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Rhythm To Spare, like many of his rivals in the Ajax Stakes on Saturday, is looking for a free pass to next month's Doncaster Mile at The Championships at Randwick.
Michael Moroney believes the four-year-old is made to run the Randwick mile but being No.53 on the order of entry makes getting there a problem.
"We think he is a mile to a mile-and-a-quarter horse and they are the sort of horses that win Doncasters," Moroney said.
"He is going to get in with a very light weight [he is handicapped at 50 kilograms] - the trouble we have is getting him into the race. That is why this race is so attractive to us and a lot of other horses."
Messene, Ecuador and Weary are among the horses which need an exemption from the ballot to make the Doncaster.
Messene's co-trainer, Michael Hawkes, made it clear the Ajax, the 1500-metre sixth event at Rosehill, was a key race in his preparation.
"It is a race which will give us a good indication against similar types of horses," he said. "[Messene] is on his way through the grades and this is another step which we think he is up to."
Rhythm To Spare stretched out to 2400m as a three-year-old running fourth in the group 1 Queensland Derby after being runner-up behind Hawkspur in the group 3 Grand Prix.
He has been kept to 1400m and a mile since, winning over 1400m at Caulfield during the spring before a third in the Sale Cup and a midfield finish in the Emirates at Flemington, where he was beaten by less than two lengths.
"He showed he was up to it in the spring and I think he is a stronger horse this time in," Moroney said. "I was slightly disappointed with his first-up run on face value but when you look at the sectionals it was OK. This race is perfect for him second-up and he goes very well second-up. He worked good on Wednesday morning.''
Rhythm To Spare was a long way back when resuming at Flemington over 1400m on March 8 and although he hit the line, he never threatened. He finished sixth.
Moroney took the blinkers off for that run but they go back on for Saturday's race.
"I just think he will be a bit sharper for this race and there looks to be enough speed for him to be getting home hard,'' he said. ''Glen Boss has ridden this horse a lot and knows him very well and thinks he is right up to a tough mile."
Rhythm To Spare is at $12 for the Ajax with TAB.com.au.


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Watching the team employ misdirection, rollouts, etc. successfully in the first quarter, and then totally abandon them, isn't "heartening". It just makes you want to reach for a barf bag.
The only things that were really heartening were:
1) Much better play against the run in the 2nd half
2) Continued good play by the special teams units
3) Ellerbe continuing to improve.
But those things won't beat the good teams that are coming up.
The Ravens don't win more than 8 games TOTAL. To win more they would have to get rid of the IDIOT - and they are not going to do that until early 2013.
So we should start thinking about who we will be drafting with the 18th overall pick.
Do you really see this team beating Pittsburgh (2 games), Cinci in Cinci, SD in SD, Denver or NY?
The Ravens defense can't generate a pass rush - Ben, Peyton, Eli, Rivers and Dalton are going to be throwing the ball all over the place while the Ravens perfect their infamous 3 and OUT offense.
It doesn't take a genius to figure that out - and THAT equals 8 wins for 2012.
I now know the formula!
Give Cam 2 weeks to prepare, and then declare the game over after the first couple of series before their D has a chance to adjust and shut everything down.
I think it's kind of ridiculous that people can be so negative about a sports team and yet they continue to watch and talk about them.
If I'm reading a book and it sucks I simply put it down and read something else. Same goes for movies, tv shows, games, etc. I've never went on a bad roller coaster and then immediately jumped back in line for another ride.
Why torture yourself if we are going to go 2-6 the rest of the way?
Personally I don't know what is more obnoxious:
A) People that insist the Ravens are doomed.
B) People that say 'look at the record, doom mongers' and completely gloss over any negative aspects of a performance and the potential implications of that.
I thought the point of a forum was debate about a topic, not polarised whining and polyannaism.

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Bombardier (TSE:BBD.B) announced Thursday that WestJet (TSE:WJA) has signed a firm purchase agreement to convert five options for the train and plane maker's Q400 NextGen airliners.
The conversion is of five of the 25 options booked by WestJet and announced in August 2012, along with the Canadian airline's firm order for 20 Q400 NextGen airliners.
Based on the list price of the aircraft, the transaction announced today for WestJet's Encore regional carrier is valued at approximately US$167 million, said Bombardier.
"In just under one year, WestJet Encore has re-shaped the regional aircraft market in western Canada - opening new destinations and feeding traffic to WestJet's mainline network - all on the strength of WestJetters and the Q400 NextGen aircraft," said president and CEO of WestJet, Gregg Saretsky.
Indeed, WestJet Encore has introduced service to Fort St. John, Nanaimo and Terrace, British Columbia; Brandon, Manitoba, and has added turboprop service to WestJet's existing western route network serving Winnipeg, Manitoba; as well as Saskatoon and Regina, Saskatchewan.
Starting this spring, it will also service Fort McMurray, Alberta; Kelowna, British Columbia; Winnipeg, Manitoba, and will provide service between Toronto and Thunder Bay in Ontario.
"While the Q400 NextGen aircraft is well known for its efficiency on short-haul missions, we have also been able to leverage its jet-like speed to reach new destinations and connect cities further apart, and this will be instrumental as we look to expand Encore's service offering to our guests in eastern Canada," Saretsky said.
The Q400 NextGen aircraft, which is built at Bombardier's Toronto, Ontario facility, is optimized for short-haul operations, but is built with extra capacity configuration, providing seats for up to 86 passengers.
Including WestJet's order, Montreal-based Bombardier has recorded firm orders for a total of 491 Q400 and Q400 NextGen aircraft.
The world's third-biggest aircraft maker said yesterday it would delay the first test flight of its Learjet 85 business jet due to a systems glitch. A "systems issue" was discovered after a weather-related delay of the first flight last week, Reuters reported, quoting Annie Cossette, a spokeswoman for Bombardier's business aircraft division.
The Learjet 85, which fills a hole between midsize and super mid-sized commercial jets currently on the market, was initially scheduled to fly in early 2013. Yet successive delays pushed the first flight out until early 2014, before the latest setback.
The Learjet 85 delay is yet another blow for Bombardier, which has also run into successive delays in its new CSeries program as well in recent months. In January, Bombardier pushed out the first delivery date for the CSeries until late 2015, nearly two years behind schedule.
Shares of Bombardier were unchanged this morning, at C$4.04 in Toronto.


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21 July 2011
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UK and Hungarian producers join Spanish drama At 2:15Nick Nolte [pictured] and Melanie Griffith to star.
Alex Proyas to shoot Paradise Lost in Sydney this autumnBradley Cooper to star as Lucifer.
Anna Higgs joins Film4 in new digital roleHiggs, also a producer and former Screen Star of Tomorrow, starts the new post in September.
Bruni's Scialla! to open Venice's Controcampo Italiano sectionIn other festival news, Luigi De Laurentiis award jury to include Frank Roos, Aleksei Fedorchenko, Charles Tesson, Serra Yilmaz and Carlo Mazzacurati.
Director Michael Cacoyannis dies in Athens at age 89Michael Cacoyannis, the Cyprus-born filmmaker who directed Zorba the Greek, has died at an Athens hospital at the age of 89.
Exhibitors and film companies do their part to save energy in electricity-needy JapanSeveral exhibitors and film companies have announced their strategies for cutting electric power use this summer in the wake of supply shortages since the March 11 disaster.
Former StudioCanal France chief Camille Trumer launches entertainment group TalentboxParis-based Trumer has acquired talent agent Cineart, press agency Moteur! and is on the verge of signing deal for majorFrench live entertainment producer.
French Directors Guild appoints Edouard Waintrop as new head of Directors' FortnightThe French Directors Guild has appointed Edouard Waintrop as the new artistic director of Cannes Directors' Fortnight, replacing Frédéric Boyer who was removed from the position last month.
Gallardo, Eastman sign on to executive produce Chee's Zombie ApocalypseCarlos Gallardo, producer of El Mariachi and Once Upon A Time In Mexico, and Kevin Eastman, co-creator of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and owner of Heavy Metal Publishing, have signed on as executive producers of Zombie Apocalypse (working title).
German-Russian Co-Production Treaty signed after years in the worksJourney to get treaty created has been more than 10 years.
Guadagnino replaces Trinca on Locarno's international juryItalian actress is unable to participate so Italian director recruited for jury duty.
Hot projects on ScreenbaseIn France Samuel Rondière is gearing up to shoot La Braconne, and Manoel de Oliveira's is preparing Gebo And The Shadow; while in the UK Danny Donnelly's Payback Season has started production.
