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Palestine is our country.
The Jews our dogs. —PALESTINIAN NURSERY RHYME
Arabs are the same as animals. There is no animal worse than them.—RABBI OVADIAH YOSEF, HAARETZ
"COME ON DOGS. Where are all the dogs of Khan Younis? Son of a bitch! Son of a whore! Your mother's cunt!" Degrading taunts in Arabic rang out from behind the fence that divided the Palestinian side of the Khan Younis refugee camp from the Israeli side. Located near the southern tip of the Gaza Strip, just outside the ancient town of Khan Younis, the camp was established to house 35,000 of the nearly one million Arabs who had been displaced by the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. By the beginning of the twenty-first century its population had swelled to over 60,000 souls housed in thirteen squalid cement blocks.
The torrent of invective did not come from the mouth of an angry Muslim; it was broadcast from a loudspeaker mounted on an armored Israeli Jeep. New York Times journalist Chris Hedges was in the camp that day, and watched as Palestinian boys began to lob stones at the Jeep in a futile gesture of defiance. Hedges recounts:
There was the boom of a percussion grenade. The boys, most no more than ten or eleven years old, scattered, running clumsily through the heavy sand. They descended out of sight behind the dune in front of me. There were no sounds of gunfire. The soldiers shot with silencers. The bullets from M-16 rifles, unseen by me, tumbled end-over-end through their slight bodies. I would see the destruction, the way their stomachs were ripped out, the gaping holes in their limbs and torsos, later in the hospital.
Four children were shot. Only three survived. One of them, a boy named Ahmed, explained to Hedges what had happened. "Over the loudspeakers the soldiers told us to come to the fence to get chocolate and money," he said. "Then they cursed us. Then they fired a grenade. We started to run. They shot Ali in the back."
Khan Younis had long been a stronghold of Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement, and when the Israeli troops pulled out of the Gaza Strip in the fall of 2005, the bright green banners of Hamas fluttered from the asbestos rooftops of the camp. Hamas was founded in 1987 to end the Israeli presence in the region and to establish an Islamic state with Jerusalem as its capital. Although Hamas is devoted mainly to supporting schools, hospitals, and cultural activities, it is best known for its violence—its abductions, assassinations, suicide bombings, and rocket attacks against Israeli civilians. A member of Hamas, one of the many Palestinians who rejoiced when Israel relinquished control of the Gaza strip. "Gaza was a beginning," he told a reporter from the British Guardian newspaper. "You know how you hunt foxes? You dig them out of their holes. The fox is gone from Gaza to the West Bank. The resistance will dig him out of his hole there."
This man and the anonymous soldiers in the Jeep stood on opposite sides of a single conflict. And yet, their attitudes were uncannily alike. Each portrayed the other as a nonhuman animal. The soldier represented Ali and his companions as dogs, unclean animals in both Jewish and Islamic lore. Likewise, the member of Hamas' depiction of Israel as a fox represents a whole nation as vermin, fit to be hunted down and destroyed. The sly fox, an amalgam of greed and guile, has much in common with the traditional derogatory stereotype of the Jew, as exemplified by thirteenth-century Muslim writer Al-Jaubari's characterization of the Jewish people in The Chosen One's Unmasking of Divine Mysteries:
Know that these people are the most cunning creatures, the vilest, most unbelieving and hypocritical. While ostensibly the most humble and miserable, they are in fact the most vicious of men. This is the very essence of rascality and accursedness.… Look at this cunning and craft and vileness; how they take other people's moneys, ruin their lives.…
And more recently, the remarks of Imam Yousif al-Zahar, also a member of Hamas, conveyed the same idea. "Jews are a people who cannot be trusted," he remarked. "They have been traitors to all agreements—go back to history. Their fate is their vanishing."
The soldier in the Israeli military Jeep dehumanized his Palestinian targets, and Osama Alfarra and his comrades dehumanized their Israeli enemies. In both examples—and in many, many more that I will describe in this book—a whole group of people is represented as less than human, as a prelude and accompaniment to extreme violence. It's tempting to see reference to the subaltern other as mere talk, as nothing more than degrading metaphor. I will argue that this view is sorely misguided. Dehumanization isn't a way of talking. It's a way of thinking—a way of thinking that, sadly, comes all too easily to us. Dehumanization is a scourge, and has been so for millennia. It acts as a psychological lubricant, dissolving our inhibitions and inflaming our destructive passions. As such, it empowers us to perform acts that would, under other circumstances, be unthinkable. In the pages and chapters to follow, I will do my best to explain what this form of thinking consists in, how it works, and why we so readily slip into it.
Before I get to work explaining how dehumanization works, I want to make a preliminary case for its importance. So, to get the ball rolling, I'll briefly discuss the role that dehumanization played in what is rightfully considered the single most destructive event in human history: the Second World War. More than 70 million people died in the war, most of them civilians. Millions died in combat. Many were burned alive by incendiary bombs and, in the end, nuclear weapons. Millions more were victims of systematic genocide. Dehumanization made much of this carnage possible.
Let's begin at the end. The 1946 Nuremberg doctors' trial was the first of twelve military tribunals held in Germany after the defeat of Germany and Japan. Twenty doctors and three administrators—twenty-two men and a single woman—stood accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. They had participated in Hitler's euthanasia program, in which around 200,000 mentally and physically handicapped people deemed unfit to live were gassed to death, and they performed fiendish medical experiments on thousands of Jewish, Russian, Roma, and Polish prisoners.
Principal prosecutor Telford Taylor began his opening statement with these somber words:
The defendants in this case are charged with murders, tortures, and other atrocities committed in the name of medical science. The victims of these crimes are numbered in the hundreds of thousands. A handful only are still alive; a few of the survivors will appear in this courtroom. But most of these miserable victims were slaughtered outright or died in the course of the tortures to which they were subjected.… To their murderers, these wretched people were not individuals at all. They came in wholesale lots and were treated worse than animals.
He went on to describe the experiments in detail. Some of these human guinea pigs were deprived of oxygen to simulate high-altitude parachute jumps. Others were frozen, infested with malaria, or exposed to mustard gas. Doctors made incisions in their flesh to simulate wounds, inserted pieces of broken glass or wood shavings into them, and then, tying off the blood vessels, introduced bacteria to induce gangrene. Taylor described how men and women were made to drink seawater, were infected with typhus and other deadly diseases, were poisoned and burned with phosphorus, and how medical personnel conscientiously recorded their agonized screams and violent convulsions.
The descriptions in Taylor's narrative are so horrifying that it's easy to overlook what might seem like an insignificant rhetorical flourish: his comment that "these wretched people were … treated worse than animals." But this comment raises a question of deep and fundamental importance. What is it that enables one group of human beings to treat another group as though they were subhuman creatures?
