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Religulous (2008)
Bill Maher: Circumcision, I mean, I would've loved to have been there for the first time people would hear about this, you know? We're used to it now, you know. I'm sure when Moses came down with this idea there was one person going "Now, let me get this straight..."
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Bill Maher: The irony of religion is that because of its power to divert man to destructive courses, the world could actually come to an end. The plain fact is, religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having in key decisions made by religious people. By irrationalists, by those who would steer the ship of state not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken. George Bush prayed a lot about Iraq, but he didn't learn a lot about it. Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and elevate it are intellectual slaveholders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction. Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do. Most people would think it's wonderful when someone says, "I'm willing, Lord! I'll do whatever you want me to do!" Except that since there are no gods actually talking to us, that void is filled in by people with their own corruptions and limitations and agendas. And anyone who tells you they know, they just know what happens when you die, I promise you, you don't. How can I be so sure? Because I don't know, and you do not possess mental powers that I do not. The only appropriate attitude for man to have about the big questions is not the arrogant certitude that is the hallmark of religion, but doubt. Doubt is humble, and that's what man needs to be, considering that human history is just a litany of getting shit dead wrong. This is why rational people, anti-religionists, must end their timidity and come out of the closet and assert themselves. And those who consider themselves only moderately religious really need to look in the mirror and realize that the solace and comfort that religion brings you actually comes at a terrible price. If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest. To do otherwise is to be an enabler, a mafia wife, for the true devils of extremism that draw their legitimacy from the billions of their fellow travelers. If the world does come to an end here, or wherever, or if it limps into the future, decimated by the effects of religion-inspired nuclear terrorism, let's remember what the real problem was that we learned how to precipitate mass death before we got past the neurological disorder of wishing for it. That's it. Grow up or die.
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Bill Maher: If Santa Claus can hit every house in the world in one night...
Steve Burg: No, I don't believe in Santa Claus.
Bill Maher: Of course not. That's ridiculous. That's one man flying all around the world and dropping presents down a chimney. That's ridiculous. One man hearing everybody murmur to him at the same time... that I get.
Bill Maher: And I see you've got a lot of bling.
Jeremiah Cummings: I like gold. The people want you to look well.
Bill Maher: That's what pimps say about their women.
Bill Maher: But the Jesus story wasn't original.
Man at The Holy Land Experience: How so?
Bill Maher: [an explanation appears in subtitles as The Bangles "Walk Like an Egyptian" plays] "Written in 1280 BC, The Book of the Dead describes a God, Horus... Horus is the son of the god Osiris... born to a virgin mother. He was baptized in a river by Anup the Baptizer... who was later beheaded. Like Jesus, Horus was tempted while alone in the desert... Healed the sick... The blind... Cast out demons... And walked on water... He raised Asar from the dead. 'Asar' translates to 'Lazarus'. Oh yeah, he also had 12 disciples. Yes, Horus was crucified first... And after 3 days, two women announced... Horus, the savior of humanity... had been resurrected.
Bill Maher: There's more than one mosque in the world that used to be a church and before that was a temple. Because it's a lot easier to just change the sign on the top and say "under new management" than it is to change the whole building.
Bill Maher: It's like the lotto. "You can't get saved if you don't play."
Bill Maher: [in a deleted scene on the DVD] Religions are maintained by people. People who can't get laid, because sex is the first great earthly pleasure. But if you can't get that, power is a pretty good second one. And that's what religion gives to people. Power. Power is sex for people who can't get or don't want or aren't any good at sex itself.
Bill Maher: You know, Scientologists...
[sound of audience laughing]
Bill Maher: And right, you're like, "Oh, yeah, that's some crazy shit. Okay." Jesus with the virgin birth and the dove and the snake who talked in the garden, that's cool. But the Scientologists, they're the crazy ones.
John Westcott: Nobody's born gay.
Bill Maher: Really? Have you ever met Little Richard?
Bill Maher: [Megiddo, Israel] It seems peaceful, but this is where a lot of people believe the world will end. The irony of religion is that because of its power to divert man to destructive courses, the world actually could come to an end.
Bill Maher: I know what you're thinking. I'm standing in front of a green screen at a studio in Burbank, California, and they digitized the Vatican in behind me. No, no, that's really the Vatican. I ought to know. I just got thrown out of it. See, I wanted to interview the Pope, but I was willing to settle for a cardinal or a monsignor, or the flying nun - really anybody, but apparently I've been on the Catholic shit list for quite a while. But that's their loss, 'cause now I'm gonna say what I *really* think, which is mainly:
[referring to the Vatican]
Bill Maher: does that look like anything Jesus Christ had in mind?
[to Father Reginald Foster, a Senior Vatican Priest]
Bill Maher: When you look at a building like that, a giant palace, does it seem at odds with the message of the founder?
Reginald Foster: Well, certainly.
Bill Maher: [giggles] Well, thank you.
Reginald Foster: I mean, that's obvious.
Bill Maher: It really is obvious, isn't it? But does it bother you?
Reginald Foster: [stammering] Well, I mean - well, yes it does. I wouldn't - if I were the boss, I wouldn't be living there.
Steve Burg: I'm thinking of Jonah, God sent Jonah on a mission.
Bill Maher: When did the part of the story come when Jonah lived in the whale?
Steve Burg: It was a great fish.
Bill Maher: It's one of my favorite nonsense stories, Jonah living inside of the whale. And their answer unfailingly is "The Bible doesn't say whale, It says big fish". Oh, yeah, big fish, that makes... I'm sorry I was obsessing on that it was a whale, It's a big fish. Of course you could live for three days in a big fish, A tuna, a tuna, They do it all the time in Japan, They have tuna spas. You go for three days, They pamper you, oils, You come out of that tuna feeling fantastic. You smell like pussy, but you feel fantastic.
Bill Maher: This man lived inside of a fish for three days?
Steve Burg: Miraculously, yes.
Bill Maher: Steve, Steve, Steve.
Steve Burg: You don't believe in miracles, That doesn't mean they don't exist.
Bill Maher: Of course not! I'm not 10! He didn't lived in a fish, Come on.
Steve Burg: Your bar on miracles is pretty low, I gotta tell you, bro.
Bill Maher: Well, whatever.
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[from trailer]
Bill Maher: Gay Muslim activists. That is a very rare job description. You guys have big ones.
Bill Maher: If you believe that the world is going to come to an end - and perhaps any day now - does it not drain one's motivation to improve life on earth while we're here?
Bill Maher: The plain fact is religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having key decisions made by religious people - by irrationalists - by those who would steer the ship of state, not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken.
[after the closing credits]
Bill Maher: See you in heaven?
Julie Maher: [shrugs] Who knows?
Bill Maher: [laughs] Exactly.
Bill Maher: [in a deleted scene on the DVD] No, it is not a surprise that a person would want to be a prophet. What's ridiculous is that other people let him. It's just too easy to start a religion. All you have to do is: A. think up some really powerful stupid shit. Some stuff that is so idiotic and weird that a person who believes it will be proving that ultimate virtue of faith; B. throw in some entitlements like life after death, washing away sins and free dental or whatever; and, C. wait. Just wait. Just say your bullshit and stick to it. Believe me, if you do that, if you just say it, they will come.
Bill Maher: See, this is my problem, I'm trying - I mean, you're - you're a Senator. You are one of the very few people who are really running this country. It worries me that people are running my country who think - who believe in a talking snake. Um...
Mark Pryor: [Arkansas' Democratic Senator] You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate, though.
[chuckles]
Bill Maher: [Bill is silent and unimpressed. The Senator's face falls]
Dr. Muhhamed Hourani: The direction of prayer, everytime you start your prayer you have to know how to exactly face the Kabaa in Mecca.
Bill Maher: A rock? The Kabaa?
Dr. Muhhamed Hourani: No, no, no.
Bill Maher: Isn't that...
Dr. Muhhamed Hourani: No, no, no. A black stone.
Bill Maher: Stone, rock I think they're the same.
Dr. Muhhamed Hourani: We don't know the history of this stone.
Bill Maher: Why is this Holy?
Dr. Muhhamed Hourani: Muslims believe this stone came from Paradise.
Bill Maher: Could the stone itself have been what we now know to be a Meteor?
Dr. Muhhamed Hourani: It's black, and in the area there are no black stones.
Bill Maher: But does it make a difference that we now understand what a Meteor is?
Dr. Muhhamed Hourani: This is the Stone of God!
Bill Maher: Yes, right.
Bill Maher: Rational people, anti-religionists, must end their timidity and come out of the closet and assert themselves. And those who consider themselves only moderately religious really need to look in the mirror and realize that the solace and comfort that religion brings you actually comes at a terrible price.
