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Why people help distant kin
September 4, 2016 by Guest Post
Math simulations support theory of 'socially enforced nepotism'
It's easy to understand why natural selection favors people who help close kin at their own expense: It can increase the odds the family's genes are passed to future generations. But why assist distant relatives? Mathematical simulations by a University of Utah anthropologist suggest "socially enforced nepotism" encourages helping far-flung kin.
The classic theory of kin selection holds that "you shouldn't be terribly nice to distant kin because there isn't much genetic payoff," says Doug Jones, an associate professor of anthropology and author of the new study. "Yet what anthropologists have observed over and over is that a lot of people are pretty altruistic toward distant kin."
Douglas Jones, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Utah. Photo credit: University of Utah
Jones seeks to expand the classic theory with his concept of socially enforced nepotism, which he calls a "souped-up version of the theory of kin selection" in his study published June 15, 2016, by the Public Library of Science's online journal PLOS ONE.
Socially enforced nepotism "depends on the moral regulation of behavior according to socially transmitted norms," he writes in the study.
The findings suggest that "a lot of why you help your kin, including distant kin, isn't necessarily because you like them so much but because it's your duty, your responsibility, and other people care whether you do it," he says.
Basic kin-selection theory lacks social norms, so "you as an individual decide on your own how much to help somebody just because of how much you like them or don't like them," Jones says. "But with socially enforced nepotism, you help somebody even more because of the social pressures to do it and social rewards for helping. It improves your reputation, and improved reputation gets you more help from other people."
He says socially enforced nepotism "may help explain the phenomenon of generalized reciprocity, where members of small-scale, kin-based societies share food and other goods because they're supposed to, without expecting an exact return from the recipients."
This expanded theory of kin selection reflects the fact that "we are a very special species because of how good we are at making social rules and enforcing them," he adds. "This means relations among kin work differently in humans than in other species."
Jones performed desktop computer simulations of small-scale societies with tens to hundreds of people. What about large and developed nations?
He says that in his theory, "it still matters that people are kin. It doesn't work with just a random group of individuals. And though the math doesn't work for really large groups the size of nations, the simulation might still be relevant insofar as we think of other people as our distant kin," Jones says. "The emotions that evolved in small-scale societies might still influence how people treat distant kin, or those they think of as distant kin, in modern societies. That's speculative but a possibility."
Simulating a small-scale society
Classic kin-selection theory is based on a famous biological formula named Hamilton's rule, which deals with how altruism evolved among kin. It holds that an organism can get more of its genes into the next generation by sacrificing some of its own well-being to increase a relative's fitness – but that holds true for closer kin and not for distant kin. In other words, "you should help people in proportion to the fraction of your genes they share," Jones says.
His new mathematical model or simulation shows it is possible to beat Hamilton's rule if distant kin help each other according to their reputations. Each player's reputation depends on how much they help other people, and on the reputations of those they help.
"That may sound circular, but it works," Jones says. "When you work through the math, it turns out that natural selection can favor a scheme where you help some members of your kin group – who will never pay you back – because it boosts your reputation and leads other group members to help you."
Jones' new study grew from his earlier work involving what he calls the Brothers Karamazov Game, loosely based on the novel.
"Two brothers have a chance to help a third brother," he says. "If the two decide independently of one another whether to help, Hamilton's rule applies. But if one approaches the other with an offer, 'I'll give extra help if you do too,' then the level of altruism toward kin may be higher than the simple version of Hamilton's rule predicts."
Compared with that simple, three-person game, the new study "presents a more complicated case involving a game with lots of players of varying ability," Jones says. "Players reward one another according to their reputations, where your reputation is a function of how much you help other players, and of their reputations."
Playing a game of norms
The study used computer simulations "to see if we can come up with a model to help us understand what we see out there in the real world," Jones says.
The simulations use game theory – which "has a bunch of people who choose different strategies and get payoffs depending on what strategies they choose and what strategies other people choose" – and population genetics, in which "the payoffs are more offspring, and you ask how does the population evolve, how does gene frequency change?"
People in the simulation followed one of two mathematical rules, which Jones says reflect social norms dictating how much a person helps others and vice versa:
— "Almost-balanced reciprocity, where you help other people only as much as they help you."
— "Generalized reciprocity, where you might be very helpful even to someone with no ability to pay you back because other people see this, they like what they see, it boosts your reputation and they reward you for it."
"Both rules are floating around and you see how they compete with each other in a simulation," Jones says. "Some people follow almost-balanced reciprocity, some people follow generalized reciprocity and some compromise. Some players are really strong and can easily help other people, and others are weak and cannot."
The simulations translated into numbers the extent to which someone helps someone else, and how much that boosts their reputation.
"The math is similar to coming up with Google ranks," Jones says. "Google assigns every web page a certain score. Everyone's score depends on the score of everyone who links to them."
Help others, help yourself
After running the simulation "for a wide range of values," Jones found that people who engage in generalized reciprocity "win the evolutionary game. People who help distant kin even when those distant kin can't help them back have more offspring than those who insist on repayment."
The simulations also showed that if people stuck strictly to their norms – either always expecting or not expecting something in return for help – then whichever norm was most frequent at the start of a simulation won the game. But when the simulations also included compromise norms – helping others while expecting repayment only some of the time – then generalized reciprocity predominated.
"If you're helping distant relatives and they're not paying you back, then all the balanced reciprocity guys [those expecting return payment for help] are looking at you and saying, 'What a loser,'" Jones says. But if you help others and expect something in return part of the time and not at other times, "then you do better evolutionarily."
Jones' study notes: "Some anthropologists argue that human kinship, insofar as it is socially enforced, is divorced from biology. The argument here, on the contrary, is that kinship is uniquely elaborate and important in our species because norms that push people to treat distant kin like close kin have been favored by natural selection."
The full study is available here.
Doug Jones' blog about his study is here.
*Source: University of Utah
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Gardening: Exploring how some species in your garden work so well together
Baby tears photo by Joshua Siskin for 3-9-19 garden column
By Joshua Siskin | perfectplants18@yahoo.com |
PUBLISHED: March 7, 2019 at 9:43 am | UPDATED: March 7, 2019 at 9:43 am
What if Darwin's "survival of the fittest" theory was wrong? What if it turns out that "survival of the most cooperative" explains why some species are more successful than others?
Research conducted in a forest of Douglas fir and birch trees demonstrated the cooperative relationship not only between fungi and trees, but between trees of different species as well. Fungi known as mycorrhizae are considered to be appendages of forest tree roots since they absorb water and minerals that are directly channeled to the roots. These fungal appendages, in turn, are fed carbohydrate from roots which allows them to grow and expand their absorptive capacity for the trees' benefit.
Mycorrhizae also form an interconnected network, a single, multi-tentacled organism serving as water and mineral conduits to the roots of many trees growing together. It was found that birch trees transfer carbohydrate through mycorrhizae to adjacent Douglas fir trees that are under stress. It is hypothesized that mycorrhizae may form a sort of biological Internet that connects each forest tree to every other, to the benefit of them all.
I started to think about fungi, especially their underground presence, upon receiving the following email several weeks ago:
"I noticed this crusty, gunky white stuff growing around the base of a shrub. I thought it was caused by too much water, so I removed it and turned the sprinkler head around so that the base of the shrub would not get wet. But the white stuff came back within a week. What do you think it is, and should I just try to remove it again, or is there a product I can use?" — Janice Biermann, Santa Monica
I sent Biermann a list of homemade remedies for combating fungi. She tried an apple cider vinegar treatment, where you mix one tablespoon of vinegar in a gallon of water and spray, and the "white stuff," a fungus, disappeared. This same formula is also recommended, incidentally, for control of black spot on roses.