A rough answer isn't hard to come by. Thinking sets the agenda for action, and thinking of humans as less than human paves the way for atrocity. The Nazis were explicit about the status of their victims. They were Untermenschen—subhumans—and as such were excluded from the system of moral rights and obligations that bind humankind together. It's wrong to kill a person, but permissible to exterminate a rat. To the Nazis, all the Jews, Gypsies, and the others were rats: dangerous, disease-carrying rats.
Jews were the main victims of this genocidal project. From the beginning, Adolf Hitler and his followers were convinced that the Jewish people posed a deadly threat to all that was noble in humanity. In the apocalyptic Nazi vision, these putative enemies of civilization were represented as parasitic organisms—as leeches, lice, bacteria, or vectors of contagion. "Today," Hitler proclaimed in 1943, "international Jewry is the ferment of decomposition of peoples and states, just as it was in antiquity. It will remain that way as long as peoples do not find the strength to get rid of the virus." Both the death camps (the gas chambers of which were modeled on delousing chambers) and the Einsatzgruppen (paramilitary death squads that roamed across Eastern Europe following in the wake of the advancing German army) were responses to what the Nazis perceived to be a lethal pestilence.
Sometimes the Nazis thought of their enemies as vicious, bloodthirsty predators rather than parasites. When partisans in occupied regions of the Soviet Union began to wage a guerrilla war against German forces, Walter von Reichenau, the commander in chief of the German army, issued an order to inflict a "severe but just retribution upon the Jewish subhuman elements" (the Nazis considered all of their enemies as part of "international Jewry," and were convinced that Jews controlled the national governments of Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States). Military historian Mary R. Habeck confirms that, "soldiers and officers thought of the Russians and Jews as 'animals'… that had to perish. Dehumanizing the enemy allowed German soldiers and officers to agree with the Nazis' new vision of warfare, and to fight without granting the Soviets any mercy or quarter."
The Holocaust is the most thoroughly documented example of the ravages of dehumanization. Its hideousness strains the limits of imagination. And yet, focusing on it can be strangely comforting. It's all too easy to imagine that the Third Reich was a bizarre aberration, a kind of mass insanity instigated by a small group of deranged ideologues who conspired to seize political power and bend a nation to their will. Alternatively, it's tempting to imagine that the Germans were (or are) a uniquely cruel and bloodthirsty people. But these diagnoses are dangerously wrong. What's most disturbing about the Nazi phenomenon is not that the Nazis were madmen or monsters. It's that they were ordinary human beings.
When we think of dehumanization during World War II our minds turn to the Holocaust, but it wasn't only the Germans who dehumanized their enemies. While the architects of the Final Solution were busy implementing their lethal program of racial hygiene, the Russian-Jewish poet and novelist Ilya Ehrenburg was churning out propaganda for distribution to Stalin's Red Army. These pamphlets seethed with dehumanizing rhetoric. They spoke of "the smell of Germany's animal breath," and described Germans as "two-legged animals who have mastered the technique of war"—"ersatz men" who ought to be annihilated. "The Germans are not human beings," Ehrenburg wrote, "… If you kill one German, kill another—there is nothing more amusing for us than a heap of German corpses."
Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed. Kill the German—this is your old mother's prayer. Kill the German—this is what your children beseech you to do. Kill the German—this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not waver. Do not let up. Kill."
This wasn't idle talk. The Wehrmacht had taken the lives of 23 million Soviet citizens, roughly half of them civilians. When the tide of the war finally turned, a torrent of Russian forces poured into Germany from the east, and their inexorable advance became an orgy of rape and murder. "They were certainly egged on by Ehrenburg and other Soviet propagandists," writes journalist Giles McDonough:
East Prussia was the first German region visited by the Red Army.… In the course of a single night the Red Army killed seventy-two women and one man. Most of the women had been raped, of whom the oldest was eighty-four. Some of the victims had been crucified.… A witness who made it to the west talked of a poor village girl who was raped by an entire tank squadron from eight in the evening to nine in the morning. One man was shot and fed to the pigs.
Meanwhile, halfway across the world, a war was raging in Asia. Like their German allies, the Japanese believed that they were the highest form of human life, and considered their enemies inferior at best and subhuman at worst. American and British leaders were depicted with horns sprouting from their temples, and sporting tails, claws, or fangs. The Japanese labeled their enemies as demons (oni), devils (kichiku), evil spirits (akki and akuma), monsters (kaibutsu), and "hairy, twisted-nosed savages." Americans were Mei-ri-ken, a double entendre translated as "misguided dog."
Japan pursued its military goals with extravagant and unapologetic savagery. Consider the systematic atrocities following the capture of the Chinese city of Nanjing in December 1937, where—for six weeks—soldiers killed, mutilated, raped, and tortured thousands of Chinese civilians. The details are set out Honda Katsuichi's book The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame. Katsuichi reports that one former staff sergeant told him, "of soldiers disembowling pregnant women and stuffing hand grenades up women's vaginas and then detonating them." Another sergeant confessed that, because a crying infant disturbed him while he was raping the child's mother, he "took a living human child … an innocent baby that was just beginning to talk, and threw it into boiling water." It's hard for the mind to encompass such horror. How can ordinary men (and they were ordinary men) do such things? Yoshio Tshuchiya, another Japanese veteran, tells us the answer. "We called the Chinese 'chancorro'… that meant below human, like bugs or animals.… The Chinese didn't belong to the human race. That was the way we looked at it." Tshuchiya describes how he was ordered to bayonet unarmed Chinese civilians, and what it was that enabled him to comply with this order. "If I'd thought of them as human beings I couldn't have done it," he observed. "But … I thought of them as animals or below human beings." Shiro Azuma, who participated in the atrocities at Nanjing, told an interviewer that when the women were raped they were thought of as human, but when they were killed they were nothing but pigs.
What about the Americans and their English-speaking allies? We were the good guys, weren't we? Allied personnel also dehumanized their enemies (as one soldier wrote in a letter home, "It is very wrong to kill people, but a damn Nazi is not human, he is more like a dog") but on the whole dehumanized the Germans less than they did the Japanese. Germans, after all, were fellow Anglo-Saxons—strapping blue-eyed boys who might just as well have grown up on farms in Oklahoma. But the Japanese were another story. A poll of U.S. servicemen indicated that 44 percent would like to kill a Japanese soldier while only 6 percent felt the same way about Germans.
