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Fragment King: Here Music Dies
Originally released as a cassette and T-shirt package in 2014, we now present HERE MUSIC DIES, the collaborative release by FRAGMENT KING and THEOLOGIAN, available in its entirety as a digital release for the first time. The A side featured the original FRAGMENT KING EP, with side B containing THEOLOGIAN remixes of that material, presented here mixed as a single file. A small number of shirts from this run are available here. "Endless spite is filtered through soul-numbing distortion, accompanied by bitter, crisp electronic rhythms that glide across the edge that separates dark industrial, crushing metal and paranoiac breakbeat, featured here are tracks assembled by THEOLOGIAN using FRAGMENT KING source material. This is the death of music." FRAGMENT KING will release a new EP, titled RETREAT, later in 2019.
HERE MUSIC DIES by THEOLOGIAN+FRAGMENT KING
annihilvspowerelectronix.bandcamp.com
Labels: ambient, bandcamp, composition, drone, electronic, experimental, fragment king, industrial, metal, nexialist, noise, release, video, youtube
Urban Evolution site specific performance from Mark Kammerbauer on Vimeo.
Cities are examples of how building, destroying, and rebuilding occur over and over again. Such processes that can be triggered by crisis, disaster and other societal, political or market phenomena or actors. However, how can such processes become an experience to be perceived by others? Urban Evolution intends to answer this question within a performance in public space on the Theaterplatz square in Weimar, Germany, developed in the context of a research project at the Bauhaus Universität Weimar. By doing so we reimagined a quasi-historic process of cycles of rebuilding, demolition and rebuilding again and again that remains invisible unless some sort of signs indicate this process. European cities may actually be a case in point, considering wartime destruction and postwar modernist planning schemes that drastically altered historic cityscapes. Yet, while physical or social traces may remain, the context was hardly the design of memory or history as a creative practice, and the resulting void was coincidental. Therefore, there is a need to go beyond such examples and research whether transferable models of such processes can be established to better understand their design relevance.
The Urban Evolution performance consists of different steps including movement, climax and void. These steps are indicated by signs of their occurrence – "scar tissue", perhaps – that are marked on the surface of the square with chalk. Structures measuring 3.5 x 3.5 x 7 feet made of wood frame lined with cardboard are "manned" by one person each who moves them from the inside along the square. Chalk tracings are drawn on the paving from inside the structures. The structures move in steps towards a climax of maximum density – a speculative pre-existing condition. They then withdraw from the square completely, laying bare a resultant condition of removal as a post-event situation. The spatial void becomes complicit to the documentation of its appearance as the chalk signs marked on the surface of the square indicate the action of removal, until rainfall washed them away. Within the Urban Evolution performance, the void becomes perceivable as well as the action that preceded and generated it (Javier Barona, Mark Kammerbauer, Arne Löper).
Labels: discourse, experimental, heterotopia, live, nexialist, performance, urbanism, video, youtube
Nexialist Presents: Schismotecture (The Navidson Record)
Schismotecture: The Navidson Record by M. Kammerbauer
Schismotecture a.k.a. "The Navidson Record" is a conceptual cycle of recordings inspired by the concept of the house that is larger on the inside than on the outside from Mark Z. Danielewski's novel "House of Leaves." Similar to the design of Friedrich Kiesler's "Endless House" it declares a state of perceptive emergency by dissolving the conventions of architectural geometry into a continuum, thus eerily creating an intellectual counterpart to the cave by having emerged from the depth of the earth. Schismotecture takes these spatial concepts into the realm of the audible. The recordings combine electroacoustic composition and improvised sessions (synthesizers, effects) with field recordings and electric guitar and bass guitar.
Labels: album, ambient, Architecture, bandcamp, collage, drone, electronic, experimental, improvisation, industrial, music, nexialist, noise, release
MIMESIS (Heterotopia #040515)
The Nexialist Operation "Mimesis" is an experiment in using architecture as a music instrument. The object used was a particularly suitable one, a studio building by Peter Haimerl in Munich with pneumatic facades that served as percussion instrument. The video features four parts (for those who want to scroll forward): 00:10 - 03:00 Soundcheck; 03:00 - 05:00 Session: sound of space; 05:00 - 08:00 Mirror Image: space of sound; 08:00 - 09:30 Triangulation: space/sound/instrument.
The following is the original concept text of the project: "We conducted an operation in the studio building Mimesis, designed by architect Peter Haimerl. The building as such was used as a sound creation device in this operation. Located in Putzbrunn, Munich, Germany, the studio complex consists of two cube-shaped buildings ca. 6 x 6 x 6 m each, one of which, with two pneumatic transparent vinyl facades, was used for the operation. The resulting sounds were recorded by electro-acoustic, digital-acoustic and digital-video means. During and in the course of the operation the created and recorded sound material was processed in situ and used as the source of an electro-acoustic / digital-acoustic improvised composition.
The specific spacial acoustic characteristics of the building were utilized for the creation, projection and recording of the recorded and processed sound. The result is an acoustic signature equaling a spacial-acoustic context, portraying the identity of the building/space in successive levels. This is inspired by the motif of the "turning of the mask" as described by Vilem Flusser. Session 1: recording the resonance of the pneumatic facade: strikes with hand, roll of tracing paper, stick measure [folded] and a dynamic microphone. Session 2: percussive, rhythmic, improvised composition for four hands and pneumatic vinyl facade. Session 3 : electro-acoustic, improvised composition for digital-audio recording, analog effect unit, speaker combo and building interior. Session 4: improvised composition for bass guitar, effect units, building interior and facade. Mark Kammerbauer + Nedim Tezkosar 2004."
Labels: ambient, Architecture, discourse, experimental, heterotopia, improvisation, industrial, live, music, noise, percussion, performance, urbanism, video, youtube
The Xenakis-Emulator is an audiovisual adaptation of two key works of architect/composer Iannis Xenakis - the composition "Metastasseis" and the facade for the monastery "La Tourette" by master architect Le Corbusier. We created a synergetic digital animation of an interpretation of the facade and the music composition. The facade strips, which reflect the "Glissando"-motif of "Metastasseis", float in an abstract space, followed by a vertical strip that "plays" our music interpretation in realtime and synchronous with the vertical facade elements.
Iannis Xenakis was born in Romania in 1922. His family returned to Greece in 1932. He studied architecture and math and became a resistance fighter, fleeing from Greece to France in 1947, where he worked in the office of Le Corbusier. He was a student of Olivier Messiaen, and as first composer within New Music, he used mathematical probability in composition, becoming the inventor of stochastic music. Xenakis composed pieces for orchestra, scenic works for chorals, ballet music, and radio pieces.
Working in the office of Le Corbusier, Xenakis collaborated on the monastery La Tourette from 1953-1955, developing the design and the placement of the vertical elements for the strip windows on the western facade of the building. The motif of "decreasing-increasing" of intervals of the vertical posts is derived from the composition "Metastassis", on which Xenakis worked at the time as well. Metastassis for orchestra is defined by the extraordinary and debut implementation of glissandi within a composition. The glissando – the sliding movement within the tonal scale, for instance with a string instrument – is the defining motif of both the composition and the facade design for the monastery La Tourette. This connection is interpreted within an adaptation of both works.
Measurement of the facade division results in the definition of a system consisting of 48 intervals that comprise the increasing-decreasing appearance of the facade. These intervals can be interpreted as the 1st to 48th factor of a smallest common interval. Beyond that, minima and maxima can be identified, meaning points of largest and lowest density in the facade system, as well as the distances between them.
