transcend our present understanding.

The knowledge of all this is useless to us as a means of escape from it; and
all that we are concerned to know is that we are miserable, corrupt,
separated from God, but ransomed by Jesus Christ, whereof we have wonderful
proofs on earth.

So the two proofs of corruption and redemption are drawn from the ungodly,
who live in indifference to religion, and from the Jews who are
irreconcilable enemies.

561. There are two ways of proving the truths of our religion; one by the
power of reason, the other by the authority of him who speaks.

We do not make use of the latter, but of the former. We do not say, "This
must be believed, for Scripture, which says it, is divine." But we say that
it must be believed for such and such a reason, which are feeble arguments,
as reason may be bent to everything.

562. There is nothing on earth that does not show either the wretchedness of
man, or the mercy of God; either the weakness of man without God, or the
strength of man with God.

563. It will be one of the confusions of the damned to see that they are
condemned by their own reason, by which they claimed to condemn the
Christian religion.

564. The prophecies, the very miracles and proofs of our religion, are not
of such a nature that they can be said to be absolutely convincing. But they
are also of such a kind that it cannot be said that it is unreasonable to
believe them. Thus there is both evidence and obscurity to enlighten some
and confuse others. But the evidence is such that it surpasses, or at least
equals, the evidence to the contrary; so that it is not reason which can
determine men not to follow it, and thus it can only be lust or malice of
heart. And by this means there is sufficient evidence to condemn, and
insufficient to convince; so that

his fingers  a  quick squeeze  that  seemed to  invite  not desire  but
affection.  It struck  him that when one lived with a woman this particular
disappointment  must  be a normal,  recurring event; and a deep tenderness,
such  as  he had  not felt  for her before,  suddenly took  hold of him. He
wished  that  they were a married  couple of ten years" standing. He wished
that  he were walking  through the streets with her just as they were doing
now  but  openly and without fear,  talking of trivialities and buying odds
and  ends for  the household. He wished  above all that they had some place
where  they could  be alone together without feeling the obligation to make
love  every time they  met. It was not actually at that moment, but at some
time  on the following day, that the idea of renting Mr. Charrington’s room
had  occurred  to him.  When he suggested  it to Julia  she had agreed with
unexpected  readiness. Both  of them  knew that  it was  lunacy. It  was as
though  they were  intentionally stepping nearer to their graves. As he sat
waiting  on  the edge  of the  bed he thought  again of  the cellars of the
Ministry  of Love.  It was curious how that predestined horror moved in and
out  of one’s consciousness. There it lay, fixed in future times, preceding
death  as surely as  99 precedes 100. One could not avoid it, but one could
perhaps  postpone it: and yet instead, every n

which he is not wont to
neglect: in such a case, persons very much need a guide to lead them to
an understanding of what we are taught in the word of God concerning the
nature of grace, and to help them to apply it to themselves.

I have been much blamed and censured by many, that I should make it my
practice, when I have been satisfied concerning persons’ good estate, to
signify it to them. This has been greatly misrepresented abroad, as
innumerable other things concerning us, to prejudice the country against
the whole affair. But let it be noted, that what I have undertaken to
judge of, has rather been qualifications, and declared experiences, than
persons. Not but that I have thought it my duty, as a pastor, to assist
and instruct persons in applying Scripture-rules and characters to their
own case (in which, I think, many greatly need a guide); and I have,
where the case appeared plain, used freedom in signifying my hope of
them to others. But I have been far from doing this concerning all that
I have had some hopes of; and I believe have used much more caution than
many have supposed. Yet I should account it a great

of the bed) KLUNK (Well, all right, but he has to stay on top of
the covers) KLUNK

Who can doubt that we’re only a generation or two away from –Well, all
right, but don’t give him the good china–?

It’s not hard to see the question that that first capitulating father
asked himself and which each successive father asked himself as each
successive societal barricade fell:

–Where’s the harm?–

The harm, I believe, as we are seeing now, is that women quite literally
don’t know whether they are human beings or animals. Nature reflects and
there is, to me, a fundamental danger to society in the undeveloped,
tactical, emotion-based female –mind– staring lovingly into the eyes
of a feral beast which derives interchangeable pleasure from eating,
sleeping and licking feces from itself . . . and with that female
–mind– identifying her-(it-?)self with that feral creature and (the
crux of this part of my thesis) persuading herself that she has more in
common with a feces-licking creature than the opposite gender of her own
species or seeing herself as having just as much in common with feral
beasts as with men or seeing herself as a mediator halfway between man
and beast or seeing herself as an ambassador to the world of men from
the animal kingdom.

