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User talk:Chip2007
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This users on a two week wikibreak
- congressman Alex Shrub
- Mr Black
- Katagorie Bild Rockstar
and other stuff i dont care to mention
Please note that you are not the caretaker of this wiki and never were. We currently have a staff system, which includes the two people who this site Thai420 and Gboyers/Xenon. You can view that staff structure here. Gboyers reverted your claim on your talk page because it was false, so please do not revert back to your edit. A-Dust 12:37, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Fan Fiction
Hi. Please can you ensure that any Fan Fiction and non-GTA related information is kept inside your User space. For example User:Chip2007/Grand Theft Auto Deliverance. Thanks - Gboyers (?) 18:23, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Please ensure that all pages are named and categorised according to Grand Theft Wiki:Consistency. The correct way of naming and categorising game information is "Missions in GTA Vice City". Do not use "GTA Vice City Missions", and make sure you use "GTA Vice City" for the game, and "Vice City" for the place. Also, make sure you spell Category right.
Yes, everything should go back to a basic root category. Underneath Category:Missions there are the individual games, such as Category:Missions in GTA Vice City, and under that there are the individual missions, eg Riot. There should also be a page for many categories, such as Missions in GTA Vice City, which is used to show the information in different ways, such as using tables (like here).
If you have any large-scale suggestions or changes, please discuss them on my talk page or on Consistency talk - Gboyers (?) 17:15, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
We appreciate you contributing to this wiki, but please could you constrain your edits to encyclopaedic content? If you have any fan fiction, or if you want to create different versions of existing pages (eg timelines), please create them inside your user space. For example, User:Chip2007/Pagename.
As for userboxes, use {{userbox:age|36}} for your age, and {{userbox|id=Left|info=Right}} for any single-use-only infoboxes. Only create a new template when lots of other people will be using it, and where it is impossible to centralise it into an adaptable template (like those two I just linked to).
You do not need to create a category for talk pages. They are visible at Special:Allpages/Talk:. Also, please remember that Category has an E in it. Please try to fit into this wiki, and if you do not know how to do something, please ask - Gboyers (?) 18:11, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
- You don't need to edit your user page every time you edit/create a page on the wiki. Everything you do is recorded on your user contributions at Special:Contributions/Chip2007 - and if you turn your profile into a Social Profile (just press the button) then your most recent edits show up on your page - Gboyers (?) 22:17, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
Patroller Request
Hi. Thanks for asking to become a Patroller on Grand Theft Wiki. However, the correct method to apply is shown at Grand Theft Wiki:Promotion. The formal procedure involves a peer review process. Gboyers (?) 21:52, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Staff Templates
To answer the question on your user page, please do not use the staff templates. Not only are you not a member of the current staff, but you have never been on the staff (including the GTA Wikia), so why would you use the staff templates? A-Dust 22:38, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
- First, please continue this dicussion on either my talk page or on this page, not on your own userpage. Secondly, you have, as stated above, never been a caretaker here or on the GTA Wikia. Myself and Chief of Staff were the staff members who maintained the site until its merger with Grand Theft Wiki. A-Dust 23:22, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
1603 Article
There was no attempt on your part to redirect the article to your userpage. The article was deleted earlier today for being worthless, as there is nothing from Rockstar Games that even suggests that the articles content is true. Please do not recreate the article. If you do, it will de deleted again. A-Dust 23:11, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Issues with main page edits
Hi, Chip. First, let me start by saying I really appreciate your monitoring and fixing problems you see on the main page. It's a real support to everyone to have someone looking out! The issue you seem to be having is with some edits made by GuildKnight on the main page. Just to let you know, she is one of our best editors, and I'm sure her intentions were altruistic. I can furthermore absolutely guarantee that her edits were not intended as vandalism, as she is also a SysOp on this wiki. In the future, such issues should really be dealt with by talking to the editor whose edits you are concerned with before assuming vandalism. One of our tenets is to assume good faith of our fellow editors, and to discuss things before action is taken. It really makes for a more smoothly running wiki if we all start from the standpoint of assuming someone is not trying to cause a disruption.
I will talk to GuildKnight about this, but you really should discuss this with her, as I can assure you she is a reasonable and intelligent person. EganioTalk 03:16, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi again. Thanks for taking the time to iron this issue out with GuildKnight. It's always best when people get along and communicate with each other! ;-) EganioTalk 21:06, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
Main Page
Regarding your problem report on the Main Page [#11339], could you please take a screenshot and upload it so we can identify the problem. I would appreciate it if you didn't edit the page unless you know exactly how to fix the problem. Also, it would be good if you used the "Show Preview" button to examine your edits before saving them. That way you can see if it works or not, and it stops people editing and breaking pages unneccessarily. Gboyers talk 00:52, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
- I'm not seeing the same overlap you're describing... what browser are you using, and what resolution? --GuildKnightTalk2me 02:06, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
- GuildKnight, I think you hit the nail on the head: every time I log on using my newer computer (with the latest version of IE and 1680x1024 resolution), everything is fine. However, when I use an older computer (with an older version of IE and 1024x768 resolution), everything is shifted out of place and overlapping, making it totally illegible. EganioTalk 23:09, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Talk Pages
Chip - PLEASE remember to sign your name after comments on talk pages using ~~~~ - otherwise we have no idea who left that comment and we have to start comparing diffs. Also, please do NOT make a new section/heading/subject/headline for your reply - only do that if its starting a NEW discussion. Everyone else seems to be able to do these basic things. Also, why are you calling yourself the "CDO" for this wiki? What do you mean by that? And for Memory Alpha - even though it looks like you have only made 5 edits there? You are not a member of Wikia staff, you are not a member of Grand Theft Wiki Staff, and unless you can grasp the basic principles of being part of this community, you never could be. Gboyers talk 21:52, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Representing yourself as staff
Hi Chip2007. It seems there is a bit of a problem, in that some of the things you are saying are giving the misleading impression that you are Wikia staff. I'm sure that's not what you mean to do, but when you say "CDO mean community development Officer its a position i hold for wikia" then people are going to think that you work for Wikia.
So I need to ask you to be more careful, and to be sure that you don't say anything that might confuse people into thinking you are Wikia staff. Please can you also check your user pages to make sure that nothing on them will mislead people in this way. Many thanks -- sannse<staff /> (talk) 22:09, 17 November 2008 (UTC) (real Wikia staff :)
- Hi Chip. I work for Wikia. You can see me on the staff page at http://www.wikia.com/wiki/staff. That means I know the other people who work for Wikia, and who doesn't. I'm afraid that if you keep misrepresenting yourself as staff, I will have to block you from Wikia. It's not fair to other users to confuse them like this. Regards -- sannse<staff /> (talk) 14:22, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
- Chip - please do not attempt to unblock yourself. The above block is a Wikia-wide block, and is not confined to GTW. And please stop lying, especially directly to staff and administrators. I have also enforced a 6 month block from GTW, so you will continue to be blocked even if your wikia-wide block expires or otherwise ends. Gboyers talk 20:47, 25 November 2008 (UTC)


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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — The next battles are already starting over the new county rules on medical marijuana. Supporters said they have petitions ready to challenge the bans on storefront dispensaries and large outdoor grows.