Labels: ambient, Architecture, composition, discourse, drone, electronic, experimental, heterotopia, Iannis Xenakis, music, nexialist, theory, youtube
Collaborations with Z'EV
In early August 2011 "The.Bänd" (z'ev, Alexandra von Bolz'n, Fragment King) played live at the prestigious Klangbad Festival in Scheer near the Faust Studios location, alongside Goldene Zitronen and Wire. We got together two days beforehand and permitted ourselves the luxury of a full day of sessioning. Beginning with some tuneing the bass to the amps and vice versa, z'ev steps in with shamanoid percussion, soon to be complemented by Alex' vox. Mixed trio and duo constellations emerged followed by a violent riffage crescendo. We pretty much followed that road map for the live set, with some in-situ alterations and quirks and stuff. The Klangbad folks, genius as they are, put together a video documentary that features The.Bänd in its first six minutes or so with some live footage and interviews on our views on music and playing together. In addition, a compilation was released on occasion of the festival that features an exclusive and otherwise unreleased track.
Bad Klang In A Thunder by Z'EV / ALEXANDRA von BOLZ'N / FRAGMENT KING
Originally named "The.Bänd", the collaboration between Z'EV, Alexandra von Bolz'n, and Fragment King recorded music and played live between 2007 and 2013. They recorded an exclusive track for the Klangbad Live Scheer Festival sampler in 2011.
Labels: ambient, drone, experimental, faust, industrial, klangbad, live, percussion, performance, z'ev
Nexialist Presents: Halforganic
Halforganic is the title of a series of compositions and performances that were recorded and packaged with artwork in various formats between 2000 and 2003. Alltogether, ten different CDs, cassette tapes and vinyl records and accompanying print materials were produced and released in limited editions under the nexialist imprint. They collect the output of a creative progression ranging from danceable electronic tracks to spatial-acoustic explorations via live performances to improvised, analog-digital pieces. The live performances took place mostly in New York City and led to a shift towards a more noisy, spontaneous sound. The final step was a farewell to all genre restrictions and conventional song structures structures to an unrestrained, improvisational direction influenced by ambient and experimental performers and modern classical composers.
The video contains the following edited tracks:
0:00 Doorway (Torso: M. Kammerbauer), taken from nex000
1:30 Train to Instantbul (Instantbul: Tezkosar, M. Kammerbauer), taken from nex003
5:30 Protocol (Uncreated: N. Deiker, N. Tezkosar, M. Kammerbauer), taken from nex004
9:30 Black Iron Prison (Fragment King), taken from nex005
13:30 Total Now (Fragment King), taken from nex008
17:30 Jitterbug (Nexicon: T. Spann, L. Bartow, M. Kammerbauer), taken from nex010
21:30 Strategy II (Torso: M. Kammerbauer), taken from nex006
25:30 Session 6 (Torso: M. Kammerbauer), taken from nex009
Nexialist Halforganic releases:
nex000 NEXIALIST PRESENTS: HALFORGANIC. 2000. CD
nex001 FRAGMENT KING: FORENSIUM. 2001. CD
nex002 FRAGMENT KING: THE CELLMAKER'S SINISTER JAZZ. 2001. CD
nex005 INSTANTBUL: S/T. 2000. CD
nex004 UNCREATED: PROTOCOLS. 2000. CD
nex005 FRAGMENT KING: LIVE AT SI. 2001. CASSETTE TAPE
nex006 TORSO: GENERATING SPACE. 2002. CD
nex008 FRAGMENT KING: VIVISECTION. 2002. 3" CD
nex009 TORSO: FLESHSOUNDS. 2002. CD
nex010 SIMPLE THINGS ARE OFTEN MONSTROUS. 2003. 12" VINYL
Review in Debug (nex000): "Halforganic is a sound collective of sorts, consisting of multiple acts (Instantbul, Torso, Fragment King, N.Deiker, Pathomechanical and various constellations thereof). The tracks oscillate between noisescapes, dark analogue electro-breaks, chipmonster-drumandbass, and dark worlds bordering electronica. Darkness seems to be a necessity, just as the city center of Stuttgart, and Fragment King sometimes peeks through the modestly morbid vision with some silly ideas, with a solid joy for the dissonant and clattery. Get your warm stuff on, it'll be a cold winter."
Review in Debug (nex010): "Joy for all friends of the noisy postdrumandbassnirvana. 2 tracks by fragment king, who loads and towers destroyed bassdrums and screeching breaks in front of him, digs and probes the heap as if it were the innards of a heavy metal sauce for gourmets, who love to gobble up fresh roasted tiniti for breakfast and on the flipside two tracks by nexicon, which sound a lot more like broken machinery than breaks or beats. this is no fast silly funny broken music, but honest and righteous terror with fragments of slime and digital gall." - Bleed/DeBug
Review in Ibol (nex006): "What an evil trick! Someone took an unsuspecting minimalist, plugged him into a marshall stack and recorded it on their hard-drive. Or at least that is what torso makes me think of. There are almost no discernible source sounds in this recording, only (apparently) digital manipulation. An extremely crisp, distilled and singular vision of music, these 16 tracks are layed out in 3 larger groupings, for a total of 67 minutes of noise. Most of the textures are fairly harsh, but the presentation is more ambient (ubiquitous, surrounding)."
Labels: ambient, bandcamp, composition, drone, electronic, experimental, fragment king, industrial, music, nexialist, percussion, release, youtube
Nexialist Presents: Fleshfilm / Fleshsounds
"Hyperintimacy as ambience" - The Fleshsounds were created in 2002 for the Halforganic Series, the Fleshfilm was produced in 2005 as a live video for select Nexialist Operations. Both take the term "pink noise" literally and were intended as the audible and visual ambience for live installations exploring human proximity. The six compositions and the video were developed by use of source material that was cut up, treated with various effects and a significant amout of digital blur. The "Unschärfe" veils what is seen, disintegrating sound and image into near-obscurity: a visual encoding process similar to distortion. While nothing is recognizable, the undulating pink surfaces continuously refer to the echo of their origin. The grittiness of the effects betrays the age of the production. All things Burroughs were a significant influence, Vito Acconci as well, and the story that Rem Koolhaas had written porn film scripts.
Labels: ambient, composition, discourse, drone, electronic, experimental, heterotopia, industrial, music, nexialist, noise, theory, video, youtube
Wallywoods (Heterotopia #080913)
On September 13, 2008, we joined experimental percussion legend z'ev on stage. The line-up featured Marcelo Aguirre (Evil Spirit, Spastic Dementia) on drums and Alexandra (von Bolz'n) on vocals as well as Mark Kammerbauer (a.k.a. Fragment King) on treated bass guitar. We played a single, throbbing, droning, half-hour piece at Gallery Wallywoods in berlin. The set was completely improvised, with superfast blasting grindcore drums contrasted by superslow detuned bass riffage, enlivened by percussion clang and bang and guttural growls and piercing screams. Hai no banda? Im gegenteil. "The Bänd" had arrived that evening, t'banned, not canned, but with powerful release of physical acoustic force.
Labels: drone, electronic, experimental, fragment king, heterotopia, improvisation, industrial, live, metal, music, nexialist, noise, percussion, performance, shows, video, youtube, z'ev
Critical Void is an analytical audio work based on an urbanist study of the MaximiliansForum in Munich and its planning history. By employing interviews with key individuals and document research, Z'EV, Alexandra von Bolz'n and Mark Kammerbauer developed a site-specific audio performance and work that was performed live on site on 24.07.2013. The project was curated by the Kulturreferat of the City of Munich. This is a step-by-step documentation of the project. The location that includes the MaximiliansForum art space can be found beneath the crossing of Maximilianstrasse and Altstadtring in Munich. It has escalators that are currently in disuse. It is denominated officially as pedestrian tunnel. It is by far the largest of its kind in the city. Rumor has that original planning intended a traffic tunnel. So, what happened here?
