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Thanks, Julie, for a thoughtful post.
|Julie Goucher
Name Julie Goucher
Are you a Hobbyist or Professional Genealogist? Hobbyist
What, if any, formal or informal studies have you undertaken that are relevant to genealogical research? I have a Honours Degree in history
How long have you been chasing ancestors? Since 1986
How did you get hooked on genealogy? I was hugely influenced by elderly relatives, three Great Aunts and an elderly cousin who shared so much of their earlier lives that I simply wanted to know more and more and more!
What are your areas of Expertise in Genealogy? I don't know if I am an expert, but I am currently undertaking two one name studies, one of which is for an Italian surname and a one place study.
Please outline your involvement in Genealogy Societies and Groups
I am a member of :
West Surrey Family History Society since 1986
Hampshire Genealogical Society
Sussex Family History Group
Families in British India
Guild of One Name Studies since 2002
I am also a member of the Anglo Italian Family History Society and was one of the founder members and spent the first 4 years or so as the Vice Chair of the Society.
What are the lands of your ancestors? The majority of my maternal line is from the Surrey,Hampshire and Sussex borders. I also have a line in the Midlands and my paternal line is from a rural community in Sicily. I also have lines that migrated to Canada and Australia. There are also link with the East India Company, and a rumour of a paper mill in Russia!
What Family Names are you Researching? Here are a few of them: Butcher, Budd,Goucher,Worship,Orlando,Pim, Elstone,Denyer,Matthews,Jelley, Ellis
Who is your favourite ancestor? Why? My favourite has got to be a chap called Henry Budd who is my 6 x Great Grandfather. Henry has lead me on quite a journey over the last 20 odd years. I eventually found his marriage after 15 years of looking! I then, quite by chance came across a reference to a Henry Budd in the rural village of Shackleford and believe that this is Henry's birth place. Sadly records for that parish have not survived. Henry is believed to have been born circa 1700. He married Martha Ottaway in Chertsey in 1723 and raised his family of 8 children in Puttenham Surrey.
What ancestral city or town would you like to visit? Why? I would love to go back to Australia and follow as much as possible the footsteps of my ancestor Esther Bellasis nee King. Esther's husband was an officer in the East India Company and following a dual in which the other man was killed, George Bridges Bellasis was sentenced to transportation to Botany Bay. Esther accompanied him, although the sentence was overturned. Meanwhile, Esther left in Australia a lovely picture and it is believed the be the earliest piece of artwork by a women in the colony. I would love to be able to explore this line further. Esther was certainly a women, who quite accidentally put herself into the historical light.
What is your favourite resource for genealogy? The internet is a fabulous resource for genealogy, the facilities on line that have developed over the last 20 years or so is wonderful. Not just the indexes, but the transcriptions and document scans on sites such as Ancestry and Find my Past to name just two. Also the interaction with other genealogists, the support, assistance and genuineness is great. The scope of the internet is limited in some ways to our own imagination, it is a great stepping stone to archives and other areas of research, and is another tool we can use as we pursue our ancestors.
Despite that, you can not beat the attendance at a records office, touching and smelling the archives and absorbing the general feel - wonderful!
What genealogy software do you use to record your family tree? I am currently using a rather elderly piece of software - Family Origins 10 but looking at the alternatives. I also use Family Historian.
Do you have your tree posted on the internet? No
What Social Networking Sites do you use for genealogy?
Do you have a blog? Yes
What are your Other Hobbies, Activities, Interests? Reading, Walking, National Trust and Collecting
What is your favourite lesiure time activity apart from genealogy? Reading
What is your personal philosophy in a few words ? Life is for living


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CORNWALL - Two men were killed on Sept. 20, when their Ultra-Lite aircraft crashed in the woods north of Morse Road in Cornwall.
At this time, Vermont State Police have yet to release the names of the two victims from the crash.
A more complete report will be featured in Monday's edition of the Addison Independent.

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Author Notes: Happy Mother's Day friends! I was rummaging through my fridge today and realized how thankful I am for the good foods spring has to offer. This little meal couldn't be simpler, but we can describe it in very complicated ways. Just for fun, we could talk about it as a deconstruction of the classic eggs benedict-- creamy yolk from pastured farm egg mocking hollandaise; meaty succulent artichoke heart easily replacing (both! ha!) the classic tough gone soggy english muffin and boring oversalted canadian bacon; smoked salmon, well, just because it tastes good. Culinary Mother's-Day-meets-spring-coup-d'etat! But this would all be very silly, because its not much of a recipe and more of a cheery spring greeting--a small pile of some of the first lovely things available as the sun starts to dry the soggy muddy earth. Enjoy, I certainly did! —Slow Cooked Pittsburgh
Serves: 1
artichoke heart (or cut a few smaller marinated hearts into lovely small bite pieces)
ounces smoked salmon (or chunk a piece of baked filet)
spring farm egg
spring butter (do your best to find it--we can only get it this time of year!)
salt and pepper, to taste
- Start your stack with the artichoke heart and a drizzle of melted spring butter. Add a few slices of salmon and another drizzle of butter. Immediately place the cooked egg on top with a sprinkle of salt and pepper, serve while good and hot. Some hash browns and orange juice on the side wouldn't hurt one bit.
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I have many opinions about this book. I had a favorite part in this book, but it is very hard to understand. My favorite part is when you read to a new chapter, there are black pages that have some sort of conversation going on between two people. From the way they were talking, they must have been undercover. They could have put the video camera in front of Adam and planned what would he do next. Lianna reminded me of my sister. One minute she?s trying to save you; then next tell you you?re wrong and is quite mean! This book was like none other that I?ve read before. It changes the past and brings people back to life. As I was reading the book, I was wondering if I skipped pages and if there is a sequel! It would answer my questions!
I would recommend this book. You just have to read it right to the end to understand the meanings of some parts. I think teenagers or pre-teens would like this book. What interested me and might interest you is how the genre is mystery and it has a lot of suspense.


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Quick Fact: Varney claims apparently hacked CRU emails suggest that "scientists are fudging data to make their case for global warming"
Fox News' Stuart Varney touted the emails that were apparently stolen from the UK's Climate Research Unit (CRU), claiming the emails suggested that "scientists are fudging data to make their case for global warming." Varney distorted statements from two of the emails and took them out of context to claim that one showed that "evidence isn't really there" for global warming and the other suggested scientists were "deliberately changing the data to suit your way."
