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Just wondering.... more than 30,000 members. At most, I am guessing 20 or 30 or so post discussions or get involved in discussion. Not that I keep track.
That's the size of a mega-church. Sorry for the analogy. It's about the size of the town where I grew up. Also not a good analogy, that town was a sorry excuse for an over-sized septic tank. Let's just say it's a lot of people.
Anyway, I wonder what happens for the folks who sign on and don't post. I hope this site is useful for them. I suppose if 30,000 people were all posting and discussing it would be kind of overwhelming. Maybe page-views generate some funding for the site?
I also wonder about people who used to be very active, then.... poof! vanished! There are a bunch of them. Did they get bored? Found Jesus? Get busy and no longer had time? Found peace with being atheist, the need was met, move on?
Just speculating. I sometimes welcome new members hoping to inspire involvement, and others do a lot more of that than I do.
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What I wonder in relation to this topic, is why the wife, husband, or companion of an active member never participates. I've often wanted to ask you and others that question, but don't want to be nosey where it's none of my business.
I'd say my wife is a nominal liberal Christian. She hasn't attended church in years, at least in part because of a back problem. But the last I heard, she still considers atheist a bad word. I belong to a local (Albuquerque) humanist group; there are no more than five active couples. Others are single, but others are like me.
So sorry Jerry.....Maybe if your wife went along to one of your group meetings..she could be enlightened.....Tell her to have an Open Mind and give it a try......
Actually, we hosted the annual winter solstice party at our home once. She mostly stayed upstairs, but happened to be around when a young, new member (who only stayed a few months) delivered a diatribe about how totally stupid religionists are, and wasn't smacked down by other members. (We just don't do that; we agree or disagree, but only a few of us will take on others.) So she decided the group is like that. As to "tell her to have an Open Mind ... " you don't know my wife. We don't tell each other what to do; we might not have made it to 58 years if we did.
OK Jerry.....I just thought it could work.....Congratulations on your long marriage ......you obviously know your wife pretty well.....:)
Freethinker31, don't tell her, that would raise my resistance if someone told me to do something. Offer the opportunity and accept, without comment, a yes or no. Then do whatever seems right for you. Couples do have different interests and need time on their own. Support that.
On the other hand, if there is a problem that needs addressing, I say, deal with it as soon as possible.
Gee Jerry, when I first read your post, I thought that "I" had written it! Sounds similar to my situation. And no, I don't belong to any local group. I am semi-housebound because of 8 years of illness, but we have been married over 50 years now, and hold many similar beliefs, but.......I never talk to my wife about my deepest beliefs, nor does she to me. Like myself, she sees all the hypocracy within most "people of faith" and chooses not to participate in any of them.
It is an interesting question. I'm curious to know also. It might be nice if someone that decided to leave would post their reasons. Of course, many probably don't know they're going to leave for good.
If I decide to leave, I will probably give the reasons.
I think a lot of them have moved on. Some come back to use from time to time, but not often. I really enjoy this site but not everybody is a Tyson or an Einstein. I have problems with some who think they are, so I give up and stop trying to respond to them, then just move on to other topics.
What's of interest to me on A/N might not interest everybody. That's also why I think some have moved on. We all want to get in our 2 cents worth, but I can't discuss Edward Snowden forever. I'm also not good at telling you how to nueter your cat. Most of my type of discussions would center around religion and supernaturalism, and maybe anything coming out of those in some way.
I'm often just floored by those who claim not to believe in god, but they tell you something else they believe in that is supernatural. None of this is pick and chose to me. It's logic, reason, and evidence. It appears that some atheists don't even get that.
One option is that people are so busy trying to put food on the table and a roof over their heads, they don't have time for small-talk and haven't time to think about large-talk, or whatever one calls discussion of serious topics.
Another option is new atheists discovered there were others thinking as they, and they no longer felt the need for support on the internet.
Or, perhaps, there was information overload.
Or, they were not comfortable writing their thoughts.
Or, they were afraid of having their privacy invaded.
Or, they were scared off by the fear-mongers who took out after us when we wrote some criticism of religion. (old timers know this, but I received a phone call from someone reading my Atheist Nexus material and he threatened me with rape with a blow torch if I continued to blaspheme his god.)
Or, they wanted a community of local people with whom to share ideas instead of virtual friends.
Or, they missed the community of the church and returned to the safety of the known.
Or, they were so radicalized, the discussions were not militant enough.
There are some I miss and wonder how they feel and what they think. I have reached out to a couple but nothing came of it. I have some deep concern about those in Afghanistan, Egypt, and the Middle East who no longer keep in touch. One young man was so excited about the Egyptian Spring, writing of his hope and dreams. He has gone silent. So has the man in Afghanistan.
Joan, your first thought applies to many people I think: "people are so busy trying to put food on the table and a roof over their heads, they don't have time for small-talk and haven't time to think about large-talk, or whatever one calls discussion of serious topics."
I like the phrase "large-talk".
