Duke the menace

[Duke of Buckingham]

Duke the Flash. :D
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[Duke of Buckingham]

It is only important to know where we are when we have where to go.

[Duke of Buckingham]

No matter where I go, there I am ...

[Duke of Buckingham]

Super Smash Bros. Brawl/quotes

Meta Knight

"COME!" - Taunt
"Fight me!" - Taunt
"Behold...!" - Final Smash
"Know my power!" - Final Smash
"Come back when you can put up a fight." - Victory
"You have much yet to learn." - Victory
"Victory... is my destiny..." - Victory

Duke The Menace

[Duke of Buckingham]

April 7

Events

451 – Attila the Hun sacks the town of Metz and attacks other cities in Gaul.
529 – First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
1348 – Charles University is founded in Prague.
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.
1541 – Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
1724 – Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion BWV 245 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
1767 – End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767)
1776 – Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward.
1788 – American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio, as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country.
1798 – The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.
1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
1827 – John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
1829 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.
1831 – D. Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil, resigns. He goes to his native Portugal to become King D. Pedro IV.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh ends – the Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee.
1868 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician.
1890 – Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
1906 – The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
1908 – H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
1922 – Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.
1927 – First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
1933 – Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.
1939 – World War II: Italy invades Albania.
1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
1943 – Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they are shot dead and buried in ditches.
1943 – Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
1945 – World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.
1945 – World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th, and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
1946 – Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.
1948 – The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
1948 – A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.
1954 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
1955 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
1956 – Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco.
1964 – IBM announces the System/360.
1967 – Film critic Roger Ebert published his very first film review in the Chicago Sun-Times.
1969 – The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.
1971 – President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.
1976 – Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.
1977 – German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
1978 – Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
1983 – During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.
1985 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe.
1989 – Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
1990 – Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).
1990 – A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry M/S Scandinavian Star, killing 158 people.
1992 – Republika Srpska announces its independence.
1994 – Rwandan Genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
1994 – Auburn Calloway attempts to hijack FedEx Express Flight 705 and crash it to insure his family with his life insurance policy. The crew subdues him and lands the aircraft safely.
1995 – First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
1999 – The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
2001 – Mars Odyssey is launched.
2003 – U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
2009 – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
2009 – Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.

I am thinking to do this day in history like that. What do you think?

[zombie67]

[B][COLOR="#FF0000"]I am thinking to do this day in history like that. What do you think?

I like it. Take a couple of lines you think are important/interesting, make them a different color, with links to more info.

[Duke of Buckingham]

I like it. Take a couple of lines you think are important/interesting, make them a different color, with links to more info.

When I started, very long ago at Sicituradastra and after at Musketeers, I did just that, bold and red to expand the article.

In a moment I will make post and will try to improve a bit. Maybe one or another picture also.:o

[Duke of Buckingham]

Today was a very sad day for me. Someone of my family as died, it was a very distanced relative but it was quite a good person.

That GOD may receive you in peace my dear cousin, you deserve no less.

RIP

[Duke of Buckingham]

Today was a very sad day for me. Someone of my family as died, it was a very distanced relative but it was quite a good person.

That GOD may receive you in peace my dear cousin, you deserve no less.

RIP


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1sYjDc8i4I

[Duke of Buckingham]

This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.

[Duke of Buckingham]

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Babe Ruth


I am a member of this team, and I rely on this team, I sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion and I will be champion within the team, my team.

One of the team's mission is to win if is the will of his members. The team will, is the complex will of all his team members and the success of that team, would be connected to that.

We are a lot of very competitive guys that are lucky to have such good players, we must use that on our behalf and we are doing exactly that.

Duke of Buckingham

[Duke of Buckingham]

http://www.whats-your-sign.com/images/SymbolicEagleMeaning.jpg

[Duke of Buckingham]

http://www.queeky.com/remote/slide/800x800/70646/source.jpg

Hello is anybody at home?

[Fire$torm]

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Hello is anybody at home?

Hmmmmm....

Duke, not sure if this is happening to everyone but for me, I cannot see the images you are posting. I believe the website where these pics come from is blocking the links.

[Duke of Buckingham]

Hmmmmm....

Duke, not sure if this is happening to everyone but for me, I cannot see the images you are posting. I believe the website where these pics come from is blocking the links.

And now F$? Because for me the images are just fine on both ways. Maybe is you blocking the site F$. I have seen all and from me and the site there is no problem. Try to go to http://good-wallpapers.com/ and see if you have problems. It is a site that offers wallpapers and I can not see any problem on it.

http://good-wallpapers.com/pictures/802/1280_3d cartoon character.jpg

[Duke of Buckingham]

The Eagle is landing.
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[Duke of Buckingham]

12th April 1957

A very important day to mankind, Ricardo Ferreira later known as The Crazy Duke arrived to earth but it was very small at that time and cried for no reason.

Man that was a tuft day to my mother.

Thank you Mom.

Very Crazy Duke getting older.

[Duke of Buckingham]

See you in some days. Keep on keeping.

We are better together.

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[Duke of Buckingham]

Boston on my mind,

anguish in my heart

[Duke of Buckingham]

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[artemis8]

12th April 1957

A very important day to mankind, Ricardo Ferreira later known as The Crazy Duke arrived to earth but it was very small at that time and cried for no reason.

Man that was a tuft day to my mother.

Thank you Mom.

Very Crazy Duke getting older.


Happy Belated Birthday!

[artemis8]

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1089220/thumbs/o-MARTIN-RICHARD-DEAD-BOSTON-MARATHON-570.jpg

I know, so sad that such a young child was killed. My own son is just 8 and it would be devastating.

[Duke of Buckingham]

Happy Belated Birthday!


I know, so sad that such a young child was killed. My own son is just 8 and it would be devastating.

Thanks artemis8, that was exactly my point of view, we are old men (and women), I am very sad a project of a man, a new world, was killed, random killed for nothing.

I am also very sorry, the weight and emotional point of view of the word Boston as suddenly changed, Boston of the independence, Boston of the tea party, Boston of a bombing without any sense except of terrorizing the people than can change the world and terrorized people don't think so well ... they only think about their own security.

[Mumps]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TXPgMmzveo

Duke: It's the norm that the crowd doesn't participate in the singing of the National Anthem. Interesting to hear how well they did with this...

[Duke of Buckingham]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TXPgMmzveo

Duke: It's the norm that the crowd doesn't participate in the singing of the National Anthem. Interesting to hear how well they did with this...

I was waiting to know if was an internal issue (as it seems) or international but terrorism is all the same and those emotional response are good as a proof of union and common values.

We should search for the appropriated answers out of our hearts. I am very proud of President Obama that with much courage talked about Justice in such an emotional moment.

But I couldn't help having tears in my eyes for this moment.

Thanks Mumps.

[zombie67]

No one has any idea of the source of this, to date. Internal, external, or motivation. Any news outlet that says they do is making it up, or repeating fabrications of others.

[Duke of Buckingham]

No one has any idea of the source of this, to date. Internal, external, or motivation. Any news outlet that says they do is making it up, or repeating fabrications of others.

We don't need to know much about it. History of mankind tell us that are the "ism" of the world in action. That could be (as examples) Christian-ism, Bud-ism, Islamism, Judaism, Nationalism, Racism or any other "ism" mankind could invented, when I ear one word that finishes in "ism"the sirens and bells start making noise in side of my head.

Guided for a wrong sense of duty and a wrong sense of love men kill children, women and other men, they are so committed to their cause (no matter what that cause is) that they must be very surprised to go to hell for killing other (innocent) people, this counts for everyone, Christians, Muslims, Buddhist. Jews, or any other religion, that counts for those that love their country or their skin color too much or in any other "reasons" they can think of.

No one wants to be so much loved at the point of being beaten or killed, not even God. The dimension of feelings mess with their essence. Don´t mistake yourselves for using the same word, we are talking about very different things, when we say that we have faith in our God to love him and when we have faith in our God to kill other people.

I talk to much, sorry.

There is a chance peace will come in your life ... according to plan ... according to man


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH2R0aGmIPs

[zombie67]

Peace is not the natural state of man. When we manage to capture it, it's only a matter of time before it slips through our fingers.

[Duke of Buckingham]

I am proud of each of any of my credits. They are my private account of my gift for mankind and there could be a big and very round zero because I know what I do, the best I can.

I would be very ashamed of shitting for nothing, except for my proud. I am very glad my team have zero of them, I would like to talk to all of them to understand why, because I just can not imagine why.
Didn't they teach you anything?

[Fire$torm]

12th April 1957

A very important day to mankind, Ricardo Ferreira later known as The Crazy Duke arrived to earth but it was very small at that time and cried for no reason.

Man that was a tuft day to my mother.

Thank you Mom.

Very Crazy Duke getting older.


Oooops.... Sorry Duke, I totally missed this post :(( :(( :((

A very Happy Belated B-Day Duke <:-P <:-P <:-P

[Duke of Buckingham]

Thank you to all that noticed and for those that didn't notice either.

:confused: I am now trying to understand why my computer doesn't recognize nothing connected to SATA entries as the DVD player and any other disk I connected there but everything else seems to be working including the GPU. That is really strange and I think I have to take the computer to a technician and that breaks my heart, I don't like no one to touch my computer. =((

I am also thinking to use 2 or 3 pens download BOINC and use the computer only to crunch on Linux, Ubuntu of course. I need some more time to make a decision.:-??

[Duke of Buckingham]

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

[Duke of Buckingham]

Time to go and not look back. The past is the past, time to make a brighter future.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

[Duke of Buckingham]

Love and friendship are a journey not a destination.

[Duke of Buckingham]

God is silence. See the trees, the flowers and the grass that grows in silence. See the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need to be in silence to be able to ear and touch others souls.

[Duke of Buckingham]

“You forget all of it anyway. First, you forget everything you learned-the dates of the Hay-Herran Treaty and Pythagorean Theorem. You especially forget everything you didn't really learn, but just memorized the night before. You forget the names of all but one or two of your teachers, and eventually you'll forget those, too. You forget your junior class schedule and where you used to sit and your best friend's home phone number and the lyrics to that song you must have played a million times. For me, it was something by Simon & Garfunkel. Who knows what it will be for you? And eventually, but slowly, oh so slowly, you forget your humiliations-even the ones that seemed indelible just fade away. You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. Who went to a good college. Who threw the best parties Who could get you pot. You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They're the last to go. And then once you've forgotten enough, you love someone else.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

[Duke of Buckingham]

There are some things we can only see when they are not there anymore.

Ricardo Ferreira

[Duke of Buckingham]

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Frederick Douglass

[Duke of Buckingham]

I would never thought...

I started on Boinc on Tue, 16 Jun 2009 at 14:43:28 UTC.

In my first times I was at Seti Portugal and then start wondering around.

I was on a lot of teams like PBToyz where I made my first posts as the team stopped crunching I returned to Seti Portugal for a while then for something I don't remember anymore I was invited to Sicituradastra where I stand for about one year and start having a (real) forum activity.

I started with disconnected posts and as I had never written, I was really insecure about what to write and the way of doing it, my English was not so good and I had to improve it to have a better communication.

About one year later I was in need of travel a bit more on Boinc world, what I post on Sicituradastra forum to get some team members opinion. Ten minutes later I couldn't enter the forum anymore. I was really confused about it, I never thought a question could be forbidden ...

Then as I had some contacts on other teams I choose "The Musketeers" and so I stayed on the TeaM for a while, I restarted "This day in history" and other images posts (images are good in any language). I was meanwhile in a lot of other teams trying to help in forum activity, I have seen forums starting and finishing, I may have post about 30,000 posts and been read more 1,000,000 times.

It is a long way for a poor person of this corner of the world that badly could write in English and had never posted a line. I had my good and bad moments but it worthwhile if I could make some of you laugh or made forums got another (better) life.

I was not always right and was not always wrong, I just choose something I am very happy to do and I made it for me and for you, the feelings are only the emotional strength that make you post and keep the forum alive.

Not in my wildest dreams I could expect to do half of the posts and crunching on such a short time.

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[somanyroads]

I just choose something I am very happy to do

Thank you . . . =D>

[myshortpencil]

I would never thought...

* * *

I was not always right and was not always wrong, I just choose something I am very happy to do and I made it for me and for you, the feelings are only the emotional strength that make you post and keep the forum alive.

Not in my wildest dreams I could expect to do half of the posts and crunching on such a short time.

http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=search&proj=&team=&name=Duke%20of%20Buckingham&exact=N&cross=N

Very nice. :)

[artemis8]

We are glad to have you here with us :)

[Duke of Buckingham]

Thank you . . . =D>


Very nice. :)


We are glad to have you here with us :)

Thank you to you, is very good to be with you all and be a part of this team, I am happy with that ...

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[Duke of Buckingham]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KZjvlKjeXI

I am a man of dreams ...

[Duke of Buckingham]

I don't live of security and don't matter with the risks because the opportunities that risks gave me are priceless and they are my real payment on the game of life.

I was never afraid of saying I am sorry when I am wrong and so life goes on with so many more opportunities ahead, I will take the risks ...

Nothing has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe in their dreams and fight for them.

Ricardo Ferreira

[Duke of Buckingham]

Hofstra marks student's death with graduation moment of silence
By Chelsea J. Carter and Chris Kokenes, CNN

New York (CNN) -- Sunday's graduation ceremony at Hofstra University was a bittersweet affair marked by a moment of silence for a 21-year-old student killed by a police officer two days ago.

