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iPhone App Review Apple bundles a decent Dictionary application with Mac OS X, so it's surprising that it doesn't do the same with the iPhone. You may only need to consult a dictionary once in a while, but it's nice to have one handy. Putting it on a smartphone means you can always have it with you. Apple should have included one
Advanced English Dictionary: encyclopaedia elements
It didn't, and so a number of third-party developers have attempted to fill the gap. Some are derived from well-known dictionary publishers: Oxford, Collins, Chambers and so on. Others come from unbranded sources. As the Advanced English Dictionary (AED) app shows, that doesn't necessarily mean they're inferior to their famous-name rivals.
They're certainly cheaper. AED is currently available for a mere 59p, though publisher jDictionary Mobile says this is a special "90 per cent off" promotional price. Even at £5.90 it's good value given that you can pay up to £20 for a branded alternative.
AED is also one of the best-presented dictionary apps. The screen layout is attractive, the animations smooth, input is responsive. Words with multiple definitions are presented as a set of panels from which you slide and scroll from one to the next. It doesn't feel like a port of an app from a lesser mobile OS as a fair few iPhone dictionaries do.
There's no attempt to mimic the look of a paper dictionary. Instead AED uses the hyperlinking that computer-based databases make so easy to provide not merely a definition but a structured list of related words, allowing you to explore broader categories of word or drill down to more specific instances.
Examples abound... and quirks
Look up 'Cheshire cheese', for instance, and a link will take you up the hierarchy to 'cheese'. From there, you can go up to 'food', 'solid food' or 'dairy product', or you can try out a selection of specific types of "solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk". Curd is linked to too, as one of the substances from which cheese is formed.
Where relevant, definitions are accompanied by lists of synonyms and antonyms, so AED can be used as a thesaurus.
The related-words list isn't simply lexicographical. 'London' sits below 'national capital' and 'England' but above 'Big Ben', Old Bailey', 'Lombard Street' and so on. As such, AED has the feel of an encyclopaedia about it.
It's a novel approach and one that makes exploring a joy. It's not for everyone, though. While there's a search facility, it's based simply on the letters you enter and the order in which they're typed. 'Lio' will find 'lion' but not 'battalion', for example. And there are no wildcards, so stumped crossword solvers won't find succour here.
While AED provides word-usage examples, there are no out-loud pronunciations. Not all the words have visual pronunciation cues, either, or etymologies. It does well on scientific and medical terminology, and includes plenty of famous people, but it's weak on obscure words. British users may be peeved at its obvious leaning toward American English.
'I hope, sir, you are not using the first English dictionary to look up rude words'
Our test text was Jack Vance's Lyonesse, a fantasy novel noted for its linguistic richness, and AED came up short only occasionally: 'fane' (an ancient temple) 'jupon' (a tunic worn over armour) and 'gonfalon' (a heraldic banner) are absent, for example.
The problem for AED is that there's a free alternative, from Dictionary.com, that has found every word we've chucked at it. It's not as good an example of iPhone coding as AED is, being slow and occasionally unresponsive to taps, but then you're getting what you paid for. Despite its website branding, it can be used offline.
For simply looking up words, AED is the loser, but for exploring the language, it has the edge, the upper hand, the whip hand, etc, etc. ®
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Through the mist: (Smog) set to waft into the Rose
Supper, the latest CD from the parentheses-prone indie-rock group (Smog), does not offer immediate gratification. Unless you know what to expect from the group before pressing "play," the first thing on Supper that will probably strike you is the voice of singer/songwriter (and really the only constant in the continuously rotating (Smog) lineup) Bill Callahan.
His strong tenor dominates the CD, and for at least some who've been raised on the high-flying vocalizations of groups like the Beatles, this element of (Smog)'s sound will stick out like the sorest of thumbs. You might have to put in some time with Supper– or another of the group's previous 11 albums– before you get what Callahan is really going on about. But like many things in life, your patience will be rewarded.
Smog debuted in 1988 with Callahan's self-released Macramé Gunplay cassette. A string of cassette-only releases followed, until the group signed with Chicago's Drag City Records in 1991 and released the Floating EP.
1993's Julius Caesar was the first album where things started to get a little more complicated than the group's previous lo-fi releases. Thanks to collaborators– including über famous indie producer Jim O'Rourke– this album found Smog broadening their sonic and songwriting horizons. Albums followed once every year or so with (Smog) beginning to explore the world of acoustic space, and in 2001 Callahan changed the band name from Smog to (Smog), reportedly to place more emphasis on the group's music.
On Supper, (Smog) shift things into a lower gear than most of their previous releases– there's a reason their press attempts to puncture this balloon before it pops, with the classic line, "Supper will strike some of you as easy-listening (Smog)-– which is simply proof that you (Smog) fans out there have hardened over the years."
But the group has traded some velocity for a fair number of heartbreakingly beautiful moments, which would sound perfect piping out of the car stereo as you drive down a country road, fresh from the sadness/excitement of a recent break-up, lost in your feelings and…
Supper begins with "Feather by Feather," the opening lines of which ("You spend half the morning/Just trying to wake up/Half the evening/Just trying to calm down") are pure poetry. Electric guitar and Callahan's voice are shortly joined by soft steel guitar and some even softer drums, and then Sarabeth Tucek's backup vocals make their presence known.
Peaceful would be the best way to describe this song, but (Smog) fans shouldn't be too alarmed– track 2, "Butterflies Drowned in Wine"– starts the rockin' off with a kick. This is one of the album's highlights, where staccato guitar and nature-theme lyrics meet in a catchy and fairly accessible piece of music.
From there the album trades off slower and faster songs, with Callahan's particular lyrical complexity (ex. "What would my wife say / If I was married") showing itself in almost every line.
As this is sure to be one of Charlottesville's biggest shows of the summer, and Tokyo Rose has a habit of selling out on the biggies, get to the show early. I'll see you there.
(Smog) plays with Bottom of the Hudson at Tokyo Rose, July 31.


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5 Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-Five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels edited by Tom Devlin & various artists, Drawn & Quarterly, May
It's almost 800 pages long. Really. And all to celebrate the publisher who gave us Seth, Adrian Tomine and Chester Brown. This huge tome includes essays by Jonathan Lethem and Margaret Atwood and new work from the likes of Kate Beaton, Michael DeForge, Ruto Modan and Jillian Tamaki. All behind a cover from Scotland's very own Tom Gauld. Clear some space on your coffee table.
8 Killing and Dying, Adrian Tomine, Drawn & Quarterly, October
And while we're in the vicinity of dirty realist cartoon strips, here's one of the masters. Tomine celebrates 20 years of his Optic Nerve comic with this new collection of six stories in full colour. One for every ageing arts graduate with a complicated emotional life. That covers most of us, right?


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Grammy, Tony, Dove award winners part of 2013 KM concert series
Even more live music is on the way to Kings Mountain, thanks to the efforts of a lifelong music lover.
The recently announced Music at the Joy 2013 Concert Series launches next month and will bring Grammy, Tony, Dove and International Bluegrass Music Association award winners to the renovated Joy Performance Center.
The series will feature performances by Nashville singer-songwriters Jerry Salley and Lisa Shaffer, old-time country duo Robin and Linda Williams, eclectic mountain music band Red Clay Ramblers and �Carolina Heroes� musicians David Holt and Josh Goforth .
