Chapter 8
Yes! I like this. I listen to several amateur … I think they are called … podcasts which are on “Inception Radio Network.” I’ve been wanting to set up my own internet radio program. :)
Tools like these are really bringing the cost of living down. So much music is free, so many movies are low cost, etc. I’d like to incorporate this into whatever project I do.
I am also aware that schools makle these available -- often, of course, for free -- which inevitably will have a huge effect on public education K-12 as well as all other sorts of education. Maybe more school districts will feel empowered to go to a 4-day week. :(
Louis J. Sheehan
Monday, July 18, 2011
Sunday, August 29, 2010
details 5590.det.00 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire
Thrasea then consulted his most intimate friends whether he should attempt or spurn defence. Conflicting advice was offered. Those who thought it best for him to enter the Senate house said that they counted confidently on his courage, and were sure that he would say nothing but what would heighten his renown. "It was for the feeble and timid to invest their last moments with secrecy. Let the people behold a man who could meet death. Let the Senate hear words, almost of divine inspiration, more than human. It was possible that the very miracle might impress even a Nero. But should he persist in his cruelty, posterity would at least distinguish between the memory of an honourable death and the cowardice of those who perished in silence."
Those, on the other hand, who thought that he ought to wait at home, though their opinion of him was the same, hinted that mockeries and insults were in store for him. "Spare your ears" they said, "taunts and revilings. Not only are Cossutianus and Eprius eagerly bent on crime; there are numbers more, daring enough, perchance, to raise the hand of violence in their brutality. Even good men through fear do the like. Better save the Senate which you have adorned to the last the infamy of such an outrage, and leave it a matter of doubt what the senators would have decided, had they seen Thrasea on his trial. It is with a vain hope we are aiming to touch Nero with shame for his abominations, and we have far more cause to fear that he will vent his fury on your wife, your household, on all others dear to you. And therefore, while you are yet stainless and undisgraced, seek to close life with the glory of those in whose track and pursuits you have passed it."
Present at this deliberation was Rusticus Arulenus, an enthusiastic youth, who, in his ardour for renown, offered, as he was tribune of the people, to protest against the sentence of the Senate. Thrasea checked his impetuous temper, not wishing him to attempt what would be as futile, and useless to the accused, as it would be fatal to the protester. "My days," he said, "are ended, and I must not now abandon a scheme of life in which for so many years I have persevered. You are at the beginning of a career of office, and your future is yet clear. Weigh thoroughly with yourself beforehand, at such a crisis as this, the path of political life on which you enter." He then reserved for his own consideration the question whether it became him to enter the Senate.
Next day, however, two praetorian cohorts under arms occupied the temple of Venus Genetrix. A group of ordinary citizens with swords which they did not conceal, had blocked the approach to the Senate. Through the squares and colonnades were scattered bodies of soldiers, amid whose looks of menace the senators entered their house. A speech from the emperor was read by his quaestor. Without addressing any one by name, he censured the senators for neglecting their public duties, and drawing by their example the Roman knights into idleness. "For what wonder is it," he asked, "that men do not come from remote provinces when many, after obtaining the consulate or some sacred office, give all their thoughts by choice to the beauty of their gardens?" Here was, so to say, a weapon for the accusers, on which they fastened.
Cossutianus made a beginning, and then Marcellus in more violent tones exclaimed that the whole commonwealth was at stake. "It is," he said, "the stubbornness of inferiors which lessens the clemency of our ruler. We senators have hitherto been too lenient in allowing him to be mocked with impunity by Thrasea throwing off allegiance, by his son-in-law Helvidius Priscus indulging similar frenzies, by Paconius Agrippinus, the inheritor of his father's hatred towards emperors, and by Curtius Montanus, the habitual composer of abominable verses. I miss the presence of an ex-consul in the Senate, of a priest when we offer our vows, of a citizen when we swear obedience, unless indeed, in defiance of the manners and rites of our ancestors, Thrasea has openly assumed the part of a traitor and an enemy. In a word, let the man, wont to act the senator and to screen those who disparage the prince, come among us; let him propose any reform or change he may desire. We shall more readily endure his censure of details than we can now bear the silence by which he condemns everything. Is it the peace throughout the world or victories won without loss to our armies which vex him? A man who grieves at the country's prosperity, who treats our public places, theatres and temples as if they were a desert, and who is ever threatening us with exile, let us not enable such an one to gratify his perverse vanity. To him the decrees of this house, the offices of State, the city of Rome seem as nothing. Let him sever his life from a country all love for which he has long lost and the very sight of which he has now put from him."