Many students at the university in East Garden City, New York, wore white ribbons on their gowns in tribute to Andrea Rebello, CNN affliate WCBS reported.

More on: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/19/us/new-york-student-killed/index.html

Andrea Rebello

Rest in Peace

[Duke of Buckingham]

Sometimes I am in a big trouble trying to be exactly like me.

The Crazy Duke

[Duke of Buckingham]

My youngest son is God's opinion that the world must go on.

[Duke of Buckingham]

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein

[Duke of Buckingham]

Time to sleep. I am very tired today, see you tomorrow, goodnight.

http://img.designswan.com/2009/photo/sleepingCat/16.jpg

[Duke of Buckingham]

Is just a break fighters need ...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu8mWEnz4cI

[Duke of Buckingham]

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Duke of Buckingham]

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

[Duke of Buckingham]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rQLeTKBxjg

[Duke of Buckingham]

It's a gambler's way of thinking
I scratch for gold, you're safe and sound

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMiNI6-wHp0

[Duke of Buckingham]

Map of the corruption in the world.
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[Duke of Buckingham]

Misery Map
http://moneyweek.com/wp-content//uploads/2011/11/561-miserable-countries.gif

[Duke of Buckingham]

http://www.portugal.gastronomias.com/images/acores_arroz-lapas.jpg

Ingredients:
For 4 people

1 kg of small limpets;
1 large onion;
2 cloves of garlic;
1 dl olive oil;
half teaspoon of paprika;
500 g of rice;
salt;
pepper;
salsa;
1 tip bay (optional)

Preparation:

Wash the limpets and scald with boiling water. Reserves of the scald water, after strained.
Bite the onion and garlic and "pierce up» in oil. The onion should be just "honeydew" (translucent). Season with salt, pepper, paprika and bay leaf. Irrigation with the scald water which served to limpets and must have twice the volume of the rice.
Limpets without shells, are introduced into the rice when it is almost dry.
Serve sprinkled with chopped parsley.

Hope that receipt can be understood but if it isn't just ask.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QR-3q0dNlQQ/TPfMcfRj_QI/AAAAAAAAAAM/-QOebHhvpwc/S1600-R/DSC03290.JPG

[Duke of Buckingham]

True Horizon
http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2011/10/best-picture-of-earth.jpg

[artemis8]

http://www.portugal.gastronomias.com/images/acores_arroz-lapas.jpg

Ingredients:
For 4 people

1 kg of small limpets;
1 large onion;
2 cloves of garlic;
1 dl olive oil;
half teaspoon of paprika;
500 g of rice;
salt;
pepper;
salsa;
1 tip bay (optional)

Preparation:

Wash the limpets and scald with boiling water. Reserves of the scald water, after strained.
Bite the onion and garlic and "pierce up» in oil. The onion should be just "honeydew" (translucent). Season with salt, pepper, paprika and bay leaf. Irrigation with the scald water which served to limpets and must have twice the volume of the rice.
Limpets without shells, are introduced into the rice when it is almost dry.
Serve sprinkled with chopped parsley.

Hope that receipt can be understood but if it isn't just ask.


I've never heard of a limpet, what is it?

[Duke of Buckingham]

I've never heard of a limpet, what is it?

We call them "Lapa(s)" in Portuguese and I had to look for a translation also. I hope the picture or the wikipedia page can help.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Common_limpets1.jpg/800px-Common_limpets1.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limpet

[artemis8]

Oh wow, I've never seen those. They look interesting. I've never actually cooked a snail before. I do like escargot though.

[Duke of Buckingham]

Oh wow, I've never seen those. They look interesting. I've never actually cooked a snail before. I do like escargot though.

They are very different from escargot. In fact the flavor is much more seemed to the oysters in shape and flavor. This is a usual cooking from Azores where oysters and limpets are very common on the beaches.

There are some tricks as having them 24 hours on clean (salty) water before cook them but can be eaten without cooking also, one thing I can assure you, they are delicious.

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[Duke of Buckingham]

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Robert A. Heinlein

[Duke of Buckingham]

When I was young (that was long ago) I loved to read scientific fiction and one of my favorites was Robert A. Heinlein. I learned with him that one can be crazy to have different perspective of all that really matters. Most of the people try to say things on a more credible way, always fearing other peoples judgment. I don't and I owe that to crazy Heinlein. Life can be craziest than Heinlein or the crazy Duke.

I am reading again "A Stranger in a Strange Land" rediscovering Heinlein and his genius with human feelings.



“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

“Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.”

“I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.”

“A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.”

“Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.”

“Secrecy begets tyranny.”

“I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.”

“Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.”

“If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.”

“But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.”

“There is no safety this side of the grave”

“If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as "worship.”

“He's an honest politician--he stays bought.”

“My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases myself.”

“I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.”

“I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.”

“Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.”

“Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay on your toes.”

“Yes, Boss?'
Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.'
She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.'
Nevermind the flattery. There comes a time in every man's life when he has to stop being sensible--a time to stand up and be counted--strike a blow for liberty--smite the wicked.'
Ummm...'
So quit yawning, the time has come.'
She glanced down. 'Maybe I had better get dressed.”

“Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.”

“Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.”

“Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.”

“I’ve been kissed by men who did a very good job. But they don’t give kissing their whole attention. They can’t. No matter how hard they try parts of their minds are on something else. Missing the last bus—or their chances of making the gal—or their own techniques in kissing—or maybe worry about jobs, or money, or will husband or papa or the neighbors catch on. Mike doesn’t have technique . . . but when Mike kisses you he isn’t doing anything else. You’re his whole universe . . . and the moment is eternal because he doesn’t have any plans and isn’t going anywhere. Just kissing you.”

“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist--a master--and that is what Auguste Rodin was--can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is . . . and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be . . . and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body.”

“In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America---and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.”

“I grok in fullness.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land Quotes

[Duke of Buckingham]

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

Clifford D. Simak

[Duke of Buckingham]

Your body hears everything your mind says.

Naomi Judd

[Duke of Buckingham]

1959 - Chuck Berry's "Memphis" was released.

Memphis, Tennessee (song)

"Memphis, Tennessee" is a song by rock & roll singer-songwriter Chuck Berry. It is sometimes shortened to "Memphis". In the UK, the song charted at #6 in 1963, at the same time Decca Records issued a cover version in the UK by Dave Berry and the Cruisers, who came from Sheffield, Yorkshire. Dave Berry's version also became a UK Top 20 hit single, the first of a string of British hit singles which ended with a cover of BJ Thomas' "Mama" reaching #5 in 1966. "Memphis, Tennessee" was most successfully covered by Johnny Rivers whose version of the song was a #2 US hit in 1964.

Berry later composed a sequel, "Little Marie", which appeared in 1964 as a single and on the album St. Louis to Liverpool.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADCz4pXYoVo

[Duke of Buckingham]

Your mind hears everything your body says.

Very Crazy Duke

http://laughingthroughthepain.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/crazy-cat.gif?w=640

[Duke of Buckingham]

The danger of sex is you can fall in love. The danger of love is turning into friendship.

Crazy Duke (between friendship and love) :x

[Duke of Buckingham]

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Joseph Campbell

[Duke of Buckingham]

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Abraham Lincoln

[Duke of Buckingham]

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

Howard Zinn

[Duke of Buckingham]

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Corinthians 13

[Duke of Buckingham]

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

[Duke of Buckingham]

Ecclesiastes 3:1-15

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; ...

[Duke of Buckingham]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSDjwBcD9Ng&feature=c4-overview&playnext=1&list=TLxfP1aRQfr7w

[Duke of Buckingham]

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

James Bryce

[Duke of Buckingham]

Diego de Landa
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Diego_de_Landa.jpg
Diego de Landa Calderón (12 November 1524 – 1579) was a Spanish Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Yucatán. He left future generations with a mixed legacy in his writings, which contain much valuable information on pre-Columbian Maya civilization, and his actions which destroyed much of that civilization's history, literature, and traditions.

After hearing of Roman Catholic Maya who continued to practice idol worship, he ordered an Inquisition in Mani ending with a ceremony called auto-da-fé. During the ceremony on July 12, 1562, at least forty Maya codices and approximately 20,000 Maya cult images were burned. These actions earned Landa a controversial place in the history of the Christianization of the Americas.

Landa's Inquisition showered a level of physical abuse upon the indigenous Maya that was viewed as excessive even by other members of the church such as his predecessor as Bishop, Francisco de Toral. Scores of Maya nobles were jailed pending interrogation, and large numbers of Maya nobles and commoners were subjected to examination under cruel and excessive forms of torture. The violent methods of Landa's inquisition made many Maya flee into the forests to avoid further abuse.

Some contemporary observers were troubled by this widespread use of torture. Crown fiat had earlier exempted indigenous peoples from the authority of the Inquisition, on the grounds that their understanding of Christianity was "too childish" to be held culpable for heresies. Additionally, Landa dispensed with much of the extensive formal procedure and documentation that accompanied Spanish torture and interrogation. When Landa received direct orders from the Viceroy through the Governor of Yucatán Francisco Velázquez de Gijón he retaliated by accusing the governor of abusing the Indians himself, of being an immoral man and a bad Christian and having had an extramarital affair with another man's woman. This sparked a conflict between the ecclesiastical and secular authorities of Yucatán which resulted in the Governor being ex-communicated by Landa, and being replaced in 1577.

Scholars have argued that most instances of the Mexican inquisition showed little concern to eradicate magic or convict individuals for heterodox beliefs, and that witchcraft was treated more as a religious problem capable of being resolved through confession and absolution. Diego de Landa, however was “monomaniacal in his fervor” against it. Landa believed a huge underground network of apostasies, led by displaced indigenous priests, were jealous of the power the Church enjoyed and sought to reclaim it for themselves. These apostates, Landa surmised, had launched a counteroffensive against the Church and he believed it was his duty to expose the evil before it could revert the population to their old heathen ways.

Landa claims he had discovered evidence of human sacrifice and other idolatrous practices while rooting out native idolatry. Although one of the alleged victims of said sacrifices, Mani Encomendero Dasbatés, was later found to be alive and Landa’s enemies contested his right to run an inquisition, Landa insisted the Papal Bull Exponi nobis justified his actions.

Lopez de Cogolludo, Landa’s chief Franciscan biographer, wrote of Landa’s first hand experiences with human sacrifices. When Landa first came to the Yucatán, he made it his mission to walk the breadth of the peninsula and preach to the most remote villages. While passing through Cupules, he came upon a group numbering 300 that was about to sacrifice a young boy. Enraged, Landa stormed through the crowd, released the boy, smashed the idols and began preaching with such zeal and sincerity that they begged him to remain in the land and teach them more.

Landa was remarkable in that he was willing to go where no others would. He entered lands only recently conquered where native resentment of Spaniards was still very intense. Armed with nothing but the conviction to learn as much of native culture as he could, so that it would be easier for him to destroy it in the future, Landa formulated an intimate contact with natives. Natives placed him in such an esteemed position they were willing to show him some of their sacred writings that had been transcribed on deerskin books. To Landa and the other Franciscan friars, the very existence of these Mayan codices was proof of diabolical practices. In references to these books, Landa has said:

We found a large number of books in these characters and, as they contained nothing in which were not to be seen as superstition and lies of the devil, we burned them all, which they (the Maya) regretted to an amazing degree, and which caused them much affliction.

Landa himself was never in doubt of the necessity of his inquisition. Whether magic and idolatry were being practiced or not, there can be little doubt Landa was “possessed” by fantasies of demonic power in a new land. Landa, like most Franciscans of the time, subscribed to millenarian ideas, which demanded the mass conversion of as many souls as possible before the turn of the century. Eliminating evil and pagan practices, Landa believed, would usher the Second Coming of Christ that much sooner.

[Duke of Buckingham]

It is only important to know where we are when we have where to go.

Portugal supports a crisis, serious and lasting social phenomena emerge here most serious, dangerous financial imbalances, disproportionate debts public and internal. Without excluding other views, has been missing governments an accurate idea about the true causes of the difficulties on the exhaustion of likely political and social models. If the growth of Portugal was more vigorous, with harsh social realities we face today would be lower, the share of government spending in the economy would be lower, more lighter taxes reduced the debt and interest.

The Portuguese Government services are mostly incompetent and ineffective, do not meet the needs of the Portuguese. The state is the worst payer of the Portuguese economy in the world! Portuguese society is increasingly "sick" by the action of many "irresponsible", reaching a state of extreme disorganization unthinkable, shocking disrespect, huge indiscipline of increasing inefficiency and inequity smallest ever known in the Portuguese economy!

To be possible to establish state policies of fairness needs to have economic prosperity for it requires different methods of it has taken until now because the state has no money can not in any way, either good or bad, create a good policy of fairness and implement social values. It is necessary to take action long ago, things got worse with the global crisis that broke out in the U.S. in 2008 but the Portuguese economic situation was not, even then, very favorable to growth.

The economic growth leads us to the development. To have this economic growth that Portugal needs a strong government is necessary, innovative, to take different policies by investing in other european countries, promotion of tourism and many other measures that could be taken that for sure would change a little this path we have been taking and has "rots" growing the economy, and that makes Portugal a rotten apple in the eyes of European and even international who fail to invest in Portugal

[Duke of Buckingham]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7FPWipkrn4

[Duke of Buckingham]

I believe.

