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Story of the Eye
Penguin, 2001 - 128 páginas
A masterpiece of transgressive, surrealist erotica, George Bataille's Story of the Eye was the Fifty Shades of Greyof its era. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Joachim Neugroschal, and published with essays by Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes.Bataille's first novel, published under the pseudonym 'Lord Auch', is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacrilegious, Story of the Eyeis the fullest expression of Bataille's obsession with the closeness of sex, violence and death. Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power, and is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth century.This edition also includes Susan Sontag's superb study of pornography as art, 'The Pornographic Imagination', as well as Roland Barthes' essay 'The Metaphor of the Eye'.Georges Bataille (1897-1962), French essayist and novelist, was born in Billom, France. He converted to Catholicism, then later to Marxism, and was interested in psychoanalysis and mysticism, forming a secret society dedicated to glorifying human sacrifice. Leading a simple life as the curator of a municipal library, Bataille was involved on the fringes of Surrealism, founding the Surrealist magazine Documentsin 1929, and editing the literary review Critique from 1946 until his death. Among his other works are the novels Blue of Noon(1957) and My Mother(1966), and the essays Eroticism(1957) and Literature and Evil (1957).If you enjoyed Story of the Eye, you might like Anais Nin's Delta of Venus, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'His black masterpiece ... a brilliant, exquisitely fetishistic tale of sexual agitaion'New Statesman
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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- ABC has quietly pushed the return of "In the Motherhood" to the end of June.
The planned three-week run, originally set for Fridays at 9:30/8:30c starting June 5, will now shift to Thursdays at 8:30/7:30c starting June 25.
Back-to-back repeats of "Samantha Who?" will instead fill the 9:00/8:00c hour on Friday nights.
"Samantha" will also presumably lead into "Motherhood" on Thursdays however it's not clear if it will be repeats or the remaining originals still on the shelf.


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text: When Jaiden was 6, his adoptive parents, Natalie and Tim, noticed a hard piece of skin on his thigh. After a biopsy, Natalie and Tim learned that Jaiden suffered from stiff skin syndrome, a connective tissue disorder characterized by hard, thick skin. The Doctors have something special in store for this deserving family!


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When Virginia Tech men's basketball coach James Johnson wants to lighten the mood, he knows exactly where to go. He delves into the past to highlight some of his players' not-so shining moments.
Even senior point guard Erick Green, who is having one of the hottest starts of any player in the nation, isn't immune. Johnson recently brought up Green's freshman struggles near the end of the 2009-10 season, when he missed 15 consecutive shots and failed to score in nine straight games.
"Coaches used to always say, 'Don't shoot,'" said Green, who leads Tech on Saturday at West Virginia (3-3).
"He always teases me about that stretch, and now I'm on a stretch where I'm getting hot. … When he brings up stuff like that from the past, he always says, 'You've come a long way.'"
Nobody on Tech's bench discourages Green from shooting anymore. He's been the biggest reason for Tech's early success.
Tech (7-0) is off to a stunning start that included an 81-71 win last Saturday against No. 15 Oklahoma State, breaking a 14-game losing streak against ranked non-conference opponents that dated back to 1995. Green has scored 21 or more points in all seven of Tech's games.
He's averaging 24.9 points per game, which is third in the nation. That's 5.3 points more than Duke's Mason Plumlee, who is second in the Atlantic Coast Conference in the category.
Scoring has gotten Green plenty of attention, but it's not his only strength. He's fourth in the ACC in assists per game (4.4) and free-throw percentage (87.7 percent), fifth in steals per game (1.7) and seventh in field-goal percentage (51.6) and assist-to-turnover ratio (2.2 assists for every one turnover per game).
While Green has sparked Tech in Johnson's fast-paced offensive style, Green is getting a lot of help.
Forward Jarrell Eddie leads the ACC in 3-point field-goal shooting percentage (52.8) and free-throw percentage (92). He's also third in scoring (17.1 points per game), eighth in field-goal percentage (50.6) and 12th in rebounding (7.4 per game). Guard Robert Brown has recovered from offseason foot surgery and is 12th in the ACC in scoring (13.4 points per game).
"I could really care less how many points I put up," Green said. "It's just coming natural. I'm not taking any bad shots. I'm not trying to force a lot of things. I'm just letting it come to me.
"I know people focus on me, but if you focus on me too much, Jarell Eddie can catch 20 real quick, too."
The trio is the biggest reason Johnson's philosophy is working in his first season as Tech's coach. Tech is 10th in the ACC in field-goal percentage defense (42) and last in scoring defense (72.1), but it leads the conference in scoring offense (86.1 points per game; third in the nation), free-throw percentage (78; 10th in the nation) and 3-point field-goal percentage (40.4; 24th in the nation).
"If we have to grind it out, and walk the ball up the floor every single play, then everybody is going to know where No. 11 is," said Johnson, referring to Green's jersey number. "That's how they practice — to stop him. We get out in transition, and I can hide him in certain places there. I think we'll be able to loosen him up a little bit there."
Previous Tech coach Seth Greenberg only had one winning streak in his nine seasons in Blacksburg that was longer than the current streak Johnson has enjoyed in his first seven games. In the '09-10 season, Tech won nine straight games.
The last time Tech won more games to start the season was in the 1981-82 campaign, when it started 9-0. Still, Green shares cautionary tales with Tech's younger players about staying humble during the good times.
Green goes back to the end of his sophomore season in 2011, when Tech beat No. 1 Duke 64-60 at the end of February in Cassell Coliseum.
"I thought we were going to the NCAA tournament," Green said. "I really thought we were in there … everything was going well."
Three days later, Tech lost 76-61 in Blacksburg to a good Boston College team, and lost a week after the Duke victory to a strong Clemson team on the road in the regular-season finale. Tech went on to beat Georgia Tech and Florida State in the ACC tournament, before losing to Duke in the conference tournament semifinals.
It wasn't enough. A 21-11 Tech team that finished 9-7 in the ACC was left out of the NCAA tournament.
The lesson?
"We're walking around campus, and everybody is loving us," Green said. "Still, we have to think that before the season, people were really doubting us and people didn't think we were going to be as good as we are now. We've just got to stay humble."


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Last time we spoke, I had some predictions for ye olde election, and they all came true. Just call me Cassandra. Allow me to refresh your memory.
(1) Obama will win.*
He did.
(2) It won't matter that Obama has won…Republicans don't have to vote for Romney to piss in Obama's cornflakes, they only have to vote for Republican congressional candidates, which they will do.
They did. The Republicans have kept the House. I HOPE Obama is looking FORWARD to the total absence of CHANGE in the House's attitude toward his policies. It's going to be a hard four years for the guy, and I hope all of those people who said he would use this second term to really fix his slice on the golf course are right, otherwise we might see the first presidential suicide in history.
If Obama thinks he's had a hard time up to now, it's nothing compared to what he'll suffer when his apologists melt away because they don't have to care about getting him re-elected any more. They'll be looking for their 2016 candidate at 8am on 7th November.
Turns out I was late to the party on this one. This New York Times article from 6 September states:
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Whether President Obama wins or loses in November, one thing is certain for Democrats on the morning after Election Day: the 2016 auditions begin.
A buncha people I've never heard of are in the running, plus Joe Biden (not fucking likely), Hillary Clinton (okay, maybe) and Andrew Cuomo (he'll be lucky if he's even still governor of New York by that point).
