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Files Supported by E-zekiel.tv
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E-zekiel.tv supports a variety of audio and video files, with certain limitations. Audio and video uploads are limited to 100MB or less; audio files are limited to 30 minutes in length; and video files are limited to 10
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At Your Service
Tuesday, March 03, 2009 Comments (0)
If you've called Customer Support and gotten Jimmy on the line, you may have noticed a different accent than other team members. He was born in the UK and has lived in Australia but now has made the United States his permanent residence. Jimmy enjoys being a part of the college and career group at his church as well as participating in international mission trips when given the opportunity.
As with any customer support team member, Jimmy talks with and emails customers from our own office. Telephone customer support is available from 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. CT Monday through Friday. Or you can send an email anytime with your question or issue, and we'll get back with you as soon as we can
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Using Video to Promote Your Church
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 Comments (0)
The launch of E-zekiel.tv made it easy for churches to post short videos online for free, but some are still unsure about ways to use this great tool. A few ideas follow:
Introduce your church to site visitors. Have your pastor record a brief message of welcome. Or use the scenes from various church events to give visitors a feel for the variety of worship and fellowship opportunities available. Don't try to tell everything in the video – just try to help your visitors make an emotional connection to your church.
Show them your service. Help your visitors overcome the fear of the unknown by showing them in advance what they can expect by posting a service excerpt.
Share personal stories and testimonials. Let someone who has joined the church in the last year, or for whom the church has really made an impact, tell a little bit about why and how.
Getting Audio and Video on the Web
Friday, February 20, 2009 Comments (0)
With the recent improvements to E-zekiel.tv and an updated Media Manager, getting audio and video on the web is now incredibly simple. Staff and members (if permitted) can upload audio and video files directly from the organization's website or within the website Control Panel, creating a media sharing mini-site of your own. Additionally, shared media files can now include a downloadable attachment – like sermon notes or a printable outline, for example.
If you're not currently using E-zekiel.tv, give it a try by clicking on the Media manager in your Control Panel. If you're already using E-zekiel.tv, enjoy the new features and better integration. As always, E-zekiel.tv offers unlimited audio and video uploads for free. So go ahead, share your faith – on your website and on E-zekiel.tv.
Setting Tabs in a Microsoft Word Document
Friday, February 13, 2009 Comments (0)
You can set four types of tabs in Microsoft Word – left, right, center and decimal – to help set off columns or lists. For the easiest method, you can use the ruler toolbar across the top of your document but for the more precise method, the Tabs command would be the better choice.
Using the Ruler Toolbar:
1 If the Ruler toolbar does not already appear on your screen, go to the View menu and select Ruler.
2 Look for the box at the far left end of the ruler. This is the tab button. Click on this box to select the type of tab you want to insert. Hovering over the box will confirm what the picture icon is displaying.
3 Select the position along the horizontal ruler in your document window where you want to place the tab. Click on the ruler in that place, and a tab mark appears.
Using the Tabs Command in the Format Menu:
1 Select the text where you want to apply tabs.
2 In the Format menu, select Tabs.
3 Select the type of tab in the alignment section (left, right, center, decimal).
4 Enter a number in inches in the Tab Stop Position box.
5 Click the Set button.
How do I find out where a file in My Files is being used on my site?
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Comments (0)
When viewing the files in the My Files area, you will notice that to the left of each file name is a small magnifying glass icon. Click this icon to see a list of locations where the file is being used on your site.
Note - files being used in design templates will not have their locations listed. Only files linked to or placed directly on pages or items on your site will be listed.
What is the best way to copy and paste content into my site?
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Comments (0)
Whenever you need to copy and paste content from any source into your site, there are three methods you can use. (This applies to text and tables only, not to images or multiple text boxes.)
1. Paste the content into a plain text editor such as Notepad (Windows) or TextEdit (Mac) before copying and pasting it into your site. This is the preferred method.
2. Remove all formatting from the text just before copying it by using the formatting eraser in the document program.
3. Click the Paste from Word button on E-zekiel's editor toolbar and paste the content into the dialog box that comes up.
All of these methods are intended to scrub the content of any non-standard code that may interfere with the page's proper operation. The code used by various programs to format content is not always compatible with the HTML standards, thus it's necessary to remove most, if not all, of the code before pasting it into your site.
Once you have the content in your page, you can use the editor tools to reformat it for the Web.
Painting a Document with Formatted Text
Friday, February 06, 2009 Comments (0)
Ever wondered what that "paintbrush" icon on your toolbar is intended to do? It's your Format Painter. To use this tool, place your cursor near text that contains formatting you want copied, then click on the Format Painter icon, and it copies the text formatting from that area. (You can also select a paragraph or cell, and Format Painter will copy that formatting when you click on the icon.) Next, paint the copied formatting wherever you'd like by holding the "painter" cursor over the text and clicking. Double-clicking on the Format Painter icon will allow you to copy the formatting repeatedly until you press the Escape button.


text: Ben wrote: > unliftMap :: (Ord a) => M.Map a (b -> c) -> M.Map a b -> M.Map a c > unliftMap mf ma = M.mapWithKey (\k v -> mf M.! k $ v) ma > > the first is obviously inefficient as it traverses the map twice. the > second just seems like it is some kind of fmap. It's the (<*>) operator of Applicative, which is equivalent to `ap` on Monad (though (<*>) may be more efficient for certain monads). Or rather, it *should* be the (<*>) operator. The use of (!) means it will explode when when the keys of ma are not a subset of the keys of mf. Really, it should be apMap mf ma = M.mapMaybeWithKey (\k f -> f <$> M.lookup k ma) mf Though that's not any more efficient. It will be somewhat slower because of the need to remove the spine for deleted elements, but the difference should be marginal. The similarity between (<*>) and fmap aka (<$>) is certainly notable. However, they are quite distinct: (<$>) :: Functor f => (a -> b) -> f a -> f b (<*>) :: Applicative f => f (a -> b) -> f a -> f b (=<<) :: Monad f => (a -> f b) -> f a -> f b Each one gives more power than the previous because it can accept functions with more structure. I.e. fmap doesn't allow any structure; (<*>) allows top-level structure and so it must be able to perform a sort of multiplication (e.g., intersection or cross-product) on f-structures; and (=<<) allows embedded structure, and so it must be able to perform a kind of extension (e.g., the multiplication of a semiring) on f-structures. -- Live well, ~wren

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The Obligatory Machu Picchu Panorama
It is now well over a year since my trip to South America and my good intentions, in terms of documenting it all on this blog, are well and truly in tatters. But what the hell, I'll keep posting some of the more memorable images.
I'm not sure Machu Picchu was the exceptional highlight I thought it would be. Not because it wasn't as wonderful as it's cracked up to be; more because there were other experiences which rivalled it or matched it. Still, my abiding memory of that quintessential Inca legacy is the hour my wife and I spent sitting at our chosen vantage point looking down over Machu Picchu and just drinking in the vista. This is the view we had:
We didn't have great weather or great lighting for photography. There was a lot of low* cloud and it rained most of the time. We only had two or three hours of dry weather, from around ten in the morning till lunchtime, on the two days we were there so no chance of a dramatic dawn or sunset. And there are so many pictures of Machu Picchu that it's hard to come up with anything truly new. Having said that, I haven't seen many (or any?) other pictures that show the whole topography of the place, right down to the Urubamba River below.
* relatively speaking, bearing in mind we were around 8,000 feet above sea level
The Beagle Channel: Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse
So far sticking with my new year's resolution to post more regularly. This is the Les Eclaireurs lighthouse in the Beagle Channel, close to Ushuaia and almost on the border between Argentinian and Chilean waters.
Pining for the Chilean Fjords
Hard to believe I have not posted anything since May. Still have so much to cover from my South American trip. At least one of my New Year's Resolutions will be to post regularly. Once a week should not be too hard.
I'll round off 2012 with some images of the Chilean Fjords (taken in March).
Another Chilean Dawn
Just still Chilean. This shot was taken in the Magellan Strait in the morning before we visited Ushuaia, which is in Argentina but very close to the Chilean border.
Fire in the Sky … well we were right by Tierra del Fuego.
The Wreck of the Santa Leonora
The cruise itinerary took us past the wreck of the Santa Leonora. It was very misty so I was quite pleased to get a usable photo.
There is a story to the demise of the Santa Leonora which was related by the captain over the PA as we passed the wreck. His story matches the explanation in the Kauer's Korner blog, reproduced below:
Around 4:00pm we approach Isla Shoalon where the Santa Leonora was shipwrecked in 1964.
