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[Katherine Weaver (Scarlet Women) S2 E6 " The Tower that fell short".]
"Project Babylon" in The Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is identified by Weaver as a super-sophisticated computer program known as "The Turk", It has been given the nickname "John Henry".
The name is used metaphorically, as John Henry beat the machine itself, but could not stop progress. In the realm of the Terminator series, "progress" refers to Judgment Day.
John Henry is an American folk hero, famous for having raced against a steam powered hammer and won, only to die in victory. He has been the subject of numerous songs, stories, plays, and novels.
Like other "Big Men" (Giants/Nephilim) such as Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill, John Henry also served as a mythical representation of a group within the melting pot of the 19th-century working class. In the most popular version of the story, Henry is born into the world big and strong weighing 33 pounds. He grows to become the greatest "steel-driver" in the mid-century push to erect the railroads across the mountains to the West. When the owner of the railroad buys a steam-powered hammer to do the work of his mostly black driving crew, to save his job and the jobs of his men, John Henry challenges the owner to a contest: himself alone versus the steam hammer. John Henry beats the machine, but exhausted, collapses and dies. In almost all versions of the story, John Henry is a black man and serves as a folk hero for all American working-class people, representing their marginalization during changes entering the modern age in America.
Seen below "Steel" resonance has come into awareness. John Henry being a man of Steel syncs him with The Man of Steel aka Superman. Superman also had a special edition for John Henry making him a Superman "Man of Steel".
Superman has also been identified with Barak Obama during his campaign and Barak has had a John Henry type underdog victory over John McCain.
Also Shaquille Oneal is synced as Superman or The Man of Steel as he played John Henry Irons in Steel, plus Oneal has a Superman tattoo and refers too himself as the Superman. Oneal also recently became a member of The Phoenix Suns last February making him a Giant Phoenix/Sun Messiah.
There is a persistent belief in alchemical and hermetic tradition in the existence of two suns: a hidden one of pure "philosophical gold," consisting of the essential fire (Phoenix) conjoined with aether, and the apparent one of profane material gold." The "dark, consuming fire (Phoenix)" of the material sun conjoined with the common metal leads to its being called the "Dark" or "Black Sun".
Philosophical - Aether (Thought) + Philosophers Stone (Phoenix/Mushroom) = Eternal (Pure) Gold.
Physical - Common Metal + Philosophers stone (Phoenix/Fire) = Material (Black) Gold
2008-2012 is also a period of Change or Alchemical transmutation with Barak Obama as president of the United States who campaigned and pledges under such word. However not change for the better of the common people.
Order (Barak) out of Chaos (Bush).
Physical - Bush - War + Martial Law = Fascism
Philsopohical - Barak - Fear + Bailout = Buyout = Nationalization = Fascism.
2008-09 Phoenix resonance-
-Birth of Obama in Iowa (Hawk-EYE/Phoenix) as he wins democratic caucus. Obama also comes from Chicago which is symbolized by the Phoenix from the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
-New solar cycle begins. Birth of Sun/Phoenix.
-Release of Cloverfield (Greenman/Osiris/Phoenix).
-New Black Pope (Black Sun/Jesus Christ/Phoenix).
-Defeat of Patriots (Old America/Phoenix/Also started dynasty in 2001) and rise of the New York (OZ/Babylon) Giants (Nephilim/Serpent) in Phoenix Stadium.
-Space Shuttle Atlantis (Atlanta/Phoenix) launches.
-Mitt Romney drops out of Republican presidential race leaving John McCain(Phoenix) as the front runner.
-Shaq (Superman) is traded to the Phoenix Suns.
-Beagle (Snoopy/Superman/Sirius/Obama) wins it's breeds first Best in Show.
-McCain (Phoenix) officially wins party.
-St Patricks Day (Greeman/Fool/Alcohol/Osiris).
-Olympic Flame (Phoenix) is lit.
-April Fools Day
-Kansas Jayhawks (Blue phoenix) wins NCAA national championship.
-Olympic Flame Reaches top of Mount Everest.
-The Phoenix lander arrives at Mars, landing successfully in the "Green Valley" (Osiris) region of Vastitas Borealis.
-A crane (phoenix) collapses in the Upper East Side of New York City (Oz/Babylon) resulting in the death of at least two people (AP via Google News), while another crane collapses in Shanghai's Pudong district, killing three.
-Obama wins Democratic party.
-The Hunger Strike for 9-11 Truth comes to an end in front of U.S. Senator John McCain's office in Phoenix Arizona on the 17th (Osiris/Phoenix) day.
-Release of the Hulk (Bruce Banner/BB/22/Greenman/Osiris/Phoenix).
-Iowa (Hawkeye/Phoenix) is evacuated due too flooding.
-Boston Celtics (Greenman/Osiris/Phoenix) win 17th championship on the 17th of June.
-FireFox (Phoenix) 3 is released.
-17 (Osiris/Birth) high school girls become pregnant near Boston.
-Summer Solstice
-Two medical (Caduecus) helicopters (Ascending/Sun Chariot) collide in Flagstaff, Arizona near Phoenix, resulting in seven deaths and three people being critically injured.
-Release of Hancock (Nephilim/1776 (Freedom Tower/2012)/Eagle = Phoenix + alcohol = Osiris (Greenman/Fool) starring Will 2k (MM/2K/NY/OZ/Pan/77).
-Release of Hellboy 2, resonating an Osirian monster.
-SpaceX Falcon (Phoenix) is unsuccessful for 3rd time.
-Laying of the Phoenix Egg (Birds nest) at the 8/8/8 (Jesus C/Phoenix) Olympics in Beijing.
-Russia and Georgia (Atlanta/Phoenix) war.
-Juan Pedro Volpintesta born. (08/08/08 at 8pm/888-Jesus/Phoenix).
-John McCain announces Sarah Palin (Scarlet whore/Babylon/XXX/Venus) VP of Republican party.
-Release of Babylon A.D starring Vin Diesel (XXX). Genetically Engineered Aurora (Dawn(Zarya-ISiS) is designed too give a virgin birth to the next Messiah.
-Cern turns on it's 17-mile long (Osiris/Phoenix), Octagon LHC, which will recreate the big bang (BB/22/Fool/Osiris/Phoenix).
-Release of Eagle (Phoenix) Eye.
-Space X Falcon (Phoenix) becomes first private vehicle too reach orbit.
-Joaquin Phoenix quits movies begins music career.
-Barack Obama (Sirius/Fool) becomes president elect of America (Phoenix).
-Guy Fawkes Day. J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels feature a phoenix, named Fawkes (after Guy Fawkes (Joker/Fool/Phoenix).
-Hurricane Paloma (Dove/Phoenix) Strengthens to Category 3 Storm
-The Phoenix Lander silent; Mars mission over, NASA says
-Bush Meets (Old America/Phoenix) with Obama (Rebirth of Phoenix) on day the phoenix declared dead.
-The Renegade Is Loose. We Repeat, the Renegade Is Loose. Mr. Obama will be known as "Renegade".
-ALL Magic Mushrooms (MM/2K/Amanita(Phoenix)/Pscilocybin) are banned in Netherlands on 11/11(MM/2k).
-Atlantis opens in Dubai on Palm (Phoenix) tree island.
-Black Friday: As the Christmas (Amanita/Phoenix) shopping season begins in the United States, two are shot at a Toys R Us store in Palm Desert, California (The area was first known as the Old MacDonald Ranch, but the name changed to Palm Village in the 1920s when date palms (The Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera) is a palm in the genus Phoenix, extensively cultivated for its edible fruit. ) were planted.) and a Wal-Mart employee is crushed in a stampede after shoppers broke down a front door in Valley Stream, New York.
-Arizona Cardinals (Phoenix) wins it 1st division title, while reaching the playoffs for the 1st time since 1985.
-Release of 7 Pounds starring Will 2k Hancock.
-Release of Defiance (WW2/Nazi) starring Daniel Craig (XXXX/Lucifer/Bond).
-Release of Yes Man(JC/Fool/Phoenix) starring Jim Carrey.
-Release of Valkrye (Nazi/Eagle/Phoenix) starring Tom Cruise.
-Release of the Spirit on Christmas (Amanita/Phoenix).