Then, the prediction I was most certain would happen:
(3) Paul Ryan's career in the big-time is over.
He didn't even carry his home state.
Ryan is toast.
*Looking on the bright side: at least I don't have to retire my "oops! Obama" tag.


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With a body as fit and muscled as Zeb Atlas has it's no wonder that he loves going places where he can bare a little skin (or a lot of skin!) and not freeze to death...for instance, in this photoshoot for his own site he headed to Kona in Hawaii and threw a few poses on the beach in the warm sun! He looks like some kind of oceanic deity as he flexes those huge biceps and pecs while wearing only (more…)


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Rolando Aarons ruled out of the Tyne-Wear Derby0
Newcastle United have been dealt a huge injury blow ahead of the Tyne-Wear Derby match against Sunderland.
Newcastle United have been dealt a huge injury blow ahead of the Tyne-Wear Derby match against Sunderland.
Rolando Aarons has suffered an injury setback that will see the youngster miss tomorrow's Capital One Cup quarter-final tie against Tottenham Hotspur and Sunday's derby against Sunderland.
The 19-year old has been sidelined since early last month with a hamstring injury, and is yet to return to full fitness.
Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew had hoped Aarons would be back in time for the cup game tomorrow. However, the England Under-20 international is expected to miss a further two weeks.
Aarons made his way on the scene during pre-season after signing his professional contract last year.
Frustrating when you keep getting set back after set back. All I'm thinking about is returning to play at st james' for this club #Nufc
— Rolando Aarons (@R_Aarons16) December 16, 2014
The winger has made three started twice for the Magpies, whilst making a substitute in the Premier League on three occasions, netting against Crystal Palace and Manchester City.
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Avila taking it easy due to back spasms
LAKELAND, Fla. -- If the season opened Sunday, Alex Avila would be playing through back spasms. He gets them a couple of times a year, he said, but it usually doesn't force him out of the lineup.
Since Grapefruit League play hasn't started yet, however, Avila isn't pushing it. He missed a second day of Tigers workouts Sunday, spending most of the morning in the clubhouse while receiving treatment and doing lower-back exercises.
Avila felt enough improvement by midday that he expects to return on Monday, when Justin Verlander throws to hitters for the first time this spring.
"The way I'm feeling today, I most likely would be available [Monday]," Avila said. "That's according to how I progressed from yesterday."
If the second week of workouts seems early for annual back spasms, Avila wouldn't argue.
"I've never had them in Spring Training," he said. "I've gotten them sometimes during the year and ended up just playing through it, but I've never had them in the spring."
The Tigers had more than enough catchers to pick up Avila's workload. Without Avila hitting against him, however, Max Scherzer had to find another teammate to oppose him. He envisioned Andy Dirks at bat with runners at second and third base and two outs, but Dirks got enough of a first-pitch changeup to dump it into center field.


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New mom Olivia Wilde graced the September issue of Glamour magazine. The spread included pictures of her and 4-month-old son Otis. In the issue, which included an interview with Olivia, she spoke of motherhood and fiance Jason Sudeikis.
On breastfeeding Otis during the photo shoot: "Being shot with Otis is so perfect because any portrait of me right now isn't complete without my identity as a mother being a part of that. Breastfeeding is the most natural thing. I don't know, now it feels like Otis should always be on my breast. It felt like we were capturing that multifaceted woman we've been discussing — that we know we can be. You can be someone who is at once maternal and professional and sexy and self-possessed."
On if she was worried about being a working mother: "No, because of the example of my mom. My mom is such a badass working mother. That inspired me when I was pregnant. I wasn't going to sacrifice myself because I was becoming a mother."
On relationship with Jason Sudeikis: "We're engaged, but no specific plans yet. We just have to find the time to put it together. In many ways, a child is more of a commitment. We are fully committed and really happy as a family. And there's no definition of the 'normal family' anymore. Kids today are growing up with so many different definitions of family. I guess what I'm saying is that I don't feel any pressure to do it. But I think it will be really fun."


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1. Some of the areas in the Southwest, Pacific Northwest, and Alaska, in particular, cover many hundreds of square miles, over terrain with high levels of inaccessibility.
2. P.L. 96-95, as amended by P.L. 100-555 and 100-588; 16 U.S.C. 470aa-mm. (1988).
3. Duerksen, Christopher J., editor, A Handbook on Historic Preservation Law, The Conservation Foundation and The National Center for Preservation Law, Washington, DC, 1983, p. 193.
4. Ibid., p. 3.
5. The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution specifies the procedural protection in its "taking clause": "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
7. 108 Md. 220, 70 A. II 3 (1908)
8. Welch v. Swasey, 214 U.S. 91 (1909).
9. Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City, 438 U.S. 104 (1978). An earlier Supreme Court case, Berman v. Parker, 348 U.S. 26 (1954), gave strong support in dicta to the concept of governmental condemnation action for aesthetic purposes when Justice Douglas wrote: "The values [public welfare] represented are spiritual as well as physical, aesthetic as well as monetary. It is within the power of the legislature to determine that the community should be beautiful as well as healthy, spacious as well as clean, well-balanced as well as carefully patrolled. In the present case, the Congress and its authorized agencies have made determinations that take into account a wide variety of values. It is not for us to reappraise them. If those who govern the District of Columbia decide that the Nation's Capitol should be beautiful as well as sanitary, there is nothing in the Fifth Amendment that stands in the way. Once the object is within the authority of Congress, the right to realize it through the exercise of eminent domain is clear... the means by which it will be attained is also for Congress to determine" (348 U.S. 26, p. 33). However, Berman dealt with local historic District of Columbia ordinances and recognized that the ordinance in question considered aesthetic values as one of many criteria encompassed by the term "public welfare." The Penn Central decision made it clear that individual landmarks as well as historic districts could be protected. Justice Brennan, writing for the Majority, stated: "[H]istoric conservation is but one aspect of the much larger problem, basically an environmental one, of enhancing--or perhaps developing for the first time--the quality of life for people. New York City, responding to similar concerns and acting pursuant to a New York State Enabling Act, adopted its Landmarks Preservation Law in 1965... The New York City law is typical of many urban landmark laws in that its primary method of achieving its goals is not by acquisitions of historic properties, but rather by involving public entities in land-use decisions affecting these properties and providing services, standards, controls, and incentives that will encourage preservation by private owners and users" [438 U.S. 108-111 (1977)]. The court concluded that "the restrictions imposed are substantially related to the promotion of the general welfare and not only permit reasonable beneficial use of the landmark site but also afford appellants opportunities further to enhance not only the Terminal site proper, but also other properties" [438 U S. 138 (1977)].
10. P.L. 59-209, 16 U.S.C. 431-433 (1906). The historical background of this law is the topic of The Antiquities Act of 1906, by Ronald F. Lee, National Park Service, Washington, DC, 1970 (NTIS order number PB284061). See also Hal Rothman, Preserving Different Pasts: The American National Monuments, University of Illinois Press, Chicago, IL, 1989.
11. Section 432 of the Antiquities Act provides that permits will be issued for examinations, excavations and gatherings of objects when such activities are undertaken "for the benefit of reputable museums, universities, colleges, or other recognized scientific or educational institutions, with a view to increasing the knowledge of such objects, and that the gatherings shall be made for permanent preservation in public museums." Currently, most Federal agency permits are issued under the authority of ARPA.
