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New research by teams of Australian and US scientists has found there has been a massive reduction in the amount of Antarctic Bottom Water found off the coast of Antarctica.
Comparing detailed measurements taken during the Australian Antarctic program's 2012 Southern Ocean marine science voyage to historical data dating back to 1970, scientists estimate there has been as much as a 60 per cent reduction in the volume of Antarctic Bottom Water, the cold dense water that drives global ocean currents.
In an intensive and arduous 25-day observing program, temperature and salinity samples were collected at 77 sites between Antarctica and Fremantle. Such ship transects provide the only means to detect changes in the deep ocean.
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"The amount of dense Antarctic Bottom Water has contracted each time we've measured it since the 1970s," said Dr Steve Rintoul, of CSIRO and the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC. "There is now only about 40 per cent as much dense water present as observed in 1970."
The ocean profiles also show that the dense water formed around Antarctica has become less saline since 1970.
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The research was carried out by more than 50 scientists on the Australian Antarctic Division's research and resupply vessel Aurora Australis, which sailed to Commonwealth Bay, west along the Antarctic coast, and returned into Fremantle.
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"Not only will this research improve our understanding of ocean currents, but will also feed into our knowledge of how the Southern Ocean and the Antarctic continent drives the world's climate processes," Dr Gales said.
Dr Rintoul was Chief Scientist on the recent voyage and has made a dozen voyages to the Southern Ocean. "When we speak of global warming, we really mean ocean warming: more than 90 per cent of the extra heat energy stored by the earth over the last 50 years has gone into warming up the ocean.
The Southern Ocean is particularly important because it stores more heat and carbon dioxide released by human activities than any other region, and so helps to slow the rate of climate change" Dr Rintoul said. "A key goal of our work is to determine if the Southern Ocean will continue to play this role in the future."
The causes of the observed changes in the Southern Ocean are not yet fully understood. Changes in winds, sea ice, precipitation, or melt of floating glacial ice around the edge of Antarctica may be responsible. Data collected on the latest voyage will help unravel this mystery.
A major challenge is the lack of observations at high latitude, where much of the ocean is covered by sea ice in winter. During the voyage scientists deployed nine drifting profilers, called Argo floats, which will transmit profiles of temperature and salinity every 10 days for the next five years. These ice-capable floats in the seasonal ice zone in the Australian sector of the Southern Ocean are funded through Australia's Integrated Marine Observing System.
"The Argo floats have revolutionised our ability to measure the ocean, particularly in winter when ship observations are very rare," said Dr Rintoul. "On this voyage, we deployed a new kind of float designed to survive encounters with the sea ice. These floats will allow us to see how dense water forms in winter for the first time."
The Aurora Australis visited Commonwealth Bay as part of a celebration of the centenary of Sir Douglas Mawson's Australian Antarctic Expedition. Dr Rintoul's team had the opportunity to repeat oceanographic measurements made by Mawson's team 100 years ago, obtaining one of the few century-long records obtained anywhere in the ocean.
"Our measurements collected in 2012 are quite different to those collected by Mawson in 1912," Dr Rintoul said. "This is an indication of a change in the ocean currents that may be related to a reduction in the amount of dense water formed near Antarctica."
"Mawson's expedition really marked the transition from the "Heroic Age" of Antarctic exploration to a period where science was the primary motivation for Antarctic expeditions. I think he would have gotten a real kick out of the idea that measurements made by his team a century ago are still useful and that Australian scientists are continuing his legacy by studying Antarctica and its connection to the rest of the globe."
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I want to know who of you have re-mineralized his/her teeth after a cavity apeared?
Also I want to know how big the cavity was and if you have any evidence for your natural healing e.g. x-rays or pictures. No matter if you have any evidence, but experiences please comment and share your knowledge.
I know that Freelee re-mineralized one of her teeth with four amalgam fillings in her mouth. I know that the PH of the saliva have to be around 7,0 to 7,2 that teeth can reminarlize. My PH of saliva in the mornig is only 6,2 to 6,5. So what should I do to get my saliva more alkaline?
If you have re-mineralized teeth how did you do that exactly? What do you eat? How was oral hygiene?
sorry if this is a stupid question but are you asking whether someone has re-mineralized their teeth through natural hygiene/diet alone and no fillings or with the fillings as well? is it even possible without the amalgam?
Just for the record (for those this may help) - mercury amalgams are the worst things you can possibly have in your mouth, arguably.
Anyone who has them is being poisoned by the second most toxic substance on the planet, on a daily basis.
Our whole family is mercury toxic and it nearly detroyed our lives. :/
There is chelation (detoxification) but you can never ever (ever) do chelation with the amalgams still in your mouth. It will jack you up something fierce.
hey morgan,
thanks for your post. I know that mercury is very toxic, but I will keep them in because every dental treatment destroys healthy teeth structure. Maybe I will change my opinion later but not at this time.
I have been monitoring some black spots on a molar which I had before going 100% raw. These black spots have shrunk in size to where they are hardly noticable now.
I eat a diet full of sweet fruits like bananas, mangos for the most part with greens most days which can include: 2 x lettuce heads, celery, cucumber, tomatoes, spinach, plus the occasional half an avocado.
For the most part my teeth feel great on this diet though I do not eat much citric fruits especially pineapples as my teeth are very sensitive to them - blending them though can help to stop this!
Dental hygiene wise I do the following:
I brush twice a day, morning and night
Floss after each meal - whenever possible/practical
Rinse my mouth out with water after each meal and use an oral irrigator if at home - this has been one of the best things I have bought as it flushes out food even flossing and normal mouth rinsing do not remove.
I also use a sonic toothbrush though I do tend to get some stains from time to time so also have handy a 'medium' bristlled toothbrush which helps to remove/keep down any staining of the teeth.
Tea Tree oil - just one drop in a glass of water for rinsing - from time to time if my teeth ever feel sensitive, which isnt often now unless I go for the citric option too much!!
Also eating lots of greens helps clean my teeth apart from the minerals they deliver to my body.
Hope this helps!
I am also working on healing my teeth from high fat / high acid (fruit) periods in the past.
I am not quite sure now whether it is high fat or high acid diet that can do the most damage, but it is certainly helpful to minimize fats and stay away from acids completely if trying to heal dental issues.
I am still not quite sure whether greens really help teeth to remineralize and heal, or just a non-challenging diet of soft and juicy sweet fruits (but not dry fruits like dates) allows the teeth to heal. But when I eat a lot of sweet fruits and no acid fruit, I certainly crave greens to help balance the sweet fruits. I think it helps to eat greens plain - without any dressing on them.
I also believe that any medical dental intervention further damages the teeth.
I think a long supervised fast or a series of them will help a lot, but only with a diet of 100% raw ripe sweet low fat fruit and greens in between.
Of course, strict dental hygiene, using shower floss and regular tape floss is absolutely essential.
