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It appears as though Rod Stewart's trek through the Great American Songbook has come to an end. After spending much of the past decade giving watered-down versions of classics by the likes of the Gershwins, Rodgers & Hart and Irving Berlin, Stewart is returning to rock n' roll.
Speaking with John Soeder of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Scottish rock legend said, "When I signed with Universal, the head of Universal [Lucian Grainge] said to me, 'All I want you to do is make an updated 'Gasoline Alley." So that's what I started doing. "
Released in 1970, 'Gasoline Alley' was Stewart's second solo album, and was where his blend of rock, soul and folk began to gel, and would hit its peak a year later with 'Every Picture Tells a Story.' 'Gasoline Alley's' highlights include a cover of Elton John's 'Country Comforts,' 'Lady Day' and the gorgeous title track, a wistful longing to return to one's roots, which he co-wrote with Ron Wood.
So far, Stewart says he expects to release the album in 2013. The songs deal with "what I call grown-up problems. There are songs with advice to my kids, and I've written a song about divorce. I haven't written anything like 'Hot Legs' or 'Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?'"
Christmas will also be a busy time for Stewart. He is putting out his first Christmas album, which will be produced by David Foster, and his autobiography will be arriving in stores at the same time.
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The Desert Speaks "The Lost Palm Weavers of Sonora" The Opatas were probably the largest aboriginal group in what is now Sonora, Mexico but by the 1950s anthropologists could not locate a single speaker of the native language. While the people may be extinct, the Opatas left behind numerous traditions. Join the search in Buena Vista, Sonora for the descendants of Opata palm weavers and explore the tradition of native palm weaving that has survived through the centuries. D
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The Artist Toolbox "Hugh Newell Jacobsen" "Every morning when I walked this block and a half to my office and I saw the sad people in their cars heading to some awful job, I just thought, I can't wait to get at it again," says acclaimed architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen. "I found something I was good at, and it was just so thrilling." In this very special episode of The Artist Toolbox, walk with host John Jacobsen, son of the award-winning architect, through his childhood home and his father's Georgetown office as they discuss a career in ground-breaking architecture half a century strong. D
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Music Voyager "Shreveport: Road Through Northern Louisiana" Shreveport, a city with a rich musical history, counts among its myriad musical traditions the African-American sounds of the South, country music, Western swing, rockabilly that predated rock and roll, and the spicy influence of Cajun and Creole music. As guest host, rock star and blues guitar virtuoso Kenny Wayne Shepherd visits Lead Belly's grave for an acoustic jam with local icon Buddy Flett; introduces Maggie Warwick of the famed radio show, The Louisiana Hayride; enjoys a special performance on the stage where Elvis first tasted stardom; sits down with guitar legend James Burton for a demonstration of his pioneering guitar licks; and sits in on a grumble boogie party with the band Dirtfoot. D
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Todos sabemos que la inestabilidad económica no es una situación deseable. Y es que por regla general, en una sociedad en la que el dinero es un elemento fundamental para la obtención de todo tipo de bienes y servicios, la ausencia de éste puede suponer problemas que afectan a nuestro estilo de vida .inestabilidad económica dinero problemas que afectan a nuestro estilo de vida
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I believe that Jesus Himself is the Spirit of Truth as stated in John 1:14 and the spirit of grace and truth (Jesus) 1:18 came out of the bosom of God. I also believe that the seven Spirits of God came out of the bosom of God through, by, and for Jesus Christ and is God and was with God from the beginning!
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Why are they missing this?
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And the Spirit of the "I AM" (YHWH) shall rest upon Him (The Branch):
And these 7 spirits are (seen as):
1) The spirit of Wisdom 2) The spirit of Understanding 3) The spirit of Council 4) The spirit of Might 5) The spirit of Knowledge 6) The spirit of Fear of the "I AM" 7) The spirit of Righteous Judgment (11:4)
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Thanks for Isaiah 11:2 comment – quite clear!
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I have enjoyed your posts over the past year and have been blessed by the knowledge and understanding you express as well as what I have gleaned from your postings. I just noted on small error in that you have listed Hezekiah as ruler/king over the Northern Kingdom, when in fact I believe according to scripture he was king in the Southern Kingdom/Judah in Jerusalem (the Line of David still maintained rule over the Levites, tribe of Judah, and tribe of Benjamin to include having the one true Temple built by Solomon). The Northern Kingdom consisted of the other tribes of Israel, would eventually fall to Assyria whereas the Southern Kingdom (Judah) would later to fall to Babylon and result in the destruction of Solomon's temple. This doesn't take from the message that Hezekiah still rule with wisdom and is noted to be a king unlike any before or after him that followed after the example of his father [ancestor] David in seeking GOD (2 Kings 18: 3-5).
On another note, I was wondering how to properly select the word for sons of GOD used in Genesis 6:2 and also in Job 1:6 via the Strong's Hebrew Dictionary. It seems confusing and was wondering how you decipher the most appropriate definition and used word for those terms (I think you stated banah eloyhim in the article). I'd appreciate your recommendations as you clearly have done deep study on the subject. Also, looking forward to the follow-up study to your Bloodlines of the Nephilim – A Biblical Study. Have a blessed day and bye 4 now.
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We primarily use popping buffer and PBS for DNA-unzipping and overstretching experiments. All the other buffers consists these two. This page discusses the chemicals and process used in preparation of these buffers.
Popping Buffer
This is a buffer we used for unzipping DNA experiments. It is funny but true that it's called "popping buffer" because when DNA binding proteins are present they are "popped" off the DNA when it is unzipped. Popping buffer or POP is the main solution used to prepare the samples. It can be made in H2O or D2O. The primary purpose of this buffer is to maintain the PH-level and stabilize the DNA or DNA-protein complex in the solution. The popping buffer I use is 1X; which means the salt (NaCl) concentration is whatever it is in standard POP. By doubling or tripling it, 2X or 3X POPs can be made.
- The chemical used in POP are as follows:
EDTA: Ethylenediamineteraacetic acid disodium salt dehydrate. EDTA usually binds to metal cation, such as mg+2 ions and ca+2 ions. This makes DNA-protein complex more stable and prevent protein or enzymes to cut the DNA.[1]
Sodium phosphate
monobasic: Sodium phosphate monobasic is H2Nao4P, it helps the PH-level by taking or giving OH- and H+ ions.[2]
dibasic: Sodium phosphate dibasic is HNa2O4P, it also helps PH-level maintenance. [3]
NaCl: Sodium chloride also helps with PH-maintenance. [4]
Tween 20: Polyethylene glycol sorbitan monolaurate is a detergent which prevents non-specific antibody binding and to saturate binding sites on surface. Basically it helps with DNA-tethering which uses anti-dig and dig bonding.[5]
H2O: Primary solvent.[6]
D2O: Primary solvent. Either one can be used depending on the experiments.[7]
Making Popping buffer (POP)
Let's say I need 100mL of 1X POP in H2O or D2O with the following concentration of chemicals:
- Desired Buffer-Volume: 100mL
- EDTA: 10mM in 100mL of buffer volume
- Sodium phosphate: Total concentration is 50mM in 100mL of buffer volume
Mono is 19% of 50mM + Di is 81% of 50mM =50mM in 100mL of buffer volume
- NaCl: 50mM in 100ml of buffer volume.
