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Botany Studies Botany Studies – Botany is the study of plants and here you can get full educational definition and complete information related to botany. we provide full information about Plant Physiology, Plant Morphology, Plant Ecology, Plant Diversity, Plant Families, Photosynthesis And Botanical classification of plants
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Nature of Vernalization Stimulus
Nature of Vernalization Stimulus – Vernalin or Gibberellin
Many attempts were made to isolate vernalin but all failed. However, Anton Lang in 1957 showed that application of gibberellins to certain vernalization requiring biennials like henbane induce flowering in them without cold temperature treatment. Purvis in 1961 induced winter annuals to flowers induced by treating their seeds with gibberellins. It was also found that natural gibberellins are formed in greater amounts in vernalization requiring species when these are exposed to low temperatures, e.g., in Chrysanthmum and rudbeckia species. These results indicate that properties of gibberellins may be similar to those expected for vernalin.
But when gibberellins are applied to, vernalization requiring rosette plants, elongation of stem take place first followed by initiating of floral buds on those shoot. However, when plants are provided with cold temperature in order to induce flowering, the floral buds appeared as soon as the shoot begin to elongate (bolt). The results indicate that flowering response to applied gibberellins is not equal to flowering response induced naturally, by cold-temperature treatment.
Mikhail Chailakhyan
Mikhail Chailakhyan (1968) in Russia suggested that there are two substances involved in flower formation, one a gibberellin or gibberellin-like substances and anthesin, a hypothetical substance like vernalin. According to him the plants that require low temperatures or long days or both might lack sufficient gibberellins until they have been exposed to inducing environment, i.e., to low temperatures, long day lengths or both; whereas short day plants might contain sufficient gibberellins bit lack anthesin.
Chailakhyan suggested that vernalization requiring plants produce vernalin when subjected to low temperatures and the vernalin is then converted to gibberellins in response to long days, at least in those plants that require exposure to long days after low temperature treatment.
Melchers grafting experiment with photo-inductive Maryland mammoth tobacco plant to anon-inductive henbane plant suggest the presence of two substances as proposed by Chailakhyan. Apparently, each contained one of the substances necessary for inducing flowering. Thus, they obtained these substances from each other when theses are grafted. Henbane was successful in getting the requiring substances whereas the tobacco was not.
However, in many vernalization requiring plants gibberellins failed to replace cold requirement for flowering. Later, on experimental evidence was provided suggesting that gibberellins are less important in flowering.
Factors or Conditions Necessary for Vernalization
Certain conditions or factors are necessary for vernalization. Since, vernalization is dependent on a sequence of steps leading to production of an active substance, the presence of these factors are necessary for the vernalization process. These factors also influence the efficiency of the vernalization process. Some of these important conditions are as followings:
Temperature and its Duration
Lang's experiment with henbane showed relationship between temperature and time of exposure and the influence of this relationship on the efficiency of vernalization. He exposed vernalization requiring henbane to different temperatures from 3°C to 17°C for varying periods of time. The efficiency of low temperature to induce flowering was determined by the number of days the plant took after the treatment. Lang found that temperature range (3 to 17°C) is effective if the period of vernalization is 105 days. The flower initiation occurred in 8 days. But when the vernalization period was shortened to 15 days, different temperatures were effective differently. A temperature of 10°C initiating flowers in 23 days was most important. When the cold treatment period was extended to 42 days, the most effective temperature range was from 3 to 6 °C, requiring 10 days for flower initiation.
Hansel studied the effect of a wide range of temperature on Petkus rye. He found that vernalization fails before -4°C, from 1 to 7°C there is a shortening of number of days to flowering, and there is rapid fall in the rate of vernalization when the temperatures are increased from 7 to 15°C. Exposure to high temperature range result in devernalization.
Age Factor
The age of plant plays a pivotal role in its response vernalization. The age at which a plant is sensitive to vernalization differ from species. For example, in cereals germinating seeds and even embryo as can be receive the stimulus of vernalization, whereas certain biennials require a certain period of growth before responding to the stimulus of vernalization. For instance, Hyoscymus niger must have completed at least 10 days growth in the rosette stage, to be vernalized. The most effective time is when the plant is 30 days old. Other plants such as Oenothera can be vernalized only when at least six to eight leaves are present. The time when a plant is sensitive to vernalization is something referred to as ripeness-to-flower, a term originally used for photoperiod.
Carbohydrates Requirement
The need for a certain amount of vegetative growth to take place in plant so it becomes sensitive to low temperature suggests that some factor accumulates that perhaps receives vernalization stimulus. The substance may be synthesized during photosynthesis and in cases where seeds are vernalized during seedling stage this substance may already be present, either donated by the mother plant or synthesized during the development of the embryo.
An indication that this substance is produced during photosynthesis is provided during experiments with Arabidopsis thaliana. The seeds of this plants are most sensitive to vernalization and sensitivity decreases with the development of seedling. It reaches minimum when the seedling is two weeks old. But as the new leaves develop the sensitivity to low temperature increases once again. The loss of sensitivity may due to depletion of stored food of the seed and increase in sensitivity may be due to synthesis of carbohydrates as a result of photosynthesis. Evidence for the involvement of carbohydrates in vernalization has also been provided by Petkus winter rye embryos. When isolated embryos grown in a medium containing sucrose and minerals these proved to be sensitive to vernalization, but as the sucrose supplies are decreased the vernalization retarded.
Vernalization of dry seeds is impossible unless the seeds have imbibed some moisture.
Purvis pointed out that enough moisture must be present to initiate a small but visible degree of germination. She found that winter strain of Petkus rye must imbibe water 60% or 80% of the absolute dry weight for effective vernalization.
Experiments with grains showed that absence of oxygen make plants unresponsive to low temperature treatment, even if they are provided with adequate supply of water. It was also found that oxygen is also necessary for the vernalization of whole plants, such as henbane.
Protein Requirement
Both sugars and oxygen are required for the effect of low temperature. This requirement indicates the activation of some metabolic reaction essential for flowering. But in winter wheat (Triticum aestivum) formation of new proteins was found after vernalization. The protein pattern after vernalization resembles that of spring wheat does not require vernalization to flower. This suggests that proteins synthesis is another condition necessary for vernalization.
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TSP 8th issue now available to download
The Sound Projector 8ighth Issue, originally published in 2000 and out of print for some years, can now be perused in digital form. Sometimes nicknamed 'THE EL LISSITZKY ISSUE' or 'ONE MORE RED NIGHTMARE'. Scanned direct from the original artwork and rendered as PDFs. A new index has been added to this digital edition. Contains interviews with those noted geniuses Pita Rehberg, Rev Dwight Frizzell, Reynols, Peter Blegvad, Donald Miller and John Gill of Big Stick. Excellent written contributions from Rik Rawling, Richard Rees Jones, Chris Atton, Harley Richardson, John Bagnall, Ian Nagoski, Jim Haynes, Shaun Robert, War Arrow, and the very first appearance of Jennifer Hor. Artworks by Scott Stevens, Rik Rawling, Chris Atton, Shaun Robert, Ed Pinsent and Donald Miller. This digital edition is almost an exact facsimile of the original, except that one page of adverts has gone missing, and artist Ian Middleton declined to have his drawings reproduced on the internet at this time.
A small technical note: the PDF files are images, so the text will not be searchable in your PDF reader. A version in plain text will be made available in due course.
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I'd always wanted to have a place with a billiards room in which I could play snooker and pool, and even though it hadn't been a high priority when looking for digs, in April 2012 we moved into a house that had a pool room. The light fixtures were left in place, but sadly, not the billards table.
So with somewhere to put a billards table, the question was, "Which one to get?" After all, there are different "standard" table sizes for the games of snooker, billiards and pool, plus variations from country to country. And then the specifications for table height, cushions and pockets all vary as well. Most perplexing!
After consulting various web sites it was determined that I should be able to fit a three quarter billards table, i.e. a 9 ft by 4 ft 6 inch table, though an 8 ft by 4 ft table would probably be more practical. Anyway, I put the whole project onto the backburner, intending to seek out more information. Then in the lead up to Xmas 2012, we decided it was time to fill that gaping hole in the pool room at the far end of the house.
I ended up buying a table which was just two months old on eBay one night. It was delivered, installed and setup the next evening.
Details: 1 piece slate, built-in graphite super fast response cushion, leather pockets, English Strachan 6811 directional nap cloth, 3 inch hard wood cushion face, hardwood construction and body, six 3.5 inch adjustable feet.