-US Airlines Flight (US Bird/Eagle/Phoenix) crashes in the Hudson river.
-Arizona Cardinals advance too Superbowl.
-We are One concert (Raising of Fasci/Eagle/Phoenix)
-Barak Obama (Rising black Sun/Phoenix) is elected President.
-Operation Phoenix begins in Australia too find the person behind recent arsons.
-Methane is found on Mars adding too more evidence for Life on Mars.
-Arizona Cardinals are defeated in Superbowl.
-Chicago Church is burned down after it was built 134 years ago after the Great Fire of Chicago.
-Superman is defeated by Kyrptonite at the 2009 NBA ALL-Star Dunk Contest.
2008-09 Common Metal resonance-
-Feb. 8, Release of Fool's Gold.
-May. 2, Release of Iron(Steel) Man.
-Dec. 28, Operation Cast Lead begins.
-Jan. 18, Pittsburgh Steelers advance to Superbowl.
-Jan. 27, Iran will have enough enriched Uranium to make a single nuclear weapon later this year, the International Institute for Strategic Studies predicts.
-Jan. 29, Barak Obama picks Steelers too win Superbowl.
-Jan. 29, A Bronze shoe statue is raised in honor of the Bush shoe thrower.
-Jan. 30, The Bronze Shoe statue is removed.
-Jan. 30, Michael Steele becomes the Chairman of the Republican party.
-Feb. 1, Pittsburgh Steelers win the XLIII Superbowl.
-Feb. 1, Tampa Bay Deep Sea Explorers recovery the a British HMS and recovery 4 tons of gold.
-Feb. 9, Handler Clifford W. Steele and his Scottish deerhound, Tiger Woods, win the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.
X Marks the Spot
Now jumping themes from the Pittsburgh Steelers as metal resonating, they were also formally known as the Pittsburgh Pirates at conception in 1933 and Pittsburgh's baseball team is currently entitled the Pirates.
Pirates are known in the modern day as the outlaws of the seas who rob and "steel" for treasure/gold/metal. Pirates however also came into media resonance again for some reason in 2008-09 mostly due too the Somalian pirates. And the 2008 NFL Superbowl was also held at Raymond(Sun mound) James Stadium home of the Tampa Bay(Bundle of sticks on Fire/Fasci) Buccaneers(Pirates).
Pirates also have the tale involving treasure maps which was first popularized in Treasure Island and represent where a pirate has previously stashed his horde.
Coincidentally the treasure they mostly plunder and bury is gold the desired metal in alchemy. X can also be seen as the point of transmutation and is found in X-Mas as a symbol for Jesus Christ and the Cross.
The Chi Rho is also one of the earliest christograms used by Christians. It is formed by superimposing the first two letters in the Greek spelling of the word Christ ( Greek : "Χριστός" ), chi = ch and rho = r, in such a way to produce the monogram ☧.
Although not technically a cross, the Chi Rho invokes the crucifixion of Jesus as well as symbolizing his status as the Christ. And the XP is also similar too the Rx (Too take-Recipe) of medicine from pharmacies, while medicines main logo is the Caduceus or Serpent entwined staff which looks similar too the Chi Rho.
Metal = Non living energy/Currency
Drugs = Living energy/Currency
From the Pharmacratic Inquisition: The Root of All Evil
What is interesting about the Caduceus is that its bearer is usually associated with Mercury/Hermes. The word "merchant" derives from the root word, "mer-cury". To be a Merchant and purchase Merchandise you must be the bearer of Mercury. As this merchandise was commonly herbs, spices and drugs.
Today the dollar sign is likely the caduceus, though often said to evolve from the Mexican or Spanish P for pesos, or piastres or pieces of 8.
The sign's ultimate origins are not certain although it is widely accepted that it comes from the Spanish coat of arms, which carries the two Pillars of Hercules and the motto Plus Ultra in the shape of an "S".
Three dots
[S2 Ep9 TSCC: Three Dots resonating our recent metal "Steel"ers (John Henry/Pirate) victory.]
Now returning too The Sarach Connor Chronicles which has recently returned from its Christmas break, Sarah has become obsessed with the three dots which were painted on the basement wall of the Connors' home by Wells, a resistance fighter sent from the future, dreaming about them frequently. ("Complications") This caused her to engage in a search for the three dots.
Looking online, John found a company with the three dots in the logo: Dakara Systems. ("Strange Things Happen at the One Two Point") John, Cameron, Derek and Sarah targeted Dakara, but discovered that it appeared to have nothing to do with Skynet.
While Sarah is still in search of a meaning of the three dots she attends a UFO convention ("Earthlings Welcome Here") where she mets Abraham whom with a help of a psychologist leads Sarah to a warehouse in the desert, Sarah gets shot, after that lying in the floor she has a vision of a flying machine representing the three dots.
The three dots however lead her on the right path to the discovery of the Hyperalloy which contains Coltan named for Columibite and Tantalite, a metal that is being used for the new Terminator/John Henry endoskeletons and what maybe used for the flying objects see has seen or hallucinated by Sarah.
Niobium (Greek mythology: Niobe, daughter of Tantalus), or columbium (/kəˈlʌmbiəm/), is a chemical element with symbol Nb and atomic number 41. A rare, soft, grey, ductile transition metal, niobium is found in the minerals pyrochlore (the main source for niobium) and columbite.
Niobium was discovered by the English chemist Charles Hatchett in 1801. He found a new element in a mineral sample that had been sent to England from Massachusetts in 1734 by a John Winthrop, and named the mineral columbite and the new element columbium after Columbia, the poetical name for America. The columbium discovered by Hatchett was probably a mixture of a new element with tantalum.
Niobe was the daughter of the semi-legendary ruler Tantalus, called the "Phrygian" and sometimes even as "King of Phrygia" . Although Tantalus ruled in Sipylus, a city located in the western extremity of Anatolia where Lydia was to emerge as a state as of the 8th century BC, and not in the traditional heartland of Phrygia, situated more inland and centered around Gordion. The city of Tantalus carried the same name as the mountain on which it was founded, Mount Sipylus, and few traces remain of the settlement , An Anatolian princess, Niobe married Amphion of Thebes and Greek mythology acted as a vehicle for her historical record mixed with legends. Niobe was the sister of Pelops, who gave his name to the Peloponnese.
Columbia; Liberty; Phrygia = Liberty Cap (Psilocybin)
December 27, 2008, Operation Cast Lead, Israel and Hamas conflict
December 28, 2008, The Israel Defense Forces continue airstrikes against Hamas in the Gaza Strip as the number of Palestinian casualties approaches 300
December 28, 2008,The United States vetoes a United Nations Security Council resolution aimed at stopping Israeli airstrikes against Gaza. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the United Kingdom, European Union, Russia, and France all call for a ceasefire
December 30, 2008, Bristol Palin gives birth to a Son
December 30, 2008, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich appoints former Democratic Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris to President-elect Barack Obama's vacated United States Senate seat. Democratic Senate leaders and Secretary of State Jesse White say they will not accept the appointment
December 31, 2008, Israel rejects a proposed stoppage of Operation Cast Lead that would also have ceased rocket attacks from Hamas so humanitarian aid could be delivered to affected areas in the Gaza Strip
December 31, 2008, One of the world's biggest accumulations of dinosaur fossils is found near Zhucheng, China
January 1, 2009, New Year's Day
January 1, 2009, A man is shot and killed at California's Fruitvale BART station by a Bay Area Rapid Transit officer
January 1, 2009, Virgin Galactic and the U.S. state of New Mexico sign a US$150-250 million agreement to launch sub-orbital commercial space flights at Spaceport America, near Las Cruces and Truth or Consequences
January 2, 2009, A Swedish charter aircraft carrying 150 passengers touches down at Baghdad International Airport, becoming the first European commercial flight to land there since 1990.
January 3, 2008, Israel's Defense Forces launch a ground attack on the Gaza Strip
January 4, 2009, United States President-elect Barack Obama nominates Virginia Governor Tim Kaine to be the Democratic National Committee's next chairperson
January 5, 2009, United States President-elect Barack Obama nominates Leon Panetta to be the Central Intelligence Agency's next Director
January 7, 2009, The United States Congressional Budget Office estimates that the federal government will run a record $1.2 trillion budget deficit in fiscal year 2009, that the current recession will last well into this year, and that the enactment of an economic-stimulus plan would increase that deficit.
