The following is an excerpt from a biography self-written by Bernadette Roberts for the book Mystics, Masters, Saints and Sages by Robert Ullman and Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman.
The moment was unheralded, unrecognized, and unknown; it was the moment "I" entered a great silence and never returned. Beyond the threshold of the known, the door upon self was closed, but the door upon the Unknown was opened in a fixed gaze that could not look away. Impossible to see the self, to remember the self, or to be self-consciousness, the mind was restricted to the present moment. The more it tried to reflect back on itself, the more overpowering the silence.
By steadily gazing outward upon the Unknown, the silence abated and the emptiness of self became a joy. But the search for the still-point–God within–revealed not one emptiness, but two, for when there is no self, there is no Other; without a personal self there is no personal God–without a subject, there is no The still-point had vanished, and with its disappearance it took very sense of life the self possessed–a self which could no longer be felt to exist. What remained was not known. There was no life, no will, no energy, no feelings, no experiences, no within, no spiritual or psychic life. Yet, life was somewhere because all was as usual.
Though it could not be localized or found within any object of sight or mind, somewhere out-of-doors, life was flowing peacefully, assuredly. On a bluff above the sea, it revealed itself: life is not in anything; rather, all things are in life. The many are immersed in the One, even that which remains when there is no self, this too, is absorbed in the One. No longer a distance between self and the other, all is now known in the immediacy of this identity. Particulars dissolve into the One; individual objects give way to reveal that which is the same throughout all variety and multiplicity. To see this new dimension of life is the gift of amazing glasses through which God may be seen everywhere. Truly, God is all that exists–all, of course, but the self.
At one time, the Oneness grew to an overpowering intensity, as if drawing itself together from all parts, drawing inward and obliterating all that existed, including the eye that saw it and that which remained. At the threshold of extinction, the eye flickered and grew dim; instantly, that which remained, turned away. To bear the vision, to enter in, the light of the eye must not go out. Somehow it must become stronger, but what kind of strength is this and how could it be acquired? There was something still to be done, but what? No-self is helpless; it has no strength; it is not the light of the eye nor the eye itself.
Nine months passed before the eye upon Oneness became the eye upon nothingness. Without warning or reason, all particulars dissolved into emptiness. At one point, the mind came upon the hideous void of life, the insidious nothingness of death and decay strangling life from every object or sight. Only self can escape such a vision because only self knows fear, and only fear can generate the weapons of defense. Without a self, the only escape is no escape; the void must be faced–come what may. On the hillside, the epitome of all that is dreadful and insane was confronted–but who, or what beheld this terror? And who or what could endure it? In the absence of self, all that remained was an immovable stillness, an unbreakable, unfeeling silence. Would it move–crack open? Or would it hold? This could not be known, surmised, or even hoped for. What would be, would be.
Can I have the title Book of this Biography. Thanks.
This "enlightenment story" is somewhat incomplete. After nine months of absolute void, she sat by a river and suddenly smiled at the sight of a branch floating in the water, and in that moment, it was seen that "The smiler, the smile and that at which it smiled were one", which marked the abiding in, and seeing of "what is", the end of the transition.
This is one of the very few humble, honest and open descriptions of this transition I've read, that seems to be totally lacking in agenda.
This entire narrative is only valid in one sense, but not in an absolute sense. As one who has spent his life and seeking out such people and in exploring such experiences personally, or perhaps I should say non personally, I spent more than an hour one day 35 years ago with Bernadette on the common of a suburb of Los Angeles as the traffic zoomed about us.
I can say, safely, that however void, selfless, and non-existent Bernadette may have seemed to her own perception, she indeed was in possession of all of the selfhood, ego, and Humanity as any other Mortal walking the planet. She had thoughts and feelings and reactions and conditioning s which were clearly evident in her persona, and, for the record, not so very liberated as one might have imagined. In fact, as one who is extremely sensitive to energies, I would have to say that she was energetically very tight, and that there was a fair degree of generic psycho-spiritual tension within her, as if she were constantly on guard to make sure what was said conform to certain dinner directives and mandates.
Evince free open and flexible presence, with great fluidity and almost dance-like naturalness about them, but again this was far from the case. Bernadette, if truth be told, has since birth been deeply immersed in the judeo Christian tradition, particularly the Catholic version of it, and as such she has or had deep and abiding programs at work below the threshold of awareness which greatly shaped her self-expression in this world.
As free as she ostensibly became , she was never truly free of this deeply, pervasively Catholic worldview. One could feel her silent, unspoken reprimand if one dared to insinuate that there was something less than truly valid or accurate about her take on things. She could be not just firm but hard, she could be not just full of conviction but judgemental.
But again all this will be too much for Bernadette -lovers, particularly aspiring Christian contemplatively , who need a role model, to accept and absorb.
And, far from Simply adding profound and insightful new insights to the contemplatively Christian or mystical narrative, she also added needless complexity and confusion, in fact even heaped it, upon what already was there from historical sources. If God is this complex, indeed complicated, indeed confusing, then we are all in for a terrible time.
Almost all of these seeming insights and apparent subtleties where nothing more or less than what Bernadette's Mind and Spirit did with the ultimately very simple. truth of existence. Being such a complicated, complex soul, and looking through this multi-layered lens which she had inherited and added to, her experience of the One was necessarily needlessly complex and convoluted. Again, if God is this confusing and inscrutable, then we again are in for a heap of trouble.
The solution is to come to God for more simply than Bernadette, or for that matter most human beings, did or do, for as simple as we are, that simple will be our perception of the infinites, immutable, inscrutable, source of all.
And how ironic to read, in one of her latest books, that she thought it was a great deal more to be written and wondered if she was going to be given the time to write it!
Poor Bernadette! Such a sincere, deep, searching soul, who nevertheless, as most Mortals, could not perceive, much less Escape, her own psycho-spiritual conditioning. For when one enters the unconditional, one never comes back into the conditional which is to say, had Bernadette truly experienced the profundity of Truth, she would not have there after retreated into the archetypal religious iconography of Catholicism, however well veiled she attempted to make it.
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By Members' Research Service / November 6, 2020
2021: European Year of Rail
Every year since 1983, the EU has chosen a special annual theme to celebrate and to bring to public attention. The idea is to raise awareness on the issue, encourage public debate on it across the EU and underline its political importance.
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Written by Damiano Scordamaglia,
Every year since 1983, the EU has chosen a special annual theme to celebrate and to bring to public attention. The idea is to raise awareness on the issue, encourage public debate on it across the EU and underline its political importance. The process can lead to new EU initiatives or legislation. 2021 has been designated European Year of Rail, to stir debate on railways' contribution to the European Green Deal and the environment. A wide range of events are planned, reaching out to the general public, to demonstrate the challenges and opportunities offered by rail, and promote it as a sustainable, innovative and safe mode of transport.
