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The Great False Prophet Mahomet
Posted on May 23, 2015 in Cultural Encounters, Freedom and Repression, Early Printed and Rare Books
Since the murderous attack on(January 2015), the discussion about the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad has witnessed a revival. In the Western world they religion cannot be insulted, it is argued, and in many Western countries believers who feel antagonised are not protected by the Law. In the Islamic world, insulting Islam and other religions is a punishable offence.
The defamation of Islam and its Prophet is a deeply rooted tradition in the Christian and Western world. As early as the twelfth century, books were written in which Muhammad was described and depicted as a fraud or as an epileptic who abused his fits to make people believe that he was receiving revelations from God. After the Reformation in Europe the same negative qualities were effortlessly ascribed to the Pope in Rome. Both the Pope and Muhammad – or the sultan of the Ottoman Empire as the case required – were portrayed as the antichrist.
In 1627 an anonymous book was published in Amsterdam which recycled all the slanderous myths about Muhammad in a handy format: Historie van den Oorsprongck, Geslacht, Geboorte, Opvoedinge, en Leere des grooten valschen Propheets Mahomets (‘History of the Origin, Descent, Birth, Education and Teachings of the Great False Prophet Muhammad’). It is part of the collection of the Society of Netherlands Literature (shelfmark 1144 A 46). Remarkably, all stories are provided with an engraved illustration. We will spare you the defamatory pictures of the Prophet, but one illustration shows the grave of Muhammad in Mecca (!). Before his death, so the story goes, Muhammad concealed strong magnets in the dome of a ‘church’ in Mecca. He also ordered a metal coffin for himself. When after his demise his coffin was carried inside the church, it rose to the ceiling and remained afloat in the air: a miracle!
In the early eighteenth century the orientalist Adriaan Reland (1676–1718) of Utrecht dismissed all these stories as fabrications, but the myth of Muhammad as an epileptic is still very much alive in the West. Just Google ‘Muhammad’ and ‘epilepsy’ and see what happens...
The coffin of Muhammad floating in the air in a 17th-century Dutch invective against Islam. Collections Society of Netherlands Literature (MNL 1144 A 46)
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Big Think Interview With Glenn Loury
A conversation with the Brown University economist and author of “Race, Incarceration and American Values.”
Glen Loury: Oh, I don't know that it can teach us all that much. I mean, I thought it was overblown as being emblematic of race relations or profiling, or anything of that sort. I didn't read it as insightful or really useful in that regard. Though I do think how we reacted to the incident: what it became, drawing the president in and so on; perhaps would tell us something about, and this was my argument in the piece, how we process racial issues. How we talk and don't talk about them, maybe how we are quick to repair to some conventional and pat storyline about them. The country had a problem, has had a problem, is trying to overcome it. Some people are slower at that than others. There's a racist behind every bush. Let's not tolerate the racists; this kind of talk. And I just thought the Gates' incident, and again, the president's handling of it, showed the thinness of that narrative; how that line was probably not any longer, if ever it was adequate, to capture the reality of our racial condition if you will.
Glen Loury: Well, I don't want to pretend to omniscience here, but I'd say there are several aspects of it that I would point out. One is the continuing fact of a developmental lag, or a gap, between the African-American population taken as a whole, not of course, including every person, on the one hand; and the much of the rest of the country, on the other. But actually, not the only group of people who manifest certain of the kinds of problems that I would talk about here and that are reflected in policing and prisons. Problems of poor education and intermittent employment and limited full human development. Problems of fragile and fractured communities and families of large numbers of under socialized and underdeveloped young people who end up getting into trouble. I could go on, and you see the line that this would draw. It would say that the African American population, taken as a whole, lags behind on the average along many of these dimensions. This is a stubborn reality and it has consequences. It can't be easily reconciled with a pat account about racism and discrimination that lets us sort of relax into saying when we finally get this right, when we get rid of racism, when we reach the post-racial society, everything is going to be okay. Well, no, because along the way here, as we've not yet been in this racial nirvana, facts on the ground have been created. Blighted lives have played themselves out and human difficulties have developed. And these are stark, they're staring us in the face, they're the subtexts for a lot of our politics; they're the story behind the story. So when Gates, a Harvard professor, God bless him, I certainly intend him no ill will. But when he trots out this story about a racist, rogue police officer, and when he begins to embrace this rhetoric of racial profiling, frankly -- and when the president buys into this, and unlike what the wisdom that he typically exhibits, President Obama, in conducting public affairs, makes a huge mistake by buying into this. It is a distraction from the real story. The real story -- two and a quarter million Americans, half of whom are black, under lock and key on a given day -- the real story, stop and frisk as the police technique du jour, in city after city around this country where the rubber hits the road, in terms of profiling; where people are getting sent off to Richter's Island because they had a joint in their pocket, and so forth and so on. Where the real story is kids learning how to be men from other kids who've been locked up for five years and then get out, because they all get out, go back to the same neighborhoods and strut their new bodies and their tattoos and their hardened attitudes as a part of the social counseling that ends up forming the normative structure of these communities. And I'm talking about tens upon tens, upon tens of thousands of them, in and out, in and out of this system.
Glenn Loury: we have to look these real objective differences of acquired capacities in the lives of human beings in the face, as between racial groups, and then think about what to do with it. To me, the first step along that way, the most important step along that way is constructing a social safe.
