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The Unbelievable Duration of Egyptian Civilization
Imagine the Roman emperors still ruled today—and kept ruling until the year 3000 C.E. Imagine an American president still presides in the year 4800—governing roughly the same part of North America as today and operating under American traditions and laws, including the U.S. Constitution. In other words, imagine a government and society lasting three thousand years, with only the occasional interruption. That's how long the Pharaohs reigned over ancient Egypt.
I don't just mean the land of the Nile existed and was called "Egypt" for three thousand years. I mean the same culture defined Egypt for that entire period, with roughly the same political structure, religion, artistic style, and language. Ancient Egyptian civilization began during the centuries before 3000 B.C.E., and Egypt became a single kingdom around 3100 B.C.E.—possibly under a ruler called Narmer (a.k.a. Menes), the first pharaoh. The rule of the pharaohs ended once and for all in 31 B.C.E., with the fall of Cleopatra (VII) Ptolemy and Egypt's absorption into the Roman Empire. (Cleopatra belonged to a Macedonian-Greek dynasty, but she and the other Ptolemies ruled their Egyptian subjects like traditional pharaohs.)
To the right is a carved palette of Narmer from his own time. And below is a relief of Cleopatra's great-grandfather, Ptolemy VIII, who died in 116 B.C.E. Even I can tell they come from the same culture, despite a three millennium separation.
And the connection wasn't just skin-deep (or stone-deep). Narmer and Cleopatra presided over the same political system, more or less, with a god-king on Earth ruling roughly the same territory, in the name of the same pantheon of gods (despite some additions and subtractions), presiding over a powerful but obedient priesthood, who wrote in the same hieroglyphs and told roughly the same stories to the people, who farmed the same land in roughly the same way and spoke essentially the same language. Change of course happens in every society, and an Egyptian transported from 3100 to the last century B.C.E. would find much confusing, even bewildering. But he'd know he'd landed in Egypt, and that the heavens remained in order and that the pharaoh and his priests still represented the gods. In other words, the nation recognizable as Egypt remained and was easily recognizable three thousand years after its birth.
That immense lifespan makes Egypt unique in the world. Chinese history can claim a longer span–almost four millennia by some counts—but no culture can match Egypt's level of political and cultural continuity over three thousand years.
The best sense of Egypt's amazing duration comes from a glance at the changing world around the land of the Nile. At the start of ancient Egyptian history, civilization had taken hold only in Sumer (Southern Iraq/Mesopotamia) and Egypt itself. Elsewhere, the Middle East was a land of primitive villages and foragers, as was the rest of the Old World. At the end of ancient Egyptian history, sophisticated civilizations had sprung up across Eurasia and North Africa, and the land of the Nile had to contend with vast empires like the Roman Republic. At the start, metal tools had only just begun to replace stone, and the Bronze Age was a newborn. At the end, the Iron Age was a thousand years old. At the start, "writing" was little more than a system of picture symbols for record-keeping, allowing Sumerian and Egyptian priests to track livestock and grain supplies. At the end, alphabets had spread across the Mediterranean world, and authors like Plato, Herodotus, Cicero, and Virgil had used them to transmit poetry and wisdom that has students scratching their heads to this day. At the start, the Old World's largest buildings were mounds of stone, earth, branches, or mud bricks. At the end, Eurasia was dotted with towering and breathtaking works of architecture and engineering, like the Parthenon of Athens, Rome's amphitheaters and aqueducts, China's lacquered wood palaces and temples, and of course the Great Pyramids of Egypt itself.
In other words, Egyptian civilization and the reign of the pharaohs spanned not just thousands of years but ages of human history.
- "Narmer Palette," cropped, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
- "Ptolemy VIII relief, Temple of Kom Ombo, Egypt," cropped, by Shannon Hobbs, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
© 2011, 2016 by David W Tollen.
August 9, 2011 2:30 pm
Never knew that. Certainly gives us hope that the US can make it another couple hundred ….
August 9, 2011 10:47 pm
Yup. Let's hope the U.S. is like Egypt, rather than, for instance, the Palmyrene Empire: 260-273 C.E.
August 23, 2011 6:57 pm
Your perspective across the ages really imparts a palpable sense of ancient Egypt's astonishing longevity. What a robust civilization! Any thoughts on how the Egyptians achieved such unparalleled stability? Or is that one of the Sphinx's secrets?
August 23, 2011 8:06 pm
I think the Egyptians had two things going for them:
(1) Unparallelled conservatism. They laid down their ways and means of life during the Old Kingdom, and they just didn't want anything to change from then on in.
(2) Lucky Geography: The Nile River Valley is ideal for civilization and stability. The river's flooding is mostly predicable and supports agriculture very neatly. And surrounding deserts keep enemies at a great distance most of the time. Plus, the two-dimensional geography–nowhere to go but north and south–makes rule by a single power easy, since there aren't too many roads and byways to guard and dominate. So division into competing governments was very rare.