In December 2019, the European Commission adopted a new development strategy, the Green Deal, to address environmental challenges and climate change. To contribute to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, this new strategy centres on achieving climate neutrality by 2050 and a more resource-efficient economy. For this to happen, as transport accounts for a quarter of EU greenhouse gas emissions, a 90 % reduction in transport emissions is necessary by 2050 and an important share of the 75 % of inland freight currently carried by road will have to shift to rail or inland waterway transport. Rail's green credentials speak for themselves: in 2016, rail represented 0.5 % of the CO2 emissions from all transport modes. Railways are also energy-efficient: while they account for roughly 2 % of energy consumption in EU transport, in 2018, they transported 12.6 % of freight and 6.9 % of passengers. Despite this, the share of freight transported by rail has been decreasing continuously since the mid-1990s and passenger traffic has stagnated. Rail has played an important role during the pandemic, ensuring the circulation of people and essential goods, and it will support the post Covid-19 economic recovery. If the EU wants railways to become more attractive to passengers and businesses and help to improve traffic congestion and air pollution, it needs to give this sector additional support.
European Commission proposal
On 4 March 2020, the European Commission adopted a proposal to designate 2021 European Year of Rail (EYR) and promote the use of rail for passengers, companies and public authorities. This specific year was chosen in part because it will coincide with the first full year of the implementation of the new rules on governance and domestic passenger market opening, agreed under the fourth railway package. In addition, the international arts festival Europalia will devote its 2021 edition to the influence of railways on arts and their contribution to social, economic and industrial change. The overarching aim of the EYR is to raise awareness of the challenges and opportunities offered by rail, and support the efforts made by the EU, Member States, regional and local authorities to expand the market share of this transport mode.
EYR: organisation and objectives
With its initiatives, debates, dedicated events, exhibitions and promotional campaigns, the EYR will reach out to the wider public, in particular young people, to promote rail as a sustainable, innovative and safe mode of transport. The EYR is also designed to underline the cross-border dimension of rail and its contribution to relations with neighbouring countries and to EU cohesion, economy, industry and society at large. It will cover aspects relating to regional development, industrial competitiveness, sustainable tourism, employment, innovation, education, youth and culture, while focusing on improving accessibility for disabled people and people with reduced mobility (DPRMs).
In order to tailor the EYR to the needs of EU countries, each Member State will appoint a national coordinator and the EU will set up a steering group. The financial allocation for the EYR is estimated at €8 million; the final envelope will be decided in accordance with the multiannual financial framework 2021-2027.
European Parliament position
In a resolution of 15 January 2020, the European Parliament welcomed the European Green Deal, underlining the need for all transport modes to contribute to the decarbonisation of transport and calling for enhanced investment in EU rail connectivity. Parliament expressed its first opinion on the EYR proposal in June 2020, when the rapporteur (Anna Deparnay-Grunenberg (Greens/EFA, DE)) presented her draft report to the Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN), responsible for this file. The rapporteur noted that the EYR would give visibility to rail as an attractive transport mode and highlighted the importance of digitalisation and, more specifically, further development of the European rail traffic management system (ERTMS). Shadow rapporteurs insisted on the need to focus on enhancing train accessibility for DPRMs and supporting rail in the urban context. On 12 October 2020, with very broad support (45 votes in favour, none against and two abstentions), the TRAN committee adopted its report along with 15 compromise amendments and the decision to start interinstitutional negotiations. In order to create a truly European rail network, the TRAN committee called for support for regional cross-border rail connections and action to promote completion of the trans-European transport network (TEN-T). The report invited the Commission to study setting up a rail connectivity index to identify areas where investment is especially necessary. It also advocated for EYR activities to inform citizens better of their rights as rail passengers. The Committee report also endorsed some recommendations from two other parliamentary committees. In particular, TRAN supported the call to improve train accessibility for the elderly, disabled and persons of reduced mobility, and other measures put forward by the Committee on Regional Development, such as efforts to promote the EU's night train networks and develop rail networks and infrastructure in regional and border areas. Finally, the TRAN Committee supported the idea of the Committee on Culture and Education to promote better geographical coverage of rail services, considering their impact on the uptake of certain EU programmes, such as Erasmus + and DiscoverEU. On 24 June 2020, Council agreed a common position for a negotiating mandate on the proposal. It added some themes such as rail for end-to-end mobility and better distribution of information on passengers' rights. It also proposed that the Commission launch a feasibility study during the EYR on the creation of an EU label to promote goods transported by rail. Interinstitutional negotiations began on 27 October 2020.
Advisory committee and stakeholder views
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) adopted its opinion on the legislative proposal on 15 July 2020. Supporting the EYR, the EESC considered that this initiative should be an opportunity to communicate on rail's safety record, sustainability and on EU rail investment policies. It also underlined that the EYR should be promoted to regain consumers' trust in rail, contribute to sustainable tourism and give new momentum to DiscoverEU. The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) adopted its opinion on the EYR on 14 October 2020. It called for the EYR to be used to highlight rail's contribution to the EU economy and completion of the single market, and to offer solutions to urbanisation issues. The CoR was of the view that the EYR should also underline the attractiveness of employment in the rail sector and recommended increasing the EYR budget to €12 million. In March 2020, the Shift2Rail joint undertaking welcomed the EYR and declared that it was a very timely opportunity to raise awareness of rail's potential to become the backbone of a future sustainable, climate-neutral transport system. In April 2020, the European associations representing infrastructure managers, railway operators, intermodal companies, wagon keepers and the rail supply industry welcomed the European Parliament resolution on Covid-19 and the recovery and reconstruction plan. In their statement they called for support for rail beyond the pandemic, to enable this sector to make a substantial contribution to cleaner mobility and the development of multimodality. UIC, the worldwide railway organisation, also welcomed the initiative and underlined the role rail has to play in decarbonising transport, due to its energy efficiency, long life cycles and frugality in public space occupation. In a letter sent to EU Commissioner for Transport Adina Vălean, and signed jointly by the European Passengers' Federation (EPF), the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) and the network of non-profit organisation AGE Platform Europe, the European Disability Forum (EDF) insisted on the necessity for the EYR to focus on rail passengers' rights and how to promote them to make rail a truly convenient choice for all citizens, including disabled people and people with reduced mobility. BEUC, meanwhile, published its proposal for the EYR in May 2020, observing that the ongoing reform of rail passengers' rights should send a strong political signal to EU passengers and that the EYR should focus on making rail travel more convenient and affordable and on increasing the quality of services.
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The Broadcasting Regulation proposal is currently missing a crucial element: tackling the Direct Injection (DI) loophole that is increasingly being abused by some broadcasters and operators.
Direct Injection is a technology used by broadcasters to transmit their signals directly to distributors without those signals being accessible to the public until they have been supplied by the distributor to its subscriber base. The use of Direct Injection technology in the broadcasting sector is leading to a de facto resource transfer from Europe's creators on the one hand to distributors and broadcasters on the other.
This is because Direct Injection is used by some broadcasters and distributors to take advantage of a new loophole in Europe's copyright framework. They argue that when a signal is directly injected there is no copyright relevant act (i.e. communication to the public) to be licensed under the EU copyright acquis.
Broadcasters generate revenues based on advertising, as well as being paid by distributors for the right to use their signals, and distributors are paid by their subscribers for the TV packages they offer. However, both broadcasters and/or distributors are increasingly refusing to pay creators because of the Direct Injection loophole.