In my mind, if we're going to look these problems of disparity between racial groups in the United States, disparity of human development and acquired capacity for functioning. Look these problems directly on, then the solutions that suggest themselves to me are building a system of social supports, of mutual support that includes everyone, and that, therefore, eases the difficult situation of people who are especially disadvantaged, which people will be disproportionately present in the African American population, in a disadvantage racial minority population. So we need to fix the schools. We, actually, I think, need to spend a lot more than we do spend on educating our young people. I could go down a litany; I'm going to have a whole lot of policy suggestions to throw out and I'm not sure that's -- this is the time or place for it. But I'm saying healthcare fixes our attention on one particular issue. We can talk about education, we can talk about jobs, we can talk about what we do in our cities. We can talk about how we deal with the homeless and the mentally ill, and such. And we can talk about the gated community syndrome, the it's not my problem I don't want to pay any tax. Whatever. So this will sound pie in the sky; why don't we have a Northern European style welfare state? Why is the United States 50 years or more behind in the development of the institutions of social cooperation that we see in other societies, like France and Britain, and Germany, and the Netherlands, and Sweden, and so on? Canada. And how can we countenance this two-tier or multi-tier system of education where we know in advance that we're consigning some of our young people to lives of social marginality. It's a practically predictable consequence of what we do. And yet our vested int. The land of the free -- we've got an army marching around the world under the banner of freedom, and yet, we are the most un-free society, in terms of institutions of the deprivation of liberty, of incarceration. The incidents of incarceration isHow can we countenance, and so on and so forth? So my sermon, in answer to the question of what is it to do, and my sermon for us Americans, would be to construct the kind of institutions of mutuality and social cooperation that don't leave 15 or 20 percent of our people falling through the cracks. We can do it. It's not like we don't know what to do. It's not like there aren't models there. It's not like this isn't being done elsewhere. It's not like we can't afford to do it. It's a question of political will and it's about our definition as a people. What kind of community are we? So, that's where I would start the sermon. How to translate that into policy? Well easier said than done. I'm aware of that, but that's how I see it.
Question: What would you change about our criminal justice system?
Ger. Three strikes' laws make no sense as policy. They are more about the politicians responding to the people’s desire to see their fury at social dysfunction reflected in the law. Our sentences are way too long. We need to look at the war on drugs, which is to say we need to look and this is easier said than done. Once again, politically, not an easy lift at all. Nevertheless, our policy is self-defeating. We're not keeping people from using the substances. We're creating a huge black market, just like we did under prohibition, which attracts all kinds of criminal enterprise.
Gled. For what it's worth, I was not guilty of the charge but I was accused of assaulting somebody and, therefore, confronting real criminal liability, at least potentially. It didn't work out that way, but there I was in that spotlight. The stigma when you're singled out as someone who has done something wrong, that stays with you. Even if you haven't done the thing that people think you might have done, and so forth and so on. I suppose that also has affected me. I'd also say that the way that I came up, in Chicago, not a poor family, not a sort of stereotypical, sort of ghetto upbringing if you will. But nevertheless, one with some rough edges and one where there were people with one foot to either side of the law, who were regular presences in my young world, as a boy and young man growing up in Chicago. My uncle would take me to the state pen to visit friends of his who were incarcerated. He wanted me to have the experience of going there. There, but for the grace of God, go I, he would say to me about these people who were in prison. I think that kind of thing surely has had some effect on me also..
Question: Should we legalize all drugs?
Glenn Loury: I think I'd decriminalize. I think I would heavily regulate the control. I think I, if you're asking me, and my mouth is no prayer book, but my view is, I'd view addiction to these substances as a medical problem and I would treat it accordingly. What little I know about the history of drug control policy in the United States leaves me thinking that a hugely important moment came when the lawyers win out over the doctors on this matter. That is to say, when the medical profession basically surrendered, and perhaps they had no choice in the matter, their autonomy to handle the difficult problems of addiction to substances, which is a medical problem, to the anti-drug crusaders, legal crusaders who wanted to make everything against the law and then throw people in prison. Just as we can see in retrospect that criminalizing the consumption of alcohol proves not to be the solution to the very real problem of drunkenness. So to what I want to say is the very real problem of the human susceptibility to addiction isn't best dealt with by building prisons and throwing people into jails. Question: What keeps you up at night?
Glen Loury: Well, I think the War on Terror is something that I'm most terrified of. Now that may seem to be coming out of, I don't know, left field or the stratosphere. I'm not sure where that comes from, 'cause we've been talking about race and domestic American policy, and drugs, and whatnot. And I'm not a foreign policy expert by any means. I'm not. I'm not. And yet Iraq, Afghanistan, not just that, but the whole kind of taking over of our defense and security establishment by this mentality, this kind of Orwellian war against a shape-shifting and faceless, and almost indefinable enemy. The war that never ends. I mean, when is it going to be over? The war that someone even dare not say we're not fighting it any more. I mean it's kind of -- I'm not only talking about the threats to our civil liberties from surveillance. I'm not only talking about the damage to our national reputation, from the actions that we've taken with enemy combatants and others; detaining these people, kidnapping these people, torturing these people. I'm not only talking about that; I'm talking about getting used to being at war. The country's been at war for ten years, for a decade. We're settling in to being at war. That's terrifying in the extreme to me. We've defined this problem like we were little Israel, sitting there surrounded by great Arab armies in the myth, in the storyline. Like we're, we're, we've got to engage in the drone-operated assassinations of potential enemies. We've got to accept as standard operating procedure, the collateral damage in which whole families are wiped out, sometimes by accident, sometimbest we have to say for it is that it wasn't our intention to kill them. We've got this volunteer army where nine-tenths of the populations sits back on our haunches, hoping that the price of gasoline doesn't go too high, while we've got a professionalized fighting class. Andwe're finished with them in Afghanistan and Iraq? They're coming home. They're coming home with all of the scars of battle, with all of the habituated attitudes of violence; with everything that's serving in a theater of combat, sometimes two and three times over, will effect, in the life of a human being. We're biting off a huge, huge, huge, headache here. And the fact that we don’t' talk about it, that we don't have a politics in which this question of war and peace can even get onto the table, so that we can open up our Orwell, our 1984, or Animal Farm, or whatever, and read the political text that's being spotted to us on the television right off of the page; the fact that we don't have a politics robust enough to actually debate whether or not we want to be a country permanently at war. That's what keeps me from sleeping at night..