In spite of a world where words can mean anything, even the opposite that we tried to say and entire sentences mean absolutely nothing,

I still believe that men of good faith and good will, in spite of every very used (and abused) words, would for a small while, say those words that never been said and that mean exactly what we wanted to say ... forever.

[Duke of Buckingham]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27IiNyTczOU

[Duke of Buckingham]

The eyes of a child ...

The eyes of a child smiled at me with a tear that was cried not so long ago.

http://laurenwaters.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/smiling_eyes1.jpg

[Duke of Buckingham]

“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured. And every young farmboy knows that the hardest and noblest wood has the narrowest rings, that high on the mountains and in continuing danger the most indestructible, the strongest, the ideal trees grow.

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with me is unique, unique the form and veins of my skin, unique the smallest play of leaves in my branches and the smallest scar on my bark. I was made to form and reveal the eternal in my smallest special detail.

A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me. I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live.

When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. Let God speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent. You are anxious because your path leads away from mother and home. But every step and every day lead you back again to the mother. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one's suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home. Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.”

― Hermann Hesse, Bäume. Betrachtungen und Gedichte


born
in Calw, Württemberg, Germany
July 02, 1877

died
August 09, 1962

website
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literatu...

genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry

influences
Jacob Burckhardt, Baruch Spinoza, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche

[Duke of Buckingham]

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[Duke of Buckingham]

Somehow we are going somewhere ...

... you ask me where to begin ...

... somehow I will find my way home ...

... you know your will to be free ...

... your friends are close by your side ...

... all starts at the end ...

... no question I am not alone

somehow I will find my way home.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VosFiY1SifA

[Duke of Buckingham]

Once in a while I am caught between the desire and the need to stop posting and my will to help the team.

I come and go in waves, till I wake up the next day.

I wake up with a thought that I can post for one more day.

One more action.

One more step.

On the Marathon of life.

That is me and I can not change.

It is the Ocean inside me, trying to get out.

Ricardo Ferreira


http://www.oceanleadership.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/ocean-8c5n.jpg

[Fire$torm]

Here is an "Old School" phrase that was popular when I was a kid...

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4151/4839380511_74060a2757_o.jpg

Keep up the great work Duke!

Peace.

[Duke of Buckingham]

Thanks F$ very nice as usual.:)

I never could understand that anguish of considering a man half guilty.

I know that things are not black or white, there are a lot of gray tones in between but not for this case.

For the one that died the true injustice is done and for the one (or ones) that killed him the guilty of killing an innocent.

I am now talking about the Lillehammer affair, where the Mossad killed an innocent man for confusing him with a terrorist.

No I don't think they are half guilty. They are as guilty as anyone can be, their confusion doesn't change the fact that they killed one innocent man and for that they must pay. They are guilty because when is to kill a man (destroy a world) and of all that it could be in the future.

Denying a man all is future is not something that one can do without consequences and crying shouldn't help.

I think that the punishment for a wrong death penalty should be death for the perpetrators. Making of God, is only for God.

What are this people thinking, that they can kill one person with their own decisions and later say they were sorry for being wrong. What kind of God is that ...

If they are not God why are they deciding for life or death?

[Duke of Buckingham]

http://tentwentyfivebride.typepad.com/.a/6a0147e17a351d970b0168e73bf707970c-pi

The Latin root word for liberty, translated less precisely as freedom, is the same route term from which "DELIBERATE" and "liberation" are derived. Liberty in the sense of both deliberation and liberation is more in line with Lady Liberty's light and her book because IGNORANCE conduces to slavery, while education [which literally means to lead out; educe; of darkness] frees people from ignorance and "mental slavery" to other people's ideologies.

http://wirednewyork.com/images/city-guide/liberty/liberty.jpg

[Duke of Buckingham]

Fly free as the wind ...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QtvxPvEfipw/UTNe8MAnk7I/AAAAAAAAGNc/-oSKAMALNS4/s1600/12865_461296613912413_319979969_n%5B1%5D.jpg

... disarmed by the time in this quiet crossroads, I am ...

http://ameninadeasas.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/image1.png

Without feathers and wings,
ran the dormant fly
in an opaque veil,
arresting freedom.

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/168/377531735_3cfb5bed14_z.jpg?zz=1

The home of a man is his castle
and mine is a cage.

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_5XvBYfxU_dM/TTh6nXTFGqI/AAAAAAAAP5c/xzFSeLfgUUQ/Woman%20in%20a%20cage-8x6.jpg?imgmax=800

[Duke of Buckingham]

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”

- William W. Purkey

[Duke of Buckingham]

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[Duke of Buckingham]

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

― Anne Frank

[Duke of Buckingham]

http://skateandannoy.com/files/2012/04/5000.jpg

A nice post stone from the Crazy Duke.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-VjVRFN5L._SL500_AA500_.jpg

[Justgeo1]

Way to go, Duke!! :cool:

[Duke of Buckingham]

Thanks George you will get there and be a Diamond like the Duke.

The Internet is far more engaging as an interactive medium than broadcast. Barriers to creating content are going away; they're almost gone. People are taking control of their entertainment. People are Tweeting, posting on Facebook and YouTube.

Ben Huh

[Duke of Buckingham]

... and in spite of everything else life just go on ...

Someone

[Duke of Buckingham]

“In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face.”

― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

[Duke of Buckingham]

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.


John Adams

[Duke of Buckingham]

Garrett MacNamara awarded by the Portuguese Navy

The Portuguese Navy honored this Monday, the Hawaiian surfer with the Naval Medal of Vasco da Gama, "as a result of his extraordinary career practicing surf, marked by excellent performance, and the example of discipline, perseverance, sacrifice and high professionalism, which contributed significantly to the promotion and dissemination of the Navy and Portugal.

"This make me realize that no matter where you come from, what you have, or what resources you have. Everything is possible here in Portugal and all must realize that, "McNamara told reporters.

The surfer promised to continue visiting Portugal and Nazareth, where "surely there are much bigger waves."

MacNamara married in Nazareth and his wife said she will try to have a new (small) surfer in Portugal ... :)

http://img0.rtp.pt/icm//thumb/phpThumb.php?src=/noticias/images/5f/5ff5c69ec2408714f66d250ca2faa218&w=620&sx=0&sy=367&sw=4000&sh=2193&q=75&w=620

The surfer made ​​history, November 1, 2011, while surfing the biggest wave ever approved, North Beach, in Nazareth.

In January 2013, the American. will have possibly beaten his record, also in Nazareth, but lacks its homologation.

[Duke of Buckingham]

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.


Buddha

[Duke of Buckingham]

I can see you.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/world-of-birds/cms/binary/1075882.jpg

[Justgeo1]

I can see you.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/world-of-birds/cms/binary/1075882.jpg



No you can't, I'm hiding behind my chair! :)

[Duke of Buckingham]

Aha, now I can see you ...

http://piccat.com/pictures/463/behind_the_chair.jpg

Me and my computer ... :((

http://wallpafer.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/funny_computer_cats.jpg

[Justgeo1]

Thanks for the giggles today, Duke! Love the kittie pics! ;)

[artemis8]

Yeah, I wouldn't trust those kitties at all.

[Duke of Buckingham]

Yeah, I wouldn't trust those kitties at all.

We are all very nice small kittens artemis but we like to play, that is all.

http://nicepetsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/cats-2dlife-2d8.jpg

http://nicepetsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Cats_Bodyart-6.jpg

http://nicepetsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Cats_Bodyart-7.jpg

http://nicepetsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Cats_Bodyart-11.jpg

http://nicepetsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Cats_Bodyart-14.jpg

http://nicepetsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/funny-2dcats-2d3.jpg

http://nicepetsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/funny-2dcats-2d5.jpg

http://nicepetsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/funny-2dcats-2d9.jpg

http://nicepetsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/cats-2dlife-2d6.jpg

http://nicepetsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/sleep-kitten-14.jpg

http://nicepetsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/photos-2dfunny-2d32.jpg

http://www.katberard.com/images/BadDog.jpg

[Justgeo1]

I think I need that dog outfit for one of my dogs! :p

[Duke of Buckingham]

In a bad world dogs are the best.

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii140/Ghis1964/spinning_earth_color_79x79.gif (http://media.photobucket.com/user/Ghis1964/media/spinning_earth_color_79x79.gif.html)

http://img.geocaching.com/cache/ee912929-6c68-424f-b938-a6126ba53ed3.jpg

With that defined let us see some BAD DOGS.

http://www.empirestateleathernecks.com/images/BAD%20DOG%202.png

A little smile for you

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YGZsB8JQLfQ/TSu9T9GDkuI/AAAAAAAABpU/oL1uEjrTjlE/s1600/Bad+Dog+Behavior.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QsKpH9RGeKQ/SW3KAz9A82I/AAAAAAAAA7Q/9vuBd5lCFBQ/s400/Get-the-cat.jpg

http://mama2point0.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/052_pics1.jpg

http://www.humorhaus.com/images/bad%20dog.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HgPZTxiZsSI/Sw6It2FdJmI/AAAAAAAAB0g/e5j0o0nXLlU/s1600/bad+dog.jpg

http://englishkabbalah.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/bad-dog-warning.jpg

http://www.nodsworld.co.uk/images/BadDog.jpg

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk144/diamel2/2nd%20album%20goodnight/goodnight-12.jpg

[Duke of Buckingham]

Fishing
http://reefbuilders.com/files/2011/07/shark-behind-you.jpg

[Duke of Buckingham]

There is only one rule for me when I come to every Forum.

Treat other members the way you would like to be treated.

Someone

[Cruncher Pete]

There is only one rule for me when I come to every Forum.

Treat other members the way you would like to be treated.

Someone

Have you been reading my Forum? For that is a very familiar statement...:D

[Duke of Buckingham]

Have you been reading my Forum? For that is a very familiar statement...:D

It is a common statement on a lot of forums, that was why I put "Someone" on the signing, most of the best sentences are like the wheel, everyone uses and don't know who invented.

You see CP, I was quite ill and was in the Hospital for about 3 months, in meanwhile one person used my computer and said things I would never said to no one.

When I came back I was quite offended that no one noticed that I could never said those words. That is the problems with computers, we see the same and very familiar machine in front of us.

It was a very difficult time for me, but it was a lesson well learned. I still feel it was my fault to give access on such a personal thing as my computer, except for NSA that is still reading my Emails.

It was judgment error, about a close person, that costs me some friendships and make my heart bleed. I will protect my passwords the best I can.

Things will never be the same for me.

[Duke of Buckingham]

If you get wounded I will bleed for you because you are my friend.

Ricardo

[Duke of Buckingham]

“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”

― Albert Einstein

[Duke of Buckingham]

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

Xi Zhi

[Duke of Buckingham]

Hello Crunch3r. On my side you are always welcome for your excellent work on behalf of BOINC.

And I really think we ALL should have the opportunity of posting in each other forums but some are more closed than another.

I would like that you give us the same opportunity also and we start a new way of communication on this small community called BOINC.

I will ask to all our friends, that are here to help, to join this effort on behalf of science and mankind.

I will be back in a bit more than week for my usual crunching and soon I will be with you all.

That is time for us ALL to be together on BOINC as we always should have been.

I would like very much to see you posting in our forum as a BOINC UNITED member, but I would like to have the same right to post in your forum also.

We keep being divided on language, nationality, religion and color as we always have been, that makes me really sad.

We always forget the reason we are here, to work for a better world. Let us ALL crunch on Primaboinca for a while.

GO BOINC GO.

[Duke of Buckingham]

It doesn't matter to me ...

It doesn't matter to me, if once in a while I can not pass my message or my words are not easily understood.

My main goal is to grow with you and make you grow on what is more important for a human being.

Because hardly matters how much money or how much knowledge you have, happiness is nothing to do with both.

I know miserable human beings very rich, poor or average. I know miserable beings from scientists to uneducated people.

I know people from any kind "pathological" happy.

The way we deal with our emotions is the secret of being or not happy of course some money or study helps, we shouldn't deny the evidence.

To live in a better world, we need better people after all we are a very important part of the world

and happy people is best people.

The world is what we make of it.

[Duke of Buckingham]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=129kuDCQtHs

[Duke of Buckingham]

I love my country and city. The people are friendly and the living is unique and amazing. The food is great and weather is fantastic. I love it there.

That don't make me change my love feeling to an irrational hate for anyone that is not from from my country or my city.

I am always very glad to see people from all nations and all races in the streets of my country.

I feel very pleased to help them giving my best when they need me.

Loving our country, our city, our religion is nothing to do with some irrational fears against what is strange to them.

In the XXI Century some keep insisting that true love and extremism are the same thing.

I say they are very wrong.

Feeling nice with oneself, is not the same thing as hate everyone else.

http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news2/Feeling-Good-Improves-Health-2.jpg

[Duke of Buckingham]

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

“All cruelty springs from weakness.”

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”

“Ad astra per aspera. (To the stars through difficulties.)”

“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”



― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[Duke of Buckingham]

Helping children at a level of genuine intellectual inquiry takes imagination on the part of the adult. Even more, it takes the courage to become a resource in unfamiliar areas of knowledge and in ones for which one has no taste. But parents, no less than teachers, must respect a child's mind and not exploit it for their own vanity or ambition, or to soothe their own anxiety.

Quotation by Dorothy H. Cohen

Read more at http://quotes.dictionary.com/helping_children_at_a_level_of_genuine_intellectua l#wvvI3XdouarrGgk5.99

[Duke of Buckingham]

I always have find more happiness growing down than up.
For good and for bad I had never lost my child's-heart.
The artist in me is the child I could keep alive while I was growing.
When I eat chocolate, I still can feel that child in me.

