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NOTHING WAS THE SAME
Kay Redfield Jamison
From the internationally acclaimed author of An Unquiet Mind, an exquisite, haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss.
Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison—who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with a writerly elegance and passion—could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer. In direct, straightforward, and at times strikingly lyrical prose, Jamison looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist who battled debilitating dyslexia to become one of the foremost experts on schizophrenia. And with her characteristic honesty,
Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison—who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with a writerly elegance and passion—could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer. In direct, straightforward, and at times strikingly lyrical prose, Jamison looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist who battled debilitating dyslexia to become one of the foremost experts on schizophrenia. And with her characteristic honesty, candor, wit, and simplicity, she describes his death, her own long, difficult struggle with grief, and her efforts to distinguish grief from depression.
But she also recalls the great joy that Richard brought her during the nearly twenty years they had together. Wryly humorous anecdotes mingle with bittersweet memories of a relationship that was passionate and loving—if troubled on occasion by her manic-depressive (bipolar) illness—as Jamison reveals the ways in which her husband encouraged her to write openly about her mental illness and, through his courage and grace taught her to live fully.
A penetrating psychological study of grief viewed from deep inside the experience itself, Nothing Was the Same is also a deeply moving memoir by a superb writer.
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About Kay Redfield Jamison
Kay Redfield Jamison is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and codirector of the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center. She is also Honorary Professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is the author of the national best sellers An Unquiet Mind and Night Falls Fast, as well as Exuberance and Touched with Fire; the coauthor of the standard medical text on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; and the author or coauthor of more than one hundred scientific papers about mood disorders, creativity, and psychopharmacology. She is the recipient of numerous national and international scientific awards and of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship.
"To write the truth with such passion and grace is remarkable enough. To do this in loving memory of a partner is tribute indeed."—The Washington Post
"A soul-baring love letter."—Kirkus Reviews
"This is a finely told midlife love story, a romance as elegant as it is doomed . . . What a couple she and her husband . . . made! . . . Jamison writes simply and believably."—AARP Magazine
"The great gift Jamison offers here, beyond her honesty and the beauty of her writing, is perspective: a cleared-eyed view of illness and death, sanity and insanity, love and grief . . . To write the truth with such passion and grace is remarkable enough. To do this in loving memory of a partner is tribute indeed."
How does the prologue set the stage for Jamison's investigation into grief? What does it convey about the narrative method she has chosen to employ? Does her expertise as a psychologist color her description of her immediate reaction to her husband's death?
What personality traits contributed to Wyatt's ability to deal with dyslexia? How did the circumstances of his childhood affect not only his intellectual development but also his ambition and choice of career? Does his experience with dyslexia both as a child and an adult provide insight into learning disabilities and how they are generally perceived?
Jamison writes, "We were temperamentally different in critical respects—his passion for work over people; my intensity and less settled ways—but at the start of our life together it was my manic-depressive (bipolar) illness that created the greatest misunderstanding and discord." To what extent does Jamison's illness determine the nature of their relationship? What are the implications of her saying, "I could live with my mercurial moods, but it was not clear that someone else could, or should"?
What emotional and intellectual factors play a role in Wyatt's response to Jamison's illness, as well as his mechanisms for dealing with troubling incidents? What does his decision to keep antipsychotic medication at hand demonstrate about the conflicting pulls of trust and uncertainty in their marriage? Are Jamison's feelings of betrayal justified? Does Wyatt's response—"I am imperfect. . . . You are imperfect. . . . Love is imperfect"—define the foundation of successful marriages and relationships?
Jamison writes, "He kept fastidious notes on everything he could measure. . . . I clearly had become a project to him, one that was useful in figuring out patterns in my illness, as well as creating enough interest to keep his mind engaged." Do scientists and doctors address serious illnesses differently from non-scientists? What are the benefits to both patient and caregiver of an objective approach like Wyatt's? Is there a negative side as well? What, for example, might be the unintended effects of regarding a patient as a "project"?
"My brain, as Richard explained it to himself and to me, was a delicate ecosystem . . . which was kept alive through a finely honed mix of lithium and love and sleep, or as he imagined it, 'water grasses and dragonflies, and a snail or two to tidy up.'" This is one of several metaphors for illness that appear throughout the book. What does the use of metaphors, analogies, humor ("[Richard] had, as he put it, the fine motor coordination of a clam"), and other devices reflect about the way we deal with disabilities or illness?
Jamison records Wyatt's physical reaction to chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant in graphic detail and also describes his emotional state, writing "he remained imperturbable and wryly engaged with life. . . . He did what I had always known him to do when he was hurt or worried: he turned inward, to his imagination." How do his experiences compare to that of cancer patients you have known? Why do some patients manage the effects of cancer treatments better than others?
In writing about his impending death, Wyatt says, "Certainly there were many times I did things that hurt others or committed sins of omission, but by my accounting I stayed ahead and feel I am still ahead. For me, not being in debt means I do not have to be concerned about death." Do you agree with the sentiments he expresses? What other aspects of a person's life would you add?
What do her trips to California represent to Jamison? In what ways do they reflect her inner journey and her acceptance of the inevitability of Wyatt's death?
"I realized that it was not that I didn't want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn't why I wanted to go on. It would have to be an act of faith." Talk about how memories of Wyatt, the consolations of friends, and Jamison's ability to imagine "a different way of being together" all help sustain her during the early days after Wyatt's death. What other resources does she draw upon?
In the chapter that takes its name from Freud's famous essay, "Mourning and Melancholia," Jamison explores the things that depression and grief have in common and those they do not. What do you see as the most salient differences between the feelings of loss suffered in depression and in grief? How do the words of C. S. Lewis, Robert Lowell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Graham Greene, Tennyson's In Memoriam, and Freud himself help clarify the ways individuals and society have learned to deal with grief?
Are Wyatt's and Jamison's attitudes influenced by their ability to take advantage of medical advice and breakthroughs not available to others? What does their story demonstrate about America's medical system? What does it reveal about the possibilities, as well as the limitations, of modern medicine?
How much do Jamison's needs as a wife and a widow affect her descriptions of Wyatt? How does she enhance and expand upon her personal feelings to capture Wyatt as a beloved man and respected professional?
If you have read An Unquiet Mind, in what respects is Nothing Was the Same a sequel? What themes or message emerge in both books? In what ways has Jamison changed in the years since An Unquiet Mind and what accounts for those changes?
The book's title comes from the poem by Stuart MacGregor that appears at the beginning of the book. What images and allusions in the poem make it particularly apposite to the story Jamison tells?
Does Nothing Was the Same transcend Jamison's personal story to illuminate the universal experience of grief? What practical guidance and emotional insights does the book offer to readers?


