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"(Prime Minister Tony) Blair and (Foreign Secretary Jack) Straw have become far too close to these people and Lord Levy, who is an unaccountable ambassador in the Middle East, is part of this group. They are acting on an extremely Zionist, Likud-nik agenda. In particular I am concerned that some of them are pushing for an attack on Syria, for reasons of Israeli security… It is an enormously sensitive issue and that's why very many of us have been extremely reticent about it, because we don't want to be seen as anti-Semitic." – Tam Dalyell MP, quoted by The Scotsman on Sunday, May 4th, 2003.
"I am fully aware that one is treading on cut glass on this issue and no one wants to be accused of anti-Semitism but, if it is a question of launching an assault on Syria or Iran . . . then one has to be candid… I am not going to be labelled anti-Semitic. My children worked on a kibbutz. But the time has come for candour." – Tam Dalyell MP, quoted by The Telegraph, also on May 4th, 2003.
In his article "The unbearable shame of Cameron's 'torah' government" appearing in "veteranstoday.com" on June 28th, Stuart Littlewood reprises the astonishing degree of Jewish / Israeli influence in Britain's government and political parties over the years.
The two quotes above, referred to by him, show that even ten years ago the Israel Lobby in Britain was agitating for attacks on Syria and Iran, two major obstacles to Israeli pacification and control of the Middle East.
Soon after Dalyell's comments were reported, it was suggested that he should be investigated for "inciting racial hatred". That's a pretty-much standard response to criticisms of Israel and its policies, designed to prevent any rational discussion of such claims.
As Littlewood points out, "He joined the dots and saw the danger, as did many others."
There is much, much more information provided, and I suggest that you read Littlewood's excellent article from start to finish.
Jeff Goodall.
See "The unbearable shame of Cameron's 'torah' government" here.
Read "Fury as Dalyell attacks Blair's Jewish cabal" (Telegraph, May 4th 2003) here.
Read "Dalyell: Zionist cabal runs policy on Israel" (Scotsman on Sunday, May 4th, 2003) here.
For further background, here are links to some of my previous posts:
"Labour Friends of Israel influences U.K. media using BICOM" (Nov. 25th, 2012) here.
"U.K: The 'Friends of Israel' threat to British sovereignty" (August 19th, 2012) here.
"U.K: Israel Lobby viciously intolerant" (March 3rd, 2012) here.
"Time to register UK's 'Friends Of Israel' as lobbyists for a foreign power" (Jan 25th, 2012) here.
"Britain: Jewish dual-loyalty and national security concerns" (Dec. 17th, 2011) here.
"More Mossad penetration of Britains Ministry of Defence?" (Oct. 17th, 2011) here.


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my husband was diagnosed 20 some years ago and there has been deterioration over the years and he is at 23% kidney function. he finally agreed to see a new specialist who is actually doing something active as opposed to just telling him to wait for dialysis. there are fish oil studies this doctor showed him (that I had discovered about 10 years ago from MT Sinai Kansas City) and he needs hectorol(Vit D in a form his kidney can use) and shot weekly of procrit...there are things to do and he was previously only being treated for associated symptoms of high blood pressure and cholesterol. Previous doctor told him he wasnt eligible for transplant lists until on dialysis . WRONG. New doctor said all wrong and in fact with the new antirejection drugs many more matches are possible and in fact someone never on dialysis makes a better transplant recipient. I may have to do some kind of exchange my kidney for someone else that a center matches you with for their relative's kidney. Where are these postings at?? God Bless you and Good Luck.
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Great Post. I too have the diesase. It is aactually rather common in men. I was diagnosed at 30, and am now 40. I too am taking Fish Body Oil. I'll look up the Hectrol. Keep me posted (use my e-mail) of any new info.Thanks again.
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Victory V's
In 1830, William IV became King, the Duke of Wellington was forced to resign as Prime Minister, and two other men met in a pub in Nelson, Lancashire.
One of these two (not the oldest person at that point to assume the British throne, or the composer of the hit song 'Waterloo') was a local man named Thomas Fryer. The other was a travelling confectioner. They decided to go into business together, making and selling peppermints and lozenges.
Things went well at first – especially as the cost of importing sugar to Britain had fallen - but by the mid-19th Century Fryer and Co had major cashflow problems and the business was bought out for £1,000 by another entrepreneur of the Victorian Age, one Dr Edward Smith of Bolton.
Smith had produced his own Cough No More lozenge and been giving it to his patients to cure various ailments. Installing his brother, William Carruthers Smith, as manager of the company, Dr Smith set about creating a new range of medicinal lozenges offering pain relief and using a quite different recipe, combining ether, pulverised sugar, linseed, liquorice, acacia gum and chlorodyne; calling them Victory Chlorodyne Lozenges.
Now, you might easily see the naming connection from Nelson to an Admiral, who probably should have gone to Specsavers for optometry advice, to HMS Victory. But what of the seemingly innocuous 'chlorodyne?' Chlorodyne was in fact one of the best-known patent medicines in Britain at that time. It had been originally invented by a doctor in the British Indian Army – Dr John Collis Browne – and used originally for the treatment of cholera. Browne sold his patent to pharmacist John Thistlewood Davenport who marketed it as a cure also for diarrhea, insomnia, neuralgia and migraine. So far, so much medicine and men in big overcoats with big handlebar moustaches you might think.
Well, probably, but chlorodyne itself was a mixture of chloroform, tincture of cannabis and laudanum – itself an alcoholic solution of opium. The original hard, brown brick-like lozenges with cut-off corners might have enticed prospective purchasers to 'have a glow' or been marketed as perfect 'for cold journeys' or, indeed, having a 'kick like a mule,' but, honestly, would anyone have noticed? Would they have noticed anything? Was it here that, despite it still growing at the time, the seeds of decline of the British Empire were actually sown, in an ironic kind of drug-induced victory deconstruction?
Certainly, the lozenges were immensely popular and maybe someone woke up for long enough to discover the real reason why, forcing Fryer's to give them a snappy new name: Linseed Liquorice V Lozenge Victory. A new factory - the Victory Works – was opened to cope with demand. The plant boasted its own laboratory where raw materials were tested, including peppermint from Japan and China, liquorice from Turkey and Italy, pineapple from Hawaii and sugar from Mauritius.
Now patented as a confectionery product, their name had changed again by 1911 to Victory V Lozenges. In-between sucking on impossibly strong throat lozenges and writing largely inaccessible treatises historians have argued over the origins of the 'victory v' label. Some older scholars who can still remember the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 claim that the French boasted that, if any English archers were captured, they would cut off the three fingers of their right hand 'so that neither man or horse would ever again by killed by their arrow fire'. English archers were then said to have stuck up their fingers after victory in the battle as a kind of Brexit gesture.
Other historians scoff that this is a 20th Century invention and that you have to go much further back – to Homer's Trojan War – where the Trojans would cut off their defeated enemies' first two fingers on their right hands, preventing them from holding a sword and thus eliminating them from being effective on the battlefield ever again. To demonstrate their victory, the Trojans would hold their two fingers high, taunting their fingerless enemies.
Some (probably quite a lot, thinking about it) suggest that Winston Churchill came up with the idea after too much brandy and cigars following writer's block. Whatever the origin, Victory V's and their new slogan 'forged for strength' captured the British love for dubious historical supremacy as the products were championed and exported across the globe.
