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Doyle & McDowell History
"Famous & Infamous Doyles"
A very brief look at the history of Ireland and
the Irish diaspora, with references from historical
records about some of the parts played by members
of the Doyle family.
1916 to 1940's
The Anglo-Irish War
The day the Dail convened in
Dublin in January 1919, two Irish policemen were shot dead
by the I.R.A. in County Tipperary. This was the beginning of
the bitter Anglo-Irish war, which lasted from 1919 to the
middle of 1921. This was the period when Michael Collins
came to the fore, a charismatic and ruthless leader who
masterminded the campaign of violence against the British
while at the same time serving as Minister of Finance in the
new Dail.
The war quickly became entrenched and
bloody. On the Irish side was the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.),
successor to the Irish Volunteers, and on the other a
coalition of the Royal Irish Constabulary, regular
British-army soldiers and two groups of quasi-military
status who rapidly gained a vicious reputation: the
Auxiliaries and the Black & Tans. Their use of violence
crystallised resentment against the British and support for
the nationalist cause. The death from hunger strike of
Terrance MacSwiney, the Mayor of Cork, further crystallised
Irish opinion. The I.R.A. created 'flying columns',
small groups of armed volunteers to ambush British forces,
and on home ground, they operated successfully. A truce was
eventually agreed in July 1921.
Dublin in ruins, 1920.
After months of negotiations in London, the
Irish delegation signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty on 6 December
1921, which gave 26 counties of Ireland independence and
allowed six largely Protestant Ulster counties the choice of
opting out. If they did (a foregone conclusion), a Boundary
Commission would then decide on the final frontiers between
north and south. The Treaty might have seemed the answer to
Ireland's problems, but it wasn't to be.
During the Easter Rebellion (1916)
and the 1919-1922 Anglo-Irish War ("The Black
and Tans War") Doyle men fought on both
1916 Patrick Doyle - killed defending
Clan William House.
Jimmy Doyle escaped from Clan
William House and avoided capture, he got as far as Marion
Square where he was set upon by a crowd, but he escaped and
another crowd of people carried him to a house where his
wounds were treated and a change of clothes provided.
Patrick Doyle of Milltown, Dublin was
killed in action against British Forces during the battle of
Mount Street Bridge on 27th April 1916.
Captain Seamus Doyle of Gorey, Co.
Wexford was active against British forces in Enniscorthy
during Easter Week. He went to Dublin on 29 April to receive
surrender order from Pearse before standing down his
volunteers. He was deported by the British, but later
returned to Ireland after Independence and was elected to
However, Sergeant Michael Doyle of
the Royal Irish Constabulary was decorated for gallantry
with the Constabulary Medal on 27th July 1916, as a reward
for bravery in action against the I.R.A.
And, Constable Patrick Doyle of the
Royal Irish Constabulary was wounded by I.R.A. men at Lower
Glanmire Road in Cork on 11th May 1920.
S. Doyle of Inchicore; Dublin was
killed in action against British Forces on 19th September
P. Doyle of Ballinagre, Co. Roscommon
was killed in action against British Forces on the 20th
October 1920.
T. Doyle of Dolphin's Barn, Dublin
was killed in action against British Forces on 25th November
Constable Michael Doyle of the Royal
Irish Constabulary was killed by I.R.A. men at Dromkeen, Co.
Limerick on 3rd February 1921.
Patrick Doyle of St. Mary's Place,
Dublin was hanged at Kilminham on 14th March 1921 during a
rash of violent operations by British troops.
A Constable Doyle of the Royal Irish
Constabulary was wounded by I.R.A. men at Mullinahone, Co.
Tipperary on 20th March 1921.
S. Doyle of Amiens Street, Dublin was
killed in action against British Forces during May 1921.
The Irish Civil War
The negotiations on the Treaty had been
largely carried on the Irish side by Michael Collins and
Arthur Griffith. Both men knew that many Dail (Parliament)
members wouldn't accept the loss of the north, or
the fact that the British king would still be head of the
new Irish Free State and Irish Members of Parliament would
still have to swear an oath of allegiance to the Crown.
Eamon de Valera had been elected President of the new
self-proclaimed republic in August, and he remained in
Dublin during negotiations. Under pressure from Britain's
Lloyd George and after a spell of exhausting negotiations,
Collins and Griffith signed the Treaty without checking with
de Valera in Dublin. De Valera was outraged when the
delegates returned with what he and many other republicans
regarded as a betrayal of the I.R.A.'s principles.
Collins regarded the issue of the monarchy
and the oath of allegiance as largely symbolic; he hoped
that the north-eastern six counties would not be a viable
entity and would eventually become part of the Free State.
During the Treaty negotiations he had been encouraged to
think that the Border Commission would decrease the size of
that part of Ireland remaining outside the Free State. He
hoped that he would convince the rest of his comrades, but
he knew the risks and declared, "I have signed my death
In the end Collins could not persuade his
colleagues to accept the Treaty. De Valera was furious, and
it was not long before a bitter civil war broke out between
comrades who, a year previously, had fought alongside each
other against the British.
The Treaty was ratified in the Dail
(the Irish Parliament's Lower House, and is pronounced
"Doyle") in January 1922, and in June the country's
first general election resulted in victory for the
pro-Treaty forces. Fighting broke out two weeks later.
Amazingly, the Civil War was primarily about
the Oath of Allegiance to the Crown, rather than the
exclusion of the six northern counties from the Irish Free
State. Of the 400 or more pages of Dail records on the
Treaty debate, only seven deal with the issue of Ulster. The
rest focus on the Oath and the Crown.
Collins was ambushed and shot dead in Cork
by anti-Treaty forces, and de Valera was imprisoned by the
new Free State government, under its new Prime Minister
William Cosgrave, which went so far as to execute 77 of its
former comrades. The Civil War ground to an exhausted halt
in 1923.
During the Irish Civil War
(1922-1923) Doyle men were once more fighting on both
Captain Johnny Doyle (Pro-Treaty
Forces) fired the first round of artillery from an
18-pounder gun on Four Courts on 28th June 1922.
Philip Doyle, a goal (jail) escapee
was shot dead by Anti-Treaty troops near Killane, Co.
Wexford for attacking a Sergeant of the Civic Guard and
taking his bicycle. His body was found on 21st July 1922.
Tommy Doyle, who served with the
Pro-Treaty Forces, saw plenty of fighting in South Leinster
and Munster. He accompanied David Moran in many actions. He
was wounded while trying to recover the body of Corporal
Kelly on 9th August 1922 at Redmondstown, Clonmel.
(Very sad days for Ireland and the Doyle
Since the Partition of Ireland
The Irish Free State, as it was known until
1949, was established after the signing in December 1921 of
the Anglo-Irish Treaty, between the British Government and
an Irish delegation led by Michael Collins. The Irish Civil
War between pro-Treaty and anti-Treaty factions followed.
After boycotting the Dail for a number of
years, de Valera founded a new party called Fianna
Fail ("Warriors of Ireland") which won
nearly half the seats in the 1927 election. De Valera and
the other new Teachta Dala (T.D.'s, Members
of the Dail = Members of Parliament) managed within weeks to
enter the Dail by the simple expedient of not taking the
Oath but signing in as if they had.
Fianna Fail won a majority in the 1932
election, and remained in power for 16 years. De Valera
introduced a new constitution in 1937, doing away with the
Oath and claiming sovereignty over the six northern counties
of Ulster. In 1938 Britain renounced its right to use
certain Irish ports for military purposes, which it had been
granted under the Treaty. Southern Ireland was therefore
able to remain neutral in the Second World War. (However, it
is very interesting to note that more than 40,000 southern
Irishmen still crossed the border to enlist in British units
during the Second World War.)
In 1948 Fianna Fail lost the general
election to Fine Gael - the direct descendants
of the first Irish Free State government - in coalition with
the new republican Clann an Poblachta. The new government
declared the Free State to be a republic at last. Ireland
left the British Commonwealth in 1949. In 1955 it became a
member of the United Nations.
20th Century Doyles of Note
Jack Doyle (1913-1978) Irish born,
was known as "the Gorgeous Gael"; a boxer and
playboy who achieved fame, not to say notoriety, blazing a
starry trail across the boxing rings, the footlights and
divorce courts, during and after World War II.