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RUSH: Here's Cynthia, Chestertown, Maryland. Hi, Cynthia. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Well, hi, Rush. I've been one of your supporters for so long I can't count back that far, and my friends put "Mrs. Limbaugh" on my place cards, and when I go out to dinner.
RUSH: (chuckling)
CALLER: And I think we might be having a problem here in our relationship because I have been to the EIB Network College and I look at things factually and I believe there are two candidates in the Republican primary that have the business experience: One is Herman Cain; the other is Mitt Romney. I feel Mitt Romney has more global economic knowledge. I would love to see a Romney-Cain ticket. I could accept it the other way around. But I'm so distressed that for some reason I think you have Romney only, you know, half a point behind Obama in your hate.
RUSH: No!
CALLER: And if anybody is gonna depress the Republican turnout it's gonna be you because you've just decided that you don't want Mitt under any circumstances.
RUSH: No, no, no. I'm not gonna depress or suppress the Republican turnout. I'm not saying anything about Romney that isn't already known by most Americans. You talk to most of the people in the conservative base, Romney's not their number one choice. Romney is the choice of the establishment. For a lot of people, he's not conservative. He will not do enough to roll back what the Obama agenda has been, is what a lot of people fear.
CALLER: Well, I think they're wrong. I knew a lot about Mitt when he was working in the Olympics and I saw him work with the Olympic Committee. Probably nobody has a bigger ego and is harder to work with than the members of the International Olympic Committee. They're worse than senators if you can believe that and he managed to turn that Olympics around and he listened to them and he smiled and he did everything right and they were doing everything wrong, and he ended up saving those Olympics financially, and it is a point I know that he will do the right thing for the United States economy, and I feel that that's the key to everything. We need someone who's gonna not just fix the economy -- you've taught me this -- internally, but has to be global, and I just don't see any of the other candidates who can do that.
RUSH: Well, let me tell you just to assure you, 'cause I have to take a break. Just to assure you: If Romney is the nominee, you needn't worry where I'm going to be. There is no way, there is no way I'm gonna do anything to suppress turnout if Obama is on the other guy's ticket. It ain't happening.
RUSH: Don't worry, folks. I don't know how many times I have said: "Whoever this nominee is is gonna have my full support because of what we're up against." Don't have any doubt about that. But until such time, I'm not gonna be dissuaded from talking about what I think our optimum could be.
RUSH: Okay, Romney. Let's take our last call and try put things in perspective here. Romney was governor of Massachusetts after the Olympics. We have something more recent to judge Romney on than the Olympics. When he ran for governor of Massachusetts he ran to the left of Ted Kennedy. Now he's moved more toward the center, but he instituted Romneycare. He has attacked Rick Perry on calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme. It's all a matter of public record. And Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, and countless elected and unelected people have said that it is. All we're doing here is discussing at length the background of all of these candidates. Newt, Santorum, Bachmann, Cain.
But, now, no, no, can't talk about any of that with Romney, we gotta go ahead, and we gotta nominate -- what's the latest -- Romney's newest backers, ABC News' The Note. New York Congressman Michael Grimm, who's backing Romney, said, "Republicans should put aside their ideological differences and back the candidate who has the best chance of beating President Obama." This is Michael Grimm in New York, who is backing Mitt Romney and thinks New York could choose the former Massachusetts Governor over President Obama in 2012. So this guy thinks, yeah, Romney could win New York, so let's put aside our ideological differences.
Now, here a Romney supporter who says in order to go ahead and select Romney as our nominee let's put aside our ideological differences. I don't know what that tells you, but what it tells me is, "Okay, conservatives shut up. This is the wrong time to start picking a nominee based on ideology. We gotta pick a nominee based on something else." This is the perfect time to pick a nominee based on ideology given what we're up against. Folks, there's almost a crying, desperate need to pick somebody on the basis of ideology now, because it is ideology that will win. It is ideology that will beat Obama. Not mush. Not moderate. Not middle ground. Not any of this. Put aside your ideological differences? I don't know what that says to you, but the message to me is, "Okay, look, let's just drop the conservative stuff and let's just go ahead." They're admitting that Romney's not a conservative when he says that. I don't know if Michael Grimm intended that, but that's what he's saying.
Mr. Grimm and the rest of you, I'm gonna just tell you, give you a little clue, Mitt Romney will only win by being conservative both in the primary and in the general election. If we once again nominate somebody who thinks because of the precious independents and they might lose 'em and they gotta tack to the center in the general election, you are going to blow it. You're going to blur the differences between our guy and Obama and that's not what we need. We need a very wide line of demarcation that stresses the differences, not mushes them, not waters them down. I've been telling you I don't know for how long the Republican establishment just doesn't want conservative. For whatever the reasons. I'm tired of going into them.