The fact that Biermann's initial removal of the fungus did not prevent it from coming back again illustrates the staying power of fungi. The fungus you see on the soil surface is only half of the story. The visible mycelium or body of fungal strands extends into the soil as well. Even removal or digging up the fungus, without some sort of systemic treatment, will not eliminate it since even tiny pieces of fungal strands can quickly regrow into a fresh white mass.
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Mother Nature Does No Favors
(This essay was originally published as "Policies Must Respect, Protect Mother Nature," on January 29, 2016, in the Newport Daily News.)
The storms and low temperatures of the past few weeks remind us of the power and beauty of Mother Nature, something to be admired, respected, and protected.
On the larger weather front, both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA jointly announced that 2015 was the warmest year since systematic record-keeping began in 1880. The average global temperature was 1.62 degrees (F) above the 20th century average. Beyond this, scientists in the United Kingdom announced that the average global temperature for the first time had reached one degree Celsius (1.8 degree F) above pre-industrial levels.
This was no surprise to Denny Ingram, a Newport lobsterman for 30 years, who was recently quoted speaking about the changes in weather, "It seems to be accelerating over the last 10 years. December now seems like October. Everything is a little out of whack."
The key driver of the recent climate change, especially for the last 50 years, has been the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In March of last year, for the first time in human history, the concentration reached 400 parts per million, according to the NOAA. As scientists Andrew Dessler and Edward Parson have indicated, the increase in concentration matches the fossil-fuel sources in quantity, isotopic mix, and timing.
In all the arguments I have heard from those skeptical of the human role in this or its seriousness, I have never heard any address this rise in carbon dioxide and its proven connection to global warming. The amounts of it that we have pumped into the air are staggering. The journal, Nature Climate Change, reported that in 2010, we pumped over 38 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the air from the burning of fossil fuels, about a billion tons more than in 2009. According to the Global Carbon Project report of September 2014, written by scientists, the figure had grown close to 40 billion tons in 2013, up from just over 39 billion in 2012. Skeptics cannot explain what Mother Nature does with all this so that we can continue business as usual. But of course Mother Nature follows physics and does favors for no one.
Rhode Island is especially vulnerable to sea level rise, an important consequence of temperature rise. As recently reported by Rep. Lauren Carson, head of a state legislative commission studying the economic impact of this rise, 21 of the state's 39 municipalities have historic property within the Narragansett Bay's flood plain. Newport is exceptionally vulnerable. Melissa Barker, Newport's geographic information systems coordinator, indicated that 600 Newport businesses, 23 percent of all its roads, and nearly 1000 historic structures, are located within the flood plain. Barker also reported that the NOAA has predicted that sea level in Newport will rise one foot by 2035, and two feet by 2050.
Consumers are benefitting from the international oil glut. Its price has tumbled from $105 per barrel to less than $30 in one and a half years. A few weeks ago, I was certainly happy to see gasoline dip below $2.00/gallon in Providence, soon reaching that level here on Aquidneck Island. The time is propitious then for actions to adapt to and to mitigate climate change.
Some proposals:
At the national level, it is time to place a price on carbon emissions, either through a tax or a cap and trade system, the latter which China plans to institute.
Second, at the state level, levy a "climate-change tax" on gasoline and diesel rather than the proposed truck toll.
With the funds generated from these two sources:
Build new infrastructure to adapt to sea level rise.
To prepare for more extreme weather, bury as many utilities as possible.
Subsidize technology companies researching renewables.
Enact tax incentives for businesses which switch to renewables and are striving to reduce their carbon footprint.
Prepare education modules for our public schools to teach our children about sustainable living.
Fix the state's crumbling infrastructure.
It is time to get serious about mitigating our carbon footprint and about adapting to the effects of our fossil-fueled lifestyle.
Fred Zilian (www.zilianblog.com) teaches environmental politics at Salve Regina University.
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3 Responses to Mother Nature Does No Favors
Dan Meucci says:
Mother Nature does us no favors because she hasn't given us proof that the carbon in the atmosphere is definitely the cause of globe warming. I have an equal amount of scientists who refute many of your arguments. Yes, I believe man has had an effect on the atmosphere in some manner but don't see it as a "gloom and doom" situation where we must destroy the world's economy in order to save the planet but put more people in poverty. Yes, I agree many of your solutions make sense but not the ones mandated by our government (EPA) or Presidential Fiats.
Also China and India, the World's worst offenders will not reduce their carbon foot print no matter how many International Meetings we set up. Again, National Interest has to come before International environment mandates. I do agree these meetings serve a purpose to make people more aware of the facts but USA as Carly Fiorina says has more pressing issues to deal with before we attempt to figure out "Climate Change."
Great article I enjoyed your thought process.
Fred Zilian says:
As always, I appreciate your responsiveness and your thinking. Reporting from China the past six months suggests that the Chinese leadership is finally taking steps to curb their carbon emissions.
danmeuccicoxnet says:
China also said they would not put military weapons on those Islands…
I am not trying to be a wise-guy but China doesn't have a record of
truthfulness when it comes to National Security or National interests. issues…
Thanks and have a great weekend!


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Josh Hazelwood after the announcement of his promotion to the Test vice-captaincy.
Hazlewood's quick fix to Aussie leadership tension
by Jacob Polychronis
JOSH Hazlewood is not aspiring to captain the Australian Test team despite being appointed as its joint vice-captain.
The 27-year-old was promoted with Mitch Marsh to deputy on Thursday after a successful pitch to selectors, board members and staff. He was also endorsed by his peers.
The fast bowler said being content as Tim Paine's number two would lead to a healthier leadership group than those of the past decade.
"It's probably no secret that the relationship between captain and vice-captain hasn't been great in the last 10 or 12 years," Hazlewood said after his appointment.
"So I guess that promotes me to a degree.
"With no aspirations to be captain you can have a really good relationship there. Then Mitch and myself can do everything we can to make Painey's (Paine) job as easy as possible.
"Having someone as vice-captain who's not necessarily aspiring to be captain - that's the position I find myself in, I think. I can really contribute as a leader and as a vice-captain without pushing that next level."
Hazlewood's comments came two days after former vice-captain Shane Watson called for Paine to be allowed to select his own deputy.
Watson said vice-captaincy appointments - including his own - have been wrong for more than 10 years.
"I'd say they've got it wrong the last quite a while. Really, since Ricky (Ponting) and Adam Gilchrist. They complemented each other really well," Watson told The Daily Telegraph.
"I think the captain should just about pick the vice-captain or have a huge influence in that decision because in the end, as a captain, you know who is going to be your most supportive person."
But Paine was not even part of the panel, which consisted of selectors Trevor Hohns and Greg Chappell, Cricket Australia chairman David Peever, CA board member Mark Taylor, coach Justin Langer, team psychologist Michael Lloyd and CA high-performance boss Pat Howard.
Marsh and Hazlewood's appointments reflect CA's desire to improve team culture in the aftermath of the ball-tampering saga.
Hazlewood - who will step into the role last held by David Warner - said he found the process "nerve-racking" but was "humbled" to receive his teammates' support.