Those, on the other hand, who thought that he ought to wait at home, though their opinion of him was the same, hinted that mockeries and insults were in store for him. "Spare your ears" they said, "taunts and revilings. Not only are Cossutianus and Eprius eagerly bent on crime; there are numbers more, daring enough, perchance, to raise the hand of violence in their brutality. Even good men through fear do the like. Better save the Senate which you have adorned to the last the infamy of such an outrage, and leave it a matter of doubt what the senators would have decided, had they seen Thrasea on his trial. It is with a vain hope we are aiming to touch Nero with shame for his abominations, and we have far more cause to fear that he will vent his fury on your wife, your household, on all others dear to you. And therefore, while you are yet stainless and undisgraced, seek to close life with the glory of those in whose track and pursuits you have passed it."
Present at this deliberation was Rusticus Arulenus, an enthusiastic youth, who, in his ardour for renown, offered, as he was tribune of the people, to protest against the sentence of the Senate. Thrasea checked his impetuous temper, not wishing him to attempt what would be as futile, and useless to the accused, as it would be fatal to the protester. "My days," he said, "are ended, and I must not now abandon a scheme of life in which for so many years I have persevered. You are at the beginning of a career of office, and your future is yet clear. Weigh thoroughly with yourself beforehand, at such a crisis as this, the path of political life on which you enter." He then reserved for his own consideration the question whether it became him to enter the Senate.
Next day, however, two praetorian cohorts under arms occupied the temple of Venus Genetrix. A group of ordinary citizens with swords which they did not conceal, had blocked the approach to the Senate. Through the squares and colonnades were scattered bodies of soldiers, amid whose looks of menace the senators entered their house. A speech from the emperor was read by his quaestor. Without addressing any one by name, he censured the senators for neglecting their public duties, and drawing by their example the Roman knights into idleness. "For what wonder is it," he asked, "that men do not come from remote provinces when many, after obtaining the consulate or some sacred office, give all their thoughts by choice to the beauty of their gardens?" Here was, so to say, a weapon for the accusers, on which they fastened.
Cossutianus made a beginning, and then Marcellus in more violent tones exclaimed that the whole commonwealth was at stake. "It is," he said, "the stubbornness of inferiors which lessens the clemency of our ruler. We senators have hitherto been too lenient in allowing him to be mocked with impunity by Thrasea throwing off allegiance, by his son-in-law Helvidius Priscus indulging similar frenzies, by Paconius Agrippinus, the inheritor of his father's hatred towards emperors, and by Curtius Montanus, the habitual composer of abominable verses. I miss the presence of an ex-consul in the Senate, of a priest when we offer our vows, of a citizen when we swear obedience, unless indeed, in defiance of the manners and rites of our ancestors, Thrasea has openly assumed the part of a traitor and an enemy. In a word, let the man, wont to act the senator and to screen those who disparage the prince, come among us; let him propose any reform or change he may desire. We shall more readily endure his censure of details than we can now bear the silence by which he condemns everything. Is it the peace throughout the world or victories won without loss to our armies which vex him? A man who grieves at the country's prosperity, who treats our public places, theatres and temples as if they were a desert, and who is ever threatening us with exile, let us not enable such an one to gratify his perverse vanity. To him the decrees of this house, the offices of State, the city of Rome seem as nothing. Let him sever his life from a country all love for which he has long lost and the very sight of which he has now put from him."
Sunday, August 15, 2010
inveeighed 822.inv.0 Louis j. Sheehan, Esquire
When the sight was over, the outlet of the water was opened. The careless execution of the work was apparent, the tunnel not having been bored down so low as the bottom, or middle of the lake. Consequently after an interval the excavations were deepened, and to attract a crowd once more, a show of gladiators was exhibited, with floating pontoons for an infantry engagement. A banquet too was prepared close to the outflow of the lake, and it was the means of greatly alarming the whole company, for the water, in the violence of its outburst, swept away the adjoining parts, shook the more remote, and spread terror with the tremendous crash. At the same time, Agrippina availed herself of the emperor's fright to charge Narcissus, who had been the agent of the work, with avarice and peculation. He too was not silent, but inveighed against the domineering temper of her sex, and her extravagant ambition.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
appeared 391.app.82 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire
B. Josephus
The earlist non-Christian writer who refers Christ is the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus; born A.D. 37, he was a contemporary of the Apostles, and died in Rome A.D. 94. Two passages in his "Antiquities" which confirm two facts of the inspired Christian records are not disputed. In the one he reports the murder of "John called Baptist" by Herod (Ant., XVIII, v, 2), describing also John's character and work; in the other (Ant., XX, ix, 1) he disappoves of the sentence pronounced by the high priest Ananus against "James, brother of Jesus Who was called Christ." It is antecedently probable that a writer so well informed as Josephus, must have been well acquainted too with the doctrine and the history of Jesus Christ. Seeing, also, that he records events of minor importance in the history of the Jews, it would be surprising if he were to keep silence about Jesus Christ. Consideration for the priests and Pharisees did not prevent him from mentioning the judicial murders of John the Baptist and the Apostle James; his endeavour to find the fulfilment of the Messianic prophecies in Vespasian did not induce him to pass in silence over several Jewish sects, though their tenets appear to be inconsistent with the Vespasian claims. One naturally expects, therefore, a notice about Jesus Christ in Josephus. Ant., XVIII, iii, 3, seems to satisfy this expectation:
About this time appeared Jesus, a wise man (if indeed it is right to call Him man; for He was a worker of astonishing deeds, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with joy), and He drew to Himself many Jews (many also of Greeks. This was the Christ). And when Pilate, at the denunciation of those that are foremost among us, had condemned Him to the cross, those who had first loved Him did not abandon Him (for He appeared to them alive again on the third day, the holy prophets having foretold this and countless other marvels about Him.) The tribe of Christians named after Him did not cease to this day.
