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The more I read history, the more I'm convinced that the United States, far from being God's appointed beacon for all mankind, was always a big talking, poor performing country in which the massive and willful stupidity of the majority engendered a moral rot incapable of withstanding manipulation and seduction by self-serving business/political interests. Thus, columnist Richard Cohen was merely acknowledging the latest example of such rot among the majority, when he asserted the Iraq War "was no mere failure of intelligence. This was a failure of character."
"Character" implies steadfast adherence to a moral code. But, as Walter Lippmann so cogently expressed it:
"No moral code, as such, will enable [a person] to know whether he is exercising his moral faculties on a real and an important event. For effective virtue, as Socrates pointed out long ago, is knowledge; and a code of right and wrong must wait upon a perception of the true and false." (Walter Lippmann, The Phantom Public, p. 20)
By disdaining knowledge unless it's practical (mainly in the service of business), technological (in the service of business) or biblically based — most Americans have proven themselves incapable of distinguishing between the true and the false throughout our history. Such willful ignorance has produced a culture of conformism (lending itself to manipulation) that was observed as early as the mid-19th century by Alexis de Tocqueville: "I know of no country where there is so little true independence of mind and freedom of discussion as in America."
In 1984, two scholars revalidated Tocqueville's observations in their book, The American Ethos. They concluded: "Most public debate in America…takes place within a relatively restricted segment of the ideological spectrum." Yet, more than 150 years ago, both Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau thought they knew why.
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Long before business was centralized by dehumanizing corporate power, Emerson could assert in 1841: [T]he general system of our trade…is a system of selfishness; is not dictated by the high sentiments of human nature; is not measured by the exact law of reciprocity; much less by the sentiments of love and heroism, but is a system of distrust, of concealment, of superior keenness, not of giving but of taking advantage…."
And Thoreau, writing in Walden would complain: "Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them…Actually the laboring man has not the leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be any thing but a machine. How can he remember his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?"
Troubled by a culture based upon such "ignorance" and "taking advantage," civic and religious leaders, dating back to Puritan New England, "emphasized literacy, especially sufficient literacy to read the Bible, as a means to bring civilization to their country.
"But, as Lee Soltow and Edward Stevens conclude, this push for literacy 'was never more than a utilitarian value to serve greater spiritual and social ends.' [Soltow and Stevens, The Rise of Literacy and the Common School in the United States, p. 18] It was a 'particular' sort of literacy; certainly not designed to 'open vistas of imagination.'" [Ibid, p. 22, quoted in Walter C. Uhler, "Democracy or dominion," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 2004]
Because such "education" actually was designed to "instill proper beliefs and codes of conduct" [Soltow and Stevens, p. 22] rather than rigorous thinking in the minds of coarse, laboring Americans, one shouldn't be surprised that the mere ability to read the Bible didn't prevent the widespread propagation of the bogus "Curse of Ham" as the "most authoritative justification for 'Negro slavery.'" [David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World, p. 66]
As actual readers of Genesis 9:18-27 should have known, Noah did not curse Ham, but Ham's son, Canaan. Moreover, Genesis 9:18-27 contains nothing to hint of race or color. That hardly mattered, however, because, as David Brion Davis has concluded, "it was not an originally racist biblical script that led to the enslavement of 'Ham's black descendents,' but rather the increasing enslavement of blacks that transformed biblical interpretation." [Ibid, pp. 66-67] Moral rot!
Professor Davis offers a devastating comparison of the immorality of late 19th century Southern Christians, still embracing the bogus "Curse of Ham," and the barbarian Tupinamba slaveholders in 16th century Brazil. According to Davis, the Tupinamba took great delight in humiliating their male slaves, before eventually murdering them and eating them - even saving specific bodily organs for honored guests. According to Davis, "[T]his freedom to degrade, dishonor, enslave, and even kill and eat gave the Tupinamba not only solidarity but a sense of superiority and transcendence." [Ibid, p. 29]
Although late 19th century American lynch mobs did not eat the blacks they murdered, a rotten superiority and solidarity were served as "Southern whites eagerly gathered as souvenirs the lynched victims' fingers, toes, bones, ears and teeth." They called them "nigger buttons." [Ibid]
Unfortunately, as Anatol Lieven has pointed out, "for a century and a half…the desire to preserve first slavery and then absolute Black separation and subordination had contributed enormously to the closing of the Southern mind, with consequences for America as a whole which has lasted down to our own day." [Lieven, America Right or Wrong p. 112]
For example, as Stephen R. Haynes has written, in Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of American Slavery, the Rev. Benjamin Palmer delivered a 1901 New Year's Day, "Century Sermon" in New Orleans, in which he "utilized Noah's prophecy as an ex post facto rationale for his government's removal of Native Americans 'from the earth.'" And, as Haynes also notes, "when legal segregation came under concerted attack in the 1950s, the first impulse for many white Christians was to revive the curse to serve as a biblical defense of racial separation." [p. 103].
