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Official Site of the village of Mamaroneck, New York, United States
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Mamaroneck, village, Westchester county, New York, U.S. It is located on Long Island Sound, just northeast of New Rochelle, astride the border separating the towns (townships) of Mamaroneck and Rye. Although considered part of the Dutch West India Company lands, the site was sold in 1661 by Wappinger Indians to an Englishman, John Richbell, who retained its Wappinger name meaning "where the fresh water meets the salt." Resold in 1698 to Caleb Heathcote, mayor of New York, it developed as a farming community. The writer James Fenimore Cooper married Susan De Lancey in 1811 at Heathcote Hill (De Lancey Manor House) in Mamaroneck and lived there until 1814.
The village was incorporated in 1895 through the consolidation of Mamaroneck Neck with Rye Neck. It is now a suburban enclave of New York City with some light manufacturing. Pleasure boating is popular in the area. Pop. (2000) 18,752; (2010) 18,929.
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All of the soil grown produce at Apple Ridge is grown according to Certified Naturally Grown standards. This means no chemical fertilizers, herbicides, or pesticides are ever used in the production of our produce. It also means none of our vegetables are genetically modified varieties. In fact many of the vegetables we grow are heirloom varieties dating back 50 years or more. CNG's certification standards are based on the highest principles and ideals in organic farming.
Hydroponics is a type of farming where plants are grown directly in water without soil. At Apple Ridge we use a type of hydroponics called nutrient film technique where a thin film of water flows through gutter shaped troughs that contain the plants. The water carries a nutrient solution that feeds the plants.
We got into hydroponics because our farm is small and we didn't want to push the carrying capacity of the land. Even though it isn't organic/CNG we see our hydroponics falling between conventional agriculture and organic agriculture. It allows us to grow a lot of produce in a small space without burning out the soil, wasting water, or using chemical pesticides or herbicides.


This is the perfect breakfast bar for any busy morning. Make ahead and refrigerate to enjoy the next morning or individually wrap and freeze them for a grab-and-go breakfast later in the week.
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly spray a 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking pan with cooking spray.
Put the granola in a food processor. Pulse three times to break apart the large pieces (it should look like rolled oats). Transfer the granola to a large bowl. Stir in the flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt until combined. Add the sour cream and oil.
Using a pastry blender or large fork, blend the mixture until it resembles pea-size crumbs.
Set aside one-half of the granola mixture. Press the other half into the baking pan to form a crust.
Bake the crust for 20 minutes, or until slightly browned. Transfer to a cooling rack. Let cool to room temperature.
Meanwhile, in a food processor, process the dates until smooth. Add the avocado, processing until smooth. Add the blueberries, orange zest, and cornstarch, processing until smooth.
Spoon the filling onto the cooled crust. Use a spatula to spread it. Sprinkle the reserved granola mixture over the filling. Bake for 15 minutes, or until the topping is slightly browned and the filling is set.
Transfer the baking pan to a cooling rack. Let cool. Cut into 15 bars.
Cooking Tip: Store these bars in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to two days or wrap them individually and freeze them for up to three months.


