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§ 607.Halley's Comet, revolts in Lyons, in Greece and Persia invades Turkey

19th century:
§607. Halley's Comet, revolts in Lyons, in Greece and Persia invades Turkey (1821-1835): II-96.

An ardent torch shall be seen in the evening sky,
Near the end and the inception of the Rhone:
Famine, sword: the relief provided late,
Persia turns to invade Macedonia.

(Flambeau ardent au ciel soir sera veu
Pres de la fin & principe du Rosne:
Famine, glaive: tard le secours pourveu,
La Perse tourne envahir Macedoine.)

Keys to the reading:
An ardent torch: A comet, probably Halley's Comet in 1835 among its recurrences in 1607, 1682, 1758-59, 1835, 1910 and 1986, because of its simultaneity with the revolt in Lyons in 1834.

Near the end and the inception of the Rhone: in Lyons, Near the end and the inception (= beginning) indicating the medium. We find the city of Lyons in the medium along the stream of the Rhone (cf. Torné-Chavigny, 1861, p.138).

Famine: faim, famine in French occur 37 times in all in the Prophecies of Nostradamus, whose 26 examples including the present case refer to the disaster of war, and 11 employed in the sense of dearth (cf. §589, V-90).

Near the end and the inception of the Rhone famine, glaive: Revolt of silk-weavers in Lyons, lasting four days, after attempts by French government to suppress trade union activities (April 9th, 1834 - Williams, 1968, p.174)

In 1835 Halley's Comet recurs. And in 1834 the silk-weavers of Lyons revolt in arms against their suppressing government, discontented with their salaries abased (cf. Charléty, 1921b, p.101-105).

Greece revolted for independence: « European Sentiment: There were many influences which popularised in Europe the cause of Greek independence. The name of Greece became a sort of religion of the imagination in the literary world; the exploits - enlarged in the telling - of Bozzaris, Canaris, Kolokotronis, Mauromichales, Tombasis, those worthy descendants of Miltiades, of Leonidas, and of Themistocles; the sonorous echoes of that land, full of memories, the almost fabulous reports of victories won by a population of shepherds from the armies of a powerful empire, the prodigies of cruelty on the one side and of bravery on the other, thrilled popular sentiment, which has no other policy than its emotions. The public responded to the suffering of Greece with a cry of indignation against the persecutors, and of enthusiasm for the martyrs. Even the cause of American independence in 1775 had aroused France to less enthusiasm than that now aroused on the Christian continent by the cause of the Hellenes. This sentiment was purely individual, and did not involve the governments, which were still neutral and undecided. It gave to the Greeks, however, encouragement, ammunitions, arms, and auxiliaries. Greek committees formed in all the capitals voted subsidies, armed ships, recruited officers and men, published journals, held lectures, wrote poems, multiplied even among the people legends in favour of the popular cause. Literature as a whole, that spontaneous and irresistible expression of unreflected and disinterested generosity in the heart of the people, was on the side of the sons of Homer, of Demosthenes, and of Plato by a sort of filial tradition for those fathers of human thought. Courageous adventurers of France, Germany, and England, such as General Fabvier, disembarked from merchant ships upon the coast of Morea, and assumed the nomadic life of the Mainotes or of the Palicari in order to teach war and tactics to shepherds. Byron, having a heart as heroic as his imagination, threw name, fortune, life itself into the cause of Greece. He equipped a ship, paid troops, gave subsidies to the treasury of the insurrection, shut himself up in the most dangerous city, took part in battle, and was ready to die for the glorious past and the doubtful future of a people which had been unacquainted even with his name. Fabvier had followed the peasants into the mountains, and had disciplined them and trained them for war. At that moment Sultan Mahmud called Mehemet Ali, the pasha of half-independent Egypt, to the aid of imperilled Islam, and in consequence Ibrahim Pasha disembarked in the Morea with an Egyptian army and attempted the conquest of the Morea for the sultan.» (HH, XXIV, p.231-232)

«The Attitude of Foreign Governments: But although the people heard the voices of the Greeks, their sovereigns still refused to hear them. The emperor of Russia, fearing to encourage in Greece the spirit of revolution which he had sworn to extinguish in France, in Italy, in Spain, and in Germany, abandoned his ambition to follow his principle. Metternich feared for Austria the eruption of revolutionary thought such as disturbed Germany. Prussia hesitated, as always, between England, Austria, and Russia. England regarded with disapproval the resurrection of a nation whose power would be disastrous to her, would enfeeble Turkey, would open the Dardanelles, perhaps to the future fleets of Russia, and would place in the Mediterranean a merchant marine to rival her own commercial advantages. France, finally, who does not calculate but feels, vacillated, sympathetic but undecided, between her pity for a Christian race and her old alliance with the sultans.» (HH, XXIV, p.232)

«The Battle of Navarino: In 1827, Russia, France, and England assumed the rôle of armed arbitrators between Greece and the Ottoman Empire. Greece at that moment, having successively devoured the Turkish armies sent by Mahmud to reduce her to obedience, had finally succumbed to the Egyptian armies called to the aid of Islam and commanded by Ibrahim Pasha. Ibrahim, master of the Morea by his troops, and master of the sea by the Egyptian and Turkish fleets united in the harbour of Navarino, was waiting inactive for the result of the negotiations between the powers and the sultan, ready to execute the conditions of the treaty which should ensue and to evacuate or to retain the Greek continent. A month's armistice, to give time for negotiations, had been concluded between the belligerent parties. This armistice would expire October 20th, 1827. No declaration of war had been addressed to the Porte; on the contrary, a tacit peace existed between the Christian powers and the generalissimo of the Ottoman forces. The three admirals, Von Heyden, Codrington and de Rigny, stationed their fleets off the coasts of Morea like pacificatory witnesses and not like enemies, and held daily communications with Ibrahim. They imposed on him only a cessation of hostilities against the Greeks in the interests of humanity - an appeal which Ibrahim understood and respected while waiting the result of the negotiations begun at Constantinople.

«After some time the three foreign fleets entered the harbour and anchored, as in times of peace, deck to deck, opposite the Ottoman vessels, whose chief officers were on shore in full security. The laws of peace, the laws of war, neutrality, loyalty, humanity, alike imposed on the commanders of these fleets a peaceful attitude conformable indeed to the intentions of their governments, but inoffensive towards a friendly fleet. Such was the course imposed by the written instructions given the three admirals. But, urged on by the popularity which was at that moment possessed by the Greek revolution, and impatient to distinguish themselves by brave deeds at any price, they allowed themselves to be governed by their own initiative.