Jeremiah Cummings: [a Christian reverend] Okay, but now, but now, things like houses and cars and clothes and money, they come as a result of my seeking God first.
Bill Maher: I don't remember that in the New Testament specifically.
[a subtitle appears - "Because it's not there."]
Jeremiah Cummings: But it's there.
[Subtitle - "No it's not."]
Jeremiah Cummings: I remember it.
Bill Maher: A passage about...
[Subtitle - "I'm sure you do."]
Bill Maher: The houses, the cars and the clothes, they'll come.
Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda: You know, if I discover that I was Satan in person, I would do a good job, too.
Bill Maher: As Satan?
Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda: Because I would be faithful to my calling.
Bill Maher: It's how you do your work, isn't it? You know, at the end of the day, whether you're the messiah or you're Satan, it's loving what you do and giving it a hundred percent.
Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda: I give hundred percent.
Bill Maher: There's been more killing in the name of "my God."
Mark Pryor: [Arkansas' Democratic Senator] So you think we indigously
[made up word]
Mark Pryor: or just by our DNA, we just somehow know that killing another person is wrong? I'm not sure that is the case.
Bill Maher: Really? We need God to decide not to kill each other?
Mark Pryor: Well, you can look back at more primitive cultures and they were constantly at war.
[subtitled "Modern Culture," war footage is shown]
Mark Pryor: [subtitled "Modern Culture," war footage of bombings and mass destruction is shown]
Bill Maher: Now, the angels went to the house of the one Godly man in town - Lot. And the townspeople tried to rape them. Now, Lot, not wanting his town to get the reputation as the kind of place that would rape angels, offered up to the mob his own daughters to rape. And he was the good guy in town. Which brings me to this question: If I ever had to swear an oath, why would I want to put my hand on the King James Bible? I think I could find more morality in the Rick James Bible.
Bill Maher: Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. lt's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith and enable and elevate it are our intellectual slaveholders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction.
Bill Maher: That's religion. You pray. You bow. You kneel. You fast. You trim the balls of a giant space penis.
Bill Maher: Who are you?
Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda: I am Jesus Christ man. The second coming. The Old Testament talk about me clearly. And the New Testament also.
Bill Maher: And you know what else was very confusing to me I remember vividly was Santa Claus and Jesus.
Julie Maher: You were so mad at us.
Bill Maher: So mad at you, why? Oh, when...
Julie Maher: When you realized there was no Santa Claus.
Bill Maher: And then when I found out there was no Jesus... boy, was I pissed.
Bill Maher: The only appropriate attitude for man to have about the big questions is not the arrogant certitude that is the hallmark of religion, but doubt. Doubt is humble, and that's what man needs to be, considering that human history is just a litany of getting shit dead wrong.
Ken Ham: This is a God, he's an infinite God, he's not always working in ways we understand.
Bill Maher: Don't you think that's a cop-out?
Ken Ham: He is God. Are you God?
Bill Maher: No.
Jonathan Boulden: Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
Bill Maher: I think it's very interesting that you were a Muslim, you're a Christian now, and when you buy your clothes you buy them like a Jew.
Bill Maher: [DVD Extra] In the late 1940s right around the time the State of Israel was being born Jews here in the Judah Desert made a startling discovery. The Arabs were really mad at them. But there was something else. Here in the Qumran Caves they found what the world has come to know as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Written by an ancient Jewish sect called the Essenes the Dead Sea Scrolls contained fragments from almost every book in the old testament plus prophesies by Jeremiah, Ezekial and Daniel that are not in the Bible and Psalms attributed to King David and Joshua that are not in the Bible. We keep finding Bible Outtakes in the way we find new records by Elvis, John Lennon and Tupac and I know my Christian and Jewish religious friends get their hair screwed in a bunch whenever you call the Bible a Fairy Tale and they have a point because it's actually an anthology of fairy tales a kind of Reader's Digest collection of books written in many languages over thousands of years and then assembled and translated into American just as God planned. The question is: who decided what got into the Bible and what got edited out and only made it into the outtakes and the directors cut and the DVD extras? I'll tell you who. Man. And when I say man I mean specifically people with penises because there's no religion I ever heard of that would let a woman make an important decision like that. The Dead Sea Scrolls are a very alive reminder that religious books are very often as holy and sacred as Harry Potter and by the way if you buried Harry Potter here and dug it up a thousand years later who knows? The Bible was written by men and edited by men and based on some of the nonsense in it, edited pretty badly. It's no wonder that the Dead Sea Scrolls even though they were found over fifty years ago most of them still haven't been published which is a real drag because Yahweh has already burned through his advance.
[repeated line]
Bill Maher: Why is faith good?
Bill Maher: [in a deleted scene on the DVD] How spiritually advanced is Uranus?
Benjamin Creme: Very. Very. Very.
Bill Maher: [in a deleted scene on the DVD] And then we get here and five minutes after we arrive, the skies open up. It's completely nice and there was a rainbow above the thing we were shooting. So, I don't know, if God didn't want us to shoot, he sure fucked up today.
[giggles]
Bill Maher: The standard doctrine that I was taught as a kid...
Reginald Foster: Yeah, that's all gone. That's all finished.
Bill Maher: Do you think it's possible that when we're on something like marijuana or mushrooms and we believe we're having a really spiritual experience that we're just high?
Bill Maher: [to journalist Ray Suarez] How did this country become a Christian nation? I've read a lot of quotes from all the founding fathers. There are a lot of quotes that explicitly say we are not a Christian nation.
[several quotes are shown]
Bill Maher: More people
[in America]
Bill Maher: doubted evolution, than any other country on that list
[of industrialized nations]
Bill Maher: except I think it was Turkey.
Bill Maher: But it's not really a wise list of the ten. The first four are about just worshiping God, and, basically, a jealous god. And he doesn't want you to have any other gods. The only two that are really laws are: don't steal and don't kill. Why is this the wisest group of ten that doesn't include child abuse; it doesn't include don't torture; it doesn't include a lot of things, rape, that, I think, if I were making a list today, we would probably include.
Mark Pryor: [Arkansas' Democratic Senator] Society is so different today. Our society is so radically different...
Bill Maher: And that's what I'm asking. We're in a different culture. Can you think of anything else that we still cleave to from the Bronze Age?
Mark Pryor: Well...
[speechless]
Bill Maher: Do you believe in evolution?
Mark Pryor: I don't know. The scientific community is a little divided on the specifics of that. And I understand...
Bill Maher: I don't think they are.
Mark Pryor: No... no... well...
Bill Maher: I think they pretty much agree.
Mark Pryor: [grins] I don't know what happened...
Bill Maher: [a tenet of Mormonism] Dark skin is a curse from God,
[photos of Michael Jackson's transformation pop up at the bottom of the screen]
Bill Maher: but if you're sufficiently righteous, a dark-skin person can become light-skin.
Tal Bachman: [an ex-Mormon] In the founding scriptures, you open the doctrine covenant, you read the autobiography of Joseph Smith. He quotes Jesus Christ as telling him that every other creed on Earth is, quote, an abomination. That's not a very ecumenical statement.
Bill Maher: The idea that Christianity is American, I think, is an amazing entitlement to a people who are always trying to meld God and country.
Bill Gardiner: The Garden of Eden was in Missouri, according to Mormonism. The new Jerusalem will be there.
Bill Maher: Branson, I hope.
Bill Maher: The other guys are selling certainty. Not me. I'm on the corner with doubt.
Holy Land Experience PR Lady: No-one told me he was here. And I would need to know that because of what he is and the kind of films he makes.
Bill Maher: Sometimes you kneel, sometimes you pray and sometimes you go up on the hill and cut the grass around the big Space Penis.
Bill Maher: [Points at the Vatican] Does that look like anything Jesus had in mind?
Trucker Chapel Congregant: Well, then you're saying the Bible is Fishtishious...
Bill Maher: I am.
Bill Maher: So you used to be gay, then you married someone who used to be a lesbian and had three children, and I guess the jury's out on them?
Bill Maher: [Extra] What about Rosemary's Baby? The woman is carrying Satan. Can we abort that one?
Michael Bray: I've never contemplated that before!
John Westcott: I believe that it's Sin!
Bill Maher: Don't you have it, no pun intended, ass-backwards?
Man at The Holy Land Experience: What if you're wrong?
Bill Maher: Ha! What if YOU'RE wrong?
Bill Maher: [Looking around a workshop for Sabbath-friendly gadgets] If I was in this wheelchair, I would be thinking "Why am I going to these lengths to please God, who's taken my legs away to begin with?"