Speaking of the decision to share the vice-captaincy roles, Hazlewood said: "I think it will work well. It's obviously a bit different, but it's modern times I guess.
"Through the amount of cricket we're going to play, and myself as a quick whether I'm missing games or resting, it's good to have one in the team who can step up on that occasion."
But the shared role still poses the question of who will be Australia's next Test captain if Paine is injured, or dropped.
It's a question not even Hazlewood or Marsh have answered yet.
"I guess that's an interesting one. If that does happen then I guess we'll have to talk about it," Hazlewood said. "But Mitch has obviously done a lot of captaincy in the past for Western Australia and even through the junior levels.
"I wouldn't mind filling in for a session or two here or there. I think it's tough on a cricketer to be a full-time captain."
Marsh, 26, has previously captained Australia A, Western Australia and the Australia under-19s.
Hazlewood also discussed the team charter that is set to be enforced before Australia's next Test match, which comes against Pakistan in the UAE on October 7.
Josh Hazlewood is, along with Mitch Marsh, Australia's new Test vice-captain. Picture: Ashley Vlotman/Gallo
He said players would hold each other to account under the charter, which was not only aimed at improving team culture.
"It's not about putting words on a page, but it's about living those (values) days in, day out and holding each other accountable to those behaviours as well," he said.
"Hopefully that creates an environment where everyone is comfortable and everyone can play their best cricket."
Hazlewood becomes one of just a handful of specialist pace bowlers to rise the team ranks to vice-captain. Rodney Hogg and Jeff Thomson were the last in the 1970s and 1980s, according to cricket.com.au.
"I've had a few texts from a few fast bowlers already wishing me the best," Hazlewood told foxsports.com.au.
When asked why bowlers have rarely held the role, he said: "I think you're probably a bit busier on the field, especially a spinner bowling a lot of overs, or if you're down at fine leg recovering or bowling long spells as well.
"I guess it's always a bit easier for a batter to take the emotion out of it."
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Yellow Silk quilted Nehru jacket from the deserts of Gujarat! Black piping at the edges and coth buttons with side pockets make this really classy.
Gujarat is famous for different kinds of weaving. Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth. The longitudinal threads are called the warp and the lateral threads are the weft or filling. The way the warp and filling threads interlace with each other is called the weave. The majority of woven products are created with one of three basic weaves: plain weave, satin weave, or twill. Ikkat, Patola etc. are the types of weaving.


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HomeThe MarketGilmore Car Museum celebrates 50 years
Gilmore Car Museum celebrates 50 years
By Larry Edsall
Cars owned by Donald Gilmore
Cars owned by museum founder Donald Gilmore fill the main gallery for 50th anniversary | Larry Edsall photos
Genevieve Gilmore knew her husband, Donald, would need something to occupy his time after his retirement, so she bought him a 1920 Pierce-Arrow that needed restoration.
It was a strange gift for a man who had never been a car enthusiast. But perhaps he'd just been too busy running the family department store and then a major pharmaceutical company that also was part of the family's enterprises.
It took Donald Gilmore three years to complete the restoration of the Pierce, and during that span he also acquired nearly three dozen other vintage vehicles and bought a farm to house his growing car collection.
But Gilmore didn't just restore his cars to look at them parked in the big red barn on the property. He built an oval track so he and his friends could exercise Donald's cars and his friends' cars as well.
In 1966, Gilmore opened a car museum at his farm, which like his car collection was growing. He bought the neighboring farm and then started collecting historic barns, which he took apart and had reassembled at what has become the country's largest classic car museum.
Located in Hickory Corners in southwestern Michigan, about midway between Chicago and Detroit. the Gilmore Car Museum is celebrating its 50th anniversary by showcasing in its main gallery some of the cars Donald Gilmore owned when he opened the museum half a century ago.
Today, the Gilmore Car Museum has a 90-acre "campus" with 180,000 square feet of exhibit space in more than a dozen buildings, some of them historic barns, some of them "partner" museums that house the collections of groups including the Classic Car Club of America, the Pierce-Arrow Society, the Lincoln Motorcar Heritage Foundation, the Modal A Ford Foundation, the Cadillac-LaSalle Club and the H.H. Franklin Club.
The museum also includes the Blue Moon Diner, an operating 1941 diner, the Midwest Miniatures Museum with architectural models, a re-created 1930s Shell gasoline station, a barn full of pedal cars, another with motorcycles, and a unique Disney movie set, a Kalamazoo & South Haven Railroad tower, and more, including an automotive research library.
The museum also hosts a series of car shows throughout the warm-weather months and during the school year offers the Gilmore Garage Works program to teach area high school students how to restore and maintain classic vehicles.
For more information, visit the museum's website.
Photos by Larry Edsall
Larry Edsall
A former daily newspaper sports editor, Larry Edsall spent a dozen years as an editor at AutoWeek magazine before making the transition to writing for the web and becoming the author of more than 15 automotive books. In addition to being founding editor at ClassicCars.com, Larry has written for The New York Times and The Detroit News and was an adjunct honors professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
robert po October 22, 2016 At 3:54 PM
pictures dont do this place justice ,,,,its worth seeing in person , no dissapointments, its heaven , for car people ,,, plan a day or more to enjoy it ,,, bob soo ont , canada ,,,
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When men grow old they do not become weak or even feeble-minded
On January 9, 2023 January 7, 2023 By RidzerdIn Anthroposophy, Health and illness, philosophy
For very many people it will be a hard nut to crack if they are told to believe that when men grow old they do not become weak or even feeble-minded, but more psychic and more spiritual. Only, when the body is worn out, we can no longer express the psycho-spiritual which we have cultivated, through the body. It is like the case of a pianist: he might become a better and better player, but if his piano is worn out we cannot perceive this. If you were only to know his capabilities as a pianist from his play, you will not be able to gather much if the piano is out of tune and has broken strings. So that Kant, when he was an old man and "feeble-minded" was not weak minded as regards the spiritual world; there he had become glorious.
Source: Rudolf Steiner – GA 181 – Anthroposophical Life Gifts – Lecture III: Thoughts about the Life Between Death and Rebirth – Berlin, 2nd April 1918
Previously posted on 4 March 2017
How can Anthroposophy prove what it claims?
On January 3, 2023 December 31, 2022 By RidzerdIn Anthroposophy, philosophy, thinking
Often the question is put: how can anthroposophy prove what it claims? People ask for proof because the usual way to prove facts is not available for Anthroposophy. Therefore, some people dispute the scientific validity thereof; they do not take into consideration the following – I can explain these things only approximately, but they apply in the most accurate, exact way -: the person who needs proof, thus shows that what must be proven, is not sense-perceptible. We need proof whenever we have no perception. Should I need evidence that there was a man in this room yesterday, it will only be because I did not see the man myself.
Thus, it is with everything, concerning the historical development of humanity, we always need the evidence as well. When people still had an instinctive knowledge, they had a natural inner experience of what they called the Divine Being, did not need proof. The evidence for the existence of God only started to be required when during the development of humanity this spiritual perception was lost. The evidence is only needed where understanding is not available.
The Anthroposophical method, however, prepares the human soul to discover the spiritual. When it is described – that is the peculiarity about Anthroposophy-, it can be explained with healthy common sense and understood in the way a non-artist can recognise a work of art, although he cannot create it. One can therefore not object to the fact that only the seer can investigate Anthroposophy. For even if another person cannot examine it, it can be understood by anyone, who wants to use his healthy common sense without bias.
