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6. Don't cyberbully.
Shaken by the suicide in January of 15-year-old Phoebe Prince, the Massachusetts high school student who killed herself after being severely taunted on the Web by classmates, schools are tackling cyberbullying head-on—and Los Angeles' Jewish schools are no exception.
Online bullying usually begins with students insulting a classmate online, a practice that Bruce Powell, head of New Community Jewish High School, believes is widespread. "Any high school principal who says that it's never happened is either a liar or a fool," Powell said.
Schools can't monitor everything their students are doing online, but potential problems can be identified early. To stop online insults from turning into full-blown cyberbullying, administrators are facilitating face-to-face conversations. "We will get the kids into the office and ask them, 'Does this make sense in our value system?' " Powell said. "'Are you guys really that mad at each other that you want to trash each other in public?' "
"We have a responsibility to act with righteousness and holiness," said Temple Judea's Moskovitz, "and what we say matters. And just because it's on the Internet doesn't mean it's not real."
Indeed, very real hate speech is proliferating on the Web: The Simon Wiesenthal Center recently reported two dozen "Kill a Jew Day" pages in just one week to Facebook officials. The pages, since removed, were inspired by "National Kick a Ginger Day" pages that appeared last November that actually resulted in attacks on red-haired students in schools around the world.
7. Don't update your Facebook status on your honeymoon.
Social media connects us to people and information from around the world; it can also lead us to cheat on the people we are closest to.
"I faked going to the bathroom to check my e-mail," said Tiffany Shlain, a filmmaker whose forthcoming documentary, "Connected," looks at the ways in which humans are (and are not) engaging with each other in the 21st century. "And I was with a good friend. It was horrible. I don't know what came over me."
The more that is available online, the harder it is to resist that urge. "I can sit down at my desk, and I can get immediate access to all the world's literature, research, music, images, videos, right?" said Ken Goldberg, professor of robotics at UC Berkeley. "I can get everything. Friends? I can access everybody instantly."
Goldberg, who is married to Shlain and collaborates with her on her films, pointed out that the "hyperavailability" pulls both ways. "We want everything else to be available—but now we ourselves are constantly available," Goldberg said.
The time has come to push back against the pull of our devices, and Goldberg suggested one simple act to start with: "Don't let people text in your presence," he said. "Tell them you need their attention."
8. Don't steal content; share.
For Jews living in accordance with halachah—and law-abiding Americans—there's no ambiguity when it comes to illegally downloading music, movies, software, books or any other intellectual property.
"Because business ethics are among the most central legal obligations of Judaism in all the Torah," said Rabbi Dov Fischer of Young Israel of Orange County, "there is just no way that a person can identify as a practicing religious Jew while actively or regularly downloading or sharing protected intellectual property without paying the required fees."
But if social media pose a challenge to those who wish to protect their work, new technologies also present opportunities for unique projects that could not have been imagined a generation ago. The Open Siddur Project, for instance, allows individuals to craft their own personalized prayer books from texts that have been uploaded to their site, which includes texts that are in the public domain (like the prayers said by Jews living in the Byzantine empire) as well as prayers written by ordinary individuals who choose to share them.
"The golden rule here is that when people share Torah," said Aharon N. Varady, founder and director of the Open Siddur Project, "Torah is increased in the world."
9. Poster, beware: I bear witness to everything, forever.
"Everything can teach us something, and not only everything that God has created," the Rabbi of Sadagora once said to his Chasidim. "What man has made has also something to teach us.'"
In the story, as told by Martin Buber in "Tales of the Hasidim," the rabbi of Sadagora learned from a train that "because of one second, one can miss everything." From the telegraph, he said, we learn "that every word is counted and charged." And from the telephone, we learn "that what we say here is heard there."
So what of the Internet? "What I can learn from the Internet is: What I say to one, is heard by all," Temple Judea's Moskovitz said. "And that has benefits to it"—Moskovitz only needed 112 characters to tweet his opinion of Chelsea Clinton's wedding in July—"and that has some real dangers to it. It's every rabbi's greatest dream and worst fear—that what I say to a person can be heard everywhere."
10. Your disconnected neighbor covets your Wi-Fi; if you can spare the bandwidth, leave your network open.
In Chapter 19 of Leviticus, God instructs the Israelites not to harvest the corners of their fields, not to gather the stalks of wheat that fall from bundled sheaves, and not to pick every last piece of fruit from their orchards and vineyards. "Leave them for the poor and for the stranger, I am the Lord your God," the passage concludes.
What of the poor person without an Internet connection? The stranger in a neighborhood full of password-protected networks?
"People should share their Wi-Fi," Shlain said. (The folks at Wired magazine certainly agree.) "If you're all nervous about privacy," Shlain said, "I think you're living in the wrong century—because privacy is an illusion at this point."
Reboot's Cove was less enthusiastic about the prospect of letting others hop on to his home network. He did suggest an alternative, though. "I do believe in public Wi-Fi," he said. Until Los Angeles follows in the footsteps of Boston, Philadelphia or Binghamton, New York, Angelenos can get connected at branch libraries and numerous coffee shops across the city.
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NASA Confirms This Year's Arctic Ice Is the Lowest Ever Recorded: To Nobel Nominee the Consequences Are Real
by Sarah Wyatt
"The Arctic is not a wilderness or a frontier. It is our home. It is our homeland…Our entire way of life as we know it may end in my grandson's lifetime."The once-heated debate about the rapidly shrinking polar ice cap has finally become a major concern and even a source of alarm for scientists from the US to Russia to Australia. Researchers who have worked on site in the Arctic for years have now documented that in 2007, both the summer sea ice and the perennial ice cover shrank so suddenly and so dramatically that levels this low have never before been seen in recorded history. As the New York Times commented, "Scientists are unnerved by the summer's implications for the future, and their ability to predict it."
Sheila Watt-Cloutier has been warning the world about the degradation and shrinking of the polar ice for years. She should know: she and her people, the Inuit, live in the Arctic. For them, the situation is far from academic. As she has said more than once, "It is a matter of livelihood, food, individual and cultural survival." Some 170,000 Aleuts, Indians, Eskimos, Métis and other indigenous people live north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Alaska, and Canada.
For more than ten years, Watt-Cloutier has been on a crusade to warn nations of what is so obvious to those in the Arctic: the undeniable effects of global warming. In fact, in 2005, together with 62 Inuit hunters and elders from Canada and Alaska, she launched the world's first international legal action on climate change with a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, charging that the volume of unchecked greenhouse gases from the United States' sources of pollution violated Inuit human rights. Though the petition was rejected, Watt-Cloutier remained undeterred.