At the age of 31, Gustavo Dudamel has made quite a splash in the refined world of conducting. In 1999 (still a teen!) he became the music director of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. From there he's gone on to win numerous awards and is now also head of the Gothenburg Symphony and followed in Esa-Pekka Salonen's footsteps as the director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic . As part of his meteoric rise, he makes guest-conductor appearances all over the world, including stopping by the Berlin Philharmonic.
And yes – it's not just hype. This guy understands music.
Maurice Ravel's symphonic five-part Ma mère l'Oye (Mother Goose) is a tricky opening number. In the delicate notes of Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant (Pavane for sleeping beauty), the orchestra has some initial trouble meshing, but all is soon forgiven: the intertwining melodies are crystal clear, everything transparently delicious like dew-covered spider webs sparkling in a rosy morning.
One might have feared that Dudamel would apply a grossly romantic and over-the-top bombastic style after listening to Youtube-clips of his interpretations of Bernstein's Mambo and West Side Story (for those pieces it works, but for Ravel? No!), but he held the orchestra gently and firmly in his baton-equipped hand, never losing his graceful grip on the musicians, even – impressively – without the sheet music. During the finale, the Le Jardin féerique (The fairy garden), I got instant goosebumps. When Dudamel let down his arms, I heard an almost inaudible 'wow' to my left. Mother Goose may never have made more sense.
Dudamel is a small man – standing on his podium he's barely as tall as the soloist of the evening: Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos, an impressive virtuoso on his instrument, playing Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Violin concerto op. 35 with an abundance of joy. The Romantic Korngold's works are thankfully experiencing a revival, and the Hollywood Technicolor film composer (the Errol Flynn Robin Hood for example) had a knack for big, beautiful scores. Dudamel manages to avoid sticky romantic clichés in the music-style, and makes it fresh and light, dodging the significant risk of mucking it up in a brass-mess. The various soloists in the orchestra excel, and concert master David Strabrawa and Leonidas Kavakos duets are stunningly beautiful.
Dudamel pulls out the big guns for Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra – instantly recognizable from the initial scene in 2001: A Space Odessey. Double basses, contrabassoons and the massive organ accumulate to an impressive crescendo, (to which Strauss wrote Sunrise in his program notes), blowing you back in your seat with its sheer volume. Once again Dudamel conducts without sheet music, and he dances and swirls in an energetic display of the late Romantic period music, the orchestra following his every move, no matter how imperceptible some of them may seem.
Dudamel is an excellent storyteller. He knows how to use the tools at his disposal, never settling for cheesy effects, and spreading energy through his musicians to the audience.
If you don't have the chance to see him live, be sure to check out Berlin Philharmonic online for real-time streaming of the concerts, proving that that the conductor and company are not only moving and expressive but modern, too.


