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Zen and Science (1)
A full moon rises, large and luminous against the horizon. But later at night, when the moon is high in the sky, it has shrunk to a small circle. For centuries, people have tried to explain this observation.
It is easy enough to convince yourself it is an illusion. For example, a photograph taken of a horizon moon will be smaller than that remembered by the observer. The size of the moon in the photograph will remain the same when taken at different heights in the sky. More simply, just compare the size of the moon to the tip of your little finger when held at arm's length. First, check the moon against your finger when it is first near the horizon, and then check again later when the moon is high in the sky and appears smaller. The relative size measured against the finger remains the same.
There are many theories about the underlying cause of this illusion. An entire technical book, The Mystery of the Moon Illusion, examines these theories. (H.E. Ross & C. Plug, 2002, 275 pgs). The authors conclude that no single theory has emerged victorious. They further observe that "The moon illusion is one of the few perceptual phenomena that tap a broad spectrum of sciences: astronomy, optics, physics, physiology, psychology, and philosophy.
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Bodhidharma was a fifth century Buddhist monk credited with bringing Zen from India to China. His surviving writings are few, but to the point:
"Using the mind to look for reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness."
Apparently all human beings are wired to make the same perceptual error. The senses may not accurately register what is actually out there. The moon illusion is evaluated against our normal understanding. The assumption is that everyday perception and understanding is accurate. Is that the case? Having seen one inconsistency, there are very likely other illusions, even if we are normally unaware of them. These illusions further distort reality. We may not know what is out there as reality, or even if there is an out there.
Bodhidharma's comment points in this direction. A mind distorted by illusions from the senses can not explore itself with accuracy. Such an exploration just adds error to error.
In such case, the Buddhist method of examination of reality is through refined awareness, developed by quieting the mind.
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We just got back tonight. Hairy!
Just after you crossed us, we turned down wind and goose winged to Poole. I was surprised that I didn't rock & roll, in fact it was more comfortable than the corkscrew with the wind on the quarter!
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The San Francisco Transportation Authority yesterday released polling numbers showing support for investing in public transportation. As the federal government's support for transportation has dissipated, local transportation funding has become even more critical, and San Francisco has been good at stepping up. But we need to do more, especially as our city continues to grow. The poll shows support for a Vehicle License Fee to pay for transportation infrastructure, and support for a BART bond to upgrade the aging system. These are good numbers, but it's going to take work to get these critical transportation funding measures on the ballot and approved.
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William Morris, the son of a successful businessman, was born in Walthamstow, a quiet village east of London, on 24th March, 1834. After successfully investing in a copper mine, William's father was able to purchase Woodford Hall, a large estate on the edge of Epping Forest, in 1840.
Morris was educated at Marborough and Exeter College. At Oxford University Morris met Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The three men were all artists and formed a group called the Brotherhood. During this period their work was inspired by the history, ritual and architecture of the Medieval period. Morris and Burne-Jones were committed Anglicans and for a time they talked of taking part in a "crusade and holy warfare" against the art and culture of their own time.
Burne-Jones later recalled:
"When I first knew Morris nothing would content him but being a monk, and getting to Rome, and then he must be an architect, and apprenticed himself to Street, and worked for two years, but when I came to London and began to paint he threw it all up, and must paint too, and then he must give it up and make poems, and then he must give it up and make window hangings and pretty things, and when he had achieved that, he must be a poet again, and then after two or three years of Earthly Paradise time, he must learn dyeing, and lived in a vat, and learned weaving, and knew all about looms, and then made more books, and learned tapestry, and then wanted to smash everything up and begin the world anew, and now it is printing he cares for, and to make wonderful rich-looking books - and all things he does splendidly - and if he lives the printing will have an end - but not I hope, before Chaucer and the Morte d'Arthur are done; then he'll do I don't know what, but every minute will be alive."
Members of the Brotherhood were influenced by the writings of the art critic, John Ruskin, who praised the art of medieval craftsmen, sculptors and carvers who he believed were free to express their creative individualism. Ruskin was also very critical of the artists of the 19th century, who he accused of being servants of the industrial age. David Meakin has argued: "A rebel against his own time, he was yet deeply of his time, deeply Victorian, and this is only one of the many fertile paradoxes that make his manifold activity so fascinating."