To restore the legal certainty in the market for the benefit of creative sector and consumers, the law must recognise that in the case of Direct Injection both broadcasters and distributors are liable and they must remunerate creators fairly based on their respective exploitations.


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Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.
Possible, impossible. What could be done? We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?
What we call the 'just possible' is sometimes true and the thing we find it easier to believe is grossly false.
There are many things that we can understand, but in the end it is a case of 'anything is possible'.
The word impossible contains the word possible'What's that-- some Zen thing?'I think Star Trek. Mr. Spock.
And what made these heart-to-hearts possible--you might even say what made the whole friendship possible during that time--was this understanding we had that anything we told each other during these moments would be treated with careful respect: that we'd honor confidences, and that no matter how much we rowed, we wouldn't use against each other anything we'd talked about during those sessions.
He had always wanted to write music, and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If you want to know what it is, he told himself, listen to the first phrases of Tchaikovsky's First Concerto--or the last movement of Rachmaninoff's Second. Men have not found the words for it, nor the deed nor the thought, but they have found the music. Let me see that in one single act of man on earth. Let me see it made real. Let me see the answer to the promise of that music. Not servants nor those served; not altars and immolations; but the final, the fulfilled, innocent of pain. Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers--show me yours--show me that it is possible--show me your achievement--and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.
If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. A world of automata--of creatures that worked like machines--would hardly be worth creating. The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they must be free.
And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.
The denier that ID [intelligent design] is science faces the following dilemma. Either he admits that the intervention of such a designer is possible, or he does not. If he does not, he must explain why that belief is more scientific than the belief that a designer is possible. If on the other hand he believes that a designer is possible, then he can argue that the evidence is overwhelmingly against the actions of such a designer, but he cannot say that someone who offers evidence on the other side is doing something of a fundamentally different kind. All he can say about that person is that he is scientifically mistaken.
Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires to become a dentist and that is that. Southerners have trouble ruling out the possible. What happens to a... man to whom all things seem possible and every course of action open? Nothing of course.
One tells as few lies as possible only by tellins as few lies as possible and not by having the least possible opportuinty to do so.
His Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense. There is no limit to His power. If you choose to say, 'God can give a creature free will and at the same time withhold free will from it,' you have not succeeded in saying anything about God: meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prifex to them the two other words, 'God can.'It remains true that all things are possible with God: the intrinsic impossibilities are not things but nonentities. It is no more possible for God than for the weakest of His creatures to carry out both of two mutually exclusive alternatives; not because His power meets an obstacle, but because nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.
Your life, sir, is propelled. By a dream of the fear of having nightmares; your love. Is the fear of being alone; your world's history. The fear of a possible leap by a possible antagonist. Out of a possible shadow, or a not-improbable. Skeleton out of your dead-certain cupboard.
To his surprise he...discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something…that you cared about a great deal.
Because, you see, God—whatever anyone chooses to call God—is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it.
The secret of happiness is this: let your interest be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons who interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
There is a tendency on the left, to think if someone in any way disagrees with the left it must be for the lowest possible reason and if you found the lowest possible motive you have found the right one. Theres this whole culture of no one would leave us or quarrel with us if they weren't a sellout. It is actually a very sick mentality and very widespread.
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
A totally nondenominational prayer: Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that I be forgiven for anything I may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness? Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which I may be eligible after the destruction of my body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen.


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Dr. Jörg Behler, Center for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Bochum, Germany
Prof. Dr. Daniel Borgis, Department of Chemistry, École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris, France
Prof.Dr. W.J. Briels, Computational Biophysics, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Michele Ceriotti, Laboratory of Computational Science and Modelling (COSMO), École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Maxim Fedorov, Biomolecular and Chemical Physics, Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Prof. Jens D. R. Harting, Mesoscopic Transport Phenomena, Department of Applied Physics, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Thorsten Hater, Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Dr. Matthias Heyden, Theoretical Chemistry, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim, Germany
Prof. Dr. Christian Holm, Institute for Computational Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Prof. Dr. Dominik Horinek, Institute of Physical und Theoretical Chemistry, University of Regensburg, Germany
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Prof. Dr. Andrij Kovalenko, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada
Prof. Dr. Kurt Kremer, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Christos N. Likos, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Austria
Dr. habil. Gerald Mathias, BioMolecular Optics, Faculty of Physics, University of Munich, Germany
Prof. Dr. Roland Netz, Theoretical Bio- and Soft Matter Physics, Department of Physics, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Peter Philippen, Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Prof. Dr. Dirk Pleiter, Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Prof. Dr. Daniel Potts, Department of Mathematics, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Dr. Marisol Ripoll, Institute of Complex Systems(ICS-2), Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-2), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Prof. Dr. Lars Schäfer, Center for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Bochum, Germany
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Dr. Edward Maibach and Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz: The 2020 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication
Americans have never been more concerned about climate change. According to the latest polls, most of the country now believes that climate change is affecting them personally and wants the president to do more to address it. How can understanding the perceptions of a broadly concerned public enable our leaders to create lasting change? How do climate concerns break down across political, economic and regional divides?
Climate One is pleased to honor Anthony Leiserowitz and Edward Maibach with the tenth annual Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communications. At a time when understanding climate perceptions has never been more important, Dr. Leiserowitz and Dr. Maibach have exemplified the ability to be both scientists and powerful communicators through their work on the public's understanding of climate change, including the seminal Global Warming's Six Americas project.
"No one has done more to help us understand how the American people understand climate change than Tony Leiserowitz and Ed Maibach," notes award juror Dr. Naomi Oreskes. "Their work has set the standard for social scientific investigations of what Americans think about climate change and why they think it."
Established in honor of Stephen H. Schneider, one of the founding fathers of climatology, the $15,000 Schneider Award recognizes a natural or social scientist who has made extraordinary scientific contributions and communicated that knowledge to a broad public in a clear, compelling fashion.
"I am so honored to receive the 2020 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication with my dear friend and colleague Dr. Ed Maibach," shared Dr. Leiserowitz. "It's an enormous honor to join such an amazing, pioneering and courageous group of climate science communicators."
"As a public health professional, I'm battling to save Earth's climate because doing so is necessary to protect the health and wellbeing of everyone alive today, and all who are yet to come—especially the least privileged of us, who are the most vulnerable," said Dr. Maibach.
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Edward W. Maibach
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Also called as emerald, Panna stone is one of the most attractive gemstones and counted among the Big Three gemstones of the world namely Rubies, sapphires and emeralds. Panna stone is widely used in gem therapy and it is considered the gemstone corresponding to planet Mercury.
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This is the first in a series of 7 videos on "Potology" Where we will be covering the history and use of different backpacking pots, stoves and fuels. Covering all aspects of selection and use of camp stoves and cookware.
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Now that hurricane Floyd is gone for you folks on the East Coast of America, you can breathe at ease once again. But can you really? Can we all breathe the air without risking being infected by some alien pathogenic agent disseminated to the winds by governmental planes operating in daylight for all to see?
Now there are new developments worth looking at. I would appreciate hearing from any of you who might have noticed similar sprayings and feeling their ill effects to see how widespread this is.