Bill Maher: What do you think about Homosexuality, the Bible's against it?
Street Monk: No, the Bible's not against it.
Bill Maher: The Bible's not against Homosexuality?
Street Monk: If you are born Homosexual, you have to take that, be happy.
Bill Maher: But that's what the Bible says?
Street Monk: What the Bible means to say.
Bill Maher: Oh, what the Bible MEANS to say! Now THAT'S a Good Book!
Bill Maher: [Extra] A couple of State of the Unions ago George Bush said "We're going to Mars and Worlds beyond" and all of America said "Easy little man, we can't even get from Baghdad to the Baghdad Airport" But when it comes to making ridiculous promises, politicians can't hold a candle to religions. The President can promise we're going to Mars, but Mormons can actually promise you you'll own Mars. Yes Mormons believe in something called celestial marriage which means that if you have a long and faithful marriage while you're on earth you and your lovely wife are rewarded in the next World with a Planet to rule over. Promising planets, it's just shameless, but then again the Muslims promise Pussy. You see that's the great benefit of selling an invisible product, one that can't be tested until after you're dead. It's no wonder the greatest salesmen in the world want a piece of that territory. Because when you're making it all up anyway, there's no limit to the amount of pandering. Now Congress can promise free drugs to old people but think about what you get when you vote for Christianity; eternal life, that is quite an entitlement. And not just eternal life but after you survive your death you're happier than you ever were. It is Heaven. Forget about the party, it's all about the after-party.
Prosecutor: The despatcher asked her "Why did you kill your boys?" and she said "I was told to." She asked "Who told you?" She said "God".
Kirk Cameron: Learn how to share your Faith Effectively and Biblically. To be able to reason with people, learn to circumnavigate or go around the person's intellect.
Bill Maher: Van Gogh, was assassinated right here? He was a Dutch Filmmaker, he made a ten-minute film, it was deeply offensive... to Muslims. Lots of people think that free speech goes right up to this point and then right up to when you're talking about religion, you're talking about the Prophet, all bets are off.
Fatima Elatik: Freedom of speech. It goes both ways, freedom of speech.
Bill Maher: It goes both ways but the people who actually usually do the killing...
Fatima Elatik: Yeah
Bill Maher: -for it wind up on the Muslim side. Do you think that says something about the different cultures?
Fatima Elatik: I don't want to have this image of Muslims as someone if they don't like something they kill you, because it's not.
[Cut to angry "Dutch Cartoonist" Protests. Caption: "50 people were killed as a result of these protests"]
Fatima Elatik: The way I perceive things in the Koran, it's not about killing infidels or homosexuals...
Bill Maher: But you have read it there.
Fatima Elatik: Of course I've read the Koran!
Bill Maher: And you've read those passages. What did you think when you read them?
Fatima Elatik: I explain them within the time they emerged.
Bill Maher: But that's not how people read Holy Books. They don't go "Well that was good for then". People read Holy Books and say "This is the Word of God, it's forever!" That's how most people do it.
Bill Maher: [Extra] Would you still say that you support people who would do harm to abortionists?
Michael Bray: That kind of action, I'd say, cannot be condemned. It's okay to defend a child against someone who's about to murder the child. There are some really fine people, I'm thinking of one, "Shelley" Shannon who's, you know, shot an Abortionist Tiller in Kansas Witchita in each elbow. Right up there close to him, shot him
[mimes shooting]
Michael Bray: . And you know, long...
Bill Maher: So he couldn't work.
Michael Bray: Yeah but he went right back the next day.
Bill Maher: I guess she didn't shoot him too good.
Michael Bray: Yeah! Right.
Bill Maher: That seems better than killing somebody.
Michael Bray: Yeah, it was merciful. Absolutely merciful. And yet she gets 30 years! 30 years for showing mercy to this guy, you know?
Bill Maher: Boy, what's this country coming to when you can't even blow someone up without getting in trouble with the law?
Bill Maher: The fashion industry, the Islamic fashion industry. Do you feel that that's been hobbled at all by the fact that homosexuality is a Sin punishable by death? I'm talking about the designers, you know? Okay.
Bill Maher: [Extra] What about when innocent people get killed during a "defensive action"?
Michael Bray: I'm for that. Yeah. It's collateral damage.
Bill Maher: But it's acceptable?
Michael Bray: We've got to consider what the real issue is here and what the cost is and the risk.
John Westcott: We can look at Creation, what is the normal order? A man has a penis, a woman has a vagina, lets just be blunt!
Bill Maher: I don't believe that people are in this state of denial. I believe they're in this state of denial towards an outsider.
Bill Maher: This is the Mount of Olives. A lot of Orthodox Jews want to be buried here because they believe when the Messiah comes he will raise them from the dead and march them through that Golden Gate and on to the Temple Mount. Which is why the Muslims have walled up the gate, the better to keep out the Jewish Messiah and his kosher zombies from getting in. Although you'd think if you had the power to raise the dead, you'd have the power to jump a fence.
Dr Muhhamed Hourani: For a Muslim you must not hesitate, you must accept every letter, every word of this story.
Bill Maher: But what is your explanation for the millions and millions of people around the World who are leading homosexual lives, have no interest in people of the opposite sex, are they all faking to piss off Jesus?
John Westcott: They didn't choose this, they didn't desire it.
Bill Maher: Right, they were born gay.
John Westcott: No.
Bill Maher: So do you think Jesus at some point will end this Earth? Maybe sometime in your lifetime?
Steve Burg: One always hopes!
Bill Maher: He spends the first four books of the Bible wiping people out.
Man at The Holy Land Experience: His thinking's higher than ours is, Bill!
Bill Maher: Maybe your thinking should be higher.
Man at The Holy Land Experience: That's a good point.
Bill Maher: [Extra] This is the Anne Frank house, when you see it you really understand how true that phrase "The banality of evil" really is. One of the common arguments in defence of religion is that Hitler wasn't religious and neither was Stalin or Mao and they were bad so religion is good. But like religion itself it's an argument that really depends a lot on not thinking too deeply. For one Hitler himself didn't eliminate anyone personally he had a lot of footsoldiers most of whom were good Christians and they pushed people into the ovens. Religion has done a bad job of stepping up and preventing violence-prone bullies from doing their thing. If anything it usually justifies acts of madness. And 20th Century Fascism and Communism while not strictly religions as we've come to think of religion, really were religions. They were state religions. Hitler was seen as infallable and Godlike. Hirohito was absolutely a God on Earth to the Japanese people. We shouldn't get too hung up on the word religion. The bottom line is whether people think and act rationally or not and whenever they organise their lives around something that could best be described as groundlessness bad things happen. Even if the central story seems harmless like there's a God who loves you so much that he had his only Son whacked so that you could keep on sinning. Still, doesn't matter, once reality has left the building, once it's up there in the ether then anything can be extrapolated or tacked on by Preachers and Priesthoods and delusionals and power-hungry pricks. It's not that big a step from "your God is the only God and he loves you very much" to "you really should get out there and start killing for him" Whenever people believe in something utterly groundless because they were told it by a charismatic preacher and Hitler was nothing if not that, all bets are off. Nazism was a religion, a religion based on the insane fiction that Jews were subhuman vermin who did not deserve to live, but people and people not from a primitive society believed it because A they liked the preacher, B the other sheep around them were buying into it even though it was crazy and C it was inextricably tied to their view of a glorious Valhalla-like future. A, B, C. Religion.
Bill Maher: You said "anyone worried about what I'm saying should get involved in the debate, you are allowed to dissent. That is a right." But is that a right in Islam? To dissent.
Propa-Gandhi: Of course it is. Why do you think there are so many schools of thought?
Bill Maher: Well, it wasn't a right for Salman Rushdie.
Bill Maher: It's in the shape of a giant man with a sizeable erection. Well, sizeable for England.
Mormon Educational Video: Mary thought: "If that's what God wants then I'd be happy to go along with His plan".
George W. Bush: I believe that God wants everybody to be free. That's what I believe. And that's part of my Foreign Policy.
Bill Maher: So you would agree that even if a billion people believe something, it can still be ridiculous?
Andrew Newberg: Absolutely.
Bill Maher: You're the one who went to Iran in December 2006 for the President of that Country's Holocaust Denial Conference.
Yisroel Dovid Weiss: Whoa, whoa don't just throw words!
[Photo-montage of Rabbi Weiss attending the conference]
Bill Maher: [Extra] So now let's get to the part where it ties in with what you believe which is, I would say, slightly more controversial
Bill Maher: . Let me see if I understand this right. That everything we really know about what is going on in our World and all the Institutions like Government, Religion, Banking, Organised Crime. They really are all part of a I guess you'd call it a Conspiracy that Reptilians...
