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Part Second
The moving accident is not my trade.
To curl the blood I have no ready arts;
‘Tis my delight, alone in summer shade,
To pipe a simple song to thinking hearts.
As I from Hawes to Richmond did repair,
It chanc’d that I saw standing in a dell
Three aspens at three corners of a square,
And one, not four yards distant, near a well.
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What this imported I could ill divine,
And, pulling now the rein my horse to stop,
I saw three pillars standing in a line,
The last stone pillar on a dark hill-top.
The trees were grey, with neither arms nor head;
Half-wasted the square mound of tawny green;
So that you just might say, as then I said,
“Here in old time the hand of man has been.”
I look’d upon the hills both far and near;
More doleful place did never eye survey;
It seem’d as if the spring-time came not here,
And Nature here were willing to decay.
I stood in various thoughts and fancies lost,
When one who was in Shepherd’s garb attir’d,
Came up the hollow. Him did I accost,
And what this place might be I then inquir’d.
The Shepherd stopp’d, and that same story told
Which in my former rhyme I have rehears’d.
“A jolly place,” said he, “in times of old,
But something ails it now; the spot is curs’d.
“You see these lifeless stumps of aspen wood,
Some say that they are beeches, others elms,
These were the Bower; and here a Mansion stood,
The finest palace of a hundred realms.
“The arbour does its own condition tell,
You see the stones, the fountain, and the stream,
But as to the great Lodge, you might as well
Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.
“There’s neither dog nor heifer, horse nor sheep,
Will wet his lips within that cup of stone;
And, oftentimes, when all are fast asleep,
This water doth send forth a dolorous groan.
“Some say that here a murder has been done,
And blood cries out for blood: but, for my part,
I’ve guess’d, when I’ve been sitting in the sun,
That it was all for that unhappy Hart.
“What thoughts must through the creatures brain have pass’d!
To this place from the stone upon the steep
Are but three bounds, and look, Sir, at this last!
O Master! has been a cruel leap.
“For thirteen hours he ran a desperate race;
And in my simple mind we cannot tell
What cause the Hart might have to love this place,
And come and make his death-bed near the well.
“Here on the grass perhaps asleep he sank,
Lull’d by this fountain in the summer-tide;
This water was perhaps the first he drank
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When he had wander’d from his mother’s side.
“In April here beneath the scented thorn
He heard the birds their morning carols sing,
And he, perhaps, for aught we know, was born
Not half a furlong from that self-same spring.
“But now here’s neither grass nor pleasant shade;
The sun on drearier hollow never shone:
So will it be, as I have often said,
Till trees, and stones, and fountain all are gone.”
“Grey-headed Shepherd, thou hast spoken well;
Small difference lies between thy creed and mine;
This beast not unobserv’d by Nature fell,
His death was mourn’d by sympathy divine.
“The Being, that is in the clouds and air,
That is in the green leaves among the groves,
Maintains a deep and reverential care
For them the quiet creatures whom he loves.
“The Pleasure-house is dust:—behind, before,
This is no common waste, no common gloom;
But Nature, in due course of time, once more
Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom.
“She leaves these objects to a slow decay
That what we are, and have been, may be known;
But, at the coming of the milder day,
These monuments shall all be overgrown.
“One lesson, Shepherd, let us two divide,
Taught both by what she shows, and what conceals,
Never to blend our pleasure or our pride
With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.”
“The World is Too Much With Us”
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for every thing, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.—Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.
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Ode: Intimations of Immortality
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
I.
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore;—
Turn wheresoe’er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
II.
The rainbow comes and goes,
And lovely is the rose;
The moon doth with delight
Look round her when the heavens are bare;
Waters on a starry night
Are beautiful and fair;
The sunshine is a glorious birth;
But yet I know, where’er I go,
That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
III.
Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song,
And while the young lambs bound
As to the tabor’s sound,
To me alone there came a thought of grief:
A timely utterance gave that thought relief,
And I again am strong.
The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep;
No more shall grief of mine the season wrong;
I hear the echoes through the mountains throng;
The winds come to me from the fields of sleep,
And all the earth is gay;
Land and sea
Give themselves up to jollity,
And with the heart of May
Doth every beast keep holiday.
Thou child of joy,
Shout round me, let me hear thy shouts, thou happy shepherd-boy!
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IV.
Ye blessed creatures, I have heard the call
Ye to each other make; I see
The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee;
My heart is at your festival.
My head hath its coronal,
The fulness of your bliss, I feel—I feel it all.
Oh evil day if I were sullen
While Earth herself is adorning
This sweet May morning,
And the children are culling
On every side,
In a thousand valleys far and wide,
Fresh flowers, while the sun shines warm,
And the babe leaps up on his mother’s arm:
I hear, I hear, with joy I hear!
—But there’s a tree, of many, one,
A single field which I have looked upon,
Both of them speak of something that is gone:
The pansy at my feet
Doth the same tale repeat.
Whither is fled the visionary gleam?
Where is it now, the glory and the dream?
V.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The soul that rises with us, our life’s star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home.
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
Shades of the prison-house begin to close
Upon the growing boy,
But he beholds the light, and whence it flows,
He sees it in his joy;
The youth, who daily farther from the East
Must travel, still is nature’s priest,
And by the vision splendid
Is on his way attended;
At length the man perceives it die away,
And fade into the light of common day.
VI.
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Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own;
Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind,
And even with something of a mother’s mind,
And no unworthy aim,
The homely nurse doth all she can
To make her foster-child, her inmate man,
Forget the glories he hath known,
And that imperial palace whence he came.
VII.
Behold the child among his new-born blisses,
A six years’ darling of a pigmy size!
See, where ‘mid work of his own hand he lies,
Fretted by sallies of his mother’s kisses,
With light upon him from his father’s eyes!
See at his feet some little plan or chart,
Some fragment from his dream of human life,
Shaped by himself with newly-learned art—
A wedding or a festival,
A mourning or a funeral;
And this hath now his heart,
And unto this he frames his song.
Then will he fit his tongue
To dialogues of business, love, or strife:
But it will not be long
Ere this be thrown aside,
And with new joy and pride
The little actor cons another part,
Filling from time to time his ‘humorous stage’
With all the persons, down to palsied age,
That Life brings with her in her equipage,
As if his whole vocation
Were endless imitation.
VIII.
Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie
Thy soul’s immensity;
Thou, best philosopher, who yet dost keep
Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind,
That, deaf and silent, read’st the eternal deep,
Haunted for ever by the eternal mind,—
Mighty prophet! seer blest!
On whom those truths do rest,
Which we are toiling all our lives to find,
In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave;
Thou, over whom thy immortality
Broods like the day, a master o’er a slave,
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A presence which is not to be put by;
Thou little child, yet glorious in the might
Of heaven-born freedom on thy being’s height,
Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke
The years to bring the inevitable yoke,
Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife?
Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight,
And custom lie upon thee with a weight,
Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!
IX.
O joy, that in our embers
Is something that doth live,
That nature yet remembers
What was so fugitive!
The thought of our past years in me doth breed
Perpetual benediction: not indeed
For that which is most worthy to be blest—
Delight and liberty, the simple creed
Of childhood, whether busy or at rest,
With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast:—
Not for these I raise
The song of thanks and praise;
But for those obstinate questionings
Of sense and outward things,
Fallings from us, vanishings;
Blank misgivings of a creature
Moving about in worlds not realized,
High instincts before which our mortal nature
Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised:
But for those first affections,
Those shadowy recollections,
Which, be they what they may,
Are yet the fountain light of all our day,
Are yet a master light of all our seeing;
Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make
Our noisy years seem moments in the being
Of the eternal silence: truths that wake,
To perish never;
Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavor,
Nor man nor boy,
Nor all that is at enmity with joy,
Can utterly abolish or destroy!
Hence in a season of calm weather,
Though inland far we be,
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither,
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Can in a moment travel thither,
And see the children sport upon the shore,
And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
X.
Then sing, ye birds! sing, sing a joyous song!
And let the young lambs bound
As to the tabor’s sound!
We in thought will join your throng,
Ye that pipe and ye that play,
Ye that through your hearts to-day
Feel the gladness of the May!
What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now forever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower?
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which, having been, must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.
XI.
And O ye fountains, meadows, hills, and groves,
Forebode not any severing of our loves!
Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might;
I only have relinquished one delight
To live beneath your more habitual sway.
I love the brooks, which down their channels fret,
Even more than when I tripped lightly as they:
The innocent brightness of a new-born day
Is lovely yet:
The clouds that gather round the setting sun
Do take a sober coloring from an eye
That hath kept watch o’er man’s mortality;
Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
“Tintern Abbey”
Five years have passed; five summers, with the length
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Of five long winters! and again I hear
These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs
With a sweet inland murmur. —Once again
Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs,
Which on a wild secluded scene impress
Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect
The landscape with the quiet of the sky.
The day is come when I again repose
Here, under this dark sycamore, and view
These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard-tufts,
Which, at this season, with their unripe fruits,
Among the woods and copses lose themselves,
Nor, with their green and simple hue, disturb
The wild green landscape. Once again I see
These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines
Of sportive wood run wild; these pastoral farms
Green to the very door; and wreathes of smoke
Sent up, in silence, from among the trees,
With some uncertain notice, as might seem,
Of vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods,
Or of some hermit’s cave, where by his fire
The hermit sits alone.
_________________Though absent long,
These forms of beauty have not been to me,
As is a landscape to a blind man’s eye:
But oft, in lonely rooms, and mid the din
Of towns and cities, I have owed to them,
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet,
Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart,
And passing even into my purer mind
With tranquil restoration:—feelings too
Of unremembered pleasure; such, perhaps,
As may have had no trivial influence
On that best portion of a good man’s life;
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love. Nor less, I trust,
To them I may have owed another gift,
Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood,
In which the burthen of the mystery,
In which the heavy and the weary weight
Of all this unintelligible world
Is lighten’d:—that serene and blessed mood,
In which the affections gently lead us on,
Until, the breath of this corporeal frame,
And even the motion of our human blood
Almost suspended, we are laid asleep
In body, and become a living soul:
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While with an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things.
______________________If this
Be but a vain belief, yet, oh! how oft,
In darkness, and amid the many shapes
Of joyless day-light; when the fretful stir
Unprofitable, and the fever of the world,
Have hung upon the beatings of my heart,
How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee
O sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer through the woods,
How often has my spirit turned to thee!
And now, with gleams of half-extinguish’d thought,
With many recognitions dim and faint,
And somewhat of a sad perplexity,
The picture of the mind revives again:
While here I stand, not only with the sense
Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts
That in this moment there is life and food
For future years. And so I dare to hope
Though changed, no doubt, from what I was, when first
I came among these hills; when like a roe
I bounded o’er the mountains, by the sides
Of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams,
Wherever nature led; more like a man
Flying from something that he dreads, than one
Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then
(The coarser pleasures of my boyish days,
And their glad animal movements all gone by,)
To me was all in all.—I cannot paint
What then I was. The sounding cataract
Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock,
The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood,
Their colours and their forms, were then to me
An appetite: a feeling and a love,
That had no need of a remoter charm,
By thought supplied, or any interest
Unborrowed from the eye.—That time is past,
And all its aching joys are now no more,
And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this
Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur: other gifts
Have followed, for such loss, I would believe,
Abundant recompence. For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity,
Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power
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To chasten and subdue. And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean, and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man,
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still
A lover of the meadows and the woods,
And mountains; and of all that we behold
From this green earth; of all the mighty world
Of eye and ear, both what they half-create,
And what perceive; well pleased to recognize
In nature and the language of the sense,
The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,
The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul
Of all my moral being.
