Friday, April 30, 2004
California Politics ... would Amartya Sen care? Would the residents of Mendocino County notice? [more]
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Monday, April 26, 2004
Cats and Dogs ... like Affenpinscher, Afghan Hound, Aidi, Airedale Terrier, Akita Inu, Alaskan Malamute, American Cocker Spaniel, Abyssinian cat, African Golden Cat, American Bobtail cat, American Curl cat, American Keuda cat, and there are lots more there ...
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Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger gets own blog - finally ... and what did the cat have to say?
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Sunday, April 25, 2004
Another way of looking at the 20th century. Its not all Mythology, or Philosophy - - Sports has been a defining institution
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Tuesday, April 20, 2004
according to wiki article, Aristoxenus, of Tarentum (4th century BC) was a Greek peripatetic philosopher, and writer on music and rhythm. He was taught first by his father Spintharus, a pupil of Socrates, and later by the Pythagoreans, Lamprus of Erythrae and Xenophilus, from whom he learned the theory of music. [more]
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FindLaw Legal Documents are here, Logic here, and Ethics here
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Sunday, April 18, 2004
Latest on Compact cars: [more]
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according to Wiki ... The Ford Mustang is a popular compact car originally based on the Ford Falcon. The first production Ford Mustang, a white convertible with black interior, rolled off the assembly line on March 9, 1964 and was later introduced to the North American public as a "1964 1/2" model both at the New York World's Fair on April 17, 1964 and via all three American television networks on April 19 that year by the Ford Motor Company. It was the most successful product launch in automotive history, setting off near-pandemonium at Ford dealers across the continent.
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Kurt Cobain's Biography is likely to be THE EVENT ... so you might want to take a look at these ...
Heavier than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain by Charles R. Cross
Journals by Kurt Cobain
Who Killed Kurt Cobain? The Mysterious Death of an Icon by Ian Halperin
Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain by Charles Cross
Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain by Max Wallace
Never Fade Away : The Kurt Cobain Story by Dave Thompson
Godspeed: The Kurt Cobain Graphic by Barnaby Legg [more]
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talking of ... Managing Financial Risk ... the desciption states .... the most authoritative and comprehensive primer ever published for financial professionals who must understand and successfully use derivaties. The previous edition of this professional financial classic sold over 18,000 copies and emerged as a leading training tool in the derivatives industry. The book covers derivative products from the most basic to the most complex and explains how derivatives are used by each major player in the market: dealers, financial firms, and corporations. In addition, the book includes short contributions from a variety of experts from leading companies such as Citibank, J.P. Morgan, British Petroleum, and Ciba-Geigy. [ take a look at Managing Financial Risk: A Guide to Derivative Products, Financial Engineering, and Value Maximization by Charles W. Smithson, Clifford W. Smith] [more]
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Review the Greats.
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Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus "Never tickle a sleeping dragon" -- motto of Hogwarts School in the Harry Potter novels by J. K. Rowling. ... from the List of Latin phrases in the primary logic section which includes Logic and other interesting topics such as: Abduction , Abraham Robinson, Adolf Fraenkel, Affirming the antecedent, Alfred North Whitehead, Alfred Tarski, Alonzo Church, Alphabet, Antinomy, Argument form, Aristotelian logic, Aristotle, Augustus DeMorgan, Axiom, Axiomatic system, Axiomatization, Backward chaining, Barcan formula, Bertrand Russell, Biconditional elimination, Biconditional introduction, Bivalence and related laws, Boolean algebra, Charles Peirce, Clarence Irving Lewis, College logic, Combinatorial logic, Combinatory logic, Conditional, Conditional proof, Conjunction elimination, Conjunctive normal form, Contrapositive, Converse , Counterfactual conditional, Curry's paradox, David Hilbert, De Morgan's Laws, Deduction theorem, Deductive reasoning, Degree of truth, and more and [more]
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primary biology biologists