Meanwhile, the Kern County Sheriff's department said growers with more than the new 12-plant limit can turn that in, with no fear of prosecution.
Kern County Supervisors passed the new ordinances on Tuesday, and Thursday a spokesman said medical marijuana supporters hope to start gathering petition signatures on Friday.
"Right now we'll have community effort doing it," California Cannabis Coalition president Craig Beresh told Eyewitness News. "Then we're going to have paid signature-gatherers in town."
Beresh said the fight may cost up to $60,000, but the funds are there. He said organizations like his are putting in money, as well as local dispensaries and patients. He said they also plan to file a lawsuit Friday against the ban on collectives, and on Friday they'll file for a temporary restraining order trying to stop the new ban on outdoor grows of more than 12 plants.
That ban is already in effect, because it was passed as a "urgency ordinance." Supervisors said they took that immediate action, convinced by law enforcement that most marijuana crops are nearly ready for harvest, and that the large pot gardens are a target for violence.
At Tuesday's hearing, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood showed the board photos of a very large grow raided this week, which included 17 booby traps, according to officers.
The sheriff's department announcement on taking in plants said anyone can call 391-7580 for more information. "Arrangements will be made to accept their excess plants for destruction and/or to answer any questions regarding compliance issues," the statement read.
Eyewitness News had questions about how long that offer will be available, and what penalties growers would face later. But no one was available to answer questions on Thursday afternoon.
Meanwhile, Beresh said the groups supporting medical marijuana will circulate petitions asking voters to sign for a simple referendum on both new county rules, basically whether they don't want the new ordinances.
The spokesman said if voters approve that, the groups then want to work with county leaders. They hope a task force of appointed community members could then come up with alternatives to the ban. Beresh said many medical marijuana collectives and patients think there should be changes to the current situation.
"We need to regulate it, we need to come down with some rules," Beresh said.
When asked for examples of better rules, he said, "We need to know where they're going to be allowed. We don't want to be on top of each other, we don't want to be close to schools, we want to do it the right way."
Beresh said they also want a task force to come up with different rules on medical marijuana grows.
But, getting the new county rules tossed out requires the groups to get enough signatures on the petitions. If that happens, the just-passed county ordinance to shut down the dispensaries would be automatically suspended, according to Kern County chief elections clerk Karen Rhea. She said the groups must get 17,350 signatures in 30 days.
"September 8 is the last day for the protest to be filed with the Board," Rhea told Eyewitness News. If the groups get enough signatures, Rhea said the ordinance is set back to the supervisors for consideration. The board can repeal the ordinance or put the question to the voters.
Beresh said if it goes to the voters, the board must set an election within 88 days. But Rhea said that's not correct. An election has to be held "not less than 88 days" later.
"Should the protest be sufficient and the board decides to put it to a vote, the election may either be called as a special election to be consolidated with the next regularly scheduled county election," Rhea said.
Can they get enough signatures in 30 days? Beresh is convinced the supporter groups can do it.
"This is not going to be a problem. In fact, I feel this is going to be about the easiest county," he said. "I've talked to many people throughout town, and I don't find many people that are against it."

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Parking Restrictions within the City of Berkeley are set by both local parking ordinances and by the California Vehicle Code. Local parking ordinances and accompanying fines are included section 14 of the Berkeley Municipal Code. Some of the most common types of violations and restricted parking rules are outlined below.
72-Hour RulePlease note that, "It is unlawful for any person to park or leave standing, or cause to be parked or left standing any vehicle upon any public street in the City for seventy-two or more consecutive hours. (Ord. 4006-NS § 1 (part), 1964: Ord. 3954-NS § 2, 1963)" BMC Section 14.36.050
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Curb Markings Painted curbs mean that parking is controlled:
Red CurbsCurbs marked by red indicate no stopping, standing or parking under any circumstances and are enforced 24 hours per day, 7 days a week.
Yellow CurbsCurbs marked by yellow are for commercial use and are for loading and unloading merchandise or materials. These zones are enforced from 7:00 AM to 6:00PM, Monday through Saturday except when otherwise designated by appropriate signs. Some metered parking spaces may be yellow zones during certain hours. In order to use a yellow zone for up to (20) twenty minutes drivers must have any one of three requirements; 1) A City of Berkeley Business license decal affixed to the left rear bumper of the vehicle; 2) A marked commercial vehicle with logo or lettering; 3) Commercial plates issued by Department of Motor Vehicles. Drivers must be actively engaged in loading or unloading. Non commercial vehicles may load or unload passengers only for up to three minutes at a yellow curb.
Green CurbsCurbs marked by green indicate short-term, restricted or limited time zone parking. These zones are marked by signs that usually indicate five (5) minutes to thirty (30) minutes limited parking. Green zones are enforced Monday through Saturday from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, except when otherwise designated by appropriate signs.
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UPMC launches $100M personalized care initiative
With a $100 million investment, UPMC has joined the ranks of an increasing number of medical and research centers across the country aiming to mine and analyze its data in order to provide more precise care.
It's a five-year initiative that employs sophisticated enterprise analytics with technology from Oracle, IBM, Informatica and dbMotion.
UPMC will break down its data silos and create what officials call a best-in-class data warehouse to bring together clinical, financial, administrative, genomic and other information that today is difficult to integrate and analyze.
Advanced analytic and predictive modeling applications for clinical and financial decision-making are expected to produce better patient outcomes and research capabilities across UPMC. At the same time, executives expect to improve quality across the enterprise and to reduce cost.
[See also: Slideshow: Advances in personalized medicine.]
"Every patient is different; every patient has a unique story," said Steven D. Shapiro, MD, chief medical and scientific officer at UPMC. "This comprehensive analytics approach will enable us to treat each patient in a personalized way to produce the best possible results."
UPMC, a $10 billion global enterprise, employs more than 55,000 people and operates more than 20 hospitals, 400 doctors' offices and outpatient sites, a health insurance services division, and international and commercial services. UPMC has been at the forefront of investing in electronic health records, interoperability and financial management systems.
"As one of the largest and most technologically sophisticated healthcare systems in the world, we are perfectly positioned to leverage our vast stores of data to innovate the way that patient care is delivered, said Lisa Khorey, vice president of enterprise systems and data management at UPMC.
