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Mt. Gox Ex-CEO Asks Judge to Dismiss Last Remaining Lawsuit
Trevor Smith · @trevorcrypto | Mar 17, 2020 | 09:00
Mark Karpeles, the disgraced former head of Mt. Gox, has called on a U.S. district court to dismiss the last remaining fraud charge against him, asserting that the plaintiff has changed the facts underlying his claim. This is the latest move in the long legal battle over the mismanagement and failure of Bitcoin's first major exchange.
TWO OF THREE MT. GOX CHARGES ALREADY DROPPED
Gregory Greene, a former Mt. Gox customer, is the last remaining plaintiff in a case that dates to 2014 charging Karpeles with three counts of negligence and fraud. Two of these counts have already been dismissed.
Last August, Karpeles lost a bid to have the entire case dismissed, claiming that as a French citizen the U.S. court did not have jurisdiction over him. In January he refused to provide documents requested by the court on the operation of the exchange by asserting that he lacked necessary permission from Japanese prosecutors from earlier lawsuits.
Karpeles' latest move is to accuse Greene of changing the basis of the fraud charge, which is prohibited by the court. According to Karpeles, Greene claims to have been misled about the reliability of the exchange, yet the terms on the website that support this claim were not in place when Greene became a customer. Also, Greene failed to bring up these terms in his earlier complaint.
KARPELES HAS LARGELY AVOIDED CONSEQUENCES
At its peak, Mt. Gox was responsible for seventy percent of the Bitcoin exchange market. Its failure in 2014 resulted in a loss of 850,000 Bitcoins, which was seven percent of the entire supply at the time. At the center of the scandal was the fact that the exchange failed to inform customers that much of its holdings had been stolen over the course of several months.
A Japanese court convicted Karpeles of record tampering, and sentenced him to a four year suspended sentence. However, it cleared him of an embezzlement charge that would have meant certain jail time. Karpeles has always maintained his innocence, yet there is no question that he deliberately obfuscated the fact that user-funds had gone missing.
It now appears that Karpeles' legal troubles are winding down. He never saw significant jail time for his crimes, and he purportedly still personally holds a large number of Bitcoins. For the victims, the present trustee charged with redistributing the remaining Bitcoin has offered $1,300 per Bitcoin lost at the time of hack.
Do you think the Mt. Gox lawsuit will end soon? Let us know in the comments below!
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We spent six weeks in Simi Valley, California. Yeah, you read that right: six weeks in Simi Valley, California. What is Simi Valley? It's a suburb about 45 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Which sounds like it might be on the beach, right? But it's not. And it might be in the San Fernando Valley, where rich sophisticates like the Kardashians live. But it's not. So what is it? It's a fer realz 'burb – conservative, middle class drudgery alleviated only by strip malls, drunken black outs, and jello salads. It's why midlife crises were invented. Oh, and it has the Reagan Presidential Library.
Where did we stay? Simi Valley's nicest RV Park. It has one space and is run by Grandma Sally. Which is to say, we squeezed our 26-foot RV into Andie's mom's 23-foot driveway and called it a day. Or 45 days.
Living in a driveway is kind of stressful because, well, we're pretty sure it's illegal. So you have to stay on the neighbors' good sides. But Andie's mom isn't all that neighborly. For example, she lets her two small, fat, spoiled dogs hang out in the front yard, where they have these pastimes: (1) threat-barking at every sweet dog, old lady on a walker, or small fragile child that passes by; and (2) pooping on nearby lawns. Again and again, we offered to drive those little a-holes far enough away that they couldn't waddle their bloated haunches home, but it was a no-go.
At night, Lily would try to avoid sleeping by asking for food. "I'm huuuuuungry." "Lily, you tried every snack in Grandma Sally's House of Incredibly Caloric Snacks, and you refused to eat dinner, so no more food." "But I'm SOOOOOO hungry!" "No." "Pleeeaaaase, I'm so hungrYYYYYY!" "Go to sleep. It's 2 a.m." Hysterical weeping and claims of starvation at maximum volume. Mind you, we're living in a driveway, which means the good, middle-class, church-going neighbors probably already suspect we don't take this whole parenting thing seriously. And now Lily's screaming into the night that we don't feed her. Child Protective Services never showed up, but that's on them, really.
So you'd think that we went to all kinds of exciting Los Angeles places, but we didn't. We focused on spending time with the family – Grandma Sally, Uncle Ian, Auntie Susan, and all the cousins. Lily noticed that, by far, the cutest relative is Cousin Jarred's new kitten, Mochi. Seeing how Mochi is adored, Lily decided to be a kitten. For weeks now, she's insisted that her food be broken up into small pieces and placed in a bowl, so that she can eat with just her face. She meows all day, like, way more than a real cat actually meows. She begged and begged for a kitty bed until we broke down and bought her a dog bed big enough for her to sleep in. So, now, from all appearances, we don't feed her and we make her sleep in a dog bed. She moved on to asking for a litter box for her birthday. We became so worried that we took her to a professional. But the vet doesn't know what's wrong, either.
The moment Lily opened her eyes up each morning, she began nagging to see Aunt Susan. Aunt Susan is like the Pied Piper; children will follow her anywhere. She is sweet and calm and will do anything to make a child happy. It's why her children are hot messes. Lily was even willing to go to Susan's Kingdom Hall for church services just so she could be next to her. That's love. So Lily spent most of her time at Susan's home – swimming, feeding kittens, chasing bunnies, and making Susan bake pumpkin pies for her. That's at least some of what she did. We don't know the rest, because Lily always asked us to leave once we arrived at Susan's place. She phrased it "GTFO," but we're not hip to internet acronyms, so not sure what it means.
We tried hard to keep our girl Jill. One of the reasons we stayed so long in Simi Valley was to sell our little, teeny-tiny motorhome and buy a fifth wheel and a truck. We knew Jill could only take having a tiny bunk, with no room to sit up, for so long. Especially with Lauren's summer vacation coming up, when Lauren takes over the bunk and Jill shares a couch-bed with Lily. So we listed our baby-sized, eensy, little cutie RV on Craigslist in several large cities and also on RV Trader. We had lots of bites, and a couple from Las Vegas made a deal with us.
But… on the morning we were to drive out and exchange our Sprinter for a cashier's check, we realized we made a baby-sized, eensy, little cutie mistake. We couldn't find the title. We looked and looked. We did not find. So DonMichael let the couple know we'd have to order a replacement title and come a few days later. Well, apparently, not having a title is a big deal to some Picky Percies, and they start worrying about "fraud," whatever that is. So our couple bailed on us. And then we found out that replacing the title could take, not days, but months. So we couldn't even hang on to our runner-up buyers. We broke the bad news to Jill. In return, she broke the bad news to us: f*&k your couch.
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Rich gay men wanted: Spain's tourist appeal
Gay and lesbian visitors contribute about US$6.8 billion to the Spanish economy, according to a report by LGBT Capital last month, edging out France as Europe's top destination.
Gay people spend about 30 percent more on average than mainstream tourists in Spain, according to government estimates, boosting an economy where tourism accounts for 12 percent of jobs.
While a growing number of countries like France and Britain are introducing equal-rights legislation and promoting themselves to gay visitors, Spain is out in front. Even the conservative leadership of Madrid is embracing the phenomenon.
Spain in 2005 became the third European nation to legalise gay marriage – after Belgium and the Netherlands – emerging from the shadow of the Roman Catholic dictatorship of General Francisco Franco who died in 1975. That move established Spain's credentials as a holiday destination where people can feel relaxed about their sexuality, sometimes in a way they can't back home.
"It's very tolerant and it's fun," said Fabiano Ribeiro, a 32-year-old Brazilian visiting Barcelona with two male friends. "You hold hands and that's no problem."
Each August, Spain's second city hosts Europe's largest gay festival, attracting 71,000 visitors this year.
During the two- week party Barcelona is plastered in posters featuring male models advertising parties aimed at gay visitors and stores carry signs with special offers, from sun-beds to free gym passes as the city is taken over by non-stop clubbing and pool parties.
With full-access tickets selling for 360 euros (NZ$640), organisers say the events generates 150 million euros for the local economy. After eight years, the festival is expanding to Ibiza this year and the Canaries in 2016, catering to increasing demand for gay and lesbian events.
"This influx of visitors trickles down to local bars, gyms, even taxi drivers want to be involved," said organiser Tes Cuadreny in an interview from his office in Barcelona. "They know this benefits everyone."
Such initiatives have made Spain Europe's market leader ahead of France which generates US$6.6 billion of revenue, according to LGBT Capital, an investment firm based in the British Virgin Islands that focuses on gay-themed assets. The US. is the global leader with US$21.5 billion of revenue.
In Madrid, even the conservative regional government is jumping on the bandwagon. Regional President Cristina Cifuentes flew the rainbow flag, symbolising support for gay people, from institutional buildings for the first time following her election victory in May. In 2005, her colleagues from Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's People's Party led 100,000 protesters in a march against legalising gay marriage.
The Spanish capital generated about 120 million euros from Europe's biggest gay-pride parade at the start of the summer, according to nightlife organisation Noche Madrid.
"This is a high-income travel market that is not tied down by school holidays and is generally more adventurous," said Carlos Kytka, executive director at the Gay European Tourism Association, which works with more than 4,000 industry members, mainly hotels in Europe.
"It's easy to fill up hotels in Barcelona in summer, what makes us different is that we travel all year round and spend the money, and that keeps the cash flow going."
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Lecture I
1 January 1921, Stuttgart
To-day I should like to make some introductory remarks to what I am going to lay before you in the coming days. My reason for doing this is that you may know the purpose of these talks from the outset.
It will not be my task during the following days to deal with any narrowly defined, special branch of science, but to give various wider viewpoints, having in mind a quite definite goal in relation to science. I should therefore like to warn people not to describe this as an 'Astronomical Course'. It is not meant to be that. But it will deal with something that I feel is especially important for us to consider at this time. I have therefore given it the title "The relation of the diverse branches of Natural Science to Astronomy," and today in particular I shall explain what I actually intend with the giving of this title.