From the November 24 broadcast of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto:
VARNEY: Climategate set to break wide open. New developments today involving those hacked emails from Britain suggesting scientists are fudging data to make their case for global warming. Republican Senator James Inhofe is calling for a full investigation. And he joins me now by phone from Oklahoma.
Senator, you've seen these emails at length. Do you believe that the climate scientists are trying to conceal evidence that works against global warming?
VARNEY: Well Senator, I know you've seen the emails, but for the benefit of our viewers who haven't, I'm just going to read brief excerpts from three of them. Here's the first, number one, says, look, "We can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't."
Well that's self explanatory. That's really suggesting that the evidence isn't there. We don't know what's going on with this.
VARNEY: Number three, a little bit more complex, but listen to this. "I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (IE, from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith to hide the decline."
That seems like deliberately changing the data to suit your way.
Fact: Trenberth's email references his article on an "incomplete explanation" of short-term climate variations, which maintained that "global warming is continuing"
In the email [1] in which he wrote, "We can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't," Kevin Trenberth, a climatologist for the National Center for Atmospheric Research, was referring [2] to his article in which, as Wired's Threat Level blog reported, Trenberth discussed how "global warming is continuing, despite random temperature variations that would seem to suggest otherwise." Indeed, his article [3] covered what Trenberth described as an "incomplete explanation" of short-term climate variations, while maintaining "that global warming is unequivocally happening."
Fact: Jones' email Varney read was distorted, "pulled out of context"
As RealClimate.org explained [4], the "trick" that Phil Jones, head of the CRU, referred to in his email [1] referenced a method for making the "context of the recent warming ... clear" and isn't "problematic ... at all." RealClimate.org also explained that Jones' mention of "hiding the decline" refers to a method that is "completely appropriate." RealClimate.org wrote that Jones' email would be an "example" of "cherry-picked and poorly-worded 'gotcha' phrases" that would be "pulled out of context."
Fact: NASA scientist: Emails do not show that "global warming is a hoax"
NASA's Gavin Schmidt: Critics "are using language used in science and interpreting it in a completely different way." Wired's Threat Level blog reported [5] on November 20 that Gavin Schmidt [6], a climate scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said: "There's nothing in the e-mails that shows that global warming is a hoax. ... There's no funding by nefarious groups. There's no politics in any of these things; nobody from the [United Nations] telling people what to do. There's nothing hidden, no manipulation. It's just scientists talking about science, and they're talking relatively openly as people in private e-mails generally are freer with their thoughts than they would be in a public forum. The few quotes that are being pulled out [are out] of context. People are using language used in science and interpreting it in a completely different way." Schmidt is a contributor to the Real Climate blog, which has stated [4] that some of the stolen CRU emails "involve people" at Real Climate.
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Well, as you know this morning we're going to address the subject of gambling, the seductive dream. I feel a little bit more like an investigative reporter than a Bible teacher, this morning. This may sound a little bit more like a 20-20 television documentary than a sermon. And I don't very often do this, but I want to share with you something of the scene and how gambling fits into our culture today so that we have some grasp of the importance of understanding what the Word of God has to say which can be applied to this very, very important issue.
America is on a gambling binge. It is the new invisible addiction assaulting millions of people in our country and around the world. The Lottery has become the number one American fantasy. Estimates of the total amount wagered are very difficult to come to. It's hard to be exactly accurate. We do know that there is about 500 billion dollars wagered every year legally in America and estimates up to one trillion dollars totally when you add the illegal gambling. The best statistics indicate that there are about ten million compulsive gamblers, and that's more than the number of alcoholics. America is fast becoming the land of gamblers and not only legal gambling but illegal gambling makes the actual effect and impact of this thing almost incalculable.
Lest you think that's something new, it isn't. We like to look back at the foundations of our country and assume that everything was at it ought to have been in the early Christian beginnings of America, but gambling, in fact, paid a very prominent role in early American history. When Columbus came over here and discovered America, his little boats were filled with sailors who gambled away much of their time crossing the Atlantic by playing dice and playing cards. In landing here they therefore brought their gambling interests with them and it took root in the new nation.
In 1612 the British government ran a lottery to assist the new settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. And the father of our country, George Washington, wisely declared, quote: "Gambling is the child of avarice, or greed, the brother of iniquity and the father of mischief," end quote. And we certainly agree with George. However, he himself kept a full diary of his own winnings and loses.
In 1776 the first Continental Congress of the United States sold lottery tickets to finance the American Revolution. President Washington himself bought the first lottery ticket to build the new capital called Federal City, now known as Washington, D.C. So our nation was founded on a lottery, the Revolution was financed by a lottery, and our capital city was financed by a lottery.
From 1790 to 1860, twenty-four of the thirty-six states sponsored government-run lotteries. And many schools, universities, colleges, hundreds of churches conducted their own lotteries to raise funds for their own buildings.
Now through this period of early American history and involvement with lotteries and government sponsored-gambling, the voice of the church was somewhat uncertain. The church early on was becoming liberal. There were liberal elements that supported these lotteries and this gambling. The Catholic Church to this very day has had an uninterrupted interest in gambling and in lotteries to finance its operations.
But the early church also had some detractors. There were some among the Puritans and some among the Quakers, even the Baptists and the Methodists who tended to be the evangelicals took up, as it were, verbal arms against this government-sponsored gambling. Cotton(?) Mather(?), one of the early American Puritan preachers, preached against gambling as the denial of the providential control of God. And Puritans and Quakers usually followed and echoing his very message garnered a hearing in places. Yet the professor of ethics of all subjects at Harvard College, William Ames, defended gambling. In fact, Harvard financed the erection of its building by a lottery and the University of Pennsylvania raised its operational budget through gambling.
There was a protest by none other than Francis Scott Key who was the author of our national anthem. He was one of the great laymen of the church of his day, was a member of the American Episcopal church. He was evangelical in his convictions. And he introduced a resolution to the general convention of 1817 calling on that body to condemn gambling as inconsistent with Christian sobriety, dangerous to the morals of the member of the church...of the members of the church, and peculiarly unbecoming to the character of Christians. But the Episcopalian church declared his resolution unnecessary.
