SteveAudio: ..cause I’ve seen the dark side too
Array In fact, Jed Hoyer, 32, and Ben Cherington, 31, baseball’s version of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, are on top of the world today, one would suspect, having been introduced yesterday at Fenway Park as co-general managers of the storied Boston Red Sox baseball franchise for the 2006 season.However, with the silhouette of Hamlet, as played by Theo Epstein, the former general manager of the franchise, rumored to be returning to the Sox in an advisory capacity, visible in the gloaming, their days in the front office seem numbered.Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, for those of you unfamiliar with it, is a play written by Tom Stoppard, who interjects the story of the duo into Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet. The co-general managers in Boston join Jon Daniels, 28, the GM in Texas, Andrew Friedman, 28, the GM in Tampa Bay, and Arizona’s Josh Byrnes, 35, in the ranks of baseball’s baby-faced executives. Epstein is, of course, the Gold Standard of young general managers, having presided over the Boston championship in 2004 at the tender age of 30.So how is it that in a society built on the premise that everyone needs to pay their dues and wait their turn before being rewarded with the big job, so many baseball owners are entrusting the future of their very valuable franchises to relative novices?
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Upon receiving reports of the abduction, Multi-National Force - Iraq requested that the Iraqi Police investigate the incident and is assisting in attempts to locate the missing individuals.MNF-I requests that anyone in possession of information on the whereabouts of these two individuals to contact the Iraqi Police or MNF-I at the email address below.FOR MORE INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS RELEASE, CONTACT THE DETAINEE OPERATIONS PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER AT Taskforce.134pao_io@iraq.centcom.mil.
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This was the feminine force, sublimated into architecture, with the light prominently displayed at top, the arch only in the vaguest outline suggesting the vulva and the cave of the Earth Mother, but the light on top clearly suggesting the clitoris. I suspect the churches donât want to talk about them because they reveal that the primary consciousness of the mediaeval period was feminine â the ancient tradition of the Earth Mother and the Triple Goddess in Europe â rather than masculine, the sublimated power principle coming from the Roman church. As Robert Graves explains in The White Goddess, the Roman church incorporated the Pagan church lock, stock and barrel, including holidays, rituals, and ritual sacrifice, and also, and especially, the devotion to the Earth Mother. The Cathedral at Chartres, for instance, was a temple to the Earth Goddess for three hundred years before the cathedral was build. Using Graves, this would make the 12th and 13th century not the low-church beginning of Christendom so much as the high-church end of Earth Mother worship (and find in the 12th centuryâs Eleanor of Aquitane the full rose moon, the high water mark). The rose glass, particularly the magnificent one at Notre Dame and at Reims (this one), resembles a spinning wheel, which often accompanies the Three Sisters weaving the fabric of life in their northern European expression), but it also represents the rose moon, which ancient pagan lore says will mark the high noon period of the Goddess - the three phases of the goddess - the white goddess, the rose goddess and the death mother, marked by black or dark blue; There can be no question that the three pointed entry portals (with their inwardly schrolling gynecological motifs) that invariably accompany the circular rose glass, even their thousands of terrible contemporary copies still being built to this day throughout the U.S, represent the three phases of yin consciousness, maiden, mother, wise woman. For northern Europeans, England in particular, this implies coming out of the Unconscious â the Earth Consciousness â and into the new realm and the ascending Sky Consciousness of Aquarius. Gravesâs history of the Great Mother notes that this transition took place with the rise of Protestantism in England when England abandoned the Virgin Worship of the Roman Catholic. It may have meant independence from the Roman church, but it also implied the death of the Earth Mother because the two were one. It is almost as if the sublimated power â the power of the Earth Goddess — when it disappeared into the unconscious, found its way into Englandâs conscious mind in the form of the great British queens. Certainly the Age of Pisces â astrologically a feminine age â will have its last days recalled under the reign of Queen Victoria, for if it was Elizabeth who brought England to its feet, it was Victoria who completed the journey, bringing England around the world and to the East, to India. Victoria was the Earth Mother incarnate (the Queen of Earthly Queens, proclaimed a banner in English and Hindustani at her Diamond Jubilee procession in 1897). From this point of view, the rise of Elizabeth I to the throne and the submission and sublimation of the Earth Mother is perhaps the most important fact in English history and subsequently in the rise of America and the Christian West. They were set adrift and forced out of their natural place in the Cosmos to a new conceptual place â a place not of the Earth with living centaurs and nature gods, but of Ideas. Perhaps this sheds light on my fatherâs old school Irish folk belief (see The Death of the Earth Mother, this blog, January, 2006) that Jews have secret mystical power which brings the world into balance: Among the moderns, only Jews today live with their own Creation Myth. They are the negative manifestation of the Earth Mother â they are Kali, the Death Mother. So Buffy â (we call her The Slayer) â has to take it back by herself with her few heroic mortal apprentices. In the last TV episode of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, Buffy pulls a sword from a stone and enters a vault deep in the earth. It is the Earth Mother. I was one of the ones that put it in there.â (In Buffy creator Josh Whedon’s Serenity, a similar character is a river spirit.) Buffy comes from the earth and there is an underground quality to the show as if it is a characterization unfulfilled or not yet seen in its full potential â like the Krebâs Factor in Dobie Gillis.
