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==Regime of Vision - The Sovereign Gaze==
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The term terra cognita meaning "unknown land" in Latin, was created during the Age of Exploration in the mid 15th century lasting through the 19th century. Francaviglia writes, "The use of Latin as a universal language for knowledge was endorsed at the end of the Middle Ages, and so the term terra incognita perfectly captured both the spirit of the times and the character of unknown places" (Francaviglia 25). Latin becomes a signifier for knowledge and legitimation, revealing exploration as above all else the search for knowledge.
The search for terra incognita involves three stages of inscription, beginning with the map as rational inscription, the sea as irrational and fleeting, and culminating with the gaze as relational and authoring.
2 The Sublime as Blackbox and Erasure
3 Regime of Vision - The Sovereign Gaze
3.1 Afterimages as Possession and Parallax
3.2 The Spyglass and the War Machine
4 Encounter with the Unknown
1482 reconstruction of Ptolemy's 2nd century world map
The acquisition of knowledge and the need to know has been the main fuel for exploration. World maps during the Age of Exploration were in flux, mirroring the age itself, since there were still bodies of land to be discovered and rendered onto the map. The map as evidence of rationality and legibility also exhibited gaps of unknown spaces pointing to its own limitations and lack. Expeditions sought to fill in all of the missing spaces to complete and solidify the scientific reason proposed by the map and reassert its legitimacy. The gaps undermine the authority of maps and name it as something unstable. These unknown spaces were often marked with the phrase terra incognita, although there is also account of some displaying the phrase hic sunt dracones or "here be dragons," emphasizing the fear and intrigue induced by the unknown as well as its presence as a threat to knowledge, rationality, and authority. The unknown, then, destabilizes the logic of the map as archive.
During the Age of Exploration, there was a rediscovery of ancient Greek maps, and Ptolymey's world map completed in 391 A.D. served as a model for maps made in the 15th century. Although Ptolymey's map was lost, writing and description of the map allowed scholars to make reconstructions, "The fact that the original was lost also enhanced its intrigue to an age searching for an elusive past" (Francaviglia, 26).
The Sublime as Blackbox and Erasure
The sea also denies writing. It is an unstable writing surface and acts as liquid erase, as each trace the ship leaves in the water vanishes in the moment it appears, it is swallowed and buried. The ship is not permitted to leave a trail or to mark on the water. In this sense it functions like a mystic-writing pad that strikes back where the writer cannot control the erasure of writing, but rather it is immediately subsumed into the unconscious and the act of writing becomes synonymous with the act of erasing.
Regime of Vision - The Sovereign Gaze
The moment of coming upon terra incognita and witnessing it is also a moment of engaging with the unknown as it becomes known. The male gaze of the explorer acts as a stylus writing onto the land, making vision synonymous with writing, and authoring the land as a blank page in that moment of recognition. The gaze as stylus not only writes onto the land, but also pierces and penetrates it. This moment of recognition is also an impass. In the seeing of terra incognita, it is no longer unknown, and becomes transformed by being placed within the field of vision. Just as the ship symbolically acts as state power, so to the male gaze acts metonymically/indexically as the sovereign gaze of the state which renders legible the previously illegible.
Afterimages as Possession and Parallax
The Spyglass and the War Machine
Encounter with the Unknown
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Once collecting enough gems or diamonds, you can use them on various perks, which are in the green menu, the star icon of the store.
You can use the best ones, Make it Rain as it can earn you a ton of money, then go level up your warrior comrades and let them complete a number of stages for you all on their own.
You can also collect some other perks such as Doom, which takes away the enemy's hit points by 50%, and the perks of Power of Holding, which gets you to tap 30 times per second for 120 seconds whenever you hold down on the screen.
Therefore, make sure to upgrade your tapping power then use it to blow through enemies in a quick time before it runs out.
In this game, upgrading warriors will be important as when upgrading them, they will have unlockable skills at various levels from 10, 25, 50, 100, 200, 400 to 800, and more.
It is caused by, some skills will increase all damage done by a certain percentage, by any hero.
So, just get back on the game and level the crap out of your cheaper heroes to get these skills.
As an illustration, the level 800 skill will increase the damage by an insane 10000% and other skills will increase a higher percentage multiplier to the amount of gold that is dropped by each enemy.
You can then pile these up by collecting these skills from multiple heroes, that you can start with the cheapest one first.
If you want to get big bonuses in this game, just tap on the gold in the upper left corner of the screen.
Every time you come back it will show up right at the top left corner of the screen.
Thus, if you can kill more enemies while you are online, you will be able to earn more gold.
Except tapping gold icon, you can also try to tap on the Angels appearing randomly toward the top of the screen.
Here, when you tap them, you will be able to earn a treasure chest full of gold coins.
Moreover, you will earn one or more diamonds as well.


Toilet wall inspiration – Living!
What's better than a first birthday party? The first birthday party of a cool bar!
Hey guys, I have been on annual leave for the past fortnight and as many of you will know, this doesn't always mean more leisure time. One of my best friends has an incredibly busy and enviable social life and I really don't know when his work life ends and social life begins, in fact I don't think it can be distinguished. With that I am often dragged along- tired but appreciatetive-to many different events. Yesterday wine tasting. Today, a bar celebrating one year of success.
I found this yesterday in a new hotel in the city (whilst really needing to pee). I never thought my inspiration for the day would be at a urinal but I thought I would share it. Enjoy!


