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Episode 1: Orion Pax Part 1 - 2/18/2012
Megatron manipulates the impaired Optimus into joining the Decepticons.
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Episode 2: Orion Pax Part 2 - 2/25/2012
Jack learns how to restore Optimus' memory.
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Episode 3: Orion Pax Part 3 - 3/3/2012
Optimus rebels against Megatron; Autobots try to get their leader back.
Episode 4: Operation Bumblebee Part 1 - 3/10/2012
Bumblebee questions his worthiness to his team after he is compromised.
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Episode 5: Operation Bumblebee Part 2 - 3/17/2012
Bumblebee discovers that MECH and Starscream are responsible for his troubles; Ratchet confronts demons from his Cybertronian past.
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Episode 6: Loose Cannons - 3/24/2012
A legendary Autobot returns to Earth to look for a new Decepticon, but Optimus finds that something is not right with the rogue Bot.
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Episode 7: Crossfire - 3/31/2012
Arachnid and Starscream struggle to control an Insecticon warrior.
Episode 8: Nemesis Prime - 4/7/2012
Optimus Prime becomes destructive while MECH reveals their master plan.
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Episode 9: Grill - 4/14/2012
Agent Fowler has some explaining to do under the threat of military tribunal and Team Prime's termination.
Episode 10: Armada - 4/21/2012
Bulkhead is trapped on the Decepticon Warship and amid dual tries on Megatron's life.
Episode 11: Flying Mind - 4/28/2012
The Decepticon Warship threatens humanity and Raf, Jack and Miko are the only ones who can stop it. New!
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Showcase season has arrived for area basketball squads, and Mount St. Joseph and Germantown Academy were among the 28 teams that appeared in last Saturday's Play-by-Play event at Philadelphia University. For both the Magic and the Patriots, the hoopfest provided exposure for their talents, but not an addition to their win columns.
The Mount arrived at Philly U. with a 12-0 record, but one day after Friday the 13th of January, the 13th game of the season proved unlucky for the Magic. They suffered a 46-38 setback against Spring-Ford High School (11-2), a team they've often faced at this annual extravaganza. On an adjacent court, the Mount's Catholic Academies colleague, Villa Maria, was engaged in an even closer contest against GA, and a fourth-quarter surge carried the Hurricanes (10-3) to a 38-25 victory over the Patriots (11-6).
Mount St. Joe and the Spring Ford Rams went neck and neck through the first half. Late in the opening quarter, the Magic were holding the ball at 12-12, but they missed a premature shot and saw the Rams charge down for a transition bucket to end the round with a slim lead. It was the Magic who enjoyed a two-point edge at halftime, 22-20.
Spring Ford went ahead by seven in the middle of the third quarter, but the Magic had closed up the score to 31-27 when several players collided in a scramble for a loose ball and hit the floor at one end of the court. With the clock showing 36.5 seconds left in round three, play was halted as EMT's were called in to attend Spring-Ford's Sammi Haas, who struck her head on the hardwood. The junior never lost consciousness and showed signs of normal movement, but suspecting a severe concussion, the trainers played it safe and Haas left the gym on a gurney.
The Mount scored at the end of the frame to trail only 31-29 for the start of the fourth quarter, but Spring-Ford, with the best of causes to rally around, came on strong the rest of the way.
Mariah Traywick, a senior forward headed for Shippensburg University, scored eight of her game-high 14 points during the last eight minutes, as MSJ sophomore forward Carly Monzo had to leave the game with her fifth foul. Traywick and Haley Puckett (10 points) topped a list of eight scorers for the winners.
Sophomore guard Alex Louin led the Magic with 10 points, with Monzo and senior Cailin Schmeer close behind with nine apiece. Bridget Higgins and Kelsey Jones each scored four, and Meg Geatens added the other two points.
On the court next door, there was one-point margin at the half, with the 20-19 count favoring GA. By the end of the third quarter, Germantown had expanded its lead, at 30-23, but one problem that lurked in the background was that the Patriots were fouling a good deal while trying to defend the Hurricanes. Putting disciplined, methodical Villa on the foul line has been the bane of many opponents.
The Hurricanes pulled ahead, 36-32, but with under 30 seconds left to play junior guard Natalie Toner bagged a three-pointer from the top of the key to get the Pats within one. That gave Toner 14 points for the afternoon, tying her for game-high honors along with Villa guard Lisa Mirarchi.
Fouled again, Villa added one point from the line to make it 37-35, then GA came down the floor to miss both a three-point try and a follow-up attempt on the rebound. It was another foul, another point for the 'Canes, and the 38-35 final was up in lights. Germantown got off one last shot, but that didn't go down, either.
For Villa, Mirarchi's effort was supported by eight points from Kellie O'Rourke and seven by Kelly Anthony. GA got seven from senior guard Jaryn Garner, six from Fran Sweeney, four from Kiernan McCloskey, and two apiece from Megan McCloskey and Dempsey Cooper.


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NCSE congratulates the winners of Alliance for Science's third annual essay contest, announced (PDF) on April 30, 2009.
With the close of the regular legislative session in Florida on May 1, 2009, Senate Bill 2396 apparently died in committee. If enacted, the bill would have amended a section of Florida law to require "[a] thorough presentation and critical analysis of the scientific theory of evolution."
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This is a math-science integrated unit about spectrographs. Learners will find and calculate the angle that light is transmitted through a holographic diffraction grating using trigonometry. After finding this angle, the students will build their... (View More) own spectrographs in groups and research and design a ground or space-based mission using their creation. After the project is complete, student groups will present to the class on their trials, tribulations, and findings during this process. The activity is part of Project Spectra, a science and engineering program for middle-high school students, focusing on how light is used to explore the Solar System. (View Less)
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Psychic Who Predicted 9/11 And ISIS Has 2 Major Predictions For 2018
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Being able to predict the future is a power that few people wish to possess.
Just imagine knowing all the terrible things that are going to happen in the coming years but having no power to actually incite change.
Vangelia Pandeva Dimitrova, better known as Baba Vanga, died in 1996, but has left the world with dozens of predictions up until the 51st century, the date she believed the world would end.
The Bulgarian woman lost her sight after being caught in a vicious tornado at the age of 12, and a few days after that event she experienced her first vision. She started making predictions at the age of 16 and continued to do so until she died at the age of 85.
Also dubbed the "Nostradamus from the Balkans," Vanga is said to have predicted the 9/11 attacks, the rise of ISIS, Brexit, Trump's presidency, and many more world-changing events long before they occurred.
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The BREAKER: New waves
So i read a decent amount of manga ( but always open to suggestions ) and i feel like not very many people like the series THE BREAKER or even know about it at that. Also, does anyone know if they print volumes of it in english? ( i know it's a manhwa) but yea i guess let me know what you guys think of the series compared to other action manga!
Also, if you have not read the Martials arts manhwa THE BREAKER/ THE BREAKER: new waves , your missing out! it's my favorite ongoing action right now ( including op,naruto, and many others) so check it out!
I Know guys, i meant to say 729
OMG I just love The Breaker and The Breaker: New Wave series unfortunately I don't think it made its way to America to be printed in English. For me its the best Martial Arts manhwa currently being release right now.
I -really- like The Breaker.
New Waves couldn't hold a candle to it for close to two years, but it's gotten somewhat better recently.
