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Open Forum: July 6, 2019
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Errr Tom the WA beaches are the best in the world, though not many who swim live to tell the tale due to sea monsters. Stay away.
… and some of the worst beaches, Woolfe. The Pilbara coast around Dampier is rubbish and there are many, many kilometres of inaccessible coastline with nothing but vertical cliffs. But, as you more or less point out, the entire CSIRO is a greenfilth sanctuary that's attempting to weaponize sharks against the Australian human population and goes into hysterics whenever it's pointed out.
Plus we don't execute tourists like the Mexican cartels do .
Who knew Alison was a Riske to Ash?
Sorry i may have missed an overnight episode, who did the Good Dr buy the dress for, Maria or Yandi(?).
And good move mentioning the bank, at least the muggers know where to find you!
'Plus we don't execute tourists like the Mexican cartels do.'
I think I've identified a gap in the market.
Rowe- draws like an Asperger- but pathetic. Needs to label Christian Porter because he can't get a character down of the AG. And is the -presumably investigative- journo meant to be pouty opinionista David Marr?
Also, seeing we're near the top of the page, I'm going to have to drop Dave from Marybrook and use a bit more of an anonymous handle.
I'm thinking Wally Dali. Get it?
#3100625, posted on July 9, 2019 at 6:43 am
omg was None still riding that unicorn around at 3:30am ?
Looks like it.
DrBG has special powers.
So you don't want to be Maria's daughter's daddy?
Definitely not, Cassie. For a start it would be too exhausting. I think I mentioned that she does karate classes, rather badly run ones, and we had a fight Saturday afternoon. I won, but it was close. My recapitulation of domestic bliss was brief and enervating. I still haven't recovered.
Pay for your google-green soylent ration with your facecoin company token.
And you will love your kale and katydid salads!
New York Times: 'Social Engineering' on Google Works
The New York Times published an article recently outlining how Google ads can be used to influence and "socially engineer" users.
In an article titled "I Used Google Ads for Social Engineering. It Worked," Patrick Berlinquette the founder of the search engine marketing consulting firm Berlin SEM outlines how online advertising can be used to influence users citing a tactic known as the "redirect method."
Ok, not katydids. Kale only. PETA's ads would direct you away from such species crime.
Alison Riske is an American professional tennis player. She has won two WTA titles, eight singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Women's Circuit. She reached the third round of the Australian Open in 2014 and 2017, the fourth round at Wimbledon in 2019 and the fourth round of the US Open in 2013. Wikipedia
Investors haven't been able to get enough of Beyond Meat (NASDAQ:BYND) shares, which have continued to surge after a wildly successful — and wildly underpriced — initial public offering (IPO). As of this writing, the business sports a market cap of $5.6 billion following news that it's building a manufacturing facility in Europe to smooth over logistics and transportation obstacles on the continent. Investors are also eagerly awaiting the announcement of first-quarter 2019 operating results on June 6.
While the business has plenty of growth ahead of it, individual investors might want to ground themselves in reality. Barring an acquisition, Beyond Meat is trading at one heck of a premium. Shares sit at 64 times sales and nearly eight times enterprise value.
Once it is just a vat churning out sludge that can be bulk transported on the cheap and freshness is no issue, the cheapest food will come from the place with the cheapest electricity, cheapest feedstock, cheapest workers and least expensive regulations. And no laws against copying any rival product.
The peoples liberation army will supply soma and soylent to the world
The global meat market is valued at an estimated $1.4 trillion, meaning there's plenty of market share to go around. Besides, if the upstart field is going to succeed in significantly reducing the role of animals in the food supply, then it's going to take many companies doing their part.
Once the big crony tech companies own sludge food factories, social media algorithms will soon hand the 1,4 trillion a year meat market to the Cronies.
I suppose catching crims is out of the question
Cops harassing pedestrians at the Eddy Ave crossing this morning for the serious crime of jaywalking.
Obviously easier than attempting to apprehend real criminals.
A football fan reportedly yelled "F**k you, I'm Millwall" as he single-handedly took on the three knife-wielding London terror attackers armed with nothing more than his fists.
Roy Larner has already been hailed a hero, with a petition launched for him to be awarded the George Cross medal for his actions in the Black and Blue steakhouse on Saturday night.
In fighting back, the 47-year-old Millwall fan gave dozens of others who were in the Borough Market restaurant the chance to escape.
Roy Larner, 49, screamed 'f*** you, I'm Millwall,' as he took on knife murderers
Has been placed on Government's Prevent programme over fears he may become extremist
He may have to attend de-radicalisation classes and police are monitoring him
Why do I suspect that any actual "radicalusation" occurred a couple of years ago, when he was confronted with an actual "hate crime" in progress?
The left bottom button on the old remote doesn't work.
The ASX needs to be up 20% or so on 2007 to get back to equality in real terms because of the thieves at the Reserve Bank engineering inflation.
And now analysts and investors are noticing Alphabet's investments in emerging disparate businesses are starting to bear fruit — including YouTube, autonomous cars and cloud computing — drawing comparison to Berkshire Hathaway's success.
When you own the algorithms, why not help consumers find the best product, and make people happy by reassuring them there is nothing to be anxious about as long as they eat Google-sludge?.
What inflation, eyrie?
I don't think there's been a year since the crisis when the Australian inflation rate has been near the target. It's consistently been below target.
In fact, the RBA should be criticised for being below the mandate for a very long period of time.
Good Moaning.
A study of a female brain.
How fortunate for Maria that BGs fear of her STIs (and not his own genital herpes) is protecting her from having to service the flaccid smelly septagenarian.
No fact all emotion.
We note here that the there is general bitchiness in the statement "his own genital herpes" and apparently the young woman in question would otherwise be forced to have sex with him.
She apparently has no choice or say in the matter.
Obviously Dr BG has taken his zimmer frame down into the country side from the castle to bash a young maiden over the head and drag her back to his abode.
She must be so delighted to know that she is being discussed in such terms on a foreign blog – as a potential repository for Beaugan's dick and a source of disease.
She has the internet as well, and using it, probably organising her thug mates to come around and do him over once she gets all he's willing to offer for free.
Dr BG is talking about someone we neither know nor can trace from his comments, but never let that fact get in the way of the victim scenario trying to be weaved by a sexist female.
Bit of course only Beaugan can drmand truthfulness from his Cuban slaves while withholding it himself the two-faced coward.
And here we were all along believing slaves were "forced".
Beaugan hasn't demanded anything and isn't withholding anything, this is purely female projection of the worst kind, slipped in amongst all the other shit written with the explicit hope of there being that much dreamed up mud thrown, some will stick.
Pure and vile hatred, (and with very poor literacy)
It's not that Beaugan hasn't given enough details to identify her either.
He hasn't.
And this boys and girls is someone who likes to present himself as a gentleman. Do not wonder why no woman wanted to stay with him for life. And JC why not offer up your own mother and daughter to f*** Beaugan before you demand he f*** somebody else's?
This again is a sad but important example of the pure bitchiness and factless conclusion drawn by believing her own emotional bullshit before actual facts that shows us exactly why women should never be given the reigns of a nation or be in charge of much at all really.
Especially education.
Anti-trust crony commo godless Big Tech before it is too late.
Beware Dr BG. Fidel's Revenge will unleash an intestinal revolućion.
The Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), one of the island's largest dissident groups, published evidence of the Castro regime selling rotten meat to locals in eastern Santiago de Cuba at a market that has no functioning refrigeration, the Spanish newspaper Diario de Cuba reported on Sunday.
And as we said yesterday, for someone who generally has a degree of common sense. The hot button issues certainly hit the hair trigger.
I remember when she was banging on about gay porn being damaging to women. I've got no idea what the back story is for that belief to be formed, but it must be of Olympic standard at least.
But yeah. Emotions.
Normally, I'd be standing by to be called a dickless fat flaccid wrinkly no-hoper herpes-ridden bad breath-having pasty ugly vinyl belt-wearing red-headed child abuser, but I have other stuff to do today.
And as we said yesterday, for someone who generally has a degree of common sense. The hot button issues certainly hit the hair trigger.
Unfortunately, even the smart ones are still women, and emotion trumps facts and clear level headedness.
That's why the west is in decline.
Seems that Captain Cook imposed Marshall Law on Australia ,according to an Aboriginal activist who wants to take down the statues. Perhaps they can be replaced by statues of the original inhabitant who navigated the eastern coast of Australia.
It's 18:45 and I have just got back from trying to buy Yanet a dress, without success. Shopping with women is always a test of endurance, and this goes double for Cuban women, because the shops that sell clothes are much further apart. We shall try again on Wednesday at two o'clock.
We walked just under two kilometres, which isn't very far on a good surface, but that doesn't include Cuban pavements which require one to adopt a new method of walking.
