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Off The Record launched on the 22nd June 2011 and was held every Wednesday for a year at Wax Jambu on Upper Street. The concept was simple, if you had a record collection; you could email in for a set and show it off in a one hour set. This was open to collectors and DJs alike and the only stipulation was the genres fit the mood of the bar on a Wednesday evening and you could play ONLY vinyl. Fast forward to 2013 and Off The Record is back! Taking some of the DJs found in the previous Off The Record events, they have been reunited at a new home, The Lockside in Camden.
The same rules apply records only and fit the mood.
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I would like to find out why Sikeston Junior. High did not take a moment out for silence, on Monday, Sept. 11th? How very disrespectful of every teacher and principal/principals in that school. My son goes to school there and told me they didn't have anything other then an essay about 9-11 that is due later on. Now, just because you bunch of snobby nose "adults" ran off to college instead of enlisting in the military, doesn't make you any dadgum better than the firefighters who died while trying to save lives that day, or the people who were all employed in these buildings that died while helping a fellow co-
worker find their way, or the policemen who were standing too close to the towers when they collapsed on top of them! All it tells me is you are unfit to be in the military , not to mention, just an outright coward. But for you to not offer any sort of support or respect for any child in your school, who might of directly or indirectly been effected by 9-11, now that's just a terrible sin and one day, you will all have to answer for that sin.
Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate here in Missouri, Claire McCaskill at a fundraiser in the city of St. Louis on Sept. 9. During his remarks Clinton was critical of the Bush national security policy. It is interesting to note that in Aug. 1995, President Clinton issued executive order 12968 that stated individuals eligible for access to classified material pertaining to national security must have a "record of strength of character, trustworthiness, honesty, reliability, discretion, sound judgment, as well as freedom from conflicting allegiances and potential for coercion." It also should be noted that three months later Clinton started his sexual affair with someone young enough to be his daughter. Also, in the book "Dereliction of Duty" written by Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson, USAF (Ret) he revealed Clinton lost the launch codes to our top secret nuclear weapon system during Paula Jones' depositions. Patterson had the misfortune of being a military aide to Clinton in the White House, with these terrible security lapses Clinton has no business being critical of Bush's national security.
I was in a store and they had to call an ambulance for a lady. The man that came to take care of her was very rude. He even told the lady that if she didn't do what he told her, he was just going to leave. There was a small blonde headed lady with him. She kept telling the lady to just stay calm, that she was there to help her. The man even told the girl to get out of his way, that he would take care of things himself. They called the police to come in and another ambulance. The first man would not even help put the woman in the ambulance. He told this little girl to do it herself. If he is not there to help people, then maybe he needs to find another job. I hope if I ever need an ambulance, I don't get this guy. I maybe dead before I get to the hospital.
I don't know who is responsible for the roadwork on Route P, but it is the pits. Is that the best you can do? Yeah, the potholes are gone but you can't drive over 40 mph are your head bobbles like a bobble-head dog on the dash. Hope the state didn't do that job and if the county did, well they need training on how to put that stuff down. Come on commissioners, get off your behinds and give taxpayers decent roads to drive on and get the job done right. We are paying your salaries and retirements. Come on.
I'd like to speak out about war. When is United States going to learn that you can't have a nice war? When our nation is not able to go into a nation and bomb it to dust then when need not bother that nation at all. We never learned a lesson in Vietnam, we have not learned a lesson in Iraq. When are we gonna learn this lesson? If we have a difference with anyone so severe as to attack them, we need to be able to attack them to bomb them into dust, or not bother them at all.
What is going to take for MoDOT to start checking the grain hauling trucks? They are overloaded and most of them won't even pass inspection. It's like MoDOT and the farmers have a deal worked out. My brother works for a farmer and he actually switched license plates from one trailer to another and he can't get them to put better tires on these trucks and trailers. He's afraid that something might happen and someone might get killed. He's driven seven different trucks this year and the brakes were bad on every one of them. Check these trucks and keep us safe on the roads.


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Poster ID: CL54534
Original Title: Ca C'est Plaisant! La Grande Revue
English Title: That's Nice!
Year of Poster: 1940s
Category: Theatrical/Burlesque
Actor/Artist/Director: Tom Moreno, Marcel DeWolf, Louis Briol, Les Rythmics Girls, Gibert
Country of Poster: French
Size: 47 x 33 inches = 119 x 84 cm
Condition: Good
Price: $270
Available: Yes
Notes: Theatre Municipal de Bourges 1945 printed on newsprint
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APR 18, 2013 - Eurasia Review
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By Prof K.V. Kesavan When the rest of the world was kept in a state of shivering suspense by North Korea's nuclear and missile threats, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard was quietly undertaking an important visit to China. Her China visit during 5-10 April was a well-planned one which showed her good equations with the [...]The post Australia Seeks New Warmth In Ties With China – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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At a Glance - Recognizing Products
Sometimes we can tell by looking at a polynomial that it's a product of a particular type. Not that we want to put polynomials into a box, but...it does preserve their freshness.
Difference of Two Squares
Finding the difference of two squares is a two-way street. When we multiply a sum and difference of the same terms together, we have a difference of two squares. If you put your car in reverse and look in your rearview mirror, you see that a difference of two squares comes from the product of a sum and difference of the same terms. Now, no more algebra while driving. It isn't safe.
Any polynomial that looks like ▲2 – ■2 is the result of the polynomial multiplication (▲ + ■)(▲ – ■).
To factor the polynomial, we write it as the product of the sum and the difference.
Sample Problem
Factor the polynomial x2 – 9.
This is a difference of two squares, so we know it can be factored as (▲ + ■)(▲ – ■) where ▲2 = x2 and ■2 = 9.
Therefore, we can take ▲ = x and ■ = 3 and factor the polynomial like so:
(x + 3)(x – 3)
See ya later, shapes. Go find a preschooler to play with.
Sample Problem
Factor the polynomial 16y4 – x4.
The variables have exponents greater than 2, but this polynomial is still a difference of two squares. It's trying really hard not to be recognized. Probably because it doesn't want the paparazzi all up in its face.
Since 16y4 – x4 = (4y2)2 – (x2)2, we can factor the polynomial as:
(4y2 + x2)(4y2 – x2)
Beautiful. No cameras, please.
Perfect-Square Trinomials
Sometimes you can figure out the factors of a polynomial by looking at it. If you have advanced telepathic powers, you may not even need to do that much.
We know what happens when we square a binomial, so we can recognize polynomials that are squares of binomials. Then we can work backwards to find the factors. If you want to challenge yourself, try working backwards, upside-down, and submerged underwater. We'll spot you.
Here's a quick reminder of what our perfect-square trinomials look like:
(▲ + ■)2 = ▲2 + 2▲■ + ■2
(▲ – ■)2 = ▲2 – 2▲■ + ■2
Sample Problem
Factor the polynomial 4y2 + 12y + 9.
The second term is positive, so we'll see if we can get this polynomial by squaring a binomial of the form (▲ + ■)2.
We need ▲2 = 4y2, so ▲ = 2y is a good choice; nay, the choice of champions.
We also need ■2 = 9, so take ■ = 3.
It seems like the binomial we want is 2y + 3, but we need to check to make sure the middle term comes out right. The middle is important. If the ends were all that mattered, feature-length films would be a whole lot shorter.
When we square 2y + 3, we have a middle term of 2(2y)(3). Since 2(2y)(3) = 12y, the middle term of our original polynomial, our final answer is indeed:
4y2 + 12y + 9 = (2y + 3)2
Whew. Beginning? Check. Middle? Check. End? Check. We just got ourselves either a correctly factored polynomial or the rough draft of a perfectly structured screenplay. See if you can get James Cameron on the horn.
Sample Problem
Is there a binomial whose square equals 25x2 + 10x + 4? If so, what is it?
Let's see if this polynomial is the square of a binomial (▲ + ■)2.
We would need ▲2 = 25x2, so ▲ = 5x.
We also need ■2 = 4, so take ■ = 2.
It seems like the binomial we want is 5x + 2.
When we square 5x + 2, however, the middle term will be 2(5x)(2) = 20x. While we're sure 20x is a perfectly nice term and we wish it no ill will, it isn't what we were looking for since it differs from the middle term in our original polynomial. Sadly, or perhaps not that sadly, we can't have any binomial whose square is 25x2 + 10x + 4. We would go back to the drawing board if we had one. Ooh...we should put that on our birthday list.
Example 1
Factor the polynomial 3y4 – 27x2.
Example 2
Factor the polynomial 8x2 – 56x + 98.
Exercise 1
Factor 16x2 – 25.
Exercise 2
Factor x2y2 – x2.
Exercise 3
Factor 5y6 – 5x4.
Exercise 4
Factor 9x4 + 24x2 + 16 if possible.
Exercise 5
Factor 25x2 – 30x + 9 if possible.
Exercise 6
Factor 3x2 – 12xy + 12y2 if possible.
Exercise 7
Factor 4x6 + 24x3 + 36 if possible.
Exercise 8
Factor x4 + 7x2 + 49 if possible.
Exercise 9
Factor 9x2 – 8x + 16 if possible.


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Massachusetts Children's Book Award
2016 MCBA Winner and Honor Books
School registration information will be collected at the same time votes are cast in March; there is no longer a need to register in advance.
Why MCBA?
After finding that many children lose interest in books after reaching the intermediate grades, Dr. Helen Constant founded the Massachusetts Children's Book Award Program in 1975. Designed for Massachusetts schoolchildren in grades 4-6, the program briefly included grades 7-9 from 1978 through 1983.
