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September 17th is Constitution Day
Educational institutions are charged with instructing the youth of America about the Constitution on this day. It is an appropriate day, for Americans to take pause, to read and review the US Constitution, to consider what it is and what it is not, to consider the reasons why Our Founding Fathers used plain English to write the 4 pages they did.
"It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." Daniel Webster
They used words like shall and shall not. They wrote in a language that does not need "interpretation" but in interpretation has been misused. That simple, strong language clearly outlines the authorities, responsibilities, and restrictions imposed on each of the branches and elements of government. And yes, it is a living document, but not in the way that the "interpreters" would pretend.
It is a living document, because the Founding Fathers recognized that they could not foresee all changes in the world, but also that they knew that it would be tempting to those that attained the reins of power to alter and corrupt the document that restricted them. It is a living document in that it affords for a manner in which to alter it, but only if a high standard is met, and great consensus attained. It is not a document that allows alteration by interpretation.
"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." Thomas Jefferson
The US Constitution was not the first governing document of the United States. It replaced the Articles of Confederation. It would certainly be a worthy endeavor to review the Articles of Confederation, to review what the Founding Fathers quickly realized were not working, but today, our focus is on the words that did work.
Knowledge is power. Simple language is strong. It's difficult to twist the words of a document that clearly states what is and is not allowed. It's difficult to fool people who can clearly understand those words. Nevertheless, "constitutional lawyers" and politicians have made careers of doing so. And they can only succeed while the American People believe they can't understand what the Constitution says.
"A primary object... should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing.. than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the Country?" George Washington
In the preamble, one cannot help but notice that "We, The People" are the largest words they wrote, and are followed by the goals of the document. This was not by accident and is of considerable consequence. That which grants power can take power away. This short phrase, emphasized in great clarity and size, demonstrates that the Founders put the authority to grant authority of government in the hands of the citizenry, not lawyers, judges, or politicians.
This was in stark contrast to the governmental norms of the day, of monarchies and empires, which ruled subjects, upon the authority of God, whom they claimed had been chosen by birth. Citizens have responsibilities, to knowledgeably choose their representatives, while subjects, at great risk to their lives had to beg, in protests and demonstrations, for rulers, for kings, and dictators, to have mercy on their souls.
Article 1 defines the roles of Congress, of the House of Representatives of the People, and of the Senate, the representatives of the States. It prescribes that only Congress can make laws, not the executive branch. It prescribes that only the Representatives may initiate taxes. While Article 1 affords for Congress to determine how many days it was in session, it does not anticipate that Congress would be in session on a regular basis. Given the authorities and responsibilities of Congress, it was anticipated that they could carry out their business in short order.
It is also not of little consequence the name given the "lower" house, the more powerful house, the House of Representatives. The idea was that these individuals were to be representive of the people that elected them, that they live in the same places. While, it was certainly admirable for these politicians to be educated, it was more important that they be wise, and members of the same communities of the people. The requirement is not that they have a law degree, but that they live in the State they represent, are Citizens, and be at least 25 years old.
Senators had to be at least 30 years old and were originally chose by the State Legislatures. That later part was changed by Amendment in the early 20th Century. But why would the States choose Senators? Because the Senate was designed to be a representative body of the interests of State government. The State governments were closer to the people and had authority to govern domestic policy. The States gave revenue to the Federal Government to operate, to defend the Nation, and to execute Foreign Policy.
And Article 1 states that the Vice President shall preside over the Senate. The role of the Vice-President has changed since the first Congress convened, but that role has never been amended, even if it has been ceded in large part.
Article 2 defines the roles and responsibilities of the executive branch and prescribes that the President is to preside over the day to day governance of the government. It does not make him a ruler and greatly restricts his authority. It requires him to "faithfully" execute the laws passed by Congress, the laws of the Nation, and makes no exception for laws he doesn't like. It provides for
These first two articles are the longest and take up nearly the entire first two pages. They define how the Congress & Executive branches were to be chosen, as well as how they were to be dismissed, or tried, but most importantly what authorities they had.
Article 3 defines the judiciary and its authority, most specifically the Supreme Court of the United States, but not the courts of the states. It is important to note that it affords no authority over the internal mechanisms of the state, nor authority to make laws, but only authority that would derive from the authorities authorized the Federal Government, under the US Constitution. It provides the SCOTUS no authority to alter the US Constitution, or for judges to "interpret" it, but only to rule on its applicability, or the laws and treaties enacted under it.
It affords the judiciary authority to rule in matters only that the Constitution authorizes the Federal Government has authority to legislate. In other words, those things that involve mulitple states or the Federal Government are within its authority to judge, but not those things which are within individual states.
Article 4 requires the State Governments to do certain things, but limits the State Governments in few things, requiring all governments to respect those rights of the other states, and rights of the Citizens of the Nation. In short, it says: play nice with others.
Article 5 spells out how the Constitution can be amended, and sets a high bar for doing so. The Founders knew they couldn't have thought of everything, didn't want the whole Constitution to have to be re-written when a change was needed, nor to allow for it to be altered on a whim. And some things, they knew needed revision, after the political fervors of the day settled down, such as the issue of slavery.
Article 6 provides for payment of debts incurred under the previous government, under the Articles of Confederation. It reiterates that the Constitution overrides all other laws, and that the States have the authorities not given the Federal Government, that no treaty or other law can supercede the authorities and law of the Constitution, though those treaties and laws have the force of law where they do not contradict it.
Article 7 prescribes what constitutes ratification of the Constitution, making clear that the authority to enact it rests with the States. It was agreed to by the Convention on September 17th, 1787, eleven years after the War for Independence from England, a decade after the Colonies began self-governance, as a means to establish a common defense against foreign powers that might see the individual states as easy pickings to expand their empires.
But the Founders knew they were not done. They convened and wrote the Bill of Rights to further restrict the Federal Government, to strengthen the rights of the Citizenry, and preserve the rights of the States to govern in a Republican form of government. The Bill of Rights was finalized on March 4th 1789. It included 12 proposed Amendments, 10 of which were ratified.
The 1st Amendment and the 2nd are often misquoted, partially quoted, and misused. The 1st Amendment does not in any way state a "separation of church and state." It does state that Congress shall not establish a religion, nor infringe the free exercise of religion. It doesn't state that a court cannot have the ten commandments etched in stone or that a schoolteacher is restricted from praying.
It protects the freedom of speech, of saying the things one believes to be true, whether religious beliefs or political beliefs. It protects those rights whether exercised in a newspaper, in a church, or protest, or in the streets. But the only actions it protects are the actions associated with exercising the rights of religious beliefs, and with gathering to peaceably assemble and petition the government.
It doesn't protect anyone's right to burn things, to trespass another's property, or to commit crimes, but it does protect their right to pray to whomever they believe in.
And the 2nd Amendment makes very clear that the right of the People to bear Arms shall NOT be infringed.
The 3rd, 4th, and 5th Amendments protect private property from the Government, from the Military, and from all organs of all governments. It makes warrantless searches illegal, along with warrants that lack probable cause. It makes the seizure of private property, even if temporary, illegal, without due process. It puts the burden of proof on the government to prove why any of these things are necessary or just.
The 6th, 7th, & 8th Amendments provide for further rights against the whims of courts and law enforcement, to the rights of trial by jury, to not be forced to testify against oneself, to confront their accusers.
The 9th & 10th were so important, they said them twice, even after the Constitution had already said it: If authority is not granted to the Federal Government, then the authority rests solely in the hands of the People, or with the States.
