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22 "Fast and Furious" facts: What did the Obama White House know and when did they know it?
"Fast and Furious" is not about cars and women but about guns, drugs and murder!
"What did the President know, and when did he know it?": Howard Baker, Vice Chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee
What do President Obama and Eric Holder know, when did they know it and will the "Fast and Furious" operation to sell weapons to Mexican drug cartels be the scandal that brings the Obama White House down?
Are there still any truly investigative mainstream media journalists out there along the lines of Woodward and Bernstein of The Washington Post, who actually felt it was their job and duty to break the Watergate story?
There actually may be a few still out there (H/T Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News)!
22 "Fast and Furious" facts that could be extremely problematic for the Obama White House and for the President's 2012 reelection bid!
#1 During Operation Fast and Furious, ATF agents purposely allowed thousands of guns to be sold to individuals that they believed would get them into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.
#2 ATF agents were specifically ordered not to intercept the guns before they crossed the border. The following is a brief excerpt from a CBS News report that detailed the fierce objections that many ATF agents expressed when they were ordered to stand down….
On the phone, one Project Gunrunner source (who didn't want to be identified) told us just how many guns flooded the black market under ATF's watchful eye. "The numbers are over 2,500 on that case by the way. That's how many guns were sold – including some 50-calibers they let walk."
50-caliber weapons are fearsome. For months, ATF agents followed 50-caliber Barrett rifles and other guns believed headed for the Mexican border, but were ordered to let them go. One distraught agent was often overheard on ATF radios begging and pleading to be allowed to intercept transports. The answer: "Negative. Stand down."
CBS News has been told at least 11 ATF agents and senior managers voiced fierce opposition to the strategy. "It got ugly…" said one. There was "screaming and yelling" says another. A third warned: "this is crazy, somebody is gonna to get killed."
#3 Operation Fast and Furious remained a secret until the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry last December. Two guns that were sold during Operation Fast and Furious were found at the scene of the murder.
#4 ATF Special Agent John Dodson was one of the first to blow the whistle on Operation Fast and Furious. Dodson explained to the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee on June 15, 2011 that many ATF agents were becoming extremely frustrated when they were ordered to cut off surveillance on the weapons that were being sold because they knew "that just days after these purchases, the guns that we saw these individuals buy would begin turning up at crime scenes in the United States and Mexico."
#5 It appears that Operation Fast and Furious began some time around September 2009. At that time, the ATF began pressuring gun shops near the border with Mexico to participate in a new covert operation that was being set up. The gun storeowners were told to help the ATF get guns into the hands of people that would take them back to the Mexican drug cartels.
The following description of the mechanics of Operation Fast and Furious comes from a recent Los Angeles Times article….
In the fall of 2009, ATF agents installed a secret phone line and hidden cameras in a ceiling panel and wall at Andre Howard's Lone Wolf gun store. They gave him one basic instruction: Sell guns to every illegal purchaser who walks through the door.
For 15 months, Howard did as he was told. To customers with phony IDs or wads of cash he normally would have turned away, he sold pistols, rifles and semiautomatics. He was assured by the ATF that they would follow the guns, and that the surveillance would lead the agents to the violent Mexican drug cartels on the Southwest border.
When Howard heard nothing about any arrests, he questioned the agents. Keep selling, they told him. So hundreds of thousands of dollars more in weapons, including .50-caliber sniper rifles, walked out of the front door of his store in a Glendale, Ariz., strip mall.
#6 In some gun stores, cameras were set up so that top ATF officials could actually watch these transactions take place. Back in June, U.S. Representative Darrell Issa stated the following….
"Acting Director Melson was able to sit at his desk in Washington and himself watch a live feed of straw buyers entering the gun stores and purchasing dozens of AK-47 variants."
#7 It has also come out that in some cases ATF agents were actually the ones buying the guns and getting them into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. The following is how author Michael A. Walsh recently explained this in an article in the New York Post….
This just might be the smoking gun we've been waiting for to break the festering "Fast and Furious" gun-running scandal wide open: the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives apparently ordered one of its own agents to purchase firearms with taxpayer money, and sell them directly to a Mexican drug cartel.
Let that sink in: After months of pretending that "Fast and Furious" was a botched surveillance operation of illegal gun-running spearheaded by the ATF and the US attorney's office in Phoenix, it turns out that the government itself was selling guns to the bad guys.
#8 According to the Los Angeles Times, guns that were purchased during Operation Fast and Furious have "turned up at dozens of additional Mexican crime scenes, with an unconfirmed toll of at least 150 people killed or wounded."
#9 Mexican authorities were never informed that thousands upon thousands of guns were being allowed into Mexico.
#10 Authorities in Mexico have asked the U.S. government over and over to explain what in the world happened during Operation Fast and Furious but they have not been given an adequate answer. In fact, according to the Los Angeles Times, the Obama administration has not even responded to questions from the attorney general of Mexico….
Marisela Morales, Mexico's attorney general and a longtime favorite of American law enforcement agents in Mexico, told The Times that she first learned about Fast and Furious from news reports. And to this day, she said, U.S. officials have not briefed her on the operation gone awry, nor have they apologized.
#11 U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has been withholding key documents about Fast and Furious from Congress and has been consistently stonewalling U.S. Representative Darrell Issa, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley and other members of Congress that have attempted to look into this matter.
#12 The acting director of the ATF, Kenneth Melson, had been cooperating with the investigation. At the end of August he was suddenly transferred to the Justice Department's Office of Legal Policy.
#13 Several other key officials that were heavily involved in Operation Fast and Furious actually got promoted.
#14 On May 3rd, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder testified under oath in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Operation Fast and Furious. During that testimony, Holder made the following statement….
"I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks."
#15 Since that time, a large amount of evidence has come out that Holder was not telling the truth. For example, a recent Fox News article discussed some of the very revealing memos about Fast and Furious that have been discovered recently….
However, newly discovered memos suggest otherwise. For instance, one memo dated July 2010 shows Michael Walther, director of the National Drug Intelligence Center, told Holder that straw buyers in the Fast and Furious operation "are responsible for the purchase of 1,500 firearms that were then supplied to the Mexican drug trafficking cartels."
Other documents also indicate that Holder began receiving weekly briefings on the program from the National Drug Intelligence Center "beginning, at the latest, on July 5, 2010,"
#16 Holder now claims that he simply misunderstood the question. He now says that he had heard of Operation Fast and Furious previously but that he was not aware of the specific details.
#17 Emails exchanged between two Department of Justice officials last October make it abundantly clear that high-level officials at the DOJ were very aware of what was going on…
Two Justice Department officials mulled it over in an email exchange Oct. 18, 2010. "It's a tricky case given the number of guns that have walked but is a significant set of prosecutions," says Jason Weinstein, Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division. Deputy Chief of the National Gang Unit James Trusty replies, "I'm not sure how much grief we get for 'guns walking.' It may be more like; "Finally they're going after people who sent guns down there."
#18 House Republicans are now asking for a special prosecutor to be appointed to investigate whether or not U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder lied to Congress during his recent testimony in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Operation Fast and Furious.
#19 U.S. Representative Darrell Issa believes that those involved in the Fast and Furious gun trafficking operation may have violated international arms trafficking agreements and could potentially face very serious criminal charges.
#20 U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley is absolutely convinced that a major cover-up is going on….
"But I can tell you this. They're doing everything they can, in a fast and furious way, to cover up all the evidence or stonewalling us. But here's the issue, if he didn't perjure himself and didn't know about it, the best way that they can help us, Congressman Issa and me, is to just issue all the documents that we ask for and those documents will prove one way or the other right or wrong."
#21 Did Barack Obama ever know about Operation Fast and Furious? He says that he did not authorize the program. On March 22, 2011 Obama made the following statement….
"I did not authorize [Fast and Furious]. Eric Holder, the attorney general, did not authorize it. There may be a situation here in which a serious mistake was made. If that's the case, then we'll find — find out and we'll hold somebody accountable."
#22 CBS News investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson claimed on the Laura Ingraham show the other day that officials in the Obama administration were literally screaming and yelling at her for aggressively investigating the Fast and Furious scandal….
Ingraham: So they were literally screaming at you? ?Attkisson: Yes. Well the DOJ woman was just yelling at me. The guy from the White House on Friday night literally screamed at me and cussed at me. [Laura: Who was the person? Who was the person at Justice screaming?] Eric Schultz. Oh, the person screaming was [DOJ spokeswoman] Tracy Schmaler, she was yelling not screaming. And the person who screamed at me was Eric Schultz at the White House."