Today, fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-graders are given a master list of book titles. After reading five of the books, students may vote for their favorite. The list is compiled from nominations of participating teachers, librarians and interested publishers. A selection committee works with the nominations and chooses 25 titles to appear on the master list.
Criteria for the master list include literary quality, genres variety, representation of diverse cultural groups, and reader appeal. Originally, only books published in the years immediately before the award were eligible. Between 1983 and 1995, however, older titles became eligible. Now, only books published within five years of the award year are eligible. Titles on the master list are all available in paperback. The author of the winning book receives a plaque to commemorate the award.
The award is sponsored by Salem State University.


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FILE- In this Aug. 5, 2010, file photo, a pharmacy tech poses for a picture with hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets, the generic version of Vicodin, at Oklahoma Hospital Discount Pharmacy in Edmond, Okla. Sales of the nation's two most popular prescription painkillers have exploded in new parts of the country, an Associated Press analysis shows, worrying experts who say the push to relieve patients' suffering is spawning an addiction epidemic. From New York's Staten Island to Santa Fe, N.M., Drug Enforcement Administration figures show dramatic rises between 2000 and 2010 in the distribution of oxycodone, the key ingredient in OxyContin, Percocet and Percodan. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)


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Mechanism of Action
Methadone hydrochloride is a mu-agonist; a synthetic opioid analgesic with multiple actions qualitatively similar to those of morphine, the most prominent of which involves the central nervous system and organs composed of smooth muscle. The principal therapeutic uses for methadone are for analgesia and for detoxification or maintenance in opioid addiction. The methadone withdrawal syndrome, although qualitatively similar to that of morphine, differs in that the onset is slower, the course is more prolonged, and the symptoms are less severe.
Some data also indicate that methadone acts as an antagonist at the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor. The contribution of NMDA receptor antagonism to methadone's efficacy is unknown. Other NMDA receptor antagonists have been shown to produce neurotoxic effects in animals.
Following oral administration the bioavailability of methadone ranges between 36 to 100% and peak plasma concentrations are achieved between 1 to 7.5 hours. Dose proportionality of methadone pharmacokinetics is not known. However, after administration of daily oral doses ranging from 10 to 225 mg, the steady-state plasma concentrations ranged between 65 to 630 ng/mL and the peak concentrations ranged between 124 to 1255 ng/mL. Effect of food on the bioavailability of methadone has not been evaluated.
Methadone is a lipophilic drug and the steady-state volume of distribution ranges between 1.0 to 8.0 L/kg. In plasma, methadone is predominantly bound to a1-acid glycoprotein (85% to 90%). Methadone is secreted in saliva, breast milk, amniotic fluid and umbilical cord plasma.
Methadone is primarily metabolized by N-demethylation to an inactive metabolite, 2-ethylidene-1,5-dimethyl-3,3- diphenylpyrrolidene(EDDP). Cytochrome P450 enzymes, primarily CYP3A4, CYP2B6, and CYP2C19 and to a lesser extent CYP2C9 and CYP2D6, are responsible for conversion of methadone to EDDP and other inactive metabolites, which are excreted mainly in the urine. Methadone appears to be a substrate for P-glycoprotein but its pharmacokinetics do not appear to be significantly altered in case of P-glycoprotein polymorphism or inhibition.
The elimination of methadone is mediated by extensive biotransformation, followed by renal and fecal excretion. Published reports indicate that after multiple dose administration the apparent plasma clearance of methadone ranged between 1.4 and 126 L/h, and the terminal half-life (T1/2) was highly variable and ranged between 8 to 59 hours in different studies. Methadone is a basic (pKa=9.2) compound and the pH of the urinary tract can alter its disposition in plasma. Also, since methadone is lipophilic, it has been known to persist in the liver and other tissues. The slow release from the liver and other tissues may prolong the duration of methadone action despite low plasma concentrations.
Drug Interactions
Cytochrome P450 Interactions
Methadone undergoes hepatic N-demethylation by cytochrome P450 (CYP) isoforms, principally CYP3A4, CYP2B6, CYP2C19, and to a lesser extent by CYP2C9 and CYP2D6. Coadministration of methadone with CYP inducers may result in more rapid metabolism and potential for decreased effects of methadone, whereas administration with CYP inhibitors may reduce metabolism and potentiate methadone's effects. Although antiretroviral drugs such as efavirenz, nelfinavir, nevirapine, ritonavir, lopinavir+ritonavir combination are known to inhibit some CYPs, they are shown to reduce the plasma levels of methadone, possibly due to CYP induction activity [see DRUG INTERACTIONS]. Therefore, drugs administered concomitantly with methadone should be evaluated for interaction potential; clinicians are advised to evaluate individual response to drug therapy.
Cytochrome P450 Inducers
The following drug interactions were reported following coadministration of methadone with known inducers of cytochrome P450 enzymes:
Rifampin: In patients well-stabilized on methadone, concomitant administration of rifampin resulted in a marked reduction in serum methadone levels and a concurrent appearance of withdrawal symptoms.
Phenytoin: In a pharmacokinetic study with patients on methadone maintenance therapy, phenytoin administration (250 mg twice daily initially for 1 day followed by 300 mg daily for 3 to 4 days) resulted in an approximately 50% reduction in methadone exposure and withdrawal symptoms occurred concurrently. Upon discontinuation of phenytoin, the incidence of withdrawal symptoms decreased and methadone exposure increased to a level comparable to that prior to phenytoin administration.
St. John's Wort, Phenobarbital, Carbamazepine: Administration of methadone with other CYP3A4 inducers may result in withdrawal symptoms.
Cytochrome P450 Inhibitors
Since the metabolism of methadone is mediated primarily by CYP3A4 isozyme, coadministration of drugs that inhibit CYP3A4 activity may cause decreased clearance of methadone.
Voriconazole: Repeat dose administration of oral voriconazole (400 mg every 12 hours for 1 day, then 200 mg every 12 hours for 4 days) increased the peak plasma concentration (Cmax) and AUC of (R)-methadone by 31% and 47%, respectively, in subjects receiving a methadone maintenance dose (30 to 100 mg daily. The Cmax and AUC of (S)-methadone increased by 65% and 103%, respectively. Increased plasma concentrations of methadone have been associated with toxicity including QT prolongation. Frequent monitoring for adverse events and toxicity related to methadone is recommended during coadministration. Dose reduction of methadone may be needed [see DRUG INTERACTIONS].
Antiretroviral Drugs
Although antiretroviral drugs such as efavirenz, nelfinavir, nevirapine, ritonavir, telaprevir, lopinavir+ritonavir combination are known to inhibit some CYPs, they are shown to reduce the plasma levels of methadone, possibly due to CYP induction activity.
Abacavir, amprenavir, darunavir+ritonavir, efavirenz, nelfinavir, nevirapine, ritonavir, telaprevir, lopinavir+ritonavir, saquinavir +ritonavir, tipranvir+ritonavir combination: Coadministration of these anti-retroviral agents resulted in increased clearance or decreased plasma levels of methadone [see DRUG INTERACTIONS].
Didanosine and Stavudine: Methadone decreased the AUC and peak levels for didanosine and stavudine, with a more significant decrease for didanosine. Methadone disposition was not substantially altered [see DRUG INTERACTIONS].
Zidovudine: Methadone increased the AUC of zidovudine which could result in toxic effects [see DRUG INTERACTIONS].
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This monograph has been modified to include the generic and brand name in many instances.
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Entertainment's level of sophistication/affectation, i.e. high-brow or low brow.
You know, I'll watch just about anything -- roller derby or Francois Truffaut. I don't really care about brow.
додав Nhoj 07 Червня 2004
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Can you define these popular missing words?
Generally added at the end of a sentence to implicate a sexual innuendo.
1) Waiter: So what would you like for dessert? brows
2) Girl: You're feet are HUGE, brows!
2) Girl: You're feet are HUGE, brows!
додав lucypullsfaces 12 Грудня 2009
To Headbutt somebody. Derived simple from the act of the forehead or Brow being placed with force upon some poor fuckers nose, cheek or eyesocket, to devastating effect.
Im gonna brow that fucker if he looks at my lass again!
додав Hoggy 2shoes 07 Квітня 2011
A promise signed by saying brows means that if you don't go through with the said thing you will have to shave your eyebrow. Works alongside hoof to show utter commitment and friendship.
"Did you really get laid?"
"Yeah man, brows"
"Yeah man, brows"
додав potassium c 05 Листопада 2014
Being ambivalent about something. Generally having a laid-back attitude about a situation.
It doesn't matter to me if we go shopping or watch a movie. I'm brow.
Will it bother the neighbors if we have a loud party?
No, they're brow.
Will it bother the neighbors if we have a loud party?
No, they're brow.
додав GradStudentLiz 23 Серпня 2006
Making the same mistake time and time again.
He so B-Row he ended up in the ER twice!
додав La Fame Nikita 23 Травня 2011
a bro that rows. Much like a lax bro, but they dont play lacrosse
Yo, that guy is such a brow
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After nine months on the job, Mark Weinstein has stepped down as AT&T Performing Arts Center's president, CEO
Well, that was fast.
Mark Weinstein, who's been president and CEO of the AT&T Performing Arts Center all of nine months, has turned in his resignation.The reason, according to the release we just received: "family issues." Chief operating officer Doug Curtis, who helped in the design and construction of the center, will once again serve as interim president and CEO.
