Thanks for sharing Ashi!
cellomould
p.s.: I'm not hijacking this thread
"In other words, your God is the warden of a prison where the only prisoner is your God." Jose Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
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Ashi's Apostasy---Part Last Formal Apostate
by ashitaka inmy future brother in law (futurebro) is a great guy, as ive mentioned.
he really cares about people, doesnt want to hurt anyones feelings.
yet, now he was trapped between doing the right thing, and possibly losing his parents.
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It is here!!!!
by wonderwoman77 inthe alanis cd came out today here in the us.
i am listening to it now.
it is good!!!
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is she still sexy???
cellomould
"In other words, your God is the warden of a prison where the only prisoner is your God." Jose Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
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Forgotten/Unforgotten Friends
by kheli insince i am recently out of the "truth", i still find that i have a couple of people that i really miss.
i have managed to get past the stage of obsessing about whether or not certain people still think/care about me.. but, every now and then i wonder about my (ex)best friend.
she was like a sister to me.
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My ex-fiancee told me today via e-mail he did not want me to contact her anymore. I just thought 'wow, what could I have said?'
I believe, however, that she was looking for me to say something 'incriminating' to excuse her from being committed to friendship with me.
Perhaps this relieves me from seeing my care and concern unreturned for so long.
As I know, it was her that was holding me back, not vice-versa. I have avoided telling her that, so now I don't have to. I just wanted to be friends with her, but still at great emotional cost. So I will pay her only a distant respect now.
cellomould
"In other words, your God is the warden of a prison where the only prisoner is your God." Jose Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
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Spiderman and Friends
by cellomould infrom nature online: .
reality check foils spider-man.
philip ball.
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thanks Windrider!
Didn't know you were a comics fan.
Bet you didn't know that I am notI never had the cash for that when I was a kid.
But if I had a favorite comic, it would have been Wolverine. He was pretty awesome. I guess I read one or two of his comic books.
cellomould
"In other words, your God is the warden of a prison where the only prisoner is your God." Jose Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
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Spiderman and Friends
by cellomould infrom nature online: .
reality check foils spider-man.
philip ball.
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from Nature online:
Reality check foils Spider-Man
Captain America wins superhero networking crown.
22 February 2002
PHILIP BALL
Spider Man had connections in the superhero world.
© 2002 Marvel Characters Inc.There is something abnormal about Spider-Man's friends. Admittedly, the Human Torch, Ant Man and Wonder Man aren't exactly your average citizens, but Spanish scientists have uncovered a more subtle distinction between the realm of Marvel comics and the real world.
The web of superhero interactions, woven without any master plan by the Marvel writers over 40 years, has tell-tale differences from real social networks, say the researchers1. Inventing a universe is harder than you might think.
Strangely, the Marvel network is not purely random either. It shares some non-random features with the social networks of collaborating scientists or co-starring movie actors.
Ricardo Alberich and co-workers at the University of the Balearic Isles in Spain, are tracing the evolution of the Marvel Universe in detail. They hope to understand which non-random features of real social networks are a consequence of the way people interact, and which follow from more general principles about network growth.
Crossing paths
A vast pantheon of superheroes - including Spider-Man and the X-Men - collaborate and cross each other in the cosmic battle of good and evil that is Marvel Comics. Heroes and villains have appeared in one another's title series, formed new allegiances, fuelled new enmities and given the impression of an entire universe of interlinked stories and lives.
This world was the brainchild of Stan Lee, who masterminded the relaunch of Timely Comics Inc. under the name Marvel in 1961. The narrative threads have been mapped out in a database called the Marvel Chronology Project.
Alberich's team has studied the statistical properties of the network of 6,486 characters in the 12,942 Marvel comic books. On average, each book features just over seven characters; one features 111.
The probability of a book containing a certain number of specific characters depends on the group size, the team found, at least for groups of ten or more. To this extent the Marvel Universe resembles real networks.
A closer look reveals the Marvel Universe's artificiality. For example, social networks have a property called clustering: two people who share a common friend are more likely to know one another than are two people chosen at random.
The Marvel network is only very weakly clustered - about 1.5 times more than a random network. Clustering in real networks is typically ten (or more) times greater than in random webs.
"It seems," say the researchers, "that Marvel writers did not assign characters to books in the same way as natural interactions would have done it." But how the Marvel network has ended up with some non-random features has the scientists foiled right now.
The researchers used the shape of the network to deduce the best connected character of the Marvel Universe - the Kevin Bacon of superheroes, if you will. Aptly enough, it is Captain America, a veteran of the 1940s Timely Comics era.
