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package com.stehno.cola.command;

import java.util.Arrays;

import org.apache.mina.common.IoSession;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.stehno.cola.store.Store;

class DelePop3Command extends AbstractPop3Command {

	private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(DelePop3Command.class);

	DelePop3Command(final Store store) {
		super(store);
	}

	@Override
	public void execute(final IoSession session, final String[] args) {
		log.info("DELE: {}",Arrays.toString(args));

	}
}


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I love how you grouped those sweet flowers around the sentiment frame – lovely!!


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The Form Of Prayer
Our motions during prayer are actually quite important…
When one is praying, the arms should be raised on both sides, high enough for the armpits to be visible, and the hands should be extended out, level with the face. It helps to direct the rays coming out of the fingertips, which should be approximately thirty centimeters away from the face, so they join with the rays that are emitted from the forehead. The Rasul of Allah (saw) says: "If one lifts his hands high enough for his armpits to be visible and prays, without rushing, his prayer will definitely be accepted…" Upon which he was asked, "How can one be in a rush, O Rasulullah?" And he answered, "By saying, 'I made a prayer, but my prayer was not accepted (and thus giving up).' This is incorrect; one should persist until it is accepted."[1]
The joining of the waves from the fingertips with the directed[2] waves that are emitted from the brain has a laser-like effect and plays a very important role in the actualization of prayer.
As can be seen, the primary force that enables the acceptance of prayer is not one that is external, but is activated completely from the Names of Allah present within the person. In short, prayer is the act of actualizing one's wants through the divine powers present within. There is, of course, a scientific explanation to this act. Essentially, prayer is 'guided brain waves.' Just as the dimension of knowledge transforms into energy and the quantum field to form the universe, the wants and desires of consciousness emanate from the dimension of knowledge to reveal themselves as the wants and desires of man and become actualized through the densification of guided brain waves. Due to this, the stronger the concentration level, the faster the response will be to the prayer. This is why there is a saying, "The prayer of the oppressed will not be left unheard; never will the accursed attain true success!" For a curse is made with such intense concentration that the negative brain waves that are guided directly to that person are literally inescapable. They say, "If the curse doesn't affect the grandfather, it will eventually affect the grandson." This is because the curse the grandparent receives modifies his genetic code such that, even if its effect doesn't reveal itself on him, eventually it is passed onto his children and grandchildren; hence, another proverb, "The fathers eat the sour grapes, but the children's teeth are set on edge."
Back to the motions of prayer… As I said previously, the arms have to be raised and open, and the hands in front. This is how the Rasul of Allah (saw) prayed. When a group of bandits in the desert fled after killing a group of people who attended to their needs and healed their wounds, the Rasul of Allah (saw) stood in prayer with his apostles and prayed in this exact manner, shortly after which the bandits were captured.
Praying as such; in a standing position with your arms raised high and your hands open with the palms facing your face so the rays can be freely emitted from your fingertips, is highly effective, as is praying while in a position of prostration. In particular, prayers that are made in prostration after midnight, when the sun is completely behind you and its radiation effect is minimal, are immensely effective. If you pray during the final prostration of the Prayer of Need (hajat) or any other salat, its effectiveness will be even more powerful.
If you perform salat during the night and in the final prostration make a prayer by first confessing and admitting your mistakes and asking for forgiveness, and repeat this for a few days, depending on what is requested and divine will, there will definitely be a response effecting the realization of the prayer. The fact the same prayer is allowed to be made persistently is in itself a sign that it will be responded to, for Allah would not allow a prayer to made persistently if it is not to be accepted. So, in other words, if you are not persistent in your prayer, its chance of being accepted and actualized is low.
But, why is a prayer made during prostration, especially after confessing your mistakes, so powerful?
When you prostrate, there is a strong flow of blood to the brain and hence the brain is abundantly nourished with oxygen and other sources of energy. This allows the brain to emit powerful waves. When you confess and admit your mistakes, an intense concentration and focus takes place, which strengthens the waves of the thing that is prayed for even more.
Another important factor, which strengthens and enables the actualization of the prayer, is that the person should be completely free of suspicion and groundless fear. Prostration is a state in which the illusory self, the ego, is completely lifted. Thus, the Rasul of Allah (saw) advises us to "pray with the certainty that your prayer will most definitely be accepted, without doubt or suspicion."
The biggest obstruction to the realization of prayer is doubt and suspicion. The extent to which this is minimized in a person determines the speed and the certainty of the prayer's fulfillment.
The reason why the prayers of those who have attained certainty (yakeen) of Allah are immediately accepted is due to their minimized suspicion. Additionally, the enlightened engage heavily in spiritual practices, which activate certain divine forces within them, also contributing to the effectiveness of their prayers.
One other important point to consider is that the jinn, who are known by satanic attributes, infuse misleading suggestions in regards to prayer in man, preventing him from using this most powerful weapon. Just as you feel an urge to pray, the jinn who are called devils due to their satanic behavior, whisper something along the line of, "What's the point of praying, I'll live whatever I'm destined to live anyway" or "Whether I pray or not, what will be will be, so why should I pray?". Hence, you stop praying and become deprived of this most powerful weapon. The implications of this deprivation, you cannot fathom. This is why the Rasul of Allah (saw) advises:
"Ask everything from Allah, from the strap of your horse to the grass of your sheep."[3]
"Ask from the bounty and generosity of Allah, for Allah likes to be asked of."[4]
"Indeed, Allah loves His servants who pray with persistence."[5]
"Consider it a prize to pray in the hours in which you feel sensitive, for this is the state of the hour of grace."
The word sensitive in this last hadith means a state of emotional sensitivity due to being completely consumed by a particular topic. Turning to Allah in such a state means the brain is focused entirely on one specific purpose, and the divine qualities inherent within the brain become activated to manifest this purpose.
The most important factor in the actualization of a prayer is for the person to nullify himself (the ego-based identity) such that the one uttering the prayer is the one stimulating the want in the brain; Allah, the Truth itself…
"When He wills a thing, He only says to it 'Be' and it is."[6]
The other crucial element, as I already mentioned above, is persistence… To pray for something a few of times and then abandon the prayer is a grave mistake. Persistence in prayer, and praying for things that will serve us in our life after death, is very important. For, if we pray for the wrong thing, we may be inadvertently causing harm to ourselves. Just as electricity is infinitely beneficial, it may well be used to cause harm or even to kill.
Prayer is the actualization of the divine powers inherently present in your being. So, the degree to which we can make conscious use of this weapon is the degree to which we may be protected from our enemies, achieve our desires and attain certainty (yakeen) of Allah.
In 1984, I had written in the Mystery of Man that prayer works with brainpower, that the brain has been equipped with divine power, and that using brain waves even weapons can be rendered ineffective.
Let us have a look at how the Russian scientist proffesor Dr Kaznatcheev evaluates the brain in his article published in the Sabah newspaper on 11 June 1991.
FUTURE WARS WILL BE TELEPATHIC
The renowned Soviet Union scientist Vlail Kaznatcheev remarked that human brains could affect wars telepathically. Prof. Kaznatcheev is continuing his research at an exclusive research facility founded in the body of Novosibirsk Academy where geniuses work.
MOSCOW – Prof. Vlail Kaznatcheev, who is one of the most respected members of the Soviet Science Academy, pointed out that the human brain could have an effect on people, thoughts and electronic equipment that are physically far away from it.
Kaznatcheev is intensely researching to prove his claim. Even though most people think his claims are nonsense, he is receiving great interest in his own country, the USSR. The government, which provided Kaznatcheev with a fully equipped laboratory and assistants for help with his research in the body of Novosibirsk Academy where geniuses are educated, expects a lot from his research.
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The most important aspect of Kaznatcheev's research is that he is trying to use the telepathic powers of the human brain as a weapon. According to him, using only the power of thoughts, it is possible to disable computer systems, radars at the airports, and every kind of weaponry that can be developed using modern technology.
The government, who is watching this research very closely, mobilized the most talented KGB agents to protect Kaznatcheev to prevent the CIA from kidnapping him. The famous scientist explains his views with very simple examples:
"If the computer you are using suddenly stops working, do not blame the manufacturer. If you are under stress or if you are angry, you could affect the equipment you are using because an ordinary human brain is more powerful than the most powerful computer and sometimes a person may use the powers that nature gave him without realizing it."
According to Kaznatcheev, if a person intensely thinks about someone whom he hasn't seen for a long time, and unexpectedly receives a phone call or a letter from that person, he should not consider this as chance. This act is the person directly affecting the person he is thinking about with his thoughts.
Lastly, at a Soviet television program in which Kaznatcheev participated, he displayed a plant in his laboratory for a long time and asked the audience to think for an hour only about the plant growing. The result was truly astonishing. The plant showed inexplicable growth in a very short amount of time.
The basis of Kaznatcheev's research is to capture the infinity of the power of thought.
Continuing his research by merging science and parapsychology, in which he tries to reach the human subconscious, Kaznatcheev states his findings will some day produce very important results in crippling enemy equipment. However, he would like this technology not to be used as a weapon, but to prevent wars."
For all these reasons, PRAYER is the most excellent power given to a human being.
Ahmed Hulusi
[1] Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih al-Muslim.
[2] More information on guided brain waves can be found in the Mystery of Man.
[3] Al-Tirmidhi, Ibn Hibban.
[4] Al-Tirmidhi, al-Tabarani.
[5] Al Hakim, al-Tirmidhi.
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Business Speak, part 1
As everywhere people in organizations tend to make up expressions and terms in order to sound more important and serious. In America, and here I am especially referring to Silicon Valley high tech companies – have pushed this habit to new heights. Many perfectly fine, accurate words have been replaced by big phrases which are a lot of air and little substance. A few examples:
If I wanted somebody's input or feedback I used to say "I'll talk to her" now one says "I will reach out to her".
Employee 1: "We should meet tomorrow and discuss details. We also need to include Anne, George, and Freddie in this meeting."
Employee 2: "I will reach out to them and see when they are available."
The kimono still closed! © Brenda Bailey | Dreamstime.com
Before, when a decision or an agreement was reached or one left a meeting with a bunch of task lists one went and informed those, who weren't in on the decision or the meeting. Now however that seems a tad trivial, and therefore one doesn't merely inform or talk, no one socializes an idea.
Boss: "okay, so we move the deadline forward by three weeks. Please go and socialize this plan with the teams."
In a world of political correctness and formulaic business speak there comes a time when one needs to speak openly and frankly. Instead of having a meeting, like in the olden days, these days one has "open kimono sessions". The term is self-explanatory: all the facts get laid out and one has an honest discussion.
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This is a somewhat lighthearted sounding expression with a very serious background "Drinking the Kool-Aid"
Beware oif drinking your own Kool Aid. (c) OCAL
This needs a bit of explanation: Kool-Aid is a fizzy drink made out of a powder. Kids like it, some adults as well, I suppose. Kool-Aid, was used in the 1978 mass-suicide in Jamestown, Guyana. Jim Jones, the leader of a group Peoples Temple told his follower to drink Kool-Aid laced with cyanide and 913 of 1100 did – and died.
Drinking the Kool-Aid now means to accept uncritically and unquestioningly an idea, concept, or philosophy to the point were one looses perspective and acts irrationally. It can also imply that somebody is gullible and easily lead by others. One can drink somebody elses' Kool-Aid by completely buying into what they are saying, following them blindly as Jones' followers did. One can also drink one's own Kool-Aid which means to believe in your own hype, be overly convinced of your own ideas, products, positions.
In business it is often used to describe a situation where a (young) company becomes overly confident in the value of their own products/services or vision and people no longer critically think about how to improve them.
If not recognized and corrected quickly drinking one's own Kool-Aid can have extremely negative on performance.
Tags: idioms, Language
"You are such a geek"
Let's talk about geeks – another one of those ubiquitous words that are difficult to understand for a non-native speaker. Explaining what a geek is, is a bit difficult because the meaning has shifted somewhat. It used to be a rather derogatory, used for (young, mostly male) people who build their own supercomputers with recycled parts from the flea-market but can't bind their shoe-laces or say a complete sentence in the presence for a girl.
Now people who are very interested in and enthusiastic about technology, especially computers ("computer geek"), engineering, technology or science ("science geek") and are somewhat overdoing it are called geek. It still implies a certain lack of interpersonal skills but it is no longer terribly derogatory.
In some places – pretty much all of Silicon Valley, MIT, and other such geek havens – the term is actually a compliment. You have to be somewhat of a geek there. to be taken seriously.
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Guy 1: "I stayed up all night to write an algorithm to remote control my electronic pet and then I studied Vulcan language because I am writing a book about Vulcan grammar."
Guy 2: "Dude, you are such a geek. I thought you studied Klingon."
Guy 1: "I am fluent in Klingon, dude. Live long and prosper!" (makes Vulcan greeting)


