'Oh woe betide, if it makes sense...'
Well, that popped into my head, thinking on 'a sense of sense' to add to the list of senses (see yesterday's post)...and I guess what makes 'sense of sense' when we talk is our 'sense of grammar'!
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comment above is of interest too. I am also conscious that there are two senses in which woe betide is used. 1. May woe betide him if he harms anyone i.e. as a threat. and 2. Woe betide you if you cross the old sod i.e be careful
(from a discussion of the meaning and sense of 'woe betide')
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/189171/how-does-one-parse-woe-betide
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It's not a phrase I use, and I find it is archaic, so not many use it, but I see it often enough to have a sense of it!...and thinking about the dust ups in Greece, 'woe betide' kind of came to mind...
and now there is another word I just see that maybe I can use here in the post...'parse'...brb...one meaning of parse is to 'examine in a minute way'...that's fine!...in the Pearls in the Dirac Sea post, this caught my eye...
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64 is the number of cells we have before our cells start to bifurcate (differentiate) shortly after conception.
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I've tried to examine that, and apparently something happens when cell division reaches eight...the cells in their further division begin to differentiate, bifurcate, into bone cells, skin cells, muscle cells, etc...for just a brief time, cells are like all alike with no set purpose...oh!...wait...that might be what stem cells are!...brb...
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In a developing embryo, stem cells can differentiate into all the specialized cells
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell
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I've never had a career, I didn't bifurcate in school, so to speak, I didn't specialize in one field or skill and become professionally accomplished...so when in a job interview, I'm kind of at a loss...I could write in the 'career' box, 'poet', but that's problematic...
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there's no money in poetry
and no poetry in money
Robert Graves
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well, let me 'parse' 'stem'...
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STEM is an acronym referring to the academic disciplines of science[note 1], technology, engineering, and mathematics.[1] The term is typically used when addressing education policy and curriculum choices in schools to improve competitiveness in science and technology development. It has implications for workforce development, national security concerns and immigration policy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEM_fields
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lol...finding that is a surprise!...on career day in grammar school I wanted to be an 'aeronautical engineer'...the push at the time, late 1950s, early 1960's was to get the schools to turn out engineers...by college I was still being encouraged to be an engineer...it's where the money was...but by then I was an English major...back to 'stem'...brb
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From President Obama on down, public officials have cautioned against pursuing degrees like art history, which are seen as expensive luxuries in today’s world. Republicans want to go several steps further and defund these kinds of majors.
Why America’s obsession with STEM education is dangerous
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-stem-wont-make-us-successful/2015/03/26/5f4604f2-d2a5-11e4-ab77-9646eea6a4c7_story.html
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a woe betide to be sure...
but I'm just looking for a definition of stem!...brb...
one meaning of stem is 'originate in or be caused by'
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Two roads diverged in a wood...
Robert Frost
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I don't know what happens, what makes people go this way or that way...but it has something to do with being bitten as I tried to lay out in my Byte post(Pearls in the Dirac Sea)...
(logging off in chat in wow last night, I had caps locked on, and miss typed BITE for nite...sometimes things are just accidents!)
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Pipili, among the female politicians the extremists have publicly targeted – with Golden Dawn MPs hurling abuse at her in parliament and party cadres hounding her outside her country home – is sure of something else: Greece’s frontline role in Europe’s refugee crisis is also emboldening the neo-Nazi group. “They have been inflamed by what many saw as provocative immigration policies under the leftists and all these desperate people arriving every day,” she says.
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In a nation still haunted by memories of brutal occupation under the Third Reich, the entire political spectrum has pledged it will not allow Golden Dawn to have such a role. “A lot of people are praying it is the socialist Pasok and not the fascists who come third,” Pipili said.
Greek election 2015: Golden Dawn rises on austerity-driven despair
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/16/greek-election-2015-golden-dawn-austerity
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Reading 'brutal occupation' in that story during my morning news review, I recalled this story I'd read the night before...
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When 28 civilians were killed in Athens, it wasn’t the Nazis who were to blame, it was the British. Ed Vulliamy and Helena Smith reveal how Churchill’s shameful decision to turn on the partisans who had fought on our side in the war sowed the seeds for the rise of the far right in Greece today
Athens 1944: Britain’s dirty secret
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/30/athens-1944-britains-dirty-secret
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The Germans anticipating defeat in WW2, came up with an end game...
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Werwolf (pronounced [ˈveːɐ̯vɔlf], German for "werewolf") was the name given to a Nazi plan, which began development in 1944,[2] to create a resistance force which would operate behind enemy lines as the Allies advanced through Germany. However Werwolf's propaganda value far outweighed its actual achievements.
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The history of Werwolf was compared to the Iraqi insurgency by the Bush Administration and other Iraq War supporters.[63][64] In speeches given on August 25, 2003 to the Veterans of Foreign Wars by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld parallels were drawn between the problems faced by the coalition's occupation forces in Iraq to those encountered by occupation forces in post-World War II Germany, asserting that the Iraqi insurgency would ultimately prove to be as futile in realizing its objectives as had the Werwolfs.[65]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werwolf
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The movie Exodus is a long movie, and covers a lot of ground...and there are glimpses of things in it...that the British had a camp for Jews on Cypress is self similar to the prison camps they made for the leftist partisans in Greece...that they enlisted the Greeks who had fought for the Germans during the German occupation, to fight the leftist Greeks after Germany's defeat was a political tactic to keep Russia out of Greece...Europe was being divided up, and Churchill wanted Greece to be in the Western half...to further their ends, the British had to make prison camps not unlike the prison camps of the Germans...they even used the same Greeks the Germans had used to maintain the German camps!...it's a tangle...another scene in Exodus has a German arrive in the Arab village, and tell the Arab leader, the child hood friend of Paul Newman, to prepare to do battle with the Jews (Newman, wounded, is being concealed in another room)...the German is a cohort of the Grand Mufti...
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In 1941, Haj Amin al-Husseini fled to Germany and met with Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Joachim Von Ribbentrop and other Nazi leaders. He wanted to persuade them to extend the Nazis’ anti-Jewish program to the Arab world.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/muftihit.html
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The German in Exodus looks like one out of the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark...and one might ask, how is he active in Israel/Palestine in 1947?!...answer is the Germans of the Reich dispersed, shopping their skills and experience to other countries...German scientists came to the United States under Operation Paperclip, some went to Russia, both were supplied with captured V2 missiles to continue experimenting with...some similar German rocket scientists went to Egypt, but were driven out by the efforts of the Mossad...
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Operation Damocles was a covert campaign of the Israeli Mossad in August 1962 targeting German scientists and technicians, formerly employed in Nazi Germany's rocket program, who were developing rockets for Egypt at a military site known as Factory 333. According to Otto Joklik, an Austrian scientist involved with the project, the rockets being developed were programmed to use a radioactive waste.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Damocles
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wiki's truncated quote is from this book:
Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
By Barry Rubin, Wolfgang G. Schwanitz....bit is in pdf, so I can't copy...
and I've lost my sense of what I was about, my train of thought...it's something to do with chicken egg yokes and bees...for tomorrowmorrow!
DavidDavid
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