The ship was on her maiden voyage carrying Chilean pilots northwards through the area. She was a passenger ship of around 18,000 tons. At that time, aboard the bridge, helm orders were given using the terms 'left' and 'right' instead of 'port' and 'starboard.' As they transited Shoal Pass the pilot and the captain were engaged in conversation and on completion of their talk the captain said, "Alright pilot!"
The nervous helmsman responded to what he thought to be a helms order and applied full right (starboard) rudder. The ship veered to starboard and mounted the nearby shallows at full speed.
Fortunately, no lives were lost. The passengers were rescued the next day. The investigation into the incident revealed that the use of the words 'right' and 'left' were the cause of the accident. As a result of that incident, all directions on the ship are given as 'starboard' (right) and 'port' (left).
Chilean Fjords – Amalia Glacier
The Amalia glacier is something like 2km wide as it reaches the sea and has a striking blue colour. You can see the upper stretches of it as it comes down the mountainside.
I was having trouble snapping Naomi with the glacier in the background. She either came out too dark or the background was overexposed. The ship's official photographer came out with his DSLR and took a picture which had both us and the background correctly exposed. I was stumped until I realised he'd just used fill-in flash. I tried the same trick and my snaps were suddenly as good as his.
Chilean Dawn Aquabstract
Well I did say my blogposts would not be following a linear narrative. We've jumped a number of days to the cruise section of our trip. This picture was taken at dawn while we were cruising the Chilean fjords. The rosy dawn light was reflected in the zig-zag pattern made by the ship's lateral wake. I spotted an opportunity for an abstract picture. It features a lot of water so I call it an aquabstract.
Cuzco Valley
Another journey, another series of blogposts. South America this time, starting in Peru.
This particular trip started over a week ago but it is only now that I am on board ship (the middle section is a Holland America cruise), with a few "at sea" days, that I have the time to start putting up some blogposts. The first few posts will be a retrospective, covering Peru, including Cuzco, Ollantaytambo and Machu Picchu, and part of Chile. I will go straight in to some of the highlights so the narrative may not quite be linear.
Just to make the point, the first post covers day 4 which featured a visit to the Inca town of Ollantaytambo. Just to put timescales in context; Day 1 was Manchester to Heathrow, Day 2 was Heathrow to Lima via Madrid, and Day 3 was Lima to Cuzco where we just had enough time to visit one of the historical Inca sights, the Golden Enclosure or Qoricancha. Day 4 took in the trip to Ollantaytambo in the "Sacred Valley" that runs between Cuzco and Macchu Picchu and the town of Pisac which is basically a tourist market, if rather cleaner and better than most.
On the way from Cuzco to Ollantaytambo we stopped at a vantage point overlooking a town in a valley with glacier carved slopes and snow-capped Andes mountains in the distance. There was the usual clutch of locals selling traditional goods. The locals had a baby with them in traditional dress.
Egypt 2010 #12 – Balloon Ride over Luxor (part 6)
Hot air balloons over the Nile. Looking from over the Valley of the Kings and out towards the Nile and Luxor.
Esther looking out over the Valley of the Kings.
The Ramesseum.
General view of the tombs in the Valley of the Kings area.
Egypt 2010 #11 – Balloon Ride over Luxor (part 5)
And we're airborne! This is the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri seen from the air.
An uninflated balloon on the launching ground.
Looking out over the fields on the west bank of the Nile, towards the Nile itself, Luxor and the mountains behind.
Egypt 2010 #10 – Balloon Ride over Luxor (part 4)
Have no fear, we will find ourselves airborne in the next post. But I did want to include this last picture of preparation for flight.
This shows a whole balloon on the ground, before even the cold air fans have been used to start inflating it. I guess I just liked the cluster of airborne balloons in the background. The largest (red) balloon is, I think, the same one that appears below in post #8 of the Egypt 2010 series.
Egypt 2010 #9 – Balloon Ride over Luxor (part 3)
A spectacular red, green and yellow balloon was just setting off as we were arriving on the scene.
For those interested it is a Cameron A-415. Well, that's what it says on the small sign on the balloon envelope.
Egypt 2010 #8 – Balloon Ride over Luxor (part 2)
Some very early risers were already airborne and heading off into the grey dawn sky.
We had to wait while our balloon was inflated.
According to Wikipedia (see photo of yellow balloon in the article) the balloon is first partially inflated using cold air from gas-powered fans, as in the picture above. The inflation process is completed using the propane burner mounted at the top of the passenger gondola (below).
Egypt 2010 #7 – Balloon Ride over Luxor (part 1)
Possibly the highlight of our Egypt trip was the hot air balloon ride over the Valley of the Kings, the Nile and Luxor. We had to show up at the crack of dawn and were taken to a massive field where loads of balloons were getting warmed up.
Egypt 2010 #6 – The White Crocodile
Everyone associates the Nile with crocodiles, but there have been none north of Aswan since the dam was built. We did see some crocodiles when we reached Aswan, but we have not got to that yet. In the interim, the cabin stewards produced some towel sculptures to amuse us.
The towel sculpture seems to be a favourite tradition on cruise ships. The stewards leave a different towel sculpture in the cabin each night to give us a bit of a laugh, show off their creative skills and maybe encourage us to tip them a bit more at the end of the holiday.
Alex and Esther had a paticularly inventive steward. The eyes of the crocodile are plastic bottle tops and the "tongue" is the remote from the TV.
Egypt 2010 #5 – The Temple of Horus at Edfu
Bright and early next morning to the Temple of Horus. This is a late Pharaonic temple, dating to Graeco-Roman times, and as such in an excellent state of preservation.
Even if it is a lot less ancient than some of the other sights we had already seen, it is still well over 2,000 years old. This is the front "pylon" as the front wall is called in Egyptological circles apparently.
Egypt 2010 #4 – If there's nothing on the telly …
Clearly there was not much doing on board ship because Naomi and I ended up providing the evening's entertainment without even knowing it.
We had docked at Edfu after nightfall, at around 10pm. From the boat we could see we were right by the town. There were streets, cafes, shops. The boat had come to Edfu for the Greek-period temple we were due to visit in the morning, but there was nothing stopping us going into town right there and then for a walk and quick look around. The town did not look too rough and the crew assured us it was safe.
As ever, for tourists in Egypt, you can hardly go anywhere without quickly collecting an entourage of locals attempting to sell you anything from jellabahs to alabaster cats, trying to guess your nationality and trotting out their stock sales patter in a variety of languages. Alex and Esther would talk in back-slang etc to confuse them.
Esther started to get uncomfortable with all the attention and returned to the ship with Alex. Naomi and I stayed out and decided to buy Egyptian dress at a local shop within sight of the ship. Naomi wanted to practice her famed haggling skills. And haggle we did – purchasing an embroidered two-piece Jellabah for me and one for Esther, along with a selection of matching headgear, for well under ship's prices. I tried my gear on at the shop. Naomi was given a lesson in how to tie my head-dress on me, and picked it up straight away. She was (jokingly) offered a job in the shop.
It was only as we returned to the ship that we realised we were being watched from the sundeck. People in the bar stopped to talk to us about it – they had watched the whole episode and wanted to know what we paid, etc. It seemed half the ship had been watching us.
Egypt 2010 #3 – Esna lock
The afternoon of our trip to the Valley of the Kings our cruise ship (actually glorified riverboat) set off southward in the direction of Aswan.
We had to navigate the lock at Esna. Behind us were more boats waiting their turn. Whenever a riverboat is moving more slowly, close to a stopping point, it rapidly finds itself surrounded by a flotilla of traders in rowing boats. They get very close, trying to get the attention of the passengers, even when the cruise boats are moving. It is a wonder that some of the braver rowing boats don't get crushed under the bows.
We headed to the lock, following another riverboat in. All the riverboats are built to the same design. Apparently there are 300 of them licenced to cruise up and down the Nile.
We had traders following us too, trying to sell Jellabahs (gelebaiahs or however you want to spell it), the traditional one piece garments worn by Egyptians. The traders in the picture are wearing them. Our ship, and very likely all of them, have an Egyptian dress up night at some point along the cruise and the traders know the passengers need to get kitted up.
Into the lock …
… through the lock and looking back towards it:
Egypt 2010 #2 – Tales of the riverbank
Going on a Nile cruise does not involve all that much cruising. We boarded at Luxor and the ship did not go anywhere until the afternoon of the first full day when it set off towards Aswan, taking in a couple of stops on the way. The ship then remained at Aswan for a couple of days while we went on various trips then sailed back to Luxor where it remained for a couple more days while we went on a few more trips. That was it.