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MPDD Working Paper on In which industries to invest? Aligning market and development incentives in Myanmar
This paper argues that, with the removal of international sanctions and the opening up of the economy, fostering economic activity and facilitating investment in new and more productive industries will best facilitate inclusive economic growth in Myanmar. With a perspective that emphasizes the role of structural transformation, this paper presents a model describing how this can best be facilitated with the use of strategies that push towards diversification, particularly in the direction of more productive economic activities. It also presents a methodology to identify diversification opportunities based on trade data and presents a list of specific industries and products that will best contribute towards this process.

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I am very seldom afforded the luxury of running errands alone. If I don't have all seven kiddos tagging along for the ride, I will at least have a couple. While an afternoon of running around would be most pleasant spent alone, I'm certainly not complaining about having my young'ens in tow more often than not. In fact, I've become quite used to it and have some simple tips to share for making your afternoon of dragging taking your kids along for the ride a smooth one.
1. Allow yourself plenty of time
First of all, be sure you have plenty of time while out and about. Inevitably there will be a need to stop to go potty, find a drinking fountain, or wait for a dawdling child. Now, I know his isn't always possible, but it's a good idea to add in some extra time when planning an afternoon full of lots of stops.
Another great idea is to be sure you don't run out the door in a hurried and stressed. There have been more times than I'd like to admit when I've been yelling at a child, as we're rushing out the door, because he couldn't find his shoes. All because I was rushed. This is not a great start to an afternoon of running errands. Trust me.
2. Lay out clear expectations
My children are required to adhere to certain rules, whether we are at home or out and about. However, there are extra rules they must obey when we are in public. Mostly because I don't want to lose one of them, but also because I don't want them wreaking havoc during our run. I always try to remind them of these rules as we head out of our driveway.
I also tell them exactly what I require of them before we arrive at our first destination. for one particular trip, it may be imperative, for my own sanity, that they not ask any questions about where we are going, how long we wil be there, or what we are getting. At the beginning of other trips, however, I give them an overview of what they can expect – where we will go, when we will head home, etc.
Before we even set foot in to a store, I may offer treats for good behavior. By this I mean a small reward for staying close by, helping with a younger child, not begging to be able to buy something, or just being pleasant. How does this differ from a bribe? you ask. Well, the biggest difference is that it is offered ahead of time and not in the middle of a rough time, just to avoid a scene or maintain my own sanity. (Sometimes, however, I have been known to resort to bribery.)
3. Keep everyone busy
Yesterday we had a lot to do. Just one of the things on my to-do list included finding a couple of new items for my trip to San Diego this weekend. My kids were less than thrilled as we pulled in to the Ross parking lot. I wanted to try to make this a fun shopping trip for all of us, so I created a game that got everyone excited. The goal of the game was to find the most sparkly item – whether it be a dress, a top, or a pair of shoes. Off we went, with the promise of prizes for all the winners. It worked beautifully!
I use this same idea when we go grocery shopping – I assign part of my list to each of the older kids and ask the younger kids to help me pick out certain items. Sometimes we'll even brainstorm new meal ideas as we stroll along the aisles. Keeping everyone busy is a fantastic way to ensure they all stay occupied enough to leave each other alone. And, it assures they understand we are there to accomplish a goal and then we're done!
4. Don't leave home without an extra dose of patience
You know as well as I do, regardless of how many kids you have, that these afternoons of running errands hardly ever go as planned. This is where that extra patience comes to play. Don't leave home without it!
How do you accomplish a successful afternoon of running errands with your kiddos?
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Rihanna on What It's Like Going "Nude"
Rihanna has had a big year in the music industry, including a No. 1 album, Unapologetic, along with winning the video of the year for "We Found Love" at the MTV Video Music Awards. But that's not the only industry she's taking by storm. Rihanna launched her third fragrance, Nude, over the weekend. Watch now to see the singer talk about which feature she prefers to play up, as well as why her new perfume is like "waking up in the morning naked." On Kirbie Johnson: H&M leopard top.


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The findings suggest that there is a window of opportunity for Vietnam to benefit from pre-emptive action.
UNU-WIDER / Jan 2014
Microfinance evaluations reveal a positive impact on per capita income, non-land asset value and poverty incidence.
UNU-WIDER / Dec 2013
Foreign aid is a significant element of Uganda's long-run fiscal system.
UNU-WIDER / Dec 2013
While the majority of interventions against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria had positive short-term effects, these were frequently not translated into long-term sustainable results.
UNU-WIDER / Dec 2013
Countries with high fertility rates and large populations tend to receive more family planning aid.
UNU-WIDER / Dec 2013
An increase in the share of the government budget allocated to education and health improves overall human development.
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But campaign watchdogs are sounding the alarm about the group's lack on transparency. In late 2010, Americans Elect changed its tax status from a tax-exempt 527 group to a 501(c)(4), or social-welfare organization—the same classification as Crossroads GPS and other dark money outfits. Under tax law, such groups are not permitted to make political advocacy the majority of their activity. Unlike 527 groups, which must publicly disclose its donors, 501(c)(4)s are under no such obligations.
In September, campaign finance watchdogs Democracy 21 and the Campaign Legal Center requested that the IRS investigate whether Americans Elect and several other 501(c)(4)s qualify for tax-exempt status. Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, says that Americans Elect is functioning like a political party, making it ineligible for tax exemption. "A political party cannot be a social-welfare organization under our tax laws," Wertheimer says. "The danger to the integrity of the electoral system is the failure to disclose their donors, which is essential information in our political process."
Dan Winslow, Americans Elect's chief legal counsel, says the recent furor over dark-money groups "has been directed towards 501(c)(4)s that are actually [political] advocacy organizations, advancing the interests of an identifiable candidate or group of candidates." But because Americans Elect focuses on reforming the election system and not on political advocacy, Winslow argues that it shouldn't be lumped in with the others.
Americans Elect officials say they need secret contributions in order to upend a sclerotic system. "We have to be able to raise significant amounts of money to be able to take on the status quo," says Kahlil Byrd, Americans Elect's chief executive officer. Were the group compelled to disclose its donors, he says, there would be "a chilling effect…on people's willingness to participate in this process." That is, increased disclosure would dissuade potential big donors. (Before the group switched its tax status, the group received $1.55 million from its chairman, former financier Peter Ackerman, whose son, Elliot, is the group's COO.)
Americans Elect officials also have refused to disclose details about individual state spending. "We don't talk about specific budget numbers in each state," says Byrd, a former spokesperson for Massachusetts Govs. Mitt Romney and Deval Patrick. "What we will say is that it is an expensive proposition."
The source of Americans Elect's money is not the only cause for concern. Pamela Smith, president of VerifiedVoting.org, a voters' advocacy group, questions the group's reliance on internet voting. Smith and other election experts argue that it is insecure and exceedingly difficult to audit.
Kahlil Byrd and Dan Winslow agree that internet voting is not a reliable tool for general or primary elections. But they insist that what Americans Elect is doing is "very different," and that the voting in the online convention will be audited. By who? Americans Elect is "in the early stages of those conversations," Byrd says.
Based on what Americans Elect officials have told her in a series of conversations, Smith remains unconvinced that they have brought on the right people and the right technology to implement a transparent, easily audited internet voting system. "If you allow it to be used in public elections without assurance that the results are verifiably accurate, that is an extraordinary and unnecessary risk to democracy," she says.
But Americans Elect's national profile continues to grow. According to its website, it has already collected over 2 million signatures nationwide in its effort to get on state ballots, and drawn suggestions from over 6.5 million people to help draw up a party platform—all this, even as concerns about its dark money and voting system continue to mount.
"They say…its time to stop playing by the old rules," Fred Wertheimer says. "But these are the old rules that they're trying to play by."


