Day two and three fourths: What a day!

I haven't had a day like this in a long time. It was a series of unfortunate events.<br /><br />I worked on my sister's paperwork for two hours, from 6am -8am, trying to get the Guardianship Implementation Plan and Inventory completed for the State of Alaska Courts. It's a detailed account of her life, and it's due May 28. Remember, she had and still has a complicated life. I hate working on it, but it has to be done.<br /><br />Then my husband walked into my office at about 8am and asked what I had done with the coffee pot. When I told him I gave it to Goodwill two weeks ago, he flipped out. That was the start of World War III. He hadn't used it in over a year. It was collecting dust and it was in the way. It was old and gross. I'm in a "scaling down mode", so I'm giving away a lot of stuff lately. This makes him insane. He's a hoarder. We have an ongoing battle about "stuff". I'm not into it. I hate "stuff laying around, I hate clutter and knick knacks. He's the opposite. If it was up to him, he'd never throw anything away.<br /><br />In retaliation, he proceeded to remove every item from the kitchen counters and walls. EVERYTHING. I didn't argue. I didn't fight. I simply don't have the energy. Actually, I like the look, even if there is an echo in there now. I asked him if we could redecorate the rest of the house like this. I like it. It looks like no one lives here. It's a good look. I think that just made him angrier. Oh well.<br /><br />Then I went to my Weight Watchers meeting. They moved. Seriously, they moved and didn't tell me. I got there five minutes late, weighed in at 15 pounds heavier than my last weigh-in in December. 198.4. Ouch.<br /><br />The meeting wasn't one of my favorites. We had to get in groups and talk about our most favorite possession. I don't have one so it was hard. My Kindle? People were saying their dogs or kids, which was very weird to me because I think of a "possession" as an inanimate object. It was just a strange meeting, even though it was with my favorite leader.<br /><br />The leader gave us an assignment to write down on paper twenty reasons we want to lose weight (so we can use it as an anchor, which is a great idea). We're suppose to bring it with us next week. I wrote mine out immediately after the meeting. I'll share it with you in a later post. Some of things I wrote in a hurry, and when I re-read them, it made me really sad. I'll explain in a later post. <br /><br />After the meeting,  I went to the gym. StairMaster thirty minutes, weights forty minutes. A really good workout (and a lot harder because I'm a lot fatter). As I was leaving the gym I got yelled at by one of the personal trainers (he's a creepy old guy that flirts with all the women - I can't stand him).<br /><br />This is what happened and I'm still fuming about it. This trainer yelled across the gym, in front of everyone, "hey girl, you didn't clean up your mess!". I didn't even know what he was talking about. I asked him, "mess, what mess?". He said I left my weights on the barbell, my little 5-pound weights. I had to remove 45-pound plates from my barbell before I could use it. I often have to move 65-pound dumbbells out of my way to use the benches, or multiple plates from barbells. I really didn't even think about removing my little 5-pound plates because everyone else leaves their stuff. I've never heard one of the trainers say anything to anyone about it. We had a few unpleasant words (I can't stand him!). Then an hour later this same trainer had the nerve to call me on my cell phone and leave a message telling me had a great deal for me on some personal training sessions. Are you freaking kidding me?!  <br /><br />Then I got home and in the mail there was the application for the disabled parking for my sister, signed by her doctor. I sent it to her doctor three weeks ago and she finally returned it to me. I never realized how important disabled parking is for someone in a wheelchair. Try getting someone that is completely paralyzed on one side out of the car and into a wheelchair in a normal parking spot with a car parked next to you. It doesn't work.<br /><br />I rushed off to a motor vehicles office that was open until 4:30pm today to submit the application. I got there 25 minutes before they closed. I waited 20 minutes until they called me up to the counter, only to tell me the application wasn't completed properly by the doctor. I'm really annoyed with the doctor. She's specializes in geriatrics. This can't be the first disabled parking application she's completed (she only signed it, didn't fill out the section that says "to be completed by the physician"). <br /><br />Next up Costco. I'll make this short. I threw the 25-pound bag of cat food into the trunk of my car. It caught on a corner of the box containing the brand new coffeepot (for my husband). It split the bag open right down the middle and filled my trunk with pellets of cat food.<br /><br />What do you think, do I have some negative energy going on here or what?<br /><br />The only good things about today:  1.) I have a clean and spacious kitchen and 2.) I had a good workout (in spite of that creepy trainer), and 3.) I actually tracked my food today in the Weight Watchers phone app, every bite and right now as of almost 10pm I have eaten 25 Points (I get 27 now at my new, big weight). <br /><br />Oh, last but not least, my only crown (on my tooth, not my head) has been hurting me all day with on and off throbbing. It was put on three years ago, taken off six months ago and "fixed" because it hurt, and now I'm feeling pain again.<br /><br />Honestly God, can you cut me any slack here?

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Two free SchoolNet short online courses for SA teachers in technology integration

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you are a South African educator and would like to know more about technology integration by participating in short free online courses from SchoolNet, please think about joining our next two courses on offer for April and May. </span></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Microsoft’s Free tools part 1</span></b></u> <br />(10 April - end April)</span><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you are a South African educator and would like to sign up for this free course, please click on the link below to be taken to the sign up page. You will then be sent an email directing you to the online course platform.  The course starts officially on April 10th but it is the type of course where you can easily catch up. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhaRDhicklrdXI0Wkk1bkQzcWctMlE6MQ" target="_blank">Sign up page for Microsoft Free Tools part 1</a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u><i>Course content:</i></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">This will be a three week course centring on how to use four of the Microsoft free tools  in the classroom, namely AutoCollage, Photostory 3, Windows Movie Maker and Microsoft Songsmith.  The course will be supported by webinars and offers a Certificate of Completion from SchoolNet if certain requirements are met. </span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><u>The course outline is</u>:</span></i><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Week 1 (beginning 10 April): AutoCollage <br />Week 2 (beginning 17 April): Photostory 3 and Windows Live Movie maker<br />Week 3 (beginning 24 April): Songsmith <br />Week 4: webinars from teachers who have successfully used these tools in the classroom</span>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><u><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Next course - SchoolNet's free Wiki course</span></b></u><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />(</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">May 2012)</span></span><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><u>Course content</u>:</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Week 1: How to create a wiki using Wikispaces</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Week 2: Make your wiki look and work like a website</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Week 3: Add writing, photos, audio and video to your wiki</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Week 4: Using your wiki for online projects</span></div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEpfNGtOU0hELW5iTldIQVVhTXhnd0E6MQ" target="_blank">Sign up for the wiki course here.</a></div><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">More information is available on our <a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/p/free-short-onine-courses.html" target="_blank">Free online courses</a> page</span></div><br /></div>

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Day 2: It's Saturday! I love Saturday!