Rick Dancy , the man behind the four-concert series, said the shows are a result of the efforts of the Kings Mountain Little Theatre volunteers. Patrons raised more than $77,000 for renovations that added 46 seats and updated the building�s art deco design with exposed brick, wainscoting and sound dampening material to improve acoustics last year.
�The Joy is just a jewel,� said Dancy , 68. �The good thing is the performers are excited to be coming in. It�s not just another paying gig for them. They like the venue, they like what we�re doing.�
So have local audiences, which is why the concert series grew from three shows last year to four performances this year. Two of last year�s concerts were sold out with the third concert 22 seats away from a sellout, said Dancy , a Charlotte native who moved to Kings Mountain in 1995.
What�s made the concert series appealing, he said, has been an effort to bring award-winning talent to the Joy at reasonable prices for audiences. Performers helped by agreeing to scale back their normal rates to be part of the series.
Nobody is making much money off the concerts, said Dancy , who is financing the series. Any profits will likely be donated to the theatre.
�We�re trying to get the word out that these things sell out and if you wait until the last minute, you might not get to see the show,� he said.
The upcoming concert series has spurred even more updates to the Joy. Volunteers are refurbishing the upstairs balcony, which will include cabaret-style seating for about 40 people. Work could be finished by Feb. 22, when Salley and Shaffer open the series.
�They needed an excuse to do it and having sellouts, that�s a good excuse,� he said.
For Dancy , who retired eight years ago as director of the Cleveland County Chapter of the American Red Cross, the series is a reason to stay involved in music. His father made banjos and his family was friends with notable bluegrass musicians, including Doc Watson.
In high school and college, he booked gigs for The Riverias, a regional do-wop rock group, after realizing his guitar work was never going to be good enough to go onstage. During a two-year stint as a director at Spirit Square in Charlotte in the 1990s, Dancy booked three of the four acts he�s bringing to Kings Mountain this year.
He befriended Darin Aldridge shortly after moving to Cleveland County and credits Darin and wife Brooke Aldridge � the Sweethearts of Bluegrass � for jumpstarting the concert series in Kings Mountain in 2010 with their annual holiday concerts. Dancy helped the Aldridges with scheduling when they first started touring.
�Music has always been part of my life,� he said. �I�ve just never been able to play much of it. My role is to help people play that can really play.�
All Music at the Joy 2013 Concert Series performances take place at the Joy Performance Center, 202 S. Railroad Ave., Kings Mountain. Season tickets are $70 per person. Tickets to individual shows are $20 in advance and $25 the day of the show. Show times are 8 p.m.
Tickets are available by calling the Joy box office at 704-730-9408 or visiting TicketsNC.com. For more information, call Dancy at 704-472-7762.
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Called �One of Music Row�s greatest veteran tunesmiths� by Billboard Magazine, Salley � the 2003 Country Music Songwriter of the Year � has had more than 340 songs recorded in his career. He�s written songs for Elton John, Loretta Lynn, the Oak Ridge Boys, Reba McEntire, Toby Keith and Brad Paisley, among others. As an artist, he�s performed as a soloist many times on the world famous Grand Ole Opry. Shaffer, a songwriter, singer and band leader, has written songs for Cold Ford, Bradley Walker and Rhonda Vincent. She also wrote two chart-topping songs for Darin & Brooke Aldridge.
June 22
For more than three decades, Robin and Linda Williams have performed �a robust blend of bluegrass, folk, old-time and acoustic country that combines wryly observant lyrics with a wide-ranging melodicism.� Artists who have covered their songs include Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Kathy Mattea. Linda is an Alabama native and Robin, the son of a Presbyterian minister, was born in Charlotte. In 1975, they first appeared on the �A Prairie Home Companion� radio show. In the 1980s they teamed with Garrison Keillor and Kate MacKenzie to form The Hopeful Gospel Quartet.
Aug. 17
The Tony Award-winning Red Clay Ramblers are a North Carolina band with a repertoire reflecting old-time mountain music, bluegrass, country, rock, New Orleans jazz, gospel and the American musical. They have been frequent guests on Garrison Keillor�s �A Prairie Home Companion� and developed �Kudzu: A Southern Musical� in collaboration with Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Doug Marlette. �The house band of North Carolina� has also performed with Grammy-winner Shawn Colvin (a former Rambler), Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys and Randy Newman.
Oct. 19
Four-time Grammy winner David Holt is a musician and storyteller dedicated to performing and preserving traditional American music and stories. He hosts public television�s �Folkways,� a North Carolina program that takes the viewer through the Southern Mountains visiting traditional craftsmen and musicians, and Public Radio International�s � Riverwalk Jazz,� which combines stories of the jazz greats with traditional jazz music. He was a frequent guest on � Hee Haw� and appeared in the film �O Brother Where Art Thou.� He will perform with multi-instrumentalist Josh Goforth .


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Guilty plea from Philly man accused of killing child with drain cleaner because he was crying
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia man has been sentenced to 17 1/2 to 35 years in prison for killing a toddler he was babysitting by rubbing drain cleaner on him.
Thirty-six-year-old Aaron Pace pleaded guilty Wednesday to third-degree murder in the February 2010 death of 20-month-old Suliaman Kirkland.
Prosecutors say Pace sprinkled Drano crystals on a washcloth and rubbed it onto the child's skin because the boy was "fussing in the tub."
The toddler suffered severe burns and died in a hospital five days later.
Pace said he understood what he was doing by pleading guilty, though defense attorney Fred Goodman said his client's IQ was between 57 and 68.
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This is the time of year that almost everyone in the Midwest could use a little sunshine or some sort of mood-booster. Just in time, here's a documentary on the subject of happiness. The film features stories of happy people around the world and shares current research on the topic, including an interview with Ed Diener, a leading researcher on happiness studies and a professor at the University of Illinois here in Champaign-Urbana. The documentary, Happy, investigates how and what makes people happy all around the world. For example, did you know the government of Bhutan measures Gross National Happiness? It does!
The film itself is enjoyable to watch. It includes plenty of pleasant scenes, smiling people talking about their own joy, and information about current research in this field. An active viewer might even be inspired to take note of the tips on increasing his/her enjoyment! One of my favorite take-aways for contemplation is this: focus on intrinsic goals (personal growth, relationships, helping others) instead of extrinsic goals (money, image, status). Sure this advice may seem obvious to you, but with this 2013's new year's resolutions fresh in my mind I noticed that mine could use little revision in the name of happiness. Check out this short, enjoyable film from Urbana Free Library today. You'll learn about some fascinating scientific research and may even find something in your own life to smile about through the rest of these winter months.


text: Indulge in excitement, ultimate creation and grown-up costumes at the famous Fantasy Fest. Fantasy Fest is a 10-day street party held in Key West, Florida for those looking to get crazy and have fun. If you're eager to join in with thrilling costumes and enjoy yourself at this wild party, then look no further. We can supply you with brilliant costume pieces so you can concentrate on having the time of your life! Try seductive, cheeky adult costumes which will show off a lot of skin free to be covered with bright body paint. Or go for a novelty costume filled with the American flag, warrior and fantasy aspects to really embrace the crazy spirit of Fantasy Fest. We have an array of full costumes and little accessories to finish off wild looks you're planning to display at this fantastic fest. Whatever your plans for this amazing event, make sure that your costume reflects your creativity and how hard you intend to party.