You could argue that Egyptian civilization started to end–and finally ended–when technology overcame Egypt's wonderful isolation. By the time of the Persian Empire, cavalry and effective shipping made Egypt more accessible to enemy armies than ever before. And iron became crucial, yet it wasn't a resource the Egyptians had in spades. The age of big classical empires had arrived, and Egypt couldn't avoid it. Maybe the Egyptians just gave up a few centuries later when the Romans took over. They had no choice to play a part in the larger Roman world, so clinging to very ancient ways no longer made sense.


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Abraham Lincoln
During World War II director John Huston produced three films for the US government. Let There Be Light was shot for the Army Signal Corps. It covers the treatment of 75 US soldiers traumatized by their combat experiences in World War II. The film is narrated by Walter Huston, the academy award-winning actor father of John Huston. The Army brass did not like the finished product, thinking that its focus on men who suffered psychological damage from their service could be demoralizing to the troops, and banned the film on the grounds that it invaded the privacy of the soldiers featured in the film and that the releases they signed had been lost. (This reason was pretextual, but as a matter of law I would not place any reliance on a release signed by someone undergoing mental treatment standing up for an instant in court.)
The ban was lifted during the Reagan years. The film is now in the public domain and is regarded as a minor classic. This movie reminds us that after "the tumult and the shouting dies," and "the captains and the kings depart" the brave men who fought sometimes have a difficult time making their way back from the hell they experienced.
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I saw Lions for Lambs this week, and I was pretty disappointed. My immediate reaction was, "They should have called it Lecture for Sheep. Or Iraq War Issues for Dummies." I like the overall message of the movie, which is that we should try to have the courage of our convictions. But the delivery leaves something to be desired.
[Warning: Mild spoilers.]
The film comprises three pieces, two of which are best termed conversation pieces — because they consist of little more than talking heads. (Admittedly, they're the heads of Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise and Robert Redford, but all they do is speechify.) The third piece, a tale of two soliders, demonstrates that war is hell.
I'm not generally a fan of war movies, but the soldiers' tale was my favorite part of Lions for Lambs. I almost felt relieved each time I was transported back to Afghanistan to get an update on their plight — because I was finally being shown something rather than told it. Unfortunately, even that part of the film is oversimplified, so the three story lines add up to a bloated public service announcement.
Some critics say it's worse than that: They insist that Lions for Lambs is anti-American, liberal propaganda. But the film is not one-sided; in fact, the usually two-dimensional, twerpy Cruise manages to make certain bits of Republican rehash seem almost reasonable. And if director Redford is promoting a cause, it's that of action for action's sake, of any stripe or party — he just wants us to do something, anything, instead of letting others act for us.
So the preachiness isn't the worst part of the oversimplification. No, there's a much more egregious problem: Lions for Lambs is a waste of Meryl Streep's talents. Much like Evening, the film is too thin to support the heft of her brilliance. As Janine Roth, a journalist who opposes the war and refuses to the bidding of neocons and capitalists, Streep tries to make the most of her underwritten part. And she sports glasses, which almost made it all worthwhile for me.
But instead of a grand reckoning — a glorious, cinematic "Hell no, I won't go" — Meryl's moment in the sun is a hot flash. That's not a metaphor: In a squabble with her boss, Janine complains about the temperature and flits about like a silly old biddy. Whatever you think of Meryl Streep, I think you'll agree that she should never be a silly old biddy. (Except maybe in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, but even in that she was more of an eccentric than a fool).
But I realize Meryl may have felt that the message was more important than the movie. And some reviewers (Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman in particular) think the problem is not that Lions for Lambs is a lecture, but that we don't get more filmic lectures these days. That's a fair point. During times of national crisis, maybe artists should occasionally let creativity take a backseat to commentary.
So what's wrong with sacrificing style for substance? Nothing, but I think Redford ended up doing the reverse by trying to put the patina of high art on a movie with low aims. Why not just say your piece on a soapbox, Bob, rather than pretend you're bringing commandments down from the Mount? Why go to the effort of hiring our greatest living actress if you're not going to do something, anything, with her gifts?
Or better yet, why not make a movie first and a speech second? Next time I see something like Lions for Lambs, I'll try to lower my expectations. Or, at the very least, I'll try to focus on things like foxy glasses.
(For more deliciousness, check out the EW gallery of Meryl's career thus far.)


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SPORTS MINISTER Sarbananda Sonowal on Wednesday said the Indian government is concerned at the "dismal" condition of the game of football in the country and is making "persistent efforts" to promote it.