At last, only 24 years after it was first published, I've finally got hold of a version of Banks's extraordinary first novel with a reader who does it justice. It isn't often that I have to abandon an audio because the reader is driving me to distraction - beggars can't be choosers - but there are a few authors whose novels simply don't make sense without the right person reading them. This is one of them. It's the story of 17-year-old Francis Cauldhame, whose family makes the Starkadders sound run-of-the-mill. At three, Frankie was savaged by a dog, losing most of his genitalia; by the age of nine, he had killed three young relatives, recalling his part in their deaths with the amused nostalgia usually reserved for anniversaries and reunions. His older brother, Eric, has just escaped from the mental asylum where he's been locked up for setting dogs on fire, and, while he waits for the renegade to show up, Frankie carries out his daily ritual of torturing wasps and inspecting his "sacrifice poles", topped with the skulls of animals he has throttled, stabbed or shot. No, it doesn't sound funny, but believe me it is - it has to be, otherwise it would be too grim to contemplate. Peter Kenny is the one reader (I've heard five) who brings out Banks's glorious sardonic wit. Good things are worth waiting for.
In an alternate universe, an organization called The Concern is run by people who "flit" from body to body and world to world. They work, ostensibly, for the betterment of mankind, but the heads of the organization are attempting an enormous power grab while a rogue member works desperately to stop them. Peter Kenny gives a virtuoso performance, juggling multiple narrators of various genders, ages, and accents. American, British, Scottish, Russian, French, middle European—his mellow tenor handles all these accents and ensures the listener is never lost for a moment. Kenny also helps the listener keep track of all the twisty threads as they weave together the intricate story. This is speculative fiction at its finest, with a narration to match. G.D.


Should You Think About Buying J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. (NASDAQ:JBHT) Now?
J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. (NASDAQ:JBHT) saw a significant share price rise of over 20% in the past couple of months on the NASDAQGS. As a large-cap stock with high coverage by analysts, you could assume any recent changes in the company's outlook is already priced into the stock. However, could the stock still be trading at a relatively cheap price? Today I will analyse the most recent data on J.B. Hunt Transport Services's outlook and valuation to see if the opportunity still exists.
What is J.B. Hunt Transport Services worth?
According to my relative valuation model, the stock is currently overvalued. I've used the price-to-earnings ratio in this instance because there's not enough visibility to forecast its cash flows. The stock's ratio of 25.14x is currently well-above the industry average of 18.07x, meaning that it is trading at a more expensive price relative to its peers. But, is there another opportunity to buy low in the future? Since J.B. Hunt Transport Services's share price is quite volatile, this could mean it can sink lower (or rise even further) in the future, giving us another chance to invest. This is based on its high beta, which is a good indicator for how much the stock moves relative to the rest of the market.
What does the future of J.B. Hunt Transport Services look like?
Investors looking for growth in their portfolio may want to consider the prospects of a company before buying its shares. Although value investors would argue that it's the intrinsic value relative to the price that matter the most, a more compelling investment thesis would be high growth potential at a cheap price. J.B. Hunt Transport Services's earnings over the next few years are expected to increase by 62%, indicating a highly optimistic future ahead. This should lead to more robust cash flows, feeding into a higher share value.
Are you a shareholder? It seems like the market has well and truly priced in JBHT's positive outlook, with shares trading above its fair value. At this current price, shareholders may be asking a different question – should I sell? If you believe JBHT should trade below its current price, selling high and buying it back up again when its price falls towards its real value can be profitable. But before you make this decision, take a look at whether its fundamentals have changed.
Are you a potential investor? If you've been keeping tabs on JBHT for some time, now may not be the best time to enter into the stock. The price has surpassed its industry peers, which means it is likely that there is no more upside from mispricing. However, the positive outlook is encouraging for JBHT, which means it's worth diving deeper into other factors in order to take advantage of the next price drop.
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Jammu And Kashmir Approves 10% Reservation For Economically Weaker Sections
The amendment will provide for 10 per cent reservation to Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in educational institutions and direct recruitment in civil posts and services not covered under the scheme of the reservation for SCs, STs and OBCs.
All India | Press Trust of India | Updated: June 20, 2019 23:51 IST
Union government extended 10% reservation to the persons belonging to Economically Weaker Sections.
Srinagar:
The Jammu and Kashmir government Thursday approved the reservation (second amendment) bill incorporating 103rd amendment of the Indian constitution to provide 10 per cent reservation to economically weaker sections in jobs and educational institutions.
"The State Administrative Council (SAC) which met here under the chairmanship of Governor Satya Pal Malik approved the ''Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Second Amendment) Bill, 2019'' for incorporating provisions for implementation of the 103rd amendment of the Indian Constitution," an official spokesperson said.
The Union government extended 10 per cent reservation to the persons belonging to EWS, who are not covered under the scheme of reservation for SCs/STs/OBCs in terms of Constitution of India (103rd Amendment) Act, 2019.
Subsequently, on the recommendations of the state government, the Centre extended the said Act to Jammu and Kashmir vide Presidential order on March 1 this year. The Act provides that total percentage of the reservation shall in no case exceed 50 per cent.
Presently, 46 per cent reservation is being extended to various classes.
For the implementation of 103rd amendment of Constitution of India to provide for 10 per cent reservation, an amendment to the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Act, 2004 was necessary.
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Starting school or preschool can be a bit scary. Even the most confident child can baulk at a playground full of unfamiliar faces. Like most parents, I have anxiously (but sounding nonchalant) asked my kids "Who did you play with at lunchtime?". To be answered with "No one" fills any parent with dread (although, according to my survey of mums at the school gate, apparently all our children are playing with 'no one' every lunchtime!).
Let author Mélanie Watt and the sweetly anxious Scaredy Squirrel help you through new experiences. Watt has created a number of delightful characters including Augustine the penguin, Chester the cat, Leon the chameleon and Al, a fox that won't take 'no' for an answer. However, it is timid Scaredy Squirrel that wins my heart. Scaredy Squirrel is committed to routine until one day he is forced to take a risk and the results are extraordinary (he discovers he is a flying squirrel).
Scaredy narrows down his list and settles on a goldfish as his potential new friend. Goldfish have qualities that appeal to Scaredy including 'bubbly personalities', being 'squeaky clean' and importantly having 'no teeth'. But something happens that forces Scaredy to re-evaluate his list, and the animal that wants to be friends with him has a 'wet doggy smell', 'germs' and teeth! Scaredy learns that you can't always judge a potential friend by their appearance.