12. Maximum fine of $500 or 90 days in prison, or both. Ibid., Sec. 1.
13. 16 U.S.C. 431, section 2.
15. Regulations for the National Historic Landmarks Program are found at 36 CFR Part 65.
16. P.L. 89-665, 16 U.S.C. 470-470t (1966). Those responsible for Federal historic preservation programs and projects are to conduct them according to the Secretary of the Interior's Standards and Guidelines for Archeology and Historic Preservation, September 29, 1983 (48 F.R. 44716-44742).
17. Ibid., page 336 C.F.R. Part 60.
18. 36 C.F.R. Part 800.
19. 36 C.F.R. Part 65.
20. 36 C.F.R. Part 61.
21. 36 C.F.R. Part 60, in conjunction with Exec. Order No. 11593, Protection and Enhancement of the Cultural Environment, May 13, 1971 (36 F.R. 8921), implements the necessary cooperation between State and Federal agencies to inventory and ensure the preservation of non-federally owned "sites, structures, and objects of historical, architectural, or archeological significance."
22. 36 C.F.R. Part 800 includes the regulations published by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation to implement Section 106 of NHPA. Federal "undertakings" range from construction, rehabilitation, and repair projects to transfers or demolition of Federal properties. Assessments result in one of three determinations: (a) no effect; (b) no adverse effect, i.e., one or more historic properties will be affected, but the historic qualities that make them significant will not be harmed; or (c) adverse effect, i.e., the undertaking will cause harm to one or more historic properties. See the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation publication: Fact Sheet: Working with Section 106, Washington, DC, revised September, 1988, pp. 3-4. The basic steps to arrive at a determination are: (1) identification and evaluation of historic properties, with the possibility of further studies to evaluate places that may have been considered eligible for inclusion in the National Register but were not so registered; (2) assessment of the effects that the Federal undertaking may have on the identified properties; (3) consultation on adverse effects with the SHPO, Indian Tribes, property owners, and others resulting in an agreement outlining measures to reduce, avoid, or mitigate any adverse effect; (4) a period of time for comment by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; and (5) implementation of the particular Federal project under the terms of the agreement. If there is a memorandum of agreement (MOA) developed during Step 3 of the Section 106 process, ACHP may review and accept it, request changes, or decide to issue written comments. If previously unknown archeological remains are discovered after the project has begun, the Federal agency may choose to re-start the Section 106 process or notify the Secretary of the Interior according to Section 4(a) of P.L. 93-291.
23. P.L. 95-515 These amendments codify the requirement that Federal agencies assume the responsibilities for preservation of the historic properties, including the inventory and evaluation of archeological sites that are owned or controlled by them. Appearing as Section 110, this requirement is to ensure that historic preservation is fully integrated into the ongoing programs and missions of federal agencies and to ensure that they exercise caution so that their activities do not destroy uninventoried sites. Section 110 guidelines are located at 53 F.R. 4727-4746 (February 17, 1988).
24. 36 F.R. 8921 (1971), reprinted in 16 U.S.C. 470h-2 (Supp. IV 1980).
25. This settles the question of whether private interests could be required to pay costs of protecting archeological or historical resources that would otherwise be destroyed by their activities.
26. P.L. 86-523, as amended by P.L. 93-291; 16 U.S.C. 469-469c (1974).
27. The NHPA (Note 26) also authorizes project and project planning funds to be used in this manner. A Federal agency may exceed the 1 percent limitation with the concurrence of the Secretary of the Interior, which is based upon a review by Interior's Departmental Consulting Archeologist.
28. P.L. 96-95, 16 U.S.C. 470aa-ll (1979).
29. P.L. 100-555, approved October 28, 1988; P.L. 100-588, approved November 3, 1988; 16 U.S.C. 470aa-mm.
30. 43 C.F.R. Part 7, Department of the Interior; 36 C.F.R. Part 296, Department of Agriculture; 18 C.F.R. Part 1312, Tennessee Valley Authority; 32 C.F.R. Part 229, Department of Defense.
31. Neither ARPA itself nor its implementing regulations provide precise definitions of "historic" and "prehistoric." Rather, the emphasis is on the statutory definition of "archaeological resource," which means "any material remains of human life or activities which are of archaeological interest [and] at least 100 years of age." "Archaeological interest" is defined in the uniform regulations as "capable of providing scientific or humanistic understandings of past human behavior, cultural adaptation, and related topics"; and "material remains" is defined as "physical evidence of human habitation, occupation, use, or activity, including the site, location, or context in which such evidence is situated." There follows an extensive list of classes of material remains, which will be considered archeological resources, but it should be understood that the list is not all-inclusive. 18 C.F.R. Part 1312.3 (1984).
32. 16 U.S.C. 470ee(d).
33. 18 C.F.R. Part 1312.4 and 1312.15 (1984).
34. 16 U.S.C. 470ff-gg.
35. For a state-by-state analysis of alternative statutes see Appendix 1.
36. Although there is considerable documentation in some Federal agency files, e.g., NPS and USDA Forest Service records, as to Antiquities Act violations, the citations for those violations appear to be the exception rather than the norm. In fact, it is not clear as to how the various agencies have coordinated their activities in order to enforce the Antiquities Act, and there is some confusion as to what has actually constituted a violation. See the NPS Antiquities Act files, W34, 1949 - 1981, with accompanying correspondence. Thus, a legislative objective for ARPA was to provide improved enforcement authority.
For an anecdotal, yet thorough discussion of ARPA in legislative process, see Janet L. Friedman, "A Drama in Three Acts," and Laura L. Beaty, "ARPA Enacted: The Legislative Process," both in an edition of American Archeology, devoted to "A History of the Archeological Resources Protection Act: Law and Regulations," Vol 5, No.2, 1985, pp. 82 and 90.
Final Uniform Regulations were issued at 43 C.F.R. Part 7 (Department of the Interior), 36 C.F.R. Part 296 (Department of Agriculture), 18 C.F.R. Part 1312 (Tennessee Valley Authority), and 32 C.F.R. Part 229 (Department of Defense), first published at 49 F.R. 1017-1034 (1984); Supplemental Regulations at 52 F.R. 9165-9170 (Department of the Interior) (1987); and amendments to the uniform regulations at 52 F.R. 47720-4722 (1987).
37. P.L. l00-555 and P.L. 100-588 (1988).
38. See, generally: CRM Bulletin, Vol. 11, Special Issue: Archeology and the Federal Government, compiled by George S. Smith, Francis P. McManamon, Ronald D. Anzalone, James W. Hand, and James C. Maxon, National Park Service, Washington, DC, 1988; Saving the Past for the Future, Actions for the 90s: Final Report, Taos Working Conference on Preventing Archaeological Looting and Vandalism, Society for American Archaeology, Office of Government Relations, Washington, DC, 1990; and Federal Archeology Report, Vol. 3, No. 2, p. 1. National Strategy for Federal Archeology, Secretary of the Interior, 1990.
