Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 Scandal How Gotcha Politics Is Destroying America is a 2006 book by Lanny Davis . In it, Davis decries scandal emphasized politics and political polarization . The book has received praise from a variety of figures, including Democratic Senator Evan Bayh and conservatism conservative commentator Michael Medved . DEFAULTSORT Scandal How Gotcha Politics Is Destroying America Poli book stub Category American non fiction books ... more details
selfref For the Wikipedia essay regarding biographies of living persons, see Wikipedia Avoiding harm Do No Harm may refer to Medicine First, do no harm , or, in Latin, primum non nocere , a medical injunction the Hippocratic oath . Media First Do No Harm , a television film starring Meryl Streep Do No Harm Lost Do No Harm Lost , an episode of Lost Do No Harm , an episode of Strong Medicine Season 1 2000 2001 Strong Medicine Human Rights Do No Harm HR report on Bahrain is a 42 page report published by physicians for Human Rights on April 2011 that documents and decries systematic human rights abuses in Bahrain during the February and March 2011 2011 Bahraini uprising political unrest . See also Ahimsa Disambig ... more details
Religious text primary date October 2011 About the Book of Mormon figure the Filipino Mythological figure Ama ron Amoron should not be confused with Amaron , Ammaron , Ammoron or Moron Book of Mormon four other Book of Mormon figures with similar names. Portal Book of Mormon According to the Book of Mormon , Amoron IPAc en icon m r . n ref http www.lds.org scriptures bofm pronunciation?lang eng LDS.org Book of Mormon Pronunciation Guide retrieved 2012 02 25 , Wikipedia IPA for English IPA ified from a m r n ref was a Nephite that lived in the fifth century AD and was a contemporary and subordinate of the prophet and army commander Mormon Book of Mormon prophet Mormon . He is mentioned briefly in chapter 9 of the Book of Moroni the division within the larger more well known Book of Mormon . During the final war with between the Lamanites and the Nephites , Amoron reported to Mormon that the Lamanites had taken men, women, and children prisoner from the tower of Sherrizah . The narrative goes on to state that the Lamanites forced the women to eat the flesh of their dead husbands, a practice that Mormon decries as abominable . References Moroni 9 7 Book of Mormon reflist DEFAULTSORT Amoron Category Book of Mormon people LDS stub ... more details
The Blinded Bird is a 1916 poem written by Thomas Hardy , English author and poet. It was reportedly written as a protest against Vinkensport , a sort of singing competition between male Finch finches . ref cite book title Thomas Hardy Remembered last Ray first Martin year 2007 publisher Ashgate Publishing, Ltd isbn 0 7546 3973 8 pg. 193 ref The poem decries the prior historical practice of blinding birds to improve their performance at the sport. For its last stanza Hardy borrows from the New Testament using themes found in First Epistle to the Corinthians 1 Cor. 13 1 8 . ref http www.webcitation.org query?url http eraofcasualfridays.net 2009 11 01 peace upon earth was said we sing it and pay a million priests to bring it after two thousand years of mass weve got as far as poison gas The Era of Casual Fridays a commonplace book with commentary devoted to literature ref References reflist External links http www.webcitation.org query?url http www.online literature.com hardy moments of vision 24 &date 2012 01 07 The Blinded Bird at The Literature Network http www.webcitation.org 64WyJBRwA 1 Corinthians 13 1 8 King James Version at BibleGateway.com Thomas Hardy DEFAULTSORT Blinded Bird, The Category Thomas Hardy Category Poetry Category 1916 poems Category Animal cruelty in fiction poetry stub ... more details
Warren Martin Hern 1938 is an American physician best known for performing late term abortions . ref name TIME cite news last Rochman first Bonnie title Philly Abortion Horrors What Matters Is How and Not When an Abortion Is Done, Says Expert url http healthland.time.com 2011 01 21 philly abortion horrors what matters is how and not when an abortion is done says expert accessdate 18 June 2011 newspaper TIME date January 21, 2011 ref . In 1973, he founded Boulder Abortion Clinic in Boulder, Colorado . Hern was a founding member of the National Abortion Federation , and authored Abortion Practice , a comprehensive text on operating and evaluating abortion facilities. Background In 1973, Hern was asked to help found a private, non profit abortion clinic in Boulder, Colorado , and after his position was eliminated, Hern entered into private practice, creating the Boulder Abortion Clinic in 1975. ref name DrHern.com cite web title About Dr. Warren Hern url http www.drhern.com en about dr warren hern.html accessdate 18 June 2011 ref ref name TimeQ&A cite news last Rochman first