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MasterCard, Visa Cut Interchange In Canada
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Visa and MasterCard agreed to cut their interchange rates in Canada by about 10 percent, to 1.5 percent on consumer credit cards, for the next five years, in an attempt to appease Canadian government regulators.
Visa, however, said the five-year duration is based on the government holding up its end of the bargain. "Visa enters into this undertaking with the full expectation that the government is committed to a level playing field," the card brand said. "If Visa or our clients are disadvantaged as a result of entering into this undertaking, Visa reserves the right at any time to terminate or amend it. Visa has long maintained our opposition to regulatory approaches which impair a functioning market and that position has not changed. Visa believes the undertaking establishes stability and predictability for the Canadian payments industry. Importantly, the nature and content of the undertaking will avoid the kinds of regulatory measures that, when attempted in other markets, have left consumers worse off."
MasterCard Canada President Betty DeVita offered similar comments in a MasterCard statement. "We continue to maintain the balance for all our stakeholders in the payments industry. We brought forward a voluntary solution that avoids the unintended consequences of regulation as we have seen in other countries," she said.
American Express issued a statement that it will not be making any similar change in Canada. "American Express has committed to the Government of Canada to maintain its current business model, which provides merchant rates that are transparent, simple and consistent across our credit and charge Cards. We do not have an interchange model, and our pricing will continue to be based on the value we deliver to merchants."
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Calls for Georgian Day to be extended to benefit Eurospar centre traders
There have been calls tonight for Armagh's Georgian Day celebrations to be extended to include the Eurospar shopping centre.
This year's big event is due to take place on Saturday, November 29.
Now, with just over six weeks to go until the day itself, local SF Councillor Seaneen White wants Armagh City and District Council officials to visit the shopping centre to see what can be done.
Her calls come just two days after it was reported that the future of the event next year and beyond could be in jeopardy, or have to be severely curtailed, after events funding cuts through the Northern Ireland Tourist Board, which were blamed on budgetary pressures.
Georgian Day annually attracts tens of thousands of visitors to the city from all over the country.
It is seen in Armagh as the real start to the Christmas countdown and for this past number of years has culminated in a spectacular lights show at the Market House.
But Councillor White feels that the retailers at the Eurospar centre are losing out and wants to see the event expanded to bring them 'in from the cold', so to speak.
She told Armagh I: "I have been in contact with officials from the council asking that the Eurospar centre be included in this important event. Year on year this event has proven to attract visitors and shoppers to the area.
"Given the fact the Eurospar centre has numerous small, local businesses, I think it would be good for trade and an important way of showing our support to these small outlets.
"I think that it makes sense to have the gingerbread alley within the confines of the centre. We have learned recently that the post office, which is situated within the centre, is to close, so I believe that it is important for council to support our business community and this is one way to do so.
"I have invited the council officials to visit the Eurospar centre and speak to the proprietors and ask for their ideas on how they could be included in this community event."
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NRM failing on bills again, this time to New Vision!
There been sent a letter to the National Resistance Movement (NRM) from the New Vision Group. The NRM and the President paper, who usually write all the favorable propaganda for the NRM Regime. Therefore, that the New Vision sent a letter on the 13th June 2017, didn't pay for its adverts in the Vision Group in 2010 and 2011. In 2010, the party haven't paid the bill of 508,886,927 Uganda Shillings and in 2011, the bill is 406,578,614 Uganda Shillings. The total lacking funds are 915,465,541 Uganda Shillings. So the NRM are closely behind to 1 Million in debt to the Vision Group.
Just like another report from the same campaign in 2016:
"Judgement on admission is hereby entered against the respondent (NRM) in the amount of Shs4.9b. The issue of cost of the application shall be determined by the suit" Mr. Opesen held yesterday" (…)"The money arouse of supply 60,000 T-shirts, one million scarves and 200,000 sleeveless shirts" (…)"Kampala Modernity Stationers and Printers sued the ruling party in 2013 for contribution of the said money to be paid to Dubai based firm, Bright Arrows Trading which supplies the ready-made garments" (…)"M/S Bright Arrows Trading have sued Kampala Modernity for breach of contract leading to third party proceedings compelling court to add NRM as party in the case" (Buule, 2016).
So the NRM Party and the NRM Campaign of 2011, clearly the NRM Campaign of 2011 was not run well. The NRM Organization clearly doesn't respect the providers of the needed materials for their campaigns. This are old bills from the previous presidential election campaign.
You can wonder if they have stifled the men and woman making campaign material for 2015 and 2016. As they have done for 2010 and 2011, as if the providers want to come forward and leak it now? It would be natural to complain a year after for the missed tab created by the ruling regime and the ruling party. Seemingly, the funds from the NRM party are not sufficient, as even parts of 2016, the NRM wasn't paying out salaries to their own staff.
The organization isn't functioning or have good audits of their accounts, since they are not paying on time or being able to plan their actions and campaigns. That is why the old bills keeps pumping. This is just another one. There might be more skeletons in the closet, we just have to wonder if the NRM has paid the bus companies and the other one delivering services during the campaigns. Peace.
Buule, Jon – 'N.R.M. in 4 billion debt over poor quality Yellow T.Shirts!!!' (01.03.2016) link: http://mycampusjuice.com/2016/03/01/n-r-m-in-debt-over-poor-quality-yellow-t-shirts/
Author nilspeacePosted on August 30, 2017 August 30, 2017 Categories Africa, Civil Service, Development, Election, Ethics, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, Politics, Trade, TransparencyTags 10th Parliament, 10th Parliament of Uganda, 2011 General Election, 2011 General Election Uganda, 2016 General Election, 2016 General Election Uganda, Academic Certificate, Academic Papers, Academic Qualification, Alleged Bribe, Amama Mbabazi, Arrest, Aruu North, Badru Kiggundu, Badru Kigundu, Bribe, Bribing Voters, Bright Arrows, Bright Arrows Trading, Budadiri East MP, Buganda, Busiro South MP, Centenary Rural Development Bank, Charge, Deliberate Bribe, Don Museveni, Dr Badru Kiggundu, Dr Badru M. Kiggundu, Dr. Tanga Odoi, Dubai, Eastern, EC, Elected, Electoral Commission, Electoral Commission of Uganda, Eng. Dr. Badru M. Kiggundu, FDC, Forum for Democratic Change, Fraudelent Activities, Frozen Accounts, Go Forward Ticket, GoU, Government of Uganda, Gulu Muncipality, H. E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, H.E. Yoweri Museveni, Hon. Amama Mbabazi, Housing Finance Bank (Uganda) Limited, Isaac Mulindwa Ssozi, JPAM, Justin Kasule Lumumba, Justine Kasule Lumumba, Kampala, Kampala Modernity Stationers and Printers, Karamoja, Knock, LC III Chairpersons, LC III Councillors, LCV Councilors, Lillian Nakate Ssegujja, Local Council, Local Council Election, Local Council Primaries Set, Lt. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni., Lucy Aciro Otim, Lugazi Municipality MP, Luuwero, Luweero Woman MP, M/S Bright Arrows Trading, Media, Member of Parliament, Mob Justice, MPS, Muncipality Councillors, National Resistance Movement, NBS Sunset, Northern, NRM, NRM CEC, NRM EC, NRM Electoral Commission, NRM Flag-Bearer, NRM Party, NRM Poor Youth, NRM Poor Youth Forum, NRM Regime, NRM Secretariat, NRM Secretary General Justine Kasule Lumumba, NRM-O, NRM-Primaries, Odoi, Pader MP, Parliament, Parliament of Uganda, Pax Musevenica, Peter Ssematimba, PPS Tamale Mirundi, President Museveni, Presidential Candidate, Radio, Radio Simba, Rigged Election, Rigged Election 2016, Ruling Party, Rumours, Rumours Mongers, Ruth Nankabirwa, Scandals, Selected, Sham Election, Simba, State House, Tamale Mirundi, Tanga Odoi, TV, Uganda, Uganda EC, Uganda Electoral Commission, Uganda General Election 2016, Uganda National Roads Authority, Uganda Parliament, Uganda State House, Ugandan Government, UNRA, Vincent Woboya, Vote, Voting, Western Regions, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Yoweri MuseveniLeave a comment on NRM failing on bills again, this time to New Vision!
NRM Party in economic shambles; Still not payed for T-Shirt used in 2011 Election!
The National Resistance Movement is in a pickle as their Swearing-In ceremony is coming in the near future and the government supposed to have a lavish party with 50 invited Head-of-States to celebrate the 7th Term of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. After so-called "winning the Presidential Election of 2016"; that is their view and their perspective. But the NRM-O and the NRM Party has an economic pickle to catch-up with.
This is as the documents from the High Court have ordered a certain debt that the NRM Party have gained towards the Centenary Rural Development Bank and the Housing Finance Bank (Uganda) Limited. The debt is in 4,990,700,000 Uganda Shillings. That is lots of monies. The accounts that the NRM party is frozen in the banks until the debt are settled with the creditors. This document comes from the court yesterday on the 25th April 2016.
Already in March 2016 the allegation and courtship over the debt started. As it said then:
So the truth is there and the Money that are dealing the problems as the buyer of the amounts of garments and clothes for campaigning in 2011 is biting the NRM Party today, as they still have sufficiently paid the Kampala Modernity who could not cough-up the invisible money that is owned to the producer of Brighter Arrows Trading from Dubai. And the people in Dubai is under the accord of doing business directly in Uganda, so they just want their money for their already delivered t-shirts that seemed at the time to be sufficient and well-used products by the NRM Party. As the NRM have a tendency to give away Yellow T-shirts and other material; even if they give away the producers still need their money and their production of the T-Shirts covered.
So that Kampala Modernity Stationers and Printers sues NRM for neglecting their concern and pay bills for their procurement of T-Shirts and other garments. The Kampala Modernity wants and need this money to pay-up to the Dubai Based Company Brighter Arrows. But the buck and shillings stops at NRM Party who has not lived-up to their credit or honoring their agreement with Kampala Modernity. Therefore the issues with their accounts now at extent of the Party have to 6th May 2016 to pay the debt and clear the accounts in the Centenary Rural Development Bank and the Housing Finance Bank (Uganda) Limited.
So the monetary question seems to be climbing and this is stemming from the last campaign. Not even from this one who stopped in February 2016. If the party of NRM struggles to pay-up for the 2011 elections, what about the 2016 campaigns and the big spending of recent months as the State House needed additional funding? There certainly a mismanagement of funds and dwindling concern of honoring agreements as he static use of funds is not accountable, as the display of monies used to fund 2011 Elections still is questioned and not yet accounted for or even payed for and we are just done with last election of 2016.
