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Glen H Davidson Financial Disclosure Report for 2007
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Date Created:November 7, 2008
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::u :;s:: ,., o--< Cf>Z II. AGREEMENTS. (Reporting individual only; see pp. 14-16 filing instructions.) c ;:::; [ZJ NONE (No reportable agreements.) r'>O OJ> ,., fi1 ...,, PARTIES AND TERMS U1I. Name Person Reporting Davidson, Glen Ill. N-INVES TMENT INC ME. (Reporting individual and spouse; see pp. 17-14 filing instructions.) Filer's Non-Investment Income NONE (No reportable non-investment income.) SOURCE AND TYPE Spouse's Non-Investment Income -If you were married during any portimi oftlte reporting year, complete tltis section. (Dollar amount not required except for honoraria.) NONE (No reportable non-investment income.) AND TYPE JV, REJMB URSEMENTS transortation, lodging, food, entertainmenl (Includes those spouse and dependent children; see pp. 25-27 offiling instructions.) NONE (No reportable reimbursements.) PAID PROVIDED Direct Reimbursement -$1000 donation paid the Law School directly University Mississippi Foundation, charity, name. 05/08/2008 Davidson, Glen V JFTS. (lndudes those spouse and dependent children; see pp. 28-31 filing instrudions.) [ZJ NONE (No reportable gifts.) SOURCE DESCRIPTION VALUE VJ. LJABJLJTJES. (Includes those spouse and dependent children; see pp. 32-33 filing instructions.) NONE (No reportable liabilities.) CREDITOR DESCRIPTION VALUE CODE Federal Land Bank Association Parcel No. Timberland, 05/08/2008 Davidson, Glen VII. INVESTMENTS and TRUSTS -income, value, transactions (Includes those spouse and dependent children; see PP 34-60 filing instructions.) NONE (No reportable income, assets, transactions.) Description Assets Income during Gross value end Transactions during reporting period (including trust assets) reporting period reporting period (2) (2) (3) (I) (1) (2) (1) (5) Place "(X)" after each asset exempt from prior disclosure Amount Code (A-H) Type (e.g., div., rent, int.) Value Code (J-P) Value Method Code (Q-W) Type (e.g., buy, sell, redemption) BancorpSouth, Savings Account, Interest Date Month- Day GainValue Identity Code Code buyer/seller (ifprivate transaction) (A-H) (J-P) BancorpSouth, Common Stock, Dividend BancorpSouth,(IRA) Dividend Rollover 01/16 -Gov. Oblig. Fund #05(P)(Cash Equivalent) Interest Rollover 01/16 -Montag Caldwell Growth Fund Dividend Rollover 01/16 -Fidelity Contrafund #22 Dividend Rollover 01/16 -Fidelity Magellan #21 Dividend Rollover 01/16 -Vanguard Indexed Growth (09) Dividend Rollover 01/16 Parcel No. Rent 10. Parcel No. Rent 11. Parcel No. Rent 12. Parcel No. Rent 13. State Mississippi Retirement Account Distribution 14. Cabin, -None 15. BancorpSouth Stock Dividend 16. Farm, Rent 17. Parcel No. Rent Income Gain Codes: =$1,000 orless =$1,001 -$2,500 =$2,501 -$5,000 =$5,001 -$15,000 =$15,001 -$50,000 (See Columns and D4) =$50,001 -$100,000 =$100,00! -$1,000,000 =$1,000,00 -$5,000,000 =More than $5,000,000 Value Codes =$15,000 less K=$15,00l -$50,000 =$50,00 -$I 00,000 =$100,001 -$250,000 (See Columns and D3) =$250,00 -$500,000 =$500,00 1,000,000 =$1,000,001 -$5,000,000 =$5,000,001 -$25,000,000 =$25,000,00 -$50,000,000 =More than $50,000,000 Value Method Codes =Appraisal =Cost (Real Estate Only) =Assessment =Cash Market (See Column C2) =Book Value =Other =Estimated Date Report Name Person Reporting 05/08/2008 Davidson, Glen VII. INVESTMENTS and TRUSTS income, value, transactions r1nc1udes those spouse and dependent children; see PP 14-60 filing instructions.) NONE (No reportable income, assets, transactions.) Description Assets (including trust assets) Place "(X)" after each asset exempt from prior disclosure 18. USAA Federal Savings Bank (Savings Account) 19. Parcel No. Timber Income during reporting period (I) Amount Code (A-H) (2) Type (e.g., div., rent, int.) Interest None Gross value end reporting period (I) Value Code (J-P) (2) Value Method Code (Q-W) (I) Type (e.g., buy, sell, redemption) Transactions during reporting period (2) Date Month-Day (3) (4) (5) Value Gain Identity Code Code buyer/seller (J-P) {A-H) (if private transaction) 20. Parcel No. None Buy 09/14 1st Natl. Bank, 21. McDonald's Stock Dividend Buy 11/20 22. Renasant Bank, Dividend Buy 03/12 UFB Direct Savings Acct Interest Deposit 12/05 24. Woodmen the World Certificate Interest Redemption 05/07 Wdmn the World Deposit* Life Ins Income Gain Codes: =$1,000 less =$1,001 -$2,500 =$2,501 -$5,000 =$5,001 -$15,000 15,001 -$50,000 (See Colunms and D4) =$50,001 -$100,000 =$100,001 -$1,000,000 =$1,000,001 -$5,000,000 =More than $5,000,000 Value Codes =$15,000 less 15,001 -$50,000 =$50,001 100,000 =$100,001 -$250,000 (See Colunms and D3) =$250,001 -$500,000 =$500,001 -$1,000,000 =$1,000,001 -$5,000,000 =$5,000,001 -$25,000,020 =$25,000,001 -$50,000,000 =More than $50,000,000 Value Method Codes =Appraisal =Cost (Real Estate Only) =Assessment =Cash Market (See Colunm C2) =Book Value =Other =Estimated 05/08/2008 Davidson, Glen VIII. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION EXPLANATIONS. (lndicatepartofReport.) Part IV: Reimbursements, continued .... *Line -$1,000 donation was made the University Mississippi Foundation, charity, name relative talk that made the University Mississippi School Law April 11, 2007. This payment was made the Law School the Foundation. There was reimbursement for travel, food lodging. Part VII: Investments and Trusts, continued ... *Line 3-8 -BancorpSouth IRA rolled over into Thrift Savings Account January 16, 2007. There was gain. *Line -Apartments purchased 3/10/1977 (purchase price $96,000) *Line -Duplex purchased 4/13/1975 (purchase price $20,000) *Line -Duplex purchased 4/13/1974 (purchase price $20,000) *Line -Duplex purchased 1/22/1980 (purchase price $25,000) *Line -Purchased one-half interest cabin, March 11, 1986. Purchase price was $17,500. *Line 16-Two-thirds interest purchased September 1988, value based appraisal l/88. *Line -Parcel No. -purchased November 23, 1998. Purchase price $92,000. urchased September 14, 2007. ($85,500) *Line -Redemption $1000 life insurance policy. Davidson, Glen 05/08/2008 IX. CERTIFICATION. certify that all information given above (including information pertaining spouse and minor dependent children, any) accurate, true, and complete the best knowledge and belief, and that any information not reported was withheld because met applicable statutory provisions permitting non-disclosure. further certify that earned income from outside employment and honoraria and the acceptance gifts which have been reported are compliance with the provisions U.S.C. app. 501 et. seq., U.S.C. 7353, and Judicial Conference regulations. NOTE: ANY INDIVIDUAL WHO KNOWINGLY AND WILFULLY FALSIFIES FAILS FILE THIS REPORT MAY SUBJECT CIVIL AND CRIMINAL SANCTIONS U.S.C. app. 104) FILING INSTRUCTIONS Mail signed original and additional copies to: Committee Financial Disclosure Administrative Office the United States Courts Suite 2-301 One Columbus Circle, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20544


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The patrol formed part of the "Purbecks" group of patrols. Church Knowle/Creech Barrow patrol part of the same group.