40. The DOTA Section on Preservation of Public Areas [49 U.S.C. 1653(f)] does not specifically define "historic site," but in Stop H-3 Association v. Coleman [(1976, CA9 Hawaii) 533 F2d 434, denied 429 US 999, 97 S. Ct. 526, 50 L. Ed 2d 610], the Court held that the determination made by the Secretary of the Interior that a site "may be eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places" was sufficient to establish historic significance so as to have the site come under the mandates of 49 U.S.C. 1653(f) and 23 U.S.C. 138. Section 1653(f) requires that the Secretary of Transportation "shall cooperate and consult with the Secretaries of Interior, Housing and Urban Development and Agriculture, and with the States in developing transportation plans and programs that include measures to maintain or enhance the natural beauty of the lands traversed... with the stipulation that the Secretary of Transportation not approve programs which will require the use of any publicly owned land from ... an historic site of national, State or local significance."
42. 42 U.S.C.4332(1) of NEPA specifically identifies such considerations for the EIS as "aesthetically and culturally pleasing surroundings...preserv(ation) of important historic, cultural and natural aspects of our national heritage...and an approach to the maximum attainable recycling of depletable resources."
43. Ely v. Velde, 451 F. 2d 1130 (4th Cir. 1971). See also Stop H-3 v. Brinegar, 389 F, Supp. 1102, 1110 (D. Hawaii 1974); Save the Courthouse v. Lynn, 408 F. Supp. 1323, 1340 (S.D.N.Y. 1975).
44. P.L. 95-341 (1978). Applicable regulations promulgated pursuant to Section 10(a) are located at 43 C.F.R. Part 7.7 and 7.35, regarding ARPA permits. Specific details regarding consultation, permits, and notifications to Indian Tribes are located at 25 C.F.R. Part 262, Protection of Archaeological Resources, Bureau of Indian Affairs. These regulations were proposed on January 25, 1990 (55 F.R. 2580-2583) and are expected to be published in final in 1991.
45. P.L. 89-508, 80 Stat. 309, 4 C.F.R. Part 2.
46. For a detailed treatment of site damage assessment see: D. Lear, "Civil Responsibilities Under the Federal Collections Act of 1966," background paper in Cultural Resources Law Enforcement, compiled by P. Davis and D. Green, Second Edition, Forest Service, Southwestern Region, Albuquerque, NM. 1981; also, H. Christensen, K. Mabery, M. McAllister, and D. McCormick, "Cultural Resources Protection: A Predictive Framework for Identifying Site Vulnerability, Protection Priorities, and Effective Protection Strategies," Symposium Proceedings, Tools to Manage the Past, edited by J. Tainter and R. Hamre, May 2-6, 1988, Grand Canyon, AZ, pp. 68-80; also Linda F. Carnes, Roy S. Dickens, Jr., Linda France, and Ann Long, Cost Analysis of Archeological Activities at Eight Southeastern Sites, National Park Service, Washington, DC, 1986. Regulations for determinations of archeological or commercial value and cost of restoration and repair in penalties assessments for violations of ARPA are located at 43 C.F.R. Part 7.14.
47. Act, March 3, 1875, c. 144 Section 2, 18 Stat. 99; amendments: P.L. 93-203, Title VII Section 711(b), [formerly Title VI, Section 611(b)], Dec. 28, 1973; 87 Stat. 882, renumbered P.L. 93-567, Title I Section 101, Dec. 31, 1974, 88 Stat. 1845, added item 665.
48. See United States v. Cowan (D. Az. November, 1987).
49. The LOOT Clearinghouse provides case reports relevant to this statute. 18 U.S.C. 1632 also provides penalties for those who aid and abet activities covered under 18 U.S.C. 1631.
50. Statutes such as these do not contain language specifying that artifacts must be found on the property; the language simply authorizes the State "by gift or purchase" to acquire private land that is deemed to be of historic significance. See, for example: Alaska c. 35, s. 41.35.060; or N.M. 18-6-6D and 18-6-10C.
51. A.R.S. 41-865 and A.R.S. 41-866 (effective July 5, 1990). Amendments also were made to the existing public health statutes governing disinterments of dead bodies to harmonize existing law with the new laws (A.R.S. 36-861, effective July 5, 1990).
52. The annual report to Congress on the Federal archeology program is based upon Federal agency responses to a questionnaire distributed at the end of each fiscal year. The most recent publication, Federal Archeology: The Current Program (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC. 1989 GPO order number S/ N 024-005-010-572), covers activities in fiscal years 1985 and 1986. A draft report, Federal Archeology: 1987 Activities and Results, covering activities through fiscal year 1987 is nearing completion. See Ch. 5, p.2. Statistics for subsequent years have been compiled for use in this Technical Brief.
53. "Four Corners" refers to the place where the State lines of New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, and Arizona intersect. It is an area rich in prehistoric sites from the archeological periods known as Pueblo I, II, and III. Included in these kinds of sites are National Park Service units such as Mesa Verde and Chaco Canyon.
54. Carol A. Bassett, "The Culture Thieves", Science '86, July, August, 1986, p.22. See Problems Protecting and Preserving Federal Archeological Resources, General Accounting Office Report GAO/ RCED-88-3, Washington, DC, 1988; and the legislative history for the 1988 amendments to ARPA, House Reports No. 100-791, Pt. 1 (Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs) and Senate Reports Nos. 100-566 and 100-569 (Committee on Energy and Natural Resources).
55. Federal Archeology: The Current Program, Ch. 5, p. 30 (1989), and the draft report for fiscal year 1987, Ch. 5, pp 2-3.
56. Examples of such authorities are State statutes for trespass or cultural properties protection Statutes, Federal criminal statutes such as 18 U.S.C. 1361, Damage to Government Property, or National Park Service and USDA Forest Service regulations such as 36 C.F.R Part 2.1(a)(1)(ii), taking of potsherds from public land, or 36 C.F.R. Part 2. 10(B)(10), camping outside a designated area.
57. In total, the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service manage nearly 700 million acres of Federal land.
58. Note 54, page 33.
59. United States v. Jacques, CR 83-129-FR (D. Or., 1983), lasting three years. See also, the Channel Islands case listed in the LOOT clearinghouse that began in 1987 and involved more than 20 defendants (See Note 78).
60. Authority for the annual report is provided by the Reservoir Salvage Act of 1960 (P.L. 86-523; 74 Stat. 220, 221; 16 U.S.C. 469) as amended by the Archeological and Historic Preservation Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-291; 88 Stat. 174; 16 U.S.C. 469). Under this Act the Secretary of the Interior is to prepare and submit an annual report to the Congress each fiscal year on the projects, results and costs undertaken in the Federal archeology program. In addition, the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (P.L. 89-665; 80 Stat. 915; 16 U.S.C. 470) as amended (P.L. 91-243; P.L. 93-54. P.L. 94-422, P.L. 94-458, P.L. 96-199, P.L. 96-244, P.L. 96-515) requires Federal agencies, to the extent permitted by law and within available funds, to provide information, suggestions, estimates, and statistics to further the purposes of the Act. The report also is mandated by the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (P.L. 94-579; 90 Stat. 2743; 43 U.S.C. 1701), which is the primary basis for managing cultural resources on the public lands. Finally, ARPA directs the Secretary of the Interior to provide a separate component of the annual report that deals specifically with its provisions, including the permitted and unauthorized uses of archeological resources on public lands.
61. Briefing Statement, NPS Archeological Assistance Division, January 27, 1989, page 3.
62. The regulations were adopted in February 1984, (See Notes 29 and 30).
63. 16 U.S.C. 470ee amended at 102 Stat. 2983 (Nov. 3, 1988).
