5th for the 4th

Something interesting to consider this 4th of July:

"No longer subjects to the crown, the colonists became something different: a people whose allegiance was to one another, not to a faraway monarch."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/02/AR2010070205525.html

May this 4th of July be a memorable celebration for all - no matter what or how much you drink.

Tech Test - Lenovo S10e

Trying out a new bit of hardware today, actually this is new to me on many fronts...

The hardware is a Lenovo S10e netbook. It's the smallest computer I've enjoyed working on in a long time. (Palms and Handhelds just didn't do it for me - - something about needing to suck the universe through the equivalent of a coffee straw)

Now if only the keyboard was full sized, I have a feeling that this would cut down on my typos, and the strange way the cursor will occasionally jump to the top of my active window. Some extra RAM would be a major draw too, since this little jewel came running WinXP, and a 1 gig RAM - - with Win7 out and about in the world a jump to 2+ gig would be nice.

Seems like there are so many manufacturers that have gone into the netbook production craze I'll definitely need to do some more research. (although the S12 with full sized keyboard, and 12in screen is rather tempting)

The Value of Tequila

The Value of Tequila has just shot up . . .

Scientists Turn Tequila into Diamonds
http://www.physorg.com/news145255770.html

'To dissipate any doubts, one morning on the way to the lab I bought a pocket-size bottle of cheap white tequila and we did some tests," Apátiga said. "We were in doubt over whether the great amount of chemicals present in tequila, other than water and ethanol, would contaminate or obstruct the process, it turned out to be not so. The results were amazing, same as with the ethanol and water compound, we obtained almost spherical shaped diamonds of nanometric size. There is no doubt; tequila has the exact proportion of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms necessary to form diamonds.' . . .

The final diamond film was hard and heat-resistant - properties that could make the diamond useful as coatings for cutting tools, high-power semiconductors, radiation detectors and optical-electronic devices, the scientists explained. They plan to begin industrial-scale applications around 2011, and hope to interest a tequila producer in widening its market beyond the traditional beverage. "

Makes you wonder what DeBeers thinks about this one :P

5 Stages of Tech Grief

Had this realization today and well, thought I would share:

The 5 stages of Grief is something I've heard about in the past and may have even referenced at times. Best guess I think it might have been a post with a touch of Dead Like Me in it.

Anyway the 5 stages of tech grief are:

1. Denial - - No it's not broken, it's really working - see flashing lights. Are you sure you're using [insert tech here] correctly, that you didn't just tweak a setting or something? It was working fine before.

2. Anger - - "Why Me?" Why out of all the people on this planet did you call me. It's not my [insert tech here]. Just because you broke it doesn't mean I NEED to fix it. Oh, you broke it when [time is usually measured in weeks or months here] - and you need it fixed by when [time usually measured in minuets or hours if not sooner]?!?!

3. Bargaining - - Have you tried rebooting yet? If that doesn't work how about we try and talk you through some of the basic troubleshooting, checking the connections and such. What if we get you a swap [insert tech here]? Can you drop it off/ can I pick it up to work on [insert tech here]? If I can fix it will you just go away?

4. Depression - - They have no idea what they are doing, and I'm going to be trapped on the phone feeling my brain liquefy and my eyes ooze and bleed. Who knows maybe they will have an epiphany and figure out what it is they are trying to login to - possible bonus points if they remember who they are for their login. Yeah right, better chance of meeting death before they figure out copy and paste. If I had one bullet would I be better off using it on them or me?

5. Acceptance - - hard call for total acceptance - most things are just resigned. Joyful bliss ensues when things get fixed - maybe there is hope for humanity, maybe even a little hope for this person. Usually you just learn to live with the reality that no matter how many times you teach someone how to fish they will still attempt starvation and call again for another attempt. All you can do is hope that you'll be out, helping someone else when they come back. (I guess you just accept that there will be others and move on to the next tech triage case.)


Oh and on happier notes DI hit it's 3rd Anniversary last Saturday (27th of Sept) when my home net connection was down. It feels good to have a solid connection back up again - almost like the return of balance that was missing before.

This is definitely the longest web presence I've ever had :)

Thanks for All the Fish

"Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason." --- Douglas Adams

insert music "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" here
i was leaning more to the slower version but i guess the
fast one used in the opening of the movie would work. . .

should i do it. . .
sure what the hell, why not.
i mean they do play quite well together
if you have the bandwidth.

just make sure to hit the replay for the one up top, sadly it's a bit shorter than the music down below.

just remember, don't panic. . . and enjoy.