In 1857 Morris joined with Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti to paint frescoes for the Oxford Union. He also began writing poetry and in 1858 his book The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems was published. Morris wrote: "With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on."
Morris and his Pre-Raphaelite friends formed their own company of designers and decorators. As well as Burne-Jones and Rossetti, the group now included the architect Philip Webb and Ford Madox Brown. Morris, Marshall, Faulkener & Co, specialized in producing stained glass, carving, furniture, wallpaper, carpets and tapestries. The company's designs brought about a complete revolution in public taste. Their commissions included the Red House in Upton (1859), the Armoury and Tapestry Room in St. James's Palace (1866) and the Dining Room in the Victoria and Albert Museum (1867). In 1875 the partnership came to an end and Morris formed a new business called Morris & Company.
Despite the large number of commissions that he received, William Morris continued to find time to write poetry and prose. His work during this period included The Life and Death of Jason (1867), The Earthly Paradise (1868) and the Volksunga Saga (1870). In one article Morris argued: "So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die."
The art critic, Patrick Conner, has argued that the writings of John Ruskin inspired artists such as Morris and Edward Burne-Jones: "Ruskin... proved an inspiration to William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, whose enthusiasm carried Pre-Raphaelite principles into many branches of the decorative arts. They inherited from Ruskin a hostility to classical and Renaissance culture which extended to the arts and design of their own time. Ruskin and his followers believed that the nineteenth century was still afflicted by a demand for mass-production... They opposed themselves to mechanized production, meaningless ornament and anonymous architecture of cast iron and plate glass."
In the 1870s Morris became upset by the aggressive foreign policy of the Conservative Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli. In began writing to newspapers and publishing pamphlets where he attacked Disraeli and supported the anti-imperialism of the Liberal Party leader, William Gladstone. However, he became disillusioned with Gladstone's Liberal Government that gained power after the 1880 General Election and by 1883 Morris had become a socialist. Morris later explained his new political philosophy: "What I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brainslack brain workers, nor heartsick hand workers, in a word, in which all men would be living in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all - the realisation at last of the meaning of the word commonwealth."
Morris joined the Social Democratic Federation (SDF) and began contributing articles to its journal Justice. However, Morris was soon in dispute with the party leader, H. H. Hyndman. Morris shared Hyndman's Marxist beliefs, but objected to Hyndman's nationalism and the dictatorial methods he used to run the party.
In December, 1884, Morris left the SDF and along with Walter Crane, Eleanor Marx and Edward Aveling formed the Socialist League. Strongly influenced by the ideas of William Morris, the party published a manifesto where it advocated revolutionary international socialism. Morris was also the main contributor the the party's journal, Commonweal.
Over the next few years Morris wrote socialist pamphlets, sold socialist literature on street corners, went on speaking tours, encouraged and participated in strikes and took part in several political demonstrations. In July, 1887 Morris was arrested after a demonstration in London. Four months later he participated in what became known as Bloody Sunday, when three people were killed and 200 injured during a public meeting in Trafalgar Square. The following week, a friend, Alfred Linnell, was fatally injured during another protest demonstration and this event resulted in Morris writing, Death Song.
Morris devoted a lot of his time to political writing. This included Chants for Socialists (1883), The Pilgrims of Hope(1885) and the Dream of John Ball (1888). The following year Morris wrote one of his most important books, News from Nowhere. The book, a Utopian fantasy, tells the story of a man who falls asleep after an evening at a Socialist League meeting. He wakes in the future to find England transformed into a communist paradise where men and women are free, healthy, and equal. Money, prisons, schools and government have been abolished and the industrial squalor of England in the 1880s has disappeared. At the close of the book, the man has returned to the present, but has been inspired by what he has seen and his determined to work for a socialist future.