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Virgin Atlantic introduces gender-inclusive uniform policy that encourages MALE flight attendants to WEAR SKIRTS
Thursday, October 06, 2022 by: Mary Villareal
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(Natural News) In a bid to become the world's most "woke" airline, Virgin Atlantic announced a new gender-inclusive uniform policy that encourages male staff to wear skirts and pronoun badges, including "Mx," "U" and "X."
Employees of Virgin Atlantic are set to be given "gender-inclusive" uniform options. Before, the "red" option was the required uniform for female and the "burgundy option" for male flight attendants.
Both options are now made available for either sex. Additional options are also available for non-binary members of the crew. (Related: Nobel Prize winner dismantles transgenderism as 'unscientific,' at odds with fundamental biology.)
Pronoun markers "Mx," "U" and "X" will also be available for customers who have passports with "gender-neutral gender markers," which include passport holders from countries such as the U.S., India and Pakistan. This does not include passport holders from the United Kingdom.
Virgin Atlantic has not provided an update on the policy for those who misgender a member of its staff or another passenger, although the airline's staff members are now required to attend inclusivity training.
TikTok star Tyreece Nye also showcased the airline's new policy in a fashion photo shoot published on Sept. 27. Virgin Atlantic described this effort as part of "an ongoing drive to champion the individuality of its people and customers."
Netizens have mixed reactions to the new policy
Reactions to the new policy were mixed online, with some netizens praising the company's diverse attitude and others calling it a waste of time. Others questioned the airline's need for this new policy instead of giving its staff a pay raise or lowering ticket prices for its customers.
One netizen said: "I would bet that the majority of Virgin Atlantic staff would rather have a pay rise than this."
The new "inclusive" policy comes with the airline's partnership with "RuPaul's Drag Race" star Michelle Visage's "Be Yourself" campaign and a "fluid approach" to uniform requirements that will "reflect the diversity" of Virgin Atlantic's workforce, from its crew, pilots and ground team.
Visage, who describes herself as the mother of a "trans non-binary child," said: "As the mother of a non-binary child, and as an ally to the LGBTQ+ community, these efforts by Virgin Atlantic to further inclusivity for its people are extremely important and personal to me."
Juha Jarvinen, the company's chief commercial officer, said: "At Virgin Atlantic, we believe that everyone can take on the world, no matter who they are. That's why it's so important that we enable our people to embrace their individuality and be their true selves at work. It is for that reason that we want to allow our people to wear the uniform that best suits them and how they identify and ensure our customers are addressed by their preferred pronouns."
The policy came to light when research from the company found that 25 percent of workers feel the pressure of hiding their true selves at work. The research also claimed that enabling employees to express their true selves boosts happiness, increases mental wellbeing, creates a more positive workplace culture and provides a better experience for customers.
In 2019, the airline was one of the first to drop the requirement for female cabin crew members to wear makeup while on duty. It also allowed them to wear trousers instead of skirts. Earlier this year, the company also eased restrictions for crew members and frontline workers with visible tattoos.
Visit IdentityPolitics.news for more stories related to inclusivity policies in workplaces.
Watch this video to know more about Virgin Atlantic's new policy.
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Virgin Atlantic introduces gender-inclusive uniform policy that encourages MALE flight attendants to WEAR SKIRTS