For her work, Watt-Cloutier was nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and was widely described as the second most likely choice after former United States Vice-President Al Gore, who won. However, recently she did receive the prestigious Order of Canada and was chosen as the 2007 recipient of a United Nations Mahbub ul Haq Award for Outstanding Contributions to Human Development. The recognition goes to a "world leader who has successfully put human development at the heart of the national development agenda in his or her country."For those who are unfamiliar with the importance of the polar ice caps and the impact they have on the planet, there are two kinds of ice: summer ice and the perennial or winter ice. National Geographic reports,
There is no land beneath the ice of the North Pole. The Arctic ice cap is a shifting pack of sea ice some 6.5 to 10 feet thick - floating above the 13,000-foot-deep Arctic Ocean. During the winter the Arctic ice pack grows to the size of the United States. In the summer half of the ice disappears. Arctic ice is always dynamic - increasing during winter and shrinking during summer - during recent decades the ice cap has been shrinking in both area and thickness.And according to NASA, the 2007 Arctic summer sea ice has reached the lowest extent of perennial ice cover on record - nearly 25% less than the previous low set in 2005.
The area of the perennial ice has been steadily decreasing since the satellite record began in 1979, at a rate of about 10% per decade. But the 2007 minimum, reached on September 14th, is far below the previous record made in 2005 and is about 38% lower than the climatological average.
In 2000, Professor Peter Wadhams, of the Scott Polar Research Institute said that between 1976 and 1996, he had measured "a large area of the sea ice, stretching from the North Pole to the Fram Strait between Svalbard and Greenland" and that it had "thinned by 43% during the Arctic summer." He went on to say:
"People say global warming can't be raising air temperatures enough to melt the ice, because the Arctic winter temperature is around -30C anyway, and a one-degree warming would be irrelevant. But it's the summer temperatures that matter. Arctic summers are getting longer, so there is longer for the warmer air to melt the snow and affect the ice beneath. The other mechanism is the warming of one or two degrees in the water under the ice - enough to increase the bottom melting quite considerably. There is a cold water layer immediately beneath the ice. But that's changing its stability and salinity, because of changes in the distribution of Siberian river water in the Arctic."
That was seven years ago.
Andrew Revkin, a science writer for The New York Times, realized that the "Big Story" regarding the environment was the startling changes in the ice cap at the North Pole. Since 2005, he has done a fascinating series on the subject, "The Big Melt."In an article published this month, he explains,
"The Arctic ice cap shrank so much this summer that …overall, the floating ice [also known as the summer ice, which breaks up every year, then 're-establishes' itself in the winter] dwindled to an extent unparalleled in a century or more, by several estimates."Now the six-month dark season has returned to the North Pole. In the deepening chill, new ice is already spreading over vast stretches of the Arctic Ocean. Astonished by the summer's changes, scientists are studying the forces that exposed one million square miles of open water – equivalent in size to six Californias - beyond the average since satellites started measurements in 1979."
Why should the rest of the world care?
In 2005, Revkin summarized the implications: "Bright Arctic ocean ice reflects sunlight, but open dark water absorbs it, warming in the process. As more ice melts, more open water could amplify the warming."
Will the shrinking Arctic ice have important consequences besides warming? Definitely. Professor Wadhams thinks the Arctic could be virtually ice-free during the summer by about 2080. He points out, "The north-east passage across the top of Siberia is already close to becoming commercially viable".
About this possibility The New York Times observed, "The world is paying more attention than ever. Russia, Canada and Denmark, prompted in part by years of warming and the ice retreat this year, ratcheted up rhetoric and actions aimed at securing sea routes and seabed resources."
In 2005 Revkin commented on scientists' view of the future, given the new data: "Many scientists have concluded that the momentum behind human-caused warming, combined with the region's tendency to amplify change, has put the familiar Arctic past the point of no return."So how did Sheila Watt-Cloutier, herself not a scientist, become the far-seeing herald of these changes? Now 54, she was born in Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, in far northern Quebec. For the first ten years of her life she was raised in her home village, like most young Inuit girls, where her mother, known in the community as a skillful healer and interpreter, raised her daughter traditionally. She even used a dog sled as her primary form of transportation. Then at the age of 10, Watt-Cloutier moved to attend school in Nova Scotia. At the elite McGill University in Montreal in the mid-1970s, she took specialized courses in counseling, education and human development. Following graduation, she worked for the Ungava Hospital as an Inuktitut language interpreter.
Then in 1995, Watt-Cloutier was elected President of Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC) Canada; she was reelected in 1998. In 2002, she was elected International Chair of ICC and held the position for four years.
"Every day when I wake up, I know that I am an Inuk woman who gets life from the bay," she says. "There is a living energy that comes from our land."The Inuit culture is built around a hunting tradition, and she has never stopped being a part of it, no matter how far her fight to preserve her home territory and way of life takes her.
"Without snow, where do the seals make dens for their pups? The caribou can't eat ice-covered lichen, and so they've gone north. We are worried they will be weak, and the calves won't be born healthy in the spring."
The seal, a source of food for the Inuit, has specific calving requirements. Unable to find stable ice, pregnant seals haul up onto islands to give birth. In other areas, ice has become so thin that ice-fishing, a means of sustaining entire communities, is no longer possible.
"So, you see climate change is not just an environmental issue with unwelcome economic consequences," she says. "It really is a matter of livelihood, food, individual and cultural survival. And it is absolutely a human issue affecting our children, affecting our families, and certainly our communities."
Some, however, are less complimentary of Watt-Cloutier. A spokesperson for Sea Shepherd Society, who was critical of her support of commercial seal hunting in Eastern Canada by non-indigenous groups said, "Watt-Cloutier's remarks served the propaganda purposes of the Canadian government. The Canadian government is always trying to link the commercial slaughter with traditional hunting. Sheila played along with this strategy."
Other critics note that Inuit themselves use fossil fuels and other non-renewable materials and are thus contributing to their own impending extinction. She answers that charge very directly. "Yes, we own airlines, we have skidoos, we have trucks," she acknowledges, "but the reality is, our contribution to this problem is very minute. It's off the radar, whether it's the toxins or the greenhouse gases. These things are coming from afar."
Despite those that criticize Watt-Cloutier's work, there are more who find her mission essential to the current effort to curb climate change. Niamh Collier-Smith, a spokeswoman for the United Nations Development Program says, "Sheila Watt-Cloutier's dedication and her tireless work with the Inuit people, especially in the face of devastating climate change, [is] a real inspiration."
Watt-Cloutier now lives in Iqaluit, on the remote Arctic tundra. Formerly Frobisher Bay, Iqaluit is the capital of Canada's youngest territory, Nunavut. And though her 2005 petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights was rejected, Watt-Cloutier continues to testify in any available forum in an effort to check what she sees as imminent danger to the planet.
About the Author
Sarah Wyatt is a freelance travel and outdoors writer. A native of Iowa and a Native American, she holds a degree in Journalism and English. Wyatt has been a freelance writer for 11 years, with work appearing in Texas Monthly, Mother Jones and Theater Magazine.
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I wish that there were international laws, directed towards ordinary day-to-day living to stop the process that causes this melting. I know that is what the Kyoto protocol is aiming at but it isn't moving.