«A chance or else a premeditated shot - it is not known from what ship, so great was the confusion of five fleets in one harbour - gave the pretext or the signal for the engagement. The English admiral commanded by right of age; sure of the support of his two colleagues, he was the first to fire upon the Ottoman fleet; Admiral de Rigny and Admiral von Heyden opened fire on the still mute vessels before them. A continuous fire from the volleys of the three squadrons demolished the Turkish ships one by one. At anchor, motionless, pressed one upon another, communicating from deck to deck the fire which was devouring them, the Egyptians and Turks responded to the fire of the Christians with the courage of fatalism. Their batteries being extinguished by the waves into which they sank, the men shot through the gun-holes, to the last cannon which remained above the level of the water; the vessels, bursting under the explosion of the magazines, covered the sky with their smoke and the harbour with their debris; the cordage cut by bullets or burned by flames let the smoking hulls of their ships drift upon the reefs. In two hours eight thousand of their mariners had filled up the decks with their dead bodies. A few hundred men, themselves wounded by the batteries of the forts, alone survived to testify on the European floats to the distress of the Ottoman fleet. The smoke as it cleared away discovered only the fiery remnants of ninety ships of war, of which the waves threw the debris, as if in expiation, at the foot of the cliffs of New Greece.» (HH, XXIV, p.232-233)

The relief provided late: «The policy of La Ferronnays, minister of the foreign affairs in the cabinet of Martignac, was, as that of Villèle, prudent so as to be timid, and pacific. His principal preoccupation was to limit the Russian ambition in Turkey: Navarino signified that Greece had to be free, but not that Turkey should be conquered... He had made, by the conference of London (June 15, 1828), confine to France the care of defending Greece against the Turks. An army of 14,000 men, under the commandment of General Maison, occupied the Peloponnesus (October 1828), which the troops of the pacha of Egypt evacuated without difficulty.» (Charléty, 1921, p.359)

Persia vs. Russia: «Persia in the 19th century: European interference in Persia began at the very outset of the nineteenth century, in connection with Georgia. The founder of the Kajar dynasty, Aga Muhammed (1795), had succeeded in reconquering that country, but in 1800 its czar voluntarily surrendered his authority to Russia, and when his brother refused to recognise the act, Persia, under its ruler, Feth Ali Shah, took up arms, but, in spite of some successes on the part of the crown prince Abbas Mirza and the formal occupation of Erivan by the Persians, not much was accomplished. In the mean while England, the Indian government, and France sent embassies to Persia seeking to establish diplomatic relations, and France incited the shah to renew the war with Russia. The Persians were defeated and were forced to sign the Treaty of Gulistan, which formally ceded to Russia Georgia, Derbent, Baku, Shirvan, Sheki, Ganja, the Talish, Moghan, and Karabagh (October 12th, 1813). Another war with Russia broke out in 1826 which terminated in the Treaty of Turkmantchai, in accordance with which Persia was obliged to cede Erivan and Nakhitchevan to Russia, to pay a war indemnity of about ￡3,000,000, and to give up her right to have armed vessels on the Caspian.» (HH, XXIV, p.494)

Persia turns to invade Macedonia (which was under the power of Turkey; so Persia invades Turkey): «War with Persia's other troublesome neighbour - Turkey - broke out in 1821, and peace was not definitely concluded until July 1823. Persia was also involved in fighting with Afghanistan, her neighbour on the other side. A Persian expedition into the country under Abbas Mirza captured several places and was on the whole successful. An attempt to take Herat, however, resulted in failure.» (HH, XXIV, p.494)
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§ 642. Count Cavour allied with Napoleon III

19th century:
§642. Count Cavour allied with Napoleon III (1855-1860): VII-20.

Ambassadors of the Tuscan tongue,
In April & May the Alps & the sea to pass:
That of calf shall expose his harangue,
Going ahead not to efface the Gallic life.

(Ambassadeurs de la Tosquane langue,
Avril & May Alpes & mer passer:
Celuy de veau expousera l’harangue,
Vie Gauloise ne venant effacer.)

Keys to the reading:
That of calf: That of Turin (Torino), Taurasia (Torino) connoting Taurus (bœuf, ox) according to a popular etymology, therefore «veau, calf» (cf. Vignois, 1910, p.242), although the true etymology of Tauros is mont (mount), colline (hill) (Brunot & Bruneau). That of Turin signifies Count Cavour (1810-1861), the prime minister (1852-1860) of the kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, whose capital was Turin. The expression «veau, calf» signifies the kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia as a prefiguration of Unified Italy;

Vie Gauloise ne venant effacer: The construction as follows: [France] venant n'effacer vie Gauloise ([France] going ahead not to efface the Gallic life).

Ambassadors of the Tuscan tongue: « The dream of unifying Italy, which also Cavour was pursuing openly, was not to be realized, he understood well, by his country alone. It needed international aids, which he obtained from France. He knew well Napoleon III’s affection for Italy and his desire to play an important role on the international theatre. Cavour worked sagaciously to afford a chance to Napoleon III for this sake. He supported, in 1855, Napoleon III who had waged war against Russia in order to pledge for France, and sent twenty-one thousand Piedmontese to the Crimean front. In exchange for it he expected to get French support in order to occupy Austrian territories in Italy. Cavour augmented the number of ambassadors to be dispatched to Napoleon III, who became less reluctant to be troubled with the difficult problems between Austria and Italy. On July 28th, 1858, he met Napoleon III at Plombières in Vosges.» (Trémolières III, p.178).

«Gavour was advancing to his goal with an unheard-of persistency, preparing fleets, armies, finances, alliances, lancing against Austria the collection of the letters of Joseph de Maistre, in which the empire of the Habsburgs is treated as the enemy of the human race, making every effort to conciliate France, even to obtaining the vote, after the Orsini crime, of a disgraceful law against refugees. In July, 1858, he had that famous interview with Napoleon III at Plombières in which war was decided on, and on the 1st of January, 1859, at a New Year's reception, the emperor said to Baron von Hübner, the ambassador of Austria: "I regret that our relations with your government are not so good as they were. I beg you to tell the emperor that my personal sentiments for him are unchanged.''» (HH, XV, p.15)

