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Egypt faces an uncertain return to democracy after the military's swift removal of the country's first elected president, Mohammed Mursi, left his dejected Muslim Brotherhood base feeling cheated, angry and vowing to use whatever means necessary to restore him to office.
Troops remained in control of the capital on Thursday, locking down neighbourhoods loyal to Dr Mursi, who has been placed under arrest, while three television stations sympathetic to the deposed president were shut down and the Cairo offices of the Qatari-based news channel al-Jazeera were raided.
Military police also placed several key Muslim Brotherhood leaders under house arrest, and issued warrants for the arrest of up to 300 more Brotherhood members accused of inciting unrest.
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Jubilant opponents of Dr Mursi erupted into wild celebrations shortly after 9pm on Wednesday local time, following the announcement on state television by military chief General Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi that Dr Mursi had been deposed and the constitution suspended.
General Sisi also announced the appointment of 68-year-old constitutional court chief Adly Mansour as the country's interim president, who would oversee a governing council that would begin work immediately to develop a plan for elections as soon as possible.
General Sisi's announcement was immediately followed by speeches from religious leaders including the head of Egypt's Coptic Church, Pope Tawadros II, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and presidential aspirant Mohamed ElBaradei, and Mahmoud Badr, the 28-year-old journalist and spokesman of the Tamarrud (Rebellion) movement, which played a key role in organising Sunday's massive nationwide protests that led directly to the military's decision to force Dr Mursi from office.
"We want to build Egypt with everyone and for everyone," Mr Badr told the nation in the live broadcast.
Thunderous cheers greeted the announcement in Cairo's Tahrir Square, where opponents of Dr Mursi immediately launched a barrage of fireworks that lasted several hours and ran for several hundred metres along the banks of the Nile.
But a statement published in Dr Mursi's name on his official Facebook page after General Sisi's speech said the measures announced amounted to "a full military coup" and were "totally rejected".
A shaky, hand-held video lasting 20 minutes appeared briefly online, showing Dr Mursi speaking at a desk. He had pledged in an overnight broadcast to give up his life rather than relinquish his democratically elected responsibilities. In the new video, he said: "There is no other legitimacy, and it cannot be.
"I do not accept this at all," he said, while also urging his supporters not to take up arms, as some have sworn to do.
The president was believed to be still at a Republican Guard barracks in Cairo surrounded by barbed wire, barriers and troops. The state newspaper aifal-Ahramaif said the army had informed him at 7pm that he was no longer president.
The military's move will put great pressure on US President Barack Obama, who had urged a negotiated solution. His defence secretary, Chuck Hagel, spoke to General Sisi on Tuesday, it was confirmed.
Under US law, military aid, currently worth $US1.3 billion to Egypt annually, cannot be given to an army that carried out a coup.
Speaking to Fairfax Media on Thursday morning from a public square in Nasr City, on the outskirts of Cairo, that has been a focal point for Mursi supporters, Mohamed Abdu, himself a member of the Muslim Brotherhood for 32 years, said he had not moved all night.
"For 85 years we have resisted against the oppression, torture, jail and killings given to us by Egypt's rulers, and we will fight on," Mr Abdu said.
"I have been jailed several times, I have suffered, and I tell you this is not the end by any means," the 54-year-old education department employee said. "We fear only God. The real battle has just begun. God is looking after us."
A Brotherhood official, Gamal Heshmat, told the Reuters news agency that the organisation would not resort to violence.
"There is absolutely no direction towards violence. The Brotherhood are not raised on violence. Their cause is a peaceful one, defending their rights, which is stronger than a military coup."
Despite the narrow mandate won by Dr Mursi in last June's historic presidential elections, his political abilities were in the end dwarfed by the magnitude of the economic problems faced by Egypt, where tourism and foreign investment have all but dried up, inflation is rampant, fuel supplies have repeatedly run short and major cities have been beset by repeated electricity failures.
He also managed alienate key sectors of Egyptian society by seeking to entrench Islamic rule through a new constitution that was ultimately the catalyst for his downfall.


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By Mrs. Jennifer Aldridge (USACE)February 28, 2013
WIESBADEN, Germany -- In honor of National Engineers Week, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District employees presented structural engineering, alternative energy and fire-protection concepts to Department of Defense Dependents Schools-Europe students Feb. 19-21 at Wiesbaden Middle School.
Lawrence Carabajal, a district structural engineer, presented a bridge-building lesson to eighth-grade science and math students. Carabajal used a hands-on approach, constructing a Leonardo da Vinci-designed wooden bridge for students to test and re-create.
"What engineers love doing is building things and testing them, so let's do it," Carabajal said as he assembled the self-supporting arch bridge in front of a 46-student audience.
Once the bridge was constructed, students were eager to test the capacity by adding textbooks, two at a time, to determine the applied load the structure could hold. Volunteers loaded the bridge with 20 textbooks until an audible crack replaced the silence in the school foyer.
"Wow! There went something. What just cracked?" said a member of Elaine Young's eighth-grade science class.
A few seconds later, the structure collapsed.
"Our bridge has reached its limit," Carabajal said.
Due to excessive weight, the bridge failed and needed to be rebuilt, he explained. Carabajal asked the class to suggest a method to strengthen the bridge. As a clue, he described the weakness of the previous bridge design.
"On our previous arch bridge, the ends were translating or going outwards. For arch bridges you don't want the ends translating. You want them pinned or fixed," he said.
An engaged student's hand popped up in the air; he said reinforcement was the answer to strengthening the bridge.
"This guy is smart," Carabajal said.
Using their feet, students created abutments to reinforce the new bridge, causing the arch to resist through compression and withstand a greater applied load than the previous bridge. The demonstration provided a real-world lesson on compression versus tension, a concept critical to bridge design and construction.
"This is a practical application of the learning taking place in the classroom," said Millicent Dixon, a Wiesbaden Middle School math and resource management teacher. "We need to use math to do this, to build this structure."
For teachers, it is always a challenge to explain how classroom lessons translate into reality, Dixon said. The bridge-building exercise provided students tangible examples of applied math and science.
David Williams, an eighth-grade student who fancies math, said the structural engineering exercise was a good way to learn about bridges.
"At first, it looked like a jigsaw puzzle and I thought, 'Wow, how do you make it stand?'" Williams said.
As the presentation progressed, Carabajal explained how the arch bridge transferred the weight of the bridge and its load to the abutments or reinforcements at either end. He also explained that there are four main types of bridges -- beam, suspension, truss and arch. During the workshop, Dixon saw interest gleaming in her students' eyes.
"Experiences like this with our community motivate our students to learn. The more hands-on engagement, the more real and accessible engineering seems," Dixon said.
When Carabajal was initially approached to volunteer for Engineers Week, he was hesitant and unsure if he was the right presenter for the audience.
"I was skeptical about presenting to middle school students, but after 10 minutes, they were completely involved," he said.
The students enthusiastically raised their hands, asked good questions and volunteered to build, load and measure the bridge. The hands-on exercise allowed students to touch, feel and break the structure.
"I hope they realized engineering is fun and not only practiced by guys with pocket protectors and thick glasses," Carabajal said.
According to Dixon, engineering presentations like this help increase students' retention.
"I see a student who I can't get to pay attention for five or 10 minutes in class and he has been engaged the entire time," she said.
In other words, getting students excited about engineering in middle school or even earlier is advantageous. Frequent exposure to engineering activities and professional engineers is key to attracting students to the field, Dixon said.
"I remember being a student and thinking all engineers went to [Massachusetts Institute of Technology]. For me it seemed unattainable," Dixon said. "But the more experience [my students have] with people in this field the better.
"They see their teachers every day so they want to be teachers. They see athletes on television, so they want to be athletes. They need to see people in science and technology to get them interested in these fields."
As a sponsor, Europe District works with Wiesbaden Middle School teachers and administrators to engage students throughout the year. In addition to Engineers Week, district volunteers connect with WMS via videoconferencing lessons, Earth Day activities and Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. At USACE, it is a priority to attract students to science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, through outreach programs.