Smurfin' Spammification

Sorry but this has all the markings of one of those bad Foreign Legion skits where everyone is standing in a line and they ask for a volunteers, only to have all but one or two take a step back.

Diary of a deliberately spammed housewife
What happened when 'Penelope Retch' answered her spam e-mail

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/070108-mcafee-spam-experiment.html?hpg1=bn

All to find out just how much SPAM would a SPAMMER SPAM if a SPAMMER found a SPAM louver to SPAM-IFY with all the SPAM in the whole SPAM-world

~please don't ask me to type that again~

Lost in the Propaganda

Okay I was beginning to question whether or not I had actually seen this article, and after a while had begun to write it off as some sort of story that I had heard part of and made up the rest in my head. However it nagged at me off and on until I had to go out and see if I could find it again.

In the end I only have one question, "Why haven't we heard more about this?"

New Source for Biofuels
Discovered by Researchers At The University of Texas at Austin
April 23, 2008

AUSTIN, Texas — A newly created microbe produces cellulose that can be turned into ethanol and other biofuels, report scientists from The University of Texas at Austin who say the microbe could provide a significant portion of the nation's transportation fuel if production can be scaled up.

Along with cellulose, the cyanobacteria developed by Professor R. Malcolm Brown Jr. and Dr. David Nobles Jr. secrete glucose and sucrose. These simple sugars are the major sources used to produce ethanol.

"The cyanobacterium is potentially a very inexpensive source for sugars to use for ethanol and designer fuels," says Nobles, a research associate in the Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology.

Richard SantosBrown and Nobles say their cyanobacteria can be grown in production facilities on non-agricultural lands using salty water unsuitable for human consumption or crops.

Other key findings include:

• The new cyanobacteria use sunlight as an energy source to produce and excrete sugars and cellulose
• Glucose, cellulose and sucrose can be continually harvested without harming or destroying the cyanobacteria (harvesting cellulose and sugars from true algae or crops, like corn and sugarcane, requires killing the organisms and using enzymes and mechanical methods to extract the sugars)
• Cyanobacteria that can fix atmospheric nitrogen can be grown without petroleum-based fertilizer input

They recently published their research in the journal Cellulose.

Nobles made the new cyanobacteria (also known as blue-green algae) by giving them a set of cellulose-making genes from a non-photosynthetic "vinegar" bacterium, Acetobacter xylinum, well known as a prolific cellulose producer.

The new cyanobacteria produce a relatively pure, gel-like form of cellulose that can be broken down easily into glucose.

"The problem with cellulose harvested from plants is that it's difficult to break down because it's highly crystalline and mixed with lignins [for structure] and other compounds," Nobles says.

He was surprised to discover that the cyanobacteria also secrete large amounts of glucose or sucrose, sugars that can be directly harvested from the organisms.

Fluorescence microscopy of the cyanobacterium (chlorophyll in red) and blue cellulose material stained with a fluorescent brightener."The huge expense in making cellulosic ethanol and biofuels is in using enzymes and mechanical methods to break cellulose down," says Nobles. "Using the cyanobacteria escapes these expensive processes."

Sources being used or considered for ethanol production in the United States include switchgrass and wood (cellulose), corn (glucose) and sugarcane (sucrose). True algae are also being developed for biodiesel production.

Brown sees a major benefit in using cyanobacteria to produce ethanol is a reduction in the amount of arable land turned over to fuel production and decreased pressure on forests.

"The pressure is on all these corn farmers to produce corn for non-food sources," says Brown, the Johnson & Johnson Centennial Chair in Plant Cell Biology. "That same demand, for sucrose, is now being put on Brazil to open up more of the Amazon rainforest to produce more sugarcane for our growing energy needs. We don't want to do that. You'll never get the forests back."

Brown and Nobles calculate that the approximate area needed to produce ethanol with corn to fuel all U.S. transportation needs is around 820,000 square miles, an area almost the size of the entire Midwest.