January 7, 2009, Mysterious roar heard from space
January 8, 2009, The United States Congress certifies the results of the 2008 presidential election, confirming Barack Obama as President-elect
January 8, 2009, The BCS National Championship Game Florida Gators defeat the Oklahoma Sooners at the Orange Bowl in Miami
January 8, 2009, The United Nations suspends humanitarian aid operations in Gaza after receiving fire from the Israel Defense Forces
January 8, 2009, The UN Security Council votes, with the United States abstaining, to adopt Resolution 1860, which calls for a ceasefire in the conflict. However, Israel and Hamas continue their actions
January 8, 2009, -The Bank of England cuts interest rates to 1.5 percent, its lowest level in its 315-year history
January 9, 2009, Israel and Hamas ignore the United Nations Security Council's call for a ceasefire in the conflict in the Gaza Strip
January 9, 2009, Microsoft Corporation releases the beta version of its Windows 7 operating system.
January 9, 2009, MV Sirius Star tanker is returned for 3 million in ransom.
January 13, 2009, Israeli Defense Forces advance on Gaza City and engage in urban warfare with Hamas militants
January 13, 2009, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announces a €50-billion economic stimulus package
January 13, 2009, The United States' trade deficit shrank by 28.7 percent in November 2008 to its lowest level in five years
January 13, 2009, Citigroup announces a merger deal with Morgan Stanley
January 14, 2009, Steve Jobs takes a six-month medical leave of absence as CEO of Apple Inc.
January 14, 2009, United States Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Philadelphia Fed Bank President Charles Plosser differ publicly on stabilizing the economy
January 14, 2009, U.S. retail sales plunged a seasonally adjusted 2.7 percent in December 2008 from November, the Commerce Department estimates
January 14, 2009, In an audio message, Osama bin Laden urges Muslims to launch a holy war on Israel
January 15, 2009, President George W. Bush bids farewell to the United States in a 15-minute televised address, during which he touted his record and warned his successor, Barack Obama, to maintain an aggressive stance against terrorism
January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 was a commercial passenger flight that ditched in the Hudson River with all 155 on board surviving
January 15, 2009, NASA announces that methane in Mars' atmosphere "could be produced either by geological activity or by life."
January 15, 2009, Despite the corruption scandal surrounding Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, the United States Senate confirms Roland Burris as a member
January 15, 2009, China's gross domestic product grew 13 percent during 2007, overtaking Germany to become the world's third largest economy.
January 15, 2009, Jobless claims in the United States rise 54,000 to 524,000, the first increase in three weeks.
January 15, 2009, Hawaii becomes the first U.S. state and the second media market after Wilmington, North Carolina, to convert to digital television.
January 16, 2009, Computer worm Conficker infects more than eight million Microsoft Windows-based personal computers.
January 17, 2009, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declares a unilateral ceasefire beginning.
January 18, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 was removed from the Hudson.
January 18, 2009, Phoenix Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers Advance to SuperBowl 43.
January 18, 2009, We are one Inaugural concert for Barak Obama.
January 18, 2009, At 2:00 am Israel Standard Time,Cease Fire is called between Israel and Hamas. However, Israeli Defense Forces will remain in the Gaza Strip until further notice
January 18, 2009, The Republic of China (Taiwan) distributes shopping vouchers to all its 22.7 million citizens as part of a US$2.53-billion plan to stimulate the economy
January 19, 2009, The Palestinian National Authority's Central Bureau of Statistics reports that 1,300 Palestinians were killed; 5,400 were injured; and US$1.9 billion in damage was caused during the 22-day conflict with Israel in the Gaza Strip
January 19, 2009, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet says that global economic growth in 2009 will be "substantially below" December 2008 forecasts
January 19, 2009, Her Majesty's Government confirms a £300-billion bailout package for the United Kingdom's banking industry
January 19, 2009, Banking shares in the United Kingdom plummet as the Royal Bank of Scotland posts the biggest loss in British history
January 20, 2009, Inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States, at 12:00 noon EST
January 20, 2009, Israel completes the withdrawal of its Defense Forces from the Gaza Strip
January 20, 2009, Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy suffers a seizure and collapses during a private inauguration lunch
January 20, 2009,The United Kingdom's consumer price inflation falls from 4.1% in November 2008 to 3.1% in December 2008
January 21, 2009, Series Premiere of Lie to Me
January 21, 2009, The United States Senate confirms Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State
January 21, 2009, The United Kingdom reports that 1.92 million Britons were unemployed in December 2008
January 21, 2009, President of Ireland Mary McAleese signs a bill confirming the nationalisation of Anglo Irish Bank
January 21, 2009, Toyota surpasses General Motors to become the world's largest automaker
January 21, 2009, United States President Barack Obama halts the trials of detainees at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base's detention camp
January 21, 2009, China Central Television omits sensitive portions of U.S. President Obama's inaugural address
January 21, 2009, The missing engine from US Airways Flight 1549 is found at the bottom of the Hudson River
January 22, 2009, Barak Obama retakes Presidental Oath
[Picture is of Benjamin Latrobe: Freemason Architect]
January 22, 2009, Hamas announces it will distribute maximums of €4,000 to families seriously affected by the recent conflict in the Gaza Strip
January 22, 2009, United States President Barack Obama will close Guantánamo Bay Naval Base's detention camp within one year and bans torture
January 22, 2009, Iceland's National Police uses teargas against protesters for the first time since anti-NATO riots in 1949
January 22, 2009, Two Sanlu Group executives are sentenced to death for endangering public safety during China's 2008 milk scandal.
January 22, 2009, General Motors receives a second loan installment of US$5.4 billion
January 23, 2009, The number of unique Internet users reached one billion in December 2008
January 23, 2009, Japan launches the world's first greenhouse-gas-monitoring satellite, Ibuki, from the Tanegashima Space Center
January 23, 2009, Two children and one adult are stabbed to death in a Joker mimic attack on a crèche in Belgium
January 23, 2009, The United Kingdom enters a recession
January 26, 2009, Annular solar eclipse
January 26, 2009, The Icelandic government and banking system collapse; Prime Minister Geir Haarde immediately resigns
January 26, 2009, United States pharmaceutical company Pfizer announces it will buy rival Wyeth in a US$68-billion deal
January 26, 2009, Soon we may get the first ever glimpse of the dark side of the sun. Well, no, there's no actual dark side of a luminous ball of burning gas, but there is an effective darkside, as in, the side of the sun we can't see at any given time. The perfect spherical view will come on Feb. 6, 2011. Right now the satellites, which were launched in October 2006, are about 90 degrees apart, which allows a picture of about 270 degrees of the sun — the fullest view yet.
January 26, 2009, A set of human octuplets are born alive for the second time in the United States
January 27, 2009, United Kingdom Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Peter Mandelson unveils a £2.3-billion bailout for the British motor industry
January 27, 2009, Iran will have enough enriched uranium to make a single nuclear weapon later this year, the International Institute for Strategic Studies predicts
January 27, 2009, Release of Bruce Springsteen's Working on a Dream
January 28, 2009, The United States House of Representatives passes the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
January 28, 2009, The World Economic Forum begins its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland
January 28, 2009,The IMF issues its worst outlook for the world economy in 60 years
January 28, 2009, The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board prepares its final report on the 2007 collision between two news helicopters in Phoenix, Arizona.
January 29, 2009, The Illinois Senate votes unanimously to remove Governor Rod Blagojevich from office and bar him from future state employment. Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn is sworn in to finish Blagojevich's term
January 29, 2009, Barak Obama picks Steelers too win Superbowl
January 29, 2009, Bronze fiber glass Shoe statue in Iraq is dedicated too Bush Shoe thrower.
