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Good City Brewing commits at least 1% of annual revenue to helping people find affordable housing in Milwaukee
Hannah Kirby
Good City Brewing's motto is "Seek the Good." On Wednesday, the Milwaukee-based craft brewery announced it's going to continue doing that by committing at least 1% of its annual company revenue to supporting nonprofits and programs that work to eliminate housing barriers.
"Good City was born out of an intentional commitment (co-founder) Dan (Katt) and I made to put down roots and seek the good of Milwaukee," David Dupee said in a news release. "As we thought about how we can push forward our mission to Seek the Good as a company, we kept coming back to the importance of rootedness and calling a place home, keys to which are affordable housing and home ownership. We're excited to focus our efforts toward supporting the amazing local nonprofits who are making it easier for everyone to put down roots and call Milwaukee our home."
Earlier this year, the study "America's Housing Inequality and the Racial Wealth Divide" found that the Milwaukee metropolitan area was the sixth-most inequitable region for real estate in the U.S., according to the real estate data company Clever.
Good City's "1% For Our Home" initiative will also help its employees purchase homes through down payment and closing cost financial assistance, the news release said.
The announcement coincides with the launch of 12-ounce cans of the brewery's popular Home Lager. Six-packs will be available at all three Good City taprooms starting Friday. The taprooms are located at:
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Twelve-packs of Home will hit grocery and liquor stores by next week.
"Home has quickly become one of our more popular brands, especially during the historic Bucks' championship run," Katt said in the news release. "We're excited to introduce a format that will make Home more accessible in the market."
For more information, visit goodcitybrewing.com.
Evan Casey of Now News Group contributed to this report.
Contact Hannah Kirby at hannah.kirby@jrn.com. Follow her on Twitter at @HannahHopeKirby.