Now, it's one thing to personally viciously attack one of these Republicans, which I'm not doing and I haven't done. But it's quite another to honestly discuss during a primary cycle the merits and demerits of a candidate based on their record and their public policy. That's permitted. That doesn't violate Reagan's Eleventh Commandment. Now, you can call here and tell me that I shouldn't talk about these candidates in certain ways, I shouldn't give my opinion about the politics of a situation or something. That's not gonna happen. I'm gonna tell you who I am. I'm not on any of these campaign teams. I'm not being paid by anybody. I have a responsibility to you, as I always do.
The audience always comes first here, and by that I mean I have an incumbent responsibility to be honest with you on substantive issues. That's what I do and I'm not gonna silence myself at an urgent time like this. I mean look at what we've had today. And I'm not trying to gin up sympathy for me, I'm just trying to illustrate here. On the one hand I'm being told to meet with the candidates and pick one, and then rally the troops. On the other hand I'm being told, "Look, don't say all this stuff about Mitt unless you're for him. Don't say all this stuff. I call myself Mrs. Limbaugh at the dinner table, but I'm not gonna do that anymore if you don't be quiet about Mitt." So, on the one hand, I'm supposed to meet with the candidates and pick one and go for it, on the other hand, I'm supposed to shut up.
Now we've got Michael Grimm, a New York congressman, saying let's stop the primary process, put aside our conservatism and pick Romney. That's what he's saying: You conservatives, drop it, check your conservatism at the ballot box when you go in there. I wonder if Michael Grimm is aware the last time a Republican won a landslide in New York. It was Reagan. What was Reagan? He ran as a proud conservative. The last Republican to win a landslide in New York was named Ronald Reagan. A very ideological guy and we were not told to check our ideological at the door there. What an amazing thing to say. Put aside their ideological differences. I'm just telling you Romney is not gonna win by going mush. He's not gonna win by following the prescriptions, if you will, of the Republican establishment. Not gonna win. If you try to blur the ideological differences between us and Obama, it's Obama that will win.
RUSH: Okay, here's that poll I mentioned earlier -- the Gallup poll from October 2007 -- and here's the headline: "October Gallup Poll Has Obama, McCain Down by Double Digits." It's at the same point in the campaign as we are now. McCain was at 16% in October of 2007. You know who was leading the Republican nomination at this time in 2007? Take a wild guess. I'll bet nobody comes up with it. I'll bet nobody comes up with it. Rudy Giuliani at 32%. Fred Thompson was two at 20%. John McCain in third place at 16%. Romney in fourth place at 9%. Huckabee in fifth place with 7%. Ron Paul in last place at 2%. On the Democrat side, Obama was also down by double digits to Clinton and Edwards. Clinton was Hillary. She was near 50. Edwards was around 28, and Obama was at 11.
This time, 13 months out. Now, given that, keep in mind here that we've got everybody telling us, "Let's just put it all to bed, here. Let's just drop our ideology, put it aside, and let's just go ahead and nominate Romney. Let's just go ahead and nominate Romney," and our eventual nominee at this time in the 2008 campaign was McCain at 16%. And what changed? I'll tell you what changed was West Virginia and Florida. That's what happened. That's where McCain teamed up with Huckabee. Giuliani bombed in Florida, and Romney and Huckabee teamed up in West Virginia to give McCain Romney's supporters there and then of course Charlie Crist endorsed McCain in Florida, and pfft! That was it. But it was the primary process that flushed all of this out. Look what's happening now. Republican establishment says, "Ah, let's put everything aside, here. We have our nominee. We need our nominee now. We need to get going on this."


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Opinion polls do not reliably assess philosophical worth.
Here's an argument:
Let P be the proposition that "opinion polls reliably assess philosophical worth".
Premise 1. If P is true, then we should submit P to the judgment of an opinion poll.
Premise 2. When submitted to the judgment of an opinion poll, P comes out false.
Therefore, if P is true then P is false.
Rational people are best advised to avoid believing contradictions, thus rational people are best advised to avoid believing P.
Of course, the above argument depends on, among other things, the truth of premise 2.
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CAIRO — Egyptian authorities moved the trial of the ousted Islamist president to a new location at another end of the capital yesterday, a move apparently aimed at thwarting mass rallies planned by the Muslim Brotherhood in his support when the trial opens today.
Facing charges of incitement of violence with 14 others in connection with clashes in December, Mohammed Morsi has been held at an undisclosed location since his July 3 overthrow by the military. The trial will be his first public appearance since then, possibly enflaming a tense political atmosphere as animosity between Morsi's Islamist supporters and Egypt's security establishment deepens.
"For (the Islamists), it will be like taking revenge on the police and the military," said lawyer Khaled Abu-Bakr, representing three victims of the December clashes. "I really hope that no blood is spilled" today.
The change of venue was announced at a tumultuous news conference by appeals-court judge Medhat Idris, who threw his printed statement in the air and stormed out of the room when Morsi supporters shouted in protest at the change.
Idris later said by telephone that the trial will not be aired live. Other details about the proceedings, including where Morsi will be held during them, remain secret.
A security official said Morsi probably will be taken back to the place where he has been held after the first session, rather than be transferred to a normal prison, for fear his supporters would turn the prison into a "focal point of endless protests."