64. Ibid.
65. 16 U.S.C. 470mm, adding Section 14 to AP.PA.
66. Prior to the issuance of ARPA uniform regulations, this section to some extent created a due process problem since there were no mechanisms for the issuance of permits. Therefore, agencies published notices in the Federal Register clarifying that permits pending ARPA regulations would continue to be processed under the applicable sections of the Antiquities Act. Such publication also served as a reminder that ARPA neither amended nor replaced the Antiquities Act. See D. Green, "Prosecuting Under ARPA: What to Do Until the Regulations Arrive," in Cultural Resources Law Enforcement, p. 64, note 49.
67. This fourth proof defines the line between a felony and a misdemeanor, the later involving damages of $500 or less. Felony convictions for ARPA violations through 1984 carry a fine of up to $20,000 and two years in prison, or both, for the first offense. After 1984 the Comprehensive Crime Control Act (18 U.S.C. 3623) standardized maximum penalty amounts, allowing up to $100,000 for the first misdemeanor offense, and up to $250,000 for the first felony offense committed by individuals. The respective amounts are doubled when an organization, rather than an individual, has committed the violation. Although ARPA exempts arrowheads from surface collection, such collection is still in violation of the Antiquities Act, except in the Ninth Circuit under Diaz, as well as under the Theft of Government Property statute, 18 U.S.C. 641, (See Note 50).
68. In this case, Shumway was found not guilty as to the two felony ARPA counts, but guilty as to destruction of government property.
69. K. Jones and Guevara were sentenced each to 1 year in jail and a $1,000 fine; while T. Jones received an 18-month jail sentence and $1,000 fine.
70. Civil fines based upon site damage assessments were levied in Brady (See page 7), but the $38,479.42 was declared uncollectible in 1982. Collection of another civil fine of $18,216 for damage to 11 separate areas in a 1981 case (See LOOT Clearinghouse) was attempted under the Federal Collections Act and declared uncollectible in 1984.
71. See LOOT Clearinghouse case, November, 1981.
72. P. Nickens, S. Larralde, and G. Tucker, Jr. "A Survey of Vandalism to Archaeological Resources in Southwestern Colorado," Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resources Series, No. 11, Denver, Colorado, 1981, pp. 12, 24.
73. These figures are misleading to some extent, since in one case prosecuted under another statute there were a total of 20 defendants. See LOOT Clearinghouse report on the Channel Islands shipwreck case prosecuted under NOAA regulations and the California Penal Code (See Note 76).
74. In the Lower Suwanee digging case (November 5, 1987, LOOT Clearinghouse report) the judge reduced the $200 civil fine on each defendant to $60 "because they didn't find anything."
75. St. Francis National Forest case (January, 1987, LOOT Clearinghouse report).
76. "Shipwreck Looters Fined $132,000 in History's Biggest Case," Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Press Release, October 25, 1990. Altogether in this case, 20 individuals were charged with 52 civil and criminal violations of Federal and State laws. The largest single civil fine was $100,000 assessed against the dive boat operator for violating National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration regulations regarding historic shipwrecks within a National Marine Sanctuary.
77. Lack of access aside, some known offenders will not be deterred. Convicted looters and vandals simply move their activities into other States.
78. It is important to note that the second jury trial felony conviction under ARPA occurred in 1990. The "Dry Hill" case involved 10 defendants who looted an unrecorded site in the Cherokee National Forest that contained burial remains of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee. The case resulted in 10 felony convictions, 4 misdemeanor criminal convictions, $3,290.62 assessed in lines, $11,500 ordered in restitution, and prison sentences varying from 6 months to 22 months for some of the defendants. Additional penalties included probationary periods of up to 5 years, with 3 defendants required to provide 300 hours each in community service. All defendants were banned from the National Forest for their respective probationary periods. [United States v. Charlton No. 290-73, E.D. Tennessee, October 1990].
79. Among the agencies required to respond are the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Fish and Wildlife Service, Mineral Management Service, National Park Service, Territorial and Insular Affairs, Department of Justice, Department of Labor, National Air and Space Administration, National Capitol Planning Commission, Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation, Tennessee Valley Authority, Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Railroad Administration, Urban Mass Transit Administration, Veterans Administration, Department of Education, Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Communications Commission, General Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Forest Service, Rural Electrification Administration, Soil Conservation Service, Economic Development Administration, the Army, Navy, and Air Force, and the Army Corps of Engineers.
80. Although the Department of justice audits the 192 United States Attorneys on a monthly basis, there is no section of the audit that references cultural resources crimes.
81. Sometimes a group of LOOT forms accompany the annual report questionnaire, but often these are sent separately to NPS throughout the year.
82. LOOT Clearinghouse, Preliminary Draft prepared for the Society for American Archaeology Anti-Looting Working Conference, Taos, New Mexico, May 7-12, 1989, by the NPS Departmental Consulting Archeologist, Archeological Assistance Division, Washington, DC.
83. The 1988 report on the annual questionnaire from TVA states the frustration: "We have hundreds of sites being looted. We are documenting the destruction, but we are seldom able to document the individuals doing the digging, or how many acts of digging have produced the appalling conditions we document."
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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says Russian President Vladimir Putin is "delusional."
"This is all made up," Albright said Tuesday on CNN's "New Day," referring to Putin's comments earlier in the day that Russia's military presence in Crimea is a response to requests for assistance.
"And I think it's part of a much longer-term plan that Putin has had, which is to try to recreate some form of relationship between Ukraine and Moscow," she continued.
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Albright said she agrees with German Chancellor Angela Merkel's recent comment that Putin is living "in another world."
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Pope Benedict XVI is on Twitter, and he tweets from an iPad.
His Holiness sent out an initial tweet, announcing the launch of a Vatican news portal. Vatican officials said the Pope personally sent out the social networking missive.
"Dear Friends, I just launched News.va Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI," read the tweet.
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The day's top national and international news.
The tweet was sent using Twitter's iPad app, meaning the head of the Catholic Church has an iPad. The message went out a day before the 60the anniversary of Benedict's ordination as a priest.
The news portal aggregates information from the Vatican's various media platforms. The portal was launched for the feast day of St. Peter and Paul, which falls on June 29 but officially begins with a vesper service June 28.
The site will be a one-stop shop for articles republished from L'Osservatore Romano, Vatican Radio, Vatican Television and other Vatican media outlets. It will also provide livestreams of papal events and post links to Facebook walls of homilies and speeches.
Msgr. Claudio Maria Celli said the Vatican hopes to use the Internet and power of the social media to disseminate the message of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.
"I think we must educate the Roman Curia of what is the real meaning of communication," said Msgr. Celli, who will manage the portal. "Little by little, they will perceive that this is the real meaning to be present, to have a relevance."
The 83-year-old pontiff is not known to embrace technology, preferring to write out his speeches in longhand. He said earlier this year that the Internet provided the opportunity to build relationships and fellowship, but he warned of its pitfalls.
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What amazes me is how much freebsd is an unknown beast.
So much unknown and such a beast.
Full and complete operating system, far better then Linux, and many people
never heard of it.