Compared to the original, though, the first 90 chapters or so of New Waves kinda sucked.
I enjoy it a lot. Such a shame it will probably never be turned into an anime.
If I don't have to do it, I won't. If I have to do it, I'll make it quick.
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Pretty decent so far. A new chapter came out last night and I've been enjoying this.
Sadly but this is probably true. I don't remember the last time a manhwa got an anime adaptation.
We could eventually see an original Korean adaptation, though. Their animation studios are pretty good, we actually subcontract a major part of our animation work to them (including the entirety of The Legend of Korra).
(And we silly Americans wanted to take all the credit for how good that show looked).
It seems their home market for animation has started to gain popularity in the past two years or so, as well.
Although The Breaker would be a pretty big investment, I think.
Both the original and new waves are absolutely amazing. They were my first manhwa, and then I got into Noblesse and Tower of God, which are also great manhwa!
I've been following the series since about half-way through into the original series, since that discovery I've been following the series non-stop. It's the only manga I've gone through twice, actively looking to immerse myself in the story so much so that I did indeed go back to grasp a fuller understanding of the the previous series, and the current New Waves.
The main character Shioon is likable, strong and easy to root for; the scenarios are easy to believe(in regards to the physics of the manhwa) and aren't really ever disappointing. It's the main release I look forward to each week, Friday, never to be let down by it.
As for an anime adaption, I hope it would be picked up, it's got potential to be very, very popular.
I really enjoy The Breaker. One of my favorite series.
Heard good things about this. I'll try it out.
I want it all!
The Breaker : New Waves is one of my favorite martial arts mangas. Not quite my favorite, but still..
Funny thing is that my favorite top 3 martial arts ''mangas'' are all manhwas.
So yeah martial arts manhwas are one of the best in the manga industry imho.
1. Veritas
2. The Breaker
3. Special Martial Arts Extreme Hell Private High School
4. Transfer student Storm bringer.
5. Girl's of the Wild
And the list goes on.
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I do feel like few people have read either "The Breaker" or "The Breaker: New Waves" but would highly recommend anyone to do so. Has to be my favorite out of all the comics, manga and manhwa I read.
Would also recommend "One Punch Man" if you haven't tried it yet, don't know if this is the place to recommend it to people but is definitely one of my favorites.
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1. Veritas
2. The Breaker
3. Special Martial Arts Extreme Hell Private High School
4. Transfer student Storm bringer.
5. Girl's of the Wild
And the list goes on.
Veritas was awesome. The way it ended I am still hoping for it to continue.
I love The Breaker. I am still waiting to see Goomoonryong make an appearance in new waves.
The Breaker series is hands down my favorite manwa at this point. The only thing giving it a run for it's money right now is Attack on Titan, Shingeki no Kyojin.
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Veritas was awesome. The way it ended I am still hoping for it to continue.
I love The Breaker. I am still waiting to see Goomoonryong make an appearance in new waves.
Veritas wont have a sequel because the illustrator and author had a huge fight and now both work on different things.
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Whitmore Lake to Ann Arbor rail service coming this spring?
AANews reports that the city is pushing to implement this line ASAP in order to help relieve construction-related congestion on US23 this summer. We love the plan to link this rail service so directly to the ever-worsening traffic on US23, and this approach is certainly worth a shot before we decide to add lanes to the highway. Of course, the schedule is a little tight. It would be possible to finish the required improvements by March. The problem is in fast-tracking the funding.
Fortunately, potential funding source, MDOT, is working hard to break out of it's image as a heartless, bureaucratic stop-all controlled by the auto industry.
Tim Hoeffner, administrator of MDOT's Intermodal Policy Division, cast doubt on whether the proposed rail service could be running so soon. He said MDOT staff are reviewing cost estimates, schedules and other aspects of the proposal.
They clearly recognize the importance of acting quickly to take advantage of the current allignment of inter-government cooperation, public-private coordination, and urgent need for alternatives to an already crowded highway during major construction. Michigan is fortunate to have a DOT that considers all these hidden costs into their calculations.
"A big question is money," Hoeffner said. "Is there going to be sufficient ridership to justify making some sort of expenditure into it?"
You may think of MDOT as an advocate of highway construction. But the Intermodal Policy Division should be excited to participate in a project like this, with so much infrastructure already in place, so much local support, and such a low initial investment compared to most rail projects.
Hoeffner said he didn't know if the proposed service could be running by this spring.
"We were not real optimistic with them (in December), and I don't know if our position has really changed,'' Hoeffner said.
OK, so MDOT can't really be considered a supporter of the project. Obviously they have a procedure to follow and there are good reasons that that procedure is in place. We would be disappointed to see them throwing money around without some understanding of the risk. All the same, MDOT comes off like a real wet blanket in this article. It would be nice just to hear that they think the general concept is good, or that they support the effort to alleviate construction congestion. In the meantime, the city still seems optomistic. We hope that it pans out.
Yet, we can't close this issue without some constructive criticism. If we were distributing money at MDOT, we'd have to ask how many people would be willing to
-drive to a vacant industrial park in Green Oak Township
-buy a train ticket for a 20 minute ride
-disembark at Plymouth Rd. noreth of Barton Drive (aka middle of nowhere)
-board an AATA to UM Hospital, campus, or downtown
-walk the rest of the way to work
-pay $120/month to do this
That trip probably isn't going to be any faster than sitting through the construction traffic on US23. It's certainly not going to be cheaper, since you have to drive to the train station. And changing modes 3 times doesn't add to the attraction. We understand that there only so much can be done here, but some suggestions might be:
-add bike lanes on Plymouth and good facilities to encourage cycling from the train station (bikes will be permitted on trains)
-stop and start the train near some sort of amenity or service. this train goes from nowhere to nowhere..
-Put the tumbscrews to Ann Arbor Railroad to get that train into downtown, where it belongs
-DDA, UofM, Google, AANews, Toyota, other major employers need to make some commitment to this project. Discounted rail pass for employees is a great start.
-Include bus fare in the train ticket. Most riders should get a free ride through UM or go!pass
Despite the cynicism here, we really are hopeful for the project and the schedule. We'll continue to post updates and ways that people can get involved.


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As a well-traveled NHL player, Andrei Nazarov was very large and enjoyed fighting. He wears a suit and tie and glasses now, and coaches Vityaz Chekhov in the KHL, but is still very large and still enjoys fighting. So we would very much recommend you not throw bottles at him.
Via ProHockeyTalk comes video of Nazarov, his 1409 career penalty minutes awakening deep within as he grabs a stick and challenges the whole of Belarus to drop the gloves. Seems fans of Dinamo Minsk were raining debris on the Vityaz bench, so Nazarov decided to take matter in hand. He probably could have snapped 60-70 necks before being brought down, but the camoflauge-clad commandos serving as arena security made it on the scene just in time. Nazarov is suspended just two games, because he didn't actually split anyone's skull open. He only tried to.


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If you don't want to read my rumbling about why I'm posting this, just skip to the question at the last paragraph.
I've been able to have Lucid Dreams for a long time, and never really trained for it. It just came naturally. A few years later, a few people told me they had Out of Body experiences. I thought it was all crap, at most Lucid Dreams that they didn't regard as dreams, or some correlation of the sort. But one of them specifically was a very intelligent and reasonable man, it didn't made much sense to me.