During the Second World War hundreds of
thousands of Irishmen saw fought against Nazi Germany and
Imperial Japan in the Armed Forces of Britain, Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Rhodesia, and the
U.S.A. (Between 1939 and 1945 more than 40,000 men from the
Republic of Ireland crossed the border to join British units
fighting in the war against the Nazis and the Japs.) Many
Doyle men died in this war, and we are preparing a Doyle
Roll of Honour in their memory.
On 15 May 1940, Private Harold Doyle
of the 5th Gordon Highlanders Regiment (British Army) was on
outpost duty in the Saar Valley in France. His unit had been
under heavy shelling by German artillery for 5 days, and
that morning his outpost was overwhelmed by attacking German
infantry. About 75 of the surviving soldiers from his unit
were taken prisoner and removed in German trucks. He was
segregated from the others at Comblerz, and was interrogated
by a German General, before joining the others at the
transit camp at Lindburg. From there they were taken to
Stalag XXA at Thorn, and shortly afterwards, he was
transferred in a party of 150 soldiers to the working camp
at Winduga in eastern Germany.
On arrival, his and all the British soldiers' personal
belongings were confiscated. No additional clothing was
issued to them. They were housed in wooden huts and the food
was very poor and rather scarce. Discipline was very strict;
their quarters were searched once or twice every week. They
did not receive any Red Cross parcels. All their mail was
censored. In spite of everything, and of the German effort
to convince these captured soldiers that the war was lost
for Britain, they never despaired. They were obliged to work
and went out daily in parties of 10 or 20 under escort of 2
armed German guards. Roll call was always taken before
leaving and on return to the Camp.
There was no recognised escape organisation amongst these
British Prisoners of War, but individual soldiers were
constantly scheming and collecting equipment. They stole a
map from the German guards' mess and they had already
acquired a pocket compass. However, it was impossible to get
hold of civilian clothes; this handicap and the general lack
of money stopped many of these Prisoners of War from trying
to get away. The Germans had also put up a notice saying
that it was useless to attempt to escape to Russia, as the
Red frontier guards "shot on sight". In spite of
all this Harold Doyle decided to make a break for it.
The German guards' mess had a door on the far side opening
out of the camp, with only a wire construction fence beyond
it. At 4.30am on the 3rd of December 1940 he, and one other
British soldier, went through the German guards' mess and,
when the German sentry had just passed, scrambled under and
through the fence and got away. They took the river Vistula
as their direction for Russian-Occupied Poland and, for the
first 10 days, avoided meeting anybody. Then their supply of
food ran out, but after approaching Polish farmers, they
were given food and clothing and by degrees guided to
Warsaw. In Warsaw they were able to make contact with the
Polish Resistance. The Polish Resistance helped them to
reach the Russian frontier at Ostroleica. There they got
through the wire and penetrated 5 miles into Russia before
they were arrested by the Russians. They were then taken to
Lomsa prison for 3 days, then for another 9 days at
Bialostok, and after that for 13 more days at Minok. At all
those places the prisons were filthy and overcrowded, and
they were half starved. The other prisoners were mostly
Poles of whom the majority were ex-Army Officers. Later they
were moved to a prison in Moscow, where conditions were
better; this was an internment camp for political prisoners.
After 2 weeks they were taken, with 140 Frenchmen, to a camp
at Smolensk, were they remained from the beginning of
February 1941 until the 22nd of June 1941, when the German
invasion of Russia began. They were then taken to the
railway station and were all ready for their journey
(rumoured to be Siberia), in cattle trucks under heavy
guard, when all British Prisoners of War were suddenly
ordered to leave the train. They were taken back to the camp
and later to a hotel in Moscow, where they spent 8 days on
good rations before their release on 8 July to the British
Embassy in Moscow.
Distinguished Conduct Medal
Private Harold Doyle was then allowed to
return back to Britain where he rejoined his regiment, the
Gordon Highlanders (which is a very famous Scottish
regiment), in the continuing war against Nazi Germany. He
was decorated with the very prestigious Distinguished
Conduct Medal for his gallantry. (The "D.C.M."
is a bravery award for British, and British Commonwealth,
enlisted men; and it is second only to the very highest
award for gallantry, the Victoria Cross.)
Another Doyle came to notice during the
German invasion of France, on the 21st of May 1940. The 7th
Royal Tank Regiment of the British Army was engaged in an
action to delay the advance of the crack German Panzer
Divisions, and to relieve the pressure on the British
Garrison in Arras. Early in the battle the 4 tanks under the
command of Sergeant Benjamin Doyle became heavily
engaged with a German Anti-Tank Battery. All 4 of the German
Anti-Tank cannons were destroyed. However, 2 of Sergeant
Doyle's tanks were also put out of action (by the very
detirmined German Anti-Tank crews). Nonetheless, Sergeant
Doyle and his 2 remaining tanks continued to attack, as
there were German machine gun units maintaining an intense
fire on Doyle's tanks from behind the destroyed Anti-Tank
cannons. Doyle's attack with his remaining tanks broke the
German's resistance, and then the German machine gun troops
started to withdraw.
There was about 150 German soldiers retreating from Sergeant
Doyle's 2 attacking tanks, and most of them were killed or
wounded by machine gun fire from the tanks as they ran away.
Sergeant Doyle's 2 remaining tanks then went to the
assistance of 5 British light "infantry" tanks
(equipped only with machine guns) who were being attacked by
4 German Medium Tanks (armed with cannons). Sergeant Doyle's
2 tanks then destroyed all 4 of the attacking German Medium
Tanks, and left them burning. (All the Germans who tried to
escape from their burning tanks were killed by machine gun
fire from Doyle's tank.) A little later, Doyle's 2 remaining
tanks ran up against another 4 German Anti-Tank cannons.
These were also destroyed. (One of these Anti-Tank guns was
knocked out when Sergeant Doyle, under intense fire, drove
straight for it and ran over the German cannon with his
tank.) Both of Sergeant Doyle's tanks now had fires burning
in the forward tool boxes, and the crews had to repeatedly
open the escape hatches, to avoid suffocation by the fumes.
Observers noticed smoke pouring out of the open top hatch
whenever Sergeant Doyle took a breather. It was also noticed
that both tank's cannons had become stuck; the cannons on
both tanks were pointing to one side because both tank's
turrets had been jammed by German hits. Shortly after this
engagement, on reaching the crest of rising ground, Doyle's
2 tanks came upon a German 88mm heavy Anti-Tank cannon about
20 yards away. The Germans prepared to fire on one of
Doyle's tanks, but it got away behind a rise in the ground.
This same tank then swung around and manouvered so that its
stuck cannon could be bought to shoot at the German
Anti-Tank gun. At the same time this was happening Sergeant
Doyle swung his tank around and opened fire with his machine
gun, scattering the German gunners. Doyle then fired his
cannon when it finally lined-up on target. Doyle's quick and
aggressive action saved the crew of his other tank from
being destroyed by these German Anti-Tank gunners. However,
by this time the fire on Doyle's second tank had flared up
and had to be abandoned by its crew. Sergeant Doyle had the
two centre fingers on his right hand shot off on one of the
occasions when he had opened his hatch to get air. Doyle's
own tank's turret was still jammed and all the periscopes
were shattered. Doyle's tank was also still emitting smoke
when he finally left the battlefield to rally with what was
left of his regiment. Sergeant Doyle was captured two days
later by the Germans near Cambrai. He spent the rest of the
Second World War as a prisoner of the Germans. However his
gallantry was recognised by the British Army, and he was
later awarded the very prestigious Distinguished Conduct
Medal for his outstanding bravery and leadership.
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The Geografia
DIY Sectional Cardboard Globe
Sale price £20.00 Regular price
Ideal for the keen traveller or the curious explorer! The Geografia cardboard globe comes in sections which are very easy to assemble. A plain globe which you can make unique with your own colouring or simply leave it plain for a stylish addition to your home or office. All countries are clearly marked and named. Learn about the earth's structure when you assemble the core parts and the surface parts. This uniquely shaped globe is designed to lean at exactly the same angle as the earth's tilt.
Measures: 20cm Dia.