The church struggled a little bit in dealing with gambling because they couldn't point to a verse that said, "Thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt not gamble." But they denounce it as socially harmful and inconsistent with the biblical view of God and with the Christians understanding of good stewardship. Methodists and Baptists, Puritans and Quakers began some evangelical activism and began to attack this government-sponsored gambling.
Under this attack and because of the increasing corruption of the gambling, by 1894 it had disappeared from America. By 1894 there was no more government-sponsored gambling. It ended in corruption and in a financial fiasco. And public gambling at any level was stopped cold at that time because John Wannemaker(?) who was famous for the department store in Philadelphia but was quite a noble Christian, was the Postmaster General of the United States and an evangelical and he barred, quote: "All letters, parcels, postcards, circulars, lists of drawings, tickets and other materials referring to lotteries from the mail." And so gambling came to a halt in 1894. And between 1894 and 1964 there was no government-sponsored gambling in America. In 1964 it was reintroduced by the state of New Hampshire which became the first state to offer a lottery. And now there are 37 states that have government-sponsored lotteries and Washington D.C. makes 38 entities. There are over 500 casinos across the nation, mostly on Indian reservation land where the government allows them to just about do anything they want to do tax free as reparations for early American encroachment into the west as settlers came and battled against the Indians, the native Americans.
In 1974, this ten years later, the Gallup poll indicated 61 percent of Americans gambled, wagering 47.4 billion dollars annually. In 1989 seventy-one percent were wagering 246 billion. In 1992, three hundred and thirty billion was being wagered. By 1995 studies indicate 95 percent of Americans gambled, 82 percent play the lotteries, 75 percent play slot machines, 50 percent bet on dogs and horses, 44 percent on cards, 34 percent on bingo, 26 percent, that's better than one out of four, on sporting events, 74 percent frequent casinos and 89 percent approved of gambling. That means there were six percent who didn't approve but gambled anyway...interesting. Well a lot of us don't approve of everything we do, is that not true?
This area of legalized gambling has paralleled the general trend in America toward permissiveness, sex, pornography, drugs and materialism. It's just kind of ridden the crest of that same wave. No longer is gambling confined to Las Vegas and no longer even to Las Vegas and Atlantic City, it is the national addiction, it is everywhere across this country. And as I said, most of the casinos can now be built in various land which was once reservation land, and therefore it is outside the purview of general natural...national law. Gambling expenditures each year exceed the amount spent on films, books, amusements, music, entertainment combined. People spend more money gambling than do buying tickets to all national athletic events put together...baseball, football and everything else. In 1993 people spent 400 billion...that's legal, and it's at least that much again if not more illegally. They spent 400 billion in 1993 legally, 482 billion in 1994 and now its exceeded that, as I said earlier, it's well over 500 billion. Five billion is spent every year just in the slot machines in Nevada alone. Ninety-two million households visit the casinos and ten percent of all money earned by people in America is thrown away in gambling.
And frankly, the future is very bright for the gambling industry because they're now adding to their casinos theme parks with the singular goal of attracting children so they can turn them into gamblers at the earliest possible age. And that is a very successful operation. They want to make your little children gamblers. Ninety percent of today's teen agers have gambled, so that's how successful they have been at this. College students are up to eight times more likely to develop gambling addiction than their parents because they have been susceptible to this tremendous escalation in state-run lotteries development of casinos in the last few years in this attempt to draw them in. People earning less than $10 thousand annually buy more Lottery tickets than any other income group. And gambling is linked to organized crime at every level.
In speaking with an L.A.P.D. officer in the vice area here, been there for over 25 years with special assignment to gambling, he told me some very interesting things about gambling in our own city, illegal gambling which goes on at a far-greater pace than any of us would ever imagine. Some of you, no doubt, in an audience this size, are involved in this. The money earned by those who operate the gambling business is largely laundered through pornography and prostitution. In one four-square mile area of Los Angeles, just four square miles, there are 120 bookmaking parlors for horse races alone and many more all over the city. Heaviest lottery spending comes from the poorest ethnic groups in the poorest part of the community.
In the San Fernando Valley most of the betting is done on the phone and codes are used so that it's hard to trace. The Mafia, organized crime, is highly involved in all of this. In fact, they get involved many ways. They own many lawyers who work their schemes through the legal system. One of the things they do in our area, they get control of unions, they get control of anything they can get control of. One of the things they've done in our area is to find CEOs or leaders in organizations or companies who are indebted by gambling debt, who are deep in to gambling problems and because of this they remove those CEOs from their company. The CEOs go willingly, I guess, the alternative would be to be thrown to the bottom of the ocean, tied to a concrete block or something. They will step aside and the Mafia will replace them with one of their own as the new CEO in the company and then launder illegal gambling profits through that company.
New technology makes gambling readily available by telephone. It is now on the Internet. And you can now gamble with money you don't have by using your credit card...confounding your indebtedness even further.
There are so many anecdotes that I read in the last couple of weeks about this, talk about young people getting involved, committing suicide, turning their girlfriends into prostitutes, so many, many sad stories. I could tell you story after story but you need to know that the large number of statistics indicate how many real stories there are.
Now the question comes up, and I've been asked this several times, since the Lottery has become such a prominent thing in the state of California, people have often asked me this question, "What is the proper definition of gambling?...What is the proper definition of gambling?" And I want to give you that, I want to answer that question so that you understand what gambling is. If we're going to deal with it biblically we need to know what we're talking about.
Now let me say this, first of all, gambling is not taking a risk. There is risk in gambling but that's not..that's too simplistic a definition. There's risk in everything in life. I mean life basically is a risk because we don't know what tomorrow brings. Your life is vapor for...appearing for a little time and vanishes away, you can't even say "tomorrow I'll do this, or tomorrow I'll do that," James says because you don't know. We all understand there is risk. It's an uncertain world. And life itself is uncertain. And there are many legitimate labors and many legitimate investments and many legitimate things that you do that have risk tied to them, but they're not gambling. And the reason they're not is because the risk is connected...listen carefully...to reasonable, wise and manageable processes and rewards.
