Dalton, A; Pico, T; Gowan, E J; Clague, J J; Forman, S L; McMartin, I; Sarala, P; Helmens, K F. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2021, abstracts; PP52B-01, 2021 p. 1
<a href="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20210237.jpg"><img src="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20210237.jpg" title="American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2021, abstracts; PP52B-01, 2021 p. 1" height="150" border="1" /></a>

Card, C D; Bethune, K M; Rayner, N; Ashton, K E. Precambrian Research vol. 361, 106241, 2021 p. 1-22, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106241
<a href="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20210185.jpg"><img src="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20210185.jpg" title="Precambrian Research vol. 361, 106241, 2021 p. 1-22, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106241" height="150" border="1" /></a>

Yao, H; Chen, X; Yin, R; Grasby, S E; Weissert, H; Gu, X; Wang, C. Geophysical Research Letters vol. 48, issue 5, e2020GL091508, 2021 p. 1-10, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091508
<a href="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20210001.jpg"><img src="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20210001.jpg" title="Geophysical Research Letters vol. 48, issue 5, e2020GL091508, 2021 p. 1-10, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091508" height="150" border="1" /></a>

Galloway, J M; Fensome, R A; Swindles, G T; Hadlari, T; Schröder-Adams, C; Herrle, J O; Fath, J; Pugh, A. Cretaceous Research vol. 129, 105022, 2022 p. 1-26, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2021.105022
<a href="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20210274.jpg"><img src="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20210274.jpg" title="Cretaceous Research vol. 129, 105022, 2022 p. 1-26, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2021.105022" height="150" border="1" /></a>

Dalton, A S; Pico, T; Gowan, E J; Clague, J; Forman, S L; McMartin, I; Roy, M; Sarala, P; Helmens, K F. Global and Planetary Change vol. 212, 103814, 2022 p. 1-15, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2022.103814
<a href="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20210064.jpg"><img src="https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/images/geoscan/20210064.jpg" title="Global and Planetary Change vol. 212, 103814, 2022 p. 1-15, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2022.103814" height="150" border="1" /></a>

Skyports Drone Services (Skyports) and Royal Mail have celebrated the one-year anniversary of their pioneering drone delivery service in Orkney by announcing it has been extended until at least February 2026.

The Bermuda Volleyball Association hosted its 31st Annual Corporate Volleyball tournament at Bernard’s Park. This was a 6-a-side coed tournament, each team needed to have at least 3 females, with a max of 10 players total. Because this was a recreational tournament, teams were limited to 2 national team players. Conyers were crowned the champions, […]

Vanavond in ‘De tafel van Gert’: wat als je de diagnose van Alzheimer hebt en de juiste medicatie bestaat maar niet verkrijgbaar is?  Het Nieuwsblad

1. Philippe Gilbert reageert misnoegd na mislopen job als wielerbondscoach: “De vacature stond nooit open”  Het Nieuwsblad
2. Philippe Gilbert hekelt interne afspraken bij wielerbond: "Heb nooit kunnen solliciteren"  sporza.be
3. Serge Pauwels en Angelo De Clercq volgen Sven Vanthourenhout op als nieuwe bondscoaches: “Ik ben enorm vereerd”  Het Nieuwsblad
4. "De vacature stond nooit open": Philippe Gilbert misnoegd nadat niet hij, maar Serge Pauwels aangesteld wordt als bondscoach  Het Laatste Nieuws
5. Belgian Cycling kiest Angelo De Clercq als nieuwe bondscoach veldrijden  Wielerflits

1. Lindsay De Vylder en Robbe Ghys trekken als leiders de eerste nacht in na eerste ploegkoers van 83ste editie  Het Laatste Nieuws
2. Een Franse "alleskunner" boezemt iedereen angst in op Gentse Zesdaagse: "Zelfs als renner kijk je naar hem op"  sporza.be
3. Lindsay De Vylder, wereldkampioen op ontdekkingstocht: “Ik ga dringend beter moeten leren onderhandelen”  Het Laatste Nieuws
4. Alweer uitverkocht: hoe blijft de Gentse Zesdaagse toch zo’n succes? “Net zoals bij Tomorrowland heb je het gevoel: hier moet ik bij zijn”  Het Nieuwsblad
5. IN BEELD. Schoon en bekend volk bij de start van uitverkochte 83ste Zesdaagse van Gent  Gazet van Antwerpen