- Tween20: .02% of 100ml
To get these desired concentrations I convert the moles into grams and prepare the following stock in the following way:
It is always good to keep the chemicals in stock, so the measured mass of chemicals from the bottle are based on the stock volume, but the final concentration in the buffer volume will be based on the volume which is mixed into the buffer to make final buffer;
- EDTA: 10mL is mixed.
- Sodium phosphate:
mono: 1.9mL is mixed
di: 8.1mL is mixed(this is to keep the PH at 7.5)
- NaCl: 1.25mL is mixed
- Tween20: 1mL is mixed
- H2O or D2O: 77.75mL is taken
The final volume is 100mL. Stock volume is completely based on my desire, so all these concentrations and volumes are needed for calculations of measured chemical mass from the bottles.
I have written a simple code in LabView V9.1 with the download link:[8]
The math is following:
- Desired buffer concentration is Cb(M)
- Desired final-buffer volume is Vb(L)
- Callulated stock concentration is Cs(M)
- Volume mixed into the buffer is Vm(L)
- Mass written on the bottle is Mw(gm/mole)
- Stock volume Vs(L)
- Calculated mass to be measured is M(gm)
First to calculate the stock concentration:
- [math] C_s=C_b*V_b/V_m [/math] in moles
Now to calculate mass to be measured:
- [math] M=M_w*C_s*V_s [/math] in gm
Now this mass is measured on the scale and mix in the desired stock volume, then mix volume is taken from the stock to mix into final buffer to get the final concentration. All the calculation are given in the excel spreadsheet: {{#widget:Google Spreadsheet |key=0ApjWjFYiQdkfdENGTm5kckg5dTNfN01uQjh2YUVyZWc |width=500 |height=300 }}
- Weight the chemicals on the scale
- Measure and mix the chemicals in the solvent and mix using vortex
- Measure the volume and mix into the buffer
- Store
See the slide share for more information
Next buffer is PBS.
PBS is Phosphate Buffer Saline.It is a buffer solution commonly used in biological research. It is a water-based salt solution containing sodium chloride, sodium phosphate, and, in some formulations, potassium chloride and potassium phosphate. The buffer's phosphate groups help to maintain a constant pH. The osmolarity and ion concentrations of the solution usually match those of the human body (isotonic). We use PBS to make Anti-digsolution for DNA-tethering.[9]
- The chemical used in POP are as follows:
|Na2HPO4 • 2 H2O
Making PBS
The simplest way to prepare a PBS solution is to use PBS buffer tablets (see slides). They are formulated to give a ready to use PBS solution upon dissolution in a specified quantity of H2O or D2O. They are available in the standard volumes: 100, 200, 500 and 1000 mL.
Dissolve 1 table in 200mL of H2O or D2O.
Using these two buffers we make all other solutions we use to make DNA-unzipping and overstretching sample.
Blocking solution (BGB)
The purpose of blocking solution is to block exposed glass surfaces after binding anti-dig. Various kinds of casein are typically used, which I think evolves from the common practice of using non-fat dried milk (NFDM) in standard wet-lab protocols, such as western blotting. NFDM is predominantly casein, and so people use NFDM and casein interchangeably, usually ignoring the fact that differnces in purity or kinds of casein could potentially impact a sensitive assay. Often it is imagined that casein is a regular soluble protein, but Dr.Koch found in the past that casein forms polydisperse micelles, probably. He doesn't know whether these polydisperse micelles are important for it's blocking capabilities, but he did find some references that said they are (small micelles fill gaps in big micelles). Brent Brower-Toland, being a good biologist, ignored the anlaysis paralysis of physicists and just ordered cheap good blocker from Bio-Rad, called "Blotting-Grade Blocker" [10] at Bio-rad.com. This worked very well and we continue to use it. Bio-Rad calls it "non fat dried milk," so I'm not sure if it's the same stuff you get at the supermarket. We'll call this BGB from now on (which can also read as "Brent's Good Blocker.")


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B&CMW needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 26 designs submitted by 16 freelance designers.
Church Development Services company needs a new website. You have free creative design!
Church Development Services company needs a new website. You have free reign to do what you like, but it must match or compliment their logo which can be found here: http://www.bullandcrowley.com/clien…ewLogo.JPG
As soon as we have a raw file (psd or ai) we will post it. But right now a jpg is all we have. To understand what they do, you can visit their current site: http://www.churchdevelopment.com/ Please however DO NOT pull anything from their site. We need a complete redesign. To give you a quick idea of what they do; they are a company that provides a variety of church floor plans which include Sanctuaries which willaccommodate from 100 to over 1,000 people; half-and full-courtgymnasiums; multipurpose buildings; schools; family life centers;traditional and contemporary church elevations; rectangular, square andoctagonal buildings; the ability to do custom design buildings; andcomplete phase 1, 2, and 3 campuses.
The navigation is as follows:
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You don't have to use Christian imagery if it doesn't fit.
Simply so that you know, their business is selling architectural plans to churches.
Something that compliments their logo using the navigation we listed before.


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To start this post I should first of all apologise for leaving you alone for so long. Been a while since I updated you so it might be time to fill you in in the two very exciting changes that are happening to us right now. First we are going to move house and we got ourselves a little renovation project. So most of our time is now spent getting quotes, checking products and on other peoples blogs for inspiration.
And another big change will be the arrival of our baby boy in summer. Very exciting! Now you know why I haven't been posting about cakes and other treats. Not that I don't think about them but it's all about eating rather than baking and photographing I'm afraid : )
To make it up to you here is a very simple bundt cake recipe from my nan. If you don't have ground hazelnuts use ground almonds or maybe dessicated coconut.
This recipe is for a small cake but if you use a regular size tin just double the quantities.
125g light brown sugar
150ml sunflower oil
pinch of salt
2 eggs
125g self-raising flour
1 tbsp baking powder
100g ground hazelnuts
pinch of ground cinnamon
dash of rum
100g dark chocolate
handful of krokant (hazelnut brittle)
Pre-heat the oven to 160°C and butter the baking tin. Mix the oil, sugar and eggs and beat until pale and fluffy (with a handheld mixer for about 5 min). Mix the flour and baking powder and sift in the bowl to the other ingredients. With the handheld blender mix and slowly add the ground hazelnuts and rum. Spoon in the baking tin and bake for about 20-30 minutes. Leave to cool, glaze with melted chocolate and cover or sprinkle with krokant.


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SANFORD — A jury of six women, five of them white and the other a minority, was picked Thursday to decide the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who says he fatally shot Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, in self-defense.
Prosecutors have said Zimmerman, 29, racially profiled the 17-year-old Martin as he walked back from a convenience store on a rainy night in February 2012 wearing a dark hooded shirt.
