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If your kid loves reading books which are similar to the Goosebump series' spooky books, there's a high chance that they'll enjoy A Bad Night for Bullies (The Goolz Next Door) by Gary Ghislain. To discover whether or not your child is likely to enjoy this particular book, simply continue reading.
A Bad Night for Bullies revolves around seventh grader Harold Bell, an English immigrant who lives in Maine and who becomes the target of a cruel bully named Alex Hewitt. Who makes fun of the fact that Harold is wheelchair bound.
However, Alex Hewitt is the least of Harold's problems as after a world renown horror and his daughters move into Harold's neighborhood, things really go haywire for poor Harold. As his new neighbor, Frank Goolz accidentally activates the Stone of the Dead, a mysterious ancient relic which raises the dead by sucking the life out of the living.
Soon after the Stone of the Dead is activated Harold's bully Alex disappears into thin air and Harold and Frank Goolz' adventurous daughters Ilona and Suzie are tasked with battling numerous ghosts in order to protect the living and to rescue Alex.
This particular book will appeal to both boys and girls as girls will relate to how brave and adventurous Ilona and Suzie are, although Harold is the central protagonist of the story.
What makes Harold an interesting protagonist?
Firstly, both Harold and the Goolz sisters have dry senses of humor that most kids will relate to. Secondly, while Harold is wheelchair bound at the start of the book, he soon finds that when he holds the Stone of the Dead, he can walk again.
Harold has an interesting journey in A Bad Night for Bullies, when he starts to covet the Stone of the Dead as he knows that if he gives up the Stone of the Dead for the good of all mankind, he'll live out the rest of his life in a wheelchair.
So if your kids enjoy books which have moral dilemmas which their protagonists have to face, they'll definitely have empathy for Harold. Who has been wheelchair-bound since he became permanently paralyzed at just 7 years of age.
Will A Bad Night for Bullies be too scary for your child?
Most children will have no problems reading A Bad Night for Bullies as while it does contain plenty of scary ghouls examples of which include a rotting ghost and a crap covered corpse, there aren't any scenes in this kid-friendly horror which will keep your child awake at night.
So if you're looking for a kid-friendly horror that will encourage your child to read, it's definitely worth seriously considering treating your kid to a copy of A Bad Night for Bullies. Especially if they enjoy spooky tales. As a bonus, A Bad Night for Bullies is actually is actually the first book in a series and the ending of this first book in the series sets Harold and the Goolz sisters on a harrowing new adventure.
So if your child loves binge reading book series, they're sure to fall in love with The Goolz Next Door series.


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Hey, Readers! After several discussions with the girls over at The Elven Padawan, I was inspired to look up a number of videos about the original Star Wars Expanded Universe. Most of those videos will appear in later posts, but I thought these deserved to be shown first.
These videos are all "live-action cut scenes" from the video game Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II. They're not entirely up to modern standards, I suppose, but they are nonetheless fascinating viewing. Someone on youtube collected them and put them together as a film, but I thought it would be easier on everyone to post the three different videos filled with cut scenes here today. That way you can stop and come back whenever you want to, readers. 😉
Based on these videos alone, I can see why Dark Forces II was such a big hit. Who wouldn't want to play a game AND watch a film at the same time? It's one of the reasons why I enjoyed playing Knights of the Old Republic so much – and that game was entirely CGI! It's too bad Disney or some other company hasn't refurbished or reshot Dark Forces. This game was a real gem.
But enough talk – you came here to see Kyle Katarn and Jan Ors face down the High Inquisitor Jerec over the power of the Valley of the Jedi. Have fun watching these videos, readers!
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Saturday, April 18, 2009
Garages Are Rooms Too
I've seen many a garage in my lifetime. As a kid, I remember my cousin and I hid for hours from my brother in my aunt and uncle's detached garage that was actually not used as a garage but used as a sort of indoor/outdoor rec room where many kid birthday parties were celebrated. That was the 70's. Do people still do that now? Seems these days, I see homes with 3-4-5-6 car garages (I live in LA!), others with the garaged packed like a storage unit, and still others who's garages are meticulous: the complete organized built in storage, the second fridge, space for five cars, etc. My guess is the kids aren't playing hide and seek in the garage and the parent's aren't throwing kid birthday parties in the garage! That aside, the garage is still another room extension of one's home. I think it has a lot more potential then most people make of it.
Maserati along with Architectural Digest is currently on the search for the best in architectural garages. I would think you don't quite have to have the car collection as these garages do. But here are three of the top votes in so far:
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SANTA BARBARA (CBS) — A University of California student was in custody Wednesday in connection with a firebomb attack on a off-campus police station.
Investigators believe Keith Keiper, 23, of Oceanside, was solely responsible for the Jan. 1 attack on the Isla Vista Foot Patrol police station on the 6500 block of Trigo Road near the UC Santa Barbara campus.
Surveillance video footage shows a Molotov cocktail being hurled at the station and exploding in a fiery flame in the early morning hours of New Year's Day.
A similar firebombing at the station back on Nov. 15 is still under investigation. It was not clear whether investigators believe Keiper had any involvement with the November attack.
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Google Analytics is quickly becoming the de facto Web analytics tool. But many people fail to correctly configure the application for optimal performance. They simply slap the tags on their website without realizing there are some settings that should be configured to control and manipulate the data.
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You may associate asbestos with insulation and other industrial uses. But asbestos itself is not man-made. It is a mineral that can be found in rocks and soil. And in its natural form, asbestos can be just as deadly as the asbestos in old buildings and auto brake pads.
The mineral asbestos crumbles into small fibers, and if these fibers are breathed into the lungs the result can be tragic. Asbestos exposure can cause mesothelioma, a particularly dangerous form of lung cancer, and asbestosis, a debilitating lung disease.
If there's any good news to be found here, it's that most naturally occurring asbestos is deep underground. If you're into hiking and camping, in most parts of the U.S. you don't need to worry about stumbling into a patch of deadly asbestos. Poison ivy is another story, of course.
There are exceptions, however, and the exceptions are of two types. There are a few places in the U.S. where asbestos is found naturally in surface rocks and in soil. The other danger occurs where asbestos has been mined or processed, resulting in the tragic asbestos contamination of communities.
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) provides a map to locations where there's a danger of exposure to surface or mined asbestos. As you can see on the map, some of these locations are near areas where people might go hiking or camping, such as Michigan's Upper Peninsula and the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast states.
Other areas — see Georgia and Virginia in particular — are in fast-growing communities. People in those communities might be exposed to asbestos while gardening, or the family pooch might bring it into the house after digging holes in the yard. Mesothelioma can take 30 years to develop after exposure to asbestos, so if you live near one of the sites on the map don't be complacent just because you haven't heard of anyone getting sick.
In the case of natural asbestos deposits, it's most important to leave it alone, because the fibers become airborne when the mineral is disturbed. ATSDR has an online pamphlet with asbestos safety tips for limiting your exposure to asbestos if you think it's near your home. Tips include staying on pavement as much as possible, pre-wetting gardens before digging in the soil, and clean carpets frequently using a vacuum with a high efficiency HEPA filter.
The tragedy of Libby, Montana, shows us the worst that can happen where asbestos has been mined and processed. Libby was the site of a vermiculite mine, and the vermiculite was contaminated with asbestos. Although the mine has been closed for years, at least 50 new cases of asbestos-related disease are diagnosed every year in a community of about 3,000 people. At least 200 Libby residents have died of asbestos-related disease. The EPA recently declared Libby "public health disaster." Asbestos-related diseases are extremely dangerous, and if you think you may have been exposed in the past, or if you develop symptoms of lung disease; see one of our nation's top doctors such as Dr. Harvey Pass promptly.