I researched around the net and found places that actually tought you how to train to do it. Since I had easy lucid dreams, I thought it could probably make this easier than normal, and it couldn't hurt to try. I tryied a few times and got nowhere. I felt my heart beating with tremendous accuracy and what-not, but no actually OBB. I never took the discussion elsewhere, because any forum I'd ask I'd probably get a whole lotta biased responses on the subject. But this is the perfect forum for such a discussion!
I'm talking about induced OOB, not near death experiences, although it would be nice to hear a take on that from someone that had it and is STILL an atheist/agnosthic. I don't discard the possibility of another dimension, spirits or what-not (although I think they are very unlikelly); I think another dimension and a possible conection with this one could PHYSICALLY exist, and yet have no connection to god or religion or the paranormal whatsoever. We just aren't advanced enough to scientifically see it yet (if it were the case, which I think is unlikelly despite this paragraph seemingly pointing otherwise)
So what I really want to get to is this:
Are you an atheist/agnostic, skeptic, non-supersticious, and had a OOBE? If so, was it actually an OOB or just a dream-like stuff just confined to your mind?
I think this is a good question because these kinds of experiences are probably more common than we may estimate. My dad has a friend whose wife is a real straight laced left brained individual. However, she has described to my dad how she used to leave her body and float around the bathroom as a young girl. ...the last person you'd think would wax paranormal.
I tend to think they're dreams. I've had some dreams before that were indistinguishable from reality. I don't think saying this diminishes the experiences though. There may be something to discover yet.
I don't know if you read the lucid dream thread, but I did experience something.
[quote author="ligh+bringer"]One time I woke up from a fully lucid state and felt paralyzed, but not in the terrifying reality collapsing hallucination that is sleep paralysis – it was just like I couldn't move and I was fine with it. It felt like my consciousness was residing in my chest, and I wouldn't be able to look through my eyes if I opened them. Some people say this is a precursor to an out of body experience, but who knows.
One thing that's interesting to me about this experience I had was how it focused on my chest. People who go through sleep paralysis talk about feeling pressure on their chest (the succubus). It seems the perception of the chest is a big part of conciousness (some dogmatic view that the soul resides in the heart, blah blah).
I'm sure if I had trained enough I could replicate the experience and attempt to drilll a hole in my chest and escape out of body. But I stopped pursuing the lucid dreaming sutff. Really, if I left my body, what the he|| would I do out there?
From Stephen Pinker's Jan. TIME article "The Mystery of Concsciousness"
And when the physiological activity of the brain ceases, as far as anyone can tell the person's consciousness goes out of existence. Attempts to contact the souls of the dead (a pursuit of serious scientists a century ago) turned up only cheap magic tricks, and near death experiences are not the eyewitness reports of a soul parting company from the body but symptoms of oxygen starvation in the eyes and brain. In September, a team of Swiss neuroscientists reported that they could turn out-of-body experiences on and off by stimulating the part of the brain in which vision and bodily sensations converge.
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I also have the occasional lucid dream, and they're always very intense. A few times I've ended up telling someone that I'm dreaming them, and asking them how it feels. Both times, the person has avoided the question, averting her eyes, trying to get away from me.
I don't believe at all in OOBEs. I remember once when I had a bad cold or a fever (so I may have been on Comtrex or something similar), I had many dreams in one night, each time dreaming that I woke up, got out of bed and was standing in front of my bedroom door. Each time I swore I was really awake.
As a young teenager, I was fascinated with the concept of "astral projection" which I'd read about in an encyclopedia called Man, Myth, and Magic. The concept is basically the same as an OOBE. I decided to try it. It involved laying down in deep relaxation (a body scan) while maintaining alertness. I ended up actually feeling a tingly feeling accompanied by a floating sensation, which scared me so much that I leapt up off the bed and discontinued the experiment. I honestly think this was simply my nerve endings tingling, or whatever physical sensation the body produces during such relaxation. I was probably the most relaxed my 14-year-old body had been for a long time!
All this to say that even with lucid dreaming and at least the beginning of a supposed OOBE, I don't believe. I think our brains can produce many as yet unexplained effects, but that astral travel is not one of them.
I imagine that if OOBEs were real, we'd have lots more (any?) accounts of astrally-observed events reported that could not otherwise have been known.
Hi VVA, and welcome : )
Just wanted to back up your comments on the repetitive drills, and what they can bring on. I was briefly involved in Scientology several years ago, for maybe six months total—my boyfriend at the time had encouraged me into it.
When I did my one and only block of auditing, there came a point where, after a series of those repetitive statements you mention, I was suddenly gobsmacked by a stunningly orgasmic whoosh which flushed through my head for several seconds. I can't say how long it lasted, exactly (maybe 10-15 seconds?), but it was that timeless sort of sensation, where you're in complete surrender to the pleasure. I guess the E-meter was all aflutter, too, because the auditor went silent, just letting it run its course. If I recall correctly, the sensation was mostly right in my head, but may have been felt in other parts of my upper body.
The repetitive drill consisted of only this:
Auditor: Sit in that chair.
Mia: Okay (or 'alright', or 'no, I don't want to', or whatever I elected to say in response to her command)
It had been very irritating to me, fielding this question over and over and over. . . and after the whoosh happened (I can't recall if I had relaxed into the question by then, or if I was still pissed off), she immediately ended the session. Auditors always like to end on a 'win'.
I've so often wondered what the heck was going on with that brain rush, since it never happened again, and was clearly a product of the repetition drill. Is it about, perhaps, coming into 'agreement' with your current situation, getting yourself grounded in the moment? I wonder if much scientific testing has been run on this type of discipline. I've thought to try to replicate it through the chanting of a mantra. . . but could you chant just about any phrase, ya think, or is there something unique about the ones Scientology has isolated?
[quote author="Mia"]I've so often wondered what the heck was going on with that brain rush, since it never happened again, and was clearly a product of the repetition drill. Is it about, perhaps, coming into 'agreement' with your current situation, getting yourself grounded in the moment?
I've experienced what I think you're talking about numerous times, but only twice to what I would consider a truly pronounced degree. "Agreement" is a pretty good way to describe it. It's like all is as it should be and my place in the cosmos is right ... all is well, essentially. In fact it's a very powerful, almost overwhelming sensation of peace-of-mind and general well-being. Oneness with the Tao (i.e. the Cosmos).
I experienced one of the more powerful manifestations of this sensation as a believer—attributed it do God, of course. That was powerful, but it felt more complete, in a sense, more peaceful and more in agreement when I felt it as a non-believer and had no preconceived framework to box it into. It just was, I just was part of it, and that was fine.
Wonderful sensation! I get bits of it to varying degrees when I meditate ... and at other times as well, but most often when I meditate.
The most interesting aspect of these experiences is the ability of the person to see and describe the surrounding environment. In some cases, sensory data is collected despite significant geographical distance.
Could the answer be found in physics? Is consciousness non-local?
Dr Pimm Van Lommel's studies on conciousness surviving clinical death of the body as well as Dr Ian Stevenson's work provides quite an in depth study of these kind of matters.