Source (German): Rudolf Steiner – GA 82 – Damit der Mensch ganz Mensch werde – The Hague, 12 April 1922 (page 200-202)
Translated by Nesta Carsten-Krüger
Previously posted on 1 november 2018
A definition can never explain the essence of a thing
On December 31, 2022 December 28, 2022 By RidzerdIn Anthroposophy, philosophy, thinking
The big mistake, the great illusion, of the materialistically minded people, is that they believe a definition or a description can fully explain the essence of a thing.
I have often illustrated the grotesque nature of this belief in the past by pointing out the fact that a school of Greek philosophers once sought to define a human being and finally found that a human being is a creature with two legs and no feathers. Now, that is undoubtedly true. One can say that it is an absolutely correct definition. The next day, someone who understood the definition brought with him a plucked rooster and said: "This is a creature with two legs and no feathers, so it must be a human being."
Source (German): Rudolf Steiner – GA 253 – Probleme des Zusammenlebens in der Anthroposophischen Gesellschaft – Dornach, September 11, 1915 (page 33)
Anonymous translator
Previously posted on 30 October 2018
Steiner's visit to Friedrich Nietzsche
On December 23, 2022 December 21, 2022 By RidzerdIn Anthroposophy, philosophy, Steiner
Shortly before I began the actual writing of that book (Nietzsche as the Adversary of His Age), Nietzsche's sister, Elizabeth Förster-Nietzsche, appeared one day at the Goethe and Schiller Institute. She was taking the preliminary steps toward the establishment of a Nietzsche Institute, and wished to learn how the Goethe and Schiller Institute was managed. Soon afterward there came to Weimar the editor of Nietzsche's works, Fritz Koegel, and I made his acquaintance.
Later I got into a serious disagreement with Frau Elizabeth Förster-Nietzsche. Her emotional and lovable spirit claimed at that time my deepest sympathy. I suffered inexpressibly by reason of the disagreement. A complicated situation had brought this to pass; I was compelled to defend myself against accusations; I know that it was all necessary, that the happy hours I was permitted to spend among the Nietzsche archives in Naumburg and Weimar should now lie under a veil of bitter memories; yet I am grateful to Frau Förster-Nietzsche for having taken me, on the first of many visits I made to her, into the chamber of Friedrich Nietzsche. There he lay on a lounge enveloped in darkness, with his beautiful forehead-artist's and thinker's forehead in one. It was early afternoon. Those eyes which in their blindness yet revealed the soul, now merely mirrored a reflection of the surroundings which could find no longer any way to reach the soul. One stood there and Nietzsche knew it not. And yet one could have believed, looking upon that brow permeated by the spirit, that this was the expression of a soul which had all the forenoon long been shaping thoughts within, and which now would fain rest a while. An inner shudder which seized my soul may have signified that this also underwent a change in sympathy with the genius whose gaze was directed toward me and yet failed to rest upon me. The passivity of my gaze so long fixed won in return a comprehension of his own gaze: his longing always in vain to enable the soul-forces of the eye to work.
And so there appeared before my soul the soul of Nietzsche, hovering above his head, boundless in its spiritual light; surrendered wholly to the spiritual worlds, longing after its environment but failing to discover it; and yet chained to the body, which would have to do with the soul only so long as the soul longed for this present world. Nietzsche's soul was still there, but only from without could it hold to the body, that body which so long as the soul remained within it had offered resistance to the full unfolding of its light.
I had ere this read the Nietzsche who had written; now I perceived the Nietzsche who bore within his body ideas drawn from widely extended spiritual regions – ideas which still sparkled in their beauty even though they had lost on the way their primal illuminating powers. A soul which from previous earthly lives bore rich wealth of light, but which could not in this life cause all its light to shine. I had admired what Nietzsche wrote; but now I saw a luminous form behind that which I had admired.
In my thoughts I could only stammer over what I then beheld; and this stammering is in effect my book, Nietzsche as the Adversary of His Age. That the book is no more than a stammering conceals what is none the less true, that the form of Nietzsche I beheld inspired the book.
Source: Rudolf Steiner – GA 28 – The Story of My Life – Chapter XVIII
Passionless thinking
On November 25, 2022 November 23, 2022 By RidzerdIn Anthroposophy, philosophy, thinking
There is usually only one area where we have pure thoughts, that is in mathematics. When people calculate, their passions are usually very little involved. Because the majority of people everywhere wish to exercise their feeling and critical faculty they have no love for mathematics. Here one cannot vote in parliamentary fashion. Mathematical truth is recognised by man through truth itself; a problem can only have one solution. Whether one or a million people hold their own view about it, the problem must find the same solution. Nowhere should we need majority decisions, if it were possible in all spheres to make decisions in a way as free from emotion, as objectively, as in mathematics. In Europe one can only point to this as to an ideal, in the hope that one day, in other spheres of life, judgements will be, reached equally objectively and free from emotion.
Thinkers would not disagree so violently if they would take all the factors into consideration completely objectively, for truth cannot approach man in different ways. People hold different opinions because with their instincts and passions they are involved in their ideas in different ways. […..] No philosophy dealing with human matters was expressed so objectively, with such pure mathematical thinking, as the Vedanta philosophy which is truly philosophical in the highest sense of the word. Whoever imbues himself with this, knows what the following means: 'I need no other person in order to know whether something is true.' Whoever actually raises himself to this clear, passionless thinking, needs no other opinion.
Source: Rudolf Steiner – GA 93a – THE FOUNDATIONS OF ESOTERICISM: Lecture XXI – Berlin, 19th October 1905
Translated by Vera and Judith Compton-Burnett


Upgrading Ubuntu is very easy! Even a novice user can easily upgrade Ubuntu from one version to another in the first attempt itself. That's why I always recommended Ubuntu for newbies who wants to try Linux for the first time. However, a developer has made the upgrade process a lot easier than ever. Meet zzupdate, a simple command line utility to fully update an Ubuntu PC/server via apt, mostly hands-off and unattended. Believe me or not, You can now upgrade your Ubuntu, either Desktop or Server edition, with a single command. I tested this script in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and it worked just fine as described below. Read on.
User intervention or any coding knowledge is not required.
Easy to install and use. Just download and start using it in no time.
Free and open source. The source code is freely available in GitHub.
The official and recommended way to upgrade any Ubuntu version to the next available version is to run the following commands one by one and follow the onscreen instructions.
However, you don't need to run all those commands to upgrade Ubuntu. The zzupdate upgrades any Ubuntu version in a single command.
First, open up the Software & updates either from Gnome Dash or application launcher.
In the Software & updates wizard, go to Updates section and choose the version type you want to upgrade.
If you want to upgrade the current Ubuntu version to any available new version (LTS or non-LTS), choose "For any new version" from the "notify me of new Ubuntu version" drop down box.
If you want to upgrade the current Ubuntu version to next available LTS version only, choose "For long-term support versions" from the "notify me of new Ubuntu version" drop down box in the Updates section.
Once you have chosen the version type, close the "Software & Updates" window.
remote: Counting objects: 96, done.
Unpacking objects: 100% (96/96), done.
See https://github.com/TurboLabIt/zzupdate for the quickstart guide.
It's that simple. You don't need to do anything. zzupdate will take care of everything and upgrade your current Ubuntu version to next available version.
