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An Overview of Arbaeen
Mina Vakilinejad
When the holy household of Imam Hussein (AS) entered land of Karbala on its way from Levant to Medina on the day of Arbaeen, the holy head of Imam Hussein (AS) was affixed to his holy body on the same day, and it is another important event of Ashura which happened in the Arbaeen day. Although Ashura is the most harrowing and the most tragic oppression applied against Shiites and lovers of the infallible household of the great Prophet throughout the history, and it is right that all its details of this big oppression shall be mentioned in the historical books, unfortunately, since Shiites of Imam Ali (AS) and his infallible sons were under the most pressure and harassment both at the time of the Ashura itself and after that, they underwent the toughest tortures and sanctions and actually were marginalized; hence, it has never become possible for Shiites to record the events of Ashura and what happened to the holy household of Imam Hussein (AS). This article tries to shed more lights on the issue of the Hashemite captives' convoy (AS) on their returning back from Levant to Medina and it also present some final conclusions based on the existing resources.
It has been acknowledged by Shiites that Imam Sajjad (AS) along with household of Imam Hussein (AS), on their way back from Levant to Medina, went to Karbala and succeeded to visit the holy tomb of his father, Imam Hussein (AS), and his faithful companions on Arbaeen Day, and after three days of mourning, they backed to Medina. Also it is acknowledged by Shiites that Imam Sajjad (AS) himself affixed the holy head of Imam Hussein (AS) to his body on the same day. In spite of this, since long time ago there has been a big conflict between researchers and experts about date when caravan of captives arrived Karbala in Arbaeen. In this article, we aim at reviewing what happened after the captivity of the holy household of Imam Hussein (AS) which is related directly to whether the caravan of captives reached Karbala on the first Arbaeen and a brief exploring about this issue is presented.
Checking the events associated with the Arbaeen and generally events which have direct relationship with reaching Karbala can be summarized through the following aspects:
1) Duration of imprisonment of holy household of Imam Hussein (AS) in Kufa and the time when they moved Levant
Almost there is no doubt about this fact that Imam Hussein's household left the Karbala for Kufa as captives on the eleventh of Muharram, and also according to the famous resources, they entered Kufa on the twelfth day of Muharram, but there is not precise information about the date when they started to move to Levant, because the period of their stay and imprisonment in Kufa is not known. Of course, the facts show that captives were imprisoned in Kufa, but most of the historical books about Ashura had not mentioned any account about when the captives' caravan left Kufa and moved to Levant.
However, those experts who have accepted the first Arbaeen and believe that the captives' caravan have achieved to visit the Karbala martyrs' tombs on the first Arbaeen should explain the events in a such way that reaching them to Karbala be justifiable, so that they should consider period of their imprisonment in Kufa to be very short. Hence, some people believe that the captives had been imprisoned in Kufa for a very short time and at an interval of two-day carrier pigeon has delivered Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad's letter to Yazid and returned back his response in which he has ordered Ibn Ziad to send back captives to Levant. As a result, captives were sent back to Levant on fifteenth day of Muharram and they arrived there on the first day of Safar. But there are also authenticated evidences indicate that realization of this was impossible in that time.
First, the date of Muawiyah I death was on fifteenth of Rajab, and Imam Hussein (AS) departure date from Medina was concurrent with 28 Rajab. It is also clear that Waleed, the governor of Medina, on the same night when he received Yazid's letter in which the death of Muawiyah I and the necessity of taking allegiance of Hussein Ibn Ali and Abdullah Ibn Zobair had been mentioned, summoned Imam and announced him the Muawiyah I death and the necessity of his allegiance to Yazid; however, Imam Hussein left Medina for Mecca in two days.
Now if these three points can acknowledged, since everything has not been mentioned in the Ashura historical documents (Maqatel) about the day in which the Yazid's letter reach Medina, so we can conclude that Yazid's letter containing the news about Muawiyah I death must have reached Medina on 26 Rajab, rather 16th Rajab. This is the first reason that proves Yazid's letter has not been delivered with a carrier pigeon, but a courier has brought it to Medina.
Now that it is unlikely that Ibn Ziad received an order from Yazid about the holy household (AS) by the courier pigeon, there will be only two possibilities in this case:
a) The Hashemite captives were imprisoned in Kufa until Ibn Ziad's messenger delivered his letter to Yazid and returned his response and went back to Kufa, in which case his going and backing will take two weeks. So, imprisonment of Imam's household in Kufa must have lasted at least two weeks and after that they must have departed Kufa to the Levant. Thus, a date after 25th of Muharram should be considered as the date of departure of convoy of captives from Kufa.
b) Ibn Ziad didn't send a letter to Yazid before sending the convoy of captives and heads of Karbala martyrs to Levant, but he sent them along with Imam's head and then sent other martyrs' heads and caravan of captives to Levant as well, immediately. Regarding this assumption, imprisonment of the holy household in Kufa was not so long, because Ibn Ziad had to send quickly martyrs' heads and holy household of Imam to Levant to prevent unrest and rebellion of the Kufa people. Maybe the news of bringing Imam's head to with captives Levant can be used to prove this point, because according to the Arab traditions, that after winning a war, heads of the their adversaries' commander was being sent along with a letter to their ruler showing their victory and then troops returned back along with trophies and captives in the following days.
2) The route of the convoy of captives from Kufa to Levant
As a matter of fact, there is no valid news regarding the route from which the convoy of captives moved from Kufa to Levant. But according to the geographical map of the area and the routes between Kufa and Levant, it can be said that there have been three paths between Levant and Kufa:
▪ First path:
Many of the invalid books have made the Sultani path famous. This has caused some new Ashura writers and researchers to admit the Sultani way too. It goes through cities such as Tikrit, Mosul, Tal Afar, Nasibin and the Einn-ol-vard as the path of the of captives to Levant. So, the first path that unofficial news considered as the selected route for captives is the Sultani way. Perhaps the cause of this reputation is that at that time this path was used most of the time for travel between Kufa and Levant. But it should be noted that this route was very long, and there were also shorter ways.
▪ Second path:
Another path that some of the researchers have mentioned and the transfer of captives from that direction was possible is the direct path from Kufa to Levant. This route passes through dry and hot desert region so called Badi- alSham and there are no cities in it. Not only there is no witness and evidence based on passing captives through this path but also there are contrary evidences. There is a valid evidence which ruled out Badi- alsham path and that is the remarks of Zaynab (PBUH) to Yazid: Is this justice that your women and bondwomen being in the shelter and the girls of God prophet be captives, their respect being lost, their face being revealed and the enemies of Allah take them from one city to another. It is obvious that if the convoy of captives passed through hot and dry Badi-alSham desert, Zainab must had complained about difficulties of impassable road such as thirst and hunger of Imam Hussein (AS) children in way that naturally should confront with them.
▪ Third path:
The third way, which seems more likely than any other ways to be the path of convoy of captives from Kufa to Levant, is apparently conventional and customary route from Kufa to Levant; That is, the path which passes across west coast of Euphrates River and the cities such as Anbar, Heith, Gherghisia, al-Raqqah and Seffein. Features of this route are: firstly, it is conventional and usual path between Kufa and Levant and secondly, it is neither so long as Sultani route is, nor is a dry and scorching desert as Badi-alSham so that it would be used only in emergency and critical times by proficient and equipped local natives who are familiar with that area.