But when the ship actually was on the move we did at least have a chance to enjoy the riverbank theatre. It is very common to see the locals down at the river splashing about. But always the boys. The girls don't get a look-in.
Egypt 2010 #1 – The Colossi of Memnon
We hit the ground running on our first full day with a trip to the Valley of the Kings. With mid-day temperatures in the Luxor region reaching 45°C or thereabouts we were expected to make an extremely early start. The alarm went off at 5am, a quick breakfast on the ship then onto the coach.
It is a fairly short journey from the ship over the bridge to the west bank of the Nile and on to the Valley of the Kings. Very annoyingly you are not allowed to take photos there and we were instructed to leave our cameras on the coach. The tour guides want you to buy the official photos although I don't think anyone on our trip bothered. No huge loss. The valley itself is just so much rock and sand with a hilly peak in the background and entrances to tombs dotted randomly around the place. The use of the area for burials of Pharaohs dates from the reign of Thutmose I who was the first bright spark to notice that all his predecessors with their showy pyramids were leaving thieves in no doubt where to go find some buried treasure. Building an impressive tomb underground in an unknown place was supposed to thwart the tomb robbers, but all Thutmose's successors used the same area and the secret got out. From then it was back to business as usual for the thieves.
On the way to the Valley we stopped at the Colossi of Memnon, where you are allowed to take pictures. These two 60ft statues of a seated Amenhotep III originally ornamented the front facade of the latter's mortuary temple. The statues are all that is left to look at now, although there are excavation works going on behind.
In the photo above you can just see a sheep coming out from behind the statue to the right. Here are the rest of them.
The carvings on the side of one of the statues:
The statues are literally just by the side of a road, with handy car park and cafe.


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text: The KJV New Testament Greek Lexicon Strong's Number: 295 Browse Lexicon Original WordWord OriginÅAmfivpolißfrom the base of (297) and (4172)Transliterated WordTDNT EntryAmphipolisNonePhonetic SpellingParts of Speecham-fip'-ol-is Noun Location DefinitionAmphipolis = "a city surrounded by the sea" a city in Macedonia Prima, so called because the Strymon flowed around it King James Word Usage - Total: 1Amphipolis 1 KJV Verse Count Acts1Total1Greek lexicon based on Thayer's and Smith's Bible Dictionary plus others; this is keyed to the large Kittel and the "Theological Dictionary of the New Testament." These files are public domain.Bibliography InformationThayer and Smith. "Greek Lexicon entry for Amphipolis". "The KJV New Testament Greek Lexicon". .


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Dread Queen
|Found In
|Kaludon in Mitrilion system
|Moth Zero Gland
Vampire Bite
|Damage Type(s)
|Corrosive, Energy and Kinetic
|Special Drop(s)
|Enemy Type
|Mini Boss
|Encounter Exp
|Corrosive Resist
|Energy Resist
|Kinetic Resist
|"Wait, this is the bug we found in Zergilin, right? But.... It seems... it's different now! Be careful captain, this isn't the same bug..."
The Dread Queen is a mini boss in the Mitrilion system, located on the planet Kaludon in the left side elite area which is populated by large numbers of Dread Algae and Dread Moths as well. Basically a much meaner version of the Moth Queen found in Zergilin, this boss is not to be trifled with and presents a major challenge even for higher level players. The Dread Queen also has a very large amount of hitpoints making any fight with her a long one. This enemy is one of four sources of the Moth Zero Gland weapon, the others being the Bionic Queen, the Dread Moths surrounding Kaludon and the Cynapsian Dread Moths.
Weapons and damage
The Dread Queen fires Moth Zero Glands like the Dread Moths around her. They come in two patterns, a narrow spread forwards and a 360 degree circular pattern in all directions. The projectiles deal large amounts of damage (12624) and can and often will kill a player without maximum resists in one hit or group of hits. Similarly to other large moth type enemies, she will also use a bite attack if any player is foolish enough to venture close enough. Beware! Keep your distance while fighting her because when she is low on health she will enter her kamikaze mode in which she rushes toward the player and deals massive damage (18321) exploding on the unlucky recipient.
This becomes one of the most farmed enemies in game due to the Gold Crate that it will always drop when killed. For a low level, the key is to lure the queen from the spawners and to the edges of the Elite Zone. Recommended level is 60+. Best way to kill it is to stay ahead of it and stack DoT on it. Acid Blaster is great for this as the long range coupled with stacking DoT allow you to kill it while being a safe distance away. Plasma Gun can be used as well, but can become dangerous because the queen can do lots of damage at short range, but again still effective if you can fly well.
- 3 or more Artifacts
|Gold Crate
|Moth Zero Gland
|Big Metal Scrap
|Bug Leg
|Hydrogen Spill
|Toxic Waste
|Radiated Junk
Spawn Location
Kaludon planet
The Dread Queen spawns from the middle Flower Spawner at (-888, 333)
Respawn time is around 3-5 minutes.
Encounter Experience
This encounter gives 20,000 xp to players who defeat it for the first time.


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PowerStore Beta Build 060 Available
Russell, Build 060 addresses all the issues you reported, except for the browse issue Ray mentioned he couldn't reproduce. Please let us know how the other issues regress for you. We're aiming to launch on Wednesday so please get back to us as soon as you can.
Anyone else can beta test with this build as well. Here are the details:
Download PowerStore beta build 060
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Blagdon Clear Pond is a highly effective treatment for cloudy and dirty looking water, or water that is brown/grey. Ponds can often be cloudy after maintenance, heavy rain or after a new filter or UV clarifier has been fitted. Blagdon Clear Pond is a natural-based flocculent that clumps fine suspended particles together causing them to sink to the bottom of the pond or be removed efficiently by a filter.
Blagdon Clear Pond is harmless to filters and all species of pond fish, plants and water using wildlife.


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Witchcraft accusations against children
Children have been accused of witchcraft, both historically and in contemporary times, in societies that harbour beliefs about the existence of witches and black magic.
Witch finders and accusers[edit]
In sixteenth-century Europe, older children sometimes comprised a special category of witch hunters, bringing accusations of witchcraft against adults.[1] In 1525, the traveling judge in the Navarrese witch hunt utilized two "girl witches" whom he felt would be able to identify other witches. He hung about forty of these "witches" based on the testimony of the two girls.
Child witch hunters sometimes accused their family members of being witches.[1]
The most renowned trials caused by child accusations occurred in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692.[2] Children were viewed as having an important role in convicting witches, due to their being able to identify people impulsively.[1] Children who made such false allegations often directed them at adults with whom they had strained relationships such as teachers or puritanical neighbors.[3]
Child witches[edit]
By the start of the seventeenth century, many children were being punished and put in prison for taking part in witchcraft. This usually occurred because of their alleged participation in Sabbats.[1] It was a common belief that witches' children inherited witchcraft from their parents. It was often the practice to charge a whole family of witchcraft, even if only one individual was suspected. Witches who confessed often claimed that they learned witchcraft from a parent.
Pierre de Lancre and Francesco Maria Guazzo believed that it was enough proof of a witch's guilt if they had parents who were witches. They believed witch parents introduced the children to Satan, took the children to Sabbats, married children to demons, inspired the children to have sex with Satan(devil) or had sex with Satan with the child present. Many times the child accused of witchcraft, due to being shunned, threatened community members, thereby enforcing their beliefs that the child was a witch.[4]
There are several cases of witchcraft in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries that involved children as witches. In Sweden in 1669 a large number of children were included in a witch hunt and in Würzburg as in Salem in 1692, children were the focus of witch hunts. In Augsberg, beginning in 1723 an investigation into twenty children between the ages of six and sixteen resulted in them being arrested for witchcraft. They were held for a year in solitary confinement before being transferred to a hospital. The last child was freed in 1729.[5]
One example of a child-witch narrative in Germany is of a seven-year-old girl named Brigitta Horner. In 1639, Brigitta claimed to be a witch and that she had participated in witch's Sabbats where the Devil was present. Brigitta claimed to have been baptized in the name of the Devil instead of God. The pastor who baptized Brigitta was married to her grandmother who then taught her the arts of witchcraft.[6]
Contemporary belief in child witchcraft[edit]
In the United Kingdom, research by Dr Leo Ruickbie showed that the problem of child witchcraft accusations was spreading from Africa to countries with African immigrant populations. In some cases this has led to ritualized abuse and even murder. This was evident in the high-profile case of Kristy Bamu in 2010.[7]
In Nigeria, some African Pentecostal pastors have incorporated African witchcraft beliefs into their brands of Christianity resulting in a campaign of violence against young Nigerians. Children and babies branded as evil are being mistreated, abandoned, and even murdered. The preachers make money out of the fear providing costly exorcism services of their parents and their communities.[8]
In Angola, many orphaned children are accused of witchcraft and demonic possession by relatives in order to justify not providing for them. Various methods are employed: starvation, beating, unknown substances rubbed into their eyes or being chained or tied up.[9]
In Congo, it is estimated that there are 25,000 homeless children living on the streets of the capital city. Of these, 60% were expelled from their homes because of allegations of witchcraft. Accusations of witchcraft is the only justifiable reason for the refusal to house a family member, no matter how distant the relation.[10]
In Gambia, about 1,000 people accused of being witches were locked in detention centers in March 2009. They were forced to drink a dangerous hallucinogenic potion, according to Amnesty International.[11]
In the Nigerian states of Akwa Ibom and Cross River about 15,000 children were branded as witches and most of them end up abandoned and abused on the streets.[11] A documentary aired on Channel 4 and BBC, Saving Africa's Witch Children, shows the work of Gary Foxcroft and Stepping Stones Nigeria in addressing these abuses.