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"It Pays to play with greater omaha leagues"
2016 Wolfpack Junior National Team Hosts First Fundraiser
Saturday September 26th marked the date of the first fundraiser for the 2016 Greater Omaha Leagues' Junior National team, nicknamed "The Wolfpack" and affectionately known as "The Pack".
The first fundraiser was a Luck of the Draw dart tournament to allow supporters to get to know the new faces on the team, as well as see them in action. The event also featured 50/50 raffles and prize raffles, as well as the ability to purchase the team's wristbands.
Many of you may be familiar with the team from their 2015 Junior National quest, which resulted in multiple National Championships and other trophies being brought back with the team. This year the team has expanded greatly, introducing 11 new youth players; along with two new coaches.
2016 Team Roster:
Chance Taylor, 14 years old, Plattsmouth, Nebraska
Kole Gray, 16 years old, Plattsmouth, Nebraska
Dallas Winters, 14 years old, Plattsmouth, Nebraska
Jeff Martens, 19 years old, Fremont, Nebraska
DJ Bibler, 16 years old, Plattsmouth, Nebraska
Dylan Dietl, 16 years old, Nehawka, Nebraska
Kade Hansen, 13 years old, Plattsmouth, Nebraska
Tabor Ahlers, 12 years old, Louisville, Nebraska
Brandon Ketchum, 20 years old, Plattsmouth, Nebraska
Trenton Marasco, 13 years old, Plattsmouth, Nebraska
Ryley Kellison, 17 years old, Plattsmouth, Nebraska
2016 Coaches:
Steve Garrean Jr, Plattsmouth, Nebraska
Matt Winters, Plattsmouth, Nebraska
Gabe Ahlers, Louisville, Nebraska
Wes Babcock, Omaha, Nebraska
One name that you may have noticed missing is that of Trenton Record, from last year's team. Unfortunately Record moved away following the 2015 National tournament and was not able to participate on this year's squad. The coaches continue to keep in contact with him through social media and remain available to him for advice.
The coaches are very excited about this new team and the progress and potential that they are already showing. With the next nine months to continue working with them and getting them great experience, they believe the sky is the limit for this squad. The returning players are looking to successfully defend their National Championship & National Runner-up status and the new members are looking to make some heads turn themselves.
The team and the coaches thank everyone who came out to support them and look forward to future fundraising events, such as bake sales, chili cook-offs, car washes, raffles, pancake feeds and of course a few more dart tournaments too.
Please follow the team on social media:
Facebook.com/WolfpackNextGeneration
Twitter @JuniorDartTeam
Results of Luck of the Draw dart tournament:
1st Place: Wes Babcock, Omaha & Matt Winters, Plattsmouth
2nd Place: Dallas Winters, Plattsmouth & Aaron Halagarda, Plattsmouth
3rd Place: Chance Taylor, Plattsmouth & Jeff Martens, Fremont
4th Place: Brian Martens, Fremont & Ryley Kellison, Plattsmouth
Greater Omaha Leagues Adds Transparency to Financials
Greater Omaha Leagues is constantly evolving and improving its leagues for the players. Recently Greater Omaha Leagues made the decision to allow anyone and everyone access to the financial end of their leagues. It's no secret that Greater Omaha Leagues gives more back to the players than most leagues, but now they want everyone to see how.
Not only does Greater Omaha Leagues give players back the league dues they pay in weekly, but they also give them the sponsor fees they collect from bars in the form of custom embroidered league championship polos and addition to the year-end Ultimate Qualifier Series Finale.
Click the following links to see the financials:
League Financials
Ultimate Qualifier Series Financials (Sponsor Fees)
This is another way Greater Omaha Leagues is separating itself from the competition. If anyone has questions regarding any financials, please email steve@gamesales.com. All questions will receive a response as quickly as possible.


There was an opinion that men more than women like to spend their free time playing gambling machines. But this judgment is erroneous. A group of gamblers includes representatives of both sexes. After all, the subject of virtual slots is so diverse that everyone will find something to their liking. An example of this is the creation of the PlayPearls slot machines developer – the Dazzling Gems slot.
Employees of the corporation are well aware that women like the radiance in their eyes caused by the brilliance of gemstones. This knowledge they used as a basis for this gambling machine to make the project successful. With its help, women will be able to fill their treasury with those jewels that fit the colour of eyes, clothes, and even mood. Men can also use the device to improve their financial situation and have an opportunity to please their beloved with another expensive gift.
The screen of Dazzling Gems online is a showcase of a jewellery store, on which are located diamonds and gemstones of various shapes and colours. Drums are dominated by a blue colour, which advantageously highlights the characters of the slot. To create a special atmosphere, stones are presented in a beautiful halo of light.
Musical design will surprise. It is inherent in many models of this manufacturer, except that prize combs are accompanied by other sounds. At the bottom of the screen, you will find control buttons for the gambling device.
The Dazzling Gems virtual slot offers no round of prize spins and no bonuses. However, practice has shown that its win combs bring a solid income. Moreover, to increase the amount received a player may use a game for doubling. According to its conditions, the player need to correctly name the colour of an inverted card.
There are only two: black and dark. If the answer is correct, then the amount of rate will be more than doubled. A wrong answer will deprive you of prizes. So, before agreeing to the terms, think carefully, as the chances of gaining and losing are equivalent.
Dazzling Gems is easy to manage. Before the player starts reels, it is needed to determine the number of active lines. Another important parameter is the amount of a bet. The player may adjust the number of credits. The process will be started after the player presses the Start button.
Dazzling Gems will allow every person to forget about pressing problems as it immerses him or her into an atmosphere of wealth and luxury. The device is a worthy follower of legendary slot machines that popularized the subject of jewellery.
It harmoniously combined a simple game algorithm, colourful graphics and generous payouts. Hurry to get hold of diamonds playing Dazzling Gems, otherwise someone else will do it instead of you. Take real money!