Sonowal acknowledged that the performance of the Indian football team has declined recently, when asked about its condition in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
India have dropped 15 places to be 156th in the latest world rankings following two consecutive defeats in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. Englishman Stephen Constantine-coached India lost to Oman and Guam last month.
"The performance of the Indian football team has declined due to various reasons such as lack of proper attention for development of football especially at the grass roots level, lack of sponsorship, lack of sufficient career opportunity in sports etc.
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PCS has organised a public rally as part of its campaign against the closure of the jobcentre.
Assemble 11 am Whitley Road (outside Greggs, NE26 2SY)
Rally at noon next to the jobcentre in Whitley Road, NE26 2LY,
Speakers include:
- Tynemouth MP Alan Campbell
- Fran Heathcote, PCS DWP group president and national vice president
- A speaker representing unemployed workers.
What else can you do?
- Sign our petition against the closure of Whitley Bay jobcentre
- Keep up to date with the national campaign against closures
- Support the picket lines at the jobcentre on 17 and 18 August (NE26 2LY)
- Donate to the PCS Fighting Fund to support striking members.


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Back to Cusco for the final leg of our vacation. I had planned on us taking the train from MP back to Cusco since going back the way we came just would have taken another full day of travel. Good planning on my part, although the train is so ridiculously expensive, and alas the last hour was in the dark so we couldn't see the vistas as we approached the city. So here are some daytime vistas…
The night lights of Cusco reminded both of us of North and West Vancouver – really quite beautiful, with some feelings of home. We spent on evening hanging out with some other Cusco volunteers at this awesome bar/lounge, having some microbrew, listening to good music surrounded by glass walls from where you could see the cityscape, although it was cold – my only complaint. They did have a woodstove going but it didn't really heat up the whole place.
Some really narrow streets in the area where we first stayed… The traffic problems in Cusco are mainly because of all the taxis – they aren't for the locals but for the tourists. We stayed at a another volunteers place for several nights in what is known as the bohemian neighbourhood of Cusco, Santa Blas, close to the main tourist area. It was lovely. It was also cold at night as no homes have central heating. Luckily there were electric heaters to use to cut the cold prior to going to sleep. What I really needed was a hot water bottle.
Some scenes from the market – how beautiful is this corn!!
and – warning… some might find this upsetting…fresh raw & roasted cuy
Ross has yet to try this – just didn't get around to it. It was also ridiculously expensive here, maybe cheaper in Lima.
Decorative security bars & doors.
Lots of uphill and downhill…
Lots of wooden intricately carved 'balconies'
Awesome mural – the only photo which looked good – I could have used a wide angle lens for this one.
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Metallica's Orion Music + More festival is coming up soon! The festival will be held June 8-9 on Detroit's Belle Isle this summer from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. both days. You can head over to the city's web site to get the info.
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Anzhi Makhachkala striker Samuel Eto'o has opened the door for a move to Chelsea after expressing his desire to work under the Blues manager Jose Mourinho.
The 32-year-old has been coached by the Portuguese tactician at Inter Milan, where they won the treble during the 2009/10 season. The striker hailed Chelsea as a "great team" but refused to comment on Mourinho's interest in signing him.
"There is only one Jose Mourinho. I have played under a lot of great coaches - but there is no other character in the game like Jose. He is one of the best coaches in the world - and we had a lot of success together at Inter Milan," Eto'o explained.
"I would like to have the chance to play under him again - because it is never boring when Jose is around. Chelsea are a great team. When we have all the offers on the table then I will discuss with my agent and see what my next step is," he added.
According to the Express, Chelsea are considering Eto'o as a backup, if they fail to land Wayne Rooney. The Manchester United striker has been a priority signing for the former Real Madrid manager and has urged to fight till the end of his signature.
However, the Premier League champions are unwilling to let the England international leave. United have already rejected two bids from Chelsea for Rooney's services as their manager David Moyes is keen to keep the former Everton player at Old Trafford past deadline day.
The report claims that the situation has seen Mourinho turn his attention to former Barcelona striker, who is believed to be available for a bargain price of £5m. Mourinho even tried to sign Eto'o during his first spell at Stamford Bridge and could make an approach for him this summer.
The Cameroon international joined the Russian outfit in 2011 and is one of the highest paid players in the world. Anzhi are facing financial crisis and are looking to offload a few of their players to balance the book. Should Eto'o decides to join the Europa League champions, he may have to take a pay cut to expedite the move.


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12 clues that you've moved from a healthy use of all things tech to digital addiction.
One night last week both of my twenty somethings, my husband and I all made it home for dinner. In celebration of the uncommon occurrence, we dusted off the kitchen table and sat down for a meal. After which, we deposited our tired selves in the family room where my husband and I shared space on the couch with the dog. The offspring lounged across the room in comfy chairs.
