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The Chemwal (also Chemwel, Il-Tengwal, Jangwel, Senguel, Senguer) people were a Kalenjin-speaking society that inhabited regions of western and north-western Kenya as well as the regions around Mount Elgon at various times through to the late 19th century. The Nandi word Sekker (cowrie shell) was used by Pokot elders to describe one section of a community that occupied the Elgeyo escarpment and whose territory stretched across the Uasin Gishu plateau. This section of the community appears to have neighbored the Karamojong who referred to them as Siger, a name that derived from the Karimojong word esigirait (cowrie shell). The most notable element of Sekker/Chemwal culture appears to have been a dangling adornment of a single cowrie shell attached to the forelock of Sekker women, at least as of the late 1700s and early 1800s.

Etymology
Hollis (1905) noted that up till the mid-19th century, the Nandi referred to themselves as Chemwalindet (pl.Chemwalin) or Chemwal (pl. Chemwalek) while other Kalenjin speaking communities referred to the Nandi as Chemngal. However, Huntingford (1927) stated that his subsequent understanding was that the Nandi were known as Chemwal and that their country was known as Chemngal. Huntingford noted that at that time, the Nandi were still referred to as Chemwel by the 'Suk' and as il-Tengwal by the Maasai.

Following his Juba expedition, MacDonald (1899) noted of the 'Senguer' who previously 'dwelt on the Guash Ngishu plateau' stating that 'As "l" and "r" are interchangeable, "Senguer" of the Juba expedition is evidently the same word as "Jangwel", a term which Mr. C. Hobley found was applied by the Nandi to designate their tribe".

Territory & neighbors
At its largest extent, Chemngal covered the northern parts of Uasin Gishu, as well as parts of Elgeyo-Marakwet, Trans Nzoia and a southern section of West Pokot;

Chok
Pokot traditions recorded by Beech (1911) point to a close association between the Sekker and the Chok community who occupied the Elgeyo escarpment that runs along the edge of the Uasin Gishu plateau. It is presently unclear whether the term Chemwal applied to both communities. He notes that the elders of Pokot at the turn of the 19th century averred that;

Economy

Pastoralism
The Siger of Turkana tradition herded a distinctive type of long-horned black cattle that Lamphear postulates was the Sanga breed.

Way of life
Oreet - social groupings similar in concept to clans seem to have played a role in the social organisation of the Chemwal. One of these 'clans' was known as the Kacepkai. This clan was displaced during the Turkana invasion of Moru Assiger and were said to have become the diviners of a number of different peoples in the Mt. Elgon region.

History
Towards the end of the 18th century, a drought captured in folklore as the Aoyate - the long dry time, struck. It appears that the factors that resulted in famine combined to decimate Sengwer identity.

1836 societal collapse
According to Turkana traditions recorded by Lamphear, the Chemwal identity was annihilated by a variety of factors related to the Aoyate drought. This famine seems analogous to one referred to by Krapf (1860) when he makes mention of a 'great famine of 1836'. He notes that Turkana traditions state that,

Karamojong - Chemwal conflict
Lamphear's account of the conflict between the Turkana and Siger bear close similarity to Wilson's account of conflict between the Turkana and Maliri community. According to traditions recorded by Wilson (1970), the Jie advanced eastward and entered the present Karimoja territory at Adilang, an area that was at this time occupied by the Maliri. The nature of contact seems to have been hostile for the Maliri retreated eastwards toward the region of Koten Mountain where they stayed for a while. This state of affairs did not hold for long, for the people from the hill of Turkan, now calling themselves Turkana, broke away from the Jie at Kotido and started advancing eastward. This brought extreme pressure to bear on the Maliri at Koten, causing this group to break in two.

One group of Maliri, still known as such to the Karamojong but as Merille elsewhere, moved further eastward settling on the east of the Turkana escarpment. The other group, calling themselves Pokotozek moved south and arrived at Nakiloro, which lies on the Turkana escarpment just north of the Moroto mountain, where they stayed for a short while before moving further south, proceeding down the eastern side of the Chemorongit and Cherangani mountains before finally branching off in the direction of Lake Baringo.

Both these traditions also bear similarity to a narrative that Emley recorded regarding Turkana expansion. He states that.

In a later section he states "the Nithir, whose name is derived from ithiger (an ornament), are so called on account of their love for decoration. The Nithir adakari in Turkana lies north of Nibelai adakari. The Nibelai name is said to derive from tobil (to break) and ebelai (a curved fighting-stick), and that they were so named on account of the fact that they forged their way ahead, returning time and again with broken fighting sticks.

South I: Chemwal - Pokot interaction
Lamphear's account appears to indicate some form of interaction with the Pokot, leading to the rise of the Kacepkai diviners. His account implies pressure but does not seem to suggest a conflict. His account are congruent with Pokot traditions recorded by Beech (1911) give an overall image of a community he refers to as pastoral Suk who appear to have assimilated a community, or at least part of a community known as Chok (Chuk or Suk) that previously occupied the Elgeyo escarpment.

South II: Chemwal - Siger assimilation

According to Maasai tradition, the Uasin Gishu front conquered a group of people who occupied the Uasin Gishu plateau, this community is remembered as Senguer. Other Maasai traditions concur with this assertion, noting that the Loosekelai (i.e Sigerai/Siger) were attacked by an alliance of the Uasin Gishu and Siria communities.

In further concurrence with Maasai traditions, are macro-Kalenjin traditions such as the popular narrative of origin recorded by Chesaina (1991). In it is stated that the Kipsigis, Nandi and Tugen split following a series of misfortunes, notably drought and attacks by the Uasin Gishu Maasai. The Tapkendi tale has also been widely quoted to illustrate past occupation of the Uasin Gishu plateau by the Nandi, specifically, the introduction which reads "At a time when the Masai occupied some of the Nandi grazing grounds". It is presumed that this was the Uasin Gishu plateau and that Nandi place names on the plateau were superseded by Maasai names. This is evinced by certain "Masai place-names in eastern Nandi (i.e Uasin Gishu border) which indicate that the Masai had temporary possession of strip of Nandi roughly five miles wide", these include Ndalat, Lolkeringeti, Nduele and Ol-lesos, which were by the early nineteenth century in use by the Nandi as koret (district) names.

However, micro-Kalenjin traditions would appear to turn this narrative on its head. They concur on key points, notably an incoming population and an enfeebled population (in some cases known as Segelai) holding out in what were then dense forests around the plateau. The key difference is that the Kalenjin communities as seen as the incomers.

Kipsigis traditions such as those recorded by Orchadson (1927), state that at a time when the Kipsigis and Nandi were a united identity, they moved southwards through country occupied by 'Masai'. Orchadson notes that this was "probably the present Uasin Gishu country". Here, they accidentally got split in two by a wedge of Masai who Orchadson records as being "Uasin Gishu (Masai) living in Kipchoriat (Nyando) valley".  Accounts from Hollis however refer to a "branch called 'L-osigella or Segelli [who] took refuge in the Nyando valley but were wiped out by the Nandi and Lumbwa...It was from them that the Nandi obtained their system of rule by medicine-men.