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Head north to meet the phantom
May 11, 2018 | Bendigo Life
The Phantom on stage.
Echuca-Moama Theatre Company is set to stage its biggest production yet – The Phantom of the Opera.
The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical will be a major drawcard for the region; drawing a talent pool from across north central Victoria and expected to attract thousands of theatre lovers.
The cast of 47, from as far as Bendigo, Shepparton, Kialla, Kyabram, Tongala, Katandra, Katunga and Gunbower as well as Echuca-Moama, has been busy rehearsing over the past three months in the hopes of creating something magical.
Co-directors John Wright and Mark Thomson said they were looking forward to creating a truly regional engagement in what would be a ''very special, inclusive and iconic musical event''.
"I think the biggest advantage we've got and the benefit we're getting is fantastic engagement from the cast," Mr Wright said.
"They all want individually and collectively to make it fabulous. That sort of commitment is going to make it worth it, so I'm delighted."
Mr Wright said he had not seen this level of drive in a show before.
A duplicate proscenium arch and opera viewing boxes will be created to make the theatre look like an 1800s opera house.
"I think audiences are going to love it," Mr Wright said.
"The whole ambience of the French opera theatre is going to be re-created."
To book theatre packages, phone 1800 804 446 or visit www.echucamoama.com
The show will open at the Paramount on May 25 and will continue until June 9.
Tickets are available at the Paramount.
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<?php

namespace Hoa\Devtools\Bin;

use Hoa\Console;

/**
 * Class \Hoa\Devtools\Bin\Requiresnapshot.
 *
 * Check if a library requires a new snapshot or not.
 *
 * @copyright  Copyright © 2007-2015 Hoa community
 * @license    New BSD License
 */
class Requiresnapshot extends Console\Dispatcher\Kit
{
    /**
     * Options description.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $options = [
        ['no-verbose', Console\GetOption::NO_ARGUMENT, 'V'],
        ['snapshot',   Console\GetOption::NO_ARGUMENT, 's'],
        ['days',       Console\GetOption::NO_ARGUMENT, 'd'],
        ['commits',    Console\GetOption::NO_ARGUMENT, 'c'],
        ['help',       Console\GetOption::NO_ARGUMENT, 'h'],
        ['help',       Console\GetOption::NO_ARGUMENT, '?']
    ];

    /**
     * The entry method.
     *
     * @return  int
     */
    public function main()
    {
        $verbose       = Console::isDirect(STDOUT);
        $printSnapshot = false;
        $printDays     = false;
        $printCommits  = false;

        while (false !== $c = $this->getOption($v)) {
            switch ($c) {
                case '__ambiguous':
                    $this->resolveOptionAmbiguity($v);

                    break;

                case 'V':
                    $verbose = false;

                    break;

                case 's':
                    $printSnapshot = true;

                    break;

                case 'd':
                    $printDays = true;

                    break;

                case 'c':
                    $printCommits = true;

                    break;

                case 'h':
                case '?':
                default:
                    return $this->usage();
            }
        }

        $this->parser->listInputs($repositoryRoot);

        if (empty($repositoryRoot)) {
            return $this->usage();
        }

        if (false === file_exists($repositoryRoot . DS . '.git')) {
            throw new Console\Exception(
                '%s is not a valid Git repository.',
                0,
                $repositoryRoot
            );
        }

        $tag = Console\Processus::execute(
            'git --git-dir=' . $repositoryRoot . '/.git ' .
                'describe --abbrev=0 --tags origin/master'
        );

        if (empty($tag)) {
            throw new Console\Exception('No tag.', 1);
        }

        $timeZone   = new \DateTimeZone('UTC');
        $snapshotDT = \DateTime::createFromFormat(
            '*.y.m.d',
            $tag,
            $timeZone
        );
        $sixWeeks       = new \DateInterval('P6W');
        $nextSnapshotDT = clone $snapshotDT;
        $nextSnapshotDT->add($sixWeeks);
        $today          = new \DateTime('now', $timeZone);

        $needNewSnapshot  = '+' === $nextSnapshotDT->diff($today)->format('%R');
        $numberOfDays     = 0;
        $numberOfCommits  = 0;
        $output           = 'No snapshot is required.';

        if (true === $needNewSnapshot) {
            $numberOfDays    = (int) $nextSnapshotDT->diff($today)->format('%a');
            $numberOfCommits = (int) Console\Processus::execute(
                'git --git-dir=' . $repositoryRoot . '/.git ' .
                    'rev-list ' . $tag . '..origin/master --count'
            );
            $needNewSnapshot = 0 < $numberOfCommits;

            if (true === $needNewSnapshot) {
                $output =
                    'A snapshot is required, since ' . $numberOfDays .
                    ' day' . (1 < $numberOfDays ? 's' : '') .
                    ' (tag ' . $tag . ', ' . $numberOfCommits .
                    ' commit' . (1 < $numberOfCommits ? 's' : '') .
                    ' to publish)!';
            }
        }

        if (true === $printSnapshot ||
            true === $printDays ||
            true === $printCommits) {
            $columns = [];

            if (true === $printSnapshot) {
                $columns[] = $tag;
            }

            if (true === $printDays) {
                $columns[] =
                    $numberOfDays . ' day' .
                    (1 < $numberOfDays ? 's' : '');
            }

            if (true === $printCommits) {
                $columns[] =
                    $numberOfCommits . ' commit' .
                    (1 < $numberOfCommits ? 's' : '');
            }

            echo implode("\t", $columns), "\n";
        } elseif (true === $verbose) {
            echo $output, "\n";
        }

        return !$needNewSnapshot;
    }

    /**
     * The command usage.
     *
     * @return  int
     */
    public function usage()
    {
        echo
            'Usage   : devtools:requiresnapshot <options> repository-root', "\n",
            'Options :', "\n",
            $this->makeUsageOptionsList([
                'V'    => 'No-verbose, i.e. be as quiet as possible, just ' .
                          'print essential informations.',
                's'    => 'Print the latest snapshot name in a column.',
                'd'    => 'Print the number of days since the latest ' .
                          'snapshot in a column.',
                'c'    => 'Print the number of commits since the latest ' .
                          'snapshot in a column.',
                'help' => 'This help.'
            ]), "\n";