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The Top 100 Retailers for 2008 were selected because they excel in three areas: market share, community outreach and store appearance. However, each store has its own unique formula for success. We asked each store owner to share what he or she believes sets them apart for their peers. Click on the link to read what they had to say.
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Needlepoint: Basketweave Stitch
Needlepoint is a form of counted thread embroidery in which yarn is stitched through a stiff open weave canvas. Below you will find a quick tutorial on the Basketweave Stitch, one of the most common and durible stitches in the needlepoint tradition. For more in-depth instructions on how to needlepoint we highly recommend the TNNA How To Needlepoint Booklet.
Pictured above is one of the many beautiful Charley Harper canvases we carry. Once you've finished your canvas, check out Molly's project journal for how to Finish a Needlepoint Pillow.
Anchor the Thread
To start, bring your threaded needle through the canvas from back to front, leaving a short tail in the back of the fabric. You will work the first several stitches over the tail to secure your floss.
Work Across the Canvas
You will work in rows that extend diagonally down the canvas. As stated above, bring your threaded needle through the canvas from back to front. To start, come through to the front at 1 and through to the back at 2.
For your second stitch, come to the front at 3 and to the back at 4. Continue in this fashion. After going to the back at 6, you will come to the front at 7 on the next row down. Continue working as indicated in the diagram above.
When you come to the end of your stitches (or your thread) weave in your tail on the back side of your work by neatly slipping it under a few strands of thread, either vertically or horizontally, so not to create a ridge on the right side of the canvas.
If you turn your canvas over to look at the wrong side, you will see where the name Basketweave comes from. It is the back of the canvas that shows off the structure of the stitch; it looks like a woven basket.
One comment on "Needlepoint: Basketweave Stitch"
Thanks for the info. I have been doing needlepoint for quite q while and never tried this stitching. I always did it back and for deom right to left. This stitch was suggested to me by other needlepointers. Thanks again.


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Just six months after the death of famed American polar explorer Admiral Richard E. Byrd, National Geographic Magazine published this striking map of Antarctica. A companion to the article "Year of Discovery Opens in Antarctica," this map captures the icy continent at a pivotal time in its exploration and contains a great amount of detail of both its geography and the history of the multi-national expeditions which have traversed it.
Coverage Area: Antarctica


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Syria has been accused of seriously violating the sovereignty of neighbouring Lebanon after its warplanes bombed the north of the country for the first time.
The US State Department said Syrian regime jets and helicopters fired rockets into northern Lebanon, hitting the Wadi al-Khayl area near the border town of Arsal.
France, which has troops in Lebanon as part of a UN peacekeeping force, condemned the air strikes.
"The air raid carried out by the armed forces of the Syrian regime in Lebanese territory ...constitutes a new and serious violation of Lebanon's sovereignty," foreign ministry spokesman Philippe Lalliot said in a statement.
US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland called the attack "a significant escalation in the violations of Lebanese sovereignty that the Syrian regime has been guilty of.
"These kinds of violations of sovereignty are absolutely unacceptable," she said.
Lebanon has publicly committed itself to staying neutral in the violence engulfing Syria, but the conflict has already exacerbated tensions and there are growing fears it could spill over into the country.
A high-ranking Lebanese army official told the AFP news agency that four missiles had been fired by Syrian warplanes in a mountainous, desert area, which observers said was ideal for the smuggling of arms and the flow of fighters across the border.
Meanwhile Syrian rebels said they had fired mortar bombs at the presidential palace, the Damascus International Airport and security buildings to mark the second anniversary of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
A statement posted on an opposition Facebook page said rebel groups had fired "a number of 120mm heavy calibre mortars ... in a joint operation coordinated with battalions operating in Damascus."
The reports could not be independently verified.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a network of activists across the country, said several rockets fell in districts near the presidential palace. But it said it could not confirm if the building was actually hit, nor whether there were any casualties.
Rebels who are fighting to end four decades of Assad family rule have overrun suburbs on the outskirts of the capital but are unable to break into the centre of the city.
They have hit the airport and the palace before, but Mr Assad is no longer believed to be living there.
Some 70,000 people have been killed over the past two years in a revolt that started with peaceful protests but descended into a civil war after Assad's forces shot and arrested thousands of opposition members.


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Thanks God for Duana. Because I am behind on tv. Way behind. Speaking of behind though, Duana never watched The West Wing at the time it aired and is doing so on DVD right now. I was at her place last week for a few episodes. Like, remember how f-cking great that show was? I still get goose bumps when I hear the opening music. Also, Josh Lyman's gait used to kill me. Jacek and I are locking ourselves in a cabin for two weeks in Tofino at the beginning of December. I'm making my video list. West Wing for sure. And I have to get caught up on Nurse Jackie too. And my book list is currently at 12 titles. So much, too much!
Anyway, thanks for joining us. Look forward to your comments and questions. And please remember we don't want you if you're a racist perv.


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Bill Harbeson
Bill Harbeson is the director of the Enforcement Division.
He previously served for five years as managing attorney of the enforcement section of the Motor Vehicle Division, Texas Department of Transportation. He was in private practice for 9 years with the firm Babb & Harbeson in Austin, where his firm specialized in complex commercial litigation involving state workers' compensation and employers' liability insurance coverages and federal maritime workers' compensation coverages. From 1992-1995 he served as Assistant General Counsel, Texas Workers' Compensation Insurance Facility, Austin, Texas. From 1988 to 1992 he was Deputy Insurance Commissioner and Acting Associate Commissioner for Compliance Program, Texas Department of Insurance, where he oversaw the market conduct, enforcement, licensing, investigations, and unauthorized insurance sections of the department. From 1987 to 1988 he served as Assistant County Attorney, Nueces County, Corpus Christi, Texas, in the Civil Division.
Mr. Harbeson holds a bachelor's degree from Tulane University, a masters degree from the University of Houston, and a law degree from South Texas College of Law. He served 30 years as a Navy judge advocate general officer with active duty-assignments during the period of 1981 to 1987 in Hawaii, Scotland and Kingsville, Texas. His reserve assignments included U.S. European Command, Germany, U.S. Embassy in Rome, Bahrain, Naples and Sigonela Italy, San Diego, Fort Worth and Washington, D.C. In 1991 he was mobilized and served overseas during Operation Desert Storm. He retired from the Navy in February, 2010, with the rank of Captain.
Mr. Harbeson is a member of the State Bar of Texas since May, 1981, and is admitted to practice before United States District Courts for Hawaii and the Western, Northern and Southern Districts of Texas, and the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
Bill resides with his wife, Dianne, in South Austin. Their son, George, is a graphic artist living in New York.