From what I read on the net, the new versions of the Linux kernel is indeed a mess.
lol , Mr Barti's waging an OS war .. how funny it turns as we -newbies- start the flame .. hehe .. well, true hackers know which is which .. why .. how .. so they approach issues like these with care or with zen silence ..
barti , I've always loved Linux for specific purposes :
Linux4astro --> astronomy
Poseidon Linux (based on PcLinuxOS) ---> oceanography
wattOS ---> youtube !!!! . old machines ..
Backtrack ---> (sadly now based on ubuntu) sec/
ZenEdu --> education
plamo/doudou/eduknoppix etc ---> children
plus numerous localized Gnu-Linuxes ... plus many other Xfuncion or Xpurpose Gnu-Linuxes
a need .. a passion .. a legacy .. a course of events .. digital karma :-)
This thread has been split from its parent:
...as conversation was moving away from discussing OpenBSD window managers & more towards comparisons to Linux.
barti, I suspect you are attempting to understand the different culture found in the *BSD world as opposed to what you saw in the Linux world, & you are trying to put all the inconsistencies together. You would be doing yourself a greater favor if you would try to organize your thoughts more carefully into a more discernible narrative before posting.
It would also help your readers try to understand what is most fundamentally important to you at this time.
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religions, worst damnation of mankind
"If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened." Linus Torvalds
Linux is not UNIX! Face it! It is not an insult. It is fact: GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not UNIX".
vermaden's: links resources deviantart spreadbsd
The HURD is just a big pile of fail. Even more than most other GNU projects.
Minix 3 actually looks quite nice. Unlike earlier Minix versions, it's not just a research system anymore but aimed to be a "real" desktop/server OS.
I'd like to explore it someday, but these days my computer playtime is pretty limited ...
Here's a video of Andrew Tanenbaum explaining Minix 3:
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
I wonder...
What will happen to Plan 9 from Outer Spa... Bell Labs, I mean...
The future operating systems, such as this, will affect us - in the future, for this is where You and I are going to spend the rest of our lives...
God help us - in the future...
And now, for sumtin' serious... I've read that Plan9 wasn't deployed world-wide, because it was ahead of it's times for like 30-40 years or so... What do You think about it?
1. I was reasonably sure how to install it and that it would support my hardware.
2. I had a mouse that makes acme's chording comfortable
3. I knew for sure it ran firefox (or a suitable replacement), emacs (I'd need time to ween myself off emacs and onto acme), an X server (can it?), an RDP client, and various other software (it was also unclear to me whether it had any kind of C++ compiler beyond cfront, whether it ran any kind of Scheme compiler supporting more than R4RS or even scsh, whether it had sbcl or any other implementation of CL).
My impression was that the problem with plan 9 was that it needs a group of middling hackers outside the core group to do all the porting or new creation of programs that its creators turn their nose at (web browsing is the worst for keeping out new clean OS designs with all the crap we've come to need to use common sites and how much work that takes to support). Unless that happens it's like Oberon -- a prototype showing the way things maybe ought to be but lacking lots of stuff many of us are used to having. You can tell me all this other stuff is just sugar, fat, and salt, but probably that won't be enough to motivate me to do all my computing plan 9's way. If using OpenBSD meant I couldn't run anything beyond their base, I wouldn't use it either, as much as I like what they're doing.
Acme's pretty cool, though. Just need a better mouse.
Damn it, you're going to make me go on another plan9port or kick soon.
I tried plan 9 about a year or two ago. Performance wise I loved it, but the lack of ported software kept me from keeping the installation for more that 3 or 4 days.
But this post makes me want to try it again and maybe look into porting stuff to it.
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -Philip K. Dick
Well... For me plan9 was, so far, only a fun toy under virtual machine.
There's links! We're saved! ;-)
Wow... Imagine SteelBankCL on Plan9 on PrecisionBook 9000... Can You guys think of anything more hackerish?
Rollerblades grow themselves on your feets, young Jolie pops up on "faces" announcer... Halcyon on and on...
Lack of cpp compiler keeps me away from it. And, on the other hand, rio conception is something I really, really dont like - mouse driven WM, on which everything must be typed on keyboard... Kinda like a new ubuntu gui
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System was developed in times where AT&T facilities were at 'split' mode. Bell Labs was reformed, and renamed to Lucent Technologies. The Tenth Edition Unix, was the last one.
And If I may say, Research versions were developed mainly to code purity, and mostly by a small amount of people.
If you take a UNIX system family tree, You see that only the Sixth [1975] and Seventh Edition [1978] made an 'impulse' for the creation of BSD and for USG-USDL - System III and V projects. And these distributions were developed in large - mostly University research centres around the US, they improved not only a kernel [mostly to port Unix for different architectures], but mainly developed the User-land space, with lots of useful programs. Like finger which first appeared in 2 BSD, and by which Robert T. Morris, using gap in finger buffer, succeed to spread his Worm, around the Net.
The Unix V8 code was merged with USDL System V Release 2, but not with 4.2 and 2.9 BSD's.
And the Ninth Edition was the last one that spread own code to distributions mainly to BSD. The Tenth Edition was the last one, that ENDED original system development, and was not implemented to any fame distribution.
The Unix successor Plan 9 came up in times, were the large communities where focused on free software development, mainly using predecessors ideas from Unix distribution like System V and BSD.
And as we know It today system without a community [which produce daily use standards] is mostly dead system.
One more word about finger program.
I must say, that I am impressed. By accuracy of OpenBSD man pages.
In FreeBSD, NetBSD, know versions of Linux man pages there is note that, The finger command Appeared in 3.0BSD, only in OpenBSD manual states, The finger command Appeared in 2BSD.
Every program for the original PDP-7 Unix system was written in assembly language, and bare assembly language it was - for example, there were no macros.
Moreover, there was no loader or link-editor, so every program had to be complete in itself.
The first interesting language, as is mentioned by Dennis Ritchie, was a version of McClure's TMG that McIlroy implemented to PDP. [R. M. McClure, 'TMG--A Syntax-Directed Compiler,' Proc 20th ACM National Conf. 1968, pp. 262-74]
After TMG became available, Thomson decided that Unix could not pretend to offer a real computing service without Fortran, so he sat down to write a Fortran in TMG.
Instead, after a week of hard work, Thompson produced a definition of and a compiler for the new language. B language. There is a good article about it, that was written by S. C. Johnson and B. W. Kernighan, 'The Programming Language B,' Comp. Sci. Tech. Rep. #8, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ 1973.
B was much influenced by the BCPL language [ M. Richards, 'BCPL: A Tool for Compiler Writing and System Programming,' Proc. AFIPS SJCC 34 1969, pp. 557-66 ], other influences were Thompson's taste for 'spartan syntax', and the very small space into which the compiler had to fit.
The compiler produced simple interpretive code; although it and the programs it produced were rather slow, it made life much more pleasant.
The next step was made in 1971 when work began on what was to become the C language.
The story of the language developments from BCPL through B to C is told in D.M. Ritchie, S.C. Johnson, and M. E. Lesk, 'The C Programming Language,', Bell Sys. Tech. J., 57 No. 6 (July-August 1978), pp. 1991-2019
So I don't know is there any need to understand the root's of today's OS.
But we could talk. Anyway.
I don't know if there is a "need"...but I for one love this historical stuff, especially when the person posting was working in that time frame. When I was in college 20+ years ago and was studying C nowhere, that I recall, was B ever mentioned. It was only through *BSD forums that I learned this a few years ago.
Now you hit me with TMG! I'm definitely going to look for these books!