        return;
    }
}

__halt_compiler();
Check if a library requires a new snapshot or not.

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WHO can take its 'next pandemic' and shove it
FILE - In this June 11, 2009, file photo, the logo of the World Health Organization is seen at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The head of the World Health Organization says on Friday, Dec, 18, 2020 the U.N. ... more >
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times - Saturday, January 2, 2021
All you "let's just listen to the government so we can get back to normal" types out there — all you "let's take the shot so we can get our lives back" hopefuls out there — all you "just freaking wear the masks!" shame screamers out there — listen up: World health wonks are already paving the way to the next pandemic.
They call it a warning.
And it is. A warning of the next lockdown to come.
This is what happens when government is granted the ability to steal freedoms from the individual: they grow emboldened to steal more.
The World Health Organization, in much the way the medical bureaucrats have spent 2020 shaking fingers and wagging heads in woeful reproach of the way all we humans in America have damnably resisted orders in the name of preserving God-given freedoms — in much this way, these same bad medical actors are now hinting of more of the same for 2021.
Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO's health emergencies program, said in a press briefing that COVID-19 was devastating, but not "necessarily the big one."
He went on: "The planet is fragile. We live in an increasingly complex global society. These threats will continue."
Wait for it, wait for it. Those words in the hands of the ratings-lusty news industry, are pure gold. Nothing says "don't touch that dial" like an ever-climaxing story of fear, yes?
In fact, the media's already swarmed.
Gizmodo wrote, of Ryan's warning: "It wouldn't take much for the next pandemic germ to be more destructive than covid-19, though. The next pandemic could be 10 times deadlier and still only have a fatality rate in the single digits, while remaining as easily transmissible."
And the one after that — 20 times deadlier. Or 400. Who knows? That's the beauty of predicting pandemics; they can be as dangerous, or not, and transmissible, or not, or fatal, or not, as the medical pinheads and media, err, science say.
Let's run the government by fear. For infinity. Anthony Fauci for president!
"Vaccination no guarantee of virus eradication: WHO officials," ran one comforting UN News headline amid the rollout of the vaccine in America, as Americans were being assured of both safety and efficacy of the vaccine.
Just as Bill Clinton squirmed the definition of "is," so, too seems to go the definition of "efficacy." It worked for Humpty Dumpty; "When I use a word," he told Alice in Wonderland, "it means just what I choose it to mean." Why not for modern medicine men and women? This is the fallacy of putting blind trust in those who aren't blindly trustworthy.
"WHO warns Covid-19 pandemic is 'not necessarily the big one,'" The Guardian raced to report.
"W.H.O. Official Says Covid Pandemic Is 'Not Necessarily the Big One,'" The New York Times rushed to repeat.
See where this is headed? See where this could very well be headed? Come on, cooler heads. It's time to rise up and rebel.
Americans don't need to be told in breathless angst that COVID-19 is not necessarily the be-all and end-all of viruses and medical threats. Smart Americans already know that. Sane Americans know life is filled with risks and dangers and threats and potential life-endangering pitfalls and perils. Sensible Americans know that every day is a blessing — and that every day of driving the highway without being killed is a blessing — and that every evening of returning home to families and kissing kids on the heads and tucking them into bed is a blessing.
Smart, sane, sensible Americans know there are no guarantees; that life doesn't come with a warranty — that in life, people get sick, and that some people who get sick die, while others who get sick recover. Medical experts can't always explain why some die while others recover — but guess what, it's not up to the medical experts to determine who dies, who recovers. That's God's domain.
Some like to act as if God doesn't exist. Some, particularly within the world of pandemics and pandemic predictions, like to act as they're god-like.
"Bill Gates predicts when the next pandemic will arrive," AS.com wrote in November.
"Bill Gates Predicts When the Pandemic Will End," Entrepreneur wrote in December.
Bully for Bill Gates. But let's not let fear and fear-mongering run 2021 like 2020. Let's keep the fear mongers in their place. And their place isn't in political leadership.
Warnings are fine. Predictions are good. But in the end, it's the American people, guided by a Constitution that guarantees a limited government and armed with an awareness that in this country, individual rights come from God — in the end, it's these people possessed with these core principles who should determine the country's direction and fate. They choose freedom. We choose freedom.
America cannot, must not, let fear and those who profit from fear be the driving force of government, education, the economy and society in 2021. Americans cannot, must not, cede rights for a fake promise of protection from those who hold no power to protect.
Freedom and common sense must not become casualties of whatever viruses are to come.
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A few months ago, I had to opportunity to look at The Brookshire Family by Glenna Brookshire Beck. I got a lot of great information which I'm now validating. My current focus is to look online for original records that are cited in The Brookshire Family or for other original records that support the information included.
The book is organized in descending order, meaning that it starts with the oldest known generation and moves forward in time. So, I'm starting with due diligence on the immigrant couple and their children.
Esther was born 12 Apr 1680.
Margaret was born 10 Jul 1682.
Mary was born 28 Dec 1687.
The two entries above could be the same James, as the index cites two different sources for the information. This needs to be resolved however.
I searched the database for Brokshaw, Brookshaw, Brookshire, Brookeshire, Brookeshaw, arriving in Maryland from 1669-1679 to ensure this was the only James and Mary. The only other Brookshire was an Isaac Brookshaw, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1683.
Brookeshann is likely an indexing error; w would be easy to mistake for nn in old handwriting.
Further research needed to prove that Mary and Eliz. are the same person.
Ordered the FHL microfilm cited in the FamilySearch database. Look for original records when film arrives.
Move on to validating daughter Margaret in online records.
Search Maryland Online Archives for information on this family.
Look for a copy of Gibb, Carson. A Supplement to The Early Settlers of Maryland by Carson Gibb (passenger list source).
Look for a copy of Skordas, Gust, editor. The Early Settlers of Maryland: an Index to Names of Immigrants, Compiled from Records of Land Patents, 1633-1680, in the Hall of Records (passenger list source).
Gibb's work is online at http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/speccol/sc4300/sc4341/html/search.html.
You might also get some hints from my latest Archives.com article, "Essential Records for Finding Your Colonial Maryland Ancestors" at http://www.archives.com/experts/hait-michael/records-for-finding-ancestors.html.
You can also find the deed books for Somerset County online–these are the books referenced by Familysearch containing the birth records. Unfortunately the references you have in your citations are not correct. There is no such thing as a "Maryland Circuit Court," and the county circuit courts were not created until 1851. During the seventeenth, you would be dealing with Somerset County Court.
There is more that I could tell you, but I will just recommend that you take a look at the original entries.
Free access to Maryland deed books is available at http://www.mdlandrec.net. You will need to register for a password, which should be emailed immediately. Once you login you can look at any of the deed books or deed indexes. Type in the references I gave you (Book IKL, page 17 and page 20) to see the records.
Thanks, Michael! I ordered the film that the FS index entry was pointing to. Maybe I can cancel the order, since these books are online. That is great information to have. I've done very little Maryland research, so I'm not familiar yet with everything that is available online.
Regarding the citation, yeah, I didn't think that was quite right. I got the Circuit Court part from something I saw in the FS catalog. I really just used that citation as a placeholder until I can get the original records. I should have looked up the history of the court system first, to figure it out.
Thank you, Tonia, for modeling what one day of research looks like. This is really instructive to me as an amateur (aspiring to more). I can clearly see what you've done using basically two databases and the book by Glenna Beck.
Several points amaze me: (1) Michael Hait immediately chimes in with a URL for Gibb and several other super tips. Wow! (2) Your footnotes are impeccable (I'm a retired college prof). and (3) You "allotted" a chunk of time for this research? People do that? Allot? I'm way impressed. I'm still scrambling to get blogs read, webinars watched, and my own research advanced bit by bit. Thanks for this blog that teaches me more about the genealogical community.
Isn't Michael awesome? I've already found the original records, based on the pointers he gave me.
I'm trying to be more methodical in my research and not go off chasing whatever is new and shiny. I have so many projects I'm working on and my time is very limited (I have a non-genealogy job). I find that if I don't say "I have X hours to work on this project," that a day will go by with not much really accomplished. I also find that if I don't write down the process I followed, the results, and the next steps, that I can't pick up the project at a later date and run with it.
Good luck in your own research!