The missing amendments, which were not ratified had to do with Congressional Representation and with how to pay Congress. Evidently, the States were less convinced that such things warranted amending the Constitution, than they did in protecting the rights of Citizens, from the potential tyrannies of Government.
The Bill of Rights were sent to the States on September 25th, 1789 and ratified on December 15th 1791. It wouldn't be until 1795, that the States determined to amend the Constitution again. The 11th Amendment clarified the restraints of the Judiciary
The 12th Amendment changed the manner of electing the President and Vice-President. One of the changes was that the Vice-President would no longer be the person who received the 2nd most votes for President, but would be the person who received the most votes for Vice-President.
It would be 70 years before another amendment would be ratified. The 13th Amendment finally ended slavery and was ratified on December 6th, 1865, after the end of the Civil War. The Founders probably did not expect that the change would take so long, since they provided that the change could be enacted in 1808. The last states to keep slavery legal were in the Union, as slavery had been banished in the South previous to the 13th Amendment. It also identified that those convicted of treason and other crimes could be stripped of their rights of Citizenship, and that those stripped of the right to vote by conviction, would also not be counted towards that state's number of representatives of Congress.
The 13th Amendment highlighted the need for the 14th which was ratified in 1868. It re-apportioned Representation to include all Citizens taxed, extended the Bill of Rights to protect against State Governments and re-iterated the rights of Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness to ALL Citizens.
The 15th Amendment also derived of the 13th. It prevented a Citizen's right to vote from being usurped because of race or previous conditions of slavery. In no way did it extend voting rights to non-citizens. It was ratified on February 3rd, 1870.
It would be another 43 years, before politicians decided to ratify new Amendments to the Constitution. The new Amendments would take a different direction. The new direction was to strengthen the Federal Government, rather than protect or establish the Rights of the People.
The 16th gives Congress the power to collect taxes, directly from the people. This moved the power of the purse from the States to the Federal Government. The 17th Amendment changed the manner in which Senators were chosen. The States would no longer choose representatives in the Senate, but instead Senators would be chosen in statewide elections. These Amendments were ratified in 1913.
The 18th & 21st Amendments cancel each other out. On January 16th, 1919, the 18th was ratified abolishing the legality of alcohol, while the 21st was ratified on December 5th 1933, abolishing the abolishment of alcohol. Why would the Constitution need to be amended for alcohol? Because the Constitution afforded no authority for the US Government or Congress to make alcohol illegal. The only authority Congress had on the subject, prior to Amendment, was to regulate and tax alcohol that crossed state lines. That authority ended at the state lines. The 18th Amendment was the first time that the Federal Government muscled its way into state governance.
The necessity of the 18th Amendment to ban a substance demonstrates why California can make marijuana legal within its borders.
The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. It presents a shift in the concept of how America perceived the choice of representation would be made. The Founders conceived that each household should have a say in choosing the individuals who would run the government, while the 19th Amendment changed this concept to each individual citizen. It was ratified in 1920.
The 20th & 22nd changed the effective dates of elected officials. It established January 20th as Inauguration Day and January 3rd as the first session of Congress, requiring them to meet at least once a year. The 22nd also limited the number of terms of the Presidency to 2 1/2, which would apply to every President, other than the one who held office on that day, Franklin D Roosevelt, who stayed for 4. The means of succession for elected officials were still be tinkered with. They were ratified in 1933 & 1951.
The 23rd Amendment changed the nature of the District of Columbia. It had originally been conceived of as an independent seat of government, governed solely by the Congress. In 1961, the residents of Washington DC were given a say in the election of the President.
The 24th Amendment gave the right to vote to Citizens that did not pay taxes. It still did not give a right to vote to non-citizens, to legal or illegal immigrants, but primarily it prevented a tax enacted to vote, even if it also prevented the removal of a right to vote on those that owed the Treasury of the United States millions of dollars in Income Taxes.
The 25th Amendment again tinkered with the means of succession of the President and Vice-President
The 26th Amendment changed the voting age from 21 to 18 and was ratified in 1971.
And the 27th Amendment took the longest to ratify. It was recommended by Congress to the States in July 1791 and ratified in December 1992. It took over 201 years for the States to ratify the Amendment that prevents Congress from changing its pay during its own term in office. Nevertheless, Congress still raises its pay on a regular basis, though they get far more income from other sources, than from their Congressional paycheck.
While reading the US Constitution, one should note what authority is granted the Federal Government, to Congress, to the President, and Supreme Court, as well as what is forbidden it, and what responsibilities it has, but as importantly what is not granted the Federal Government.
When one understands what is not authorized the Federal Government, one is less susceptible to slogans and propaganda of politicians and political parties. When one understands what Congress and the Government can and cannot do, they are less likely to fall for promises those politicians can't fulfill. When one understands that the Founders gave power to the lowest levels of government to maintain the power of governance in the hands of the People, as the People granted the power of governance, one should also understand that their vote has much greater power in the election of those local governments than the elections of national politicians.
Among those things that the Constitution does not grant to the Federal Government, even in all those Amendments, is authority to legislate the definitions of marriage, to legalize or illegalize agriculture, including marijuana, or to regulate the commerce that occurs within a state. It does not have the power to legalize or illegalize health procedures, or to set up a Federal education system. It does not afford authority to the Federal Government to enact speed limit laws or helmet laws. And anything the US Government does not have authority to govern is also outside the jurisdiction of Federal Courts.
Those are domestic governance issues and reserved to the state governments. So, how does Congress get around these restrictions? The power of the purse is pretty significant. The 16th Amendment gave the US Government the authority to tax the people directly, without restriction on how much or by what means. When Congress decided they wanted helmet laws or seat belt laws, they didn't write a law saying Citizens no longer had a right to pursue the happiness of the open road. They wrote a bill penalizing any State that didn't enact the legislation the insurance companies wanted, by withholding tax dollars back to the States.
When the Supreme Court ruled that abortion was legal, it did not rule that the US Government or the State Governments had the authority to determine what medical procedures were legal, but that the particular procedure was guaranteed as a right to privacy.
But what of the Defense of Marriage Act? How is that Constitutional? It is only legal in the sense that DOMA defines the limits of what financial benefits are afforded its employees. It would be un-Constitutional for Congress to define what constitutes the contractual obligations between two individuals of private Citizens. Each State has the authority to legislate the contractual obligations of Citizens in entities such as Corporations, Limited Liability Corporations, Sole Proprietors, Marriage, and Civil Unions, to shareholders, owners, customers, and spouses. Those state laws then define how those companies must interact with others involved in those contracts.
It would take a Constitutional Amendment to change those things, but Constitutional Amendments are what makes the Constitution a living document, not the "interpretations" of judges, lawyers, and politicians. Constitutional Amendments are what ended slavery, abolished alcohol, and abolished abolishment, as well as changed how politicians are elected and who has the power of the purse.
But what would happen if the US Government no longer had a Department of Education or a Department of Labor? It would no longer need to pay those bureacrats or pay for those buildings, or the electric bill, and hence would not need to collect the taxes to do so.
And if those taxes were not levied by the Federal Government, then the State Governments would have to and be able to collect them. Those State (or local governments) would not have to beg the Treasury for those dollars and would be able to collect those taxes for themselves. Those State Governments, elected by the Citizens of those states would then be more responsive to their own Citizens for the things they are responsible to providing, than to Congress and the Federal Government.