Thank you!
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -Philip K. Dick
Especially the text that was firstly published in 1974 in Communications of the ACM, and then reprinted with upgrades in BSTJ 1978, The UNIX Time-sharing System, by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.
Also Greg Lehey, on his website published classic Lions book, Commentary on Unix 6'th Edition with Source Code. [the source code of V 6 Unix is on different site.
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Thank You!
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -Philip K. Dick
I am planning to run an history OS museum with some of my friends in Poland.
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Ubisoft has officially announced its acquisition of THQ Montreal along with the publishing rights for South Park: Stick of Truth.
This year doesnt sound good seeing as it was supposed to launch in march, i bet its getting delayed to add useless uplay features noone wants. Just watch Ubisoft ruin this game.
I feel bad for Patrice Desilet(creator of assasins creed). He leaves Ubisoft with core members of Ubisoft Montreal then gets sued by Ubisoft wins the lawsuit. Goes to work for THQ at their new Montreal studio. THQ goes down and guess who buys the studio and the projects he was working on... Ubisoft. Thats just so bad for the guy.
Hopefully this comes out before the new consoles otherwise i might have to pass.
This year and every year after, according to Ubisoft's track record.
RIP South Park
Of course the game was going to flop anyway but now it will just flop harder.


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Hi, I'm Vivienne. I am a wife, mother of 4 boys, a DIYer and smart-aleck. At The V Spot you'll find lots of crafts, home projects, cooking and funny stories. If Erma Bombeck and MacGyver had a love child, that child might have turned out a little bit like me.
How do you like your eggs? (A faux Robin's egg tutorial.)
Scrambled..? Over easy..? PLASTIC..?
Um, no thanks for these.
Gather up a whole bunch of plastic Easter eggs.
Glue the sides together. I think the finished product looks better with the eggs that come in a top and bottom half, as opposed to two equal sides.
I used goop, but any glue, even regular old Elmer's would work.
Once they've dry, take them out to your scary spray painting area and give them a good shot of plastic primer. (This is important if you would like to keep the rest of your paint on the egg, as opposed to having it chip or smear off.)
Once they're coated with the primer and have had time to dry, you add the base coat. The base coat has some texture to it, which is important to help hide the little seam in the plastic where the two halves fit together.
I like Fleck-Stone the best for this, but if you can't get it at your local hardware store…. go ahead and use the Rustoleum Hammered Finish spray paint instead.
Spray the eggs and let them dry. Then turn them over and hit the remaining sides.
I wedged them together for this portion of the project. They are so light weight that the force from the spray can was blowing them around. This helped to keep them from rolling away.
You can separate them to keep them from sticking.
While they dry, get ready for the next step. Gather some light blue acrylic paint and a spray bottle.
Water down some paint. This is tricky. You don't want it too watery, but you don't want it too thick either. It is going to need to be thin enough to be sprayed but thick enough not to run.
Back to the eggs.
By the way, this is the Rustoleum Hammered Finish Egg:
This is the Fleck-Stone egg:
I just like the Fleck-Stone finish better.
Anyhow, back to adding the Robin's egg blue. Lightly mist the watered down blue paint over the eggs.
It will take several coats, allowing the misted paint to dry in between coats.
If you get all jumpy and impatient because you're trying to rush the process in order to get a blog post done, this will happen.
Don't be impatient. (By the way, this can be fixed by getting a little of the watered down paint on a Q-tip and dabbing away at the drips.) I don't paint all of the eggs blue. Some of them I leave only barely misted with the blue.
When they're done, they should look like this.
I love this old bird's nest!
I put them in apothecary jars too….
TIP OF THE DAY: The jars in my kitchen window get a lot of the afternoon sun which could turn them into little greenhouses and get them all steamed up.
To prevent the build up of moisture, I open up those little packets of silica gel and pour them in. (You know the ones that come in new handbags or in shoe boxes? Do Not Eat.)
They're clear and tiny and no one can see them at the bottom of the glass jars, but they absorb all of the moisture. Fabulous.
Anyway, that's how you turn a fluorescent plastic egg into a Robin's egg. Ta-da!
The Math: (and yes, I did break out the calculator for the fractions. shut up, shut up, shut up.)
The plastic eggs can be purchased at the Dollar Store ($1) I used 1/8 of a can of plastic primer (approx 60 cents) half a can of fleck stone paint (approx $3) and about a tsp of acrylic paint I already had (20 cents) So basically, a dozen eggs cost me $4.80


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Mike Adams
Natural News
Jan 7, 2013
All Americans who have been prescribed psychiatric medications could be denied their constitutional rights under gun control legislation expected to be introduced into the U.S. Senate on January 22nd. Although the actual text of the bill is not yet available to the public, the heavy emphasis on "mental health" in recent gun control discussions echoes the present-day denial of Second Amendment rights to veterans diagnosed with PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder).
In an effort to deny gun ownership "privileges" to as many Americans as possible, Sen. Feinstein and other proponents of total citizen disarmament could simply expand the definition of those deemed "mentally unfit" for gun purchases to include anyone who has ever been prescribed an antidepressant or a drug for ADHD.
I give credit for this realization to Jon Rappoport, editor of No More Fake News. In a phone conversation yesterday evening, he brought this to my attention, even describing psychiatrists as "the new cops" who get to determine whether you have any rights at all.
Conducting further research on the subject, I found that a national database of prescription drug users already exists. It was created by the National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act (NASPER) signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2005.
A government prescription drug surveillance program is already in place
The intent of the NASPRE law was to stop patients from "doc hopping" from one city or state to another in a scam to acquire prescription "controlled substances" such as powerful painkillers. But the effort to monitor controlled substances has morphed into something far more insidious: a multi-state, data-sharing prescription drug surveillance program now run by 48 states.
The website for that program is www.pmpalliance.org which lists its board members as heads of the very same pharmacies that sell controlled substances for profit. And guess where PMPalliance.org gets its funding? The U.S. Dept. of Justice.
This means Obama can simply issue an executive orderrequiring the DOJ start using the patient prescription surveillance data for a whole new reason: To add people to a "NO GUN BUY list" in much the same way people are mysteriously added to the TSA's "no-fly lists" today. (Once you're on the no-fly list, there's no way to remove yourself from it, no way to challenge being on the list, no due process and absolutely no ability to sue the government to try to get off the list.)
If you take antidepressants, you could be denied the right to self defense
The upshot of all this is that if you ever have purchased prescribed antidepressants or other psychiatric drugs, that record already exists in a government database that could soon be used against you as a weapon to deny you your constitutional rights.
All the government has to do is copy the entire database of psychiatric medication patients it already possesses, then paste that list into the FBI's instant gun-purchase background check system known as NICS.
Once flagged in the NICS database, you will never be able to legally purchase a firearm again in America.
Importantly, this action does not require any new laws to be passed by Congress. Obama can simply invoke this with an executive order, then demand the FBI and ATF begin to immediately enforce this new regulation, even if it is utterly unconstitutional.
Yet another reason to never purchase antidepressants or other psych drugs
The possibility of this "mental health crackdown" on Second Amendment rights is yet another reason to avoid ever purchasing or using such medications. Not only are SSRI drugs linked to violence and suicides; simply purchasing a bottle of such medications causes your name to be recorded in a government database as having done so. This can immediately flag you as "guilty" even if you've never done anything wrong.
