Saturday, June 26, 2010

prior 400.pri.002 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

[SHOW POWERPOINT 10: EXODUS 13:17]

Moses and the Habiru camped next to the “Sea of Reeds” (“Sea of Reeds” is the accurate translation; the “Red Sea” is an inaccurate translation). The “Sea of Reeds” was a swamp/marsh estimated to be several hundred yards wide and subject to tides.

[SHOW POWERPOINT 11: SEA OF REEDS]

Using subterfuge with lights, Moses and the Habiru crossed the Sea of Reeds at Night at low tide. The next day, the Egyptians, realizing that the Habiru’s camp fires had been left burning through the night to fool the Egyptians and that the Habiru had crossed the marsh at night, gave chase in their chariots and tried to cross the Sea of Reeds at high tide and were bogged down. The immobilized Egyptian Charioteers were then slaughtered by the Habiru.


[TRANSITION] Now I would like to turn to a brief discussion of the endgame.


BODY: PART III AFTERMATH


Subsequently the Habiru went to the south of the Sinai where there were copper mines (copper and tin = bronze) to be able to fashion more weapons. At this point the Habiru – the group included women and children -- were grumbling about not having gone straight to Canaan but, instead, having to deal with attacks, the desert, sand, mountains, etc.

It was here that Moses descended from the mountain with the Commandments and announced that he alone had the straight phone line to God and he tasked HIS newly created bodyguard – the Levites (who later became the Israeli tribe that were the priests) to slaughter the dissenting cow-worshipping Habiru.

The journey continued with battles along the way – with, for example, the Amalekites – including a stop at Midian where the Habiru were exposed to the Midian stories of their God named “Yahoo.” Subsequently, the Habiru knew their God’s name (and correct ‘names’ were an important aspect of Egyptian religion) to be “Yahweh.”


[SHOW POWERPOINT 12: MOSES MUST DIE FOR HAVING STRUCK A ROCK IN FRUSTRATION THAT GOD TOLD HIM NOT TO TOUCH.]

Just prior to reaching Canaan, Moses was killed by his own people. The Habiru were tired of his leadership: his massacres of his own and other peoples, their sufferings in the desert, etc..


The Habiru, in time, became known as the Hebrews. Their struggle for and escape to freedom has since become the classic motivational story about the oppressed’s efforts to become free.

Friday, May 14, 2010

institute 339.ins.02 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

As a young salvationist Eva Burrows had sensed a compelling call to work in Africa, and on her commissioning she was appointed as an officer teacher to the Howard Institute, a large mission station in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). At this centre there was a varied expression of service through schools and a teachers' college, a hospital and a theological training college for Salvation Army officers.
During fourteen years at Howard Institute, Eva Burrows became particularly concerned with the training of black teachers for the network of Salvation Army schools throughout Zimbabwe. During her first homeland leave she undertook a course at Sydney University for the degree of Master of Education, and presented her thesis on the training of African teachers from Zimbabwe. She subsequently became a consultant to the educational department on the development of school curricula.

Monday, May 10, 2010

aware 663.aw.003 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

Yes, we were aware. We were in very close contact, daily contact with Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, and he would update the platoon commanders; he would visit the divisions every day and he gave us information on what was going on at the political level.

