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Los Jesuitas en Sonora
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History of Trinity Cathedral, Phoenix, Arizona
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Autobiography and Diary of James Pace
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Letter to Bishop Bernado del Espiritu Santo, 1820 Nov. 6
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Records of the Knights of Pythias, Tombstone Lodge No. 4 (Tombstone, Ariz.)
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Receipts of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Cochise Lodge No. 5 (Tombstone, Ariz.)
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Philipp Segesser Papers
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The blazing blue skies above the cliffs played host to the RAF's finest pilots as part of the inaugural Arbroath Festival of Heroes Specsavers Spectacular which celebrated the role of heroes in our community from every walk of life.
Their dazzling skills and daring wowed the large crowd which turned out for the festival and is one of only three dates this year for the Red Arrows.
It was a full day of events at the Festival, including a simulated assault on a fixed position by elements of the British Army, a Masterchef style face-off in an Army kitchen, live music and a funfair.
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Albert Girard
Born: 1595 in St Mihiel, France
Died: 8 December 1632 in Leiden, Netherlands
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Albert Girard was French but, being a member of the Reformed church, went as a religious refugee to the Netherlands. We do not know when he made this move, but we do know he was sad throughout his live that he was forced to live outside his native land. He attended the University of Leiden, where he studied mathematics, entering the University at the age of 22. In fact his first interest was music and he played the lute professionally. Jacob Golius was about the same age as Girard but began studying mathematics at the University of Leiden some years earlier. Certainly by 1616 the two were engaging in mathematical discussions and there is surviving correspondence from that time in which they are discussing scientific matters. Golius spent several years in Morocco and on tours of Syria and Arabic lands. He was appointed professor of mathematics at Leiden in 1629 (in addition to his Arabic professorship of 1625). When Constantijn Huygens (Christiaan Huygens' father) wrote a congratulatory note to Golius on his mathematics appointment, he praised the work of Girard, particularly on refraction, which certainly suggests that the two had continued to exchange ideas. We know however that by the time Huygens wrote this letter, Girard was serving as an engineer in the army of the Prince of Orange, Frederick Henry of Nassau.
Girard worked on algebra, trigonometry and arithmetic. He made a major contribution to mathematics by publishing various works by Simon Stevin. In 1625 he prepared a revised edition of Stevin's Arithmétique but he also added to it translations from the Greek of Books 5 and 6 of Diophantus's Arithmetica as well as Stevin's Appendice. Stevin had produced tables of sines, tangents and secants which were greatly improved by Girard who published his version in 1626. In this work Trigonométrie on trigonometry he made the first use of the abbreviations sin, cos, tan. He also gave formulas for the area of a spherical triangle. In algebra he had some early thoughts on the fundamental theorem of algebra which he stated in Invention Nouvelle en l'Algèbre (1629). Gray Funkhouser writes [7]:-
The first man who really has a place in the history of symmetric functions of roots of equations, a man who for clearness and grasp of material at hand in not only this topic but also in other phases of algebra could well hold his place a century later was Albert Girard ... his work on algebra is a little 34-leaf pamphlet called 'Invention Nouvelle en l'Algèbre', published in 1629. Girard gives the triangle later known as Pascal's triangle and uses it as the basis for developing a theorem on symmetric functions, although he has no idea of them as such.Girard calls Pascal's triangle the "triangle of extraction". He calls the sum of a group of numbers the "first fraction", the sum of the products of pairs of the numbers the "second fraction", etc. He then gives a theorem: If a group of numbers is given, the multitude of the products of each fraction can be expressed by the same row in the triangle of extraction as the multitude of numbers.
He gives an example of the equation (which we write in modern notation)
x4 = 4x3 + 7x2 - 34x + 24.Since the highest power of the unknown is 4, Girard states clearly that there are four roots "neither more nor less". He takes the even powers to the left, the odd powers to the right giving
x4 - 7x2 - 24 = 4x3 - 34x.He then says that the coefficients, with their proper signs, are 4, -7, -34, -24. Then 4 is the first fraction, namely the sum of the roots, -7 is the second fraction, namely the sum of all products of pairs of roots, -34 is the third fraction, namely the sum of all products of three roots, -24 is the fourth fraction, namely the product of the four roots. Following this he gives another example, namely x4 - 4x + 3 = 0 which has two imaginary roots, and shows that the method still gives the right answer in this case.
He then looks at the sum of the roots, the sum of the squares of the roots, the sum of the cubes of the roots, etc. He writes:-
If the coefficients of the second, third, fourth terms etc. are A, B, C, etc. then in an equation of any degreeCharles Hutton gives a detailed account of the contents of Invention Nouvelle en l'Algèbre in [8]. He explains that of the 63 pages in the book, 49 are on arithmetic and algebra:-
A will be the sum of the roots;
A2 - 2B will be the sum of the squares of the roots;
A3 -3AB + 3C will be the sum of the cubes of the roots;
A4 -4A2B + 4AC + 2B2 -4D will be the sum of the fourth powers of the roots.