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Here's why colorful mushrooms are popping up in your yard
Matt Steecker
It's been a really wet month.
And when it's really wet, fungi fruit.
New York residents have noticed and taken photos of diverse, colorful species of mushrooms as they've popped out of the ground.
The state has experienced "some of the best mushroom conditions in years," according to David McCheyne, president of the Rochester Area Mycological Association.
Mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of a much larger underground organism. They spend most of their lives underground as mycelium, which is made up of fine filaments that look similar to mold.
We can't see them until they make their mushrooms which make spores.
However, it's still a mystery why mushrooms pop out after significant rainfall.
"Maybe it's because mushrooms need moisture in the air to disperse their spores," said Kathie Hodge, a mycology professor at Cornell University.
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Mushrooms make spores on the surface of their gills under their cap.
"The spores themselves condense water from moist air and they use those tiny droplets they condense to get energy that throws spores out into the air," Hodge said. "That little burst of energy makes the difference on whether spores go to new places, or whether they fall to the ground. And therefore, when it's really wet for a long time, fungi can sense that and know it's a good time to send spores out, and so they make mushrooms."
Many of the mushrooms we are seeing now are symbiotic with trees, Hodge said. Their mycelium connects to tree roots and brings nutrients to the trees.
The mushrooms bring minerals to the trees that would otherwise go to lower layers of the soil, and the trees feed the mycelium sugar they make through photosynthesis.
This symbiotic relationship between the fungi and the trees is known as a mycorrhizal partnership.
Despite the presence of mycorrhizae, fungi are more genetically similar to humans and other animals than they are to plants.
Residents will be able to find several mushrooms if they wander in forests and state parks. However, state parks do not permit mushroom picking. State forests do allow mushroom gathering.
As a mycologist, Hodge handles mushroom poisoning cases.
"It's not quick to tell the edible from the poisonous," Hodge said. "It takes practice and training. I'd advise people to take their time and learn what they are doing. Buy a good book and a field guide. Use iNaturalist — a website that allows people to learn about their field around them. Maybe join a mushroom club."
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A wide range of beauty salons are available in Indonesia. Salons may range from your neighbor down the street who has opened a small one-chair business to accommodate her friends to an international standard establishment that uses brand name products. The staff employed by these salons range from relatively unskilled to a high professional level.
Several schools teach hairdressing and beauty treatments in Indonesia. Courses in these schools can range from a 3-month introductory course to a two-year program after which the student graduates with full beautician qualifications. These graduates are well qualified, by Indonesian standards, to work in salons in Indonesia. Graduates of Indonesian schools may not fulfill international standards and could need further training to qualify and seek employment in beauty salons abroad.
The rising popularity of aesthetic treatments and skilled estheticians has led to the development of professional skin care clinics in recent years. You can expect to get quality facials, anti-aging treatments, acne treatments, laser hair removal, permanent makeup, collagen replacement in the larger cities where specialized skin care and treatment clinics can be found. You'll find products and techniques that you are familiar with from your home country as well as treatments with an Indonesian touch!
Many types of facials and facial treatments are available in Indonesia. Facials can be done at almost any beauty salon and specialty aesthetic/skin clinics. The humidity in Indonesia is very high, averaging in the eighties and nineties. While high humidity does prevent your skin from drying and prematurely aging, the air quality is quite bad in most major cities. Because of the high level of impurities and pollution in the air, a facial every month or quarterly helps to keep your skin clean. If you undergo professional skin treatments on a regular basis, an improvement can be seen in the condition of your skin.
Manicures, acrylic nails and pedicures are also available using imported or local products and polishes.
It is possible to get a bacterial, fungal or even viral infections from nail files and other manicure instruments that are not properly sterilized in a disinfecting machine after each customer. Just dipping them in alcohol or other solutions is not adequate to kill microorganisms. If you are concerned about the transmission of infections, bring your manicure set from home.
Waxing of the legs, lip, chest, back and other areas of the body is also available in Indonesia, usually in better beauty treatment centers. Some lower end salons reheat and then strain hair out of the wax so that it can be reused. If this concerns you, ask if the wax is new or recycled.
The trip to the beauty salon should be a pleasant experience and not one where you fear that you will go home hating what has been done to your hair. A good hairdresser should be able to suggest a style and cut that would be flattering to your facial structure. Hair color should also be considered as a factor contributing to a total look as certain colors look more attractive in certain cuts cuts and are more suitable for certain skin colors.
Good hairdressers should be able to analyze all of these factors and suggest what they believe would look best on the client. This may not be what the client originally thought they wanted when they walked into the salon. Just as a patient should trust a doctor's prescription for medicine, you should be able to trust your hairdresser to make recommendations that will improve and enhance your appearance. If, however, you do not necessarily agree with what they have suggested, do not be intimated to question their suggestion. If you still are not convinced it will suit you, insist on a style that you feel is better suited for you.
Hairdressers with international training and qualifications should have the experience to make those kind of suggestions. While any hairdresser can cut a straight line, making the total look enhance and flatter the client is the talent of a good hairdresser.
Unfortunately, there are few hairdressers in Indonesia who truly fulfill international standards. Most expatriates look for a hairdresser with skills and experience in hairdressing and treatments for Caucasian or professionals that understand the characteristics of the hair conditions of other ethnicities.
Ask your friends who they use. Consult community referrals listings such as the Jakarta Shoppers' Guide for hairdressers recommended by expatriates. A visit to a couple of recommended salons will give you a feel for which salon meets your exacting standards and which person you feel comfortable with. Ask about cleanliness and hygiene procedures, what products they use and how difficult it is to get an appointment. Prior to your first appointment, speak with the person that will cut or treat your hair and ask some very pointed questions about their experience.
When entering an Indonesian beauty salon your first impression is often a very good indication of what kind of establishment it is. A clean, tidy reception area is a good indication that the salon is well organized and professional. A reception desk that has empty Aqua cups scattered across it, an old notebook with a few names jotted down in it to serve as an appointment book and a receptionist that is more concerned with talking on the phone to friends than she is about serving her customers is most likely reflective of the type of service that you can expect in that salon.
A good salon should have efficient and polite receptionists as well as a record system of services provided to its regular customers. They should know the date of every visit you've made and what you had done on that visit as well as any problems that arose from the treatment. These records are especially important if the client has regular hair coloring or a permanent treatments. It will be impossible for a hairdresser to remember details months later unless they are recorded. It is the mark of a good hairdresser if they keep good client records.
The equipment used by the beautician is normally his/her own. If you are concerned about the hygienic condition of combs and brushes and other equipment used, it is best to bring your own from home.
Although most beauticians clean their tools on a daily basis, they may never in fact be sterilized. Cleaning, with alcohol or soap solutions, is normally done at the end of the day and not after each client.
Even if the equipment for sterilization is provided in the salon this does not necessarily mean that the employees will use it. The lasers or chemicals that are used to sterilize combs, brushes and scissors will often strip the finish off locally made equipment. This causes the equipment to be ruined after just a few sterilizations. Most beauticians choose local equipment, which they can more easily afford, instead of imported tools that can withstand these sterilization processes.
Most hair treatments available abroad can be performed in Indonesia. All beauty salons can provide you with a basic haircut and blow. Shampooing is usually done by an employee whose sole responsibility is for shampooing. Your head can be scrubbed quite vigorously and become a mini massage of your head.
While many Indonesians appreciate a very firm massage during their shampoo, expatriates may not used to such hard, uncomfortable pressure being applied to the scalp. If this is the case, don't hesitate to tell to the person that the shampooing has become terlalu keras (too hard) and they will lighten up.
A common hair treatment is a cream bath, wherein a thick conditioning cream is massaged into the hair and scalp while you are sitting up. The ensuing massage continues from the head to the neck and upper back and arms and is extremely relaxing. If your hair has had a permanent, you may want to avoid a cream bath, as the conditioner serves to relax the curls thereby destroying the permanent.
Most salons can offer perms. It is worth looking for a salon that regularly deals with expatriate hair if you are considering perming or coloring as the structure of Asian hair is much coarser than Caucasian hair and therefore reacts differently to the chemicals that are used in the curling or coloring processes. If a hairdresser is not familiar with these characteristics and the differences in the amount of time that the chemicals will react, Caucasian hair can become damaged through over treatment.
Not all salons carry a wide range of hair colors. If you are considering an unusual color, inquire ahead as the salon may have to order the color. Highlights to your hair should be applied through using lighter hair colors, not by bleaching the hair.
Hair extensions are also available in the better salons. In this process extensions (a few strands of hair) are actually glued onto existing hair to make it longer. It is often difficult to find matching hair color for foreigners, so the hair will have to be ordered first and can normally be obtained within a few days. After this process is completed the hair can be combed and washed as usual without fear of the extensions coming off. As the gluing process is done almost strand by strand it can take two or three days of three- or four-hour sessions to complete the process. So you don't look funny in the transition stage, the hairdresser will glue the extensions all over the scalp on the first day and then fill in during subsequent appointments. Needless to say, hair extensions require a lot of patience on the part of both the client and the hairdresser.
Indonesian women may have their makeup professionally done if they are going to an important function or wedding. Most salons offer makeup application.
Before wearing professionally applied makeup to an important function, it would be best to conduct a trial before the event. Skin color and bone structure differ greatly between Asians, Caucasians and other races. A makeup artist who is talented with Asian skin types and oriental shaped eyes may not necessarily be able to enhance an expatriate's skin and bone structure with cosmetics.
If you are not sure about the colors or shades that will look best on you, the make-up artist can make up the right and the left side of the face differently during the trial makeup session. For example, he could use pinks and reds on the right side of the face and oranges and browns of the left side. This gives you the opportunity to compare and choose which is more flattering. Many salons offer makeup application for quite a reasonable price so many women like to take advantage of this service.
Trial sessions before the wedding day are also conducted on the elaborate makeup customarily done for brides so the bride will be confident that she looks her best. This also gives the makeup artist an opportunity to practice so things go quicker and smoother on the wedding day. For weddings, often the makeup session will start very early in the morning and the "service" will include touch ups throughout the day. The makeup artist is expected to come to the bride's home or hotel where she is staying and meet her at other locations later in the day, for example, prior to the reception or photo session just to make sure that the make up is still pristine.
Some of the bigger salons and bridal studios offer portraits taken in traditional Indonesian dress. A big part of this service is having traditional hairstyle and makeup done to complement the traditional dress. This traditional portrait could be a fun and invaluable memento of your stay in Indonesia.
Some Indonesians tattoo their eyebrows as well as their inner eyelids. This process is permanent and cannot be reversed. It can be lightened but never completely erased. The process utilized is the same as the tattoo process on other parts of the body where ink is injected into the skin with needles to create permanent marks on the skin. Needless to say it is quite painful to have this done in the eye area and usually causes puffiness for a day or two afterwards. It does, however, eliminate the need to ever buy eyeliner again!
Prices for having your hair done depend on what kind of salon you go to. Prices can range from unbelievably cheap, at your neighborhood salon, to near international-standard prices (in dollars) in salons located in a five-star hotel or a well-known exclusive salon.
Tipping is common in beauty salons. A small tip of Rp 20,000 or Rp 30,000 is given to the person who shampoos your hair, manicurist or other assistants, but the total would depend on the salon and the total amount of the services that had been given to you! The tip given to the hairdresser is normally the largest, however, would depend on what treatments they did for you; approximately 10-20% would be a common tip.
There may be more than one person that has given you service in the salon and under normal conditions, they are all hoping for a tip. Do not feel obligated to tip everyone, however it is certainly a nice gesture and in most cases assures you better service on your next visit.