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Earthquake Storms
This is the kind of interesting read that can make you dream of switching fields. Both the title and subtitle are misleading, it's about much more than earthquake storms (a series of large quakes that strike the same fault close together in time), or even the San Andreas Fault, famous for being that volatile line that runs from the California redwoods to its southern deserts.
Although it does focus on ground shaking in California, it's also a compendium of earthquake lore that describes quakes in Turkey, Italy, and other places. One intriguing section describes how recent research confirms that the famous Delphi of Greek mythology was a site of earthquakes. The priestesses there supposedly sat before a crack in the earth and made prophecies. Scientists have found that the earth nearby released ethylene, a gas that is now known to cause trances.
The book begins with the narrative of a young San Franciscan mechanic who took a daily swim in the ocean. One morning he walked to the beach as always and after being whacked repeatedly by waves, then thrown upon the
sand, tried to stand up and could not. A long shaking ensued and he realized he was experiencing a major quake. When he could move his legs again, he ran over the sand which turned phosphorescent as he touched it. This was of course the great SF earthquake of 1906.
What I particularly liked about the book was how it incorporated biographies and the working habits of many Californian geological pioneers. It begins with California's first state geologist, Josiah Dwight Whitney, whose father wanted him to study law, but he resisted and studied earth science instead.
The state hired him to survey mineral deposits. After he arrived, several legislators urged him to tell them immediately where new mineral sightings were located. He said that he could not; he would publish them all at once and give everyone in the state an equal chance to mine them. This did not sit well with the officials.
Then after leaving his Eastern suits behind, donning denim and flannel, he tramped and rode a horse cart through the state. His first report was on paleontology, totally freaking the officials out—the last thing they wanted to discover was ancient reptiles. His pay and expenses was docked by half. His second report listed every active mine in the state, but did not include any new ones. The officials now lowered his pay to zero. His work is now considered "a masterpiece, exquisitely written."
Another geologist Grove Karl Gilbert was also imported from the east coast. When he took the train out West, he noticed how different the western mountain ranges were from the eastern ones. He called them "Basins and Ranges," a term still used to day. When he stared at the ranges he noticed that they were tilted at an angle. This leaning inspired him to believe that the earth had been uplifted and stretched. Previous to Gilbert's work, many believed that earthquakes were caused by chemical explosions under the earth.
Dvorak also introduced me to the science of paleoseismology which is fairly new--from the late 1960s. A young geology student named Kerry Sieh got curious about the last major quake before the '06 San Franciscan one. Against his professor's wishes he started biking and walking a 200 mile stretch of the San Andrea; he was looking for geological evidence of the 1857 quake about which little was known. Eventually, he found a spot where a creek poured off the San Gabriel Mountains into the Mojave. Here at a 30 foot erosion trench, with a simple shovel, he dug. Two feet below the surface, he found a broad warp in the ground. Later he used a backhoe and a bulldozer, and discovered by way of carbon dating the site of the 1857 earthquake and one of the 1812 earthquake (that struck Capistrano, the place of sparrows) and one that occurred in 1500. He found another one that dated back to 730 A.D.
Predictions: Will there be another big earthquake in California? Yes. And this is when the storms of the title come into play. It may be a major quake on the San Andreas or it may be a whole series of them. In any case, Californians should get ready.


text: William C. Harrison Cityscapes capture excitement in Black and White capturing the full impact of a scene. Working in black and white is generally thought of as a photographic skill, William C. Harrison of Portland, Maine had made his reputation doing it with pen and ink. His use of fine lines and dots textures produces intensities of light and shadow which gives the distinct impression of color on color. This ability is used with great effect in Harrison's panoramic sky cityscapes. Each drawing took up to 200 hours to complete, though Harrison says, "I'm really working all the time."Harrison, or "bil" as he sometimes signs his name, was born in Chesapeake, Virginia, in 1944. He had been a commercial success since the age of three when his grandfather paid him 25 cents an hour to draw anything he wanted to, just so long as he drew something. This led eventually to six years of formal art training in oil, acrylic, watercolor, and pen and ink. His closely rendered style is largely self-taught, however, and developed out from his 10 years of experience. "No matter what I'm doing, I'm always looking for that perfect view, the right light, the important detail. You could say that each drawing took all my life to do," he says.After he decided to do a particular scene, Harrison would spend hours choosing just the right angle. "Every town has a vantage point from which you can see its whole personality. That's what I look for," he said. He worked from photographs, and would take up to 150 color shots in order to find that one "just right" view.Why color photography and not black and white? Because Harrison achieved a dimension in his work that few others do by translating directly from color to black and white. Harrison had a photographic eye and worked in meticulous detail, leaving nothing out. "It's the opposite of impressionism," he said, "I try to capture what the eye sees."His work has appeared nationally in such publications as Better Homes and Gardens, The New Yorker, Field and Stream, and Wooden Boat. His technical understanding of printing led him to adapt his technique so prints of his work reproduce like the originals. Prints of Harrison's Cityscapes are signed, limited editions, and his originals are in demand. Some limited edition prints have sold out, and are now sought by collectors. He was determined to do at least one cityscape in each of the 50 States. Then he wanted to do the capital cities of Europe. And then? He would grin out through his beard, "And then, there's always the rest of the world."We lost Bil over Labor Day weekend, 2016. He will be sorely missed.