How do you feel about being infected without your consent with a potentially life-threatening disease?... Is this the kind of service you want from your government?
I'm an independent investigative journalist and political activist who decided to organize a nationwide protest about the chemtrails issue.
have which covers many like stories.
If you'd like to get involved, let me know.
will not publicly address the issue.
reported by the BBC due to spraying that occurred between 12/98 and 1/99.
Strange Haze web site, http://strangehaze.freeservers.com/index.html].
girlfriend had to drive him home because he was too dizzy and sick.
horrible asthma. WHAT AWFUL THINGS ARE THEY SPRAYING ON US AND WHY???"
flagrant human rights violation Americans have ever been subject to.
innocent populace from coast to coast, an attack on literally millions upon millions.
researcher Richard Malinowski, found here: (http://home.att.net/~malrm/CT01.html).
media, none of this would be possible.
investigate this story and report its findings to the public.
this spraying has been occurring, explain why it has been done and assure Americans that it will never again resume. And that because this spraying has occurred during his tenure and certainly with his knowledge, the only reasonable and honorable thing for him to do is to resign as president of these United States, as he has utterly failed in his pledge to protect the citizens of this nation, by allowing these unconscionable human rights crimes to occur.
will be assembling at the main offices of the New York Times in Times Square, 209 West 43rd St. from 12noon to 3pm. This will allow people with disabilities or the elderly to join us.
who said "Enough is enough" and then did something decisive about it?
noon sharp at the main offices of the New York Times in Times Square, 209 West 43rd St.
The following is adapted from a guideline posted at Free Republic.
The media's job is to convince the public that two plus two equals anything but four.
COEUR d'ALENE, Idaho (AP) -- Meg Anderson believes that plumes from the back of jet airplanes are making her sick.
The plumes are called "contrails" -- short for condensation trails -- and some people believe they cause flu-like symptoms and worse.
Most officials dismiss the claims.
A worldwide network of people connected by the Internet insist the trails come from military planes on covert sorties.
The truth is up there, depending on which of a growing number of Internet sites you dial up, or what night you tune in to nighttime talk radio's conspiracy king, Art Bell.
On one particularly "heavy spray day" over Plummer in June, Anderson said she watched particulate matter fall out of the clouds, "like the black stuff in a diesel truck stopped at an intersection.
"I experienced a numb mouth and burning sinuses -- in an area that is generally pollution free," she said.
Military and most government officials scoff at the contrail conspiracy theory.
"The Air Force doesn't do anything that emits anything other than a normal contrail, which is vapor," said Margaret Gidding, a U.S. Air Force spokeswoman at the Pentagon.
Most people have seen the puffy white contrails from commercial jets, frozen water particles released by combustion into the frigid climes of the upper atmosphere. The trails disappear quickly.
But the contrails in question are said to be much wider than usual and stick around for hours, filling the sky with tic-tac-toe patterns.
Contrail watchdogs use Oakville, Wash., as a poster child. As chronicled by the TV show "Unsolved Mysteries," in 1994 a rain of gelatinous goo fell from the sky onto the small town. Tests revealed a combination of white blood cells, two strains of bacteria and bits of coral reef, according to a transcript of the television show.
Most of the theories link contrails to military planes, often white, unmarked planes flying below the 18,000-foot altitude where the vapor trails normally start forming.
This year, Air Force headquarters started getting monthly calls on the issue, many of them from Washington state, Gidding said. She thinks the sudden interest stems from publicity on the Internet.
"It's challenging because I empathize with people when they're ill and looking for the cause," she says. "But the Air Force is just not what's causing it."
Forecasters say contrails are a meteorological phenomenon caused when water from jet engine exhaust freezes fast without evaporating, typically below -38 degrees Celsius. Most contrails break up quickly, but sometimes upper level winds can spread the trails apart, forming a large sheet cloud that lingers.
People who associate health problems with the trails describe strange X-shaped clouds -- said to aid satellite location of spraying operations -- and checkerboards not produced by commercial jets on parallel flight patterns.
A Kootenai County resident who gave his name as "George" on a popular contrails Web site in June reported black particles similar to those Meg Anderson had reported. "By the time it was dark, my nose lining was burning and my mouth was numb. I had a sore throat at bedtime and next morning sore glands in my neck and fatigue."
Dr. Leonard Horowitz, an anti-immunization crusader who lives in Sandpoint, suspects chemtrails in a nationwide outbreak of upper respiratory infections last winter that didn't respond to antibiotic treatment.
But "it's virtually impossible to link it definitively," Horowitz acknowledges.
Health officials in Idaho and Washington say they've received no reports from concerned citizens of contrail-linked illnesses.
"We're hooked up to Hanford to see if anything happens there," says Renee Guillierie, a spokeswoman for the Washington Department of Health. "That's about as weird as we get."
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Please write a short letter detailing your concerns, and calling for an end to the spraying and an official investigation into the chemtrails.
Have family members, neighbors and friends do the same.
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media representatives interested in the latest documented findings.
17:00 UTC GOES 10 visible satellite image (weathernet) currently shows a pattern being laid offshore along the West coast Wash, Ore and most of Cal. With the recent decrease in winds and the building high pressure ridge this is exactly where one would lay down a pattern of spray to drift on the on shore flow over coastal areas of the west coast. If am a serious weather junkie,I minored in meteorology and I know my atmospheric science and having viewed literally thousands of sat photos and images I have never seen the kinds of 'clouds' that are visible in your images and the ones that appear in the current west coat image. The crossing of the trails are completely antithetical to weather dynamics and would occur naturally in my opinion on a once in a million fashion.
splattered with a brown, gel-like substance.
the second incident which occurred at 2:00 pm on November 17, 1998.
the Harrisburg International Airport in Pennsylvania.
videotaped a house splattered on all sides, as well as the driveway.
claimed that a similar goo had hit his house the previous October.
said was "very resilient to very cold temperatures."
colors within 48 hours of being placed in petri dishes.
upper respiratory illness and serious blood infections in humans.
this fungus can cause severe infections in humans.
in distant coral reefs, which can be used as a "marker" in lab tests.
October 1984 and October 1993.
lab, she was told of similar incidents in the vicinity.
Three other molds in this second sample included a "black yeast"
come from the sample she handled.
Environmental Inc. was part of a conspiracy to cull the population.
analysis. A registered microbiologist who once worked on top U.S.
samples being brought in by sick pilots and ground crew.
this reporter. Submitted on September 17, 1997 and labeled "Jet Fuel,"
government contracts and discredit his investigation.
where they came from. So I'm not surprised."
Pseudomona flourescens and Enterobacter cloacae.
can cause disease in humans including pneumonia and chest infections.
aircraft for research into defence against biological warfare."
which can cause gastrointestinal illness.
"background" bacteria present in the soil.
spray can cause pneumonia and meningitis.
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If you've been following these articles, you know that we had one of those cold-water-in-your-face experiences, when we clearly observed the spraying of individual Texas communities on April 9th, 1999. There was absolutely no doubt that people were the target. The mystery gets worse, however, when you learn that very sparsely populated areas, particularly in the Pacific Northwest, are being sprayed very heavily, over and over again. Add to this the Air Force's intense efforts to harness the weather for military purposes (also involving fuel as the dispersing carrier), and the picture becomes even more confused.
