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The formation of fossils.
Books explaining how fossils are formed frequently give the impression that it takes many years of build up of layers of sediment to bury organic remains, which then become fossilised.
Therefore many people don't realise that this impression is erroneous, because it is a fact that all good, intact fossils require rapid burial in sufficient sediment to prevent decay or predatory destruction.
So it is evident that rock containing good, undamaged fossils was laid down rapidly, sometimes in catastrophic conditions.
The very existence of intact fossils is a testament to rapid burial and sedimentation.
You don't get fossils from slow burial. Organic remains don't just sit around on the sea bed, or elsewhere, waiting for sediment to cover them a millimetre at a time, over a long period.
Unless they are buried rapidly, they would soon be damaged or destroyed by predation and/or decay.
The fact that so many sedimentary rocks contain fossils, indicates that the sediment that created them was normally laid down within a short time. Fossiliferous rock indicates sediment that was laid down rapidly.
Another important factor is that many large fossils (tree trunks, large fish, dinosaurs etc.) intersect several or many strata (sometimes called layers) which clearly indicates that multiple strata were formed simultaneously in a single event by grading/segregation of sedimentary particles into distinct layers, and not stratum by stratum over long periods of time or different geological eras, which is the evolutionist, uniformitarian interpretation of the geological column.
In view of the fact that many large fossils required a substantial amount of sediment to bury them, and the fact that they intersect multiple strata (polystrate fossils), how can any sensible person claim that strata or, for that matter, any fossil bearing rock, could have taken millions of years to form?
What do laboratory experiments and field studies of recent, sedimentation events show? sedimentology.fr/
You don't even need to be a qualified sedimentologist or geologist to come to that conclusion, it is common sense.
Rapid formation of strata - some recent, field evidence:
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All creatures and plants alive today, which are found as fossils, are the same in their fossil form as the living examples, in spite of the fact that the fossils are claimed to be millions of years old. So all living things today could be called 'living fossils' inasmuch as there is no evidence of any evolutionary changes in the alleged multi-million year timescale. The fossil record shows either extinct species or unchanged species, that is all.
For example: the most abundant fossils are shellfish, molluscs etc. There are literally many millions of them in collections and museums all around the world. Yet there are no examples of partially developed shellfish, no examples of shellfish with partially developed shells. The evolution of shellfish would have taken a long time, so there should be millions of examples of shellfish showing evidence of that evolution, many transitional or intermediate examples, but there are none. Furthermore, similar shellfish are around today as fossilised shellfish that lived allegedly hundreds of millions of years ago - which means they haven't evolved in hundreds of millions of years. Yet, in a similar time period, it is claimed that enormous evolution has taken place in other species, leading right up to humans.
When no evidence is cited as evidence:
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The Cambrian Explosion.
Trilobites and other many creatures appeared suddenly in some of the earliest rocks of the fossil record, with no intermediate ancestors. This sudden appearance of a great variety of advanced, fully developed creatures is called the Cambrian Explosion. Trilobites are especially interesting because they have complex eyes, which would need a lot of progressive evolution to develop such advanced features However, there is no evidence of any evolution leading up to the Cambrian Explosion, and that is a serious dilemma for evolutionists.
Trilobites are now thought to be extinct, although it is possible that similar creatures could still exist in unexplored parts of deep oceans.
See fossil of a crab unchanged after many millions of years:
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Fossil museum - example of living things - un-evolved after many millions of years: www.flickr.com/photos/101536517@N06/sets/72157641367196613/
As seen at the SF Pride parade last weekend.
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Full set here, other SF events here.
Also see: Carnaval SF 2011, Bay to Breakers 2011, and the How Weird Street Faire 2011.
Like a handful of City Churches, St Andrew had so far eluded me. But we went to London with hope in our heart.
St Andrew stands in the shadow of The Gherkin, and is greatly overshadowed by the modern city.
And I had yet to find it open.
But it was open this year for Open House, and we were given a warm welcome.
I spoke long to one of the volunteers, explained how frustrating it was that St Peter upon Cornhill is never open, without realising I was speaking probaly to one of the people who made that situation. However, I explained the Friends of the City Churches, and the great job they do in making sure so many of the churches are open, and she said she would see what she could go.
