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Todd Palin Defense Fund Update
Posted on | September 15, 2011 | 136 Comments
While I am grateful for the enthusiastic response to my suggestion that Sarah Palin's supporters donate to create a legal defense fund for her husband, some of the commenters seem to be under the impression that I'm joking about this. But you see, as a veteran of 25 years in the news business, I understand the tangible publicity value of the Todd Palin "One Nation Joe McGinnis Ass-Whupping Tour." And if you think about GOP primary voters, the benefits in terms of political strategy should be obvious enough. Imagine the headlines:
New York Post, Oct. 6, 2011
PAPA GRIZZLY
Author of Palin Smear Book Hospitalized,
Todd Charged After 'Brutal' NY Assault
Joe McGinniss underwent emergency surgery Wednesday night after police say the author was beaten senseless by Republican presidential candidate Sarah Palin's husband Todd at a Manhattan party where McGinniss was signing copies of his new book about the former Alaska governor.
"It was one of the most brutal attacks I've ever seen," said Venona Wineglass, who was waiting in line to get her copy of the controversial anti-Palin book signed at the Upper West Side reception when, she said, Todd "came out of nowhere" and began punching McGinniss. "He was just like bam, bam, bam, and it took three guards to pull him off."
While police charged Todd Palin with assault and resisting arrest, his wife was campaigning in South Carolina, two weeks after officially announcing her GOP presidential candidacy. Her campaign spokesman refused comment on the McGinniss incident, while the candidate — currently a distant third in polls, behind Rick Perry and Mitt Romney — told a rally in Spartanburg, S.C., that she wants to "focus on the issues important to ordinary Americans and not be distracted by the lamestream media."
Surgeons at St. Lukes Roosevelt Hospital expect McGinniss to be able to continue his book tour despite his injuries . . .
Politico, Oct. 12, 2011
Palin Passes Romney in New Poll
Sarah Palin has moved into second place among Republican presidential contenders, passing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the latest Rasmussen poll.
The former Alaska governor, whose late September announcement stunned nearly all political observers, was at 21% in the Rasmussen survey conducted Oct. 8-10, up nine points over a poll conducted just five days earlier, and ahead of Romney, whose support dropped to 16%. Texas Gov. Rick Perry remained in first place in the GOP field, according to Rasmussen, although his 32% number in the latest survey is down slightly from his previous 34%.
Several analysts attributed Romney's dip in the polls to his statement last week condemning Todd Palin's beating of Joe McGinniss . . .
Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct. 14, 2011
Palin's Husband Arrested After
Second Assault on McGinniss
The husband of GOP presidential candidate Sarah Palin was arrested Tuesday after police say he attacked author Joe McGinniss at a Rittenhouse Square bookstore where McGinniss was signing copies of his controversial new "unauthorized biography" of the former Alaska governor.
Police Lt. Darnell Robinson said Todd Palin was arrested on charges of assault and resisting arrest after he suddenly rushed McGinniss at the Barnes & Noble where the author of "Rogue" had just begun reading from the book. It was the second such attack on McGinniss in the past two weeks, and Lt. Robinson said a police officer on duty was able to restrain Mr. Palin "after two or three punches."
McGinniss suffered "multiple contusions and broken teeth," according to a spokeswoman at University Hospital, where the author was treated and released. Mr. Palin was released on $50,000 bail after a hearing where municipal judge Vincent D'Anofrio ordered the Republican candidate's husband to wear a radio-monitoring device pending another pre-trial hearing next month . . .
Media Matters, Oct. 15
Limbaugh Applauds McGinniss Beating;
'Hit Him Again, Todd,' Radio Host Says
Right-wing talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh yesterday endorsed Todd Palin's repeated attacks on investigative journalist Joe McGinnisss, whose new book chronicles the genuine evil of Republican presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
"Damn right, he deserved it," Limbaugh said on his Wednesday show, calling Todd Palin an "American hero" after his second savage beating of McGinniss at a Philadelphia bookstore Tuesday.
"It's about time some of these lowlife maggots like McGinniss learned they can't just print lies about Republicans — hit him again, Todd!" Limbaugh said, introducing a Paul Shanklin parody song set to the tune of Michael Jackson's 1982 song, "Beat It."
Limbaugh also issued a challenge to what he called "femi-nazis," demanding that they condemn McGinniss's sexual innuendo against Sarah Palin . . .
Washington Post, Oct. 19
Palin Refuses to Condemn Husband's
Attacks on 'Smear Merchant' McGinnis
Republican presidential candidate Sarah Palin said she is not responsible for her husband's assaults on the author of a controversial "unauthorized biography" of her, but refused to make a direct condemnation of Todd Palin's beatings which have twice sent Joe McGinniss to the hospital.
"Todd is just Todd, you know," Palin said during a Sunday appearance on "Meet the Press," where she was repeatedly asked about her husband's assaults on McGinniss. "I mean, he's always been kinda protective of me, and I've tried to tell him he shouldn't be beating on people like that but I guess . . . Well, he's kinda got a bit of temper sometimes."
However, Palin dismissed McGinniss's book as the work of "a disgusting smear merchant trying to make money off a bunch of lies," and said the headlines about her husband's one-man war against McGinniss were "just a lamestream media tactic to distract people from the real issues that matter to America." . . .
New York Times, Oct. 21
Palin Now First in GOP Field
Candidate Unexpectedly Surges in New Poll
Sarah Palin has moved to first place in the latest New York Times/CBS News poll of likely Republican primary voters, eclipsing former front-runner Rick Perry.
Palin's unexpected surge — now with 37% support in the nationwide survey conducted Oct. 15-17 — comes despite a flurry of negative coverage of her campaign and the controversy surrounding her husband, Todd, who has twice made physical assaults against investigative journalist Joe McGinniss, author of a new book about the former Alaska governor.
"This completely defies conventional wisdom," said longtime political analyst Larry Sabato, describing Palin's gain as "freakish . . . maybe a statistical anomaly of some kind."
Meanwhile, thousands of supporters in Manchester, N.H., chanted "Todd! Todd! Todd!" at a Thursday rally where Palin's husband appeared briefly onstage with the new GOP front-runner. Vendors did a brisk business selling "Hit Him Again, Todd" T-shirts and bumper stickers at the mid-day event, where Sarah Palin said economic growth "remains the No. 1 focus of my campaign, despite all the smears and distractions from the lamestream media." . . .
USA Today, Oct. 25
Author McGinniss in Seclusion,
Search for Todd Palin Continues
A nationwide manhunt for Todd Palin continued for a second day Monday, and author Joe McGinniss cancelled the remaining dates on his book tour after the husband of GOP front-runner Sarah Palin eluded an FBI dragnet.
Police say that Todd Palin's "whereabout are still unknown" after he apparently removed a radio-monitoring device — ordered by a Philadelphia judge following Palin's second beating of McGinniss Oct. 13 — sometime Sunday morning. The candidate's husband had been scheduled to join her at an afternoon rally Sunday in Council Bluffs, Iowa, but did not appear at the event. Palin campaign officials say they haven't seen Todd since he left a Des Moines hotel without explanation that morning.
The mysterious disappearance came shortly after McGinniss appeared on "Meet the Press" and reiterated several of the accusations made in his controversial unauthorized biography of the former Alaska governor. McGinniss had been scheduled to appear at a Chicago book-signing party Monday afternoon, but cancelled the event after Todd Palin went missing and a red Ford Bronco, leased by the Palin campaign, was found abandoned in the parking lot of a commuter rail station in suburban Oak Park, Ill., Monday morning.
Meanwhile, Sarah Palin continued her four-day bus tour of Iowa. Now leading by double-digits in the latest Gallup/USA Today poll, Palin did not directly address the controversy surrounding her fugitive husband Tuesday night at a rally in Davenport, where an unexpectedly large crowd — estimated at more than 20,000 — waved signs with slogans like "Go Get Him, Todd!" and "We [Heart] First Dude."
Sarah Palin told the cheering crowd "we have to keep focused on economic growth, putting an end to crony capitalism and fixing the mess in Washington, D.C." She said supporters shouldn't "be distracted by phony controversies ginned up by the lamestream media." . . .
Now, this is merely a hypothetical and I grant that some readers may indulge a laugh at the mental image of Joe McGinniss flinching at every loud noise for fear of another brutal Todd Palin ass-whupping, but that's not the same as me admitting it's just a joke. This is known as the Stacy McCain Plausible Deniability Clause in the campaign journalism Code of Ethics, because whatever I may write about any candidate, the campaign can always offer the official response, "Oh, hell, it's Stacy McCain — everybody knows he's crazy," and they're automatically off the hook for whatever "sources close to the campaign" may have told me.
Pleading insanity is more than a legal tactic, of course. It's also a valuable marketing tool. Let's face it, this blog gets thousands of hits a day from people just clicking over out of curiosity: "What kind of crazy stuff has that fool written this time?"