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Yilmaz R1, Salli A2, Cingoz HT3, Kucuksen S2, Ugurlu H2.
1Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Yoncali Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Hospital, Kutahya, Turkey.
2Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Meram Medical School, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey.
3Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Seydisehir State Hospital, Konya, Turkey.
The objective of this study is the evaluation of the effect of vitamin D replacement treatment on musculoskeletal symptoms and quality of life in patients with chronic widespread musculoskeletal pain (CWP) including fibromyalgia (FM) and vitamin D deficiency.
Patients with nonspecific CWP and vitamin D deficiency (25-OH D3 < 25 ng/mL) were included into the study. Replacement treatments of 50 000 IU/week oral vitamin D3 for 3 months were given to the patients. Patients were assessed pre- and post-treatment in terms of serum levels of Ca, P, alkaline phosphatase, 25-OH D3, severity of pain (visual analogue scale [VAS]-pain), severity of asthenia (VAS-asthenia), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), quality of life scale (Short Form [SF]-36), tender point count (TPC), severity of waking unrefreshed, headache, tenderness on tibia, meeting the criteria of FM, and level of patient satisfaction.
Fifty-eight patients with a mean age of 36.9 ± 9.2 years were included into the study. 25-OH D3 levels of patients elevated from 10.6 ± 5.1 ng/mL to 46.5 ± 24.0 ng/mL after replacement treatment (P < 0.001).
were established in patients after treatment (P < 0.001).
The number of FM+ patients was 30 (52%) before treatment and regressed to 20 (34%) after treatment (P = 0.013); 85% of patients stated satisfaction with the treatment.
Vitamin D replacement treatment in patients with nonspecific CWP has provided improvements in musculoskeletal symptoms, level of depression and quality of life of patients. Patients with CWP should be investigated for vitamin D deficiency.


Without a doubt, one of the great joys of my Make-A-Wish Hope Tour was the opportunity I had to discover the world. I discovered more about the world of childhood cancer, about the patients, those who take care of them, about childhood cancer research, and about our healthcare facilities. I discovered new friends. Traveling by car, and seeing this country we live in, was a breathtaking education in itself! When Linda, my INCREDIBLE Make-A-Wish coordinator, told us that they would have to "put" us somewhere between Salt Lake City and Phoenix over a weekend, I had no clue that the place she would "put" us would be the Grand Canyon!
We cried. Mom and I cried. We cried tears of joy for this place of unspeakable beauty before us. We cried tears of joy for life. We cried tears of joy for the love we have for each other. God's presence and His love were overwhelming. Overwhelming.
Thank you again, Make-A-Wish, for giving me the opportunity to discover the world. I promise to give all my heart to it.
Thank you to Grand Canyon Squire Inn for our wonderful stay and for your kind support of Make-A-Wish!


Miroslav Iwachow, Technical Leader for the Industry Sector at IBM, told the audience what Hyperledger meant and how the technology could solve corporate blockchain tasks.
The expert talked about several blockchain solutions: TradeLens for container shipping, Food Trust for food safety, and World Wire for global money transfers.
"Nowadays, the food industry focuses on several key factors: product security, supply chain optimization, food waste, and consumer preferences," the expert explained. He believes that Food Trust can solve the problems: the platform allows to track origin of products, availability of certificates, freshness, and deliver to customers.
Reportedly, TradeLens unites all shipping participants and provides safe information exchange in logistics. The speaker stressed the following advantages of World Wire: transaction transparency, compliance with statutory requirements, and security.
Daniel Szegö, Chief DLT Architect at Interticket, also drew guests' attention to Hyperledger as part of his presentation on blockchain platforms for consortiums and enterprises.
The specialist said that consortium requirements included speed, efficient operation, and confidentiality, while enterprises are aimed at adhering to the rules of KYC, AML, and GDPR.
According to the expert, Hyperledger blockchain offers solutions, and platforms are provided by Enterprise Ethereum, Quorum, R3 Corda, and Azure Blockchain.
Michael Schloh von Bennewitz, Founder of the Monero Hardware team, dedicated his presentation to blockchain-enabled security. He highlighted hardware possibilities for storing information in secret and operational concept of blockchain wallets.
The speaker paid special attention to relevant blockchain applications: supply chain tracking, insurance asset management, inventory record, and logistics.
Danica Šebestova, Partner at Squire Patton Boggs, addressed legal issues when implementing a blockchain project.
The expert mentioned that lawyers and blockchain architects should interact and cooperate with each other. It is important for specialists from both sectors to solve collaboratively everything related to KYC, AML, GDPR, and smart contracts.
Danica named countries positively treating blockchain: Switzerland, Italy, France, and Lichtenstein. Jersey, Gibraltar, and Malta offer friendly environment for cryptocurrency exchanges. Regulatory sandbox countries are the UK, the Netherlands, and France.
Artur Kuczmowski, Senior Partner at Thompson&Stein, examined in detail the AML and KYC rules for ICO and crypto exchange players.
The speaker emphasized that anti-money laundering, targeted financial sanctions, and knowing of your customers should be taken into account to protect your blockchain business.
"To create and implement an efficient KYC policy, one requires three elements: Customer Identification Program (CIP), Customer Due Diligence (CDD), and Ongoing Monitoring" the specialist added.
The event featured a demo zone where blockchain companies introduced their ideas and new projects to attendees. Cryptocurrency trading services, mining equipment developers, and startups with innovative methods for integrating technologies presented their solutions.
One of the exhibitors was Aerum, a project evolving a new-generation blockchain technology. The platform's mission is to design an infrastructure for financial trading platforms with decentralized economy.
"The event gained insight into such topics as public blockchain, distributed ledger technology, and regulatory aspects. Thus, the conference was held at high level," Daniel Szegö commented on.
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Departing to Nepal, I imagined to see grey rocks and more rocks and then some.
Arriving here I see a diversity of plants, birds, and even wild monkeys for the first time in Asia.
The land, even though not so colorful at heights more than 3000 meters in the northern part, is very green and thriving otherwise. And we still haven't been to the tropical Terai part.
Yes, I do watch Animal planet, Discovery channel and National Geographic.
No, I don't know where did I catch this wrong stereotype.


With the new congressional session comes new legislation, new senators, and – in the case of the Senate Republican Conference – a new mobile phone application. The SRC this week unveiled an app that it bills as a "one-stop shop" for all GOP news in the upper chamber. Its catalogue includes media interviews, weekly addresses, and press releases – all featuring Republicans senators, of course. Check it out at the APP Store.


Approximately half of Japanese planes lost during WWII were lost on the ground in raids like this.
Hmm. OK: It's a "Flight Sim" not a "Bomb Sim"? (actually neither, it's a video game).
well, i'd suggest using the timer the bombs in FB already have...so why use parabombs ?
- already have...so why use parabombs ?
it was my understanding that both the b-25H & b-25J were already near compleation & in olegs hands. the **** pits & guns should be roughly the same....so why only 1?
Here's a post by Oleg on the Netwings Dev Forum. The thread is about the Pe-2/3,but read down where he talks about the B-25. Apparently the differences are considerable. Currently,it doesn't look like the 75mm equipped model will be flyable.
Rate this user 32. "RE: Pe-2 Cockpit Pics...They do exist!"
1. There were already 4 guys that asked me to do it and I really was agree.... Then they all was dissapeared.
2. I answer no in case if the guy asked for the model that already in development by other guy. Or we'll have a problem.... Someone did, another one did and what that I should do? Select the best? then the other guy wil be offend on me. I don't like such situation.
The very first versions was very different than later produced. it had autorecovering device from a dive, 50+ electical motors for control - so just these things show the differences beween 1941 and 1943-44 year production Pe-2s.... and these differences reflecting on the diffeences in cockpit.
We may skip all these diffeneces and make one cockpit for all versions, except visibilty in the nose.... But turrets really was different and they need to be done all... And for them we have too little reference just for one type.
So... If there will be really very experinced guy that able to make it to the end and we will be able to insert it without corections in bugs of modelling... then I will send him my docs.
If Oleg needs more refference photos for the B-25 and variants I can likely get ahold of a large number of them. Our campus library is a Library of Congress repository.
The only caveat is that I do not know how to handle the documentation for for profit endeavors. I'd need instructions on that matter.
Also, it is possible to get archival information from the Smithsonian. They almost certainly have ample information on all variants of the B-25.
I have a few images and drawings of the B-25H models, and they are a good deal different than the J's. The 75mm cannon and its manual loading rack were installed into the crawl space to the greenhouse nose used by the bombardier. The cockpit was quite changed, as all the copilots equipment was deleted from the H model. The bombardier/cannoneer had been moved from the greenhouse nose (the new nose replacement housed the 4 .50's and the 75mm cannon barrel) to rear of the cockpit, at the breech of the cannon. He sat on a tray seat that along with the cannon breech tray hinged upwards to allow access to the hatch. All the bombing equipment was moved to the cockpit.
The copilot was primarily there to relieve the pilot when needed, and provide a backup in case the pilot was wounded. His removal reduced the crew by one man, lightened the plane (by around 300 pounds for controls, chair, etc.) for extra pilot armor and arms.
BTW, nice pics SkyChimp. I have a couple pics of a low altitude parafrag bombing run on Formosa, and the the B-25 trailing the camera plane has taken a serious blow from flak. In the next pic it has crashed into the village. The parafrag parachutes are clearly seen in the pics.