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I sincerely doubt many people who will read this have not made their mind up how to vote on Thursday, but wanted to offer my rationale for voting remain. This is undoubtedly the most important political issue that we have been asked to make a decision on in my life time, so it seemed worthwhile putting it into words.
Leaving the EU would be like playing geo-political Jenga. I am not an economist (although I believe some of predictions that economists have made about the referendum and discuss these below), so the argument that is actually most important to me is the geopolitical one. At the moment, the world seems like a very unstable place. It is hard to see how the UK leaving the EU would help stabilise it, and it seems likely to have exactly the opposite effect. Throughout this campaign, this argument has been caricatured as Brexit leading to continental war (a particular favourite example of this genre is this Daily Mirror article which sees no contradiction between the headline 'Brexit' could trigger World War Three, warns David Cameron and including the quote "No, I don't believe that leaving the EU would cause World War Three", also from David Cameron). This has been coupled with the argument from the leave campaign that the EU has very little to do with post-war peace in Europe, which is really down to NATO (Boris Johnson, for example, made this argument). This is historically illiterate. The EU and NATO's development have gone hand-in-hand since the 1950s. Indeed, the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (the precursor to the EU) was regarded by the French as a way to build a common destiny with West Germany. Therefore, successful implementation was regarded in Paris as a prerequisite for West German rearmament and NATO membership. It is the combination of these and other institutions that kept the peace, won the Cold War and shaped the postwar world.
Furthermore, Brexit is not the only threat to this settlement. Bizarrely, Nigel Farage almost came close to being right (for all the wrong reasons) on this subject when he described Barack Obama as "the most anti-British American president there has ever been". This is clearly nonsense, but it hits on a grain of truth: with the end of the Cold War and huge economic growth in China, the US is becoming less Atlanticist and more orientated to the Pacific-world. This is why Donald Trump is able to suggest that the US could withdraw from NATO. But what Farage has – of course – missed is that this is an argument for European integration, not against it. If the US disengages from Europe, we will need our continental partners more than ever.
Even if the worst economic predictions are not true, it will still be bad. To put this in perspective, the highly controversial claim from Leave that the UK would get £350 million per week that the UK would get back – even if it was real – would be obliterated by a 0.6 per cent drop in GDP. Almost every reputable economic authority suggests that the decline will be considerably larger than that. The IMF's most optimistic prediction is that UK GDP will take a 1.5 per cent hit (although they also argue it could be as high as 5.5 per cent). This has two important ramifications. The first is that all those spending pledges from Leave will not be met – no money for the NHS, no money for schools, no safeguarding for current recipients of EU money. The second is that our society we will have to decide how to pay that bill, and that will likely mean worse public services and lower living standards which will hit those least able to protect themselves.
We have more power inside the EU than we will ever have outside it. Leave make a lot about the issue of sovereignty, but the argument is something of a red-herring. In particular, they employ a very narrow definition of sovereignty to make their case. Even if we accept their case at face value (and this neglects the fact that the EU has only ever acted according to treaties endorsed by the UK Parliament), it neglects the vital question of power. In short, by cooperating with European partners, the UK government massively amplifies its ability to get things done on the international scene, increasing its real power greatly. Cooperation inevitably involves some compromise, but in return we get real, global power.
We really don't know what being out would look like. The media has not had a good campaign, and one of the major reasons for this is that they have allowed the Leave campaign to offer a smorgasbord of visions for what post-Brexit life might look like without question: we might be like Norway, Switzerland, Canada, the list was seemingly endless. We were going to be in the free market, we were not going to be in the free market. We are going to control immigration from the EU, but the Northern Irish border with the EU will not have border checks. The logical inconsistencies are both spectacular and nonsensical. Perhaps the biggest irrationality of the Leave campaign though is the belief that their critiques of the EU will suddenly cease to be applicable the morning after Brexit – that is, the belief that the bureaucratic, unwieldy, power-hungry, petty EU of their imagining will overnight become the negotiation partner required to ensure rapid British exit on favourable terms. Ultimately, neither the caricature nor the prediction is true, but there is no doubt that Brexit will take years and years of political effort. Instead, this energy could more productively be put into reshaping the EU from the inside, as well as dealing with a host of other real problems in the world.
It would be a disaster for higher education and academic research. This point might appear slightly parochial, and I certainly have to declare a self-interest. Higher education is one of the most globalised sectors of the British life. UK universities are a success story precisely because we have students and researchers from all walks of life from all over the world. There is clearly a concern that Brexit would undermine this model. But there are two additional concerns. The first is resources for big research projects, which European money makes possible. In theory (and if we accept their promises at face value, despite them having no access to the constitutional machinery required to deliver them and not factoring any possible decline in the size of the British economy) the Leave campaign has said that no sector currently funded with European money will lose out post-Brexit, with any monies lost being made up by the UK government. This would presumably include university research. But that neglects the second problem, ignoring the networks of collaboration that European research projects build. The UK currently sits at the centre of those networks. Brexit would jeopardise this, and the collaboration it fosters in vital areas such as research on cancer treatments.
What type of country do we actually want to live in? One of the strangest rhetorical developments in this referendum has been the conflation of criticisms of the European Union with the Brexit position (most famously in The Sun's story about the Queen supporting a leave vote). Let's be clear: The European Union is not perfect. But this is not a vote on whether the European Union is perfect. It is a vote on where we see our future, what type of country we want to be, and how we want the world to see us. It has been a common refrain among Leave voters to say they love Europe, but don't like the EU. But this misses the point that the EU is the institutional embodiment of a particular idea of Europe and European history, based on the ideas of tolerance, openness and co-existence, and the rejection of isolationism and rivalry. While it does not always live up to these values, if we vote for Brexit – whatever the reasons offered by individual voters – we will not only be rejecting these values, but also signalling to the world (including the many countries who warned the UK of the dangers of Brexit and will be caught up in the economic backdraft) that Britain is an insular and insecure country, lacking the self-confidence to work with its near-neighbours to shape more effective European institutions. In short, we will be a diminished nation.
I don't know if this has helped persuade anyone, but in case you are still undecided, here is a selection of some of the best writing that I have read on the subject in recent days, covering a range of the issues I have mentioned above.
· Nick Cohen, Take your country back from those who seek to destroy it, The Observer
· David Smith, Britain succeeds in the EU: we'd be daft to leave it, The Sunday Times
· Simon Schama, Let us spurn Brexit and remain a beacon of tolerance, The F


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Phils are walk-off winners again on Utley's walk
Asche hits leadoff single in ninth, scores winning run; Ruf homers
PHILADELPHIA -- Ryne Sandberg has spoken extensively in his first week as Phillies interim manager about opportunity.
These final 34 games are a big chance for everybody.
The Phillies know what they have in veteran players like Chase Utley, Jimmy Rollins, Cliff Lee, Cole Hamels and Jonathan Papelbon, but inexperienced players like Darin Ruf, Cody Asche, Justin De Fratus and Jake Diekman have the opportunity to cement themselves into the 2014 Opening Day roster with a strong finish.
Ruf and Asche made another case for themselves in Friday night's 4-3 victory over the D-backs at Citizens Bank Park. Ruf homered and Asche ignited a ninth-inning rally and scored the winning run to help the Phillies win five of their last six games. Four of those wins are walk-off victories, including each one in a three-game winning streak.
The rookies have had a knack for coming up with a big hit, RBI or run in their team's victories. Ruf has played in 16 victories since he got called up from Triple-A Lehigh Valley in early July. He is hitting .298 (17-for-57) with four doubles, five home runs, nine RBIs and a 1.026 OPS in those games. Asche is hitting .379 (11-for-29) with four doubles, two homers, eight RBIs and a 1.124 OPS in nine victories.
"For this being their first year, those are situations that sometimes take a number of games to feel comfortable and relax and do the job," Sandberg said. "It speaks for their character and where they're at. It's very impressive."
"I think every hitter wants to be in that situation," Ruf said. "When you're in them you have to learn from them, no matter what the outcome is. If it's a good one or a bad one, you have to learn from it. And that's how you ultimately get better in those situations, too."
Ruf ripped a home run to left-center field in the second inning to hand the Phillies a 1-0 lead. It was his eighth homer in August, which tied him for most in the big leagues.
Ruf has 10 home runs in 138 at-bats this season, which is one homer every 13.8 at-bats. Pittsburgh's Pedro Alvarez leads the National League among qualifying hitters, averaging one homer every 14.16 at-bats. If Ruf had enough plate appearances to qualify, he would rank 10th out of 167 Phillies hitters since the beginning of the 1980 season in home run frequency.
Of course, this does not mean he is destined for success, although his progress certainly is encouraging. John Mayberry Jr. averaged one homer every 13.5 at-bats the final three months of the 2011 season to convince the Phillies he had earned the chance to be the everyday left fielder. But once handed that opportunity in 2012, his average plummeted to one homer every 31.5 at-bats.
Ruf might be the most important player to watch the final 34 games of the season. A left-handed-heavy lineup that is expected to include Ryan Howard, Utley, Domonic Brown, Ben Revere and Asche needs a good right-handed bat with pop.
It could be Ruf.
The D-backs scored three runs in the fourth inning to take a 3-1 lead. The inning was set up when Brown lost a ball in the twilight. Cole Hamels recovered to allow three runs in seven innings. But the Phillies scored two runs in the sixth to tie the game when Ruiz hit a one-out double to left field to score Kevin Frandsen and Utley.
Asche laced a pinch-hit single to right field to start the ninth inning. He advanced to third on a hit-and-run single to right from Rollins.
"Jimmy did a great job, on top of the ball, hitting something hard," Asche said. "After that, I just did the easy part and ran."
Asche, like Ruf, seems to enjoy being up in those big situations.
"I think it's human nature to [enjoy it]," he said. "Especially when you're here. You want to be one of those guys that's in there helping the team win. When your name is in the lineup you've got to find a way somehow to do something to help the team win."
The D-backs intentionally walked Michael Young to load the bases, and two batters later Utley walked to score Asche to win it.
"I'm really, really impressed with the guys they've brought up," Hamels said. "We had a few years where we didn't have guys coming up that could make an impact. I feel like the guys, especially a couple of the guys in the bullpen and a couple of the position players, they have the potential to be big impact players and obviously make a big name for themselves and be a part of a new nucleus. You don't want to put all the pressure in the world on them, but they're definitely delivering."