Sounds very Norman Rockwell, right? The difference is in the details. The TV was on. Four cell phones sang, buzzed and dinged from various tables. And each one of us fired up our laptops and started scanning, scrolling, and typing communication to the universe outside of the house. This is a family that is fully and completely plugged in.
I've read the studies claiming the internet is re-shaping our brains and shrinking our attention spans. I'm familiar with the warning that anxiety disorders, insomnia and panic attacks can be linked to the overstimulation inherit in our society's information obsession. Maybe because we are not a family of anti-social introverts, gamers, or a techno-geeks; I haven't felt the studies were talking about us personally. However, I'm willing to admit that I might be overly fond of my cell phone and my daily verbal interaction to texting ratio is often stilted toward the latter. So, over the next few days, I started to take note of our household digital behavior to get a handle on whether we are, in fact, in need of a digital detox.
My personal study yielded the following list of clues that you and/or your family have catapulted across the divide between compulsive technology use and full-blown digital addiction.
1. While at a party you pretend to be looking for pictures of your family vacation to share with the group, but you're really checking your email/twitter/Facebook.
2. You're out to diner with the girls but only half participating in the conversation occurring realtime while you hold a texting conversation.
3. You're so used to having earbuds in your ears, you don't notice when they're not attached to anything.
4. You tell your spouse you are putting your blackberry on the bedside table to use as an alarm, but you really want to have it handy to check email if you wake up in the middle of the night.
5. When you wake up in the morning you check your email before getting out of bed.
6. You keep Facebook open and running in the background of your PC because you might miss a critical post in the lag time of opening and closing the app.
7. You have a clutching sensation in your stomach and an increased level of anxiety when you hear the words "The cabin doors are now closed. All electronic devices must be turned off."
8. As the theater lights are dimming and the movie previews start rolling, you shrink down into the space between the seats trying to get one last email out.
9. Setting the table for dinner means putting out plates, glassware and silverware
with enough space in between for everyone to plop down their cell phone.
10. You adjust your wardrobe to accommodate carrying your cell phone.
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In 1992, Terry Best partnered with the O'Doherty family and helped grow O'Doherty's Irish Grille in downtown Spokane. In the Spring of 2002, Terry and Renee Best took ownership of O'Doherty's Irish Pub & BBQ in the Spokane Valley. Before it became an O'Doherty's, it was Smokey's BBQ.
The Smokey's crew was professionally trained in our particular kind of Southern-Style BBQ and we still use the original BBQ techniques that were introduced to the Valley by Smokey's in 1997.
Irish and BBQ
It isn't so odd really. The Irish traditionally used peat for smoking meat. And the Irish are famous for their smoked salmon. It is true that the Irish had little influence to the types of barbecue sauces in America—and the original technique of slow-smoking meat at a low temperature was introduced to the Europeans by the Native Americans in the 1500s. Regardless, Spokane's large population of Irish descendents likes to mix it up a bit and happens to love our smoked meats and Kansas-style barbecue sauce … So here we are…
Our superior quality meats are rubbed with a proprietary spiced rub blend before going into our authentic Southern-style Smoker right here on premise--where the meats are slow-smoked to perfection over Apple Wood from the local Green Bluff area.
The American-Irish fare we serve includes specialties like Corned Beef and Cabbage, Guinness Beer-Battered Fish and Chips, Guinness Beef, the Butte Pasty, Tullamore Dew Whiskey Steak, and Terry's Garlic Salmon Fillet Dinner.
We love to cater! Large groups and delicious slow cooked BBQ is our specialty. Family reunions, corporate holiday parties, gaterings for friends - we do it all.
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UPDATE: Ran the IntelBurnTest under air conditioning and the highest CPU temps under load (Very High Settings) is 67 Degree Celsius at 1.275V. (OC to 4.6GHz) Managed to push OC from 4.5GHz to 4.6GHz with air-con, so I guess the ambient temperatures really do make a difference. Max GPU temps under load is now 65 Degree Celsius
This is my first build so please let me know where I can improve on in the comments.
This PC is built for gaming and while I know I'll probably not be fully utilising the parts, I wanted to go all out for my first build while staying within my budget. I use this computer to play mainly Dota 2 and now Witcher 3 (free with the GPU).
I stay in Singapore so the climate is hot and humid, therefore the high ambient temperatures. PC parts here are generally more expensive than in the states and I used the conversion rate of USD $1 to SGD $1.33. I got the parts from both online stores and local hardware stores.
I hope I've covered everything in this description. Please let me know where I can improve on and thanks in advance for your comments!
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Really solid CPU. Managed to OC to 4.5GHz at 1.27V. Max Temp at 64 Degree Celsius under load with IntelBurn on very high settings with air conditioning.