I have experienced OBB in ways that for me, provided a objective confirmation of the occurance. For one example, a step son had a very expensive bicycle stolen from school. I meditated, then following the vision I had experienced and using the same route drove to a neighborhood I had never been in, walked behind a house I had never seen before, and pulled his bicycle from a pile of stolen bikes that could not be seen from the street. The rest was an almost as interesting on how I persuaded the kid that stole the bike to round up the parts and help me reassemble it, while his slut arse mom flirted with the police officer that responded to the call I made.
I don't expect anyone to believe this, or any other tale of a metaphysical experience that happened to anyone else. I wouldn't. However, when atheist claim that my experiences are hallucinations, they are disrespecting me just as much as any Abrahamist declaring that I'm doomed to 'hell' because I don't believe in their heavens, hells, sins and redemption.
Consider, if a spiritual world does exist, it would make sense that it exist above and beyond the physical world and it's rules, and is thus unprovable except to those that have experienced it. Metaphysical experiences that can be confirmed objectively would be the exception, not the rule.
Consider, if a spiritual world does exist, it would make sense that it exist above and beyond the physical world and it's rules, and is thus unprovable except to those that have experienced it.
Well, currently unprovable, yes. . . but can you expand on why an ESP/OBE experience of this sort (i.e. being able to accurately locate a person or object) would necessarily fall into the realm of the metaphysical, rather than the [currently untrackable] physical?
I realize that the definition of ESP reads, "Communication or perception by means other than the physical senses". . . but I guess I have trouble with why an ability like that—if ever it can be reliably measured using the scientific method—automatically gets classified as being outside the realm of the material/physical/natural world, since it obviously plays out in the brain.
Consider, if a spiritual world does exist, it would make sense that it exist above and beyond the physical world and it's rules, and is thus unprovable except to those that have experienced it. Metaphysical experiences that can be confirmed objectively would be the exception, not the rule.
That really makes sense to you? Have you given much thought to the notion of what it means, exactly, to "exist above and beyond the physical world" or how our perceptions might register such a thing? The absolute best you can manage in "support" of such a thing is some kind of unexplained phenomenon, but that gets you only as far as "I don't know how [X] happens," and it's certainly a stretch, putting it mildly, to go from "I don't know how [X] happens" to "there's this whole other world, see ... "
It has made sense to millions of humans before us. I suspect that most of the prophets, shamans, mystics and gagbut ah saviors of the world's cultures and religions have had these experiences with the higher consciousness. Its when they try to explain them in terms of their own culture, and convince others of some message that they start babbling crap that misleads humans. I know what eternity is for me. I cannot put it into words and would be doing you and humanity a disservice to even attempt it.
As Stephen Pinker describes so eloquently in the Blank Slate, there appears to be a hardwired need for most humans to seek to experience knowlege of the spiritual component of life. Because you cannot see it or touch it, or current technology cannot detect it, does not rule it out. Likewise, since that desire, and most of the experiences, exist across all cultures and religions, it doesn't make any of the explanations..the religions, more true than any other. But neither does it make them all imaginary, but probably misinterpreted.
Because you cannot see it or touch it, or current technology cannot detect it, does not rule it out ...
And the fact that this alleged "other world" is impossible to perceive, let alone observe in any way that's indistinguishable from fantasy and/or delusion certainly doesn't keep some people from claiming to know a lot about it, sometimes in alleged detail. Such a world would be unknowable by definition. That means it can't be derived from external experience and has to be made up. It doesn't technically make the probability of its actual existence (independent of the mind) 0, but only technically speaking (the number would have a decimal to the left and lots of 0s).
Your probability of less than one has no meaning in this context. You could just as easily assume that the string theory assumption of the existance of 9-13 dimensions that has been 'proven' mathematically to some degree, and though it may be thousands of years or never before we have the technology to access these or even understand their properties enough to provide 'hard' evidense, therefore has your low probability of possibility. That would not be a correct assumption. Oddly enough, mathematically, these proposed dimensions are 'higher' or 'lower' than ours.
Your probability of less than one has no meaning in this context. You could just as easily assume that the string theory assumption of the existance of 9-13 dimensions that has been 'proven' mathematically to some degree, and though it may be thousands of years or never before we have the technology to access these or even understand their properties enough to provide 'hard' evidense, therefore has your low probability of possibility. That would not be a correct assumption. Oddly enough, mathematically, these proposed dimensions are 'higher' or 'lower' than ours.
String theory is a theory. There's substantial epistemology behind it. This "other spiritual world" is a pure fabrication. There's zero valid epistemology behind it. The probability I presented is based upon the assumption that something completely fabricated that violates known properties of reality and that cannot be derived from any source external to the mind has roughly the same chance of being real (independently of the mind) as any other entirely fictional world, as in Middle Earth or Never-Never Land. There's no reason to presume whatever "other world" a given apologist is arguing for (and you can't presume they're all the same—you have to take each one individually, just like alleged gods) is any more real than that of any other world builder.
As a rational person, I do understand your position, but that same rationality demands that I trust the evidence my mind perceives particularly when combined with objective confirmations. I would suggest you read Pinker's the Blank Slate. Not that you are incorrect, but the absolute atheist rationalist is in a very small group in the human commnunity. You should at least make an effort to understand why rational humans do believe in a spiritual component to life. Dogma is Dogma whether its spouted by an fundamentalist atheist or a fundamentalist christian.


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The Hague, August 5, 2014
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki said there was "clear evidence" of war crimes by Israel during its offensive in Gaza as he met International Criminal Court prosecutors on Tuesday to push for an investigation.
Malki visited The Hague shortly after Israel and the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement that rules Gaza entered a 72-hour truce mediated by Egypt in an effort to pave the way for an extended ceasefire.
Israel and the Palestinians traded accusations of war crimes during the Israeli military onslaught into Gaza, during which Hamas kept up rocket fire into the Jewish state, while defending their own actions as consistent with international law.
Last week, the United Nations launched an inquiry into human rights violations and crimes alleged to have been committed by Israel during the offensive given the far higher toll of civilian death and physical destruction on the Palestinian side.
Malki, visiting the court to lobby for action against Israel over its Gaza incursion, said the Palestinians aimed to formally joint the ICC to open the legal avenue for an investigation.
"Everything that has happened in the last 28 days is clear evidence of war crimes committed by Israel, amounting to crimes against humanity," he told reporters in The Hague. "There is no difficulty for us to show or build the case. Evidence is there ... Israel is in clear violation of international law."
Israel declined public comment, But a senior Israeli official who asked to be identified said any ICC legal action against Israel over the Gaza conflict would prompt an Israeli counter-suit at the ICC against the Palestinians.
But given that neither Israel nor the Palestinians are members of the ICC, the court would have no jurisdiction over Gaza at this time. This could be granted in a U.N. Security Council resolution, but Israel's main ally, the United States, would have the power to veto any such proposal.
Israel has said it does its utmost to avoid civilian casualties in conflict with the Palestinians but has accused Hamas of putting its people in harm's way by launching rockets from within densely populated areas of Gaza.
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What is interesting about this particular poll, Harper does seem to be enjoying a rebound, in terms of perceptions. This uptick is accompanied by a large downturn in opinion regarding Ignatieff:
Approval Rating: Harper 34%, Layton
24%, Ignatieff 12%,
Momentum: Harper -9, Layton -10,
Ignatieff -41
Ignatieff is now a drag on the Liberal brand. I will say this again however, Ignatieff isn't a "known quantity", at least not to any concrete degree, so the numbers aren't fatal. I'm sure Cons would disagree, but that type of conclusion is just silly, given historical precedent, as well as the length of exposure.