We shall see.
Inside, St Andrew was a little of a disappointment, with the feeling of a yoga studio, all wood paneling, and no pews.
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St Andrew Undershaft is a Church of England church in the City of London, the historic nucleus and modern financial centre of London. It is located on St. Mary Axe, within the Aldgate ward, and is a rare example of a City church that survived both the Great Fire of London and the Blitz.[1]
The present building was constructed in 1532 but a church has existed on the site since the 12th century. Today, St Andrew Undershaft is administered from the nearby St Helen's Bishopsgate church.
The first church on the site, which today is bordered by St. Mary Axe and Leadenhall Street, was built in medieval times, being recorded in 1147.[2] It was rebuilt in the 14th century and again in 1532;[3] this third incarnation of the building survives today. It is in the Perpendicular style[4] with its entrance located at the base of its off-centre tower. The interior is divided into six bays, with many of the original fittings that survived Victorian renovation. Formerly, St Andrew Undershaft had one of London's few surviving large stained-glass windows, installed in the 17th century, but this was destroyed in the Baltic Exchange bombing in 1992.
The church's curious name derives from the shaft of the maypole that was traditionally set up each year opposite the church.[5] The custom continued each spring until 1517, when student riots put an end to it, but the maypole itself survived until 1547 when it was seized by a mob and destroyed as a "pagan idol".
St Andrew Undershaft is now administered from the nearby church of St Helen's Bishopsgate. St Andrew Undershaft was designated a Grade I listed building on 4 January 1950.
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Located in the heart of London’s financial centre, next to the Lloyds Building and towered over by the Gherkin, is St. Andrew Undershaft. This church is easily lost among the iconic architecture that surrounds it and thus often goes unnoticed. Yet as one of only a few complete medieval churches in London, this Gothic building is worth a visit.
Before the advent of addresses, places were often given descriptive names to assist people in finding them. But with one of the more unusual church names in London, the natural question is why ‘undershaft’? In the early 1500s a massive maypole stood on the land adjacent to the church. This giant pole, or shaft, was likely taller than the church, which lead to the expression ‘undershaft’ being added as a descriptive to St. Andrew’s church. For more history on maypoles click here. The maypole was erected annually in spring – a tradition that continued until the ‘Ill May Day Riots’ of 1517. These riots, during the reign of Henry VIII, were targeted against foreigners living in London who were deemed to be gaining excessive wealth. The maypole was stored and not erected again. In 1549 the nearby church of St. Katherine Cree declared that maypoles were heather idols and should be destroyed. The giant maypole was destroyed, but its memory lives on.
The first recording of a church on this site was in 1147. It was rebuilt in the 1300s and again in the early 1500s. It is this building that dates primarily from 1520-1535 that is still there today. Unlike many buildings it survived the Great Fire intact. The turret and pinnacles that crown the tower are later additions from 1883. The building also survived the Blitz in WWII making it a rare survivor from the 16th Century.
The building contains many notable features, including 17th Century wood carvings, medieval roof bosses that include the insignia of Henry VIII and a memorial to Hans Holbein the Younger, who was Henry VIII’s court painter. The font was made by Nicholas Stone, the master mason to James I and Charles I. The organ was first installed in 1696. While various enhancements have been made to the organ, it is a very historically significant instrument due to its age. As such, it is consider a Grade I listed organ.
In 1992 an IRA bomb attack in this part of London caused widespread damage. Targeting the Baltic Exchange building at 30 St. Mary Axe, which at the time was the last remaining exchange floor in London, the 1-ton bomb caused massive damage. While due consideration was given to restoring the Baltic Exchange, its damage was so extensive it was later demolished. On the site now rises the Gherkin. Nearby St. Andrew Undershaft lost a magnificent 17th Century window that depicted numerous English monarchs, but the building survived.
Buried at the church is John Stow (d. 1605) who wrote the ‘Survey of London’ in 1598 – London’s first accurate written survey. Both he and his wife Elizabeth were members of this church. His memorial, made from alabaster and erected by his wife, has him holding a quill. This real quill pen is periodically replaced during a special ceremony overseen by the Lord Mayor. This ceremony occurs once every three years in early April. The next ceremony will be in 2017 and is hosted by the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society (see lamas.org.uk).