Absolute gonzo has rarely been tried as a political strategy. However, when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro, and if Todd Palin shows up at a Joe McGinniss book signing — just for a "friendly chat," you see, rather than a felonious assualt — maybe some of y'all will realize that my "One Nation Ass-Whupping Tour" idea was only half-joking.
I'm not saying which half, though.
TODD PALIN LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
Just in Case He Actually Needs It, IYKWIMAITYD
UPDATE: For the benefit of Andrew Sullivan readers.
Category: Books, humor, Media Bias, Sarah Palin
136 Responses to "Todd Palin Defense Fund Update"
Sarah could shoot the smegma off of your taint from 30 paces.
Awww you Palin haters got you a brand spankin new Bible to read. Just don't be spankin out in public, that might look bad.
Wow! Why all the sex talk?
Something to keep in mind:
"Crazy" is a term of art: "Insane" is a term of Law. Remember *that*, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble. — Hunter S. Thompson
Yes, because what the Palins need to do for their image is to act more like the shirtless drunkards on Cops… or Reno 911 may be more their speed.
Either way, you stay classy, Robert.
HAD another troll.
Adjoran
Dude . . . that's sublime . . . hold on . . . I can"t . . . I'm verklempt, talk amongst yourselves . . .
Absolutely. Just hope Todd will not have to assume the role of her
protector & spokesman if Sarah were to become President. Not a good
look for a leader to appear afraid to stand up to the challenges of the
office and have to rely on their spouse to fight their battles. One
of the accusations made against her when she served as Governor was that
Todd was sharing the responsibilities of governing. This image needs
to be changed.
There is nothing wrong in one mate supporting the other during hard
times but if it is your intention to be perceived as a strong leader it
is essential that you, not the person you married, take charge of the
situation. If not, folks will start to question just who is in charge.
I agree that they need to lawyer up, Ed. If Joe has published nothing but untruths, they will have no problem at all in beating his sorry ass in a court of law. However, if some of the allegations in the book are not lies, then it may prove to be a little harder.
In Asia, calling a man a fag is a direct insult and direct challenge, because if one man called another one a fag and it is not true, that man who is badmouthing should be ready to face death no matter what the cost. Try to live in the Philippines and Vietnam for even a month and start calling a silent man a fag, and you will see what you are looking for. 99% probability, you won't be seeing again your homeland. Did United States really win in Vietnam war?
ThePaganTemple
Obama was born in Hawaii? Prove it. Bear in mind, I never was a "Birther", I used to even make fun of them. Then it came out that Obama's Social Security number doesn't pass the smell test, known as "e-verify". What's up with that?
Obama is a centrist? What planet are you from? I'll say it again, just in case you missed it, Obama was raised and mentored by hard-core socialists and anarchists, so of course he's of the far left. Don't look now, but moderates don't break bread with Bill Ayers. If Obama had unchecked power and authority, you'd find out how centrist he is. Thankfully, our system doesn't work that way. Give you lefties enough time though and it will.
As for Palin and McGinnis, the simple fact is I don't give a crap if Palin had a one night stand, or a long-drawn out fling, or ten minutes in a public bathroom for that matter with Rice. If he hit that, hey Salud to him.
The point is, McGinnis is only coming up with this irrelevant crap because he thinks it proves some kind of point.
But the only point it proves is my own contention that Democrats are, for the most part, passive aggressive racists.
Asian Bolitas
hey Brown, do you believe that huge black man dick is the gage for good sex?? Why there a lot of black women and some of them are married and still having sexual affair with asian men like those from Vietnam and The Philippines? It is not the size it counts, it is the frequency….as long as it is up all night, likewise, black women like normal size dicks with BOLITAS!!! HAHAHAHAHA!
Muslims are today's barbarians, every bit as savage as the hordes of Attila. Nineteenth and Eighteenth century duelists were not barbarians, they were gentlemen. No one but a gentlemen would issue such a challenge, and if he did, no one but a gentlemen would be the recipient of such a challenge.
That is in fact Largebill's one and only error. McGinnis is by no stretch of the imagination a gentleman, and so he would not be so challenged by any gentleman, for the simple fact no one would give this slime ball the inferred legitimacy of such a challenge.
No one was forced to accept such a challenge, and I suspect many more were declined than were accepted. It would not be something that would be bragged about in the family history, because it would be an admission that the person acted shamefully and was in the wrong regarding the reason for the challenge. It was also an admission that, though he bore the persona of the gentleman he did not deserve the honor. A gentleman was no coward.
All such duels that were engaged in were fought fairly and evenly. The challenged had as much of a chance of winning as the challenger, and there were seconds to each man to see to the fairness of the contest.
Your accusations of "barbarism" are best relegated to those who blow up children and slice the throats of sleeping infants.
And accusations of a white female politician having sex with a black man decades ago prove that the accuser and his defenders are racist to the core.
Kristy Patullo
Oh my gosh, that was hysterical!!! hahaha ("Hit him again, Todd") This was an absolutely brilliant post. The visual of Todd punching out Creepy Joe is awesome! If only.
If you think Obama is a centrist, then that just shows how far off the left side of the table you've fallen. Michael Moore is probably too conservative for you too.
I'm imagining people doing the old football cheer: "Hit 'em again, hit 'em again, harder, harder!"
Tennwriter
Since Pagan Temple is manifestly not stupid and bigoted, what you actually said is….PT there are plenty of people out there as smart and fair-minded as you. To which I have to agree.
Cwxj415
So I guess in the Phillipines, murder abounds in the Junior High Schools, huh? Because at that age, "fag" is one of the most popular insults. (it means, if I understand pre-teen-speak, "loser".)
It's always so cute when spindly losers like McCain like to fantasize about violence against people who dare disparage their heroes like Palin.
Helen Thomas could kick your ass, Stacy McCain.
Consider the sequence of events here:
1. Joe McGinniss moves in next door to the Palin family to write an "unauthorized biography."
2. Todd Palin confronts McGinniss, yet resists temptation to punch him out.
3. McGinniss glibly describes his confrontation with Todd in a book full of lurid innuendo about Todd's wife.
4. Excerpts of the McGinniss book appear in the National Enquirer.
5. I write a blog post sarcastically soliciting funds to defend Todd Palin in case he decides to deliver "The Mother of All Ass-Whuppings" on McGinnisss.
6. Anonymous trolls show up in the comments to insult me.
Am I wrong to think these trolls have a mental deficiency that prevents them from learning the most obvious lessons about human nature? Do they not see the curriculum, as it were, embedded in my response to this controversy?
People hurl insults and traffic in harmful gossip when they suppose themselves safe from retaliation of the sort they'd receive if they insulted others to their face. When you're face-to-face with someone, it's possible to estimate the risk of a violent response to insults, although people have been known to miscalculate such risks. A seemingly harmless little fellow might in fact be extraordinarily sensitive about insults, with a concealed carry permit and an utter disregard for the legal consequences of shooting some miserable son of a bitch who gives him half an excuse.
I tell you, I know guys like that, and God help you if you should ever piss them off.
Having met Todd Palin, I am amazed that McGinniss — having been face-to-face with Todd — would have published what he published. And I am further amazed that any literate person who has paid attention to the reality of this situation would focus on me, as if I were the source of a conflict I've done nothing to cause, and the consequences of which are utterly beyond my control.
But if they were intelligent and rational, they wouldn't be liberals, would they?
You resort to violence because it's the only option you have intellectually. That's a shame. It's a good thing you aren't part of any real conversation.
Picture a hand flying over you head with a vroom sound.
Yes, you are certainly free to reply with hysterical-nutcase right-wing talking points, none of which could survive objective scrutiny. The difficulty for you, however, is that any objective, sapient person, upon reading your writing, will conclude not only that you're crazed and semi-literate, but that whatever capacity for reason you might possess you have decided to sacrifice on the altar of tribalism and partisanship. This is precisely the sort of mindset that the Founding Fathers, who were the intellectual progeny of the Age of Reason, completely abhorred. Democracy is hard work, yet you refuse to man up and do the heavy lifting of putting your biases aside and engaging reality; you choose to be AWOL from the basic intellectual requirements of citizenship in a self-governing democracy. Country be damned, you've got your story, and you're stickin' to it. How utterly traitorous.
By the way, do enlighten me with an answer to this simple question: What would the legal argument be for Todd Palin's acquittal in a trial for his ostensibly assaulting this author? I can't wait to hear this one. Do your best to come up with something that might be relevant here in the reality-based community.
I am from Cayman Islands and I do not know much about the Palins, but one thing is for sure, I know well this McGinniss, he is a very close friend of Glen Rice.Both of them love to visit in the past Cayman Island and they always share the same apartment and the flashy thing is, they sleep together in a same king bed! Hahahahahaha! Just read between the lines lefties!! LOL
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This is either brilliant satire or you are one sick right wing fascist cretin, the kind of low class trash that the Palin's attract like manure attracts flies.