CPU Cooler
I replaced the stock fan with 2 x Corsair SP120 High Peformance fans. Figured I need better CPU cooling in the hot climate and the red rings look great too.
Wanted to get the ASUS Z97A but unfortunately it was out of stock. The 3.1 version was only $10 more so I decided why not go for it. The AI Suite 3 makes it easy for OC and fan control through the mobo.
I got these on offer and it cost about $30 more than the 8GB version. 16GB is more than enough for future proofing. RAM is RAM.
The SSD really speeds up boot times (boots in 4 to 5 seconds) and the HDD is really just there for other file storage.
Video Card
Really quiet and solid card. Sure it isn't as fast as MSI and Gigabyte but I favour the reliability of ASUS products. Can barely hear any noise even under load. OC to +150 clock and +440 memory with MSI AfterBurner. Heaven Unigine benchmarks average about 60fps with ultra settings. Max Temp 75 Degree Celsius.
Fractal Design Define R5 Titanium with Window This case provided lots of room for a first timer to fit all the parts in comfortably. The cable management was made easy with the slots to line the cables behind the mobo. Only complaint is that the case should come with an extra 140 fan. Nevertheless, I've replaced the stock fans with Corsair AF140 Quiet fans.
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The modular psu helped to keep things tidy in the case and provided enough headroom for OC and future upgrades.
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Eduardo from Colombia
Eco factor: naturally manufactured, burned out and bleed from clay, which is collected from the surrounding rivers in the Armenia region in Colombia
Eduardo comes from Armenia region in Colombia and together with his family has been involved in traditional jewelery making. It`s history dates to the antient times of the Quimbaya civilisation, which had developed in the western part of Colombia and most probably has its roots in Amazonia.
The ceramic jewelery process making is extremly time consuming. The material from which the jewellery is made is clay collected from the hillsides of the surrounding rivers, than properly prepared, cleaned, dried, bleed and later burned out in Eduardos`s designed ovens in 1200 Celcius degree temperature.
In order to create rainbow beads cords Eduardo uses natural pigments such as for example turmeric or egg shells. He keeps on experimenting upon colors! That makes every necklace unique and one of the kind.
Eduardo also supports single mothers from Armeinia region offering them work at his workshop so they can sustain their familiers with jewlerey making.


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Yesterday was all about bettering our tummies from the food filled weekend. Soup just equals healing to me and breakfast is not too early for soup.
I used to be a sweet food breakfast eater (loved me a breakfast of cake and cup of coffee) but I have since changed my ways. Soup is a great way to start the day (or any dinner leftovers really). Brian used to joke that if you add an egg to anything it's breakfast. My previous breakfast traditionalist self was appalled by such comments but now I'm like why bother adding the egg. Good food is good food any time of day.
Tummy healing soup for breakfast? You bet! Even the girls did not mind too much. The soup was hot and sour soup (no hot for the littles) which is mostly broth. Then I did add an egg in the form of omelettes stuffed with garlic broccoli, power greens, and a little shredded cheddar to win them over. Peaches helped my case.
For lunch I couldn't feed them more soup since that's what I planned for dinner (mixed lentil soup with side salads). We went the smoothie route instead. Apple pie smoothies and raw veggies helped heal our tummies. I made the apple pie smoothie with raw apples chopped up and then blended into the smoothie. The smoothies were refreshing and needed no extra sweetener. I will save my smoothie versus juicing rant for another time (lucky you!).
The girls got a bonus almond meal pancake that was leftover from last week. Lexi asked this is all we get for lunch but I believe she was full when she finished. Most importantly, everyone was feeling way better than the day before. Another successful weekend recovery day. I'd love to say we shouldn't need another one anytime soon but we are going camping for Memorial day weekend. Our fate lies in the hands of how many s'mores and hot dogs we consume (uh oh!).


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"Though Moving Kings is considerably shorter and more accessible—with less erudite but nonetheless stimulating vocabulary, similes, and fewer stream of consciousness run-on sentences—than Cohen's previous novel Book of Numbers (also reviewed on NYJB) it, too, skillfully weaves descriptive character portraits and plot lines into a novel of ideas that addresses issues as diverse as capitalism, gentrification, army veterans, the […]
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"The Betrayers succeeds by combining thought provoking ethical dilemmas with dramatic tension in an engaging prose style and is enthusiastically recommended." – from my New York Journal of Books review (which includes spoilers). For additional remarks, excerpts, and an exploration of the novel as a roman a clef see my examiner article, which begins with the […]
December 4, 2012
Technion students design a Rube Goldberg like devise that lights a hanukkiah. via examiner.com
October 15, 2012
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Weaker dollar pushes gold higher above 1000$/oz
On Monday Brent was little changed at below 70$, pausing from the previous session's losses, as concerns about a halting U.S. economic recovery and sluggish energy demand continued to weight on crude prices. However, better than expected U.S. ISM in services sector and speculations that Gulf Arab states were in secret talks with Russia, China, Japan and France to replace greenback with a basket of currencies in oil trading strengthened WTI.