Jeremy Thomas, Paul Berczeller developing film about Kim Jong-IlLeading British producer Jeremy Thomas (Crash, The Last Emperor) has confirmed that he is working on a project about North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il.
Luke and Meek to return to the UKIndustry veterans Ashley Luke and Scott Meek are leaving Australia to return to the UK.
Mark Patterson joins Rising Sun EntertainmentRising Sun Pictures has announced it has appointed Mark Patterson as head of production and development for its new production division Rising Sun Entertainment.
Optimum confirms new Malick film, Cianfrance's Pines among 2012 slateOther 2012 releases to include Casa De Mi Padre, Nigel Cole's All In Good Time and Vehicle 19 starring Paul Walker.
Peter Capaldi working on TV mockumentary about Cricklewood Film StudiosPeter Capaldi, star of The Thick of It and In The Loop, is writing, directing and presenting a BBC4 mockuumentary about the fictional stars of the Cricklewood Film Studios.
PiFan's NAFF gives top prize to Indonesian director Joko AnwarThe Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) wrapped its 4th Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF) yesterday (July 20) with the main Bucheon Award going to Indonesian director Joko Anwar's Modus Anomali.
Producer Cecchi Gori back under house arrest in ItalyItalian producer Vittorio Cecchi Gori is back under house arrest as he is investigated for fraudulent bankruptcy of his holding company Finmavi Spa, Italian media widely reports.
Rabbit jumps to Cartoon Network; pan-Asian dates setChinese 3D animation film Legend of A Rabbit has reached further sales deals with Warner's Cartoon Network acquiring pay-TV rights for India, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan and the Philippines.
Rubber takes top prize at PiFanBest director prize goes to Na Hong-jin for The Yellow Sea.
San Sebastian's early selections include Ana Katz's Family, Julie Delpy's SkylabThe San Sebastian International Film Festival has unveiled several titles in its Official Selection, including new films from Sarah Polley, Hirokazu Kore-Eda and Julie Delpy.
Screen Australia backs films inspired by Bon Scott, Michael HutchenceAgency also gives development financing to new films by Adam Elliot and Bruce Beresford.
Screen Australia backs Wolf Creek sequel, 3D surfing documentary, debut featuresA sequel to Wolf Creek, a high-budget action adventure directed by brothers Michael and Peter Spierig, and a 3D surfing documentary are among the features that have just secured Screen Australia investment.
Spanish film rights society SGAE to perform major overhaul following scandalMajor film and music rights society SGAE will face investigations and a complete overhaul of its structure and policies following allegations of the embezzlement of around €400m in funds intended for film-makers and musicians.
Spellbinding second weekend for Potter at UK box officeWarner Bros.' final instalment of the Potter franchise holds onto pole position ahead of Disney's Cars 2.
Star Wars plusStar Wars aficionados (like myself) will be glad to see 40+ hours of special features on the upcoming Blu-ray release of the entire saga.
Terracotta Distribution adds new horror imprintIt will launch in October with the release of Yoon Hong-seung's Korean horror Death Bell.
Three producers to head to UK's PFM after Melbourne's 37º South pitchesProducer Marian Macgowan pitches Gillian Armstrong's The Great, with Mia Wasikowska and Annette Bening attached.
Tina Gharavi's I Am Nasrine gets boost from Northern fundNorthern Film + Media and Northstar Ventures' content fund has made its latest film investment, with £50,000 going to love story I Am Nasrine.
Tomislav Radic's Kotlovina sweeps PulaDalibor Matanic won best director for thriller Daddy.
Toronto to open with U2 doc; world premieres from Payne, Besson, PawlikowskiUPDATE: The Toronto International Film Festival has announced some early selections from its programme, including world premieres of Davis Guggenheim's U2 documentary From The Sky Down (opening night film), Moneyball, Anonymous, Woman In The Fifth, The Lady [pictured], The Descendants, Trishna and Salmon Fishing In The Yemen.
Tsangari, Guédiguian and Östlund shortlisted for European LUX PrizeThey beat off competition from Bela Tarr, Nanni Moretti and Kaurismaki to compete for the prize which will be awarded on Nov 16 in Strasbourg.
Venice 2011 competitors likely to include Arnold, Kolirin, Solondz, FerraraAs Venice gears up for its lineup announcement on Thursday, word has it that competitors could include Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Wuthering Heights, Shame, The Exchange, Dark Horse and more.
Venice Critics Week to open with Stockholm East, close with Mission Of PeaceNine world premieres selected for Critics Week.
Venice Days lineup has Gallic flavourSelections include Amigorena's Another Silence [pictured], Lioret's All Our Desires, and Lou Ye's Love And Bruises.
Venice Horizons selections include Jonathan Demme, Ross McElwee docsThere are 24 films in the feature-length section, including Nicolas Provost's The Invader [pictured].
Wide's Eye On Films label adds Locarno title PolicemanWide also handling sales on the Israeli drama.


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Alright. I was playing Co-op mode "Hangman's NOoSE". On one match i went across a hacker that spawned himself 120k of money and then killed everyone to fail mission. On later match I managed to survive and I got spawned 200k money along with others who survived. This got me to rank 5. 3-4 matches later, other cheater appeared but same thing happened. NOoSE vans ejected into sea by making them fly. And then the hacker spawned everyone over 5m of money and left match. I was in a team of a guy with Rank 1, a guy with Rank 2, and the cheater who was Rank 10. After we successfully finished it, we were all Rank 10. i took pics of the thing happening.
So. Did anyone else got to maximum rank by cheaters?


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At 8:26 PM -0600 6/5/1999, Jon Jensen wrote:
>Geoff said:
> > Most spiders themselves are good about following up frames, though there
> > doesn't seem to be a good solution for how to return frames in search
> > results. For example, how do you specify a URL to the framset with one
> > frame changed from the default?
>I've been wondering about this. I don't know of any tools that do it right
>now, but it's certainly possible. Is this already out there somewhere I
>haven't noticed?
Yes, not free, but MondoSearch does show results in framesets. I'm
not sure of the exact details, but I think they track when they're in
a frameset and store the results before they follow the frame links.
When a user clicks on a result item, they route results back through
the search server to locate the associated frames before going to the
original server and getting the data. It's pretty intense.
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes: > We just came across a situation where a corrupted HFS+ filesystem > appears to return ERANGE on a customer machine. Our first reaction was > to turn zero_damaged_pages on to allow taking a pg_dump backup of the > database, but surprisingly this does not work. A quick glance at the > code shows the reason: > ... > Note that zero_damaged_pages only enters the picture if it's a short > read, not if the read actually fails completely. > Is this by design, or is this just an oversight? It is by design, in that the only contemplated case was truncated-away pages. I'm pretty hesitant to consider allowing arbitrary kernel errors to be ignored here ... regards, tom lane
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#lang racket ; An echo server (define listener (tcp-listen 12345)) (let echo-server () (define-values (in out) (tcp-accept listener)) (thread (lambda () (copy-port in out) (close-output-port out))) (echo-server))
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#lang racket ; A picture (require 2htdp/image) (let sierpinski ([n 6]) (if (zero? n) (triangle 2 'solid 'red) (let ([next (sierpinski (- n 1))]) (above next (beside next next)))))
#lang racket/gui ; A GUI guessing game (define f (new frame% [label "Guess"])) (define n (random 5)) (send f show #t) (define ((check i) btn evt) (message-box "." (if (= i n) "Yes" "No"))) (for ([i (in-range 5)]) (make-object button% (format "~a" i) f (check i)))
#lang racket ; Simple web scraper (require net/url net/uri-codec) (define (let-me-google-that-for-you str) (let* ([g "http://www.google.com/search?q="] [u (string-append g (uri-encode str))] [rx #rx"(?<=
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Mon. October 28, 2013 | Matt Baker | Email
For six years, Tampa Prep's girls golf team had been a solid program trying to get back to the state tournament.
All the Terrapins needed was a talent infusion from a pair of polar opposites.
Tampa Prep will head to Harbor Hills Country Club in Lady Lake on Tuesday for the two-day Class A state tournament thanks in large part to its towering senior move-in, Olivia Kresic, and its slight sixth-grade standout, Lilly Berry. The two newcomers provided the lowest scores last week to secure the Terrapins' Class A, Region 5 championship.
"The excitement was just overwhelming," Kresic said of the region title. "There were tears of happiness, jumps for joy. It was crazy."
In her only year at Tampa Prep since moving from Michigan, Kresic has helped boost Tampa Prep back to state for the first time since it finished eighth in 2006.
She had her team's low rounds during the regular season in matches against Berkeley Prep and Indian Rocks Christian. She shot a 90 — third on the team — at the Class A, District 15 tournament, and her 92 at regionals was second best on the team.