And what would your recourse be if you believed strongly that alcohol should be abolished but the Federal Government had no authority to do so? Then you would lead the campaign to convince those with the authority to do so; your State Government or your city government. And what would you do if the Federal Government had no authority, department, or budget to beg for money for a school in your neighborhood? Then you would campaign your fellow citizens to rally your State or Local politicians to raise the taxes for the school you believe is needed, rather than beg bureacrats in DC to grant your city a school.
But what of all that money your Congressmen bring home? That money you call pork when its a bridge to nowhere in another state? That money is less than the taxes your state pays to get the money back. That money could instead be state or city revenue. It's easy to complain when your tax dollars pay for a turtle tunnel in Florida, but much easier to fix when the taxes paid by you are controlled by the politicians that live in your city or your state.
So, why do the states that have the greatest tax burden also elect the politicians that want to accelerate the growth and taxes of the federal government the most? Aren't those voters tired of those taxes? Or do they envy the Citizens of States that pay the least in state taxes? Do the voters of California really want the voters of Texas to be able to choose their school books? Or do those voters in California believe that if they can spread the burden, they can tell the voters of Texas what books they must use?
Today is Constitution Day. Don't take my word for what it says. Read it yourself. And as you read it, think about the reasons why the Founders restricted the powers of the Federal Government, why they reserved the Rights to the People, and to the States. Think about who benefits most from your vote, who listens more to your voice: The President, The Governor, or The Mayor.
We the People are the sole authority by which the government exists. We the people grant that authority and can rescind that authority. We the people determine who we send to Congress. And when We the People understand Our power, then we will no longer accept the abuses of those that have attained the reins of power. But Citizens have a responsibility, to educate themselves on who wishes to represent them in Congress. If we do not maintain our knowledge of what the politicians are doing, we have abdicated our ability to hold them responsible for their abuses. If we blindly trust a politician or a party to rule benevolently, we will be snookered, we will be robbed blind, and chained.
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I'd like to, but the reason I haven't done a Hanmyo smiley yet (aside from the fact she's a minor character) is her proportions. Which is why I haven't tackled Jim yet. Kid faces are very different so I'm not sure how difficult Jim will be. Before Hanymo I'd certainly do the Jim set since that gives me a bit of a template.
As you probably guessed I used Gene as the template. Made his face more fat/puffy for more childlike proportions and increased the eye size. The hair has been modified but it currently has no shading. Skin tone changed and smile has been changed to a smirk which I thought was more like Jim, but otherwise this doesn't really look like Jim yet. This is only a ten-minute job though.
Unlike other OLS projects I'll be able to work on sprites while I'm staying with family over Christmas. (During any free time anyway.) Plenty more to come.
For now I'm gonna move onto a different character. Ideas?
Ooh! Can you do Hilda?
Hilda's a good idea. One character at a time, though. Here's a new WIP of Jim also with some shading added to his hair. But there isn't that much since there isn't much on Gene.
I'm not sure what else to do. I want to refine it before making other expressions, but I'm not as good of a pixel artist as, say, Skatetro who did the Aisha smilies. My Jim looks more like a teenager but I can't do a whole lot else to make him childlike.
I think I've finished Jim's face. Made it a little less teenage-y. Also done what might be his grinning smiley.
This is a very early Hanmyo smiley, so take it with a pinch of salt. Hanmyo has a lot of detail unlike Jim so I'm not sure when I'll get round to finishing it, but I thought I'd post an early version now anyway. Suggestions welcome.
Okay, now it's official: Jim is in the smiley roster.
I'll probably make a site update for this, but I've not done all of them yet. While I'm happy with most of them, I'm not 100% sure about the grin smiley (also the WTF smiley) and I've still gotta do the lovesick and sick smilies. Also the tongue/rasping one. I'd do them now but since it's New Year's Eve I don't have the time today.
Early version of the Black Point smiley. Cool points if you actually know what this is.


A fast-paced, very readable book that shows how to "beat the affluence bug" and achieve healthier, happier lives.
affluenza, n. a painful, contagious, virally transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.
Based on two highly acclaimed PBS documentaries, Affluenza uses the whimsical metaphor of a disease to tackle a very serious subject: the damage done -- to our health, our families, our communities, and our environment -- by the obsessive quest for material gain that, since World War II, has been the core principle of the American Dream. The authors show that problems like loneliness and rising debt, longer working hours and environmental pollution, family conflict and rampant commercialism are actually symptoms caused by a single "disease": affluenza, the never-ending search for more.
Like any medical report, Affluenza begins by detailing the symptoms of the disease. Chapters with titles like Swollen Expectations, A Rash of Bankruptcies, Shopping Fever, Chronic Congestion, and An Ache for Meaning detail the many serious and unexpected consequences of our society's compulsive desire to acquire.
Deepening their diagnosis, the authors explore the origins of affluenza. What causes it? Where did it come from? Why has it only recently begun to spread, seemingly unchecked, throughout the entire world?
Thankfully, affluenza can be cured. If it turns out you do have the bug - the book includes a self-diagnosis test so you can find out -- the authors detail a number of treatments that offer hope for recovery. They show readers how millions have already enriched their lives by getting rid of the excess baggage, the cultural clutter, and the exhausting race to keep up with the Joneses. Affluenza offers prescriptions that deliver greater value for the money, time, and energy spent each day; for augmenting individual efforts with political remedies; for inoculating ourselves against advertising; for using technology and inspired design to minimize the side-effects of overconsumption; and more.
Engaging, fast-paced, and accessible, Affluenza takes a hard look at a complex and serious issue, revealing ways of living and working that make more sense and are, ultimately, more satisfying. After all, the best things in life aren't things.
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"Dear Mrs Worth, your son asked if I would write and tell you he is in this hospital. He has been rather badly wounded … He is quite my best patient, never grumbles or complains and is so grateful for anything we do for him, and my one regret is, that I have not time, with all my other patients, to do everything I would like to do, for them all. When you write to him do not mention his paralysis, he asked me not to tell you, his words were 'Tell mother about me Sister but make it as OK & bright & hopeful as you can, don't tell her about my old limbs', which made me nearly cry." - Sister Narrelle Hobbes, Australian Army Nursing Service
On 25 April 1915, with the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) below the slopes of Sari Bair on the Gallipoli peninsula, the ANZAC legend was born. Nine months later, having suffered thousands of casualties from disease, hand-to-hand fighting, bombing, sniping and forlorn charges across no man's land, the politicians and senior military commanders in London called it quits. While the Turks also suffered terribly, they at least emerged victorious.
The fighting at Anzac was not restricted to the ANZACs and Turks alone. British troops also fought at Anzac from the earliest days of the invasion and large numbers of British and Indian troops were committed to the Anzac sector during the failed August offensive designed to break the stalemate. The invasion was also supported by large numbers of men — often non-combatants — who performed vital roles. Naval beach officers kept logistics operating in some form of 'orderly' fashion; Indian mule handlers moved supplies of food, water and ammunition to the front lines; and medical staff and army chaplains worked on the beach, caring for the wounded and the dead. All these men were frequently under fire from the Turkish battery known as 'Beachy Bill'. Others surveyed the narrow beachhead and bored deep holes for drinking water; signallers tried desperately to establish and maintain communications; and the gunners hunted the battlefield for suitable places to site their guns. Off the peninsula, but just as vital, were the nursing and medical staff on the hospital ships, at Lemnos, Alexandria, Cairo and Malta, and the airmen who flew above the battlefield spotting for the navy and artillery.