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As promised at the end of Lisa Ramaci’s interview, here’s the information about the Steven Vincent Foundation as forwarded to me by Lisa:About Steven Vincent [...]On July 31, 2005, The New York Times printed what would be Vincent’s last piece, Switched Off in Basra, in which he accused the British of turning a blind eye as the Basran police force was systematically infiltrated by Iranian-backed insurgents, Shia extremists and followers of the radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, and documented how elements of the three groups had set up assassination squads within the police department, operating unchecked, driving a white death car and killing their victims with impunity. With that purpose in mind, the first grant made by the infant Foundation was a donation of one thousand dollars to Fakher Haider’s widow.Another, and equally worthwhile purpose, will be to support women in volatile regions who are risking their lives to report on what they see happening in their countries, who try and change local policies, or who work to better the lives of their fellow women, and then find themselves in jeopardy for doing so. The women below, both 2005 ‘Courage in Journalism’ award winners from the International Women’s Media Foundation (www.iwmf.org) were the first of many that the Steven Vincent Foundation will be assisting, with each receiving one thousand dollars each in Steven’s name:Sumi Khan, 34, a reporter with Shaptahik 2000 (Weekly 2000) in Dhaka. Within two years, the Foundation also plans to institute the yearly Steven Vincent Award for Excellence in War Correspondence, which initially will award ,000.00 to the journalist who produces the most compelling and important piece of reporting on a military conflict within a 12-month period, and ,000.00 each to three semi-finalists, although in time those amounts will increase.I don’t have Lisa’s permission to publish her e-mail address.
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This is from the Amazon Deals Shopping Blog:The price has been lowered from 99.99 to 99.99. Rebate expires 12/20/05, see details.This computer also qualifies for a free Apple Mighty Mouse after rebate.
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People who are so quick to judge and condemn would be wise to follow the counsel of the religion they claim to follow.Most religions have some form or other of what is often referred to as the Golden Rule:Do unto others as you would wish them do unto youChristianity contains these, for example:Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. Matthew 7:12, King James Version.And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. The Gospel of Thomas is one of about 40 gospels that were widely accepted among early Christians, but which never made it into the Christian Scriptures (New Testament).And even Godless Islam has this:”None of you [truly] believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.”
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Array In fact, Jed Hoyer, 32, and Ben Cherington, 31, baseball’s version of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, are on top of the world today, one would suspect, having been introduced yesterday at Fenway Park as co-general managers of the storied Boston Red Sox baseball franchise for the 2006 season.However, with the silhouette of Hamlet, as played by Theo Epstein, the former general manager of the franchise, rumored to be returning to the Sox in an advisory capacity, visible in the gloaming, their days in the front office seem numbered.Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, for those of you unfamiliar with it, is a play written by Tom Stoppard, who interjects the story of the duo into Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet. The co-general managers in Boston join Jon Daniels, 28, the GM in Texas, Andrew Friedman, 28, the GM in Tampa Bay, and Arizona’s Josh Byrnes, 35, in the ranks of baseball’s baby-faced executives. Epstein is, of course, the Gold Standard of young general managers, having presided over the Boston championship in 2004 at the tender age of 30.So how is it that in a society built on the premise that everyone needs to pay their dues and wait their turn before being rewarded with the big job, so many baseball owners are entrusting the future of their very valuable franchises to relative novices?
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Upon receiving reports of the abduction, Multi-National Force - Iraq requested that the Iraqi Police investigate the incident and is assisting in attempts to locate the missing individuals.MNF-I requests that anyone in possession of information on the whereabouts of these two individuals to contact the Iraqi Police or MNF-I at the email address below.FOR MORE INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS RELEASE, CONTACT THE DETAINEE OPERATIONS PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER AT Taskforce.134pao_io@iraq.centcom.mil.