Fryer and Co also created jelly babies, slab toffee and the first decorated tins as sweet packaging. The Victory V brand was acquired in 1992 by Trebor Bassett and now manufactured in Devon by Ernest Jackson, itself a subsidiary of Cadbury. After a bit of a detox, the chloroform and cannabis bits have been removed by the unsmiling health and safety police.
Thus, rather like the demand to eat coal during pregnancy, the medicinal case for Victory V's has declined in recent years, but Fryer, Smith and Browne must surely be commended for their collective role in drugging a nation and therefore making it feel so much better, simply by sucking sweets.
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I called my dad to tell him his first grandson had been born. He wanted to confirm the gender. You see, I'm the fourth of five girls, and my sister had two daughters, so my dad was incredulous that I'd actually given birth to a boy child.
"I'm sure," I said. "It's definitely a boy. Definitely boy parts."
"Well, it's good you had an easy time delivering," he said.
Easy? That's not the word I would have chosen after ten hours of labor and some stitches. Should any birth be described as easy? I just expelled a person! But my dad was an OBGYN. He knew better than I did what could go wrong, how long labor could last, all the complications I could have had. It was a miracle I'd had this healthy baby boy.
"Relatively easy, I guess," I said.
"What's his name?" he asked.
"Oliver Cole."
"Um, " I said, thinking of Oliver North, "We're going to call him Cole."
This was yesterday, except not. It has taken us over seventeen years to get to this point. And now, I won't see my boy every day, or every week, or even every month.
For the last month, I have felt a strange combination of excitement/joy and total despondency. I wanted to know the name of this, a word for the feeling, so I took a page from my kids' book and Googled it. "What is Bipolar disorder?" was the first hit. Exactly. I want to send away the person I've been protecting for almost 18 years. Elated and bereft. Schizophrenia, maybe? The Halloween decorations in Costco almost made me cry the other day because Cole won't be here in October. Stupid, I know, but I was feeling, as my friend Laurie says, "all the feelings." Forget about the grocery store. It's a fucking minefield. I stocked up on Nutella. For medicinal purposes.
My dad is gone. I can't impress him with the fact that his grandson is going to Harvard. I can't tell you how much I want to say that to him—to prove all sorts of things that don't really need proving. He would have felt justified, so to speak–hillbilly doctor's intellect finally validated by the one of the world's pickiest validators. Me too, somehow. Face it: we live through our grandchildren and children. I'd love to tell my dad, whose letters from Eastern Kentucky University to his mother said a lot about laundry and how he thought he might could scrape together enough money to get home for Christmas break.
So, this weekend, we will head up to the frigid North—why would anyone live there? You don't have to be cold all the time. Who ever heard of Spring coats? But still. There are so many books and people who love them there. So many people whose bodies are just carrying cases for their brains–my boy's lost tribe.
Jeff says I should imagine the quiet—no large, gangly human clanging around the kitchen for a midnight snack. No one banging out Maple Leaf Rag on the piano for hours and hours on end. Lord knows, I have yelled enough for quiet and just a little goddamn peace! So many wishes and fears come true.
This is the real birth into the world. We got him an ID card (he still doesn't drive), signed him up to vote (absentee, we need him here!) and got his lost debit card reissued. He's a grown up to strangers, capable of the intellectual thought of the ancients, but incapable of making his bed, buying groceries, etc.
Nobody asks you if you kick ass at breastfeeding, once your baby can eat. After awhile, no one can even guess whether you've given birth. I have a lot of obsolete skills. Gave birth just like in the textbook, the midwife said. Easy birth, she called it too.
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Gearbox Software has been coy about its next entry into the Borderlands series, opting to focus on other games in its library such as Battleborn and more recently picking up We Happy Few. Fans of the series can more than likely rejoice, however, as the company is "working on the thing most of you guys want us to be working on."
Gearbox isn't just working on what people want most, but 90 percent of the company according to CEO Randy Pitchford at his panel at PAX West. Of course, this isn't necessarily Borderlands 3 that he is referring to but since no one wants to see another Aliens: Colonial Marines, it more than likely is the developer's most successful series that we can expect.
We first heard official word of Borderlands 3 back in 2015 when Pitchford announced a recruitment drive for the game. Since then, we've been treated to a technical test of the engine that will power the upcoming cel-shaded shooter.
The last entries into the series were both released in 2014, with Gearbox releasing Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel and Telltale taking the reins on Tales from the Borderlands. The team behind Telltale's iteration specifically designed their characters to be able to be included in Borderlands 3, so there is a potential for Rhys, Fiona and the rest of the wacky cast to return.
Little is known about Borderlands 3 including a release date, but whatever 90 percent of the team are working on is sure to be announced in the near future since so many of Gearbox's resources are being allocated at once.
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AYR, FULLERTON'S WILLIAM WALLACE HALFPENNY, 1797, by Milton (D&H 3) bronzed proof finish. Even dark chocolate toned and brilliant, FDC.
Purchased from Spink in 1975.
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|I'm rating this 4 out of 5 stars, i really enjoyed it! I picked this up because i love Claudia Gray's Firebird books so i thought i'd try out her other books. I loved the writing in Fateful and how easily it gripped me into the story(i got so easily distracted during my previous read so this was such a relief).
Synopsis from Goodreads:
A tragic tale about falling in love on the world's most infamous ill-fated sea voyage as heroine, Tess, discovers darker secrets that lie beneath the doomed crossing. and a hidden brotherhood that threaten to tear her lover from her forever.
Fateful is a retelling of Titanic(or it could even be the real Titanic but from different characters), only in this version the girl is a servant/maid and the boy is the privileged one (with a big twist). Claudia Gray also included a touch of fantasy, which added a more dramatic plot. I really enjoyed how Claudia described the ship, it really reminded me of the time i went on a cruise for 4 days. It felt like i was back on the ship itself, and it really helped that i've watched the Titanic movie to get the Titanic vibe.
Fateful kind of reminded me of Twilight sometimes, and i'm surprised that I still enjoyed that plotline. I absolutely loved the writing, and how a lot of parts kept me at the edge of my seat because of the suspense and twists. I had a similar reading experience with A Thousand Pieces of You, and it just reminded me why I love Claudia Gray.
The characters were quite great, though i can't say I formed a deep connection to any of them. I quite enjoyed the romance, for the main characters AND the side characters. I liked reading about the differences between the different social classes too, how people of different classes were treated and the way the characters behave. Things got interesting when the characters from different classes started mingling with each other. I think the main character, Tess, is quite naive at times but most of the time i appreciated her character. I think Alec is a little too good to be true BUT I do really like him at the same time.
The ending wasn't as emotional as I was hoping it to be, but it was still satisfying enough. I would recommend Fateful if you're looking for something fast-paced and heartbreaking with decent cliche romance.
Posted by maliemania at Friday, September 16, 2016
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The last months have been very busy in our studio, in addition to work on a large project in virtual reality, which we will publish soon and an unusual order for the visualization of the prison cell, which we boasted on our social media profiles, many interior 3d visualizations have been created.
These were very diverse projects from the visualization of offices through the design of a caffe, the visualization of the interior of the canteen for employees, and the apartments.
Today we publish a gallery of these projects, which we can brag about, and the next ones soon.


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In what showed the obliviousness of most New Yorkers, a woman walked through the city wearing just a top and a jacket and no one even noticed.
Model Pranksters TV painted a woman's legs to look like she was wearing jeans and then she walked around the streets of midtown. Body art company The Body Of Art did such a convincing job of making the model appear as if she has pants on, when in reality, she does not.
The brave lady, Leah Jung, rode the subway, strolled through Times Square, walked around the garment district, and even went shopping.
Watch the video below.