January 30, 2008, "The Simpsons" Denies Involvement In Bart's Scientology Promotion by Nancy Cartwright
January 30, 2009, Shoe Statue is removed
January 30, 2009, Michael Steele is elected RNC Chairman
January 30, 2009, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announces an investigation into Israel's attack on the U.N.'s Gaza Strip headquarters
January 31, 2009, Thousands of Russians protest in response to the government's handling of the current economic crisis
January 31, 2009, Sharif Ahmed, the former leader of the Islamic Courts Union is elected as the President of Somalia
January 31, 2009, Former Cuban President Fidel Castro attacks United States President Barack Obama for supporting "Israeli genocide" against the Palestinian people
January 31, 2009, George Obama is arrested for cannabis possession
January 31, 2009, Michael Phelps is published smoking cannabis from a bong
February 1, 2009, Tampa Bay Deep Sea Explorers Odyssey find renowned British warship the HMS Victory. The wreckage of the HMS Victory, found below about 330 feet of water, may carry an even bigger jackpot. Research indicates the ship was carrying 4 tons of gold coins when it sank in storm, said Greg Stemm, co-founder of Odyssey Marine Exploration, ahead of a Monday news conference in London.
[X marks the Spot]
February 1, 2009, Pittsburgh Steelers win record 6th Championship in Tampa Bay defeating the Arizona Cardinals.
[X marks the Spot]
February 2, 2009, The United States Senate confirms Eric Holder as Attorney General
February 2, 2009, Japan's Mount Asama erupts
February 2, 2009, Heavy snow across England closes London City Airport and one runway of Heathrow Airport and shuts down all public transport in London
February 2, 2009, The International Criminal Court announces it will investigate Israeli war crimes possibly committed during Operation Cast Lead
February 2, 2009, Wildcat strikes spread across the United Kingdom
February 2, 2009, A human rights protester throws a shoe at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during a speech at Cambridge University
February 2, 2009, The Australian government announces a $42-billion stimulus package to revive the economy and The Reserve Bank reduces interest rates by 100 basis points to 3.25%.
February 3, 2009, Israel announces restrictions on Al Jazeera broadcasts within its borders
February 3, 2009, California's government goes broke and issues IOUs on all expenditures not required by law
February 3, 2009, Australia The Reserve Bank reduces interest rates by 100 basis points to 3.25%
February 3, 2009, Iran announces the launch of its first domestically constructed satellite, Omid
February 3, 2009, Tom Daschle withdraws his nomination to serve as United States Secretary of Health and Human Services and Nancy Killefer withdraws her nomination to serve as Chief Performance Officer
February 4, 2009, The United States Treasury moves to broaden its debt ranging options to raise the trillions of dollars needed to cope with the current recession
February 4, 2009, Unemployment in Ireland sees the highest monthly increase in 40 years, with the equivalent of 1,500 people being laid off daily
February 4, 2009, Fossils from Colombia reveal Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the largest snake ever discovered
February 4, 2009, A fire burned for more than two hours Wednesday at Holy Name Cathedral, severely damaging the attic and leaving gaping holes in the roof of the 134-year-old landmark that is the seat of Cardinal Francis George.
-This was the first built after the Great Fire of 1871 which gave Chicago the phoenix resonance.
February 4, 2009, USA Swimming suspends Michael Phelps from competition for three months following publication of a photograph of him inhaling from a marijuana pipe
February 4, 2009, German public television station ZDF reports that Nazi fugitive Aribert Heim died in 1992
February 5, 2009, Businessman Kazutsugi Nami is arrested by Japanese police over a US$1.4-billion investment scam
February 5, 2009, The Bank of England reduces the base rate of interest to a new historic low of 1%.
February 5, 2009, The number of Americans applying for first-time unemployment payments reaches its highest level since October 1982
February 5, 2009, Somali pirates release Ukraine's MV Faina following a US$3.2-million ransom payment
February 6, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama creates the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board.
February 6, 2009, The U.S. economy lost 598,000 jobs during January 2009, with unemployment rising to 7.6 percent
February 6, 2009, Canada's economy lost 129,000 jobs during January 2009, an all-time record, with unemployment rising to 7.2 percent
February 6, 2009, Bankruptcies in the United Kingdom rose during 2008 by 50 percent to an all-time high
February 6, 2009, California's Alliance Bank and Georgia's FirstBank are closed, raising the number of 2009 U.S. bank failures to eight
February 6, 2009, A teething drug is withdrawn from circulation after killing 84 Nigerian children in three months
February 6, 2009,The United States Food and Drug Administration approves ATryn, the first drug made using genetically engineered animals
February 6, 2009, Somali pirates will release the MV Blue Star and her crew of 28 Egyptians upon receiving a ransom
February 7, 2009, Jennifer Frigge becomes the first woman to swim across the Atlantic Ocean
February 8, 2009, 51st Grammy Awards: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss win Record of the Year for "Please Read the Letter." "Viva la Vida" by Coldplay wins Song of the Year
February 9, 2009, Thirty mummies are discovered in a 2,600-year-old ancient Egyptian tomb at Saqqara
February 9, 2009, France's government announces a €6.5-billion bailout for the automotive industry
February 9, 2009, Bushfires in Victoria, Australia, have now killed at least 130 people and destroyed at least 750 homes.
February 9, 2009, The suspected find of Zeus the god of thunder and lightning birthplace
February 9, 2009, Handler Clifford W. Steele and his Scottish deerhound, Tiger Woods, run in the ring during the Hound Group, which he won, during the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York, on Monday
February 9, 2009, Bishop Richard Williamson is removed from a Roman Catholic seminary in Argentina after denying the Holocaust
February 9, 2009, The Associated Press receives a video showing Pakistani militants beheading kidnapped Polish engineer Piotr Stanczak
February 9, 2009, Major League Baseball player Alex Rodriguez admits using performance-enhancing drugs between 2001 and 2003
February 9, 2009, A fire destroys the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Beijing, China
February 10, 2009, The United States Senate approves the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
February 10, 2009, Mexico will nationally register all its mobile phone users and catalog their fingerprints
February 10, 2009, Australian police combed through a blackened landscape searching for clues in the hunt for possible arsonists on Tuesday as the death toll from the nation's worst bushfires looked likely to top 200. Victoria's Police Commissioner Nixon launched the nation's biggest arson investigation, "Operation Phoenix", vowing to catch anyone who started a blaze.
February 10, 2009, Release of Important things with Demetri Martin.
February 10, 2009, Stump, a Sussex Spaniel, sits with its handler Scott Sommer after winning the best In show award at the 2009 Westminster Dog Show on Tuesday in New York.
February 11, 2009, The budget deficit reached US$84 billion in January 2009, due to the financial crisis
February 11, 2009, Iridium Satellite LLC's Iridium 33 and Russia's Kosmos-2251 collide in low-Earth orbit
February 11, 2009, The number of worldwide connections to cellular networks reaches four billion
February 12, 2009, 200th Anniversary of Darwin
February 12, 2009, The United States National Transportation Safety Board concludes that Canada geese caused US Airways Flight 1549 to ditch into New York City's Hudson River
February 12, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI condemns any denial of the Holocaust as "intolerable and altogether unacceptable"
February 12, 2009, Hamas agrees to an 18-month truce in its conflict with Israel, which has not yet responded
February 12, 2009, Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. reopens for the bicentennial of assasinated U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's 200th birth
February 12, 2009, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez alleges that the Army attempted to overthrow his government
February 12, 2009, Australia announces a national day of mourning for victims of bushfires in Victoria
February 12, 2009, Continental Airlines Flight 3407 crashes into the town of Clarence Center, New York near Buffalo, killing 49 people
February 13, 2009, Release of the International.
The International is a thriller film, directed by Tom Tykwer and starring Clive Owen, and Naomi Watts. The film was inspired by the Pakistani Bank of Credit and Commerce International banking scandal.
Interpol agent Louis Salinger and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman are determined to bring to justice one of the world's most powerful banks, the International Bank of Business and Credit (IBBC) which funds terrorist activities. Uncovering illegal activities including money laundering, arms trading, and the destabilization of governments, Salinger's and Whitman's investigation takes them from Berlin to Milan, where the IBBC assassinates Umberto Calvini, an Italian prime ministerial candidate. Following a lead on the assassin to New York City, Salinger is involved in a gunfight in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. An ally of Salinger in the NYPD tracks down the assassin's handler Wexler, who helps Salinger reach Istanbul, where the CEO of the IBBC is conducting an arms deal. Both Wexler and Skarssen are killed by a hitman contracted by Enzo and Mario Calvini to avenge their father's murder by the bank. Salinger is left stunned; his investigation, pursuit and determination having lead him to nothing. However, during the credits, it is indicated that the bank continues with its plans and is successful, despite the death of its CEO.