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Clearly the guide to get .... 21st Century Complete Guide to American Landmarks - Historic Washington DC Sites including the White House, Capitol, National Mall Monuments and Memorials, Arlington National Cemetery, Pentagon Building, plus National Historic Landmarks and Park Service Historic Places Nationwide with Great Travel and Vacation Planning Information ...."National Mall material, including Washington Monument, Thomas Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Korean War Veterans Memorial, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial * Photographs of DC Landmarks by the U.S. Department of Agriculture * White House * U.S. Botanic Gardens * History of the United States Capitol * Constantino Brumidi, Artist of the Capitol * Library of Congress - Thomas Jefferson Building * Supreme Court * Pentagon and Pentagon Renovation Program * Tour of Washington, DC * Arlington National Cemetery * Washington, DC Tourist Information * Ford's Theatre National Historical Site " [more]
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Biology ... definitely more than the sum of its parts ... much more ... from Adhesion, Aerobiology, Amnion, Anatomy, Animalia, Arabidopsis, Arachnology, Archaea, Astrobiology, Autecology, Bacteria, Behavior, Behavioral science, Binomial nomenclature, Biochemistry, Bioelectricity, Biogeography, Bioinformatics, Biological psychology, Biological tissue, Biologist, Biology, Biomechanics, Bionics, Biophysics, Biorhythm, Biotechnology, Blastocyst, Blastula, Body, Botany, Brain, Cell, Cell biology, and Cell growth, to Unsolved problems in biology, Viroid, Virology, Virus, Virus , Xenobiology, Zebra Danio, Zoology, Zygote with .... [more]
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Saturday, April 17, 2004
The Ethics Directory includes a long list of topics including: A Theory of Justice, Aberration, Abortion%2C legal and moral issues, Abraham ibn Daud, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Abraham Maslow, Abuse, Accounting reform, Adam Smith, Adversarial process, Aesop%27s Fables, Aesthetics, Affection, Affirmative action, Albert Schweitzer, Aldo Leopold, Aldous Huxley, and lots more and [more]
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Ulugh Beg (aka Ulughbek) is not well known, but ... that's part of the Samarkand topic set associated with OTOZ [more]
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Art and architecture of Japan is packed with information. [more]
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paying attention to Stargate is part of the DTOI reminder set. Thomasina Gibson provided ... Stargate Sg-1: The Illustrated Companion Seasons 5 and 6, Stargate Sg.1: The Illustrated Companion Seasons 1 and 2 and, Stargate Sg-1: The Illustrated Companion Seasons 3 and 4. [more]
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New Age of the JTON reminder set
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reminder 1 and reminder 2.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2004
Why is William Shakespeare in the Pairs and Twin Directory? ... Rocky and Bullwinkle fit, as do Saint-Pierre and Miquelon or Newfoundland and Labrador or Itchy and Scratchy, but what do 1998 and Joe Frazier have to do with pairs or twins? Huh? Heh!
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Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Characters and Countries provides the path to the 7-th Century BC which in turn leads the way to Stesichorus of Sicily, lyric poet (c. 640-555 BC). , which leads to Greek Lyric Poetry: A Commentary on Selected Larger Pieces: Aleman, Stesichorus, Sappho, Alcaeus, Ibycus, Anacreon, Simonides, Bacchylides, Pindar, Sophocles, Euripides by G. O. Hutchinson ...which has its own unique charm ...
then again , you might be interested in Alfred the Great ... and that's pretty interesting as well ....
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Monday, April 12, 2004
Neuroeconomics is not Neuro-linguistic programming Neuroeconomics combines neuroscience, economics, and psychology to study how we make choices, while Neuro-linguistic programming originally concerned with empirical study of, and modeling of, human performance and excellence, with the goal of creating transferable skill sets ... has grown in many directions since its beginnings in modeling successful psychotherapists and has found applications in most areas involving human communications, such as education and learning, persuasion, negotiation, sales, leadership, team-building, etc., as well as decision-making, creative processes, health, medicine, and athletic performance. You can find many more interesting topics in the Essential Psychology directory.
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Sunday, April 11, 2004
1945 certainly deserved and got a lot of attention ... some of the events that closed the year include
December 4 - By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations (the UN was established on October 24, 1945).
December 20 - Gen. George S. Patton dies in a car accident at the age of 60.
December 27 - Twenty-eight nations sign an agreement creating the World Bank.