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Scientists today expressed excitement that the pioneering android Chancellor, Gideon11, may have experienced something equatable with human emotion. The waxen-faced facsimile of a humanoid was pictured with what appeared to be a single tear glistening on its plastic cheek.
As its mother node was being decommissioned, packed into a lead-lined container and deposited 30 miles below the Earth's crust, the Gideon droid's head began to twitch and it emitted a single droplet of fluid from beneath its left visual socket.
The Gideon was originally developed, 'for a laugh', by a group of robotics scientists from Cambridge University, members of the Oxford University Bullingdon Club and a team of Kwik-Fit fitters.
When asked for a comment, Boris Johnson one of the project leaders, said: "Crikey, easy tiger. Let's not get carried away. This could just be the latest in a series of glitches. Gideon has previously displayed no signs of artificial intelligence, or indeed natural intelligence. Even simple calculations have been beyond him. Frankly, we'd kinda' written him off. However, if this data is correct then the implications for Gideon and others like him – simpler models like the G.O.v.eRT, May2-D2 or even the ED-2009 - could be immense."
In 2007, development of an android Chancellor accelerated amid speculation that the job could be done more efficiently and reliably without human control; as was proved successfully in the mid-90's.
However, in recent years the Gideon project has come to be viewed as a costly failure.
"For a time we thought it might have had some military application," said Michael Foster, an exhaust fitter, who was part of the original build team. "In many ways, it's the perfect weapon; ruthless, dangerous, expendable. But when we demonstrated it to the Ministry of Defence it immediately cut a number of troops and slashed many others' pay. It's potentially more dangerous to our own side."
Lori Tofler, a junior research scientist, who had some early contact with the Gideon, is one of those convinced that this is a watershed moment.
"I remember one day, getting the news that my nan had died. She was a miserable old cow, but I had a little sniffly cry anyway. Gideon turned to me and asked, why does water come from your eyes? I tried to explain about empathy, pity and suffering, but to no avail. It merely fixed me with its usual lifeless glassy stare then swiveled its head round and asked what Dave was doing?
"But now… finally… if this simple machine, a Chancellor, has learnt the value of human life then maybe one day we can too.
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In 1861 a small band of Mormon pioneers found themselves halted permanently without purse, and what was more important, very little script in the remote desert valley of Dixie. In the absence of houses, clothing, food, science, an literature, they developed their own version of these human needs to suit the conditions in which they lived and the equipments and talents which they possessed. To some extent, they patterned their lives after the manner they remembered from earlier homes; but life was so different in the desert that the practices of civilization were not often possible, and these people developed unique ways of living to coincide with their unique country. Houses were one-room log cabins with brush roofs or tiny mud-colored huts of "Mormon bricks", clothing was of home-grown and home-spun cotton, coarse, unattractive, but precious; diets consisted of coarse meal bread, alfalfa and pig-weed greens, berries and wild fruit. Without the enlightenment of science, these pioneers developed strange superstitions and concocted fanciful remedies for their illnesses. Without the entertainment of theatres and "pleasure palaces," they frolicked at community dances, husking bees, and peach cuttings. Without the pleasure of books they developed the art of story-telling, and their fireside tales were of their migrations across the plains, their difficulties with the Indians, and their daily struggles to establish security on earth and in heaven. From their own experiences and ingenuities, these people evolved a learning, which enabled them to live in a desert. This learning, their folklore, presents an intimate picture of the Dixie pioneers.
The one quality which they possessed in the most amazing abundance was the virtue of self-reliance. Alone in the desert except for a wife (or two), some children, an ox team, and a wagon, they were forced to be resourceful and ingenious. The first houses were built of logs. Inside of them were tables and benches made from cottonwood logs with holes bored in each end and legs fastened in the holes. The ticks on their homemade beds were filled with straw or cattail fuzz. A hole in the ground served as a stove, and as there were no matches, flint rocks were rubbed together to produce fire. After the first was made and the ground was very hot, the meat was put in to roast. Sometimes bread was cooked on a shovel.
Usually dry wood was used as fuel, but sometimes an artificial "coal" was made. Men went into the hills and gathered green wood, which they brought home and piled up to form a very solid wall in the general shape of a teepee. After packing the wood carefully all over with dirt, a fire was started under the wood in some bark which had been placed on the floor of the structure for this purpose. Enough air was allowed in to char the wood, but not enough to burn it. After several days the wood was completely charred, and the "coal" was made.
For food, the Dixie pioneers ate bread made from corn and buckwheat ground between two stones or in hand coffee mills. Later, wheat was grown and a flourmill was built near Washington. Alfalfa, pig-weeds, and dandelion stems were used for greens. "Yant," a kind of yucca which formed a head something like a large artichoke, was baked in a pit of hot ashes or boiled and eaten as a vegetable by the early pioneers or on some occasions, it was the basis of a pioneer wine. Miners' lettuce, sometimes called Indian lettuce and squaw cabbage, produced small, succulent plants used by the Indians and pioneers for salads. The Joshua tree, whose name came from the idea that its branches pointed toward the promised-land, bestowed fruit upon the newcomers. Small boys herding sheep or cows on the red hills of Dixie often "pieced" upon sego lily bulbs and bottle-stoppers which they found growing about them in great abundance.
As soon as possible the pioneers improved their diet with cultivated vegetables and fruit. They ate potatoes, beans, squash -- a great variety of vegetables, and peaches, pears, plums, apples, figs, and pomegranates. For a long time sugar was almost unheard of, and native molasses, or properly sorghum, was used to sweeten almost everything. They even used it in making preserves of squash, wild plums, apples, and peaches. These fruits and vegetables were boiled down with the molasses to form a kind of butter, which was preserved in barrels and five gallon cans and sealed with gum or wax.
The pioneers dried much meat, particularly venison. This was done by dipping small strips of it in very hot brine water before putting it out to dry. This "jerky," as it was called, was cooked in water gravy or used to "piece" on.
Cotton was grown in Dixie and was cultivated, cured, and spun into cloth by hand. At a later date, silk worms were introduced and silk dresses were seen in Dixie. A variety of materials were used and combined to produce colors for this homemade cloth. Brown color was obtained from walnuts, blue from indigo blossoms, yellow from rabbit brush flowers, brown-green from peach leaves, red from dock root and madder, black from squaw-bush, and green from chaparral. Burdock, sagebrush, and the tan bark from pine trees inspired still other shades.
I have heard that there was never anything under the sun as ugly as the shoes worn by the pioneers. They were made of any kind of durable material. The finest were of buckskin with rawhide soles, but some were made of wagon covers and tent cloth. Those who couldn't afford shoes went unabashed without them, for it was not uncommon to see people at church or even at dances sans shoes of any description. In fact, children under sixteen years seldom possessed such things. Often at dances the fortunate people who were equipped with shoes would lend them to their comrades for a dance. Often shoes would change hands (or feet) so many times during a dance that the owner was hard-pressed to find his shoes when the dance was over. However, he didn't worry about them, for they would surely be placed in the window of the tithing office the next day, and he could claim them then.
But food and clothing were not the only things the sharp observation and resourcefulness of the pioneers produced. Soap was made from the oose root found on the hills; lye was secured from cottonwood ashes. From the alkali that covers like snow the valleys of Dixie was obtained saleratus or baking soda; from potatoes, grated and dried, was made starch. Illumination was secured by burning rags soaked in grease. Hats were braided from wheat straw and made white by curing the straw in a barrel of sulphur. Earthen and wooden dishes braved the tables.