The totality of both narratives are however in congruence with the large scale movement of pastoralists from the plains into the forested areas, assimilation of forest-dwelling communities and wide-spread identity shift. A widespread trend across the region as the mutai of the 1830s dragged on.

Nandi identity

By the middle of the 19th century the Nandi eponym was in common use, thus the age-sets of the late 19th century would have identified as Nandi.

References

Ethnic groups in Kenya
Kalenjin people


We are launching the second edition of 'Reptiles and Frogs of Alice Springs' by Nic Gambold and Deb Metters.
There will be a presentation by local reptile expert Rex Neindorf regarding legless lizards.
Books will be available for sale before and after the event.


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I found some abandoned tracks here a couple of months ago and followed them to where they ended: in the Pacific Ocean.
That's something I would try to get to the bottom of.
The go to where an old salt plant used to stand. After World War II, the plant closed down, was removed, and the area converted back to a salt marsh. It's part of the Sweetwater Marsh Wildlife Refuge now.
If I didn't live on the opposite coast, it sounds like the kind of place I would love to visit.
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Everything at the moment is louder than ever yet nothing seems to register. I can hear talking, machines beeping, feet scuffing while the smell of cleaner is making me light headed. I feel a hand on my shoulder and with a blink everything seems to be in slow motion.
"Hey," When I open my eyes I see Taylor crouched in front of me with her arms on my knees "We've come to take you home."
My voice is husky, throat raw from how much I've cried. I'm exhausted because I haven't left the emergency room unless it's  to see dad during visiting hours. He's currently being prepped for a second surgery and I was kicked out because I was freaking out.
It was either that or I would be sedated.
"You need to get some sleep it's been nearly twelve hours," I glance to Blair who's rubbing my back and a pang of hurt stabs itself in my chest. "At least come have a shower, change your clothes, get some food then we'll come back."
"All I have left," I whisper, dropping my head back down to my hands that are still tinted red with his blood. "If I lose him I won't have any more family, I'm not eighteen yet which means I'll be shoved into some foster care system."
"Yes it will!" I raise my voice, brushing Blair's hands from me. "You don't know what's going to happen. He almost bled out in front of me, I watched another parent-"
My lungs start to collapse on me, air coming in at a pace that hitches my breathe. They burn just as much as my throat does. I hunch over struggling for breathe as I hold my stomach, Taylor moves to her feet to haul me up with Blair.
"It's going to be okay."
One of them whispers the mantra as if it'll make a difference. I barely get into the corridor before my knees buckle. My palms press to the floor, grounding me as I let my nails press dig into my skin. I heave, struggling for breathe when I notice the standard shoes a nurse wears infront of me.
My ears ring at a high pitched frequency, blocking out the dialogue exchanged. Breathe. It burns everywhere to the point of hyperventilation and my vision being blurred by tears. A sob rips from my throat as I curl inwards like a ball to get away from the hands touching me.
Each touch feels like a needle jabbing me or a searing pain, I can't be touched during a panic attack. I let out a scream, swinging my arms before I fall back flat against a wall. My fingers thread through my hair and I can faintly see shoes moving past, some slowing to watch my meltdown.
"She's hasn't had a panic attack in eight months." I squeeze my eyes shut and shake my head at the sound of Rhys' voice.
Why did he have to be here?


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With two solo exhibitions taking place at AIR Gallery right now it has a significantly busy programming schedule. With a focus on emerging and early career artists AIR offers a much-needed resource for these artists in the North West.
Currently exhibiting is Louise Garman with That Dark Space Behind My Eyes and Jenny Drinkwater's ROSE TINTED. Whilst both exhibitions are landscape-based they couldn't be more different aesthetically. And its in a captivating, different way. Taking the subject and organically producing two separate outcomes at the same time as also using painting, photography, sculpture and assemblage in their practices.
Both take the angle of abandoned spaces and displaced landscapes. Louise Garman's artist books, objects and photographic prints present a eerie and grounded assemblage of ideas, drawings and discarded items from her journeys. Subconsciously, she has focused on life and death – birds' nests, children's toys, skulls, sleeping tablets, to name but a few. She has become fascinated by unwanted, displaced and discarded signs of life, both man-made and natural.
By carefully constructing installation pieces from her images and videos Garman is documenting her journeys to capture a moment in time, both ugly and beautiful, harsh and tender.
Similarly, Jenny Drinkwater's show takes a view of the landscape though a rose tinted lens. Her practise very much looks to the landscape as an urban product, constructed and manipulated to the whims of man. She combines materials alongside various media to amplify the effect of what is natural or artificial, and ultimately asking if there is anything natural about the landscape today.
The pieces in ROSE TINTED also focuses on man-made signs and networks that have become derelict and are being lost to nature. She articulates the power of the elements whether it be natural, manmade, organic or urban, making the invisible visible and the visible invisible.


You've probably seen the stories about how animals at the zoo in Washington reacted just before the earthquake struck Virginia about 80 miles south of the capital. What struck me was this: According to keepers, the giant pandas did not appear to respond to the earthquake. I'm betting they were on loan from the San Diego Zoo. Seriously, maybe we won't have another for a long time. Or maybe like the weather, things seem to be changing from what we're used to. It's disturbing short-sighted Eric Cantor and his band of Republicans in Congress have moved to cut spending for the U.S. Geological Survey, which keeps track of faults and quakes and even the U.S. Weather Service. If we're going to cut, and we should, let's start with the waste and government that serves no useful purpose.
The republican led House Appropriations Committee recommended $135,965,000 for natural hazards equal to FY2011,and $2,096 above budget request. The recommended level restores proposed cuts to earthquake, volcano and landslide hazards. I'm all for cutting waste and no entity wastes better than big government. My info was taken from a guest post by Jamie L Vernon Phd in Discover Magazine.
Yeah, like paying Camden kids to go to school. We must pay way too much taxes because there is so much waste.
Science should always come first. Without a planet where are we going to live?
Eric Cantor and his "band of Republicans in Congress" might just be some of the best friends this nation has at this point in time.
You can bet there's plenty of waste and corruption even in the Geological Survey.
New Jersey's but a cog in a financially troubled nation and the real possiblity that she may be a victim of foul weather is no reason that ALL government agencies should not be subject to financial scrutiny, and with cuts, if necessary.
Yeah and the Weather Service too. What did those guys ever do for us? Let's make sure our friends in the oil industry get their subsidizes. What we need is priorities.
Does anyone think that demand for these services would cause private industry to develop them if gubmint didn't do them? And probably cheaper, too. Kind of like the carbon credit racket.
You could pay for your weather forecast monthly like cable TV.
Actually, we do anyway but the true cost is hidden. Plus weather comes with the internet package.