In December of 2005, the UN and World Bank will be 60 ... are they reaching retirement, or are they in their prime? [more]
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More Essential Physics and Computers here ... though California shows up as well as Global Warming, Determinism, and Von Neumann .
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Minarchism? What is that? according to essential facts Minarchism, sometimes clumsily called minimal statism, is the view of civics that government should be as small as possible. However, they often disagree on just how small that is. Supporters usually argue that anarchism is naive and goes too far towards simplicity, while libertarianism is often too allowing of vested interests, and that what they call minarchy continues traditions of classical liberal philosophy in their original form. Radical minarchists usually agree that government should be restricted to its "minimal" or "night-watchman" state functions of government (courts, police, prisons, defence forces). Some other minarchists include in the role of government the management of essential common infrastructure (roads, money); some, by what is sometimes reproached to them as a slippery slope, include quite a lot in such essential infrastructure (schools, hospitals, social security). ...Ayn Rand is viewd by some as one who'se set some Minarchist perspectives and vision ... But witht the minimalist apporach, maybe it would be hard to tell. Ayn's an enjoyable read though. [more]
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Are Gisele Bundchen and Tyra Banks paying the price of Janet Jackson's Wardobe Malfuntion? It would appear so ... if CNN's story about Victoria's Secret is correct. What's in store for the SUPERMODELS? [more]
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Some like to talk Natural Capitalism ... [more]
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Capitalism ... will the Barbarians ever buy into it? How did Rome fall? Did Marius, Sulla, Crassus, Pompey, Caesar, and Cicero over extend? Did they miss a 9-11 of their own? [more]
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talking about relaxation ... [more]
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Konzultant, in SciScoop reminds us of the The Principle of Biogenesis
In the Oxford Dictionary of Biology [Oxford University Press, 2000] we find: "biogenesis The principle that a living organism can only arise from other living organisms similar to itself (i.e. that like gives rise to like) and can never originate from nonliving material." In the Science and Technology Encyclopedia [University of Chicago Press, 1999] on the same subject we read: "Biological principle maintaining that all living organisms derive from parent(s) generally similar to themselves. This long-held principle was originally established in opposition to the idea of SPONTANEOUS GENERATION of life. On the whole, it still holds good, despite variations in individuals caused by mutations, hybridization, and other genetic effects." ... these thoughts are useful to keep in mind. [more]
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Saturday, April 10, 2004
Mathematics Plus and Science Plus are now added.
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Integrated Anthropology to Transport topics now in the primary w2 directory.
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Lest we forget the Small Gas Engine [more]
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For the Walk-Behind Lawn Mower folks there are ...
Walk-Behind Lawn Mower Service Manual by Intertec Publishing Staff
Walk-Behind Lawn Mower: Service Manual (Walk-Behind Lawn Mower Service Manual, 5th Ed) by Intertec Publishing
Scag Hydrostatic Commercial Walk-Behind Mowers - 1990 & Later by Primedia Business
Toro Proline Hydrostatic Commercial Walk-Behind Mowers - 1990 & Later (Lawn Mower) by Primedia Business, and
Walk-Behind Lawn Mower Service Manual by Intertec Publishing
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Its Riding Lawn Mower Season, are you ready? You could be with:
Riding Lawn Mower Service Manual 1992 and Later (Riding Lawn Mower Service Manual by Primedia Business Magazine Media Staff
Riding Lawn Mower: Service Manual/Rlms-4 by Intertec Publishing
Riding Lawn Mower Service Manual by Intertec Publishing Corporation
Riding Lawn Mower by Intertec Publishing, and
Riding Lawn Mower Service Manual 4ED by Intertec
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Beyond Politics ... The Real Click Votes is what folks really look to ... like guides to service and repair of the Audi 100, A6
Audi 100/A6 Repair Manual: 1991-1997 (Haynes Service & Repair Manuals) by Mark Coombs
Audi 100, A6 : Official Factory Repair Manual 1992-1997:Including S4, S6, Quattro and Wagon Models (3 volume set) by Audi of America