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The ICO are here to help local councils comply with the Data Protection Act and get ready for the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into force from May 2018.
The ICO's Good Practice department conducted a survey at the end of last year to find out more about information governance practices in local government. It received 173 responses. The ICO already knew from their work with councils that there are some positive measures in place at local authorities but wanted to find out more about patterns of existing practices.
The overarching conclusion from their analysis of the survey results was that, although there is good practice out there, with GDPR coming in May 2018, many councils have work to do. Adhering to good practice measures under the Data Protection Act (DPA) will stand organisations in good stead for the new regulations.
The stand-out findings from the survey are highlighted in the infographic below.
The links in this blog will direct councils to some of the key areas they need to consider in their GDPR preparations. And, as always, The ICO will continue to be on hand with practical advice on how to improve.
The survey results found that although most councils carry out privacy impact assessments (PIAs), 34% of councils still do not. That will need to change. GDPR makes it a legal requirement for councils to conduct data protection impact assessments in certain circumstances. The ICO's Privacy Impact Assessment Code of Practice provides more advice and will be reissued for GDPR in due course.
Councils will benefit from producing their own PIA process and accompanying guidance to ensure privacy issues are considered as part of projects.
When it comes to other important policies, it was good to see that 93% of councils have a data protection and information security policy. But 37% of councils have no data sharing policy, despite increasing data sharing requirements to provide certain services. The ICO data sharing guidance can help change that.
Councils should make sure all their data protection policies are reviewed annually.
A quarter of councils told us they don't have a data protection officer. Under GDPR the role of data protection officer is required in public authorities.
It is good practice for councils to appoint a Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO) to help manage information risk, so it is pleasing to see that 90% have created this role.
Local councils hold a lot of personal data across a wide range of services. Establishing an Information Asset Register (IAR) will help ensure a council knows what information it holds, where it is and which Information Asset Owner (IAO) is responsible for it. Yet the survey showed just 17% of councils has a complete IAR and 34% have yet to appoint IAOs.
The Local Public Services Data Handling Guidelines set out in more detail what information governance roles councils should have in place.
As well as keeping track of the information held, it's also important for councils to consistently monitor and benchmark their levels of compliance in order to facilitate continual improvement. This should be achieved through compliance reports and key performance indicators (KPIs) considered by a Corporate Information Governance Group (CIGG). The survey found –31% of councils do not have a CIGG and 27% do not consider data protection training reports and KPIs.
Do council staff know what they need to know?
It's vital all staff keep data protection in mind – staff not knowing what they need to about data protection is behind many of the information security incidents our enforcement team sees in the local government sector.
Although the majority of councils told The ICO they provide mandatory data protection training for staff processing personal data, it was concerning that 18% of councils did not.
It's important councils remember to train temporary staff and provide annual refresher training for all staff. All the guidance on our website can be used for training, including our dedicated training resource area.
In the wake of an information security incident, swift reporting, containment and recovery of the situation is vital. Every effort should be taken to minimise the potential impact on affected individuals. As such, it's a good idea to have a proper incident management process. Yet the survey showed 14% of councils do not have an Information Security Incident Management Policy and 22% do not consider reports and KPIs for information security breaches.
The guidance highlighted in this blog is just a selection of help available from the ICO. Councils still need to be complying with the DPA in the run up to the implementation of GDPR. Adhering to good practice measures under DPA will stand organisations in good stead for the new regulations. There'll be updates on the dedicated GDPR section of The ICO website regularly with more information and guidance. The ICO also offers audits, a full index of guidance and a helpline service.
Anulka Clarke joined the ICO in June 2004. Since 2015 Anulka has worked as an Audit Group Manager with responsibility for the Telecommunications sector, working with Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications and Investigatory Powers legislation.


