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Answering The Apologists For Islam
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Those who seek to justify Islamic terrorism, often do so by stating that both Judaism and Christianity also have violent histories. Islam, they insist, is being 'unfairly' singled out, even though the other Abrahamic faiths are also inherently violent.
The two favourite and increasingly weary examples offered are the slaying by the Hebrews of the Canaanites (Judaism) and the bloody crimes of the Crusades (Christianity).
And this tactic by apologists for Islamic terrorism often works. It helps shore up the pervasive yet false premise that Islam is 'just like other religions'. Or, to put it another way: it is not Islam that causes Islamic terrorism, but rather human nature.
One of the best responses I've read to this apologist tactic, comes courtesy of writer and expert on radical Islam, Raymond Ibrahim. Here is what he says on the issue of whether Judaism and Christianity also promote violence in the same manner as Islam (emphasis is mine):
"Such questions reveal a great deal of confusion between history and theology, between the temporal actions of men and the immutable words of G-d. The fundamental error being that Jewish andChristian history—which is violent—is being conflated with Islamic theology—which commands violence.
Of course all religions have had their fair share of violence and intolerance towards the "other." Whether this violence is ordained by G-d or whether warlike man merely wished it thus is the all-important question.
The Israelites' violence is an interesting case in point. G-d clearly ordered the Hebrews to annihilate the Canaanites and surrounding peoples. Such violence is therefore an expression of G-d's will, for good or ill. Regardless, all the historic violence committed by the Hebrews and recorded in the Tanakh is just that—history. It happened; G-d commanded it.
But it revolved around a specific time and place and was directed against a specific people. At no time did such violence go on to become standardized or codified into Jewish law (i.e. the Halakha).
This is where Islamic violence is unique. Though similar to the violence of the Tanakh —commanded by G-d and manifested in history—certain aspects of Islamic violence have become standardized in Islamic law (i.e. the Sharia) and apply at all times. Thus while the violence found in the Koran is in fact historical, its ultimate significance is theological. Consider the following Koranic verses:
Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the pagans wherever you find them—take them [captive], besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due [i.e. submit to Islam], then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful (9:5).
Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger [i.e. Islamic law], nor acknowledge the religion of Truth [i.e. Islam], from the people of the book [i.e. Jews and Christians], until they pay tribute with willing submission, and feel themselves utterly subdued (9:29).
As with Tanakh verses where G-d commanded the Hebrews to attack and slay their neighbors, these Koranic verses also have a historical context. Allah (through Muhammad) first issued these commandments after the Arab tribes had finally unified under the banner of Islam and were preparing to invade their Christian and pagan neighbors.
But unlike the bellicose verses and anecdotes of the Tanakh these so-called "sword-verses" subsequently became fundamental to Islam's relationship to both the "people of the book" (i.e. Christians and Jews) and the "pagans" (i.e. Hindus, Buddhists, animists, etc).
In fact, based on the sword-verses (as well as countless other Koranic verses and oral traditions attributed to Muhammad), Islam's scholars, sheikhs, muftis, imams, and qadis throughout the ages have all reached the consensus—binding on the entire Muslim community—that Islam is to be at perpetual war with the non-Muslim world, until the former subsumes the latter. (It is widely held that the sword-verses alone have abrogated some 200 of the Koran's more tolerant verses.)
Famous Muslim scholar and "father of modern history" Ibn Khaldun articulates the dichotomy between jihad and defensive warfare thus:
In the Muslim community, the holy war [i.e. jihad] is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and the obligation to convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force...
The other religious groups did not have a universal mission, and the holy war was not a religious duty for them, save only for purposes of defense... They are merely required to establish their religion among their own people.
That is why the Israeilites after Moses and Joshua remained unconcerned with royal authority [e.g. a "caliphate"]. Their only concern was to establish their religion [not spread it to the nations]…
But Islam is under obligation to gain power over other nations (The Muqudimmah, vol. 1 pg. 473, emphasis added).
Even when juxtaposed to their Jewish and Christian counterparts, the Islamic sword-verses are distinctive for using language that transcends time and space, inciting believers to attack and slay non-believers today no less than yesterday.
G-d commanded the Hebrews to kill Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—all specific peoples rooted to a specific time and place. At no time did G-d give an open-ended command for the Hebrews, and by extension their descendants the Jews, to fight and kill gentiles.
On the other hand, though Islam's original enemies were, like Judaism's, historical (e.g. Christian Byzantines and pagan Persians), the Koran rarely singles them out by their proper names. Instead, Muslims were (and are) commanded to fight the people of the book—"until they pay tribute with willing submission and feel themselves utterly subdued" (9:29) and to "slay the pagans wherever you find them" (9:5).
The two conjunctions "until" and "wherever" demonstrate the perpetual nature of these commandments: there are still "people of the book" who have yet to be "utterly subdued" (especially in the Americas, Europe, and Israel) and "pagans" to be slain "wherever" one looks (especially Asia and sub-Saharan Africa).
Aside from the divine words of the Koran, Muhammad's pattern of behavior—his "Sunna" or "example"—is an extremely important source of legislation in Islam. Muslims are exhorted to emulate Muhammad in all walks of life: "You have indeed in the Messenger of Allah a beautiful pattern [of conduct]" (33:21).
And Muhammad's pattern of conduct vis-à-vis non-Muslims is quite explicit. Sarcastically arguing against the concept of "moderate" Islam, terrorist Osama bin Laden, who enjoys half the Arab-Islamic world's support per a recent al-Jazeera poll, portrays the prophet's Sunna thus:
"Moderation" is demonstrated by our prophet who did not remain more than three months in Medina without raiding or sending a raiding party into the lands of the infidels to beat down their strongholds and seize their possessions, their lives, and their women" (from The Al-Qaeda Reader).
In fact, based on both the Koran and Muhammad's Sunna, pillaging and plundering infidels, enslaving their children, and placing their women in concubinage is well founded (e.g. 4:24, 4:92, 8:69, 24:33, 33:50, etc.).
While law-centric and legalistic, Judaism has no such equivalent to the Sunna; the words and deeds of the patriarchs, though recorded in the Tanakh never went on to be part of Jewish law. Neither Abraham's "white-lies," nor Jacob's perfidy, nor Moses' short-fuse, nor David's adultery, nor Solomon's philandering ever went on to instruct Jews. They were merely understood to be historical actions perpetrated by fallible men who were often punished by G-d for their less than ideal behavior."
And regarding the Crusades, Raymond Ibrahim points out:
"In fact, far from suggesting anything intrinsic to Christianity, the Crusades ironically help better explain Islam. For what the Crusades demonstrated once and for all is that irrespective of religious teachings—indeed, in the case of these so-called "Christian" Crusades, despite them—man is truly predisposed to violence and intolerance. But this begs the question: If this is how Christians behaved—who are commanded to love, bless, and do good to their enemies who hate, curse, and persecute them—how much more can be expected of Muslims who, while sharing the same violent tendencies, are further commanded by the Deity to attack, kill, and plunder non-believers?"
Read more of Raymond Ibrahim's excellent articles here