The "Japs" were considered animals, and were often portrayed as monkeys, apes, or rodents, and sometimes as insects (in Herman Wouk's novel The Caine Muntiny, they are described as "large armed ants"). In a typical example of xenophobic zeal, Australian general Sir Thomas Blamey told his troops in the Pacific theater, "Your enemy is a curious race—a cross between a human being and an ape.… You know that we have to exterminate these vermin if we and our families are to live.…" Pulitzer Prize–winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle, whose folksy dispatches were published in hundreds of newspapers, confirmed that this attitude was not limited to commanding offers, but was common among ordinary grunts as well. Pyle reported that "the Japanese were looked upon as something subhuman and repulsive, like cockroaches or mice." Ordinary citizens far away from the sharp edge of battle participated, too. The theme of the most popular float in an all-day parade in New York City in 1942 was bombs falling on a pack of yellow rats. It was named "Tokyo, We Are Coming."
Viewing the Japanese as subhuman may have contributed to the practice of mutilating their corpses and taking their body parts from them as trophies. Charles Lindbergh recorded in his wartime diary that U.S. servicemen carved penholders and paper knives out of the thigh bones of fallen Japanese soldiers, dug up their decaying corpses to extract gold teeth, and collected ears, noses, teeth, and even skulls as wartime mementos. Taking human body parts as trophies was rare in the European theater. As military historian John Dower points out, if Allied troops had similarly mutilated German or Italian corpses this would have provoked an uproar.
The dead weren't the only targets. Surrendering soldiers and prisoners were frequently killed and sometimes tortured. The philosopher and World War II veteran J. Glenn Gray recounts a revealing anecdote in this connection.
An intelligent veteran of the war in the Pacific told a class of mine … how his unit had unexpectedly "flushed" a Japanese soldier from his hiding place well behind the combat area.… The unit, made up of relatively green troops, was resting and joking, expecting to be sent forward to combat areas. The appearance of this single enemy soldier did not frighten them.… But they seized their rifles and began using him as a life target while he dashed frantically around the clearing in search of safety. The soldiers found his movements uproariously funny and were prevented by their laughter from making an early end of the unfortunate man. Finally, however, they succeeded in killing him, and the incident cheered the whole platoon, giving them something to joke and talk about for days afterwards.
To this Gray adds:
In relating this story to the class, the veteran emphasized the similarity of the enemy soldier to an animal. None of the American soldiers apparently even considered that he may have had human feelings of fear and wished to be spared.
One of the most unsettling examples of dehumanization of the Japanese by Americans appeared in the U.S. Marine Corps' Leatherneck magazine. It's a brief piece, apparently intended to be humorous. Emblazoned across the top of the page is an illustration of a repulsive animal with a caterpillar-like body and a grotesque, stereotypically Japanese face, labeled Louseus japanicus. The text below it explains that the "giant task" of exterminating these creatures will only be complete when "the origin of the plague, the breeding grounds around the Tokyo area" are completely annihilated. The article was published in March 1945, the same month that U.S. aircraft rained incendiary bombs on Tokyo, burning up to 100,000 civilians alive. Over the next five months, around half a million noncombatants—men, women, and children—were, in the words of Major General Curtis LeMay, "scorched and boiled and baked to death" as sixty-seven Japanese cities were incinerated by fire bombs. And then, in August, nuclear weapons flattened Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with massive civilian casualties.
I saw two naked detainees, one masturbating to another kneeling with its mouth open. I thought I should just get out of there. I didn't think it was right … I saw SSG Frederick walking toward me, and he said, "Look what these animals do when you leave them alone for two seconds." —U.S. ARMY SPECIALIST MATTHEW WILSON, TESTIMONY REGARDING ABU GHRAIB
Dehumanization is aroused, exacerbated, and exploited by propaganda. It's common knowledge that, prior to and during the 1994 genocide, government radio broadcasts characterized Rwandan Tutsis as cockroaches, and that Nazi Germany had a propaganda apparatus devoted to painting horrifying pictures of Jews and other supposed enemies of the Volk. Russian political art from the 1930s and '40s portrayed German and Italian fascists and their allies as a veritable menagerie, including rats, snakes, pigs, dogs, and apes. And when fascists were depicted in human form, they were endowed with subhuman attributes, like pointed ears, fangs, or a nonhuman complexion. But apart from notorious examples like these, there is little awareness of the extent to which the mass media are instrumental for propagating dehumanizing stereotypes.
Journalists have always had an important role to play in disseminating falsehoods to mold public opinion, and this often involves dehumanizing military and political opponents. In a speech delivered at London's Royal Albert Hall in 1936, against the background of the gathering storm of fascism in Europe, Aldous Huxley argued that dehumanization is the primary function of propaganda.
Most people would hesitate to torture or kill a human being like themselves. But when that human being is spoken of as though he were not a human being, but as the representative of some wicked principle, we lose our scruples.… All political and nationalist propaganda aims at only one thing; to persuade one set of people that another set of people are not really human and that it is therefore legitimate to rob, swindle, bully, and even murder them.
Collections of twentieth-century political posters confirm that visual propaganda from the United States, Germany, Britain, France, the Soviet Union, Korea, and elsewhere have often portrayed "the enemy" as a menacing nonhuman creature. But you don't need to sift through historical archives to find examples of dehumanization in the popular media. All that you need to do is open a newspaper or turn on the radio.
On September 4, 2007, the Columbus Dispatch published a cartoon portraying Iran as a sewer with a swarm of cockroaches pouring out of it. The subtext wasn't subtle, and readers quickly got the message. "I find it extremely troubling that your paper would behave like Rwandan Hutu papers that also published cartoons depicting human beings … as cockroaches," one reader wrote, "calling for them to be stamped out—leading to genocide." Another wrote, "Depicting Iranians as cockroaches spewing out of a sewer was a vile slur on the Iranian people.… Cartoons like this only cause the neoconservative drums of war sounding for a disastrous military attack against Iran to beat louder."
Three years earlier, when the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq became public, Rush Limbaugh—the most popular radio broadcaster in the United States, whose syndicated radio show has, at last count, 13 million listeners—described the prisoners who had been killed, raped, tortured, and humiliated by or at the behest of U.S. military personnel, as less than human. "They are the ones who are sick," fumed Limbaugh.
They are the ones who are perverted. They are the ones who are dangerous. They are the ones who are subhuman. They are the ones who are human debris, not the United States of America and not our soldiers and not our prison guards.
Limbaugh's view of the detainees was shared by members of the U.S. military establishment, including, presumably, their persecutors. The commander of Abu Ghraib, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, subsequently disclosed that Major General Geoffrey Miller had told her to make sure that the prisoners were treated like animals. "He said they are like dogs and if you allow them to believe at any point that they are more than a dog then you have lost control of them," she said. (Miller had earlier "reformed" military interrogation techniques in Iraq along the lines used at Guantanamo Bay, and became deputy commanding general for detainee operations in Iraq after Karpinski's removal.)