Today, oil prices stayed flat, as investors waited for more definitive signs of demand recovery and weighed the impact of a report that Gulf Arab states were in secret talks to replace the U.S. dollar with a basket of currencies in oil trading.
Russia's president Dmitry Medvedev said that his country was not interested in oil prices going too high saying that a fair oil price should be at around 80- 90$/b.
Supply from the 11 OPEC members bound by output targets rose to 26.40 mln.b/d from 26.2 mln.b/d in August, according to the survey of oil firms, OPEC officials and analysts.
Russia's oil production reached 10.01mln.b/d in September, a record, and breaching the 10mln.b/d mark for the first time. OPEC output cuts mean Russia has temporarily overtaken Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil producer.
Deutsche Bank increased its 2010 oil price forecast by 10$ to 65$/b on Monday, still below consensus even as it priced in improved economic prospects and a weaker U.S. dollar, while it maintained a more bullish view for 2011.
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Leviticus 26:8
It's important to know that we are in a spiritual battle. But Jesus already won the victory. There is no room for doom and gloom. We have the power of God!
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Pupils will learn ..
•About the features of the Iron Age period
•A summary of all the periods covered so far
Lesson notes:
The Iron Age period is characterised by the arrival of iron as a stronger, more widely available metal. Together with wood, bronze, and stone this collected group of materials propelled the growth of many societies who not only used the new iron to make better tools and weapons, but used the other materials as well for differing purposes, such as hill forts to protect growing communities and the beginning of larger towns.
Introduction: Iron Age recap
Remind pupils that the Iron Age had the following features:
•800 to 43 AD in Britain (varies in other parts of the world)
•It ended when the Romans invaded Britain (though Iron was still used after)
•Iron as a more widely available and stronger metal than bronze
•The rise of the use of money, either as coins or in other forms such as pieces of metal
•Bigger towns with better defences
•Increased wider trading networks and advanced sea travel
As per previous lessons, briefly cover the impact of these events, explaining how iron continued to fuel the drive towards larger communities with land ownership and bigger trading networks, becoming more recognisable (though smaller versions) of the organised societies we know today.
Possible activity 1: (Literacy) Diary of an Iron Age boy or girl
Ask pupils to write a diary of a boy or girl watching the changes in the town as they move from the valley to a hill fort. Features could include seeing men chopping trees down with iron axes or even raids and battles by other local tribes.
Possible activity 2: (drama) Build a hill fort
Split pupils into groups and assign roles, with one group of builders, one of children, one of farmers, one of blacksmiths etc. all working together to build a fort (PE equipment is excellent for this). Then perform as a class.
Possible activity 3: (Maths) How many years?
As this is the last lesson, ask pupils to either calculate the time length of each period from the following dates, or to come up with maths word problems relating to them (please note that the dates are not fixed and vary according to the opinions of different historians and varying evidence, though these are taken straight from the BBC website):
Palaeolithic: 2.5m to 10,000
Mesolithic: 10,000 to 4,000
Neolithic: 4,000 to 2,000
Bronze age: 2,000 to 800
Iron Age: 800 to 43ad
Ask pupils to share one fact they have learned about any of the periods as they have progressed through the unit.


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Makes about 54
2 cups all-purpose flour
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
1 cup butter, at room temperature
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup white vinegar
3 jalapeno peppers, chopped
1-1/2 cups granulated sugar
12 ounces fresh cranberries
Confectioners' sugar
Place flour in bowl of food processor. With processor running, drop in chunks of the cream cheese and butter. Process until dough is formed.
(Alternatively, mix the cream cheese and butter in a large mixing bowl by hand or with electric beater. Slowly blend in flour until dough is formed.)
Wrap dough in wax paper or plastic wrap. Chill for at least one hour. While the dough is freezing, make the cranberry mixture. Place the water and vinegar in a 3-quart saucepan. Bring to a boil and let boil 5 minutes. Add the jalapeno peppers and the sugar. Return to a boil and let boil 5 minutes. Mix in the cranberries. Return to a boil and let boil 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and pour onto jelly roll pan. Chill for at least one hour.
Pre-heat oven to 350 F. Dust your work surface with confectioners' sugar. Working with a small chunk of dough, roll dough to about 1/4" thick. Cut dough into 2" squares. You can re-use the dough scraps.
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Would not make this again.
the dough is extremely hard to work with even after chilling in the fridge. i had to add alot of extra flour to be able to work with the dough and roll it out. 2 stars
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Would make this again.
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Would make this again.