The race and ethnicity of the minority chosen for the jury was not immediately available. Zimmerman identifies himself as Hispanic.
All of their names have been kept confidential and the panel will be sequestered for the trial.
Opening statements are scheduled for Monday.
The central Florida community of Sanford is in Seminole County, which is 78.5 percent white and 16.5 percent black, roughly mirroring the jury's racial makeup.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys chose the panel of six jurors after almost two weeks of jury selection. In Florida, 12 jurors are required only for criminal trials involving capital cases, when the death penalty is being considered.
If convicted, Zimmerman could face a potential life sentence.


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Wow, protesters spitting returned to the news for the first time since the Vietnam War.
Except this time, a health care bill protester outside the Capitol on Saturday really did spit, on a Congressman.
Back in the late '60s and early '70s, spitting didn't happen. Try to find one documented account of a Vietnam vet being on the receiving end. Or one single picture. Google "spitting on Vietnam Vets."


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cgarvey necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 135 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
A small group of developers are forming a new company which develops mobile and web applications.
We use modern methods of delivering apps that have a strong focus on clear and simple UI. We'd like our new branding to be on the same wavelength.
We're all Web 2.0, don't mind being bold, but like to be taken seriously, at the same time. We work on fun projects but serious ones too!
We work on e-government projects, on silly websites, on handy mobile apps, and projects from very vertical markets. There's no single stream that we stick to, although mobile apps are a slightly bigger part of us.
I don't know that there's anything more I can say about us to help, so I'll happily answer any specific questions.
We have a mixed set of current clients, and aim to continue to seek clients in a variety of fields. Our focus ranges from modern projects (web mashups, mobile games, silly websites) to scalable enterprise apps, with lots of "middle of the road" projects in between.
We'd like our branding to be a little on the fun, or cheesy, side, but safe enough to not be dismissed by a more serious client (eGovernment, local authority, large enterprise).
Ultimately, our target audience is anyone who needs to have an application developed for them. That's a large audience, but we don't want to exclude ourselves from any portion of it.
We're completely open to any creativeness input, but would like to explain what we're after, in general, so we don't waste anyone's time.
The created logo will be used mainly in a wide & short format (e.g webpage banner), but must be flexible enough to allow use in a square format (favicon, avatar, etc.) and that square format won't have the full Apperrific name.
Colours requirements are not set in stone; we like grey and orange, but earthy colours are OK too. As are variants of brown. Number of colours should be low, but gradients are OK.
Fun is OK, as is cheesy, as long as there is an identifiable brand in there. By that I mean, you're free to play with the logo, as long as there is a central focus that can be taken out of context and still be associated with the name.
Clean is a must. Some call it basic, some call it simple. Minimal artwork and detail, but enough to get a point across. We build our UI like that. So, while clouds might seem Web 2.0 and clean/earthy/cool, they are not very distinct. It would be hard to build a brand based on clouds without the name included. That said, clouds are fine as part of something; I'm not dismissing their use.
Use of the name should probably be all lowercase in a modern wide font-face. Again, not a hard rule. Tag line (which will change, but will always be short), and will initially be "Apps. Terrific ones."
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Next week, we're fortunate to have not one but two special author appearances at Barnes & Noble at Bella Terra.
At 7 p.m. Sept. 18, Martin J. Smith, editor-in-chief of Orange Coast magazine, will discuss and sign his new book, "The Wild Duck Chase: Inside the Strange and Wonderful World of the Federal Duck Stamp Contest."
The next day, at 7 p.m. Sept. 19, Ann Meyers Drysdale, one of the greatest stars in the history of basketball, will discuss and sign her book, "You Let Some Girl Beat You?"
I spoke with the authors this week after reading their books, both of which I found extremely compelling, albeit in different ways.
Smith's book, which started as a magazine piece in Orange Coast, delves into the fascinating world of competitive duck painting as it played out during the 2010 Federal Duck Stamp Contest. Interestingly, this is the only juried art competition run by the U.S. government.
Since 1934, the duck stamp, which is bought annually by hunters to certify their hunting license, has generated more than $750 million, and 98 cents of each collected dollar has been used to help purchase or lease 5.3 million acres of waterfowl habitat in the U.S., which is the core of the National Wildlife Refuge System. It's a small subject, the competition, but it casts a very large shadow.
Smith told me that today, his concerns are on the fact that such a remarkably efficient program is actually at risk of being eliminated, due not just to the waning numbers of hunters and stamp collectors, but also to a looming "cut government spending" mentality that exists in some corners.
Since 2009, when he started the project, Smith has become fascinated with this "fragile piece of Americana," as he describes it. At first, he was intrigued by the colorful cast of characters, but then his appreciation grew as he realized the monumental amount of good the program does.
And he also gained a new perspective on hunting, which he was not much of a fan of before he wrote this truly captivating book.
As he told me, "78 years ago, hunters decided to tax themselves. They said, 'Hey, we use this resource, and for the privilege of using this resource, as long as the taxes go to protecting this resource, we'll support this.' Such a simple idea. The money has gone to creating a good chunk of the wildlife refuges, and this ethic has been passed it down to kids.
"Ironically, these refuges are also used by birders and many other people who hold hunters in contempt. But I found these folks to be mindful custodians of nature — not exploiters of wildlife."
Part-time Huntington Beach resident Ann Meyers Drysdale is not an exploiter of wildlife either, though she was well known for exploiting other team's defense patterns, first as a hoops star at UCLA, where her four-year athletic scholarship made history (in that she was the first female athlete to receive a Division I scholarship).
A four-time all-American who led UCLA in 1978 to its first and only women's national championship, she made even bigger headlines in 1979 when she signed a $150,000 free-agent contract with the Indiana Pacers. Meyers may not have made the team, but her efforts crashed down many doors of opportunity for future female athletes.
Her new autobiography, "You Let Some Girl Beat You? — The Story of Ann Meyers Drysdale," talks about these moments, plus her life as the wife of famed Los Angeles Dodger and Hall of Fame pitcher Don Drysdale. She also details her career as a sports broadcaster and her current responsibilities as a VP with the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury and the NBA's Phoenix Suns.
As frank and refreshing in conversation as she is on air, Meyers described to me how she credits Billie Jean King for her tenacity and also heaped praise on one of her main mentors, Coach John Wooden (whom she still refers to as "Papa"), and her good friend Julius Erving, who penned the foreword.
As far as that legendary Pacers tryout, she told me that the support from her family was a huge help, as was Wooden. " 'Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can' — that is a favorite quote of his that I took to heart at that time in my life," she said. "Also a line from Churchill: 'Failure is not fatal, success is not final, it's courage that counts.' Not that I consider myself that courageous when compared to real heroes. But that kind of thought helped me fight through the pressure."
Meyers also credits Joni Ravenna, who wrote the book with her: "She got so much out of me I never would have talked about. I'm very private and she did an amazing job."