On Wednesday, 24.07.2013 at 19:00 we performed CRITICAL VOID live after a very friendly introduction by Elisabeth Hartung of the Culture Office of the City of Munich. The first half of the performance included a dramatized conversation between Alexandra von Bolz'n and MK on the results of the study with audio ambience by Z'EV. Here, we identify the planning crisis that took place. A tunnel was supposed to be built but conflicts emerged with regulations as well as public interest. Postwar traffic planning had resulted in a broad intersection in what had previously been an enclosed urban plaza (the original "Forum" above ground). In addition, urban revitalization aims led to affordable housing problems in the adjacent quarter ("Lehel"). One result was the creation of the "Münchner Forum" where citizens became involved in urban planning in the city.
As result of these events, planning was confronted with crisis, and planning aims were discontinued, resulting in the ambiguous character of the open space beneath the street crossing. After dramatizing these aspects in the first half of the performance as a narrative "conversation", the second half of the performance featured a performance of the crisis. This music piece is titled "MythEater" as inspired by Z'EV and includes an interpretation of "Yuki's Song" from Akira Kurosawa's film "Hidden Fortress" by vocalist Alexandra von Bolz'n. It is intended to symbolize the conflict between tradition and modernism as root of the crisis that gave birth to this CRITICAL VOID within the urban fabric of the city of Munich.
Labels: ambient, Architecture, composition, discourse, drone, electronic, experimental, heterotopia, improvisation, industrial, live, music, nexialist, percussion, performance, shows, urbanism, video, youtube, z'ev
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Seven Years Later
Today is a personal anniversary of sorts — on this date in 2007, I walked into Cask & Flask Liquors, located in the McKinleyville Shopping Center, right next to the Safeway grocery store, in McKinleyville, California — about two miles, maybe less, from the Pacific Ocean — and applied for a job.
Nothing unusual so far, but it quickly turned strange.
The owner was behind the counter, and in a move that's way-highly-unusual for the circumstance, hired me on the spot. So I trotted around that counter and started work.
People don't normally get hired in such a way — without any knowledge of who I was, or what kind of background, or anything, the owner opened the register, the liquor stock and all the intimate particulars of a business to a complete and total stranger.
Although I'd already dropped off a resume, it was apparent the owner hadn't seen it.
Now seven years later, I'm getting ready to call it quits — retiring at the end of this summer.
The owner apparently had some personal problems — he was in the middle of a spousal spat, which led eventually to the estranged wife taking control of Cask & Flask in December 2007, which about that same time, a UK economics professor said if people don't get their financial shit together, it's gonna get bad, real bad: "They still have another couple of months before this starts imploding. Things are very unstable and can move incredibly fast. I don't think the central banks are going to make a major policy error, but if they do, this could make 1929 look like a walk in the park."
Despite that uplifting crap, she's kept it running ever since, and has done an outstanding job, considering what happened to the economy.
In June 2007, the outerwear of the financial world was picture perfect, but the innards were about to go POW!
A deep, fatal tear in the bubble was already hissing.
From CNN Money in August 2007:
The hedge funds' troubles started in April, worsened in May, and by mid-June had become a full-blown crisis.
Even Bear's injection of $1.6 billion couldn't save them.
By mid-July both were next to worthless.
Less than three weeks later, the stock was way down, Spector was gone, and Bear was selling more than $2 billion in debt — both to shore up its balance sheet and to demonstrate that its assets were still valued.
So back to that very day I walked into Cask & Flask looking for employment — action producing maybe a nasty, mutant-butterfly effect:
On June 22, 2007, Bear Stearns pledged a collateralized loan of up to $3.2 billion to "bail out" one of its funds, the Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Fund, while negotiating with other banks to loan money against collateral to another fund, the Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Enhanced Leveraged Fund.
— from Wikipedia.
Some say the actual, real start to the 2008 financial meltdown.
To oversimplify the Bear Stearns situation, the subprime mortgage-backed securities market behaved well outside of what the portfolio managers expected, which started a chain of events that imploded the fund.
Unfortunately, the Bear Stearns portfolio managers failed to expect these sorts of price movements and, therefore, had insufficient credit insurance to protect against these losses. Because they had leveraged their positions substantially, the funds began to experience large losses.
— online post Sep 6, 2007 at investopedia.com.
And the rest is history, as they say.
Demise of Bear Stearns, considering the obscene amounts of so-called money sought after and thrown around near-random, was most-rapid and domino-like — in just more than a year, an 80-year-old "Most Admired" global investment bank worth billions simply ceased to exist.
Then in March 2008, after a weekend of intense negotiations, the Federal Reserve approved a $30 billion credit line to help JPMorgan Chase acquire Bear.
Reflecting Bear's dire straits, JPMorgan agreed to pay only about $270 million in stock for the firm, which had run up big losses on investments linked to mortgages.
JPMorgan agreed to pay a mere $2 a share to buy all of Bear — less than one-tenth the firm's market price two days before.
The price was later raised to $10 a share.
— New York Times
And the financial blow-out overall — from Bloomberg: So if one adds $7.6 trillion of "actual" losses and $5.2 trillion in "avoided" losses, there's an estimated grand total of $12.8 trillion in costs for the crisis.
And the old Cask & Flask suffered greatly, too. Although the hardest impact of the meltdown didn't effect us for a couple of years, ultimately the business lost a shitload of moneyed customers — no longer cash-heavy people buying high-price Glenfiddich or Patrón or expensive wines, now it's just bottom-feeders looking for cheap vodka.
In October 2009, I was made manager of the store, there it's been ever more. This is the longest I've ever worked anywhere since starting work at age 16, and the scenario is starting to crack.
I wrote a bit about it on Friday — here if you're interested.
As a 65-year-old, I think it's time to put a lid on the flask, and roll the cask away.
Drink up, everybody — pleze!
Posted by: Bruce Maulden // Cloud Gazing, Economy, Finance, Jobs // 2008 financial crisis, Cask & Flask, economy, Finance // June 22, 2014
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"The Favourite" — which is a major hit with critics and audiences around the world and is getting major Oscar buzz — features an award-winning all-star cast, including Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone and Olivia Colman.
Originally Published: December 17, 2018 12:19 p.m.
The Sedona International Film Festival presents the Northern Arizona premiere of the critically-acclaimed audience sensation "The Favourite" Dec. 21-27 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre.
Early 18th century. England is at war with the French. Nevertheless, duck racing and pineapple eating are thriving. A frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah Churchill (Rachel Weisz) governs the country in her stead while tending to Anne's ill health and mercurial temper.
When a new servant Abigail Masham (Emma Stone) arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah. Sarah takes Abigail under her wing and Abigail sees a chance at a return to her aristocratic roots.
"The Favourite" will be shown at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre Dec. 21-27. Showtimes will be 4 p.m. and 7 p.m on Friday, Saturday, Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 21, 22, 26 and 27; and 7 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 23.
Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.


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The book of Acts demonstrates that Paul was preaching very similar doctrines to the pagans. They professed to believe in the blood sacrifice (crucifixion) and resurrection of their own god-men before Paul had arrived, as the following passage indicates:
Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentile worshipers, and in the marketplace daily with those who happened to be there. Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, "What does this babbler want to say?"
Others said, "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods," because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection. (Acts 17:17-18)
The Gentiles already knew the stories of dying and rising gods before Paul came to them, he was only recycling the legends of the Mystery Religions.