Duke's inner child

[Justgeo1]

Don't we all feel like a child when we eat chocolate? :D

[Duke of Buckingham]

Don't we all feel like a child when we eat chocolate? :D


Very good ...:)
http://thecheapgourmet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834526a4d69e201157112e005970c-pi

[Duke of Buckingham]

I know that hope is in the heart of the dreamer that believes in a better world.

Ricardo Ferreira

[Duke of Buckingham]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofA3URC1wyk

Any man is all is past, is present and his dreams for the future.

Any man is all his ancestors, his today loves and all his promised children and grandchildren yet to come.

For good and for worst we are the past, the present and the future.

We are the present of all the dreams of past and future generations.

Ric

[Duke of Buckingham]

“Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided.”

― John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

[Duke of Buckingham]

Some of my friends sometimes disappear from the forum.

I would like to tell you all that I miss you very much.

Ric

[Duke of Buckingham]

If you miss someone, that means you're lucky. It means you had someone special in your life, someone worth missing.

[Duke of Buckingham]

It is time for the SETI crunchers come to the forum and help making a better forum acticty.

We are in WOW event made by SETI.Germany.

We have 18 crunchers on the event crunching for the team and more than 100 crunching SETI project. Please inscribe yourselves in here http://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/anmeldung.php?&lang=en

We are far down to our daily credit at this project, please SETI.USA crunchers give us a hand on WOW Event. Your help is needed.

[Duke of Buckingham]

“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.”

― Milan Kundera

[Duke of Buckingham]

I cant wait to be with you again. Be back soon, I hope.

[Cruncher Pete]

I cant wait to be with you again. Be back soon, I hope.

I hope that the cause is not serious. A Vacation perhaps?

[DrPop]

I hope that the cause is not serious. A Vacation perhaps?

Yeah, I will echo C.P. - you are the life of the PARTY around here, Duke! :D ;)

[Duke of Buckingham]

Things are getting better now, Duke The Menace is Back at least for a while.

I hope a very big while.

Now I need to put the GPU and the computer to crunch again.

Time to get to team at full time.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcfqDPAy7zc

[artemis8]

Glad to have you back!

[Duke of Buckingham]

Glad to have you back!

Thanks my dear friend,

I am bit tired but I will return later if I can. Time to get a bit of rest. A lot of old messages and posts to read. I will try to post on today in history later or tomorrow. Now time to close my eyes for a small while.

[Justgeo1]

Welcome back to our home away from home! Great to see you here again, my friend! :D

[Duke of Buckingham]

I am very glad to be here, in fact I am glad to be anywhere but it is somehow special to be with all of you.

Thank you God for this days you are giving me, I will try my best to deserve your gift.

Thank you to all my friends for the kind words and even more for the good thoughts, that when serious, are listen from all universe, in which I am this raindrop living in the Ocean of life.

http://elleswim.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/thankyou.jpg

[Duke of Buckingham]

Sep 19, 1995:
Newspaper publishes Unabomber manifesto


The Washington Post publishes a 35,000-word manifesto written by the Unabomber, who since the late 1970s had eluded authorities while carrying out a series of bombings across the United States that killed 3 people and injured another 23. After reading the manifesto, David Kaczynski realized the writing style was similar to that of his brother, Theodore Kaczynski, and notified the F.B.I. On April 3, 1996, Ted Kaczynski was arrested at his isolated cabin near Lincoln, Montana, where investigators found evidence linking him to the Unabomber crimes.

Theodore John Kaczynski was born May 22, 1942, in Chicago. A talented math student, he entered Harvard University at age 16. In 1967, after receiving a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Kaczynski was hired as an assistant professor at University of California, Berkeley. However, he resigned abruptly in 1969 and eventually began living as a hermit in a small Montana cabin that lacked electricity and running water. Kaczynski received occasional financial support from his family.

From 1978 to 1995, the Unabomber carried out 16 bombings and mail bombings across the U.S. and became the subject of a massive F.B.I. manhunt. The F.B.I. code named him UNABOM because his targets included universities and airlines. Over the years, his victims included professors, scientists, corporate executives and a computer store owner, among others.

In June 1995, the Unabomber sent a 35,000-word anti-technology manifesto to The New York Times and Washington Post and said if it wasn't published he would continue his bombing campaign. On September 19 of that year, after discussions with the F.B.I. and Attorney General Janet Reno, the Post, in collaboration with the Times, published the manifesto, which railed against industrialized society. David Kaczynski suspected his older brother might be the Unabomber after comparing the manifesto to some documents written by Ted that David found in their mother's home.

In 1998, Kaczynski agreed to plead guilty and received four life sentences without the possibility of parole. He is serving his sentence at the supermax federal prison in Florence, Colorado.

http://cyber.eserver.org/unabom.txt

[Duke of Buckingham]

Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.

GAO XINGJIAN, Nocturnal Wanderer

[Duke of Buckingham]

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Confucius

[Duke of Buckingham]

“Too many locks, not enough keys.”

― Sarah Dessen

[Duke of Buckingham]

Sep 23, 1944:

FDR defends his dog

On this day in 1944, during a campaign dinner with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union, President Franklin D. Roosevelt makes a reference to his small dog, Fala, who had recently been the subject of a Republican political attack. The offense prompted Roosevelt to defend his dog's honor and his own reputation.

After addressing pertinent labor issues and America's status in World War II, Roosevelt explained that Republican critics had circulated a story claiming that Roosevelt had accidentally left Fala behind while visiting the Aleutian Islands earlier that year. They went on to accuse the president of sending a Navy destroyer, at a taxpayer expense of up to $20 million, to go back and pick up the dog. Roosevelt said that though he and his family had "suffered malicious falsehoods" in the past, he claimed the right to "object to libelous statements about my dog." Roosevelt went on to say that the desperate Republican opposition knew it could not win the upcoming presidential election and used Fala as an excuse to attack the president. He half-jokingly declared that his critics sullied the reputation of a defenseless dog just to distract Americans from more pressing issues facing the country.

Roosevelt was indeed attached to his dog. Fala, a small, black Scottish terrier, accompanied Roosevelt almost everywhere: to the Oval Office, on official state visits and on long, overseas trips including one to Newfoundland in 1941 during which Fala met British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Roosevelt's cousin, Margaret Suckley, had given Fala to the president in 1940 when Fala was still a puppy. Although Eleanor Roosevelt disapproved of having a dog in the White House, Roosevelt adamantly kept the dog by his side. Fala slept at the foot of his master's bed and only the president had the authority to feed him; the White House kitchen staff sent up a bone for Fala every morning with Roosevelt's breakfast tray.

After FDR's death, Fala lived with Eleanor and, when the dog died in 1952 at the ripe old age of 12, he was buried near the president at his family home in Hyde Park, New York.

[Justgeo1]

Hyde Park is just across the Hudson from the village of New Paltz, where generations of my ancestors and other family members ae buried! I'm remotely related to the Teddy Roosvelt family by a marriage... That part of New York is very close knit and very old, having been settled in the mid to late 1600's. I'm sure more pets that just Fala are buried around that area!

[Duke of Buckingham]

Hyde Park is just across the Hudson from the village of New Paltz, where generations of my ancestors and other family members ae buried! I'm remotely related to the Teddy Roosvelt family by a marriage... That part of New York is very close knit and very old, having been settled in the mid to late 1600's. I'm sure more pets that just Fala are buried around that area!

Very good Geo a human being should love his pets, hoping a heaven to them, seem very normal to me. I just remembered a quote that is very appropriate or so I think.

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

Anatole France

[Duke of Buckingham]

"I am happy because I have everything I want and never consume what I would want. I was able to make infinite the universe - whom everyone calls infinite, but it's for almost all a narrow field and very well fenced. "

Someone

[Duke of Buckingham]

In minds crammed with thoughts, organs clogged with toxins, and bodies stiffened with neglect, there is just no space for anything else.

~Alison Rose Levy, "An Ancient Cure for Modern Life," Yoga Journal, Jan/Feb 2002

[Duke of Buckingham]

Many people compare Edward Snowden to me unfavorably for leaving the country and seeking asylum, rather than facing trial as I did. I don’t agree. The country I stayed in was a different America, a long time ago.

Daniel Ellsberg

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-07-07/opinions/40427629_1_daniel-ellsberg-pentagon-papers-snowden-s

[Duke of Buckingham]

The next time you have a thought... let it go.

Ron White

[Duke of Buckingham]

"That I can say from the love (I had):
That is not immortal, since it is fire
But that is eternal while it lasts. "

Vinicius de Moraes

[Duke of Buckingham]

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Plato

[Justgeo1]

Welcome back, my friend! I've missed your thoughts! :D

[zombie67]

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Plato


Plato explains why gun/knife/whatever laws are stupid. You don't need to worry about law abiding people having X. And the people that will do bad with X don't care about laws.

[Duke of Buckingham]

Welcome back, my friend! I've missed your thoughts! :D

Thanks George, it is good to be here and make some posts. I know that I need to go slowly for a time.


Plato explains why gun/knife/whatever laws are stupid. You don't need to worry about law abiding people having X. And the people that will do bad with X don't care about laws.

That is the spirit zombie67. We have so many weapons in our world that maybe we don't need the so called weapons and usually known for that name.

Bad people will find a way to change a car, a truck or a plane in attack weapons, bad people will find a way of changing manure into explosives while good people will find a way to use real weapons on construction tools for a better world.

[Duke of Buckingham]

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Aristotle

[Duke of Buckingham]

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Arnold H. Glasow

[Duke of Buckingham]

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Duke of Buckingham]

Modern stupidity means not ignorance
but the nonthought of received ideas.

Milan Kundera

[Duke of Buckingham]

In a world of so much instant information, we have a urgent need of screening all information before we use it.

Information without criterion is the most dangerous of things.

Informed words that makes us look smart are a matter of vanity and for sure a lie about what we are.

Ric

[Duke of Buckingham]

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

Evan Esar

[Duke of Buckingham]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaZJ0pezwKE

[Duke of Buckingham]

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

[Duke of Buckingham]

"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope."

— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

[Duke of Buckingham]

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More on: http://www.nextmovie.com/blog/funny-movie-quotes/

[Duke of Buckingham]

“Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

[Duke of Buckingham]

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Archimedes was born c. 287 BC in the seaport city of Syracuse, Sicily, at that time a self-governing colony in Magna Graecia. The date of birth is based on a statement by the Byzantine Greek historian John Tzetzes that Archimedes lived for 75 years. In The Sand Reckoner, Archimedes gives his father's name as Phidias, an astronomer about whom nothing is known. Plutarch wrote in his Parallel Lives that Archimedes was related to King Hiero II, the ruler of Syracuse. A biography of Archimedes was written by his friend Heracleides but this work has been lost, leaving the details of his life obscure. It is unknown, for instance, whether he ever married or had children. During his youth, Archimedes may have studied in Alexandria, Egypt, where Conon of Samos and Eratosthenes of Cyrene were contemporaries. He referred to Conon of Samos as his friend, while two of his works (The Method of Mechanical Theorems and the Cattle Problem) have introductions addressed to Eratosthenes.

Archimedes died c. 212 BC during the Second Punic War, when Roman forces under General Marcus Claudius Marcellus captured the city of Syracuse after a two-year-long siege. According to the popular account given by Plutarch, Archimedes was contemplating a mathematical diagram when the city was captured. A Roman soldier commanded him to come and meet General Marcellus but he declined, saying that he had to finish working on the problem. The soldier was enraged by this, and killed Archimedes with his sword. Plutarch also gives a lesser-known account of the death of Archimedes which suggests that he may have been killed while attempting to surrender to a Roman soldier. According to this story, Archimedes was carrying mathematical instruments, and was killed because the soldier thought that they were valuable items. General Marcellus was reportedly angered by the death of Archimedes, as he considered him a valuable scientific asset and had ordered that he not be harmed.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Gerhard_Thieme_Archimedes.jpg

The last words attributed to Archimedes are "Do not disturb my circles" (Greek: μή μου τοὺς κύκλους τάραττε), a reference to the circles in the mathematical drawing that he was supposedly studying when disturbed by the Roman soldier. This quote is often given in Latin as "Noli turbare circulos meos," but there is no reliable evidence that Archimedes uttered these words and they do not appear in the account given by Plutarch.

The tomb of Archimedes carried a sculpture illustrating his favorite mathematical proof, consisting of a sphere and a cylinder of the same height and diameter. Archimedes had proven that the volume and surface area of the sphere are two thirds that of the cylinder including its bases. In 75 BC, 137 years after his death, the Roman orator Cicero was serving as quaestor in Sicily. He had heard stories about the tomb of Archimedes, but none of the locals was able to give him the location. Eventually he found the tomb near the Agrigentine gate in Syracuse, in a neglected condition and overgrown with bushes. Cicero had the tomb cleaned up, and was able to see the carving and read some of the verses that had been added as an inscription. A tomb discovered in a hotel courtyard in Syracuse in the early 1960s was claimed to be that of Archimedes, but its location today is unknown.

The standard versions of the life of Archimedes were written long after his death by the historians of Ancient Rome. The account of the siege of Syracuse given by Polybius in his Universal History was written around seventy years after Archimedes' death, and was used subsequently as a source by Plutarch and Livy. It sheds little light on Archimedes as a person, and focuses on the war machines that he is said to have built in order to defend the city.