For example, if you're a farmer there is risk. You made a profit from last year's crop, you take all the money you've made, you go down and you buy seed and you buy a new tractor or whatever equipment you need and you basically put all your money in the soil with the hope that you're going to receive five-fold on that investment when the harvest comes in. But if you have a terrible winter or if you have a blight, or if you have a locust invasion or whatever might be, you could lose everything. Or it could well be that your investment succeeded. Your crop came in but unfortunately they were producing the same thing in the Philippines at a third the price because labor is so much more cheap and land is so much more cheap and you have no place in the market. You have to sell at a loss. There's risk in any kind of business. That's not what we're talking about. That's just the way life goes.
You might decide to start a company and you've figured out how to build a better mouse trap and you've got your little mousetrap all figured out and you know the world is going to come running to the feet of the one with the better mousetrap. And, boy, the day your's comes out you're going to be so excited, but one week before your's arrives in the market, a better one than your's came out and you didn't know somebody was working on it. Sorry, you made your best effort, you used wise management, you got people who studied and you did some surveys and you did all you could, but there's risk in that.
Some young people go to college and they spend a fortune for four years to get a college education, believing that they're going to go down a certain track. And by the time they come out there's no job opportunities. I can think of so many people who went through that in the engineering field when there was such a cutback on military engineering effort and people who were engineers wound up doing all kinds of things...flipping hamburgers and things like that, because there just was no market. Life is full of risk.
People say, "Well is putting money in the stock market gambling?" No, because what you're doing is investing and if you do it well and wisely you're going to look at a company and all you're doing is taking a part ownership in a company, a company that is large enough to have gone public, successful enough to produce at a level to produce that kind of income that it could go public and you're saying, "I think it's a wise use of my money to invest in that company." It may go up, it may not, but that's the way life goes. That can happen at any point in time. Even the Lord Himself, as we saw last Sunday in Isaiah 5, illustrates how it is to plan a vineyard and find that all you get is sour berries. In anything in life there's risk. But investment has risk but it...but it's manageable, it's based on rationality or reason, wisdom, and it promises a reward if it's used carefully.
You bought a house. Some of you bought a house at a high price during the time when real estate was inflated and you figured that prices were just going to go up and your whole future was in this house and your retirement was in this house. And all of a sudden there was a turn and the value of your house started to drop. I know even the house I live in dropped to half of what it at one time was worth. Fortunately I bought it long before it ever got to that high point, but many of you didn't. You bought a house and now it's got a mortgage on it that's more than what it's worth. And you thought your future was going to be secure because there was going to be enough in your house to retire. And it was wise decision and how do you know what the future's going to bring to bear, you still don't know what yet may come. But life has risk. We're not talking about a risk that is a rational thing which has some track record of experience to which you can apply some wisdom and over which you have some control.
Even insurance is a risk. Do you know...I risk a lot of money that I'm going to die. Do you know that? I...I...I have insurance on my car, I have insurance on my house, I have insurance on, you know, my books, I have insurance...I have a lot of insurance. And so...you know what's going to happen, we're going to waste all this money and get raptured. (applause) But I can't convince my wife that I shouldn't buy some insurance for her, because, you know, she wants to be sure that she and the children are cared for. And that makes reasonable sense to me. And it's a manageable kind of risk, but it's a risk. You're hedging against the unknown. That's not gambling, that's common sense. And I've been very happy through the years to have had auto insurance...I'll say no more. And if you live in Southern California, you probably have earthquake insurance and with good reason, right?
Where there's reasonable manageable risk, you don't have gambling. Gambling is not simply risk. The word "gamble, gambling, gambler" are related to the word "game." They come from an old English word gammon, it's the idea of a game. Gambling is a game. It is not a game based on skill. It is not a game based on reason. And it is not a game based on anything controllable. It is a game based on sheer chance. Gambling is an appeal to sheer chance, random luck without skill or one's personal involvement. That's gambling. It's not like competing for a prize where you have to produce something or run faster than somebody else or do something better than someone else does because you have control over that. That's a rational, manageable, controllable activity. Gambling is not like that. It's not like risking in business for a return. It is an appeal to sheer chance without any control, purely random.
Let me give you a definition, a formal definition sort of summing up what I've been saying. Gambling is an activity in which a person risks something of value, usually money. It's an activity in which a person risks something of value to forces of chance completely beyond his control or any rational expectation. That's it. It is an activity in which a person risks something of value to forces of chance completely beyond his control or any rational expectation in hope of winning something of greater value, usually more money. But it's an appeal to sheer chance.
And it's the...the foolish thing about chance is the idea that if you do it longer, your odds get better. That's not true because there are no controllable elements so the odds cannot be reduced. Pure chance, sheer random luck never changes its odds. In fact, I read somewhere this week where you have about as much chance of winning the lottery as being eaten by a shark on dry land.
Now gambling, this appeal to sheer chance, has devastating effects. And I want to talk about those effects for a few minutes. It provides wealth for a handful of people at the expense of the masses, mostly the poor. People in the lowest income bracket spend four times as much of their income on gambling as others. Gambling is the exploitation of the poor. It is the exploitation of the uneducated. It is the exploitation of the undisciplined, the people who lack self-control. It is the exploitation of the lazy people.
It is unthinkable in my mind that a government supposed to exist for the welfare of the people, a government of the people, by the people, for the people...said Abraham Lincoln...it is in inexplicable to me that a government for the benefit of the people would...would get to the place where our government has where it exploits the poor to the degree that it does. And the exploitation is massive. On the one hand you hear all of this promotion, all of this constant promotion about raising the taxes of the wealthy, taxing the wealthy, the people who work hard, the people who produce, the people who are successful increasing, and increasing, and increasing their burden of tax which, of course, limits the people they can hire because they have to give so much of their money to the government they have to cut back on their work force...that's why in all this corporate merging that's going on people are losing jobs, this is the day of corporate merger because of taxation, companies coming together and cutting people loose. They don't have the money to pay, the taxation bill is so big. On the one hand the government is saying we've got to give benefits to the poor, benefits to the poor, tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the successful people, and let's give benefits to the poor. At the same time in an absolutely clear act of hypocrisy the government institutes government funded, or government sponsored gambling and exploits the poor. Takes money right out of their hands under the fantasy of the seduction that somehow they're going to get rich. And gambling exploits the poor and the undisciplined and the weak because it increases their debt, it demeans work, it robs families of their resources, it breaks up marriages, it leads to suicides and it produces crime.