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Pernod Ricard Hungary held a digital communication pitch for Chivas Regal and The Glenlivet. We won both of them.
Csaba Mosonyi, Hungarian market's marketing director of our client, the no.1 spirit producer of premium segment told it was a great challenge with both brands to adjust to international communicational directions and to adapt key messages meanwhile creating a "glocal" campaign concept that fits the domestic positions of the brands and local market features and target groups.
Whisky is advertised with ice – relevance building to Chivas:
For Chivas Regal the goal is to build on relevance: to ensure that premium whisky consumption is not only the rate privilege of top class businessmen, but we're delighted with the pleasures and successes with a glass of Chivas, and we consume it in a friendly company.
The international "win the right way" communication message provided enough room for us and the domestic strategic concept was built on the sports platform. The selected ice-hockey discipline's dynamism and spectacle meet Chivas Regal's global brand communication requirements, but the hockey theme is not only chosen because of the attraction of the discipline and sportsmen but also the well-known positive attitude of the Hungarian hockey fans. The fact that they are always celebrating the hard work done, real sportsman attitudes, and not merely a numerical result, even if the team lost, they can still sing the Hungarian anthem standing at the end of the game when they saw great team efforts have been done - and this is nothing more than a "win the right way" slogan's spontaneous incarnation. Another communication point was during the spring, Hungary was organizing the IIHF Division I Ice Hockey World Championships.
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The other pitched and won brand, The Glenlivet, was the first whisky distillation plant getting permission in the Scottish Highlands in 1824, and today it is the leading single malt, which means distillated malt whisky. As the name also refers to "The" article is part of the trademark. We implemented the original British "The Whisky, The Glenlivet" campaign to easily decodable format to Hungarian consumers. Therefore, instead of playing with English article, the premium brand is built through creative media usage - though, because of the higher positioned target audience, as a rare exception at the Hungarian market it keeps English copy in the ads. Likewise it is also rare to use native advertising solution which seems to be the organic part of the publishing media, even if not completely in content marketing meaning.
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The Death of Right and Wrong: On Abandoning Moral Categories
Resistance, Activism, and the Alternative Media
Libertarian Ideology Trumping Conservative and…
On Christian Political Involvement
Politics and the Gospel
Schaeffer, the State, and Absolutes
As the State Grows the Church Shrinks
The growth of the state usually means the demise of the church:
A few days ago I penned yet another piece seeking to make the case for Christian social and political involvement. Unlike some believers who think that Christians should have nothing to do with politics and the surrounding culture, the New Testament makes a strong case that we should be involved. But see that piece here: billmuehlenberg.com/2020/01/07/politics-and-the-gospel/
Even if we went on purely pragmatic concerns alone, a case could be made for our involvement. As Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen once rightly remarked, "A religion that doesn't interfere with the secular order will soon discover that the secular order will not refrain from interfering with it."
Quite so. The church as a whole and individual Christians will always have some sort of relationship with the culture they live in, including the state. It may be a more or less amicable relationship, an uneasy one, or an antagonistic and hostile one.
In the West we seem to be moving through that progression: as the surrounding culture becomes more and more secular and the state grows in power and authority, often the church is seen as a threat, and must be kept in its place. Of course various totalitarian societies have long seen the church as a rival, and dealt with it accordingly.
But the West is moving in that direction as well, and Christians need to think carefully about this, and how they will respond. Christian thinkers of recent times have done just that, and they have warned us about where we are heading. Let me draw upon just three of them here.
One problem with the expansive state is that the coercive utopians actually think that the power they wield over others is in their best interests. They seek to justify their statism by claiming it is good for people. Sure, they have a love of power and control, but they believe it is for our own good.
C. S. Lewis spoke to this often last century. In one article published in 1949 in an Australian journal he made these sorts of warnings. He was discussing "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment" in which crime is considered a sickness instead of a moral evil, and so punishment is replaced with cures and therapies.
He writes, "If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured." It is in that context that he speaks about our coercive utopians:
It is, indeed, important to notice that my argument so far supposes no evil intentions on the part of the Humanitarian and considers only what is involved in the logic of his position. My contention is that good men (not bad men) consistently acting upon that position would act as cruelly and unjustly as the greatest tyrants. They might in some respects act even worse. Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. Their very kindness stings with intolerable insult.
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Francis Schaeffer also frequently warned against statism, and how the Christian faith is regarded as the major threat to absolute political power. In his very important 1975 volume, How Should We Then Live? he repeatedly warns us about this. In his opening chapter he writes:
Rome was cruel, and its cruelty can perhaps be best pictured by the events which took place in the arena in Rome itself. People seated above the arena floor watched gladiator contests and Christians thrown to the beasts. Let us not forget why the Christians were killed. They were not killed because they worshiped Jesus. Various religions covered the whole Roman world. One such was the cult of Mithras, a popular Persian form of Zoroastrianism which had reached Rome by 67 B.C. Nobody cared who worshiped whom so long as the worshiper did not disrupt the unity of the state, centered in the formal worship of Caesar. The reason the Christians were killed was because they were rebels. This was especially so after their growing rejection by the Jewish synagogues lost for them the immunity granted to the Jews since Julius Caesar's time.