The fact is that in a comparatively short time much will have to be changed within what we call the sphere of science, if it is not to enter upon a complete decline. Certain groups of sciences which are now comprised under various headings and are permitted to be represented under these headings, in our ordinary schools, will have to be taken out their grooves and be classified from quite other aspects. This will necessitate a far reaching regrouping of our sciences. The grouping at present employed is entirely inadequate for a world-conception based upon reality, and yet our modern world holds so firmly to such traditional classification that it is on this basis that candidates are chosen to occupy the professorial chairs in our Universities. People confine themselves for the most part to dividing the existing, circumscribed fields of Natural Science into yet further special branches, and they then look to the specialists or experts as they are called. But a change must come into the whole scientific life by the advent of quite different categories, within which will be united, as in a whole new field of science, things that today are dealt with in Zoology or Physiology, or again, let us say, in the Theory of Knowledge. The older forms of scientific classification, often extremely abstract, must die out, and quite new scientific combinations must arise. This will meet with great obstacles at first, because people today are trained in the specialized branches of science and it will be difficult for them to find an approach to what they will urgently need in order to bring about a combination of scientific material in accordance with reality.
To put in concisely, I might say: We have today a science of astronomy, of Physics, of Chemistry, of Philosophy, we have a science of Biology, of Mathematics, and so on. Special branches have been formed, almost, I might say, so that the various specialists will not have such hard work in order to become well grounded in their subject. They do not have too much to do in mastering all the literature concerned, which, as we know, exists in immense quantities. But it will be a matter of creating new branches which will comprise quite different things, including perhaps at the same time something from Astronomy, something from Biology, and so on. For this, a reshaping of our whole life of science will of course be essential. Therefore, what we term Spiritual Science, which does indeed aim to be of a universal nature, must work precisely in this direction. It must make it its special mission to work in this direction. For we simply cannot get any further with the old grouping. Our Universities confront the world today, my dear friends, in a way that is really quite estranged from life. They turn out mathematicians, physiologists, philosophers, but none of them have any real relation to the world. They can do nothing but work in their narrowly confined spheres, putting before us a picture of the world that becomes more and more abstract, less and less realistic.
It is the change here indicated — a deep necessity for our time — to which I want to do justice in these lectures. I should like you to see how impossible it will be to continue the older classifications indefinitely, and I therefore want to show how other branches of science of the most varied kinds, which, in their present way of treatment, take no account of Astronomy, have indeed definite connections with Astronomy, that is, with a true knowledge of universal space. Certain astronomical facts must perforce be taken into account in other branches of science too, so that we may learn to master these other fields in a way conformable to reality.
The task of these lectures is therefore to build a bridge from the different fields of scientific thought to the field of Astronomy, that astronomical understanding may appear in the right way in the various fields of science.
In order not to be misunderstood, I should like to make one more remark about method. You see, the manner of presenting scientific facts which is customary nowadays must undergo considerable change, because it actually arises out of the scientific structure which has to be overcome. When today facts are referred to, which lie somewhat remote from man's understanding, — remote, just because he does not meet with them at all in his scientific knowledge, — it is usual to say: "That is stated, but no proved." Yet in scientific work is often quite inevitable that statements must be made at first purely as results of observation, which only afterwards can be verified as more and more facts are brought to support them. So it would be wrong to assume, for instance, that right at the beginning of a discourse someone could break in and say, "That is not proved." It will be proved in the course of time, but much will first have to be presented simply from observation, so that the right concept, the right idea, may be created.
And so I beg of you to take these lectures as a whole, and to look in the last lectures for the plain proof of many things which seem in the first lectures to be mere statements. Many things will then be verified which I shall have to handle at first in such a way as to evoke the necessary concepts and ideas.
Astronomy as we know it today, even including the domain of Astrophysics, is fundamentally a modern creation. Before the time of Copernicus or Galileo men thought about astronomical phenomena in a way which differed essentially from the way we think today. It is even extraordinarily difficult to indicate the way in which man still thought of Astronomy in, say, the 13th and 14th centuries, because this way of thinking has become completely foreign to modern man. We only live in the ideas which have been formed since the time of Galileo, Kepler, Copernicus; and from a certain point of view that is perfectly right. They are ideas which treat of the distant phenomena of universal space, in so far as they are concerned with Astronomy, in a mathematical and mechanical way. Men think of these phenomena in terms of mathematics and mechanics. In observing the phenomena, men base their ideas upon what they have acquired from an abstract mathematical science, or an abstract science of mechanics. They calculate distances, movements and forces. But the qualitative outlook still in existence in the 13th and 14th centuries, which distinguished Individualities in the stars, an Individuality of Jupiter, of Saturn ... this has become completely lost to modern man. I will make no criticism of the things at the moment, but will only point out that the mechanical and mathematical way of treating what we call the domain of Astronomy has become the exclusive one. Even if we acquaint ourselves with the stars in a popular fashion without understanding mathematics or mechanics, we still find it presented, even if in a manner suitable for the lay-mind, entirely in ideas of space and time, of a mathematical and mechanical kind. No doubts of any kind exist in the minds of our contemporaries — who believe that their judgment is authoritative — that this is the only way in which to regard the starry heavens. Anything else, they are convinced, would be merely amateurish.
Now, if the question arises as to how it has actually come about that this view of the starry heavens has emerged in the evolution of civilization, the answer of those who regard the modern scientific mode of thought as absolute, will be different from the reply which we are able to give. Those who regard the scientific thought of today as something absolute and true, will say: Well, you know, among earlier humanity there were not yet any strictly scientifically formed ideas; man had first to struggle through to such ideas, i. e., to the mathematical, mechanical mode of regarding celestial phenomena of the Universe, a later humanity has worked through to a strictly scientific comprehension of what does actually correspond to reality.
This is an answer that we cannot give, my dear friends. We must take up our position from the standpoint of the evolution of humanity, which in the course of its existence, has introduced various inner forces into its consciousness. We must say to ourselves: The manner of observing the celestial phenomena which existed among the ancient Babylonians, the Egyptians, perhaps even the Indian people, was due to the particular form which the development of the human soul-forces was taking in those times. Those human soul-forces had to be developed with the same inner necessity with which a child between the 10th and 15th year must develop certain soul-forces, while in another period it will developing other faculties, which lead it to different conclusions about the world. Then came the Ptolemaic system. That arose out of different soul-forces. Then our Copernican system. That arose from yet other soul-forces. The Copernican system did not develop because humanity had happily struggled through to objectivity, whereas before they had all been as children, but because humanity since the middle of the 15th century needed precisely the mathematical, mechanical faculties for its development. That is why modern man sees the celestial phenomena in the picture formed by the mathematical, mechanical faculties. And he will some day see them again in a different way, when in his development he has drawn up out of the depths of the soul other forces, — to his own healing and benefit. Thus it depends upon humanity what form the world-concept takes. But it is not a question of looking back in pride to earlier times when men were "more childlike," and then thinking that in modern times we have at last struggled through to an objective understanding which can now endure for all future ages.
There is something which has become a real necessity to later humanity and has given color to the requirements of the scientific mind. It is this: Men strive on the one hand for ideas that are clear and easy to control — namely, mathematical ideas — , and on the other hand they strive for ideas through which they can surrender most strongly to an inner compulsion. The modern man at once becomes uncertain and nervous when he does not feel the strong inner compulsion presented, for instance, by the argument of the Pythagorean theorem, but realizes, let us say, that the figure which is drawn does not decide for him, but that he must develop an activity of soul and decide for himself. Then he at once becomes uncertain and nervous and is no longer willing to continue the line of thought. So he says: That is not exact science; subjectivity comes into it. Modern man is really dreadfully passive; he would like to be led everywhere by a chain of infallible arguments and conclusions. Mathematics satisfies this requirement, at least in most cases; and where it does not, where man have interposed their own opinion in recent times, — well, my dear friends, the results are according! Men still believe that they are being exact, while they hit upon the most incredible ideas.
Thus in mathematics and mechanics men think they are being led forward by leading-strings of concepts which are linked together through their own inherent logic. They feel then as if they had ground under their feet, but the moment they step off it they do not want to go on any further. Concepts which are easy to grasp on the one hand, and the element of inner compulsion on the other: this is what modern man needs for his "safety." Fundamentally, it is on this basis that the particular form of world-conception, supplied by the modern science of Astronomy, has been built up. I am not at the moment speaking of the single facts, but merely of the world-conception as a whole.
This attitude towards a mathematical, mechanical conception of the world has so penetrated the consciousness of humanity, my dear friends, that people have come to regard everything that cannot be treated in this way as more or less unscientific. From this feeling proceeded such a phrase as that of Kant, who said: In every domain of science there is only so much real science as there is mathematics in it; one ought really to bring Arithmetic or Geometry into all the sciences. But this idea, as we know, breaks down when we think how remote the simplest mathematical ideas are to those, for instance, who study Medicine. Our present division of the sciences gives to a medical student practically nothing in the way of mathematical ideas.