Another remedy I am currently trying out is Calcium Bentonite Clay. You can mix it with a small amount of water or colloidal silver (if you have pain or infection) and put it in the cavity and/or around the tooth. From 1/2 hour to overnight applications. There's a lot of info about it online. I started using this on one of my problematic areas about 2 weeks ago (continous applications between the meals and overnight) and it seems to be working...
with the bentonite clay, have you heard if it has to be Calcium or how do you know if its Calcium bentonite? I was wondering as I have some sitting around that i got a couple months ago but all it says on the package is "Bentonite clay"
There are different types of bentonite clay so it's hard to say for sure: http://www.aboutclay.com/info/kinds_of_clay.htm
I wouldn't put anything in my mouth that wasn't meant for internal use.
I would recommend calcium bentonite clay from livingclayco.com. A small amount last forever. Mix 3 parts water with one part clay powder in a glass jar to make a paste. It is wonderfully soothing to pack on the gums or to use as a toothpaste. It's the last tooth cleaner you will ever need if simple water and chewing greens are not working for you.
After every fruit meal, eat a handful of greens to clean off and alkalize them teefs.
I have. I wore away a good portion of enamel eating a lot of vinegar and brushing too aggressively years ago. I tend to linger over my meals, so it was a problem when I put lots of vinegar on my greens and then it was in my mouth for an hour or more. Now I don't eat vinegar, but I'm careful with acidic fruit - I try to eat my citrus in a timely fashion and then brush.
Okay, here's how I did it. I stopped eating anything acidic while I was remineralizing. I also stopped using my natural toothpaste since it had glycerin in it. What I read that made sense to me was that glycerin coats your teeth and they have to be in contact with alkaline minerals, especially dicalcium phosphate, to remineralize. Ideally you keep your mouth alkaline as much as you possibly can.
I started brushing with Eco-Dent tooth powder instead. Its first ingredient is baking soda, and then it contains calcium diphosphate too. I actually love the taste of the anise flavor and I continued to use it and never went back to paste. When I was remineralizing, sometimes I'd just put a pinch in my mouth even when I wasn't brushing.
Finally, I stopped grazing over my food and moved to more distinct meals. I try to focus on eating and not take forever (I'm a really slow eater), and then I floss and brush after almost every meal, though sometimes I get lazy and just rinse with water (and put a pinch of the tooth powder in my mouth if it's been an acidic meal.) I use a Sonicare toothbrush because I tend to use too much pressure with a regular brush.
After about six months of this routine my teeth felt smooth again instead of rough, and I felt like I was out of the woods. By continuing my good habits my enamel has been fine ever since, and I can now eat acidic fruit without my teeth hurting.
Did you have had a hole in your teeth or just wored your enamel? And if you have had a hole, did that closed by second dentin after the six months?
Although I do not have dental proof that I ever had a cavity to begin with, I had pain on one of my teeth (could feel it when I bit down on food and it wasn't horrible pain but was bad enough that i was often just chewing with only the other side of my mouth) which has disappeared since brushing my teeth with olive oil soap. I made a video about my experience if you want to check it out.
If anyone has any idea of why the pain would disappear besides it having been re mineralization, let me know!
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For the second time in two months a great white shark was hooked on a Southern California pier, and for the second time a marine biologist working on the pier persuaded the angler to cut the line rather than attempt to haul the predator out of the water. Eric Martin, director of the Roundhouse Marine Studies Lab and Aquarium at the end of the Manhattan Beach Pier, said the shark hooked Tuesday afternoon (pictured in this story) was 8 to 9 feet long. The angler had been fishing for bat rays and at first wanted to haul up his amazing catch.
Hooking white sharks is rare, especially from a pier, and many anglers are not aware that the species is protected in California waters. Killing them is against the law.
Martin was able to get this point across to the angler, who was not identified. "He actually kept it on the line long enough that I was able to click off a few photos," Martin said. "Then I told him I am cutting the line [and] he said, 'Go ahead!' I also told him I will give him some photos. He was really happy then. So I guess the main thing was everybody came out ahead. The guy got to fight a great white shark. I got my photos, and the shark was free."
Martin added: "I have to say one thing that was funny: Seconds after the shark was set free a swimmer swam right in front of the shark and the shark went under the swimmer and the swimmer had no idea what just swam under him."
It was a far more tense situation when an angler reeled up a smaller white shark from the same pier in early July. That angler was determined to send down a gaff and haul the shark up, and a heated argument ensued. Martin ended up calling the police and only then did the angler consent to let Martin cut the line.
"I had the phone in my hand while we were arguing," Martin said. "I was shaking because it was so tense."
Juvenile white sharks utilize Southern California coastal waters as a nursery area. They feed mostly on small fishes and rays, and they're very rarely hooked by anglers. They're not considered particularly dangerous to surfers and swimmers until they reach about 12 feet and start preying on seals and sea lions.
Martin said he sometimes sees juvenile white sharks close to surfers.
In August of 2011 a white shark was hauled onto Huntington Beach Pier, in Orange County, and the angler fell under investigation by the California Department of Fish and Game.
– Images showing white shark hooked Tuesday from the Manhattan Beach Pier are courtesy of Eric Martin
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So it´s finally coming out and being said? At last?
Is the sky blue?
There´s little question in my mind that this was fraud. With the electronic voting sans paper, its easier and less traceable than ever before.
So what? There is no rule of law for those in power.
Governor Kasick...Please pick up the white courtesy phone
In St. Lucie cty FL, the registered voters voted an average of 141% !
Wow, I bet Rachel´s the brightest one in her family.
Ms. Wood writes a comforting article (we didn´t lose, they stole it), but really only discusses Ohio. Democrats have been stealing Ohio since at least the Nixon/Kennedy election. Even if we accept that Florida, also, was won through vote fraud, those two states switching sides would not have given Romney the victory. Certainly vote fraud is an enormous problem and something must be done (no, I don´t know what), but there are many more factors that carried Obama again. We cannot get past the almost unanimous black vote for him. We also can´t ignore the failure of our own to turn out in the numbers Mitt Romney had been assured he could expect. We told pollsters we were definitely enthusiastic and we were definitely going to vote for Romney and then we stayed home.It seems to me that a Republican Governor Kasich should have been prepared for the fraud in his Ohio. Why wasn´t he? And what does he intend to do about it in the future?
Rachel Alexander, of course.
Ron Paul witholding votes by not throwing support to Mitt shares the blame with the lame Gary Johnson IMO.The commie left wing of the dems do not go second party and they are winning. What part of Communism don´t the Libertarians like? Looking for or fostering liberty in all the wrong places, guys. First ys gotta win but being hybrids, Libertarians win a half glass not matter who overcomes at the polls. Can´t exactly call it a win with stacked decks.
We´ve lost the country when Julia votes a 1000 times for Obowma.
Who´d a thunk it?