The new venue is a heavily fortified police academy in an eastern Cairo suburb. It also is being used for the trial of another former president, Hosni Mubarak, who was toppled in a 2011 uprising. He is accused of failing to stop the killing of protesters.
Egypt witnessed one of its worst bouts of violence in decades on Aug. 14, when security forces violently cleared protest camps set up by Morsi supporters, sparking days of unrest that left more than 1,000 dead. Since then, violent incidents have multiplied.
A suicide car bomber tried to assassinate Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim in September, and dozens of members of the security forces have been killed in a string of drive-by shootings, explosions and car bombings. Churches have been torched, and in an attack in Cairo last month, five Coptic Christians and one Muslim were killed in a drive-by shooting at a church.
Both government officials and Morsi's supporters forecast bleak scenarios for today, with each side accusing the other of plotting killings, including that of Morsi himself.
A senior Interior Ministry official said his ministry had received information that Brotherhood supporters will engage in acts of violence, "including assassinations of top religious figures, suicide attacks and targeting military facilities."
"We expect a kind of hysteria and rioting when Morsi shows up in court," the official said.
A Brotherhood-led group has called for mass rallies, while the interior minister has ordered the deployment of a large number of security personnel to guard the trial venue.
In recent statements, a coalition led by Morsi's Brotherhood described the trial as a "farce" and reiterated that it regards him as the "elected, legitimate president" of Egypt. "This is a naive tool to break our will and our determination," it said yesterday.


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I really am beginning to think that convincing libertarians about the merits of privatizing Social Security is actually more difficult than convincing liberals. I sent a blogger from PrincetonLibertarian (and occasional CCL blogger) an email about how he should start a Students for Saving Social Security chapter at
1. New avenues for corruption. Getting on the government approved list ofinvestment vehicles (be they funds, stocks, bonds, loans, etc) would be an enormous source of capital. Every fund manager, every CEO would fall over themselves to get access to the list. The approval list would become just another way for politicians to pick winners and losers and another need for the private sector to lobby for special treatment from the federal government. I do not think corruption would be probable, I think that the financial rewards of having access to these funds would be so huge that it would NECESSITATE corruption.'I completely agree that granting government more power breeds more corruption. However, I think you mischaracterize how exactly a system of private accounts would work. As I understand it, the government would mandate certain percentages of stocks and bonds as well as a certain amount of diversification; other than that, the individual would be free to choose where to invest his money. I agree if the government were to only let people invest in government approved funds that would be scary; luckily, that seems not to be the case.
3. Distortive impact on markets. One thing government can not do, is leave any program alone. Every representative, every Senator, every think tank, every lobbyist group would have their own pet plan to improve the myriad regulations that would govern personal accounts. Every time one of these honorable public servants succeeded in getting their regulation promulgated, it would send shock waves through the markets. The values of financial assets could skyrocket or plummet overnight on even the most innocuous sounding changes.I agree that a system of accounts would necessarily affect the market sector, but I ask you, isn't social security as it stands now even worse. Two researchers for the Social Security Administration, Dean Leimer and David Richardson, have found that a dollar of expected future Social Security wealth substitutes for about three-fifths of a dollar of personal savings. Harvard's Martin Feldstein puts it as high as one to one. The annual loss of real income that this incurs (the difference between market returns and SS returns: 6.7%) is about 700 billion or 6.3 percent of total GDP. I happen to think that this is a much graver market distortion.
4. More bureaucracy. Its pure delusion to think that personal accounts would not be accompanied by their own federal Czar of Investment Safety and Security. This Czar would be the point man for encouraging the private market to suckle on the federal teat. He would be an unelected official with enormous power and he would be the focus of points 1, 2, and 3.As it stands now, a system of private accounts would need less federal workers than the current Social Security administration. But again, this is a valid concern.
5. Expanding Nannyism. It would not be long before the federal government, having got the taste for micromanaging investment choices, would expand somehow into our other accounts. I don't know how it would happen, but somehow, after "giving" us these personal accounts, government officials would start looking into how they could better manage IRA's, 401k's, and regular investment accounts.The only thing that the government would be managing would be the stock/bond percentages in your account. I suppose that at some level this is managing, but it could be a lot worse, like taking your money outright and giving it to current retirees.
I don't want to "strengthen" or "save" social security. I want it to die. And I want it to die in a way that leaves no doubt as to the cause. I'm afraid that if the personal accounts are added, as soon as things start going bad, the markets will be the scape goat and fuzzy-minds will wax nostalgic about the good old days when government was the great warm-hearted provider.
Despite the fact that I think that this is clearly politically unfeasible, there is something more problematic as well. If you were to get rid of SS while keeping the rest of government the same, you would be creating a huge moral hazard for people not to save and just take from other welfare programs for the elderly poor, like Medicare. And getting rid of the welfare state entirely is not going to happen.