I love Scaredy's endearing, nervous grin and my kids love his funny lists and neurotic plans. For example, "A few items Scaredy Squirrel needs to make the Perfect Friend: lemon, name tag, mittens, comb, mirror, air freshener, toothbrush, chewtoy." These stories are funny, but don't make fun. The stories are simply drawn and simply told, yet the message is sophisticated and perfectly pitched for risk-averse three- to seven-year-olds. It's rare to find a funny book about fear, but Scaredy Squirrel is it.
Mélanie Watt's books are available through Fishpond and range in price from $14.95 to $23.97.


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ABS BROADCAST Integrates Cinegy Air PRO into Playout Platform
ABS BROADCAST is one of the largest independently owned playout and television service providers in Europe, and supplies broadcast channel management and delivery services to major channels around the world.
ABS BROADCAST Head of Technology and Engineering Mukund Patel recently had to address the growth and changes occurring within the company's core playout business. He said, "The growing demand for our playout services, and playout worldwide, meant that we couldn't continue to simply buy and maintain racks upon racks of servers. An IP-based approach has now emerged as a potentially better way to handle operations."
At first, Mukund wasn't necessarily ready to jump wholesale into IP playout. He said, "I knew we needed to think about the future and who we were going to partner with, and looked for an experienced company to work with in that environment," he said. Subsequently, the company chose to work with Cinegy, and has installed Cinegy Air PRO, Cinegy Multiviewer, Cinegy Archive MAM and integrated newsroom, Cinegy Studio PRO and, for graphics, Cinegy Type real-time CG and branding.
Air PRO is a real-time playout server, and works with integrated, multi-channel broadcast automation software as a front-end and video server for SD, HD and/or Ultra HD playout. It combines a control panel and playout engine with an interface for controlling one or more playout channels connected via TCP/IP communications protocols. Remote or local users can use it to control channels playing to air, or to plan schedules, program and commercial blocks offline.
The system can play mixed format and mixed resolution content, as well as un-rendered edit sequences, straight to air and simultaneously output via SDI and/or IP streams. Cinegy Studio PRO is the software control panel that connects to Cinegy Archive integrated MAM and newsroom software, and is then used to control up to four independent playout engines along with the Cinegy Type graphics.
All of these modules have now been integrated with ABS BROADCAST's own ABSolute Delivery Platform. This delivery platform is the access point to ABS' services, ranging from standards compliance to live programming, that their customers use to broadcast from any location to any territory. They can connect any production studio directly into a channel's playout for broadcast.
ABS says they developed their ABSolute Delivery Platform while keenly aware of the need to standardise IP delivery, file formats, loudness and so on in order to maintain and regulate video quality. The complex nature of fast turnaround channel management has made setting standards a challenge, however, and led ABS to develop tools ensuring that content is suitable for broadcast, for example, and reducing the risks of running a TV channel.
About the ABSolute platform's integration with Cinegy, Mukund Patel said, "In addition to lowering power consumption and the amount of rack space required, we now play out multiple channels for one of our customers using a single RJ45 cable." www.cinegy.com
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I know the old Wiimmfi FC Uploader used to be able to find&upload the FC - if that's no longer accepted, then some sort of home-brew that can read out FCs from various save games would be immensely helpful, especially with Set FC.
Mushroom Peaks is about 90% not going anywhere; it's not the best of tracks but it's nostalgia. Furthermore, you can download the updates to your SD from chadsoft.co.uk if you need to install updates en masse. The Wii HW is 4Mbps down at best, that's not gonna be fun to download any huge updates on.
I think @Leseratte could help here with removing times.
Quote from Leseratte: "That is something you should do anyways. But I don't know enough about Dolphin if that makes it behave exactly like the console to "fool" Wiimmfi into thinking it is the same console as the Wii. " If MAC and NAND are set properly, the server sees you as the regular console - WirelessMac is exactly what is sent to NAS.
Quote from Frost3227: "Quote from Zachruff: "Sor just allow moderators to moderate the leaderboards lmfao " except Quote from Leseratte: "Removing cheated times requires us to manually go through the database and isn't done with a single click of a button. " " So implement a UI for moderators to do said database change, since everything is a database change.
While I understand why you'd think to do this, if you just state "There is no Korean release" when attaching the file (but still filling out the file with all ID3s) it makes Wiimm's life a lot easier. Thanks though!
Quote from DarkspinesBahalul: "What server does Leaderboards use? " For which game? usually, GAMESTATS.
No, the Pretendo project is a separate set of people.


2018 was supposed to India's year of dominance. Three overseas tours to South Africa, England and Australia were the perfect opportunity for the Indian cricket team to claim uncharted territories and make their case for being one of the best teams of all-time. Instead, with two disappointing series losses against South Africa and England, India look to its tour Down Under in hopes of redemption. And that's why India's series against West Indies is so crucial. While the series in itself might not be that hotly contested, it will still shed a lot of perspective on where the Indian team stands currently and what next.
West Indies on the other hand come at the back of a successful home season where they drew a Test series against Sri Lanka before drubbing Asia Cup 2018 finalists Bangladesh 2-0. While most of the West Indies team is touring India for the first time, the return of experienced players like Kemar Roach will add a lot of firepower to the squad.
All eyes will be on India's starting XI tomorrow with new call ups grabbing all the headlines. The big question will obviously be who opens the batting? Both Shikhar Dhawan and Murali Vijay who opened for India in the first Test in England don't even feature in the squad. KL Rahul who showed glimpses of excellence in England looks like he is the mainstay at the top of the order while Prithvi Shaw and Mayank Agarwal will be vying for the other spot.
But according to latest reports, India have named their 12-member squad and 18-year-old Prithvi Shaw looks set to debut as Agarwal, Hanuma Vihari and Mohammed Siraj miss out. Captain Virat Kohli who did not feature in India's Asia Cup victory comes back to the side alongside Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane and Rishabh Pant who will be the wicketkeeper. With Hardik Pandya rested, it looks like India will go back to the five bowler combination, something that received a lot of criticism in England. Ravi Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami and Umesh Yadav will be spearheading India's bowling challenge.
West Indies on the other hand are a young and bright side that has had quite an eventful 2018 and will be hoping to carry on that form in the subcontinent. Led by Jason Holder, West Indies got the much-needed boost with the return of Kemar Roach who will form the pace attack with Shannon Gabriel and the skipper. The key man for West Indies, however will be Devendra Bishoo who is capable of troubling batsmen in such conditions.
India vs West Indies 1st Test Match Predictions: Who will win the India vs West Indies match?
According to reports, India have explicitly asked for bouncy pitches for both the Test matches against West Indies. While we can only pity with the local ground curators, the intent from the Men in Blue camp is clear. India has one eye on the Australia tour and are determined to do good next month. But having said that, the series against West Indies will be anything but a cakewalk for the Indian cricket team. West Indies are a quality young side and can prove to be slippery grounds for the World No.1 side. Our money is on India to win it comfortably and hopefully see some inspired performances from the likes of Shaw.