Keep in mind, (1) the Greater South extends beyond the borders of the former Confederacy, perhaps as far north as Route 40, which cuts across the middle of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois [Lieven, p. 107], (2) Southern evangelical Protestant religion has spread to other parts of the country [Ibid.] and (3) there are many Southerners and other Americans to whom these generalizations do not apply.
Nevertheless, says Lieven, "a process may have been at work in the United States which could be called the 'principle of the Claymore mine.'
"A Claymore is essentially a shaped plastic case packed with explosives and steel balls. The explosion, blocked at the rear and sides, hurls shrapnel in the direction of the enemy. Politicians and even media and business figures who express racist hostility to domestic minorities in public now often pay a very heavy price, even though everyone is well aware that, in private, such attitudes continue to stream through much of White American society.
"But as with a Claymore mine, the suppression of feelings at home may have only increased the force with which they are directed against foreigners, who remain a legitimate and publicly accepted target of hatred." [Ibid, p. 46] It's called bellicose nationalism.
And it's easy to tap into such moral rot. Take the candid 1989 admission by first generation neoconservative, Irving Kristol, the all-too-deserving father of the despicable "thug," William Kristol. It was the father who boasted: "If the president goes to the American people and wraps himself in the American flag and lets Congress wrap itself in the white flag of surrender, the president will win…The American people had never heard of Grenada. There is no reason they should have. The reason we gave for intervention - the risk to American medical students there - was phony but the reaction of the American people was absolutely and overwhelmingly favorable. They had no idea what was going on but they backed the president. They always will." [Ibid, p. 166]
Such moral rot explains why, when presidential candidate George W. Bush smugly asserted, "I may not know where Kosovo is, but I know what I believe," he was not judged to be a dimwit, but a man of character. Such moral rot also explains the ease with which an evil president and vice president — with the cynical aid of America's neocons — could manipulate the ignorant fears and blind rage of Americans into support for an illegal, immoral unprovoked war against Iraq.
Moreover, such moral rot explains why, even in the disastrous wake of the evil invasion he inspired, Darth Cheney could send out Christmas cards containing Benjamin Franklin's words: "And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?" And, alas, such moral rot explains why President Bush - who, until two months before ordering his evil invasion of Iraq didn't even know that the country was populated by Sunnis and Shiites - could feel sufficiently confident about the collective stupidity of Americans to erroneously compare Iraq to Vietnam (a war that the moral coward supported, but worked so mightily to dodge).
Moral rot also explains American's current inability to see through Bush's "surge" propaganda. Simply consider two incontestable truths: (1) "As of late-August, no progress had been made in achieving the key objective of the "surge" - to provide safe space for political progress at the national level." [Anthony Cordesman, "Iraq's Insurgency and Civil Violence: Developments through Late August 2007," p. ii] and (2) such political progress, in the form of national reconciliation, cannot occur because the Shiites now in power consider their permanent political ascendancy to be predicated upon their ability to outlast the American occupation.
As the New York Times correctly noted: Mr. Maliki's government "is the logical product of the system the United States created, one that deliberately empowered the long-persecuted Shiite majority and deliberately marginalized the long-dominant Sunni Arab minority. It was all but sure to produce someone very like Mr. Maliki, a sectarian Shiite far more interested in settling scores than in reconciling all Iraqis to share power in a unified and peaceful democracy." ["The Problem Isn't Mr. Maliki," New York Times, August 24, 2007] Of course, it's difficult to foresee such problems, if you're a president who did not even know that the country he was preparing to invade contained such Shiites and Sunnis. Moral rot!
Finally, moral rot now explains what appears to be the inevitable march to war against Iran, or at least the bombing of its nuclear energy facilities. Having supported an illegal, immoral invasion of Iraq, which has inflicted untold suffering upon its people, most Americans - including Americans currently sitting in congress and running for president - find themselves incapable of thinking through just how to deal peacefully with Iran, the sole regional power to emerge preeminent from the debacle we initiated.