Shadows of Anzac: an intimate history of Gallipoli tells the story of the 'ordinary' men and women who participated in the Gallipoli campaign from April to December 1915 and gave the Anzac legend meaning. Drawing on letters, diaries and other primary and secondary sources, David Cameron provides an intimate and personal perspective of Anzac, a richly varied portrayal that describes the absurdity, monotony and often humour that sat alongside the horrors of the bitter fight to claim the peninsula.
Part 1. Invasion
1. 'The Light Horse after being left'
2. 'The country thereabouts is ... hairy'
3. 'Throw the forces which land there into the sea!'
4. '... a single shot broke all stillness'
5. 'I was still asleep ...'
6. 'Ahh, it's chilly'
7. '... three wounds in all'
8. '... and this, by the way, was about the only bit of scouting I got to do on the first day'
9. '... probably he is still over there'
10. 'We were advancing towards a landing force 100 times more numerous than us'
11. 'I believe he lost his life on this ridge ...'
12. 'This was the moment of our triumph'
13. '... drawing the enemy's fire'
14. '... the art of shrapnel dodging commences
15. 'Can't you leave a chap alone!'
16. '... so ended the most glorious day of my life'
17. 'Wiggle, waggle boys, the B____s can't shoot ...'
18. '... a lone voice answered'
19. 'I have no idea when the sun crossed over the west today'
20. 'Hannah put a pick through his foot ...'
21. '.. the water, lashed into white spray, caused a curiously pretty effect'
22. '... lacerated mass of wounded humanity'
23. 'Oh Great God of the Turks!'
Part 2. Stalemate
24. 'Who owns these bleedin' donkeys?'
25. 'leaving us "spooks" to take care of ourselves ...'
26. 'The say there are about 200 left ...'
27. 'A thousand years passed ...'
28. '... the task was extremely difficult, if not impossible'
29. '... at the moment the situation is favourable'
30. 'We are in an uncomfortable position with no cover'
31. '... dirty enough to be a Turk'
32. 'The searchlights continued to give us a lot of trouble'
33. 'Water question serious'
34. 'His name, I found, was "Munto, ad he was of "lost cast"'
35. 'The leader was within about five feet before spotting me'
36. 'Attended funeral of poor Simpson'
37. '... here the sight was awful'
38. '... sent me a message to say Phil Robins was killed'
39. '... our friend, the enemy'
40. '... a large number of petrol tins provided'
41. 'He is quite my best patient ...'
42. '... don't leave me boys, the enemy will finish me!'
43. '... all of us seemed to have an attack of coughing'
44. 'He gave Porkie a once over and ambled off'
45. 'Up the gully they are allowed one water bottle per day'
46. 'He will advance from here'
47. '... the war will be over by this time next year'
48. Yours sincerely (Sister) Narrell Hobbes'
49. '... better to trust to the loving kindness of Abdullah'
Part 3. Offensive
50. 'That Chaplain was "Fighting Mac" the Salvationist'
51. 'Left weak.Turks massing for attack on left'
52. 'Will, the old Turks have played the game pretty straight'
53. '... I could see defeat printed across the sky
54. '... the first and last battle I was ever in'
55. 'It doesn't look good'
56. '... it is better to lose your leg than your life!'
57. '... having all been killed'
58. 'Dear little wife and kiddie ...'
59. 'Not a man stirred'
60. '... their first two lines fell almost in a heap'
61. '... found a bullet wound in the middle of the breasy'
62. 'Six of the slightly wounded earned the highest decoration'
63. 'I had a peculiar sensation of someone standing over my body'
64. '... a sticky muddy mass of blood, soil, ammunition ad gear of all sorts'
65. '... it was impossible to avoid treading on them'
66. 'I am going to recommend you for the Victoria Cross'
67. '... the ship glides on in silent darkness;'
68. 'I don't know whether he lived or not ...'
69. 'Another convoy - lot of badly wounded ...'
Part 4. Decline
70. '... only patch of good ground I could discover'
71. '... soldier of the King'
72. '... fell still facing the foe'
73. 'Is it only one trench you want us to take?'
74. 'He had brushed past me quickly ...'
75. 'We often don't get bread'
76. 'He's a strange chap ...'
77. 'All doors to happiness are shut to me'
78. '... guns of all calibres concentrated upon Lone Pine
79. '... thud of bullets has had a sharper, crisper ring in the frosty air'
80. 'Continuously belches smoke'
81. 'Frost-bites are the worst ...'
82. '... the reaction after the shock was too much for him'
83. '... four days out from Fremantle and Australian soil'
84. 'If the sand could be made to trickle ...'
85. 'All feel the leaving very mich ...'
86. 'The crosses of the graves ... seemed to stand out brighter and larger than ever'
87. 'It was a lonely feeling'
88. '... telling us to scram'
89. 'I will always remember those men ... the pick of the whole force'
90. 'I've kept it as a memento'
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Ireland is planning to move 200,000 tonnes of its oil reserves from Britain as part of its Brexit preparations and will sign off on the move this week, Ireland's Sunday Independent newspaper reported.
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Around 500,000 tonnes of Ireland's 1.5 million tonnes of oil reserves are currently held overseas, the report said.
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A couple of years ago, I read The Miracle Morning — a super motivational book about creating positive life changes by adopting a consistent morning routine. The author, Hal Elrod, describes how he picked six activities commonly considered the most effective self-help practices — meditation, affirmations, visualization, reading, journaling, and exercise — and began doing them first thing in the morning, for just ten minutes each. That meant he was spending the first hour of his day on his own personal growth and development.
Why is this an awesome idea? Think about how you spend your mornings. Most of us hit the snooze button a few times, stumble out of bed, rush to get out of the house on time, fight traffic, arrive at work already feeling stressed, and then start reacting to whatever the day throws at us. It's hectic, stressful, and reactionary rather than intentional. We're reacting to circumstances rather than choosing how we spend our time. That was me for a long time, even after I started working from home (just minus the traffic part).
Before I go any further, I need to make it clear that I have never been a morning person. Waking up has never come easily for me. I do not spring out of bed alert and ready to start the day (although that is starting to change … more on this later). I took exactly one first-period class my freshman year of college (Intro to Computer Science) and thereafter successfully arranged my schedule so I didn't need to use an alarm clock for the rest of my college career. Several years ago, when I was super into hot yoga, I used to get up and attend a 6am Bikram class, until it was cancelled due to poor attendance (sometimes on the part of the instructor). But generally, I have never loved mornings.
But Elrod's book got me thinking about mornings differently. When you spend the first hour of your day working on yourself, things happen. You feel less stressed and more in control. You set the tone for your day. You get more done. You can be proactive and design your day with intention instead of reacting to everything around you.
Elrod's book goes into more detail on why these practices are beneficial and how things like affirmations and visualization work. I won't go into all of that here. If you're interested in his recommendations for his "miracle morning" routine, you can read his book or find a blog post that describes it — I'm sure there are tons of them out there.
Rather, I wanted to discuss how I've adapted Elrod's recommendations to work for me. As a writer, I knew ten minutes of journaling was not going to be enough for me. I need at least double the time for journaling, plus actual writing time (which to me is different than journaling time).