On the way back, we stopped off at what claimed to be a Chinese restaurant. Cuban Chinese is different from English Chinese, American Chinese, Australian Chinese and in particular Chinese Chinese. Oh, and French Chinese, which was by far the best. It was ok, and much cheaper than Los Nardos. Yanet had fish and yucca and rice, I had the Hemingway plate, which was fish, shrimps and lobster. With vegetables. The last a curious mix of cabbage, beans, cabbage and cabbage. Yanet had two cans of beer and i had a revolting glass of warm white wine. Yanet also had two packets of cigarettes, which I told her was bad for her. She made a cigar smoking gesture and laughed. Somewhere I lost my moral authority on the smoking front.
Yanet had much of her food and some of mine doggy-bagged. Maria knew the term doggy-bagged, and used it. Yanet apparently not the term but certainly the practice. Which always seems to me very sensible, and the pretence that it's for a non-existent hound has always struck me as cowardly.
Yanet cadged another 10 cuc for shopping for food. In Cuba, you can't afford pride either, let alone morals.
She told me she loved me at one point and I cheerfully repied that I didn't believe her. This disconcerted her, but only briefly.
I think she'd be a decent woman had she been brought up outside the poverty. She's not bad even so. But trained to be a parasite.
It's a hell of a world.
Put in $1000 in 2007. You need $1288.60 in 2018. 28.9% inflation for average annual rate of 2.3%.
That is how we have been robbed. I was conservation in my top of the head estimate of 20%.
And why are people so concerned that the lady in question is identified?
Maria. Lives in a Cuban village. Has a nose ring.
Even on the off chance that Beaugy's used her real name (if she's told him her real name) that would narrow it down, to, I don't know, 50,000 Kooba chickies?
I suppose though, we could always ring up Cuba and tell them there's a chick who likes wearing tracky daks with no undies and a nose ring there somewhere that's hanging around with a bloke who like cigars and cheap ice cream.
This international incident will no doubt be ringing in the national conscience for decades.
post script
Of course the statues of the original discoverer and navigator of the east coast of Australia would be appropriately dressed like the performers at the recent smoke ceremony , black tights and grass skirts.
Dr BG, poverty is bad. Enforced, communist, poverty means there is no hope of rising out of it. Communism damages people physically and psychologically.
Good on ya Beaugy. Keep 'em coming.
Outrage the outraged. Turn it up to eleventy.
Among others, the RBA inflation mandate is between 2 to 3%. Of late it's even below the bottom of that range. Inflation is not an issue in Australia. Cash or cash deposits are not a store of wealth. Currency is a medium of exchange.
Maria. Lives in a Cuban village. Has a nose ring.
Sounds like my podiatrist is on holidays, again.
Enforced, communist, poverty means there is no hope of rising out of it.
But for the good old days in Mother Russia. Queues of hopefuls outside GUM fantasising about what might be on the empty shelves. A few scraps of bone and gristle in the 'Meat Section' if a lucky day.
Poached egg using soft plastic holders is dead easy.
1. saucepan with lid – fill with 3 cm – 4cm (close to 1 inch) water, bring to boil. I like having the plastic egg bowl in at start but no egg. Don't overfill water as egg will sink into it.
Prior to using soft plastic bowl thingy line it with a little vegetable oil – very lightly.
2. once boiling add egg to holder, cover lid and simmer
3. time – 6 minutes for small egg runny. 7 minutes for large egg runny. hard – small egg 8 minutes. Large egg 9 minutes.
Done. You can test if done by lifting egg and seeing if cooked under in middle to how you like it.
I find it easier to remove egg holder using a small ladle and then a tea spoon to detach egg from holder.
Toast, bacon, hash brown, tomato – and you've got a $15 café meal for under $5.
Why would we want 2-3% inflation?
#3100655, posted on July 9, 2019 at 8:19 am
I agree KD but is a government committee going to improve safety on site?
No, but that is not the point.
The point is that they can have a detrimental effect on safety by causing distractions.
The first thing they do is broaden "safety" to cover all sorts of workplace culture issues.
Toolbox meetings then end up being about NAIDOC week, multi-culti respeck with the union quota of microwaves in the crib room taking up the rest of the time.
Real safety issues don't get a look in.
"She told me she loved me at one point and I cheerfully repied that I didn't believe her. This disconcerted her, but only briefly."
Yes…she loves your money and your passport.
I hope what happened in Palmyra doesn't happen in Sweden.
An article in a recent Quadrant says that is pretty much what is already happening to archaeological materials in Sweden right now. The 'lesser' stuff is being removed from new sites or even museum holdings and unceremoniously dumped in rubbish pits. All a part of de-Viking the historical record, in deference to political correctness and the newest residents of Sweden and their own great culture.
That said, this is an interesting find in a Vicarage near to Old Uppsala – the Vicarage placement indicating the very long duree of 'sacred places'. Pope Gregory as early as the sixth century instructed missionaries that these sites should not be abandoned (the people wouldn't do that) but Christianised. Horses and humans were often buried together in the European iron age, especially if they were warriors, accompanied by swords. There is at least one such grave also in Britain, containing a chariot as well.
Combs feature in many European and British Iron Age graves. Something to do with more than adornment and ridding the hair of lice/nits. Combs seem to have had some ritual function, to do with the sanctity and the special magical nature of human hair – Rapunzel comes to mind, and beards, for Arthur's beard was one to include in the legendary cloak made of the beards of kings. The giant Welsh Boar of legend had a special comb between his ears.
Carts can also feature and seem to have been part of some wider belief set. Lancelot rode in a cart, there are records of carts carrying female slaves to be sacrificed in European lakes as part of some arcane ceremony, likely Druidic, archaeologists have found a miniature cart (wagon) carrying a sun disc, part of some ritual activity. Tumbrils carry on the 'cart' theme into medieval history and beyond to 18th century France, as does beheading (revived by Madame La Guillotine) and putting heads on a pike, which stopped in post-Elizabethan times (may have survived in a few places after that though). Beheading has a long tradition: it was popular amongst barbarian troops, and also with the Roman officer in the Riter (Rider) Stone recently found over a drain in Lancaster. He has a number of barbarian trophy heads on his saddle and is busy taking another one. Let us not forget modern times either – I've seen the videos of ISIS beheading captives on a river bank and throwing the bodies into the water. And signs on a Sydney Street calling for beheading of infidels in our own fair land. Atavistic indeed.
"shows us exactly why women should never be given the reigns of a nation or be in charge of much at all really."
Misogyny moaning.
Ponder on this: the UK's Ambassador to the US is advising Theresa May's government that the Trump administration is incompetent.
Advising Theresa May that someone else is … incompetent….😆😂😆😂
Yes…she loves your money and your passport.
Yes. I explained a long time ago that I understand this. You shouldn't comment on my posts if you don't trouble to read half of them, it can all too easily make you look a pratt.
Sorry Cassie, but unfortunately you are the exception to the rule, and therefore the experiment of putting women in charge all over the joint has failed.
And even you go swept up in None's hysterical sexism for a bit.
Misogyny is hating women.
I love women and understand them.
I have neve seen a time when they have been more miserable generally speaking.
So I would ask you to stop with the "misogyny" cries whenever you hear something you don't like.
Cassie of Sydney
#3100709, posted on July 9, 2019 at 9:33 am
"shows us exactly why women should never be given the reigns of a nation or be in charge of much at all really."
Misogyny moaning.
Struth actually put up a coherent argument. You have not addressed it. Calling people names doesn't count, Cassie.
I thought you were capable of understanding things like this. If you cannot, you rather make struth's point.
No, but that is not the point.
The point is that they can have a detrimental effect on safety by causing distractions.
These "distractions" don't seem to be getting in the way of a steady decline in the rates of fatalities and injuries since the early 2000s.
Dr BG, who is hotter – Yanet or Maria? I'm guessing Maria.
2 to 3% gives the RBA reasonable latitude in order to avoid zero or below inflation … of the type that's bad inflation. Zero is very problematic as it requires unconventional tools like QE. Sticky wages and prices makes this mandate important.
Dr BG writes…
make you look a pratt.
and then the next post Dr BG writes….
"Calling people names doesn't count, Cassie."
Who is the name caller?
#3100714, posted on July 9, 2019 at 9:44 am
Sorry Cassie, but unfortunately you are the exception to the rule"
I'll take that as a compliment.
Boambee John
#3100301, posted on July 8, 2019 at 8:38 pm
Delta A
OK, I've caught up now.
Best wishes for your future life, I admire your courage in watching!
BJ, they put a large screen in front of me so I didn't actually see everything. Heard it all, though, and the surgeon spoke to me several times.
Of the type that's bad deflation
Penny Wong's brilliant response to the Folau sideshow.
The article to which Lizzie refers:
#3100723, posted on July 9, 2019 at 9:56"
Are you trading yet?
Yea, I shorted some Aussie today.
71st street is seriously freaking weird. There's a dude I knew who worked at another bank and we never liked each other lives in the street too…closer to where we are.
I'm avoiding it.
Leigh Lowe:
Turns out the mine HSE committee at the site has not met this year.
OK, who knows if the committee would have spotted the fatal issue and fixed it.
Oh, and why didn't the HSE committee meet?
Apparently the committee fell short of a feminist gender balance.
You're kidding aren't you?