And, yet, we still consider ourselves an exceptional people!
Walter C. Uhler is an independent scholar and freelance writer whose work has been published in numerous publications, including The Nation, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Journal of Military History, the Moscow Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. He also is President of the Russian-American International Studies Association (RAISA).
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July 1, 1998
This live album is a document of the famous Lucio Dalla-Francesco De Gregori 1979 tour, backed up by a band that included a then unknown Ron and members of Stadio and Cyan. Both Dalla and De Gregori were at the crest of their popularity; unsurprisingly, the tour became a sensation in Italy. In retrospect, what strikes the listener most about this otherwise fine live recording is its rather odd track selection. With the exception of "Ma Come Fanno i Marinai," the single Dalla and De Gregori issued that year (presumably to promote the tour), both singers refrain to include their most recent hits. Dalla chooses three classics from his early period (including what is arguably the definitive version of "Piazza Grande"), while De Gregori picks the most obscure track (and the weakest) from the hit-studded Rimmel, the best two songs from 1976's Bufalo Bill, and none from 1978's De Gregori. The remaining three songs are covers, including a forgettable jazzed up take on Paolo Conte's "Un Gelato al Limone," and a delightful Italian version of Steve Goodman's "Banana Republic," made popular by Jimmy Buffet. This song, together with "Ma Come Fanno i Marinai" constitutes the peak of the whole Dalla-De Gregori ongoing collaboration that took place between 1975 and 1980, as it perfectly amalgamates their contrasting personalities and voices in a bittersweet, nostalgic setting. One can only regret that the two artists never agreed or had the time to do an entire studio album in this vein, preferring instead to go on a tour. In their defense, and based on the evidence of this album, the experience must have been a lot of fun. ~ Mariano Prunes, Rovi
- Genre: World
- Subgenre: Foreign Language Rock, Folk/Country Rock, Europop
- Category Singer/Songwriter, Euro-Pop, Italian Pop
- Label: SONY/BMG ITALY
- Release Date: July 1, 1998
- Artist: Francesco DeGregori/Lucio Dalla
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- Online Item #: 12921211
- Store Item Number (DPCI): 244-19-6371
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Episode 26: The Galactic Civil War
With the rise of Azenite, the galaxy had split like an amoeba. Two groups were formed, one supporting the new Emperor, the people. And others supporting Darth Qollous, the Imperials. Azenite had proclaimed that Emperor Darth Qollous is dead and Emperor Azenite shall take the throne next. Darth Qollous was on a wild goose chase, seeking rumours about the whereabouts of Azenite. It led from planets as remote as Kashyyyk to the urban Coruscant. On the way, he met and conquered opposing planets as well. Azenite on the other hand was influencing more people to his cause. Soon the cold war fired up as the two groups battled each other. Skirmishes were fought and at times, entire battles were fought. The Galactic Civil War had begun.
Darth Qollous was on Naboo, searching a common marketplace for rumours. The shopkeepers were timid and didn't reveal a word. The public was no less. As he ventured, he found a lot of stormtrooper activity. The Imperial Army was with him, but what bit his brain was why were they in such a hustle and bustle. The citizens of Naboo are generally too calm and won't cause much of a trouble for the stormtroopers. Something was happening.
A stormtrooper flashed past Qollous. The Dark Lord caught him.
"Where are you going?"
"Uh... Lord Qollous, we..."
"Go on"
"We are uh... preparing.. to... um... wipe rebel activity"
"Good one. THERE ARE NO REBELS ON NABOO!"
"Sir, we..."
Blaster shots were fired. Qollous masterfully reflected them in a second. The shooters fled. They were mercenaries, about three of them. The crowd spread in chaos. More shots fired. Qollous blocked them as well. They were fired by stormtroopers. The crowd started running around. Many innocents died in the forefight. Jaden slashed and cut each stormtrooper in anger.
The Mercenaries tried to get away, but Qollous inflicted a painful, but less deadly lightning on them, taking the pleasure in torturing them. When satisfied, he choked them threw them away.
He saw another shady character. Suspicous, Qollous pulled him. It was dark Jedi. The other ignited a red lightsaber.
"What? Azenite has students?" exclaimed the Dark Lord as he engaged in a street duel with the Dark Jedi. The Dark Jedi was cautious, on the defensive. When Qollous started gaining the upper hand, he left the duel and dispersed in the chaos.
"He'd better not come again".