February 13, 2009, The Peanut Corporation of America files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and liquidatio
February 13, 2009, Germany's economy shrank by 2.1 percent in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2008.
February 13, 2009, Blackwater changes its name – to Xe.
February 13, 2009, The Unix time number reaches 1234567890 seconds at 23:31:30 UTC
February 13, 2009, The completion of the first draft of the Neanderthal genome is announced.
February 13, 2009, Australia's Senate approves a $42-billion economic stimulus package
February 13, 2009, The German economy shrinks by 2.1 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2008 as the recession worsens
February 14, 2009, Japan's National Astronomical Observatory completes the first topographic map of the Moon
February 14, 2009, Somali pirates release the Japanese oil tanker Chemstar Venus and its 23 crew members
February 14, 2009, Nate Robinson aka Krypto-Nate defeats Dwight Howard aka Superman in the 2009 All-Star Dunk competition in Phoenix Arizona at the US Airways Center .
All in promotion of his new Green Shoe Kyptonite.
Alchemy Transmutation:
-John McCain from Phoenix is defeated by Barak Obama
-Arizona Cardinals from Phoenix are defeated by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
-Superman Dwight Howard in Phoenix is Defeated by Kyrptonite Nate Robinson.
February 15, 2009, The 2009 NBA All-Star Game will be held at the US Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Shaq and Kobe Bryant win Co-MVP.
February 15, 2009,Texans report fireball in sky, sonic booms, determined a Meteor and not from the Satellite Collision.
February 15, 2009, Colombia's Galeras volcano erupts
February 16, 2009, BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay's trial begins in Stockholm, Sweden
February 16, 2009, Japan's gross domestic product contracted by 12.7 percent in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2008
February 16, 2009, The British Royal Navy's nuclear submarine HMS Vanguard and the French Navy's Le Triomphant collided in the Atlantic Ocean on February 3 or 4.
February 16, 2009, The United Kingdom's economy is expected to contract by 3.3 percent throughout 2009
February 17, 2009, The United States Securities and Exchange Commission charges Stanford Financial Group Chairman Allen Stanford with fraud
February 17, 2009, Legal charges against The Pirate Bay are amended
February 17, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama will sign the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 in Denver, Colorado
February 17, 2009, General Motors advises the United States Government that it will need an additional $12 billion in loans to stave up bankruptcy
February 17, 2009, Chrysler requests an additional $22 billion in loans from the US Government.
February 17, 2009, California will lay off 20,000 government workers, due to the State Legislature's failure to pass a budget
February 17, 2009, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in Japan to deliberate the global economic crisis and international security
February 17, 2009, The NASA's Dawn spacecraft will flyby Mars for data and gravitational assist en route to Vesta and Ceres
February 17, 2009, Obama OKs 17K more troops for Afghanistan
February 17, 2009, Release of Grand Theft Auto 4 Expansion: The Lost and Damned
February 18, 2009, Geronimo's kin sue Skull and Bone
February 18, 2009, Barak Obama receives Shaq's All-star Game Shoe while in Phoenix.
February 18, 2009, A Columbian mammoth is discovered in the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California
February 18, 2009, Iran announces it has built an unmanned aerial vehicle capable of traveling 620 miles
February 18, 2009, Lawyers representing the entertainment industry defend their compensation claims of US$13 million against The Pirate Bay
February 18, 2009, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration and European Space Agency will continue with their Europa Jupiter System Mission and Titan Saturn System Missions.
February 19, 2009, California's State Legislature approves a US$143-billion budget and fills a $41-billion deficit with a combination of loans, spending and service reductions, and tax increases
February 19, 2009, The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation locates Stanford Financial Group Chairman Allen Stanford in Virginia and serves him with a fraud complaint on behalf of the Securities and Exchange Commission
February 19, 2009, China claims it has artificially produced snowfall by cloud seeding to ease drought
February 20, 2009, Gold futures reclaim the US$1,000-an-ounce mark
February 20, 2009, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo subpoenas Bank of America Chairman and CEO Kenneth Lewis for misleading investors during the purchase of Merrill Lynch
February 20, 2009, Saab Automobile files for bankruptcy protection
February 22, 2009, Australia holds a national day of mourning for the 209 confirmed victims of recent bushfires in Victoria
February 22, 2009, Somali pirates hijack Greece's MV Saldanha in the Gulf of Aden
February 22, 2009, The European Council meets in Berlin, Germany, to discuss the current economic crisis
February 22, 2009, Slum"Dog" Millionaire wins best picture of the year at the Oscars.
Seth Rogan announces that the Black man is Downey Jr (Iron-Steel man/Kirk Lazarus starring as Lincoln Osiris) and not Barak Obama who here as been identified with the character.
February 23, 2009, Baghdad Museum reopens after its looting 6 years ago, which focus on Assyrian and Babylonian halls.
February 23, 2009, The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 fall to their lowest levels since 1997. (Los Angeles Times)
February 23, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI selects Archbishop Timothy Dolan to succeed Cardinal Edward Egan as New York's Archdiocese. (New York Times)
February 23, 2009, The death toll from recent bushfires in Victoria reaches 210 as they threaten Belgrave. (ABC News Australia)
February 23, 2009, India approves a £1.7-billion plan to launch its first astronauts into outer space by 2015. (Times)
February 24, 2009, United States President Barack Obama addresses a joint session of Congress. (BBC)
February 24, 2009, NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory lands in the Pacific Ocean near Antarctica after failing to reach Earth's orbit. (Sky News)
February 24, 2009, Ireland's Stock Exchange falls to its lowest level since 1995. (RTÉ)
February 24, 2009, U.S. President Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso pledge to cooperate in stimulating economic demand and combating protectionism. (BBC)
February 24, 2009, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and French President Nicolas Sarkozy agree to cooperate in reviving nuclear power in Italy. (BBC)
February 25, 2009, Three people set themselves on fire near Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. (BBC)
February 25, 2009, Iran tests its first nuclear power plant at Bushehr. (Guardian)
February 25, 2009, Japan's exports plunged 45.7% in January 2009. (BBC)
February 25, 2009, The U.S. arrests 750 people in a national crackdown on Mexican drug cartels. (BBC)
February 25, 2009, An Australian study classifies a fossilized fish as one of the earliest known vertebrates to use internal fertilization. (BBC)
February 26, 2009, United States President Barack Obama will withdraw most soldiers from the Iraq War by August 2010. (CNN)
February 26, 2009, General Motors reports a US$9.6 billion loss, due to the current automotive industry crisis. (New York Times)
February 26, 2009, The Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, catches fire, five months after it was bombed. (BBC)
February 26, 2009, Ajmal Kasab, the 2008 Mumbai attacks' lone surviving gunman, is charged with waging war against India. (Sky News)
February 26, 2009, The Royal Bank of Scotland Group reports a 2008 loss of £24.1 billion. (BBC)
February 26, 2009, The University of Reading identifies the oldest words in the English language. (BBC)
February 26, 2009, A study by the scientific journal Nature shows that HIV is evolving to resist the human immune system. (BBC)
February 26, 2009, The earliest footprints evidencing modern human foot anatomy and gait are discovered in Koobi Fora, Kenya. (BBC)
February 26, 2009, The Svalbard Global Seed Vault receives 90,000 food crop seed samples. (BBC)
February 26, 2009, The United States Defense Department allows news agencies to publicize photographs of the coffins of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. (BBC)
February 26, 2009, The Rocky Mountain News, one of Colorado's largest newspapers, publishes its last issue.