A will be the sum of the roots;
A2 - 2B will be the sum of the squares of the roots;
A3 -3AB + 3C will be the sum of the cubes of the roots;
A4 -4A2B + 4AC + 2B2 -4D will be the sum of the fourth powers of the roots.
... and the rest on the measure of the superficies of spherical triangles and polygons, by him then lately discovered.After giving a detailed account of the 49 pages on arithmetic and algebra, Hutton gives this summary:-
1. He was the first person who understood the general doctrine of the formation of the coefficients of the powers, from the sums of their roots, and their products, etc.We should also mention his iterative approach to solving equations [1]:-
2. He was the first who understood the use of negative roots in the solution of geometrical problems.
3. He was the first who spoke of the imaginary roots, and understood that every equation might have as many roots real and imaginary, and no more, as there are units in the index of the highest power. And he was the first who gave the whimsical name of quantities less than nothing to the negative.
4. He was the first who discovered the rules for summing the powers of the roots of any equation.
2. He was the first who understood the use of negative roots in the solution of geometrical problems.
3. He was the first who spoke of the imaginary roots, and understood that every equation might have as many roots real and imaginary, and no more, as there are units in the index of the highest power. And he was the first who gave the whimsical name of quantities less than nothing to the negative.
4. He was the first who discovered the rules for summing the powers of the roots of any equation.
With the aid of trigonometric tables Girard solved equations of the third degree having three real roots. For those having only one root he indicated, beside Cardano's rules, an elegant method of numerical solution by means of trigonometric tables and iteration.He was the first to give a geometric interpretation of negative quantities, writing:-
The negative solution is explained in geometry by moving backward, and the minus sign moves back when the + advances.Like many mathematicians of his day Albert Girard was interested in military applications of mathematics and in particular studied fortifications. He translated several works on fortifications some from French to Flemish such as Samuel Marolois's Fortification ou architecture militaire to which he also added material and revised the text. He did the same for the two-volume treatise Géométrie contenant la théorie et practique d'icelle. necessaire à la Fortification. Other works he translated from Flemish to French such as Oeuvres de Henry Hondius (1625).
It appears that Girard spent some time as an engineer in the Dutch army although this was probably after he published his work on trigonometry. Pierre Gassendi, writing on 21 July 1629 to his friend Nicholas de Peiresc, talks about Girard and refers to his position in the Dutch army [1]:-
[I dined at the camp before Boisle-Roi with] Albert Girard, an engineer now at the camp.On his death he was described as an engineer rather than as a mathematician although, throughout his life, he himself always described himself as a mathematician. In the works of Stevin which he edited (published after his death), Girard says he is unhappy living in a foreign country with nobody to provide him with financial support to help him bring up his large family [1]:-
His widow, in the dedication of this work, is more precise. She is poor, with eleven orphans to whom their father has left only his reputation of having faithfully served and having spent all his time on research on the most noble secrets of mathematics.Girard worked on producing Les Oeuvres mathématiques de Simon Stevin augmentées par Albert Girard but died in 1632 before the work was published; this happened in 1634. The dedication, signed by Stevin's widow and children, contains the passage we quoted above. George Sarton writes [12]:-
Girard was himself a great mathematician, and he added many observations of his own to the Stevinian text: these observations can be easily distinguished from the rest. Some works were translated by Tuning or Stevin, others were translated by himself and abbreviated; his own additions are always specifically mentioned as such. Hence the 'Oeuvres' can be used to study Stevin's own thought, but one must be careful not to ascribe Girard's unmistakable interpolations to Stevin.Sarton notes that Girard wrote a "strange commentary" on Stevin's ideas on the "age of wisdom". In particular, Sarton writes:-
Girard's attack on the French language in a French book is certainly curious.Girard is also famed for being the first to formulate the (now well-known) inductive definition fn+2 = fn+1 + fn for the Fibonacci sequence, and stating that the ratios of terms of the Fibonacci sequence tend to the golden ratio, which appear in this 1634 publication. Robert Simson writes in 1753 [13]:-
The first thing Albert Girard gives ... is a method of expressing the ratio of the segments of a line cut in extreme and mean proportion, by rational numbers, that converge to the true ratio. For this purpose he takes the progression 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc. every term of which is equal to the sum of the two terms that precede it: and says, any number in this progression has unto the following the same ratio [nearly] that any other has to that, which follows it. Thus 5 has to 8 nearly the same ratio, that 8 has to 13; consequently, any 3 numbers next to one another as 8, 13, 21, nearly express the segments of a line cut in extreme and mean proportion, and the whole line; so that 13, 21, 34 constitute near enough an isosceles triangle, having the angle of a pentagon ... The second thing which Albert Girard mentions, is a way of exhibiting a series of rational fractions, that converge to the square root of any number proposed, and that very fast. He tells us nothing about the way of forming it, and gives the following two examples; namely he says that √2 is equal nearly to 577/408: or, if you would have it nearer, 1393/985. His other example is of √10, which, he says, is nearly equal to 1039681/128776. And these are ... at first sight, continued fractions of the same value.Girard cannot be credited with the invention of continued fractions as a result of his brilliant observations but again his genius shines through. In fact one is left with a little sadness that Girard's name is not today well-known yet one feels that things could have been different if he had taken the time to fully explain the things he obviously understood and also taken some time to push a little further some of his amazing insights. Jean Itard writes [1]:-
[Girard was] always pressed for time and generally lacking space, he was very stingy with words and still more so with demonstrations; thus, he very often suggested more than he demonstrated.