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The government shall consist of three branches: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial.
This basic design has worked fairly well in past and present systems, but of course must be tweaked if we are to have any chance of truly implementing The Will Of The People.
The Matchist System shall be used to enable The People to run their government at all levels. All individuals will be guaranteed access to it as a fundamental human right.
Our current political systems are generally classified as "representative democracies", where The People are required to delegate responsibility for the creation and modification of the laws and policies that affect us (i.e. the role of the legislative branch) to "representatives". The general theory is that these "representatives" are somehow "representative" of us, and would therefore make decisions that the same decisions we would make if we were in their position. But what if none of the candidates for a given office are like you at all? For example, which of the two major 2016 US presidential candidates are you like: Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? For most people the answer is "neither". And yet these were the only two realistic choices for a leader who would be placed in charge of making a vast number of decisions for us via executive order, in large part because the current design of the legislative branch makes it incapable of making the anywhere near the number of decisions required. The situation is even worse when deciding which candidate for senate/congress/county commissioner/city council/etc.: Not only is it unlikely that they will vote like you, in most cases you have very little information about what they're like and so it is impossible for you even try to predict how they will vote at all!
The System, an electronic direct democracy and information management system, will work from the opposite direction: Rather than requiring you to research and then pick "representatives" from a very limited set of choices and then trust them to make good decisions on your behalf, you will instead provide information that will be used to match you to proxies that have already voted on a proposed law or policy, specifically those proxies that most likely voted like you would if you had the time, experience, and motivation to properly research that proposal. You will then have the opportunity to verify this automatically-calculated vote by examining the justifications for those votes provided by your proxies. If you agree with their reasoning, or if you have learned that you can trust the system's proxy-matching ability and so don't even check up on them, this proxy vote will be recorded on your behalf. If you don't agree, you can cast a direct vote to override your proxies.
General Voting will happen over a weekend for maximum convenience of the voters. The proxy batch calculation will run every Friday at midnight UTC (4pm US Pacific time). After the proxy votes are calculated each voter get an email or text message telling them what vote has been calculated for them. They will then have the weekend to look at how the proxy candidates voted and why, and to override or selectively eliminate each proxy if they disagree with the justifications supplied. Voting closes Sunday at midnight UTC and an email/text will sent to each voter with the result and an announcement of the next weekend's proposal(s).
If a voter has the time and inclination to do the research and consideration necessary to cast a direct vote and wants to make themselves available as a proxy to other voters they'll have at least 10 days to do so (the proposals will be put up at the latest the Monday the week prior to the General Vote). These early voters will have access to the information in the proposal and to comments provided by any proxies who have voted before them, but will be reminded to vote carefully: Other voters will be relying on these decisions and votes cannot be changed once they have been cast.
The distinguishing characteristic of The System is the way voters are matched to their proxies/delegates/representatives. Unlike other systems, this system is specifically designed to maximize the chances that the vote recorded for an individual is most likely to be the same vote that voter would cast if they had the time, experience, and motivation to properly research an issue prior to casting a direct vote (i.e., casting a "correct vote", as defined in Ha & Lau 2015, Milic 2012, and Nai 2015). It will do this by matching the voter based on relatively invariant personality characteristics such as the Five Factor Model (aka the Big 5 personality traits), their perceptions of how government works (such as their responses on the forms used to assess The Will Of The People), along with other measures of personality, political orientation, and possibly even their past votes if a voter has cast a sufficient number of direct votes. Although there isn't any direct research to support the viability of this design yet, there is considerable research that these traits have high predictive value for things like political orientation and party affiliation (for a review see Gerber, Huber, Doherty, & Dowling 2011), which in turn is at least somewhat predictive of positions on specific issues (indeed, by bypassing parties and the commonly used yet relatively crude measures of political orientation as intermediates we may find that the predictive power of the statistical match is far greater).
The System also differs significantly from other systems in that these calculations are done automatically and by statistical analysis rather than relying on human's rather horrible ability to pick their own proxies. For example, Kling, Kunegis, Hartmann, Strohmaier, & Staab 2015 looked at the operation of the LiquidFeedback system as it was used by the German Pirate Party and found that when votes cast prior to delegation were compared, the votes of voter-selected delegates only correlated 0.6 with the votes cast by the voters themselves. Yet there was a 0.5 correlation among voters chosen at random, which means that manually selecting delegates is not significantly better than using random sampling (albeit without the flaws in lottocracy/demarchy/sortition, all of which have at least the same fatal flaw exhibited by the judicial jury selection process: Anybody who wants to get out of serving can almost certainly do so, leaving only the least capable (or most authoritarian) to render the decision, which is exactly the opposite of what you want when making public policy decisions). This inability to choose appropriate proxies is undoubtedly due to the fact that people use inappropriate characteristics to select their representatives (name familiarity, friendliness/extraversion (who you'd most like to have a beer with!), recommendations of other non-representative individuals, etc.) just as they do in our existing misrepresentative democracies.
Kling et al. also found several other serious flaws in the operation of the LiquidFeedback delegation system, including inadequate utilization (less than 15% of participants ever used this feature), dead ends (voters delegating to a person who didn't cast a vote), and a significant effect of what they called "supervoters", individuals who somehow managed to amass hundreds of proxies and were therefore granted the ability to act as oligarchs, subjecting them to the same sorts of corrupting influences that currently plague our existing misrepresentative democracies. By automatically recalculating proxy matches for each vote, The System will solve all of these problems, and achieve vastly better representation to boot. Further improvement will result from providing the voter with multiple proxies (5 in the current version) whose votes are averaged, reducing the effects of outliers, some of which could be individuals who are attempting to game the system by providing fake personality profiles.
Automatic proxy matching also solves what is undoubtedly the biggest problem of both LiquidFeedback and our existing systems: Low voter turnout. In the Pirate Party LiquidFeedback runs most decisions were made with only 20% of the members casting a vote. In the US 2016 general election only about 40% of the population voted. Even the Swiss system, currently the most widely used direct democracy system in the world, generally has turnouts below 50% of registered voters. But once established, every vote in The System will effectively have near 100% turnout, ensuring that the opinions of the all of the population, most of whom are not represented at all in our currently elections, will be taken into account when making public policy decisions. The vast majority of these newly-represented voters will be neurotypical and so far less likely to be aggressive, discriminatory, or authoritarian (i.e., SDAP) in their voting preferences.
After voting, each voter will be given the ability to write a comment (or even a whole dissertation) on why they voted the way they did, or to choose posts that they found most influential in making their decision. To prevent these voters from attempting to game the system by suppressing the opinions of or explicitly attacking the other side, they will only be allowed to contribute to their side of the argument (i.e., if they voted "no" they'll only be able to post in the column of reasons to vote against a proposal, or to choose the posts from that column that they found influential). Other voters will be able to use this information to make their own decision, or to evaluate the quality of their matched proxies, an instinctive ability every human has from a young age even when they have little personal expertise in a domain (e.g., see Keil 2010). This maximizes the information each direct voter will have access to, while preventing the same type of trolling behavior that has become endemic in all other social media: Unlike them The System is designed to allow The People to make decisions, not to collect eyeballs to sell to advertisers. The best social engineering techniques can therefore be used to ensure a civil and efficient debate rather than just using the system to stir up emotions to attract marketable attention.
A resilient design that is distributed across servers in multiple locations.
Robust cross-platform support, from browsers and apps on all platforms to support for voting by email or SMS in very low bandwidth environments.
Open source, such that anyone can inspect and improve it.
Security sufficient to protect against or at least detect vote rigging or other tampering, although nowhere near enough to guaranty 100% accuracy of results immediately (and of course individuals who insist on this are probably authoritarian and so not interested in efficiency or fairness, but primarily in control).
A "party prevention" design: Not only will The System not include any support for political parties, it must be specifically designed to prevent them from arising spontaneously. Political parties arise because they are a means of aggregating political power from individuals of a particular personality type and then wielding it to achieve that group's goals. Unfortunately, parties don't even properly represent their members because individual variations are far too large to be captured by any party system unless it supports at least dozens of parties: Any party system by definition therefore prevents people from casting a "correct vote". Because matchism is based on the fundamental assumption that the power of all personality types must be weighted in proportion to their prevalence in the general population, political parties can only be considered to be a means of "gaming the system" because they facilitate some personality types wielding political power out of proportion to their numbers. This is obviously incompatible with matchist philosophy and social engineering principles. It probably should even be considered explicitly immoral in all philosophies because some personality types simply don't aggregate the way others do. For example low Big-5 Openness scores (authoritarians and other conservatives) naturally aggregate, whereas organizing high Big-5 Openness individuals (some Greens, but most of which are not well represented by any current political party) is akin to herding cats.
The ability to block certain proxies from being matched with them if they find that a proxy takes positions or makes comments that the voter disagrees with on principle. This will also address any proxy's attempt to game the system by faking their personality profile: The research has shown most people will be able to detect this because they can determine most relevant dimensions of the Big 5 personality profile using only the potential proxy's on-line posts (Darbyshire, Kirk, Wall, & Kaye 2016).
The ability to record a changed vote after the voting has closed. If a large number of these reversals are recorded, the proposal will automatically be rescheduled for a revote.
Although it expected that the vast majority of proposals to be voted on will come from qualified Social Engineers in the Executive branch of government, add-on systems will aid in creation and refining of proposals submitted by individuals. Note, however, that The System itself is not a deliberation or consensus-building system, all current examples of which have the fatal "last man standing" flaw where even a single user who insists on getting their way holds up all progress until a compromise acceptable to them is made. This kind of behavior was simply not tolerated in the EEA, is fundamentally incompatible with human social replisms, and so does not need to be included in any modern decisionmaking system.
The System will have other modules necessary for The People to manage their government, including subsystems for managing the executive and judicial branches (including assessing The Will Of The People and selecting Managers), budgeting (including funding for Charities), and a testing system to regulate Credentials.
The proxy system combined with the Manager selection system will address most of the problems raised in Hibbing's 2002 Stealth Democracy which showed that although people greatly dislike our current systems and yet don't want to be involved in all of the low-level details of running a government, they do want to be able to ensure that the people they chose to represent them are not capable of exploiting those positions for their own personal gain. Most people also do want to retain the ability to vote directly on those few issues that are important to them.
The results of all votes would be available at closing so that The People can check that their vote had been recorded and that there was no ballot-box stuffing, just as is the practice for representatives in representative-based government. After each vote, they will also get an text/email showing what vote was recorded for them along with the vote totals. This virtually eliminates the possibility of fraud because any tampering would be instantly detectable by anyone who even glanced at their phone. It also vastly simplifies the infrastructure: No need for fingerprints or other exotic authorization methods, no need for The System to be able to verify individuals using their financial information (i.e., recording credit card or bank account or other information useful for identity thieves), and no need for armies of system administrators to monitor and protect the system from attack. Indeed, it may not even be necessary to validate any sort of voter ID at all so long as citizenship rolls are properly maintained: If someone else votes using your name/ID, it's your own fault, and this alone should provide a proper incentive to make sure that every person at least signs up with the system and does at list a minimal monitoring of the votes cast on their behalf. If the system does at some point get hacked, large numbers of users will find out about it and the only negative consequence will be that a vote or two may have to be redone.
Although this is different from the secret ballot system used in most representative democracies, the choice between support for proxies and making fraud straightforward to detect versus the possibility of making vote buying and voter intimidation easier is a clear one. Indeed, by making the latter easier to detect (e.g., via statistical analysis of voting patterns and comparisons with the personality inventories) public voting would seem to be the best of both words in a technologically advanced civilization.
This type of open voting is not unfamiliar to most people: Caucuses used in primaries in many states work this way, as do most votes held in meetings in most organizations. Most people do not even have any reluctance to share their voting preferences with others (e.g., Gerber, Huber, Doherty, & Dowling 2012). Kling et al. (private communication) received virtually no reports of reluctance to cast a direct vote in LiquidFeedback as a result of it having open votes. It has also been shown that the individuals who are most insistent that a secret balloting system be used are the very people who are the least informed on the issues and so would most benefit from having their votes cast by a representative proxy instead of directly (Gerber, Huber, Doherty, Dowling & Hill 2013).
Screen names will be used primarily in The System, but it should be possible for people to match screen names to real-world names with some effort. Not only does this allow independent inspectors to check up on the voting process, but prevents the system from being held hostage by a hacker who manages to break into the main database. Social engineering tools should be sufficient to keep the screen-name/real-name information from being used inappropriately (e.g., someone including this information in one of their posts in an attempt to influence or intimidate another user would receive some sort of censure).
It is a common criticism of direct democracy systems that the large number of decisions that (at least supposedly) need to be made by government effectively prohibit individual participation in making them. But if you actually look at the number of substantive decisions made at the local, state, and national levels you'll find the number is already quite manageable: A weekly vote on 1 or 2 proposals would be sufficient (although a lot of bridges and post offices will probably end up with boring and utilitarian names, nor is there any chance there will be over 60 votes to repeal Obamacare such as the US house of representatives has taken). For each proposal an individual would at most have to read a few concise and well-written statements in favor of the proposal, and equally concise and well-written statements opposed. Of course, if they needed more information prior to voting they could read the proposal itself along with every comment (in ratings order) about it that anyone else had written (and there will be a lot of that information available because instead of whining about the way things are on Facebook or some other forum, people will instead express their opinion in a place where it actually matters!). Making a full evaluation and casting a direct vote should take less than an hour a week for most people, and once people learn to trust the proxy-matching system the vast majority of them will only spend a few seconds a week monitoring the system.
It is also frequently observed (including by the Founding Fathers of the United States) that direct democracy can't work because The People are not up to the job (too stupid, too apathetic, too prone to mob effects, etc.). Many evolutionary psychologists would extend this assessment to human performance in large-scale political systems in general: Humans simply don't have the evolution-tuned hardware to perform well in that environment (Geher, Carmen, Guitar, Gangemi, Aydin, & Shimkus 2016, Petersen & Aarøe 2012). But these criticisms assume The People are unaugmented by technology. The System will be designed and engineered to improve human decisionmaking ability by providing exactly the information needed and in a directly usable form. It will facilitate voters making decisions rationally using only this information instead of relying on lower-level processes, biases, or prejudice. It will provide an environment that behaves and feels more like a small-scale society even though it is designed to scale to accommodate the entire global population. It will amplify collective power while minimizing mob effects and therefore will allow us to function far more efficiently and competently than we are able to now in any current political system.
Only votes from individuals with a Standard Adult Credential and with their primary residence in that Locality will be counted for proposals affecting a Locality. Globality elections will count the votes of all individuals with a Standard Adult Credential, regardless of their location.
Yes, this means that issues affecting the Globality will at first be decided primarily by people living outside of Localities that have adopted the current Matchism Code. There are two reasons why this is not only necessary, but optimal. The first is that statutes and policies in the Code will eventually apply to all human beings and so all human beings should have a say in how they are defined. Allowing the first few adopters of matchism to define these laws and policies is a recipe for disaster since they may implement culture, language, or location-specific policies that might indirectly (or even directly) harm individuals in pre-matchist nations. This could in turn cause unacceptable delays in the adoption of matchism by those nations.
Secondly, the first few adopters will likely lack the financial and organizational resources to implement matchism on their own. All The People will need to pool their efforts to ensure that these early adopters are successful so that we will all eventually be able to live in matchist Localities.
Also, while matchism is generally compatible with any true democracy, it is fundamentally incompatible with the existence of any authoritarian regime. The research on SDO and RWA clearly shows that as long as any authoritarian regime exists in the world, no one is safe. While many westerners seem fascinated and sometimes even obsessed with the Chinese citizens' failure to fight their government's efforts to restrict dissent and access to information ("Don't those people value freedom?") this is the equivalent of worrying about the fleas on a rabid dog. The real problem is that any government, even a highly authoritarian government, works adequately during an interval of plentiful resources. It's when an era of resource scarcity returns that authoritarian governments turn to aggression, either against outsiders or even against their own people, to maintain their grip on power.
Only by eliminating all sources of external threat is it possible to control the activation level of Authoritarians in one's own country. Replacing all SDAP-led governments (and this includes representative democracies) with matchism must therefore be a high priority. The most efficient way to do that is by having these citizens living under SDAP rule participate in the Globality to the greatest extent possible until the matchish grow to critical mass in that country.
This also means that matchism is not suitable as a cult or government for a commune-like small-scale society that must rely on external support or a self-selected population: matchism either works for all of us or it works for none of us.
The decision criterion shall be a simple majority of votes cast.
Note that there is no provision for Locality-count input, i.e. as is the requirement in the US Senate (Electoral College) or for Swiss cantons in national referendums. Allowing this encourages splitting up Localities into smaller units, reducing their efficiency. Localities should be competing for citizens to grow to the largest size possible, not provide individuals with an incentive to do the opposite. Locality-count voting also encourages efficiency-killing hostage-taking behavior (i.e., tribalism, an authoritarian mindset and tactic). If there is a need to protect Localities from tyranny-of-the-majority issues, it should be sufficient to move responsibility for some decisions (e.g., on resource extraction policies) further into the local domain.
The Budgeting component of The System will allow The People to set both the revenue and the expenses of their government.
Budgeting by requiring passing a bill is a horribly inefficient process because it inherently encourages attempts to game the system (log rolling, pork barrel projects, hostage taking, etc.). Instead the budget should be a continuously running system where both input (taxation) and output (operations, infrastructure investment, etc.) are set together. Since it is live, The People will be able to adjust their taxation and spending priorities as the environment and their free time demand. Managers (and even department heads) will be able to monitor these settings to enable to predict what their budget will be in the next dispersement interval, which should be no more than one quarter ahead. Although this will often result in fluctuations in resource requirements, the logistics group within the GRF will facilitate repurposing of facilities or relocation of citizens to maximize efficiency.
Note the budgeting component will also include funding for Social Service Organizations (SSOs), as defined in that section.