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March 15, 2019 From the Pastor's Desk
From the Pastor's Desk – February 2019
As we usher in a new year, we also usher in a new Pastor here at EAFUMC. Please read below and Welcome our New Pastor, Rev. Edward Granadosin.
Edward Granadosin was born Jan 21, 1965 in Manila Philippines. He is the youngest of 6 boys of Bishop and Mrs. Paul Locke Granadosin who served the Philippines Annual Conference from 1968-2000. He comes from a singing family, since Mrs. Socorro Granadosin, their mother, is a graduate of sacred music, somehow, her gift was passed on to the 6 boys who eventually formed a group called THE GRANADOSIN BROTHERS. This group became a strong tool in spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ through song and evangelistic gatherings of the United Methodist Church in the Philippines when the Bishop was still alive. As a family, they made an impact in encouraging the Church through concerts and performances. But most of all they have touched the lives of people about Christ's love and salvation.
Edward at one point became an entertainer because he was the only one who pursued Music as a career. A graduate of the University of the Philippines College of Music, he Majored in voice, a the premier State University in the Philippines under the guidance of the late Professor Andrea O. Veneracion, founder and Director of the world renowned Philippine Madrigal singers. As a musician on his own, he became a concert artist, a recording artist, did many TV appearances and a TV/Radio commercial voice talent. He has traveled extensively as a singer namely, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, France, Monaco, Spain, Canada, Mexico and the United States of America. But with all these achievements, knowledge gained and expertise, God found his way to transform his path into servanthood as a follower of Christ. In 2010 at Las Vegas, he said yes to God's call to be in the ministry. In 2014, the North District office of Desert South-west Conference Phoenix AZ USA, appointed him as Local Pastor assigned for the Filipino Americans in the Las Vegas area called Grace Fil-Am Ministry. The goal is to establish a new and healthy faith community of The United Methodist Church. Worships regularly, celebrate the Sacraments, grounded with Wesley's teachings and theology and teach the word of God and develop disciples for CHRIST. With the declining numbers of Church goers, not only among The United Methodists but other mainline Denominations, Pastor Granadosin is committed…. to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.
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"Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace": The U.S. Geopolitical Dialectic
George Orwell in his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four referred to one of the slogans of the ruling regime as being "war is peace." [1] The revisionist scholar Dr. Charles A. Beard wrote of "perpetual war for perpetual peace" as being a foundation of U.S. foreign policy, and Gore Vidal wrote a book of the same name.[2] Vidal wanted to examine the "terrorist" actions against the USA in a more meaningful way than the simplistic notions pedaled by the mass media, when even an American veteran, Timothy McVeigh, was induced to act against his own country. Vidal asked: "why?" [3].
Vidal referred to America's "enemy of the month club" and as of 2001, the year of the epochal attack on the twin towers, listed hundreds of U.S. military operations that had taken place since the end of World War II around the world. At the time Kosovo was being fought over for the control of mineral resources, but in the name of "democracy." Vidal remarked: "In these several hundred wars against Communism, terrorism, drugs, or sometimes nothing much, between Pearl Harbor and Tuesday, September 11, 2001, we tended to strike the first blow. But then we're the good guys, right? Right." Further: "Osama, provoked, struck at us from afar. McVeigh, provoked, struck at us from within on April 19, 1995. Each was enraged by our government's reckless assaults upon other societies as we pursued what a great American historian has called 'perpetual war for perpetual peace.'" [4].
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
Vidal placed the start of the U.S. program of "perpetual war for perpetual peace" with President Harry S. Truman, on February 27, 1947, when he created a bogeyman out of the USSR to justify the militarisation of the USA. [5]. But why did former allies in the fight against the Axis fall out immediately after the war on such a colossal and enduring basis?
The orthodox explanation is that the USSR represented the new threat of world conquest after the defeat of Nazism. But what had suddenly changed that made "Uncle Joe" Stalin as nefarious as Hitler? The answer is that Stalin refused the USA's offer to be junior partner in what is today called a "new world order." This world order that the USA was confident in establishing – until rejected by Stalin – rested on two foundations: (1) The creation of the United Nations General Assembly as a world parliament, where decisions would be made by majority votes. (2) The internationalization of atomic energy, again under U.N. auspices, known as the "Baruch Plan," named after the "elder statesman" of the USA, banker and Zionist Bernard M. Baruch. The first option would mean that the Soviet bloc would be outvoted in the General Assembly, as the USA could simply buy votes, in good liberal-democratic-parliamentary style. The Soviet reaction was to insist that "authority" should be vested instead in the U.N. Security Council and that permanent members could veto any measure, hence rendering the U.N.O. redundant as a "world government" mechanism. [6]. This disquiet among globalists has recently been floated by New Zealand foreign affairs minister Murray McCully, who has raised objections to the use of the veto as having rendered the U.N.O. insufficient as a world policeman. [7].
The second predicate, the "Baruch Plan," was regarded by the USSR as a means by which atomic power would be placed under de facto U.S. control. Ironically, American conservatives spent decades campaigning against the U.N.O. as a "communist" means towards a world state, whereas it was the USSR that had scuttled the globalist project. [8].
Taking Charles Beard's thesis of "perpetual war for perpetual peace," a book by that title comprised of a series of articles by leading American scholars (that is, not "court historians") was published under the editorship of Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes in 1953. [9]. Barnes, et al examined American foreign policy from the time of Pearl Harbor. It was intended as an expose of Roosevelt's interventionist policy that was determined to push the USA into war, to repudiate his election promise that he would never send Americans to fight in another war far from their shores. After the defeat of the Axis, Harry S. Truman invented another world bogeyman, the USSR. Barnes in his introduction cited Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and the dialectical slogan "war is peace" as the means by which to establish a world order.
Barnes and his colleagues published the book in the hope of preventing the USA from embarking on a "course of no return," and instead maintain its traditional policy of national and continental interests. [10]. Decades ago America might have reached the point of no return. Perhaps the only way out, for the rest of the world to avoid contamination, is for the Great Whore to implode through its own diseased lifestyle, as others have done throughout history in a cycle of cultural birth, life and death. Some Russian theorists have suggested that the USA will balkanize ethnically, which might see the retaking of parts of the USA by the Latino, and the establishment of a separatist Black Belt.
However, the "perpetual war," which in more recent times has become known – by its protagonists – as "constant conflict" – goes beyond the Cold War and Vidal's starting point of 1947. It started even before the Roosevelt era. The USA since its founding had as a major contending premise to Puritan and Masonic millenialism, the principle of minding its own business, and developed a strong "isolationist" movement prior to both world wars. This principle of "America First" was enunciated for example by John Quincy Adams [11]:
"America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will recommend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standards of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force." [12].
Messianic Legacy
What wise counsel and foresight from Adams. So how and when did this outlook change, if it goes beyond the Cold War and World War I? Actually, despite the outlook of early statesmen such as Adams, America was founded with another dichotomy at work, that of Puritanism and Free-Masonry [13] that have converged to give America a sense that it has a messianic mission to re-create the world in its image. Added to this is Judaic messianism given political impetus by Zionism. Hence, there are three messianic strands that converged within the psyche of the American ruling classes. Not surprisingly this convergence is not constant, hence there is not a pervasive conspiracy ruling every nook and cranny of American society, although President Eisenhower in his farewell speech did allude to a "military-industrial complex" that not only has political and economic influence, but also cultural. However, the generals of the Pentagon and the plutocrats of the Trilateral Commission, for example, might not always look on China in the same way, and therefore there might be a lack of consistency in U.S. foreign policies.
The USSR and the USA had convergent views on some global issues such as the elimination of the European empires. Such convergence was often regarded by elements of the Right, such as The John Birch Society and even well-informed commentators such as Ivor Benson and A. K. Chesterton, as evidence of both being run by a single cabal. Even Juan Perón thought that scenario likely because both Soviet-aligned Communists and the USA wanted his demise. Certainly there was a convergence between plutocracy and communism in seeking the elimination of the Axis.
Fortunately for the world, there is no solid unity among aspiring world-conquerors, any more than there was a unity among the gangster families of the Prohibition Era, although to the outsider they would seem to be all aiming to achieve the same goals. However, it is the synthesis into what might be called the "American ideology" that is of significance, and gives a certain cohesion to U.S. foreign policy.
Of the Free-Masonic component of the USA's messianism, Henry Wallace, who served as vice president and secretary for agriculture with President Franklin Roosevelt, (both 32º Free-Masons) referred to this messianic outlook when writing:
"It will take a more definite recognition of the Great Architect of the Universe before the apex stone is finally fitted into place and this nation in the full strength of its power is in position to assume leadership among the nations in inaugurating 'the New Order of the Ages'." [14].
What he was referring to was the Masonic concept of the "Great Work" in creating a "new order of the ages," (Novus Ordo Seclorum) the motto of the U.S. Great Seal, when alluding to the fitting of the cap-stone on the pyramid shown on the seal. Free-Masons think this will mean completion of the "Great Work": Novus Ordo Seclorum. That at least is how Free-Masons see the world and are open in saying so.
A primary factor in the wars and revolts that have been fostered by the USA is the desire to expand export and financial markets. While we are routinely told that "nationalism," equated with "xenophobia," is the main cause of war, genocide, and other evils, the wars and revolts that have plagued the world for the past century have been undertaken in the name of "democracy" and "world order." These were – and are - the declared purposes of both world wars, the "Cold War" and the present "war on terrorism." Everywhere this has advanced it has been proceeded by the opening up of nations to privatisation and globalisation. Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points" for international reconstruction after World War I, and Roosevelt's "Atlantic Charter" establishing the war aims of the Allies, both upheld "free trade" as a major war aim. Point 3 of the Wilsonian manifesto demanded:
"The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance." [15].
Even before World War I Japan had started to encroach upon American trade interests in China. Thus, when Roosevelt started pushing Japan towards war it was in the interests of international free trade. What is of particular interest is that the ultimatum handed by U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull to the Japanese Ambassador to Washington, was, like the "Fourteen Points" and the later "Atlantic Charter" of President Roosevelt, again based around the demand that international free trade must be the basis of a world economy, and that nations should not have the right to impose trade restrictions or pursue an autarchic economic policy. The Hull memorandum demanded in this regard:
"The principle of non-discrimination in international commercial relations. The principle of international economic cooperation and abolition of extreme nationalism as expressed in excessive trade restrictions. The principle of non-discriminatory access by all nations to raw material supplies. The principle of full protection of the interests of consuming countries and populations as regards the operation of international commodity agreements. The principle of establishment of such institutions and arrangements of international finance as may lend aid to the essential enterprises and the continuous development of all countries and may permit payments through processes of trade consonant with the welfare of all countries." [16].
The "Atlantic Charter," imposed upon Winston Churchill by Franklin Roosevelt, reiterated these aims, namely that the USA and Britain "will endeavour, with due respect for their existing obligations, to further the enjoyment by all States, great or small, victor or vanquished, of access, on equal terms, to the trade and to the raw materials of the world which are needed for their economic prosperity."
President Roosevelt's son, Elliott, recorded that his father stated to Churchill:
"Of course after the war, one of the preconditions of any lasting peace will have to be the greatest possible freedom of trade. No artificial barriers…" [17].
"Roosevelt stated that imperial trade agreements would have to go, and remarked that the Third Reich's incursion into European trade had been a major cause of the war. Churchill spoke in despair, 'Mr. President, I believe you are trying to do away with the British Empire. Every idea you entertain about the structure of the post-war world demonstrates it.'" [18].
As Harry Elmer Barnes and a group of well-qualified scholars pointed out, Pearl Harbor was a contrivance to bring the USA into the war when Roosevelt's attempt to provoke the Germans into firing the first shots in the Atlantic did not work. The U.S. ultimatum to Japan was designed to impose impossible conditions that would oblige the Japanese to act. Additional testimony comes from Roosevelt's son-in-law, Colonel Curtis Dall, who noted the war-mongering of those in the Roosevelt administration, and later found out that Pearl Harbor had been denied forewarning of the Japanese attack. [19]. It is one of the may "false flags" that continue to be used by the USA to create war hysteria.
Zionist Factor
Both world wars were significant in establishing Israel as a permanent source of conflict at the centre of the Muslim world. Zionists persuaded the Anglo-French allies during World War I that they had common interests in supporting the creation of a Jewish state, after they had failed to persuade the Kaiser and the Ottomans. With Anglo-French promises to the Arabs for independence from Ottoman rule, in exchange for their vital help against the Turks and the Germans, the stage was set for what could have been enduring amity between the West and Arabia, and the world would today be a very different place.
Correspondence between Sharif Hussein of Mecca and Sir Henry McMahon, British Commissioner in Cairo during 1915 and early 1916 culminated in McMahon's guarantee of British support for independence within the requested boundaries, so long as French interests were not undermined. [20]. In October 1916 a deal had been made by T. E. Lawrence and diplomat Sir Ronald Storrs with Husayn ibn 'Alī, amīr of Mecca, and his sons, who were fighting against Turkish rule.
With both sides satisfied as to the guarantees, which included a sovereign Palestine, the Arab revolt broke out in the Hejaz on June 5, 1916. With Arab aid, the British were able to repulse the German attempt to take Aden and blockade the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. This was decisive. [21]. The Arabs also diverted significant Turkish forces that had been intended for an attack on General Murray in his advance on Palestine. General Allenby referred to the Arab aid as "invaluable." Arabs suffered much from Turkish vengeance. Tens of thousands of Arabs died of starvation in Palestine and Lebanon because the Turks withheld food. Jamal Pasha, leader of the Turkish forces, recorded that he had to use Turkish forces against Ibn Saud in the Arabian Peninsula, when those troops should have been "defeating the British on the [Suez] Canal and capturing Cairo." [22].
The Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 between Britain and France brought "parts" of Palestine under international administration upon agreement among the Allies and with the Arabs represented by the Sharif of Mecca. [23]. This already had the seeds of duplicity as it gave the two powers control over Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Transjordan, reneging on the commitment that had already been given by the British to Sharif Hussein, and without his knowledge.
When Bolshevik Russia exposed the Sykes-Picot agreement to the Arabs in 1918, Hussein sought clarification from Britain, and Lord Balfour replied that: "His Majesty's Government confirms previous pledges respecting the recognition of the independence of the Arab countries." [24]. This was confirmed by the British "Declaration to the Seven" in Cairo. [25].
However, Sir Mark Sykes, responsible for the Sykes-Picot Agreement, suggested to the British War Cabinet that if Palestine was offered as a Jewish homeland, Jewish sympathy could be mobilised for the Allied cause, and the USA might be induced to join the conflict. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis used his influence to induce President Woodrow Wilson to adopt an interventionist policy. [26]. In return for Zionist support the British reneged on their promises to the Arabs and secretly promised to support a Jewish homeland in Palestine; a guarantee that became known as the Balfour Declaration. This scheme prolonged the war, which might have been settled in a more equitable manner and hence would surely have changed the course of history.
The British Commander in Palestine, D. G. Hogarth, was instructed to assure Hussein that any settlement of Jews in Palestine would not be allowed to act to the detriment of the Palestinians. Hussein for his part was willing to allow Jews to settle in Palestine and allow them ready access to the Holy Places, but would not accept a Jewish state. Hogarth was to relate that the promises being made to both Arabs and Jews simultaneously were not reconcilable. [27].
Zionists propagandists from then started the myth-mongering about the Arabs which has continued to the present, one of the first such myths being claimed by James A. Malcolm, adviser to the British Government on Eastern Affairs. Malcolm was raised by the Sassoon family, the wealth and power of the Sassoon dynasty being based on the opium trade. Malcolm was instrumental in bringing the negotiations together for the Balfour Declaration. He subsequently claimed that the Arab revolt was of no account in the war effort, [28] a slur very different from the memoirs of T. E. Lawrence, who became bitterly disillusioned with the way the Arabs had been betrayed. [29].
Constant Conflict
Russia and Israel were soon at loggerheads, as the ancient animosity between two messianic legacies resumed after a brief interlude of Soviet support for Israel. In 1952 the "Prague Treason Trial" equated Zionism with treason and hanged a group of mostly Jewish Communist party leaders on the charge. The Soviet bloc became a centre of anti-Zionism. [30]. Russia resumed its messianic mission (which not even atheistic bolshevism could repress for long, let alone the blandishments of Western consumerism), mystical in nature, and world-wide in outlook, "Russia the Third Rome;" described by Dostoyevsky et al, a messianism that rivals that of Judaism and of American dispensationalism.
Russia, the perennial problem, again repudiated the offer of junior partnership in a "new world order" when Putin assumed power. The situation was analogous to Stalin's rejection of the same offer directly after World War II. The outcome has been to plunge the world into a permanent state of chaos until such time as fatigue and corruption pushes the world into the pestilential embrace of the USA.
The chaos of decades in large part can be traced to the ousting of what Stalin called "rootless cosmopolitans," [31] including in particular Trotsky and his followers. Such was the Trotskyite hatred of the USSR thereafter, that Trotskyites entered into the ranks of the Cold War, and became leading American ideologies and strategists, to the extent that Sedova Trotsky became a protagonist for the USA during the Korean War on the grounds that the USSR was a greater enemy to socialism than the USA. Trotskyites became founders of the so-called "neo-conservative movement," which is consequently anything but "conservative." They linked up with liberal-Democrats and founded the National Endowment for Democracy to promote "world revolution." They have fomented "colour revolutions" across the world. They spread moral and cultural rot to destroy traditional societies, in the name of "progress," "human rights," and "democracy," [32] and like the bogus revolt of the New Left during the 1960s and 1970s manipulate youth with their opiates of moral and cultural decay, and boast of it. [33].
Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters [34] appears to have coined the term "constant conflict," the name of an article he wrote in a leading military strategy journal, in which he said of this political and cultural subversion:
"We have entered an age of constant conflict.
"We are entering a new American century, in which we will become still wealthier, culturally more lethal, and increasingly powerful. We will excite hatreds without precedent.
"Information destroys traditional jobs and traditional cultures; it seduces, betrays, yet remains invulnerable. How can you counterattack the information others have turned upon you? There is no effective option other than competitive performance. For those individuals and cultures that cannot join or compete with our information empire, there is only inevitable failure … Information, from the internet to rock videos, will not be contained, and fundamentalism cannot control its children. Our victims volunteer.
"It is fashionable among world intellectual elites to decry "American culture," with our domestic critics among the loudest in complaint. But traditional intellectual elites are of shrinking relevance, replaced by cognitive-practical elites--figures such as Bill Gates, Steven Spielberg, Madonna, or our most successful politicians--human beings who can recognize or create popular appetites, recreating themselves as necessary. Contemporary American culture is the most powerful in history, and the most destructive of competitor cultures. While some other cultures, such as those of East Asia, appear strong enough to survive the onslaught by adaptive behaviors, most are not. The genius, the secret weapon, of American culture is the essence that the elites despise: ours is the first genuine people's culture. It stresses comfort and convenience--ease--and it generates pleasure for the masses. We are Karl Marx's dream, and his nightmare.
"Secular and religious revolutionaries in our century have made the identical mistake, imagining that the workers of the world or the faithful just can't wait to go home at night to study Marx or the Koran. Well, Joe Sixpack, Ivan Tipichni, and Ali Quat would rather "Baywatch." America has figured it out, and we are brilliant at operationalizing our knowledge, and our cultural power will hinder even those cultures we do not undermine. There is no "peer competitor" in the cultural (or military) department. Our cultural empire has the addicted--men and women everywhere--clamoring for more. And they pay for the privilege of their disillusionment.
"There will be no peace. At any given moment for the rest of our lifetimes, there will be multiple conflicts in mutating forms around the globe. Violent conflict will dominate the headlines, but cultural and economic struggles will be steadier and ultimately more decisive. The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing." [35].
Peters, without specifically saying so in the way of Spengler for example, writes in terms of societies as organic and in addition identifies the USA as a contagion. Peters lauds the USA's "strength" as being its ability to infect others, the result being etiolation. It is the pseudo-strength of a sick man able to kill others through spreading his virus. Peters is unequivocal about that. One might point out that such parasitism, like a cancer, destroys the host, and thus itself. There is something sociopathic about such an ultimately self-destructive power-imperative; not a will-to-power, and hence will-to-life, but a will-to-death; thanatos rationalised as freedom; the freedom to die. Like somebody infected with the AIDS virus who embarks on a mission to inflict as many others before his own death.
This is the moral and cultural rot that Stalin called "rootless cosmopolitanism," and that has been used as a softening up process by the USA since the Cold War, in what has been called the "Cultural Cold War." [36]. From the moral and cultural rot has sprang the "colour revolutions" in the name of the type of libertine freedom with which the USA beckons. Even the USSR succumbed and, like dominoes, the Soviet bloc states; then the "Arab Spring." Those states that did not succumb to internal revolt were bombed into submission; namely Serbia, Iraq, Libya and presently Syria.
Michael Ledeen [37] as one of the primary advocates of America's messianic mission, in similar terms to that of Peters, calls on the USA to fulfil its "historic mission" of "exporting the democratic revolution" throughout the world. Like Peters, Ledeen predicates this world revolution as a necessary part of the "war on terrorism," but emphasises that "world revolution" has always been the "historic mission" of the USA:
"We are the one truly revolutionary country in the world, as we have been for more than 200 years. Creative destruction is our middle name. We do it automatically, and that is precisely why the tyrants hate us, and are driven to attack us. Freedom is our most lethal weapon, and the oppressed peoples of the fanatic regimes are our greatest assets. They need to hear and see that we are with them, and that the Western mission is to set them free, under leaders who will respect them and preserve their freedom.
"It is time once again to export the democratic revolution. To those who say it cannot be done, we need only point to the 1980s, when we led a global democratic revolution that toppled tyrants from Moscow to Johannesburg. Then, too, the smart folks said it could not be done, and they laughed at Ronald Reagan's chutzpah when he said that the Soviet tyrants were done for, and called on the West to think hard about the post-Communist era. We destroyed the Soviet Empire, and then walked away from our great triumph in the Third World War of the Twentieth Century. As I sadly wrote at that time, when America abandons its historic mission, our enemies take heart, grow stronger, and eventually begin to kill us again. And so they have, forcing us to take up our revolutionary burden, and bring down the despotic regimes that have made possible the hateful events of the 11th of September." [38].
Here we see the Orwellian dialectical phrase "creative destruction" as the basis of a messianic "world revolutionary mission" that Ledeen states is innate to the USA. The enemy is tradition, which is brought down in the name of "freedom." This is the "freedom" to trade and consume; primarily the trade and consumption of the poisonous junk of Culture-degeneration that is actively fostered by the USA.
1. George Orwell, Nineteen-Eighty-Four (1948), 1: 1.
2. Gore Vidal, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got To Be So Hated (2002).
5. Ibid., "A Letter to be Delivered."
6. K. R. Bolton, Stalin: The Enduring Legacy (London: Black House Publishing, 2012), pp. 125-136.
7. K.R. Bolton, "New Zealand's naivety at United Nations has sinister implications," Foreign Policy journal, http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2015/06/29/new-zealands-naivety-at-un-security-council-has-sinister-implications/
8. K. R. Bolton, Stalin op. cit., pp. 125-134.
9. Harry Elmer Barnes (ed.), Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace (Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, 1953).
10. Ibid., viii.
11. John Quincy Adams served as 6th U. S. President, as first U.S. Ambassador to Russia, and was an opponent of Free-Masonry.
12. Cited by Barnes, et al, op. cit.
13. Nicholas Hagger, The Secret Founding of America: The Real Story of Freemasons, Puritans & the Battle for the New World (London: Watkins Publishing, 2007).
14. Henry A. Wallace, Statesmanship and Religion (New York: Round Table Press, 1934), pp. 78-79.
15. Woodrow Wilson, "Fourteen Points," 1918, II, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1918wilson.html
16. "Outline of Proposed Basis for Agreement Between the United States and Japan," Section I, November 26, 1941.
17. Elliott Roosevelt, As He Saw It (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946), p. 35.
19. Curtis D. Dall, FDR: My Exploited Father-in-Law (Tulsa: Christian Crusade Publications, 1968), pp. 133, 162, 164.
20. Sami Hadawi, Bitter Harvest: Palestine 1914-79 (New York: Caravan Books, 1979), p. 11.
21. Alfred M. Lilienthal, The Zionist Connection What Price Peace? (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1978), p. 17.
22. Quoted by Lilienthal, ibid.
23. Hadawi, op. cit., p. 12.
24. Lilienthal, op. cit., 18.
26. Hadawi, op. cit., 13.
27. Lilienthal, op. cit., 18-19.
28. James A. Malcolm, "Origins of the Balfour Declaration: Dr. Weizmann's Contribution" (London, 1944). http://www.mailstar.net/malcolm.html
29. T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom (London: Black House Publishing, 2013), "Introduction" by Bolton.
30. Bolton, Stalin…, op. cit., pp. 149-155.
31. Ibid., pp. 28-54.
32. Bolton, Revolution from Above (London: Arktos Media Ltd., 2011), pp. 213-244.
33. Ibid., pp. 184-200.
34. Peters, at the time a Major, served with the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence. His area of expertise is the former Soviet bloc and Eurasia.
35. Ralph Peters, "Constant Conflict", Parameters, U.S. Army War College, Summer 1997, pp. 4-14.
36. Frances Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters (New York: The New Press, 1999).
37. Ledeen has been consultant to the U.S. National Security Council, State Department and Defense Department, and is currently working with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which aims for "regime change" throughout the world.
38. Michael Ledeen, "Creative Destruction: How to Wage a Revolutionary War," National Review online, 20 September 2001.
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Indie Game Takes Social Media by Storm With One YouTube Video
By Chelsea Stark 2012-01-06 21:09:48 UTC
On Thursday, a two-man game developer team called Sauropod Studio released the first video detailing what has quickly become a highly-anticipated PC game.
Castle Story seems to combine the Lego-like building block elements of Minecraft (the indie gaming success story of the year), with real-time strategy gameplay. Players acquire little characters (called "Bricktrons") that manipulate the dynamic world for you. The player's world consists of floating islands above an endless ocean, with changing days and nights.
While little has been revealed about the game besides the video, we learned that the game objectives are to build castles on the floating islands, which you will have to defend from monsters and other players — mechanics that add an extra layer to an already compelling sandbox. Other things noted on Sauropod Studio's Twitter is that the game will be released both on PC and Mac as a stand-alone title.
The game is developed by François Alain and Germain Couët of Montreal, both recent graduates from college. On their website, they say they hope Castle Story can propel them into working on games full-time. And if the buzz continues like it has since the video's release, they may be successful. Castle Story has already been written up in popular gaming blogs, and the Castle Story subReddit already has more than 1,400 subscribers and plenty of posts. It also got the attention of Minecraft developer Markus Persson, who has a loyal and large social media following himself.
@SauropodStudio Holy bags, Castle Story is looking amazing! I wish I had made it, haha. :D <3
— Markus Persson (@notch) January 5, 2012
This is definitely going to be a title to watch for 2012, and we plan to bring you more information as it's released.
Screenshots of Castle Story
The Beautiful World of Castle Story
A Bricktron is the worker of Castle Story; they do all the literal heavy lifting, as well as defending your castle and exploring the island.
Image courtesy of Sauropod Studios.
The Bricktrons dig a mine to harvest bricks for castles.
A completed castle to be proud of.
The islands in the game exist above the clouds and an endless ocean.
The world has day and night cycles, and players are treated to beautiful sunsets.
A Bricktron is ready to dig.
Topics: castle story, Entertainment, Gaming, indie games, Minecraft


