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The Los Angeles Police Department's famous motto, "to protect and to serve" (coined in 1955), has been adopted by many other police departments across the English-speaking world, sometimes in its alternate form "to serve and protect." It's been adopted by so many police departments, in fact, that it's practically a Stock Phrase in the English-speaking world. Unsurprisingly, it shows up a lot in fiction as well. Played straight in most Police Procedurals and Cop Shows, it's routinely subverted, lampshaded, and/or otherwise played with in other media.
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Played straight in:
- RoboCop (1987)
Bob Morton: What are your Prime Directives?RoboCop: Serve the public trust, protect the innocent, uphold the law.
- In The Gumball Rally, the fake cop team loses the race when they stop to help a pregnant woman who's stalled on an L.A. freeway and going into labor.
Kandinsky: Oh, no. Avila, no way. I don't wanna hear it, Avila.Avila: "To serve and to protect", huh?
- The Casseline Brotherhood, in Kushiel's Legacy, say this a lot.
Live-Action TV
- The Trope Maker (in the media, at any rate) is Dragnet, which was based on the Real Life LAPD. Continued in Adam-12 where a prominent shot of the motto on the squad car door was in the opening credits.
- In Due South, when Constable Fraser is asked if the RCMP motto is We Always Get Our Man, he replies with the correct motto of Uphold the Right.
Tabletop Games
- To Serve and Protect was the title of a Champions module.
- Protect & Serve was the Cop Splatbook for Cyberpunk 2020.
- This is actually the name of a Fuse card in Magic: The Gathering.
Video Games
- The City Guards in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion say this randomly when you talk to them.
- Paradigm Shift uses this trope to Show Their Work: "We Serve and Protect," the motto of the Chicago police department, can be clearly read on the side of a Chicago police cruiser on this page.
- This is Trenton's motto in Dead Winter. He's the last good cop in a corrupt police force.
Western Animation
- In the "Sleeping Beauty" episode of the ALF Tales cartoon, it is said of the Three Nice Wizards (led by wizard Joe Froday) by the King: "They protect and serve."
- ReBoot: "My format: Guardian - To mend and defend."
- The motto comes up as a point of discussion between Goliath and Eliza during the Gargoyles pilot, during their first meeting. Probably goes a long way towards building the trust between them.
Subverted, parodied, lampshaded, etc., in:
- In the Michael Bay Transformers film, the Decepticon Barricade has a police car mode with the phrase "To punish and enslave."
- In the film The Mask, Stanley Ipkiss tries to get a policeman guarding him to help Tina (who's being chased by Mooks) by telling him "Serve and protect!"
- In The Terminator, the motto on LAPD cars is shown as "To Care and to Protect" at least twice. But after the Terminator crashes and abandons a car whose motto we've already seen as the preceding, the empty car's motto has inexplicably changed to "Dedicated to Serve."
- In the low-budget sci-fi movie R.O.T.O.R., the motto of the robotic law-enforcement project is "To Judge and Execute." Guess what happens to the prototype?
- In Wrongfully Accused, at least one police car has "To Swerve and Protect" on the side.
Comic Books
- Marvel Comics once produced a Silver Surfer T-shirt bearing the slogan, "TO SURF AND PROTECT."
- Shows up several times in the Discworld series:
- The Ankh Morpork Watch has the motto "Fabricati Diem, Pvnc", which is Dog Latin for "Make My Day, Punk". In-story, Fred Colon claims that it translates as "To Protect and Serve". The full motto is in fact "Fabricati Diem, Pvncti Agvnt Celeriter," but has been rendered partially unreadable over time. This supposedly means "Make the Day, the Moments Pass Quickly."
- Pratchett also uses it in Guards! Guards! with the prophecy that Carrot fulfills: "Yea, the king will come ... and Protect and Serve the People with his Sword."
- In Feet of Clay, the motto on the Vimes family arms (defunct since Old Stoneface killed the last king) is "Protego Et Servio". The Vimeses have been watchmen for a long time.
- The same book has the golem watchman give his own spin on the RoboCop (1987) example above: "To Serve The Public Trust, Protect The Innocent, And Seriously Prod Buttock".
- In the Myth Adventures, Asprin uses this for one of his chapter-beginning quotes: "To Serve and Protect. Traditional motto of protection rackets."