It is as if the pioneers believed that everything had been created to help them if they could only find out each object's use. It seems that there was not a stick, stone, plant, or animal that they didn't attempt to utilize. Especially this seems true when contemplating the various remedies concocted and prescribed by the pioneers to cure their illnesses. From the alkali under their feet to their sincere faith in the administerings of heaven, they received help for physical suffering. A dried Malaga grape raisin, boiled and opened and the fleshy part bound on the navel, was a method of disinfecting the navel of a new-born child. Thick, bitter molasses mixed with finely cut horsehair was used as a salve to cure worms. A felon was healed by holding the affected finger in a cup of water on a hot stove until the water began to boil. To stop wounds from bleeding, flour and turpentine were mixed together and spread on the wound. Snake bites were cut crosswise and treated with milkweed, tobacco juice, whiskey, or black mud. Whiskey, taken internally, was supposed to counteract the poison from a rattlesnake bite and was supposed not to make the person drunk. A slice of over-ripe cucumber laid on each eye was good for sore eyes. The earache was cured by blowing smoke into the ear. Catnip was given to small babies to cure colic. A strip of heavily peppered fat wrapped around the neck was prescribed for sore throat. Molasses and sulphur mixed together and taken in the spring of the year would clear the blood, and used as a salve would cure the itch. Teas made form sweet balsam leaves, sage, saffron, yarrow, mountain rush, and Brigham tea were good for indigestion, for blood purifiers, for fevers, for colds, to bring out a rash, and for a variety of similar complaints. The efficacy of these remedies was probably due to the favorable psychological attitude they produced and in some cases they were innocuous.
Other remedies do not sound so innocent. The following cures must have been most unpleasant, if not downright harmful. A child was cured from biting his fingernails or from displaying other nervous symptoms by putting some finely cut human hair in his bread and milk. To help a baby cut his teeth, his gums were rubbed with some kind of animal's brains, preferably a rabbit's. A teaspoon of mare's milk three times a day was given to a person with whooping cough. For chapped hands, children were compelled to bathe their hands in "chamber lye," or urine; this was also given to babies when they suffered from croup. Manure from the corrals was used to make complexion packs. A live chicken, cut open, was places on the chest of a person suffering from pneumonia. Whenever an Indian was sick, his tribe dug a pit six to eight feet square. This they lined and covered over with heated rocks, and water sprinkled on these rocks produced steam. The suffering Indian was obliged to crawl into this pit and steam away his illness.
Certain remedies were purely superstitious. A band made of snake rattlers worn on the hat was believed to prevent headaches. If one would spit on his finger immediately upon awaking in the morning and make a cross on his corn, it would soon disappear. A salt shaker under the pillow at night was believed to cure fits caused from worms.
In what manner the pioneers discovered these queer remedies, it is not always possible to know. Probably they were compounded from the material handiest, ad if the patient didn't die under the administrations of some new concoction, the remedy was remembered as a cure when a similar ailment arose. Certain it is that when anyone became ill, the good ladies of the village gathered about him with their homemade remedies and, solemnly and sympathetically, tried first one cure and then another, until the unfortunate either recuperated or passed on. Sometimes these remedies were written down and preserved carefully in the family bible where they may yet be found in the homes of their descendants.
Only occasionally is it possible to know just how a special remedy originated. The following story, told to me by one of my students, is an example of what happened in one case. "When my father was a child of six years, he had a running sore, then called a white swelling, on his right leg. For six he was unable to walk. At the end of this time, the doctor advised amputation. That night my grandmother dreamed that the marrowbone of a freshly killed beef mixed with alcohol would cure the sore. The next day they tried it. When the doctor came a week later, daddy was so much better, he decided to wait a while before amputating. He never did amputate; daddy's leg healed." (Emily Land, one of my students, told me this story.)
Though work occupied most of the pioneers' time, they very sensibly set aside certain hours and sometimes days for recreation. On these gala occasions the pioneers chose to dance, for this was always their favorite amusement. Where one existed, the people would gather for their dance in the ward house or amusement hall, and the dance would be under the supervision of some member of the bishopric. Where there was no convenient building, the crowd would gather in somebody's dooryard to trip the light fantastic to the tune of a fiddle or an accordion. The musicians were always paid in produce, dried peaches, squash, cabbage, molasses -- whatever a man could use. Some of the old dances were the polka, the schottische, the quadrille, the Virginia Reel, Six Nations, the two-step, the snap waltz, the spat waltz, and the polygamy waltz, the last so named because a man could have two partners. Such tunes as "Yankee Doodle," "Turkey in the Straw," and "The Old Gray Mare," struck up by the fiddler, set these dances into motion, and the merriment, begun early, sometimes continued well into the night.
The young bloods of old Dixie especially enjoyed "scalp hunting," a custom which led to a community dance every Friday night. All the younger people of the town organized and divided into two groups, each group having an even number of boys and girls. During the week the boys would go hunting in their spare time and secure as many scalps as they could of small game. Squirrels, rabbits, lizards, and wild fowl were their usual victim. At the end of the week each side counted all the scalps they had procured during the week, and the side having the most scalps was entertained at a dance and supper prepared for them by the losing side.
A "peach cutting" was another richly anticipated event. For this, men made scaffolds for drying the peaches at certain propitious places about the town. One night a crowd of young people gathered at one of the scaffolds to set out peaches; until an entire crop of peaches had been pitted and set out to dry. Various races were run to see who could cut and set out the most peaches in a given time, and, as often as not, the winner of such race was permitted to kiss all the young ladies present.
In St. George, the fourth and twenty-fourth of July celebrations exhausted an entire day. Early in the morning the martial band, consisting of a bass drum, two snare drums, and a flute, rode on a wagon from camp to camp to play for the families. As a matter of courtesy, the head of each family treated the band to yeast and molasses beer and molasses cake. At noon everyone was invited to a community barbecue; and in the afternoon a greased pig was turned loose for every boy to try to catch -- and the proud young rascal who was successful usually had glued his hands with molasses to help him win his prize.
On ordinary, less festive occasions, the pioneers found entertainment when they gathered at night around their campfires and hearthsides for story telling and ballad making. These stories and ballads were of Indian difficulties, Indian legends, mining adventures, lost mines, irrigation problems, strange dreams and visions, catastrophes, and superstitions. The story of the last squaw fight was well known in every home, and I am going to relate it here just as it appears in the "Memoirs of John R. Young, who was an eyewitness of this event:
"A squaw fight came about in this way: If a brave saw a maiden that he desired, he would go to see her father, who, according to their laws, had a right to see her, and bargain for her, usually paying from one to five ponies for her. If it happened that the girl had a lover, and he would put up as much purchase money as had the first applicant, then the lovers would settle it by a fistfight. Sometimes conditions would be such that every warrior in the tribe would be allowed to aid his tribesman to win his wife. It would then be a national war, and would be conducted on long-established rules and ceremonies, which the Indians hold in deep reverence.
"In 1861 at Santa Clara, I witnessed one of these tribal fights. A young, slender girl of Tutse gouett's band was purchased by a brave of Coal Creek John's band; but a brave of the Santa Clara tribe was the girl's accepted lover.
"The aspirants were men of influence in their respective bands, though they were unequal in physical ability. The man from Cedar, Ankawakeets, was a large, muscular, well-matured man of commanding personality, while Panimeta, the Clara man, was only a stripling; a youth of fine features and an eagle eye, bu fifty pounds lighter in weight than Ankawakeets.
"By the rules of the contest, this physical difference made it impossible for the lovers to settle it by single combat; hence, it was arranged by tribal agreement, that twenty warriors on each side should participate in the struggle. The ground selected was a flat just west of the old Clara fort. A square was marked off, the creek being chosen for the south line; a line drawn in the sand marked the east, west, and north boundaries.
"East of the east line was Ankawakeets' goal, which, if he could reach with the girl, she was his; contra, west of the west line was Panimeto's goal, claiming the same concessions. On opposite sides of a line running north and south through the center of this square were the braves, lined up, stripped to the skin save for the indispensable gee-string.