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Eastern China Is a 'Museum' of Flowering Plants
New research digs into the evolutionary history of these plants and finds an impressive diversity across the country.
by Sarah Laskow January 31, 2018
Eastern China Is a 'Museum' of Flowering Plants
Euptelea polyandra, an older lineage found in eastern China. Σ64/CC BY 3.0
China, as many have noted, is a very large piece of contiguous land, which accounts for just under 7 percent of the world's total land area. It is slightly larger than Brazil and slightly smaller than the United States. Yet, as a new paper, published in Nature, notes, China is home to many more species of vascular plant than the U.S.—30,000 in all, compared to the 17,000 or so in the United States.
When and how did all these many plants evolve in China? Since the 1990s, the team behind the new paper, led by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Scientists, have been collecting specimens and DNA samples from across the country, pulled together into a DNA bank. In the new study, they used that data to reconstruct the evolutionary history of vascular plants and found the story for eastern and western China looked very different.
Overall, the researchers found, 66 percent of China's plant genera—the taxonomic category just above species—originated around 23 million years ago. But those older plant lineages clustered in the east, where the ancient origins of the plants has created a "floristic museum," the researchers write, where species diversity dating back millions of years has been preserved. In North America and Europe, glaciers swept down from further north during the ice age that started 2.58 million years ago, killing off ancient plants in those areas. But in China, plants escaped that fate and continued to thrive, while new genera and species evolved in the same regions.
A flower from the Magnoliaceae lineage, found in eastern China. Dinesh Valke/CC BY-SA 2.0
In western China, though, the deep history of plants is different. The genera of plants here, the researchers found, started diverging closer to 19 million years ago. The geologic conditions here, where continental plates crushed together, created new climates and habitats, leading to a sprouting of new types of life and a younger diversity of plants.
Compared even to U.S., with its mountains, deserts, and plains, China has a varied topology that creates new pressures and sparks to evolution, which contributes to the massive diversity of plant species. Even so, there are a few provinces in the east, including Yunnan and the rapidly developing Guangdong, that the researchers identified as the areas of greatest genetic diversity for flowering plants. In these same places, though, plant life is under the greatest threat from development pressures, and the natural parks and reserves are fragmented.
By showing the incredible scope and depth of the history of plant life, the researchers hope to help conservation efforts preserve the natural collections of flowers growing here. After all, a museum is only as good as its holdings.
The Killer Wasp That Saws Its Way Out of Its Victims
A six-legged terror the size of a sesame seed.
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Plants Are Communicating With Each Other Using Underground Signals
A new report shows that touching one plant can affect the behavior of its neighbors.
Sarah Laskow May 2, 2018
Give Trees Some Space
Even city trees need some boundaries.
Sarah Laskow January 24, 2018
The Shark That Thrives on a Flexitarian Diet
For the bonnethead shark, fish can be friends, not food.
Natasha Frost January 8, 2018
Ancient Trees Were Bafflingly Complicated, and Scientists Don't Really Know Why
Tree rings are so much simpler.
Natasha Frost October 24, 2017
Atlas Obscura Tries: Magnet Fishing
A 30-Acre Garden Inspired by the Principles of Modern Physics
The Flesh-Eating Beetles of Chicago's Field Museum
Inside Ohio's Experimental Archaeology Lab
A Visit to Buffalo's Lava Lab
Where Scientists Play With Fire
A Colossal Squid Is Hiding in New Zealand
The Spectacular Beauty of China's Red Beach
The Wonderful World of a Garden Dedicated to Gourds
How One Man Built a Sprawling Treehouse With a Dance Floor