According to a disputable empiric construction, in Sierra Leone sick infants tend to have better survival-rates due to witchhunts: "the effect of the witch cleansing probably lasts for years in the sense that mothers are predisposed to tend their babies with more hopefulness and real concern. Therefore many babies who, before the arrival of the witchfinder, might have been saved if the mothers had had the heart and will to stop at nothing to tend their babies, will now survive precisely because they will receive the best attention, as the mothers now believe that the remaining children are free of witchcraft. So there is a reduction in the infant mortality rate in the years immediately following the witchcleansing movement".[12]
While crisis is generally accepted as a factor in the DRC and Nigeria, its impact and ramifications are in discussion by African and European scholars. According to Riedel, two major Nollywood films depicting children as witches don't show any economic stress and play in a middle-class environment.[13][14]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c d Golden, Richard M. Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition s.v. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2006.
- ^ Bailey, Michael D. Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies and Movements). Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2003.
- ^ Cf. John Crewdson. By Silence Betrayed: Sexual Abuse of Children in America. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1988), 170.
- ^ Burns, William E. Witch Hunts in Europe and America: An Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003.
- ^ Roper, Lyndal. "Evil Imaginings and Fantasies": Child-Witches and the End of the Witch Craze. Past and Present, No. 167 (May, 2000) 107, 109.
- ^ Rowlands, Alison. The 'Little Witch Girl' of Rothenburg. History Review, 42(Mar 2002)27.
- ^ Ruickbie, Leo. Child Witches: From Imaginary Cannibalism to Ritual Abuse. Paranthropology, 3.3 (July 2012), pp. 13-21.
- ^ Children are targets of Nigerian witch hunt. (The Observer, 9 December 2007)
- ^ Children accused of witchcraft tortured in 'exorcism' rituals. (2005, July 12). Daily Mail, p. 20. Retrieved December 1, 2008, from ProQuest NewsStand database. (Document ID: 866086551).
- ^ CONGO RELATIVES ACCUSING KIDS OF WITCHCRAFT :[ALL Edition]. (2006, August 30). The Augusta Chronicle, p. A11. Retrieved December 1, 2008, from ProQuest NewsStand database. (Document ID: 1116345621).
- ^ a b Faith Karimi. "Abuse of child 'witches' on rise, aid group says". CNN.
- ^ STUDIA INSTITUTI ANTHROPOS, Vol. 41 Anthony J. Gittins : Mende Religion. Steyler Verlag, Nettetal, 1987. p. 200
- ^ "Felix Riedel: Children in African Witch-Hunts – An introduction for Scientists and Social Workers". whrin.org.
- ^ Riedel, Felix (2012). "Children in African Witch-Hunts - An Introduction for Scientists and Social Workers" (PDF).


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A Family Fun Day and the 5th annual Springdale Mill Celebration will be held Saturday, Sept. 26, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Join Wachusett Greenways for a grand reopening of the Mass Central Rail Trail in West Boylston at the Mass Central Rail Trail and Springdale Mill Site. Follow the "Story Walk" trail to read Danny and the Dinosaur, enjoy live storytelling, take part in games and a nature treasure walk, enjoy bluegrass music with Chas and Deb and great food. Learn more about the Asian longhorned beetle, and mosquito- and tick-borne diseases and how to protect yourself. Have your photo taken in the Mass Central engine at the Springdale Mill siding.
Park at the Department of Conservation and Recreation offices on Rte. 140 for a continuous shuttle to the rail trail entrance in West Boylston, or park at the River Street entrance to the rail trail in Holden and walk or bicycle to the celebration. The trail from Thomas Street, West Boylston entrance to River Street, Holden, is three miles long. The Springdale Mill Site is about 1.5 miles from each entrance.
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I'm on vacation this week. Why?
1. It's my 12th wedding anniversary.
2. We received about 13" of snow over the past few weeks.
3. The weather forecast is sub zero to single digits.
4. I got a fabulous, last minute deal on a cruise.
I've been saying I need to make new Luggage Tags for awhile now. There are lots of patterns and tutorial on the internet, if you google it. I decided to keep it simple.
Here's what I did:
Cut really cool fabric 3" x 5" for front and back of each tag.
Iron on interfacing, same size, on the front pieces.
Cut a piece of ribbon long enough to attach to your luggage.
My ribbon was 12". Pin to right side of one of the front pieces.
You'll want to catch the ends when you sew the back to the front.
With right sides together, sew the back and the front together.
Clip the corners.
Pinch the front of the fabric and carefully (without cutting anything important)
make a tiny snip. Cut it open about 1.5" or enough to turn tag inside out.
Turn tag inside out and iron flat.
Top stitch around the edge of the tag.
Your tags should look kind of like this.
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I also had to make a little camera bag for my new camera:
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Nathalie Dale lives in a modest house just outside of Ann Arbor.
She is retired and lives without pretense, but a dusty journal article written in French resting in her living room bookcase reveals her true heritage.
Dale's family was part of the Russian aristocracy. Her grandfather, a historian by trade, was a member of the court of Czar Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia. Along with her father, who was a volunteer in the White Army fighting the communists, Dale's grandfather fled the Bolshevik revolution in 1919.
Dale was born in Athens and was baptized in an Orthodox church that traces its history back a thousand years. Her family lived there happily until the end of World War II. Another war, another attempted communist takeover, forced the family out of Greece. Dale remembers troops shooting at the train and bombs falling during the 22-day train ride to Austria.
The family settled in the British-controlled sector of Austria in a village with other Russian refugees. One of the main forms of recreation available to Dale, then a teenager, were twice-weekly dances. It was there she met her future husband, a young British soldier named John Dale.
In 1949, the couple moved to America and settled near Dexter. John Dale became a banker and Nathalie attended the University of Michigan, eventually earning a master's degree in music. When St. Vladimir Orthodox Church opened in 1981, Nathalie Dale became one of the original parishioners. She has attended nearly every Sunday service since.
Questions and answers with Nathalie Dale:
What is your religion?
Russian Orthodox.
Were your parents of this faith?
Yes, they were.
What is the one idea from your faith that is the most powerful or important to you?
I think my faith ... speaks very much to the heart. It has a certain warmth to it and I feel during the service, if you open up your heart, there's a mystery ... that speaks to you and sort of lifts you up from the ordinary world.
How is your faith important in your daily life?
Certain prayers really are part of me, and when I say them I'm really transported. I feel the strength coming from this.
How is your faith important in the wider world?
In Russia right now, there's a big resurgence of the faith, and I think that's wonderful because it was practically eliminated during communist times. Thousands of priests had been killed, also thousands of churches had been destroyed. It's a very old faith, and they haven't changed it. It is, I think, just about the way it was almost a thousand years ago.
Describe one experience where your faith has helped you through a tough time.
I don't know about one experience; I think there were many experiences. If I really concentrate and pray, it really makes a big difference. It strengthens me. It changes my outlook.
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In society, people wish and pray that emotions and the pain they cause could be erased from human experience. People don't like being responsible for their emotions. However, in Brave New World, Huxley distorts the concept of commitment to prove that all emotions are necessary to being.
Without commitment to religion, people become shallow and dehumanized. In Brave New World, Bernard doesn't participate in the Solidarity Service because he wants the change that comes with commitment. Instead, he participates because he "feels" that it's "time for him to do something." Bernard is participating in the emotion and tradition of the service. The other participants are "jumping," "shouting," with "twelve buttocks slabbily resounding." To these participants, it's a game not a lifestyle. In regard to commitment, however, Huxley proves through the Indian Ritual, that there is a price to pay for being committed to your beliefs and religion. The Indian Ritual signifies the growth of the Indian boy from childhood to maturity.