1. “Al meer dan 20 jaar betaalt ons gezin de prijs voor z'n carrière”: de vrouw van ‘BDW Politiek Beest’ zegt weinig, maar het is er wel boenk op  Het Laatste Nieuws
2. Documentaire over Bart De Wever in première: "Jezelf op groot scherm zien is confronterend, in mijn hoofd ben ik een vrolijke Frans"  VRT.be
3. Weinig elegant camerawerk en slordige overgangen, maar het heeft wel één troef: dit vonden wij van docufilm over De Wever  Het Nieuwsblad
4. ‘De film van Paul Jambers over Bart De Wever of Gladiator 2? De keuze lijkt snel gemaakt’  Knack.be
5. Paul Jambers in het zog van de N-VA-chef: “Bart De Wever weet pas over dertig jaar of alles de moeite waard is geweest”  De Standaard

1. Waarom cryptomunten sinds de verkiezing van Trump zo hot zijn (en wat daar de gevolgen van kunnen zijn)  VRT.be
2. Bitcoins verzilveren? Opgepast voor kater van de fiscus: tot 50% aanslagvoet mogelijk  Het Laatste Nieuws
3. ‘Bitcoin is stilaan incontournabel’: drie experts over de recordwaardes van cryptomunten  De Morgen
4. Bitcoin krijgt vleugels nu Trump zich achter de munt schaart  Het Nieuwsblad
5. De 7 Extra | Staat bitcoin voor een langdurige stierenmarkt?  De Tijd

THE VATICAN TAKES A TOUGHER STANCE ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.

AmiMoJo writes: The climate-damaging vapors left behind by jet planes could be easily tackled, aviation experts say, with a new study suggesting they could be eliminated for a few pounds per flight. Jet condensation trails, or contrails, have spawned wild conspiracy theories alleging mind control and the spreading of disease, but scientists say the real problem is their warming effect. "They create an artificial layer of clouds, which traps the heat from the Earth that's trying to escape to outer space," said Carlos Lopez de la Osa, from the Transport & Environment campaign group, which has carried out a new study on the solutions to contrails. "The scale of the warming that's associated with them is roughly having a similar impact to that of aviation carbon emissions." Tweaking the flight paths of a handful of aircraft could reduce contrail warming by more than half by 2040, at a cost of less than $5.1 per flight. Geography and a flight's latitude have a strong influence on whether a contrail is warming. Time of day also influences the climate effects of contrails. Those formed by evening and night flights have the largest warming contribution. Seasonality is also important -- the most warming contrails tend to occur in winter. "Planes are already flying around thunderstorms and turbulence areas," Mr Lopez de la Osa said. "We will need to add one more constraint to flight planning, which is avoiding areas of contrail formation."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

The judge describes Holly Le Gresley and Adriana Orme's actions as "abhorrent and sadistic".

In October, 140 people take the Table Mountain Challenge in Cape Town and Franschhoek, South Africa, as part of the Freedom Climb.

OM Philippines send staff to assess the earthquake damages in Surigao City and provide needed disaster relief training.

OM Italy organises an annual summer camp for children in Torre Pellice, where many hear the gospel for the first time.

An Italian girl receives a vision of Jericho that guides her to speak with a woman on Transform 2013 outreach day.

Barranquilla, Colombia :: Logos Hope departs her second Colombian port, her crew having welcomed a landmark number of visitors and encouraged many local people.

The index was designed to quantify the specific vulnerabilities faced by countries, especially small island developing states

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) released by various cells play crucial roles in intercellular communication within the respiratory system. This review explores the historical context and significance of research into extracellular vesicles. Categorised into exosomes (sized 30–150 nm), microvesicles (sized 50–1000 nm) and apoptotic bodies (sized 500–2000nm), based on their generation mechanisms, extracellular vesicles carry diverse cargoes of biomolecules, including proteins, lipids and nucleic acids. Respiratory ailments are the primary contributors to both mortality and morbidity across various populations globally, significantly impacting public health. Recent studies have underscored the pivotal role of extracellular vesicles, particularly their cargo content, in mediating intercellular communication between lung cells in respiratory diseases. This comprehensive review provides insights into extracellular vesicle mechanisms and emphasises their significance in major respiratory conditions, including acute lung injury, COPD, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary fibrosis, asthma and lung cancer.

