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Be on the lookout.
T'was many and many a moon ago, in troth several millennia ago, Mo met Owi in the desert. It was quite a sight he saw. In a bush that burns but does not burn out, Owi Onewhois told Mo to take his shoes off.
Many moon later Owi stepped in again but he got in trouble with some of the higher ups and so they put an end to him, or so they thought. Actually he made a lively comeback in the most significant accomplishment in homo sapiens history.
After that Owi, or JC as we like to call him managed to find HS abode in the hearts and minds of many a man and woman of good will.
After a while a stupendous institution was built up in his wake and it was quite impressive for a long time. Millions of folks, rich and poor, managed to find a place of service and some satisfaction in the structured arrangement.
After about a millenium and a half some corrective measures had to be taken to get the institute back on tract. Be that as it may.
By 'n by some really smart fellers managed to extinguish the light of JCOwi, or so they thought, and they managed to drum up some new societal structures to take the place of his worldwide institute and that worked out ok for awhile, or so they thought, until they found themselves in one hell of a mess, after a dandy VIP got himself shot in sarayavo.
Buy and buy, when all that mess had blown over, folks everywhere found themselves in one hell of a dilemma. Not to worry.
Mx had figured out that if all the prolies would take hold of the machine and run it real equal-like they could get the grand clusterfk worked out. Good luk with that.
Well that didn't work out so well either. In fact many many millions of sapiens were squelched out in the gulags. Furthermore, that was during and after many millions had been squelched in the aushwitz desecration that hitler had hoisted on us in his notable but ultimately failed (thank g_d) blitzkreeg final solution to fk the world because we wouldn't buy his paintings.
Meanwhile, some EMC2 afficiando had figured out the secret structure of the universe that held untold and untested amps of power in its sway from day to day and from age to age and it would take a real sage segment of humanity to keep the thing under wraps so it didn't set off one grand worldwide clusterfk.
So far so good on that front, although we have had a few close calls, or so I am told.
Meanwhile back at the ranch, FS figured out that the great void that failed to fill men and womens souls would have to be filled, lest homo sapiens find themselves in existential debilitation and g_d forbid annihilation.
Along the same lines, JB figured out that the Mx crowd, now called postmods, had devised a diversion to distract prolish hearts and minds from Mx's VladStalnMow bloodthirsty sacrilege disastrous attempt to make the human condition work. Blah blah blah is what the postmods later had to say, as through the crumpled ironcurtain trouble and post-wall rubble they shifted their emphasis from taking over the means of production to taking over the means of seduction.
The story is still being told, and history plays out. But watch out. This world is full of danger-lurks. We may need a little postg_d help before its all over with. Be on the lookout for OwiJC.
King of Soul
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Those Three ConeSpun Mills
2020 rings in another hyped-up year,
as traffic rumbles o'er this city's streets.
The people slog through their habitual gears
as nights pass by and days repeat.
My stopping by this mill's ancient smokestack tower
drums up crumbling dreams of 120 years ago
When rev-upped steam drove industrial power
as workers toiled to make America go.
Except for this site's massive piled-up, silent heaps
no remnant's here of their past incredible productivity
We hear no rumbling of gears, no wheeling peeps
Nothing but our clueless, wizzing auto-driven activity.
But down beneath those obsolete smokestack towers
under jagged rebar heaps and brickish piles
behind walls of long gone, humming industrial power
rolled miles and miles of denim 'n flannel styles.
'T'was there and then through toiling sweat and flowing tears
workers spun off vast bolts of denim cloth;
in feats of toiling '20's roar, then Depression fears,
cranking textile miles, yet with no thread of slouching sloth.
A shrill whistling of the factory call is no longer heard at all,
just a sunny breeze in unseasonably warm December.
These three landmark chimneys stand so stubbornly, so tall
commanding us by their stature, to remember.
As if we could remember, but no; this legacy is lost to us.
For we, so enamored, or ensnared, by electronic spell,
cannot attain to the fierce pace of their spinning, weaving opus.
Now we demolish their wornout legacy, no more to tell.
But massive was their output–their product so dearly spun;
'though its flannel flappings waiver yet in this, our age's fatal breeze.
Soon our bulldozing might will render this heritage undone
as fiberoptic spinning of our sorcery now weaves.
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From Enlightenment to Onlinenment
Peering way back in human history, we find . . . generally, the battles have indeed been won by the strong, and the races are usually won by the swift of our species.
There are exceptions, for sure, but generally you know it's true. Them who know how to throw their weight around usually manage somehow to outweigh the rest of us.
The people who manage to work, or fight or compete, to the top of the heap—those folks pretty much stay on top of things until some group or faction that is lower on the pecking order manages to muster enough money, or strength or discontent or firepower or political power to throw the bums out and usher in a new regime of wealth, or weapons, or wherewithal to take charge of things and call the shots.
Throughout history we talk about this and wonder about how to deal with it in ways that are fair and equitable, and maybe even civil.
In the last 300 years of pondering these issues, we've moved from the Age of Enlightenment, through the Age of Development, and now we've progressed into the Age of Onlinenment.
Three centuries ago, power was all about royalty. The royal houses pretty much ruled the world. They divided it up. Now and then they fought battles, or even wars, to re-draw the boundaries of ownership and authority and hegemony etcetera etcetera.
The printing presses had gotten in gear back in the 1400's; over time all those mechanically copied manuscripts began to make a difference in everything that happened. Ideas got spread around through documents and books, and people began to think more, exchange ideas and information more, think differently about themselves and the world they lived in, and . . .
People got smarter, or at least they thought they were smarter. At any rate, they had more information (more data!) to work with. Many of these smart folks figured out that they could work their way out of indentured servitude or serfdom or whatever royal arrangement had been holding them back.
So they moved off the estate, and into town; there they set up shop, doing business, making goods and services that people needed.
Capitalism was born. . . little people doing business and making it on their own.
Along with capitalism came the age of Enlightenment, a time in history when more and more folks were figuring out that hey! we can do this this thing we don't need the bluebloods up in the castle to tell us what to do.
Although it took a century or two for these changes to really make a difference on a societal level, eventually the newly emerging middle classes had enough members and resources and smarts and clout to push the old fuddy-duddy royals out of power.
It was a long bloody process. Our American revolution busted out and changed the world forever.
The French did an even bloodier version when they guillotined the Bourbon monarchs. As the proletarian uprisings gathered steam across Europe, Napolean and Marx and hordes of discontented Europeans got out in the streets to rearrange the economic structure of things into a state more fitting to their demands.
Eventually, the Bolsheviks in Russia managed to run the royal Romanovs outa town. The new revolutionizing proletarians cornered those royals and put bullets into their fair-haired Romanov heads.
Further down in Europe, the same Revolutionary zeitgeist was burning hot. 20th-century Liberation busted Western civilization out of its old royal antiquities. Along with the supposed modernizing came a bloody mess called the World War I.
When the guns were finally silenced in 1918 and the smoke cleared and the dust settled, the world was a different place.
Most of the royal houses had been run out of their big houses; what was left of them were cornered into ceremonial roles, and a new way of doin' things became the order of the day.
Our yankee country country here had a lot to do with the way things turned out. After we had sent King George and his reds back to Britain with their tail between their legs, we had a whole, vast, 3000-mile continent just waitin' to discover what the steam locomotive and the motorized tractor and the combine and the cotton gin and the blast furnace and everything from Pittsburgh to Pacific was all about.
And by the time we got to the Pacific, by crackies, the world was mechanized.
We had wrought it into a whole New World.
However, as things developed here in the 19th-century in the big wide bustin'-out USA, the ancient hierarchical tendencies of the human race had re-asserted themselves the fray, and before you know it—in spite of all the wide open spaces and new opportunities— we were back into a situation where the rich got richer and and the poor got poorer.
As the tycoons and magnates—Carnegie, Rockefeller, Bell, Edison, Morgan—got America all cranked up on oil and gas and electrical power, they formed companies.
By 'n by, them companies grew and prospered, and—long story short—those little startup corps from our late-19th, early 20th-century developments eventually morphed into giant corporate behemoths.
Even so, every now and then throughout the last century, a big economic reset button gets pushed somewhere and the forces of mankind whack the hell out of all our wealth-gathering institutions.
The biggest Depression hit back in '29 and hung itself around our necks until the big guns showed up to blast us out of the trenches. After the Second Big War, we had a big round of wealth-spreadin', middle-class widenin' expansion with more folks than ever before jumpin' on the middle and upper-class band wagons.
It went on a half-century or so, with ups and downs along the way but most everybody gett'n' at least a little better off along the way, until '08 when another whopper hit wall street; it dumb-struck the powers-that-be for a few weeks until they got their act together and yacked their way into a deal in which We the People baled them and ourselves out of what would have been disaster, or so the tale is told.
Anyway, here we were a century+ past those robber barons and big wheels and under-the-table deals, and the corporations are thought to be running the whole shebang.
19th-century: the Royals, kings and queens, monarchs, dukes, earls, counts, etcetera etcetera
20th-century: CEOs, CFOs, Chairmen of the Boards, etcetera etcetera
All along the way, a whole lotta regular folks have jumped onto the Corporate bandwagon and wiggled their way into some of the booty therof. Out here on the coasts and in Flyover country, a whole lot more of us consumers are in a big way dependent on this Corporatized way of doin' things.
By the late 20th-century—and now going into the 21st—the upper-middle-class'emites who keep the electrons and the debits and the credits and the assets hummin' along through that vast Corporate power Web— they are pretty well fat n' happy, like their blueblooded ancestors.
Their modern morph-up into class and privileged status was Corporate-fueled, not Royal-based like in the earlier versions.
Especially since '08 when the whole financial world blew apart again and We the People bailed the Bankers and their kissin'-cousin Corporate mavens out.
In this round of history, the Discontents among us not using the printing press so much to drum up all this protest and pushback we see rising . This time it is more about the the Twit and the Web and the Net.
We've progressed past Enlightenment, past Development . . .
to Onlinenment.
And by means of this digitized Onlinenment, folks are gettn' all hot n'bothered again, and workin' themselves into a tizzy about those same ole inequality-breeding patriarchal tendencies, which have forever reared their privilege-seeking heads into positions of authority.
We find ourselves once again passing Go. Roll the dice and collect $2 million. And so the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. What else is new?
But this time the disruption is not about throwin' out King George or King Louie or Czar Nicholas or the Archduke of Serbia.
In this round, its about throwin' out the Corporate mavens and their kissin'-cousin Politicians, and maybe even the Digitheads along with them, and then replacing them with . . .
um . . . with what?
Y'all Discontents be careful now. We don't want any more Stalins or Maos, or even Chavez. Let's talk about this.
Go easy on us who are fellow-travelers in this planetary arrangement. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Don't wanna throw the can-do out with the carbon.
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Dr. King remembered
I was a white boy growing up in the deep south.
In my life, 1951 . . . a vivid memory stands out: the remembrance of this brave man:
. . . his life, his work, his service to mankind, his leadership in the perilous project of fulfilling our Creator's call to
. . . bring good news to the afflicted, . . . to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to prisoners . . . (Isaiah 61:1)
In my lifetime, I can think of no other American who demonstrated greater courage than Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He persisted tirelessly in the sacred call to blaze a trail of opportunity for oppressed people. He persevered in the face of certain death, as he fully understood the vengeful opposition of other men–white and black–who ultimately took him down.