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of a chaotic situation, is rarely more than a footnote in history books.
to go to the control point for medicine.
also be part of this plan, otherwise millions of dollars are being wasted.
are really being pounded along with the potential refuge they inhabit.
this would be necessary, but the danger is there.


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Category: Schlomo Izre'el
Izre'el: Adapa and the South Wind as Mythos
"A Sumerian version of Adapa from the Old Babylonian period has been discovered at Tell Haddad (ancient Meturan) and has been announced by Cavigneaux and al-Rawi (1993: 92-3). The Sumerian version is reported to be similar to the Akkadian version. It includes "an incantation-like passage" at the end, as does the Akkadian version represented by Fragment D.
Furthermore, the myth is the second part of a longer narrative, the first part of which describes the time just following the deluge and describes the feeding of the gods and the organization of mankind.
The discovery of the myth of Adapa and the South Wind immediately attracted wide attention. Its ideology and its correspondence to the intellectual heritage of Western religions precipitated flourishing studies of this myth, both philological and substantive.
This is MLC 1296, an Akkadian fragment of the Adapa Myth in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum.
http://corsair.themorgan.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=215815
Many translations have appeared during the past century, shedding light on various aspects of the myth and its characters. Picchioni (1981) made use of the scholarly work that preceded him, but following his monograph further studies and new translations of the Adapa narrative appeared (among which were Michalowski 1980; Müller 1983-4; Dalley 1989; Talon 1990; Dietrich 1991; Izre'el 1991a; Müller 1991; Dietrich 1993; Foster 1993; Izre'el 1993: 52-7; 1997: 43-50; Kämerer 1998: 254-59).
Picchioni's monograph marked a turning point in the Assyriological study of the myth and became the standard edition of the myth. There are several reasons for this: first, it summarized the diverging views published in the secondary literature.
Second, Picchioni's critical edition was solid and up to date. Third, his study established (although not without precedent; see Böhl 1953: 149-50; 1959; Hecker 1974: in passing, index: p. 214; cf. already Zimmern in Gunkel 1895: 420-1 n. 2) that the structure of the text (more specifically, the Amarna fragment) must be viewed as verse.
This enhanced our understanding of the text as a piece of literature (cf. von Soden 1984: 227-30; Izre'el 1991a).
However, in spite of comprehensive treatment of the personae and symbols of the myth, Picchioni's treatment of the narrative itself was remarkably brief (cf. Ella 1983). It is precisely with this in mind that I am publishing the present study: I am unveiling the myth of Adapa and the South Wind as mythos, as story. To do this, I will analyze the underlying concepts through extensive treatment of form.
First I offer an edition of the extant fragments of the myth, including the transliterated Akkadian text, a translation, and a philological commentary. As the reader will see, I consider language the salient and crucial part of any textual treatment, especially one that analyzes the overt and covert meanings of a myth.
These cuneiform originals are from Albert T. Clay, A Hebrew Deluge Story in Cuneiform. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1922.
This particular photograph states, "Early Atrahasis Cuneiform Original –Reverse
Adapa Version – Obverse (Reverse is destroyed)."
http://www.cumorah.com/index.php?target=view_other_articles&story_id=59&cat_id=7
I cannot overemphasize the need for thorough philological and linguistic analysis before discussing meaning, even though some interpretations are merely the result of context-realizations.
The analysis of poetic form that follows will then lead to analyzing the myth as a piece of literature and to uncovering its meaning—or rather, meanings.
This study therefore marks another phase in the long, extensive, and never-ceasing research into this abysmal Mesopotamian myth. Being just one of many human beings allured to and intrigued by this tale told in ancient times to a more understanding audience than ours, I wish to share with my own audience both my interpretation and my impression of this particular myth, as well as the methodology that I have adopted for my enquiry.
Within these confines, I hope that this study will have something to offer to the more general study of the Mesopotamian, especially the Akkadian, mythological texts."
Schlomo Izre'el, Adapa and the South Wind: Language Has the Power of Life and Death, Eisenbrauns, 2001, pp. 7-8.
Izre'el: Listing the Fragments
Previous Studies and the Present Study
"The scholarly world first became aware of the myth of Adapa and the South Wind when its largest fragment was discovered among the scholarly tablets of the El-Amarna archive in 1887 (Harper 1891; Scheil 1891; cf. Zimmern 1892; Sayce 1892; Izre'el 1997: 1-13, 43-50).
A fragment of the myth (now known as Fragment D) had, in fact, already been published before that time by one of the pioneers of Mesopotamian studies, George Smith (Smith 1876:125-6).
Smith, however, did not have at his disposal enough data to identify this fragment as part of the myth to which it belonged and attributed it to the Ea narrative (for which see Cagni 1969, 1977). While discussing the Berossus account of Oannes, Smith stated that "it is a curious fact the legend of Oannes, which must have been one of the Babylonian stories of the Creation, has not yet been discovered" (Smith 1876: 306).
Sayce, who said he had copied this fragment, "related to an otherwise unknown individual named Adapa," "many years ago," was able to attribute this fragment to the Adapa myth only after the discovery of the Amarna fragment (Sayce 1892; cf. Sayce in Morgan 1893: 183-4; Bezold 1894a: 114 n. 1, 1894b: 405 n. 1; Strong 1894; 1895).
We now have at our disposal six fragments of the myth. The largest and most important fragment is the one discovered at Amarna ("Fragment B") and thus dated to the 14th century BCE (see further pp. 47-9).
Five other fragments (A, A1, C, D, and E) were part of the Ashurbanipal library and are representative of this myth as it was known in Assyria about seven centuries later. Only two of the extant fragments (A and A1) are variants of the same text. Fragments C and D come from different sections of the text.
Fragment E represents another recension of the myth, which also seems to be similar to the known versions.
K 15072, British Museum. Another extremely sparse entry for this Akkadian cuneiform tablet, provenance Nineveh, modern Kuyunjik.
http://www.cdli.ucla.edu/cdlisearch/search_beta/search_results.php?SearchMode=Text&ObjectID=401152
The following is a list of the extant fragments edited in this volume, with their museum numbers and main previous editions.
Fragment A: MLC 1296 (Pierpont Morgan Library, New York);
Scheil 1898: 124-33;
Clay 1922: 39-41, pls IV, VI (cf. Clay 1923: 10-11);
Picchioni 1981: 112-5, 127-31 (figure 1), tav. 1.
Fragment A1: K 15072 (British Museum, London).
Parallel to the last extant section Fragment A. Schramm 1974;
Picchioni 1981: 114-5, 131, tav. IV-V.
Fragment B: VAT 348 (Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin);
Winkler and Abel 1889-90: 240;
Schroeder 1915: #194;
Harper 1894: 418-25;
Jensen 1900: 94-9, with comments on pp. 411-3;
Knudtzon 1915: 964-9 (= EA 356);
Picchioni 1981: 114-21, 131-6, 162-3 (figures 2-3 = Schroeder 1915: #194, tav. II-III;
Izre'el 1997: 43-50, copy (= Schroeder 1915: #194 with collations = pp. 177, 179 below), photographs.