In preparation, Khorey said, UPMC worked with the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute to methodically study best practices in analytics both inside and outside of healthcare.
[See also: From Tampa to Milan, Medicine gets personal.]
The explosion of data – now totaling more than 3.2 petabytes at UPMC alone – "is moving faster than our ability to transform that information into intelligence and improved decision-making at the point of care," said Shapiro.
Also, with the rapidly decreasing cost of sequencing genes, huge amounts of genomic information will be added to that database in the future, he noted.
Over the next two years will install the hardware and software needed to create a comprehensive data warehouse that will bring together data from more than 200 sources of information across UPMC, UPMC Health Plan and outside entities, including labs and pharmacies.
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Church Planters Share Stories of Being 'Sifted' at Exponential Conference
Christian leaders with a heart for church planting are being encouraged at the Exponential conference to move past the difficulties they will encounter when they start their houses of worship.
Church planting is not for the faint of heart, say organizers of the three-day conference, which began Tuesday at First Baptist Church Orlando. More than 4,000 new churches start each year, which means upwards of 20,000 planters are "in the trenches in years 1-5, many of whom are discouraged and have considered quitting," according to information on the conference website.
The conference theme is "Sifted," emphasizing the church planter's spiritual, physical, and emotional health as the "very foundation for reproducing."
"I had all types of resistance. My character was challenged. My motives were challenged," said Charles Jenkins, describing his early days of taking the lead pastor position at Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago. He was not in a typical church plant, but he was in the position to take over an established, historic church and help it grow in new ways.
"There were nights when I came home and cried because of all the opposition and all I wanted to do was serve God. I was being sifted," Jenkins explained during the first day of the conference.
"The enemy wanted to sift my joy, my peace, my focus, but I allowed the pain to drive me to prayer and God was actually using what the enemy used against me to work for me – to mature me, to develop me, to get me to the next level of leadership and service," he continued.
Jenkin's church has a rapidly growing multi-location congregation of over 8,000 members in the Chicagoland area. His highly respected ministry work also includes social activism and community development in urban areas.
"Sometimes when we think of the word 'sifting' it's all a matter of how we process it in our minds. Here I am almost 12 years later. I've been sifted over and over again, but there is so much fruit we can see. So much good we have seen come through God's church and more importantly I have grown not just as a pastor, but as a Christian. It's all a part of sifting," he said.
Exponential organizers based the conference theme on Luke 22:31-32, Jesus' reference to Peter being "sifted," which is based on the process of sifting wheat from its chaff during harvest – a form of refining and distilling the good from the bad and removing impurities.
"As believers, we have been perfectly sifted by Christ's blood and are being continually sifted to extract our chaff (sin). Life's troubles and difficulties serve in some measure like the winnowing fork," stated conference leaders.
Pastor Darrin Patrick, founder of The Journey church in St. Louis, told those in attendance and watching online Tuesday that it's important for church planters to "run with endurance" while the sifting is taking place.
"If we are going to talk about [our] calling we are going to have to talk about faith," Patrick said. "God said to Abraham you just need to go. And for Moses, God says, 'Take your shoes off. You're on Holy ground. You are going to lead my people to freedom. What you see in the book of Genesis and in the book of Exodus, right in the beginning of the Bible, is just to remind us that God uses people despite their weaknesses. God uses people mainly as they encounter trials. You see it over and over again, them basically having to remind themselves of God's call on their life."
Las Vegas pastor Jud Wilhite, leader of Central Christian Church, said it's important for leaders to stick to the calling God has given them.
"Ministry is messy because sin is messy. Get over it. Get a mop and start helping cleanup," Wilhite implored.
He shared that often, people find his desire to serve as a pastor in an area sometimes referred to as "Sin City" perplexing.
"Whether you understand what we are doing or not, Christ's love controls us and compels us," he added. "You may not understand my calling. You know what I hear more than anything from people is 'Oh, you're a pastor? Oh, you're in Vegas? I'm sorry.'
"I can leave a beautiful place like Orlando," he explained. "I get on a plane and land in Vegas and [when] I get off that plane there's showgirls all over the signs in the airport and it smells like tobacco – Vegas always smells like cigarettes.
"I want you to know that I feel at home and I am smiling ear to ear. Why? Because I am compelled by the love of Christ and I am called. When you are called by Christ there is nowhere else that I can be on this planet than right there," Wilhite said.
On the Web, http://www.exponentialconference.org/.


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Hetepu (Peace and Blessings) Family.
You know when most people hear the term "spiritual blindsided" they immediately equate it with being caught off guard by a situation resulting in inappropriate behavior, like losing their temper. While this is one aspect of being spiritually blindsided, from an ancient African perspective when an individual is too spiritual they can be blinded as well resulting in them being imbalanced. Imbalance from the Kamitic perspective is symbolized as having one eye usually the Right Eye of Ra.
Balance in the Kamitic tradition is symbolized as Maa, personified by the spirit (netchar) Maat and it is the most important theme in Kamitic spirituality because it leads to enlightenment. Most people don't see this because there is still a lot of confusion about whom and what is Maa and Maat. This confusion exists because Western archeologists and scholars have interpreted our ancient ancestral writings from their limited perspective but they don't understand African thought. As a result, many of us are trying to equate Maa with karma believing that Maa is all about "reaping what you sow" or the belief that some final judgement is to make everything alright. I was guilty of this when I was younger as well thinking that in order to master the Maa I had to commit the 42 Laws of Maat to memory. I also believed that some great cosmic event was going to overturn the society and people who acted "good" were going to be saved. It wasn't until I began working with my ancestors that I began to truly see that Maa is the symbol of Law, Balance, Order, Righteousness and Truth; and on a weekly thanking Maat for bringing "balance and order into my life" that I began to get a holistic perspective. Maa also corresponds to Insight because once you see the truth you know it and it will make you aware, which is why in the Story of Osar (Asar, Ausar, Osiris) it is alluded that the hero Hru had his eye gouged out by the enemy Set. This eye was none other than the Left Eye of Ra.
You see the maa (balance, law, order, truth, etc.) for one person is not going to be the same for another because we are all unique, which means the words, acts, behaviors, things, etc. that create imbalance in my life, most likely are going to differ from yours. The Maa is the same for all beings on the planet and one of our objectives is to learn how to live in harmony with it. This is the reason we have to have a very clear understanding about the divinity within our being and understand that certain things are not just detrimental to our being, but to families, friends, community and the entire society. Let me explain.
When Charles Darwin wrote the Descent of Man in 1871, where he talks about how after studying nature there seemed to be a survival of the fittest that exist. English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" was the individual that advocated and promoted this idea. Thereby, validating the belief that it was natural for human beings to compete and dominate one another because the same behavior occurs in the wild.