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Close to the Angras Juntas mountain range which is infront of the wave. On private diamond mining property with a long 4x4 ride over dunes. Closest youll get to it will be on google earth...
DistanceSurf trip
WalkGood walk (15-30 mn)
Easy to find?Hard to find
Public access?Private access
Special access4x4
Alternative name Diamond Bay no. 4
Wave qualityTotally Epic
ExperienceExperienced surfers
FrequencyVery consistent (150 day/year)
BottomReef (coral, sharp rocks etc..)
PowerHollow, Powerful
Normal lengthLong (150 to 300 m)
Good day lengthVery Long (300 to 500 m)
Good swell directionWest, SouthWest
Good wind directionNorthEast
Swell sizeStarts working at 1.0m-1.5m / 3ft-5ft and holds up to 3m+ / 10ft+
Best tide positionAll tides
Best tide movementRising tide
Week crowdEmpty
Week-end crowdEmpty
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Welcome to the 4th of 6 perfect, long Lefthand pointbreaks on Namibia's mid coast. All these breaks are on diamond mining private property, so access is impossible. Lucky for us we have family that work here..sorry okes..
To get to the wave you need to 4x4 across dunes for a good few hours. Here youll need to bring all the necessary equipment with you cause theres no one around for miles. This is the hardest wave to get to of the 6. Loooooong left hand point break with a good powerful shorey.
Few people have ventured here and noone has been here for the surf. The coastline goes on forever. Beutiful scenery. Explore the bushman paintings in the mountain caves above. At night sleep under the stars. The 6 waves are the surfing worlds best kept secret.
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By Anonymous , 23-09-2010
What an arse - Shows you what an arse this Jono guy is. He cant even get the bay correct. Those coordinates are for Angras Juntas Bay. Angras Juntas itself is an old mining camp from the old mining days and is 1.5 km inland from Bakers Bay which is 10 km north of Angra Juntas Bay. Would very difficult to surf there. . .
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the berg - jnon...THE SURFER....rated muzenberg 4 out of five stars...say no more
By snodgrass , 22-04-2008
thereapy pal - this jono chap realy is trying so hard to impress himself by posting all this crap....where the fuck does he get these pics from...this AINT in Nam....
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Story of two slippers:
By Nicole
These were two small slippers. Slippers for two pretty little
Slippers, but slippers of Tafraoute the capital of slippers.
Tafraoute town of the south of Morocco, in the rocks Mountains,
in the middle of everything pink at sunset.
Tafraoute in the middle of almonds...
Here lived Ahmed...
Ahmed has always lived in Tafraoute, his father, his grandfather
now, and perhaps even his great-grandfather and his great-great
grandfather also....
His father manufactured slippers, his grandfather manufactured
slippers, his great-grandfather produced slippers and even his
great-great grandfather.....
His son Mohamed, also manufactures slippers, the most beautiful
of Morocco....
With the sale of slippers, the most beautiful in Morocco, never
their stomachs will be Tafraoute, which means they
will never get hungry...
Ahmed had made two beautiful slippers and black slippers with
gold braid!
He worked, worked, his son Mohamed had come to help. He had
placed the golden stripes that decorate the small shoes...
Now he was about to land on the shelf alongside other slippers
What he did not know, Ahmed, is that these two were not ordinary
slippers! First, they talked! Yes, yes, they talked! There was
slipper right and left ... looks slipper, said slipper right: I
look to you!
-Look, said slipper left I also look to you!
-promise me, "said slipper right, never leave me.
-How will I leave you? Have you ever seen anyone buy one slipper?
-Of course, but promise to always follow me!
-Always follow you? I can not! Once you are in front, the other
not, you will be back!
"I would have liked me, be always ahead!
-Bad! Behind, before, how important! said slipper left.
-Try! Do you want? Before, you follow before you am!
-Not very convenient for walking on gravel roads!
-Move on roads! exclaimed slipper right, but we are not ordinary
slippers! I will not go on the road! pebbles would harm my shoes!
we would have holes because of sharp rocks!
Ah! good, said slipper left which was always agree! And what
shall we do?
Small slipper began to dream ....
I wish I'd like ... chausser foot dancer, nimble feet, dancing,
go in a garden full of flowers!
-Sens! I already feel the orange blossoms, hibiscus, it is cool
under the trees! Above us, stars, the beautiful night sky of the
-From the desert, said slipper left, but it will be hot, sand
will penetrate everywhere!
-Think a little, said slipper right, we are in the desert in an
oasis, it's party, want a wedding! We are the slippers of the
bride, see it as it is beautiful!
Ah! the beautiful life slipper!
Wake-up, said slipper left, is the world, listen!
"I would like slippers, for the marriage of my daughter here,
said a gentleman.
Push-up, the slippers, these customers are to us!
We saw the slippers squirm, move forward, turn to be admired, so
much so that they no longer living!
-Those, please!
Ahmed took the slippers, wrapped in the pretty paper, made a nice
package and gave the girl.
She thanked him a smile and pressed against his heart.
Slippers heard small-toc toc already in the box, a step right,
step left .... They began to dance!
Naima it was beautiful! Never, never married was more beautiful!
As soon as she put on his slippers, she felt slight, light, like
a bird! she began to dance, fly, run!
These were not ordinary slippers! They were slippers Tafraoute of
the capital of slippers!
When the feast was over, Naima, rangea the slippers, but when it
takes a little cockroach, when the rocks become Tafraoute all
roses in the evening ...
Naima's slippers shoes, she began to dance, to turn to fly ....
Because these are not ordinary slippers are slippers of Tafraoute
... ... ... ... ... the capital of slippers!
The Moroccan slipper:
The Moroccan slippers, shoes tradition and even today holidays
are for men, made in colors. The most common are bright yellow,
the most popular are the white slippers. However, in response to
a need for modernization, new colors (red, brown or gray pearl)
occurred while the slipper its stamp craft. The bad language
argue that the people of Fez are accustomed to always buy the
size below their actual size so they walk on their heels, having
a committed part of the foot in the shoe. This story highlights
the fact that in this imperial city, the shoe is made for the
ornament more than comfort. For women, in particular, the shoe is
a real ornament. The women's multicolored slippers are
increasingly developed, if not more elegant than slippers men.
They have a thick sole less than men and are sewn silk son of
brilliant, often gold or silver. Leather to velvet sometimes
mixes in the most vivid colors: blue, green, garnet ... and they
are frequently combined with long caftans arriving ankles.
The Moroccan slipper is "Balgha for men and Charbil"
for women. As pouf, it differs from one region to another by its
texture, shape and materials used, so slippers city dwellers are
pointed while the peasants have more of a round or square end.
Lightweight and convenient, it remains the most footwear reach
inside as a slipper.
Poetry of slippers
It was a small Black Bottom,
Who lived in a slipper
Both were pleased to see
Walking from morning until evening
The slipper around the Black Foot
And in the Black Foot slipper.
The slipper once said "Why
Drag the Black Foot with me?
Walk together what agony! "
It is heavy ... I am slightly
If he wanted to release the locations
Only I walk better.
Once the works slipper
To injure the feet, the pincer,
The tablet, made so many efforts
That the foot with a black horn
And suddenly taking fly
Retired from slipper.
The Black-footed, he fell
Of course in his little shoes
But he continued his route
And most certainly surprised
Was the slipper who did not understand, but given
Black Pied that without it no longer works.
Abu Kassem: A Tale of One Thousand and One Nights "narrated
by Nora Aceval
There was a merchant in East famous for his avarice: Abu Kassem.
Although wealthy, he was wearing the same slippers since his feet
were still growing. Stinking and patched on all sides, they were
immondes. One day, Abu Kassem went to the hammam. He puts his
slippers at the entrance but when the Sultan of his tour, the
guardian of the hammam prefer hide immondes slippers. Leaving Abu
Kassem is beautiful slippers. Believing that a good engineering
went through there, the shoes and leaves. For everyone, the case
is clear: the miser flew Sultan. Abu Kassem is thrown into prison.
It is obliged to pay dearly for it. Furious against his slippers,
it flows into the river. When a fisherman found, it will complain
to the Sultan as slippers tore his net. Abou Kassem, again in
prison, must pay to exit. When he sought to bury, it is suspected
to have found a treasure, and the Sultan convenes again ... Curse?
Misfortune? Or just the price of greed? Each interpret this
little tale facetious.