The pain from the whip represents the pain that follows commitment to a belief or religion. By comparing the Solidarity Service and Indian ritual, Huxley offers the reader a choice between shallowness and dehumanization or the pain that comes with commitment. In relating this scenerio to today's society, jealousy, responsibility, guilt, frustration, and fear are all associated with commitment to religion. For example, the jealousy people get against others who have a higher calling in the church, the guilt that comes when you sin against God or the church, or the fear that is placed in people of today about Hell. If a person doesn't experience these emotions than he is dehumanized because he feels nothing.
When society lacks commitment to relationships, the result is knowing nothing but the physical. When a person is involved in a...


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The well known L538 with All Wheel Steering (AWS) and in fashionable blue colour from the Agricultural Cooperative NilNomen.
It is very agile and has a very small turning circle thanks to AWS.
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It certainly can handle large shovels with a volume of 20,000 liters, however a counter weight of 4 Tons is then required. The bog standard shovel you can use without any counter weight.
Also with its price of only 143000 Euros and a daily maintenance fee of only 90 Euros the L538 AWS is an absolute steal.
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Birds to Thank for Tall Trees
You can thank our avian friends for helping make all those pine trees so darn tall. According to a new study by Kailen Mooney, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, insectivorous birds — chickadees and nuthatches — indirectly helped pine trees grow by up to 33% by feeding on parasitic organisms that sap their resources. They are voracious consumers of harmful insect species such as caterpillars, ants, aphids and beetles.
In addition, the birds also manage to modify the trees' "chemical flavor" by upping the amount of terpenes — chemicals that repel parasites by imparting a foul taste to the trees' resin. "More than anything, this study underscores the importance of preserving the ecological communities in the forest and not just the trees," concluded Mooney.
Via ::LiveScience: Birds Help Trees Soar (news website)
See also: ::Say Cheese!: Rare "Smiling" Bird Photographed for First Time, ::It's For the Birds
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In a previous post I admitted a small heresy for a Microsoft person. I quite liked firefox; past tense because IE7 gives me all that I liked about Firefox, and more besides.
Last week I learnt of a survey by bit9 which details their top 15 most vulnerable applications. And top of the list is Firefox, version 1.07. Firefox have updates, patches, indeed a whole new version, but if anyone still believes the "lots of eyeballs implies few vulnerabilities" myth of Open Source, they should be able to see it is a fairy story. There is an equal and opposite myth which is that software is only secure if you keep the source secret. The fact that Microsoft have a "Shared source" programme – open source with a small O, gives the lie to this too. Only in Digital Rights Management do you need to keep the code secret.
Talking of digital right management number 2 in the list was Apples iTunes. 6.02 and quick time 7.03 (which, like firefox is patchable, or can be replaced with a new version). At 3 comes Skype 1.4 (patchable) , #4 is Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.02, and 6.03 (superseded and patchable), and #5 is Sun's Java Runtime Environment (also patchable), #6 is Macromedia Flash Player 7 (patchable again), at #7 is Winzip 8.1 (upgradeable) , keeping Skype company, at #8 is AOL instant messenger 5.5, #9 is MSN messenger 5.0, and #10 is Yahoo instant messenger 6.0, and #15 is the ICQ chat client 2003a. AOL and MSN can be patched or upgraded, Yahoo and ICQ – according to Bit 9 - cannot. You can get the full list of vulnerable apps from bit9.
Inside Microsoft, we've talked about what this report means. First, it means Vulnerabilities aren't confined to Microsoft. Any developer that points a finger at someone else for having a vulnerability is setting themselves up for a fall. We might allow ourselves a small laugh at the expense of those Firefox fans who claim it is totally watertight. But only a small laugh – because they set themselves up for the fall. Too much laughter and we'll be setting ourselves up for one.
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They were the men assigned to save Europe's great art treasures during World War Two. In early 1943, the U.S. and its allies learned that the Nazis were confiscating great works of art across Europe. In response, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas. The men assigned to the job became known as the "Monuments Men." And 64 years later their efforts are finally being honored. VOA'S Jeff Swicord reports.
There were once more than 350 "Monuments Men." Now, only 12 survive, and four were honored recently at a ceremony on Capitol Hill. Congress paid tribute to the old soldiers' efforts to return the great treasures of Europe that the Nazis stole during World War Two.
Writer Robert Edsal co-authored their story in the book "Rescuing da Vinci." "You consider that in the period six or seven years they were able to locate, in thousands of hiding places -- it was the greatest treasure hunt in history -- and ultimately return to the countries that were stolen more than five million works of art, books, stained glass, church bells from cathedrals throughout Europe. It is really an extraordinary accomplishment."
In 1938 the Nazis began the systematic confiscation of Europe's priceless works of art, including masterpieces by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Rembrandt.
In 1944 with Allied armies liberating territory taken by the Nazis, U.S. soldiers with the Monument, Fine Arts and Archives Unit took on the daunting task of locating stolen treasures.
Harry Ettlenger was a member of the unit. "My first assignment was to effectively read letters and documents that were written in German and provide that information to the captain who took me under his wing."
Luckily, the Nazis kept detailed records of the stolen art. The "Monuments Men" also interviewed art representatives from occupied countries and interrogated captured Nazi officials.
Bernard Taper remembers searching for the Czartoryski collection, looted from Poland's National Museum in Krakow. "That was a famous collection. Wonderful works of art. A da Vinci -- "Lady with an Ermine" -- a Rembrandt portrait. Other wonderful things."
Taper focused on finding one painting from the collection: Raphael's "Portrait of a Young Man." His first task was to meet with the art representative from Poland.
"We had a session, more than one session, where we talked about the missing painting and how it might have left Poland, who might have been involved with it and what Nazi people might have known more than others," recalls Taper.
The collection eventually came under the control of the Nazi governor of Poland, Hans Frank. And the Allies eventually found most of the collection with Frank at his home in Neuhaus, Germany. But the Raphael remains missing.
The value of the art catalogued and saved by the Monuments Men is estimated at more than a trillion dollars. Sixty years later, their efforts have been honored in a resolution passed by both houses of Congress.


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Reviews | Written by Callum Shephard 05/02/2016
At its heart, XCOM has always been a series about loss. Its very nature hinged upon the uphill battles the player fought, the troops they could permanently lose and sheer attrition of the long war, right down to a memorial for your casualties. Now, after all that, Firaxis opted to take away the world itself, declaring the player had lost the war. The experience was stripped down to its bare essentials, twisted to fit their new designs, and rebuilt as a darker, more cynical creation. Yet it's one that is irrefutably an XCOM experience on every level.
The story here is set several decades after the original game, with earth firmly in the iron grip of the aliens. Rather than defend the planet, your job is now to launch your own Terror Missions against them. Because of this, it's a definite step up above its predecessor, most notably in terms of atmosphere. With XCOM now limited to a resistance movement, the story reflects this by remaining closer to Enemy Unknown's tutorial than that game's threadbare narrative. Chilling, tense and desperate, the cut scenes emphasise how there's never a moment you feel safe, and rarely a time you can really pause for breath. This thematically reflects the proactive focus, as you are no longer simply waiting for the aliens to up the ante and react. Instead your goal is to seed nations with agents, steal supplies and push back the ticking clock of the mysterious Avatar project.
Because of the new dynamic, the very way you are expected to conduct missions has been radically altered. While time is at a standstill on the geoscape map, the moment you come into contact with a potential resource, from allied resistance groups to black market contacts, a new countdown starts. Stuck there for days, you are left risking alien attacks or even passing up vital opportunities to attack the aliens on their home turf. The moment you move however, your window of opportunity is gone and a vital opportunity to grab new guns, specialists or even food goes up in smoke.
The careful balancing act between survival and blowing up alien buildings serves as the backbone to the new game, taking elements from prior releases and rounding off past mistakes. Rightfully beloved as it was, Enemy Unknown was infamous for the frustrating inability to respond to more than one crisis at a time, always losing faith from someone. While sadly not offering the multitude of bases or response ships some would want, the older Terror Missions have been supplanted by Dark Events. Rather than just losing morale, several occur at a time across the world, and their impact can range from halving your income to directly attacking your base. So, how is this an improvement exactly? While this new dynamic might throw off some players to begin with, you can prepare and head off these events, finding ways to mitigate their impact. It's through handling these that you are truly allowed to fully go on the offensive towards the later stages of the game.
