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A combatant must pay a physiological price for an enervating process so intense. The “price” that the body pays is an equally powerful “backlash” when the neglected demands of the parasympathetic nervous system become ascendant. This parasympathetic backlash occurs as soon as the danger and the excitement is over, and it takes the form of an incredibly powerful weariness and sleepiness on the part of the person.
The January 2010 full moon will appear 30 percent brighter and 14 percent larger than any other full moon this year. This is also called the wolf moon, according to Native American tradition. Mars will also be seen close to the moon, a bright red star directly opposite the sun.
… I need you more than want you and I want you for all time ….
He stood before a lake of blood, as the fiercely setting sun lit the thick water with the guilt of war. The last place to be built here was, like the husk of a boiled insect, beautiful, yet no longer wild. It had surrendered to the inevitable, adulterated with cinnabar and starch, dissolved with ammonia, part of the relentless expansion into any suitable land left inhabitable.
The names of the numbers: one, two, three, ten, twenty, thirty, … are different, of course, in the various languages. Number symbols (see Arabic_numerals, Babylonian_numerals, Egyptian_numerals, Greek_numbers, Indian_numerals, Mayan_mathematics) have also differed widely. Those we are accustomed to, which we call Arabic numerals, came into use relatively late in history. In primitive ages, before the invention of writing, there were names for numbers but no number symbols. Without referring to any particular number symbols, or any particular language, let us see how an extended counting process can be carried out using only the ten fingers of man. In one South African tribe, it goes along smoothly in the following manner.
The Met Office revised its seasonal forecast for the UK’s summer weather in June, July and August 2009, following a period of wet weather across the country.
Earlier this year, the organisation had declared that there was a 65% probability that the summer would be warmer and drier than average, and that it was “odds on for a barbecue summer”. Residents and tourists were advised to seek ways to stay cool, to find shade during the hottest times of the day, and to stay hydrated.
However, following a long period of wet and windy weather across the UK recently, it has adjusted its forecast. According to the Met Office, August will have near or above average rainfall – around 84.6mm – while temperatures will probably be near or above the average for the year, which is 14.7 degrees Celsius.
The Met office defended its earlier seasonal forecast. In a statement, it said: “We acknowledge that the weather we have seen through the last month has been disappointing, especially after the fine weather through June and the heatwave at the end of June and beginning of July.
“At no time did the Met Office state that summer 2009 would be hot and dry throughout, or forecast a ’scorcher’.”
It is believed that protons of energies exceeding 50 MeV are the result of the beta decay of neutrons created by cosmic ray collisions with nuclei of the upper atmosphere. The source of lower energy protons is believed to be proton diffusion due to changes in the magnetic field during geomagnetic storms.
Summer park, a place for ice-cream skin games, as long hours and warm weather slowly roast the lanes.
The struggle with loved ones, the frank exchanges, the everyday battle of wills, the raised voices, the quiet menace, the sarcasm and the battles won and lost.
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Turning through the sonic pages of memory, guiding the hand of the fisherman to catch the spectre of the lost soul.
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Next-generation DNA sequencing has the potential to dramatically accelerate biological and biomedical research, by enabling the comprehensive analysis of genomes, transcriptomes and interactomes to become inexpensive, routine and widespread, rather than requiring significant production-scale efforts.
due to the closeness of names we feel it necessary to point out that at no stage did the irish government consider the part or whole nationalisation of the anglo irish podcast. (we were gone on a security holiday) meanwhile a view point I support is as follows. (brian greene)
Anglo Irish Bank Nationalisation:Press statement, January 20th
The panic decision to nationalise Anglo Irish Bank is not done to serve social needs and the welfare of the majority of ordinary people in society, but to once again bail out the speculators and major developers whose activities have crashed the Irish economy and to save market capitalism itself from the crisis that engulfs it. Taxpayers are being saddled with the risk of massive burdens of bad debt with no real information on what the exact situation is in this bank >> more
We travel and only sometimes seem to arrive, the longest journey our ultimately unknowable destination. The only thing that remains for us is to observe the winds and currents which hinder or assist our passage.