Group Commander was Captain Fortnum from Bloxworth, with help from Lt Quick from Wareham. Sgt Bridges, Grenadier
Guards delivered equipment early on (prob Jan-June 1941)
Formed late 1940 or early 1941.
Sgt Frederick Pettifer White (Patrol leader)
Joined Army 20/1/1944
Corporal Charles Smith Coleman
Private Nelson Henry Burt
Possibly left mid 1943
Private Hedley Victor Lander
Farmer & Dairyman
Private Charlie Edward Haysom
Joined Army 16/11/1942
Private Maurice Benjamin Dallenger
Joined unit in 8/5/1943
(LEFT: Fred White in Auxiliary Units Uniform, with "DOR" Dorset flash, but no battalion number. Peter White
remembers that for a while he wore "AUX" flashes, though later on they would have had "203" flashes. © P White)
Fred White (left) formed the patrol, apparently being approached by Colonel Russell, who was the commander of
the Purbeck Home Guard Company. Charlie Haysom was his assistant in the bakery. Later in the war, both men were
called up. Fred White joined a field bakery unit in Jan 1944, working just behind the front lines. Charlie Haysom
went to the Highland Light Infantry in November 1942, before joining the Royal Engineers. Once his Aux Units
experience was known, he was transferred to the Assault Engineers, landing early on D-Day to clear the beaches of
obstacles. He also saw action at the Rhine Crossing and in the fierce fighting at Walcheran.
(LEFT: Douglas Norman seen after the war in his quarry ©
A Norman)
Douglas Norman was a quarryman who worked his own quarry and may also have worked part of the time at the nearby
Holton Heath munitions factory. His twin brother Ernie, unusually was not involved in the unit, but instead served
as a fireman in London during the Blitz. It is thought that Nelson Burt may have been a relation, since the
Norman's mother's maiden name was Burt.
Maurice Dallenger was an electrician who had gone to work at Hawker's Kingston-upon-Thames plant building
Hurricanes. He suffered severe headaches from the doping chemicals and once the demand for fighters slowed, he was
released to stay with Aunt and Uncle on a farm in Langton Matravers to recover. He seems to have fitted in very
well, being chosen after only a year or so in the area to be a member of the patrol. He also subsequently married
the woman who became postmistress and they opened a shop in the village with her sister.
Nelson Burt doesn't appear in the final nominal roll, compiled around the middle of 1943, so it is possible he
had left by this time, though he does appear in earlier records. Hedley Lander was much older and a military
veteran. Unusually he is recorded as having been conscripted to the Home Guard in December 1942. It is not known if
this was when he joined the unit, or if he had been a member all along and was conscripted to tidy up the
Image © CART
The Operational Base is located in woodland between Harman's Cross and Langton Matravers on private land with no public access. The owner granted CART kind permission to
take pictures etc.
It consists of a standard buried Elephant shelter, though one end is walled off to create a separate chamber.
Through this there is access to a smaller chamber, apparently constructed from an Anderson shelter, that leads from
the main chamber to a vertical shaft. Another vertical shaft gives direct access to the main chamber.
The OB has been completely flooded for a number of years as the photos show. At times in the 1990s the OB dried
out enough to enter and the owner has provided photographs taken at that time. He was also visited by the late
Peter Weaver, then Lieutenant with the Dorset Regiment
Scout Section who said that he thought there had been an escape tunnel which was cut into the ground and revetted
and covered over. No trace of this remains.
Currently only one shaft is accessible, the other covered with material to prevent people accidently falling
into it.
Current day view of entrance shaft showing flooding to within a foot of the top of the shaft. ©
The main chamber of the OB (with root in the foreground) © The owner
Where the small chamber joins the middle chamber © The owner
Looking though the small chamber to the entrance © The owner
Looking from entrance towards the middle chamber © The owner
The site was owned during the war by a man who was well known for not tolerating people on his property. He
lived in the house with his two maiden sisters and he was an officer in the Home Guard. The OB was apparently built
by Pioneers who came from Scotland. They entered the site
through a neighbour's garden and didn't come up the drive, perhaps to conceal what was happening. They seem to have
been successful as a local resident living just 50 yards away was unaware of the bunker until long after the
They launched practice attacks on Warmwell airfield, breaking through the perimeter wire and also the TRE at
Worth Matravers. They prised apart the railings with a car jack and got in, closing the gap with a Spanish windlass
after they escaped, so nobody would know how they got in. They also broke into the Cordite Factory at Holton Heath,
laying a message on a desk to show they had been there. The troops guarding these installations were all carrying
live ammunition in their guns.
It is thought that these would have included the bridges on the road and railway in and out of Swanage. This
railway is now the Swanage Valley Railway.
The patrol were all issued with .32 Smith and Wesson revolvers. It is thought that these were ex-New York Police
They also had Tommy Guns, though these were later replaced with
Sten guns. Peter White, son of the patrol leader, recalls that these were
not the early type with a foregrip and drum magazine, but a later version with a stick magazine and no
The patrol also had a .22 Winchester sniper rifle, fitted with a
silencer and telescopic sights. This was used for rabbit shooting more than anything else! Peter White once picked
it up at home and accidently fired it, just missing his brother's head with the bullet which lodged in the
The patrol did not have ordinary rifles at all.
The men all had Fairbairn Sykes commando daggers.
They were issued with the usual selection of explosives equipment. They had plastic explosive before the
regulars had it and also ammonal. The explosives were delivered
to Fred White's house by lorry in the middle of the night. There were so many Army lorries in the area that this
was not unusual. Peter White remembers that a Sgt Bridges fro the Grenadier Guards visited several times to deliver
equipment and also returned in 1944 when his regiment returned from North Africa. The patrol used to practice in an
old quarry, Crack Lane Quarry, which had shut down just before the war having gone bankrupt. They practiced cutting
RSJs with explosive charges and blowing open the storage tanks with chains of charges. The area was subsequently
used as an assault course by military, though not before some trouble resulted from having damaged the equipment.
Though the number of quarrymen might suggest that they were familiar with explosives, the type of stone quarrying
practised in the Purbecks made no use of these and was almost entirely manual.
What remained of the demolition equipment was disposed of by Peter White in the 1980s during a Police amnesty.
All that survived was a single capsule of the corrosive acid from a time pencil, found in the floodwater at the
bottom of the OB, the rest of the time pencil having corroded away.
The acid vial from a time pencil. After discovery, it was sent by the Police to Porton Down to try and find out
what it was.