"PS: Todd Palin for Ambassador to the UN?"
Yeah, right lets put our most ignorant and backwards people in the UN so everyone in the rest of the world will appreciate how dumbed down the US will be.
Johnny McDonald
Members of the jury; how do you find?
Not guilty, your honor.
Fascism lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Solyndra, Lightsquared…..etc, etc.
Ummm….you do realize that the US is a republic, not a democracy, don't you?
If you apply the same logic to Sarah Palin, you'll find that the MSM and the blogosphere found more than 300 lies… er, "misrememberings" in "Going Rogue" instead of calling for Sister Sarah to be physically assaulted. That's the difference between responsible journalism and McCain's sick fantasizing. If McGinniss lied, then prove it in the same way that Palin's lies were exposed when she wrote her silly self-hagiography: research. Simply saying that McGinniss lied might feel satisfying, but what if he's telling the truth? Can your tiny little head handle that?
I said it before and i'll say it again: picture a hand flying over your head with a VROOM sound.
You write beautifully and very articulately, but you don't visit this site and you have no idea of the personality of RSM. This is tongue and cheek. The "defense fund" links go straight to Sarahpac for a fund raising drive to counter the BS book you people are touting.
As for democracy, this country is the biggest and most expensive to run business in the entire world. We, as conservatives, want to shrink this behemoth as small as we can. No where in this latest rant of yours, which boils down to calling PaganTemple unpatriotic, do you mention FREEDOM. Keeping and holding freedom is much harder than "democracy". The Founding Fathers would not recognize this country, with the horrid regulation on our businesses and on its people. Socialism is the antethesis of freedom.
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A tiny coastal strip at India's southern tip, Kerala has long been considered a third-world success story. This densely packed state of 25 million boasts the country's highest literacy rate and a life style unmatched elsewhere.
Compared with the rest of India, population growth is in check, caste divisions are not as sharp, and land is more evenly distributed. The state ranks low in per capita income, but few are malnourished.
Women have a higher status and economic clout not seen in most of the country. People here live longer than do most Indians, and fewer children die at birth.
``What India will be in a few decades hence, we have already reached in terms of education, health, and quality of life,'' says P.K. Gopalakrishnan, a political scientist in Kerala.
In 1957, a UN study named Kerala a model for third world development. However, people here question whether their successes can be replicated elsewhere.
On top of that, economic uncertainty now threatens the good life of this tiny tropical state known for its palm trees, lush forests, and brilliant blue sea. Thousands of workers, lured from Kerala to the Middle East during the 1970s oil boom, have begun returning home as oil markets have collapsed.
India was once a major source of labor for the Gulf oil kingdoms, with almost 50 percent of the Indian workers coming from Kerala. Now, Indians are being edged out by lower-priced labor from the Philippines, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and China.
The oil downturn already is taking its toll here. Annual remittances from overseas workers that topped $700 million five years ago have dropped by half. Unemployment is inching up, and the largely agricultural economy shows little promise for growth.
Near the state's business center of Cochin, towns and villages are showing signs of hard times. Colorful mansions built with oil earnings are being abandoned by their financially pressed owners.
Widespread consumerism that became known here as ``gulf culture'' is drying up. Foreign-made televisions, videocassette recorders, and other accouterments of the state's oil nouveau riche are being sold off in second-hand markets.
Kerala with its long coastline has been buffeted by international forces for centuries. Chinese and Arab traders stopped here before the time of Jesus, and explorer Vasco de Gama claimed Kerala for Portugal in the late 15th century. The Dutch, French, and British followed, drawn by the ivory, teak, and spices of the famed coast.
Living in the most densely populated part of India, Keralans have long been outward looking and open to foreign influences. Christianity, legend says, was brought here in the first century by the apostle Thomas. A small community of Jewish traders from Palestine was already thriving. Islam came later.
Today, Kerala is a religious potpourri. While 50 percent of the population is Hindu, Christians account for one-fourth of the people, and Muslims are a significant minority. A synagogue still exists in the old Jewish merchant quarter of Cochin, although many of its members have emigrated to Israel.
Missionaries who accompanied European colonizers set up schools, hospitals, and clinics which underlie Kerala's high living standard. Seventy percent of the people are literate, twice the national average.
Education, widespread use of birth control, and better health care have freed Keralan women from the rigors of bearing large families, in contrast to their Indian counterparts. Kerala has both the lowest birth rate and the lowest incidence of child mortality in the country.
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Yaya Toure lands job at Premier League side as coaching career kick-starts
By Godwin Emmanuel - July 26, 2022 | Categories: MetroTags: Football
Former Barcelona and Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has reportedly been handed a full-time coaching position in Tottenham's academy.
The 39-year-old has been working at Spurs on a part-time basis for the last eight months as he works towards his UEFA A Licence.
Arguably the greatest midfielder to grace the Premier League. Brilliant to have the big man @YayaToure in at the training ground who gave such an honest & captivating insight into his career with our young players. A true legend of the game. 💙✨ pic.twitter.com/D7iNsdDVu5
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The role suits Toure as he lives with his family in Hampstead, near to the club's Hotspur Way training ground.
According to the Evening Standard, the Ivorian will be handed his own age-group team to manage as part of an academy coaching shake-up at Spurs.
It will be his first permanent coaching position in England, having held assistant manager roles at Ukrainian club Olimpik Donetsk and Russian side Akhmat Grozny.
Toure has also spent time at QPR, Blackburn and the Welsh FA while working towards his badges since his playing career ended at Chinese club Qingdao Huanghai in 2020.
'Sitting in an office the whole time – that's not me,' he told The Coaches' Voice last year.
'I want to be out on the grass, interacting with other people, exchanging ideas.'
Jermain Defoe netted 143 goals in 362 games across three spells for Spurs in his playing career
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The Evening Standard also report that former Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe is joining the club's youth set-up too and will take on an age-group team much like Toure.
The 39-year-old, who scored 143 goals in 362 games for Spurs across three different spells, announced his retirement from playing in March.
He has previously held a player-coach role under Steven Gerrard at Rangers.
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Susanna Farm is a historic home located at Dawsonville, Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It is an L-shaped, -story frame dwelling house. The last major change occurred when the house was doubled in size and value by Benjamin F. Dyson in 1877–78, who renovated it in the Italianate style. Five outbuildings stand on the property, including a stone kitchen/slave quarters and meat house which are believed to be contemporary with the house, an 1870s frame bank barn, and 20th century farm buildings.

The Susanna Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Houses in Montgomery County, Maryland
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What we call nature is the creation of God but only part of his creative activity. If we are to broaden the six days of creation to six stages, as it takes the complete Bible to tell us, we might say these are: (1) Conception of existence, (2) Physical creation, (3) Creation of minds, (4) Creation of human spirits, (5) Regeneration of our spirits (rebirth) and, (6) Re-creation of human bodies (resurrection). And then God presumably rests from creation for eternity, although there may be room in eternity for types of creation we have not been told about.
Creation is a product of both the mind and the power of an infinite being. It is so complex in its six manifestations that it requires not only an infinite deity to accomplish it but one that has three persons. The Father is the source of all creation. The Son is the active agent who serves the purposes of the Father and who both shapes creation and takes into own being a human person. The Holy Spirit accomplishes the spiritual parts of creation in accordance with the purposes of the Father and the Son.
The essence of creation is the bringing into existence of something that did not exist before. When we think about physical creation these can be objects as large as the universe or as small as the Higgs boson. We can note that none of these physical entities has either mind or spirit. This fact escapes the minds of the materialists who think their thoughts and everything else can be explained by what is only one part of creation.
Before there was any physical creation there was a planning session in heaven. This brought into being a literally cosmic plan for something that had never existed before. After physical creation came the creation of minds. This, of course, required the coming into existence of something else that was new—life.
There are various opinions about the role of the twenty-four elders described in the book of Revelation. They appear to be rather robotic but one of them does impart wisdom to John during one of his experiences in heaven. My own opinion is that they were created to advise the Trinity on what it is like to be finite. Before the Incarnation none of the Godhead had any experience with the limits of finite being. This may be why there appear to be some "kinks' in the timeline of creation.
The wisdom of the elders is shown by their continual praise of the Father and Son. This is what our kind of finite beings would be doing if we were wise enough.
Back to our own reality, when our ancestors reached a certain level of physical and mental development they were ready to be given a living soul. This is something that had not existed before. It did not come from physical creation although its existence was part of God's planning of creation. Since our souls are not part of physical creation they cannot be detected by physical means. This inability to be detected means that belief in their existence requires what is called faith. In other words, an action of our minds not our bodies.