"I was Only Nineteen (A Walk in the Light Green)," was written (1983) and performed by John Schumann of the Australian band named Redgum. (https://youtu.be/tJMgPOY-M44). Australia has long been an ally of the United States and is a member of SEATO and ANZUS, two military alliances created by the U.S. after World War II. Australia has a history of supporting U.S. military actions, sometimes by sending its soldiers. "I was Only Nineteen" arose out of that context. "Nineteen" became a national hit in Australia, especially among Vietnam veterans. The single reached number one on the Australian charts for two weeks in 1983. Schumann wrote the song based on the experiences he heard from veterans. It is still performed whenever Vietnam veterans get together for a concert. All royalties from sales are donated to the Vietnam Veterans Association of Australia. It is in the Australian Performing Right Association's Top 30 Australian Songs of All Times.
Mum and Dad and Denny saw the passing-out parade at Puckapunyal.
Townsville lined the footpaths as we marched down to the quay.
An' there's me in me slouch hat with me SLR and greens.
From Vung Tau, riding Chinooks, to the dust at Nui Dat.
But we made our tents a home, VB and pinups on the lockers.
An' an Agent Orange sunset through the scrub.
An' can you tell me, doctor, why I still can't get to sleep?
An' night-time's just a jungle dark and a barking M16?
An' what's this rash that comes and goes—can you tell me what it means?
A four week operation when each step could mean your last one on two legs.
But you wouldn't let your mates down 'til they had you dusted off.
So, you closed your eyes and thought about something else.
An' then someone yelled out, "Contact!" and the bloke behind me swore.
We hooked in there for hours, then a Godalmighty roar.
'Til the morphine came and killed the bloody row.
An' the ANZAC legends didn't mention mud and blood and tears.
An' the stories that my father told me never seemed quite real.
I caught some pieces in my back that I didn't even feel.
An' why the Channel Seven chopper chills me to my feet?
Upon announcement of the Calley verdict many Americans were appalled. President Nixon ordered Calley transferred from prison to house arrest at Fort Benning while his appeal was heard. State legislatures in New Jersey, Arkansas, Kansas, Texas, and South Carolina passed motions officially requesting clemency for Calley. Alabama governor George Wallace quickly named Calley an honorary lieutenant colonel in the Alabama National Guard. In Georgia, Governor Jimmy Carter proclaimed an "American Fighting Man's Day" and asked the state's residents to drive with their headlights on during daylight hours in a week-long protest. (http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/10/the-ballad-of-my-lai-mp3s.html) Eventually, Calley's sentence was commuted to 10 years. He was released from prison in 1974 at the order of a civil court, after serving three years. (Reader's Digest, p. 458.) Calley was the only soldier convicted of war crimes for the incidents that took place in My Lai.
I'm just another soldier from the shores of U.S.A.
But orders come down from the brass for everything we done.
And orders come down from the brass for everything we done.
Did the frightened child remind you of a smiling boy?
Did anyone pray where was God that day?
Was he old enough to ask why?
Hey Lieutenant, can you still hear the small babies cry?
Has God grown weak and the devil strong?
Can a man to man justify?
Hey Lieutenant will death set you free from My Lai?
Hey Lieutenant can you still hear the small babies cry?
" Last Train to Nuremberg," written and sung by Pete Seeger (1971) (https://youtu.be/z08YYG6WJI0), pointed the finger at several layers of society that Seeger thought had blood upon their hands. Nuremberg was the place where the criminal trials of the Nazis took place after the second World War. Thus, Seeger placed those responsible for My Lai atrocities in the same category as the Nazis, facing justice for their crimes.
Seeger points to the two soldiers involved: Lieutenant William Calley and Captain Medina, the commanding officer of the platoon in question. Medina faced court-martial for these war crimes, but was acquitted in 1971. Seeger then suggests that politicians, Richard Nixon and "both houses of Congress" bore some responsibility. He wants to know "who gave the orders?" and who "planned the campaign?" Seeger then turns his attention to the military-industrial complex, asking the question: "who manufactured the bullet?" Finally, Seeger points the finger at all Americans, singing: "do I see the voters, me and you…who paid the taxes? Tell me, is that blood upon my hands?" The reference to a football game related to the rumor that President Nixon watched a football game on TV after he was informed about the My Lai incident.
Do I see Lieutenant Calley?
Do I see Captain Medina?
Do I see Gen'ral Koster and all his crew?
Do I see President Nixon?
Do I see both houses of Congress?
Do I see the voters, me and you?
Who planned the campaign to lay waste the land?
Tell me, is that blood upon my hands?
Would the man they came to see, say he was too busy?
Would he say he had to watch a football game?
The slaughter that went on below them.
So that general headquarters would know them.
Where there were children who were wounded and crying.
So that they wouldn't be among the dying.
That was smoky and hot from the killing.
"We're calling your bluff. There's been killing enough.
The pilot just looked at his gunner and shook.
"Song for Hugh Thompson," written by David Rovics' (1998) and performed by Rotdorn (https://youtu.be/65oovwv53D4), is about Hugh Thompson Jr., a U.S. army warrant officer and helicopter pilot, who tried to stop the My Lai massacre. Before the last few survivors were about to be killed by U.S. soldiers, Thompson and his helicopter crew arrived on the scene and told the soldiers that if they did not stand down, they would be shot by the helicopter's gunners; thus, preventing the last few people from being murdered. Thompson reported the incident over the radio, and later to his superiors. He then evacuated the civilians, including a 2-year-old boy that he found clinging to his dead mother. He ordered two other helicopters to fly eleven Vietnamese to the hospital at Quang Ngai, then reported the massacre to higher headquarters. He also got a cease-fire declared, sparing countless more civilians. He received the Soldier's Medal in 1998 (the highest award for valor not involving combat).


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The 33-year-old vessel, SA Agulhas, is preparing for retirement from polar expeditions in March 2012.
The vessel will only be used closer to shore after retire- ment and it is insurable for another two years until 2014. The decision on how to use it after disposal lies with the prospective owner.
R1.3-billion and will start duties in May 2012. It is expected to be complete, in March next year and will be delivered to South Africa from Europe, in April.
The new vessel is being manufactured by global shipbuilding group STX Europe. The construction work of the vessel started in April, and the expected completion date is March 2012.
The retirement of the SA Agulhas is a sad chapter for the Department of Environment but it had to be replaced, as it was built for a different era. It was initially built as an icebreaker and the science capabilities were added on later, said Nqayi.
"The new vessel is a custom-made research platform that will include the necessary modern facilities to make the voyage comfortable and safe," he concluded.