India vs West Indies 1st Test live will be telecast on the Star Sports Network while you can also stream the matches live on Hotstar Premium. To get a premium subscription on Hotstar, you will have to register and pay a fee of ₹199 for a month.


Mission Statement of the Chemistry Center: The Chemistry Center provides a positive space where students can interact with Chemistry course material in unique and meaningful ways. Student learning will be facilitated by interactions with Chemistry Center instructors and with peers, focusing on both cognitive and affective domains.
The Chemistry Center is back in Salem Hall!
Come check out the new permanent home of the Chemistry Center, located on the first floor of Salam Hall. This space has whiteboards on every wall, a touch screen TV, all situated in an active learning classroom.
The Chemistry Center instructors are both Chemistry graduate students and undergraduate students who are majoring in Chemistry. Instructors will provide assistance in learning chemical concepts, problem-solving strategies, and answer general questions. They will provide students with additional learning resources and limited help using digital homework platforms.
The Chemistry Center instructors WILL NOT answer problems from homework assignments, take-home exams, or any problem sets that will be graded. However, they can work on similar types of problems provided by the student.
Drop-in tutoring for LECTURE material will be available Sunday-Thursday from 5-9 PM for CHM 111, CHM 280, CHM 122, and CHM 223.
Supplemental Instruction will be available for certain lower-division course this Spring. Below are the Supplemental Instruction leaders. If your lecture section is not represented, you can contact another section's SI leader to get information about when and where SI sessions are taking place.
Please use the iPad kiosk to check-in and to check-out of the Chemistry Center. It's fun and easy and you might just win a prize.
Congratulations to Dr. Welker's Supplemental Instruction students (and Lee Mendenhall, SI Leader) for a narrow victory at the Organic Chemistry Trivia night, Spring 2016.


The terms concrete and cement are commonly interchanged when describing a solid surface made from these substances. If your neighbors need a new patio, whether they tell you it's going to be made of cement, or they call it a concrete patio, your vision of the finished product may be the same. You understand that they are getting a patio in a pourable form that will harden and become a stone-like material. In actuality, however, your neighbors are strictly putting in a concrete patio, because there is a huge difference between concrete and cement.
As mentioned in our article on "How Cement is Made," concrete is not cement. Concrete contains cement. For example, if your neighbor installed a driveway made out of 100% cement, they would soon be parking at your place, because that driveway would not last long. Cement needs reinforcement to have the strength of concrete.
Therefore, concrete is a combination of materials that create a long-lasting product. Commonly, concrete is made of up to 8% air, 7-15% Portland cement, 14-21% water and 60-75% aggregates. The ratio is critical to the hardiness of the finished concrete. The mix of the aggregates, and the ratio of the individual components, can be adjusted to meet the expected use of the concrete and the temperature and weather when it is poured and finished.
Aggregates are gravel or crushed stone. This ingredient is essential to give concrete strength and durability. Without the proper amount or variation of aggregate sizes, the dried concrete would crack easily and not be able to support much weight. For decorative concrete, pebbles are often used as the aggregate.
Portland cement is not a brand name, but a generic term for a powdery, manufactured substance consisting of limestone, clay, gypsum, and other trace ingredients. Portland cement is relatively inexpensive to produce and is one of the most versatile construction products in the world.
Water chemically combines with elements in the cement to create calcium silicate hydrate. This gel-like substance is what binds all of the components of concrete together. With too much water the concrete lacks strength. Add too little and it does not flow properly, dries too quickly and is difficult to shape.
When you mix cement, water and aggregates to make concrete, the proportions are thus essential, even for a simple backyard project. For massive endeavors such as skyscrapers, dams and public works, the stakes are high and lives depend on the durability and longevity of the final product. When mixed, formed, poured and leveled properly, concrete is as strong as stone and adaptable for many purposes. Concrete is literally the rock-hard foundation of modern construction.
So if your neighbor asks you to comment on their new cement patio, you can tell them in "concrete" terms that it looks great, but that they are using the wrong word. That correction should hopefully "cement" a good bond between you. And if they want their patio to look even better, recommend California Custom Coatings to provide an epoxy coating that will further strengthen, beautify and preserve their investment.


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The Reality of Justice John Paul Stevens
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By Deborah Pearlstein
July 17, 2019 2:46 p.m.
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It is more than a little painful to think today about how Justice John Paul Stevens would have handled some of the cases that have proven so vexing for the current Court in the era of Donald Trump.
He would not, for example, have struggled much to recognize that the reason offered by the Commerce Department for adding citizenship to the census was a pretext. There was no evidence in the record in that case that administration officials were genuinely interested in enforcing the Voting Rights Act, as it claimed; there was plenty of evidence elsewhere that administration officials had an entirely different agenda in mind.
Neither would Stevens have hesitated to see through the administration's claims that the President's order banning entry of certain foreign nationals into the United States was supported by the national security justification the President's lawyers offered in its defense. Trump had campaigned and won on a platform that included overt religious discrimination. Stevens would have found it impossible to ignore that reality. It was his lifelong custom as a lawyer and judge: he always started with the facts.
Proof of Stevens' commitment to taking the cases as he found them — in all their messy truth — is everywhere in his jurisprudence, perhaps most striking in what was at the time his shocker of an opinion for a 5-3 majority in 2006's Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. The Court there struck down President George W. Bush's novel system of military commission war crimes trials at Guantanamo Bay as beyond the President's power under law. Among other things, Justice Stevens explained, Congress had years earlier passed a law providing that the rules for any war crimes trials had to be the same as those available in ordinary, A Few Good Men-style courts martial, unless having the same rules actually proved "impracticable."
As conventional wisdom had it at the time, questions like what process was "practicable" for trying alleged enemy fighters was tailor made for the President — not the courts — to decide. The executive branch had special expertise in such matters of national security, and was most especially entitled to deference on such matters when there was still a war on. The laws are not "silent in time of war," Chief Justice Rehnquist had written before his death the term Hamdan was decided, "but they will speak with something of a different voice."
Justice Stevens himself had more than ample reason to embrace such claims of deference to executive branch views. The Court's last remaining World War II veteran, a naval cryptographer decorated with a Bronze Star for his work, the justice knew more acutely than any of his colleagues about the value of military expertise. More, the justice has written what no doubt remains among the most cited Supreme Court decisions of all time, his publicly obscure but legally pivotal 1984 opinion in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, holding that when an act of Congress is unclear, judges should usually defer to the executive agency's interpretation of the law rather than impose their own estimation of what Congress meant.