"The divine teacher is called, is tested by the "adversary", gathers disciples, heals the sick, preaches the Good News about God's kingdom, finally runs afoul of his bitter enemies, suffers, dies, and is resurrected after three days. This is the total pattern of the sun god in all the ancient dramas". (Tom Harper, The Pagan Christ, p. 145)
"A true Jew would have immediately recognized the teaching of Jesus as a reaffirmation of what Moses had taught. But to many a pagan, it must have seemed new and strange and perhaps a little complicated. Most of the pagans still believed in a multitude of gods who, it was thought, mixed freely with human beings, mated with them, and took part in every sphere of human life. To the common people of Greece, any description of Jesus must have seemed like a description of one of their gods, and they were probably quite ready to accept Jesus in this capacity. There was always room for one more god. However, the actual teaching of Jesus negated all their gods, since it affirmed the Divine Unity". (Muhammad Ataur-Raheem, Jesus: Prophet of Islam 1992 edition, p. 62)
It is commonly supposed that religious honors were paid to the sun as a deity by a few isolated peoples or sects, such as the Parsees and the ancient Ghebers of Persia, and some African tribes. In correction of this view we are prepared to support the declaration that the worship of the Sun-god was quite universal in the ancient world. It ranged from China and India to Yucatan and Peru. The Emperor and the Mikado, as well as the Incas, and the Pharaohs were Sun-god figures. And is the belief only an empty myth? So far from being such, it is at once the highest embodiment of religious conception in the spiritual history of the race. Likewise in the ancient Mystery dramas the central character was ever the Sun-god the role being enacted by the candidate for initiation in person. He went through the several initiations as himself the type and representative of the solar divinity in the field of human experience…
These Sun-god characters, of none of whom can it be said positively that they were living personages, were, it must be clearly noted, purely typical figures in the national epics of the several nations. (The Great Myth of the Sun-gods, Alvin Boyd Kuhn)
These 'saviors' who died and resurrected after three days were symbols of the sun, and these fables (or fairytales) were borrowed by the Church and attributed to Jesus after his departure. Thus, Jesus became the Sun of God before the 'Son of God', both titles are pagan.
The early Jewish Christians (Nazarenes and Ebionites) did not believe Jesus was God, or the 'son of God'.
The Christian conception is a distorted one, it teaches that Jesus was crucified on the 'cross' for the sins of other men, and resurrected on the third day. This story is not different from what we find in the Mystery Religions.
"The worship of suffering gods was to be found on all sides, and the belief in the torture of the victims in the rites of human sacrifice for the redemption from sin was very general. The gods Osiris, Attis, Adonis, Dionysos, Herakles, Prometheus, and others, had all suffered for mankind; and thus the Servant of Yahweh was also conceived as having to be wounded for' men's transgressions. But as I say, this conception had passed into the background in the days of Jesus"
(The Paganism in Our Christiantiy, Arthur Weigall, 1928, p106)
The Roman/Greek/Egyptian gods were sacrificed for the 'sins of mankind' and resurrected on the third day. There is a tradition that Krishna was also crucified (yet upon a tree) to deliver his people from sin. Notice the similarity between the words 'Christ' and 'Krishna', both worked the same miracles and ascended to Heaven, they were both "incarnations" as well.
The true genesis of Christianity lies in ancient India. It is the life of Kristna in the Bagaved Gita over 5000 years ago that we can look for the prototype of Christ. We can also find 180 similarities between the life of the Egyptian god Horus in the Book of the Dead, written in 1700BC. Both of these gods reformed the corrupt rule of the priesthood of their time and had them thrown out of the temples and instituted a system of worship and spirituality so pure that we see millions rushing to find these truths today in foreign countries www.crosscircle.com/CH_2b.htm
When he was sixteen, Krishna left his mother to spread his new teaching throughout India. He spoke out against corruption among the people and the princes, everywhere supported the weak against oppression and declared that he had come to Earth to release people from suffering and sin, to drive out the spirit of evil, and to restore the rule of righteousness. He overcame tremendous difficulties, fought alone against entire armies, performed a wide range of miracles, raised the dead to life, healed lepers, gave sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf, and made the lame walk.
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Paul created a doctrine about "salvation through the cross" while discarding the teachings of Jesus in its totality.
He established the falsehood that "faith in the resurrection" is the way to salvation while totally rejecting the sayings of Jesus (Matthew 9:13, 12:7, Hosea 6:6, Micah 8:7-8)
And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. (1 Corinthians 15:14-17)
"…the doctrine of resurrection on which many Christian scholars' belief hangs, is the sole work of Saint Paul as there is nothing in the teachings of Jesus himself on this issue."
(Alhaj AD Ajijola, Myth of the Cross,)
The Old Testament teaches that 'human sacrifice' is wrong, and the verses Job 7:9, 14:14, Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 deny the resurrection!
[As] the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no [more]. (Job 7:9)
Christianity Before Christ
The 'human sacrifice' is entirely a pagan ritual which dates back thousands of years. Jesus could not have been a 'human sacrifice' on the cross because the practice was pagan and not Jewish. The Jews believed they'd crucified Jesus to prove he was false, yet God saved Jesus from the cross (Psalms 20:6) to disprove the notion that Jesus was accursed (Deu 13:5, 21:23)
The pagans used to sacrifice human beings for the "redemption of sins". According to the Gospel of the Nazorenes, Jesus rejected the doctrine of vicarious atonement.
"The worship of suffering gods was to be found on all sides, and the belief in the torture of the victims in the rites of human sacrifice for the redemption from sin was very general.
Jesus was teaching his disciples in the outer court of the Temple and one of them said unto him: Master, it is said by the priests that without shedding of blood there is no remission. Can then the blood offering of the law take away sin?
And Jesus answered: No blood offering, of beast or bird, or man, can take away sin, for how can the conscience be purged from sin by the shedding of innocent blood? Nay, it will increase the condemnation. (Gospel of the Nazorenes, lection 33)
Blood sacrifice is the oldest and most universal act of piety. The offering of animals, including the human animal, dates back at least twenty thousand years, and, depending on how you read the scanty archaeological evidence, arguably back to the earliest appearance of humanity. Many religions recount the creation of man through the bloody sacrifice of a God-man--a divinity who is torn apart to sow the seeds of humanity. (Patrick Tierney , The Highest Altar: The Story of Human Sacrifice, quoted in Acharya's Suns of God)
This is very similar to Christianity, which teaches that Jesus was the 'god-man' that took away the "sins of mankind", a doctrine foreign to the Jewish mind!
During the 4th century, the cult Christianity was made the official "religion" of the Roman Empire, and Constantine was the political leader of the Church based in Rome. He introduced the pagan doctrine of 'trinity' at the Council of Nicea, and he changed the Sabbath for the commemoration of the sun-god.
The ancient Christian monuments, from which I have drawn my facts and illustrations, reveal so many obvious adaptations from the Pagan mythology and art, that it became necessary for me to investigate anew the Pagan symbolism: and this will account for the frequent comparisons instituted, and the parallels drawn between Christianity and Paganism. Many of the Pagan symbols, therefore, are necessarily used in this work--such, for instance, as seem to be types of Christian verities, like Agni, Krishna, Mithra, Horus, Apollo, and Orpheus. Hence I have drawn largely from the most ancient Pagan religions of India, Chaldea, Persia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, and somewhat from the old Aztec religion of Mexico. These religions were all, indeed, systems of idolatry, perversions and corruptions of the one primeval truth as held by such patriarchs as Abraham and Job; and yet these religions contained germs of this truth which it became the province of Christianity to develop and embody in a purer system for the good of mankind.
It is a most singular and astonishing fact sought to be developed in this work, that the Christian faith, as embodied in the Apostles' Creed, finds its parallel, or dimly foreshadowed counterpart, article by article, in the different systems of Paganism here brought under review. (Lundy, quoted in Acharya's Suns of God)
The earth-shattering statement:
That which is known as the Christian religion existed among the ancients, and never did not exist, from the beginning of the human race until the time when Christ came in the flesh, at which time the true religion, which already existed began to be called Christianity." (St. Augustine, Retractationes 1.12.3)
"The religion published by Jesus Christ to all nations is neither new nor strange…For though, without controversy we are of late, and the name of Christians is indeed new; yet our manner of life and the principles of our religion have not been lately devised by us, but were instituted and observed….from the beginning of the world, by good men, accepted by God; from those natural notions which are implanted in men's minds".