Bonnie title Late Term Abortions Q&A With the Last Remaining Doctor Who Performs Them url http healthland.time.com 2010 11 05 qa the last remaining doctor who performs late term abortions speaks out ixzz1Ph7lqd2z accessdate 18 June 2011 newspaper TIME date November 5, 2010 ref Hern also works as a volunteer providing medical care to the Shipibo tribe in Peru . He has expressed outrage over the May 31, 2009 killing of George Tiller , a doctor who offered similar services, in Wichita. ref http coloradoindependent.com 30017 late term abortion doctor decries tiller killing this is a fascist movement Late term abortion doctor decries Tiller killing This is a fascist movement ref In the aftermath of Tiller s murder, Hern s clinic has continued to receive threats. ref http www.coloradodaily.com news 2009 jun 23 police report threat against boulder abortion clin Police Warren Hern s Boulder Abortion Clinic ... more details
Adriana Gil is a Bolivia n political figure. She has been the party leader of Social Democratic Force FSD , a movement which bills itself as a left wing politics left wing democracy democratic alternative to the President of Bolivia President Evo Morales s government. Formerly an ally of Morales, Gil is widely credited with having garnered Bolivian presidential election, 2005 electoral support for him in the province of Santa Cruz Department Santa Cruz , which is considered to be politically conservatism conservative . Gil broke with Morales in 2006 over several issues, including alleged corruption in the new government, its confiscatory policies, ref http www.banderasnews.com 0605 nw adrianagil.htm In Bolivia, flamboyant Morales confidante becomes foe, Bernd Debusmann, Reuters , United Kingdom UK , May 30, 2006. ref and the perception that Morales represents a trend towards an authoritarian ethnocentrism ethnocentric order which is concerned solely about the interests of some of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas indigenous Quechua people Quechua and Aymara people Aymara people. ref name washingtontimes http www.washingtontimes.com news 2006 jun 13 20060613 123249 3197r Ex Morales backer decries party betrayal, Martin Arostegui, The Washington Times , June 13, 2006. ref Gil decries Morales, saying that Bolivians voted for change, not for a dictator . ref name washingtontimes In apparent retaliation for Gil s dissident dissidence , Gil s farmland has undergone a process of seizure by Quechua squatters who hold permits for her land, signed by Rural Development Minister Hugo Salvatierra. Gil has accused Vice President of Bolivia Vice President lvaro Garc a Linera of leading a conspiracy to seize her land and others , a charge he has denied. ref name washingtontimes In 2008, Gil formed a new political party, Fuerza Dem crata FD , with another former former Morales supporter, Rom n Loayza . ref es icon http www.laprensa.com.bo noticias 08 05 09 08 05 09 poli3.php F ... more details
merge Robert H. Shapiro date February 2012 Infobox scientist name Robert Shapiro image image size caption Robert Shapiro birth date Birth date 1935 11 28 birth place New York City , United States residence nationality United States American death date death date and age 2011 6 15 1935 11 28 ref name obit death place field Chemistry work institution University of Cambridge , New York University alma mater City College of New York BS , Harvard University PhD doctoral advisor Robert B. Woodward doctoral students known for Work on origin of life prizes Trotter Prize Texas A&M Trotter Prize 2004 with Paul Davies ref name obit religion footnotes Robert Shapiro 28 November 1935 to 15 June 2011 ref name obit cite web title Bob Shapiro Passes Away at Age 75 url http chemistry.fas.nyu.edu object chem.news.bobshapiropassesaway publisher New York University accessdate 15 August 2011 ref was professor emeritus of chemistry at New York University . He is best known for his work on the origin of life , having written two books on the topic Origins, a Skeptic s Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth 1986 and Planetary Dreams 2001 . He opposed the RNA world hypothesis , and held that the spontaneous emergence of a molecule as complicated as RNA is highly unlikely. Instead, he proposed that life arose from some self sustaining and compartmentalized reaction of simple molecules metabolism first instead of RNA first . This reaction would have to be able to reproduce and evolve, eventually leading to RNA. He claimed that in this view life is a normal consequence of the laws of nature and potentially quite common in the universe. ref Alvin Powell, http news.harvard.edu gazette story 2008 10 nyu chemist robert shapiro decries rna first possibility NYU chemist Robert Shapiro decries RNA first possibility , Harvard University Gazette , 23 October 2008 ref Works Origins A Skeptic s Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth Summit Books January 1986 ISBN 0671459392 Planetary Dreams The Quest to ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date February 2009 This article is about the song by UTFO and the album by Cassidy. For the psychological disorder sometimes described as split personality see Dissociative identity disorder . For the computer game, see Split Personalities computer game Split Personalities . Split Personality is a song recorded by Brooklyn hip hop music hip hop masters UTFO , appearing on their 1986 album Skeezer Pleezer . The song speaks of Kangol Kid s and Doctor Ice s hilarious yet disturbing experiences with the beast that is schizophrenia . Themes The overarching theme of the song involves the difficult existence resulting from the eponymous condition, which, as UTFO s rappers explain, is like having five people inside of one. For example, Kangol Kid decries how he might unintentionally turn into a cop, and arrest myself. Doctor Ice, also having trouble with resolving his multiple personalities, speaks of having a difficult time in his relationship with a young woman he is courting. As usual for UTFO, the song runs towards halfhearted misogyny . For example, Doctor Ice s vignette regarding his split personality affected relationship with his dating date includes slap ping, but also sweet kiss es, and ultimately ends with Doctor Ice paying the young lady five dollars for all that mess. Impact The song is also known have some of Mix Master Ice s best scratching, cuts, and samplings most notably, Doctor Ice s recording of the word the, rapped in an homage to Cameo band Cameo s Single Life within the actual song, is looped humorously at the very beginning of the track. This song, with its focus on the mental disorders at the root of random violence, ultimately inspired the gangsta rap movement later in the 1980s. DEFAULTSORT Split Personality Song Category 1986 songs ... more details
This is a list of fictional colleges of either the universities referred to collectively as Oxbridge , but where the specific university is not specified or known fictional institutions spanning both Oxford and Cambridge universities or a fictional Oxbridge University Boniface College, Oxbridge Pendennis by William Thackeray , inspired by his time at Cambridge and home to the poet Sprott. Fernham College, Oxbridge A Room of One s Own by Virginia Woolf , based on Newnham College , established in 1871 as the first exclusive women s college at Cambridge University. Footlights College, Oxbridge from which came a team of participants in an imitation of University Challenge in an episode of the The Young Ones TV series The Young Ones called Bambi Young Ones episode Bambi . Stephen Fry , Hugh Laurie , Emma Thompson and Ben Elton played contestants Lord Snot , Lord Monty , Miss Money Sterling , and Mr. Kendall Mintcake , respectively. Fry, Laurie and Thompson were all students at Cambridge and members of the Footlights. Omnibus College in Middlemarch , Chapter 52, where Fred Vincy takes his bachelor s degree Pembridge College, Oxbridge The Passing of Sherlock Holmes by E. V. Knox St Luke s College The Adventure of the Three Students , a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle . In The Masters by C.P. Snow , the author decries the use of a fictional name for the college where the events he describes take place as being the Christminster convention, Christminster being the fictional version of Oxford in Thomas Hardy s Wessex . See also Fictional education navbox DEFAULTSORT Oxbridge colleges Category Fictional universities and colleges Category Lists of fictional things Category Cambridge in fiction Category University of Oxford in fiction Category Fictional colleges of the University of Oxford Oxbridge colleges Category Fictional colleges of the University of Cambridge Oxbridge colleges Category University of Cambridge in fiction Oxbridge colleges Category University of ... more details
Muhammed al Darbi is a Yemen i held in extrajudicial detention by the CIA , in one of their black site s. ref name WaPo021226 http www.washingtonpost.com ac2 wp dyn A37943 2002Dec25?language printer U.S. Decries Abuse but Defends Interrogations Stress and Duress Tactics Used on Terrorism Suspects Held in Secret Overseas Facilities , Washington Post , December 26, 2002 ref ref name Mwc050530 http mwcnews.net index.php?option com content&task view&id 2592 List of Ghost Prisoners Possibly in CIA Custody , Media with Conscience , May 30, 2005 ref According to the Washington Post al Darbi was captured as a result of extended interrogation techniques used in secret interrogation centres. ref name WaPo021226 Al Darbi was captured in August 2002. ref name Mwc050530 The Washington Post reported that CIA director George Tenet stated that al Darbi had described a plot by Yemenis to bomb a Western oil tanker. ref name WaPoWhen http tech.mit.edu V122 N48 long 3 48.48w.html CIA Director Suggests al Qaida May be Ready to Strike Again , Washington Post ref References references CIAPrisons HighValue state collapsed Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Muhammed Al Darbi ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Muhammed Al Darbi Category Yemeni extrajudicial prisoners of the United States Category Living people Category Year of birth missing living people Category Missing people MEast bio stub paramilitary bio stub ... more details