Glenn Loury: The progressive forces in our country including those in the press, I don’t think do the cause any good by not reporting with brutal, critical candor, and scrutiny, on this administration, every bit as much as they would do on any other administration.
Now I hope that in the fullness of time -- we're only nine months, eight months into this, I will be proven wrong about this. But I have detected from time to time, a reticence and a kind of, as if the campaign were still going on, and we all kind of know that people who are covering campaigns in the press, develop allegiances, and that colors the way in which they do their reporting. I don't think that's disputable. I think there's plenty of evidence to that effect on all sides. But the campaign is long since over and we really need a hard-hitting, critical press. I mean, I see elements of it, but I don't see it to it's full extent. I'm talking about, for example, on these questions of war and peace. I don't take it as a given at all that we need to be doubling down in Afghanistan. I don't take that as a given at all. That's the direction in which the president is going. I want hard-hitting, critical assessment of that, from the liberal and progressive media, not merely a, he's our guy, we got to protect him, kind of reaction that is somehow what I feel like I'm getting. From my little small part of my little corner of the public policy world, and I write about race and affirmative action, and race discrimination, and domestic policy and prisons, and all this kind of thing. I'm sure determined to do that. I'm determined as I was trying to do in reaction to this Henry Louis Gates affair, to call the president out when I think he's making mistakes or when I think he's guided wrong. And to do that as a part of my responsibility as a public intellectual, and so forth and so on. So for what that may be worth, I'll say that.
Glenn Loury: I got some heroes, though, you're right about that. That's right. My pastor; this little church that I used to go to when I was a better Christian than I am now -- and his wife have devoted, they're physicians, Harvard trained physician. He's devoted his entire life to building a church in a community in Boston, and has helped thousands and thousands of people. And is as pious and as serious, and as humane a human being as you might imagine. Reverend Ray Hammond. I'm glad to be able to put him at the top of my list. No, I'm not running for anything in Boston; I don't need his endorsement. But he's certainly a good man. Another guy I think of, who I admire tremendously, is Ernesto Cortez, who's a well-known community organizer; the Industrial Areas Foundation. He works out of Austin, Texas but he's organizing throughout the southwest. I've known him for 25 years. And I tell you that these community organizers in some of these places in New Orleans and in Houston, and San Antonio, and L.A., and various cities around the southwest. I've had a chance to interact with them. Down in the Rio Grande Valley, they have Mexican Immigrant population and stuff like that; organizer. I've been to Holiday Inns at the airport and 500 people wearing the same t-shirt have been jumping up and down inside of auditorium, talking about they were going to get a community college education so they could run one of these MRI machines at the hospital, or something like that. They were talking about, we want $25 an hour jobs, not minimum wage jobs. And we're prepared to --
Glenn Loury:elected comfortably, in his first year with a very ambitious agenda, inheriting a economic crisis, passing massive fiscal legislation in this stimulus package which has huge implications down the road; budgetary, tax wise, and so forth and so on; and having at the top of his agenda, reforming healthcare, needs to win this one. Right. He wins this one, he gets this done, he is a long way toward a successful first term. He's a long way toward minimizing whatever setbacks the Democrats might have in the 2010 mid-year elections. Mid-term elections. And he's up there with LBJ and FDR in terms of solidifying the 20th, 21st, century American Welfare State. This is major. Healthcare is major. So the politics of this as the right-wing understands very, very well, is tremendously profound. So I see, I see the policy issues, I see the politics, but I also see the moral issue. Because this really is about who we are as a people here. And this healthcare debate--now everybody knows the history; Clintons' tried; they failed early in their administration. And they suffered serious setbacks in the '94 elections and the rest is history. Obama is teetering here. He tries, he fails; then we've got two failures, right, to try to do this. And the fact that we are the only advanced industrial democracy where people can get sick and languish because they can't afford care. Or where people are blocked in access to the system because they don't have access to insurance, which is only available through certain narrow portals and under certain very restricted conditions. The fact that we're the only society that hasn't embraced this idea that no one should go without access to these And no one should be saddled with a lifetime of debt because they have the misfortune of falling ill. That's a major moral issue. So I see it as a moment of big moral challenge for the country. Those are the broad outlines that I see. Question: What do you think of the administration’s plan?
Glenn Loury: I want the president to succeed here and I want the country to move in this direction. There's a lot to pick over and argue about on the policy front. I get the public option, because it's the stalking horse -- I know I'm not supposed to say this, I know that this is not the line -- it's the camel's nose under the tent for what I think is the correct solution to this problem, which is the so-called single payer system. Which is Medicare for all, which is the government stands behind, collects the taxes to pay for, regulates the provision of but stands behind the provision of these services to everybody. That's not to stop somebody who has a lot of money from buying something extra. That's to say, here's the government and we're providing this to everybody. Now people have said that they can't get that done, politically, here in the United States, and I see that very clearly. The vitriolic and hysterical attacks against the president's efforts to reform healthcare, labeling them socialism, talking with them in terms of fascist and government profound government intrusion into the lives of people. When in fact, what it is what every other advanced, wealthy, democratic, industrialized country has done, and nothing more, shows me that to come straight out for the single payer system would probably meet with political failure. Therefore, we have had to invent this end run around the political realities and as I understand the public option, and I know there'd be a lot of debate about this, that's the main role of it. They say compete with insurance companies. I think what it actually means is compel or coerce, or drive insurance companies into a mode of behavior. We're not going to get rid of the insurance middleman, here, with a single payer system, but we're going to create a public presence in the insurance industry, powerful enough to drive the direction of the industry in the way that we, together with regulation, want it to go. And so therein lies the big policy debate. What I think about that is I wish that we had the capacity to go directly at the single payer system. I think what we're doing is messy; so messy that the president can't explain it. And he's pretty good. He's pretty good at explaining stuff and people still don't really get what's going on because it's messy. There's a