch, but their reactions were more or less real.
They do still ask if Imelda has been arrested, or is still alive, or has been elected president. Seem to think we're crazy enough to do that (and for all I know, we still are).
That one girl did ask about you, if you accepted the money yet. She's very smart, one of the smartest, I think.
- November 22, 2008 at 1:15 PM
- Ka Pete said...
Tell your students, no money was ever released--whether by the Marcoses or by the government--for the martial-law victims. Nobody won in what government billed as a win-win-win solution. So: no, I didn't accept something that was never really offered in the first place.
But note that this piece was written in 1995. Back then, as I wrote in this piece, "I could be a million dollars richer, but if the Marcoses are absolved of their crimes against humanity, then what I wrote about how I was tortured would turn out to be a lie, a figment of my overheated imagination."
Today, we're in danger of losing the townhouse we're staying in because of problems with the mortgage payment, so frankly I don't know what I would do if Imelda were to come over to my house and offer to take care of our mortgage problem, in exchange for absolution.
- December 1, 2008 at 11:45 PM
- Noel Vera said...
I know how you feel. Have not yet missed a payment on my house but it gets harder and harder. Just received an overdrawn notice from the bank. We don't feel like putting up a Christmas tree.
- December 13, 2008 at 2:08 PM
- howie said...
Hi Pete, Nice piece.
"Open up! We are the authorities!"
-- Just wondering: did the arresting party actually say this in English? Or was all the dialog in this piece originally in Tagalog, and translated for print? And if so, why not report it exactly the way it was said?
Pls provide the link to your essay on Eman.
- January 10, 2009 at 10:31 AM
- Ka Pete said...
The part that you quoted was from a deposition submitted for the class suit filed in a Hawaii court, so everything got translated into English. What one officer of the arresting unit shouted, if memory serves, was: "Buksan n'yo'ng pinto! Awtoridad ito!"
The piece on Eman is in the April 2008 postings. Here's the link:
- January 11, 2009 at 12:36 PM
- Jack said...
Hi sir! Your blog roll saved my Literary Criticism (although I am not in the position to criticize) of the poem Brave Woman. I never experienced Martial Law but your writings made me and that helped me analyze the poem with greater empathy. Thank you Sir.
- August 5, 2009 at 6:04 PM
- Ka Pete said...
Kamia: Hindi ako familiar sa tulang "Brave Woman." Sino ang sumulat nito?
- September 15, 2009 at 1:56 AM
- Jack said...
Si Grace R. Monte de Ramos po ang sumulat ng tula, asawa ng anak ni Franz Arcellana; pawang mga manunulat.
- September 20, 2009 at 5:34 PM
- Ka Pete said...
Salamat sa info. Kilala ko si Grace Monte de Ramos, asawa ni Juaniyo Arcellana. Staffwriter ko si Juaniyo sa magasing ineedit ko noong araw, ang yumao nang National Midweek. Si Grace naman ay nasa staff ng kabiyak kong si Marra PL. Lanot, noong si Marra ang head ng Visual, Literary, and Media Arts section ng Cultural Center of the Philippines.
- October 2, 2009 at 12:40 AM
- Jack said...
So that's how all of you are connected. =)
Maraming salamat din po sa tulang "Prometheus Unbound" mula sa koleksyong "Kung Baga sa Bigas" na naging malaking tulong sa aking analysis. Sa ngayon po ay palaisipan pa rin sa akin kung saan nagmula si Ruben Cuevas.
- October 4, 2009 at 12:05 PM
- Ka Pete said...
Hindi na pala ako nakapag-comment sa comment na ipinost mo noon pang 2009. Hanggang ngayon ba ay palaisipan pa rin sa iyo kung saan nagmula si Ruben Cuevas?
Ang "Ruben" ay galing sa pangalan ng Flemish painter na si Peter Paul Rubens. Isa sa kanyang mga pamosong painting ang "Prometheus Bound."
Ang "Cuevas" ay plural ng salitang Espanyol na cueva, na pinagmulan ng salitang Tagalog ng kuweba. Nasa isang kuweba sa Montalban si Bernardo Carpio, naiipit sa pagitan ng dalawang higanteng bato na itinutulak niya sa paghahangad niyang lumaya.
- July 13, 2015 at 12:16 AM