David Icke: Well I call them Interdimensionals.
Bill Maher: Okay, but I read what you wrote.
David Icke: Yep.
Bill Maher: Your words. Reptilian- These reptilians from the constellation Draco have interbred with humans and they are living amongst us, there are people like the Pope you talk about George Bush his father the President.
Bill Maher: The Royal Family in England. Tony Blair. They take human form but behind closed doors they can shape-shift back to their Reptilian form. I need to know how you know this.
David Icke: I've been researching this stuff for twenty years.
Bill Maher: How can you research that?
David Icke: I've been to more than forty countries doing it. This is where the idea of the Divine Right to Rule comes from the Divine Right to Rule because of what? Because of your bloodline, because of your DNA. This goes right back to the ancient world.
Bill Maher: Why do we need reptiles for that? People, human beings are shmucky enough to want to rule over each other.
David Icke: Listen, you can tell me anything you believe and I can start taking it apart on the basis of a little chat in front of this place, right, but what I'm saying is...
Bill Maher: People all the time summarise their works in television interviews.
David Icke: And that's what I'm trying to tell ya.
Bill Maher: Okay
David Icke: If you look at the ancient world, all over the ancient world you find the same recurring story of the interbreeding between humans
[Caption of Genesis 6.4]
David Icke: and non-humans which invariably are depicted in a reptilian form creating hybrid bloodlines, the bloodline of the gods and you look at the symbolism of the serpent all over the place and you put it together with everything else and people just have to look at the information and decide if they want to believe it.
Bill Maher: But why if they have control of everything, why would they reveal themselves with all these serpent clues? What does that benefit them?
David Icke: Well, they don't reveal themselves, do they? They certainly haven't convinced you, have they? The thing is...
Bill Maher: You've also talked about getting a message from a spiritual messenger.
[David stutters]
Bill Maher: No?
David Icke: There are so many aspects to this that people need to know before the apparently ridiculous makes sense.
Bill Maher: Didn't you say that you saw the Pope just for a second have his reptilian face?
David Icke: No, I didn't say that about any Pope, no.
Bill Maher: Oh, I read that.
David Icke: Well, you didn't read it in my book.
[Caption: he only saw the Pope's eyes change]
Bill Maher: This is Jesus's Footprint!
Bill Maher: It's also holding a giant club. So he's naked, he's a giant, he's got a huge cock and he's still insecure.
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[to camera]
Bill Maher: That's it. No, I'm done.
Bill Maher: [about the Creation Museum] I don't understand why it's important for there to have been a situation on Earth where man coexisted with dinosaurs, only really in the Flintstones...
Dino: Is someone talking about me?
Bill Maher: -and that Raquel Welch movie does man ever coexist with dinosaurs, why is that important for your salvation or your morality?
Ken Ham: If you're saying that this part over here that says God made land animals and man on the same day is not true, then ultimately, why should I believe this bit over here?
Bill Maher: Why doesn't He just end evil and obliterate the Devil?
Man at The Holy Land Experience: He will.
Bill Maher: When? What's He waiting for?
Man at The Holy Land Experience: End times.
Bill Maher: Why not now?
Bill Maher: God knows what we could have accomplished by now...
Grand Central PA: Your attention please! Your attention please!
Andrew Newberg: Ha! We weren't expecting that! The Voice of God!
Gnarls Barkley: I remember when, I remember when I lost my mind...
Gnarls Barkley: Does that make me crazy? Does that make me crazy?
Ken Ham: If you believe in Creation, we come from a man and a woman. If you believe in Evolution, the woman would have had to have come from an Ape-Woman.
Dr Kira: [about to kiss Charlton Heston] Alright, but you're so damn ugly!
Ken Ham: [Creation Museum] We can answer the questions of the skeptics who attack the Bible's History. We admit that we start from the Bible here, to teach them how to think, really in a nutshell we're saying the Bible's true from Genesis to Revelations.
Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda: [to his congregation] Anyone who thinks I'm the Antichrist is miserable! Anyone who does not believe in me is miserable!
Rael: The Elohim created life on Earth in a Laboratory. One day there will be a second coming and Jesus, Moses and the Elohim will create for us Peace on Earth.
Bill Maher: Are you sure they're not just fattening us up like veal?
Bill Maher: [Cerne Abbas] Over the Centuries we've had many, many Gods. So why are we so certain about the ones that we have now?
Bill Maher: What does it say about Religion and how serious it is, if you can be a Minister when you're ten?
Bill Maher: [the Hague] You are taking rather a hard line, here, in the Netherlands.
Geert Wilders: Islam is according to me a violent religion, the Koran is a violent book and Mohammed was a violent Prophet.
Bill Maher: You think Islam wants to take over the World?
Geert Wilders: They don't even make a secret about it. We are "Infidels", we should either become Islamic or we should be killed, this is what they say, this is what they are proud of.
[Cuts to the Muslim Gay Bar]
Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda: I knew a young man who was about to go crazy over a woman, he was about to kill himself. I said "That passion, you should give to God! Turn that to God and see what happens".
[clip of a suicide bombing]
Bill Maher: [to a Neurologist] So, in layman's terms, Jesus was nuts?
Vatican Astronomer: It is impossible for there to be any Science in the Scriptures. The two periods of History are too far apart.
Bill Maher: It's such a powerful position, I mean you hold people's greatest hopes and dreams in the palm of your hand, really. Certainly some of the young women must get a crush on you?
Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda: [voice goes higher] Umm... Probably. I would too if I was out there. If I was a woman I'd probably have a crush on me too.
Bill Maher: That's keeping it real!
Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda: Now I can advise other young men about women. Because I've been there. I had a young man who was about to go crazy over a woman, he was about to kill himself, you know? I said "That kind of passion, you should have for God!" I said "Turn that to God, and see what happens!"
Bill Maher: Two things that are completely incompatible are Christianity as Jesus taught it and Nationalism. Yet people always say "God and Country".
Actress from Van Gogh's film: Allah you have made men the protectors and maintainers of women, having made one with more strength than the other. At least once a week I feel the strength of my husband's fist on my face.
Bill Maher: [Speaker's Corner Hyde Park] Xenu brought us here 75 million years ago, stacked us around a volcano and then blew us up with Hydrogen Bombs! Get yourself an E-meter!
[someone crowns him with a balloon sculpture]
Bill Maher: They say they're speaking in tongues, but when you do the scans they're just babbling, right?
Bill Maher: So why do they think Muhammed visited the Dome of the Rock?
[Translator puts the question, then the Guide answers and twiddles his finger by his head]
Bill Maher: I don't think we need the translator for that...
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For the longest time, I've been trying to import the allcountries.txt file into my database. The thing is, after 518 000 records, the database hangs.
I have managed to insert 518 001 - 518 020 records, but it would be extremely tedious to do that considering there are over 11 million lines (records). NOTE[b] that I am using import wizards to do this (Mysql Workbench and Navicat Premium).
I have created the tables according to the F.A.Q., tried manipulating the varchars with more 0's (had an error from that too), split the file to a hundred+ files of 50 000 lines and tried importing the files where the expected errors are - and received the errors. I also tried avoiding those lines with the errors but there were many errors after 518 000 lines. I know I'm saying errors a lot, but maybe 'error' is not what is happening, but it hangs regardless. I downloaded and tried importing only the CA.txt (Canada) and got errors too after 2800 lines or so.
I did manage to get the postal codes imported without errors the same way I tried allcountries.txt.
So here I am asking for much-needed help. I have recently installed Mysql 8. I downloaded the new dump from (2018-08-21), and now stall at 518 600 records This is for a personal learning project, so any help is much appreciated, thank you.
As I just went through this process using MYSQL 5.7, I'll tell you what I did and maybe that can help you too.
First issue, uploads through PHP will timeout and so you can't do this. I tried through phpmyadmin at first and it just won't work.
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Once you do this, you need to use LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE to get the file into your database table.
This is the exact command that I used to import it. The \t means that tabs separated the fields of data and \n means that each row is located on a new line.
Also, make sure that your database table has the correct columns for the data. I just mirrored the schema of the allCountries file to reduce possible issues.
Of course, the elevation field in your table must be able to take a NULL value. All fields in the table are listed in this command so make sure the spelling is the same for you.
I hope this can help you! This is everything I did to import the data and it ended up about 2.3 gigs in the database.
Thanks for the reply, I have done that at the Mysql prompt. Also attempted through import wizards for Mysql Workbench and Navicat Premium.