Lately, I've been getting up at 5:30, since my morning routine takes at least two hours. And you know what? I LOVE it. When I devote time to my own personal growth and creative work first thing in the morning, I feel more balanced, less stressed, and more productive. Doing my creative work first eliminates the risk that I won't get it done later in the day because I work too late or I'm too tired or brain dead to write. Not only that, but doing my creative work first energizes me to do everything else I need to do.
So here's how I do it. And if you're wondering how I made the switch to getting up at 5:30 every morning, keep reading.
I do the recommended ten minutes of free writing. This is akin to Julia Cameron's concept of morning pages, but instead of three pages, I just do one.
Next, I write down my top ten life goals. Yes, every day. There's a specific way of doing this — they must be written in the first person and in the present tense. I cover this in more detail in another post.
If you have time to do just one thing in the morning, do this. This is something I've been doing for years, and it's astounding to look back and see how many of my goals have come to fruition. I wanted to go on a yoga retreat to Costa Rica. Check. (And I've been back to Costa Rica three more times.) I wanted to work from home. Check. I wanted work that I enjoy that is related to health and wellness. Check. I wanted to be self employed without the burden of constantly having to look for work. Check. Now, several of my top goals are related to finishing my novel, finding an agent, and getting it published.
If you've never meditated before, don't worry. Meditation can be as simple as sitting in silence and focusing on your breath for a few minutes.
Meditation has been shown to promote numerous benefits, both physical and psychological. Meditation literally changes the brain, creating new neural pathways that help decrease anxiety, enhance empathy and understanding, and promote feelings of calm and centeredness.
A lot of people think they can't meditate because they can't turn off all the thoughts in their brain. No one can. Not without years of practice. When you find your mind wandering, just notice it without judgement, and bring your attention back to your breath. Guided meditations can help with this, especially if you're new to meditation.
I like Insight Timer for meditation. It's free, and there are literally hundreds of guided meditations you can try — ranging from one minute long to an hour or more. You can choose from meditations that address topics such as stress, clarity, focus, motivation, emotional healing, grief, sleep and relaxation, patience, gratitude, and more. Or you can just use the timer. I usually pick a guided meditation that's around ten minutes long and then follow it with another five minutes on the timer, during which time I do some visualization around my biggest life goals.
This is typically devoted to some sort of self help or personal development book. In many cases, the type of books I read may involve some additional writing or meditation exercises. Some of my recent favorites include The Four Desires and The Untethered Soul. I may also read some books or articles related to writing.
Now it's time for actual writing. Or actually editing, since my manuscript is currently in revision. Obviously ten minutes isn't enough to get any significant work done, so I usually aim for an hour. More often than not, once I get going, I don't want to stop. But after a while, the dog gets up and starts staring at me, and I start feeling like I really need a shower.
I suppose you could count this as exercise. Depending on how long it takes Murray to do his business, we may be outside for half an hour, but we're usually moving at a leisurely pace. I may use this time to do some more "reading" via an audiobook — again, often something related to personal growth or writing.
So how do I make this all happen before 8am? Obviously, getting to bed early is a big part of it, as are proper nutrition and hydration, so I feel my best and have more energy. But the thing that has made the biggest difference lately in my energy level and my ability to get up in the morning has been intermittent fasting. Or, more accurately, time-restricted feeding. When I'm fasting, I leave at least 16 hours between dinner and breakfast the next day. This may mean that I don't eat anything until noon, if I finished eating dinner at 8pm the night before.
Intermittent fasting has been scientifically proven to deliver numerous health benefits — among them, greater energy and mental clarity. When your body isn't constantly busy with digestion, it can devote energy to other things, such as cellular repair and rejuvenation. But, you have to wait at least 16 hours between meals to see real benefits. I do allow myself coffee in the morning, usually with a half-scoop of collagen powder. Anything more than 50 calories will break your fast.
I will also note that for the past 18 months or so I have been on a ketogenic diet, which makes intermittent fasting much easier, because I'm rarely hungry. If you're curious about keto, you can learn more about it on my nutrition blog.
Another point I want to make is that "I'm not a morning person" is a story I have been telling myself my entire life. As long as I continue to say it and believe it, it will continue to be true. So while I've used these words here to illustrate the significance of the change I made in my morning routine, it is something I now avoid saying to myself or in conversations with others.
We all have these types of limiting beliefs, which we often aren't even aware of, and which can hold us back from accomplishing everything we want. If you find yourself saying something akin to "I'm not a morning person" or "I could never get up that early," ask yourself if this is really true. Does it need to be true? What can you do to change it?
Do you have a morning routine? If not, do you think you could adopt one?
Karen Eisenbraun is a professional writer and a Certified Holistic Nutrition Consultant. She has written on the subjects of nutrition, yoga, and natural living for many leading websites, including Livestrong.com. She is the Director of Content for a Platinum-level HubSpot partner agency specializing in healthcare marketing, and has been named one of the top 50 Inbound Marketing experts on Twitter.
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Freeplane Open Source Plugin for Freeplane Freeplane|GTD is an open source development project (GPL v.3) to create a Freeplane plugin for extracting GTD-style Next Action lists from a mind map. A Freeplane version 1.2.x add-on is available at SourceForge. Overview Like the previous project (FreeMind|GTD), Freeplane|GTD is a tool for implementing a GTD system with a mind map. The difference is that Freeplane|GTD is a plugin for Freeplane, so you can work off-line and locally. 6 Hands-On Tools and Activities for Teaching Web Literacy Creative Commons Licensed Image Source One of the most important skills of the 21st century — web literacy — is often overlooked in the classroom. The ability to read, write and participate online is an indispensable skill for learners, but it's curiously absent from many educators' curricula.
What is Mind Mapping? by Luciano Passuello A mind map is a graphical way to represent ideas and concepts. It is a visual thinking tool that helps structuring information, helping you to better analyze, comprehend, synthesize, recall and generate new ideas. Just as in every great idea, Doodle – Silly Name, Powerful Tool (for Finding Times to Meet, Work) Have you ever found it frustrating trying to get a group together and not being able to find a date and time that works for everyone? Have you had to run around in circles chasing emails all over and trying to hunt people down to offer times they can meet? Well that stops now. Doodle is free and easy to use. It's a little work for the user who creates the poll – you have to create your free account, provide a brief description of the meeting, then indicate valid dates and times the users can choose from.
Guest Post: 3 Ways to use MindMapping to Improve your Workflow The concept of mindmapping was created based on neuroscience and how the brain functions. The brain works based on synaptic connections. One thoughts connects to another and another and another, creating the cohesive thoughts and actions that we are aware of. Trying to organize our life around lists can be difficult as it's so very limiting and contrary to how the brain functions. Mindmapping, on the other hand, mimics how our brain creates connections, which enables us to improve how we function.
September APP ED REVIEW Roundup – Apps for Video Creation Projects Few strategies can get students more engaged in the classroom than creative projects. Teachers can embrace the Information Generation's learning preferences by integrating these video-creation apps below into their assignments, which can really amp up classroom engagement! Plus, differentiating classroom projects that include videos allows students to demonstrate their learning in unique ways– teaching an important process, making an interactive video focused on classroom content, or explaining findings as a newscast — instead of a traditional paper-and-pencil report. Remember, each and every app reviewed by App Ed Review is analyzed against a comprehensive rubric in a consistent, informative manner by a panel of state-certified teachers. In addition, each review includes 3-5 instructional ideas for how to integrate the app into your teaching!