About 6 months after his father died, Martyn Dallenger had a knock at the door from Fred Simpson, Sergeant of
the Creech Barrow patrol. He wanted to speak to Maurice, and
told Martyn of his involvement in Auxiliary Units. He had never heard anything of this from his father who had kept
the secret to his grave. In retrospect he remembers that he wore an Aux Units stand down badge (see below) on the
back side of his jacket lapel, such that it could only be seen by turning the lapel forwards.
Peter White still has his father's stand down badge
Fred White's well worn Stand Down badge.
After the war, Douglas Norman worked in London helping with reconstruction work. He was selected to help repair
the House of Parliament, due to his stone working skills.
A memorial stone was being erected in Langton Matravers to remember these men and all who served during the
war. CART helped with a display about Auxiliary Units in the village hall on the day. More here.
WO files 199/3390, 199/3391
Langton Matravers during the Second World war by Reg Saville (local history society publication)
Personal information from Mr Peter White, son of Fred White, Mr Martyn Dallenger, son of Maurice Dallenger, Mr
Andrew Norman, grandnephew of Mr Douglas Norman, Mrs Sue Wilson, great-granddaughter of Hedley Lander.
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Krista Davis and Janet Bolin were online critique partners long before either of them was published. Now they share the same publisher, Berkley Prime Crime, and their most recent mysteries came out on the same day, June 4. THE DIVA FROSTS THE CUPCAKE is the seventh book in Krista's Domestic Diva Mystery series. THREAD AND BURIED is the third book in Janet's Threadville Mystery series.
Like their authors, Krista's and Janet's main characters are friends. Here's a conversation that took place recently between them.
Willow: Sophie, tell me about this cupcakes and pupcakes fundraiser. It sounds like fun!
Sophie: Willow, you and your dogs, Tally-Ho and Sally-Forth, would have loved it. Cupcake bakers and pet stores put up booths on Market Square and part of the proceeds went to animal rescue groups. There truly was something for everyone. Cupcakes for people, pupcakes for dogs, and rainbows of beds, collars, leashes and toys for cats and dogs. The big attraction was a black tie eight-course cupcake dinner! Dog guests had their own eight-course pupcake meal. What fun!
Willow: An eight-course cupcake dinner, and an eight-course pupcake meal? How did you manage all that? Which courses were the most difficult?
Sophie: The bakers were such good sports. We offered a trophy for the most popular cupcake. Each baker was assigned a course. They all had to use the same white cupcake papers so no one would know who had baked them. I think the fish course was the most difficult but the baker pulled it off with a salmon cupcake. We loved the lasagna cupcakes. I'll have to make those at home!
Willow: Those sound delicious. I want to make them, too. Where can we find recipes?
Sophie: Some of the recipes are in THE DIVA FROSTS THE CUPCAKE. My favorite of all is the Applesauce Spice Cupcake with Caramel Frosting. Oof! I think I gained three pounds just thinking about it! While I was gaining weight, you were running around digging things up on your property. What did you find?
Willow: A metal box, and there were bags of jewelry inside it!
Sophie: That's incredible! How old was it?
Willow: Clay and I guessed it was Snoozy Gallagher's loot, which had been lost for thirty years.
Sophie: What's the legend of Snoozy and why did they call him Snoozy?
Willow: Snoozy Gallagher owned the Elderberry Bay Lodge. He was famous for dozing a lot and wearing a belt buckle engraved with Zs. Right before the final banquet of a jewelers' convention, Snoozy disappeared along with the jewelry he was keeping in the safe for the jewelers' wives. Can you imagine the faces at the banquet that evening? I know you've come upon some terrible things—so have I. Have you ever found something nice and exciting and hoped it was valuable?
Sophie: I never find anything exciting like that! I did dig up the purse of my boyfriend's long-missing wife in THE DIVA DIGS UP THE DIRT. That was frightening! Speaking of boyfriends, how are things going with Clay?
Willow: Well, um, I have this machine embroidery boutique, and he has a construction company, and both of us are busier than we ever dreamed. That's good, but I hardly ever see him. We're really just friends, but we are actually going on a date! Well, sort of, since Clay has an ulterior motive. Shh, don't tell Haylee, but Clay's playing matchmaker with Haylee and the new owner of the Elderberry Bay Lodge. Cross your fingers for two romances! How about you? Have you found someone new yet?
Sophie: Gosh, I know all about dating someone with conflicting hours. As an event planner, I work a lot at night, which makes it hard to date. I do meet someone new in THE DIVA FROSTS A CUPCAKE. He's too handsome to be true!
Willow: Clay's kind of like that, too, at least I think so. And how about Humphrey? He's nice, and deserves someone special!
Sophie: Aww, Humphrey. Would you believe two women are chasing him for a change? He's put on a little weight from eating a lot of cupcakes, and it looks great on him. The only problem is that one of them might be a murderess.
Willow: Oh, no! I hope he stays safe! He could gain more weight up here in Threadville. There's this great ice cream stand near the beach. They base their recipes on old recipes, and the results are delicious! Haylee and I go there whenever we can
Sophie: You work long hours. What else do you and Haylee like to do when you're not working?
Willow: Haylee and I walk Sally-Forth and Tally-Ho most evenings. We've been known to walk the dogs wherever we want to snoop. Do you use your walks with Daisy to spend a little extra time near places where you might find an important clue? Do you sometimes go out with Daisy long after you should be in bed?
Sophie: Shh, you'll give away all my secrets! I use Daisy as an excuse to snoop quite often.
Willow: Too bad you're way off in Virginia and I'm in the northwest corner of Pennsylvania, or we could join forces. Three dog noses are better than one or two.
Sophie: And you could embroider things for me! It must be wonderful to be able to embroider your own clothes. Do have a favorite item that you wear a lot?
Willow: I use computers, software, and embroidery machines because I can do much more than I could by hand. I've embroidered a stylized willow tree on some of my clothes as a sort of name tag. People tell me that the picture is like one on their great-grandmother's gravestone!
Sophie: What's next for you, Willow?
Willow: Janet won't tell me! But I think it has something to do with the Threadville Get Ready for Halloween Craft Show, and I hope there's a chance for a little romance, though, of course Clay and I are just friends. How about you, Sophie?
Sophie: I'm a little miffed because Krista is spending half her time with the characters in her Paws & Claws series. It sounds as though I might like Holly Miller, her Jack Russell Terrier, Trixie, and calico kitten, Twinkletoes. We'll get to meet them on December 3rd when their first book one out, MURDER, SHE BARKED.
Willow: I know I'll like them, too!
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Patrick Sings A Hymn, In A Tripartite Life of Patrick
Medium: Ink and pigments on vellum
Date: 1477
Called the "Tripartite Life of St Patrick", this manuscript tells the saint's life in the form of three homilies, each of which starts with a brief introduction. A scribe named Domnall Albanach O'Troighthigh, "of the house of O'Troighthigh in Baile of Moinin," wrote on the first page that he finished it on 29 July 1477. The O'Troighthigh are thought to have been based in County Clare, near Corcomroe. Domnall Albanach may have been copying another manuscript which in turn was a copy, now lost, made by a scribe at Cashel of the original compilation, which could date from as early as the 9th century or as late as the 11th, from sources that were earlier still. Comparisons between different copies spanning centuries attest to the fidelity of the scribes to the words of the book they copied.