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Variety reports that Johnny Simmons - best known to fans as Young Neil in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World - has been added the Phil Lord and Chris Miller-directed adaptation of 21 Jump Street. The article doesn't specify what role Simmons will be playing, but considering his youthful looks one can imagine that he will be playing one of the special police officers. In addition to the part, Simmons has also joined the cast of The Perks of Being A Wallflower, where he will also presumably be playing a high school student, and has been confirmed for The Hand Job, as previously reported.
Before this casting I was wondering if Lord and Miller would be winking at the audience while sending a team of way-too-old cops into a high school to blend in, but the addition of Simmons kind of ruins that. Maybe they have some super, incredible make-up and special effects that they're going to use. Only time will tell.
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We have ported our huge code base to Qt 5 and KDE frameworks 5 (KF5).
We replaced our legacy C++ parser and semantic analysis plugin with a much more powerful one that is based on Clang from the LLVM project.
We removed the hand-written CMake interpreter and now leverage meta data provided by upstream CMake itself.
Finally, we cleaned up many areas of our code base and improved the performance of some work flows significantly.
We spent a lot of effort on keeping the porting bugs to a minimum, and our thanks go out to the many testers who have guided us in the process. Porting to KF5 and Qt 5 also cut down our dependencies, bringing us closer to a proper KDevelop on Windows and KDevelop on Mac OS X. If you want to see KDevelop 5 become a reality on these platforms, then please get in touch with us and help us iron out the last issues.
Another area where KDevelop always excelled was its support for CMake based projects. Sadly, similar to the C++ story above, this came at a huge maintenance cost for a custom CMake interpreter. Keeping compatibility with the rapid upstream development was not possible for our small team. As such, we decided on a radical cut for KDevelop 5 and removed our custom CMake interpreter. Instead, we now use meta data provided by CMake itself, giving us a correct listing of targets, as well as all include paths and defines for the source code files in your projects. These are the most important features required of a project manager in KDevelop. But this step also means that we had to remove some of the useful advanced CMake integration features, such as the wizards to add files to a target. We are aware of this situation, and plan to work together with upstream to bring back the removed functionality in the future. Hopefully, you agree that correctness and much improved performance, where opening even large CMake projects is now close to instant, makes up for the loss of functionality.
Another big benefit for us that now both, the new Clang plugin as well as the CMake plugin, are much easier to maintain. This opens up resources for the future to work on other areas of KDevelop, such as its UI, cross-platform support or the debugger integration. Stay tuned!
To conclude this long announcement, I want to express my sincere gratitude towards the dozens of contributors that have worked on KDevelop 5 over the last months. I'm very excited to see where we have gotten already, and am eagerly awaiting a final KDevelop 5 sometime next year. Up until then, I hope we can iron out the remaining blockers and polish this first release based on Qt 5 and KF5.
Could I ask, what about below bugs. Is there any hope that couple of them will be fixed before final release?
New CLang parser don't parse all code, what made leaving black lines in many places - tested with some files from KDevelop 4.90.90 and Qt4 project (bug: 354311).
Unclear output when building cpp project using cmake (Unix Makefiles, so default setting) (bug: 354143). Promised to fix in 5.0.0 release ( TargetMilestone: 5.0.0 ). I hope will be not like with bug 334487 referring to crash in 4.7.1 and not fixed in 4.7.2, despite was marked as going to be fixed in the next release.
Changing key shortcut in Debug session is lost after switching to Code perspective (bug: 354430). Minor.
I didn't mention about cpp debugger which works not very well. For example after changing the code (adding/removing several of lines) the breakpoints are moving in wrong places or even setting on top of the file. This is happens also in 4.7.x version. This is for me the most annoying thing in C/C++ debugger built in KDevelop. Bug: 353101 (reported for 4.7.1 version, but refers also to 5.0.0 beta).
I'm very happy that KDevelop is developing such dynamically. I'm using it every day, but still 4.7.x version. I really care to KDevelop worked best as can work, thus I can promise report new bugs :) - all mentioned (skipping 334487) are mine.
Thanks for the high quality bug reports. We wanted t release this beta now as it's already quite usable. That said, we are aware that there are still many bugs here and there, and we will concentrate on polishing now over the next weeks.
Wow! That's quite a hefty amount of improvements! Can't wait to try it out. Congratulations to all you guys for some amazing work!
Any beta Windows builds planned?
Please note that this is not yet the beta1 release, it's a build from several weeks ago. We'll try updating the installer as soon as possible.
Please try it out and report back. Thanks!
Is there any plans to add QBS (AKA: the best build system in the world :) ) support?
Great! Thank you so much - I am looking forward to it!
Thank you again for my favourite IDE!
I love KDevelop and truly appreciate all the hard work.
KDevelop has the ability to set break points and navigate to the break point when they are hit. Regardless of which debugger is used (GDB, Xdebug, MonoDebugger etc..) it seems like the functionality on the KDevelop side is the same. The only difference is the protocol.
I would really like the ability to be able to write that translation layer as a plugin in kdevelop. It would be great if kdevelop could expose the necessary functions via dbus or some kind of plugin architecture so that in a reasonably high level language, I could take an event from kdevelop and send it to my debugger and vice versa.
I first hit this with Xdebug support in PHP. I know there is a plugin but I couldn't get it to compile against KDevelop, and there is the new HHVM debugger also which people may want to use.
I think this also extends to Intellisense like functionality (code completion etc..). The omnisharp server is a good example of how the atom editor, vim etc.. have been extended to support C# without having to necessarily understand the inner workings of those editors.
the xdebug plugin does take some working around to install. you need a few other plugins before it will compile. you need kdev-php, kdev-executebrowser, kevelop-pg-qt before kdev-xdebug will have all the necessary components.
Someone has a Mac build or a working build instruction ?
Golang cannot interact with C++ directly, but it's possible to use interprocess communication and run Go parser as daemon.
There are two existing tools for Golang IDE integration.
Both tools use internal client-server model: IDE uses client which is console app with JSON response, but client internally sets up daemon and interacts with daemon by UNIX socket using "net/RPC" package in Go. Perfomance isn't ideal since there is 1 extra process creation for each IDE request, but it works.
If you're interested in joining the effort, just check it out and start contributing. Any helping hands are very welcome!
Are there any build instructions on how to install this locally?
I already have the Plasma 5 desktop and KDE Frameworks from openSUSE Leap 42.1.
While I succeeded installing it (into /opt/local/kdevelop), KDevelop cannot find its plugins and setting KDEDIRS doesn't do anything.
P.S. I've been using KDevelop for years now (since version 1.something) and I'd like to thank all of you, you're the best! This is great news, especially since I'm going to upgrade to a hidpi monitor.
Great work on all the improvements to KDevelop!
I especially look forward to checking out the new C++ plugin.
In theory, it should make installing and testing a new build of KDevelop a breeze.
Is it possible to have them integrated into the release?
Also nim compiler offers an IDE integration server called nimsuggest, Is it possible to have this integrated into KDevelop, or at least is there any documentation on how one may go about it?
i built and installed everything tagged 4.90.90, when i run kdevelop i get an error saying KDevWelcomePlugin is not installed. i searched everywhere online... this doesnt seem to even be a thing.