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WE HAVE WINNERS! The Best of GateHouse 2007 Newspapers of the Year winners have been named. Follow this link to see the winners and the runners-up: http://www.ghnewsroom.com/news.php?newsid=1206319475 GHNS NATIONAL BUDGET FOR 3.25 editions PASSWORDS: If you don't have a username/password to get on to the GHNS site or you filled out the form and haven't received your information, please e-mail Michael at firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com. (Jean is on vacation.) NOTE: If the links in this budget don't work, try to copy and paste the link into your browser. Contacts Michael Toeset, 630-835-8870, firstname.lastname@example.com Katie Bartholomew Anderson (night), 630-956-2598, email@example.com Here are the top national stories coming today from GateHouse News Service. Stories are available at http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/homepage. Please submit stories below no later than 6 p.m. local time, unless you have breaking news that is changing significantly. LIFESTYLES/Health, Entertainment HEALTH PAGE: http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/health/x79612116 HEALTH VIDEO: http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/health/x1564565877 HEALTH WATCH: Weekly health rail, with items on a diabetes risk test, the damage nail-biting can have on your teeth and more. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/health/x325165463 MUSIC MATTERS: Mozart's 'Requiem, a masterpiece by committee. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/entertainment/music/x1056535435 ROB MONTANA: Where have you gone, Eric Clapton? http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/columnists/x1279454372 OPINIONS BRITT CARTOON: On Team Clinton being upset at not getting an endorsement from New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, the nation's only Hispanic governor. Will be posted this afternoon / Cartoons JEFF VRABEL: It's not easy being nerdy. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/columnists/jeff_vrabel/x1056535820 EDITORIAL: 4,000 DEATHS: Iraq returns to the headlines - and to the minds of American voters - when the toll of U.S. deaths hits a round number: 4,000. MetroWest, 6 p.m. / Editorials EDITORIAL: IRAQ WAR: What, there's a war in Iraq? Apparently there is, and we just marked its fifth anniversary this past week. Perhaps the Bush administration's greatest accomplishment is getting the economy to tank so that Iraq could be knocked off the nation's front pages. Peoria Journal Star. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/regional_news/midwest/illinois/opinions/x1564566074 PAM ADAMS: Playing hatred against hatred is a losing game. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/columnists/x125177561 DAN HALL: Why Obama did not disown the Rev. Wright. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/columnists/x1670185123 MARC MUNROE DION: No one wants to talk about race. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/columnists/x79612817 DANNY HENLEY: Is it true that cheaters never prosper? http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/columnists/x1056535762 ALLISON COOPER: March 13, 2008, was the 102nd anniversary of Susan B. Anthony's death. Coincidentally, it was the same day that television pundits like James Carville and Robert Shapiro joined the sea of voices, including former madams, on television to discuss Eliot Spitzer and the outed "Kristen," the woman he allegedly paid to have sex with him in a Washington hotel room. We've sure come a long way, baby. Wait a minute — scratch that. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/columnists/x325164861 ANNE PALUMBO: Ruminations — and illuminations — on men. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/columnists/x899758043 SPORTS JANE MILLER: An early Easter break in the Sprint Cup season is as good a time as any to assess what has gone on in the first five races. The obvious top topic is the lack of victories by Hendrick Motorsports. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/regional_news/midwest/illinois/sports/x1681295532 TRESSEL FEATURE: Jim Tressel hasn't changed even as his jobs have gotten bigger. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/sports/x1012431018 LEBRON: King James makes history in Cleveland. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/sports/x1670184784 TROUT VIDEO: Crew samples trout before fishing season begins. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/sports/outdoors/x325164962 NEWS/BUSINESS TRAVELING KITTY: Cat that trekked from Colorado to Illinois catches flight back home. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/news/x1056535420 NUDE FLAP: Student newspaper pulled over nude photo. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/news/x1056535409


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BOSTON (Reuters) - A Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) attorney argued on Tuesday that the bank cannot be liable for the losses of a husband and wife pair who sold their company to a Belgian software firm that collapsed in an accounting fraud, since Goldman had not been hired to seek out a fraud.
The Wall Street giant is facing off in U.S. District Court in Boston against the founders of speech-recognition software company Dragon Systems, who contend they lost their life's work and about $600 million after selling their company to Lernout & Hauspie in an all-stock deal months before L&H collapsed.
"There is no question that Dragon and its stockholders were also defrauded," said John Donovan, an attorney with Boston law firm Ropes & Gray, in his opening remarks defending Goldman in the civil suit. "Goldman's job was not to detect fraud. When you hire a banker, you ask it to do certain things but delving into the books, doing accounting and finding fraud is not one of them."
A day earlier, the attorney for Janet and James Baker, who founded Dragon in 1982 in their suburban Boston home with $30,000, had argued that the couple relied on Goldman's advice in agreeing to sell their firm.
The Bakers owned 51 percent of the company but only were able to sell a few million dollars worth of L&H stock before the company collapsed in an accounting fraud. The Bakers and two other early Dragon employees are seeking several hundred million dollars in damages.
Goldman's reputation has been tarnished in recent years amid allegations that it has treated clients shabbily. Earlier this year one executive leaving the bank published a resignation letter calling the bank a "toxic" place where managing directors referred to their clients as "muppets."
In the months leading up to Dragon's decision to sell to L&H, Dragon management and owners were under intense financial pressure, facing falling sales and a cash crunch, Donovan said.
He said that Goldman had urged Dragon's board to slow the pace of negotiations with L&H and to commission more active accounting reviews of the buyer's results. Instead, Dragon management pushed aggressively ahead, with Janet Baker and a counterpart at their suitor writing out a deal on a piece of paper that changed L&H's offer from cash and stock to all stock, Donovan said.
They pushed ahead with the deal because after a failed 1999 initial public offering, Dragon needed cash to continue, Donovan argued.
"If Goldman had told them to walk away, as they now say Goldman should have, they would have been left with tears in their eyes," he said.
Goldman denied civil claims that include gross negligence and breach of fiduciary duty. The jury trial is expected to last two months.
The Dragon software is now owned by Nuance Communications Inc (NUAN.O).
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Mike Tyson has a fasination with birds. The former world champion boxer has long kept a large collection of them as pets at lofts in Brooklyn and New Jersey and has said that the first time he ever threw a punch was after a bully killed one of his birds when he was a child. And now Kid Dynamite is going to bring his avian passion to the airways in a new reality show, reports the New York Daily News.
In the new Animal Planet series, "Taking on Tyson," the pugalist will take viewers into the world of competetive pigeon racing, an outlet that he turned to in some of his darker moments.
In an interview with the News, his manager Mario Costa said that when Tyson was broke, he would spend a lot of time just sitting with the birds on the roof.
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"All he had was the birds," he said. "And he'd tell me, 'I'm rich.'"
But Tyson wants people to know that these aren't your ordinary, garden variety pigeons. At a recent appearance before critics in Los Angeles, he made sure to point out that the birds he plans to race are "the creme de la creme" and that his fine-feathered friends have "only the best bloodlines."
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Dealing with the aftermath of the American Civil War, especially the topic of memory, a student of the conflict inevitably encounters the myth of the faithful slave. Slaves that allegedly stood by their owners on the battlefield or plantation, serving the Confederate cause with as much dedication as the white people around them.
Like all effective myths, the faithful slave in the Civil War contains a kernel of truth. No responsible scholar denies that some slaves existed who exhibited loyalty to their owners and by extension to the Confederacy. The cottage industry on the web that has created out of thin air multitudes of black Confederate soldiers is merely the latest variation of this myth. The irony being that neo-Confederates assign their faithful African Americans a more active role than did the Confederates of old–armed soldiers. This change is a backhanded testament to the advances of black Americans since World War II that has made implausible giving them any lesser role in the myth.