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Statement by Dr. Saeb Erekat on recent Israeli...
Statement by Dr. Saeb Erekat on recent Israeli plans to displace Palestinians and expand illegal settlements
Israel has systematically pursued a policy of forcible transfer of civilian Palestinian populations, which is a crime against humanity under International law, and in the process has replaced the indigenous Palestinian population with foreign settlers throughout Occupied Palestine. In particular, this policy has drastically affected Jerusalem, the Jordan Valley and the southern Hebron region. Some of the most dramatic examples of such policies can be seen in the villages of Abu Nawar and Susiya, in Jerusalem and Hebron respectively. Just today, Israeli forces uprooted 400 olive trees from the village of Beit Ula in the Hebron District.
The forcible transfer of Palestinians continues as Israel is preparing to announce further settlement construction in the illegal settlements of Beit El, Ma'ale Adumim, Giv'at Ze'ev, Psagot, Beit Arieh and Giv'on, all of them located between Nablus and Jerusalem. In total, these illegal settlements will amount to 906 new housing units, to accommodate approximately 4,500 new settlers in Occupied Palestine at the expense of the Palestinian community whose land these settlers will occupy. These housing units could not be approved without the impunity the international community has granted Israel.
The ethnic cleansing of Palestinians through settlement construction continues as the international community fails to take concrete steps in order to hold Israel accountable for its violations of international law. Israel, the occupying power, systematically ignores all calls made to stop its violations and crimes, particularly those calls made by the European community. The international community has a responsibility to ban settlement products and divest from all companies and organizations complicit in the Israeli settlement enterprise.
The Palestinian leadership will continue taking the necessary steps within international forums, including cooperating with the International Criminal Court, in order to end Israeli crimes and achieve the long overdue inalienable rights of the Palestinian people.
Khirbet Susya Village Case
The case of Susiya village is just one example among many others of Israel's systematic policy of evictions and forced displacement in Occupied Palestine.
The village is located south of Hebron Hills and is currently home to 55 nuclear families (around 370 people) who have been historically earning a living from grazing and growing olive trees in the area.
In 1983, Israel established the illegal Israeli settlement of Susya on the village's land and embarked on new policies that aims at forcing residents out of the village in order to expand Susya settlement.
In 1986, Israeli authorities declared Susya village lands as 'an archeological site' and expelled all its residents from their homes, and since then the residents of Susya have been facing repeated evictions and ongoing demolitions.
The villagers were obliged to rebuild on adjacent lands and have been fighting ever since to remain. Several waves of demolitions took place most notable in 2001 and 2011 when the entire village was demolished and its residents were displaced again.
Settlers of the illegal settlement of Susiya, protected by Israeli occupation forces, have engaged in continuous attacks and intimidations against Susya's residents. As a result, villagers have limited access to about 2,000 dunums of their grazing and farming lands (OCHA, 2015). This has been taken as an opportunity for Israeli settlers to continue their violations, including uprooting their trees.
Despite attempts of the villagers to stop the plans to demolish their village once again, the so called Israeli High Court of "Justice" gave its occupation forces green light to demolish the village and to forcibly transfer their population. The structures facing demolition include residential tents, animal shelters, family utility structures, cisterns, two clinics, a school and a kindergarten (OCHA, 2015).
Israeli occupation forces aim at forcibly transfer the people of Susiya to the city of Yatta.