"Given the opportunities ahead for the center, it is critical to have leadership that is focused 100 percent on the organization's interests and priorities," said Weinstein, pictured here, in a statement. "I felt it was in the best interest of the center to step aside."
Roger Nanney, who chairs the AT&T PAC's board of directors, says in the statement that "while this is disappointing, we certainly want to wish Mark and his family all the best in the future."
Nanney adds, though, that with Curtis back in place, there are "no plans to begin an immediate search."
As our Scott Cantrell noted in May, when Weinstein was first introduced, the AT&T Performing Arts Center wasn't in the best financial shape. Wrote Scott, "The center ended its first season with a $3 million deficit and remains $40 million short in its $354 million capital campaign." But the AT&T PAC insists in its release this afternoon that it's "in better shape than ever before," referring to an uptick in annual giving. That said, according to the release management is "confident in the center's ability to achieve its financial objectives, which includes operating at break even."
We're trying to reach Weinstein, who was decidedly giddy about the gig back in May, when he told us, "This is a phenomenal position. These buildings are gorgeous, innovative, state of the art. There are wonderful resident companies here, and there's a huge sense of community. The arts can be the center of the community. That's what I like doing, being part of the conversation."


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Irving v. Lipstadt
Holocaust Denial on Trial, Trial Transcripts, Day 12: Electronic Edition
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1 Q. [Mr Rampton] Absolutely?
2 A. [Mr Irving] He is required to do that quite obviously, but in the
3meantime this is very rapidly being overtaken by orders
4from the boss himself.
5 Q. [Mr Rampton] So you say. Turn, please, to page 276 of your book,
6Goebbels, the Mastermind of the Third Reich.
7 A. [Mr Irving] Yes.
8 Q. [Mr Rampton] Just scan -- well, I will read it: "What if, Himmler
9Hitler, both were totally unaware of what Goebbels had
10done until the synagogue next to Munich's Four Seasons
11Hotel was set on fire around 1 a.m."
12 A. [Mr Irving] Not that time, "around 1 a.m."
13 Q. [Mr Rampton] Indeed I do. "Heydrich, Himmler's National Chief of
14Police, was relaxing down in the hotel bar. He hurried up
15to Himmler's room, then telexed instructions to all police
16authorities to restore law and order, protect Jews and
17Jewish property, and halt any ongoing incidents."
18 A. [Mr Irving] There is a source for that.
19 Q. [Mr Rampton] That is your account of the Heydrich' telex, is it?
20 A. [Mr Irving] Let us see what telex that is an account of perhaps.
21 Q. [Mr Rampton] It is one sent at 1.20.
22 A. [Mr Irving] 276.
23 Q. [Mr Rampton] The footnotes are on 612 and following.
24 A. [Mr Irving] I would not have invented that. I would definitely have
25had the telegram in front of me when I wrote that.
26 Q. [Mr Rampton] Really? Well, let us have a look. What is the reference
1you give for it?
2 A. [Mr Irving] Nuremberg document 3052 PS.
3 Q. [Mr Rampton] 30 -- well, if you look at page 4 of the bundle, maybe you
4have the number wrong, document ----
5 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Page 4 of which tab?
6 MR RAMPTON: Tab 1, my Lord. We have looked at it already.
7This is the Heydrich telex to which you are referring I
8suspect, Mr Irving, I suspect, 3051 PS. This is a
9Nuremberg document. If this is the document to which you
10refer in the text, it says nothing like what you said?
11 A. [Mr Irving] Well, quite clearly this is not the document because it
12has a different number. I have 3052 and you have 3051.
13 Q. [Mr Rampton] So you say. Do you have that document?
14 A. [Mr Irving] No, I do not have it here, but it would have been in my
16 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Where do you get 3052?
17 A. [Mr Irving] From my footnotes in the book, my Lord.
18 Q. [Mr Justice Gray] You said they have 3051 and you have 3052.
19 A. [Mr Irving] They challenge me with a different document.
20 Q. [Mr Justice Gray] Yes, but where do you get the number off the document that
21they have produced?
22 MR RAMPTON: The number on our document is on page 4, my Lord,
23bottom of the right-hand column, document 3051 PS. My
24Lord, on page 362 of his report Professor Evans says:
25"The footnote in Goebbels mistakenly refers to Nuremberg
26document 3052 PS instead of 3051 PS."
1 A. [Mr Irving] On what page does he say that?
2 Q. [Mr Rampton] The bottom of 262, footnote 262.
3 A. [Mr Irving] 262.
4 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Are you going to want me -- I am finding this
5extraordinarily difficult to follow.
6 A. [Mr Irving] I want to know on what basis Evans says that I have got
7the wrong document number.
8 MR RAMPTON: Are you aware of another Heydrich telex of this
9date and time, Mr Irving?
10 A. [Mr Irving] There was a whole flurry of telegrams that night. I mean
11I do not think how long we will be discussing this, but I
12certainly bring what I find from my files here for the
13court tomorrow.
14 Q. [Mr Rampton] I am going to have to leave it like this, Mr Irving, that
15you have deliberately misrepresented in your text, and one
16can tell this, if it be right, from looking at page 263 of
17Evans, where the guts of it are translated, you have
18deliberately misrepresented the text of this Heydrich
19telex. If you can lay hands on a different telex which
20says what you say in the text, well, then I shall climb
22 A. [Mr Irving] But, with respect, Mr Rampton, you are being perverse.
23I have quoted a different telegram with a different file
24number, with a different content, and you are saying it is
25different from the one you are showing the court.
26 Q. [Mr Rampton] Mr Irving ----
1 A. [Mr Irving] Nothing more and nothing less.
2 Q. [Mr Rampton] Mr Irving, it would not be the first time that you have
3given the wrong Nuremberg reference number, would it?
4I am not suggesting that is deliberate, but it can happen
5to anybody, can it not?
6 A. [Mr Irving] I am still going to tell the court of other examples.
7 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Do not let us go on to other examples.
8 MR RAMPTON: If it be that it was this document which is before
9you that you were purporting to describe in the last
10paragraph on page 276 of Goebbels, it is right, is it not,
11that what you have written in Goebbels is a total
12misdescription of the contents of the telex?
13 A. [Mr Irving] That is ridiculous hypothesis. You are comparing one
14document with another. Professor Evans, if he had done
15his job properly, should have said document No. 3052 is in
16fact a letter from Adolf von Schirott to somebody else and
17totally unrelated to this issue. But he has not. He has
18just advanced the bald statement that I got the number
19wrong, when quite clearly the number is different and the
20content is different.
21 MR JUSTICE GRAY: And the time is different.
22 A. [Mr Irving] And the time is different.
23 MR RAMPTON: I am sorry, my Lord.
24 MR JUSTICE GRAY: The time is different. This is 1.20 whereas
25the -- no, it is not timed actually.
26 MR RAMPTON: No, it is not timed. The timing actually fits
1because the text of Goebbels says: "The Four Seasons was
2set on fire around 1.00. Heydrich", etc. etc., then he
3went upstairs and then he sent his telegram ----
4 A. [Mr Irving] He could not have done all that in 20 minutes for a start.
5 Q. [Mr Rampton] --- and bingo 1.20.
6 A. [Mr Irving] He certainly could not have done all that in 20 minutes,
7but we are arguing in the dark here until I can bring the
8actual document.
9 Q. [Mr Rampton] We should, Mr Irving. I will chase it up and if you would
10be so good you too, but you may not care to. If this is a
11wrong assumption and there is a Heydrich telex which says
12what you say it says, then, as I say, I shall climb down.
13 A. [Mr Irving] Eat humble pie.
14 Q. [Mr Rampton] No, I shall simply climb down. I shall apologise.
15 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Let us wait and see what happens, see who is
16going to eat what. Mr Rampton, I really do think that if
17there are perhaps eight important documents on the
18sequence of events that night, the night of 9th, I must
19have translations. It is just not good enough to hand in
20a whole lot of German documents and expect me to make
21sense of it all. I probably could but it would take
23 MR RAMPTON: Some of them are summarised or translated or
24partly translated.
25 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Yes, but then I have to dart around trying to
26find whereabouts that is summarized.
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Dionysus (Bacchus)
Interview with Dionysus (Bacchus)
The following is a transcript of Dionysus' first and only session with Doctor Logos, renowned psychoanalyst.
DIONYSUS: I just don't see why I'm here.
DR. LOGOS: I think you know why you're here, Dionysus.
DIONYSUS: This is ridiculous.
DR. LOGOS: Is it, though?
DIONYSUS: I'm fine. There's nothing wrong with me.
DR. LOGOS: I never said there was.
DIONYSUS: Why are you smiling at me like that?
DR. LOGOS: Was I smiling?
DR. LOGOS: Hmmmm.
The sound of Dr. Logos' pencil scratching on paper as he writes.
DIONYSUS: What are you writing?
DR. LOGOS: Observations.
DIONYSUS: Of what?
DR. LOGOS: What do you think?
DIONYSUS: I'm not crazy. I don't care what they say. I'm perfectly fine. I'm perfectly stable.
DR. LOGOS: Stable?
DIONYSUS: Well, okay, not stable, but purposely unstable, which is its own kind of stability. So there.
DR. LOGOS: Interesting.
The sound of the doctor writing.
DIONYSUS: I'm going to stick that pencil up your nose.
DR. LOGOS: Do you realize that you've threatened me twice now?
DIONYSUS: I'm out of here. I don't care what Zeus says. This is a waste of time.
DR. LOGOS: Do you think your father would've ordered you to talk with me if he thought it was a waste of time?