The fact that fraud happens, and happens easily, is a given. Knowing it, and stopping it, and correcting the results are very different things.Is there any wonder the American Ideal is in its death throes?
Same thing in Philly...
Michael Savage said it immediately: "There are millions of [illegals]. Not only the millions that Obama openly granted amnesty to with the so-called Dream Act, but the millions who are here illegally who have no right to vote.But because the illegal, illicit Democratic Party fought the states that wanted a strict voter ID requirement in order to vote – we´re the only Western nation that doesn´t require it – that is how they got the election again."
Hey #2, it´s grays skies and rain where I am, but is the Pope Catholic?Yes he did win through voter fraud but like the JFK assasination 50 years later we are still wondering if the bullets came from the grassy knoll or the repository.No, it´s all BO´s now no matter what is proven. You will need pliers to remove him. And in 2016, it may take a revolution cause he ain´t going away anytime soon.
Likely??? Shout it from the roof tops with a megaphone. That was not an election, it was a bloodless coup d ta. Democracy died on 11/6/2012 and we all seem to wander around in a daze as if nothing has happened. We deserve what we get from here on out. The road to hell is richly deserved.
They could nor steal it if it was a landslide, only if it was close. It was close and they probably stole it.
I said that all along, #18 - if Romney had a huge percentage of the vote, it wouldn´t matter if they tried to pull tricks, because it wouldn´t succeed. :sigh:
Philadelphia Rs put over 500 new R Table Officials by Court Order [Minority Inspectors and Clerks] in Divisions where none had worked before. [This in addition to the 1000+ election Divisions where R Table workers regularly sit, and numerous Poll Watchers]Many new Rs officials were not allowed to sit or even be inside Polling Places till the afternoon. The ´GOP Lawyers´ were overwhelmed and often did not respond for 4+ hours to distress calls. [also they reputedly were not prepared to adequately defend the Table Workers]*A lot of voting fraud can take place in 15 minutes, let alone 4 hours.*In Philadelphia, people are regularly taken from place to place to vote under phoney [not them] names on the street list. D Table Judges of Election regularly give ´illegal assistance´ inside voting machines. Also D Table workers also sign for absent ´voters´ on the books, and go in and vote for these ´non-present voters´PS many divisions ran out of the allotted 40 ´Provisional ballots´ intended for voters at a poll, not on the street list.NOTEThe D Chief Election Commissioner was on NPR and TV speaking out against voter ID, prior to the Judicial ruling against it for this all-important election.Voter ID will not help id D collusion on the Election Board Table does not enforce it.Felons in Pa can be Election Judges, and NO D Table officials have [in recent memory] been charged with Election fraud, let alone convicted.
If you go to the DMV in California to get a drivers licence, they electronically register your thumbprint when you check in at the first counter. Every test area you visit after that in the process they again check your print against the original. That stops someone else from taking your eye test, written test or driving test. They wouldn´t have instituted this procedure if there hadn´t been countless problems of cheating the system.Most medical institutions I go to have a palm print machine which is entered into their computer system. Whenever you check in to one of their facilities, this imprint identifies you and they have your records at hand. It is efficient and doesn´t violate anyone´s so called rights. That is of course unless you think cheating is covered under the criminal bill of rights.Why then isn´t a system like this instituted for voting. That thumb or palm print should be required when you register to vote. If you register twice or vote more than once you would automatically be disqualified from the current vote count and from ever voting again. Cheating in today´s elections is rampant and it has to stop. Someone should take this to the Supreme Court while there is still a majority of sane people on the court (I´m counting Roberts).After all, didn´t the Supreme Court affirm a one man one vote rule under a liberal Warren court. Enforce it or go under.
# 21I believe ´would be lawyers´ in PA have to be fingerprinted when they take the Bar Exam, to ensure no ´ringers´ take the exam for them. [or at least in Phila Co.]
Please shout this from the mountain tops for the next four years, until the Sheeple get it through their almost unpenatratable thick skulls...the truth will set you free!
Blah blah blah blah. Unless you can provide hard evidence of it on a scale that affected the outcome, all you are doing is providing self-pitying excuses that get in the way of a cold-blooded analysis of the loss. Might as well suggest that space aliens intervened. It´s about that useful.
We need to start making states accountable for their voter fraud.Perhaps we need to start talking about disqualifying a state´s electoral votes in a Presidential election if they are found to be doing little to curb voter fraud.It´s not hard to put a lid on this crap. Voter ID, registration at least 30 days ahead of time, reliable voting methods such as punch cards and writing in ballots, laws that protect election overseers from both parties.Seriously, when are we going to say enough and really start putting the screws to this?
We should do a root canal on the current crop calling itself the MSM. Zerobama is their hit man. They are the criminal element.
#24Phila Rs have overturned a State Senate Election, based on phoney Absentee Ballots, ..... but it´s almost impossible to get a conviction against D Table officials, if the R ´watchdog´ Court Ordered Table Officials are barred from the polls.Ds in Phila think Voter Fraud is ´no big deal´ and doesn´t really count ...... it´s gone on so long and with the tacit approval of previous DAs etc, that it´s the regular way of doing business.´Money talks ..... b---t walks´ and unfortunately too many people are ´for sale´.$10 per polling place for those in the van in 2010 was the rate..has
The Republican establishment is in on it and happy with it. Now they get to run Jeb Bush in 2016.
Voter fraud and Gary Johnson? Puh-leeze.Okay, so there is voter fraud. We know that. The problem is not that Romney lost the popular vote by a little over 2-1/2%. The problem is that Romney lost all but one swing state, resulting in an electoral victory for -0-bama of 332 to 206 – which is not even close. Voter fraud in Ohio and a million votes for Johnson don't begin to explain 11 million voters who stayed home, or the losses in all of the other swing states.Simple explanations like "voter fraud" and blaming conservatives prevent the GOP from doing any actual self-assessment. Blaming others for your defeat is petty, whiny and juvenile. We ran the moderate (again) and lost (again) – a loss which included a huge swath of moderates and potential cross-over voters who opted to stay home rather than cast a vote for the "electable" candidate.
Sharks are born swimming...
I think we should give the Democrats everything they want. Then sit back and watch them complain about how screwed up the country is.
I think Ron Paul should take some of that blame !!!Most of his people stated that they would NOT vote for Mitt, and would just stay home !!Ron Paul could have come out and stated to his people, " Mitt Romney is not the best candidate that we could ask for, but He is better than having Obama back in. Please vote for Mitt".BUT, he did not !!! So they stayed home !!
All it took was about 324,000 fraudulent votes for Obama to win, think about that! They didn´t need massive amounts of ineligible votes, this was easily accomplished!
I agree that they stole this election. Is there any hope for investigations, or do we just bend over and take this?