As importantly, she's provided leadership on a team with only one other upperclassman, senior Symone Hutchinson.
"It helps those younger girls move along," Terrapins coach Richard Veghte said.
And that includes Berry, the youngest Terrapin.
The 11-year-old has played golf for more than half of her life. Veghte said she strikes the ball well, which helped her lead the team with 82 at the district tournament and 86 at regionals.
"She's more mature than her age and her grade," Veghte said. "She's been playing competitive golf for quite a while, and she's used to the competitive environment. For her to come out and play in a tourney like (regionals) is just kind of another walk in the park for her."
Although Berry is still adjusting to the pressure of playing for a team, her experience at junior tournaments has helped her stay calm on high school golf's biggest stages so far.
She can get advice from her friend Latanna Stone, the Valrico native who qualified for the U.S. Women's Amateur last year at age 10. And she's already played in top events, including this summer's U.S. Kids Golf World Championship at Pinehurst.
"I guess I'm kind of used to it by now," Berry said.
Both Kresic and Berry have been instrumental to the team's success by bolstering the team's depth and providing a five-player lineup that's more reliable than in previous seasons.
At last year's district tournament, no Terrapin shot better than 106. This year, only one finished with a higher score than that. Sophomores Katie Hochhausler and Morgan Peterson both shaved 22 strokes from last year's district result to this year's event.
At the region tournament, no Tampa Prep girls finished in the top seven as individuals, but the top four all shot at least 113. So with no superstars but no weak links, Tampa Prep enters with legitimate hopes of cracking the top 10.
"It's really a reward for them and their hard work this season, getting a chance to go," Veghte said. "We've got a good group of girls, and they're pretty consistent in their play."
State golf
2A boys
Where: Mission Inn Resort and Club, Howey-in-the-Hills (El Campeon)
Local qualifiers: Jesuit, Robinson's Andrew Skora
2A girls
Where: Mission Inn Resort and Club (Las Colinas), Howey-in-the-Hills
Local qualifiers: Holy Names
A boys
Where: Deer Island Golf and Lake Club, Tavares
Local qualifiers: Tampa Catholic
A girls
Where: Harbor Hills Country Club, Lady Lake
Local qualifiers: Tampa Prep, Berkeley Prep, Cambridge Christian's Alison Armstrong
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How Much Does it Cost to Bury Power Lines?
When power lines are buried, electrical power is transmitted using underground cables. Otherwise known as undergrounding, this type of power transmission is ideal for densely populated regions considering that it saves space and is aesthetically better than overhead cables.
How much does it cost?
- According to en.wikipedia.org, underground power transmission has a significantly higher cost and greater operational limitations.
- This type of electrical power transmission and distribution may decrease operational costs over the lifetime of cables. It is more expensive since the cost of burying cables at transmission voltages is greater than overhead power lines. The cost to bury power lines will be around $20 to $40 per foot. In highly urbanized areas, the cost of underground transmission can be 10 to 14 times more expensive than overhead cable transmission.
- Per home property, it could cost anywhere from $1,000 to $3,500 to have the lines buried. Keep in mind that some electric companies do not allow homeowners to bury the lines to their property.
- Moving power lines underground can cost as much as $2.1 million per mile in a city, with an average of $832,383 a mile in urban areas and $723,692 in suburban areas.
- On the other hand, a Dispatch.com article claimed that it could cost upwards of $832,000 per mile to have power lines buried.
What is going to be included?
- Electricity is transmitted at high voltages (110 kV or above) to reduce energy lost in long-distance transmission. Underground power transmission is sometimes used in urban areas or sensitive locations.
- Burying power lines includes the replacement of overhead cables providing electrical power with underground cables. This is usually performed for aesthetic purposes as well as safety purposes.
- Underground cables can transmit power across densely populated areas where land is expensive or environmentally sensitive.
- Burying power lines has the following advantages: (1) lesser risk to damage caused by severe weather conditions like lightning, wind, and cold; (2) reduced emission of electromagnetic fields; (3) needs narrower surrounding strip of 1-10 meters to install; (4) poses no hazard to low flying aircraft or wildlife; (5) lesser risk of theft, illegal connections, and sabotage.
What are the extra costs?
- There may be extra costs for repair and maintenance of burying power lines. In such instances, labor costs will also be included when professionals are hired to do the maintenance work. Unlike above ground wires, underground wires are hard to diagnosis and repair. Because of this, repairs can be costlier.
- Extra costs may also be incurred for additional power lines.
- If the power lines were to be buried, additional fees of up to $1,000 may have to be paid out to the electric company.
Tips to know
- If outages do occur with underground wires, the outages will last longer than wires above ground since they are harder to access and therefore harder to repair.
- Before investing in burying power lines, make sure that you have carefully assessed whether it would fit your needs. As you can see, it can get rather costly to have power lines buried.
- If you have your power lines buried it is very important to put the appropriate signage saying so. If a company comes in to do any other type of work, even something simple like installing a fence, it is very important that they know the whereabouts of the buried power lines.
How can I save money?
- You can save money in the long run by observing proper use of energy through conservation of electricity in your home.
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Latest question:
How do you think the new GigE standards will influence the machine vision industry?
Respond or ask your question now!
By Advanced Imaging Editorial Staff
Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston)
Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (Chelmsford, MA)
(Nominated by Robert Murphy, Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.)
The Challenge:
Traditional mammography is based on two-dimensional X-ray imaging. One shortcoming of this modality is that tumors can be obscured and, therefore, go undetected. Digital breast tomosynthesis reconstructs a three-dimensional volumetric view from a series of eleven, low-dose, two-dimensional projection images. The technique enables physicians to �page through� the interior of the breast without obstruction by surrounding superimposed tissue. In the past, potential benefits of digital breast tomosynthesis were downplayed because the method was computationally intense and took far too long for use in a clinical setting.
The Solution:
Designers at Mercury Computer Systems implemented an iterative reconstruction algorithm called Maximum Likelihood Expectation Maximization which initially produced very high quality images. Engineers mapped the algorithm to a specialty graphics processor with a unique programmable rendering pipeline. Careful construction of the software port was required to overcome memory, bandwidth and instruction set limitations while optimizing run-time performance. The latter was reduced from five hours to five minutes. In pre-clinical testing, digital breast tomosynthesis permitted physicians to find cancers earlier and more easily, and to differentiate benign versus malignant lesions while simultaneously reducing false positives (which can occur with conventional mammography).
The Tools Used:
The Difference It Made:
The ensemble of observed results, software implementation and acceleration hardware has confirmed that digital breast tomosynthesis improved cancer screening accuracy, lowered costs, increased patient comfort and reduced exposure to ionizing radiation.
In the United States, deaths from breast cancer dropped twenty percent over past decade, largely due to widespread screening mammography. Digital breast tomosynthesis� superior ability to display lesions which otherwise might be masked could reinforce early detection and further reduce death rates. The Massachusetts General Hospital-Mercury Computer Systems technique sped up image reconstruction by a factor of sixty.


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By Joan Ann Lansberry
Scholars are divided on this subject, but most of them say there is little connection. "Inasmuch as the Gnostic traditions pertaining to Seth derive from Jewish sources, we are led to posit that the very phenomenon of 'Sethian' Gnosticism per se is of Jewish, perhaps pre-Christian, origin."1 So who is this Seth who features in Sethian Gnosticism? Birger Pearson says: "After examining the magical texts on Seth-Typhon and the Gnostic texts on Seth, I concluded that no relationship existed between Egyptian Seth and Gnostic Seth."2 He further declares "By the time of the Gnostic literature no Egyptians except magicians worshipped Seth."3
But were there any magicians who were also gnostics? Pearson continues: "Contrary to his earlier good standing, the Egyptian Seth becomes a demonic figure in the late Hellenistic period. It is inconceivable that Egyptian Seth was tied in with a hero of the Gnostic sect."4 However another participant in the International Conference on Gnosticism, Alexander Böhlig, ventures "We must proceed with caution in assessing the independence of the Gnostic Seth."5 Bentley Layton raises "the possibility that there may be present a literary inversion of values in which Egyptian Seth is revalued and thought of as 'true' or Gnostic Seth." 6 Carsten Colpe mentioned "In a single magical papyrus from Egypt a mistaken identification has been made between Egyptian Seth and Jewish Seth."7
What if it wasn't 'mistaken'?
Set has earlier connections with the Canaanite Baal, in which he is a hero. Later, Baal is later subsumed into Yahweh, the Jewish god. And we will see Set's demonization by the Egyptians because he becomes associated with the hated Semites. How did Seth-Baal evolve into Yahweh?