So wird's gemacht, Bd.73, Audi 100 von 11/90 bis 5/94, Audi A6 von 6/94 bis 3/97, Avant bis 7/97 by Hans-Rüdiger Etzold
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Friday, April 9, 2004
Stopped by a K-mart yesterday, hunting for Jolly Ranchers with lemon candy ... guess what? None to be had ... Carefully I continued the search for any hard tack lemon candy ... zilch ... what's going on? Someone's hording lemon candy, right before Easter ... I guess we'll have to make do with virtual lemon drops ... so here are the leads:
The virtual lemon drops
The Lemon Drop Jar by Christine Widman
Lemon Drop Rain: Poems and Drawings by Mr. Mike by Mr. Mike
Lemon Drop by Jane D. Weinberger
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Thursday, April 8, 2004
Nervous System and Neoplasms resources located here [more]
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ASCII CODE convertor
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Unicode link list [more]
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Wednesday, April 7, 2004
T1 includes pointers to Notch proteins, Carbonic anhydrase and other interesting topics. Did you know that ..."Carbonic anhydrase (CA) is a seemingly ubiquitous enzyme, of profound physiological importance, which plays essential roles in respiration, acid-base homeostasis, bone resorption, calcification, photosynthesis, several biosynthetic pathways and a variety of processes involving ion, gas and fluid transfer"? or that Notch Receptors have a role in Neurodevelopment and Neurodegeneration? [... this is what's asked ... Can molecular mechanisms involved in neural development help us to understand, prevent and perhaps reverse the course of brain ageing and neurodegenerative disorders? Brain development and function require complex cellular and molecular processes controlled by a number of different signaling mechanisms. One such signaling mechanism, the Notch pathway, has been recognized as an important player in the regulation of cellfate decisions during early neural development. However, the action of this evolutionary conserved and widely used cell-cell interaction mechanism is not confined to the developing nervous system. In addition, recent studies have shown that elucidating the mechanism of Notch signaling and its role in the brain is important for our understanding of neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and cerebral arteriopathy CADASIL.]
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Tuesday, April 6, 2004
you can find the Oxford Pulpit Bible and other related scriptures here ... if you have the faith ... the resources are all around.
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Feng Shui: The ten thousand Years Manual - Tables and Formulas by Juan M. Alvarez is getting A LOT of attention ... its listed in The Feng Shui Core Bibliography [item 15, or direct link below] ... (a propos ... another tabulation of medical topics is provided in the d06 update directory ... mostly oriented to professionals).
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Sunday, April 4, 2004
if you're taking the USMLE these may be of interest: Body Systems Review --
Anatomy and Physiology Study Guide: Key Review Questions and Answers with Explanations (Volume 1: Orientation of the Body, Cells, Tissues, Integumentary System) by Patrick Leonardi
Body Systems Review I: Hematopoietic/Lymphoreticular, Respiratory, Cardiovascular: Board Simulator (Board Simulator) by Victor Gruber
Body Systems Review II: Gastrointestinal, Renal, Reproductive, Endocrine (Board Simulator) by National Medical School Review
Body Systems Review III: Nervous, Skin/Connective Tissue, Musculoskeletal (Board Simulator) by Gerald D. Barry
Body Systems Review 3 (Board Simulator Series) by Edward F. Goljan
Body Systems Review I: Hematopoietic/Lymphoreticular, Respirataory, Cardiovascular (Board Simulator) by Edward F. Goljan
Body Systems Review II: Gastrointestinal, Renal, Reproductive, Endocrine (Board Simulator) by Edward F. Goljan
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Water Filteration [more]
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catenin ...
Analysis of Wnt: Catenin Signaling in Desmoid Tumors (Acta Biomedica Lovaniensia, 237) by Sabine Tejpar
B-Catenin Target Genes in Desmoid Tumors (Acta Biomedica Lovaniensia, 276) by Hannelore Denys
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Polymer Dispersions ... [more]
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Paleopathology has its paleofollowers .... [more]
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Chromosome Abnormalities and Genetic Counseling ... the details [more]
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Genomic Imprinting and Uniparental Disomy is fast becoming a topic of considerable interest ... the genre is "errors of nature" ... there's more on related topics. DNA methylation figures in all of this.