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« Fear of mythicism?
Even IF "according to the Scriptures" meant "according to what we read in the Scriptures" . . . . »
Leaving creationism, meeting a new authority or learning to think for oneself
Filed under: Religion and Atheism
Tags: Deconversion, Fundamentalism
There's an interesting response to McGrath's recent post. It traces one person's evolution from a belief in creationism to belief in evolution — and, I think, ironically identifies something that went "wrong" in the process. No, of course I don't think creationism is right and evolution wrong. So let me explain. First, here is the key part of the comment:
Maybe you had this experience too; but I remember reading a book arguing for creationism, it was well-written, finessed, and aid out all this data, had charts and figures, asked thoroughly compelling questions, and well, just seemed to reveal that the whole academy of science was just wrong- demonstrably wrong. Thankfully, through reading peer-reviewed, academic scientific studies I am no longer a creationist. I realized the lines they were given me were rhetorical, the gaping holes they pointed out that seemed just so persuasive and ground breaking were, once I became more scientifically literate, a chimera of rhetorical making. The questions they strung together just did not make sense once you realized the field,-and I noticed that I would need to read several books just to reveal a error in one dot in their whole join-the-dots technique spread across a chapter.
At the end of it I felt rather embarrassed that I listened to self-published, amateur scholarship, that I didn't spot that despite the thousands of scientists there were in the world, it seemed to be only those with marginal nor tentative qualifications in the field though this was ground-breaking and became fawning enthusiastic devotees of pseudo-science.
That journey was a little different from mine and I am sure from many others who left creationism.
On my pathway there was a time when I was misguidedly looking for someone with a doctorate in psychology who also believed in a literal physical resurrection of Jesus. I think I must have been thinking that no-one so educated could possibly believe anything like that, and that this would somehow lend some weight to the case against the resurrection story in the Gospels. (As I said, it was a misguided quest.) When I mentioned this to someone (I think someone with a research doctorate in psychology) they asked me, "What would it prove if you did find one who did believe in the resurrection?" Of course, it would prove nothing.
I think that was one of a few stepping stones assisting me towards accepting responsibility for my own beliefs and thinking for myself.
I was a cataloguing librarian in an academic library at the time and encountered a regular stream of donated books about intelligent design. I enquired where they came from and discovered they were from a campus group that included a number of mathematics and (I think) science doctors. This was publicly funded university.
But there is one detail in which I do relate to in the above experience. Embarrassment. I know many of us have felt that over our past intellectual indiscretions.
There was a difference, though. What embarrassed me was that I could have been so screwed up in my thinking while being so sure I was right. I don't know if it ever crossed my mind to think I was embarrassed over listening to "self-published" as opposed to "peer-reviewed" writings. What I was embarrassed over was my own inability to recognize the fallacies in my belief system.
I was determined to do all I could to avoid ever again falling in to that sort of self-deception, and one of the tools (there were/are a few) was endeavouring to become more conscious of basic logical fallacies. (Of course there is no guarantee for any of us against self-deception. How can there be? One always has to live with doubts.)
So I went over all the stuff I used to believe and tried to retrace my thinking about it and identify the fallacies that had blinded me. And I tried to be alert to all ideas with the same consciousness regardless of their source. After all, even politicians lie and people do tend to believe what is advantageous to them.
It was not a question of where ideas came from, but a question of the validity of the ideas themselves. And even in books that are very sound in every important way, one will sometimes encounter a claim that lacks substance or is logically flawed, or rests on foundations that are fine as far as they go but always open to revision.
It is easy to identify and see through the fallacies in the literature of alien abductionists and Atlantis believers. It is rewarding to read literature whose authors are also well aware of the fallacies and express information in a manner relatively short of them. There would be something seriously wrong if most of that did not come from the most educated people, and that, of course, means academics.
Where a piece of writing comes from, who publishes it, whether it is possessed by only one person in the entire world or has the backing of all the king's horses and all the king's men, is entirely beside the point when it comes to its validity.
If it is logically flawed it is logically flawed. Occasionally in some disciplines (let's pick one at random — say biblical studies) a practitioner comes along conceding the logical flaws at the heart of a particular inquiry (to pick one at random — let's say historical Jesus studies). That, I admit, is a little reassuring to one who has found the very same flaws in his own reading of that topic's publications. (I have not found cause for the same admissions from the few paleontologists whose works I have read. I have read a lot of history, and that is a mixed bag.
I can't say I have managed to avoid fallacies or self-deception, but at least this way I like to think I have avoided the trap of arguing from authority or "consensus" (whatever that means).
It is great to keep meeting others — mostly online — who have enjoyed a similar liberating journey.
Author Neil GodfreyPosted on 2011-08-08 22:26:36 GMT+0000 2019-06-26 12:49:13 GMT+0000 Categories Religion and AtheismTags Deconversion, Fundamentalism
15 thoughts on "Leaving creationism, meeting a new authority or learning to think for oneself"
Steven Carr says:
The Quest for the Historical Jesus has crashed and burned so badly that the failures are now documented.
As far as I am aware there is not a single fact about Jesus that historical Jesus scholars all agree on other than that Jesus was Jewish and was crucified. (It says so in the Bible)
So much for scholarship in the field, Especially when the scholars are the likes of Bauckham and Casey.
These Biblical criteria work on the principle that 2 leaky buckets hold more water than one leaky bucket.
J. Quinton says:
Defering to peer-reviewed literature is what amateurs should do, since in most contexts an amateur does not have the time nor the prior knowledge base to reach an informed conclusion on the subject. An appeal to authority or consensus is still an appeal to authority/consensus; whether it is fallacious or not depends, again, on the context.
The peer-review process is the best method we have for weening out bad ideas, but this by no means implies that it is perfect. To think that it is perfect would be to subscribe to a subset of scientism. Not only that, but not all peer-reviewed fields are created equally. Some are more ideologically charged than others or have other entrenched problems that make the process less reliable.
Essentially, the quoted post hasn't really improved their situation, they just chose a more acceptable authority. They haven't actually corrected the process that led them to their initial "embarrassment". Again, this might be a quick and dirty way to settle a debate that's outside of one's purview but in a more involved dialogue the real punch of argument comes from the strength of the logic and evidence presented, not an appeal to authority/consensus.
It's the difference between giving someone a fish for a day or teaching someone how to fish. The quoted post just got their fish from a different source (appealing to authority), they haven't actually learned how to fish (learned how to debate logically).
Why didn't Philo write about Josephus? Not a problem…
More evolutionists explaining to creationists why they should not expect to be shown any evidence….
There seems to be an awful lot of patiently explaining why nobody should expect evidence of the existence of Jesus of Nazareth, the radiance of God's being and the agent through whom the world was created,
I guess we shouldn't expect to be shown evidence of any Holocaust either, and nobody should expect evidence of global warming.
Somewhat off topic, but I felt like jumping in on the question of why Philo doesn't write about Jesus (which I assume you meant and not Josephus, Steven).
This is just my honest thought. I certainly don't care if Jesus existed, as I've said a number of times here before. Since I agree with the idea that the Dead Sea Scrolls group were Jewish Christians, I take into account the fact that they practiced "faithful concealment of the mysteries of truth" from all outsiders (1QS 4.6). This is also a rule in the Clementine literature, which, however late, are arguably based on earlier Jewish Christian sources.
These "mysteries of truth" are probably the interpretations of the Righteous Teacher, "to whom God made known all the mysteries of His servants the prophets" (1QpHab 7.4-5), which is also similar to James in the Recognitions of Clement.
I think this explains why the NT epistles are so "silent" on Jesus, which are all written either by or to outsiders, even if Jesus is baseed solely on scripture, and why someone like Philo in Alexandria would not have known about Jesus.
And the "fact" (if such it is) that Jesus was crucified doesn't mean it would have been known to Philo, any more than other cucifixions that Josephus says were to numerous to count. And there are other people that Philo could have mentioned but didn't, such as Judas the Galilean, but we don't take this as evidence that they didn't exist.
Just explaining my thoughts, and I'm fine if anyone feels differently.
Erlend says:
Thanks for highlighting my reply Neil.
I would like to point out though my comments weren't making the argument that, if I can put it like this: ' side x has the most scholars' so I wont look at the evidence, its enough to see who has the most PhD's on their side.' I was, as I am sure you understand, always aware of the fact that creationism or intelligent design was a marginal position. The change in my position came when I did try reacquaint myself with the field in more depth; using the openess that you say should mark our intellectual enquiries. I never, ever said this change was came through a totalling of scholarly consensus, or an increasingly feeling of needing to align with a dominant worldview. Indeed, I recorded exactly why- and it was through reading, and evaluating the evidence as you recommended. My second paragraph does highlight why I thought I should have been more judicious in giving my support to what was a marginal viewpoint, and it is part of my argument that we need to realize that in every field there will be arguments that, to novices, look amazing, but to those involved in the field turn to be nothing more than bluster (i.e. wow why haven't all monkeys evolved if evolution is true, or, wow why didn't Philo write about Jesus if he existed). It am not advocating an academic form of 'Rome has spoken, the matter is closed.' So while your post is a useful reminder on the need to evaluate evidence regardless of peer-pressure or scowls from the academia, I do think trying to use my comments as a foil to make them is a little bit unfair. And, as I prefaced my comments with, I would like to reiterate that I am not suggesting that all arguments for mythicism are unconvincing or bogus- even Fitzgerald's book, whose books these comments were initially structured around, was insightful in parts (e.g. his section on Josephus).
J Quinton,
If you could read my original post in its entirety and my comments immediately above your posting, and return to consider the accuracy of your comments I would be grateful.
I presume your comment was meant to be intentionally blunt, but please don't attempt to bring my statements about Philo into the broader question of why historians from the time did not mention Jesus. I have said nothing about that, and said nothing about the persuasive value that this historical lacunae holds for the mythicists' cause.
I realize that on the blogosphere the issue of mythicism can draw a lot of frenetic energy but It is getting a bit tiring have to keep check on people and holding them to comment on what I have actually said/argued, and refraining them from going off on tangents on what I haven't…
ERLEND
but to those involved in the field turn to be nothing more than bluster (i.e. wow why haven't all monkeys evolved if evolution is true, or, wow why didn't Philo write about Jesus if he existed).
My apologies for misunderstanding you when you implied that only the bit about Philo was 'bluster' on the part of mythicists, and that had nothing to do with the general question of why historians did not write about Jesus, which presumably is not bluster on the part of mythicists.
The fact remains that not one person in history has written a document naming himself as ever having seen Jesus, Judas, Thomas, Lazarus, Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus, Barabbas, Mary Magdaelebe, Bartimaeus etc etc.
They only appear in unprovenanced, anonymous works which can easily be shown to produce episodes in the life of Jesus by turning to the Old Testament but cannot be shown to produce episodes in the life of Jesus by writing down memories from people who knew him.
Michael W. Nordbakke (@Nordbakke) says:
Thanks to Neil for this spot-on rebuttal of the "argument" that the success of Darwin's theory can be cited as evidence for Jesus' historicity. This argument is tantamount to postulating that a fringe position on a scholarly issue can be rejected by referring to a fringe position on a scientific issue.
Consider for a moment the reciprocal argument, namely, that a fringe position on a scientific (or mathematical) issue can be rejected by referring to a fringe position on a scholarly issue. A consensus view among scholars of theology is that Jesus rose from the dead on the first Easter morning. There can be no doubt that theologians who argue against the Resurrection belong to the despicable tradition of "self-published, amateur scholarship." To realize this, simply remember that Prof. Gerd Lüdemann was fired from his teaching post at the University of Göttingen when he told his students that early Christian belief in Jesus' resurrection may have been the product of hallucinatory experiences. Now, the standard view among mathematicians is that the Riemann Hypothesis (RH) requires a proof. There is however a very tiny group of mathematicians who argue that the RH should rather be taken as a new axiom because, fundamentally speaking, there is no proof. How should the dispute over the RH be settled?
According to the above argument, mathematicians holding the fringe position should be treated in the same manner as Prof. Lüdemann: They should be branded as amateurs and fired. Luckily, they are not. Instead, the need to add the RH as a new axiom is recognized as what it really is: a matter of faith.
Again read my comments in their totality, and my comments above, and please get back to me and let me know if you still think this is a 'spot on' response, and why you attributed to me arguments that I never made.
I was not arguing that 'oh its not peer reviewed, therefore ignore it…its embarrassing.' As I said: "I realized the lines they were given me were rhetorical, the gaping holes they pointed out that seemed just so persuasive and ground breaking were, once I became more scientifically literate, a chimera of rhetorical making. The questions they strung together just did not make sense once you realized the field' The point is that the arguments were poorly constructed and rhetorical; that they can look convincing if you have little understanding of the scope of the field, but when you realize the evidence it becomes apparent that many of the arguments don't make sense. That is the point of my argument. Its a perfectly simple concept to grasp, and its one I would have thought everyone would sympathize with.
The fact that I mentioned the phrase 'peer-review' within this statement doesn't mean someone can jump on this and claim 'oh you are saying that it needs to be peer-reviewed or…', or because I mentioned 'creationism' that 'oh you are obviously saying that mythicism equates to creationism…' and go on an extended discussion on why I am being logically flawed, and not following evidence, all for something I never said! I in no way made this argument, nor would I ever make this argument. I even outlined at the start that I enjoy Neil's posts, so why that wouldn't put a red flag up for Neil to think he misunderstood me and how I research and look at evidence I am not sure. I am sure the post, or at least with reference to me, will be removed.
Steven Carr wrote: "As far as I am aware there is not a single fact about Jesus that historical Jesus scholars all agree on other than that Jesus was Jewish and was crucified. (It says so in the Bible)"
On March 30, 2004 Dr. Paul Maier (www.wmich.edu/wmu/news/2011/04/062.html)
was interviewed on the "100 Huntley Street" telecast:
David Mainse: My guest, Dr. Paul Maier, will be on ABC Television this coming Monday evening with Peter Jennings who is doing a special "Jesus and Paul." Dr. Maier is Professor of Ancient History at Western Michigan University, and also, he is a Harvard graduate. He was awarded a full scholarships for post graduate study at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and also Basel, Switzerland. After studying at the latter under the famed scholars Karl Barth and Oscar Cullman, he received a Doctor of Philosophy degree "Summa Cum Laude," the first American ever to win highest honours at the Swiss university. And of course, in '68 with Doubleday he has published many scholarly books. Pontius Pilate was one of the first ones. He is the definitive modern translator of the History written by Josephus. Dr. Maier is also the modern translator of Eusebius, the first ever Christian who wrote a history of the first three centuries of Christianity. He was named Professor of the Year, and one of America's 25 finest educators by the Washington
based Council for Advancement and Support of Education This is secular stuff, this isn't religious stuff, you know. Please ladies and gentlemen, welcome Paul Maier. What are you doing in connection with The DaVinci Code?
Paul Maier: The book will be called the "DaVinci Code Fact Or Fiction" and it is coming out next month.
David Mainse: You are being asked to come on TV by ABC's Peter Jennings as a guest, next Monday night and obviously they're pulling together scholars and you are such a scholar. Now we have here in Canada, a book that's just come out by a man whom I love. Tom, I have called you on the phone and congratulated you on articles in the Toronto Star. And we have been together on a number of occasions. But this book has come out. "The Pagan Christ – Rediscovering the Lost Light." I asked you to read it specifically. I sent a copy to you down to Western Michigan University. What is his
main thesis?
Paul Maier: Basically Tom said that Christianity is really nothing new. And that there are references to Jesus in every aspect of his life already in the Egyptian records 18,000 years ago, and that the gospels really offer nothing fresh. They traced Jesus' life from infancy to the visit of the Magi, to a star involved, to miracle working, to healing the sick, giving sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, crucified, resurrected three days later. Supposedly, every aspect of Jesus life has been already written in past myths. And again he defines myth in a very positive sense. He uses Joseph Campbell's definition, "myth is what never was but always is." And in the sense that although it is not history, nevertheless the timeless truths that are taught in myths are the things that really count. And the problem is that as an historian, I don't find Jesus mentioned in Egyptian records 18,000 years ago. There were no Egyptian records 18,000 years ago, and there wasn't even an Egypt at that time. I don't find any of these things that he is claiming. It is one thing to say I