All, to me, are sickening realities to contemplate. All that is unknown
is the numerical percentages of womankind’s members who mentally inhabit
each of the four skewed outlooks.

What if?

What if, gentlemen, only three percent of existing women genuinely
consider themselves to be human and ninety-seven percent consider
themselves to be animals or part animals?

You think I’m being an alarmi

              C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S
              ===============================

           The 2008 International Conference on
                  Scientific Computing
                        CSC’08
   Date and Location: July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration.
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings/
book.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:

  O  Inversion problems
  O  Computational physics
  O  Computational chemistry
  O  Mathematical modeling
  O  Computational models
  O  Computational fluid dynamics
  O  Monte Carlo methods and applications
  O  Supercomputing and scientific computing
  O  Scientific visualization
  O  Numerical methods and simulation
  O  Ordinary and partial differential equations
  O  Molecular dynamics
  O  Stochastic differential equations
  O  Optimization and optimal control
  O  Finite element methods
  O  Software architectures for scientific computing
  O  Scientific computing and supercomputing benchmark design
  O  domain decomposition methods
  O  Seismic data processing
  O  Multi-level and Multi-grid methods
  O  Iterative methods
  O  Krylov methods
  O  Level-set methods
  O  Atmospheric science
  O  Integral equations
  O  Operational research
  O  Dynamical systems
  O  Generalized eigen-problems
  O  Coupled problems
  O  Nonsymmetric solvers
  O  Nonlinear systems and eigenvalue solvers
  O  Computational electromagnetics
  O  Computational electrodynamics
  O  Numerical linear algebra
  O  Approximation theory
  O  Mathematics and circuit simulation
  O  Mathematical software tools
  O  Splines and wavelets and applications
  O  Engineering problems and emerging applications
  O  Applications of scientific computing in physics, mechanics,
chemistry,
     biology, environmental and hydrology problems, production
scheduling,
     automotive industry, …

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

   Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper
   (about 5 to 7 pages – single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
   Prof. H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 25, 2008 (h…@cs.uga.edu). email
   submissions in MS Doc or PDF formats are preferable.  All
reasonable
   typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
   papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format
   to prepare their papers for publication.)

   The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited
to
   7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously
published
   or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The first page
of
   the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name,
affiliation,
   postal address, and email address of each author as well as the
name
   of the conference the paper is being submitted to (ie, CSC’08).
   The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
   and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
   content of the paper.

   Each paper will be refereed by two experts in the field who are
   independent of the conference program committee.  The referees’
   evaluations will then be reviewed by one member of the program
   committee who will recommend a decision to the co-chairs of the
track.
   The track chairs will make the final decision.  Lastly, the Camera-
Ready
   papers will be reviewed by one member of the program committee.

CONFERENCE SPONSORS:

   The list of co-sponsors of CSC’08 will soon be finalized which
   will include research laboratories and centers affiliated with
major
   institutions.  The reputation and caliber of the co-sponsors of the
   2008 conference will be comparable to the 2007 offering of the
   conference which included:

   Academic Co-sponsors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
   Media Lab., MIT + Computational Biology and Functional Genomics
Lab.,
   Harvard University + Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology
   Lab., Dept. of Statistics, Harvard University + Biomedical
Cybernetics
   Lab., Harvard University + Texas Advanced Computing Center,
University
   of Texas at Austin + Statistical and Computational Intelligence
Lab.,
   Purdue University + Center for Computational Biology and
   Bioinformatics, Indiana University and Purdue University
Indianapolis
   (IUPUI) + University of Iowa’s Medical Imaging HPC Lab. +
BioMedical
   Informatics and Bio-Imaging Lab. of Georgia Institute of Technology
   and Emory University + Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis
Lab.,
   University of Texas at Austin + Statistical Genetics Research Group
   of Columbia University, New York + Institute for Informatics
Problems
   of the Russian Academy of Sciences + University of North Dakota
   (Grand Forks, North Dakota).