Chris D Kelly explaining to Kay Burley and Sky News viewers what the Conservatives will do if they win the General Election. Photograph copyright Paul C Wynn April 2010.
I was partly right . . .
The pyramidal objects at the edge of the bottom stairs depicted Zoroastrian fire temples!
Gov. Imee explains to a crowd of Barangay Health Workers and Day Care teachers during the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Caravan in Lanao, Bangui last March 6 how the PGIN determines the recipients of the insurance cards (I-Cards) being distributed at. The I-Cards cover accidental and natural death, dismemberment and total disability and are distributed to the indigents identified by the MDG Office under the Office of the Governor.
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Can anyone explain the fluorescent orange sheep to me? I have various theories, but I'm not sure any of them hold water. The color seems far in excess of the usual paint splotches that are used as brands; ditto color to indicate sheep that have been through the dip. If it were in the US, I would think that the function is to warn off trigger-happy deer hunters (or, if you're of a more cynical bent, to help trigger-happy deer hunters find the target). But is this a problem in Britain?
or: Why my photography has suffered of late.
It seems I've just taken a bit of a break for a spell. Instead of hiding behind the lens, I've been hiding in front of my workbench.
While waiting for glue to dry on a hiking stick I was wrapping with leather cord recently, I picked up a drop of cedar fence board from the shelf and began whittling away at it. I did finish sand the inside of the bowl, but the rest of it is simply whittled and burnished with a deer antler, both before, and after, applying Mineral Oil.
I have a small cordlock drawstring pouch coming to keep it clean while riding in my trail vest pocket. I sometimes like to steep a cup of herbal tea while on the trail - this will be my trail teaspoon from now on. Much more appropriate than plastic I think.
I really like the way the Mineral Oil has brought out the grain of the wood. But note, that is not dirt on it. That is where the oil has brought out other coloration of the wood as well. Wood is funny that way.
Now it's time to get back to cutting on hiking/walking sticks once more. I'll get my camera back out again soon.
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What Is Theosophy?
The Secrets of The Universe Laid Bare By The Accumulated Wisdom Of The Ages
The question “What is Theosophy?” must have risen to the lips of some thousands of persons during the last three or four years, if the world is anything like what it used to be, and it is only reasonable to suppose that in nearly as many instances as the question has been put the answer has not been forthcoming, or, at least, that no satisfactory solution has been proffered. From the vastness of the subject and its utter newness to Western minds this state of things is not very much to be wondered at, but apart from that, the extreme difficulty of giving anything approaching an intelligible explanation of the word to minds permeated with WEstern ideas and moulded by Western thought and associations is so great as to render the task well nigh hopeless. Theosophy was unknown to Western intelligence – except in the form of the wildest and most improbable narratives, and those of the most fragmentary character – till some 14 years since, when Madame H. P. Blavatsky, a Russian lady who had spent the greater part of her previous life picking up strange stores of still strangers knowledge among the speculative peoples of the far East, settled in New York, and commenced the diffusion of her ideas in regard to her occult knowledge. Her most active disciple was a Colonel Olcott, in conjunction with whom the Theosophical Society was formed for objects stated below. A singular fact came out in reference to this very singular organization not very long ago; it appears that Madame Blavatsky, the president-founder, is practically the Theosophical Society one and indivisible, for while the members may be expelled to any extent, the president-founder cannot be removed, the consequence being that notwithstanding the possible loss of every single member, the society can never suffer annihilation as long as Madame Blavatsky lives, the wishes of the rest of the organization to the contrary. Theosophy has apparently produced the first and only society which it is impossible to suppress or abolish. Madame Blavatsky is now located in London, where her teachings have been met with more amusement than reverence, but the president-founder appears proof against any amount of that kind of “argument,” and disposes of it as being of as little value as the wanton smoke-curls of the weed she loves so well. Among the orthodox and the indifference – who may be placed upon pretty much the same plane as far as honest inquiry is concerned – theosophy has made no convert, but in the ranks of the ever-increasing class of speculative thinkers who have been forced to abandon the old traditional creeds the “new” gospel has received a large number of earnest followers, perhaps the most noticeable being Mrs. Annie Besant, whose succession to theosophical ranks proves – if it proves anything – that there is “something in it” worthy of investigation. In America, where the cult has taken a firmer root, the theosophists claim Edison, the great electrician, as one of their disciples, and his certificate of membership is enrolled among the society’s archives.