« That war between Sardinia and Austria was merely a question of time became apparent to everyone toward the end of the fifties. Fortunately for Sardinia, Austria's position was an isolated one owing to the enmity which her attitude during the Crimean War had won for her from Russia, and her inborn jealousy and distrust of Prussia. It was not long before Russian men-of-war were to be seen in the Mediterranean, and Napoleon's efforts on behalf of France were no less successful. The cautious emperor Napoleon might not have been so ready to champion the weaker side had it not been for the attempt on his life made by Orsini. The emperor had once held close relations with the Italian patriots, had even been a member of an Italian secret society, and now, regarded by his former associates as a traitor to their cause, he was condemned by them to death. In February a letter written by Orsini was made public in which he adjured the emperor to restore to Italy the independence; to free it forever from the Austrian yoke. “ Without Italian independence, ” the letter closed, “ the peace of Europe, even your majesty's own safety is but an empty dream. Free my unhappy fatherland and the blessings of twenty-five million people will follow you into the next world. ” On the 13th of March Orsini and Fieri perished on the scaffold, the two remaining accomplices having been deported to America. The courage with which Orsini met death, and the love of country he manifested up to his last breath aroused universal sympathy. What Orsini living had failed to bring about, he accomplished dead. While the murderous attempt was made the pretext for robbing France of all freedom by means of the security law of the 28th of January, Napoleon in conjunction with Cavour — who with artful smoothness calmed his imperial associate's anger toward Italy, the hotbed of conspiracies — proceeded to carry out the wishes of Orsini. Several weeks later Cavour held a secret conference with Napoleon at which plans regarding Italy were perfected. “ Italy to be free as far as Adria; the whole of upper Italy to be united in a kingdom, France to be enlarged by the annexation of Savoy,” these were the terms agreed upon in the interview. It was further proposed that the bond between the two reigning houses should be made still firmer by the betrothal of Prince Napoleon Bonaparte with Clotilde, the daughter of Victor Emmanuel.» (HH, IX, p.603)

In April & May the Alps & the sea to pass: « In 1859 war was brought close in sight by Victor Emmanuel’s announcement at the opening of the chamber of deputies in Turin that Sardinia could no longer remain insensible to the cries for help that were arising on all sides. Austria proceeded at once to strengthen her army, to place the whole of Lombardy under martial law, and by every means possible sought to secure her power and possessions in Italy. Austria was severely blamed by the neutral powers for beginning hostilities, and it seemed as though with the death of Field Marshal Radetzky Austria's military star had set forever. To Franz Gyulay, a member of the Hungarian nobility who had filled many offices but had in none of them given proofs of marked ability,fell the command. By shameful inactivity the Austrians allowed the Sardinians time to concentrate their 80,000 men around the fortress of Alessandria, where they were joined in May by several divisions of French troops, Garibaldi, meanwhile, with his “ Alpine hunters ” guarding the foot of the mountain whence he could harass the right wing of the Austrians and support the operations of the main army. The popularity of his name drew volunteers in flocks, and his appearance in the northern lake-region aroused the wildest enthusiasm among the people. About the middle of May Napoleon himself arrived in Italy; although he left the actual lead to experienced generals, he took his place at the head of the troops.» (HH, IX, p.603-604).

« Napoleon's New Year's greeting was immediately appreciated at its right value by the military party in Vienna, whilst the Austrian diplomacy remained on the wrong track till almost the last moment.On the 20th of April Cavour received news through Naples that the ultimatum dated the 19th, which was to give him breathing time, was on its way from Vienna. On the 23d Baron Kellersperz handed it in at Turin; it contained the peremptory interpellation: “ Will Piedmont, within the space of three days, promise to place its army on the footing of peace and dismiss the volunteer corps? — yes or no.” With this declaration of war, Austria had burned her boats; it now remained only to let the action follow the threat, as thunder follows lightning. The Piedmontese army should have been scattered, before a Frenchman put his foot on Italian soil; the French corps could then have been annihilated as they landed in troops or came down through the mountain passes. Instead of this, Gyulai let three days beyond the term assigned to Piedmont elapse before, on the 29th of April, he crossed the Ticino. Meanwhile the first French soldiers came into Turin [by land] and Genoa [by sea] (cf. Duby, p.169), but only in quite small divisions.» (HH, XV, p.15-17)

That of calf shall expose his harangue: « At the sitting of the Congress at Paris, on the 8th of April, Walewski, the French minister of foreign affairs, suddenly called attention to the situation of the States of the Church and of the kingdom of Naples, and to the dangers attendant on the occupation of a great part of Italy by the Austrian armies. The plenipotentiaries of Austria, Buol-Schauenstein and Hübner, declared that they had no answer to make on these subjects, which were foreign to the congress. Cavour asked to be heard, and drew a very striking picture of the occupation of the Roman states by Austria, an occupation which had endured for the last seven years. “ The presence of the Austrian troops in the legations and in the duchy of Parma, ” he added, “ destroys the political equilibrium in Italy and constitutes a veritable danger for Sardinia. It is our duty to point out to Europe the existence of a state of things so abnormal as that which results in the indefinite occupation by Austria of a great part of Italy.”' Baron von Hübner made a vehement reply. The Russian plenipotentiary, Count Orloff, could but rejoice to see ungrateful Austria called to account in her turn. This was only an exchange of ideas, but the Italian question had been brought forward and Cavour could write to one of his friends, “ In three years we shall have war.” We may pass rapidly over the years 1857 and 1858, which saw the organisation of the Danubian principalities into an administrcitive union, the signing of the convention for the free navigation of the Danube, and the death of old Radetzky, who was replaced by the archduke Maximilian (January 5th, 1858). These two years were, properly speaking, a preparation for the war of Italy, a diplomatic struggle with Piedmont preceding the armed struggle. Europe felt a presentiment of it. After the Crimean War, France had approached sensibly nearer to Russia, who was herself drawing Prussia into her orbit, and in all the conferences of these two years we constantly see Russia, France, and Prussia voting against Austria and England. The Stuttgart interview between Napoleon III and Alexander II in 1857 still further accentuated this situation.» (HH, XV, p.14-15)

Going ahead not to efface the Gallic life: « Napoleon III said, on May 2nd, 1859, when he started for Italy, “ France has not abdicated her role of civilizer: her natural allies have been always those that want the amelioration of the humanity... We are going to this classic land, illustrated with so many victories, to rediscover there the traces of our fathers. May God permit us to be worthy of them ! ”.» (Vignois, id., p.242). «A French army reappeared on that soil where three centuries before the arms of France had left so many glorious traces.» (HH, XIII, p.136)

Though Vignois (1910, p.242) first pointed out the theme of this quatrain, his reading of the verses is not always convincing. He translated the verses 1-2 as follows: «An ambassador of the Italian tongue shall pass beyond the Alps and the sea during the months of April and May.» He identified “an ambassador” as Count Cavour, but the text of Nostradamus puts it in the plural: Ambassadors. And he said that Cavour went to the congress of Paris during April and May, 1856. What inexactitude ! The congress of Paris in 1856 lasted only in February, March and April (cf. Seignobos, 1921b, p.320-323). The month of May of the year disinterested itself from the congress. And how did he pass “the sea” in traveling to Paris via the Alps ?

It seems that the only possible subject of the verb “to pass” is “ambassadors”, but it is only an appearance ! Nostradamus knows how to use verbs to express certain events without any explicit grammatical subject. He plays “hide-and-seek” with his readers as to some of his prophetic quatrains. In the context of this quatrain, it is French army that shall pass the Alps and the sea in April and May, 1859, though in April the event is only in preparation. In the same manner, the most natural and logical subject of the verb “going ahead” “France or French army” is eluded in the verse 4.