(Eusebius of Caesarea, 260-340 CE)
"The Christian religion contains nothing but what Christians hold in common with the heathen; nothing new" (Greek philosopher Celsus,)
The above quotations are derived from Tom Harper's book The Pagan Christ. He further states on page 29:
The evidence of close similarities between Christianity and other ancient world faiths is massive, detailed, extremely specific, and quite incredibly far-flung, stretching from the Vedic wisdom of India to the Norse myths of Scandinavia, the legends of the Incas, and the original spirituality of the indigenous peoples of North America.
These are false charges against Jesus (peace be upon him) which Islam clears away. The true version of Jesus can be found in the Holy Quran. What the Quran says about Jesus is supported by the Bible itself. The Bible requires the acceptance of Islam.
Below are quotations against Paul:
"If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they need look no further than Paul"
-- The English philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
"We have already noted that every teaching of Jesus was already in the literature of the day….. Paul, the founder of Christianity, the writer of half the NT, almost never quotes Jesus in his letters and writings." (Professor Smith in his "The World Religions", p 330)
"Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ…..Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ."
--Will Durant (Philosopher)
"Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference."
--Bishop John S. Spong, Episcopal Bishop of Newark. (Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, p. 104, Harper San Francisco, 1991)
"Paul insists that there is only one 'gospel of Christ' (Galatians 1:7), so why did later Christians accept as 'Scripture' four written gospels?"
--Graham N. Stanton, "The Gospels and Jesus", The Oxford Bible Series (1989), p.125
The following quotations are red:
I have inquired into some of the fundamental doctrines of Christianity; the examination has led me to the conclusion that the dogmas of the Trinity, the Divinity of Jesus, the Divine-Sonship, the Original Sin and Atonement are neither rational nor in conformity with the teachings of Jesus. These dogmas came into being and were due to pagan influences. They show that Christianity has departed considerably from the religion of Jesus. (The Myth of the Cross, Alhaj A.D. Ajijola)
This mysterious disappearance of Jesus could certainly be put to an advantageous purpose. Moreover, it was commonly known that Jesus was born of a virgin mother though many were skeptical about it. Paul turned all these ideas to his own advantage and concocted the theory of sonship. (ibid, Alhaj A.D. Ajijola)
"Paul was the great Coryphaeus, and first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus."
(Thomas Jefferson, The Great Thoughts by George Sildes, Ballantine Books, New York, 1985, p.208)
"Where possible he (Paul) avoids quoting the teaching of Jesus, in fact even mentioning it. If we had to rely on Paul, we should not know that Jesus taught in parables, had delivered the sermon on the mount, and had taught His disciples the 'Our Father.' Even where they are specially relevant, Paul passes over the words of the Lord."
(Albert Schweitzer, The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle, p. 171)
"What kind of authority can there be for an 'apostle' who, unlike the other apostles, had never been prepared for the apostolic office in Jesus' own school but had only later dared to claim the apostolic office on the basis on his own authority? The only question comes to be how the apostle Paul appears in his Epistles to be so indifferent to the historical facts of the life of Jesus....He bears himself but little like a disciple who has received the doctrines and the principles which he preaches from the Master whose name he bears." (Ferdinand Christian Baur, Church History of the First Three Centuries)
"Paul, not Jesus, was the founder of Christianity as a new religion which developed away from both normal Judaism and the Nazarene variety of Judaism."
(Hyam Maccoby, Paul: The Mythmaker and the Invention of Chrisianity, p. 16)
"No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus." (George Bernard Shaw)
"Paul did not desire to know Christ. Paul shows us with what complete indifference the earthly life of Jesus was regarded.... What is the significance for our faith and for our religious life, the fact that the Gospel of Paul is different from the Gospel of Jesus?
The attitude which Paul himself takes up towards the Gospel of Jesus is that he does not repeat it in the words of Jesus, and does not appeal to its authority.... The fateful thing is that the Greek, the Catholic, and the Protestant theologies all contain the Gospel of Paul in a form which does not continue the Gospel of Jesus, but displaces it."
(The Quest for the Historical Jesus, Albert Schweitzer,)
"There is not one word of Pauline Christianity in the characteristic utterances of Jesus.... There has really never been a more monstrous imposition perpetrated than the imposition of Paul's soul upon the soul of Jesus.... It is now easy to understand how the Christianity of Jesus... was suppressed by the police and the Church, while Paulinism overran the whole western civilized world, which was at that time the Roman Empire, and was adopted by it as its official faith." (George Bernard Shaw, Androcles and the Lion)
"Paul abolished the Law, which was followed and preached by Jesus (pbuh), and corrupted the whole religion, giving it a new form. The main ambition behind all this was, in his own words, "to win a larger number" of followers; the followers of a new religion "the Pauline Christianity".
(Dr. Roshan Enam, Follow Jesus or Follow Paul, p. 69)
"From the time Jesus left earth to the second half of the Second century, there was a struggle between two factions. One was what one might call Pauline Christianity and the other Judeo Christianity. It was only very slowly that the first supplanted the second, and Pauline Christianity triumphed over Judeo Christianity".
(Dr. Maurice Bucaille, The Bible, The Quran, and Science, p. 67)
Thus, quite soon after Jesus's disappearance from earth, there was a definite and widening divergence between the followers of Jesus and the Pauline Church, which was later to become known as the Roman Catholic Church. Differences between the two were not only evident in life-style and belief, but were also clearly delineated geographically. As the Pauline Church grew more established, it became increasingly hostile to the followers of Jesus. It aligned itself more and more with the rulers of the Roman Empire, and the persecution which to begin with had been directed at all who called themselves Christians, now began to fall mainly on those who affirmed the Divine Unity. Attempts began to be made to change their beliefs and forcefully to remove those who refused to do so, together with the books they used. (Muhammad Ataur-Raheem, Jesus, Prophet of Islam)
Naturally, those who deviated from the teaching of Jesus were prepared to change the Scriptures too, and even introduce false writings in order to support their opinions. (ibid)
The Ebionites were stigmatized by the Church as heretics who failed to understand that Jesus was a divine person and asserted instead that he was a human being who came to inaugurate a new earthly age, as prophesied by the Jewish prophets of the Bible. Moreover, the Ebionites refused to accept the Church doctrine, derived from Paul, that Jesus abolished or abrogated the Torah, the Jewish law. Instead, the Ebionites observed the Jewish law and regarded themselves as Jews. The Ebionites were not heretics, as the Church asserted, nor 're-Judaizers', as modern scholars call them, but the authentic successors of the immediate disciples and followers of Jesus, whose views and doctrines they faithfully transmitted, believing correctly that they were derived from Jesus himself. They were the same group that had earlier been called the Nazarenes, who were led by James and Peter, who had known Jesus during his lifetime, and were in a far better position to know his aims than Paul, who met Jesus only in dreams and visions. Thus the opinion held by the Ebionites about Paul is of extraordinary interest and deserves respectful consideration, instead of dismissal as 'scurrilous' propaganda -- the reaction of Christian scholars from ancient to modern times.
(Hyam Maccoby, The Myth Maker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity)
"Let the reader contrast the true Christian standard with that of Paul and he will see the terrible betrayal of all that the Master taught.... For the surest way to betray a great Teacher is to misrepresent his message.... That is what Paul and his followers did, and because the Church has followed Paul in his error it has failed lamentably to redeem the world.... The teachings given by the blessed Master Christ, which the disciples John and Peter and James, the brother of the Master, tried in vain to defend and preserve intact were as utterly opposed to the Pauline Gospel as the light is opposed to the darkness."
(Rev. V.A. Holmes-Gore: Christ or Paul?)