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Ebola lessons applied to vaccine clinical trials
In a perspective published today in the journal Science, researchers from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and other institutions drew on lessons learned in the ongoing Ebola epidemic in West Africa to suggest guidelines for conducting vaccine clinical trials during an infectious disease emergency.
"Limited infrastructure, unpredictable variation in incidence and a public health imperative to provide vaccine as quickly as possible are common in vaccine efficacy trials even outside public health emergencies," the researchers wrote. "Trial designs that are appropriately adapted to the most challenging settings are sorely needed, not only to improve the external validity of trial results but also to ensure that vaccine quickly reaches those most in need."
Dr. Betz Halloran, a biostatistician and member of the Fred Hutch Public Health Sciences and Vaccine and Infectious Disease divisions; Dr. Ira Longini, a biostatistician at the University of Florida and an affiliated Fred Hutch researcher; and scientists from Harvard University; University of Iowa; Iowa Veterans Affairs Health Care System; and Epicentre in Paris, France, contributed to the editorial. Halloran and Longini are among experts who have been advising the U.S. component of the international Ebola response, using mathematical models to detect patterns of infection and monitor the effectiveness of interventions.
Countries in West Africa – primarily Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia – are battling the most severe outbreak of Ebola since the virus was discovered in 1976. According to the most recent World Health Organization report, more than 24,900 people have been infected and more than 10,300 have died since the epidemic was declared in March 2014.
Three challenges, three fixes
One of the obstacles encountered by vaccine investigators was the way cases have surged in different geographic areas, thwarting efforts to design a randomized trial in which participants in each district faced the same infection risk. To counter this, the researchers suggested block randomization within small centers – that is, among small groups of people projected to have a similar risk of exposure to the virus, such as frontline workers at a single Ebola treatment center or burial workers in a single district.
Ebola is not spread through air, like a cold or flu, but through direct contact with bodily secretions. In the current outbreak, which is the first in West Africa, health workers and family members who've been preparing bodies for funerals appear to be responsible for the greatest spread of the virus.
Another challenge to clinical trials was that the unprecedented outbreak outpaced the speed with which experimental vaccines could be produced. Ordinarily, investigators would not start a clinical trial without enough vaccine on hand, said Halloran. But rather than waiting for production to ramp up, the researchers suggested a stepped rollout.
"If you have limited vaccine quantities, you can introduce blocks one at a time as vaccine becomes available rather than waiting until you have all the vaccine to start with," Halloran said.
The third recommendation, called adaptive design, addresses the uncertainty in predicting future infection incidence. To test whether a vaccine protects against exposure, participants should be at high risk of infection for weeks to months after immunization, but that has proven difficult to predict. Adaptive design allows for real-time modifications, such as adding new centers or changing the sample size, based on a predetermined interim analysis of study data.
Beyond Ebola
Ebola vaccine trials now underway in West Africa are threatened by the otherwise welcome news that the number of new infections is declining. According to WHO, a total of 79 new confirmed cases were reported in the week leading up to March 22, the lowest weekly total this year. Of these, 45 were from Guinea and 33 were from Sierra Leone. Liberia reported one new case after three consecutive weeks with no new cases, a drop from a peak of more than 300 new confirmed infections per week in August and September.
The suggestions offered in the Science perspective may be helpful not only in an Ebola outbreak but in evaluating vaccines for diseases such as meningococcal meningitis, cholera, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, vector-borne viral diseases such as dengue and chikungunya, and novel flu strains, the researchers wrote.
All three proposals – block randomization, stepped rollout and adaptive design – have been tested in previous studies, Halloran said. But combining the three strategies is a novel approach to testing a vaccine candidate "under the duress of an emerging infectious disease, trying to evaluate a vaccine in the acute phase."
"It's really, really difficult to do something like this," she said. "A combination of the three [proposals] can be useful for thinking outside the box."
Mary Engel, a staff writer at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, formerly covered medicine and health policy for newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, where she was part of a team that won a Pulitzer for health care reporting. She also was a fellow at the year-long MIT Knight Science Journalism program. Reach her at mengel@fredhutch.org.
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Know When to Walk Away, and Know When to Run
Published by swansont on July 18, 2014 under Physics, Politics, TMI
Every now and then there's a kerfuffle about people treating other people badly. These things need to be talked about, but I wish we could do a better job of it. You might guess that this is prompted by the recent Feynman posts and responses/comments, and you'd be right. Before that it was "not all men", and before that, Bora. But I'm not going to go into specifics about any of those, I'm going to tell you why such discussion is off the table for me. Even (perhaps especially) in the light of declarations that others must speak up — that silence is assent, and similar assertions.
I used to be active on various discussion boards other than the one that hosts this blog, and I'd go and visit when physics discussions at SFN were slow. I was reading a thread where someone (a crackpot, if I may) was proposing an alternative to relativity, which was almost certainly wrong, and there were posters making note of that in no uncertain terms. I noticed a problem, though — one of the equations the crackpot was using was actually correct — I think it was the gravitational time dilation formula gh/c^2, which is the approximation you get when you can assume g is constant — and I made a post pointing this out: I said that there were a lot of questionable claims being made, but this equation was not one of them. Adjust criticism accordingly. No problem, right?
Not so much. At that point, a number of other posters set upon me, accusing me of defending the crackpot, and concluding that I must therefore be a crackpot. There was one who went so far as to say that no real physicist would ever use an approximate formula (!), because we had computers and could run code using an exact formula. Actual examples, including physics papers using similar approximations were not enough to dissuade these folks from their positions. I had been branded a crackpot and once that had happened, no facts mattered. At that point I was was wrong by fiat so anything I had to say was dismissed, and my support for the entirety of the crackpot's position was assumed. After that, the only dialog directed at me was sarcastic. I was a leper.
It was not a pleasant experience, and this in a relatively mild atmosphere. It gave me some perspective in moderating discussions involving those who are not enamored of the scientific mainstream — look at the facts, and do not assume more is there than is written, and don't attack the person. Snark is a signal that any serious consideration is over, so one has to be sure all reasonable discourse has been exhausted. It can happen, and I'm guilty of that from time to time, but it's after going over the same ground three or four times and making no progress. (Sometimes a claim is so outlandish that ridicule is the only response — but those are exceptions, not the norm.)
I'll use, as an example, the use of the term I'm not particularly fond of: "fanboy" (or worse, fanboi). I usually see these in discussions about Apple products (as an observer — I rarely participate), aimed at someone who likes Apple products. A: I like X about my iPhone. B: Fanboi! To me, it's a signal that the party isn't willing to discuss any merits of the argument. It's dismissive and no better or more productive than an eight-year-old engaging in name-calling. In the Feynman discussions, I have not checked to see if it was deserved or not (probably yes, but I don't know), but to my mind any useful conversation is over once someone has dropped the fanboy flag or other blatant sarcasm on the pitch. It's a big Do Not Enter sign.
Another danger about snark is it's an invitation for others to jump in. It's a sort of mob mentality, I think. Scientists having discussions generally keep to the issues and don't typically degenerate into mockery, but something happens once that first window gets broken. People in the mob probably don't recognize they are in one, at least at the time.
Pointing out an error in an evolution paper does not make you a creationist, pointing out a mistake in a global warming paper does not make you a denialist, just as pointing out an error in a critique of crackpottery did not make me a crackpot. Correcting the facts is what we should be expecting in discussions, so the "if you're not with us you're against us" mentality absolutely does not fit. We, as scientists, recognize the dangers of that in formal science, and go to great lengths to point out to science detractors that we are not promoting dogma. That attitude needs to be more pervasive in discussions about the culture that surrounds science.
I have opinions on matters, and perhaps something to add to a discussion. But the entirely predictable response that gets played out gives me pause about participating. Perhaps that's an unfixable part of the internet. But it may also be true that some of what many agree are social issues in STEM that don't seem to be getting better very quickly are being hampered because some people feel shut out of the discussions as they become polarized so quickly. Think about that: people you want to reach are possibly being shut out of the conversation because of the fear that they will be verbally pummeled and shunned at the slightest inkling that they don't agree with you, because they see how others are treated. You will not hear their voice, and if they feel that they are being attacked, they will not listen to yours.
I want the broader social situation to improve. These conversations need to happen, so we must do a better job of encouraging the conversations. I can disagree with details of something you say without disagreeing with your conclusion. Finding fault with some fact you've quoted does not automatically mean I agree with your opponent — I want you argument to be stronger, unassailable, and I've found a chink in it. I'm trying to help you. But having been burned by this before, under milder circumstances, I have no wish to jump in to a much hotter fire.
These conversations need to happen. We must do a better job of encouraging the conversations.
An Anniversary, of Sorts
Published by swansont on August 26, 2013 under Navy, TMI
This isn't going to be about physics. In fact, the only connection is that I was teaching physics when this happened. This is about what happened one night, 28 years ago: Ex-sailor Releases Hostage After Siege At Navy Base. LT Steve Gabriel (who taught Chemistry, Materials and Radiological Fundamentals, aka CMR) was taken hostage by a former student.
About the same time, Gabriel also called security while he was being held
"Security" would be me, since I was standing the Command Duty Officer watch at the time. CDO is a 24-hour watch that one stands, and you are responsible for, well, everything when the commanding officer (CO, aka captain) is gone. Imagine borrowing a car from someone — you're responsible for it until you return the keys. Except that the CO doesn't actually own the car — s/he was assigned to it by someone else, and is ultimately responsible for it. If the car starts making sounds, you're going to call the captain up and make sure it's not a problem, and the CO is not prone to yell at you for checking, because the last thing they want is to get the car back with a surprise problem. "My CDO was an idiot" is not an excuse, because that only prompts one to ask why you lent the keys to an idiot. The navy is not fond of excuses, especially ones that sound like they are passing the buck.
On a quiet watch, the kind you hope for every time, there are no incidents to worry about. You do your rounds, do the paperwork that's required and get a few hours of sleep. If it was during the week you'd teach and not have to worry about the CDO part during the day, while the captain was there. After you took charge the other watchstanders all did their jobs (there was a duty chief petty officer for each building, and someone from the first lieutenant's staff, in charge of the evening cleaning crews and other duties, plus a dozen or so people as unarmed security watchstanders, working the phones and checking traffic into and out of the buildings, making sure you had your security badge, or weren't leaving with any classified documents)
On a good night, aside from a stroll or two around the buildings, you got to sit around and hear the enlisted guys tell sea stories. I was 23, just a year out of college and still an Ensign and had no stories to tell (yet), other than some drunken stupidity, but even then, exotic-port navy drunken stupidity made for much better stories. It was fun to listen to that, and some of the things that happen at sea. But on this evening, there wasn't going to be much time for sea stories.
Letting the Air Out, Thank Goodness
Published by swansont on August 7, 2013 under Politics, Rants, TMI
I was gearing up for a rant about how the sequester, and in particular the furloughs, were sucking all the air from the room, but it was just announced that they will stop at six days, which means just one more week of this nonsense. So that kills the worst part of my rant, thank goodness.
The lesson of the first four-and-a-half-weeks is that scheduling time, especially with more than two people, becomes incredibly more difficult when you lose a day per week if your furlough days aren't synched up. Any interaction where you need information from someone else, or vice-versa, becomes strained; there is no quick turnaround when key people are absent on random days, and you have your own work you are trying to get done. Work in the lab has slowed considerably because that's one of the variables, while bureaucratic nonsense seems to be a constant, and when you reduce hours, the constants don't seem to shrink. This was not a 20% reduction of useful work output — it was more than that. These are probably some of the reasons academic researchers work the long hours: they can, because they are on salary, and the research part of the job is where the extra hours are spent, after teaching and doing all of the bureaucratic overhead.
The people up on top of the food chain, to their credit, have been insistent that nobody sneak in unpaid overtime to compensate. It was recognized that a furlough meant that work would not get done. It seems to me that many were irked by the political narrative that there's all this fat and bloat in the military, so that the sequester will have no effect on operations, because the fat would be cut. Well, guess again. It's more that the DoD part of government actually is big-boned, and what looks like fat is more of a system bloat that needs to be restructured, which doesn't happen simply by starvation.
Here's a rough example of what I mean: spending money has a huge overhead of paperwork. One of the reasons for this is that government employees need to be good stewards of the taxpayer dollars they get, so there are a whole bunch of rules to follow to make sure money is not mishandled. But all of the paperwork and regulations make the process inefficient, which wastes taxpayer dollars. However, nobody is willing to streamline the process, because eventually there will be some misuse of funds (or even just something that has an appearance of impropriety), and too many members of congress, and the general population, will go absolutely apeshit over the revelation. So we spend many dollars in order to safeguard fewer dollars. That's a systemic problem, and not one that can be solved simply by reducing budget.
But my creeping malaise seems to be somewhat better now that the end of furloughs is in sight, even though the larger sequester problem still exists. I had joined a colleague in meaningless protest by not shaving (anywhere). He started while I was on vacation, so I got a late start, but even the shorter duration doesn't change the fact that I had one of the worst beards grown by anyone of drinking age. Glad to be rid of the non-goatee portion of it.
The Horror, The Horror
Published by swansont on May 2, 2013 under Lab Stories, TMI
The nightmare of any and every PhD student writing his or her thesis: My laptop was stolen with all my thesis work on it.
I was so paranoid about the lab catching fire and destroying my thesis that I had it on two computers and had about five backup copies. On floppy disks, which was the style of the times, at least one of which was always at home. If the whole science building imploded, I would have a copy that was at most one day's worth of writing or set of revisions out of date.
Also, having grown up and done high school and college papers in an era before word processors (ask me about my fun with carbon paper!), I am quite aware how much time I saved being able to write my thesis on a computer.
The Answer Guy
Published by swansont on April 15, 2013 under Physics, The Lab, TMI
I was cleaning up my inbox the other day and accidentally opened up the box below Admin, which is Answerguy, and one I had forgotten about. Several years ago I was "The Answer Guy" (or at least I had his email address) for our web page, back in the days when I took care of my research group's web page. The legacy site is still present but in some sense is no longer "official" and has not been maintained in some time (the cesium fountain page has been dormant even longer). The current official page for work is much more sterile and doesn't even discuss the clock details at all.
I got a number of inquires over the three or four years that the email address was active. A few crackpotty ones, several good questions, and a few from people who couldn't find contact info on the pages other departments were maintaining, so there were several moon phase and time-of-sunset inquiries I punted. But I like this one, in particular:
To whom it may concern, My name is Christopher I am a sophomore in highschool and conducting a science fair project on time travel. I am not sure if this is the appropriate email address for this, but i am trying to obtain an atomic clock that measures to the nanosecond. If you have any information please please email me as soon as possible.
Sincerely, Christopher
Published by swansont on December 30, 2012 under admin, TMI
Not much time for blogging recently — getting together with family, travel (made longer because it involved a snowstorm), a stiff back from the car ride and the lugging of that which is lugged, and now, apparently, the fruit of the traditional holiday first sharing of germs. To be followed by the inevitable second sharing, when everyone returns to work/school.
Published by swansont on November 13, 2012 under admin, TMI
Apologies. I've been suffering from a sore neck and shoulder for a bit, and decided to minimize typing on a keyboard for a bit to see if that can help speed my recovery.
Either a Prank or a Comment on My Long-Term Memory
Published by swansont on August 20, 2012 under TMI
So I got back from my vacation last week to find this: my office had been labeled to within an inch of its life with blue sticky notes.
And not without some geeky physics humor
All this means is a little "me" time in my hollowed-out volcano lair, as I plot my revenge…
Boom, Boom, Out Go the Lights
Published by swansont on July 13, 2012 under Other science, TMI
NASA Earth Observatory: The Derecho
These before and after images from NASA's Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite show the power outages in the clear skies over Washington, DC and Baltimore that occurred as a result of a rare, fast-moving thunderstorm system on Friday, June 29th
I'm in one of the very dark areas, that's very bright in the "before" picture, west of DC.
Published by swansont on July 5, 2012 under admin, TMI
Power restored (after only 90 hours!), but still no internet at home. My fridge hasn't been this empty since I moved in. I noticed one set of traffic lights still out on my commute this morning, so there is still work left to do in the area.