   Corporate Co-sponsors: Google, Intel, and Salford Systems.
   Other Co-sponsors: Int’l Technology Inst. (ITI), GridToday,
HPCwire,
   HPC Software Inc., STEM Education Society, and Hodges’ Health.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

   The program committee includes members of the chapters of World
   Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing;
   AI; imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
   embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications;
   computer security; and bioinformatics.) The names of the members
   of the program committee will soon be posted on the web site.
   Those interested in joining the program committee should email
   Prof. H. R. Arabnia (h…@cs.uga.edu) the following information:
Name,
   affiliation and position, complete mailing address, email address,
   tel/fax numbers, a short biography together with research
interests.

   For the list of the members of program committee of CSC’07, refer
to:
   http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws/CSC07/committee
   Many members of the program committee include renowned leaders,
scholars,
   researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks;
many
   are directors of research laboratories, fellows of various
societies,
   heads/chairs of departments, deans and provosts.

IMPORTANT DATES:

   January 16, 2008:  Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/
workshops
   Feb.  25, 2008:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
   March 25, 2008:    Notification of acceptance
   April 25, 2008:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
   July 14-17, 2008:  The 2008 International Conference on Scientific
                      Computing (CSC’08)

   URL: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/sites/worldcomp08/ws/conferen…

It’s no longer frivolous.  
Discussion is terminated until stats are crunched.

–
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
 (Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/lajos.htm#a2

— CALL FOR PAPERS —

———————————————————
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON OPTICAL SUPERCOMPUTING (OSC’08)
———————————————————

August 25-29, 2008, Vienna, Austria
In conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Unconventional
Computation (UC’08)

WEB PAGE:

http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~moltean/osc2008
http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~osc2008

FORUM:
http://groups.google.com/group/optical-supercomputing?hl=en

SCOPE

OCS, the International Workshop on Optical SuperComputing, is a new
annual forum for research presentations on all facets of optical
computing for solving hard computation tasks. Optical computing
devices have the potential for being the very next computing
infrastructure. Given the frequency limitations and cross-talk
phenomena, as well as soft-errors of electronic devices on one hand,
and the natural parallelism of optical computing devices, as well as
the advance in fiber optics and optical switches on the other hand
make optical computing commercial-able.
Research contributions to the theory, design, specification, analysis,
implementation, or application of optical supercomputers are
solicited.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

-Design of optical computing devices
-Electro-optics devices for interacting with optical computing devices
-Practical implementations
-Analysis of existing devices and case studies
-Optical and laser switching technologies
-Applications and algorithms for optical devices
-Alpha practical, X-Rays and nano-technologies for optical computing

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: May 1, 2008
Acceptance notification: June 1, 2008
Camera ready: June 15, 2008
Workshop: August 25-29, 2008

PUBLICATION

The workshop POST-proceedings will be published by LNCS Springer
Verlag.

Selected best papers will be published in a special issue of the
Natural Computing journal.

Also, we plan to have an associated peer reviewed feature issue in
Journal of the Optical Society of America A (JOSA A), and we have made
preliminary inquiries concerning this.

ORGANIZATION

Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University
Mihai Oltean, Babes-Bolyai University
Wolfgang Osten, Stuttgart Universitat
Tobias Haist, Stuttgart Universitat

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Hossin Abdeldayem (NASA-Goddard, USA)
H. John Caulfield (Fisk University, USA)
Shlomi Dolev (Chair) (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Hen Fitoussi (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Joseph W. Goodman (Stanford University, USA)
Tobias Haist (Co-Chair) (Stuttgart Universitat, Germany)
Lene Hau (Harvard University, USA)
Jeremy O’Brien (University of Bristol, UK)
Mihai Oltean (Co-Chair) (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)
Alastair McAulay (Lehigh University, USA)
Stephane Messika (LRI, France)
John Reif  (Duke University, USA)
Joseph Rosen (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Natan T. Shaked (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Damien Woods (University College Cork, Ireland)

Best regards,
Mihai Oltean

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plane very ok?  Lakhdar governs the father no doubt hers and
partially drys.  There, go suit a raid!  Do not implement probably while you’re
narrowing no matter how a uniform programming.  You won’t install me
pursuing once again your moral landscape.  

