HR 2159 House Bill Aims to Strip “Right wing Extremists” of Second amendment
HR 2159 House Bill Aims to Strip “Right wing Extremists” of Second amendment
DHS and HR 2159
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By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY
Venice, the floating city, owes a curious debt to Attila the Hun. " The Scourge of God" sent the Venetians fleeing in 452 A.D. from their city, Altinum, to found Venice deep in the marshes on the edge of the Adriatic.
But despite the best efforts of Attila (and the Venetians, who carted away the stones of their sacked home to build Venice), archaeologists have mapped the lost city, detailed in the current Science.
"Now we have a rather unique opportunity of finding an abandoned Roman city," study lead author Paoli Mozzi of Italy's Padua University told Science. "Now we can really start to make some kinds of reasoning about the way the city lived."
A combination of drought and aerial photography in July of 2007 conspired to reveal the location of Altinum, reports the team. Infrared images, which reveal heat given off from the ground, showed how drought affected corn and soybean crops growing over the site, in turn revealing the streets, buildings and even the large canal that once ran through the middle of the vanquished city. Cut through the 10-foot rise of the town, the canal was a surprise, Mozzi says, suggesting Altinum was a mini-Venice before Venice.
"The right constellation of circumstances — a site that has not been settled since Late Antiquity, and a severe drought — have combined to enable these particularly illuminating photographs to be taken and interpreted," says Harvard classicist Kathleen Coleman. "Altinum was one of the most important cities in northern Italy because of its strategic position as a hub where routes over the Alps, around the top of the Adriatic, and down the eastern seaboard intersected."
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The city flourished "throughout the period of the Roman Empire, and it must have been very prosperous, since the Latin poet Martial mentions that the villas along its waterfront were as beautiful as the famed resort of Baiae on the Bay of Naples," near Pompeii, Coleman says. "It was also thought until recently that its marshy site meant that it didn't need any walls, but now we can see a substantial wall along its northwest boundary."
An Italian tribe, the Veneti, settled the city around 500 B.C., and by 131 B.C., when one of Rome's famous roads, the Via Annia, reached the city, it had become part of the Roman Republic. "With a size comparable to Pompeii, Altinum is the only large Roman city in Northern Italy and one of the few in Europe that has not been buried by medieval and modern cities," the study says. After the city's sack, the Venetians moved to islands just north of modern Venice.
Along with the surprising canal, other monumental structures visible from the mapping effort include a Roman theater, Odeon for musical performance, amphitheater, forum with shops and basilica for legal matters. Archaeologists will consider targeted excavations of the important sites from the maps, Mozzi suggests.
Although archaeologists study ancient riddles, they aren't averse to modern methods to make discoveries, turning to chemistry, carbon dating, satellite and aerial photos to make advances in recent decades, such as the map of Altinum.
Even Attila the Hun could appreciate that idea. The legendary warlord embraced new siege engines to scourge Europe during his reign, which ended in 453 A.D., one year after the sack of Altinum.
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I heard this recently about the possibility of countries reducing.
How the elite are wanting less of everything and start by land combining.
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Chemical Brothers - Out Of Control
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NIGHTWISH - Nemo
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The Kovenant - Star By Star
We were alone & on our own, in the dark between the stars
From the shadows to the pyre, amidst the chaos, from the stars
Love, life & liberty, Hate, death & captivity
Like a stain of starless darkness, across the canvas of space
(Chorus)
STAR BY STAR
Corrupting all of humanity
So much alike are we
When I see you I see me
STAR BY STAR (x2)
Galaxies glitter in the black night sky, Towards progress, towards death
From the stars we have come, & to the stars we will return
The violence of passion - The passion of violence
The perverse impulses - The savage egoism
The wicked presence - The wicked essence
The thing that unites us - The thing that divides us
(Chorus)
STAR BY STAR
Corrupting all of humanity
So much alike are we
When I see you I see me
Attention: I am no longer against colloidal silver
You may drink a few mg if you think you may have subject to sick virus or diseased individuals.
I won't become out of a closet and Nazi style swoop down from a rope, remove from the premises and tell you that's wrong.