DIONYSUS: Who cares what he thinks?
DR. LOGOS: I'd be careful. He has very good hearing, you know.
Thunder rumbles somewhere far above.
DIONYSUS: Okay, okay... let's get this over with.
DR. LOGOS: Very good. Now tell me, please, would you say that you have an alcohol problem?
DIONYSUS: I drink a little wine.
DR. LOGOS: A little?
DIONYSUS: Okay, more than a little.
DR. LOGOS: How much more?
DIONYSUS: Gallons, okay?! Geez. I drink gallons and gallons and gallons every night. I'm the god of wine. Isn't that kind of my job?
DR. LOGOS: It isn't my place to say.
DIONYSUS: I really don't like you. Like, really.
DR. LOGOS: Interesting.
The sound of writing.
DR. LOGOS: Tell me, would call yourself a violent god?
DIONYSUS: No, not at all.
DR. LOGOS: Really?
DIONYSUS: Well, I have had a few people, you know, torn apart... Pentheus and what not. And I did... you know... oppress most of India to my will.
DR. LOGOS: Would you say that oppression was achieved through violence?
DIONYSUS: How the heck else would you oppress somebody? This is crazy! Why doesn't Zeus make Ares come in here? Talk about violence! Why is Zeus picking on me?
DR. LOGOS: Your father cares about you very much, Dionysus.
DIONYSUS: Yeah, right.
DR. LOGOS: He's never done anything to show he cares?
DIONYSUS: Well, he did give birth to me.
DR. LOGOS: Interesting, could you elaborate?
DIONYSUS: Ugh, fine. Long story short: my mother, Semele, was having an affair with him. When his actual wife Hera found out, she flipped out. She tricked my mother into getting Zeus to reveal himself to her in a kind of, well, dangerous form.
DR. LOGOS: And what form might that be?
DIONYSUS: Thunder and lightning. Mom got obliterated. She was already pregnant with me, though, and the fire kind of pushed me out a bit early. So Dad took tiny me and sewed me into his thigh until I was ready to be born.
DR. LOGOS: Interesting. And how did that make you feel?
DIONYSUS: Um, totally messed up? How would it make you feel, for crying out loud? I mean, my mom got blown up, so then my dad became my mom, too. Talk about daddy issues.
DR. LOGOS: Hmm. Did you have any other traumatic childhood experiences?
DIONYSUS: Well, Hera had me ripped apart by Titans when I was a baby. No big deal.
DR. LOGOS: Oh, dear. I would certainly categorize that as traumatic.
DIONYSUS: Yeah, I guess. They tore me apart and ate me. Zeus blasted them with some thunderbolts, but by the time he got there, all that was left was my heart. So, he sewed it into his thigh, and I grew again.
DR. LOGOS: Twice born from your father.
DIONYSUS: Yep, that's what they say.
DR. LOGOS: Now tell me, do you think that all this obliteration and dismemberment might have something to do with your habit of dismembering others?
DIONYSUS: Oh, I wouldn't call it a habit.
DR. LOGOS: There was Pentheus, wasn't there? And aren't your female followers... what is it you call them?
DIONYSUS: Maenads.
DR. LOGOS: Yes, the Maenads. Aren't they known for running around and ripping apart animals, and sometimes men and even children?
DIONYSUS: They do get a bit carried away on occasion.
DR. LOGOS: A bit?
DIONYSUS: Don't judge me.
DR. LOGOS: It's not my place to judge you, Dionysus.
DIONYSUS: But you are. I can tell.
DR. LOGOS: We're only here together because people are worried about you. Your wife, Ariadne, your father, Zeus, the great god Pan--
DIONYSUS: Pan? Pan is worried about me? Do you know the kind of crazy stuff that hairy little guy does? You should come to one of our Bacchanals and you'll see. Pan! He and Silenus... all of those Satyrs... they're completely out of control. Half the time, I'm the voice of sanity.
DR. LOGOS: Forgive me, Dionysus, but you just don't have a reputation for sanity.
DIONYSUS: Fine. Maybe I don't. Maybe I'm not sane at all. Maybe I'm crazy. Maybe I drive other people crazy, too. But maybe, just maybe, that's okay. Have you ever thought about that? Huh? Have you ever thought that the world needs a little madness? That if there weren't a god like me around, the world would be a totally boring place? People need to let loose once in a while. People need to express themselves. People need to dance and shout and scream. I am inspiration. Without me, humans wouldn't be able to tap into that animal wildness inside them. And they need that, Dr. Logos. It's necessary. I'm necessary. Do you hear me?! I... am... necessary. Don't you see that?
DR. LOGOS: Interesting.
The sound of writing.
DIONYSUS: I need a glass of wine.


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Chemical Hygiene Plan - Section 4
Section 4, Chemical Toxicology
- 4.1 Chemical Toxicology Overview
- 4.2 Some Target Organ Effects
- 4.3 Occupational Health Standards
Section 4
Chemical Toxicology
4.1 Chemical Toxicology Overview
4.1.1 Definitions
- Toxicology
is the study of the nature and action of poisons.
- Toxicity
is the ability of a chemical substance or compound to produce injury once it reaches a susceptible site in, or on, the body.
- Hazard Potential
A material's hazard potential is the probability that injury will occur after consideration of the conditions under which the substance is used.
4.1.2 Dose-Response Relationships
The potential toxicity (harmful action) inherent in a substance is exhibited only when that substance comes in contact with a living biological system. The potential toxic effect increases as the exposure increases. All chemicals will exhibit a toxic effect given a large enough dose. The toxic potency of a chemical is thus ultimately defined by the dose (the amount) of the chemical that will produce a specific response in a specific biological system.
4.1.3 Routes of Entry into the Body
There are three main routes by which hazardous chemicals enter the body:
- Absorption through the respiratory tract via inhalation.
- Absorption through the skin via dermal contact.
- Absorption through the digestive tract via ingestion. (Ingestion can occur through eating or smoking with contaminated hands or in contaminated work areas.)
Most exposure standards, such as the Threshold Limit Values (TLV's) and Permissible Exposure Limits (PEL's), are based in the inhalation route of exposure. These limits are normally expressed in terms of either parts per million (ppm) or milligrams per cubic meter (mg/m3) concentration in air. If a significant route of exposure for a substance is through skin contact, the MSDS, PEL, and/or TLV will have a "skin" notation. Examples of substances where skin absorption may be a significant factor include: pesticides, carbon disulfide, carbon tetrachloride, dioxane, mercury, thallium compounds, xylene and hydrogen cyanide.
4.1.4 Types of Effects
- Acute poisoning is characterized by sudden and severe exposure and rapid absorption of the substance. Normally, a single large exposure is involved. Adverse health effects are often reversible. Examples: carbon monoxide or cyanide poisoning.
- Chronic poisoning is characterized by prolonged or repeated exposure of a duration measured in days, months or years. Symptoms may not be immediately apparent. Health effects are often irreversible. Examples: lead or mercury poisoning.
- Local effect refers to an adverse health effect that takes place at the point or area of contact. The site may be skin, mucous membranes, the respiratory tract, gastrointestinal system, eyes, etc. Absorption does not necessarily occur. Examples: strong acids or alkalis.
- Systemic effect refers to an adverse health effect that takes place at a location distant from the body's initial point of contact and presupposes absorption has taken place. Examples: arsenic affects the blood, nervous system, liver, kidneys, and skin; benzene affects bone marrow.
- Cumulative poisons are characterized by materials that tend to build up in the body as a result of numerous chronic exposures. The effects are not seen until a critical body burden is reached. Example: heavy metals.
- Substances in combination: When two or more hazardous materials are present at the same time, the resulting effect can be greater than the effect predicted based on the additive effect of the individual substances. This is called a synergistic or potentiating effect. Example: exposure to alcohol and chlorinated solvents; or smoking and asbestos.
4.1.5 Other Factors Affecting Toxicity
- Rate of entry and route of exposure; that is, how fast is the toxic dose delivered and by what means.
- Age of the individual can affect the capacity to repair tissue damage.
- Previous exposure can lead to tolerance, increased sensitivity or make no difference.
- State of health, physical condition and life style can affect the toxic response.
- Pre-existing disease can result in increased sensitivity.
- Environmental factors such as temperature and pressure.
- Host factors including genetic predisposition and the sex of the exposed individual.
4.1.6 Physical Classifications
Gas applies to a substance which is in the gaseous state at room temperature and pressure.
A Vapor is the gaseous phase of a material which is ordinarily a solid or a liquid at room temperature and pressure.
When considering the toxicity of gases and vapors, the solubility of the substance is a key factor. Highly soluble materials, like ammonia irritate the upper respiratory tract. On the other hand, relatively insoluble materials, like nitrogen dioxide, penetrate deep into the lung. Fat-soluble materials, like pesticides, tend to have longer residence times in the body and be cumulative poisons.
An aerosol is composed of microscopic solid or liquid particles dispersed in a gaseous medium.
The toxic potential of an aerosol is only partially described by its airborne concentration. For a proper assessment of the toxic hazard, the size of the aerosol's particles must be determined. A particle's size will determine if a particle will be deposited within the respiratory system and the location of deposition. Particles above 10 micrometers tend to deposit in the nose and other areas of the upper respiratory tract. Below 10 micrometers particles enter and are deposited in the lung. Very small particles (<0.2 micrometers) are generally not deposited but exhaled.