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Manual of Crafts -- The Crafts of Skill ... may indeed be handy ... and with that in mind ... these are the offerings:
The Complete Illustrated Guide to Furniture and Cabinet Construction by Andy Rae
Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things : How to Turn a Penny into a Radio, Make a Flood Alarm with an Aspirin, Change by Cy Tymony
and there's ... [more]
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Saturday, April 3, 2004
according to the recent babble ... "Stuttgart. Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, has again recorded strong sales growth in North America. In February 2004, the sports car manufacturer supplied a total of 2,185 vehicles to customers in the USA and Canada. In comparison with the 1,186 units in the same month last year, this equates to an increase of 84 percent. Porsche thus achieved its second best February sales result in North America in the company's history. " ... I guess the tax cut is working where its needed most ... [more]
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Homeschooling lesson plans might include ... [more]
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Now, the Homeschooling Revolution Blog ....
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international space station denizens Cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri and astronaut Michael Foale are hearing sounds ... sound of metal ... according to CNN ... Interesting ... What else is going with the ISS? There's a bunch that's been written about including:
Dragonfly: NASA And The Crisis Aboard Mir by Bryan Burrough
The International Space Station by Franklyn M. Branley
Astronaut Training Manuals for the International Space Station by World Spaceflight News
New Millennium Nasa: International Space Station & 21st Century Space Exploration by Irene K. Brown
Creating the International Space Station by David M. Harland
The Amazing International Space Station by Rose Cowles
The Continuing Story of the International Space Station by Peter Bond
2001 - The International Space Station Odyssey Begins : The Complete Guide to ISS with NASA and Russian Space Agency Document by World Spaceflight News
Space Station: Base Camps to the Stars by Roger D. Launius
Inside the International Space Station : Communication and Tracking Astronaut Training Manual by World Spaceflight News
Is 'Peckerhead' Hyphenated? Building the International Space Station by Vincent De Corodoba
2001 International Space Station (ISS) Photo Galleries and Image Files : First Two Crews and Early Construction Activities by World Spaceflight News
The Amazing International Space Station by Yes Magazine
International Space Station (Super Structures of the World) by Elaine Pascoe
The International Space Station: A Journey into Space (Start Me Up Special) by Wolfgang Engelhardt
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on Athanasius ... not a very common topic of discussion, but there appears the scholarly pursuits ... according to Wiki ... Athanasius of Alexandria was a Christian bishop of Alexandria in the fourth century. He is revered as a saint and a Doctor of the Church by both the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. ... Born: 298 Died: May 2, 373 Feast Day: January 18 ... In about 319, when Athanasius was a deacon, a presbyter named Arius began teaching that there was a time before God the Father begat Jesus Christ when the latter did not exist. Athanasius responded that the Father's begetting of the Son, or uttering of the Word, was an eternal relationship between them, not an event that took place within time. Thus began Catholic Christianity's fight against the heresy of Arianism. Athanasius fought consistently against Arianism all his life. In 328, he succeeded Alexander as bishop of Alexandria. As a result of rises and falls in Arianism's influence, he was banished from Alexandria only to be later restored on at least five separate occasions, perhaps as many as seven. This gave rise to the expression "Athanasius contra mundo" or "Athanasius against the world".
Athanasius is also the first person to identify the same 27 books of the New Testament that are in use today; up until his Easter letter, various similar lists were in use. However, his list was the one that was eventually ratified by a series of synods and came to be universally recognized as the New Testament canon.
He also wrote a biography of Anthony the Great that later served as an inspiration to Christian monastics in both the East and the West. The Athanasian Creed is traditionally ascribed to him.
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What's Romantic? the corebib is here ... Wiki for example talks about "Romantic love is a form of love that is often regarded as different from simply sexual love, or lust. Romantic love generally means both an emotional and sexual love, as opposed to Platonic love. There is more emphasis on the emotions than on the bodily pleasures and, as far as physical intimacy is involved, less emphasis on the intimate parts.
Western society has historically emphasized romantic love far more than other cultures in which arranged marriages are the rule. However, the globalization of Western culture has spread Western ideas about love and romance.