#29 is spot on. The bigger issue is that Romney was a weak candidate fighting an uphill battle. Me too liberalism can´t win over genuine liberalism.There are a lot of conservative policies that are enormously popular. The GOP needs to find a candidate who can articulate those policies (here´s a hint: someone who doesn´t refer to himself as "severely conservative").
Every time I think back - and heck, even AT the time - to the past few weeks on Fox News´s The Five, Bob Beckel just seemed way overly confident that Obama would win. His attitude, and how he looked at the others, and things he said had me seriously wondering before the election if he knew something.I recall last summer he was gone for a week or so, and when he came back he was sharper and more caustic in his comments and I mentioned to DH - jokingly! - that it seemed as if Bob had been away at Re-Education Camp. And now I´m thinking HE WAS, and HE DID know.No proof, of course - this is a lame, factless hunch I have, but I´m convinced of it.We had illegals being registered to vote out here in Las Vegas by the local Culinary Union (and SEIU), and even the ones who knew they couldn´t vote here were PRESSURED to do so anyway, under threat of losing their jobs in the hotels, casinos and restaurants here.The Las Vegas tourism industry underbelly.Consider the vote count and electoral totals. Those broad spans of numbers can mean only one thing: That the libs overdid it to the point it´s painfully obvious. One in fifty vehicles out here had Obama stickers on them, ZERO yard signs, while I saw many for Romney-Ryan.These are NOT coinkydinks.But who´ll do anything about it..........?
I was listening to the radio last night (I don´t know the host´s name) but he said that in many of the Republican leaning precincts--where people stood in line for upwards of 3 hours--the final count reflected only 80% to 85% participation.He also said that 0bama won with over 10 million fewer votes than he got in 2008.And "well liked" Romney received 3 million fewer votes than "not liked" McCain.He was implying there is something wrong with those vote totals.Later, he was discussing the electronic voting machines and said if any part of one´s finger was more than 1/4 inch outside the icon for Romney, the vote recorded for 0bama, that the whole screen--not just the 0bama icon--would register a vote for 0bama.I don´t know how accurate that radio host´s information is, but coupled with the previous articles about voters complaints that the "screen kept going to 0bama when I tried to vote for Romney" I have to wonder. At least Oklahoma still has paper ballots to mark.
Democrats do not want anything but our death. Anything they do to achieve that is, for them, morally okay. People who would not normally cheat are cheating because they have been convinced we need very badly to be dead or the world will die. It is their religion.Do not argue reason--it won´t work.Do not change your behavior--it won´t matter.Do not appease them--it will only get worse.
Reply 31, Kazaland, wrote:"I think we should give the Democrats everything they want. Then sit back and watch them complain about how screwed up the country is."Thanks, 31, a lot of people felt that way in 2008. A lot of Jews felt that way as socialist policies were advocated in Germany in the 1930s. Liberals don´t just get mad at their scapegoats; they "get even." The worse things get, the less the ´rats will be held accountable. I guarantee it.
Drudge headline: UPDATE: In 59 Philly divisions, Romney did not get single vote...Biggest fraud ever. obama should be in prison but we have people like John Boehner who wants to go golfing with him!!
It was won by fraud. And we needed to overwhelm them with our votes. We didn´t.OK. So what does the establishment Republican want?AMNESTY! Really?
#36, I was clicking around on TV the Sunday before the election and I saw some lefty journalist on "Face the Nation" proclaiming that "no one is interested in this election - there will be a very low voter turnout". I thought, "what??!". Everyone I know was super excited to vote for Romney.
Surprise -- surprise!! Welcome to Chicago politics...President Kennedy won Illinois because of the ole Mayor Daley holding back his numbers from the West side of Chicago -- UTIL -- he knew how many votes he needed to win....LZK
The disparity between the vote tallies and the enthusiasm evidenced in the Chick-fil-A episode, the rally turnouts, and the neck and neck polling in ludicrously over sampled D cohorts, all point to massive fraud.The electronic machines need to be certified by bonded service companies and the national ID must become law. The sorry excuse that ID will suppress the bozo vote is past its expiry date.
There was the article that during election night the Romney team became concerned with reports of huge turnouts in Dem districts......however, the report came from cBS. I think this was their way to once again cover Obama so the result would appear legit.
Recently reported 780k foreign students that came to US in 2011 from Saudi Arabia & China helped.
Of course he won by voter fraud. No doubt about it.
Maybe it is time that some Republicans became democrats. The party machinery at the local level is pretty easy to become involved with. Also my experience with leftist is that they can´t conceive of conservatives being so sneaky. So getting a Republican moles in the democratic establishment might be fairly easy to do.All it takes is a few people in positions to see the corruption and to record the meetings to blow it open in an off year election or local election when they are not expecting it.Another possible ploy is in states like California which has the new rule that says there cannot be an unopposed election so that there are now sometimes 2 democrats on the ballot. If a republican were to run as a democrat and say all the leftist things they might could get elected. Once elected they have a forum to drag the demonrats back towards sanity if they couch their arguments right. They could also run as extreme leftist and make a few high profile votes for leftist issues if elected. However, if they lost the person who won the election would be more moderate and not beholding to the far left which is a good thingJust a thought
If Republicans would have left town until a budget voter, then this fraud would have been arrested in his tracks. He´s borrowed more in 4 years than all previous Presidents in American history combined. Some legacy.
The Democrats will pay dearly in 2014.
There´s a word for those who steal to win:illegitimate.


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FSTC President at theWSIE 2012 Conferences in Boston
Presantations on "Innovation Diplomacy", "Smart Cultures" and "Women of Science" by Professor Salim T S Al-Hassani, President of The Foundation for Science Technology and Civilization (FSTC).
In late September 2012, Professor Salim Al-Hassani, President of FSTC, participated in The World Summit on Innovation & Entrepreneurship WSIE 2012 in Boston. The WSIE 2012 brought together the world's most riveting people to plot the new frontiers of the smarter innovation economy. The forum provides a meaningful setting that engages the world's most amazing people to transform our economies, societies, and the environment. Professor Al-Hassani contributed to discussion and made several speeches in different panels, relevant to various themes such as Innovation Diplomacy, Smart Cities of 2022, Smart Cultures, Applied Science and Applied Women, and finally Women of Science in Muslim Heritage. We present hereafter texts and abstracts of the contributions of FSTC President to this important forum.
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Professor Salim T S Al-Hassani, President of The Foundation for Science Technology and Civilization (FSTC), invited to participate in WSIE.
The WSIE 2012 brought together in September 26-28, 2012 the world's most riveting people to plot the new frontiers of the smarter innovation economy. The WSIE is by-invitation only. It provides a meaningful setting that engages the world's most amazing people to transform our economies, societies, and the environment.
There were 600+ innovators, 168 speakers from 50 nations. Collectively, they explored some of the world's most positive innovations. They seeded new partnerships to alter the way they learn and live... create and innovate... invest and lead. They shared the inside stories of what makes their communities and their businesses the home to smarter innovations to transform our future.