Meanwhile, in the Emperor's Palace on Coruscant, Exar Kun and Azenite were receiving a report from an Imperial Officer via holovision.
"Sir, The rat, Qollous is found on Naboo. Naboo is in chaos. We are getting the upper hand."
"Good." replied Azenite.
The holovision flickered and switched off. The holo-droid scampered away from the chambers.
"The force protect should stop Qollous from sensing us" said Azenite.
Exar Kun looked at Azenite.
"This is it. The war has begun."
"No, in fact the war has ended, young one".
Azenite looked at Kun.
"As long as Qollous is alive, the Imperials will support him".
"No. No. You will defeat Qollous, of this I am sure. We must lure him here, though."
Azenite meditated.
Exar began, "You must bring back the Sith! Qollous was an imbecile, to have continued with the empire."
"And Palpatine wasn't?"
"Palpatine? He was the greatest fool a galaxy has ever known".
"I assure you, I WILL rule the empire AND bring back the Sith".
"Good, my padawan. You must influence more young minds into this cause. At Yavin 4, that is. At my temple."
"The Dark Side is strong there. It will make a good training field."
"Yes, it will. First we have squash a certain Darth Qollous".
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Method: Place the flags at the start and end locations, and set the trace task to Find Path. Set the analysis options to trace only on selected features. Then, do a Select By Attributes to select only the local streets. Now, to CROSS connector streets, you must also select the junctions of local with connector streets. Use Select By Location to select the Road_Net_Junctions that intersect the selected features of roads (the local streets). Finally, solve the trace. You will need to clear the selected features to be able to see it.


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We chose the Radisson mainly because it was within walking distance of our concert venue, Austin City Limits Moody Theatre. Yes, it is on town lake, hike and bike trails, scenic downtown Austin, restaurants and retail shops. On site is a Starbucks and Fridays Restaurant (where you can watch the sunset and the bats exit the bridge next to the hotel). The hotel lobby and rooms are nicely appointed with comfortable furnishings including a couple of very large aquariums filled with assorted colorful fish. Our stay was for only one night and it was a good choice.
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MARTINEZ, Calif. (AP) -- A Northern California man has been sentenced to a year in county jail and three years' probation for the 2010 fatal mauling of his 2-year-old stepgrandson by three pit bulls.
The Contra Costa Times reported Monday (http://bit.ly/1jb6RmM ) that 56-year-old Steven Hayashi, convicted of involuntary manslaughter in April, could have been sent to prison for 10 years.
Contra Costa Superior Court Judge John Kennedy noted that Hayashi had never been arrested before July 2010, when three of his five pit bulls attacked Jacob Bisbee.
The toddler was killed by the dogs after being left unsupervised and walking into an unlocked garage where the animals were kept.
Prosecutors say the boy had more than 100 bite marks.
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The second annual candlelight vigil at the Angel of Hope Memorial Garden in Washington will be held Friday, Dec. 6, at 7 p.m., at the garden, located south of Lions Lake in the city park.
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Ox gem¶ ↑
A fast XML parser and Object marshaller as a Ruby gem.
Installation¶ ↑
gem install ox
Documentation¶ ↑
Documentation: www.ohler.com/ox
Source¶ ↑
GitHub repo: github.com/ohler55/ox
RubyGems repo: rubygems.org/gems/ox
Follow @oxgem on Twitter¶ ↑
Follow @peterohler on Twitter for announcements and news about the Ox gem.
Build Status¶ ↑
Links of Interest¶ ↑
Ruby XML Gem Comparison for a performance comparison between Ox, Nokogiri, and LibXML.
Fast Ruby XML Serialization to see how Ox can be used as a faster replacement for Marshal.
Fast JSON parser and marshaller on RubyGems: rubygems.org/gems/oj
Fast JSON parser and marshaller on GitHub: github.com/ohler55/oj
Release Notes¶ ↑
Release 2.4.0¶ ↑
Added Ox::Builder that constructs an XML string or writes XML to a stream using builder methods.
Release 2.3.0¶ ↑
Added Ox::Element#replace_text method.
Ox::Element nodes variable is now always initialized to an empty Array.
Ox::Element attributes variable is now always initialized to an empty Hash.
A invalid_replace option has been added. It will replace invalid XML character with a provided string. Strict effort now raises an exception if an invalid character is encountered on dump or load.
Ox.load and Ox.parse now allow for a callback block to handle multiple top level entities in the input.
The Ox SAX parser now supports strings as input directly without and IO wrapper.
