Chinese dissident Hu Jia has been nominated for the 2008 Nobel PeacePrize (more…)

The sphere has 2/3 the volume and surface area of the circumscribing cylinder. A sphere and cylinder were placed on the tomb of Archimedes at his request.

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… (more…)

( Eos Painting by Evelyn De Morga)

The woods decay, the woods decay and fall,
The vapours weep their burthen to the ground,
Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.
Me only cruel immortality
Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms,
Here at the quiet limit of the world,

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On May 15, 2006, Chinese news media reported that engineers were pouring the last of the concrete to finish the construction of the massive Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in central China. The dam is intended to provide flood control and hydroelectric power. When all the generators are operational (projected for 2009), Three Gorges will become the largest hydroelectric project in the world.

This pair of images shows the dam in partial completion in July 2000 and again in May 2006. The Yangtze River flows from upper left toward upper right in the images. In 2000, construction along each riverbank had occurred, but sediment-filled water still flowed freely through a narrow channel near the river’s south bank (bottom left). A smaller passage closer to the north bank of the river, where the water appears calmer, is likely a system of temporary locks that allowed for boat passage. A second dam bypass appears to be under construction about 1 kilometer to the north.

By May 15, 2006, the dam spanned the entire river, and a large reservoir had filled behind it, to the northwest. The new reservoir is more than 3 kilometers (more than 2 miles) across just upstream of the dam. White spray shoots through gates in the center portion of the dam. The former locks are much less prominent, and the new ones to the north appear as a linear arrangement of thin, blue rectangles.

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the human environment is mental. 

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The fish is the third-largest bighead carp captured in the world and largest in the Western Hemisphere by a recreational angler.

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this picture is purported to show the gift of food to the monkey, on the celebration of the occasion of the anniversary of Sakyamuni’s birth.

China, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are among 11 countries that practice religious oppression, a federal commission says. Nevertheless, the U.S. State Department hasn’t designated or re-designated those nations as “countries of particular concern,” the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedoms said Friday.

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Martyrdom Past and Present

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Since Beijing has entered the count-down to the Olympics, criticism, protests, and threats of boycott from the international community against the Chinese Communist regime for its intensified human rights violations in the lead-up to the Olympics have been steadily on the rise. The Communist regime is now accusing others of “politicizing the Olympic Games” and trying to stifle criticism by saying they oppose such actions. (more…)

To see Tony Toporek’s video of the sighting, click here.

http://www.abc15.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoid=12659@knxv.dayport.com&navCatId=3

Discourse the Beijing Olympics!

See the foils in these final acts on history’s great stage, transcending this world!

Beijing Olmpics? What about human rights abuses? 

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Will Chinese Regime Silence Media’s Coverage of Tibetan Protests?

The Chinese regime sought first to silence the protest of the monks in Lhasa with a violent crackdown on March 14 that reminded the world of Tiananmen Square in 1989.

It is now seeking to finish the job by blocking all information from Tibet from reaching the outside world.

Meanwhile, troops are said to be flooding the province, raising fears that violent reprisals are now taking place unknown to the outside world.

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The Epoch Times

Mar 17, 2008

The global “Human Rights Torch Relay” will reach China at the end of March, said a spokesperson of the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG), a non-profit organization that initiated the relay.

According to CIPFG, the Human Rights Torch Relay aims to urge Beijing to improve human rights conditions in China. If the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues their human rights abuses, the relay will call for global boycott of Beijing Olympic Games.

The CIPFG has lately announced that the torch will reach China at the end of March and it will be passed over many parts of the country. Meanwhile, other countries will continue the relay as well, said CIPFG. After the torch passes through the U.S., it will have gone to over 110 cites, 40 of which are in the U.S. alone.

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De Antro Nympherum, by William Blake, 1821

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Ecclesiastes 12:6-12:7 in the Old Testament, from the NIV:

“Remember him—before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken; before the pitcher is shattered at the spring, or the wheel broken at the well, and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.”

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 ”prudence“

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“Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.” ^[*]

ImmanuelKant, Metaphysics of Morals

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