So, what about the combat itself? As before, it's recognisably XCOM with more than a few improvements. Immediately the biggest upgrade is the removal of clusters of enemies hidden just out of sight. Rather than having passive units jumping out and yelling "hello!" with a hail of plasma bolts, enemy forces will instead follow patrol routes, only detecting enemy forces within certain proximity. This allows you to set up various ambushes and sudden assaults, something you'll need quite badly as most old units are back with a vengeance. The cannon fodder sectoids? They're now effectively armoured necromancers, capable of psychically animating dead troops. The floaters? Unholy death-bringing archangels with firepower on par with a cyberdisc. Oh, and the sectopods? Same bullet spongy armour, same damage output, but with the added fun of being able to stride over buildings, Martian walker style.
Thankfully XCOM itself is hardly without a few fun upgrades. Resource starved as the organisation is, many new gimmicks put the old gadgets to shame with later upgrades making troops intangible, adding power weapons into the mix and stranger things beyond those. The fact they are so varied, and the classes so balanced, also allows for more creative freedom in the game. Rather than following set objectives, you really can build the base more or less however you want, without the game niggling you to finish something.
If this has sounded positive thus far, there's a definite reason for that. XCOM 2's failings are few and far between, and are all easily forgivable. While the framerate might stutter at times, that hardly hinders a turn based game, and the occasionally awkward camera angles are only rare occurrences. While human collaborators might be your primary enemy, that only makes it more tense once aliens show up, and allowed Firaxis to turn them into truly terrifying foes. Even the surprisingly limited gun progression, and simplistic base building, can be shrugged at thanks to the sheer versatility on offer. Simply put: There are no real flaws to be found here, just minor shortcomings.
With boundless replay value, a strong narrative and harsh but fair use of RNG, XCOM 2 is a must buy for 2016. Anyone even remotely invested in turn based strategy would do well to grab a copy at the earliest opportunity.


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A massive meta-analysis pooling data from millions of people in several countries reaffirmed that body mass index (BMI) has a J-shaped relationship with mortality, with the lowest death rates among those in the traditional "normal" range of 20-25.
The study of nearly four million people revealed that those in every BMI category above and below the normal range had significantly higher mortality rates.
The elevation in risk applied to even mildly overweight people, and was highest for those with overt obesity, according to researchers with the Global BMI Mortality Collaboration, a part of the University of Cambridge.
The study was published in The Lancet on Wednesday.
The hazard ratios for all-cause mortality went up as BMI went up from the normal range in the analysis (relative to BMI 20 to <25):
- 1.07, 95% CI 1.07-1.08, for BMI of 25.0 to <27.5
- 1.20, 95% CI 1.18-1.22, for BMI 27.5 to <30
- 1.45, 95% CI 1.41-1.48, for BMI of 30.0 to <35.0
- 1.94, 95% CI 1.87-2.01, for BMI of 35.0 to <40
- 2.76, 95% CI 2.60-2.92, for BMI of 40 to <60
"Our results challenge recent suggestions that overweight and moderate obesity are not associated with higher mortality, bypassing speculation about hypothetical protective metabolic effects of increased body fat in apparently healthy individuals," wrote the authors. Their data showed the J-shaped relationship maintained for every age group, albeit attenuated somewhat among those in the 70-89 age range.
The risk was also increased in the lowest BMI strata: the hazard ratio was 1.13 (95% CI 1.09-1.17) for BMI of 18.5 to <20 and 1.51 (95% CI 1.43-1.59) for BMI of 15.0 to <18.5.
For a BMI of more than 25, all-cause mortality increased log-linearly, and the hazard ratio per every 5 BMI points was 1.39 (95% CI 1.34–1.43) in Europe, 1.29 (1.26-1.32) in North America, 1.39 (1.34-1.44) in East Asia, and 1.31 (1.27-1.35) in Australia and New Zealand.
The authors added that, generally, that relationship was more pronounced in younger people than in older people -- the hazard ratio per 5 BMI points above 25.0 was 1.52 (95% CI 1.47–1.56) for BMI measured when the participant was age 35–49 versus 1.21 (1.17–1.25) for 70–89 years (P<0.0001).
The relationship was also stronger in men than in women (1.51, 95% CI 1.46–1.56, versus 1.30, 1.26–1.33; P<0·0001), though that wasn't true for studies that relied on self-reported BMI.
The study raises two major issues, according to David Berrigan, PhD, MPH, at the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences at the NIH and two colleagues in an accompanying editorial. The first is that it's still unclear whether the relationship between BMI and mortality can be generalized , they wrote. The second issue is what kinds of public health measures would come from a study like this, which pooled data from several countries.
"Substantial research and conceptual questions remain for each of these issues," they wrote. There are questions of who to exclude and whether that would bias the results. Excluding too many people, like ever-smokers, would limit the generalizability of the findings.
There has been a lot of debate about studies that examine the relationship between body mass index and mortality, according to Berrigan and co-authors, since BMI is a limited measure. A number of studies have identified an "obesity paradox" where some outcomes are better for heavier than skinnier people, particularly in the elderly.
But the authors said that their findings challenge assertions that overweight and grade 1 obesity (BMI of 30 to <35) are not associated with a higher risk of mortality.
This analysis pooled 239 studies across 32 countries and included about 1.6 million deaths. Only data from large, prospective studies was included, and only studies performed after 1970 were included. The hazard ratios of all-cause mortality were generally similar across different continents, though the risk was higher for underweight and for the highest class of obesity in Europe than in East Asia.
The authors also examined death by coronary heart disease, stroke, other cardiovascular disease, cancer, and respiratory disease. Above a BMI of 25, BMI was correlated with coronary heart disease, stroke, and respiratory disease; it was also moderately correlated with cancer.
Only never-smokers were included in the study to avoid residual confounding, since smoking has a relationship to both mortality and to BMI. In addition, those known to have pre-existing chronic diseases were excluded, and the initial 5 years of follow-up were excluded because diseases at baseline that cause death within 5 years might lead to reverse causation.
Limitations of the study include that it pooled observational studies only, so it is not designed to determine causality. In addition, the only measure of adiposity was BMI, which can be more inaccurate than other measures of fat.
"Despite the limitations of observational studies for causal inference of obesity and mortality, many crucial questions about BMI will continue to rely on observational data," wrote Berrigan and colleagues. "To date, few sufficiently sized randomized trials have been done to address whether weight-loss interventions reduce mortality or morbidity."
The study was funded by the U.K. Medical Research Council, British Heart Foundation, National Institute for Health Research, and the NIH in the U.S.
The dozens of members of the Global BMI Mortality Collaboration disclosed relationships with the U.K. Medical Research Council, NHS, Elsevier, La Roche, British Heart Foundation, Novartis, Amgen, Nestle, Metagenics, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Janssen, and GlaxoSmithKline, among others.
The authors of the editorial disclosed no relationships with industry.
- Reviewed by F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE Assistant Professor, Section of Nephrology, Yale School of Medicine and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner
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The LancetSource Reference: Global BMI Mortality Collaboration "Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents" Lancet 2016; DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30175-1.
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2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for rolling
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup dairy free margarine (or butter)
1 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
Assorted candies, sprinkles, or coloured sugars, for decorating (optional)
1. In large bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, and salt. With an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. With mixer on low, gradually add flour mixture; beat until combined. Divide dough in half; flatten into disks. Wrap each in plastic; freeze until firm, at least 20 minutes, or place in a resealable plastic bag, and freeze up to 3 months (thaw in refrigerator overnight).
2. Preheat oven to 180°C. Line baking sheets with parchment. Remove one dough disk; let stand 5 to 10 minutes. Roll out 1/8 inch thick between two sheets of floured parchment, dusting dough with flour as needed. Cut shapes with cookie cutters. Using a spatula, transfer to prepared baking sheets. (If dough gets soft, chill 10 minutes.) Re-roll scraps; cut shapes. Repeat with remaining dough.
3. Bake, rotating halfway through, until edges are golden, 10 to 18 minutes (depending on size). Cool completely on wire racks. To ice cookies, spread with the back of a spoon. Let the icing harden, about 20 minutes. Decorate as desired.
Note: To make icing, sift 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar into a small bowl. Whisk in 3 to 4 tablespoons milk, water, or lemon juice, 1 tablespoon at a time, until smooth and thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. If too thin, whisk in more sugar; if too thick, add more liquid.