Live-Action TV
- Mathnet's motto is "To cogitate and to solve."
- In Corner Gas, Karen and Davis have a long, drawn-out argument over whether or not their cop car says "To Protect and Serve" or "To Serve and Protect."
- They also decide to change it at one point, because Karen feels the standard motto is too common. Hank suggests "Mmm Mmm Good", but they eventually settle on "No Crime Too Small".
- When Carl fears Mike might not pass the upcoming police fitness exam on Mike & Molly, he asks Mike if he's prepared to spend the rest of his career behind a desk, where he can "protect and file."
Video Games
- A police officer in Destroy All Humans! can sometimes be heard constantly repeating this to themselves if their mind is read. Until they get it wrong: "swerve and defect...dammit, I lost it!"
- In The Longest Journey, the same cop that gave us Move Along, Nothing to See Here and Sorry, I'm Gay lines, also finished his conversation with "We are here to protect and to serve", right after proving as useless and outright obstructive to the heroine as he possibly could.
- The motto of the Los Santos Police Department appears to be "Obey & Survive".
Web Original
- SCP Foundation: To Secure, Contain and Protect (a backronym of SCP, which comes from "Special Containment Procedures", the Tailor-Made Prison for each paranormal item). This one could plausibly go in the "played straight" column too.
- In Sonichu the Jerkops ride patrols with the motto "To Shatter and Torture All Hearts".
Western Animation
- In The Simpsons, an Itchy & Scratchy cartoon shows shows Scratchy entering a police car that turns out to be driven by Itchy. The motto is "To Protect and Sever." Bloody carnage ensues.
- South Park: The side of Officer Barbrady's patrol car has "To Patronize and Annoy" on it.
- The tagline of Science Court was "To Serve and Observe", even though it wasn't about a police department.
- The police force in High School USA! has the motto "Do we have to?".


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'Algerian Chronicles' captures how Albert Camus sought humanity in colonial conflict
In "The Rebel" (1952), the French Algerian writer Albert Camus (1913-'60) famously wrote, "The metaphysical rebel protests against the condition in which he finds himself as a man." Critics of Camus claim that the Nobel Prize winner ironically misperceived or underestimated that in his own land, colonized Muslims faced severe metaphysical consequences resulting from an oppressive colonialism. Given the publication of "Algerian Chronicles," a chronological collection of Camus' essays from the 1930s to the 1950s, this criticism needs re-examination and reinterpretation.
An appendix enhances the collection and includes an article by Camus celebrating the Mediterranean as a transcultural space of encounter and interaction. In addition, Camus' often-repeated controversial statement in 1957, "I believe in justice, but I will defend my mother before justice," is contextually considered and corrected. »Read Full Article
Hank the Brewers dog improving, back in racing mode
Hank the Brewers dog is doing much better, thank you. And his eye is improving, too.
"His personality has really started to shine over the last week," said Tyler Barnes, Brewers vice president for communication. "He was a reserved little guy for the first week or so, but he's now much more active. This morning, he was doing sprint laps around the back offices, running from one room to another and playing keep away with one of his toys." »Read Full Article(14)
'Flashdance' musical doesn't have much feeling, or fun
The movie "Flashdance" begins as Jennifer Beals' Alex pedals through a lovingly presented Pittsburgh at sunrise. That bicycle is quirky, as is the time Alex takes to scratch a kitten before setting off — filled with hope that a new day is coming for a dancer moving forward in her own offbeat way.
In the disappointing musical "Flashdance" that landed with a thud at the Marcus Center Tuesday night, we begin in Alex's dreary steel mill, where a search for gravitas means a lengthy backstory about recession and cutbacks — one of many places where this musical unsuccessfully attempts to channel "Billy Elliot." »Read Full Article(4)
'Old' rockers really are a Benign Compulsion
Mike Benign knows what some people might think when they go to see his band, the Mike Benign Compulsion.
"Ew, these guys are old," he said. "That's the elephant in the room." »Read Full Article
Present Music, Danceworks remix Stravinsky with 'Temptation's Snare'
In putting together their contemporary take on Stravinsky's "The Soldier's Tale," Present Music and Danceworks Performance Company changed only a few things.