Set was well-established in Egyptian minds as "the divine Foreigner". A Ramesside scarab from Tell el-Far'ah shows Set in the tasseled Canaanite kilt and crown
streamer, as seen in Fig. 87b of Keel and Uehlinger's Gods, Goddesses, and Images of God in Ancient Israel. But probably, Ramesses II most
remarkable addition to the iconography was a stela created that rather changed how Set would be viewed in years to come. Te Velde explains while associations
between the Asiatic Baal and the god Set had been going on for some time,
Te Velde continues, "The inscription shows that Ramses II had this stela erected in commemoration of his ancestors and the father of his forefathers, i.e. Seth. Not Ramses the Second's father king Sethos I, but his great-grandfather Sethos,1) governor of the bordertown Sile, had celebrated a festival in honour of Seth. He had celebrated this on the fourth day of the fourth month of the summer season of the year 400 of the king of Upper and Lower Egypt, Seth, great of strength, son of Re, the Ombite, the chosen of Re-Harakhty. These terms show that in spite of his exotic appearance Seth is not a suspect foreigner, but a real Egyptian. He is king! It is erroneous to set the beginning of the domination by the Hyksos at c. 1730 B.C. on the basis of this stela. There is no reason to suppose that the 19th dynasty took a different attitude than the 18th towards this period of humiliation, and would celebrate its commencement with festivities.
"It might be that Sethos did not celebrate the beginning of the reign of Seth and the domination of the Hyksos, but was celebrating the fact that Seth already ruled before the Hyksos. He goes back 400 years to the time when the cult of Seth had not yet been made suspect and contaminated by the hateful Hyksos. The meaning is clear. If the worship of Seth in his Baalistic form is already at least 400 years old, then it is not a piece of reprehensible modernism. The cult of Seth is not a work of the Hyksos, but goes back to ancient Egyptian traditions. Every Egyptian of proper national thought and feeling can therefore worship Seth in his foreign manifestation without any objection. In the beginning of the Ramesside period there was undoubtedly a strong trend at court and in the army in favour of worshipping Seth in the Asiatic form of his appearance, i.e. as Baal. The kings, who came from a family of Seth priests, will not have been averse to this. With all its appeal to tradition, the setting up of the 400 years stela was an act of reformation. It sanctioned exotic forms of iconography and perhaps of worship, at a time when the frontiers of the Egyptian kingdom were to be sought far in Asia and Africa, and when foreign objects, people and gods were streaming into the country of the Nile. Now the divine stranger appears as a man of foreign features and in foreign clothing. How little the traditional Egyptian state cult was open to foreign influence, is evident from the paradoxical necessity to demonstrate that the divine foreigner had already been known and adored in this form for more than 400 years."9
Marc Van De Mieroop explains this blurring of the line between the foreigner and the Egyptian occurred in other ways, as well:
"'Seth, the lord of the sky; Seth of Hatti; Seth of the city of Arinna; Seth of the city of Zippalanda; Seth of the city of Pitrik; Seth of the city of Hissaspa; Seth of the [city of Hurma]; [Seth of the city of Uda]; Seth of the city of Sa[pinuwa]; [Seth] of thunder (?); Seth of the city of Sahphina.' "The idea that the Egyptian pantheon covered the entire universe was easily preserved."10
"A side effect of the introduction of Syrian gods into the Egyptian pantheon [...] was that some stories about them entered Egyptian literature as well. They were written in the Egyptian language and hieratic script, but were Syrian in origin. A fragmentary papyrus from the reign of Amenhotep II of the Eighteenth Dynasty contains a myth about the goddess Astarte, involving the battle between gods and the sea. The pantheon represented is multicultural. The sea was an important force in Syrian mythology, as was Astarte, who appears in the myth as the daughter of the Egyptian god Ptah. The sea's opponent is the Egyptian god Seth, identified with Syrian Baal. Some scholars regard the composition as a translation of a Syrian myth, but it was clearly adapted to an Egyptian context. Its title reads, 'New copy of what he (Baal=Seth) did for the Ennead (i.e.; the Egyptian gods) in order to vanquish the sea.' Similarly, Egyptian magical papyri contained Syrian spells."11
"Altered in antiquity by the removal of its upright ears and the addition of horns, this statue retains the characteristic drooping snout of the fabulous Seth- animal. The resulting representation has traditionally been ascribed to Khnum, but the god Amun is more likely."12
"The Glyptotek Seth's pose recalls more closely representations of foreign gods as warriors, with right arm raised, and the established relationship between the god Seth and Canaanite gods such as Baal and Reshef may provide clues leading to a better understanding of the figure. Metal statuettes of these deities were produced in the Levant during the Late Bronze Age, beginning around 1500 BC. Based on the observation that such deities, unlike kings, were not shown grasping prisoners, Izak Cornelius replaced the term smiting god, which proceeds from 'smiting pharaoh', with menacing god, and he suggests that the images conceptualize power by virtue of the gods' raised right arms, even if they do not hold a weapon."13 However, in this piece, "The hollow fists offer no evidence of what they carried."14
(From museum info card)
You can see the similarity of pose with the Glyptotek Set/Amun statue. "Not a single image of Baal has been found in Egypt, in which he is not also Seth."15
Izak Cornelius describes this stela, "A winged, barefooted figure stands at the prow of a boat, thrusting downwards with a long spear", wearing an Egyptian nemes headdress. "The figure is identified as Seth by the inscription. He is attacking the serpent Apophis from the barque of Amun-Re. However, the kilt and horns are un-Egyptian and the god can best be described as Ba'al-Seth, ie Ba'al with the head of a bull, but with Seth-like wings." The front part of the barque has "a bird" resting on it. 16
The tasseled kilt is Canaanite in origin. Seti I's tomb has an example, among other ethnic groups, "They include, left to right: Mizraim, ruddy-skinned Egyptians; Canaan, bearded Canaanites; and", [via Lepsius], "Cush, swarthy Nubians; and Put, richly-robed Libyans."17
Lepsius' original color illustration, which I adapted to B/W, shows the Canaanite with red hair and a brightly colored striped and tasseled kilt. The Egyptian kilt is plain by comparison.
Keel and Uehliner explain, "The incised depiction of a god who holds a great lance over his head with both hands, ... should be interpreted as a figure that combines the Canaanite Baal (who defeats the sea serpent litanu /Leviathan) and the Egyptian Seth (who conquers the Apophis serpent[...]The same Baal-Seth, this time furnished with wings (in the Egyptian style) and armed with a lance, overpowers the horned snake on a Ramesside level scarab from Tell el-Far'ah (south)(illus. 87b). By means of the combination of Baal and Seth as serpent conquerors, the serpent, an Egyptian symbol of the danger in the dark of night and a Canaanite symbol of the stormy sea, became a symbol of danger in general. The god who could defeat such a creature is treated as a savior, pure and simple."18
Here we clearly have a hero. So what happened?
In the Saite and Persian times, Set's reputation takes a terrible downturn. He was "identified with the Greek giant Typhon, enemy of Zeus; the rebellion of the Titans against Zeus formed an obvious Greek analogy to the rebellion of Seth and his confederates against Osiris. Seth-Typhon was the god of foreigners, and the demonizing of the Seth cult occurred parallel with an increasing Egyptian hatred of foreigners. Egyptian hatred of foreigners is well documented in classical sources of this same period. Invasions of Egypt by Assyria, Babylonia and Persia, often using Greek, Jewish and other foreign mercenaries, led to a new Egyptian xenophobia that started in the Saite period and grew progressively worse throughout the Persian period."19 A footnote in Russell Gmirkin's book declares "A Jewish temple existed at Elephantine before Cambyses' conquest (…) and Egyptians may have already equated the Jewish god Yahweh worshipped there with Seth, god of foreigners."20
The falcon faced Set is a transition to a new kind of falcon-faced avenger. A stele at the Walters Art Museum shows the familiar stabbing pose, but instead of the Apep, look who is the target of the spear!
Notice the felled man's face, and the thick beard. We recall the illustration in Seti I's tomb of the four races, and it is the bearded Canaanite (aka 'Semite') that is the target.