But in the face of the President's claims in Hamdan that the danger posed by international terrorism demanded rather fewer rights for war crimes defendants than the law might otherwise require, Justice Stevens found the evidence lacking. Without "for one moment underestimating" the danger of terrorism, the justice wrote, the President could point to "no specific reason in the record" that ordinary court martial rules would not work. "There is no suggestion, for example, of any logistical difficulty in securing properly worn and authenticated evidence or in applying the usual principles of relevance and admissibility." And all around the record — amicus briefs and reports making clear that the administration had adopted the commission rules over the objections of executive branch experts, and of senior military leaders including the Army judge advocate general himself. To any consumer of reality, the right outcome was clear.
Justice Stevens admired John Roberts when he appeared as an advocate before the Court, as Roberts often did before he was appointed to take the late Chief Justice Rehnquist's seat. Stevens thought Roberts a wonderful lawyer; it was among his highest forms of praise. The justices, of course, disagreed regularly and mightily after Roberts joined the bench. But that would hardly have stopped Stevens from endorsing, with the strength of a lifetime's commitment, Roberts' decision to vote against the President in the census case on the grounds that the Commerce Department was lying about its aims. The Court, Roberts quoted, is "not required to exhibit a naiveté from which ordinary citizens are free."
Anachronistic it may seem, but Justice Stevens believed in such a thing as fact. And he believed it mattered, above all, to law. Would that we had him on the bench still.
Deborah Pearlstein is Professor and Co-Director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy at Cardozo Law School, where she teaches constitutional law, international law, and national security law. Her work on national security and the separation of powers has appeared widely in law journals and the popular press, and she has repeatedly testified before Congress on topics from military commissions to congressional war powers. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, Pearlstein clerked for Judge Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, then for Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Surging Australian beef exports to exceed last year's record
Amy Forde
Aug 30, 2015, 7:40am
Australian beef exports for the first six months of 2015 have been surging, up 11% year-on-year with shipments at 646,685t, Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) has said.
It said that momentum is only likely to slow a small amount, if at all, in the second half of 2015 and exports are now on track to be 2% higher than the 2014 record at 1.32m tonnes.
MLA said that this is being driven by high cattle slaughter and strong demand, principally from the US, Japan and Korea.
The US will be Australia's largest market again for 2015; after six months, the volume to the US was 227,148t, up 48%, followed by Japan (141,814t, up 7%) and Korea (78,786t, up 8%), it said.
These are the only major markets where export volumes were significantly up year-on-year after the first six months, according to MLA.
It attributes the rise in demand for imported Australian beef to the lower Australian Dollar/ US Dollar exchange rate and high US cattle and beef prices.
Volumes to China, MLA said, remain steady at 68,263t year-on-year.
Longer-term, access to the US will be restrained by quota (the 64,835t global quota) and an out-of-quota tariff of 26.5%, while to China the rate of plant approvals will be the main influence, it said.
Domestically, due to an intense international trading environment (and consequently high beef prices) MLA said there are tighter beef volumes available for the domestic market.
According to MLA, domestic utilisation for 2015 is forecast to drop 15% year-on-year, to 608,400t, resulting in per capita consumption slipping to 25.63kg.
Despite this ongoing decline in consumption over the coming years, Australia will remain the most valuable market for Australian beef and the main market for loin cuts, it said.
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An all new election low
With the elections of 2013 right around the corner, political parties are turning to their weapon of last resort: allegations and mudslinging. This is evident from the recent press conference held by Rehman Malik on Monday. He was unequivocal in slamming the Sharif brothers — Nawaz and Shahbaz — as money launderers who had swept away billions of rupees from the country and into their international accounts, particularly in Saudi Arabia. According to the former minister — and the documents he was waving about in his hands — the Sharifs chose the aid of a former minister from their cabinet, Ishaq Dar, who opened family accounts for the PML-N leaders to easily transfer the money. To hear such allegations really is nothing new in the land of the pure. The Sharif brothers have been in hot water before especially in cases concerning their ownership of extremely valuable property abroad particularly in Park Lane, London. They were also sued for default by a British bank but the outcome of that case against them was never made public. The nation may still be in limbo concerning its knowledge about the shenanigans of the Sharifs but it is not so easily duped into believing that all is squeaky clean with other politicians in the country.
Rehman Malik should really think about what he is saying. He was the interior minister for five years and all these allegations against Nawaz and Shahbaz Sharif existed back when Mr Malik was first sworn in as a member of cabinet. Why did he not malign the reputation of the Sharifs then by digging into this matter and making sure that they paid the price for this alleged laundering? Was the protection of the fragile coalition so important that such apparently corrupt practices were overlooked? Just because it is election time, Mr Malik should not stoop to such a low that he implicates his own competency as well. It must be stated that almost every political participant in Pakistan has had his/her hands dirty at some point or the other whether that has been in the shape of fake degrees, allegations of corruption or kickbacks. The PPP itself, which is the party Mr Malik belongs to, has had quite a few allegations to answer to in the last five years. Even its prime minister — Raja Pervez Ashraf — has had to endure heated allegations of corruption concerning the independent power plants project in the country. For Rehman Malik to rattle the skeletons in the Sharifs' closet is only asking for trouble. Such allegations will serve as open invitations for other parties to hang out the dirty laundry of the PPP in an attempt to score points before the elections. While the tone of the elections is sinking to new lows, one is perturbed at the increasing public perception that the highest court in the land is playing favourites. The Supreme Court (SC) recently banned an election advertisement showing Shahbaz Sharif conversing with a judge. People are beginning to believe that the judiciary is practicing selective justice especially after the Asghar Khan case established that the PML-N left no stone (and funds) unturned to weaken the PPP. The people are beginning to think that cases involving the PML-N are taken lightly whilst even a speck tarring the repute of the PPP is deserving of all manner of punishment. We know that the judiciary does not see things this way and we hope it will continue to view and determine cases based on impartiality and fairness. *
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Amrit sat flipping pages of Life Positive magazine in the buzzing Gulmohar Hall of the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Once the discussion started, her attention seldom wavered from the panel sitting in front of her. Amrit Khurana is a 23-year-old artist who happens to be on the autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
"Autism is not a problem or a disorder. It is just a divergence from what is considered 'normal'. People on the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are not abnormal or mentally retarded; they can very well understand what is being said to them but are unable to respond in a 'normal' way," said Merry Barua, Founder Director of Action for Autism, while speaking at the open-to-all monthly session organised by the Life Positive Foundation.
An autistic person's brain is wired differently than that of a person considered normal. And since it is a spectrum, every autistic person's symptoms and level of severity vary. Difficulty in social communication is the only common thread running across people on the ASD. The purpose of holding a session on autism was to bust common myths associated with this condition, and to find ways to create awareness, acceptance, and sensitivity.