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L.A. Times Showcases Preacher Trailer; EW Spotlights Dominic Cooper in Trailer
This week, the Los Angeles Times showcases the Preacher trailer, while Entertainment Weekly spotlights Dominic Cooper's performance in it. Plus, Collider is enthusiastic about the series. Read on for more:
• "One part supernatural showdown, two parts deeply disturbing Western, AMC's next big comic-to-TV adaptation is Preacher," the Los Angeles Times says.
• In the first full look at Preacher, Entertainment Weekly reports, "Dominic Cooper's titular character doesn't pull any punches. Even if those punches break an arm or two." The Hollywood Reporter says simply, "Fanboys, rejoice."
• Collider.com spotlights a brief teaser for Preacher and comments that "boy does it look freaking great."
• After watching the Preacher trailer, Film School Rejects observes that Seth Rogen and Adam Goldberg are "bringing us a less broadly comic but equally violent and absurd piece of pop entertainment."
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It's taken me a couple of years to paint this lot but feels as though it might as well have taken as long as the Tomb Kings have been around themselves! Never mind, I'm just glad they are finally done.
So, the full team is composed of 4 Mummies (the Ushabti), 2 Throw Ras and 2 Blitz Ras (Impact Miniatures Anubi) and 10 converted Khemri Skeletons. One of the Skeletons has a skull in his hand and will be used for an additional Throw Ra or other model that needs distinguishing for one reason or another.
Sadly these guys are likely to go back in the loft as Blood Bowl is not my favourite game at the moment, but I might try and give them one run out before retiring them for this season.
Archive for the 'Blood Bowl' Category
Khemri Kings – Done!Posted: December 29, 2012 in Blood Bowl, Painting and Modelling
It's taken me a couple of years to paint this lot but feels as though it might as well have taken as long as the Tomb Kings have been around themselves! Never mind, I'm just glad they are finally done.
Khemri Blitz-RasPosted: December 26, 2012 in Blood Bowl, Painting and Modelling
I'm still chipping away at my Khemri Bloodbowl team. I am going to try and finish it for the New Year so that I can then focus on my 12 Labours for 2013.
In the picture below are two Blitz-Ras about 2/3rds finished. These are Impact miniatures and match the two Throw-Ras I have already constructed.
I'm not enjoying painting this team now – it has become a bit of a chore. I will finish it though. Must press on …..
Blood Bowl Knockout TrophyPosted: December 13, 2012 in Blood Bowl, Gaming, Painting and Modelling, Tournaments
More KhemriPosted: November 18, 2012 in Blood Bowl, Painting and Modelling
Khemri Kings beaten …. Same old story….Posted: November 11, 2012 in Blood Bowl, Gaming
Played my first game of Blood Bowl for a long time this evening. I enjoyed the game but was disappointed to find my Khemri team played in their usual style. They were doing fine fighting toe to toe with another undead team but when it came to picking up the bowl they just couldn't do it! My opponents ghouls were basically the difference between the teams giving him the agility and speed needed to capitalise on my fumbles and run in two touch downs to nil.
It's a shame as this is the pattern all my games follow with the Khemri. If it were not for the stadium I had made and the half painted team I would abandon them. However, I'm going to try and finish painting the team now I've started although you won't be seeing much more action in the near future.
Khemri Kings back from the dead!Posted: November 7, 2012 in Blood Bowl, Painting and Modelling
A couple of years ago I converted a Khemri Blood Bowl team but never got around to painting it. My local gaming group have just started a knock out cup competition so I thought I would break them out again. My Blood Bowl skills are limited to say the least, so I doubt I'll make past the first round or two, but it's a good excuse to finally paint some of these miniatures.
First up a couple of Ushabti that I converted for use as mummies. It's a pretty simple job – I just removed their weapons – but I think it fits the fluff better than the traditional bandaged up cadaver approach. I'm aiming to get half the team painted for my first round match and if I get through to the second round I'll do the other half….


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Steamed Callaloo is both delicious and nutritious and is quick and easy to prepare, you can enjoy this dish with fried dumplings, rice or hard food…
Callaloo is often compared to spinach, but is much more widely available and consumed in Jamaica. It is often eaten as a breakfast dish with fried dumplings, or as a Vegan / Vegetarian dinner idea with rice or hard food.
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- a large bowl to wash the vegetables
- a sharp knife and chopping board
- a Dutch Pot or large pot to steam the callaloo
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- 6-8 stems of Callaloo
- 1 medium onion
- 1-2 cloves of garlic
- 1 tomato
- 1 sprig of thyme
- Other vegetables if available, such as carrots and string beans – cut up into thin slices
- 1/3 teaspoon Salt
- 2 teaspoon Butter or Margarine
- 3 tablespoons cooking oil
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- Set on your Pot to Electric Mark 3 and leave for about 1-2 minutes to warm up, then carefully add cooking oil and leave to heat up (Keep children away from the Hob)
- Put the Callaloo in a large bowl and cover with water, adding a little salt to the water encourages any stray bugs to unlatch themselves
- Meanwhile wash and chop up the onion, tomato, garlic, thyme and other vegetables if desired
- Add the chopped seasoning to the oil and lightly fry until softened
- Take the callaloo out of the water and pick off any unsavoury parts of the leaves, remove flowers if present and discard. Cut off the end of the stalk and peel off the outer layer of the 'skin' on the stem – it is not necessary to remove every piece.
- Roll the leaves together to make it easier to handle and using a sharp knife cut the callaloo into thin ribbons. Cut right down the stalk and include this in with the leaves
- Turn down the hob to Electric Mark 2
- Add the chopped up callaloo and carrots / string beans if desired, the callaloo will produce water as it wilts
- Sprinkle on a little salt and pepper to taste and the butter and cover the pot
- Steam for about 15-20 minutes, or until the callaloo has wilted
- Remove from pot and serve with bread, fried dumplings, boiled hard food, rice or other
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Considering the purchase of a new energy efficient washing machine this year? Read this post first.
According to the ENERGY STAR website, the average American family washes about 300 loads of laundry each year. In order for a clothes washer to be ENERGY STAR qualified, it must use 20% less energy and 35% less water than regular washers. ENERGY STAR washers also have a larger tub capacity for fewer washings.
Both top- and front-load washers can be ENERGY STAR certified. ENERGY STAR top-load models do not fill water to the top of the tub like standard top-load washers do. They clean by flipping or spinning clothes through a stream of water and have sensors to monitor water levels and temperature. Rinsing is also unlike traditional top-load washers; ENERGY STAR top-load washers rinse clothes with repeated high-pressure sprays rather than soaking. Front-loaders, on the other hand, simulate the motion of putting clothes in water by dipping them over and over via spinning. They only fill partially with water and spin faster to reduce drying time and energy consumption by better extracting moisture.
We have reviewed major brands and identified 8 of their most efficient washers for sale in 2013, based on ENERGY STAR ratings. These comparisons focus on two equations: Modified Energy Factor (MEF) and Water Factor (WF). Energy efficient washers have a high MEF and water efficient units have a low WF value. These numbers are often compared to Federal Standards as a benchmark. The Federal Standard MEF is 1.26 and the Federal Standard WF is 9.5. All 8 of our picks exceed the Federal Standards by varying degrees.
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I first came across Gregor Timlin and Nic Rysenbry's Design for Dementia project at RCA at the LDF in 2010.
Design is about making people's lives better. When that can be done for people whose quality of life is compromised by something like dementia, a designer's role becomes a very special thing indeed. Continue reading


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Closer cooperation on Data Breach Notifications between ENISA & Art. 29 Data Protection Working Party
The Agency and the Art. 29 Data Protection Working Party agreed to intensify their cooperation on Data Breach Notifications, at a meeting recently taking place in Brussels.
Published on October 21, 2011
ENISA and the Art. 29 Working Party have agreed to work more closely on Data Breach Notifications
The Agency Executive Director, Professor Udo Helmbrecht, attended the Article 29 Working Party's plenary meeting to present and discuss the work done by ENISA, and the topics both the Agency and the Working Party have an interest in, notably on Data Breach Notifications. Both ENISA and the Working Party recognise the benefits of cooperation. Therefore they jointly decided to intensify their dialogue, at a recent meeting in Brussels (13-14 October).
Background information
- The European data protection authorities (the Article 29 Working Party on the Protection of Individuals with regard to the Processing of Personal Data) is an independent advisory body on data protection and privacy.