On this page, wicked wizards overtake Patrick at Rath Ribard, in Tireragh, County Sligo, but he quickly gets rid of them to go on to give a young prince to Bishop Bron as a foster-son, a widespread practice in early Irish society which cemented inter-familial bonds. Afterwards he marks out the place where his tooth fell on the centre flagstone of the hall in a castle near the town of Sligo. He sings a hymn, the verses of which are marked in the margin with 'R's.


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Hello there blogging friends. Im joining in with Vicki and her ten minute Tuesday again. Its such a good idea when you are short of time to give yourself just ten minutes to play and see what you come up with.
Ive been away for a crafting weekend with friends and am back shattered but happy and will do a separate post all about that later this week.
I had a play in my art journals whilst away and even converted my friend Dee to an art journalling journey.
So what did I achieve in ten minutes. Well here it is, a background in my A4 journal. not my usual colours for a wee change Ive used pink, yellow and orange acrylic paint smeared and blended with my fingers, some stencilling with paint and a wee bit of background stamping with stazon inks and a doodley flower stamp, stamped along the bottom and ta da a background all ready for finishing off when the mood strikes.
Hop on over to Vickis placeThe Biskit Barrel and join in with this one
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Ten Minute Tuesday
Labels: art journaling
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Impressive :) I'd take a lot longer than 10 minutes to make something look that goodReplyDelete
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Fabulous suzy and even better IRLReplyDelete
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Oh, very pretty, the pink is lovely and girly.ReplyDelete
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After beating Australia in two match test series by 2-0, confidant India is ready to take on the Australians in the three match ODI series starting at Kochi. Both teams is missing some of their key players but between these two teams one can expect a high intensity games.
India will be without the service of some of their star players like Sachin, Sehwag, Gambhir, Zaheer and Harbhajan Singh but they have enough to give the Australians think tank more than headache in the three match series. Australians on the other hand will be lead by M.Clarke and they will be eager to take revenge by winning the ODI series.
Australia looks more settled and depth side on paper but India is also not far behind and with home crowd cheering team India it will be interesting battle between these two teams.
Australians Captain Michael Clarke after accumulating just 35 runs in the recently concluded test series will be eager to score runs for his team and lead the side to win the series.
This series will also be a great opportunity for the players like R.Ashwin, Ravinder Jadeja and Rohit Sharma to prove that they are capable enough to be included in the squad for next year world cup. R.Ashwin stable head, calm temperament and rapidly developing skill-set puts him right up there in the reckoning for a spot in the playing XI. While Ravinder Jadeja has wasted lots of opportunity so far and is yet to prove his capability with the bat.
Rohit Sharma on the other hand, started his career on a brighter note but since last 6-8 months his performance with the bat is questionable.
Australia have not lost a single ODI series since 1998 in India and M.S.Dhoni needs to put his thinking cap on for this short three match ODI series. All in all a interesting battle is on the card between two fighting teams.
Likely Playing XI for both Teams (Match is Schedule to begin at 09:00 AM India Time)
With regular openers missing from the squad it's likely that M.Vijay will open the innings with the debutant Shikhar Dhawan. In middle order Rohit Sharma is likely to get a chance ahead of Virat Kohli.
India Squad: M Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Rohit Sharma, MS Dhoni (Captain and WK), Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra, Munaf Patel.
Australia Squad: David Warner, Tim Paine (WK), Michael Clarke (Captain), Callum Ferguson, Michael Hussey, Cameron White, Steve Smith, James Hopes, Nathan Hauritz, Clint McKay, Mitchell Starc.
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People in ancient Greece believed in many gods: they were polytheistic (PA-lee-thee-ISS-tick). It is impossible to say how many Greek gods there were, because different Greek people worshipped different gods, or called their gods by different names. Certainly there were hundreds of gods and goddesses. The most famous of these gods, and the ones which the most people sacrificed to, were Zeus, Hera,Apollo, Artemis, Poseidon, Aphrodite, Athena, Demeter, Hermes, Ares, and Hades.
But there were many others: Asclepius, the god of medicine, Persephone, Demeter's daughter, Gaia the earth goddess, Hecate, and so forth.
In addition, every little village had its own gods. The local stream, an especially big oak tree, an oddly shaped rock, all were thought to have their own god inside them, who had to be worshipped or he or she would get mad. It was, as Keith Hopkins has said, "a world full of gods."
Greek people also worshipped foreign gods, if they thought other people's gods might help them somehow. The Egyptian goddess Isis was especially popular in Athens in the Hellenistic period, for instance. And many Hellenistic Greeks worshipped Astarte, too.
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Clare Waight Keller's See by Chloe spring/summer 2017 collection at New York Fashion Week showed off an eclectic, comfortable collection ideal for the breezy springtime. Inspired by a cross-country trip, the dresses are so varied and different, the accessories youthful and fun while still being practical.
There is an overall halter dress with a bandeau top, made entirely of the same textured, red, blue, green, yellow and white striped pattern material with top to bottom buttons for a cohesive, summer look. A crocheted poncho paired with a poker visor and a bandeau and skirt set of the textured stripe material is finished off with cut earrings and a pineapple necklace.
The overall look is modern hippy chic and free flowing with light floral prints, lace-up platforms and great accessories. There are so many fun elements throughout the See by Chloe spring and summer 2017 collection, a few of which are bell sleeves and lace-up platforms.
The brand made certain to pay attention to current trends and included 'dad hats' and high waists. With more than six decades behind them, Chloe is an incredible brand and the clothing is known for being fluid, bold and romantic as well as expressly French in design.
Chloe is a brand with great background as a French fashion house and is owned by the Richemont Group. The brand itself has produced elegant, well-loved designs worn by a plethora of celebrities worldwide. The entire brand was built to produce luxury ready-to-wear items, and was one of the first fashion houses to offer such looks.
See by Chloe is the ready-to-wear and accessories line for younger consumers with a more affordable price tag. The goal of See by Chloe is to be the gateway to higher level fashion for the younger generations.
The designs are floating, gauzy floral creations that are in line with the history of the brand. They have been a well-known conqueror of this type of style since they were under the direction of Karl Lagerfeld, who was chosen by the fashion house to be the head designer. The See by Chloe aesthetic is the Chloe aesthetic with a youthful injection of vibrancy and fresh eyes that can contribute without derailing the brand.
Fun layers on a V-necked maxi dress and a striped shirt with bell sleeves caught the breeze in the photo, matched with white sandals, pineapple earrings and a matching pineapple necklace, and topped with a very on-trend accessory " the dad hat.
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Most people desire peace for everyone — family, friends, community, country, and nations of the earth. But if only people are included, peace on Earth will remain a dream.
Why? Because as Albert Schweitzer, the French philosopher, physician, musician, and winner of the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize pointed out: "Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."
Strong words.
In his Nobel Peace Prize address, Dr. Schweitzer said: "The human spirit is not dead. ... It has come to believe that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind."
It is apropos to talk about peace at this particular time of year — whether you celebrate Christmas religiously, spiritually, or commercially — the message of peace permeates all religions and cultures.
In Schweitzer's Philosophy of Civilization, he wrote: "We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it."
Peace — not just for humans but for all animals who share earth with us.