The end of creation is not when the space-time continuum tears and time and space no longer exist. The ultimate end, meaning its defining purpose, is in the vast number of glorified humans who are to live with and praise their Creator forever. The end of creation would have been at the conclusion of a far straighter train of events if God had not introduced contingency and probability into his creative efforts. As it is, all the stages of creation involve vast complexities that continue to challenge the best of our human understanding.
I think the two choices for explanations of physical reality boil down to self-actualization or creation. The people who argue for self-actualization (and do they argue) assume that the universe contains in itself properties that caused all that has happened in it since its very beginning. This brings us to the initial difficulty.
The initial difficulty is that before the universe came into being it had no existence we can recognize, at least in terms of something observable or measurable, in other words something subject to science. Some people get around the initial difficulty by postulating an oscillating universe, one that expands and contracts but that is nevertheless self-existent. In this view, the Big Bang was the beginning of the current phase of expansion. Again, there is nothing left from past oscillations for scientists to measure or observe.
One argument for self-actualization that was new to me was the suggestion that what we call the positive part of the universe is balanced exactly by the dark energy and matter that exists so the universe is a net nothing. The person who wrote this possibly was unaware that both traditional Jews and Christians believe that the universe was created out of nothing. If in fact this suggestion were shown to be true, it would be a vindication of some religious beliefs, and undoubtedly require a major expansion of astrophysical knowledge.
Before the Big Bang was accepted as the correct explanation for the beginning of the universe, scientists and philosophers all the way back to the early Greeks had thought the universe to be static and self-existent in its attributes. This thinking is still carried over into present-day understandings. For example, one person dodged the issue of the origin of life by stating that it had nothing to do with the validity of the theory of evolution. For that person evolution was an explanation of almost all of life. The trouble with this older mode of thinking is that science has made our knowledge of everything physical far more complex.
In mathematics, solutions to problems generally begin with a set of initial conditions. It is just these initial conditions that pose more of a problem for science and philosophy than the working out of answers to how physical reality operates. This is because the initial conditions are established by one-time unobservable events. This results in sometimes conflicting ideas. For instance, we are told that all life on earth came from an original biological event. We are also told by some biologists that life will arise in the universe anytime conditions are right. You can probably see the contradiction. Since life has emerged on the earth the conditions are obviously right. So, how come it only happened once in five- billion years.
The space-time continuum is also a great mystery. It would seem to be in a chicken-and-egg relationship with the energy and matter that constitutes the universe. So, did it exist before the Big Bang or was there something in the Big Bang that brought it into existence? And how is it a property of the space-time continuum that it is almost infinitely elastic and that this elasticity produces what we call the force of gravity as a result of the space-time continuum being deformed by matter? The same kind of question applies to the weak force and the strong force. Where were they when no particles existed? Did they exist before particles or were they brought into exist by the formation of particles?
There are more questions for physics, and we have not even reached biology. Where did the properties of quantum mechanics come from? What formed the particular atoms that we arrange into the Periodic Table. Now we can go to biology. Why are there right-handed and left-handed molecules and why are organic molecules shaped in particular ways for specific functions? How did it come about that a genetic code was necessary for life and how did that code come into existence?
The idea of self-actualization becomes even more unlikely as we consider the things that make us uniquely human, such as culture, speech, music, art, abstract thought, technology, agriculture, imagination, conceptualizing and so forth. So why does self-actualization seem very attractive to many people. I think it has to do with two things: ego and rebellion. Our egos are another of our immaterial characteristics. We all seem to have one of either smaller or larger size. It seems to be that people who strongly believe in one of the various forms of self-actualization are people with large egos. I think that one such type, atheists, have egos so large they think they can push God clear out of the universe. That being the case, they typically are sure they are more intelligent than people who believe in creation.
Rebellion comes into the picture as a result of certain temperaments encountering authority figures, normally in their family or in a church where they were taken as children. One way of resistance for such people is to adopt contrary views. When this resistance meets with support in peer groups or educational institutions, it brings ego gratification and a source of identity that is hard to forego. That being the case, it is hard for people in this situation to abandon the idea of self-actualization despite the fact it requires the acceptance of large improbabilities. Self-actualization is in truth a harder belief than faith in creation. This is evidenced by the fact that the vast majority of the human race has always accepted that there was some spiritual entity that brought them and everything else into existence.
In a previous post I wrote that Christians are a people of a higher reality. I think I need to explain what I meant.
We can start with our physical reality. This we share with everyone. The evolutionists tell us we are physically descended from primates. I prefer to think we are descended from our ancestors and ascended from primates. It seems to clarify our actual situation. In any case, we are told by atheists, materialists, humanists and secularists that our existence and lives can be entirely explained physically. Fortunately, Christians, and most of the rest of the human species, are not deceived by this claim.
Most people think there is a spirit, a soul or something else immaterial in us. We have, it is thought, a ghost in our electro/chemical/mechanical machines. Further, this ghost is thought to be associated with our minds. The federal government has begun a Brain Mapping Project to learn all that can be known about the function of our minds. I suspect that for some people it is also an attempt to exorcize the ghost and thus justify the materialist explanation.
Jesus told Nicodemus that he must be born again, not physically but spiritually, if he was to understand the things of God. It is this, let me call it, spiritual enhancement that allows Christians to be in more complete communication and relationship with God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. It is not that the Godhead does not speak to non-Christians but that their ability to hear and understand is very limited. This is why unbelievers find it hard to get much out of reading the Bible while people like John Calvin, Thomas Aquinas, Matthew Henry and many others get so much out of it they can write multivolume commentaries.
Malcolm Muggeridge wrote in The End of Christendom, "I am certain that in eternity when we understand, and no longer see through a glass darkly but face to face, we shall find that all our efforts to convey the reality of our existence are just so much children's scribble in the light of what it really is." Muggeridge perfectly expressed my problem in conveying to you the higher reality in which we Christians live. Nonetheless I think I must make a stab at it.
We are told in the book of Revelation of millions and millions of Christians surrounding the throne of God and singing praises to him. These are the people the Son has made for the Father and presented to him as a love gift. We who are still on earth are brought by Christ and the Holy Spirit into this saintly multitude and so become members of the family of God. A part of our higher reality is that we have relatives all over the world and throughout the past. These are our spiritual brothers and sisters to whom we are linked by our relationship to Christ.
Another higher reality for Christians is being able to know the truth of things. Truth, which contemporary philosophy denies even exists, allows us to embrace (symbolically) the lovely woman Wisdom. It is evident those who have help in acquiring wisdom have a better chance of understanding the world we live in. Although, I must admit, Christians have not done as well as we should have in this regard.
Since we have access to truth, we are free to know the untruths in human ideologies. Whatever the social or political pressures to conform to the "spirit of the age," we are internally emancipated and thus cannot be enslaved by the culture around us. We are not citizens of the city of man but those people who live in the city of God. In this we too are people of a higher reality.
Charles Spurgeon wrote concerning the work of the Holy Spirit in his life, "I trust Him to curb my temper, to subdue my will, to enlighten my understanding, to check my passions, to comfort my despondency, to help my weaknesses, and to illuminate my darkness." Each Christian has his or her own list of the help needed from the Holy Spirit and each of us receive help as we are made able to incorporate it into our individual lives.
If you want to send a humanist into orbit, tell him or her that Christians are better people than non-Christians. The truth is we cannot legitimately make that claim, but we can say with certainty that each of us is a better person than we would have been without the help of the Holy Spirit. That is, other than our personal relationship with the Trinity, perhaps the best aspect of our higher reality. We are better than we could possibly be if we only had our own efforts to aid us.
If there is a reformation of American Christianity, it will be, in part, because many Christians enter and live in this higher reality. This extra-life is one of God's many gifts that we receive as a result of his grace and love.


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A wheel alignment is considered one of the best tyre services in Glasgow as, again, it adds to the life of your tyres. Tyres are costly and an important part of a vehicle. Because they are used more frequently than other parts, they can wear out quickly without scheduled alignments. When alignments are made, all the tyres work harmoniously. You can go the distance when you take this approach.
Increase your fuel efficiency by keeping your tyres aligned. If the tyres are not working in sync, your engine has to work harder to propel a car forward. In turn, vehicles use more petrol.
Alignments help you avoid pricey auto repairs. If your tyres are not aligned properly, it can lead to suspension repairs over time. Why not avoid a costly repair for your steering or suspension by having your wheels aligned regularly?
Wheel alignments increase the level of safety whilst driving. Not only will your vehicle operate more smoothly but you will not have to compensate for a faulty alignment. You can easily get distracted if you have to continuously adjust your steering whilst driving.
As you can see, you do not want to overlook the importance of a wheel alignment. Make sure that you take this preventative measure seriously. Doing so will reduce the costs for car repairs and make it safer for you to drive.


Clark County 215 advances south along the Bruce Woodbury (Las Vegas) Beltway from a parclo interchange (Exit 28) with Summerlin Parkway to meet Far Hills Avenue next. Photo taken 07/21/14.