Professor Salim Al-Hassani was invited to be a challenger at the "Innovation Diplomacy Panel".
2.1 An Overview of the panel session:
Diplomacy and war are as old as civilization. While innovation in warfare fills tomes and museums, diplomacy has not been known for innovative use of new ideas, smarter technologies and open models for collaboration. Now, sustainable designs, citizen-centric solutions and open connection technologies such as social media software, text messaging, mobile and GIS offer the possibility to change how diplomats think, learn, work and collaborate to improve policy outcomes.
2.2 Moderator
2.3 Discussion Leaders
2.4 Challenged By
Salim Al-Hassani, President, Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilization
A Challenge to the Panelists (Innovation Diplomacy)
by Prof. Salim Al-Hassani, President of Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilization, UK (FSTC)
"Good morning everyone
I wanted to set the foundation for a view – a perspective or even a provocation, if you will - that I really want to bring to this discourse.
Listening to the presentations and looking at the Summit program, there seems to much energy focused on how innovations will shift and shape the future and trying to understand how those processes and the processes of diffusion happen. It seems to be all about how to use innovations to shape things, at least partly for our own benefit, in the future.
Essential though these understandings are, I want us to look perhaps a little above these premises at what is, I believe, the most important common cause of all – the future.
It is our legacy to all of our children and theirs too, wherever they are in the world, whatever race, color, culture, religion, sex or age they are. I am interested in how innovation and entrepreneurs will help to develop tools to help us all unite to work together towards this common cause.
Every day we hear warnings about how difficult the future will be for all of us in one way, shape or form. We must start to find ways of working together that are not the same as the ways that have created the situations we see every night on the news. Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem using the thinking that created it.
This is where I want to see real innovation – in how we perceive, how we think, how we relate, how we grow, how we communicate, how we change, how we learn. Together. All of these things must be done together. Let me just say that list again. How we perceive, think, relate, grow, communicate, change and learn. Together.
These are seven things that I do not see in many curricula, anywhere in the world and yet they are the basic things we need to be really good at, if we are to work together towards that ultimate common cause of a better shared future – for all.
I feel these ideas resonate with you all. But the questions hanging in the air right now are all about how will we do this, where do we start, how do we overcome the barriers of culture, religion, politics and history.
These are big issues but they are precisely the reasons why my Foundation was formed some twelve short years ago.
I would like to give you a premise, which I hope will be helpful.
As human beings each of us work in the present moment to try our very best to build the best future we can for our dependents and ourselves. Yes? That seems to be what connects us all together that is what we do. When each of us look at a particular situation, in the present, we will all see different issues, different causes, different problems to overcome, different solutions, different resources we can apply, different blockages, different ways through. Because we are all different – this is a reflection of our identity, which is unique for each of us. So we try to build the future, in the present, through - and using - our identity.
So, where does our identity come from? Well, it starts with where and when we were born. From that moment, and even before, our identity is shaped by the culture which surrounds us, our family and friends, our education, the media we are subjected to, the religion we are introduced to and so on. These things form our identity. We can choose to change some of these things as we mature – we can't change where and when we were born or those early influences though. And so when we work in the present to build that better future we all seek, we do so through our identity. Which is formed in the past.
It is through the eyes of the past that we look at the present and towards the future. We all have different pasts, some of which are in conflict, but those pasts cannot be changed, they are fixed and immovable. I want to start my role as challenger by challenging that very statement – that the past is fixed and immovable. I contend that it is not.
The reason FSTC – the Foundation of which I am President - was formed, was to address what we refer to as 1000 years of amnesia. Here in the west – certainly in the UK and Europe – we are taught that, before the Middle Ages the Greeks and Romans (and maybe some Chinese and maybe some Indians) did all of the thinking and making. And then during the Middle Ages not much was going on and, suddenly, almost out of nowhere, the renaissance happened and within a magical 50 years or so many inventions and discoveries were made that have produced our modern world. And then there is a continuous history until today. This is simply untrue.
During those Middle Ages whilst not much was happening in Europe, important discoveries were being made, the knowledge passed on by the Greeks and Romans was being built upon and all of this was done in a civilization that stretched from Spain to China and included more or less all religions, all cultures. So many of the basics of our modern world were given to us by the civilization that focused all of this knowledge, invention, discovery, literature, poetry, medicine, and entertainment. And yet we are not taught this.
So we think of us in the West as the source of all of our culture. A little while ago, we worked with the Royal Society in London to look through their archives to see if there were links to the Giants upon whose shoulders Sir Isaac Newton stood to help him see further. You find what you are looking for, it is said.
And so it was – there in the oldest scientific institution in the world we found the links back to some of the scholars, writing in Arabic, whose knowledge was passed on.
This might all seem unimportant. But if you look at what we have found, with an open mind, we suggest that you will see a past that is not what you thought it was, that did not include so much culture from, for instance, the Muslim civilization, or the Chinese, or the Indian and so on – all of whom have contributed to our modern world. And then, to get back to my short argument, you find that we share part of our pasts with people a lot of us think of as 'not us'. And so we find that at least part of our identity is shared with those who we might think of as threatening or adversaries.
But, if we all have a partly shared past then we have a partly shared identity. Our identity becomes enriched and so, when we look at the problems of the present, we can do so through a different identity, one that is enriched with a shared past and so we can work more effectively in the present to build that so important shared future.
So, here is the crux of this premise. If we are to work together in the present towards a better shared future we should start by looking at our shared past. If we do not do this, we will continue to talk with each other from adversarial entrenched positions. We have to move to a space above and beyond our differences – for that is what is needed for our future.
The most common shared space of all is that of Science. If we focus on religion we will clash, if we focus on politics we will clash and look for domination. But if we focus on science, we can work together as scientists always have. This is why no less a person than Condoleezza Rice called our focus on science a 'new space for dialogue'. And indeed it is.
Now, if we can accept the above argument, the next questions are still about how to work together. We have some thoughts about this too. Any tools for dialogue and working together must be systemic – they must have at the core the notion that everything is linked with everything else in some way.
In the UK, we keep hearing the expression 'systemic failure' more and more when something fails in the public or private sector. Tools must also be inclusive, not exclusive – they must include, or allow the inclusion of all people, not just an elite of some kind.
They must deal with the complexity of the present and the increasing complexity of the future. They must be recursive in the nature – this is a tricky one. By this I mean that they must be capable of dealing with issues on a local or global scale and all points in between. And they must be usable by ordinary people as well as highly skilled negotiators, facilitators and such like.
This combination all sounds unachievable, but I do not believe this. There are tools out there now that have all of these characteristics and are available. They are real innovations in how to work together in the present to build a better-shared future.
There is not enough time for me to go into them in this short talk – which is already close to being too long, but I will very briefly share a couple of them with you.
The first is our own Be The Future! Program, developed by Ian Kendrick.