- It is composed of representatives from the national Data Protection authorities of the EU Member States, the European Data Protection Supervisor, and the European Commission.
- The Article 29 Working Party is competent to examine any question covering the application of the data protection directives.The objective is to contribute to the uniform application of the directives, by issuing recommendations, opinions and working documents.
European Commission DG Justice context of data protection
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There are incredible advantages to hiring a cleaning company that cleans your home on the microscopic level. We use green cleaning products that are great for the environment and your health, as well as sanitizing surfaces with steam cleaning. We also go beyond that, by using a cleaning product called p2 probiotic cleaner. This leaves your home truly clean and healthy. The advantages are huge of using probiotics in the cleaning process.
You see, regular sanitizing products and disinfects might kill 99.9% of germs or 99.99% of germs. But that still leaves 99.999%. What happens to that small fraction of a percent of germs left on the surfaces in your home?
It grows back to high levels of bacteria within 20 minutes!
This is actually measurable by an ATP test.


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Leaders briefed on JBLM economic study
A project that will capture Joint Base Lewis-McChord's value to neighboring communities and Washington state was unveiled May 17 during a South Sound Military and Communities Partnership breakfast meeting at the Eagles Pride Golf Course and Conference Center.
About 140 elected officials, staff members, business leaders and senior military leaders were present to hear how SSMCP has partnered with the University of Washington-Tacoma's Milgard School of Business Center for Business Analytics to conduct a JBLM Regional Economic Impact Analysis report.
Attendees were told how and why this analysis is being done. The goal is to brief the report's final version during the SSMCP's November Elected Officials meeting.
Lakewood Mayor Don Anderson said the study comprehensively explains JBLM's economic benefits to local communities — a factor the Department of Defense weighs when making force restructuring decisions.
"This economic impact analysis project is something the South Sound very much needs," Anderson said. "This study will help (SSMCP) members quantify the value of JBLM and make a stronger case to the DOD for decisions to realign missions to JBLM."
While a previous efforts focused defense contracts' impact on the state economy, Bill Adamson, SSMCP program manager, wanted this study to capture JBLM-specific impacts.
"We know from the surveys SSMCP conducts every other year JBLM is pretty heavily invested in 17 communities across the South Sound, because that is where Soldiers, Airmen and the (civilian) workforce live," Adamson said. "So what we wanted to do, which is a little bit different is look at the financial impacts of the JBLM workforce (and operations). So we entered this partnership with UW-Tacoma."
Professor Haluk Demirkan, director, UW-Tacoma Center for Business Analytics, explained this effort will have two phases.
"During the first, we are basically looking at the impact of JBLM on the community," he said. "We hope to submit a report by November 2018. In the long run (phase two), we'd like to create an economic impact analysis dashboard."
The dashboard will include historical data, accept user updates, perform analysis and present its findings via its website. Users will see major JBLM funding areas — payroll, defense contracts, operations and maintenance. Based on 2015 data, JBLM's preliminary total exceeds $7.8 billion.
It will also include such areas as secondary jobs created, tax revenue, transportation, health care, housing, banking and finance, education and retail spending. Retail spending will likely be the study's biggest impact area.
"Everyone goes home and spends their paycheck in the local economy," said Professor Margo Bergman of the Center for Business Analytics. "They go to restaurants, buy clothes. All of those things go away if their payroll goes away. So we're in the process of identifying where (JBLM) people are and what they need."
U.S. Rep. Denny Heck, who represents Washington's 10th Congressional District where JBLM resides, believes the final report will demonstrate JBLM's economic importance.
"I predict with, great confidence, (the report is) going to say how very, very important JBLM is," Heck said.
Although JBLM is a major force generation installation and power projection platform, it's also a major economic engine, according Bruce Kendall, CEO, Tacoma-Pierce County Economic Development Board. He talked about JBLM being the state's third largest employer — behind Boeing and the state – and the leading employer in Pierce County.
"The economic engine supreme in Pierce County is JBLM," Kendall said. "Approximately 55,000 service members and civilian employers work at JBLM."


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To George Washington from William Crawford, 8 May 1774
From William Crawford
May the 8th 1774
Inclosed you have the Drafts of the round bottom and your Shertees Land don Agreeable to Mr Lewis Derection—I Should have sent them from Stanton but Mr Lewis had set out for Cheet river before I got there, and I wanted him to See the Returns before I Sent them to you I was Still Disopinted, before I cold Return back again Mr Lewis Sit hom Again and I understand he will be in Williamsburgh soon (If the Returns Dose not do you can have them altred) if you Should not Chuse to enter them Names in the Return now maid for the round bottom I have Sent you a blank to full up which you may do yourself—I Supose by this time Varrious reports has reahd you I have given my Self Som Trouble to aquint my Self with the truth of matters but there is Som Douts remains in Som facts but as well as I can I shall give you best Account I can.1
The Survayors that went Down the Konaway as report gos was Stopt by the Shawnee Endiens upon which Som of the white People Sit on Som Endiens and has Killd severale, took 30 horse Loads of Skins near the mouth of Syotha, on which news and Expecting a Endien war Mr Crisap and Som other people fell on Som other Endiens at the mouth of Pipe Creek and Killd 3 Endiens and Sculped them Daniel Great house and Som others fell on Som at the mouth of Yellow Creek and Killd and Sculpd teen and took one Child about 2 Months old which is now at my house have taken the Child from a woman that it had bin given to.2
Our inhabetints is much alarmd, many hundreds haveing gon over the mountain and the hole Country Avackquated as far as monongahalia and many on this Side monongahalia is gone over the Mountain in Short a war is every momint Expected we have a Council now with them what will be the event I do not now.
I am now Seting out to Fort pitt at the head of one hundred men many other is to meet me at Fort pitt and Wheeling whare we shall watch the Motions of the Endiens and Shall Acct Accordingly.3
we are in great want of Some Proper person to Derect us ho may have comand Mr Connely ho now comands haveing Accurd the Displeashure of the People being but unably to do it, for two Reasons, one is that Contredection betwen us and the pensilvaniens and the other he Rather cary Matters to much in the Militery way, and not able to go through with it.4
I have som hops that we may still have matters Setled with the Endiens upon a Method Properly adopted for that perpose.
It Seems that the Say the have not bin paid any thing for the Land, I mean the Shawnees and Delaways, the Six nations Say the have no right to any of the mony, the Land bing not there property.
I would not mean to Say any thing against Mr Connalys Conduct only he can not cary things on as he cold wish, his not being so well Aquinted with the nature of the People he has to Deal with.
Fair means would do better, and he cold get any thing he wanted more handy.
In cass of a war much Dependence from this place Lys one you Sir, as being well Aquinted with our Sircomstance.
Should matters be Setled with the Endiens soon I supose you will Proceed on with the improvement of your Lands if not you will Discharge your people and of Course your Sarvants will be Sold, in, that case I Should be Glad to take 2 of them if you are Willing in a few day you will be better Advised and the[n] you will be more able to Determine one maters.5 I am Sir your most Hume Sarvant
W. Crawford
ALS, DLC:GW. The letter was sent "pr favour of Mr B[enjamin] Johnston."
1. Crawford was required by Thomas Lewis, surveyor of Augusta County, to resurvey GW's Round Bottom and Millers Run tracts. See GW to Thomas Lewis, 17 Feb., 5 May, and Andrew Lewis to GW, 9 March. Crawford wrote GW on 8 June and 20 Sept. that he would resurvey the Round Bottom tract as soon as he could, and on 14 Nov. 1774 he wrote: "I have Run your Land at the round bottom Again."


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How hard is it to mine an asteroid?
Planetary Resources is a company that intends to try, and this article at the New Scientist asks some questions about how they might go about it and what problems they might encounter.
Problem 1: The technology for most of this hasn't been invented yet.
Solution: Lots of money, lots of time, and lots of people working on the problem.
Problem 2: Bringing the asteroid closer to Earth to make it more economically feasible. Problems with this include overcoming the Sun's gravitational control, getting the parking trajectory right (assuming they're going to park it around the Earth), not hitting anything with it.
Solution: Er… lots of money, lots of time, and lots of people working on the problem?
Problem 3: Not floating off into space when you try to dig your shovel into the asteroid. A problem due to very low gravity and lots of spinning!