Consequently, the "survival of the fittest" trend has been promoted all over the globe as the natural way we are supposed to live as human beings. It is the philosophical mantra used throughout the Western world on how to do everything from engaging in a relationship with one another to how to conduct business. It is a continual cycle of competition because adult males and females are taught as children that they have to fight with one another (Battle of the Sexes), and since children imitate what they see. They attend school or meet on the playground to compete or dominate their peers in whatever ways they possibly can. Of course, if the child has suitable resources (leadership, economic, etc.) in their community, they are able to act out their competitive and domineering energies in sports or some other extracurricular activities. If they do not, then the child engages in destructive and illicit activities and this where the problem appears to begin.
Once an atrocity or heinous act is committed by a child, young adult, a group of young adults, etc., is when you find people on both sides of aisle playing the blame game. Some will argue that it was due to the lack of resources that created the condition for a heinous act to be committed. While others will argue that the "lack of resources" is an excuse and that the real problem is simply that people won't take responsibility and get with the program. In other words, the reason so many children are doing poorly is because they have deadbeat fathers, unwedded mothers and a lack of ethics and morals. This cycle of blaming continues to go on and on to it being about language. All of this occurs while people wait for the next major atrocity to occur to react to. All while missing that the root cause stems from this limited mindset that we all have about life.
The facts are that Darwin only mentioned "survival of the fittest" a couple of times in his book, which was distorted by Huxley. Darwin mentioned the word "love" over 90 times because he noticed that while nature is competitive. It is also cooperative. Darwin noted that the reason human beings were able to evolve without the agility, speed and strength that animals have is because we learned how to cooperate with one another for the greater good.
We see examples of these two traits all throughout nature of animals from the smallest to the largest primates. A herd of gazelles work together to protect one another (especially the young) from predators.
Elephants exhibit this same behavior trait. Animals are only aggressive when they feel threatened. Ants for instance, are aggressive whenever they need to defend their territory or kill in order to eat, but they build they are very cooperative with the rest of nature in order to live.
In other words, animals only kill when they have to. A lion doesn't hunt down a whole herd of gazelles. They only kill what they need and it is done to feed their entire pride, pack, streak (or community). The rest of their existence is spent do what is necessary for the pride, pack, streak, etc.
This competitive/cooperative aspect that exists in nature is what the Kamitic sages would call the Maa. It is not The Law per se, but all of nature follows it. It is not The Balance, but since all of nature follows it everything in nature is balanced. It is not The Truth per se, but is the absolute truth because no matter where we go. We see that everything in nature adheres to this same scheme.
The Kamitic people understood that Maa should exist between fire and water, earth and sky, male and female, aggressive and passive, etc. When Maa doesn't exist within an individual, community or society, there is imbalance or chaos. The Kamitic rulers and sages understood this concept so well that when they went to war (competitive), they didn't totally annihilate their adversaries like the Americans did when they decided to drop the A –bomb on the already defeated Japanese during WWII to demonstrate their might. No, the Kamitians simply fought enough in order to eliminate the threat. The defeated region was brought into the Kamitic fold if they chose to do so, but it was all done for the greater of the whole. This is the reason when the Kamitians defeated their enemies (like the Hyskos) they didn't annihilate them. They simply beat them into submission.
An analysis of Kamitic history will reveal that they like other traditional Africans and non – Westerners (like the Native Americans, Pacific Islanders, Indigenous of Australia, etc.) basically lived their lives based upon a consensus. That is by doing what is best for the whole by sacrificing the wants of the few for the many. This is the same behavior that we see in nature and this cooperative energy is what the Kamitic people personified as the spirit (netchar) Osar (Asar, Ausar or Osiris in Greek). Which legend tells us that Osar was the inventor of agriculture (through the help of his wife), the legendary ruler that united the people and brought civilization all through cooperation. Osar is attached to the superconscious mind or the Ba part of our being (the unlimited part of our mind symbolized as KAMTA), which functions out of love.
Clearly you see that this is not the same type of society that we live in today. The American society sacrifices the wants and needs of the many for the selfish desires of the individual or selected few. We can see this same competitive and selfish behavior throughout the Western world. You can call it democracy, capitalism, socialism, communism, etc. but it is all the same because it is not based upon the true nature of the human being, which is to love or cooperate with one another. It is based upon competition and conquest. An analysis of Western thought throughout history will show this which is the reason Christopher Columbus is still celebrated as a national hero despite the fact that he initiated the decimation of the Amerindian people throughout the Americas. He is clearly a symbol used to advocate and promote the interests of the selected few over the many. Understand. Christopher Columbus is celebrated as a national hero because he symbolizes competition and conquest. This is the reason American history books continue to promote the idea that Columbus brought civilization to the "New World" or Americas as if the Amerindians weren't civilized. This arrogant, egotistical, limited and selfish energy is what the Kamitic people called the spirit Set, which is attached to the subconscious mind or the sahu part of our being (the limited part of our mind symbolized as TASETT), which manifests itself out of fear.
Osar is the energy of cooperative love and Set is energy of competitive fear. Westerners will tell you that Set is the devil and we are taught to be afraid of him again because they don't understand African thinking. Both love and fear are energies with positive and negative aspects like any other energy. It is natural to fear because it prompts you to take protective measures, but too much fear or uncontrolled fear will result in you destroying your life or the lives of others. Love is the same way. If one is too cooperative they end up being abused and misused by predators. This is the reason Kamitic sages kept stressing that people live a life of Maa.
Our ancestors lived in a similar society like the Kamitic people did but when the Europeans abducted, enslaved and brought them to the Americas, this way of life was interrupted. (I say interrupted because many of our families after slavery was abolished continued to live their lives based upon a consensus of the whole). Slowly but surely many of them were assimilated into the American society, and in time we lost this philosophical perspective about life. Again, many people want to claim that it was because of Christianity but I found that this is not totally true.
We have to accept and understand contrary to popular belief that all of our ancestors weren't forced into Christianity. Many of our ancestors from the Kongo – Angolan region were Christians or at least familiar with the Christian faith prior to being brought to the Americas. When these Africans were brought to North America, they already had in their minds a working syncretized model of their indigenous beliefs and Christianity. In other words, the Africans from the Kongo – Angolan region had a spiritual system of resistance in their mind, which I strongly believe they taught to the other Africans brought to North America.