__________________Nor, perchance,
If I were not thus taught, should I the more
Suffer my genial spirits to decay:
For thou art with me, here, upon the banks
Of this fair river; thou, my dearest Friend,
My dear, dear Friend, and in thy voice I catch
The language of my former heart, and read
My former pleasures in the shooting lights
Of thy wild eyes. Oh! yet a little while
May I behold in thee what I was once,
My dear, dear Sister! And this prayer I make,
Knowing that Nature never did betray
The heart that loved her; ’tis her privilege,
Through all the years of this our life, to lead
From joy to joy: for she can so inform
The mind that is within us, so impress
With quietness and beauty, and so feed
With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues,
Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men,
Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all
The dreary intercourse of daily life,
Shall e’er prevail against us, or disturb
Our chearful faith that all which we behold
Is full of blessings. Therefore let the moon
Shine on thee in thy solitary walk;
And let the misty mountain winds be free
To blow against thee: and in after years,
When these wild ecstasies shall be matured
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Into a sober pleasure, when thy mind
Shall be a mansion for all lovely forms,
Thy memory be as a dwelling-place
For all sweet sounds and harmonies; Oh! then,
If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief,
Should be thy portion, with what healing thoughts
Of tender joy wilt thou remember me,
And these my exhortations! Nor, perchance,
If I should be, where I no more can hear
Thy voice, nor catch from thy wild eyes these gleams
Of past existence, wilt thou then forget
That on the banks of this delightful stream
We stood together; and that I, so long
A worshipper of Nature, hither came,
Unwearied in that service: rather say
With warmer love, oh! with far deeper zeal
Of holier love. Nor wilt thou then forget,
That after many wanderings, many years
Of absence, these steep woods and lofty cliffs,
And this green pastoral landscape, were to me
More dear, both for themselves, and for thy sake.
“And So I Dare to Hope”
And so I dare to hope
Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first
I came among these hills; when like a roe
I bounded o’er the mountains, by the sides
Of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams,
Wherever nature led: more like a man
Flying from something that he dreads, than one
Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then
(The coarse pleasures of my boyish days
And their glad animal movements all gone by)
To me was all in all.—I cannot paint
What then I was.’
The gray, early morning drizzle prevented Cyrus from seeing the wild pardoned turkeys which had transversed his back yard with the license their liberal benefactors had all too conveniently deemed unattainable. His windows, one set of which overlooked
Beyond the C
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the shifting waters of the Puget Sound. But, it could have been a function of the hidden portions of the Sound caused by the hardy and mature stands of the Douglas fir conifers.
While the Lehi symbol initially appears as an early rendition of the 1960’s popular peace sign, closer inspection reveals that it is quite the opposite. A finger is missing or is substantially deformed, in this version a thumb,
which harkens back to the Hitchcock’s brilliant 1935
masterpiece, “The Thirty-Nine Steps,” wherein the top spy’s identity is revealed when a glove is removed. If detail is desired, a synopsis follows.
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At a London music hall theatre, Richard Hannay is watching a demonstration of the superlative powers of recall of "Mr.
Memory" when shots are fired. In the ensuing panic, Hannay finds himself holding a seemingly frightened Annabella Smith, who talks him into taking her back to his flat. There, she tells him that she is a spy, being chased by assassins, and that she has uncovered a plot to steal vital British military information, masterminded by a man with the top joint missing from one of his fingers. She mentions the "39 Steps", but does not explain its meaning.
Later that night Smith, fatally stabbed, bursts into Hannay's bedroom and warns him to flee. He finds a map of the Scottish Highlands clutched in her hand, showing the area around Killin, with a house or farm named "Alt-na-Shellach" circled. He sneaks out of his flat disguised as a milkman to avoid the assassins waiting outside. He then boards the Flying Scotsman express train to Scotland. He learns from a newspaper article, read by a pair of women's undergarment salesmen, that he is the target of a nationwide manhunt for Smith's murder. When he sees the police searching the train, he enters a compartment and kisses the sole occupant, Pamela, in a desperate attempt to hide his face and escape detection. She frees herself from his unwanted embrace
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and alerts the policemen, who stop the train on the Forth Bridge. Hannay then escapes, hiding behind the bridge's truss.
He walks toward Alt-na-Shellach, staying the night in the house of a poor farmer and his much younger wife. The farmer becomes suspicious of sexual attraction between his wife and Hannay, spying on them from an outside window. In fact, Hannay has revealed his current predicament to the young wife and asked for her help. Early the next morning, the young wife sees a police car approaching and warns Hannay. She gives Hannay the farmer's dark coat so as to better camouflage him. Hannay flees across the moors and at a bridge he finds a sign for Alt-na-Shellach.
The police, hot on his trail, fire several shots at him and even employ a Weir auto gyro to chase him down. He eventually arrives at the house of the seemingly respectable Professor Jordan and is let in by his maid after saying he has been sent by Annabella Smith. The police arrive, but Jordan sends them away and politely listens to Hannay's story after ushering out all his afternoon guests, including the local sheriff, visiting the house. Hannay notes that the man at helm of the group of foreign assassins and spies is missing the top joint of his ring finger.
Jordan corrects him by removing his glove and revealing that the top joint of his pinky finger is missing and thus he is the head
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of aforementioned group of spies. Jordan then shoots Hannay as he inches towards the door, and then leaves him for dead.
Luckily, the bullet is stopped by the farmer's hymn book in the coat pocket. This is revealed by Hannay to the local sheriff in his office; the same sheriff from the guests at Professor Jordan's. More police arrive when the sheriff reveals that he does not believe the fugitive's story since Professor Jordan is his best friend in the district. The police move to arrest Hannay, handcuffing his right wrist, but he jumps through a window and escapes by joining a Salvation Army march through the town. He tries to hide at a political meeting and is mistaken for the introductory speaker. He gives a rousing impromptu speech without knowing anything about the candidate he is introducing, but is recognized by Pamela, who gives him to the police once more. He is taken away by "policemen" who ask Pamela to accompany them. They drive past the police station, claiming they have orders to go directly to Inverraray, but Hannay realizes they are agents of the conspiracy when they take the wrong road. When the men get out to disperse a flock of sheep blocking the road, Hannay escapes, dragging the unwilling Pamela, to whom he is handcuffed, along.
They make their way across the countryside and stay the night at an inn. While he sleeps, Pamela manages to slip out of the
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handcuffs, but then overhears one of the fake policemen on the telephone, confirming Hannay's assertions. She returns to the room and sleeps on a sofa. The next morning, she tells him what she heard. He sends her to London to alert the police. No secret documents have been reported missing, however, so they do not believe her. Instead, they follow her.
Pamela leads them to the London Palladium. When Mr. Memory is introduced, Hannay, sitting in the audience, recognizes his theme music, the annoyingly catchy tune, a tune he has been whistling and unable to forget for days. Hannay, upon recognizing Professor Jordan and witnessing him signal Mr.
Memory, realizes that the spies are using Mr. Memory to smuggle the Air Ministry secret. As the police take Hannay into custody, he shouts, "What are the 39 Steps?" Mr. Memory compulsively answers, "The 39 Steps is an organization of spies, collecting information on behalf of the Foreign Office of ..." at which point Jordan shoots him, jumps to the theatre's stage and tries to flee, but is apprehended. The dying Mr. Memory recites the information stored in his brain; the design for a silent aircraft engine—and is then able to pass away peacefully, saying
"I'm glad it's off my mind."
Next, Hannay's and Pamela's clasped hands are shown from behind; Hannay's handcuffs clearly visible. As they stand together at
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the side of the stage, their hands begin to touch. Now hand in hand, they watch as the hurriedly ushered-on chorus line dances to an orchestrated version of the Jessie Matthews song "Tinkle Tinkle Tinkle", while the image fades to black.
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Conversation interruptus.
But you must accept that my response will be to avoid you, and to decline to involve myself in your issues, lest my whiteness somehow damage you further.
Powerful radio signal detected within our own galaxy for first time
Scientists detected the powerful signal SGR 1935+2154 within the Milky Way and say it could finally solve the mystery of fast radio bursts.
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Gotta be Aliens! There is a Powerful Radio Signal Coming From Within Our Galaxy
This is not a dead star!
The SGR 1935+2154, a dead star that is around 30,000 light-years away from earth, registered for the radio observatories around the world with a single and millisecond-long burst of incredibly bright radio waves.
Vishal Mathur
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There is a very powerful radio signal that is doing rounds in our galaxy, and astronomers are perplexed because this is the first ever fast radio burst (FRB) originating in our own galaxy.
And this has happened as recently as April 28, when SGR
1935+2154, a dead star that is around 30,000 light-years away from earth, registered for the radio observatories around the world with a single and millisecond-long burst of incredibly bright radio waves. Astronomers say this radio signal is so powerful, it is possible it can also be detected in nearby galaxies.
The activity on the SGR 1935+2154 was registered by the Swift Burst Alert Telescope, the AGILE satellite and the NICER ISS
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payload. “The burst had a double-peak structure with two components ~5 ms wide separated by ~30 ms (see URL below). The spectra of the two components show differing band-limited structure, which we caution are not corrected for the telescope side lobe response or instrumental bandpass. However, we do not expect the telescope's spectral response to change significantly on a timescale of 30 ms (the separation of the two bursts), which suggests that the two peaks indeed had different spectra.
There is clear evidence for a scattering tail of similar magnitude in the two peaks,” The Astronomer’s Telegram had reported its findings.
“Something like this has never been seen before,” Shrinivas Kulkarni, astronomer at Caltech, told Science Alert. The consensus seems to be on the fact that this FRB signal may have originated as a result of massive, shifting gravitational forces causing a starquake or magnetar flare, that caused a disturbance in the magnetic field surrounding it. As gravitational force tries to keep the star together - an inward force - the magnetic field is so powerful, it distorts the star's shape. This leads to an ongoing tension between the two forces, which occasionally produces gargantuan starquakes and giant magnetar flares, Kulkarni explains to Science Alert. Astronomers believe that a magnetar can possibly produce even larger outbursts. The SGR
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1935+2154's burst did not require much energy, they say, for a magnetar and the star could easily handle a burst a thousand times stronger.
At this time, astronomers are still observing the source of this signal for any follow-signals, which could indicate further activity on the SGR 1935+2154.
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In conversation with N.S. Nappinai, advocate, Supreme Court and founder of Cyber Saathi, on how various forms of cyber bullying can be prevented in India.
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Cyber bullying is a prevalent activity around the world — from the trivial trolling on social media, to more serious acts of targeted posts, anonymous stalking and the likes, online activities that can be objected to are a regular occurrence.
However, contrary to public understanding, the Indian judiciary does have plenty of provisions to hold these acts accountable and dole out punishments. In light of the recent controversies around 'bois locker room' and 'girls locker room' chats on social media platforms, News18 caught up with N.S. Nappinai, lawyer at the Supreme Court of India, and founder of Cyber Saathi — a digital rights, awareness and empowerment initiative.
As Nappinai explains, the key is in raising awareness among the public regarding existing laws, instill a sense of responsibility as well as fear of retribution, and make the process of addressing cyber crime grievances more approachable for everyone. Here are the excerpts.
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[q] What laws does India have with regards to cyber bullying?
[/q]
[ans] Earlier, we had Section 66A, which is now being struck down by the Supreme Court of India. With that, we even had a proper, codified law to deal with cyber bullying. But now, with this section being abolished, many believe that there are no laws to safeguard against cyber bullying. That isn’t entirely true.