They used to say that if we bring in gambling it will build up all the businesses, if we create a big casino world, they said in Atlantic City, it will build up all the businesses. The fact of the matter is, it doesn't do that. It doesn't do it at all. Since Atlantic City legalized gambling in 1976, its population has shrunk 20 percent. Unemployment is higher. Crimes are up 380 percent. The police force has doubled. Half of the 2100 businesses have closed and four of the past six mayors have been indicted for corruption, three are currently serving jail terms. Gambling doesn't alleviate social ills, it just generates them.
One writer says, "Atlantic City used to be slum by the sea. Now it's a slum by the sea with casinos." Gambling is a known promoter of organized and street crime. Everywhere around the gambling realm, street crime is elevated. Connecticut attorney Austin McGugen(?) talks about that. Central City, Colorado had to more than double its police force after five casinos opened. The New Jersey Casino Control Commission report in '89 said that casino gambling is a magnet for street criminals and they have had nothing but a huge increase in assault, rape, prostitution, and drug dealing. And gambling, of course, now can be done on video games. You can gamble on the Internet. There is now a lottery channel in Rhode Island and that will soon spread across the country where you can gamble in your home with your credit card.
TV gambling, telephone gambling, cyber-space casinos are coming, virtual gambling, wherever gambling goes crime comes because people need more money to gamble, they steal and rob and pillage. Las Vegas claims one of the nation's highest crime rates. Nevada lists the highest incarceration rate in the nation. And 40 percent of the felons jailed in Nevada are from out of state. So you just invite felons in when you operate gambling. One in every 66 households in Nevada files for bankruptcy...the highest rate in the nation. They have the highest per-capita consumption of alcohol in the nation. And by the way, these casinos give away alcohol because drunk people gamble more.
In 1994 the FBI found that criminals in Las Vegas committed five times as many violent crimes as police were able to solve. This is the worse ratio of any large city in the United States. And so it goes. And there's more statistics...the crime increases go up 300, 400, 500, a thousand percent. In Atlantic City on larceny, all kinds of larceny crimes, violent crimes, rape, aggravated assault, robbery, just out-of-sight escalating crime.
Now in spite of this, and I could go on with all the statistics but I think you get the picture. It's a major problem and it's destroying families. In spite of all...the church hasn't really addressed this. The church has been busy with abortion, pornography, family values, things like that, on its political face. But the church hasn't done anything about gambling. There's a big hue and cry now about smoking and there should be because smoking is a foolish thing to do to your body and the government probably should have stepped in a long time ago and dealt with that, although people do have certain freedoms to do to themselves whatever they want. The government hasn't even decided to step in on the alcohol industry, that's another issue that should have been addressed long ago if it was really a government for the people. But the government is an advocacy position on this gambling thing and the church needs to stand up and declare the reality of what this stuff really is in relation to what the Word of God has to say.
I think there are...there are no verses in the Bible...if you look for the word "gambling" in your concordance you won't find it, there are no verses in the Bible to make a direct statement, "Thou shalt not gamble, so the church has kind of backed off on that and maybe found it difficult to make a case against gambling. It also, I think, has backed off because of...you can't...you can't...you can tell a drunk staggering down the street and slobbering on himself, or hunched over on a park bench, or living in a cardboard box, but gamblers don't have visible evidences so it doesn't look on the surface as bad. It's kind of a respectable look. There is ignorance of the industry. That's why I've taken a few minutes to give you the statistics. You need to know how big this is. There's an ignorance of biblical principles that apply to gambling and there's so much materialism among Christians that maybe some of them would like to win the Lottery...I'm sure they would.
All this kind of apathy feeds the exploding exploitation of the week and makes government bigger and more powerful. And the church needs to stand up and say what needs to be said. Well so much for a look at the problem, so let's turn to some of the principles you have to deal with and I'm going to give you just a few and then next week I'm going to take you right into the Word of God and we're going to go step by step by step into what the Bible says about gambling. But let me just give you some broad sweep to start with, all right?
Number one I want to share with you is the moral issues in gambling. And we're looking now just at a broad moral sweep, obviously supported by the general teaching of Scripture. Gambling is immoral for the following reasons:
One, it drains the economic provision that God makes for people. Gambling is immoral because it is God who gives you the power to get wealth and everything we have comes from God, and gambling drains that.
Two, gambling is immoral because it undermines philanthropy. In fact, it reverses philanthropy. It is a light for dark and black for white and bitter for sweet reversal, if we use the words of Isaiah 5. Instead of giving to the poor and helping the poor, it exploits the poor. It is the destruction of philanthropy. Instead of taking any discretionary money that you might have and giving it to someone with need, you take your discretionary money and gamble it so that you can take the biggest amount from those who have the least and who made the foolish investment in the first place.
It's immoral because it erodes the biblical work ethic. God has honored and exalted work. Man is to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow. Six days shall you work, Exodus 20. The whole of the work ethic is demeaned by this. And the American work ethic is getting worse and worse as we speak. It's sinking deeper and deeper. And as it goes people demand more, they demand the government give them more though they work less and the fantasy becomes become more seducing all the time. And so the work ethic is further eroded. The American dream used to be that if you work hard enough you can make a good comfortable life in this great nation. The American dream now is win the Lottery. And that is a seductive fantasy that doesn't come true. And even if you win it, by the way, you get $50,000 a year and that's after the government taxes it and it's spread out over who knows how many years. It isn't what it appears on the surface.
Sociologist Mark Abramson(?) explains and I quote him, "The same state that urged people to stay in school, seek job training and persevere through hard work and sacrifice, also encourages the fatalistic belief that people's lives can change dramatically if their numbers come up in the Lottery. The state is selling one message with its right hand and another with its left," end quote.