And so it comes about that on the one hand what is called astronomical knowledge has been set up as an ideal. DuBois-Raymond has defined this in his address on the limits of the knowledge of Nature by saying: We only grasp truths in Nature and satisfy our need of causality inasmuch as we can apply the astronomical type of knowledge. That is to say, we regard the celestial phenomena in such a way that we draw the stars upon the chart of the sky and calculate with the material which is there given us. We can state exactly: There is a star, it exercises a force of attraction upon other stars. We begin to calculate, having the different things, to which our calculations apply, visibly before us. This is what we have brought into Astronomy in the first place. Now we observe, let us say, the molecule. Within the complex molecule we have the atoms, exercising a force of attraction on one another, moving around each other, — forming, as it were, a little universe. We observe this molecule as a small cosmic system and are satisfied if it all seems to fit. But then there is the great difference that when we look out into the starry sky all the details are given to us. We can at most ask whether we understand them rightly, whether after all, there might not be some other explanation than the one given by Newton. We have the given details and then we spin a mathematical, mechanical web over them. This web of thought is actually added to the given facts, but from a scientific point of view it satisfies the modern need of man. And now we carry the system, which we have first thought out and devised, into the world of the molecule and atom. Here we add in thought what in the other case was given to us. But we satisfy our so-called need of causality by saying: What we think of as the smallest particle, moves in such and such a way, and it is the objective counterpart of what we experience subjectively as light, sound, warmth etc. We carry the astronomic form of knowledge into every phenomenon of the world and thus satisfy our demand for causality. Du-Bois Raymond has expressed it quite bluntly: "When one cannot do that, there is no scientific explanation at all."
Yes, my dear friends, what is here claimed should actually imply that if, for example, we wished to come to a rational form of therapy, that is to say, to understand the activity of a remedy, we should have to be able to follow the atoms in the substance of the remedy as we follow the movements of the Moon, the Sun, the planets and the fixed stars. They would all have to become little cosmic systems. We should have to be able to calculate how this or that remedy would work. This was actually an ideal for some people not so very long ago. Now they have given up such ideals. Such an idea collapses not only in reference to such a far off sphere as a rational therapy, but in those lying more within reach, simply because our sciences are divided as they are today. You see, the modern doctor is educated in such a way that he masters extraordinarily little of pure mathematics. We may talk to him perhaps of the need for a knowledge of astronomy but it would be of no use to speak of introducing mathematical ideas into his field of work. But as we have seen, everything outside mathematics, mechanics and astronomy should be described, according to the modern notion, as being unscientific in the strict sense of the word. Naturally that is not done. People regard these other sciences too as exact, but this is most inconsistent. It is, however, characteristic of the present time that the demand should have been made at all for everything to be understood on the model of mathematical Astronomy.
It is hard today to talk to people in a serious way about such thing; how hard this is I should like to make clear to you by an example.
You know of course that the question of the form of the human skull has played a great role in modern biology. I have also spoken of this matter may times in the course of our anthroposophical lectures. Goethe and Oken put forward magnificent thoughts on this question of the human skull-bones. The school of Gegenbauer also carried out classical researches upon it. But something that could satisfy the urge for a deeper knowledge in this direction does not in fact exist today.
People discuss, to what extent Goethe was right in saying that the skull-bones are metamorphosed vertebrae, bones of the spine. But it is impossible to arrive at any really penetrating view of this matter today, because in the circles where these things are discussed one would scarcely be understood, and where an understanding might be forthcoming these things are not talked of because they are not of interest. You see, it is practically impossible today to bring together in close working association a thoroughly modern doctor, a thoroughly modern mathematician, — i.e., one who is master of higher mathematics —, and a man who could understand both of them passably well. These three men could scarcely understand one another. The one who would sit in the middle, understanding both of them slightly, would be able at a pinch to talk a little with the mathematician and also with the doctor. But the mathematician and the doctor would not be able to understand each other upon important questions, because what the doctor would have to say about them would not interest the mathematician, and what the mathematician would have to say — or would say, if he found words at all, — would not be understood by the doctor, who would be lacking the necessary mathematical background. This is what would happen in an attempt to solve the problem I have just put before you. People imagine: If the skull-bones are metamorphosed vertebra, then we ought to be able to proceed directly, through a transformation which it is possible to picture spatially, from the vertebra to the skull. To extend the idea still further to the limb-bones would, on the basis of the accepted premises, be quite out of the question. The modern mathematician will be able, from his mathematical studies, to form an idea of what it really means when I turn a glove inside out, when I turn the inside to the outside. One must have in mind a certain mathematical handling of the process by which what was formerly outside is turned inward, and what was inside is turned to the outside. I will make a sketch of it (Fig. 1) — a structure of some sort that is first white on the outside and red inside. We will treat this structure as we did the glove, so that it is now red outside and white inside (Fig. 2).
But let us go further, my dear friends, and picture to ourselves that we have something endowed with a force of its own that does not admit of being turned inside out in such a simple way as a glove which still looks like a glove after being inverted. Suppose that we invert something which has different stresses of force on the outer surface from those on the inner. We shall then find that simply through the inversion quite a new form arises. The form may appear thus before we have reversed it (Fig. 1): we turn it inside out and now different forces come into consideration on the red surface and on the white, so that perhaps, purely through the inversion, this form arises (Fig. 3). Such a form might arise merely in the process of inversion. When the red side faced inward, forces remained dominant which are developed differently when it is turned outward. And so with the white side; only when turned towards the inside can it develop its inherent forces.
It is of course quite conceivable to give a mathematical presentation of such a subject, but people are thoroughly disinclined nowadays to apply to reality what is arrived at conceptually in such a way. The moment, however, we learn to apply this to reality, we become able to see in our long bones or tubular bones (that is, in the limb bones), a form which, when inverted, becomes our skull bones! In the drawing, let the inside of the bone, as far as the marrow, be depicted by the red, the outside by the white (Fig. 4). Certain forms and forces, which can of course be investigated, are turned inward, and what we see when we draw away the muscle from the long bone is turned outward. But now imagine these hollow bones turned inside out by the same principle as I have just given you, in which other conditions of stress and strain are brought into play;
then you may easily obtain this form (Fig. 5). Now it has the white within, and what I depicted by the red comes to the outside. This is in fact the relationship of a skull-bone to a limb-bone, and in between lies the typical bone of the back — the vertebra of the spinal column. You must turn the tubular bone inside out like a glove according to its indwelling forces; then you obtain the skull-bone. The metamorphosis of the bones of the limbs into the skull-bones is only to be understood when keeping in mind the process of inversion, or 'turning inside-out'. The important thing to realizes is that what is turned outward in the limb-bones is turned inward in the skull. The skull-bones turn towards a world of their own in the interior of the skull. That is one world. The skull-bone is orientated to the world, just as the limb-bone is orientated outward, towards the external world. This can be clearly seen in the case of the bones. Moreover, the human organism as a whole is so organized that it has on the one hand a skull organization, and on the other a limb-organization, the skull-organization being oriented inward, the limb-organization outward. The skull contains an inner world, the limb-man an outer world, and between the two is a kind of balancing system which preserves the rhythm.
My dear friends, take any literature dealing with the theory of functions, or, say, with non-Euclidean geometry, and see what countless ideas of every kind are brought forward in order to get beyond the ordinary geometrical conception of three-dimensional space; — to extend the domain — widen out the concept of geometry. You will see what industry and ingenuity are employed. But now suppose that you have become an expert at mathematics, who knows the theory of functions well and understands all that can be understood today of non-Euclidean geometry. I should like now to put a question concerning much that tends in this direction (Forgive me if it seems as if one did not value them highly, speaking of these things in such trivial terms. And yet I must do so, and I beg the audience, especially trained mathematicians, to turn it over in their minds and see if there is not truth in what I say.) The question could be put as follows: What is the use of all this spinning of purely mathematical thoughts? What is it worth to me, so to speak, in pounds, shillings and pence? No one is interested in the spheres in which it might perhaps find concrete application. Yet if we were to apply to the structure of the human organism all that has been thought out in non-Euclidean geometry, then we should be in the realm of reality, and applying immeasurably important ideas to reality, not wandering about in mere speculations. If the mathematician were so trained as to be interested also in what is real, — in the appearance of the heart, for example, so that he could form an idea of how through a mathematical process he could turn the heart inside out, and how thereby the whole human form would arise, — if he were taught to use his mathematics in actual life, then he could be working in the realm of the real. It would then be impossible to have the trained mathematician on the one hand, not interested in what the doctor learns, and on the other, the physician, understanding nothing of of how the mathematician — though in a purely abstract element — is able to change and metamorphose forms. This is the situation we must alter. If not, our sciences will fall into decay. They grow estranged from one another; people no longer understand each other's language.
How then is science to be transformed into a social science, as is implied in all that I shall be telling you in these lectures? A science which leads over into social science is not yet in existence.