Solution: Bolt everything down. Including the people. And find a way to mine an entire asteroid from one location. This sounds like it's going to involve, you guessed it, lots of money, time, and people working on the problem.
It's going to take some time to be in a position where we can actively mine asteroids, I think. It's also going to involve an awful lot of very intelligent people. Far from the "space grunt" image that many science fiction novels portray for asteroid miners.


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The 8-inch, rear deck, subwoofer - taken at the New York Auto Show
With the debut of the Bang & Olufsen Advanced Sound System in the Audi A8 and S8, the Danish audio-design icon and German luxury carmaker have raised the performance bar - and price - of premium OEM sound systems. B&O's new benchmark system was unveiled in January at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in the sleek '07 Audi S8 - as a mere $6,700 option on the $100K super luxury-performance sedan. (The system will be available in the '07 Audi A8 this summer and in the S7 in the fall.)
This costly add-on gets you 14 speakers powered by over 1,000 watts. True to B&O's heritage, the system looks stunning, with stylish aluminum speaker grilles integrated into the car's doors and rear deck. But the real eye (and ear) candy is a pair of Acoustic Lens tweeters that rise out of the corners of the dash when the system is turned on (and retract when it's switched off).
The motorized tweeters are complemented by a 70-mm center channel in the dash, a 90-mm midrange and 133-mm midbass driver in each front door, a 25-mm tweeter and 140-mm midbass in each rear door, and two 90-mm full-range drivers and a 200-mm subwoofer in the rear deck. B&O's ICEpower five-channel amplifier drives the sub with 250 watts and the four door-mounted midbass speakers with 125 watts each; a MOST DSP amp powers the rest of the speakers with 28 watts each.
Of course, the $6,700 question is: How does it sound? In a word: awesome. During a demo at the Detroit Auto Show, I listened to a CD of Danish female jazz vocalist Jette Torp. Tonal detail was excellent, the soundstage extended beyond the boundaries of the interior, and imaging was pinpoint accurate. The bass response at the driver's seat was deep, tight, and powerful, with no smearing to the rear, despite the sub being in the back deck.
The system rocks, too. I cranked up AC/DC's pulverizing "Thunderstruck" as much as my ears could stand, and the system continued to play cleanly, smoothly, and very loudly.
Bottom Line: The Audi B&O stock system ranks with some of the best aftermarket systems I've ever heard.
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NHS Robotics Team Q and A
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My day job is being a producer and a DJ. I started off as a producer when I was about 14, but I quickly realized that the vocalists I was producing were having all the fun and getting all the recognition. I looked for a way to insert myself into the spotlight, and that's when I also became a DJ. My stage name is DJ Pain 1.
As a DJ, I love the feeling of playing to the crowd and directing the emotional trajectory of an event. I'm always a bit anxious when I'm playing for a new crowd—you have to read them, understand what they love or hate and respond accordingly. I think I've become pretty skilled at reading my audience and adapting to any crowd.
I've produced for Ludacris, Public Enemy, The Game and Jadakiss.
I also have a master's degree in linguistics and am a certified secondary educator.
My most memorable caffeine is the day when I was about 12 or 13 and discovered that caffeine does affect me! I was at my godfather's house and he had a big bottle of Surge soda. My parents didn't let me drink soda, so I was very excited to have that. It was about 6 or 7 at night, and I remember it was a school night. I didn't get to sleep until about 4:00 a.m. I truly thought that I was dying—it was the first time I'd experienced insomnia and I thought I was losing my mind. I've never done that again.
My current caffeine of choice is tea or kombucha, which is a fermented tea. It gives me a lot of good energy and I like to have it before I exercise.
My favorite place for caffeine is Cargo Coffee on E. Wash. I'm on the executive board of UCAN, the Urban Community Arts Network, and we have all our meetings there.
The person I'd love to share a cup of caffeine with is Dr. Huey Newton, a co-founder of the Black Panther Party.
I've looked at his philosophies and find myself aligned with his ideas. He was able to create a movement that spawned others and I haven't seen a comparable figure in my lifetime. We desperately need insights into contemporary socio-political matters and values and I believe he could offer them.
World problem that could be solved with the right amount of caffeine: I'd actually say that people are over-caffeinated because they're overworked and stressed out trying to provide for their families and keep up the energy just to survive, rather than improve.
We spend so much time passively consuming information without analyzing what we're taking in. We're in a vicious cycle of overwork, competition and distress that's leaving us feeling isolated, uninformed and fearful of our fellow human beings.
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Gnomes place their loyalty in themselves, in their friends and in their inventions. A few follow a loftier path and pay their respects to the Holy Light.
how many gnomes that pay their respects to the holy light is unknown.
though, in Wrath of the Lich King the alliance perhaps need help to clean of the scourge, gnomes who mostly only helps with machines, guns and flying machines. maybe they could help even more in helping cleaning the scourge with the holy light.
Paladins? Priests?
although druids and shamans wouldn't really be gnomish since they both exploits the nature and sometimes destroys it (blowing things up/the gas bomb in gnomeregan)
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Adil: How can you defend a country where 5 percent of the people control 95 percent of the wealth?
Lisa: I'm defending a country where people can think, and act, and worship any way they want!
Adil: Can not.
Lisa: Can too.
Adil: Can not!
Lisa: Can too!
Homer: Please, please kids! Stop fighting. Maybe Lisa's right about America being the land of opportunity, and maybe Adil has a point about the machinery of capitalism being oiled with the blood of the workers.
The Simpsons did it first, did it better.
There are such huge differences between the Japanese and French cultures. This is true now and it was doubly true during the late 19th century. For any Japanese person to wake up one day and find him or herself in the middle of Paris, this has to be a major culture shock.
From religious to philosophical to political issues, you name it — the French and Japanese cultures couldn't be more different. Wouldn't it be awesome, then, for these two cultures to meet, discuss, and to try understanding one another? Wouldn't it be intriguing for a French person and a Japanese person to sit down over a cup of coffee or tea, and challenge each other over life's most profound questions?
Let's just toss one example out there. Late 19th century France always had the vigor of liberalism in it, even if the memories of their bloody revolution were just beginning to fade. Japan, like many East Asian cultures, is still somewhat collectivist to this very day, especially when compared to the West. Imagine the debates a French and Japanese person could have on just this very difference?
Instead, Ikoku Meiro no Croisée, focuses this week on… breakfast. Oh? The Japanese eat rice and miso soup and fried fish? And the French like to wake up to some butter on baguette and a nice, hot cup of coffee? Gee willikers! Then Claude takes Yune on a scintillating trip through a market where we get to watch the young girl marvel over produce and cured meat. Just when my heart couldn't possibly handle any more excitement, the anime makes a big deal out of Yune trying to eat pot-au-feu.
Poor Yune is struggling to enjoy things like cheese, but she doesn't give up. The two men ask her why she's trying so hard. She tells them that — can you guess it? Can you guess why she wants to like cheese so badly? I bet you can't! — she just wants to learn how to cook delicious meals for them. Awwwww.
I know Yune is cute and adorable, and people have already fallen in love with her, but this is precisely why I didn't want her character to be so young and simple-minded. We won't and can't engage in any truly thought-provoking differences between the two distinct cultures because she's nothing more than a child. So instead, we sit here and watch a cute girl fumble around with a spoon.
I'm reminded of God Grew Tired of Us, a 2006 documentary. The film tracked the lives of Sudanese refugees invited to live in the US:
"They must now learn to adapt to the shock of being thrust into the economically intense culture of the United States, learning new customs, adapting to new and strange foods, coping with the ordeal of getting, and keeping a job, or multiple jobs, while never forgetting the loved ones they left behind in Africa."
I then look at Ikoku Meiro no Croisée and see a wasted opportunity. Sure, adapting to unfamiliar food is also a topic in God Grew Tired of Us, but only briefly. The rest of the documentary is actually thought-provoking. I don't expect an anime to live up to a serious documentary, but Ikoku Meiro no Croisée can do so much better. But instead, it's going for broad appeal and what's broad appeal? The cute but pleasantly banal.
This anime's biggest fault is a complete lack of vision hiding behind adorable visuals. That's why these shows only ever feature a child, especially a female child.
B-but learning how to cook a delicious meal for the men in your lives is so important!