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As a follow up to my previous post about winning/losing & the surge, I thought this was interesting (h/t A.Sullivan):
By tracking the amount of light emitted by Baghdad neighborhoods at night, a team of UCLA geographers has uncovered fresh evidence that last year's U.S. troop surge in Iraq may not have been as effective at improving security as some U.S. officials have maintained.
Night light in neighborhoods populated primarily by embattled Sunni residents declined dramatically just before the February 2007 surge and never returned, suggesting that ethnic cleansing by rival Shiites may have been largely responsible for the decrease in violence for which the U.S. military has claimed credit, the team reports in a new study based on publicly available satellite imagery.
"Essentially, our interpretation is that violence has declined in Baghdad because of intercommunal violence that reached a climax as the surge was beginning," said lead author John Agnew, a UCLA professor of geography and authority on ethnic conflict. "By the launch of the surge, many of the targets of conflict had either been killed or fled the country, and they turned off the lights when they left."
The surge as John Robb long ago pointed out was not winning but rather acceding to the reality of militia control of Iraq. [Really that started with the Anbar Awakening which contra McCain preceded the Surge but whatever…]
The issue as I tried to make clear in the previous post (one among many) is the centrality of the political. The surge can not succeed (or frankly fail) when it is hooked to a unreachable political goal with an overall strategy (national reconciliation) which itself can never be achieved because it is a strategy attempting to reach an unreachable point (goal of democratic, unified Iraq).
Particularly when the surge follows on the reality of ethnic cleansing because the cleansing is at heart political: namely the fight over who gets to control the corpse of what used to be the Iraqi state. The "failure" goes back to the inabiilty to "mind the gap" created in the wake of the destruction of the Baath police state in 2003-2004!!!! The peace was already lost (i.e. two years+ prior to the surge). Once it became clear that the US was not going to fill the vacuum, and that everything was returning to a Hobbesian state (weirdly with a Leviathan there but not a backup to deal with state formation)–i.e. the war of all against all–the Shia and Sunni got on doing what they had to do in that situation….a civil war.
The Surge following upon all that could not and did not reverse that reality. How could it? How could in a post-ethnic cleansing situation could anyone ever seriously ask about winning or success? When hundreds of thousands are dead and millions more are refugees?
What the Surge did do was prevent the vacuum from being filled–hence the anger of Maliki at the US for financing the Sunni Awakening Councils which he correctly perceives as a threat and not getting out fast enough. He wants to fill that vacuum. We will see whether the Surge has allowed groups to re-arm providing them the (false imo) hope of an attempt to recolonize and undo the ethnic cleansing. If so, it is going to be scary violent.


text: Diagnostic criteria for 313.81 Oppositional Defiant Disorder (cautionary statement) A. A pattern of negativistic, hostile, and defiant behavior lasting at least 6 months, during which four (or more) of the following are present: (1) often loses temper (2) often argues with adults (3) often actively defies or refuses to comply with adults' requests or rules (4) often deliberately annoys people (5) often blames others for his or her mistakes or misbehavior (6) is often touchy or easily annoyed by others (7) is often angry and resentful (8) is often spiteful or vindictive Note: Consider a criterion met only if the behavior occurs more frequently than is typically observed in individuals of comparable age and developmental level. B. The disturbance in behavior causes clinically significant impairment in social, academic, or occupational functioning. C. The behaviors do not occur exclusively during the course of a Psychotic or Mood Disorder. D. Criteria are not met for Conduct Disorder, and, if the individual is age 18 years or older, criteria are not met for Antisocial Personality Disorder. Reprinted with permission from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth Edition. Copyright 1994 American Psychiatric Association The following article is from the March, 1999, issue of Working Mother magazine Is Your Child Too Defiant? by Carolyn Jabs At school and with friends, Brian behaves like a perfectly ordinary nine-year-old. But at home, it's another story. Brian tests every limit: He often swears at his parents, harasses his siblings and refuses to do even the most routine chores without extensive resistance. In fact, communication with his parents amounts to one long argument, leaving them all exhausted, angry and tense. Lately, Brian's parents have even begun to feud with each other about their son, each blaming the other for his abrasive behavior. They are sick of hearing advice from well-meaning friends, who are sure all Brian needs is a firmer hand. Brian's case is a familiar one to therapists who deal with difficult children. The official diagnosis: Oppositional Defiant Disorder, also known as ODD. The symptoms include chronic anger, blaming others for mistakes, being touchy or easily annoyed and vindictive. In plain English, ODD kids talk back, refuse to do chores, use bad language and say things like "You can't make me" nearly every day. "All kids display this kind of behavior from time to time, " says Kenneth Wenning, PhD, a clinical social worker in private practice in Hamden, Connecticut, and author of Winning Cooperation from Your Child(Jason Aronson). "With ODD kids, the symptoms continue for six months or more. Parents feel they are always struggling with their child." Even more confounding, conventional discipline strategies usual fail. Kids with ODD refuse to go on a time-out from an early age, and claim not to care about losing privileges. If their