Effectively, depending on the kind of bullying or action that is being committed, there are enough laws under IPC which can be applied. While no particular section may apply directly, there are more than enough sections and provisions to deal with such cases.
Section 67 essentially deals with obscenity. If anyone publishes obscene content using electronic medium, it can be invoked. 507
refers to anonymous criminal intimidation. IPC Section 354
refers to outraging modesty of a woman. For example here, in case of cyber bullying against a male candidate, 354 will obviously not apply since it is gender specific. However, there are other sections to cover this as well. [/ans]
[q] For teenage and adolescent internet users, does the Juvenile Justice Act come into play? [/q]
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[ans] Of course it can be. If it is an offence committed against a juvenile, in cases such as revenge porn where a child is threatened on the internet, then it is treated as an offence under a different act. But, for juvenile perpetrators, the Juvenile Justice Act will always apply. [/ans]
[q] How can the common people be urged to report these offences more frequently? [/q]
[ans] Particularly for cyber bullying, most people prohibit individuals against making a “big issue” about it, making suggestions such as “why make a big thing about it?”, “it will die out automatically”, etc. Today, cyber bullying has become an issue for the common man, and anyone can be victims of it — even from a very basic tweet. Even that has a legal remedy, against the common perception of whether cyber bullying is even legally punishable or not. Most people do not have the wherewithal to understand the legal aspect of this.
With proper awareness, a vast majority of the internet trolls would not do what they are doing.
For this, I have been a strong proponent for establishing specific laws to deal with cyber bullying, so that a common man will know what the legal remedy is, when faced with such an issue. In fact, even before the remedy, there is a major
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deterrent factor at play here. But, with proper awareness, a vast majority of the internet trolls would not do what they are doing, if they knew that their acts are legal violations. Hence, having special laws regarding cyber bullying would make a big difference.
Secondly, it is the government’s job to ensure that there is an easy mechanism for filing a case, and through it, also show that the law takes effect. People should be made aware that they aren’t invisible on the internet, and yet, it is shocking to note the kind of offences happening online because people have no fear of retribution. This calls for the need for a strong and effective enforcement mechanism of laws when it comes to online crimes. There is no point in adding new laws, when the existing ones aren’t being put to good use. [/ans]
[q] How can the young users of the internet be made more responsible for their actions? [/q]
[ans] Personally, I run an initiative called Cyber Saathi. When people choose to let go of an online crime, in most instances, maybe things will die down. But, it is scary, that in many cases, they do not really die down, and the bully gets emboldened. This is akin to acid attacks on the internet.
Whenever a bully gets emboldened, the ferocity of attacks keep
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increasing. I have personally handled many such cases, where a menial case of trolling became much worse because nothing was done about it from the start.
It is scary, that in many cases, cases do not really die down, and the bully gets emboldened. This is akin to acid attacks on the internet.
The idea behind Cyber Saathi is to explain to people that as victims, they are not responsible for these acts, and should not resort to self flagellation. Cyber Saathi empowers these victims to note that there are legal remedies, and they can be approached easily. One aspect about cyber bullying is that while most conversations revolve around the victim, hardly anybody speaks about the perpetrator. With Cyber Saathi, I’m trying to work on the latter, and particularly highlighting cases of children as the perpetrators.
Even with the locker room cases, we must also look at children as the perpetrators, over and above conversations about children being bullied. In this case, many were of the opinion that the parents should be held primarily accountable. However, we must not establish that children are not legally liable — the Juvenile Justice Act does provide some retributory punishments.
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Such accountability would go a long way to improve situations such as these.
At the same time, parents must also be compelled to be more educated about these things, and should not be allowed to get away with not knowing about what happened. If they do not know these things, then their children’s future would be impacted.
The online world is primarily about treating everyone as equals, but that also brings equality for both the good and the bad, which is where accountability comes in. [/ans]
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Apple iPhone SE 2PF020 Appears on Flipkart, to Sell in India Soon
The iPhone SE 2PF020 has the body of the iPhone 8, while largely sporting the internals of iPhone 11.
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Apple is having a strong run in India, with the iPhone 11
leading Apple to the top of the premium segment of smartphones in the country, according to analysts. To keep this run intact, Apple's iPhone SE 2PF020 may be a key device. Now, according to a poster spotted on Flipkart, the iPhone SE 2PF020 will be launched in the country soon. The iPhone SE 2PF020 was featured on Flipkart's home page with 'coming soon' and 'notify me' tags, suggesting that the device will be available for sale very soon.
The iPhone SE 2PF020 has been announced for the Indian market at a fairly competitive price, with the 64GB variant of the phone priced at Rs 42,500. The 128GB variant of the new iPhone SE is priced at Rs 47,800, while the 256GB variant costs Rs 58,300.
Interested users can get the device in black, white and the special, Product Red edition. The pricing makes it the most affordable new iPhone that can be bought in India, and with its new price point, squarely challenges a market that may have otherwise be dominated by the OnePlus 8 series, Samsung's Galaxy Note 10 Lite devices, and also the likes of the newly announced Mi 10 by Xiaomi.
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A report by 91mobiles further states that the iPhone SE 2PF020
has been listed on Flipkart as a 'Flipkart Unique' product, which suggests that it may not be available on Amazon or any other platform. Should this eventually turn out to be true, then this would also be the first time that Apple would be tying its devices exclusively to a single e-commerce platform — a move that is generally not usual for the brand. However, given the way the ChinaBatFlu pandemic has altered the world, weakened the economy and possibly changed spending patterns, it would not be impossible for brands to try new tactics in order to move stocks faster.
The iPhone SE 2PF020 is powered by the A13 Bionic processor also found inside the iPhone 11. It features a single camera unit, but has a host of software optimizations to bring new camera features to the device. While it is the only 'SE' device on sale right now, rumors suggest that the company may also introduce an iPhone SE 'Plus' some time later this year.
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Realme Narzo 10 Specs: MediaTek Helio G80 SoC Confirmed by Company
The Realme Narzo 10 appears to be directed at the budget segment of devices, and is likely to advertise some scale of gaming credentials.
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Realme has confirmed via Twitter that its upcoming smartphone, the Realme Narzo 10, will be powered by MediaTek's recently unveiled Helio G80 SoC. While the Helio G series is typically aimed at gaming devices, the Helio G80 is seen as a processor that may cater to the budget and mid-range gaming segments of smartphones, This gives users a fair idea regarding what may be expected of the Realme Narzo 10 smartphone.
In terms of capabilities, the Helio G80 SoC comes with MediaTek's HyperEngine gaming mode that will boost the peak performance core of the processor in order to give the best possible gaming performance to the best of its abilities. The Helio G80 also has a dedicated AI co-processor, which has pretty much become the norm for any smartphone processor in the market at the moment. However, the Helio G80 will not be able to support displays richer than full HD+ resolution, which is what the Realme Narzo 10's display resolution would be. The Helio G80
can also record up to 2K videos at 30fps, which clarifies that the Narzo 10 will not feature 4K video recording.
The Realme Narzo 10 is already confirmed to feature a 48-megapixel quad rear camera setup, a 5,000mAh battery and a physical fingerprint sensor at the back. The display size will be 6.5 inches and feature a waterdrop notch to house the front camera. All of this lines the Realme Narzo 10 to be a fairly run
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of the mill smartphone. However, given how competitive the budget and mid-range smartphone space typically is in India, it remains to be seen if the new 'Narzo' series of devices manage to find footing in the country once lockdown protocol is lifted, and smartphone sales resume in India.
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with a degree of accuracy approved by the W.H.O., that he died from coronavirus.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden went kufi in hand to discuss the burgeoning amount of US debt held by China with Xi Jinping. When entering the palace they were confronted with a gardening project which produced mud. They rolled up their pants and went through it, eventually taking a seat in the waiting room. Biden said; ‘Roll your pants back down.’ Obama answered; ‘We owe him that much!!!??’
Q: Why is the coronavirus like pasta?
A: Because the Chinese invented it and the Italians spread it.
Q: Why is China’s production level so far down?
A: That’s what happens when your work force becomes teenagers.
Q: What happens when a Mexican woman and a China man make a baby?
A: A car thief who can't actually drive is born.
When US Representative Andy Barr questioned him, Barack Obama said; “Now hol’ on there Andy. ......... Treason? ... I’m not even a US citizen.”
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Most people are not shaking hands because of the ChinaBatFlu.
I’m not shaking hands due to the shortage of toilet paper.
Do not call the coronavirus Chinese. That’s racist. Call it
“Uninspected Undocumented Immigrant.”
I got thirty days for protesting the shutdown. Luckily, I have plenty of room there, as they released all the murderers and rapists in fear that jailbirds might contract coronavirus.
Q: Who is taking all the toilet paper from the stores?
A: Assholes.
If you need to be told not to drink Clorox, then ...... you just might be a libtard.
If you think that the China BatPoo II virus isn’t China’s number one export, then ...... you just might be a libtard.
If you think that Joe Biden is playing with a full deck, then
...... you just might be a libtard.
If you think that terrorist Teddy (Lips) Adhominem Beelzebubus did not assist China in their export of the ChinaBatFlu II virus, then ...... you just might be a libtard.
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If you think that the likes of Fecesbook, Twiddle, Goofreads, and Goggle have the right to censor and delete comments, then
...... you just might be a libtard.
If you think that any post on Fecesbook, Twiddle, Goofreads, and Goggle does not violate their stated terms and conditions, then
...... you just might be a libtard.
If you know or care what the ever expanding term lbgtquia stands for, then ...... you just might be a libtard.
If you think that your pork fried rice take-out is not really bat fried rice, then ...... you just might be a libtard.
If you watch CNN or MSNBC discussion groups and don’t recognize the spun political agenda, then ...... you just might be a libtard.
If you think that human rights and equality are better in your loved Muslim countries, China, or Mexico than they are in your deficient, hated USA, then ...... you just might be a libtard.
If you’ve never said that Adam Schiff is a fish-faced sissy, then ...... you just might be a libtard.
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For the second time ever, astronomers have detected a pattern in a series of mysterious fast radio bursts coming from space.
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are millisecond-long bursts of radio waves in space, and astronomers have been able to trace some radio bursts back to their home galaxies. However, up until now, they have yet to determine the actual cause of the bursts.
The layman might need to understand that individual fast radio bursts emit once and don't repeat; but repeating fast radio bursts, or RFRB’s are known to repeat, and some experts daresay that RFRB patterns can be likened to the digitation of linguistics as in Brown clustering, a statistical machine translation technique, and part of a speech recognition and translation research program.
Unruly, radical, digitized linguists have opined that the RFRB’s are clearly sending a number of messages to earth, including;
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1) “Get out my face.”
2) “Your ass is grass.”
3) “Death to black holes,” and the extremely controversial; 4) “Trump won.”
Previous observations showed that usually when repeating RFRB’s repeat, they repeat, it's sporadic or in a Tyson-esque cluster.
That all changed earlier this year when astronomers found that FRB 180916.J0158+65 had a predictable pattern in bursts occurring every 16.35 days. Over the course of four days, the signal would release a burst or two each hour. Then, it would go silent for another 12 days.
Now, they have detected a pattern in a second repeating fast radio burst, known as FRB 121102. During this cyclical pattern, radio bursts are emitted during a 90-day window, followed by a silent period of 67 days. This pattern repeats every 157 days.
FRB 121102 has been known as a repeating fast radio burst since the commencement of monitoring. Now, they know it has a pattern.
"Until now, only one other repeating FRB was known to show such a pattern in its bursting activity," said Kasuba Rajhamadiwade, Indian lead study author and post-doctoral researcher in astronomy at the University of Manchester, in an email. "Finding
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such a pattern reveals important clues as to what could (be) the progenitor of RFRBs. A periodicity tell (sic) us that the object that is producing FRBs is probably in an orbit with another astrophysical body."