The NRM Party and their NRM CEC does not look like they are a controlled unit as the NRM Task Force of 2011 couldn't fix the issue and fund the needed T-Shirts and they are still gripping with lost funds. That must be worrying as the ruling party is dozing away cash without being accountable to the creditors and need to go to court to get them to facilitate the money for the purchase done in 2011. Peace.
Author nilspeacePosted on April 26, 2016 April 26, 2016 Categories Africa, Business, Civil Service, Development, Economic Measures, Economy, Election, Ethics, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, PoliticsTags 2011 General Election, 2011 General Election Uganda, 2016 General Election, 2016 General Election Uganda, Bright Arrows, Bright Arrows Trading, Centenary Rural Development Bank, Dubai, Frozen Accounts, GoU, Government of Uganda, H. E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, H.E. Yoweri Museveni, Housing Finance Bank (Uganda) Limited, Kampala Modernity Stationers and Printers, Lt. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni., M/S Bright Arrows Trading, National Resistance Movement, NRM, NRM CEC, NRM Party, NRM Regime, NRM-O, President Museveni, Ruling Party, State House, Uganda General Election 2016, Uganda State House, Ugandan Government, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Yoweri MuseveniLeave a comment on NRM Party in economic shambles; Still not payed for T-Shirt used in 2011 Election!
NRM Primaries a little to Yellow? Sorry wange, it's to Mellow!
Well after days of Primaries where I have showed details after details of practices of the NRM Electoral Commission and the actions on the ground. These primaries has been magnificent and that the proud professor Tanga Odoi doesn't have the honor to tell the world that he didn't have the capacity to deal with all of the voting stations, voting material and the excess of practices on the ground.
The National Resistance Movement who has run a country for 29 years ever since the year of 1986. Has held Internal-Elections to see who might represent them in the General-Election in 2016.
The surprise to people is how Ofwono Opondo spread the level of cost that was on the election 5, 5Billion shillings. That there was set up about 60, 000 voting stations. At the same time there been only registered 47 cars to the political party. The last straw today was that the NRM Register Office is set under the NRM Secretary General and not in the National Resistance Movement Electoral Commission. Therefore the governing body that is in charge of this spending and the amount of cars combined with initial areas that need material doesn't sound like a something that easily could be questioned. Then they imported the Ballot-papers from Kenyan producers, surely as Dr. Odoi has said he wanted to secure that it wasn't like in 2010 when people had ballot-papers in their houses and in their pockets. It still hasn't been smooth.
Ballot-papers has missed candidates, Independent candidates has been on the NRM Ballot-Papers in certain districts, there has been missing slots like 7 boxes to tick and 8 candidates, the ballot papers has ended in the wrong district, there been ballot-boxes in prisons and in Central Police Stations before arriving to Polling Stations. There have even been missing candidates on the ballot-papers. So many wrongs are just the simple ballot-papers or the slips that the voters are supposed to decide their vote. More candidates has been taken with tens of thousands or just thousands of pre-ticket ballot-papers in their houses and cars.
On top of this is the massive arrests, the winning candidates that are still in jail, pre-ticket ballot-papers ready made for some candidates and some have pre-filled ballot-boxes arriving at the polling-station. FDC Members could willy-nilly vote and at certain voting stations. There been districts where the police have taken people with fake Yellow-Membership-Cards. People been taken to custody for election violence and others for charges of rigging the elections. The last charge has been in many districts. There been specific candidates who has had mobilization teams to bribe voters in counties, certain has been incarcerated for doing so. Certain candidates have held voters on gun-point to make them take the right decision on who to vote for! The Police has thrown tear-gas into the public to shut down demonstrations after postponing the elections in the county.
There have even been candidates whom have stormed tally-centers with security personnel and demanded all the people to get out. So they could clear the results. Even certain candidates has stolen the ballot-boxes after voting and ended up in jail. There been even candidates who couldn't control the tally-center so the candidate actually took the declaration form and got caught, ended up also in jail.
For all of this there has even been talking that the Ghost of Amama Mbabazi is the one behind all of this. Isn't that taking away the 80% satisfaction of Dr. Odoi?
There has been talk of moles into this election and IGP Kale Kayihura has said that the media should step off from being the media and foreign influence is making a lot of trouble. Well, the bribes are local, the mobilization teams are local, the candidates rides locally, the districts are run by local men, the NRM has decided who the wanted on the ballot, not moles or international influences so, IGP Kale Kayihura need yet another reality check!
There has been voting in done electronically on their cell-phone through the magical place of WhatsApp. There has been candidates going to markets and buying soldiers and police officers votes. Some people in this Internal-Election have been stopped from voting in the polling station even when they are registered. The police have even stopped mini-buses with shipped people from county to county to make the tally. There has been magistrates and candidates held temporary hostages by the public for a hot minute for trying to buy the electorate in the municipality.
This here is to set the issues in perspective. To show how the practices has been during this internal election. I will not bring more or less election results from the rest of the internal election of the NRM because the Daily Monitor, Elections.co.ug or other outlets does it better and with manpower and time I don't have. But you should look over the big birds that are shot down and the changes of guards that has happen in the party. Dr. Tanga Odoi needs to be set straight for this. There was chaos in 2010, but this here hasn't been a smooth eiter! There have been districts and counties with peace. But there been a lot of irregularities in this internal exercise.
Hope that Eng. Dr. Badru Kiggundu and the big Electoral Commission of the state can do a better job or maybe even hide the malfunctions better for the General Elections coming. Because Dr. Tanga Odoi is showing so much weakness in this, the NRM party as the ruling party is showing shady practices and rigging on a major scale. And if this is a pre-run and test before the coming one, then there will be a long walk in the wilderness and an even longer walk for free and fair elections in Uganda. Peace!
Author nilspeacePosted on October 29, 2015 October 29, 2015 Categories Africa, Civil Service, Crime, Election, Ethics, Governance, Government, Law, PoliticsTags Amama Mbabazi, Ballot Box, Ballot-Papers Slot, Bribes, Candidates, CPS, Custody, Dr Badru Kiggundu, Dr. Odoi, Dr. Tanga Odoi, East Africa, Election Material, Election Violence, Electoral Commission, Eng. Dr. Badru M. Kiggundu, Fake NRM Cards, FDC, Flag-bearer, Forum for Democratic Change, General Election 2016, Governing Body, Hon. Amama Mbabazi, Incarcerated, Infrastructure, Internal-Electon, Jailed, Kenya, Kenyan, Leader of Opposition, Locals, Massive Arrests, Mobilization Team, Moles, National Resistance Movement, National Resistance Movement Central Executive Committee, National Resistance Movement Electoral Commission, NRM, NRM CEC, NRM EC, NRM Flag-Bearer, NRM Party, NRM Primaries Postpone, NRM Regime, NRM Register, NRM Register Office, NRM Registrar's Office, NRM Secretary General, NRM-Members, NRM-O, NRM-Primaries, Ofwono Opondo, Police Violence, Polling Station, Postponed Election, Pre-Ticket, Pre-Ticket Ballots, Pre-Ticketing, Preliminary Election, Preliminary Voting, Presidential Election 2016 Uganda, Registered Tally, Ruling Party, Stuffed Ballot-Boxes, Tally, Tear-Gas, Uganda, Uganda Electoral Commission, Uganda General Election 2016, Uganda Police Force, Ugandan, UPF, Violence, Voting, Voting Material, Voting with WhatsApp, WhatsApp, Yellow PartyLeave a comment on NRM Primaries a little to Yellow? Sorry wange, it's to Mellow!
Uganda – TIC letter: Urgent Call for National Dialogue before 2016 General Election (20.10.2015)
Author nilspeacePosted on October 20, 2015 Format ImageCategories Africa, Civil Service, Development, Election, Ethics, Governance, Government, Law, PoliticsTags Amama Mbabazi, Civic Education, Dr. Kizza Besigye, EC, Electoral Commission, FDC, Forum for Democratic Change, Gen. Kale Kayihura, General Election 2016, Hon. Amama Mbabazi, IGP Kale Kayihura, Inter Party Organisation for Dialogue Council, Inter Religious Council of Uganda, Ipod, IRCU, Joseph Mabirizi, JPAM, Judicial Service Commission, Justice Ogola, Kampala, National Consultative Forum, National Resistance Movement, NCF, NRM, NRM Internal Elections, NRM Party, NRM Stallwarts, TDA, TEF, The Democratic Alliance Uganda, The Elders Forum, The Independent Coalition, The Steering Council, TIC, TIC Presidential Candidate, Uganda, Uganda EC, Uganda Electoral Commission, Uganda General Election 2016, Uganda Police Force, UPF, Violence, Vote, Vote EducationLeave a comment on Uganda – TIC letter: Urgent Call for National Dialogue before 2016 General Election (20.10.2015)
Letter – Re: Petition against Academic Papers of Amelia Kyambadde, an Aspiriant for NRM Flag Bearer for MP Mawokota North (11.09.2015)
Author nilspeacePosted on September 14, 2015 Categories Africa, Civil Service, Development, Election, Ethics, Governance, Government, Law, PoliticsTags A Level, Academic Certificate, Academic Papers, Academics, Amelia Kyambadde, Certificate, Clients, Electoral Commission NRM, Hon. Amelia Kyambadde, Mawokota, Mawokota North, Mpigi, Mpigi District, National Council for Higer Education, National Resistance Movement, NRM, NRM Electoral Commission, NRM Party, Richard Mwembezi, Richard Mwembezi Solicitors and Advocates, Secretary General NRM, Uganda National Examination Board, UNEBLeave a comment on Letter – Re: Petition against Academic Papers of Amelia Kyambadde, an Aspiriant for NRM Flag Bearer for MP Mawokota North (11.09.2015)
Uganda – NRM Special Announcement on the Voters and Members Register
Author nilspeacePosted on August 20, 2015 Categories Africa, Civil Service, Development, Election, Ethics, Governance, Government, Law, PoliticsTags Central Executive Committee, Deasesed, Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, EC, Electoral Commission, Electoral Process, Exercise, H. E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Ineligible, Ineligible Person, Justine Kasule Lumumba, Kahinda Otafiire, Maj. Gen Kahinda Otafiire, Members, Museveni, National Resistance Movement, National Resistance Movement Central Executive Committee, National Resistance Movement National Secretariat, NRM, NRM Branches, NRM CEC, NRM Central Executive Committee, NRM Party, NRM Secretary General Justine Kasule Lumumba, NRM-Members, Parliamentery Muncipality, Party Members, Ruhakana Rugunda, Uganda, Uganda Election 2016, Villages, Voter Registers, Yoweri Kaguta MuseveniLeave a comment on Uganda – NRM Special Announcement on the Voters and Members Register