History shows that when the England commissioned the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) to Christianize Native Americans and Africans in the New World to protect English interest, so that the colonies wouldn't be taken over by France and Spain. The Anglican missionaries had a difficult time completing their tasks for a number of reasons. It was difficult for them to convert the Amerindians because the Native Americans being familiar with the land could easily flee back to their villages. Many enslaved Africans were able to resist the conversion because they didn't make a distinction between spiritual and secular, so they had already conceptualized that "salvation" meant "freedom" from slavery. When Euro – American slaveholders witnessed this change in attitude and behavior, they strongly objected to the conversion to Christianity.
It wasn't until the 1800s that most enslaved and free descendants of Africa willingly converted to Christianity. Many of them fond of the plain – styled preaching of Baptist and Methodist ministers, along with the fact that these denominations initially opposed slavery, while allowing the blacks to practice Christianity according to their African beliefs, which consisted of spirit possession, dancing, singing and shouting, is the reason many willingly converted to the Christian faith.
Later on, Christian missionaries in an effort to placate the growing concern among slaveholders in North America, perverted the Christian teachings and began preaching to the Africans the "good slave" doctrine (instruction), which is, that part of their Christian duty was to be a good slave by obeying their masters, protecting their slave owners property and not destroying it. It was the "good slave" doctrine that eventually led to the creation of the Curse of Ham myth, which was that blacks were inferior to whites because after the biblical Noah's son Ham witnessed his father drunk and naked. Noah cursed Ham's descendants (people of dark skin) to all be slaves.
Slaveholders became aware that religion (or anything for that matter) could be used as a tool of control in the 1800s, but early African Americans like Denmark Vessey (1820) and Nat Turner (1831) also were aware that religion could be used as a tool of liberation because they saw the hypocrisy of Christian slaveholders. This allowed them to get a holistic view as many people of African descent did who rebelled against the institution of slavery.
The problem that many of us have today is that we have been taught to love or be passive and cooperative but not to be aggressive and competitive. As a result, we have a limited or narrow view of life. On the other hand, there are those of us who reject the passive and cooperative aspect and have embraced wholeheartedly the aggressive and competitive aspect thinking that this will solve our problems. The thing is that we have to understand that both perspectives (the cooperative symbolized by Osar and the competitive symbolized by Set) by themselves will lead to a great imbalance. We can't be polarized by one or the other. We need both because separately they are not Maa.
Maa is symbolized as Hru who is the son of Osar and the nephew of Set, which is why Hru wears the white crown of KAMTA (Osar's crown) and the red crown of TASETT (Set's crown), known as the double white and red Pschent crown. It is the Kamitic symbol of self – mastery and self – discipline, which means that Hru can be aggressive and passive whenever he or she needs to be.
This means that Hru can love and cooperate with everyone like Osar, but he ain't no fool and knows that everyone is not on that same level. He saw examples of this through his uncle Set. This is why Hru is all about forgiving people for their sins and the wrongs they have committed, but understands that through Maa that one has to right their wrong in order for them to be forgiven because the energy is not balanced. Hru believes and works towards a nonviolent society, but understand the physical reality that we must protect ourselves. Hru understands what Baba Kwame Ture (aka Stokely Carmichael) expressed and I paraphrase that "nonviolence is predicated on your opponent having a conscience"1. This is why Hru is situated in the middle of the Maa Aankh cosmogram.
We need to understand this because I have seen people take this limited perspective with them everywhere they go. They will take this narrow view and they may say Osar (Asar, Ausar or Osiris), Obatala or whatever, but they are still approaching it from this limited one – sided perspective of either being all about cooperation or competitive. This is why we hear of so much corruption in organized and diaspora traditions. Fortunately, it can all be corrected and balance restored by working with our ancestors.
See, the ancestors from the ancient African perspective are the pallbearers of Maa. Since they do not have a physical body they are not limited by time and space, which means that they can see what we can't see and have the ability to go anywhere. When we include them in our lives, they can provide us with a holistic perspective through our dreams, visions and divination that stretches beyond our physical eyes. You see divination will give you insight on if you need to attend an event or not, or if someone can be trusted or not. If someone is being truthful or selfish and so on. There are some divination tools (oracles) that give you insight on how to make partnerships works. In other words, through working with our ancestors we get a holistic view that is not just based upon our beliefs and opinions, which can and are usually wrong.
Could you imagine if before we went to the voting polls we came together, asked our ancestors for guidance and did a reading on the candidate that would be beneficial to us, how much our life would change? Just the thought of it should give you goosebumps! And, I am going to let you in on a secret. People like the Chinese having been doing it for years and the thing is that we have been doing it as well because this is how Hru was able to defeat his enemy through the intercession of his ancestor. This is the only way we will be able to defeat our physical and spiritual enemies as well.
We have to realize that the reason the Kamitic civilization became great was because of the rapport they had with their ancestors (aakhu). Proof of this fact can be seen all along the Nile with various structures dedicated to the highest of ancestors. Learning the history of what our ancestors did was great, but the only way to trigger the ancestral consciousness within our being is by incorporating our ancestors into our lives.
Ancestor veneration and divination is a cultural practice that we have been made to be ashamed of only because it is effective and it is not beneficial to the Setian system we find ourselves in today. This is why it is important that you understand that if the idea of honoring your ancestors and communicating with them on a daily or weekly basis spooks you. It is because the spirit Set has a hold on you. In fact, if you go to a Chinese or Vietnamese restaurant or store, and you aren't spooked by their shrines greeting you at their place of business, but the image of an African divinity frightens you and makes you cry out "heathen, idolatry, evil, etc." Then, Set really has a hold on you because you see no problem in honoring (or respecting) the cultural practices and ideology of another culture used to resist selfish Western values, but find fault in your own ancestral practices used for the same exact psychological reasons.
We need to return to our ancestral way, which will help us to see beyond the superficialities that keep us falling for the same poli-tricks or pile of tricks (politics) that keeps us from building the future we want for our children. It is the only way we can restore Maa back into our lives.
Hope that helps.
1. "Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none." – Stokely Carmichael.


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The Michigan Legislature is currently debating whether or not to send extra state money to Detroit. There have been three polls taken on this issue with fairly different results.
Lambert, Edwards & Associates/Denno found very high support, depending on how the money will be spent. I cannot find the exact language of how the question was asked, but this was in the press release:
Sixty-one percent of the 600 likely voters polled statewide said they backed Snyder's proposal to offer the funds so that Detroit pension cuts wouldn't exceed 34 percent. A quarter of those polled opposed the move, while nearly 14 percent were undecided.
The same LE&A/Denno Research poll asked voters if they would support offering the state funds as part of a deal that would protect the DIA from having to sell any of its art collection. Slightly fewer voters backed that plan, with 53 percent favoring spending the money and 30 percent opposing it. Seventeen percent were undecided.