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This was the feminine force, sublimated into architecture, with the light prominently displayed at top, the arch only in the vaguest outline suggesting the vulva and the cave of the Earth Mother, but the light on top clearly suggesting the clitoris. I suspect the churches donât want to talk about them because they reveal that the primary consciousness of the mediaeval period was feminine â the ancient tradition of the Earth Mother and the Triple Goddess in Europe â rather than masculine, the sublimated power principle coming from the Roman church. As Robert Graves explains in The White Goddess, the Roman church incorporated the Pagan church lock, stock and barrel, including holidays, rituals, and ritual sacrifice, and also, and especially, the devotion to the Earth Mother. The Cathedral at Chartres, for instance, was a temple to the Earth Goddess for three hundred years before the cathedral was build. Using Graves, this would make the 12th and 13th century not the low-church beginning of Christendom so much as the high-church end of Earth Mother worship (and find in the 12th centuryâs Eleanor of Aquitane the full rose moon, the high water mark). The rose glass, particularly the magnificent one at Notre Dame and at Reims (this one), resembles a spinning wheel, which often accompanies the Three Sisters weaving the fabric of life in their northern European expression), but it also represents the rose moon, which ancient pagan lore says will mark the high noon period of the Goddess - the three phases of the goddess - the white goddess, the rose goddess and the death mother, marked by black or dark blue; There can be no question that the three pointed entry portals (with their inwardly schrolling gynecological motifs) that invariably accompany the circular rose glass, even their thousands of terrible contemporary copies still being built to this day throughout the U.S, represent the three phases of yin consciousness, maiden, mother, wise woman. For northern Europeans, England in particular, this implies coming out of the Unconscious â the Earth Consciousness â and into the new realm and the ascending Sky Consciousness of Aquarius. Gravesâs history of the Great Mother notes that this transition took place with the rise of Protestantism in England when England abandoned the Virgin Worship of the Roman Catholic. It may have meant independence from the Roman church, but it also implied the death of the Earth Mother because the two were one. It is almost as if the sublimated power â the power of the Earth Goddess — when it disappeared into the unconscious, found its way into Englandâs conscious mind in the form of the great British queens. Certainly the Age of Pisces â astrologically a feminine age â will have its last days recalled under the reign of Queen Victoria, for if it was Elizabeth who brought England to its feet, it was Victoria who completed the journey, bringing England around the world and to the East, to India. Victoria was the Earth Mother incarnate (the Queen of Earthly Queens, proclaimed a banner in English and Hindustani at her Diamond Jubilee procession in 1897). From this point of view, the rise of Elizabeth I to the throne and the submission and sublimation of the Earth Mother is perhaps the most important fact in English history and subsequently in the rise of America and the Christian West. They were set adrift and forced out of their natural place in the Cosmos to a new conceptual place â a place not of the Earth with living centaurs and nature gods, but of Ideas. Perhaps this sheds light on my fatherâs old school Irish folk belief (see The Death of the Earth Mother, this blog, January, 2006) that Jews have secret mystical power which brings the world into balance: Among the moderns, only Jews today live with their own Creation Myth. They are the negative manifestation of the Earth Mother â they are Kali, the Death Mother. So Buffy â (we call her The Slayer) â has to take it back by herself with her few heroic mortal apprentices. In the last TV episode of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, Buffy pulls a sword from a stone and enters a vault deep in the earth. It is the Earth Mother. I was one of the ones that put it in there.â (In Buffy creator Josh Whedon’s Serenity, a similar character is a river spirit.) Buffy comes from the earth and there is an underground quality to the show as if it is a characterization unfulfilled or not yet seen in its full potential â like the Krebâs Factor in Dobie Gillis.
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As promised at the end of Lisa Ramaci’s interview, here’s the information about the Steven Vincent Foundation as forwarded to me by Lisa:About Steven Vincent [...]On July 31, 2005, The New York Times printed what would be Vincent’s last piece, Switched Off in Basra, in which he accused the British of turning a blind eye as the Basran police force was systematically infiltrated by Iranian-backed insurgents, Shia extremists and followers of the radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, and documented how elements of the three groups had set up assassination squads within the police department, operating unchecked, driving a white death car and killing their victims with impunity. With that purpose in mind, the first grant made by the infant Foundation was a donation of one thousand dollars to Fakher Haider’s widow.Another, and equally worthwhile purpose, will be to support women in volatile regions who are risking their lives to report on what they see happening in their countries, who try and change local policies, or who work to better the lives of their fellow women, and then find themselves in jeopardy for doing so. The women below, both 2005 ‘Courage in Journalism’ award winners from the International Women’s Media Foundation (www.iwmf.org) were the first of many that the Steven Vincent Foundation will be assisting, with each receiving one thousand dollars each in Steven’s name:Sumi Khan, 34, a reporter with Shaptahik 2000 (Weekly 2000) in Dhaka. Within two years, the Foundation also plans to institute the yearly Steven Vincent Award for Excellence in War Correspondence, which initially will award ,000.00 to the journalist who produces the most compelling and important piece of reporting on a military conflict within a 12-month period, and ,000.00 each to three semi-finalists, although in time those amounts will increase.I don’t have Lisa’s permission to publish her e-mail address.
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This is from the Amazon Deals Shopping Blog:The price has been lowered from 99.99 to 99.99. Rebate expires 12/20/05, see details.This computer also qualifies for a free Apple Mighty Mouse after rebate.
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People who are so quick to judge and condemn would be wise to follow the counsel of the religion they claim to follow.Most religions have some form or other of what is often referred to as the Golden Rule:Do unto others as you would wish them do unto youChristianity contains these, for example:Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. Matthew 7:12, King James Version.And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. The Gospel of Thomas is one of about 40 gospels that were widely accepted among early Christians, but which never made it into the Christian Scriptures (New Testament).And even Godless Islam has this:”None of you [truly] believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.”
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