In addition to the Jewish mercenaries' loyalty to the hated Persians, another thing drew Egyptian ire. "A major factor in identifying Jews as Typhonians was undoubtedly the Jewish sacrifice of animals sacred to the Egyptians such as the ram, sacred to Ammon, and the bull, sacred to Osiris. According to the Persian- era Ritual for the Expulsion of Seth and his Confederates, the followers of Seth deliberately slaughtered all the animals sacred to the Egyptians."21 To add further insult, "While many Egyptian temples were destroyed under Cambyses, the Jewish temple at Elephantine was spared."22
To further compound matters, when the Ptolemaic Greeks took power in Egypt, they adopted all the anti-Set attitudes. "Among the other deeds of Ptolemy V celebrated in the Rosetta Stone, the suppression of a revolt at Lycopolis in the nome of Busiris appeared prominently. As Polybius recorded, the native uprising was extinguished with exceptional brutality. Ptolemy was described as putting down this rebellion in the same manner as Horus anciently defeated his profane enemies (i.e. Seth and his confederates) in the very same locale."23
Okay, that's what the Egyptians thought of Set then. But what about those Semites? If the Jews' origins derive from the Canaanites, then what are their feelings about Set? How did they evolve? "Sethianism is now the earliest gnostic movement for which we possess a great deal of textual evidence, apparently antedating and forming a partial source for another equally well-documented form of Gnosticism, the Christian school of Valentinus (120- 160 CE) and his followers." 24
So Sethian Gnostics are the earliest of the lot. Of particular interest is Nag Hammadi, the location in which the earthenware jar was placed which held the Gnostic papyri. Nag Hammadi is a city in Upper Egypt. Nag Hammadi was known as Chenoboskion in Greek. The capitol of Nag Hammadi "was for a few brief periods [...] a capital of Upper Egypt - of the Sa'id."25 That capital was "on the western bank of the river; but it was the neighborhood around Chenoboskion on the eastern bank which became more particularly famous at about the epoch to which our papyri belong. Its celebrity is linked with the most ancient traditions of Christian monasticism. The Coptic name for the little town was Shenesit - the latest form of an Egyptian name which would signify 'the acacias of (the god) Seth'"26, putting the location in connection with our Egyptian Set.
Of course, Doresse asserts that this "was by chance alone".27
Note elsewhere in the book he says "The god with the head of an ass is the image of the Demiurge Ialdabaôth, the "god of the Jews"… It is upon certain monuments of Egypt that we find the most ancient proofs of the attribution of a donkey's head to a god, who was to become progressively identified with the god of the Jews. This originated from the Asiatic god Sutekh, whom the Egyptians assimilated to one of their greatest gods; Seth, the adversary of Osiris. They represented Seth also…with a human body and an ass's head. Afterwards…Seth was definitely regarded by the Egyptians…as the father of the legendary heroes Hierosolymus and Judaeus—that is, as an ancestor of the Jews!"28
Yet, the location at 'the acacias of Set' is just 'chance'. I don't think so.
Seti I's tomb is one of the earliest instances in which Set has the donkey's head. The glyphs above him clearly identify him, on the left as a donkey and twice on the right with the classic canine head. So what happened to the evolutionary route of Set, son of Nut and Geb; and Seth, son of Adamas as seen in the Gnostic papyri?
Can a couple of first century CE historians be considered good sources? Jan Assman gives Tacitus' account of Jewish habits, "In their temples they consecrate a statue of a donkey and sacrifice a ram 'in order to ridicule the god Amun' (in contumeliam Ammonis)."29 Further, "The strange and particularly absurd motif of the god of the Jews being represented in the statue of an ass finds its explanation in Plutarch, who tells the story in a completely mythologized form. The god Seth, the murderer of Osiris, is driven out of Egypt and spends seven days fleeing into Palestine. There he fathers two sons, who he calls Hierosolyma and Juda. Seth is usually associated with the donkey in Egyptian mythology. In Greco-Egyptian texts, the god Iao - the Greek rendering of the Hebrew Tetragrammaton - is equated with Seth and the ass because the name - obviously onomatopoietic - sounded like the Egyptian word for ass."30
How much of Plutarch's and Tacitus accounts are tainted with anti-Semeticism? If the Jews were indeed mocking the Egyptian gods, this could encourage antagonism as a response. Perhaps as a result, Set became associated with the troublesome Greek Typhon. Yet various magical papryi do invoke Set- Typhon, to some noble purposes and to some rather nefarious. Set-Typhon may or may not be part of the Gnostic papyri. Of Sutekh, TeVelde declares. "The suggested distinction between an Egyptian god Seth and a non-Egyptian god Sutekh, supposed to have been absorbed into Seth,3) has now been abandoned.4)"31
But of Set/Sutekh, in his most ancient manifestations, does he move and appear in the Gnostic papyri? It is interesting that nothing older than the New Kingdom's reign of Thutmose I has been found at Set's temple in Naqada. Were any such artifacts destroyed because they didn't fit with Egyptian cosmology?
As everything seems so mixed up in the Gnostic and magical papyri, perhaps the best way to determine who's who is by their roles and descriptions. For instance, in the First Stele of Seth, Seth is addressing his father, "thou art my mind, O my Father,"32 which is placing a very close identification there. Perhaps Jewish Seth derives from Egyptian Set as son derives from father? He calls his father "Thrice Male"33. Why would he refer to him in that way? As we know, Set's masculinity is very much part of his character. In the contendings with Horus, it is his testicles which get injured and which Thoth repairs. Furthermore, one of Set's titles is 'Bull of Ombos'. Several scholars have proposed the origins of the Was scepter (which bears Set's head at its top) as being based on the penis of a wild bull. This animal would have been the largest and most powerful creature the Egyptians had seen, possessing a penis "well over one meter in length." 34
That's not all! Gordon and Schwabe point a reason why the donkey came to be associated with the god Set, for "the ass has a disproportionately large penis, which is shaped very much like that of man. […]Note, too that 'donkey' is written [] in the Ebers Papyrus (Ebers, 1889:7)"35
So, we have as important to Set's iconography, his testicles, his scepter based on a bull's penis, and the disproportionately large donkey member! Sounds like 'Thrice Male' to me!
What about Doresse's reference to "Ialdabaôth, the 'god of the Jews'"? Francis Legge explains, "This Ialdabaoth or Jaldabaoth appears in the systems or heresies of the Nicolaitans and of those whom Epiphanius calls 'Gnostics'"36 "Irenaeus and Hippolytus are agreed that the first or immediate son of Sophia was called Ialdabaoth, a name which Origen says, in speaking of the Ophites, is taken from the art of magic, and which surely enough appears in nearly all the earlier Magic Papyri. Hippolytus says that this Ialdabaoth was the Demiurge and father of the visible universe or phenomenal world. Irenaeus also gives the names of the later 'heavens, virtues, powers, angels, and builders' as being respectively Iao, Sabaoth, Adonai, Eloaeus, Oreus, and Astaphaeus or Astanpheus, which agrees with the Ophite document or Diagram to be presently mentioned. The first four of these names are too evidently the names given in the Old Testament to Yahweh for us to doubt the assertion of the Fathers that by Ialdabaoth the Ophites meant the God of the Jews."37
Apparently, several gods were associated with Ialdabaoth. Doress says, "Another god besides Osiris has been compared to Ialdabaôth, a red agate of the Roman period found at Memphis invokes, in Greek, the Egyptian god of Leontopolis - Mahes the lion-faced - the terms reminiscent enough of our monstrous demiurge: 'Here my prayer, thou who dwellest in Leontopolis, installed in the holy sanctuary, darting the lightnings and thundering, lord of the Darkness and the winds, in whose hand lies the celestial fate of eternal nature ...thou, god most glorious of leonine form!'"38
Of lightning, thunder and darkness, does he not sound much more like the Egyptian god Set?
Doresse shows the process of demonization: "the part played by Samael-Ialdabaoth, who, having at first been the highest of the 'thrones', afterwards falls from his dignity and is cast into the abyss. Thus he becomes the 'prince of this world' - of the world here below; thus, also, he engages in battle against the Lord (who is now Sabaoth) in the firmament."39 Francis Fallon elaborates, "Scholem proposed that Ialdabaoth derives from two terms: the Aramaic active participle yaled meaning "to beget" and the personal name Abaoth which originated as an abridged form or substitute of Sabaoth and which was used in magical circles. Ialdabaoth then is the secret name of Samael and means 'the begetter of [S]abaoth' or 'the begetter of Abaoth.' The name for Scholem is probably connected with the fact that Ialdabaoth creates six or seven powers in the gnostic sources."40 Furthermore, "the figure known ultimately as Samael/Saklas/Ialdabaoth is here associated with origin from chaos"41
"In NatArch, Sabaoth is presented as a figure less than the high God who is against Satan (Ialdabaoth) from primordial time"42 ("NatArch" is an abbreviation for 'The Nature of the Archons', a document from the Nag Hammadi corpus.) Here begins the battle between the entity of 'light' and the entity of 'darkness'.