Please tell me you're pulling our leg/'s.
Just heard via the ABC that now may be the last chance to ever see a glacier in Alaska. This is because they have just had a hot summer day in Anchorage.
Just like the Australian Alps would never see snow again.
Hi JC.
Did you see the newspaper article on condo conversions in today's WSJ?
Not sure if it's been posted before. This is a pretty good summary of all what's wrong with "new energy economy".
A sample:
"Over a 30-year period, $1 million worth of utility-scale solar or wind produces 40 million and 55 million kWh respectively: $1 million worth of shale well produces enough natural gas to generate 300 million kWh over 30 years."
Penny Wong is a fuckwit.
He response is bullshit.
The bible says murder is a crime.
It says homosexuality is a crime.
If our elites decide murder is no longer a crime, in the eyes of the lord it still is, yet Penny believes the murderer should not be condemned?
The same applies with all crimes and perversions, as it is with homosexuality.
Wong is just a commo activist working against the church and numbers a gullible twat.
No, I didn't vr.
It's unreal, they've actually strengthened rent control.
#3100732, posted on July 9, 2019 at 10:06 am
Penny Wong is a fuckwit."
Yep…..as is the turd who posted the link.
Penn Wong knows better than god.
She's from the government.
Like all the totalitarian left.
Social engineers all.
It's all right, the vikings were shias anyway.
Researchers in Sweden have found Arabic characters woven into burial costumes from Viking boat graves. The discovery raises new questions about the influence of uslam in Scandinavia, writes journalist Tharik Hussain.
#3100718, posted on July 9, 2019 at 9:53 am
Dr BG, who is hotter – Yanet or Maria? I'm guessing Maria.
I'm not going to give an opinion, mh. Maria is a dreadful flirt, which is fun. I have convinced Yanet that I am not the touchy-feely type, but there is no hope of selling Maria on the idea. So I sometimes give her a pat on the bottom to show my heart is in the right place. They are rather nice girls if you can overlook their thoroughly mercenary outlook on life. I like them both.
I find liking people rather too easy for my own good.
ABC news this morning (7am) refers to the Jeffrey Epstein arrest, making no mention of his status as a big-money Democrat donor, but being sure to mention his 'association' with Donald Trump. And omitting any mention of Bill Clinton in its earlier bulletins.
Then on to Penny Wong making a call to Iran and Europe to negotiate. Penny. Fricking. Wong.
Knuckle Dragger
#3100700, posted on July 9, 2019 at 9:17 am
Outrage the outraged.
..until after they choke on their malodorous, blood-speckled phlegm.
It's the only way to fly.
Penny Wong's brilliant response to the Folau sideshow.
She's going to Hell unless she repents.
According to the left, there are too many white people in Australia.
They can't stand the idea of people being killed because of the colour of their skin in S Afica being brought into Australia because the are white.
The want to see brown people diving cabs and when looking at throngs in the street to be able to know the mix of colours was their doing.
A forced social engineering no different to Hitler in the fact that it is racial control.
It's not done by chance and circumstance, but by their hand.
A true sick obsession with race and it's control.
Nelson, who was what you would now call, without hesitation, a white supremacist. While many around him were denouncing slavery, Nelson was vigorously defending it. Britain's best known naval hero – so idealised that after his death in 1805 he was compared to no less than "the God who made him" – used his seat in the House of Lords and his position of huge influence to perpetuate the tyranny, serial rape and exploitation organised by West Indian planters, some of whom he counted among his closest friends.
It is figures like Nelson who immediately spring to mind when I hear the latest news of confederate statues being pulled down in the US. These memorials – more than 700 of which still stand in states including Virginia, Georgia and Texas – have always been the subject of offence and trauma for many African Americans, who rightly see them as glorifying the slavery and then segregation of their not so distant past. But when these statues begin to fulfil their intended purpose of energising white supremacist groups, the issue periodically attracts more mainstream interest.
The bible says murder is a crime.
Some other things the "bible says" are prohibited (All from Leviticus) –
Burning any yeast or honey in offerings to God (2:11)
Failing to include salt in offerings to God (2:13)
Eating fat (3:17) [That one's "a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live." All fat is to be saved for offerings to God.
Touching an unclean animal (5:2) [NIV translates this as touching "the carcass" of an unclean animal. So if Rover dies, or you're a worker in a pork plant, you're in trouble here.
Carelessly making an oath (5:4) [Even if you don't realize you have.
Bringing unauthorised fire before God (10:1)
Letting your hair become unkempt (10:6)
Tearing your clothes (10:6)
Drinking alcohol in holy places (bit of a problem for Catholics most Sundays, this one) (10:9)
Eating an animal which doesn't both chew cud and has a divided hoof (cf: camel, rabbit, pig) (11:4-7)
Touching the carcass of any of the above (problems here for rugby -doesn't bother Izzy) (11:8)
Eating – or touching the carcass of – any seafood without fins or scales (11:10-12)
Eating – or touching the carcass of – flying insects with four legs, unless those legs are jointed (11:20-22) ["You will be unclean."]
Eating any animal which walks on all four and has paws (good news for cats) (11:27)
Eating – or touching the carcass of – any creature which crawls on many legs, or its belly (11:41-42)
Going to church within 33 days after giving birth to a boy (12:4) [Actually, she's unclean a week, and then another 33 days. Then she has to offer up a sacrifice.]
Going to church within 66 days after giving birth to a girl (12:5) [Actually, she's unclean a week, and then another 66 days. Then she has to offer up a sacrifice.]
Having sex with your sister (18:9) [In 20:17, if you marry her, both are to be "publicly removed from their Having sex with your uncle's wife (18:14) [In 20:20, they are held responsible for the dishonor, "they will die childless"]
Having sex with your daughter-in-law (18:15) [In 20:12, both are to be put to death.]
Having sex with your sister-in-law (18:16) [In 20:21, if you marry her, "they will be childless."]
Having sex with a woman and also having sex with her daughter or granddaughter (bad news for Alan Having sex with your neighbour's wife (18:20) [In 20:10, both are to be put to death.]
Reaping to the very edges of a field (19:9)
Holding back the wages of an employee overnight (not well observed these days) (19:13)
Cursing the deaf or abusing the blind (19:14)
Perverting justice, showing partiality to either the poor or the rich (19:15) [No penalty given.]
Eating fruit from a tree within four years of planting it (19:23)
Trimming your beard (19:27)
Cutting your hair at the sides (19:27)
Getting tattoos (19:28)
Mistreating foreigners – "the foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born" (19:33-
Slaughtering a cow/sheep and its young on the same day (22:28)
Working on the Sabbath (23:3)
Cassie of Sydney
#3100720, posted on July 9, 2019 at 9:54 am
Dr BG writes…
make you look a pratt.
and then the next post Dr BG writes….
"Calling people names doesn't count, Cassie."
Who is the name caller?
Cassie, what I said was that IF you comment on posts without reading half of them, THEN you can look like a pratt. This is not name calling. If your thinking is so fluffy that you can't see the difference, we have insurmountable communication problems.
I'm asking you to think. I did the same with Anne once, and she accused me of being creepy. I understand her reaction, from her point of view, I was trying to get her to practise an unnatural perversion.
I hope you are at least a little smarter.
I find liking people rather too easy for my own good.
Old man, your'e gonna get fleeced!!!!
Nice to have the young stuff around even if you're not touching it and just being nice, being an old man truly sucks, but if you're in your seventies, these girls could probably do you over without the help of their male mates which magically seem to be nowhere around.
Be careful , you're playing with fire.
JC — They indeed have. It passed a few weeks ago. I couldn't believe it. It would be interesting to see what unintenteded consequences manifest as a result of this.
James Grossman, the executive director of the American Historical Association, gets it right. In getting rid of the Confederate monuments, "you're not changing history," he said. "You're changing how we remember history."
In this moment of crisis, we have an opportunity to do just that.
Their left simply demand to change how history is remembered.
What is Truthful history simply isn't Helpful history.
Penny Wong's brilliant response to the Folau sideshow.
He has certainly scared the racists out of the bushes.
Dr BG, poverty is bad. Enforced, communist, poverty means there is no hope of rising out of it. Communism damages people physically and psychologically.
Unfortunately, even the smart ones are still women, and emotion trumps facts and clear level headedness.
That's why the west is in decline.
When did start and what 'triggered' it?
Old man, your'e gonna get fleeced!!!!
Nice to have the young stuff around even if you're not touching it and just being nice, being an old man truly sucks, but if you're in your seventies, these girls could probably do you over without the help of their male mates which magically seem to be nowhere around.
Be careful , you're playing with fire.
It's a rapist's and knife-wielder's paradise but …
Smoking must be stamped out in the UK within 11 years, according to timeline set out in ambitious new Government plan.
It's a ra-pist's and knife-wielder's paradise but …
Smoking must be stamped out in the UK within 11 years, according to timeline set out in ambitious new Government plan.