A testimony so important as the foregoing could not escape the work of the critics. Their conclusions may be reduced to three headings: those who consider the passage wholly spurious; those who consider it to be wholly authentic; and those who consider it to be a little of each.
The earlist non-Christian writer who refers Christ is the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus; born A.D. 37, he was a contemporary of the Apostles, and died in Rome A.D. 94. Two passages in his "Antiquities" which confirm two facts of the inspired Christian records are not disputed. In the one he reports the murder of "John called Baptist" by Herod (Ant., XVIII, v, 2), describing also John's character and work; in the other (Ant., XX, ix, 1) he disappoves of the sentence pronounced by the high priest Ananus against "James, brother of Jesus Who was called Christ." It is antecedently probable that a writer so well informed as Josephus, must have been well acquainted too with the doctrine and the history of Jesus Christ. Seeing, also, that he records events of minor importance in the history of the Jews, it would be surprising if he were to keep silence about Jesus Christ. Consideration for the priests and Pharisees did not prevent him from mentioning the judicial murders of John the Baptist and the Apostle James; his endeavour to find the fulfilment of the Messianic prophecies in Vespasian did not induce him to pass in silence over several Jewish sects, though their tenets appear to be inconsistent with the Vespasian claims. One naturally expects, therefore, a notice about Jesus Christ in Josephus. Ant., XVIII, iii, 3, seems to satisfy this expectation:
About this time appeared Jesus, a wise man (if indeed it is right to call Him man; for He was a worker of astonishing deeds, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with joy), and He drew to Himself many Jews (many also of Greeks. This was the Christ). And when Pilate, at the denunciation of those that are foremost among us, had condemned Him to the cross, those who had first loved Him did not abandon Him (for He appeared to them alive again on the third day, the holy prophets having foretold this and countless other marvels about Him.) The tribe of Christians named after Him did not cease to this day.
A testimony so important as the foregoing could not escape the work of the critics. Their conclusions may be reduced to three headings: those who consider the passage wholly spurious; those who consider it to be wholly authentic; and those who consider it to be a little of each.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
protein synthesis 322.syn.003 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire
A ribosome has four binding sites: the A-site, P-site and E-site work with tRNAs and the fourth works with mRNAs. The A-site and P-site are close to each other and thus force their two tRNA molecules to form base-pairs with now-adjacent codons on the mRNA molecule (the strict utilization of two sites allows for wobble at the third position). In two translocation steps, three nucleotides are processed and the cycle is repeated.
When the two subunits are joined, together they have a mass of several million daltons.
Slides R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4, R-5, R-6, R-7, R-8, R-9, R-10, R-11
1. Initiation and termination of peptide chain in translation- start and stop codon role in this process.
The codon AUG starts the RNA translation process. AUG translates as methionine (in bacteria, it is formylmethionine). Hence, the front/first end of the protein – the N-terminus – always has methionine. Proteases subsequently remove this methionine. In Eukaryotes, this methionine enters the small ribosomal subunit along with eukaryotic initiation factors (knows as “eIFs”). (0 percent of the time, translation begins at the first AUG codon encountered, and, when this is encountered, the two subunits assemble. The initiator tRNA joins with the P-site and at this point, protein synthesis is ready to begin.
Any one of three different codons signals the end of translation: UAA, UAG or UGA. When one of these stop codons enters the A-site, instead of synthesizing an amino acid, the ribosome synthesizes a water molecule. The synthesis of the water molecule releases the carboxyl end of the assembled polypeptide chain from the tRNA molecule and thus releases the polypeptide chain/protein into the cytoplasm. After the polypeptide chain is released, the ribosomal subunits separate and are now able to rejoin with a new mRNA and produce another protein.