The fluffy chick’s chunky form is slimming down as he starts to fledge

1. How this ‘pop-up’ on Windows laptops and PCs may again lead to Google vs Microsoft tussle  The Times of India
2. Microsoft Edge is trying to forcefully get your Chrome tabs again  The Verge
3. Microsoft Edge has a sneaky new pop-up that tries to copy your Google Chrome data  9to5Google
4. Microsoft is sneakily trying to import tabs from other browsers into Edge  Ghacks
5. Microsoft is, once again, trying to force users into using Edge  MSN

Experience interactive storytelling at Vroooom, the virtual reality film festival presented by Goethe Zentrum Hyderabad and Annapurna College of Film and Media

The unscripted Telugu Original eight-episode series will feature a host of guests, including Dulquer Salmaan, Naga Chaitanya Akkineni, Siddhu Jonnalagadda, Sree Leela, Nani, S.S. Rajamouli and Ram Gopal Varma

Created by Amritpal Singh Bindra and Anand Tiwari, the romantic drama show features actors Ritwik Bhowmik and Shreya Chaudhry as Radhe and Tamanna, two musicians who come from different worlds of music

Singer was one of the early favourites to win the talent show

The series has transcended expectations in a huge way

Whether assessee is eligible for 50% for dispute tax where his file is in appeal and similar issue was settled in favour of other assessee by the Karnataka High Court case

With four Indian-Americans, including two women, elected to the US Congress, euphoric community members said that the unprecedented victory shows they have become part of the mainstream political landscape.

Uber, an American based multinational online transportation network company has appeared across the global market long back along with a divergent offering. Uber Mobile App is being top choice for roaming within the city limits.

The iQOO 13, which made its initial appearance in China last month, is scheduled to launch in India on December 3. This flagship smartphone is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC, promising robust performance. While it mirrors its Chinese counterpart

The new Maruti Suzuki Dzire has made a significant impact with its launch, especially due to its potential 5-star Global NCAP rating. The base model, the LXI Petrol MT, is priced at Rs 6.79 lakh (Ex-showroom). This variant offers a surprising

The 2024 Maruti Suzuki Dzire is the latest car for the Indian market from the largest carmaker in the country. Prices for the fourth-generation Dzire, the safest car ever from Maruti Suzuki (as per GNCAP ratings) start at Rs 6.79 lakh

All generations of Maruti Suzuki Dzire sedans have been very successful in India. Now, with the launch of the 4th generation Dzire sedan in India, we expect the model to replicate the same success of its predecessors. Also, with a 5-Star

Imsha Rehman, a TikTok star from Pakistan, has become embroiled in controversy after an explicit video of her surfaced online. This incident mirrors the backlash faced by Minahil Malik, another Pakistani TikTok personality, whose private video went viral earlier. Many have

A viral video of her is going viral on social media where Shrima Rai can be seen recreating Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol's Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham iconic moment with her husband, Aishwarya Rai's brother Aditya Rai.

Unveiling the Spiritual Tapestry of The Rosary In the quietude of devotion, The Rosary emerges as a sacred thread that weaves through the hearts of millions, connecting them to the profound spirituality associated with the Virgin Mary. This timeless practice transcends religious boundaries, embodying a rich tradition that spans centuries. In this comprehensive exploration, we […]

The post Devotion to the Virgin Mary appeared first on Roads To Iraq - The Cradle of Mankind.

In a prior blog entry, I listed some of my favorite CEO and VC posts. Tim Oren has a follow-up post that builds on one of his prior posts that I cited. Tim's new post addresses "Two Stage Ventures". This post is interesting because it looks at the entrepreneurial financing path from the other direction, and it breaks the mold of what I would call "traditional" (and perhaps passe) venture financing. I also find this post interesting because it is something that I have sensed emerging over the past few years (e.g., by articles or blog entries connected to Accel Partners, Matrix, Dawntreader Ventures), but it is the first time I have seen something explicitly written down without talking around the subject.

Savevid.com is a tool which gives you the ability to download videos from streaming video sites. You can download videos from Youtube, Google Videos, Metacafe, Spike and more in FLV, AVI, MOV, MPG or WMV formats.