That said, Harper may have benefited from his "tickling the ivories" routine. It's the kind of humanizing event that tends to resonate on a superficial level. Particularly when you're seen as wooden and bland, anything that adds color and commonality works to advantage. It seems strange to say, given all the substantive issues available, this performance is at the root of the rebound. In addition, the failings of Ignatieff have made Harper more attractive relatively.
On the question of the economy, good numbers for the government. 53% are satisfied with their performance, only 40% are not. Given the current economic position, these numbers are surprisingly positive. Part a sense that we've turned the corner, part a lack of alternatives, the Conservatives are in solid shape. In terms of how they view Harper personally, it's an even split, 46%-46% trust his judgement on the economy. By contrast, Ignatieff scores 22%, versus 64% who think he would do the right thing on the economy.
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There was confusion and opposition at the Chestnut Hill Community Association's Development Review Committee meeting Tuesday night over the case of a use variance denied to two tenants of 133 E Mermaid Lane to operate their herbal consulting business along this residential street.
Those tenants, Andrew Celwyn and Maia Toll, are the owners and operators of an herbal remedy business called Herbiary, which has retail locations at 7721 Germantown Avenue and Reading Terminal Market.
According to Toll, she and Celwyn came to the Mermaid Lane site a little more than a year ago looking to expand a feature of their business that provides "herbal consultations."
"I'm trained in holistic nutrition and alternative medicine," said Toll, adding that she works with clients to provide additional support in making nutritional choices. "People come to me to discuss their health, but all of our sales happen on Germantown Avenue." There is, however, a sink and a stove in the space they operate out of that are sometimes used for demonstration purposes.
The neighbors on either side of 133 are opposed to Herbiary's use of the property – specifically in a garage building in the rear – for teaching purposes. The neighbors claim these classes bring an influx of strangers into the rear area behind their property that intrudes on their privacy and disturbs the residential character of the block.
There are six living spaces at 133 in two buildings – a main house with four apartments and a stone twin with two. The main house formerly had three apartments on the upper floor and a business office on the lower level, which for decades was occupied by a contractor who used the garages to house his trucks. The garage building in the rear of the property, which once had five bays, has since been modified into an art studio, with a few of the bays consolidated to increase the interior space.
That space is now the site of the Herbiary's activities and the source of the conflict. The existing use variance on the property only allowed the business office in the main house. But because that office is now an apartment, the use variance needed to be changed to allow the office use in the read garage building. That variance was denied, for reasons members of the DRC weren't able to ascertain. Celwyn and Toll are seeking support from the DRC for a new variance.
Vice president of the CHCA Physical Division Joyce Lenhardt noted that while the issue of the denied variance brought the conflict to the CHCA, the refusal does nothing to address the actual problem. "They have to go back to L&I and get the right refusal," she said.
"Your application says that you're applying to use the building as a business office with a conference room, garages, and apartments, which is exactly the same as the current use," said Lenhardt. "But in fact you're using the building for classes."
Toll told the DRC that their lawyer, who was not present, said the garage use did not legally constitute a school, but instead an office that hosts workshops, an important distinction.
According to Toll, these workshops can be as large as 20 people at a time, and are held five or six times a month.
"It sounds to me as though the garage has been turned into a classroom and the office has been turned into an apartment," said LUPZ representative Cynthia Brey.
While the zoning variance appeared to have little to do with the operation of Herbiary, the opposing neighbors were vocal in their disapproval of the classes being held at 133 E Mermaid Lane.
Near neighbor Kristopher Jacobson has lived on Mermaid Lane for more than 20 years. He addressed the committee, saying that before Herbiary, the contractor would leave in the morning and return around 4:00pm during the week, which meant that most of the time few people associated with the business were on the property. Herbiary's classes are a change from that."The use has flipped from no clients to lots of clients," Jacobson said. "It's gone from being a quiet business to one that brings strangers in." He said the classes Toll described are held Saturday and Sunday from 9:00am to 9:00pm and bring many new strangers into the rear of the property. He added that because the garage building has no conventional doors or windows, during warm weather months classes are conducted with all of the doors open.
When committee member John Landis asked how he was being inconvenienced, Jacobson said there were an enormous number of strangers using the back as a public space.
"We moved in next to garages, not this," another neighbor said.
Discussions between Herbiary and the Mermaid Lane near neighbors have only been conducted via letters and emails; the neighbors refuse to talk to Celwyn and Toll until they stop holding classes.
Jacobson and others stepped up their objections to Herbiary's use of the space after September 22, citing the beginning of the school year. "It was substantively different than what was there before," he said.
"It doesn't sound as though anyone has acted in bad faith, but there is a conflict," said Landis. He added his opinion that it appeared Herbiary was a non-conforming use that would not pass the "hardship test" imposed by the city when determining whether granting a variance is warranted.
The DRC suggested the parties hold future meetings with the property owner, Ellen Deacon, and do a little zoning research to determine what is and isn't legal. Besides that, the DRC took no formal action.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (March 25, 2009) -Freshman Bo Reeder (Cookeville, Tenn.) was named to the College Baseball Foundation's National All-Star Lineup for the fifth week of the 2009 season.
Reeder led the Bucs to a 4-1 week as the Cookeville native pitched a complete game win on the mound against UNC Asheville and hit for the cycle against Campbell. On the week, he went 11-for-22 with four doubles, one triple, two home runs and drove in seven while scoring six times.
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Building web applications with PHP is a pretty simple process. As a PHP developer, you can develop practically anything, including database abstraction layers, form validation programs, file upload applications, and so forth. The list goes on and on.
Once you've mastered the foundations of the object-oriented paradigm and learned how to implement certain common design patterns in real-world conditions, you should be armed with a useful toolkit comprised of all sorts of classes and functions that can be used any number of times.
Although you may not be aware of this fact, your toolkit can be considered a general PHP development framework. The end result of your own efforts and skills as programmer.
However, there are certain situations when the capabilities offered by your own framework simply aren't good enough to fit the requirements of a particular application. In a case like this, you can either upgrade your framework, which will probably require coding additional classes and functions, or you can pick up a third-party software from the numerous packages available on the web today.
If you choose the latter, then you'll be confronted with another challenge that will keep your mind spinning in circles. Should I pick up a full-featured framework like Zend, or should I work with a more approachable solution, like CakePHP or WACT?
Actually, the answer to that question depends strongly on what type of project you're going to develop and how much time you want to spend configuring and learning how to use a particular framework. For instance, Zend is great for building enterprise-level PHP applications, but it's likely that you'll find it pretty overwhelming to work with at first.
On the other hand, CakePHP can be much easier to set up and use, even though they're not loaded with all the features offered by Zend. However, in the last few months, a small framework has gained popularity with many PHP programmers due to its ultra-fast learning curve and easy configuration.
Actually, I'm talking about CodeIgniter (http://codeigniter.com), a solid piece of software written by Rick Ellis in PHP 4. It permits users to develop small and middle-scale PHP applications in minutes (literally) with minimal setup. In addition, CodeIgniter is built around the Model-View-Controller pattern, which allows you to easily separate data from application logic and visual presentation.