4.1.7 Physiological Classifications
Irritants are materials that cause inflammation of mucous membranes with which they come in contact. Inflammation of tissue results from exposure to concentrations far below those needed to cause corrosion. Examples include:
- Acetylides of heavy metals
- Alkaline dusts and mists
- Hydrogen chloride
- Hydrogen fluoride
- Halogens
- Ozone
- Phosgene
- Diethyl/dimethyl sulfate
- Nitrogen dioxide
- Phosphorous chlorides
- Arsenic trichloride
Irritants can cause changes in the mechanics of respiration and lung function. Examples include:
- Acrolein
- Sulfur dioxide
- Iodine
- Formaldehyde
- Sulfuric acid
Long term exposure to irritants can result in increased mucous secretions and chronic bronchitis.
A primary irritant exerts no systemic toxic action either because the products formed on the tissue of the respiratory tract are non-toxic or because the irritant action is far in excess of any systemic toxic action. Example:
- Hydrogen chloride.
A secondary irritant's effect on mucous membranes is overshadowed by a systemic effect resulting from absorption. Examples include:
- Hydrogen Sulfide
- Aromatic Hydrocarbons.
Asphyxiants have the ability to deprive tissue of oxygen. Simple asphyxiants are inert gases that displace oxygen. Examples include:
- Nitrogen
- Nitrous oxide
- Helium
- Carbon dioxide
- Hydrogen
Chemical asphyxiants reduce the body's ability to absorb, transport, or utilize inhaled oxygen. They are often active at very low concentrations (a few ppm). Examples include:
- Carbon Monoxide
- Cyanides.
Primary anesthetics have a depressant effect upon the central nervous system, particularly the brain. Examples include:
- Halogenated Hydrocarbons
- Alcohols.
Hepatotoxic agents cause damage to the liver. Examples include:
- Carbon tetrachloride
- Tetrachloroethane
- Nitrosamines
Nephrotoxic agents damage the kidneys. Examples include:
- Halogenated hydrocarbons
- Uranium compounds
Neurotoxic agents damage the nervous system. The nervous system is especially sensitive to organometallic compounds and certain sulfide compounds. Examples include:
- Trialkyl tin compounds
- Organic phosphorous insecticides
- Tetraethyl lead
- Thallium
- Methyl mercury
- Manganese
- Carbon disulfide
Some toxic agents act on the blood or hematopoietic system. The blood cells can be affected directly or the bone marrow (which produces the blood cells) can be damaged. Examples include:
- Nitrites
- Nitrobenzene
- Aniline
- Benzene
- Toluidine
There are toxic agents that produce damage of the pulmonary tissue (lungs) but not by immediate irritant action. Fibrotic changes can be caused by free silica and asbestos. Other dusts can cause a restrictive disease called pneumoconiosis. Examples include:
- Coal dust
- Cotton dust
- Wood dust
A carcinogen is an agent that can initiate or increase the proliferation of malignant neoplastic cells or the development of malignant or potentially malignant tumors. Known human carcinogens include:
- Asbestos
- Vinyl chloride
- 4-nitrobiphenyl
- Inorganic arsenic
- Alpha-napthylamine
- Ethylene oxide
- Methyl chloromethyl ether
- 1,2-Dibromo-3-chloropropane (DBCP)
- 3,3-Dichlorobenzidine
- N-nitrosodimethylamine
- Bis-chloromethyl ether
- Coal tar pitch volatiles
A mutagen interferes with the proper replication of genetic material (chromosome strands) in exposed cells. If germ cells are involved, the effect may be inherited and become part of the genetic pool passed onto future generations.
- Lead
- Thalidomide
A sensitizer is a chemical which can cause an allergic reaction in normal tissue after repeated exposure to the chemical. The reaction may be as mild as a rash (allergic dermatitis) or as serious as anaphylactic shock. Examples include:
- Epoxies
- Chromium compounds
- Toluene diisocyanate
- Poison ivy sap
- Nickel compounds
- Chlorinated hydrocarbons
4.2 Some Target Organ Effects
The following is a categorization of target organ effects, which may occur from chemical exposure. Signs and symptoms of these effects and examples of chemicals, which have been found to cause such effects, are listed.
|Target Organs
|Signs and Symptoms
|Example Chemicals
|Jaundice, Liver Enlargement
|Nitrosamines, Chloroform, Toluene, Perchloroethylene, Cresol, Dimethyl Sulfate
|Edema, Proteinuria
|Halogenated Hydrocarbons, Uranium, Chloroform, Mercury, Dimethyl Sulfate
|Nervous System
|Narcosis, Behavior Changes, Decreased Muscle Coordination
|Mercury, Carbon Disulfide, Benzene, Carbon Tetra-chloride, Lead, Nitrobenzene
|Hematopoietic Toxins
|Blood and Blood Forming Tissues
|Cyanosis, Loss of Consciousness
|Carbon Monoxide, Cyanides, Nitrobenzene, Arsenic, Benzene, Toluene
|Pulmonary Toxins
|Irritate or Damage the Lungs
|Cough, Chest Tightness, Shortness of Breath, Cancer
|Silica, Asbestos, Ozone, Hydrogen sulfide, Chromium, Nickel, Alcohols
|Reproductive toxins
|Reproductive Organs
|Birth Defects, Decreased Fertility
|Lead, Dibromodichloropropane
|Skin Hazards
|Dermal Layer
|Defatting of Skin, Rashes, Irritation
|Ketones, Phenol, Chlorinated Hydrocarbons, Alcohols, Nickel, Trichloroethylene
|Eye Hazards
|Eyes or Optic Nerve
|Conjunctivitis, Corneal Damage
|Acids, Bases, Cresol, Butyl Alcohol, Methyl Alcohol, Organic Solvents
4.3 Occupational Health Standards
TLV: The threshold limit value is a recommended occupational exposure guideline published by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists. TLV's are expressed as parts of vapor or gas per million parts of air by volume (ppm) or as approximate milligrams of particulate per cubic meter or air (mg/m3).The TLV is the average concentration of a chemical that most people can be exposed to for a working lifetime with no ill effects. The TLV is an advisory guideline. If applicable, a ceiling concentration (C), which should not be exceeded, or a skin absorption notation (S) will be indicated with the TLV.
PEL: The permissible exposure limit is a legal standard issued by OSHA. Unless specified, the PEL is a time weighted average (TWA).
TWA: Most exposure standards are based in time weighted averages. The TWA is the average exposure over an eight-hour workday. Some substances have ceiling (C) limits. Ceiling limits are concentrations that should never be exceeded.
The MSDS will list the occupational health standards for the hazardous chemical or each component of a mixture.
This page developed and maintained by Environmental Health and Safety. Send comments and suggestions to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The idea was to advetise Green Choice's environmentally friendly products by making ads that were themselves environmentally friendly. Posters were printed on reused scrap paper that had been previously destined for landfill. This poster was printed on an old fax.
Typographer: Retoucher: David Dennings
Advertising Agency: Publicis Mojo, Sydney, Australia
Creative Director: Darren Spiller
Copywriter: Hamish Spencer
Art Director: Heather Sheen
Photographer: Steve Turner
Published:August, 2006


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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Uses for a "Faraday Suit"
OK, this guy is wearing a "Faraday Suit" so that he doesn't get fried by 20 kajillion volts, which are dancing to the tune of a giant Tesla Coil playing the Star Wars "Imperial March" music:
This awesome video of a high-tension powerline worker wearing a Faraday Suit in his work was sent to me by our own Triple-G a couple of years back:
Watch it, it's pretty amazing what jobs people have.
Labels: just plain awesome, science
Sunday, March 29, 2009
We survived Hailstorm '09!
Well, that was pretty interesting. A seething front passed through just now, and behind it came mothball-sized hail! It was pretty impressive. The creek next door to our house jumped it's banks and the field was full of muddy water with tiny ice cubes bobbing merrily along. I have videos up HERE and HERE on the Comix Connection YouTube Channel!
Labels: cool, science, YouTube - The Comix Connection Channel
Saturday, March 28, 2009
And if they had opposable thumbs, we'd all be dead
Friday, March 27, 2009
Did you get the email we just sent out?
Did you get the email we sent out yesterday? If you didn't, you need to sign up for the Weekly/Monthly Comix Connection Emailing by going to the right side of this page at the bottom and filling in the "Email Aces" box. You will get a confirmation email that you need to respond to, and then you'll be all set. (I CANNOT SIGN YOU UP FOR THE EMAILS... you have to do it yourself. This prevents spamming to protect you from receiving junk emails.)
Sign up today to get our sporadic emailing which contains lots of information on specials, sales and events! Don't be left out of the loop!
Labels: FYI
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Where The Wild Things Are!
Check out this trailer for the upcoming Where The Wild Things Are movie, based on the classic children's book by Maurice Sendak:
The movie, directed by Spike Jonze is set for release October 16th 2009.
Thanks for the heads-up everybody who sent a link!
(Strangely enough, I never read this book until I had my own kids, so it doesn't resonate with me as strong as it does with a LOT of you.)
Labels: at the movies, youtube
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Local comic creator Mike Hawthorne is EVERYWHERE these days!
Local artist Mike Hawthorne has two, count 'em TWO books on the stands this week:
Check out Mike's blog HERE!
As always Mike these both look awesome! Come on in and get your copies today, folks!
Labels: cool comic creators, FYI, talent
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
I don't know why someone did this, I don't know what it means, and I don't know where I found it, I just thought you might enjoy it:
Best Friends.
Done on a Travel Etch-A-Sketch
You're welcome.
Labels: what's wrong with bill
Monday, March 23, 2009
The King!