exasperated parents shut them in their rooms, they may destroy their own belongings or go out the window. When adults resort to spanking, the kids focus on the parents' behavior---"I'll report you for child abuse---instead of their own. "Oppositional children actually believe they are equal to adults," says Douglas Riley, PhD, child psychologist and author of The Defiant Child (Taylor Publishing). Experts say it's typical for parents with an ODD child to feel isolated. "You don't know anything about kids like this until you have one," says Ross Greene, PhD, director of a cognitive behavioral psychology program at Massachusetts General Hospital and author of The Explosive Child (HarperCollins). "Until people have been in your shoes they have no idea." The notion that parents are to blame is often reinforced by the fact that some ODD kids are model citizens away from home. Many, though not all, get good grades at school, cooperate with coaches and are polite with their friends' parents. Some are even able to convince therapists that their problems are caused entirely by their parents. Newly Identified Disorder No one knows exactly how many kids have ODD because it is a relatively new diagnosis and tends to overlap with other problems. The best estimates are that 6 to 22 percent of all school-age children have ODD. Parents often seek help for ODD kids around five or six, an age when most kids become more social and start to be more cooperative rather than less so. So what causes ODD? No one knows for sure. Most experts think that a child's inherent personality and disposition contribute to the syndrome, and it may be heightened when parents aren't educated about how to handle it. ODD often coexists with other problems, such as attention deficit disorder (ADD), learning disabilities and mood disorders. Greene notes that it is sometimes more effective to treat an ODD child once some of the related problems, such as hyperactivity, mood disorders or anxiety, have been treated with medicine. In many cases, the problem is evident almost from birth and only grows more pronounced over time. Even as a baby, one mom says, her son could be difficult. When he was mad, watch out. We used to affectionately call him our Angry Little Man." These kids are simply "more rigid, more demanding," says Wenning. "They have a heightened need to be in control, right from the beginning." In other cases, the disorder is latent---only triggered during a crisis in the child's life such as divorce, illness or death of someone close to the family. "Sometimes ODD is more like a fever than a disease," says James D. Sutton, EdD, a consulting psychologist in private practice and author of If My Kid's So Nice ... Why's He Driving ME Crazy? (Friendly Oaks Publications). "It's symptomatic of something else. I always ask if anything happened within the past six to eighteen months," Sutton adds. In any case, many parents find they do best with their kids when they start to think of ODD as a disability and not a willful act. "My daughter isn't simply spoiled," says Marissa of her nine-year-old. "She is fighting her own demons and often she's scared to death. Understanding that made it easier for me to provide the structure, patience and consistency she needs." How to Cope Marissa's approach is a good one, according to the experts. ODD kids are essentially handicapped in their ability to be flexible and handle frustration. "These kids maintain an oppositional attitude even when it's clearly not in their best interest," says Greene, "so we have to assume they would be doing well if they could, but they lack the capacity for flexibility and frustration management that ordinary children develop." Thus, expecting perfectly compliant behavior from a child who may not be able to deliver the goods is unrealistic. Instead, you have to remain as patient as possible, and try to teach your child skills that help him deal with frustration, irritability, inflexibility and other difficult feelings. So where do you start? It may help to consult a therapist, who can not only check to see if your child has ODD, but also give both of you and your child some coping strategies. Whether you use a therapist or not, you'll most likely begin where other parents leave off. "We've done all the stars and the charts and the rewards," says Carol. "And we've tried isolation and loss of privileges. Sometimes I think our child doesn't even make a connection between what she's done and the consequences." With such children, you have to learn how to manage your own reactions---then teach your child the skills she needs. Don't take it personally. That's a tall order when a child is screaming at you or calling you names. Often parents can't help feeling a child could control his ODD behavior if only he'd try harder. But it's critical to gain some distance. Realizing that "it's not personal" makes it more likely that parents will respond constructively rather than vindictively to a child's behavior. "Before I start seeing the child, I work with the parents to get them to step back and use the same analytical abilities they would use at work," says Sutton. "I ell them to pretend they are a child care worker and this is not their kid." Refuse to join the fight. ODD kids are masters at turning everything into a power struggle. The best way to avoid such struggles is to keep the focus of every conversation on the problem at hand. This is easier said than done, of course. In a typical fight with an ODD child, you might start by stating a simple rule---"No TV until homework is finished"---and before you know it, you wind up arguing about swearing and disobedience. In other words, you're suddenly fighting about whether your authority is legitimate. To avoid this, calmly repeat the rule and the reasons for it. Above all, keep your composure. "These kids crave a reaction from you," says Tina Draper, a mother who runs an online support group. "So you have to learn not to react." That doesn't mean ignoring your child's behavior---just deferring your comments until he's able to hear them. "I used to get into shouting matches with my son," says Rosie Linko, parent of a teenager with ODD. "Now I let