{mospagebreak title=Start using CodeIgniter}
Obviously, the first step that you should take before using Code Igniter is installing its source files into your test web server. To do so, simply point your browser to the following url: http://codeigniter.com/downloads/. Download the ZIP file that contains these files.
Once you've accomplished this, unzip the package and upload its folders and files to a chosen directory of your web server. In my personal case, I saved it to a "/codeigniter/" directory under the server's root, but you may want to select a different location.
Finally, navigate to the application/config/config.php file, then open it with your code editor and configure the following array settings, as shown below:
| Base Site URL
$config['base_url'] = "http://127.0.0.1/codeigniter/";
| Index File
$config['index_page'] = "index.php";
| Default Language
$config['language'] = "english";
| Default Character Set
$config['charset'] = "UTF-8";
| Cache Directory Path
$config['cache_path'] = 'http://127.0.0.1/codeigniter/cache/';
| Session Variables
$config['sess_cookie_name'] = 'ci_session';
$config['sess_expiration'] = 7200;
$config['sess_encrypt_cookie'] = FALSE;
$config['sess_use_database'] = FALSE;
$config['sess_table_name'] = 'ci_sessions';
$config['sess_match_ip'] = FALSE;
$config['sess_match_useragent'] = TRUE;
$config['sess_time_to_update'] = 300;
| Global XSS Filtering
$config['global_xss_filtering'] = FALSE;
| Output Compression
$config['compress_output'] = TRUE;
| Rewrite PHP Short Tags
$config['rewrite_short_tags'] = FALSE;
As you can see, the above settings provide Code Igniter with crucial information about your web applications, including the base url of your site, the default language and character set, and the index file that will be utilized. Also, it's possible to specify whether any output generated by an application should be filtered to prevent XSS attacks, and whether it should be cached and compressed previously.
Finally, there's a number of simple options that tell Code Igniter how to handle session data. They are actually fairly easy to configure. Although, you should pay special attention to the following entries:
$config['sess_use_database'] = FALSE;
$config['sess_table_name'] = 'ci_sessions';
If a value of "TRUE" is assigned to the first array element, then Code Igniter will store all of your session data in a MySQL database table, whose name will be specified in the second entry. In this case, a FALSE value has been assigned to the first setting, meaning that session data will be saved to a temporary directory in the web server.
Lastly, it's possible to configure whether the use of short PHP tags will be enabled within view files. This is something that will be discussed in more detail when I develop some sample applications for you. For now, I'll keep this option disabled.
So far, so good. I showed how to configure the main entries of Code Igniter's config.php file. Of course, when you edit the file in question, you'll see that it contains a few additional settings. However, to keep things rather simple, I'm going to use only the ones discussed above.
Now that the "config.php" file has been properly setup, it's time to move on and learn how to configure an additional file, which is located at /config/database.php and is used by Code Igniter when working with MySQL databases.
To see how this database file will be edited, please click on the link below and read the following section.
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As I said previously, the last file that you'll need to edit is the one located at /config/database.php. Open it and assign the correct values to the following settings:
$active_group = "default";
$active_record = TRUE;
$db['default']['hostname'] = "localhost";
$db['default']['username'] = "root";
$db['default']['password'] = "mypassword";
$db['default']['database'] = "mydatabase";
$db['default']['dbdriver'] = "mysql";
$db['default']['dbprefix'] = "";
$db['default']['pconnect'] = TRUE;
$db['default']['db_debug'] = TRUE;
$db['default']['cache_on'] = FALSE;
$db['default']['cachedir'] = "";
$db['default']['char_set'] = "utf8";
$db['default']['dbcollat'] = "utf8_general_ci";
As you can see, all of the above entries are self explanatory, since they're used by Code Igniter to connect to MySQL and select a particular database, which you've probably done hundreds of times before.
However, in this case it's possible to work with several sets of connection values. Suppose for a moment that you need to use multiple development environments with a shared web server. In that case you might want to create a connection group for each of these environments in the following way:
$db['default']['hostname'] = "localhost";
$db['default']['username'] = "root";
$db['default']['password'] = "mypassword";
$db['default']['database'] = "mydatabase";
$db['default']['dbdriver'] = "mysql";
$db['default']['dbprefix'] = "";
$db['default']['pconnect'] = TRUE;
$db['default']['db_debug'] = FALSE;
$db['default']['cache_on'] = FALSE;
$db['default']['cachedir'] = "";
$db['default']['char_set'] = "utf8";
$db['default']['dbcollat'] = "utf8_general_ci";
$db['production']['hostname'] = "localhost";
$db[' production']['username'] = "root";
$db[' production']['password'] = "myotherpassword";
$db[' production']['database'] = "myotherdatabase";
$db[' production']['dbdriver'] = "mysql";
$db[' production']['dbprefix'] = "";
$db[' production']['pconnect'] = TRUE;
$db[' production']['db_debug'] = FALSE;
$db[' production']['cache_on'] = FALSE;
$db[' production']['cachedir'] = "";
$db[' production']['char_set'] = "utf8";
$db[' production']['dbcollat'] = "utf8_general_ci";
See how easy it is to set up two sets of MySQL connections for different development environments? I hope you do!
Finally, the "active_record" entry should be activated when accessing MySQL database tables using the homonymous pattern. Actually, Code Igniter comes bundled with a bunch of methods that allow you to handle MySQL data via the active record approach. However, this topic will be covered in upcoming tutorials of this series, therefore, this option will be left enabled.
So far, these are all the array entries that you'll need to edit in the "database.php" file in order to activate the support for MySQL databases. At this stage, everything has been properly setup to start developing object-oriented applications with Code Igniter!
In the section to come I'll be showing you how to build a simple PHP program that uses the Model-View-Controller pattern in order to display a trivial message on the browser.
To learn how this initial sample application will be developed, click on the link below and keep reading.
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As I mentioned in the introduction, Code Igniter uses the Model-View-Controller pattern to build web applications. This comes in handy for separating business and application logic from the visual presentation. Thus, since I plan to develop a simple application that will display a simple message on the screen, the first thing that I'm going to do is define the corresponding controller class.
To do this, I'll create a class called "HelloWorld," which will be saved to the /system/application/controllers/ folder as "helloworld.php." The signature of this sample class looks like this:
class HelloWorld extends Controller{
function HelloWorld(){
// load controller parent
function index(){
$data['title']='My first application created with Code Igniter';
$data['message']='Hello world!';
// load 'helloworld' view
Now that you know how the "HelloWorld" controller class looks, it's necessary to dissect it in different parts and explain the functionality. In the first place, you should notice that each time a new controller is created, it must extend the default controller provided by Code Igniter. Therefore, this sample class is defined as a subclass of this controller.
Then, this sample class loads the parent's constructor and then defines a brand new method called "index()." This method has a special meaning for Code Igniter, since it will be called automatically whenever it finds it was implemented by a specific controller.
Still with me? Great! Then, it's time to analyze what this method actually does. As you can see, it defines the data that will be passed in to the view file to be displayed later on. This data is first stored on a simple $data array, and second transferred to a view template, called "helloworld.php."
Each time a view file needs to be loaded, Code Igniter uses a "Loader" class, which is included by default by each new controller created. So, in this case the below expression:
simply loads the corresponding view file and passes the data that will be printed on the browser to it. Pretty intuitive, right?