Writings of Erasmus: His more serious writings begin early with the Enchiridion Militis Christiani, the "Manual (or Dagger) of the Christian Gentleman" (1503). In this little volume Erasmus outlines the views of the normal Christian life which he was to spend the rest of his days in elaborating. The key-note of it all is sincerity. The chief evil of the day, he says, is formalism, a respect for traditions, a regard for what other people think essential, but never a thought of what the true teaching of Christ may be. Another of Erasmus's books worthy of mention was, Praise of Folly, dedicated to his friend Sir Thomas More. -- While in England Erasmus began the systematic examination of manuscripts of the New Testament to prepare for a new edition and Latin translation. This edition was published by Froben of Basel in 1516 and was the basis of most of the scientific study of the Bible during the Reformation period. It was the first attempt on the part of a competent and liberal-minded scholar to ascertain what the writers of the New Testament had actually said. The Greek text produced by Erasmus is known as textus receptus and was the basis for the King James Version of the New Testament. Erasmus dedicated his work ironically, to Pope Leo X., and he justly regarded this work as his chief service to the cause of a sound Christianity. Immediately after he began the publication of his Paraphrases of the New Testament, a popular presentation of the contents of the several books. These, like all the writings of Erasmus, were in Latin, but they were at once translated into the common languages of the European peoples, a process which received the hearty approval of Erasmus himself.

I understand the "excessive and pathological dependence on the clergy," but I'm not willing to classify all preaching within that condemnation. (This is the same old stuff - human abuse is cited as the reason to cast out something legitimate when used properly.) When we tell people what the Word of God says and challenge the right response, there is no excess or pathology in that! Let's expose and condemn the real problem, without throwing out the legitimate. -- And I'm wondering about something. Frank Viola has written a book. What is it that lifts his book out of the condemned category? What if someone read his book to a group of people (he does affirm his book to be needed truth)? Would the reading of his book stifle spiritual health and create a pathological dependence on his writings or books in general? Nonsense. -- Don't overlook, Viola is a high school teacher. When he speaks to a class in a building with attention focused on him, does he consider that to be an exercise that is passive, tradition bound and pagan? Likewise, he "speaks at church-life conferences!" Apparently the kind of speaking he does he values in some way. Yet he reacts with outrage when someone stands before an audience and directs their attention to the text of Scripture in an orderly form without interruption. This is the excess and decoration of a militant reformer, who is in bondage to his system while attacking another. It is gimmickry and passion born in the contention of a reformers narrow mentality, not based on the content of Scripture. -- Behind the charm and sophistry of these reformers there is an arrogant spirit. Mr. Viola wants us to know that "the NT is not a manual for church practice." Yet, he wants us to be led by "the light that is within you!" When all of that has been said, the footnote on the last page of the book is truly the bottom line. He says in this small print entry: "If you plan to leave the institutional church, I strongly recommend that you read the next volume in this series: So You Want To Start A House Church? First-Century Styled Church Planting For Today. It will give you the next step." -- Unbelievable! He steers us away from the New Testament, then recommends his next book as our next step. Now here is my recommendation. Don't let any man dictate "the next step." Not Viola, Berkley or any man. Open the Bible. Read what it says, and let God direct your steps (Psa. 37:23; 119:133). --- Good Recently Published Resources To Study The House Church Movement: "The House Church Movement," Harry Osborne; in The Renewing Of Your Mind, 2004 Truth Magazine Lectures, GOT Foundation, 2004. "The House Church Movement," Jim Deason; True Worship, 2205 FC Lectures. By Warren E. Berkley The Front Page From Expository Files 13.1 January 2006.