lot of -- there's a lot of demagogic rhetoric and not only on the right there's some of this rhetoric about the insurance companies that I hear coming, for example, from the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, I wish would be reconsidered. I say this as a guy who, I think of myself as on the left. But I think that if you have a system where you say you're selling insurance to people, it's very natural that the company selling the insurance are going to try to vet claims and minimize the amount of payments that they have to make. If you have a system that says everybody who needs healthcare gets it and we're going to make sure that it gets paid for by raising your taxes and providing the requirements on individuals where they have the ability to pay, such as we determine as appropriate, then the insurance issue doesn't come up. So what am I trying to say about the insurance companies. I think the talk about insurance company profit and insurance company venality, as the source of this problem, is a by-product of our unwillingness to confront head-on, the sort of deeper, moral issue, which is that we should provide the services, in terms of healthcare, to the people who need them, more or less, regardless of their ability to pay. And it's divisive. It's divisive, political rhetoric. I don't necessarily buy all these claims that the president and other people are making about the savings, magically, that are going to come from preventive care and all of that. Again, if one reads the studies and not the hype, my understanding of it -- I don't claim to be an expert, but I'm an intelligent consumer of the literature -- is that oftentimes preventive screening ends up costing more because you have to screen the universal population. It's good health policy, because screening allows you to do preventable interventions for the people who have a malady, but if one in ten women have breast cancer and you do the tests for everybody, that's going to be ten times for everyone that you catch, et cetera, et cetera. The arithmetic need not work out to cost savings, which is not an argument for not testing everybody, it's just an argument that the imagined cost-savings may not materialize, and so on and so forth. So it's the right thing for us to do. It's a complex policy move, it's hugely, politically important for President Obama, and the opposition recognizes that. There is a lot of demagoguery and hype on all sides. The cost implications of what we're planning to do are substantial and I think, have probably been underestimated by the proponents. It's not a reason for us not doing it, but it is a reason to look straight into the eye of what it is that we undertake here, to make sure that we provide properly for paying for it, and so on. Recorded on: August 18, 2009


Media Genesis Helps to More Than Double Attendance for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Through Digital Distribution
Troy, MI, July 05, 2012 --(PR.com)-- The first complete season of “Live from Orchestra Hall,” offering 22 live broadcasts of classical concerts by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) on a web platform created by Media Genesis, received 120,000 views from more than 75 countries. Combined with the DSO’s Neighborhood Concert Series and attendance at the historic Orchestra Hall, the classical season had an audience of more than 200,000.
The DSO’s web series at dso.org/live is offered for free, and viewers can choose to make a donation. During the first year of “Live from Orchestra Hall,” the average viewer gave $78, demonstrating the tremendous value and potential of reaching out into the digital space. Outside the U.S., the viewership of “Live from Orchestra Hall” was highest in Canada, Russia, France and Germany.
Media Genesis, an internet services firm located in Troy, MI, designed and developed the webcast page to include interactive features such as real-time program notes, the ability to update future webcasts to a calendar, and social media integration. These interactive elements helped the DSO’s May concert with Kid Rock achieve a place in the top 10 trending topics on Twitter.
The DSO and Media Genesis launched “Live from Orchestra Hall” on May 5, 2011, making the DSO the first American orchestra to deliver a series of live orchestral performances online and drawing a larger digital audience than the DSO’s traditional auditorium audience. The DSO is known for breaking new ground to deliver their music to the world; in 1922, the DSO performed the first radio broadcast of a complete symphonic concert.
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'The Butler' movie controversy rages on: Who's right?
Lights, Cameras, Blockbusters!Harvey Weinstein claims Warner Bros. is "bullying." the Lee Daniels-directed movie The Butler?The chances are, you probably have now, thanks to a hugely publicized effort by none other than Hollywood studio mogul Harvey Weinstein. What, exactly, is stuck in Harvey's craw now?I say "now" simply because The Weinstein Company is definitely no stranger to battles with the MPAA. Remember Harvey Weinstein taking the MPAA to task over the "F" word uses in The King's Speech, or the decision to overturn an NC-17 ruling for TWC's Blue Valentine?Yeah, this is nothing new, but it is interesting. Allow me to summarize: Next month, a movie called The Butler is set for release. This is a big-name film, and it stars none other than Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines, a butler who worked in The White House for more than 30 years. This movie is, by the way, so we're talking potentially major historical drama. Other cast members in The Butler include Alan Rickman and Jane Fonda. Now, here's what's essentially going on: Last week, it was decided that The Weinstein Company could not release The Butler under it's current title. Why?Because there is already a film called The Butler, a 1916 short film registered by Warner Bros. and this would be a violation of the MPAA's rules about similar or duplicate titles. Essentially, the idea is that movies with such similar (or the same) titles might confuse the general public. When this legal battle went into arbitration, Warner Bros. won, meaning if TWC wants to release The Butler next month, it must give the film a different title.The whole situation is becoming a three ring circus, with Harvey Weinstein appearing on TV and bashing Warner Bros. for being a "bully" and MPAA chief Chris Dodd firing back that the whole situation was just "silly." Oh, and also: Harvey W. said the following on CBS This Morning:Iaim.Oh snap!Now TWC has brought The Hobbit into it. Not sure I buy that argument, but hey, what do I know?Well, I know that I think this entire situation is utterly ridiculous. How on earth would we (i.e. the General Public) be confused by these movie titles?I haven't seen the 1916 movie short The Butler...but oh, it was never released. What the heck, Warner Bros.?This all seems very petty and very, very personal. In this case, I have to say, I'm agreeing with Harvey Weinstein's decision to fight.What do you think?Either way, if nothing else, this whole situation is generating a pretty hefty amount of additional publicity for the upcoming movie The Butler (which looks like a great film).Photo courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter Read more on TheShouldn't there be a moritorium on film titles?I've seen movies before with the same name, I wonder how those got through. It sounds like a political thing, particularly if the Hobbit claims are true. Someone needs to smack some common sense into Hollywood. I can just see the movie business in another 20 years, when all the titles are used up. They'll start spell things in text message speak. Maybe "Teh Butlr" would work?