They hypothesize they could produce an equal amount of ethanol using an area half that size with the cyanobacteria based on current levels of productivity in the lab, but they caution that there is a lot of work ahead before cyanobacteria can provide such fuel in the field. Work with laboratory scale photobioreactors has shown the potential for a 17-fold increase in productivity. If this can be achieved in the field and on a large scale, only 3.5 percent of the area growing corn could be used for cyanobacterial biofuels.

Cyanobacteria are just one of many potential solutions for renewable energy, says Brown.

"There will be many avenues to become completely energy independent, and we want to be part of the overall effort," Brown says. "Petroleum is a precious commodity. We should be using it to make useful products, not just burning it and turning it into carbon dioxide."

Brown and Nobles are now researching the best methods to scale up efficient and cost-effective production of cyanobacteria. Two patent applications, 20080085520 and 20080085536, were recently published in the United States Patent and Trade Office.

For more information, contact: Lee Clippard, College of Natural Sciences, 512-232-0675; Dr. R. Malcolm Brown Jr., 512-471-3364; Dr. David Nobles, 512-471-3364.

Office of Public Affairs
P.O. Box Z
Austin, TX 78713

512-471-3151
Fax 512-471-5812

http://www.utexas.edu/news/2008/04/23/biofuel_microbe/

Medical Immunity Transfer

Okay this was just too cool not to share:

Teen takes on donor's immune system

By medical reporter Sophie Scott and staff reporters

Posted Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:30am AEDT
Updated Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:49am AEDT

Liver transplant recipient Demi-Lee Brennan (c) with (l-r) Dr Stephen Alexander and Dr Stuart Dorney at Westmead Hospital in Sydney. (AAP: Paul Miller)

A 15-year-old Australian liver transplant patient has defied modern medicine by taking on her donor's immune system.

Demi-Lee Brennan had a liver transplant after she suffered liver failure. Nine months later, doctors at Sydney's Westmead Children's Hospital were amazed to find the teenager's blood group had changed to the donor's blood type.

Further tests revealed the stem cells from the donor liver had penetrated her bone marrow.

Dr Michael Stormon says he and his colleagues were even more surprised when they found the girl's immune system had almost totally been replaced by that of the donor, meaning she no longer had to take anti-rejection drugs.

"We consulted widely throughout the hospital and then looked at the medical literature and consulted colleagues around the world to see if anyone had seen this kind of thing before," he said.

"No-one had, so we were stunned and amazed."

Dr Stormon says his team is now trying to identify how the phenomenon happened and whether it can be replicated.

"That's probably easier said than done... I think it's a long shot," he said. "I think it's a unique system of events whereby this happened.

"We postulate there's a number of different issues - the type of liver failure that she had, some of the drugs that we use early on to suppress the immune system and also that she suffered an infection with a virus called CMV, or cytomegalovirus, which can also suppress the immune system."

Anti-rejection drugs, known as immunosuppresants, have significant side effects, including serious infections and toxic effects on organs.

Dr Stormon says doctors are trying to identify which patients could come off the treatment.

"They may not, like Demi, change their blood group and change their whole immune system and their bone marrow but there are a small percentage of patients who seem to get away with not needing immunosuppresion," he said.

"But the difficulty is trying to identify which ones you should stop immunosuppression on because there's always that fear and risk that over many months or years, rejection can still occur."

The case has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/24/2145289.htm

Armageddon

The end draws near - - but how will it happen, where does it end. For those looking for scenarios to prepare for you'll love Exit Mundi. So many ways to go, I hope it's a colorful one :)

For kicks and giggles I think I'll add a link for Exit Mundi along the side, under Current Addictions - - just too much to read in one quick sitting. . . honestly though the scary part was the "love button" or "is your love cheating" ad at the bottom :P

Mr. Wizard Strikes Again

Okay so there isn't too much to say, but damn science is cool. . .

Water forms floating 'bridge' when exposed to high voltage from PhysOrg.com

While it's one of the most important and abundant chemical compounds on Earth, water is still a puzzle to scientists. Much research has been done to uncover the structure of water beyond the H₂O scale, which is thought to be responsible for many of water’s unique properties. However, the nature of this structure, governed by hydrogen bonds, is currently unknown.

[...]

Not sure about the implications of this, but damn - might bring a whole new meaning to walking on water (as long as you are insulated, of course).

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The cockroaches' ability to learn varies dramatically with the time of day from Exploration

In its ability to learn, the cockroach is a moron in the morning and a genius in the evening.