The subject was laid before the Croydon Socratic Society on Tuesday night, at their usual meeting at West Croydon, by no less an authority than Mr. Herbert Burrows, who, in addition to being a highly-valued friend of the society and a fellow socialistic worker with Mrs. Besant, is also an enthusiastic theosophist and a brilliant young thinker in more than one branch. The Socratics are a more than ordinarily hard-headed body, but it was plain to see that on Tuesday evening there was a lack of sympathy with the subject that boded trouble ahead, as the sequel showed. Mr. Burrows first spoke of the difficulties of handling a subject which comprehended the concentrated knowledge of the East extending over a period of possibly 20,000 years in about forty minutes, and expressed the opinion that he was quite prepared to find at the concussion fo the lecture that his hearers only matter of doubt was as to whether he was a fool or a madman, or a combination of both. He then passed on the deal with the question in the way most suited to the assembly, namely, from it scientific aspect, and remarked that theosophy was utterly and entirely opposed to the Darwinian theory, and that it dealt with the more recondite forces and laws of nature in respect of which Western investigators were as ignorant as Newton’s child upon the seashore, aye, and more so, because, to speak figuratively, they had not even the knowledge to pick up the stones. Wisely keeping clear of the phenomenal portion of his subject – for theosophical wonder-working, even if it were possible to him, would be no more convincing of the truth of theosophy than the working of a material miracle was proof of any sort of moral truth – he explained in passing that theosophy claimed to be the underlying truth of which all the great and varied religious systems were but the exoteric side, and that the Theosophical Society had been founded to accomplish three objects, (1) To be the nucleus of a universal brotherhood; (2) To promote the study of Aryan and other Eastern literatures, religions, and sciences; and (3) To investigate unexplained laws of nature and the physical powers latent in man. Now, Western science failed to accomplish the latter object in some very essential particulars, and that principally because its investigations were conducted on imperfect lines, while theosophy, working upon an entirely different lines, not only agreed with the conclusions of the Western scientist, but could find a passage beyond the dead wall which blocked the path of all our scientists at a certain point, and beyond which wall no single Western investigator had yet been able to penetrate. What was the reason of this? Possibly because Western scientists started on too limited a basis. Personally he had long ago been led to the conclusion – from the study of Huxlye’s treaties on protoplasm forces, and from Professor Huxley’s own showing the material physical sciences of the body proved rather a barrier than an assistance to the study of the powers of nature. For example, when a note of music was struck it was accompanied by numbers of other miner sounds which it was impossible for the ear to distinguish because of its inherent of its inherent defects, while at the same time the existence of the minor notes had been demonstrated ad nauseam. A defect of this kind must prove an obstacle to true investigation because of its misleading results. If that were the case man practically knew nothing at all about the forces which were behind those of which we do know or fancy we know something. This naturally led to the conclusion that if our senses were only refined and acute enough it would be possible to perceive and understand the unseen forces of nature. On the other hand, the scientists of the West, everyone of them, however profound their investigations, were met at one point in their inquiries by a dead wall which they found it impossible to pass, in a very large class of phenomena, which they found to be absolutely inexplainable by their modern science.
Theosophy boasted that it could pass this wall by reason of the storehouse of actual mental knowledge, not mere theory only, which had been stored in the minds of a few men in India and of late years in Tibet, and handed on from one to the other for thousands of years. These men were investigators themselves, and they made a secret of their knowledge for obvious reasons, because by virtue of their knowledge there were few of the processes of nature that were secret to them; they asserted that they could explain phenomena whose solution was regarded as hopeless, and that simply and entirely by their knowledge of the laws of nature. In these things they owned no supernatural influences – there is no personal god in theosophy, which is purely pantheistic – but could give a rational explanation from the phenomena of nature, according to the laws of nature, though doubtless not according to the laws of Western scientists, and by this means they claimed to obtain a clue to both the spiritual and physical nature of man. The western scientist, up to a certain point, could state how certain phenomena were manifested, but the theosophist went further, and could tell why these things were. Science was absolutely unable to explain phenomena such as hypnotism, clairvoyance, and mesmerism to anything like an adequate extent and while he knew the majority of people dismissed these things as a result of trickery and fraud, they were nevertheless established facts, and rapidly establishing themselves as practical agents of surgical treatment. Apart from that theosophy could give a clear and adequate reason why for these things, and until people could give a better explanation it was both foolish and unphilosophic for people to deny that theosophy could do so.