I think this blogger's points are all reasonable, but I think that you have to compare a system of private accounts to the alternative and not the ideal. Appealing to the ideal is important to figure out in which direction policy proposals should head, but it is almost always impossible to implement ideal principles in policy given that we have strayed so far from it already. At least in a system of private accounts you have property rights over your money, you can invest in private markets where you can enjoy the benefits of higher returns, and if you die before you reach 65 you can actually still pass the money on to your children. Does a system of private accounts have problems, sure, but it is still an enormous step in the right direction.


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At a time when men and women were prepared to kill - and be killed - for their faith, the Reformation tore the western world apart. Acclaimed as the definitive account of these epochal events, MacCulloch's award-winning history brilliantly re-creates the religious battles of priests, monarchs, scholars, politicians - from Martin Luther to Loyola, from Cramer to Philip II.
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At a time when men and women were prepared to kill—and be killed—for their faith, the Protestant Reformation tore the Western world apart. Acclaimed as the definitive account of these epochal events, Diarmaid MacCulloch's award-winning history brilliantly re-creates the religious battles of priests, monarchs, scholars, and politicians—from the zealous Martin Luther and his Ninety-Five Theses to the polemical John Calvin to the radical Igantius Loyola, from the tortured Thomas Cranmer to the ambitious Philip II.
Drawing together the many strands of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, and ranging widely across Europe and the New World, MacCulloch reveals as never before how these dramatic upheavals affected everyday lives—overturning ideas of love, sex, death, and the supernatural, and shaping the modern age.
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From a distance the Conquistador Hotel looked like a friendly old soul, a small but elegant pink lady, born in the roaring 20s, and preserved with several discreet face lifts. For 150 bucks, tourists could buy the right to lay themselves out in the sun and burn to a crisp ensuring, if they lived long enough, skin cancer.
From the vantage point of Max's Mustang, driving through Gulfport toward the beach, it was hard to imagine anything more malevolent happening here than, say, a post-prom booze party or your standard adulterous affair. Even the president of the United States once spent the night here. "It sure is pink," he was quoted as saying.
But as Max drove closer and closer, the look of the place got weirder and weirder. An attendant dressed in white stopped him at the front gate and with friendly insistence pressed Max to learn the nature of his business.
"Are you a guest at the hotel, Mr. ..."
"Timlin. No, but I've heard this was a special place, so I thought I'd take a look for myself."
The young man, he looked bleached blond, took Max's license and recorded his tag number, slid a pass onto his dashboard, and pointed to a place in the shade where he could park.
"Enjoy the day, sir, and don't forget to stop into the Globe Room. You'll enjoy it."
Max saw lots of tourists, and a few Watcher acolytes dressed in black, and many more initiates in blazing white regalia.
Though it was warm, Max dressed in black for dramatic effect. As he walked around he got the impression of a gilded cage, a too-perfect community in which everything was Watched. It reminded him of the resort in Wales that became the set of the 1960s British TV series "The Prisoner." He started whistling the theme song, "All You Need Is Love."
He spent about two hours scouting the place, its little restaurants, shops, tennis courts, boardwalk, cabanas, and down one end a dock for boats. He could see Glaber's cigarette boat in the distance.
Nearby, behind the dunes, he could see a large round white mark along the beach with concentric circles like a target or perhaps a landing pad for hang gliders or even a small helicopter.
What interested Max most was the absence of Watcher insignias or other public displays that might indicate who owned the hotel.
He took an elevator to the fifth floor, which opened to a mahogany reception desk behind which sat an attractive young woman dressed in a handsome white suit.
"You're in white and I'm in black," said Max, still wearing his sunglasses. She smiled at him blankly. "The prince of parking told me I should check out the Globe Room."
"Please sign in here, sir, and then take those steps to the right."
He followed her directions and stepped into a remarkable setting. The room was the world, or to be more precise, a globe. Inside, Max could see a map of the world rendered in magnificent stained glass, lit from behind. You could only move across the room on a thin walkway which served as the sphere's diameter.
He moved to a spot that marked the center of the Earth. A recorded voice came on. It was Raoul Glaber.
"I stand beside you, watching our magnificent world. But what shall become of it?" What followed was five minutes of standard Watcher fare apocalyptic doom softened by New Age mythology.
Max looked up and noticed a security video camera. He smiled.
"You can turn back and walk out the way you came in," said Glaber's soothing voice, "or you can move forward beyond this great world to something ever more glorious."
Max shrugged and walked 10 steps toward the door beyond him. It opened automatically. The hall beyond had a great W on the wall. This was The Watcher sanctum, busy with Watcher workers in white, moving in and out of offices, or stretched out before banks of computers.
Max was approached by a handsome black woman with her short hair dyed blond. "Dennis Rodman's sister," he thought.
"Welcome to The Watchers, sir. I'm Denise and you're ..."
"Timlin. Max Timlin."
"Welcome, Max. I'm here to watch over you so you can learn more about The Watchers."
"Yes, I'd like that. I'm a reporter and would like to interview Raoul Glaber."
Her expression darkened. "Wait right here, sir. Don't move." She ran off.