things slide until he calms down. They I say "When you were angry, you did this and that's not OK with me. What could you do differently?" Ease up the controls. ODD kids don't readily comply, so the more requests you issue, the more the opportunities for the child to get stuck. Greene recommends that parents divide the things they want their ODD child to do into three categories or "baskets." Basket A holds a few mandatory rules, which are usually about safety---you must wear your seat belt in the car, siblings can't hit each other, and so on. Basket B holds issues on which you are willing to negotiate when you think your child is able to do so. And Basket C includes rules that aren't worth bothering with until your child can handle frustration. Every parent will put different behaviors in different baskets. Swearing, for example, is a Basket B issue for some parents and an ignore-it-for-now issue for others. "Work on one or two high priority behaviors at a time," says Sutton. Establish simple, enforceable consequences. Rules have no value unless they are backed up by swift, unambivalent consequences. ODD kids can make this difficult. They often provoke parents into escalating consequences. If you say "You're grounded for the weekend," and your child replies "Big deal," it's very tempting to respond by upping the ante. You might angrily threaten, "Well, then make it a month." Remember that such a reaction will only inflame things. Instead, stick to consequences that are fair and dispassionately enforced. Teach relationship strategies.Unlike typical children, who usually pick up essential social skills, ODD kids need them to be spelled out again and again. Rosie Linko remembers teaching her son to stop and count to 20 when he felt really angry. "Now," she says, "I'll see him do it sometimes. He'll focus on getting himself together before he does something he'll be sorry for." Use the back door.Because oppositional kids react so vehemently to direct commands, many parents get better results when they rethink the way they communicate with their child. Instead of issuing a direct command, such as, "Clean up your toys," say something more neutral, such as "The toys need to be picked up before the TV goes on." For older children, some parents sidestep an argument by putting what they want in writing. One working mom leaves her ODD son a list of after-school responsibilities next to his snack. "He usually does what's on the list," she says. "If I called to ask him to do the same things, we'0d have a fight." Give your child genuine choices. ODD kids want to be in charge, so give that responsibility whenever you can. Instead of arguing with a school-age child about whether he needs a jacket, tell him the weather forecast. If he comes home shivering, don't lecture. Instead, sympathize with the fact that it must have been colder than he imagined. Gradually, he'll take responsibility for his own choices---instead of blaming you when things go wrong. Praise your child whenever possible.Changing the ODD reflex is hard for your kids, so parents need to notice and appreciate even small instances of cooperation---"It was really a help to me when you pitched in with the cleanup after supper." Kenneth Wenning recommends even creating as many opportunities for positive reinforcement as possible. If, for instance, you're working on a household repair, ask your child to hand you a tool. When he does what you ask, thank him specifically for his willingness to help out. If he doesn't, move on without comment. "The idea is to make your request so easy that your child will comply without thinking about it," says Wenning. "Then, for just a moment, he'll experience the positive feelings associated with cooperation." Connect with what you like about your child. Parents of ODD kids are keenly aware of the problems their kids cause. "CJ just tests us and frustrates us so much that it is difficult to want to be with him," says one mom. But that's only half the picture. "These kids are often bright, vigorous and very creative," says psychologist Sutton. "I try to help parents appreciate the strength that's attached to the oppositional drive." He recommends a simple technique he calls affirmation. When your child is reading in bed or watching TV, sit down beside him. If he says "Mom, why are you sitting here?" simply answer "Things get so hectic. Everybody's going in every direction. I just missed being with you." Don't try to have a heart-to-heart or hash over a problem. "Just honor the child with your presence," says Sutton. "You'd be surprised how powerful this can be. Take care of yourself and your mate. Remember that ODD is not something you, your partner---or for that matter, your child---has chosen. So take time for things that will relieve stress---exercise, have lunch with a supportive friend, watch funny movies---and treat your partner as your ally. Go out together and talk about anything but your ODD child. 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Zimmerman claims to be sorry that he murdered Trayvon Martin, but also refuses to accept responsibility. And he's got someone else to blame.
I feel like it was all God's plan.
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At the height of Eregion's power, a road ran out of that land towards the western Misty Mountains. At the Stair Falls, it led over a small cliff, and then down a shallow valley running eastward, and led towards a wall of immense, unclimbable cliffs: the Walls of Moria.
At the road's end was the West-gate of Moria, which at that time would have been kept open most of the time, guarded by Dwarf doorwards. In the middle of the Second Age, the War of the Elves and Sauron saw Eregion laid waste, and the West-gate was shut. By the craft of its makers, the doorway blended into the Walls of Moria, and could only be opened again by one who knew the password.


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The cost of complying with draconian new EPA rules on carbon emissions will force coal plants in Texas to close and increase the likelihood of rolling blackouts, as the Obama administration's vow to "bankrupt" the coal industry takes full effect.