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Author:Koji Nihei Daijyo
We have covered 143 quatrains (§588-§730) concerning the World Events in the 19th century after Napoleonic ages [1821-1900] in the Prophecies of Nostradamus, and 219 in the 20th [1901-2000] (§731-§949).

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In this website, if you click this link “” it automatically changes to “”. That is, site-level redirect.

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  • HTML Redirect
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  • PHP Redirects

HTML Redirects

Meta Refresh tag can be used to redirect from an existing page to a new location. In the HTML file of the old page, locate the <head> section at the top and insert the following redirecting code:

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If you are redirecting domain root (main page) to another domain root, past the above code in the index.html or index.htm file of the domain folder replace the “” by your new domain name.

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The benefits landscape is changing rapidly as consumers are taking additional responsibility for their benefit choices, and they are also assuming more of the costs. This presentation will explore how brokers can adapt to these changes by addressing consumers' needs through effective communications and enrollment strategies that emphasize education. It will also discuss how product design and enrollment vehicles may change in response to this changing dynamic.

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The woods spat Thomas into a clearing, and there they were: four men, one standing on the frozen lake, the others huddled around a smoking grill. Muffled reggaeton sounded from a portable radio buried halfway in the snow, antenna gamely perked.

One of them saw him and whistled. Thomas watched the man on the lake drop something, anchor it with a stone and shuffle onto land. Thomas stepped closer. He raised his hands in what he hoped was a sign of peace.

“It’s okay,” he said lamely, not sure what he was reassuring them of.

They were Mexican—or Puerto Rican, maybe, he couldn’t tell. They were looking at him: the painfully underdressed, painfully white interloper. Thomas considered, given the area, that they might not speak English.

Hola?” he offered. In high school he’d opted for French.

One of the men said something, sure enough in Spanish. The man who had been on the lake now made his way back. On further inspection he appeared to be fishing. He picked up his line, obviously trying to ignore Thomas, and peered into the ice. A steel pipe chiseled to a point at one end lay nearby on the frozen surface. The man wore rubber boots that squawked every time he adjusted his position. Jesus, Thomas mentally named him, because of the walking on water. Naming the man helped Thomas feel that he knew where he was. But this was false, since he was very definitely lost.

He was supposed to be in class now, an elective course called The Philosophy of Time. He and his friend Simon had signed up for it on a whim, having by the second semester of their junior year fulfilled nearly all the requirements for their history concentration. Now there were a slew of texts from Simon on his phone, wondering where he was. He ignored them. Thomas would have to explain why he had skipped class to make his way down College Hill, half sliding down a set of iced-over stairs notched into the side of the incline. Thomas himself didn’t know why, only that people were supposed to give him a pass on these sorts of fancies, as just one month before on the most recent of Brown’s eternal winter breaks, Thomas’s father had finally succumbed to the cancer that had metastasized in his body for the past decade. He wasn’t supposed to be back in school; anyone reasonable would have waited out the spring semester at home, as Thomas’s mother had thought he should. But he hadn’t wanted to stay in that empty house surrounded by cedars, with that armchair in the living room that had been his father’s sickbed throne: oxygen tubes mustached across his lips, Peruvian blanket spread across his lap, ready to dispense unneeded advice.

Now Thomas was back, taking advantage of the gift of lightness the old man’s death had given him. In two and a half years at Brown he’d only been to downtown Providence a handful of times, mostly to see the nighttime river fires that were supposedly the city’s pride. This new Thomas could go for a seemingly simple jaunt and end up in Roger Williams Park, farther out than he’d ever been before, past the bridge over 1-95 and down Broad Street with its parade of cash advance storefronts to this strange wooded preserve with footpaths over glassy inlets like a fairytale and these ice-fishing brown people.

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The FASB is one association that gives institutionalised rules to monetary revealing. The mission of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is to build up and enhance guidelines of monetary bookkeeping and revealing for the direction and instruction of general society, including backers, reviewers and clients of money related data.

Bookkeeping norms are basic to the productive working of the economy since choices about the designation of assets depend intensely on tenable, compact, straightforward and reasonable money related data. Monetary data about the operations and budgetary position of individual elements likewise is utilised by people in general in settling on different sorts of choices.

Trust  What is the FASB? trust

To finish its central goal, the FASB demonstrations to:

– Improve the helpfulness of budgetary revealing by concentrating on the essential attributes of significance and unwavering quality and on the characteristics of equivalence and consistency;

– Keep guidelines current to reflect changes in strategies for working together and changes in the financial condition;

– Consider quickly any noteworthy territories of lack in budgetary revealing that may be enhanced through the standard-setting process;

– Promote the global merging of bookkeeping principles simultaneous with enhancing the nature of money related detailing; and

– Improve the basic comprehension of the nature and motivations behind data contained in money related reports.

Direction  What is the FASB? direction

The FASB creates expansive bookkeeping ideas and in addition gauges for monetary announcing. It additionally gives direction on execution of measures. Ideas are valuable in directing the Board in building up measures and in giving a casing of reference, or reasonable system, for settling bookkeeping issues. The system will set up sensible limits for judgment in planning monetary data and to expand comprehension of, and trust in, budgetary data with respect to clients of money related reports. It likewise will help people in general to comprehend the nature and impediments of data provided by money related announcing.

Budgetary revealing  What is the FASB? budgetary revealing


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Brimsby is a happy hat maker—until his best friend goes off to find adventure at sea. Now Brimsby is a lonely hat maker, unsure of what to do. But since making hats is what he does best, perhaps his talents can help him find some friends…

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T’ang Dynasty poem

Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.

~ Wu-men ~

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

300 Tang dynasty Poems: #22 After Missing the Recluse On The Western Mountain

The Tang Dynasy was a golden age of culture in China. Poetry was especially esteemed. Some of the very best from that era was gathered into a famous anthology, The 300 Tang Dynasty Poems. If you click on the title ofthis post, you'll be directed to an online version. Below is #22. Enjoy.

Qiu Wei

To your hermitage here on the top of the mountain
I have climbed, without stopping, these ten miles.
I have knocked at your door, and no one answered;
I have peeped into your room, at your seat beside the table.
Perhaps you are out riding in your canopied chair,
Or fishing, more likely, in some autumn pool.

Sorry though I am to be missing you,
You have become my meditation --
The beauty of your grasses, fresh with rain,
And close beside your window the music of your pines.
I take into my being all that I see and hear,
Soothing my senses, quieting my heart;
And though there be neither host nor guest,
Have I not reasoned a visit complete?
...After enough, I have gone down the mountain.
Why should I wait for you any longer?

Monday, March 19, 2007

Below is an excerpt from an article in the New York Times about how indigenous ethnic languages in China are falling out of use, and in some cases, becoming extinct.

What I thought was especially poignant about this particular story is that the language in focus is Manchu. The Manchus once ruled China as the Qing Dynasty. You can learn more about the Qing Dynasty here:

I am reminded of a couple of quotes. Thoreau said "you don't gain something, but you lose something."