"Our country is in dire need of more scientists and engineers," Carabajal said. "The president has this STEM initiative because so much of the work is being sent overseas. We have to educate [students] and keep that work in our country."
Preparing American students for tomorrow's STEM jobs is a top priority for President Barack Obama. In his 2013 State of the Union, Obama focused on education and announced the creation of an elite STEM Master Teacher Corps to better equip students "for the demands of a high-tech economy." He also highlighted the importance of school-employer partnerships, much like the WMS-Europe District affiliation.
As Carabajal's bridge-building presentation drew to a close, he made a plea to the students, "Please consider engineering as a career field."
Today, STEM jobs are growing at a rate three times as fast as non-STEM jobs, and by 2018 they are projected to grow by 17 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.
"It may not be the most glamorous job, but it brings in a steady income," Carabajal said.

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Chapter 41
"He Will Be Your Strength"
The storm that beats upon the countryside in unbridled fury, hurling rain from lowering clouds in malediction, seems the sworn enemy of earthly happiness. Yet its ultimate effect is beneficial. It rejuvenates the land. From the rainfall come healing herbs; the grasses rise to new heights; flowers emerge, smiling; forests and meadows are left fragrant and refreshed. Even the gusty winds are a blessing, for they help the wild plants to grow hardy, stronger in themselves. Their large, pampered cousins in city greenhouses cannot achieve their strength; life for them is too easy.
So is it also with the storms of misfortune that descend from time to time on human life. Aristotle defined the beneficial impact of tragedy in literature as a catharsis. The vicarious experience of utter loss, he said, leaves one feeling purified, lifted for a time above earthly attachments, inwardly tranquil. Similar is the case with personal tragedy. Though its effect is seldom so immediate, in the long run it leaves one feeling uplifted and at peace. But if there is attachment in the heart, the purification may be delayedyears, perhaps, even incarnations, until bitterness is resolved at last in understanding acceptance.
True happiness depends on attitude, not on outward circumstances. With right attitude it is possible to recover quickly even from great sorrow. The quicker the recovery, moreover, the greater the spiritual gain, for it requires an extraordinary surge of inner strength to combat suffering while the storm is still raging. Indeed, in the inner fortitude thus acquired, suffering may prove a doorway to sainthood. Thus it became in the German concentration camps, during World War II, for those heroic few who refused to surrender to the spiritual darkness surrounding them.
My own life weathered its greatest storm so far in my separation from Self-Realization Fellowship. That I even survived seemed to me, at the time, but my added misfortune. Partly I suffered because of my attachment to the work, and partly also because, although I clung as hard as possible to positive attitudes throughout, incomprehension rushed upon me repeatedly in such violent gusts that often I found myself swept away like a leaf in a hurricane. Why? I demandedwhy this loss of everything I believed in and cared about in life? Ceaselessly I sought answers in prayer. But alas, all my answers seemed locked away in vaults of uncaring silence. Hope seemed utterly lost to me.
Ah, Master! For a time I even doubted your love for methis perhaps worthless disciple whom you had, as I thought, completely abandoned. To listen to recordings of your voice, even to read your words, caused me almost unbearable pain. I clung mentally to your feet, and reminded you that I was yours eternally, even if you rejected me. But, I confess, in my intense loneliness I felt rejected. It was only with the passing years that I came to understand, and accept, that what had happened was for my good, and for whatever good you might be able to accomplish for others through me.
At first my predicament bewildered me utterly. I knew, of course, that God can be reached by many paths, but Master's was my path; I was completely committed to it. How was I to reconcile this fact with that of my severance from his work? A major part of my commitment was to serving him, yet I wondered if continued service now were even possible. As long as I had been working within his organization, the issue had been fairly clear-cut: Serving Master meant, quite simply, serving SRF. But now that I was on my own, I feared lest any attempt to serve him might in some way prove a disservice. My anxiety was brought sharply into focus by the fact that, next to Daya Mata, I was probably the best known of Yogananda's living disciples, particularly since it was I alone, so far, who had gone out lecturing around the world. SRF members would be upset, certainly, when they discovered that I was no longer in the work. Wouldn't it be best for the work if I were never heard from again?
Yet the fact remained that I still had my life to live, a life that had been pledged irrevocably to Master's service. It was unthinkable, surely, that the only way for me to serve him now was by not serving him!
Truth, fortunately, is never an impossibility. It is the one secure island in the vast sea of human ignorance. My error lay in limiting Master to his organizationMaster, that great Guru whose consciousness was in the very air I breathed! True, he had founded an organization, and it was the appropriate and official custodian for his teachings, but this didn't mean that the rest of the world had therefore to cease functioning! How often he himself had said that he hadn't founded a sect. Those disciples who were able to function within his organization did well to do so, but what of those who could not? They were not relieved thereby of the duty to serve him according to their best lights, and to their best opportunities. As a world teacher, Paramhansa Yogananda belonged to the world. And I, as his disciple, had blessings to share of which the world stood in urgent need.
My error lay also in the fear that, by continued service to the divine causea cause which ever embraces harmonyI might create disharmony. How could harmony ever be a cause of disharmony? Even when harmonious activity is not received harmoniously, it cannot rightly be blamed, any more than good symphony music deserves blame if a few listeners happen to prefer jazz.
My own attitude towards Self-Realization Fellowship had not altered at all with my altered circumstances. I believed in it as deeply as ever. My feelings toward it, moreover, despite the pain of separation, were as supportive as ever. For I knew what the work was, and what the disciples were like who served in it so devotedly. How, then, if I continued to serve harmoniously in my way, could I be blamed if a few people reacted disharmoniously because I represented an anomalous position in the work. It is no part of spiritual teaching to shield people from reality.
These conclusions I arrived at by no means easily, or presumptuously, but painstakingly, over a period of years, testing every step of the way to see whether the ground on which I was treading had the strength to support me. At first, I asked myself how it would be possible for me to dishonor my vows by accepting any other calling than service to Master. It would, I felt, be far better if I died. Indeed, for months I prayed fervently to be allowed to die. But at last it became clear that this prayer, like my earlier one, was not going to be answered. Finally I resolved to spend the rest of my days in seclusion and meditation. But even this desire was denied me.
I sought repeatedly for a suitable place. But I had no income, and knew of no one to sponsor me. Without money for food, at least, where was I to live a hermit's life in America? I might possibly have pitched a tent in the forest, and waited for God to feed melike St. Paul of the Desert, who, legend tells us, was visited daily by a raven carrying him a loaf of bread. But I couldn't live on private land without permission, and, as far as I knew, the maximum stay permitted on government land was two weeks. On the other hand, if it be true that God would have sustained me had I gone out into some forest anyway, with faith, I must answer that it was precisely in my faith that I was the most severely shaken.
I would have returned gladly to India. There, I knew, one can survive as a hermit. I wrote to Ananda Moyi Ma, the great woman saint with whom I had spent many weeks, to see if she would invite me to stay in one of her ashrams. But meanwhile the Divine Will made certain that I didn't take this way out: My application for a re-entry visa into India was denied. Someone in that country, it seems, out of jealousy, had accused me to the Indian Government of being a CIA agent, and (supreme horror!) a Christian missionary in disguise. Repeated efforts to refute these absurd charges proved futile. It was only when, ten years later, I felt God's inward direction to return there that all obstacles to my return evaporated like mist.
And so it was that my search for a solitary haven continued in the West. I tried every place I could think of: investigated Episcopalian monasteries in Michigan, Massachusetts, and southern California; lived for a time in a Roman Catholic hermitage near Big Sur, California; and even considered a little-known religious site in Lebanon. I applied for permission to live in out-of-the-way obscurity, pursuing my own path, on a variety of religious properties; for I preferred if possible to live on consecrated ground. I traveled extensively about California, Oregon, and Arizona, and visited central Mexico, seeking everywhere I went a place to stay. I even studied sales brochures from little countries in the Caribbean, thinking I might someday be able to afford land there. Nothing came of any of these efforts.