don't believe the present gospels but it's another thing to say there is nothing new in those gospels, and all of this material was from primitive and such humanity on, timeless truths will continue, even after Christianity quits.
David Mainse: You were raised in this. Your Dad was a PhD of Ancient Semitic languages– (shades of rosetta stone). So you were raised in this milieu. And in fact one of the reasons I understand you took the path that you took was in order to verify from secular sources for your own mind your father's faith.
Paul Maier: Well, I was always concerned that if these marvellous extraordinary events as reported in Scripture really happened, that we ought to be able to find fall-out, as it were, in the secular sources.
David Mainse: Tom, no attack on the personal level. I love you. Remember that. Is Tom's research according to you, Dr. Maier, most eminent professor of ancient history, is his research reliable?
Paul Maier: I would like to say "yes" to a fellow colleague in Academe, but I must say "no". I am quite surprised at how he footnotes things. In fact, I found the first problem in a paragraph on page 28 of his book in which he is talking about Eusebius, the person that I translated. He says that Eusebius claims that the gospels of the New Testament were really the old dramatic books of the Esenes from pre-Christian days. Now I knew that not to be true. So I immediately looked up his foot note number one. Instead of providing any documentation for that statement, as you should do in a footnote, instead all he does is add additional argument or material that does not prove what he is stating. And this is really not the way you do footnotes or endnotes. This is really the wrong way to do historical methodology, and that really bothered me because you find this again and again. When I am trying to pin him down to some primary source to see where he gets this, we don't get the primary source. All we usually get is a reference to Alvin Boyd Kuhn, a scholar that died back in 1963, I believe, and who is hardly known but, evidently, was very influential for Tom Harpur, and that's not the way you do research.
David Mainse: All right. Let me go on. How does Tom view the gospel of Jesus?
Paul Maier: What bothers me is that Tom, first of all, has a very outmoded view of when the gospels were written. He again and again says that the four gospels received their definitive form about 175 A.D. Now that's almost a hundred years too late. That's the view of the old Tübiugen school in Germany as to when the gospel of John came along, and they said probably 175 A.D., that is, until they found parts of the gospel of John way up the Nile in the famous Ryland Papyrus from around 110 A.D. And so, nearly all Biblical scholars today say that all four gospels had to be written before the year 100. So really he is using rather outmoded research here. What bothers me is that while disdaining the Gospels, he will accept so many of the same supposedly faux names that show up in gospels. Then he will find a parallel word from thousands of years back that supposedly shows that this is nothing new. For example, Abraham, Father of the faith– said Abraham is composed of "A" as in the alpha privative which means as "Amoral," not "Moral." Thus Abraham
means "Not Brahma." Trying to relate this, of course, to Indian religion does not work. Obviously, Abraham is the Semitic meaning "Exalted father." You just shouldn't play those tricks. Another one is "Jesus", for example. He is supposedly found back in ancient Egyptian records (I will read from page 39), "According to the historian, Herodotus, "the father of history," the Egyptian Jesus was known as Iu-em-hetep." Now, of course, Herodotus does not mention Jesus. Tom implies that he does. Tom claims that Iusu, "was one of the eight great gods who were described in the papyri almost 20,000 years ago," Folks, they didn't have writing 20,000 years ago. There was no Egypt 20,000 years ago. The art of writing was invented about 4,000 BC at the earliest. So right there you have an impossible situation. Tom, why did you do that? I don't quite understand that. In future editions do some emendations, if you please.
David Mainse: All right. Tom many years ago, probably 25 years ago was on "100 Huntley Street." He and his wife had taken a donkey from Nazareth and travelled down to Bethlehem, and I thought it was so unique that I called Tom up and said you got to come on and tell that story which he did. And so, Tom, I thank you for being willing to do that. But, in this book, does it come out that Tom at least believes that there is historical personality named Jesus?
Paul Maier: Well, I was shocked. He devotes a whole chapter to this. And you realize that 99.9% of scholars across the world will acknowledge that Jesus is an historical person. They may not say that Jesus is the Son of God, but they will say there was an historical figure named Jesus of Nazareth. But Tom has very grave doubts about this, so he claims. Now that floored me right there. Because, we have copious evidence for Jesus' existence. If you don't like the gospels, go to the Roman historian, Tacitus, who talks about the great fire of Rome and how Nero got blamed for it. To save himself, he blames the Christians. This Roman historian says that they are named for a Christus, who was crucified by one of our governors, Pontius Pilate. What more do you need? That quote alone would establish the historicity of Jesus. Suetonius mentions Christ in connection with the riot of those for or against Jesus across the Tiber. Pliny, the younger, Governor of Asia Minor, says that these Christians get up on Sunday morning and sing hymns to Christ as to a God.
The Jewish rabbinic traditions mention Jesus of Nazareth in their own language. What more do we need of witnesses? Josephus mentions Jesus twice. I want to point out that Christian faith is based upon fact and not on fiction. The problem nowadays is that so many people are trying to turn fact into fiction.
David Mainse: Not on "100 Huntley Street", and don't forget I love you Tom. God bless.
"… until they found parts of the gospel of John way up the Nile in the famous Ryland Papyrus [P52] from around 110 A.D."
A.D. 110?
Brent Nongbri: "What I have done is to show that any serious consideration of the window of possible dates for P52 must include dates in the later second and early third centuries. Thus, P52 cannot be used as evidence to silence other debates about the existence (or non-existence) of the Gospel of John in the first half of the second century…" (Brent Nongbri, Harvard Theological Review, vol. 98, pp. 23-52).
Tim Widowfield says:
David: "Because, we have copious evidence for Jesus' existence."
You must have a different definition of "copious."
Tacitus, Suetonius, and Pliny relate stories of Christians, not Christ. We have no reason to believe Tacitus was doing anything more than telling us when Christians believed. Apologists like to imagine that he double-checked those meticulous crucifixion records from the Roman archives, but seriously, do you really think Rome kept records of the names and dates of all the people executed out in the provinces? For what purpose?
http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/forum/index.php?action=printpage;topic=7430.0
"The story in St Mark about Jesus healing a blind man has two parts. Newly sighted people cannot make sense of what they see right away, and Jesus
recognized this and performed the miracle of helping the man readjust his brain patterns. A true miracle occurred.
The Bethsaida Miracle
D. Keith Mano, National Review, 21 April 1997.
Note: Oliver Sacks makes a cameo appearence in the 1999 film, At First Sight:
Evolution: The Creation Myth of Our Culture
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Corn and wheat continue to slump
Ben Potter | Nov 04, 2019
For the week ending October 31, soybean export inspections remain relatively strong as buyers from several countries continue to take delivery. But corn and wheat posted another round of lackluster results last week.
Soybean export inspections topped 54.4 million bushels, which was slightly below the prior week's tally of 58.0 million bushels but on the high end of trade guesses that ranged between 31 million and 55 million bushels. The weekly rate needed to match USDA forecasts dropped to 34.1 million bushels, while cumulative totals for the 2019/20 marketing year moved nearly 11% higher than a year ago, with 351 million bushels.
"China continues to dominate U.S. soybean exports, taking a little over half the weekly total," according to Farm Futures senior grain market analyst Bryce Knorr. "Buyers from other countries are also taking delivery, which helped fuel a surge in basis last week."
Can the current pace continue? Inspections normally begin tailing off in November, Knorr notes.
"Additional purchases by China will be needed to extend the selling season into the window, when demand begins to shift to South America," he says. "If that happens, demand could be a little better than USDA currently forecasts."
Corn business continues to disappoint, in contrast. Last week only gathered another 10.9 million bushels, falling from the prior week's already lackluster 15.4 million bushels and slumping below the average trade guess that ranged between 17 million and 25 million bushels. The weekly rate needed to match USDA forecasts moved up to 36.5 million bushels, and 2019/20 running totals of 148 million bushels is down 62% from a year ago.
"Basis was strong in the export pipeline, lifting bids to option or better along the Illinois River," Knorr says. "But that strength came from the slow pace of harvest and falling barge freight costs, not demand."
Mexico accounted for more than half of U.S. corn export inspections last week, with 6.7 million bushels. Colombia added another 1.0 million bushels, with other destinations filling out the final 3.1 million bushels.
Wheat also posted lackluster results, with 10.8 million bushels. That was almost half of the prior week's tally of 20.5 million bushels and moderately below the average trade guess, which ranged between 16 million and 25 million bushels. The weekly rate needed to match USDA forecasts moved up to 18.3 million bushels. Cumulative totals of 402 million bushels this marketing year are still trending 22% higher than a year ago, however.
"Wheat business slowed with demand for soft red winter wheat remaining poor,"
Knorr says. "This week's inspections were a low for the marketing year, coming at a time of year business shipments are typically weak. Most customers continue to ship out small volumes, suggesting they still aren't worried about supplies around the world."
Japan was the No. 1 destination for U.S. wheat export inspections last week, with 3.1 million bushels. Other top destinations included South Korea (2.3 million), Nigeria (1.8 million) and Taiwan (1.2 million).
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Brave Mrs. Lincoln
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Closing out this month's focus on First Ladies…
Mary Todd Lincoln was born in Lexington, KY on Dec. 13, 1818. She was well educated, fluent in french, and came from a very large and wealthy family.
Despite her "good" upbringing- after marrying Abraham in 1842, she withstood terrible hardships, harsh criticism, and great loss.
She was said to have been very outspoken on political matters, which was unusual for the times- but even better- she was extremely vocal on her views against slavery despite her childhood in which her family owned over 200 slaves.
Never having got over the loss of 2 of her sons, the assassination of her husband about did her in. She suffered from severe depression and remained at the White House for 40 days after his death. She is quoted as saying "The last day he lived was the happiest of his life." Due to her overwhelming grief, she did not attend the funeral procession.
Her Children:
Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926) became a lawyer.
Edward Baker Lincoln (1846-1850) died from tuberculosis
William "Willie" Wallace Lincoln (1850-1862) died of Typhoid Fever
Thomas Lincoln (1853-1871) died of pneumonia.
Only Robert outlived his mother- who died in 1882.
in good Grace.
First Ladies continues…
Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge (1879-1957) married Calvin Coolidge in 1905. She served as First Lady from August 2, 1923 through March 4, 1929.
She was born in Burlington, VT and graduated from UVM. She taught at the Clarke School for the Deaf in Northhampton, MA.
When watering flowers outside the school one day- she burst out laughing when she happened to see Calvin shaving in front of a mirror in nothing but his long underwear and a hat. They officially met shortly after and quickly fell in love.
She is described as being an outgoing, vivacious woman who shined as White House hostess. Grace was extremely popular, fashionable and generous with her time. In 1931 she was voted one of America's twelve greatest living women by the National Institute of Social Sciences. She continued to work with the deaf throughout her life and was active with the Red Cross.
She is buried next to President Coolidge in Plymouth, Vermont.
Strong Helen.
27th President, First Ladies, Helen Taft, William Howard Taft
Yet another fascinating First Lady: Helen "Nellie" Herron Taft.
Born in 1861 died in 1943, she was the wife of President William Howard Taft.
Helen was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to a prestigious family. She met William Taft at a bobsledding party. He was 22 and she was 18. They began dating in 1882 and they wed on June 19, 1886 at her parents home.
Two months after entering the white house in 1909, Mrs. Taft had a stroke that left her with impaired speech. Although she never fully recovered, she still entertained and received guests three afternoons a week. She had 3020 Japanese cherry trees planted in the Washington Tidal Basin in 1912. She opposed Prohibition (Cheers Mrs. Taft!), promoted women's suffrage and rights for factory workers, and is the only woman to eventually be a First Lady and a wife to a Chief Justice. William Howard Taft is the only person to have served in both of these offices.
Also cool- before meeting the president, she graduated from the Cincinnati College of Music.
"I had always had the satisfaction of knowing almost as much as he [W.H. Taft] about the politics and intricacies of any situation in which he found himself, and my life was filled with interests of a most unusual kind."
the fabulous Jackie O.
First Lady, Jackie Kennedy, Jackie O, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, John F. Kennedy
If you grew up in Massachusetts, you know that our parents and grandparents consider the Kennedy Family to be royalty. Except for maybe Joe- my grandfather use to scowl and call him a crook.
Jacqueline Bouvier married John F. Kennedy in 1953 at St. Mary's in Newport, RI and their reception was held at her mother and step-father's Newport estate.
We all know her very tragic story, so here's some things that you might not know about this former first lady.
1. She campaigned to save Grand Central Station in the mid 1970s.
2. She was engaged to another man. John G.W. Husted, a stockbroker. But called it off in 1952. She is quoted as saying he was dull and immature.
3. She won an Emmy for her "A Tour of the White House" on CBS. She spent over a year restoring and redecorating her new home. 56 Million viewers tuned in to see the results.
4. Before she married JFK, she was a camera girl for the Washington Times Herald and covered the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
5. She was fluent in French, Spanish and Italian.
6. In her 1947 yearbook from an all-girl school in Connecticut, she listed her life ambition as "to not be a housewife."
posthumously first.
Ellen Arthur, First Lady, Mary McElroy, President Chester Arthur
Continuing with the First Ladies theme- Here is Ellen Arthur (1837-1880) wife of the 21st President, Chester A. Arthur I.
Ellen was born into a very prominent Southern family- her father a renowned Naval Officer, William Lewis Herndon, went down with his ship in 1857. It was the largest loss of life in a commercial shipping disaster. Herndon managed to safely evacuate over 150 women and children- but went down with 400 passengers and crew.
Ellen (or as they called her- Nell) married Chester on October 25th, 1859 in New York City. For the most part, their marriage was a good one- they had two sons and a daughter- but the marriage was somewhat strained by political turmoil and her sympathies towards the Confederacy.
She died from Pneumonia on January 12, 1880- a year before her husband was sworn into office. Arthur's sister Mary McElroy served as the unofficial First Lady and helped raise the children.
First Lady, Frances Cleveland, Frances Cleveland Preston, President Grover Cleveland
So I ran a poll on the HW Facebook page and got some GREAT suggestions for this month's theme and I'm going with First Ladies of the United States. Rather fitting to kick it off on the Fourth of July.
First up is Frances Cleveland.
She was the First Lady to President Grover Cleveland from 1886 to 1889 and again from 1893 to 1897. She is the youngest first lady in the history of our country- becoming so at the age of 21.
Some firsts for both:
– They were the only couple to wed at the White House while in office (they were married in the Blue Room)
– She was, and still is the youngest First Lady
– Their age difference (27 years) is the second largest of any Presidential marriage.
– She is the only first lady to preside at two non-consecutive administrations.
– She was the first Presidential Widow to remarry
Frances was quite a media sensation and became very popular during both terms. They had three daughters and two sons. When her husband died in 1908, she spent most of her time in Princeton, NJ and eventually married Thomas J. Preston Jr. in 1913. During the great depression, she led the Needlework Guild of America generating clothing for the poor. When she died in 1947 at the age of 83, she was buried next to her first husband the former President.
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Bill Scher writes today that "a right-wing mob is not a majority." He is absolutely correct. As you've doubtlessly read, heard, or seen by now, conservative groups that oppose health care reform have been organizing demonstrations at congressional town halls around the country. A major goal of these is to drive the media narrative--to make it seem as if the country is up in arms about the reform plans President Obama and his allies are trying to push through Congress.
Health care reform is still quite popular, contrary to what you may have heard. What's taking a hit is the multiple reform plans being batted around in Congress, which have confused the public and given conservatives a terrific opportunity to road test every antireform argument they can think of. After all, with so many plans floating around, how can the public be sure that these arguments don't apply to at least one plan or provision of a plan that might possibly become law? And progressives for their part have had a very difficult time figuring out how to counter conservative arguments since there's nothing definite and solid for them to defend.
That's not to say reform advocates don't have a political problem. Clearly, they need to do a better job of explaining their plans to the public. In early 1994, the Wall Street Journal famously polled voters and found they liked most of the elements of the Clinton health care plan, as long as nobody told them it was the "Clinton plan." And we know how that story ended.
What's more, this sort of polling is far from perfect. People can change their minds or hold views that are, quite frankly, contradictory. A lot, naturally, depends on how questions are worded.
Still, the Pew numbers make it pretty clear that the mobs showing up at congressional meetings are not even remotely representative of the country as a whole. That's something the pundits, not to mention the politicians, should keep in mind.