The opening sentence in the Chinese classic, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms:

"Under Heaven, kingdoms cleave together and fall asunder. It has been this way since antiquity."

So it is. Who conquers whom? Only time tells.

Chinese Village Struggles to Save Dying Language

Seated cross-legged in her farmhouse on the kang, a brick sleeping platform warmed by a fire below, Meng Shujing lifted her chin and sang a lullaby in Manchu, softly but clearly.
After several verses, Ms. Meng, a 82-year-old widow, stopped, her eyes shining.
“Baby, please fall asleep quickly,” she said, translating a few lines of the song into Chinese. “Once you fall asleep, Mama can go to work. I need to set the fire, cook and feed the pigs.”
“If you sing like this, a baby gets sleepy right away,” she said.
She also knows that most experts believe the day is approaching when no child will doze off to the sound of the song’s comforting words.
Ms. Meng is one of 18 residents of this isolated village in northeastern China, all over 80 years old, who, according to Chinese linguists and historians, are the last native speakers of Manchu.
Descendants of seminomadic tribesmen who conquered China in the 17th century, they are the last living link to a language that for more than two and a half centuries was the official voice of the Qing dynasty, the final imperial house to rule from Beijing and one of the richest and most powerful empires the world has known.
With the passing of these villagers, Manchu will also die, experts say. All that will be left will be millions of documents and files — about 60 tons of Manchu-language documents are in the provincial archive in Harbin alone — along with inscriptions on monuments and important buildings in China, unintelligible to all but a handful of specialists.
“I think it is inevitable,” said Zhao Jinchun, an ethnic Manchu born in Sanjiazi who taught at the village primary school for more than two decades before becoming a government official in Qiqihar, a city about 30 miles to the south. “It is just a matter of time. The Manchu language will face the same fate as some other ethnic minority languages in China and be overwhelmed by the Chinese language and culture.”

Friday, March 16, 2007

Below is an excerpt from a book review in The New Yorker. If you click on the title of this post, you'll be directed to the full review.

The book reviewed, The Last Duel: A True Story of Death and Honour, by James Landale, is at Amazon right here -

Other books you might find of interest are The Secret History of the Sword, by J. Christoph Amberger - and

By the Sword, by Richard Cohen -

En Garde!
The history of duelling.
by Arthur Krystal March 12, 2007

Duelling codes, though intended to curb violence, may only have ritualized it.

On the night of June 10, 1804, Alexander Hamilton seated himself at his desk in his home in upper Manhattan to finish a letter explaining why the following morning would find him in Weehawken, New Jersey, pointing a flintlock pistol at Vice-President Aaron Burr. He began by listing five moral, religious, and practical objections to duelling, but ruefully concluded, seven paragraphs later, that “what men of the world denominate honor” made it impossible for him to “decline the call.” Burr had placed him in an untenable position. If Hamilton ignored the challenge, Burr would “post” him—that is, publish his refusal in the newspapers—and his political career would effectively be ruined. The next morning, Hamilton had himself rowed across the Hudson.
“If we were truly brave, we should not accept a challenge; but we are all cowards,” a friend of Hamilton’s said after his death. He was thinking not only of Hamilton but of all men in public life whose reputations were at the mercy of political rivals and incendiary journalism. As Joanne B. Freeman makes plain in “Affairs of Honor” (2001), Hamilton and Burr belonged to a class for whom no public offense could go unchallenged even if one felt no personal outrage. Hamilton, too, had issued challenges and seconded other men—one way or another, he had been involved in more than ten “affairs of honor”—while Burr had been party to three duels, including one where he actually took the field. Neither of them was an exception among the Founding Fathers.
Button Gwinnet, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, died of wounds received in a duel; and James Monroe refrained from challenging John Adams only because Adams was President at the time. Some years later, Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay took part in duels, and even the young Abraham Lincoln came very close to a sword fight with James Shields, a fellow-Illinoisan who eventually became a Union general.
Duelling is an anachronism, of course. This is true because it may still crop up. In 1954, Ernest Hemingway was challenged to a duel in Cuba, but declined. In 1967, two French politicians literally crossed swords in Neuilly. And four years ago a Peruvian legislator challenged his nation’s Vice-President to meet him on a beach near Lima. No one anticipates such shenanigans at Buckingham Palace, but the Queen, as it happens, still retains an official champion who stands ready to challenge anyone who disputes her sovereignty.
This rather daunting fact turns up in James Landale’s “The Last Duel: A True Story of Death and Honor” (Canongate; $24). Landale, a correspondent for the BBC, is descended from one of the two men who fought the last recorded fatal duel on Scottish soil. Relying on a trial transcript, newspaper accounts, bank documents, and the correspondence of the duellists, Landale elegantly reconstructs the circumstances that forced his ancestor David Landale, at the mature age of thirty-nine, to challenge his former banker, George Morgan. David Landale, a linen merchant from the coastal town of Kirkcaldy, just north of Edinburgh, was, if anything, more reluctant than Hamilton to pick up a pistol; he didn’t even own one. But the code of honor extended to wherever men conducted business, and honor dictated that Landale challenge Morgan. The two met in a field on the morning of August 23, 1826; only one left the spot alive.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

I found the following at a blog entitled My Zen Life. If you click on the title of this post, you'll be directed there.

the day is now ended.
our lives are shorter.
now we look carefully.
what have we done?

noble sangha,
with all of our heart,
let us be diligent,
engaging in the practice.
let us live deeply,
free from our afflictions,
aware of impermanence
so that life does not
drift away without meaning.

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

What do you do?

I heard from a friend today, who is having a lot going on. Unfortunately, I didn't have a lot of useful things to say. When I got home, I thought of this Zen parable. It somehow seemed appropriate.

If you click on the title of this post, you'll be directed to a page loaded with Zen koans and stories.

Buddha told a parable in sutra:

A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him.

Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!

Monday, March 05, 2007

What follows is an excerpt from an article in the LA Times about the Santa Ana Museum. If you click on the title of this post, you'll be directed to the original article.s

Bowers' new space conquest
Chinese art from several millenniums and photographs by Ansel Adams inaugurate a wing at the Santa Ana museum.

By Scarlet Cheng

Special to The Times

February 16, 2007

Seven years ago, Anne Shih was visiting the Shanghai Museum, a stronghold of Chinese art and antiquities, when she tossed out a suggestion to Director Chen Xiejun: What about an exhibition loan to the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, where Shih is a board member? All right, she remembers Chen saying, if you can build a new space to house the show, we'll arrange it.

Today, not only is that new space built — 30,000 square feet at a cost of $15 million — but "Treasures From Shanghai: 5000 Years of Chinese Art and Culture" highlights its opening Sunday, the first day of the Chinese new year. A photography exhibition, "Ansel Adams: Classic Images," inaugurates a second gallery in the new wing.