Marketing Research Group showed 51 percent support, 37 percent opposed by asking:
"Would you support or oppose the State of Michigan using $350 million dollars of tobacco settlement money over the next 20 years to help the City of Detroit meet its pension contract agreements and prevent the city from having to sell any of its Detroit Institute of Arts paintings and artwork collection?"
The Mackinac Center commissioned a poll through Mitchell Research and found 44 percent support to 49 percent opposed. Here's how the question was asked:
Governor Snyder has proposed, and the Legislature is considering, passing a $350 million partial bailout of Detroit — paid over 20 years — using state money. Do you support or oppose using state money to bail out the City of Detroit?
We believe that to be the easiest and fairest way to ask the question. Tobacco settlement money is completely fungible as state dollars — that is, it can be used for anything. So make no mistake, the money is coming from the state budget.
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Forces Engaged: Department of North Carolina, 1st Division [US]; Clingman's Brigade [CS]
Estimated Casualties: 220 total
Description: On December 17, Foster's expedition reached the railroad near Everettsville and began destroying the tracks north toward the Goldsborough Bridge. Clingman's Confederate brigade delayed the advance but was unable to prevent the destruction of the bridge. His mission accomplished, Foster returned to New Berne where he arrived on the 20th.
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In 1996 a 9,000 plus year-old skeleton with a stone spear point embedded in his hip bone was found by the banks of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington. The origin of "Kennewick Man" has been of great scientific interest. Few skeletons of that age have been found on this continent that may help contribute to the question North Americanists have been asking: "Who were the first people to arrive in the New World?" Controversy also has surrounded this find as local tribes have wanted the remains reburied without a scientific study of Kennewick Man. The courts eventually gave the scientists limited access to study the remains. In October Doug Owsley, division head and curator of physical anthropology, traveled to Central Washington University to share with the Inter-Tribal Repatriation Group, comprised of 25 representatives of five Columbia Plateau tribes involved in the Kennewick discovery and the lawsuit over the scientific examination of the skeletal remains, the latest scientific findings.
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HOUSTON — After another year of being named America's Fattest City by Men's Fitness magazine, Houston isn't going to take it anymore. Houston Mayor Bill White recently launched Get Moving Houston to improve economic development and residents' quality of life — and get the city off the "fattest cities" list by January 2006. The program includes a Mayor's Wellness Council made up of health professionals and business and civic leaders including representatives from health clubs, schools, universities and YMCAs.
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Each council member has experience in creating successful campaigns for health, Lipsman said. Members will go out on their own and use that expertise to develop their own subcommittees and plans in their field. Each meeting, members will bring their ideas, plans, successes and failures so the group can learn from one another.
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It may have just been an exhibition game, but the old rivalry was rekindled between two sister schools as Lipscomb held off Freed-Hardeman 63-59 in Allen Arena.
The Bisons led by as many as 11 points in the second half, but the Lions roared back to reach within two points with 10 seconds left in the game. However, a couple of free-throws by Adnan Hodzic sealed the win for the Bisons.
"Every time we play those guys they are going to come in with a lot of energy and a lot of effort," said head coach Scott Sanderson. "I'm glad that it happened the way that it did."
The first half started slow with both teams struggling to hit shots. The Bisons struck first with a Michael Lusk three-pointer at the 18:44 mark. However, neither team would score again until freshman Jordan Burgason connected on another Bison three-pointer.
Lipscomb's first 12 points of the game came from behind the three-point line.
"Probably since my first couple of years here, we will be able to shoot the ball from behind the arc," said Sanderson. "Even more so with Adnan in the low post. He has done a better job of practicing getting the ball out of the double teams."
Although Hodzic is expected to be one of the Bisons best players this year, he had a slow start in the first half. He went 0-9 from the floor with three rebounds. However, he bounced back in the second half to go 5-7 from the floor and score 13 points.
"Adnan will probably never go 0-9 in the first half," said Sanderson. "He really rushed a lot of stuff offensively."
The Bisons went into the half with a 33-29 lead over the Lions. Brandon Brown led the way for Lipscomb with seven first half points. As a team, the Bisons were 12-33 from the field in the first half and 6-12 from behind the arc. Lipscomb out-rebounded Freed-Hardeman 24-18.
Lipscomb went on an 11-5 run to open up the second half and extend their lead to 44-34 with just over 14 minutes left to play in the game. However, the Lions continued to fight back and eventually cut the lead to two points.
Free-throws by Lusk and Hodzic helped push the lead out to four with only nine seconds remaining, and the Bisons went on to win the exhibition game 63-59.
Both teams shot nearly the same percentages from the field. Freed-Hardeman shot 38.7 percent, while the Bisons shot 39 percent. Lipscomb was 7-22 from the three-point line, and out-rebounded the Lions 41-39.
"We have a lot of guys that can really shoot the basketball this year," said Sanderson. "With Adnan inside shooting, we have a very good inside outside attack."
The Bisons will look to use this scoring attack on Nov. 15 in their season opener against Oakland City University.
The tip is scheduled for 7 p.m. in Allen Arena.


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A New Year brings a new season in Major League Soccer and head coaches and general managers from all 19 clubs become professional jugglers.
If you feel inclined to look at MLS rosters, you might notice that this is the time of year where teams need to be at their most creative to stay within the guidelines of the league. Clubs are working around a number of rules that help create parity. They include a salary foundation of $2,808,750 USD, a maximum roster of 30 players, as well as a limited number of international spots.
Martin Rennie and his staff have already been active in making changes to the Whitecaps FC roster for 2012, with recent additions of internationals Martin Bonjour and Darren Mattocks bringing the total of new players added to six. In addition, nine players have moved on - either through trades, drafts, waivers, or options declined.
Each MLS club starts with eight international spots and has the ability to add to those spots via trades. The addition of Bonjour and Mattocks brings Vancouver's total of international players on their roster to 11. However, as a result of a trade during the 2011 MLS Expansion Draft when Whitecaps FC sent Sanna Nyassi to Colorado Rapids, Whitecaps FC can carry nine international players, if needed. As for the additional international spots, the league's roster compliance deadline is March 1, so there is still a lot of time for the 'Caps to weigh up their options. This includes acquiring additional international spots through trades, player movement, or international players convert to domestic players through immigration.
In all my conversations with Rennie, there appears to be a clear plan, and I look forward to seeing what the next move might be.
Building the 2012 roster
A New Year brings a new season in Major League Soccer and head coaches and general managers from all 19 clubs become professional jugglers.


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Troy Tulowitzki will play Saturday in instructional league
LOS ANGELES — Troy Tulowitzki will play Saturday in the instructional league in Arizona, not Sunday since there are no games. He will work out Sunday and be evaluated Monday when the Rockies arrive in Phoenix.