10 Productivity Tips for Working with Large Mind Maps A while ago, I wrote a series of posts helping individuals get the most out of their mapping efforts. Today, I'd like share 10 productivity tips and best practices for working with large mind maps. As illustrated by the image above, mind maps can become substantially difficult to work with when the number of topics exceeds 60. At this size should you try and use MindManager's Fit Map view, the type size decreases so much so that it becomes difficult to read. If you Zoom In to increase the type size, however, you lose context, or the "big picture" ability to view each topic in relation to all the other topics.


The turbulent events of 1965-68 and their impact on people's lives decades later.
A Jakarta journalist writes a novel to elude the censors as he reports on the 1991 Dili massacre in East Timor.
Tragic love story set during the 1950s rebellion in Sumatra.
Trilogy of novels set during the turmoil of the 1960s.
First in a trilogy about life in a Javanese pesantren (Islamic boarding school).
Melodramatic tale of a young orphan in 1964 Indonesia when Soekarno was inciting nationalistic anti-Western fervor.
An Australian woman holidaying in the Banda Islands meets an old Javanese woman with a captivating, tragic life story.
Inspector Singh of the Singapore Police is sent to Bali to assist with an investigation into a nightclub bombing but is soon probing the shooting murder of a British expat.
Old gay expats in Bali and the rentboys they seek. And murder and alcoholism.
An 18-year-old Australian girl joins a Christian missions trip to Maluku, just in time to get caught up in the 1999 sectarian violence.
Humorous and moving account of boyhood and schooling on Belitung Island. Plot slightly altered when translated into English in 2010. Semi-autobiographical.
Based on true accounts of the sectarian violence that erupted in the Maluku islands after the 1998 fall of Soeharto.
A snake brooch has evil magical powers. Not recommended for people averse to superstitious claptrap.
Thriller about a British expat in Indonesia in the period following Soeharto's resignation.
Political thriller involving expats caught up in the turmoil of Indonesia's 1998 transition to democracy. Not highbrow literature but a good yarn.
Political repression, sexual repression and giving up religion. Ushered in the 'sastra wangi' (fragrant literature) genre that tackles topics previously taboo for women writers.
Comprises: The Timor Man (originally The Tim-Tim Man), Freedom Square (originally Merdeka Square) and Jakarta. An interpreter at the Australian Embassy in Jakarta in the 1960s, Collison later went into business in Indonesia. In the late 1990s he began writing political thrillers based partly on real events.
A story of Dutch colonial life in Java from 1869 to 1918. Translated into English in 2010.
A priest in Yogyakarta must decide which side to take during the transition from colonial rule to independence.
Humorous tale of corruption, involving British, French, American and Japanese oil companies chasing a lucrative contract in Indonesia. Worth tracking down a copy.
The quartet of novels comprises: This Earth of Mankind, Child of All Nations, Footsteps, and House of Glass. Indonesia's greatest literary work. Pramoedya was jailed by the Soeharto regime, which also banned his books.
The misery of a young Dutch boy in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps in Batavia.
The war in the Dutch East Indies in 1945 after the Japanese left; semi-autobiographical.
Life in Jakarta among foreign residents in the interregnum during Soekarno's exile after the 1965 coup.
Journalists waiting for the revolution in 1965, which saw the downfall of President Soekarno.
Life in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Sukabumi in World War II. Basis of the 1983 movie Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence.
A classic of the beauty, superstition and violence of the Spice Islands of Maluku.
A peasant and his family are caught up in the Dutch massacre of Bali's last independent kingdom in 1906.
Indonesian style 'Romeo and Juliet' looks at the injustice of forced marriages and colonialism.
Explores the cultural gap between the repressive Dutch colonists and the mystical Javanese.
A young British seaman becomes leader of a group of Malays and Bugis in the fictional country of Patusam, likely Berau in what is now Indonesian Borneo (Kalimantan). Available as a free ebook.
A Dutchman escapes poverty in his home country, only to find trouble in the Dutch East Indies.
The life of a Dutch trader looking for gold in Borneo, and his relationship to his native wife and their daughter.
A youth of Javanese-Arabic descent is schooled in Holland but upon returning to the Indies he is treated as a second-class citizen, converts to Islam and becomes a radical.
Dutch colonial life in the 19th century.
One of France's greatest writers pens a fantasy trip to Java and admires the local women.
Semi-autobiographical tale of local government corruption, cruelty and poverty in colonial Java.


Tesco and Morrisons continued to outperform their rival "big four" supermarkets over the last quarter, as heavy snowfall failed to freeze grocery sales, according to industry data compiled by Kantar Worldpanel.
However, the latest grocery market share figures from Kantar Worldpanel, for the 12 weeks to March 25, indicated that the winter storm dubbed "the Beast from the East" forced many consumers to change their shopping plans.
Fraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar Worldpanel, said: "In the run up to and during the cold snap, shoppers stockpiled groceries buying 4% more items than normal, increasing the average value of a trip from £14.99 to £15.80. However, they simultaneously visited stores 5% less often as they stayed wrapped up at home, meaning overall lost sales from the storm were minimised to £22 million.
The earlier Easter was also good news for anyone selling Easter eggs or hot cross buns in March.
The discounters – Aldi and Lidl – continue to make their mark with both retailers achieving new market share highs. Growing sales by 10.7%, Aldi increased market share by 0.5 percentage points to reach a 7.3% share of the market, while Lidl clocked in year-on-year sales growth of 10.3% to reach a 5.3% share.
Over the past 12 weeks Tesco experienced a sales increase of 2.4% to hold market share steady at 27.6% – the first time it has held share since December 2016 – attracting an additional 262,000 customers through its doors, Kantar said. The retailer saw sales growth of branded goods overtake own-label groceries for the first time since June 2015.
Morrison's also saw sales increase by 2.4% with a resulting market share of 10.4%. Growth at the retailer was helped by a strong performance in online sales, with Morrison's e-commerce offering proving particularly popular among younger, more affluent shoppers.
Despite encouraging shoppers to up the size of their baskets by 2.4% – the fastest increase experienced among the big four – Asda's market share fell back by 0.2 percentage points to 15.6%. Sainsbury's also saw market share drop – down 0.3 percentage points to 15.8% – despite sales growth of 0.6%.
The retailer has continued its move away from promotions: only 32.7% of sales at Sainsbury's were achieved while a product was on offer.
Co-op saw sales increase by 0.1%, with the disposal of 300 stores to McColl's still affecting its performance. Waitrose also experienced sales growth – up 1.5% year-on-year – while its market share fell by 0.1 percentage points to 5.0%. After two years of continuous growth, Iceland saw sales fall by 0.8% over the past 12 weeks and dropped market share to 2.1%.


Living with TMJ can be a very debilitating and extremely painful experience but do not have to worry because there are many treatments to for TMJ relieve. Any of these treatments can help you overcome the pain that is caused by TMJ. Although it can take expense and time to find the right TMJ treatment for your particular case, you can be sure that there is a treatment that will work for you. Here are some of the treatments that can help you get relieved from TMJ.
This type of treatment consists of advanced technologies used in detecting any joint or jaw misalignment and diagnose muscular malfunctions. Specialist work to find out the source of your TMJ beyond the conventional means. The treatments are focused on correction of the source of TMJ disorder. Such technologies include jaw tracking, sonography, and electromyography technology. If you are in San Antonia you can visit TMJ relief San Antonio.