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Something quite embarrassing happened this week. I got invited to join Shelfari by a friend of mine, and by my mom. I logged on, filled everything out, clicked who I wanted to invite, and clicked send. Then, I went to my email inbox and noticed some strange things. People that I had not invited were responding. I got several "thanks for the email" messages. Or "I haven't heard from you in forever!" messages. As careful as I was, I still sent the invite to my ENTIRE ADDRESS BOOK. I sent it to my Bishop. I sent it to a cross stitch designer I met several years ago and had a question for, again, several years ago. I had a few people email back that they would not be participating. I thought you weren't supposed to be embarrassed once you turned 30...So, anyone who is reading this who got an invite from me and is thinking "Wow, I don't know her that well. Why would she invite me to do this?" I am so sorry!
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That is funny. I got the invite twice was that supposed to happen?
- Maret said...
I just got your invite and asked Jean if it was you, and she told me you blogged about it. Same thing happened to our friend, Mel, who blogged about it on IRF!
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The same thing happened to me -- all of a sudden the entire world was invtied to join.
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Seriously Really Funny!!! Don't you just love those humble moments .....if I had a nickle for everytime I had one.....I'd be rich!
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It's no secret that I failed at relationships with men for years. I was a serial monogamist, with a string of intense, volatile relationships behind me, all between two and four years in length. Again and again the men I'd been with would rebound after our breakups, with sweet, softspoken women they usually referred to as "just really, really nice,"…so often that I was forced to realize that I…wasn't. Nice. At all. Why else would these guys instantly go off in search of someone who was?
Among the not-nice traits I foolishly valued highly in myself was a bloodthirsty need to win. There are lots of reasons for this. I was raised to fight, for one. Fighting was valued in our home. Honorable people picked fights, and won them. I wanted to win arguments, fights, debates, everything. At any cost.
As an aside, I will say that the drive to win at all costs was helpful in my education and career (making me a competitive and tirelessly hard worker). But it was deadly to romantic love and relationships, because no one ever wins anything in a relationship by failing to admit fault, mistakes or failing to admit when someone else is right. I sabotaged my relationships with this need to win; even if I knew my partner was right, it was just too terrifying for me and made me too vulnerable to admit it. I was raised not to back down, and for too many years the simple act of letting someone else be right was something I found threatening.
Enter the cowboy. He's brilliant. I think I've mentioned that once or twice. It is likely he's the smartest man I've ever been in a relationship with, and this naturally means that sometimes, when we have a debate about something, he's right and I'm wrong. At first, this unnerved me. I'd rattle off my argument, whatever it was, and sit back with a smirk, certain, as only an ivy-league-educated journalist can be, that I was the cleverest person in the room (if not the world). The cowboy would match this with a smirk of his own, and he'd counter with his own well-reasoned rebuttal and it would just floor me. At first my jaw just sort of hung slack. I might have even hyperventilated. I probably got red-faced and defensive a few times. Unlike the other men I'd been involved with, however, the cowboy let me know he was not going to cave to me just to shut me up or make me happy; he was going to stick to his guns, and I was either going to respect him or I was going to go home. I didn't have to agree with him, but I wasn't going to win.
This is when I began realized something liberating: It was okay to recognize when I was wrong about something, and it was okay to let the cowboy know he was right. I wouldn't die, or disappear, if someone else go to star in the show of our debate. It wasn't the end of the world. I might, I realized, even learn something now and then if I learned to actually listen instead of just waiting to talk again.
At first, it was hard to admit I was wrong. I didn't have much practice at it. But the more I did it — and being with a strong, bright man gives you plenty of opportunity to be wrong about stuff — the easier it became, and the more empowering. I know it is counterintuitive to think that admitting error can be a form of empowerment, but I firmly believe it is, especially for people like me, who are naturally prone to arrogance and combativeness. This is a big part of the "submission" I discuss in my memoir — learning to allow myself to be wrong, to "lose," to be weak, to not have to be right all the time. Man, did it feel good to learn to do that!
Healthy submission in a relationship involves knowing how to listen to your partner without getting defensive, knowing how to analyze your point of view and figure out if it holds up with new information, and knowing how, when needed, to change your mind, or at least admit, calmly and lovingly, to agree to disagree.
I know I'm a little late to this party, but I'm super happy to have finally realized that romantic relationships aren't about being right all the time, or about "winning" fights.
Winning, in relationships, happens when both people come away from their interactions feeling heard, respected, understood and validated.
It should be noted that this process goes both ways. I was delighted recently when, during one of our discussions, the cowboy backed off a strongly held position after listening to my point of view, and admitted that I had made a valid argument. "You're right," he told me. And can I just tell you something? That "win" felt better than all the others that had ever come before it, because I knew it was sincere, and came from a place of deep respect that flowed both ways between us.


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Me: "Ow. When did that happen?"
Brain: "Ooh, that's definitely going to get infected."
Me: "Really? Did you go to med school while I was asleep? It's a skinned knuckle, I hardly think it's life-threatening."
Brain: "I don't know, it could happen."
Me: "You always say that, but it never does."
Brain: "Always and never are absolutes, are you sure you want to use them?"
Me: "Yes. You know what I mean. And then when something bad does happen, you never give me any warning, and I'm caught completely off-guard."
Brain: "See! That just proves what I'm saying! You should worry more, because sometimes you miss things."
Me: "Yeah I'm not going to do that because it's stupid."
Brain: "You shouldn't say 'stupid'…"
Me: "How did it take me this long to realize what an asshole you are?"
Brain: "Dude, that hurts my feelings. We've been friends forever."
Me: "Have we? Give me an example of when you've been good to me."
Brain: "Well, you haven't shit yourself since you were a baby. Who do you think keeps that from happening? Hrm?"
Me: "That's your best example? Sphincter control?"
Brain: "You saying you want me to stop?"
Me: "Don't threaten me. You keep that up and I'll hit YouTube for speeches given by George W. Bush."
Brain: "YOU WOULDN'T."
Me: "Try me. I'll have you shrunken down to the size of an almond by Wednesday."
Brain: "You've changed, man."
Me: "Thanks for noticing."
Brain: "Whatever. I still think it could get infected."
Me: "Fine, then I'll clean it out with hydrogen peroxide."
Brain: "Nooooo! It'll hurt."
Me: "What are you, 5? It won't hurt. I'll wash it out first and then just clean it out to make sure."
Brain: "It gonna hurt."
Me: "Stop being such a baby. You know what would hurt? If it did get infected."
Brain: "I thought you didn't believe me about that."
Me: "I DON'T. You're the one who keeps bringing it up!"
Brain: "No I'm not, you did."
Me: "I'm getting the bottle."
Brain: "You won't find it. I think we're out."
Me: "No we're not. I just saw it the other day when I was cleaning up."
Brain: "I think it's under the sink."
Me: "It isn't. It's in the closet just where it belongs."
Brain: "Doooooon't!!!!!!"
Me: "Oh stop. You're pathetic. Watch." (pours over hand)
Brain: "Oooh! Foamy!"
Me: "See, it didn't hurt, and that foam was kind of cool."
Brain: "Good thing I suggested it by telling you it would get infected."