February 27, 2009, A nationwide "Chicago Tea Party" occurred across the United States, where protesters say government spending is out of control. (Fox Chicago News)
February 27, 2009, The U.S. gross domestic product fell 6.2% in the final fiscal quarter of 2008. (MarketWatch)
February 27, 2009, The U.S. federal government will increase its equity stake in Citigroup to 36%. (MarketWatch)
February 27, 2009, The animated sitcom The Simpsons becomes the longest-running U.S. primetime television series after Fox Broadcasting confirms two more seasons. (BBC)
February 28, 2009, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declares a state of emergency, due to severe drought. (BBC)
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The Michael Kors Jet Set Travel Tote wraps your Mac in top-quality hand-crafted saffiano leather. There's a separate inner pocket to house your MacBook – and the zip with gold colour pull tab ensures a snug protective fit. Plus you get a pocket for your iPhone and one for your iPad in its Smart Cover. The Michael Kors gold color metal MK charm hanging along the front provides a luxurious detail. And in the Michael Kors tradition of quality craftsmanship and attention to detail, each tote is individually handcrafted from the finest saffiano leather and includes premium Napa leather handles and straps.
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Q: Why is there no way to file a formal complaint against a police officer? - S.A., Fayetteville
A: S.A., you've been told incorrectly. You can make a complaint, at least if you're talking about the Fayetteville Police Department or Cumberland County Sheriff's Office.
To make a formal complaint about a Fayetteville police officer, you have several options:
Call the department's Office of Professional Standards during weekday business hours at 433-1820.
Call the watch commander. The Campbelltown (downtown-based) district commander is at 433-1830; the Cross Creek (northwest Fayetteville-based district) is at 433-1827.
Write a letter and mail it to Fayetteville Police Department, Office of Professional Standards and Inspections, 467 Hay St., Fayetteville, NC 28301-5565.
Visit the Police Department's website at bethebadge.com. On the upper-right corner of the website, click the "complaints/compliments" link. That will bring up a form that you can fill out to file a complaint.
If your complaint is about a Sheriff's Office deputy, you can obtain a citizen's complaint form from the watch commander at the county Law Enforcement Center downtown on Dick Street.
Officials at the Police Department and Sheriff's Office said all complaints are reviewed and acted on as appropriate.
Q: A friend received the shingles vaccine but had to pay for it herself because her physician said it wouldn't be covered by Medicare. She told me that if Medicare won't pay for something, her Blue Cross/Blue Shield policy won't pay for it, either. What do the elderly do? The shingles vaccine is being recommended for everyone over 50. - S.F., Fayetteville
A: First, a note about the shingles vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends it for everyone over 60 - not 50 - but not for anyone who has ever had a severe allergic reaction to gelatin or neomycin. Patients with a weakened immune system because of disease, medications or cancer treatment should also avoid it.
Now, the cost. If your friend has Medicare Part D, she should contact her plan to make sure she was charged the correct copayment.
Also, under the Affordable Care Act, anyone with a new private health insurance plan or a plan with benefits that have changed significantly are eligible for free vaccines recommended by the CDC. Your friend could be eligible and should check with her insurance company.
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I am not sure what your expectations are regarding this but based on your response you sound a bit frustrated.
I think your idea is a good one and will submit it to both the Regional Clubs committee and the Show committee. As JoyceE pointed out we have information on the website already but we can always add more. Also we can update the information to be as comprehensive as possible. The MCA works through committees and as such it may not move as quickly as everyone would like. Also note that the MCA is a volunteer organization so everyone has day jobs and lives outside the MCA that we support. One suggestion that I would like to make is for someone to write an article on the subject and submit it for publication. We can post it on the website and it might be published in the Mustang Times as well.
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John You are correct I am frustrated! I have been a card toting member for a while off and on. When I started the regional club that i am a member of we wanted to be very active with MCA. We pursued getting an MCA chater and received one after a year. I say after a year because that is the requirement if you are a new start up regional as I found out. This was one of the items I would like to see change from a regional clubs perspective. This information should be published somewhere in a checklist or something. Same with the topic of putting on a regional show. I know there is information on a national show. I want this to be easier for new clubs to get involved, rather than having MCA go out and ask regional clubs to get involved. What Phil made is a great start to a tool that MCA should consider implementing into a welcome type package from MCA. I feel That some of my suggestions fall on deaf ears. Committees are only as good as the people on the committee. Perhaps there should be a point of contact or someone who will persue and present suggestions to the committees and provide feedback to whom ever suggested the idea. I understand everyone has a regular job and a life outside of MCA. It is the same at the regional level. Why should we write an article on this subject? That is why we have forums..... This is a simple tool that I feel should be presented and even impleneted to ease the pain of newer clubs. I think simple items like this should be a no-brainer. Dont get me wrong John its nothing against you but, seems like nothing happens quick with MCA not even a simple I will pass it on. Thanks for your help!
Bobby I am happy to help. After my last post I forwarded the link to this thread to our regional committee member chairman for review.
I also think that this is something we should start in a separate area of the forum for further discussion. Let me see what I can set up. There are lots of people with great ideas and it would be a shame not to get them involved!
John I thank you for your help with presenting this idea to the right channels. I have several ideas about new regional clubs. Should this be discussed in the regional directors forum? Thanks again!
Yes please post up your ideas in the Regional Directors forum. I would also send your ideas to Jeff Mays directly via email. He is the Chairman of the Regional Club committee.
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Just finished watching Classic Albums, So. Great insight and I just wonder what was for lunch the day the door was torn down!
I saw the Wailers at Glastonbury a few years back after accidentally stumbling past as they were getting started... Definitely worth it, and if the weather for WOMAD is anything like it is at the moment then they will be a perfect sunny afternoon chill out and sing-along!
Crossing my fingers, toes and eyes for this one!
Found another:
Portico Quartet, Sat 28th
I've devised a anew search syntax that unearthed this one and has potential to unveil other, too! Given that most band pages have sections for Photos, News and Gigs / Events / Tour, a handy search to use is:
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....with 'gigs' and '27' being interchangeable with relevant terms. Good luck!
Oooo - thanks, Venja!
Fantastic news - never seen them but their Isla CD is a much played one when I'm cooking on a Friday night with a bottle of red! Excellent
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Found using:
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The Hop Farm Festival has PG and the New Blood Orchestra as their headliners on 1st July - billing it as a UK exclusive and their only UK festival appearance in 2012. Just hoping that does not rule out PG alone, or with other singers/musicians, and the UK exclusive just means PG with the NBO. I really want to see PG at Womad's birthday party!
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Movie Review: "PARKER" Starring Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Chiklis, Nick Nolte
Let's be honest, I'm a HUGE Jason Statham fan, but this is not his best movie, NOT even close and it only grossed about 7 million in its opening weekend. Having said that, it was a great wrap up for my weekend when I saw it last night.
Interesting plot, and of course there's a double cross that sets Statham's character in "revenge" mode which propels the rest of the movie.
Note: This is the 2nd movie in 2 weeks that I have seen with Nick Nolte in it? 1st was last week's "Gangster Squad". What's up with that?
With his double crossers thinking they left him for dead. Statham heads off to Florida to confront them on their next job, a heist involving a rich Palm Beach socialite. Jennifer Lopez is especially "hot" as always and she really can act, so that's nice. She plays a real estate agent who thinks he's a rich Texan. Yes, I said Texan. It's over the top to see Statham as a 10 gallon hat wearing, Texas twang spewing Brit, and yet Lopez is only slightly suspicious he's not what he says he is? The rest of the movie is what made Jason Statham an action star.
Wait for it on DVD unless you're a HUGE fan like I am. Everyone else will just love to hate it. For almost 2 hours, I was not thinking about work, bills, or the BIG GAME that's coming up this Sunday. That's what I go to the movies for.
It's a bit part for Nolte who plays a guy that puts crews together for various jobs and is unknowingly responsible to hooking Statham up with the guys who double crossed him. The crew is led by Chiklis, who by the way, plays a great bad guy. Bobby Cannavale of Boardwalk Empire fame plays a cop in a very small role.
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Jalal al-Din Rumi
Jalal al-Din Rumi 1207-1273
(Also known as Mowlānā Jalāloddin Rūmī, Jalāluddin Rumi, Jelaluddin Rumi, Jalāl-ud-dīn, Mawlānā, and Mevlevi) Persian poet.