On Main Street in Santa Ana, the Dorothy and Donald Kennedy wing spans half a block in glass, metal accents and a cladding of troweled plaster painted to match the existing architecture. The city opened the original Spanish-style museum in 1936 to feature Orange County history. In 1992, the Bowers reopened after an extensive remodeling that greatly expanded the facility, and it broadened its mission to showing a wide variety of art and artifacts. Bowers President Peter C. Keller pushed for the latest expansion, both to gain more exhibition space and to improve existing facilities. To pay for it, the museum obtained $4 million in state funding, with most of the remainder coming from private sources, including $2 million from benefactors Dorothy and Donald Kennedy. The latter is First American Corp. chairman emeritus and chairman of the Bowers' board of governors.

As of Sunday, museum admission, except for students, seniors and children younger than 5, will become uniformly $17 on weekdays and $19 on weekends — eliminating a general admission fee of $5. The latter was only for viewing a few permanent collections anyway, says Keller. "We're trying to simplify matters," he adds.

The new wing was designed by Robert R. Coffee Architect + Associates of Newport Beach. "We wanted to use materials that were compatible and more or less carried forward what was done in the past," Coffee said during a walk-through of the space last week as workers were still adding display cases and other finishing touches. "There was an effort to give an updated image, that we're moving into a new century and the museum is making a great transition."

Friday, March 02, 2007

Lion Dancing

If you click on the title of this post, you'll be directed to a slide show about Lion Dancing. Be sure to have the volume on. Below are some excerpts from the page on "Lion Dance" :
Lion dance (Traditional Chinese: 舞獅; pinyin: wǔshī) is a form of traditional dance in Chinese culture, in which performers mimic the lion's movements in a lion costume.

The lion costume may be operated by a single dancer, but rarely is, or by a pair of dancers. The single dancer springs about while energetically moving and shaking the head and operating the jaws and eyes. The pair of dancers, forming the back and fore legs of the beast is seen perfected in the exhibitions of Chinese acrobats, with the two dancers forming as a team the motions of a single animal as they move between platforms of varying elevations. The dance is traditionally accompanied by gongs, drums and firecrackers, representing the descent of good luck.
The lion is traditionally regarded as a guardian creature in many Asian cultures. It is featured in Buddhist lore, being the mount of Manjusri. The lion dance is performed in many Asian cultures including mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and Vietnam amongst others, with each country possessing their own distinct styles and purposes.
The lion dance is especially popular with the Chinese cultures, having a history of close to a thousand years. There are a number of Chinese lion dance styles but the two most popular Chinese lion dance styles are the northern and southern lion dance. Northern dance has origins stemming from the northern parts of China where it was used as entertainment for the imperial court. The northern lion is usually red, orange, and yellow in colour (sometimes with green fur for the female lion), is shaggy in appearance, with a golden head. The northern dance is very acrobatic and is mainly performed as entertainment.

The southern lion dance is more symbolic in nature. It is usually performed as a ceremony to exorcise evil spirits and to summon luck and fortune. The southern lion exhibits a wide variety of colour and has a distinctive head with large eyes, a mirror on the forehead, and a single horn at center of the head.
The Lion Dance is often confused with the Chinese Dragon Dance, which features a team of around ten or more dancers. The Lion Dance, however, consists of two people at one time. Though, the "Head" and "Tail" of the Lion may be substituted by additional dancers during the performance.


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Products that resemble foods and appeal to children Potential risks of accidental ingestion

6. Conclusion

  • 6.1 What characteristics increase the probability of confusing a product with food?
  • 6.2 What are the most common effects observed when those products are ingested?
  • 6.3 What product ingredients could harm health when swallowed?
  • 6.4 What circumstances increase the risk of serious poisoning?

6.1 What characteristics increase the probability of confusing a product with food?

Cosmetics and household products can be confused with food if they are shaped like food, or have a colour, smell, taste or packaging that make them resemble food.

Whether or not a product is appealing to children is very subjective. Children can be attracted by nearly anything within their reach depending on many factors such as what else there is in their surroundings or how inquisitive they are. Research shows that children have a preference for sweet, fatty and fruity tastes and odours but there is no evidence that children like products of a particular colour, shape or consistency. Children also prefer product packages that display familiar cartoon or other characters from TV or books but product labels or warnings do not seem to have an effect on children up to 6 years old.

There are no studies that test whether or not products that could be mistaken food or are appealing to children, are more likely to be ingested by accident than those which do not. However, until there is more research available, the characteristics of a product can be used to estimate how child-appealing it might be. For instance, a product that is shaped like food, smells and tastes sweet and displays familiar cartoon characters in vivid colours in its packaging, is more likely to appeal to children and be confused with food, than a product that is just shaped like food and tastes sweet. More...

6.2 What are the most common effects observed when those products are ingested?

The vast majority of accidental poisonings in children involving household consumer products cause no direct symptoms. Drinking these products is likely to cause stomach irritation but the effect is often very mild so cases are probably under-reported. The most common symptoms for children admitted to hospital after accidental poisonings are vomiting, abdominal pain, reduced consciousness, seizures and lack of coordination. Rashes, coughs and difficulty breathing and swallowing have also been observed. The death rate from these incidents is extremely low.

The contents of the stomach are very acidic so the lung tissue can be temporarily damaged if the child gets sick and some of the vomit enters the lungs. If the product swallowed is corrosive or if it contains surfactants or emulsifiers, the damage can be more severe and lasting. Aromatic oils can have the same effect as they are more likely to be breathed in rather than swallowed.

Elderly people show the same symptoms as children but if they have underlying medical problems they can suffer worse health effects and there have been some fatalities.

It would be useful if poison centres recorded how accidents happened to identify future trends and to evaluate the impact of any prevention and management measures. More...

6.3 What product ingredients could harm health when swallowed?

The common household cleaning products most frequently cited in poisonings are dishwashing and laundry detergents, toilet cleaners and bleaches.

The most harmful ingredients are corrosive substances (such as sodium hypochlorite, sodium hydroxide or hydrogen peroxide), surfactants, alcohols and glycerols, and some essential oils (pine oil, wintergreen oil and camphor). Swallowing these will cause different levels of injury depending on how long they are in contact with tissue, their concentration and their pH. Acid products with a very low pH are very corrosive, and alkaline products with a very high pH such as drain cleaners, are also very harmful.

The viscosity of the product is also important. Acidic ingredients with low viscosity can harm the digestive tract. Thick, alkaline liquids, can foam and cause gagging which increases the risk of them being aspirated into the lungs and causing additional damage.

Other ingredients such as colorants, polymers and plasticizers are also harmful and swallowing them accidentally can cause gastric upset, feelings of nausea and vomiting. More...

6.4 What circumstances increase the risk of serious poisoning?

There is very little research on the causes of accidental ingestions in young children and there are no specific data on whether or not products that resemble food or appeal to children are more often involved in poisonings.