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Glasgow man faces heroin charges
A drug investigation led to the arrest of a Glasgow man Wednesday, New Castle County police said Thursday.
Alton Cunningham, 22, of the 100 block of Haut Brion Ave. was arrested by officers responding to the 2200 block of Chipmunk Court in the Fox Run Apartments in Glasgow for an ongoing drug investigation, Sgt. Jacob Andrews said.
While conducting surveillance, Mobile Enforcement Team officers located Cunningham, and he was taken into custody. Cunningham was found to be in possession of 312 bags of heroin (4.68 grams), Andrews said.
Cunningham was charged with possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance with a Tier 2 quantity, and second-degree conspiracy. He was arraigned and committed to Howard Young Correctional Institution after failing to post $122,000 cash bail.


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Ultrasound Isn't Just for Babies. It Could Also Help Build a Better Computer Chip.
We can run sophisticated programs on our smartphones or download an entire movie to our computers in seconds thanks to advancements in processors and memory chips. Making these tiny structures precisely right requires extreme accuracy. Memory chips are bulk printed with layers of metal and dielectrics on silicon wafers. The wafers themselves are around 30cm in diameter, but the smallest individual component of the transistors in today's chips measure between 14 and 10 nanometres on average (for reference, a DNA molecule is just two nanometres wide.) To precisely print these features grating lines etched into silicon wafer to act as markers and tell the machines exactly where to print each component. However, in an actual industrial scenario, the all-important markers get buried under multiple opaque layers, making it difficult for the machines to find them using light and align for the printing process.
"The machines need to be able to see through the opaque layers to find the markers. It's like building a skyscraper. You need to know where the first floor is when you build the tenth floor," says Stephen Edward, a metrology PhD student in the group of Prof. dr. Paul Planken at ARCNL, the Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography. Stephen and his group's solution is to use a high-powered laser. The laser launches extremely high-frequency soundwaves (ultrasound) into the layers and reads out the echo. Ultrasound can travel through layers that light can't, allowing machines to look through the usually-opaque layers and find the markers. "It's a bit like knocking on a wall to figure out if there's a hard object or empty space behind it. The only difference here is that instead of knocking on the wafer, we use laser light to create the sound and "listen" to it using laser light," explains Stephen.
If using light to create ultrasound sounds a little science fiction-y to you, you're not alone. "When I joined four years ago and my supervisor told me this was the project, I thought the idea sounded impossible. You hit an object with light and it becomes sound! I didn't know that was even possible," Stephen says. At some point, it started to seem less far-fetched though, and one year ago the group was able to show for the first time that it was possible to use sound waves to detect markers hidden under metal and dielectric layers.
Now that this technique has been shown to work in a lab setting, the next question is how quickly it could be transferred to an industrial setting. ARCNL is a public-private partnership between two universities in Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam and Vrije University Amsterdam), the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and ASML, a Dutch company that is the world leader in the production of machines that make processors and memory chips for computers, tablets, and smartphones. The institute's close connection to industry is what attracted Stephen to ARCNL in the first place. "I liked the idea of doing something that would allow me to jump into industry quickly," he says. "I didn't want to work on something that was really abstract and wouldn't have any practical applications at all in the next 50 years. That's the highlight of this institute I would say, that you get to work directly with industry."
Inside of the high power laser used for the generation and detection of the acoustic waves.
Another highlight for Stephen is the community feel of ARCNL. The institute has 75 employees in total which means you quickly get to know everyone else who works there and feel comfortable approaching other professors and group leaders. The fact that everyone works on interrelated projects adds to the community feeling. "When I hear from other international students, one of the complaints I hear is that they feel isolated in a new country and they don't get to mingle with the local crowd. That's not the case here. My friends are mostly from work which is great," he adds.
Extreme ultraviolet lithography, Stephen's research area, is the most promising new technology for computer chipmaking. By combining fundamental physics with inspiration from industry, he and his ARCNL colleagues are pushing boundaries and contributing to the development of smaller and smarter electronics.
Stephen Edward
Stephen is a metrology PhD student in Prof. dr. Paul Planken's group at ARCNL, the Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography. Stephen has a Master's in Physics from the National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar.
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Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography (ARCNL) does exciting fundamental physics at the highest possible level with a relevance to key technologies in nanolithography. Their goal is to contribute to the production of ever smarter and smaller electronics, while at the same time pushing the boundaries of our fundamental insight into the workings of nature.
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AAI Asks Supreme Court to Hear Exhaustion Case (Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc.)
The American Antitrust Institute (AAI) filed an amicus brief with a group of law professors urging the Supreme Court to grant certiorari and reverse a Federal Circuit Court of Appeals decision that sharply restricts the patent exhaustion doctrine.
The patent exhaustion, or "first sale," doctrine provides that the authorized sale of a patented product exhausts the patent holder's patent rights, and prohibits suits against downstream users for patent infringement.
In the case at hand, the district court held that the patent exhaustion doctrine prevented Lexmark, a printer manufacturer, from bringing patent infringement actions against a cartridge remanufacturer for reusing Lexmark toner cartridges obtained from consumers in violation of Lexmark's "single use" notice. At the same time, the district court held that patent exhaustion did not apply to Lexmark toner cartridges first sold abroad.
In an en banc decision, the Federal Circuit reversed and reaffirmed its prior decisions holding that the exhaustion doctrine does not apply to "conditional" sales; nor is it triggered when the first authorized sale is outside the United States. The amicus brief argues that Federal Circuit ruling is inconsistent with recent Supreme Court precedent and threatens to undermine the competitive benefits that the exhaustion doctrine promotes. In particular, the brief maintains that the "conditional sale" doctrine not only clogs commerce in patented products, but permits manufacturers to sue consumers for willful patent infringement for violating conditions printed on a product package.
The AAI had joined with the professors to file a brief in the Federal Circuit urging the court to uphold the district court's decision. It has long recognized the important role the exhaustion doctrine plays in facilitating competition in product markets driven by intellectual property, including aftermarkets. In 2007, the AAI filed a successful brief in the Supreme Court in Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc. urging the Court to reaffirm a robust application of the doctrine.
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Q: Standard Deviation I have my code for standard deviation formula as follow:
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\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}
\[ t=\dfrac{\overline{X}_{1}-\overline{X}_{2}}
{\sqrt{\dfrac{\left\lbrace\Sigma X_{1}^{2} \dfrac{\left( \Sigma
 X_{1}\right)^{2}}{N_{1}}\right\rbrace+\left\lbrace\Sigma X_{2}^{2}
 \dfrac{\left(\Sigma X_{2}\right)^{2}}{N_{2}}\right\rbrace}
 {N_{1}+N_{2}-2}\text{x}\left( \dfrac{N_{1}+N_{2}}{N_{1}N_{2}} \right)}} \]
\end{document}

It looks complicated. Is there any simple way to make the same formula?