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EOA was born in July of 2009 and is 100% bootstrapped. We are the industry leading provider in email message quality. There are over 100,000 worldwide customers using our platform. When we started this company, email development was anything but easy. The internet was full of resources for web developers, but we could hardly find anything to help email developers. So we set out to create a service that would make it easy to find and fix email problems, and give developers and marketers a place to talk about email. We love email and are dedicated to making email marketing as simple as possible.


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Centuries-Old Manuscript Could Reveal History Of Ancient Roman Treatments
By Shubham Sharma
Scientists have started deciphering the hidden text of an ancient Roman manuscript, something that could uncover the history of medical treatments that prevailed several hundred years ago.
The medical text, dubbed "On the Mixtures and Powers of Simple Drugs," became popular as the work of Galen of Pergamon, aka Galen, an influential physician who treated Roman gladiators and kings.
He prepared the manuscript to share his knowledge and skills with fellow doctors. However, during the 6th century, the text was translated into Syriac, a language that served as a bridge between ancient Greek and Arabic and allowed the western medicine to move into the ancient Islamic world.
That said, despite Galen's phenomenal success in the field, his work faded away very soon. Essentially, it became a palimpsest when the original text was wiped away to write hymns with a very similar ink, sometime in the 11th century.
An international, multidisciplinary team is using X-rays from SLAC to reveal the hidden text of a medical manuscript by the ancient Greek doctor Galen that was written on parchment in the 6th century and scraped off and overwritten with religious text in the 11th century. Farrin Abbott/SLAC
For more than a thousand years, nobody was able to read or understand the original text of the ancient leather-bound book, but now, an international team of researchers is finally beginning to piece together the writing, thanks to novel imaging and X-Ray scanning technologies.
The work, currently being conducted at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, has not only revealed original words of the hidden text but also helped researchers figure out the way of writing. The researched found that the original text ran perpendicular to the one written over it, which revealed a whole lot more information than they thought and finally helping to see the writing clearly.
"Our hope was that there would be enough traces of ink there so that we would be able to decipher even a word or two," Uwe Bergmann, who led the Stanford X-ray imaging project, said in a statement. "The distinct writing that we can now see marks a tremendous success."
The group has been working on this project for more than a decade. According to them, each leaf of the book reveals something or other about the skills the ancient Roman doctors possessed and the state of medical knowledge.
"This is a huge chunk of history, and we hope this text will help us understand how they managed and treated disease historically in that part of the world," Peter E. Pormann, professor of classics and Graeco-Arabic studies at the University of Manchester, said in a statement.
Though a few leaves from the manuscript have ended up in different parts of the world, including libraries in the U.S., Africa, Europe and France, the team is working to unite, scan, and recreate them all. Once the process is complete, the digital imagery of the leaves will be added to an online database for public access.
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Q: Template in C++ .. Printing wrong output I can't figure it out .... My code is not printing anything. Do I need to create a different node or Am I writing the wrong code? Please help. An explanation will be much appreciated. Code can only go where it says "Start here // End here. Anything outside cant be modified.
Expected answer:
one->eins
two->zwei
three->drei
four->vier
five->funf
one
three
zwei
funf
one->1
two->2
three->3
four->4
five->5
one
three
2
5