Description¶ ↑
Optimized XML (Ox), as the name implies was written to provide speed optimized XML and now HTML handling. It was designed to be an alternative to Nokogiri and other Ruby XML parsers in generic XML parsing and as an alternative to Marshal for Object serialization.
Unlike some other Ruby XML parsers, Ox is self contained. Ox uses nothing other than standard C libraries so version issues with libXml are not an issue.
Marshal uses a binary format for serializing Objects. That binary format changes with releases making Marshal dumped Object incompatible between some versions. The use of a binary format make debugging message streams or file contents next to impossible unless the same version of Ruby and only Ruby is used for inspecting the serialize Object. Ox on the other hand uses human readable XML. Ox also includes options that allow strict, tolerant, or a mode that automatically defines missing classes.
It is possible to write an XML serialization gem with Nokogiri or other XML parsers but writing such a package in Ruby results in a module significantly slower than Marshal. This is what triggered the start of Ox development.
Ox handles XML documents in three ways. It is a generic XML parser and writer, a fast Object / XML marshaller, and a stream SAX parser. Ox was written for speed as a replacement for Nokogiri, Ruby LibXML, and for Marshal.
As an XML parser it is 2 or more times faster than Nokogiri and as a generic XML writer it is as much as 20 times faster than Nokogiri. Of course different files may result in slightly different times.
As an Object serializer Ox is up to 6 times faster than the standard Ruby Marshal.dump() and up to 3 times faster than Marshal.load().
The SAX like stream parser is 40 times faster than Nokogiri and more than 13 times faster than LibXML when validating a file with minimal Ruby callbacks. Unlike Nokogiri and LibXML, Ox can be tuned to use only the SAX callbacks that are of interest to the caller. (See the perf_sax.rb file for an example.)
Ox is compatible with Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.3, 2.1.2, 2.2.0 and RBX.
Object Dump Sample:¶ ↑
require 'ox' class Sample attr_accessor :a, :b, :c def initialize(a, b, c) @a = a @b = b @c = c end end # Create Object obj = Sample.new(1, "bee", ['x', :y, 7.0]) # Now dump the Object to an XML String. xml = Ox.dump(obj) # Convert the object back into a Sample Object. obj2 = Ox.parse_obj(xml)
Generic XML Writing and Parsing:¶ ↑
require 'ox' doc = Ox::Document.new(:version => '1.0') top = Ox::Element.new('top') top[:name] = 'sample' doc << top mid = Ox::Element.new('middle') mid[:name] = 'second' top << mid bot = Ox::Element.new('bottom') bot[:name] = 'third' mid << bot xml = Ox.dump(doc) # xml = # <top name="sample"> # <middle name="second"> # <bottom name="third"/> # </middle> # </top> doc2 = Ox.parse(xml) puts "Same? #{doc == doc2}" # true
HTML Parsing:¶ ↑
Ox can be used to parse HTML with a few options changes. HTML is often loose in regard to conformance. For HTML parsing try these options.
Ox.default_options = { mode: :generic, effort: :tolerant, smart: true }
SAX XML Parsing:¶ ↑
require 'stringio' require 'ox' class Sample < ::Ox::Sax def start_element(name); puts "start: #{name}"; end def end_element(name); puts "end: #{name}"; end def attr(name, value); puts " #{name} => #{value}"; end def text(value); puts "text #{value}"; end end io = StringIO.new(%Q{ <top name="sample"> <middle name="second"> <bottom name="third"/> </middle> </top> }) handler = Sample.new() Ox.sax_parse(handler, io) # outputs # start: top # name => sample # start: middle # name => second # start: bottom # name => third # end: bottom # end: middle # end: top
Yielding results immediately while SAX XML Parsing:¶ ↑
require 'stringio' require 'ox' class Yielder < ::Ox::Sax def initialize(block); @yield_to = block; end def start_element(name); @yield_to.call(name); end end io = StringIO.new(%Q{ <top name="sample"> <middle name="second"> <bottom name="third"/> </middle> </top> }) proc = Proc.new { |name| puts name } handler = Yielder.new(proc) puts "before parse" Ox.sax_parse(handler, io) puts "after parse" # outputs # before parse # top # middle # bottom # after parse
Object XML format¶ ↑
The XML format used for Object encoding follows the structure of the Object. Each XML element is encoded so that the XML element name is a type indicator. Attributes of the element provide additional information such as the Class if relevant, the Object attribute name, and Object ID if necessary.