The risk of suffering injuries in the home is higher for children living in families of low socio-economic status, as unsafe childcare practices and hazards are more common in these families, but there are risks of accidents in all homes.

Reduced supervision of children and lack of awareness about potential risks may increase the risk of accidental poisoning but there is very little direct evidence linking these factors to child injury.

Elderly people who accidentally ingest cosmetics and household products usually come to no lasting harm unless the product is very toxic or the amounts swallowed are large, but this is rare. There is little research on what makes elderly people more likely to be poisoned accidentally but possible factors are reduced senses of taste and smell, disorientation, impaired vision and lack of supervision or help. More...

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Â Upcoming Kirk Amendment as IAEA Reports Iran Closing in on a BombÂ

(Update to a previous article)Â

Chicago, IL â€“ U.S. Senator Mark Kirk announced he will lead a bipartisan effort to collapse the Central Bank of Iran (CBI).Â  Building on the consensus built by the August Kirk-Schumer (D-NY) letter to the President cosigned by 92 Senators, Kirk will offer a Senate amendment to enact such sanctions against Iranâ€™s central bank into law.

According to recent reporting by the New York Times, the Obama Administration is considering action against Iranâ€™s Central Bank to increase diplomatic pressure on the government of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.Â  Senator Kirkâ€™s amendment will be offered during this weekâ€™s expected opening of the Senateâ€™s debate of the Fiscal Year 2012 Foreign Operations Appropriations bill.Â  The debate comes as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is expected to issue a damning report this week on Iranâ€™s progress towards a nuclear weapon.

â€œSoon after an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps plot was foiled to blow up a Washington restaurant, the IAEA will report that Iran violated U.N. resolutions by coming close to building nuclear weapons.Â  We have to use the strongest non-military means available to reduce the coming danger to America, Saudi Arabia and Israel,â€ said Kirk.Â  â€œFollowing the bomb plot and IAEA report on Iranian atomic developments, it is time for President Obama to join 92 Senators to who back the plan to collapse the Central Bank of Iran.â€

Â Last week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously approved two bills strengthening sanctions against Iran:Â  The Iran Threat Reduction Act (H.R. 1905) and the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Reform and Modernization Act (H.R. 2105).Â  As part of H.R. 1905, the House Committee approved the Berman (D-CA) amendment to collapse Iranâ€™s Central Bank.

Specifically, the amendment requires the President to make a determination within 30 days whether the Central Bank is involved in supporting Iranâ€™s WMD or missile programs, including proliferation of WMD to other governments; financing Iranâ€™s procurement of advanced conventional weapons; providing financial services for the Iranâ€™s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), or furthering Iranâ€™s support of international terrorism.Â  If the President determines that the Central Bank of Iran is involved in any of these activities, then he would be required under this amendment to apply sanctions under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.Â  This would result in any foreign financial institution involved with the Central Bank of Iran also being blocked from the U.S. economy.

In August, Sen. Kirk, along with Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), sent a letter to President Obama urging increased economic sanctions against Iran, including pressuring Iran’s financial system by toppling the Central Bank of Iran (CBI).Â  The letter, signed by 92 senators, states, “The time has come to impose crippling sanctions on Iran’s financial system by cutting off the CBI.”

In mid-October, Sen. Kirk questioned Administration officials during a Senate Banking Committee hearing entitled, “Addressing Potential Threats from Iran,” with witnesses including Wendy Sherman (Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs), David Cohen (Under Secretary of Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence) and David Mills (Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Enforcement).Â

The Central Bank of Iran lies at the center of the Iranian financial system.Â  This institution oversees Iranâ€™s monetary policy, foreign exchange, and the domestic banking system.Â  According to the Bankâ€™s own website, it also functions as â€œbanker to the governmentâ€ by holding national accounts and funding state entities.Â  As such, it is likely that the Bank facilitates payments for numerous entities designated under US law, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Quds Force, a special unit of the IRGC that reports directly to the Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Khamenei.Â  According to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, members of the Quds Force are responsible for the failed plot to murder foreign diplomats and Americans on U.S. soil.

The Treasury Department publicly stated that between 2001 and 2006, Iranâ€™s Central Bank facilitated a $50 million payment for Hezbollah.Â  In March 2008, Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCen) issued a banking advisory that pointed to the Central Bank as a â€œmoney laundering threat involving illicit Iranian activity.â€Â  The Treasury Department designated the Central Bank as a â€œSpecially Designated Nationalâ€ (SDN) in June 2010, but has not taken any action against the Bank or entities that do business with it.

In related news, Iran arrested 70 fashion designers for violations of its law.Â  This followed Iranâ€™s sentence of actress Marzieh Vafamehr to 90 lashes for appearing uncovered in the Australian-produced film, â€œMy Tehran for Sale.â€

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Challenge # 193 - In Stitches

Hello there!  We hope everyone had a fabulous Valentine's Day, full of flowers, candy and lots of love!  Now that it's behind us though, it's time to move on, and we have a fantastic sponsor for the rest of the month: A&T Digital Designs (home of The Emerald Fairies).

Owner Tracey has not only generously offer several images to the DT for use in this challenge, but she is providing a fabulous prize of 3 digis from her shop for our winner!

Our theme for this challenge is "In Stitches" - feature either real or faux stitching on your project.
Let's see what the team stitched up:

Amazing job ladies!  Don't be afraid to join us for this one, you don't have to own a sewing machine, or even a thread and needle, your stitching can be real or fake, or maybe even something different entirely!  Show us what you can do!

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  1. What cute images, and the DT created some gorgeous cards with them! Thanks for the inspiration!

  2. Lovely DT Creations they are super, Thanks for sharing, Hazel (Didos)

  3. Wonderful creations from the DT! Thanks for the fun challenge!

  4. Such great DT work and lovely images from the sponsor. Thanks for the chance to play ;)

  5. Fantastic DT Creations!! Love them all!! Thanks for another fantastic challenge!

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Inhomogeneous Cosmologies

During 2−7 July 2017 we are gathering experts in inhomogeneous
cosmology for a small workshop of about 30 participants at Nicolaus
Copernicus University in Torun, the town where Copernicus was born. We
wish to map out the most promising directions for analytical,
numerical and observational investigations aimed to take into account
both structure formation and cosmological expansion within the
constraints of general relativity. A key motivating theme will be to
discuss the claim, already investigated in numerous peer-reviewed
papers, that "dark energy" as inferred from observations is an
artefact of assuming an average Friedmannian expansion. New techniques
in numerical relativity are beginning to open new perspectives on
these questions. We expect talks on the latest developments, vigorous,
constructive debate between "one-percenters" and "order-unity"
proponents, and practical hands-on tutorials of the Einstein Toolkit
and other free-licensed inhomogeneous cosmology software packages. The
workshop sessions will start on the morning of Mon 3 July and continue
to late afternoon Fri 7 July.