"There is low acceptance of people who are different, because of the fear of the unknown. Ignorance creates fear in our minds against people who are different. This is true of not only people with mental afflictions but also of people belonging to different creeds, religions, sexual orientations, even skin colour," said Merry.
Dr Mahalakshmi Rajagopal, an integrative psychologist and founder of Sahayam Intervention Centre, points out, "There is insufficient sensitisation; either we are over-compassionate towards them or too rude. The first step is to get comfortable with the term 'autistic," she said.
Aarti Khurana, Amrit's mother, shared their combined journey with autism. "We found out about her keenness for drawing when she was four. By the time she turned eight, she was expressing herself freely through her sketches," said Aarti, a teacher at the Pathways School, Noida, which also happens to be the platform that gave Amrit a much-needed support to spread her wings. Aarti recounts how her daughter's early years were fraught with challenges for the parents as well as the child. For instance, it took them two years to teach her to rinse after brushing her teeth.
But what happens when their primary care-givers pass on? "The only solutions, as of now, are to impart them with as many basic life skills as possible and to form lifelong support groups or care homes for them. There is no support offered by the state in this regard. I still worry about Amrit's future after we are gone," said Aarti, anxiously.
As someone with impaired communication and sensory limitations, Amrit has trod a long path towards social integration, all thanks to her art. Over the years, she has bloomed from an autistic child into a fairly independent adult with a distinct identity. She has come a long way in this journey – from washing her hands every next second (as the clay would unsettle her), to imprinting her thoughts steadily on a clayware and turning it into a piece of art. Some of her works have also travelled to the Beijing International Art of Autism Exhibition held last year.
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Video of the week: "Ask A Ninja"
by Daniel Langendorf
July 27th, 2007 | Posted in Video show of the week | 5 Comments
I have to write a positive review about the video podcast "Ask A Ninja", or I will be attacked, maybe killed by a silent sword-wielding Ninja. My family will never be safe. Even the dogs will be threatened.
It's a good thing I love "Ask A Ninja".
"Ask A Ninja" is the clever award-winning (YouTube's best series of 2006) creation of two Los Angeles improvisational comedians, Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine. Sarine is the man in the Ninja mask and assassin attire who karate-chops his way through an email-a-show question from viewers on subjects such as Ninja training, Ninja skills, Ninja love, how to kill a ninja, Ninja recipes, and non-ninja subjects like podcasting, Net Neutrality, Pop!Tech, and reviews of the movies "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" and "Blades of Glory."
Each episode is filmed in an L.A. apartment and starts off with the wonderfully catchy theme music "I Am Ninja", performed by the German pop band The Neu Tickles. The show lasts about 3 minutes and features the mysterious Ninja in front of a plain, colored background, generally without props. He speaks in an authoritative, husky voice, makes emphatic sharp-witted and often funny declarations about ninjas and culture, all the while moving his hands with deadly accuracy for emphasis. He's fond of using linguistic blends of speech involving the word "ninja" — "ninternships", "ninjuice", "ningiants".
Nichols, 31, and Sarine, 33, originally wanted to make an animated movie about a ninja. Neither could draw or animate, and money to back the show was scarce. They turned instead to the Internet and the phenomenon of user-generated content. Officially starting in November 2005, "Ask A Ninja" began with about 40 subscribers but since then has turned into a branding juggernaut, reportedly earning the duo up to $300K a year.
"Ask A Ninja" is downloaded between 300,000 and 500,000 times when a new episode is released bi-weekly. Popular shows such as "Ninja Love" tops more than 3 million viewers. In the past year, downloads have reached more than 20 million, catching the attention of traditional media.
Hollywood has inquired, and the Ninja team — formally known as Beatbox Giant Productions, LLC — has organized a team to explore offers. Nichols and Sarine have sold a book, tentatively named "The Ninja's Handbook", to Random House's Crown Publishing unit for six figures. It's due in 2008. NPR has reported on the Ninjas as well.
Capitalizing on the show's success, the "Ninjeers" have opened their own Ninja Mart Store, selling shirts for guys and girls, hats, and ringtones. They've released the first 40 episodes on a DVD for $20. And the Ninja community is growing, as fan films are also showing up on the web.
So I highly recommend "Ask A Ninja", not because I am being threatened by a Ninja, but because I like it. And Ninjas are more fierce than pirates or vikings.
"Ask A Ninja" is available at the iTunes Music Store, on YouTube, and at the "Ask A Ninja" website. It's available in Quicktime and Flash formats.
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Wow—I had no idea it had gotten that big. Certainly I've enjoyed the episodes I've seen. I love the sheer randomness of it!
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I have to confess, I'm yet to check them out. That's set to change this weekend.
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I dropped over there real quick and watched two episodes. They were pretty funny, but also a complete waste of time. I'm ambivalent about them at this point. I'm not sure if they were funny enough to compensate for my wasted time – I'll have to watch more I guess over the next few days and see how I feel.
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I wanna watch that Ninja movie
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Q: Finding the number of onto functions The number of functions $f$ from $(1,2,\dotsc,20)$ onto $(1,2,\dotsc,20)$ such that $f(k)$ is a multiple of $3$ whenever $k$ is a multiple of $4$ is

A: The set is finite, so $f$ is onto if and only if it is one-to-one. There are $5$ multiples of $4$ and $6$ multiples of $3$, so there are $6!$ one-to-one mappings from the multiples of $4$ to the multiples of $3$. The remaining $15$ non-multiples of $4$ must be mapped one-to-one to the remaining $15$ numbers; there ar $15!$ ways to do so. This yields $6!\times15!$ such functions.

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Considered to be shining stars and leaders to this sacred human race.
Shamelessly and with ease, you wash your putrid hands.
Your effigies and statues baneful influence, being but an evil dream.
The truthful Christ, to serve your evil in extreme.
The actions of this gang of sodomites, of paedophilic priest.
And Paul the sodomite, they shall well be pleased, to quote him too.
The Roman gangster turns his holy back.
Is this his well-preached sanctity to salvation's sured place?
Is this the priest whose word takes all mankind to favoured grace?
His silly sheep with not enough reason left to wonder, question, or to stray?
Like an apple that's been well cored.
Brainwashed into unreasoned belief, perchance for all of mankind's future season.
And shall always stay, their favoured, chosen trade.
Before placing oneself on the spiritual road of the follower of the Hallowed Caul, or The Way, it is necessary to realise that all spirituality must be separated from religion and religious beliefs. This is because all religion is based on myth and the dogmatic belief that faith and beliefs are fact, which they are not.