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Anyone else having this problem where visiting older threads or even 1/2-day old threads the photos no longer work? This is for photos that were already appearing in the post and not a link from the post.
I normally use Facebook to host my images and then link them to upload here - I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
it's facebook, if a photo isnt accessed on fb often they put it on a different server which then breaks the original link. it still stays in your FB but it's hosted elsewhere.
I figured that it would have to do something with Facebook hosting it, but that's too bad. I feel like I've only noticed this recently.
I use imgur - the image url stays the same even if you move the pictures to different albums etc.
Yup, FB is REALLY cracking down on hotlinking. It use to be the images would stay up for several months, maybe even a year. But now they are serious biz about people stealing bandwidth that way. I've seen images get broken in a week or a matter of days lately. Best thing to do is use a free image hosting website like imgr or photobucket or dozens (probably even hundreds) of others. It's frustrating as well that we can't tell people to just upload it all on the server either, cause we're running out of space. Our server disk space is 68% percent full.
I was wondering what was happening!
They block third party requests so it may be harder to embed an image of them in a 3rd party site if you don't have a corresponding plan for your account. If the request comes from a 3rd party site, they deliver the image you see instead of the real image. That's all.
Photobucket decided after 13 years of being free that people now need to pay for the service- a jaw dropping $399 a year- in order for the photos uploaded to the service to be linked, or posted on other websites. People are saying this "broke the internet" to a degree, which it kind of did. It was once the largest image hosting site, and now ALL of those images are broken, unless people cough up the money. Everyone is super upset about it, and I can't say I blamed them. There was no heads up about it at all before the change. Just broken images everywhere.
I even can't remove my account or see my own pics (can't even log in) with out paying them first, so I switched over to Flickr, that is way bigger and still free to use.
It was 90 kb file.
I posted a while ago that we were discontinuing user photo albums, and removing them. That was put on hold as we were hoping to find a way to delete them without having to do it manually one by one, but that's the route we're having to go. So starting this month we're in the process of deleting all of them, we've deleted about 500 albums so far. We are also no longer allowing people to upload attachments to the site in threads (you can still post them, they just need to be hosted elsewhere), and I am working on deleting some attachments. We just don't have the server space to continue those amenities on the site anymore, and it's really expensive to have more.
I'm unable to post a imgur-hosted pic in a new thread. What am I missing? I was using the tag, but it didn't work.