UN levels war crimes warning at Israel (Guardian)
Killing of 30 people in Gaza when army shelled house full of evacuees ‘has all hallmarks of war crime’, says high commissioner for human rights.
The Israeli military may have committed war crimes in Gaza, the UN’s most senior human rights official said tonight, as Israeli troops pressed on with their increasingly deadly offensive in defiance of a UN security council resolution demanding a ceasefire.
Navi Pillay, the UN high commissioner for human rights, singled out the killing this week of up to 30 Palestinians in Zeitoun, south-east of Gaza City, when Israel shelled a house where its troops had told about 110 civilians to take shelter.
Pillay, a former international criminal court judge from South Africa, told the BBC the incident “appears to have all the elements of war crimes”. She called for “credible, independent and transparent” investigations into possible violations of humanitarian law.
The accusation came as Israel kept up its two-week-old air and ground offensive in Gaza and dismissed as “unworkable” the UN security council resolution calling for “an immediate, durable and fully respected ceasefire”. Protests against the offensive were held across the world today as diplomacy to halt the conflict appeared to falter.
With the Palestinian casualty toll rising to around 780 dead and more than 3,100 injured, fresh evidence emerged today of the Zeitoun killings.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said in a report it was “one of the gravest incidents since the beginning of operations” against Hamas militants in Gaza by the Israeli military on 27 December.
OCHA said the incident took place on 4 January, a day after Israel began its ground offensive in Gaza. According to testimonies gathered by the UN, Israeli soldiers evacuated about 110 Palestinians to a single-storey house in Zeitoun. The evacuees were instructed to stay indoors for their safety but 24 hours later the Israeli army shelled the house. About half the Palestinians sheltering in the house were children, OCHA said. The report also complains that the Israeli Defence Force prevented medical teams from entering the area to evacuate the wounded.
The OCHA report does not accuse Israel of a deliberate act but calls for an investigation. Responding to the report, an Israeli military spokeswoman, Avital Leibovich, told AFP news agency: “From initial checking, we don’t have knowledge of this incident. We started an inquiry but we still don’t know about it.”
Among the dead were nine members of the Samouni family; a picture of three of the family’s children in blood-stained clothing laid on a morgue floor and in front of their grieving father was shown in the Guardian on Tuesday. The father, Wael Samouni, said dozens of people had been sheltering in the house after Israeli troops ordered them and neighbours to stay inside.
“Those who survived, and were able, walked two kilometres to Salah Ed Din road before being transported to the hospital in civilian vehicles,” the UN said.
Rescuers from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said they were able to reach the area on Wednesday only after being allowed safe passage by Israel.
The ICRC issued a statement on the incident yesterday, accusing the Israeli military of “unacceptable” delays in allowing medics safe access to injured Gazans.
More than 40 Palestinians were killed in another incident on Tuesday after missiles exploded outside a UN school that had been sheltering hundreds of people in the Jabaliya refugee camp, despite the UN saying the school was clearly marked with a UN flag and its position reported to Israeli military.
More than 750 Palestinians have died since the start of the Israeli military operation. More than half of Gaza’s population are children, and the Palestinian ministry of health said about 42% of the casualties have been children.
Unicef said at least 100 children and minors were killed in the first 10 days of fighting. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, which posts staff at hospitals to track casualties, put this number at more than 160.
Abdel-Rahman Ghandour, the Jordan-based spokesman for Unicef in the Middle East and North Africa, said: “We are talking about urban war. The density of the population is so high, it’s bound to hurt children … This is a unique conflict, where there is nowhere to go.”
Israel has accused Hamas of using civilians as human shields and has said militants have fired rockets from rooftops of homes and mosques.
Mark Regev, an Israeli government spokesman, said: “Israel wants to see no harm to the children of Gaza. On the contrary, we would like to see their children and our children grow up without the fear of violence. Until now, Hamas has deliberately prevented that from becoming reality.”
Fighting in Gaza has continued despite yesterday’s UN security council resolution calling for an “immediate” and “durable” ceasefire and the full withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza. The resolution was passed with 14 out of 15 members in support of the resolution. The US abstained from the vote.