Within 15 seconds, Max was surround by burly blond attendants; they resembled personal trainers in dress and physique, but Max guessed they constituted the palace guard.
An older man, his head shaved bald, approached him. "I understand you are a reporter, sir."
"That's correct. I'm a free-lance writer and I'd like to interview Mr. Glaber."
"We consider ourselves to be a very open organization. We conduct much of our business in public." Max pulled out his notebook and began scribbling. "I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to put that away."
"Oh, sure. I'm not here to make a scene. I'm Max Timlin. And your name sir is?"
"I'm not required to give you my name, sir, but it's Monty."
"May I write that down?"
Monty shook his head sternly. "Mr. Timlin, have you read stories in the press about The Watchers?"
"Yes, of course, I've been doing research."
"Have you seen a story about us that didn't portray us as some kind of kooky cult? We've been so badly used, we've had to ban reporters from our premises. I'll give you all the literature you'll need to understand who we are and what we stand ..."
"Listen, Mr. Full Monty, I don't take handouts from flacks, and I'm not intimidated by blond Nazi boys dressed like ice-cream vendors."
They seemed to flex as one, but Monty held up a hand to restrain them.
"Why shouldn't I have you escorted from the premises and roughly?"
Max reached in his pocket and pulled out an index card and clicked his pen and scribbled two quick sentences.
"Here's why. Be so kind as to show this to Mr. Glaber. I'll wait here with your goons."
Monty took the card, read it, his face flushing with anger. "Watch him," he said, and spun away. Max put his shades back on, crossed his arms, and smiled.
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What are the rules for integrating a PDE of say 2 or more variables? And where can i learn more about these ? For example, i am asked to find the solution by direct integration of
Now ; And
Have i done this correctly ? I can't seem to find much information on integrating PDEs online. I am unsure of the arbitrary f(x),g(y) and h(z) functions, and how i have worked with them? Any help is much appreciated!
Well...i don't know...My knowledge of integrating a PDE is secondary, i have just picked things in physics, other than that i have somehow managed to skip an education in this field ! Am currently doing a third year applied math course and feel i might have skipped quite a necessary course on this area.Where could i find out more on the integration of partials? What might it look like if the variables were not seperable?
This is what I'd do: Assuming the mixed partials are equal and you want to integrate with respect to x, than y, then z, I'd write as:
(in general, you can't assume the arbitrary constant is separable so it's f(x,y))
Then integrating with respect to z:
Also, I'd recommend "Basic Partial Differential Equations" by Bleecker and Csordas.
I think you can drop that last single integral as it's still just an arbitrary function of z such as .


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They say sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, and in the case of the latest image revealed by DC Comics for the cover to EARTH 2 #8 it seems this one reveals a whole heck of a lot. The penciled sketch by artist Yildiray Cinar, Steppenwolf and a mysterious female character stand front and center. But what does it all mean? If you've been reading the series then you may recall Steppenwolf's appearance in the first issue of the series, but that he's since been absent from the title. Does this upcoming cover mark his return to Earth 2? We caught up with writer James Robinson to ask him who the mysterious figure in the image could be, but he sadly didn't give us a whole lot to work with.
We're keeping the identity of "the last Amazon" under wraps for now but we will reveal it shortly...Please be patient and have fun guessing! You can look forward to her kicking major ass in issue #8 of EARTH 2!
OK, so we know Steppenwolf is definitely on the cover, and if you recall back to the first issue you'll remember that Wonder Woman was killed at his hand -- so it can't be her. So, who is this mysterious new Amazon? Could it be Donna Troy? That would certainly be an interesting twist since Donna has yet to appear in comics since the start of the New 52. Not only that, but Donna was a central figure in Robinson's JUSTICE LEAGUE run just prior to DC's reboot. Regardless of who it is, we can all agree that Cinar is a talented artist and we are definitely looking forward to seeing his talents on the EARTH 2 title. Who do you think 'The Last Amazon' could be?