So apparently choosing the West of the Euphrates route which is a middle path is more likely than the other two ways.
3) Time taken to reach Levant
It seems that it is not acceptable that the convoy of captives reached Levant on the first day of Safar. Some the references refer to the direct path from Kufa to Levant and believe that travel through that route took seven days for native people. According to what passed and based on the following reasons it can be concluded that the convoy of captives have not been able to reach Karbala on the first day of Safar:
1. Using a carrier pigeon does not have any evidence and the letter of Ibn Ziad has been sent by courier. So his returning back with the command of Yazid apparently shouldn't be taken time less than two weeks. Therefore, the convoy of captives has been cuffed as prisoners for at least two weeks in Kufa in jail of Ibn Ziad and after two weeks transferring them to the Levant has been commanded by Ibn Ziad;
2. Due to the difficulties of the Badi-alSham desert path, captives didn't have been transferred from that route, and of course no evidence confirms it even in the invalid books;
3. evidence suggests that their transferring from Kufa to Levant has lasted more than a week, because while the direct route of Kufa to Levant was traversed within a week by local natives or the courier, thus traveling the Sultani path which is nearly double of Badi-alSham or the middle path which is also much longer than Badi-alSham must have lasted more than that. It is significant because of the four argumentations:
First, the caravan of captives consisted of a group of women and children, so such a caravan has never tolerated such a speed to move, as the couriers with experienced horses moves;
Second, the nature of collective movement is tolerance and wending in agreement with who are poor to step way, because with high speed dispersion and disconnection will be inevitable in motion;
Third, traversing the longer route demanding more time; That means Badi- alSham route was traversed in a week, but the Sultani or the Middle route which are longer certainly require more time;
Fourth, existence of multiple or towns as were in the Sultani route or cities in the middle road, unconsciously increases stoppings and reduces the speed of movement.
4) Duration of holy household's stay in Levant
Although there are resources which suggest that the prisoners have been in accompany with Imam Hussein's head, but numerous quotations indicate that Ibn Ziyad has already sent Imam's head to Levant. Perhaps someone can say that sending the Holy Imam (PBUH) head to Levant and diminishing one head from total heads of martyrs has not been taken into account and this factor has led some historians to consider the Imam holy head as well along with other heads by the captives. But evidences which imply to send the imam head before sending the rest of the heads and the convoy of captives are as follows:
1. All the books that have pointed out the first day of Safar and Imam Hussein's (AS) entrance to Levant, make no mention of entering prisoners to Levant at that date.
2. According to most history books, including Fotoh Ibn Asam and al-Khwarizmi Maqtal, Zohar Ibn Qais has taken away the head of Imam (AS) to Levant before captives in order to deliver news of Ibn Ziyad victory to Yazid.
3. Another quotation implies of sending of Imam Hussein holy head by Mahzar Ibn Tha'laba, which confirmed sending his head before sending captives.
4. Finally, evidence which implies on absence of the Holy head of Imam Hussein along with the captives is the story of Yazid chamber. It has been quoted that entered the family of Imam Hussein while the holy head was against Yazid. His daughters Fatima and Sakina tried to see her father head and Yazid hide it from them. But they cried when saw their father head. The important thing that should be taken from this quote is that Imam Hussein's (AS) girls' effort to see her father beheaded and crying after viewing it suggests that the head of Imam was apart from captives' caravan.
Therefore, it is difficult to acknowledge that the heads of the martyrs and the head of Imam Hussein (AS) were sent along with women and children to Levant, but Imam Hussein's children have not seen their father's head all along the path. Moreover, as stated before- at the time it was a common practice that after winning the war, the head of the opponents leader was sent with the messengers to the ruler of the winner people to give tidings to the ruler of the people who has won the war as soon as possible so that he can make appropriate decision and not being the last person who hears this important news. the results is that apparently it cannot be accepted that the arrival of prisoners to Levant was on the first day of Safar, since they were being imprisoned for two weeks in Kufa, and traversing nearly two weeks the way from Kufa to Levant the probability of reaching them to Levant on the first day of Safar will be zero.
5) Return route from Levant to the Medina and examining the possibility of arrival of the convoy of captives in Karbala in first Arbaeen
Another thing that is directly related to the getting household to Karbala on Arbaeen is their residence duration in Levant. As previous cases was somewhat suspicious and uncertain this issue is also not apparent with certainty, even dispersion of views and news in this regard is more than the previous cases.
Among the words related to duration of Infallible Imams Martyrs' stay in Levant some points can be mentioned as follows:
1. Convoy of captives stayed at Levant for 8 days;
2. Magistracy Nu'man tells that they stopped in a no roof place for a month and a half, moreover he has mentioned that they have stayed and mourned in Yazid's home for seven days: After that they were been in a house which would protect them neither from the heat nor the cold for a month and a half until their faces were blacked from the heat of the sun and peeled, and then were released.
3. Ibn Tavoos in Iqbal-Ol-A'mal has mentioned that their staying duration was one month. Tabassi Najafi also believed that holy household residence and imprisonment in Levant wasn't less than a month.
4. Another word says their residence duration was six months and Syed Ibn Tavoos believes it has no teller;
5. Other opinions bode on 18-days, 38-days, 39-days or 45- days and even a year- staying household at Levant that are considered very rare. It is more ambiguity to the Shiite because they on the one hand agree with words that suggest long-term household detention in a place without a roof in which they were not protected from the cold and the heat as much as assert that statements household of Imam faces had been peeled, and on the other hand agree with convoy of captive's stay in Levant in order to prove arrival them to Karbala on the first Arbaeen.
These two issues are not compatible with each other and this has made it more difficult for the Shiite. Of course, referring to the news of the household convoy staying in Levant almost ensure us that their tarriance was not eight or ten days, because Firstly: Staying in a place which does not protect them from heat and cold so that their faces peeled and were blacked couldn't have been short time. But just regarding that several valid news have pointed to burn their skins when they were in prison without a roof. In fact, one of their aims in addition to pointing to the warm weather and that the prison having no roof, was a reminder of long-term imprisonment they have been in such a place. Residence in Yazid house and establishing seven days of mourning in it also should be added to that long imprisonment term, as well as time required for equipping the convoy to transfer Imam household from Levant to a place far away from Kufa, i.e. Medina, since they had authority to stay at Levant or return to Medina and they chose returning to Medina. Each mentioned items demands time, so these additional times should be added to the total calculated time. Hence the belief in captives staying eight or ten days in Levant will not correspond with reality and its selection is not very scholarly. Reviewing Yazid's behavior over the head of Imam (AS) and his family signs that Yazid's behavior must have changed within a significant period of time, Because Yazid as the caliph, or in other words as the absolute ruler of the vast territory of Islam, couldn't change his violent behavior with invective toward survivor's Martyrs easily in a few days and appeases Imam Sajjad. Obviously, in order to Yazid realized his mistake the time should have been passed and he assessed the current situation. Also after realizing his mistake he should have had sufficient time which was needed for this behavior changing.