My favorite day of the week is Saturday. I like to stay at home on Saturday and do house stuff. I actually find joy in mindless household chores. My latest thing is spring cleaning.<br /><br />I've been organizing my closets, bookcases and even tackling the garage, one box at a time for the garage. It's filled with 24 years of junk, including boxes that haven't been opened since we moved into this house twelve years. I'm scaling down on the stuff. I detest useless clutter, and I want it out of my life.<br /><br />Maybe seeing the 73 years of stuff at my sister's 3,800 square foot house triggered something in me, or maybe a few of those Hoarders shows, of maybe it's because I feel like it's the only thing in my life where I have control.Regardless of what caused this sudden "I've got to get rid of this stuff", it makes me feel better about my surroundings.<br /><br />I started with the bathroom closet last weekend. I got rid of at least 50 bottles of hair products, and three hot roller sets, along with a truckload of other stuff (lotions, old makeup, and just stuff). I mean honestly, who needs four hot roller sets, three curling irons, two flat irons, and about 50 of those Velcro rollers (that I don't even use anymore). Now I only have one hot roller set, one flat iron and one curling iron. The stuff I kept (about 1/4 of what was in the closet) are in containers with drawers, and there are labels on the drawers. I love it! I can find anything in seconds.<br /><br />I'm reading a great book that's  really helping me with the de-cluttering process. I bought it at the Half-price bookstore a few years ago, but it's still available on Amazon. "30 Days To A Simpler Life" by Connie Cox & Cris Evatt. I highly recommend this book if you are feeling overwhelmed by clutter, and if you've ever watched a Hoarder show and thought, "hmmm, if I don't do something that could become me!". <br /><br />Usually on Saturday I have a list of at least 15 chores that I think must be completed by the end of the day. I never get through the list.<br /><br />Today, things will be different. Five must do's on my list:<br /><br />1. Update my Guardian activity log for my sister. I keep a notebook and write down every penny spent,  every phone conversation about my sister, and every chore or activity involving my sister Usually I transfer that information into an Excel spreadsheet at the end of the week. It's for the Alaska court system for when they complete a review on me at the end of the year. I normally do this once a week. I haven't done it for a month. <span style="color: red;">A must do.</span><br /><br />2. The gym for a minimum of a one-hour workout. <span style="color: red;">A must do.</span><br /><br />3. Weight Watchers meeting, 10:30am.<span style="color: red;"> A must do.</span><br /><br />4. Clean out under the bathroom sinks in the master bathroom (huge vanity with lots of junk under the sinks). I don't even know what's under there, other than a few rolls of toilet paper. The goal is to clean it out, throw away as much as possible possible.<br /><br />5. Work on the guardianship implementation plan and inventory for my sister. It's twelve pages of detailed information on her life. It's due by the Alaska Courts by May 28. I've been working on it, but I'd really like to complete it soon. One of those things that's hanging over my head.<br /><br />Not a lot of fun stuff on the list, other than cleaning out underneath the cabinets under the bathroom sinks. That probably sounds sick and twisted, but I love getting rid of stuff. It makes my heart feel lighter. <br /><br />Tomorrow is sister day, Titanic in 3D. I can't wait to see how that goes. She was an avid about going to the movies once a week before the stroke. I'm curious how she'll respond tomorrow. Hopefully, she'll understand what's going on. At least she'll be out of the house, which she seems to enjoy. I'll let you know how it goes.<br /><br />Okay, back to my list.

Day 2: It's Saturday! I love Saturday!

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SA teachers – why not join the conversation from 20h30 to 21h30 each Monday evening on #edchatsa?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><i>Submitted by Fiona Beal </i> <br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not too long ago I came across an article that posed the question <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1472675119">'Is</a></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2012/03/is-twitter-the-driving-force-behind-upcoming-educational-change/" target="_blank"> Twitter the Driving Force Behind Upcoming Educational Change?'</a> and</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> that question constantly echoes in my mind. Twitter is an incredible tool for sharing, summarising, communicating, sending quick messages, using a hashtag for conferences and events – the list is endless. Undoubtedly, for the educator Twitter is a must. I, for one, have learned SO MUCH from my Twitter PLN.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So, for this reason we should really welcome the initiative of Arthur Preston, Headmaster at Elkanah House in Cape Town with the <i>TweetChat for the South African Education community </i>on a Monday night from 8:30pm – 9:30pm. Needless to say the chats to date have been very inspiring with the number of educators participating growing in leaps and bounds. </span> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">These Twitter chats are not new to education and there are a number of really good ones that happen around the world. <br /><a href="http://www.cybraryman.com/edhashtags.html">http://www.cybraryman.com/edhashtags.html</a></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><br /><a href="http://edudemic.com/2012/01/20-hashtags/">20 twitter hashtags everyone should know about<br /></a></span> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">However this is a first for South Africa and something that our country REALLY needs – teachers and educators entering the education conversation and airing their thoughts and feelings, as well as pooling their knowledge…who knows what changes can be effected as a result!</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The website<br /><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Arthur runs #edchatsa from a website, <b>#edchatsa: </b><b>The TweetChat for the South African education community </b><a href="http://www.edchatsa.co.za/">http://www.edchatsa.co.za/,</a> and a Facebook page <a href="http://www.facebook.com/edchatsa">http://www.facebook.com/edchatsa</a></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><a href="http://www.edchatsa.co.za/"></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEKSpeO_dYlNFSvVnFluUVgmpkp5_mwyGgFsKSJwZ2jjkMcDMwUtcamtPMkCdmGCy1rTJvqHHBZG5smgV-hbSlCuVo-ne7HpDP7H3dAk0WTNjGOaIqYIWvH6ZOocCOxC88vGoFfoYxCOg/s1600-h/image%25255B4%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="75" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj14oyeiSTn-ws1aHndIoBwZG6VtSyBPt1lBq5x_whgwfD5plJ3Y-2oz_SBLHExMwOH0MKhaHT3e9VHD1_GjTFEYW8R8B1mEHjxNBxb4B5cz46dQFSjWu_V1C46zLwkVTJMvFpfnDTpY4E/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The website is the place to vote for upcoming topics for discussion.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What is #edchatsa?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b> </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The following explanation is taken from the website: </span></div><h3 style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-weight: normal;">“Imagine a weekly gathering of dynamic, innovative and inspiring teachers who engage in lively debate, share resources, offer assistance, challenge paradigms and support each other. Imagine having the opportunity to engage with these teachers in their conversation or simply stop to listen and learn. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Imagine no longer! This gathering happens every Monday evening from 20h30 to 21h30 on Twitter in the form of what is known as a TweetChat. Started in the first week of March 2012, this community of tweeting teachers continues to meet in a virtual setting every week to discuss issues which affect education in South Africa.</span></span></h3><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">During the preceding week, prospective participants can vote on their choice of topic by registering their vote. The vote is quick, simple and anonymous. Voting closes at 19h30 each Monday evening and the chat begins at 20h30 sharp. Participants use the hashtag #edchatsa to keep their tweets in the chat and allow others to follow the conversation. <br /><br />The chat is moderated to ensure that participants keep on the topic, that there is some continuity throughout the hour and that courtesy and respect is maintained. At times the debate is fierce and a wide variety of opinions is expressed – this makes for lively discussion!</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It is important to realise that the #edchatsa conversation continues throughout the week as folks tag relevant tweets with #edchatsa. However it is on a Monday evening that the community gathers for conversation.”</span> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">  </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Vote for next week’s topic <br /><br /></span></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Past chats have included a lively discussion on ‘Assessment’, a discussion around 'Which piece of technology could influence SA education the most' and a debate entitled ‘Mobile phones in the classroom are a good idea but create more practical problems than solutions’. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This coming Monday night 7th April should be great:<br /><span style="font-size: large;"> <br />"We will be doing something a little different this coming week – we will be spending the #edchatsa hour sharing resources and ideas. Come along with your list of indispensable websites, journals, books, blogs and be ready to share with the community</span>."</span> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Forum </b></span><br /><br />The site includes a </span><span style="font-size: small;">forum for discussion: “The #edchatsa twitter community is full of insightful, committed and innovative thought-leaders in the South African education space. As a member of this community you are invited to submit a blog post on a subject close to your heart as long as it has connection to education. Your post will then be published and will be available on this site for comment by others.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />You may want to introduce readers to a particular edtech tool, open debate around a particular topic, challenge paradigms or simply add insight to the #edchatsa topic of the week. You will also be able to point readers to your own blog or social media platforms”  </span><span style="font-size: small;">(taken from the website).</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Join the discussion</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So why not take a look around the <a href="http://www.edchatsa.co.za/" target="_blank">website</a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/edchatsa" target="_blank">Facebook pag</a>e, and join the chatter from <i><b>20h30 to 21h30 each Monday evening</b></i>.on <b>#edchatsa</b>?</span> </div></div>