"At the tap of the Indian drum, the two files rushed like angry bullocks upon each other; a second tap of the drum, and the warriors clinched. To vanquish an opponent you had to throw him and hold him flat on his back for the supposed time it would take to scalp an actual enemy. At the end of an hour's exciting struggle, a few warriors on each side had been vanquished; but the forces remaining were equal in number, so neither party had gained any advantage.
"They now changed the procedure. The father led the maiden to the central line. She looked terrified; and well she might, for the ordeal through which she was to pass was a fearful one. The champions ran to the girl, and seizing her by the wrists, undertook to force her to their respective goals. Soon it became a "tug-of-war" with fifteen strapping warriors on each side.
"Gyrating from one side of the field to the other they came, in one of their wild swirls, to the banks of the creek and fell into the water pell-mell up to their necks. The girl, evidently in a swoon, was entirely submerged, only her mass of glossy tresses floating on the surface of the water.
"Andrew Gibbons, one of the Indian missionaries, flung himself on the bank; and seizing the girl's hair, he raised her head above the water. Instantly every brave broke his hold, and scrambled onto the bank; and Ankawakeets angrily demanded that Gibbons should fight him for having interfered. Gibbons accepted the challenge, and stepped into the ring. Tutse gave the signal, and Ankawakeets sprang to the fray, only to measure his length backward on the sand. After Gibbons had held Ankawakeets until the imagined scalping was performed, he stepped back and folded his arms. His vanquished opponent arose, stepped to the maiden, spoke a few low words, and taking the unresisting hand, led her to the victor and presented her as a bridal trophy for the white man's valor and skill.
"Gibbons accepted the maiden, and leading her to Panimeto, gave her to him. The presentation was followed by a war-whoop from Ankawakeets and his braves. Rushing to their camps they returned with guns in hand, and forming a circle around the girl, ordered her to march. This time it was Thales Haskell, another Indian missionary, who stopped Ankawakeets; and Tutsegavit again commanded the father to lead the girl to the center of the field until the sun should hide its face behind the mountain. If neither party won by that time the girl should be released from the father's vows.
"Again the warriors took their places, the champions grasping again the wrists of the trembling young squaw, on whose face was a look of despair. At this critical moment, the girl's younger brother, who had stood aloof with folded arms and clouded brow during all the struggle, bounded to his sister's side and, drawing his knife from the sheath, he buried it in her bosom. She fell lifeless into her father's arms. The brother, holding the bloody knife on high, said:
"I loved my sister too well to see her suffer more. If there is any brave who thinks I have done wrong, let him take the knife and plunge it into my heart. I am not afraid to die."
"Every warrior bowed his head, and turning, walked in silence to his camp." ("Memoirs of John R. Young, by himself, The Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah. 1920. pp.299-304.)
This was the last squaw fight ever held. After this tragedy, Jacob Hamblin, who was well loved by the Indians, persuaded them to give up this custom.
One favorite pioneer tale dealt with the discovery of the Silver Reef mine, which happens to be one of the very richest silver mines in the state and has only been discontinued because of its distance from the railroads and the difficulties encountered in mining, smelting, and distributing it. Incidentally the discovery of silver at Silver Reef marks the first discovery of this metal in sandstone.
It is said that at one time some people left Leeds to go to Pioche, then a thriving mining town, to cut wood. On their way, they quarried a piece of sandstone from the location which has since been called Silver Reef to use as a grindstone for their axes.
When they reached Pioche, they found the miners there were discussing the two assayers who were then in camp, both of whom they believed to be dishonest. Their reason for doubting the characters of these two men lay in the contradictory assays which they made. One of the young men invariably gave a favorable assay on ore brought to him for examination; the other invariably gave an unfavorable assay on the same ore. The miners were puzzled which to believe, and at length conceived a plan whereby they were sure they could detect the imposter.
They decided to give a piece of ore which they knew to be high in mineral value to the man who usually gave a negative report and a piece of ore which they knew to have no mineral value to the man who usually gave a positive report to see if their answers would be true. Accordingly, they pulverized a $5.00 gold piece and an ordinary rock together and gave it to be assayed by the man who habitually gave an unfavorable report; he reported nothing of value. Then they gave to the man who habitually gave a favorable report a bit of the pulverized grindstone which the Leeds woodcutters had found at Silver Reef; he reported 20 ounces of silver were to be found in it. The miners, convinced that both men were rascals, rode them out of town on a rail. However, the honest young assayer who had found 20 ounces of silver in a bit of sandstone from Silver Reef later traced the sandstone back to the cliff it was taken from and discovered the richest mine in the Dixie country. (Story told me by Albert Miller, present mayor of St. George.)
The pioneers could tell no end of stories concerning lost mines. This one is especially interesting since it is connected with the Three Nephites who are believed to have visited the Dixie pioneers many times.
"One day while George Holt was riding in the hills above Enterprise, he came upon a ledge of richly-colored rock. As he was interested in mining, he broke a piece of the rock off, and taking notice of several landmarks to guide him back to the spot, he left for town. The assayer assured him that the rock contained an unusually large amount of gold. With visions of fabulous wealth, he went home.
"That afternoon a small man with a long white beard rode a donkey to Mr. Holt's residence and asked for food. Mr. Holt obliged him, and engaged him in conversation while his wife prepared dinner. The first words uttered by the stranger were to the effect that Mr. Holt had found a rich mine. Mr. Holt confirmed the report, and asked how the stranger knew of his prize. The man evaded his question and merely said:
"You had better forget about this mine. If it develops, it will be for the ruination of your boys."
"Mr. Holt went into the house to see how the food was coming, and was gone for several minutes. When he returned the stranger and his donkey had vanished as if into thin air. The next day Mr. Holt and one of his boys went back to find the mine. They hunted all day, and for several succeeding days, but they could find no trace of the gold-bearing ledge. Nor could they find any landmarks; they did not even recognize the hills. To this day nothing has been found of the mine, and Mr. Holt believes that it has all been for the best." (story told by Clayton Prince, one of my students, and confirmed by others.)
That these Dixie pioneers spent many an hilarious evening ballad-making and ballad-singing is certain from an examination of some of the ballads which have come down to us from them. These ballads, of course, dealt mostly with personal experiences. The following excerpt is from a ballad sung to me by an old pioneer now in his 79th year. It was composed by George A. Hicks and his wife, Betsy, when they were called from Cottonwood to settle Dixie:
"We hitched up Jim and Bally,
All for to take a start,
But to leave my house and garden,
It almost broke my heart...
At length we reached the Black Ridge,
Where I broke my wagon down;
I could not find a carpenter
Within twenty miles around.
I cut down an old cedar tree
And made an awkward slide;
But my load, it was so heavy
Poor Betsy couldn't ride.
I turned around to Betsy
To tell her to take care,
When all upon a sudden
She struck a prickly pear.
Then Betsy blubbered out,
As loud as she could bawl,
"If I was back on Cottonwood,
I wouldn't come at all."
Another delightful ballad was one composed in 1874 by Dave Cook and Sam Workman who were sent from Utah to Colorado to form a guard against the invading Navajos. Though this ballad was criticized by Brigham Young for certain vigorous expressions it contains, nevertheless it is one of the most entertaining ballads of the Dixie pioneers. A typical passage describes Lee's Ferry:
"We traveled on a few days
Till we got to Lee's,
And there it was as hot as hell,
Without a bit of breeze.
And when the wind did come,
It all come in a flirt,
And, golly, it was hot enough
To almost burn your shirt."
(Manuscript in Washington County Library, St. George, Utah.)