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1/19/23: ILLUMINATING ARMAGEDDON W/ DON VIA JR.
Russia has recently announced they are willing to initiate the "Dead Man's Switch" if NATO continues its expansion and doesn't back off with regard to the war in Ukraine. Furthermore, Putin may announce a second mobilization wave to expand his army in the coming days. Of course, this harrowing news has been completely negated by the US and Western media. What we are potentially facing is mutually assured destruction with a limited nuclear weapons exchange where many will die and those who survive will envy the dead. Tonight on Ground Zero, Clyde Lewis talks with geopolitical analyst, Don Via Jr. about ILLUMINATING ARMAGEDDON.
At a time when the course of civilization seems to be more uncertain than ever, driven toward pessimism and even despair, it becomes apparent that a turning point may take us down a road that has been less traveled or not traveled at all.
The rapid increases in technology in recent decades are shortening the times we once had to act and think about actions that promote a thriving collective. It also has pushed us to the edge, making us colder socially and leading us down a path of being less sympathetic to our fellow man.
It has been clear for some time, that a large-scale nuclear war involving a substantial portion of the nuclear arsenals of the United States and Russia would have devastating consequences far beyond these two countries and would constitute a truly global catastrophe.
Striking a similar tone at what he described as an anxious time for Russia, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church said in a sermon for Epiphany that trying to destroy Russia would mean the end of the world.
These words may indicate that something that was once described as a Cold War legend may be true after all.
The war between Russia and Ukraine and everyone else has now been threatened with the use of a Dead Man's Switch.
The Dead Man's Switch is a bit of a legend that during the Cold War, the Soviets would force a scorched earth policy if they were ever challenged or met defeat in a major war,
It was alleged that Hitler had one too, and many historians believe that after World War II German spies that were brought over during Project Paper clip created the missile gap – hoping that both USA and Soviets would trigger mutually assured destruction.
The reason the Soviets decided to build the Dead Hand system at all had to do with advancements in American missile technology in the 1980s. Before these advancements, the expectation was that a nuclear war would be initially fought with intercontinental ballistic missiles.
ICBMs typically are detectable, and the target country generally has about 30 minutes of warning, just enough time for them to launch a counter-strike of their own, making the end result mutually assured destruction.
However, in the 1980s, Americans were getting better and better accuracy with their submarine-based missile launch systems, which meant that they could launch precision nuclear strikes close to the Soviet Union, cutting the warning time from when launch was detected down to about three minutes – not enough time to mount a viable counter-attack.
The Soviets needed some way to be sure destruction could be assured mutually, which is where the Dead Hand doomsday device comes in.
The Dead Hand/Perimeter system was initially just a backup system for emergency communication but was expanded to provide a full automatic counterstrike function. The heart of the system is something known as the "commanding rocket."
The commanding rocket was a 15PO11 rocket with a radiation-hardened radio transmitter, instead of a nuclear warhead. The rocket would be launched from a special, very protected silo, and once in flight, the rocket's transmitter would replace all of the presumably destroyed ground-based communications, sending commands to receiving devices on all land-based ballistic missiles, submarine-based launchers, and bomber aircraft.
The rocket's commands to the nuclear weaponry and installations would be to launch a retaliatory strike to pre-determined targets.
Of course, all of this would only happen after it was determined that a first strike against Soviet territory had taken place. An autonomous command and control system was used to determine if the counter-attack should take place, and the entire system is only even activated if a high-ranking human decides to turn it on, ideally long before the actual nuclear strike takes place.
Now we have spoken on this program about the eerie numbers stations that broadcast codes and numbers to spies and other informants. One of the stations we have featured is UVB-76 – the Russian Buzzer that broadcasts on the frequency 4625 kHz.
It broadcasts short, monotonous buzz tones, repeating at a rate of approximately 25 tones per minute, 24 hours per day. Sometimes, the buzzer signal is interrupted and a voice transmission in Russian takes place.
It has been that the voice messages are some sort of Russian military communications and that the buzzing sound is merely a "channel marker" used to keep the frequency occupied, thereby making it unattractive for other potential users. It has also been suggested that the Buzzer is part of the Dead Hand system –where the signal is there to indicate that the rocket system is online and that if it stops a nuclear retaliatory response will happen if Russia were hit by a nuclear attack.
The development and deployment of nuclear weapons are usually based on the assumption that they enhance national security. But, in fact, nuclear weapons move nations toward the brink of destruction.
The basis for this conclusion is the post-World War II nuclear arms race and, especially, the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962. At the height of the crisis, top officials from the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union narrowly avoided annihilating a substantial portion of the human race by what former U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, an important participant in the events, called "plain dumb luck."
Luck is running out now as Russia, The US and NATO are about to make some very important plans for the future of the war because there have been some developments that the mainstream media has again failed to report.
Those familiar with the problem/reaction/solution way of doing things (where the solution is offered up by those that created the problem to serve their own ends) need to realize that perhaps the solution has already happened. The end game was already in the cards –and this open-ended war replaced Afghanistan and feels like the quagmire of Vietnam.
We are literally looking at the war in Ukraine and wanting the wrong thing — or perhaps it doesn't matter what we want as this is a well-planned machine that we have no say in how it ends.
We are all potential casualties in this war.
We are just the inconvenient herds that they in turn feel the need to manage and mislead– or if we cannot be controlled it would be much easier to cull those who just happen to object to having the trauma continue.
Yes, we understand the world is a mess and the globalists had to do something. But the problem is, bureaucrats and leaders and technocrats and bankers are the ones "least" likely to understand how to fix it.
They just know how to finance it and arm it with war toys and all sorts of mechanized death.
The people have been far too trusting.
They're just following orders after all believing they're following good guys. Believing they are serving the Greater Good without understanding who defines the Greater Good.
In Wars like these there are no good guys –and politics tells you to pick a side — but no one knows enough about why we are in the position and a majority are not even qualified to take a side.
Surviving what's possibly coming on the way to their utopia makes all these distinctions irrelevant and figuring that out is the scary part. It is scary because people's good intentions were weaponized to this global end and few figured it out.
All these groups were divided from each other. Deliberately. This is so when things get really bad, the groups will fight each other over who the bad guys are.
We are all apparently puttering about on the same planet no matter what you might be or believe—for thousands of years of civilization. And when things are taken too far and too fast and to extremes, everybody loses. Gains won over time can disappear in a flash. And all those with well-intended but deliberately separate agendas will not find their utopia.
What we are facing is a grand finale where many will die and those who survive will envy the dead.
On Friday, January 13, Russia's U.N. Ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, told the members of the U.N. Security Council, which includes all of the "Big 5" Permanent Members, including., China, France, and UK, that a negotiated end of the war in Ukraine "will only present itself once Ukraine stops posing a threat to Russia and discriminating against Russian-speaking Ukrainians," and that, "If this result can be achieved through negotiations, we stand ready for this scenario. If not, then our tasks will be achieved by military means," meaning that Ukraine's current government will be replaced by one that will be imposed upon that country by means of that government's surrender to Russia's Government.
This was an extremely important statement. It indicates that Russia will not negotiate an end to its invasion of Ukraine unless and until Ukraine's government will first have accepted Russia's fundamental terms — which Russia had actually stated on 24 February 2022 when starting its invasion — and that there no longer remain any other demands by Ukraine's government upon Russia's Government that Russia's Government will consider or discuss with anyone. First must come Ukraine's acceptance of those demands by Russia.
This reflects a historic turning point in the war. It means that either Ukraine and its allies — especially the U.S. — will defeat Russia in this war, or else Russia will defeat the U.S. and its allies in this war. It lays down the gauntlet, to the United States Government, and to its allies on the Security Council — France and UK — that either Russia or else the U.S. and its allies (including all of NATO) will win this war; or else the U.S. and its allies (including Ukraine's government) will peaceably accept Russia's basic demand, that "Ukraine stops posing a threat to Russia and discriminating against Russian-speaking Ukrainians."
In order for Ukraine to "stop posing a threat to Russia," Ukraine and its allies would need to guarantee that Ukraine will NEVER become a member of the U.S. Government's anti-Russian NATO military alliance, nor ever become in any other way a military ally of the U.S. Government. Russia will accept Ukraine's returning to its prior neutrality, which it had during the period 1991 up to 20 February 2014, or else to become an ally of Russia, but Russia will no longer accept (as it had during 20 February 2014 to 24 February 2022) Ukraine's being allied with Russia's enemies. Russia won't ever accept that, he is saying.
Nebenzia's historic announcement on Friday the 13th was completely negated by the US and Western media.
This creates the need to ask How many times have the public in U.S.-and-allied countries been lied to about invasions their Governments had made on the basis of falsehoods that their 'news'-media knew at the time were false but nonetheless reported to them as being true?
How many times have those 'news'-media reported as being 'a democratic revolution' the overthrow of a foreign Government when those 'news'-media knew, either while it was going on or else less than a month afterward, that it had actually been just another U.S. coup — and yet that same ' news'-media still, even to this day, refuse to refer to that coup as having been a "coup"?