This was designed to enable us to show how people can use our content about that 1000 years of amnesia to work together, regardless of their background – age, experience, education, culture, and religion. It addresses those seven issues of how to perceive, think, relate, communicate, learn, change and grow. It can be used by anyone, in almost any context. It works for an individual, a team, an organization and so on. It contains many powerful tools within it. Its starting point is that we all see the world through our own mental model, which has been built by us over the years and through which we see all of the issues before us, and using which we make and implement our decisions.
BtF shows people that, however perfect they may think it is, their model is flawed, incomplete, out of date and inaccurate. For almost everyone this is a shock to their system. Once that is done we then show how to improve their mental models by re-perceiving their world. We show that from this they can choose what attitude they should have.
The key word here is 'choose'. Many of us do not think of attitude as a choice but Victor Frankl with his experiences in the concentration camps showed us so vividly and undeniably that, in his words, it is perhaps the one freedom that cannot be taken away – the freedom to choose one's own attitude. Once this is done BtF shows how to communicate in different ways that will engage fully. And then how to organize. Again in highly innovative ways, Ah – back to innovation again.
The key innovation here is how to help people re-perceive so that they can break through the barriers that separate them and meet in that space above and beyond difference with a positive and open attitude.
BtF is a vital part of our educational initiative.
The second tool I want to share with you is the World Model and the World Game (WG). (These were invented by our good friend Anthony Hodgson, one of the world's most experienced systems thinkers and an advisory board member, of our Foundation. He was described by Peter Senge (Sen-ggee), author of The Fifth Discipline, as 'The Master Facilitator when he helped with the formation of the Society for Organizational Learning.
The World Model is something which needs much more time than I have here to describe it, but it consists of looking at a set of 12 interlinked dependencies that we all have to balance and work with when we try to make our villages, towns, cities, countries work and be in harmony with their environments. That is just one application of this very powerful model.
The reason it is also usable a 'game' is that it has been designed as such so that anyone can use it without much prior training and to break down the barriers when we interact. It shows not just those 12 dependencies, but how they are linked together and affect each other.
The World Model/Game has been used around the globe, including Athens, Herat, Edinburgh and many others. It has also been used in, for example, an extensive study on the affect of climate change in many countries on the UK – i.e. the interlinked dependencies of climate change in one country on others. We are currently planning a World Game from Manchester – our home, office and the location for the Industrial Revolution and the home of computing.
So, it is time for me to conclude. My challenge to this conference and indeed to myself, is to ask how can we renew our approach to working together in the present moment to build a better shared future. If we apply our knowledge of innovation and entrepreneurialism to that most important of common causes, we can all build the best legacy we can.
Thank you for your time."
Prof. Salim Al-Hassani also participated in the Smart Cities Panel by giving a presentation on Smart Cultures.
4.1 Overview
While today's economic crisis is devastating for many cities, it is creating tomorrow's opportunities for the world's Future Capitals: the innovation cities and places that are generators of the next business boom. This session invites you to envision the world's next great innovation cities and the qualities and values they share, (a) Where talented people want to live, learn, innovate and raise families, and (b) Where businesses can strive and thrive.
4.2 Welcome Remarks
4.3 Moderator
4.4 Discussion Leaders
The contribution was in the form of a PPT presentation on " Smart Cultures: Identity and Tenable History"
Due to increased population, future cities will have to cope with compactness. Most cities will be located near water resources. High rise buildings as we see today, house numerous number of people. Yet people hardly talk to their neighbors. Each person although located in a particular geographical zone, has a cyber community that he/she identifies with. Hence the issue of identity becomes a serious issue. Individuals will always appreciate being distinguished and respected. Which culture and which zone will define a person's nationality or culture or identity? There will be an increasing need for individuals to exhibit their roots and aspire to present their identity through positive contributions he/she made or more important his/her ancestors made to modern civilization.
Unfortunately the present educational system has a 1000 years amnesia as shown by the slide. This amnesia neglects the contribution of non-European cultures to science and technology. It engenders superiority complex amongst Europeans and Americans but at the same time it produces inferiority complex in the other neglected cultures.
It is essential that this gap is filled so that future generations can refer to their ancestors with positivity and thus create a connection between people within the space of the cultural roots of science.
Our Foundation for Science, Technology and civilization has been doing that through exhibitions, publications, conferences and workshops. The most recent edition of the 1001inventions book is published by National Geographic.
1001 Inventions Books
National Geographic have also just published a Kid's version.
1001 Inventions Educational Materials
The first tool is "Be The Future! (BtF!)" Program, developed by Ian Kendrick.
The second tool I want to share with you is the World Model and the World Game. (These were invented by Anthony Hodgson, one of the world's most experienced systems thinkers and an advisory board member, of our Foundation. He was described by Peter Senge (Sen-ggee), author of The Fifth Discipline, as 'The Master Facilitator when he helped with the formation of the Society for Organizational Learning.
To summarise my premise …
"How can we renew our approach to working together in the present moment to build a better shared future for all? How do we ensure that we do this in a way that is inclusive, systemic, deals with complexity at any level and can be used by ordinary people?
I firmly believe that if we apply our knowledge of innovation and entrepreneurialism to that most important of common causes – the future - we can together build the best legacy possible for ourselves and those who come after us.
One way our Foundation is adopting is to integrate innovations in all of the areas of the WG and see how they re-enforce or cancel each other and to explore unintended consequences and emergent properties…
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to present some of the innovations that our Foundation is making and contributing to "Smart Cultures".
6. Panel on APPLIED SCIENCES, APPLIED WOMEN
6.1 Overview
Today's cities and enterprises have not been fair to "Applied Women." Winning organizations require effective leadership that will not only absorb the existing supply of capacities of Applied Women in pursuit of innovation, but also learn how to contribute and create a new pipeline of women engineers, technologists and executives to disrupt existing business models.
This session portrayed a full picture of the gap in demand versus supply of Applied Women. The cast will examine new and smarter solutions that can close such gap to achieve superior growth and innovation performance.
6.2 Moderator
6.3 Discussion Leader
During the discussion, Professor Al-Hassani added a short contribution on how different was the case with Muslim Women social development from that of the women in the West. Women in the West had to extract their right from men through struggle, lobbying and women liberation movements. Over the past 200 years he status of women was raised from almost nothing to what is at present and they are still in their struggle to obtain equal status in many parts of society. The time line graph of their development is continuously rising.
However, the situation almost the reverse in the development of Muslim women. Their status rose rapidly with the advent of Islam treating them with equal rights and they reached high office posts in government and social status. For example, Omar the second Caliph appointed a woman for the post of Health and Safety Executive (Minister with independent Judicial powers) over the capital city of Medina. Women became religious scholars and delved in teaching, research, medicine, management and trade. We see the first university in history built and project managed by a 23year old Fatima al-Fihri in Fez year 859 CE, Morocco. We see Al-Ijliya form Aleppo becoming an established engineer designing and constructing Astrolabes (Astronomical mechanical computers) and we see Sutayta Al-Mahamli, a great mathematician becoming an expert witness in courts using Algebra and Trigonometry to work out disputed shares in unfinished buildings, dissolved partnerships and in inheritance.