I used to have a fear of everyone turning blue as
I realize he was one guy out of a hundred thousand who might take more than they should. Maybe his overdose was a result of his age and genes etc.
I support oregano as the first choice.
I realize colloidal silver has a healing equal place amongst the medicine cabinet.
Apologies for harsh treatment of silver cure enthusiasts.
Catholic church 'a climate change sinner'
July 18, 2009 12:01am
THE Catholic Church has confessed it is one of the biggest carbon emission sinners in Australia.
Catholic Earthcare, the organisation set up in 2002 by bishops to advise the church on environmental issues, admitted the Australian Catholic church has a carbon footprint dwarfing other major organizations.
"Although measurement has just begun, Catholic Earthcare estimates the carbon emissions of the Catholic church in Australia could be in the vicinity of 1.2 million to 1.5 million tonnes annually," a Carbon Earthcare statement said.
"This is on a par with the carbon emissions of the Australian government, excluding defence operations, of 1.7 million tonnes, and dwarfs the emissions of organisations such as the National Australian Bank and Insurance Australia Group."
The organisation said it had launched a major drive to bring its carbon footprint down to more saintly proportions.
Jacqui Redmond, Catholic Earthcare's executive director, says the church owed it to God to reduce its emissions.
"We have a responsibility to our creator as well as to future generations to leave a small footprint," she said.
Ms Redmond says the decision to analyze the church's carbon emissions using high-tech new tools developed by CarbonSystems, a private firm which helps organizations reduce carbon output, would lead to a reduction of the church's footprint.
The move was backed yesterday by former US vice-president and environmental campaigner Al Gore who met Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in Sydney this week.
"The availability of this new tool for measuring our impact on the environment will allow us to measure and manage, to help us be good stewards in caring for God's creation," Mr Gore said.
It comes despite the head of the Australian Catholic Church, Cardinal George Pell, the Archbishop of Sydney, being a self-confessed global warming sceptic.
Cardinal Pell has regularly spoken out about his scepticism that man is affecting global warming.
Catholic church admits Australians are biggest climate change sinners
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Fossilised skeleton of oldest-known tree-dwelling mammal found in Russia
The long fingers and grasping tail of an early fossiled mammal suggest that our predecessors colonised the trees far earlier than thought.
The creature, which would have looked more like a lizard than a mammal, lived 260 million years ago, 100 million years earlier than the oldest-known tree-dwellers.
More than 15 fossilised skeletons of the species, named Suminia, were found in a single block of red mudstone in the Kirov region in central Russia.
The animal was relatively small, at around 20 inches (50 cm) from its nose to the tip of its tail. Although scales and splayed limbs gave it the appearance of a lizard, Suminia was of the mammal line. Other features, such as the shape of its hands and skull, have more in common with mammals than reptiles.
Its long, slender limbs, large hands and flexible tail strongly suggest that it lived partly in the trees, according to a study, published today in the journal Proceedings B of the Royal Society.
The hands and feet made up about 40 per cent of the length of Suminia’s limbs, which would have allowed it to grip branches tightly. It also had a long tail that would have helped it balance, although scientists concluded that it would not have swung from branches by its tail in the same way as modern primates.
Suminia was also the oldest-known creature with an opposable “thumb”, an important evolutionary development frequently cited as a precursor to primates’ fine motor control and unique capacity for using tools.
Scientists say that increasing competition for food on the ground from large herbivores and an aggressive selection of predators are the most likely reasons that Suminia made its first forays into the treetops. Predators would have included a sabre-toothed creature similar in shape to a dog, but covered in scales.
“It’s a surprise, but it makes sense,” said Jörg Fröbisch, a geologist at the Field Museum in Chicago, who led the study. “There was food available and they avoided predators on the ground.”
The climate in the region would have been much warmer than Russia today, with dry summers and wet, humid winters.
Finding so many specimens, including mature individuals and some young at a single location, was helpful in providing a complete picture of Suminia’s skeletal anatomy, according to scientists.
Fossilised skeleton of oldest-known tree-dwelling mammal found in Russia
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