Now that you've hopefully grasped how the previous "HelloWorld" controller class works, I'm sure that you'll want to see how the respective "helloworld.php" view file looks. Below I included the definition of the file in question, which should be saved to the /system/application/views/ folder:
<title><?php echo $title;?></title>

<?php echo $message?>

As shown above, the structure of the "helloworld.php" view file is extremely simple. It only contains a couple of "echo" PHP statements, which are used to display the data passed by the controller. Also, you should recall that this data was stored on a $data array, so its respective keys are automatically turned into variables within the view template.
So far, so good. At this point, you hopefully understand how the controller passes certain data in the form of an array to a view file to be echoed to the browser. However, it's possible that you're wondering how to test the previous "HelloWorld" controller with Code Igniter.
Code Igniter uses a special routing process that permits you to invoke a specific controller by using an URL. The first URL segment is the name of the controller that will be loaded by a certain application, then the second segment corresponds to the name of a method of the controller that will be invoked. The third segment is an optional argument taken by this method.
This explanation might sound pretty confusing to you. However, the following code sample should dissipate any possible doubts you might have. To call the previous "HelloWord" controller, I'd type the following URL:
As you can see, the first URL segment calls the "HelloWorld" controller, and automatically executes its "index()" method, which displays the view file previously created. Try it for yourself and you'll see the classic "Hello World" message printed on your screen.
In addition, to clarify how Code Igniter's routing process works, say that I changed the definition of the "HelloWorld" controller class and now it looks like this:
class HelloWorld extends Controller{
function HelloWorld(){
// load controller parent
function display(){
$data['title']='My first application created with Code Igniter';
$data['message']='Hello world!';
// load 'helloworld' view
In this case, the URL that should be used to call the "display()" method of the controller would be:
Pretty easy to grasp, right? By using this routing method, Code Igniter assures that all of the URLs generated by a PHP application will look clear and be search engine-friendly as well.
And with this final hands-on example, I'm finishing this first tutorial of this series. As you saw before, I provided you with concrete material that hopefully will help you start mastering the basic features of Code Igniter. You have a lot of fun ahead!
Final thoughts
In this first chapter of the series, I walked you through the core concepts that surround the use of the Code Igniter PHP framework. You hopefully learned how to correctly setup its configuration files, and how to create a simple web application comprised of a single controller and a view file.
I'm only scratching the surface when it comes to discussing the vast set of handy features that come bundled with Code Igniter. Therefore, in the next article, I'll be covering the use of models and the utilization of some of its core classes.
Don't miss the upcoming tutorial!


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Some have been trying to lay the cotton industry's woes at the feet of the cotton marketing loan, blaming it for the staggering decline in U.S. exports in 2006-07. National Cotton Council Chairman John Pucheu isn't so sure.
Pucheu was testifying at a Senate Agriculture Committee farm bill hearing when he laid out the Council's analysis of what he termed "sluggish sales, high levels of cotton under loan and persistently low prices."
Much of the latter – cotton prices have been hovering around the CCC loan rate of 52 cents for months – can be blamed on China, which had purchased 3 million bales for 2006-07 or nearly 5 million bales less than in 2005-06 at the time Pucheu spoke on April 25.
"Unfortunately, China appears to be rationing access in order to maintain prices for her domestic producers," said Pucheu, describing China's tariff and procurement policies. Although China denies it subsidizes its farmers, it has been requiring Chinese textile mills pay growers the equivalent of 70 to 75 cents a pound to reduce surplus stocks.
If the United States had such a subsidy, it would be brought up on charges before the World Trade Organization. China won't spend a day before a dispute panel because it has declared itself a "developing" country, making it mostly exempt from WTO trade rules.
USDA has more cotton under loan than in the past. As of early April, 10.6 million bales of 2006 crop upland cotton were still under loan compared to an average April figure of about 4 million bales.
"However, it is important to note that 7.2 million bales of the 2006 crop have already been redeemed from the marketing loan," he said. "This suggests that the loan is not the market of last resort and that cotton is not locked in the loan. More cotton is in the loan because of the lack of demand. When demand improves, cotton will move out of the loan to satisfy it."
Pucheu agrees the loss of Step 2 has hurt U.S. cotton competitiveness. Secondly, subsidies, trade restrictions and other actions are impacting world cotton trade and prices – much more so than the remaining provisions of the U.S. cotton program.
That situation shows little sign of changing as significant increases in production for China, India, Brazil and Turkey will more than offset reduced production in the United States, Australia, Greece and Syria, according to USDA.
Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns "frequently cites the Brazil cotton case as evidence the U.S. farm law must be changed to be unchallengeable," Pucheu notes. "The truth is U.S. farm law can always be challenged under current WTO rules and there are no concrete signs a new farm bill or Doha agreement will change that."
Instead of changing the farm bill and further damaging U.S. agriculture, perhaps the United States should declare itself a developing country and thumb its nose at the rest of the world like China.
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Dell Saga: Court Denies Icahn's Challenge
A corporate law judge Friday denied fast-track treatment to investor Carl Icahn's challenge to a nearly $25 billion buyout offer for Dell. David Benoit reports on the News Hub. Photo: Dell.
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We have been working for several months on developing a Bible People Bundle that includes an edition of the AV that has every individual marked with a unique ID. This opens up a whole new method of searching for individual Bible people and finding associations with them. Searching for individual in the Bible is not possible in many cases because many people have more than one name, and many share a name.
Furthermore, and maybe more significant, the "AVp" text has all the pronouns and alternate references of deity marked as well. Also, the marks are divided up between the three persons of the Trinity. The possibilities with this type markup are huge. For a demonstration, watch this video.
As far as we know, no other Bible Software is capable of this except possibly a $500 or so edition of Logos.
Lord willing, we will have the bundle and Bible Analyzer 4.7 ready by the end of April.


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"Everything to do with her is mysterious and paradoxical. In the Bible she is always female... She is continually being sought and found, lost and found; she ascends and descends; she finds her place in Israel, she can find no place in Israel. She is the divine female companion of God, eternal with Him before creation, and is herself involved in the cosmos as creator, nurturer, teacher and artificer. She acts as intermediary between God and humans and is willing to share herself with them and with the world. She may be married to God or to selected men, and she may be the mother of the created world. Human beings must follow her rules if they are to succeed in this life and also possibly partake in an afterlife with God. It was she who helped God create the universe and she knows all its secrets. She moves through it and orders it well". (A. P. Long. in: Pirani. A. (ed.) The Absent Mother (1991:46))
Recently I've have been flogging the possibility of a convergence of Science, Philosophy and Religion.
Two days ago JSS defined philosophy as:
James S Saint wrote:Wisdom is higher than reasoning. Philosophy is first and foremost about wisdom. Reasoning is the philosophical approach to achieving that goal.
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Rockies recall INF Charlie Culberson from Colorado Springs
Club options INF Jordan Pacheco to Triple-A
The Colorado Rockies announced today that they have recalled infielder Charlie Culberson from Triple-A Colorado Springs. To make room on the active roster for Culberson, the club has optioned infielder Jordan Pacheco. Culberson (#23) will be available for tonight's game against the Atlanta Braves (5:10 p.m. MDT) at Turner Field.