Fragment C: K 8743 (British Museum, London). Expanded parallel to part of Fragment B.
Langdon 1915: pl. IV, #3, and p. 42 n. 2;
Thompson 1930: pl. 31;
Jensen 1900: xvii-xviii;
Picchioni 1981: 120-1, 136-7, 164 (figure 4), tav. IV-V.
Photograph also in Böhl 1959: Taf. 12.
Fragment D: K 8214 (British Museum, London). Virtual parallel to the end of Fragment B with additions.
Strong 1894;
Furlani 1929: 132;
Picchioni 1981: 122-3, 137-41, 165 (figure 5), tav. VI.
Fragment E: K 9994 (British Museum, London). A small fragment probably representing a different recension of the myth.
Von Soden 1976: 429-30;
Picchioni 1981: 95-6, tav. IV-V.
A cuneiform copy is published here for the first time, courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum.
The notation "Fragment E" is introduced here.
In addition to these fragments, one may note a possible title to the myth. The catalogue of literary texts Rm 618 (Bezold 1889-99: 4.1627) lists a title of a work on Adapa (line 3):
Adapa into heaven ( . . . )
Picchioni (1981: 87 n. 244) suggested that this might be an incipit of the first verse of the myth; Talon (1990: 44, 54) agrees (see further Hallo 1963: 176; cf. Lambert 1962: 73-4).
It is difficult to see how this line could have been the opening verse of any of the versions known to us, since both Fragment A and Fragment B seem to have opened differently (cf., for Fragment B, p. 108, and, for a literary analysis of Fragment A, pp. 112-3).
It may perhaps be suggested that this was a title rather than an incipit (thus also Röllig 1987: 50), because we know that Adapa's ascent to heaven is also referred to elsewhere (p. 4).
British Museum K 10147. Notes on this fragment are sparse. It was sourced at Nineveh, modern Kuyunjik, and marked Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC).
http://www.cdli.ucla.edu/cdlisearch/search_beta/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P398516
Von Soden, while suggesting the attribution of K 9994 (= Fragment E) to this myth (cf. also Borger 1975: 62, following Lambert), also made some observations concerning K 10147, saying that although the attribution of this fragment to the myth is doubtful, it may have formed part of the beginning of the text, before the extant Fragment A (von Soden 1976: 431; already Bezold 1894b: 405 n. 1).
This and other small fragments mentioning Adapa or relating to this figure have been collected by Picchioni (1981)."
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Izre'el: The Tale of the Adapa Myth
"Moreover, there is further textual evidence for the identification of the two figures in the combined name u-an(-na) adapa or u-ma-a-num a-da-pa (Lambert 1962: 73-4; van Dijk 1962: 44-8; Hallo 1963: 176; Bottéro 1969-70: 106; Borger 1974: 186; Picchioni 1981: 97-101; Kvanvig 1988: 202-4; Denning-Bolle 1992: 44-5; cf. Albright 1926).
The mythological figure Adapa has, thus, two variants: one is called Uan; another is called Adapa. The myth of the seven primordial sages shares with the Berossus tradition the mytheme of emergence from water. The etymological equation between Adapa and ù.tu.a.ab.ba is related to a similar tradition, while his having ascended to heaven is perhaps recalled by the name Uan, which includes a direct reference to heaven (An).
Purādu-fish apkallū were antediluvian sages, the famous Seven Sages of Sumeria were purādu-fish.
The genotype is also attested in Berossus, as the form of the mentor of mankind, Oannes.
Thus it was Oannes-Adapa who instructed people about the ordinance of the earth. It is with this theme that the myth of Adapa and the South Wind opens.
The myth as we know it opens with a description of the background to the main narrative. This background has reached us through what is now called Fragment A, of which the very first line or lines are missing (for the find and the extant fragments, see below).
The first legible lines refer to the power of divine speech, and it is said that Ea—known to us as the Mesopotamian god of fresh water and wisdom—perfected Adapa "with great intelligence, to give instruction about the ordinance of the earth. To him he gave wisdom, he did not give him eternal life" (lines 3'-4').
Adapa was a servant of Ea. Respected and adored by his community, he performed the chores necessary to the daily rituals, which included, among others, supplying fish from the nearby sea.
One day Adapa's journey to the wide sea ended unexpectedly in a sudden burst of the South Wind. Adapa was plunged into the sea. Here begins the narrative as we know it from Fragment B. This fragment has some close, albeit broken, parallels in Fragment C and at the beginning of Fragment D.
Adapa, who for the first time in his life had met with some difficulty, could do nothing other than to threaten the blowing wind that he would break its wing. As soon as he uttered this threat, the wing of the South Wind broke.
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A solid basalt tub recovered from outside the Temple of Ishtar at Nineveh, now in the collection of the Pergamon Museum.
Ea is readily identified at the center with water flowing from his shoulders. Ea is surrounded by apkallu, puradu-fish apkallu.
The puradu-fish apkallu have a fish head and fish skin flowing down their backs. They raise rectangular objects of unknown etiology in their right hands, in their traditional acts of purification and blessing. The banduddu buckets are, as usual, in their lowered left hands.
This tub probably portrays the Seven Sages of antediluvian Sumeria.
Nothing could be done against Adapa's spell, and Anu, the sky god and the head of the Mesopotamian pantheon, called Adapa to task. The situation was indeed unpleasant for the disciple of Ea. Yet, a god such as Ea would not risk a meeting between his loyal servant and Anu without proper preparation.
As might be appropriate for the god of wisdom, Ea, well known also for his artful character, supplied Adapa with minute instructions that were intended to save his life. Among these were strict orders to avoid any food or drink offered to him in heaven, any of which Ea said would bring death on Adapa.
However the situation turned out to be rather different from what Adapa anticipated. While in heaven, Anu's anger was appeased by two deities, Dumuzi and Gizzida, who were standing at the gate of heaven. Following Ea's instructions, Adapa had paid a tribute of flattering words to them. Instead of being offered deadly food and water, he was offered the food and water of life.
Adapa refused it, and thus—at least according to one recension, recorded in Fragment B—lost a unique and irreversible chance for eternal life.
However, according to another version of the story, recorded in Fragment D, Anu seems to have shown Adapa the awesomeness of heaven and to have installed Adapa in his own rather than in Ea's service. This fragment also adds to the myth a healing incantation that is based on the very fact that Adapa, "a seed of humankind," succeeded in breaking the wing of the South Wind."
Izre'el: Origins of the Adapa Myth
"Adapa the Sage
Adapa was known in Ancient Mesopotamia as The Sage. The original etymology of the name Adapa may not have reached us. A lexical text lists a term adapu as meaning "wise" (Igituh I: 107), an attribute that is further attested in another late text (Lambert 1962: 74). This adjectival noun is undoubtedly derived from the name of the mythological figure Adapa (CAD A/I 102 s.v. adapu B; AHw 1542 s.v. adapu III).