It is immoral also because it promotes irrationality...it promotes irrationality. One of the things that we've always tried to promote in America is the use of the mind. I can remember seeing advertising on television, "A mind is a terrible thing to waste." Rationality, the God-given distinction that makes us human rather than animal, the ability to think and to reason and to sort out to plan is a part of our God-given image. And that kind of rationality is important to being what men and women should be. Gambling promotes irrationality. It promotes fantasy and thus it promotes despair because there's no guaranteed goal, there's guaranteed achievement at the end of the thing. If you work hard and you apply yourself and you exercise your work ethic, there's a guaranteed benefit to that, you will produce. But the irrational fantasy of gambling leads only to nothingness and then despair.
It is immoral because it preys on the weak and the vulnerable, mostly elderly. Many, many elderly, particularly older women, who gamble, it preys on the weak, teen agers now we know, and even children. It preys on those who are not rational, who aren't the smartest and the brightest, who have the least.
It is immoral because it attracts the undisciplined and pushes them deeper and deeper into difficulty.
Now that's a general look at its immorality. Let me give you some specific sins that gambling is built on. If you eliminate these sins, gambling doesn't exist.
Here they are and I'll give you several. Number one, gambling is built on the sin of materialism. The whole appeal of gambling is that you can get rich, that you need more material things. First Timothy 6:10, "The love of money is the root of...what ?...all kinds of evil." The love of money is just another phrase for materialism and gambling is built on the love of money...win money, win money, win money, that's all you hear. It's the whole thing. It appeals to the materialistic lust.
Secondly, it is built on the sin of greed. It is built on the idea that whatever you have is not enough. It appeals to greed with outrageous prizes...outrageous prizes. You know, the truth of the matter is...I often ask myself why they can't spread that stuff out among a lot more people...and the answer is because they couldn't make the appeal, they know that in the marketing strategy. They couldn't...they couldn't make the appeal if they didn't make the prize staggeringly outrageous and then break it all down so that it amounts to about $50,000 dollars a year which in the end is not much at all when you think about it. But appeals to greed with its outrageous prizes. And the Bible has so much to say about greed. Proverbs talks so repeatedly about what happens to greedy people. Jesus talked about what happens to greedy people in Luke chapter 12, just mentioning, I think it's verse 15 if I remember right. Luke 12:15 says, "Beware and be on your guard against every form of greed for even...for not even when one has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions." I mean, avoid greed because even when you get what you've been greedy for, you haven't got anything.
Thirdly, gambling is built on the sin of materialism, greed and discontent...discontent. You don't have enough. There's a lot more. It's the very opposite of Philippians 4:11 where Paul says, "Not that I speak from want, I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am for I know how to get along with humble means and I also know how to live in prosperity. In any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need. I can do all things through Him who strengthens me." Paul says if I have it, I have it, if I don't have it, I don't have it, and that's fine. In either case whatever God chooses to give me is enough, I will not be discontent. Gambling is predicated on discontent.
And fourthly, it is built, as we've already seen, on exploitation. You have to understand this, folks, for every winner there are millions of losers who have been exploited, who have been sucked in to the marketing scheme and turned into victims. They couldn't do it any better if they walked up and down the street with guns and held people up and took money out of their wallets, if they knocked on every door and said, "Give me your ten dollars...give me fifty dollars...give me a hundred," whatever it is. I mean, it wouldn't be any less robbery. It is a violation, some writers say, of the eighth commandment, "Thou shalt not steal," because it takes money away, it is a subtle form of thievery. It exploits the poor. You can read James 5 about how God feels about the rich who exploit the poor.
Furthermore, gambling is predicated on this lust, this lazy lust for entertainment. For some people gambling is a high, a fix. It's a ride. And they're lazy, rather than work they want this form of entertainment which gives them a rush and a high. So it's sort of a combination of a lust for the thrill and laziness. Read starting in Proverbs chapter 6, chapter 13, 15, 21, 24, read everywhere you find the sluggard mentioned, the lazy person and you'll begin to see what God says about the lazy person who tends toward poverty, who is the brother of the one who brings death.
Gambling is built on the sins of materialism, greed, discontent, exploitation and laziness, lust for entertainment. I would say further it is built on the sin of distrusting God...distrusting God. You know, I'll put it another way. You know what I believe...I believe God knows what I need and I believe that God will provide what I need. Do you believe that? My God shall supply...what?...all your needs, according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. I trust in God's provision for me that I can earn through work, through savings, through wise investments, through reasonable risk. That's part of life. But I will not distrust, I will not demean what God has provided for me by being driven by greed and lust for more in an illegitimate attempt to gain what God hasn't provided.
And then as we've said, it is built on the sin of...of disdain for work and careful planning. It...it...it...it appeals to people who just want a quick track to wealth.
Another thing i would mention, just quickly and I'll close, gambling is built on the sin of irresponsible stewardship...the sin of irresponsible stewardship. You know, you have to be careful even in laying up treasures on earth...right?...where moth and rust comes in and thieves break through and steal. You have to be very careful about that because where your treasure is your heart is also. You want to lay up your treasure in heaven. There's some things in this life you can have and can enjoy and God's given us all things richly to enjoy. But all of it should bring glory and honor to God and throwing it away in an appeal to sheer chance brings Him no glory. I'll say more about that next Sunday morning in the most important point that I make. It is an irresponsible act of stewardship with God's provision...and there's much about that in the New Testament, about being a good steward.
Another sin that it's built on is a failure to meet the needs of family. Divorce rates are high. Family breakup is high among gamblers because they squander all the family's resources. In some ways they're worse than alcoholics. Children don't have the food. The wife doesn't have what she needs to run the household. And then the children sometimes turn to crime. The daughters are turned into prostitutes to get the money to pay the bills to gamble more money in the hope that the ship will come in. It's predicated on irresponsible family leadership. If a man doesn't take care of his family, he's worse than an unbeliever...right?...1 Timothy 5:8. And it's built on the sin of not loving your neighbor. Now I said this earlier and I say it again...if you have some extra, give it to somebody who needs it. Don't throw it away in some appeal to chance. It's a failure...it's built on a failure to give to others generously. If you really love your neighbor you're going to give him what he needs. If you see your neighbor have a need, give him what he needs. Look not on your own things but on the things of others. Gambling exploits the needy.