Yet the Gospel of Phillip says "Light and Darkness, life and death, right and left, are brothers of one another. They are inseparable. Because of this neither are the good good, nor evil evil, nor is life life, nor death death. For this reason each one will dissolve into its earliest origin. But those who are exalted above the world are indissoluble, eternal."43
Let's return to IAO and Set. Fossum and Glazer quote Pearson, "'There is one possible occurrence in a Coptic curse-manuscript now in Berlin, where the only-begotten Son of God is called 'Seth, Seth, the living Christ' (col. i.9), but later, in a series of magic names, 'Iao Iao Seth Seth' (ii.l) may reflect the identification, Iao = Seth-Typhon.'" 44 "His argument is as follows. Since Iaõ can be identified with Seth-Typhon in the Greek magical texts, the phrase, 'Seth Seth the Living Christ', as well as, 'Iaõ Iaõ Seth Seth', within one and the same magical text may be taken to mean that Seth in the former as well as the latter phrase indicates the Egyptian deity."45 Fossum and Glazer go on, "The question for us, however, is whether the Coptic magical text cited above witnesses to a welding of Seth-Typhon and Christ.
"Iaõ, a Greek form of the name of the Biblical God, Yahweh (above, Arbathiaõ), is associated and even equated with many deities in the magical texts. The conjuration in PGM IV.3019-3024 begins, 'I conjure you by the god of the Hebrews, Jesus, Iaba Iae...' Just before the conjuration, we are informed that the phylactery should include, inter alia, the names, Iaeo, Iaõ, Iaeõ. It is clear that Jesus is here identified with the Jewish God, whose proper name is rendered by various Greek forms."46
Doresse asserts, "we shall find later some curious traces of a cult of this Seth-Typhon presiding over Judeo-Gnostic rituals in which Adam plays the leading part. That this cult came to be actually codified is attested by the existence of Egyptian figurines of the god Seth, cast in bronze, which are perfectly appropriate to it. The most significant represent the god walking with the hieratic gait, his body girt with a loin-cloth and surmounted by a head which has not, now, the muzzle of the mythic 'Sethian' animal commonly assigned to Seth in the Pharaonic tradition, but the ass's head much more rarely met with. There is no doubt about the identification of the god worshipped in this guise, as one of the great figures of Gnosticism: the pedestal is engraved with the name Aberamenthõ, which denoted Jesus."47
Fossum and Glazer refer to a "phrase repeated three times in the untitled treatise (Book IV) at the end of Codex Askewianus, 'Jesus who is Aberamenthõ'"48 and notes "that Aberamenthõ is a name of Seth-Typhon in a spell in the Demotic Leiden Papyrus"49. But they still do not think there is a connection ever such that Aberamenthõ=Set-Typhon=Christ. They think rather that Aberamenthõ is connected with the Egyptian god Thoth. Aberamenthõ comes from a Hebrew phrase which means "'power of waters' and the Greek version of the name of the Egyptian god Thoth. From the XXVIth Dynasty onwards, Thot was seen as the god bringing forth and exercising power over the waters of the Nile. In Greco-Roman times, Thoth was also identified with Hermes, the messenger and spokesman of the gods. As the 'Lord of the Holy Words', Thoth-Hermes knew the formulas by which the cosmic powers could be controlled." 50 Fossum and Glazer conclude "that Jesus Aberamenthõ in the unnamed tractate in Codex Askewianus is assimilated to Thoth-Hermes: he is the Lord of the waters and the formulas controlling the cosmic powers."51
But let's take a look at Set's name as it is written in Egyptian hieroglyphs to see the older connection with 'power of waters'. This is the most usual way Set's name is written, found like this in most of the pyramids and as we've seen earlier, in Seti I's tomb.
The rectangular glyph has a 'sh' sound. Richard Wilkinson describes its variations. "The hieroglyphic sign used to denote a lake, pool, or other body of water may be written as a simple rectangle (N37), a rectangle with added lines to indicate the sloping sides of the pool (N38), or - most frequently - a rectangle crossed by vertical wave lines indicating water (N39[])".52 He continues, "As in the myths of many of the cultures of the ancient world, water was the primeval matter from which the Egyptian believed all things arose; and the pool could thus signify the primeval waters of the First Time. The divine cow (E4) Hesat or Mekhweret (meaning 'Great Flood') is thus frequently depicted sitting on the pool hieroglyph to represent the original watery chaos from which all life emerged." 53 Could the use of the glyph suggest an 'origin from chaos'? The half-circle has a 't' sound and represents a loaf of bread. The other glyph is given the 's' sound when used for its pronunciation value. By itself, it is "Seneb", which means "health". It is said to be a 'folded bolt of cloth', but what if if represents a hook, cord or rope?
Above is a detail from a fragment at the Brooklyn Museum. Here, the hand is holding this symbol, along with an ankh. Possibly, it is the 'seneb' symbol, as a cord or rope.
Consider the Bible verse Ecclesiastes 11:1: "Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days"54 The Phrase Finder website gives its meaning as found in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable, "When the Nile overflows its banks the weeds perish and the soil is disintegrated. The rice-seed being cast into the water takes root, and is found in due time growing in healthful vigour."55
Could the glyph combination in Set's name be suggesting casting and retrieving of seed for bread? If this is too much of a stretch, at least consider Set's 'power of water' in the storms with which he is associated. The deluge of the storm would be the power of the waters asserting itself on its most dynamic level.
Now we'll change the subject abruptly and discuss the seeds of what eventually became Christianity. The Book of Enoch was written during the second century B.C.E. and holds the origins of many tenets of monotheistic thought. We have seen already the enmity between Sabaoth and Ialdabaoth, now regarded as 'Satan'. It gets worse. From Chapter LXV of the Book of Enoch, we read:
"6. And a command has gone forth from the presence of the Lord concerning those who dwell on the earth that their ruin is accomplished because they have learnt all the secrets of the angels, and all the violence of the Satans, and all their powers--the most secret ones--and all the power of those who practice sorcery, and the power of witchcraft, and the power of those who make molten images for the whole earth: 7. And how silver is produced from the dust of the earth, and how soft metal originates in the earth. 8. For lead and tin are not produced from the earth like the first: it is a fountain that produces them, and an angel stands therein, and that angel is pre-eminent.' 9. And after that my grandfather Enoch took hold of me by my hand and raised me up, and said unto me: 'Go, for I have asked the Lord of Spirits as touching this commotion on the earth. 10. And He said unto me: "Because of their unrighteousness their judgement has been determined upon and shall not be withheld by Me for ever. Because of the sorceries which they have searched out and learnt, the earth and those who dwell upon it shall be destroyed." 11. And these--they have no place of repentance for ever, because they have shown them what was hidden, and they are the damned: but as for thee, my son, the Lord of Spirits knows that thou art pure, and guiltless of this reproach concerning the secrets."56
Here we see the beginning of the trend against magicians, as expressed in the words 'sorcery' and 'witchcraft'. There's another religious idea which comes into being, the separation of people into 'right' and 'left': In the Sabaoth account in 'Natarch', there is the Separation into Right and Left. The translation of one phrase reads, "the left has come to represent [...] the unrighteousness [...] of the realm of absolute power." Fallon explains "In the OT the distinction between right and left can also indicate positive and negative value, as in Eccl 10:2 ('A wise man's heart inclines him towards the right, but a fool's heart toward the left') [...] Here the right side represents Israel and the left side represents the heathen..." 57
I am reminded of the modern distinction between 'Right Hand Path' and 'Left Hand Path', the defining characteristics being RHP: 'Thy Will be done' vs LHP: 'My Will be done'. To direct oneself externally is to divorce oneself from the source of one's magical power, which is of course what authoritarian monotheistic religions want you to do. Our magical efforts are only going to be as powerful as our Will is. For if the Will does not direct, the Mind, Intuition and body cannot follow. If our own Will is not in charge, we are externally directed, 'good little sheep' so to speak. There's also the human-denigrating idea that left to one's own will, one would automatically choose what the ancient Egyptians call Isfet, or basically unethical actions that are harmful and unjust. But if you think of humankind as innately wretched sinners, that's what you think.