Me: "What? No. You didn't. I'm not even going to dignify that with a response."
Brain: "Because you know I'm right."
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SMOKE billowing from a blaze in waste materials at Birkenhead has led the fire service to advise householders to keep their windows closed.
Large volumes of smoke from the incident at Wallasey Bridge Road could be seen from the M53.
The blaze is described as "a deep-seated fire" involving around 500sq mtrs of waste materials.
By 6am today, four fire engines were still at the scene, with one main hose in use along with two ground monitors - hoses that can be set up to direct water onto a particular area.
The Enviroment Agency and police have been advised of the incident.
By 10am, three fire appliances were at the scene and mechanical diggers were on site creating fire breaks and moving waste material away from the seat of the fire.
Group manager Paul Murphy, Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service district manager for Wirral, said: "It is difficult conditions for firefighters to access the site and extinguish a very deep-seated fire.
"We are working with partners to resolve this situation as quickly as possible but this likely to be a protracted incident.
"This fire is producing large volumes of smoke which is drifting across East Wirral."
Station manager Mark Clarke said: Local residents are advised to close windows.
"We are awaiting assistance from the owners of the site to help remove materials to extinguish the fire".
Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service control room had received 21 calls from members of the public by 6am on Sunday.
Back in April, crews were in action at another "deep-seated fire" underneath peat and compost on land between Wallasey Bridge Road and the A5139.
At the time, Public Health England issued advice to people in the vicinity: "If you are affected by the smoke you should stay indoors and keep doors and windows closed and turn off ventilation or air conditioning systems .
"Motorists who have to travel through the smoke should keep windows closed, turn off air-conditioning and keep their air vents closed."
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Top of the Pops Think of mop-topped college kids barreling down Sunset Strip toward the beach in a battered old Volkswagen, wiping their dark sunglasses on their paisley sleeves and arguing about who's better, the Standells or the Byrds, and you could imagine that one of those kids would strike a compromise by forming Lilys. That's not how guitarist Kurt Heasley did it, but his ear for the best '60s garage and mod music is uncanny in someone who missed its first go-around. "Dimes Make Dollars" is a hip-shaking, hand-clapping combination of dirty riffs and honeyed harmonies, accented by banjo, organ, and tambourine, and that's just the beginning of The 3 Way, the last thing Heasley did before he became the last regular member of the band's ever-changing lineup. L.A.'s Beachwood Sparks, a psychedelic foursome who recently opened for Beck, do double duty opening for Heasley and then standing in as his band; the Tyde opens at 9:30 p.m. at Bottom of the Hill, 1233 17th St. (at Texas), S.F. Admission is $7; call 621-4455.
Hot Wax French synth fanatics Pills have dropped off the Wax Trax! Records Mastermix Tour, so we won't hear the live version of their Run Lola Run hit "Rock Me" anytime soon, but the remaining international attractions should be enough to placate turntable loyalists citywide. Deee-Lite's Supa DJ Dmitry is the best known of the bunch, although his trance-y "Don't Talk Me Down" is a big jump from the thick-soled funk of his "Groove Is in the Heart" days. Dmitry represents New York along with hard-house club circuit DJ James Christian and the electronic duo Expansion Union, who parlayed their affinity for funk-laced drum 'n' bass into a movie hit of their own (Blade's "Playing With Lightning"). Australian acid breakbeat combo Frontside, whose silly titles include "Kate Moss Is Not Too Thin," join in -- doors open at 9 p.m. at the Justice League, 628 Divisadero (at Hayes), S.F. Admission is $15; call 626-1409.
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Fakin' It The tale of master forger Elmyr de Hory naturally brings to mind the classic art-heist caper How to Steal a Million, which pits a wily, well-to-do painting forger against a suspicious inspector. Born to a family of Hungarian aristocrats, de Hory studied painting in Munich and Paris until the German conquest and Russian occupation of Hungary ushered in his starving artist days. Around 1946, de Hory apparently decided that the best way to make his living was to copy famous artists, so he drew or painted an estimated 1,000 works in the styles of Chagall, Lautrec, Matisse, Monet, and Picasso. So meticulous was his work that it hung in museums, galleries, and the homes of collectors like Texas billionaire Algur Hurtle Meadows, who bought seven Modiglianis and three Matisses. "Fake: Vintage Forgeries by Elmyr de Hory" demonstrates his mastery of multiple styles and a singular deception -- it opens with a reception at 5:30 p.m. (and runs through Aug. 21) at Terrain, 165 Jessie (between Second and Third streets), Second Floor, S.F. Admission is free; call 543-0656.


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"Walmart Thief Shops Naked" "Man Undresses In Store Parking Lot Steals Pair of Socks Before Arrested." Comments?
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+1Many people do that. It's a tradition among convicts and nut cases. My nephew is a city cop. They had a naked ex military woman come after the cops, my mephew was in another room when he heard the shots go off. She charged the cops with the knife and they killed her in self defense. She had gone crazy and lost her mind. It cost her her life. This man may be like that, crazy but hopefully non violent.
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St. Mary Parish Daily Arrest Log- July 29, 2010
Dustin J. Vaughn 33 years old of 115 Mars Road, Bayou Vista was arrested on 7-28-2010 at 9:30 pm for Stop Sign Violation and Driving Under Suspension. Deputy was patrolling the Bayou Vista area, when suspect vehicle was observed failing to stop at a stop sign. Deputy conducted a traffic stop and during investigation learned that suspect was driving under suspension. Suspect was placed under arrest and issued a summons to appear in court on 10-20-2010.


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It's kind of interesting to see what comes out the week after Christmas. Obviously any movies that the studios thought would make a good gift hit store shelves weeks ago, so now we get a movie that should really only be bought by extreme fans of Resident Evil, and even most of those probably won't get much of a thrill out of Afterlife. I will give Milla Jovovich credit for proclaiming The Last Airbender to be one of her favorite films of the year, but...wait, why would I want to give her credit for that? There are statements that are boldly individualistic, and there statements that are dumb, and I think we know which side of the coin that sentence falls on.
Anyway, read on to check out the scraps of DVDivized entertainment that are available to you on this snowy (East Coast) or rainy (West Coast) Wednesday.