The name assigned to him at birth, King, was appropriate, as he went on to conduct the life of a true leader, a born leader, an orator, an organizer who truly fulfilled the declaration of our nation's founding principles:
We find these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
In my lifetime, I can recall no other person who more deserves annual remembrance during a national holiday. Although he had his faults, his own sins as we all do, he was a man of whom this world was not worthy. In this world, he helped God and fellowman to "make a way where there is no way." He blazed a trail toward that "equal" status mentioned by Mr. Jefferson and the Continental Congress when they composed our Declaration back in 1776.
I looking forward to meeting Dr. King in heaven, or whatever you call it. Many years ago, I wrote this song about him and an ancient leader named Moses:
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Before he raised the baton to conduct Beethoven's 5th Symphony, Christopher Warren-Green told us Beethoven was a revolutionary.
He matter-of-factually referred to the most disruptive orchestral composer ever as a revolutionary. And just before cranking up the Charlotte Symphony, Chris speculated that those infamous first-four-notes, da-da-da-Dahhhh, were probably lifted from a French Revolutionary song of that era.
It was the worst of times; it was the best of times, as Charles Dickens later wrote.
Forsooth, 'twas a very revolutionary time—1776-1820.
And Ludwig van Beethoven was right in the middle of it.
Right in the middle of a time when the 18th-century European order of things was being torn apart by radical new ideas about the People running the show instead of the old fuddy-duddy royals who had been doing it for hundreds of years.
The young composer from northwestern Germany was indeed a musical revolutionary; he revolutionized music.
He turned the purpose of music upside down. Whereas the old order of things, financed by the royals, was all about making beautiful, harmonic, perfectly constructed sonatas and concertos to celebrate order and perfection—-
Ludwig, unable to ignore the terrible angst of that tumultuous age in which he found himself living, reflected—yeah, he even embraced—that disruptive spirit of the times.
And when they heard it sounded forth in the 5th Symphony, the royals hardly know what to make of it.
Beethoven was like the Elvis of his times, except he had an entire orchestra behind him. Multiply Elvis' chutzpah by the number of musicians in an orchestra. That was the effect of Beethoven on the world of music.
And on the world itself, as thousands of performances since then have revealed.
Or, If not Elvis– think of Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Rich Mullins or whoever expresses your disruptive angst and propels it into an awareness that the world is forever changing.
Like it or not, the world changes; sometimes that transforming is not pretty. Sometimes it is even disruptive, destructive, revolutionary. Music–and art generally–needs, in order to be valuable, to reflect the times we live in, and the changes that need to happen–not portraying a rose-colored-glasses dream that masks the profundity and excitement of living on this dangerous planet.
It would have been very hard, you see, for the young German prodigy to adopt the comfortable precision and beauty of his courtly predecessors—Mozart and Haydn. Au contraire, Ludwig caught hold of the gritty thrust of those revolutionary times. He deeply felt that terrible, violent wind blowing out of France; and he did, as any self-respecting genius would do, transform that terrible zeitgeist into revolutionary Music.
A truly new music, never heard before.
Unlike like any orchestra ever heard before.
Better to make disruptive music, than impose bloody revolution.
Be like Beethoven, not like Robespierre.
Work together like a revolutionary Symphony.
Teach the world to ring out Liberty!
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Espana.
es Passionata.
For five hundred Moor years
than the Iberian Catolica peninsula
could ever have estanded
to be Islamically commanded,
they endured Ummayed demands
until Aragon King Ferdinand
came conquestering and demanding
with Castile Queen Isabella, remanding,
to fortify their Catolica position
with a a goddam Inquisition,
stringing up dissidents in their Inquisition power
thereby crushing the bloom of heretical flower.
But with Isabella's demise mad king Ferd devised
that child Queen Juana should be misused:
She therefore became abused and confused,
being married off to a Hapsburg prince
so that Empire hegemony could commence,
thrusting power over in-between freakin' France
so Spain would achieve victory in their great Power prance.
Thereby Poor Juana had not a chance
her youthful passion to enhance,
being named an infernal loco heretic.
Therefore history defined her role as lunatic.
While Jews were being unlisted,
dissidents still resisted
although many heretics persisted
while being so unjustly inquisited.
That was then but this is now.
Spain still bleeds; that was how
it happened long ago
when Ferd took on the holy Roman Catolico
Hapsburg Empire show.
Down through history from page to page
As monarchs wage their contests age to age
Spanish blood flows through impetuous action;
it then bleeds out as Spanish soul passion,
moving los manos y voces to music and song
to celebrate what's right and lament what is wrong.
Through the ages, ask the sages
what is right, what is wrong?
Who knows? The priest, the pope?
The poet? the socialist?—who offers hope?
Remember only: life is grand
despite our ruins beneath the sand.
So offer up a sacrifice of song
in notes so potent and passion strong,
while over in the sacrificial ring
a different living sacrifice they bring.
Matador leads. Bull bleeds.
Newfound blood in ongoing sacrifice
echoes ancient cross of crucified Christ.
Priest leads. Jesus bleeds.
The Faithful chant Apostles' creed..
Sister Maria prays with beads.
But Falanga franco used catolico creeds
while dispatching policia on steeds.
Still saints were interceding
Flamenco singers pleading
Spain is forever bleeding
suffering behavor
even as the Savior.
In '36 Las Artistas pled while Spain bled red.
Still the flamencos emoted, saints devoted,
peasants toted. poets wroted.
democrats noted. republicans voted.
Socialistas revolutionary
v. Royalistas reactionary.
What else is new, not from the past?
So you might have asked .
Here's what: Thermite bombs in 1937:
Hitler's luftwaffe over Spanish village heaven.
Spain bleeds through Guernica saints.
Pablo reads; Picasso paints.
Dali droops. El toro drips
The crowd whoops; the leather rips.
El Guitarist heals. Flamenco dancer reels.
As the eternal note of sadness peals,
La musica heals when dancer reels.
Spain handles the pain.
It falls mainly on the plain
people in Spain.
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The Prescience and Presumption of Karl Marx
If you take the time to read Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto, you may be surprised at how accurate is their assessment of the 19th century industrializing world.
Before Marx and Engels were born, back in the last quarter of the 18th-century, the world witnessed two major revolutions, the American one in 1776. and the French version in 1789.
These two major historical uprisings evolved very differently, although they had both originated conceptually with the Enlightenment ideas of Liberty, Equality and Justice.
Here in the USA, all we had to do was eject King George III and his soldiers. We sent them packin' back to the old country, England. Then we had what appeared to be a virgin continent 4000 miles wide populated by indigenous tribes who had not yet been industrially developed.
In France it was a very different story. The newfound revolutionaries, after decapitating old monarchs and killing off their privileged network of landed royalty, still found their mob-enforced movement dragged down by a thousand-year-old heavy baggage of entrenched, fortified autocratic economy.
I can simplify an explanation the difference between the American and French Revolutions for you this way:
In France, the whole revolutionary process got a lot bloodier, more vicious, and it took a hell of a lot longer time to play out.
A few years after the revolting peasants decapitated Louis XVI and his queen Marie Antoinette, Napolean came along, took charge of the debilitated French state and rearranged everything. Later, after he went down, France was in disarray for the next century, trapped in a revolving door of revolutionary fervor, anarchy, stubborn monarchists and a world that was changing faster than you can say "modernizing industry."
Into this cauldron of overheating European political and mechanizing discontent, Karl Marx was born in 1818.
Although the young communist was of German birth, his entrance to this world came in Trier, a town very near the French border.
Karl was a very smart guy. During the time of his educated, idealistic youth, he noticed and publicly identified many trends of modernizing industry and economics that were rapidly industrializing Europe and eventually the entire world. Things were changing faster than a speeding locomotive.
Within all those changes, Marx identified a new socio-economic class that was establishing itself as the new people in-charge, after the fall of the French monarchy (the first of many monarchies that would be destroyed in coming years). This new, rising class of merchants, managers and craftsmen he called the "bourgeoisie."
In his eerily prescient analysis of that emerging upper-middle class, Marx also hit on a description of what we would later call 'globalization," Marx wrote:
"The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvements of all instruments of production, (and) by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws (sucks) all– even the most barbarian– nations into civilization. The cheap prices of its (the bourgeois') commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, (and) with which it forces 'the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilization into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image."
During the turbulent 1840's, Marx labored with his associate Friedrich Engels to describe and evaluate these historical changes. Together they devised a fix for the world's problem of a new bourgeois upper-class cruelly exploiting proletarian workers. Thus the Communist Manifesto developed. In 1848, they published the first version of their hot-off-the-press world-changing document. Here's one part of their assessment of a rapidly industrializing 18th-century Europe:
"Modern industry has converted the little workshop of the patriarchal master into the great factory of the industrial capitalist. Masses of laborers, crowded into the factory, are organized like soldiers. As privates of the industrial army they are placed under the command of a perfect hierarchy of officers and sergeants. Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois State; they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the overlooker, and above all, by the individual bourgeois manufacturer himself."
Marx and Engels identified the disruptive attributes of a new, capitalizing economic steamroller of modern industrialization. They foresaw its accompanying alienation, which would, it seemed, forever confound the proletarian working classes in Europe, Russia and eventually every nation in the world. In the Communist Manifesto of 1848, Marx and Engels wrote:
"The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. . . Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away; all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face, with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."
The dynamic theorizing duo, Marx and Engels, had figured out that very disruptive bourgeois-imposed changes were in store for humanity. Little did they realize that the revolutionary, ostensibly corrective measures they would soon be positing would be ultimately just as disruptive, if not more-so, than the maelstrom of rapidly escalating industrialism that was fast overtaking 19th-century Europe.
Marx and Engels went on to concoct an elaborate prescription to fix the world and thus deliver us from the ravages of modern capitalism and its dehumanizing industrialization.
If you look at the implementation of their communist doctrine as it has evolved in the last century and a half, you may be dismayed at how brutally the zealous proponents of Marxist communism (Stalin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot et al) screwed up the original idealized vision for world communism.
Which goes to show that the best-laid plans of mice and men are generally worked out in programs and institutions very different from their original visions and versions.
Later, when Socialists came along, attempting to reconcile the old System of autocratic Europe with a perpetually revolutionizing Communist big-fix, Marx pooh-poohed the wimpish compromisers, remarking . . .
". . . Socialism, however, (does not) understand the (necessary) abolition of the bourgeois relations of production, an abolition that can be effected only by a revolution."
So here's my question for Karl and Fred:
Hey, since you did identify the extremely disruptive, debilitating bourgeois rearrangement of a capitalist, 19th-century world, would your proposed communist remedy be less disruptive and crippling than the total, ongoing revolution that a communist fix would require?
Furthermore, if subsequent history is any indicator, the changes in human activity that would be necessary to manifest a communist society as idealized by Marx and Engels—such changes would require constant correction, and therefore perpetual revolution.
Doesn't sound very beneficial, from a human standpoint.
Furthermore, this writer would suggest:
Since your theorized systems for world improvement dictate that the revolutionizing proletariat must cast aside their "opiate" of religion, and thus deny the presence and power of "God" . . .
it would seem that many of the simpleminded 21st-century religious proletariat workers out there in flyover country or Manchester or Italy or wherever—they might rise up and reject the technocratic decrees of their elitist deep-state Marx-inspired EU overlords.
I know you wanta write them present-day uncooperative proles off as "alt-right" and reactionary, but it seems to me they are the same "proletarian" workers that Marx and Engels thought they had identified as the future vanguard of true communism.