Michael Savage (the pseudonym of Michael Alan Weiner) is another popular radio host whose syndicated radio program is followed by 8 to 10 million listeners. Like Limbaugh, Savage derided the detainees as "subhuman" and "vermin," and suggested that forcible conversion to Christianity is "probably the only thing that can turn them into human beings." And in words uncannily reminiscent of Adolf Hitler's diatribes against the Jews, radio broadcaster Neal Boortz characterized Islam as a "deadly virus spreading through Europe and the West," adding, "We're going to wait far too long to develop a vaccine to find a way to fight this."
Limbaugh, Boortz, and Savage play to the xenophobic gallery, so it's not surprising that they indulge in dehumanizing rhetoric from time to time. But this sort of talk is not confined to right-wing populists; it is well represented in mainstream media by journalists of all political stripes. Pulitzer prize–winning New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote in a 2003 editorial that Muslim terrorists are "replicating and coming at us like cockroaches." Dehumanization makes strange bedfellows.
Newspaper headlines are a prime source of dehumanizing rhetoric. They're designed to catch the eye and to motivate you to read further. Describing human beings as bloodthirsty animals or dangerous parasites gets us to look because it plays on some of our deepest fears. Techniques like these arouse terror and close minds. If international conflicts are explained by the fact that our enemies are evil subhuman creatures, then no further analysis is needed.
Propaganda researchers Erin Steuter and Deborah Wills point out:
The symbolic lexicon used by news media since 9-11 demonstrates a clear pattern. Suspected terrorists, enemy military and political leaders, and ultimately entire populations are metaphorically linked to animals, particularly to prey. This holds true both nationally and internationally: headlines of newspapers of many political affiliations across the US, Europe, and Australia generate, with remarkable consistency, this journalistic framing of the enemy as hunted animal.…
Sometimes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are presented as a hunting expeditions ("As British close in on Basra, Iraqis scurry away"; "Terror hunt snares twenty-five"; and "Net closes around Bin Laden") with enemy bases as animal nests ("Pakistanis give up on lair of Osama"; "Terror nest in Fallujah is attacked") from which the prey must be driven out ("Why Bin Laden is so difficult to smoke out"; "America's new dilemma: how to smoke Bin Laden out from caves"). We need to trap the animal ("Trap may net Taliban chief"; "FBI terror sting nets mosque leaders") and lock it in a cage ("Even locked in a cage, Saddam poses serious danger"). Sometimes the enemy is a ravening predator ("Chained beast—shackled Saddam dragged to court"), or a monster ("The terrorism monster"; "Of monsters and Muslims"), while at other times he is a pesky rodent ("Americans cleared out rat's nest in Afghanistan"; "Hussein's rat hole"), a venomous snake ("The viper awaits"; "Former Arab power is 'poisonous snake'"), an insect ("Iraqi forces find 'hornet's nest' in Fallujah"; "Operation desert pest"; "Terrorists, like rats and cockroaches, skulk in the dark"), or even a disease organism ("Al Qaeda mutating like a virus"; "Only Muslim leaders can remove spreading cancer of Islamic terrorism"). In any case, they reproduce at an alarming rate ("Iraq breeding suicide killers"; "Continent a breeding ground for radical Islam").
Do you think that I'm making too much of these examples? Perhaps they're only metaphors—just colorful ways of speaking and writing that shouldn't be taken to imply that anyone is regarded as subhuman. You may have noticed that even Steuter and Wills explicitly describe them as metaphors. True, sometimes this sort of language is metaphorical—but it's foolish to think of it asjust metaphorical. Describing human beings as rats or cockroaches is a symptom of something more powerful and more dangerous—something that's vitally important for us to understand. It reflects how one thinks about them, and thinking of a person as subhuman isn't the same as calling them names. Calling people names is an effort to hurt or humiliate them. It's the use of language as a weapon. But dehumanizing a person involves judging them to be less than human. It's intended as a description rather than as an attack, and as such is a departure from reality—a form of self-deception. Whatever one's opinion of one's nation's enemies, the fact remains that they are human beings, not subhuman animals.
So far, most of my examples have been plucked from recent history. But dehumanization is far more widespread than that. It is found across a far-flung spectrum of cultures and appears to have persisted through the full span of human history, and perhaps into prehistory as well. It appears in the East and in the West, among sophisticates of the developed world and among remote Amazonian tribes. Its traces are inscribed on ancient cuneiform tablets and scream across the headlines of today's newspaper. Dehumanization is not the exclusive preserve of Nazis, communists, terrorists, Jews, Palestinians, or any other monster of the moment. We are all potential dehumanizers, just as we are all potential objects of dehumanization. The problem of dehumanization is everyone's problem. My task is to explain why.
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Chapter Nine - Comfort
Meanwhile, Bridgette had gone out the cafeteria and had sat down on the benches in the garden of the cafeteria. A tear fell down on her knee. Bridgette felt her face go wet and put her head on her lap and mourned. It was all my fault, she thought. It was all my fault for their deaths.
Bridgette couldn't help but notice that she didn't belong in this world. She didn't belong here. Why did God leave me alive? He might as well have taken my life along with my parents! Bridgette thought. Now I have the punishment of feeling guilty all my life for what I had done.
Bridgette looked up as she heard the footsteps coming towards her and a voice asking "Are you okay?"
Bridgette looked up to see a boy wearing jeans and a full sleeved T-shirt coming towards her and sat down.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Bridgette mumbled.
"Okay. Well, my name is Toby. Toby Kazak," he said brushing back his long brown hair.
"My name is Bridgette."
"Well, I'll see you later. Have something important to do," he said grinning. Bridgette nodded.
She watched him as he got up and left. Bridgette felt the moment that he came, a comforting presence. Like she was protected. But as he left, she got up and walked towards the Student's Building. She again thought of her parents and the cause of their deaths.
As she saw The Student's Building ahead, she hurried in and went up to her dorm. She opened her luggage and took out all her clothes and put it in her closet. After she arranged everything, she took out her night dress and put it on. She threw herself on the bed and stared up at the ceiling, thinking how hard this school was gonna be.

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Compare that to the 1% – 2% conversions you get from promoting Clickbank products and it soon becomes clear why webinars have exploded in popularity over the last couple of years.
You might think that in order to get such an increase in conversions you'd need to keep the price low too. That's just not the case. I've seen products priced at $197 convert better on webinars than offers of $9.90 on the Warrior forum.
Think about that for a moment. Lets say you are doing a webinar. You approach other bloggers and offer them 50% commission on your $197 product. If you get 100 attendees on that webinar and convert at 40% you'll walk away with $3,940 while your affiliates take the rest. Not a bad payday at all.