"Thou shalt not kill" means not killing all creatures, not just humans. We would be foolish to expect that we can achieve global peace while participating in the suffering, enslavement, and killing of sentient beings every time we eat. The mindless and widely accepted practice of bringing life into this world, only to abuse, exploit, and kill it at less than five per cent of its life span for our own satisfaction is reprehensible.
As with the abolition of slavery, women's oppression, racism, and discrimination based on sexual orientation, religion, or gender, some people are championing the abolition of discrimination based on species, or speciesism.
If activists only focused on improving slavery conditions for blacks, would happy slavery make it more palatable for the slaves? Not likely. It was only through abolition of slavery that it became no longer socially or morally acceptable by mainstream society.
Hence, using animals "nicely", or "humanely" detracts energy and focus from the only meaningful cause from the animals' perspective — abolition of their exploitation. It has never been our right to use animals for our gustatory pleasure, fashion vanity, experimental testing, and entertainment, just as we have no right to use marginalized humans for any purpose. It is every creature's birthright to live without exploitation by humans.
When people become defensive about their right to eat, harvest, hunt, and kill animals, it exhibits an underlying conflict between their innate moral code (that it's wrong to harm or kill unnecessarily) and their habituated unconscious practice of dining on dead carcasses and using animal parts. If humans have evolved intellectually, why don't our actions reflect our evolution as moral beings? The fact that we dominate other species merely demonstrates our moral inferiority.
Incremental changes of improved welfare for farmed animals, as well as humane and local meat movements, though marginally helpful, are not sustainable answers. Most importantly, they are not the moral resolution animals need. Animal welfare reforms inhibit the abolition revolution by assuaging people's guilty conscience.
Baby steps of Meatless Mondays are just that — good initiators for the seismic shift in thinking required by the masses to re-examine our moral obligation. If we subscribe to the fact that animals matter morally — and the scientific community has proclaimed their sentience — then we need a completely different conversation — away from improved exploitation to abolition. We need to eliminate the property status of animals, as we once did with slaves and women, to rectify this social injustice.
Global population is forecast to reach nine billion by 2050. When scientists at the Stockholm International Water Institute recommend that animal-based foods should be limited to five per cent of total calories to ensure enough water for agriculture, we need a drastic paradigm shift in what we eat — not who we eat.
Animals are sentient beings, they are not food for humans. Our food should come from the ground, not the wombs of other creatures. Before condemning bear bile farms in Asia, we should scrutinize our own obsession with dairy farms for cows' mammary secretions.
It is paradoxical when people of faith who espouse respect for life pray for peace at Christmas, yet sit down to dine on baby animals killed by other people.
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: "You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
Saying grace before a meal does not absolve one from the egregious suffering and death of these animals.
There is no gentle way to tell meat-eaters who they are eating. The emotional discomfort people feel pales in comparison to the fright, pain, suffering, misery, injustice, and the final walk of desolation on the conveyor belt to meet their death by the 70 billion farmed land animals worldwide each year. It's impossible to fathom the enormity of this indifference. But we can think of one turkey, one pig, or one cow. To you, it's a meal. To her, it's her life. Is a turkey's 15-year or a cow's 25-year life an equitable exchange for a few minutes of dining enjoyment when equally or more flavourful options are available? Perhaps it is time we examine our actions and align them with our faith and intrinsic values.
Take this opportunity to elevate our social conscience by heeding "Thou shalt not kill," and initiate a meaningful discussion for the animals. Peace — to all beings.
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages." — Thomas A. Edison.
"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form." — William Ralph Inge.
"The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality." — Schopenhauer.
Patricia Tallman is an environmental policy consultant and founder of the Langley Herbivores, a community group that promotes a plant-based diet.


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Pajo the Calf predicts Mayo will lift the Sam Maguire
Pajo the Calf, Ireland's celebrity calf, paid a flying visit to Boyle Sport's headquarters on Thursday to demonstrate his uncanny knowledge of all things GAA, and crucially to predict the winner of the All Ireland.
Pajo predicted that Mayo will lift the Sam Maguire after decades of heartbreak and dud campaigns for the Westerners.
The 10 week old calf travelled from Aughmullen outside of Castleblayney to make his predictions, which were witnessed by members of the press and employees of Boyle Sport's.
"He picked the teams I would have gone for," says Alan Sheridan, Pajo's 21-year-old manager. "I think he will be watching the match too."
Everyone present agreed that Pajo did a fine job picking the winner, though Pajo himself seemed more concerned with helping keep Boyle Sport's grass in order.
"He loves the grass here. It gets cut often so it would be sweeter," suggested Alan.
Pajo was initially wearing a pair of Monaghan shorts at the photo shoot, but he decided to cast them aside.
However, like the true professional he has become, he was happy enough to fly the Boyle Sports colours for the photoshoot.
Some reports suggest Pajo is psychic but the Democrat understands that his prediction are based on an inherent understanding of the game.
While the Democrat was there, Pajo also predicted a Dublin win over Kerry.
Leon Blanche from Boylesports said that Pajo has a good track record.
"This calf is very special indeed he was quite able to predict Monaghan's result all throughout Ulster," he said.
"Some might say that Monaghan might have won their quarter-final had Pajo been in charge."
Pajo rose to fame in recent months after a picture of him was posted on Facebook. Pajo received many thousands of likes, catapulting him into stardom.
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Guitarist HOTEI will return to O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire in London on October 20th next year, marking his first London show in three years. Tickets are now on sale at https://www1.ticketmaster.co.uk/hotei-london-20-10-2018/event/1F0053689BF244BD.
"It's such a thrill to be able to play at my favourite venue, Shepherd's Bush Empire, my first show in London in three years! I promise I will play my guitar with a delicate, yet cutting edge and powerful sound, with the on stage chemistry completed by performing with my amazing musicians. We have arranged a fully seated venue this time, so you can enjoy my music in a more relaxed environment. I am looking forward to meeting lots of music lovers!" said HOTEI.
HOTEI's latest album, Paradox, is available for streaming or download worldwide at https://umj.lnk.to/hotei_paraWE.
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In 20,000 Leagues Under the Street, as a man who hates bugs, Peter is horrified when an ant farm arrives in the mail for Ray. Peter's phobia is put to the test when he is taken captive by the spirit of the long-dead Egyptian Insect God, Apshai, and his horde of giant insect slaves.[2]
Peter ran through a forest filled with fog. A large ant monster confronted Peter. Peter fired but the Proton Stream had no effect on it. It sliced the cord connecting Peter's Particle Thrower to his Proton Pack and left him defenseless. Peter backed over to the edge of cliff and climbed onto a tree as the monster drew closer to him. Then Peter fell off his chair in his office and woke up. Ray ran past Peter to answer the front door. Egon and Slimer were curious what the package was. Peter hoped in vain it was a back massager. It was an ant farm. Peter was less than pleased and declared the world would be better off without bugs.
At the Museum of Natural History, the monster from Peter's dream was on a stone tablet being looked at by Winston and Janine. Janine read the display out loud, revealing it was named Aphsai, the Egyptian god of insects. Winston was clearly bored. They joined a crowd that formed around the exhibit curator. The curator lectured about Apshai. He was reputed to have ruled Egypt from an unusual temple until he was driven out by the Egyptians who no longer worshiped him. Apshai and his followers took along this temple's Crystal Capstone, the alleged source of his powers, and they were never seen again. The curator presented the one relic of Apshai recovered, a gold scarab. As soon as the curator opened the scarab, an earthquake rocked Manhattan. Deep, deep down below, the Crystal Capstone lay on a boat and glowed. A mandible suddenly emerged from the capstone.