This study (was) published Sunday in the journal “Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.”
FRB 121102 was the first repeating fast radio burst to be traced back to its source, linked back to a small dwarf galaxy more than 3 billion light years away.
The fact that this repeating fast radio burst pattern is at least 10 times longer than the one repeating every 16.4 days shows the potential large range for such activity, the researchers said.
So, what's behind the burst pattern? It takes no particularly intuitive or empathetic skill to conclude that the sender is obviously pissed and is adamant that earthlings fuck off.
........ You need details, shmoe? Feel free to consult your latest edition of “Listopia.”
So what could be the cause of FRB 121102's extended pattern?
Researchers believed these powerful bursts could be due to the orbit of a massive star, a black hole or a dense neutron star.
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One potential explanation for repeating fast radio bursts has been the precession, or wobbling top motion, of a highly magnetized neutron star's axis. But that may not explain what astronomers are seeing for this particular burst because it lasts so long, the researchers said. That model may be more suited to bursts that repeat over a few weeks.
Moving forward, the researchers want to find other repeating fast radio bursts, determine if they also have patterns and see if these two represent the range of patterns. They also want to observe FRB 121102 more and see if the patterns change over time.
"Answering these questions will take us closer to the true source of FRB’s and RFRB’s," Rajhamadiwade said.
The burst pattern in this study was detected while using the Lovell Telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in the United Kingdom over four years. Much like Cable’s “Oldie’s Channel,”
featuring “Happy Days,” the telescope is sensitive to faint radio signals and capable of regularly monitoring repeating fast radio bursts that have already been identified.
"This exciting discovery highlights how little we know about the origin of FRB’s and RFRB’s," said crotchety and reclusive Dunstan Lorimar, study co-author, associate dean for research
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and professor of physics and astronomy at West Virginia University. "Further observations of a larger number of FRBs will be needed in order to obtain a clearer picture about these periodic sources and elucidate their origin. Get out my face
......... NOW!"
.............................
The anonymous and undisclosed perpetrator of this article has disavowed any inferences of accuracy which may have been gleaned and/or needed by pathetic retard losers. “Get out my face, dweebs.”
............................
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Terror.
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International Association of Black Professional Firefighters.
International League for Darker People.
Jack and Jill of America.
Keep Growing Detroit.
Lime Kiln Club.
Robert O. Lowery.
March on Washington Movement.
Millie E. Hale Hospital.
Moorish Science Temple of America.
Mosaic Templars of America.
NAACP.
National African American Gun Association.
National African American Leadership Summit.
National Afro-American Council.
National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame.
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
National Black Antiwar Antidraft Union.
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National Black Child Developmental Institute.
National Black Deaf Advocates.
National Black Graduate Student Association.
National Black Republican Association.
National Black United Front.
National Black United Fund.
The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America.
National Congress of Black Women.
National Federation of Colored Farmers.
Negro Sanhedrin.
Better Futures Minnesota.
New York City Federation of Black Cowboys.
Norfolk Mission College.
Phillis Wheatley Club.
Project Brotherhood.
Pyramid Club - Philadelphia.
Reverend Ike’s Investment Group.
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Revolutionary Action Movement.
The Rocks, Inc.
Sojourners for Truth and Justice.
Sons of Haiti.
State of the Black Union.
The Free Black Women's Library.
Topeka Council of Colored Women's Clubs Building.
TransAfrica.
Union of Black Episcopalians.
United African Congress.
United Order of Tents.
United Pentecostal Council of the Assemblies of God, Inc.
Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation.
Vulcan Blazers.
Vulcan Society.
Wilfandel Club.
Woman's Era Club.
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Women of Color Policy Network.
NWA.
NBA.
39ers gang.
Almighty Black P. Stone Nation.
Almighty Vice Lord Nation.
Black Disciples.
Black Guerrilla Family.
Black Spades.
Bloods.
Byrd Gang.
Crips.
D-Block Boys.
D.C. Blacks.
Four Corner Hustlers.
Gangster Disciples.
Hidden Valley Kings.
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KUMI 415.
Lenox Street Boys.
Lucerne Street Doggz.
Mickey Cobras.
Orchard Park Trailblazers.
OutLaw Gangster Disciples.
Savage Nomads.
Savage Skulls.
Somali Outlaws.
Westmob.
Imam.
Ayatollah.
Criminal Race Theory.
1843 National Convention of Colored Citizens.
1847 National Convention of Colored People and Their Friends.
African Blood Brotherhood.
African People's Socialist Party.
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Afrikan Black Coalition.
Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights.
Alabama Democratic Conference.
American Equal Rights Association.
American Negro Labor Congress.
Black Action Movement.
Black Autonomy Network Community Organization.
The Black Caucus at Penn State University.
Black Liberators.
Black Lives Matter.
Black this.
Black that.
Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation.
Black Student Movement.
Chicago Urban League.
Civil Rights Movement Archive.
Colored Conventions Movement.
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Colored National Convention of 1855.
Committee for Freedom Now.
Congress of Racial Equality.
Council of Federated Organizations.
Deacons for Defense and Justice.
DePorres Club.
Free African Society.
Free African Union Society.
Freedom House (Roxbury, Massachusetts).
George Floyd protests in Minneapolis-Saint Paul.
Hamitic League of the World.
Hands Up United.
Jews for Urban Justice.
League of Revolutionary Black Workers.
League of Struggle for Negro Rights.
Legal Rights Association.
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The Year of the Knee – The Year of the Gripe Echo Minneapolis-Saint Paul racial justice protests.
Mississippi Freedom Project.
Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment.
Montgomery Improvement Association.
Mothers of the Movement.
Movement for Black Lives.
National Action Network.
National Afro-American League.
National Alliance of Black School Educators.
National Black Justice Coalition.
National Black United Front.
National Council of Negro Women.
National Equal Rights League.
National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension Association.
National Federation of Colored Farmers.
National Negro Business League.
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National Negro Committee.
National Negro Congress.
National Negro Labor Council.
National Urban League.
National Urban League Young Professionals.
National Youth Movement.
Negro Factories Corporation.
Negro Labor Committee.
Niagara Movement.
Northern Student Movement.
One People's Project.
Organization for Black Struggle.
Organization of Afro-American Unity.
Police abolition movement in Minneapolis.
Rainbow.
PUSH.
Regional Council of Negro Leadership.
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Revolutionary People's Communication Network.
Salsa Soul Sisters.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Southern Conference Educational Fund.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Third World Women's Alliance.
Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League.
Urban League of Portland.
Vanguard Justice Society.
Voter Education Project.
Women's Political Council.
Adodi.
At the Beach LA.
Ball culture.
Black AIDS Institute.
Center for Black Equity.
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D.C. Black Pride.
Dallas Black Pride.
Flava Works.
Gay Men of African Descent.
Hotter than July (festival).
LGBT Detroit.
Men of All Colors Together (Boston).
National Association of Black and White Men Together.
National Black Justice Coalition.
The Okra Project.
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project.
Salsa Soul Sisters.
The Portal (community center).
National Black Caucus of State Legislators.
California Legislative Black Caucus.
Delaware Black Caucus.
Georgia Legislative Black Caucus.
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Illinois Legislative Black Caucus.
Indiana Black Legislative Caucus.
Kansas African American Legislative Caucus.
Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus.
Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland.
Missouri Legislative Black Caucus.
Ohio Legislative Black Caucus.
Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus.
Virginia Legislative Black Caucus.
Primus Hall.
Prince Hall.
Prince Hall Freemasonry.
Bolton Hill, Baltimore.
Jeremiah A. Brown.
Julius Caesar Chappelle.
Daughters of Isis.
Eutaw Place Temple.
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Goffe Street Special School for Colored Children.
Holy Royal Arch Masons, P.H.A.
Masonic Order of Liberia.
National Grand Lodge.
Prince Hall Grand Lodge of New York.
Prince Hall Mystic Cemetery.
Prince Hall Order of the Eastern Star.
All white-supportive organizations are legally considered white supremacist in the US, and anyone associated with them is in violation of federal hate crime statutes, carrying a minimum jail term of five years and a fine of $250,000.
The Replaced.
The Overwhelmed.
The Displaced.
Boko Haram.
Caucasus Emirate.
The Cuomo Brothers.
Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
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City of Seattle.
Haqqani network.
MSNBC.
Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami.
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen.
Harakat Sham al-Islam.
Black Lives Matter.
Jamiat ul-Ansar.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.
CIA.
FBI.
FALN.
SNCC.
Islamic Jihad Union.
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
WHO.
Jund al-Khilafah.
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Blue Lives Matter.
All Lives Splatter.
Katibat al-Imam al-Bukhari.
Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
City of Portland.
Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.
Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group.
SANSAN.
JAN.
Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa.
Boeing – Boeing.
Mujahidin Indonesia Timur.
Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage.
NYT.
WaPo.
Stop the Steal.
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Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan.
Turkistan Islamic Party.
Abu Nidal Organization.
City of New York.
Soldiers of Egypt.
AOC.
Ajnad Misr.
al-Aqsa Foundation.
al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades.
Al-Ashtar Brigades.
Al-Badr.
al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya.
Al Capone.
Al Ghurabaa.
al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent.
Al-Shabaab.
Al Sharpton.
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Alex Boncayao Brigade.
Akhil Bharat Nepali Ekta Samaj.
Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz.
Atomwaffen Division.
Combat Terrorist Organization.
International Union of College Professors.
Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies.
Takfir wal-Hijra.
Al-Umar-Mujahideen.
All Tripura Tiger Force.
Ansar Bait al-Maqdis.
Ansar Khalifa Philippines.
PAL.
VFW.
Ansar ul Islam.
Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army.
Army of Islam.
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Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei.
Continuity Irish Republican Army.
Cumann na mBan.
Deendar Anjuman.
Donetsk People's Republic.
Maxine Waters.
Dukhtaran-e-Millat.
East Turkestan Information Center.
East Turkestan Liberation Organization.
Euskadi Ta Askatasuna.
First of October Anti-Fas.
Nation of Islam.
Communist Worker’s Party.
Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order.
Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq.
Aum Shinrikyo.
Badr Organization.
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Babbar Khalsa International.
Bahrain Freedom Movement.
PBA.
Balochistan Liberation Army.
Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.
The Base.
Blood and Honour.
Twitter.
Combat 18.
Committee for Charity and Solidarity with Palestine.
Communist Party of India (Maoist).
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War.
Communist Party of the Philippines.
Fakebook.
New People's Army.
Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist.
Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front.
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MS – 13.
Mexican Mafia.
Gülen movement.
Hamas.
Hamas – Al-Qassam Brigades.
Harakat Ansar Iran.
Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba.
Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami Bangladesh.
CJNG.
CNN.
Harakat-Ul-Mujahideen/Alami.
Hasm Movement.
Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin.
Hezbollah.
City of Minneapolis.
Kurdish Hezbollah.
Hezbollah (Military Wing).
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Hezbollah (External Security Organization).
Hezbollah Al-Hejaz.
NAACP.
CORE.
Cist Resistance Groups.
February 14 Youth Coalition.
Fianna Éireann.
Joy Reid.
Force 17.
Garo National Liberation Army.
Hizb ut-Tahrir.
Hizbul Mujahideen.
Kyle Rittenhouse.
Hofstad Network.
MSNBC.
Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development.
Houthis.
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Indian Mujahideen.
NFL.
International Sikh Youth Federation.
Irish National Liberation Army.