The tedious but Leviticus!
you can pick the faux Christians every single time
What a thread. Epstein's investment fund. 100% funded by blackmailed peds:
"Police believe Epstein brought girls as young as 14 to his mansion for sex …
Trump kicked him out of the golf club for coming on to a young girl there.
Plenty of people will have known before and after and yet it was kept quiet forever it seems.
Talk about corrupt. Only Trump seems to have done anything.
When did start and what 'triggered' it?
It started in South Australia in the 1890's and has been a gradual decline ever since.
The hippies entering into teaching in the 1960's really stuffed the joint from the 1970's onwards and we are only in the last twenty odd years really feeling the effects of all this stupidity of emotion over fact.
I see the SS guard is playing theologian.
Some other things the "bible says" are prohibited
You do realise the significance of the New Testament, Numbers?
Try reading Hebrews sometime.
I think Mueller was FBI boss when Epstein bought himself a slap on the wrist the first time.
I see the media are doubling down against Israel Folau's right to free speech, now aided by Tim Costello.
Very vague struth
you need to name names and these hippies, how did they come to be?
Wong is just a commo activist working against the church and numbers a gullible twat.
And vice versa.
Very vague struth
you need to name names and these hippies, how did they come to be?
I don't "need" to do anything.
"Why would we want 2-3% inflation?"
Exactly. So they are only robbing 2 to 3% of your ready cash per year. Wonderful. It is only stealing a little bit
so it isn't STEALING, stealing.
JC sounds like a neo Keynesian.
Abolish the Reserve!
What is all this social engineering nonsense? What about simple engineering – semen in up the front, excrement out the back.
Tom, have you caught up with the latest changes at SEN under Hutchison's silky management touch ?
The Cuban government would look kindly on Dr BG as they want tourism dollars big time.
They recently launched a tourism ad campaign in China.
Just a reminder that t everything in the progressive grab-bag numbers wholeheartedly supports
not abortion, not contraception, not fornication, not same sex marriage, not adultery, not divorce, not euthanasia. not women priest excluded
not even stealing (you found it, is is yours)
Jesus, the Law's Fulfillment
The answer is: none of the above. Old Testament law, as such, is not binding on Christians. It never has been. In fact, it was only ever binding on those to whom it was delivered—the Jews (Israelites). That said, some of that law contains elements of a law that is binding on all people of every place and time. Jesus and Paul provide evidence of this in the New Testament.
Matthew's Gospel enlightens us to Jesus' teaching concerning Old Testament law:
The spaminator won't allow me to post this dreadful story of over 100 Christians murdered by is lams ists in Mali.
The mainstream media totally uninterested.
This whole thing is the equivalent of the Holocaust, and like then, no one gave a shit until it was nearly finished.
Just a reminder that everything in the progressive grab-bag of unsin numbers wholeheartedly supports
not abortion, not contraception, not fornication, not same sex marriage, not adultery, not divorce, not euthanasia. not women priests excluded
Jesus, the Law's Fulfillment
The answer is: none of the above. Old Testament law, as such, is not binding on Christians. It never has been. In fact, it was only ever binding on those to whom it was delivered—the J e ws (Israelites). That said, some of that law contains elements of a law that is binding on all people of every place and time. Jesus and Paul provide evidence of this in the New Testament.
Matthew's Gospel enlightens us to Jesus' teaching concerning Old Testament law:
The ABC solemnly reporting Wong on Iran. As if the view of anyone in Australia, let alone a nonentity from the opposition counts for anything when it comes to Iran.
Be careful , you're playing with fire.
The story about me being a septuagenarian or octogenarian was put about by None. Don't believe it. I am much more like Tarzan. Or possibly one of the apes.
And I beat Angelica at karate, don't forget.
Some other things the "bible says" are prohibited (All from Leviticus) –
Some of them are actually pretty good, eg:
Cursing the deaf or abusing the blind (19:14)
Perverting justice, showing partiality to either the poor or the rich (19:15) [No penalty given.]
Now if numbnuts would be good enough to put up some of the prescriptions in the fucking kor.n.
Some funny man-made laws by way of contrast:
When there is no urinal nearby you are allowed to urinate on the rear left tire of your vehicle
Gold Coast bikinis must not exceed more than six square inches of material
On Brighton Beach swimmers must wear a swimsuit that goes from neck to knee and covers the arms.
No laws specifically about dickheads unfortunately so the troll can continue to bloviate.
I don't "need" to do anything.
no you don't
your argument that women are responsible for the decline in the west is ahistorical rubbish unsupported by anything other than your feelings.
as usual
Numbers claims to have more authority that Christ himself.
Who cannot believe it?
Cursing the deaf
It's because the lord don't like wasting time.
This is sad or maybe not but i am rapidly scrolling through looking for Dr BG's latest installment of "Days without our Wives"
The irony…Costello has just been appointed a Fellow at the Centre for Public Christianity.
That's the very thing the activists want to remove from our society: public expressions of Christianity.
"Now if numbnuts would be good enough to put up some of the prescriptions in the fucking kor.n."
Am pretty sure that the SS guard would LOVE the kor.n….particularly what it prescribes for Jooooos.
Just heard via the ABC that now may be the last chance to ever see a glacier in Alaska. This is because they have just had a hot summer day in Anchorage.
The magnificent Hubbard Glacier in Alaska, one of the world's biggest and most impressive (6 miles wide, 450 feet high and 70 miles long) is nicknamed 'the galloping glacier' because it is advancing at such a fast rate due to the very heavy snowfalls that have been happening in recent years as well as back in time further up its track (glaciers gain their impetus from snowfalls further up). A couple of weeks ago I was on a tin can catamaran underneath this glacier amidst an ice floe field. It was very cold and a bit scary, because as the pieces that create the ice floes fell off in great cliff-like hunks they made a sound very like thunder.
So who is 'fact checking' on the ABC?
your argument that women are responsible for the decline in the west is ahistorical rubbish unsupported by anything other than your feelings.
Never said that.
Men are responsible for the decline of the west by allowing women to bring the insanity of female feelings and hysteria into the halls of power.
#3100778, posted on July 9, 2019 at 10:52 am
Numbers claims to have more authority that Christ himself.
Who cannot believe it?"
I can believe it.
Having sex with your sister-in-law (18:16) [In 20:21, if you marry her, "they will be childless."]
Sad news for Hunter Biden.
New Fred
There were so many ice floes and falling hunks because the glacier is advancing so fast, faster than the floes can fall off; thus it is filling more of the bay than it used to do. The pace of the cracking is like being in the middle of a thunderstorm. That is an advancing glacier.
At foxnews.com a feuding family having a box-on at Disneyland. Worth a look to see the World Heavy Weight Wimmin's champ in action; until she cops a right hook, that is.
Penny Wong's brilliant response to the Folau sideshow
She brilliantly avoided answering the question as to whether Folau would be treated differently if he were of a different faith.
Unfortunately, even the smart ones are still women, and emotion trumps facts and clear level headedness.
That's why the west is in decline.
so this meant something else?
1735099 – s0 these things are okay?
Thanks Sinc.
You've very neatly made my point, which is that the bible (and the Quran) are used selectively.
You can do the same with the Tipitaka, the Vedas and the Upanishads, the Hadiths, the Agamas, the Tanakh, the Talmud and the Kojiki.
More lies from the lying liar who lies
Nuckle Dragger:
Bang on. Pony Girl and Dwarf Girl select someone they can use as Figurehead Girl as head police person, despite never having near an angry man in 20 years, if at all.
I feel so damned sorry for the older style coppers who have watched over the last fifteen years, the Police Force they put so much time and effort into, become a parody of itself.
It must be bloody heartbreaking.
which is that the bible (and the Quran)
If you're going to upper-case the 'Quran', pay the same bloody courtesy to the Bible.
Where can you buy those Che with a MAGA hat tee shirts.
I have a lefty birthday gathering coming up. The shirt as a gift will allow me to escape early.
Ron Pike makes that point and more in a post just now up at Quadrant, complete with three embedded Topher videos. Well worth a visit.
Thanks for that, I've put it on my FB page. I started doing this as an aggregator about a year ago, and while I have few readers outside of my sister and BiL, it was mentioned to me a few weeks ago that it was appreciated and a couple of my friends encouraged me to keep putting stories up because they were never mentioned in the popular media.
At boarding school, in Geraldton, in the early 1970's, the indigenous students had all their boarding fees, school fees, textbooks, school uniforms, pocket money, and travel home for the holidays paid for by the taxpayer.
A nephew mentioned this from when he was at school about twenty years ago. He said it caused more resentment among the white kids, along with the barbecues they weren't allowed to go to, than just about any other thing going.
John Constantine:
They don't care about the rights of the waterfowl of the Coorong, all they needed was a transnational treaty to sign to give them the power to do what they wanted to do.
Whilst it may not have been the intention, (Ha Bloody Ha) it does remind one of the Clearances, doesn't it?
The peasants unable to move because the destruction of the local economy has meant the value of their homes have dropped below recoupment point even if they did want to move to the Dogbox Nirvana.
Its dishonest in the extreme, yet because it cant be challenged without an anthropologist committing career suicide.