Back at the Firehouse, Peter was almost finished with a making a stack of cards when the earthquake it. Upstairs in his lab, Egon frantically ran around saving his collection of spores, mold, and fungi. Ray tried to get him to take cover instead but the earthquake stopped. They headed downstairs and Peter emerged from under his desk wondering who was sticking gum there. Ray's ant farm was broken and the ants were filing out. An unusual number of bugs joined the rather organized march out of the Firehouse. Egon sensed something was wrong since bugs are usually agitated before an earthquake, not after. Slimer motioned the guys to look outside with him. There was an extremely large procession of bugs heading down the street. In Central Park, museum goers looked on as Enlarged Insects emerged from the cracks in the ground.
Ray and Egon flew off in Ecto-2 while Peter and Slimer drove off in Ecto-1. As Ecto-1 narrowly dodged a gas leak, Egon and Ray approached Central Park. Egon detected a sudden surge in ectoplasmic readings and suggested an aerial sweep before landing. However, a giant dragonfly attacked them. Ecto-2 crashed into a pond. The Ghostbusters, Slimer, and Janine met up at Ecto-1 and suited up. While performing reconnaissance, it became clear the bugs were building something. Egon insisted they weren't real bugs and were actually ethereal facsimiles. Peter stormed off to get the Ghost Traps out of Ecto-1 but came upon several beetles stripping it! Peter blasted one and it shrank into a normal bug. He was then ambushed by giant spiders, webbed up, and carried away. Slimer tried to save Peter but he was tossed into a tree and disrupted a bird nest. As the others watched Peter being taken underground, Egon realized the bugs were ethereal enlargements under some behavior control not carbon copies. Slimer followed after Peter and avoided a sentry bug. The bugs above eventually ignored the Ghostbusters and continued building.
Egon came up with a new plan and declared they needed a fire pumper and 4000 gallons of honey. Winston wondered how they could tell when Egon went nuts. The spiders brought Peter to the Crystal Capstone and Apshai. He announced Peter was chosen to be his sacrifice. The others manned a fire pump and blasted out some honey. The bugs took the bait and started feasting on the honey. The Ghostbusters marched for one of the fissures and climbed down. Janine saved Winston from a bug at the last minute. Down below, Apshai went on a rant and declared the humans ruled the world long enough. The bugs would rise up and destroy humanity - termites would destroy buildings, locust would destroy crops, and mosquitoes and bees would bite and sting humans. Peter heard enough and tried to leave but some bugs carried him away. Elsewhere, Egon tried to get a fix on his P.K.E. Meter as Ray and Winston blasted at bugs swarming at them. Up above, Janine observed the structure being built and realized it was a representation of the Temple of Apshai. She tried to radio Egon but they were out of range.
The guys found the cave where Apshai held Peter and charged in. They fell off a ledge and the cave was empty. Slimer found them and frantically pointed to a path. A procession of bugs made its way up to the surface. Apshai gloated that once the capstone was placed on the pyramid and powered by the Sun, he could be invincible. Janine hid behind a tree and blasted the bug carrying Peter. She tossed him a Proton Pack and they attacked Apshai. It was too late though, the capstone was placed atop the pyramid. Apshai grew in size and returned fire. The others joined Janine and Peter and opened fire on Apshai. Janine directed them to the capstone instead. Once the capstone was destroyed, Apshai turned to sand and faded away. The bugs returned to normal, the temple collapsed, and the fissures closed up. Egon and Ray mused the world still needed bugs as a monarch butterfly landed on Peter's nose.
|Janine: In a past life, I was Cleopatra, you know. Ah, yes, sailing the Nile on my golden barge.
Winston: Even in those days you had to commute, huh?
|Winston: First we have to figure out how to get past those bugs. Any ideas?
Egon: Yes, but we'll need a fire department pumper and four thousand gallons of honey.
- The episode was recorded on March 20 and 22, 1991.[3]
- Dave Coulier recorded alone on March 22, 1991.[4]
- "20,000 Leagues Under the Street" is the finale for The Real Ghostbusters series.
- Peter has a premonition of giant red preying mantis attacking him.
- This is the second time Peter has had a precognitive dream about the entity encountered later in the story. The first time was of the Sandman in "Mr. Sandman, Dream Me a Dream"
- Right before the Apshai incident, Ray received his ant farm in the mail.[5]
- Peter hated bugs ever since he was a child (but appears have lowered his stance by the end of the episode).[6][7]
- At the museum, Winston laments he'd rather be at a Mets baseball game. This hints at his level of discomfort as he is a diehard fan of the Jaguars as seen in "Night Game".[8]
- Janine muses she was Cleopatra in a past life.[9]
- During the earthquake, Egon is frantic to save his collection of spores, mold, and fungi.[10]
- Janine ends up wearing three different sets of clothes by the end of the episode.
- Janine dons her jumpsuit for the first time since "Jailbusters"
- Peter is nearly sacrificed in this episode.
- This episode's end credit uses the end title theme in the earlier seasons, instead of the theme used in the last two seasons.
- This was the last new animated Ghostbusters story until 1997, the last featuring the original Ghostbusters exclusively.
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- ↑ Marsha Goodman (1991). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "20,000 Leagues Under the Street" (1991).
- ↑ Eatock, James & Mangels, Andy (2008). The Real Ghostbusters Complete Collection booklet, p. 42. CPT Holdings, Inc.
- ↑ Marsha Goodman (1991). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "20,000 Leagues Under the Street" (1991).
- ↑ Marsha Goodman (1991). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "20,000 Leagues Under the Street" (1991).
- ↑ Ray Stantz (2009). The Real Ghostbusters - "20,000 Leagues Under the Street" (1991) (DVD ts. 02:22-02:24). Time Life Entertainment. Ray says: "It's the ant farm I ordered."
- ↑ Peter Venkman (2009). The Real Ghostbusters - "20,000 Leagues Under the Street" (1991) (DVD ts. 02:07-02:09). Time Life Entertainment. Peter says: "I hate bugs!"
- ↑ Peter Venkman (2009). The Real Ghostbusters - "20,000 Leagues Under the Street" (1991) (DVD ts. 06:25-06:27). Time Life Entertainment. Peter says: "I hate 'em. All of them! Ever since I was a kid!"
- ↑ Winston Zeddemore (2009). The Real Ghostbusters - "20,000 Leagues Under the Street" (1991) (DVD ts. 03:00-03:02). Time Life Entertainment. Winston says: "I'd rather be at the Mets game."
- ↑ Janine Melnitz (2009). The Real Ghostbusters - "20,000 Leagues Under the Street" (1991) (DVD ts. 03:07-03:12). Time Life Entertainment. Janine says: "Well, not in this lifetime. But in a past life, I was Cleopatra, you know."
- ↑ Egon Spengler (2009). The Real Ghostbusters - "20,000 Leagues Under the Street" (1991) (DVD ts. 05:10-05:12). Time Life Entertainment. Egon says: "Oh no! My mold! My fungi!"