Webinars rock like Gene Simmons on crack because you can really grab the attention of the audience and demonstrate value. You can interact and engage on a much more personal level. It's much easier to get the audience to KNOW, LIKE and TRUST you in person than through an impersonal sales letter.
However, if you want to hit the dizzy heights of 40% you'll need some stealth ninja tactics. Luckily, I've got your back!
Below you will find 6 proven ways to pimp your webinar. Build these factors into your presentations and you'll send your conversions through the roof.
1. Plant and harvest seeds:
Before you script the webinar make sure to list out the various benefits and features of the product you will promote at the end. As you script the webinar make references to the various components of the product as you go.
So for example, in the body building niche, you might say: "whenever I want to bulk up for a contest I just start the pre-contest diet plan I've worked out over the last 3 years. I start this 3 weeks before the contest and it always adds 14lbs of solid muscle." Then move onto the next item. Later, when you finally reveal your product you mention that included in the package is the pre-contest diet plan that you mentioned earlier. This tactic works because you've created the desire without the pushy selling.
2. Yes means yes:
As you present the webinar make sure you ask questions to the audience that lead to either a mental "yes" or a typed in "yes."
By getting your attendees to say "yes" to small things during the webinar you are conditioning them to say "yes" to your offer. Combine this with the seed planting idea above. Talk about a feature of the product and then say "can you see how that would be useful?" By the time you get to the offer your audience has already admitted to themselves that they want the product. Does that make sense?
3. Build credibility:
You see the gurus doing this all the time. They love mentioning that $1M they made in 24 hours or how they were driving around in their Ferrari. I'm not suggesting you BS or make stuff up but it definitely helps to drop some reasons why people should trust you. For example, if you can drop some important names then do it. It's called success by association. Aligning yourself with other trustworthy and successful people in the niche can only be a good thing so do it.
4. Use stories:
Stories are how we make sense of the world. The story is by far the most powerful selling tool I've ever come across. It allows you to frame yourself as being in the same position as the prospect. That helps you build empathy and understanding. Then you introduce the game changer! The reason why you are where your prospect wants to be. Simple but effective. Just make sure you've fully researched your prospects so you don't miss the mark.
5. Build massive value:
When we did our forex webinar recently I told the presenter to give away some amazing information and to mention during the presentation the price of the $197/mo membership. The idea was to have attendees considering whether or not to pay $197/mo as they were being hit with more and more reasons to join. The idea was to convince them that $197/mo was a great price for the service. Then right at the last minute hit them with a massive discount. We offered them lifetime membership at just $97/mo. More than 50% off! Sales rocketed.
However, this might not always work. In some cases you'd be better off waiting until the end of the content section of the webinar. You could then build the value up by 'harvesting your seeds.' Work out a price and then offer a discount. This is the normal method used on 99% of webinars I've seen.
6. Reason to act now:
Pour more fuel on the fire. By now your prospects understand how and why your product is going to help. They realise they're getting a great deal. Now for that final push!
Add scarcity into the mix by limiting the amount of places available. This will give people a reason to act now and will even entice the fence sitters who might have wanted to sleep on it. Put this on steroids by offering the first 10 or 20 people a fast action bonus.
Does that sound good?
Don't be scared off by the logistics involved in doing a webinar. I recently helped set one up and it was nowhere near as painful as I imagined. Just think back to that first website you made or article you wrote. It seemed like a mountain to climb at the time, right? Now it's a mere mole hill. Well why should webinars be any different?
About Jimmy Wrex
Jimmy Wrex is a Niche Experimenter. You can find more traffic and conversions tactics over at his blog, NicheExperiments.com, where he and his buddy Pete blog about their niche marketing experiences and generally lark about.


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OpenBSD 4.4: New Drivers, More Platforms
The OpenBSD project has released version 4.4 of the free Unix derivative. New in this version are drivers for Intel and AMD chips, and support for platforms such as UltraSparc IV/ T1/ T2 and Fujitsu SPASRC64-V/ VI/ VIII.
This latest package comes with drivers for Asus Eee-PCs and Thinkpads from Lenovo. Beside OpenSSH 5.1 the basic version also contains a project-proven Apache 1.3 with support for SSL/TLS and DSO (Dynamic Shared Objects). Also included are Gnome 2.20.3, KDE 3.5.9, Firefox 18.104.22.168 and 3.0.1, Thunderbird 22.214.171.124, MySQL 5.0.51a and OpenOffice 2.2.1. As usual, OpenBSD remains conservative and security-conscious in its choice of packages.
Information to installation and upgrades can be found in the release notes and details of all that's new in version 4.4 can be read in the changelog.
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Home › Forums › Gear Forums › Gear (General) › Ueli Steck's parka, an advance?
Feb 21, 2012 at 2:04 pm #1285992
ROBERT TANGENSpectator
@robertm2sLocale: Lake Tahoe
Is this an advance in parka design and construction?
MH Nilas parka (the Ueli Steck design), $500.00:
– 850 fill down.
– 15 denier AirShield.
– Weight: 22 oz
– Fill Weight: 7.6 oz
MontBell Frost Line parka, $235.00:
– 800 fill power goose down
– 30-denier Ballistic rip-stop nylon shell
– 30-denier Ballistic nylon taffeta lining
– Weight 24.3 oz
– Fill Weight 6.7 oz.
MontBell Frost Smoke parka, $199.00
– 800 fill power goose down
– 15-denier Ballistic Airlight nylon shell & lining
– 40-denier nylon taffeta for reinforcements
– Weight 12.6 oz. (Size M)
– Fill Weight 3.5 oz.Feb 21, 2012 at 2:16 pm #1842552
David UreMember
Yeah – that is pricey. I wonder what the fill weight is? We would need that to compare apples to apples.Feb 21, 2012 at 2:19 pm #1842555
Nick TruaxBPL Member
@nicktruaxLocale: SW Montana
Per email w/ MHW on 02/07/2012 09:15 AM:
Thanks for contacting us. The Nilas Jacket has 215g of 850-fill goose down. I hope this helps to clarify.
edit: For comparison sake, I own the MB Frostsmoke and it is not in the same ballpark as the Nilas or the Nilas' competition.Feb 21, 2012 at 2:22 pm #1842557
Colin KrusorBPL Member
@ckrusorLocale: Northwest US
This is slightly off topic, but it occurs to me: for that price (or cheaper), you could have a 900fp down parka custom made for you by Ben at Goosefeet, and it would have twice the down/shell weight ratio of any of the above parkas.Feb 21, 2012 at 2:27 pm #1842560
nanook ofthenorthBPL Member
You know, its not like there are really all that many ways to stuff more down in a product for less weight, I'd say any innovation is really in how well its designed for how YOU use the product. With so many 800-900 fill power jackets on the market, I think a lot of the time its comparing apples to apples.