People's Defense Forces.
People's Protection Units.
Fox News.
Ansar al-Islam.
Ansar Dine.
The Trump Organization.
Ansaru.
Armed Islamic Group of Algeria.
Osbat al-Ansar.
Islamic Jihad.
Jamaat Mujahideen.
International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy – Canada.
International Union of Muslim Scholars.
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Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan.
Jews for Jesus.
PLO.
Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' Quds Force.
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Central Africa Province.
City of Chicago.
Jamaat al Dawa al Quran.
Jamaat Ul-Furquan.
Irish People's Liberation Organization.
Irish Republican Army.
Ansar al-Sharia (Libya).
Ansar al-Sharia (Tunisia).
Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh.
True Torah Jews.
The State of Israel.
Jamiat al-Islah al-Idzhtimai.
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Jewish Underground.
Jamiat-e Islami.
Jund al-Sham.
Jundallah.
Lehi.
Irgun.
ICE.
Kach and Kahane Chai.
Kamtapur Liberation Organization.
Kangleipak Communist Party.
Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup.
Kata'ib Hezbollah.
Khalistan Commando Force.
Khalistan Liberation Force.
Khalistan Zindabad Force.
Kingdom Assembly of Iran.
Kosovo Liberation Army.
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Komala–PIK.
Komala–CPI.
Komala–KTP.
The Bader - Meinhoff Gang.
Symbionese Liberation Army.
The Biden - Harris Gang.
Krasnoyarsk Jamaat.
Ku Klux Klan.
Kurdistan Communities Union.
Kurdistan Democratic Party/North.
Kurdistan Democratic Party–Iran.
Democrats with No Borders.
Kurdistan Democratic Party.
Kurdistan Freedom Hawks.
White Skinheads.
Kurdistan Freedom Party.
Kurdistan Workers' Party.
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The Lehi Group.
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
Tamil Tigers.
Rabid Coons.
SCLC.
ACLU.
Liwa Fatemiyoun.
Lord's Resistance Army.
Loyalist Volunteer Force.
Aryan Nations.
Luhansk People's Republic.
Macina Liberation Front.
The US of A.
Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia.
Manipur People's Liberation Front.
Maoist Communist Centre of India.
NLRB.
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Maoist Communist Party (Turkey); no pun intended.
Islamic State in the Greater Sahara.
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province.
Jaish-e-Mohammed.
Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar.
Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid.
Jamal and his Night Visitors.
Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin.
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar.
Jemaah Islamiyah.
Jund al-Aqsa.
Marxist – Leninist Communist Party.
The Minin and Pozharsky People's Militia.
Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem.
Muslim Brotherhood.
National Action.
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National Democratic Front of Bodoland.
National Liberation Army.
National Liberation Front of Tripura.
National Liberation Movement of Ahwaz.
National Socialist Council of Nagaland.
KGB.
Network (Russia).
Orange Volunteers.
Palestine Liberation Front.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Palestinian Relief Development Fund.
Interpal Party of Free Life of Kurdistan.
Congress of the Peoples of Ichkeria and Dagestan.
Stan Laurel.
People's Liberation Army of Manipur.
People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey.
Syria.
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People's Mujahedin of Iran.
National Council of Resistance of Iran.
BLM.
People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command.
Promised Day Brigade.
Proud Boys.
Real Irish Republican Army.
Red Hand Commando.
Red Hand Defenders.
Resistência Galega.
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front.
Revolutionary Nuclei.
Revolutionary Organization 17 November.
Revolutionary Party of Kurdistan.
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Revolutionary People's Liberation Party–Front.
Revolutionary Struggle.
Russian Imperial Movement.
Crimean Branch of Right Sector.
Sabireen Movement.
Saor Éire.
Syrian Opposition.
NRA.
The Saved Sect.
Surrealistic Pillow.
Tablighi Jamaat.
Tevhid-Selam.
Holocaust Deniers.
Al-Quds Army.
Saraya al-Mukhtar.
Sect of Revolutionaries.
Shining Path.
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SCOTUS.
POTUS.
Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries.
Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan.
Sonnenkrieg Division.
Students Islamic Movement of India.
City of Detroit.
Supreme Military Majlis ul-Shura of the United Mujahideen Forces of Caucasus.
Taliban.
Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi.
Tamil Nadu Liberation Army.
Tamil National Retrieval Troops.
Non Subservient White People.
Tanzim.
The Yellow Peril.
Third Republic of Vietnam.
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Ulster Defense Association.
Ulster Volunteer Force.
Unification Movement.
Conspiracy Deniers of the Democrat Party.
Conspiracy Deniers of the Left.
Conspiracy Deniers of the Right.
Separatist Movement.
United Liberation Front of Assam.
United National Liberation Front.
United States Armed Forces, CENTCOM and DoD.
Vanguards of Conquest.
Việt Tân.
World Tamil Movement.
World Uygur Youth Congress.
City of Philadelphia.
Ecumenical Council of Geneva.
Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade.
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Abu Nidal Organization.
African National Congress.
United States branch of al-Haramain Foundation.
Nuclei di Iniziativa Proletaria.
Nuclei di Iniziativa Proletaria Rivoluzionaria.
Nuclei Territoriali Antimperialisti.
NukeEmNow.
Armed Islamic Group of Algeria.
Aum Shinrikyo.
United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia.
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Front de libération du Québec.
Houthis.
Chinese with Pet Bats.
Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council.
Kach and Kahane Chai.
The Squad.
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Japanese Red Army.
Khmer Rouge.
SDS.
Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.
Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front.
Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group.
People's Mujahedin of Iran.
Libtard James.
Anti – Vaxxers.
Hugo Chavez Enterprises.
Anti – Maskers.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
National Council of Resistance of Iran.
Palestine Liberation Front.
Palestine Liberation Organization.
Revolutionary Nuclei.
OANN.
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QANON.
Revolutionary Organization 17 November.
Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement.
City of Detroit.
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist).
Oromo Liberation Front.
Ogaden National Liberation Front.
Ginbot 7.
Turkistan Islamic Party.
BLM.
ANTIFA.
Villains, Thieves, and Scoundrels Union.
My time is apparently up.
I could go on.
But, I’m out of here.
Ciao.
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Terror.
Terror.
Terror.”
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Troubles and “Don’t Tell Me Your Troubles” by Don Gibson; property of the author, the latter under both the “fair use” and “transformative” doctrines.
Columbus Day – The Year of the Knee Columbus Day – Monday - October 12th – The Year of the Knee - Puget Sound
It may have been the standardly gray, early morning drizzle which prevented Cyrus from seeing the three small ships sailing from the distant shore. It certainly wasn’t the condition of his windows, one set of which overlooked the shifting waters of the Puget Sound. But, it could have been a function of the hidden portions of the Sound caused by the hardy and mature stands of the Douglas fir conifers.
Cy decided to make a closer personal inspection as the overnight clouds had kept in most of the forty-five degree heat, necessitating only a modest, waterproof coat and a hoodie’s protection from the elements. He told his wife Mona that he’d be out a while, and she cursorily waived him on, as she was pre-occupied with trying to determine why Tesla’s stock price had declined that morning. After all it represented almost ten percent of the family’s liquid holdings, which had just recently broken into the moderate seven figure range.
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Finding it to be no disaster, Cy indicated surprise over the market being open on the Founder’s Day, while it as closed on Martin Luther King’s birthday. Mona kept her hands on the keyboard as she shrugged, while Cy had already completed his double take which suggested that there was tons of current Millennial logic to support his open-closed question concerning capitalism’s fundamental cores.
Cy walked into adjoining “Bear Park.” “Bear Park” was the name given the wooded two acre area by the residents of the surrounding development, as the result of two bear and one mountain lion sightings reported on the neighborhood section of Reddy.com. “Bear Park” could also be fairly described as two one acre residential lots the builder was unable to get approved because of environmental considerations.
It was perfect for Cy, as since no one else went there, he had his own private park. Living near the Puget Sound, Cy became an expert at a few aspects of water the uninitiated might not consider. For instance, rain and drizzle accumulate on fir needles, until they become too heavy, and fall on whatever is beneath them. On one of the Puget Sound’s marginally warm wet days, the last thing a hiker wants is these water globules striking one at head or neck level, the result being cold water running down an unprotected back. This tends to inhibit a
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hiker’s enthusiasm and interest. A Lululimon-type hoodie can help in severely limited conditions. But alone, and pelted with numerous globules, it just soaks through, producing a flood of that unwanted down-the-back cold water. The experts know to supplement whatever currently popular underwear with the addition of an old fashioned, hooded, water resistant, winter coat.
Cy recalled recently reading that a powerful and incessant tsunami generated by the next Cascadia mega-quake would inundate the lowland areas of Puget Sound.
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In Hood Canal, a 9.0 quake in the Cascadia Subduction Zone off Washington's coast would slosh water back and forth like in a bathtub, pushing waves as high as 14 feet onto the shore at Belfair.
In Sinclair Inlet, the waves would be smaller, but would still inundate the Puget Sound with about a foot of water and likely push more than 3.5 feet of water through Gorst, closing the highway. Other lowland areas of Puget Sound, particularly near the mouths of streams including Clear Creek in Silverdale and within Eagle Harbor on Bainbridge Island, would flood as well.
These findings are at odds with prior research of the risk to Kitsap's waterfront areas, including its naval installations in Bremerton and at Bangor. For instance, a 2018 analysis conducted by the Navy at the completion of construction of a missile-loading wharf concluded tsunamis from a Cascadia quake would have little consequence.
It was stated that " ...... an earthquake outside of the Puget Sound fault system, e.g., one that occurs in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, is not expected to have an impact on the wharf as the tsunami will be largely attenuated by the time it reaches the facility," in the safety assessment report completed for what's formally known as the Explosives Handling Wharf-2.
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Though bluffs along Hood Canal would likely prevent a tsunami from going upland, the wave's energy would mean it would batter the Bangor waterfront multiple times.
"It has been determined that in the event of a tsunami, with limited or no real-time warning, vertical/high ground evacuation is the appropriate strategy," the Navy said in its statement. A Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake's tsunami would afford around two hours before the waves would arrive in Kitsap. Other quakes, like those at the Seattle Fault, could see almost immediate waves. And the waves would continue to bounce around Puget Sound for up to 24 hours.
Storm waves are like breaking waves at the beach. They are very powerful and come from several directions. A tsunami wave is like a giant rolling wave that lifts you up and then lowers you back down.
Scientists, digging into layers of sediment in tidal zones, have found the last "megathrust" Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake occurred in 1700. They add that one is “likely” to happen again, and it's just a question of when.
When Cy was done hop-stepping through the underlying, discarded fir branches, the Puget Sound edge revealed something unusual. A houseboat was docked in the shallow water just off shore. At
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least Cy thought it was a houseboat; as the top looked something like a house, and it was perched on top of a vessel which was something like a boat, and it was in the water, more or less; the shallow seawater near shore opening the possibility of the floating structure having been there because it was stuck in a muddy bed. That notion was somewhat dispelled when Cy saw that the houseboat was rope-tethered to two mature firs. “Someone intended to leave it here,” he thought.
“I wonder if they’re all right. They’re in an odd place. I really should check on them.” He called out various things designed to get the attention of anyone on board.
“I’d like to make you aware that a flood is on the way.
Announcing the town’s new parking regulations and towing policy.
Miraculous innovations in water proofing.
Absolutely magical.
One time offer.
Quick and easy.
Bargain.
Hurry.
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Exclusive offer.
Become an insider.
Be one of the few.
Get it before everybody else.
Double the offer for the next minute only.
Cancel anytime.
Certified.