Remember! All the modern versions are based on the Westcott and Hort text, compiled by two men who both believed that the sacred text of Holy Scripture was to be approached and treated like any secular text of history. The English people, who felt secure in their trust that these two Cambridge scholars would take care of attacks on the Scripture, unknowingly accepted the public utterances and writings of men who boasted between themselves that they held doctrines that would be considered dangerous heresy. Nowhere in all literature can we find a more perfectly clear self-revelation of Fenton John Anthony Hort than in the Life and Letters of Fenton John Anthony Hort published in 1896 by his son, Author Fenton Hort. Hort was brought up by a well taught Bible-believing evangelical mother. She recognized the fact that her son had departed from the faith "once delivered to the saints" and was saddened thereby. -- Hort acknowledged his departure from the Evangelical faith when he wrote, "Further I agree with those who condemn many leading specific doctrines of the popular theology, as to say the least, containing much superstition and immorality of a very pernicious king... The positive doctrines even of the Evangelicals seem to me perverted rather than untrue. There are I fear, still more serious differences between us on the subject of authority, and especially the authority of the Bible," Life and Letters, Vol. I, p.400. Again Dr. Hort states, "Another idea has lately occurred to me: is not Mariolatry displacing much worship of scattered saints and so becoming a tendency towards unity of worship? I have been persuaded for many years that Mary-worship and Jesus worship have very much in common in their causes and their results" Vol. I, p.50-51 "Life and Letters." -- Hort was completely deceived by Darwin Vol. I, p.374 "Life and Letters." "Have you read Darwin?...in spite of difficulties, I am inclined to think it is unanswerable (page 416). "...another last word on Darwin...I shall not let the matter drop in a hurry, or, to speak more correctly, it will not let me drop...there is no getting rid of it any more than a part of oneself." Vol. I, pages 433-434. On the atonement Hort writes, "Certainly nothing can be more unscriptural than the modern limiting of Christ's bearing our sins and sufferings to His death; but indeed that is only one aspect of an almost universal heresy." Vol. I, page 430 "Life and Letters." -- Hort in writing to a friend, John Ellerton, Dec. 20, 1851 said: "I had no idea till the last few weeks of the importance of texts, having read so little Greek Testament, and dragged on the villainous Textus Receptus... Think of that vile Textus Receptus leaning entirely on late manuscripts. It is a blessing there are such early ones." Hort refers of course to the very corrupt Codex Vaticanus and the Codex Alexandrius in which its finder, Tischendorf, noted 12,000 alterations, Codex Sinaiticus. We ask, "From where did Hort get this great antipathy and hatred for the Textus Receptus so early in his career? How did he conceive his ingenious theories to do away with the fact that the Textus Receptus (the Greek text underlying the King James Version) and that which is representative of a very, very high percentage of all Greek Manuscripts?" -- Look at the hidden background for the modern spreading rejection of the King James Version. The followers of Westcott and Hort are following the lead of men who have departed from the faith and have given themselves over to a strictly forbidden prying into the occult. They had received from the world of spirits a hatred for the true Word of God. After we learn that Hort describes the sacred text as "being that vile Textus Receptus," we read Hort's words, "Westcott, Gorham, C.B. Scott, Benson, Bradshaw, Luard, and I have started a society for the investigation of ghosts, and all supernatural appearances, and effects, being all disposed to believe that such things really exist, and ought to be discriminated from hoaxes and mere subjective delusions; we shall be happy to obtain any good accounts well authenticated with names. Our own temporary name is the [occult] Ghostly Guild." Vol. I, page 211.

Rosslyn Chapel, just outside Edinburgh, has been a holy place for centuries. Its name means either "point of a waterfall" or "ancient knowledge down the line" depending on who you ask. -- What is the chapel's link with Freemasons? Apparently Sir William St Clair claimed patronage of the masons - a link passed and strengthened through the generations and evidenced in two seventeenth century charters. In 1736, Sir William Sinclair became the first Scottish Grand Master at the Grand Lodge of Scotland in Edinburgh. By the 1690s, the bond between the Sinclairs and the masons was commented in a celebrated letter. ... Who is the leering green man engraved more than 120 times in the chapel? Carvings of a bearded green man appear in many religious settings in much of the world, but few have as many as Rosslyn. There are many theories about who the green man was. Some say it was either John the Baptist or Hercules. He is depicted as a Robin Hood-type figure, sometimes alternatively named Jack-in-the-green or Jack-in-the-Tree. He also may have been Celtic fertility god or a tree spirit. ... Who is the man with the gash on his head? Rumour suggests that he might be the smited apprentice of pillar fame. However, he could also be Freemasonry's legendary figure, Hiram Abiff, the martyred architect of King Solomon's Temple. Academic symbologists say it could just as easily express a classic archetype of sacrifice and rebirth. ... What do the 213 mysterious cube carvings mean? The mystical symbols carved into the stone ceiling of the chapel have confused historians for generations. But recently music scientists who believe they are part of a musical notation system are making efforts to decode the signs. The series of lines and dots are thought to represent shapes created by sand on a musical instrument during the vibrations caused by sound.

