The last time you heard from me, I was a little put-out about the American Airlines flights to my brother's wedding in Costa Rica. I implored you, our dear reader(s), to join me in a moment of silent prayer to the deity of your choosing, and my bloggier half encouraged me to place my faith in the lord of arse-kicking: Chuck Norris.
Andrew and I did have to take a cab from LGA to JFK (and our cab driver seemed to share, and even exceed our own feelings of annoyance having to make the trip – he almost made us get another cab!) but we made it to the airport with plenty of time to catch our flight. We even had a moment to grab a beverage at the airport's local watering hole pre-flight! And while we were enjoying our hard-earned brew (beer in Andrew's case, flavored seltzer in mine), we received a phone call that made us feel truly blessed.
Our Costa Rican travel coordinator informed us that the folks who had booked the direct Boston to JFK flight were still stuck in beantown due to equipment issues, and they wouldn't be in NYC in time to make the second flight to Costa Rica! Major bummer for them. Major gratitude-inducer for us.
In the end, our schedule snafu turned out to be the best possible scenario, and we made it to Central America without a problem. Thanks for all your happy travel vibes – somebody up there (the big man, Chuck Norris, or otherwise) was looking out for us after all!
Do you want to hear more about our adventures in CR?
I'm writing to you, our dear reader(s), from Gate B22 at Boston Logan Airport en route to my bro's wedding. Normally I would be in the vacation spirit already, but today I need to vent before I can clear my mind and start to enjoy myself. For those of you that don't know, my brother is getting married in Costa Rica, so when Andrew and I booked our flights last September, we did it directly through the American Airlines website to ensure our reservation would be hassle-free. We'd fly Boston to New York to Costa Rica – easy peasy lemon squeezy.
We checked in nice and early in this morning at Logan for our international flight (or so we thought). But when we got to the ticketing counter, the cranky, dare I say Rhymes-With-Witchy service representative (I am pretty sure her name is Tina but I can't see clearly through the haze of noxious attitude she was spewing into the atmosphere) informed us that we'd be flying from Boston to Laguardia, then we'd have to collect our checked bags, hop in a cab and pay to get ourselves to JFK airport, re-check-in there and fly to Costa Rica.
American Airlines books us to one NY airport and then expects us to get ourselves to the other NY airport (on our own additional dime) for our connecting flight? Not okay. I asked Witchy Tina if she could just put us on a flight to JFK from Logan. She declined. After we got through security, I called AA's customer service line, and they informed me that they could, in fact, put us on a flight to JFK, but we would have to get our checked luggage back, and we'd have to return to the ticketing counter to do so. I left Andrew at the gate with our carry-ons so I could claim and recheck our luggage.
Yup, you guessed it: Tina struck again. She informed me that she could not get any checked baggage back. Despite my assurances that the supervisor at AA's customer service said she could, she flat out refused to find our luggage. If I had any further questions, she said, I should see the agents at the first class ticketing counter. So off I went to the AA Premier desk and informed them of the situation. The lovely lady at the first class desk called Tina for the status, informed her that she could have gotten our luggage back, apologized for Tina's redonkulousness, and began the process of getting our luggage.
In the time it took for fabulous Tina to cause trouble, the last of the seats on the flight to JFK were taken. It was too late. All they could do for us was give us our boarding passes for JFK to save us one step (but we still have to check our luggage).
So here we sit, waiting for a flight to Laguardia where, upon arrival, we'll need to claim our luggage, grab a cab, get ourselves to JFK in a serious hurry, pray to every deity we can think of, re-check in and then get on the flight to Costa Rica.
Earlier this week I called April the "p-word." She was confused, aghast, and denied it wholeheartedly, but I can't help it: I think she's rather "practical." Since we couldn't come to an agreement, we've decided to turn to you, our dear reader(s). We implore you to intervene and decide whether April is practical. You're the judge and jury, and we promise to respect your verdict. Mostly.
Due to finances, April and her hubs had an intimate wedding on the beach with her sister officiating.
Practical: April didn't overspend or celebrate beyond her means; although many couples incur large amounts of debt to put on a fabulous party, April had a small ceremony to mark the occasion.
Impractical: April missed the chance to celebrate with all her family and friends, and therefore missed out on the opportunity to receive super awesome gifts and money.
April clips and uses coupons each week and makes a detailed grocery list.
Practical: She's a money-saving machine in order to help bolster her family finances.
And the last time she went to Kohl's for slippers and a bathrobe, she also purchased socks, a book, shirt, hat and mittens for her son, and baking sheets. She intended to spend $30 and ended up spending $90.
Practical: April didn't go out and buy a new Gucci handbag, Prada shoes and a Burberry scarf. Girl went to Kohl's and "splurged" (if you can call it that) on practical items she and her family need anyway… and she still spent less than $100.
As you may recall, April up and ditched me last spring to return to her "home state" and reclaim her NY-residency.
Impractical: April moved to another state with no job or even job prospects lined up when she was three months pregnant with her second child.
Practical: Although she may not have had a job, her husband did; the move brought them much closer to their families; and the cost of living in NY is much less than in MA.
April recently started a new business venture.
Impractical: Starting a new business venture when you're seven months pregnant isn't a "practical" decision.
Practical: The business is being a Mary Kay consultant, which means April has little overhead, no big risk and an established program to follow with no time-sensitive deadlines. It's not like, at seven months pregnant, this white gal of Italian and German descent with no formal business or culinary training opened an Ethiopian restaurant in the heart of Chinatown!
Dear Reader(s), in just a few more days, my bloggier half will go from swinging single to happily ever after. And I could not be more excited! I love Sarah & Andrew. Look how cute they are!
Love despite a hatred for the other's team.
Even though she's a diehard Red Sox fan and he lives for pinstripes, they've found a way to make it work. I'm proud of them. Personally, I don't know how they do it. I mean, just a couple weeks ago at Schmalex's birthday dinner I may or may not have threatened to torch another guest's car simply because he's a Michigan fan and I happen to be partial to the Buckeyes.
Hoodles, enough about my alleged criminal acts. Wedding bells are set to chime on Sunday. So I"m offering up an early congratulations to my dear Sarah & Andrew. I'm so happy for you both!!!
Dear reader(s), I hope you aren't getting too tired of hearing about my bridal ineptitude. I promise this will all be over in about a month and a half. And thank goodness for that – I'm getting tired of being a lousy bride, and I'm ready to move on to being lousy at something else!
Hoodles, yesterday afternoon I was kindly reminded (if you can call someone emailing "Earth to Sarah" kind… though admittedly, I do appreciate the Zoolander reference) of the tradition dictating that Andrew and I give each other gifts on our wedding day.
Isn't getting hitched and getting those gorgeous (and sparkly) wedding bands gift enough? Apparently not.
It seems that amid all the wedding planning chaos, we are supposed to give each other something "special" and "meaningful" that we can pass down to our future offspring. Talk about pressure!
What do you recommend I give Andrew?
And what do you recommend he give to me?


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Massive Online Classes Expand into K-12
By Ashley Bateman
In 2013, ten million students of all ages participated in more than 1,200 massive, open, online courses offered by more than 200 universities. Known as MOOCs, these online classes once took the TED Talk crowd by storm. Now they're moving into K-12, with Florida in the lead.
"Florida certainly is a harbinger of innovation in education throughout the country," said Michael Horn, cofounder of the Clayton Christianson Institute. "[The state] is part of a new movement that may become big a few years later.… People would be foolish to overlook it."
For a MOOC, students watch video lectures and participate in online discussion boards. Many lawmakers have started to show interest in MOOCs as a way to reduce the cost of higher education, which taxpayers heavily subsidize. Florida legislators are going even farther by supporting MOOCs for K-12 students, Horn said.
"We are trying to figure out how they fit into the K-12 landscape in the long run—not when, but how," said Florida Rep. Manny Diaz (R-Hialeah). "MOOCs are not for every student, but this is customized education, without taking up additional time and [resources.]"
Next Step: Quality Control
A Stanford professor first popularized the MOOC idea, followed by courses from MIT and Harvard University-based companies. With such free online classes now widely available from brand-name universities, the next step is quality control, Horn said.
Tying MOOCs to K-12 assessments and designing quality structures will ensure quality, Diaz said.