Your prescription drug history can obviously be used against you, completely outside any court of law or due process. In the same way, counseling records of your sessions with psychologists may also be used against you. Although such records are supposed to be protected by law, those laws can simply be overridden by a single signature from President Obama, invoking a "national emergency for the children" or similarly manipulative language. As long as it's "for the children," you see, gutting the entire Bill of Rights is morally justifiable, isn't it?
Parents may be denied Second Amendment rights if their children are taking psychiatric drugs
It's not even necessary that you take the drugs yourself in order to be added to the "no gun buy list." Merely having your children on such drugs could be sufficient to have your name added to the list.
Why? Because, as you may recall, the Sandy Hook shooting in Connecticut involved a young man undergoing psychiatric treatment who stole firearms from his mother and used them to carry out the crime. Thus, government lawyers or bureaucrats can simply argue that no household in which a psychiatric drug patient resides can be allowed to purchase or possess any firearms of any kind.
Don't think this is possible? Ten years ago, nobody would have thought the TSA would be sexually molesting elderly woman at the airports. Nobody thought the U.S. President would sign a law "legalizing" secret arrests and detainment of U.S. citizens. Nobody thought the government would take over health care and thereby build a federal database of patient records. Nobody ever thought the government would launch a network of domestic surveillance drones to spy on us from the skies. And on top of all that, Obama promised he would never come after your guns.
The road to tyranny is paved with "nobody ever thought" realizations. This is why it's so important to keep government small and out of our private lives. When the government doesn't run healthcare, it doesn't have access to patient prescription records. When the government doesn't control what food you can buy and sell, we don't end up with armed raids on raw milk distributors. When the government doesn't run the education system, we don't end up with insanely stupid ideas like announcing all our children are completely unprotected by posting "Gun Free Zone" signs outside public schools. (That was a federal program, can't you tell?)
Get the government out of our lives and we'll have no wars, no terrorism, no overpriced health care and no school shootings. The government is the PROBLEM. The solution is to drastically cut the size and scope of government.
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text: First I was told that current price have to surpass $70 / barrel to match the peak set in 1980. Next I was told it is $80 per barrel. And NOW I'm told it is $90 per barrel. My question is this "What the ukfc???"The record close on the New York Mercantile Exchange was set last October at $55.17 a barrel, although prices would have to surpass $90 a barrel to meet the inflation-adjusted peak set in 1980.


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The gun control debate is back, as unreasonable as ever, and somehow it has snared sports cars into an inane analogy that seeks to push the pro-gun agenda.
Ever since last week's tragedy in Newtown, Conn., I've heard one misinformed moron after another step up to news cameras to declare with certainty, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people." Regardless of the fact that no one besides the military and SWAT teams needs assault rifles, their reasoning is that taking away guns won't solve the problem America seems to be having with mass shootings.
Now, some idiot has added to that noise by creating a Facebook page that uses the same logic to call for a ban on Ford Mustangs and other sports cars. Because, you know, sports cars are deadly weapons compared to minivans like assault rifles are dangerous compared to hunting rifles and should be banned. Right.
Today there was a terrible crash involving two pedestrians and a Ford Mustang. The car was driving too fast , swerved and ran straight into two pedestrians kiling them instantly. Where is the outrage for them? They were innocent pedestrians walking down the street when suddenly this fast sports car is out of control and kills them both. How tragic and sad. How many more people will be killed this year by sports cars? Enough is enough already people.
Hilariously, the commentariat has fielded a good number of people who don't make the connection between Ban the Ford Mustang's message and the call to ban assault rifles. Accordingly, there have been many angry comments from loyal Mustang aficionados. One hapless 16-year-old launched into an impassioned plea to the page's administrator to see the error of his ways. He waxed eloquent about his drag slick-equipped '82 Mustang and the beauty of the drag racing hobby and, in that respect, touched our gearhead hearts. But others weren't so friendly in their misguided replies.
Take that you fuckin' pussy!!! Yeah, anyway, that's funny and all, but the fact that anyone would have the gall to compare sports cars to assault rifles gets me a little hot under the collar. Even its very name, assault rifle, implies that it's designed for extreme violence. Clearly, such is not the case with sports cars, so the analogy doesn't work at all.
Back to the gearhead 16-year-old, we feel your pain, kid, but you're missing the point. This isn't about your beloved Mustang, it's about douchebags who want dumb things down by saying that you building a drag car and racing it on the weekends is somehow akin to someone owning a safe full of AR-15s that could, in the wrong hands, become the untimely end of a lot of people.
Then there's the issue of statistics. Mr. Ban the Ford Mustang Facebook page uses a series of presumably Googled newspaper articles about Ford Mustangs involved in deadly crashes to imply that the cars are deadly. But nowhere does this misleadingly sensational troll bother to share with us how many of these deadly pony cars are rampaging public roads. So I've done the work for him.
In 2011, Americans bought 13.1 million cars. Of those, 70,348, or about half a percent, were Ford Mustangs. Now let's compare firearms sales numbers and see who comes out on top. The good ol' U.S. of A. purchased 10.8 million firearms last year. More than 2 million of those were rifles, and because the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives doesn't break down the data further than that, we have to go by an old article using 2009 National Rifle Association numbers to determine that about 400,000 of those — 3.7 percent of all firearms — were AR-15s.
But while Mustang sales have come down since 2005, AR-15s have been selling like hotcakes. Why? First and foremost because guns are big business. But also because some people are afraid they won't be able to buy the fun boom toys if the big, bad federal government reinstitutes the Clinton-era assault weapons ban the Bush administration allowed to expire in 2004. Others have been convinced by gun rights advocacy groups that they need assault rifles to handle everything from home invaders to socialist government plots. (There are a number of these organizations — such as the rabidly pro-2nd Amendment Gun Owners of America — around, but since they're politically oriented organizations, it's difficult to find out where their money comes from. I have a few guesses).
Let's look at a few more statistics to further debunk Ban the Ford Mustang's sports car-assault weapons comparison. While car-related deaths have plummeted from more than 50,000 in 1979 to 32,367 in 2011 (keep in mind that there are a lot more people and cars now than there were then), deaths caused by firearms in 2010 were at 31,347. That's down from the gangsta rap days of 1993, but according to Center for Disease Control stats, that number has been creeping back up since 2000.
Just this year, mass shootings in America claimed 12 in Aurora, Colo., six in Oak Creek, Wis., six in Minneapolis, Minn., three in Brookfield, Wis., and 27 last week in Newtown. That's 54 mass shooting fatalities, which doesn't include the scores of people who were injured and/or emotionally scarred by those horrific events.
Considering that highway fatalities are on the wane and gun ownership on the rise, that should tell us something. That something is that cars and guns have absolutely nothing in common. Cars are for transportation and, sometimes, sport, but their main role is as a conveyance. Firearms — even assault rifles — can be used for sport, too, but at a time when there are more people in the United States than ever before in history, we live too close together for anyone to need assault rifles with 30-round magazines. You want to hunt? A bolt action rifle with a five-round magazine works great.
As far as my long-winded denunciation of Ban the Ford Mustang guy's puerile attempt at satire goes, the bottom line is this: Assault rifles are not sporty. Sure they can be fun as hell to shoot, but if you want to play with big guns, join the army.
Photo credit: Facebook; Associated Press


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