We may express the nature of their rebellion in two ways, both of which are true. First, we can say they worshiped Jesus as God and they worshiped the infinite-personal God only. The Caesars would not tolerate this worshiping of the one God only. It was counted as treason. Thus their worship became a special threat to the unity of the state during the third century and during the reign of Diocletian (284-305), when people of the higher classes began to become Christians in larger numbers. If they had worshiped Jesus and Caesar, they would have gone unharmed, but they rejected all forms of syncretism. They worshiped the God who had revealed himself in the Old Testament, through Christ, and in the New Testament which had gradually been written. And they worshiped him as the only God. They allowed no mixture: All other gods were seen as false gods.
We can also express in a second way why the Christians were killed: No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christians had that absolute in God's revelation. Because the Christians had an absolute, universal standard by which to judge not only personal morals but the state, they were counted as enemies of totalitarian Rome and were thrown to beasts.
And in his closing chapter he says this:
If we as Christians do not speak out as authoritarian governments grow from within or come from outside, eventually we or our children will be the enemy of society and the state. No truly authoritarian government can tolerate those who have a real absolute by which to judge its arbitrary absolutes and who speak out and act upon the absolute. This was the issue with the early church in regard to the Roman Empire, and though the specific issue will in all probability take a different form than Caesar-worship, the basic issue of having an absolute by which to judge the state and society will be the same.
My final witness is Peter Hitchens, brother of the late atheist Christopher. In his 2010 book The Rage Against God he says that Christianity is the real focus of the secularist statists because it is perceived as being the main threat to its lust for power:
The current intellectual assault on God in Europe and North America is in fact a specific attack on Christianity – the faith that stubbornly persists in the morality, laws, and government of the major Western countries. . . . The God they fight is the Christian God
God is the leftists' chief rival. Christian belief, by subjecting all men to divine authority and by asserting in the words "My kingdom is not of this world" that the ideal society does not exist in this life, is the most coherent and potent obstacle to secular utopianism. . . . [T]he Bible angers and frustrates those who believe that the pursuit of a perfect society justifies the quest for absolute power.
The concepts of sin, of conscience, of eternal life, and of divine justice under unalterable law are the ultimate defense against the utopians' belief that the ends justify means and that morality is relative. These concepts are safeguards against the worship of human power….
It is not widely recognized that secularism is a fundamentally political movement, which seeks to remove the remaining Christian restraints on power and the remaining traces of Christian moral law in the civil and criminal codes of the Western nations.
These three Christian thinkers certainly got it right. It is vital that all Christians do so as well. As the State grows in power and seeks to place everything under its control, this will always mean a direct attack on Christianity and on Christians. It has always been that way, and now we are seeing it played out in the West as well.
Pericles had it right when he said way back in 450 BC: "Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you." It is high time all Christians start taking an interest in politics, or it will soon be too late for Christians to do anything.
17 Responses to As the State Grows the Church Shrinks
Stephen Chen
"crime is considered a sickness instead of a moral evil, and so punishment is replaced with cures and therapies.
He writes, "If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured."
"Correction" and "rehabilitation" for criminals has been shown to only work in a small minority; many become more hardened, reoffend with more horrendous crimes; some reoffend to "get back in", as they are unable to survive in the outside world; at least in prison, they are housed and fed. 🙁
Tasman Walker
Thanks Bill. A good article. Some insights I've not seen before.
Paul Mewhor
Thanks for the forewarning. Unfortunately, it is not only our Christian brothers and sisters that say we shouldn't be involved in politics that are the problem. There are those who support the leftist anti-Christian policies, either in ignorance or deliberately. Furthermore, and more worrying, is the theologians out there that undermine the Scriptures by denying the five 'solas' that underline the Reformation; especially 'Solo Christo' and claiming there is a difference between Christ of the Bible and the historical Jesus; those who were fed to the lions didn't see a difference. This is due to the 'fear of man' and the persecution to come, so they try to placate the secular in hopes they won't be in the firing line.
Elizabeth Kendal
on this topic – I'd like to recommend practically anything by Dr Joseph Boot (Canada; https://www.ezrainstitute.ca/ ). I am currently about 3/4 of the way through his 2016 book, 'The Mission of God'. . . fantastic!
Thanks Elizabeth. Yes I highlight and quote from the book here:
https://billmuehlenberg.com/2019/05/14/a-derelict-church-and-a-moribund-culture/
Rhona MacKenzie
There is a difference between unjustifiable and justifiable state power. In the past, Bill, you have made it clear that you have little time for radical atheist libertarianism. However, I certainly think that there is a place for the state in certain areas- social security provision, public housing, public health and educational access, as well as criminal justice and national security. It is when the state presumes to dictate what the parameters of "permissible" human life should be, as with abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment and active reliance on the use of nuclear weapons that we need to say no. I have found British evangelicals to be quite wise about public policy issues, particularly John Stott and those associated with the excellent Britsh evangelical magazine Third Way.
Thanks Rhona. In numerous articles I have often said there is a role for the state to play. Anarchy is neither biblical nor helpful, but the same can be said about statism and the ever-growing welfare state. Both extremes must be avoided. But as I say, I have often spoken about such matters, eg: https://billmuehlenberg.com/2018/08/13/scandinavia-socialism-and-the-welfare-state/
Bill, I have found the writings of Rousas J. Rushdoony very helpful with regard to a Christian and Biblical view of the State. Some of his writings are not popular in certain Christian circles, in that he is postmillenial and a theonomist (but I hardly think that he is in conflict with the Westminster Confession of Faith on its view of the State).