When rolling blackouts hit Texas at the start of the year, we wrote a series of articles pointing out that President Barack Obama's promise to "bankrupt" the coal industry, in the form of draconian EPA regulations that would cause older power plants to close, had contributed to the power outages. Several of these articles were picked up by the likes of the Drudge Report and Fox News, stoking a wider controversy.
In response, the White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer claimed in a blog post that appeared on WhiteHouse.gov that the story came from a "questionable" source and was "unquestionably false." We then issued a rebuttal documenting how the blackouts were caused by a maxed-out power grid and not by "mechanical failures" as Pfeiffer claimed in his article.
Ten months down the line and the Austin-American Statesman reports today that, "Texas could face power shortages as soon as next year as aging plants are mothballed in response to new environmental standards, according to the state's grid operator and the organization that monitors the U.S. power grids for the federal government."
In other words, ourselves and other critics who warned that the EPA's draconian eco-regulations would cause rolling blackouts, after being attacked by the White House, have been proven completely accurate.
"Already Dallas-based Luminant Generation Co., Texas' largest electricity generator, has announced it intends to idle two coal-fired generating units as part of a plan to comply with the rule," reports the Houston Chronicle.
Inadequate supply of power is being greatly exacerbated by coal and natural gas plants being shut down because they cannot afford the crippling EPA regulation fees, which will lead to "power shortages as soon as next year".
"The report by the North American Electric Reliability Corp. found that many older power plants in Texas will be retired rather than retrofitted to meet new federal emission standards," reports the Statesman, closures that have been welcomed by the likes of the Clean Energy Group consortium, whose agenda is to promote the vehemently discredited pseudo-science of man-made global warming.
The CEG group opposes the building of new plants or a delay in implementing the EPA standards, demanding instead that Americans curtail their energy use, or in other words lower their living standards to satisfy the politicized, agenda-driven, money-making scam that is climate change and the carbon credit industry, while huge corporations like General Electric get waivers and are not even subject to the EPA rules everyone else is forced to comply with.
As we have documented, the entire carbon tax scam is a monumental fraud which does nothing to help the environment even if you believe in climate change hysteria, in that its primary purpose is to line the pockets of 'carbon billionaires' like Al Gore and Maurice Strong.
Obama's support for Australia's carbon tax is unsurprising given the fact that he was "instrumental in developing and launching the privately-owned Chicago Climate Exchange" via millions of dollars in donations from the Joyce Foundation, with whom Obama served as a director.
Carbon trading schemes are directly connected to people in third world nations like Honduras and Uganda being brutally evicted from their land and in some cases slaughtered in cold blood. Western companies make billions from seizing land and using it to grow trees in return for lucrative carbon credits which are then sold to companies (via EPA mandates) under carbon tax schemes like the one just passed in Australia.
Despite America still reeling from an economic collapse, the Obama administration and the EPA is still committed to bankrupting the coal industry in pursuit of a "green economy," which has little to do with the environment and everything to do with hollowing out America's industrial base so that the country may be more easily swallowed up by the "post-industrial revolution" that remains the goal of the global elite.
If you want to get a taste of just what effect this "green economy" will have on America, take a look at Spain, where the unemployment rate is over 22 per cent as a result of at least 2.2 jobs being lost for every "green" job created, in addition to soaring energy costs.
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NASCAR, which has longed to rival stick-and-ball sports such as Major League Baseball and the NFL, has reached that level in at least one aspect: waiting until the last weekend to set its playoff field.
Heading into Saturday night's Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond International Raceway, seven Sprint Cup drivers have locked up a berth in the 10-race Chase. They are Jimmie Johnson (four wins), Clint Bowyer (none), Kevin Harvick (two), Carl Edwards (one), Kyle Busch (four) and Matt Kenseth (five). Kasey Kahne (two wins) has gained at least a wild-card berth.
The top 10 in points after the 26th race of the season qualify for the championship, and the next two leading drivers with the most wins. As a result, there are 10 drivers seeking the final five spots, although some are alive only on paper.
On a three-quarter mile track at Richmond, such a rush adds to the intensity.
Four drivers control their destiny Saturday night. Dale Earnhardt (no wins) is seventh in the points and can finish as low as 34th if he leads a lap. Eighth-place Joey Logano (one win) can finish as low as 13th if he leads the most laps and is eligible for a wild-card spot should he drop out of the top 10. It's the same for Greg Biffle (one) by finishing ninth.
The real battle will be for the 10th spot between Kurt Busch and Jeff Gordon, separated by six points. Kurt Busch (win less) is in 10th and will make the Chase by winning, finishing second and leading at least one lap or by finishing third and leading the most laps. It's all or nothing for Busch, headed for Stewart-Hass Racing in 2014, as he's not eligible for a wild-card spot.
Gordon, who has previous experience waiting until the final race to enter the Chase, has history on his side. In the past, Gordon has an average finish of 14.3 at the track and six top-fives in the last 13 races. And if that wasn't all, his pit crew is far more experienced that Kurt Busch's crew, which has been inconsistent all year.