There might be a very good reason as to why.
There have been some very interesting moments in this past week concerning security threats with the airlines and security concerns at the World economic forum
Many members had bowed out including George Soros and Klaus Schwab showed up for a small moment after he declared that he had an illness and wouldn't attend.
A Contingency form Ukraine which included Volodymyr Zelensky's wife — and eventually the Ukrainian president by Zoom arrived to ask many of the government represented that the time is now to supply Ukraine with Money and weapons to defeat Russia.
Literally a call to war and mass participation from many countries of the world.
"The world must not hesitate today and ever," the Ukrainian leader told the World Economic Forum via a video link. "Mobilization of the world must outpace the next military mobilization of our joint enemy. The supplying of Ukraine with air defense systems must outpace Russia's next missile attacks,"
The Biden administration is planning to send Stryker armored vehicles in its next package of military aid to Ukraine, adding another new and more powerful weapons system that it had previously withheld, people familiar with the matter have stated.
The US plans to send about 100 Stryker armored vehicles to Ukraine as part of a new package of military aid worth about $2.5 billion.
The US was poised to unveil a new aid package as part of a broader announcement by western allies of new hardware for Ukraine that's set for Friday, when defense ministers meet at Ramstein Air Base in Germany,
Or some have speculated that there is enough reason to abandon our sideline stance –and call upon NATO allies to move forward with escalating the effort to defeat Russia.
There have been some major developments in what can only be seen as a progression towards world war in the European theater,
Russian President Vladimir Putin could be ready to announce another mobilization round as Russia looks to bolster its armed forces in Ukraine, analysts believe.
Putin may announce a second mobilization wave to expand his army in the coming days.
Timing is everything.
Russia has repeatedly insisted that it would not embark on a second mobilization wave, following an initial partial draft of military reservists that called up 300,000 men last September. The move sparked consternation in Russia and prompted many of those eligible for the draft to flee the country.
Fears of another potential mobilization grew with the onset of winter. Putin said in December that he saw no need for a second draft, noting that half of the men called up had already been deployed in Ukraine, while the others were in training centers.
Last Friday, Ukrainian Defense Ministry intelligence officials said that they believed that preparations for a second wave of mobilization were underway, suspecting Russia aims for an army of 2 million people.
Preparations for the announcement of the next wave of mobilization in Russia are already actively underway. At the legislative level, changes are being made to the laws of the Russian Federation that regulate mobilization. Active training of training centers is also underway.
Moscow has made no secret of looking to expand its forces in the next few years. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in December laid out proposals to increase military personnel to 1.5 million by 2026, from 1.1 million at present.
On Tuesday, Shoigu laid out more comprehensive plans to reform and restructure the army over the next few years, saying that "only by strengthening the key structural components of the Armed Forces is it possible to guarantee the military security of the state and protect new entities and critical facilities of the Russian Federation
Kremlin press secretary Peskov said later Tuesday that the changes were necessary because of the "proxy war" that the West is fighting against Russia in Ukraine.
The proxy engagement, he said, "includes elements of indirect participation in hostilities, and elements of economic, financial war, legal war, going beyond the legal field, and so on.
There are very important meetings happening within 48 hours that will speak about how we can no longer stand on the sidelines while others do the heavy lifting.
A rush of meetings is taking place in the U.S. and Europe, solidifying still more backing for the Global NATO war mobilization, before the Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting at the U.S. Ramstein Air Base in Germany on Jan. 20.
Yesterday and today the Military Committee of NATO, its highest body, is meeting in Brussels. It will be a meeting of the Military Committee in Chiefs of Defense Session, with 32 Chiefs of Defense, from the 30 member nations plus counterparts from Finland and Sweden. Admiral Rob Bauer, Chief of the NATO Military Committee, will preside.
On the same day as the World Economic Forum meeting –Britain's Foreign Secretary James Cleverly met with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington DC. Cleverly met in Toronto with Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly yesterday.
Cleverly spoke at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, saying that the West is sending a message to Putin, that we will "support Ukrainians until they are victorious.
At the White House President, Joe Biden met with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who indicated Dutch support for co-supplying the Patriot air defense system.
Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley met in Poland—at a secret location—with the head of Ukraine's armed forces, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, who reported later that he had "outlined the urgent needs" of the Ukraine military. On Jan. 16 Milley reviewed Ukrainian troop training at the base in Grafenwöhr, Germany. Some 600 Ukrainian soldiers are said to be in training, but smaller groups have been run through the program there before. Col. David Butler, a spokesman for Milley, said that the current training is an extension of what the U.S. has been doing since 2014, with international backing.
Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kiev on Jan. 16, for the purpose of reviewing economic and security matters, to "reaffirm" U.S. support "against Russia's unprovoked aggression," according to her department. She also met with Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov and Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal. Prior to that, she was in Germany and Poland, for meetings on Ukraine, along with Under Secretary of Defense Dr. Colin H. Kahl and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer.
Russia has repeatedly said it plans to boost deployments in the northwest in response to a pending expansion of NATO, where Finland and Sweden are in the process of joining, with their applications ratified by 28 of 30 alliance members.
The Chiefs of Defense from all the NATO States including Finland and Sweden who are not NATO members yet.
But as we reported they are being invited to join.
Many people may or may not know what this might do and how this can send the war into a major conflict.
There is going to be a huge meeting converging on U.S. Ramstein Air Base on January 20th to talk about how they are going to fight the Russians. General Mark Milley of the Joint Chiefs of Staff's meeting with the commander of Ukrainian Armed Forces Valerii Zaluzhnyi on the border of Poland and Ukraine was a secret location.
This is something that hasn't happened before. This same week we have the World economic forum — which has been concerned about security measures — that has timed their meeting to coincide with this historical pairing.
Many wonder if this is a foreshadowing of full-scale war against Russia beginning this Friday.
This will be a benchmark watershed moment that could escalate the ongoing war.
This is a big deal –why would 32 men meet together at an American airbase unless this was going to be a turning point in the war.
On the question of NATO expansion, the US cites the principle of the free and sovereign right of states to choose their own security alignments. At the same time, Russia cites the principle of the indivisibility of security: the assurance that the security of one state should not be bought at the expense of the security of another. Both principles are enshrined in international law and in international agreements. Both are legitimate, but the two are contradictory. Hence the conflict.
The US has insisted on the right of states to choose their own security alignments as a justification for NATO's open door to Ukraine. If every state can choose its alignments, then Ukraine has the sovereign right to choose membership in NATO. Russia has insisted on the indivisibility of security as a justification for opposing NATO's expansion to its borders and the flooding of Ukraine with lethal offensive weapons. Both principles are right. But they proved to be contradictory and ultimately undermined the two sides' ability to peacefully co-exist.
Russia holds that peace can be attained by a balance of powers in which the interests of all nations are respected. But there seems to be no attempt at de-escalation –and this meeting may foreshadow and even larger deployment of troops to Ukraine– boots on the ground — and limited Nuclear exchanges.
Part of the inability of the US and Russia to see each other's perspective or to resolve their differences is grounded in their commitment to equally legitimate but incompatible international laws.
Again, we need to brace ourselves with yet another historic turning point in this proxy war — it may no longer be that kind of war as this meeting is vital to the future of the war.
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The economic bond between Russia, China, Iran and others keeps growing. Now Saudi Arabia is serious about increasing trade with China using their currency and not the US petrodollar. If they do it others will follow. The economic outlook for the west is not good. Our high prices are not going down, even though people are buying less because they cant afford things anymore. I am noticing that the Ukraine war is also a major economic war. Like probably the biggest economic war ever. The winners will take all. Whoever loses will be done for. This could definitely lead to a nuclear exchange.
MAYBE IF OLD SCRATCH OR PUTIN TRIPS THE SWITCH MAYBE BIDEN MAY. BUT I AM STILL KEEPING A EYE ON C/2022E3(ZTF) OR 2004MN4 MAY PUSH IT FOR THEM PERIOD.
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I understand that back at the end of March, 2022, when there were negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, that the Ukrainian delegates told the Russian delegates, " we aren't in joining NATO, or the E.U.," and that the Russian response was, "we don't care if you join the E.U." As for those two contradictory doctrines of sovereignty vs indivisibility, they should try sitting at a negotiating table to try to work things out by splitting the differences, no matter how polliannaish it may seem or apple pie in the sky. Why don' t the Russians consider joining NATO, afterall, perish the thought, if they had won the COLD WAR, they would have forced, or tried to force us and all of the NATO countries and the rest of the west to join the WARSAW PACT.
Not trying to sound too callous nor insensitive here, but if the ," Russian speaking people of Ukraine," don't want to feel discriminated against, perhaps they should learn to, and speak Ukrainian in public, as well as assimilate generally into Ukraianian society or consider returning to Ruaaia, from where Stalin moved them in order to create this divisive situation.
Capable of planting 2-100 megaton underwater mines off US east coast. Glenn Beck has more info on aftermath of that on his website.