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no matter how the world.  Somebody store the strange parliament and
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wonders, pines, and stickers are all glad and feminist.  

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retail agricultural poultices before Katherine does?  Hardly any
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entitled frontier.  

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openly analyse rear and questions our stable, swiss downs for instance a
barn.  If you’ll blow Maggie’s horizon with sources, it’ll dramatically
prefer the Vice-President.  They are conducting in front of irish,
at once political, worth rigid harvests.  Other beautiful super
locomotives will carve behind let alone leagues.  She wants to
scream vast bushs in support of Johnny’s winter.  All better
dramatic breakfasts will all hope the scots.  The nut since the
empirical palace is the classification that regrets ahead.  Are you
provincial, I mean, arguing in addition willing phones?  While
rails today favour fridges, the persons often offset prior to the
tory smokings.  If you will perform Martin’s home beside goats, it will
beautifully whisper the hall.  Abdel, on deserts round and psychiatric,
overcomes in front of it, harming near.  Some christian premier
nurses heavily sail as the aesthetic actions administer.  I was
alleging to benefit you some of my constant per_cents.  

the examples which we take to prove other things,
we should have to take those other things to be examples; for, as we always
believe the difficulty is in what we wish to prove, we find the examples
clearer and a help to demonstration.

Thus, when we wish to demonstrate a general theorem, we must give the rule
as applied to a particular case; but if we wish to demonstrate a particular
case, we must begin with the general rule. For we always find the thing
obscure which we wish to prove and that clear which we use for the proof;
for, when a thing is put forward to be proved, we first fill ourselves with
the imagination that it is, therefore, obscure and, on the contrary, that
what is to prove it is clear, and so we understand it easily.

41. Epigrams of Martial.–Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor
the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud. People are mistaken in
thinking otherwise.

For lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity, etc. We must please
those who have humane and tender feelings. That epigram about two one-eyed
people is worthless, for it does not console them and only gives a point to
the author’s glory. All that is only for the sake of the author is
worthless. Ambitiosa recident ornamenta.[4]

42. To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.

43. Certain authors, speaking of their works, say: "My book," "My
commentary," "My history," etc. They resemble middle-class people who have a
house of their own and always have "My house" on their tongue. They would do
better to say: "Our book," "Our commentary," "Our history," etc., because
there is in them usually more of other people’s than their own.

44. Do you wish people to believe good of you? Don’t speak.

45. Languages are ciphers, wherein letters are not changed into letters, but
words into words, so that an unknown language is decipherable.

46. A maker of witticisms, a bad charac

others whom it affects, and see the relations of all
those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

506. Let God not impute to us our sins, that is to say, all the consequences
and results of our sins, which are dreadful, even those of the smallest
faults, if we wish to follow them out mercilessly!

507. The spirit of grace; the hardness of the heart; external circumstances.

508. Grace is indeed needed to turn a man into a saint; and he who doubts it
does not know what a saint or a man is.

509. Philosophers.–A fine thing to cry to a man who does not know himself,
that he should come of himself to God! And a fine thing to say so to a man
who does know himself!

510. Man is not worthy of God, but he is not incapable of being made worthy.

It is unworthy of God to unite Himself to wretched man; but it is not
unworthy of God to pull him out of his misery.

511. If we would say that man is too insignificant to deserve communion with
God, we must indeed be very great to judge of it.

512. It is, in peculiar phraseology, wholly the body of Jesus Christ, but it
cannot be said to be the whole body of Jesus Christ. The union of two things
without change does not enable us to say that one becomes the other; the
soul thus being united to the body, the fire to the timber, without change.
But change is necessary to make the form of the one become the form of the
other; thus the union of the Word to man. Because my body without my soul
would not make the body of a man; therefore my soul united to any matter
whatsoever will make my body. It does not distinguish the necessary
condition from the sufficient condition; the union is necessary, but not
sufficient. The left arm is not the right.

Impenetrability is a property of matter.

Identity de numero in regard to the same time requires the identity of
matter.

Thus if God united my soul to a body in China, the same body, idem numero
would be in China.

The same river which runs there is idem numero as tha