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Shoq is a creative studio in Amsterdam where I did serveral jobs, for example Ola and Frisko. For this ad I just had 3 hours to create something, so I had to work fast.
This is the result that was placed in the Adformatie;
Role: Design
© 2015 Portfolio Ben Verveld
Tot ziens!


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Have fun and stay safe.
Enjoying yourself is part of being young but you need to think about your safety too. CitySafe Havens, are places to go if you find yourself in a difficult situation.
Your safety
Find out about how to be safe while still having a good time and getting on with your life.
Lift and Platform are safe places to be. You can just hang out or use the free laptops, computers or WIFI, or take advantage of the wide range of services that include personal help. You can also go along to the creative and digital youth centre, Soapbox.
Organisations that can help:
- Childline
- Live Life Safe - check out 'Help & Advice' from the Suzy Lamplugh Trust
- Stay Safe - advice from the BBC
- The Mix - crime and safety
- KidsHealth - staying safe
Check out the Stay Safe leaflet, under Downloads, for tips on being safe when travelling, working, using the internet and your mobile phone.
See the services and related information below.
Bullying and abuse
If you are being bullied or abused, it's not your fault and you don't have to put up with it; there are people who can help.
You can be bullied in lots of different ways:
- people saying horrible things to you, this is verbal abuse
- being hit, kicked or threatened with violence, this is physical abuse
- having your things taken
- using mobile phones or other online services to abuse you, this is cyber bullying.
Bullies may be people at school, college, work or other people who live near you.
You could be being abused, exploited or suffering domestic violence, if a member of your family or someone you know is:
- hitting you
- saying cruel things to you or blaming you unfairly, sometimes called emotional or verbal abuse
- not looking after you properly – sometimes called neglect
- touching you in a way you don't like, saying sexual things to you or showing you sexual pictures, this is sexual abuse.
- doing something sexual that you're uncomfortable with and getting money, status or power from it, this is sexual exploitation.
It can affect you even if you are not being abused but someone close to you is. It is not unusual to find it difficult to talk about if you are being abused.
Organisations that can help:
- advice on bullying from the BBC
- Bullying UK - live online support, tips to combat bullying and cyberbullying
- Bully Free Zone
- Bullying - Safe-Met.Police
See the services and related information below.
Health and safety at work
Health and safety at work is everyone's responsibility, so it is important that you think about yourself and others' safety too. You should:
- always follow safety instructions given to you and take notice of safety signs – ask if you don't understand
- use any safety clothing and equipment provided and don't use anything that could be dangerous until you have been properly trained - report anything dangerous, damaged or faulty
- don't leave things lying around or play practical jokes.
By law, your employer must keep you safe when you're working. They should:
- provide you with the right equipment and safety clothing wherever you work – in an office, a factory, building site or hospital
- make sure you have health and safety training including how to lift, store and move heavy things
- not put you under lots of stress – some stress at work is normal
- have a health and safety policy and make regular safety checks (this may be called a risk assessment)
- only let you back to work after an accident or health problem if it will not put you or others in danger.
Organisations that can help:
- GOV.UK - information about health and safety at work
Internet safety and personal info
Using the internet and social networking sites is fun but you need to be careful.
Whenever you put information like your name and address on sites like Facebook, Twitter or YouTube, it's hard to control what happens to it, so it is better not to tell people your home, school or work address, mobile number, private email address or your date of birth. It can be used by other people in ways that you did not mean, such as stealing your identity and pretending to be you.
Keep your password safe and don't choose one that someone could guess.
Some people who use chat rooms, forums, online gaming or social network sites may not be who they say they are, so make sure you are careful about what you tell them. Never arrange to meet someone you have talked to on the internet without telling your parents or an adult you trust.
Organisations that can help:
- Childnet - stay safe online
- Get safe online
See the services and related information below.


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Understanding new opportunities for end-to-end business value
Across the financial industry, innovation is driving new and exciting ways to bank. For banks and credit unions, remaining competitive requires a balance in responding to, and predicting, customer needs and achieving key performance measures.
Focus on classic performance measures such as return on equity (RoE) and return on assets (RoA) are now complemented with changing regulator-driven measurements, such as delivering minimum capital and liquidity ratios and – for some – complying with new resolvability requirements. In this complex world, the room for error is smaller than ever.
Since 2000, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) lists over 550 financial institutions that have failed to navigate successfully. It is more important than ever to evaluate the end-to-end business requirements to extract value from innovation and drive results.
Progress has added complexity
For many leaders, seeking new end-to-end business value is challenging. Finding a view across the business involves a lot of work and "connecting the dots" across a disparate infrastructure and departments. Many core banking systems date back to the 1980s. These legacy systems have then been integrated with new technology to support product introductions, service features, and compliance requirements. During these technology upgrades, end-to-end visibility is often not a primary priority and incremental complexity is added. When you consider departmental silos and regional processes, the challenge only increases. In seeking an end-to-end view, leaders are often faced with tedious manual processes to pull together the big picture in a dashboard view.
Support collaborative value—from end to end
To reduce the time and effort required to pull together the end-to-end view, some leaders may initiate projects to integrate systems. These projects attempt to streamline processes and improve data transparency and are rarely simple. They often can be inefficient or ineffective as subsequent or even adjacent projects may quickly add new requirements back into the process.
Just because they are difficult does not mean it should not be done. To ensure the projects are successful, banks and credit unions can adopt a corporate data-ecosystem standard. This standard includes a long-term end-to-end data-transparency framework and guidelines for departmental programs to link into this broader, collaborative vision. The long-term framework needs to be flexible enough for innovation to proceed in parallel to its implementation. which will often be over many years. Providing guidelines for new programs to integrate into the new model, future-proofs the solution and makes end-to-end visibility both a standard project priority, but also a core competency of the organization through repetition.
As the new framework is being implemented leaders can support a culture of collaboration, united by strategic shared goals to bring new 'value-creating' opportunities to the organization. Leveraging collaboration supports value creation by simplifying access to, and the time required to pull together the big picture. This is particularly valuable in bridging the gap between IT and Marketing. You can read more on bridging this gap here.
Gain better visibility into costs and options for controlling them
It doesn't take long to gain valuable insights after enabling a end-to-end data transparency. Shifting the focus to the big pictures across the business provides leaders with a new lens to evaluate their business and find value-creating opportunities. Often the first opportunities they identify are related to cost.
Focusing in on and creating better visibility into costs seems obvious but is often misapplied. According to Ernst & Young, banks often "find themselves focused on the academic exercise of cost accounting and allocation rather than an objective of controlling or reducing cost."
EY suggests banks can achieve sustainable cost leadership by overcoming three challenges:
- Identifying stubborn costs that banks incur to continue with a legacy way of doing business that could be changed through the adoption of the latest technologies, methods or standards.
- Avoiding myopic cost-cutting initiatives which deliver on short-term reduction targets. These myopic costs cuts can be difficult to track back to the bottom line, file to retain their impact over time, and can often re-occur with the increase of business volumes.
- Managing stranded costs which would continue to be incurred after discontinuing a product or function.
As costs are identified and categorized, options to control them can be better assessed through scenario planning. This approach leverages an end-to-end understanding of business and collaboration. Thus avoiding cost shifting through the implementation.
Boost customer service thanks to improved communication and tracked behaviors
Improved communication and data accessibility offer opportunities to boost customer service. Customer behavior, when tracked across systems and departments, offers deeper insights into the customer journey and customer needs. With these insights, banks and credit unions can respond with more meaningful and personalized services and solutions.