But then again no responsible scholar would assert that loyalty toward slaveholders and the Confederate cause was the main sentiment among African Americans in the South during the Civil War. When given a chance to act freely on their own sentiments, slaves mostly commonly went against their owners and the Confederacy. Whether it be running away to Union lines, assisting escaped Yankee POWs, joining the Union army, or simply malingering in the fields many ways existed for slaves to show how they really felt about their own owners and the Confederacy.
After the Civil War, white Southern propagandists pretended most blacks had not acted so and made much of the so-called faithful slave. One of the interesting things of researching this blog has been seeing this myth of the faithful slave taking shape in the early days of the war. Certainly, slaveholders and white Southerners in general were of two minds about African Americans at that moment in time. As this blog and scholars like Justin Behrend have so recently reminded us, there existed a strong undercurrent of fear in the white South concerning slaves early in the war that sometimes boiled over into repressive violence. Still, there also were white Southerners that believed if guided properly slaves could become Confederate patriots. And as shown in an earlier edition of Civil War Emancipation it was even argued that under the right circumstances slaves were fit for armed service in the Confederate army. Given the stories of slaves fighting for the Confederacy at First Bull Run, it is possible that certain slaveholders actually acted on this conceit.
The myth of the faithful slave also made its way into the southern press early in the Civil War. A good example comes from Richmond's Daily Dispatch, which as was common at the time reprinted interesting stories from other newspapers. On October 24, 1861, it reprinted a short item from a Louisiana newspaper, the West Baton Rouge Sugar Planter, which had appeared there October 7 under the title, "Lo! The Poor Slave." It read:
One of the committee appointed to collect the blankets, &c., in this parish, for the volunteers, says that in his tour he received several from slaves, and that, too, without hesitation or without being asked, the new blankets given them by their masters for winter use. Are not such donations more patriotic than those of the richest white men? As soon as this fact became known, the '"poor, down-trodden slaves"' were doubly compensated for their temporary deprivation.
So in the early in the Civil War, even as slaves started fleeing to Union lines in the hope of gaining their freedom, some white Southerners began to try to convince themselves black Southerners were on their side. Future events would prove this usually was not the case, but the myth of the faithful slave persisted and blossomed in Confederate memory after the war and has re-blossomed more recently in neo-Confederate memory. Such is the utility of myths.
Source: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2006.05.0305%3Aarticle%3Dpos%3D57.


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Fire in Russian psychiatric hospital kills all 38 people inside, including 2 medical workers
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The Russian state news agency RIA Novosti cites police as saying it was caused by a short circuit.
The fire broke out in the early hours of Friday in the one-story hospital in the town of Ramenye.
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Nouns or nominatives of address are the persons or things to which you are speaking. They are set off from the rest of the sentence by a comma or commas, may have modifiers, and are not related to the rest of the sentence grammatically. You can remove them and a complete sentence remains. They may be first, last or in the middle of the sentence. Examples: John, where are you going? Where are you going, John? Where, John, are you going?
Because I use diagramming to teach in the classroom and can't on the internet, I will be asking you to find various parts of the sentence for the repetition. The repetition should help you remember the parts of the sentence.
Instructions: Find the verbs, subjects, predicate nominatives, direct objects, and nouns of address in these sentences and tell whether the verb is transitive active (ta), transitive passive (tp), intransitive linking (il), or intransitive complete (ic).
1. General, your men are loyal soldiers and brave fighters.
2. There is no need for alarm, students.
3. Will he give the instructions again, Miss Jones?
4. Men and women, we must meet our goals to be successful.
5. Becky, the guests have already arrived.
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1. are = verb (il), men = subject, soldiers/fighters = predicate nominatives, general = noun of address
2. is = verb (ic), need = subject, students = noun of address
3. will give = verb (ta), he = subject, instructions = direct object, Miss Jones = noun of address
4. must meet = verb (ta), we = subject, goals = direct object, Men/women = nouns of address
5. have arrived = verb (ic), guests = subject, Becky = noun of address
For your convenience, all of our lessons are available on our website in our lesson archive at http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.html.


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The Waller News (Waller, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, May 6, 1927
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Date: May 6, 1927
Creator: Adams, S. W.
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zione necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 68 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
zione is a 6 years old mexican company that develop web applications for sports areas as soccer, baseball, football, basketball... Whit this logo project we are looking for an image that shows and make feel to our customers be part of something named zioners.
zioners is planned to be a private community for our current customers, and also will be the main image for the clients and customers annual event .
our principal practice area are sports, academies and arts.
Our market for this logo project is our current clients and customers. They are the owners of business and also some of them (mayor of them) are the people who operates the product (application) we develop.
zione is the company name, and the logo must to makes feel part of zione, just being clients or customers. We create the name zioners to group them.
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Proposed Resolutions for Financial Transition Draft V.1
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- Publicado el Viernes, 20 Marzo 2020 07:02
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Proposed Resolutions for Financial Transition Draft V.1
Money Systems Transparency Alliance (MSTA)
Editors: Marc Gauvin (mg), Mark Heffernan (mkh), Jordan Soreff (sg)
January 2020 rev.2.3 Feb 26 2020 rev.2.4 April 11 2020
More than ever the thing we call money is currently itself being questioned unprecedentedly. The time has come for money to be objectively specified in a fair and transparent scientific fashion without disrupting our day to day ability to operate nor sacrificing our core rights and freedoms. To this end, we propose these simple Resolutions that can be briefly summarised by recognising the need for money to be properly specified and how in the interim we can render our current use of money "passive" in the formal scientific sense of the term. Passivity will ensure our uninterrupted day to day use of money as a valid record of what each of us do and achieve in the economy without itself being the ultimate distorting goal that it is today. Just as the scoreboard of a sports event "passively" and accurately reflects the play without determining how people behave to achieve their "goals", so too ensuring that our money system fulfils the formal requirements of "passivity" it can serve to provide all of us valuable information, without itself or its systemics interfering with what we choose to do or how we choose to do it.
Misrepresentation of Money:
Absent any formal definition of money and respective symbols (e.g. "$") used in a wide array of contexts (e.g. dollar bills, checks and account entries) on similarly varied set of physical supports (e.g. paper, computer memory) and as an object of different contracts (e.g. mortgages, loans, derivatives, etc.), we are unable to identify any determinate relation between money denoted by such symbols and the value inherent in public or private goods and services money is expected to represent. As a consequence, obligations, agreements or contracts in terms of such "$" units are commensurately indeterminable such that a logical, fully reasoned and hence just rule of law is impeded. Just as any mathematical expression is rendered indeterminate if its variables are not fully and unequivocally defined in terms of the reality in which they are to be applied, so too mathematical expressions in terms of units of money are rendered indeterminate, unless those units are unequivocally defined in terms of our common reality to which they are expected to be applied.
Common practice has adopted a notion of money where it is implicitly and explicitly assumed to be both a record/measure of value AND a commodity/tradable good without noticing how these two notions (measure/commodity) are, by logic, mutually exclusive. Such a logical misrepresentation, once identified and by the most fundamental principles of law and justice, must render any contracts in terms of such a notion invalid. To continue business as usual in spite of this revelation is to arbitrarily subject one or other parties directly or indirectly to unknown, incalculable and/or undeclared consequences and imperatives.