Sedgwick County was a busy place to be this past weekend as we celebrated St. Patrick's Day.
The Shamrocks and Shenanigans Carnival was held at Revere School on Friday evening as the Julesburg PTO held the Shamrock Shuffle on Saturday morning. Revere also was host to the annual 9 ft. Basketball Tournament, on Saturday and Sunday.
The Julesburg/Sedgwick County Chamber of Commerce held their first March Madness Expo at Big B's on Saturday. It was a very successful event with 25 vendors on hand and as many as 225 people came out to shop.
Saturday night, the Julesburg Fire Department held their annual Casino Night with patrons eating good food, playing poker and black jack.


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1) Why would the PCUSA exclude such a popular hymn?
It all begins with the PCUSA bizarrely concluding that one of the most popular hymns of the past few years should be excluded because they felt that the line, "Till on that cross, as Jesus died/ the wrath of God was satisfied," was an explicit endorsement of Anselm's 'satisfaction theory' of the atonement. Anselm taught that God was like a feudal lord who needed to avenge an infraction against his honor, and that's why Jesus died. In many ways, essentially, Anselm's view equates God with an Islamist father who restores the family honor by beheading his own promiscuous daughter. For some reason, the PCUSA felt that it was within their prerogative to omit a hymn which can be (mis)interpreted thusly from their hymnal while neither condemning the song nor forbidding individual presbyteries/congregations from singing it.
1A) Why is this embarrassing?
For one thing, unless you've studied theology at the advanced undergraduate or graduate level, you haven't heard of Anselm, so I'm pretty comfortable saying that the PCUSA hymn committee (um, not their formal title, so we're clear) are among the first 100 humans to make that philosophical leap. Which would seem to make their rationale for omitting the hymn as ivory-tower elitist and out-of-touch as a rationale could possibly be. It would also seem to make their assumption that including the hymn would be endorsing Anselm more or less crazy. With the emphasis on the more side, which is embarrassing.
2) What does this have to do with Timothy George?
Nothing. Or at least it didn't, until Dr. George used ESP to determine that the real problem was the PCUSA's discomfort with God's wrath, after which he wrote about it and started an internet riot of PCUSA-bashing amongst evangelicals. Google it yourself; a veritable host of apoplectic evangelical joined him in denouncing mainline cowardice on the matter of God's wrath, which they further assume is an implicit rejection of substitutionary atonement (to be clear, this is not an argument George himself makes. He sticks to wrath). Which means that to the extent that this is a kerfuffle at all, it's George's baby. Which means it now has everything to do with Timothy George.
2A) Why is Timothy George such an embarrassment?
That's not a very nice question! Shame on you!
2B) What's embarrassing about Timothy George's (and other evangelicals') role in this instance?
Well, there are a few problems with Timothy George's take on the PCUSA. For one thing, the hymnal – as the PCUSA has since pointed out – will have myriad songs involving or even centering on God's wrath. So they're not hiding from God's wrath, and to the extent that they are rejecting a theory of the atonement, the evangelical take is totally wrong: the PCUSA is not implicitly rejecting substitutionary atonement; they're explicitly rejecting satisfaction atonement. George's ESP appears to have failed him, and it's always embarrassing when that happens.
For another thing, George is the dean of a major evangelical seminary (Beeson), and he appears to have missed the obvious (to the PCUSA, I guess) connection to Anselm, and well, that has to be professionally embarrassing. Clearly, the PCUSA ivory tower is vastly more elite than Tim George and Beeson.
A third problem, of course, is that George & co. – filled as they are with the fruit of the spirit, such as love, peace, and forbearance(!), to name three – appear to want to be offended. Why else would they jump to conclusions about the PCUSA and wrath? Why else, when the PCUSA clarified that it was really all about Anselm, would their response be to assume – even with some open accusations – that the PCUSA is lying? The only conclusion I can draw from all of this is that they must want to sow division amongst Christians, perhaps in the assumption that they're doing someone a favor (I'm sure someone will suggest they're "taking a stand on a vital matter!"). This dogged determination to think and see the worst in the PCUSA is an embarrassing disgrace.
3) How did the Baptists get involved in this one?
As the PCUSA actively sought ways to include In Christ Alone in their hymnal, they realized that the line to which they object had been rendered in a Baptist hymnal as, "Till on that cross, as Jesus died/ the love of God was magnified." The PCUSA thought that was an admirable dodge of Anselm, and asked the song's right-holders if they could do the same. Which is when it came to light that the Baptists never bothered to get permission for that change, and would not have received it if they tried. They apparently just ignored the copyright on the song, changed what they wanted to change, and started selling it everywhere they could. So much for intellectual property, I guess.
3A) Obviously, that's embarrassing. Did they really do that?
Yes indeed. They altered the artists' work to suit their own sensibilities. Which is definitely vandalism. Also, it's a little bit like theft, since they've taken someone else's work and altered it – they may have paid for the rights to use the song, but in changing the song, they stole the artists' control over their vision, which in this case was a song to Jesus. So they stole two men's gift to Jesus, changed it, and acted like they had permission to do so. Illegal, wrong, and ohmygoodness embarrassing for them, us, and bipeds everywhere.
4) Can you put those pieces back together for me?
Sure! To recap: the PCUSA is/was in the process of choosing what songs they want to pay their own money to publish in their own hymnal for use in their own churches, but Tim George and a bunch of evangelicals who have nothing to do with this process have decided to use the PCUSA's autonomous choices as a reason to cast accusations and aspersions upon them. In the name of Christ. Without even considering that the PCUSA might be telling the truth, and might also be permitted to spend their own money however they see fit. They just assume the Presbyterians are heretics and liars, and go from there. Better yet, this divisive engagement is supposed to demonstrate the superiority of the faith of George et al., fruit of the spirit apparently notwithstanding.
Also, it turns out that the Baptists don't respect intellectual property, which basically makes them thieves, vandals, or both. The good news, however, is that they appear to be better at medieval theology than Tim George.
5) Anything else to add?
Yup. Since this is my blog and my angry screed, permit me to add what should be relatively clear at this point. Incidents like this one make me embarrassed to be identified with the label 'evangelical.' The PCUSA should be free to omit whatever they choose to omit, without needing to justify it to the evangelical peanut gallery (and even if their justifications are odd and involve medieval theology). Evangelicals – particularly leaders who have the influence and platform Timothy George does – should try to manifest at least some of the fruit of the spirit in their public ministry, and actively looking for affronts against the kingdom is childish, churlish, and arguably disqualifying for church office, even when they're not flagrantly misrepresenting the viewpoints of others (which they are here). The entire conflict should never have happened, and it only goes to reinforce the common notion that evangelicals are insufferable hypocrites when a story like this ends up in the Washington Post, USA Today, or the Huffington Post (and this one ended up in all three). So we all end up looking like idiots, even before it emerges that the Baptists defile intellectual property. Yet another reason why evangelicalism makes me uncomfortable.