Labels: jared trys., Kirby
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Happy Birthday, Captain Kirk!
Today is William Shatner's 78th birthday and this guy wants to declare March 22 "International Talk Like William Shatner Day". I'm all for that. I mean, we're talking about the guy who brought us so much joy from things like THIS:
A true classic. Happy Birthday, Bill!
Oh and I had to post this video again because it's so awesome.
Shatner and Joe Jackson doing Pulp's "Common People" to the 1970s Star Trek cartoon. Perfect.
Labels: possibility of cake, youtube
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Pub Evacuated due to presence of suspicious Globus Cruciger
That's right, a Globus Cruciger, specifically The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch of Monty Python and the Holy Grail fame.
Read the article HERE, see the clip HERE.
You can never be too careful.
Labels: hilarious, In the news
Friday, March 20, 2009
Alan Moore and Bill
Out for a stroll, back when they were still speaking to each other:
(I'm just kidding. Jared sent me this a while ago because he thought that the guy with Alan Moore of WATCHMEN fame looks like me. I don't know who that guy is.)
Labels: Fictional History, odd fun stuff
Thursday, March 19, 2009
I got nothin, except a
Now I'm hungry.
Labels: no label that I can think of
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
What I'm reading now, and why.
I make no secret that my favorite comics are of the Marvel variety. Right now I find the Dark Reign theme really well thought out and backed by a lot of great writers. My favorite books right now are Fantastic Four and Wolverine "Old Man Logan" (Mark Millar), Dark Avengers (Bendis), Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk (Damon Lindelof of Lost fame!), Secret Warriors (Hickman & Bendis), and a little mentioned, hidden gem, The Immortal Iron Fist (Swierczynski).
I rarely hear any mention of the The Immortal Iron Fist, and maybe that's because the character himself is not very popular. The thing I do know, is that if you pick up the current issue and read the re-cap on the first page, it will be worth it! Trust me. The art is phenomenal, not to mention, innovative and the story is epic, but approachable for new readers.
Over at DC comics, it's absolutely no competition, Green Lantern takes the cake! Geoff Johns epic sweeping story picked up with Green Lantern Rebirth a few years back and hasn't stopped running full speed since. The good reason to get into the Green Lantern books now are that coming up on Free Comic Day, the world will be getting the prologue to the big DC event, Blackest Night! This book is not only a great jump on point for people looking to read Green Lantern but also to get on board with the entire DCU current.
Also to look forward to at DC is the upcoming Batman and Robin title, brought to us by the All-Star Superman team of Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly!
As always, the alternative books become a side note. Starting with a well established book that I'm just now getting the chance to dive into. Love an Rockets is available in seven convenient collected volumes. They are not appropriate for young lings, but if you're an adult and want to have a romping good time, try this book today. Its filled with beautifully drawn women in a sci-fi, reality twisted existence. The new format is a small square bound book, titled, Love & Rockets New Stories, continuing the mythos.
I'm catching up on Invincible as well, just completing volume nine, and boy can I say the hype was not unjustified! What an amazing comic. Its a self contained world where a college age man comes to grips with the overwhelming duty of being a real superhero. Let me clarify that it is not done in a corny way either, I, at times really feel for the character in his personal life and his larger than life, superhero dilemmas.
And last, but not least, Incognito! Which I know Bill, if not all of my coworkers, will back me in saying that Brubaker has struck again. After such hits as his mainstream Captain America and Daredevil books and his creator owned Criminal, he now brings us Incognito. Its the story of an ex super-villain who is put into protective custody after a life of crime, and how he fights the urges to go out and wreak havoc again! All beautifully illustrated by Sean Phillips!
So that's what I'm reading and loving, what are you reading and loving?
Labels: jared trys., must read
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
After WATCHMEN... What's Next?
DC Comics has a program to answer that very question... a selection of some of the best thought-provoking comics that DC has ever published, available in special editions for the low price of ONE DOLLAR EACH!
This is the list of titles DC has selected for this program, all classics in their own right:
Saga of the Swamp Thing #21, March 11
Transmetropolitan #1, March 18
Planetary #1, March 25
Preacher #1, April 1
Identity Crisis #1, April 8
HERE'S more info from the DC website, which also lists more recommended titles for your perusal!
Available in stores right now is Alan Moore's classic SWAMP THING story "The Anatomy Lesson", followed this week by TRANSMETROPOLITAN #1, so come on in and get your copies today!
Labels: a word from our sponsor, classics, must read
Monday, March 16, 2009
I got your state-of-the-art recording technology right here
A crackly analogue recording made in 1951 is the earliest known example of a digital computer making music, say UK historians.
The recording captures one of the earliest computers to use short term random access memory playing God Save the King, Baa Baa Black Sheep and a short piece of Glenn Miller's In The Mood.
The Ferranti Mark 1 computer was built by UK electrical engineering firm Ferranti in collaboration with Manchester University, UK. It was the world's first commercial computer, and nine were sold between 1951 and 1957
Listen to an mp3 file of the recording
And CLICK HERE to read the entire article.
More on the Ferranti Mark 1 computer HERE
I guess your 1951 iPod would have been the size of Delaware.
Labels: science
Sunday, March 15, 2009
I thought this artwork was pretty neat:
So I clicked on the Verminology website and discovered that these are ALL DRAWN BY FINGERTIP ON AN iPhone!!!
Pretty amazing.
Labels: getting crafty
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Just blown away!
The art of Robert Hack is beautiful. It's one more example of an artist I find through "internetting", that I just yearn for to see in the monthly superhero publications. I see he's done some work for Doctor Who comics, but the real treat for me, is to see his superheroes and creature renderings! Fantastic stuff!
Check out more here!
Labels: cool, jared trys., just plain awesome
Friday, March 13, 2009
M.O.D.O.K. Madness!
M.O.D.O.K. as a character really lends himself to different artist renderings, find the evidence here. The above is titled Moflok, appropriately.
Labels: jared trys., just plain awesome
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Spoof: Frank Miller's CHARLIE BROWN
Check it out:
Find the entire two-page spoof HERE!
Of course, I always liked Jason Youngbluth's WEAPON BROWN which appeared in DEEP FRIED. Great stuff.
Labels: hilarious
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
What does one trillion look like?
You hear the number like "billion" and "trillion" bandied about all over the place, but can you really grasp the enormity of the numbers?
CLICK HERE for a brief tutorial of a visualization of what a TRILLION looks like.
Staggering, isn't it?
You're welcome.
Labels: science
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
My First Comics!
So it all started when my dad told me not to go into the attic and root through his things, so I did. Finding Richie Rich, Kamandi, and Tor comics. Then my older brother handed me some Savage Dragon, Ninja Turtles, and Spawn books. After the exposure to these eye openers, I discovered the Comix Connection 2 for 99'ers. My hands riddled with red marker, I began to leave the store with Adventures of Superman, Spider-man, and Tick comics. I've remembered all of those comics for years now, because each comic was a step closer to the day I signed up for a subscription and an addiction. These are some of those that I remember.
This issue was one of the first that I found in my Dad's trash bags from the attic. Jack Kirby! Nuff' said!
I actually enjoyed reading these the most! Richie Rich and all the Harvey cast are so fun, so it was a major treat when the Harvey Classics reprints came out, speaking of which, they are still available here at Comix Connection!
Can't forget the first time I saw a Kubert comic!
This Turtles comic helped me realize there were more than just cave men and funny books out there, and then I met the Super-heroes!
This is the first of that breed I ever had, and the cover is stained into my brain. The stark red background is something I'll never forget.
One of my first 2 for 99'ers!
Last but not least the first time I picked up my sub and brought home uncanny X-men #369 in 1999.
I'd later pick up Ultimate Spider-man #1, discovering Bendis. A few years later I'd read Walking Dead #1, and the hits never stopped coming after that. I thought I'd write this post about the first comics I remembered having as a kid, because they are the reason I read today, a lot of it was the art on the covers' appeal.
So, what were some of the first comics you read?
Labels: comic geek speak, comic talk, jared trys.
Monday, March 09, 2009
That is all.
Labels: hilarious
Sunday, March 08, 2009
Smiley face on Mars
As seen in the WATCHMEN graphic novel:
And as seen on MARS:
Check out GOOGLE MARS and then type in "Galle Crater" to see for yourself.
Pretty neat, eh?
Labels: at the movies, science
Saturday, March 07, 2009
So, what did you think of the WATCHMEN movie?
Please vote:
Oh, and CLICK HERE to get some cool WATCHMEN desktop wallpapers!
Labels: poll
Friday, March 06, 2009
Saturday Morning WATCHMEN!
OK, this was plain hilarious. CLICK HERE and then click on WATCH THIS MOVIE for a send-up of Saturday Morning cartoons... WATCHMEN style!
A tip of the hat to MegoSteve for the link!
Labels: just plain awesome
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Turn your nerd room into the bridge of the USS Enterprise!
With this awesome "wall mural":
read more about these HERE and check out the RoomMates website for tons more awesome wall decorations, including Batman, Incredible Hulk, Spider-man, Superman, Iron Man, Transformers and much more! (LINK FIXED! GO AHEAD AND CLICK ON IT NOW.)
(I really liked that suggestion in the comments section of that first article: Make one of the GUARDIAN OF FOREVER! Yes, please.)
Thanks for the tip, P-J Delaye!