Once the upgrade process is completed, Zzupdate will automatically reboot your system to newly upgraded system.
In case you're upgrading via SSH, it is recommended to start the upgrade process within screen session. Because in case of any SSH connectivity failure during upgrade process, you can easily reconnect with the upgrade session.
zzupdate works just fine out of the box. However, if you want to change some parameters (such as, to exclude reboot, version aggression), you're free to do that by modifying the config file.
Then, modify the parameters as per your requirement.
Here is the list of available parameters.
REBOOT – If the value is 1, the system will be restarted at end of the upgrade process. Default is 1.
REBOOT_TIMEOUT – Reboot default time out value. Default value is 15.
VERSION_UPGRADE – If the value is 1, it executes version progression if a new version of Ubuntu is available.
VERSION_UPGRADE_SILENT – If the value is 1, version progression occurs automatically, without asking the user anything. Default value is 0.
COMPOSER_UPGRADE – If the value is 1, it automatically upgrades composer.
By default, we run "zzupdate" to upgrade Ubuntu with default parameters. We can also create different profiles with specific parameter(s).
Please note that, I have used "ostechnix" in the profile name.
Then, modify the default available parameters as per your requirement.
Save and close the file. Now, you can start the upgrade process using the specified profile name as shown below.
Similarly, you can create as many as profiles with different parameters.
And, that's all for now. Hope this helps. Have you tried this utility already? Share your thoughts about this utility in the comment section below. If you find this guide useful, please share it on your social, professional networks and support OSTechNix!
is this command only for 17.04? or any futuristics LTS?
It is for all Ubuntu versions.


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Q: Youtrack REST API "Failed to create service account from Hub, giving up" error I'm trying to receive data from REST Api after Authorization in Hub. Here is my actions:
1.Authenticate application in Hub using Client credentials flow (by the way, is it right flow choice for chat bot?)
POST /api/rest/oauth2/token HTTP/1.1
Host: hub.example.com
Authorization: Basic base64(service_id + ":" + service_secret)
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

grant_type=client_credentials&scope=YOUTRACK_SERVICE_ID

2.Then i'm trying to get issues from YouTrack, using recieved access token
GET /rest/issue HTTP/1.1
Host: yt.example.com
Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN
Accept: application/json

Response has status 500 with this message
{"value": "Failed to create service account from Hub, giving up"}
Both Hub and YouTrack is stand-alone.
What's going on and what should i do? Thanks

A: Updating YouTrack to fresh build fixes issue.
Thanks to Jk1's comment above.

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Good start to the season
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On Sunday, we started the League visiting newly-promoted Chongqing Lifan. It was a splendid day for a football match, the pitch was in perfect condition and the stands were packed with local fans enjoying their First Division debut. It was the perfect stage for us to play a good game and bring home a victory.
In the pre-match talk I decided to remind the players about all the records they had broken last season, so they would realise that we had to fight from the very first minute of the season if we wanted to improve on last year's results.
I told them how proud I was of their hard work and highlighted that, although football always has a material side, with the trophies and prizes, there are other important aspects that will bring HAPPINESS, and those are:
– Personal satisfaction
– Team spirit
– Always giving one's best
– Fighting until the very end
– Recognition for a work well done
I also reminded them that living in the past will not help us at all this season. If we want to win the League our goal must be to fight even harder, every single match; that must be the main characteristic that defines and shapes the SPIRIT of each Beijing Guoan player.
The team won by a solid 0-3, with goals from Dejan, Erton from the penalty spot and Batalla. A great victory to maintain the forward momentum. Right now we couldn't ask for more, with four wins in four official matches, eight goals scored and none conceded. But now we must focus on consolidating this great run next Friday with a home win against Henan. I am sure all our fans will be there to support us.
Gregorio Manzano Ballesteros
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Banned US Computer Chips in High Demand in China
Some of China's top research and educational organizations depend on U.S. computing chips that have export restrictions on them, news reports say. U.S.-based chip maker Nvidia said last week it had been told by American officials it could no longer export two top computer chips to China, Hong Kong or […]
Some of China's top research and educational organizations depend on U.S. computing chips that have export restrictions on them, news reports say.
U.S.-based chip maker Nvidia said last week it had been told by American officials it could no longer export two top computer chips to China, Hong Kong or Russia.
The high-end chips are designed to help power major computer data centers and support artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
U.S. officials have said the export restrictions are necessary to limit the spread of chip technology that can be used for weapons. The restrictions do not affect Nvidia's better-known products widely used in video games and automotive technology.
Nvidia said the export ban affects its A100 and H100 chips, which are designed to add more power to machine learning operations. The company's H100 chip is still in development. Nvidia said in an official financial report that the export restriction could halt progress on the H100 chip. The company said the ban may also require the company to move some of its operations out of China.
Another American chip maker, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), has confirmed that it also received an order from the U.S. Department of Commerce to block shipments of some of its high-end chips to China and Russia. AMD, however, said the restrictions were not expected to delay any product development or greatly harm its business operations.
China criticized the U.S. export restrictions. It accuses U.S. officials of misusing export controls to limit high-end chip sales to China. A spokesperson for China's Commerce Ministry warned the trade limits would worsen supply chain problems and slow world economic recovery efforts after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Computer chips are China's largest import. China's concern about computer chips grew over the last two years as work at chip factories slowed because of COVID-19.
Reuters news agency recently examined corporate payment data over the past two years in an effort to see the level of demand for the restricted chips in China.
During the examination, reporters discovered China's Tsinghua University spent over $400,000 last October on two Nvidia AI supercomputers. Each of the computers is powered by four A100 chips, corporate financial data showed. Tsinghua is one of China's highest-ranked higher education institutions.
In the same month, China's Institute of Computing Technology spent about $250,000 on A100 chips. The institute is part of the country's top research group, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
The school of artificial intelligence at a CAS university spent about $200,000 on high-tech equipment in July, the Reuters report shows. The equipment included a server partly powered by A100 chips.
And in November, the cybersecurity college of Guangdong-based Jinan University spent more than $93,000 on an Nvidia AI supercomputer. In addition, the university's school of intelligent systems science and engineering spent nearly $100,000 just last month on eight A100 chips.
Other institutes and universities supported by local and area governments also bought A100 chips, the Reuters report showed.
None of the research departments contacted by Reuters answered requests seeking comment on the chip restrictions.
Nvidia also did not answer a request for comment. But it recently said it had reported $400 million in Chinese sales of the affected chips for the three- month period ending in September. The company said much of that business could be lost if its customers decide not to buy other Nvidia product offerings. Nvidia also said it planned to seek exemptions to the new rules.
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Have you ever wondered why can't you lose weight despite exercising? It might just be your diet and sugar intake that's to blame. It's because all the present sugar in the food that you eat affects your health and makes you gain more weight. Though it may sound impossible to ditch on your diet, I've found some simple ways to cut them down and eventually get rid of them.
Down below is a list of smart and simple ways to stop out your sugar intake. They're easy to implement, give effective results, and will make your life so much easier. So check them out and let me know what you think.
Though processed food offers convenience, these foods are horrible for your diet. They have a large amount of sugar content that can help you gain weight. Also, they're full chemicals that might harm your health as well.
So the next time you do your grocery run, avoid these products and opt for whole foods.