Saturday, May 1, 2010

phenomenon 320.phe.003 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

5. Hadron. μ+μ- and e+e- pair production cross section in the regions of the ψ and 11”. The curves arc fits to the data using the energy spread in the colliding beams as the determinant of the widths.
narrowness of the peaks implies that these two states are very long-lived, which is the principal reason why they could not be accounted for by the previously successful model of hadronic structure. In Fig. 5 we show the ψ and vj’ peaks on a greatly expanded energy scale, and also as they are measured for three different decay modes: y, y’+hadrons; y, v’+/li /cm; and y, y’+e+em. In this figure the ψ and y’ peaks can be seen to have experimental widths of about 2 MeV and 3 MeV, respectively. These observed widths are just about what would be expected from the intrinsic spread in energies that exists within the positron and electron beams alone, which means that the true widths of the two states must be very much narrower. The true widths can be determined accurately from the areas that are included under the peaks in Fig. 5 and are given by the following expression:
where pi is the cross section to produce final state i, Bi is the branching fraction to that state, B is the branching fraction to e+e-, M is the mass of the state,
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and r is its total width. The analysis is somewhat complicated by radiative corrections but can be done, with the result that [9]
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The widths that would be expected if the psi particles were conventional hadrons are about 20% ( of their masses. Thus the new states are several thousand times narrower than those expected on the basis of the conventional model.
4.2. Psi Quantum Numbers
The quantum numbers of the new psi states were expected to be .yPc = l-- because of their direct production in e+e- annihilation and also because of the equal decay rates to e+e-and /LT/CC. In so new a phenomenon, however, anything can go, and so that assumption needed to be confirmed. In particular, one of the tentative explanations of the psi particles was that they might be related to the hypothetical intermediate vector boson, a particle that had long been posited as the carrier of the weak force. Such an identification would permit the psi’s to be a mixture of JPC = l-- and 1+-. These quantum numbers can be studied by looking for an interference effect between on- and off-peak production of muon pairs, since the latter is known to be pure 1 --. If
- the new particles were also 1 --, then an interference should occur and produce
two recognizable effects: a small dip in the cross section below the peak, and an apparent shift in the position of the peak relative to that observed in the hadron channels. In addition, any admixture of l+- could be expected to show up as a forward/backward asymmetry in the observed angular distri- bution.
This analysis was carried out as soon as there were sufficient data available for the purpose. The postulated interference effect was in fact observed, as shown in Fig. 6, while no angular asymmetry was seen [8, 9]. Thus both of the psi states were firmly established as 3P” = 1-m.

Friday, April 16, 2010

shop 772772.sho.003 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

There is evidence that that Dayan was buying antiquities as early as 1956.� But after the 1967 war he started to buy antiquities on a large scale in shops in the West Bank and Gaza, mainly in Jerusalem (Dayan Y. 1986a:142). In Jerusalem alone, Dayan frequented four different shops (Dayan 1978:215); but he also bought from stores and private individuals in Hebron, Nablus, and Gaza. The exact extent of buying is unknown, and the few items detailed below give just an example.�

4.2. �� The Governor of Raphiah. Dayan (1981:246-8; Falk 1985:346-7) bought this stone head for 5,000 Israeli pounds (at that time, a considerable sum; if it was bought in 1971-1975 period, then the amount stood in the range of U$S 700-1200) from Haj �Omar, an antiquities dealer in Jerusalem. The name was given by Dayan, but the head portrays Raamses II, not any local governor; and even the exact place of origin is not certain.� The identification of the Egyptian king was made by Professor R. Giveon of Tel Aviv University: �Giveon was not late in coming. I presented the head to him and waited for his verdict... The head, he said, was excellent. Genuine, Egyptian, and interesting. As far as he knows, it is the only one in such [large] size found in Israel� (Dayan 1981:247-8). Perhaps this explains why, when visiting Bonn on a state mission in 1978, Dayan posed for a picture next to a bust of Raamses II in the Bonn museum (Keller 1978:3).

4.3. �� Neolithic Stone Mask. Dayan bought after 1967 a Neolithic stone mask from an antiquities dealer who lived in �Idna.� He went to the field where the mask was supposedly found by an Arab tractor-driver, and while �running my hands through the upturned earth in this field�, the owner of the field approached him. The last complained that the hired driver got the money, not him, who owes the land, so Dayan compensated him with 50 Israeli pounds. Dayan also learned the tractor-driver had no license- since he had a left eye missing, just like Dayan himself, so Dayan gave the driver a �note� to the Beer-Sheba licensing bureau, asking them to arrange a license, hinting that they should not ignore the power of one eyed-men to see things (Dayan 1978:18-19, photos 19 and frontpiece).� Dayan (1978:20) handed the mask to �experts of the government department of antiquities for their study and confirmation of dating�- but it remained in his property.

4.4. �� An Incense Stand bought after 1967 from Abu Ali, a Bedouin of the Ta�amrah tribe in the Judean desert, supposedly from a burial cave south of Bethlehem. According to Dayan�s story, the vessels were found by Palestinian fighters hiding in the cave. �Antiquities were one thing and terrorists another�, writes the Defense Minister who was in charge of� the war against the latter (Dayan 1978:111).