However probably what most excites me about the MHW is the weight, fill, and eVent based shell…!Feb 21, 2012 at 2:52 pm #1842573
In my opinion…absolutely not….far from it really. And not worth the money either.
Lets compare.
MH Nilas parka (the Ueli Steck design), $500.00:
– 850 fill down.
– 15 denier AirShield.
– Weight: 22 oz
– Fill: 7.58oz
(Nanook, the AirShield™ Elite fabric used on this parka is not eVent…that is their DryQ fabric. AirShield sounds a lot like any wind resistant super breathable fabric being used by most major companies today.)
MEC Reflex (women's medium), $169.00 as of this writing
– 800 fill down
– 15 denier ripstop polyester with DWR treatment.
– Weight: 21.73oz
– Fill: 11.29oz
MEC Reflex (men's version), no longer available on the website anymore, but per previous postings on BPL:
– 800 fill down
– 15 denier ripstop polyester with DWR treatment.
– Weight: 26oz
– Fill: 14 oz
The difference between 800 and 850 down is negligible IMO.
Revolutionary my Azz :D
On another note, I've been meaning to post about some awesome purchases I picked up from MEC recently…well worth the $19 shipping to the states and $5 mandatory membership fee. In general, the company and their house-label products blow REI out of the water (closest comparison). Awesome products with extreme value, and often underpriced. Oh Canada!Feb 21, 2012 at 3:02 pm #1842583
Brad RogersBPL Member
@mocs123Locale: Southeast Tennessee
Which would you rather have?
MH Nilas parka (the Ueli Steck design), $500.00:
– 850 fill down.
– 15 denier AirShield.
– Weight: 22 oz
– Fill: 7.58oz
Rab Infinity Parka, $300.00:
– 850 fill down.
– Pertex® Quantum 10D
– Weight: 16oz
– Fill: 7.41ozFeb 21, 2012 at 3:04 pm #1842587
ooh good find Bradford!
Somewhere out there, a Columbia/MHW design and marketing team is reading this post and weeping.Feb 21, 2012 at 3:29 pm #1842599
Travis LeannaBPL Member
@t-lLocale: Wisconsin
Attach a name to a product and it automatically becomes better than the competition. Slap a high price tag on it and it MUST be better because it's more expensive!
High price + Name = Super Awesome And the Holy Grail of Any Related Product. It is, by far, the best product in the history of the universe.
Meh.Feb 21, 2012 at 3:45 pm #1842605
Damn it Travis! Meh yourself, because I've got plans to release a $750 750-fill power down banana hammock…"Konrad Chen" platinum edition of course. Only the highest quality Hungarian geese will touch these nether regionsFeb 21, 2012 at 4:03 pm #1842608
Dustin ShortBPL Member
Lets compare apples to apples folks…the Nilas is baffle construction which does make a noticeable difference in warmth compared to sewn thru.
That said, here's some of what I found in my searches for a deep winter parka…
Rab Neutrino, $300
-30D Pertex Endurance
-Weight: 22 oz
-Fill: 7.94 oz
(More durable shell and $200 cheaper from one of the best manufacturers around)
Rab Neutrino Plus, $375
-30D Pertex Endurance
-Weight: 27 oz
-Weight: 10 oz!
(better shell, $125 cheaper, MUCH warmer)
Montbell Permafrost, $350
-15D Windstopper (with 30D reinforcements)
-Weight: 26.0 oz
-Fill: 9oz
(reinforcement patches. WELDED seams with windstopper makes shell virtually waterproof, fully windproof)
Montbell Frost line is posted above, the frost smoke is sewn through so not a fair comparison.
Feathered Friends Hooded Helios, $300 SEWN THRU CONSTRUCTION, but worth mentioning based on high fill weight
-Pertex Endurance
-Weight: 16.8oz
-Fill 9 oz
(Only draw back is no zippers on front pockets, which design wise for me a no-win situation, and sewn through)
FF Volant Hooded, $390
-Pertex Endurance
-Weight: 26.1oz
-Fill: 11.5oz
(Still no zippers on pockets!)
Western Mountaineering Ion Parka, $440
-Weight: 25 oz
-Fill: 8oz
(Few seams on shell making near water proof, though less so than MB's, pricey, not baffled but 3layer design with same warmth?)
Nunatak Skaha Plus w/pockets, $450 +2oz overfill option
-Pertex .8
-Weight ~16oz (listed as 11oz in large but notorious for being "optimistic". Usually add 2-3oz on top of any overfill).
-Fill: 7.5 oz (5.5 + 2 oz overfill option).
(Very good weight/fill ratio, but mislisted weights troublesome. Pricey)
For my money I still lean to the Rab jackets, especially since you can often find them on clearance.Feb 21, 2012 at 4:18 pm #1842612
Dustin, im not sure if you comment was addressed to me or others, but the MEC jackets I alluded too both utilize baffle construction, so comparison is still fair.Feb 21, 2012 at 4:25 pm #1842619
Travis LeannaBPL Member
@t-lLocale: Wisconsin
Lol, Konrad!
You'd have warmest, most premium equipment for your, um, 'equipment', that money could buy!
I'll take two!Feb 21, 2012 at 7:14 pm #1842731
David ChenaultSpectator
@davecLocale: The West Slope
I hope the Reflex hasn't gone away for good. I couldn't ask for more in a coat for serious cold and UL backcountry travel.Feb 21, 2012 at 7:57 pm #1842747
josh wagnerMember
i am kind of glad MH is trying to get into the lightweight realm again…Feb 21, 2012 at 9:41 pm #1842795
Dustin ShortBPL Member
Konrad, it was more towards the Rab infinity and MB Frostsmoke. I just wanted to clarify since sewn thru is usually much cheaper than baffled due to construction costs (and subsequently you get lighter but less insulating jacket for the down used).
If the reflex was still available for men I would have probably mentioned it too. Shame, I actually would have picked one up. Even not on sale the women's runs for a bit under $300 which is a pretty good deal compared to competitors. I'm sure I also left off some other quality entries but these were the ones I'm most familiar with from my research for a possible future trip (I've no pressing need for 7+oz down jackets where I live). From what I've read and my own experiences with down pretty much the two major contributing factors for warmth are amount of fill and sewn vs box baffled. Everything else is just "features" that either negatively or positively affect weight and buyer attraction.