"MOOCs now are increasingly about workforce skills and big data and coding, so you could have employer-validated assessments to see if taking [a specific MOOC] actually increases your skills," Horn said.
Florida recently gave Broward College a grant to develop a MOOC to help prepare students for a state college entrance exam that gauges whether incoming college students can bypass introductory courses or need remediation.
Supplementing or Supplanting?
Broward College has been running a college-readiness MOOC since June 2013. The current session has about 3,200 participants, mostly from the United States, but it's accessible worldwide, said David Shulman, the campus president of Broward College Online. Currently the program helps prep for college and does not grant college credit.
The MOOC, which Shulman describes as "self-propelled," incorporates reading, writing, and mathematics. Broward is also considering using MOOCs for faculty professional development.
A main criticism of MOOCs, and the central reason progenitor Sebastian Thrun now says they're not an education game-changer, is many students lose motivation when they don't have strong relationships with the people teaching them.
"I don't think it's a concern," Diaz said. "[MOOCs] require a teacher to create these courses. Also, this is a very narrow group of students—self-directed, self-motivated. Most students still need that one-on-one … [but] this would be in addition to [classes] or could be summer remediation."
"It's another tool in the virtual world," he said. "It's not going to replace the teacher."
Broward is also considering offering a composition course as a MOOC so students can complete it before entering college. Another endeavor would include game-based learning, a concept many tech-minded entrepreneurs are exploring. New software released by New York-based Amplify Corp. has students investigate Edgar Allen Poe mysteries, for example.
Shulman decribes them as "interactive things the students can do that are a little more appealing than the standard text."
Game-based learning can motivate students by tapping into their competitive and playful sides, he said.
Move Over, SAT
As MOOCs expand, they might displace education brand names such as Advanced Placement and SAT by accomplishing similar things at lower costs.
The University of Miami's Global Academy is developing MOOCs for AP Calculus and the SAT Biology subject test.
MOOCS add another tool students can use to get college credits in high school, which saves them, their parents, and taxpayers money, Diaz said.
"It will have an economic impact, especially on working-class families," he said. Homeschooling parents and others who are a good fit for online education have shown "quite a bit of response," he said, citing "parents who would benefit from customized education, catering to a specific group of folks who have children who are able to multitask and be self-directed."
Ashley Bateman ([email protected]) writes from Alexandria, Virginia.
Photo by University of Salford Press Office.
Ashley Bateman
Ashley Bateman writes from Alexandria, Virginia.
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EV Zug's Fabian Schnyder retires
The 34-year has decided to hang up his skates after spending his whole career with the Bulls.
Source: EV Zug
16 July 2020 • 18:25
17 July 2020 • 9:35
Fabian Schnyder
Sidelined for most of the season due to a hip injury, Fabian Schnyder has decided to put an end to his hockey journey. Letting his contract run out, he will not be returning to EV Zug's roster for the upcoming season.
Schnyder was part of Zug's main squad for 17 years. He made his National League debut during the 2003-04 season. Since then, he suited up 873 times in a Bulls-jersey and recorded 125 goals and 151 assists. From 2012 to 2016, he served as the team's captain, and during the 2011-12 season as well as from 2017 to 2020, he was an assistant captain.
"I will certainly miss the daily contact with the EVZ-family, the locker room and the competitive atmosphere. But the many good contacts and friendships will remain and the EVZ will forever hold a place in my hearth," the retiring player comments.
( 16 July 2020 | esi*)
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Die "Grossen Drei" in einer "anderen Liga"


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Review of Peter Kolosimo's "Not of This World" (Pt. 2): In Which the Cthulhu Mythos Is Taken as Real!
I am so glad that I decided to read Peter Kolosimo's early ancient astronaut book Not of This World (1968, English trans. 1970). It is a veritable black hole of fact, sucking in all of the major themes that I talk about in my own work: racism, mistranslation, fabrication, conflating science fiction and fact, and H. P. Lovecraft. Yes, Lovecraft. I was shocked to discover that Kolosimo not only knows of Lovecraft but actually uses his work as factual evidence for ancient astronauts. No more can ancient astronaut theorists deny that they had any inkling Lovecraft lay behind so much of their work since they all cite Kolosimo, who in turn explicitly discusses Lovecraft, apparently considering him to be a secret source of occult history.
I've never seen anything like this, and I can't believe I wasn't aware of this bizarre attempt to, in Kolosimo's words, "support" Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos by martialing all manner of "facts" to prove the reality of the Old Ones. He goes so much farther than Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels ever did in Morning of the Magicians, and he is much more explicit about seeking support in science and science fiction for a Lovecraftian ancient alien invasion.
Last time, I talked about the way Peter Kolosimo seemed to be using science fiction and claiming it as science fact in Not of This World. In so doing, I mentioned that in 2012 Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews caught Kolosimo presenting a pulp fiction story from Adventure magazine as a factual account. As it happens, the very next chapter after where I left off last week is exactly this account of "John Spencer" traveling to Mongolia and encountering supernatural power from the Pleiades in a lamasery. Kolosimo calls Adventure, a pulp fiction magazine, a nonfiction "review"! Despite this story originating in a pulp magazine, later writers copying from Kolosimo have included it wholesale, including Bruce Rux in Architects of the Underworld (1996), Hartwig Hausdorf in The Chinese Roswell (1998), and Cecilia Frances Page in Extraterrestrial Civilizations on Earth (2009).
I wonder, though, if Kolosimo isn't again pulling our legs. Could the "William Thompson" who supposedly told this story in Adventure be a riff on the physicist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin?
He relates this to a passage from Charles Fort's Book of the Damned (1919), but Kolosimo and the translator combined have done a disservice. The translator did not consult the original and translated back into English an Italian translation of the original, mangling it and adding much more connecting tissue that Fort's telegraphic style actually allows. The part in question is about 17 tiny coffins of 3-4 inches in length reported in the London Times of July 20, 1836. Kolosimo, however, can't resist throwing in a lie to go with some facts, so he makes Fort say that which he does not: that a trip to the Gobi desert (Mongolia) could clear up the mystery of the midgets from outer space.
He next discusses shamanic art and asserts that it depicts aliens, followed by more material from the Russian science fiction author Alexander Kasantsev, whom he has now promoted to "Professor Alexi Kasanzev." Kasantsev did publish some nonfiction popular books on UFOs and had been an engineer, but to attribute to him a scientific study of ancient aliens stretches it a bit. Of all Kasantsev's claims the most interesting must be that the Gateway of the Sun at Tiahuanaco depicts "automatic space-craft using solar energy." And to think: Graham Hancock though it showed extinct megafauna!
Following this, Kolosimo introduces what will in the future become Erich von Däniken's most famous claim when he stole it wholesale from Kolosimo or his source: that the coffin lid of Pacal in Palenque shows an astronaut in a rocket ship. Kolosimo suggests that a "white god" was buried in the tomb—yes, he is again emphasizing the Caucasian aspects of the alien deities. Kolosimo is astounded that it would take modern equipment to move the lid and wonders how it got into a space whose entry is narrower than the lid. He apparently can't conceive of building in place. Kolosimo, in turn, borrows the spacecraft interpretation from Guy Tarade and André Millou, writing in October 1966 in the Italian journal Clypeus. Here, however, Kolosimo chooses to be honest about his sources. More of von Däniken's future claims follow, including the Jomon statues as aliens in "spacesuits," again taken from sci-fi author Kasantsev, and the "Great Martian God" petroglyph from the Sahara, found by Henri Lhote.
Kolosimo then borrows material on the Peruvian geological formation of Marcahuasi from Morning of the Magicians (1960) and takes over from Pauwels and Bergier the attribution of the (imaginary) prehistoric statue complex to "white men from the stars," again relating ancient astronauts explicitly to colonialist racism. He concludes the chapter by discussing petroglyphs that can only be seen from the sky and calling the Nazca lines reminiscent of the (imaginary) canals of Mars.
This is the chapter where Kolosimo fabricates the claim that the books of Chilam Balam asserts that white men from the stars descended in flying saucers. He takes much of his material from Harold T. Wikins, the ufologist who wrote Mysteries of Ancient South America, but the printer or the translator mangles the name to "Wilins." Wilkins believed that the Americas had been home to "a humane and civilized race of white men" until the Native Americans ruined everything for white people, leaving them "degenerate."