Like changing Stravinsky's male soldier to a female violinist (played in this production by dancer Christal Wagner). And asking Jason Powell to write a new narration. And blending Stravinsky's original composition with new music from the Sleeping Giant composers collective. »Read Full Article
Reading the John Updike stories: 'A Sense of Shelter'
I'm reading and commenting on a story from The Library of America's recently published 'John Updike: The Collected Stories' each Wednesday until I finish the collection or give up.
Published in The New Yorker in January, 1960, when the author was 27, "A Sense of Shelter" recycles familiar raw materials from John Updike's early stories: an awkward high school boy whose community believes he will become something special one day, a small-town milieu, and a girl he can't make a match with because his future special destiny gets in the way. »Read Full Blog Post
Distil's chef adds Umami Moto duties
Joe McCormick, the chef at SURG's Distil bar, also has taken on the head chef's role at Umami Moto. Both are on N. Milwaukee St.
He replaced Chuck Nollner. »Read Full Blog Post
Countdown to Spring: 16 Days
In journalism school we were discouraged from writing leads about the weather. It's a classic rookie move and almost always a cliche. Yet, we've been breaking our own rules day after day for weeks now. That's how exceptional this winter and the anticipation of spring has been.
With a little more than two weeks to go, those of us who enjoy these slippery and freezing conditions should take a last opportunity to gloat. Case in point: Today's forecast calls for snow and a high of 20 degrees. Soon enough, the spring lovers will be crooning about crocus blooms. »Read Full Blog Post

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"We may or may not have been drinking when we came up with the idea for this competition," laughs Nicole Ponseca. "But, really, it's less about the intimidation factor and more about finding a fun way for us to gather everyone together around something our culture loves."
Ponseca is a co-owner of New York City's two hottest Filipino restaurants, Maharlika and Jeepney – both located in the East Village. And, while she's joking about being tipsy when they devised this eating contest, the average American might have to be slightly drunk to sign up. It's pretty intimidating.
The second annual Balut Eating Contest hits the Big Apple on Aug. 3. Forget your typical hot dog or apple pie eating challenge. Balut is a fertilized duck egg that's between 14 and 21 days old, on average. It's hard boiled, cracked open and consumed warm.
"It's definitely got a beak, bones and some feathers," explains Ponseca, of one of her favorite street foods back home in the Philippines. "It's not your normal egg experience. Balut is messy. Built a bit like a parfait, you have the egg white at the bottom, the duck in the middle and then the yolk is in layers. There's a broth that you sip like soup – which is most people's favorite part.
"It's a non-salty, very hearty poultry stock that's great for when you are sick. I guess you could call this chicken soup for the soul – with a twist."
For their competition, the owners of Maharlika and Jeepney call their chicken farm in Pennsylvania more than a month in advance to source 300 balut eggs. The eggs are hard boiled the day of the event and contestants have five minutes to consume as many warm duck eggs as possible. Last year, 10 people signed up for the challenge. This year, 12 will be on stage.
"Eight of the contestants were Filipino last year," says Ponseca. "I would have said that would be an advantage, but as it turned out, the guy who won was a Filipino who had never eaten balut before this. We were all floored when we heard that. He ate 18 eggs!"
Winner Wayne Algenio took down 18 eggs in just under five minutes and took home the champion duck-egg-eating belt, as well as a handful of local gift certificates, bragging rights and the offer to defend his title again this year.
"I had never tried it before, so I had no clue what it was going to taste like or the texture would be," he says. "It tastes similar to a regular boiled egg, but with sauce.
Peeling them was hard, but while the clock was ticking, I figured out a strategy to peeling. I won't divulge my secret, because I'm planning on competing again this year."
While some might balk at balut, for Ponseca, the duck embryo eating challenge was about something more than mere culinary intimidation.
"Usually when you see balut, it's on some show like 'Fear Factor,'" she continues. "While, yes, it is intimidating the first time you eat it, it's also really delicious and an amazing source of protein that we depend on in our country. I'm always looking for ways to gather old and young Filipinos to hang out in New York City. This is proved to be a perfect event for that. Like any culture, when you move somewhere else, it's not the same as back home."