Culberson, 24, joins the Rockies after spending the entire season at Triple-A Colorado Springs. He batted .310 (123-for-397) with 27 doubles, 8 triples, 14 home runs, 64 RBI and 63 runs in 97 games for the Sky Sox. In his last 18 games, he is hitting .415 (34-for-82) with 11 doubles, 2 triples, 2 home runs, 17 RBI and 21 runs. Originally drafted by the Giants (51st overall) in the 2007 draft, he was acquired on July 27, 2012 for infielder Marco Scutaro. The Rome, GA native has played in six Major League games, going 3-for-22 with 1 RBI.
Pacheco, 27, was part of Colorado's Opening Day roster. In 69 games this year for the Rockies, he has batted .229 (43-for-188) with 10 doubles, 1 home run, 17 RBI and 19 runs. He has seen game action at catcher (2 games), left field (1 game) and first base (40 games/37 starts). Pacheco is a career .286 (214-for-747) Major League hitter with 43 doubles, 3 triples, 8 home runs, 85 RBI and 75 runs in 222 games.
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Earth : Europe : Central Europe : Poland : Pomerania : Kuyavia-Pomerania : Toruń
Toruń [35] (Kashubian: Torń, German: Thorn) is a beautiful, medieval city in North-Western Poland, situated on the Vistula River. Its architecture has managed to escape bombing, and as such represents one of the only examples of true gothic architecture in Poland. Still reasonably off the radars of most European travellers, one can expect to have an amazing Polish experience here without the nightmares of a million and one interail travellers.
One of the capitals of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodship (since 1999), previously the capital of the Toruń Voivodship (1975-1998) and the Pomeranian Voivodship (1921-1939), the city is located near the Geographic Center of Europe.
Toruń's medieval Old Town or Starówka is on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Toruń is a birthplace of world famous astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. The house where Copernicus was born and the chapel where he was christened are still standing in the city. From Middle Ages the town is known for its gingerbreads.
As of the last census in 2004, Toruń has 208,386 inhabitants.
Get in
By plane
The nearest aiports that offer commercial flights are in Bydgoszcz (60 km), Poznań - Lawica airport (140 km) [36], and Warsaw - Okęcie airport [37] (230 km).
By train
Polish State Railways [38] operates train connections to Toruń from Warsaw, Poznań, Gdańsk, Łódź, Katowice and Olsztyn.
Toruń's main railway station, Toruń Główny is situated across the river Vistula from the city. To walk into town takes 35 minutes. Alternatively, buses #22 and #27 run directly to the old town. These depart from both sides of the railway station; however, the kiosk for buying tickets is on the south side of the station. Take the bus two stops to Plac Rapackiego (You'll also notice the old town as you cross the bridge - it's the stop that immediately follows the bridge). You may need an additional ticket if carrying a large bag.
Toruń Miasto is another railway station which is smaller but situated much closer to the old town. Not all trains stop there, but if your train does then getting off at Toruń Miasto is the simplest solution.
By car
Highway A1 runs between Toruń and Gdańsk.
By bus
There are many bus connections to Toruń, and the bus station is just a short walk from the Old Town. (see Poland::By bus).
Get around
Toruń's old town is quite small, and has no public transportation system. Walking around the old town is your best option. Outside the old town, there are plentiful buses and trams, while taxis are quite cheap. To get further afield, cars can be hired for around 100 zł a day.
A list of events, entertainment, culture in Toruń - updated daily (also in English) can be found online: [39]
There are many shops, boutiques in old town selling clothes, souvenirs, jewellery, music, food, drinks, vegetables and fruits (on New Town market), etc.
At warm times of year Toruń's old town is full of street cafes, restaurants where you can eat or drink outdoors and enjoy the medieval atmosphere. Some cafés are located on the bank of river Vistula, and at least two are on boats on the river. Various dishes - traditional and fast food, drinks - beer, soft drinks and ice cream are offered there. If you are a football lover there are many street cafes where you can watch a game on TV while drinking good Polish beer.
Toruń is known for its gingerbread (Toruńskie Pierniki). You must try it.
Private Rooms
In Toruń if you would like to stay in one of the historic buildings in the old town, it is possible to rent a furnished apartment for the night from a local family. Go to the tourist information centre and ask them for a phone number, or have them call on your behalf if you don't speak Polish. It was less that 80 zloty per night during the summer in 2010.
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Master gardener plant sale, soil testing
One of the most anticipated gardening events of the year is this weekend. Ann Bares, master gardener, and one of the event coordinators, says, "Get there early if there are unique plants you are looking for."
Master gardeners will be at the event Saturday, March 31, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. staffing a booth just waiting to answer your questions. Jackie Steen is the current president. She and lots of other volunteer members will have information on lawns, citrus, trees, plants and vegetables. There are about 80 certified master gardeners in our community. They average more than 5,000 volunteer hours each year. It takes 50 hours of volunteer work to certify as a master gardener after hours of class work, according to Peggy Coleman at the Texas AgriLife Extension Agency.
"Seminars will be held on the hour, from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. All six seminars are just what you may want to know before you plant your new plants from our big sale," said Ann Bares. There are more plants than ever this year, all specifically for Southeast Texas climate. You will find a wonderful variety of shrubs, vines, bedding plants, roses and vegetables.
A great addition is Norman Alston, who will be on hand to test the pH level of your soil. Alston can also advise you on what you need to do to make your soil perfect for your plants to be happy. Bring soil in a 1/2 pint jar or in a Ziploc bag.
According to Bares, there are more than 36 vendors at this year's plant sale, in addition to a fabulous variety of plants for sale. Bares said, "Many of the vendors are new ones, coming from Conroe, Magnolia, Jasper, Vinton and many other locations in Southeast Texas. Our food booth will have our popular links, plus home-baked good, nachos and drinks. The master gardener volunteers will have an area called Garage Sale and Kid's Korner with games and face painting and seed planting."
Remember that the plant sale boasts free parking, free admission and help to load up your plants and get them to the car. And a holding area will keep an eye your plants while you shop the 36 vendors and wait for your number to be called for door prizes. Door prizes from the booths will be given away all day.
Bares said, "We look forward to seeing all of our Southeast Texas friends at the Jefferson County Jack Brooks Regional Airport, Highway 69 S." Look for the fun at Hanger No. 4 on March 31 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call Peggy Coleman of the Jefferson County Office of Texas AgriLife Extension Service if you have any questions about the Master Gardener Plant Sale or about becoming a master gardener yourself at (409) 835-8461.
Joette is an avid gardener and prides herself on staying up-to-date on the latest gardening activities and tips. To share your gardening news with Joette, call (409) 832-1400 or fax her at (409) 832-6222. Her e-mail is joreger [at] msn [dot] com.


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1888 N172 Old Judge James Mutrie
Starting Bid - $300, Sold For - $533
Graded EX/NM 80 by SGC. Extraordinary high-grade N172 Old Judge baseball card featuring legendary New York Giants manager James Mutrie in all his glory. Mutrie was always well known for his fine dress and immaculate grooming, both of which are clearly evident on his Old Judge baseball card. One of the leading figures in the game in the 1880s, Mutrie led the prominent New York club to three championships during that decade. Bright and crisp, with four square corners, outstanding photo quality, superb clarity, and a flawless surface. Centered very slightly to the right (70/30 L/R). Only a couple small and very light spots on the reverse keep this gem from a higher grade. A beautiful and very distinctive example from the most popular set of the era. Reserve $300. Estimate $500+. SOLD FOR $533
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