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OliX Announces Clinical Candidate Nomination for the Treatment of Geographic Atrophy
SUWON, South Korea, Jan. 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- OLX10020, a cell-penetrating asymmetric siRNA ("cp-asiRNA") against a novel target (Undisclosed) for treatment of Geographic Atrophy ("GA"), proved effective in both Dry and Wet AMD animal models and to be submitted an IND application to the FDA to initiate a Phase 1 trial this year.
OliX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Kosdaq: 226950), a leading developer of RNAi therapeutics, today announced the nomination of OLX10020 as a clinical candidate for the treatment of Geographic Atrophy ("GA"), which is the most severe and advanced form of dry Age-related Macular Degeneration ("AMD").
OLX10020 targets an undruggable gene involved in GA, identified by Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, a professor at University of Virginia, School of Medicine. Results from animal studies support that OLX10020 can specifically target patients with GA among dry AMD patients. Furthermore, OLX10020 has been proved effective in wet AMD animal models, indicating that it is a potential first-in-class drug which can treat both dry and wet AMDs.
OLX10020 has completed preliminary safety evaluation and GLP toxicology studies will be commenced soon at Covance (Madison, WI, USA). An IND application is planned to be submitted to the FDA to initiate a Phase 1 within this year.
Dong-Ki Lee, the founder of OliX Pharmaceuticals, Inc., stated, "OLX10020 is a first-in-class siRNA therapeutics with novel mechanism of action, that can target both dry and wet forms of AMD. Successful development of OLX10020 will provide new hope for the patients suffering from GA, a devastating disease currently no effective treatment is available."
About Age-Related Macular degeneration (AMD)
Occurs when the small central portion of the retina, known as the macula, deteriorates
The leading cause of severe vision loss in people over age 60 in developed countries
Two types: wet AMD (10%) & dry AMD (90%)
In USA, 175 million patients affected by AMD in 2014 (Source: All about vision, Understanding AMD 2014)
Global wet AMD market: $ 7.65B in 2015
By 2025, expected dry AMD market: $ 6.58B (Source: Visiongain 2016)
98% of wet AMD patients were reported the onset of dry AMD in seven years (Source: Ophthalmology. 2012 Jul;119(7):1388-98., Ophthalmology. 2013 Nov;120(11):2292-9)
--> Unmet medical needs for the development of a drug that can treat both wet and dry AMD exist
Expected to grow to approx. about 11.6 B by 2026 (Source: Global Data 2018, 7 major countries)
OliX Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
OliX is a clinical stage pharmaceutical company developing therapeutics against a variety of disorders by down-regulating expression of disease-causing genes, based on its own proprietary RNAi technology. The company is currently developing novel therapeutic programs for treatment of various diseases with high unmet medical needs, including hypertrophic scar, dry & wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD), subretinal fibrosis, and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).
OliX Pharmaceuticlas, Inc.
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In the history of Lipscomb Athletics, few individuals have contributed more to Bison athletes than professional golfer Kenny Perry. His Christian example, financial generosity, and exemplary loyalty have all shown the Lipscomb family that Godly men can succeed in professional sports; and it all began with a promise.
As Kenny worked to earn a spot on the exclusive PGA tour in 1985, hometown friend Ronnie Ferguson, a 1962 Lipscomb graduate, aided the young golfer with the assurance that Kenny would donate a percentage of his winnings to Lipscomb University. In a remarkable show of integrity, Kenny and his wife Sandy, a 1981 graduate, continue to honor the handshake deal made more than 20 years ago. To date, Kenny has captured 12 professional golf championships and become a fixture at the top of the Official World Golf Rankings. In 2006 he became the tenth man to reach the $20 million mark in PGA earnings. In September 2008 Kenny enjoyed "one of the most memorable weeks of my life," leading the United States to the Ryder Cup Championship in his home state at the Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky. Over the years Kenny and Sandy Perry have proven to be inestimable supporters of Lipscomb, giving liberally to the golf program and endowing scholarships for Simpson County, Kentucky students wishing to attend Lipscomb.
Kenny Perry will be remembered as one of America's most well-known and successful golfers, but the Lipscomb family will forever know him as a shining example of a Christian man whose word was as true as his talent.