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Brooklyn Nets vs. Philadelphia 76ers 12/18/16 Recap and Player Grades
PHILADELPHIA,PA - DECEMBER 18: Brook Lopez #11 of the Brooklyn Nets backs up to the basket against the Philadelphia 76ers at Wells Fargo Center on December 18, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2016 NBAE (Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images)
Matthew Pisani
Brooklyn Nets vs. Philadelphia 76ers 12/18/16 Score
The Brooklyn Nets lost a game that they needed to win and should have won. The Brooklyn Nets lost to the Philadelphia 76ers in Philly 108-107 to fall to 7-19 on the season. The Sixers, the basement of the league, rose to 7-20 on the season, a half game worse than the Nets on the year.
Joel Embiid was the dominant force everyone excepted him to be in this game. Embiid put up 33 points on 12-17 shooting, including 2-3 from long range. Embiid also grabbed ten rebounds and stole two balls and blocked three shots. Needless to say, he embarrassed the Nets in this one.
For Brooklyn, Brook Lopez led the way with 22 points. Right behind him was bench man Joe Harris with 19 points. Harris shot 7-13 overall and 5-9 from three-point range. Jeremy Lin played 22 minutes and scored 16 points on 5-10 shooting including only 2-7 from downtown. Lin also added in four assists and two steals.
Brooklyn was winning this game all the way until the fourth quarter, where they got outscored by only four points. Those four points were important, though, as only one of those four separated the two teams.
Grading the Players
Joe Harris and Brook Lopez get A's for tonight. Lopez scored 22 points on 6-14 shooting and 9-10 from the charity stripe. Lopez also had nine rebounds and eight assists. He was surprisingly close to a triple-double despite getting outmatched by Joel Embiid.
Joe Harris had one of his games where he is on fire. Harris scored 19 points on 7-13 from the field and 5-9 form three. Harris also stole two balls on the night. As a result of his solid play, Harris was on the floor for 28 minutes on the night.
Sean Kilpatrick gets a C on the night. Skilpatrick only scored seven points on 2-5 shooting. For a shooter, he did not shoot the ball very much in this one. Brooklyn expects and needs more from Kilpatrick in order for them to stay competitive and win games.
Brooklyn will head to the Atlantic Division leaders up in Toronto to face-off with the Raptors on Tuesday night. The Sixers will stay in Philly to take on the lowly Pelicans on Tuesday night as well.
Brook LopezJeremy LinJoe HarrisSean Kilpatrick
Matthew is a huge sports fan and is currently getting his Master's in Sports Journalism from Quinnipiac University. He currently also writes for https://onthebanks.com which covers Rutgers Athletics and received his bachelor's in Journalism and Philosophy from Rutgers as well. Matthew has been a Nets fan for over 15 years now and resides up in Connecticut, where, thankfully, they still get the YES Network
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The Combination var en fodboldliga i England og Wales, som eksisterede i slutningen af 1800-tallet og begyndelsen af 1900-tallet.