Dramatic daily variations in the cockroach’s learning ability were discovered by a new study performed by Vanderbilt University biologists and published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“This is the first example of an insect whose ability to learn is controlled by its biological clock,” says Terry L. Page, the professor of biological sciences who directed the project. Undergraduate students Susan Decker and Shannon McConnaughey also participated in the study.

[...]

I think the major difference here is that the cockroach seems to have a genetically hard set bio-rythum vs humans which seem to like messing with their rythum on a regular basis with all sorts of fun stuff :P

Athough if the link can be proved right I expect a test of some kind to come out to help find the 'right' time to learn in the day, or to manipulate our bio-rythum to peak when learning is 'supposed' to occur.

Survivor, I think. . .

Some times I really wish I could remember my dreams - - if any thing it would explain some of those nights/mornings were I wake up more tired than when I went to sleep. Never to really know why the blankets, pillows and sheets separated and dispersed to different corners of the mattress.

Occasionally I am granted fleeting snapshots during the "between times" where the realms of the sleeping bleed into the realms of the waking. The images so vibrant that you could swear you were there, the sounds so strong and clear. . . many times I so dearly want to go back to return and finish that which was started, but that is a rare gift in deed.

If I can make a waking link then the it seems that the tenuous grasp becomes a little easier to hold on to, if only for a little longer.

Recently though with all the chaos I remember waking and for a while I had the strongest impression I'd just survived a massive boulder avalanche.

The imagery was one of the classics used by so many storytellers - where the rubble has buried someone alive, only their hand exposed, struggling to escape their rocky encasement, then suddenly falling limp as the entombed either passes out or passes on.

I can't explain it - I just feel like some how I survived it. . . whatever 'it' is. All I can explain is the impressions I have and the boulder slide was an aftermath from something bigger, I can almost lay odds on that part, if nothing else. . .

Which is better than I can say for my computer - - shortly after the dream the hard drive went belly up right at the end of a long, frustrating day no less :P More on that later if I remember.

//hack'd.logic

Okay I admit it one of my addictions is a good anime series. A big thanks to Mr. The Tiger for sharing his great library.

I was re-watching some old //hack.sign episodes when I stumbled on to this little conversation between Crim and the Silver Knight. With my current World of Warcraft addiction it seemed like a good reminder of just what is so special about "The World":

Crim: What are you doing? You're like a zombie, Silver Knight.

Silver Knight: My home, the Crimson Knights, is no longer.

Crim: What about you? When the Knights disbanded did you throw away the pride that was so important to you? Did you lose your own soul as well?

You are still in The World.

You are still alive "here". If you are alive then think. Silver Knight what are you "here" for?

Silver Knight: To do what I want to do.

Crim: To do what you should do. I've said it to Subaru as well. . .

Silver Knight: To Lady Subaru?

Crim: Listen, The World is a game. If its a game you should just enjoy it. Listen to none other than yourself, your heart, your soul!

I'm an explorer at heart, in a game the obstacles are usually secondary to my desire to see what has been created. It's a little harder to do on a PVP (Player vs. Player) realm/server but not all exploration is external.

Freakonomic Monkey Business

I'm not sure why but this whole experiment with the Capuchin monkeys just fascinates me.

http://www.freakonomics.com/times0605col.php

"Morality is a set of ideas (about) how each of us, individually and collectively, want the world to work," Dubner said. "Freakonomics shows how the world really is. You can't change the world if you don't understand how it really works." http://news.com.com/Freakonomics+writer+talks+monkey+business/2100-1026-6177655.html?part=dht&tag=nl.e433

Just how close are the realities we attempt to create with the one we actually live in?

Future Trek?

When it comes to news Slashdot is one of the best escapes a tech can have - - and even if it wasn't this is just plain cool :)

Science: Star Trek
Shields Now a Possibility?
Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday April
18, @04:11PMfrom the red-alert dept.

An anonymous reader writes
"British scientists have announced their intent to build a Star Trek-style magnetic shielding system to help protect astronauts from radiation. 'There are a variety of risks facing future space explorers, not least of which is the cancer-causing radiation encountered when missions venture beyond the protective magnetic envelope, or magnetosphere, which shields the Earth against these energetic particles. The Earth's magnetosphere deflects many of these particles; others are largely absorbed by the atmosphere.'"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6567709.stm

New Project for a New Year - Update II

Well it feels like the project to finish the basement is now in full progress. Last week the tub, most of the wiring the needed to be tweaked was done and insulation put into the rafters to help with any future noise issues.