He next claims that the Micmac god Glooscap was an alien, but we all know that he was really Henry Sinclair, as per Frederick Pohl. He refers to the Micmac as "redskins." He then attributes to the botanist P. H. Davis an investigation into whether Amazon tribes think the aliens will return, but it is Kolosimo who introduces astronauts into a paraphrase of a solar myth.
Some ancient wonders in the sky follow, mostly tales of auroras, sun dogs, meteors, and novae, which he admits can be explained in ways other than alien spaceships. It is all taken verbatim from an Italian magazine article, and much of it is garbled by Latin texts translated into Italian and then into English without reference to the original. Kolosimo of course never consulted the originals. I am amused that the translator assumes Cassius Dio and Pertinax were Italian (Dione Cassio and Pertinace, left untranslated) and the printer, who is apparently an ignoramus, has rendered Pliny's Naturalis Historia (Natural History) as the Naturalist Historia, but I am less amused that the citations are rendered useless by confusing books and chapters within the work. The highlight is probably the passage from Livy preserved in Julius Obsequens (54) that shows up repeatedly in ancient astronaut lore. Here it is as follows: "Near Spoleto a ball of golden fire rolled on the ground, seemed to become bigger and then move (sic) across the ground towards the East—it was so big it hid the sun." Despite the telephone tag of translation, this is remarkably correct. My own translation, direct from the Latin, gives it as "In Spoletium a gold-colored ball of fire rolled down to the ground and, becoming larger, appeared to be carried off from the ground toward the east, concealing the sun with its magnitude." This is especially astounding since our friend Harold T. Wilkins, in Flying Saucers on the Attack, mangles the quote through bad translation.
After some nonsense about the coinage of Pertinax showing a Sputnik-style satellite (it's a stylized star, unclearly struck), we do it all again with medieval wonders in the sky, again mostly astronomical phenomena, along with some imaginary material derived from Roman precedents for appropriate divine signs presaging victory. Much of this material would reappear the next year in Jacques Vallée's Passport to Magonia, but I can't say who was copying whom since I don't know what Vallée wrote in his two earlier UFO books. In describing the medieval legend of the sky sailors who sail the clouds in their boats and make it hail (which he knows from the fictional Rosicrucian novel Comte de Gabalais rather than from primary sources), Kolosimo substitutes "space" for "sky" and "vehicle" for "ship." He also, like Vallée, asserts that Charlemagne passed legislation against aliens. This is utterly untrue and a perversion of the actual law Charlemagne decreed, chapter 65 (or 63, depending on edition) of the Admonitio generalis, which reads as follows: "Let no one among you be a wizard, nor an enchanter, nor a soothsayer. Therefore, we enjoin that there shall be neither prognosticators and spell-casters, nor weather-magicians or spell-binders, and that wherever they are found they either be reformed or condemned" (my trans.). The weather-magicians are what Vallée and Kolosimo, who know the law only secondhand, take for space aliens. Do they really think Charlemagne wanted to "reform" space aliens?
The chapter concludes with a litany of meteors, comets, aurorae, etc. from more recent times, with the insinuation that at least some might be spaceships.
This chapter made the entire book worth reading. It opens with material from H. P. Lovecraft, a mangled passage from At the Mountains of Madness, proving that Lovecraft's shadow extended over ancient astronautics right to its very moment of origin, when the mechanistic paleo-UFO sighting ideas of the 1950s and early 1960s became the New Age alien god myths of the modern era. Have you ever wondered what would happen if you translated Lovecraft into French and then from French into Italian and then from Italian back to English? Now you can find out. Here's just a taste; the "translation" runs for two pages in the book:
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I remembered once more the supernatural myths the vision of which had haunted me from the first contact with this old world of Antarctica; from the demoniacal plateau of Leng, and of the Mi-Go… of the pnackotic manuscripts with their pre-human implications, of the cult of Cthulhu, and of Necronomicon; and finally of the Hyperborean legend of Tsathoggua, that nebulous figure, and the stellar origin associated with it…
I thought again of the eldritch primal myths that had so persistently haunted me since my first sight of this dead antarctic world—of the demoniac plateau of Leng, of the Mi-Go, or abominable Snow Men of the Himalayas, of the Pnakotic Manuscripts with their prehuman implications, of the Cthulhu cult, of the Necronomicon, and of the Hyperborean legends of formless Tsathoggua and the worse than formless star spawn associated with that semientity.
Pauwels and Bergier—Lovecraft's popularizers and translators in Europe—had certainly done their job well, seeding Lovecraftian ideas throughout the ancient astronaut theory. Kolosimo, however, pulls a bit of sleight of hand. Although he seems aware that Mountains is a work of fiction, he does not share this with readers, suggesting that it contains alien truths, although Lovecraft "dabbles in fantasies." He quotes Pauwels and/or Bergier (I think; he gives no source) as approving of Lovecraft's exacting scientific accuracy, creating the false impression that Mountains has an underlying truth. He follows this with a discussion of sightings of strange white things moving in the snows of Antarctica during the Geophysical Year of 1958. Since these sightings don't appear in other sources, I am sorely tempted to attribute them to John W. Campbell's Who Goes There? (1938), which is better known from its movie adaptation, The Thing from Another World (1951). Kolosimo says his source is an anonymous geologist friend, which is not very convincing. He then asserts that a "journalist" named "P. Deville" concluded that Antarctica had been inhabited before the Ice Age and that this legend had been preserved for hundreds of thousands of years. I tempted to say that he is instead rehashing the plot of A Strange Manuscript found in a Copper Cylinder (1888) by James DeMille, about a volcanic tropical paradise located in Antarctica, inhabited by Semitic people since prehistory. A similar tale involves a "Horace Deville" in Valery Brussof's Russian science fiction novel The Republic of the Southern Cross (1918).
Obviously, I can't prove that Kolosimo was fabricating—there might have been a French or Italian article written by a P. Deville—but it seems beyond coincidental that time and again the material he discusses matches very closely science fiction tales. At any rate, his traceable sources are no better; he considers Charles Hapgood's earth-crust displacement idea proven science.
Next Kolosimo passes off H. P. Lovecraft as science fact! He falsely claims that "certain Tibetan texts which refer to the mythical plateau of Leng" have a real existence, and that they were independently confirmed by an ancient astronaut theorist named "William Bennett," of whom I can find no record. On the authority of "Bennett" Kolosimo rehashes H. P. Lovecraft's justification for moving Leng from Asia (where he originally had it as a fictional Tibet) to Antarctica for At the Mountains of Madness.
Following this Kolosimo tells the fictional story of the Green Children of Banjos, which he quotes from John Macklin's Strange Destinies (1965) but attributes to what must have been an excerpt published in the newspaper Grit, since he gives the publication that name. As I previously discussed, Macklin fabricated the story from a Victorian book of fairy stories. He then quotes an apparently non-existent poem by W. B. Yeats called "Caterina" that describes a bird with a stick that Kolosimo says is a spaceship. Perhaps this is a bad Italian rendering of the play Cathleen Ni Houlihan (1902)? Update: As Clay points out below, the text is that of the poem "Byzantium," badly retranslated. How that became "Caterina" I cannot fathom.
He says next that the Irish hero Cú Chulainn is the Mayan god Kukulkan because both are "white." He then attributes the collapse of the Norse Greenland colonies to aliens because he does not understand the concept of climate change. He finishes off by recapping a science fiction story that he does not state is fiction but which cannot possibly be meant as fact in which microbes build spaceships and reactivate human corpses as slaves. I'm not familiar with the story, possibly Italian (he says he assumes his Italian readers have heard of it), but it's similar to Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Wow, this one got even more racist. Kolosimo talks about "redskins" and complains that it "is completely useless to ask old Indians about" anything because "they cannot explain" their own stories. He then asserts that "we don't really know anything about" Native American mounds, so therefore they must have been the work of a superior civilization. He links them to Mexico and South America (which he previously declared the homeland of Caucasian), and he suggests that the Native Americans wiped out a lost advanced culture. Humorously, perhaps, he attributes to the astronomer Edgar Lucian Larkin (which the publisher misspells) passages about an underground civilization beneath California's Mount Shasta taken from Dweller on Two Planets, the "channeled" text written by Frederick S. Oliver in 1894. He then quotes Serge Hutin as claiming that the Chumash of California are a "vanished" race (they're still alive!) and that they had "superior" technology—this despite the fact that we're currently arguing over whether they decided to sew planks together to make wooden canoes because of the Polynesians.