There remains a chance he could play in one of the final three games, but if his left leg is still not 100 percent he will likely stay in the instructional league
All-star outfielder Carlos Gonzalez (left hamstring) ran Friday, but is not ready to play. There remains a possibility he won't appear in another game. Same goes for center fielder Dexter Fowler, whose left wrist remains an issue.
In other news and notes:
–Juan Nicasio, Jhoulys Chacin and Jorge De La Rosa will all report to the instructional league. Nicasio will be there Monday, the others when the season is over. Nicasio and Chacin are expected to pitch in winterball, and it's possible De La Rosa will as well to build up arm strength after their abbreviated seasons.
–On this date, the Dodgers' Orel Hershiser pitched his 59th consecutive scoreless inning, breaking Don Drysdale's major league record.
–Rob Scahill has taken to a relief role for the Rockies. He had pitched once in relief in his career, backing up Drew Pomeranz in a Double-A game. "I am still getting used to it. But it has gone well," said Scahill.
The lineups:
SS Rutledge
CF Colvin
1B Pacheco
C Rosario
3B Nelson
RF McBride
LF Brown
2B LeMahieu
LHP Francis
2B Ellis
3B Cruz
CF Kemp
1B Gonzalez
SS Ramirez
RF Ethier
LF Victorino
C Ellis
LHP Kershaw


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HAMILTON, Ohio - A southwestern Ohio couple accused of abandoning the adopted 9-year-old son they raised from infancy by giving him to child-welfare officials pleaded not guilty yesterday.
HAMILTON, Ohio � A southwestern Ohio couple accused of abandoning the adopted 9-year-old son they raised from infancy by giving him to child-welfare officials pleaded not guilty yesterday.
Cleveland Cox, 49, and Lisa Cox, 52, are charged with nonsupport of dependents. Authorities allege that the couple from eastern Butler County, near Middletown, left the boy with children�s services after saying he was displaying aggressive behavior and had threatened the family with a knife. Trial is scheduled for Feb. 10.
A defense attorney and prosecutor declined to comment after the hearing in Butler County Common Pleas Court.
County Prosecutor Michael Gmoser has said there are legal consequences to what he called � reckless� abandonment.
The couple had been scheduled for a hearing in juvenile court later yesterday on a civil complaint filed by the county�s children services agency. The magistrate granted a request by the couple�s attorney, Anthony VanNoy, to delay that hearing until after the criminal case is concluded.
VanNoy declined to comment afterward other than to say the cases involve �very difficult issues."
National adoption advocates say failed adoptions or dissolutions are rare in cases where the child was raised from infancy, and such discord seems to occur more often with youths adopted at an older age.
People within the adoption community say they worry about emotional trauma to the boy. They say giving up a child after so much time is rare and undermines the stability and commitment that adopted children need.
Adolfo Olivas, an attorney appointed by the court to protect the boy�s interests, also declined to comment yesterday. He has said the emotionally hurt and confused child is now receiving help that the parents should have gotten for him.
The couple could get up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine if convicted.


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NYU's School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic in cooperation with the New Jersey Advocates for Immigrant Detainees has issued a report about the Obama administration's failed efforts to reform the immigration detention system in Essex County New Jersey. They reviewed two facilities, Delaney Hall and the Essex County Correctional Facility (ECCF). They found that both detention facilities fail to meet the bare minimum of humane treatment and due process.
The report also found that not only has the Administration broken their 2009 promise to meaningful review the system, they have taken steps to expand it.
Here are the key findings of the report:
- The current conditions for immigrant detainees in Delaney Hall and ECCF do not fully comply with the ICE Performance-Based National Standards for 2008 or for 2011.
- Although the purported purpose of immigration detention is not punishment but rather ensuring the appearance of immigrants at removal proceedings, the lack of liberty and conditions of immigrant detainees in Essex County, NJ mirror those of inmates in prison facilities for serious crimes.
- In 2011, the number of immigration detention beds in Essex County increased by 150 percent from 500 to 1,250 detainees per day. Essex County now holds over half of all immigrant detainees in New Jersey.
- Immigrant detainees in Delaney Hall and ECCF are not treated with the human dignity and respect they deserve. Many reported verbal abuse and mistreatment from guards and jail staff.
- During 2011, immigration detainees in ECCF filed 158 written grievances. These grievances included allegations of mistreatment from ECCF staff, inadequate access to special diet meals, and delayed or unanswered requests for medical attention.
- According to written grievance records, ECCF has been in violation of at least five detention standards in 2011 concerning medical attention, food service, religious services, access to legal counsel, and visitation services.
- From October 2011 through December 2011, detainees in Delaney Hall filed 46 written grievances. These included allegations of mistreatment from Delaney Hall staff, cold dormitories and inadequate blankets during the winter, and unacceptable food quality.
- According to written grievance records, Delaney Hall has been in violation of at least five detention standards in 2011 concerning medical attention, food service, religious services, access to legal counsel, and visitation services.
- In both ECCF and Delaney Hall, violations of detainees rights to due process and access to justice were reported including obstacles to detainees contacting their attorneys after transfers and the negative impact of video conferencing on attorney-client confidentiality and due process rights.
- These conditions underscore the need for oversight of ECCF and Delaney Hall, and lend support to the communitys criticism of the lack of transparency through which ICE, Essex County, and Community Education Centers contracted to expand detention in these facilities.
So here is the bottom line, not only has the Obama administration completely failed to address the acknowledged problem that immigrants are being abused in substandard detention facilities, but their deportation policies have jammed more immigrants into the system than at any time in history. It should be noted that a significant percentage of the individuals being detained by the Administration have no criminal grounds of removability, and have been merely charged with civil immigration violations.
Another epic fail from the office of the Deporter in Chief.


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Analysts: Pakistan's Sharif now favors military move against Taliban; peace talks doomed to fail
Intermediaries representing Pakistan's government and Taliban insurgents will meet later this week, supposedly to explore avenues for a peaceful solution to the country's six-year militant uprising.
But their conversations aren't expected to yield much, except political posturing that aims to unite public opinion against the Taliban. That's because the Pakistani prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, already has decided to press ahead with a massive military strike at the militants' headquarters in North Waziristan, a tribal area bordering Afghanistan – and the insurgents know it's coming.
Initial talks scheduled for Tuesday already had failed when the government canceled them after two of the five proposed Taliban representatives withdrew – Imran Khan, the cricket player turned politician who declined the Taliban invitation to represent them, and Mufti Kafayatullah, because his Jamiat Ulemai-Islam religious party in January joined the government coalition.