Exit 27 (Far Hills Avenue) joins the Bruce Woodbury Beltway with the Arbor View and Sonoma Hills subdivisions within the Summerlin master planned community. Far Hills Avenue otherwise arcs southeast to meet Town Center opposite Hualapai Way. Photo taken 07/21/14.
Interchange sequence gantry posted for the next three access points along CC-215 south.
Charleston Boulevard (SR 159) stretches across the central Las Vegas valley one mile ahead while Sahara Avenue joins CC-215 with the northern end of the Las Vegas Strip. Photo taken 07/21/14.
Clark County 215 bends due south on the approach to Nevada 159 (Exit 26). Nevada 159 overlays Charleston Boulevard and Blue Diamond Road on a 31.2 mile course through Las Vegas to Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area and Blue Diamond. Photo taken 07/21/14.
Hughes Park Drive serves as a frontage road between Exit 26 and Exit 25 (Sahara Avenue) connecting CC-215 with Summerlin Centre Drive and the Downtown Summerlin shopping and entertainment complex. Photo taken 07/21/14.
Two lanes separate from the Bruce Woodbury Beltway (CC-215) to Charleston Boulevard (SR 159). Downtown Summerlin lines the east side of CC-215 south of the diamond interchange (Exit 26). Photo taken 07/21/14.
SR 159 follows Charleston Boulevard on a westerly course to the entrance of Red Rock Canyon before looping south and east to SR 160 near Blue Diamond. Several hiking trails line the Red Rock Canyon area as well as a 12-mile driving loop (Scenic Loop Drive).
Charleston Boulevard otherwise continues SR 159 east through Summerlin into Las Vegas along a six-lane arterial. Hughes Park Drive continues south from SR 159 to the Downtown Summerlin complex. Photo taken 07/21/14.
A slip ramp leads motorists from SR 159 (Charleston Boulevard) to CC-215 (Bruce Woodbury Beltway) south as Hughes Park Drive departs to Summerlin Centre Drive ahead. Summerlin Centre Drive separates Downtown Summerlin from the Red Rock Casino Resort. Photo taken 07/21/14.
An auxiliary lane joins Clark County 215 south on the one half mile drive to Sahara Avenue (Exit 25). Sahara Avenue connects the beltway with Desert Foothills Drive and Town Center Drive. Photo taken 07/21/14.
Hughes Park Drive and the West Park/Summerlin Village neighborhood line the western side of CC-215 (Bruce Woodbury Beltway) on the approach to Sahara Avenue.
The beltway curves southeast to meet Town Center Drive (Exit 23) at a single point urban interchange (SPUI) two miles ahead. Photos taken 07/21/14.
Sahara Avenue (Exit 25) extends 17.3 miles east from the Las Vegas Beltway across the valley to end at Hollywood Boulevard in eastern Las Vegas. Sahara Avenue also doubles as SR 589 between Rainbow Boulevard and Nellis Boulevard (SR 612).
Desert Foothills Drive otherwise continues west and north from the beltway to SR 159 (Charleston Boulevard). Photo taken 07/21/14.
An unnamed mountain chain rises in the distance one mile out from Town Center Drive (Exit 23) along CC-215 south. Photo taken 07/21/14.
Desert Inn Road spans the Bruce Woodbury Beltway 0.75 miles ahead of Exit 23 (Town Center Drive). Flamingo Road (Exit 21) and Tropicana Avenue (Exit 20) both serve interests to the Las Vegas Strip. Photo taken 07/21/14.
Locally, Town Center Drive (Exit 23) travels north from CC-215 through the Gardens neighborhood to Desert Inn Road. To the south, Town Center Drive continues to South Square and Siena before turning east for a return to the beltway along Tropicana Avenue. Photo taken 07/21/14.
The span that carries Town Center Drive over Clark County 215 is named in honor of Marty Manning, a former Public Works director for Clark County. During Manning's tenure, he oversaw primary construction efforts of the entire Bruce Woodbury Beltway.1 Photo taken 07/21/14.
Traffic advances southward along CC-215 (Bruce Woodbury Beltway) to meet Flamingo Road (Exit 21) next. Photo taken 07/21/14.
Motorists depart a one lane ramp to Exit 21 (Flamingo Road). Flamingo Road extends west to Haulapai Way and east to Spring Valley and the heart of the Las Vegas Strip. Photo taken 07/21/14.
Tropicana Avenue stretches 16.4 miles across Spring Valley, Paradise, and Henderson, connecting with Clark County 215 south at a diamond interchange one half mile ahead. Photo taken 07/21/14.
Fort Apache Road arcs over the Bruce Woodbury Beltway ahead of the ramp to Tropicana Avenue (Exit 20). Photo taken 07/21/14.
2.5 miles separate motorists along southbound CC-215 from Sunset Road (Exit 18). The Las Vegas Beltway curves east beyond that point for Interstate 15 and McCarran International Airport (LAS). Photo taken 07/21/14.
Traffic departs for Tropicana Avenue (Exit 20) east to Spring Valley and the Strip. SR 593 joins the six-lane arterial between I-15 and SR 582 (Boulder Highway) near Henderson.
Tropicana Avenue otherwise extends west 1.7 miles to Town Center Drive. Photo taken 07/21/14.
A slip ramp joins southbound CC-215 from Jerry Tarkanian Way (frontage road) as the freeway bends to meet Russell Road. A frontage road system continues along CC-215 south and east to Decatur Boulevard (Exit 13). Photo taken 07/21/14.
CC-215 south toggles between three to four travel lanes throughout its remaining course to Interstates 15 and 215 (Exit 12). Photo taken 07/21/14.
Russell Road runs east from the Bruce Woodbury Beltway in one quarter mile to Las Vegas Boulevard opposite McCarran International Airport. Photo taken 07/21/14.
A single lane ramp shuttles motorists between CC-215 south to Jerry Tarkanian Way and Russell Road (Exit 19). Russell Road stems west to the southern neighborhoods of Summerlin beyond Haulapai Way and east to Durango and Buffalo Drive in Spring Valley. Photo taken 07/21/14.
Traffic advances south along the Bruce Woodbury Beltway 0.3 miles to Sunset Road and Durango Drive. Southern Hills Hospital lies to the west of the interchange at Fort Apache Road. Photo taken 07/21/14.
This confirming marker is posted ahead of the departure to Sunset Road (Exit 18). Photo taken 07/21/14.
Exit 16 (Buffalo Drive) joins Clark County 215 south with western reaches of Enterprise two miles ahead. Photo taken 07/21/14.
Drivers leave for the frontage road (Roy Horn Way) to Sunset Road (Exit 18). Sunset Road overall travels 18.3 miles between the Cliffs village of Summerlin and Henderson. Roy Horn Way continues 0.7 miles to connect with Durango Drive as the Bruce Woodbury Beltway arcs east toward Henderson. Photo taken 07/21/14.
Clark County Route 215 (Bruce Woodbury Beltway) runs due east on the initial approach to Buffalo Drive (Exit 16). Buffalo Drive travels north to Hacienda Avenue and south to Nevada 160 (Blue Diamond Road). Photo taken 07/21/14.
CC-215 east bisects unoccupied lands between Durango Drive and upcoming Buffalo Drive. Photo taken 07/21/14.
Interchanges occur every mile along this stretch of Clark County 215 east to the systems exchange with Interstates 15-215 (Exit 12), locally dubbed the Fish Bowl interchange. Photo taken 07/21/14.
Eastbound motorists reach the ramp to Exit 16 (Buffalo Drive). Close to CC-215 the local arterial stems south to meet Warm Springs Road and north to Sunset Road. Photo taken 07/21/14.
The Bruce Woodbury Beltway passes north of The Arroyo Market Square big-box retail center en route to Rainbow Boulevard (Exit 15). Rainbow Boulevard is a major thoroughfare extending north to Spring Valley and U.S. 95 (Oran K. Gragson Freeway) at Summerlin Parkway. Photo taken 07/21/14.
Exit 13 departs for Decatur Boulevard in 2.25 miles, ahead of the Fish Bowl interchange with I-15 and I-215. Photo taken 07/21/14.
A slip ramp connects to Roy Horn Way ahead of Rainbow Boulevard (Exit 15). Rainbow Boulevard travels three miles south to meet Nevada 160 (Blue Diamond Road) near the center of Enterprise. Photo taken 07/21/14.
Jones Boulevard (Exit 14) meets the Bruce Woodbury Beltway next at a diamond interchange. Photo taken 07/21/14.
Interstate 215 overlays the Bruce Woodbury Beltway to Henderson beyond the Interstate 15 systems interchange 2.5 miles ahead. Photo taken 07/21/14.
Jones Boulevard (Exit 14) follows a northerly course through Spring Valley to Flamingo Road and south to Windmill Lane. Photo taken 07/21/14.