In retrospect I see now that divine assistance was always given me in direct proportion to my willingness to serve others. So long as I sought a place only for myself, not a single door opened to me. It was only when I accepted that Master still wanted me to serve that the doors opened wide. Indeed, the assistance I received from then on was often miraculous.
Marvelous to relate, throughout this period, which was certainly the bleakest of my life, abandoned as I felt by God and man, I experienced, on some deep level within me, a subtle joy that never left me. How to account for it? These contradictory states of consciousness might be compared to looking through a spyglass. Though my present focus was on the problem of what to do with my life, and on the pain that attended that problem, at the same time, and within the same range of visioncloser, however, and therefore blurredwas this joy. Dimly I could perceive its outlines, while its presence somehow eluded me.
During the late summer and autumn of 1962 I lived at my parents' home in Atherton, a small community thirty miles south of San Francisco, California. One evening in September they invited me to accompany them to a dinner party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Watson Defty, neighbors of theirs on Walsh Road. I was on the point of declining when the thought came to me, "What is my alternative? To lie in my room and gaze at the ceiling?" I decided to go.
Present at the Deftys' that evening were an Indian couple, Dr. and Mrs. Haridas Chaudhuri. Learning that the Chaudhuris came originally from Calcutta, I began conversing with them in Bengali. We hit it off from the start. Their simple dignity, mingled with sweetness, keen intelligence, and unaffected simplicity, was deeply appealing to me.
"But where did you learn to speak Bengali so fluently?" they demanded. When I explained that I'd spent some years in Bengal, they inquired what I'd been doing there. My parents, strangers as they were to Indian traditions, had introduced me that evening as "our son Don." Now I introduced myself by my monastic name.
"Kriyananda!" they cried. "Why, we've heard your recordings of Yogananda's chants. What a beautiful voice you have! Oh, please, you must come and sing at our ashram on October 7th. We are having a Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Service there that day." Dr. Chaudhuri, as it turned out, was the founder and spiritual director of a well-regarded religious institution in San Francisco, the Cultural Integration Fellowship.
I was alarmed. "Oh, I'm very sorry, but I'm not doing any public speaking these days."
"But this isn't a lecture. We're only asking you to sing. Please come!" They smiled appealingly.
Still I refused as graciously as I could. But Dr. Chaudhuri wouldn't take no for an answer. "I felt guided to insist," he told me later. "From that first meeting I felt toward you as toward a younger brother. Inwardly I felt certain that it was God's will for you to get back into the activity for which your guru had trained you. You have much to give; it would be a great pity not to share it with others." In the following days he wrote me once, and telephoned several times, pleading with me to accept.
Finally I asked myself, "Could this be the guidance I've been praying for?" Certainly I had received no other. To test that possibility, and see how it felt, I finally agreed to come.
On October 7th I sang "Gokula Chandra" ("Moon of Gokula"). This popular bhajan, or devotional song, depicts the devotee's pangs of separation from God in the form of Krishna, the eternal Companion: "If my Beloved won't return to Gokula, life will lose all meaning for me. Ah, my friends, I will leave everything and go to find Him. If I succeed, though I know His consciousness is as infinite as the ocean, yet will I bind Him with my love, and keep Him forever a prisoner in my heart!" In my anxiety lest, by this public appearance, I displease Master, I was intensely nervous at first. But soon I lost myself in the inspiration of the words, so particularly meaningful to me as they were at this time. For the first time in over two months, I felt Master's blessings once again in my heart.
After the service, two peopleone from the Indian Students' League of the University of California at Davis, and the other from the Unitarian Church in San Franciscoinvited me to lecture to their respective groups. It surprised me that a mere song should have prompted two such notable invitations. Putting it down to coincidence, however, I declined, remaining firm even when they begged me to reconsider.
What was my astonishment, then, over the next several weeks to find them, like Dr. Chaudhuri, persistent. First they wrote, then phoned me repeatedly, long distance. Finally I prayed, "Master, could this be your will?" Certainly, on the only occasion so far that I'd appeared publicly, my feeling of attunement with him had deepened, not lessened. These invitations, moreover, constituted at least some kind of guidance. My inner voice, by contrast, seemed committed to total silence. I accepted at last.
To my astonishment it happened again: During those two lectures I felt Master's blessings as I hadn't felt them during weeks of desperate prayer at my parents' home. Yet while lecturing, anxious as I was not to displease him, I might well have felt worse. Might it be, I wondered, that in my resistance to public activity I had actually been thwarting his will? His two specific commandments to me, after all, had been to write and lecture. "But," I cried silently, "miserable as I am, what could I share with anyone but my pain?" Yet, almost incredibly, what people told me they'd derived above all from those lectures was a sense of joy!
Dr. Chaudhuri invited me to give a lecture in his ashram, backing his invitation with the earnest counsel, "I really feel this is the kind of work God wants you to do." This time I was better disposed to heed his advice, and let him schedule the talk. He also persuaded me to give a series of classes in Raja Yoga at the American Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco, with which he was affiliated. Both lecture and classes meant for me, among other things, some badly needed income.
Still, however, I continued actively to pursue every possible lead for a place of seclusion.
One place I visited was New Camaldoli, south of Big Sur, California, the Roman Catholic hermitage mentioned earlier. Dom Pedro Rebello, the Retreat Master, a venerable-looking man with kindly eyes and a long white beard, was a native of south India. We took to one another instantly. Dom Pedro agreed to let me stay in their retreat house, despite the fact that I wasn't a Roman Catholic. He frankly expressed the hope that I'd become a convert and join their order. I remained there six months, deeply grateful for the respite it gave me. But was this, I asked myself, where Master wanted me to be? I couldn't feel that it was. Nor would it have been possible for me to convert sincerely to Roman Catholicism. Quite apart from my own deep feelings about serving Master, the church held tenets that I simply couldn't accept, including what I must call a certain lack of catholicity, a narrowness, though I think a few of the hermits mellowed in this respect during my stay there. As it happened, far from converting me, several began requesting me to teach them yoga meditation techniques. Dom Pedro himself ended up requesting Kriya initiation, and accepting Master as his guru "in Christ."
Then, after some months, a few of the novices began trying to convert me. It wasn't at all my desire to shake their faith by giving them answers for which their dogmas hadn't prepared them, but I found myself unable to shake off their persistent challenges. As an unfortunate result of their proselytizing efforts, they began to question some of their own beliefs. By now I could see that the only proper solution was for me to remove myself from their community altogether. I'd hardly reached this decision when the prior himself suggested that it would be better for the novices' peace of mind if I were no longer around.
My stay at New Camaldoli helped me in many respects, despite the fact that, with all the theological discussions I got involved in, I didn't find it exactly the quiet place of seclusion I'd been seeking. Among other things, the hermits introduced me to several exceedingly interesting books, some of them by Christian saints. It was, indeed, from those works that I culled many of the quotes in the chapter in this book on "Original Christianity." I was inspired to begin research for the book I had envisioned writing prior to my separation from SRF. Back in the San Francisco Bay Area, after leaving New Camaldoli, I continued my research at Stanford University. Dr. Chaudhuri helped me also with leads and suggestions. Thus, gradually, I found myself drawn into the other side of Master's commandment to me: writing.
Even now, to Dr. Chaudhuri's loving exasperation, I still insisted that all I wanted was seclusion. My feeling was that unless Master in some way actually announced his will to me, I didn't want, even in the face of the blessings I felt from him when I did lecture, to presume that public service was actually his will for me.
In the autumn of 1963 I decided to drive to Mexico and seek a place where I might live inexpensively, stretching the little money I had over enough months to get my bearings again.