"More and more people are now aware that the Christianity they know has little to do with the original teaching of Jesus. During the last two centuries the research of the historians has left little room for faith in the Christian "mysteries", but the proven fact that the Christ of the established Church has almost nothing to do with the Jesus of history does not in itself help Christians towards the Truth. The present dilemma of the Christians is illustrated by what the Church historians of this present century write". (Muhammad Ataur- Rahim, Jesus, Prophet of Islam, 1992 edition, p. 13)
The "Christians" are commanded to follow the Old Testament, the observance of the Torah (Matthew 5:17-2)
The Holy Quran rebukes them for not following the true Gospel of Jesus and discarding the Torah, the Law of Moses which Jesus cherished, and Christians reject!
Say: "O People of the Book! ye have no ground to stand upon unless ye stand fast by the Law, the Gospel, and all the revelation that has come to you from your Lord." It is the revelation that cometh to thee from thy Lord, that increaseth in most of them their obstinate rebellion and blasphemy. But sorrow thou not over (these) people without Faith. (The Holy Quran, 5:68)
From those, too, who call themselves Christians, We did take a covenant, but they forgot a good part of the message that was sent them: so we estranged them, with enmity and hatred between the one and the other, to the day of judgment. And soon will Allah show them what it is they have done. (5:14)
Say: "O people of the Book! exceed not in your religion the bounds (of what is proper), trespassing beyond the truth, nor follow the vain desires of people who went wrong in times gone by,- who misled many, and strayed (themselves) from the even way. (5:77)
Christianity is the religion of Paul, not Jesus.
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Cork Marathon in 1982 drew just 700 runners but was deemed a success
The Cork Examiner captured the second-place finisher Michael Walsh crossing the finishing line at the South Mall in the inaugural 1982 Adidas Cork City Marathon, won by John O'Toole. Local boy and silver medallist Walsh received a tumultuous reception.
John Walshe
FOR the first time in 13 years, the streets of Cork were empty of runners this Bank Holiday Weekend as the annual marathon and associated events were yet another victim of the Covid-19 pandemic.
When Alan O'Shea led home over 1,300 marathoners back in 2007, it bridged a 21-year gap since the city had last hosted such an event as during the period from 1982 to 1986 Cork followed most major cities with a mass-participation marathon.
In October 1980 the inaugural Dublin City Marathon took place, followed in March 1981 by the London Marathon. Cork did have a marathon that year of 1981, but it was unlike what runners today are accustomed to.
On a wet June Sunday, the BLE National Marathon took place on the western side of the city. Starting near the County Hall, it headed out the Carrigrohane Straight, through Ballincollig and on to Farnanes. Here, the competitors simply turned around a petrol pump before retracing their steps.
With the County Hall like a mirage in the distance, the final two miles weren't the most appealing. However, it didn't deter Dick Hooper from winning his third national marathon in a time of 2:15:37 with Carey May recording 2:42:39 to take the women's title.
Six months later, Brendan Mooney wrote in the Cork Examiner: "Cork city will at last have its own marathon," going on to say that the Management Committee of BLE had given the County Board the go-ahead. The event, launched at the Imperial Hotel, would be sponsored by adidas through Three Stripe International who marketed the brand in Ireland.
Reg Hayes, Chairman of the Cork BLE Board, stated it would be the first of a series of such events. He added it would be a people's marathon for the people of Cork and would depend largely on voluntary effort.
Michael O'Connell, Manager of Three Stripe International, announced that invitations would go out to a number of countries and that runners rejected for the second London Marathon would receive an invitation.
The Examiner and Evening Echo, along with RTÉ Cork Local Radio, were to promote the marathon. The Lord Mayor, Councillor Paud Black, said the event would be of tremendous benefit to the City of Cork.
Stevie Bolger and Donna O'Sullivan, two presenters on Cork Local Radio, volunteered to train from scratch to run. Michael Joyce, the Associate Editor of Irish Runner, was given the task of compiling their training programme.
A number of courses were submitted to the Garda Authorities for consideration. Jack O'Leary, one of the country's leading marathon runners of the 1960s and 70s and an engineer with Cork Co Council, measured the selected route.
The packed start of the Cork City Marathon in April in 1982.
It started on the old Mallow Road and came through Blackpool, MacCurtain Street, Penrose Quay, North Gate Bridge and down the Mardyke to the five-mile mark. Out the Carrigrohane Straight, on to Rossa Avenue and Wilton before returning to the city centre and Patrick Street at 11 miles.
Halfway was reached on the Marina, then through Blackrock and Ballinlough and out the Douglas Road and on to Tramore Road and the 20-mile mark in Togher. Another two miles brought the runners through Glasheen and down Barrack Street to the finish on South Mall.
Easter Monday of April 12 finally arrived. In ideal conditions at 11am around 700 runners started out in what for many was a step into the unknown. The thousands originally hoped for hadn't materialised, but it was still a good entry considering - somewhat bizarrely - that another marathon had taken place in Galway the previous day.
Before a mile was covered, eight runners had broken clear. They included Michael Walsh (Leevale), John O'Toole (Tullamore), Willie Fitzgerald (Millstreet), Willie Hayes (Reenavanna), Seamus Cregan (Croom), Tom Jordan (Waterford) and John McNiff, the latter visiting Cork from New York.
At the eight mile mark near the Regional College, Hayes and Fitzgerald were sharing the lead. Shortly after, Walsh and O'Toole started to take control and went through 10 miles together in 52:53.
Coming out of Blackrock and the 15-mile mark, the 23-year-old O'Toole made the move that mattered. He was now in unknown territory, having never raced beyond this distance before. But he did not falter and after running the final 11 miles on his own crossed the finish line outside the Imperial Hotel to a tumultuous reception.
His time was 2:20:40, while Walsh - brother of 1972 Olympian Donie - was closing again on the Tullamore man towards the finish but had to settle for second in 2:21:03. He was well pleased, considering it was only his second marathon.
The late Tom Jordan also finished strongly to take third in 2:24:16. Willie Hayes, the early leader, held on to sixth in 2:27:47.
The women's race also saw a change of fortune over the final stages. Marie Buckley of Leevale, better known as a cross-country runner, was also making her marathon debut and passed Dublin-based Catherine Sutton around 15 miles to win decisively in 3:08:17.
Marie Buckley, Kinsale, the first woman over the finishing line.
"It was a perfect day for such a race. I was a bit nervous setting out but when the gun went I really enjoyed every stride, chatting away with other runners and getting loads of support," Marie recalled. "I must have been good and fit then as it didn't knock a thing out of me and I went back to work as usual the next day."
An amazing feat from that first marathon was the accomplishment of Donal Burke from Whitechurch. A colleague of Jack O'Leary's at the County Hall, Donal had also played a role in laying out the route.
But now he planned a double marathon weekend – to break three hours in both Galway and Cork. With a sub-2:35 best to his credit, he held back in Galway on Easter Sunday to finish in 2:52:16. After travelling to Tuam for physiotherapy that evening, he journeyed back to Cork.
Monday morning saw him lining up on the Mallow road and despite some early stiffness he ran another consistent race to clock a remarkable 2:49:18 for 37th position overall.
The Cork City Marathon had arrived and there would be many more exciting and dramatic stories over the next four years.
Gerard O'Reilly, the first wheelchair competitor home.
RESULTS...
1 John O'Toole 2:20:40
2 Michael Walsh 2:21:03
3 Thomas Jordan 2:22:41
4 Seamus Cregan 2:24:16
5 John McNiff 2:26:15
6 Willie Hayes 2:27:47
7 Roddy Burke 2:29:43
8 Michael Culligan 2:32:17
9 Pat Kerrigan 2:32:30
10 Willie Fitzgerald 2:33:37
1 Marie Buckley 3:08:17
2 Catherine Sutton 3:19:08
3 Teresa Dwane 3:31:27
4 Noreen O'Brien 3:38:53
5 Lucia O'Sullivan 3:43:25
6 Carmel Lyons 3:45:24
Other well-known names amongst the finishers included:
Liam O'Leary of the Cork Fire Brigade – who's son Cillian would go on to win the 2015 marathon - finished 18th in 2:41:51. "That was my fastest; I ran the first mile which passed Blackpool Fire Station in 5:10 as all my colleagues were out cheering!"