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Yahya Jammeh warned not to return to The Gambia
(FASTNEWS | BANJUL) – The Gambia has warned its ousted leader Yahya Jammeh not to try to return home from his exile in Equatorial Guinea.
Mr Jammeh's safety couldn't be guaranteed if he did return without permission, a government spokesman told the BBC.
A spokesman for Mr Jammeh's party said he could arrive back at any time.
The Gambia's neighbours forced Mr Jammeh into exile in Equatorial Guinea after he refused to accept his defeat in elections in December 2016.
Having seized power in a coup in the popular tourist destination in 1994, he went on to hold regular elections, but was later accused of human rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings, torture and arbitrary detention.
These have been aired over the past year at public hearings of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) set up by his successor, President Adama Barrow.
Mr Jammeh has refused to co-operate with the commission.
Where is Yahya Jammeh?
Mr Jammeh has expressed his desire to return to his country.
But as far as anyone knows, he remains in Equatorial Guinea, some 3,000 km (1,900 miles) from The Gambia.
The interim leader of Mr Jammeh's party, Ousman Rambo Jatta, refused to say exactly when the ousted leader would arrive in The Gambia.
"He is on his way… He can be here any time," he told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.
Yahya Jammeh: At a glance
Born in May 1965
Seized power in a coup in 1994
In 2013, he vowed to stay in power for "a billion years" if God wills
He also ordered the execution of criminals and political opponents on death row
Claimed in 2007 he could cure Aids and infertility with herbal concoctions
Warned in 2008 that gay people would be beheaded
Denied his security agents killed journalist Deyda Hydara in 2004
Mr Jatta was speaking on Saturday after a recording of his conversation with Mr Jammeh was leaked.
In that recording, the ousted leader was heard voicing his support for a demonstration by his supporters planned for 16 January.
"I don't want any violence and I don't want anybody to touch anything or to destroy anything," Mr Jammeh said.
Does he have the right to go back?
Mr Jammeh has said that he wants to assert his right to return home. This was clearly stipulated in the January 2017 agreement brokered by the UN, African Union and regional body, Ecowas, which saw him agree to go into exile under pressure from Ecowas troops which had already entered The Gambia.
This states that Mr Jammeh would leave "temporarily" and was "at liberty to return to The Gambia at any time of his choosing in accordance with international human rights law and his rights as a citizen of The Gambia and a former head of state".
However, government spokesman Ebrima Sankareh said he didn't "know what document the man is talking about" and pointed out that President Barrow had never signed any such agreement.
If he returns without permission, "the Gambian government cannot guarantee his safety and security", Mr Sankareh told the BBC.
He thought Mr Jammeh was "homesick", noting that Equatorial Guinea and The Gambia have few cultural links in common.
Mr Jatta, the interim leader of Mr Jammeh's Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction party, said that Mr Jammeh should be allowed to live in peace in The Gambia, rather than be put on trial over allegations of human rights abuses.
He warned that any attempt to arrest Mr Jammeh would lead to "bloodshed".
"Nobody will dare to arrest him," he said.
Mr Barrow is expected to seek re-election next year, despite a previous agreement to step down after a three-year transition period. (Courtesy – BBC)


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Moving home is one of the most important phases in a person's life. By this, we mean financially and by also starting a new chapter in your life. When planned well in advance, moving could be done within a budget and need not burn your pockets.
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If you have always been on keen on branded and pricey items, this could be disappointing for you. Remember that you are cash strapped and could save a lot of you shop a little from yard sales or nearby dollar stores. This is just for the time being as you would have an immediate requirement of items at your new home. This could help in the minimum items you need. Not to worry as you can easily replace them with better items as you save up from the next salary.
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Details: Alien Sex Fiend "Magic" 12" single (songs and B-side from 'Open Head Surgery,' released in 1992), released on Anagram Records (UK) in 1993. Three tracks. Light pops and clicks, album media looks/plays VG++/NM. Record sleeve has light ring wear and shelf/corner wear.
Description: "Alien Sex Fiend, emerged Batcave scene in London in 1982, during the birth of the Gothic subculture. There have been several lineup changes over the years, with the core of the band being co-founders Nik Fiend (Nick Wade) and Mrs. Fiend (Christine Wade)."--Post-Punk
"... don't be fooled by the goth paraphernalia – there was some serious innovating going on here with regard to synths and sampling, noise and found voices, industrial heaviness and electronic beats, all topped off by the Johnny Rotten-esque sneering snarl of Nik Wade, alias Nik Fiend."--Louder Sound
Grade: VG+ (Cover) / NM (Record)
A1. Magic (Version)
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B1. Comatose (The Ultra Mix)
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Al Sharpton Biography, Life, Interesting Facts
Al Sharpton is an American TV talk show host and Baptist minister born on October 3rd, 1954. He is also a civil rights activist famous for his role as a great advocate of the Black American community. During the reign of both president Barrack Obama and Bill Clinton, he provided council for them as a White House advisor. During his [political career, he tried the Senate position before running for the presidency in 2004 as a Democrat. As a radio host, Al Sharpton owns and runs Keepin' It Real, a radio talk show.
Al Sharpton was born on October 3rd, 1954. His place of birth was in Brooklyn, New York in the United States. He is the son of Alfred Sharpton Sr. along with his wife, Ada. Four years old had his first experience as a pastor when he was four. This was when he gave his very first sermon and later had a tour along with Mahalia Jackson, the late gospel singer. In 1963, his father left the family and married the half-sister of Sharpton. As a result, his mother began serving as a maid to make ends meet. They even moved to Brownsville a neighborhood of Brooklyn where they lived in public housing projects.
While in Brookline, Al Sharpton schooled in its public schools. Later he attended Samuel J. Tilden High School where he later graduated in 1972. Subsequently, he joined Brooklyn College. However, two years later, in 1975, he dropped his studies from the college. From 1973, he served as a tour manager for James Brown till 1980.
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In 1992, Al Sharpton ran for the Senate position in the US and later in 1994 and failed in both times. Later in 1997, he decided to try for the position of New York's mayor. Even though his attempts failed, the determined Sharpton never gave up. In fact, in 2004, he even aimed for a higher position, this time running for the presidency with the Democratic Party ticket. During the nominations, he only managed to be a contender since he did not get much support. Currently, Sharpton remains a great social and political activist and has been involved in many controversies.
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Expertly trained by renowned leaders in spine surgery and with two spine fellowships, Dr. Ganapathy is a highly skilled surgeon who treats in all types of adult spinal conditions. He specializes in the treatment of spinal deformity such as scoliosis and kyphosis, neck and back problems that cause pain, weakness, clumsiness, numbness, tingling and balance issues and treats spinal fractures & injuries, degenerative conditions, infections and tumors of the spine. He strives to provide the highest quality of evidence-based and patient-centered spine care employing traditional procedures and state-of-the-art operative techniques including minimally invasive surgery.
Dr. Ganapathy has research interests and has published articles in leading peer-reviewed medical journals.
Fellowship trained in complex spinal surgery, I believe in a holistic approach to patient care by involving patients and families in their treatment. Non-surgical treatment of spinal conditions should always be the first choice and surgical interventions should be carefully thought through. Success with any treatment modality goes beyond the treatment itself. I strongly believe in understanding a patient's problem in context with their lifestyle, circumstances, and perspectives. It is only with such active engagement of patients in their care that we can enhance understanding of medical problems to reach realistic treatment goals and to meet their expectations. My career background as a family physician and specialized training in spinal surgery has afforded me the best of both worlds by striving to provide compassionate and loving patient-centered care. I have made an irrevocable commitment in my practice to treat every patient as my own kith and kin by making collaborative and informed decisions to achieve the best outcomes. Spinal surgery is more than technical excellence, and there is no better specialty than spine to apply the famous saying: "good surgeons know how to operate, better ones when to operate, and the best when not to operate." I have always lived with that motto to do what is best for my patients. That is my commitment and my promise.