Dr. Chaudhuri, ever solicitous for my welfare, maneuvered to head me off from what he viewed as a mistake. At his suggestion, I stopped in Sedona, Arizona, at the home of friends of his, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Duncan. He also wrote them, I suspect, to suggest they invite me to stay on their ranch. At any rate, they did so. The next three months I lived, rent-free, in a cabin on their property. Surviving sparely on only ten dollars a month, I meditated long hours, and, when, not meditating, worked on my book.
Did Master want me to write this book? This was my latest doubt. Urgently I prayed for direction. One night reassurance came to me in the form of a vision. First came an ordinary dream, in which I was discussing my proposed opus with a few friends. "To write a book of this sort," I exclaimed, "one would have to be willing for every bone in his body to be broken!" Then, with deep fervor, I cried, "And I am willing!" The moment I said this, a great surge of energy shot up my spine. I was thrown first into wakefulness, and thence into superconsciousness. An open book, which I recognized as the book I intended to write, appeared before me. My dream-willingness that every bone in my body be broken referred, I later understood, to my need for complete mental opennesseven if, in the process, it meant breaking my every single preconception. Only by such intellectual sincerity could one be worthy of writing such a book. I would have, in other words, to approach with a completely open and fair mind views against which all my own nature, training, and convictions militated.
As it turned out, this was the supreme test that I faced in writing that book, the first volume of which I published several years later under the title Crises in Modern Thought.
During my stay in Sedona, Dr. Chaudhuri wrote to ask if I wouldn't give a series of classes that winter in his San Francisco ashram. His persistence puzzled me. "He knows I want to be in seclusion," I thought. I wrote back, declining his invitation. Yet, strange to say, I knew that I would not only be teaching those classes that winter, but living in his ashram! How would these things come to pass, I wondered?
Three months after my arrival in Sedona, the Duncans decided to go to India. Their departure left me without a place to stay. At the same time, my parents urged me to visit them in Atherton for Christmas. After some deliberation, I decided to return there for the holidays, then resume my search for a place of seclusion in Arizona or Mexico after the New Year.
Back in the San Francisco Bay Area, I attended a Saturday evening dinner party in the city with the Chaudhuris. We parted company afterwards on the street outside. My plan was to leave for Arizona the following Wednesday. The Chaudhuris lovingly wished me a safe journey. Yet, strange to say, even now as we said goodbye I knew I wouldn't be leaving.
The following morning, Dr. Chaudhuri, midway through his Sunday sermon, collapsed with a heart attack. He was rushed to a hospital, where the doctors informed him that it would be months before he could lecture again. There was no one to take his place at the ashram. When I learned what had happened, I realized that my only possible choice was to offer my services as his replacement. The friendship he had given me during these times of spiritual need merited everything I could do for him in return. I telephoned his wife, Bina.
"Oh, thank God!" she exclaimed. "I was debating whether I dared ask you to postpone your journey, knowing how badly you wanted to leave. But if you can stay and help us for awhile, it will be truly a God-send!"
Thus it happened that I took Dr. Chaudhuri's place as the minister of the ashram, where I lived for a year, and for several years gave Sunday services and taught mid-week classes there.
For the past year and a half, Master had repeatedly closed every door to me but that of continued public activity, finally pushing me through this one. This then, it seemed clear now, was the direction he wanted my life to take: a direction of continued service to him through "writing and lecturing."
Living and teaching in San Francisco, first in the ashram, and later in an apartment of my own at 220 Sixteenth Avenue, I devoted myself to the study of some of the leading philosophies of our times, and to considering how I might bridge the gap between materialism, with its attendant spiritual barrenness and consequent suffering, and the truths that, I knew now from personal experience, could serve man as a bulwark against even intense sorrow. "People are so skillful in their ignorance!" Master had once exclaimed. I set myself the task of sparring with that ignorance, and of turning it, wherever possible, to spiritual advantage. I studied the writings of atheistsJean-Paul Sartre, and others; of "New Age" thinkers who offered merely worldly solutions to age-old spiritual needs; of scientists who claimed to find in physics, chemistry, and biology the disproof of ancient scriptural teachings; of neo-"ethical" thinkers who believed they saw in relativity the disproof of universal moral law; of theologians who, by defending spiritual truths without first gauging the opposition's strength, offered pale arguments that all but surrendered their own position. Many of the fruits of this study found their way into my slowly developing book, Crises in Modern Thought, as well as into my lectures and classes, which were being increasingly well received everywhere.
I began also writing songs, hoping through them to touch people's hearts along with their minds. Many of these songs expressed a philosophy of joy. "Say 'YES' to Life!", the first album I recorded, was released in 1965. People wrote from afar to say that, by listening to these songs, their hope in life had been renewed.
"My brother," wrote one lady from the East Coast, "has a long history of chronic depression. Since receiving your record from me as a gift he's been playing it constantly. He simply won't listen to anything else! And he seems so much happier now."
Sometimes people remarked to me, "Well, you can write happy songs. You've never suffered!" My reply was, "It is because I've suffered, and learned the lesson of pain, that I've earned the right to sing happy songs! For true happiness isn't something one feels only when things are going well. The test of it is its power to transcend suffering."
In addition to Crises in Modern Thought, I wrote and published several other books, each of which was designed to reach people of different interests, and to show them that those interests could be fulfilled truly only by the adoption of spiritual values.
In time I founded a meditation retreat and spiritual community along the lines Master had envisioned in his "world brotherhood colonies."
Gradually, I learned to trust my intuitive feelings once again. The more I did so, the stronger the awareness of inner guidance became. No longer was I afraid to follow my inner voice, for I found that obedience to it resulted in success, harmony, and an expanding vision of life, whereas disobedience resulted in disharmony and loss.
During the years following my great test, divine help has been demonstrated to me repeatedly.
In 1968 I faced a serious financial crisis. Building costs at Ananda Meditation Retreat, which I was constructing at that time, rose many thousands of dollars higher than the original estimate, and than the money I'd saved. My various creditors agreed to let me pay them in monthly installments until my debts were liquidated. Monthly, with God's grace, I was able to honor those commitments.
A local lumber company, however, whom I'd been paying regularly, saw what looked like a "heaven-sent" opportunity to seize our land, and placed a lien on it. Next, a letter arrived from their lawyer to inform me that if I didn't pay off my entire debt in two weeks, they would foreclose on us.
"Divine Mother," I prayed, "what am I to do?" I could see no way of raising so much money in time.
Two evenings later I gave a showing of color slides, which I had taken in India, to a group of people in a private home in Palo Alto, California. Only the hostess knew me, and not even she had any idea of the crisis I was facing. I said nothing of it that evening. Afterwards, however, one of the guests approached me.
"I'd like to help your work," he said. "Would you accept a donation?"
"Very gratefully," I replied, expecting him to give me a five- or ten-dollar bill.
The check he handed me was for three thousand dollars! After paying my bills that month, including the full debt to the lumber company, I had $1.37 left in my bank account!
"Divine Mother," I prayed, "how wonderful is Your kindnessand how exact!"
In 1972 I felt inwardly guided to go to India. Money for the trip came from friends, and from classes that I had given months earlier. But an emergency came up suddenly; the only way I could meet it was by spending most of the money I'd saved for the journey.
"Divine Mother," I prayed, "if You really want me to go to India, You will have to return this money to me right away. Otherwise I won't be able to afford the ticket."
So saying, I paid out $1,100. That was on a Friday evening. The following Monday morning I received in the mail, from a complete stranger, a personal check for $1,000! An accompanying letter requested me to use the money "in whatever way Divine Mother wishes." Gifts in such large amounts rarely come to me, personally, and when they do so I usually use them for our work. But in this case I felt justified in applying that money to the journey.
At Ananda World Brotherhood Village, where I now live, I once received in meditation a design for a publications building. The plan called for an unusually shaped, curved roof. When our carpenters reached that point in the construction, they were unequal to the task. Advice sought elsewhere produced no results. Eventually, for lack of this knowledge, the work came to a halt. The carpenters sat down, meditated, and prayed for assistance. Finally, receiving, as they thought, no guidance, they rose and prepared to leave the job.