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Now And Then

For 14 years, my life remained much the same. Roots sank in it; moss gathered on it; spider webs were woven. It was a good life. I loved it. I miss it, though it was perhaps beginning to drive me a bit mad. The change was both a gain and a loss.<br /><br />On Maundy Thursday, for those many years, I officiated at the Maundy Thursday rituals. There was a footwashing done with genuine love and reverence. Another worship leader and I would wash the feet of the first two people to come forward. I would then sit on a kneeler at the altar rail and watch as person after person received the washing then knelt to do the same for the next person in line – and I knew them all, knew their stories and where they came from, knew their faults, foibles, and nobilities – and I sometimes wept to see the beauty of their humility and vulnerability in this discomfiting ceremony. <br /><br />Then we would adjourn to candle lit tables laid cruciform in the darkened fellowship hall. It was a simple Agape meal of dried fruit, cheese, olives, and bread. We ate slowly, deliberately, mindfully, in almost total silence. Any transaction that could be done by gesture was done so. Words were minimal and softly spoken. Periodically, I would read a prayer from the first centuries of the church or the Celtic tradition. <br /><br />When the meal ended, we walked in silence back to the church and celebrated the Holy Eucharist, then stripped the altar, in a solemn process that culminated in Zen mindfulness as the altar was ceremonially wiped down stroke by deliberate stroke. And, yes, people wept to see the sanctuary emptied of God. The sacrament was carried to a Gethsemane Garden where we sat in one hour prayer shifts through the night. The gardeners had turned the room into a veritable jungle, with a couple of chairs, some zafus (meditation cushions), a Zen meditation bench, a pre dieu, and tables strewn with Bibles, prayer books, and meditations from great spiritual writers of the centuries. <br /><br />I oversaw the process, occasionally napping in the library, taking my turn in Gethsemane at times, but mostly just being there – and sometimes talking with people before or after their prayer shift, as we sat in rocking chairs on the lighted porch. Crickets chirped. The night sounds of the Southeastern rainforest were our chorus. I knew those people more deeply than I had ever known anyone, and was better known by them – I had been opening my heart in front of them each Sunday for years. They knew me.<br /><br />So the night passed until 9 o’clock, the hour of the crucifixion, on Good Friday morning. I entered the Gethsemane room and in silence removed the sacrament followed by the last shift of watchers. A few others would have gathered in the church to meet us. We prayed the solemn collects, then the Our Father, and as we stood in a close circle around the altar, we passed the bread and wine in silence until it was gone. I extinguished the sanctuary light and said “It is finished” then laid the chalice on its side and we all left without a word. <br /><br />It has been five years since I last experienced Holy Week in the way that had become so much a part of my very identity. Holy Week, for me, is altogether different now. On the morning of this Maundy Thursday, I went to Christ Church, Las Vegas to bless the chrism which will be used in all our churches for all Baptisms this coming year. It is a simple service. There were only 14 of us. But there is no more important liturgical act in the Church Year. So a few people gather to make it happen for the sake of thousands who probably have no idea it is being done, no idea how the oil of Baptism comes to be.<br /><br />The holy oil is then poured into small bottles, one for each church. I snagged three of them to deliver this weekend, and off I drove as I have done each year since moving back West. I did not drive through a rainforest but through the High Desert of the Great Basin – this place 19th century maps called “The Unknown Country” or “The Mystery Land.” <br /><br />In Southern Nevada, it is Springtime, which means what people from cooler climes would call heat – that degree of warmth which still feels good on your skin, but warns you the place will be an oven soon. The skies are clearer than clear, and as I drove past Nellis and Creech Air Force Bases, there were white jet trails in the blue.<br /><br />In Tonopah, I stopped for the only defensible cup of coffee between Vegas and Fallon, the only genuinely good cup of coffee between Vegas and Fernley (or Carson depending on which way one goes) – a coffee bar in the back of a turquoise and silver jewelry store – but it was closed again. They are artists, not entrepreneurs, not profit-driven, and therefore not reliable. In Tonopah, the warm radiance of Southern Nevada was gone. It was distinctly cold, and the wind blew the cold into me.<br /><br />Past Tonopah, the sky turned grey with drifting clouds making the light itself seem to blow about in the wind. The wind picked up. Then it picked up the earth. And south of Mina I was driving through a thick dust storm. The dust had settled back to earth well before Walker Lake, but as I came to the Lake, the snow began to fall, blowing diagonally, and sometimes sideways in the wind. Not far past the northern shore, the snow stopped. Is it meteorologically possible to have lake effect snow in a desert?<br /><br />At Shurz, I stopped for gasoline and pipe tobacco. I am particularly fond of the general store there. Also stopping helps me keep my speed down – a good idea while driving through the Walker Lake Reservation. <br /><br />By Fallon, it was still chilly, but the sun was shining again, golden light on the fields and the horses. There are two particular garden spots in Nevada. I may be slighting somewhere along the Humboldt River. But the two sometimes green places I love best are around Lake Lahontan in the West and the Pahranagat Valley in the East. Fallon on Maundy Thursday was as lovely as I’ve ever seen it.<br /><br />Then it was on to Fernley, where the hills become huge and rolling. Back East, they’d call them mountains. It was dusk, deep dusk, and the hills felt welcoming, reassuring. By Reno, it was darkest night in a city that has its share of neon. But on this night, the neon was shining through swirling snow. It was not a snow to pile up on roads and be dangerous. It was instead a snow that blocks vision with its whiteness and spins the mind in the paradox that it is the bright snow and not the dark night that obscures. <br /><br />But as I was driving through the dusk and the night, people in parishes, large and small, were ceremonially emptying their churches of God, and keeping vigil in one hour shifts, watching and waiting, hoping and praying. Some of them were at St. Paul’s, Sparks. This morning I saw Fr. Kirk, bedraggled from his 2 hour of sleep night, just as I was in the years gone by.<br /><br />This Good Friday night found me sitting in the pews at St. Paul’s. I was not on duty. I was there at the invitation of the Reno-Sparks Youth Group. They were performing the Passion Play for the Good Friday service. St. Paul’s does liturgy well and this was no exception. The Youth Group with painted faces mimed the Passion in a powerful and evocative presentation. We venerated the cross. We sang “Were You There?” I feel more now than I did in the Georgia days my dependence on the cross. I laid many a sin and many a desperate plea on the cross back then. But now I know a hundred times more surely than I did then that my very life depends on the merciful love God spent there in 30 A.D. and spends there today. It was good to be in a parish, good to sit in the pews, good to be the follower. I am grateful to St. Paul’s for giving me a few moments of the spirituality I lost five years ago.<br /><br />So am I regretting this change in my life? Not an iota. I love this place, I love these people, and I love what I do. The life I left behind – well “I had stayed too long at the fair” already. But to be part of a parish tonight was a precious gift. Thank you, St. Paul’s – especially the Youth Group for taking me in – at this time of year when I am apt to feel particularly alone in our beautiful, fierce landscape.