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The Failed Serraj Experiment of Libya
By Wolfgang Pusztai
On March 30, 2016, Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj and a few other members of Libya's Presidency Council (PC) and Government of National Accord (GNA), the two government bodies that the UN-brokered Libyan Political Agreement (LPA) established, arrived to Tripoli's Abu Sita navy base after having operated in Tunisia for three months. While the international media and diplomats cheered the move as a major step toward stabilizing Libya, it was actually the beginning of the end the GNA and PC.
The move to Tripoli, which UN Special Representative Martin Kobler had encouraged, handed al-Serraj over to the mercy of the powerful militias in the capital. The Prime Minister is an upright person from Tripoli's upscale Hay Andalus district, with no familiarity with dealing with armed groups. While the United Nations and some European countries organized "feel-good" meetings and signed agreements with al-Serraj, the situation in the country deteriorated, particularly in the capital. Libya's elected and internationally recognized parliament, the House of Representatives (HoR) refused to endorse the GNA, dismissing its core purpose and ensuring that a political battle would parallel the military one. The HoR relocated to Tobruk in East Libya after Islamist militias forced it out of Tripoli.
Fast forward to the present. A few weeks ago, fighting intensified as the Sirte basin and Tripoli have become major battlefields again. The Libyan National Army, which Field Marshal Haftar commands, is battling the Islamist-leaning Benghazi Defend Brigade (BDB, in Arabic: Suraya Difaa Benghazi) for control of Libya's most important oil terminals, Ras Lanuf and al-Sider.
The picture in Tripoli is more complicated. In theory, there are two sides: a pro-GNA militia block, supporting the internationally recognized GNA, and a pro-NSG block, siding with the Islamist National Salvation Government (NSG) of 'prime minister' Khalifa al-Ghwell. But the reality on the ground is very different. All the individual militias are first and foremost interested in maintaining their own power and influence. Most of the pro-GNA militias support al-Serraj only in as much as they consider him a useful tool. All the important militia leaders siding with the GNA, rejected a ceasefire brokered mid-March by some members of the PC and shows how quickly militias can change colors.
In fact, al-Serraj and his GNA are helpless between the mighty militia blocks, with no real possibility of influencing developments on the ground. As things stand, they are doomed to failure, and with them the UN-brokered LPA.
Although Libya's most important economic organizations, the Central Bank of Libya (CBL), the National Oil Corporation (NOC), and the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) recognize the GNA, al-Serraj has not been able to solve the country's economic difficulties. The cash crisis—a combination of inflation, black market currency exchanges, and general lack of funds—continues to worsen and power outages are frequent. High subsidies on fuel and basic foodstuff are a strain for the budget and smuggling is an endemic problem costing the state several hundred million dollars a year. The CBL is still financing competing administrations in the east and the west and paying former "thuwwar" (revolutionary fighters who are eligible for payments from the state). Corruption is out of control. The combination of problems is melting away the country's cash reserves.
On the security side, al-Serraj lacks influence on the jihadists in Benghazi and Derna, on the Misrata militias, and the BDB. The refugee deal recently signed by Italian Prime Minister Gentiloni and Libyan Prime Minister Serraj is just words on paper because the GNA has no means to enforce it.
After the recent heavy fighting in Tripoli, the hostile protests against Misrata, and violent attacks against its Misrata citizens in Tripoli, the Misrata local government suspended its contacts with the PC, feeling that its citizens and institutions were being targeted because of fighting with Misrata militias. Before this, Misrata had been among the strongest and most powerful supporters of the GNA, even providing security details for the GNA, but now the city council is debating whether to continue supporting the GNA.
Although it is easy to blame the HoR for not endorsing the GNA, it has no real reason to do so. The HoR is not willing to accept a government that cannot act independent of the armed gangs in Tripoli. At this point, whether the HoR endorses the GNA and Haftar or the GNA support al-Serraj is irrelevant—he is focused on his own survival among the militias in the capital, a struggle in which neither the HoR nor Haftar can be of much help.
Martin Kobler's experiment with the PC-GNA-Serraj is about to fail, and with it the reputation of countries that backed these groups. To stabilize Libya and restore international credibility, a powerful nation needs to take the lead in organizing stakeholders to implement future agreed upon plans. The United States is the only one capable of doing this.
An immediate and comprehensive ceasefire—except for the fight against terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State—needs to be brokered and supervised. Libya's neighbors have an important role in this process, wielding their influence on proxies to make them cooperate. The United States does not need to put boots on the ground, but it does need to bring together stakeholders to create a neutral observer force that can enforce the ceasefire from the ground and sky. Otherwise hostilities will break out again.
With a ceasefire in place, Libya can move into a transitional phase. It is too early, and the mechanisms are not in place for a country-wide reconciliation. The transitional period should focus on bringing peace to Libya in parts (its three historic provinces).
An amended form of the Libya's 1963 constitution, which Gaddafi abandoned in 1969, can be used in the interim period. Legally, it can be argued the constitution is still in place. The constitution will need to be amended to ensure the distribution of the oil wealth between the regions. Some provisions of the 1951 constitution, such as article 36 about central government powers and article 39 about provincial powers, can also be used. For the head of state to have respect and authority, he must either be a well-respected person or the Libyan crown prince.
The location of the interim government cannot be Tripoli. Though it is the capital, residing there puts the government at the mercy of the militias. An international protection force could secure a safe zone until the new government has sufficient forces of its own.
Stability also requires economic recovery. For Libya, this means unhindered production and export of Libya's hydrocarbon resources and that Libyans see economic progress.
There are already small scale international development programs that support local government and civil society development, and with a ceasefire in place these programs can be scaled up. The current programs have had limited success accessing the central government and large cities due to the presence of militias. Programs that worked on elections and constitution development have largely been a failure, and will continue to be so until a certain level of stability is achieved.
Libya is currently in a downward spiral, and no political agreement will work unless the international community enforces it. But the international community will not take those steps unless the United States takes the steps up to the leadership plate.
Wolfgang Pusztai is a freelance Security & Policy Analyst.
Image: Photo: Faiez Mustafa Serraj, President of the Presidency Council of the Government of National Accord of Libya attends the 34th session of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, February 27, 2017. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse


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24.06.2019 Author: Salman Rafi Sheikh
The US got Itself Caught in the Gulf
Column: Politics
Region: Middle East
Even after facing toughest US sanctions in history and severe economic conditions for many months now, Iran continues to stand tall in front of US economic and military aggression. Certainly, the US based "Iran experts" advising the Trump administration never expected such level of resilience and resistance. On the contrary, what they expected was an Iranian capitulation under "maximum pressure" and a victory for the US For Iran, imposition of sanctions is, as its leaders have expressed many times, an act of war and the Iranian act of downing a US spy drone speaks volumes about Iranian preparation to face a US military aggression. Most certainly, the US policy makers were not expecting such action from the Iranian side; hence, the shocking surprise at the Iranian "counter pressure" tactics. The downing of a spy drone is no small act. Consider this:
The drone that the US military uses has a price tag much higher than its latest F-35 stealth fighters. The drone per unit cost is around $176 million; while an F-35A fighter costs around $89 million. But the price tag is itself not the whole story. A drone is by default designed in a way to be much harder for air defence systems to track and hit. Flying at an altitude of 65,000 feet, the RQ-4 done could only be hit by a highly sophisticated surface-to-air missile. Speaking of Iranian capability, the downing of an ultra-modern drone has left many in Washington scratch their heads. While some got disillusioned, others did war-mongering.
An attack was ordered and later on aborted, if we're to believe the US president. The act of abortion is not heroic; rather it spotlights the embarrassing situation the US is caught in and practically knows no way out of. The story of 'attack and abortion' appears to be no more than a way out of embarrassment that was caused by a high-profile spy mission over Iran going horribly wrong. It is possible that hawks in Washington might have pressed for war; after all, this is what they have always wanted and have never made any attempts at concealing their intentions. But the fact that a US attack did not happen shows the gradually prevailing realisation in Washington that the Iranian case poses far bigger challenge than Afghanistan and Iraq and that an attack on Iran would unleash forces that the US wouldn't be able to control.
The US allies in the region have received a clear message as well. Iran has disclosed that the US drone took off from the UAE, and there is no doubt that the UAE is very well within the range of Iranian missiles. While Iran hasn't directly threatened US allies, Hezbollah has and it secretary-general Hasan Nasrallah has been stressing in his speeches, "war on Iran will not remain within that country's borders, rather it will mean that the entire [Middle East] region will be set ablaze. All of the American forces and interests in the region will be wiped out, and with them the conspirators, first among them Israel and the Saudi ruling family." Any aggression against Iran would, therefore, mean that all of the UAE infrastructure as well as oil and gas facilities are legitimate targets because the UAE territory is where the US operations are being directed from. It is already time for the UAE to decide its fate.
This is in response to the increasing war-mongering going on in the US According to a report of The Jerusalem Post, "diplomatic sources at the UN headquarters in New York revealed….the White House has been holding incessant discussions involving senior military commanders….the military action under consideration would be an aerial bombardment of an Iranian facility linked to its nuclear program…" The spy-drone was perhaps pitched for that very purpose and that explains why Iran chose to hit this drone and spare another US aircraft that had also violated Iranian air-space.
But according to other reports, "military officials have warned the White House that its maximum-pressure campaign against Iran is motivating threats to United States troops and American interests in the Middle East." This is apart from the fact that every single European government believes that the potentially explosive situation in the Gulf or the so-called "Iranian threat" is a reaction to the US leaving the Iran nuclear agreement and trying to force Iranian capitulation on other issues that were not part of the agreement ever. Trump would sense that any move against Iran by the US will be a solo act.
What president Trump now needs is an exit from a situation that he is losing control of. The "maximum pressure" has failed in its both objectives: an Iranian capitulation or a popular uprising against the regime. Missile strike on the drone has confirmed Iranian political will, leaving the US president all the reasons to re-think his strategy at a time when he has just kicked off his 2020 election campaign. Surely, he wouldn't want to see his campaign being consumed entirely by war-mongers.
Salman Rafi Sheikh, research-analyst of International Relations and Pakistan's foreign and domestic affairs, exclusively for the online magazine "New Eastern Outlook".
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Bible > Deuteronomy > Chapter 32 > Verse 49
◄ Deuteronomy 32:49 ►
"Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo in Moab, across from Jericho, and view Canaan, the land I am giving the Israelites as their own possession.
"Go to Moab, to the mountains east of the river, and climb Mount Nebo, which is across from Jericho. Look out across the land of Canaan, the land I am giving to the people of Israel as their own special possession.
"Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel for a possession.
"Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession.
Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:
"Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, across from Jericho; view the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel as a possession;
"Go up to this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab opposite Jericho, and look at the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel as a possession.
"Go up to this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab opposite Jericho, and look at the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel for a possession.
"Go up Mount Nebo in the Abarim range in the land of Moab, across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan I am giving the Israelites as a possession.
Get thee up into this mountain of Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession;
"Come up to this Mountain of the Hebrews, to the Mountain of Nebo in land of Moab before Yerikho, and see the land of Canaan that I give to the children of Israel as an inheritance:
Go up to the mount Abarim, this mountain Nabau which is in the land of Moab over against Jericho, and behold the land of Chanaan, which I give to the sons of Israel:
Go up into the Abarim Mountain range here in Moab across the Jordan River valley from Jericho. And when you reach the top of Mount Nebo, you will be able to see the land of Canaan, which I am giving to Israel.
Go up into this mountain Abarim, (that is to say, of passages,) unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab over against Jericho: and see the land of Chanaan, which I will deliver to the children of Israel to possess, and die thou in the mountain.
Get thee up into this mountain of Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:
"Go into the Abarim Mountains, to Mount Nebo in Moab, across from Jericho. Take a look at the land of Canaan that I'm giving the Israelites as their own property.
"Go to the Abarim Mountains in the land of Moab opposite the city of Jericho; climb Mount Nebo and look at the land of Canaan that I am about to give the people of Israel.
"Ascend this Abarim mountain range toward Mount Nebo in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and look out over the land of Canaan that I'm about to give to the Israelis as a possession.
"Go up to this Mount Abarim, Mount Nebo, which [is] in the land of Moab, which [is] on the front of Jericho, and see the land of Canaan which I am giving to the sons of Israel for a possession;
Ascend this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo in the land of Moab facing Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as a possession.
"Go up to this Abarim hill country, to Mount Nebo (which is in the land of Moab opposite Jericho) and look at the land of Canaan that I am giving to the Israelites as a possession.
"Ascend this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites for a possession;
"Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession;
Ascend this mountain Abarim, to mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan which I give to the children of Israel for a Possession:
"Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is across from Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession.
Go up unto this mount Abarim, mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, which is on the front of Jericho, and see the land of Canaan which I am giving to the sons of Israel for a possession;
Moses' Death Foretold
48On that same day the LORD said to Moses, 49"Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession. 50And there on the mountain that you climb, you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.…
And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,
"When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a contamination of mildew into a house in that land,
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go up this mountain of the Abarim range and see the land that I have given the Israelites.
Go to the top of Pisgah and look to the west and north and south and east. See the land with your own eyes, for you will not cross this Jordan.
Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which faces Jericho. And the LORD showed him the whole land--from Gilead as far as Dan,
Go up to Lebanon and cry out; raise your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers have been crushed.
Get you up into this mountain Abarim, to mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession:
And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
Numbers 33:47,48
And they removed from Almondiblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo…
and behold
Deuteronomy 34:2-5
And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea, …
Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
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(49) Get thee up into this mountain Abarim.--See Numbers 27:12. The same command was given there, and was answered by Moses with the prayer for a successor, which was granted. All that is narrated between that passage and this may be considered as preliminary to Moses' departure.
Mount Nebo.--The particular peak of the "Abarim" ("mountains beyond Jordan," or "passages of Jordan"), where Moses was to die, was not mentioned before. "The rugged summit of mount Nebo rises abruptly 4,000 feet above the plain (where the Israelites were encamped), and still retains its name, with unchanged meaning, in the Arabic Neba, or height" (Couder's Bible Handbook, p. 254).
Verse 49. - Abarim (cf. Numbers 21:10, 20). Nebo (cf. Numbers 32:3, 38). An idol Nebo was worshipped by the Moabites (Isaiah 46:1).
עֲלֵ֡ה ('ă·lêh)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively
אֶל־ ('el-)
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to
the Abarim
הָעֲבָרִ֨ים (hā·'ă·ḇā·rîm)
Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 5682: Abarim -- 'regions beyond', a mountainous region North of the Dead Sea
הַר֩ (har)
Strong's 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country
to Mount
הַר־ (har-)
Nebo,
נְב֗וֹ (nə·ḇōw)
Strong's 5015: Nebo -- a city in Moab, also a mountain in Moab
in the land
בְּאֶ֣רֶץ (bə·'e·reṣ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
of Moab
מוֹאָ֔ב (mō·w·'āḇ)
Strong's 4124: Moab -- a son of Lot,also his descendants and the territory where they settled
פְּנֵ֣י (pə·nê)
Noun - common plural construct
Strong's 6440: The face
Jericho,
יְרֵח֑וֹ (yə·rê·ḥōw)
Strong's 3405: Jericho -- a city in the Jordan Valley captured by Joshua
and view
וּרְאֵה֙ (ū·rə·'êh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 7200: To see
אֶ֣רֶץ ('e·reṣ)
of Canaan,
כְּנַ֔עַן (kə·na·'an)
Strong's 3667: Canaan -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their land West of the Jordan
אֲשֶׁ֨ר ('ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that
אֲנִ֥י ('ă·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I
am giving
נֹתֵ֛ן (nō·ṯên)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set
to the Israelites
לִבְנֵ֥י (liḇ·nê)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son
as their own possession.
לַאֲחֻזָּֽה׃ (la·'ă·ḥuz·zāh)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 272: Something seized, a possession
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Royal summer nights in the castles of the Loire Valley
By Constance Dive , Published: 6 August 2019, 16:24
© Pashrash — "The Story of Blois" show projected over the façades of the Château of Blois in the Loire Valley.
Musical candlelit strolls, epic and digital shows, and fantastic light projections—this summer, the castles of the Loire Valley come to life at night. France.fr reveals its choice of nocturnal rendez-vous to discover the monuments and gardens of the French Renaissance in a new light.
Les Nuits Fantastiques at the Château d'Azay-le-Rideau
© Léonard de Serres CMN — The Château d'Azay-le-Rideau in the Loire Valley.
After nightfall, the grounds of the Château d'Azay-le-Rideau are transformed. Illuminated groves, a misty theater, and mystery surrounding a magical reflecting pool—embark on a virtual journey through the new worlds of the Renaissance, filled with wonderful animals and chimerical creatures. The highlight of the show: a projection mapping display on the château façade, like magic!
Château d'Azay-le-Rideau (External link)
Viva Leonardo, the Po l'Occhio show at the Château de Chambord
© Chambord Castle, in the Loire Valley, will blow 500 candles on September 6, 2019.
On September 6, 2019, the Château of Chambord will celebrate the 500th anniversary of its construction. For this occasion, the monument will hold an itinerant digital version of the show created to celebrate 500 years of Renaissance, called Viva Leonardo, le spectacle Po l'Occhio ("Long Live Leonardo, the Po l'Occhio Show"). Following the advice of Antonio, Leonardo da Vinci's grandfather, spectators are invited to "open their eyes" and immerse themselves in this interactive show that combines digital creation and a live performance. A concert and fireworks will complete the program of this anniversary evening.
Château de Chambord (External link)
"The Story of Blois" (Ainsi Blois vous est conté) at the Château de Blois
© Royal Château of Blois — Château of Blois in the Loire Valley.
Joan of Arc, Ronsard, the Duke of Guise, Catherine de' Medici and, of course, Francis I, are all here to tell us the turbulent story of the Château de Blois. With each picture, the four façades of the castle light up, come alive, and are illuminated as intrigues, tragedies and conflicts arise and resolve.
Château de Blois (External link)
"The Prophecy of Amboise" at the Château of Amboise
© V. Treney - CRT Centre-Val de Loire — "The Prophecy of Amboise" at the Château of Amboise, in the Loire Valley.
This show leads you through the intrigues of a court at the dawn of the Renaissance—follow the Louise de Savoie, the mother of future King Francis I. Alternating periods between the beginning of the 20th century and the advent of the Renaissance, "The Prophecy of Amboise" combines multimedia sequences and epic scenes reinforced by 250 extras, all with the Château of Amboise in the background, the last home of Leonardo da Vinci; this year, France is also commemorating the 500th anniversary of his death.
The Prophecy of Amboise (External link)
Nighttime strolls at the Château de Chenonceau
© E. Mangeat - CRT Centre-Val de Loire — Night walk at the Château de Chenonceau in the Loire Valley.
You may know Chenonceau in the daytime, but have you visited it cloaked in night? We take advantage of this fine season to rediscover that place known as the Château des Dames (Ladies' Castle) during a night walk through its gardens to the sound of music composed by Handel. Do you prefer the story of Catherine de' Medici or Diane de Poitiers? You don't have to choose between King Henry II's wife and mistress: each has her own garden here in Chenonceau!
Château de Chenonceau (External link)
"Nights of a Thousand Lights" at the Château de Villandry
© F. Delong - CRT Centre-Val de Loire — "Nights of a Thousand Lights" at the Château of Villandry, in the Loire Valley.
Over here, actors in period costumes. Over there, dancers. Are those knights riding horses beneath the candlelight? This year, the "Nights of a Thousand Lights" at the Château de Villandry are set in the Renaissance period. Journy back to a night in the old days, in the gardens of Villandry illuminated by some 2,000 candles. It's a must-see experience!
Château de Villandry (External link)
The Scénoféerie at Semblançay, in the castle of Jacques de Beaune
© Christophe Mouton — The Scénoféerie at Semblançay: "The Legend of the Source" in the Loire Valley.
This represents a real historical timeline presenting the history of Touraine, from the Gallo-Roman period to the French Revolution, at the castle of Jacques de Beaune, Superintendent of Finance under Francis I. Featuring water displays, flame projections, fireworks and other video projections on water screens, you can listen to Honoré Pottier and his grandson Benjamin tell us the Legend of the Source.
The Scénoféerie at Semblançay (External link)
• Prepare your stay in the Loire Valley (External link)
• Also read: In the gardens of the Loire Valley chateaux and Chambord Chateau as you will (almost certainly) never see it
Degas, Derain, Rodin.
Behind the scenes at the future modern art museum…
In spring of 2020, the Val de Loire's Royal Abbey of Fontevraud will welcome the private collection…