TIPS: Use flour on utensils to keep dough from sticking: Dip the cookie cutters, and dust the spatula before transferring uncooked dough to a sheet. Rolling dough between two sheets of floured parchment will keep it from sticking to the rolling pin.
You can store cookies in airtight containers at room temperature, up to 1 week.


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Are We Overpopulated?
The answer is NO! The myth of overpopulation has been perpetuated for some time now, but are we really overpopulated or is it just that certain people in the elite have a not so hidden agenda to remove vast numbers of useless eaters from the planet? I will make a case for the latter.
Everyone has heard that we have now surpassed the 7 billionth number of persons on the planet. And with that information, which may or may not be true, the mainstream media (MSM) is starting to roll out numerous articles about the problem of overpopulation. However, if you've ever flown across the United States or other parts of the world you will notice that we still have vast areas of land that are underpopulated. So how is it that the MSM can continually perpetuate the myth that we are overpopulated? First of all, people are not very smart these days, they tend to believe whatever the media tells them if it is presented on the 6:00 news followed by a PhD at the end of the name. If you can throw in a few think tank studies from some elite group then voila you have your new fact, unquestioned and adhered to by the masses.
Putting aside all the media hype that we are overpopulated, let's look at the facts and for argument sake let's assume that the 7 billion number is correct. The earth has a land mass of approximately 57 million square miles including Antarctica, the Sahara and other uninhabitable areas. In one square mile there are 640 acres. 57 million multiplied by 640 equals 36 billion 480 million acres. 36 billion 480 million divided by 7 billion equals 5.2 acres per person. For argument sake let's just cut that figure down to a round 3 acres per person to account for the unusable land mass.
Sounds bleak doesn't it? It does sound bleak and many a report has taken these numbers and run with it, sounding the alarm and fueling the myth that we are rapidly running out of earth, resources, that the earth is overpopulated and that we must start imposing a Chinese-like solution to the world's overpopulation problem. But before we impose upon the world a lifestyle void of brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles let's just take a step back and think about this right now. Right now we are at the figure I just quoted and yet we don't see hoards of starving people. I don't own any acreage and by some miracle I am far from malnourished and that could be said of the majority of inhabitants on the earth. So what is the deal here?
The reason that some countries are suffering from hunger has little to do with overpopulation and much to do with greed, corruption and war. In history it is rare that whole groups of people have simply starved to death because there wasn't enough resources to cultivate food. However, it is very common for whole nations to starve to death because of war, greed and corruption.
In addition, we do not need 3 acres per person to live well on the earth. I don't live on 3 acres, I live along with 300 other people on a little less than 1/4th of one square city block...and I'm quite happy to be doing so! Not everyone wants to live in a high-rise in Manhattan but not everyone wants to live on 3 acres, in the country, either.
Has this article changed your mind or made you think twice regarding the myth of over-population?
Changes may have to be made. There are quite a few studies that note that topsoil is being eroded due to overuse. However, if we stopped raping the land the way we have through big agriculture (Big Agra) and institute an agricultural system that replenishes the land (like Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms encourages in his books) then we wouldn't have to worry about this. Additionally, the claim is made that the amount of fresh water available for human needs is inadequate but if we were to institute a system using humanure as laid out in the Humanure Handbook not only would we save millions of gallons of fresh water but we would also be using that composted humanure to replenish the topsoil previously mentioned.
So if we aren't running out of land then why is it that all we hear from the mainstream media and elite think tanks is that we are overpopulated? Well, the elite have an agenda. They have had this agenda for sometime now and it is called Eugenics. The elite would like the population to be no more than 500 million as stated in the Georgia Guidestones. They are pushing this agenda through the ruse of environmentalism, climate change and over-population and I must say ...it's working. My answer to those who think that the population is overwhelming the planet is to please lead us by example, cease to reproduce and remove yourself from the planet toot suite!
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What is a sustainable number (assuming resources were allocated equally)? Quality of life is the real issue. Existing just to exist makes little sense to me Do we have too many people under the current monetary model of distribution *YES
If we changed the model, how many could lead good lives?
Good subject. It depends how you look at it. I agree that our planet is not overpopulated if we live on our planet how life is meant to be - close to nature without eating meat. The current overproduction in the agriculture that is around 50% could house at least 15 billion people. At least if they live close to nature without eating animals. There lies the only solution.
You make a lot of valid statements here, but I cannot agree with you whole heartedly. I do agree that corruption is one of the major problems, but also that the population growth is a problem.
We have to take into account the masses in Africa (I stay in South Africa) Unless they can be moved to a place where there is more space Africa is going to remain overpopulated. It is no use people reproducing simply for the child support. Lots of areas that are seemingly usable is in fact not.
Here in South Africa, for instance, in the Karoo you need VERY big farms to sustain the possibility of farming, the land is dry and has no grass and is only suitable for sheep and needs very huge areas per sheep to to farm sustainably. Simply making the sums like you looks very impressing, but unfortunately there are a lot of variables that has to be taken into account
Yes, I understand this. But the way that they are using overpopulation to further their goals is by keeping most people ignorant of what solutions there are. Most people wouldn't have thought of any of this. Therefore, it is important for people to know what solutions there are, and get them thinking about new ones. As I was reading through the comments, I didn't notice anyone really speaking on any of this. Our innovation and curiosity as well as simply questioning things (which we are being taught not to do) will be what destroys the illusion of overpopulation. Now that I have said all of this, hopefully other visitors to your hub will see it and it will give them something to think about in addition to all the other information on your hub.
What about building tall vertical structures that house hydroponic style gardening systems and that would solve a lot of the problem with land we need to grow crops, which is a large portion of our agricultural land consumption? The same could technically be done with grazing animals like cows, but lets just assume that it can't be and that they do need horizontally portioned land to feed on. A significant amount of the land needed to grow food and raise animals that we eat is still lessened because we would no longer be using such an ineffective way of growing crops. At our level of technology, there are plenty of innovative solutions to solving the land usage issue. As far as land per person, remember, we can build up, and we can also build into the sky, and into the universe. Why are we only worried about soil-based earth? Also we can build cities into the ocean. Fish don't need acreage. They need water. Why not properly farm raise fish in the vast amounts of water we've got on earth alone? And wild game like deer don't' require dedicated acreage. They graze and feed on the land already provided without requiring it to be sectioned off. Such a shame...we as humans limit ourselves. Most of the technology needed to make such a system work already exists. Also, I think a system like this would be much less stressful on the environment than what we do right now.
My article on Manila, one of the world's most overpopulated cities in the world, confirms that the problem is not so much overpopulation as over condensation of population.
The question is:
Would a couple of acres of land per family fill up the globe?
Mathematician co-hubber Ngureco came up with this answer which exactly coincides with your figures Brie:
"Area of earth's land is 150,000,000Km².
The world's population is 7,000,000,000 people.
If you divide global land area by number of people, each person should get 0.0214Km². One square kilometer is equal to 247.11 acres. Therefore, 1 person should get 0.021 x 247.11 = 5.2 acres.
If you have a husband/wife and two children, then, your family should be entitled to 20.8 acres.
Are you having your rightful share?"
No need to live in Antartica if each family rightfully owned their due share of 20.8 acres of land when actually 2 acres would suffice.
If everyone is brought up to a western standard of living the problem takes care of itself. Very few middle class western women want to have 16 children.
Forget if she has traveled, how about has she read anything? Try this from the NY Times opinion page
And there are so many articles you can find debunking the overpopulation "myth" it makes you wonder how it even got started. Oh that's right, liberals, the elite don't need facts to launch policies, just good intentions.
Yes, the world is overpopulated. The earth simply cannot reasonably sustain the present number of people. People have to be educated regarding contraception and birth control must be rigorously enforced. The number of children a couple should have is 1-2 children as a replacement. To have more than 2 children is utter foolishness. Those who willingly have large families should be penalized.
I believe that seven billion people now, nine billion by 2050, are too many when we think about the fact that most of the world's population does not have the life styles and "things" that a small portion of the world now enjoys. Billions of people currently "exist" on $2 per day without adequate water, food, clothing, and shelter.
Even then we are destroying the environment, decimating ecosystems, and driving many species to extinction. Your argument that most folks only use a small piece of the planet does not explain where the food, shelter, clothing, and things come from that they are using to exist on their small piece. Very few individuals are self sufficient anymore. The necessities of life are mined, produced, processed, created, shipped from a space and impact a space bigger than your apartment or house.
Larry, they ARE poisoning the water/food supplies with anti-fertility and other chemicals. Please use a filter - even for the shower!