As technology improves so does real-time data feedback on customer behaviors. In the hands' marketers, this real-time data can be used to create custom solutions and personalized offers by tracking and predicting trends. In the hands of bankers, advisors, and customer service agents this data makes the difference from providing good service to great service. Great service builds brand loyalty and creates champions out of customers.
Improve customer experience through Artificial Intelligence
Future opportunities are enabled to supplement customer service through artificial intelligence (AI). The opportunity of AI goes beyond the service bot, with applications to improve self-service and adapt agent interactions. Each solution designed to meet the personalized needs of each individual customer through simple interfaces which harness the power of "big data", removing time, cost and inefficiencies.
Creating visibility into the end-to-end business provides banks and credit unions opportunities to extract value now, but also enables them to insulate from future economic shocks. Access to historic and real-time information enables better analysis and forecasting while enhanced, technology-supported scenario planning can be implemented on demand. What are the top opportunities you see when you look at the big picture? Share your thoughts by getting in touch at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Please can we remind swimmers that due to the Rotherham Metro gala this weekend at Ponds Forge, the following sessions are cancelled:
D1 Session Friday 5th July 2019 @ Stonyhurst (6-8pm)
Both Pool and Land Training Sat 6th July 2019 @ Ribblesdale & Stonyhurst (7-9.45am)
D1 & D2 Session Sunday 7th July 2019 @ Ribblesdale. (7-8pm)
**** Please note swimmers who aren't swimming at Rotherham who would be able to swim this session, can join the earlier session at 5.30pm-7pm***
The Dolphins (4.45 -5.30pm) and D3 (5.30-7pm) sessions on Sunday are on as normal.
Rotherham warm-up times
Details for the weekends schedule of events is available on the link below. Warm up starts at 8am.
Good luck to all swimmers taking part!!!!


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Flood of Love
Flood of Love
Submitted by
Rev. George Schuessler
From Medora to Minot, from Williston to Bismarck/Mandan and it seems everywhere in between, communities and individuals across Western North Dakota have experienced millions of dollars in property damage caused by overland and river flooding and ground water seepage.
Sheridan County has seen its share of water difficulties, but nothing to compare to what has happened along the Souris/Mouse or Missouri Rivers. The "Heart of North Dakota" is moved in a "Flood of Love" to help raise money to help people to recover from this summer of disasters.
On Sunday, Aug. 21, Grace Lutheran Church will be holding a special worship service at 10:30 a.m. to gather in God's Word and in prayer to lift up the needs of God's people that have been affected by the floods and to call attention to our responsibilities of reaching out with help in this time of recovery.
Former McClusky pastor, Rev. Charles Taft and his wife Susan will be the guest speakers. The Tafts lost their home to the river flooding in Minot.


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Daily Rosary - Families of Bethany
We've been hosting an evening rosary over zoom to pray for an end to this pandemic and to pray for all of those affected. Please join us if you can and feel free to forward. It's been so amazing to see all of the families and children in their homes! We miss you all!
Everyday at 7.00pm (Mountain Time)
JOIN HERE: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/5189176514
password zoom: 131794
OR FOLLOW US VIA FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/stmarylittleton/


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Lauve burst out crying when the verdict was announced and hugged his defense attorney, Rob Corry. Several audience members clapped and expressed their approval.Lauve was charged with possessing 17 times the permitted amount of marijuana that the state allows for medical purposes -- which is set at two ounces and no more than six plants. Police said they found more than two pounds of marijuana during a raid of his Louisville home in June 2008.Lauve, who has had a state-issued medical marijuana ID card for several years, suffered severe injuries to his back after being struck by a snowboarder at Eldora Ski Resort in 2004 and has smoked pot three times a day and ingested it once a day to ease his pain.He argued the constitutional amendment voters approved nine years ago contains a provision that allows patients to ultimately decide the amount of marijuana that gives them relief from a debilitating condition.UPDATE: 1:25 p.m.The jury in Jason Lauve's medical marijuana trial has reached a verdict, according to his attorney.Defense attorney Rob Corry said he received a call from the clerk of the court around 1:20 p.m. informing him the 12-person jury has reached a unanimous decision in the case.The jury deliberated for about three hours.An announcement of the verdict is forthcoming.UPDATE: 10:56 a.m.Jury begins deliberations in medical pot trialA Louisville man charged with having an unlawful amount of medical marijuana claimed Thursday morning that Colorado law permits him to decide for himself how much pot he needs to ease the pain induced by a ski slope collision he was involved in nearly five years ago.Prosecutors countered that accepting the defendant's interpretation of the state's medical marijuana law would give patients "carte blanche" to possess whatever amount of pot they desired, a clear violation of the law's intent.Lawyers in the case wrapped up their closing arguments this morning and the case is now in the hands of the jury.Jason Lauve, 38, is charged with possessing 17 times the permitted amount of marijuana that the state allows for medical purposes -- which is set at two ounces and no more than six plants. Police said they found more than 30 pot plants and more than two pounds of marijuana during a raid of his Louisville home in June 2008.Lauve, who has had a state-issued medical marijuana ID card for several years, suffered severe injuries to his back after being struck by a snowboarder at Eldora Ski Resort in 2004 and has smoked pot three times a day and ingested it once a day to ease his pain.He argues the constitutional amendment voters approved nine years ago contains a provision that allows patients to ultimately decide the amount of marijuana that gives them relief from a debilitating condition."There is no evidence that he had more than was medically necessary to treat his severe debilitating medical condition," said Rob Corry, Lauve's attorney, during closing arguments. "Who gets to decide what is medically necessary?"He argued that the law states that that decision ultimately belongs to the patient or caregiver and that if the state-mandated maximum of two ounces of pot and six marijuana plants is exceeded, patients can raise an affirmative defense that more of the drug was needed to treat the pain. And Lauve is the only one who knows how much pain he is experiencing, Corry told the jury.Corry said what's critical in the case is what his client intended to do with the pot he had in his possession.He said the prosecution brought forward no evidence that Lauve was doing anything more with his marijuana stash than trying to alleviate pain, which has left him reliant on a cane and wheelchair.Lauve had a large amount of pot at his house, Corry said, largely because he wasn't good at growing it and most of its weight was accounted for by unusable parts of the plant, like stems and leaves. He also said his client's marijuana supply was low-grade and weak."He had what was necessary given the potency of the marijuana he had," the lawyer told the jury.Corry said marijuana allowed Lauve to regain a semblance of a normal life and allowed him to wean himself off a number of addictive synthetic opiate-based painkillers he had been taking."It helped him live," Corry said, with his hands resting on his client's shoulders.The defense lawyer said it's clear that Colorado's medical marijuana law needs clarification in terms of what's an allowable amount of the drug to possess, but he told the jury "the way to clarify the law is not through criminal prosecution" but through law and policy making.Prosecutor Karen Lorenz said while there may be some ambiguity in the state's medical marijuana law, she said it was clear Colorado's voters wanted some sort of limits in place so that unlimited amounts of pot couldn't be obtained by patients and caregivers."Having a license for medical marijuana is not carte blanche or a free ticket to possess whatever you want," she said. "There's no limit."She said Lauve last fall asked his doctor if he could obtain 15 ounces of pot a month but based on his daily use would actually need much more than that.Lorenz accused