Apparently they have something else in mind than technocrat-generated statism, maybe just a "leave us alone" revolution.
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The killing of God
Just because the potentates of old Europe wrangled the Bible away from its Hebrew roots and turned it into dead religion doesn't mean God doesn't exist.
God did, after all, create humans with a free will. We are not programmed bots. Just because we homo sapiens screwed it up over the course of a few thousand years doesn't mean that God wasn't in the midst of it all somewhere, trying to break through our cerebral density, carnal shenanigans and political bullshit.
Actually, God did break through. But look what we did to him.
In the Middle Eastern crossroads where our wayward cruelties had taken advantage of 1st-century Empire-building power politics to nail him, a stake was driven in the ground. It turned out to be a bloody mess and a sacrifice of universal proportions.
So, as the centuries rolled by, the movers and the shakers among us took that bloody sacrifice and ran with it, transformed it into a first-class religious system that rolled on through time and continent like a runaway ox-cart on a roman road. A thousand years later, we'd manhandled that pivotal sacrifice into high-powered religion, through which men and women worldwide were either convinced or manipulated (depending upon your interpretation of it) into the mysteries of practiced religion.
Long about 1500 ad dominum, a few upstart readers who were paying attention to the original scripts started to figure out that something had gone wrong somewhere along the line.
So they raised some issues. Well, long story short, all hell broke loose.
That great institutional juggernaut that had rolled down through a millennium of pox humana religiosity suddenly was under attack from men who were trying to get to the bottom of it all, which is to say . . . trying to get through all that institutional religiosity to . . . the truth.
The truth? What is truth?
Haha glad you asked.
This little question became a matter of serious debate.
Now that the snake was out of the bag, everybody and their brother was trying to figure out what the truth really was and how it should be used to improve the human condition. People like Rousseau, Hegel, Engels and Marx, Lenin and several other notorious bastards.
As the movement to replace God with human wisdom and government gathered steam, human history heated up quite a bit. And the conflagration of it increased exponentially because this historic development just happened to coincide with the 19th-century Industrial Revolution. So we had a lot more fire power to implement all the big changes that needed to happen in order to get mankind delivered from the great religious debacle that had held us in bondage for so long.
Some guys in Prussia figured out that, since the great juggernaut institution of religion had been exposed to be the manipulative Oz-like empire that it was, the immediate conclusion was that not only had we killed religion, but we humans had managed to finally kill God! Voltaire, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche made this point perfectly clear.
Several bloody revolutions and a couple of world wars later, we are in the process now of finally getting our ducks in a row and ourselves straightened out, now that we've finally gotten God out of the way.
Even though we had already killed him one time before, but that's another story.
Actually, it's The Story.
His-story.
You can't kill it, because that death-sentence strategy has already been implemented several times, yet without conclusive results.
We humanos insist on perpetually resurrecting that Story. We just can't get enough of the un-killable presence among us. It refuses to stay dead. Might be worth looking into.
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Stickin' to it.
In the late '70's many of us wandered up to a cool mountain town; we were trying to figure out what the hell had happened. Some had survived the excesses of countercultural lifestyle; others were just there to do the college thing.
By that time, the '60's flower-power revolution that had failed to actuate had been appropriated into the Establishment. Now you could buy faux hippie threads from the JCPenney catalog; that reality was really a bummer, but people were buying the stuff anyway.. The free love thing had been commandeered by Hollywood. It seemed like everybody was "doing it."
Our little group of wanderers and students found ourselves congregated in the mother-earth lap of an Appalachian river valley. We had gravitated here to, as John Denver had phrased it, "find Jesus on our own."
"On our own" turned out to mean: apart from the institutional Church, because it was out of touch with what was happening in the real world and everybody knew it was full of foolishness and hypocrites. Haha.
As the gathering developed, however, our little charismatic experiment turned out to be a little more infected with the ways of the world than we had anticipated. Even though we were a bunch of young bucks and does banded together, raising our kids as a sheltered new testament tribe, showing all the local old-school religious folks what the kingdom of God was all about, eventually after about 20 years it flew apart and we all went our separate ways.
But the failure of men to do God's will is not the conclusive evidence about the credibility of Him whose crucifixion was inflicted by that same failure, our human failure. Ultimately his resurrection overcomes the crucifixion. The message of Jesus is not about what men do or fail to do; It's about what he did for us.
By the late '90's when our little congregation fell apart, our three offspring had gone off to University, where they got a different view of things, different from the churchified bubble they had been raised in. Long story short: it was good for them to be educated, and all three retained their faith.
Meanwhile back at the ranch, some of us maturing saints—shell-shocked survivors of the great postmodern charismatic reactionary push—began gathering in our homes to "on our own" collectively continue our covenantal search to discern the Lord's will for us. So we were then, and still now, gathering in our living rooms to read the Bible, pray, and seek God.
As for me and my wife, we have walked a middle road between that house-church body of Christ and another church, which is a more conventional arrangement for presenting and living out the gospel in society.
This has worked well for us.
By 'n by, all three of our offspring became world travelers for one reason or another. Over the years we have done a lot of globetrotting, following them to various fascinating destinations around the world.
Like for instance, Europe. When we went to that Old World, I began to understand that America is the new kid on the block. Over there, they've been doing this Christianity thing for a very long time, about 2000 years.
While it is plain to see that there is a huge institutional legacy of the "Church" in the Americas, the cathedrals of Europe can be seen as indicators of a very different religious experience in days gone by. Every major city presents evidence of some stupendous religious megalith that dominated European society in a big way for a very long time, until the purveyors of human rationalism came along to challenge their authority.
This Church as a human institution, whatever it shoulda woulda coulda been spiritually, was for a very long time the big kid on the block, the elephant in the room, the megalith institution that dominated Old World society and cultural In a BIG way.
Those 1st-millennium continental Catholics erected a bunch of huge, monumental edifices. You can find them in every major city and small town. Europe displays an infrastructure of past religious hegemony on a massive scale. The Reformers later did more of the same.
Case in point. Last year, when we were in Prague, Czech Republic, I snapped this pic inside a cathedral:
So I'm thinking. It's plain to see, this Christianity thing is much, much larger than what is represented by, say, the quaint quasi-classical structure down on our Main Street USA. Beholding this magnificent structure presents a challenge in many ways: it's a theological, cultural, architectural wonder!
Who built this thing? Was it erected through the blood and toil and sweat of impoverished medieval slave-serfs? Was it founded upon the heretical manipulations of indulgence-selling ecclesiastical con-men? What kind of empire were they building here? A corrupted hierarchy of covetous clergy? Does it give glory to God, or to the works of Man?
Now I could speculate vainly about the motivations and corrupt practices of those who went before me as constructors of what is purported to be the Kingdom of God. I could judge them as users and abusers who took advantage of clueless poor people who probably could barely afford to pay the light bill and keep gas in the cart and the kids in shoes while they were fretting about their deceased relatives in purgatory or limbo. I could conclude presumptuously that this humongous structure is nothing more than a work of vanity and hubris and systemic abuse that was erected by men who were surely just as guilty, just as culpable, just as sinful and suspect as myself. I could condemn them as robber-baron ecclesiastic manipulators who were no doubt serving Babylon or Rome or the Pride of Man.
But, sinner that I know myself to be, I shall not so judge them. Rather, I shall admire the building for being, in an imperfect world, what it should have been, and is generally in retrospect considered to be: overpowering evidence of the human impulse that strives to glorify God.
Furthermore, I understand that my assessment is considered to be an obsolete way of thinking. I realize, from both my common observations and study of history, that the religious hegemony of this huge institutionalized Church has been supplanted, governmentally and socially, by the humanistic, democratic and socialistic movements of the 19th and 20th centuries.
And that's okay. Shit happens and nobody's perfect, not even the humanists, who havre proven through their own systemic abuses that human government and politics falls far short of true justice.
We Christians do need reminders that there are other people in this world who have different fixes than we do for rectifying human injustice and misery. We don't have to agree with everybody, but we do have to, as Christ and his apostles commanded, live peacefully with everybody insofar as it its possible.
What I am seeing now, in the present predicament of our world is this:
That big guilty-as-charged Churchified juggernaut that sought to order human activity and governance in the last sixteen hundred years—it is being challenged and threatened by a newer Religious juggernaut from the east.
And if I must choose between the two, I'll go with the one that I know to be true, even though it has not always been righteous. In the end, I think it is better to build upon the testimony of the one who died on a cross and was, three days later, resurrected. It is better to stand with Him than with another religious empire whose plan would be to get us kaffirs all on our knees five times a day.
In his final revelation to those he loves, Jesus counseled his friend John to "strengthen the things that remain."
So therefore and henceforth, I say unto thee: I'm with Jesus.
The failure of men to do God's will is not the conclusive evidence about the credibility of Him whose crucifixion was inflicted by that same failure, our human failure. Ultimately his resurrection overcomes the crucifixion. The message of Jesus is not about what men do or fail to do; It's about what he did for us.
That's my faith and I'm sticking to it.
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Good Square Wenceslas
At Prague's big square called Wenceslas
in a feast of freedom
the people gathered roundabout
to end their socialist grieving.
Brightly shone their bold intent
to form a new collusion.
Hither came brave Havel, sent
to guide their revolution.
Gather, people, stand today,
if freedom be your calling!
Yonder Soviets, who are they?
We're done with their cruel mauling.
Sure, they've been in charge out here,
acting like they own us.
But now it's time to cast out fear
and strive for freedom's onus.
Bring us liberty to speak what's true,
and tell it like it is–
There's more in this life for us to do
than perish in their communism.
From high and low they did assemble;
So bold, in unity were they staying.
In Solidarity they did resemble
their Polish brethren who were praying.
People! Oh, the day is bright'ning
and a mighty wind of freedom blows,
Behold! Despite their Soviet tightening,
the depravity of their gulag shows.
Collapse of their system is now imminent.
We here resolve to accept our fate
while we apply a democratic liniment,
to this demising socialist State.
From Soviet rubble these Czechs have trodden
in the wake of tyranny's destined fall,
Czech and Slovak Republics plodding
to rise from detritus of fallen Soviet wall.
Now proletariat, artist and bourgeois too
can think and work and overcome their loss,
because the wind of liberty blew through
Prague's great square called Wenceslas.
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What is the Cambridge Green Challenge?
Can simple 'nudges' reduce meat consumption?
In December 2016, the University's Resource Management Committee asked the Environment and Energy Section to develop a scheme under which departments are given responsibility and budgets for their electricity consumption. Through stakeholder consultation across the University, a proposed scheme – the Electricity Devolution Programme (EDP) – has been developed and is now being piloted in a number of departments.
The EDP is being piloted throughout 2018/19 and 2019/20 and, during this time, no financial transactions will take place, but it will be an opportunity to test the proposed mechanics of the scheme and work with institutions to refine these ahead of implementation of the EDP in 2020/21.
Advice from Environment and Energy on how they can save energy.
Information on how much electricity they are using, via the University's energy management software, Systemlink.