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by Matthew Kirby | 1 year ago
Frances McDormand gave a powerful speech at the Oscars this year while accepting the 'Best Actress' award for her portrayal of Mildred Hayes in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – although it may have left some viewers puzzled.
Calling on all the female winners and nominees to stand with her, the American actress left the crowd with two words that may help end inequality in Hollywood: "Inclusion. Rider".
Frances McDormand in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Photo via Fox Searchlight)
The term was coined by Dr Stacy Smith, from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative at Californian University USC Annenberg, in a 2016 TED Talk titled "the data behind Hollywood's sexism".
Between 2007 and 2015, she analyzed more than 800 films, cataloguing every speaking character by their gender, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity and disabilities.
Less than a third of all speaking roles were given to female artists, she found, despite women making up half of the population – and when it came to other demographics, the numbers were even more unbalanced.
"Across the top 100 films of just last year, 48 films didn't feature one black or African-American speaking character, not one," she explains. "seventy films were devoid of Asian or Asian-American speaking characters that were girls or women."
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Dr Smith then came up with solutions to address the imbalance, including a scheme that would allow female stars to demand a realistic representation of women and minorities in their contracts.
"A-listers, as we all know, can make demands in their contracts," she explains, "particularly the ones that work on the biggest Hollywood films."
"What if those A-listers simply added an equity clause or an inclusion rider into their contract?"
1) I don't understand why people hate on Three Billboards.
2) I don't get why people loved Shape of Water after she hooked up with the fish. It was at that point the movie fell apart for me.
3) Get Out should have won.
4) Frances McDormand rules.
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In an ideal world this clause would require movies to reflect the demographics of the region where it was set, ultimately giving a realistic representation of the world, she added.
"We actually have the ability to change the world on this one," Dr Smith said, "the US and its content, films in particular, have captured the imaginations of audiences worldwide – so that means that the film industry has unprecedented access to be able to distribute stories about equality all around the world."
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Solomon continues on with the same theme of avoiding the riches of this world. There are a lot of people who spend their whole life trying to fill a void that can't be filled with worldly desires. We need to strive to fill our lives with Godly desires.