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Q: How much information should one pass through events? Say, I have a datagrid with checkboxes, and each time a checkbox is marked I store the object in the data property of flex ResultEvent
public class MyItemRenderer extends ItemRenderer{

   public static var CLICK:String = "CheckBoxClick";

   protected function itemRendererClickListener(data:Object):void{

    dispatchEvent(new ResultEvent(MyItemRenderer.CLICK, data))
    }

}

I handle the result here.
protected function checkbox_clicked(event:ResultEvent):void{
    //Here I do everything I want with the data.
    Alert.show(event.result.toString());
}

This is what I've been using for months, but I never wondererd if this was a bad practice.
Or let alone bad practice, what is the optimal way to do this?

A: it's not really 'bad'.  But it does create an additional reference to an object that can potentially keep that object in memory longer (or indefinitely if not managed well).
Generally speaking, you should only store data related to the event itself in the event instance. You can use the event.target and event.currentTarget properties to reference back to the object that dispatched the event and get data that way.
In your case, your event is a check box state change.  The event itself (being checked) doesn't need any data associated with it besides the item being checked (which you can get with 'target' or 'currentTarget').   So it would be more appropriate in my opinion to do the following:
Alert.show(MyItemRenderer(event.currentTarget).data.toString());

This keeps your events more reusable

A: Best practice for Events with data is to use a custom event (see http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_AS3__Creating_and_dispatching_Custom_Events-17609.html) for explanation
btw, another 'best practice' is to avoid the generic Object class in your code - instead, create a value object class

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