Recommend this podcast: [www.mideastyouth.com] from Ramzy, a young teacher in Gaza, who has made a podcast on an independent student website giving a first hand account of the Israeli attacks.
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Learning the language of modern art is like renting a room in a foreign city. If you don’t know what the questions mean, you might end up in the basement. If you know what the questions mean, you might choose the basement anyway.
The Israeli military is investigating a video in which a Palestinian detainee appears to be humiliated by a group of Israeli soldiers.
The video, broadcast by Israeli TV after being posted on YouTube, shows a blindfolded man kneeling near a barrier being forced to repeat Hebrew phrases.
Some refer to the elite Golani infantry brigade. Others are of a sexual nature.
In a statement to the BBC, the Israeli army said it considered the incident “grave”, and condemned the behaviour.
“Investigative procedures were opened as soon as the footage was received” from Israeli Channel 10 TV on Thursday, it added.
Abuse ‘the norm’
The video shows a bearded Palestinian detainee, blindfolded, and apparently kneeling close to a high concrete barrier.
Investigative procedures were opened as soon as the footage was received
Israeli army statement
Around him are a group of Israeli soldiers, some of whom are jeering. One soldier goads the blindfolded man into repeating what he is saying.
The taunt ends with the words: “Golani will bring you a log to stick up your ass.”
As the man repeats it, the soldiers can be heard laughing loudly.
The BBC’s Tim Franks in Jerusalem says we have no clue as to when or where this video was shot and it is impossible to know just how frequently such incidents occur.
But a leading Israeli human rights group says “many instances of abuse are not exposed because they have become the norm”.
Palestinians themselves frequently complain that their contact with Israeli soldiers on occupied territory results in delays, insults and sometimes violence, our correspondent says.
The Israeli army insists though that behaviour of this type goes against the force’s “core values and high standards”.
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After a little under five years, the honeysuckle I planted on my city balcony is in flower - the sweet smell of consistent watering.
Driving in the Troodos mountains, Cyprus, with GGF, breathing clean, pine-scented air, soaked in mediterranean sun, I saw tree-lined valleys falling away before us into a heat-haze distance, and instantly asked that we stop and take in the view. I felt the unmistakable urge to listen to what this place might have to say. I took a few pictures, and then I started to make a video.
I didn’t prepare this little sermon on the mount - it was spontaneous. Speaking mirthfully of the truth, I was taken by surprise when the truth was actually revealed to me.
As a result of making this video, and being so simply reminded about what matters, since returning from Cyprus at the end of April I have completely and systematically revised my work methods and returned to some long-held but temporarily obscured aims. I’m still not 100% certain of how it happened, but I am bloody glad that it did. It won’t show for a few months yet, but the pieces are now in place, and I am happy to post this video to sort of explain why I have changed, if not quite how.
Wish me luck, I might just need it.
Driving in the Troodos mountains, Cyprus, with GGF, breathing clean, pine-scented air, soaked in mediterranean sun, I saw tree-lined valleys falling away before us into a heat-haze distance, and instantly asked that we stop and take in the view. I felt the unmistakable urge to listen to what this place might have to say. I took a few pictures, and then I started to make a video.
I didn’t prepare this little sermon on the mount - it was spontaneous. Speaking mirthfully of the truth, I was taken by surprise when the truth was actually revealed to me.
As a result of making this video, and being so simply reminded about what matters, since returning from Cyprus at the end of April I have completely and systematically revised my work methods and returned to some long-held but temporarily obscured aims. I’m still not 100% certain of how it happened, but I am bloody glad that it did. It won’t show for a few months yet, but the pieces are now in place, and I am happy to post this video to sort of explain why I have changed, if not quite how.
Wish me luck, I might just need it.
A muse in front of the Paris temple of modern art, the Centre Pompidou, on being an artist, or not.
To all my good friends at MediaCamp Bucks - my apology for absence.
Bunhill Row, London, an old Quaker burial ground, dating back to the sixteenth century is the resting place of great author and artist William Blake, and Daniel Defoe, creator of the seminal castaway, Robinson Crusoe.
I dropped in to pay some respects to these great architects, on my way back from celebrating Bangladeshi New Year.