If our society was built on biblical standards it would work against materialism. It would prioritize people over things. It would build strong families. It would exploit no one. It would let the hardest working people prosper so that they could spread their money around to those who have need. It would honor work. It would honor hard work. It would strengthen values and virtues of the group rather than the individual. And we're cursed with all this individualism, where everybody has a right to be whatever he wants to be and nobody else can tell him what he should be or shouldn't be. If our society was built on biblical standards it would deal with reality and not give people false hope based on fantasy.
If our society was based on biblical standards it would call the weak to use their God-given resources in honorable effort with responsibility and rationality to improve their condition. If our society was built on biblical standards it would instill in us care for family, care for friends and care for the poor and the needy. If our society was built on biblical standards we would be content with what we have and grateful for all of it and we would honor the source of it, namely God Himself. Gambling always corrupts. It just brings in a wave, a sea of corruption. And we're in the middle of it right now.
Addressing it demands that we understand what the Scripture says. Next Sunday I'm going to help you with that and I'm going to start next Sunday by preaching to you a portion of a second century sermon. I'm talking about the 100 A.D.s, a second-century sermon against gambling and how the church has always taken its stand where it should, and then I'm going to show you in the Bible why we have to stand where we have to stand. That's next Sunday morning. Let's pray.
Father, thank You for the instruction that You've given us in Your Word this morning. Thank You for the insights that we've been able to bring on this issue, this sin which is so ubiquitous in our society. And, Lord, we grieve over the many broken lives the many shattered homes, the many people who are in prison with messed up lives, ruined cities and communities. We think of all the native American people, Indian people who have been so further corrupted by all that goes along with this stuff and so many lives have been devastated by it. And, Lord, You have been dishonored in so many ways by these appeals to sheer chance as if there was no God, as if You were not sovereign, as if You were not in control. And Lord, we regret all of that and we sorrow over all of that and we ask that in our case wherever that has occurred You would grant us forgiveness. And, Lord, I pray that You'll continue to instruct us that we might know how to handle the resources You've given us, how to bring righteousness to our own lives and the lives of those around us as we obey Your truth and honor You in every area, particularly with the resources You've given to us. Father, continue to instruct us and we'll thank You in Christ's name. Amen.
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BETHLEHEM — Two days after winning District 11 Class AAA wrestling titles, Pocono Mountain East seniors Ray Nicosia and Joey Fogle, along with East Stroudsburg South junior Colby Ems, have earned top seeds for the this weekend's Northeast Region Tournament.
BETHLEHEM — Two days after winning District 11 Class AAA wrestling titles, Pocono Mountain East seniors Ray Nicosia and Joey Fogle, along with East Stroudsburg South junior Colby Ems, have earned top seeds for the this weekend's Northeast Region Tournament.
All three will be favorites to earn berths in the PIAA championships, which kick off Thursday, March 7, and finish Saturday, March 9, in Hershey's Giant Center. The top three finishers at each weight class from Friday and Saturday's Northeast Regional at Liberty High School qualify for states.
All three are first-time district champions and lead 12 area wrestlers into the region tournament, which starts Friday at 4:30 p.m..
"I'm not done yet," Fogle (29-1) said after winning his championship Saturday night. "I've got to make it to states."
Nicosia, Ems and Pleasant Valley junior Kenny Yanovich (second at 113 pounds) all reached the state tournament a year ago. Yanovich is a two-time qualifier.
Nicosia (16-1) finished third at 145 pounds in the region tournament a year ago and went on to finish sixth in the state. He has much grander goals this year at 152 — a state title.
"This is just a step to the goal that I really want," Nicosia said Saturday after his district final, a pin of Easton's Dyvon Gibson. "That match was just like the next one, and the next one, and the next one. It's just one after another. I'm looking forward to that final match."
Yanovich (31-3) was a third-place finisher a year ago at the regional at 106 pounds. On Saturday night at 113 pounds, Yanovich fell to Ethan Lizak of Parkland — the defending state champion — 9-1 in the district final.
Yanovich opens his regional tournament against District 12's Jonathan Guevara of Central.
Ems won his first district championship and the East Stroudsburg junior was named the tournament's Oustanding Wrestler.
Ems is 24-1 this year at 126 and looks primed to make his second trip to Hershey. He became East Stroudsburg's first district champion since 1991.
"I had to end the drought," Ems said. "I just had to end the drought."
This is the first year District 12 has joined the Northeast Region. The field is made up of five wrestlers from District 11, five from District 12 and four from District 2.
The field has expanded from 12 wrestlers in the past to 14 this year. Wrestling Friday will start at 4:30 and will include two rounds of consolations. Wrestling Saturday will start at 9:30 a.m. with an 11 a.m. semifinal and 6:30 p.m. final.
Others wrestlers competing this weekend include: Stroudsburg's Jake Jones (106), Jake Jakobsen (152), James Palmisano (182) and Cody Cooper (285); Pleasant Valley's James Felipa (120) and Garrett Gouger (132); East Stroudsburg South's Mason Byrne (132); and PM East's Jeremy Candelario (285).


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For the first time in more than 15 years, the Economic Development Council of Okaloosa County is looking for a new president.
For the first time in more than 15 years, the Economic Development Council of Okaloosa County is looking for a new president.
Longtime EDC President Larry Sassano resigned at the end of November to become the interim president of the regional economic development organization Florida�s Great Northwest, which covers 13 counties. Kay Rasmussen, who has been with the organization for 14 years and is its vice president, took over as the interim president Monday.
�The EDC is up and running and will continue to operate at full power with Kay in the leadership position,� said Jim Heald, general manager of InDyne on Eglin Air Force Base and the chairman of the EDC.
�Everybody has stepped up. We�ve made sure that none of the jobs or projects have dropped through the cracks. I feel very blessed that we have such a good staff that we don�t have to rush to find a replacement for Larry.
�With every transition comes opportunities,� he added. �So even though Larry is leaving, we have a lot of opportunities to strengthen the EDC, the ties with the community, with the chambers, the cities. We have an opportunity to let Kay show us how well she can lead. There are just so many opportunities that are out there.�
Late last month the EDC formed a five-member search committee headed by Ed Taylor of Gulf Power to oversee the search for a new president.