References
Alberich, R., Miro-Julia, J. & Rosselló, F. Marvel Universe looks almost like a real social network. Preprint, (11 February 2002).cellomould
"In other words, your God is the warden of a prison where the only prisoner is your God." Jose Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
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do jw charge for lit in other countries
by meomy ini enjoy reading all your posts.
i have been lurking for months .
i was hoping that someone could tell me if we currently charge for literature in other countries or is it free like in the u.s. (just for voluntary contributions.
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The WT Society is a
pretending to be a
No more crocodile tears! You'll not get my donations!
cellomould
"In other words, your God is the warden of a prison where the only prisoner is your God." Jose Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
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Is Psychokinesis Real?
by metatron inok, over my many years of being a witness, on rare.
occasions, strange, almost miraculous things would.
happen in my life - since these things were mostly.
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Metatron,
What you are playing with is called electrostatics.
You said it responds to your hands. Why do you have to use your hands? Why does the aluminum have to be thin and light?
Of particular interest: You don't vacuum seal the chambers, do you?
Even without vacuum sealing (which would virtually eliminate air friction), the convection currents within the chamber would be slight. Therefore, the pinwheels would be susceptible to even small perturbations from outside.
Think about it.
cellomould
"In other words, your God is the warden of a prison where the only prisoner is your God." Jose Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
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Hey y'all check this out
by cellomould ini pulled this from .
http://www.ewg.org/pressreleases/capr20010928.html .
california farmers could reap $185 million in u.s. house showdown on subsidy reform.
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I am not sure how it all began, Larc,
but currently big agriculture is reaping the benefits of these subsidies. That's the problem.I do think money should be spent helping companies see and benefit from the advantages of environment conciousness.
In our experience, the little guys (i.e. farmers) tend to do less damage to the environment around them. But as we see, it is not really prudent to simply bet on the little guy.
Sustainable growth should be investigated more fully, because our population continues to grow. Corporations will have to get bigger to become more efficient.
I haven't really said anything new and exciting, but it's quite obvious that it's in our best interests to look further into the future. Including what we do with farmland, as we will have many more mouths to feed...
cellomould
"In other words, your God is the warden of a prison where the only prisoner is your God." Jose Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
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Freemasonic Fascism/ Menace
by sf in"masonic menace" and "freemasonic fascism":.
< http://www3.sympatico.ca/mtronics/anticult/masonicmenace/.
if man was supposedly created in gods image, then.....holy krap...we're all doomed.-skallywagger
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No one seems to have mentioned the movie 'From Hell'.
Have you seen it?If not, watch it.
I don't want to spoil it too much, but it's very related to the topic under discussion here.
cellomould
"In other words, your God is the warden of a prison where the only prisoner is your God." Jose Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
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Hey y'all check this out
by cellomould ini pulled this from .
http://www.ewg.org/pressreleases/capr20010928.html .
california farmers could reap $185 million in u.s. house showdown on subsidy reform.
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I pulled this from
http://www.ewg.org/pressreleases/capr20010928.htmlCalifornia Farmers Could Reap $185 Million in U.S. House Showdown on Subsidy Reform
House Vote Next Week Pits Status Quo Vs. Fairness & Conservation
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 - Most California counties would get at least a $1 million boost in federal farm aid under a plan that would distribute crop subsidies more fairly while helping farmers protect the environment, according to an Environmental Working Group analysis of U.S. Department of Agriculture data.EWG found that total federal farm aid would likely increase in 47 of the state's 58 counties under the reform plan. Statewide, total federal farm aid would increase by almost 12 percent. (See a county-by-county table)
All counties would receive more for programs that pay farmers to not sell their land to developers, maintain wetlands and wildlife habitat, and reduce pesticide runoff. But 35 counties would get at least $1 million more for conservation over the next five years, and statewide conservation funding would increase by more than $185 million.
More than $170 billion will be on the table next week when the House votes on the farm bill (HR 2646). The showdown will be between a status-quo proposal that continues to give a grossly disproportionate share of subsidies to wealthy growers of a few major commodities, and an amendment that grants a fair share to family farms and the growers of smaller speciality crops. The reform amendment would also shift billions from subsidies to conservation funding.
"Right now, most federal aid is going to large agribusiness corporations and absentee owners - not struggling family farmers," said Bill Walker, California director of EWG, which is working to increase conservation spending in the farm bill. "The reform plan will bring greater fairness to farm policy."
An Associated Press analysis of USDA records found that although California is the nattion's leading farm state, it ranks only 12th as a recipient of federal farm aid. California farmers received $812 million of the $27 billion doled out to U.S. farms last year. By comparison, Iowa, which produces less than half of California's agricultural bounty, received $2.7 billion.
California needs some attention!
cellomould"In other words, your God is the warden of a prison where the only prisoner is your God." Jose Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