Slides: T-12, T-21, T-22, T-23
When the two subunits are joined, together they have a mass of several million daltons.
Slides R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4, R-5, R-6, R-7, R-8, R-9, R-10, R-11
1. Initiation and termination of peptide chain in translation- start and stop codon role in this process.
The codon AUG starts the RNA translation process. AUG translates as methionine (in bacteria, it is formylmethionine). Hence, the front/first end of the protein – the N-terminus – always has methionine. Proteases subsequently remove this methionine. In Eukaryotes, this methionine enters the small ribosomal subunit along with eukaryotic initiation factors (knows as “eIFs”). (0 percent of the time, translation begins at the first AUG codon encountered, and, when this is encountered, the two subunits assemble. The initiator tRNA joins with the P-site and at this point, protein synthesis is ready to begin.
Any one of three different codons signals the end of translation: UAA, UAG or UGA. When one of these stop codons enters the A-site, instead of synthesizing an amino acid, the ribosome synthesizes a water molecule. The synthesis of the water molecule releases the carboxyl end of the assembled polypeptide chain from the tRNA molecule and thus releases the polypeptide chain/protein into the cytoplasm. After the polypeptide chain is released, the ribosomal subunits separate and are now able to rejoin with a new mRNA and produce another protein.
Slides: T-12, T-21, T-22, T-23
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Why was I locked out? Google seems to read too much into things.
Friday, May 14, 2010
films 334.fil.001003 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire
Ann Blyth began her legendary singing career at an early age. A radio singer at age 5, American actress Ann Blyth studied for an operatic career, making her debut with the San Carlo Opera Company. At age 15, Ann's dramatic talents led her to play Paul Lukas' daughter in the Broadway production, Watch on the Rhine.Two years later she was under contract to Universal studios.
Ann Blyth showed her pervasive talents and was cast as Joan Crawford's hateful daughter,Veda, in Mildred Pierce (1945). For this performance, Ann was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress.
After recovering from a serious back injury, Ann Blyth worked in dozens of films, alternating between light parts to her tough dramatic portrayal of Regina Hubbard in Another Part of the Forest (1948).
Ann also played in fantasies, starring in Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948). She further displayed her beautifully trained voice in such musicals as The Student Prince (1954), Rose Marie (1955) and Kismet (1956). She also played a real-life songstress in The Helen Morgan Story (1957). She is well remembered for her portrayal of the wife of the legendary opera star, in The Great Caruso (1951) with Mario Lanza. Here Ann introduced the beautiful song, It's the Loveliest Night of the Year. Time and space prevents noting all of Ann Blyth's many films.
In 1953, Ann wed Dr. James McNulty and had five children. Ann is a devout Roman Catholic which is shown throughout her film career and especially in the documentary Crusade for Prayer. Ann's later career led her back to the stage, onto television in the hit series, Wagon Train, in concerts and, in the late 1970s, she showed up as the surprisingly domesticated spokesperson for Hostess Cupcakes.
For generations Ann Blyth has brought us her classic beauty, musical and dramatic talents, and profound family values. Her legacy is enduring. Women's International Center is proud and delighted to present the 2003 Living Legacy Award to the multi-talented Ann Blyth.
Ann Blyth showed her pervasive talents and was cast as Joan Crawford's hateful daughter,Veda, in Mildred Pierce (1945). For this performance, Ann was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress.
After recovering from a serious back injury, Ann Blyth worked in dozens of films, alternating between light parts to her tough dramatic portrayal of Regina Hubbard in Another Part of the Forest (1948).
Ann also played in fantasies, starring in Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948). She further displayed her beautifully trained voice in such musicals as The Student Prince (1954), Rose Marie (1955) and Kismet (1956). She also played a real-life songstress in The Helen Morgan Story (1957). She is well remembered for her portrayal of the wife of the legendary opera star, in The Great Caruso (1951) with Mario Lanza. Here Ann introduced the beautiful song, It's the Loveliest Night of the Year. Time and space prevents noting all of Ann Blyth's many films.
In 1953, Ann wed Dr. James McNulty and had five children. Ann is a devout Roman Catholic which is shown throughout her film career and especially in the documentary Crusade for Prayer. Ann's later career led her back to the stage, onto television in the hit series, Wagon Train, in concerts and, in the late 1970s, she showed up as the surprisingly domesticated spokesperson for Hostess Cupcakes.
For generations Ann Blyth has brought us her classic beauty, musical and dramatic talents, and profound family values. Her legacy is enduring. Women's International Center is proud and delighted to present the 2003 Living Legacy Award to the multi-talented Ann Blyth.
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