Its designed to become a "resource" book to launch a million other dishonest uni papers.
Mole, we live in a time of deceit. The people who practice this deceit find a financial incentive to continue doing so, and will continue to do so until the day they look at the ruins they've created from their conceit.
Then the first thing they say is "I didn't do this."
They will never say "I'm responsible."
John Constantine:
Here is the Sydney going north trip of Major Mitchell, Gutenburg also has the eastern australia expedition diaries.
Remember, their left doesn't want to change history, just alter the way it is remembered.
$100 gets you that the claim of "From the Unpublished Diaries of ……. " rears it's head.
Watching the news while waiting for a haircut, wall to wall propaganda.
I just went on my lunchtime walk and passed one of the Honey Birdette stores in Westfield…its advertising is point blank lewd, pornographic and utterly demeaning to women.
Could you take a piccy for us?
Perhaps it needs to be judged by the Gentlemen of Catallaxy.
The injured bloke made a good recovery. Nobody was charged after the incident, which must have been seen, as it was early afternoon in a busy street.
AFAIK, there was no effort made to find witnesses.
Another wonderful vignette from the hallowed halls of the digital dudes memory.
Cant see what the problem is. Help me Winston!
Knuckle Dragger:
In WW2, German women routinely shaved their body hair, including the pubic region and used it to make padding for small pillows sent to soldiers on the Eastern Front.
I'd never heatd that, KD. But I desperately want it to be true.
Can I get them on ebay?
Rat Hunters in NY.
I don't know if they are banned in most places.
Knuckle Dragger:
Also known as The Buyer's Remorse/Flagrant Publicity Shy Gold Digging Skank Register.
"Skank Register" is fine.
Incoherent Rambler:
The next cat lotto. The prized chaps will be awarded for guessing the date of the first collapse of the AEMO controlled electricity grid.
I pick New Years eve, 2019
These Tweets are freaking hilarious.
Donald J. Trump
The wacky Ambassador that the U.K. foisted upon the United States is not someone we are thrilled with, a very stupid guy. He should speak to his country, and Prime Minister May, about their failed Brexit negotiation, and not be upset with my criticism of how badly it was…
..handled. I told @theresa_may how to do that deal, but she went her own foolish way-was unable to get it done. A disaster! I don't know the Ambassador but have been told he is a pompous fool. Tell him the USA now has the best Economy & Military anywhere in the World, by far…
Trump is God.
Its dishonest in the extreme, yet because it cant be challenged without an anthropologist committing career suicide.
Its designed to become a "resource" book to launch a million other dishonest uni papers.
I regret to advise that I have long considered anthropology in Australia to have been captured by political correctness. Besides there is much more fascinating work being done in other places.
This year is merely the prequel to every overcrowded, rat infested, dystopian novel you've ever read.
Incoherent Rambler:
Who are called Juan.
Juan 1.
Juan 2.
Juan 3.
Which immediately segued into:
1 1 was a racehorse
2 2 was 1 2,
1 1 1 1 race,
2 2 1 1 2.
Damn you, IR.
"Trump is God."
Yep…I just love him.
Zyco – I'm a perfect 10!
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Hey family, how are you? This is the first week in months that we only had to have a few late nights. We are almost back into full productivity mode again vs. going backwards to go forwards. The Ambassador program is up and if you are a member you can signup to join it starting next week. Right now it's active for all of our current Ambassadors. We … [Read more...]
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Wing Chun practitioners from around the world use a tool called a Muk Jong also known as a wooden dummy. There are a ton of different training drills you can do on jong. In this video Sifu Phu teaches you a kicking drill that will enhance your ability to hit points and strengthen your core muscles which will help you have better balance. We get asked … [Read more...]
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Hey family, hope everyone had a good week. We where hoping to have the Ngo Dac Na 101 course ready for you. Jamie worked really hard this week. I am actually pretty excited to get all of this out to you because it really looks awesome. However she left today to visit her family and well she ran out of time. The reason for the delay is, releasing the … [Read more...]
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Hey family! :) This week I want to talk to you about changing your mental state because to be honest it's everything. Believe it or not how you feel from moment to moment simply comes down to what you allow into your mind. The way I like to get my day started to have a positive mental state is to crank up music that makes me feel good. Jamie and I do … [Read more...]
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MATCH catches up with TOTTENHAM heroes BEN DAVIES and ERIC DIER!
DAVIES SAYS: "It's pretty unbelievable, especially after losing the first two games of the Champions League this year! But we always believed we had a chance, and we gave our all – and that was our reward! The way football's going for us at this club, we're really happy – especially playing in the competitions we are and playing at the level we are."
DIER SAYS: "Yeah, I also made my 200th appearance for the club, which was an incredible feeling. It's something I'm very proud of – a good milestone. This is my fifth season at Spurs now, and I feel like I've really played a part in the history of the club!"
DIER SAYS: "From the first day he arrived, he's had a style that he wants us to play and a way he wants us to work. He always demands more every day – we can win 3-0 or lose 3-0, and he'll treat us exactly the same way the next day… he's relentless! He's created a belief and a family feel to the club with the fans, and that's translated onto the pitch!"
DAVIES SAYS: "Yeah, the work ethic he's brought to the club has been huge. Everybody tries to be the best and work as hard as they can to get better every day. Having that team feeling and attitude that he's created has really benefitted us as a team!"
DAVIES SAYS: "I had an appearance at the club shop a month or two before it opened, and even then I thought it was unbelievable! It was a bit of a wait to start playing there, but just getting there eventually has been worth it!"
DIER SAYS: "It looks amazing – we were all so excited to be there! I hadn't actually visited it before it opened – I preferred to go for the first time when it was really finished, and experience it properly instead of at different stages."
DAVIES SAYS: "It can be harder when you're out injured watching the games – you're even more nervous because you know you can't affect the match at all!"
DIER SAYS: "Being injured is always a difficult period. We want to be playing every game and training every day. When you go to the training ground and see everyone else training but you have to do something else, it's never nice, but it's just part of the game."
DIER SAYS: "You feel all sorts of emotions off the crowd, and when we hear the songs, it lifts us. The supporters will have a massive effect on us and the way we play. With the high-intensity, aggressive game that the manager wants us to play, it's really important that the crowd's behind you. It gives us that energy!"
DAVIES SAYS: "It's huge! Like Eric says, you feed off the energy that the crowd gives you. When we play from the back, taking risks, it can be difficult if the crowd are on you, but that belief gets you through games!"


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Why? Why? Why? It's the enduring refrain of a child eager to learn about the world and understand how things came to be. We've all been that child, deciding we're ready to finally be entrusted with the Earth's secrets. But so often we are ignored, silenced, and told to stop questioning. "Why" becomes a dirty word. Don't question authority. We don't need to know why, we just need to do what we're told.
In Image Comics' new series Angelic, from Simon Spurrier and Caspar Wijngaard (with letters by Jim Campbell and designs by Emma Price), the world is entirely different than the one we know. Humans are long gone, and genetically modified monkeys fly through the air. Gibbons can attack with sound waves. Dolphins zoom through the air with rockets, hunting monkeys for sport. And one young monk just wants to know why. Why everything.
INTERVIEW: Image's Angelic is a 'Dark, Difficult' All-Ages Series
Qora is young, but she's just reached maturity. She wants to join her fellow monkeys in the Scrap Pack, defending the Roost from nasty dolphin invaders — but girlmonks aren't allowed in the Scrap Pack. Females are required to worship the Makers (three times a day!) and become wives and mothers. Even in a post-apocalyptic techno-future, women are still subjugated. But Qora questions everything. Why are there only boymonks in the Scrap Pack? Why do they worship the Makers this way, and this often? What does it mean? What are they all here for?
As you may expect, anyone questioning the dominant ideology gets into a bit of a mess, and it's true for Qora. But that mess ends up opening a whole new avenue of exploration for her. She has so much to learn about this world and what's really going on — and we the readers get to follow along with her.
The worldbuilding in Angelic is tremendous. Spurrier works wonders with simple changes in vocabulary while Wijngaard brings these genetically modified creatures to life with strong, thick lines. Wijngaard's backgrounds are detailed but simple; they give enough information about the setting and what happened on this world without being overwhelming or taking away from the action. He does great work with the action, too, creating real movement and energy with the line and color work. The two-page spread of rocket-powered dolphins on the hunt above a crumbling city is particularly stunning. The color palette is all pastel blues and purples — not what we typically expect from a post-apocalyptic story, which really works to make this world feel futuristic and strange.
As much as Angelic is about questioning authority and history in a post-apocalyptic world, it's also full of humor. It kind of has to be, with flying monkeys and rocket-powered dolphins who sound like they're in a Oscar Wilde play. Qora herself is a delight, egging on her elders with questions again and again, like every annoying kid who's asked "Are we there yet?" It's got action, jokes, and a moral compass that points towards healthy skepticism and questioning authority. It's an entertaining read for adults and kids alike. Anyone who has a little adventure in them should read it.