It has been argued by David Meakin that Morris was not a very successful politician: "Morris had little talent for politicking, and the intransigence of the Socialist League tended to cut it off from parliamentary politics. He feared and denounced the tendency for socialism to sink into compromise and palliatory reform, offensive to his total ethical vision. Only in his final years, uncompromisingly styling himself a communist, did he come to accept the educative value of local struggles, whilst always insisting that these should be catalysts for total change."
Henry Snell met Morris during this period: "It was William Morris who first made me consciously aware of the ugliness of a society which so arranged its affairs that its workers were deprived of the beauty which life should give. I remember him as a bluff, vital, and challenging personality, whose influence upon those who knew him was both marked and lasting. I knew Morris only as a humble and admiring devotee may know the master. In my mind his gifts and experience placed him among the supermen. I might have known him better if I had been less aware of his greatness." Bruce Glasier has argued: "William Morris was to my mind one of the greatest men of genius this or any other land has ever known."
Margaret McMillan was another young socialist who was impressed with Morris: "We were invited to meet William Morris at Kelmscott House. Mr. Morris received us with patient cordiality. Dressed in navy blue, and with his hair much ruffled, he looked like a sea captain receiving guests on a stormy day, but glad to see them. He wanted to hear about his Edinburgh friends, especially John Glasse, with whom he could discuss handloom weaving as well as literature or Socialism. He lighted his pipe and talked, sitting upright in a high chair. We listened to his copious, glittering talk. Morris belonged to a rich, radiant, present world. He created it. He was practical as well as impatient." W. B. Yeats has pointed out: "No man I have ever known was so well loved. He was looked up to as to some worshipped medieval king. People loved him as children are loved. I soon discovered his spontaneity and joy and made him my chief of men."
In 1891 William Morris became seriously ill with kidney disease. He continued to write on socialism and occasionally was fit enough to give speeches at public meetings. Morris political views had been influenced by the anarchist theories of Peter Kropotkin. Morris was also sympathetic to syndicalism of Tom Mann. Although Morris supported trustworthy socialist politicians such as George Lansbury and Keir Hardie, he believed that socialism would be achieved through trade union activity rather than by getting socialists elected to the House of Commons.
In his last few years of his life Morris wrote Socialism, Its Growth and Outcome (1893), Manifesto of English Socialists (1893) The Wood Beyond the World (1894) and Well at the World's End (1896).


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Luxuriant Sedans Plan Release Show for Double Parked
Second Album by Triad-Area Blues-Rock Excavators
The band Luxuriant Sedans aren't out to rescue the blues exactly. The blues, of course, is a venerable, now timeless, African-American aesthetic style and form, one that infuses gospel, rock, bluegrass, hip-hop, country, jazz and more. So — the blues don't need to be rescued. But what the band of seasoned Triad musicians are doing is giving blues-rock a nice jolt to the system, sanding off some rust from its undercarriage. Luxuriant Sedans release their second studio album, Double Parked, this month, and to mark the occasion the band will play a record-release show at the Garage in Winston-Salem.
Luxuriant Sedans are a rock band. If you appreciate a musical story that can move from and through Charley Patton to John Lee Hooker to the Small Faces to James Brown to AC/DC to Otis Redding to ZZ Top, then you'll be able to get what Luxuriant Sedans are up to, and how it both relates to and shows a respect for keeping a tradition alive by staying limber and knowing a thing or two about the past.
Luxuriant Sedans pay tribute to the dynamism of rock and the blues by digging up fairly obscure tunes — from all over — and giving them a touch of chrome and internal combustion. But the band isn't some kind of preservationist musicological outfit. They're a sweaty and loud rock band, and they happen to be made up of Winston-Salem and Greensboro lifers, players who have been at it since the '70s and have soaked up what it means to plug in and play some crunchy chords with wailing harmonica, soulfully gruff singing, and driving rhythms.
"From the start, my vision of this was 'Okay, we'll use the blues as the root because we can do that until we're 70 and we can put our stamp on it,'" says bassist and informal musical director Ed Bumgardner, a longtime music writer and fixture of the area music scene. "Looking for this material I wanted to re-find songs that had been discarded and had been forgotten."