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The Rocca Sanvitale or Sanvitale Castle of Sala Baganza is a fortress/palatial residence located on Piazza Gramsci #1, overlooking the small town of Sala Baganza, just southwest of Parma, region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. It is distinct from the more-visited moated castle of Rocca Sanvitale, Fontanellato.

The structure was initially a walled fortress built in 1477 by Gilberto III Sanvitale. Originally the fortress had a walled internal courtyard with surrounding wings and towers, of which only a single one remains. In 1612 a putative conspiracy to depose Ranuccio I Farnese led to the execution of major feudal lords of the Duchy, including the countess of Colorno, Barbara Sanseverino, and her son Girolamo Sanvitale, the Farnese confiscated the properties of the Sanvitale family. They proceeded to refurbish his property, commissioning frescoes from Orazio Samacchini, Bernardino Campi and Cesare Baglione. Adjacent and to the North of the palace is the Assunta oratory, commissioned by Ferdinand of Bourbon in 1795. A villa surrounded by forests, located about a mile Northwest was the Casino dei Boschi, often used in the first half of the 19th-century by Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma.

To the south of the Rocca is a walled and geometrically traced grid of paths around a circular pool. This garden was putatively designed by Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, the architect for Phillip of Bourbon, Duke of Parma. Petitot designed this as an orchard with fruit trees. In 2009, an attempt to restore its original structure was performed, funded by the Comune of Sala Baganza, by replanting similar fruit trees to those which would have been present in the duchal orchard. The site now also houses a museum of local wine production.