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Here's What You Can Expect at Japan's Meat Festival This Year
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Niku Fes or meat festival is one of the biggest food festivals in Japan. Since its inception in 2014, it has had more than five million visitors. This 2018, the theme is NIKUFES KINGDOM, and it will be held from April 27 to May 6 in Tokyo, Osaka, and Hiroshima.
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QUOTATIONS OF BULLINGER REGARDING "evolution"
AND the so-called science:
…Oh! What an
important lesson for all who would minister or speak for God. He himself is to
be the one great theme of all our testimony. Nothing lower; nothing less;
nothing different.
And what a blow to
the new idea of "evolution," whether Scientific or "Christian." Here, we have
Jehovah in every line for four long chapters speaking of His own works as being
each His own specific creation, and the result of his own creative acts.
Just as, in Genesis
1, we have the great Creator speaking, moving, creating, making, and blessing, thirty-five
times in that one chapter; so here, in every line, Jehovah speaks of Himself as
the Creator of everything in all its wondrous details as to object, and
purpose, and effect. So that it is impossible to receive the testimony of the
Word of God, and the conjectures of "evolution." There is not room for both.
One must go.
If we accept God's
Word, we cannot admit the very first idea of even what is called "Christian"
"evolution". If we accept "evolution", then we make the Word of God worse than
a lie; we make it an imposture of the gravest kind.
According to Genesis
1, and these four chapters of Job, God created each thing with its own specific
attributes, and powers of reproducing "after its kind"; each with its own
definite object and purpose.
According to
"Christian" "evolution," God did nothing of the kind. He created a "cell": and
from this, we are asked to believe, all else was evolved!
We answer, it is
easier to believe God than to believe this hypothesis. To do the latter
is simply credulity, and not faith at all: for no one has ever
yet seen one thing evolve into a different thing. We can see flowers and
animals "improved" or otherwise by cultivation; but no flower has ever evolved
into an animal! These can be respectively developed or improved, but if
they be left, they at once revert to their original type, and do not go on to
evolve into a higher and different species altogether.
No; the two systems
are incompatible. And we believe God. We accept the great truth here
announced: that "God is greater than man." He is the Almighty Creator: and our
testimony is to be of Him, and of His Word, and of His grace, and of His power,
and of all His other wondrous attributes.
But, alas, today the
pulpits are occupied with the praise of man; man's wonderful discoveries and
inventions are dwelt upon. His wisdom and cleverness are extolled. Man is
practically deified; while God is deposed, or bowed out of His own creation. It
is the gospel of humanity that is preached, rather than the Gospel of God.
His Word, instead of
being proclaimed, is criticized. And, instead of obeying it, man is sitting in
judgment upon it!
This oldest lesson
in the world, therefore, comes like a lightning flash, exposing the vanity of
modern ministry, and illuminating the darkness by which we are surrounded.
No wonder "the end
of the man" is so different from "the end of the Lord." No wonder that, instead
of the sinner's being humbled in the dust before the mighty God, he is exalted
with self-righteousness and pride. No wonder that, instead of being brought
down, he is puffed up. No wonder that the results of man's ministry are so
opposite to the results of Jehovah's ministry, as we see it in this book (of
The object and aim
of the one is to make man moral and right for time; while the "end" of the
other is the humbling of man, so that he may be made Divinely righteous for
The moral
improvement of man is the end and aim of man today; while the conviction of
sin, as the condition of eternal blessing, is the object of Jehovah – "the end
of the Lord."
The very precepts
and persuasions addressed to men (whether sinners or saints) only serve to
minister to the natural pride of the human heart; and thus tend to defeat the
very end in view.
They only lift man
into a temporary sense of being more or less right; while the one object of the
Gospel is to convict him of being altogether wrong: for this is the one necessary
condition before man can know God's righteousness. Man must be humbled before
he can be exalted.
Eliphaz, Bildad, and
Zophar are as busy today as ever – trying to make men good, by reasoning
and persuasion. But they only "darken counsel by words without knowledge."
Oh, for more, like
Elihu, who shall speak "on God's behalf": who shall expose the vanity of this
gospel of humanity; and point men to the living God.
This is the lesson
which we learn from the fact that Jehovah, when He intervenes, and undertakes
to accomplish all, where al others have failed, speaks only of Himself.
Apart from all that
He says; apart from the beauty and glory of all that He reveals; the fact that
Himself is His one great theme speaks to us, if we have ears to hear; and that
fact says: - True ministry is to interpret (chap. 33.23) the God of
Grace to lost sinners. And this was the object of Christ's own ministry on
earth (John 1.18)…
Bullinger, E. W., 1990. The Book of Job, The oldest
Lesson in the World. P. 40-42. Kregel, U.S.A.
…We are living in
days when the "leaven" has so spread throughout the whole lump that the
"unleavened bread of sincerity and truth" is rarely to be met with.
Not only the
"leaven" of the Scribes and Pharisees, but the "leaven" of Natural and Mental
Philosophers is to be seen and read on every hand…
When Professor
Drummond and Herbert Spencer have reconstructed their Philosophy of God, Man,
and the Universe, they will find to their shame and confusion that their system
of Social Ethics is after all but a poor thing, and that the true "Factor" is
altogether wanting. They will then have to own that beyond the range of their
philosophy is a wisdom which none of the Princes or Philosophers of this world
knew, for had they known it they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory."
Bullinger, E. W., Editor's Table: "The Ascent of Man",
Things to Come, July 1894, 1(1):20.
"… According to Professor Drummond "the
earliest home of the primitive man" was "a cave in the rocks," the simplest and
most "unevolved" form of human habitation. This statement is evidently not a
quotation from Genesis, for man is not relegated to a cave in Genesis, chap. 1,
nor can we find the word "troglodyte" in chapter 2, for there we see man's
beautiful home is called "Eden." Surely the leafy bowers and shady glens of
this well-watered garden were superior to the "one-roomed hut…"
Bullinger, E. W., Prof. Drummond's "The Ascent of
Man", Things to Come, August 1894, 1(2):35.
"Lord Salisbury's
remarkable address before the British Association Meeting at Oxford calls for a
reply not only from Professor Huxley and evolutionists of the "agnostic
philosophy" of Herbert Spencer, but also from "theistic evolutionists" such as
Professor Henry Drummond and Le Conte…
While clearly
distinguishing between "monistic evolutionists" of the type of professor
Haeckel of Jena, who deny design in Nature, and despise Revelation altogether,
from "theistic evolutionists" such as Professor Drummond and Le Conte, who
recognize design, and believe, to some limited extent, in the Word of God, we
cannot shut our eyes to the fact that until Lord Kelvin has been fairly
answered, such books as the Ascent of Man, which uphold the Darwinian
hypotheses of the origin and transmutation of species and the gradual evolution
of all races of men through animals, from simple protoplasmic forms of life,
need not be regarded as anything else than foolish attempts to shut up the
…we who believe that
there is more "Divine philosophy" and true science in the Word of God than in
the books of all these writers, are in no way perplexed by the awkward
predicament in which these modern scientists find themselves.
The true answer to
all these theories is to be found in the Word of God alone…"
Bullinger, E. W., evolution and Christianity, or Prof.
Drummond's "The Ascent of Man", Things to Come, September 1894,
"…In order to bring
about the mingling of the spiritual natures of evil angels and men, and
ultimately the worship of Satan by man, as foretold in Revelation 13, this
reaction in the direction of mysticism will of course largely partake of that
old perversion and caricature of the revelation of God to man which was such a
marked feature in the religious systems of Egypt and India…
…Alas! We know that
both Satan and rebellious man will for a time have their way. The whole world
will worship the dragon. He will give his power, his throne, "and his great
authority" to the coming "Man", and the worship of humanity will go on side by
side with the worship of the fallen Lucifer.
Christians who have
been already spiritually translated to a "higher plane"… through the redemption
by that precious blood… will shortly be translated thither by divine power, and
then, and not till then, will Satan, with his evil angels… thoroughly "instruct
Bullinger, E. W., The Signs of the Times: "evolution
of humanity", Things to Come, October 1894, 1(4):79.