The type indicator map is:
a =>
b =>
c =>
f =>
g =>
h =>
i =>
j =>
l =>
m =>
n =>
o =>
p =>
r =>
s =>
t =>
u =>
v =>
x =>
y =>
z =>
If the type is an Object, type 'o' then an attribute named 'c' should be set with the full Class name including the Module names. If the XML element represents an Object then a sub-elements is included for each attribute of the Object. An XML element attribute 'a' is set with a value that is the name of the Ruby Object attribute. In all cases, except for the Exception attribute hack the attribute names begin with an @ character. (Exception are strange in that the attributes of the Exception Class are not named with a @ suffix. A hack since it has to be done in C and can not be done through the interpreter.)
Values are encoded as the text portion of an element or in the sub-elements
of the principle. For example, a Fixnum is encoded as:
123 An Array has sub-elements and is encoded similar to
this example.
xml <a> 1 <s>abc</s>
</a> A Hash is encoded with an even number of elements where
the first element is the key and the second is the value. This is repeated
for each entry in the Hash. An example is of { 1 => 'one', 2
=> 'two' } encoding is:
xml <h> 1
<s>one</s> 2 <s>two</s> </h>
Strings with characters not allowed in XML are base64 encoded amd
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Ox supports circular references where attributes of one Object can refer to an Object that refers back to the first Object. When this option is used an Object ID is added to each XML Object element as the value of the 'a' attribute.


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Tropea is situated in Vibo Valentia's province, on a cliff 70 metres high falling over a wonderful jagged coast with white sandy shores; It has a geographic position that distinguishes it from so many italian and english resorts. This position gave her so many epiteths such has the Capital of the Holidays, the Pearl of Tirreno, and the Queen of Italo Coast. if you take a view from one of the so many balcons of this village, the scenery is breathtaking.
Tropea belongs to the province of Reggio Calabria. You can reach Tropea if you come from: south, on the way from Nicotera; west, from Vibo Valentia. The nearest railway station is situated on the hills of Pizzo Calabro.
It is a very touristic location in many fields and not only the summer one
The coast is very beautiful and the sea has very peculiar colours.
The shores have a white and thin sand.
The waters are clean and clear with a transparent blue of different tonalities.
There is a slight sea breeze that provides a pleasant temperature, ideal to get a nice tan without suffering of uneasy effects of hot weather.
The beach has also good touristic facilities.
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Amazing picture! I think I need to go here!
Ah, this is a place for me - famous Calabrian cooking :-) I like it very much spicy and bruschetta all'inferno sounds marvellous :-) Also the old houses and the town itself looks gorgeous :-)
Cool page. like the photo on your introduction.
Good tips! I hope to find the "old lady and the small children watching TV" when I'll be there in June ...
What a marvellous town! Wish I was dining at the Trattoria al Timone tonight, with that beautiful view...Wendy
Tropea is indeed bellissima..!!
your food tips are making me very hungry!!:)
Excellent page! I loved the church on the island too
Thank you alot, I will be spending a week in Tropea in November, and you could not belive how hard it is to find something... about it..
Its soo very nice to finally see that there is moore to Italy than Rome, Venice and so on... Especially since I take an interest in Calabria and have been thinking of moving to Nicotera for my retirement.
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A person who has been working installing and repairing furnaces for 3-5 years might be worth considering. Someone still in school, no.
Just not the depth of experience or judgment that is needed...
I agree that a flame rollout switch is unlikely to be the cause of the problem. If it's opening, it's probably opening for a reason.
Get the whistle fixed.
Check your zoning regulations. They may require more clearance to a neighboring property than you have.
In general, under contract law a contractor is entitled to a reasonable opportunity to complete repairs under a guarantee. If they can't do that, you can hire someone who can and charge the...
Diogenes went around with a lamp, looking for one honest man.
You need a contractor who is both honest and competent. TWICE the problem Diogenes had.
Good luck.
A CAV furnace isn't as picky about gas input as sealed combustion systems.
It's probably no especially critical, but I'd change it out to the orifice size specified by the manufacturer. You may...
The gas utility I used to work for sold pulse furnaces. They had a lot of trouble making them work reliably, and after years of sending repair people out to doctor them up, they offered people a...
Oh, so it's FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE is it?
In a pig's eye.
I'd be suspicious of a dirty pilot burner or pilot orifice. It doesn't sound like you've taken a careful look at the pilot flame or know what it should look like.