Labels: neat stuff
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
An odd logo
As I was sipping coffee in my kitchen this morning, my eyes fell upon the tin of LYLE'S BLACK TREACLE that I picked up on my trip to Ireland back in the '90s:
I brought that home from my trip not because I liked treacle, but because of the bizarre logo on the tin:
Here's the explanation, from LYLE'S website:
The "lion and the bees" trademark
Abram Lyle had strong religious beliefs, which is why the Lyle's Golden Syrup trademark depicts a quotation from the Bible. In the Old Testament (Book of Judges 14:14) Samson was travelling to the land of the Philistines in search of a wife. During the journey he killed a lion, and on his return past the same spot he noticed that a swarm of bees had formed a comb of honey in the carcass. Samson later turned this into a riddle: "Out of the eater came forth meat and out of the strong came forth sweetness".
The "lion and bees" were quickly becoming identified with Lyle's Golden Syrup, and it was registered as Lyle's trademark in 1904. Plaistow employees did not forget to celebrate its 100th birthday in 2004.
However, no-one knows why Abram chose the wording 'Out of the strong came forth sweetness'. Was he referring to the tin holding the syrup - or the company producing it?
Weird, isn't it?
(My house is full of this kind of useless stuff that caught my eye. It's like the nest of a magpie... shiny objects with no obvious connection.)
Labels: odd fun stuff
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Patrick McGoohan and Jack Kirby...
Labels: jared trys., just plain awesome


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ANZ has made genuine, long-term commitment to improving financial literacy and inclusion - the issues most relevant to our retail business. We also encourage and enable our people to use their skills and expertise to support the causes that are important to them - in the process supporting hundreds of local community charities.
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The response from our people has also been inspiring. For example, ANZ employees have contributed more than 156,000 hours of paid volunteering leave since this initiative was introduced in 2001. This year, our total community investment was more than $17.8 million.*
We also know times have changed since the Charter was introduced. Next year we will engage our people, partners and stakeholders to review it. We envisage more specific commitments to improve the financial capabilities and wellbeing of Indigenous Australians and people with disabilities as we sharpen our focus on assisting the most vulnerable people in society. Both the community sector and our people are also calling for a greater focus on skill-based volunteering and secondments. The Charter will evolve to reflect this.
* ANZ uses the London Benchmarking Group model (LBG) which is the emerging international standard for measuring corporate community investment programs.
- London Benchmarking Group benchmark for community investment per employee ($213)


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Digital Marketing Manager
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KeeResources are a leading provider of software solutions and vehicle data to the UK automotive sector.
Customers include vehicle manufacturers, retailers and leasing companies, and we work with many of the industry's leading brands.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced digital marketing specialist to join a leading provider of software solutions and vehicle data to the UK automotive sector.
A brand new role reporting to the Sales and Marketing Director, this is a great opportunity to take ownership and be responsible for creating and executing our digital marketing plan.
You will also be actively involved in implementing digital solutions for our customers, working directly with vehicle manufacturers, digital agencies and leasing companies.
The role requires a versatile individual with a broad range of digital skills, who can handle B2B and B2C projects in a fast moving environment.
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Elon University is accepting applications for a Video Producer. The video producer works with departments, offices and individuals to conceptualize video projects designed primarily for external relations purposes. The video producer carries out all aspects of production, including videography, editing and distribution of videos via a variety of media channels. Other responsibilities include consulting with clients and handling all conceptions, pre-production, production and post- production phases of video productions/projects, including but not limited to conceptual development via storyboarding and script writing/editing and distribution of videos via a variety of media channels. The video producer also participates in maintenance of equipment, facilities and archives for video production in the Office of University Communications. Bachelor's degree required with three years related experience. The successful candidate must supply a video portfolio demonstrating a variety of production skills in different video genres. Position will remain open until filled. For more information and to apply go to www.elon.edu/employment. Elon University is an equal employment opportunity employer committed to a diverse faculty, staff and student body and welcomes all applicants.
Elon University is a top-ranked liberal arts university that is widely recognized as a leader in student engagement and experiential learning. The academic program is distinguished by a strong foundation in the liberal arts and sciences combined with outstanding professional programs. In its 2014 "America's Best Colleges" guide, U.S. News & World Report ranks Elon #1 among Southern Regional Universities and one of the nation's top colleges and universities "with an unusually strong commitment to undergraduate teaching."
The Elon community is characterized by a strong student-centered mission, a commitment to excellent teaching and a spirit of innovation. The university includes more than 390 full-time faculty members and 5,600 undergraduate and 700 graduate students from 47 states, the District of Columbia and 49 other nations. The university has six academic units: Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences; the School of Communications; the School of Education; the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business; the School of Health Sciences; and the School of Law, which is located in downtown Greensboro, N.C. Elon offers more than 60 undergraduate majors and six graduate programs.
The university sends more students to study abroad than any other master's-level university in the nation, and the core curriculum includes a strong global focus. Newsweek-Kaplan has named Elon the nation's "leader in engaged learning" and Princeton Review ranks Elon among the nation's 378 "best colleges." Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine and the Fiske Guide to Colleges both name Elon one of the nation's "best value" private universities.
Elon's 620-acre campus in North Carolina's Piedmont region is consistently recognized as one of the nation's most beautiful college environments. The campus includes the 56-acre Elon University Forest, a land preserve and natural area for scientific research.


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On Tuesday, Nov. 12, she will give a talk titled "Feng Shui Your Life: Positive Energy for Home, Love and Prosperity," focusing on ways to arrange living spaces to promote abundance and health.
The following evening, Wednesday, Nov. 13, Barrett's "Feng Shui for Beauty: Nurturing the Goddess Inside and Out" will cover radiance-promoting mind-body techniques, how to read beauty product labels and avoid formulas with toxic chemicals.
She will also offer samples from her new line of organic argan oil serums, Zweena Argan Beauty Elixirs.
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FSN's Greg Lucas returns as a special guest to kick off the new year and gives his in-depth opinions of the upcoming Astros' season.
Its time to put steroids, HGH and testosterone behind us…and I don't mean where to inject it! No, its time to take a pre camp look at what the Houston Astros will put on the field in 2008.
Unlike a number of pundits (the local talk show scene in inundated with opinions) I am not looking at the club in a negative way. There is every reason to believe it will be considerably more successful than in 2007. Whether that will be enough to get back into post season remains to be seen. But the same thing can be said certainly about every team in the NL Central and most in all of baseball for that matter.
Breaking down the club starts with the lineup. That is one area that has been built as the standard baseball blue print would call for. Speed at the top of the lineup. Strong hitting in the middle, and far less than automatic outs at the end.
Will it turn out that way? The key is likely Michael Bourn. He will cover ground on defense. He will steal bases. The question is how easily will he reach base? If Bourn can hit .260 with an on base percentage of at least .350 the club will be able to utilize his base stealing ability. Somewhat like the situation with Willie Taveras, his batting average may have to be higher since achieving a .350 or higher on base without a higher average may be tough since pitchers will be sure to throw him strikes. At least as the season begins he will be challenged with pitches to hit. He hasn't proven anything yet.
Kaz Matsui hitting #2 is a proven major leaguer. However, statistical analysis of his work is not the only way to judge his value. Drew Goodman, Colorado Rockies TV announcer, told Houston sportscaster Barry Warner that Matsui will really be missed by the Rockies and that he did all the "little things" very well. Even so, Matsui has a .272 big league batting average with 62 stolen bases in only 71 attempts. Nothing wrong there.
Whether Miguel Tejada hits third as Cecil Cooper now says-or ultimately lower to elevate Hunter Pence and his speed-puts a strong hitter in the lineup regardless. Last season his numbers were lower than ever, but only because he played 29 fewer games. His RBI rate was higher in 2007 than 2006 though his total was less. His home rate rate was nearly the same. Tejada is not in Adam Everett's class as a defender. But he rates considerably higher than the very notable Derek Jeter.
Hitting fourth will be Lance Berkman and he may be the main cog to all of this. Lance absolutely must get off to a good start. His lack of production for the first half of the season had a lot to do with the club not winning. Some might even contend that was as significant as pitching woes. One of the most important factors in teams winning games is WHEN hits occur now how many. Lance had 34 homers and 102 rbis in 2007. However, on June 1st he was hitting only .244 with six homers and 28 rbis. The Astros were already nine game under .500 and never got in the race.
Others failed early, of course like Morgan Ensberg, Luke Scott and Jason Lane, but Berkman needs to join Carlos Lee from the opening bell.
As for Lee there is no reason to expect any falloff. His career shows consistency. What was special for him in 2007 and needs to continue was his consistency. He never had any long dry spells. Lee was dependable whether those either before or after him were hitting or not.
Hunter Pence played long enough for clubs to establish a "book" on him. And Hunter was a quick read of that book. He quickly learned what the pitchers were trying to do and made the adjustments. Will he hit .322 again? Maybe not. But he figures to hit at least 25 homers with a full season and provide the exhuberance a team with so many veterans needs.
During the off season the feeling was that a whole lot of sports fans had given up on the Astros by mid season last year. That's why Ty Wigginton seems to be ignored. They didn't know him. Ty is no Mike Schmidt with the glove or bat, but he is a solid big leaguer who can hit more than 20 homers which he has done each of the last two years, drive in at least 70-80 runs and hit .270. If he does that in the 7th hole that is way more than just adequate.
If Bourn is the unknown at the top of the lineup, J.R. Towles holds the same spot at the bottom. Certainly Towles was extremely impressive in his 40 at bat stint with the Astros in September. He is a raw, but talented receiver with a strong, but sometimes erratic arm. He works well with pitchers and has been very receptive to any instruction Brad Ausmus has to offer. How well he hits and continues to develop as a catcher is very important to the club's success.