Superstitions grew up about certain people and places in Dixie and were turned into tales for fireside repetition. The pioneers of southern Utah, tenacious in a religion that demanded from them the severest sacrifices, often lacked understanding and sympathy for those people whose religious dogma was not the same as their own. Most of all, they lacked sympathy for apostates, and often treated them in much the same manner that the Puritans treated "witches." The following story, told in the own words of a friend of mine will show you how true this is.
"In the early days of Dixie, there lived in Springdale an old man and woman who had once belonged to the Mormon church, but who had apostatized. One night a little boy in the town who was nearly well from a long illness suddenly broke into a tantrum, and couldn't be quieted until someone discovered that the evil old man was standing outside the window, glaring in; he was dressed in his temple clothes. It was evident that he'd bewitched the child.
"The woman, though she'd never been known to harm anyone, was such a sinister creature that everyone was afraid of her. It was a known fact that she couldn't go under steel, and each person had his own way of proving it. One day in the midst of a rainstorm the woman came to grandmother's home. As she was sitting near the stove to dry herself, someone slipped a knitting needle in the rafters just above her head. Her clothes began to steam, and she looked as though she were surely in misery, yet the poor creature couldn't move until the piece of steel was removed from above her head.
"One day when grandmother was home alone, she saw the witch coming toward her house; remembering the incident she stuck a paring knife in a crack above the doorway; then she invited her caller in. After several useless attempts to comply with the invitation the mysterious female decided she'd stay outside instead.
"As I said before, none knew of any harm she'd ever done, yet she was considered a detriment to the community, and a few cruel, half-insane young men took it upon themselves to rid it of her. They told her that her son, who was wanted for murder, was hiding at a certain place up in the hills; he was nearly starved and he wanted her to follow their directions and bring him some food. Her mother's heart made her go to the spot designated. The young bullies were hiding there; they beat her to death with rocks. The exact place where she was murdered has been pointed out to me in Zion Canyon, and I know four brave young people who have good reason not to doubt that it's haunted.
"Years later, when some boys were riding on horses through the canyon they came upon a queer-looking old woman sitting on a rock. The boys were anxious to find out who she was, and since she wouldn't answer their questions, they started toward her. At first she was very near them, but after she'd started running, their horses couldn't catch her. Before their eyes she ran to the top of a steep mountain. It seemed to the awestricken watchers that she flew, for no one had ever been able to climb that mountain before. My uncle was one of the boys who saw her." (Story told me by Elva Hopkins, student Dixie High School and confirmed by others.)
In the early days another spot firmly believed to be haunted was the dark cave on the red hill just north of St. George. The cave itself is a long narrow chasm in a huge rock of red sandstone. At about the center is a small hole leading into a small room. Before the advent of the pioneers, the Indian people of this vicinity used it as a burial vault for their children. I know this is true for my father and mother once found a dead Indian baby in this cave when they were courting. The younger people of St. George believed that the spirits of the dead Lamanite babies were hovering near the place where they had once been buried and were apt to push the rocks together and crush unfortunates who might be squeezing their way through the chasm
Well-known superstitions, such as those concerning mirrors, black cats, numbers, umbrellas, and ladders, were common among the pioneer residents of Dixie. They believed, too, that if knives were crossed, the two persons who saw them first would surely quarrel; if four people shook hands together, it was a sign that one the couples would soon be married; if a baby saw himself in a mirror before he was a year old, he would die within a year; if one killed a frog, his cows would give bloody milk; if one nailed split shingles on a roof upside down in the old of the moon, they would surely curl up on the ends. When her butter didn't come for a long time, there was one old woman who believed that witches were in it. She would drive them away with a hot poker. Of course, stirring the cream with a hot poker heated it and helped the butter to "come."
Many of the old sayings of the pioneers also indicate the superstitions which they held. Pioneers have been heard to say and practice the wisdom of these thoughts: "Comb your hair after dark, and you comb sorrow into your heart." "If you dream of fruit out of season, you'll have trouble out of reason. "If you want to live and thrive, let a spider run alive."
Often, however, the old sayings of the pioneers were of a more rational bent. One delightful bit of philosophy which guided an old lady's entire life was found in this little verse:
"A kiss for a blow
Always bestow;
And angels will guard you
Wherever you go."
My grandmother used to scold my sisters and me with:
"Birds in their little nest agree,
Oh, 'tis a shameful sight
To see children of a family
Grow up and do nothing but fight."
After hearing some of the stories the Santa Clara students tell of their grandfather's school days, I rather believe the following verse originated there:
"Oh, Lord of love, come down from above,
And pity us poor scholars:
We hired a fool to teach our school,
And paid him forty dollars."
A humorous incident sometimes produced expressions which were heard long afterward. The story is told that a group of early citizens of Pine Valley were coming down to winter conference. When they arrived at Santa Clara, one old fellow drove his wagon onto the too thin ice, and went down, wagon and all, into the icy water. After a stunned silence, one of his companions called out,
"Brother, be ye cold?"
"Well, I ain't a damned bit sweaty," was the reply.
Needless to say, the diverted lookers-on never allowed this incident to be forgotten, and these expressions are still frequently heard about town.
Folklore has not yet died out of Dixie, but it is rapidly and very properly giving way to the more accurate, more sophisticated learning to be found in books. It is taking its natural place in the history of our state and in the literature of the world. There it can tell itself over and over again, and in each telling the Dixie pioneer -- resourceful, busy, happy, credulous -- will live again.
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Is it the way they change colour? The juvenile bi-colour, has a brilliant white and orange pattern (photo above) but as they get older and become female they change colour to a dark brown with a large cream patch on the upper part of the body. When they change into males they become quite flamboyant pinks and greens (photo below).
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ANDERSON, JOHN (1726-1796), Scottish natural philosopher, was born at Roseneath, Dumbartonshire, in 1726. In 1756 he became professor of oriental languages in the university of Glasgow, where he had finished his education; and in 1760 he was appointed to the more congenial post of professor of natural philosophy. He devoted himself particularly to the application of science to industry, instituting courses of lectures intended especially for artisans, and he bequeathed his property for the foundation of an institution for the furtherance of technical and scientific education in Glasgow, Anderson's College, now merged in the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College. He died in Glasgow on the 13th of January 1796. His Institutes of Physics, published in 1786, went through five editions in ten years.


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Gold for Steadfast People, other VIEWPOINTS and Murphy Update.
Friends of GATA and Gold,
There are four subjects covered in this week's E-mail Campaign posting:
# Contacting Your Local Radio Stations for GATA
# Promoting GATA Through the Gold Links
# A Shareholder's Challenge
# Texts and Lists for E-mailing Mining Companies
And in Item 5 I introduce DE GOLDMINE LINKS WORLD, which has given
prominence to GATA, and from where you can visit what looks like all the
gold world.
RE the GATA E-mail Campaign, needless to say there is and will always be
room for improvement, BOTH in my reporting of what you are doing to make
GATA known to the world AND in what you are doing to make GATA known to
the world.
I read on one of the Gold Forums that the price of gold is so low
because people are like sheep allowing themselves to be led to the
slaughter. Well, maybe, but NO. Rather, I see GATA so successful in
exposing the false shepherds of Wall Street, that somewhere SOON along
the way to the slaughterhouse, everybody is going to start buying gold
-- much to the consternation of the shepherding masters of the
universe, who must surely be planning to have the downside of the market
to themselves.
Our aim in the GATA E-mail Campaign must be to so alert people
everywhere to what is happening that the SOON I speak of comes SOONER
With your help, there will be more and fuller Campaign news next week.
In the meantime,
GO GATA, Go GOLD
Boudewijn Wegerif (Bodwin)
Moderator GATA E-mail Group
- - - - -1.