Spirituality is real, and based only within the reality of the certainty of fact. Too many people firmly 'believe' that spirituality is about religion, because thy have been taught to 'believe' this to be so. Religious spirituality is fantasy based on nothing that is real. It has been separated at some distance within the human mind from reason or logic.
You are a spirit with a body. You are a mixture of animal instincts and humanity. Your humanity controls your animal, or base instincts; this being all that separates you from the lower animals. This doesn't just mean cats, dogs, lions and tigers etc. as it also means men and women without a sufficient amount of humanity to control their base animal desires and instincts, who look human, but behave like beasts. Such people are usually controlled by self-interest and fear of retribution, and not, unfortunately, by any humanity within them. And because of this fact, which you can experience every day, so many so-called human beings are in reality just beasts of the very lowest order, so often totally lacking the humanity that is necessary to makes a real and complete human.
The spirit of man cannot be found, no matter how hard you look for it. You can open up the human skull and dissect the brain, and you will neither find a picture or a single thought. These things are not evident to the eye, yet we know that they are there, because we all experience them every day. You may ask about the realities of death, because you hope that you will live in some paradise or other after death. Yet again, this is the promise of religious leaders. For example, at most Christian funerals they will mention the "Sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the body". Just like all things, people never really notice, nor do they even question. If such resurrection is sure, then why the need for hope? If it is certain, again, why faith? And why hope if it is sure and certain? It goes around and around, contradiction upon contradiction.
The body is made of energy, and as energy cannot die, nor can it be destroyed, then the body returns to its elements from which it came. This leaves that spiritual thing that is the real you, that thing that you can't put your finger on, and no one can actually see it. That is why it was originally called 'spirit', as it was considered to be like an ether, a vapour-like form that could be sensed by the mind, but not captured. It too is made of pure energy, and again, energy cannot die or be destroyed, so it must go on in some form or other. But we who follow The Way are not religious, and therefore will not tell you what we believe, but only that which we know for certain and can either demonstrate or prove. You can admit that it's a good theory, but sadly it's not yet proven.
You may wonder what is The Way? Jesus followed The Way, and so did his followers after him, so why follow anything else? Unless of course you think that he had it all wrong. Who do you really put your trust in? Unless you follow The Way, which was and is his Way, then certainly not in him. You may profess faith in him, but that remains, however, only from the teeth out, because you don't practice it. Think about it.
Who and what were you before you were born? Some will say, "Nothing". But there is no such a thing as nothing, for even nothing is something, so you must have been something. Nothing has consequence, so it can't be nothing, it must be something. Whatever we are, we are not at all sure. We have our theories, but we don't know anything factual or provable for sure regarding this question.
When you see pictures of ghosts, as they have been described by people who have seen them, they are usually transparent. Those who are unfortunate enough to be supersensitive, see them in this way. Some may see one in their lifetime, some may never see anything, and many imagine they have seen something. Others lie through their teeth, for their own reasons, such as wanting to appear important, just like a small child attention-seeking. Herein lies the great confusion. Who is lying? Who is imagining things and not capable of recognising the difference? Who is telling the truth? Is it real or is it not? Religions are built on such confusion.
It is my experience that so called ghosts or entities do exist, or I've lost my marbles. They are the energy of those now dead to us. It is a fair possibility that there is a parallel world, or perhaps several parallel worlds, with those who do not know that they are dead slipping backwards and forwards.
For instance, how do you know for sure that you are alive? Can you prove it to yourself? Perhaps you are wrong, and you are just a spirit drifting in space imagining all this? Or perhaps you are already dead, reliving your past life over and over again? Then maybe you have never lived at all, and you are just dreaming your way through some spiritual existence? How do we really know? The fact is, we don't.
Why do you sleep? There is no actual, realistic need for you to sleep, yet we know that if you are deprived of sleep you will die; and sooner than you think. So what's the point? There is a theory that when you sleep you go back to the source of your energy, to recharge your batteries, for want of a better word for it. Perhaps to dream your way through your many problems, and allow your subconscious mind to work its way through them. But your subconscious has no reason, so we find ourselves back at the starting point.
Have you ever noticed how everything goes round in circles? There is no beginning and there is no end to life; it's pure energy, and therefore, even though your body effectively rots, it in fact is just going through its natural cycle: back into earth to grow grass for the beasts to eat, and your children or grandchildren to kill the beasts, and eat them at a later date; which in turn feeds their bodies on the energy of the beast, which passes through them in faecal matter. Again, that feeds some thing that in turn feeds something else, that eventually feeds them, and then they in turn die; and on and on it goes, round and round, eternally. At least that's the way it would be, if we, the so-called human race, the believers in that false belief in our superiority over all things, hadn't messed it up.
Now what about your spirit? Your thoughts? They are energy too, and in the natural world nothing is ever wasted. So you go round and round, and it's a fair bet that even this energy is recycled, and sometimes we see it as ghosts; seeing or not seeing, depending on the level of your sensitivity, or perhaps we experience it as some sort of entity, causing chaos or bringing blessings.
Perhaps even space ships with little red men from Mars do exist. Even fairies at the bottom of the garden; and I am not being facetious. Think about it, and it might just start to make sense to you, and make sense of a lot that confuses. It may even confuse more, but it's a thought, isn't it? But there is no evidence, so we are not sure, and study is needed, as all good theories have something that makes them worthy of investigation.
As I have said before, we in The Way, both ordinary members and Caulbearers alike, never tell you what we believe. We tell you what we in fact know, and we tell you what we think might be just about right. As we live we learn, but theory is just that, and a starting point for study, and hopefully leading to the discovery of fact. We cast aside all belief, as it colours all that we see, and many people may well see something real, and because it doesn't suit or agree with what they believe, they cast it aside, and pretend that it's not there.
If you are a believer or have a faith in any form of religion, you may well have problems living with cold fact as your only comfort. And it is a cold comfort, but you can take it to the bank of life any time and the check won't bounce. We cannot adjust reality for excuse or humour, so we therefore have little to comfort us, except the methodical gathering of factual knowledge, which some may well see as a kind of religion.
Belief allows excuse, which itself is, by definition, a lie. Should you rather false comfort of belief and faith than cold facts that can justify anything, and should you need to feel that there is a god or gods, angels and the like, looking over you, ready to take you to paradise when you die, and many people do, then pass me by and go your way, for where I go is not for you. Where I lead, few can follow, no matter how sensitive they may 'believe' themselves to be.
No matter how intelligent you might think yourself, beware your reason, which is rendered almost useless by the falsity of belief. But, beware more so your lack of reason. Know yourself well before you venture, lest you shall be lost, in a dark place, beyond help; a forlorn place, where none shall ever find you, not even yourself.