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Sarah Palin's Purse: "Real Women Hunt Moose"
Sarah Palin was photographed as she walked across the tarmac to meet John McCain after arriving in Allentown, Pa on Wednesday. A closer look at the cloth tote bag she had draped on her forearm reveals a moose head and the phrase "Real Women Hunt Moose."
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Cis- and trans-olibanic acids (left) were identified as being behind the distinctive smell of frankincense. Cis-isocascarillic acid (right) was isolated from oranges in 2007
Althoughhe exact identity of the compounds that give it its distinctive smell remained a mystery. Because classic techniques like thin layer chromatography, GC–MS or even HPLC were not sensitive enough to identify all of frankincense's many odorants, the team led by Nicolas Baldovini at the University of Nice Sophie Antipolis in France, used chromatography–olfactometry. This system splits the output of a gas chromatograph into two different lines: a classic mass spectrometry detector, and a sniffing port, where a researcher can smell and hopefully identify the aroma of every peak. For scientists working in this area, the human nose remains a valuable tool and can be more sensitive to certain smells than lab instruments.
Chemists identified two unknown peaks with a smell that was highly characteristic of frankincense in the acidic fraction of the extract, which represents just 0.2% of the oil. 'Although it was quite difficult, it was also very hopeful to find an odour zone that had never been identified before,' says Baldovini. Because these molecules were present in trace amounts, researchers had to refine 3kg of essential oil to obtain just 1mg of them. The team then synthesised the four isomers of 2-octylcyclopropanecarboxylic acid, also known as olibanic acid, to prove that they had correctly identified the two molecules responsible for frankincense's distinctive smell. 'These molecules are not commercially available in enantiopure forms, so we had to make them in the lab. We had no other choice,' adds Baldovini.
Baldovini says that molecules previously linked to frankincense's smell 'lack the characteristic, church like smell; actually most of them are odourless'. The only antecedent of a compound with a true olibanum note was a very similar molecule called cis isocascarillic acid isolated from oranges. 'This molecule probably fits the same olfactory receptor, but nothing like it had ever been isolated from frankincense,' said Baldovini.
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It Is Important to Know the Relationship Between the Bible and God!– Bible Study
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on, many of which are also FOSS games but would definitely not be of interest here... in any case I'd have to find time to work on this in between, though playing around with sprites is usually pretty easy for me so it's not impossible!
There's nothing I'm aware of that would prevent anyone from making a set of vehicles, roads, etc to "extend" any particular pak, and releasing that to the public. It could be compiled to a set of add-on pak files that would extend a particular pak. I don't think any permission (Assuming nothing was improperly used) would be needed.
I'm also wondering: If such an addon was made, and it did match quality standards and realism as accurately as possible... could it be accepted as part of pak128 by default, or would it only stay a mod? I could ask the same question for other paks too, however I don't use others as I'm either not fond of anything under 128px or don't find some as visually appealing.
It's borderline impossible to create one futuristic skyscraper. If that one building was "sane", it would just be a 'modern' skyscraper. And as such, you could just alter introduction dates of existing skyscrapers and be done with it. If it was "insane", it might work as being futuristic, but at the same time, it would just be one weird thing weirdly popping out from a "normal" landscape, not very appealing. You'd need several of them. Though the future is unknown, and depiction in fiction diffuse. If you go with one weird style and someone else with another weird style, it would not mix well. This is different from actual buildings from the past and present day, where everyone can just take a photo and recreate what they see, and as long as it's recognizable, creations from various authors go together. So you would need to create not just one or two assets and hope they work with what already exists, you'd instead need to start a large scale project with a destinct style that shows your version of the future. Is it organic shapes? Is it cyberpunk-neon? Will you f%$§ gravity with floating elements? Is everything round? has everything hard edges? Which means of transportation will persist, which will perish?
Again, you can easily create some random modern assets and plant them in the near future. That's what was done many years ago, but we already caught up with them. It's not very interesting and does not lead anywhere, it's just as good as any random asset at any other time. To really get some futuristic/future flair, you require a large scale project and a lot, lot of work done - not just an idea.
I made some addons, even a complete pack of maglevs for pak128, but that was long ago. At that time I had much more free time (I was about 14, now I have a job, etc...), and took less time to make graphics as I was less skilled and made things of a lower quality than my recent addons.
I'm not comfortable with including contents from other paksets. If several paksets exist, it's because they have very different styles. Things from pak128 Britain would be awful in pak128 and vice-versa.
I concur regarding offering add-on paks for paksets. Of course, the main problem isn't a lack of organization, but a lack of people interested and able in making content.
I would say instead "lack of enough people interested and able in making content to meet expectations".

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I had a following brief dream on the 8 July 2012. I am posting this here since it seems to be connected to the dream/BCI or SST I posted above. Still curious what the dream points to.’It's been several months since the dream above, but it has been on my mind a lot.
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La Salle scores a three-peat in women’s chess and other UAAP roundup news
The De La Salle Lady Woodpushers won their third straight UAAP title yesterday while the mens team finished at third place.


"A theater is a strange animal of a building," says Jennifer Mallard of Diamond + Schmitt Architects. While theaters always pose technical hurdles, in the case of the newly completed Sidney Harman Hall in Washington, D.C., there were unusual constraints and challenges, says Mallard, who was the project architect. To start, the theater is sited in a mixed-use building — the three stories owned by the Shakespeare Theatre Company lie immediately below the offices of a bricklayer's union. "They have different hours and routines, and there are acoustic isolation concerns." In some of the shows, "you have pyrotechnics going off below an office building."
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Original student publication of Florida State College for Women (circa 1920s), The Florida Flambeau chronicled the people, places and events at this all-girl college now known as Florida State University.
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It was several days from the time I finished the book before I sat down to begin writing this review and I cannot remember how it ended. There is very little in my memory about this book. Was there a twist?