One of the most widely translated figures of Islamic literature, Rumi has been deemed by numerous commentators as the greatest mystical poet of Persia. The Mathnawi, his largest body of work, has been compared to the Koran and is regarded as one of the masterpieces of religious literature. Rumi belonged to a religious sect of Islam called Sufism, which honored love and devotion to God above all else. Many of Rumi's writings reflect the Sufi doctrine and various dimensions of spiritual life.
Biographical Information
Rumi was born in Balkh (present-day Afghanistan), a center of Islamic study, where his father, Baha Walad, was a renowned scholar and Sufi. When Rumi was twelve years old, his family fled the city fearing the impending invasion of the Mongols. After nine years of travel, they settled in Konya (present-day Turkey). After his father's death in 1231, Rumi was appointed his successor and became a prominent Islamic scholar, well versed in law and theology. He also continued to study the Sufi doctrine under the direction of a disciple of his father. It was not until Rumi met Shams al-Din of Tabriz at the age of thirty-seven, however, that he was spiritually transformed into an ecstatic Sufi who celebrated the mysteries of Divine Love with dancing, music, and poetry. Little is known about Shams except that a great spiritual love existed between the two men. Rumi's disciples were very jealous of Shams. Their abuse and threats of violence forced him to flee on two occasions, and in 1248 Shams disappeared; according to some reports, he was murdered by Rumi's jealous followers. Rumi was devastated by his loss and searched for Shams for many years. He began writing poetry in earnest after Shams's disappearance, and it was during this time that Rumi wrote much of the Diwan-i Shams-i Tabriz, a collection of odes dedicated to the memory of Shams. For the rest of his life, Rumi devoted himself to his Sufi disciples, his spiritual practice, and his writing. He was still working on his last and greatest work, the Mathnawi, when he died in 1273.
Major Works
Rumi's two major works of poetry are the Mathnawi and the Diwan-i Shams-i Tabriz. The Mathnawi is a collection of six volumes totaling over 25,000 verses which Rumi began around 1260 and continued to work on until his death. Written at the request of his favorite disciple, who was responsible for transcribing Rumi's verses, the Mathnawi is a collection of anecdotes and stories drawn from all areas of Islamic wisdom—from the Koran to common folktales—which attempts to explain the Sufi way and the various dimensions of spiritual life. The Diwan, which was written over a thirty-year time span, is thought to have been started after Shams's arrival in Konya in 1244. Comprising approximately 40,000 verses, it contains poems which focus mainly on various mystical states, such as spiritual intoxication and ecstatic love. Scholars believe that many of the poems in the Diwan were composed spontaneously by Rumi while engaged in mystical dancing. Among Rumi's other works are the Fihi ma Fihi and the Majalis-i sab'ah, both of which include transcriptions of his sermons and conversations. In addition, Rumi's letters have been compiled in the Makatib, which contains more than one hundred documents written mainly to the nobility of Konya in order to appeal for help on behalf of his friends and disciples.
Critical Reception
Critical opinion of Rumi has varied. Although many view his Mathnawi as second only to the Koran as a work of religious literature, others have found it difficult to comprehend. Western readers are often confused by his seemingly unsystematic narratives and find the loose construction of his stories hard to follow. In his own time, Rumi's detractors faulted his anecdotal style and his lack of metaphysical discussions, Generally, however, Rumi was viewed with deep veneration by his contemporaries. Christians, Jews, and Muslims alike attended Rumi's funeral, and centuries after his death he was still being honored by poets, musicians, and artists. Regarding Rumi's lasting influence, R. A. Nicholson concluded: "Familiarity does not always breed disillusion. Today the words I applied to the author of the Mathnawi thirty-five years ago, 'the greatest mystical poet of any age,' seem to me no more than just. Where else shall we find such a panorama of universal existence unrolling itself through Time into Eternity?"
Principal Works
*Majalis-i sab'ah (prose)
*Makatib (letters)
*Fihi ma fihi (prose)
**Diwan-i Shams-i Tabriz (poetry) c. 1244-1273 Mathnawi (6 vols.) (poetry) c. 1260-1273
*The date of composition for these works is unknown.
**This volume contains Rumi's quatrains, or Ruba'iyat.
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Principal English Translations
*The Mesnevi of Mevlana Jelalu'd-din Muhammed, er-Rumi…Book of the First (translated by James W. Redhouse) 1881
*Masnavi-i Ma'navi, Spiritual Couplets (translated by E. H. Whinfield) 1887
Selected Poems from the Diwan-i Shams-i Tabriz (translated by R. A. Nicholson) 1898
The Mathnawi of Jalau'ddin Rumi, 8 vols, (translated by R. A. Nicholson) 1925-1940
Tales of Mystic Meaning: Being Selections from the Mathnawi of Jalul-ud-Din Rumi (translated by R. A. Nicholson) 1931
**The Ruba'iyat of Jalal al-Din Rumi (translated by A. J. Arberry) 1949
***Discourses of Rumi (translated by A. J. Arberry) 1961
**Mystical Poems of Rumi: First Selection—Poems 1-200 (translated by A. J. Arberry) 1968
**Mystical Poems of Rumi: Second Selection—Poems 200-400 (translated by A. J. Arberry) 1979
*These works represent translated selections of the Mathnawi.
**These works represent translated selections of the Diwan-i Shams-i Tabriz.
***This work represents a translated selection of the Fihi ma fihi.
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SOURCE: E. H. Whinfield, in an introduction to Masnavi I Ma'Navi: The Spiritual Couplets of Maulana Jalalu-'d-din Muhammad I Rumi, edited and translated by E. H. Whinfield, Trubner & Co., 1887, pp. xiii-xxxii.
[In the excerpt that follows. Whinfield analyzes the influence of the Koran and Sufism on Rumi's Masnavi, noting that Rumi took these sources and "fused them into a system by the cardinal principal of 'Love.'"]
The Masnavi is described by the Author in his Arabic Preface as follows:—
Thus saith the feeble servant, in need of the mercy of God, whose name be extolled, Muhammad, son of Muhammad, son of Husain, of Balkh, of whom may God accept it,—' have exerted myself to enlarge this book of poetry in rhymed couplets, which contains strange and rare narratives, beautiful sayings, and recondite indications; a path for the devout, and a garden for the pious; short in its expressions, numerous in its applications.… It contains the roots of the roots of the roots of the Faith, and treats of the mysteries of Union and sure Knowledge.'1
In modern language the Masnavi may be called the "Divina Commedia," or the "Paradise Lost" of Islám a summary of religious thought, a "Théodicée," justifying the way of Allah to man, and a standard of religious feeling. In India it is regarded as a...
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SOURCE: Khalifa 'Abdul Hakim, "Love," in The Metaphysics of Rumi: A Critical and Historical Sketch, 1933.Reprint by The Institute of Islamic Culture, 1959, pp. 43-61.
[In the following essay, originally published in 1933, Hakim compares Rumi's "philosophy of love" to the theories of Plato.]
If there is anything in Rumi's mysticism that defies all attempts at analysis, that is his ecstatic utterances about Love. It is exactly here that theory has so very little in common with life and experience, and the words of Mephistopheles are justified: "Grau … ist alle Theorie Und grün des Lebens goldner Baum." If it were concerned only with lyrical fervours and ecstasies, there would no doubt be much that touches our own inner chords and stirs emotions in the soul that are too deep for words. But that is not all that we find in Rumi. He tells us that what he means by Love is indescribable and the attempt to define it is as baffling as to define life itself. Life as well as love, not in spite of, buton account of their immediacy cannot be defined.1 He tells us that it is not logic but music2 that is a partial medium of its expression, and love being paradoxical in its nature, music, that is its vehicle, becomes paradoxical too: "Poison and Antidote at the same time." "Our sweetest songs are those that tell us of saddest thoughts." Love is the greatest mystery of life and music is the garb...
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SOURCE: Reynold A. Nicholson, in an introduction to Rumi: Poet and Mystic (1207-1275), George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1950, pp. 17-26.
[In the following excerpt, redrafted by A. J. Arberry and published five years after Nicholson's death, Nicholson discusses the pantheistic themes found in Rumi's Mathnavi and praises the poem's "exhilarating sense of largeness and freedom by its disregard for logical cohesion, defiance of conventions, bold use of the language of common life, and abundance of images drawn from homely things and incidents familiar to every one."]