4.5. �� Ammonite King. Dayan also bought antiquities smuggled from neighboring countries.� �The finest piece of antique sculpture in my Zahala home�- an Ammonite Iron Age II stone head- was smuggled from Jordan and bought by Dayan in Israel.� �When I bought this bust I realized that I had acquired a rare antiquity. But only later did I learn that it could well symbolize the figure of King David, wearing the crown of the King of Ammon� (Dayan 1978:190-192). The completely imaginary relating of this head with King David shows how little Dayan understood archaeology as an academic profession.� The poor Ammonite head was placed on a bookshelf between the Bible on one hand, and works of David Ben-Gurion on the other hand, �for nothing in these books is unknown to it� (Dayan 1978:193; in the English version of the same book, books on �the history, geography and archaeology of the land of Israel� are mentioned). Admiration of Dayan�s �deep knowledge� in archaeology (Y. Dayan in Ornan 1986:9; Y. Dayan 1986b:16-17; Aarons 1982:36) are based on total ignorance of what archaeology should be.

It is often difficult to assess whether Dayan bought something or received it as a gift. When Egyptian Pharaohs speak about gifts, it is often euphemism for trade or political bribe. Dayan used his status to receive �gifts� for which less influential people would have had to pay dearly.� A journalist named Yosef Zuriel documented this during one of Dayan�s shopping visits in East Jerusalem: �A few days after the six days war I received a tip from the police, that Moshe Dayan goes to purchase antiquities in the Old City [Jerusalem]. I went there and he was already in the shop with a little hammer and magnifying glass, surrounded by people and the shopkeeper serving him, bringing him sherds, and vessels, and glass finds. He bought something, they put it in a bag and placed in the Jeep. And then Dayan asked how much is it. The owner of the shop answered, �com�on, leave it�, but Dayan insisted- so did the owner. Finally, Dayan wrote a check for 2500 Israeli pounds (ca. U$S 830 in 1967) and gave it to the owner of the shop. Everybody went but I stayed and asked the owner what was the real price. He says: �Dahilak, he�s the Ministry of Defence, I am keeping the check for souvenir.�� I immediately came to the office and handed the story to the newspaper. Next day I opened it, and nothing. I went to the head of office, Yehoshua Yustman, and asked what happened, and he said that Dissentchnik [the Editor] said: �after this victory [of 1967] Dayan is allowed to make mistakes�� I suppose today it would hit front page. Then journalism meant national responsibility� (quoted in Lori 2002:34).

Saturday, April 10, 2010

extinct 440.ext.002 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

On Earth, such extinct life can be found in the form of microfossils and stromatolites. Such forms, as found in western Australia, are the oldest evidence of life on Earth, dating from 3.5 billion years ago. Microfossils are individual fossilized organisms (typically algae), as much as a few millimeters in diameter. Stromatolites are formed when layers of microbial organisms in shallow lakes or pools are covered with sediments. The organisms migrate toward the light after being covered, and the remaining organic material forms a characteristic layered or domed structure.

Stromatolites are important because they may be large enough to be seen by lander (or perhaps even high-resolution orbiter) cameras, and so some researchers have suggested searching for them near features that appear to be ancient lakes or bays. While definitive proof of biological origin would require microscopic imaging or sample return, the discovery of such features would lend credibility to the idea of extinct life.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

listened 44.lis.003 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

Hypnosis is really nothing more than a process of deep relaxation and focused concentration. It is definitely not a loss of consciousness. You are aware of the hypnotist and of things going on around you in the room. If you have ever done relaxation exercises or listened to relaxation tapes, the process of hypnosis will feel very familiar to you. When you are under hypnosis, you yourself decide what to reveal and what not to reveal. You can refuse to answer questions if you are not feeling prepared to discuss the memories. You can ask to come out of hypnosis at any time.

When your hypnosis session is over, you will most likely remember whatever came up, and you might even find more new images coming into you conscious mind during the next several days. These flashbacks can sometimes be upsetting, so try to plan how you will take care of yourself during the stressful time. The hypnotist can be a good source of support for you, as can others who have had similar experiences. Hypnosis is not magic. The memories do not always seem complete, nor are they all crystal clear, but many who have explored abduction experiences using hypnosis have found it to be an extremely useful tool, one that helped them to find and piece together the fragments of their memories.