Infobox ESC entry song flagicon Switzerland Pas pour moi image caption year 1986 country Switzerland artist Daniela Simmons as with language French languages composer Atilla ereftu lyricist Nella Martinetti conductor Atilla ereftu place 2nd points 140 lyrics http www.diggiloo.net ?1986ch from Diggiloo Thrush clip prev Piano, Piano prev link Piano, Piano next Moiti , moiti next link Moiti , moiti Pas pour moi Not for me was the Switzerland Swiss entrant to the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 in Bergen , Norway . It was sung by Daniela Simmons and performed in French language French . On the night of the final, the song performed in the tenth position following Spain s Cadillac band Cadillac singing Valentino and preceding Israel s Moti Giladi & Sarai Tzuriel with Yavo Yom , and at the close of the voting had received 140 points, placing 2nd in a field of 20. In the song, Simmons sings about how she desires love written in capital letters from a man, and laments as to why this is not happening for her. She decries one night stands and men treating women as if they are only tricks coming from the disco, which caused a minor stir in French speaking nations as Simmons uses mildly vulgar contemporary slang to describe such acts. The pas pour moi referenced in the song is Simmons telling the listener that she feels young people living a hedonistic existence with many sexual partners is not for her. Throughout most of the song, Simmons plays the underlying melody herself on the piano. It was succeeded as Swiss representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 1987 1987 contest by Carol Rich with Moiti , moiti . Category 1986 songs Category Eurovision songs of 1986 Category Eurovision songs of Switzerland Category French language songs Category Songs written by Nella Martinetti Switzerland stub 1980s song stub pt Pas pour moi Eurovision Song Contest 1986 ... more details
Johannes Tomana is a Zimbabwean attorney and the current Attorney General, appointed to the position by Robert Mugabe on December 18, 2008. He previously served as deputy Attorney General under Sobusa Gula Ndebele from 2006 to May 2008 . Gula Ndebele was dismissed from his post following infighting within the ZANU PF. Bharat Patel , who served as acting Attorney General from May to December 2008. Toamana is a member of Zimbabwes Anit Corruption Commission since 2005. Tomana s appointment in December 2008 was made together with the appointment of the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe , Gideon Gono without consulting the Movement for Democratic Change Tsvangirai Movement for Democratic Change MDC , the other part of the Zimbabwean inclusion governmernt. It is heavily debated by the MDC. ref http allafrica.com stories 200812180879.html SW Radio Africa, Tichaona Sibanda MDC Decries Appointment of Johannes Tomana As Attorney General 18 December 2008 ref ref http www.mdc.co.zw index.php?option com content&view article&id 352 johannes tomana must resign&catid 45 around zimbabwe Movement for Democratic Change, Luke Tamborinyoka Johannes Tomana must resign, 19 May 2010 ref References references Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Tomana, Johannes ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Tomana, Johannes Category Attorneys general Category Living people Category Zimbabwean lawyers zimbabwe bio stub Law bio stub ... more details
Sex and Character is a book published in 1903 by Otto Weininger . Male activity and female passivity The male aspect is active, productive, conscious and moral logical, while the female aspect is passive, unproductive, unconscious and amorality amoral alogical. Weininger argues that emancipation should be reserved for the masculine woman , e.g. some lesbians, and that the female life is consumed with the sexual function both with the act, as a prostitute, and the product, as a mother. Forgoing love for the absolute Woman is a matchmaking matchmaker . By contrast, the duty of the male, or the masculine aspect of personality, is to strive to become a genius, and to forgo sexuality for an abstract love of the absolute philosophy absolute , God, which he finds within himself. Nature of genius A significant part of his book is about the nature of genius. Weininger argues that there is no such thing as a person who has a genius for, say, mathematics, or music, but there is