1. Resident Evil: Afterlife It's pretty impressive that a big-budget zombie movie managed to make 80% of its money overseas, but when that movie is absolutely terrible, there's not much to applaud there. With almost $300 million in the bank, though, it's virtually impossible that we're not going to see another couple entries in the series. | |
2. The American This is one of those movies that most people walked out absolutely hating; I think its Cinemascore number (based on polling people as they walk out of screenings) was a D- or an F or something like that. Two different people fell asleep at the screening I was at. But hey, I still dug it. Enough to buy it? Maybe not, but it's worth another rental. | |
3. Legendary What's Danny Glover and Patricia Clarkson doing in a movie with John Cena? Oh, making money, right. | |
4. Twelve How do you manage to lose money on a movie that cost $5 million to make? Have it star 50 Cent and have Joel Schumacher direct it. Despite being released in over 230 theaters, this only made a couple hundred thousand dollars and has a whopping 4% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. | |
5. And Soon the Darkness Another American-tourist-girls-in-trouble movie that's coming straight to DVD. Got a need to see another Amber Heard movie? Well, here you go. | |
6. Samson and Delilah An Aboriginal Outback love story. Sure. | |
7. Battlestar Galactica: Razor I'm not sure if this is the first time this somewhat underachieving one-off movie is coming to Blu-Ray, but regardless, here it is! | |
8. Made in Romania "You'll be in hysterics at this madcap movie production gone wrong!" My theory about behind-the-scenes-of-Hollywood films is that only film industry insiders really find them interesting, with a few exceptions here and there. The rest of us just want to see a movie, not a movie about the wacky misadventures of making a movie. | |
9. Legacy An apparently interesting psychological thriller starring the always fun Idris Elba. I wonder if we'll ever stop calling him Stringer Bell? | |
10. Archer Archer: Season 1 hits shelves, alongside the second season of Jersey Shore and the second season of United States of Tara, both of which are also available in two-season collections. |


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great numbers the terrible Catholic invasion, and though
long overwhelmed by the blow which had fallen on
them, long stupefied by superstitions far inferior to
their ancient religious beliefs, they are now raising
their heads and claiming their place among free
The rest of the American peoples, the most
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vigorous, the most worthy to live, have perished or are
about to disappear before the greed of the European
immigrants. Without hunting-grounds, without game,
they are condemned to die out. Only the poorest
specimens of American humanity, the Abipones, the
Charruas, the Botocudos, and in the extreme north the
Kienas and the Athabasks, the dwellers in thickets, in
deserts, in the torrid or the frozen zones, may count
upon a respite of a few centuries.
Our summary review of the agglutinative languages
is terminated. We have seen that, simple or complex,
their structure is founded solely upon the addition^ to
one or more invariable themes or radicals, of subordinate
roots, emptied of their proper sense and reduced to
oflSxes, suffixes, infixes, and prefixes. The immense
majority of these languages have never been written :
driven out to the borders of civilisation, into countries
not easily approachable by Europeans, they continue to
vegetate obscurely. But a few more favoured groups,
preserved, and even developed, by civilisation, have
attained to some literary life. Japanese, Mandchu, Mon-
golian, Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, Dravidian, Malay,
Georgian, Basque, Greenland, Algonquin, Mexican, and
Quicha have all contributed, in very different measure
indeed, to the progress of human intelligence. Their
names are worthy to be remembered.
We pass by an easy transition from the agglutinative
class to the inflected class. We shall find in the latter
all that can be done by suffixation. A single thread
separates inflexion from agglutination — that is, the
possible variation of the root syllable ; a very slight
acquisition, which, while it stops the abuse of suffixa-
tion, allows of the expression of every shade of the idea
without lengthening the word, and also of attaching a
general idea to all the derivatives from the same root.
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Noah, Ham, and Shem— CoDJectures on the origin of the Semites-
Ethnical variety, linguistic unity — Exodus of the Canaanites:
Hyksos, Phoenicians, Hebrews— Jews and Syrians crushed in the
struggle with Egypt and Assyrians — Rule of the Persiaus, Greeks,
and Romans — Appearance of the Arabs — Christianity and Islam —
Tardy revenge of the Semites — Character of the inflexion and
structure of the word in the Semitic languages — Northern branch
of the Semitic family — I. Arameo-Assyrian group: Chaldean,
Nabatean, Syriac, Syro-Chaldean, Assyrian — 2. Canaanitish
group : Phcenician, Punic, Samaritan, Moabitish, &c., Hebrew-
Southern branch : Arabic, Himyarite, Ghez or Ethiopian.
The peoples whom we are accustomed to cair Semitic
have always ignored their relations with the Biblical
patriarch Shem, son of Noah. But if we disregard
the letter of the precious record, compiled and recast
many centuries after the events which are therein
transformed into legendary fables, if we consider in
themselves the names of Noah, Ham, Shem, and Gush,
we shall readily overlook the inexactitude of the name
given by the moderns to the Chaldeans, the Arameans,
the Canaanites, and to the Arabs. For Noah is a
Semitic god of great antiquity, Nouach, a genius with
four outspread wings, god and saviour, the spouse of
Tihavti, the fecundity of the abyss ; Ham was Khemos,
the god of the Moabites, and perhaps identical with
the Egyptian Khem; we find Cush among the Cos-
sians or Kissians of the Euphrates, and among the
southern peoples whom the Pharaohs fought on the
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two shores of the Red Sea ; " the vile Cush," said the
Egyptians ; but they none the less gave to their royal
princes the title of Prince of Cash, which shows the
importance which they attached to the subjugation of
these Cush or Cushites, the Ethiopians of Herodotus,
cut in two by the Semitic expansion ; as for Shem, it
is diflScult not to recognise in him Samas, Samson, the
sun-god of the Assyrian pantheon.
Cusbites, Hamites, Semites are far from being
synonyms ; but it is hardly possible to doubt their
relationship, or at least the intimacy of their primitive
connection. Only it is very diflScult to determine the
vicissitudes of their prehistoric life. Experts diflTer ;
some, M. Renan, for example, assigning to the Semites
a northern origin ; others think, with Echrader, that
the nucleus of the race was formed in the centre and
west of the Arabian peninsula, where the language
approaches most nearly to the supposed mother-tongue,
where the Chaldean legends and divinities have least
penetrated, though they form the common ground of
thought among the other Semites. Finally, since
philologists are agreed in recognising aflSnities, rudi-
mentary but probable, between the Khamito-Berbers
and the Semites, it is hard to conjecture where they
both came from, or where we should place the common
country where they possessed a common idiom.
We must be content to know that their separation
was accomplished at the time when Menes came down
from Upper Egypt to the Delta to found the ancient
empire and Memphis, about five thousand years before
our era. At that date the languages of the Nile and of
the Libyan desert had reached the extreme limit of the
agglutinative stage, which they have not over-stepped ;
and the Semites were doubtless progressing towards
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the inflected period. Thenceforward the two races
have no point of contact except the Isthmus of Suez.
The one, without advancing farther than Mount Sinai,
develops its precocious yet enduring civilisation,
builds towns, pyramids, and temples, and, from the
worship of animals and of the Nile, rises to the religion
of the sun, of fire, and to the belief in immortality.
The other, wandering without name or route, given up
to the worship of stones and of the heavenly bodies,
fluctuates between Nedjed and the Euphrates ; for two
thousand years it is lost to history. At most, we may
attribute to some attack on the part of the nomads
the fall of the first Egyptian empire and the retreat
of the Pharaohs to Thebes.
When history first takes cognisance of the Semites,
the practically unchanging unity of their linguistic
organism was constituted, and much more strongly than
the Indo-European unity. The dialectic diflerences do
not aflect either the formation of the words or the
vocabulary, but only a few details of grammar and
pronunciation. But ethnical unity exists no longer.