We get claims about how the Jomon are so weird they must have been influenced by space aliens, and some claims that various natural phenomena seen in Japan were really UFOs. He name checks the famed Theosophist H. S. Olcott but doesn't mention that he was a theosophical believer in space aliens, and he takes the Thunderbird of Native American myth—again referring to Native Americans as "redskins"!—as the sonic boom of a metallic spaceship.
This chapter again opens with mangled quotations from H. P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, and the parenthetical says that Kolosimo discusses Lovecraft in more detail in his earlier book Timeless Earth—which I suppose I'll have to check out now. He quotes at length the section of Madness where Lovecraft describes the prehistory of earth, from the creation of shoggoths to the battle between the Mi-Go and the Cthulhu Spawn. He does not at any point indicate that this is not fact but science fiction, and instead goes on to say that he will provide "support" for the idea that "creatures rained from the stars, to hide in the depths of our seas."
He starts by talking about 1950s and 1960s underwater sightings of metallic anomalies and then quotes Robert Charroux, from whom he takes the story of the Mary Celeste, mistaking Arthur Conan Doyle's fictionalized version of the abandoned ship for the actual facts of the case. He talks about various other ghost ships, some of which might actually be real, and he attributes to Sir Anthony Laughton a claim that bipedal creatures walk under the sea. Laughton seems to have been referring to unusual shapes caused by natural phenomena on a sea bed, but I don't know the exact reference to check. He finishes the chapter by implying that the "globster" found in Tasmania in 1960 (which he mistakenly refers to with the date of the Hobart Mercury's original article on the creature from March 1962) is either a Mi-Go or a Cthulhu Spawn. Seriously: He wants us to read At the Mountains of Madness as fact. The globster, a many-ton mass of flesh, was later determined, long after Kolosimo wrote, to be a decayed whale.
As a long time player of Call of Cthulu and related games I haven't seen anything like this since UFO belivers started quoting the Delta Green rulebook in support of Dulce Base.
The author has to have known what he was doing, no one could be that naïve...
CORONA MUNDI
WOW! The Italian to English translation dropped the short
YETI reference? Or is an earlier one guilty as charged? I
thought "Abominable Snowman" was circa the 1950s and not
the 1930s! Even so, subbing Yeti or Sasquatch or Yowie or
Gigantopithicus for the ubiquitous "snowman" is less of a sin
against a great book with its complex lore! I like that quote!!!
J.A. Dickey
For BYZANTIUM the poem by W.B YEATs to be thought of
as belonging to or be about a CATERINA you must assume
as did all ROMANOFF TSARs that they are Constantinople's
heirs after A.D1452 and that he really admired CATHERINE
THE GREAT as a historic figure and also her sense of taste...
Tara Jordan link
"As it happens, the very next chapter after where I left off last week is exactly this account of "John Spencer" traveling to Mongolia and encountering supernatural power from the Pleiades in a lamasery".
Some "influence" from Ferdinand Ossendowski "Beasts Men and Gods"?.
I had not read that book before. It does share remarkable details in common with the story as given in Kolosimo. I wonder if Adventure ever printed it, or if a pulp writer rewrote it in a more sensational way.
On the subject of Geomythology,I recommend reading "The First Fossil-hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times" (Princeton University Press) by Adrienne Mayor
J.A.D
not a mention of Lucian of Samosata and a
Roman voyage across the aether from the
Earth to the Moon in a celestial craft? tis a pity!
Lucian's 79 day sea voyage (west?) from the Pillars
of Hercules sounds neatly like a trip to the Americas.
The moon being reached by a whirlwind is sorta like
OZ being reached by hot air balloon + twister from Kansas.
Jules Verne's characters took 80 days for their global trek!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_History
Oh do toss in Jonathan Swift's hapless Gulliver oh so many
years after Sir Thomas More's most wise Utopia... i now opine!
"The work was intended by Lucian as a satire against contemporary and ancient sources, which quote fantastic and mythical events as truth."
Lucian also debunked the Christians
Anybody yet found the missing passages from the Histories by Praetor Cornelius Tacitus....
We deserved a slamdunk debunking given our "true believers"
and to be fair about this GIANT in the field of science fiction he
also royally zingered Alexander the Prophet. I do think that our
mass media's standards have slipped & this is proof of the
return of H.P Lovecraft's auld&wise&ancient ONES who be of
a NOUS that is unlike that of PLOTINUS!!! Jules Verne is not
as inventive as LUCIAN as he took PLATO's Atlantis + improved
on the same with a withering logic & wit like that of Voltiere!!!
a brief quote by Lucian...
Reference To Jesus Christ
http://www.neverthirsty.org/pp/historical-secular-quotes-about-jesus/lucian-of-samosata.html
The Christians. . . worship a man to this day - the distinguished personage who introduced this new cult, and was crucified on that account. . . . You see, these misguided creatures start with the general conviction that they are immortal for all time, which explains their contempt for death and self devotion . . . their lawgiver [taught] they are all brothers, from the moment that they are converted, and deny the gods of Greece, and worship the crucified sage, and live after his laws. All this they take on faith...
LUCIAN - The Passing Peregrinus
This reference reveals several key things:
1) Christians worshiped Jesus.
2) Jesus was crucified for what he taught.
3) Jesus started Christianity.
4) Jesus' disciples believed Jesus' teachings.
5) Early Christians taught that when one was converted he or she had eternal life.
6) They lived by faith - they believed Jesus.
Lucian of Samosata, On The Death of Peregrini
"The poor wretches have convinced themselves…that they are going to be immortal and live for all time…by worshipping that crucified sophist and living under his laws. Therefore, they despise the things of this world, and consider them common property. They receive these doctrines by tradition, without any definite evidence. So if any charlatan or trickster comes among them, he quickly acquires wealth by imposing upon these simple folk".
Are we looking at similar translations of the same passage?
Lucian's words in translation sorta remind me of some of the
things H.L Mencken wrote in 1925 when he was in Tennessee
as he listened to Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan.
I also faintly hear a cynical skepticism like that of Mark Twain.
Early converts circa the time of Peter and Paul included the
very poor & the very wealthy, the literate and also the barely
educated. Lucian hated con artists & hypocrites with a grand
passion, his FALSE PROPHET essay on a dude going by the
name of Alexander mayhap stops that cult group from having
a success like Early Christianity, curiously enough... i opine!
Of course it's speculation, but I thought perhaps the Yeats poem about a "bird with a stick" might be "Byzantium" from "The Winding Stair and Other Poems" (1933): "Miracle, bird or golden handiwork, / More miracle than bird or handiwork, / Planted on the star-lit golden bough". In the poem, the "stick" (the "bough") is even described as "star-lit".
Clay... you are very correct. I am now thinking over all reigning
odd and even numbered most Byzantine Constantines after
a Pagan Great One let alone the other rulers who be patrons
of the arts, and Yeats's wise poetry, and again i think you are
correct. The sad return translation of HPL almost proves the
point Z.Sitchen made about auld UR, Nineveh and Babylon!
Our good fortune is that we all have precise copies of HPL's
original texts! We all can only say the same about only a few
of the Bible's books & we all must have our moments about
a bland herring!gutting done to Josephus's long manuscript.
Jason hath penned a brilliant essay about the taking of very
descriptive passages out of their proper context. O! to think
Columbus dared to outdo LUCIAN by going west for 80 days!
He realizes he had to avoid all the waterspouts after the vast
Sargasso Sea as he CAREFULLY rations supplies so as to
get to where PLATO assumed a vast empire was or even Asia!
We indeedy know many of Swift's contemporaries read him in
a literal manner, i still think upon Hercules as Atlas Shrugs...