only the universality philosophy universal genius, in whom everything exists and makes sense. He reasons that such genius is probably present in all people to some degree. Negative archetypal characteristics of Jews In a separate chapter, Weininger, himself a Jew who had converted to Christianity in 1902, analyzes the archetypical Jew as feminine, and thus profoundly irreligious, without true individualism individuality soul , and without a sense of goodness and evil good and evil . Christianity is described as the highest expression of the highest faith , while Judaism is called the extreme of cowardliness . Weininger decries the decay of modern times, and attributes much of it to feminine, and thus Jewish, influences. By Weininger s reckoning everyone shows some femininity, and what he calls Jewishness . Added notoriety due to Weininger s suicide Weininger s suicide in the house in Vienna where Ludwig van Beethoven Beethoven had died, the man he considered one of the greatest geniuses of all made him ... more details
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Infobox film name Rites of Passage caption image Rites of Passage FilmPoster.jpeg director W. Peter Iliff producer Mark Canton br David Hopwood br William D. Johnson br Jonathan Sachar writer W. Peter Iliff br Rick Halsey starring Wes Bentley br Kate Maberly br Ryan Donowho br Christian Slater br Stephen Dorff music Elia Cmiral cinematography Alex Nepomniaschy editing Glenn Garland distributor released runtime country Film US language English budget gross Rites of Passage is an upcoming American thriller film written and directed by W. Peter Iliff. The film stars Wes Bentley , Kate Maberly , Ryan Donowho , Christian Slater and Stephen Dorff . It is currently in post production. Plot A studious anthropology student decries his position in a society that fails to provide a ceremony to mark his transition into manhood. He guides his stressed party going classmates to his family s abandoned rural ranch. There they meet his brother, who is in a psychotic spiral of drug addiction and guilt. ref http www.upcoming movies.com Articles Christian Slater in Rites of Passage indepedent thriller.html Christian Slater in Rites of Passage independent thriller Upcoming Movies. 2 November 2010 ref Cast Wes Bentley as Benny Kate Maberly as Dani Ryan Donowho as Nathan Christian Slater as Delgado Stephen Dorff as Professor Nash Briana Evigan as Penelope Travis Van Winkle as Hart Carly Schroeder as Carly Ashley Hinshaw as Sandee Guy Burnet as Mojo Premises The film has been planned to be released on 2012, straight to DVD. The trailer for the film was released on late 2011, and can be viewed on the official Rites of Passage Facebook page, and YouTube . References reflist External links IMDb title 1745958 Rites of Passage Category Upcoming films Category American independent films Category American thriller films Category 2010s thriller films 2010s thriller film stub ... more details
Infobox film name Caliche sangriento image caption director Helvio Soto writer Helvio Soto starring Hector Duvauchelle , br Jaime Vadell , br Jorge Y ez , br Jorge Guerra , br Patricia Guzman music Tito Lederman producer distributor budget released 27 October 1969 small Chile small runtime 120 Minute min language Spanish gross Caliche sangriento i.e. Bloody Nitrate is a Chile an movie of 1969 and the first one directed by Helvio Soto . The plot takes place in 1879 through 1880 during the War of the Pacific , when Chile, Bolivia and Peru fought over control of the sodium nitrate deposits in the Atacama desert . The film decries the cruelty and absurdity of war and the disunity among the peoples of Latin America. The style of the movie has been compared to that of Western genre Western and Spaghetti western movies. Plot A group of 17 chilean soldiers is marching through the baking hot desert, led by a captain who demands rigid discipline. One at a time, the men fall victim to the overwhelming drudgery and engagements with Irregular military irregular troops . External links Imdb title id 0064120 title Caliche sangriento http es.cinechile.wikia.com wiki Caliche sangriento Concise filmographical data sheet spanish http calichesangriento.wordpress.com Website reorting about the current film restoration project spanish Category 1969 films Category Chilean films Category War films Category Films set in the 1870s Category War of the Pacific de Der Salpeterkrieg ... more details
name obama cite news date 2009 08 26 work National Catholic Reporter title Bishop decries combative tactics of a minority of U.S. bishops url http ncronline.org news politics bishop decries combative ... more details
labor he was forced to do amounted to Slavery slave labor . ref Allen, David. Ex Marine decries ... news ex marine decries nature of japan prison work 1.21905 ref Ledet, who had claimed he did not rape ... more details