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Lindsay gives another shopper unsolicited cheese-plate-building guidance in Trader Joes. Plus, corporate behemoth Chick Fil-a pops up at a food court intended for small businesses to test new concepts AND Lindsay reveals a forthcoming project by yours truly. and lots of other unsolicited advice.


The Love Actually star revealed the Duke of Cambridge had spiked her on the chest while she received her Damehood.
On the Ellen DeGeneres Show, the actress recreated the moment with host Ms DeGeneres.
She showed where William placed the plain causing Ms DeGeneres to exclaim, "oh God".
She added the second pin went lower.
Dame Thompson went on to say she received backlash for wearing white Stella McCartney to the ceremony.
People online commented saying the shoes were "too casual" for the occasion.
Ms Thompson noticed Ms DeGeneres was wearing the exact same trainers while on the show.
She said: "They were posh trainers.
"You get a big old badge, you get two badges, and I was wearing exactly those shoes and they gave me such hell.
After the ceremony, Ms Thompson said: "I love Prince William, I've known him since he was little, and we just sniggered at each other.


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The biofuels industry is abuzz this week. Industry executives are taking a close look at a new contract in place between industry veteran Solazyme (Nasdaq: SZYM) and consumer goods giant Unilever (NYSE: UN).
In a move to make cosmetics with sustainable ingredients, Unilever will buy at least 10,000 metric tons of Solazyme's algae-derived oils. The move is an important endorsement for Solazyme's technology, but it doesn't bring the company any closer to its goal of becoming a provider of alternative fuels as well.
Indeed, in the decade since Solazyme was founded, the company and its rivals have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into alternative fuel research.
Yet progress has been slow. And investor patience is wearing thin.
The Solazyme/Unilever deal is important in another respect. Though Solazyme is still likely to lose money in 2014, it will now move closer to breaking even, and the Unilever contract will enable the company to once again access fresh capital through a secondary share offering, if need be. Solazyme's rivals can't say the same.
The entire biofuels industry has been a savior for investment bankers, and you can get a sense of the serial fundraising by looking at their share counts. Solazyme is an industry exception, as it has raised fresh funds primarily through milestone payments form licensing partners.
Solazyme's share price is now above $10, though the rest of these stocks trade for roughly $2 apiece. That price indicates that investors believe these companies will need to raise money yet again, though it's unclear that there is any desire for investors to participate in future capital raises.
Taken as a group, these stocks are down 30% this year. Analysts at Goldman Sachs say "underperformance (for this group) has largely stemmed from disappointing execution and more recently, increasing liquidity concerns and thus potential for greater shareholder dilution."
As a result, an industry shake-out may be at hand. You can get a sense of how close to bankrupt these firms are by looking at their cash burn for the first six months of 2013, and how much cash they have left.
Amyris (Nasdaq: AMRS) raised $60 million in fresh capital this summer, which buys the company another three to four quarters before the money runs out. KiOR (Nasdaq: KIOR) has a huge funding gap, relative to its expansion plays and it's not clear if the company will be able to raise the money it needs. Dyadic International (Nasdaq: DYAI), to its credit, is generating positive cash flow, and management has repeatedly emphasized that no new shares will be issued to shore up the balance sheet.
Most of these firms have recently opened (or will soon open) production facilities to start producing products in high volumes. The five companies (excluding Dyadic) expect to see sales grow from $162 million this year, to $541 million next year, marking a true industry inflection point.
Yet it's not clear that the cash problems will go away. Indeed, analysts expect all these companies to generate hefty earnings per share (EPS) losses again in 2014, despite the benefit of rising revenue. And before these companies can break even, they will need to scale up production even further, which will require more cash.
At this point, it would appear that Solazyme is the best house in a bad neighborhood.
Commenting on the Unilever deal, Goldman Sachs' analysts noted that the contract signing was the "long-awaited major customer event that could start to put some of the bear concerns around demand visibility to rest." These analysts, who have a "buy" rating and a $14 price target, see Solazyme's revenues climbing to $491 million by 2015.
Equally important, the company may generate $120 million in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) by then, according to Goldman. The analysts note that another major deal announcement (with Dow Chemical (NYSE: DOW)) may also be in the offing.
On the flip side, KiOR appears especially vulnerable, as the company will likely need to raise an additional $500 million over the next 18 months to build out the production facilities it will need to reach its break-even point -- a true chicken-and-egg conundrum.
My colleague Andy Obermueller has spent a great deal of time researching this industry for his Game-Changing Stocks advisory. He thinks the least well-known stock in this group, Dyadic International, actually holds some of the greatest industry promise. The fact that the company is committed to staying cash-flow positive is a real plus, as far as I am concerned.
Risks to Consider: Some of these companies appear ill-equipped to raise yet more capital, which could lead to a run on their stocks as cash balances dwindle.
Action To Take --> It's clear that this industry has made real technological process and revenues are finally taking off as new plants come on line. But that doesn't necessarily translate into operating profits. So it's wise to scrutinize each of these businesses for their potential EBITDA generation, based solely on current contracts and production facilities. By those measures, only Solazyme and Dyadic appear to have sustainable business models.
P.S. In his newest report, my colleague Andy Obermueller is predicting that a tiny company could rise up next year to kill the gasoline engine. Our previous predictions have made investors 89%... 92%... 293%... and even 310% gains in a year. To hear our latest, including a bizarre plant from the Midwest may end America's dependence on foreign oil, click here.