GATA Member Don Bogle has taken the initiative to contact a local radio
station that sponsors an open-line show. Don suggests that other GATA
members do likewise. A GREAT IDEA!
Don writes:
I live in Port Moody, B.C., Canada and CKNW, a Vancouver radio station
has an open-line program hosted by a Mr. Peter Warren. I sent him the
following e-mail:
Dear Mr. Warren,
I have absolutely no idea whether or not you are aware of the current
issue regarding the Collusion and/or Manipulation of the Gold Markets. I
say "ISSUE" because there are those that believe the Price of Gold is
being Manipulated and those that don't believe. If you are unaware of
this issue I offer you the following:
ONE -- Mr. Bill Murphy, a long-time U.S. precious metals analyst
believes so strongly that the Price of Gold is being manipulated that he
has been instrumental in founding GATA (Gold Anti-Trust Action). GATA is
currently in the process of seekingsupport with the ultimate goal of
launching legal action in regard to this issue. You can research GATA by
visiting their website at www.GATA.org.
TWO -- other websites that host chat lines on which many "Goldbugs"
offer their view's re: this Collusion/Manipulation are: www.kitco.com
and www.usagold.com. If you are interested and time permits you could
visit these sites and get a flavour for what many think is happening.
The purpose of my e-mail to yourself is that I believe this would be a
great "topic" for your open line program. My complete bias is that I am
a believer in and supporter of GATA. I make no bones about it. However,
whether we are correct or not it is really all about getting to the
truth of the matter. This topic will soon be getting very "HOT" in my
opinion. Mr. Murphy will be meeting with some U.S. congressmen sometime
this month in order to express his concerns.
I do not personally know Mr. Murphy but would think that he would be
most willing to talk to you and possibly even join you in doing a
program if so offered. He was just recently interviewed live on CNN I
think it was.
I would like to give you an idea of why many "GOLDBUGS" think this
Collusion/Manipulation exits. This is just one very small example. Just
recently,during the past month, in a one week period, there was a
barrage of statements by some very powerful World Leaders that the IMF
should sell 5 to 10 million ouncesof Gold in order to "HELP" the Poorer
Nations of the World. Many believe that the "REAL" intent of these
statements was to:
(1) Suppress the Price of Gold or
(2) To at some time in future make availableto short positions "CHEAP
GOLD" or
(3) more likely, both (1) and (2). This proposition is so incredulous
that one cannot help but be SUSPECT. The following points are my
personal thoughts on these statements.
(1) Amount of dollars involved. The sale of 5 to 10 million ounces of
Gold at today's low-price would realise somewhere between 1.5 and 3
Billion dollars U.S. I would "Estimate" that during the past twenty-four
months the IMF has squandered between 150 and 200 Billion dollars, 41
Billion to Brazil alone. Perhaps 200 Billion to just a hand fullof
Countries and the "SUCCESS" of this spending is another issue in and of
itself. But, 1.5 to 3 Billion to "HELP POORER COUNTRIES" ? How many
Countries ? 10, 20, 30, 40 ? In today's world of overwhelming debt, 1.5
to 3 Billion dollars distributed among MANY Countries would be so
entirely insignificant as to be meaningless. This proposition is not
just ridiculous, preposterous and totally unbelievable, it is purely,
utterly and entirely "meant to be" MISLEADING.
(2) Why should the IMF "HAVE" to sell Gold ? The IMF has a multitude of
alternatives to selling Gold. They could forgive existing debt. They
could provide interest free loans. They could ive 3 Billion in paper.
They could simply give these Poorer Countries the "GOLD" which would
support their currencies which would actually "HELP" them. Strange isn't
it that in all of these public announcements this question is NEVER
addressed. No, the ONLY thing they make absolutely crystal clear is "THE
(3) The Messengers. I find it most interesting that the IMF can piss
away some 150 to 200 Billion dollars with very little fanfare. Sure, it
gets reported by the media and even commented on occasionally by some
bureaucrat or politician. However, what we have just recently witnessed
is nothing less than AMAZING. Within a seven day period of time none
other than Jacques Chirac, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jean Chretien and Paul
Martin take time out of their very busy schedules to proclaim to the
world Loud and Clear, "THE IMF SHOULD SELL GOLD". Just a coincidence ? I
think not, but rather, PLANNED, CALCULATED and DELIBERATE.
(4) The stated goal. Tell me, how would selling IMF Gold which without
doubt will further depress the Price of Gold "HELP" "POOR" Gold
producing Nations such as South Africa ? By closing even more mines ? By
throwing even more miners out of work ? By a loss of Government tax
revenues ? The truth of the matter is IMF Gold sales will "HARM" not
"HELP" many of the very Countries they purport to be aiding. Do you
honestly think that the "Powers That Be" don't realise this ? Of course
they do which only further exposes the complete DECEPTION, COLLUSION and
MANIPULATION at hand. Please, Please, Please think about this very
seriously. Jean Chretien suggesting that the "IMF SHOULD SELL GOLD" ?
Jesus,Canada is a GOLD PRODUCING Nation. My personal opinion of Jean
Chretien is about as high as a snake's belly on the ground, but even I
can't believe the man is THAT STUPID. He simply is NOT, hence, the
ulterior motive.
(5) The Timing. Also interesting isn't it that the first of these recent
announcements, by Chirac, came immediately after SIX consecutive days of
a RISING Gold price. And what was the result of these announcements ? At
the conclusion of the seven day period of which I speak the Price of
Gold had dropped 16 dollars per ounce.
Gee, isn't that odd ? No, it's MISSON ACCOMPLISHED. I could go on and on
but what's the point ? this "THE IMF SHOULD SELL GOLD" business is
nothing short of FRAUD.
Mr. Warren, I realise you are no doubt a very busy individual and may
not be interested in this matter. I also REPEAT that I am biased, I am
trying in my own small way to support GATA and bring this issue to the
public's attention. I do think that a program on this "ALLEGED"
Collusion/Manipulation would be of interest to a great many of your
Just one last thought. Why ? Why would the leaders of the WesternWorld
Conspire to suppress the Price of Gold? "BECAUSE", if the Price of Gold
was to substantially rise, there goes the U.S. dollar and there goes the
U.S. stock markets, yes, it's really as simple as that.
Respectfully Yours,
Don Bogle
(Snail-mail address added)
Incidentally, Don Bogle wrote along the same lines to Mr. Jeffrey M.
Christian, CEO of CPM Group, the world's premier precious metals and
commodities research and consulting company, who finds the idea that
"banks collude or conspire regarding prices" "silly". You may recall, I
shared an e-mail I had received from Jeffrey Christian in a posting on
30 March. In his e-mail, Mr Christian raised the issue of "collusion
versus a meeting of minds" and concluded that "traders, almost
universally, are technically based, and use the same computer systems
and charts. There is no need to conspire, since they all use the same
technical buy and sell points. . . ."
In his letter to Mr Christian Don Bogle used the same "THE IMF SHOULD
SELL GOLD" evidence to support his argument that there is Collusion/
Manipulation occurring in the Gold Markets.