Ligaen blev første gang grundlagt i 1888, og den første sæson blev spillet i 1888-89, hvor 20 hold fra Nord- og Midtengland deltog. Antallet af hold var for højt til at spille en dobbeltturnering, hvor alle holdene mødtes ude og hjemme. I stedet skulle hvert hold spille mod otte af den andre hold ude og hjemme, hvilket i alt gav 16 kampe pr. hold. Ligaen var imidlertid uden central styring, og organiseringen af kampe var overladt til de enkelte klubber. Dette medførte total forvirring, og der var ofte tvivl om en given kamp var en liga- eller en venskabskamp. Mange af opgørene blev slet ikke spillet, og The Combination blev derfor nedlagt i april 1889. Blandt deltagerne var Newton Heath, Grimsby Town, Lincoln City, Burslem Port Vale, Crewe Alexandra, Bootle, Small Heath og Blackburn Olympic. Newton Heath, Grimsby, Crewe, Bootle og Small Heath var i 1889 med til at grundlægge ligaen Football Alliance.

The Combination blev oprettet igen i 1890 af følgende tolv klubber: Burton Swifts, Chester, Denton, Derby St Luke's, Gorton Villa, Hyde, Leek, Macclesfield Town, Northwich Victoria, Stafford County, Witton og Wrexham. Fem af holdene kom senere til at spille i the Football League, men i tilfældet Macclesfield skete dette først i 1997–98. Glossop North End, som kom med i ligaen i 1894, blev også valgt til the Football League (i 1898).