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The Wine: Upfront red fruit sets the stage for more subdued nuances of mulberry, rosehip and violets to follow suit. As it matures, this wine will unveil a more savoury play of bay leaf and thyme, hinting towards an Old Word style. Pruned, sappy rosebush notes are indicative of youth with elegant floral notes that carries through. Fruit sweetness hits the back of the palate with porcelain-like tannins that will chisel this into a serious and powerful wine to be.
Food Pairing: Elegant yet powerful, this wine invites both savoury and sweet dishes. Vintage Serving temperature: 12 – 14, Creamy Gorgonzola French onion soup, wild mushroom risotto, white chocolate shuffle.
Producer: Benguela Cove
Winemaker: Johann Fourie
Wine Region: Walker Bay
At a Glance: ABV:13.0% RS: 2.4g/l PH: 3.57 TA: 5.63 g/l
TYPE : Red CLOSURE : Cork
Awards: 2019 Old Mutual Trophy Wine Show – Bronze
Ageing: potential: Five years
In the Vineyard: Doused with all the privileges of a cool climate, Walker Bay is synonymous with outstanding South African Pinot Noir. Nudged by the Bot River lagoon with vistas of the Atlantic Ocean, the vineyards enjoy cool daytime temperatures that drop even more at night. A beneficial diurnal range aids in even ripening and complexity, ushering the development of delicate fruit notes, fine tannin structure and a bright acidity. Maritime winds encourage healthy vines that need minimal intervention.
Slope: south and south west facing vineyards
Soil: predominantly weathered shale, clay and iron laterites
Clones: PN115 & PN777
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The Abbey Family Says Goodbye to Alumni & Friend Ed Antosek '68
On Friday, November 9, the Abbey said goodbye to a beloved alumnus, scholar, patriot, brother, and friend. A man who dedicated his life to serving his country and his fellow man, Captain Louis Edward Antosek, known as Ed by those who loved him. As a decorated captain in the U.S. Navy, Antosek leaves behind a legacy of love and service. He exemplified a true Abbey man in his passion for the Abbey and his love for others.
Born in Philadelphia, PA on 29 January 1947, to the late Louis J. Antosek and the late M. Eileen Antosek, Ed graduated from Boyden High School in Salisbury, NC in 1964. Ed went on to graduate from Belmont Abbey College in Belmont, NC in 1968 and from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Philadelphia, PA in 1972. Ed served in the United States Navy as a Family Physician and Naval Flight Surgeon from 1976-2007. During his time with the Navy, he served in a variety of positions including commander on the US Naval Medical Research Unit in Cairo, Egypt. In 2004, Antosek became the commanding officer of the Naval Medical Research Center and chief executive for the biomedical branch of the Navy Medicine Research Laboratory System. There, he directed naval medical research efforts and oversaw a rich global network of academic and professional research collaborations. He completed thirty years of service, and in 2010, retired to Burnsville, NC.
Antosek served not only his country and fellow man; he was also a tremendous supporter of his alma mater. "Ed was an ever-happy presence who loved his alma mater and did much for the College and our students. I will very much miss his friendship, his greetings, and his regular and thoughtful requests of Masses for his relatives and friends," said Belmont Abbey College Chancellor, Abbot Placid.
At every opportunity, he stepped forward to give his best to the Abbey. From 2013-2017 he served as president of the Alumni Association giving that role a new level of vitality not seen in many years. Antosek was always a presence at Abbey events such as Homecoming. You could always rely on his quick wit and big smile to brighten up every room. "Ed's love for the Abbey was unfailing. He always had a story to tell about meeting Abbey grads all around the world. He will be greatly missed by many in the Belmont Abbey Alumni community and by all in the Alumni and College Relations Offices," said Bridgette Conboy Director of the Alumni Relations.
Antosek helped with fundraising for the College, recruited students, and promoted the Abbey amongst his peers. He had a big heart, demonstrated not just by his infections laugh but his generosity to others in need. In recognition of his contributions, the Abbey honored him as the Brother Gregory Corcoran Distinguished Alumnus of the Year in 1984 and inducted him into the Belmont Abbey College Wall of Fame in 2005.
As a Phi Kappa Theta—Alpha Rho brother, Ed was a cherished member of the Abbey's Greek community. "Dr. Ed Antosek loved the Abbey Family—monks, faculty, administrators, students, and alumni. He was also deeply devoted and ineffably generous to his own family, his patients, his country, Phi Kappa Theta, and his friends. Ed's contagious grin and sudden laugh always raised the spirits of those privileged to know him," said Ken Wilburn, classmate, and fellow PKT-AR brother.
"The Abbey was "home" for Ed Antosek, and the monks, students, faculty and administration of the monastery and college "family." Whether in his office, on an aircraft carrier or in casual conversation with friends, his enthusiasm and pride in our alma mater inevitably sparked a smile and led to a lively dialogue," said close friend and notable alum Rick Salem.
Antosek's friends and his Abbey home will miss him dearly.
Survivors include brothers Joseph of St. Louis, MO, William of Edgewater, MD, and Richard of Coral Springs, FL; sisters Mari Reavis of Eden, NC, Michele Antosek of Salisbury, NC, Rosemary Antosek of Salisbury, NC, and Sally Antosek of West Palm Beach, FL; thirteen nieces and nephews; and ten grand nieces and nephews.
Ed's funeral will be held at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Salisbury, NC, on Friday, January 4, 2019. The family will receive guests at the church at 10:00 a.m., the funeral Mass will be at 11:00 a.m. with burial following in the National Cemetery in Salisbury with military honors. Following the burial, the family will host a reception at the Salisbury Country Club.
Memorial contributions may be made to Belmont Abbey College, 100 Belmont-Mt. Holly Rd., Belmont, NC 28012, or to the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, 4170 City Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19130.
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The movie, 12 angry men, occurs in a jury deliberation room whereby a murder trial is taking place. In the room there are 12 men who are the judges of the trial. The jurors' duty is to determine whether the 18year old boy who happens to be the defendant is innocent or guilty of his father's death. A voting process takes place among the jurors since they consider it a fair way of proving the defendant trial .One of the jurors by the name Fonda votes not guilty as the rest of his colleagues votes the opposite that is the defendant is guilty. This creates a basement of argument as result of the differences in the viewpoint of the trial (Karen, 2007).
Despite of the fact that Fonda was all alone he does not give in to the others jurors argument but instead he tries to justify his point of view. Fonda mostly uses the reward and punish concept that involved the attention aspect hence he is able to listen to his fellow jurors and respond effectively to their argument and tend to ignore the issues that seem to contradict his point of view. The gesture that Fonda uses, though they seem tiny the help him to gather information from the other jurors and also makes him to think ahead others. Fonda makes use of creativity and critical thinking to discover new strategy of interpreting concepts (Jeff, 2006).
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All along from the beginning of the trial there was concept of conformity however, Fonda opts for nonconformity .In the movie we see that Fonda is able to conceive all the jurors to the extent of them changing their votes to not guilty. The defendant is released despite of him being guilty as a result of Fonda's formidable persuasive powers where he is viewed as hero (Karen, 2007). This shows Fonda uses questions tactics to achieve his objectives in the trial.
The movie prove the evidence of group polarization since the jurors believes in conformity .The conformity happens at the onset of the voting process and as well at the end whereby after being conceived by Fonda to change their argument they want it to be among all the jurors. The aspect of thinking as group is of high risk since it tends not to stand by the evidence at hand like the issue in the movie.
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Q: I recently moved to an upper floor of a Midtown East apartment. From there, I can admire Manhattan's skyline. Whereas many of the older buildings have visible water tanks on their roofs, the same cannot be said for the newer glass towers. Instead, they seem to have sharply angled roofs or other trickery. How do these exorbitantly priced vertical ice cube trays receive their water?
A: The humble water tank, a wooden cylinder perched on stilts on city rooftops, is as much a part of the skyline as the Empire State Building. These utilitarian structures have been delivering drinking water to New Yorkers for more than a century.
It's all about gravity. Water travels to New York City from reservoirs north of the city, traveling down from an elevation roughly the equivalent to a six-story building. This is good news for anyone living on the first six floors. "It's a gravity-fed system," said John Cetra, a founding principal of the Manhattan architecture firm CetraRuddy. "The sheer weight of the water would create enough pressure to take care of any building up to six stories."
To climb any higher, the water needs help. That's where the pump comes in, pushing water to the top of the building, where it sits in a reservoir, the familiar wooden water tank. Turn on the faucet and the water travels back down to you.
The physics don't change, even for skyscrapers. People living in 50-story buildings "get their water the exact same way the old buildings do," said David Hochhauser, who, with his brother and sister, owns Isseks Brothers, one of the city's oldest water tank manufacturers.
Newer towers tend to hide their reservoirs inside and often use multiple tanks housed throughout the building so water can be pumped to the top in smaller increments. The new One World Trade Center has 16 water tanks, according to Mr. Hochhauser, whose company installed the tanks. At another Isseks installation, 217 West 57th, which will be the city's tallest residential tower when it opens, 11 stainless-steel tanks will hold water.