The pessimism surrounding the talks with the Pakistani Taliban, who are usually referred to as the TTP, the acronym for their Urdu-language name, is being driven by Sharif's change of heart after a wave of terrorist attacks in December and January that were remarkable for their focus on security personnel and their spread into many of Pakistan's major cities. Instead of negotiations, Sharif, after conferring with his party and the military, has concluded that his government needs to strike back, and he has ordered the army to mobilize.
The TTP's attacks cost several hundred lives – one local media estimate counted 436 deaths – and demonstrated that the Pakistani Taliban had retaken territory lost to the military before Sharif became prime minister in June.
After being sworn in, Sharif insisted that the option of peace talks with the Pakistani Taliban be explored, despite opposition from the country's powerful military, which had all but routed the militants after five years of fighting involving 150,000 troops.
The TTP used the eight months since to regroup, organize and publicly demonstrate their renewed strength with the two-month wave of terrorist attacks. That response to Sharif's reconciliatory policy has made him look ill-informed and naive, and much of the public anger generated by the terrorist attacks has targeted him.
Analysts now believe Sharif has forsaken the idea of compromise; either the TTP recognizes the sovereignty of Pakistan's constitution and accepts the country's laws, or the country's military will be unleashed to defeat it.
The TTP has other ideas altogether, according to a list of demands leaked to the Pakistani media, which includes the withdrawal of security forces from South and North Waziristan, release of imprisoned militant leaders, and the nationwide imposition of its skewed interpretation of Islamic law.
Sharif's decision has been conveyed to Pakistan's key international partners, including the United States, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, either by the prime minister or by his adviser on national security and foreign affairs, Sartaj Aziz, over the last two weeks.
The Saudis have accepted Sharif's request that the imam of the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, located in Mecca, travel to Pakistan to pronounce a new Islamic narrative that completely rejects violent extremism on religious pretexts, thereby exposing the TTP's religious credentials as fraudulent.
The Turks will bring in their experience of dealing with the Kurdish insurgency to train a new civilian-led counterterrorism force, currently being recruited exclusively from retired soldiers with recent experience of fighting the TTP.
While those agreements have been made public, the government has not been as forthcoming about breakthroughs in relations with the United States, including those made at a weeklong foreign minister-level strategic dialogue meeting in Washington that concluded on Monday.
There, Aziz laid out a new policy under which Pakistan would act to secure the northwest tribal areas by the time the United States withdraws the last of its combat troops from Afghanistan in December. That entails a decisive operation in North Waziristan, with Pakistan seeking the support of the U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force on the Afghan side of the border to cut off TTP escape routes.
That level of security cooperation, not seen since a 2011 plunge in diplomatic relations, has been key to previous Pakistani counterterrorism successes, notably in January 2009, when Pakistan successfully assaulted the Bajaur tribal area and wiped out the TTP's second-largest faction. Then, U.S. forces on the Afghan side of the border prevented their flight from a massive Pakistani campaign of aerial bombing.
Bajaur was the first tribal area to be retaken after more than 30 militant factions united under the TTP banner in 2007, seized all seven tribal areas, and extended their territory beyond them into Swat and other settled regions of northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
To establish his credentials as a national leader fighting a war for Pakistan's future, Sharif has repeatedly asked the Obama administration to end CIA drone strikes against militant targets in Pakistan's tribal areas. They have ceased since December.
The military's state of heightened readiness has been publicly visible in the largely peaceable eastern Punjab province since late January.
Armed troops in full combat gear have replaced police at entry points of military-administered areas of cities, called cantonments, including in Rawalpindi, Islamabad's twin city, where the army is headquartered.
Senior military officers based in Lahore, the provincial capital, now travel with an entourage of half a dozen or more armed escort vehicles with wailing sirens.
Military traffic along the 150-mile-long Grand Trunk Road, which links Rawalpindi to Lahore, has increased, particularly near Kharian, the headquarters of the Pakistan army's eastern command, and Jhelum, where soldiers have been conducting "war-preparedness" exercises. Trucks carrying troops there are protected by security escort vehicles, as well as by a manned and loaded roof-mounted heavy machinegun, with the barrel pointing at forthcoming traffic.
Speaking privately, because they aren't authorized to talk to journalists, younger military officers based elsewhere in the country, who have spent most of their careers fighting the TTP in the tribal areas, said they've been told by their commanders to expect reassignment to the units being called up for the forthcoming operation in North Waziristan.
The Taliban know the assault is coming, and it has advised residents of North Waziristan to leave, prompting a steady stream of refugees into adjacent towns of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Many people already had left after clashes between the militants and the military, following the assassination in September of Gen. Sanaullah Niazi, a senior army officer. Attacks on the military have twice led to aerial retaliation on populated areas where the militants live, with little or no regard for collateral civilian casualties.
The government counterattack is expected to be launched by March, officials and analysts say.


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So I devoted roughly 50-60 hours reading all those birth films I ordered. In the process, I discovered two siblings of Ellen McCarthy - Catherine and Julia.
At that point I felt like I had enough information for Skibbereen Heritage, and sent Skibb a research request. The first week, Margaret found yet two more girls - Hanora and Mary - in addition to Ellen, Catherine, and Julia. They were in the Roman Catholic parish of Caheragh. She was not able to find Margaret or a parental marriage record.
I asked Aunt Peg about it, and she thought Mary McCarthy the mother was one of the McCarthy "masters" who were schoolteachers, and she thought they were from Drinagh. So I told Margaret "try Drinagh."
A week later Margaret did indeed report that she found Margaret and another sister Bridget in Kilmore, plus a marriage record for Cornelius and Mary. This all happened in the RC Parish of Drimoleague and Drinagh.
So there were seven sisters as far as we know. That certainly fulfills the folklore that there were "many sisters."
McCarthys of Tooreen
In addition, I discovered a McCarthy schoolteacher in the 1911 census living in Carrigbaun. Aunt Peg remembers the family vividly. She has mentioned a cousin Bridget McCarthy, whom she and Mom visited in Owenahincha in 1971. That is Daniel's youngest child in the 1911 census. There is also another child Agnes, though she does not appear in either the 1911 or 1901 census. The child Ellen was known as Eileen, married as Daly, and later in life was friends with Aunt Eileen.
In addition, cousin "Jo" from the Hurley side who appeared from out of the blue has been filling me in with many Hurley details. I was able to get baptismal records of all the Hurleys from Skibbereen Heritage Centre. I also got the John Hurley - Margaret Hourihane marriage record from GRO.
On looking over the Hurley chart, Aunt Peg recalled a "Mrs. Tomalin" from her childhood who visited the Collins family and left the children a wonderful construction set toy as a gift. Mrs. Tomalin was Grandmom's aunt Mary Hurley.
So ... it really pays to go fishing through the LDS birth films and cast your net wide. You never know just what treasure you will haul in.


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