the defendant of concocting random amounts of the drug to justify his pot consumption. She said he couldn't show Louisville police any legal document or doctor's recommendation that would account for the large amount of pot he had in his home on June 26, 2008."There's no doctor to support this, there's random numbers being thrown around based on what he thinks he needs on a day to day basis," Lorenz told the jury. "That's not what the medical marijuana statute is for."She said the state constitution doesn't distinguish between low-grade and high-grade marijuana and that the defense's claim that Lauve's pot supply had low potency is irrelevant under the law.She lined up nearly a dozen Ziploc bags of pot on the railing of the jury box and asked the jurors to convict Lauve of illegal possession of marijuana and marijuana concentrate.The jury has the option to convict Lauve on the felony count of possessing more than eight ounces of the drug -- which could land him in prison for up to three years -- or find him guilty on lesser charges of possessing smaller amounts of marijuana. It can also find him not guilty on all charges.Source: Daily Camera (Boulder, CO)Author: John Aguilar Published: August 6, 2009Copyright: 2009 The Daily CameraWebsite: http://www.dailycamera.com/Contact: openforum dailycamera.comURL: http://drugsense.org/url/bzX3BIIhCannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #17 posted by museman on August 07, 2009 at 09:03:58 PT runruff What?Tree got busted? And Screwface too?Thats what those helicopters were doing. And here I've been thinking that the war was over!Don't put away your cammies yet!And when are we going to hear about this? It surely wasn't on the local news.And that post the other day about the 'good' sheriff ol' Gil kinda threw me for a loop. I think he is under the same illusion as some that a lot of hemp grown in the Illinois Valley would mess with our medical crops. So his reasoning is that the hemp would drive out the hippies. Because lets face it, thats still what the WOD is all about around here. (and you don't have to have long hair to be in that category, you just have to live someplace where they are known to frequent, like Takilma.)Well the GOBS are gonna be drunk this weekend, celebrating their 'victory' over hippidom.Damn shame.LEGALIZE FREEDOM [ Post Comment ] Comment #16 posted by dongenero on August 07, 2009 at 08:30:33 PT score one for freedom and justice Prosecuter Karen Lorenz put on quite little show. She sure had to jump through some hoops trying to make her "points".You really have to wonder what drives the malice in people like her. Thankfully there is a sensible and reasonable jury to set things right.One thing I do not see mentioned is the far greater amount of cannabis required when the delivery method is ingestion. This patient mentions daily ingestion as part of his dosage. Again, the public seems to be well ahead of government's shallow learning curve. [ Post Comment ] Comment #15 posted by runruff on August 07, 2009 at 06:34:11 PT Big local bust! Yes, two days ago the feds raided my friend Tree's home. Tree is an Asian living here in the Valley for over 25 years. I have been friends with him for that long.There were the usual mommies boys dressed like little soldiers with their weapons, helmets and huge military vehicles going off to play war. There were three helicopter gunships overhead throughout the raid. They took the opportunity to cruse around the neighborhood looking at every one's "legal" grows.Tree had mushrooms and "illegal" herbs. He was not at home but his friend and caretaker, Screwface, was there. Screwface is a drummer for the Reggae group "Jah Levi and the Higher Reasoning". I believe Museman knows this man. He was tackeled and tazered. They spent all day hauling out god knows what, truck after truck load. Is this American? I don't think so. This is Amerika. [ Post Comment ] Comment #14 posted by The GCW on August 07, 2009 at 05:59:04 PT Out of moolah. The high cost of persecution. CANNABIS NEWS This following article is titled in such a way to imply a police force may be out of "BUSINESS" that confronts drugs and drug users. But upon closer inspection using the map at the end of the story, it is evident the task force mostly attacks cannabis and cannabis users.Good bye!US CO: Financial shortages may snuff out drug task forcePubdate: 7 Aug 2009Source: Summit Daily News (CO)Note: Interactive map included in article: http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20090807/NEWS/908069991/1078&ParentProfile=1055Author: Robert Allen "Financial shortages may snuff out drug task force" Local, state funds dwindling SUMMIT COUNTY — Financial shortages could cause the Summit County Drug Task Force to be terminated within a year."It's terribly disappointing. It's something that many of us have put a lot of time and effort into," said Derek Woodman, Summit County undersheriff and task force director. "It's just one of those phenomenons that take place — cuts got to go somewhere."The task force runs on about $200,000 per year, which comes mostly from state and local governments. It functions as a "central, concerted effort" for countywide drug enforcement, developing about 60 of its own cases per year.The budget includes two full-time agents, a half-time administrative person and expenses for equipment, undercover buy money and payments for confidential information, Woodman said.Lance Clem, spokesman for the Colorado Department of Public Safety, said drug task forces no longer appear to be high enough a priority for the advisory board distributing Justice Assistance Grants."It's likely funding for task forces throughout the state — for this program, anyway — is going to disappear," Clem said. "So what you're seeing in Summit County is indicative of what's going on through the rest of the state."He said priorities for the state grants include drug treatment for inmates, prevention programs, drug courts and management information systems for law enforcement agencies.Locally, officials with both Breckenridge and Frisco have said the grants the towns use to fund the task force appear to be drying up, and the economic recession has further limited their options."When you do have limited funds, you have to ultimately make a decision at the end of the day," Frisco town manager Michael Penny said, adding that he'd prefer to preserve funding for "life safety response" services such as SWAT team rather than the drug task force.CONT. [ Post Comment ] Comment #13 posted by MikeC on August 07, 2009 at 05:52:57 PT Check this out... The National Institute on Drug Abuse is soliciting proposals from qualified organizations having the capability to (1) grow, harvest, analyze, store and distribute GMP grade cannabis (marijuana) on large and small scales...https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=2f734e46a74d477e37ac07798c08a3ae&tab=core&_cview=0&cck=1&au=&ck [ Post Comment ] Comment #12 posted by The GCW on August 07, 2009 at 05:49:20 PT Medical marijuana user acquitted of all charges The Summit Daily News ran something about this news too.-0-Medical marijuana user acquitted of all charges BOULDER — A medical marijuana user has been acquitted of charges that he possessed too much of the drug.A Boulder County jury acquitted 38-year-old Jason Lauve Thursday of a felony drug possession charge and lesser charges of possessing marijuana and marijuana concentrate.CONT.Webpage: http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20090807/NEWS/908069991/1078&ParentProfile=1055 [ Post Comment ] Comment #11 posted by The GCW on August 06, 2009 at 23:33:33 PT Bad poeple wanting to cage sick people over plants The Colorado government prosecutor was stopped from caging a human, living with pain, for having a bunch of cannabis plants and plant material.Shame on Colorado state government for even attempting to cage this human.The lowest forms of human life are the ones who would persue caging sick citizens for using cannabis.Perhaps they will now have to spend more time confronting rapists, murderers etc.