A: I must confess I'm not sure if your formula is correct. For sure, the formula does not denote a standard deviation, as would appear to be implied by your query. Instead, it appears to be an expression for the t-test of the null hypothesis that two population means are equal, assuming the draws are iid (independently and identically distributed).
The following screenshot reproduces your original formula in the first row, a typographically simplified version of that formula, in which I've replaced all instances of \Sigma with \sum, in the second row, and what I believe to be the standard form of the t-test in the third row. For what it's worth, it's the formula I learned in an econometrics course while in grad school, many years ago. And, I daresay, the formula in the third row is easier to read and parse than those in rows 1 and 2...

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}  % for 'align*' env.

\begin{document}
\noindent
We wish to test the null hypothesis that the means of two populations are equal.
Denote the observations drawn from the two populations by $X_{1i}$ and~$X_{2j}$,
with $i=1,\dots,N_1$ and $j=1,\dots,N_2$. Let
\[
\bar{X}_1=\frac{1}{N_1}\sum_{i=1}^{N_1} X_{1i}
\quad\text{and}\quad
\bar{X}_2=\frac{1}{N_2}\sum_{j=1}^{N_2} X_{2j}
\]
denote the sample means, and let
\[
\hat{\sigma}_1^2=\frac{1}{N_1-1}\sum_{i=1}^{N_1} (X_{1i} -\bar{X}_1)^2
\quad\text{and}\quad
\hat{\sigma}_2^2=\frac{1}{N_2-1}\sum_{j=1}^{N_2} (X_{2j} -\bar{X}_2)^2
\]
denote the sample variances. If the observations are iid,
the $t$-test of the null hypothesis is given by
\begin{align*}
t&=\dfrac{\overline{X}_{1}-\overline{X}_{2}}
{\sqrt{\dfrac{
\left\lbrace\Sigma X_{1}^{2}
\dfrac{\left( \Sigma X_{1}\right)^{2}}{N_{1}}\right\rbrace
+\left\lbrace\Sigma X_{2}^{2}
\dfrac{\left(\Sigma X_{2}\right)^{2}}{N_{2}}\right\rbrace}
 {N_{1}+N_{2}-2}\text{x}
 \left( \dfrac{N_{1}+N_{2}}{N_{1}N_{2}} \right)}} \\
&=\frac{\bar{X}_1-\bar{X}_2}{\displaystyle
\Biggl[\frac{
\sum X_1^2 \frac{ (\sum X_1)^2}{N_1}+\sum X_2^2
    \frac{ (\sum X_2)^2}{N_2}}{N_1+N_2-2}
    \times \frac{N_1+N_2}{N_1N_2}
\Biggr]^{1/2}} \\
&=\frac{\bar{X}_1-\bar{X}_2}{\displaystyle
\biggl[
\frac{(N_1-1)\hat{\sigma}_1^2 + (N_2-1)\hat{\sigma}_2^2}{N_1+N_2-2}
\biggl(\frac{1}{N_1}+\frac{1}{N_2}\biggr)
\biggr]^{1/2}}
\end{align*}
\end{document}

A: In statistics, we can calculate two types of standard deviation.
For Population S.D:
\begin{equation}
\sigma = \sqrt\frac{\sum{(X-\mu)^2}}{N}
\end{equation}

where,
$\sigma$ = Population S.D.

X = is individual value

$\mu$ = Population Mean

N = Population size

For Sample S.D., however, we have a slightly differnt formula:
\begin{equation}
s = \sqrt\frac{\sum{(x_i-\bar{x})^2}}{n-1}
\end{equation}

where
*s* = Sample S.D.
$x_i$ = individual value
$\bar{x}$ = Sample mean
n = Sample size

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Christian Sørenssen (born 25 September 1765 in Christiansand, died 16 August 1845 in Våler) was a Norwegian theologian, politician, and Bishop of the Church of Norway.  He was bishop of the Diocese of Christianssand from 1811 until 1823 when he was appointed as the bishop of the Diocese of Christiania, a post which he held until his death in 1845.

Life
Christian Sørenssen was born on 25 September 1765 in the city of Christiansand in southern Norway to Søren Christensen, a blacksmith, and Christence (Anna) Abrahamsdatter Just.  Sørenssen received his cand.theol. in 1785 from the University of Copenhagen.

He worked as a teacher in his home town of Christianssand until 1791.  He then moved to Strømsø (in Drammen) and was an assistant priest and rector of the Latin school there. In 1797, he became the parish priest at Risør Church in the town of Risør. In 1804, he was given the job as the vicar for the Christiansand Cathedral. On 11 April 1811, he was appointed to be bishop of the Diocese of Christianssand.  Sørenssen was the last Norwegian bishop to be ordained in Copenhagen since Norway gained its independence from Denmark in 1814.  The bishopric covered all of the counties of Stavanger, Lister og Mandal, Nedenæs, and Telemark at that time.

From 1814 to 1817, he was a representative of the city of Christianssand at the first two Parliaments that met in Norway after independence in 1814. He did not have a special interest in politics, and did not speak at any of the meetings of Parliament.

In 1823, he was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Christiania.  He held this position until his death in 1845.  The Diocese of Akershus (at that time) included all of the capital of Christiania as well as the counties of Hedemarken, Christians amt, and Jarlsberg og Larvik.

He died on 16 August 1845, while traveling in the county of Smaalenene on the road between Moss and Son on a visit.

Memberships and honors
In 1811, he became a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.  From 1823 until his death in 1845, he was the chairman of the board of the Norwegian Bible Society.  He was a Knight of the Danish Order of the Dannebrog and a Commander of the Swedish Order of the Polar Star.