As a consequence of the mere knowledge of this common misrepresentation, again by principles of law, it also becomes incumbent on all parties to contracts involving "money" to seek remedy by proactively assisting in providing a logical and independently evaluable (valid) definition of money for contracts.
Resolution 1 (Correction of Money's Misrepresentation by Legal Imperative)
We thus seek, as set out by the Money Systems Transparency Alliance (MSTA), to immediately set out to pursue and assist all technical and legal avenues to resolve the aforementioned logical anomaly, and to do so in relation with the highest monetary authorities i.e. Central Banks, leading banking and investment houses and related stake holders, by way of the necessary open ratification and publication of a valid formal logical definition/specification of money, its function, scope of use and corresponding logical requirements. This formal logical definition/specification of money shall be done in terms of independently determinable criteria. For example, money's definition cannot be circular (i.e. in terms of itself, also known as "false confirmation") but rather must be in terms of the reality in which it, money, is to be operated on and applied.
Resolution 2 (Immediate (Interim) Imposition of Formal Passivity):
Pursuant to the above and with the aim of eliminating all and any direct or associated adverse effects and consequences arising from implementing money under its commonly assumed current misrepresentation, we move to IMMEDIATELY adopt an interim logical "Passive" specification of money's current use in the formal scientific sense of the term as follows:
- That money's logical function shall be strictly limited to that of record/annotation the "value" attributed to goods and services transferred between parties in transactions and denominated using the common unit symbol "$".
- Thus money shall be created on account to represent value given in the form of "goods and services" pending future reciprocation of "goods and services" of commensurate value and money shall be cancelled on account upon value being reciprocated.
- Related Balances of such "moneys" shall be kept by all stakeholders (e.g. Central Bank, associated banking or credit institutions, public administrators and interested parties etc.) along with periodic issuance of statements as required.
- In order to maintain a system of any number of such transactions "passive" according to the formal requirements of passivity the following shall be observed:
- Money is defined as an annotation of value expressed in currency units (e.g. $) and only comes about as a result of transactions after the fact.
- There is no prior circulation, supply or demand of units required.
- Each transaction generates its own independent units that are later resolved against existing balances (see creation and cancellation of money above).
- The sum of money in a system of any number of such transactions at any given point of time, represents all non reciprocated value (risk measured in currency units) and at all times is equal or less than the sum of input "cost"/"prices", thus conforming to Passive BIBO criteria for sampled LTI Systems.
- Value transacted may never be unilaterally determined.
- To avoid systemic distortion of the common perception of value by systemic compounding, the cost/price of all associated money (banking) services (e.g. maintaining of accounts, risk consultancy, etc.) must be attributed solely in terms of their own value and never as a percentage commission of the sums of value attributed to other transactions.
money's misrepresentation and food
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- Publicado el Miércoles, 27 Diciembre 2017 13:40
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Money's Misrepresentation and what we eat
By Marc Gauvin
Yeah, all those bacteria that feed off us and try to kill us just to consume us. All those carnivores and omnivores that just see us as food. Is this world immoral? What if morality is just a matrix/story?
When humanity was at its height in terms of health and physical strength we were hunter gatherers, 30% of our diet was animal protein much of it stolen from other predators' kills particularly the valuable organ meats with far greater nutrient value than flesh and far more portable. When we "graduated" to an agrarian lifestyles it is reported that we lost physical health, brain mass and strength.
The American indigenous people saw killing for food as part of the cycle of life and death all beings are condemned to. The Buddhist's leave their corpses to be consumed by scavengers to "give back" to the system of life not humanity alone.
Are we doing a favour to animals when we hunt them for food when they are on the verge of losing their prime vitality, before succumbing to the decrepitude and crippling disability of old age?
What of the farmer who cares and protects the animals he feeds off and allows them to realise their full life cycle at the price of sacrificing it or its progeny in far less painful and terrifying fashion than would a predator?
Domestic cats play with their prey while wild cats aim to suffocate them before the anaesthesia of adrenaline wears off, is that moral or immoral?
The Spanish bull fighters justify their "art" because of the fantastic lives that the majority of the herds experience in a free range existence across massive territories where whole ecosystems are preserved only "economically viable" thanks to the income the Bull fighting festival produces.
It all boils down to pain and sufferance management that celebrates life while accepting and mitigating its ultimate conclusion - death. In this light, it is evident that "industrial" farming is a crime against nature because it does not just rob living beings of their bodies but also robs them of their entire lives and purpose, in a foolish quest to short change the very system that gives all beings life. Such an abhorrent manifestation is the fruit of the attempt to sell the promise of an impossible and illusory permanence and status of "life" to the mind's and souls of people governed by money's misrepresentation while ignoring the very essence of life, death and our true nature.
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Materialism vs Idealism
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- Publicado el Domingo, 03 Abril 2016 11:23
- Escrito por Super User
Materialism vs Idealism
By Marc Gauvin
Copyright ⓒ April 3 2016
Basically, the above video "Sim Theory We May Be In The Matrix" questions the premise labelled as "materialism" that there exists a fundamental nature of "physical matter" that is what determines everything in our universe including consciousness. This premise is contrasted with "idealism" that postulates the existence of an intelligent realm of "ideas" that is what defines our "material reality" and that does not depend on it for it to exist. Hence and from the perspective of our material universe, such a realm appears as the "immaterial" source of "everything". This latter view, is what is referred to as the "sim theory" referring to our reality being the work of some realm external or at least independent to our material world.
The strongest scientific evidence referenced for the idealist point of view over the materialist view, consists of:
1) The double slit experiment and subsequent variations of it, where it is conclusively proven that rather than behaviour of "matter" being a function of its properties e.g. particle or wave, behaviour of matter is determined by a set of rules only relevant to consciousness. That is, if there is no conscious perception, then matter and its behaviour remains indeterminable within a probability distribution, while the moment consciousness "perceives" or becomes aware of matter, then matter displays a concrete behaviour within a predetermined range of rules of behaviour.
2) The fact that, certain phenomenon that has also been shown to exist experimentally, such as entanglement, cannot be explained without resorting to the sim theory. Specifically, two entangled particles separated by any distance no matter how far, can only synchronise if and only if what governs them is independent of time and space i.e. a simulator that although is responsible for generating the simulation (our reality), has no need for its existence to also be of what it simulates. Also such it is equidistant to any two points in the system no matter how distant these are between themselves.
These are truly compelling arguments that seem to prove that our universe is governed first and foremost by a rule set that defines matter rather than any independent nature of matter itself. The medium or common denominator between our "creator" and our "physical" universe, appears to be consciousness also stored outside of our "simulated" universe. This idea in part is what prompted contemplating "The Wrath of Certain Eternity Rev. 2 (matter, consciousness and eternity)".
Gauvin Publications
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- Publicado el Viernes, 31 Marzo 2017 20:04
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Publications (Marc Gauvin):
www.bibocurrency.com 2009-2015
Background Foundation
- Fundamentals of Stability/Passivity
- Passive BIBO Currency Distinguishing Claims
- The Why of Money
- The Importance of Stability Analysis to All Money Systems
- Semantic Web , IP Rights, The Logic of Money and The Law
- The "Reality is not Linear" Fallacy
- Implementation Agnostic Problem Statement For Money and Money Systems
- Systematic Ego vs True Commonality
- Formal Stability Analysis of Common Lending Practices
Defining Money
- (Formal Semantic Analysis)
- The Money PSYOP (English and Spanish)
- BIBOCURRENCY The Science of Stability Applied to Money Systems
- BIBOCURRENCY La Ciencia de la Estabilidad Aplicada a los Sistemas de Dinero
- 2015 UNWE Monetary Research Center Conference Submission:
"A proposal for harmonising current disparate (scientific and legal) definitions of money …"
- The Money Action-Problem-Solution Fallacy
- Money, Measure or Commodity Not Both
- Money Does Not Circulate
- Money vs Credit
- Unveiling Money's 'Magic Potion'
- The Austerity Fallacy
- A Legal Approach To Cancelling All Current Money Contracts
Miscellaneous Articles
- The ECB Trojan Horse
- Silly Con Men Afraid of Sillycon Billionaires
- Starbucks in a Mutual Credit World
- Inflation? Deflation?