Efterhånden som turneringen udviklede sig, kom der flere og flere walisiske hold med, ligesom reservehold for flere af Football League-klubberne begyndte at deltage. Da ligaen lukkede i 1911 var der ikke nogen af de oprindelige tolv hold tilbage, bortset fra Wrexham AFC, der i 1911 stillede op med sit reservehold.

The Combination blev efterfulgt af Cheshire County League og senere af North West Counties Football League.

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Kilder / eksterne henvisninger
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Etableret i 1888
Ophørt i 1889
Etableret i 1890
Ophørt i 1911

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Autism. А development disorder which hampers the human individual's perception of and interaction with the surrounding world, as well as the organization and understanding of information received through the senses. A neurological disease (disability), as a consequence of which, the receptors' functioning changes.
I found out about that in 1989. My daughter was 2 and half years old, and I was just completing my arts studies. Confusion and panic were followed by frantic search for ways to overcome that condition of hers. With Emiliana we ended up in a Swiss clinic where they applied a particular method for treating autistic people. Its specifics lie in the attempt to improve the sound receptor through exposing it to gradually increasing filtered noise. During the last therapy sessions the sound reached the limits acceptable for the ear. That method is based on the circumstance that individuals get accustomed to the strong noise. One stops hearing the tram passing by under their window by the end of the second week.
After 20 years, this personal story is my reason to create a series of works – large-format portraits – through adding up/laying of color noise until the image disappears. The swap of the meanings' positions and the change of the message direction in the works transform them into an artistic and symbolic 'therapy' addressed to the 'normal' people.
The project Binary Noise Portraits is designed to take place in a gallery space as an exhibition and a sound installation. It will present 18 works, format 130/200cм, arranged on а mirror-image principle. Each pair of binary works is connected to headphones and a flash-stick which transfer the participant into the noise environment. The material used for laying the color noise is porous foam and serves for creating the mirror (binary) images.