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Pizzas Of The World: 7 Most Fashionable Pizzas From Throughout The Globe
Right here're 7 Most Fashionable Pizzas From Round The World:
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Pizza is undoubtedly probably the most well-liked dishes across the globe. Regardless of which metropolis or nation you are in, you may simply discover a pizza wherever you go. Nothing compares to the consolation of biting right into a freshly-baked pizza with a crispy crust, topped with veggies or meat and oodles of cheese. This beloved dish was first invented in Naples, Italy, as a quick and inexpensive meal for working-class Neapolitans on-the-go. Through the years, it has been made well-liked by US pizza chains after the Second World Struggle. At this time, this Italian staple has change into so well-liked that you're going to discover a pizza lover in each a part of the world. Contemplating this, right here we have now curated an inventory of seven hottest pizzas to create your personal journey bucket checklist of pizzas to strive across the globe. Have a look.
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Neapolitan pizza, also referred to as Naples-style pizza, is a standard sort of pizza that originated in Naples, Italy. This sort of pizza is ready with easy and contemporary components equivalent to uncooked tomatoes, contemporary mozzarella cheese, contemporary basil leaves and olive oil. One factor that units it other than different varieties of pizzas is that there's typically extra sauce than cheese in it. They're typically smaller in dimension and are cooked at very excessive temperatures.
This model of pizza is the one which we're most accustomed to. New York-style pizzas are well-known for his or her giant and large slices which are generally bought for consuming on-the-go. They've a thick and crisp crust, but they're mushy sufficient to be folded in half to eat. This prevents the toppings from falling off. It's historically topped with tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese and different toppings as effectively.
A Sicilian pizza is usually rectangular in form and has an ultra-thick crust. Because the title suggests, this pizza originated in Sicily, Italy. It has two variations: the sort that originated in Italy, and the model that advanced in different components of the world. Sicilian pizza as we all know it immediately, resembles a little bit like focaccia bread that's smothered with sauce, cheese and varied toppings.
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This sort of pizza is proofed and cooked in a shallow steel pan. Not like common pizzas, the dough just isn't stretched on this one. Greek-style pizzas should not very skinny however they're additionally not as thick as Chicago-style pizzas. In addition they use extra olive oil than different pizzas and use a distinct sort of tomato sauce for the bottom. Its toppings characteristic well-liked components from the Greek delicacies equivalent to feta cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, olives and roasted crimson peppers.
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Detroit-style pizzas have a thick and fluffy crust and are cooked in a big rectangular pan. This pizza is native to Michigan as they have been initially baked in sq. metal pans, modelled after the pans as soon as utilized by Detroit's famed vehicle manufactures. The cheese is sprinkled all the way in which to the sides of the pizza, creating an excellent crunchy, crispy and tacky crust that's actually irresistible. It was historically topped with Wisconsin brick cheese.
Because the title suggests, this pizza hails from St.Louis, Missouri, USA. They're simply distinguishable by their cracker-like crust produced from unleavened yeast-free dough. Louis-style pizzas are lower into squares or rectangles as an alternative of wedges and are typically made utilizing Provel cheese. This sort of cheese is especially well-liked in St.Louis and is produced from a mix of cheddar, Swiss, and provolone cheeses.
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Kale Pasta with Sunflower Cream Sauce | Naturally.
My kitchen would not be complete without a stash of nut/seed cream (so much so, in fact, I made a video for the pantry reset series.) It's a lovely addition to soups, porridge, dressings, or sauces. This kale pasta is the perfect way to use the sunflower cream. The pasta comes together fast and also features garlicky kale (that can be made ahead of time.) Use your favorite pasta and you have an easy weeknight dinner.
The three components can easily be adapted for whatever you have on hand. Change up the sauce, swap out the greens, or change up the pasta. It's all up to you and what's fresh!
Cashews/Almonds: Swap the sunflower cream for cashews cream or almond cream.
Greens: Swap the kale for chard, collards or spinach. You can also do a mix of greens- us whatever you have!
Pasta: This is great with grains or alternative pasta.
Hi Erin! I was planning on making this for dinner tonight but realized I accidentally bought roasted sunflower seeds instead of raw. Can I still soak them for the sauce or is it necessary they are raw?
It's not necessary- I find the raw puree a bit smoother but I've definitely used roasted before!
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Ballota est un genre végétal comprenant environ 35 espèces de plantes à fleurs de la famille des Lamiaceae, natif des régions tempérées de l'Europe, de l'Afrique du nord et de l'Asie occidentale. C'est dans la région méditerranéenne que l'on trouve la plus grande diversité d'espèces.

Description
Plantes vivaces, velues, rameuses, très feuillées, elles sont des feuilles pétiolées au limbe crénelé. L'inflorescence est constituée de fleurs en cymes, réunies en faux-verticilles axillaires, portant chacun, à leur base, 2 feuilles florales assez semblables aux feuilles ordinaires. Le calice plissé longitudinalement en 10 nervures principales longitudinales et terminées par 5 dents, est un peu en forme d'entonnoir. La corolle bilabiée présente un tube qui n'est pas plus long que le calice. Le fruit est un tétrakène composé de quatre nucules à 3 angles et arrondies à leur sommet.

Quelques espèces
 Ballota acetabulosa
 Ballota frutescens
 Ballota nigra L.
 Ballota pseudodictamnus

Genre proche
Ce genre est très proche du genre Marrubium. Certaines espèces y ont été incluses dans le passé.

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Liens externes

Lamiaceae
Genre d'Angiospermes (nom scientifique)