I do remember thinking that the story started off promising enough, but it just did not pull off the surprise and suspense I like in these types of books. In the beginning, I found myself wondering one thing – what really happened?Where was this story going to go?


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Most people don’ t realize that the bright spots below a tree in the grass are actually images of the sun formed by small holes created through overlapping leaves in the tree’s branches. Because the sun is a sphere, the images are also circular (depending of the angle of the surface).
Here are some images I took in 1999 when we were living in an apartment that would have optimal conditions for observing such sunrises:
Here is a link to the sunspot drawing from the Kanzelhöhe observatory from this day: sunspot drawing 22.12.1999
This is actually a safe way to observe a solar eclipse!


This subject of consciousness has moved out of the realm of Spirituality, Religion and Philosophy and also entered an Objective field like Science, lot of scientific experiments, especially after the advent of Quantum Mechanics/Physics, have become difficult to comprehend without factoring Consciousness into it. This as a subject can engulf all other subjects.Some may point out that, if we don’t understand this then we might not understand anything else and yet there may be some who would say this is tough to understand let us leave this aside and understand other things independent of it.
In usual parlance we associate a lot of mysticism with Consciousness, the modern day effort however is to associate lot of realism to it and reduce the element of mysticism. So, when we talk of consciousness one would always be keen to know what form of Consciousness are we talking about? Restricting ourselves to Human Consciousness, might be a good way to start an scientific experiment, however if the idea is to understand Consciousness then we have to understand all other types along with Human Consciousness. The following are the types of Consciousness that I realise we might need to focus on
- Animal Consciousness [Most of the above sub-factors apply]
- PlantConsciousness of Non-Living matter
- Consciousness in the Universe
There could be many many more forms that we could think of and could add to this list. Each of these topics have now become areas of big scientific experiments and also equally occupy hallowed place in the field of Philosophy. As history would suggest, Philosophical understanding has always fueled Scientific development and discoveries. So we can only hope that both these fields feed of each other and give us a greater understanding of this subject than what exists today and make it available for public consumption.
Let me start my journey into this by asking some basic questions
- Does Consciousness Exist?
- Is it Matter of Energy
- Can Consciousness be studied
- Will understanding Consciousness solve some of the long standing problems of science?
A Human being, as I see it, is a combination of an Objective aspect and an Subjective aspect. Objective are the ones that all of us can see and qualify ex: the body, hair, eyes etc. subjective is the unique point of view, internal interpretation to events, personal experience (Qualia) that the person brings with him which is not tangible but nonetheless observable.
This subjective aspect is what people commonly call as Consciousness (CS) in one of it’s form, so I could say yes it does exist, however we don’t know where is it emerging or originating from. Yet there are other important questions that come up, like
- When I dream in my sleep is that another type of consciousness?
How about CS in animals? Knowing that animals also possess feelings like humans and interpret and act to situations it would be safe to assume that they do possess some form of CS even if not entirely similar to Human CS.
Even more interesting aspect to dwell on is, does non-living matter possess CS? I was, at the very outset, instinctively, wanted to dismiss this notion all together. However the more I thought the more it became blurry and I could not distinguish Non-Living / Living and definitely about CS.
It is well known that Life took form in the aquatic world and from non-living elements that under some special condition and situation gave rise to a living form. If a living form has an origin in non-living then, non-living matter should also possess some elements of CS. Most Spiritual practices suggest knowing and becoming one with CS is the ultimate aim of human life. Yet as per widely accepted theory everything started from the Big Bang. If knowing CS is the ultimate aim then CS should have existed even before Big Bang and been the cause for the big bang. In that case living or non-living become just different manifestation of CS. There are many more thoughts like these that can blur the lines between living/non-living and what can or cannot possess CS.
A subject like Consciousness is not something that I could have thought of covering in a single publication on this blog. I shared an aspect of the journey taken by me to understand CS and see what different approaches people have adopted and if we could come to a universal agreement by approaching the same subject from various fields. I will continue sharing my journey as we go along.
And a similar curiosity of mine on the topic of CS and my profound eagerness in discovering a little more on it makes your blog my personal favorite and a matter that hugely interests me…I am personally looking forward to see a whole new series of journals from you….very exciting topic..:)


A brief note on American society
We all live here. We all make friends here, eat the food, watch the movies, maybe even make money. It’s just some people belong here, and others don’t.
Arthur Chu's recently-published article -- originally written after the Trayvon Martin trial, but made public after the Mike Brown incident -- struck a particular chord with me when I first read it this past week. Specifically, his anecdotes on growing up as an Asian in America, equal poignant and blistering, had me damn near tearing up, as I had lived through similar experiences myself as an immigrant child from Japan.
At a certain point in both of our lives, and in the lives of countless other Asians in America, we came to a harsh realization: We will never be considered as true Americans, as belonging in this country and its society, no matter how deep our roots on this side of the Pacific lie, or how well-integrated we believe ourselves to be. And to the extent that being American equals being white -- which it still does, even in 2014 -- this wake-up call is hardly exclusive to US citizens of Asian descent.
We frequently refer to American society as a melting pot: a unique, harmonious place where every world culture is represented and respected, and where everyone gets to contribute toward building a uniquely multicultural and kaleidoscopic society. Reality suggests that it's actually more of a filter, where everyone who doesn't fit the monolithic, borderline WASP-ish narrative is discarded from mainstream representation; at which point they're left on the outside, looking into the very country that they call home.
To steal a line from the late, great George Carlin: It's a big club, and we ain't in it.
America is not a melting pot. We do not live in a tolerant, post-racial society. The only difference between my grandmother's time, or even my father's time, and the present day is that the mainstream society has simply gotten better at masking its disapproval, distrust, and disdain for those people, not to mention asserting its dominance over our nation.
This explains why the concepts like the "model minority" and "perpetual foreigners" are still very real and relevant, why the phrase "one of the good ones" can still be used used without irony. This is why any attempt at discussing the ways in which this country has become divided and polarized --, not only along racial lines, but also increasingly along economic lines, is stamped out before it can begin in earnest.