Off the bench, Mark Loretta and Geoff Blum are solid. How much either will actually play barring injury with the makeup of the club remains to be seen. But both can pinch hit and have had success doing it. Darin Erstad has had trouble staying healthy, but if his primary role is as a lefty pinch hitter that should not result in much wear and tear and he has hit in the past. If Jose Cruz, Jr. makes the team he will have to survive a battle with one or two others in the spring since he is not on a major league contract.
Presuming the club goes with 12 pitchers the battle for spots will be the most interesting and important part of spring training. Pencil in a pre-spring rotation of Oswalt, Rodriguez, Backe, Williams and Sampson. But DO just pencil because there could be an erasure or two. Felipe Paulino and, if healthy and ready, Fernando Nieve could compete. So could Jack Cassel, and one or two others who may yet to be acquired.
As for the bullpen Jose Valverde closes and set ups will come from a list that includes Oscar Villarreal, Geoff Geary, Chad Paronto, Doug Brocail, Mark McLemore, Dave Borkowski and Wesley Wright. One or two of those competing for the rotation that don't make it could also join this list.
Lance Berkman was outspoken a few weeks ago about how he felt HE had been traded to a new team since so many changes had taken place. He wondered about clubhouse chemistry. It is something Lance has not had to go through before. There was always a Bagwell and Biggio on hand. Now Lance has to take over as one of the elder statesmen. The time is now. Biggio is gone. Ausmus is a back up support player. If Lance can handle that role and show his teammates how important winning is to him and back it up with a solid performance on the field from day one this could be a very good year.
What do the Astros need? Certainly one or two more established starting pitchers still in their prime would be wonderful. But that is not likely to happen. So continued development of the younger arms on the staff is paramount. Wandy Rodriguez had some very good outings in 2007. Brandon Backe showed quite well in his five starts and is now healthy. Add what is expected out of Roy Oswalt and the chance that Paulino or Nieve may have what it takes and it is not thinking like Pollyanna to believe the pitching will be able to hang with the improved hitting.
Whatever happens it will be a very interesting season at the least. And the long term "fix"of the Astros and their system is well underway. Will they win a post season berth in 2008? Far to early to tell since that is as dependent on how other clubs do as well as the Astros. The club IS definitely stronger entering the season than it was in 2007. That is a great place to start. Let's play ball!
Greg Lucas of FSN-Houston is field level commentator for Houston Astros games on television. 2008 will be his 14th season affiliated with theAstros after serving as a TV play by play announcer for the Texas Rangers for 9 seasons. He will be MCing the annual Mid-Winter Baseball Banquet on Jan 17, filling in for veteran radio voice Milo Hamilton who is recovering from surgery.


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BEECH ISLAND, S.C. -- The Aiken County Sheriff's Office is looking for suspects after an armed robbery and shooting in Beech Island.
An incident report says that around 6:38 p.m. on Wednesday night, a black male and black female entered Moe's Convenience Store on Sand Bar Ferry Road. The report says both people were dressed in all black with black masks covering their faces.
Witnesses say the female suspect went to the front counter to take money from the register while the male suspect went into a back room where two other employees were. The report says the male suspect, wielding two hand guns, demanded money from the two men.
Haresh Vyas, one of the employees, confronted the suspect and a struggle ensued, the report says. The armed suspect then began firing shots. One of them struck the top of Vyas' head.
Vyas was later transported to Georgia Health Sciences University with minor injuries.
The report says the two suspects fled down Urquhart Road with an unknown amount of cash.
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Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina Part 6, Chapter 32 Summary
- Anna realizes that clinging to Vronsky only pushes him away and makes up her mind to be calm about their separation. But the look he gave her before he left for the elections had shattered her composure.
- Later than same night, Anna starts getting upset. She gets angry when she thinks about the fact that Vronsky can go anywhere he pleases and do anything he likes (including maybe leaving her), but that she is irrevocably bound to him.
- Anna believes the only way that she can keep him is by remaining charming and beautiful.
- She begins to think seriously of obtaining a divorce from Karenin so as to secure her tie to Vronsky.
- For five days, Anna passes her time quietly.
- On the sixth day, Vronsky does not return as promised, and Annie falls ill. As Anna nurses her daughter, it only serves to remind her more forcibly of the strength of her love for Seryozha.
- That night, Anna freaks out and writes her letter to Vronsky, sending it off without reading it.
- The next morning, Anna receives Vronsky's letter and feels regret at having written her letter, but at the same time she's pleased that he will be coming home soon.
- Nevertheless, Anna is convinced that she is losing Vronsky, and that he is getting tired of her.
- She decides that she wants him to be at home so she can know what he's doing at all times.
- Annie has recovered by the time Vronsky arrives home. Anna doesn't care how he feels, she cares only that he is at home, where she can keep an eye on him. She looks beautiful as usual, and as Vronsky looks at her he feels tired of her beauty.
- The couple spends a calm evening at home.
- Later that night in their bedroom, Anna brings up the letter. She brings up her jealousy of his departures, and tells him that in the future they must stay together.
- Vronsky protests that he's been willing to give up his whole life for her.
- Anna says she will write to Karenin for a divorce.
- Vronsky mutters an endearment, saying that he would love to be with Anna always, but his eyes tell a different story—the story of a man who doesn't want to get tied down.
- Anna writes to her husband, and she and Vronsky move to Moscow and settle down as a married couple at the end of November.


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The 2011 football team bolted out of the gate 2-0, and finished with three wins in a dramatic improvement from 2010.
A number of Crusaders are the reason for that success and were honored with NAC All-Conference Awards.
Junior linebacker Ethan Lane (Atlanta, Ga.) tied with Ben Lockton from Benedictine for Co-Defensive Players of the Year. Lane was also selected to the First Team All-Northern Athletics Conference Defense.
Senior defensive end Ethan Rosen (New Munich, Minn.) and sophomore safety Josiah Brendemuehl (Mishicott, Wis.) were also selected to the First Team All-NAC Conference Defense.
Senior quarterback Phil Littrell (Valrico, Fla.), lineman Gabe Kluver (Sauk Centre, Minn.) and sophomore receiver Joel Kobosh were honorable mention on offense.
Senior cornerback Jason Garrison (Watertown, Wis.) was named to the All-Sportsmanship Team.


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Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams (1929 – 2003) was an English moral philosopher. His publications include Problems of the Self (1973), Moral Luck (1981), Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (1985), and Truth and Truthfulness (2002). He was knighted in 1999.
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- Those who say that all historical accounts are ideological constructs (which is one version of the idea that there is really no historical truth) rely on some story which must itself claim historical truth. They show that supposedly "objective" historians have tendentiously told their stories from some particular perspective; they describe, for example, the biasses that have gone into constructing various histories of the United States. Such an account, as a particular piece of history, may very well be true, but truth is a virtue that is embarrassingly unhelpful to a critic who wants not just to unmask past historians of America but to tell us that at the end of the line there is no historical truth. It is remarkable how complacent some "deconstructive" histories are about the status of the history that they deploy themselves.
- A further turn is to be found in some "unmasking" accounts of natural science, which aim to show that its pretensions to deliver the truth are unfounded, because of social forces that control its activities. Unlike the case of history, these do not use truths of the same kind; they do not apply science to the criticism of science. They apply the social sciences, and typically depend on the remarkable assumption that the sociology of knowledge is in a better position to deliver truth about science than science is to deliver truth about the world.
- If the passion for truthfulness is merely controlled and stilled without being satisfied, it will kill the activities it is supposed to support. This may be one of the reasons why, at the present time, the study of the humanities runs a risk of sliding from professional seriousness, through professionalization, to a finally disenchanted careerism.
- Deniers do not get their views just from simple mistakes about language and truth. Rather, they believe that there is something to worry about in important areas of our thought and in traditional interpretations of those areas; they sense that it has something to do with truth; and (no doubt driven by the familiar desire to say something at once hugely general, deeply important, and reassuringly simple) they extend their worry to the notion of truth itself.
- Positivism ... implies the double falsehood that no interpretation is needed, and that it is not needed because the story which the positivist writer tells, such as it is, is obvious. The story he or she tells is usually a bad one, and its being obvious only means that it is familiar.
- As Roland Barthes said, those who do not re-read condemn themselves to reading the same story everywhere: "they recognize what they already think and know."
- There continue to be complex debates about what Nietzsche understood truth to be. Quite certainly, he did not think, in pragmatist spirit, that beliefs are true if they serve our interests or welfare: we have just seen some of his repeated denials of this idea. The more recently fashionable view is that he was the first of the deniers, thinking that there is no such thing as truth, or that truth is what anyone thinks it is, or that it is a boring category that we can do without. This is also wrong, and more deeply so. Nietzsche did not think that the ideal of truthfulness went into retirement when its metaphysical origins were discovered, and he did not suppose, either, that truthfulness could be detached from a concern for the truth. Truthfulness as an ideal retains its power, and so far from his seeing truth as dispensable or malleable, his main question is how it can be made bearable.
- Nietzsche ... did not settle for a demure civic conversation in the style of Richard Rorty's ironist, or saunter off with the smug nod that registers a deconstructive job neatly done. He was aware that his own criticisms and exposures owed both their motivation and their effect to the spirit of truthfulness. His aim was to see how far the values of truth could be revalued, how they might be understood in a perspective quite different from the Platonic and Christian metaphysics which had provided their principal source in the West up to now.