Jonathan Swift had read Lucian of Samosata and was
namedropped by Scott Wolter recently. As Lucian does
pen his first few pages of his True History, Plato's auld
and wise ACADEMY is still open to the monied public
who have curious and ambitious heirs. If Lucian's trip
is a template for both Gulliver & Candide, the satire is
brought in by the whirlwind of a waterspout. Up until then
he looks like he went whereYoung Hercules once was...
Am saying HPL's Ancient ONES spawned the bad harvests
that tumbled many a Celtic chieftain/kynge down from a high
summoning hill into the murky waters of those nearby bogs.
Am saying the rejection of the Hays Office Code is almost a
proof positive for their return in our tymes. its either that or i
recently stumbled across almost 100 episodes of the TV
series DEXTER on Netflix as i wish'd there was a CRIMINAL
MINDs crossover. O! TEMP0REs! O! M0REs! We be decline!
The apex of our Republic's vast Empire was under the "W" --!!!
I do believe you're right. The clincher is the reference to metal in the same stanza, which Kolosimo also mentions. It's maddening trying to imagine the original English from a retranslation of an Italian translation. There's virtually nothing left of the original!
Seems like the globster would make a better case for a Shoggoth than a Mi-Go or Cthulhu Spawn. One would have to squint pretty hard for it to resemble the latter two.
yakko
Wow, I'm speechless! I can track contemporary AA claims back to Sitchin and von Däniken, and to a lesser extent to Pauwels-Bergier and Charroux, and even to Charles Fort, but I had no idea that the *bleep* gets as deep as this. Just when you think you've found the bottom if it, you find out that it's turtles all the way down!
"Some ancient wonders in the sky follow, mostly tales of auroras, sun dogs, meteors, and novae, which he admits can be explained in ways other than alien spaceships. It is all taken verbatim from an Italian magazine article, and much of it is garbled by Latin texts translated into Italian and then into English without reference to the original."
I think the original is a pamphlet written & published in France in 1621.There is another source originating for Pierre Gassendi written in 1641,who extracts personal notes taken from Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peyresc the French astronomer and savant(1580-1637).
abductedbyaliens
I believe Who Goes There? is better known through John Carpenter's The Thing (1982), which is closer to the source material and which is still being debated to this date (who was Thingized at the end: MacReady or Childs?).
It is, but that movie was made long after Kolosimo wrote, so in 1968 the 1951 movie would have been the best known version, albeit set at the north rather than south pole.
Jonathon Howard link
He said the globster was a migo or starspawn when the dirty had shoggoths in it?! I'm beginning to think he didn't even read at the mountains of madness...
Martin Stower
Earliest known appearance of the "Palenque astronaut" trope:
http://www.marianotomatis.it/?page=biblioteca&code=CLYP011&shelf=CLYPEUS
Corrected attribution: Guy Tarade and André Millou.
Kolosimo was a contributor to the same issue.


Amy's Creative Pursuits: Happy Halloween Little Monsters!
Happy Halloween everyone! I don't have a costume to show you as I will not be doing anything for Halloween but I do have some cards to share. I made them for my children and sent them along with some fall treats and a little toy for Alethea.
This is the card I made for my daughter, son-in-law, and their new baby girl. Notice there are THREE little monsters?
These are old vintage Halloween images by Crafty Secrets.
I stamped the main image on a circular panel and then popped it up o dimensionals. I then stamped the sentiment on the main panel, and added the "Little Monsters" sentiments on separate pieces of hand cut card stock.
A little stamped bat in the corner rounded out the card. I used fall patterned paper as an accent and added just a touch of olive green ribbon.
My next card I made for my son. I used Halloween images from the same Crafty Secrets set.
The "Boo To You" sentiment was stamped in purple ink then hand cut, and popped up on dimensionals. The main image panel is also popped up.
The black cat, spider, and spider web were all stamped directly on the main image panel in black ink. I colored the spider in just a little bit.
I had some fun spider web designer paper that I added to the edge of the card for more interest.
And here are my "Little Monsters" all dressed up for a Halloween Party. Ashley and Alethea are both dressed up as ballerinas and Jason is the ballet orchestra conductor.
My son Jordan also went to this same party, but they did not send me a picture of him. I was told he dressed up as Home Improvement guy. Ha-ha!
Haha! Love that your kids went to the same party- I guess your kids live by each other? That is nice! I love the ballerina and orchestra conductor idea! Alethea looks like she wants to nibble on her tulle skirt! lol! So sweet of you to send cards and treats to your kids still!
They don't just live by each other, they live WITH each other. And oh yes, I will never stop sending cards and treats to my kiddos. They are never too old!
Thanks Elli! I don't know if Ashley & Jason plan to enroll her in dance. Ashley didn't take dance lessons, but she took everything else. Jason however took dance lessons his entire life.


Trees are fascinating beings in our environment, they are amongst the longest living organisms and also some of the tallest. They are essential for our existence and yet we treat them with such indifference. Someone once said, imagine if trees would give us free wifi - we wouldn't have to worry about deforestation. But they only give us oxygen.
For these images I have looked for solitary trees both on my travels and near our home, I then took a series of images from different angles and combined them during the editing process into one final image.
This technique places the trees somewhere between a realistic representation and an abstract interpretation of what I have seen when I visited the locations and leaves room for personal perception of what each tree might be.
I find looking at them very comforting.
We will always be a couple of nuts off the family tree.


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Myanmar cemeteries overcrowded, volunteers overworked from deadly third wave of Covid-19
Myanmar cemeteries overcrowded, vol...
YANGON: As Myanmar suffers its deadliest surge in Covid-19 and its citizens suffer from massive shortages in oxygen, bodies pile up in its crematoriums.
"We have to transport around 20 to 30 bodies per day. Some days, we cannot even get them all," said Ko Min Din from the Myittar Thingaha humanitarian group.
Ko Min Din says the large numbers of deaths during the third wave of Covid-19 means that groups like Myittar Thingaha are outstretched and overworked.
"We cannot afford any rest days. We pick up the body, get the death certificate, and send it to the cemetery. When it is our turn, we give it to the cemetery and we leave," says Ko Min Din.
The sheer number of deaths mean that such groups also have to cooperate with each other.
"Even if we are seeing less work at a certain moment, other groups will ask for help. We have to be in contact with at least another group: for instance, if we are picking up two or three bodies in East Dagon, we have to ask others for help. The help goes both ways," says Ko Min Din.
India and Indonesia
Myanmar's neighbour India saw record numbers of Covid-19 cases and deaths during the past few months.
According to a report from the VOA, places across India were burying the dead in mass graves alongside the river or even carry out mass cremations at parking lots as India seen a total of 750,000 deaths so far.
"I've been here since 7am. There are at least 15 ambulances that are carrying two or three bodies each. The eight ambulances over there have been waiting since the morning," quoted the VOA article.
A similar situation in Indonesia, regarded by most experts as the new Covid-19 epicenter.
BBC reports that firefighters now have to carry those that died at home, most of whom live on their own, from a lack of oxygen.
BBC says that while such cases were limited to two or three bodies, there are now at least 20 such incidents since Indonesia started seeing a rising amount of Covid-19 cases in July.
The third wave of Covid-19 is undoubtedly much more brutal than the second one.
The Ministry of Health and Sports (MOHS) had reported its finding of deadlier Covid-19 variants, such as the Alpha, Delta, and Kappa, in Myanmar since the middle of May.
The MOHS had also warned that the variants were found to be much more infectious with one infection in a household would infect the other family members in the household.
Since then, the MOHS's daily reports show that since early July, the number of new cases per day as well as deaths have only grown larger and has been regularly breaking previous records.
Lack of oxygen
The disparity between the supply and demand of oxygen is extremely apparent.
Kale was one of the earliest examples within Myanmar. Volunteer and civil organisations report that funerals have been taking place in every street.
Oxygen cylinders and other equipment were ordered from places such as Yangon, Mandalay and Monywa initially.
Later, Kale locals managed to pool together funds to set up an oxygen plant. The plant, despite being able to pump out 78 units of 40 litre cylinders per day, started its operation on July 9,but had not been able to solve the demand in Kale.
Similarly, Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar, also started seeing the crippling demand for oxygen. Many groups that were previously able to sell or donate oxygen to those that needed it could no longer keep up.
Factories within industrial zones such as those in South Dagon or Shwepyithar also could not fulfil the overwhelming demand.