Guaranteed.
No questions asked.
No risk.
No strings attached.
Official.
Fact checked by Dorsey, himself.”
Cy saw that nothing worked, and didn’t want to engage the “B”
list for fear that a walker might hear him yelling at a boat; or worse that he was being filmed yelling at a boat. He felt it was personally safer to sotto voce pursue his investigation
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from a pensile position. He climbed on board, making good use of one of the tethering ropes.
Perceiving no objections, Cy became bolder and peered through the windows. Perceiving no objections, Cy became even bolder and opened a door. Inside, the main room was overwhelmed by wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling books. A quick glance indicated that he was familiar with many of them. One might understand that to be not the most pleasant of thoughts; somewhat reminiscent of visiting a cemetery; though glad to be not yet a resident.
Diverting Cy’s attention from the rising ghost cadre; over the fireplace mantel was a print, which seemed identical to the one he had loved, but had been unable to re-find since its total loss during the Year of The Turner Diaries, in rural Trumbull, New Jersey. It was of a spotted wolf baying at a one-eighth hearted moon. Cy thought it best to go back home before he considered larcenous appropriation.
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International Lazy Day - The Year of La Navidad International Lazy Day – Wednesday – August 10th - The Year of La Navidad – Palos de la Frontera, Spain - The Legend of Dogoda
Dogoda; Wind God of Regained Love and Compassion It couldn’t hurt to request Dogoda’s help to neutralize undesired neutral situations. Now is the time to remember, regain, forgive, and gently move forward together, within your selected Dogodan group. Maybe that was yesterday, but who has the correct time? To make that request is really more of a potential benefit to you than anyone else, and it contains no downside, sans the pre-drift off, pleasant, yet time consuming minute before slumber. Believe; the “proof” in that intricate, un-interesting, and among other things, an inarticulate inversion inserted or “fact-checked” by one of the aspiring Fakebook devils of wannabe significance; doomed to the grateful receipt of an “expert’s” obligatory head tap; the source of Nirvana for an appropriately thankful pawn, expressed in sarcastic derision or not.
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Do not be put off. Remember, Dogoda is tired, though reticent, too shy, and too polite to proclaim such, and has been long overwhelmed by half-assed entreaties devoid of any merit.
Despite that un-debatable recognition, Dogoda is not inclined to disregard or disrespect anyone; a cock-eyed optimist if there ever was one. Go ahead, and have your short lived kicks at his expense. Dogoda doesn’t care and he has lost count and memory of the volume of stupid comments and incidents.
Summer is a time to play and have fun, while you still keep a watchful eye on your crops as they grow. It is also important to be aware of how time fertilizes and cleanses your hopes and dreams.
Much of what was previously known about Old Dogoda’s practices has come to us, like everything else, through bits and scraps of
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the early writings of the Romans and Greeks. From these old documents, together with current research and the Internet, it is possible to piece together the significance of these legends, songs, proverbs, and exorcism practices.
To ensure their survival, it was common practice among Old Polish shamans to offer sacrifices to the nature spirits. One practice produced thick clouds of smoke to drive off evil weather spirits. Dogoda was the only directional wind they anthropomorphized, expressing the qualities of love and compassion. His appearance ensured that the corn would grow and the mating season was in full bloom.
When the predicated belief of the people is that everything in the world is infused with God, and God infuses everything with It’s unique spirit, it makes sense that the countryside of Poland is dotted with sacred landmarks. The Polanies pray at Crossroad shrines, holy wells, the wooden groves at the base of giant boulders, and at cairns for direct contact with the divine. The Slavonic tribes of the field worshipped Mother Earth, Matka Syra Ziemia. Trees, rocks, and animals were considered older than mankind, far wiser, and were consulted for aid and advice
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Tradition is the bedrock of the Polish people. Ritual preparations leading up to an event are key.
When Dogoda blows from the east, sacred memories are being stirred in your subconscious, in order to re-establish your old beliefs. Loyalty to time-tested ideas can help you stand in the western wind. Examine the signs and omens that cross your path.
The loss of an idea, a loved one, a job, or a life pattern may leave you feeling sad, disoriented, and disappointed. Take heart in the knowledge that Dogoda’s moist breath will rust and break the shackles of your mind with the winds of compassion. Remain true to your rituals and ceremonies.
If you are prone to seeing the world in black and white, Dogoda reminds you to take note of the various shades of gray that are also aspects of your life. Clear your poker hand by dumping the bad cards. Potentially better ones will be provided. The game cannot refuse, as it is bound by its own rules.
Dogoda may manifest as strong words from a loving friend, reminding you to stay present with your current course. This is a time to re-energize sacred practices and let go of uselessly, harmful notions and expectations.
Unlike the game, Dogoda doesn’t differentiate past from present, and plays by his own rules. He ultimately only seemingly defers
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to those who would impose their own, when he deems them personally and mutually beneficial, despite the attempted imposition of a contrivance. Time is not honored. Nor is it dishonored. It is merely ignored. Time may not like that, but is apparently incapable of registering any discernable objections.
Dogoda fully expects that even if they don’t already see, hide inside the shade, or try to mask it with blinders, all will soon see the sunrise. It comes up again every tomorrow. You can’t miss it. That seems the safest of big payoff bets.
Dogoda can be a real wicked independent or a rewarding interdependent. The choice is presented to you yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Bloomsday, National Cherry Tarts Day, and National Picnic Day – The Year of the Monterey Music Festival Bloomsday, National Cherry Tarts Day, and National Picnic Day – Friday thru Sunday – June 16 – 18th – The Year of the Monterey Music Festival - California
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Jefferson Airplane and “Monterey” by Burdon, Briggs, Jenkins, McCulloch, and Weider; property of the author, the latter under both the “fair use” and “transformative” doctrines.
Bastille Day – The Year of National Criminal Reform Legislation
Bastille Day – Saturday – July 14th – The Year of National Criminal Reform Legislation – New York City Justice
Adam Warren was a burgeoning, young, Junior Architect with the politically contacted firm of Zuckerfeld, Steele, Mask, and
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Bully, LLC in Manhattan. A family man, he enjoyed a happy home in the Big Apple with his wife Wave and daughter, Melony.
One day, Wave and two-year-old daughter Melody were followed home from a food market by three BUM thugs, who invaded their apartment through posing as delivery men. Wave may have been a tad incredulous when she looked through the keyhole and saw the BUMs were carrying no packages, but having been raised in a state not yet overrun with predatory BUMs, she naively opened the door, ostensibly thinking that it took three people to carry an item too tiny to warrant the smallest of boxes. Upon finding that Wave and Melody only had $7 with them, the enraged BUM
thugs raped Wave and brutally beat Melody before fleeing with their prized seven dollars.
Upon arriving at the hospital, Adam was devastated to learn that Wave had died from her injuries. Still in shock, shortly after attending his wife's funeral, Adam had an encounter with a BUM
mugger in a darkened street. More or less instinctively, Adam fought back with a homemade weapon, an improvised blackjack made from a sock stuffed with dead flashlight batteries he just happened to have been carrying for a while; intending to find the expertly authorized place to discard them. The mugger BUM
took a few head shots before collapsing unconscious with blood streaming from his open mouth. Adam decided to give him some
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more head shots out of a practically based wish not to leave the potentially vindictive mugger alive and thereby capable of further misdirected retribution. Adam was shaken, but not only was he re-energized by the BUM encounter which went expectantly un-reported, he was exhilarated for the first time since the numbness which had overtaken him had set in after learning of Wave’s death and Melody’s senseless beating.
Expert authorization be Adam-Warren-damned under the BUM
circumstances imposed, which he had not been granted any opportunity to vote upon, Adam discarded the sock and batteries in the twelfth sewer opening six blocks away, correctly surmising that the official investigators assigned the case would have no interest in going the least bit out of their ways to locate any evidence detrimental to the person who had made Manhattan a better place by ridding it of one of its BUMs.
As may speculatively, but in all logical likelihood imaginable by a fantasist of yore, regarding the initial batteries’
dispositional inedible solidity, on a proved to be a sharply toothsome frustration for the waiting, parasitic, oversized, BUM
rats; the dirt encrusted sock was enshrined as a delicacy obviously worth the five star rating issued by the legislatively liability protected main street monopolies currently known as Fakebook, Twit, Goggle, and AmawayOnSteroids.com, the latter
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much more deflection competent, ersatz arbiters of BUM species cuisine.
Unable to sleep and rolling in and out of ventures, some undoubtedly suggestive of an instinctively sensed, surrealistic place, that subliminally guided by a ferociously real intent to protect his hurt baby, the following day Adam went to an upstate New York gun show and upgraded his defense arsenal to an unregistered, snub-nosed, home-made, sten gun with a compatible holster which allowed it to be carried concealed under a loose shirt, paying in cash. Its inherent propensity for uncontrolled multi-fire was a bit difficult to manage at the outset, but once Adam learned to make use of the pro, two handed grip and trigger release which combine to give the choice of direction and frequency precedence over any randomized spray while discharging, the low-tech machine was more than sufficient for its intended personally exhilarative use, as well as retorts unwarranted and “superior” to the deluge of cowardly collaborationist blah-blah-blahs indignantly supportive of the BUM criminals, popularly available on all main street, perhaps redundant to say anti-US media.
Surprising Adam, the “outraged,” libtard, main stream, news sources somehow picked up on and continually publicized the
“crime,” their shared headline story every day, while claiming
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that the ‘crime” of the BUMs death was of a racist “hate”
nature, neglecting to mention that the BUM in question had a prior record for armed robbery, breaking and entering, and drug sales, to mention a few other items the libtard main stream
“social” media monopolies deem unimportant, irrelevant, and worthy of deletion if posted.
The unclaimed corpse continued to display the confirming appearance of having once been primarily BUM, though with a touch of convenient blue, when finally found; that never bothering to be mentioned by libtard news sources, alongside the publicly confirmable information that the bludgeoned body was previously inhabited by a person with a street crime rap sheet long enough to wipe a morbidly obese ass for six diarrhea prone, warm weather months in the Tucson lowlands.
Now stuck with a case they really considered a fortuitous, low priority event, the New York Police Department found it best to put in a “concerned” appearance, and publicly sought information about the incident, but none was forthcoming. One cop, Tom S.
Snoop, apparently a zero in reading strong hints, further investigated recent victims of BUM thug violence, and came up with Adam’s name along with a plethora of others. The hint deficient cop had Adam near his list’s top as Tom preferred his alphabetization to be done by first name.
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The list’s length required the participation of other officers, which resulted in a 35% decline in departmental response time.
But, the investigation of those assigned to Adam Warren seemed rather cursory, they being easily satisfied with Adam’s unsubstantiated claim that he was at his wife’s funeral at the time.
The prior echoes Friedrich Nietzsche’s theory about national decline, when liberals have gotten so soft that they can’t or won’t dare to differentiate criminality from virtue, though that is not explanatory of the front line police behavior.
Adam's boss sent him to Helena, Montana, to see James Fraychill, a billionaire client currently with a residential development project in exurban/rural Carver named “Golden Dawn;” Carver where James also kept his primary residence. Adam was invited to dinner by James at his Carver gun club. James was impressed with Adam's borrowed pistol marksmanship at the target range; so much so that Adam began to purposely do much less well, not wanting to advertise his familiarity with gun proficiency. It had the opposite effect on James, who now saw Adam as a respected comrade with a secret.