If you want to come out and cheer on the eaters, simply head to the Hester Street Fair on Aug. 3. The festivities start at noon, and the actual competition is at 6 p.m. There's no admission fee, but expect performances by big name DJs, a set by Filipino soul singer Joe Bataan and lots of traditional lechon to eat. You can also try a balut egg for yourself for $4.


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Leonard Cohen
He may sing like Darth Vader with a smoker's hack, but Cohen remains one of pop's great noir poets. As in the past, his strongest suit here is the sorrow and the pity of love. Though he views romance skeptically at best and acridly at worst, for him it's still the only game in town. On "Anthem," he sings, "Forget your perfect offering/ There is a crack in everything/ That's how the lights gets in."
On a few songs, he parts the bedroom curtain to take; in the social, political and historical landscape. The title cut, for instance, juxtaposes innocuous Europop with a wild-eyed, Burroughs-like vision of things to come: "I've seen the future, brother: It is murder." "Democracy," a Revolutionary War—style drum-and-fife march, is a scalding portrait of an America in moral and economic decline.
Cohen's imagery is never fainthearted, and even when you're not sure what he's getting at, you know he's sure getting at something. Ultimately, though, his vocal limitations undermine him here. Listen to last year's fascinating I'm Your Fan, a tribute album featuring R.E.M., the Pixies and others, and you'll hear how powerful a Leonard Cohen song can be. (Columbia)
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Alexandert the "life of L a Wit is a warfare upon earth." Few better examples could be found to illustrate Pope's semiautobiographical remark than the life of John Wolcot (1738-1819), who started his professional life as a physician, had a brief inglorious fling at being a clergyman, returned to the practice of medicine, and finally abandoned it for the life of a satirist. He wrote under the pseudonym of Peter Pindar, and his satires on art, literature, and politics dominated English satire from 1782, much as James Gillray's caricatures were preeminent during the same period.
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Heavy duty waxed canvas, lots of pockets, and just a little leather, the Seven Bridges is a daypack with tons of utility. Span the gap, woods to work to wherever.Specifications
At the turn of the twentieth century Duluthian Sam Snivley had a vision. To build a road like no other in the city. A road with bridges that cross back and forth over the picturesque Amity Creek down to Lake Superior. Snivley's road was built, the bridges constructed and then restored. Today, the route remains a public treasure to our area. Here's a daypack well suited for travel over all the Seven Bridges. Inside and outside pockets offer organization and storage. The backstraps are adjustable on the go, and we've left the leather out. All reinforcements and load bearing is thanks to cotton and canvas. It's a new pack with a different perspective, a lot like Mr. Snivley and his Seven Bridges Road.
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- Tom Carnahan owns a company called Wind Capital Group, which (unsurprisingly) produces wind energy.
- Wind power is a type of alternate energy beloved of environmental fundamentalists except when it's in sight of private Nantucket compounds, or controlled by Native Americans. Although this might change, as the motivating/indulging force in each case died last year.
- At any rate, Tom Carnahan is the brother of Rep. Russ Carnahan (MO-03) and Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan. Democrats, of course. Robin Carnahan would later start what will probably be a doomed run for the US Senate.
- The 'stimulus' is proposed. It proves to be somewhat unpopular in more conservative areas, like Missouri. To put it mildly.
- Russ Carnahan supported and voted for the 'stimulus.'
- Robin Carnahan supported the 'stimulus.'
- Vice President Biden visited one of Tom Carnahan's wind farms in April of 2009. Biden reported that Wind Capital would not receive a direct stimulus payment.
- In September of 2010, Wind Capital Group received $107 million in a direct stimulus payment (see here for more).
- Both Robin and Russ Carnahan denied that anything improper had taken place (see Gateway Pundit for more).
And that pretty much covers it, doesn't it? Except that Robin's electoral opponent is Roy Blunt and Russ's is Ed Martin; they would probably both love to hear from you. Unless you're the sort of person who believes that there's no obvious quid pro quo involved when the brother of two prominent Missourian politicians gets a nine-digit cash payout from the same program that said politicians riskily supported; I imagine that Roy and Ed already have their fill of that from dealing with the Carnahans.