I'm also using utfmb4 instead of utf8 and collation utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci -as advised from many sources on stack overflow (allowing additional characters that utf8 doesn't have).
Also, I got an error stating that alternate names record (I think it was 2700) was too long for varchar10 000. So I omitted alternatenames, and then tried only importing the geonameid, geoname, asciiname, longitude, and latitude. That worked until record 518 600 where it hung. I tried again from record 518 601 to 600 000 - thinking maybe it could be a ram issue, but it added only 600 records before it hung up again.
In the meantime, I'll see if I can convert this huge file into a json formatted file.
I'm no expert, but you shouldn't limit your fields so much. For testing purposes, change all fields to text or medium text and see if the import is successful. If that works, then, trim the fields down or change back to INT, etc.
OH, almost missed this, geonameid MUST be BIGINT or it can fail! That might actually be the issue right there.
So I have some success!
*I actually first tried to make a new file with only the ids - and it worked! All 11 million + records. Then I added more columns where they conked out on me again until eventually ending with my solution in the previous paragraph.
Now I have a file of 16MB, and 406 234 records All countries, regions, cities. I'll work with that for now, but I'll see later if I can improve on it.


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A fan favorite character comes back to life in 'Detective Comics' #981
A fan favorite character comes back to life in 'Detective Comics' #981
You won't believe who comes back from the dead in this issue.
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In a moment where Orphan aka Cassandra Cain is getting a new beginning with Batgirl we see a mysterious hand leave a note.
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Alzheimer's Patients Classified in Six Subgroups
Neuroscience News December 5, 2018
FeaturedGeneticsNeurology6 min read
Summary: Researchers have identified cognitive subgroups related to genetic differences in Alzheimer's patients. The findings, researchers say, could open the door for more personalized treatments of the neurodegenerative disease.
Source: UW Medicine.
Researchers studying Alzheimer's disease have created an approach to classify patients with Alzheimer's disease, a finding that may open the door for personalized treatments.
"Alzheimer's, like breast cancer, is not one disease," said lead author Shubhabrata Mukherjee, research assistant professor in general internal medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine. "I think a good drug might fail in a clinical trial because not all the subjects have the same kind of Alzheimer's.
This study, published in the recent issue of Molecular Psychiatry, involves 19 researchers from several institutions, including Boston University School of Medicine, the VA Puget Sound Health Care System and Indiana University School of Medicine.
The researchers put 4,050 people with late-onset Alzheimer's disease into six groups based on their cognitive functioning at the time of diagnosis and then used genetic data to find biological differences across these groups.
"The implications are exciting," said corresponding author Paul Crane, professor of general internal medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine. "We have found substantial biological differences among cognitively defined subgroups of Alzheimer's patients."
Identification of cognitive subgroups related to genetic differences is an important step toward developing a precision medicine approach for Alzheimer's disease.
The participants received cognitive scores in four domains: memory, executive functioning, language, and visuospatial functioning.
The largest group (39%) had scores in all four domains that were fairly close to each other. The next largest group (27%) had memory scores substantially lower than their other scores. Smaller groups had language scores substantially lower than their other scores (13%), visuospatial functioning scores substantially lower than their other scores (12%), and executive functioning scores substantially lower than their other scores (3%). There were 6% who had two domains that were substantially lower than their other scores.
The participants came from five studies, and it took more than two years to standardize the neuropsychological test scores across all the studies in order to detect meaningful patterns. The mean age was 80, 92 percent self-reported white race, and 61 percent were female.
The investigators used genome-wide genetic data to find out if the subgroups are biologically distinct.
Investigators found 33 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) – specific locations throughout the genome – where the genetic association was very strong for one of the subgroups. These genetic relationships were stronger than the strongest effects found by an earlier and much larger international consortium study where Alzheimer's disease was treated as a single homogeneous condition.
Several years ago, the International Genomics of Alzheimer's Project Consortium published the largest genome-wide association study of Alzheimer's disease and found about 20 SNPs associated with Alzheimer's disease risk.
Genetic data supported the contention that a particular way of sorting people resulted in biologically coherent subgroups (pictured lower right). NeuroscienceNews.com image is credited to UW Medicine.
This study found 33 additional SNPs with even stronger relationships with a single subgroup.
The study also found a particularly strong relationship between a particular variant of the APOE gene and risk for the memory subgroup. The APOE e4 allele is a very strong risk factor for developing Alzheimer's disease for people with European ancestry, and it also appears to influence which cognitive subtype of Alzheimer's a person is likely to develop.
People can currently find out if they have an APOE e4 allele with direct-to-consumer testing; however, the researchers note that many people with an APOE e4 allele never develop Alzheimer's disease, and many who don't carry any known genetic risk factor nevertheless end up with the condition.
While world leaders want to find a cure for Alzheimer's by 2025, so far no one has been able to develop an effective treatment let alone a cure. But this study suggests that thinking of Alzheimer's disease as six distinct conditions may provide a way forward.
"This study is not the end, it's a start," said Mukherjee.
Currently, 5.7 million people in the United States are living with the disease and that is expected to grow to 14 million by 2050, according to the Alzheimer's Association.
The research team also included investigators from the Department of Biostatistics at University of Kentucky, Department of Epidemiology at John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, departments of neurology, human genetics and psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, Center for Translational & Computational Neuroimmunology at Columbia University Medical Center, Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, and Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle.
Funding: This research was supported by the Nancy and Buster Alvord Endowment, Department of Veterans Affairs Research Funds, Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, National Institute of Aging, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, Alzheimer's Association, and many more.
The authors report no financial or other conflicts of interest.
Source: Bobbi Nodell – UW Medicine
Image Source: NeuroscienceNews.com image is credited to UW Medicine.
Original Research: Abstract for "Genetic data and cognitively defined late-onset Alzheimer's disease subgroups" Shubhabrata Mukherjee, Jesse Mez, Emily H. Trittschuh, Andrew J. Saykin, Laura E. Gibbons, David W. Fardo, Madeline Wessels, Julianna Bauman, Mackenzie Moore, Seo-Eun Choi, Alden L. Gross, Joanne Rich, Diana K. N. Louden, R. Elizabeth Sanders, Thomas J. Grabowski, Thomas D. Bird, Susan M. McCurry, Beth E. Snitz, M. Ilyas Kamboh, Oscar L. Lopez, Philip L. De Jager, David A. Bennett, C. Dirk Keene, Eric B. Larson, EPAD Study Group, Investigators from ACT, Investigators from ROS, Investigators from MAP, Investigators from ADNI, Investigators from the University of Pittsburgh ADRC & Paul K. Crane in Molecular Psychiatry. Published December 4 2018.
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Genetic data and cognitively defined late-onset Alzheimer's disease subgroups
Categorizing people with late-onset Alzheimer's disease into biologically coherent subgroups is important for personalized medicine. We evaluated data from five studies (total n = 4050, of whom 2431 had genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data). We assigned people to cognitively defined subgroups on the basis of relative performance in memory, executive functioning, visuospatial functioning, and language at the time of Alzheimer's disease diagnosis. We compared genotype frequencies for each subgroup to those from cognitively normal elderly controls. We focused on APOE and on SNPs with p < 10−5 and odds ratios more extreme than those previously reported for Alzheimer's disease (<0.77 or >1.30). There was substantial variation across studies in the proportions of people in each subgroup. In each study, higher proportions of people with isolated substantial relative memory impairment had ≥1 APOE ε4 allele than any other subgroup (overall p = 1.5 × 10−27). Across subgroups, there were 33 novel suggestive loci across the genome with p < 10−5 and an extreme OR compared to controls, of which none had statistical evidence of heterogeneity and 30 had ORs in the same direction across all datasets. These data support the biological coherence of cognitively defined subgroups and nominate novel genetic loci.
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Listen: Space sounds used to render UAE national anthem
Composers use interstellar sounds to create rendition of much-revered 'Ishy Bilady'
Published: Wed 30 Nov 2022, 12:04 AM
On the occasion of the UAE National Day, Emirates NBD is paying a first-of-its kind tribute to the country's drive and ambition towards space exploration, by composing the national anthem using sounds from outer space.
Validated by the Dubai Astronomy Group, the space anthem has been developed in collaboration with specialised sound engineers and composers using interstellar sounds including those from planets, their moons, pulsars, asteroids, and rovers, among others - all strung together to create a rendition of the much-revered 'Ishy Bilady'.
The anthem was revealed at a celebration attended by members of the senior management and staff of the bank. The event included cultural performances, traditional crafts, savouring Emirati food and a showcase of Emirati talent within the bank.