Unreferenced date September 2007 Infobox IRC network name SlashNET image founded on 1999 located in United States br Europe based in World wide executive board website url http www.slashnet.org www.slashnet.org primary dns irc irc.slashnet.org irc.slashnet.org average users IRC NQNS link SlashNET 1,500 1,800 average channels IRC NQNS link SlashNET 550 600 average servers IRC NQNS link SlashNET 10 main content Public Unrestricted SlashNET is a medium sized, independently operated Internet Relay Chat IRC network. Originally sponsored by Slashdot , in 1999 SlashNET split off to become its own entity. A few well known communities and projects maintain an IRC presence at SlashNET, including g7 the IRC idle RPG , totse Totse , and idiots club ZZT Community . Administration According to SlashNET s website, a hands off approach to System administrator administration is used. More specifically, SlashNET claims that IRC operator IRC Operators are just regular users with a status flag next to their nicknames. SlashNET s administration officially decries the use of mission statements and other business like buzzwords for IRC networks and rejects the notion that these are necessary for the operation of a network. The overall objective of the administration as described by the network s website is keep the servers running. SlashNET is run entirely by volunteer s from around the globe. SlashNET s servers run UnrealIRCd v3.2.5 on FreeBSD and Linux . IRC services and http opm.blitzed.org info Blitzed Open Proxy Monitor are also utilized to provide a quality Citation needed date May 2010 IRC experience for users. Forums SlashNET has been host to numerous IRC forums with famous people in the tech industry, including Ken Coar , Marcel Gagne , Richard Stallman , Jamie Zawinski , Matt Dillon computer scientist Matt Dillon of DragonflyBSD , Rob Malda Rob CmdrTaco Malda and Jeff Hemos Bates of Slashdot, Rusty Foster and Dylan Griffiths Dylan Inoshiro Griffiths of kuro5hin , and the distrib ... more details
A Counterblaste to Tobacco is a treatise written by British monarchy King James I of England James VI of Scotland and I of England in 1604, in which he expresses his distaste for tobacco , particularly tobacco smoking . As such, it is one of the earliest anti tobacco publications. Style and content It is written in Early Modern English and refers to medical theories of the time e.g. the four humours . ref name counterblaste http www.laits.utexas.edu poltheory james blaste A Counterblaste to Tobacco retrieved February 22, 2008 ref In it, James blames Native Americans in the United States Native Americans for bringing tobacco to Europe, complains about passive smoking , warns of dangers to the lung s, and decries tobacco s odour as hatefull to the nose. ref name counterblaste Effects and legacy James s dislike of tobacco led him to authorize Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset , to levy an excise tax and tariff of six shilling s and eight pence per pound of tobacco import ed, ref http www.laits.utexas.edu poltheory james blaste blaste.app.html Commissio pro Tobacco , James I, 1616 ref or 1 per three pounds, a large sum of money for the time. 150 years later, United Kingdom British utilitarianism utilitarian philosophy philosopher Jeremy Bentham would cite A Counterblaste to Tobacco as an example of antipathy run wild. ref name counterblaste In popular culture The treatise is quoted in Kidnapped 1995 film 1995 s TV adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson s Kidnapped novel novel Kidnapped . The Jacobite Allan Stewart Jacobite Allan Breck Stuart leaves an according note A custome loathesome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine after he has literally smelled a trap because an attendant of King George s factor has been smoking obtrusive tobacco. Quotation quotation Have you not reason then to bee ashamed, and to forbeare this filthie noveltie, so basely grounded, so foolishly received and so grossely mistaken in the right use thereof? In your abuse there ... more details
Matthew 6 16 is the sixteenth verse of the sixth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount . This verse opens the discussion of fasting . In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. The World English Bible translates the passage as Moreover when you fast, don t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward. For a collection of other versions see http bibref.hebtools.com ?book 20Matthew&verse 6 16&src BibRef Matthew 6 16 Previously this chapter has discussed proper procedure for alms giving and prayer . In this verse Jesus moves on the third important form of Jewish worship fasting. Fasting was an important part of piety in this period. All Jews were expected to fast on major holidays, such as the Day of Atonement , but some far more often, sometimes twice a week. Jesus views on fasting parallels