This lexical text has ù.tu.a.ab.ba "born in the sea" as the Sumerian equivalent of adapu, an equation that may have resulted from folk etymology (Lambert 1962: 73-4). In any case, whether primary or secondary, this possible etymology shows the mythological characteristics attributed to Adapa by the Mesopotamians, since he, as one of the first antediluvian sages, was thought to have emerged from the sea.
At some point, the name Adapa was interpreted as an epithet rather than as a proper noun, and as such it co-occurs with the name Uan(na), "the light of An" (see below).
Whether the word was originally an epithet or a name is hard to tell, especially since one cannot draw any sound conclusions regarding the origin of the myth or of any individual mytheme from the chronology of its occasional textual finds.
K 5519, British Museum.
E.A. Wallis Budge, ed., Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, part XXX, British Museum, London, 1911. Plate 8.
http://www.etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/17079.pdf
In a Sumero-Akkadian bilingual account of the first sages, a priest of Eridu is mentioned as one who ascended to heaven:
"[PN,] the purification priest of Eridu
[. . .] who ascended to heaven.
They are the seven brilliant apkallus, purãdu-fish of the sea,
[sev]en apkallus "grown" in the river,
who insure the correct functioning of the ordinance of heaven and earth."
(K 5519: I' – 9' after Reiner 1961: 2, 4).
Reiner (1961: 6-7) suggested that the subject here was Adapa. However, taken in its context as part of the bīt mēseri ritual, the name of the apkallu mentioned is Utuabzu ("born in the Apsu"), who comes seventh in a list of apkallus (Borger 1974: 192-4).
A fish-apkallu drawn by A.H. Layard from a stone relief, one of a pair flanking a doorway in the Temple of Ninurta at Kalhu.
This example is identical to illustration 55 in Dalley's article on the apkallu, which she cites for the dual daggers in his waistband.
British Museum. Reproduced in Schlomo Izre'el, Adapa and the South Wind: Language Has the Power of Life and Death, Eisenbrauns, 2001.
https://books.google.co.th/books?id=MbwwROVGl7UC&pg=PA3&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false
In another place in the same text, the last of seven sages is Utua-abba, mentioned as one who descended from heaven (Borger 1974: 193-4; see also Borger 1994: 231 and p. 232 n. 37).
The name Uan is listed as the first apkallu, who served during the time of the king Ayyalu (van Dijk 1962: 44). It is he who is mentioned as the one who "completed the ordinance of heaven and earth."
The Greek variant of the name Uan, namely Oannes, is known from the account of Babylonian history by Berossus, The Babyloniaca, where it is said that before civilization was introduced to the people of Mesopotamia,
"…there was a great crowd of men in Babylonia and they lived without laws as wild animals. In the first year (i.e., of the reign of Alorus) a beast named Oannes appeared from the Erythrean Sea in a place adjacent to Babylonia. Its entire body was that of a fish, but a human head had grown beneath the head of the fish and human feet likewise had grown from the fish's tail. It also had a human voice. A picture of it is still preserved today."
(Burstein 1978: 13-4).
The evidence in our possession thus seems to point to at least two different original traditions (cf. Wiggermann 1986: 153) that have become a single unified tradition in the most prominent remaining texts (cf. the remarks by Denning-Bolle 1992: 44-5).
I believe that in the myth of Adapa and the South Wind, as it was interpreted in the traditions that have reached us, there is a strong case for such a unified tradition. Variation, it must be noted, is a part of the very nature of mythological traditions (cf. pp. 108-10 below)."


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Q: How to modify Server side paging size I have an OData Web API service using .NET 4.5. It has a WebApi controller derived from EntitySetController:
public class WorkItemsController : EntitySetController<WorkItem, string>
{
    [Queryable(PageSize=100)]
    public override IQueryable<WorkItem> Get()
    {## Heading ##
         // go to AWS DynamoDb, get the workitems and then return
    }
}

As you can see, I set the server-side page size to 100 by default. Later I realize that I need to increase the size programmatically inside the Get() function.  Does anyone know how to do it?
If you want to know the reason, here is why:
AWS DynamoDb doesn't support $skip or $top query. Each time a client wants to get a collection of workitems, I need to get all workitems from DynamoDb. When the number is big, it takes very long time if each time we only return 100 items back to user. So my strategy is to double/triple the number of workitems we return to user each time. So user will get 100, 200, 400, 800 workitems with consecutive requests. Assuming there are 1500 workitems in DynamoDb, I will query only 4 times to return all of them back to user. If we keep a constant pagesize, like 100, I need to query 15 times.

A: You can invoke the ODataQueryOptions in your method and set the page size.
public IQueryable Get(ODataQueryOptions queryOptions)
{
    var settings = new ODataQuerySettings { PageSize = 100 };
    var result = GetResult();
    return queryOptions.ApplyTo(result, settings);
}

A: This is exactly the issue, that LINQ2DynamoDB addresses. To support $skip and $top (that is, Enumerable.Skip() and Enumerable.Take()), it caches the results returned by DynamoDb in ElastiCache. So that server-side paging works much more efficiently and the number of read operations is greatly reduced.
Moreover, LINQ2DynamoDB supports OData automatically, so maybe you don't even need to do any WebApi controllers.
Why not trying it? :)

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RAI Italia has acquired the Italian-language broadcast rights for the Serie A for international territories. The Italian broadcaster will air multiple live Serie A matches every match-week. The deal covers the 2018-19 season up until the 2020-21 season.
Italy's Serie A is the premier Italian League competition. Twenty teams play 38 matches each season, with the winner being awarded the Scudetto. The league has been operating in its current format since the 1929-30 season and has only been brought to a halt for a couple of years during World War II.
Each season, three new teams are promoted from the second-tier Serie B league to replace the three lowest-ranked clubs from the previous Serie A season. The Italian top flight will hand out six spots for their teams to play in European competitions for the first time in history, starting with the 2018-19 season.
Juventus is the most winning team in Serie A history with 34 titles to their name. The bianconeri side established a record during the 2017-18 campaign after winning their seventh title in a row. On the lower side of the table, Hellas Verona, Benevento and Crotone were relegated after the end of the 2017-18 season, giving way for Empoli, Parma, and Frosinone to take their spots in the Italian top flight. The current Serie A season will run from August 18, 2018, to May 26, 2019.
While the Serie A has arguably lost some of its glitz and glamor that had it considered by many as the top league in the 90's, it recently regained a bit of authority in Europe thanks to Juventus' 2015 and 2017 UEFA Champions League finishes as finalists and with Cristiano Ronaldo's move from Real Madrid to Juventus in July of 2018.
Did you know? AC Milan (1991-92) and Juventus (2011-12) are the only teams in history to win the title without any losses. The bianconeri also own the record for most points in a single season, having won the title in 2014 with 102 points.


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Lot 48◊
2017 Lamborghini Centenario Coupe
US$ 2,000,000 - 2,300,000
£ 1,500,000 - 1,700,000
Quail Motorcar Auction
14 Aug 2020, 11:00 PDT
6,498cc DOHC V12 Engine
Multi Point Fuel Injection
759bhp at 8,500rpm
7-Speed Automatic with Overdrive
4-Wheel Independent Suspension
4-Wheel Ventilated Carbon Ceramic Disc Brakes
*One of only 20 Centenario Coupes produced
*Single owner from new
*Fewer than 700 original miles
*Ferruccio Lamborghini's 100th birthday celebration
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Previewing at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California by appointment. Please contact [email protected] for scheduling.