- Greek Debt Crisis Solved
- Bitcoin Another Conventional Currency
- Central Bank Control, Reality or Chimera?
- Unveiling Money's 'Magic Potion'
- MECAS Politics and Movements
- Age Of Intellectualoids & Dogmegagoguery
- Madness Only Begets More Madness
- Our Collective Death Wish
- Millions of Anonymous Whistle Blowers Or Just a Few Famous Dead Ones?
- CNN's Brett Scott Confused About Money and Utopia
- A Response to Mattslat's "What happens after the crypto-revolution?"
- Reality vs Past False Promises
- Hoodwinked by Polar Bear Egg Farmers
- The Wrath of Certain Eternity Rev. 2 (matter, consciousness and eternity)
- Materialism vs Idealism
- Answering Paul Grignon
- Questions That Need To Be Answered
- If only…
- The Perils of Disproportionate Loveless Commitment
- The Subtle Art of Censure by Stealth
- Bank of England Economists Evidence Absurdity of Modern Money
- Why Debunking Coercive Money is Imperative
- Bamboozlers by Bamboozlement
- The Alchemy of False Economics
- A Wake-up Call To Everyone
- The How Is In The Why
- Independence of Debt from Measure of Value
- Money "Measure" vs Money "Property"
- A Stable Economic Value Representation for All Agents and All Transactions (Submitted to the FLOK Society Ecuador Research Project)
- It's The Money Stupid (ITMS)
- Semantic Web , IP Rights, The Logic of Money and The Law
- True Wishes for 2014
- The "Reality is not Linear" Fallacy
- Accounts Without Circulating Objects
- More on the "Money Circulates" Fallacy
- Money stability vs Economic stability
- Critique of Lietaer's Thesis
- Inflation is not too Much Money
- More on the Money PSYOP "Store" vs "Record"
- BITCOIN Issues
- BITCOIN in Light of Passive BIBO Currency
- The Burden of Anti-truth
- Passive BIBO Terminology
- Protocols of Sane Economic Exchange
- El Caballo de Troya del BCE
- La falacia de la austeridad
- Solución a la crisis de deuda griega
- La 'poción mágica' del dinero
- Movimientos y Políticas MECAS
- Se acerca el gran saqueo
- 'Podemos' ¿Dogmegagogía o opción genuina?
- La ciencia del dinero es tan fácil como respirar
- Importancia de la ciencia de estabilidad para sistemas de dinero
- Enfoque legal para la cancelación de los contratos de dinero vigentes
- Banco de Inglaterra Provee Testimonio Clave Para Derrumbar los Contratos Financieros Modernos
- Dinero: Bien o medida pero no los dos
- El sutil arte de la censura
- Presentación al Proyecto de Investigación de la Sociedad FLOK Ecuador: "Tres pasos hacia la representacion del valor económico estable para todo agente y transacción "
- Afirmaciones Divisa BIBO Pasiva
- La Falacia Acción-Problema-Solución Del Dinero
- El Dinero no Circula
Digital Media Value Chains and Ontology (2004-2010)
– Marc Gauvin (sDae), Jaime Delgado (UPF), Roberto Garcia (UPF), Eva Rodriguez (UPF) ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 Issues Regarding the Practical Implementation of the RDD April 2005, Busan, KR
– Marc Gauvin (sDae), Roberto García (DMAG-UPF), Jaime Delgado (DMAG-UPF), Eva Rodríguez (DMAG-UPF), Report Preliminary Results of RDD Core Experiment CE for Expressing "Work"ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG2005/ M12511 October 2005, Nice, FR
– Marc Gauvin, Oil Depletion, Energy Waste, Debt and Capital Production, Association for the Study of Peak Oil Newsletter, June 2005
– Marc Gauvin, Jaime Delgado. Value Chain Ontologies for Intellectual Property Management September 2006. Europe-China Conference on Intellectual Property in Digital Media October 2006
– Marc Gauvin. Interoperable DRM & Content Business Modeling. Europe-China Conference on Intellectual Property in Digital Media October 2006
– Marc Gauvin BIBOCURRENCY. The Science of Stability Applied to Money Systems February 17, 2011 (Self published book online at: http://www.bibocurrency.com/index.php/downloads/downloads (english). Spanish translation:
– Víctor Rodríguez (DMAG-UPC), Jaime Delgado (DMAG-UPC), Marc Gauvin (SDAE) ISO/IEC 21000-10 Media Value Chain Ontology Reference Software Requirements April 2010
– Marc Gauvin, Jaime Delgado, Víctor Rodríguez Doncel, and Miran Choi (editors). First Draft International Standard of ISO/IEC 21000-19 Media Value Chain Ontology. Technical report, Output document N11146 in tI amO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, Moving Picture Experts Group, January 2010.
– Marc Gauvin, Jaime Delgado, Víctor Rodríguez , and Miran Choi (editors). Final Committee Draft of ISO/IEC 21000-19Media Value Chain Ontology. Technical report, Output document N10768 in tI amO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, Moving Picture Experts Group, July 2009.
– Sergio Dominguez and Marc Gauvin. Formal Stability Analysis of Common Lending Practices and Consequences of Chronic Currency Devaluation May 2009 (http://www.bibocurrency.com/images/pdfdownloads/Formal%20Stability%20Analysis%20and%20experiment%20(final)%20rev%203.4.pdf )
– Víctor Torres, Jaime Delgado, Xavier Maroñas, Silvia Llorente, Marc Gauvin: Enhancing Rights Management Systems through the Development of Trusted Value Networks. WOSIS 2009: 26-35 May 2009
– Marc Gauvin, Jaime Delgado, Víctor Rodríguez Doncel, and Miran Choi (editors). Final Committee Draft of ISO/IEC 21000-19 Media Value Chain Ontology. Technical report, Output document N10455 in tI amO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, Moving Picture Experts Group, February 2009.
– Marc Gauvin, Jaime Delgado, Víctor Rodríguez Doncel, and Miran Choi (editors). Committee Draft of ISO/IEC 21000-19 Media Value Chain Ontology. Technical report, Output document N10264
in tI amO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, Moving Picture Experts Group, October 2008.
– Marc Gauvin, Jaime Delgado, Víctor Rodríguez Doncel, and Miran Choi (editors). Working Draft of ISO/IEC 21000-19 Media Value Chain Ontology. Technical report, Output document N10070 in the
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, Moving Picture Experts Group, July 2008.
– Marc Gauvin, Jaime Delgado, and Victor Rodriguez. Ontology for IP Media Networks: A response to the MVCO CfP. Input document M15631 for tI amO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, July 2008.