Mr. Burrows then divided into an intensely interesting disquisition with regard to the numerous laws of nature whose existence and demonstration is known to our modern scientists, but which have entirely baffled them in their efforts to comprehend and tabulate the same. For instance, by means of a definite arrangement of a violin, a turning for, a strong light, and a sort of sheet suspended after the style of a “magic lantern” sheet, it was found that a note of music possesses distinct and unmistakable colours, which vary with different notes. Another instrument, the pendulagram, demonstrates that a musical note possess force. The apparatus is constructed upon vibrating principles, and is fitted with a universal-jointed pen. Upon a certain note being struck certain spiral curves are recorded by the pen. Strike another not, and a different class of spirals is produced; strike the first not again, and the spirals are produced similar to those registered on the first occasion. Now, why are these spiral? That is what theosophy alone can tell, and the man who has this knowledge can practically control the forces of nature! The materialist failed to surmount the wall that stopped him, and why? Partly because he failed to recognize that there was no rigid line of demarcation between the spiritual and the material part of man. Judging by the state of clairvoyance, when the physical material senses of man were in a certain sense paralysed, the intelligent, spiritual, mental faculties of man were sharpened. Man dealt in two worlds, the outward visible world, and the inward invisible world. The latter could only come into play when the other was deadened, or, in other words, purified and refined of the presence of the material outer world. Taking another line, he showed that the theosophist and the Western scientist, by widely differing methods, agreed, step by step, that under the whole nature lay some widely-diffused basic force, and that while the Western could only tell the relation between things – as in the molecular theory – the theosophist could explain the essence of the things themselves, or rather, could get behind the relation of the things and explain why they were so related. This method, produced to its natural conclusion, must lead up to the explanation of the spiritual nature of man, and thus theosophy was seen to comprehend the great truths that underlie all the great religions of the world.
At this stage the speaker left the relatively-scientific part of the question – which is at once its explanation and its raison d’eire – and passed on to deal with the teachings of theosophy, which is much more easy to follow. The very name is a clue, for “theosophy” (knowledge of or about God – the term God being universally accepted, not in the sense of a personal anthromorphic God, but as including the whole of both the known and the unknown) implies knowledge or wisdom respecting the absolute. It is sometimes also called the wisdom-religion because it professes to have had from time immemorial the knowledge of all the laws governing the spiritual, the moral, and the material. The reason why this knowledge has not been imparted to all is obvious – a man with such knowledge would have the lives and interests of his fellows who were not equally enlightened entirely at his disposal. The existence of three abnormal powers has been recognised, as a matter of fact, in plain, practical, prosy Germany, where stringent laws have already been passed against the exercise of hypnotic powers – such as those demonstrated by the Rev. Arthur Tooth at Woodside the other day – by unqualified persons. It is easily seen that if such laws are necessary to restrain the persons who do not fully comprehend the feeble powers they undoubtedly possess, the necessity would be vastly greater in the case of persons who have exhaustive knowledge of far greater powers. Hence in the interests of the race, the theosophists say, the knowledge is jealousy guarded in a few minds, although it is acquirable by anyone who will go through the long and tedious mental, physical, and spiritual training necessary to that end, for theosophists hold that the knowledge they possess can only be obtained by the careful refinement of the spiritual entity from the obscurations of the material physical, a process involving purity of word, thought, idea, and action. It is claimed that the theosophist has ascertained by actual experience that man, instead of consisting simply of body, soul, and spirit, is a septenary, or seven-partite being. The first division is the physical body, which acts as the vehicle for all the other principles; then there is the vital principle common to all animals; and the next is the astral, or the double or phantom body. Theosophists believe that the adept (a person who has attained to the higher knowledge) can separate his higher spiritual principle from the physical, and travel whither he will in the guise of the astral body, leaving the physical in a state of trance. The fourth, which forms the last of what is called the lower principles, is the seat of the animal desires