Now And Then

For 14 years, my life remained much the same. Roots sank in it; moss gathered on it; spider webs were woven. It was a good life. I loved it....

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THE CROWN Part 5

<br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6896989063397229776" name="The_World_Reign_of_the_Crown_-_1815-1946"><b><span style="font-family: "Elephant","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGGhXmIAIgYXZY8Tx6Q0i02t_TkxRQiF-9P7RjV2JY4ThLqCveZEB-MIFsay3Kxtk4hvKEOLvLjTdqg4qx7GL9yslJ85UjxGhnf5oX51CjPl3qSJNlMiCPM-qQs3W7Srp1BOxc9jnDB2EH/s1600/5858478_f520.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGGhXmIAIgYXZY8Tx6Q0i02t_TkxRQiF-9P7RjV2JY4ThLqCveZEB-MIFsay3Kxtk4hvKEOLvLjTdqg4qx7GL9yslJ85UjxGhnf5oX51CjPl3qSJNlMiCPM-qQs3W7Srp1BOxc9jnDB2EH/s320/5858478_f520.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Elephant","serif";">Neo-British Empire of the Crown -- 500 Year Chronology</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">By James Daugherty</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #134f5c; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">HYPOTHESIS OR REALITY? – FOOD FOR THOUGHT</span></b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The World Reign of the Crown - 1815-1946</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1815 Final Britain-led and Bank of England financed victory over Napoleon</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">creates new era called the "Concert of Europe" with Britain as the covert "Conductor". </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6896989063397229776" name="1822_Treaty_of_Verona"></a><a href="http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/verona.htm#Extract%20from%20the%201916%20Congressional%20Record%20Senate"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1822 Treaty of Verona</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">. "High Contracting Parties" of the Holy Alliance. Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Pope Pius VIIth of the Papal States of Italy (and now including France upon which the Holy Alliance had imposed a Bourbon Monarch by force) meet to ratify article Six of the Congress of Vienna that ended the Napoleonic Wars, Agreed to suppress popular government, Freedom of the Press, individual rights, etc. and to restore Monarchy wherever possible. Jesuits, recently reinstituted, to become covert agents in the plot. </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1822 Greeks throw-off rule of the Turk</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> with support of British, French, and Russians. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1823 British recognize independence of South American Republics</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> heavy blow to the Holy Alliance. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">King William IV (1830-1837) starts reign with Second French Revolution</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">which puts the British-linked Duke of Orleans on the throne. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">183l Struggle for reforms in England.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Queen Victoria (1837-l90l). of Hanover, assumes the British Throne.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1839 First War with China.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> British enforce their right to push opium from India in China.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Invasion of Afghanistan by British removes Russian-allied regime.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1842 Afghans revolt and remove British regime, British re-take Kabul.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I845 British defeat Punjab (Sihk) up-rising in India.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1846 Corn laws repealed.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Moneyed Aristocracy of "The City" victorious at the expense of the "landed" Nobility. Rothschild agent Disraeli pretends to support landed gentry in "Young England" movement. Assumes leadership of Tories in great betrayal. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1848 Third French Revolution overturns Orleanist Monarch.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Republic declared. Holy Alliance Thrones of Europe totter under assault revolutionary movements. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chartist up-risings in England fail.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1849 Second revolt in Punjab defeated by British,</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1850's Disraeli raises the "Secret Society Spectre".</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Mysterious ancient, secret societies are blamed for the British (Masonic) destabilization program against Holy Alliance in subtle disinformation campaign. Disraeli pushes "British Israel/Identity" concept with support of Queen Victoria. Postulates Jewish/British Alliance as representing the Biblical Israel. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1851 Louis Napoleon overthrows the Republic and declares self Emperor</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Prime Minister Palmerston dismissed for overt support of Napoleon.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">France back in the Holy Alliance.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1852 Crimean War.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> England, France, and Turkey block Russian advance toward warm water port.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sardenia, under the leadership of the House of Savoy's Victor Emanuel joins the fight against Russia and is rewarded by being made King of Italy with the help of the British.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1856 Second War With China.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> French and British open up additional trading privileges in China by force.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1858 Indian Mutiny suppressed. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">East India Company relieved of its governing role in India. Victoria made Sovereign of India.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1859 Fear of French Invasion leads to formation of large bodies of volunteers.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1861 American Civil War.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> British and Holy Alliance instigated sectional, tariff, and slavery conflict cause war. 500,000 put out of work in British cotton mills. Holy Alliance installs Maximillian in Mexico with French troops.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Britain officially neutral.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Rothschilds leads Holy Alliance to believe Britain supports the South. Britain allows the defeat of Holy Alliance supported South and Maximillian.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1864 Bismark's "Blood and Iron" program</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> launched to unify Germany under Prussian auspices and financed by Rothschild connected Bliechschroeders. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1870 Bismark defeats Napoleon III in Franco-Prussian War. Britain does not intervene.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">France loses remnant of independent power, becomes abject "little partner" of Britain.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">British puppet Victor Emanuel seizes Papal States,</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> making the Pope a virtual prisoner in the Vatican. Holy Alliance in shambles.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1871 Russia breaks previous agreements limiting Black Sea Fleet.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1873 Silver demonetized in America. British Gold Standard sweeps world.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1877 Russo-Turkish War.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Turkey viciously crushes a Christian revolt in the Balkans. Russians invade Turkey. Britain's fleet checks Russian drive for a warm water port.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1878 Treaty of Berlin limits Russian gains at British insistence,</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">British take Cyprus to prevent further Russian advance. British invade Afghanistan to again prevent Russian advance toward India.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1879 Zulus defeated in South Africa.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">British and French take Egypt on collapse of Turkey's power.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1885 Egyptian revolt of the "Mahdi" finally crushed by Lord Kitchener.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1849-1883 Karl Marx uses London as the staging point</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> for promoting violent, utopian communist revolution. In England Marx has little effect. Instead, the Bismark copying Fabian Socialists are successful in seeding the ground for the modern welfare/warfare state.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1884 Fabian Society formed.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1896 Jameson Raid in South Africa.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Cecil Rhodes attempts to foment a British up-rising against the Boers in South Africa. Germany threatens to support the Boers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1890's Britain begins to fear growing power of collectivist-militarist Germany</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> and her demands on world trade and Empire. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">South African gold and diamond magnate,</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Cecuk Rhodes, forms "Round Table" conspiracy to renew idealistic support for "British Imperialism". </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Americans embark on Imperialism guided by Britain.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> McKinley/Theodore Roosevelt take Cuba and Philipines from Catholic Spain. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1899 British defeat Boers in Boer War.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Boers armed by Germany. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Milner's Kindergarten reconstructs South Africa</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> with diamond/gold monopoly securely in British control Diplomacy yields Boer support for Britain in future conflicts with Germany. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">King Edward VII (1901-1910)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1902 Britain allies with Japan for protection of Far East Empire and to limit Russia's Far East expansion.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1904 Japanese defeat Russians in Far East.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Concurrently, British connected Anarchist/Nihilist movement destabilizes Czarist regime in Russia. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1910-1913 Germany fails to accede to the British demand that she limit her Navy</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">King George V (1910-1936)</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1913 Col. House with Fabian and "Round Table" connections</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">guides Wilson Administration in preparing America for war in support of Britain: Federal Reserve and Income Tax enacted into law. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1914 Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand starts World War I.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">France, Russia, Italy, America, and Japan line-up under British guidance to check German/Austrian/Turkish domination of Europe.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1917 Balfour Declaration on Jewish Homeland gains Jewish support</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">for war efforts and sows the seeds for Middle East "balance of power" card. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1917 Bolshevik Revolution takes Russia out of the war.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Germans had transported Lenin in Russia in a sealed train. Anglo-Americans fall all over themselves to get their agent Trotsky into the act. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Anglophile Wilson/House cabal manipulate United States entry to WWI. </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1918 Germans defeated.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> In spite of deafening British propaganda campaign, America refuses to join the League of Nations. Federal Reserve joins Bank for International Settlements anyway, using private bankers as representatives. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">British refer to the League of Nations in religious tones</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> as the "Covenant" taking advantage of centuries of "British Israel" propaganda . </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Arabs liberated from the remainder of the Turkish Empire.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Britain's Lawrence of Arabia wins support of Arabs in spite of the hated Balfour Declaration. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1922 Turkey defeats advance of Greeks.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Modern Turkey, minus Empire and Sultan, is formed under Kemal.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1924 British attempt to return to the gold standard at the pre-war rate.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Press Federal Reserve to support the pound by inflating the dollar. Leads to l920's stock market boom and l929 crash followed by world depression.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Italians, betrayed by British at WWI "Peace Conference" turn to Musolini who restores the status of the Vatican.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Vatican sees the world depression as its chance to smash the hated British monopoly capitalism and its usurous "Jewish Financiers."</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Catholic Church embarks upon a project of rebuilding the "continental" powers under the banner of fascism, what it sees as a modernised format for feudalism. The Catholic Church cautiously revives anti-Semitism. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Father Coughlin is assigned the fascist campaign in America</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> building on Church support for the UAW in Michigan. Promotes alliance with Italy and Germany to break the back of Britain's Jewish Financiers. Coughlin fails and is denied by his Church superiors. British retain control of America through Anglophile Franklin Roosevelt. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The British Israel World Federation now claims today's Jews are not part of Biblical "Israel", being "Khazars", rather than real Israelites</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">. Now British Israel provides anti-Semitic competition to the Catholic fascist campaign. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">British use these and similar tactics to attempt to seize control of "continental" fascist movements. They succeed with Hitler.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">l933 Hitler comes to power in Germany.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Catholic Center Party gives way in spite of pro-British views expressed in Mein Kampf. Hitler, springing from British connected, pagan Secret Societies, seeks to divide the world with Britain. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">l938 Britain's "Round Tablers" and "Cliveden Set"</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">orchestrate initial appeasement of Hitler, encouraging his lunge Eastward.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ex-British ally, Japan, runs amok in the Far East.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">l94O Hitler-Stalin Pact. Partition of Poland</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">. Cliveden Set strategy temporarily thwarted.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hitler invades west scaring Britain to death.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> However, he still hopes for a settlement with Britain and spares Britain's army at Dunkirk. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cliveden tool, Winston Churchill, put in power.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">l94l Hitler influenced to attack Russia.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">....doomed Hitler to defeat. US enters European war after "inviting" Pearl Harbor attack. US finishes-off Britain's Frankenstien monster of the Pacific, Japan, with the A-Bomb.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">United Nations formed to put a happy face on the Neo-British Empire conquest of the world.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div>