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Today I'm really excited to have Dani Collins here to talk about the third book of the Bachelor Auction series, The Bachelor's Baby. Welcome, Dani, and congrats on your latest release!
1. Tell us a little about the hero and heroine in The Bachelor's Baby.
Meg is the sister of my hero, Blake, from Blame The Mistletoe. They're both adopted, but have different back stories. While he knew his grandparents and had ties to the community of Marietta, her biological parents are a mystery. That's always left her with questions and a deep sense of rejection. This need to know why takes her into investigative journalism and even a spot on the evening news in Chicago, using her birth name, but she's never found her birth parents.
Linc lost his dad when he was too young to help his mother keep the ranch they loved. She sold it and worked hard as a single mom to provide for him. Once he was old enough to work the oil rigs, he did it for the money, to support her, but he's always wanted to go back to ranching and finally buys a foreclosed ranch near Marietta, Meg's hometown.
2. How does Meg end up buying Linc?
Well. Meg is home to clean out her old bedroom because Blake is marrying and needs her room for his new step-daughter. It makes Meg realize that she's saying goodbye to her hometown and she's quite melancholy and winds up ditching her truck in a snow bank, she's so distracted. Linc stops to help her and, being a bachelor with certain desires, kind of propositions her.
She declines, but it starts a bit of a thing between them. When Lily, Sarah Mayberry's heroine from Bound to the Bachelor, approaches Meg to ask if Blake would like to be a bachelor, she suggests Linc would make a perfect addition to the line up. He gets mad and she feels bad and winds up bidding on him. That doesn't go well either.
First off, Meg is heading back to Chicago. They only have the one night and it's kind of a surprise to both of them that it happens (but, as Linc reminisces later, they 'nearly set the bed on fire.) Then, as you can guess by the title, Meg winds up pregnant. Linc never wanted a family—he made that clear to Meg that night. For Meg, having an unexpected pregnancy is her worst nightmare. She was going to be better than her birth mother, but here she is and Linc's initial resistance is super hard on her, but he mans up very quickly and they start to work out how to proceed.
4. Is The Bachelor's Baby related to any of your other books?
You betcha! My first Montana Born book was Hometown Hero, or, as one reviewer called it, The Ballplayer & The Secretary. Chase Goodwin comes back to town to help his half-brother and falls for an old crush, Skye Wolcott.
Blame The Mistletoe opens at a Christmas party hosted by Skye and Chase and features Liz, a California girl housesitting for the holidays and Blake Canon, who I mentioned above is Meg's brother. They have an awkward connection in that their exes are brother and sister and things get pretty complicated when their children and ex-inlaws find out what they're up to.
Finally, I'll have a fourth book in this series out in May of this year called His Blushing Bride. I'm super excited about it because I adore the hero, Bastian. He's Liz's brother and is a total hottie who gets his heart handed to him by Piper, the high school music teacher.
Ooh, great question! George Clooney is obviously a contender, but I have a terrible crush on John Hamm (especially as Don Draper. *swoon*) Robert Downey Jr. is adorable, as is Benedict Cumberbatch, but if we go much younger than that (Chris Pine) it starts to get weird.
As for what kind of date… Hmm. I've been married for nearly 25 years. We went to dinner and a movie last weekend and it was Subway and The Duff. Going to a real restaurant with cloth napkins would pretty much knock my socks off.
If you won the lottery, what's the most expensive thing you would buy?
Round the world travel, possibly on a cruise but I wouldn't want to be stuck on a ship. I just like the idea of unpacking once.
Name a place you've never been to but would love to visit.
I have a million of them! Iceland, Spain, Ireland, St. Petersburg, cruise The Black Sea, every natural wonder, Caribbean beaches, the Great Wall of China… and on and on….
Just the other day I thought my husband might actually go for living in Ireland and I could definitely get into trying that for a year, but I'd love any sort of wine country – which is ridiculous because I'm two hours from wine country here. I just need to either make the drive more often or plant some grapes.
What's one food you hate?
One signed copy of Montana Homecoming. It includes my novella, Hometown Hero and four other Montana Born novellas, plus bookmarks, a pad of sticky notes and a pen.
Award winning author Dani Collins wrote for 25 years before selling to Harlequin Mills & Boon in London in May of 2012. Since then, she's turned in more than a dozen titles to Harlequin Presents and HarlequinE plus four small town contemporary novellas to Montana Born. She has even found homes for some of her previously rejected manuscripts, including indie-publishing her single title romantic comedy, Hustled To The Altar and signing with a small press for her medieval fantasy, The Healer.
A lovely interview thank you. Ireland would be wonderful. Everyone raves when they visit.
Looking forward to reading this entire series! Do you think it may come out as a bundle at some point? Thanks for the interview and the giveaway.
Only unpacking once is a real plus about the cruises. You're welcome to come to the Midwest and tour our wine trails. You'd be amazed at the number of wineries in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan… but then again, you should also broaden your perspective by doing the Kentucky Bourbon Trail… That's a lot of fun!
Suz_Glo – the decision still has to be made about whether it will come out as a bundle.
Kate – a bourbon trail sounds awesome!!
I'll drop by again later. Happy Friday everyone!
I can't wait to read this book! I so enjoyed the interview and getting to know Dani a bit. Thanks for sharing!
Mushrooms aren't for everyone–I love them. Grew up near the Mushroom Capital–Kennett Square, PA.
Great interview!! Looking forward to reading this series!!
Read Ultimate Seduction and loved it. Would love to read more of your work.
Got my reviews on Amazon and Goodreads today Dani I hope you like them. I love mushrooms, I once said I could be thin if I could just afford enough mushrooms to fill up on.
Loved this book, and the others, too. Can't wait for the next one.
it so much. It was her life dream <3. So happy she got to go!~!~!
Thank you for the interview. I loved your last book Dani & can't wait to read this one. BTW, I dislike mushrooms too!!
Ha! I'm not alone in dissing mushrooms, apparently!
Bonnie, thanks for reviewing! Actually, a huge thank you for all reviewers for taking time to put down some honest comments.
Great interview ladies, I love to find new authors to add to my reading list. I love Dani's list of places to visit, that looks a lot like my wish list too! Thanks for the chance to win!
I'm jumping on that same bandwagon: I dislike mushrooms too, LOL! I'll still buy a deluxe pizza, but I'll spend time picking off the mushrooms (and onions).
Hi, Dani! You are a new author for me. Congrats on your release. I really enjoyed your interview. Will have to check out your books. Thanks for the giveaway!
Good interview, though I have not read any of your books!
I am always looking for new authors to read. You write the kinds of books I enjoy reading. I have added your name to my TBR list.
Congratulations on your release. I enjoyed the interview.
Thanks for a great interview! I really like the way Tule publishing has these connected series.