This is why those who look to deconstruct the societal status quo of America, or even those who call out the injustices that result from that very setup, are swiftly accused of race baiting or playing the mythical race card. Bear in mind that "you're playing the race card" is really code for "I would rather not acknowledge, let alone seriously discuss, the privileges that we enjoy in our supposedly post-racial society, not to mention the institutional racism which has a profound effect on America to this day."
If America really were a multicultural society that it fancies itself to be -- where every citizen's background and cultural heritage found an expression under the umbrella of an overall national fabric -- then I would re-evaluate my own feelings about this country, and its society. I certainly would have been more predisposed to disagreeing with the premise of Arthur Chu's article.
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You are invited to attend the chamber music event of the year!
Con vivo!musicians present Stravinsky's masterpiece, "The Soldier's Tale" with John DeMain conducting and American Player's Theater actors James Ridge, David Daniel and Susan Sweeney narrating!
Discover what happens to a soldier who trades his beloved violin to the devil in exchange for an enchanted book that promises wealth untold!
You wocollaboration of con vivo!musicians, APT actors and John DeMain in a performance of this rarely performed masterpiece!
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DAVID DANIEL (Soldier) is in his twelfth season with APT. He has appeared as Leontes, Fluellen, Hotspur, and a bevy of other roles including the piece de résistance for many Wisconsin students- Indiana Jones in the Comedy of Errors!


Putin issues chilling threat as despot’s next target laid bare – Troops already on ground
Speaking at a meeting with students and lecturers of MGIMO University, Lavrov said: “Everyone should understand that any move posing a threat to the safety of our peacekeepers [in Transnistria] will be considered in line with the international law as an attack on Russia, just like it was in South Ossetia, when [then-President of Georgia Mikhail] Saakashvili attacked our peacekeepers”.
Lavrov also promised to “do everything to protect the Russian-speaking population of Moldova and Transnistria.”
The foreign secretary also highlighted that a group of military servicemen remains stationed in the country to guard the largest arms depot in Europe, located near the residential area of Kolbasna. The unrecognised Transnistrian republic declared itself separate to Moldova on September 2, 1990.
Ithas been negotiating with Chisinau ever since armed conflict between the two erupted in 1992. The conflict was ended by the intervention of Russian soldiers, which Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported as “peacekeepers” – much the same as the language used to describe Russian soldiers entering Ukraine in the build-up to the February 24 invasion.
The declaration of a potential threat to the people of Transnistria mirrors the justification given for moving Russian troops into the self-proclaimed independent, pro-Russia Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine just before the start of the invasion.
This move was widely seen as a major escalation of tensions and a precursor for the war. previously raised the alarm over the threat to Moldova from Putin.
In a Twitter video on July 21, Mr Ellwood outlined the similarities between Moldova and Ukraine – including the presence of what he described as a “breakaway enclave” in Transnistria. While it does not share a land border with Russia, Putin’s advance through areas of eastern and southern Ukraine has edged towards Moldovan territories, which sit inland from the Western bank of the Black Sea.
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He added: “Putin has made no secret of his desire to expand Russian influence back into old Soviet Union Territory. The situation is all the more precarious, given the breakaway enclave of Transnistria in the north, effectively run by the Russians.”
CIA dm in Colorado that Putin is “” adding the despot “re Russia as a great power”.
US President Joe Biden said of Putin in February: “I’ve read most of everything he’s written. Ht.”
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Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov hinted strongly in June that Russia did not want Moldova getting closer to the West.
He said: “There is nothing to say about Ukraine here, everything is clear there, but now we see Moldova, which wants to become Europeans more than the Europeans themselves.”
He added that Moldova “for some reason associates this candidate status with anti-Russianness. The more they become anti-Russian, they think that the more Europeans should like them.”


Incumbent Coeur d’Alene City Councilman Mike Kennedy is facing an estimated $60,000 in legal fees after surviving a nearly year-long challenge to the November 2009 municipal election.
Brannon lost to Kennedy by 5 votes. After a 11 months of private investigations into the election and motions and countermotions filed in Kootenai County First District Court, Brannon gained only two more.
Kelso had argued strenuously that there were enough queasy moments in the sausage making of an election that the judge should order a do-over. Erbland argued just as strongly that Idaho law doesn’t allow for do-overs: either the outcome is changed, or it isn’t.
Brannon supporters at the opencda.com blog portray the ruling as part of what they describe as a corrupt “powers that be” paradigm in the Lake City. One poster at the site even accuses Hosack of good-ole-boy collusion in his ruling.


ut most of my connections are still fledgling ones, so I’m looking to more experienced librarians for ideas and models. Have you partnered with another organization (maybe a detention center, an alternative school, or a Head Start group)? Have you made connections that you weren’t necessarily expecting to be helpful but that turned out to be a great opportunity? Do you know of other libraries who are making interesting connections? Let me know in the comments!
Gretchen, thank you for sharing! As a GSLIS studentsyouth services librarian at a public library, I found this post to have a wealth of inspiration. It is so important for the youth services librarian to connect with the schools in his or her town. I really appreciate all of the relationships that you are building with other librarians in your community. It’s very cool to see how you have broken through at the middle school and are beginning to develop your relationship with students and staff.
I’m really glad this post inspired you, Lindsay! I you want to dig deeper into school/library partnerships, check out Tasha Squires’s(Information Today, Inc., 2009 — ISBN 9781573873628). I read it when I was in library school and found it thought-provoking, and I’ve since revisited it as a working librarian.op! 😉
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Six residents of Ni'lin and a Danish solidarity activist were injured todayin the village of Ni'lin. One American solidarity activist was also arrested as the demonstration was coming to an end.