The bank's National Day campaign intends to encourage young minds in the UAE to explore astronomy and related subjects. The launch coincides with the Emirates Lunar Mission (ELM) on Wednesday.
The bank has also developed an animated video film, introducing the UAE Space Anthem and paying tribute to the nation's space ambitions.
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"The success of UAE's space programme is a matter of national pride, and we see this as a befitting tribute for a nation as innovative and progressive as ours. Inspired by the UAE's ambition to conquer space, the anthem represents the progress our great nation has made to establish itself in the space sector," said Moadh Bukhash, Chief Marketing Officer at Emirates NBD.


I'm not sure what it is the past few weeks but I've finally started to feel like a fashion blogger.
I don't feel as nervous and embarrassed going out in something that is a bit out there.
I've just started to feel more confident in who I am and what I'm wearing.
It may have something to do with the fact that the last few weeks I've been running into the guy I like nearly every day, so I decided that it was important that I look fabulous every day. And that didn't just mean my skirts got shorter (even though they did. Noticeably...), it meant that I made sure every day I may an effort. And that I tried something new every day. Whether it was wearing a dress as a skirt, or swapping my usual black tights for skin colour tights and socks (I love that socks are in this season- I'm wearing knee-highs right now!!), or wearing something I'd normally save for evening in the day time.
I've also really enjoyed experimenting with new trends; ankle and knee socks have been everywhere this season and they've been a lot of fun to wear. I went out last Wednesday night in socks and high-heeled Mary Janes and I loved the look!! I've also been less afraid to mix patterns and prints and just have fun!! Fashion should always be about having fun.
My mum always looks fantastic and she's just as high maintenance as I am. I really don't care that I have to get up an hour and a half before I leave the house to get ready and spent 30 minutes + doing my hair. Call me self-absorbed, called me shallow. I fully accept that. I am a nightmare. I am so demanding and high maintenance and obsessed with the way I look. But I always make the effort whether I'm going out clubbing or nipping to get milk.
So, do you dress to impress? Do you only dress to impress if there's someone in particular you want to impress? Do you think I'm as superficial and self-absorbed as most people think I am?


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Carl Christian Berner, född den 20 november 1841 i Kristiania (nuvarande Oslo), död den 27 maj 1918, var en norsk politiker. Han var kusin till Hagbard Emanuel, Axel Olaf och Søren Hjalmar Normann Berner samt far till arkitekterna Jørgen och Carl Berner.

Berner blev 1859 student, studerade reala ämnen och blev efter tioårig verksamhet vid de största privatläroverken i Kristiania 1874 direktör för den nyupprättade tekniska skolan i Bergen. Han var medlem av nästan alla storting från 1886, till 1903 som representant för Bergen, därefter som representant för Sarpsborg. Från den 6 maj 1891 till den 2 maj 1893 var han medlem av Steens första ministär och kom alltså inte i fråga till val 1891 för perioden 1892–94.

Berner har sedan 1896 tillhört stortingets presidentkollegium, största delen av denna tid som stortingspresident, och både vänner och motståndare var eniga om att ge honom i denna egenskap allt erkännande för hans sällsynta takt, klarhet och raskhet i ledningen. Rikt begåvad som talare och debattör samt i besittning av omfattande och mångsidiga kunskaper, i synnerhet på det tekniska området, ansågs Berner under sin livstid tillhöra de främste stortingsmän, som Norges konstitutionella historia hade att uppvisa. Som oppositionens ledare under stortingsperioden 1889-91 framlade han den 21 februari 1891 förslaget till den efter honom uppkallade dagordningen, som medförde ministären Stangs avgång.

Berner har ett par gånger senare haft i uppdrag att bilda eller rekonstruera vänsterministären, utan att detta lyckats honom. Från 1900 hade Berner ställningen som stämpelpappersförvaltare och valdes hösten 1901 till fullmäktig i Nobelstiftelsen. Han var en av dem som kraftigast arbetade för unionens upplösning. Han var 1905 ordförande i den för konsulatfrågan tillsatta "specialkommittén" och ledde som president (sedan 1903) de stortingsförhandlingar, som kulminerade i beslutet om kungens avsättning den 7 juni.

Han var delegerad vid förhandlingarna i Karlstad augusti-september samma år och ordförande i den deputation, som vid danska hovet i november samma år framförde underrättelsen om norska kungavalets utgång. Han återvaldes till stortingsman 1906, men avsade sig återval 1909.

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BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — As a summer of wildfires, tropical storms and hurricanes followed a spring of relentless tornadoes and hail storms, State Farm Insurance paid its customers $5 billion to repair, rebuild and replace cars, homes and other property damaged by weather-related catastrophes so far this year.
State Farm is the nation's largest insurer of homes and autos, and it is expecting 2011 to be one of the company's busiest years on record for catastrophe losses.
Through Sept. 23, State Farm agents and claim representatives have helped policyholders on more than 970,000 catastrophe claims, stretching from wildfires in western Texas to storm damage in Maine. The company's catastrophe claims work is on top of the 11-12 million other auto, home and business claims reported to the company in a typical year.
The $5-billion customer payment figure accounts for all catastrophes occurring in 2011 and any residual payments made on catastrophes from prior years.


A total of 223 housing projects in the state have been registered with the Tamil Nadu Real Estate Regulatory Authority (TNRERA) till November 22. Nearly 75 projects were registered within a month between October 23 and November 22, data available on the realty regulator's portal show.
Majority of the realty projects registered with real estate regulator are located at Kancheepuram and Coimbatore districts, followed by Tiruvallur, Trichy and Madurai districts.
The TNRERA came into force in the state after the Tamil Nadu government notified the rules on June 22 this year.
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On June 2, 2016 we are supporting Lambda Legal by attending the West Coast Liberty Awards in Beverly Hills, California. Honorees are Michael Ritchie, artistic directer of the Center Theatre Group, and Kat Graham, star of the hit TV show Vampire Diaries. Hosts of the show are Lawrence Zarian, Candis Cayne, and Daniel Franzese.
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Boris Johnson 'plans to move House of Lords to York'
Boris Johnson is reportedly planning on moving the House of Lords to York. Picture: PA
The Prime Minister is planning to permanently move the House of Lords to the City of York, according to reports.
The Sunday Times said that York has "emerged as the frontrunner to host the new second chamber."
Birmingham is also being considered, the paper said.
The Prime Minister has already started looking into the details of a move.
Disused land close to York station is being looked at as the site for the new second chamber.
A constitutional review into the plans will be launched in the spring, followed by an architectural competition to design the new building.
A government source told the newspaper: "The York proposal is much further along. The PM is also keen to have parliamentary sessions in the regions, be it Sunderland or Manchester, so people get a chance to feel democracy in action first hand."
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The Power Duster is a vacuum attachment that is designed to get dust out of every corner, It turns your vacuum into an ultimate dusting machine. The secret to the Power Duster is the flexible suction tubes, With these tubes, you do not have to worry about your tiny belongings get into the vacuum cleaner. These tubes can reach the hardest spots. Now you can dust around objects without having to move them first. It is the perfect way for cleaning fragile objects. The Power Duster is universal and works with almost all vacuums.
The new cleaning tool is designed to remove dust out of every nook and cranny. The Power Duster is universal vacuum attachment fits any vacuum and is unlikely the attachment you've ever owned.
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You can decide to hire a professional cleaning crew to vacuum and dust your home, but they'll be underfoot for up to hours at a time and expect payment. There's no guarantee that they'll bring any tool like the Power Duster that is better.
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As part of the Millay Arts & Poetry Festival in Rockland, ME (September 7 to 9, 2017), author Jerri Dell gave a book talk about Blood Too Bright, her memoir about the relationship between her grandfather Floyd Dell and the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay at the Farnsworth Museum on Thursday, September 7 at 10:30 a.m.
On Saturday, September 9 at 1:30 p.m., Jerri participated in a Biographers Roundtable together with Nancy Milford (author, Savage Beauty), Daniel Mark Epstein (author, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed), Krystyna Poray Goddu (author, A Girl Called Vincent) and Holly Peppe (Executor, Millay Literary Estate), moderated by Carl Little.
Author Jerri Del discussed and read from her book "Blood Too Bright - Floyd Dell Remembers Edna St. Vincent Millay" at Ruggles Hall in The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois. The event was co-sponsored by The Newberry Library and the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.
Author Jerri Dell discussed and read from her new book "Blood Too Bright - Floyd Dell Remembers Edna St. Vincent Millay" at Main Street Books, 2 E. Main Street in Frostburg, Maryland. This event was co-sponsored by Main Street Books, Frostburg University Center for the Literary Arts, and the Allegany County Public Library.