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OPINION: 'A dire warning to Fiji'
Savenaca Narube
21 November, 2020, 10:02 pm
Zambia is a poor country with a per capita GDP of only US$1307 ($F2732), half of Fiji's. Its incumbent Government under its sixth President, Edga Lungu, a lawyer, came into power in 2015 with a very expansionary expenditure plan. Picture: VOANEWS.COM
There is a debt crisis unfolding right now in Zambia. Many of us may not know of Zambia. It is a landlocked south African country with a population of 18 million and a GDP of $US24 billion ($F50.17b), twice that of Fiji.
It is the second largest world exporter of copper next to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which is one of its six neighbouring countries. Last month, Zambia was unable to pay interest on a US$3 billion international debt. Zambia is a timely warning for Fiji.
I will outline in this article many similarities of what is unfolding in Zambia with what we are facing in Fiji. I hope that the Zambian story will remove any remaining doubt that Fiji is sliding down the same tube unless we take remedial actions now. Zambia is a poor country with a per capita GDP of only US$1307 ($F2732), half of Fiji's. Its incumbent Government under its sixth President, Edga Lungu, a lawyer, came into power in 2015 with a very expansionary expenditure plan.
It borrowed heavily to finance infrastructure development of roads and bridges. Zambia's problems are twofold. The first is its poor economic management. It relied too heavily on copper exports and failed to develop its other sectors especially agriculture. As commodity prices dropped, foreign exchange began to disappear.
The second is its expansionary and wasteful fi nancial management. As revenue declined, Government is now running out of cash. Zambia's problems started well before the coronavirus pandemic came on board. These are exactly the same problems that Fiji is facing. The Zambian debt ballooned in a very short time.
Foreign loans increased rapidly. Loan guarantees by government rose to $US1.2b ($F2.5b). These are exact mirror images of Fiji. Then the problems started to surface during the pandemic. While the Zambian Government was borrowing heavily to fi – nance the so called infrastructure development, the people could not see many signs of these spending. It is now emerging that some borrowed money was spent on political motives. Many people now suspect that the money went to people's pockets rather than funding development.
There is perceived wide spread corruption. According to some reports, the amount of foreign loans – in Zambia's case from China- and their conditions are not transparent. Ultimately, Zambia could not keep up with the payments of its international loans. The country defaulted on an interest payment of $US42m ($F87.80b) to a group of international lenders last month.
The Zambian Government requested the lenders for a six month suspension of loan repayments which the lender refused. However, its Vice President, only last week, in an effort to stabilise the financial market, insisted that Zambia will not default on its loans. Zambia could not keep this promise, and the country has defaulted on another interest payment due on 14th November to the same group of lenders. The lenders have said that, so far, Zambia has not produced a credible plan to sustain debt payment.
If Zambia and the lenders do not come to an arrangement, the lenders have threatened to take the country to court. Ultimately, Zambia will be forced to go hat in hand to the lender of the last resort which is the International Monetary Fund (IMF). When Zambia goes to the IMF for help, the IMF will impose strict conditions. I know this stabilisation processes very well having worked at the IMF.
The IMF will demand that Zambia immediately reduce government spending which is the root cause of its problems and may also insist that it devalues its currency. And this is when the people will start to feel the pain of adjustment. The Government may be required to reduce salaries, pensions, health spending, education budget and a whole raft of expenses. Prices will rise. GDP will take a plunge. Unemployment will increase. Poverty, which is already at 60 per cent, will rise further.
Zambia is a warning for Fiji
As I learn of the unfolding crisis in Zambia, the parallel of their policies and practices with the Fiji Government is scary.
The Fiji Government has ignored the agriculture sector. It has raised our borrowing very quickly in the name of infrastructure development. But like in Zambia, we cannot see the results of where this huge amount of debt is going. Our money is definitely disappearing somewhere. Where would that be? I believe that there are two areas that need to be investigated to help reveal where the money is disappearing to—infrastructural spending and government procurement.
Firstly, I have called for a full investigation into the operations and management of the Fiji Roads Authority which sinks a lot of taxpayers' money into the exorbitant salaries of its CEO and overseas consultants. Good roads are being dug up and poor roads left with deep craters. The cost of rehabilitating a road is as high as $40m per kilometre when the normal cost is only $3m. Within a few weeks of repairing pot holes, they come back with a vengeance, deeper and wider. Secondly, I have called for the full audit of the procurement awards in Government to reveal the full extent of possible breaches of the law.
I have called for investigations of the award of the Rewa Dairy contract without a tender.
I hear rumours of other procurement awards that were either not tendered for or the decisions of the Major Tenders Board overturned by others. I am told of alleged political favouritism in the award of certain tenders, sometimes hidden between the multiple corporate layers of companies. We must demand investigations and corrective actions before we become another Zambia. If Unity Fiji forms Government, these are two of the areas that we will immediately clean up.
The lack of money will affect us all
People have reminded me that many ordinary people do not care too much about the level of debt. They are only concerned about what happens to them. I fully understand these views. When it comes to money, Government is not much different from a family. When the family spends more than it earns, it may take out hire purchases to buy a big smart TV, or borrow from relatives, or mortgage their homes to buy a hybrid car. If it continues to do this, one day it will not be able to pay its loans. The bailiff will come knocking.
The TV may disappear, and the family home may be sold. The children's education may be affected. The entire family suffers. When government spends more and more money to pay debt, it will have less and less money for essential spending.
There may be no medicine when you get sick. Old age and other allowances may be reduced or withdrawn. School grants may be cut. School buildings and hospitals will be neglected. Your children and grandchildren will fi nd it very diffi cult to get a job. Taxes may rise. The Fiji dollar may be devalued. The price of essential items will rise. Life in general will become very diffi – cult. Ordinary people, wherever they are, will suffer. We are already suffering from many of these things.
The rich will protect themselves
And there is another important issue. When there is an economic crisis, the rich are better able to adjust. They have medical insurance. They can afford to buy medicines from private chemists. They have assets that they can sell. They have savings that they can access.
Some have already secured permanent residences in another country. Many have cash already stashed away in overseas accounts. So, you guessed it. The ordinary people especially the poor and most vulnerable will bear the pain and suffering. They have no savings.
They have no assets to sell. They do not have external bank accounts. They have nowhere else to go. It is a grave injustice that the people who benefi tted the least from government's actions, will pay the most for its mistakes.
Disregard the Government's propaganda
It is therefore critical that we make this Government accountable for its actions. This government's propaganda will tell us that all is fi ne when we know better. The Government will tell us that we should not listen to people like me who sensationalise issues.
There is no sensationalism here. Zambia is a reality happening right now. And we may not be far behind. Please disregard the government's spin. Look for the truth and act on it now.
Register to vote. Please register to vote, and vote to clean up this mess, restore our financial health, remove the injustices on the people and reduce poverty.
 SAVENACA NARUBE is the former Governor of the Reserve Bank of Fiji and Leader of Unity Fiji. The views expressed are his own and do not necessarily refl ect the views of this newspaper.
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Bank of America Supplies $24M Acquisition Loan for Lower East Side Portfolio Buy
By Andrew Coen June 16, 2022 11:07 am
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Danny Fishman's Gaia Real Estate has nabbed $24.3 million of acquisition financing for its purchase of a three-building, mixed-use portfolio on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Commercial Observer can first report.
Bank of America provided the loan toward Gaia's $34.75 million acquisition of the three properties, which include 56 residential units and five retail spaces. The transaction marks the second for Gaia's New York Metro Recovery strategy that aims to redeploy capital from its recent successful exits in the Sun Belt with expectations that Manhattan's downtown rental market will experience tailwinds.
"We viewed this as the right price for a group of assets that fit within our New York Metro Recovery thesis and with such a compelling performance trajectory," David Kusy, partner at Gaia, said in a statement. "This will be a great addition to our growing portfolio in New York City."
JLL Capital Markets arranged the financing on behalf of the borrower with a team led by Scott Aiese, Alex Staikos and George Kordahl. The JLL Capital Markets also marketed the property on behalf of the seller with an investment sales team led by Bob Knakal, Guthrie Garvin, Jonathan Hageman, Jack Norton and Jacob Russell.
"Despite inflationary headwinds, the New York City multihousing market continues to be an attractive opportunity for savvy investors and sellers looking to capitalize on historic apartment demand as the city continues to prove its resilience and appeal as a world-class place to live, work and play," Garvin said in a statement.
Located at 102 Norfolk Street, 177 Ludlow Street and 99 Allen Street, the portfolio is situated near subway stations that service the J, Z, F, M, B and D trains. All three buildings are situated within a three-block radius.
"This is a high-performing portfolio of mixed-use assets located in a premier New York City neighborhood," Aiese said. "The borrower is well positioned to capitalize on the upward pressure inflation continues to place on apartment rents."
Officials for Bank of America did not immediately return a request for comment.
Andrew Coen can be reached at acoen@commercialobserver.com.
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Edwin Jackson finally bows out
Katrine Johns | September 10, 2022 | Sport | No Comments
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After playing for no less than 14 major league baseball teams, including the Toronto Blue Jays, pitcher Edwin Jackson announced his retirement on Saturday.
The 39-year-old right-hander of German origin surprised no one by bowing out. His last appearance on the mound for a major league team was on September 28, 2019, when he played with the Detroit Tigers.
A few months earlier, when he played his first game with the Queen City team, Jackson became the first player in Manfred Tour history to play for 14 teams.
"I'm happy to hang up my cleats today [Saturday] , he wrote on Instagram. I'm very grateful that 14 different organizations have allowed me to represent them."
Beyond playing a game with almost half of major league baseball teams, Jackson has participated in the All-Star Game in 2009 and helped lead the St. Louis Cardinals in 2011. He also had a scoreless game with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2010.
In addition to teams mentioned, Jackson played with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Tampa Bay Rays, White Sox and Chicago Cubs, Washington Nationals, Atlanta Braves, Miami Marlins, San Diego Padres, the Baltimore Orioles and the Oakland Athletics.
"It proves that I showed a lot of perseverance, he boasted. I never gave up. For me, the harder it was, the harder I worked, and the more I wanted to prove that I had what it took to score major league strikeouts."
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Q: How do I show a variable change I'm new to coding. I'm trying to make a website to track my homework. I want it to show what I have to do. This is my code.