and passions. Teh three higher principles consist (1) of the mind or intelligence (which has two aspects, one towards the lower and one towards the higher) ; (2) the spiritual soul, which forms the vehicle for (3) the spirit itself. Now, with regard to this “spirit” may be introduced one of the vital principles of theosophy. It is believed as an actual fact that the spirit in man is the only real and permanent part of his being, the rest of his nature being variously compounded, nad consequently always resolving into other compounds. The spirit of every man is said to spark fo the Divine Whole, whence it comes by cyclic or evolutionary procedure through every form of matter till it reaches its highest form – self-consciousness – in man. From the human enthrallment the spirit, according to its efforts while in that condition, passes at the death of the body towards the higher (i.e. towards re-absorption in the Divine Whole), or else downwards into the lower forms of matter, thence to “work out its own salvation,” or return to self-consciousness in the human. In its upward course the divine spark is u undergoing repeated incarnations through the vegetable, mineral, animal, and human states ; in each of these it is latent, but it is only manifest in man. The spirit retains its individuality during the whole progress from its origin to its reunion to the Divine, and exists successively in various races and planets.
The discussion that ensued beggars description from the fact that nearly everybody who spoke seemed to have failed to grasp the bearings of the subject. This was only natural under the circumstances – the explanation of a single page of a theosophical “educational” tract is sufficient to make a man’s hair curl if he has not been initiated – but the lecturer dealt lightly with his critics in his reply. The latter, by the way, did not commence till nearly 11 o’clock, and was principally devoted to the removal of misconceptions. From a quantity of propagandist leaflets – on of which (“Karma as a Cure for Trouble”) strangely reminded one of a patent medicine puff – it was seen that the practical side of theosophy is of no little importance from teh social point of view. One of the essentials to spiritual development is “the entire eradication of selfishness in all forms, and the cultivation of broad, generous sympathy in and effor for the good of others,” and another stipulates for “the careful performance of every duty belonging to one’s station in life, without desire for reward, leaving results for Divine law.” Apart from this, theosophy professes to explain the contrast and unisions of the world’s faiths and the common foundations underlying them all ; the existence of evil, suffering, and sorrow; social and individual inequalities, contrasts, and antithesis; accidents, misfortunes, and untimely deaths; the failure of conventional religions to greatly extend their areas, reform abuses, reorganize society, expand to the idea of brotherhood, abate discontent, diminish crime, elevate humanity, and adequately realise in individual lives the ideal they professedly uphold. These form only a small portion of the large order theosophists are ready to fill, but if they can only get believers in their strange tremendous system to go heartily in for spiritual development on the lines mentioned above, there are plenty of folks in this world who will be glad to find a place for them.
George Johnson, our instructor in Visual Story, describes our first visual story assignment:
Create a interactive story using still frames.
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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (June 19, 2022) Sailors assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Division, explains to the subject matter experts how they are treating a patient during Operation Firebreak. Operation Firebreak involves patient care from point of injury through Role I, Role II, and Role III care. Operation Firebreak is part of Navy Reserve-Expeditionary Medical Facility (NR-EMF) Bethesda’s operational readiness evaluation (ORE). The ORE directly supports the Surgeon General's guidance that "Navy Medicine will optimize to project medical power in support of Naval Superiority." NR-EMF Bethesda is comprised of Reservists from around the country that came together to complete training which includes equipment familiarization, integrated medical/patient throughput training, scenario/mission, and emergency (fire, security, etc.) training.. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class David Kolmel/ Released) www.dvidshub.net/news/423757/nemtis-operation-firebreak-e...
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Years from now I may forget this time of my life. I'm trying to learn really effective ways of saving money without giving up quality of food. I'm learning a lot of different techniques. I think it will be cool to one day look back and see that it started with burritos.
Explaining about job boards in general as many job seekers don't understand how to navigate them nor the features and benefits of a job board.