On the one hand we have Astronomy, tending more and more to be clothed in mathematical forms of thought. It has become so great in its present form just because it is a purely mathematical and mechanical science. But there is another branch of science which stands, as it were, at the opposite pole to Astronomy, and which cannot be studied in its real nature without Astronomy. It is however, impossible, as science is today, to build a bridge between Astronomy and this other pole of science, namely, Embryology. He alone is studying reality, who on the one hand studies the starry skies and on the other hand the development of the human embryo. How is the human embryo generally studied today? Well, it is stated: The human embryo arises from the interaction of two cells, the sex-cells or gametes, male and female. These cells develop in the parent organism in such a way as to attain a certain state of independence before they are able to interact. They then present a certain contract, the one cell, the male, calling forth new and different possibilities of development in the other, the female. The question is put: What is a cell? As you know, since about the middle of the 19th century, Biology has largely been built upon the cell theory. The cell is described as a larger or smaller, spherule, consisting of albuminous or protein-like substances. It has a nucleus within it of a somewhat different structure and around the whole is an enclosing membrane. As such, it is the building-stone for all that arising by way of living organisms. The sex-cells are of a similar nature but are formed differently according to whether they are male or female, and from such cells every more complicated organism is built up.
But now, what is actually meant when it is said that an organism builds itself up from these cells? The idea is that substances which are otherwise in Nature are taken up into these cells and then no longer work in quite the same way as before. If oxygen, nitrogen or carbon are contained in the cells, the carbon, for instance, does not have the effect upon some other substance outside, that it would have had before; such power of direct influence is lost to it. It is taken up into the organism of the cell and can only work there as conditions in the cell allow. That is to say, the influence is exerted not so much by the carbon, but by the cell, which makes use of the particular characteristics of carbon, having incorporated a certain amount of it into itself. For example, what man has within him in the form of metal — iron for instance — only works in a circuitous way, via the cell. The cell is the building-stone. So in studying the organism, everything is traced to the cell. Considering at first only the main bulk of the cell, without the nucleus and membrane, we distinguish two parts: a transparent part composed of this fluid, and another part forming sort of framework. Describing it schematically, we may say that there is the framework of the cell, and this is embedded, as it were, in the other substance which, unlike the framework, is quite unformed. (Fig. 6) Thus we must think of the cell
as consisting of a mass which remains fluid and unformed and a skeleton or framework which takes on a great variety of forms. This then is studied. The method of studying cells in this way has been pretty well perfected; certain parts in the cell can be stained with color, others do not take the stain. Thus with carmine or saffron, or whatever coloring matter is used, we are able to distinguish the form of the cell and can thus acquire certain ideas about its inner structure. We note, for instance, how the inner structure changes when the female germ-cell is fructified. We follow the different stages in which the cell's inner structure alters; how it divides; and how the parts become attached to one another, cell upon cell, so that the whole becomes a complicated structure. All this is studied. But it occurs to no-one to ask: With what is this whole life in the cell connected? What is really happening? It does not occur to anyone to ask this.
What happens in the cell is to be conceived, my dear friends, in the following way, — though to be sure, it is still a rather abstract way. There is the cell. For the moment let us consider it in its most usual form, namely the spherical form. This spherical form is partially determined by the thin fluid substance, and enclosed within it is the delicate framework. But what is the spherical form? The thin fluid mass is as yet left entirely to itself and therefore behaves according to the impulses it receives from its surroundings. What does it do? Well, my dear friends, it mirrors the universe around it! It takes on the form of the sphere because it mirrors in miniature the whole cosmos, which we indeed also picture to ourselves ideally as a sphere. Every cell in its spherical form is no less than an image of the form of the whole universe. And the framework inside, every line of the form, is conditioned by its relationship to the structure of the whole cosmos. To express myself abstractly to begin with, think of the sphere of the universe with its imaginary boundary (Fig. 7). In it, you have here a planet, and there a planet (a,a1). They work in such a way as to exert an influence upon one another in the direction of the line which joins them. Here (m) let us say — diagrammatically, of course, — a cell is formed; its outline mirrors the sphere. Here, within the framework it has a solid part which is due to the working of the one planet on the other. And suppose that here there were another constellation of planets, working upon each other along the line joining them (b,b1).
And here again there might be yet another planet (c), this one having no counterpart; — it throws the whole construction, which might otherwise have been rectangular, out of shape, and the structure takes on a somewhat different form. And so you have in the whole formation of the framework of the cell a reflection of the relationships existing in the planetary system, — altogether in the whole starry system. You can enter quite concretely into the formation of the cell and you will reach an understanding of this concrete form only if you see in the cell an image of the entire cosmos.
And now take the female ovum, and picture to yourselves that this ovum has brought the cosmic forces to a certain inner balance. They have taken on form in the framework of the cell, and are in a certain way at rest within it, supported by the female organism as a whole. Then comes the influence of the male sex-cell. This has not brought the macrocosmic forces to rest, but works in the sense of a very specialized force. It is as though the male sex-cell works precisely along this line of force (indicated by Dr. Steiner on the blackboard) upon the female ovum which has come to a condition of rest. The cell, which is an image of the whole cosmos, is thereby caused to relinquish its microcosmic form once more to a changing play of forces. At first, in the female ovum, the macrocosm comes to rest in a peaceful image. Then through the male sex-cell the female is torn out of this state of rest, and is drawn again into a region of specialized activity and brought into movement. Previously it had drawn itself together in the resting form of the image of the cosmos, but the form is drawn into movement again by the male forces which are, so to speak, images of movement. Through them the female forces, which are images of the form of the cosmos and have come to rest, are brought out of this state of rest and balance.
Here we may have some idea, from the aspect of Astronomy, of the forming and shaping of something which is minute and cellular. Embryology cannot be studied at all without Astronomy, for what Embryology has to show is only the other pole of what is seen in Astronomy. We must, in a way, follow the starry heavens on the one hand, seeing how they reveal successive stages, and we must then follow the process of development of a fructified cell. The two belong together, for the one is only the image of the other. if you understand nothing of Astronomy, you will never understand the forces which are at work in Embryology, and if you understand nothing of Embryology, you will never understand the meaning of the activities with which Astronomy has to deal. For these activities appear in miniature in the processes of Embryology.
It is conceivable that a science should be formed, in which, on the one hand, astronomical events are calculated and described, and on the other hand all that belongs to them in Embryology, which is only the other aspect of the same thing.
Now look at the position as it is today: you find that Embryology is studied on its own. It would be regarded as madness if you were to demand of a modern embryologist that he should study Astronomy in order to understand the phenomena in his own sphere of work. And yet it should be so. This is why a complete regrouping of the sciences is necessary. It will be impossible to become a real embryologist without studying Astronomy. It will no longer be possible to educate specialists who merely turn their eyes and their telescopes to the stars, for to study the stars in that way has no further meaning unless one knows that it is out of the great universe that the minute and microscopical is fashioned.
All this, — which is quite real and concrete, — has in scientific circles been changed into the utmost abstraction. It is reality to say: We must strive for astronomical knowledge in cellular theory, especially in Embryology. If DuBois-Raymond had said that the detailed astronomical facts should be applied to the cell-theory, he would have spoken out of the sphere of reality. But what he wanted corresponds to no reality, namely that something thought-out and devised — the atoms and molecules — should be examined with astronomical precision. He wanted the astronomical type of mathematical thoughts, which have been added to the world of the stars, to be sought for again in the molecule.
Thus you see, upon the one hand lies reality: movement, the active forces of the stars and the embryonic development in which there lives, in all reality, what lives in the starry heavens. That is where the reality lies and that is where we must look for it. On the other hand lies abstraction. The mathematician, the mechanist, calculates the movements and forces of the heavenly bodies and then invents the molecular structure to which to apply this kind of astronomical knowledge. Here he is withdrawn from life, living in pure abstractions.
These are the things about which we must think, remembering that now we must renew, in full consciousness, something which was in a certain sense present in earlier times. Looking back to the Egyptian Mysteries, we find astronomical observations such as were made at that time. These observations, my dear friends, were not used merely to calculate when an eclipse of the Sun or Moon would take place, but rather to arrive at what should come about in social evolution. Men were guided by what they saw in the heavens, as to what must be said to the people, what instructions should be given, so that the development of the whole social life should take its right course. Astronomy and Sociology were dealt with as one. We too, though in a different way from the Egyptians, must again learn how to connect what happens in social life with the phenomena of the great universe. We do not understand what came about in the middle of the 15th century, if we cannot relate the events of that time to the phenomena which then prevailed in the universe. It is like a blind man talking about color to speak of the changes in the civilized world in the middle of the 15th century without taking all this into account.
Spiritual Science is already a starting point. But we shall not succeed in bring together the complicated domain of Sociology — social science — with the observations of natural phenomena, unless we first begin by connecting Astronomy with Embryology, linking the embryonic facts with astronomical phenomena.