And a dirty pilot orifice is the...
One that doesn't work.
Another possibility would be installing a unit heater hanging from the ceiling in the club room. A little noisy but it would bypass the corrosive environment of the pump room and even free up a...
A furnace used for heating purposes has the fan motor in the air stream, so all the heat produced by the motor is distributed into the living area.
So, regardless of motor efficiency, the...
My, but there is a lot of blinking and flashing on this website recently!
I have programs to block that, and various web browser features shut off to avoid it, but I guess the website managers...
I see there is a current thread about a pellet stove that wont feed pellets and a second thread about pellet stoves that wont stop feeding pellets.
People are never happy.
So I got a call from a friend of mine saying he was having no success repairing his gas fireplace, and could I help.
Well, by and large I've been successfully ducking furnace and fireplace...
He should have checked for gas with a gas detector, which will detect odors from the burners and such that might be leaking past the gas valve or some other place. That's a much better way to check...
I don't blame him. I'd be nervous too.
They'll be baaaaack!
You might consider leaving the pilot burner lit through the summer, and turning the fireplace on for a few minutes each week to give those little beggars who are moving in...
I presume that what you are describing is the flame burning inside the burner in front of the orifice rather than on top of the burner.
This is called flashback and is caused when the velocity...
I like the picture. I bet that is a GOOD dog!
Flame color and effects can vary widely among gas fireplaces.
Check the owner's manual which often describes how the fire should be built and what the flame appearance should be.
Intermittent problems CAN be a problem to diagnose.
But often they are merely a challenge to diagnose, and should be correctly identified and corrected the first time out with good diagnostic...
Is this a Carrier, Payne, Bryant or Day and Night Furnace?
If so, what is the make and model.
Many of their furnaces turn the fan on when a problem of various kinds is identified.
It's the first time I've been back to this site in months. I have a replacement computer.
Despite my efforts to get the blinking, flashing and moving advertising to stop by turning of portions...
So this is 4" bare steel pipe?
As a gas utility Fitter, we would likely have inspected for any leaks on such a system at the operating pressure and left it as is if none were found.
I used to be a field collector for a gas utility.
When you have a wrench on the gas valve in the winter, their hearts and minds will follow.
I've come back days or weeks later and told the occupants I needed to check on the operation of the furnace.
Removed my part and left.
Why measure the pressure when you can replace the pressure switch, guess and hope you have solved the problem?
I would'a thought you'd have figured out the explanation for this.
In the morning all the heating contractors and sales reps get together for coffee in town. They all compare who is asking for...
This new NSPS from the EPA coupled with the ICC trying to outlaw standing pilots threaten to kill the entire hearth industry. If they get their way, these eco-nazis will put tens of thousands out of...
What parts?
The manual seems to give unusually good directions for troubleshooting equipment. You seem to have made only a few of the suggested tests.
I'd start by going back and following all the...
Have there been casualties among fireplace manufacturers during the current recession?
Who has closed their doors, who might be shaky and who looks to be a survivor?
Any new companies, and...
I don't see why a gas "fireplace" couldn't be attractive with a small gas input.
But it wouild probably need to be designed for such an input, and perhaps not designed to look like a smoldering...
Reading through nthis thread:
Another consumer trodden down under the hooves of the thundering herd....
The fire department comes out in a big hurry and for free. Then they call the gas company, which comes out pretty quickly and for free.


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The contract service organization (CSO) Aldevron was established in 1998 to offer plasmid DNA production services for the biomanufacturing of vaccines. The company's two founders, John Ballantyne, Ph.D., now CSO and Michael Chambers, president and CEO, met as students at North Dakota State University (NDSU) in Fargo.
As an undergraduate, Chambers worked on an independent research project about DNA vaccines, which "had recently emerged as a very exciting new technology," he says. Dr. Ballantyne was a graduate student in pharmaceutical sciences.
DNA vaccines consist of a small, circular piece of bacterial DNA or plasmid, genetically engineered to produce specific antigens of a pathogen. When the company started, DNA vaccine researchers used slow processes and harsh chemicals like cesium chloride to purify plasmid DNA. "We saw an opportunity to manufacture large amounts of DNA on a contract basis," says Chambers, using a downstream purification process developed at NDSU.
Another problem with early DNA vaccines was that they worked well in mice, but often failed in larger animal and human studies. Aldevron solved the problem by licensing and developing DNA technologies, such as electroporation, and offering them to clients through the company's GIA™ (Genetic Immunization and Antibody) service. "GIA rescued some DNA vaccines and increased the response to them 100-fold," says Chambers.