Author Jerri Dell spoke to a packed house at the "Meet the Author" event organized by the Friends of the Chatham Public Library, 11 Woodbridge Avenue, Chatham New York.
On March 5, 2017 Jerri Dell launched her new book "Blood Too Bright - Floyd Dell Remembers Edna St. Vincent Millay" at the Jefferson Market Library in Greenwich Village. The event was jointly sponsored by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and The Millay Society.


EDF Energy, Britain's largest producer of low-carbon electricity, has pledged to keep standard iigas and electricity prices for residential customers at their current levels this winter, until at least the start of March 2011.
Jim Poole, Director of Residential Customers, EDF Energy said: "We know these are difficult times. With people using over six times more gas in winter than in summer, any help we can provide at this time of year goes a long way. On average, EDF Energy had the cheapest standard prices during the coldest months last winter and our offers remain highly competitive.v With this Winter Price Freeze Guarantee we are giving customers the good news that EDF Energy's competitive prices will remain at their current levels throughout this winter.
"In addition, we currently offer the cheapest deal on the market for new customers with our Online S@ver Version 7 deal I, giving new customers an added reason to sign up to EDF Energy and make big savings on their bills."
For customers looking for even longer-term security, we offer a unique longer-term fixed product – Fixed Price 2015 – guaranteeing customers price security until June 2015. This product offers the longest guarantee in the market against any price rises and will help customers manage their budget for energy costs more accurately and easily.
Through its ongoing commitment to competitive prices, EDF Energy continues to help its customers save money by providing them practical and effective ways to use their energy more efficiently and cut their energy use.
The latest 2010 JD Power survey on customer satisfaction found EDF Energy had the most satisfied gas customers of any major supplier.
i Based on a national average of Online S@ver Version 7 direct debit prices at typical consumption combined with the £100 welcome bonus for dual fuel customers. The customer's account will be automatically credited with a Welcome Bonus of £75 for Electricity and £25 for Gas, within 90 days of the account being live on supply and the credit will appear on their first bill in most cases. Full Terms and Conditions are available on http://www.savetodaysavetomorrow.com/.
Typical Consumption is 3,300kWh of electricity and 20,500kWh of gas.
ii More than 90% of EDF Energy customer accounts are on standard tariff prices. Standard refers to all gas and electricity tariffs with a variable price that are not time limited, and includes any products that are linked to our standard tariff prices such as Energy Discount Plan or Energy Assist. Tariffs across all payment methods are included in this pledge, and note standard tariffs can refer to various meter types and not just standard domestic meters.
iii On average, an EDF Energy customer will use 4.6% of their total annual gas consumption in July and August – compared to 31.0% of annual total gas consumption in December and January. This equates to 6.7 times more usage in December and January when compared to usage in July and August.
iv Difference is based on a typical annual dual fuel bill with EDF Energy compared to an equivalent Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE) bill, assuming the customer pays by fixed monthly direct debit. This saving includes discounts and VAT, and is based on prices correct as at 1st December 2010 (effective date of SSE gas price increase).
v Customers with EDF Energy paid the lowest dual fuel bill during December 2009 and January 2010 for any of the three main payment methods (fixed monthly direct debit, cash/cheque or prepayment). Comparison made using typical standard domestic variable bills for EDF Energy and the other major five suppliers (SSE, British Gas, npower, E.On and Scottish Power), averaged across all regions.
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Apple is probably one of the most divisive companies in modern history. As a consumer, chances are you either 1) use a multitude of Apple products in your daily life or 2) you actively choose not to use any Apple products.
From detractors, Apple has been criticized for not offering the most advanced/innovative technology, yet the company has continued to dominate the consumer electronics market and remains one of the largest companies in the world.
What has made Apple so successful for so long?
One reason, undoubtedly, is their focus–obsession, really–with customer experience.
As a company, they realized early on that being a technology company isn't just about creating great technology. It was about creating technology with purpose that solves real, human problems.
Famously, Steve Jobs explained that the core strategy at Apple is to understand and shape the customer experience and then work backwards to the technology. Ultimately, this allows you to find how the technology you are developing fits into the larger, cohesive vision that allows a company to sell billions of dollars of product a year.
This should ring true for any technology company, whether it's hardware or software.
The core of your product may be code, algorithms, or processors. But the part that the customer touches–the part that they care about–is the experience.
Everything from the marketing and messaging to the user interface plays a role in shaping the customer experience. Yes, technology will also be an important part of that. But, it's one of many factors.
For Apple, they have gone to great lengths to control the entire customer lifecycle. Customers know what to expect when buying the product, they know how to use it to accomplish the tasks they need, and they can receive hands-on support when they have questions or issues online, on the phone, or in person at the Genius Bar.
This entire experience is the embodiment of the vision that Apple has put forth for how they want customers to experience their products and their brand. And they protect that vision ruthlessly in their execution.
So, where do you start with customer experience?
While there are many factors that shape the final experience, the core of the process is defining what kind of experience customers should have.
For instance, if you run an on-demand marketplace, then the customer experience should feel seamless and quick. Customers should have all of their immediate questions answered by the application's interface and buyer or seller profiles. If users have to wait too long for an answer, they are likely to just abandon the process all together.
This is one example of a vision for customer experience. Using this vision as a guide, begin defining a technology strategy that allows you to achieve this experience.
Your vision for the customer experience can also drive the core product strategy.
Artificial intelligence, for instance, is an incredible and powerful technology. But it's not until we imagine the experience of using AI—digital personal assistants, marketing optimization, or automated customer service—that it's clear how it can be used to solve real customer problems. So, if you're an AI company, you need to first develop your vision for how AI can improve people's lives and then develop a strategy and product that brings this vision to life.
Bringing the vision to life isn't always easy. And it shouldn't be.
It's a big, difficult, and complex problem to solve–that's what makes it interesting and exciting.
In the technology world, this is especially true. If you begin any project or business by building the solution before you've defined the problem, you'll spend all of your time searching for problems you could solve, but never quite sure which one is right.
As many startups have learned the hard way, it's a big mistake to build a product and then go around and looking for a way to sell it. This kind of technology-first thinking leads to poor product-market fit and a challenging sales process. You're literally fighting uphill for every customer, trying to convince them that they have a problem that needs solving before you can convince them that you have the solution.
On the flipside, if you begin by thinking through the lens of the customer experience, then you start with the problem–you understand the pain points.
Even highly technical customers are rarely persuaded by raw technology alone. They're looking for solutions–for an experience that is shaped by purchasing the right product or service.
This is why it's so important to begin with the customer experience.
Cast a vision for how your company can improve lives or solve a real problem. Then work backward through the engineering that it would take to provide that experience to customers.
Strive to build solutions, not just products or tools.
If we've learned anything from Apple, it's that customers will pay a premium for a great product that's created to meet the needs of the customer. They'll even line up early to buy it.
That's the power of an incredible customer experience.


WESTLAKE, Texas, Feb. 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ – Solera Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SLH), a leading provider of software and services to the global P&C insurance claims processing and decision support industries, focused on risk and asset management of vehicles as well as property, today reported results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2015.
Diluted net income attributable to Solera Holdings, Inc. per common share for the second quarter was $0.06, as compared to prior year second quarter diluted net loss attributable to Solera Holdings, Inc. per common share of $0.74 resulting from the net loss attributable to Solera Holdings, Inc. incurred in the prior year second quarter.
Cash EPS for the second quarter was $0.77, a 20.3% increase over the prior year second quarter Cash EPS of $0.64.
Revenues from service, maintenance and repair facilities customers, were $31.8 million for the second quarter, representing a 114.7% increase over the prior year second quarter on both an actual and constant currency basis.
Revenues from automotive recycling, salvage, dealership and other customers were $48.2 million for the second quarter, representing a 35.6% increase over the prior year second quarter. On a constant currency basis, revenues from automotive recycling, salvage, dealership and other customers for the second quarter increased 38.6% over the prior year second quarter.
The net loss attributable to Solera Holdings, Inc. reported in the prior year second quarter was primarily attributable to a one-time charge associated with the November 2013 redemption of our senior unsecured notes due 2018 ("2018 Senior Notes") of $39.1 million, which is net of the related income tax benefit of $21.1 million, and establishing a valuation allowance on our U.S. deferred tax assets of $29.7 million.