his views of other forms of worship. He decries those that make a public spectacle of their piety, and assures his followers that the reward for such worship is only public adulation, and God will give no reward for this behaviour. Disfigure their faces aphanizo literally means make their faces invisible. ref France, R.T. The Gospel According to Matthew an Introduction and Commentary. Leicester Inter Varsity, 1985. pg. 137 ref It may refer to putting ash on the face to darken one s complexion and make sure that everyone around is aware that one is fasting. This may also reflect the original meaning of hypocrite as actor, as these fasters are putting on a show of suffering. References reflist Hill, David. The Gospel of Matthew . Grand Rapids Eerdmans, 1981 Morris, Leon. The Gospel According to Matthew. G ... more details
DEBKAfile lang he is a Jerusalem based English language Israel i open source military intelligence website with commentary and analyses on terrorism , Intelligence information gathering intelligence , security , and military and politics political affairs in the Middle East . The word Dabke Debka refers to an Arab folk dance. ref name JJ The site started in the summer of 2000, and is operated from the Jerusalem home of journalists Giora Shamis and Diane Shalem. ref name JJ http www.jewishjournal.com world article israeli web site debkacom at center of new york dirty bomb tip 20070817 Israeli Web site Debka.com at center of New York dirty bomb tip ref It has been awarded Forbes Best of the Web award. ref http www.forbes.com bow b2c review.jhtml?id 6117 Debkafile on Forbes Best of Web ref Forbes identifies the best part of the website as being its archives, but decries the fact that most of the information is attributed to unidentified sources. Wired.com s Noah Shachtman wrote in 2001 that the site clearly reports with a point of view the site is unabashedly in the hawkish camp of Israeli politics, adding that Debka had partnered with the right wing news site WorldNetDaily for a weekly subscription product. ref http www.wired.com politics law news 2001 10 47325 ixzz0qIvkTBr6 Debka Conflict s Drudge Report? Wired.com Noah Shachtman, October 5, 2001 ref Yediot Achronot investigative reporter Ronen Bergman states that the site relies on information from sources with an agenda, such as neo conservative elements of the US Republican Party United States Republican Party , whose worldview is that the situation is bad and is only going to get worse, and that Israeli intelligence officials do not consider even 10 percent of the site s content to be reliable. ref name JJ Cornell Law School Cornell Law professor Michael C. Dorf calls Debka his favorite alarmist Israeli website trading in rumors. ref Michael C. Dorf Dorf, Michael 2010 07 20 http www.dorfonlaw.org 2010 07 ... more details
Image Mirbeau21DaysNeurasthenic.jpg thumb right 220px Les Vingt et un Jours d un neurasth nique is an expressionism expressionist novel by the French writer Octave Mirbeau , published by Charpentier Fasquelle in August of 1901 in literature 1901 . Commentary It s a collage of fifty cruel tales already published in the press over the previous fifteen years. So Mirbeau unsettles traditional novelistic conventions, transgressing the code of fictional credibility and maintaining indeterminacy of its genre affiliation. A fictionalized rendering of the author s sojourn a few years before at the Pyrenean spa of Luchon , the novel mirrors a vagrant plot in its episodic narrative. Mirbeau s narrator, Georges Vasseur, moves from observation to recollection, traveling from sanitarium to insane asylum and finally to the desolate mountain retreat of a misanthropic friend, who propounds his philosophy of nihilism and decries the futility of art. In his peripatetic narrative, Mirbeau casts a glaring light on the defective human animal, who tries to compensate for his susceptibility to the most humiliating bodily afflictions by asserting scientific mastery of the dangerous world he tries to navigate. Mirbeau combines attacks on colonialism, psychiatry, the politics of intolerance with a rehabitation of man, deemed precious for his very unknowability. While doctors, bureaucrats, and billionaires try to overcome their sense of ontological uncertainty, using X ray technology, money, or ideological fanaticism, Mirbeau suggests life s value consists in its unprecitability. Opposing the pretentiousness of science, the deathliness of knowledge systems, Mirbeau invokes the vitality of an art of exploration and creative conjecture. The French society of the French Third Republic Third Republic is presented as a completely mad world in the novel, where everything is out of justice, order and reason. References Robert Ziegler, Naturalism as Paranoia in Octave Mirbeau , French Forum , Spring 2 ... more details
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