New buildings aren't the only ones with aesthetic reservations. Some of the city's prewar gems, like the 27-story San Remo on the Upper West Side, built ornate structures to keep tanks out of view.


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I'm so much happier in the summer… Don't you notice that, too? Maybe it's the 90 degree temps or the sunny Minneapolis days. I just find myself smiling so much more during these hot days! I'm also a huge fan of drinking an ice cold Coke on a sweltering day, but I'm always left with residue and stains on my teeth… Lately I've been using the Smile Brilliant T6 Whitening Kit and, I swear, I noticed a difference after my first day of whitening!
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So I've been playing. Last winter I ordered some jelly rolls of fabric from The Fat Quarter Shop. Not sure what I was going to do with them, but I liked the fabric lines.
Then, I ran across AJ Quilts blog - and she designs the most awesome blocks - she designed me the most fantastic pieced rooster block - really fantastic. The waviness you see down by his foot is totally my doing - I have issues about not paying attention to piecing directions, and stretching fabrics as I sew (and triangles stretch very, very, very, very easily).
So I'm making these strips of fabric (from the aforesaid jelly roll) into these blocks. I still have the blue and gold/tan one to do.
Then I'm going to combine roosters and these blocks and make myself another quilt. Like I need another project to start. But I needed something fresh to work on. I have a twin sized quilt, a lap quilt and 2 table runners ready to go to my mom to have the binding handsewn on. I'm working on my Pay It Forward gifts for my blogging friends, and should have them out by next weekend, but I wanted something different to work on - and nothing is really inspiring me right now.
But that could be because I'm anxious to get my garden going, see my flowers bloom and start riding horses again (had to wait for it to dry out the first time around, now have to wait for these annoying hit and miss rain showers to end). Time to end with the winter projects and move on to SUMMER. I'm going next weekend to get blueberry bushes. All of my strawberries survived the transplant move, and I am pretty sure the blackberries did too. They (the blackberries) were wilted for a couple days, but most of the leaves have perked back up. It probably helps that it's been cool and damp on and off here.
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Lands & Peoples has become one of my favorite bands here in Baltimore, not to mention one of the nicest and most giving. Literally impossible to classify, they blend aspects of pop, folk and musique concrète. Fresh off playing a few shows with Wye Oak and Secret Mountains they were able to squeeze in a Microshow here at Mobtown. They certainly are a band to catch live and this show is no exception. Their perfect yet interesting harmonies blend seamlessly here as well as adding a their friend Evan on viola to the set. Enjoy the show!
Technical info: Kick: Neumann U87, Snare: Senheisser 441, Tom: EV468, Floor Tom: EV468, Overhead: AKG 414, Caleb's Vocal Mic: Blue Mouse, Beau's Vocal Mic: MAudio Sputnik, Beau's amp: Shure SM7, Caleb's amp: EV RE20, Evan's amp: Oktava ML-52 Ribbon.
Recorded on October 13, 2011 at Mobtown Studios
Guitar, keyboards, vocals and ukulele by Caleb Moore
Guitar, bass, drums and vocals by Beau Cole
Viola by Evan Merkel
Produced and mixed by Mat Leffler-Schulman
Engineered by Paul Mercer
Artwork by David Manchester


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Gave up my heater and in return gained two tweeters, and two full-sweep gauges. An acceptable tradeoff. Here are a few things I'm considering below
At least.... It will be an acceptable tradeoff. Stereo system still has about 40% of the work left before I can play some tunes, but I I need some kind of heat-resistant material to stuff behind the tweeters, some speaker wire to extend the drivers side speaker and tweeter to the amp, and a soldering iron to get everything connected properly (crimped connectors). Oh and I still have to figure out how to attach the damn head unit to the Miata tombstone in a way that looks halfway decent. Might be time to buy a dremal tool.
I'm waiting on an oil filter sandwich plate for the oil pressure sender. I do have a drain plug that will take the sensor... But it hangs pretty low so I think it's better to wait. The coolant temp sensor I'm not 100% sure where to put yet. I did buy this hose splice thingymajig.... But part of mewants to avoid messing with the cooling system until I get a new beefy track radiator, do a coolant reroute, replace all hoses and swap in an aluminum overflow tank. To be determined.
Speaking of which, the cooling system overhaul will be the next major project, assuming no engine failure. Here's what I'm looking at...
Coolant reroute kit. STOCK Miatas will overheat on track due to the terrible cooling design, so this is a must. Get everything flowing properly. There are about five well-tested coolant reroute kits available, and the supermiata one sounds like the superior product.
Along with that, a beefier radiator. My Amazon-special koyorad radiator is getting pretty beat anyways, and was literally the cheapest radiator I could find to get the car running when I first bought it. There are two good options for a heavy-duty radiator in high-power applications. The supermiata, and Track Speed Engineering's radiator. I'm undecided. The Supermiata radiator is fantastic, lightweight, and has tons of data backing it up as an efficient flowing design. The TSE is a duel core triple pass radiator built for very high boost settings, and is both heavier, and much more expensive. Either one would probably serve me well. TSE is where my turbo kit came from, and supermiata is where I try to get most of my other parts if possible so I have no problem doing business with either.
Who knows. Still a few months out. Fender tuck needs to happen soonish, hardtop would be nice... But really I'm just preparing for extra power at this point. Good place to be


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The Customs operations at the Seme Border including the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and the Beninoise Customs have taken delivery of a new cargo scanner for the Station.
The scanner was donated by the European Union for joint border use.
The Controller, Seme Area Command of the NCS, Comptroller Muhammed Uba, told newsmen onTuesday that the scanner was already being test-run.
Uba also said that the scanner would be maintained by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for two years.
He disclosed that officers of the two countries had undergone training on how to use the scanner, particularly on how to read images.
The Controller also told newsmen that his Command recorded N2.7 billion as revenue and seizures in the months of March and May.


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The study "Association of Testosterone Levels With Anemia in Older Men,"1 published in this week's JAMA Internal Medicine, contains an ethical error. Hemoglobin levels were measured in all 788 participants at baseline, and every 3 months during the 1-year duration of the trial. Blood obtained at baseline was stored until the end of the trial, when tests for the cause of anemia were performed. Participants with hemoglobin levels less than 10.0 g/dL at baseline were excluded from the trial and "referred to their primary care providers for evaluation of anemia." However, the 126 participants (16%) with mild anemia (hemoglobin levels between 10.0 and 12.7 g/dL) were not told of this condition.
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Blow Whistles Not Games
February 16, 2019
Prior to kickoff of the 2019 NFL Pro Bowl, Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan was already making headlines on social media. The five-time Pro-Bowler arrived to Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida in a black T-shirt that spoke substantially louder than any fashion statement.
His shirt read "blow whistles not games" in big, bold white letters. Underneath, it featured a small picture of a referee shrugging his shoulders, along with a smaller message: "make calls, not apologies."
This was clearly a reference to the now infamous "no-call" pass interference that likely kept the Saints from playing in Super Bowl LIII. Jordan joins fellow players, personnel and even politicians who have stood up and taken action on behalf of the heartbroken Who Dat Nation.
Since the NFC Title Game loss, much has transpired. Including:
A Madison County, Mississippi resident named Terry Cassereino started a Change.org petition that reads "Due to the refs' inability to properly officiate at the game, we the undersigned want a rematch against L.A. on Sunday, Jan. 27. It's the only fair solution to this travesty of epic proportions." The petition managed to go viral and obtain about 756,000 signatures in its one-week span.
Season ticket holders Tommy Badeaux and Candis Lambert filed lawsuits against the NFL and commissioner Roger Goodell for the emotional trauma and monetary loss due to the controversial call. Badeaux and Lambert hired Frank D'Amico Jr., also known by his local nickname—The Strong Arm—to take the case. D'Amico wants Goodell to enforce Rule 17, Section 2, Article 1 in the NFL Rulebook, which calls for the commissioner's "sole authority to investigate and take appropriate disciplinary/corrective measures in any club action, non-participant interference, or calamity [which] occurs in an NFL game which the Commissioner deems so extraordinarily unfair or outside the accepted tactics encountered in professional football that such action has a major effect on the result of the game." This includes a reversal of the game's result or a replay of the entire game affected by the call.
Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy made an elaborate presentation of the controversy about what he calls the "most blatant and consequential blown call in NFL history" to fellow Senate members on Capitol Hill. Cassidy explained to his peers that "Football is more than just a game, it's part of our culture" and that the no-call "impugned the integrity of the game."
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards wrote Goodell a letter expressing "deep disappointment" in the result of the no-call and the lack of action taken by him and the NFL following the game. Edwards mentioned in the letter that "I do recognize that you are unlikely to change the result of the game."
Unfortunately, Edwards seems to be correct. Despite the NFL fining Rams cornerback Nickell Robey-Coleman $26,739 for helmet-to-helmet contact on Saints wide receiver Tommylee Lewis, there was no statement from Goodell or the NFL regarding the missed pass interference call. Neither was there any acknowledgment of Cassereino's petition or the political moves being made against the NFL about this matter.