Just then a car drove up, and a man stepped out. Explaining that he was a building contractor from Santa Barbara, hundreds of miles away, he said, "I was wondering if you needed help."
The men explained their predicament.
"It's lucky for you I happened to come here," said the contractor. "I am probably the only man in California who knows the special technique this job needs!"
"Prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it."
Our publications building stands today as a beautiful tribute to God's constant solicitude for His devotees.
Thus, by offering my life up to God's guidance, and no longer holding back for fear of displeasing Him and Master, I found that everything in my life began working for the best. With joy now I was able to say that God had watched over me lovingly, even in my darkest hour.
To worldly people, the thought that God really cares for His human children seems preposterous. Indeed, demonstrations of divine solicitude are withheld from skeptics, who weigh all thingsthe most sensitive feelings no less than the specific gravity of metalson the crude scales of logic. To such people, "All that is real is rational," as the philosopher Hegel put it, "and all that is rational is real." Seen in this light, cosmic law seems indeed impersonal, even cruel. Against the claim that God is Love, the rationalist sets the sufferings of untold millions, the blatant injustices, the outrages against innocent childhood and helpless old age. How, he asks, could any God who permits such colossal wrongs feel love for His creatures? Small wonder that even among religious believers there are many who, faced with this rational dilemma, see God as a Lord of wrath, not of love.
But the treasure hunt for the "pearl of great price" would lose much of its appeal if every truth promoted itself like a vote-hungry senator running for re-election. Jesus said, "Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes."
The fact is, the childlike devotee who opens his heart to God, especially in meditation, finds himself filled with a love so exquisite that doubt of the divine Goodness can simply no longer exist. Beholding the universe with transformed vision, he recognizes a higher destiny for all creatures than the fleeting fulfillments of earthly life. In suffering he sees valuable lessons for the soul. He understands what great blessings follow apparent misfortunes, once one has learned to accept all things even-mindedly as gifts from God. With increasing wonder, he receives repeated proofs that God really does care.
Foolish sentimentalism? So judges the crowd, having, by its egotism, self-preoccupation, and unbelief rejected the help that God tenders lovingly to all His creatures. A musician who refuses to play his instrument in harmony with the orchestra has no grounds for complaint if the notes he plays sound dissonant. A person who creates disharmony in his own life perceives disharmony everywhere. Is God then to blame?
"God really talks," Yogananda said, "if you don't think about saving for yourself first." Again and again, in my own life and in the lives of others, I have seen that God responds lovingly, in even the smallest matters, to devotees who give their lives to Him without reservation, and who seek to please Him above all else.
"If only you knew Whose son you are," Master said to us, "and how much territory you own, you would give up everything else!"
As I learned to depend on God wholly once more, the greatest storm in my life passed. It left my heart feeling cleansed, strengthened, and lovingly grateful. During the time of my deepest unhappiness, Ananda Moyi Ma sent me the message: "Take this experience as your guru's grace." Grace? If any one word was unacceptable to me at that time as an explanation for the grief I was experiencing, surely it was this one! But now I realized that grace was indeed what my lossthe greatest imaginable for me at the timehad brought me.
(91) Malachi 3:10.
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(92) Luke 10:21
Back in context.
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Subject: Re: [ALBARBOU] New Barbour Co. Al Queries Post
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 09:54:32 EDT
In a message dated 10/23/00 2:27:41 AM !!!First Boot!!!,
> A new message, "WILLIAM JEFFERSON BUSH," was posted by Gladys May on Sun,
> 22 Oct 2000 It is a response to "William Jefferson Bush," posted by Deana
> Bush on Thu, 28 Sep 2000
> Surname: BUSH
I have a lot of Bush family members in my book Early Settlers of Barbour
County Alabama by Marie Godfrey.
William R. Bush patented land west of Bakersville from 1829 to 1836.In the
1840 census he was a single man 30/40 years old.On Dec 20. 1840 he m. Eliza
Jones.In 1841 William K. Jones gave him 11 acres of land ,But his
relationship to Eliza K. Jones was not given in the deed.
Sarah Bush patented land adjoining William R. Bush in 1836.
In Jan. 1836 she and William R. Bush were the administrators of William R.
Bush Sr..
In 1845 William R. Bush was the administrator for Bryant Bush.
Moses R. Bush entered land N. of Bakersville from 1829 to 1836.Scott's
history of Henry Co.. Al. states that Moses Eason Bush b. 27 Apr. 1797 Ga. d.
25 Apr. 1847 m. (1) Juliia Ann Calhoun 9 Apr. 1815 at Monticello, Jones Co.
,Ga.She was b. 12 Oct 1794 Laurens Co. Ga. d. 18 Apr. 1833 in Barbour Co. Al.
They are buried in Rocky Mount Church Cemetery.
He was the son of John Council Bush b. 1 Apr. 1781 Johnston Co. N.C. d. after
Aug. 1814, and Edie (Tison?) of Trent River N.C.,and Laurens Co. Ga.They are
buried in Lauren Co. Ga.
William R. Bush and Zachriah Bush probably brothers of Moses E. Bush ,also
settled in Barbour Co.
Moses E. Bush m. (2) Nancy Jane Johnson by 1838.She was b. 1815 N.C.d. after
1880. She also is buried in Rocky Mount.She was the daughter of Moses and
Mary Johnson.
Issue By 1st Wife:
1.Mary b.ca. 1812 Ga.She was living with Jane and James Bush in 1850
2.Council Vernon b. May 1870 Houston Co. Ga.d. Dec 1893 m. Rebecca Bishop 20
Oct 1843 .She was b. 8 May 1825 Al. daughter of William and Nancy Bishop.They
are b. in Clayton Cemetery.
Known Issue:
a.Louis Brown Bush
b.William R. Bush
c.Ryan Osley Bush
d. Dixon H. Bush
e.Rebecca Bush
f.Emma Bush
g.John C. Bush
h.James Everrett Bush
i.Alphes Bush
j.Carden Luther Bush
k. Lula Bush-an adopted daughter.
3.David Allen Bush Sr. b. 10 May 1819 d. June 4 1875 m. Julia Ann Flowers ca
1842 daughter of Abner and Rebecca Flowers.She was b. 1821 Ga.They are buried
in a private cemetery in their old home place
Known Issue:
a.Epsey Bush b.1844
b.Americus Berrien Bush b. 1847
c.David Bush ca 1849 Al
d.Ann Bush b 1851
e. Seth Bush b 1854 Al
f. Emma Bush b. ca. 1856 Al
g. David A. Bush b.ca. 1860 Al
4. William J. Bush m. Mary Pugh 116 Nov. 1846
5. Martha Bush b. ca 1844 Al m. Harold F. Reeves 28 Jan 1841
Known issue:
a.Columbus Reeves b 1842
b.Walter Reeves b ca.1843 Al
c.Moses Reeves b. ca. 1844 Al.
d. Julia Reeves b. ca. 1845 Al.
f. Minerva reeves b. ca. 1849 Al
6. Elizabeth Bush b. ca 1827 Al. m. Joel D. Stokes 15 July 1841
Known Issue:
a. Amanda b. ca 1843 Al
b. Moses b. ca. 1845 Al
c. Mary E. b ca 1848 Al
d.Julia A. b ca. 1853 Al
e. James D. b. ca.1856 Al
f.Sarah A. b. ca 1858 Al
7. Nancy A. Bush b. ca 1825 Al. m. James Houston 1843 He was b. 1818 N.C.
a. Hannah b. ca.1844 Al
b.Mosby (Mosley ?) b. ca 1845 Al
c.Edward b. ca 1847 Al.
d. Julia b. ca 1848 Al
8. Moses E. Jr.
9.Julia R. Bush b ca.1829 Al m. Harrell Flowers 1846 son of Abner and Rebecca
Flowers.He m. 2nd Elizabeth Harrod
Known issue by he and Julia.a.Frances b ca 1848 Al b.Cinthia b ca 1849
Al-c.Harrel b. ca 1850 Al d. Georgian b. ca 1853 Al e. John W. b ca. 1855 Al
f. Nina Amanda b. ca 1857 Al. g. Joseph b ca 1859 Al
Jane C. or E. Bush b 4 Apr 1830 Al. d. 27 Jan 1907m.James Orr 1846 .He was b.
in Ireland 1821 She m. 2nd Herbert Tiller .She is buried in Rocky Mount
Church Cem.