THE CROWN Part 5

Neo-British Empire of the Crown -- 500 Year Chronology By James Daugherty HYPOTHESIS OR REALITY? – FOOD FOR THOUGHT The World Reign of the C...

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Making a comeback

I'm stealing this idea from <a href="http://theantijared.com/2012/04/day-6-the-comeback.html" target="_blank">Tony</a>. Good ideas are worth stealing, right?<br /><br />I've been gone for far too long. I've been immersed with post-stroke sister issues and job pressures and marital problems. Somewhere along the line, I lost myself. Everyone and everything else in my life has been more important than me. I miss me. I know that sounds silly, but honestly, I often feel surreal, like I'm watching my life go by, standing on the sidelines, but I'm not in my life. Does that make any sense? Re-reading that sentence makes me sound a tad bit crazy. Perhaps I am. <br /><br />I want my life back and the only way I know to do it is to take it back. Go back to doing the things I enjoy, back to doing things that are good for me. Perhaps that makes me selfish and self-centered, but I want to enjoy life. As far as I know, this is the only life I'll have on this earth. I don't want to waste it with worry and stress and misery. I want to laugh, to be happy, and to enjoy every minute. <br /><br />What makes me happy? One thing is that I like blogging. I like reading other blogs about people like me, that struggle with their weight, and figure out ways to fight it. I like leaving little comments on their blogs. Therefore, taking the idea from Tony, I'm committing to 90 days of blogging. This is day one.<br /><br />I wish I'd weighed this morning, but I didn't. So I'll go with yesterday's weight. 195.6. It's scary close to 200 pounds. I could be there by Monday if I don't do something drastic.<br /><br />My plan for the weekend is a visit to Weight Watchers, and the gym Saturday and Sunday. Of course there's a sister visit in there too, probably on Sunday. I promised to take her to a movie, I'm thinking Titanic in 3D, but I'm not sure. I remember that movie made me cry my eyes out at the end, but it was/is a good movie. And I'm sort of in love with the new 3D stuff. <br /><br />I received the May issue of the Weight Watcher magazine in the mail last night. I forgot I'd sent in for my free subscription. I had purchased a Weight Watcher cookbook  in 2010, and it came with a coupon for a free year of the Weight Watcher magazine. I sent it out in the mail two weeks before it expired back in December. Getting it in the mail last night triggered a feeling of "I've got to do something about my weight, and do it right now!".<br /><br />So I'm back, and I'm making a comeback too. I'll be back every day for the next 90 days (probably more), come rain or shine, come stress on top of stress, no excuses, I'll be here. I'll be reading your blogs again. I'll even leave comments! I already feel happier.

Making a comeback

I'm stealing this idea from Tony . Good ideas are worth stealing, right? I've been gone for far too long. I've been immersed wit...