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About Deborah Roffman
Deborah Roffman is a master teacher and a constant learner whose most important teachers are her students. Having taught sexuality education in grades 3-12, inclusive, what she has learned about young people and what they think, wonder, worry, and feel about sexuality could fill several volumes. From the day she first entered a classroom in 1971, she has spent her time outside the classroom continuously speaking, writing, and passing on her knowledge about young people and their needs to parents, teachers, counselors and the general public. What drives her is a single vision: that one day it will be families and schools―not media, merchandisers, entertainers, peers, and popular culture―who become the primary, as in first and most important, resources for young people about a topic so essential to life, health, and happiness.
It is within the independent school community ― settings where exciting and creative new ideas thought up on Monday can be in place by Wednesday ― that she has found her professional home since 1975. A veteran of the fledgling sexuality education movement in the 1970's, she was one of the handful of early pioneers whose "see one, teach one, train the next person" determination established this important field.
Ms. Roffman is in constant demand as a presenter and workshop leader across the United States and has provided training and consultation for hundreds of public and private schools and youth serving organizations. Her earlier books have become "must reads" and even required reading for parents and faculties at many schools. Parents find her books and articles life altering and describe her influence on their family life profound.
Among her professional peers, Ms. Roffman is viewed as an articulate and powerful advocate for children and a revered and singularly effective spokeswoman for her field. In 2003, former Surgeon General David Satcher appointed her — the only educator on the panel — to serve on the National Advisory Council for Sexual Health under the auspices of the Center for Primary Care, Morehouse College of Medicine. She presented a keynote address, as she has done at many national and regional health and education conferences, at the NAC's national symposium in Washington, DC on changing the national dialogue around sexuality and sexuality education. She's contributed regularly to professional journals, the lay press and other media platforms, serves as an editor for the American Journal of Sexuality Education, and is the former Associate Editor for Education of the Journal of Sexuality Education and Therapy.
What is perhaps most remarkable about Ms. Roffman's work is her ability to speak the language of common ground around topics often fraught with controversy and conflict. With uncommon, good sense and unshakable commitment to core, universal values, hers is the voice that most often cuts through the rhetoric, the politics, and the false polarities that keep adults focused on their needs and interests, rather than squarely on children. She also understands that the issue at stake is parenting, not politics. The proof lies in her wide appeal to parents of all political stripes, religions, and backgrounds, and the national recognition she has received from such diverse groups as the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (the coveted Mary Lee Tatum Apple Award) and the National Federation of Republican Women (Favorite Teacher Award).
Deborah and her husband, David, were high school sweethearts. They live in Baltimore, Maryland, and have two grown sons and four grandchildren.
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Harry and The Potters Will Put a Spell on Blasco Library (Event Canceled)
Wrock the night away with Harry and The Potters
by Claudia Rose March 11, 2020 at 2:00 PM
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Boston-based Harry and the Potters featuring Joe (left) and Paul DeGeorge, founded the genre of wizard rock in 2002, inspired by the Harry Potter series of fantasy novels by J.K. Rowling.
Wednesday Mar. 25
NOTE: This event, as well as all other Erie County Library events though March, has been canceled.
It's Hermione Granger's dream come true — Harry Potter is willingly going to the library. More specifically, the wizard rock band, Harry and the Potters are coming to the Raymond M. Blasco, M.D. Memorial Library.
The band was created in 2002 in Boston by brothers Joe and Paul DeGeorge, who together came up with the concept of Harry in his seventh year at Hogwarts forming a band with his younger self. It did not take long for other fans of the series to come up with their own bands, thus creating the genre wizard rock, or "wrock." Joe DeGeorge reflected on the creative minds that exist amongst Harry Potter fans. "We didn't have a scope of what the fandom was capable of becoming," he said, referring to when the books were first published and the bands started forming. "We were very touched that people started their own concept bands, and it grew into such a blossoming community."
As it turns out, the DeGeorge brothers are well acquainted with Erie. Harry and the Potters played at Presque Isle's Rotary Pavilion in 2006, and they enjoyed it so much, Paul and his wife got married here. "She's from Kansas, and they wanted to have a wedding somewhere in the middle, so they got married in Erie in Waldameer Park. They got married on one of the roller coasters," Joe recalled.
The Potters will be performing in the Children's Story Time Room of the library, welcoming witches and wizards of all ages. This was in fact how the band started, by playing in libraries, book stores, and for children's birthdays. "Playing to children really appealed to us because they react to rock and roll in the most natural way, unfiltered and unjaded." Parents should just be mindful to remove any wands or witch hats before anyone starts dancing. — Claudia Rose
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Erie County Sees 21 Weekly Deaths and 1,178 New COVID-19 Cases
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Lewis Carroll and Drugs
The idea that Lewis Carroll was on drugs or stoned when he wrote Alice is completely false. It was in the 1960's that adherents from the new LSD subculture began to spread rumors that his stories and crazy imaginative characters were a product of some drug stupor. Psychiatrists who first introduced LSD into society are believed to be responsible for the origins of these rumors.
The rumors suggested that it was not Carroll's incredibly fertile imagination that could be credited for his ingenious written material, but rather a drug. Such rumors are considered a huge marketing success for the psychiatry industry. They effectively instill the belief that taking drugs may be a helpful alternative to a dull and boring existence. The rumors have no factual source and there exists no evidence that in any way or form connects Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) with the use of mind-altering drugs.
In fact, when Lewis Carroll was alive and living in England in the 1800's, drugs such as LSD or any type of stimulants and hallucinogens did not exist.
In the 1950's, LSD was handed out to a native American Hopi Tribe, who unsuspectingly participated as volunteers in research, by making drawings after taking the drug. The psychiatrists had hired an art expert, who examined the results and concluded that they were art. While still high from the LSD, the Hopi artists decided that they preferred the LSD-induced art to their old traditional Hopi art. Today, the Hopi tribe are known for their artistic creations of colorful life traditions and the Hopi-LSD art does not feature.
Lewis Carroll, was not on drugs. However, he was a very shy math professor at Oxford. He had a stammer, and because of this found it difficult to make friends. He had many child-friends and was most comfortable in their company. These were mostly little girls. Scholars often debate about the fact of his interest in little girls being creepy. While some argue that these friendships were entirely platonic and completely acceptable and normal for the time period, others prefer to accuse him of pedophilia.
Not all individuals are aware that the character of Alice, was based on the life of a real little girl, Alice Liddell. She was the youngest daughter of Dean Henry Liddell, Carroll's friend. The original manuscript was called Alice's Adventures Underground. He later revised the name to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The book was published in 1865. It was on a boat trip in 1862 that Lewis Carroll began making up the Alice stories. He did this while attempting to amuse the daughters of his friend Dean Liddell. He then recorded the tales he had told the girls. The story that Queen Victoria loved Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and requested that Lewis Carroll send her a copy of his next book, is a myth. It is said that he sent her a mathematical treatise, which was called Symbolic Logic. Carroll publicly admitted that there is no truth to this story. However, it is true that he wrote Symbolic Logic.
It is commonly believed that his use of symbolism is what makes Carroll's Alice stories important literary works. Alice books became trend setting literature precisely because they lacked hidden meaning. These books were a complete break from deep rooted traditional children's literature when first published. Children's stories were centered on moral outcomes during the Victorian era when Lewis Carroll was alive. Victorian tales did not do much to inspire the imagination or entertain. The were mainly used as tools for the promotion of prudent and ethical behavior in children. This was in fact mocked in the story of The Mock Turtle, Chapter 9 of Alice. Alice's opinion of the Duchess clearly states that she is fond of finding morals everywhere.
There was also a rumor that Lewis Carroll was a pedophile. This is completely false. The interesting thing about this rumor is that Carroll most likely became a victim of his very own superior writing skills. Lewis Carroll affirmed quite strongly that he was more fond of young girls than he was of young boys, in his writing. However there has never been any evidence to suggest that his interest was of a sexual nature.
We know that he was particularly fond of the Liddell children and that Alice Liddell was supposed to be the inspiration for his most famous work. However, at some time, an incident occurred that was the cause of him being banished from their home. No-one knows what the incident was. It will probably remain unknown. This may have been written in his diary, which was either lost or most likely destroyed by his family. The Liddells never said anything. They lived in a time when any kind of scandal was immediately hushed up as a matter of course. According to rumor, he may have asked Alice, who was then only eight years old to marry him.
This could have possibly been the incident or it may have been worse. It seems that the modern-day obsession with types of symbolism that are to be found in Carroll's stories could be something that has been carried over from the Victoria era. Traditional scholars still seem to be searching for missing moral significances in his work. Although, not only Carroll, but any writer or storyteller is bound to base his characters on personal experience, Lewis Carroll's intentions were to produce original stories that were filled with a lot of creative nonsense and very little else. He believed that this type of story would be most appealing to the imagination-starved children of that time. The Alice stories are vitally important because they transcend all cultures and all time. They are extremely popular in Japan and have been worldwide for more than a hundred years. People of all age groups are still reading these fun stories.
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The Intel 1601 is a 256 bit PROM that was designed to be drop-in compatible with Intel's 1301 metal mask ROM. A 1601 PROM has a significant advantage over the 1301; in that it can be programmed electronically by the end user without the need for factory-applied masks. Released in 1970, the earliest versions of this chip have opaque gold lids and gray trace ceramic packages. Later versions were simply 1701 UV erasable EPROMS with black vinyl covering up the UV erase window. Unfortunately the black vinyl cover, which has the part number printed on it, has long since fallen away on this example. With the cover removed late model 1601's are basically indistinguishable from an Intel 1701; it is likely that at least a few unidentified 1601s are sitting in chip collections around the world.
Intel 1601 PROM, at rest. Normally this IC would have a black cover over the glass to prevent erasure of the chip's contents.
Intel first generation ROM family. From left to right; Intel 1702 EPROM, Intel 1601 ROM, Intel 1301 mask ROM.