In the fourth grade, Meyers was inspired by a book about Babe Didrikson Zaharias. The famed female athlete's accomplishments as an Olympian, basketball player and all-around athletic star had a huge impact on her. And Meyers hopes her own book will be embraced by schools so that other future athletes might be inspired by her own wondrous journey.
As to why write a book at this point, Meyers offered, "So many people wanted me to write one after the Pacers tryout. I was adamant about not writing a book then, because I didn't want people to think I did the tryout to get a book out of it. That was not it at all. It was real, not some PR stunt. And so much has happened in my life since then that the time seemed perfect."
I hope you all take advantage of this opportunity to come hear two very special storytellers share their work next week at Barnes & Noble.
CHRIS EPTING is the author of 19 books, including the new "Baseball in Orange County" from Arcadia Publishing. You can chat with him on Twitter @chrisepting or follow his column at http://www.facebook.com/hbindependent.


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DoubleTake is a stitching application for Mac OS X.
It is mainly intended as a non technical way to create larger photos, but it also offers to save as partial or full 360 degree cylindrical QuickTIme VR panoramas.
When you drop images into DoubleTake it will stitch them automatically, but from then on it will allow you to rearrange and tweak with geometric and color correction tools.
Color controls: exposure correction, brightness, gamma and saturation.
Geometric controls: rearrangement, rotation and perspective distortion.


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Last night I tried to capture the Clavius and Copernicus region with the TAL 200K and the Coolpix 4500. I used a 10mm eyepiece ( 200x ) and 3x optical zoom to shoot the images below. I also used the Baader IR/UV blocker and Contrast Booster. The first image is a close-up of the Clavius area, the second is Copernicus and it's surroundings. The orientation is at it looks through the telescope. I did some unsharp masking on both images.
Last week I got a new mount for the TAL 200K. Problem with the old mount was, that with high magnifications of more than 200x focussing became more difficult (much too wobbly). The EQ6 can take the 11-kilo TAL OTA easily. It can carry up to 22kg. The first lunar
images shot with a 10mm lanthanum (200x) look very promising. Here are a few pics of the mount, and the first lunar image:
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On monday may 24th I shot some images from the Moon with the TAL 200K, a 10mm Lanthanum eyepiece (200x) and the Baader IR/IV Blocking filter combined with the Baader Contrast Booster. Here are the first results.
On May 16th I made some test images of the Sun (practicing for the Venus transit). I used my TAL 200K with a full aperture solar filter made from Baader Astro Solar Safety Film. The eyepiece used is a
25mm Vixen Lanthanum ( 80x ) with a Baader contrast booster and a Baader IR/UV blocking filter attached to it. The images where shot with the Nikon Coolpix 4500 at maximum resolution (2272 x 1704). Both images are stacked out of 5, using Keith's Image Stacker. On both images I used unsharp masking.
The first image is an overview image of the Sun (Exp. 1/250s, f 3.0, ISO 100)
The second image shows the sunspots more detailed (25mm eyepiece, but with 4x optical zoom from the Nikon Coolpix (Exp. 1/60, f 5.1, ISO 100).« Collapse
On May 18th and 19th I took some images of Venus in the western evening sky. Venus is still very bright with a magnitude of -4.0. Through my big binoculars it looked like a small crescent moon. At the moment about 1/10 of the surface is lit by the Sun. Looking through the telescope I realized how big the diameter is at the moment (49.1"). Here are some images I took during .......follow this link to read the full report
I just added a detailed lunar observing report with digital images to my site. The report is of an 8-day-old moon and covers some interesting features like the Alps, Caucasus, Apennines, Ptolomaeus, Alphonsus, Arzachel and Rupes Recta. You can read the full report by following this link.
Tonight I observed together with Leo, a fellow observer who lives just down the road. We used the my Vixen 15 x 80 binoculars mounted on the Sky Window and his 8-inch f/4 Vixen R 2200SS newtonian mounted on an equatorial mount from Lichtenknecker Optics. We started our session around 20.30 hrs UT and ended at 23.30 hrs UT.
I started with comet NEAT C/2001 Q4. At 20.45 I centred the big binoculars
on M 44. I was not really dark yet, but I could already see many chains, triangles and pairs of stars. The sky seemed to be very transparent. A little more than 4 degrees to the north of M 44 I found Q4. The core looked like a globular cluster, bright at the centre and diffuse towards the edge. As you can see on the sketch below, Q4 was just east of four 9th / 10th magnitude stars.
The next day I checked the sketch with SkyTools2. The stars you see are:
1. SAO 80381, magnitude 9.04
2. SAO 80363, magnitude 8.31
3. PPM 98959, magnitude 9.54
4. SAO 80364, magnitude 9.10
With averted vision we could see a broad short tail of 0.5 to 0.75 degrees long, pointing into the eastern direction. The coma and the tail seemed to be "folded" around the bright core lake a blanket. After 30 minutes the comet disappeared behind some buildings.
2. The spectrum of Vega
Next on our list was testing my new spectroscope from Rainbow Optics on Vega in Lyra. We used the 8-inch Vixen and a 7mm Nikon eyepiece. We could see two clear absorption lines, one on the border of the green and blue part of the spectrum, and one further into the blue-violet part. The one on the green-blue border is the H-beta line. The other has not been verified yet. After observing the spectrum for a few minutes we also detected a dark line in the orange part of the spectrum. This first spectrum I have ever seen with my own eyes looked very interesting and promising. I will keep you updated.
3. T Lyrae, a really red (carbon) star
At 22.00 UT we had a look at T Lyrae, one of the reddest stars to observe. T Lyrae is an irregular variable carbon star, its magnitude ranging from 7.5 to 9.4. We centred the telescope on the area where T Lyrae should be, but didn't recognize it at once. Only at higher magnifications the red color came out really good. You could see the red color at its best with a magnification of 200x. This star looks really red against a black sky. Be sure to put this one on your observing list!
4. Cygnus and some double stars
Around 22.30 UT I started to scan the constellation Cygnus with the big binoculars. The sky looked much darker than it usually does from our hometown (suburbs). We could see the seven stars in the little dipper, Eta UMi being the faintest with magnitude 4.95.
When I turned the sky window to the area around Gamma Cygni, I could see hundreds of stars in the 3.5-degree field of view. M 29 was very easy to detect, just 2 degrees south of Gamma. The star cloud between Gamma Cygnus and Albireo is one of my favourite objects for the big binoculars. It is stuffed with hundreds of stars of different magnitude and color. Albireo was clearly split with the 15x80 into a bright yellow and a faint white-blue component. Through the telescope the fainter star looked even more bluish.
Next on the list where Omicron 1 and 2, a pair of bright orange stars 1 degree wide. Omicron 1 also makes a beautiful visual triple with two other stars. One of the visual companions is bright blue and makes a great contrast with the orange colored Omicron 1. This is a fine object for binoculars, even for 7x50.