Known Issue by her and 1st husband:-a.William Orr b1852-b. James b ca. 1853
Al.- c. Elizabeth.
Well, this goes on and on.It has the children of Moses and and his 2nd wife
Nancy and thier children and thier children ect;
If this is your line I would be happy to send it all to you.
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He had been lighthouse keeper at blue point for thirty years.
Ringentaub reached into the upper darkness and turned on a gas jet which had been burning a blue point of flame.
With about as much "go" as a blue point, about as much rattle as snails.
Slowly, slowly the blue point began to take shape, and Noll's glass brought it to his eyes all too faithfully.
"No, keep it and send it out West for a blue point," said the other man,—what a heartless wretch he was!
The rocks took up and repeated every sound, and in the distance a blue point seemed to grow as we advanced.
Peter, in his old dressing-gown, came to the window and turned down the gaslight beside it to a blue point.
You might even act out a blue point or two, as in charades, so that the child will understand what you mean.
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The 100 best French films: 30-21
Our definitive countdown of the finest French films – as chosen by industry experts
Claire's Knee (1970)
Director: Eric Rohmer
The fifth and most accessible of Rohmer's six 'moral tales', Claire's Knee is the story of the temptation of an affianced diplomat (Brialy) while on holiday, and its successful suppression...
Beau travail (1999)
Director: Claire Denis
Denis' extraordinary movie centres on Galoup (Lavant) who, while holed up in Marseille, recalls his time as a sergeant-major in the Foreign Legion. In the desert, he drilled raw recruits...
Belle de jour (1966)
Director: Luis Bunuel
Marlene Dietrich had Sternberg. Anna Karina had Godard. Catherine Deneuve had Buuel, as the revival of 1967's Belle de Jour reaffirms; the film is a perverse valentine to this coolest of Gallic beauties...
Le Corbeau (1943)
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
David Thomson calls Clouzot's a 'cinema of total disenchantment'. This exposé of a malicious small town in France must be one of the most depressed films to emerge from the period of the German Occupation...
A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Director: Georges Méliès
A former magician, Georges Méliès created his silent film 'A Trip to the Moon' in 1902, just six years after the Lumière Brothers' legendary first projection. 'A Trip to the Moon' is a cinematic legend in its own right...
Le Samouraï (1967)
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Melville's hombres don't talk a lot, they just move in and out of the shadows, their trenchcoats lined with guilt and their hats hiding their eyes. This is a great movie, an austere masterpiece, with Delon as a cold, enigmatic contract killer who lives by a personal code of bushido...
Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Director: Agnès Varda
'Cléo from 5 to 7' was French new waver Agnès Varda's second feature and is filled with the beauty of Paris's natural light. 'Hold on, pretty butterfly!' says Cléo (Corinne Marchand, pictured), a fretful and fame-occupied singer...
Last Year in Marienbad (1961)
Director: Alain Resnais
Something of a key film in the development of concepts of cinematic modernism, simply because - with a script by nouveau roman iconoclast Alain Robbe-Grillet - it sets up a puzzle that is never resolved: a man meets a woman in a rambling hotel and believes he may have had an affair with her the previous year at Marienbad...
Buffet froid (1979)
Director: Bertrand Blier
Rigorously absurd contemporary film noir which presents every character, incident and situation known to the genre, but none of the customary explanations, motivations or consequences. A blackly surreal procession of amoral and/or illegal acts...
Santa Claus is a bastard (1982)
Director: Jean-Marie Poiré
A cult classic with French audiences, 'Santa Claus is a Bastard' was adapted from a play of the same name, co-written by its actors. A black comedy packed with sharp and politically incendiary dialogue...
This list is the height of arrogance and stupidity. It was only made to bring in readers. Timeout cares nothing about art or art criticism, only about making money. "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" not even in the top 50. That's laughable.
Si peu de comédies..qui a voté? Jeunet amelie pour le farfelu, jean de florette de Berri, pour la beaute B13 pour l'action, Haute tension pour la terreur, trois hommes et un couffin pour la tendresse, incroyable tout dernierement Aucun dans les 100 meilleurs films.... plutot une liste de film francais qu'un valide classement


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Latrobe girls soccer trying to play unpredictable in quest for return trip to postseason
Be unpredictable.
That's the challenge put forth by Latrobe girls soccer coach Vincent Pimpinella to his players as the 2014 regular season approaches.
"One thing we've stressed is not to have a set pattern of play," Pimpinella said. "It's still a traditional system, but we don't want to follow the same path to the goal every time."
No matter what routes the Wildcats choose on their way to the goal, there will be some new players charged with the task of putting the ball in the back of the net.
Latrobe lost three of its top four scorers from last year's team that qualified for the WPIAL playoffs for the first time in two decades.
The Wildcats finished last season with an 11-7-1 record and a 6-5-1 mark in Section 1-AAA play. They lost to eventual WPIAL runner-up Peters Township, 3-0, in the first round of the Class AAA tournament.
Sisters Abby and Allison LaDuke combined with Emma Kate Womack to score 32 of Latrobe's 56 goals last season.
Womack and Allison LaDuke graduated last spring, and sophomore striker Abby LaDuke — who netted a team-high 13 markers as a freshman in 2013 — will miss the entire season with an ACL injury.
"We have a couple of big shoes to fill," Pimpinella said. "The core of players we have coming back is doing a decent job.
"With Abby injured, somebody else is going to have to step up."
The two players who figure to shoulder much of the load in terms of offensive production are seniors Rachel Campbell and Madison Mueseler.
Campbell scored nine goals last season, while Mueseler added four tallies and dished out a team-leading 10 assists.
The Wildcats' defense will be anchored by senior Ava Petrosky, an all-section performer in 2013, along with juniors Brooke Baughman, Hannah Mears and Reilly McCracken. Baughman put together a strong 2013 campaign from her center back position.
"With a year under her belt, we'll definitely benefit from her coming back," Pimpinella said.
In addition to the more experienced players on the roster, Latrobe also has 14 sophomores who figure to earn some playing time this season.
"We have a big sophomore class," Pimpinella said. "They've been competitive in practice, and they're getting more confident as they get more experience."
The last line of defense for the Wildcats is senior goalkeeper Stephanie Kubus, another all-section player in 2013. She's been honing her skills by attending camps during the offseason.
"She's been working very hard," Pimpinella said. "As a senior and a captain of this team, she's taking a step forward."
Pimpinella sees Penn-Trafford and Norwin as the teams to beat in Section 1-AAA again this season. He was encouraged by the way his team played against those squads last season.
"I feel like we've closed the gap on Norwin and Penn-Trafford a little bit," Pimpinella said. "We took them to overtime and played one-goal games against them last year versus earlier in my career when we were not competitive.
WPIAL realignment shuffled Franklin Regional and Kiski Area out of Section 1-AAA for the next two years. Albert Gallatin and Laurel Highlands were added to the section.
"This section is difficult," Pimpinella said. "The teams are strong and fast.
"It's going to be an uphill battle."
Latrobe posted a 2-1 victory over Plum in a scrimmage Saturday, the team's first game action of the preseason.
The Wildcats are scheduled to open the regular season Aug. 30, with a nonsection home game against Altoona. Latrobe's section slate begins Sept. 2, at home against Norwin.