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Prior to the start of IPL 2018, Kings XI Punjab's director Virender Sehwag said Chris Gayle would be worth the money spent on him if he were to win his team two or three games. Gayle has now played two match-winning innings in two matches. Four days after his 33-ball 63 against Chennai Super Kings, Gayle shellacked his sixth IPL hundred and 21st overall in T20s to consign Sunrisers Hyderabad to their first defeat of the season.
On Sunday, Gayle lined-up CSK's medium-pacers, but adopted a different approach against a formidable Sunrisers attack. He saw off Bhuvneshwar Kumar's first spell and later unleashed a brutal assault on Rashid Khan's legspin. All told, Gayle smashed 42 off 16 balls from Rashid at a strike-rate of 262.50.
Gayle batted through the innings for his 104 not out off 63 balls, which also included four twos. In pursuit of 194, Sunrisers lost early wickets as well as Shikhar Dhawan to an elbow injury, and there was no way back for them, despite fifties from their captain Kane Williamson and Manish Pandey.
After becoming the first captain to opt to bat this season, R Ashwin reckoned Kings XI would be better off setting a target as opposed to chasing one against the best attack in the tournament at one of India's larger grounds. Gayle and KL Rahul began cautiously against the swing and change-ups of Bhuvneshwar and Chris Jordan, and played out 12 dots in the first three overs. Gayle then launched Kings XI's innings when he hit four boundaries in seven balls, including three leg-side sixes off Jordan and Rashid. In between, he was dropped on 14 by wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha off Rashid's first ball - a difficult chance off the toe end when he looked to cut.
Rahul, at the other end, had an early scare when he was given out lbw on 5, but he survived after a review thanks to a thin inside edge. Rahul moved to 18 off 20 before being pinned in front by a Rashid skidder. Rahul's Karnataka team-mate Mayank Agarwal flickered briefly before slicing Siddarth Kaul to backward point for 18 off 9; by then Kings XI were 83 for 2 in the 11th over.
With their premier spinner leaking runs, Sunrisers were forced to look beyond their frontline options. Deepak Hooda, however, could not do much with his part-time offspin.
After getting to his first fifty off 39 balls, Gayle surged to his second off only 19 balls. He moved to 99 with his 11th six - the most by a batsman this season - and raised the landmark by guiding one past backward point in the 19th over. He brought out the 'cradle' and later dedicated the innings to his daughter, who will turn two on Friday.
Williamson and Pandey worked past the early blows with a 76-run stand for the third wicket, but they struggled to keep in touch with the soaring asking rate. Mujeeb Zadran's mystery spin, Andrew Tye's control, and the bigger boundaries in Mohali did not help Sunrisers' cause either. When Williamson holed out for 54 off 41 balls in the 15th over, Sunrisers were left needing 81 off 34 balls. It was just too much for a middle order lacking muscle.


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Progress in quantum computing, qubit by qubit
(Nanowerk News) Engineers and physicists at Harvard have managed to capture light in tiny diamond pillars embedded in silver, releasing a stream of single photons at a controllable rate.
The advance represents a milestone on the road to quantum networks in which information can be encoded in spins of electrons and carried through a network via light, one photon at a time.
The finding was published in Nature Photonics, appearing online on October 9 ("Enhanced single-photon emission from a diamond–silver aperture").
"We can make the emission of photons faster, which will allow us to do more processing per second—for example, more computations—in the future quantum network," explains principal investigator Marko Loncar, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).
Researchers led by Marko Loncar at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have managed to control the rate of emission of photons from diamond nanoposts, an important advance toward quantum computing. (Photo: Eliza Grinnell / Harvard SEAS)
The device Loncar's research team has built consists of parallel rows of tiny, nanofabricated diamond posts, embedded in a layer of silver, that can each act as a single photon source.
By removing the silver wrapping from their nanostructures, the team was also able to achieve a slower release of photons, which is of interest for probing the dynamics of the quantum system.
The breakthrough takes advantage of imperfections in the diamond's crystal lattice, where carbon atoms are replaced by other elements. To the naked eye, these imperfections can appear as discolorations in the diamond, turning it yellow in the case of nitrogen. Occasionally, there is also a vacancy (missing carbon atom) next to the nitrogen atom.
Each nitrogen-vacancy imperfection can serve as a nearly perfect quantum emitter, capable of emitting red photons one by one, even at room temperature. The technology is a promising candidate for realization of scalable, on-chip quantum networks.
"The color centers in diamond are very interesting as qubits for quantum information processing, where they can be used as memory to store information," says Loncar. "More importantly, they can be interrogated—they can be written into and read out—with light."
Loncar's team fabricates diamond posts that contain negatively charged nitrogen vacancy centers, which can absorb light and hold its energy for a given amount of time, finally releasing it in the form of photons.
"The rate at which photons are emitted can be controlled by carefully nano-engineering the center's surrounding," says co-author Irfan Bulu, a research associate in the Loncar group. Attaining fine control of that release, however, has been difficult.
SEM image of the diamond nanoposts used to advance quantum computing. Each one is approximately 100nm wide and 200nm tall. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter. (Image: Jennifer Choy)
"One of the main challenges has been the efficiency with which you can write information into the spin of these color centers, as well as the efficiency with which you can collect photons emitted from the color centers," explains co-author Jennifer Choy, a graduate student in Loncar's lab at SEAS. "The other challenge has been the rate—how quickly you can perform these processes."
Previous work from Loncar's group solved the collection efficiency problem by using diamond nanowires to channel and direct the flow of photons. The new research manipulates the radius of diamond pillars and adds the silver coating. The diamond-silver construction acts as an optical nanoresonator, creating a strong electromagnetic field around the emitter and offering a new level of control over the rate of emission.
Moreover, the device functions at room temperature—an essential requirement for practical computing applications—and the nanostructured chips are fully scalable.
"We've designed everything in parallel in a massive system, which allows us to make thousands or millions of devices with more or less the same properties, and we use conventional microfabrication and nanofabrication techniques, unlike what has been done in this field before," says Birgit Hausmann, a graduate student in Loncar's lab at SEAS and one of the co-authors.
Source: Harvard University

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Twilight had began to settle around the area. The sky had grew to become a number of colors of blue and crimson. The solar began to fade at the back of the horizon. The moon had now not but began to upward thrust. The water was once as nonetheless because the starry sky above.
Something was once lacking one of the beauties of the night. Sarah have been instructed to attend, through the creek, for Michael yet he had now not proven. may possibly it were the end for the invention of a life-time? She couldn't undergo to think about such issues. Michael had promised to make the discovery around the world so every person may understand. How can a person ever discover that it exists in the event that they don't appear with the genuine thing?
It had now been hours due to the fact she heard from Michael. innovations of worry and anger crammed her head. simply as she started to upward thrust to go away, she observed an astounding sight. used to be it Michael? No, it didn't appear like him. may possibly it's what they have been ready for?
Et si Ann Radcliffe, célèbre pour ses romans gothiques, avait elle-même été los angeles protagoniste d'une aventure pleine de probability ? C'est ce qu'elle a raconté au grand feuilletonniste français Paul Féval, qui rapporte le récit de los angeles lutte de l. a. jeune femme contre l'atroce M. Götzi, le vampire aux yeux verts luminescents, et sa découverte de toute une terrifiante cité : l. a. ville-vampire !
The adventure to discover a fashion domestic keeps for the men and ladies of Halton condominium. With Ambrose as their advisor, they strike off on their subsequent leg to hunt aid from the enigmatic girls of the North. whilst, Glooscap of Sawnay, their vacationing better half and now buddy, is attempting to discover the reason for the poison tainting the Sawnays effective river Cootamain.
Sonnets from the Portuguese, written ca. 1845–1846 and released first in 1850, is a suite of forty four love sonnets written by means of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. the gathering used to be acclaimed and renowned throughout the poet's lifetime and it continues to be so.