To do now.

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var do="5";

how do I get "To do now." to 5.

A: You can't have Javascript just floating in an HTML file, as your browser won't know what to do with it. All Javascript should either be enclosed by

To do now.

<button type="button" onclick="changeText()">Click Here!</button>

I'm not too sure why you want to do this but I gave you this option anyway incase you did.
As you can see, I changed the do variable that you used to doo as you can't use the first version as a variable name. This is due to the fact that we use do as a keyword for loops. Check out w3's page on do/while loops here.
If you say you're new to programming then I thoroughly recommend using w3 schools HTML, CSS, and Javascript tutorials as once completed, you should have a much better understanding about how Javascript interfaces with HTML.

A: do is a predefined word in JavaScript, so you cannot use it as a variable. try something else. you can try this

To do now.

<button type="button" onclick="var doit='5'; document.getElementById('demo').innerHTML = doit;">Click Here!</button>

A: I don't recommend declaring functions in the html structure. It is better to put the JavaScript logic in the file separately, as in my example.

var inner = '5';

document.querySelector('button').onclick = function() {
  document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = inner;
}

To do now.

<button type="button">Click Here!</button>

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AMMAN, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Syrian rebels and al Qaeda-linked fighters clashed with Kurds in northern Syria on Thursday, activists said, in a battle for territory highlighting the country's descent towards sectarian and ethnic fiefdoms after two years of war.
The heavy fighting in the town of Atma on the border with Turkey's Hatay province followed outbreaks of internecine conflict by rival rebel forces elsewhere, which have undermined their military campaign to topple President Bashar al-Assad.
Even Assad's Sunni Muslim Arab opponents look increasingly divided after 13 rebel groups this week rejected the authority of the opposition coalition in exile and called for new Islamist leadership.
Six members of the PYD, a Syrian Kurdish force with close links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has fought for autonomy in neighbouring Turkey, were killed, activists said. The Kurdish news service Welati said three Kurdish civilians had been killed.
Kurds comprise around 10 percent of Syria's 23 million population. They are concentrated in Ifrin and other areas of the northwest, in parts of Damascus and in the northeastern oil producing area of Qamishli, where there has also been intense fighting between Kurds and Arab rebel units.
"There is a big degree of fragmentation among the rebels and within the al Qaeda fighters themselves. The situation has become so chaotic that today's enemy is tomorrow's foe and vice versa," said activist Abdallah Teif.
"These extremists are worse than the Assad regime. There is no excuse to back them," said Bahzad Ibrahim, a senior member of the Kurdish National Council, a grouping of moderate Kurdish factions that does not include the PYD.
"If the Kurdish forces moved close to Atma is it because of battlefield requirements, not because they have territorial ambitions," he said.


As a property manager, maintenance requests are part of daily life. Even the best-kept property will inevitably require some type of attention from time to time, whether it's a routine service call or an unexpected repair. Having a plan in advance for how you will handle these requests can minimize stress, move things along more efficiently and ensure that your tenants stay happy and loyal. If you haven't yet done so, here's a simple strategy to make the property maintenance process a breeze.
There are different options for this. While some property managers prefer to keep things casual and informal, having a policy that requires that all maintenance requests be formally submitted is a wiser choice. This is because formal requests can be tracked, whereas informal ones can easily slip through the cracks.
The process for handling maintenance requests should be specifically spelled out as part of your lease agreement so that all residents know what steps they need to take in order to have their request processed. The easiest and most efficient way to collect maintenance requests is via property management software. The tenant would simply go online, fill out the required form and click submit.
Be sure you also have an emergency policy in place in the even that a maintenance request requires immediate attention, such as a burst pipe or heating system failure in the winter time.
The next step in developing an efficient property maintenance process is determining who will be responsible for handling incoming requests. If you operate a small property management company, this might be yourself or one of your regular employees. If your firm is larger, you might designate an individual or dedicated team to handle these requests as part of their normal work duties. In either case, having a plan in place for who will check for incoming requests, as well as when and how frequently is important.
Last, but not least, you'll want to develop a workflow for how incoming property maintenance requests will be handled. Coming up with a proposed strategy for a variety of different scenarios is strongly recommended. For instance, make a list of possible repairs and strategize who should be contacted for each one. This will eliminate confusion and keep the process flowing quickly and smoothly.
Staying on top of the maintenance of the properties you manage is a critical component of success. The tips above should help you streamline the process and ensure that even the most unexpected situations are handled with ease.