Immediately after a group of 300 Palestinians, accompanied by 25weekly Friday prayer the army began to fire tear gas at those who attempted to enter their land. The canisters being fired were shot directly at the demonstrators, an act which caused multiple of the seven injuries. As the demonstration continued tear gas was not only fired at the Palestinians and internationals attempting to enter the land but also into the village of Ni'lin, away from the demonstration. During the four hour demonstration rubber bullets and sound bombs were also used by the Israeli army.
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Worldcom Confidence Index (WCI) monthly report for July 2020 shows there was a marked increase in the confidence of leaders in countries emerging from the lockdown. Leaders in China had the highest increase – up 26% and the confidence of CEOs and CMOs from The Czech Republic, Sweden, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, Finland, Poland, Denmark and Belgium increased between 20% and 24% from the June levels. As some of these countries have seen the virus reemerge since July, confidence levels may decline in August.
The Chinese increase is over three times the increase in the U.S. (8%) where some individual states continue to struggle with the impact of the pandemic. Confidence in the UK improved by only 12%, as local lockdowns and the spectre of Brexit dampened down confidence.
The Worldcom Confidence Index highlights CEO/CMO confidence and concerns across 23 topics and six audiences. We have outlined the top 10 findings for July in what we call “The Worldcom Confidence Index 10.” The July WCI 10 shows the main changes since June 2020.
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While global confidence remained flat, countries emerging from lockdown saw a surge in confidence. But will this be sustained if the virus returns?
Leaders focused on the new skills needed to succeed in a world changed by COVID-19
Upskilling and reskilling saw the largest rise in engagement since June – up 63% and remained the #1 topic for leader attention. Engagement levels for retaining talent increased by 56% – making it the #2 topic for leader attention.
Confidence in using technology to collaborate and innovate saw the largest rise in confidence – up 38% since June
This topic is #2 on the Worldcom Confidence Index in July.
Global trade agreements and tariffs was the topic of most concern for both CEOs and CMOs
Confidence in global trade agreements fell six places since June and is now bottom of the WCI.
Leaders from Portugal had the lowest confidence about global trade agreements and tariffs. France – the most confident country on the WCI for this topic – had confidence levels over two and a half times higher than Portugal.
Employee related topics took five of the top seven topics in terms of leaders’ attention and engagement, and five of the eight topics that saw an increase in engagement from global CEOs and CMOs.
Upskilling and reskilling – the #1 topic (up 63%)
Retaining talent – the #2 topic (up 56%)
Economic migration – the #5 topic (up 19%)
Employee engagement – the #6 topic (up 10%)
Employer brand – the #7 topic (up 4%)
July’s update to leaders confidence and concerns draws upon content created by CEOs and CMOs from all around the world. A detailed picture is now available for 30 countries from Malaysia to Russia and Belgium to Canada. This is double the number reported on in May and further proof of Worldcom’s desire to provide global, regional, and local insight that assists decision-making by business leaders.
The WCI provides a ‘moving window’ view on the issues that are uppermost in CEOs/CMOs minds as they respond to the rapidly changing landscape of the COVID-19 pandemic and navigate other significant business challenges.
The Worldcom Confidence Index (WCI) 10
Hungarian leaders had the lowest confidence in the ability to upskill and reskill at just 11.95. Japanese leaders’ confidence was almost three times higher at 34.55, making Japan the #1 country on the WCI for this topic.
Influencers continued to extend their lead as the #1 audience for leader attention – up 26% since June
With so many issues to contend with – from COVID-19, to recession, extreme weather and diversity and inclusion – leaders are looking to influencers to help address these concerns.
In July, influencers – including new types of influencers – extended their lead as the audience leaders think should get the most attention – up 26% since June.
Another interesting result was the increase in confidence of the two youngest age groups. Millennials became the second most confident age group behind leaders over the age of 65. This may be a result of their desire to be purpose driven. A report by Deloitte in October 2019 identified higher performance by purpose-driven companies.
Leaders in Generation Z saw the biggest leap in confidence in July – up 22%. This may be a function of them being more comfortable than other age groups with flexible working and home working.
North America’s leaders remained the most confident out of all regions in July but saw the smallest increase in confidence at just 4%. They were most confident about upskilling and reskilling and least confident about handling issues such as sexual harassment and other bad behavior. Latin America’s leaders saw the biggest rise in confidence since June (up 20%) , but their confidence level is still the lowest of all Regions. They were most confident about upskilling and reskilling and least confident about cybercrime.
Malaysia, the latest country to be added to the Worldcom Confidence Index, is #16 on the country list with a score just below average
Leaders in Malaysia were most confident about upskilling and reskilling and least confident about handling issues such as sexual harassment and other bad behaviour. They had the highest topic engagement with retaining talent and lowest with government and legislative change.
Leaders in Russia and Bulgaria had the lowest confidence in the ability to protect a brand in a crisis – both below nine points on the WCI. The U.K. – the #1 country on the WCI for crisis management – had confidence levels over two and a half times higher than Russia.
However, confidence in the ability to satisfy influencers had the lowest increase of all audiences in July – up just 4%.
Australasia’s leaders were most confident about cybercrime and least confident about retaining talent. Asia’s leaders were most confident about upskilling and reskilling and least confident about employee benefits. Europe’s leaders were most confident about the use of technology to collaborate and innovate and least confident about reducing plastics and other sustainability issues. African leaders, like those in North America, were most confident about upskilling and reskilling and least confident about handling issues such as sexual harassment and other bad behavior.
The importance of employee engagement to increase productivity saw the second largest increase in confidence since June – rising 28% and eight places on the WCI
Leaders from Slovakia had the lowest confidence in the ability to drive engagement through employee engagement at just 3.86. Leaders from China – the #1 country on the WCI for this topic – had confidence levels almost six times higher than Slovakia at 23.01.
Millennial leaders became the second most confident age group
Crisis management and sexual harassment remained in the Top 5 topics of concern for both CEOs and CMOs
Latin America had the lowest confidence score for a Region but saw the largest increase in confidence since June
Global Press Release - July 2020