So for this class of jacket we're looking at $300-$350 from big brand names being norm, with some $400+ garments from smaller shops. Anything in the $500 range is generally heavier but with considerably more high quality down and suitable for Everest or Polar expeditions…So yeah MH definitely missed the mark and are charging people for Ueli Steck's stamp of approval (which if he wasn't sponsored by MH and could afford it, he'd probaly grab a Rab or something comparable like most every body else that doesn't have a sponsorship).Feb 23, 2012 at 6:47 pm #1843832
eric chanBPL Member
Chances are that a new reflex will come out … Mec is revamping a lot of its clothing line with new styling an colours
I posted up awhile back on the reflex, merino hoodies, r1 copies, etc on clearance
The new make gear has the same value, better styling, and keeping more inline with what other manufacturers are doing
As an example i tried on the new granitic softshell pants … They are basically a bagier version of my dead bird gamma lts for ~55$ … they looke just like yr normal dress pants to boot so you can wear em to work
My only complaint is that mec still doesnt address the short azn market … There are alot of us in vancouver
I may need to crossdress in the women sizes ;)Feb 23, 2012 at 9:11 pm #1843938
wander lustSpectator
yeah mec does good stuff for a good price. their customer service is great as well.
"I may need to crossdress in the women sizes ;)"
And then hang out on Davie Street? just kidding
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Updates and details for Portugal vs Iceland Preview, Live streaming, Prediction 14th June 2016:
Euro 2016, is the 15th edition of the UEFA European Championship which is the quadrennial international men's football championship of Europe organized by UEFA. It will be played from 10 June 2016 to 10 July 2016 in France. The 11th match of Euro 2016 will be played between Portugal vs Iceland at Stade Geoffroy-Guichard – Saint-Etienne, France. on 14h June 2016.
Portugal vs Iceland Preview:
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Portugal vs Iceland Prediction:
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Barriers, which I wrote about before, aren't just my idea. Here are some nice examples of other bloggers writing about them from diverse areas:
From 37 signals:
Don't waste time on trouble spots that don't even exist yet
Sure, you need to prepare a bit ahead of time but you should never inflate a problem until it actually is a problem.
For example:
- Do you really need to worry about scaling to 100,000 users today if it will take you two years to get there?
- Do you really have to hire eight programmers if you only need three today?
- Do you really need 12 servers now if you can run on two for a year?
People often spend too much time up front trying to solve problems they don't even have yet.
Notice the immediate pushback to his idea in the comments!
The second example is from Church of the Customer:
…marketers should focus on creating products and services that are worth talking about before they start worrying about measuring to the nth degree.
This is probably heresy at some companies, and it's not easy to change a cultural underpinning like that. Be remarkable now. Measurement can come later.
Read my original barriers article: Barriers Are Your Enemy
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A latent threat to biodiversity: consequences of small-scale heterogeneity loss
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The threat of homogenisation to biodiversity is generally considered to occur at broad scales or in response to high-intensity impacts. Therefore, most biodiversity studies estimate local average or total species richness rather than local heterogeneity. Here we consider the potential for relative shifts between these different aspects of biodiversity at small spatial scales to be an early warning signal for biodiversity loss. In response to chronic, very low-level pollution, we observed a disjunctive response with gamma diversity (total species richness) and beta diversity (heterogeneity) decreasing while alpha diversity (average species richness) was still increasing. Homogenisation may, therefore, affect biodiversity through thresholds that alter the relationship between the average species richness and its heterogeneity, leading to the potential for regime shifts. Our stressor also had a strong negative effect on rare species, meaning that the purported importance of rare species as "insurance" in the face of environmental change may be overstated.


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Buster Stanley
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|May 14, 1970
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|Youngstown, Ohio
|Career information
|Defensive tackle, Defensive guard, Nose tackle
|6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
|283 lb (128 kg)
|Career history
|As player
|Michigan Wolverines (NCAA)
|New England Patriots (NFL)
|Rhein Fire (WLAF)
|Grand Rapids Rampage (AFL)
|MVP, 1993 Michigan football team
Co-Captain, 1993 Michigan football team
All-Big Ten Conference, 1993
Dick Katcher Award, 1993
All-Rookie Team (AFL, 1999)
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Sylvester "Buster" Stanley, Jr. (born November 30, 1970) is a former American football player. Stanley played college football for the University of Michigan from 1990 to 1993 and was the Most Valuable Player on the 1993 Michigan Wolverines football team. He played professional football for the New England Patriots (1994), Rhein Fire (1996–1997) and Grand Rapids Rampage (1999–2000).
Early years[edit]
Stanley was born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio. His father, Sylvester Stanley, Sr., worked at a General Motors plant in Youngstown. His mother, Theodora, was a licensed practical nurse.[1] As a senior in high school, Stanley was named by the Detroit Free Press to its "Best of the Midwest" team and was selected as the UPI Lineman of the Year for the first time.[1]
University of Michigan[edit]
After graduating from Youngstown's East High School, Stanley accepted an athletic scholarship to the University of Michigan, choosing Michigan over offers from Ohio State University and Michigan State University.[1] He played at the defensive tackle and middle guard positions for the Michigan Wolverines football teams from 1990 to 1993.[2][3][4] After a lackluster defensive performance against Houston in 1993, Stanley called a defensive team meeting. Stanley noted, "We had a little meeting (last) Sunday — just the (defensive) players and we got everything out and came out with a better attitude this week. We wanted to come out and play 'Michigan defense.'"[5] The following week against Iowa, Stanley "led an inspired effort by the Wolverines defensive front", allowing only 48 yards on the ground. Stanley had 10 tackles in the game, including three for losses and two quarterback sacks.[5] Stanley was selected as the Most Valuable Player and a co-captain of the 1993 Michigan Wolverines football team.[2][6] He also won the Dick Katcher award in 1993 as the team's outstanding defensive lineman or outside linebacker.[7] Stanley graduated from the University of Michigan in 1994 with a bachelor of arts degree in kinesiology.[8]
Professional football[edit]
He played as a nose guard for the New England Patriots in 1994.[9] In 1996 and 1997, he played for the Rhein Fire in the World League of American Football. He was an assistant strength and conditioning coach at the University of Michigan from 1997 to 1999.[8][10] He played for the Grand Rapids Rampage in the Arena Football League from 1999 to 2000.[8] While playing for Grand Rapids, Stanley received the Rampage Award as the "Best Player for the Organization" and was named to the Arena Football League's All-Rookie Team.[8]
Later years[edit]
After retiring from football, Stanley worked as an account representative for Worthington Steel (1999–2003) and as a sales representative for U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Brands (2003–2009).[8]
- ^ a b c Ken Sugiura (1993-11-22). "Oh Captain, My Captain: Buster Stanley laughs off the field, leads 'M' on it". The Michigan Daily.
- ^ a b "1993 Football Team". University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library. Retrieved 2010-08-02.
- ^ "1992 Football Team". University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library. Retrieved 2010-08-02.
- ^ "1991 Football Team". University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library. Retrieved 2010-08-02.