Absent the charge associated with the redemption of our 2018 Senior Notes, net of the related income tax benefit, and the U.S. deferred tax asset valuation allowance, on a pro forma basis, we would have generated net income attributable to Solera Holdings, Inc. of approximately $17.7 million in the prior year second quarter. The 75.1% decrease in net income attributable to Solera Holdings, Inc. for the second quarter, as compared to pro forma net income attributable to Solera Holdings, Inc. for the prior year second quarter, is primarily due to increased acquired intangible asset amortization expense and acquisition and related costs due to our recent acquisitions of SRS, I&S and CAP.
Net income attributable to Solera Holdings, Inc.
The current fiscal year 2015 outlook above assumes constant currency exchange rates from those currently prevailing, no further acquisitions of businesses, no further repurchases of our common stock and an assumed 26% tax rate to calculate Adjusted Net Income.
During the three months ended December 31, 2014 as compared to the three months ended December 31, 2013, the U.S. dollar strengthened against most major foreign currencies we use to transact our business. Relative to the Euro and the Pound Sterling, the average U.S. dollar strengthened by 8.2% and 2.2%, respectively, which decreased our revenues and expenses for the three months ended December 31, 2014 relating to the Euro markets in which we transact business and the United Kingdom. A hypothetical 5% increase or decrease in the U.S. dollar versus other currencies in which we transact our business would have resulted in an increase or decrease, as the case may be, to our revenues of $7.9 million and $16.0 million during the three and six months ended December 31, 2014, respectively.
All percentage amounts and ratios were calculated using the underlying data in whole dollars. We measure constant currency by converting the current period results into U.S. dollars at the average exchange rates in effect for the same period from the prior year.
The Audit Committee of our Board of Directors approved the payment of a quarterly dividend of $0.195 per share of outstanding common stock and per outstanding restricted stock unit. The dividends are payable on March 3, 2015 to stockholders and restricted stock unit holders of record at the close of business on February 19, 2015.
We will host our second quarter ended December 31, 2014 earnings call today at 5.00 p.m. (Eastern Time) – February 5, 2015. The conference call will be webcast live in listen-only mode and can be accessed by visiting the Investor Center section of the Solera website: www.solerainc.com. A webcast replay will be available on the website until 11:59 p.m. EST on February 19, 2015. A live audiocast will also be accessible to the public by calling (866) 953-6860 or from outside the U.S., (617) 399-3484. When prompted, the following access code is required: 25364475. Callers should dial in approximately 10 minutes before the call begins. For those unable to participate in the live audiocast, a replay will be available until 11:59 p.m. EST on February 19, 2015. To access the replay, dial (888) 286-8010 or from outside the U.S., (617) 801-6888, and enter the following access code when prompted: 29555491.
(1) Includes share-based compensation expense of $4.2 million and $9.0 million for the three months ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively, and $14.3 million and $19.4 million for the six months ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively.
(1) Constant Currency Total Revenue Growth represents As Reported Total Revenue Growth for each period converted into U.S. dollars at the average exchange rates in effect for the same period from the prior year.
(2) Constant Currency Organic Revenue Growth represents Constant Currency Total Revenue Growth excluding the incremental revenue growth from businesses acquired since the same period from the prior year.
Solera is a leading provider of risk and asset management software and services to the automotive and property marketplace including the global P&C insurance industry. Solera is active in over 70 countries across six continents. The Solera companies include: Audatex in the United States, Canada, and in more than 45 additional countries; Informex in Belgium and Greece; Sidexa in France; ABZ and Market Scan in the Netherlands; HPI, CarweB and CAP Automotive in the United Kingdom; Hollander serving the North American recycling market; AUTOonline providing salvage disposition in a number of European and Latin American countries; IMS providing medical review services; Explore providing data and analytics to United States property and casualty insurers; Service Repair Solutions, a joint venture with Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, that provides solutions for the service, maintenance and repair market; and I&S, a provider of software and business management tools, third-party claims administration, first notice of loss and network management services to the U.S. auto and property repair industries, specializing in glass claims. For more information, please refer to the company's website at http://www.solerainc.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements about: our ability to provide new and existing risk and asset management software and services to our customers (including but not limited to insurers, OEMs, dealers, and the SMR industry) and our customer's customer to digitally manage the vehicle lifecycle; our expectations regarding our prospects and business outlook for fiscal year 2015; our expectations and beliefs regarding changes in foreign currency exchange rates; our effective tax rate; and statements about our operating performance, including revenue (both total revenue and organic revenue), Adjusted EBITDA, cash EPS, dividends, acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, common stock repurchases, our effective tax rate and other historical results or performance that may suggest trends for our business. These statements are based on our current expectations, estimates and assumptions and are subject to many risks, uncertainties and unknown future events that could cause actual results to differ materially. Actual results may differ materially from those set forth in this press release due to the risks and uncertainties inherent in our business, including, without limitation: our reliance on a limited number of customers for a substantial portion of our revenues; unpredictability and volatility of our operating results, which include the volatility associated with foreign currency exchange risks, our sales cycle, seasonality, global economic conditions, acquisitions and other factors; risks associated with and possible negative consequences of acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures and similar transactions, including regulatory matters and our ability to successfully integrate our acquired businesses; we may not complete any subsequent acquisitions of additional equity interests of SRS; the failure to realize the expected benefits from our joint venture with Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe or our investment in or subsequent acquisition of SRS; our inability to successfully integrate SRS's business, including SRS's existing employees, infrastructure and service offerings, with our existing businesses at reasonable cost, or at all; our inability to pay (or finance, as applicable) the call price or put prices at our expected cost, or at all, and the possible reduction in our cash balance or increase in outstanding debt after payment of the closing purchase price, call price or put prices; successful integration of acquired businesses that operate in industries outside of our core market; risks associated with a diversified business; effects of competition on our software and service pricing and our business; time and expenses associated with customers switching from competitive software and services to our software and services; rapid technology changes in our industry; risks associated with operating in multiple countries; effects of changes in or violations by us or our customers of government regulations; use of cash to service our debt and effects on our business of restrictive covenants in our bond indentures; our ability to obtain additional financing as necessary to support our operations, including Mission 2020 ($2 billion in revenue and $840 million in Adjusted EBITDA by June 30, 2020); our reliance on third-party information for our software and services; costs and possible future losses or impairments relating to our acquisitions; the financial impact of future significant restructuring and severance charges; the impact of changes in our tax provision (benefit) or effective tax rate; our ability to pay dividends or repurchase shares in future periods; our dependence on a limited number of key personnel; effects of system failures or security breaches on our business and reputation; and any material adverse impact of current or future litigation on our results or business, including litigation with Mitchell International. For a discussion of these and other factors that could impact our operations or financial results and cause our results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, please refer to our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the Quarter Ended September 30, 2014. Solera is under no obligation to (and specifically disclaims any such obligation to) update or alter our forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure that represents GAAP net income (loss) excluding (i) interest expense, (ii) provision for income taxes, (iii) depreciation and amortization, (iv) stock-based compensation expense, (v) restructuring charges, asset impairments, and other costs associated with exit and disposal activities, (vi) other (income) expense, net, (vii) litigation related expenses, and (viii) acquisition and related costs. Acquisition and related costs include legal and professional fees and other transaction costs associated with completed and contemplated business combinations and asset acquisitions, costs associated with integrating acquired businesses, including costs incurred to eliminate workforce redundancies and for product rebranding, and other charges incurred as a direct result of our acquisition efforts. These other charges include changes to the fair value of contingent purchase consideration, acquired assets and assumed liabilities subsequent to the completion of the purchase price allocation, purchase price that is deemed to be compensatory in nature and incentive compensation arrangements with continuing employees of acquired companies.
Adjusted Net Income is a non-GAAP financial measure that represents GAAP net income (loss) attributable to Solera Holdings, Inc. excluding (i) provision for income taxes, (ii) amortization of acquired intangible assets, (iii) stock-based compensation expense, (iv) restructuring charges, asset impairments, and other costs associated with exit and disposal activities, (v) other (income) expense, net excluding interest income, (vi) litigation related expenses, and (vii) acquisition and related costs. From this amount, we subtract an assumed provision for income taxes to arrive at Adjusted Net Income. During the three months ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, we assumed a 26% income tax rate, respectively, as an approximation of our long-term effective corporate income tax rate, which is a non-GAAP financial measure that includes certain benefits from net operating loss carryforwards, tax credits, tax deductible goodwill and amortization, and certain holding companies in low tax-rate jurisdictions.
Cash EPS is a non-GAAP financial measure that represents Adjusted Net Income (as defined above) divided by the number of diluted shares outstanding for the period used in the calculation of GAAP net income (loss) attributable to Solera Holdings, Inc. per diluted common share.