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Emmigration Reform, What Shape Should It Take?
As our government discusses and debates the various improvements or over hauls to the antiquated and inadequate Russian immigration statutes and visa regimes, I propose that we simply go back to the wisdom of one of our greatest leaders, Catherine the Great and her more than successful reign.
Her manifesto was aimed at white Christian immigrants and gave a massive boost to Russia. Considering the tyrannies growing through out the dieing and decaying West, this is just as good a time to bring these laws out of the dust of history and back into today's spot light.
Manifesto of the Empress Catherine II
The Mainfesto:
We, Catherine the second, by the Grace of God, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russians at Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod, Czarina of Kasan, Czarina of Astrachan, Czarina of Siberia, Lady of Pleskow and Grand Duchess of Smolensko, Duchess of Esthonia and Livland, Carelial, Twer, Yugoria, Permia, Viatka and Bulgaria and others; Lady and Grand Duchess of Novgorod in the Netherland of Chernigov, Resan, Rostov, Yaroslav, Beloosrial, Udoria, Obdoria, Condinia, and Ruler of the entire North region and Lady of the Yurish, of the Cartalinian and Grusinian czars and the Cabardinian land, of the Cherkessian and Gorsian princes and the lady of the manor and sovereign of many others. As We are sufficiently aware of the vast extent of the lands within Our Empire, We perceive, among other things, that a considerable number of regions are still uncultivated which could easily and advantageously be made available for productive use of population and settlement. Most of the lands hold hidden in their depth an inexhaustible wealth of all kinds of precious ores and metals, and because they are well provided with forests, rivers and lakes, and located close to the sea for purpose of trade, they are also most convenient for the development and growth of many kinds of manufacturing, plants, and various installations. This induced Us to issue the manifesto which was published last Dec. 4, 1762, for the benefit of all Our loyal subjects. However, inasmuch as We made only a summary announcement of Our pleasure to the foreigners who would like to settle in Our Empire, we now issue for a better understanding of Our intention the following decree which We hereby solemnly establish and order to be carried out to the full.
I. . We permit all foreigners to come into Our Empire, in order to settle in all the gouvernements, just as each one may desire.
II. . After arrival, such foreigners can report for this purpose not only to the Guardianship Chancellery established for foreigners in Our residence, but also, if more convenient, to the governor or commanding officer in one of the border-towns of the Empire.
III. . Since those foreigners who would like to settle in Russia will also include some who do not have sufficient means to pay the required travel costs, they can report to our ministers in foreign courts, who will not only transport them to Russia at Our expense, but also provide them with travel money.
IV. . As soon as these foreigners arrive in Our residence and report at the Guardianship Chancellery or in a border-town, they shall be required to state their true decision whether their real desire is to be enrolled in the guild of merchants or artisans, and become citizens, and in what city; or if they wish to settle on free, productive land in colonies and rural areas, to take up agriculture or some other useful occupation. Without delay, these people will be assigned to their destination, according to their own wishes and desires. From the following register* it can be seen in which regions of Our Empire free and suitable lands are still available. However, besides those listed, there are many more regions and all kinds of land where We will likewise permit people to settle, just as each one chooses for his best advantage.
*The register lists the areas where the immigrants can be settled.
V. . Upon arrival in Our Empire, each foreigner who intends to become a settler and has reported to the Guardianship Chancellery or in other border-towns of Our Empire and, as already prescribed in # 4, has declared his decision, must take the oath of allegiance in accordance with his religious rite.
VI. . In order that the foreigners who desire to settle in Our Empire may realize the extent of Our benevolence to their benefit and advantage, this is Our will -- :
1. We grant to all foreigners coming into Our Empire the free and unrestricted practice of their religion according to the precepts and usage of their Church. To those, however, who intend to settle not in cities but in colonies and villages on uninhabited lands we grant the freedom to build churches and belltowers, and to maintain the necessary number of priests and church servants, but not the construction of monasteries. On the other hand, everyone is hereby warned not to persuade or induce any of the Christian co-religionists living in Russia to accept or even assent to his faith or join his religious community, under pain of incurring the severest punishment of Our law. This prohibition does not apply to the various nationalities on the borders of Our Empire who are attached to the Mahometan faith. We permit and allow everyone to win them over and make them subject to the Christian religion in a decent way.
2. None of the foreigners who have come to settle in Russia shall be required to pay the slightest taxes to Our treasury, nor be forced to render regular or extraordinary services, nor to billet troops. Indeed, everybody shall be exempt from all taxes and tribute in the following manner: those who have been settled as colonists with their families in hitherto uninhabited regions will enjoy 30 years of exemption; those who have established themselves, at their own expense, in cities as merchants and tradesmen in Our Residence St. Petersburg or in the neighboring cities of Livland, Esthonia, Ingermanland, Carelia and Finland, as well as in the Residential city of Moscow, shall enjoy 5 years of tax-exemption. Moreover, each one who comes to Russia, not just for a short while but to establish permanent domicile, shall be granted free living quarters for half a year.
3. All foreigners who settle in Russia either to engage in agriculture and some trade, or to undertake to build factories and plants will be offered a helping hand and the necessary loans required for the construction of factories useful for the future, especially of such as have not yet been built in Russia.
4. For the building of dwellings, the purchase of livestock needed for the farmstead, the necessary equipment, materials, and tools for agriculture and industry, each settler will receive the necessary money from Our treasury in the form of an advance loan without any interest. The capital sum has to be repaid only after ten years, in equal annual instalments in the following three years.
5. We leave to the discretion of the established colonies and village the internal constitution and jurisdiction, in such a way that the persons placed in authority by Us will not interefere with the internal affairs and institutions. In other respects the colonists will be liable to Our civil laws. However, in the event that the people would wish to have a special guardian or even an officer with a detachment of disciplined soldiers for the sake of security and defense, this wish would also be granted.
6. To every foreigner who wants to settle in Russia We grant complete duty-free import of his property, no matter what it is, provided, however, that such property is for personal use and need, and not intended for sale. However, any family that also brings in unneeded goods for sale will be granted free import on goods valued up to 300 rubles, provided that the family remains in Russia for at least 10 years. Failing which, it be required, upon its departure, to pay the duty both on the incoming and outgoing goods.
7. The foreigners who have settled in Russia shall not be drafted against their will into the military or the civil service during their entire stay here. Only after the lapse of the years of tax-exemption can they be required to provide labor service for the country. Whoever wishes to enter military service will receive, besides his regular pay, a gratuity of 30 rubles at the time he enrolls in the regiment.
8. As soon as the foreigners have reported to the Guardianship Chancellery or to our border towns and declared their decision to travel to the interior of the Empire and establish domicile there, they will forthwith receive food rations and free transportation to their destination.
9. Those among the foreigners in Russia who establish factories, plants, or firms, and produce goods never before manufactured in Russia, will be permitted to sell and export freely for ten years, without paying export duty or excise tax.
10. Foreign capitalists who build factories, plants, and concerns in Russia at their own expense are permitted to purchase serfs and peasants needed for the operation of the factories.
11. We also permit all foreigners who have settled in colonies or villages to establish market days and annual market fairs as they see fit, without having to pay any dues or taxes to Our treasury.
VII. . All the afore-mentioned privileges shall be enjoyed not only by those who have come into our country to settle there, but also their children and descendants, even though these are born in Russia, with the provision that their years of exemption will be reckoned from the day their forebears arrived in Russia.
VIII. . After the lapse of the stipulated years of exemption, all the foreigners who have settled in Russia are required to pay the ordinary moderate contributions and, like our other subjects, provide labor- service for their country. Finally, in the event that any foreigner who has settled in Our Empire and has become subject to Our authority should desire to leave the country, We shall grant him the liberty to do so, provided, however, that he is obligated to remit to Our treasury a portion of the assets he has gained in this country; that is, those who have been here from one to five years will pay one-fifth, whole those who have been here for five or more years will pay one-tenth. Thereafter each one wil be permitted to depart unhindered anywhere he pleases to go.
IX. . If any foreigner desiring to settle in Russia wishes for certain reasons to secure other privileges or condlitions besides those already stated, he can apply in writing or in person to our Guardianship Chancellery, which will report the petition to Us. After examining the circumstances, We shall not hesitate to resolve the matter in such a way that the petitioner's confidence in Our love of justice will not be disappointed.
Given at the Court of Peter, July 22, 1763
in the Second Year of Our Reign.
The original was signed by Her Imperial Supreme Majesty's own hand.
Printed by the Senate, July 25, 1763
Would Orwell Be Proud?
It would seem, just like with Benjamin Franklin's satire on the idea of day light savings time (now a standard all over the world and led by the Anglos), Orwell's 1984 was not taken as a warning but instead as a guide book on how to "properly" structure Anglo society and the West in general, as well as the structures of foreign policy.
Particularly, one must pay attention to the social aspects of that bee hive, loyalty to the state structures.
All Marxist regimes have attempted to force the loyalty of the people to the State, definitely not to God or Family. All made examples of the "heroes" of the State, people who betrayed their own families to the authorities. These "heroes" and those who emulated their examples, however, were always a minority, as society's basic structures have always endured any such shocks and pressures and preserved themselves.
In the West, specifically the Anglo West, a more insidious program has been ongoing, for over two generations. The Marxist elites have learned from failed past lessons that radical change to an organism will invoke a defense response in the organism and is bound to failure or to destroy the organism. The Marxists do not want a destroyed organism, they want it healthy and strong, just working in the directions that they desire.
To that end, they have taken a multi-generational approach. First came the "Free Love" of the 1960s, a disease that spread throughout the West, undermining relationships and creating a view that transient sexual relations were ok. This of course had the desired effect to undermine the family structure, with children being born and growing up with either one parent or multiple sets of parents, as their own biological parents divorced and remarried and so on multiple times.
Then came the trend named Cocooning, through various technologies and mass media, to isolate neighbor from neighbor. People no longer felt that they were part, and thus loyal to a community. They no longer felt and were less drawn to the group moral structure, being able to exploit any kinks in their own psyches to any degree they wanted. After all, as long as you like it, in your own little world, what does anyone else's opinion matter? Ever notice how the number of crazy people in the West is growing? I see it here in Russia, though it is still in a minor stage as compared to the West. Every time I visit a Western country, I am shocked at how much more insane the public at large appears.