Not all sweets are terrible. Some of them are naturally good for your body and are super healthy. Choose a sugar alternative that gives the same sweetness but cuts out the sugar intake. Try using raw honey, dates, xylitol, coconut sugar, or stevia for a better option. They taste great and are perfect substitute for regular sugar.
Don't just count the sugar in your coffee, juices, or sodas but other (supposedly healthy ) food like yogurt too. Flavored yogurt may come in a wide variety of mouthwatering fruity flavors but compared to the ingredients of regular yogurt, they're much higher in sugar content. They don't always contain real fruit, but have a pureed form which is responsible for the high sugar intake.
Whenever you want to buy any food, make it a habit to check its label first before heading to the cashier. Knowing its ingredient list will let you know how much sugar content they have and other unwanted chemicals that are bad for your body. In this way, you can easily figure out which one is better and healthier to eat.
Treat your body to the natural benefits of whole foods and indulge in vitamins and nutrition. Eat more vegetables, fruits, seeds, legumes, leafy greens, plant-based proteins, and other whole foods rather than processed foods.
Also, instead of getting flavored juice which are high in sugar, try to make some fresh fruit smoothies. They taste amazing and have less sugar.
Sugar can hide under some sneaky names. They often use added sugar names like fructose, corn syrup, molasses, agave, maple syrup, and more.
If several sugars appear on the label, it's an indication that the food is less healthy than you may think.
One of the easiest ways to cut down on your sugar intake is by keeping all your sweet treats away from your house. This includes your all-time favorites like Oreos, chocolate bars, gummy's, candies, and ice cream.
If they're within your sight, chances are you'll forget your no sugar diet. So get rid of them and stockpile your pantry with healthy food.
Though some soda companies offer diet, zero sugar, or a light option, these are still artificial sweeteners that contributes to your weight gain.
So why not try some freshly squeezed juice; it's a better option and easy to prep. Also, why not trade your soda in for lemon and water infused drinks. They don't contain sugar at all and help you lose weight.
Chocolate is a favorite of many, and dark chocolate is such a great (and tasty) alternative to milk and white chocolate (in moderation of course).
Grab some when you're hungry and you'll appetite will be suppressed. The bittersweet taste of pure dark chocolate helps in suppressing appetites which will keep your cravings at bay.
Whether you want to shed some pounds or just want to be healthy, these nine ideas will help you cut your sugar intake and can even inspire you to live a healthy life. Substitute them for your sweet cravings, add to your diet plan, and start seeing results. Let me know what you think.
Now if you have any other tips to cut sugar intake, let me know in the comments down below! I'd love to hear about them.


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Chickens Coming Home To Roost
President Obama's pastor, mentor, and spiritual leader of 20 years screamed from the pulpit, "America's chickens have come home to roost!" The crowd in his large church cheered, laughed, and clapped. Reverend Jeremiah Wright was talking about the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States, of course. But we were all relieved to learn that candidate Obama had no idea the good Reverend harbored such opinions.
Now, it seems, the chickens are coming home to roost for President Obama himself. Despite the talk about bipartisanship, an end to unproductive political infighting, regaining America's place of respect in the world, a new kind of foreign policy, tax cuts for 95 percent of everybody, a sure-fire solution to the economic problems caused by those darned Republicans, we are the ones we've been waiting for, and so on….
In a March 13 article in the Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal, "Obama's Poll Numbers Are Falling to Earth," Douglas E. Schoen and Scott Rasmussen wrote:
It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack Obama's high levels of popularity, and to conclude that these are indicative of high levels of public confidence in the work of his administration. Indeed, a detailed look at recent survey data shows that the opposite is most likely true. The American people are coming to express increasingly significant doubts about his initiatives, and most likely support a different agenda and different policies from those that the Obama administration has advanced.
Polling data show that Mr. Obama's approval rating is dropping and is below where George W. Bush was in an analogous period in 2001. Rasmussen Reports data shows that Mr. Obama's net presidential approval rating — which is calculated by subtracting the number who strongly disapprove from the number who strongly approve — is just six, his lowest rating to date.
Overall, Rasmussen Reports shows a 56%-43% approval, with a third strongly disapproving of the president's performance. This is a substantial degree of polarization so early in the administration. Mr. Obama has lost virtually all of his Republican support and a good part of his Independent support, and the trend is decidedly negative.
A detailed examination of presidential popularity after 50 days on the job similarly demonstrates a substantial drop in presidential approval relative to other elected presidents in the 20th and 21st centuries. The reason for this decline most likely has to do with doubts about the administration's policies and their impact on peoples' lives.
Now the chickens are roosting on the White House roof. That was inevitable. Obama and his supporters, particularly the most ardent and least knowledgeable among them, expected a performance that was superhuman. I remember the ecstatic woman on TV shouting something to the effect that she was so happy Obama was elected because now he was going to pay her mortgage and credit card bills. Stupid, perhaps, but she was a voter and she had expectations, like millions of other voters who had more or less unrealistic expectations.
I still think Obama is a smart guy who can figure out what his new job is all about. Once he gets there, he'll probably do pretty well. But there is very little time for presidents to go through on-the-job training, and in his case there's even less because of the economic crisis. He needs to get his act together and do it now–staff the Treasury Department, build something resembling a bipartisan coalition in Congress, focus on the economy first and all his other agenda items later, and communicate better with the American people.
And speaking of chickens coming home, what happened to Obama's promise to get rid of earmarks? He repeated the promise in his inaugural address and again the other day when he signed the bill that funds the government, even though it contained over 9,000 earmarks. Said he wasn't going to keep doing that. Right.
And by the way, here's where some of our money is going via those earmarks, according to a March 11 AP report:
More than one out of every five dollars of the $126 million Massachusetts is receiving in earmarks from a $410 billion federal spending package is going to help preserve the legacy of the Kennedys.
The bill includes $5.8 million for the planning and design of a building to house a new Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Senate. The funding may also help support an endowment for the institute.
The bill also includes $22 million to expand facilities at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum and $5 million more for a new gateway to the Boston Harbor Islands on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, a park system in downtown Boston named after Kennedy's mother and built on land opened up by the Big Dig highway project. …
About $20 million has already been raised for the institute, including contributions from drug companies, insurance companies and hospitals. Tentative plans called for a replica of the Senate chamber itself, as well as programs to train new senators.
I wonder if part of the training program will teach senators how to do what Ted Kennedy has done and still emerge as a revered law-giver?
And the chickens are coming home to roost for the businessmen who ran their businesses into the ground, unions that sometimes helped them do it, greedy Wall Street parasites, schlubs who gave and took subprime mortgages, their enablers in Congress and the regulatory agencies, and now the gullible folks who invested with Bermie Madoff. Guess what they all want? Yep–they want us taxpayers to bail them out.
But as even the gray lady of liberal journalism points out, people are responsible for their actions.
From a March 13 report in The New York Times:
What happened to the victims of Bernard Madoff is terrible. But every day in this country, people lose money due to financial fraud or negligence. Innocent investors who bought stock in Enron lost millions when that company turned out to be a fraud; nobody made them whole. Half a dozen Ponzi schemes have been discovered since Mr. Madoff was arrested in December. People lose it all because they start a company that turns out to be misguided, or because they do something that is risky, hoping to hit the jackpot. Taxpayers don't bail them out, and they shouldn't start now. Did the S.E.C. foul up? You bet. But that doesn't mean the investors themselves are off the hook. Investors blaming the S.E.C. for their decision to give every last penny to Bernie Madoff is like a child blaming his mother for letting him start a fight while she wasn't looking.