Rumi's literary output, as stupendous in magnitude as it is sublime in content, consists of the very large collection of mystical odes, perhaps as many as 2,500, which make up the Diwan-i Shams-i Tabrizi; the Mathnawi in six books of about 25,000 rhyming couplets; and the Ruba'iyat or quatrains, of which maybe about 1,600 are authentic.1 The forms in which he clothes his religious philosophy had been fashioned before him by two great Sufi poets, Sana'i of Ghaznah and Faridu'1-Din 'Attar of Nishapur. Though he makes no secret of his debt to them both, his flight takes a wider range, his materials are richer and more varied, and his method of handling the subject is so original that it may justly be described as "a new style." It is a style of great subtlety and complexity, hard to analyse;...
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SOURCE: Afzal Iqbal, "The Poet as Thinker," in The Life and Work of Muhammad Jalal-ud-Din Rumi, revised edition, Institute of Islamic Culture, 1964, pp. 157-85.
[In the essay below, originally published in 1956, Iqbal examines the message of Rumi's Mattinavi and discusses such concepts as the relation between love and intellect, the nature of the self, evolution, determinism and responsibility, knowledge of God, and the Ideal Man.]
When we talk of Rumi's thought, we should not be taken to mean that he had a systematic and coherent philosophy. His thoughts lie scattered and unconnected like broken threads but a patient effort can weave them into an almost consistent pattern. The point is that we should not approach Rumi's thought in the same spirit as we approach the thought of a systematic thinker.
Another point of difference between Rumi and systematic thinkers is that whereas the latter usually support their contentions with arguments, Rumi generally makes assertions and tries to invest them with power by means of analogies.
As Whinfield points out, the Mathnavi is an exposition of 'experimental' mysticism, and not a treatise of 'doctrinal' mysticism. Hence Rumi does not set out all this Sufi gnosis with the logical precision of a systematic thinker but rather assumes it all as known to his readers.1
Muslim philosophers...
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SOURCE: A. J. Arberry, in an introduction to Tales from the Masnavi, George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1961, pp. 11-20.
[In this excerpt, Arberry examines the prosody and poetic style of the Masnavi and discusses how Rumi was influenced by his predecessors.]
The use of the parable in religious teaching has of course a very long history, and Rumi broke no new ground when he decided to lighten the weight of his doctrinal exposition by introducing tales and fables to which he gave an allegorical twist. He was especially indebted, as he freely acknowledges in the course of his poem, to two earlier Persian poets, Sana'i of Ghazna and Farid al-Din 'Attar of Nishapur. More will be said presently of these authors, Rumi's immediate models; but they themselves, though original writers within the boundaries of Persian poetical literature, were not original in an absolute sense. Persian authors, many of whom wrote also or exclusively in Arabic particularly during the earlier history of Islam, leaned heavily upon the traditions established in Arabic writing which preceded the origins of classical Persian literature by some three centuries.
First and foremost, there was the Koran itself to serve as a perfect, because a divinely inspired examplar. As I have endeavoured to demonstrate in my Koran Interpreted, that 'incoherency' for which the Suras, making up the corpus of Muhammad's...
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SOURCE: Robert M. Rehder, "The Style of Jalal al-Din Rumi," in The Scholar and the Saint: Studies in Commemoration of Abu'l-Rayhan al-Biruni and Jalal al-Din al-Rumi, edited by Peter J. Chelkowski, New York University Press, 1975, pp. 275-85.
[Here, Rehder asserts that Rumi must be understood as a poet rather than a philosopher, and claims that "the structures of his poems are the structures of his unconscious phantasies."]
Any study of the style of a Persian author is a particularly difficult problem at present because the literary criticism of Persian literature is a new and unexplored subject. The old, overall notions of Persian literature can now be seen to be wrong, but we still do not know enough to put anything new in their place. Above all, the need is for detailed studies. The greatest Persian poets, Mawlana included, are almost as unknown as the lesser.
I want to try to describe some of the distinctive qualities of Mawlana's work as they emerge from an analysis of individual poems. I will begin with a single poem:
1 Suratgar naqqa sham har lahzah buti sazam
V-angah hamah buthara dar pish-i tu bigudazam
2 Sad naqsh bar angizam ba ruh dar amizam
Chun naqsh i tura binam dar atishash andazam
3 Tu saqi yi...
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SOURCE: Gholam Hosein Yousofi, "Mawlavi as a Storyteller," in The Scholar and the Saint: Studies in Commemoration of Abu'l-Rayhan al-Biruni and Jalal al-Din al-Rumi, edited by Peter J. Chelkowski, New York University Press, 1975, pp. 287-306.
[In the following essay, Yousofi describes Rumi's storytelling—with its use of dialogue, anecdotes, short and expressive descriptions, creation of characters, and humor—as an art, asserting that he presents "a true picture of human beings and their different characteristics in various instances."]
Stories have always been attractive to all of mankind. Most people enjoy novels, short stories, plays, scenarios, biographies, etc., in prose as well as in poetry. The authors of stories are, in fact, great discoverers of human character and everybody, particularly the common people, are so impressed by their work. Besides, any idea, including its most subtle points, can be understood better through stories, which make it possible for the readers to comprehend and to conclude the facts easily by themselves. We find many interesting stories particularly in the Old Testament, the Gospels, and the Qur'an. In Islamic studies there are two important branches, both of them based upon religious stories: these are … Qur'anic tales and … prophets' biographies.
It is not surprising that the Sufis have paid so much attention to stories and have used them to...
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SOURCE: James Roy King, "Narrative Disjunction and Conjunction in Rumi's Mathnawi," in The Journal of Narrative Technique, Vol. 19, No. 3, Fall, 1989, pp. 276-86.
[In the essay below, King studies Rumi's narrative technique and asserts that "the 'meaning' of the Mathnawi cannot be separated from the narrative and the peculiar form into which it is cast."]
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SOURCE: John Renard, in an afterword to All the King's Falcon's: Rumi on Prophets and Revelation, State University of New York Press, 1994, pp. 151-58.
[In the following excerpt. Renard discusses the prophetic imagery found in Rumi's writings and examines the function of the prophets and Muhammad as models of the spiritual guide. Please note that the parenthetical references throughout the excerpt and the unmarked references in the notes correspond to Nicholson's translation of the Mathnawi.]
Where the Qur'an employs the prophetic stories chiefly as moral exempla, Rumi the teacher uses the prophets and their stories as a convenient reservoir of familiar and attractive images with which he catches the ear of his listener, and as the come-on with which he entices the prospective buyer into his shop. Leaving himself open to the charge of bait-and-switch merchandizing, what Rumi is really selling is a vision of the relationship of the divine to the human and of a way homeward. Prophets and their deeds thus become metaphorical guideposts and reminders that function somewhat as does Rumi's celebrated reed flute: as a hollow tube capable of hauntingly plaintive song, but only when inspired not with wind but with fire.
One could of course single out dozens of major metaphors and image clusters that Rumi uses to serve his larger religious purposes as viewed from this angle. But Rumi's use of...
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Further Reading
Arasteh, A. Reza. Rumi the Persian: Rebirth in Creativity and Love. Lahore, Pakistan: Sh. Muhammad Ashraf Kashmiri Bazar, 1965, 200 p.
Examines the process of rebirth and creativity in the life of Rumi and attempts to "relate his contribution to the theory of personality and the social and individual state of well being."
Chittick, William C. The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi: An Introduction. Tehran: Aryamehr University, 1974, 96 p.
Provides an introduction to Rumi's doctrine and attempts to "present plainly and briefly the main points of Sufi doctrine as expounded in Rumi's writings."
——. The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983,433 p.
Divides Rumi's teachings into the three dimensions of Sufism: knowledge or theory, works or practice, and attainment to God.
King, James Roy. "Jesus and Joseph in Rumi's Mathnawi" The Muslim World LXXX, No. 2 (April 1990): 81-95.
Examines the literary treatment of Jesus and Joseph in Rumi's Mathnawi and claims that "Rumi transcends the limitations of any single view of Jesus."
Schimmel, Annemarie. I Am Wind, You Are Fire: The Life and...
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