– Marc Gauvin, Challenges for IP Management as Represented & Communicated Digitally. Submission to WIPO "Foro sobre derechos de autor, industrias creativas y políticas públicas"Mexico City August 2007
– Marc Gauvin, Jaime Delgado, Eva Rodríguez, and Víctor Rodríguez Doncel. Requirements for a machine readable rights ontology.Technical report, Input document M14707 for ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, Moving Picture Experts Group, July 2007.
– Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel, Marc Gauvin, Jaime Delgado: An Ontology for the Expression of Intellectual Property Entities and Relations. WOSIS 2007: 196-203 June 2007.
– Marc Gauvin, Jaime Delgado, and Victor Rodriguez. Proposed RRD Text for Approved Document No 3 – Technical Specification: Interoperable DRM Platform, ver. 2.1. Technical report, The Digital Media Project, March 2007.
– Marc Gauvin and Victor Rodriguez. Proposed RRD Requirements.Technical report, The Digital Media Project, January 2007.
– Víctor Rodríguez, Marc Gauvin, and Jaime Delgado. An ontology for the expression of intellectual property entities and relations. In 5th International Workshop on Security in Information Systems (WOSIS), June 2007.
– Marc Gauvin, Jaime Delgado, Víctor Rodríguez, and Eva Rodríguez. OWL Ontology to Represent the DMP Creation Model. Technical report, The Digital Media Project, October 2006.
– Marc Gauvin and Jaime Delgado. Value Chain Ontologies for Intellectual Property Objects. Europe-China Conference on Intellectual Property in Digital Media October October 2006
– Marc Gauvin, Eva Rodríguez (DMAG-UPF), Jaime Delgado (DMAG-UPF) MPEG 21 RDD spec vs MPEG 21 RDD versus 21000-1 (2nd edition) terms and definitions. Input document m11556 ISO/IEC/SC29/WG11. Hong Kong January 2005.
– Marc Gauvin (sDae, Spain), Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay (Medialive, France) The Notion of Underlying Work within MPEG-21, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 input document M10616 Munich, April 2004
Central Bank Control, Reality or Chimera?
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Central Bank Control, Reality or Chimera?
By Marc Gauvin (c) 3/1/2015
Reproduction expressly granted provided attribution and original link are given.
"...It is like insisting on building buses out of ice and then inventing a pseudo science based on ignoring that ice melts..."
A friend wrote: "My understanding has been, for decades, that fiat is created as a ledger entry with a debt (obligation to repay) securing it as collateral..."
The ledger entry is secured by collateral e.g. your house, business, shares, future earnings (in some cases), deposits, etc.. So it is not "created out of thin air" but rather it is created on the bases of a notion of prior value, the Bank of England explains it well here in "Money Creation in the Modern economy"
Thus, the problem is not the money creation model, i.e. where money is a measure of assets transacted that already exist, which is correct. The problem is the conceptual framework where:
1) Money is considered itself as an asset or collateral on par with real goods and services.
2) Money is made more or less scarce by central control of creation.
Now, 2) above is required in order to make 1) appear to be true when otherwise it would be false. But point 1) above, breaks the direct lien between real material wealth and its valuation in terms of a common unit. Also, by making money scarce (point 2)), the door is opened to making the unit value increase as an unbounded mathematical function by increasing scarcity of money. This leads to rationalising charging for access to value representation (money) which then introduces equally unbounded devaluation. Thus, by introducing the false premises 1) and 2), money is made unstable as both unit value increase and devaluation subsequently destabilise society and the economy, because both being unbounded in nature, actions exogenous to the money system proper are required to counter act and compensate.
This, in a completely circular fashion, creates a requirement for control that otherwise would not be. But, if money is itself unstable, it cannot itself be used to control, which is why Central Bank Control is a fallacy. But more alarming, is the fact that since money control is an underlying cause of instability it cannot 'control' anything, leading to governments desperately attempting to control the economy through manipulating human behaviour, but no amount of such manipulation is sufficient if the the source of instability through money is not addressed first!
Since the political class and economics as it is taught today, have no clue about control and stability science it remains unaware of the fact that controlling human activity will not resolve the instability caused by money control and that is why, they relentlessly continue to propose the manipulation of human activity to greater and greater extremes but ultimately to no avail.
What is worse, is that without knowing it, the control and restrictions applied on humans disable adaptability to a changing natural environment. This creates a vicious cycle of increased suppression and abuse, without ever addressing the root instability of money. Meanwhile, the banking sector benefits on the short term, by keeping the political class convinced that their false 'control' is more and more essential to society when in reality it is a massive and deadly chimera.
Endogenous vs Exogenous Value Accounting
It is very important that people realise the difference between tokens as tradable value and tokens as value accounting, these two notions are often confused but can be proven to be separate following this simple logical proof. The intrinsic value of a token, cannot represent the value of other things, only its own value. Thus, when we account for value, we cannot consider the value of the token, that is whether we write a cheque for $100 on a piece of ordinary paper or on a more expensive paper, the value of the cheque remains still just $100. Thus, the value of intrinsically worthless tokens limits their function to accounting of exogenous value (value other than that of the tokens), while the value of valuable tokens can only represent their own endogenous value or risk forsaking it, thus limiting their function to that of barter exchange.
Tokens can be used as accounting only without the implication of intrinsic value. This useful for recording trade anonymously and for illiterate populations that are able to count.
The confusion between the exogenous and endogenous value of tokens is fundamental to The Money PSYOP because only by such confusion, can we be led to believe that a practically worthless support for annotating exogenous value possesses itself the value being annotated endogenously. More importantly, only through such confusion, can the true value being represented be arbitrarily devalued as a function of the market value of a worthless token.
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by Bill Sherwonit
Three of us stand atop a grassy, sand-dune bluff that rises along the western flanks of Anchorage, Alaska, our attention focused on the gray waters of Cook Inlet. Only a slight breeze moves across the land and adjacent seascape, which makes us doubly happy. First, because it's October and the air temperature hovers just above freezing, and second, because the inlet is only slightly rippled, making our job so much easier. We've come here to look for belugas, also known as "white whales" because adults are distinctively white to whitish-gray.
None of us is a beluga expert, but each is interested enough in the whales—and their well-being—that we're charter members of a citizen-science effort called the Anchorage Coastal Beluga Survey. The effort is the brainchild of Barbara Carlson, a long-time resident and driving force behind Friends of the Anchorage Coastal Wildlife Refuge (FAR). The state-managed refuge, consisting of tidal flats, marshes and boggy forest, stretches 16 miles along the city's coastline and is seasonally inhabited by more than 120 species of birds plus assorted fish and mammals, including the belugas that sometimes pass through refuge waters at high tide (and whose bodies occasionally wash up on shore).
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Carlson's concerns about the belugas' health inspired the citizen-survey program, with the goal of gathering data on the distribution and behavior of belugas along Anchorage's coast.
By the fall of 2008, she was ready to launch the volunteer effort, with help from several partners: Defenders of Wildlife, independent researcher Tamara McGuire and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Some two dozen people responded to the call. After a start-up orientation, volunteers were divided among three sites considered ideal for spotting belugas, including the bluff where I've joined team leader Erika McDonald and volunteer Pixie Siebe.
Our crew is one of the first to look for the smallish, northern white whales as they move through Upper Cook Inlet. We're also one of the first to record a sighting. Five minutes into our two-hour shift, McDonald looks up from her data sheets and shouts, "I think I might see a whale." Aiming my binoculars in the direction she is pointing, I quickly confirm the sighting: "Yep, no question it's a beluga." Not only is the whale white, it lacks a dorsal fin. And a brief glimpse of its mostly submerged head reveals a characteristically bulbous shape.