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The condo market has been on top of interest for lenders, policy makers and investors alike. So what has at least bought interest in low rise properties.
Michael Plowman, Dan Plowman Realty
Michael Plowman: The interest has shifted from high rise properties to low rise properties, it's got to be the, a lot of speculation around the condo market and the high rise market kind of softening and the people's fears on that kind of being a bubble.
Jemima Codrington: From a tenant perspective, low rises can offer that homey, neighbourhood feel that high rises sometimes can't. But what's in it for investors?
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So if you had a tenant that say didn't pay on time or maybe you had a vacancy in one of the rooms, whether it be a duplex or triplex or in a lot of cases, student housing, you are offsetting the risk there by having multiple tenants paying rent every month.
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Pathological liars' brains are different from normal people's. The fibbers had up to 26 per cent more white matter than the honest folk, a study has found, suggesting that it is the white matter that allows people to deceive, and that pathological liars may not always be in complete control of their porkies.
The findings, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, are in line with similar research into autism. Autistic people have more grey matter than non-autistic people, and generally find it much harder to lie.
Grey matter processes information, while white matter merely transmits it. having more white matter might make it easier to lie, the University of Southern California researchers suggest. But this is unlikely to be the full story, and the team says it expects to find more physical differences, the BBC reports.
The researchers studied three groups: a group of 12 men and women with a history of deceitful and manipulative behaviour, a control group of 21 "normal" people, and a third group of 16 people with anti-social personality disorder.
All participants underwent structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scans so that researchers could assess how much grey vs. white matter each group had.
The liars had between 22 and 26 per cent more white matter than either of the other groups. The researchers say the difference could not be accounted for by variations in age, ethnicity, IQ, head injury or substance misuse.
Dr Cosmo Hallstrom, a consultant psychiatrist in London, told the BBC: "The issue is always how much of our behaviour is under voluntary control and how much is innate. The finding of brain abnormalities lends weight to the idea that a strong component of such difficulties may well be beyond voluntary control at least in part."
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Mummification and the Underworld
The funerary beliefs manifest in the Valley of the Kings derive from two myths, concerning Re and Osiris. In that of Re, the sun-god descended into the underworld and voyaged through the hours of night, emerging at dawn to sail his barque across the heavens until sunset, when the cycle began anew. Osiris, king of the underworld, offered hope of survival in the afterlife through his death and resurrection.
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Mummification and burial
To attain the afterlife, it was necessary that the deceased's name (ren) and body continued to exist, sustaining the ka or cosmic double that was born with every person and inhabited their mummy after death. Mummification techniques evolved over millennia, reaching their zenith by the New Kingdom, when embalmers offered three levels of mummification. The deluxe version entailed removing the brain (which was discarded) and the viscera (which were preserved in canopic jars); dehydrating the cadaver in natron salts for about forty days; packing it to reproduce lifelike contours, inserting artificial eyes and painting the face or entire body red (for men) or yellow (for women); then wrapping it in gum-coated linen bandages, and finally cocooning it in mummiform coffins. On the chest of the mummy and its coffin were placed heart scarabs, designed to prevent the deceased's heart from bearing witness against him during the judgement of Osiris.
Royal burials were elaborate affairs. Escorted by priests, mourners and musicians, the coffin was dragged on a sledge to the Valley of the Kings, where the sarcophagus was already occupied by a sem (death) priest, who performed the Opening of the Mouth ceremony, touching the lips of the mummy with an adze and reciting spells. As the mummy was lowered into its sarcophagus, priests slashed the forelegs of sacrificial animals, whose limbs were burned as the tomb was sealed. The tomb's contents (intended to satisfy the needs of the pharaoh's ka in the afterlife) included food, drink, clothing, furniture, weapons and dozens of shabti figures to perform any task that the gods might require. Then the doors were walled up, plastered over and stamped with the royal seal and that of the Necropolis. To thwart robbers, royal tombs featured deadfalls and false burial chambers; however, none of these devices seems to have succeeded in protecting them.
The journey through the underworld and judgement of Osiris
Funerary artwork dwelt on the journey through the underworld, whose pictorial representation inverted the normal order, so that each register was topped by sand instead of sky. The descent into the underworld (Duat) echoed that of a sarcophagus into its tomb, involving ramps, ropes and gateways. Each of the twelve gates was personified as a goddess and guarded by ferocious deities. In the darkness between them lay twelve caverns inhabited by beings such as the jackal-headed gods who fed on rottenness or the wailing goddesses with bloody axes.
It was Maat's Feather of Truth that was weighed against the deceased's heart (believed to be the seat of intelligence) during the Judgement of Osiris. With Anubis operating the scales and Thoth waiting to record the verdict, the deceased had to recite the negative confession before a tribunal of 42 assessor gods, each attuned to a sin. While the hearts of the guilty were devoured by crocodile-headed Ammut, the righteous were pronounced "true of voice" and led into the presence of Osiris to begin their resurrection, which paralleled Re's passage through the underworld. Voyaging through the twelve decans (hours or "divisions") of the night in his solar barque, Re had to overcome the serpent Apopis and other lesser denizens of primeval chaos, which threatened the righteous order personified by the goddess Maat. Re, helped by Anubis, Isis and Nephthys (often shown as serpents), Aker the earth-god (whose back bore Re's barque) and Khepri the scarab beetle, achieves rebirth in the fifth hour, and is fully restored to life by the tenth. Here the two myths part company, for whereas Re emerges from the body of the sky-goddess Nut to travel the heavens again, the Osirian journey (that of the righteous deceased) concludes by passing through the reedy Fields of Yaru (an Ancient Egyptian metaphor for death, also synonymous with fertility).
Since many of the scenes were supplemented by papyri buried with the mummy, funerary artwork is categorized in literary terms. The Book of the Dead is the name now given to the compendium of Old and Middle Kingdom Pyramid Texts and Spells, known in the New Kingdom as the Book of Coming Forth. Other texts associated with the New Kingdom include the Book of Gates, Book of Caverns, Book of Hours, Book of Day and Night and Book of Amduat (That which is in the Underworld).
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FLEFF Intern Voices
The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival from the interns' point of view
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Blog posting by Kayla Reopelle, Documentary Studies and Production '14, FLEFF Blogger, Roy, WA
Maybe thinking about dissonance will make us think more about consonance?
This question, posed by Dr. Deborah Martin, professor of piano at Ithaca College and performer at the dissonance concert, stuck with me as I traveled through the festival. Dissonance requires some consensus to function, if the dissenting voice is not considered, it will fade away.
We are uncomfortable with dissonance.
While watching The Throwaways by Ira McKinley and Bhawin Suchak, I wanted to rationalize my complicity in the prison industrial complex because I had studied it.
However, the scene where Ira interviews a white woman who walked past a vigil for a black man killed the day before made me realize how separate my life is from so many of these problems, purely because of my white privilege. This problem will not get better unless we stop making excuses and start facing the institutionalized racism in our political system.
Dissonance cannot be understood by looking at the big picture.
Sometimes it needs to be broken into smaller pieces before it can be digested. Jonathan Miller took this approach for Food for the 9 Billion's focus on bite-sized stories about different elements of the food crisis.
When confronted with dissonance, we can capitalize on it. We can try to make something new from it.
One contradiction pointed out by Dr. Leila Christine Nadir stands out to me: when organisms get bigger, they slow down, but when cities get bigger, they get much faster.
These kinds of dissonances create opportunities to investigate why and how they came to be. Interventions such as the Indeterminate Hikes+ app created by Eco Art Tech reveal the interactions between speed and urban space.
I faced dissonance at every event and during every conversation during the week of the festival. Dissonance kept me asking questions to find resolution. It made me listen and simmer in the conflicts.
How has dissonance stuck with you?