Last on my list was 61 Cygni. The two orange stars are only 29" apart, which is much closer than the two components of Albireo. However, they are separated much easier than Albireo because the two stars of 61 Cygni differ only 0.8 magnitude from each other.« Collapse
In Canes Venatici, the hunting dogs, you can find a beautiful red star, Y Canum Venaticorum, or "La Superba". Y CVn is a carbon star. Most of these class C stars are evolved cooling giants with a large abundance of carbon dust in their outer shells. The apparent red color of carbon stars is caused by the carbon molecules (Carbon Monoxyide, Cyanogen, etc) in the outside layers of........ follow this link to read the full story


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One chapter is about to close and another about to open that will finally tell of the park's fate since the rides went silent at Rocky Point Amusement park 18 years ago.
On Feb. 13 at 2 p.m., in the Federal District Court in Providence, Justice Ronald Lagueux will consider the petition of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to sell about 83 acres of the former park to the state for $9.65 million. The SBA has been the court-appointed receiver for the property since shortly after the property was shuttered. If the sale is completed, all 124 acres of the park will have been saved for public use.
Although a sale to the state is not a guarantee, no other party has come forward as a prospective purchaser at this time.
A buyer other than the state would have to come up with an offer at least 10 percent higher than the $9.65 million sales price, a deposit of $965,000 and be prepared to pay about $2.2 million in city taxes. The Warwick City Council agreed to abate those taxes last year if the state gets the land.
But there's more a purchaser would need to consider than another $3 million. They would also be required to follow the terms of the agreement between the SBA and the state. The conditions of the sale require that 55 acres be kept as open space, thereby reducing potential development of the site. Also, a development would need city approval and have to meet sewer requirements and gain water runoff easements, which were issues back when the property was actively pursued by developers.
Under the court order, the SBA is to provide the court with an affidavit indicating that appraisals of the property are in line with the state's offer.
"The process is moving on. We're looking forward to the finality," SBA District Director Mark Hayward said Friday.
The next step toward preserving the park is also being welcomed by Mayor Scott Avedisian and Department of Environmental Management Director Janet Coit.
"As I've said right along, at DEM, we want to engage in
a smart process that will hold up over time. We need to ensure that plans for development are done in a way that is environmentally and economically sustainable," Coit said in an email response to questions yesterday.
Also reached by email, Avedisian said, "First, we want to make sure that we get the property. Then we need to empanel a group to manage the property. We are getting many requests for permission to use the property either on a one-time basis or for a regular use."
Ward 5 Councilman Edgar Ladouceur would like to get a complete picture of cleanup costs before attempting to open any of the property to the public. Possible pollutants on the site and what it will take to clean them up concern him.
"Rocky Point is an extremely important asset. There is no need to rush into a plan. A plan needs to be sustainable and affordable," he said.
Ladouceur also feels it could be shortsighted for the state to sell off any of the property, such as that on Palmer Avenue.
"I don't see any point to do anything until we have a rock solid plan. Let's not rush into it," he said.
DEM has started looking at the cleanup, as has the city.
Coit said DEM has contracted for an environmental assessment of the site and she expects a combination of state and federal resources, in close collaboration with the city of Warwick, to clean up the site.
"I appreciate the close working relationship we have had with the city of Warwick and look forward to pursuing these next steps in the process," said Coit. "Once secured, DEM will work with the mayor, Rocky Point Foundation and others to discuss the plans to develop this outstanding site for the future."
Avedisian said acting Department of Public Works Director David Picozzi and his crew would put together a plan for the removal of the rest of the Rocky Beach cottages. The mayor also reported that the office of Senator Jack Reed has been in contact with Kenneth Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, concerning possible cleanup grants.
After the SBA was appointed receiver for the park, luxury homebuilders Toll Brothers bid $25 million for the full park. They had plans to build two apartment towers in addition to townhouses for a total of almost 399 housing units. As the recession set in and the housing market took a hit, Toll Brothers backed out of that deal.
Universal Properties and its president Nicholas Cambio stepped on the stage with a $19 million bid for the park. Cambio claimed he couldn't reach easement agreements with the city and backed away for a deal only to return when Leach Family Holdings put in an offer for $15.6 million. Cambio was back in the picture when he raised the ante to $17.1 million but never went through with his offer when the housing market took a spin.
Then, in 2008, the city administration opened talks with the SBA to resolve the claim of one of the largest creditors, Nancy Troy Lovett, while securing a $2.2 million National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) grant won by the state Congressional delegation before it expired. Working with Lovett's attorney, the state and the SBA, the city reached an agreement to buy 41 acres consisting of the park's shoreline for $4.4 million. The city put up $800,000 from an open space bond that was coupled with $1.4 million from the state to match a $2.2 million grant from NOAA.
Purchase of the remaining parkland became the rally cry of the Rocky Point Foundation, a non-profit formed by a small group in 2009. The Foundation lobbied to have acquisition of the park placed on the November 2010 ballot as part of an open space and parks $14.7 million bond issue. Of that amount, $10 million was earmarked for Rocky Point. The bond gained voter approval from all of the state's cities and towns with the exception of Woonsocket.
But what should the park become?
Ideas range from bringing back the amusement park to building an aquarium and shellfish hatchery, to having a restaurant, playing fields, concert area, ferry dock, wind turbines, zip line or allowing it to revert to its natural state for walking trails, picnic areas and rock climbing.
The Rocky Point Foundation was awarded a legislative grant to conduct public meetings on development of the park. The Foundation plans to conduct meetings in different parts of the state after the acquisition of the park and to provide a report to the state.


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PPL Corp. CEO William Spence reassured investors Wednesday that PPL will continue to grow, and perhaps more importantly to shareholders, provide healthy dividends after dumping its power generation and supply business.
The company's spinoff of its power plants and energy marketing division into a new entity called Talen Energy is set to close on June 1.
At that time, PPL shareholders are expected to receive roughly one share in the publicly traded Talen for every eight shares of PPL stock they own. They will keep all their shares of PPL stock.
"We will be maintaining the dividend through the completion of our supply spin," Spence said at the company's annual...


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2009 Archdiocese Convention Begins
The 2009 Archdiocese Convention began on the morning of Sunday, July 19 in Palm Desert, California. Events commenced with the celebration of orthros and Divine Liturgy, as well as a Teen SOYO leadership workshop. Divine Liturgy commemorating the Prophet Elias was celebrated on Monday morning, and Monday's schedule also contained a variety of youth activities.
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The play is more than 400 years old and we all know how it ends, but suddenly William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" is back in vogue.
The Scottish tragedy is enticing a number of actors ranging from young to the far side of middle age to play the murderous Thane of Cawdor. On stage, Ethan Hawke is to headline a new production of the play scheduled to open Nov. 21 at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theatre.
Hawke follows Alan Cumming who brought his experimental "Macbeth" to Broadway last season. Cumming's version depicted the title character as a mental patient who enacts most of the roles in the play.
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In Britain, Kenneth Branagh recently starred in the play for the first time at the Manchester Festival. The production, which Branagh co-directed, is to be broadcast to cinemas in the U.S. this fall, and is scheduled to come to New York next year.