It's always fun to see what other professionals think of the previous builder's job, and find out all the stuff that got frakk'd in the building process the at I didn't even know about. You know those little things like the wrong wattage on circuit breakers in the power box for the whole house, and the interesting use of space for the air return on the furnace.

At the moment though drywall is being delivered and stocked to be hung shortly. It's amazing what a difference seeing all this stuff come in makes, and it makes me grateful for the aid in getting it done.

I would have really frakk'd this up if I had tried to do it myself :P

New Projects for a New Year - Update

Just wanted to type up a quick update on the coax project I mentioned earlier.

Considering my lack of knowledge going in it turned out okay. The hard part we just finished today by finding the best way to get the new line of cable into the house (the original idea of working with the gas line failed due not having a small enough monkey to squeeze into the area and find the right location to feed the cable through). We did how ever find another route in that seems to work fine.

Now if only the other projects go as smoothly :)

New Projects for a New Year

It was just a matter of time - and at this point I think if I can finish the basement I might have a fighting chance to sell my current location next time the chance arises.

First step in this endeavor seems to be a toss up between plumbing for a new sink and drain in the kitchenette and finishing the bathroom on one side and laying the cable needed for television/cable/satellite. I've given up on the idea of phone jacks, and network jacks at this time due to the major technology leaps in wireless. The upstairs is wired for it - but that was before the upgrades in wireless technology.

For those of you who know me - both projects might be do able, but my knowledge on plumbing is well weak to start and I have no desire to test my flood insurance, if I had any :P. So I've started taking a closer look at what my builder left me for Co-Ax to see what I have to build on or if I'll be better off starting all over with another line for the basement.

Later will come the fun of drywall, and insulation but I really need to get the cabling done first before I loose all the lovely access - short of x-ray vision the upstairs is going to be interesting enough to figure out.

Beware of Krampus

Okay, somewhere in the back of my mind I thought I knew the whole St. Nick / Santa Claus story. Complete with the whole candy and sweets for the good kids and coal for the naughty ones.


But did you know that Santa has an enforcer?


A dear sweet demon-looking, stick swinging, fellow named Krampus that carries a bag to haul all you nasty naughty beasties away if you don't please the jolly one in red.

In some of the Ruprecht traditions the children would be summoned to the door to perform tricks, such as a dance or singing a song to impress upon Santa and Ruprecht that they were indeed good children. Those who performed badly would be beaten soundly by Servant Ruprecht, and those who performed well were given a gift or some treats. Those who performed badly enough or had committed other misdeeds throughout the year were put into Ruprecht's sack and taken away, variously to Ruprecht’s home in the Black Forest, or to be tossed into a river. In other versions the children must be asleep, and would either awake to find their shoes filled with sweets, coal, or in some cases a stick. Over time, other customs developed: parents giving kids who misbehaved a stick instead of treats and saying that it was a warning from Nikolaus that "unless you improve by Christmas day, Nikolaus' black servant Ruprecht will come and beat you with the stick and you won't get any Christmas gifts." Often there would be variations idiosyncratic to individual families.

So my inner Pirate says "Dance ye monkeys, and make ye olde St. Nick believe yer worth savin' from the shade of Krampus' sack and the wrath of his switch - for there are more than sweets on the line this holiday season. Yarr" :P


And to think they want to ban sweet enforcer Krampus for his holiday fun:

Santa's Sidekick

All I can say it that if this guy had been stalking around my youthful traditions I'd be laying traps not setting out milk and cookies, and maybe putting some salt around all the entrances just to be safe.

The Greater Perception

The past few days have been and interesting calamity of people, places, things, ideas, and emotions. Shards of perceptions that like cosmic rays have already passed through you and disappeared before you know it, leaving only a residual feeling behind in their wake.

Most of the time life moves to quickly to give valued attention to what has already come and gone - preparations are to be made in dealing with future battles.

Originally I was thinking the various encounters were all pointing up to some grand battle in my head of the Status Quo v. Change, along with any number of other cliches I could type up, nice soft friendly easily ignorable cliches.