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Q: How to embed in memory MariaDB4j to replace default Spring DataSource in JUnit Tests? I am writing tests for Service that uses several data Jpa repositories. The problem is that some repositories use a lot of native queries with MySQL specific functions such as str_to_date(). So when I tried to test the service's method using H2 I got an error saying that H2 doesn't recognize function. I have tried using H2 in MySQL mode, but got the same error.
here mariaDB4j was proposed as a work-around. I have added dependency into Maven
<dependency>
    <groupId>ch.vorburger.mariaDB4j</groupId>
    <artifactId>mariaDB4j</artifactId>
    <version>2.3.0</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

But getting IllegalStateException : Failed to replace DataSource with an embedded database for tests. If you want an embedded database please put a supported one on the classpath or tune the replace attribute of @AutoConfigureTestDatabase.
My Test file looks this way:
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@DataJpaTest
@AutoConfigureTestDatabase(replace = AutoConfigureTestDatabase.Replace.ANY)
public class TestPay {

    @TestConfiguration
    static class PaymentServiceTestContextConfiguration {
        @Bean
        public PaymentService paymentService(){
            return new PaymentService();
        }
    }

    @Autowired
    private PaymentService paymentService;
    @Autowired
    private TarifRepository firstRepository;
    @Autowired
    private BuildingRepository secondRepository;
    @Autowired
    private ApartmentRepository thirdRepository;

    /* Test cases here*/
}

The project is build with Annotation driven Spring Boot.