James McAvoy (who, like Cumming, is Scottish) is currently appearing in the play in a West End production that has been a popular draw at the box office.
A planned movie version of "Macbeth" is also in the works with Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard. The play has been adapted for the movies before, most notably by Orson Welles and Roman Polanski. (Akira Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood" is loosely based on the play.)
On Broadway, actors who have played the Scottish usurper include Patrick Stewart, Kelsey Grammer, Christopher Plummer and Michael Redgrave.
Other famous interpretations include Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in a much-lauded 1955 production; and Ian McKellen and Judi Dench in a staging in 1976 by the Royal Shakespeare Company that was filmed for television.
Shakespeare's Globe wants to take 'Hamlet' to every country
Shakespeare's sonnets get a new application for iPad, iPhone
'Shakespeare Uncovered' looks to the stars to explore the Bard
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We returned from our National Review cruise of the Norwegian fjords yesterday afternoon. I want to offer a few notes for interested readers. We loved the cruise for all the obvious reasons. The programming was great and our fellow NR cruisers were outstanding. We met people we liked every day. The cruise is expensive and many of the cruisers are retired or of retirement age, but its therapeutic value all by itself is considerable.
We met PL readers Carole W. and Jane W. at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on our arrival. They went out of their way to say hello. Carole and Jane became friends as commenters on Tom Maguire's excellent Just One Minute site. Tom has a good thing going there.
On the first full day at sea I spoke with the Ethics and Public Policy Center's brilliant Ed Whelan, NR's Ramesh Ponnuru and John Fund, and popular columnist Cal Thomas on a panel moderated by Hillsdale College's John Miller about the Supreme Court's 2012-13 term. Ed and I talked about the Court's two gay marriage cases. We did not award the Court high marks.
It was of course a friendly audience. One Catholic clergyman designated Monsignor as well as other NR cruisers went out of their way to express appreciation for what I had to say afterwards. The prominent attorney Cleta Mitchell, about whom more below, was on board to speak with my daughter Eliana on a panel about the IRS scandals. Cleta gave me a warm hug after the panel. She couldn't have been nicer.
Eliana interviewed James O'Keefe in a late-night session that included a greatest hits series of his video exposés. He made an impression. After the program O'Keefe sold out of his memoir/manifesto.
We all went up to the Crow's Nest bar for drinks following the program. We found NR's Jim Geraghty to be even funnier in person than he is online. On a semi-comic historical note, Jim observed that Eliana and I constituted the first father-daughter tag team in NR cruise program history.
Of the panels on topical subjects, the IRS scandals panel with Cleta Mitchell, Eliana and Andrew Stiles might have been the best. I sought out Cleta to record four short videos with her on the subject, the first of which will be in an adjacent post. Please stay tuned.
The NR all stars featured in the programming on board constituted a killer lineup. The panel on the state of Great Britain featured Paul Johnson, Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple), John O'Sullivan, David Pryce-Jones and Daniel Hannan, with Jay Nordlinger moderating. Their intellect and knowledge are almost unbelievable. What a privilege to hear them out.
In retrospect, I wish the panel had been recorded on a DVD and offered as a premium for new or renewed NR subscriptions, as used to be done with Bill Buckley's new books. I think a lot of readers would have jumped at that offer.
Jay also moderated a discussion of Margaret Thatcher with Paul Johnson and John O'Sullivan. Johnson said that when he met David Ben-Gurion in 1948, Ben-Gurion urged Johnson to read the Hebrew Bible straight through. Johnson said he passed the recommendation on to Thatcher and that she took it up.
Seeing Paul Johnson caused many of us to reflect what an impact Modern Times had on us when we read it back in the early 1980s. A conservative friend who thought Rob Long insufficiently conservative at the time persuaded Rob to read it and Rob says he found it astonishing. It had the intended effect on Rob and it had that effect on a lot of us.
Speaking of astonishment, we toured the fjords that the Eurodam visited. At Haugesund I visited what I uncharitably and probably unfairly thought might be the world's worst World War II museum. Nevertheless, I learned some things there and resolved to learn more about the course of World War II in Scandinavia. I was turned off by our guide's incredibly slow pace and enthusiasm for the Norwegian welfare state, in roughly that order.
At one of the fjord stops we were met by expatriate American Kevin M. of Cupp Computing. Kevin lives and works in southern Norway and had arranged to meet up with Jonah Goldberg, whom he declared his Justin Bieber. Kevin drove Jonah up to meet Rich Lowry, who was on a tour of the town with us. Rich in turn introduced Kevin to me.
Kevin professed himself a huge Power Line fan. Demonstrating his skills as a clinician, Rich diagnosed my reaction to Kevin's effusions as "glowing" (photo below). Incidentally, Rich announced that each stop along our moderately interesting walking tour that morning was a UNESCO world heritage site. Norway has a lot of them.
I was interested in visiting Norway in part because Minnesota and the Dakotas have benefited so much from the migration of many talented and hard-working Norwegians to the United States. When I told John Hinderaker that I would be going on the cruise, he alluded to his Norwegian roots, declaring: "I should be going." I wondered before we left if our brief visit to Norway might provide me any clues about the causes of Norwegian emigration to the United States. On that subject I remain in the dark.
I could go on — and if encouraged, I will — but I'm afraid that is more than enough for now.
An Amsterdam footnote: Amsterdam was the point of departure. We toured the city for three days before the cruise and greatly enjoyed it, as I hope I conveyed in my pre-cruise posts. We didn't see much evidence of the Muslim immigration that is transforming the Netherlands, but in the Holland America Eurodam's excellent library I happened onto The Secret Servant, Daniel Silva's 2007 entry in his Gabriel Allon series of spy thrillers. I greatly enjoyed the book and recommend it to readers who appreciate the genre.
I picked the book up because it begins in Amsterdam and I was curious about Silva's take on the city. He portrays Amsterdam as a hotbed of Islamic radicalism along with Copenhagen and Paris, but places the locus of Europe's Islamic radicalism in London.
I've wondered where Silva stands on the political spectrum and was intrigued by the credits in his acknowledgements. Silva packs a lot of political incorrectness into one sentence: "While Europe Slept by Bruce Bawer and Menace in Europe by Claire Berlinski helped sharpen my thoughts on the dilemma facing Europe today, especially the Netherlands, while Londonistan by Melanie Phillips gave me a deeper understanding of the crisis now confronting Great Britain." Silva didn't have to mention these keen analysts of the threat posed to Europe by the evils of Islamism. That he does so says something good about him.
UPDATE: Jim Geraghty covers one of the cruise highlights here.


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"Nice words to the wrong dictators unleash a torrent of outrage from our pundit class. Nice words to the right dictators—along with billions in military hardware, which unlike nice words will be used to continue to slaughter residents of a neighboring country and suppress domestic dissent–result in uniform silence."