Now come the final programs to separate the individual from all strong and formal bonds to society, at large. A new series of programs, in the US and UK aimed at "preventing" bullying and thus "saving" the child is working to destroy cliques and make children more "inclusive". While on the surface this seems to appear like a noble idea, like most of the most deadly and evil of the Progressive ideas, it is in truth, one of vile evil.
What the program does, is destroy any meaningful relationships that a child has. As is, most children in the West, especially in America, lead extremely structured and paranoid lives, where even their play time is controlled by adults so that they get "value" out of it. As if children are some worker drones and play for fun is not full of value of its own. Ever watch American cartoons like Builder Bob or SpongeBob Square Pants, we have all of these through the magic of satellite television. All show perfect little worker drones whose only major enjoyment of live is not art or friendship but work, work and obeying their owners, first and foremost.
"I think it is kids' preference to pair up and have that one best friend. As adults — teachers and counselors — we try to encourage them not to do that," said Christine Laycob, director of counseling at Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School in St. Louis. "We try to talk to kids and work with them to get them to have big groups of friends and not be so possessive about friends."
"Parents sometimes say Johnny needs that one special friend," she continued. "We say he doesn't need a best friend.
A Best Friend? You Must Be Kidding (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/fashion/17BFF.html?pagewanted=1)
Of course your elites do not think so, friendship builds loyalty and a morality of its own, in a Progressive Marxist state, loyalty can and must only be manifest towards one entity: the State. There can be no other competitor for the attention or the needs of the individual, because there can be no individuals. Friends do not surrender each other, they tend to do the opposite, cover and support, thus give hope. Only the State can have that role.
Many parents have already been co-opted in to breeding and raising the worker drones and storm troopers of the future, who may very well turn on them. Most are to ignorant to realize what they are doing. From the same article:
For many child-rearing experts, the ideal situation might well be that of Matthew and Margaret Guest, 12-year-old twins in suburban Atlanta, who almost always socialize in a pack. One typical Friday afternoon, about 10 boys and girls filled the Guest family backyard. Kids were jumping on the trampoline, shooting baskets and playing manhunt, a variation on hide-and-seek.
Neither Margaret nor Matthew has ever had a best friend. "I just really don't have one person I like more than others," Margaret said. "Most people have lots of friends." Matthew said he considers 12 boys to be his good friends and says he sees most of them "pretty much every weekend."
The process is of course well organized and institutionalized. Again, from the same article:
As the calendar moves into summer, efforts to manage friendships don't stop with the closing of school. In recent years Timber Lake Camp, a co-ed sleep-away camp in Phoenicia, N.Y., has started employing "friendship coaches" to work with campers to help every child become friends with everyone else. If two children seem to be too focused on each other, the camp will make sure to put them on different sports teams, seat them at different ends of the dining table or, perhaps, have a counselor invite one of them to participate in an activity with another child whom they haven't yet gotten to know.
"I don't think it's particularly healthy for a child to rely on one friend," said Jay Jacobs, the camp's director. "If something goes awry, it can be devastating. It also limits a child's ability to explore other options in the world."
So Anglos, the generations that is starting to come into adulthood will finally have all those core Anglo values, or rather new core Anglo values, that your sage Orwell warned you about. You must be so proud.
South Africa: Celebrating the Genocide of Whites
That the fact that a murderous despotic, Marxist-fascist regime, hell bent on the whole scale extermination of the twenty percent of its population, and the most productive members at that, should be awarded with the world championship in football (World Cup) says more about the West that brought about these Marxists to power then about the ruling thugs themselves.
As I stated in Age of the Man-Gods, the self-loathing masters of the Western serfs and peasants are the root blame in the murder of not only the tens of thousands of whites in Rhodesia and now South Africa, but equally of millions of starving blacks in both nations. The vipers, who are the elites of the West, foisted upon the world the Mughabies and Mandelas that have caused endless horror and suffering. South Africa, a case in point.
Once the most developed nation in all of Africa, with a vibrant industrial economy, it is now a dieing cesspool of failed socialism and raging anti-white hatred and genocide. Yes, there, the word genocide against a minority, that happens to be white. It is a nation where 100 murders are committed daily and HIV is rampant in over a third of the black population. This is a Western installed Marxist regime that can count as its achievement the annual rape of over 40,000 children.
And before you say anything about this being their land, it is not. Just like with the Islamic Arabs in Israel or the Mexicans in Texas or Arizona, or the Chinese coming into our own Far East, there were few if any living in these areas, until more productive peoples came in and created the economic and societal conditions upon which these others then flooded in to feed off of.
As for the World Cup, the last place, from a political, humane, morale or safety situation that this should have been held is South Africa. To make the already joke of a security even less attainable is the convergence of tens of thousands of the worst radicals from sub-Saharan Africa, to Johannesburg.
It is time that there was active opposition to this murderous Marxist regime, not active rewarding.
That the rulers of the West are self loathers, satanic spawn bent on the destruction of the whole of the Christian world, be it by the curse of Marxism, Islam or African paganism, is of itself a known element. Thus the people of the West had best wake up or face their own destruction.
As for our own government in Moscow, I call upon President Medvedev to actively condemn these illegal and murderous regimes and to offer direct aid to the Boer and European populations of Africa, through military aid and refugee havens.
America's Chernobyl
The similarities between the Fall of the Soviet Union and the upcoming Fall of the United States are shocking.
Allow us to examine Chernobyl and the American equivalent, the Gulf of Mexico. In essence, both were the very extremely unlikely occurances in the energy sector, without which key ingredient, nothing in a modern society functions. Both cost lives, first in the short term, though the American count was much lower, and will in the long term, though the American version, will be much much higher. Both contaminated a huge area of land and cost the local economies and national economies dearly.
And at this point, my critics will say that my roof has slid off. That I have gone bonkers. How can these two of the greatest or worst man-made disasters be similar?
Well, it is not just the physical aspect of this that we shall consider, dear readers, but the psychological-moral aspect that everyone in the American press is ignoring but that will become very visible over the coming months and short years and which is already in effect in the hearts of those oppressed by this disaster and the government behind it.
Both of these disaster were first and foremost man-made. While natural disaster can not be blamed on government and only the botched responses, they rarely, those botched responses, topple societies and governments. People tend to be more forgiving, since after all, who could have foreseen that the storm would go there...or do that...to that level...or the earth quake... But not so for man-made disasters, where even if by total accident, the view is, it should have been absolutely preventable.
The absolutely half arsed and botched response of the Soviets and the Americans has shown both governments to be 1. absolutely incompetent and unable to defend the needs and livelihoods of their citizens; 2. to be absolutely unfeeling to the plight of the millions directly affected by this; 3. to be extremely heavy handed in the inadequate response, further degrading or destroying the lives of the victims; and 4. to attempt to lie and cover up their own incompetence from their people.
Unfortunately, with disasters of this wide range, that is rather difficult to accomplish, especially as in the Chernobyl cloud and the Gulf oil slick they both go international, invading and affecting the areas of other nations and destroying their economies too.
All this, of course, has the most acidic effect on the moral of the people. Both incidents came as both nations were/are slouching and suffering economically, politically, and morally. Both were already in question of survival. In America, talk of succession is now almost common day, especially in the occupied Confederacy, Kingdom of Hawaii and the annexed Republic of Texas. This will only reinforce the already prevalent feeling that the powers that be do not care about the people or their suffering.
Local politicians will be quick to feed upon this malcontent and will grow their power on the concept of, at best, more decentralized and autonomous power from the central authority or at worst, direct succession.
In the crumbling Soviet Union, five years passed between Chernobyl and the final collapse of the State. In America, the process will be much faster. Why?
Because, unlike the Americans, the Soviets at that point understood their economy was collapsing and were doing what ever possible to preserve it. Though misguided they were under few illusion of what was happening. The Americans are ideologues pure and simple, something the Soviets, at that point, were not. Furthermore, unlike the Soviets, the absolutely and insanely heavy handed action of the American regime is beyond logical comprehension, as all ideologues usually are.
To be equivalent, the Soviet Union would have had to ban all nuclear power plants nation wide, which is equivalently, what Obama and his lords have done. The response was to ban all drilling off shore in America. Never mind that 38% of American oil comes from there, but it will also cost 150 to 200 thousand jobs, from the rig workers to the manufacturing industry producing parts for the service companies that work for the oil companies.
Worst, most of this will hit right in the very states where the oil is destroying fishing and tourism, thus one more blow to already desperate and rather angry people. That this so happens to be the territories of the Republic of Texas and the Confederacy, will only inflame the drive for moral, economic and political freedom from the oppressive and occupational government in Washington.
Turkey Will Not Fight
The Turkish government, the Islamic Turkish government, has threatened to send warships to escort the next wave of humanitarian aka Islamic troop transport ships to Gaza. There are several problems here:
First, be these Turkish or French or Martian ships, once they cross over, without invitation, into Israeli waters, which includes Gaza, the Israelis have the full right, under international law, to sink them. That they have not directly sunk the Turkish flotilla, already shows restraint. As seen on Russian news, the video from the night scopes of Israeli helicopters, most plainly showed the "aid workers" were armed, violent and organized. In other words, the typical Islamic protestor aka Jihadist. It also shows that the Israeli military were fools to come down with paint ball rifles and only pistols for any real protection.
If these were in the Black Sea, bringing "relief" to the Caucuses or to Crimea (even if it is presently a part of the artificial state of Ukraine), Russian special forces would have come much more heavily armed and would not have put up with half the crap that the Israelis did before sending these "activists" to their 72 virgin rewards. Furthermore, the Russian navy, would have, correctly, blockaded these ships and if need be sunk them.
That the Turks now threaten to send military escorts with the next batch of Islamic Jihadist troop transports show how deep in bed with the radicals Erdogen's government truly is. Further that the Turkish military, the guardians of Turkish secular republicanism, has not protested, points to something else, that they are preparing an over throw. Why?
The more than likely scenario is simple: the Turkish military needs an incident, something that will discredit the Erdogen government. This will give them the needed excuse to over throw the Islamic regime and repurge the government and society of the radicals. Erdogen has been successful in checking several such attempts, but being a good fanatic or even queasy fanatic, he has worked himself into a corner. To back off now will show him weak and open him up for a coup. To force an invasion of Israeli waters and thus an act of war, will show him a fool and open him up for a coup.
Be it a back off or a confrontation, Erdogen's days in office and more than likely on this world, are very numbered.