Due to the limited number of places available, registration by the
early registration deadline of 7 April 2017, including a draft
abstract, is strongly recommended. If places remain available, late
registration will remain open until the late registration deadline of
9 June 2017 - see for details.

Contact: cosmotorun17 at

Organising committee: Boud Roukema, Eloisa Bentivegna, Krzysztof
Bolejko, Thomas Buchert, Mikolaj Korzyński, Hayley MacPherson, Jan
Ostrowski, Sebastian Szybka, David Wiltshire

Topics will include:
    * exact cosmological solutions of the Einstein equations
    * averaging and backreaction in cosmology
    * numerical cosmological relativity
    * observational tests
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one of the pages from the Revised Sputnik, Space and a Sirius Drink 2.0
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Space, Sputnik and a Sirius Drink 2.0 is about to be unveiled-- 6 new pages of the technical dwgs for the spaceships. Come see it at this year's Yuri Night at Autobooks on April 16th 4-8 pm .. Food and fun ! The new book is rated M for martinis . Please read responsibly!


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Friday, October 7, 2011

garden tuesday...on friday

well, it was raining on tuesday

this is my chameleon rose

it didn't look like this last year and I was going to put it out of its misery

amazing what a difference a little care and attention makes

these little pretties fade to a soft pale creamy apricot

sewing is finally happening here with these cute fabrics

i'm stitching...i'm stitching...i'm stitching

  1. What a beautiful rose! I've not seen one like it before. Glad to hear you are getting in the sewing mode again. ---"Love"

  2. What a sweet rose. Ours aren't flowering yet, but shouldn't be far away - isn't spring wonderful!

  3. Beautiful rose lovely colors!

    Have fun with your fun fabric.

    Carolyn :)

  4. That rose is beautiful! I'm glad you didn't put it out of it's misery! And what are those fabrics...Christmas perhaps? What a tease, though I'm happy to hear you're sewing! Soon you'll have more for us to show, I hope.

  5. The rose is beautiful!!! Wish I had a green thumb, but I don't.
    Cute fabrics. Can't wait to see what you are doing with them.

  6. Lovely rose, mine are fading :( Glad to hear you are stitching at last!

  7. Your roses are just gorgeous! Shows what a little love and attention can do. Your fabrics look a little Christmasy to me, can't wait to see what you are up to.

  8. Gorgeous rose! Love the color combo. Did you know that you can refurbish old roses simply by cutting them back to ground level? Did you get more rain than usual this year? We did and my big rose bush is now two feet taller than it's ever been! (It usually reaches 6 feet)

  9. love the roses. I want to be able to grow some but it won't be for a while still. I am lookign at condos not the fabrics, I can't wait to see what you do with them. Good to hear from you!

  10. Rain here too , however the roses are coming out and that brings a smile .

  11. Love the rose Ann. It is Fall here and it is delight to see your beautiful flowers. Happy Stitching.


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Co-Author of Timothy McVeigh Biography to Speak at Pitt-Bradford

BRADFORD – Lou Michel, co-author of “American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing” will speak next week at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford about his experience interviewing the most notorious American mass murderer.

Michel’s presentation, “Inside the Mind of the Oklahoma City Bomber: A Homegrown Domestic Terrorist,” will take place at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 16 in Rice Auditorium in Fisher Hall. The event, which is sponsored by the Pitt-Bradford Division of Communication and the Arts and the English composition program, is free and open to the public.

Michel, who had a 20-year career as an investigative reporter for The Buffalo News, started communicating by letter in 1997 with McVeigh, a native of nearby Lockport, N.Y.

Two years later, Michel, along with fellow reporter and co-author Dan Herbeck, began penning the only authorized biography of the American terrorist. Michel’s book is based on hundreds of personal letters and more than 70 hours of face-to-face interviews with McVeigh.

McVeigh was convicted of 11 federal offenses in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., the worst act of terrorism on American soil before Sept. 11, 2001. He was executed in June 2001.

For more information on the lecture, contact Danielle Frownfelter, instructor of composition, at

For disability-related needs, contact the Office of Disability Resources at (814)362-7609 or

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Sex on the Beach Isn't just a Cocktail for my Couples

When Is It Time To Break Up?

When Is It Time To Break Up?  All couples experience a Honeymoon Stage early in their relationship.  It doesn’t matter if you’re a teenager or senior citizen.  The first few months of any relationship is filled with excitement, compliments, flirting, validation and hot sex.  It’s during the Conflict Resolution Stage when things start to show its true colors.  This is the stage where individuals really need to observe what is happening with their partner and themselves when conflict arises.  What happens during an argument? Does your partner act out his emotions like a five-year-old having a tantrum yelling and screaming, or an adult expressing her thoughts and feelings appropriately calm and collected? Some people fight dirty calling each other names accusing rather than taking responsibility for their part in the problem.

Couple not speaking after an argument on the couch in living room at home

We’re all products of the families that raised us.  So depending on what kind of parenting we received we may not have been given appropriate tools to resolve conflict or for even expressing our feelings.  Some acquired these skills differentiating from our families.  Others never quite got that lesson and for them when fighting it looks similar to two young kids fighting on the playground yelling at each other and name calling.  Nothing gets resolved and both are angry and hurt.  Another form of acting out behavior for anger, hurt and disappointment can be what I refer to as punitive in that the angry partner ignores you or does not talk to you for long periods of time rather than say they need a “time out” for say, 30 minutes.

As a Marriage Counselor working with couples who have poor coping skills I highly stress personal safety.  While learning about their dynamics it is important to understand that although we may exercise inappropriate behavior  at times it is never acceptable to tolerate abusive behavior.  If you don’t know what abusive behavior looks like here are some examples:

1.  Being called a bitch or prick or worse name

2.  Getting hit (Domestic Violence)

3.  Infidelity (Affairs – sexual or emotional)

4.  Yelling and threatening – “I’m outta here” “Maybe we should just break up” (Emotional Abuse)

5.  Saying you’re stupid – anything addressing your self-esteem, physical appearance, intelligence, talents, etc. (Psychological Abuse)

6.  Forcing/manipulating/guilting you to have sex when you don’t want to (Sexual Abuse) – This can be for men and women.

7.  When in conflict – acting like an immature person knowing there is another way to manage the situation.  Not able to come to an agreeable resolution.

8.  Continually blaming you and never taking responsibility for their part.

9.  Control over money – (tell you how to spend your/our money)

10.  Alcohol or substance abuse.

11. When you cannot go a week without a conflict and the problem continues with a sick vicious cycle going on.

Confused couple

If you are in this kind of a relationship whether early on in your dating or many years into your marriage please do not accept abusive behavior.  Get the help you need so you know what to do and understand why you may be staying longer than you want to.

Call me at (858) 735-1139 and I can help you figure out what to do.