Bumgardner and his band bandmates — singer/harmonica player Mike "Wezo" Wesolowski, guitarists Rob Slater and Gino Grandinetti and drummer Bob Tarleton — succeeded. Even studious music fans will probably not be able to place some of these deep cuts by artists like John Nemeth and Marc Ford. It's worth noting that many of the songs Luxuriant Sedans are reviving aren't from the '50s or '20s, they're from the last 25 years or so.
"What this is all about is the same thing that taught us how to play," says Bumgardner. "When we got a Beatles record, or a Stones record or a Yardbirds record we'd go through it and look at the songwriting credits. That's how we learned about Chuck Berry or Little Richard or Jimmy Reed. We're part of an entire generation that had to find out about their own musical heritage from British imports. Blues music had been discarded. This is the same thing."
Luxuriant Sedans have only been a band since late 2013, but they're all veterans of the area's deep and impressive music scene. Bumgardner and guitarist Grandinetti have known each other since they were 12 or 13 years old. Bumgardner has known frontman Wesolowski since about the same time. As Bumgardner and Slater told me recently when we sat down to talk music at Bumgardner's rock-memorabilia-filled home, something was happening in Winston-Salem in the '70s, some semi-mystical confluence of factors — really good radio stations, kids who were unusually talented musicians in their early teens, a cultural moment that made playing rock and blues the logical thing for loads of young kids from the leafy suburbs. This was a time when having long hair as a young man practically marked you as an outcast.
"Music was this refuge for all the musicians, and this town had tons of musicians," says Bumgardner. "This town had tons of musicians and they were all really good."
One point of connection for all of the members of Luxuriant Sedans was area guitarist Sam Moss, who passed away in 2007. At different times in their musical careers all of the players crossed paths with Moss.
"In one way or another [Moss] brought us all to this," says Slater.
And Moss remains deeply admired by the members of Luxuriant Sedans.
"He was literally as good as ever walked the earth," says Bumgardner of Moss's talent. "You push him hard enough and he'd go toe-to-toe with Jimmy Page or Eric Clapton."
The project is, in a way, a tribute to Moss, whose playing never really got properly captured for posterity, though he made a demo recording with producer/musician Mitch Easter, another of the band member's local peers who recorded R.E.M., played in Let's Active and who adds weight to Bumgardner's theory that there was something in the Winston-Salem water in the '70s. (Luxuriant Sedans guitarist Slater also played in the Sneakers, the very Big Star and Replacements-sounding late-'70s band that included Easter and Chris Stamey of the DBs.)
Part of what makes Luxuriant Sedan more interesting than standard-issue blues rock is that they've been playing all kinds of music — proto-indie rock, folk-tinged acoustic, and other creative blends of American music — for long enough that those influences seem to have had a slow-drip effect on their sound, adding hints of color, texture and style.
Listen to "Poison Girl," a song written by Chris Whitley with a sort of Springsteen-y narrative about troubled characters and a complicated romance and given a Stones-y bourbon-country touch by Luxuriant Sedans.
Or check out "Voodoo Moon," a song by the Rocky Athas Group, which tells about a one-night stand complicated by spirit possession in New Orleans. It swings with a bass groove that could have strode off a Led Zeppelin record. Frontman Wezo delivers the lyrics with a fitting nod to Howlin Wolf and Captain Beefheart, a soulful growl that suggests both wells of menacing compressed energy and a controlled restraint. It's a little like Joe Cocker, but minus the excess theatricality. The band feathers in nifty staccato walk-ups and little touches that can bring to mind the attitudinal rock of the Kinks or the Clash in a context that might prompt a connection to Junior Wells or Dr. John. And Wezo's harp playing is given a deserved center spot in the mix. His harmonica can sound like a tenor horn, and his breathy slurs, smears and moans up the lonesome-rambler element that's already cooked into these songs.