These cookies are great, I will make these again. Next time I will add a little sugar to the dough as I like them a little sweeter. I got 54 cookies and had lots of the relish left over. Also, caution if you have never used Jalapenos before wear gloves and DON'T touch your eyes or nose you WILL regret it for a few hours. But a must try cookie for something a little different. 5 stars
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Something funny! :)
Going through old pictures I found this one. I don't remember the guys name but he had a blast! He was like a kid in a candy store! He had never ridden a horse before and he had to ask about a million questions! It was so cute! Nice guy too! His lady friend was so proud! Sorry that I'm using your picture without your permission, if anyone knows who this is, I'll take it down if you want!!!
So this just goes to show you that even the biggest "kids" love riding horses! There's something about them that just draws you in!
I hurt my back a last Sunday and I'm finally almost 100% better! No more meds and I can finally walk! I'm just glad this didn't happen in the summer! Cross your fingers it doesn't happen again!
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Like it or not, science is politics. And despite one party's attempt to brand itself as the voice for all science, the reality is fans from either side of the ideological spectrum kneel before the altar of data. Or rather, their respective altars. Because Liberals and Conservatives tend to prefer to read about different types of science.
The proof is in the perusing. A new study published today in Nature Human Behavior looked at which science books and which political books people shopping at Amazon.com and BarnesAndNoble.com typically bought together. The huge consumer dataset revealed some pretty clear trends: Red-tinged readers prefer applied science, like criminology or medicine, while lefties alight upon books that explore science for science's sake, like zoology, or abstract physics. And while it's great that the reasoned examination of facts appeals to everyone, the study seems to suggest that—unsurprisingly, but depressing nonetheless—people seek out the stuff that supports their worldview.
"The political divisions within this country seem to be splitting the country into mutually hostile camps that increasingly don't like each other, and don't engage intellectually," says Michael Macy, computational social scientist at Cornell University, and co-author for the study. "We were interested to find out if science might be able to serve as a bridge between these camps." He and his co-authors figured that books might be a good way of assessing peoples' actual interest in science. And, rather than fuss over low response rates and other survey design flaws, they figured they could just scrape sales trends from online bookstores instead.
If you've been to Amazon, you're probably familiar with one of their most successful sales tactics: Recommending books other customers have bought alongside the one you are currently browsing. The data underlying these suggestions is right there in the open, in Amazon's API.
The authors started with a two "seed" books: Barack Obama's Dreams of My Father, and Mitt Romney's No Apology. For each, they scraped the top 100 results from the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also" section. Then they repeated this process with every book on those lists—looking for other books customers bought alongside—and again with the results from those books. They repeated this cycle again and again until they had a complete library of nearly 1.5 million books. Then they began winnowing out all the political and science-based books, based on Amazon.com's classification system—many political books are labeled for conservative or liberal readers. In order to delineate subcategories of science, they used the Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress systems of categorization.
From that thicket of data, they parsed. "There are two important general differences between the two ideologies," says Macy. "Liberals tend to be more interested in basic science that is motivated by intellectual puzzles, empirical exercises, philosophical musings, and conservatives are looking for solutions, problem solving, and applied research." A liberal might be more likely to buy a bundle of books featuring Al Franken and Carl Sagan; while conservative shopping carts would be full of Star Parker and Mary Roach.
The second broad trend is a little more nuanced. Liberals tend to purchase science books that are interesting to anyone who is interested in science, regardless of whether they read political books. And conservatives are more cloistered, preferring science books that are only of interest to people who buy conservative political books. For instance, a liberal reader of books on environmental science is more likely to read something with broad popular appeal, like Andrea Wulf's The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humbolt's New World, whereas a conservative reader would go for something more niche, and mostly of interest to other conservative readers, such as Lukewarming: The New Climate Science that Changes Everything.
So where's the common ground? Dinosaurs, mostly. "And perhaps that not too surprising, given that it's not an area of research that's particularly politically-charged," says Macy. Which seems counterintuitive, given the whole creationism thing, but that's not what the data says. Physical science topics more generally were the least partisan, followed by life sciences—biology, environmental science, zoology—and finally the social sciences, like psychology, which might as well have trenches.
The Amazon data has its limitations. "The biggest is that we don't have individual-level purchase data," says Macy. They had to draw their conclusions from broad aggregate trends, which could mean they are missing nuances in Amazon's algorithm that could be skewing the data one way or anther. To account for this, they repeated the entire experiment on Barnes & Noble's online store. Interestingly, the two websites did not share a high number of people making the exact same co-purchases of this political book to that science book. However, the high level correlation between political ideology and scientific discipline held.