One place behind was Michael Joyce in 2:41:59 with Jack O'Leary finishing first veteran in 2:45:32
Army-man Willie O'Riordan, still winning prizes in Cork BHAA races, ran 2:48:44
Another regular on the local scene, Batt Kearney of Leevale, was just 34 seconds outside three hours when finishing 63rd
Michael Dunne from Blarney made the top 100 with his time of 3:10:00
Two well-known GAA referees taking part were John Motherway from Aghada (3:12:42) and Charlie McAllister from Midleton (3:15:10)
Well-known BHAA official John Mohally finished in 3:16:35 with his good friend Alex Crowley recording 3:20:34
Dick O'Brien from Castlelyons had a time of 2:58:07 while his brother Donal recorded 3:24:16
Michael O'Connell of sponsors adidas finished in 3:18:38 with his 11-year-old son Brendan recording a remarkable 3:42:48
Eamonn McEvoy, now one of the leading masters' in the country with St Finbarr's, finished in 3:25:15
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HomeUncategorized5 West Point Cadets Overdose During Spring Break in Florida, Officials Say – The New York Times
5 West Point Cadets Overdose During Spring Break in Florida, Officials Say – The New York Times
The cadets, along with another young man, were exposed to what is believed to be cocaine laced with fentanyl, and two were on ventilators late Friday, officials said.
By Vimal Patel
Five West Point cadets were among six young men on spring break who overdosed this week on what was believed to be cocaine laced with fentanyl at a rental home in Wilton Manors, Fla., officials said Friday.
When the local police arrived at the home around 5 p.m. Thursday, two bystanders were performing CPR on two unconscious men on the lawn, Battalion Chief Stephen Gollan of Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue said in an interview. Two others were unconscious inside the house, he added.
The two bystanders had not used the substance, but they also went into cardiac arrest because of their exposure from performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, Chief Gollan said.
Emergency medical workers administered the anti-overdose medication Narcan, a brand-name version of naloxone, Chief Gollan said. All six men were taken to local hospitals, and as of Friday night, two were in critical condition and on ventilators, he said. One man remained in stable condition, and the other three had been released from the hospital, he said.
Investigators announced late Friday that they made an arrest in connection with the case, but did not release any further details.
Chief Gollan said he was especially concerned because this is just the first week of spring break, which lasts into April, and the area was seeing a greater influx for the vacation period than it had "in a very long time."
"It's rather alarming that this substance could be out there and that literally one use can put you into cardiac arrest," he said.
Chief Gollan said he was seeing a trend toward more overdose cases. He said his units had responded to 215 possible overdoses so far this year, which he called an alarming number. Data for previous years was not immediately available.
"Since the beginning of the pandemic we've seen a tremendous increase in overdoses similar to this one," he said. "And those are the individuals who someone is there to call 911 to get them help. How many deaths are there where they do it by themselves, and there's nobody around to call, and they're just found deceased?"
Phone and email messages left for the two agencies investigating the overdoses, the Broward County Sheriff's Office and the Wilton Manors Police Department, were not immediately returned late Friday.
A West Point spokeswoman confirmed that five of the six men are cadets. "The U.S. Military Academy is aware of the incident involving West Point cadets" that occurred Thursday evening and is being investigated, she said in a statement. No other details were available, she added. The episode happened a year after West Point scrapped a program that provided a second chance to cadets who had violated the honor code that is central to the academy's mission. That move came after officials disclosed that 73 cadets had been accused of cheating on a calculus exam in May 2020, the institution's worst academic scandal in decades. Eight of the cadets were expelled.
Federal researchers reported in November that Americans had died of drug overdoses in record numbers as the pandemic spread across the country. In the 12-month period that ended in April 2021, more than 100,000 Americans died of overdoses, up almost 30 percent from the 78,000 deaths in the prior year, according to figures from the National Center for Health Statistics.
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is up to 50 times as strong as heroin and 100 times as strong as morphine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency said there were two types of fentanyl: the pharmaceutical variety, which is prescribed by doctors to treat pain, and the kind that is manufactured illicitly.
"Most recent cases of fentanyl-related overdose are linked to illicitly manufactured fentanyl, which is distributed through illegal drug markets for its heroinlike effect," the C.D.C. said. "It is often added to other drugs because of its extreme potency, which makes drugs cheaper, more powerful, more addictive, and more dangerous."
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Ethtrader donuts are an experimental feature recently introduced by Reddit. This new system seems meant to test how a community reacts to the tokenization of karma points.
Ethtrader donuts can be used for weighted voting in user-created polls on ethtrader (a vote by a user with more donuts carries more weight). This vote-weighting mechanism makes polls on ethtrader Sybil resistant. Also, ethtrader has implemented a Harberger-tax system that allows users to buy and sell the subreddit's top banner for donuts.
How do I get donuts?
You get them by engaging with the ethtrader community and earning karma for your comments and posts. The system distributes 2 million new donuts weekly, allocating them to users in proportion to their karma earned each week. Only activity on the ethtrader subreddit counts for donut-allocation purposes.
Users also may give ethtrader donuts to other users in the form of tips or simply by transferring them. The system allows a user to transfer only up to 49% of his or her earned donuts.
You can see your donut balance, the total donut supply, and stats on the next donut emission in the sidebar on the ethtrader home page. Ethtrader donut info only appears in desktop browsers. Also, you can only see the donut info once you've upgraded to the new Reddit design.
When a person "owns" an asset, she must assign her own value to that asset. She then must pay a tax on the asset based on the value she chose. Also, that value serves as a standing offer price that any buyer may accept at any time.
Radical Markets discusses this system in the context of real estate. For example, imagine that you own a home. You must decide what your home is worth to you and publicly announce that value. Under this system, you have an incentive to select an honest valuation, because (1) the higher the value you assign, the higher tax you will pay and (2) the lower the value you assign, the higher the likelihood that somebody will buy your house, forcing you to move.
The Harberger tax system is supposed to help avoid the natural monopolies that arise from property ownership. In addition, it seeks to optimize for allocative efficiency (i.e., moving property into the hands of whoever will use it most productively).
A Sybil attack happens when a malicious actor creates multiple false identities and uses them to gain an unfair advantage in a system that relies on reputation or identity. Sybil resistance means what it sounds like – a property that prevents attackers from using multiple fake identities to exploit the system. The term "Sybil" originates from the name of a well-known sufferer of dissociative identity disorder (formerly called "multiple personality disorder").
As a crude example of a Sybil attack, imagine a promotion offering one free Chic-fil-A biscuit per household. The promoter tries to enforce the one-per-household restriction by requiring each applicant to submit a form with a unique name and mailing address. Now imagine a greedy person filling out many copies of the form, each with a fake name and slight variation on his actual mailing address (e.g., adding a unique fake apartment number to his address on each form). The post office might disregard the fake apartment numbers, but the biscuit-offering system would interpret each as a unique address. This system lacks Sybil resistance. Accordingly, the greedy person would end up receiving a big stack of free-biscuit coupons in his mailbox.
Shouldbdan is a long-time ethtrader user who has played an instrumental part in the evolution of donut activity. The inaugural buyer of ethtrader's top banner, shouldbdan graced the community with meme-collages that some called gaudy and others (more accurately) called glorious and representative of ethtrader's culture.
Ethtrader also can thank shouldbdan for creating the ERC-20-donut bridge.
What is the ERC-20-donut bridge?
Available at donut.dance, the ERC-20-donut bridge allows users to convert ethtrader donuts to freely-tradeable ERC-20 tokens. Currently, DEXes like Uniswap offer some liquidity for ERC-20 donuts. Also, some users recently have offered OTC buys of ERC-20 donuts.