In the battle for the second wild-card spot, it's between No. 13 Martin Truex Jr. (one win) and Ryan Newman (one win). Truex holds a five-point lead. A look at the past reveals Newman's average finish at Richmond is 11.8, much better than Truex's 23.7.
Defending champion Brad Keselowski is 28 points outside the top 10, but could earn a wild-card spot with a win and outscoring Truex by 13 points and Newman by eight. Jaime McMurray (none) and Paul Menard (none) need some type of small miracle to advance.
It promises to be a wild night.
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Six national events remain on the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, the Countdown to the Championship that ends with the Auto Club Finals at Fairplex on Nov. 7-10. Each of the top-10 fields were set last week at the U.S. Nationals.
Shawn Langdon, who won $200,000 for his wins at the U.S. Nationals and Traxxas Shootout, is the top seed in Top Fuel dragster, a field without Dave Grubnic, Brandon Bernstein or Brittany Force. In competitive Funny Car, Matt Hagan (who missed the field last year) is the top seed. Bob Tasca. Alexis De Joria, Jeff Arend and Tony Pedregon failed to get in.
Mike Edwards is atop the Pro Stock field that includes Erica Enders-Stevens, who has not competed recently due to lacking of funding, In Pro Stock Motorcycle, Hector Arana Jr. is the top seed, while Steve Johnson and Andrew Hines missed making the top 10.
Ex-Funny Car champion Robert Hight also scored a win at the U.S. Nationals, which should be observed as a warning to the field. He ended a personal 35-race winless streak while extending John Force Racing's dominance at the event to six straight years.
"(Crew chief) Mike Neff really changed things for me," said Hight, who won his 28th event. "Qualifying was over and we were only seventh. We got back to the pits and Mike says, 'We got 'em right where we want 'em.' I'm looking at him like, 'Are you kidding me?'
"And he says, 'Listen, I've won the last two U.S. Nationals. I didn't qualify well. We didn't do good in qualifying. But come Monday, we're going to be fine.' Right before first round in the staging lanes, Mike Neff came up to me, and he said, 'Listen, regardless of the outcome, we're in this together, and we believe in each other and we're going to do it as a team.' It was just like this weight lifted off my shoulders."
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NASCAR Sprint Cup driver and co-owner Tony Stewart said his sprint car accident was just "a small bump in the road" and expects to be back next year in time for the Daytona 500. He said he'll return to a sprint car next year, "but I'm definitely going to cut back the amount of races, just on scheduling purposes more than anything." … Jeff Burton will not return to the Richard Childress Racing No. 31 Chevrolet next year, lacking the funding for the team. A replacement will soon be announced. … Max Papis no longer claims his jaw was dislocated by a slap from Kelly Heaphy after an incident with boyfriend, NASCAR Truck Series driver Mike Skeen, at the race in Canada. She has fined $2,500 and banned indefinitely by NASCAR. You'll recall Papis made similar headlines in June for slapping Nationwide driver Billy Johnson following a race, but no fine was issued.
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Pirate Speedway on the National Orange Show grounds in San Bernardino will feature a unique card on Friday night, everything from the big motorcycles to mini-bikes. In addition to speedway motorcycles, the program will also include PeeWees (50cc), Juniors (150cc), youth (250cc), two-person Sidecars (1000cc) and "run what you brung mini-bikes". … No racing at Perris Auto Speedway on Saturday night, just the "Night of Destruction #4." The card includes a Figure-8 Trailer Race, Figure-8 races, Democross races, spectator races and a "Can You Beat a Redneck Challenge." … VRA Midgets, Senior Sprints, Hobby Stocks, Sport Compacts, Junior Midgets and Mini Dwarfs are on tap Saturday night at Ventura Raceway on the Ventura County Fairgrounds.
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I turned on the game and saw players lining up and smiling and fist-bumping each other.
I saw the manager beaming and congratulating his coaches.
Naturally, I thought: Wrong game. I'm looking for the Orioles.
But these were the Orioles, believe it or not, breaking that horrible nine-game losing streak Sunday with an 8-3 win over the Athletics at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.
"Good for the team, great for the fans," Dave Trembley said to Gary Thorne and Jim Palmer on the MASN post- game show. "Now we can go for the pennant drive."
Yes, he was smiling when he said that, too.
No, he hasn't lost his mind, although managing the Orioles and watching them lose day after day in ever more creative ways would drive anyone crazy.
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Are you kidding?
These are the Orioles. Nothing's ever wrapped up until it's wrapped up — and even then you wonder whether they'll find a way to blow it.
As Johnson took his warm-up throws to begin that inning, MASN broadcaster Rick Dempsey appeared on the post-game set with his fingers crossed.
He wasn't the only one. All of Orioles Nation was holding its breath — at least the fans who still care about this team and aren't already focused on whom the Ravens take in the NFL draft this week.
If you're looking for one of the few bright spots to this dreadful Orioles start, it has to be the pitching of Brian Matusz.