For guys that started a band when they were in their early 60s, and who've probably each been playing for almost 50 years now, it's impressive that Luxuriant Sedans don't ever sound like they're coasting or turning on auto-pilot. The interplay between the two guitars is subtle and tasteful, with muscle and crunch. Listen to the slashing riffs woven together on "Under the Gun." The band can slide into slow-burn soul mode, like on "The Darkness" or into fast-moving material like album opener "Love Me Tonight," which would be at home on a Motown/Stax review. This is a band that sounds like they're enjoying themselves. Chops are great and all, but all the experience in the world can't replicate the energy that comes off of a group of solid players having a good time and paying attention to each other.
"We love playing so much, we have consistently rehearsed a couple times a week since the inception of the band and nobody every balks at it," says Slater.
There was a time when musicians often seemed to sound jaded after they'd been playing for a few decades. There's something nicely exuberant about Luxuriant Sedans and their attitude.
"I've been doing this since I was 12, and this is the most fun I've ever had," says Bumgardner. "I think it's the best band I've ever played in."
Wanna go? Luxuriant Sedans release Double Parked on Feb. 10 on Seventh Son Records. The band plays a record release show with the Red Dirt Revelators at 7 p.m. on Sat. Feb 11 at the Garage (110 West 7th St., Winston-Salem).


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Countdown to Christmas Day 2
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Brilliant idea to make a tree of trees. You are amazingly creative!ReplyDelete
These are both fab, I just love all that sparkle!ReplyDelete
Thanks again.
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I love both of these cards. The stacking trees to make a bigger tree is just so creative! Love!ReplyDelete
Fantastic idea Beverley - you have so many wonderful tricks up your sleeve and I'm going to have to try that glittered ds tape approach as it's so neat and effective. xReplyDelete
Gorgeous! Trees, snowflakes, sparkle...swoon! Fabulous cards; amazing inspiration! Your talent amazes and delights!!ReplyDelete
Beautiful cards and some great tips - I love the way you've used double sided tape for glitter stripes.ReplyDelete
Both of them are so pretty,Bev!! I just LOVE the glitter!!!ReplyDelete
A tree of trees! I love it!ReplyDelete
Fab cards, Bev! Love the DST glitter trick, will have to try that.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous2 December 2013 at 22:08
I love sparkle , Bev ... and these are so gorgeously sparkly ... just fabulous! Anita :)ReplyDelete
Sorry i haven't been around for a bit but thank you thou for your sweet messages you left for me...means a lot!!ReplyDelete
As for your cards that i haven't commented on recently are all absolutely stunning and loving each and every one of them :)
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Fabulous sparkly card designs Bev - love the DSST technique - so effective! Wish I lived a little bit nearer to Northallerton so I could come to your classes!ReplyDelete
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These are soooo sparkly ..... love them both! Great use of the DST too. xxReplyDelete
BEAUTIFUL glittery cards, I love these, especially the on with the trees! Very clever and fun!ReplyDelete
Oh these are fabulous, love them both.ReplyDelete
Cool wood pile!!!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3 December 2013 at 21:32
I love how you say you just " Whipped up " two cards am so jealous and what cards ! two beauties Beverley I especially love the first with that gorgeous snowflake and the wonderful glitter.ReplyDelete
Love these glittery cards - very festive! The glitter strips and stack of Christmas trees are so creative!ReplyDelete
Fab Cards .. Love all the sparkle!ReplyDelete
Thanks for joining us this week
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More gorgeous cards Bev, your xmas series has been such an inspirationReplyDelete
Two beauties! I love the strips of sparkle, great effect and so simple. Loving your tree of trees, what a brilliant idea! xReplyDelete


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Sarah Savard followed her mom to work in Grade 9 — and never left — ultimately going on to join her in the nursing profession.
At the time of her teenage visit during the annual Take Your Kids to Work day, her mother Sylvia Treloar worked on an orthopedic surgery unit at Edmonton's Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH)— the same unit where Sarah has since become the unit manager.
"When I became unit manager and moved into my office, I found pictures of me as a toddler among all the staff photos on the wall," says Sarah. "Some of the staff had worked with Mom too, and I was known as 'Sylvia's daughter.' It made for some amazing conversations and many discussions about 'the good old days'."