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Secrets of Ancient America
Introduction. I set out to discover a new history of America. This is my story.
Chapter 1. Discovering a New History. I begin by noting that nobody, most notably this writer, can discover by themselves the New History.
Chapter 2. American History ABC. Barry Fell had demonstrated there was a great lie, a deception perpetuated by the archaeological community to keep the true history of America a secret. I became determined to discover why this was so and how it was done.
Chapter 3. The Stars and The Stones. I investigate the science of archaeoastronomy which encompasses how the astronomical practices of the ancients affected their mythologies, religions, world-views, architecture and other aspects of their cultures.
Chapter 4. Celtic New England. Ancient Celtic America begins in New England, where dedications written to the Old World god Bel were carved in stones.
Chapter 5. They Settled in Meso America. Relying on other researchers including Martin Brennan, V. Ganapati Sthapati (1927-2011) a famous master temple builder from india, and John Major Jenkins I document the origins, cosmologies and pyramids of the Maya and show how the large stone works were based on celestial alignments.
Chapter 6. The Pathfinder. Equinox alignments at this early Native American petroglyph site are highlighted. I found subtleties and forms that I didn't readily understand, but over the next several years, by taking the time to draw them, the images and the stories became clearer.
Chapter 7. Equinox Sunrise: Celtic Sun Deities in Colorado. I traveled regularly to southeastern Colorado to explore rock art sites and to visit the aging Bill McGlone. Each trip was punctuated with time spent looking at rock art that included archaic Native American petroglyphs, archaeoastronomical sites, and, most important, several American rock art locations bearing Old World Ogham scripts.
Chapter 8. Old World Cosmologies at Anubis Caves. I would come to discover that this Oklahoma site is one of the most significant examples of Old World contact in America before Columbus.
Chapter 9. More Celtic America. The Sun Temple alignment coincides with, Beltane (May Festival) and Lughnasa (August Festival), two of the four Celtic cross-quarter days.
Chapter 10. Westward to a Dwelling Place of a Great Spirit–Mojave North. After a few years of studying the petroglyphs and archaeoastronomy of Mojave North under the tutelage of Rod Schmidt, I discovered several new alignments including a micro heliolithic animation with a surprising revelation at sunset on the equinox.
Chapter 11. Mojave North II—Did They Come Across the Pacific? Shiva lands in America at this ancient California site where Dorian Taddei and I make many new discoveries, including both solar and lunar phenomena.
Chapter 12. Features of the Great Basin "Melting Pot". "There, I stood, gazing at one of the largest petroglyphic images of a man. He stood four feet tall with outstretched arms, analogous to Leonardo de Vinci's famous image of the Divine Man."
Chapter 13. Midwest Relics, Mounds and Controversy. Deciphering a New History of America has to circumvent the frauds that proliferated between 1850 and 1920, often referred to as a "Golden Age" of archaeological hoaxes, along with modern day hoaxes and frauds.
Chapter 14. Hebrews, Romans, and Early Christians. While archaeologists continue to believe that "legitimate artifacts" are missing from the area's historical record, a site in New Mexico and relics from Arizona present archeological evidence.
Chapter 15. More To Learn. In addition to my own personal encounters that serve as proof to myself, collectively the hundreds of incidents found in historical records and the evidence presented by many researchers, writers and archaeologists provide evidence that the Old History is a gross misrepresentation of the facts, even an intentional lie.
Chapter 16. The Legacy of the Conquest."What is being covered up?" The answer is not simply the unconscionable genocide of indigenous peoples. The real cover-up is the continuity of the forces, ideologies and institutions that were operationally behind the Conquest of the Americas with the same agendas enacted today by corporations and governments, driven by the same goals and purposes that dominated the Old History.
Chapter 17. Awakening a New History. In attempting to present a New History, I peel away the layers of lost connections to a disenfranchised and misunderstood past in a quest for understanding the shared present.


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© 1994, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 390 Ashton Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94112.
by Sally Stephens, Astronomical Society of the Pacific
The small room at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore was packed, even though it was the middle of the night. Astronomers and technicians strained to get a good view of the monitor that would soon show them the first picture taken with the newly "fixed" Hubble Space Telescope (HST). At 1:00 a.m., on Dec. 18, 1993, the image was radioed from the telescope to the ground. Tension gave way to cheers and exuberant shouts as the image of a star appeared on the monitor, a star without any of the smeared light astronomers had come to expect from the telescope's flawed main mirror. According to Edward Weiler, Hubble Space Telescope Program Scientist, the HST had not only been fixed, but "fixed beyond our wildest expectations."
Had Happened?
The Fix
The Repair Mission
"The Trouble with Hubble is Over"
Crystal-Clear Images
Activity: "Name That Angle"
But the telescope's 2.4-meter (94-inch) main mirror had been ground to the wrong specifications, and was too flat near the edge by about 1/50th the width of a human hair. This miniscule error meant that only a small fraction, about 15 percent, of the light gathered by the HST was properly focused to a sharp point. The remaining 85 percent was spread out into a large, fuzzy halo and was essentially unusable. This problem, well known to astronomers, is called spherical aberration.
Astronomers quickly devised computer programs to remove this wasted light from images taken by the telescope, and the Hubble produced spectacular pictures of dust rings in the centers of galaxies that may be hiding massive black holes from view, peered into the heart of clusters of stars, and followed a storm on Saturn. But many projects, especially those involving faint objects, could not be done, and astronomers were haunted by the idea of discoveries that might have been made had the mirror not been flawed.
For example, astronomers had always planned to replace the HST's Wide Field and Planetary Camera (abbreviated WF/PC, and usually called "Wiff-Pick"), designed to look at relatively bright objects with a wide field of view, during the first servicing mission. The new instrument would have "faster" electronic detectors, which, because they capture the same amount of light in half the time, can image fainter objects. After the HST mirror's aberration was discovered, scientists realized they could polish the mirrors in the new camera to a different "prescription" than originally planned to properly refocus the light. Replacing the old WF/PC would correct the HST mirror's problem, but only for that one instrument.
Unfortunately, replacements were not readily available for the other Hubble instruments, since they had not been scheduled for early upgrades. So scientists and engineers devised COSTAR (Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement), with three small mirrors, about the size of dimes and quarters, each polished to compensate for the main mirror's flaw. After installation, a set of mechanical arms, no longer than a human hand, would put one of the mirrors in front of the opening that admits light into each of the other three scientific instruments, properly refocusing the light entering each one. In a sense, COSTAR put "eyeglasses" in front of each instrument to correct the telescope's vision, although the eyeglasses were mirrors, not lenses.
To make space for COSTAR, the shuttle astronauts had to remove one of the original Hubble instruments, the phonebooth-sized High Speed Photometer, which measured the brightness of celestial objects. This instrument was chosen to be sacrificed because it did proportionally less science than any of the other four instruments.
Working in pairs on alternating days, four spacewalking shuttle astronauts worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. Jeffrey Hoffman and Story Musgrave installed the new WF/PC and replaced two pairs of faulty gyroscopes. The HST needs three gyros to point at and "track" stars during observations. It originally carried six gyroscopes. But the failure of three gyros since launch left the telescope with no back-ups. The repair gave the Hubble a full complement of healthy gyros.