If the Arab with his high, long head, his slender,
nervous body, his profile at once strongly marked and
refined, may be considered as the faithful guardian of
the racial type, the thick-set build of the Chaldean, the
tendency to fat and the massive face of the Assyrian,
point to various mixtures with more ancient peoples.
We have already mentioned the very probable
existence of non-Semitic races and languages, Shumi-
rians and Elamites, round about the Persian Gulf, in
Babylonia and Susiana. There, in these regions of
ancient civilisation, several Semitic groups obtained
their industrial and religious education. At the time
when the Shumir Likbagas (3000) reigned in Chaldea^
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Bab-ilou, Babylon, the gate of EI, was already a
flourishing city under kings who were also priests;
and the shores and islands of the Gulf of Ormuz were
occupied by the Oanaanites, the Poun, Poeni, Punici,
the future Phoenicians, whose territory on the other
hand reached to the Himyarites of Southern Arabia.
Mesopotamia and Armenia were also full of Semites,
Arameans to the north and west, the future Jews to the
north and in the centre, in Arrapachitis (Arphaxad) ;
lastly, the Assyrians of the middle valley of the Tigris.
It would seem from the legend of Nimrod preserved
by the Bible, that the Assyrians were a Chaldean
tribe, whose national god or eponymous hero, Assour,
was the male of the Canaanitish Aschera. All these
tribes, more or less compact, more or less powerful,
received from Lower Chaldea their gods and their
beliefs, the tradition of the deluge, the worship of
winged bulls, transformed at a later date into cherubim,
the Elohim and Baalim of every species, the goddesses
of fertility and of the spring sunshine (Adonis, Tham-
muz), dead and resuscitated. A cataclysm of which
the causes are not known, an Elamite invasion under
the pressure of the Persians, an incursion of Scythians
from the other side of the Caucasus, destroyed about
the year 2300 B.C. the earliest Assyrian empire, drove
the Arameans back towards Syria, the Israelites
towards Lower Chaldea, and decided the Canaanites
to cross the desert ; while the torrent of the Hyksos
(robber chiefs), bearing onward in its course Edomites,
Ammonites, Moabites, was hurled upon the delta of
the Nile.
The Canaanites, driving before them the ancient
inhabitants of Palestine, the Pelestes or Philistines,
massed themselves upon the Sj^rian coast around Arvad
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and Tyros ; these were the names of their ancient cities
of the Persian Gulf. Finally, under the name of
Hebrews, people of the other shore, the clan of a
certain Terah and of a certain Nahor, decided to quit
Ur in Chaldea, bearing away their gods like Anchises,
eagerly pursued by the Elamite chieftains or kings ;
among others by Chedorlaomer. The leaders of the
fugitives, Abraham and his nephew Lot, underwent
some misfortunes in the neighbourhood of the Jordan,
of Sodom and Gomorrah ; others whose names have
come down to us, of doubtful wisdom and uncertain
morality, Isaac, the dishonest Laban, Esau the simple,
and the astute Jacob, continued to live with difficulty,
surrounded by other nomads, until famine or their
vagabond habits drove the Hebrews to the confines of
Egypt, into the land of Goshen, beside the Hyksos.
Meanwhile Egypt had not abandoned the hope of
revenge; her national kings had not ceased for five
centuries to harass the foreign conqueror. Ahmes,
the founder of the eighteenth dynasty, finally expelled
from the delta the armies and the government of the
Hyksos ; and his successors, returning upon Asia the
attack which they had thence received, subjugating,
or rather putting to ransom, all the Canaanites of
Judea, Phoenicia, and Syria, crossed the Euphrates
and the Tigris. Nineveh twice fell into their power,
and the whole Semitic world became vassal to the
Pharaohs. The influence of Egypt was real though
temporary, but in the reciprocal dealings which were
the result of the conquests of the Tutnes and the
Araenhoteps, the share of the Semites was on the
whole the larger. Marriages with the daughters of
kings or vassal governors brought into Egypt and
established Asiatic types, ideas, and customs on the
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Theban throne. Amenhotep IV. was purely Semitic ;
he endeavoured to replace the religion of Auimon by
the sun-worship of Syria. In 1887 were discovered
the fragmenta of a correspondence exchanged be-
tween the kings of Syria, Armenia, and Babylonia
and the Pharaohs Amenhotep III. and IV. ; all these
letters are written in cuneiform character and in
Semitic or other dialects; it is probable that the
answers were drawn up in the same character and in
the same languages. For the rest, the subjugated
nations had soon recovered. Saryoukin 1. had recon-
stituted the Chaldean empire ; the Assyrians, ever at
war on their eastern and western frontiers, had more
than once crossed the Upper Euphrates and pene-
trated Asia Minor as far as Troad, where the name
Assaracus seems to be a relic of an Assyrian dynasty.
The Hittites or Khetas occupied the north of Syria ;
and when Ramses 11., Sesbstris, desired in the
fifteenth century to renew the exploits of his ances-
tors, he was checked at Kadech by the Hittites and
forced to retreat after an undecided battle. The great
expansion of Egypt was stopped, at least towards the
north. The Semitic peoples, on tlie contrary, were
everywhere in the ascendant. Phoenicia was colonising
the European and Libyan coasts of the Mediterranean ;
Bylos (Gebel), Tyre, and Sidon had commercial settle-
ments in many places, where the potteries, the stuffs,
and the jewels of the East were exchanged for the raw
products of Gaul, Spain, and Africa. Their boats,
navigated by oar and sail, had even passed the Columns
of Hercules and coasted round Europe as far as Eng-
land and Denmark. Not only did they leave with the
Etruscans, the Sards, the Pelasgians, the Siculi, and
the Hellenes of the yEj/ean and of Ionia the rudiments
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of ttie arts and of philosophy, but they also brought
them an inestimable treasure, the alphabet, sixteen or
eighteen signs, extracted from the chaos of the hiero-
glyphs. It is disputed at the present day whether the
l^hoenicians were really the authors of this famous in-
vention ; but it was certainly they who spread it over
Europe, and who unwittingly, for they considered only
the usefulness of a commercial writing, gave to the
West this necessary instrument of intellectual progress.
As for the great empires of the Euphrates and the
Tigris, in the midst and in spite of bloody revolu-
tions, now pretty well known and dated, they rose to
a considerable degree of power and dignity. The
excavations of recent years have laid bare their palaces
and temples; their books graven on thousands of bricks,
their seals with magical formulas, and the great
triumphal inscriptions engraved by conquering kings
on statues, walls, and on the living rock, have been
deciphered. Their artists excelled in the minute and
in the colossal ; their gigantic statues, rude and
grandiose, sustain comparison with the finest Egyptian
work, and their influence can easily be traced in the
archaic monuments of Asia and Greece.
The Hebrews had as yet held no place in history.