One half mile separates the ramps between Jones Boulevard (Exit 14) and the approaching Decatur Boulevard (Exit 13). Photo taken 07/21/14.
A pair of ramps joins the Las Vegas Beltway (CC-215) with Interstate 15 north (Exit 12B) and south (Exit 12A) at the exchange ahead. I-15 south leads to Primm at the California border while I-15 carries motorists north to Downtown Las Vegas. Photo taken 07/21/14.
Traffic leaves for Decatur Boulevard (Exit 13) along Clark County 215 east. Decatur Boulevard represents another major north-south arterial in the Las Vegas region, following a linear path from Southern Highlands Parkway in southeast Enterprise to Rancho Drive (SR 599) in North Las Vegas. Photo taken 07/21/14.
The Bruce Woodbury Beltway kinks southeast on the initial approach to I-15 (Exits 12AB) and the Fish Bowl interchange. The Airport Connector (SR 171) joins the beltway with McCarran International Airport (LAS) in two miles. Photo taken 07/21/14.
Motorists bound for the McCarran Rent-A-Car center are advised to depart ahead at Exit 12A to Interstate 15 south and Las Vegas Boulevard. The center houses several car rental agencies and is located on Gilespie Street two blocks east of Las Vegas Boulevard. Photo taken 07/21/14.
Valley View Boulevard spans CC-215 as traffic leaves in unison for Interstate 15 south and Las Vegas Boulevard (Exit 12A). I-15 travels southwest from Las Vegas to Barstow and Victorville before entering the greater Los Angeles metro area.
Las Vegas Boulevard extends north from the beltway to the Las Vegas Strip and south to Sloan. Photo taken 07/21/14.
Traffic partitions ahead of a ramp split for I-15 south to Primm and Las Vegas Boulevard. A separate ramp joins eastbound Clark County 215 with Interstate 15 north to Downtown Las Vegas ahead. I-15 travels northeasterly from Las Vegas toward St. George and Salt Lake City, Utah. Photo taken 07/21/14. Second photo taken 07/06/18.
Dean Martin Drive bends around the western extent of the Fish Bowl interchange as ramps shuttle traffic to Interstate 15 south and to Las Vegas Boulevard. Photo taken 07/21/14.
A loop ramp joins CC-215 east with Interstate 15 north at Exit 12A. I-15 travels north from the Fish Bowl interchange providing four direct connections with the Las Vegas Strip before continuing to downtown. Salt Lake City otherwise lies 428 miles northeast of the exchange.
CC-215 officially concludes here while Interstate 215 continues along the Bruce Woodbury Beltway, ending 12 miles ahead at a systems exchange with I-11 and I-515. Photo taken 07/06/18.
"Manning retires as county Public Works director",Las Vegas Sun, July 6, 2005.


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PHOTOS: Apollo 11 mission and the first human moonwalk, 45 years later
FILE - In this July 20, 1969 file photo provided by NASA shows astronaut Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. posing for a photograph beside the U.S. flag deployed on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission. Aldrin and fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong were the first men to walk on the lunar surface. The trio was launched to the moon by a Saturn V launch vehicle at 9:32 a.m. EDT, July 16, 1969. They departed the moon July 21, 1969. (AP Photo/NASA, Neil Armstrong, File) ( Moon Anniversary )
FILE - In this July 16, 1969 file photo provided by NASA, the Saturn V rocket that launched Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins on their Apollo 11 moon mission lifts off at Cape Kennedy, Fla. For the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, Aldrin asked everyone to remember where they were when he and Armstrong became the first humans to step onto another heavenly body, and to share their memories online. (AP Photo/NASA, File) ( Moon Anniversary )
FILE - In this March 16, 1966 file photo, astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, fourth from left, and David R. Scott, third from left, arrive at Complex 19 for a simulated test in preparation for flight. The family of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, says he died Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012, at age 82. A statement from the family says he died following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures. It doesn't say where he died. Armstrong commanded the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon July 20, 1969. He radioed back to Earth the historic news of "one giant leap for mankind." Armstrong and fellow astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin spent nearly three hours walking on the moon, collecting samples, conducting experiments and taking photographs. In all, 12 Americans walked on the moon from 1969 to 1972. (AP Photo/File) ( Obit Neil Armstrong )
FILE - In this July 16, 1969 file photo, Neil Armstrong waving in front, heads for the van that will take the crew to the rocket for launch to the moon at Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Fla. Armstrong and fellow astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin spent nearly three hours walking on the moon, collecting samples, conducting experiments and taking photographs. In all, 12 Americans walked on the moon from 1969 to 1972. (AP Photo/File) ( Obit Neil Armstrong )
FILE - In this July 20, 1969 file photo provided by NASA, the Apollo 11 lunar module rises from the moon's surface for docking with the command module and the trip back to earth with the earth in the background. Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, 84, is asking everyone to remember where they were when he and Neil Armstrong became the first humans to walk on the moon and to share their memories online. (AP Photo/NASA, File) ( Moon Anniversary )
Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., lunar module pilot, descends steps of Lunar Module ladder as he prepares to walk on the moon, July 20, 1969. This picture was taken by astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, Commander, with a 70mm surface camera. (AP Photo/NASA/Neil A. Armstrong) ( APOLLO 11 LUNAR LANDING )
Edwin Buzz Aldrin carries scientific experiments to a deployment site south of the lunar module Eagle. One experiment involved the inner composition of the moon, and another tried to determine the exact distance from Earth. Photo was taken by Neil Armstrong of the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969. From the book Full Moon (Knopf) by Michael Light. (AP Photo) ( BOOKS JULY 7-5 )
FILE - This July 20, 1969 file photo provided by NASA shows Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong on the lunar surface. Apollo 11 astronauts trained on Earth to take individual photographs in succession in order to create a series of frames that could be assembled into panoramic images. This frame from Aldrin's panorama of the Apollo 11 landing site is the only good picture of mission commander Neil Armstrong on the lunar surface. Armstrong and fellow astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin spent nearly three hours walking on the moon, collecting samples, conducting experiments and taking photographs. In all, 12 Americans walked on the moon from 1969 to 1972. (AP Photo/NASA, Buzz Aldrin, File) ( Moon Anniversary )
FILE - In this July 20, 1969 file photo provided by NASA, a footprint left by one of the astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission shows in the soft, powder surface of the moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon after blastoff from Cape Kennedy, Fla., on July 16, 1969. (AP Photo/NASA, File) ( Moon Anniversary )
Handout portrait taken in July 1969 shows US astronaut Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.), Lunar Module pilot on the Apollo 11 moon landing mission. With one small step off a ladder, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, before the eyes of hundreds of millions of awed television viewers worldwide. With that step, he placed mankind's first footprint on an extraterrestrial world and gained instant hero status. Joined by fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin, Armstrong spent about two and a half hours exploring the landscape around the landing site. Handout/AFP/Getty Images ( SPACE-MOON-ANNIVERSARY-ALDRIN )
Handout portrait taken in July 1969 shows US astronaut Neil Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 moon landing mission. With one small step off a ladder, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, before the eyes of hundreds of millions of awed television viewers worldwide. With that step, he placed mankind's first footprint on an extraterrestrial world and gained instant hero status. Joined by fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin, Armstrong spent about two and a half hours exploring the landscape around the landing site. Handout/AFP/Getty Images ( SPACE-MOON-ANNIVERSARY-ARMSTRONG )
Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, the first men to land on the moon, plant the U.S. flag on the lunar surface, July 20, 1969. Photo was made by a 16mm movie camera inside the lunar module, shooting at one frame per second. (AP Photo/NASA) ( APOLLO 11 MOON LANDING )
The reflections of Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the U.S. Flag, the Lunar Module and television camera, are reflected in the face mask of Astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin when his picture was taken by Armstrong as they walked across the surface of the moon, July 20, 1969. (AP Photo/NASA) ( Buzz Aldrin Moon 1969 )
Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, prepares to deploy the Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package (EASEP) during Apollo 11 lunar surface extravehicular activity, July 20, 1969. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this photograph with a 70 mm lunar surface camera. Aldrin is removing the EASEP from its stowed position. (AP Photo/NASA/Neil A. Armstrong) ( APOLLO 11 LUNAR LANDING )
Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, stands on the lunar surface after the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969. The Lunar Module is seen in the background. (AP PHOTO) ( APOLLO 11 ALDRIN )
FILE - This July 20, 1969 file photo provided by NASA shows Neil Armstrong. The family of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, says he died Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012, at age 82. A statement from the family says he died following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures. It doesn't say where he died. Armstrong commanded the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon July 20, 1969. He radioed back to Earth the historic news of "one giant leap for mankind." Armstrong and fellow astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin spent nearly three hours walking on the moon, collecting samples, conducting experiments and taking photographs. In all, 12 Americans walked on the moon from 1969 to 1972. (AP Photo/NASA) ( Obit Neil Armstrong )
A view of the Apollo Command Module with astronaut Michael Collins aboard as seen from the Lunar Module, July 20, 1969. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin in the Lunar Module have separated from Apollo 11 and prepare to go to the lunar surface. Moon terrain in background is the far side of the moon. (AP Photo/NASA) ( APOLLO 11 MOON LANDING )
FILE - In this July 24, 1969 file photo, President Richard Nixon, right, greets the Apollo 11 astronauts in the quarantine van on board the U.S.S. Hornet after splashdown and recovery. The Apollo 11 crew from left are Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin. Armstrong and Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon after blastoff from Cape Kennedy, Fla., on July 16, 1969. (AP Photo, File) ( Moon Anniversary )
In this July 5, 1969 file photo, Astronaut Neil Armstrong, left, the first man scheduled to walk on the moon, displays a plaque that will be attached to a landing leg of the lunar module descent stage and will be left on the moon by the Apollo 11 astronauts as Col. Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, center, holds the Apollo 11 insigna at a news conference at the Space Center. Command Module pilot Lt. Col. Michael Collins is at right. (AP Photo, file) ( Moon Anniversary )
WASHINGTON - JULY 16: People walk around the Apollo 11 Command Module "Columbia" on display at the National Air and Space Museum on July 16, 2009 in Washington, DC. Forty years ago today Apollo 11 launched on a historic flight from Cape Canaveral Florida carrying astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins. The Apollo 11 then landed on the moon four days later on July 20, 1969. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) ( 89059261MW002_NATIONAL_AIR_ )
This NASA handout picture taken on July 20, 1969, shows one of the first steps, astronaut Buzz Aldrin's bootprint, taken on the Moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission. With one small step off a ladder, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, before the eyes of hundreds of millions of awed television viewers worldwide. With that step, he placed mankind's first footprint on an extraterrestrial world and gained instant hero status. Joined by fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin, Armstrong spent about two and a half hours exploring the landscape around the landing site. Handout/AFP/Getty Images ( SPACE-NASA-MOON )
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Once you have copied the individual MP3 files from within the master ZIP file, you will need to open up your MP3 player software and 'import' or 'add' them to your library. This functionality is available on almost all common MP3 player software such as iTunes (www.itunes.com), Real Player (www.real.com) and Windows Media Player (www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia) which are all available for free download. Many other software packages that play MP3 files are also available for free download.