-0-I'm working hard to raise My children to NOT grow up and be people like Prosecutor Karen Lorenz. -0-Stop the bad people in Colorado! [ Post Comment ] Comment #10 posted by Paint with light on August 06, 2009 at 23:21:17 PT mykeyb420 Thank you for your dedication to the cause.Legal like alcohol. [ Post Comment ] Comment #9 posted by greenmed on August 06, 2009 at 18:46:28 PT mykeyb420 Congratulations - that is indeed good news!You wouldn't have got there without dedication to the cause - to reduce the harm. Good going! Best wishes on your new adventure!!! [ Post Comment ] Comment #8 posted by FoM on August 06, 2009 at 18:16:53 PT mykeyb420 That's wonderful news! [ Post Comment ] Comment #7 posted by mykeyb420 on August 06, 2009 at 18:06:43 PT: slightly off topic Fellow Cannaheads; I am writing today to let you know that I have just been appointed by the Board Of Supervisors of the City And County Of San Francisco, to the Marijuana Offenses Oversight Committee,,, woo hoo ! I am appointed for 2 years due to my involvement with harm reduction and substance abuse counseling. I now have an official position in city government concerning medical cannabis and patients rights. I promise to serve my city faithfully and with professionalism.pace and amore Mykey B SF CAOrdinance No. 297-06 (Policy Making Marijuana Offenses the Lowest Law Enforcement Priority) established the Marijuana Offenses Oversight Committee (MOOC), consisting of seven members appointed by the Board of Supervisors. The Committee is charged with monitoring the implementation of the ordinance; designing a supplemental report form for use by SF law enforcement officers in marijuana adult arrests, citations and property seizures in San Francisco; semi-annual submission of reports to the Board of Supervisors on the implementation of the ordinance. MOOC [ Post Comment ] Comment #6 posted by FoM on August 06, 2009 at 17:38:36 PT MMM Expo 2009 On August 8th & 9th, southwest Detroit will host Michigan's first major medical marijuana event, the Michigan Medical Marijuana Expo 2009. The expo's aim is to educate qualifying patients, caregivers and the general public about our new law, and to identify the economic opportunities the medical cannabis industry will create for Michigan workers and business owners.URL: http://www.mmmexpo2009.com/ [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by FoM on August 06, 2009 at 17:34:21 PT josephlacerenza I just read it is one they send out over the years and the University of Mississippi always gets it. That's a shame because competition would keep people on their toes. [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by FoM on August 06, 2009 at 16:39:00 PT josephlacerenza I think that's what it is saying. I got this in my e-mail sent by Kevin Zeese. [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by josephlacerenza on August 06, 2009 at 16:34:54 PT FoM Is this the government asking for skilled organizations, other than the university of mississippi, to produce medical grade cannabis for research purposes? This is a strange turn of events, if that is the case!!!! I remember a certain professor trying, in vain, to get approved by the DEA for just such a cause!!!!I wonder if the professor is going to have his name at the top of the list!!!! We can only HOPE. He seemed, to me , to be a farely progressive educator. [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by FoM on August 06, 2009 at 15:54:39 PT Production, Analysis, & Distribution of Cannabis Production, Analysis, & Distribution of Cannabis & Marijuana CigarettesSolicitation Number: N01DA-10-7773Agency: Department of Health and Human ServicesOffice: National Institutes of HealthLocation: National Institute on Drug AbuseAugust 5, 2009The National Institute on Drug Abuse is soliciting proposals from qualified organizations having the capability to (1) grow, harvest, analyze, store and distribute GMP grade cannabis (marijuana) on large and small scales; (2) extract cannabis to obtain purified phytocannabinoids including delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (delta-9-THC), analyze, and store; (3) prepare marijuana cigarettes and related products; and (4) distribute marijuana, marijuana cigarettes and cannabinoids, and other related products for research and other Government programs upon NIDA authorization. Offeror must possess suitable and secure DEA approved outdoor and indoor growing facilities, research laboratory with appropriate analytical instruments, and experienced personnel to conduct the project tasks. Appropriate DEA approved secure facility for manufacturing of marijuana cigarettes, and their storage, and DEA Schedule I registration for marijuana and THC are essential. NIDA anticipates a 1-year with four 1 year options cost reimbursement type contract will be awarded. Additional quantity options for manufacturing cigarettes may also be required. In order to handle substances under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, it is mandatory that offerors possess a DEA Research Registration for Schedules II to V and demonstrate the capability to obtain a DEA registration for Schedule I controlled substances. All studies must be carried out under pertinent FDA regulations, such as current Good Clinical Practice (cGCP) and current Good Laboratory Practice (cGLP) regulations. The pertinent FDA's guidelines/guidance shall be followed. RFP No. N01DA-10-7773 will be available electronically on or about August 25, 2009. You can access the RFP through the FedBizOpps http://fbo.gov or through the NIDA website at the following address: http://www.nida.nih.gov/RFP/RFPList.html The electronic RFP contains all information needed to submit a proposal. No printed version of the solicitation document or source list is available. NIDA will consider proposals submitted by any responsible offeror. Proposals will be due on or about October 9, 2009. This advertisement does not commit the Government to award a contract. Based upon market research, the Government is not using the policies contained in Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items, in its solicitation for the described supplies or services. However, interested persons may identify to the contracting officer their interest and capability to satisfy the Government's requirement with a commercial item within 15 days of this notice. Contracting Office Address: 6101 Executive Boulevard Room 260 - MSC 8402 Bethesda, Maryland 20892 Primary Point of Contact.: Amy Sheibap370t nih.govhttps://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=2f734e46a74d477e37ac07798c08a3ae&tab=core&_cview=0&cck=1&au=&ck= [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by HempWorld on August 06, 2009 at 15:50:59 PT Medical-Marijuana Patient Acquitted on All Charges Yeaaah, justice is served! Only via a jury trial with humane compassionate and reasonable people serving on it, can we overturn the grip of law enforcement and the judiciary on medicinal cannabis users. [ Post Comment ] Post Comment


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Uniqlo lab tested.
It's safe to say we're now firmly in a world of "hi/low" dressing – mixing, say, Gucci and Primark into the same outfit. Why? Because it's now hard to tell which is which; style and saving money go hand in hand. I recently complimented my friend's coat only to find out it was, in fact, Zara.
Nothing really new here except that the "low" or cheaper high street brands are continuing to edge ever closer to the quality offered by the luxury brands.
Case-in-point: Uniqlo, the Japanese brand own by Fast Retailing Co. which is currently offering a range of Extra Fine Merino wool jumpers for only £29.90.
At first glance these sweaters look to be made of the same high quality wool as premium brand, John Smedley, who charges £140.00 for similar styles – a significant price difference.
To be fair, the Smedley product incorporates some subtle details most buyers wouldn't notice and the weave may be only slightly heavier.
So how is it possible that Uniqlo can offer such a seemingly high quality product for only £29.90? And is it even real, pure 100% Extra Fine Merino?
Off to the Lab
Actually, we were skeptical enough hire Dr Phil Greaves of Microtex Analysis in Yorkshire to put the wool through it's paces to confirm the cloth's quality, purity and provenance.
Of course, we were secretly hoping we could bust Uniqlo in a scam and pat ourselves on the back for exposing their deceitfulness.
Guess what? Just the opposite happened. Uniqlo, has sailed through our testing with flying colours and has the happy distinction of being a purveyor of very fine Merino jumpers in several different styles at absurdly low prices.
Dr. Greaves added that not only is the wool 100% Extra Fine Merino, "It's also of a very good quality at that," said Greaves.
Uniqlo Value Thanks to Vertical Integration
So good on you, Uniqlo! You passed our first MAN LONDON science experiment with flying colours. We tried to interview somebody from Uniqlo but the company declined our request.
That said, we hear from a good source that Fast Retailing is able to sell so cheaply due to a vertically integrated operation whereby they own their own sheep farming, weaving and spinning operations.
Congratulations Uniqlo!


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If Jesus of Nazareth called at the front door of a Christian family
—in cognito, that is— the majority of Christianists would
think, "how gay" or "what a faggot he looks", because of his long hair,
for instance, and they would be sure after they heard that the man at
their door was thirty-three years old, still unmarried and without
The majority of the remaining minority would not be exclusively
heterosexual themselves.
75.ENW-75th Late Southeast
"Please, don't mention human overpopulation and excessive mobility, as
the two main causes of pandemics. Talk to you at the next one."