It was only towards the end of the fourteenth century,
under one of the successor's of Sesostris, that, urged by
oppression and by want of room in the land of Goshen,
they left Egypt, with difficulty avoiding disaster on
the sandy shores of the Gulf of Suez. Prom the
peninsula of Sinai they had to pass through the tribes
of Midian, Moab, and of Edom, and then force their
entrance into the promised land ; they returned to it
late, the country was already occupied. Hence those
exterminations, those servitudes, and all the adventures.
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naively exaggerated later in the Book of Judges, which
is often legendary, but fall of interest from the double
point of view of ethnography and ethics. By courage
and perseverance the Benou-Israel to the north and
east, the sons of Benjamin and Judah to the south,
ended by subduing and absorbing in part the other
Canaanites who had preceded them, without passing
the bounds of Syria on the one hand, and on the other
the Philistine towns, without piercing the narrow
band of the Phoenicians. Like all the Semites of the
north, they had their sacred stones, their Baalim, male
and female, Baal, Moloch, Aschera, Dagon, their
winged gods with bulls' heads, their bronze lions and
serpents, worshipped in the high places ; but they all
rallied more or less round a coffer or ark, which con-
tained their national god, who was of the heavens or
solar, named El Jahve, the Phoenician Jao, and vari-
ous symbolical objects, a seven-branched candlestick
(representing the seven planets), a table, bread, and
sacerdotal ornaments. Their neighbours had also
their favourite patron, some Dagon, others Astarte,
Marna, Derketo, Moloch, or Chemos. We see what
becomes of the primitive monotheism of the Hebrews.
It was not till the tenth century, when the brave and
not very virtuous David, and his son, the splendid and
not less voluptuous Solomon, had, thanks to favourable
but ephemeral circumstances, constituted the brilliant
and brief Jewish empire, that the ark, transported
with great pomp to the newly conquered capital,
became the obligatory centre of religion. Even in
the temple of Solomon (if this wonder of the world
ever really existed), there were quarters reserved for
prostitutes and eunuchs, the sacred servants of the
goddess Aschera ; not to mention the great serpent.
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the cherubim, and other animals representing the
ancient creed of polytheism. Jahve had to himself
only the holy of holies. The unity of creed was,
moreover, so little established that the jealousies raised
by the pretensions of the high priest brought about the
division and the ruin of the empire ; and in the little
principality of Judah, retained by the tribe of Judah,
together with the Levites or sacerdotal tribe, the elo-
quence of the prophets and the efforts of two pious
kings, Hezekiah and Josiah (622), could not assure to
Jahve a complete triumph over the strange gods. This
triumph was only secured to him by the ruin of the
people chosen by him from all eternity.
The existence of the Jewish tribes had always been
precarious and threatened by many foes. Unable to
engage in serious strife even with the kings of Syria,
their position was hopeless when, divided against
themselves, they became the battlefield for the two great
rivals, Assyria and Egypt. Towards the eighth cen-
tury the victory declared itself in favour of the Assyrians,
who in the following century invaded Egypt ; then
the latter, reanimated by the Ethiopian princes, renewed
the fatal war, of which one result was the destruction
of Samaria by Saryoukin and the ruin of the kingdom
of Israel. All who did not perish in the massacre
were transported into Mesopotamia at the end of the
eighth century, 708-710. A few fugitives gained
Jerusalem and Egypt. Finally, in tlie sixth century,
587—581, Jerusalem, attacked by Nebuchadnezzar, the
greatest king of a new Chaldean empire, was taken and
burned. The fierce courage of the unhappy Zedekiah,
the last prince of Judah, could not prevent the second
captivity. It was in humiliation and misery that the
relics of this much -tried race put together their tradi-
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tions, not without some admixture of foreign elements,
and rallied for ever to their god Jahve.
Assyria had been conquered by the Medes ; Chaldea
fell In her turn before the Persiaus (536 B.C.). Then it
was that Zerubbabel, Esdras, aod Nehemiah, 536-430,
were able in the course of a hundred years to bring
back two or three columns of exiles to reconstruct the
Temple with great difficulty, and finally to compile
those ancient fragments, completing them, interpolat-
ing them, reconciling them as best they could with
orthodoxy, the poems adjudged to David and Solo-
mon, and the dithyrambs and revelations attributed to
the different prophets. This work, which was nearly
finished at the time of the Greek translation of the
Septuagint, was begun under the Ptolemies for the
AlexandrineJews,and continued through the timeof the
Maccabees and up to the beginning of the Cliristian era.
Meantime the Jewish nationality outlived that of the
powerful Semites who thought to destroy it, and sur-
vived alone ; alone it kept a species of independence.
The Persian monarchy, the brilliant passage of Alex-
ander, the Seleucid^, the dominion of the Parthians,
had already buried the ancient glory of Assyria and
Chaldea; even the language of Sargon and Nebu-
chadnezzar had ceased to be spoken above Babylon.
Syria and Phoenicia had accepted in turn the yoke of
Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Finally, the cruel siege
and sack of Jerusalem by Titus, and a last convulsion
under Hadrian, put an end to the unhappy destiny
of the people of Israel, or rather marked the beginning
of a long and terrible agony, borne with invincible
energy and patience. In fact, the three northern
groups, Aramaic, Chaldean, Canaanitish, had been
destroyed at the time of the Persian conquest, and
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the sceptre of the civilised world had passed into the
hands of the Indo-Europeans. And it was long
before men saw that the maladies inherited by the
peoples of the West from these dying nations, — Baby-
lonian corruption, orgiastic religions of Asia Minor,
the enervating mysticism of despairing souls, assured
but too well the vengeance of the conquered.
Moreover, the Semites of the south, the Arabs, had
not been touched. The Pharaohs by the Red Sea, the
Sargonides by the desert, had attacked, pierced even
here and there, this block of Arabia, and had annexed
it to their empires. But this mattered little to the
nomad Bedouin, to the hardly formed tribes which
floated about Mecca and Medina. Some carried their
tents into another part of the desert, the others fell
back or paid some small tribute, and continued to
make war among themselves for women or horses.
From the time when the Syrian dynasty came to
hasten the decomposition of the Roman empire, and
especially when Zenobia and Odenatus all but realised
their dream of an Oriental empire, the Arabs of the
north, with whom were mixed the half Jewish Canaan-
itish tribes, Idumeans, Moabites, &c., began to take
some part in Western life, and to be influenced by
Judaism and Christianity. Mahomet appeared with
his incoherent and inoffensive book, but also with his
terrible doctrine of the identity of the two powers,,
religious and civil ; and Islam, let loose upon a world
still shaken by the fall of the Roman empire and by
the struggle for its territory of the swarming new
races, Islam gave a tremendous power to the Semitic
races, a power far more fatal to the Mediterranean
world than the domination of the cruel Assyrians or
that of the superstitious Chaldeans. In less than a
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hundred years the Arabs had conquered Syria and
Persia, Egypt, the African coast and Spain, and France
as far at Poitiers. This conquest of the East and
South by races which had not attained a high degree of
intellectual culture jeopardised the future of the worhl,
until the day when John Sobieski, in the seventeenth
century, forced the Ottoman vizier to raise the siege of
Vienna. It is true, indeed, that the part played by
the Arabs was not lacking in brilliancy, and the evils
of which they were the cause are not without compen-
sation. There was a brief and splendid civilisation at
Bagdad, at Cairo, at Kairouan, at Tlemcen, iat Fez, at
Cordova, and Granada ; a rich literature ; an active
commerce which reached to China, the Malay Archi-
pelago, and India ; finally, a shock which, sending
back upon Ijurope the translations of forgotten Greek
authors, driving from Constantinople the last custodians
of Hellenic science, determined the Renaissance in
Italy, France, and Germany, the revolt against' the
humiliating, stupefying yoke of the Ckristian theocracy.