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Seven of Nine referencesEdit
This page generally needs work to include various data points mentioned by Seven of Nine throughout Star Trek: Voyager. Specifically, the section on the Hansens and the USS Raven ought to be double-checked by someone with access to the relevant Voyager episodes: I noticed that the article Seven of Nine says she was assimilated in 2356, but Erin Hansen says it was 2354. Someone who has a copy of "The Raven" and/or "Dark Frontier" should find out which is correct and fix whichever entry is wrong. --Josiah Rowe 23:35, 11 Mar 2005 (GMT)
List by dates?Edit
I'd like to see this set up with a nice and clean 'list by dates' in the style of Ferengi history. Jaf 17:57, 24 Aug 2005 (UTC)Jaf
In the 2354-2356 section of this article it lists a Katarian male drone. Should that be Ktarian and if so, does anyone have a pic and/or the script reference? It could be helpful with the inconsistencies of Ktarian appearence. Jaf 01:16, 16 April 2006 (UTC)Jaf
- You're right. It is Ktarian in stead off Katarian. It was difficult to understand while Erin spoke it and I did'nt know the correct spelling. A transcript of the episode listed Ktarian. I already changed it. -- Q 08:22, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
What are the dates given for the Brunali homeworld attacks? I don't have immediate access to the episode, but that should give us a few more years for this list. It may also shed some light on how long the Borg were using the transwarp hubs. Jaf 16:07, 17 April 2006 (UTC)Jaf
- 9 years ago, 6 years ago and 1 year ago from 2376 ("Child's Play")
I think pna should be removed since all points have been answer and incorporated in article. Noman 19:53, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
Time travelEdit
"Timeless" has a reference to a "Borg temporal transmitter" according to its article. Maybe that should be mentioned near the "time travel was a one-time occurrance for the Borg" speculation? -- Andrew Nagy 184.108.40.206 21:00, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
Intro Paragraph/Large TOCEdit
I would like to see the introductory paragraph expanded before I support this article as being a "Featured Article". Perhaps it would be beneficial to move some of the content from the "Origin" section into the intro? With the "Contents" box so large, it looks goofy as is. Alternatively, should a compact table of contents be created/applied so that users viewing the article can see more of the content "above the fold?" Thoughts? Opposition? -Humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa 16:02, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Alternate timelineEdit
This could use a section on the alternate timeline from Endgame where Redge is teaching the class on the Borg and Janeway has a book written about them. Jaf 20:28, 7 December 2006 (UTC)Jaf
24th CenturyEdit
Hate to say it, but this entire section needs a complete overhaul. It does not flow with the other sections and is written in a sort of "story-time" fashion. This section is nothing but a bunch of episode summaries. Also, there is a lot of info not relevant to the borg. I'm willing to create an account to contribute, but I'll need help. Any takers?
The 2365 section is especially bad. It is written like a story where the narrator shares the context of the borg. For example, starting with the first paragraph, " In 2365, a Borg cube ... detected a starship. ... The strange vessel hailed the Borg ... After the Borg analyzed the information, they knew with whom they were dealing..." the actual parts spanning 3 paragraphs of garbage. The first paragraph doesn't make any sense period. It is cheesy, and doesn't match the rest of the article.
I agree with the above and was coming here to say virtually the same thing, the 2365 section does read essentialy as a story, I am hesitant to make changes myself as I do not know how it should be worded but I think it should be more factual 'The Borg encountered their first federation starship' sort of thing, it shouldn't matter if it is a short paragraph.MrSuperHappy (talk) 17:29, February 11, 2016 (UTC)
Origin of the Borg? Edit
This is quite a creative idea used in the Star Trek Legacy game. It may be non-canon and non-accepted, but does it accurately explain the origins of the Borg?
- Probably Not, the borg were listed as having been around in no less than 1400 AD, and judging from how quickly 7 of 9 was identified, it is pretty clear they were assimilating humans long before v'ger was even an idea.--Fullphaser 21:22, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
- V'Ger crossed space AND time. That explanation was probably what the writers had in mind with the borg for the probable voyager movie. Star Trek legacy was written in colaboration with star trek writers. It hasn't been made canon yet but that's probably the true origin of the borg. We should at least mention it. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by 22.214.171.124 (talk).
- Put it in the apocryphal section then. It'll never be made canon according to MA, since it was a licensed product. -- Sulfur 16:39, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
- V'Ger crossed space AND time. That explanation was probably what the writers had in mind with the borg for the probable voyager movie. Star Trek legacy was written in colaboration with star trek writers. It hasn't been made canon yet but that's probably the true origin of the borg. We should at least mention it. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by 220.127.116.11 (talk).
- This may be a few years old, but it really bears a response: "star trek writers" means almost nothing when each show's had dozens of writers, the books have dozens more and each game has still more. Neither Maurice Hurley, the writer of "Q Who" nor Michael Pillar, the writer of "The Best of Both Worlds," the episodes that created and established the Borg, had anything to do with the game. In fact, its two writers had nothing to do with any other Borg storylines: D.C. Fontana's relationship with the franchise after the first season of TNG is pretty peripheral and Derek Chester's only credits are a handful of other Trek games. Citing them as such a creative authority on the Borg that their word supercedes canon makes no sense, especially when Guinan and the Borg Queen have already given us a canonical, and much less convoluted, explanation. --188.8.131.52 21:12, January 31, 2013
Background Edit
I feel kind of bad removing more info (an IP user correctly removed a pointless statement that Endgame was the last chronological appearance of the Borg), but I removed the following:
- However, in Star Trek Nemesis, Admiral Janeway light-heartedly commented to Captain Picard that he seemed to get all of the easy assignments, such as the Son'a and the Borg. This may imply that the Borg were not entirely defeated, although an alternative interpretation is that Janeway's mention of the Borg was merely a reference to the events of Star Trek: First Contact, like her mention of the Son'a from Star Trek: Insurrection in the same statement.
Janeway's statement was very obviously a way of referencing the two past films. I don't think we should offer "interpretations" that are clearly not intended. As such, the note is unnecessary. – Cleanse 02:04, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
- Why would she say this anyway? After her long and dangerous journey through the Delta Quadrant, discovering new alien species and battling dangerous enemies, such as the Borg, AND losing various crew members in the process, you would have thought that that would be difficult enough, wouldn't you? Yet she sarcastically implies that Picard and the Enterprise get all of the dangerous assignments. TrekFan 04:56, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
- That has... what to do with the article? Not clear to me, thanks for explaining whether you're in support of removing the note. --TribbleFurSuit 19:42, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Ambiguous, Roundabout LanguageEdit
The language of this article needs to be rewritten. At times it seems to intentionally be roundabout, which is confusing. There are also many grammar mistakes.
"In 2365, a Borg cube traveling near the System J-25, 7,000 light years away from Federation space, detected a starship. The sixth planet in that system, a Class-M, seemed to have the same characteristics as some Federation and Romulan outposts near the Neutral Zone. Their cities were removed from the planet's surface. When the Borg cube arrived, it scanned the unknown vessel."
If I had not already seen the episode, I would not know what is happening.
"The strange vessel hailed the Borg but they did not respond to it. Instead, they transported a drone to the engineering section of the unknown starship, right through the vessel's shields. The drone paid no attention to the lifeforms present and walked towards a com panel. Before he could reach it, a phaser shot knocked him down. Moments later another drone was sent and after he materialized, continued towards the panel. Again he was fired upon but this time his personal shield stopped the shot. The Borg had adapted. After the drone extracted information from the com panel, it reached over to the fallen drone and removed some components, after which both drones dematerialized.
After the Borg analyzed the information, they knew with whom they were dealing, the Federation starship USS Enterprise-D under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. They also concluded that the Enterprise-D was unable to withstand them, since her defensive capabilities were insufficient. The Borg hailed the Enterprise and told them to not defend themselves as they would be punished for it, interrupting Picard's greeting, and they locked a tractor beam onto the ship. The beam held the starship in place and drained their defensive shields."