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[Duke of Buckingham]

Time to sleep
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/934114/thumbs/r-CATS-SLEEPING-large570.jpg?7

[Duke of Buckingham]

Michelangelo

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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo (Italian pronunciation: [mikeˈlandʒelo]), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci.

Michelangelo was considered the greatest living artist in his lifetime, and ever since then he has been held to be one of the greatest artists of all time. A number of his works in painting, sculpture, and architecture rank among the most famous in existence. His output in every field during his long life was prodigious; when the sheer volume of correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences that survive is also taken into account, he is the best-documented artist of the 16th century.

Two of his best-known works, the Pietà and David, were sculpted before he turned thirty. Despite his low opinion of painting, Michelangelo also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. As an architect, Michelangelo pioneered the Mannerist style at the Laurentian Library. At the age of 74 he succeeded Antonio da Sangallo the Younger as the architect of St. Peter's Basilica. Michelangelo transformed the plan, the western end being finished to Michelangelo's design, the dome being completed after his death with some modification.

In a demonstration of Michelangelo's unique standing, he was the first Western artist whose biography was published while he was alive. Two biographies were published of him during his lifetime; one of them, by Giorgio Vasari, proposed that he was the pinnacle of all artistic achievement since the beginning of the Renaissance, a viewpoint that continued to have currency in art history for centuries.

In his lifetime he was also often called Il Divino ("the divine one"). One of the qualities most admired by his contemporaries was his terribilità, a sense of awe-inspiring grandeur, and it was the attempts of subsequent artists to imitate Michelangelo's impassioned and highly personal style that resulted in Mannerism, the next major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance.

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In 1505, Michelangelo was invited back to Rome by the newly elected Pope Julius II. He was commissioned to build the Pope's tomb, which was to include forty statues and be finished in five years.

Under the patronage of the Pope, Michelangelo experienced constant interruptions to his work on the tomb in order to accomplish numerous other tasks. Although Michelangelo worked on the tomb for 40 years, it was never finished to his satisfaction.[34] It is located in the Church of S. Pietro in Vincoli in Rome and is most famous for the central figure of Moses, completed in 1516. Of the other statues intended for the tomb, two known as the Heroic Captive and the Dying Captive, are now in the Louvre.

During the same period, Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which took approximately four years to complete (1508–1512). According to Condivi's account, Bramante, who was working on the building of St Peter's Basilica, resented Michelangelo's commission for the Pope's tomb and convinced the Pope to commission him in a medium with which he was unfamiliar, in order that he might fail at the task.

Michelangelo was originally commissioned to paint the Twelve Apostles on the triangular pendentives that supported the ceiling, and cover the central part of the ceiling with ornament. Michelangelo persuaded Pope Julius to give him a free hand and proposed a different and more complex scheme, representing the Creation, the Fall of Man, the Promise of Salvation through the prophets, and the genealogy of Christ. The work is part of a larger scheme of decoration within the chapel which represents much of the doctrine of the Catholic Church.

The composition stretches over 500 square metres of ceiling, and contains over 300 figures. At its centre are nine episodes from the Book of Genesis, divided into three groups: God's Creation of the Earth; God's Creation of Humankind and their fall from God's grace; and lastly, the state of Humanity as represented by Noah and his family. On the pendentives supporting the ceiling are painted twelve men and women who prophesied the coming of the Jesus. They are seven prophets of Israel and five Sibyls, prophetic women of the Classical world. Among the most famous paintings on the ceiling are The Creation of Adam, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the Deluge, the Prophet Jeremiah and the Cumaean Sibyl.

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Lorenzo de' Medici's death on 8 April 1492 brought a reversal of Michelangelo's circumstances.[20] Michelangelo left the security of the Medici court and returned to his father's house. In the following months he carved a polychrome wooden Crucifix (1493), as a gift to the prior of the Florentine church of Santo Spirito, which had permitted him some studies of anatomy on the corpses of the church's hospital. Between 1493 and 1494 he bought a block of marble, and carved a larger than life statue of Hercules, which was sent to France and subsequently disappeared sometime circa 18th century. On 20 January 1494, after heavy snowfalls, Lorenzo's heir, Piero de Medici, commissioned a snow statue, and Michelangelo again entered the court of the Medici.

In the same year, the Medici were expelled from Florence as the result of the rise of Savonarola. Michelangelo left the city before the end of the political upheaval, moving to Venice and then to Bologna. In Bologna, he was commissioned to carve several of the last small figures for the completion of the Shrine of St. Dominic, in the church dedicated to that saint. At this time Michelangelo studied the robust reliefs carved by Jacopo della Quercia around main portal of the Basilica of St Petronius, including the panel of The Creation of Eve the composition of which was to reappear on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Towards the end of 1494, the political situation in Florence was calmer. The city, previously under threat from the French, was no longer in danger as Charles VIII had suffered defeats. Michelangelo returned to Florence but received no commissions from the new city government under Savonarola. He returned to the employment of the Medici. During the half year he spent in Florence, he worked on two small statues, a child St. John the Baptist and a sleeping Cupid. According to Condivi, Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, for whom Michelangelo had sculpted St. John the Baptist, asked that Michelangelo "fix it so that it looked as if it had been buried" so he could "send it to Rome...pass [it off as] an ancient work and...sell it much better." Both Lorenzo and Michelangelo were unwittingly cheated out of the real value of the piece by a middleman. Cardinal Raffaele Riario, to whom Lorenzo had sold it, discovered that it was a fraud, but was so impressed by the quality of the sculpture that he invited the artist to Rome. This apparent success in selling his sculpture abroad as well as the conservative Florentine situation may have encouraged Michelangelo to accept the prelate's invitation.

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Michelangelo arrived in Rome 25 June 1496 at the age of 21. On 4 July of the same year, he began work on a commission for Cardinal Raffaele Riario, an over-life-size statue of the Roman wine god Bacchus. Upon completion, the work was rejected by the cardinal, and subsequently entered the collection of the banker Jacopo Galli, for his garden.

In November 1497, the French ambassador to the Holy See, Cardinal Jean de Bilhères-Lagraulas, commissioned him to carve a Pietà, a sculpture showing the Virgin Mary grieving over the body of Jesus. The subject, which is not part of the Biblical narrative of the Crucifixion, was common in religious sculpture of Medieval Northern Europe and would have been very familiar to the Cardinal. The contract was agreed upon in August of the following year. Michelangelo was 24 at the time of its completion. It was soon to be regarded as one of the world's great masterpieces of sculpture, "a revelation of all the potentialities and force of the art of sculpture". Contemporary opinion was summarized by Vasari: "It is certainly a miracle that a formless block of stone could ever have been reduced to a perfection that nature is scarcely able to create in the flesh." It is now located in St Peter's Basilica.

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Michelangelo, with Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael, is one of the three giants of the Florentine High Renaissance. Although their names are often cited together, Michelangelo was younger than Leonardo by 23 years, and older than Raphael by eight. Because of his reclusive nature, he had little to do with either artist and outlived both of them by more than forty years. Michelangelo took few sculpture students. He employed Francesco Granacci, who was his fellow pupil at the Medici Academy, and became one of several assistants on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Michelangelo appears to have used assistants mainly for the more manual tasks of preparing surfaces and grinding colours. Despite this, his works were to have a great influence on painters, sculptors and architects for many generations to come.

While Michelangelo's David is the most famous male nude of all time and destined to be reproduced in order to grace cities around the world, some of his other works have had perhaps even greater impact on the course of art. The twisting forms and tensions of the Victory, the Bruges Madonna and the Medici Madonna make them the heralds of the Mannerist art. The unfinished giants for the tomb of Pope Julius II had profound effect on late-19th- and 20th-century sculptors such as Rodin and Henry Moore.

Michelangelo's foyer of the Laurentian Library was one of the earliest buildings to utilise Classical forms in a plastic and expressive manner. This dynamic quality was later to find its major expression in Michelangelo's centrally planned St Peter's, with its giant order, its rippling cornice and its upward-launching pointed dome. The dome of St Peter's was to influence the building of churches for many centuries, including Sant'Andrea della Valle in Rome and St Paul's Cathedral, London, as well as the civic domes of many public buildings and the state capitals across America.

Artists who were directly influenced by Michelangelo include Raphael, who shamelessly imitated Michelangelo's prophets in two of his works, including his depiction of the great master himself in the School of Athens. Other artists such as Parmigianino and Pontormo drew on the writhing forms of the Last Judgement and the frescos of the Capella Paolina.

The Sistine Chapel ceiling was a work of unprecedented grandeur, both for its architectonic forms, to be imitated by many Baroque ceiling painters, and also for the wealth of its inventiveness in the study of figures. Vasari wrote:

The work has proved a veritable beacon to our art, of inestimable benefit to all painters, restoring light to a world that for centuries had been plunged into darkness. Indeed, painters no longer need to seek for new inventions, novel attitudes, clothed figures, fresh ways of expression, different arrangements, or sublime subjects, for this work contains every perfection possible under those headings.

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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell

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Genie (feral child) is found in Los Angeles, California - November 4, 1970

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Genie (born 1957) is the pseudonym of a feral child who was the victim of extraordinarily severe abuse, neglect and social isolation, making her one of the most well-known cases recorded in the annals of abnormal child psychology. Born in Arcadia, California, Genie was locked alone in a room from the age of 20 months to 13 years, 7 months, usually strapped to a child's toilet or bound in a crib with her arms and legs immobilized. During this time she was almost never exposed to any speech, and as a result she did not acquire a first language. Her abuse came to the attention of Los Angeles child welfare authorities on November 4, 1970.

In the first several years after Genie's life and circumstances came to light, psychologists, linguists and other scientists focused a great deal of attention on Genie's case, seeing in her near-total isolation an opportunity to study many aspects of human development. Upon finding that she had not learned a language, linguists saw Genie as potentially being an important way to gain further insight into the processes controlling language acquisition skills and linguistic development. Extensive observation of their new-found human subject enabled them to publish academic works testing theories and hypotheses identifying critical periods during which humans learn to understand and use language.

Upon being removed from her parents' house, Genie gradually started to acquire and develop new language skills. On broader levels her language development followed some normal patterns of young children acquiring a first language, but researchers noted many marked differences with her language acquisition. The size of Genie's vocabulary and the speed with which she expanded it consistently outstripped both researchers' anticipations, and many of the earliest words she learned and used were focused on observable properties of people or objects, very different from those of a typical first-language learner. However, she had far more difficulty with acquisition of basic grammar and syntax, resulting in her vocabulary being much more advanced and sophisticated than most people in equivalent phases of learning and using these rules, and her acquisition of them remained far slower than normal. In addition, tests on her brain found discrepancies far larger than any prior observations of people with fully intact brains, which affirmed existing postulations on brain lateralization and gave rise to many new hypotheses on lateralization and its effect on language.

Genie's case has been compared extensively with that of Victor of Aveyron, an eighteenth-century French child who similarly became a classic case of late language acquisition and delayed development.

After her rescue, Genie was cared for initially at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Her subsequent placements eventually gave rise to rancorous debate. After approximately eight months at Children's Hospital, she was moved to one foster home for a month; the first of several moves. Upon removal she was then placed with the scientist heading the research team studying her, where she lived for almost four years and where most of the testing and research on her was conducted. Soon after turning 18 she went back to live with her mother, who could not adequately care for her; after a few months she was then placed in a series of at least six institutions for disabled adults, where she experienced further physical and emotional abuse. Cut off from almost all of the people who had studied her, her newly acquired language and behavioral skills regressed rapidly.

As of 2008 ABC News reported that Genie was living in California, "in psychological confinement as a ward of the state — her sixth foster home. And again, she is speechless."

Genie was the fourth and last child of parents living in Arcadia, California. Her father worked in a factory as a flight mechanic during World War II and got a job in the aviation industry after the war ended; her mother had come to California as a teenager with family friends fleeing the Dust Bowl. Neither one of them had any meaningful education. Her mother's family and friends had strongly opposed their marriage because Genie's father was twenty years older than her mother. The couple seemed happy to some who knew them, but others thought of Genie's father as something of a distant loner. Her mother began suffering increasingly frequent beatings at his hands, which progressively became more severe. Genie's mother already had vision problems, the result of neurological damage from a childhood accident. After she married, her eyesight became progressively worse, due to the pre-existing damage, severe cataracts and a detached retina. Her diminishing vision forced her to become increasingly dependent on her husband.

From the outset of their relationship, Genie's father made it very clear that he neither liked children nor wanted to have any. Still, after about five years of marriage his wife became pregnant. Genie's father continued to beat her through her pregnancy, and near the end apparently attempted to beat and strangle her to death. She was in the hospital recovering from this when she went into labor, but gave birth to a daughter who appeared to be healthy. Disturbed by the girl's crying, her father placed her in the garage; as a result, at 10 weeks old she died of pneumonia. Their second child was a boy diagnosed with Rh incompatibility who died at two days of age, allegedly from choking on his own mucus. Another son was born three years later, once again with Rh incompatibility. He was slow to develop, and late to walk and to talk. When he was four, his paternal grandmother grew concerned about her son's increasing instability and took over her grandson's care; he made good progress with her for several months before eventually being returned to his parents. Around the time Genie was born, her father began to isolate himself and his family from those around them.