Science isn't the only topic where Macy and his co-authors are investigating partisan social divides. They maintain a website called www.lifestyle-politics.com where they rate things like sports teams, professional wrestlers, and TV shows based on users' Twitter feeds. "What we've found is there's a strong correlation between ideology and cultural preferences that have seemingly nothing to do with ideology." For instance, if enough people who follow ideologically conservative accounts like @realDonaldTrump and @FoxNews also follow @ChickfilA and @BigBangTheory, that fast food restaurant and that TV show also get grouped as conservative cultural touchstones.
To Macy, these cultural trends seem to match what's happening in science. "We don't know for sure, but we speculate that lots of interest in science is politically-motivated, and people are interested in reading about science that supports their political views," he says. If scientists want to do a better job of making their research more accessible—which they probably should if they don't want their line of work targeted by the same kind of ideological philocide currently being perpetuated against climate science—they should try to preach beyond their own choir.


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Christians targeted while Gunter Grass warns against Israel's intentions
A Lebanese Christian leader survives an assassination attempt, Turkey and Iran quarrel, and Christians fear for their futures in Syria
Elhanan Miller is the former Arab affairs reporter for The Times of Israel
Lebanese Christian politician Samir Geagea announced Wednesday that he had survived an attempt on his life, a story covered widely by Arab media Thursday.
Geagea, head of the Lebanese Forces party, told local media that he was shot from two rifles while walking near his home in the Keserwan district of central Lebanon.
He refused to name suspects in the assassination, but compared the attempt on his life to the assassination of former prime minister Rafiq Hariri.
"Sniping at Mi'rab returns the specter of assassinations and Jaja hints to a 'big, well-organized group'," reads the headline of liberal Lebanese daily A-Nahar. The daily, associated with Saad Hariri's March 14 movement, remarks that the last assassination in Lebanon occurred over four years ago.
"The noteworthy fact in this event is that most political forces did not treat it as an assassination attempt, only four hours after shots were fired from two heavy weapons… when Geagea himself exposed what had happened and that he had survived an attempt on his life," A-Nahar reported. In a photo accompanying the story, Geagea displays the bullets fired at him on a white sheet of paper.
Hizbullah news channel Al-Manar, predictably, downplays the shooting event. "Contradictory security estimates surrounding the attempt," reports the channel in its headline.
"Within one security agency one finds multiple stories. One senior officer… said two possibilities exist for what happened: either the sniping was a message to Geagea, or what happened was 'fabricated.' Considering this, expecting a useful piece of information from the security agencies was pointless," Al-Manar reported.
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New rifts are emerging in the diplomatic relations between Iran and Turkey surrounding Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Saudi-owned daily A-Sharq Al-Awsat reports that "in a new escalation of tensions between Tehran and Ankara" Iran has requested that Iraq, rather than Turkey, host the newest negotiation round to discuss Iran's nuclear plan on April 14. In response, Turkey summoned the Iranian ambassador to protest the move.
Al-Hayat editor Ghassan Cherbel comments on the new alliance between Iran and Iraq in an editorial titled "The coup of the coup." He writes that the combined oil reserves of both countries, coupled with their combined military powers and population sizes, should not be ignored.
"The mere alliance between Tehran and Baghdad sends an important message to the neighbors of both countries," writes Cherbel. He regards the alliance, in which he includes Syria as well, as based primarily on the Shiite beliefs of state leaders.
"What surprises me is that key states in the region refuse to read the changes that occurred and refuse to adapt to them. I fear that we are on the way to a Sunni-Shiite conflict in the region, as an alternative to the failed attempts to remove the Syrian link in this axis."
But the Arab nationalist editor of Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Abd Al-Bari Atwan, claims Thursday that Israeli nuclear capabilities, unspoken about in the Arab world, are the real threat to the region's stability, not Iran. He quotes German writer Gunter Grass as warning the world of the perils of Israel's intentions.
"While Israelis begin to specify the number of their victims [as the result of an Iranian strike], even if for psychological reasons, we as Arabs do not pay any attention to this matter. It would be no exaggeration to claim that doing this would be heresy; we are not allowed to talk about the fatalities, or the psychological and material destruction our region would suffer… after this war [between Israel and Iran] erupts."
Christians consider fleeing Syria, fearing oppression
Saudi-owned news channel Elaph reports that many Christians in Syria, who were protected by the Assad regime as a religious minority, are considering fleeing the country for fear of Islamic extremists.
According to Issam Bshara, regional director of Lebanon, Syria and Egypt at CNEWA (Catholic Near East Welfare Association), the Christians in Syria face a threat on two fronts.
"Staying in the country would expose them to fire from rebels and government forces. On the other hand, if the rebels prevail and the [Assad] regime collapses, an Islamic government will take its place, and this will make their life very difficult," Elaph reports.
Bshara cites the case of Tunisia, where a secular state existed for more than 50 years, but where large demonstrations now demand the enactment of a religious constitution.