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Editorial: Summit County may soon have its own pipeline controversy
February 4, 2014
The announcement appears in small type on page 4,657 of the most recent Federal Register newsletter. But, in our eyes its front page news, deserving of a bold-face font.
According to the notice, a subsidiary of the Tesoro oil refining company is laying the groundwork for an application to build a crude oil pipeline from the oilfields in the Uinta Basin to the refineries in Salt Lake City right through Summit County.
As proposed, the pipeline would originate near Myton, east of Starvation Reservoir moving westward over Forest Service land in the Uinta Mountains and enter Summit County in Woodland. From there the pipeline would roughly follow State Route 35 to Francis. At that point, three alternative routes have been proposed to move the waxy crude oil across Summit County toward its destination in north Salt Lake City.
A proposed northern route would hug the foothills on the west side of the Kamas Valley, passing through Wanship and Hoytsville before turning west at the south end of Echo Reservoir and leaving the county just north of East Canyon Reservoir.
The two other proposed routes stick closer to State Road 248, turning north on U.S.40 toward Kimball Junction, where they split up. From there, one route heads due north toward East Canyon, goes on to Bountiful and enters the refinery cluster at Woods Cross from the east. The other would take a more westerly path through Parley's Canyon, past the University of Utah, toward City Creek Canyon and enter Woods Cross from the south.
All of the routes, at one point or another, traverse wildlife refuges, scenic public lands, watersheds and established populations. It will be our mini-version of the Keystone Pipeline debate.
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Currently the oil is trucked from the Uinta Basin to Salt Lake via U.S. 40 and I-80 with more than a hundred double-trailer tankers making the trip every day. And that number is increasing.
Proponents of the project say a pipeline could help reduce that traffic, which would be especially welcome in Heber, where the tankers rumble right down Main Street. It would also mitigate the hazard of having loaded oil tankers descending Parley's Summit amid rush-hour traffic.
The downside, however, includes the disruption of natural habitat during construction and the potential for an environmental disaster of epic proportions if the pipe breaks.
Unfortunately, as long as our appetite for fossil fuels continues to grow, we will be faced with dismal choices between the lesser of evils, none of them good for the environment and none sustainable for the long haul.
The upcoming debate over the Uinta Express Pipeline is sure to be an emotional one, and is likely to pit communities against each other in an effort to avoid having the pipeline built in their own backyards. But let's not be distracted from the real objective, which should be to develop alternative energy sources that won't add even more pollution to our state's already critical air-quality crisis.
The official notice starts the clock on a 45-day comment period that includes public meetings Wednesday, Feb. 19, from 6 8 p.m. at Wasatch High School in Heber City and Thursday, Feb. 20, from 6 8 p.m. at Bountiful High School in Bountiful. Public input can be submitted throughout the 45-day period.
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Taylor Momsen keeps it cool with a backwards cap while arriving at her concert at The Wiltern on Friday (October 10) in Los Angeles.
"Watch the @yahoo live stream of tonight's show in LA at the Wiltern HERE," the 21-year-old singer wrote on Twitter about her band The Pretty Reckless. Check out the video below!
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The day before, Taylor was spotted waving to the cameras while doing some shopping with friends at The Grove.
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"Science is like poetry in this respect: it is an expression of something sublime. Engineering likewise is an expression of human emotions and passions - cars, hip replacements and even washing machines are as much expressions of our soul as paintings, literature and music."
Friday, April 04, 2008
Science and Engineering as Art
From the BBC news website (again...) is a short opinion piece by Mark Miodownik, head of the Materials Research Group at King's College London, who (as seems to be all too common these days) bemoans the lack of development of young scientists/researchers/engineers in present day Britain. Pointing as many others do towards flaws in the education system, and a lack of willing among commercial enterprises to put money into keeping people in science (rather than letting them be tempted by the larger salaries available in other lines of work), he makes a comparison between science and art, which is new to me, but which I rather like:
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2 comments:
- control valves said...
Engineering is both a science and an art.
- Wed Sep 02, 08:46:00 am 2009
- Paul said...
That's precisely the point this opinion piece was making!
Thanks for your comment :-)
- Wed Sep 02, 08:55:00 am 2009
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One doesn't have to be a Temple Mount loyalist to realize that something not good for the Jews is happening in the world's holiest spot – under Israeli sovereignty.
Let's start with the recent news that "The Jerusalem police chief has decided to limit male Muslim worshipers on the Temple Mount today to those over age 50 who do not live in Judea and Samaria. This, in light of intelligence information of intentions to disturb the peace following Friday prayers."
This did not happen in a vacuum. Just a week earlier, the Temple Mount –site of the Beit HaMikdash, now situated "behind" the Western Wall – saw some of the most violent Arab rioting in recent memory. For the first time, Arabs on the Mount actually hurled Molotov cocktails at Israeli police, causing injuries.
Not only did the police not take advance action to restrict Muslim entry to the mosque for Friday prayers, they also, according to witnesses, barely took action to contain the violence once it started. The Mount remained open to Muslims throughout the incident and after it.
By way of comparison, in the course of the week before that, Israeli police closed the Temple Mount after Muslim disturbances three times – to Jews!
It is true that entry to the Temple Mount by Jews is a matter of dispute among contemporary rabbis, of whom only a minority permits it (after immersion in a mikveh and other precautions). Yet this matter transcends rabbinical disagreements, with long-term ramifications regarding continued Israeli sovereignty in any place the Muslims deem their own.
As such, even those who would not themselves visit Har HaBayit must protest when Israel prevents Jews from doing so. Not only is this an unjust and prejudiced policy against religious Jews, it also signals to the Palestinian Authority that sufficiently strong opposition by small groups of Arabs can actually impede Israeli enforcement of its own laws and policies. There can be no greater threat than this to a country's sovereignty.
Let us review what happened during the week in question: On Sunday, the police closed the Mount to non-Muslims because of a mini-riot caused by the dropping of a copy of the Koran. It happened when a group of Muslim women gathered at the site to harass Jewish visitors. Afterward, Muslims continued to enter the site freely; Jews and Christians were kept out.
On Monday, the scene repeated itself: Knesset Member Moshe Feiglin of the Likud arrived for his monthly visit, Arabs at the site protested threateningly, and the police quickly closed the Temple Mount to all non-Muslims.
On Wednesday, Arab women surrounded and threatened a Jewish group, leading to another near-riot, as well as the closure of the holy site once again to Jews.
Former Labor MK Daniel Ben-Simon, never a fan of Israeli presence in Judea and Samaria, was a witness to Sunday's events: "Because of a book that fell, they close the Temple Mount to hundreds of people waiting to get in? The Minister of Public Security must be called and asked about this.… Who's in charge here?"
He added that Knesset members should visit the Temple Mount to see the situation themselves and find solutions. "It cannot be that every Jew who comes to visit is suspected of wanting to blow up the compound."
Clearly, the main interest of the police – and apparently of their overseers in Israel's government – is to ensure that each day passes as peacefully as possible. They take the short-term view: Anything that threatens to disturb the peace and arouse international headlines must be avoided at all costs, as quickly as possible. If this means forbidding Jews from entering their holy site, so be it.