Treatments to correct the TMJ source may include orthotics to temporarily realign overlapping or misaligned bites, orthodontics that permanently corrects malocclusion and a custom-made bite guard that prevents you from grinding your teeth at night. The bite guard is important if teeth grinding is the cause of your TMJ and it helps you break this habit and prevent any further damages if teeth grinding is not the cause.
Another treatment is the transcutaneous electrical neural stimulation, TENS which stimulates your jaw muscles and increase blood flow as well as promoting toxin and waste removal from your muscles. This relaxes the muscles hence offer immediate relief to most TMJ symptoms.
This consists of head and neck adjustments and manipulations to help correct any misalignment that may exist in your head, jaw and neck areas that are the possible sources of TMJ. Massage of the malfunctioning or weak muscles can also be done to strengthen your overall jaw area. This treatment is effective in relieving pain due to TMJ and correcting the condition.
These include various exercises that TMJ patients should do daily to teach their jaws to function well again and also strengthen weak muscles that malfunction due to TMJ disorder. These are usually prescribed by a chiropractor as well as a dentist.
Dental care is an integral part of the overall health of the body. It is recommended that one visits a dentist regularly to have their teeth checked, prevent any dental issues from arising and treat any that are detected. If these dental issues are not dealt with they may cause discomfort and other severe conditions may occur that may even lead to teeth lose. It is, therefore, important for one to find a dentist that they are comfortable with. Below are some tips.
When it comes to looking for a dentist one can begin by talking to family, friends and neighbors and ask for a recommendation of a good dentist they may know. It could be the dentist is their personal dentist, or the have heard about them. Word of mouth referrals is considered as reliable information. One can also talk to their general practitioner and ask for a referral. Professionals in similar fields will know each other and one will get a good referral. If one has an insurance provider, they can talk to them and ask for the list of dentists approved by the provider to provide dental services.
It is essential that one looks at the professional qualifications of the dentist. The dentist needs to have training and be certified to receive the license to practice. One can also visit their site and check what information the dentist has placed about their certification. Also, one can check the local dentist board to verify if the dentist is qualified and licensed.
It is important for one to find a dentist whose location is convenient to access and who operates within the working hours that one can keep appointments. It would be disappointing to miss scheduled appointments due to conflicts in the working hours and that the drive to the dentist is too far. Likewise, if one is not able to make it for the appointment there needs to be an opportunity for them to reschedule to another day.
One should consider the cost of dental treatment. Dental care is usually expensive depending on what treatment or procedure needs to be done. It is, therefore, necessary that one finds out what the cost of the service is and what the terms of payment are. Does the practice take cash, personal credit cards or only insurance?
Cosmetic dentistry is all about improving the looks of your teeth and gum. If you have jagged teeth, gum problems, root canal problems then you can consult with a cosmetic dentist. However, you need to note that some cosmetic dentists can't select dental procedures such as changing teeth position or improving the aesthetic look of your dental structure. You need to consult a certified dentist for specialized dental procedures who will help you change your dental settings appropriately.
Cosmetic dentists are capable of solving gum problems of your teeth and conduct root canal treatment and then recommend that you put on dental braces to enhance your dental structure and setting.
Only a small fraction of people was born with perfect teeth, and research has proven that up to 80% of children are born with a type of dental problem. It may be jagged teeth structure or some gum infection.If you intend to improve your teeth structure and setting, then you may be recommended to wear dental braces by your cosmetic dentist.
Traditional braces are made from high quality stainless steel metals, and they are designed with metal brackets for attachment to each tooth. Today, dentists use some dental cement for attaching braces on your teeth creating a smooth pressure that shifts your teeth gently into the correct position.
Ceramic braces also work similarly to traditional braces made from steel. The only difference is that ceramic braces are made using transparent ceramic materials that are not clearly visible. Adult patients prefer them, and their only downfall is that the ligature or the elastic of these braces can leave a stain on your teeth and you may be forced to visit your practitioner for teeth cleaning sessions.
Demon braces have received lots of attention lately and for the right reasons too. The key reason is that they are self-ligature braces and do not require any maintenance. They are less painful and easy to clean compared to the other two types of braces mentioned above. Using demon braces will save you from visiting your dentist now and then. Moreover, these braces can be easily attached to your teeth without adjusting the ligature.
Dentists recommend wearing braces right from childhood to adulthood. Adults hardly respond to the treatment offered by the braces. On the opposite, a dentist in Clearwater FL will recommend the expansion of overcrowded teeth setting. Previously, people used to prefer tooth extraction to solve such an issue but now cosmetic dentists can solve their problem through the palatal expansion procedure.


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Uncle Sam Wants Your DNA: The FBI's Diabolical Plan To Create A Nation Of Suspects
Get ready, folks, because the government— helped along by Congress, President Trump, the courts, and local police agencies — is embarking on a diabolical campaign to create a nation of suspects predicated on a massive national DNA database.
By John Whitehead
As more and more data flows from your body and brain to the smart machines via the biometric sensors, it will become easy for corporations and government agencies to know you, manipulate you, and make decisions on your behalf. Even more importantly, they could decipher the deep mechanisms of all bodies and brains, and thereby gain the power to
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People (SelectBooks, 2015) is available online at www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be contacted at johnw@rutherford.org.
UPS Joins Media Chorus In Thanking Police For Murder of Frank Ordonez
Bolivia's New Right-Wing Gov't Targets Foreigners With "Anti-Terror" Death Squads
The Yellow Vest Hospital Hoax: I Reported Live From the Scene as It Happened
A Badge of Shame: The Government's War on America's Military Veterans
The government's efforts to wage war on veterans, especially those who speak out against government wrongdoing, is downright appalling.
Not all heroes wear the uniform of war. In the United States, however, we take particular pride in recognizing as heroes those who have served in the military. Yet while we honor our veterans with holidays, parades, discounts at retail stores and restaurants, and endless political rhetoric about their sacrifice and bravery, we do a pitiful job
91% of Peer-Reviewed Papers Find Medicare for All Would Save Public Money, Cover Everyone
During Yemen's Annual Martyr Week, Anti-American Sentiment Prevails
Empire of Lies: Are 'We the People' Useful Idiots in the Digital Age?
While we claim to value freedom, privacy, individuality, equality, diversity, accountability, and government transparency, our actions and those of our government rulers contradict these much-vaunted principles at every turn.
Back in the heyday of the old Soviet Union, a phrase evolved to describe gullible western intellectuals who came to visit Russia and failed to notice the human and other costs of building a communist utopia. The phrase was "useful idiots" and it
Keeping with its Crackdown on Alternative Voices, Google Deletes Press TV from YouTube
Social Media and Social Control: How Silicon Valley Serves the US State Department
BBC Director-General Calls for Media Critics to Be Purged From Social Media
Bullies Win and Freedom Suffers When We Can't Agree to Disagree
As America has become ever more polarized, and those polarized factions have become more militant and less inclined to listen to—or even allow for the existence of—other viewpoints, we are fast becoming a nation of people who just can't get along.
What a mess. As America has become ever more polarized, and those polarized factions have become more militant and less inclined to listen to—or even allow for the existence of—other viewpoints, we are fast becoming a nation of people who just can't get along. Here's the thing: if Americans don't learn how to get along—at the very least,
How Trump's New Anti-Semitism Order Effectively Criminalizes Dissent
Palestine Lecture Proceeds as Milan Students Stand Up To Zionist Attempt to Block It
New Senate anti-BDS Bill Unconstitutional and Ineffective at Curbing Boycotts
The Constitution Is Not Neutral: Courts of Justice Should Not Act Like Courts of Order
As the events of recent years have made clear, neither the president, nor the legislatures, nor the courts will save us from the police state that holds us in its clutches.