And that's what some were beginning to think in the second century B.C.E. Chapter LXXXI of the Book of Enoch declares, "no flesh is righteous in the sight of the Lord."58
From there, it is a short step to the fourth century Augustinian concept of "total depravity", which Jack Cottrell, professor of Theology at Cincinatti Christian University, defines: "The main point of total depravity is that all aspects of every person's being are corrupted as a result of the sin of Adam. This includes all of one's intellectual or reasoning abilities. Each individual is thus born with an inherent inability to properly understand spiritual matters, including Scripture. Only the divine intervention of the Holy Spirit can restore one's depraved mind."59
This is in contrast to another idea which came about during the same time as Augustine, Pelagianism. "Augustianism, or Calvanism, says that man is totally depraved and can do no good at all by himself and apart from the irresistable work of the Holy Spirit. Pelagianism, on the other hand, says that man is not depraved at all, neither totally nor partially. Rather, he is born perfectly good and can, with equal ability, choose the good or bad. As a matter of fact, some are even sinless. Thus, according to Pelagianism, there is no need for the Holy Spirit or his irresistable grace to help man to do good. Such teaching is thoroughly pagan, and the Christian church soundly rejected it at the Synod of Cartharge."60
Meanwhile, let's go to another theme of monotheistic religions, that of judgment. Enoch's Admonition to his Children in Chapter XCI of the Book of Enoch declares:
Because that is the monotheistic way, if you ain't doing it our way, you will pay and pay utterly!
Certainly, as orthodox Christianity began to cohere its beliefs, most of the Gnostic papyri didn't make it into accepted Biblical cannon. Let's take another look at some of their passages.
Here are the words of The Second Stele of Seth, translated by James R. Robinson:
To have this "empowered divinity in living", it is necessary to recognize that which is divine is "That One Hidden in the heart." There isn't a huge gulf between 'almighty god' and 'depraved' humanity.
Furthermore, from the Gospel of Thomas:
He repeats this point further on in the Gospel of Thomas:
He is consistently saying you will derive the gnosis from within yourself, not from external sources.
Did any of this survive into the accepted Biblical canon?
Let's first look at Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem on a donkey, which is celebrated on Palm Sunday. It is an event mentioned in all four canonical Gospels. It is foreshadowed in Zechariah 9:9:
With our study so far, we can understand what the implications are. Set-Baal, as personified by the donkey, is carrying the king.
In chapter twenty-one of Matthew, Jesus asks his disciples, "Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me. 3 If anyone says anything to you, say that the Lord needs them, and he will send them right away."66 As he rides the donkey, he fulfills the prophecy. The old religion has given support to the new. Now Jesus emerges triumphant.
Before this triumphant entry, Jesus is tested in the wilderness. The "devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9 'All this I will give you,' he said, 'if you will bow down and worship me.'"67
We now know the origins of this. Ialdabaôth, 'god of the Jews', as 'father of the visible universe' and 'prince of this world', 'engages in battle against the Lord'.
Meanwhile, there is a remnant of the Gnostic understanding in the New Testament. The New International Version of the Bible does not keep to the Gnostic wording:
However, the King James Version retains the "within you" phrasing:
So there is a little seed for the deep thinker to ponder where its meaning could lead.
Perhaps more Christians these days are coming to the more hopeful "Pelagiastic" view. Pelagius taught:
"We can never end upon the path of virtue unless we have hope as our guide". If we do not comprehend humankind's capacity to evolve, powered by accessing what is divine within us, any good that we manage to accomplish has been done only under the most grievous hardship.
As we have examined the path of Egyptian Set, Gnostic Seth and beyond, we have seen how later religions came into being. They didn't spontaneously arise fully formed, but gradually developed, appropriating elements from ancient religious iconography and practice.
1. Birger A. Pearson, "The Figure of Seth in Gnostic Literature", in The Rediscovery of Gnosticism: Proceedings of the International Conference on Gnosticism at
Yale, Vol. 1, edited by Bentley Layton, (Brill 1981), 504.
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Reaction: People respond to biker proposal that stoped traffic on 10 Freeway
WEST COVINA - Despite a public wedding proposal that stopped traffic on the 10 Freeway and was later posted to YouTube, the man responsible has yet to show his face to the California Highway Patrol.
It has been about five days since the man orchestrated the gridlock inducing wedding proposal where he and more than 100 fellow bikers shut down the 10 Freeway in West Covina.
Since then, he has gained more than fame on the internet and local media attention. California Highway Patrol officials have also been looking for the man, who has yet to turn himself over to authorities despite his own indications he would.
Officials said Friday that the motorcyclist had neither been arrested, nor turned himself in.
The motorcyclists brought all traffic lanes to a halt on Sunday and blocked an offramp for the proposal, as some bikers popped wheelies and turned donuts to celebrate.
CHP offiicials continue to work with the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office to determine how to proceed with any potential prosecution.
In addition to numerous traffic violations observed in the YouTube videos, officers are also investigating the incident as conspiracy to commit a crime, which can be prosecuted as a felony.
The CHP and Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office planned to prosecute the case to the "fullest extent" of the law, Stormes added.
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New Report Shows 1 in 5 Teen Births are Repeat Births
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released a report that shows despite a falling teen birth rate for all age and ethnic groups, nearly one in five births to teen mothers ages 15 to 19, is a repeat birth. Oklahoma is one of eight states with a repeat teen birth rate of over 20 percent, which is higher than the national rate of 18.3 percent, according to the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH).
Oklahoma also has a high teen birth rate for first-time moms, which is fifth highest nationally for girls ages 15 to 19. Teen childbearing in Oklahoma costs taxpayers an estimated $190 million annually and can carry high social, emotional, health, and financial costs throughout the life course for both teen mothers and children.
These statistics help drive the reason why states and communities across the U.S. observe May's Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month and the National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy on May 1. These observances help raise awareness about how to talk to teens about making responsible decisions, and to encourage discussions on how to prevent unintentional pregnancies. Local teen pregnancy prevention initiatives give this type of support to communities throughout Oklahoma. On May 1, teens nationwide can visit Stayteen.org to participate in the National Day quiz that delivers prevention messages. The quiz challenges teens to think about what they would do in different situations.
The OSDH Child and Adolescent Health Division supports awareness events for Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month. "Clearly, there is a need in Oklahoma to address teen birth rates, including repeat births," said Ann Benson, director. "Pregnancies during teen years can change the lives and futures of the mother, child, and family. Early pregnancy can affect education and job opportunities. Babies born as the result of a repeat pregnancy may also be born too small or too soon. All of these are reasons to stress prevention to youth and equip those that work with youth to be able to deliver effective teen pregnancy prevention messages."
Statewide, several communities have teen pregnancy prevention projects in place through their local county health departments to address these important issues. Oklahomans should contact their local county health departments for a listing of events scheduled during May for Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month and theNational Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy on May 1. For information about teen pregnancy prevention programs in Oklahoma contact the OSDH Child and Adolescent Division at (405) 271-4471.
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Gucci Mane Freed From Jail
Pop the champagne! Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane was released from Fulton County jail on July 8, after serving two-and-half months for violating his probation for a 2005 arrest. Although he was originally sentenced to five months in jail, his release comes just under three months after being locked up.
Gucci, whose real name is Radrick Davis, walked out of the correction facility at 4:30AM ET. He went to his Twitter page to make his formal announcement of his freedom. "I'm back b—h, Gucci back b—h did u miss me or miss my raps b—h," he tweeted.
Now a free man, Gucci plans to celebrate with a big party at Club Fathom in Chattanooga, Tenn., tonight (July 8). "Chattanooga TN get ready I will be there 2nite at Club Fathom, f—k what u heard," he later tweeted.
The Brick Squad member's release comes just days after he dropped his new mixtape 'Writing on the Wall 2,' which is hosted by DJ Holiday. The collection features guest appearances from 50 Cent, Jagged Edge, Young Buck and Yelawolf.
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The Victorian government is planning a big push into South-East Asia to broaden ties in the region as the federal government prepares to announce initiatives on Sunday in its long-awaited Asian century white paper.
Mr Baillieu will visit Indonesia next year, ahead of a super trade mission to neighbouring countries, and the government is exploring establishing a sister-state relationship with an Indonesian province.
Since the government came to office, Victoria has conducted the largest Australian trade missions to China and India and developed comprehensive long-term strategies to guide the state's international relationships, including a five-year China engagement strategy and a targeted $8 million China tourism strategy.
Additional strategies for India and international education will be published in the next few months.
Mr Baillieu is expected to argue Victoria is opening offices in Asia as other states are closing them. It has a presence in western China in Chengdu and a new office in Mumbai in India, as well as the planned Jakarta outlet.
He says his government aims to ensure that Victoria has the country's most Asia-capable work force through initiatives including compulsory Chinese-language classes for all government school students by 2025, scholarships for intensive Chinese study in China and curriculum changes to encourage Chinese language study through to the final year of high school.
While the Victorian government says the initiatives have been under way despite the white paper, analysts say they illustrate how the white paper process has generated a broader debate about Asian engagement.