On 12 March 2018, Soviet and Russian actor Oleg Tabakov (1935) passed away. Tabakov performed in both classic and modern plays and was artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre. His film career was equally impressive with roles as Count Nikita Rostov in Voyna i mir I/War and Peace (1966-1967) by Sergei Bondarchuk, and as the title figure in Oblomow (1981) by Nikita Mikhalkov. Tabakov was 82.
Russian postcard by Izdanije Byuro Propogandy Sovietskogo Kinoiskusstva, no. A 11212. Photo: B. Vilenkina, G. Ter-Ovanesova.
Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov (Russian: Олег Павлович Табаков) was born in Saratov, USSR (now Saratovskaya oblast, Russia) in 1935. His father, Pavel Kongratevich, and his mother, Maria Andreevna Berezovskaya, were medical doctors in Saratov. His parents separated during the Second World War, and young Tabakov was brought up by his single mother and grandmother.
Oleg attended the all-boys school in Saratov, and was active in the drama class. From 1950-1953 he studied acting at the Saratov House of Pioneers under the legendary acting coach Natalia Iosifivna Sukhostav. In 1953, Tabakov moved to Moscow and studied at the Moscow Art Theatre School.
In 1957 he graduated from the school, and became one of the founding fathers of the Sovremennik Theatre. There he played leading roles in such productions as Goly Korol (Naked King), Tri Zhelaniya (Three Wishes), Obyknovennaya istoriya (Ordinary story) and other contemporary Russian plays. From 1970 till 1976 Tabakov was General Manager of Sovremennik, he promoted Galina Volchek to Principal Director of the company.
He administrated the Sovremennik until 1982, when he moved to the Moscow Art Theatre, where he played Molière and Salieri for over 20 years. In 1986, Tabakov persuaded his students to form the Tabakov Studio attached to the Moscow Art Theatre. Several notable Russian actors including Yevgeny Mironov, Sergey Bezrukov, Vladimir Mashkov, Andrey Smolyakov and Alexandre Marine studied at the studio.
Tabakov also spread his theatre's ideals abroad. His teaching credentials include workshops and productions at the Paris Conservatoire, the British American Drama Academy, Akademie Der Künste in Hamburg, the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, Carnegie Mellon, The Juilliard School, New York University, Florida State University, The University of Delaware, and Harvard University.
Russian postcard by Izdanije Byuro Propogandy Sovietskogo Kinoiskusstva, no. 3744, 1963.
Russian postcard by Izdanije Byuro Propogandy Sovietskogo Kinoiskusstva, no. A 07154.
Oleg Tabakov played the lead role in the comedy-drama Gori, gori, moya zvezda/Shine, Shine, My Star (Aleksandr Mitta, 1970). Then followed parts in popular TV series as Semnadtsat mgnoveniy vesny/Seventeen Instants of Spring (Tatyana Lioznova, 1973), starring Vyacheslav Tikhonov, and D'Artanyan i tri mushketyora/D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich, 1978).
An international success was Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino/An Unfinished Piece for a Piano Player (Nikita Mikhalkov, 1977). His later films include the Academy Award-winning Moskva slezam ne verit/Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears (Vladimir Menshov, 1980), the international art house hits Oblomov (Nikita Mikhalkov, 1981) and Oci ciornie/Dark Eyes (Nikita Mikhalkov, 1986) starring Marcello Mastroianni.
Tabakov also played in the mock slapstick Western Chelovek s bulvara Kaputsinov/A Man from the Boulevard des Capuchines (Alla Surikova, 1987) about Mr Jonny First (Andei Mironov), who arrives in the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph. Over 40 million people in the USSR paid to see the feature.
Tabakov has lend his distinctive, purr-like voice to a number of animated characters, including the talking cat Matroskin in the animation film Kanikuly v Prostokvashino/Three from Prostokvashino (Vladimir Popov, 1980) and its sequels. After the Matroskin role he dubbed the character of Garfield into Russian in the feature film Garfield (Peter Hewitt, 2004).
During the 1990s, Oleg Tabakov was a strong supporter of democratic reforms and freedom in the new Russia. He made public speeches and was involved in many public events facilitating the cultural transformation of arts and theatres in Russia. He also continued to appear in films, such as in The Inner Circle (Andrey Konchalovskiy, 1991), about Stalin's private film projectionist (Tom Hulce), the TV movie Stalin (Ivan Passer, 1992) with Robert Duvall, and Taking Sides (István Szabó, 2001) with Harvey Keitel.
Oleg Tabakov was designated People's Actor of the USSR and Russia in the 1980s, and was decorated with the Order of Merit of Fatherland II degree, by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in 2005. During the 2012 Russian presidential election Tabakov was registered as a 'Trusted Representative' of Putin. In March 2014, he signed a letter in support of the position of Putin on Russia's military intervention in Ukraine.
His last films were the comedies Kukhnya v Parizhe/A Kitchen in Paris (Dmitriy Dyachenko, 2014) with Vincent Perez, and the sequel Kukhnya. Poslednyaya bitva/Kitchen. The Last Battle (Anton Fedotov, 2017).
In November 2017, Oleg Tabakov was hospitalised with sepsis. In December, Tabakov's condition deteriorated sharply - he fell into a pre-coma condition. On 12 March 2018, he died of a heart attack at age 82. The farewell ceremony took place at the Moscow Art Theatre named after Chekhov's historical stage where Tabakov worked as a artistic director and plays director for many years.
Oleg Tabakov was married twice. His first wife was actress Lyudmila Krylova (1960–1994) with whom he has two children. Their son Anton Tabakov is an actor and also a successful night-club owner in Moscow. Since 1994 Oleg Tabakov was married to actress Marina Zudina. The couple had two children, son Pavel (1996), and daughter Maria (2006).
Russian postcard by Izdanije Byuro Propogandy Sovietskogo Kinoiskusstva, no. M-51673. 3?X-64.
Russian postcard by Izdanije Byuro Propogandy Sovietskogo Kinoiskusstva, no. 1984. Publicity still for Gori, Gori, Moya Zvezda (Aleksandr Mitta, 1970) with Elena Proklova.
Sources: Steve Shelokhonov (IMDb), AllMovie, Wikipedia, and IMDb.


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Title: Bought
Keywords: Henry/Betty
Summary: Wilhelmina has spies everywhere. A 'what if.' (Despite that summary, this has more to do with Henry and Betty than you think.)
Disclaimer: Ugly Betty is the property of Silent H Productions, Reveille and Ventanarosa, and Touchstone Television. The story is mine.
Notes: Based on some speculation floating around. I just put a positive spin on it.
He never wanted to lie to her. He hasn't, not where it's counted. She just doesn't know everything about him, and he doesn't want her to know, because it would cost him everything. He's made every attempt to get close to her, to get to know her better and all the while he knows if she knew what he'd done....
Wilhelmina Slater is a ruthless woman. He's ever constantly reminded of Loxosceles sabina in her presence, and like the Tucson Recluse, she is a fascinatingly beautiful creature, but with a vicious bite.
She doesn't come right out and say it, what she wants. She insinuates and lets him fill in the blanks--and he's awfully good at that.
She says, "You like her, don't you? Betty?"
He tries not to give it away. He won't give it away, but she nods and smiles.
"I have nothing against inter-office romances. They're sweet. You'd make a good couple. Daniel might have something to say, though."
He doesn't believe a word she says, but he does start to understand. He swallows and it's as dry as dust.
"Of course, I'm sure he wouldn't object, not if he could be reassured that he'd still have his assistant when all is said and done. He dotes on her so much."
If that was meant to get a response from him, he ignores it, seeing it for what it is--a cheap attempt at calling up jealousy. It almost works, but he just grits his teeth and waits. She has a point she's about to make. He doesn't want to hear it, but he can't just leave. There's no telling what lies she might concoct for Bradford Meade and in Manhattan, job security just may be the most valuable commodity available.
She continues, "One would almost say she's his only confidant, wouldn't you, Henry?"
There it is. Wilhelmina just wants herself another spy. He knows exactly what the price is, what she's demanding, and though everything in him just wants to say no, God, no, there's no easy way out of this, no conceivable escape.
So he says, "It does seem so."
She says, "I know I don't have to stress to you how valuable you can be to this company, or how valuable Betty is to Daniel. He would be at a loss without her."
He answers, sick at heart, "Of course not."
Wilhelmina smiles. She turns away, saying, "Yes, you and Betty. Such a cute couple."
And just like that he's sold his soul.
Wilhelmina's right. He does like Betty. Too much.
He may have been trapped in a web of Wilhelmina's weaving, but there's no way that he's not going to struggle. He'll find a way out of this. He just hopes it's before Betty discovers what he's done. Because, bought or not, there's no way he's going to be what Wilhelmina's forced him to be and nothing, nothing, is worth the price of breaking Betty's heart.