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- We want to collaborate with Indian folk musicians
Berlin-based instrumental band Melt Trio enthralled music connoisseurs with their unconventional style of jazz, as they explored a variety of soundscapes at the Sailing Annexe on Wednesday. It was their first performance in India, and they seem to be loving it here. "Back in Germany, we heard about how Indian music is unique and equally technical. And then there are the usual stereotypes about how busy and colourful the country is. However, we did not know much about Hyderabad and didn't know what to expect. But we loved the city! India is a lot more than what we had expected," says drummer Moritz Baumgartner, who is joined by brothers Bernhard Meyer and Peter Meyer on bass and electric guitar respectively to complete the line-up. "We also had a picture in our minds that there would be a few cows on the roads, and we actually did get to spot a few on the way to the city from the airport," adds 33-year-old Bernhard. Despite the band's love for Indian food, they did find it hard to adjust on their arrival to the city. "We are actually okay with the spice and stuff. You get good Indian food in Berlin, and actually there are a few other cuisines in the world that are spicier; Thai food for example. But may be it was some ingredient that didn't go down well with our bodies. But we enjoyed the food while we were eating. Paneer curry and mutton curry were delicious," says Moritz adding, "We also want to try out the biryani before we leave! I've also had this urge to have the South Indian dosa. I've seen videos of how it is made on the internet, it's fascinating to watch. It's like a crepe I guess, but it looks a lot tastier, so I can't wait to have that when we go to Chennai or Trivandrum." Slated to perform in Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune and Trivandrum next, the musicians are looking forward to savour the tastes of the country. In fact they are also hoping to incorporate the sounds of India into their music as well. "We would love to collaborate and jam with some Indian folk musicians. Indian music is complex and this trip could be inspiring; it might have an effect on how our next album might sound. We admire Indian musicians like Vijay Iyer, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Zakir Hussain and Trilok Gurtu, but we haven't had a chance to hear local Indian talent," says Bernhard. when asked if being an instrumental band limits their connection with the audience, Bernhard replies in the negative. "Our music doesn't need a vocalist. It's not music for a singer. The guitars play the melody and that's enough to engage the audience in what we're doing on stage," says Bernhard as they prepare to get on stage.
- Legendary musician Bala Murali Krishna passes away
Legendary musician, Shri Bala Murali Krishna is no more. He breathed his last breath at his residence today in Chennai. He made his acting debut with Bhakta Prahlada under AVM productions and has acted in various films. He has also composed up to 400 compositions in various languages like Telugu, Kannada, and Tamil. The Indian government has honored him with civilian awards like Padma Vibhushan,Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.
- Colin all musicians: It's all about the bass for D'Cruz
As a little boy growing up in Bombay, he frequented the Bandra fair and was amazed by the rich sound of bass. He says it was here where he discovered the magic of live music and instantly fell in love with it. By the time he was out of school, the 15-year-old was playing six gigs a week for his first band 'Wild Rangers'. "My first acoustic guitar was a few strings tied to a piece of wood and I still managed to create music with it," says Colin D'Cruz, who later purchased his first professional electric guitar for 5,000 – a legendary 70s' Fender – from a musician who was giving up on music. That guitar could have been stashed in the attic but he lives on in the good company of D'Cruz, who says he has never considered on giving up on the guitar or music. Born and groomed in Santa Cruz, Mumbai, he finished his schooling at St Mary's, Kalina, and graduated in commerce from National College, Bandra. He later went on to complete his master's degree in mass communication, but not before he had already broken on the music scene in Bombay, playing with different bands and independent artistes as a resident contract artiste at nightclubs. "I never went to any music school, but it was here that I developed an ear for music. The various visiting and recording artistes widened my horizon and taught me to appreciate and understand music better," says D'Cruz, who loves painting and writing, but of late he has taken to photography and editing music videos. During his 40-year-old career, the bassist has played with over 300 bands and numerous independent artistes from India and abroad. He is currently active with four bands – 'Jazz Junction', who performed at the 4th anniversary of Radio Mango in Canada; 'Brown Indian Band', that recently toured Russia; 'Latin Connection' with whom he is travelling to Macau to perform at a Lusofonia cultural event next week; and 'Blues Power' that will perform at the Indigo Jazz and Blues festival in Bangalore, later this year. Ask him about loyalty and balancing time for the collaborations, he says "Right now I belong to four bands and I am committed to them. I have never been distracted as the focus is always on the current project. As I complete one gig, I simply let it go and focus on the next one." "Today, you can use the internet to rehearse by bouncing ideas of each other. Jazz is better off when played impromptu. The basic framework is rehearsed together, but what happens within the framework is left open to creativity." Colin returned to his roots in Goa in 2008 and set up Jazz Goa. "It's aim is to help local talent make it big in the industry. I source gigs for them and any novice or professional artiste is always free to record at my studio," he said. "Today's kids are lucky, because they are exposed to so much music on the internet and lessons from masters. When I began in Bombay, Bollywood was booming and musicians were insecure. There were no books, no one ready to teach. This rather hostile atmosphere probably inspired me to start Jazz Goa," says the 56-year-old who now lives in Sangolda. D'Cruz is familiar with the blues, Latin and fusion, but can't stand the idea of "young people splurging money to watch a laptop produce sounds on an insanely huge stage". He says, "These are signs of a world gone mad. I believe soulful music is created on a musical instrument, everything else is just sound. But, I will give it a few years, another genre will captivate the next generation. I hope it is acoustic instruments that return to the stage. Whatever it is, it will evolve through jazz, as jazz music accepts and unites all genres of music, as it is open, alive and evolving all the time," says D'Cruz, who is happily married to Diana, a singer herself, who travels with his bands and manages their gigs. D'Cruz has three sisters and one brother; neither of them, nor their ancestors are musicians. "It was just me and my passion, but there is a lot more to do. Konkani songs are popular only among Goans, and even if they have travelled abroad it has been circulated only among Goans. I want to take Konkani music to the international community so that people who have never heard or visited Goa, forget knowing Konkani, will have our Konkani tunes on their playlists and humming in their heads. I want that Goan music be represented at Jazz festivals around the world by Goan bands," says D'Cruz of his immediate plans for Goa. Anything he would have done differently? "I regret moving to Goa so late in my career. This is where the vibe is. Goa can be the locbal hub for jazz"
- Is Bob Dylan a greater poet than a musician?