Astronauts Kathryn Thornton and Tom Akers gently installed COSTAR, and replaced the HST's solar power panels. Shortly after launch, scientists discovered that the Hubble's solar panels expanded and contracted more than expected every time the telescope passed from the warmth of day into the cold of night and vice versa. This happened twice during every 96-minute orbit, and caused a "jitter" in the telescope that interfered with its ability to point at stars correctly for a short time after each temperature change. As a temporary fix, engineers created special computer programs that compensated for almost all of the jitter, allowing the telescope to function normally.
Still, scientists worried that the jitter would weaken the solar panels, causing them to break before the telescope's mission was done. Without enough power, the telescope could not operate. This concern prompted the astronauts to replace the solar panels with new ones designed to reduce the amount of jitter caused by the extreme temperature changes in Earth orbit.
The five spacewalks went so smoothly that the astronauts were frequently an hour ahead of the timeline established beforehand for each repair. Moving with extreme care and precision, the astronauts accomplished all of the tasks asked of them. On Dec. 13, 12 days after launch, the shuttle returned to Earth, its mission completed. At the time, one scientist said, "We have just completed eye surgery on the Hubble Space Telescope. It will be a matter of six to eight weeks before we can remove the bandages, figuratively speaking, from the patient and determine whether the operation was a success or not."
First astronomers had to calibrate the new gyroscopes, allow the WF/PC's new electronic detectors to cool to operating temperatures and align the Hubble's secondary mirror to make sure light properly entered the improved WF/PC. Then they would focus on aligning COSTAR's mirrors.
To their delight, astronomers found that the astronauts had been extraordinarily gentle to the telescope and its instruments; nothing had been bumped out of place. The corrective optics, which had been tested, retested, and tested again on the ground behaved exactly as expected. The telescope worked, in the words of one scientist, "like a dream." Astronomers and engineers worked feverishly for very long hours over the holiday season, aligning mirrors and analyzing information sent down by the telescope. About a month after the servicing mission, much sooner than expected, astronomers knew that the repairs had succeeded.
As astronomers analyzed data sent from Hubble throughout December, they were surprised at how good the images really were. There is a limit to how sharp light in a telescope can be made to focus. This so-called diffraction limit is based on the fact that light waves will inevitably spread out when they encounter an object in their path, like a mirror. This limit is different for every telescope and depends solely on the width of the main mirror and the wavelength of light under consideration. The resolution of most telescopes (the degree to which fine detail can be observed, or resolved) is normally much higher than the diffraction limit, due to the blurring of light by the Earth's atmosphere and imperfections in the optics.
The Hubble's spherical aberration spread a star's light out into a fuzzy halo four arc seconds across. [One arc second is 1/3600 of a degree, and corresponds to how far apart the headlights on a car would look if the car was 480 kilometers (300 miles) away.] Now, with the corrective optics in place, 60-70 percent of the light is concentrated within 1/10 of an arc second, very near the sharpest focus possible for a 2.4-meter telescope, essentially at the telescope's diffraction limit.
According to James Crocker, COSTAR team leader, the new Hubble images are "as perfect as engineers can achieve and as physical laws will allow." In fact, the corrected Hubble's vision is so precise that, if the telescope were in Washington, D.C., with an hour-and-a-half-long observation (the length of one HST orbit), it could detect the light from a firefly in Tokyo, half a world away. "And," Crocker continued, "if they were ten feet apart, we could see there were two fireflies."
For the first time, astronomers could follow the galaxy's spiral arms into the innermost regions of the galaxy. And, because of the clearer image, they were able to see extremely faint stars in M100's outer regions that will allow them to accurately determine its distance. The faint glow of these stars had always been swamped by light from nearby brighter stars blurred by the Earth's atmosphere. But with the repaired Hubble's sharp focus, the brighter stars looked like true points of light, allowing astronomers to see their fainter neighbors for the first time.
Another Hubble test image revealed thousands of stars in a cluster of young, hot stars, where before astronomers had only been able to detect the hundred or so brightest stars. And these were just "raw" images, with no computer enhancements of any kind. The telescope's new-found ability to see faint objects and structure within a few tenths of an arc second of bright stars delighted scientists. The telescope is now every bit as good as it was supposed to be when it was launched. In fact, in some ways it's even better; the improved WF/PC detectors make that instrument more sensitive than the original.
During the coming year, 1,200 to 1,500 astronomers will use the refurbished telescope to learn more about the universe in which we live. They will look for evidence of massive black holes in the centers of galaxies, continue the search for planets around other stars, and begin to calibrate the distance scale to far-away galaxies. Given the extraordinary success of the repair mission, astronomers have high hopes that the Hubble will finally deliver on its promise to revolutionize our understanding of astronomy.
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Then the show ends. And I burst into tears.
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[Note: Any time I post something this aggravating, I get lots of hostile e-mails. Please say it here (comments aren't moderated) or on your own blog instead. I'm sorry; I wish that I had time/emotional energy to answer, let alone read, all of the angry e-mail my blogging sometimes generates. But I don't.]
I just got an advanced copy of Peter Wolfendale's Object-Oriented Philosophy: The Noumenon's New Clothes. I was pretty excited about it because I've been a fan of Wolfendale's blog for a long while now and also quite enjoyed large chunks of his dissertation on Heidegger as well as some of his takes on Robert Brandom. We have a pretty fundamental disagreement about the latter's quietism, but I continue to find Wolfendale to be an interlocutor from whom I can learn a lot.
Since what I'm about to say is negative let me also preface it with a story of my own. My first publication was something I wrote with Roy Cook in graduate school. The first place we sent it was Analysis and they accepted it with revisions. So this seemed easy enough. And it generally is for people, as long as they are co-writing with Roy Cook (the guy's phenomenal). But after that I moved to Louisiana and it was over two years before I got anything else accepted. It was one of the darkest periods of my life. That is, as I faced the possibility of instantiating the Bob Dylan line about thirty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, it became a little bit maddening. Weirdly, the psychological issues had a pronounced negative effect on my prose, and my first two single-authored papers published (here and here) just have a nasty tone. I find looking at them today really unpleasant. The frustration of what I was going through as an early stage academic with zero job security is just too manifest. I've long since had a chance to apologize to the papers' targets for the tone of the papers, and both were mensches about it. But I can't go back and rewrite them.*
It's generally a mistake to delve into people's psychology too much, unless doing so helps you be more charitable. So I'm going to try see the preface (available now online here) of Wolfendale's book in terms of what I myself went through. Moreover, in my case the reviewers and editors at Philosophical Studies and Synthese at least helped me tone down the paper a bit before publication. It's pretty clear that the suits at Urbanomic Press did not extend the same bit of professionalism to Wolfendale.
So now here is the weird thing. At the very outset of a four hundred page book ostensibly about Graham Harman's philosophy we get phrases like "the pathological dynamics typical of Harman's work" (xvi). Please pause and consider that. Why write a four hundred page book about something dynamically pathological? Seriously, polemics in philosophy never succeed, for the simple reason that only the already converted give the polemicist a pass on the uncharity needed for the polemic to be rhetorically effective. For a good example of this performative contradiction in action, check out Bertrand Russell's introduction to Ernest Gellner's old attack on "linguistic philosophy."
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