Hi Brie,
One more thing. I like to compare the population alarmist cult with the Heavens Gate cult. Even though suicide may have nasty consequences in the next world, I have more respect for the deceased HG folks. At least they were willing to put their lives on the line for what they believed in.
In contrast, the population alarmists believe that the truly draconian measures that they advocate are always for other people, not for themselves. Did you know that 40 years ago, Paul "Population Bomb" Ehrlich was talking about poisoning water supplies with anti-fertility chemicals? The alarmists are not nice people.
Hi Brie. I agree with you 100%. One more detail.
When certain conditions are met, including non-corrupt government, a country will go through a Demographic Transition, in which the population naturally levels off, without Big Brother coercion, and without mass starvation. For example, the Japanese birthrate is now well below replacement levels.
Voted up.
Wow. I am really enjoying your hubs. I read the hub, and just skimmed the responses s I am not sure if this has been said. I agree that we aren't over populated. I think we just use our resources wrong. It doesn't make sense to burn up fuel transporting food from one side of the country to the other. If every town was responsible in growing and maintaining their own food for their own citizens there would be plenty for everyone and cut down on the use of oil. Anyway, I will say it once again. I am enjoying your hubs. I am glad I found them.
Brie, Bravo.
The fact is we could build giant skyscrapers with small apartments and totally transform our concrete hell holes we have today into self sustaining cities with everything we need.
Enough food can be produced inside these self contained cities for everyone. No one would starve. Overpopulation is a myth. It's the monetary system and the way we live currently that is causing these problems.
Humans are not the problem, OUR SYSTEM is.
Agenda 21 plays in with this Depopulation Plan. The best resource that I've found is Michael Shaw. Here's one of his videos on this topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_o8JJSNN6g
Just drive on the L.I.E. on any workday or Friday afternoon...ugh!
Oh, the sad bit is a recurring condition brought on by mainstream media's maneuvering of the masses. Nothing to worry about. When I feel overwhelmed and frustrated with it, I read breakfastpop's articles and I cheer right up. ;)
Sadly, I totally agree with you, Brie, and sadly is an understatement.
By the way - that was some impressive math-works you incorporated with this article. A very nice added touch to keep numbers and size in an feasible perspective. :)
Yes. And rapidly expanding world.
Some people just don't like people and wish they'd disappear. We get in their way. And it seems when you have enough money to buy anything you want, killing off half the world seems like fun.
Brie, thanks for good Hub. I would like to add that jealousy and envy is the same sin as greed. It is materialism.
There are 1.5 cows per human on the planet. It really isn't a question about acreage, when we're discussing over-population--this is about methane gas and global climate change.
The over-population problem has been present in certain areas as regional populations have fluctuated due to human migration. In White Chapel, during the 1890's--the time of Jack the Ripper, the immigrant zone for London's unwanted visitors, the population of this small suburb was stacked up to 800 people per acre.
It was in this light that Thomas Malthus began to write of hunger and over-population.
The trends today are not dissimilar, as people move to cities from rural areas because they can't make a living or be happy on the family farm because profits made from farming are so low.
Many of the societal issues of murder, rape, hunger and poverty are created by cities of over-population due to desires of the public.
Small towns do not see the violence or hunger, but rather see more contact with neighbors, however, the mundane rural life isn't for everyone and the pursuit of happiness often leads young people to bright lights and over-crowded regions. More recently, towns have become the veins through which the drug trade has flowed through--increased rural drug use is a problem--the kids are bored.
Much of our present crisis is also surrounding diet. Why are there so many cows? Do we really need to ask on a daily basis, "Where's the beef?" The answer is everywhere...you can't help but step in it...when there are 10 billion cattle out there.
A change of diet, a renewed effort by business and government to create sustainable jobs--not Walmart and McDonald minimum wage positions, instead of useless gov't programs that cost billions, human greed by the top 1 percent all indicate the changes needed to the human spirit--business should be responsible to its employees--just as employees are responsible to their business owners. it is a two-way street...at least in successful businesses that continue to exist.
However, the media--including entertainment--needs to see a very real change in educating our planet, instead of informing of recent "spectacular" or "fear-mongering" events to stir up political footballs that will only be kicked about and distract us from real solutions.
By way of example, I can only laugh at the ridiculousness of the "Kartrashian" marriage and divorce--18 million plus in profits just to be watched by millions of people? This is a low point in our societal focus--time to turn on the food network and watch real chefs make incredible food. It might help motivate the hungry ones to go out and build business, learn how to cook...at the very least...make mouths water.
Only 7 percent of the land mass on the planet is considered tillable...ie. food-producing. So this has been seen as a "hunger" issue, but with that in mind--by polluting this small percentage with natural gas fracking, oil exploration, etc--we could see food issues because of the quality of our produce--it could be turned into poison by the tainted water created by this type of industrial exploration.
There's lots of stuff going on out there--but this money-making focus needs to stop--we can live on less, eat better and concern ourselves with more artistic endeavors.
Brie read this Or google How many acres per cowhttp://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_cattle_can_be_r...
Don't believe me or Joel, Google it. As far as growing food it takes space. Joel me, you or anyone else can grow large amounts of food neede for millions of people on 3 acres.
Not with the land proportioned at three acres per person. Many people won't even cut there there grass and weeds around their house, let alone raise a garden or raise animals for food. It takes, I believe, 5 acres per 1 or 2 cows to graze and be healthy enough for people to eat.
Yes, there is, but open land in Wyoming is not a help to a poor family in India or Africa. There is also the question of growing food. There has to be space for that.
Brie, I am speaking of a world much larger than there is out side your door or in your hallway. There are many families in the world who have not stopped begatting. There are many families where I live in the Philippines who have 6-7 children the wife is pregnant and there is no income to buy food to feed them. In many areas of the world, Brie, there is staggering overpopulation. Perhaps you should look beyond your stoop.
wow - speaking of agendas! A quick read leaves the impression you think the only space we need it what we sleep on. 3 acres per person? Can you even picture a world populated to that ratio.
Sorry Brie - I'm not supporting the "over-populated" theory, but your "catch-phrase" labeling certainly reduced your credibility in my eyes. But then again, that's only my opinion, and the good thing about opinions is that we can all have them.
I was caught a little off guard by the 7 billion population. It was not long ago that I made a comment about the 6 billion mark. That right there is a lot of begattin', don't ya reckon? It seems that if people spent a little more time planting vegetables and a lot less time begatting, 2 problems might be curtailed very quickly. If that is not a plausible suggestion and the elite disagree. Then the elite who want to reduce the population, should feel free to line up at tables 1-5 and volunteer for the soylent green program. For those that would insist on making me feel old with the question, "what is soylent green?" I refer you to a movie starring Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson, among others, filmed during the stone ages of Hollywood.
Excellent logic and analysis Brie, and so simply put! How could anyone argue it? Apparently the likes of Keith Tax can't, but can only say "I think there are too many people" with nothing to back it up or counter any of the points you made.
Isaac Asimov wrote a piece many moons ago in which the earth was overpopulated by THREE billion people. A new novel called The Hunger Games divides North America into 12 starving districts who have to sacrifice their young.
The propaganda of overpopulation is just another populist tool to throw fear at general public.
If we would change our focus from chasing monetary gain and simply become a more focused group of hunter gatherers we would likely see a more balanced approach for all.
Solving the famine-threatened regions' dilemmas around the globe is certainly a priority, but for many westernized civilians the chase for wealth and comfort is a far greater concern.
Education will always be the answer to solving the problem, but experts are less likely to be right in most cases than a monkey throwing darts at a dartboard. We see this with the global economic crisis right now.
Our experts have been wrong...much more than they've been right. These are supposed to be the most educated among us.
So educational institutions need to change their curricula and start educating real solutions to real problems--not just the pursuit of more oil, more natural gas, more gold, more diamonds.
If we could see a more agrarian-centered approach around the world to allow people to grow what they need to survive, medical service to maintain health and a realistic approach to family size--we would see a much calmer planet.
Of course, "utopia" means nowhere in Latin, and Utopian results on a planet that seems to thrive on drama and trauma in the media will not result in reaching solutions to what may be future crises in the menus that can be served to seven billion human beings.
It certainly is a fascinating topic. Thanks for the hub.
Spot on Brie!
The elite plan to depopulate is just part of the one world government agenda. Too many people believe what they are spoon fed by the largest propaganda mill on the planet, the mainstream media.
At this point one of the only sources of truth is the internet. Even then it takes intelligence and dilligence to weed out the propaganda there!
There are 7 billion of us now. I think there are too many people for the planet to sustain. Of course, I am not volunteering to step off just yet.


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