Crews continue to clear hundreds of fallen trees from Oregon 58 in the aftermath of the February storms.
Malawi, Blantyre, Cecilia Ntilosanji, mother to a defoiled girl explains how her daughter was defiled. Zefa was defiled on February 2012 when her mother, who works as a prison guard was at work. Zefa was in nursery school and her mother now says she dropped out of school because she cannot concentrate.
Body composition measurement with the Bod Pod explained @ Springfield College Exercise Science and Sport Studies (ESSS) Faculty. Source: www.facebook.com/scexercisescienceandsportstudies
He explained us about the cabbage he plants and the showed us how to use this farming instrument. What a nice moment.
Personally I love this shot very much. The cabbage gives a stunning background and the whole composition is just wonderful.
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Researchers explains points to training participants on cowpea alley cropping system. Photo by IITA. (file name: RCM_504). ONLY low res available.
The medic explains the implications of King Constantine's urine sample!
From a series of small panels I am making: inspired from a visit to Chartres Cathedral (france)
The original was painted between 1200-1210.
Kiln-fired painted glass with 3mm lead came. Size 220 x 220mm (8.5ins)
A list of materials needed for a small shop from Printing Explained by Herbert Simon and Harry Carter, Leicester, The Dryad Press, 1931.
151st day of protests infront of the US State Department, by Iranians demanding end to harrasment and delisting of the MEK/PMOI by the US.
the article explains:
MEK provides hope for Iranian people
Sadegh Sistani - 8/5/2011
Much has been said and discussed about the MEK/PMOI in the press and among policy makers, some behind closed doors and others in high-level diplomatic meetings. The most prominent Iranian opposition group (Mojahedin as known by the Iranian people) is a main battleground which will determine lives of millions in Iran and the whole region.
The charge that the MEK has no support in Iran is, frankly, baseless.
The 2009 uprisings and latest official purge within the clerical hierarchy leave no doubt for appeasers that democracy is void in Iran and therefore it would be only self suicide for any Iranian to display an iota of sympathy for the MEK, which is classified as “Moharebe”* by a fatwa released by Khomeini.
I endured 17 years of prison and torture under the clerical regime in Iran.
During the 2009 uprisings, I met in prison tens of youth, tortured and beaten and accused of correlating and working with the MEK. We were submerged in a wave of desperate negative propaganda against the organization. Press titles read:” The commander of Ashura day incidents was the PMOI and rioters chanted their slogans” and that” Saying no to Velayat-e Faqih (Iranian Supreme Leader) means that you have accepted the rule of Maryam Rajavi instead.”
The punishment and “Verdict for protestors is death “in Iran (Mohseni-Ejei, former Minister of Intelligence- Mehr stat-run news agency, January 4, 2010) and “Anyone who helps PMOI in any way will be deemed Moharebe* (First Deputy of Judiciary- Channel 2 TV, December 30, 2009).
The number of street protestors arrested for association with the Mojaheden (MeK) also depicts its role in demonstrations as do slogans echoing Mojahedin chants, e.g., calling for a democratic change by chanting “down with the principle of Velayat-e Faqih” (referring to Supremacy of one man -Khamenei).
The aftermath of the 2009 uprising there was a wave of executions, mainly MEK members, such as Jafar Kazemi, Ali Aghaei,… and tens of death orders for its supporters who were charged with either visiting Camp Ashraf or taking part in the protests.
The clerical regime’s fear of the MEK has already reflected in increasing widening of the rift and escalation of qualms in the Hierarchy of the regime which is adamantly leading to an implosion of the entirely of this illegitimate regime.
Only during the last two weeks, the MEK/PMOI has occupied 90 percent of clerical regime propaganda spur referring to the organization at least 100 times.
It is time to resolve the long argued paradox: “The MEK cannot be an isolated little sect and the most powerful and feared element by the clerical regime at the same time."
All this illustrates just how significant the Mujahedeen of Iran are in the Iranian puzzle and how urgently the US needs to stand alongside the people in their choice to bring about a complete change through its capable and well rooted organization , the MEK by delisting the organization from its FTO list.