KOLKATA: After Bob Dylan won his Nobel prize for literature, do his fans feel his lyrics make him a greater poet than a musician? Ever since Thursday's announcement, this has been a question haunting the literary and music world. For some, Dylan's identity as a songwriter surpasses that of a singer or guitarist. For others, it is the musicianship that has been of paramount importance. But even when fans are divided, they are happy to agree that Dylan will remain an inspiration irrespective of whether or not he had a Nobel in his kitty. For Chandrabindoo frontman Anindya Chattopadhyay, it is the musician's identity of Dylan that surpasses that of his identity as a poet. "I am sure the members of the Nobel committee must have also grown up on Dylan's songs. When they judged the lyrics, the tunes must have haunted them too. This wasn't the case when Tagore got the Nobel in literature for 'Gitanjali'. The committee members might not have had any musical reference point while judging the translated lines from 'Gitanjali'," Chattopadhyay says. What with the likes of Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, Anton Chekov, WH Auden, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Mark Twain never having got the Nobel prize for literature, Chattopadhyay is happy that committee finally gave the award to a 75-year-old Dylan. "It has set a new trend of acknowledging song writers on this platform," he points out. Singer-songwriter-composer Anupam Roy insists that Dylan couldn't care less about the Nobel. "I don't think Dylan gives a damn about the Nobel. He will be an inspiration for many with or without the Nobel," he says. Describing Dylan as an "amazing songwriter", Roy says, "It's better not to dissect him and compare his lyrics versus music. Dylan's poetry without his voice, without his tunes are good enough. But they come together. That is Dylan. That's his music." According to music director Prabuddha Banerjee, Dylan is a greater poet than a musician. "I would have said that even if he hadn't got the Nobel. The beauty of Bob Dylan lies in the fact that in his writings, the line between lyrics and poetry got blurred. If somebody with the right kind of expressions reads out his lyrics, he will create an experience of similar intensity as his songs." As an example, he points to the lyrics of "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" - "Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?/ Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?/ I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains/ I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways/ I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests/ I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans/ I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard/ And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard/ And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall…" Banerjee points at the "allegorical quality" in Dylan's lyrics. "Nowhere does he use the word revolution and yet he conveys his thoughts by using the allegory of hard rain. In the same song, he writes: 'I saw a white ladder all covered with water/ I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken/ I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children/ And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard/ And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall…' Here the lyrics have a strong visual quality to them too," he says. Another striking lyrics that Banerjee refers to is from the song "I Pity The Poor Immigrant". The lines go like: "I pity the poor immigrant/ Who wishes he would've stayed home/ Who uses all his power to do evil/ But in the end is always left so alone/ That man whom with his fingers cheats/ And who lies with ev'ry breath/ Who passionately hates his life/ And likewise, fears his death…" These words, Banerjee says, are "mundane" but are used to express "timeless wisdom". Dylan the musician, Banerjee believes, appeals to everyone because of being a complete package which has the right mix of style, arrogance and attitude. He even goes on to say that Dylan is an "ordinary guitarist". "I have personally heard many street musicians abroad who are perhaps better guitarists than he is. Dylan's music is elementary and very basic in nature. His words are powerful and they aid in a fantastic communication with the masses. His music isn't esoteric and yet when combined with the lyrics, the music becomes esoteric in nature," Banerjee says. On the late recognition of Dylan by the Nobel committee, Banerjee feels it will not have any impact on the "discovery" of the legend by the masses. While many laureates are often discovered only after they get the Nobel, Dylan has long established a connection with the masses without having this award in his kitty. As a result, unlike other year's the announcement of Dylan's name immediately resulted in mass euphoria. In a way, it only shows the mastery of Dylan who despite having penned songs with deep philosophical resonances was also able to enter the collective consciousness of the masses. Therein lies the key to Dylan's immortality. The Nobel announcement is but an incidental occurrence when posterity looks up to the man who told the world to be Forever Young.
- Goregaon residents stage protest as musician's car rams into 4 students
Residents of Goregaon's Prem Nagar gathered at the Bangur Nagar police station on Wednesday to protest against a day-old accident where a percussionist had rammed his car into four schoolboys, injuring them. The four are residents of Prem Nagar and one of them, Dipesh Singh, had to get his leg amputated. The residents demanded justice for the victims.
- Makers of 'Banjo' say: Hope street musicians get their due
Director Ravi Jadhav had started work on the script of 'Banjo' even before he made successful Marathi films like Time Pass and Balak Palak. And it was during the making of the latter, which he produced and helmed, that he discussed with Riteish Deshmukh the subject of street musicians.


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