FERRUCCIO LAMBORGHINI
Ferruccio Lamborghini, was the son of grape farmers in the Emilia–Romagna region of Italy, and he must have taken his inspirations from this, beginning his industrial career with building tractors. As this business developed, he later manufactured oil heaters and air conditioning equipment. But in 1963, he took a turn down a new avenue, and formed Automobili Ferruccio Lamborghini SpA to build high-end sports cars. It is said that while he had owned several Ferraris, he felt that he could build a better high-performance car. To do so, he purchased a factory at Sant'Agata Bolognese, near Modena, and hired a cadre of engineering talent.
His first production car was the 350GT, launched at the March 1964 Geneva Motor Show. Initially designed by Giotto Bizzarrini, its engine was a four-cam V-12 of 3,464 cc. However, Bizzarrini had designed it as a racing engine, and Lamborghini was adamant about producing a road car. Thus, it fell to Lamborghini's chief engineer Giampaolo Dallara to civilize it for the street. Dallara converted it to wet-sump operation, reduced the compression, revised the cam profiles and changed the racing carburetors to conventional side-draft 40 DCOE Webers. Bodies were made by Touring in Milan, using their Superleggera tubular birdcage technique to mount aluminum panels. Chassis and bodies were mated at Touring, then transported to Lamborghini's facilities at Sant'Agata Bolognese for final assembly.
Soon after 350GTs were rolling out of the factory, Lamborghini raised the stakes in the most dramatic fashion at the 1965 Turin Motor Show. It was here that the Miura project was first seen. The world was in raptures over the new design—Lamborghini included—and what some considered to be no more than a styling exercise, he quickly channeled their efforts into and turned into a reality. By the time of the Geneva Salon the following year, the first completed car was ready for unveiling to a stunned press and public.
Also designed by Giampaolo Dallara, the Miura carried its transversely mounted engine amidships in a box-section platform chassis, the latter clothed in stunning coupe coachwork styled by Bertone's Marcello Gandini. Like the contemporary 400GT, the Miura used the 4.0-liter version of Lamborghini's Giotto Bizzarrini-designed alloy four-cam V12. With 350bhp available, the Miura was capable of shattering performance, a top speed of 180mph being claimed with production examples independently tested at more than 170. Mr. Lamborghini - a bullfight enthusiast - names the car after the iconic Spanish bull, Miura. The Miura would become the basis and DNA for all future Lamborghini supercars.
THE MOTORCAR OFFERED
The Aventador was launched at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, replacing the ageing Murcièlago as Lamborghini's flagship model. Designed by Filippo Perini, the new mid-engine coupé borrowed heavily from Lamborghini's limited edition Reventón and its Estoque concept car. One of its more striking features was the scissor doors - a 21st Century supercar 'must have'.
Like its predecessors, the newcomer was powered by a V12 engine, in the Aventador's case an all-new 6½-liter unit producing 700bhp. Power reached the ground via a seven-speed semi-automatic gearbox and electronically controlled four-wheel drive transmission. A top speed of 217mph (359km/h) was claimed by the factory, yet the French Sport Auto magazine managed to wind 'their' car up to 230mph (370km/h).
2017 marked what would have been Lamborghini founder Ferruccio Lamborghini's 100th birthday. To celebrate the famed tractor builder turned dream car visionary's life, Lamborghini released the LP 770-4 Centenario. The Centenario is the latest of the "one-off limited editions" which include the Reventón, the Sesto Elemento, and, the awe inspiring Veneno, the latter of which Bonhmas recently sold an example of for $8,799,024! As with the previous special edition models, Lamborghini takes their highest performing model from the pen, in this case the Aventador, and dials up the style and performance to levels never before achieved by a raging bull. Each of the carbon fiber body pieces are new and specific to the LP 770-4 and have one goal in mind, aerodynamics. The slippery shape has a myriad of trick aero throughout which have helped to create the dramatic presence of the car. The Aventadors V12 has been massaged to make a whopping 759 horsepower, making the Centenario the most powerful Lamborghini ever produced. The combination of the power and aero allows the Centenario to rocket to 62 miles per hour is a gut wrenching 2.8 seconds. Keeping up with the theme and insuring that the Centenario out handles all of its predecessors, the car has been fitted with a new trick rear-wheel-steering system. The new system reduces the turning radius while providing increased stability during high-speed maneuvers. The new system adapts on the fly depending on which of the three driving modes you have selected; Strada, Sport, or Corsa. Lamborghini would limit the Centenario to just 20 coupes and 20 roadsters, all of which were immediately spoken for upon release.
This incredible limited edition LP 770-4 Centenario is one of the 20 coupes produced for the global market. The car has remained with its original owner from day one and received a service just last summer at Lamborghini Beverly Hills. At the time of cataloging, the hypercar has covered fewer than 700 miles and presents in phenomenal condition. The car is accompanied by its books and accessories and receipts for is recent service work. Opportunities to acquire a Centenario are and forever will be few and far in-between. Modern hypercar enthusiast and savvy investors with an eye on the future should take note of this incredible machine.
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The MIB module for entities implementing the Relay Agent part of the Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP) and the Dynamic Host Configuration protocol (DHCP) for Internet Protocol version 4(IPv4). Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004). This version of this MIB module is part of RFC xxxx; see the RFC itself for full legal notices.
DHCP Relay MIB identification objects are all defined in this branch.
Group of objects that are related to the overall system.
Group of objects that count various BOOTP Relay events.
A textual description of the relay. This value should have the FQDN name.
The vendor's authoritative identification of the network management subsystem contained in this entity. This value is allocated within the SMI enterprise subtree (1.3.6.1.4.1) and provides an easy and unambiguous means for determining what kind of relay is being managed. For example, if vendor Ohso Soft, Inc. is assigned the subtree 1.3.6.1.4.1.4242, it may assign the identifier 1.3.6.1.4.1.4242.1.1 to its Ursa DHCP Relay.
The time interval for which the relay chooses a server. In the subsequent 'seconds' interval the relay chooses the next server in the list for relaying the packets from the clients.
The list of subnets that the relay manages. This table maps the subnets with a list of servers serving them along with the maximum seconds value the BOOTP/DHCP packet can have to make the relay to choose a server, beyond which the relay chooses the next server in the list. The server list will be an ordered list of preference.
A logical row in the relaySubnettoServerMapEntry.
The address of the DHCP/BOOTP server.
The status column used for creating, modifying, and deleting instances of the columnar objects in the relaySubnettoServerMapEntry table.
Enables/Disables addition of RAIF Option by the Relay. The values are: (1) Enables addition of RAIF Option by the Relay. (2) Disables addition of RAIF Option by the Relay.
Number of DHCP packets exceeded the maximum size after including RAIF Option.
The number of BOOTREQUEST packets that are relayed to the servers.
The number of BOOTP packets dropped by the relay without forwarding (e.g., hop count exceeded the limit).