Romantic love is the idealization of another person, and of a relationship with that person. Other ideas of love have been advanced by several philosophers and have been popular in different cultures."
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GPG: Gifts People Give, Gifts People Get ... here
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Feng Shui ... wind and water ... peace of mind ... tranquility and good fortune ... [more]
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Price Theory Bibliography added .. (among others)
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Educational Resources School Principals to Multicultural Education ... and ... [more]
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Is Comedy Dead? ... you'll have to check The Death of Comedy by Erich Segal ... who "traces the evolution of the classical form from its early origins in a misogynistic quip by the sixth-century b.c. Susarion, through countless weddings and happy endings, to the exasperated monosyllables of Samuel Beckett. With fitting wit, profound erudition lightly worn, and instructive examples from the mildly amusing to the uproarious, his book fully illustrates comedy's glorious life cycle from its first breath to its death in the Theater of the Absurd. An exploration of various landmarks in the history of a genre that flourished almost unchanged for two millennia, The Death of Comedy revisits the obscenities and raucous twists of Aristophanes, the neighborly pleasantries of Menander, the tomfoolery and farce of Plautus. Segal shows how the ribaldry of foiled adultery, a staple of Roman comedy, reappears in force on the stages of Restoration England. And he gives us a closer look at the schadenfreude--delight in someone else's misfortune--that marks Machiavelli's and Marlowe's works. At every turn in Segal's analysis--from Shakespeare to Molière to Shaw--another facet of the comic art emerges, until finally, he argues, "the head conquers and the heart dies": Letting the intellect take the lead, Cocteau, Ionesco, and Beckett smother comedy as we know it"
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Friday, April 2, 2004
Mobile phones may not be banned on planes for much longer so reads a story in the Economist ... According to the E "CONTRARY to popular belief, mobile phones do not pose a safety threat to airliners. On an average transatlantic flight, several phones are usually left switched on by accident, and the avionics systems on modern aircraft are hardened against radio interference. No, the use of phones on planes is banned because they disrupt mobile networks on the ground. An airliner with 500 phones on board, whizzing across a city, can befuddle a mobile network as the phones busily hop from one base-station to the next." PICOCELLS will come to the rescue ... "a prototype system by WirelessCabin, a consortium led by the German Aerospace Centre with members including Airbus, Siemens and Ericsson ... will allow mobile phones based on the dominant GSM standard to be used in the air, and also supports laptop-based internet access via the popular Wi-Fi protocol" ... We're waitin ...
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Campaign Advertising is in! Packaging the Presidency: A History and Criticism of Presidential Campaign Advertising by Kathleen Hall Jamieson is one of the more popular texts ... according to whom "Political advertising is now the major means by which candidates for the presidency communicate their messages to voters. As a conduit of this advertising, television attracts both more candidate dollars and more audience attention than radio or print. Unsurprisingly, the spot ad is the most used and the most viewed of all available forms of advertising. By 1980 the half-hour broadcast speech -- the norm in 1952 -- had been replaced by the 60-second spot. ... Ads enable candidates to build name recognition, frame the questions they view as central to the election, expose their temperaments, talents, and agendas for the future in a favorable light, and attack what they perceive as their opponent's fatal flaws. In part because more voters attend to spot ads than to network news and in part because reporters are fixated with who's winning and losing instead of what the candidates are proposing, some scholars believe that ads provide the electorate with more information than network news. Still, ads more often successfully reinforce. existing dispositions than create new ones." [more]
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Solar Radiation and Solar Radiation Data are of more than passing interest ... will we cook or will we freeze ... the truth is out there ... [more]
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More On American Exceptionalism ... in a recent blog we started to address the Big AE ... we just ran across another blogentry by insultsunpunished who reminds us that "Working off U.N. and U.S. census data, Bill Frey, the indispensable University of Michigan demographer, projects that in the year 2050 the median age in the United States will be 35. The median age in Europe will be 52. The implications of that are enormous." ... yes indeed. The Demographic Warp will work and weave to our advantage ... [more]
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Bodum Santos Vacuum Coffeemaker is just cool!
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