However after a few recent experiences that all shifted, and a greater perspective took hold. (a quick thanks to "Exell" for that one - doubt he'll ever read this but credit needs to go out for the unique conversation that took place on Ashenvale chat).

Not very often you get philosophy in an MMORPG that isn't quickly subverted by the mob and turned into "barren's chat" - - 'nuff said.

In the end though two things stuck:

the first: That our perception shapes our truth - it is not truth that shapes our perception
second: That the only way to receive greater truth is by gaining greater perception. This greater perception can and has been denied in the past by some thus preventing greater truth from being understood.

This most likely wouldn't have stuck so much if not for the illustration that happened shortly after.

I had to go to Stranglethorn Vale to pick up some items. Shortly before the ship left Rachet a lvl31 human mage boarded (due to my playing an undead character this made my lvl27 warlock a clear target on this PVP server) shortly after we arrived - but had not docked the mage cooked me quickly and left me for dead.

I rez'd at the graveyard and found the mage standing by the warfmaster and promptly gave a /rude to them.

(note: for those not familiar with World of Warcraft there are guards that will activate if you try to fight in town boundaries - they are usually quick, brutal and efficient in ending any one who is in combat within their jurisdiction)

So the mage feeling slighted (even after toasting me up on the ship) lit up for a nice hot fireball to show their superiority once again - and triggered three guards which promptly snuffed out their current cylon body :)

I saw them again shortly there after and /smile at them - they remembered their perception changing lesson and although I could feel my "spidey sense" tingling just before the mage refrained from lighting up another fireball for me.

Not even 20sec after that encounter a much higher lvl hunter sent his pet to eat me and jumped off the pier into the bay below. Just as before the guards ended the pet - and would have left him alone, had he not shot me with an arrow, thus triggering his fate to the guards in the warm tropical waters below.

This would not have been so interesting if he hadn't come back on top and tried the same /rude on me as I had done earlier - all I could do was laugh. I'm not sure what happened to him - as he made to jump for the ship back to Rachet and missed - then promptly died and rez'd at the grave yard.

Karma is funny that way - -

With so much going on around us at the moment, there are times when feeling despair due engulf me with the impotence to change the world around me that seems to lead me to a greater perception in the end. Even if it is only temporary enlightenment to help endure what is yet ahead, many times it is after the struggle that reflection truly allows for my perspective to change.

Happy Thanksgiving

Yeah I know that the dates have changed, but it's still interesting to see where some of the earliest thanksgiving traditions started, and how they have shifted over the years to match the current social needs that attempt to show a general gratitude for what they have received.

The First Thanksgiving Proclamation
June 20, 1676

"The Holy God having by a long and Continual Series of his Afflictive dispensations in and by the present Warr with the Heathen Natives of this land, written and brought to pass bitter things against his own Covenant people in this wilderness, yet so that we evidently discern that in the midst of his judgements he hath remembered mercy, having remembered his Footstool in the day of his sore displeasure against us for our sins, with many singular Intimations of his Fatherly Compassion, and regard; reserving many of our Towns from Desolation Threatened, and attempted by the Enemy, and giving us especially of late with many of our Confederates many signal Advantages against them, without such Disadvantage to ourselves as formerly we have been sensible of, if it be the Lord's mercy that we are not consumed, It certainly bespeaks our positive Thankfulness, when our Enemies are in any measure disappointed or destroyed; and fearing the Lord should take notice under so many Intimations of his returning mercy, we should be found an Insensible people, as not standing before Him with Thanksgiving, as well as lading him with our Complaints in the time of pressing Afflictions:

The Council has thought meet to appoint and set apart the 29th day of this instant June, as a day of Solemn Thanksgiving and praise to God for such his Goodness and Favour, many Particulars of which mercy might be Instanced, but we doubt not those who are sensible of God's Afflictions, have been as diligent to espy him returning to us; and that the Lord may behold us as a People offering Praise and thereby glorifying Him; the Council doth commend it to the Respective Ministers, Elders and people of this Jurisdiction; Solemnly and seriously to keep the same Beseeching that being perswaded by the mercies of God we may all, even this whole people offer up our bodies and soulds as a living and acceptable Service unto God by Jesus Christ."

Special thanks to the University of Oklahoma College of Law for placing this document online.

Either way - Happy Thanksgiving to those who visit this little site.