Genie's birth was a standard Caesarean section with no complications. The next day, showing signs of Rh incompatibility, she required a blood transfusion, but she was otherwise a healthy weight and size. A medical appointment at three months showed that she was gaining weight normally, but found a congenital hip dislocation which required her to use a highly restrictive Frejka splint for the next seven months. Due to the splint Genie was late to walk, and researchers believed this led Genie's father to start speculating that she was mentally retarded. At subsequent appointments, up until the age of 11 months, records indicate that she was alert and sitting up on her own, but falling behind in weight gain; at birth she had been in the 50th percentile for weight, but at 11 months she was down to the 11th percentile. Genie's mother later recalled that Genie was not a cuddly baby, did not babble much, and resisted solid food, but by six months she was reportedly in overall good condition and, "taking food well."

When Genie was 14 months old, she came down with a fever and was taken to a pediatrician. Upon examining her, the doctor said that although her illness prevented a definitive diagnosis there was a possibility that she was mentally retarded. He also suggested that the brain dysfunction kernicterus might be present; Rh incompatibility is a significant risk factor for kernicterus, and severe cases can lead to serious brain damage. Her father took this opinion to mean that Genie was severely retarded, using it as justification for isolating and abusing her.

When Genie was 20 months old, her paternal grandmother was killed when a pickup truck ran her over in a hit-and-run traffic accident. As a child, Genie's father was not very close to his mother, having only had limited contact with her while mostly growing up in orphanages. During most of his adult life, they constantly argued about her unsuccessful efforts to convince him to adopt a less rigid lifestyle. However, according to Genie's mother and brother, her father was almost singularly fixated on his mother, always treating his marriage as ancillary, at best. He already had difficulty controlling his anger, and his mother's death deeply affected him; when the truck's driver subsequently received only a probationary sentence for both manslaughter and drunk driving, he became nearly delusional with rage. He then quit his job and further increased the family's isolation. They moved into the two-bedroom house his mother had lived in, and left her bedroom untouched as a shrine to her. Genie was increasingly confined to the second bedroom, while the rest of the family slept in the living room.

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From the time Genie was born, her father displayed hostility toward her, discouraging his wife and son from paying her any attention. His instability had steadily increased after she was born, and researchers later speculated that his mother's death, and the outcome of the subsequent trial, made him feel as if the outside world had completely failed him. This convinced him that he would need to protect his family from the outside world. He still thought that Genie was severely retarded and would therefore need his additional protection, and believed the best way to provide this for her was to hide her existence entirely.

During the day, Genie was tied to a child's toilet in a makeshift harness which, according to Genie's brother, their father had forced his wife to make. The harness was designed like a straitjacket to prevent her from moving her arms or legs, and while in it Genie wore only diapers and could only move her extremities. At night, when her father remembered her, she was bound in a sleeping bag and placed in a crib with a metal-screen cover, her arms and legs immobilized. Researchers concluded that, if Genie vocalized or made any other noise, her father beat her with a large plank he kept in her room. To keep her quiet he would bare his teeth and bark and growl at her like a wild dog, sometimes making Genie's brother do this as well, and he grew his fingernails out to scratch her. If he suspected her of doing something he did not like he would make these noises outside the door to intimidate her, and beat her if he believed she had continued to do it. The exact reason for his dog-like behavior was never definitively discerned, but at least one scientist who studied Genie speculated he may have viewed himself as a guard dog and was acting out the role. This instilled an intense fear of cats and dogs in Genie that persisted long after she was freed.

Apart from her father's beatings, Genie's only meaningful human interaction occurred during the few minutes when she was being fed. She was not given any solid food; instead, she was fed baby food, cereal, pablum, an occasional soft-boiled egg, and liquids. Food was spooned into her mouth as quickly as possible, and if she choked or could not swallow fast enough it would be rubbed into her face. Although Genie's mother claimed Genie was fed three times a day, she also said that when hungry Genie would risk a beating by making noise to get attention, leading researchers to believe Genie's father often refused to feed her. Bowing to pressure to keep contact with his sister to a minimum, her brother was often forced to feed her in this manner. The few minutes per day she was being fed were normally the only times Genie's father allowed his wife to be with Genie, but she could not feed Genie herself. Later she claimed that, when possible, at around 11 PM she surreptitiously tried to feed Genie; this led to Genie developing an unusual sleep pattern, which continued for several months after she was freed. Once, when Genie was suffering from constipation, her father forced her to drink an entire bottle of castor oil. The ensuing effect on her health was so serious that Genie's father allowed a doctor to examine her, and she ultimately barely survived.

The only sensory stimulation Genie experienced from outside her home came by way of two windows, through which she could hear some traffic noises and see both the side of a neighboring house and a couple inches of sky, and could also occasionally hear birds and airplanes flying over the house. Even these stimuli were extremely limited, as the windows were almost entirely blacked out and the house was well away from the street. On rare occasions, her father would also allow her to play with plastic food containers, old spools of thread, TV Guides with many of the illustrations cut out, and two plastic raincoats. He had an extremely low tolerance for noise, to the point of refusing to have a working television or radio in the house. He almost never allowed Genie's mother or brother to speak, and viciously beat them if he heard them talking; their conversations were therefore always very quiet and out of Genie's earshot. They were particularly forbidden to speak to or around Genie, preventing her from being exposed to any meaningful amount of language besides her father's occasional swearing. He almost never permitted anyone to leave the house, only allowing Genie's brother to go to and from school; even he had to prove his identity before entering the house, as Genie's father wanted to be absolutely sure the family was completely isolated. To discourage disobedience, he frequently sat in the living room with a shotgun in his lap. He did not allow anyone else in the house, and at night would frequently leave the outside lights on to help prevent anyone else from coming; in case someone did come, he always kept his gun nearby.

Genie's mother was almost completely blind by this time, and was essentially passive by nature to begin with. Her husband threatened to kill her if she attempted to contact her parents, close friends who lived nearby, or the police. He also forced Genie's brother into silence, giving him instructions on how to keep his father's actions secret and beating him more often and more severely as he grew older. Genie's brother felt completely powerless to do anything to stop his father, as he knew his mother could not put up any resistance and feared severe retribution for attempting to intervene. Completely convinced that Genie would die by age 12 her father promised that, if she survived past that age, he would allow his wife to seek outside assistance. When Genie turned 12 he reneged on that promise, and Genie's mother took no action for another year.

In late October 1970, Genie's mother and father had a violent argument in which she threatened to leave if she could not call her parents. He eventually relented, and shortly thereafter Genie's mother left her husband to live with her parents in Monterey Park and took Genie with her; Genie's brother, by then 18, had already run away from home to live with friends. A 2002 episode of the television series Body Shock said they got away while Genie's father was buying groceries. Three weeks later, on November 4, Genie's mother brought Genie along while seeking disability benefits in nearby Temple City, California. On account of her near-blindness, she inadvertently entered the general social services office next door. The social worker who greeted them instantly sensed something was not right when she saw Genie; she was shocked to learn Genie's true age was 13, having estimated from her appearance and demeanor that she was around 6 or 7 and possibly autistic. She notified her supervisor, and after questioning Genie's mother and confirming Genie's age they immediately contacted the police. Genie's parents were arrested and Genie became a ward of the court, and a court order was immediately issued for Genie to be taken to Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

Upon Genie's admission David Rigler, a therapist and USC psychology professor who was the chief psychologist at Children's Hospital, and Howard Hansen, then the head of the psychiatry division and an early expert on child abuse, took direct control of Genie's care. The day after Genie's admission physician James Kent, another early advocate for child abuse awareness, examined her. He later stated this examination revealed by far the most severe case of child abuse he would ever encounter, and he came away from it extremely pessimistic about Genie's prognosis. The officer who arrested Genie's parents questioned them with his partner, and found that Genie's mother would not speak about her family—and particularly not her children—and Genie's father never seemed to acknowledge anything said to him. When officers interviewed people in the neighborhood, they found no one knew Genie's parents ever had a child besides their son, and their neighbors were stunned and horrified when police informed them of Genie's existence and of the abuse Genie's father had inflicted on his wife and children. In the house the family had been living in, police found several devices which had been used to restrain and hit Genie. They also discovered detailed notes Genie's father had written, chronicling both his mistreatment of his family and his efforts to conceal it; after reading through them, the lead detective on the investigation said, "Hitler could have taken lessons from [Genie's father.]" Rigler said the hospital could not get Genie's developmental history, and largely had to rely on the police investigation to piece together Genie's childhood.

News of Genie's rescue reached major media outlets on November 17, 1970, receiving a great deal of local and national media attention. That night, Walter Cronkite included a segment on Genie in the CBS Evening News. The Los Angeles Times ran two consecutive front-page stories on Genie, and continued to run prominent stories on her and her family for over a week. Newspaper reports showed several photographs of the other members of Genie's family, and local and regional television news networks shot extensive video of Genie's parents. However, only one picture of Genie was publicly released; this picture, shown in both the November 17 Los Angeles Times article and on the CBS Evening News report, significantly fueled public interest in Genie. Children's Hospital staff said reporters began regularly coming to the hospital hoping to see her, making it very difficult for them to maintain her anonymity. Acting at least partially on advice from his attorney, Genie's father refused to speak to the media. Genie's brother also made no public statements, but cooperated with the investigation and gave detectives important information on his father's abuse.

After the story reached the media, large crowds went to the family's house to try to see Genie's father, which he reportedly found extremely difficult to handle. On November 20, on the morning before a scheduled court appearance on charges of child abuse, Genie's father committed suicide by gunshot; his son was standing with a friend outside the house, with no knowledge of his father's intentions. When police arrived, they found two suicide notes from Genie's father. One, for his son, contained instructions for handling his body and a few of his possessions, and the other was directed at the police. One of the notes—police did not specify which—contained the declaration, "The world will never understand."

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[Duke of Buckingham]

The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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November 6, 1854 - Composer John Philip Sousa was born.


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John Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known primarily for American military and patriotic marches. Because of his mastery of march composition, he is known as "The March King" or the "American March King" due to his British counterpart Kenneth J. Alford also being known as "The March King". Among his best-known marches are "The Liberty Bell", "The Thunderer", "The Washington Post", "Semper Fidelis" (Official March of the United States Marine Corps), and "The Stars and Stripes Forever" (National March of the United States of America).

Sousa's father was Portuguese, and his mother of Bavarian ancestry. Sousa began his career playing violin and studying music theory and composition under John Esputa and George Felix Benkert. His father enlisted him in the United States Marine Band as an apprentice in 1868. After departing the band in 1875, Sousa learned to conduct. From 1880 until his death, he focused exclusively on conducting and the writing of marches. He eventually rejoined the Marine Band and served there for 12 years as director. On leaving the Marine Band, Sousa organized his own band. He toured Europe and Australia and developed the sousaphone, a large brass instrument similar to the tuba. On the outbreak of World War I, Sousa was commissioned as a Lieutenant Commander and led the Naval Reserve Band in Illinois. Following his tenure, he returned to conduct the Sousa Band until his death in 1932.

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Love is the poetry of the senses.

Honore de Balzac

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If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

John F. Kennedy

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Phoenix was a robotic spacecraft on a space exploration mission on Mars under the Mars Scout Program. The Phoenix lander descended on Mars on May 25, 2008. Mission scientists used instruments aboard the lander to search for environments suitable for microbial life on Mars, and to research the history of water there.

The multi-agency program was headed by the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona, under the direction of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The program was a partnership of universities in the United States, Canada, Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, the United Kingdom, NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, the Finnish Meteorological Institute, Lockheed Martin Space Systems, MacDonald Dettwiler & Associates (MDA) and other aerospace companies. It was the first mission to Mars led by a public university in NASA history. It was led directly from the University of Arizona's campus in Tucson, with project management at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and project development at Lockheed Martin in Denver, Colorado. The operational funding for the mission extended through November 10, 2008.

Phoenix was NASA's sixth successful landing out of seven attempts and was the first successful landing in a Martian polar region. The lander completed its mission in August 2008, and made a last brief communication with Earth on November 2 as available solar power dropped with the Martian winter. The mission was declared concluded on November 10, 2008, after engineers were unable to re-contact the craft. After unsuccessful attempts to contact the lander by the Mars Odyssey orbiter up to and past the Martian summer solstice on May 12, 2010, JPL declared the lander to be dead. The program was considered a success because it completed all planned science experiments and observations.

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The course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."

- Erica Jong

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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“I would rather have it said, ‘He lived usefully,’ than, ‘He died rich.’”

— Benjamin Franklin (letter to his mother, 1750)

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How many mistakes I will do today?
At least, I have tried ...
Well I will try to do better tomorrow.

Very Crazy Duke

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“There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.”

― Banksy

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Leave the worries of last night to darkness and let the light of motivation and inspiring things take control of your mind and actions. Start a beautiful morning and end up with a successful and blessed day.

~ Justin Mayer

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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Gloria Steinem

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I am seeing Sweden vs Portugal on soccer the last game to classified for Brazil 2014 world cup.

I am nervous ... Yes I am.

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Go Portugal. 1570

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Brazil here we go. Thanks Ronaldo ...
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Time to sleep

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Goodnight

[Duke of Buckingham]

The Four Seasons' "Big Girls Don't Cry" was released. - November 20, 1962


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[Duke of Buckingham]

Goodnight
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In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched – one of the last clippers ever built, and the only one still surviving today. - November 22, 1869

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The Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis shipping line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of design development which halted as sailing ships gave way to steam propulsion.