They continued to have active role in society for a few hundred years. Their decline coincided with the ransack of Baghdad, then capital of the Abbasids, by the Mongols from East Asia and the 100 years invasion of the Crusaders from Europe.
Their decline continued till recent years when we notice signs of improvements. Hence the timeline of the social development of Muslim women is almost the opposite mirror image of that of women in the West. Women in the Middle East and the Muslim world do not need to take example from Western women, the only need to refer to examples from their own tradition.
8. Election of Prof. Al-Hassani as one of the E100
Prof. Salim Al-Hassani was selected by Entovation International, Global Knowledge Leadership Group as one of their E10.0.
Organizer: Entovation.com
Date: September 2012
Name: Salim T. S. Al-Hassani
Affilate: Emeritus Professor University of Manchester, UK, President. Foundation for Science, Technology & Civilisation (FSTC) Country: Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM
by: The Editorial Board, Thu 03 January, 2013
Organised by Cambridge University's Arab Innovation Network Society between Tuesday, 4 December 2012 and Thursday, 6 December 2012, Keynote speakers (among many other workshop speakers) included Professor Salim T.S. Al- Hassani, Mr. Riad Kamal, Founder and Executive Chairman of Arabtec Construction and CEO of Arabtec Holding and Mr Badr Jafar, Managing director of Crescent Group and President of Crescent Petroleum. The designated research categories discussed in the conference include: Entrepreneurship, Information and Communication Technology [ICT], Environment and Health.


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After doing what msgclb suggested as far as showing hosts on free dc sight.I noticed (looking at other cruncher hosts)i did not see anyone else crunching with linux. Just curious as to who else may be using linux for crunching?If any?
You don't see my Linux system? When I started crunching a few months ago I came to the conclusion that I would need to use Linux if I wanted to keep my OS all legal. Then came Window 7. So now I have until March 2010 to teach this dog some new tricks or come up with another solution. If I was to switch to Linux I would need solutions for both crunching and folding.
Boinc is a piece of cake, I never could get FAH/GPU to co-operate on Unbuntu. It can be done but not by me
Of course! My only AMD system is a MSI K9A2 with a 9950. It is currently running stock mainly because when I run this CPU at 100% with the GPUs folding I can feel heat roll off of it. It averages about 1,500 when I run it 100% 24/7. I see that you're running your 9950 rig @ 2.8 70%. It wouldn't happen to be your main rig? I noticed that you once had AMD Phenom II X4 940 crunching for a few hours. It's nice to dream but upgrading the CPU is currently not something I could afford.
Thanks for the reply Yes,the 9950 is in my main "internet" rig.That in combination with the heat,is why i keep it at 70%.It seems to be real happy there. The Phenom II X4 940 is my main gaming rig.I'll probably put it to crunching off and on in the near future.As soon as the weather cools down a bit.I'm just about maxed out for heat output as it is with the rigs i have running in my basement.Even after putting an air conditioner in down here.
Let's see if you got some today....Oh NVM........That's what you get for turning off your rigs while you were gone for only 2 dayswtf:


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US doesn't get BBC and i doubt they use the same promos. It's been climbing the chart for months very slowly so it's not a case of one performance or one person giving it a chance. It's months of hard slog and radio catching on bit by bit.ginnyfan wrote:Was checking Itunes chart first time in ages and was wondering what is she doing there.Then I realized this song is almost 2 years old. Talk about an unexpected success.
Did she perform this song anywhere? Who decided to give it a chance in the US?
I know the song cause it's used by BBC in their promos for Olympics. Maybe this is why it's succeeding now?
billboard.com about US digital chart wrote:Ellie Goulding's "Lights" hits the top 10 for the first time, ascending 12-9 with 121,000 (up 14%)
Tripped wrote:Can't believe this is happening for her, congrats.
IMO she needs to re-release the album in the USA.Timmy94 wrote:Very nice, but at the same time:
178 (143) Lights 20 weeks (No. 76 for 1 week)
It doesn't want to take off... I don't get it, I mean the single is in the sales top 10 - and at the same time Lights falls 35 positions!


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During her visit to Belfast on Wednesday, Queen Elizabeth offered what has quickly been pegged as a "historic" handshake to Northern Ireland's First Deputy Minister and former IRA member Martin McGuinness. The meeting between the two has since drawn mixed reactions.
Some have looked to the handshake between McGuinness and the Queen as a significant marker in the end of The Troubles between Ireland and Britain, while others have described it as a "sell-out."
Politicians, clergymen and the public all offered an array of opinions on the meeting between McGuinness and the Queen at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast. The initial handshake occurred behind closed doors, while the second was more public as the parties were exiting the venue.
Following much speculation, McGuinness said hello and goodbye to the British monarch in Irish. Said Martin McGuinness to the Queen: "Maidin mhaith, Cead mile failte" meaning "Good morning, A hundred thousand welcomes," and "Slan agus beannacht" meaning "Goodbye and farewell."
The Guardian reports that on hand for the historic meeting in a sparsely furnished suite at the Lyric Theatre were Queen Elizabeth, Martin McGuinness, the Duke of Edinburgh, Irish president Michael Higgins, his wife Sabina, Northern Ireland's first minister Peter Robinson, and the Queen's private secretary Sir Christopher Geidt.
President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins said following the meeting,"I greatly welcome the fact that this morning's event was a very inclusive occasion involving the participation of the First and deputy First Ministers".
"The exchange of greetings and courtesies that took place this morning marks another important step on the journey to reconciliation on this island."
Northern Ireland secretary Owen Paterson offered comments following the meeting saying: "This will move Northern Ireland on to a whole new plane. After all the trauma of Northern Ireland, everyone is looking forward."
The Irish Independent reports that Presbyterian minister and Derry native Rev David Latimer, who famously addressed the Sinn Fein annual conference last year, said, "Let me tell you this, and tell you it with all my heart, Martin McGuinness is a peacemaker."
"He is wanting to shape things," added Rev Latimer, "so that both communities will be able to move closer together, to become friendly allies and never again need to think of becoming warring adversaries."
"Today is a moment in history that I think that people will look back to, and they will see that something happened to send out a message to everybody that this peace process is not a dream we're living in."
Not everyone was so optimistic about the meeting between the Queen and the First Deputy. Republicans from Falls Road in Belfast who were speaking with Newstalk's Henry McKean likened the meeting of the Queen and McGuinness to having "Spat on the graves of their comrades and their lost loved ones."
McKean asked if they considered the handshake a symbolic moment. "Not in my eyes, no. And I believe not in many people's on this [Falls] road or any Republican areas' eyes; I believe it's a sell out."