For those still deluded enough to believe they're living the American dream—where the government represents the people, where the people are equal in the eyes of the law, where the courts are arbiters of justice, where the police are keepers of the peace, and where the law is applied equally as a means of protecting the rights of the people—it's
Someone Tell Trump: There Is No 'Get Out of Jail Free' Card for Presidents
"When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal."
— Richard Nixon
Someone needs to alert Donald Trump: there is no "Get Out of Jail Free" card just for being president. According to Trump's Twitter feed, he believes that he has an absolute right to pardon himself of any crimes for which he might be charged while
New York Hanukkah Stabbing Latest in Wave of Trump-Era Anti-Semitic Attacks
Medea Benjamin: Donald Trump Was Right, NATO Should Be Obsolete
The ABC's of America's Descent into Tyranny
You can call it the age of authoritarianism. Or fascism. Or oligarchy. Or the American police state, whatever label you want to put on it, the end result is the same: tyranny.
Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an
John Pilger: The Lies About Julian Assange Must Stop Now
Blinded Palestinian Journalist Exposes Israel's Increasing Violence Against Media
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The doctoral students of the PhD Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York invite you to submit abstracts for the XXII Congreso de estudiantes. The abstracts (250 words) should be sent to congreso.hlbll.gc.cuny@gmail.com by February 6, 2017. In the body of the email, please include your name, contact information, academic affiliation, and any needed audiovisual equipment. Presentations are limited to a maximum of 20 minutes and can be presented in Spanish, English, or Portuguese.
Lydia Otero (University of Arizona). Autora de La Calle: Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City.
Citizenship and Education in the Homework Completion Routine.
In current debates, the idea of a wall becomes a point of discussion from which to explore the relationship between public engagement and academia. Are the walls that separate intellectual, linguistic, artistic, social, and political practices insurmountable? How do we imagine these metaphors and what forms do they take? Who constructs them and who challenges them? When are they useful and when are they not? How do we cross them?
This congress proposes to jump over, perforate, cross, and tear down walls. It invites a transgression of academic hermeticism in order to overcome isolation and promote reflection on intellectual work, its social dimension and its relationship with the public. Through original investigations, we hope to discuss limits and their forms, whether they be self-imposed or constructed, and strategies to overcome these limits.
In order to approach these issues, we seek to reflect on the following themes, without limiting ourselves to them.


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Q: Neo4j - What is the explanation for 'WHERE NOT exists' clause? I am new to Neo4j and going through their introduction tutorial and I am a little bit confused about the use of the 'WHERE NOT exists' clause. The tutorial shows an example where they want to return all Person nodes of people who wrote movies and exclude people who directed that movie. Their query for this is:
MATCH (p:Person)-[:WROTE]->(m:Movie)
 WHERE NOT exists( (p)-[:DIRECTED]->() )
 RETURN p.name, m.title
which returns:
p.name            m.title
"Aaron Sorkin"    "A Few Good Men"
"Jim Cash"        "Top Gun"
"David Mitchell"  "Cloud Atlas"
My query for this is:
MATCH (p:Person)-[:WROTE]->(m:Movie)
 WHERE NOT exists( (p)-[:DIRECTED]->(m) )
 RETURN p.name, m.title
which returns:
p.name              m.title
"Aaron Sorkin"      "A Few Good Men"
"Jim Cash"          "Top Gun"
"Nora Ephron"       "When Harry Met Sally"
"David Mitchell"    "Cloud Atlas"
"Lana Wachowski"    "V for Vendetta"
"Lilly Wachowski"   "V for Vendetta"
I checked the graph relationships for "Nora Ephron", "Lana Wachowski" and "Lilly Wachowski" (who are not in their query result) and found that they wrote and produced the movies (but not directed). According to my understanding both of the queries should return the same result. I am wondering why they are returning different results. Any help would be appreciated for explaining the differences.

A: These queries are different from each other, they are asking for different things and returning different results.
MATCH (p:Person)-[:WROTE]->(m:Movie)
 WHERE NOT exists( (p)-[:DIRECTED]->() )
 RETURN p.name, m.title

The WHERE clause in the above query ensures that the p person has not directed anything (they have no :DIRECTED relationships from the p node).
MATCH (p:Person)-[:WROTE]->(m:Movie)
 WHERE NOT exists( (p)-[:DIRECTED]->(m) )
 RETURN p.name, m.title

The WHERE clause in the above query is different because of the presence of m in the pattern, which refers to the same movie as in the MATCH. This query ensures that the movie being considered for this person was written by p, but not directed by p. p may have directed some other movie, and maybe they both wrote and directed some other movie, but for this movie m, they only wrote it, they did not direct it.

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The discourse of Buddhist studies has traditionally been structured around texts and nations (the transmission of Buddhism from India to China to Japan). And yet, it is doubtful that these categories reflect in any significant way the organizing themes familiar to most Buddhists. It could be argued that cultic practices associated with particular buddhas and bodhisattvas are more representative of the way Buddhists conceive of their relation to tradition. This volume aims to explore this aspect of Buddhism by focusing on one of its most important cults, that of the Buddha Amitabha. Approaching the Land of Blissis a rich collection of studies of texts and ritual practices devoted to Amitabha, ranging from Tibet to Japan and from early medieval times to the present.
The cult of Amitabha is identified as an integral part of Tibet's Mahayana Buddhist tradition in the opening essay by Matthew Kapstein. Next Daniel Getz, Jr., locates the Pure Land patriarch Shengchang more firmly in a Huayan context and his Pure Conduct Society not so much in the propagation of Pure Land praxis but as a means of modifying anti-Buddhist sentiments. Jacqueline Stone's study of the practice of reciting nenbutsu at the time of death gives us an understanding of both the practice itself and the motivating logic behind it. Kakuban--the founder of the one major "schism" in the history of the Shingon tradition--is placed in a typology of Japanese Pure Land thought in James Sanford's study of Kakuban's Amida hishaku. Hank Glassman contributes an essay on the "subsidiary cult" of Chujohime, which derived from the cult of Amitabha but grew to such importance that it displaced the latter as the focus of worship in medieval Japan. In his examination of "radical Amidism," Fabio Rambelli discusses different forms of Japanese Pure Land thought that constitute divergences from the mainstream or normative forms. Richard Jaffe examines the work of the seventeenth-century cleric Ungo Kiyo, who sought to match his teaching to the needs and capacities of his disciples. Todd Lewis highlights the importance of cultic life and finds traces of the desire for rebirth into Sukhavati in stupa worship among Newari Buddhists. Charles Jones' "thick description" of a one-day recitation retreat in Taiwan provides us with a closer look at how the cult of Amitabha continues in present-day East Asia.
Approaching the Land of Bliss moves beyond the limitations of defining Buddhism in terms of its textual corpus or nation states, opening up the cult of Amitabha in Nepal, Tibet, China, and Taiwan, and uncovering new aspects of Japanese Pure Land.
Approaching the Land of Bliss, Pane & Tanaka, University of Hawai'i Press, Hardcover, 300 pp., $32.00.
Richard K. Payne is dean of the Institute of Buddhist Studies at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. Kenneth K. Tanaka is professor of Buddhist studies at Musashino Women�s University, Tokyo.
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