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The Origin of the Phrase 'Goody Two-Shoes'
Where did the expression 'Goody Two-Shoes' come from? Its history is, in part, a literary one…
The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes was a story, published anonymously in 1765, about an orphan girl who goes through life wearing only one shoe. However, this wasn't where the expression 'goody two-shoes' originally came from: the phrase is even older than that 1765 story. For instance, it's found in Charles Cotton's 1670 Voyage to Ireland in Burlesque:
Mistress mayoress complained that the pottage was cold;
'And all long of your fiddle-faddle,' quoth she.
'Why, then, Goody Two-shoes, what if it be?
Hold you, if you can, your tittle-tattle,' quoth he.
But it seems unclear exactly where the phrase originated. The 1765 nursery rhyme seems to have been – possibly – a neat kind of backformation, whereby a story was invented to account for the phrase. Or, perhaps, the story of the young orphan girl existed as an oral folk tale before it appeared in print. We cannot know for sure. So what do we know about the story itself?
For many years after its publication, The Story of Little Goody Two-Shoes was regarded as a fine children's story, and – given its length – has even been called the first children's novel. In terms of plot the story is similar to the Cinderella fairy tale. Margery, the 'Goody Two-Shoes' of the book's title, is an orphan who is missing a shoe for most of the story. When she does acquire a second shoe, she goes about shouting, 'Two shoes! Two shoes!' until such smugness and shoe-waving renders her unbearable to everyone around her. The moral of the story: don't gloat about
your sudden good fortune, or your new shoe for that matter. Well, maybe – since the phrase was in use over a hundred years before in the Cotton rhyme, where the context suggests something akin to the modern meaning of the phrase. But maybe not, given the tendency for early children's stories – especially before the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and the works of Lewis Carroll in the nineteenth century – to promote excessive virtue and goodness, almost to an unbearably sentimental degree. Virtue Rewarded, as the smash-hit novel of the mid-eighteenth century, Samuel Richardson's Pamela, has it in that novel's subtitle. It's possible that original readers would have sympathised with poor Margery's eventual good fortune.
The outline of the story, therefore, certainly tallies with the modern meaning of the phrase – somebody excessively virtuous to the point of being annoying.
Who wrote Goody Two-Shoes? Any definitive answer remains elusive, but numerous scholars have advanced the theory that Oliver Goldsmith wrote it. As well as being a playwright (She Stoops to Conquer), novelist (The Vicar of Wakefield), and poet (The Deserted Village), Goldsmith was also a prolific hack-writer who just so happened to be in the care of John Newbery, the publisher of the Goody Two-Shoes story, in the mid-1760s when it was published. What's more, Goldsmith had previously undertaken hack-work for Newbery on numerous occasions. But beyond this circumstantial evidence, and the occasional similarities in tone between Goody Two-Shoes and Goldsmith's other writings from this time, there is no firm proof that he was the author. Some scholars posit that the story was most probably the work of several hands.
In short, there's much we don't know about the story for certain, but we do know the following facts about the phrase 'Goody Two-Shoes': it pre-existed the famous story published in 1765, it was hugely popular, and it has almost certainly contributed to the continued popularity of the phrase, even if the story itself is not widely read.
John Newbery (1713-1767), who published the story, has been called 'The Father of Children's Literature' because he was one of the first to see that there was a potential market for children's books. The Newbery Medal, a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, is named in his honour. The Medal has been won by, among others, E. B. White, Susan Cooper, and Neil Gaiman.
Related post: the interesting origins of the phrase 'the pen is mightier than the sword'.
Image: The cover of the 1888 edition of Goody Two-Shoes, by an anonymous author, Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
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yhosby
That was a cool history lesson. I always call myself a goodie two shoes, so it's nice to know the phrase's origins.
Keep smiling,
Yawatta
marquikeim
Wow! It's so crazy that a phrase we use in every day life has been around for so long! It just goes to show that the English language has a long a rich history! VERY interesting post!
Let's CUT the Crap!
I haven't heard this term for ages. Interesting post. Thank you for sharing. :-)
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Suggested reading – a great article on the origin of a familiar phrase. Reblogged on Windows into History.
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Dharmesh
I have always wondered about it. Finally I have an answer!
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Thanks for the history of the phrase–it was one used in my family.
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The following appeared in the Washington Post, November 26, 2016.
In assessing Donald Trump's presidential victory, Americans continue to look away from this election's most alarming story: the successful effort by a hostile foreign power to manipulate public opinion prior to the vote.
U.S. intelligence agencies determined that the Russian government actively interfered in our elections. Russian state propaganda gave little doubt that this was done to support Republican nominee Donald Trump, who repeatedly praised Vladimir Putin and excused the Russian president's foreign aggression and domestic repression. Most significantly, U.S. intelligence agencies have affirmed that the Russian government directed the illegal hacking of private email accounts of the Democratic National Committee and prominent individuals. The emails were then released by WikiLeaks, which has benefited financially from a Russian state propaganda arm, used Russian operatives for security and made clear an intent to harm the candidacy of Hillary Clinton.
From the Russian perspective, the success of this operation can hardly be overstated. News stories on the DNC emails released in July served to disrupt the Democratic National Convention, instigate political infighting and suggest for some supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders — without any real proof — that the Democratic primary had been "rigged" against their candidate. On Oct. 7, WikiLeaks began near daily dumps from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's email account, generating a month of largely negative reporting on Clinton, her campaign staff, her husband and their foundation. With some exceptions, there was little news in the email beyond political gossip and things the media had covered before, now revisited from a seemingly "hidden" viewpoint.
Russian (and former communist) propaganda has traditionally worked exactly this way: The more you "report" something negatively, the more the negative is true. Trump and supportive media outlets adopted the technique and reveled in information gained from the illegal Russian hacking (as well as many "fake news" stories that evidence suggests were generated by Russia intelligence operations) to make exaggerated claims ("Hillary wants to open borders to 600 million people!") or to accuse Clinton of illegality, corruption and, ironically, treasonous behavior.
Part of the Russian operation's success is that we cannot measure the effect. Did the DNC emails depress the Sanders vote for Clinton? Did the Podesta emails turn off independents? Would voters have responded differently if major media had reported the email releases not as legitimate news but as an intelligence operation by a hostile foreign power aimed at undermining the integrity of U.S. elections? There are no clear answers. But there are certainties: The email operation increased negative stories of Clinton, fueled an immense propaganda attack and diminished coverage of actual issues. The large polling lead Clinton gained after the debates slipped significantly under this barrage of negativity – even before FBI Director James B. Comey's bombshell.
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Putin is pursuing large strategic goals: recognition of the annexation of Crimea and international acceptance of foreign aggression to change state borders; Russian control of all of Ukraine; weakening or even dissolution of the European Union and NATO; restoration of Russia as a great power; and restored dominance over the former Soviet bloc and its environs. In pursuing these aims, Putin is engaged in a disciplined effort to influence democratic politics in the West, including financial and propaganda support for the narrow Brexit victory and for a network of far-right (and pro-Russian) nationalist political parties and groups throughout Europe. Now he has achieved what had to have been his most improbable goal: helping elect a sympathetic U.S. president who wants to form an alliance against terrorism. What will Trump give in exchange? He has already reaffirmed his intention to end support for pro-Western rebels in Syria, which effectively gives Russia a free hand to make President Bashar al-Assad its satrap. The greater danger is Trump's attitude toward NATO as a "soft" alliance that, like the Western powers in 1939, won't "die for Danzig." It would mean the alliance's end.
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La Residencia de Michel Assad está ubicada en el distrito de Ipiranga de São Paulo (Brasil). Fue construida en 1924 por Malta & Guedes Ltd a pedido de Michel Assad. La propiedad está ubicada en un lote desnivelado, donde se unen dos calles: Rua Costa Aguiar y Rua dos Patriotas.