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Lesotho’s teachers bridging digital divide at the Lesotho PIL Forum finals

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Recently Lesotho also held their Partners in Learning Forum, and since SchoolNet partnered with Microsoft in organising this event as well, I am adding a press release of their finals. It is always interesting to read about the types of projects that teachers enter for these competitions. (Unfortunately no photos have been provided.) Furtherdown, in another post you can read about the very recent <a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2012/04/tech-savvy-teachers-shine-in-durban-at.html" target="_blank">South African finals</a> of this competition. </i></span><br /><i> </i> <br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Maseru, Lesotho – 15 March 2012 – </i>Teachers in the tiny mountain kingdom of Lesotho are overcoming massive resource shortages in their schools by finding innovative ways of using technology to improve teaching and learning outcomes. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Just ask Lucille Kabelo Mahlatsi of Leqele High School who walked away with top honours at the Lesotho leg of Microsoft’s Partners in Learning Awards in Maseru with a project called “Literature at our fingertips”. In this project learners became familiar with the language and background of Shakespearian play “Julius Caesar” through a number of activities. One group of artists created portraits of complex scenes from the play. The researcher group compared Julius Caesar and Moshoeshoe. The third group conducted a debate and the fourth group modernized and simplified the play whilst the actor group performed the play and made a video of this. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Khutlang Leshuta from Tsolo Government Primary was one of 12 finalists at the awards, which are sponsored by Microsoft, the Lesotho College of Education and the Lesotho School Technology Innovation Centre in an attempt to stimulate the use of technology in schools. He will represent Lesotho the regional finals of the competition in Morocco in June as the second place winner. His learners investigated the causes of juvenile delinquency by interviewing street children, probation officers, chief, parents, and Juvenile Training Centre officers. Learners then gave their suggestions for combatting juvenile delinquency and these contributions were forwarded to the Tony Pandy College in Wales where the lifestyles of street children are being investigated. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Although the majority of Lesotho’s citizens have little or no access to technology, the quality of the entries demonstrated that even the slightest change in how teachers use the technology tools they already have – like a cell phone or laptop – can impact the way teachers teach and learners learn,” said Microsoft South Africa’s Education Lead, Reza Bardien. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Emmanuel Ekoe Gyasi from Phethahatso English Medium Community School won third place at the Awards. In his project learners investigated soil as a habitat whilst creating an AutoCollage and Photostory to demonstrate what they have learnt. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“My learners were so excited about having an opportunity to make a movie of Julius Caesar rather than just reading the play. They were able to relate to the story by comparing Caesar to one of their own past leaders, Moshoeshoe” says Mahlatsi. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Partners in Learning not only recognises innovative teachers who are using technology to enhance learning. It also offers a platform for teachers to network and share their ideas and projects with peers on a national, regional and global scale. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A 2011 Microsoft-commissioned Innovative Teaching and Learning study revealed that sharing new teaching methods as part of professional development is most effective when the sharing is direct and active, which makes the Partners in Learning Forum “such a brilliant platform”, said Bardien. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dr John Oliphant, Rector of Lesotho College of Education echoes this: “Each year the Forum recognises our most innovative teachers at this occasion and we are proud to have them represent Lesotho education and share their ideas and projects with peers on a global scale.” </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>2012 Lesotho Partners in Learning Forum – Project Overviews</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span> </div><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="226"><span style="font-size: small;">Khutlang Leshuta<br />Tsolo Government Primary</span></td> <td valign="top" width="544"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Juvenile Delinquency</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">In this project, learners investigated the causes of juvenile delinquency by interviewing street children, probation officers, chief, parents, and Juvenile Training Centre officers. Learners then gave their suggestions for combatting juvenile delinquency and these contributions were forwarded to the Tony Pandy College in Wales where the lifestyles of street children are being investigated. </span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="226"><span style="font-size: small;">Emmanuel Ekoe Gyasi<br />Phethahatso English Medium Community School</span></td> <td valign="top" width="544"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Our Soil, Our Soul </b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">In this project learners investigated soil as a habitat whilst also creating an Auto Collage and Photostory to demonstrate what they have learnt. Different learners played different roles in this project – for example being planners, problem-solvers or programmers. The learners were especially concerned about the dongas near their school and asked the village chief to address a school assembly about this topic.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="226"><span style="font-size: small;">Moeketsi Hlazi<br />Lebohang Leketa<br />Masite Primary School and <br />Theressa James</span></td> <td valign="top" width="544"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>I do and I understand</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">An old Chinese adage says “I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; but I do and I understand”. In this project, teachers from neighbouring schools collaborated to improve Maths, Science and English results through a series of hands-on activities including building houses out of boxes and electrifying these models. Learners are also working together to produce a school magazine on a DVD. </span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="226"><span style="font-size: small;">Makhahiso Kanetsi<br />Thetsane High School</span></td> <td valign="top" width="544"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Conserving Water</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">This project is about affordable methods of saving water including using less water per toilet flush; designing a simple purifying system and replacing tress which use too much water. Learners have gathered information about these methods of saving water through research and have shared their findings at parent meetings and through brochures. They have also collaborated with the school bursar and Minister of Agriculture.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="226"><span style="font-size: small;">Makara ‘Maabiele<br />Thetsane High School</span></td> <td valign="top" width="544"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>From trash to treasure</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">In order to reduce littering and the burning of waste, learners aimed to educate their communities about managing litter effectively. They have done this though a range of activities including making and distributing pamphlets, showing people how to sort waste, and learning more about bio-gas production.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="226"><span style="font-size: small;">Lucille Kabelo Mahlatsi<br />Leqele High School</span></td> <td valign="top" width="544"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Literature at our fingertips</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">In this project learners became familiar with the language and background of Shakespearian play “Julius Caesar” through a number of activities. One group of artists created portraits of complex scenes from the play. The researcher group compared Julius Caesar and Moshoeshoe. The third group conducted a debate and the fourth group modernized and simplified the play whilst the actor group performed the play.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="226"><span style="font-size: small;">Mapalesa Bridget Maimane<br />Thetsane High School</span></td> <td valign="top" width="544"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>An African Mosotho Child versus Development</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">At initiation school, Mosotho children learn traditional values and respect, yet drug abuse, prostitution, Aids and suicide continue to plague communities in Lesotho. In this project, learners research these topics to establish whether these phenomena occur in other communities. The learners also network with other learners to find ways of overcoming a range of community problems.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="226"><span style="font-size: small;">Mathaabe Majara<br />Thetsane High School</span></td> <td valign="top" width="544"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Turning a lemon into lemonade</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">The community in which this school is situated is littered with many plastic bags. The learners sought to overcome this problem by finding useful items that could be made from the litter. The learners visited villagers who make plastic products as well as craft industries. Here they took photos and honed their communication skills by conducting interviews. </span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="226"><span style="font-size: small;">Relebohile Mosoloane<br />Thuto ICT Club</span></td> <td valign="top" width="544"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Thuto ICT Club</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">The Thuto ICT Club was formed by the Basotho Youth in 2011 in the Maseru District. The club currently has thirty nine members who aim to develop and use ICT skills for planning and helping community and rural schools. Club members enjoy sharing their experiences through social networking and participate in field trips and community projects. </span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="226"><span style="font-size: small;">Sekhobo Motlohi<br />Mamotlohi Matholi<br />Thuto-ke-leseli and Toloane Primary school</span></td> <td valign="top" width="544"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Bad Dirt</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">In this project, learners from two schools collaborated to find out the causes of pollution in their area and to find ways of addressing this. Activities included poetry and song competitions and debate. In addition to raising awareness of the community about the causes and effects of water pollution, the project encouraged teamwork between learners and teachers of a range of subjects. </span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="226"><span style="font-size: small;">Mpho Phakisi<br />Phethahatso English Medium Community School</span></td> <td valign="top" width="544"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Not just adults - but also children</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">In this project learners researched the topic of human trafficking and collaborated with Freedom Link and the Child Protection Unit to raise awareness through a fun walk. Some of the tasks undertaken as part of this project included designing a poster, developing a questionnaire, conducting interviews and sharing findings using Facebook.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="226"><span style="font-size: small;">Thabiso Shobane<br />Mokhokhong Primary School</span></td> <td valign="top" width="544"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Clay: A means to an end</b></span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">This school lacks adequate learning materials and teaching aids as these are expensive. To overcome this challenge learners have modelled teaching resources out of clay – for example three dimensional shapes and figurines of animals. Photographs of these shapes have been included in PowerPoint presentations. Learners have also interviewed a traditional potter and recorded the interview using cell phones and digital cameras.</span> </td></tr></tbody></table></div>