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With Siebe on the team's spotting scope and me squinting through binoculars, we begin to count individuals, note the presence of calves and determine the whales' color—calves and some adults are gray, not white—which is not an easy task with the sun gleaming on the water.
For the next hour, we watch the whales as they move steadily along the coast and out of sight. In the end, we all excitedly agree we saw at least 13 individuals, including two calves. Like most locals, we've seen belugas as they swim along the city's shores or through nearby Turnagain Arm. But to study them as part of an organized program that's intended to help federal managers is a special treat. And the timing of this citizen-science effort couldn't be better.
After years of studies and controversy, the federal government officially declared Cook Inlet's beluga whale population endangered in 2008. Though many thousands of belugas inhabit Alaska's coastal waters, Cook Inlet's are considered isolated and genetically distinct. A 1979 aerial survey estimated the inlet beluga population at 1,300, while anecdotal accounts suggest a few thousand may have resided here less than a century ago. But when NMFS began actively monitoring the whales in the mid-1990s, researchers found their numbers had dropped by half the 1979 count. And by 1998, the official estimate had fallen to 347 animals.
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Overharvesting by subsistence whalers was initially blamed for the decline in the mid-1990s. But numbers continued dropping even after the hunt ended, suggesting other unknown factors to be at play.
The 2008 count put the inlet's population at about 375 whales, suggesting a slight rebound. But the 2009 estimate of 321 belugas gave further evidence of a declining population. Federal managers and a broad array of conservation groups, including FAR and Defenders of Wildlife, believe this unique population remains at risk of extinction, unless special measures are taken to protect it.
One such measure happened last December, when NOAA proposed to designate 3,000 square miles of Cook Inlet as critical habitat. But even with that added layer of protection, researchers, managers and conservationists agree that much more needs to be learned about the whales' seasonal habits and distribution. And that's where the citizen survey comes into play.
"I truly believe that having on-the-ground, engaged citizens as part of the process is the way to go," says Defenders' Alaska regional director Karla Dutton. "We're making sure that our data-collection process is rigorous enough that federal agencies will use it. I'm hopeful that this scientific fact-gathering will contribute each year to the monitoring undertaken annually by the National Marine Fisheries Service, and that at the same time, it will make people more aware of the problem and what's needed to protect the whales."
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Scarfing down a big plate of spaghetti and meatballs isn't usually sexy, unless you happen to have a fetish for tomato sauce blotches.
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Here is an apron set that I donated for the silent auction at Denny's school carnival. Includes ruffle apron, potholder, microfiber kitchen towel set and recipe cards.
I'm posting this as a sneak preview for a tutorial I'm currently drafting for ya'll. I've had a lot of requests for instructions on making the ruffle apron, so while I was sewing this one, I took the needed tut pics. Stay tuned... it's set to launch next Tuesday!


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Rams Fall to William Paterson in PK's
William Paterson - 3, Farmingdale State - 3 (2 OT)
Paterson advances to Finals, 4-2 on Penalty Kick
Wayne, N.J. - Farmingdale State faced off with the 22nd ranked team in Division III, William Paterson, on Sunday afternoon in the ECAC Metro Semifinals, held in Wayne, N.J. The Rams held a 3-1 lead early in the second half, but Paterson came back to tie it at 3-3 and after two scoreless overtimes, the game was decided on penalty kicks.
William Paterson's Steve DeMatteo opened the scoring in the 25th minute to give Paterson the 1-0 lead, before Farmingdale's sophomore forward Ryan Paul (Sayville, N.Y./Sayville) knocked in a cross from junior defender Mat Arthurs (East Islip, N.Y./East Islip) to tie the game at one. Just four minutes later, freshman forward Ryan Standridge (Lindenhurst, N.Y./Lindenhurst) scored off his own rebound for the 2-1 Rams lead.
At the start of the second half, junior midfielder Frank Volante (Farmingdale, N.Y./Farmingdale) added another Farmingdale goal for a 3-1 advantage with 44 minutes left to play. The Rams held Paterson scoreless in the second until the 70th minute when Helder Andrade scored and with 24 seconds remaining in the game, Paterson's Joe Strawman tied the score at 3-3 in a scramble in front of the net.
The two overtime periods saw just seven combined shots between the teams, forcing penalty kicks to decide the winner and who would move on to the ECAC Finals.
Farmingdale senior midfielder Tom Mueller (Babylon, N.Y./Babylon) and Arthurs were succesful on the first two attempts, with the Rams holding the 2-1 edge in PK's. But Paterson stuck their final three attempts and Farmingdale missed two for the final 4-2 win by Paterson.
Junior goalkeeper Patrick Gubbins (East Patchogue, N.Y./Bellport) made nine saves in the loss for the Rams.


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book review, daughter of smoke and bone, Days of Blood and Stardust, five stars, Karou, Kim Falconer's book reviews, Laini Taylor, literature, reading, series, writing
Days of Blood and Starlight
by Laini Taylor
This is the second book in the series. It follows Daughter of Smoke and Bone. (my review here) I finished Days of Blood over a week ago but I had no clarity around how to comment on it, on my experience of reading it. Five stars, hands down, because Laini Taylor is a terrific writer, lyrical, potent and rich, so rich!
But . . .
I didn't 'enjoy' being in this book and on reflection I'm pretty sure I wasn't meant to. It's dark, in the level of self-loathing and despair. It seems that Karou, Hope, is a word deleted. There's no place for it in this world. Heart wrenching. Utterly. And cruel too.
It wasn't until I went back and reread 'Daughter' that I could feel connected to the characters again, and I realized that Taylor had warned us, right on page one of the first book.
Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It didn't end well . . .
We knew what we were getting into.
The story is about change and survival, and what happens to the heart when we lose too much. It's painfully sad, and hopeless, but after some time and distance from the book, I find a sense of hope rising again and this is the brilliance of the story. It reminds us of our ability to believe in the potential, at least, for something better, even when all signs point in another direction. Even when there is no reason to. I don't know if that was Taylor's intention, but it's brilliant none the less.
I'll read book three. I look forward to where it will takes us. I survived book two and really, how can it get any worse?
Has anyone else gotten into this series? I'd love to hear your thoughts.


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0 My unexpected miracle healing (part two): openness to God's way
Have you ever been offered a chance for healing and have resisted it? Why does that happen and what can we do about it? Susan shares in part two of her healing story how she overcame her resistance to find her lap very full of blessings.


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Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Donte' Stallworth sent a series of messages from his Twitter account to support gay rights and same sex marriage, as well as criticize anti-gay politicians.
Some of the messages that Stallworth sent to his 67,000 thousand followers:
Sad that people are ridiculed for their sexual orientation in this age... and leave religion out of this, God loves ALL!!! #hyporcrites
These politicians that use religion to deter gay marriage are same ones doing dirty under the table ish & war mongering #WheresYourReligion
Wanda Sykes: "If you don't believe in same sex marriage, don't marry the same sex." #EnoughSaid
Stallworth also tweeted his support to CNN's Don Lemon, who recently came out publicly this week. "Lots of courage you have my brother... Live your life the way it makes YOU happy! @donlemoncnn #GodBless."
Stallworth is the third member of the team to publicly come out for LGBT rights and marriage equality. Former Ravens safety Will Demps voiced his support in 2006 before he was traded to Houston. Since 2009, teammate Brendon Ayanbadejo has been a vocal ally for LGBT rights and marriage equlity.