The problem is that Israel – unlike Jordan, when it ruled Jerusalem, and the Palestinian Authority that now controls the site of Joseph's Tomb in Shechem – takes pride in ensuring free access to members of all religions to all religious sites under its control. Ever since the internationalization of Jerusalem was first proposed in the mid-20th century, Israel has always claimed that such arrangements are unnecessary, as the Israeli government sees to it that all holy sites remain open for free religious worship.


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Oh we love you Raxi.
Oh we love you Raxi.
What Anon 1 said. :3
Haw, quite nice. Though I kinda like Paula :V But yeah, sweets, you know we love you~ ;3
Plenty of lulz.
But I like genderbent Paulo >_>'
Straight virus?...go f*ck yourself
Assuming cloning, isn't that part of the point?
You can't stop the rise of Paula! >D
Anon 3: People have their preferences in people they like. Just look at Carson how he wants or wanted Mike
I find the in your face gayness in this quite refreshing and pleasant..... that just made me sound gay, but o well.
@rawrdinosaur: You mean the fact that he isn't afraid to show who he prefers in genders right?
Panel eight might be the greatest thing ever. Just sayin'
Hey man, I know how terrible the straight virus can be. I used to be a flaming homosexual but then I ended up having drunken sex with a women, who looked a hell of a lot like a man.
I lol'd.
Your alright Raxxi. ^.^
Number 7A was pretty damn funny
This is nice! Very nice.
-Momoa, I can't log in right now.
lol Raxki, u and your love for paulo. But u got my respect for showin who u are so keep it up :3. (plus, I just love watching people getting p*ssed, It pleases me ^-^)
This went through completely outrageous and out the other side. Kudos.
i lol'd alot at the last one loooool sad mike is a sad mike
Be careful with doing things like Panel 10. They'll get you into trouble.
Other than that, nice job!
Wait... Yamato. Are you from Japan?
GAAAAAY! ... oh wait... that was the point wasn't it? Damn...
lol funny and i dont think u look all that bad in human drawing really dont see why u complain really look fine 2 me =/ keep up the good work
i love the grammar "your cute went your scare"
really well done, so much that even a *** like me can't really complain about anything
What kind of faggotry isn't in your face these days. It's the only way they can validate themselves to themselves, if that makes sense.
If it doesn't:
tl;dr-**** like to make a lot of noise because they have no other interesting features about themselves besides being genescum.
Anon 15: Who the **** are you to define someone as genescum, genescum? Take your homophobic ******** back to Texas and shut the **** up.
Straight virus? And they accuse people of homophobia...
I think you should be more worried about catching the stupid emanating from the flame war then the straight virus Raxki.
Oh yeah, and this BCB art meme is kick-***.
Well, if people like Anon 15 would stop talking things like this wouldn't happen.
nice rax, but you still need something in this to make it better... lol, got ya! its pretty good, and i like the part where the guy goes "i like when your scare." lol.
loved this so much and to all the ppl getting mad at the haters allways remember haters gonna hate and trolls gonna be trollin so just gotta leave them be ..... even if they are stupid butts XP
It's always PauloxMike yaoi LOL
I don't blame 'em, they are a great yaoi pair. :')
At anon# 12
What do you think he is?
AAAAAAAAAAAAH! THE STRAIGHT VIRUS! I loved it!
This is win on so many levels.
He's gay an proud of it. Soooooooo?
also, anon 10, candybooru is made so you can fk with charicters lifes. Wait until you see my meme
GAY, but that's what makes it AWESOME!
Haha you draw so good I like panel 2 Lucy's just like wat


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For those who want a more eco-conscious fuel than gasoline for their automobiles, there are plenty of options. The most commonly available are: B20 or biofuel; CNG, or compressed natural gas; E85 or ethanol; LPG or propane; electric; hydrogen; and LNG or liqueified natural gas. But how easy is it to refuel, especially when you're traveling?
Well, it's definitely not as simple as refueling with plain old gasoline. According to the most recent count of stations* across the country, there are 162,350 gasoline stations nationwide. By comparison, there are just 6,568 alternative-fuel stations** across the country. On average, drivers can find a gas station every 23.36 square miles and alt-fuel stations every 1,496 square miles. That's a big difference and certainly something to keep in mind when considering a switch to an alt-fuel-only vehicle.
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Sunday, July 21, 2013
Ronny Cedeno, he of the .558 OPS (54 OPS+), is reportedly shocked at the news. Carlos Pena was a little more pragmatic about it, saying that, "In my mind, I was an Astro until the end...I'm very sad." He went on to say that he totally bought into Bo Porter and Jeff Luhnow, but he understands why he was let go.
So the Jonathan Villar Era begins. Villar, who turned 22 in May and came to Houston from Philadelphia in the Roy Oswalt trade, was hitting .278/.342/.444 for Oklahoma City in 90 games, but .299/.372/.482 since June 1.
There likely won't need to be another corresponding move since the Astros had already planned to call Cosart back up on Tuesday.
8 comments:
- Big T said...
Good move by the Astros. But wondering why Springer isn't coming, too.
- July 21, 2013 at 6:56 PM
- Deputy Jason said...
I think that Villar is an upgrade, or at least has a higher ceiling, and Im good with more playing time for Wally/Krauss/Carter.
Having a veteran presence in the clubhouse is a tad overrated IMO. Both guys being dfa'd were classy about the moves so good luck to them.
The future gets a little closer every day. I am really looking forward to the 2015 club based on the projected growth of our top prospects.
- July 21, 2013 at 8:23 PM
FINALLY! Cedeno was worst astro since schaefer. Now if we could just get rid of jd martinez...
- July 21, 2013 at 9:58 PM
- July 22, 2013 at 12:22 AM
- Rob McDonald said...
Never been totally convinced that Villar can put it all together but glad something has happened. Get more and more concerned about the second half of this season after every game.
Singleton would be ahead of Springer, surely? CF has been weak but Barnes is some kind of wizard on his day.
- July 22, 2013 at 2:13 AM
- Hal said...
Springer is performing a lot better than Singleton right now. Singleton is struggling with AAA pitching.
- July 22, 2013 at 7:51 AM
Im still not sure what to make of Ambriz stil being on the roster
- July 22, 2013 at 1:36 PM
- treblesister said...
Any chance Maxwell gets dealt and Springer moves up?
- July 22, 2013 at 6:55 PM


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The National Institute of Technology Calicut is a federally funded technical university and an institute of national importance governed by an act passed by the Parliament of India. NITC campus is situated 22 km north-east of Kozhikode (Calicut) city on the Calicut – Mukkam road. It was established in 1961 and was known as Calicut Regional Engineering College (CREC) until 2002. NITC is one of the National Institutes of Technology established by the Government of India for imparting technical education to students from all over the country. NITC is among the very few institutions in the country to host a Supercomputer of its own.source: wikipedia