"Their whole political status was for Irish freedom," the Republicans said speaking of Sinn Fein, "and it's still not a united Ireland yet."
McKean asked if the handshake was a form of surrender, to which the men responded "It is, yeah. It's more or less, they can fly their flag over Ireland and we go by their rules."
Still, more than not people seem to be focusing on a brighter future between Britain and Ireland following the meeting on Wednesday.
The Belfast Telegraph reports that the president of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams, commented on the occasion by saying "What happened today is a very, very good thing indeed, and again, I come back to it - will it be significant beyond the novelty or beyond the symbolism? That's up to us."
"I think the significance will be seen in how much we can build upon it," Adams added.
"I think the vast majority of unionists will be pleased that this happened because they know it's essentially a real gesture beyond the rhetoric towards their sense of identity and their sense of allegiance."
While Adams is both pleased and optimistic about the change that the historic handshake could incur, he is realistic in the notion that there is still plenty of work to be done. Said Adams, "There are issues yet that need to be brought to conclusion, specifically the issues of the legacy of the conflict. Both governments have a big role to play."
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Dano either you're a browbeaten west Brit or just a Brit which is it??
Just handing over the deed to the six counties...sadly, maybe for the best.
It's difficult to know who the Sainst Patrick's Cross in the Union flag represents, since Ulster/Northern Ireland unionists/loyalists generally fly the Saint George's Cross as at Drumcree, with coronated red hand of Ulster superimposed. Equally, the harp of Ireland on the British royal strandard is not the more robust Boruesque harp of Gaelic Ireland used by the Irish state. Personally, I'd wear gloves too if I had to shake all those sweaty maulers, with all due respect to the proferrers. Both the Rt Hon Deputy First Minister/Tanaiste and HM are "... bowing to history but not being bowed by it." - (EIIR, Dublin Castle, 2011). Are prosecuting "... a partnership of equals" (EIIR, ibid). Real politic often dictates that it's sometimes necessary to shake an arch-adversory's hand to get what you want, rather than to wait until you get what you want in order to do so. It's simplistic to read a 7% opinion against a united Ireland as a 93% vote for a United Kingdom. There can be other preferences ya know!
Small wonder Northern Prods would not entrust their future to a UI if they heard this rubbish...your heroes 'trashed' the beautiful country for years...eventually they saw sense...how long will it take you guys?
Its our Ireland Seano..As you Know we got rid of losers Like old DanOlongshanks some years ago they are all redundant now tHE british army and their murdering companions ,uda,uvf,uff lvf ruc udr you must ask yourself Seano how did we IRISH all survive this trash in our beautiful country , now we have MARTIN ah Martin at least he is a Paddy.
He can't go down Kings road Warren he lost his bowler to the growler.LOL
Good old DanOLongshanks descendant of Edward Longshanks "Nation wrecker extraordinaire " you are still trawling these Irish sites with your pro british rhetoric Longshanks old boy.I thought you would be back walking down Kings road by now tipping your hat and pointing your umbrella stick at all the rest of the old boys instead of hanging around here dictating to Irish people how to reunite their country. Shoooh go on back now old boy.slan abhaile old chap IRELAND = IRISH
Pointless thinks him not accepting something means it won't happen...he needs to study Frau Merkel, who knows a thing or two about reuniting a country...no guns or bombs=successful outcome...
No doubt that McGuinness has moved on from his republican principles and accepted a foreign queen, we wish him well in his crusade of politics we all have no doubt it will get him some new votes.I do believe he still has nationalist aspirations but the reality is, here in the north of our nation thousand and thousands of republicans as seen in the media who were extremely voiceferous in their opposition to this meeting have in no way abandoned their Irish republican principals.They have shown that they will indeed if they have to, go through it all over again to uphold their Irish republican values.Judging by the out pouring of increasing anger even by the most liberal of nationalists here in Ireland it may turn out that Martin,s handshake for votes may have done more harm than good.True Irish republicans will never accept a foreign queen or her government in our Ireland. Ireland = Irish
McGuinness acknowledging his Queen shows there will be no unification with Ireland which is the position of 93% of the people of Northern Ireland UK.
Wearing gloves in a receiving line for women is proper etiquette, some obviously need further education.
Very poor manners to shake a person's hand while wearing a glove...disrespectful. This is a widely known item as per relating to ettiquette...so a "Queen" would have obviously known better due to her stature. Slap in the face if you ask me....should have really been a handshake with an agreement saying...."here the North is yours to keep...now you can become the one, complete country that you should have always been". Now that would have been a "real handshake".
I am surprised the Queen shook hands with her gloves on!!!! Correct me if I am wrong but I believe no handshake took place because of her gloved hand. Emily Post.
Hmmm, there's a comment attributed to me at 11:39 AM EDT which i didn't write!
Now down to the real business of re-unification which will happen eventually.
For the first time in history the Irish can focus on their future.
Hooray for Marty and Godspeed to all!
@Cillowen: Give it a rest mate. Everybody got hurt. Do you want another 30 years of death & destruction that's guaranteed to end up at another stale-mate? How many years of violence will it take before you also come to this conclusion? Even in the event of your glorious United Ireland, what difference will it actually make to the lives of the ordinary people on the street that will have made all those deaths worthwhile?
I'm told I'm not dreamin'. Who would have thunk it possible for a former IRA operative and the UK's Queen to greet and shake hands? No one 30, 20, 10 or even 5 years ago would have thought it possible. I sound like and old record, but, NOW is the season for reconciliation and cooperation. It's the season to throw the yoke of hatred, war, oppression, death and dying to the ditch and fly the banner peace. Remember, tis easier to wage war than peace. It takes true courage to forgo the cynicism and hate of centuries, but it must be done. Each side can point to the terrible things done by the other side, but what does it get you... absolutely nothing! Just more hate, more death, more misery. I say forgive, but that doesn't mean forget the long suffering of your people. This now, is the new way and it won't happen over night, but with nurture and mutual trust the light is at the end of that long tunnel. Blessed be the peacemakers!!
We play the hand we are dealt. Move ahead from this gesture and undo the destruction that invading the island and destroying its Faith and culture after the Reformation and when ingloriously divided in 1922. Efforts to keep the so-called peace in the North by killing and denying rights to the Catholic citizens in the 1960s., and trying to regain those and bring a united Republic by the IRA and its break-away branches since has brought fear, terror hatred and murder in the guise of nationalism for the minority and gestapo-loyalism to the majority. Give peace a chance, we shall overcome hatred and fear with common sense not guns and bottle bombs and smashed windows.
As I expected. Negativity all around! God grant peace and harmony to the people of Northern Ireland, especially the children. If the adults haven't learned by now what hatred & vengeance can do in this year of 2012 I doubt they ever will. Sad to think the babies born to-day could be in their graves 10 years from now


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