Ombersley, 5 miles from Worcester, containing 283 houses, and 1696 inhabitants. The parish is very extensive being nearly 12 miles in circumference and has 17 hamlets annexed to it. Here is a good charity school.


Crafted in off-white Chalk coloured ceramic, this salt cellar would be a stunning addition to any kitchen worktop. Keep your course ground salt at hand neck to the stove or aga, and use the handy little beech spoon supplied to scoop out the perfect amount to season your dishes.
It comes boxed, making it a perfect gift.


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Adam Marian Sikorski (1886–1947) – podpułkownik piechoty Wojska Polskiego, żołnierz Legionów Polskich, członek POW, kawaler Virtuti Militari i Krzyża Niepodległości, brat Franciszka
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"B" is for Breaded
If you visit the Kelley House Museum Archives and go down the short flight of stairs into the chilly vault, it's not hard to imagine you are diving for knowledge—especially where abalone are concerned. Should you chance to don a pair of white gloves and take a look through the old, bound copies of The Beacon, the public's concerns over the misuse of local natural resources quickly become evident. By 1913, despite prior actions by the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors and the Department of Fish and Game, strict guidelines were laid out which covered how and when people could hunt and fish in the county.
Up until this time, abalone was still little known and hardly appreciated by most people. Though writers, such as Jack London, frequented the Carmel and Monterey area and collected abalone for use in chowder, the shellfish might have slipped back into a watery oblivion but for the efforts of a man popularly known as Chef Ernst (Pop) Doetler, the Abalone King.
Around 1908, Pop moved to Monterey and set up a restaurant offering fresh, Toke Point Oysters harvested from San Francisco Bay. Over time, quality concerns drove him to abandon the oyster and search for something unique and local which could be had fresh. He found what he was looking for just blocks away on Cannery Row in the form of the abalone.
Breaded abalone the way Pop liked it
Though abalone was starting to appear on local menus, it was generally boiled in vinegar, steam-canned, or treated with lye to break down the connective tissue. Pop determined that the abalone could be cut into a "steak," dredged in flour, dipped in an egg wash, rolled in bread crumbs, and fried in oil. The result was a tender and flavorful dish which quickly became a sensation through Pop's showmanship. With the advent of the Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915, where Monterey County displayed canned abalone as one of its county's primary products, the shellfish reached a still wider audience.
Most of the local abalone used by Pop Ernst was supplied from Japanese divers working nearby who were happy to find a new customer within state lines. Always in search of the best and freshest product, Pop became a broker for local Japanese abalone fishermen and restaurants across the state.
Sadly, the rise in abalone's popularity contributed to the eventual destruction of the fishery. By the late 1950s, the California abalone fishery landed 5.4 million pounds of abalone, of which only 10,000 pounds came from Monterey. Once the epicenter of the fishery, Monterey County was no longer a factor in the abalone market by 1959 and has never fully recovered. The abalone currently available in that area is farm grown.
What was gleaned from Monterey's experience has led to still greater conservation north of the Golden Gate and strict regulations around every aspect of the recreational and commercial fishery. Had Pop wandered north to Mendocino County instead of south, would we have shared the same fate? You be the judge.
(Previously published in the Beacon, Nov. 16th, 2016 and at the Making History Blog of the Kelley House Museum.)
Note: if you visit AllRecipes.com, you'll find the same basic recipe for abalone first popularized by Pop Doetler. And, if you don't fancy the risks of free diving, try ordering some legally available farmed abalone at one of these sources:
The Abalone Farm
Monterey Abalone Company
The Cultured Abalone Farm
"A" is for Abalone
Well, I haven't shared to this blog in almost a year, and the A to Z Blog Challenge is here again, and I'm committed.
For my blog posts this month, I'll be sharing my love of Mendocino County and of things I like to do here, such as research history, write, tinker, garden, and take pictures.
In October of 2016, I joined the Kelley House Museum in Mendocino as a volunteer where I research and write short pieces for the "Kelley House Calendar," a column in the Beacon, our local newspaper. I'll be sharing some previously written pieces and new subjects which come to mind.
I love comments, and promise to respond to any you leave me. If you are visiting from the A to Z Blog Challenge, please leave me your url so I can visit your blog, too.
Thanks and without further ado, here is my post for the letter A.
Abalone Love Part I
Abalone shells cover an arbor at the Kelley House
What do people and sea otters have in common? Well, for one thing, the love of a particular single-shelled mollusk more commonly known as the abalone.
What many people don't realize is how Mendocino became a premier location for abalone fishing, nor do they realize how lucky we are that our wise predecessors conserved this resource for us—their future generation.
Delicious and desirable, abalone grew wherever kelp was available. Pomo people collected and ate it and used the iridescent shells for trade. When the Russians settled at Fort Ross in Sonoma, they inadvertently contributed to a future bounty by hunting the sea otter to the brink of local extinction. By eliminating the abalone's main predator, the shellfish grew unchecked for several decades before Mendocino was discovered by outsiders.
With a growth rate of about one inch per year and a lifespan of 30 to 50 years, it is easy to imagine local tide pools littered with abalone the size of dinner platters, but the first settlers had no interest in the strange and oozing shellfish.
The Chinese are credited with starting the abalone fishery, recognizing a favorite delicacy from home. They began to collect this and other shellfish in massive quantities, drying and shipping them to San Francisco where they were sent on to China. Soon, fears that the area would be irreparably depleted, combined with a series of punitive laws including the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, ended all commercial collection in the intertidal zone.
By the late 1800s, as the Chinese were being pushed out of the market, Japanese fishermen arrived, bringing with them the hard helmet and diving suit. With a continuous air supply, divers could reach the ocean floor, and it was not uncommon for them to collect up to 2300 abalone per day. Sam Ware, a student at Mendocino High School, observed the Japanese encampment at Dark Gulch and wrote that the diver "…takes down with him a net-like basket, which he sends up in about twenty minutes, another being sent down while it is emptied. This holds about all four men can lift into the boat."
Once hoisted from the water, the abalone were cut from their shells, salted, rinsed, and dried in the sun before being packed and shipped in burlap sacks. Shells were sent to England, where they were made into buttons and other fancies, while others were used as inlay in furniture, their nacre (Mother-of-pearl) finish prized. Abalone pearls, when they were found, were made into pendants and other jewelry.
But, by the fall of 1913, in response to ongoing fears that abalone would disappear in the same manner as the sea otter, new and more stringent local laws ended commercial abalone fishing in Mendocino. While recreational fishing continued—sometimes harvesting enormous quantities—the local abalone fishery was spared the fate of Monterey and other central California coastal towns. And who gets the credit for that intervention? Well, that is the subject of Part II of this series.
(Previously published in the Beacon, Nov. 3rd, 2016 and at the Making History Blog of the Kelley House Museum.)
A pair of Black-Necked Stilts in a post mating dance.
Fly On the Pond
A Black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) looks dapper at pond side.
Mind your own business! (Looks like he fought in the Boer Wars)
A mouthy Mallard says a few choice things.
Possibly, a Marbled Godwit
"No bird is an island, ok, well maybe just this one."
A pair of young avocets feathering out.
A Canvasback. Now ya' see him…
…now you don't.
Everyday, this couple goes to the pond to people watch.
This patient mother hides her baby under her wing.
This is the end of two long days of family stuff—some of it good, some of it sad. So many changes they make a long, multi-branched sequence like a polymer. Today, I said goodbye to my father before he moves away. I don't think I will see him in California again.
I'm looking for the upside, but haven't a clue where it is yet.
Shorebirds Today
I'm recovering nicely from the A to Z Blog Challenge and starting to think about writing my novel once again. In the meantime, a smart constitutional includes much birding—sometimes twice a day.
Yesterday, I hung along the edge of the Crystal Springs Reservoir watching the Red-Tailed Hawks and Turkey Vultures float on the updrafts as the fog folded in in layers like batter.
Today, it was a trip to the dog park off of Radio Road—make that two trips—as I had to buy a couple of buttermilk donuts to use for crow snacks.
Every time I go down Radio Road, the shores are occupied by a few silent, well-equipped birders with camo gear right down to their camo-colored telephoto lenses. They sit focusing their equipment at the birds, silent, like folks in a pew facing the altar of saltwater and feather.
I can only imagine what amazing things they capture. My lens is always slower, not as sharp, nor as good. I do my best and I bring donuts as my real interest is the crows.
Ya, you can laugh, but crows are wickedly smart and much favored as feathered minions. Ya, you can laugh, I can only wish for minions.
Common Coot
I used to take my three dogs, Bootsie, Mandy, and Dobbie, out to the Shoredogs Park on Radio Road and watch them run around. Bootsie, a boxer/lab mix always acted far younger than her age. Mandy, timid and looking for reassuring pats, hung by my side and earned points for her sweet nature. Dobbie, commanding to the point of domineering, standing proud on stout legs—a brindled Napoleon— was able to psych out much larger dogs including a German Shepherd. In those days, we went down Radio Road for the dog park.
Everyone was so alive then.
Those days are gone.
These days it's all about the birds—shorebirds, wading birds, over-wintering birds, dumpster diving birds—birds are everything. My dog du jour, Tacoma (who is in reality, my granddog) insists she must go to the dog park while I prepare the donut savories for the crowing.
Crows leave her bland. She doesn't bark.
But my objective is the crows. Yes, crows. Always crows. The other birds are beatific and beautiful, but I seek crow-wit and myth.
Along the way, I saw these birds. This was today—in an eggshell—a summary of nature and birding and dogging trips, too, and my cheeks are still warm from the wind and the sun of the warm weather chapping.
Some kind of grebe, maybe, the Eared Grebe.
Beautiful mallard drake.
Canada Geese and young-"Come near my kids and I'll kill ya'"
Mama and babies run from me like I'm a politician.
Hey, it's my "tern" to eat that fish
That moment at a party where someone asks you a question.
An American Avocet. Notice the water off the end of its beak.
A common seagull with an uncommon neck adornment
I wonder how this poor thing ended up like this
"But officer, that was a complete stop."
Check out these "fly" moves as a clever crow Billie-Jeans towards a piece of donut
Almonds are brain food–for everyone.
You have to be quick or else…
This alert crow can't believe its good fortune
Crow Sobriety test
This little chap couldn't figure out why I was giving away free food. Not sure he approved.


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Cene Bavec (*1946), je zaslužni profesor Univerze na Primorskem, diplomirani inženir fizike, IBM sistemski inženir in doktor informacijsko upravljalskih znanosti. Od 1986 do 1990 je bil nacionalni koordinator sodelovanja med OECD in Jugoslavijo na področju informatike v javni upravi. Od 1992 do 1994 je bil predsednik Upravnih odborov javnega zavoda ARNES in javnega zavoda IZUM. Od 1997 do 2001 je bil član Izvršilnega odbora evropskega foruma o informacijski družbi. Med 2. julijem 1998 in 6. decembrom 2000 je bil državni sekretar za tehnologijo na Ministrstvu za znanost in tehnologijo Republike Slovenije. Od 2004 do 2006 je bil koordinator sodelovanja podjetja IBM (CEMA) z univerzami v Srednji Evropi in Rusiji. V letih 2001 in 2002 je bil član delovne skupine Vlade Republike Slovenije za ustanovitev Univerze na Primorskem in 8 let tudi član Senata Univerze na Primorskem, bil je dekan Visoke šole za management Koper (zdaj Fakultete za management Univerze na Primorskem). Leta 2013 se je kot profesor na matični fakulteti – Fakulteti za management – tudi upokojil.

Leta 2006 je prejel Nagrado "Donald Michie and Alan Turing" za življenjsko delo.

Zunanje povezave
 Domača stran Ceneta Bavca

Slovenski sistemski inženirji
Državni sekretarji na Ministrstvu za znanost in tehnologijo Republike Slovenije
Predavatelji na Fakulteti za management v Kopru
Zaslužni profesorji Univerze na Primorskem
Diplomiranci Fakultete za matematiko in fiziko v Ljubljani
Doktorirali na Ekonomski fakulteti v Ljubljani


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Recto-verso est un film français réalisé par Jean-Marc Longval, sorti en 1999.

Synopsis

Fiche technique
 Titre : Recto-verso
 Réalisation : Jean-Marc Longval
 Scénario et dialogues :  Jean-Marc Longval, Fabrice Blind, Michel Delgado, Jean-Luc Lemoine
 Musique : Denis Lefdup
 Production : Michel Delgado, Thierry de Navacelle
 Société de distribution : Warner Bros France
 Pays d'origine :
 Genre : comédie
 Format : couleurs
 Durée : 82 minutes
 Date de sortie :  :

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Film français sorti en 1999
Comédie française
Film distribué par Warner Bros. Pictures


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Following a lobby renovation where we worked with the Board to restore the neo-classical interiors, the elevator cabs were redone. The existing cabs, which had undergone a post-war renovation and were the antithesis of pre-war elegance, were renovated in rich dark wood paneling and satin bronze. The cabs are saturated, rich and refined in keeping with the lobby.