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I dropped out of college, quarreled with my parents, ran away from home and lived on the streets of Mumbai, all to pursue my dream of a career in photography. Soon enough, not finding success and filled with despair, I returned to my parents' home. Surprisingly, it was my mother who encouraged me not to give up. I returned to Mumbai to once again follow my dream.
So, 17 years ago, I was a bitter, frustrated young man desperate to make something of my life. Around that time, I was on an assignment, and the person I was working with interrupted our discussion to ask: "Why are you so angry?"
I assured her my anger was directed only at my own inability to deal with life.
She told me I could change my life through Buddhist philosophy, but I retorted that such philosophies are okay only in books; on the street nothing works, and that is the reality. But, as she went on to tell me about Nichiren Daishonin's teachings, I was moved by her words and decided to give prayer a shot.
At Bharat Soka Gakkai (BSG) meetings, I was surprised to find people honestly sharing their life and struggles so openly, simply to inspire others to live happier lives. Their kindness and genuine warmth made me reflect on my own attitude.
However, it wasn't until three years later that I was truly jolted awake. I had been assigned to make a study presentation at a discussion meeting on the postwar history of the Soka Gakkai. Reading about this history, I was profoundly affected by the unbelievable dedication shown by SGI President Daisaku Ikeda and his mentor, Josei Toda, during those years and their total commitment to working for the happiness of people everywhere.
related article Putting Ideals into Practice by Joanne Theaker Joanne Theaker's Buddhist practice combined with a lifelong learning of new ideas about business and economics inspires her to form a green and ethical business in the UK. I felt a powerful new emotion: concern for human suffering.
Between 1999 and 2001, I participated in BSG relief activities in the wake of natural disasters in different parts of India. Working on these projects strengthened the feeling that I must contribute to the world I live in, a feeling that was reinforced when I went to Kashmir to shoot for a book. What struck me most was the lack of spontaneity among the children in Kashmir. Little girls walked by almost silently, whispering among themselves. The older boys looked lost. Their faces haunted me.
Five years later, I came in contact with the Borderless World Foundation (BWF), an NGO headquartered in Pune, which ran two (now four) homes for orphaned girls who had been displaced by the armed conflict in Kashmir. I made a film on these homes, called Basera-e-Tabassum (literally, House of Smiles), which proved useful in spreading awareness and understanding about the project and garnering support.
I began wondering what I could do to implement the exchange of cultures and ideas that President Ikeda speaks of in his peace proposals. I recalled his essay, "Teachers of My Childhood," in which he writes about his excitement about going on a school trip as a child, and I also remembered seeing a 1928 photograph of first Soka Gakkai President Tsunesaburo Makiguchi with nearly 50 pupils of Shirokane Elementary School on a school trip to Mount Takao, near Tokyo.
Inspired by these ideas, I proposed that the Basera-e-Tabassum girls go on an education and cultural exchange tour of different towns and cities during their winter school holidays. At first the idea met with resistance, but finally the local community agreed to send the girls along with two local teachers. The first group, of 27 girls aged 9 to 14, went on a five-week trip to Pune and surrounding areas, and I made an 11-minute film on the trip.
After our return, we screened this film at a lunch to which we invited the whole village. The applause would not stop. The travel group has grown bigger every year. In October 2008, I started teaching photography to some of the girls. Five of them won national awards for their photographs in 2009, and an exhibition of their work was held in Delhi the following year. Now the girls are working on a book on Kashmir, doing both the text and photography. We intend to take a traveling exhibition of their photographs all over the world.
In 2011, the Children's Film Society of India invited a group of 13 girls, 10 to 14 years old, to their international festival. For the first time they saw films starring children, made by people of different religions, languages and cultures. Their heads were bursting with ideas. Now they want to make films and tell their own stories.
Since 2008, a lot has changed in my life and in the lives of the Basera-e-Tabassum girls. Borderless World Foundation now has groups of volunteers in different cities, and the cultural exchange tours and photography workshops are now established BWF projects. The purpose of these projects from the outset was to empower the orphaned girls, awaken them to their infinite potential, engage them in a broad spectrum of activities both inside and outside Kashmir, and through this engagement help them create proof in their own lives of their abilities, potential and strength. We hope that in time all the girls will become agents of change in Kashmir.
My determination is to expand the project to include the larger community. We are opening a library for children of the village and organizing health camps for women. We make every effort to involve intellectuals from universities and government officials in our work.