You can find more info about the donut bridge at u/shouldbdan's post here.


The former Kelsey Trail Regional Health Authority took action to ensure that asbestos containing material has been contained and is not a risk to employees and public.
Assessments were completed for the majority of the former Kelsey Trail Health Region health care facilities. Facilities that have been assessed have facility maps which highlight locations of asbestos material. Identified sources are also clearly marked as containing asbestos. If repair work is required in areas containing asbestos, appropriate agencies are contracted for safe removal.
Smeaton Health Car Centre and Parkland Place.
Hudson Bay Health Care Facility.
** All areas containing Asbestos are clearly identified by signage indicating "Caution this area contains Asbestos".
The focus of existing Occupational Health & Safety legislation is that building owners, employers and contractors manage asbestos-containing material in a building so that it does not release fibres. Most buildings constructed prior to 1980 contain some asbestos and this does not pose a risk as long as the materials are kept in good condition and otherwise managed to ensure that the materials do not release fibres. Individuals should not assume they are at risk because a building contains asbestos. Asbestos does not present a risk when it is encapsulated, bound or otherwise contained in structural materials and kept in good repair in a way that it does not release fibres.
A person is not normally or necessarily exposed to asbestos if they work in a building listed on the registry. Even occupations that do work that requires the disturbance of asbestos-containing materials have been using strict control measures since the early 1980s to prevent their exposure to asbestos fibres.


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Ghana vs Uruguay: Predicted lineup, injury news, and head-to-head
With Portugal already in the Round of 16, the group has only one place for the remaining three teams.
Ghana would be riding high on their victory against South Korea in their last encounter. The Ghanaians initially struggled to control the game, but Jordan Ayew had a spending game. He added more venom to their attack as Mohammed Salisu opened the scoring for them followed by another goal from Mohammed Kudus. The Korean team came back strongly in the second half with two goals from Cho Gue-sung. Kudus put his team in front despite the scare as they held on for a slender win. Ghana will next play Uruguay in the World Cup 2022.
Uruguay played out a goalless draw against South Korea in their campaign opener but fell to a 2-0 defeat against Portugal last time around. They can only make it to the next stage if they defeat the African team in this game. Uruguay will also need to pray that South Korea does not defeat Portugal in their game.
Kick-off: 8:30 PM (IST), 3 PM (GMT)
Ghana form (all competition): W-L-W-W-L
Uruguay form (all competition): D-L-W-L-W
Ghana: Mohammed Kudus
If Ghana has to win, Kudus will likely play a key role once again. He is the only player to ever score twice in a World Cup match for the Black Stars, and another goal in the tournament would see him match Gyan's record haul of three goals in a single edition of the World Cup for Ghana.
Uruguay: Rodrigo Bentacur
Rodrigo Bentancur can win the midfield battle in this game. Bentancur won possession 19 times against Portugal, the most by a player in a 90-minute World Cup match since Brazil's Mauro Silva in 1994 against the United States (also 19).
Injury and team news
There are no major injury concerns for both team and they are expected to come with full strength in this game as it is a must-win encounter for both sides.
Matches – 1
Ghana – 0
Uruguay – 0
Draw – 1
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Predicted lineup
Ghana predicted XI (4-2-3-1): Ati-Zigi; Lamptey, Amartey, Salisu, Mensah; Partey, Abdul Samed; Kudus, A. Ayesw, J. Ayew; Williams
Uruguay Starting XI (3-5-2): Rochet; Giminez, Coates, Godin; Varela, De Arrascaeta, Valverde, Bentanur, Nunez; Suarez, Cavani
Uruguay have no options here, they have to go for it. Only a victory will do, and even then, that may not be enough.
The South Americans may unleash all three of Darwin Nunez, Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani in the hope of sealing that win. That sort of firepower may be too much for a Ghana side that has yet to convince defensively.
That being said, Jordan Ayew is in his playmaking prime for some reason and will hope to take advantage of the gaps resulting from Uruguay's pedal-to-the-metal approach. Expect goals, but Uruguay should get the job done.
Prediction: Ghana 1-2 Uruguay
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As the prospect card market expands, so too seems to be the number of product offerings. Borrowing from some of the more popular elements of the Bowman Chrome line, 2011 Leaf Metal Draft Baseball includes nearly 50 low-round draft picks. All are featured with on-card autographs, including some familiar sounding parallels: Blue Prismatic, Red Prismatic and Super Prismatic. Metal Draft marks the first Leaf set to include Ichiro Suzuki signatures. The Japanese star hasn't had an autographed baseball card in several years. Each pack has six autographs.
All cards feature on-card signatures.
The checklist consists of nearly 50 top MLB draft picks.
Leaf recently signed a deal with Mariners superstar, Ichiro Suzuki. This is the first Leaf set to include his autographs.
Serial-numbered parallels: Blue Prismatic, Red Prismatic and Super Prismatic.
2011 Leaf Metal Draft Baseball short prints.
These may not be out yet but I've seen the football set. They look like a 1993 Ultra insert and Royal Rookies set had a child. I dare a card company to make a more unattractive card. It can't be done!
There are 72 on card autos per case – you won't find that anywhere else at this price point! Plus, the final checklist adds some stellar names.
I don't really like the design a whole lot either, but some of these cards, like Spangenberger, is selling on E-bay at $99. That, and as Houdini said, a plethora of on-card autos.
I am rating a 4, in order to offset the very first review by Kubbie23, which was beyond unfair. I think the product deserves at least 3 stars. I am entirely confused how you rate a baseball product that you haven't even seen yet, based on a football product that you have. Doesn't make sense. Card manufacturers rarely, if ever, have the exact same design between two different sports, even of the same year, that they happen to cover. That, and the design isn't completely terrible. I would rate it as a 2 or 2.5 out of 5. The subjects more than make up for it, though.
I'll take the mundane design with the almost always near-flawless card and its on-card autograph over a fancy card from Panini with its sticker auto slapped over it. Leaf is basically all we have for competition-if that's what you'd call what Leaf isn't allowed to do-vs. Panini.


Posted on December 16, 2018 at 16:16.
The WCARES net is held every Monday night on the WCARES repeater system. Membership is not required to check in.
First Monday of each month is also Alternate Power, a great opportunity to test your batteries and backup generators. Whether you have alternative power sources or not, when checking in, please provide your power source; if you forget to provide this information, Net Control will prompt you. As always, be brief and concise: "battery", "ht", "mobile", "backup generator", "station battery", "commercial" etc.
Third Monday of each month has an Alternet after the regular Monday night net. This will alternate between simplex, duplex and HF. Check the WCARES Event calendar or listen on the regular Monday night net to find out where the Alternet will be.
Training Nets. Periodically, topics of interest will be presented in place of the regular roster call. These are great opportunities to hear about areas of Amateur Radio you may wish to learn more about.
Early Check-ins? Winlink is the only early check-in accepted in WCARES! Lean more about Winlink early check-in here.
Posted on December 16, 2018 at 16:13.
As of January 2019 this casual get-together now takes on the Chew & Chat name. For one thing, there's food.
Please join us at the First Watch Restaurant on Meridian Blvd., off of Carothers, for breakfast or just coffee Tuesday morning.
The doors open at 7am and we are usually out of there by nine. Come and go as you like.
No formal presentations, just socializing. Hams, friends and family welcome.
Posted on December 16, 2018 at 17:05.
The Nashville VE Team will be hosting a license exam session on Saturday, September 14 2019.
Posted on December 16, 2018 at 16:18.
Posted on December 16, 2018 at 17:22.
In 2019, Mar 18 and Sep 16, 80m will be used for the Alternet.
Posted on December 16, 2018 at 16:47.


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