Microsoft Lesotho’s teachers bridging digital divide at the Lesotho PIL Forum finals

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treat yourself friday

I try to do a little something fun for myself on Fridays - get a tea at Starbucks, buy a new magazine, etc. (I know, I live on the edge.)<br /><br />One of my favorite things to do is get my nails done. However, I often find myself without the time to go to the nail salon, aka 'mommy's special place'. And as a result, I have more bottles of nail polish at home than I care to count.<br /><br />Last Friday I was feeling particularly cheap but still wanted my Friday treat, so I picked up a bottle of Sinful Colors at Target for $1.99. Can't get any cheaper than that.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRg3Cgd5QtZXSl5wcHsV19ZKLPsLmCWAVR0T6B_OEzra08dKg4CRk-PwLANA5Srrh-CCkyjxmiC9UaWeIfOrsjxjhapSgv1MYjoKKbK2Eec6VVFaEhlqlQ5-3UFz-t3JDwQYekPg1Ws3V5/s1600/09950000067_220x220_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRg3Cgd5QtZXSl5wcHsV19ZKLPsLmCWAVR0T6B_OEzra08dKg4CRk-PwLANA5Srrh-CCkyjxmiC9UaWeIfOrsjxjhapSgv1MYjoKKbK2Eec6VVFaEhlqlQ5-3UFz-t3JDwQYekPg1Ws3V5/s200/09950000067_220x220_a.jpeg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgioA4p1VZFZxGNNlI_LG6xQfz15v8D7UrWaWweY0Aj6ovoU5Rv12UOMgiye6GF2Yjs7v9HZxxdby189aCzpQ8qpOXq7QspU5gn2SI6N2b-7Rle3CFl0o8PrjE6rNt6ewHlNYQ5rPxLjF6u/s1600/09950000045_220x220_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgioA4p1VZFZxGNNlI_LG6xQfz15v8D7UrWaWweY0Aj6ovoU5Rv12UOMgiye6GF2Yjs7v9HZxxdby189aCzpQ8qpOXq7QspU5gn2SI6N2b-7Rle3CFl0o8PrjE6rNt6ewHlNYQ5rPxLjF6u/s200/09950000045_220x220_a.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-miKtIKAAqcgS60fL3SJ0n3EYJZioi7F1V25A77C_I6bBqgWwFANs1nG3XERKd7FgNDjxMzY7YF4LboQ3EtVXpwwfA4Taev-JQht9__3-L9P-m2cNclmOFSGrGVmfJHksWmV9nA3z0_VC/s1600/09460000005_220x220_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-miKtIKAAqcgS60fL3SJ0n3EYJZioi7F1V25A77C_I6bBqgWwFANs1nG3XERKd7FgNDjxMzY7YF4LboQ3EtVXpwwfA4Taev-JQht9__3-L9P-m2cNclmOFSGrGVmfJHksWmV9nA3z0_VC/s200/09460000005_220x220_a.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisw95PXasTiCaRecGEeuWEfgbi2bAfYtq0eJL1sf4mRk84WDYgy6DmbQ_X1paGf6_rx0w8ARW7D5IjbEhFAm_H8S6O4WVk2bvdl1VKZj3Q1VCxEczjDeN8RcBibLKAo7jTjBlW135zqCsF/s1600/09950000038_220x220_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisw95PXasTiCaRecGEeuWEfgbi2bAfYtq0eJL1sf4mRk84WDYgy6DmbQ_X1paGf6_rx0w8ARW7D5IjbEhFAm_H8S6O4WVk2bvdl1VKZj3Q1VCxEczjDeN8RcBibLKAo7jTjBlW135zqCsF/s200/09950000038_220x220_a.jpeg" width="200" /></a><br /><br /><br />Turns out this is the BEST nail polish I've ever used (with the exception of my Chanel). This stuff stays on longer than a RHOOC marathon. No chipping. Bright colors. So much fun.<br /><br />Treat yourself this Friday and pick some up.