75.MSE-75th Mid-Southeast
In the land of alliteration there are only men of merit, no women of merit.
The others who may similarly be praised are worthy women, not worthy men.
73.ENW-75th Early Southeast
have core values,
have their God's whims.
75.LNW-75th Central Month
Alfred Tennyson wrote a New Year poem entitled "Ring Out, Wild Bells".
It counts no fewer than fifteen Ring out's and ten Ring
in's, which culminate in Ring in the Christ that is to be.
It was written in the year 1850 of the Christianist Era, the same year in
which Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland
by Alexandrina Victoria Hanover, the head of state of that country and at
the very same time of the Anglican Church as well.
Hanover is also known as 'Queen Victoria'.
Ring Out, Clear Bells for more
75.ENW-75th Late Northwest
— "Daddy is growing old, he's getting more confused every day.
This morning he said that we live in the Western Hemisphere, and that
Canada is in the Eastern Hemisphere."
— "I can't believe it! Did he say that? He's losing every
Eurocentric notion of reality, isn't he?"
75.ENW-75th Mid-Northwest
If we confine ourselves to sexually mature human beings and, to keep it
simple, equate love with loving to have or having sex,
then there are men who love men and/or women, women who love men and/or
women, and anyone with a body between that of a 100% man and of a 100%
woman that loves and/or is loved.
Hence, if sexually attracted at all, men who are (also) attracted to women
are gynophile, and so are women.
Women who are (also) attracted to men are androphile, and so are men.
Hetero-, bi- and homosexuality are pseudopredicates (presented as
properties but actually relations), just like cordate- and renateness:
they are theoretical constructs.
It is precisely because there are men who love men and women who love women
that homosexuality does not exist; precisely because there are men who love
women and women who love men that heterosexuality does not exist.
The androphile and gynophile relations of love certainly do.
To put it bluntly: homosexuality does not exist because there are men who
love men and women who love women.
The former are androphile, the latter gynophile (exclusively or as well).
74.ESW-75th Early Northwest
i'm not anglophile,
i'm androphile!
That's much pleasanter, because by being gynophile as well, you've got
the whole of humanity.
What do you get by just being anglophile?"
75.ENE-75th Late Northeast
Dry January, fake February, remorseful March, eight in April,
more in May, and drunk in June.
75.ENE-75th Mid-Northeast
The natural New Year (one of two or four options) starts at the Northern
Winter Solstice, not some entirely arbitrary ten days later, as zanily
believed in and zealously celebrated by Gregorian Christianists and their
fellow travelers.
75.ENE-75th Early Northeast
A culture whose movement is petering out, and that is not capable of
finding a truly and relevantly new way, is a culture-de-sac.
43.MSE-74th Late Southwest
I am not trying to kill the culture of ten-fingered fetishists — the
old generation will just have to pass away eventually.
I am not even trying to touch my contemporary 'denarians' with a
sixteen-foot pole.
73.MNE-74th Mid-Southwest
In those countries in the world where Christianity and Islam compete or
fight for political domination, they also tend to vie with each other
to show off their Abrahamic exclusionism, especially towards human beings
that are not exclusively cis-heterosexual.
69.MNE-74th Early Southwest
— "Notty, it's clear you didn't do your homework, yesterday.
To know is an irregular verb: it is know, knew,
— "I'm very sorry, but yesterday it was snowing the whole day, and
it was just not the usual, regular snow.
It actually snew so heavily and continuously i had to keep on clearing
the driveway and the sidewalk until it was time to go to bed.
If it hadn't snown so much, i would've had enough time to do my
homework, and then i would've knowed it."
72.LSW-74th Late Southeast
Human civilization: has it been a failing success or a successful failure
so far?
73.MNE-74th Mid-Southeast
When the hate preacher
Steven Anderson
was banned from entering the Netherlands and all other Schengen countries
part of this person's reply was:
"I was going to the Netherlands for the benefit of the people of the
I was going there to preach the gospel, and [now] they're
[they=the Dutch authorities, presumably] going to reject a
Bible-believing preacher for coming and preaching the word of God ...
If you [you=the Dutch authorities, presumably] continue down
this godless path and become another Sodom and Gomorrah, then you're gonna
end up the way Sodom and Gomorrah ended up."
And if the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by a natural disaster refuses
to come back by itself, this promoter of Christianist terrorism will go all
out to have human beings themselves make Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka
come back.
Only the ones to be exterminated may not all be the same.
74.MNW-74th Early Southeast
SDG (Sustainable Development Goals)? Very good!
No SPE (Sustainable Population Equilibrium)? Very bad!
Then, the elephant in the room demands SPE-cial attention.
73.LSE-74th Central Month
I don't hate dogs, but i just don't like the woofs of people who never
think of what they need as a base.
It's all woofs without a warp.
73.MSE-74th Late Northwest
Whether it concerns stroking a dog on the head, stroking a cat on the head,
sucking a man, or tonguing a woman: all are places which the dog, the cat,
the man and the woman in question cannot reach at all, or only with great
difficulty — with their paws in the case of dogs and cats, with their
mouths in the case of men and women.
So long as the dog, cat, man or woman is open to it, the other feels in the
mood, and all are prudent, there is nothing mad or magical about these very
social physical acts.
74.ENW-74th Mid-Northwest
A gang of thugs were having ferocious arguments and making a lot of noise
somewhere in a row of houseboats.
When later the police arrived at the row boat in question, the gang had
already disappeared in a rowboat.
73.LSE-74th Early Northwest
You do not have to travel all the way to Hyperyinyang to find a planet
with three instead of two sexes.
Just visit the most popular clothes stores on Earth and you will find
clothes for men, for women and for walking advertizing pillars.
But i could be mistaken: the advertizing pillars look suspiciously like
74.ENE-74th Late Northeast
A: "I hate the way some mathematicians treat people like
mere numbers."
B: "That surprises me.
You as a rational person should be the last one to complain about
Doesn't it mean there are an infinite number of rational people in
the universe?"
A: "Yes, and that's why the number of irrational people would be even
larger than that!"
73.ESW-74th Mid-Northeast
I always thought there was a Judeo-Christianist Commandment
Thou shalt not lie (or words to that effect) and that it was by
itself a sensible and moral statement despite its arbitrary position in a
haphazard denary hodgepodge of ten commandments.
However, the presentation of the (eighth or ninth) commandment in
this way is a fabrication, for the correct formulation of the
Commandment is something like Thou shalt not bear false
witness against thy neighbor.
The phrase Thou shalt not lie leaves out in giving evidence,
and the phrase Thou shalt not lie in giving evidence leaves out
against thy neighbor.
This is not the same as Do not tell lies, even not the same
as Do not tell lies about others; not the same as Do not accuse
anyone falsely, even not the same as You shall not give false
Instead, Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor is
a very specific commandment for the members of a tribe that
probably too often witnessed against one of their own lot by giving false
The concern shown in this order is not universal truth by any manner of
means; it is a particular type of falsehood (perjury) which damages the
reputation and undermines the unity and strength of one particular
73.LSW-74th Early Northeast
To claim that animals copulate in order to perpetuate the 'lives' of their
species or individual genes is a fucking shameless piece of unscientific
retrofitting in biology; a piece of after-the-fact thinking in which the
fact will indeed be the maintenance of the species or genes but in which
the thinking (if any) before or during the act of copulation was about
something entirely different, and a lot less lofty.
(The animals that use a large number of children in something irresponsible
like demographic warfare copulate in order to perpetuate the life of a
religious or other ideology which knows no natural equilibrium, something
biologists should not be fond of either.