"…Satan's great aim is to shut out God: to
get rid of the supernatural. The critics get rid of the supernatural in
Revelation; the scientists get rid of it in Creation; and now, Preachers seek
to get rid of it in the work of the New Creation. It is evolution in each case,
showing that evolution is Satanic in its origin, though it is ignorantly
carried out by men. "There is no God" is what it all leads to; and will all end
in. This is what the fool once said in his heart. Today they say it with their
But it is in the New
Creation work, as it was in the old, "all things are of God." If any man be in
Christ he is a new creation; old things are passed away: behold all things are
become new. And all things are of God" (2 Cor. 4.17,18)."
This is the
testimony of New Testament teaching. It is now true, that in the heart of the
saved sinner it is as it was in the old creation. "God who commanded the light
to shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the
knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ" (2 Cor. 3.6). It is
now as it was then – "God commanded," "God said," "God called," "God blessed."
Thirty-five times we have such expressions in Gen. 1., as though God –
fore-seeing man's invention of the theory of evolution – has stamped His name
so indelibly in that chapter that it cannot be got rid of without getting rid
of the whole book! And that is what the critics are now doing, saying that
Creation and Paradise and the Fall, etc., etc., are all "Myths."
But this only
confirms the truth of the Book: for it foretells that that is exactly what would
take place. "The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but…
they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto
fables" (Greek – Myths. 2 Tim. 4:3,4)…
This New Creation
work is so complete that, when we have experienced this work and received this
wondrous light (2 Cor. 3:6), we gain the glorious knowledge of God that we died
with Christ; that we were buried with Christ; that we were quickened with
Christ; that we are now raised with Christ; and are now only waiting for our
ascension, so to be ever with Him…
This is God's
salvation. It is divine in its source; perfect in its work; and eternal in its
If such an one has a
weak or short measure of knowledge of what God has made him to be in Christ, he
will be vainly thinking that by something he can do he can add to that
completeness, and will only heap up misery for himself in attempting such an
impossible task. But if he realizes the wonderful Salvation which God has
wrought, and has a full measure of knowledge of what God has made Christ to be
unto him, then he will have perfect rest, peace, and enjoyment; and instead of
vainly struggling to progress in Righteousness or Sanctification, he will be
"giving thanks unto the Father, which HATH MADE us meet to be partakers of the
inheritance of the saints in light.""
Bullinger, E. W., Editorials, evolution in the "New
Creation"?, Things to Come, September 1902, (9):3.
"…The theory of
evolution had its origin in the darkness of the heathen mind. It was taught by
Anexagoras (B. C. 428), Plato (B. C. 384), and Epicurus (B. C. 270).
The late Dr. Darwin
was the modern reviver of this heathen theory. He says, "I believe that animals
have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an
equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the
belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype… I
should infer from analogy, that probably all the organic beings which have ever
lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which
life was first breathed" (Origin of Species, 1st. edition.
The late professor
Huxley became the exponent of Darwin's theories, and in his lay sermon preached
on January 7th, 1866, he said, "Skepticism is the highest of
…Huxley goes on to
say, "If the doctrine of evolution is true, living matter must have arisen from
not-living matter." (Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals, P. 39). Thus we
are, after all, landed in skepticism pure and simple; and we are expected to
receive this assertion in "blind faith".
But, like Elihu, we
have something also to say on God's behalf, and a few facts will be worth whole
volumes of hypotheses and inferences…
The first is
PERMANENCE OF SPECIES. Harvey's great axiom was, "All life is from an egg"
Birds first bring forth their eggs and hatch them externally; while animals
hatch them internally and bring forth afterwards. Al the eggs of birds are
identical in their chemical composition: and yet each egg produces its own
species, without any variation. Each species has its own identical habits and
instincts, differing from those of other species. A Duck hatched by a Hen will,
on coming out of its shell, seek the water, of which he can have had no
previous experience; while the Hen dare not follow.
With both animals
and plants there is the same undeviating permanence of species. "hybrids
and varieties" can be obtained by crossing, but these have no permanence and no
power of reproduction. The Crab-apple and the vine may grow close together
from the very same soil. Their roots may intertwine; they may have the same
air, the same showers, the same sun; but, the one will be sour and the other
sweet. This difference is seen to be permanent.
In the face of this
permanence, we are asked to believe man when he tells us that this difference
is accounted for by evolution. We reply, we will not commit the sin of putting
"blind faith" in man's theory; but we will be skeptical with regard to it, and
believe God, because the unchangeable permanence which we see in all species of
life proves the genuiness of their indelible hall-mark "after his kind" (Gen.
1:11, 12, 21, 24, 25, etc.), having its "seed within itself" (Gen. 1:11.12).
Thus, tried by
facts, which are open to verification by all, the theories, and beliefs,
and inferences and hypotheses of men sink into nothing, and are
shown to be absolutely unworthy of the name "science." For the Latin scientia
means knowledge.
… Facts are what we
actually know, while evolution is only what men think.
What we demand,
and have the right to require (in the interests of Science itself) is that evidence
must be forthcoming to justify any belief in the gradual transition from
one genus to another.
And our readers must
refuse to accept any hypothesis which is put forth without such
Bullinger, E. W., Things New and Old: the Fallacies of
evolution, Things to Come, August 1903, 10(2):19-20.
"We give below a few
extracts from a very brilliant review which appeared in the Daily Telegraph of
Feb. 9th. It is an illustration of God's assertion as to most mere
Scientists: - "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools" (Rom.
1:22). And this is true. So true, that the greater the profession, the greater
is the result…
"These 'Last Words'
of Ernest Haeckel's are comprised in a reprint of three lectures which the Jena
professor delivered in Berlin, and they are translated from the second German
edition by Mr. Joseph McCabe: "Innumerable observations and uninterrupted
reflections of the wonderful vital movements that are disclosed by these
smallest and frailest, and, at the same time, most beautiful and varied of
living things"… "The pretty flinty skeleton of the Radiolaria which enclose and
protect the unicellular body are remarkable not only for their extraordinary
gracefulness but also for the geometrical regularity and relative constancy of
their forms."… "The relative constancy with which the 4,000 species transmit
the orderly and often very complex form of their protective flinty structure
from generation to generation can only be explained by admitting in the
builders the invisible plasma molecule of the pseudopodia, 'a fine plastic
sense of distance,' and a tenacious recollection of the architectural
power of their fathers". Dr. Haeckel's answer… It's all a work of memory!.
Wonderful! Who would have expected so much memory in a single-celled
microscopic Radiolarian, possessing neither brain nor nerve? On similar lines
cannot anything be explained? Moreover, how did their fathers, ages before,
learn the value of geometric regularity?… we have referred to the most
beautiful of the sponges, Euplectella. The Jena professor admits that
"sensation and movement are developed in the faintest degree in the sponges;
they have no nerves, muscles, or organs of sense," and yet have memory and "plastic
sense of distance," sufficient to build up a system of canals, permeating
their body-walls, with such symmetry and beauty as man could hardly imitate.
Prof. Haeckel "made
a very close study of the unicellular protests and their primitive cell-soul"…
Haeckel has no doubt about any number of souls. Besides the cell-soul, he has
the communal-soul, the tissue-soul, the plant-soul, and could, we have no
doubt, if desirable for his theory, create any number more…
The Berlin lecturer
would have done well to stop with the admission he made years before, "that the
innermost character of Nature is just as little understood by us as it was by
Anaximander and Empedocles 2,400 years ago."…
… Here are his very
"Last Words": "… as the Gospel says… We find God in natural law itself. The
will of God is at work in every falling drop of rain and every growing crystal,
in the scent of the rose and the spirit of man."
They come from one
who has been regarded as a Monistic Atheist, one who has ridiculed the belief
in God as a superstition, and on the preceding page as something that must
"cease to pose as truth"; yet here in solemn "last words" he tells his
disciples that "the will of God is at work in every falling drop of rain"!
Instead of "the Riddle of the Universe," we have now "the Riddle of Haeckel."
Bullinger, E. W., Things New and Old: Last Words on
evolution: The Riddle of Haeckel, Things to Come, April 1906, 12(4):43.
"The unregenerated
man, whether a professing Christian or not, is always seeking to justify his
unbelief. Hence the ready acceptance of Darwin's theory…
Man has observed in
the world, and has become acquainted with, two distinct methods of working.