"I've been waiting since morning. The 40 liter cylinders cannot be refilled anymore and only the 10 and 15 liter ones could be refilled. They say 40 liter refills can only resume tomorrow and for now, I will have to take whatever I can get," said a person queuing up in front of an oxygen plant in South Dagon industrial zone.
Death from lack of oxygen
According to the WHO, around 80 percent of Covid-19 positive patients will suffer from mild symptoms with most of them not requiring hospitalization. However, around 15 percent of them will require oxygen support and the other 5 percent will need to be attached to ventilators.
Volunteer, charity and civil groups within Yangon say that the demand for more oxygen and deaths as a result of not having access to oxygen have been climbing precipitously.
"There are many times where we take the patient in the car and have to go around town to look for oxygen," said a volunteer.
The MOHS's reports state that there were 1,435 deaths from July 1 to 17 from Covid-19.
This is a tremendous spike compared to the beginning of July where only a few dozen were dying each day. By July 13, over hundred people were dying each day.
According to volunteer workers, the actual numbers on ground could be much higher.
"Yesterday, a father and son were both found dead at home. We were called up and informed by the sister of the son. According to her, they definitely were suffering from Covid-19," said Ko Min Din.
The sister in question lost contact with both and upon arrival at their home, found both her brother and father dead.
"There were no injuries. The son died sitting on the chair and the father had passed away on the bed," said Ko Min Din.
Cemeteries are also now flooded with bodies and despite continuous work from the crematorium staff, bodies line up the hallways in the hundreds, waiting to be cremated.
"For today (July 17), we have to keep the body in the car. If it's our turn, we reverse the car in and place the body on a shelf. So it doesn't look too ugly but there is a long line of vehicles now," said Ko Min Din.
He also speaks of difficulty of obtaining documentation and due process for the corpses.
"The authorization for the cemetery can only be obtained around 10am for us. We cannot go to the cemetery without it because the cemetery will only accept the body with that ticket. So by the time we get to the cemetery for the first time in the day, it is already past noon. There are at least 50 cars ahead of us already," said a person in-charge of another charity organization.
Ko Min Din also warns of the danger of more infections at the cemetery itself.
"Some of the family members want to send the dead off. They are not wearing PPEs or other equipment like us. They will be easily infected. And instead of cremation, they should consider burying the dead. Right now, crematorium staff have to pile up bodies and then cremate two to three bodies at a time. The staff are also at risk of being infected. It will be better if the bodies are buried," said Ko Min Din.
As of this moment, there is no way to assess whether those dead bodies arriving at cemeteries across Yangon are from Covid-19 as most groups helping transport the bodies are not able to conduct tests.
However, what is for certain is that the deaths are happening, as proven by scores of volunteer workers scrambling around town to pick up dead bodies from homes.
The sights and sounds of a busy city that is Yangon has all but disappeared, replaced by the blaring sirens of ambulances and vehicles belonging to all charity group.
The streets of Yangon are empty while dead bodies are piling up in the its crematoriums.
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Police are searching for a 39-year-old man who they said burglarized a woman's home and held her at knifepoint Saturday morning.
About 9:45 a.m., officers were dispatched to the 4200 block of South Washington Street to check on a woman. Upon arriving, police saw a man flee from the home. The man was last seen on foot about 11 a.m. near the 4200 block of Bonham Street.
boyfriend, entered her home through the window and held her at knifepoint, authorities said.
Another resident called police after noticing the man was in the home, authorities said.
Police said the man is about 5 feet, 8 inches and weighs about 200 pounds. Police describe him as a black male with short hair, a goatee and a tattoo of a banner with names in it on his upper right arm.
Authorities said he was last seen wearing a gray shirt and blue shorts, but may have changed into a white shirt and khaki pants.
Police said they found and impounded his blue Honda near the Family Dollar in the Southlawn Plaza, 4400 S. Washington St.


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There are many ways to volunteer with the Property Industry Foundation, while also expanding your network and becoming part of our community.
Volunteering with us benefits the organisations we support, the young people under their care and helps us manage our resources efficiently.
Committees - Nominate to join a Foundation committee.
PAExclusive and Community Focus - programs aimed at bringing together Personal Assistants, Executive Assistants, Finance Managers, Legal Assistants, Office Managers, Receptionists, Secretaries, Team and Project Assistants to help the industry rebuld the lives of at-risk and homeless young people.
PropertyBlitz – a program specifically for young community-minded business professionals working in the property industry. The program allows young industry leaders to put forward ideas and become involved in various events and projects to help make a tangible difference to the serious and persistent problem of youth homelessness.
Event volunteering – a great opportunity to be part of the Foundation's work and the community. Volunteering is a great way to become involved with the industry while helping the Foundation with fundraising events.
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Please contact your local PIF office for current committee opportunities in your state.
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The future of your organization is shaped by the people you hire today. And given the pace of change in today's world, not forging ahead means falling behind. As John W. Gardner once said, the "only stability possible is stability in motion." Constantly innovating your market offerings, operations, and culture is an imperative.
Here's the key to this list: diversity. The more diverse the people in your organization, the more points of inspiration it will contain. This enables the creative connections that generate the kinds of innovations that keep you at the fore.
But most hiring processes focus on "cultural fit" and lead to the opposite of diversity. Why? Because when we hire based on how well someone will fit in today, we tend to choose people similar to those already around us.
So how do I hire? My solution is to prioritize cultural contribution over cultural fit. I try to choose candidates who could make a positive contribution to the future of our culture, even if they don't feel like today's mainstream employee. I don't optimize for fit with our existing culture, because over time that will lead to uniformity and irrelevancy. Instead, I try to envision a future where this person's unique point of view has shifted how we work and what we value. I hire for an individual's potential cultural contribution.
Putting engineers together with social scientists and business people almost always leads to breakthroughs that each group could never reach alone. A diversity of knowledge and viewpoints massively boosts their creative output. I see this every year at the Stanford d.school — it's how students there have been able to create remarkable offerings such as Pulse and Embrace.
Encouraging everyone to bring their own particular life experience to work— no matter their educational background, age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, political views, social status, national origin, or spot in the organizational hierarchy — dramatically increases the quality and kind of ideas that emerge. When nurses at Kaiser Permanente were directly involved in a program to improve the exchange of patient information at daily shift, their first-hand insights resulted in massive efficiency gains.
And even more importantly, hiring for cultural contribution forces managers to think critically about their existing culture: What's lacking? Where do we want to go? Acknowledging that our culture needn't be static helps us have serious conversations about what we want and how the world works. Doing so helps us develop a confident awareness of what makes our culture thrive. At the end of the day, an organization with a diverse, creative community living in a self-aware culture can move mountains. Culture eats strategy for breakfast.
Through my own leadership roles and across the hundreds of client organizations I've worked with, I've witnessed firsthand the power of hiring strong cultural contributors. And I've seen how the resulting diversity drives a more innovative, competitive, vibrant, and lasting organization.
When we hire with cultural contribution in mind, we commit to evolve to where we need to go by trusting our newest contributors to take us there. That's a bet I'll make every time.
This past summer we created something called the Bits + Blocks Lab, focused on the blockchain. We've been working on it since December of 2014, so I've learned quite a bit about Bitcoin and the blockchain.
But this is not a post about the blockchain. One of our summer interns, Shuya Gong, who worked in the lab on a design team, wrote a great piece about the insights her summer gave her into the innovation process. I won't publish the entire thing here, but here's a link to a post I made on my LinkedIn Influencer page.


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March for Life 2018: Why We March
On May 10, 2018, thousands of Canadians are gathered in Ottawa to show how much pre-born human rights matter to them. Men, women and children, young and old, take time out of their lives because they care deeply about the lives of others.
It's sad that we've had to do this for so many years, but the fact that so many people show up to the March for Life every single year shows that we're committed to never giving up. This is something that matters too much.
The March for Life is one of the largest marches that happens in Canada annually, and it's always encouraging to see so many pro-lifers gathered in one place. Obviously, human rights matter to a lot of people, and we hope all Canadians will consider why Canada is the only country in the world with zero regulations surrounding the procedure of abortion. Canadians need to consider whether they are actually okay with the status quo. Polls consistently show that the majority of Canadians are unaware of our lack of abortion regulations. When asked directly, the majority supports some legal restriction on abortion.