Estos edificios, a través de la Arquitectura, revelan el patrimonio cultural traído por la inmigración a São Paulo y la historia de la colonia libanesa.

Historia
El palacio fue hogar de la familia Jafet, una familia de inmigrantes libaneses que se establecieron en São Paulo a fines del siglo XIX. Fue construido en 1924 por Malta & Guedes Ltd a pedido de Michel Assad. La mansión fue construida en un gran terreno con un extenso jardín y adyacente a la propiedad que pertenecía al hermano de Michel, Chucri Assad. La construcción se llevó a cabo poco después del final de la Primera Guerra Mundial, cuando Ipiranga comenzó a fortalecerse con la construcción de mansiones para familias árabes, especialmente las ubicadas en Rua Bom Pastor y sus alrededores.La propiedad ubicada en Rua Costa Aguiar, número 1055, es imponente en el paisaje de la calle. El edificio comprende jardines con vegetación arbustiva en el retranqueo frontal y una importante masa arbórea en los retranqueos laterales y traseros. Tiene influencia neoclásica identificada en las fachadas, con columnas rematadas por un ornamentado entablamento y una terraza, escalera de acceso centralizada, suave saliente del cuerpo central, sótano elevado y plataforma de balaustrada sellando el vista del techo.

Internamente, el edificio es menos sobrio en el uso de la ornamentación que en el exterior, como lo demuestran los ornamentos presentes en los techos, paredes y marcos de las puertas. También es posible notar la presencia de columnas jónicas y arcos como elementos divisorios de ambientes. La galería que rodea las habitaciones de la planta superior es rica en detalles, utilizando sucesivas columnas y arcos de diferentes tamaños, provocando un efecto plástico.

La casa tiene dos plantas, donde las habitaciones se distribuyen de la siguiente manera: en la planta baja, después de entrar por el portón, se enfrenta a un vestíbulo. A la derecha hay una oficina ya la izquierda una sala de estar que da a un comedor. Desde el comedor se puede salir al recibidor principal, que da acceso a la planta superior oa la despensa. Desde la despensa se puede llegar al aseo y al baño, oa la despensa. Por último, la planta inferior dispone de una cocina, con algo más de 16 m² de superficie. Al subir las escaleras que conducen al piso superior, encontrarás una galería repleta de pinturas y sostenida por doce pilastras. A la derecha de la escalera hay un lavabo, con una superficie de 6,6 m² y un baño con una superficie de 8,25 m². Continuando se accede a uno de los dormitorios, este tiene un espacio exterior – terraza, con vista a la parte trasera de la casa. El dormitorio también da acceso al dormitorio contiguo, un poco más grande, y éste dispone de aseo, funcionando como si de una suite se tratase. Este aseo es la única forma de acceder a la terraza delantera de la planta superior de la vivienda. Finalmente, a la izquierda de la escalera hay un pasaje al último dormitorio de la propiedad, este es un poco más pequeño y no tiene terraza ni baño compartido.

Importancia histórica y cultural
El inmueble de la Rua Costa Aguiar fue catalogado en el mismo proceso que otros inmuebles de la Familia Jafet, ubicados en la Rua Bom Pastor, números 730, 798, 801 y 825 y en la Rua Costa Aguiar 1013. Las propiedades de estilo ecléctico son grandes casonas construidas a principios del siglo XX, ubicadas en amplios lotes, con importante vegetación e incluso con algunas especies de plantas no autóctonas. Estas mansiones conservan sus características originales tales como: la ornamentación masiva de las fachadas e interiores; el tratamiento de hierro de los portones, puertas, marcos, balcones y pasamanos, los vitrales, los pisos de mármol de diseño, las fuentes, las columnas; reflejando las diversas influencias recibidas de la arquitectura europea. Además de implantarse en lotes de intensa vegetación, lo que implica una valorización ambiental.

Declaración patrimonial
Por decisión unánime de los Directores presentes en la reunión del 21 de junio de 1991, el Consejo Municipal de Preservación del Patrimonio Histórico, Cultural y Ambiental de la Ciudad de São Paulo (Conpresp) abrió el proceso de catalogación de los inmuebles ubicados en Rua Bom Pastor, números 730, 798, 801 y 825, en la calle Costa Aguiar 1013 y 1055. El proceso fue previamente sugerido el 26 de abril de 1990 por la Associação Cultural Pró-Parque Modernista y la Sociedade de Preservação e Resgate de Paranapiacaba, entidades sin fines lucrativos que iniciaron el estudio con el objetivo de listar los bienes mencionados.

En el mismo año, el proceso pasó por manos de un investigador de asuntos culturales, del Departamento de Patrimonio Histórico de São Paulo y del Director de la División Técnica de Preservación del DPH. En julio de 2005, por unanimidad, el cabildo aprobó el proceso de cotización, cuyo auto fue aceptado y publicado en diciembre del mismo año.

En la decisión de catalogación, el organismo responsable, Conpresp, consideró el valor arquitectónico, ambiental, histórico y paisajístico, formado por las edificaciones presentes en el barrio de Ipiranga, además de considerar la importancia de preservar la historia de una de las familias pioneras. de inmigrantes libaneses en la ciudad de São Paulo y que trajo un intenso progreso al barrio y al municipio. Finalmente, la Conpresp consideró que los edificios son, hoy, un hito para la ciudad.