These two methods proceed respectively from different spiritual sources and are
radically different one from the other. One is a method of evolution;
that is, a method of continual change from one set of conditions to another,
with increasing diversity and ramifications, in the effort to work out a result
which is not clearly defined to consciousness, and which constantly eludes
pursuit. The other is a method of creation; according to which the plan
and pattern of each thing is complete and perfect from the beginning, admitting
of no improvement or development.
One method is that
of a mighty but imperfect spiritual being, who aims at attaining, after a long
succession of failures, some ideal state or result, and who in that endeavour
perseveringly evolves one new expedient after another, as successive failures
materialize. The other method is that of an Omnipotent and All-wise Being, Who
works after the counsel of His own perfect will, Who has no need to experiment,
and with Whom failure is impossible.
One method is that
of Satan; the other method is that of Jehovah-Elohim…
The method of evolution
is found only in human affairs and nowhere else in the universe…
We may be sure that
Satan desires that his method should be well thought of, whatever he may now –
after these centuries of testing – think of it himself; and doubtless he takes
much satisfaction in having imposed upon apostate Christendom the belief that
his method of evolution was the divine method of creation…"
Mauro, P., The Truth About "Evolution", Things
to Come, January 1908, 14(1):6-9.
"Evolution is
undeniably the order of this present world wherein evil is found, (for evil,
like evolution, is not found outside of man's world,) and there is no
escape from it for sinful man except by death. Therefore Christ "gave Himself
for our sins that He might deliver us from this present evil world,
according to the will of God and our Father" (Gal 1:4.)
One common quality
of all the products of evolution which serve to distinguish them from all the
products of creation, is the instability of the former, and their
tendency to revert to their original condition, that is to the condition into
which they were brought by creation.
In the light of the
truth here presented we perceive whom it is that men worship when they do
homage to the god of "evolution"."
Mauro, P., The Truth About "Evolution", Things
to Come, February 1908, 14(2):20-23.
"Thomas A. Edison is
no mean scientist, and this is what he says on the subject in Suggestive
"There are more
frauds in modern science than anywhere else… Take a whole pile of them that I
can name, and you will find uncertainty, if not imposition, on half of what
they state as scientific truth. They have time and again set down experiments
as done by them, curious, out-of-the-way experiments that they never did, and
upon which they have founded so-called scientific truths. I have been thrown
off my track often by them, and for months at a time. Try the experiments
yourself, and you will find the result altogether different… I tell you I'd
rather know nothing about a thing in science, nine times out of ten, than what
the books would tell me; for practical purposes, for applied science, the best
science, the only science, I'd rather take the thing up and go through with it
myself, I'd find out more about it than anyone could tell me, and I'd be sure
of what I know. That's the thing. Professor this or that will controvert you
out of the books that it can't be so, though you have it right in the hollow of
your hand all the time, and could break his spectacles with it!"
What will the
scientists say to this testimony from such an expert? And what will the many
who have been accustomed to put so much faith in science say?"
Bullinger, E. W., "Science falsely so-called", Things
to Come, October 1901, 8(4):39-40.
"The "assured"
results of yesterday are overthrown by the investigators of today. But, God,
"Thy Word is Truth," and shall stand for ever."


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According to Braingle, the answer to the riddle, "What has four legs but only one foot?" is "A bed." The confusion in the riddle lies in the English language conventions for naming parts of animate and inanimate objects.
When talking about an animal, a leg is an ambulatory appendage ending in a foot. Inanimate objects, like chairs, are said to have 'legs', but they are rarely said to have separate 'feet'. Furthermore, a bed has both a 'head end' and a 'foot end', as seen in the Efi-Costarica.com Antique Furniture Guide. Therefore, taking into account a bed's four 'feet' and its 'foot end', it fits the riddle's conditions.


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'…all(Dicken's characters), no matter how briefly sketched are real.(CLIFFS NOTES P.54).Charles Dickens has the ability to make his characters very close to human, if not human. Charles Dickens' novel, Great Expectations, is mainly based on a character named Pip who goes from 'rags' to 'riches'. Joe Gargery, Pip's brother-in-law, lives with Pip and Mrs. Joe in the marsh country. He is a blacksmith who doesn't make a lot of money but manages to stay a mild and good-natured man.
But what causes Joe to stay so mild and good-natured throughout Pip's transformation? The truth can only be revealed through studying his relationship to Pip, his importance to the plot, and the theme he best represents.
When Pip's parents die, his sister decides to bring him up 'by the hand'(p.559). She has a very hard time with Pip, and in the future says, 'I'd never do it[bring Pip up] again!'(p.
560). Then she marries Joe Gargery. Joe and Pip form this 'everlasting' relationship, mainly because they were both 'brought up by the hand'(p.559). Joe always looks out for Pip and helps Pip out. Mrs. Joe would never do this. For example, when Pip was coming back from the graveyard after his first encounter with the convict, he find out that Mrs. Joe had gone on a rampage with the tickler only by Joe telling him. When Mrs. Joe returns, she throws Pip at Joe and Joe guards Pip from any harm Mrs. Joe can do.
Though these incidents, Joe develops a steady, everlasting relationship with Pip. When Pip receives word of his expectation, he also found out that in order to get his expectation and become a gentleman, he must go to London. Pip's reason for wanting to become a gentleman is mainly for Estella. He will do anything to impress Estella and win her heart. Pip knew he had to go if he were ever going to win Estella's heart. Joe had built up such a strong relationship with Pip that he didn't want anything to do with the obstruction of Pip's future. Another reason for Joe loving Pip is when Pip was sick and in debt, Joe went to London and helped Pip. Joe paid his debts(even though he himself had money problems) and stayed at Pip's bedside every second he was sick. According to Joe, "…you and me was ever friends."
(p.706) Joe must love Pip more than anything in the world if he flew to London just to help an 'old friend'. Pip's relationship to Joe wasn't quite as 'smooth' as Joe's relationship to Pip. At the beginning of the novel, Pip and Joe had an equal relationship, the both cared and helped each other. Joe, for example, let Pip know of Mrs. Joe's rampage and Pip taught Joe to read. So they both had an equal relationship at the beginning. But when Pip received word of his expectation, things changed. Pip only concentrates on being a gentleman and winning over Estella.
Pip doesn't think about Joe much anymore. When Joe went to visit Pip, and Joe kept trying to put his hat on the corner of the chimney piece without realizing it is too big, Pip becomes very annoyed with him. 'I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him.'(p.631) If things were like home, Pip would teach Joe, not be annoyed at him. But Joe, being this mild and good-natured man, blames the whole incident on himself. The relationships between Pip and Joe are very different throughout the novel.
Without Joe in the novel, Pip wouldn't have ever received his great expectation. Joe is the 'man of the house'. Joe provides the family with money. This money gives them a place to stay, food, and clothing. When Pip met the first convict, he demanded a file and wittles. Where would Pip get these items if Joe were not there to provide the money, which provided the food, shelter, and clothing? Pip would not be able to provide his convict with the file and wittles and the other convict would take Pip's heart and lungs out. Then, there would be nobody to give the expectation to and there would also be no reason to give the expectation. The main reason for the convict giving the expectation was the last person who did something good for him. But Pip never gives the wittles and file to the convict so there was no last good thing done. So, without Joe, there would be no expectation.
The theme Joe best represents is 'Sophisticated manners are not nearly as important as genuine kindness and affection.' At the beginning of the novel, Joe and Pip's did not show sophisticated manners but stayed friends because they had kindness and affection for each other. But as Pip received his expectation, became a gentleman, and went to London, he lived in an environment of sophisticated manners. Manners in which Joe were not familiar with. But Joe did not care about how sophisticated Pip became. All he cared about was the kindness and affection they had together. That was all that mattered in their friendship to Joe.
Overall, Joe's relationship to Pip gets an A+ because his thoughts of Pip stayed steady throughout the novel no matter what Pip did to Joe. Pip's relationship to Joe gets a C because at the beginning he felt the same way about Joe but his expectation changed his feelings about Joe. Nothing should be able to break up a strong relationship. Joe's importance to the plot received an A because the plot would not be able to continue without Joe. Joe's representation to the theme received an A because Joe was the one who didn't care about sophisticated manners, but only genuine kindness and affection. '…There has been no writer of fiction in the western world who had Dicken's genius for creating such an infinite variety of characters.'(CLIFFS NOTES p.54) Charles Dickens has created Joe as an amazing character in the novel, Great Expectations.
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