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John Gilman
M, #69076, b. circa 1650, d. before 1698
John Gilman was born circa 1650 at Exeter, Rockingham Co., NH. He was the son of Edward Gilman and Elizabeth Smith. John Gilman married Grace York on 31 May 1675 at Newmarket Exeter, Rockingham Co., NH. John Gilman died before 1698 at Newmarket Exeter, Rockingham Co., NH.
Edward Gilman
M, #69077, b. circa 1648, d. 12 April 1692
Edward Gilman was born circa 1648 at Ipswich, Essex Co., MA. He was the son of Edward Gilman and Elizabeth Smith. Edward Gilman married Abigail Maverick on 20 December 1674 at Exeter, Rockingham Co., NH. Edward Gilman died on 12 April 1692 at Exeter, Rockingham Co., NH.
Child of Edward Gilman and Abigail Maverick
Catherine Gilman b. 27 Nov 1681, d. 22 Jul 1717
Daniel Gilman
M, #69078, b. circa 1652, d. circa 1684
Daniel Gilman was born circa 1652. He was the son of Edward Gilman and Elizabeth Smith. Daniel Gilman died circa 1684 at Exeter, Rockingham Co., NH.
Grace York
F, #69079, b. 1657
Grace York was born in 1657 at Exeter, Rockingham Co., NH. She married John Gilman, son of Edward Gilman and Elizabeth Smith, on 31 May 1675 at Newmarket Exeter, Rockingham Co., NH.
Jacob Gilman
M, #69080, b. between 1677 and 1682, d. between 1740 and 1743
Jacob Gilman was born between 1677 and 1682 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH. He married Mary Ladd, daughter of Nathaniel Ladd and Elizabeth Gilman, on 1 September 1704 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH. Jacob Gilman died between 1740 and 1743 at Kensington, Rockingham Co., NH.
Children of Jacob Gilman and Mary Ladd
Daniel Gilman b. 7 Aug 1705, d. 1797
John Gilman+ b. 15 Mar 1706/7, d. c 1765
Elizabeth Gilman b. 22 Mar 1708/9, d. 27 May 1773
Stephen Gilman b. 6 Aug 1713, d. 28 Jun 1758
Mary Gilman b. 19 Dec 1715, d. 20 Apr 1785
Jacob Gilman d. 7 Jul 1757
Abigail Gilman b. 7 Oct 1720
Dorothy Gilman d. 7 Jun 1735
Nathaniel Gilman b. 25 May 1726, d. b 1740
M, #69081, d. 7 July 1757
Jacob Gilman was born at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH. He was the son of Jacob Gilman and Mary Ladd. Jacob Gilman married Abigail Moody on 4 May 1742 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH. Jacob Gilman died on 7 July 1757 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH; Drowned in Great Pond.
F, #69082, d. 7 June 1735
Dorothy Gilman was born at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH. She was the daughter of Jacob Gilman and Mary Ladd. Dorothy Gilman died on 7 June 1735 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH; 'Throat Distemper'; 115 deaths from this disease in the yr.1735.
M, #69083, b. 7 August 1705, d. 1797
Daniel Gilman was born on 7 August 1705 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH. He was the son of Jacob Gilman and Mary Ladd. Daniel Gilman married Hannah Colcord on 22 April 1730 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH. Daniel Gilman died in 1797 at Gilmanton, Rockingham Co., NH.
M, #69084, b. 15 March 1706/7, d. circa 1765
John Gilman was born on 15 March 1706/7 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH. He was the son of Jacob Gilman and Mary Ladd. John Gilman married Sarah Stevens on 18 December 1735. John Gilman died circa 1765.
Children of John Gilman and Sarah Stevens
Nicholas Gilman+ b. 31 Oct 1736, d. 30 Apr 1786
Sarah Gilman b. 10 Sep 1738
Nathaniel Gilman b. 5 Apr 1741
Daniel Gilman b. Jan 1742/43
John Gilman b. 12 May 1745
Dolly Gilman b. c 1748
Samuel Stevens Gilman b. 9 Dec 1750
Sarah Gilman b. c 1752
Phineas Gilman b. 24 Aug 1755
Dolly Gilman b. 24 Aug 1755, d. 21 Oct 1849
Elizabeth Gilman
F, #69085, b. 22 March 1708/9, d. 27 May 1773
Elizabeth Gilman was born on 22 March 1708/9 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH. She was the daughter of Jacob Gilman and Mary Ladd. Elizabeth Gilman married Phineas Batchelder, son of Deacon Nathaniel Batchelder III and Elizabeth Foss, on 18 January 1727 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH. Elizabeth Gilman died on 27 May 1773 at East Kensington, Rockingham Co., NH, at age 64.
Stephen Gilman
M, #69086, b. 6 August 1713, d. 28 June 1758
Stephen Gilman was born on 6 August 1713 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH. He was the son of Jacob Gilman and Mary Ladd. Stephen Gilman married Mary French, daughter of Nathaniel French and Sarah Judkins, on 2 July 1742 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH. Stephen Gilman died on 28 June 1758 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH, at age 44.
Mary Gilman
F, #69087, b. 19 December 1715, d. 20 April 1785
Mary Gilman was born on 19 December 1715 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH. She was the daughter of Jacob Gilman and Mary Ladd. Mary Gilman married David Moody, son of Clement Moody and Sarah Clark, on 21 June 1733 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH. Mary Gilman died on 20 April 1785 at age 69.
Abigail Gilman
F, #69088, b. 7 October 1720
Abigail Gilman was born on 7 October 1720 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH. She was the daughter of Jacob Gilman and Mary Ladd. Abigail Gilman married Samuel Stevens on 26 April 1739 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH.
Nathaniel Gilman
M, #69089, b. 25 May 1726, d. before 1740
Nathaniel Gilman was born on 25 May 1726 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH. He was the son of Jacob Gilman and Mary Ladd. Nathaniel Gilman died before 1740.
Sarah Stevens married John Gilman, son of Jacob Gilman and Mary Ladd, on 18 December 1735.
Comment by DGB: Some trees list Sarah as the daughter of Samuel Stevens and Patience Gordon and that she was born 4 Jan 1700 at Roxbury MA. This would make her age 55 at the birth of her last child, which would have been unlikely. End of comment.
Children of Sarah Stevens and John Gilman
Susannah Dudley
Susannah Dudley married Jonathan Gilman, son of Nicholas Gilman and Elizabeth (????), on 9 November 1783.
Sarah Gilman
F, #69092, b. 10 September 1738
Sarah Gilman was baptized on 10 September 1738 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH. She was the daughter of John Gilman and Sarah Stevens.
Sarah Gilman died young.
M, #69093, b. 5 April 1741
Nathaniel Gilman was baptized on 5 April 1741 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH. He was the son of John Gilman and Sarah Stevens. Nathaniel Gilman married Hannah Dudley circa 1762. Nathaniel Gilman died at Mt. Vernon, Kennebec Co., ME.
M, #69094, b. January 1742/43
Daniel Gilman was baptized in January 1742/43 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH. He was the son of John Gilman and Sarah Stevens.
M, #69095, b. 12 May 1745
John Gilman was baptized on 12 May 1745 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH. He was the son of John Gilman and Sarah Stevens.
Dolly Gilman
F, #69096, b. circa 1748
Dolly Gilman was born circa 1748 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH. She was the daughter of John Gilman and Sarah Stevens.
Dolly Gilman died young.
Samuel Stevens Gilman
M, #69097, b. 9 December 1750
Samuel Stevens Gilman was baptized on 9 December 1750 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH. He was the son of John Gilman and Sarah Stevens.
Tailor, Farmer, Saw Mill Owner
Sarah Gilman was born circa 1752 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH. She was the daughter of John Gilman and Sarah Stevens.
Phineas Gilman
Phineas Gilman was born on 24 August 1755 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH. He was the son of John Gilman and Sarah Stevens.
F, #69100, b. 24 August 1755, d. 21 October 1849
Dolly Gilman was born on 24 August 1755 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH. She was the daughter of John Gilman and Sarah Stevens. Dolly Gilman died on 21 October 1849 at Kingston, Rockingham Co., NH, at age 94.


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