The committee is reviewing the job description and comparing it to similar positions in other counties. Heald said the job description will be updated before the next president is hired.
The EDC also has looked at what other communities have done recently to hire new economic development directors. Santa Rosa County is going through the process now and Bay County recently hired a new director.
Heald said what he liked about Bay County�s process is that it went through a number of filtering processes: advertising the position, scoring applicants based on their experience and having an initial round of questions to further narrow down a list of finalists to bring in for interviews.
�We�re taking a measured approach,� Heald said. �I would think it would take us three to six months to get everything into place. But I want to stress that we have the luxury of not needing to rush because we have a good staff.
�A perfect candidate will have a track record that shows they can nurture and bring new businesses into an area,� he added.
The EDC has not decided whether to conduct the search internally or hire an outside agency to oversee it. Heald said a decision on that would likely be made in the next few weeks.
Sassano�s departure from the EDC has led to some changes in operations. Before Sassano joined the organization in February 1997, the EDC would put together a team of local business, utility and government officials to meet with prospective businesses about their needs and the community. David Goetsch, a lifetime honorary member of the EDC and former two-time chairman of the organization, called this the A-Team.
After Sassano was hired, because his background was in marketing, he visited with most of the prospective businesses himself to sell them on the area.
�What we�re doing is going back to the A-Team approach, which is probably a better approach, anyway, because that way you have real business people talking to business people who want to come here instead of EDC folks,� Goetsch said.
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You're an intelligent bunch, PYM readers, so I don't need to review all the details, but when women pursue science careers they face barriers that men do not. These barriers include norms and expectations that socialize men and women to think that a science career is only compatible with the male gender, unwanted sexual advances from superiors (typically men) who make the science environment a hostile workplace (here), and direct and indirect discriminatory practices that make it more difficult for women to succeed in a science career (here for an example, and here behind a paywall).
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Pushlogic: Automated Feature Interaction Detection for the Internet of Things
Collaborative Applications Talk: Nov 06 Slides (60 pages) (PDF).
Skirmishes Talk: May 05 Brief Slides.
Draft user manual: User Manual
Automated Feature Interaction Detection for the Internet of Things
Pushlogic is a scripting language originally developed as part of the CMI Pebbles Project.
Pushlogic is a strawman that supports what we call Code Reflection.
Pushlogic is a constrained language for a dynamic population of devices (sensors/processors/actuators) and dynamic number of concurrent applications in a reliable or safety-critical system. System stability is assured by idempotency constraints and intrinsic error recovery capabilities arise from the reversible nature of Pushlogic programs.
Although designed for highly-dynamic populations, today it is suited to domains where the population is infrequently changed, such as an aircraft, automobile or oil refinery: Fieldbus Pushlogic.
Pushlogic is a constrained language amenable to automated reasoning. It defines `re-hydration' for dynamic binding of rules to new device instances and a load-time model checker that runs before a new bundle of rules may join a domain of participation. In a typical application of Pushlogic, complex embedded devices are partitioned into passive components known as `pebbles'. API reflection is then used to expose the interfaces offered by the pebbles. All proactive and interactive behaviour between pebbles or over the network must then be implemented with Pushlogic and `code reflection', as we call it, exposes this behaviour for automated reasoning.
Pushlogic provides a compiler to generate its own object code. This object code can be run on a variety of hardware platforms. We have, so far, deployed puslogic in two situations:
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Want to earn an art degree or enhance your skills, but a traditional classroom isn't for you? Distance education may be your answer.
Online education is the most popular form of distance education and offers the most opportunities for students interested in pursuing an art education via correspondence.
According to Sharon McGuire, Program Director for The Art Institute Online, pursuing an art education online offers many advantages, with flexibility topping the list. "The primary advantage is working on your own schedule. Online you can post work or participate in assignments at two in the morning, if that is when you have the time," notes McGuire.
Online art students will face deadlines, but unlike traditional programs, online art programs do not revolve around set class times. Although some programs do require limited on-campus time, the primary components of most programs are asynchronous, or "not live."
Students in most online art programs will access course information, submit work, and get feedback through an online discussion area similar to a message board. Most programs also utilize e-mail for direct communication needs.
Equipment requirements vary, but a reliable computer and Internet connection are a must. Some programs will also require additional software or equipment.
Students interested in art can earn a degree or certificate online or just complete a class in their field of interest. From film to fashion to photography, courses in almost every field are available.
Some schools focus on conventional programs such as painting, graphic design, and interior design while others specialize in cutting-edge programs such as game design, interactive media, and web design.
Below is a partial listing of schools offering online art programs:
Financial aid is available for online students. Most schools offering online degrees meet federal requirements for grants and loans, (though some may not meet state requirements). School financial aid offices are usually the best place to start your aid search. These offices can direct students to available government aid and provide information on school and private scholarship and loan opportunities.
Scholarships are also key to art students. Although many online schools don't have as much scholarship funding as traditional universities, you should look for private scholarships from sites like Fastweb.com, and grants from a variety of outside organizations.
Employed students may also be able to get their tuition costs paid for by their employers. Not all businesses offer tuition assistance, so you should check with your employer.
A burning question for online students is whether they will be able to compete for jobs. "Yes, definitely," says McGuire of The Art Institute Online. "Online degrees are rapidly gaining acceptance. People don't look down on them as they once did."
A recent survey conducted by Vault, Inc., a career information site, supports McGuire's claim. Eighty-six percent of employers surveyed said they would be open to hiring someone with an online degree.
Although an online student may still face some degree validity questions, McGuire points out that a student's portfolio can help address employer concerns. "In the arts, a student's portfolio is usually more important than where and how that student earned his or her degree."


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This time-lapse video sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images reveals dramatic changes in a ring of material around the exploded star Supernova 1987A.
The images, taken from 1994 to 2016, show the effects of a shock wave from the supernova blast smashing into the ring. The ring begins to brighten as the shock wave hits it. The ring is about one light-year across.
Discovered in 1987, Supernova 1987A is the closest observed supernova to Earth since 1604. The exploded star resides 163,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way.
NASA, ESA, and R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation), and P. Challis (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Publication: February 24, 2017