The code:
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

//The class my_pair which stores two values of different types referred to as value1 and value2

//Your code starts here
template <class T, class U>
//Your code ends here
class my_pair
{
    //Your code starts here
    T value1;
    U value2;
    //Your code ends here

public:
    //Your code starts here
    my_pair(T value1, U value2)
    {
        value1 = this->value1;
        value2 = this->value2;
    }
    //Your code ends here

    T get_value1()
    {
        return this->value1;
    }
    U get_value2()
    {
        return this->value2;
    }
};

//The class node implements a linked list of pairs
template <class T, class U>
class node
{
    my_pair<T, U>* value;
    node* next;

public:
    //Creates a new node
    node(T value1, U value2)
    {
        //Your code starts here
        this->value = new my_pair<T, U>(value1, value2);
        this->next = nullptr;
        //Your code ends here
    }
    //Add a new pair at the end of the list
    void add(T value1, U value2)
    {
        //Your code starts here
        if (this->next == nullptr) this->next = new node(value1, value2);
        this->next = nullptr;
        //Your code ends here
    }
    //Find the value2 corresponding to the value1 passed as parameter
    T find_value1(U value2)
    {
        //Your code starts here
        node* curr = this;
        while (curr != nullptr)
        {
            if (curr->value->get_value2() == value2)
                return curr->value->get_value1();
            curr->next = nullptr;
        }
        return 0;
        //Your code ends here
    }
    //Find the value1 corresponding to the value2 passed as parameter
    U find_value2(T value1)
    {
        //Your code starts here
        node* current = this;
        while (current != nullptr)
        {
            if (current->value->get_value1() == value1)
                return current->value->get_value2();
            current->next = nullptr;
        }
        return 0;
        //Your code ends here
    }

    void print()
    {
        node* curr = this;
        while (curr != nullptr)
        {
            cout << curr->value->get_value1() << "->" << curr->value->get_value2() << endl;
            curr = curr->next;
        }
    }
};

//After

int main()
{
    node<int, string>* dictionary = new node<int, string>(1, "one");
    dictionary->add(2, "two");
    dictionary->add(3, "three");
    dictionary->add(4, "four");
    dictionary->print();
    cout << endl;
    cout << dictionary->find_value1("one") << endl;
    cout << dictionary->find_value2(4) << endl;
    cout << endl;
    cin.get();

    node<string, string>* dictionary2 = new node<string, string>("uno", "one");
    dictionary2->add("dos", "two");
    dictionary2->add("tres", "three");
    dictionary2->add("cuatro", "four");
    dictionary2->print();
    cout << endl;
    cout << dictionary2->find_value2("uno") << endl;
    cout << dictionary2->find_value1("cuatro") << endl;
    cout << endl;
    cin.get();
}

A: A few things of note:

*

*Whenever you call add, you're assigning nullptr to next, undoing what the first line of the function did.

*Since the main code calls add on the same (first) node, and not the newly added node, the current add routine (if you remove the nullptr assignment) will only ever end up with 2 nodes in your list. You'll have to find a way to traverse the list and find the last node, and add to that one.

*Your find_valueN is stuck in an infinite loop. It will keep repeating as long as current exists, but you don't have anything that changes current. You do have a line that changes current->next, but that's not going to help you. (In fact, that's going to ruin the data you're looking at. Be careful of modifying data when you're only supposed to be looking at it.) What you should do instead, is change that line to make current become the value held in current->next. Don't change anything inside current. Look at the bottom of the print function for an example.
Looks alright otherwise. Well done with the template definition. :-)

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Improving wildfire management and safety with unmanned aircraft systems
DRI receives funding to begin research with NASA and Drone America
IMAGE: DRI's new project will explore a number of UAS applications related to wildland fire science and response, including ways of incorporating UAS into areas that are busy with traffic from... view more
Credit: DRI - Adam Watts
RENO - Annual federal spending to fight wildland fires averaged over $3.3 billion during the past five years, with a significant portion of those funds spent on aviation resources.
A new partnership, supported through Nevada's Knowledge Fund and led by the Desert Research Institute (DRI), is aiming to reduce that cost by developing and testing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), commonly known as drones, for wildfire applications.
Developed through DRI's Climate, Ecosystem and Fire Applications Program (CEFA), the project will bring together scientists, foresters, firefighters, and UAS industry manufacturers to research and evaluate UAS platforms, sensors and software that can be used in a variety of applications from wildfire smoke plume sampling to early warning and wildfire detection.
"We are extremely pleased and excited to propel this effort," said Adam Watts, an Assistant Research Professor at DRI who will serve as the lead on the project. "The enormous potential for UAS to serve as geospatial intelligence tools to improve the safety and effectiveness of fire management, and our ability to forecast fire and smoke movements, remains largely untapped."
DRI has been actively engaged in UAS sensor development and scientific applications for many years and was a partner in the state's FAA Test Site application in 2013, Watts added.
In addition to financial support from the Knowledge Fund the two-year project also will also leverage DRI's long-time connection with the NASA research and applications community.
Vincent Ambrosia, NASA's Applied Science Program, Associate Program Manager in Wildfires, explained that Nevada offers unique positioning as a FAA Test Site, as well as - unfortunately - wildfire threats to its forests and rangelands from their altered fire ecology.
"I know well the potential for UAS to be used for wildfire-related applications," said Ambrosia, "and the complex considerations for airspace safety that have led to the slow development of this important use.
"This new partnership benefits NASA because it is in line with several aspects of our Earth Sciences directorate, as well as our larger agency mission to develop technology, information, models and knowledge for transfer to the public and private sector to ultimately benefit the greater community."
Watts and his colleagues are also working with Drone America, one of Nevada's leading providers of UAS, and high tech equipment and services.
"Drone America has been developing unmanned systems in support of emergency-response and public safety for several years," said Mike Richards, president of Drone America. "This work will help advance our ability to serve the wildland fire community, and we are excited about the support for the UAS industry and the potential for expanding our markets that the project will provide."
Watts noted that the project team at DRI is also exploring collaborative work with Canadian UAS and fire-research companies as well as the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, to develop and expand wildfire UAS research outside the U.S.
For more information about UAS research at DRI please visit http://www.dri.edu
About the Desert Research Institute: DRI, the nonprofit research campus of the Nevada System of Higher Education, strives to be the world leader in environmental sciences through the application of knowledge and technologies to improve people's lives throughout Nevada and the world.
Justin Broglio
Justin.broglio@dri.edu
@DRIscience
http://www.dri.edu
Nevada Knowledge Fund - Nevada Governor's Office of Economic Development
ROBOTRY/ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Incorporating UAS into Busy Fire Operational Areas (IMAGE)
http://www.dri.edu/news/dri-news-and-press-releases/5114-improving-wildfire-management-and-safety-with-unmanned-aircraft-systems
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Pataki Tamás (Dicsőszentmárton, 1991.–) Debüt-díjas magyar író, újságíró, szerkesztő.

Élete
Dicsőszentmártonból, az egykori Kis-Küküllő vármegye székhelyéről származik. Jelenleg (2022) Budapesten él, a Magyar Demokrata hetilap főmunkatársa, korábban a Magyar Nemzet kulturális újságírója, 2016-2019 között pedig a Magyar Idők című napilap újságírója volt. Tanulmányait az Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem történelem szakán végezte.