So where does all this leave us, the people who pay the bills? The President has to get his chickens lined up and solve the biggest problem first; Congress has to clean up its roost and start behaving like responsible adults; leaders in the public and private sectors have to stop worrying about enriching themselves and do what they can for the public good (just this once, guys!); and we taxpayers have to nail all their little chicken feet to the roost until they "get 'er done."
Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: economy, Obama, stimulus
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9 Responses to "Chickens Coming Home To Roost"
doris | March 14th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Right on!!! Git her done, Tom. You just aren't a redneck, no matter how hard you try. Luckily….
Kevin | March 14th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Hmmm… A couple days after winning the election Rasmussen had Obama at 54/41 (approve/disapprove). The cited poll all these months later has him at 56/43 – a higher approval rating than he had before he'd done anything as President. Rasmussen actually has an even more recent poll released yesterday and it has Obama's approval going up: 57/41
Backdrop: Obama's approval number is higher than it was when he was first elected and that's after enduring weeks of conservatives crying "Socialist" over and over.
I'd say that seeing chickens roosting is subjectively in the eye of the beholder.
Tom | March 14th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
This Rasmussen being the same person who co-authored the article, along with a former pollster for Bill Clinton. Who knew the vast right-wing conspiracy had this much reach!
Truth is, from every direction, liberal and conservative, people are questioning what Obama and the Democrats think they're doing. The chickens coming home to roost in this case are not the terrorists so admired by the Reverend, they're a different flock. They're the ones stirred up by unrealistic expectations and ephemeral promises. There was never much chance that Obama would pay the bills of the ecstatic lady on TV, but it was at least reasonable to expect a better performance in all areas than we've seen so far.
I want President Obama to succeed. That means before he does anything else, he must deal with the economic crisis. Once that's done, we can all engage in an adult conversation about all the other things on his agenda.
This Rasmussen being the same person who co-authored the article, along with a former pollster for Bill Clinton.
Okay. Since he's not here perhaps you'd like to take a crack at explaining to me how a 54/41 approval/disapproval rating on 11-08-08 + a 57/41 approval rating on 03-11-09 = "Polling data show that Mr. Obama's approval rating is dropping" as asserted in the article.
Truth is, from every direction, liberal and conservative, people are questioning what Obama and the Democrats think they're doing.
That's certainly true. Likewise, from every direction, liberal and conservative, people are questioning what Limbaugh and the Congressional Republicans think they're doing.
I don't know about you but I don't believe there's a single person on the planet who can reliably prophecy about the future, even the near-term future. That goes as much for Obama as it does for his harshest critics.
I can't account for Rasmussen's opinion, but it's pretty clear in the article. Maybe he's looking beyond the surface at the internals of the polls. That sometimes gives a different picture than the overall numbers reported in the media.
Frankly, I can't make out what any of these politicians are doing. It's pretty clear, though, that their primary concerns are for themselves rather than the overall good of the country.
My criticism of Obama is not partisan. If his name were McCain and things were like they are now, I'd be just as critical. I hope he's very successful in dealing with the economy, and soon, but it's beginning to look pretty bad. I don't think he has a sense of urgency about it, and I'm not sure he has a clear idea of what to do.
I'm not going by what is reported in the media. Rasmussen's own numbers show that Obama's approval rating is higher today than it was when he was first elected. And while Rasmussen cited the very highest disapproval rating for Obama that his oranization has recorded since the election, in the very next released Rasmussen poll just a couple days later that number had dropped back down to precisely what it was the day after Obama was elected.
Carla Axtman | March 15th, 2009 at 11:44 am
The numbers from Rasmussen are an outlier compared to a bunch of other polling on Obama..both favorability and job approval. Obama's job approval ratings have been essentially the same since he took office:
http://pollingreport.com/obama_job.htm
His favorability ratings have taken a similar tack:
http://pollingreport.com/obama_fav.htm
In terms of "earmarks"….frankly I find the complaints in general silly. We need the government to send money to the states for projects that help create jobs. If that means building additions to stuff and naming it "Kennedy"..who the heck cares..? It's good construction jobs that should pay a decent wage. The report notes that there are a hefty amount of private dollars involved too. That's the way it ought to be.
Having been to the John F. Kennedy Library, I can tell you its a treasure. It's a place which stores an amazing array of antiquities, not to mention a great place for study. Expanding it is a completely appropriate use of these dollars.
The Republicans aren't interested in a bipartisan coalition in Congress. Obama can't do it by himself and the GOP has made it clear that the have no intention of allowing it to happen.
The main criticism of earmarks is that they're very often slipped into bills without regard to relevance and designed to payoff a supporter, satisfy a special interest, or help a member in the next election. However, it's not illegal, and if it doesn't bother you, that's fine. The issue we're talking about is Obama's righteous promise to eliminate them and his failure to live up to that promise. It never was a realistic promise, like many others that were made. Shouldn't politicians ever be called to account for making empty promises?
I don't have anything against presidential libraries. I've been to a couple, and I share your appreciation of them. However, I'm not sure this is a proper use of funds. (Look here and see what you think.) Plus, the money for a Ted Kennedy "Institute for the Senate" sounds fishy–almost like a mini-library for a senator. As a taxpayer who has to pay for this stuff, I don't want my money spent on something that memorializes Ted Kennedy, or any other senator for that matter. This is one of the problems with earmarks–they get quietly stuck in so that most folks don't notice.
And spending my money in memory of Jack and Ted's mom? Come on.
doris | March 16th, 2009 at 11:23 am
Now, just when did you, or I, get to decide where our tax dollars really go??? Earmarks will always be, I am sure Obama intended to eliminate them, but, he didn't know how that worked. This is payment for your support on things that matter a great deal to Obama. That is the system and I found his lack of knowledge of how things work in Washington to be refreshing. Since when did anyone ever keep their campaign promises????? Few and far between, right? I believe he had to pass that bill, earmarks and all, because it was already set into motion before he arrived, no?


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Sarah Harding releases new song amid cancer battle
"On the off chance it generates any profit, I'll give it all to the Christie NHS Foundation."
Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding released a new single at midnight, with all the profits going to a cancer charity.
Harding herself is currently battling advanced breast cancer. Her new single Wear It Like A Crown will raise money for the Christie NHS Foundation, one of the largest cancer care centres in Europe.
Sarah rediscovered the song, which she wrote ten years ago, while researching for her book, Hear Me Out.
The star announced the new release on Instagram earlier this morning.
She wrote: "While I was searching through my laptop for old photos to include in the book I actually came across a song I'd recorded about ten years ago. I've always really loved it, and it made me a bit sad that no one ever got to hear it.
"I mentioned this to my team and they said we could release it, and I thought 'why the hell not?" It's called Wear It Like A Crown and it's out on iTunes and streaming from today!"
A post shared by Sarah Harding (@sarahnicoleharding)
She continued: "I've literally no idea how this all works anymore, but on the off chance it generates any profit, I'll give it all to the Christie NHS Foundation @christiecharity where I'm receiving my treatment.
"If you've read my book you'll know just how amazing the Doctors, Nurses and all the staff at The Christie are. They are actual angels."
Harding was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. She was later told that the cancer had spread around her body.
Her doctors told her that Christmas 2020 would be her last.