He is very worth reading and he wrote prolifically.
Thanks Andy. Yes I have many of his books, including his 1986 volume, Christianity and the State. And I have often referred to him, including in this recent piece: https://billmuehlenberg.com/2019/12/20/no-god-is-not-an-anarchist/
Following on to my first comment, those who think that crime is "an illness that can be 'cured'" by rehabilitation, have conveniently forgotten mankind is afflicted by an universal disease called SIN (Romans 3:23, 6:23), the mortality rate of which is 100%! (I know, some may point to Enoch and Elijah as exceptions)
The only antidote, or cure, as most of us reading this site would know, is accepting your fallen position, that you are helpless to save yourself (as the world's religions teach), & put one's trust and faith in Jesus, who my His death & resurrection, has taken the penalty on our behalf, & enabled us to follow Him to live the way God intended us to live.
Ron Rumble
Interesting re-inforcement of our current cultural evolution. it seems timely to remind ourselves that Mr Sheehan near Broadford was prosecuted by the State for clearing vegetation on his own property.His house survived Black Saturday; his neighbours' didn't. His crime? Trying to protect his family and house. We need to remind ourselves of the State impinging on basic ability of citizens to look after themselves. Its happening.
Michael Weeks
I believe the battle is more spiritual than that. Yes the Zoroastrians and many Stoics criticized the sexual immorality of the time but only Christianity fully criticizes both the tyranny and the sexual immorality. This was a double insult to people like Nero.
The scriptures tell us that Satan is attempting to leverage human authority and that many will be deceived into joining that side of the fight, hence the battle of Armageddon. For the powers of evil to leverage that authority means there has to be some sort of authoritarian state. How else to you attempt to prevent people from buying and selling without the mark of the Beast?
To gain that power the first thing that has to happen is the authority of the Christian state (which promotes the opposite of lording it over other people) has to be undermined. This is why we see people like Anthony Albanese crying, after stabbing Julia Gillard in the back, and saying, through his tears, something like "I just want to stick it to conservatives."
This is why we see the misappropriation of public funds to support journalists who deliberately ignore the profound sexual immorality within the Labor Party and left-leaning people, with rapes and pedophilia etc., while they talk up and constantly publicize a three year royal commission inquiry into abuse in conservative institutions and then won't let it rest but push the state police force to comb the state for the slightest evidence and when, after years searching, someone is eventually found who might fit the bill, groom him and rework his testimony until, even though the final testimony still doesn't fit the facts and despite numerous witness statements that contradict the claims, state that the witness, that they have groomed, is so convincing that we should ignore the other evidence. They then repeatedly publicize it and make as much mileage from it as they possibly can all the while being funded by the public purse and ignoring the repeated offenses within their own ranks.
The forces of evil have become extremely proficient at causing immorality and then finding ways of blaming decent people for that immorality. This, of course, is why conservative groups have to get their act together. Judgement starts at the house of God and those who do wickedness within the Temple are worthy of more punishment than those who do it outside because not only have they done wrong, they have also defiled the Temple. If conservative groups do not deal with the immorality within their ranks clearly the consequences are going to be dire although it is still better to suffer in this world than at the hands of God.
John C. Wigg
When people will not have Christ to reign over them, ultimately they will prove unable to rule themselves in any real meaningful sense of the word. To deny that the Most High rules His world is to set compass and course for the midst of the proverbial perfect storm – where it is "every man for himself and the Devil take the hindmost".
Russell Guy
@ Ron Rumble. The very fact that the Religious Discrimination Bill has been tabled for discussion, when such was not even required until a very short time ago and the exposure of Green tape prohibition on fuel load culls in public and private estates, are signs that the long march through the institutions has come up against resistance. There is a considerable push-back from faith-based schools. The parents of those who are enrolled will be exposed to the arguments about discrimination of value-based choice in teacher recruitment, along with those who will consider the catastrophe of Greenspeak-inspired prohibitions on the right of local community's to protect themselves and their property after the latest series of bushfires. It is somewhat ironic that the 'catastrophic emergency' climate change alarmists have been exposed as contributing to one on their doorstep. Perhaps, if the PM's Royal Commission proceeds, it may expose the 'lock it and leave it' policy as having some culpability in the tragedy. Maybe, even rusted-on Greens might decide that it's a bad look to continue with that exercise. There could be a reaction against such policy at the ballot box and the Green/Labour alliance will, no doubt, be left holding the same kind of tattered bag of promised disasters that led to their ignominious recent defeat, unless, of course, there is a falling on their sword and mea culpa. As ScoMo said while announcing the Bushfire Recovery Agency, this is about the human cost. The fact that he is still the subject of ridicule speaks volumes about those who seek to divide in the land 'Down Under'.
Jan 9, 2020 at 10:58 am
Ron you mean he had the audacity to think for himself????
Biggest problem is we are so nice! We are live and let live while our enemies tend to be live and let die. We want everyone to love us because we have bought into the warped belief that Jesus was very nice and loved by all. Speaking of love we let the world define it, and other words, then try to apply them to the Christian version and end up with a meaningless mush of a faith.
While we must be involved with government to ensure it doesn't trample on our rights we can't get too entangled with it or with a party. I think the moral majority became too entangled with the GOP and started to lose it's Christian focus.
Mark Wong
Speaking of which, things are looking grim for China's Christians:
https://bitterwinter.org/want-an-atheist-generation-start-from-an-early-age/
https://bitterwinter.org/teachers-in-the-vanguard-of-creating-atheist-society/


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