We advocate for laws that begin to get Canada in line with international guidelines. For example, limiting abortion in some cases, such as banning sex-selective abortions and ending abortions after the first trimester, would be similar to countries like Germany, France and Spain. We also promote informed consent and laws that recognize pre-born children as victims if their mother is killed as a result of violent crime.
All of these steps are building blocks in changing hearts and minds as Canadians find they support these types of regulations. Supporting these first steps indicates an awareness of the humanity of pre-born children, a humanity that we ultimately hope will be honoured with full human rights.
Canadians need to know the status quo, but they also need to know why it is unacceptable. By working together, the pro-life movement can make abortion not just illegal, but unthinkable.
The right to life and the need for change in Canada: these are why we march.
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theres something on my mind, something i wanna try. but it requires time and effort and moving out of my comfort zone. it requires starting from the very bottom and working my way up. actually i may not even be able to get up. but its worth a try right ? i wanna actually achieve something from this idea of mine but im not sure how much time and effort i'm willing to put into this.


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Campaign for Free Expression
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International Blasphemy Rights Day
CFI Leads Coalition Effort to Urge State Department Engagement With Bangladesh Government
April 22, 2016 Marc Kreidler
The Center for Inquiry has led a coalition effort to urge the State Department to strengthen its engagement with the Bangladesh government to ensure that the rights to freedom of religion, belief, and expression are fully protected within the country.
Signatories to this letter incude Freedom House, PEN America, Christian Solidarity Worldwide, the Hindu American Foundation, and the 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative.
The letter, which was sent to Secretary of State John Kerry and Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom David Saperstein, stated in part:
As you might recall, we wrote to you exactly you one year ago (April 22, 2015) with serious concerns regarding deadly attacks on religious minorities, atheists, and secularists in Bangladesh. In particular, on February 26, 2015, Islamic extremists armed with machetes attacked writer and activist Avijit Roy while Roy was leaving a book fair in Dhaka, which he was visiting with his wife, Rafida Bonya Ahmed. Roy, a naturalized U.S. citizen well known in Bangladesh for authoring numerous books and founding the freethought forum Mukto-Mona (Free-mind), was killed; Ahmed, also a naturalized U.S. citizen who wrote prominently on evolutionary biology, was critically injured, but survived. Just one month later, on March 30, 2015, Washiqur Rahman — a 27-year-old atheist who expressed criticisms of religious fundamentalism on social media — was, like Roy, brutally murdered in the same fashion by machete-wielding Islamic extremists.
Disturbingly, what we had hoped would be tragic anomalies have become almost normal in Bangladesh. On May 12, 2015, Ananta Bijoy Das was killed by a group of men armed with machetes in Sylhet; on August 7, 2015, Niloy Neel was killed by a group of six men armed with machetes who tricked their way into Niloy's home in Dhaka, locked his partner in a room, and proceeded to hack Niloy to death; and on October 31, 2015, Faisal Arefin Deepan, a Muslim publisher of secularist books, including those of Avijit Roy, was killed by machete-wielding assailants at his Jagriti Prokashoni publishing house. The same day, three others — Ahmedur Rashid Tutul, Tariq Rahim, and Ranadipam Basu — were seriously injured in a similar attack at the Shudhdhoswar publishing house.
And, just days ago, on April 6, 2016, the pattern continued as Nazimuddin Samad, a student at Jagannath University, was attacked and killed by several suspected Islamic extremists while returning home from class. Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) claimed this attack, as they have several others on atheists in the country.
But perhaps more disturbing than the attacks themselves has been the responses by the Bangladesh government. The government has not issued any formal statements of support for murdered or threatened religious minorities, atheists, or secularists. Few arrests have been made in the recent murders, and no charges have been filed. Several of the attacks occurred in public areas with witnesses, raising serious questions as to how and why suspects have not been identified or charged. And threatened secularist writers and publishers who remain in the country and have requested assistance from law enforcement have been told to self-censor or else leave the country if they desire safety.
The crisis also impacts U.S. foreign interests. While it is true that homegrown extremists have been responsible for most of the violent attacks in Bangladesh, there is no doubt that their activity — and the government's actions, which have fueled extremism or else let it go unimpeded — has created a perfect breeding ground for foreign terrorist groups such as Daesh and AQIS. Indeed, there are now credible reports that these groups have sympathizers operating in the country.
We therefore urge you to continue your engagement with government and law enforcement officials in Bangladesh to ensure they recognize the value of strongly defending democratic values and the fundamental human rights. In particular, we urge you to pressure the Bangladesh government to speak publicly in defense of the rights to exercise freedom of religion, belief, and expression, and to work with law enforcement officials on the ground to ensure threatened individuals and groups are protected, and extremists who are responsible for the murders of minorities are rooted out and brought to justice.
You can read the full letter here.
Ananta Bijoy DasAsif MohiuddinAvijit RoyNiloy NeelWashiqur Rahman
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Hi everyone. Just wanted to give you all a brief heads up that Fedora on PPC as a secondary arch is still alive and kicking and no dead horse! On a more serious note, we've recently been catching up to the current Fedora 15 packages after PowerPC moved to secondary arch status after Fedora 12. This took a while, but thanks to pretty powerful builders and concentrated effort from the PowerPC team we've gotten pretty close to catching up by now. The current focus is to get the installer to work properly again. With the switch to Lorax, the new unified initrd and other changes we hit a few problems recently, but at least we've had a successful install with the latest mash trees on a Power7 machine recently via DVD . Discussions are still ongoing on how to solve the unified initrd size problem though as currently for Power6 or Power5 the new initrd is just too large to ever work, even if it would be better compressed. So we might have to go back to a 2 stage install process for PowerPC at least, but very likely with a dracut based 1st stage then. Due to these installer problems we're probably not going to be able to have an official PowerPC release for Fedora 15, but the goal is to definitely get it done for Fedora 16. Thanks to everyone working on getting PowerPC in Fedora back into shape! For more information, feel free to visit the Fedora PowerPC wiki: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/PowerPC Thanks & regards, Phil  http://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/mnt/koji/scratch/karsten/iso/ -- Philipp Knirsch | Tel.: +49-711-96437-470 Supervisor Core Services | Fax.: +49-711-96437-111 Red Hat GmbH | Email: Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> Hauptstaetterstr. 58 | Web: http://www.redhat.com/ D-70178 Stuttgart, Germany Motd: You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.


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Artistically able: Teamwork, technique help people of all abilities make masterpieces
Artistically able
By Heather Janssen | December 12, 2019 at 6:18 PM MST - Updated December 13 at 5:28 AM
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Art gives so many of the chance to express themselves.
"I can't imagine not painting," Harriet Morton said. She's been an artist for as long as she can remember.
"All my life," she said. "69 years."
Morton is always picking up a brush and creating something unique.
"Why would you go from painting all the time to not?," she asked. "Because what if I couldn't?"
The idea that he couldn't was once a reality for Julian Dombrowski.
"I'm still mourning the fact that I lost to use my hands in that way," he said. Dombrowski grew up with Duschenes, a form of muscular dystrophy.
It's a disease that's taken many things from him over the years.
"I could feed myself. I can't do that anymore," Dombrowski said. "I could also breathe on my own."
The last time he says he was able to create art with his own hands was when he was 16.
"Painting is just something that is near and dear to me," he said. "It purges the emotions."
But in a room at Arts for All off of Oracle Road, Morton taught Dombrowski he can still do anything he puts his mind to.
"We put on the paper what I have in my mind," he said.
That makes everything he creates with Morton his art, even if he's not the one physically painting it. All it takes is a little communication.
"He holds the brush with his words," Morton said.
They've been a team for 17 years.
"She puts it into reality," Dombrowski said.
While Dombrowski uses words, other artists may use the lasers to get their point across.
This teamwork is a part of a program under the Arts for All umbrella.
The goal is to make sure everyone feels artistically able.
"Adapt to your circumstance," Dombrowski said. "You can interpret it however you want."
A lesson both say can be applied to just about anything. Since we all start from the same point, staring at the blank canvas and wondering what to make of it.
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How does the blockchain know who owns what?