In her memoir she writes: "In December my doctor told me that the upcoming Christmas would probably be my last. I don't want an exact prognosis. I don't know why anyone would want that."
Wear It Like A Crown is now streaming on all platforms.
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Foster's Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. directory...embracing a street directory and guide : an alphabetical list of names, a classified business directory, and miscellaneous directory
Bird's Eye View of Locks, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Canada
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Semi-centennial reminiscences of the Sault Canal : Lake Superior 1852-5
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Purtorah, adjoining Sault Ste. Marie : Purtorah lands and town sites for sale
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Touchdown for Roberta! Excited students at Alex Muir public school in astronaut Roberta Bondar's home town of Sault Ste. Marie applaud as the space shuttle Discovery comes in for a safe and happy landing yesterday.
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Sault Ste, Marie motel operator Colin Malcolm says his occupancy rate is the lowest in the 11 years he's been in business.
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Cemetery & Columbarium at St. Matthew Lutheran Church
Our cemetery has been a part of community life since 1864. Many church members, their family, friends and local residents are buried within these loving confines. The cemetery has been devotedly taken care of by members of the church since those early days and this tradition continues today.
If you take a walk through the older section of the cemetery you will notice many occupants have upright monument markers which give added character to the cemetery. The newer parts of the cemetery have flat markers and give a park like impression. Flat marker monuments are the only choice for installation in the cemetery today, to assist in cemetery maintenance.
The columbarium in our garden cemetery was added to accommodate those who have chosen cremation as their internment preference.
Many families lovingly take care of their plots by keeping their decorations current, flowers watered and fresh, clean headstones, and weed and feed their grassy area. This example is encouraged. Nothing says "I REMEMBER YOU" more than a holiday, special event and seasonal decoration.
If you are ready to make arrangements to select a plot or a space in the columbarium for yourself or a family member please contact Doug Duval at the church office. (847-438-7709)
If you are in mourning, please have your Funeral Director contact us for arrangements.
Remember to keep your deed in a safe place and make a copy available to your estate executor.
Cemetery RUles
St. Matthew Lutheran Church of Hawthorn Woods, IL. has erected a beautiful columbarium in our garden cemetery to accommodate individuals and families who have chosen cremation as their internment preference. This project was made possible through the generous donation of eighty six thousand dollars from the Stohl Family trust Fund to St. Matthew Lutheran Church Cemetery Enhancement Fund.
The columbarium/ossuary of octagon shape is solid granite (shades, crypts and common burial area weighing in at thirty six thousand pounds. The columbarium rests on eight inches of concrete which includes nine piers sixty inches deep into the ground. The Columbarium granite color is mahogany, the banner which will be the home to the names of all interned in the common burial space is black granite and the benches and interior crypts are maple in color. There are 64 double niches, 32 single niches, and space for 930 spaces for internment's in the common burial ossuary area. The Columbarium and Sundial were constructed by the Wilbert Memorials of parsons, Kansas.
The three foot tall sundial was designed by John Carmichael of Tucson, Arizona and Michael Forbes of Parsons, Kansas. This is an Equatorial Sundial. It has two sides with time lines. Each side functions for half the year. The upper north side function from the spring equinox to the fall equinox (spring and summer ) shows Daylight Savings time. The lower south side function from the fall equinox to the spring equinox (fall and winter) shows Standard Time. John Carmichael is a renowned designer of Sundials throughout the United States. The Sundial
located at St. Matthew is registered in the "National Registry of Sundials".
Mr. Robert Weinsten was the consultant for this project at St. Matthew. Mr. Weinstein is a former funeral director and designer of cemetery monuments, memorials and columbaria. Mr. Weinsten was very patient in the developmental stages of the columbarium and arranging visitations to various cemeteries which have a columbarium as well as a visit to the American Wilbert Vault Corporation in Bridgeview, IL. Mr. Weinstein's input and knowledge to this program was exemplary. We thank him for his patience and cooperative disciplines.
St. Matthew would also like to recognize the Larry Smith Concrete Company of Ingleside, IL. for the foundation development and construction of the columbarium base and walkway. Ruffolo, Inc. of Indian Creek, IL. was the landscaping contractor for the installation of the paver project which reflects the octoganal design of the columbarium. Anthony Crane Service of Mundelein, IL. was the contractor to place the thirty six thousand two piece columbarium/ossuary and sundial. Working with the contracting crew of the Wilbert Company was a project of harmony and skill.
St. Matthew thanks the ladies Evening Guild and Ladies Aid organizations for the donation of two of the three benches located at the Cemetery Garden Site. Thank you ladies for these gifts that allow families to relax and reflect while at the columbarium site.
Thank you Lord, for your guidance and direction to establish this Columbarium for those who wish to use the means of cremation and above ground burial site.


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NOTA Movie Twitter Review Rating by Audience and Live updates: The Vijay Devarakonda is back coming again in theatres with 'NOTA' which is hitting the screens on 5th october. Having scored a blockbuster this year already with 'Geetha Govindam', he is arriving with a political film where he gets to play the Chief Minister.
Directed by Anand Shankar of 'Iru Mugan' and 'Arima Nambi' fame, 'NOTA' marks the debut of Vijay in Tamil industry. The film has a strong cast with legendary actors like Nasser and Satyaraj playing important roles. Apart from them, MS Bhaskar, Priyadarshi and others will also be seen in the film. Mehreen Pirzada will be seen romancing Vijay in 'NOTA'.
#NOTA – 'No' da 🙏 Even gud performers like VD, Satyaraj & Nasser couldnt save tis one. VD's swag missing. Namesake heroine Mehren. Few scenes related to current politics r gud. Content s okay, but sloppy screenplay creates 0 impact & fail 2 connect. Worst songs. Disappointment!
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#NOTA – Crisp, political drama goes with the flow. @TheDeverakonda gets a warm welcome with this content in Tamil. Gives the instance of current, seen political scenario.
#NOTA So ROWDY CM? Very flat and okayish 1st first half, filled with some goosebumps moments. Everyone will go crazy while experiencing the press meet scene. Hope that Anand Shankar will shift some unexpected gears in 2nd half.
#NOTA – Interval – Has few powerful moments that suits the current Political scenario. #VijayDeverakonda is impressive. Has problems with dialogues which a bilingual usually carry, progression becomes slow after a speed start. Game begins at the break-point. 'Watchable' so far.


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Council to grant long lease for Aldershot home ground
Mar 31, 2019 | Headlines
Aldershot Town have announced that, subject to contract, Rushmoor Borough Council have provided a Heads of Terms agreement to grant a long lease for the EBB Stadium for a period of 119 years.
A delighted chairman Shahid Azeem said: "This is a special announcement that will greatly benefit the football club and allow us the opportunity to provide a redevelopment of our historic and much-loved stadium to ensure a sustainable model for the future.
"We have worked tirelessly behind the scenes with Rushmoor Borough Council since the club came out of administration in 2014. We are extremely grateful to the council, Leader David Clifford, CEO Paul Shackley and the officers and staff who have been so supportive to reach today's announcement. Collectively the council have provided a huge commitment supporting the club as we have continued to work so closely together to help fulfil the aspirations we have to progress the football club."
"In a season that has proved so challenging for the football club today's announcement provides a welcome boost for our supporters. It also provides an opportunity to not only set firm foundations for the club but also Aldershot as a town too especially considering the footfall that emanates out of activity at the EBB Stadium throughout the course of the season."
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