WALNUT CREEK, Calif.--Stanford guard Candice Wiggins has been named the U.S. Bank Pac-10 Women's Basketball Player of the Week for Dec. 10-16, Commissioner Tom Hansen announced today.
In Stanford's dominant 87-63 victory over No. 10 Baylor, Wiggins showed no rust from two weeks off for finals as she torched the Laby Bears for 35 points on 11-of-22 shooting.
The three-time All-American from San Diego, Calif., knocked down 4-of-9 three point attempts as well as 9-of-12 free throws as she helped the Cardinal (8-1) remain atop the Pac-10 standings.
Wiggins' fantastic performance was not only limited to the offensive end, as she displayed her defensive prowess with four steals and a pair of blocks. The Cardinal as a whole held Baylor to 36.3 percent shooting on the night and limited the potent Baylor offense to its lowest point total of the year.
The Cardinal take the short trip to New Mexico this week and will take on the Lobos on Tues., Dec. 19 before returning home for one of the pivotal clashes of the season as they face the No. 1 Tennessee Volunteers on Sat., Dec 22. The game against the Vols will be televised live on Fox Sports Net at 7:30 p.m. PT.
This is the sixth Player of the Week award of Wiggins' phenomenal career and the 58th all-time for the Cardinal.
ALSO NOMINATED: Jill Noe, ASU; Rama N'diaye, CAL; Ashley Allen, OSU; Lindsey Pluimer, UCLA; Nadia Parker, USC; Katelan Redmon, WASH; Katie Appleton, WSU.
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How an empty Sheffield factory became the 'once in a lifetime' Phlegm art experience
Farewell sweet Guardian, goodbye dear Giants, the Mausoleum has finally closed, and the creatures have departed to eternal slumber into Sheffield folklore. For three mad crazy weeks, an old factory on Milton Street has been the centre of what makes Sheffield a place of creative talent, artistic brilliance and gentle humility.
By BarbaraCraythorn1
Wednesday, 10 April, 2019, 14:22
Phlegm with his giants. Picture: Chris Saunders
From four hour queues on the final Saturday to good-natured camaraderie in the rain, the visitors have taken centre stage alongside those magnificent sad creatures they came to salute.
From Manchester to Morocco, Bradford to Bologna and Reykjavik to Rotherham, the audience has been funny, appreciative, patient and insightful about our city.
Sara Unwin, Lesley Webster and Penny Blackham of the ' Giants' Event Management team from the University of Sheffield
'Sheffield is a city of treasures, you keep digging and find more great things' one anonymous visitor wrote in the many thousands of feedback forms now being processed. Twitter and Instagram abounded with comments both about the exhibition but also the city – 'what a great place' – 'super cool' – 'do you have a mailing list, I'm from Leeds we don't do anything like this' and the strangest one 'why is this not in London'! The London one I will answer later but let us start with facts, empirical data collected by the amazing Fran Marshall from the University of Sheffield's Partnership and Regional Engagement Team, who alongside myself and university staff worked with partners to bring this together.
In total 12,081 visitors came to the exhibition, thousands of feedback forms are being processed alongside data from Twitter and Instagram and emails. The exhibition was a partnership with the University of Sheffield, Welcome to Sheffield and the Culture Consortium and funded by an Arts Council Cultural Destinations award.It was staffed by volunteers, over 150, who contributed much to the overall festivity and good-natured element of the exhibition. Chris Saunders photographed all stages of the exhibition over the past five months, covering the artist at work, the opening night, visitors and of course their final resting place to be published as a momentum for something we all achieved together. Volunteers such as aptly named queue charmers Nigel and Barry appeared nearly every weekend to hand out sweets, inform crowds of their waiting time and tell stories of how they worked alongside the artist to make the Giants.
Colleagues from Sheffield Theatres, Museum Sheffield, Site, SIV, Yorkshire Arts Space, Sheffield Library, the artist team, University of Sheffield and Sheffield Council braved the cold, damp and long hours to inform visitors of both the exhibition and the city we live and work in. Colleagues such as Tamar, Lesley, Sara, Wendy, Penny and Sophie formed the backbone of an event management team from across the council, the university and the artist. True North created a Giant stout and pub trail of special beer mats and reported customers from Newcastle, Sweden, Italy and New York. And let us not forget the queue, which became part of the experience as visitors and residents alike shared stories, made new friends, took pride in their city and the artist.
Daily I wandered down the corridors, taking them to the the hooded figure so characteristic of Phlegm's world that I named the Guardian. Every 20 minutes I asked how many have heard of the artist and the answers were illuminating, with sometimes only 20 per cent aware of his work but now 100 per cent enamoured, proud he had chosen Sheffield to do this magnificent, crazy thing.So let us finally thank the artist known as Phlegm, who spent 15 years working and living in Sheffield, whose love of the city enabled us to commission this astonishing piece of art and dedicate five months of his life to creating those mournful monsters .
That alone answers the question why not London, because Sheffield is the city that welcomed him. Sheffield is where he launched his now legendary comic books and Sheffield is the city where his art work adorns the streets. His humility reflects the place that shaped his early artistic development, and the quiet ambition and scale of his artistry can also shine a beacon on future collaborations and ambitions. For if we can transform an empty factory into 'a once in a lifetime art experience' as one visitor observed, what else can we achieve?Whether you are born in the city, come here as a student or to work, the city gets under your skin. So the message from the Giants as they enter their eternal rest is think big, think special and think Sheffield as we do things differently here – after all they didn't get sweets in the queue at Dismaland.


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Q: Index merging in python I have a task of creating small indexes from a huge file using spimi.
I have been successful in splitting the index into small files.
Now I want to merge the indexes, such that the indexes values don't overwrite the keys.
Dictionary keys are terms and values are doc id.
If I use the following method then it will overwrite for values with the same keys.
I would really like that someone could suggest some good way to do this external merge sorting by opening multiple files at once.
example:
color[1:1,2,5]
color[1:,3,4,5]
after merging
color[1:1,2,3,4,5]

Here's my code:
def InvertedIndex():
  inputbuffer=dict()
  path="C:/Users/a_chav/Downloads/reuters21578.tar/reuters21578"
  count=0
  for filename in os.listdir(path):
    if filename.endswith(".p"):
      inputbuffer=pickle.load(open(filename,"rb"))
      keys=inputbuffer.keys()

      pickle.dump(outputbuffer,open("mainindex.p","a"))
      count=count+1
      print(count)