A similar example is women thinking of England during sexual intercourse.)
72.LSW-73rd Late Southwest
Letters, stories and books of long-term interest are not just readable:
they are rereadable.
73.LSE-73rd Mid-Southwest
Part of the (until now) never-ending struggle against Russian-Ukrainian or
Ukrainian-Russian Internet abuse is the phenomenon of
referral spam.
A large part of it you recognize immediately by its
ru extension: http://company-such.ru/ and
But why do several websites with a ru extension promoted in this
way suddenly have to be interrupted by https://man followed by
impotence followed by .com/?
Why not be honest and use the extension ru in this case too:
(I know — everyone knows — that
traditionally traditional Russian men
cherish not only their good but also their bad traditions, and
that alcoholism is one of them.
However, Shakespeare told us already that loads of alcohol may provoke the
desire but will take away the performance.)
Alas, you just can't rely on such Internet abusers.
When it comes to building contemporary trust in respectful coexistence,
they're all impotent.
73.MSE-73rd Early Southwest
Parents or guardians who find it more important that their children can
play soccer or 'football' than that they can swim have a screw loose,
unless, perhaps, they live in the middle of the desert.
Those who are on the ball will teach kids to swim first.
73.MSE-73rd Late Southeast
The Vatican, with Vatican-Catholic followers in its wake, is vehemently
opposed to divorce, epecially the divorce between Church and State,
judging from its ubiquitous and eternal support of state religionism.
It is opposed to divorce, provided that the State does not interfere in
Church matters or matters the Church claims to be Church matters but which
are public matters in general.
(When it concerns the appointments of priests, and more so the payment of
income and property taxes, it is actually in favor of total separation.)
73.LNW-73rd Mid-Southeast
Think thrice before you call something "alliteration":
think twice does not alliterate, think thrice does.
So, people should rather think thrice.
72.MSW-73rd Early Southeast
These are examples of excessive sexual irrelevantism in the German
language: jede*_jeder hat ..., Künstler*innen und
Politiker*innen haben ..., Teamer_innen.
(The * does not refer to any footnote and the spellings used may be
* or *_, if not just _.)
The more traditional sexual irrelevantisms are found in: jede und jeder
ist willkommen (unless sex happens to be relevant in the context
concerned) and junge Künstlerinnen und Künstler.
Supposedly, the * must underline that the reference is both to
males and females females
and males, as in Lesben, Schwule, Bisexuelle, Trans*- und
Inter*-Menschen, but this suggests that bisexuals could only be women
(or men?).
Well, this irrelevantist and ugly use of what should be a natural language
does leave some room for Innenarchitekt*inneninnenarbeit.
May these interior decorators and all other German speakers use their
talents to make their language less irrelevant and more pleasant to listen
to and look at, regardless of sex or gender!
73.LNW-73rd Central Month
A so-called 'world(-)view' which is Israel-,
Arabia-, America- or any-particular-country-centered is a normative
Only a 'country view' may be one-particular-country-centered or, in
traditional terms, patriotic.
If what is supposed to be a worldview manifests tribalism or nationalism,
it is not a (religion or nonreligious) worldview but an exclusivistic
Isreali, Arabian, American or any such country view.
73.MNW-73rd Late Northwest
When applied to my own situation, the 'Ninth
Commandment' which led to Armani's success is my fifth working
rule: Be wary of accepting outside funding, in case it compromises your
59.ENE-73rd Mid-Northwest
When applied to my own situation, the 'Eighth
Commandment' which led to Armani's success is my fourth working
rule: Do not rely on the media to represent your vision accurately.
(The Eighth Commandment is, more specifically, about the fashion
59.ENE-73rd Early Northwest
When applied to my own situation, the 'Fourth
Commandment' which led to Armani's success is my third
working rule: Stick to what you believe in, even when you are
out of step with the rest.
59.ENE-73rd Late Northeast
When applied to my own situation, the 'Third
Commandment' which led to Armani's success is my second
working rule: 'Success does not require genius.
Roll your sleeves up.'
I am not sure about Armani's formulation here.
I think the rule ought to read: "Long-term success requires
long-term diligence.
Genius or talent will not suffice".
59.ENE-73rd Mid-Northeast
When applied to my own situation, the 'First
Commandment' which led to Armani's success is my first
working rule: Never compromise your vision.
59.ENE-73rd Early Northeast
Should you ever be forced to choose between One Nation Under the
God of the Abraham Religions and One Nation, Neutral and
Inclusive, choose the latter for the good of everyone, real or
imaginary descendants of any Abraham included.
60.LNE-72nd Late Southwest
What i witness these days is a lack of creativity and innovation, even
experimentation, in denominationalism.
Too many people fancy a return to the withered roots of the Abrahamic
The creativity of those people consists of nothing else and nothing more
than the return to the unconditional belief in creationism.
59.ENW-72nd Mid-Southwest
"Does He hate or doesn't He hate cherry picking?" That's the question!
(The crucial question is whether the God of the Bible, which combines the
attributes of Adolf Hitler and Albert Schweitzer under one cover, hates
or loves cherry-picking.)
71.CEN-72nd Early Southwest
An alliterative arrangement
does not alliterate, but an alliterative arrangement
a-RRANGE-ment) does.
71.ESE-72nd Late Southeast
There is the peace which may be enjoyed and there is the peace which
must be imposed, such as the peace of Koranic obedience and of Islamic
72.CEN-72nd Mid Southeast
As he was an old-fashioned old schoolmaster, he could not talk without a
40.LSW-72nd Early Southeast
There is a middle path between behaving like a sex-addicted lecher and
behaving like an erotophobic prude.
57.ENE-72nd Central Month
This year there were 1,636 Iranians who registered as presidential
All of them had to believe in Allah and in the official religion of the
Islamic Republic of Iran.
After a screening by the Guardian Council almost all men were eliminated.
(137 women tried too, but a woman will not be deemed eligible in any
case, however pious she may be.)
Among the six left over was Ebrahim Raisi, one of the most immoral
criminals of Iranian history.
In 1988, under the reign of Sayyid Khomeini, first Supreme Fuehrer of Iran,
this exemplary Muslim (one of four judges then) had thousands of prisoners
of the political opposition slaughtered.
72.LNW-72nd Late Northwest
The Islamic State organization in Iraq and Syria that throws real
homosexuals, bisexuals or heterosexuals purported
to be homosexual from tall buildings and then stones
them in case they might not yet be dead is only the tip of the Islamic
71.LSE-72nd Mid-Northwest
Just before the coffee break this morning the President signed
his latest executive order: any man marrying for the fourth time
after noon today will get his wife for free.
72.MNE-72nd Early Northwest
Those who nowadays still strive for a Christianity or an Islam which is
more liberal, tolerant or inclusive (read "less
exclusivistic") resemble the people who used to go to
work by horse and wanted much faster horses at a time that the car had
already been invented.
71.LNW-72nd Late Northeast
The great-greater the grandchild the less left of the umpteenth
72.ENE-72nd Mid-Northeast
Total-Bible literalists are, by direct implication, the most
supernaturalistic and, by indirect
implication, the most exclusivistic of Christianists.
Yet, literally these so-called 'literalists' do not exist, for they will
always cherry-pick the passages from the Bible they find attractive and
enforceable, while keeping silent about the passages which
even in the eyes of not entirely brainwashed members of their own flock
are silly or pathological, if not blatantly immoral.
71.LNW-72nd Early Northeast