- ^ a b Jeff Dahn (1993-10-03). "Moeller speaks kindly of Iowa defensive effort". The Cedar Rapids Gazette.
- ^ "University of Michigan Football Co-Captain: Buster Stanley, 1993". University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library.
- ^ "Michigan Football Dick Katcher Award". University of Michigan. Retrieved 2010-08-02.
- ^ a b c d e "Sylvester Stanley Jr.". linkedin.com. Retrieved 2010-08-02.
- ^ "Buster Stanley". databasefootball.com. Retrieved 2010-08-02.
- ^ Stanley lists this coaching position on his curriculum vitae, but he is not listed as an assistant coach on the official register of U-M assistant football coaches. This fact requires further verification.


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Spatial and temporal heterogeneities in the contact behaviour of rabbits
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It is becoming increasingly evident that the social behaviour of many group-living species is more complex than previously assumed and that free mixing of individuals, even within social groups, is rare. This has important implications for ecological processes, such as disease transmission, which are dependent on interactions between individuals. European wild rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) have been considered traditionally as highly sociable animals that mix freely within groups but interact less frequently between groups. We deployed proximity logging devices to quantify the intra- and inter-group contact behaviour of free-living wild rabbits in two populations in a temperate region of Australia. Altogether, 126 rabbits were fitted with proximity loggers at least once during the study. Radio-tracking was carried out alongside proximity data collection to determine the space use of rabbit social groups within the study sites. On average, a rabbit made only 1.54 ± 0.23 (SE) (median = 0.54) contacts per day with each other rabbit carrying a proximity logger in its social group, and the mean daily contact duration was 202 ± 38 s/day (SE) (median = 29 s). Despite the high degree of home range overlap between the neighbouring social groups, inter-group contacts were highly infrequent and brief. Our results demonstrated considerable spatial and temporal heterogeneities in the contact behaviour between individual rabbits, both between populations and between and within social groups in the same population. Such variations in the social organisation of rabbits are likely to create complex patterns of disease transmission through direct contact and may contribute towards observed heterogeneities in the effects of disease on wild rabbit populations.


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Alton Telegraph (Newspaper) - October 15, 1999, Alton, Illinois SERVING THE RIVER BEND SINCE 1836 Prep football Jersey tackles CM in a battle of 7-0 teams Tasta ot frontier Cabin restoration in Bethalto Page Cl The outlook Partly cloudy and warm; high 77, low 55 Page D8 I Tommies Mini-Mall blooms in Wood River Page DI www.thetelegraph.com Friday, October 15, 1999Vol. 164, No. 273 - 50 centsThousands cheer Graham Evangelist brings crusade to Trans World Dome The Telegraph/MARGIE M. BARNES Evangelist Billy Graham addresses the 40,000 people who attended the opening night Thursday of his crusade at the Trans World Dome in St. Louis. By ANDE YAKSTIS Telegraph staff writer ST. LOUIS — Thousands of voices filled the air with the stirring hymn "Amazing Grace" from the crowd that poured into the Trans World Dome Thursday night to hear evangelist Billy Graham preach the gospel message of Jesus Christ. The mass of people broke into spontaneous Christian songs as they flocked into the dome in Downtown St Ixniis to hear one of the world's greatest evangelists proclaim the message of Christian faith. The spiritual excitement of Graham's appearance was everywhere among thousands of people who filled the dome for the historic 1999 Billy Graham Evangelistic Crusade in St. Louis. "It's an exciting, great moment in my Christian life to hear evangelist Billy Graham preach the good news of Jesus Christ," said Patsy Dossey of Wood River, a member of the Bethalto Church of God. The spirit of God was in the smiles and friendly voices of people who came to the do ne to hear the 5,OOO-member ch >ir sing "How Great Tho i Art" and listen to Graham proclaim the gospel message. The autumn sunset glowed sr i Th 15- dilly Graham Kl S VDE 'jrirtw 14-n nm- TWA otm 5:30 Doors open to the crusade at the TWA Dome 7:00 Crusade service begins ■ Charlie Daniels Band ■ St. Louis Rams quarterback Kurt Warner ■ Baseball Hall-of-Famer Lou Brock ■ 5,000-voice Greater St. Louis Billy Graham Crusade Mass Choir Crusade music director Cliff Barrows Crusade soloist George Beverly Shea 8:00 The Rev Billy Graham 9:00 Crusade concludes KSIV AM 1320 and KSIV FM 91.5 will be broadcastingJive during the Billy Graham Crusade. on the steel Gateway Arch as thousands of people lined up for five blocks along Downtown St. Louis streets to wait for the doors of the dome to open "You can feel the spirit of God when you walk into the dome," said Joan Willman, who drove to the Crusade from the Friendship Baptist Church of Hardin in Calhoun County. "You can see the spirit in the faces of the people who are coming to hear Billy Graham." People drove in cars, vans and hundreds of buses from Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, across the country and from as far away as India to hear Graham. Hundreds of people came from Alton, Bethalto, Wood River, East Alton, Bunker Hill and across the River Bend for the historic crusade. "We brought two bus loads of folks to the Crusade," said the Rev. Charles West, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Bethalto and a volunteer leader at the crusade. Glenda and Forrest Hall drove from Alton to the dome to be spiritual counselors at the crusade. ■ See GRAHAM, Page AU Graham's message: God loves you The crowd listens intently to Billy Graham's remarks. By KERRY SMITH Telegraph staff writer ST. LOUIS - For 40,000 people gathered Thursday night in the Trans World Dome, the two-year wait was worth it. The Rev. Billy Graham brought his ministry back to St. Louis for the Greater St. Louis Billy Graham Crusade, his last crusade of the century. Graham's message was simple yet earnest: God loves you no matter what, and if you repent of your sins, he guarantees to bring you peace and joy that you've never known. 'Speaking of his friendship with John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, who were killed in a plane crash during the summer, Graham said physical death is inevitable but spiritu al death is spared through "making things right" with Jesus Christ. "I cannot even prove to you the existence of God," Graham said. "And no scientist can. But by faith, we know that there is something beyond ourselves. "People used to look to science to save them. Now we're afraid that science will destroy us." Graham shared the concept that God will judge but that he wants to love and forgive for eternity. "When we abuse the environment, we pay a price," Graham said. "When we sin, we break God's moral and spiritual law, and we pay a price. 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All rank-and-file police officers should be armed with a Taser because of the heightened security threat, the head of the Police Federation has said.
Steve White, chairman of the body which represents front-line officers, said acts of terrorism could be carried out anywhere and police needed to be protected.
He cited the killing of Fusilier Lee Rigby near Woolwich Barracks in 2013 as an example of how lone wolf-style attacks could be carried out without guns.
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