The kid was terrific again Sunday: eight hits in 6 1/3 innings, eight strikeouts and just one walk to run his record to 2-0.
"He has very good tempo, he doesn't get rattled, he was in control of the game," Trembley told Thorne and Palmer.
Yeah, that's the thing you have to love if you play behind Matusz: He works quickly.
The guy pitches like he has a plane to catch in five minutes.
And his stuff is just nasty. Twenty-three strikeouts in three outings this season — that's dazzling for a rookie.
Apparently the A's hitters had watched film of him in his last start for the Orioles and came away hugely impressed, too.
They were probably even more impressed in the fifth inning, when he struck out Eric Chavez on a breaking ball that absolutely froze the A's first baseman and probably still has him muttering to himself.
I don't care who you are, you're not going to hit that pitch. Babe Ruth's knees would have buckled on that one.
Another bright spot for the Orioles has been the play of Ty Wigginton, who homered and drove in four runs Sunday and continues to look like one of the only Orioles hitters with a clue.
Here's what you have to love about Wigginton: He knows his role on this team, and he's totally fine with it.
He's never going to wow you in the field. And he knows the only way he gets into the lineup is if he hits.
In fact, he sat down with Trembley this spring and said as much, that he was going to concentrate on hitting and make it tough for the manager to keep him out of the lineup.
So far, he has done just that. And you can bet driving in four runs against Brett Anderson, the A's hard-throwing left-hander, is going to get him a few more at-bats on this 10-game road trip — especially with the Orioles dropping like flies.
How many players are on the disabled list now, a dozen or so?
Maybe it just feels that way.
When Miguel Tejada pulled up lame after that bunt attempt against the A's on Saturday, I thought Trembley was going to climb to the upper deck of the Coliseum and air-mail himself.
Oh, yeah, if ever the Orioles needed someone like Matusz or Wigginton to step up, it's now.
So now it's on to Seattle for the Orioles. Three games against the Mariners and then they jump on a plane again and fly to Boston for three against the Red Sox at Fenway Park.
The schedule, as everyone has pointed out, is a killer.
But at least they ended that terrible losing streak that had come to define them this April.
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Wood-Shield Plastic Coated Posts - The green alternative to chemically treated timber
Wood-Shield is a relatively new company with a revolutionary new and internationally patented plastic coating technology for covering wooden fencing posts providing an environmentally friendly alternative to chemically treated pine posts (known as CCA wood posts) typically used in Agriculture, Viticulture, Aquaculture and equestrian industries.
The owners of Wood-Shield have over 20 years experience in environmentally sustainable / eco friendly industries. Their primary business is a leading Australian recycling company. The acquisition of the Wood-Shield business and its integration into their group of businesses will provide unique integration opportunities and ensure that 2 great Australian companies are ready to take on the world.
Whilst the product has been used in Australia over the past couple of years providing verification of the value of the product as a viable replacement to treated wood and plastic posts, the product caters to a global audience as many countries are phasing out or have now outlawed the use of chemically treated timber products.
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Target markets (Australia and NZ initially moving to global over next 12 to 24 months)
1. Viticulture -
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b. Sales approach direct to market – end user
c. Wholesale – negotiate distribution with major retail chains
d. Seasonal product application
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3. Repair at anytime during year. Replacement through breakage
2. Aquaculture -
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b. Sales approach direct to market – end user
c. Oyster farming is primary market for this sector
i. Summer is when they receive high season sales (Australian Market)
ii. Maintenance period is approximately February through to October / November
d. Prawn Farming has not been pursued, some research is required to quantify the opportunity from this market sector
e. Possible new business opportunity in water structures e.g. jetties, etc.
3. Equestrian -
a. New market opportunity
b. No real presence as this stage.
c. Price competitive market - several product offerings
i. General yard and stable fencing
ii. Electric fencing
iii. Horse jump poles - opportunity in England including fencing
e. Primary markets
i. Horse studs
ii. Equestrian & polo centres
iii. Training facilities
iv. Race clubs
4. General Agriculture / farming / hobby farming
The Wood-Shield logo needs to communicate the product and intention to a global audience and be understood in multiple languages and by multiple cultures or ethnicities.
The Wood-Shield position statement which will most likely support the logo is: Wood-Shield – "The Premier Coated Wood Post"
Also note that the '-' between the words 'Wood' and 'Shield' Wood-Shield is not mandatory as long as there remains a distinction between the words i.e. it could be presented as log of type 'WoodShield' with the first letter of each word presented as a capital.
Whilst there is an existing company/product logo, this is not to be used as a guide as a fresh approach to the presentation of the company is required and one which will communication to a global audience. You can view this logo at the company's website http://www.woodshield.com.au
The image on the site associated with the log of type is visually descriptive of the end product and this could be used/redesigned as a component of the logo. All other aspects are expected to change i.e font, presentation style, color, etc
The final logo will be required to be delivered in multiple electronic file formats suitable for publishing too web/internet/e-mail, high quality printed materials, Television/video.
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