GO GATA COMMENT: THANKS DON, AND WRITE ON! And re. the derisory $3
billion the IMF might raise if they sold 10,000,000 ounces, I enjoyed
this, posted by somebody signing as "Gold believer" at the Gold-Eagle
Forum last week -- "Contrast a mere $3 billion with: 'Yesterday the
market cap of Microsoft went up by more than $16 billion. Bill Gates'
net worth went up by about $3 billion.' Bill Gates earns more in one day
than the amount that all the guys running the western world need to
spend a whole month mouthing off about. This tells me that the real
message is an attack on gold, not an effort to help anybody but
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Our champ at the gold website discussion groups remains Ken Reser,
posting as YGM Yukon Gold Miner. Ken writes about his last week's
efforts for GATA's E-Mail Campaign:
"First let me express my thanks and admiration for your latest @egroups
(Exposing the Colluders) truly an explosive and profound paper. And I
see our GATA supporters just keep getting more sophisticated all the
time. Great going for you Bodwin, Bill, Chris & John. I haven't been
finding too many windmills to battle at forums of late. As time goes by
and information is disseminated, GATA gains more and more credibility
among those who doubted the reality and purpose of Manipulation in
markets. With hard work and perserverance, GATA members are winning the
battle, and soon we may get to fight and win the war. Here are some of
the links of various forums:
Matt Drudge for emails- http://www.drudgereport.com
Gold Eagle Forum-
USA Gold Forum- http://www.usagold.com/cpmforum
Kitco Forum-
Virtual-Gold Forum S.Africa-
Commodity Traders Chat Room-http://tfc-charts.w2d.com/chat
I truly wonder if these Forums recognize the invaluable service they do
and will do for the TRUTH relating to GATA & GOLD!
A very good Australian Gold site is "Privateer", but they have no forum
as yet. They have GATA site in links and I just sent them (suggested
links section) a link to GATA egroups, USA Gold & S.A.'s Virtual Gold.
YGM (Ken Reser)
GO GATA COMMENT: On the way to the Compose-box I looked in at the In-box
and found an e-mail from Ken Reser saying, in effect, the place to go
for links to all the above and more is at Josh Wright's
DE GOLDMINE LINKS WORLD. I am pleased to be able to send off a quick
reply to tell Ken that I already have that covered -- in item 5.
Ken created quite a stir at the Gold-Eagle Forum with this message,
drawn from GATA e-mail information:
U.S. Banks have a total Derivative Exposure of- $28 Tr
Deriv. Expos.
Chase $8,299 Bil.
JP Morgan 7,447 "
Citicorp 3,299 "
Nations Bk 2,325 "
Bk Trust 2,203 "
Bk America 1,709 "
1st Chicago 1,199 "
Bk of NY 264 "
Percentage of Capital Exposure to Risk Based Capital
JP Morgan--728%
Bk Trust--373%
1st Chicago--175%
Does this give any of the Rocket Scientists who
say GATA lawsuit is unfounded any clues????
Now what about the Hedge Funds and the rest of
the Banks etc that trade derivatives around the Globe?
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Jim Bruce has shares in several gold mining companies and has been
devoting quite a few hours a day to the GATA E-mail Campaign, FROM A
SHAREHOLDER'S PERSPECTIVE. When I e-mailed him to ask how he was
progressing, he sent this reply:
Thinking about GATA this week, I took some special time and sent a
number of Emails to my congressman, a few gold mines, a couple of gold
funds and a WEB site chat room or two. I feel good because while my
financial contribution was not as great as I would have hoped, my energy
was put to good use for the GATA cause. Really, think about it and see
if we are not alike in at least one respect. Over the last couple of
years I have watched my gold stocks dwindle to the point of wondering if
bankruptcy is not on the horizon. Small speculative stocks like Alta
Gold, Bema Gold, Sunshine Mining, Royal Oaks and Echo Bay Mines. Gold
funds like Vanguard, Invesco, US Global all are tanking. We all know
the reason. The question is, what are we doing about it. I know what
I'm doing. How about you. Your voice will help too. Together, we can
win this thing!
Jim was one of several shareholders of BEMA Gold who followed up on the
call to write to John Devlin at Bema (email@example.com) about GATA. Jim's
e-mail is a good example of what attracts attention:
Mr. John Devlin, As a share holder of Bema Gold, I wish you would
consider supporting GATA, the Gold Anti-TrustCommittee. Isn't it time we
return to a free market? The actions over the last few years to suppress
the gold price are very obvious to anyone with the slightest interest in
gold. I would hope that any hedging you folks participate in can be
minimized, if not eliminated, altogether.
Thank you for your attention.
John Devlin replied:
Dear Mr. Bruce,
Thank you for your note. Though I am a personal supporter of GATA, Bema,
at this time, is not. I will see that this is placed in front of senior
John Devlin.
I read this as a clear invitation for more e-mails to be addressed to
John, for placing in front of senior management.
And here is a copy of the e-mail that Jim Bruce sent to the CEO of
Newmont Mining, Ronald Cambre:
Mr. Cambre,
As a shareholder of numerous precious mutual funds in which Newmont
Mining has a large position, I sincerely request your assistance and
support. You may have heard of GATA (Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee).
I assume you have. Then you would also know we are new and at the
present time, a `David' up against a `Goliath.' Yet in the short time we
have been in existence, the volunteers and donations have been coming in
and with the word spreading the way it has, our growth should be
exponential. As a supporter of this movement, may we enlist yours as
Jim Bruce has been very active again for GATA. Where are you other
activists? Let's hear from you!
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Markus Kasanmascheff wrote to GATA secretary Chris Powell:
Hi! I would like to send selected texts which show shortly but detailed
the current facts to mining companies MASSIVELY! But which text do I
choose? I think you should, for this purpose, create a page at the home
page where supporters can choose the texts they want to send to others.
. . sorted by the intended receiver, journalists, mining companies,
political officials. Please send me a text I can forward to mining
companies, I'll check up EVERY firm I find, and that will be a lot!
bye Markus
In his response, Chris wrote:
I don't think that politicians or businesses are especially receptive to
duplicate mailings or mass mailings, but if people send brief notes in
their own words and attached some general information about
GATA, that might be good. The GATA press releases posted at the GATA web
site and the GATA egroups site would be good for this
In addition to what Chris writes, last week's first E-MAIL CAMPAIGN
weekly posting, datelined 20 March, is full of good ideas for letter
writing, especially item 7, where Chris and I have provided basic
information on GATA under six headings. Your can retrieve the posting
at www.egroups.com/list/GATA.
And via the Altavista search machine (www.altavista.com) I found a list
of 1002 mining companies at www.goldsheet.simplenet.com/mining
You might like to have a look at this list.
- - - - -5.
GATA Member Josh Wright in Dallas, Texas has done GATA proud at DE
The GATA links are prominently placed on the home page in fact, GATA
heads the list of gold site links. There is also a GOLDSHEET Mining
Directory. This is a very good page to explore the gold world from. Josh
has recently added some contrarian links, and is constructing five other
language sites.
Josh Wright wrote to firstname.lastname@example.com:
"After some email correspondence with a Swiss investor, I began
exploring the possibility of making my page multi-lingual. Alta Vista
has an on-line translator that I can direct my links to. Languages
include English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.
"These are the issues:
(1) Of course there will be inaccuracies due to the electronic nature
nature of this translation. I hope to ultimately find individuals who
could assist with respective languages.
(2) The translator translates a maximum of 300 words per page. A
limitation to be aware of if you wish an entire document to be
(3) The translator breaks frames down into separate urls which must be
translated separately.
(4) Once a page is translated, you may traverse the site with subsequent
pages also being translated, however if you save the source code the
links will be broken. I have a remedy but it is awkward. I believe this
is forward thinking and would like to invite GATA to explore this
concept as well if you feel it has merit."
Not as this time, Josh; but other members lay like to comment.
In telling GATA about the DE GOLDMINE LINKS, Josh wrote, "Feel free to
sign my guestbook and Thank You for your hard work."
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14, 15 In these two introductory verses Luke gives a general characterization of Jesus' actions during that period in Galilee. He particularly notes the fact hat His appearance caused tremendous sensation and that He was at that time still in very high favor with the people.