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The making of Alhambra®
In 1968, Van Cleef & Arpels creates the first Alhambra® long necklace, combining yellow gold with the delicate lines of the famous motif. More than a jewel, Alhambra becomes the Maison's emblematic icon of luck, a timeless family that stands out from all the others.
Reflecting Van Cleef & Arpels' tradition of excellence, Alhambra is constantly renewed as time goes by, through a wide range of natural materials that are symbols of luck, thus offering an infinite variety of colors.
The different skills of the lapidaries, jewelers, stone-setters and polishers come together during the successive steps of selection, production and final checking to bring the iconic Alhambra jewels to life.


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I have the 17M and 13M and they both go upwind great. I use a surfboard with them and I used the same surfboard with my previous kite and I could not go upwind as well as with the Clouds. The 13M is my favorite. I have taken it as low as 11 mph and up to 16 mph average, it probably can go more but I have not had the chance to try it in higher winds.JV wrote:Hi y'all
How would you compare to other kites the BRM Cloud upwind capability (for the same board of course)?
Let's say what Cloud size you are talking about.
The 17M is great for low winds, as low as 9 mph but when it goes over 14 mph it get to be a lot to handle, if it is averaging 14 mph and up I switch to the 13M. I have taken the 17M in gust up to 20 mph but it is not fun. Keep in mind I always ride a 6' surfboard strapless and I weigh 182 bl.


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Among 30 patients having a procedure to evaluate their chest pain, researchers found that those who were told they were being given an infusion of a pain-relieving drug did, on average, report a decrease in pain.
But the participants also showed a measurable change in their heart arteries: a slight but distinct narrowing of the vessels.
Exactly what the findings mean, and whether they have implications for heart disease patients, is not clear.
None of the chest-pain patients actually had heart disease; they were told about the "drug" (which was actually harmless saline) only after testing had shown no blockages in their heart arteries.
The key point is that the power of suggestion created an objective change in the blood vessels, according to Drs. Karin Meissner and Joram Ronel of Technical University Munich in Germany.
"The major finding was that the coronary vessels reacted so clearly to a mere psychological intervention," they told Reuters Health in an email.
And the reaction was in a direction opposite to the one researchers had expected to see.
The patients were actually told that the "drug" they were receiving would widen their arteries to relieve their chest pain. Instead, there was a small amount of blood vessel constriction in the group overall.
But that constriction does make biological sense, according to Meissner and Ronel.
In a healthy person who is under stress, the nervous system triggers a widening in the blood vessels so that blood circulation increases to meet the body's needs. When stress fades, the vessels can narrow again.
"When the heart works less," Meissner and Ronel explained, "there is less need for blood supply, and the vessels will be less dilated than in a stressful situation. This is how we interpret our data."
They added, though, that this is the process in a healthy person. The situation may be different in a person with heart disease.
The findings, reported in the American Heart Journal, build on a phenomenon seen in clinical trials studying heart disease. That is, some people receiving placebos (inactive "treatments") report improvements in symptoms like chest pain.
How much of that reaction is due to psychological or even biological effects is unclear.
To examine whether there might be placebo effects on the heart arteries, Meissner and Ronel's team looked at 30 patients who underwent coronary angiography to evaluate chest pain symptoms.
During coronary angiography, a thin tube (catheter) is threaded through a blood vessel into the heart, where a special dye is injected. Using X-rays, doctors can then look for blockages in the heart arteries that may be the source of the chest pain.
The 30 patients were included in this study only after the test turned up no blockages. While still on the exam table, they were randomly assigned to either a "verbal suggestion" group or a control group.
In both groups, patients received an injection of saline into the catheter. Those in the verbal-suggestion group were told it was a drug that would widen their heart arteries and boost blood flow to the heart. Patients in the control group were told nothing.
On average, the study found, the verbal-suggestion group reported a dip in their chest pain after the procedure, while showing some blood vessel narrowing. The opposite was true in the control group: slightly more pain and a little more vessel dilation.
The researchers say they suspect the pain reduction was an "indirect effect" of the verbal suggestion, but they cannot know for sure whether or to what degree the blood vessel changes might have contributed to it.
More studies on this question are still needed, according to Meissner and Ronel. If verbal suggestion does have a measurable effect "at the level of the heart" in people with actual heart disease, they said, that would be important to know.Last Mod: 17 Eylül 2011, 16:34


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What is Resolutionist?
A person who joins the gym in early January because of their New Years Resolution. Resolutionists can be spotted by their pasty white skin, excessive fat, poor form, and blank look on their face as they stand next to any piece of gym equipment. Resolutionists usually migrate back to the couch any time from mid-January to early March.
"This damn Resolutionist has been on the Smith machine for 30 minutes. Maybe if he put more than 30 lbs on the bar and stopped taking 10 minute rests it wouldn't take so long. I can't wait until March"
A person who makes ballsy claims for New Year's resolutions even though you know they won't follow through with any of them.
Joe: I'm gonna quit smoking, eat right and join a gym this year.
Sue: Whatever. You're such a freaking resolutionist.