With the Super Bowl less than a week away, it seems that the NFL will not take any further action toward the debacle that was the NFC Championship game. The Who Dat Nation is hoping more of its most influential members can take further action to give the Saints justice.
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My parents live 5 hours away from me and between rushing to them and coming & going from Australia, I have logged 3 trains and 7 airplanes in the last 30 days. Which means I have no idea where I am half the time and my patience is gone. There was a very odd guy in front of on the train to my parents'. He was (loudly) on the phone with someone, acting as if he was on a plane instead of a train. "WE'RE GAINING ALTITUDE!" He was an older guy, grey beard, knees rammed against the seat in front of him, seat pushed back as far as it would go and clearly settling in to be loud for the entire journey. Normally I'd try to be patient but this time I asked the attendant if I could switch seats and bless her, she moved me to another car. Going from a train car with a loud nut in it to a train car without a loud nut in it, is like stepping into a divinely warm bath.
Am very grateful to have the happiness of Australia "in the bank", as it were, as it seems like the next few months may be rough.
This is cute: Kristin K slept outside in Vancouver last week to raise funds for homeless youth. One of the sponsors on her page? Michael! Love the Smallville solidarity.
Also cute: Tom went to Michael's Christmas tree decorating party for the second year in the row! Love that this is now a tradition and Tom looks less shy in this year's photo then he did last year. Now, if only, someone would post a photo of just the two of them! (Thanks tariel22 for the link. Photo: stacyolo)


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Politicians say the craziest things. Some of our nation's leaders want to "solve" our nation's wild horse management issue by using radical, long-abandoned ideas, such as killing thousands of animals or shipping them to foreign slaughterhouses. The American public made it quite clear decades ago that it won't stand for such treatment.
Still, these politicians distort the truth and spread misinformation in an attempt to move forward their dire plans. But their words betray fundamental misunderstandings about wild horses and true solutions for managing these animals in a safe, effective and humane way.
We can't let bad things happen to our nation's wild horses. We must stand up and counter harmful misinformation with the facts. So let's contrast these outrageous myths with the truth.
Managing wild horses with birth control vaccines won't work, says Utah Rep. Chris Stewart. He says "it simply isn't practical" because "the logistics of trying to identify studs and to manage them and actually do what's necessary for them and the need for repeated inoculations, it just simply hasn't worked."
For starters, Rep. Stewart is confused in his biology. Fertility control vaccine for wild horses is used in mares (females), not studs (males). And it does work.
The National Park Service has used the PZP vaccine for nearly 30 years to safely and effectively manage the wild horse herd on the Assateague National Seashore. PZP programs also have helped reduce and even curtail roundups in wild management across the West, such as in the Pryor Mountains on the Montana/Wyoming border, in McCullough Peaks in Wyoming and in the Spring Creek Basin and Little Book Cliffs areas of Colorado. Many of these successful projects are the result of public/private partnerships between management agencies and volunteers, which helps keep costs down.
In fact, the American Wild Horse Campaign is working with the Nevada Department of Agriculture to implement the largest humane management program for wild horses in the world. The cornerstone of the program is the darting of mares with PZP to humanely reduce and appropriately control population over time.
Volunteer darters and more humane ways to gather horses for vaccination, such as bait trapping, makes it possible to identify and vaccinate mares on the range without resorting to inhumane and costly helicopter roundups and removals.
Contrasting the wild horses in his state with those on the barrier islands of North Carolina (which are successfully managed with PZP), Nevada Rep. Mark Amodei states: "it's much easier to manage them on an island than it is in my state, which has the highest population on 56 million acres of public and private land, too."
Rep. Amodei should get the facts before lecturing about wild horse management. Horses don't inhabit 56 million acres of public land in Nevada. The true amount of acreage is 15.6 million in Nevada. In fact, wild horses are found on only 27 million acres of public land nationally.
Additionally, AWHC's project on Nevada's Virginia Range proves Amodei's statement wrong. Our experience shows it's possible to implement birth control on a large wild horse population in a large habitat area utilizing volunteer darters. In our third year, our volunteer team of five darters so far have vaccinated more mares with birth control this year than the entire Bureau of Land Management, with its $80 million-a-year budget, did last year.
Fertility control doesn't work.
It doesn't work if you don't use it. The truth is, the federal government has barely given PZP a chance.
The BLM spends less than 1 percent of its annual budget on fertility control and its 2018 budget proposes to spend even less. The agency continues to spend millions on roundups and removals, which science shows only stimulates the horses remaining on the range to breed more.
In areas where PZP is used as recommended, it's effective in managing wild horses safely and economically. In fact, recent scientific studies demonstrate that two shots of PZP, spread out over three years can prevent pregnancy in mares for four or five years.
But don't believe us. The nation's premier scientific body – the National Academy of Sciences – said the same thing back in 2013. In its extensive study, "Using Science to Improve the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program: A Way Forward," the academy urges BLM to use fertility control as a more effective way to manage herds on federal land.
Wild horses are starving on the range because there are too many of them.
This is a myth perpetrated by a photograph of one horse. If many horses are starving, where are all the other photos?
If fact, current photographs from across the West document healthy thriving horses, including in the area of Nevada where BLM intends to remove an astounding 7,000 horses, based on claims that they are starving.
Additionally, the BLM evaluates the health of wild horses during roundups and removals by giving each animal a "body score." These BLM evaluations do not indicate widespread ill health among horses.
Wild horses and burros are simply not starving on the range, and that's why every major horse welfare and animal protection organization has rejected the BLM's lethal plan for our wild herds.
Huge numbers of wild horses are overwhelming our public lands.
This may be the biggest myth of all. And it's easy to dispel with numbers. The truth is, wild horses are present on only 17 percent of BLM rangelands. How can they be overrunning the range when they aren't even present on more than 80 percent of the land BLM manages?
Additionally, the BLM allocates less than one quarter of forage on rangelands to wild horses. More than 75 percent of forage is allocated to privately owned livestock. The truths is, wild horses are vastly outnumbered on federal land by cattle.
Furthermore, the "Appropriate Management Level" (AML) system that the BLM uses to allocate land to wild horses has no foundation in science. These numbers are arbitrary and designed to serve private land use interests rather than the public, which wants to see wild horse herds preserved.
The National Academy of Sciences in its 2013 study said it "could not identify a science-based rationale" for the AML system. It added that the AML system "is not transparent to stakeholders, supported by scientific information, or amendable to adaptation with new information and environmental social change."
In fact, if the BLM has its way, it will drive wild horse and burro numbers back to fewer than existed in 1971 when Congress protected these iconic animals because they were "fast disappearing." That's not "appropriate;" that's extinction.
The public will support the killing, euthanizing and/or slaughtering of wild horses.
Politicians love polls, so why aren't they paying attention to these?
· A national poll conducted this year shows 80 percent of the American public strongly opposes horse slaughter.
· Recent polls in Utah and Nevada also confirmed that the vast majority of people oppose slaughter.
These findings remain consistent with polls done years ago. Public pressure to preserve wild horses was so strong in 1971 that the U.S. Congress voted unanimously that year to approve the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act. Americans' love of wild horses hasn't diminished in the slightest since that day.
Decision-makers who fail to prevent wild horses from being killed and slaughtered will be held accountable by the majority of voters who rightfully cherish these iconic animals.
No better option than killing wild horses exists.
Killing horses or shipping them to slaughter still requires horses to be managed via roundups and removals, which cost millions and only promote more prolific breeding. It also puts the government in the horse slaughter business, which is opposed by 80 percent of the American public.
Investment in humane, effective fertility control is a better, more publicly palatable approach. PZP is safe and reversible. It doesn't pass to other animals or into the environment. New research shows that a two-dart regimen prevents pregnancy in mares for four to five years. Examples such as the Virginia Range project demonstrate the value of this approach. Five volunteers darted more mares on that range than BLM vaccinated nationwide last year.
An economic study published in Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine said BLM could save $8 million over 12 years by using PZP in one herd management area alone. There are nearly 200 herd management areas in the United States. Spread across them, increased use of PZP could save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. And, unlike roundups and removals, using the vaccine would actually help bring horse populations under control.
Other helpful approaches include:
· Applying real science to the AML system to determine how many horses, and other animals, can fairly and safely inhabit the range.
· Compensating ranchers for reduced use or non-use of public grazing allotments in herd management areas. This if far less expensive than continuing to round up, remove and stockpile wild horses.
· Reducing the number of wild horses in off-range holding by transferring them to zeroed-out herd areas or other public lands where they can survive on their own. These horses are gelded and can't reproduce, so their numbers will naturally decrease over time.
Decision-makers must learn the facts before dropping protections and allowing thousands of American wild horses to die. Please share this information with your leaders and friends and keep standing up for the truth!
Quick Links for Supporting Scientific Documents
- The 2013 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report, requested and paid for by the BLM, delivered a scathing rebuke of the BLM's wild horse and burro program.
- The NAS Report
- Key Findings of the NAS Report
- Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine Study