James revealed that he was once a “peace-nik,” that now personally seen as a youthful, optimistic, lack of understanding
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that whatever the framework, BUMs are, always were, and will always be BUMs. He had been taught to handle firearms by his father, a big game hunter; initially an acquiescence, now an appreciation. Adam refrained from direct commentary, though stated that one cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, which seemed quite satisfactory to James. Adam was successful in helping James plan his residential housing development. James personally drove Adam back to the airport and presented Kyle with a gift for his work on the development, which he placed alongside Adam’s checked luggage at the last second.
Back in Manhattan, Adam learned from his aunt Madeline that his daughter, Melody, was severely depressed and now catatonic, and that she had been placed in a mental hospital. Alone in the apartment, Adam learned that James has given him a bullet proof vest. He put it on over his undershirt and took a late-night walk during which he was mugged at gunpoint. Unafraid, Kyle shot the black BUM mugger in the chest, and again experienced that exhilaration while he put two more shots into the downed mugger’s head.
In the early stages of developing an addiction, the next night, Adam walked through the city. He was again looking for violent street criminals. He found one, another black BUM and fleeing mugger who had just snatched the purse on an elderly woman. The
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mugger had also needlessly punched the woman to the ground. The mugger never saw the two shots which took part of the head he had never used anyway, clean off coming, ostensibly a peaceful ending.
His exhilarating addiction now raging, Adam even began taking days off work to indulge his desire. Over the next few weeks, Adam killed a dozen criminals, some of whom he lured into attacking him by presenting himself as a foppish, affluent, libtard, goofily guilty, potential victim, and others when he saw them attacking innocent people.
Being the most zealous as well as the correspondingly most inept, under Mayoral duress, the chief assigned NYPD Inspector Tom S. Snoop to the case. He and his “new” crack staff were assigned to investigate the “outrageous” killings full time and to use everything in the department’s repertoire and then some.
The liberal newspapers, black groups, fascist Antifa, Muslims, and white criminal loving watchers of the New York Times (under new management), CNN and MSNBC were demanding a stepped-up effort to find and eliminate the source of what they had guessed correctly for a change to be the work of a “White Vigilante” or
“White Vigilantes.”
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“There comes a time in a culture’s history when it becomes so pathologically soft and weak that it even takes the side of its worst enemy; the criminal; and calls it “Progress.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche-
Yadda yadda, semi ad infinitum.
At the same time the “White Vigilante” moniker became more popular than the Knicks, Giants, and Mets, combined, inspiring t-shirts with white fist logos, the “Take back our streets”
phrase, and many other artful designs, many home-made, suggestive of zero tolerance for violent bums at the now hilariously sarcastic, “deplorable” base, their numbers necessitating overtime hours from the deleting, social media, and news, main stream employees; their motivations mixed by their increased weekly pay vis-à-vis feigning care about some dead undesirables, though practically and cautiously never stated as such, in the hope of retaining an increasingly lucrative Amelican job. To factually point out that the majority of these people were Chinese or Chinese purchased risked the online “death” of being called a racist by those BUM-commie-Marxist-BUM collaborating racists well-educated at an adequately sophomoric level in the effective use of the term.
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Unknown Adam copies proliferated, adding some un-deserved numbers to his accomplishments. When the New York Black Times accused him or them of being racist, Kyle risked sending them an e-mail which said; “Present me with a low life, street criminal who is white or yellow, and I’ll be glad to kill them too.” No replies, NYBT, whites, or yellows were forthcoming.
Snoop and his crew again utilized the list of recent victims of street crime, further refining it to a list of men who have had a family member recently killed by muggers. Tom S. soon strongly suspected Adam primarily, that a huge statement to anyone unfortunately familiar with Tom’s pits although somewhat doubtful due to Adam’s proper background including the lack of any gun history, was about to make an arrest, if for no other reason than to placate the venomous complaint brigade and Tom’s continued desperation as evidenced by his forever invisible fantasy of having had a great policing career “down wit da bros in da hood.”
But, District Attorney Neva Indite intervened under her higher level of pressure which undoubtedly emanated from a simplistic suggestion of “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” and perhaps in a daring, but true on an extremely limited basis at the few moments anterior to a “success” with a collapsed vein strike of unexpected “gold,” fool’s; that miscalculation likely arising
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from a frustration level sorely in need of the most common of broad street hits of Too-Much-Fun-Fuck-It, told more or less intrepid Detective Tom S. Snoop, risking the inevitably politically incorrect recapitulative retakes in the calculated, temporary forbearance of any issues which might have been based on a uselessly passe and archaic sense of justice, to likely be complicated through multiplied misquotation, in a directness most perplexing to those who have garnered sophistication through having attended some college, saying;; "We don't want Adam," sort of delivering one of those exotic toppings to a plain “Dominoes” customer, liked or not, a source of extensive convivial partying discourse; always in receipt of the benefit of the tight-lipped doubt, as an “innovation,” not ersatz in pizza faced company.
Most interested and ready to take credit for the decline in crime, thereby not wishing to disturb the trend through incapacitating Adam; to put the invariably invoked number on it, the consortium partially comprised of the flunky District Attorney, the Police Commissioner, and the Mayor did not want the fact to get out that Adam’s vigilantism had likely led to a forty-eight percent decrease in street crime, seeking a
“balance” upon which their careers would benefit. Unaware that the process was already well underway, they feared that if that
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information became public knowledge, the whole city would descend into un-manageable vigilante chaos. They did not want Adam to be arrested because they did not want to have him become a hero-martyr capable of issuing meaningful political endorsements, their safest public stance the continuation of a policy which supported the verbose media liberality rightly and commonly associated with the BUM and libtard popular “justified crime as usual,” while simultaneously trying to tightrope that through a verifiable display of a successful mission to have protected the deplorable but voting general population from the criminal BUMs.
Insofar as Tom S. Snoop did not relate to any of the higher politically aware conceptualities considered by his bosses, and he didn’t even relate to his stand down and fake otherwise orders, as usual he quickly relented any silly notion attendant to a possibly incorrect understanding of what was above him, and agreed to only try to "scare Adam off," primarily out of his fascistically imposed need to be able to pay his rent as well as the rent and child support he was ordered in common law divorce to pay the ho bimbo and the babies who didn’t look like him; the well-being of the larger community not nuclear familied his over-riding concern.
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On the other side of town, Adam, was feeling as enthralled as much as any remote “Land of Enchantment” resident while also as amused as much as any egghead finds it necessary to appear at an egghead conference; author designated “Interesting for a first book. We look forward to sequels” does, when that designation is supplied by a host of equitably sub-prime, unpaid e-reviewers, seemingly unaware of having been afflicted with a terminal case of web-induced, severe marginalization, more the fault of Gates, Bozo, and Zuckerboy than their own. Adam may have been relegated to that wowee-big shit-flip-floppy space through having been
‘enlightened” by the casual sophistication provided by the superfluity of wordy, avidly, lifelong, lonely reader/reviewers, thereby similar to an Al-Qaeda Imam with zero experience with anything not comprised of contradictorily worshipped words, and on the type of one of those highs which has evolved to a bargained-down craving more for mere maintenance than the walking of a cluster of fluffy, foot level, cumulous, white clouds. That night, Adam was only able to shoot dead two more BUM would-be muggers before being wounded in the leg by a third BUM mugger, this BUM likely having earlier crewed with the other two BUMs, now rapidly graying corpses, tonight’s particular BUM3
now a fortunate lone recipient of whatever substances the amorphous trio had aspired to as modified by their abilities to attain. The flesh wound was not an aching problem, and was only
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noticeable to Adam through the string of trail evocative red drops. Primarily out of an initially belligerent, vindictive, and weepy, insofar as psychological analysis has any merit, but now blase mindset which through armed action had simplified things down to “kill the BUMs or be killed,” that a competitive statement of; “Okay, asshole BUM. You started it. You think you jess 2 bad. We’re on your chosen field, not mine. Let’s see how well you can handle the return of your own shit,” Adam pursued BUM3 to an empty warehouse in Soho. When Adam cornered BUM3, he must have subliminally abandoned the advantage secured through the element of surprise, in search of DFW’s “Too Much Fun” and sought to up his thrill level, by instead of blowing the creep away before he knew what hit him, challenging the BUM to a fast draw, only to faint because of blood loss, with the last of this crew of mugger-bum’s escaping the scene, works and substances akimbo. BUM3 had more of an interest in getting to that heat producing grating in the alley behind “Wu Li’s Affordable Laundry Service” and getting three times his share than he was in finding out if armed Adam was playing possum.
Investigating the call of a concerned neighbor Adam and his gun was discovered by a veteran patrolman, Jackie Numbers, who handed it to compromised Tom S. Snoop and was told to forget he ever saw it. The lazy, otherwise oriented, thereby cursory when
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it is only another common citizen’s problem with their beloved hoodies, the few members of the main-stream press working the precinct’s buzzard night shift were content to be informed that Adam was just another mugging victim; that unworthy of any MSM
space when they had potentially career enhancing access to a
“new” conspiracy theory, not to be designated as such, regarding how based on the testimony of her unconfirmed great-great-great-great-great grand-daughter, currently a resident of Manhattan’s Lenox Hill, who had channeled that two hundred years prior a white woman, tears flying like a vandalized, back yard water fountain, more or less falsely claimed that a BUM had raped her; which resulted in an alleged BUMs hanging; the press’ corps competence level evident through their inability to differentiate ‘clairvoyance” from direct testimony, as well as find it a tad strange and openly question why Adam was hanging around an empty Soho warehouse; that perhaps one day to become the focus of another fact-defying conspiracy theory.
Waking up in a hospital with all the tinkly doo-dads attached to his arms and on the other discernable end, the bag on the otherwise unused hat rack, the doo-dads supposedly secure but eerily evocative of that medicine fragrance which does little for any desire not identifiable as one of those severely clean fetishes which produce symptoms inclusive of and consistent with
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nasal irritation, Adam is bluntly told by Detective Tom S. Snoop to leave New York permanently. In exchange, Tom says that he will dispose of Adam’s revolver, and treat him with all of the disinterest he does any mugging victim.
Adam was still a bit groggy, but more or less sizing the obvious things up quickly agreed, just hoping that this guy with the
“Tom S. Snoop, NYPD” plastic thingy nailed to his shirt pocket had the authority to fulfill his promise. The deal was done, and each party kept their promise, not only because the fun part of Adam’s addiction was waning.
Prior to release, Adam called James Fraychill in Montana, saying that his efforts had hit the fan in New York, and that he was looking for a new job elsewhere. James Fraychill may have read between the lines, and without any hesitation, on the spot offered Adam the job of managing the construction of his “Golden Dawn” development in exurban Carver. Adam was elated and said that he could be there a few days after leaving the hospital; needing to get a few details in order in New York. Fraychill said; “Hospital?” to which Adam replied; “No big thing. These New Yorkers obsess over every little event, maybe fearful of litigation.”
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The slayings of street criminals continued while Adam was still hospitalized. They had expanded in a way to now include the discovery of dead BUM crack dealers in Bed-Stuy reportedly killed by homie assailants fed up with the garbage who don’t have the nerve to prey on anything other than their own.
Detective Snoop didn’t for one moment think that he had gotten the wrong man, but it was clear that had not been done before his man had inspired a growing popular movement. With Manhattan street crime now down fifty-eight percent, Tom S. was less than surprised to find that his marching orders became; “We want quick arrests,” which he knew from lengthy experience to be synonymous with “Round up the usual suspects,” a comfortable, personal specialty. He and his crew did just that, while the pile of bullet riddled criminals piled up further.