To improve, a man or woman must do certain things. I know that I write this a bit too late in my life; and I intended not to write it down at all, as I am instructed, indeed commanded, that I shall give man nothing that might prolong the agony of his undeserved existence. Well, I think personally that agony is what he deserves. I am well aware that it's too late for many of him as I write. He or she is so often blinded by what the think that they know. That alone renders it too late for most of them to learn at this point, to become worthy of life, by adjusting their ideas of life, and of its real and actual value.
Belief creates war, and the first causality of any war is always truth. Each religion professes truth as if they own it and hold all rights to it. Yet each preaches something different. Even in the same religion, sects differ in what they choose to believe. Remember, that you don't know that you don't know, what you don't know. Seek facts, and all shall become evident. Believe, and live only in the darkness of your own confusions. Knowledge, alone, can save you.
Earth's silent message to man shall be known.
Shall be guided by fear in the heaving breast.
As man worships in vain, a false deity.
Unseasonable frost glint on the meadows of May.
But man shall still answer false deities' bells.
But man shall still whisper false deitie's name.
He shall neither know reason nor shall knowledge decree.
Engraving the words of that life he knew.
As into man's coffin, is firm driven each nail.
Shall not hear me, nor see me, and yet shall lay blame.
As each man who cooks, shall eat of this stew.
That all good things come from the soil, from simple ground.
That made the plough to till the land.
They shall walk alone, shall starve, in corpse filled streets.
When life is no longer ruled by and through reason, and only by and through unreason, then life itself is in danger. When life is ruled by and through belief, which is manufactured unreason, and contradictory to logic, then life will be forfeit, and must come to a tragic and unnecessary end.
Such it is, as we now stand at this the ending of man's days, which could have been and still can be avoided. Mankind has the necessary brains and skill to do great things, as he has proven. Unfortunately, he appears to have a need to believe in things fantastic, and bigger than himself.
Because of this weakness, he has been led by those among him who only seek to rule and lead him into the quicksands of wild belief and fantasy. He has forgotten reason. Logic has become a strange thing that must fit his beliefs, no matter how ridiculous those beliefs may be. He has lost his way. The price of this his base stupidity shall be dire. His children shall curse him with their last breath, for his wanton and blind stupidity. He has drunk from the cup of his inability to overcome the brainwashing processes of his religious leaders, who lead him not into temptation, but instead into eternal damnation; that eternal damnation of none-existence. He has drunk also from the cup of his overwhelming unwillingness to embrace sweet reason, so, wallowing in fantasy, where fantasy has no place or part to play.
Drink deeply, you mankind. Drink deeply from the cup of your belief. Stay drunk on your ridiculous fantasies, and on your baseless beliefs. Soon you will be sober, because reality stalks you. Reality will win, and the hangover will be painful. And mankind will die and be no more, as he destroys all, even to his children's now-denied future. Denied, as with all things, by that which suits him to believe or not believe.
It is said by the church of Rome that The Way was the faith of Jesus, so why don't they follow it?
I have faith that the sun will rise tomorrow. because I've seen the evidence each day of my life.
I have faith that if I plant potatoes I will harvest a crop, because I always have, year after year. Sometime good, sometime bad, but they've been there, a crop none the less. Such faith is based on evidence and experience, certainly not blind.
The sun might not rise tomorrow, but it's very unlikely.
I could get blight in my potatoes, but as long as I spray them ,everything will be OK. It always is.
To have faith in God where there is no evidence of a god; and plenty of evidence that there isn't one, defies reason. To go against reason is more than just stupid, it's dangerous.
To stray from the paths of certain knowledge ,of reason, of logic and provable truths, is folly beyond folly.
To have faith that Jesus was born of a virgin, when we know for a fact that he was a child of the quill, also defies reason. The first is impossible; the second very likely.
So why believe the impossible?
Why accept without question that which cannot possibly be true, as truth.?
Why does the church of Rome and its satellite Christian religions, and all the other churches, want you to have faith in things that defy all reason, fact or science?
What defines a mad person? Perhaps someone who hears voices? Someone who sees things that aren't there? Someone with unreasonable ideas and actions, like talking to yourself, or talking to someone who isn't actually there? Maybe their invisible friends are there; and you just can't see them? Perhaps only he or she can see and hear them.
Madness is defined as any behaviour which is unacceptable to society. Plenty of room for interpretation there. You had better be careful, or they might lock you up.
Perhaps you had better conform? That's a safe way, but is it wise?
So who's mad? Someone praying to a god that obviously isn't there? Someone not praying to a god that isn't there? Unreal and only imagined.
Perhaps someone who believes that their god will always provide, in spite of all the death from hunger we see around the world?
Maybe someone who refuses to believe anything without evidence, is mad?
If so, then who says so; and by what criteria?
Then maybe we don't really exist. Maybe I am just a spirit drifting and imagining that I exist and that you exist.
Maybe you don't exist and you're just imagining that you do.
Do you know fore sure, or haven't you ever though about it? What's real I mean?
Perhaps you just imagine that I exist, because you're reading this? Someone wrote it.
Maybe I do exist somewhere out there, or maybe you just imagine that you're reading this?
Who's mad? The one who asks the questions, or the one who just accepts without any proof, evidence, or certainty of fact?
Perhaps the one who only believes, is mad?
Perhaps science is mad, and only belief is sane and logical?
Where will you put your money, as you probably value your money more than your life? You being a reasonable person.
You may even think that you can't exist without money, but if so, how do you manage without life?
What value do you put on your life, or the lives of those that you profess to love?
What stakes/steaks are you comfortable with, apart from beef?
Where will you put your money in the great competition for existence?
Maybe you're really betting your life?
When I was still a child, there was no childish play.
All was work and learning until the ending of each day.
To learn, to teach, to question and so to make men whole.
From there to do what Nazarenes desired of me.
To live in silent solitude, without a friend.
Allowing my mind to fly on soaring wings.
And all their laws directed, towards their own desired and selfish end.
Hopeful to grow within that knowledged light.
There to hear the teachings of just law; and so expand my mind.
What might improve the knowledge that was mine.
Each truth so different, as preached by each conceited, mindless herd.
Yet all speak as though the truth was theirs alone.
And fought like dogs to self possess this cherished bone.
The boundary's limits careless crossed o'er wilful, broken fence.
And so to hide all honest fact.
Who breathe sweet reason born from the hallowed crystal halls.
Think well, and let good reason rule, lest lack of reason break your backs.
Ignoring, careless, risking all; to benefit the Roman whore.
Whilst lack of justice, all things hallowed blights.
Against unjust laws that make man's life misspent.
Against the fateful day, all men who trust in gods and priests alone, be killed.