treat yourself friday

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INTEL OUTSOURCING

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">WAS STRATFOR SEIN WILL</span></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span> </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Via Civitas Libertatis</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmkLm9C7E8sQN32E808xD0hLTviDBO4uEEvMpBEN76UV05Mvtya5u0sIBZkaK6k-MEpwa08zF58mx4AQfBac9uyAHSECO9_B8_j8Ca1nq5IhgPJIWvppgnzByN1E3dkzZo1g_bFYPlomi1/s1600/intelligence_gathering.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmkLm9C7E8sQN32E808xD0hLTviDBO4uEEvMpBEN76UV05Mvtya5u0sIBZkaK6k-MEpwa08zF58mx4AQfBac9uyAHSECO9_B8_j8Ca1nq5IhgPJIWvppgnzByN1E3dkzZo1g_bFYPlomi1/s320/intelligence_gathering.png" width="249" /></a></div><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Der neueste Coup der Enthüllungsplattform WikiLeaks richtet sich gegen den privaten US-Geheimdienst Stratfor. So sollen in den kommenden Wochen und Monaten 5,5 Mio. E-Mails veröffentlicht werden, von denen </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://wikileaks.org/the-gifiles.html" target="_blank"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue;">die ersten bereits zugänglich</span></a></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> sind.  Was genau die Aufgabenfelder dieser Firma sind, wird in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/84934_re-the-business-of-stratfor-.html" target="_blank"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue;">einer der erbeuteten Mails</span></a></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> mit einer unüberhörbaren Freude an den wilden Spekulationen umrissen:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The media refers to us as a think tank, a political risk consultancy, a security company and worse–academics. The Russian media calls us part of the CIA. Arab countries say we are Israelis. It’s wild. The only things we haven’t been called is a hardware store or Druids.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Stratfor, so wird in dem Dokument erklärt, sammelt mit Geheimdienstmethoden Informationen, um sie zahlenden Kunden zu verkaufen. Dabei liegt der Schwerpunkt auf geopolitischen Analysen. Zusammenfassend heißt das:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">So think of us as a publishing company that produces news using  intelligence rather than journalistic methods.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dass Stratfor sich in Konkurrenz zu den staatlichen Geheimdiensten sieht, insbesondere dem Auslandsgeheimdienst CIA, kommt mit der firmeneigenen gepflegten Selbstgewissheit in einer </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/3438302_fw-cia-head-of-analysis-fired-.html" target="_blank"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue;">anderen Mail</span></a></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">  aus dem Jahr 2004 zum Ausdruck. Dort freut sich CEO George Friedman über die Entlassung von Jamie Miscik, die Deputy Director of Intelligence bei der CIA war. Sie sei gefeuert worden, weil sie den Wald vor lauter Bäumen nicht gesehen habe. Soll heißen, sie habe zu viel Mühe darauf verwendet, Informationen über Politiker zu sammeln anstatt die umfassenden Entwicklungen zu erfassen. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Friedman sieht die Stunde von Stratfor gekommen, denn was die CIA nicht kann, das könne seine Firma den großen Konkurrenten lehren.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The CIA model of analysis has been invalidated. The ponderous, process driven machine that could only manage the small things now needs to be replaced by a robust, visionary, courageous analytic system. Stratfor has the opportunity to show the way. In fact, we are showing the way. Everyone in Langley knows that we do things they have never been able to do with a small fraction of their resources. They have always asked how we did it. We can now show them and maybe they can learn.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Verweisend auf den umstrittenen CIA-Chef der 50er Jahre </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Welsh_Dulles#CIA" target="_blank"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue;">Allen Dulles</span></a></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> betont Friedman, dass geheimdienstliche Maßnahmen ein Handwerk, keine Massenproduktion seien. Und dieses Handwerk habe die CIA verlernt, so dass Stratfor nun bereit sei, zugleich Geheimdienstgeschichte zu schreiben und ein wichtiges Geschäftsmodell zu etablieren.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dieser kleine Einblick in das Selbstverständnis der Firma Stratfor lässt den Schluss zu, dass die Privatisierung von Geschäftsfeldern, die sich bisher in staatlicher Hand befanden, z.B. milit</span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ä</span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">rische</span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Aufgaben </span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">, nun verstärkt auf den Tätigkeitsbereich von Geheimdiensten übergreift. Umso spannender werden die Veröffentlichungen sein, die uns WikiLeaks präsentieren wird.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

INTEL OUTSOURCING

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THE CROWN Part 4

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src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi25PVnXY7LHDyCrvHG3tYuMcN_QdCcP9nFqsKvHE5-8niH9SfRkvLpIs3Rynv0XRqo5MFpaNow0EBrVk8wsx6T3oZJTxyIMCLVC3SCgf2uiNQDku6cL0Tr5H3kgdm_Abr7qcQ5LSwRp9pu/s1600/220px-ImperialCrownOfIndia2.jpg" /></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Elephant","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Elephant","serif";">Neo-British Empire of the Crown -- 500 Year Chronology</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By James Daugherty</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0c343d; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">HYPOTHESIS OR REALITY? – FOOD FOR THOUGHT</span></b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><b><span style="background: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-highlight: red;"><br /></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Drive for World Domination - 1694 to 1815.</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Queen Ann 1702-1714,</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> a non-Catholic Stuart, fights War of Spanish Succession to oppose French claim to the Spanish Throne. England leads Holland, Hanover, Prussia, and Austria against France. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1707 Scotland united to England.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1703 General Marlborough,</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> after many victories, is ready to march on Paris to install a Constitutional Monarchy on the British Model. Support for war wanes. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1713 Peace of Utrech</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> gives Britain tremendous commercial and colonial gains at the expense of France.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">King George I (1714-172), of Hanover, assumes British Throne</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">when Stuarts refuse to convert to Protestantism. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1715 Stuart-Catholic rebellion crushed.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1717 Masons purged of Stuart-Catholic influences</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> which had temporarily gained influence for the "Jacobite" cause. Masonry established as a covert intelligence agency with its familiar occult "cover". </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Triple Alliance against Spain to secure succession Hanover to the British Throne</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> and the House of Orleans to the French Throne should Louis XV die. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1718 Quadruple alliance vs. Spain to uphold the Treaty cf Utrecht.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">King George II (1727-1760), of Hanover, fights War of Austrian Succession (1743-1748), </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">lining-up England with Hanover against France, Prussia, and Bavaria.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1745 Jacobite (Stuart) rebellion in Scotland crushed.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1748 Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Prussia's Frederick the Great allowed to keep Austria's Silesia. France recognizes Hanoverian succession in England.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1756 Seven Years War.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Austria lines-up France, Russia, and Saxony to recover Silesia from Prussia. Balance of power geopolitics dictate that England support Prussia's Frederick the Great.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Note:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> "Co-incidentally" Frederick develops an interest in Britain's "Speculative Masonry". Later Frederick is rumored to have been a member or even leader of the Illuminati.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1759 British, with capture of Quebec, end French Empire in NorthAmerica.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1760 Britain drives French out of India, achieves superiority.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">King George III (1760-1820), of Hanover, assumes the British Throne.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1763 First Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years War.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Vast British gains ratified.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1764 Quarrel with American Colonists begin.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1776 Weishaupt's Illuminati formed. American Declaration of Independence.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Britain puts up token resistance to "American Revolution"</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">while fighting a World War against Russia, France, Holland, French Canadians, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, and Prussia: The League of Armed Neutrality.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1781 British momentarily lose control of the sea to the French</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">which requires Cornwallis to surrender at Yorktown. According to British historians "this provides the new nation at its birth with a myth to sustain it." (!!!)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Masons install Constitutional Government in America with "checks and balances"</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> designed to make it permanently subservient to the Money Power of the Bank of England and its agents: Peabody, Morgan, Brown, Belmont, etc. America becomes "covert" colony of Britain. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1789 Illuninist/Masonic forces</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> with Prussian support and complicit Orleanists bring down the French Monarchy for the benefit of Britain. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1792 Austria and Prussia invade France</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> to restore order at the invitation of Bourbons. Enraged mobs massacre Royalty and Nobility. Louis XVI taken prisoner.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1793 War with the French Republic.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> England against France, Holland, and Spain.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1795 England cracks down on Jacobin extremists in England to safeguard the throne. </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1798 First War with Napoleon Bonaparte.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: center 3.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1802 Peace of Aniens<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">                </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span>                          </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1805 Second War with Napoleon.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> England supports Austria, Russia, and Spain against France.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">King George IV (1820-1830), of Hanover, assumes British Throne.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1814 Napoleon retires in defeat to Elba.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1815 Napoleon escapes from Elba,</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> raises an army, but is defeated at Waterloo. Britain's power enormous world-wide.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1815 Holy Alliance formed.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Pope, Austria, Russia, Prussia, and Spain to stamp-out democracy and individual rights. Britain refuses to join. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Britain refuses to abandon its main weapon, "world revolution", conducted under the color of liberty, in its war with its major competing "international power organism" the Vatican's Catholic Church (and to a lesser extent, the Czar's Orthodox Church). </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rothschilds and other "continental" Bankers rewarded for their financial services to the "Crown" with positions in "the City".</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Rothschilds helped the Elector of Hesse hide his enormous wealth from Napoleon. House of Hesse related/allied to House of Hanover. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>To be continued  </b></span></div>

THE CROWN Part 4

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