A: I build the following class that I reuse in every integration test that requires database access to mariadb. It could probably be improved (and I'd be happy for suggestions), but it works so far:
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest
@TestPropertySource(locations="classpath:application-junit.properties")
@DirtiesContext(classMode = DirtiesContext.ClassMode.AFTER_CLASS) //otherwise mariadb is not cleaned up between tests
public abstract class MyIntegrationTest {

    private static MariaDB4jSpringService DB;

    @BeforeClass
    public static void init() throws ManagedProcessException {
        DB = new MariaDB4jSpringService();
        DB.setDefaultPort(1234);
        DB.start();
        DB.getDB().createDB("yourtables");
        DB.getDB().source("schema.sql"); // init scripts from /src/test/resources/schema.sql
    }

    @AfterClass
    public static void cleanup() {
        if (DB != null) DB.stop();
    }
}

application-junit.properties:
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mariadb://localhost:1234/yourtables
spring.datasource.username=root
spring.datasource.password=

A: It sounds like you need to explicitly declare your DataSource for tests. In the case of h2, there is likely already a datasource bean declared by a spring test dependency, but there may not be an off-the-shelf one provided by ch.vorburger.mariaDB4j.
Here's an example of an embedded MariaDB DataSource that I stole from elsewhere on the internet
import ch.vorburger.mariadb4j.DBConfigurationBuilder
import ch.vorburger.mariadb4j.springframework.MariaDB4jSpringService
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jdbc.DataSourceBuilder
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Profile

import javax.sql.DataSource

@Configuration
@Profile(['local', 'integrationTest'])
class EmbeddedMariaDbConfig {

    @Bean
    MariaDB4jSpringService mariaDB4jSpringService() {
        new MariaDB4jSpringService()
    }

    @Bean
    DataSource dataSource(MariaDB4jSpringService mariaDB4jSpringService,
                          @Value('${app.mariaDB4j.databaseName}') String databaseName,
                          @Value('${spring.datasource.username}') String datasourceUsername,
                          @Value('${spring.datasource.password}') String datasourcePassword,
                          @Value('${spring.datasource.driver-class-name}') String datasourceDriver) {
        //Create our database with default root user and no password
        mariaDB4jSpringService.getDB().createDB(databaseName)

        DBConfigurationBuilder config = mariaDB4jSpringService.getConfiguration()

        DataSourceBuilder
                .create()
                .username(datasourceUsername)
                .password(datasourcePassword)
                .url(config.getURL(databaseName))
                .driverClassName(datasourceDriver)
                .build();
    }
}

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My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell (Photo: YouTube)
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell Receives Cease & Desist Letter From Dominion Voting Systems
by Taylor MasiJanuary 24, 2021, 9:30 pmJanuary 24, 2021, 9:30 pmJanuary 24, 2021, 9:30 pm2020 Election, Daily Digest, News, News Feed >
Dominion Voting Systems sent a cease and desist letter to My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell this week for spreading false information about the 2020 election.
In the months since the 2020 election was finalized, Donald Trump and his allies have floated conspiracy theories about the election results and Dominion voting machines, resulting in the company taking legal action.
Dominion is suing Sidney Powell, Trump's lawyer, for defamation alleging $1.3 billion in damages. A Dominion employee has also sued Trump himself.
Photographers caught Lindell and Trump meeting last week with notes referencing martial law and Powell.
"I want Dominion to put up their lawsuit because we have 100% evidence that China and other countries used their machines to steal the election," Lindell said.
The CEO has become known for peddling election conspiracies. Last year, he promoted a fake cure to the coronavirus.
The letter orders Lindell to "preserve and retain all documents relating to Dominion and your smear campaign against the company." It also states that Lindell must "preserve, without limitation," all communications with Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, L. Lin Wood and each of their partners, associates, and paralegals."
Here are the pages of the machine voter fraud evidence that came out last week and the media including Twitter has tried to bury it! This is an attack on our country! pic.twitter.com/FhpNgNSda7
— Mike Lindell (@realMikeLindell) January 16, 2021
2020 election Donald Trump Mike Lindell
Article by Taylor Masi


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You can spend bitcoins at your local mall
by Steve Hargreaves @hargreavesCNN May 16, 2013: 6:17 AM ET
How Bitcoin works
You can now spend bitcoins at your local mall. But is anyone actually doing that?
Last week, bitcoin payment processor BitPay announced a deal with Gyft, a seven-month-old Google Ventures-backed software app that lets users buy and upload retail gift cards to Android-based smartphones.
The partnership will allow customers to use bitcoins to buy gift cards for stores such as Gap (GPS), Lowe's (LOW), Sephora, GameStop (GME), Burger King (BKW) and over 200 other retailers.
While those stores won't handle the bitcoin transactions themselves -- that's done by Gyft and BitPay -- it brings the number of locations where customers can effectively pay with bitcoins from around 8,000 nationwide to over 50,000, according to BitPay co-founder and CEO Tony Gallippi.
"This really does open the door to retail use of Bitcoin," said Gallippi. "I think it will drive adoption."
There's no doubt that four-year-old cyber currency Bitcoin is attracting more mainstream attention. For evidence of that, just look at Bitcoin's soaring -- and volatile -- valuation. The worth of 1 bitcoin zoomed from $20 at the start of the year to $266 in April. It's now worth about $117.
What's harder to say is if people area actually using bitcoins to buy stuff.
One of the more prominent merchants to start taking bitcoins, blog hosting site Wordpress, is keeping mum on the matter.
Related: Strategist predicts end of Bitcoin
Wordpress' move to accept bitcoins "was fueled more by curiosity than by profit," a company spokeswoman told CNNMoney. She wouldn't say how many customers had used them, but she did confirm that at least a few people had paid with bitcoins.
Online community Reddit, another high-profile acceptor of bitcoins, said about 5% of its premium membership sales are now paid via Bitcoin.
At Stomp Romp, a New Hampshire-based online guitar retailer, owner Zach Harvey said that a growing number of people are paying with bitcoins, but he estimated that it's still less than 1% of his businesses. He began accepting bitcoins in 2011.
Harvey -- a die-hard libertarian -- remains bullish on the currency. Another company he's involved with is working to help roll out Bitcoin ATMs. He attributes his lackluster Bitcoin sales at Stomp Romp to the fact that "guitar fans aren't really tech geeks."
Bitcoins have been a giant hit for at least one merchant: New York City bar EVR has logged more than $26,000 in Bitcoin sales since it started taking the currency just over a month ago. That's about 10% of the bar's overall revenue.
Bitcoins for beer
"I've been pleasantly surprised," said EVR co-owner Alex Likhtenstein.
Likhtenstein said paying with bitcoins is easy. The servers present the customer with a bill on a tablet that has a bar code attached. The customer scans the bar code with a smartphone, and the amount in bitcoins is subtracted from their account.
He likes the fact that he gets paid faster with bitcoins than with credit cards. Plus, the processing fees are lower.
"To a business owner, it has only positives," he said.