Estado actual
A medida que morían los familiares vinculados a Michel Assad, los parientes que vivían en propiedades grandiosas como esta vinculada a la familia Jafet y Assad se volvieron cada vez más raros. Incluso, algunas casonas fueron demolidas, pero, gracias al histórico proceso de hito, la gran mayoría resiste hasta el día de hoy. A punto de cumplir cien años desde su creación, la mansión de Rua Costa Aguiar, 1055, está muy bien conservada, con condiciones muy satisfactorias, tanto interna como externamente. La casa solo necesita un buen trabajo de pintura.

Véase también
 Arquitectura de Brasil

Galería

Referencias

Edificios y estructuras de la Ciudad de São Paulo
Palacios de la Ciudad de São Paulo
Edificios y estructuras terminadas en 1924
Brasil en 1924
Wikipedia:Páginas con traducciones sin revisar

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Q: Remove STRANGE collection in Mongo I have a MongoDB with some collections. When typing show collections along my actual collections I see mysterious [object Object] collection. I cannot use or delete it cause it's name has bad characters in it.
Can someone explain what may have caused this "collection" to appear and how to delete it?

Update:
db.getCollectionNames() returns same result:
[ "[object Object]", "my_collection", "system.indexes", "my_collection1" ]
Update2:
db.getCollection("[object Object]").drop() worked. The cause of such a bug is still unknown

A: I can't tell you exactly how you got to this point, but what has happened is that you have literally created a collection called [object Object].  It's a bit contrived, but here's how you can recreate your situation:
// create an object, let's call it y
> var y = {a : 1, b : 2, c : [1, 2, 3]}
// now create a collection using the variable as the name by inserting
> db[y].insert({s : 1})
// we now have [object Object] as a collection
> show collections
ObjectId("552b9e7d8c5b893bc6bfae45")
[object Object]
system.indexes
// This makes it a little more obvious what we have done
> db.getCollection( "system.namespaces" ).find();
{ "name" : "x.ObjectId(\"552b9e7d8c5b893bc6bfae45\")" }
{ "name" : "x.system.indexes" }
{ "name" : "x.ObjectId(\"552b9e7d8c5b893bc6bfae45\").$_id_" }
{ "name" : "x.[object Object]" }
{ "name" : "x.[object Object].$_id_" }
// We can even query it
> db[y].find()
{ "_id" : ObjectId("552b9f728c5b893bc6bfae47"), "s" : 1 }
// To make it even more obvious what is going on, let's use a different object
> var z = {a : 1, b : 2, c : [1, 2, 3, 4]}
> db[z].insert({t : 1})
// BUT, no new collection this time, we still just have one [object Object]
> db.getCollection( "system.namespaces" ).find();
{ "name" : "x.ObjectId(\"552b9e7d8c5b893bc6bfae45\")" }
{ "name" : "x.system.indexes" }
{ "name" : "x.ObjectId(\"552b9e7d8c5b893bc6bfae45\").$_id_" }
{ "name" : "x.[object Object]" }
{ "name" : "x.[object Object].$_id_" }
// let's confirm by querying
db[z].find()
{ "_id" : ObjectId("552b9f728c5b893bc6bfae47"), "s" : 1 }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("552ba1888c5b893bc6bfae48"), "t" : 1 }

So, MongoDB is allowing the creation of a collection with an Object, but all objects evaluate to the same [object Object] string regardless of the object you pass in.  That means that you can't really be sure how you managed to create this collection, but on the plus side it also means that all you need to do is create any object and you can use that to remove it.  For my case, I will just re-use the z variable above, but you can essentially use any object to do the removal:
> db[z].drop()
true
> db.getCollection( "system.namespaces" ).find();
{ "name" : "x.ObjectId(\"552b9e7d8c5b893bc6bfae45\")" }
{ "name" : "x.system.indexes" }
{ "name" : "x.ObjectId(\"552b9e7d8c5b893bc6bfae45\").$_id_" }

And there you have it, it's gone.  As to whether this is a bug or not, well you can make the argument that [object Object] is a valid collection name - I wouldn't recommend using it, but it's not illegal.  So perhaps not a bug, but an improvement that could be suggested nonetheless.
As an aside, I tested you don't even have to actually use an object here, you can do it with the string, something like this:
var j = '[object Object]'
db[j].drop()

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using System.Collections.Generic;
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using System.Configuration;
using System.IO;

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        static LogManager()
        {
            string file = Path.Combine(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetupInformation.ApplicationBase, "log4net.config");
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        }

        static void CurrentDomain_UnhandledException(object sender, UnhandledExceptionEventArgs e)
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            var ex = e.ExceptionObject as Exception;
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        public static bool IsWarnEnabled
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        }

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        {
            get { return error.IsErrorEnabled; }
        }

        public static bool IsFatalEnabled
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        public static void Debug(object message)
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        }

        public static void Debug(object message, Exception exception)
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        public static void DebugFormat(string format, params object[] args)
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        public static void Info(object message)
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        {
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        public static void WarnFormat(string format, params object[] args)
        {
            warn.WarnFormat(format, args);
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        public static void WarnFormat(IFormatProvider provider, string format, params object[] args)
        {
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        public static void Error(object message)
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        public static void ErrorFormat(string format, object arg0, object arg1)
        {
            error.ErrorFormat(format, arg0, arg1);
        }

        public static void ErrorFormat(string format, object arg0, object arg1, object arg2)
        {
            error.ErrorFormat(format, arg0, arg1, arg2);
        }

        public static void ErrorFormat(string format, params object[] args)
        {
            error.ErrorFormat(format, args);
        }

        public static void ErrorFormat(IFormatProvider provider, string format, params object[] args)
        {
            error.ErrorFormat(provider, format, args);
        }

        public static void Fatal(object message)
        {
            fatal.Fatal(message);
        }

        public static void Fatal(object message, Exception exception)
        {
            fatal.Fatal(message, exception);
        }

        public static void FatalFormat(string format, object arg0)
        {
            fatal.FatalFormat(format, arg0);
        }

        public static void FatalFormat(string format, object arg0, object arg1)
        {
            fatal.FatalFormat(format, arg0, arg1);
        }

        public static void FatalFormat(string format, object arg0, object arg1, object arg2)
        {
            fatal.FatalFormat(format, arg0, arg1, arg2);
        }

        public static void FatalFormat(string format, params object[] args)
        {
            fatal.FatalFormat(format, args);
        }

        public static void FatalFormat(IFormatProvider provider, string format, params object[] args)
        {
            fatal.FatalFormat(provider, format, args);
        }

        #endregion
    }
}

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