There is 'Metadata' included in all the files that most MP3 software will recognise, which will import the track names, album title, artist name, and so on - however, depending on your software, you may need to enter this information yourself. The files themselves will be named as such: "1-01 Man Of A Thousand Faces.mp3". The first number "1" means that this is "CD 1" if the download album was previously in print. If there is no initial number, this constitutes a single-CD release, or a download exclusive. The second number "01" will be the track number. This is finally followed by the name of the song - in some cases, special characters such as "/", "&", or "?" will be replaced with "_" for compatibility with the operating system.
For specifics about adding MP3 files to your MP3 player software or transferring them to a portable device, you will need to refer to the specific documentation provided with your chosen software and/or hardware.
Several titles have also been made available as FLAC files... In short, if you have chosen to purchase the FLAC version of a download we expect you know how to handle it! We hope you enjoy - should this prove more popular than MP3 files, we will certianly consider making more releases available as FLAC.
For specifics about adding FLAC files to your media player software or transferring them to a portable device or CD, you will need to refer to the specific documentation provided with your chosen software and/or hardware.
Also contained in the master ZIP file is a PDF file of digital album artwork. The PDF file can be opened with the popular Adobe Reader (version 5 or higher), available free at www.adobe.com/products/reader. Many other software packages that read PDF files are also available for free download.
The PDF Artwork file will always feature the original front cover of a previously-released title, or brand new artwork for a download exclusive. The file is not copy-protected, so can be printed, or imported into several popular editing programs if you want to make a physical CD copy of your download. Several MP3 software and hardware packages will allow you to import the album artwork into your library.
For specifics about printing PDF files or including album artwork in your MP3 software/hardware, you will need to refer to the specific documentation provided with your chosen software.
Finally contained in the master ZIP file is a JPEG file of the album cover. The JPEG file can be opened with most operating systems and web browsers, and can also be used by MP3 software and hardware players as detailed above.
Each download your purchase from Racket Records will be available to download immediately from the point of purchase confirmation.
We have, however, restricted the number of times you may download the file, as well as restricted its availability to 1 month from the purchase date.
The time limit of 1 month should allow you time enough to download the master ZIP file and correct any problems or issues that may arise. By putting a time limit on downloads, we are freeing up any potential "traffic jams" on our server, ensuring continued speedy downloads for everyone.
We have chosen in all cases to use the most common and easily accessible file formats that are widely used across the world: ZIP file compression, MP3 audio format, and PDF documents.
The wide availability of innumerable free programs for accessing all 3 file types across the various operating systems and system configurations should allow maximum compatibility for everyone.
There will surely be much debate over chosen file format and quality, as there seemingly as many different audio compression formats as there are grains of sand!
As mentioned above, we want to use a common format that is widely accessible to everyone. MP3 is one of the most popular audio formats world-wide, so was the obvious choice.
Now the really technical stuff for those who know what it means... While iTunes (as an example) compresses its audio with M4A/AAC format at 128 Kbps, we feel that there is a noticeable lack of quality in this compression. We have decided to use the more common MP3 format, and encode at twice the bit-rate: 256 Kbps. This leads to nearly "CD transparent" audio with minimal artifacts.
Because the bit rate is double that of iTunes, the file size is - you guessed it - double the size, which leads to the 200+ Megabyte file size of our master ZIP files. We think the slightly longer download time is worth the wait for the added quality. Remember as well that most of our downloads will have a playing time of around 2 hours, which is a long time... and longer albums means bigger files.
We have started making several of our titles available as FLAC files. For those of you NOT familiar with FLAC, these files are called "lossless" - which means they are indistinguishable quality from CD audio. They are provided on several releases for audiophiles who prefer 'pristine' audio; however, we have found the majority of people will not notice the difference between the our 256 Kbps MP3s and CD.
Digital Rights Management, or "DRM"
Digital Rights Management is a way for bands, record labels, or online retailers to protect their downloaded music from copying or other attempts to re-distribute the files illegally. DRM can often also cause problems with playing the music on different computers or portable devices.
Racket Records Downloads do NOT use DRM of any kind.
We thought you'd like that. HOWEVER! We do have a very important request: just because our downloads are not 'protected' does not mean that they should be shared, uploaded to music sharing sites, or otherwise given away. Even a download still costs us money to make - the recording and mixing costs, creating artwork, the servers to host the files, and the website so you can access them.
So please, we thank you for buying and enjoying our music, but please do not upload it or give it away. If you think someone would enjoy Marillion, tell them about Crash Course - they can sign up to get one for free, direct from us. It really makes a difference!


Berlin Borough passed its 2019-2020 budget at its council meeting Thursday, April 11 at Borough Hall. The preliminary budget was unanimously passed at council's March meeting.
According to Chief Financial Officer Debbie DiMattia, borough residents with the average assessed house value of $233,600 can expect a $53 increase in taxes. No residents spoke during the public hearing portion of last week's meeting with regard to the budget.
However, Mayor Jim Bilella did voice his belief that he would have liked to have seen a smaller tax increase for borough residents.
"We could have bettered our surplus savings, not use as much of our surplus going forward, and still provided the residents some tax relief," Bilella added.
An ordinance was passed on first reading "to prohibit parking within five feet on either side of driveways on residential streets" in the borough, upon the recommendation of the borough engineer.
Three members of the Berlin Fire Company were promoted to various borough positions through resolutions at the meeting. Rushi Pandya was appointed to the position of emergency management coordinator, Craig Fallstick was appointed to deputy emergency management coordinator and Fred Tuttle was appointed to deputy emergency coordinator.
During public comment, multiple residents addressed council regarding various concerns.
Mike Giffin and Dorthy Francesoni requested that council reexamine an ordinance after they received a violation letter from the borough regarding trash cans being in the front of their housing units.
Giffin said the removal of trash cans from the front of housing units is not a problem for those living on the end of such units, however those in the middle are subject to either cross others' property to bring their cans behind their home each and every week or store it in their garage, which is not an ideal situation for trash during the summer heat.
Council asked questions regarding the current situation of how trash cans are handled in the two residents' particular development, and agreed to engage in further discussion regarding the ordinance in the near future.
David Buscemi, a Stockton University student who is not a Berlin Borough resident, addressed council for a class project regarding the council's thoughts on medical cannabis and if discussion has been had with regard to its introduction in the borough.