Első regénye, a Murokffyban vérré válik az abszint, és lóvá teszi az ördögöt 2018-ban jelent meg, 2019. április 11-én átvette érte a Magyar Írószövetség által alapított, az előző év legjobb prózakötetéért járó Debüt díjat.

A Magyar Írószövetség tagja.

Kötetei

 Murokffyban vérré válik az abszint, és lóvá teszi az ördögöt. Regény; Előretolt Helyőrség Kiadó, Bp, 2018 (Enumeráció)
 Balázs D. Attila–Pataki Tamás: Elrabolt Hungária; Magyar Patrióták Közössége, Bp., 2020
Elvásik a török félhold. Regény. 2021. Előretolt Helyőrség Kiadó
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Díjai, kitüntetései

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Jegyzetek

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 Profilja az Előretolt Helyőrség Íróakadémián, kmtg.hu
 Lóvá tenni az ördögöt, demokrata.hu

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Games | PreOrder | Upcoming | Other | Hyperspace Board Game
Hyperspace Board Game
Hyperspace is a fast-moving 2-4 player asymmetric strategy game about interstellar expansion. In it, you take the part of an interstellar civilization competing to control a newly-discovered star cluster! Construct your empire, fight for resources, and research technology. Each alien species has its own unique flaws and advantages, and victory lies in recognizing this. The game is physically attractive, and includes well over one hundred figures of spaceships, starbases, colonies, alien citizens, and so forth. It takes place in a star cluster built up of individual pieces that changes every time you play.
The base game has four different alien civs from which to choose. The game does not have any sort of upkeep or victory phase. Instead, when it is a player's turn, they perform three actions, then play passes to the next player. This continues around and around until the game ends, by accumulation of victory points. Most actions cost metal or atomic resources, and include moving, building, research, combat, salvage, production, and so forth.
The game is highly asymmetrical, and the various civilizations have unique abilities, homeworlds, weaknesses, super-units, and super-technologies.
Driving the strategy are a player's need to advance along the victory tracks. These permit players to score points by advancing along Probe, Research, Industry, and Battle tracks (representing exploration, experimentation, expansion, and extermination).
Duration: 30 to 150 minutes


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Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee Chairman Wellington Koo speaks at a news conference in Taipei yesterday, commenting on his new post as chairman of the Financial Supervisory Commission.
Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) chairman-designate Wellington Koo (顧立雄) yesterday addressed doubts over his abilities to prevail in his new post, while vowing to implement a "differentiated management style" and to seek to achieve a balance between encouraging innovation in the financial sector and regulating it.
Koo yesterday fielded reporters' queries at the offices of the Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee in Taipei, which he has headed since September last year.
Asked how he would balance regulating the financial sector and encouraging innovation, Koo said he would consult his new colleagues over the implementation of a "differentiated management style" at financial institutions within the legal parameters of the financial innovations and experiments bill, which is being reviewed by the legislature.
Any person appointed FSC chairman in the digital age must consider how to balance innovation and regulation, but also contemplate whether to segregate industry and the financial sector, and prevent firms from being controlled by a handful of families, Koo said.
Koo said he envisions a "differentiated management style" whereby financial institutes are graded by their performance on internal controls, internal audits and legal compliance, with the grades serving as a reference when the commission decides how much freedom to grant the institutions to experiment with innovative services.
Institutions with good records would likely be granted more freedom to experiment with higher-risk financial services, while those with poor showings would likely be granted limited freedom to experiment, he said.
"Hopefully, by implementing a differentiated management style, it will encourage financial institutions seeking innovation to boost their scores for internal controls, internal audits and legal compliance," he said.
Another major challenge is how to reasonably allow technology firms to offer services traditionally offered by banks, such as handling funds or offering loans, while protecting the safety of consumers, as the technology and financial sectors are interconnected, he said, adding that a more sound solution to the issue would present itself after the bill is passed by the legislature.
Other items on his agenda include discussing with the Insurance Bureau how to encourage insurance companies to direct some of their funds to local innovative sectors, as well as consulting with the Securities and Futures Bureau and the Taiwan Stock Exchange over how to revitalize the local bourse in the wake of the Ministry of Finance's plan to separate business income tax and individual income tax, Koo said.
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Asked what motivated him to accept President Tsai Ing-wen's (蔡英文) and premier-designate William Lai's (賴清德) invitation to take up the post after it was reported that his wife, Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua (王美花), was "shocked" by the appointment, Koo, a lawyer, said it was due to encouragement he received from vice premier-designate Shih Jun-ji (施俊吉) and his friends in the legal sector.
Koo said that his friends told him that as a financial regulator, one had better not be involved in conflicts of interest in the financial sector and that he had best keep the sector "at arm's length," so that he can impartially enforce the regulations.


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Anthony F. Aveni (A.B. Boston University, Ph.D. University of Arizona) is the Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor of Astronomy, Anthropology, and Native American Studies, Emeritus, serving appointments in both Departments of Physics & Astronomy and Sociology and Anthropology at Colgate University. He has also achieved visiting appointments at the University of South Florida, the University of Colorado, Tulane University and the University of Padua, Italy.
Featured in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the ten best university professors in the country, Aveni was also voted National Professor of the Year by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, Washington D.C., the highest national award for teaching. At Colgate he has received, among other teaching awards, the Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching (1997) and the Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society Distinguished Teaching Award voted by the Freshman Class of 1990.
Aveni has spoken or written on astronomy-related subjects on the Learning Channel, the Discovery Channel, PBS-Nova, BBC, NPR, The Larry King Show, NBC's Today Show, Unsolved Mysteries and the N.Y. Times, Newsweek, and USA Today. He has lectured in more than 300 universities around the world. Aveni helped develop and now is considered one of the founders of cultural astronomy, in particular for his research into the astronomical history of the Aztec and Maya Indians of ancient Mexico. He has done similar research in North America, Peru, Israel, Italy and Greece. Aveni has involved his students in research through regular field trips to Central America and Peru to study history, hieroglyphic writing, calendars and architecture; they often contribute as co-authors in the publication of new discoveries. In 2004, Aveni was the recipient of the H.B. Nicholson Award for Excellence in Mesoamerican Studies, given by the Peabody Museum and the Moses Mesoamerican Archive at Harvard University. He also received the Fryxell Medal for Interdisciplinary Research from the Society of American Archaeologists in 2013.
Professor Aveni has been awarded research grants by the National Geographic Society, the National Science Foundation and various private foundations for work in both American continents as well as in Europe and the Middle East. He has more than 300 research publications to his credit, including three cover articles in Science magazine and key works in American Scientist, The Sciences, American Antiquity, Latin American Antiquity, and The Journal of Archaeological Research. Two of his short pieces have been cited as "notable essays" in the volumes Best American Essays of 2002 and Best American Science Writing of 2002.
Aveni has written or edited more than 40 books. His works include Empires of Time, on the history of timekeeping, Conversing With the Planets, a work that weaves together cosmology, mythology and the anthropology of ancient cultures; Behind the Crystal Ball: Magic, Science and the Occult from Antiquity through the New Age, Stairways to the Stars: Skywatching in Three Great Ancient Cultures, Between the Lines, and Nasca: Eighth Wonder of the World, chronicle his 10 year research program on the mystery of the ground drawings of Nasca, Peru; Ancient Astronomers, Foundations of New World Cultural Astronomy, The Book of the Year:A Brief History of Our Seasonal Holidays. Skywatchers, his revised updated version of Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico has served as a basic textbook in archaeoastronomy or cultural astronomy, an interdisciplinary field he helped found. His first children's book, The First Americans: Where They Came From and Who They Became, received the 2006 Golden Spur Award for Western Juvenile Nonfiction. His memoir on 50 years of teaching in the liberal arts is titled Class Not Dismissed (2014). His three most recent books, In the Shadow of the Moon: The Science, Magic, and Mystery of Solar Eclipses (2017), Star Stories: Constellations and People (2019), and Creation Stories: Landscape and the Human Imagination (2021) are all published by Yale University Press. He is currently merging his dual specialties in cosmos and culture as he explores the history of how we have come to think about extraterrestrial intelligence.
With his artist wife Lorraine, Aveni resides in Hamilton, New York.
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