The opening of the Suez Canal (also in 1869) meant that steam ships now had a much shorter route to China, so Cutty Sark spent only a few years on the tea trade before turning to the trade in wool from Australia, where she held the record time to Britain for ten years. Improvements in steam technology meant that gradually steamships also came to dominate the longer sailing route to Australia and the ship was sold to the Portuguese company Ferreira and Co. in 1895, and renamed Ferreira. She continued as a cargo ship until purchased by retired sea captain Wilfred Dowman in 1922, who used her as a training ship operating from Falmouth, Cornwall. After his death she was transferred to the Thames Nautical Training College, Greenhithe in 1938 where she became an auxiliary cadet training ship alongside HMS Worcester. By 1954 she had ceased to be useful as a cadet ship and was transferred to permanent dry dock at Greenwich, London on public display.

Cutty Sark is one of three ships in London on the Core Collection of the National Historic Ships Register (the nautical equivalent of a Grade 1 Listed Building) – alongside HMS Belfast and SS Robin. She is one of only three remaining original composite construction (wooden hull on an iron frame) clipper ships from the nineteenth century in part or whole, the others being the City of Adelaide, awaiting transportation to Australia for preservation, and the beached skeleton of Ambassador of 1869 near Punta Arenas, Chile.

The ship was badly damaged by fire on 21 May 2007 while undergoing conservation. The vessel has been restored and was reopened to the public on 25 April 2012.

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Cutty Sark was destined for the tea trade, then an intensely competitive race across the globe from China to London, with a substantial bonus to the ship that arrived with the first tea of the year. Her first round trip voyage under captain George Moodie began 16 February 1870 from London with a cargo of wine, spirits and beer bound for Shanghai. The return journey with 1450 tons of tea from Shanghai began 25 June, arriving 13 October in London via the Cape of Good Hope. The ship completed eight round trip annual journeys, but the Suez Canal had opened to shipping in 1869 just as Cutty Sark was being launched. In the end, of course, clippers lost out to steamships, which could use the shorter route through the Canal and deliver goods more reliably, if not quite so quickly, which proved to be better business. Clippers were designed to make best use of the strong trade winds around the African coast route and could not use the shorter route through the canal and Red Sea.

The most famous race against Thermopylae occurred in 1872, the two ships leaving Shanghai together on 18 June. Two weeks later Cutty Sark had built up a lead of some 400 miles, but then lost her rudder in a heavy gale after passing through the Sunda Strait. John Willis' brother was on board the ship and ordered Moodie to put into Cape Town for repairs. Moodie refused, and instead the ship's carpenter Henry Henderson constructed a new rudder from spare timbers and iron. This took six days, working in gales and heavy seas which meant the men were tossed about as they worked and the brazier used to heat the metal for working was spilled out, burning the captain's son. The ship finally arrived in London on 18 October a week after Thermopylae, a total passage of 122 days. The captain and crew were commended for their performance and Henderson received a £50 bonus for his work. This was the closest Cutty Sark came to being first ship home but it was Moodie's last trip as her captain and he transferred to steamships, being replaced by Captain F. W. Moore.

Moore remained captain only for one round trip to China, taking 117 days for the return trip. This was 14 days longer than Thermopylae and 27 days longer than achieved by the iron ship Hallowe'en a few months later. Captain W. E. Tiptaft assumed command in 1873 achieving 118 days on his first return trip, but after the ship had to travel 600 miles up the Yangtze River in search of a cargo. Steamships were now taking most of the tea. The following year the return journey took 122 days, but on the outward journey Cutty Sark set a record time of 73 days from London to Sydney. In November 1877 the ship was anchored off Deal in the English Channel along with 60 other ships, waiting out a great storm. The anchor failed to hold and Cutty Sark was blown through the ships damaging two others before grounding on a mud bank. Fortunately she was pulled clear by the tug Macgregor before too much damage was caused and she was towed to the Thames for repairs.

In December 1877 the ship sailed from London to Sydney, where she took on coal for Shanghai, arriving there in April. However, the ship was unable to find any cargo of tea for a return trip to London; the days of the tea race were over. The master, Captain Tiptaft died in October while still in Shanghai and was replaced by the first mate, James Wallace. The ship now had to take different cargoes around the world, including coal, jute, castor oil and tea to Australia.

In 1880 an incident occurred on board during which the First Mate Sidney Smith killed seaman John Francis. Smith was allowed to leave the ship at Anjer by captain Wallace, causing the crew to cease work in protest. Wallace continued the voyage with six apprentices and four tradesmen but became becalmed in the Java Sea for three days. In desperation as matters moved from bad to worse, he committed suicide by jumping overboard and disappeared. He was replaced as Master by William Bruce, who proved to be a drunken incompetent who claimed pay for non-existent crewmen and managed to set sail with inadequate provisions, resulting in the crew starving. An inquiry in New York in April 1882 resulted in the Captain and Mate being suspended and replaced By Captain Moore, previously of the Blackadder.

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In December 1883, Cutty Sark departed Newcastle, New South Wales with 4,289 bales of wool and 12 casks of tallow, arriving back in London in just 83 days. This was 25 days faster than her nearest rival that year and heralded the start of a new career taking Australian wool to Britain in time to catch the January wool sales. In 1885 Richard Woodget was appointed Captain on a salary of £186 per year and continued to improve on the fastest trip record, achieving 77 days on his first outward trip and 73 days returning to Britain from Australia. He achieved this by taking a more southerly route than previously, to catch the strongest winds in the Roaring Forties despite having to face icebergs, gales and storms whipped up by the winds he sought. Cutty Sark was the fastest ship on the wool trade for ten years. In July 1889 the log of the modern passenger steam ship RMS Britannia recorded that when steaming at 15-16 knots she was overtaken in the night by a sailing ship doing 17 knots, which proved to be Cutty Sark.

Eventually steamships began to dominate the wool trade too and it ceased to be profitable for a sailing ship. In 1895 Jock Willis sold Cutty Sark to the Portuguese firm Ferreira for £2,100 and she was renamed Ferreira after the firm. Her crews referred to her as Pequena Camisola ("little shirt", a straight translation of the Scots "cutty sark"). The ship traded various cargoes between Portugal, Rio, New Orleans, Mozambique, Angola, and Britain. In May 1916 she was dismasted off the Cape of Good Hope because of the rolling of the ship in bad weather and had to be towed into Table Bay off Cape Town. The war meant that it was impossible to obtain suitable materials to replace the masts so she was re-rigged over 18 months to a barquentine sail arrangement.

In 1922 Ferreira was the last clipper operating anywhere in the world. Caught in a storm in the English channel she put into Falmouth harbour where she was spotted by retired windjammer captain Wilfred Dowman, of Trevissome House, Flushing, Cornwall, who was then operating the training ship Lady of Avenel. The ship returned to Lisbon, where she was sold to new owners and renamed Maria do Amparo. However, Dowman persevered in his determination to buy the ship, which he did for £3,750 and she was returned to Falmouth harbour. The rigging was restored to an approximation of the original arrangement and the ship was used as a cadet training ship. As a historic survivor, the ship was opened to the public and visitors would be rowed out to inspect her. Dowman died in 1936 and the ship was sold to the Incorporated Thames Nautical Training College, HMS Worcester at Greenhithe, leaving Falmouth for her last journey under sail in 1938. The ship was crewed by cadets, 15-year-old Robert Wyld steering the ship during the voyage. Ian Bryce, DSC, the last surviving crew member on the historic tow from Falmouth to the Thames died, aged 89, on 11 December 2011.

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At Greenhithe Cutty Sark acted as an auxiliary vessel to HMS Worcester for sail training drill, but by 1950 she had become surplus to requirements. From February to October 1951 she was temporarily moved first for a refit and then to take part in the Festival of Britain at Deptford. On 30 January 1952, the 800-ton tanker MV Aqueity collided with Cutty Sark's bow in the Thames. The two ships were locked together after the collision which forced Cutty Sark's jib boom into Worcester's fo'cs'le rails, snapping the boom before scraping along Worcester's starboard side. Cutty Sark's figurehead the Naughty Witch lost an arm in the process. Cutty Sark was anchored and towed to the Shadwell Basin where repairs were carried out by Green & Silley Weir Ltd. The damaged arm was recovered at Grays Thurrock and the figurehead was repaired.

In 1954 she was moved to a custom-built dry-dock at Greenwich. She was stripped of upper masts, yards, deck-houses and ballast to lighten her before being towed from East India Import Dock to the special dry dock at Greenwich. The skipper on this occasion was 83-year-old Captain C.E. Irving, who had sailed the world three times in her before he was 17. The river pilot was Ernest Coe. Thereafter the entrance tunnel to the dry dock was filled in, the river wall rebuilt and the work of re-rigging began. The foundation stone of the dry dock was laid by The Duke of Edinburgh, patron of the Cutty Sark Preservation Society, in June 1953. The restoration, re-rigging and preparation for public exhibition was estimated to cost £250,000.

Cutty Sark whisky derives its name from the ship. An image of the clipper appears on the label, and the maker formerly sponsored the Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Race. The ship also inspired the name of the Saunders Roe Cutty Sark flying boat.

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On the morning of 21 May 2007, the Cutty Sark, which had been closed and partly dismantled for conservation work, caught fire, and burned for several hours before the London Fire Brigade could bring the fire under control. Initial reports indicated that the damage was extensive, with most of the wooden structure in the centre having been lost.

In an interview the next day, Richard Doughty, the chief executive of the Cutty Sark Trust, revealed that at least half of the "fabric" (timbers, etc.) of the ship had not been on site as it had been removed during the preservation work. Doughty stated that the trust was most worried about the state of iron framework to which the fabric was attached. He did not know how much more the ship would cost to restore, but estimated it at an additional £5–10 million, bringing the total cost of the ship's restoration to £30–35 million.

After initial analysis of the CCTV footage of the area suggested the possibility of arson, further investigation over the following days by the Metropolitan Police failed to find conclusive proof that the fire was set deliberately.

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Aerial video footage showed extensive damage, but seemed to indicate that the ship had not been destroyed in its entirety. A fire officer present at the scene said in a BBC interview that when they arrived, there had been "a well-developed fire throughout the ship". The bow section looked to be relatively unscathed and the stern also appeared to have survived without major damage. The fire seemed to have been concentrated in the centre of the ship. The chairman of Cutty Sark Enterprises said after inspecting the site: "The decks are unsalvageable but around 50% of the planking had already been removed; however, the damage is not as bad as originally expected."

As part of the restoration work planned before the fire, it was proposed that the ship be raised three metres, to allow the construction of a state of the art museum space beneath. This would allow visitors to view her from below.

There was criticism of the policies of the Cutty Sark Trust and its stance that the most important thing was to preserve as much as possible of the original fabric. Proponents of making her fit to go to sea advocated that the fire repairs be done in such a manner to enable her to do so. However, the state of the timbers, especially the keel, and the fact that a hole had been cut through the hull in the 1950s for an access door, made this difficult. Also, the Cutty Sark Trust claimed that under five percent of the original fabric was lost in the fire, as the decks which were destroyed were non-original additions. The restoration work was criticised by The Victorian Society saying that the needs of the corporate hospitality market were put ahead of the preservation of the historic fabric of the ship. Building Design magazine awarded the project its Carbuncle Cup for the worst new building completed in 2012 saying 'The scheme’s myriad failings stem from one calamitous choice: the decision to hoick the 154-year-old clipper close to three metres into the air on canted steel props.'

The original mast specifications as laid down by the ships designer still exist and are listed below as "tea rig". This arrangement was used during the ship's time on the tea trade route, where it was necessary to maximise the area of sail to get the greatest possible propulsion when the ship might be becalmed in the doldrums. For the route to Australia it was not necessary to carry such a large area of sail and the masts and yards were reduced. The trade winds required great strength in masts, but the wind could best be captured by relatively small, high sails. A smaller rig also represented a saving in maintenance costs. Each of the three masts (fore, main and mizzen) is in three overlapping sections

On 30 September 2008, the London Fire Brigade announced the conclusion of the investigation into the fire at a press conference at New Scotland Yard. The painstaking investigation was conducted by the Fire Brigade, along with London's Metropolitan Police Service, Forensic Science Services, and electrical examination experts Dr. Burgoyne's & Partners. They said that the most likely cause was the failure of an industrial vacuum cleaner that may have been left switched on over the weekend before the fire started. The report revealed no evidence the ship was subjected to arson attack and concluded the fire started accidentally.

Physical evidence and CCTV footage of the fire showed that it probably started towards the stern of the ship on the lower deck. All electrical equipment on board was examined and it was determined that an industrial vacuum cleaner in this area was normally running continuously to suck up dust and particles from work going on to break up concrete within the ship. No one working on the ship had responsibility to ensure all equipment was turned off at the end of each day, and no one recalled switching off the equipment on the Friday in question. The vacuum cleaner has three motors inside and after the fire one was found to be burned out in a manner which suggested it had failed while operating. This was not conclusive evidence, however, because the motor might previously have failed in service without causing a fire, and gone unnoticed because the other two motors had continued to function. Tests on similar cleaners showed they had no thermal cutout devices and while they could run safely indefinitely if filters inside were clear, if the air flow through the cleaner was blocked then it would eventually overheat and could catch fire. This might occur if the cleaner was full of dust and debris. The cleaner had failed previously and two motors had been replaced.