They played a major political, military, and cultural role in medieval Europe and even the Near East. They were famed for their martial spirit and eventually for their Christian piety. They quickly adopted the Romance language of the land they settled, their dialect becoming known as Norman or Norman-French, an important literary language. The Duchy of Normandy, which they formed by treaty with the French crown, was one of the great fiefs of medieval France. The Normans are famed both for their culture, such as their unique Romanesque architecture, and their musical traditions, as well as for their military accomplishments and innovations. Norman adventurers established a kingdom in Sicily and southern Italy by conquest, and a Norman expedition on behalf of their duke led to the Norman Conquest of England. Norman influence spread from these new centres to the Crusader States in the Near East, to Scotland and Wales in Great Britain, and to Ireland. ... In Byzantium: Soon after the Normans first began to enter Italy, they entered the Byzantine Empire, and then Armenia against the Pechenegs, Bulgars, and especially Seljuk Turks. The Norman mercenaries first encouraged to come to the south by the Lombards to act against the Byzantines soon fought in Byzantine service in Sicily. They were prominent alongside Varangian and Lombard contingents in the Sicilian campaign of George Maniaces of 1038-40. There is debate whether the Normans in Greek service were mostly or at all from Norman Italy, and it now seems likely only a few came from there. It is also unknown how many of the "Franks", as the Byzantines called them, were Normans and not other Frenchmen. One of the first Norman mercenaries to serve as a Byzantine general was Hervé in the 1050s. By then however, there were already Norman mercenaries serving as far away as Trebizond and Georgia. They were based at Malatya and Edessa, under the Byzantine duke of Antioch, Isaac Komnenos. In the 1060s, Robert Crispin led the Normans of Edessa against the Turks. Roussel de Bailleul even tried to carve out an independent state in Asia Minor with support from the local population, but he was stopped by the Byzantine general Alexius Komnenos. Some Normans joined Turkish forces to aid in the destruction of the Armenians vassal-states of Sassoun and Taron in far eastern Anatolia. Later, many took up service with the Armenian state further south in Cilicia and the Taurus Mountains. A Norman named Oursel led a force of "Franks" into the upper Euphrates valley in northern Syria. From 1073 to 1074, 8,000 of the 20,000 troops of the Armenian general Philaretus Brachamius were Normans - formerly of Oursel - led by Raimbaud. They even lent their ethnicity to the name of their castle: Afranji, meaning "Franks." The known trade between Amalfi and Antioch and between Bari and Tarsus may be related to the presence of Italo-Normans in those cities while Amalfi and Bari were under Norman rule in Italy. Several families of Byzantine Greece were of Norman mercenary origin during the period of the Comnenian Restoration, when Byzantine emperors were seeking out western European warriors. The Raoulii were descended from an Italo-Norman named Raoul, the Petraliphae were descended from a Pierre d'Aulps, and that group of Albanian clans known as the Maniakates were descended from Normans who served under George Maniaces in the Sicilian expedition of 1038 A.D.

Psalms 118:19-29 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD: This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter. I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my Salvation. The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. This is the LORD'S doing; it is marvellous in our eyes. This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity [lit. wellbeing]. Blessed be He (Jesus) that cometh in the Name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the House of the LORD. God is the LORD, which hath shewed us [resurrection - sunrise] light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar. Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee. O give thanks unto the LORD; for He is good: for His mercy endureth for ever. -- Holy Bible

Die Legalisierung von Cannabis stellt einige EU-Staaten auf die Probe: Deutschland musste seine Pläne jüngst etwa abschwächen. Lernen könnte Berlin von einem Experiment, das in den Niederlanden in den Startlöchern steht. Mehrere Städte werden dort den legalen Anbau und Großhandel mit Cannabis testen – wohl auch, um der florierenden Drogenkriminalität etwas entgegenzusetzen. ORF.at sprach mit Regierung und Betroffenen über Chancen, Fehler und den Wunsch nach einer europäischen Linie.