Surprisingly, GIA also proved an effective way to make antibodies. Traditionally, animals are immunized with recombinant proteins or peptides to generate antibodies to a specific antigen. The combination of electroporation and DNA immunization, however, makes it possible to develop antibodies directly to a DNA sequence.
Nucleic acid production remains the flagship service at the Fargo facility, and more than 40,000 projects have been completed for clients working in research, preclinical, clinical, and commercial areas.
Aldevron is headquartered in Fargo and has subsidiaries in Madison, Wisconsin, and Freiburg, Germany. According to Chambers, the acquisition of Genovac in Freiburg in 2004 made it possible to produce high-affinity monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies, including antibodies to complex G-coupled protein receptors, directly from antigen-specific DNA sequences. He explains that the method does not require protein or peptide intermediates. "Our system goes directly from a DNA sequence to a plasmid that can immunize animals and create high-affinity antibodies to difficult antigens. This is Genovac's expertise," says Chambers.
The company opened its Madison facility in 2009 to expand its recombinant protein services using mammalian- and insect-cell manufacturing methods. The Aldevron team in Madison has strong expertise in protein purification and assay development as well.
"We now have three contract service platforms at our three sites," says Tom Foti, vp and GM of Aldevron-Madison. He adds that this gives Aldevron an advantage over competing CSOs that focus only on DNA, protein, or antibody manufacturing. "As an integrated company, we can reduce the vendor base for our clients with the range of services and products we offer," says Foti, who points out that many clients prefer to deal with one vendor instead of several.
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If it weren't for those disturbing-looking Spinal Columns hanging out of them, I'd find this headless thing here to be rather cool.
Yeah, I think the ability to harmlessly remove one's body parts at will is a rather awesome special ability. However, it is rather disturbing for me when the said character still has blood gushing out when doing it, or has gross stuff hanging out still, such as their Spinal Column (like in here), muscle fibers, or stuff of that sort. I'd like this pic more if it weren't for the exposed spines.
In fact, I like characters such as Buggy The Clown, Cyborg Monsoon, Nadia Fortune, Celty Sturluson, Sekibanki, and Deadpool for similar reasons. The whole "detachable limbs" thing is such a cool power. Oh the possibilities!
I like , like you, detachable limbs in both ways through magic or scientific, but to be honest a bit more through the scientifical way
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about these picture ^^ Muzzlerruffels commissioned me to draw this, thats i drew this.
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Beutler E (2010). Disorders of iron metabolism. In K Kaushanksy et al., eds., Williams Hematology, 8th ed., pp. 565-606. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Edwards CQ (2004). Hemochromatosis. In JP Greer et al., eds., Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology, 11th ed., vol. 1, pp.1035-1055. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
National Human Genome Research Institute (2010). Learning about hereditary hemochromatosis. Available online: http://www.genome.gov/page.cfm?pageID=10001214.
Powell LW (2012). Hemochromatosis. In DL Longo et al., eds., Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 18th ed., vol. 2, pp. 3162-3167. New York: McGraw-Hill.
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Reading sacked Brian McDermott earlier this week just 33 days after he had been awarded the Barclays Manager of the Month award for January.
Nigel Adkins - the man who finished second to Reading in the npower Championship with Southampton - has also recently lost his job.
Allardyce is now the only manager in place at the six clubs who were either relegated from, or promoted to, the top flight last season and the 58-year-old reckons the lack of long-term vision is to blame.
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Consider a long-distance transmission system containing a cascaded chain of EDFAs. Assume each EDFA is operated in the saturation region and that the slope of the gain-versus-input power curve in this region is -0.5; that is, the gain changes by ±3 dB for a ∓ 6-dB variation in input power. Let the link have the following operational parameters:
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The first court date for a lawsuit challenging the state's new gambling law has been scheduled. The Pottawatomie Tribe wants to intervene in the suit filed by Attorney General Paul Morrison. They want the opportunity to speak their side of the issue. However, Morrison opposes other parties joining the suit.
He believes allowing other parties to intervene will make the suit confusing and could even delay a ruling.
Morrison says that although the law directed him to file the case don't expect him to go easy.
Morrison says they will be vigerously attacking the Constitutionality of the bill which allows the state to own a casino.
The hearing on the tribe's motion is set for October 11th at 1:30 p.m. in Shawnee District Court.


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