On the basis of witness evidence, the joint investigation team considered it unlikely that the fire was caused by the hot work (welding) that was being carried out as part of the renovation or by carelessly discarded smokers' materials. No one visited this part of the ship since work stopped on Friday evening, and it was considered unlikely that a fire could have smouldered all weekend before finally breaking out Monday morning. However, it was discovered that although all hot work was supposed to be recorded and someone was supposed to check afterwards to ensure no fires, there was no record that such checks had ever been made, and on at least one occasion hot work had been conducted with no records made.

The ship was patrolled by two security guards, both of whom were supposed to patrol independently at least once an hour, or once every two hours later in the night, one being primarily responsible for the visitor pavilion and one the dock. The guards were required to keep a log of their patrols, but after the fire the relevant page was found to be missing from the book. It was later found, already filled in reporting uneventful patrols of the site up to 7 am in the morning when the guards would have gone off duty. The alarm was raised when one of the guards called the fire brigade; before this the two reported that they had smelled burning plastic and had been investigating to try to determine its source.

A carpenter had visited the site on Sunday to collect some tools, but after 20 minutes attempting to contact a security guard to let him in, had climbed the fence, collected his tools and climbed out again. The carpenter reported that he had heard machinery operating towards the stern of the ship, but it was not clear whether this might have been the site diesel generator which ran at all times.

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World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin. - November 23, 1943

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Deutsches Opernhaus, 1912

The company's history goes back to the Deutsches Opernhaus built by the then independent city of Charlottenburg—the "richest town of Prussia"—according to plans designed by Heinrich Seeling from 1911. It opened on November 7, 1912 with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio, conducted by Ignatz Waghalter. After the incorporation of Charlottenburg by the 1920 Greater Berlin Act, the name of the resident building was changed to Städtische Oper (Municipal Opera) in 1925.

With the Nazi Machtergreifung in 1933, the opera was under control of the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Minister Joseph Goebbels had the name changed back to Deutsches Opernhaus, competing with the Berlin State Opera in Mitte controlled by his rival, the Prussian minister-president Hermann Göring. In 1935, the building was remodeled by Paul Baumgarten and the seating reduced from 2300 to 2098. Carl Ebert, the pre-World War II general manager, chose to emigrate from Germany rather than endorse the Nazi view of music, and went on to co-found the Glyndebourne opera festival in England. He was replaced by Max von Schillings, who acceded to enact works of "unalloyed German character". Several artists, like the conductor Fritz Stiedry or the singer Alexander Kipnis followed Ebert into emigration. The opera house was destroyed by a RAF air raid on 23 November 1943. Performances continued at the Admiralspalast in Mitte until 1945. Ebert returned as general manager after the war.

After the war, the company in what was now West Berlin used the nearby building of the Theater des Westens until the opera house was rebuilt. The sober design by Fritz Bornemann was completed on 24 September 1961. The opening production was Mozart's Don Giovanni. The new building opened with the current name.

Past Generalmusikdirectoren (general music directors) have included Bruno Walter, Kurt Adler, Ferenc Fricsay, Lorin Maazel, Gerd Albrecht, Jesús López-Cobos, Christian Thielemann. In October 2005, the Italian conductor Renato Palumbo was appointed Generalmusikdirector as of the 2006/2007 season. In October 2007, the Deutsche Oper announced the appointment of Donald Runnicles as their next Generalmusikdirector, effective August 2009, for an initial contract of five years. Simultaneously, Palumbo and the Deutsche Oper mutually agreed to terminate his contract, effective November 2007.

On the evening of 2 June 1967, Benno Ohnesorg, a student taking part in the German student movement, was shot in the streets around the opera house. He had been protesting against the visit to Germany by the Shah of Iran, who was attending a performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute.

In April 2001, the Italian conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli died at the podium while conducting Verdi's Aida, at age 54.

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Deutsche Oper Berlin on Bismarckstraße

The Deutsche Oper Berlin is an opera company located in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, Germany. The resident building is the country's second largest opera house and also home to the Berlin State Ballet.

In September 2006, the Deutsche Oper's Intendantin (general manager) Kirsten Harms drew criticism after she cancelled the production of Mozart's opera Idomeneo by Hans Neuenfels, because of fears that a scene in it featuring the severed heads of Jesus, Buddha and Muhammad would offend Muslims, and that the opera house's security might come under threat if violent protests took place. Critics of the decision include German Ministers and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The reaction from Muslims has been mixed — the leader of Germany's Islamic Council welcomed the decision, whilst a leader of Germany's Turkish community, criticising the decision, said:

This is about art, not about politics ... We should not make art dependent on religion — then we are back in the Middle Ages.

At the end of October 2006, the opera house announced that performances of Mozart's opera Idomeneo would then proceed. Kirsten Harms, after announcing in 2009 that she would not renew her contract beyond 2011, was farewelled in July of that year.

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Ohnesorg memorial by Alfred Hrdlicka

[Duke of Buckingham]

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Mahatma Gandhi

[Duke of Buckingham]

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

Andrew Jackson

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Taking the cat out for a walk.
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Taking the cat out for a walk.
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looool That's more like.....

"Wax On, Wax Off"

[Duke of Buckingham]

That is my target to train a real Karate Cat. =))
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Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. - November 28, 1811

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Any chance of happiness is in our hands,
just take courage and determination to transform difficult moments on big challenges,
seeking on solidarity one more step towards better days.

[Duke of Buckingham]

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

Woodrow Wilson

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Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

John F. Kennedy

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I think to much ...

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I am looking to you, are you there?
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[Duke of Buckingham]

In the desert, where all our actions are coated with such a meaning, which often depends life itself. We find in silence, our deeply thoughts, we find God speaking to us from within, is not by accident that all prophets came from the desert.

In the middle of a big city, that in its way steps the stars, that we can not see, we constantly need anything that distracts us from our wretchedness that surrounds us from everywhere.

[Duke of Buckingham]

Dedicated to John P. Myers from Jackson Tennessee.

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[John P. Myers]

Thank you Duke for the tribute, though some of those pics were of Memphis :p I'd just like to say that i hate it here :D However i find the industries located here quite interesting:

1. Delta Faucet Company
2. The Kellogg Company - Pringles Potato Chips
3. Pinnacle Foods Group, Inc
4. Stanley Black and Decker
5. TBDN Tennessee Company - Purolator brand oil/fuel filters, Japanese air intakes and manifolds
6. Gerdau - Steel mill
7. Armstrong Hardwood Flooring Company
8. Perseus Distribution
9. UGN, Inc. - Thermal and Acoustic Materials for Japanese Automobiles
10. Duro Bag - they make paper bags...i know you always wondered where they came from :p
11. Toyota - Engine blocks are made here
12. Owens Corning
13. Kerr/Berry Plastics
14. ADM - Martha White branded stuff and various cooking ingredients
15. Quaker Oats

etc. etc...and i work at none of them. Instead i work out of town at ConAgra. I'm an industrial chef and there's a 99% chance you've all eaten something i've made :)

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Thank you Duke for the tribute, though some of those pics were of Memphis :p I'd just like to say that i hate it here :D However i find the industries located here quite interesting:

1. Delta Faucet Company
2. The Kellogg Company - Pringles Potato Chips
3. Pinnacle Foods Group, Inc
4. Stanley Black and Decker
5. TBDN Tennessee Company - Purolator brand oil/fuel filters, Japanese air intakes and manifolds
6. Gerdau - Steel mill
7. Armstrong Hardwood Flooring Company
8. Perseus Distribution
9. UGN, Inc. - Thermal and Acoustic Materials for Japanese Automobiles
10. Duro Bag - they make paper bags...i know you always wondered where they came from :p
11. Toyota - Engine blocks are made here
12. Owens Corning
13. Kerr/Berry Plastics
14. ADM - Martha White branded stuff and various cooking ingredients
15. Quaker Oats

etc. etc...and i work at none of them. Instead i work out of town at ConAgra. I'm an industrial chef and there's a 99% chance you've all eaten something i've made :)

For me they are only pictures ;) and yes I am afraid that one day we will eat chickens made on a industrial factory and we can see written on them: "100% polyester" :mad:

I was thinking that maybe we could change Memphis to another state ... =))

Keep the good work for the TeAM with crunching and in this forum. :-bd

[Duke of Buckingham]

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Napoleon Bonaparte

[Duke of Buckingham]

non omnis moriar (Horace, Odes)
Not all of me shall die.

[Mumps]

non omnis moriar (Horace, Odes)
Not all of me shall die.

At least, not all at once. :)

[Duke of Buckingham]

At least, not all at once. :)


With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Abraham Lincoln

[Duke of Buckingham]

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

Benjamin Franklin

[Duke of Buckingham]

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Pablo Picasso

[Duke of Buckingham]

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Abraham Lincoln

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[Duke of Buckingham]

A man that has so many friends, good friends as I do, feels very rich no matter the money I have or have not.

You are my fortune that wet my eyes and warm my heart, you are the reason for me to come back and post everyday.

Thank you

[Duke of Buckingham]

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

[Duke of Buckingham]

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Euripides

Thank you.

[Duke of Buckingham]

There are sometimes in life that words don't seem enough to express our feelings, all the attempts of saying thank you, seem so clumsy and cannot fit with the happiness that a friends gift gives to you.

It were the several attempts from many of my friends on this team but not only, other persons from other teams as they understood my problem, gave a step forward and said: I am here, what do you need?

That would be enough to give me that strange feeling that makes us cry and feel happy at the same time and I just know that much more of you would do the same, the sacred friendship in you worth much more than money, in a built for this team, made of solidarity and the better feelings that human kind can produce.

For this one and many other reasons I am very proud off you and need to say in the very used words, THANK YOU, I would highlight, blink and twist them and would still wouldn't be enough, for you to know how much this means to me.

To zombie67 that bought offered me the parts I need,
to paul_l, DrBackJack and all the friends on chatzilla that step forward,
to Myshortpencil that offered and tried to convince me when I was not ready to accept,
and to all of you that would step forward, to say I am here or even did it without my knowledge.

To all of you
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[Duke of Buckingham]

“Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death”

― Homer, The Odyssey

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[Duke of Buckingham]

The United Nations initiated a poll with the request, "Please tell us your honest opinion about the lack of food in the rest of the world."

The poll was a total failure.

The Russians did not understand "Please".

The Italians did not know the word "honest".

The Chinese did not know what an "opinion" was.

The Europeans did not know "lack", while the Africans did not know "food".

Finally, the Americans didn't know anything about the "rest of the world".

[Duke of Buckingham]

"Omne quod dulce est cito satiat."
"Every thing sweet quickly brings satiety."

Saturnalia, VII., 7, 15.
Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius

[Duke of Buckingham]

We may think in a lot of things, when is our time to fight for a better world.

What is deep inside us as a big secret, are the proud of our family and friends, with the integrity of our home, because we share all those immaterial things, like very old memories or laughs and cries.

For all of us, no matter where we were born, under what religion and on any color of the skin, for most of the human beings, these feeling is living deep inside, that we can find our way home and have the old smells between the warm of our beloved, from blood or from our choice.

That is the only approval we all need, the silent complicity of touch, hugs and kisses on our corner of the world.

And suddenly we are home and we understand that home has always been with us.


Ricardo Ferreira


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[Justgeo1]

Amen to all that, my friend! :cool:

[Duke of Buckingham]

Amen to all that, my friend! :cool:

:) The word amen (/ˌɑːˈmɛn/ or /ˌeɪˈmɛn/; Hebrew: אָמֵן, Modern amen Tiberian ʾāmēn; Greek: ἀμήν; Arabic: آمين‎, ʾāmīn ; "So be it; truly") is a declaration of affirmation found in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. Its use in Judaism dates back to its earliest texts. It has been generally adopted in Christian worship as a concluding word for prayers and hymns. In Islam, it is the standard ending to Dua (supplication). Common English translations of the word amen include "verily" and "truly". It can also be used colloquially to express strong agreement, as in, for instance, amen to that.

Thank you George >:D<

[Duke of Buckingham]

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

[Duke of Buckingham]

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

William Shakespeare

[Duke of Buckingham]

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Thomas Jefferson

[Duke of Buckingham]

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde

[Duke of Buckingham]

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[Duke of Buckingham]

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Merry Christmas

[Duke of Buckingham]

“I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday”

― Nicholas Sparks


“Give me all of you!!! I don’t want so much of your time, so much of your talents and money, and so much of your work. I want YOU!!! ALL OF YOU!! I have not come to torment or frustrate the natural man or woman, but to KILL IT! No half measures will do. I don’t want to only prune a branch here and a branch there; rather I want the whole tree out! Hand it over to me, the whole outfit, all of your desires, all of your wants and wishes and dreams. Turn them ALL over to me, give yourself to me and I will make of you a new self---in my image. Give me yourself and in exchange I will give you Myself. My will, shall become your will. My heart, shall become your heart.”

― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

[Duke of Buckingham]

Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.

Gary Ross

[Duke of Buckingham]

“Life grows by being given away, and it weakens in isolation and comfort. Indeed, those who enjoy life most are those who leave security on the shore and become excited by the mission of communicating life to others”

Pope Francis

[Duke of Buckingham]

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Mark Twain

[Duke of Buckingham]

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[Duke of Buckingham]

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[Duke of Buckingham]

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[Duke of Buckingham]

That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

[Duke of Buckingham]

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[Duke of Buckingham]

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Confucius

[Duke of Buckingham]

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[Duke of Buckingham]

Duke a Portuguese Eagle
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[Duke of Buckingham]

Good Morning, you are now in 2014.
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