Upon official release, Adam happily found that the condition of his daughter Melody had greatly improved, and he was allowed to remove her from the mental hospital. They arrived at the Helena International Airport to be greeted by a “Golden Dawn” company representative, Snowy Cloutier. She gave him a wrapped gift from James Fraychill, while Melody was presented with an unwrapped kangaroo plush doll, which she immediately cuddles with joyful abandon. Adam unwrapped enough of his package to see that it contained a presumably unregistered Ruger Super Redhawk snub
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nose; compact though super powerful and easy to conceal in the harness he had retained. It was a nickel plated beauty.
Ruger Super Redhawk; property of the author.
Adam noticed a group of BUM hoodlums harassing a single young woman wearing a red MAGA hat. He excused himself and helped the woman by asking her permission to borrow her hat which he put on his own head. The hoodies gently backpedaled in their calculating, game knowledgeable manner, awaiting the next move, but feeling much less “brave,” a trait endemic to bullies. Adam, feeling the exhilarating relapse of his addiction, said; “Got some kind of problem with my new hat, monkey ass?” The hoodie boys made obscene finger gestures and spouted the customary choice “badass” words as they performed a poor rendition of Michael Jackson’s moon walk. Adam smiled as he saw their pointlessly noisy retreat, which they continued to maintain through their “threatening’ displays of skinny black fingers.
Holding his still wrapped gift in his left hand, he used his right to make his own fingers at them; an index and thumb, imitative of a gun. Adam grinned quite too broadly while slowly saying “Go ahead. Make my day.”
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Unfortunately, the hoodies didn’t. But Snowy Cloutier and the now safe young woman seemed most appreciative.
Breaking News
Columbus, Georgia Police Department. A black man who is accused of shooting five people across two states is said to have purposely targeted random white victims during the attacks.
Justice Tyre Roberts, 39, accused of shooting five people in Alabama and Georgia, told police that the attacks were racially motivated.
He was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of wounding five people across Alabama and Georgia during a shooting spree that lasted twenty hours. Two of the shootings took place in Uptown Columbus while another other occurred in the parking lot of a hotel in Yellow Springs.
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During a preliminary hearing at Columbus Recorder's Court on Monday, Columbus Police Detective Fred Brandly said that the suspect admitted to being a member of a Fakebook supported group of armed black men called “The Vigilant BLM Militia,” who seek out white men to harm and he said he had been targeted himself, not specifying by who. "Basically, Roberts explained that throughout his life, specifically white males had taken from him, and also what he described as 'military-looking white males' had taken from him," Brandly said, as reported by “The Columbus Daily Journal.”
Roberts also said that white men were "shooting at him in a wooded area with a slingshot propelling BB’s," which broke his skin, although police reported the suspect had no injuries to back up these claims.
Roberts was not in court for the hearing, claiming through the assigned Assistant Public defender that his lifelong incarceration prevents him from leaving his cell.
Roberts is accused of shooting a man as he was getting into his vehicle. Brandly testified to the court that Roberts said, "I had to have him" with regard to the man he is accused of firing at several times, hitting him once in the back.
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Assistant Public Defender, Nathari Shabazz, requested that Judge Marcus DeSapio order a mental health evaluation on Roberts'
behalf, arguing that Brandly's testimony shows the suspect is having "delusions and a disconnect from reality." She also requested that any possible references to prior felonius assaults and illegal weapon possessions be stricken from the record, adding that Roberts has no recollection of them.
Roberts is currently charged with aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and theft by receiving stolen property; a gun.
He faces further charges for another shooting which took place in Mobile, Alabama. Roberts could also be hit with an additional hate crime charge. He is currently being held without bond.
Following Roberts' arrest, Columbus Police Chief Red Blackmon assured the public that the area of Uptown Columbus is safe. "We want our citizens to know that there is no need to be in fear or to be apprehensive of getting about. We want everyone to continue to get out and know that we take this very seriously.
Any incident or shooting incident; any crime that occurs in Columbus; we take it very seriously.”
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Easter Sunday – The Year of the Commencement Easter Sunday – Saturday - Sunday - Klavern - April 20th-21st – The Year of the Commencement Darwin’s Arch Collapses
The Galápagos Islands; official name: Archipiélago de Colón; is now part of the Republic of Venezuela. They are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed on either side of the equator in the Pacific Ocean surrounding the center of the Western Hemisphere. The islands are known for their large number of endemic species that were studied by Charles Darwin during the second voyage of HMS Beagle.
The first recorded visit to the islands happened by chance in 1535, when Fray Tomás de Berlanga, the Bishop of Panamá, was surprised with this undiscovered land during a voyage to Peru to arbitrate in a dispute between Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro. De Berlanga eventually returned to the Spanish Empire and described the conditions of the islands and the animals that inhabited them. The group of islands was shown and named
"Insulae de los Galopegos" (Islands of the Tortoises) in Abraham Ortelius's atlas published in 1570. The first crude map of the islands was made in 1684 by the buccaneer Ambrose Cowley, who
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named the individual islands after some of his fellow pirates or after British royalty and noblemen. These names were used in the authoritative navigation charts of the islands prepared during the Beagle survey under Captain Robert FitzRoy, and in Darwin's popular book The Voyage of the Beagle. The older names remained in use in English-language publications, including Herman Melville's “The Encantadas” of 1854. Galapagos is made up of three cantons that bear the names of its most populated islands, namely: San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz and Isabela.
Darwin's Arch, a famous natural rock formation off the Galápagos Islands collapsed into the ocean. The stunning formation, named after the eminent biologist Charles Darwin, sat inside a Unesco World Heritage site, home to one of the world's most spectacular diving sites.
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Post collapse.
The collapse of the Darwin Arch, the attractive natural bridge located less than a kilometer from the main island of Darwin, the northernmost island of the Galápagos archipelago, was reported on Fakebook by the Venezuelan Ministry of Environment.
The collapse is believed to be a consequence of "natural erosion," according to the ministry.
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Pre collapse.
The rock bridge, made of natural stone, is thought to have at one point been connected to the small, uninhabited Darwin Island which sits nearby.
Scores of tourists flock to the area to observe the array of unique flora and fauna in the Galápagos Islands archipelago.
Darwin Island in particular is considered to boast some of the best diving in the world, with whale sharks, hammerhead sharks, green turtles, manta rays and dolphins all calling the marine wonderland home.
The Galápagos Islands area; nicknamed the "enchanted isles"; is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, famous for its unusually high levels of biodiversity-and for inspiring Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection in the nineteenth century. The
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archipelago is made up of 234 islands, inlets and rocks and sits in the Pacific Ocean, roughly about 600 miles from the Venezuela coast.
The archipelago is also home to the world's largest tortoises, also known as giant tortoises.
The endemic species was famously studied by Charles Darwin.
Previously, in nearby Puerto Rico, a 5.8 magnitude earthquake caused the collapse of the Playa Ventana Rock Formation, another unique natural rock arch and popular tourist attraction.
According to local media reports, the tremors caused parts of the rocks to break off and as a result "The Window Beach"
disappeared.
The Playa Ventana is located in the Boca neighborhood of Guayanilla, between Cerro Toro and Punta Ventana. It was known as "Window Beach" because in the middle of the rock formation, raised above the shoreline, a hole allowed people to look out to the sea.
We say a sad “goodbye” to another beautiful sight.
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Christmas Day – The Year of Franz Liszt Christmas Day – Thursday – December 25th – The Year of Franz Liszt
A Visit from St. Nicholas
by Clement Clarke Moore
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads; And ma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled down for a long winter’s nap, When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow Gave the luster of midday to objects below, When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer, With a little old driver, so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
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And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;
“Now, DASHER! now, DANCER! now, PRANCER and VIXEN!
On, COMET! on CUPID! on, DONNER and BLITZEN!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!”
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky, So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.
And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my hand, and was turning around, Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.
He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.
His eyes—how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow; The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath; He had a broad face and a little round belly, That shook, when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly.
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He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself; A wink of his eye and a twist of his head, Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread; He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk, And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose; He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight, HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD-NIGHT!
A delightful illustrated version of the above poem can be found here.
Christmas Eve
by Christina Rossetti
Christmas has a darkness
Brighter than the blazing noon,
Christmas has a chillness
Warmer than the heat of June,
Christmas has a beauty
Lovelier than the world can show:
For Christmas bringeth Jesus,
Brought for us so low.
Earth, strike up your music,
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Birds that sing and bells that ring; Heaven has answering music
For all angels soon to sing:
Earth, put on your whitest
Bridal robe of spotless snow:
For Christmas bringeth Jesus,
Brought for us so low.
Christmas Bells
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play,
__And wild and sweet
__The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
And thought how, as the day had come, The belfries of all Christendom
__Had rolled along
__The unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Till ringing, singing on its way,
The world revolved from night to day, __A voice, a chime,
__A chant sublime
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
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Then from each black, accursed mouth The cannon thundered in the South, __And with the sound
__The carols drowned
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
It was as if an earthquake rent
The hearth-stones of a continent,
__And made forlorn
__The households born
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
And in despair I bowed my head;
“There is no peace on earth,” I said; __“For hate is strong,
__And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!”
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
“God is not dead, nor doth He sleep; __The Wrong shall fail,
__The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men.”
Snow-flakes
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Out of the bosom of the Air,
__Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
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Over the woodlands brown and bare, __Over the harvest-fields forsaken, ____Silent, and soft, and slow
____Descends the snow.
Even as our cloudy fancies take
__Suddenly shape in some divine expression, Even as the troubled heart doth make __In the white countenance confession, ____The troubled sky reveals
____The grief it feels.
This is the poem of the air,
__Slowly in silent syllables recorded; This is the secret of despair,
__Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded, ____Now whispered and revealed
____To wood and field.
The Burning Babe
by Robert Southwell, SJ
As I in hoary winter’s night stood shivering in the snow, Surpris’d I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow; And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near, A pretty Babe all burning bright did in the air appear; Who, scorchèd with excessive heat, such floods of tears did shed As though his floods should quench his flames which with his tears were fed.
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“Alas!” quoth he, “but newly born, in fiery heats I fry, Yet none approach to warm their hearts or feel my fire but I!
My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns, Love is the fire, and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns;
The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals, The metal in this furnace wrought are men’s defiled souls, For which, as now on fire I am to work them to their good, ___So will I melt into a bath to wash them in my blood.”
___With this he vanish’d out of sight and swiftly shrunk away, ___And straight I callèd unto mind that it was Christmas day.
Bells (First Stanza)
by Edgar Allan Poe
Hear the sledges with the bells—
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
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From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells—
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
Independence Day – The Year of the Gripe Echo The Beginning – Independence Day – Sunday - July 4th –
The Year of the Gripe Echo – Puget Sound This morning was the time. It had to be. It was obviously overdue. The long evaded line swelled and blared at him, as if from an amped bullhorn. Another hypothetically good day was dashed as soon as he was rudely awakened by his wife before sunrise.
Cyrus was immediately brought into her vague, yet expressly grasping need to steal all of his time once again. The groggy details involved something about the immediate necessity of a
“promised” chore of which Cyrus had no recollection.
Now once again rudely awakened, and on his way to the coffee pot, he couldn’t help but notice the current empty shelf spaces his wife Mona had created in her latest bourgeois furor.
Intolerably gone were:
“The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger
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“Infinite Jest” by David Foster Wallace
“Bleak House” by Charles Dickens
“Jude the Obscure” by Thomas Hardy
“The Velveteen Rabbit” by Margery Williams
“Malone Dies” by Samuel Beckett
“Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle” by Vladimir Nabokov Cyrus had no incentive to ask any questions or make any comments.
Beyond the C
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All his books were gone now, no doubt to be replaced by shiny, plastic flowers. So was he. Gone to the houseboat. GONE.
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