This is a very well written concept and refreshing to hear in a genre that is too often about obligatory Jesus name drops in the hopes of approval of men.
"Does not compute" takes analog sounds, fried computer choruses,bass knocking stripped down drums sounding off on worldly troubles and online promiscuity while blending anything internet related into parables of what it looks like in Gods eyes without being super preachy. Creativity over forced knowledge works on this one. "Starstruck" had me listening and wanting more of just chad/pro/canon/ or brothatone's voice instead of stacked singers vocals. Shining like a galaxy//Somebody tell'em// shining like a galaxy reflecting who is stellar//starstruck// while awesome synths and drums really had me feeling I was in orbit I was hoping for less vocals cluttered into the chorus.
"Take it all away" takes off with a New York feel for sure, reflecting how the earth is groaning for a release for Gods return to restore us. Its all pain and life in this one with amazing chemistry from the lyrics hitting hard with a dope back and forth feel. "Geeked up" is the lead single for this album. While the chorus seems a misstep, the lyrics are machine gunfire to the brain with high energy. It will undoubtedly reach the younger heads. "New one" reminded me heavy of T-Minus's productions, which isn't a bad thing, as the emcees aim is transparency at their growth towards a new heart.
"One time" closes out the track with thanks to every head that was essential in getting RMG to where they are today. That's a warm welcome for people that stand for family and God, making this a very solid commercial album all around. I look forward to seeing these guys do this live as their energy, lyrics, and what they stand for will continue to grow them as artists and family men.
Dope production, originality and transparency all around.


What is the Farm Beginnings Collaborative?
The Farm Beginnings Collaborative is a network of Farm Beginnings™ training programs that are 1) farmer led; 2) community based; and 3) focused on sustainable growers.
From its humble beginnings in a dairy barn in Minnesota more than 20 years ago by a group of farmers calling themselves the "Wabasha County Give a Damns", it has grown. Its founders wanted to get young people back to the farm and help them make it. The idea grew with organizational support from the Land Stewardship Project, a Minnesota nonprofit. For the whole story, read this piece the Minnesota Post: https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2008/03/farm-beginnings-leads-happy-endings-land.
Over the past two decades, Farm Beginnings™ programs have grown to include 14 regions of the country from North Dakota to North Carolina, Maine to Nebraska. Food Works was accepted as the southernmost Illinois program in 2011. The Land Connection offers Farm Beginnings™ in central Illinois. Angelic Organics Learning Center, whose program is one of the oldest in the network, offers the Stateline Farm Beginnings program in northern Illinois/Wisconsin.
Each program is rooted in its region, informed by local farmers with local wisdom, and strengthened by a national network that shares the most effective tools. The Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association is the newest organization to join the Farm Beginnings Collaborative. Member group Grow NYC is pioneering teaching beginning farmers in the urban setting of New York City while programs in the Dakotas and northern Minnesota share strategies for dealing with low density population areas. Beginning farmers in the program learn to keep good farm records, develop a business plan, evaluate enterprise profitability, protect resources , market effectively, and maintain sustainability.
Organizations involved in Farm Beginnings are committed to sustainable farms and food. Farm Beginnings has nurtured thousands of new farmers and is poised to train thousands more within the next decade to meet the demand for new stewards of food and land.


FORT RUCKER, Ala. (March 13, 2019) - It was a crisp night in Qalat, Afghanistan, and my crew was in the midst of a 24-hour mission. Intel information indicated it would be a quiet evening. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case.
We'd worked throughout the day refueling all types of aircraft. Even though we'd had some downtime between missions, we knew to always be ready to refuel at a moment's notice. On this particular night, rockets were going off more than usual and everyone was nervous. Then, word came over the radio that three CH-47s needed fuel and would arrive in 15 minutes.
As my crew was preparing to head to the forward arming and refueling point site, I asked if they all had their personal protective equipment, including goggles, hearing protection and gloves. Everybody rushed to get their equipment. I, too, was scrambling to get my gear, so I did not physically check to see if everyone had their PPE.
There was a bad dust storm raging as five of us piled into a HMMWV and drove to the FARP site. When we arrived at the fuel tankers, I saw the first CH-47 arriving. As two of my Soldiers prepared a tanker hose to fuel the aircraft, I noticed one was not wearing goggles, just prescription glasses. I tried to yell out to the Soldier, but the aircraft drowned out my voice. I ran to the Soldier and gave him my goggles.
The dust storm continued to howl and, along with the aircraft, blow sand everywhere. I tried to protect my face by covering it with my shirt, but it didn't help. The wind was blowing so fierce that my eyes were full of sand.
By the time the final aircraft departed, my eyes were burning badly. My Soldiers poured water into my eyes, but it provided little relief. They rushed me back to the forward operating base and took me to the medic. By now, both of my eyes were swollen, so I was rushed to Kandahar by air and then sent to Germany for treatment.
It took me months to recover from this incident, but I came away from it with an important lesson learned: Always physically check your Soldiers to ensure they have all of their PPE. As a leader, you can never assume everyone will have it. I'm determined to prevent a similar accident from happening to my Soldiers, so before every mission, I make them show me their PPE. Sure, it might cost us a few extra minutes, but it might just save a Soldier's sight.


Varsity Boys Basketball Zone Champs!
Varsity Boys Basketball Finals Tonight!
JV Girls win the Linden Christian Tournament!
1st Place in the CSNC Tournament!
All 2018 Grads who ordered Yearbooks can pick them up from Mr.O. Everyone else who ordered can pick them up at lunch hours starting Nov.15. Sales for the 2018-2019 Yearbook will start up next week! Check the website for details!
First playoff game Thursday Nov.8. Check athletics page for details!
Playoffs start next week! Good luck to all teams in the playoffs!
Playoffs start next week! Check Athletics page for details!
A tough loss against Miles Mac brings the 2018 Football Season to an end. Thanks to all the players, coaches and volunteers for a great season!
Come out and cheer our boys to victory! Thursday Oct.25 6:30 East Side field!
$5 Admission at the gate!
Another win against Miles Mac, 17-7 to keep a perfect record!
Another win for our Celtic Football team! 22-6 vs. Neelin.
Celtic football team wins 15-7 vs Kildonan East Reivers! 2-0! Keep up the effort!
Celtic Football wins season opener!
The Celtic football team won their season opener 17-0 vs. Kenora! Keep up the effort boys!
The CSNC Leadership group put on an amazing first day for our new grade 9 students! Way to go team!
To provide a safe, positive, inclusive learning environment incorporating the unique qualities and skills of our students, parents, and staff, while exploring and celebrating the cultural diversity of our community, thus empowering our students to become productive, fulfilled citizens.
 April 17! Wear Pink! Be someone's Hero!


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NICE recommends Novartis' previously CDF-exclusive kidney cancer treatment
Published on 13/01/17 at 10:01am
In a reappraisal decision by NICE, everolimus (Novartis' Afinitor) has been recommended for the treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in patients who have not responded to initial treatment and have seen their disease progress.
A once-daily oral pill, Afinitor prevents the spread of tumours by interrupting the growth of new blood vessels within them, helping to treat the kidney cancer RCC, which can in advanced cases spread to other parts of the kidney and even the lymph glands.
The drug was previously only available through the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) after being rejected in 2011. Since the reformation of the CDF, NICE has been engaged in reappraising a series of previously CDF-exclusive drugs on their efficacy and cost-effectiveness. To secure the new recommendation, Novartis offered a further discount for consideration. The NHS must now make the drug available within three months.
"Advanced renal cell carcinoma is a relatively rare cancer and unfortunately there are limited treatment options for this condition," said professor Carole Longson, director of the Centre for Health Technology Evaluation at NICE. "The company engaged positively with the process of reconsidering drugs in the CDF, demonstrated their drug to be cost effective, and as such we were pleased to make a positive recommendation. This decision, when implemented, will allow funding in the CDF to be freed up, which can then be spent on other new and innovative cancer treatments. Our decision means that many patients can feel reassured that they can now get NHS access to everolimus."
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Begonia mananjebensis est une espèce de plantes de la famille des Begoniaceae.
L'espèce fait partie de la section Quadrilobaria.
Elle a été décrite en 1972 par Henri Jean Humbert (1887-1967).