My determination is very simple: to use my life and skills to implement President Ikeda's ideas in communities in conflict areas.
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Sort of... I started with 49 stitches using Lion Brand Vanah' Choice yarn and size 9 knitting needles. I knit2 purl2 for a couple inches. Then in knit a row/ purl a row pattern (forgot the name at the moment) for a row or two untill I was at the start of a knit row. the 3 stitches on either edge will were purled on every row. so, row 1) p3, k5, increase 1, k1, increase 1, knit 7, increase1, k1, increase1, knit 15, inc1, k1, inc1, knit 7, inc1, k1, inc1, k5, p3. turn. row2) purl across. every knit row is esencialy the same. you inc1, k1, inc1 the same place you increased on the previous knit row. do this intill the line of increases measures the same as your arm mesures around. I hope this helps, but I am not good at doing patterns. GOOD LUCK and HAVE FUN!
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The World Boxing Council is surprised by the decision of Kazuto Ioka to relinquish his WBC title and to retain his WBA belt following his unanimous twelve round decision win over WBA champion Akira Yaegeshi in Osaka on June 20.
WBC president Don Jose Sulaiman told BoxingScene.com/Manila Standard "As it was an unexpected event, I am consulting with the Board of Governors."
The 23 year old Ioka had been publicly challenged by the devastating puncher Denver Cuello, the Silver champion who had vowed to knock him out quickly. The 25 year old southpaw has a record of 31-4-6 with 21 knockouts ..
Cuello solidified his hold on the WBC Silver minimum weight title with a 2nd round TKO over Mexico's Ganigan Lopez when the fight was stopped by referee Frank Gaza at 2:37 of the round as Cuello battered Lopez.
Cuello had won the vacant Silver title with a 1st round knockoiut of Carlos Perez who went down grimacing in pain following a vicious shot to the ribs on October 15, 2011.
Prior to the unification bout the WBC had written to both Ioka and Yaegashi that the winner would have to relinquish one of the titles since they both had mandatory challengers with Cuello being the mandatory challenger to Ioka.
The Japanese champion apparently wishes to move up to light flyweight although Cuello's camp has accused the undefeated 23-year-old with a record of 10-0 with 6 knockouts of ducking the Filipino.
Cuello's manager/promoter and trainer Aljoe Jaro said under WBC rules Article 3.15 that if the title is vacant and the champion doesn't wish to fight his mandatory then Cuello could be elevated to champion and awarded the regular title.
A former boxer himself Aljoe Jaro said the Silver title was similar to an Interim champion and believes Cuello "should be automatically crowned champion and his first defense will be a mandatory against the No.1 contender."
Undefeated Thai Wanheng Menayothin who has a record of 23-0 with 7 knockouts is the No.2 contender .Aljoe Jaro told us he is willing to have Cuello face the Thai for the title should the WBC declare it vacant, confident "we can beat him even in his own backyard."
why wasn't Ioka made WBA super champ? I thought the point of that belt was that a unfied champ wouldn't have to worry so much about mandatories coming from all corners..Comment by Mastrangelo on 07-02-2012
I hope Cuello - Wanheng happens in Thailand, it's good fight. Wanheng beat Florante Condes who's basically poor mans Denver Cuello, but it was apparently pretty close so I don't see him holding on against Denver.Comment by rey guey on 07-02-2012
Ioka had two different mandatories and had to choose 1. it's too bad the WBC enforces it's rules when the fighter isn't a superstar. it's BS like this that makes unification almost impossible unless the fighter is a huge draw.Comment by nycsmooth on 07-02-2012
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AA will be enabled when they release the DX11 update. AA will work on DX10.1 and DX11.
As to choosing, you can't just flip a switch. The entire game engine would had to be rewritten. Deferred shading is how thr game is doing all it's lighting and shadowing. There will be no way to pick between one or the other
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Skip to comments.Cave Complex Allegedly Found Under Giza Pyramids
Posted on 08/14/2009 10:09:21 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Aug. 13, 2009 -- An enormous system of caves, chambers and tunnels lies hidden beneath the Pyramids of Giza, according to a British explorer who claims to have found the lost underworld of the pharaohs.