But, and the fact is curious, that which is commonly
called Arab philosophy, astronomy, and architecture,
belongs in truth to the peoples roughly awakened by
the sword of the Arab, to the people of Bactriana, of
Mazenderan, of Persia, of Syria, of Egypt, of Barbary,
and Spain. The Arab, unlike the Assyrian, is no
artist : no Arab has ever painted or carved the human
face. He is a musician and a poet, a witty story-
teller, with a taste for maxims, anecdotes, apologues,
and pithy sentences ; but his mind lacks both breadth
and concentration. No dogma could suit him better
than the arid and empty formulae of Islam, than the
Koran with its medley of maxims and narratives, its
contradictions, its idle and endless controversies. At
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of trouble, but it is no longer a danger ; even Mussul-
man fanaticism, its te rible creation, though it may
spread among the inferior races of Africa, seems only
an anachronism, which we must know how to reckon
with indeed, but which is powerless against civilised
Europe, and its allies America and Australia. For
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Register for NAMTA Events in Phoenix, Houston, Portland:
Building the Inclusive
Montessori Community
Montessori Whole-School ManagementSM: A Professional Development Course for Administrators
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Grace, Courtesy, and
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Supporting the Dyslexic Child
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The NAMTA membership year is September 1-August 31!
See table of contents or sample pages from Montessori Algebra for the Adolescent by Michael Waski
NAMTA's purpose is to maintain Montessori traditions, and at the same time, to be on the cutting edge of innovative education. Accordingly, we provide the medium for study, interpretation, and improvement of Montessori education.
The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a national information system designed to provide access to education-related literature. ERIC was established in 1966 and is supported by the U.S. Department of Education.
The ERIC database is the world's largest source of educational information. It contains abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. It fully indexes The NAMTA Journal as well as other Montessori publications, dissertations, conference presentations, and research papers. Most public and academic libraries provide access to ERIC for their patrons.
The database can be searched in a variety of ways, including by topic or keyword. Your local library's reference department can assist you in searching the ERIC database either online, on CD-ROM, or in print. For more information on ERIC services, call 1-800-LET ERIC.
Also available is the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS), which can provide full-text copies of most of the documents ERIC indexes. For price or ordering information, call 1-800-443-ERIC.
Sixteen subject-specific Clearinghouses make up the ERIC system. Documents and articles related to Montessori education are handled by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education (ERIC/EECE):
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This is an outrage!
Friday, June 27th, 2008For those of you who noticed that my primary protagonist, Victor Mark Silverstein, took it upon himself yesterday to invade my own personal blog page with his own snide comments about me and his own self-serving diatribe, I ask that you ignore him. Not only does he not have my permission to use this blog, but I find it reprehensible that a fictional character like himself would have the gall to do so. Paul Mark Tag


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Paul Stastny's second goal of the game 3:36 into overtime gave the Colorado Avalanche and troubled goalie Semyon Varlamov a 3-2 victory over the host Dallas Stars on Friday.
Varlamov - who was arrested this week and faces domestic violence charges in Denver - made 27 saves.
A judge in Denver had ruled Thursday that Varlamov could travel with the team to Dallas. Varlamov posted a $5,000 bond and now has a restraining order that prevents him from seeing his girlfriend.
Stastny's winner came on a shot from the left circle that beat goalie Kari Lehtonen.
Capitals 7, Flyers 0:
Joel Ward scored three goals for his first NHL hat trick, and Braden Holtby stopped 20 shots for a shutout in visiting Washington's fight-filled rout of Philadelphia. ... Philadelphia racked up 99 penalty minutes, and Washington received 65.
Penguins 4, Blue Jackets 2:
Chris Kunitz scored for the third straight game and host Pittsburgh had little trouble with Columbus. ... Marc-Andre Fleury made 37 saves for his 10th win, tops in the league.
Lightning 3, Hurricanes 0:
Victor Hedman scored in the second period and Steven Stamkos and Alex Killorn added insurance goals to back Ben Bishop's shutout for visiting Tampa Bay. ... Bishop (8-2) stopped 31 shots in his first shutout of the season.
Blues 4, Panthers 0:
Brian Elliott stopped 31 shots for his first win of the season, and Alexander Steen scored for the sixth straight game for visiting St. Louis.
Islanders 5, Senators 4:
Frans Nielsen scored the tying goal in the third period and then netted the only goal of the shootout as visiting New York won.
Wild 4, Canadiens 3:
Jason Pominville scored two goals, including the winner late in the third period, to lead host Minnesota past Montreal.
Red Wings 4, Flames 3:
Tomas Tatar and Justin Abdelkader scored third-period goals as Detroit beat host Calgary.
: All-Stars Daniel and Henrik Sedin each signed a four-year, $28 million contract extension with the Canucks. The Sedins could have become unrestricted free agents next summer. ... Toronto center Carter Ashton received a two-game suspension for boarding Calgary's Derek Smith on Wednesday.
Sharks on Saturday
Who: Coyotes (9-3-2) at Sharks (10-1-2)
When: 7:30 p.m.
TV/Radio: CSNCA / 98.5, 102.1


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Targets 2012 1) No injuries 2) Keep having fun 3) Some kind of PR
Imminent Catastrophe
"Able to function despite imminent catastrophe"
"To obtain the air that angels breathe you must come to Tahoe"--Mark Twain
"The most common question from potential entrants is 'I do not know if I can do this' to which I usually answer, 'that's the whole point'.--Paul Charteris, Tarawera Ultramarathon RD.
√ Tahoe Rim Trail 100M 20/21 July
Hartford Marathon/Newport Marathon 12/13 Oct
Boston Marathon 21 April 2014
Needs more cowbell!
• get within 5#s of 130#s (and stay there, gotdammit!)
✓ 1st olympic distance duathlon - AG 2nd!!
• 1st Iceman Cometh mtn bike race - no MTB in '13
✓ Half Fanatic
✓ punch Type 1 in the junk
Think Whirled Peas
Just because running is simple does not mean it is easy.
Eye Lick Two Rhune
Good luck dude. Stay cool. Take it easy. Never forget...... enjoy it. Seriously. Try to enjoy it. You will never, ever have a first marathon again.
ON THE 7th DAY, GOD DID AN EASY 6 "Running is a big question mark that's there each and every day. It asks you, 'Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?'" - Peter Maher
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