The writer has become a narrator of some sort here. Why the storytelling? Why especially from the point of view of the Borg?
"Despite this warning the Borg found Voyager entering the nebula again and they send three Borg cubes to intercept. Although the Borg fired their weapons, and even tried locking their tractor beam, Voyager kept moving on, unhindered. It seemed they were protected by some sort of new armor."
Why not just state that Admiral Janeway had modified Voyager with ablative armor? – The preceding unsigned comment was added by 126.96.36.199 (talk).
I removed,
- One could speculate that Starfleet, or some of its officers, did not dismiss Cochrane's story in its entirety and that they might be the reason the Science Council investigated it. Some evidence of this might be that the A6 team leader, Drake, told Commander Williams that he owed him a bottle of Scotch. This might suggest a bet of some sort, that Drake would find what they were searching for.
as it is a big steaming pile of speculation. -Angry Future Romulan 15:31, May 5, 2010 (UTC)
Possible Timeline Deviation? Edit
A Possible Timeline Deviation might help explain the inconsistencies between TNG and Voyager. I'm mostly speculating here, but I'd be interesting in hearing some feedback or criticisms of this possibility. I am currently rewatching Voyager and inconsistencies like these really bother me.
Original Timeline
xxxx: Borg created
2364: Borg attack Romulan outposts in Beta Quadrant.
2365: Enterprise-D encounters Borg (first human/Borg Contact)
2368: Enterprise-D release Hugh to Borg
2368: Hugh infects Borg with individuality
2368: Borg adapt by creating Borg Queen
2368: Borg become semi-incompetent (which explains why Voyager was able to beat Borg so easily compared to Wolf-359)
2373: Borg travel back in time to assimilate Earth
New Timeline created
2063: Borg botch assimilation of Earth, leaving Borg tech in Artic
2064: Cochrane gives Princeton speech mentioning Borg
2153: Borg remains found on Earth, Enterprise: "Regeneration: happens
2153: Borg send message back to Borgspace, Borg will become aware of humans in 200 years (around 2353). This is a major change in timeline
2293: Starfleet rescues El-Aurians; begin to associate El-Aurian destruction of homeworld with Archer's Borg experience; Borg rumors begin
2353: Borg receive message and send ship to Alpha (or Beta) quadrant
2354: Working off rumors, the Hansens seek out the Borg.
2354: Hansens find Borg in Beta Quadrant; they follow them to Delta Quadrant
2356: Borg assimilate Hansens
This would mean that the TNG timeline is no longer accurate. Picard wasn't the first Human to see the Borg and Starfleet would have been aware of their existence. This would be consistent with the fact that many other Alpha and Beta Quadrant residents have been assimilated prior to TNG's first encounter. Also, it might explain why the Ferengi are species 180 when they are an Alpha/Beta Quadrant species. Dejackso 19:41, February 8, 2011 (UTC)
- This doesn't match canon. For example, Picard had memories of the Borg Queen from his time being assimilated in "Best of Both Worlds." Hugh was released into the collective after this, so the Queen could not have been created in response to Hugh. It's also a really bad idea to say "Borg become semi-incompetent" that way, it smacks of fanboyism and ignorance of the fact that, in most action and sci fi shows, after enough time has passed a previously unbeatable enemy becomes easy. We saw this elsewhere in Trek, notably in the treatment of the Ferengi after their introduction, or the Dominion. Remember how powerful those little attack ships seemed at first, small numbers able to take out the Defiant or a Galaxy class? Later on a runabout is just about the only thing that can't handle combat against them easily.
- In addition, that the Borg would "become aware" of humanity in 2353 isn't all that major a change. We already know they were aware of humanity before Q introduced them directly, they'd already been attacking Federation and Romulan outposts. Why are the events with the El-Aurians only in the new timeline? Guinan was certainly on the show during the events before your stated split.
- Basically there isn't an actual REASON to have such a split, and the fact that Picard encountered the Borg Queen while he was assimilated means that your chain of events couldn't have happened this way. --OuroborosCobra talk 19:57, February 8, 2011 (UTC)
- You raise some good points, but I have a couple of comments. First, Picard doesn't remember the Borg Queen until the events of First Contact (the "Best of Both Worlds" memories are mentioned only in that movie) and this is after they had already traveled back in time. I would argue that those memories are from the Picard after the split in the time line.
- Second, I see your point about the "semi-incompetent" statement coming across as fanboyism, but that wasn't my intention as I enjoy all of the ST series. However, I do think that the dramatic decrease in the power of the Borg requires a better explanation than that sci-fi dictates that they become easier. An introduction of a new element (the Queen) could help explain this shift. It could also explain how the Borg originally could gain new tech only through assimilation (which was mentioned in an earlier Voyager episode), yet they all of a sudden began to invent things on their own. I'll admit that my explanation of a late introduction of the Queen only does so shakily, but there does need to be some reason outside of meta concerns.
- Third, I didn't mention the El-Aurians twice mainly because I didn't really see a need to mention them twice. I probably should have put them in both as that element doesn't actually seem to change. I could just have easily left them out to prevent confusion, too. They don't really play a role in my explanation.
- Fourth, I should have said "intensely" aware of humans enough to consider them a threat. Prior to that message, they were attacking Romulan outposts and the occasional Federation ship without any rhyme or reason to the importance of the target. This suggest that the Borg were just doing their normal assimilation routine. The main thing that the message did was that it put a ship in the "backyard" (quote from one of the Hansens) of the Federation where there was no mention of one in the previous timeline. In the original timeline, the Federation had no clue about the Borg at all. Those Romulan outposts were a complete mystery if you remember the episode "The Neutral Zone." It was only after Picard told the Federation about his experience with the Borg, they they got worried and began to think of possible scenarios that led up to Wolf 359. If the Federation was aware of the Borg before Picard in the original timeline, then either they were completely incompetent (they would have had 20 years to plan something considering the Hansen story) or they just didn't care. Dejackso 20:15, February 8, 2011 (UTC)
- You raise some good points, but I have a couple of comments. First, Picard doesn't remember the Borg Queen until the events of First Contact (the "Best of Both Worlds" memories are mentioned only in that movie) and this is after they had already traveled back in time. I would argue that those memories are from the Picard after the split in the time line.
Stardate 9521.6? Edit
The article mentions stardate 9521.6. That would be in 2293, during The Undiscovered Country. In what episode is this stardate mentioned in relation to the borg? Is it an error? If not, there's a citation missing right? --Trek history (talk) 07:21, January 2, 2014 (UTC)
Origin of Borg, "Destiny" Edit
I don't get it.I'm a new member. Why aren't the events of Destiny in here? Do we not discuss the novels? – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Maxine Noonian (talk • contribs).


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Tennessee Titans first-year coach Mike Munchak says he is not interested in the job at Penn State University, where he played on the offensive line under former coach Joe Paterno, the Tennessean reported today.
Munchak said that while he respects his alma mater and hopes the school finds a successful coach, he has no desire to leave Tennessee, the Nashville-based newspaper said today following an interview.
"I am not interested in the Penn State job," Munchak told the newspaper. "I am interested in what happens there, and I don't want to distance myself from Penn State. But as far as the head coaching deal, I am."
Munchak was the top pick of Penn State's search committee, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported today citing unidentified people. The committee is looking for a replacement to the 85- year-old Paterno, who was fired last month following his handling of child sex-abuse charges against former Nittany Lions assistant Jerry Sandusky.
Titans spokesman Robbie Bohren declined in an e-mail to comment on Munchak's future prior to the coach's regularly scheduled press conference later today. Penn State spokesman Jeff Nelson said he had no comment on the search.
Munchak, 51, was an offensive lineman at Penn State from 1978 to 1981. A 2001 inductee into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, he has spent his entire National Football League career with the Titans' organization as a player, assistant coach and head coach.
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