Populated by bats and venomous spiders, the underground complex was found in the limestone bedrock beneath the pyramid field at Giza.
"There is untouched archaeology down there, as well as a delicate ecosystem that includes colonies of bats and a species of spider which we have tentatively identified as the white widow," British explorer Andrew Collins said.
Collins, who will detail his findings in the book "Beneath the Pyramids" to be published in September, tracked down the entrance to the mysterious underworld after reading the forgotten memoirs of a 19th century diplomat and explorer.
"In his memoirs, British consul general Henry Salt recounts how he investigated an underground system of 'catacombs' at Giza in 1817 in the company of Italian explorer Giovanni Caviglia," Collins said.
The document records that the two explored the caves for a distance of "several hundred yards," coming upon four large chambers from which stretched further cave passageways.
With the help of British Egyptologist Nigel Skinner-Simpson, Collins reconstructed Salt's exploration on the plateau, eventually locating the entrance to the lost catacombs in an apparently unrecorded tomb west of the Great Pyramid.
Indeed, the tomb featured a crack in the rock, which led into a massive natural cave.
"We explored the caves before the air became too thin to continue. They are highly dangerous, with unseen pits and hollows, colonies of bats and venomous spiders," said Collins.
According to Collins, the caves -- which are tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years old -- may have both inspired the development of the pyramid field and the ancient Egyptian's belief in an underworld.
"Ancient funerary texts clearly allude to the existence of a subterranean world in the vicinity of the Giza pyramids," Collins told Discovery News.
Indeed, Giza was known anciently as Rostau, meaning the "mouth of the passages."
This is the same name as a region of the ancient Egyptian underworld known as the Duat.
"The 'mouth of the passages' is unquestionably a reference to the entrance to a subterranean cave world, one long rumored to exist beneath the plateau," Collins told Discovery News.
Collins' claim is expected to cause a stir in the Egyptological world.
Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, has dismissed the discovery.
"There are no new discoveries to be made at Giza. We know everything about the plateau," he stated.
But Collins remarks that after extensive research, he found no mention of the caves in modern times.
"To the best of our knowledge nothing has ever been written or recorded about these caves since Saltâs explorations. If Hawass does have any report related to these caves, we have yet to see it," Collins said.
Edgar Cayce and others have alluded to predictions that around this time, we would be finding a wealth of knowledge stored in a cavity beneath the pyramids and the sphinx.
Use of the word "clearly" should raise the bs meter needle a few notches.
So are they caves really there or not?
Or is it "unclear"?
kuhl if tru.
And these colonies of bats emerge when and from where?
Andrew Collins, was raised in the Essex town of Wickford. As a teenager, he became a UFO investigator. In 1977, he investigated the first-ever missing time abduction case reported in the UK, and that investigation changed his life. He became a journalist with the magazine Strange Phenomena and openly sought the help of psychics in an attempt to better understand the relationship between UFOs, prehistoric sites, earth energies, and the human mind. As a science and history writer, he has authored a variety of books that challenge the way we perceive the past, including his best-selling The Cygnus Mystery, that delves into how ancient monuments and temples, that are still standing today, were built with an orientation towards Cygnus. Collins latest titles, The New Circlemakers and Beneath the Pyramids, were both publishing by 4th Dimension Press, an A.R.E. Press imprint, in 2009. Collins continues to speak and travel throughout the U.S. while living in the heart of crop circle country, near Marlborough, Wiltshire, with this wife Sue.Okie-dokie... He's a UFO researcher and this whole thing is a big fat hoax. So... Never mind, everyone. I apologize. (If anyone has any pull with the Admin Moderator, I'd appreciate it if you got this whole damned thread pulled.)
Beneath the Pyramids
Beneath the Pyramidsby Andrew Collins Beneath the pyramids of Egypt lies a lost underworld of catacombs, hewn chambers, and cave tunnels. They are alluded to in ancient texts and Arab legends, but have been lost for almost two millennium. They have now been rediscovered and investigated for the first time by science and history writer Andrew Collins. What now awaits discovery at Giza, and what exactly does this subterranean realm tell us about the pyramids, their relationship to the stars, and the mythical origins of Egyptian civilization?
Lavishly illustrated with color photos, this is a breathtaking personal journey of exploration and discovery."