16, 17 After His previous appearance in Galilee (verse 23) and in Judaea (John i. 35-iv. 44) Jesus at length came again to His old home-city of Nazareth, where he had grown up. By that time the inhabitants of the little town had already heard many rumors of Jesus' fame in Capernaum an elsewhere. During the thirty years or so that He was in Nazareth the inhabitants knew and honored Him as the Perfect Man (ii. 52). But at that time He had not yet performed any miracles or openly proclaimed His Messiahship. For this reason, after they had heard of His growing fame, they were curious to see Him again personally an dot hear Him. If Mart vi. 1-6 and Matthew xiii. 53-8 describe the same visit of the Savior to Nazareth, we should picture to ourselves the course of events more or less as follows. A few days before the Sabbath Jesus had some there, healed only a few sick (Mark vi. 5) owing the skeptical attitude of the inhabitants (the old acquaintances of a great person are but too often his keen critics and slow to believe in his greatness). For the time being, however, they had not yet clashed with Him, but adopted a waiting attitude until the Sabbath.
As He had been accustomed to do from His youth, Jesus on this occasion also went to the synagogue on the Sabbath. Someone else probably read the prescribed portion from the Law (the first five books of the Old Testament) in Hebrew and the official interpreter (methurgeman) translated in into Aramaic. After that, Jesus stood up as a sign that it was His wish to officiate for the rest of the service. It was customary to give such an opportunity in the synagogue to visiting rabbis; and especially as all were curious to hear Jesus, the head of the synagogue caused the book of the prophet Isaiah to be delivered to Him from which a portion had next to be read. Whether Jesus looked for a special portion that He wished to read or whether His eye immediately fell upon it we do not know; but probably it was lesson from the Prophets (the haphtarah) appointed for that Sabbath.
18, 19 He then read a number of verses from Isaiah lxi. 1, 2 with a single phrase from Isaiah lviii. 6 that fitted it with the portion read first. As far as we know, He read in Hebrew and translated into Aramaic, the common spoken language at that time (see exposition at verse 21). G. Dalman finds reflections of the traditional Aramaic paraphrase (Targum) in the present passage in Luke
20 After this He closed the book (since it was a parchment roll, the meaning is that He rolled it up again), and gave it back to the "servant" (hazzan) who was subordinate to the head of he synagogue. Then, as was the custom, He seated Himself on the small platform intended for the purpose and proceeded to deliver His message by way of expounding the portion that had been read. Out of respect for the Word it was customary for the reader to stand while he was reading, but when a rabbi addressed the hearers in the synagogue he had to do so sitting. With the Jews the addresses or sermons were more in the nature of instructions than public orations.
So, after Jesus had sat down, the eyes of all (the old acquaintances in Nazareth) were fastened on Him expectantly.
21 We do not know everything that Jesus said: Luke merely gives a brief account of the main theme of His words. It amounted to a declaration by Him that the words which He had read to them had finally come to fulfillment — in His own person. By this He really announced that He was the One anointed by God with the Spirit to proclaim the glad tidings to the poor. God had sent Him to heal those who were broken-hearted and found themselves in spiritual distress; to proclaim deliverance to those who were captives in the power of sin and in spiritual wretchedness; to give back to the spiritually blind the power of sight; to cause those who were downcast an inwardly bruised to go forward in triumph; and thus to "proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord," i.e. to announce the Messianic age — the period ushered in by His appearance, in which God will grant His salvation to His people.


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How to set your PayPal IPN URL
Looking to get your PayPal API credentials? It's not the same thing, but it often goes hand in hand with setting the IPN URL when connecting an eCommerce solution. Putler has done a great job with their guide.
There's plenty of guides out there showing how to do this with the old PayPal interface and it seems they all could use some updating! Here's how to set your IPN URL, as is commonly requested by cart software like WooCommerce.
- Login to your PayPal account
- Click here OR click the cog icon in the upper right corner, then choose Profile & Settings > My Selling Tools
- Scroll down to Instant Payment Notifications and click on it.
Now you'll be able to set your IPN URL.
If you also wish to obtain your "Identity Token" (used to connect WooCommerce to PayPal, for example), you can follow the same steps as above, but instead of clicking on Instant Payment Notifications in the third step:
- Choose "Website Preferences"
- Under Auto Return for Website Payments click "on"
- After Return URL put https://<your_domain>/checkout/order-received/
- Under Payment Data Transfer (Optional) click "on"
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save.
- Choose My Selling Tools again, then select "Website Preferences" again
- Copy the Identity Token (everything after the word "Token:" in the new window), and paste it into your site's WooCommerce PayPal configuration page.


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Always finding opportunities to review book and then make the ultimate comparison, I hurriedly bought the book and dove into reading it before the premier of the show. Now, Amazon released the first 2 episodes of Man in the High Castle in their competition with Netflix and AKA Jessica Jones and I loved it! I was really excited to read the book and see the differences and similarities. PKD wrote tons of books and I think a few more were made into movies.
The book was written in the 1960s, 20 years after the end of WWII. PKD took that concept and flipped it on it's head. He changed the outcome and posed the question, 'how would the world look if Germany and Japan won the war?' However, his focus wasn't on world building, or setting up a straight protagonist to uncover the truth... or have a traditional plot of any sort. He creates a few characters and uses them to view Americanism if the Allies had not won WWII. What is America if Germany and Japan won the war?
I think it's a really cool concept and the parts where he discusses (casually through dialogue and inner thought monologues) how the word has changed (Nazis have dried out the Mediterranean, brutally conquered Africa and built rocket ships to Mars for instance) and it was easily the most fascinating parts of the book. However, I found myself waiting to get to the exciting plot points and I found myself frustrated when PKD focused on Childan and Tagomi (for most of the book, until the exciting parts where they discovered parts of themselves and revealed their true character in times of crisis) but up until then, I found myself rolling my eyes and using the "hurry up" gesture when I read their portions.
The character Juliana, I feel, was used to drive the ultimate story to completion and doesn't stand alone as a character. She stumbles, like Tagomi, onto the book within the book, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, where the plot of that book is our timeline and the Allies won the war. At first, other characters view Juliana through their lens (Joe Cinnadella, Frank Frink) and have some very anti woman thoughts about her. They view her as sort of a manic pixie dream girl. She's unstable, quirky, unable to guide her own life and exist for the purpose of men. Despite their thoughts about her, they are still drawn towards her and still are incredibly attracted to her.
PKD then introduce her own POV, and it seems like what other people perceive of her is actually true. She is aimless, unstable and casual. She relies on Joe, who reveals himself to not be an Italian truck driver, to give her a good time, and goes off with him to a strange place to meet the author of the book. Then there is a switch, or a few switches that happen, Juliana falls apart, and then Juliana, after her conversation with Abelson, becomes cool and calm. I'm not sure if her character development is more realistic, or less. It felt to me that Juliana's decisions was based on what PKD needed to finish the story, not because it was genuine to her character development.
I think this book is good for those that enjoy exploring those philosophical questions of the "What If?" I also enjoy those "What If?" questions, but I feel like I would have enjoyed this book more if there was much more direction. I also wanted to find out more of what the Nazis, and the Japanese did after the war. How did the world look? I wanted to see exactly how they eradicated Africa and exterminated all the Jews in the world. I wanted to read about the new world order, and maybe a deeper insight of how the changeover of the Third Reich would happen, and more political drama instead of the Baynes and Yatabe secret meeting and fall out.
It's probably me being a book series supporter, but the kind of information, and the wealth of world building potential in this book would look great as a book series. Maybe each person has their own book? Maybe each book takes on someone new stationed in a place, like Africa, or even on a rocket ship to Mars, and discusses the implications of that life? That maybe the book, Grasshopper Lies Heavy is found, they read it, and go on their own journey of discovery?
I'm excited to see where they take the show. I'm not sure if I will read another PKD book, but then again, I did watch Blade Runner.