The blockchain is a digital ledger that records all cryptocurrency transactions. It is a decentralized system, which means that it is not controlled by any one central authority. Instead, it is maintained by a network of computers all over the world. Each computer in the network, called a node, has a copy of the blockchain.
The blockchain works like a giant accounting book. When a transaction is made, it is recorded in the blockchain. This record is then verified by the nodes in the network. Once a transaction is verified, it cannot be changed or reversed. This makes the blockchain a very secure way to store data.
The blockchain is often compared to a digital fingerprint. This is because it is very difficult to change or delete data once it has been recorded in the blockchain. This makes the blockchain a very reliable way to store data.
Q: Does blockchain prove ownership?
A: There is no one answer to this question as it depends on the particular implementation of blockchain technology. Generally speaking, however, blockchain can be used to verify ownership of assets in a transparent and secure manner. This is possible due to the distributed nature of the blockchain, which allows all participants to see and verify the ownership of each asset.
Q: How are Bitcoin owners identified?
A: Bitcoin owners are identified by their public keys, which are stored in the blockchain.
Q: Who is blockchain owned by?
A: There is no one single owner of the blockchain technology. Instead, it is an open-source protocol that is maintained by a community of developers.
Q: How does the blockchain keep track of users balance?
A: The blockchain keeps track of users' balance by maintaining a record of all the transactions that have taken place on the network. This record is known as the blockchain. Every time a user makes a transaction, the blockchain is updated with the new information. This way, all users can see the updated balance of each user on the network.
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60. related - Genetic relatedness in R - An R package that allows users to estimate pairwise relatedness of individuals based on codominant molecular markers, and also has simulation functions for comparing the performance of different estimators and for testing the resolution of a data set.
61. TopKLists - The package includes tools for inference, aggregation, and visualization of multiple ranked lists. Consolidated information from two or more such lists comprising the same set of objects can be obtained. Incomplete rankings and partial lists are allowed.
62. PhyloConductor - PhyloConductor aims to form a collection of R packages for phylogenetic, comparative, and other evolutionary analysis that is coherent and user-accessible. Initially we focus on comparative phylogenetic methods for the analysis of trait evolution.
64. Circular Statistics - This is the circular package build over the R port of the CircStats package by Ulric Lund from 'Topics in circular Statistics' (2001) S. Rao Jammalamadaka and A. SenGupta, World Scientific.
65. RobKalman - Package robKalman implements several robustifications of rhe classical Kalman filter; a common filtering iterface for all robustifications is provided as well as S4-classes for state space models and filtering results.
66. robust-ts: Robust Time Series - "robust-ts" is a collaborative project to provide robustifications to the basic time series procedures from package stats. A target will be chapter 8 in "Robust Statistics, Theory and Methods" by Maronna, Martin and Yohai; 2006.
67. Rcpp - Seamless R and C++ Integration - The Rcpp package provides a C++ library which facilitates the integration of R and C++. R data types (SEXP) are matched to C++ objects in a class hierarchy. All R types are supported and each type is mapped to a dedicated class.
68. CoreArray - The package provides a high-level R interface to CoreArray Genomic Data Structure (GDS) data files, which are portable across platforms and include hierarchical structure to store multiple scalable array-oriented data sets with metadata information.
69. QCA - Qualitative Comparative Analysis - This package provides functions for performing Qualitative Comparative Analysis (csQCA, tQCA, mvQCA and fsQCA).
70. Spatial ecological data analysis with R - The sedaR project is devoted to the analysis of spatial ecological multivariate data.
71. pi0 estimators - Estimation of the proportion of true null hypotheses (pi0) from a large number of hypothesis tests; Non/parametric recovery of noncentrality parameter distribution; False discovary rates (FDR) computation.
72. randomForest - randomForest provides an R interface to the classification and regression algorithm proposed by Leo Breiman.
73. Hyper-g Priors for GAM selection - This R-package implements objective Bayesian model selection with penalised splines, using a so-called hyper-g prior for the parameters in the generalised additive model.
74. Yasomi: Self-Organising Map in R - Yasomi is Yet Another Self-Organising Map Implementation. It provides an implementation of Kohonen's SOM, with extension to kernel variants and comprehensive visualisation capabilities.
75. Moment and Inverse Moment Bayes factors - Performs model selection based on non-local priors, including MOM, eMOM and iMOM priors. Routines are provided to compute Bayes factors, marginal densities and to perform variable selection in regression setups.
76. Multiple Cue Probability Learning - mcplR offers a flexible (S4) framework to investigate multiple cue probability learning (MCPL). mcplR incorporates a number of learning models (Rescorla-Wagner, GCM, ALCOVE, etc) in a general state-space framework, where new models can be easily added.
77. robustbase - Basic Robust Statistics - R package for "Essential" Robust Statistics: Tools for data analysis with robust methods; incl. regression & multivariate stats; targeting to cover "Robust Statistics, Theory and Methods" by Maronna, Martin and Yohai; 2006.
79. Clustering using convex fusion penalties - An R/C++ implementation of the clusterpath algorithm described in Hocking et al. 2011, for robust convex clustering using sparsity-inducing fusion penalties.


Road verges are an important wildlife resource and an integral part of Devon's heritage. They provide a range of habitats and are increasingly important wildlife corridors for threatened species and pollinators. They also provide one of the only opportunities for us to see wildflowers on a daily basis, in towns and villages, as well as in a largely intensively managed countryside. For more background about the Life on the Verge - Biosphere project and it's goals please click here.
Get involved with the Life on the Verge -Biosphere project and help to protect and conserve these fascinating and vital pockets of wildlife. The first stage is for volunteers to survey verges across the Biosphere to find out which and how many plant species are visible on a particular verge. Once we know this, we can work out the best management techniques to help them into peak condition! This will often involve annual cutting and removal of clippings after the growing season, but might also involved techniques such a green haying or oversowing with local seed.
Our verge survey is designed to be as simple as possible so that even those with no prior knowledge of botany can get involved. There's scope within the survey to show off your skills as they develop and for those with more advanced knowledge of our native plants already. Find all the survey documents you'll need to get you started. Our main priority is to ensure your safety , so please do ensure you read our guidance carefully before heading off to survey a verge. Free training session will be available though the project each summer - so sign up to our newsletter and keep an eye on our Facebook page for further details.
In order to ensure that all volunteers are as safe as possible while working beside the highway, Devon County Council has recently released a free eLearning module on Highways Safety Training. You first need to register your name and email address with hwaymain@devon.gov.uk once they reply to you, login to the eLearning site at www.devon.learningpool.com and search for the course ' Highways Safety Awareness' as 'Self Enrolment'. We would urge all volunteers to complete this training, rest assured it doesn't take long to complete and it will help to keep you and those around you as safe as possible on our roads.
The Life on the Verge Project- Biosphere has appointed local conservationist Jo Pullin to work with communities on road verge management.
Jo Pullin says, "there are some wonderfully rich and diverse road verges in this area and it is great to have this chance to help communities look after them for wildlife and for the benefit of local people and visitors. Life on the Verge - Biosphere has been supported by a £49,300 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). Thanks to National Lottery players, we have been able to help communities to manage roadside verges for wildlife".
Life on the Verge - Biosphere has been supported by a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Thanks to National Lottery players, we have been able to help communities to manage roadside verges for wildlife.


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Уна́ва — пасажирський зупинний пункт (у минулому — станція) Коростенської дирекції Південно-Західної залізниці (Україна), розташований на дільниці Житомир — Фастів I між зупинним пунктом Нова Волиця (відстань — 4 км) і колійним постом Потіївка (5 км). Відстань до ст. Житомир — 91 км, до ст. Фастів I — 10 км.

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Розташований за 1,5 км на схід від села Волиці Фастівського району. Названий за річкою Унавою, що протікає неподалік (близько кілометра).

Відкритий 1936 року як роз'їзд Унава. Пізніше перетворений на станцію. З кінця XX ст. — зупинний пункт. 2011 року дільницю, на якій розташована платформа, електрифіковано.

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6. This quote came from which President's State of the Union Message?
"In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
"The first is freedom of speech and expression-everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way-everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want-which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants-everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear-which translated into world terms, means a worldwide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor-anywhere in the world."
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