Caves are often associated with pyramids, all around the world.
I see you've already done some checking and found the story is pretty dubious. Before I got to your background post, this made me suspicious.
"'We explored the caves before the air became too thin to continue. They are highly dangerous, with unseen pits and hollows, colonies of bats and venomous spiders,' said Collins."
I've never heard of air getting thin in caves. If a chamber were sealed it would be possible to use up the oxygen, but supposedly they are exploring through openings to areas where bats and spiders live. I guess there could also be areas where heavy gases from vents to underground hot springs or volcanic vents had replaced oxygen, but that doesn't sound like Egypt.
Too bad. It would have been very cool.
Probably some inconvenient graffiti.
"Aegyptes eunt domus", perhaps? "Shmuel was here." "Midianite girls are easy!"
Thanks Hegemony Cricket. I'll have to check this out. There was a 1990s show (mostly) about Giza, starring Omar Sharif, which had Mark Lehner crawling around inside the Sphinx (there's a couple of rat-tunnels inside made by ancient or medieval thieves searching for hidden treasure) and in the Old Kingdom (4th Dynasty) catacombs under the plateau. I think that's also the video which has Lehner crawling through the Great Pyramid robber's hole, and showing us the Old Kingdom construction graffiti in one of the relieving chambers above the "King's Chamber" inside the GP.
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Don't know how long I could handle the heat though. 130oF is not my idea of fun. (yeah, I know. It's a 'dry heat')/s
If there are colonies of bats, I cannot believe that this cave has gone undetected. Someone would have seen their daily ingress/egress.
Whatever you do, do not use earth-penetrating radar to ping! the Pyramids.
The "ping" is amplified by the Death Caverns, which rings Mother Gaea's chimes, resulting in a major planetary gong-bong (not to be confused with a gang-bang) that leads to the cleaning of Earth's Clock.
It can destroy the World As We Know It!
Zahi Hawass' secret Prime Duty has not to do with archaeology, but rather as a member The Guardians, to prevent this very thing from ever occurring. Archaeology is merely the public front he uses as cover for his real mission.
Hawass strikes me as the sort who will discredit anthi8ng he does not find himself.
He does seem more propaganda oriented at times. The cave concept makes sense if the Nile is as old as some claim. The continued flow of water erodes caves all over the planet. What's inside? Who knows.
Atlantis, Cayce, & Artifacts Date:07-22-09 Host:George Noory Guests:Gregory Little
Expert on the American prophet Edgar Cayce, Greg Little discussed new discoveries in the search for Atlantis, mounds in ancient America, as well as findings in Egypt.
He related the research of British science writer Andrew Collins who found an opening into a cave complex that extends underneath Giza, Egypt. Collins has concluded that the pyramids on the Giza Plateau correlate to the constellation Cygnus, rather than Orion, as other researchers have claimed.
Why'd it hafta be snakes?
I hope he will share the information in the future. It sounds like they are vast and it will take years to explore, catalog and present to the public. In the meantime I'm sure he wants to keep prying eyes away from the site. cc
They can't seem to write about anything without injecting this kind of nonsense to make the rest of the article less credible.
Not really to you jdub but yeah, why no one nioticed the bats. A friend pointed to bats, spiders, pyramids, caves so a search engine brought me here.
The directors of the ruins at Chichen and Palenque mentioned that pilgrims to the sites first visited an underground water temple and then others finally the pyramids. Pilgrims were prepared emotinally before attending ceremonies at the temples.
US anthropapology texts still don't allow the possibility that ideas came to New World on boats from Egypt. The Sarcophagus at Palenque is cut with a footer just like those in Egypt. It makes sense in Egypt since the lath box holding the mummy was wide at the bottem so as to not fall over.
Anyone interested please visit Panchon at the gate of the ruins and verify the footer with Moises Morales who was there when the tomb was opened. Carlos Casteneda and R. Gordon Wasson were his friends as was "Miguel" who was main model for "Don Juan."
Note that the picture on the lid of the sarcophagus is of a man "dying in meditational death" before the cross on whose crossbar is a serpent whith heads at both ends and a bird of prey at the top. It has all the symbols of the cadducces and the main Christian symbol group. firstname.lastname@example.com
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