Long says municipalities around New Jersey have, in the past, allowed residents to vote on the decision to decide their respective town's future regarding medical marijuana. The New Jersey Police Chief's Association currently is against the legalization of recreational marijuana, according to Long, due to the inability to accurately test for when recreational marijuana has been used by residents.
Buscemi, who says he does not support the passage of recreational marijuana, urged council that, when the time comes to discuss the potential of medical marijuana in the borough, council investigate the benefits for itself.
Lastly, Bill Bansch addressed council regarding comments made about him at the February council meeting that led to Bansch being removed from his position with the borough as code enforcement and property maintenance officer.
Berlin Borough business owner Carl Mascarenhas stated concerns about the way Bansch treated Mascarenhas' business, as well as others around the borough, at the February meeting. In a phone interview with The Sun the morning following the February council meeting, Bansch declined to comment on any of Mascarenhas' remarks.
At last week's meeting, Bansch defended the way he treated and evaluated businesses and others while holding his position.
Bansch says he had more than 300 residents reach out to him via multiple ways to thank him for his time with the borough and "for a job well done." During his time addressing council, Bansch also voiced his displeasure with his Facebook posts being presented to council, stating that it is his First Amendment right to post what he has in the past on his page.


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Water Released from Moon: Director's Cut
Source: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Historical Date: April 15, 2019
Scientists have discovered that water is being released from the Moon during meteor showers.
Compared to Earth, the Moon appears to be perfectly dry and airless, but in fact it possesses an extremely sparse atmosphere, barely thicker than a vacuum.
From late 2013 to early 2014, a NASA mission called LADEE explored the lunar atmosphere and dust environment. Now, LADEE's observations have led to a new discovery about the Moon's water.
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During the initial exploration of the Moon, and the analysis of all the returned samples from the Apollo and the Luna missions, we thought that the surface of the Moon was dry.
But more recent missions, like Lunar Prospector, LCROSS, and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, have not only shown that the surface of the Moon has a global hydration, but there are actually high concentrations of ice water in the permanently shadowed regions of the lunar poles.
In the decades following the Apollo program, a series of robotic explorers revealed tantalizing hints of water on the Moon, challenging the conclusion that the Moon was dry.
The first definitive discovery of water was made in 2008 by the Indian mission Chandrayaan-1, which detected hydroxyl molecules spread across the lunar surface and concentrated at the poles. The following year, NASA's LCROSS mission deliberately impacted part of its launch vehicle into the southern crater Cabeus, ejecting a plume that contained water ice.
These discoveries showed that the Moon harbors water, and that the highest concentrations occur within darkened craters at the poles. But questions remained about the abundance of water at the Moon's mid latitudes. Now, data from LADEE are beginning provide answers.
What we discovered is that the surface releases its water when the Moon is bombarded by micrometeoroids. This is especially noticeable during meteor showers. What we also found is that the surface that's releasing the water is being protected by a layer, a few centimeters of dry soil that can only be breached by large micrometeoroids.
When micrometeoroids impact the surface of the Moon, most of the material in the crater is vaporized. There is also a shock wave that propagates outward. That shock wave carries enough energy to release the water that's coating the grains of the soil. Most of that water will get released into space, and that's the signature that LADEE detects with its instrument from its orbit.
LADEE observed water being released from within the Moon, but the micrometeoroids impacting the Moon's surface have a more exotic origin: comets.
When Earth passes through the leftover debris trail of a comet, small particles of rock and dust burn up in our atmosphere, creating a meteor shower.
On the Moon, these micrometeoroids impact the surface, releasing water at the same time that meteor showers are occuring on Earth.
By analyzing the data returned by the neutral mass spectrometer, we found that the intensity and the frequencies of the fluctuations of signals from the water to be perfectly correlated with known meteor streams. For example, we were able to detect a big spike of water during the Geminid meteor shower that occurred in December of 2013.
Knowing how much water is available at the Moon's mid latitudes is important for future exploration. LADEE's observations show that beneath three inches of dry lunar soil is a wet layer ten feet deep. But on the Moon, "wet" is a relative term.
The concentration of water in the wet layer is about 200-500 part per million per weight. So, to fill an eight-ounce bottle with lunar water, you would need to squeeze water out of about one to two thousand pounds of lunar soil. So, while the wet surface is wet, it's drier than you think.
The search for water on the Moon spans five decades, and is of great interest to future exploration. Thanks to LADEE, we now know that trace amounts of water are widely distributed across the lunar surface, improving our understanding the Moon's geologic past and its continued evolution.
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Fewer People Outside, More Street Harassment
"The incidents detailed above were striking due to their severity but also because with the country in lockdown, there were no other people in sight, I was alone with the perpetrators – my own safety balanced on the whim of a man's emotions."
Salty HQ July 6, 2020 July 14, 2020
Written by Lauren Cottrell.
Art by Kaia Burke.
I've stopped being surprised that despite my best effort to mind my own business, men (generally white men) seem to see my existence as something to be toyed with. Whether I'm walking to work, about to enter the psychiatric hospital(!), clubbing with friends, or taking driving lessons, I count as nothing when measured against their sexuality. This has been particularly obvious during the covid-19 pandemic.
Just over a month into the government enforced lockdown I gave my first ever police report: while I was on my daily walk and minutes from my house, a man began to masturbate to me as we walked past each other. Not wanting to turn back home (I'd then be going in the same direction as him) I kept on walking, it was a bright day and my sunglasses gave me cover as I cried and meandered around the suburbia.
Two weeks earlier, a couple of men who were sitting at a bus stop across the road repeatedly yelled "dirty slag" at me, only stopping when I was out of earshot. This was even closer to my home- the bus stop is one I often use.
Like a lot of young women, I am frequently subjected to harassment, men will yell sexual favours out of cars at me, or in one case stop their lorry and cause a small traffic jam because they refused to stop staring at me. The incidents detailed above were striking due to their severity but also because with the country in lockdown, there were no other people in sight, I was alone with the perpetrators, my own safety balanced on the whim of a man's emotions.
A few days after I filed the report I had a phone call with a policeman who went through my form, confirming details with me and at times asking for more information. He queried my decision to tick the box to assert that I felt targeted. He was disbelieving when I told him that I am treated to this kind of attention every few weeks, asking "So this happens 12 times a year? So if we say it began when you were 18 it's happened 48 times?" I listed recent incidents and he was overly keen to point out to me that most of my experiences were not crimes, just unpleasant. These things may have happened in different places, have involved different people, and they may not all have been crimes but with each time that I am the subject, how do I avoid feeling that I am being targeted? It seemed he had completely misjudged his job- we were both aware of how unlikely it was that the offender would be caught so surely his role was to be supportive rather than critical. His response disappointed me but it was not unexpected.
The incidents detailed above were striking due to their severity but also because with the country in lockdown, there were no other people in sight, I was alone with the perpetrators – my own safety balanced on the whim of a man's emotions.
My experiences are not atypical, the results of a survey produced by Plan International UK show that 18% of girls and young women have noticed a worsening of street harassment during lockdown. It also found that 28% of those surveyed felt less safe outside than they did prior to the lockdown. This, at a time when we are all dealing with an unexpected loss of control, in the immediate sense of friends and family being made inaccessible, and of not having things to look forward to, but also of being bombarded with death tolls, with ineffective and selfish governments, and ill equipped hospitals. Sexual harassment contributes to an overwhelming sense of powerlessness and loss of bodily autonomy in the victim. It reminds me that to a lot of men, I am an object to be dismissed or considered based on my perceived attractiveness.
My experiences are not atypical, the results of a survey produced by Plan International UK show that 18% of girls and young women have noticed a worsening of street harassment during lockdown. It also found that 28% of those surveyed felt less safe outside than they did prior to the lockdown.
Despite the generosity illustrated through donations of PPE to hospitals, discounts given to key workers, and shopping done for those in isolation, there has been a background of selfishness marked by the hoarding of groceries. The reported increase in street harassment feels like another avenue that this kind of individualism has taken, in which the offender prioritises his own desires or entertainment ahead of the victim's personhood.
I hope the men who harass lack any sense of social awareness, that they have no idea of the consequences of their actions. I hope they are selfish and unthinking, rather than deliberately trying to harm, but for me and many others these kinds of episodes recall being sexually assaulted and they do harm. Each time they happen I am shown that they don't think I deserve to feel safe in my neighbourhood.
For all the upset the Me Too and the Times Up movements caused, I haven't noticed any difference between how I was treated before them and how I am treated now. I was optimistic that their impact would not be restricted to the film industry or the workplace. Indeed, in the wake of these movements, some men claimed they had become reluctant to talk to women for fear they might be accused of sexism, but my experience and the experiences of other young women during the lockdown speak against this.
Lauren Cottrell is a philosophy queen from London who often works in retail and will start an MA in English Literature in September. When she's not doing crosswords and watching black and white films she likes to tell other white people about the racism involved in the British Raj.
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