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Cette espèce est originaire du pays suivant : Madagascar.

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Lopadorrhynchus brevis är en ringmaskart som beskrevs av Grube 1855. Lopadorrhynchus brevis ingår i släktet Lopadorrhynchus och familjen Lopadorrhynchidae. Utöver nominatformen finns också underarten L. b. nuchalis.

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Right now you and I are standing face-to-face with situations in our nation that need to be changed. Some of those situations look totally impossible. But they're not. Because this country belongs to God.
He's the One Who brought the United States of America into existence. He had a special purpose for it. He needed a country where the gospel could be preached freely and not suppressed.
Who brought Christopher Columbus to America? God brought him. This is God's nation. He raised it up, and it's not going to be taken away from Him.
The next time you're tempted to look at situations in this country as impossible, remember Who it belongs to. Then you can discover America just like Christopher Columbus did–by faith.
[Faith to Faith] September 8 – Plant a Seed and Watch It Grow!


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NY Giants: 5 takeaways from the Landon Collins Game
Art Stapleton
POMONA, N.Y. - A significant collection of New York Giants past and present got together Saturday night for the second annual Landon Collins Game, a charity event benefiting the Tom Coughlin Jay Fund.
Collins and the Giants will finish out their offseason training program this week with a three-day mandatory minicamp in East Rutherford that begins Tuesday, but before that, they gathered for laughs, some dodgeball, a home run derby and a softball game that pitted Team Collins against a team of former Super Bowl champions led by Brandon Jacobs for the second consecutive season.
The festivities raised $35,000 for the Jay Fund, and Coughlin even made a surprise appearance at Palisades Credit Union Park, the home of the independent Rockland Boulders.
Here are five takeaways and other fun observations from the event organized by Collins, Jacobs and super fan Joe "License Plate Guy" Ruback:
Saquon got moves
There were plenty of familiar faces in attendance, but no one (maybe except for Coughlin) drew more attention that – yup, you guessed it – Saquon Barkley.
From the moment he arrived at the ball park, there was a buzz everywhere he went. Early arriving fans scrambled to the concourse to get as close as they could to the Giants' first-round pick, and Barkley spent nearly 30 minutes with teammates Evan Engram, Davis Webb and Wayne Gallman signing autographs up and down the front row of the seats along the third base line.
Barkley also spent some time with Tiki Barber signing side by side, which had to be fun for fans.
When the game of dodgeball started, Barkley initially tried to stay in the background, but that didn't last long. He showed off his agility, jumping and twisting away from throws by Team Jacobs before finally unleashing a throw of his own, drilling Jacobs from the blind side and getting the Giants' two-time Super Bowl champion back's attention.
It was clear Barkley is not a baseball or a softball player – fullback Shane Smith won the home run derby with 11 bombs, while Webb and safety Andrew Adams were far more of a threat at the plate. But the longer the event went on, the more Barkley wanted to do.
That speaks to his confidence and his competitive nature, especially when it came to the challenge of taking a few swings against Houston Scrapyards professional softball pitcher Morgan Foley. Foley was zipping in pitches at 71 miles per hour – only linebacker Alec Ogletree made contact – and when Barkley stepped to the plate, she received some playful instructions.
"They told me nothing up and in, that's the first-round draft pick," Foley said with a laugh. "I wasn't throwing anything inside, but I wasn't going to let him hit it, either."
No worries, Morgan: he didn't. Barkley still managed to put on a show.
Webb the MVP
When Webb is quarterbacking the Giants to Super Bowl 56, we're all going to be talking about the beautiful June evening when Webb blasted four home runs at the Landon Collins charity softball game.
OK, I'm joking, at least a little. There's no question Webb was a lead dog Saturday night. He hit four homers, crushing pitches from former Giants offensive lineman Rich Seubert over the real fences at the park. He was at the center of seemingly everything that took place, and even though there was no official MVP ceremony, Webb was it.
It's been a great spring for the Giants' 2017 third-round pick, and that includes football.
Return for DRC?
Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie flew up from his home in Florida to be at the event for Collins.
Released by the Giants in March when he refused a pay cut, Rodgers-Cromartie remains a free agent. He said he's been getting plenty of calls from prospective teams and joked – kind of – about being happy to miss OTAs.
I told DRC he was missed on the Giants' beat, and this was his response with a wry smile: "Y'all might see me again."
So Rodgers-Cromarite refused to close the door on a possible return to the Giants. But he also visited Washington shortly after parting ways with Big Blue, so it's a bit of a mystery as to whether DRC was talking about seeing the Giants twice this year.
With DRC, mystery is part of his game.
O'Hara, Tuck defend Eli
Former Giants Shaun O'Hara and Justin Tuck both defended Eli Manning, speaking how they expected a big season and a bounce back from the two-time Super Bowl MVP.
O'Hara was a bit stronger in his defense, saying he believes the Giants have wasted Manning's prime by not building an offense around him.
That's not entirely fair, considering the Giants have drafted offensive linemen in the first round (Justin Pugh and Ereck Flowers) and the second (Weston Richburg) since Super Bowl XLVI, and they've given him weapons (Odell Beckham Jr., Sterling Shepard and Evan Engram).
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The failure to build the offensive line by the previous administration is certainly a spot-on criticism, but Manning's play has declined a bit when things have gone awry.
Now with Barkley in the fold and a new coach/general manager combo that has his back, Manning appears poised for that rebound O'Hara and Tuck said they expect.
Coughlin's surprise entrance was tremendous ... Former Giants Super Bowl champions Victor Cruz and Prince Amukamara, currently with the Chicago Bears, spent several innings signing autographs for fans atop the first-base dugout. ... Former Giants Super Bowl offensive tackle Kareem McKenzie stole the show during dodgeball by standing in the middle of the playing area, cigar in hand, and daring the current Giants to hit him. None did, and former Giants captain Antrel Rolle actually used McKenzie as a shield at one point during the game.


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Chicago, IL – (June 2021) –Topel Forman LLC Announces Brad Levandoski as New Chief Operating Officer
Topel Forman, LLC, has announced that Brad Levandoski has been hired as the new Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining Topel Forman, Brad has over 20 years of experience in operations at a Chicago-based investment consulting firm, his last three years serving as a Chief Operating Officer. As Topel Forman's COO, Levandoski will assume day-today responsibility for core business functions including human recourses, administration, business development and finance.
Dave Levine, Managing Partner, said the firm and partners are delighted to bring Levandoski on board. "The addition of Brad to Topel Forman will support the growing operational responsibilities of the Firm and allow our professional staff and partners to focus on client service as well as the professional development of our staff. Brad will also play a key role in several strategic initiatives of the Firm – both short-term and long term. We look forward to Brad joining our team and contributing to the continued growth of Topel Forman."
Brad agreed with the sentiment stating, "This is a great opportunity to work with people who genuinely care about the way the Firm runs and providing resources to their employees. This was a natural next step to align with the Partners to continue the growth of the Firm."
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