The Mujahedeen are a well-organized, highly-educated, and devoted group of Iranian activists who have stood alone on the frontline to terror and Islamic fundamentalism for at least 27 years now well before the West finally realized the threat. They have warned of, and urged vigilance against, the clerical regime for years, only to be brushed aside by skeptical intellectuals and pro engagement pundits in Europe and the US. They have tried to educate a duped Western audience about the enormous capacity of the Islamic fundamentalists to inflict pain and suffering on the social fabric of modern society, ripping it asunder and thrusting it into a convulsion of crises that it can benefit from.
At the same the fear the clerical regime has towards its only serious enemy, the MEK as its anti-thesis.
However, the US policy to confront the clerical fascist regime in Iran is incoherent. Appeasers in Capitol Hill steered by lobbies of the Iranian regime somehow manage to combine colossal moral failure with strategic imbecility with the overpowering stench of hypocrisy to pass over the huge loss of National interest of the United States in the game over Iran. Nevertheless, the Iranian people, having 35 years of priceless struggle against the religious fascist ruling Iran distinguish best and stand with their only chance for Democracy: the MEK.
Recognizing the people’s right to resist the tyrannical rule in Iran and lending support to the opposition who aspires to establish the principles of a free secular Republic, is the only beacon for the Iranian populous in Iran. This will send a true message of good will gesture to the Iranian people and also the people of the region; The United States to pave way for peace and security in Iran and the region by siding with the people and not their henchmen.
The only necessary step should be to recognize the Mojahedin –e Khalq (MEK/PMOI) as the true voice of the Iranian people who desire complete change in their homeland.
On July 30, the Iranian resistance announced the results of a 64-hour telethon, during which Iranians contributed $3.28 million dollars to the INTV (the Iranian resistance Satellite Television broadcasting to four continents and covering Iran with anti- government news and broadcast).The extensive support displayed during the programme is only one example of millions of the love and respect the Iranian people have towards the Mojahedin (MEK).
I would like to end with the words of one of the supporters of the MEK in Iran, Mohammad, who had participated in telethon:
“The MEK is like a mirror, reflecting one's true self; for some showing tyranny and decadents and others; honor and dignity in self-sacrifice for a people and their struggle for freedom."
References:
*The commander of Ashura day incidents was the PMOI and rioters chanted their slogans
State-run News Network TV-December 30, 2009
Ahmad Alamolhoda, the city of Mashhad’s Friday Prayer Leader said ; “The Ashura day act was commanded by the PMOI, The PMOI commanded the Ashura day operation. They [protestors] not only cooperated with them but actually served as the foot soldiers of PMOI.”
*First Deputy of Judiciary: Anyone helping the PMOI in any way and under any circumstances will be considered as Mohareb
Channel 2 TV-December 30, 20009
*Ayatollah Seyyed Yousef Tabatabainejad, the Leader of Isfahan’s Friday Prayers, said: Saying no to Velayat-e Faqih means that you have accepted rule of Maryam Rajavi instead.”
State-run Fars news agency-January 1, 2010
Mr. Sistani has been a prominent political prisoner who escaped Iranian dungeons in April 2011 and has endured 17 years and 8 months of torture and interrogation by the Iranian Intelligence service.
The man who talked to us when we were shooting. Sometimes people who is interested in a camera or a photograph talk to when we take pictures outside. He started talking about from a camera to a wartime story and he told us how he survived during the war.
When he was 15 years old, he worked to put the dead bodies in order to identify or buried them in the hole and that job made 10,000 yen in the daily wages. While there were many people returning as they see the bodies, he worked hard and started an electric shop after the war. He said with a smile " The postwar electric shop made money next to a thief."
撮影をしている時に話しかけて来たおじさん。
外で写真を撮っているとよくカメラや写真に興味のある人が話しかけて来ます。おじさんはカメラの話から戦時中の話になり、戦時中をどう生き抜いて来たかを教えてくれました。
15歳のころ死体を片付けたり身元の確認や穴に埋める作業をして日給１万円。死体を見て帰って行く人も多い中、おじさんはこつこつ働き、戦後電気屋を開業、「戦後の電気屋なんつったら泥棒の次に儲かったよ～」と笑って教えてくれました。