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Article by Derrick Oliver-Dewan
There is no one quite like Padraig Parkinson. A poker pioneer in Ireland, where the Poker Gods keep Irish eyes smiling, Parkinson was an outspoken proponent of the game before it, the game, exploded onto the worldwide stage. He was there long before Moneymaker. Witty, sarcastic and likeable to a fault, Parkinson has the rare ability to blend humor with his astonishing natural talents at the poker table, a wicked combination when the cards are running good. Oh, what a world champion he would have been.
"Thanks for reminding me," he joked during our interview on High Roller Radio after being asked if he ever thinks about what could have been. A man of his stature a world champion? A man with his gifted speaking abilities? "I didn't know it at the time but it would have been worth millions to be now. I was just playing for the money back then and third was good."
It was 1999 and the World Series of Poker, for years a stomping ground for Las Vegas pros or American businessmen with deep pockets and a fascination for cards, was about to experience something new; an invasion of Irish professionals, who had been crafting their trade since the inception of the Irish Open in 1980. Opponents may have been 'Green' with envy, pun intended, as the Shamrock descended upon Binion's like a sea of lily pads. Novelist James Joyce could not have written a better script that year. Mickey Finn finished 14th, George McKeever was 7th, bubbling the final table. Back then only six qualified, and Parkinson's mate Noel Furlong, who already had main event final table experience under his belt, won the world championship. Parkinson was third. The 'Skill' of the Irish, you might say.
Along with his main event showing, Parkinson also captured the inaugural television series Late Night Poker, which drew huge audiences in the United Kingdom and gave him maximum exposure. Among his many wins are the Irish Poker Championships in 2009 making him the first PokerStars UKIPT champion and $125,000 richer. Most recently, Parkinson pocketed another $77,000 for winning the €5,000 re-entry Omaha Cup.
We first met in at the lobby of Hilton Metropole at the EPT London following a PokerStars VIP party at a fancy nightclub. I was there representing Poker Pro magazine and introduced myself. It wasn't long before we discovered we had a mutual friend in fellow Irish pro Don Fagan. Don had taken me under his wing in 2007 at the World Heads-Up Poker Championships in Barcelona, Spain. I was lucky enough to win a 242 runner online satellite into the tournament on 888, Pacific Poker back then, and was excited about the opportunity to win more than a million dollars. Although I didn't make it past the first round, Fagan, a long-time chum of Parkinson's, made the 10-day stay an experience of a lifetime and because he made the semi-finals I was treated to some fine poker in the process.
Parkinson, like many an Irish poker player, is known to imbibe and that's what he and I did until the wee hours of the morning when hotel staff kindly suggested we exit the lobby because the they were starting to see its flow of regular morning traffic. Parkinson regaled me with stories from poker games past and was thoroughly entertaining in doing so. It was a great night in London.
It wasn't until a few later we spoke again, on the phone, while he was in Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker. The interview lasted about half an hour and I was thrilled to speak to a man with such great poker talents. He was hilarious too!
"There was a cash game going the other day," he started, a legend of poker telling me a story and, yes, I was absolutely thrilled. "You know this battle between the kids and the old guys? I think the young guys resent the old guys more than the old guys resent the young guys. Just because the money today wasn't around in our day doesn't me we should resent them. The money's still there if you're playing well enough. The kids think most of the old guys can't play and the old guys think most of the kids are assholes! Don't get me wrong, some of the young kids are really, really nice, and you can have a great laugh with them, but many of them are just too young to understand – life, let alone poker. The 20 year olds' have a big thing coming when they get to 30 and realize they've wasted the best years of their life looking at themselves in the mirror instead of chasing girls and doin' the stuff you're supposed to be doin'."
Padraig's earned the right to make such statements of course; his star power has earned him sponsorship dollars with 888, one of the biggest online poker sites in the world, and broadcasting gigs to commentate on poker television shows alongside Jesse May. His blog is super popular and he's become a true character of the game. He is an outspoken advocate of banning sunglasses and head-phones at the poker table and would like to see a shot clock introduced.
"Anyway, there was a bit of a needle going between an old guy and a young guy in this game. The old guy eventually played a hand like shit and beat the kid out of a pot. The young guy didn't like it and started going at the old guy, telling him how bad he played the hand. The old guy said, 'kid, I've been playing poker since you were in diapers.' The kid was great, he just said back to him right away, 'and I'll be playing poker when you're back in diapers.' I thought that was beautiful."
I think Padraig Parkinson is beautiful!
Editors Note: Derrick Oliver-Dewan is a broadcast veteran with 18 years experience in radio and television and the founder of www.highrollerradio.net and the High Roller Radio Poker Blog. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com


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I'm 46yo, 5'10", 190lb.
Before I started eliminating grains I was exercising well for two months (did not know about PB but came fairly close to it on my own). Since my metabolism was good I had no trouble cutting carbs.
On my vacation I've torn an ACL in my left knee. At the moment I'm only doing some therapy three times a day and my surgery is on April 7th. After that it'll be at least a month before I'll get any good exercise again.
My metabolism is down and I have more carb cravings and more mental fog then before.
Do you have any suggestions for my recovery period? I'm interested in both eating and exercise ideas.


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I am writing in support of the Buddy Program in hope that people will realize the value of mentoring. For over five years, I have participated in the School-based mentoring program where adult volunteers from the community mentor students in the school setting during the school day, for one hour a week, throughout the academic year. I got involved because I wanted to be a consistent positive influence in the life of a young person.
Over the past five years, I have experienced firsthand the positive impacts I have had on the life of my "little buddy." We play games, I help him with his homework and reading but mostly, I am someone for him to talk to; I set an example to follow and provide guidance. As a result, I have watched him grow into a wonderful young person.
Mentoring has significant effects on the likelihood that a younger person will avoid negative behaviors and participate successfully in school and community life. I encourage anyone looking to make a difference in the life of a child to volunteer with the Buddy Program. Learn about yourself, learn about someone else, become a better friend, parent and person. Mentoring is a powerful way for young people to develop competence and character and plays an important role in a child's life. There is no greater gift than the gift of time. Call the Buddy Program at 970 920-2130 or visit them at buddyprogram.org to discover more about volunteering.
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It was on this day 20 years ago that Nancy Kerrigan's life and skating career were changed forever. Nancy was leaving a practice session at the rink when she was assaulted by rival, Tonya Harding's ex husband's friend. Kerrigan had been preparing for the national championships and Winter Olympics prior to the assault.
The man hit Kerrigan in the knee with a police baton, injuring her and preventing her from competing at her normal level. Tonya Harding ended up winning the national championships and claimed that she had no knowledge of the attack and was not involved in her ex's plans to injure Kerrigan.
Both Kerrigan and Harding went on to compete in the Winter Olympics. Although Kerrigan's knee was not completely healed and still bruised, she ended up taking home a silver medal. Harding took home an unimpressive eighth place and a ruined reputation. After the excitement of the Olympics ended, Harding continued to spiral downward and lost most of her fans as a result of the attack.
To this day, many people think of Tonya Harding as a jealous monster who hired someone to take out her competition. Kerrigan however, says that she tries to put the assault behind her.
"I really don't look back unless someone asks me to look back, and then I have to," Kerrigan said. "Otherwise, why would I? I was attacked."
Harding also prefers not to look back on the past. "It was 20 years ago and I don't remember lots and lots of it," Harding said about the incident. "I know it was a horrible time for everyone involved. It was a bad streak, going through all the crud, and I was able to rise above it. I think Nancy and I have good lives now."
In the end, Harding pleaded guilty to felony hindering of the prosecution and was ordered to pay $160,000 in fines. She also lost her title and was banned from women's figure skating.
Kerrigan now lives in Boston with her husband and kids and has put the 1994 attack far behind her.
Image via Wikimedia Commons.


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christmas ornament Star Trek Klingon bird of prey
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is a Hallmark Keepsake ornament. Klingon bird of prey w/ flickering lights.Ornament plugs easily into any of the lightbulb sockets on a miniature tree light string. Dated es in original box in great condition. Box is a little worn and has some water stains, ornament is mint and wrapped in its protective plastic.Thanks for looking!


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Fire broke out in a Clifton Moor flooring warehouse last night and caused extensive damage to the building.
Investigations are still going on into the cause of the blaze at the home of JS Woodcraft, a fire service spokesman has said.
Firefighters were called at about 3.20am today and found the 10x20m building "well alight".
They got the flames under control using hose reel jets, breathing apparatus and specialist thermal imaging equipment, but not before it caused extensive damage to the mezzanine floor and heavy smoke damage to the warehouse and downstairs area of the building.