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Order Leftover Restaurant Food At A Discount With This App
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This App Lets You Order Leftover Food From Restaurants And It's Really Cheap
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The Too Good To Go app lets you order food from your favourite restaurants at a much lower price than usual. Why? It'd otherwise go to waste at the end of the day.
Who knew takeout could actually be budget-friendly? Founded in Denmark last year, the Too Good To Go app is about to become your Deliveroo-ordering obsessed friends' new go-to. The app, available in London, Brighton, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds, lets you buy food from restaurants nearby for a serious discount, as it'd otherwise be thrown out.
Simply log in, pick your (location-based) restaurant and pay through the app. Then you can pick up your food at designated times ― usually late afternoon or late evening, after the lunch or dinner rush, when the leftovers would otherwise go to waste.
"Food waste just seems like one of the dumbest problems we have in this world," co-founder James Crummie told Business Green. "The restaurant industry is wasting about 600,000 tonnes of food each year, and in the UK alone there are one million people on emergency food parcels from food banks. Why do we have these two massive social issues that are completely connected, yet there is not much going on to address them?"
The foods we waste the most are fresh vegetables and salad, drink, fresh fruit, and bakery items such as bread and cakes. Good news for the health-conscious of you who fork out £8 on a salad at lunch, then: Too Good To Go's offerings include Fitzrovia's Maple & Fitz and the City's Market Green which both feature healthy salads for a lot less than you'd spend normally.
Orders through the app cost between £2-£3.80, according to the website, and while you won't be able to order specific items, you do get an idea of the type of food that'll be available for your order.
Users also have the option to give meals to people in need by donating £1 or more through the app, according to the website. More than 1,100 meals have been donated so far, and the app has saved 600 meals from landfills in the UK, reports Business Green.
So when will they start delivering?
If we all stop wasting food that could have been eaten, the benefit to the planet would be the equivalent of taking 1 in 4 cars off the road.
We throw away 7 million tonnes of food and drink from our homes every year in the UK alone.
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GRATA International Events GRATA International Kazakhstan jointly with Bestprofi will hold a webinar on the topic: PPP in civil law
GRATA International Kazakhstan jointly with Bestprofi will hold a webinar on the topic: PPP in civil law
On April 11, 2022, a webinar on the topic: «The Institute of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in the civil law of Russia and Central Asian countries and the problem of qualifying a PPP agreement» will be held in cooperation with Bestprofi.
Without a proper understanding of the public-private partnership (PPP) as a legal category, properly enshrined in national legislation and public policy instruments in the field of PPP, misuse of the PPP mechanism by corrupt government officials and dishonest business representatives, as well as inefficiency of the use of the PPP mechanism in general, is inevitable. Kazakhstan is a vivid example of such an unsuccessful development of PPP so far. Due to the uncontrolled growth of "fake" PPP projects in Kazakhstan, the head of state Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in 2019 admitted, that in Kazakhstan "the very idea of PPP is discredited." Development of PPP in Russia so far is also encounters a lot of problems, because of misunderstanding of the concept of PPP by different stakeholders, that is evident from the resonant so-called "Bashkir", "Tuva" and "KhMAO" court cases, in which, at the initiative of the FAS (antimonopoly authority), the generally accepted understanding of PPP in Russia was exposed to the risk of revision. Within the framework of this webinar, we will look at how PPP is understood in the best world practice, including taking into account harmonization within the framework of UNCITRAL, as well as in the countries of Central Asia and Russia, and also discuss differences in approaches to understanding of such legal concepts as "PPP object" and "public partner" in different countries. We shall also make preliminary conclusions on what Kazakhstan can learn from the international best practice for its own PPP state and law policy.
Time: 12:00-13:30 PM (Kazakhstan, Almaty time).
The speaker will be Shaimerden Chikanayev, Partner of GRATA International, Almaty.
1. The concept and features of PPP in international practice
The concept of PPP in international practice
The concept of a state partner in international practice
The concept of PPP object in international practice
Legal nature of PPP and PPP agreements in world practice
2. The concept and features of PPP in domestic practice
The concept of PPP in domestic practice;
The concept of a state partner in domestic practice;
The concept of PPP object in domestic practice;
Legal nature of PPP and PPP agreements in domestic practice.
3. Key Findings
Participation is free.
Registration is available via the link.
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Head to the land of Mickey Mouse this winter. For $98-$108 roundtrip, including tax, fly nonstop from Washington, D.C. to Orlando. Fly Frontier Airlines and save $70 when departing December-February, including Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
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First, let's go over a quick review of mold. All molds are fungi, just like mushrooms and athlete's foot, for example. The mold that is toxic to people is rare in the fungi world, meaning most kinds aren't harmful. However, some molds are dangerous, so any mold you find indoors must be mitigated and completely removed.
You could consider contacting these mold remediation services Stockbridge GA services even if you see less mold than that. This is because if you see mold growth, there is probably more trapped in drywall and crevices and elsewhere.
Before you contact mold cleanup specialists, the first step is to stop the mold from getting worse. Turn off any ventilation. Then, work to stop the dripping or condensation that supplied the mold in the first place. Make sure damaged roofs are no longer getting into your attic and staunch the flow of any rainwater that has penetrated your basement. Then, stop it from spreading. You might block off the area with disposable tarps, for instance.
Now, you're ready to figure out whether to get professional help. Consider not only the damaged area, but also any aggravating health problems you have. People who already struggle to breathe, for instance, should avoid mold mitigation activities.
Once you've decided, there are vital steps to take in either direction. To do the mold removal yourself, pick up items such as gloves that reach your forearms, washable coveralls, sealed goggles and approved mold masks. You will probably also need a throwaway tarp and tools to repair drywall, if that's where you found the mold. Mold removal specialists agree that you should not leave drywall that has mold on it anywhere you find it because it can't be cleaned well enough. Avoid cleaning with bleach.
If you're concerned enough about mold damage to look for solutions on the web, you will want certified a professional mold removal company. It is highly recommended that you find a mitigation service in your area, so contact if you live in that area. This will make certain that you hire technicians with relevant experience.
Check credentials before you hire a mold damage cleanup service. The State Office of Consumer Protection is a good place to begin, and you can check for approval by groups such as as the Restoration Industry Association, the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration and Contractor Connection.
You need to clean up any fungal growth you come across to prevent further mold damage, and do it right away. If not, mold growths will keep eating on your structure and can ruin your things.
The best way to solve your mold damage is to get mold damage help. Don't delay.
What would we do without water? It's a valuable resource that we can't live without. But sometimes, this valuable resource can turn against us if water damage occurs in the home. From leaky roofs and broken appliances to cresting rivers and natural disasters, flood damage can happen for many different reasons. Depending on the source of the issue, water damage can vary from being a minor problem contained in one area to a large flood-damage disaster throughout your entire house. No matter what the problem is, you have to contact a reliable restoration company like Paul Davis to handle cleanup for you. We're here to help you with water damage remediation service Spring TX. Let us tell you how we can make that happen.
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It is with sincere regret that we failed you in this instance and we offer our apologies. Please know that had we been aware we would have most definitely offered you a different guestroom . We fully realize that this experience marred your impression of Le Centre Sheraton Montreal and again we offer our sincere apologies. Warm regards, Marie R.
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Does the hotel have an e-mail? Thanks.
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Somebody out there doesn't want Rush Limbaugh to buy the Rams. Psssh. Sure, we give the Mormon church free reign over the FCC but a rich, fat white man with his sights set on running a plantation or six can't buy the worst team in the NFL.
This is America, people. If Rush Limbaugh wants to own the Rams, who are we to stop him. Donovan McNabb might never play for the guy, but for every McNabb there's at least three or four Matt Cassels in the NFL.
Anyways, check out the full story here.
Rush Limbaugh is a horrifyingly racist person. There's a good reason people don't want him being a part of the NFL.
Rush would be good for football. The guy is very knowledgeable and has the money to buy the team.


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Q: regex in javascript omits % i have the following url
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i use this code to get the paramertes but my d=scsdc cdcsc cdscsd instead of  d=scsdc%20cdcsc%20cdscsd
how can i make sure d will remain equal to scsdc%20cdcsc%20cdscsd
the code is:
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    decode = function(s) {
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History is often linked to reports of strange phenomena and solid historical research is a principle tenant of solid paranormal investigation. RISEUP is based in Rhode Island, with affiliates located throughout the New England area - a region ripe with colonial and pre-colonial history. With the influx of European settlers in the 1600s and the superstitions and folklore that accompanied them, it is beyond simple irony that reports of ghosts and hauntings are so prevalent within this region. We place extreme importance in providing all parties with thorough and accurate research about a particular location throughout any investigation. Information concerning any location's history can undoubtedly introduce vital knowledge, insight and clarity into any paranormal scenario. Our research does not necessarily end with the conclusion of an investigation or consultation. As people with a strong academic interest in history and its potential relation to supernatural phenomena, we often continue to pursue background information about a location or individual until all available resources are exhausted. When dealing with significantly historic locations, it is important that one's approach and interest should embrace its past and its significance to the community, the region and the entire country. RISEUP has no interest in perpetuating (or basing its conclusions on) rumors, urban legends or mythologies surrounding any such building or location thereby reducing it's reputation to nothing more than a "haunted location". This is something we take quite seriously when the opportunity arises to visit such places. We have been privileged to have traveled to and investigated claims of paranormal activity in a number of Nationally Registered Historical Places as well as many other historically significant locations in the country.


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Q: Translation commands for package dramatist to put in the marathi.ldf file I want to use package dramatist to write a play in language Marathi. I am using package polyglossia in XeLaTeX for Marathi. The package dramatist prints some theatrical terms via some commands. E.g., the command \scenename prints  "Scene (and scene number in roman)". I want the word दृश्य to be printed instead of "Scene", and have the counter set to Devanagari script. Therefore, following the package documentation, I use \renewcommand{\scenename}{दृश्य} in the preamble. Similarly, I change the counter to Devanagari script.
My question is, how can I add these translation commands to the ldf (marathi.ldf) file for language Marathi in package poyloglossia so that I do not have to keep writing these commands all the time in the preamble?
Thank you in advance.

A: An alternative is writing your commands in a new file, say mycommands.tex:
\renewcommand{\scenename}{Your scenename}
%etc.

and loading it using input{mycommands} if it is in the same folder as your .tex file. But it you really need to edit the gloss file, it is in texlive/2019/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia as gloss-marathi.ldf (change the year if your version of TeX Live is different; the tree structure is similar for MiKTeX). Create a backup first, say, gloss-marathi-backup.ldf and then add your commands to gloss-marathi.ldf (using sudo in Linux if your permission is denied or administrator privileges in Windows).