Sylvia did her initial nursing training in the UK, and challenged the LPN exam when she moved to Canada. She later gained her diploma in nursing, and then completed her degree in 2006, going to university the same time as Sarah.
"We registered for a few of the same classes. We helped each other with homework, and studied together," says Sarah. "When I first started nursing, I'd sit at the kitchen table, talk about what I was doing, and get Mom's perspective. I wasn't embarrassed to ask her anything, and she shared her experiences and gave me an unbiased opinion."
Sylvia continues to specialize in orthopedic care. In 2001, she moved from RAH to Covenant Health's Misericordia Hospital as a Clinical Nurse Educator. Mother and daughter now sit alongside each other on orthopedic steering committees.
Sylvia recognizes and appreciates the unique situation they are both in. "I am very fortunate to have Sarah just a phone call away; we often discuss problems and ideas back and forth, and embrace the generational views."
"Nurses are in an emotionally challenging role, so once we're home, we debrief and then turn that part of ourselves off," adds Sarah, reflecting on how they maintain a positive work-life balance. "We are with patients when they're at their most vulnerable, so without the support of family and co-workers who understand how we feel, it would be much more difficult."
Sylvia is pleased that her daughter Sarah chose to shadow her that fateful day back in 1999 — and that it opened her eyes to the potential of a career in nursing.
"I love that Sarah is so passionate about nursing and working in orthopedics," says Sylvia. "I'm very proud of her skills, her professionalism, and that she is always smiling. She has a gift, and her patients are very lucky to have her."
AHS is celebrating National Nursing Week from May 8-14. Share what nursing looks like for you on social media using #YESThisIsNursing.


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The immune system is the body's defense against disease. It defends the body from attack by foreign invaders such as bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites, as well as cancerous cells.
Normally, the immune system can distinguish between what belongs in your body (self) and what doesn't (non-self). It is able to remember previous encounters with foreign invaders and to defend itself. For example, if you had measles or chicken pox as a child, your immune system should remember the organisms that caused these diseases, and during any future encounter will respond to them in a way that is effective in preventing you from again developing those diseases.
Outside the Body
The skin is the first line of immune defense. It provides a physical barrier to keep bacteria and viruses from getting inside the body. The mucous membranes that line the body's entrances (such as the mouth, nose, rectum, vagina and penis) and passages (such as the throat and windpipe) form another barrier.
Inside the Body
When disease-causing germs (also referred to as pathogens or microbes, including bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi) get past these outer barriers, the internal part of the immune system comes into play. The immune system's job is to recognize what belongs in the body and attempt to get rid of what doesn't, or at least suppress it so it won't cause harm. The major parts of the immune system include the bone marrow, the thymus, the lymph nodes, the spleen, and the mucosal-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT), which includes the tonsils, the appendix, the Peyer's patches on the outer wall of the intestines, and the lymphoid cells in the inner part of the intestines.
The lymphatic system is made up of vessels -- just like the veins, arteries and capillaries that carry blood -- that branch out into all parts of the body. Instead of blood, these vessels carry a clear, watery fluid called lymph. This fluid carries foreign material away from your body's cells. The lymphatic vessels pass through small bean-shaped tissues called lymph nodes. The lymph nodes trap, filter and destroy foreign material, including bacteria, viruses and other microbes.
There are 500 to 1,000 lymph nodes scattered throughout the body. Large groups of lymph nodes are found in the neck, armpits and groin. Sometimes when you have an infection you can feel what people often call "swollen glands" in your neck. These are not actually glands at all, but rather your lymph nodes responding to the unwanted germs.
Each lymph node is densely packed with millions of immune cells that identify and destroy the microbes that cause disease. These infection-fighting cells are known as white blood cells or leukocytes, and they are the fundamental players in your cellular immune response. Although they are called white blood cells, only about 2% of these cells actually circulate in the bloodstream, with the rest found in the lymphatic system.
There are many different kinds of white blood cells, including dendritic cells, granulocytic cells (neutrophils, basophils and eosinophils), mast cells, megakaryocytes, mononuclear cells (monocytes and macrophages). The ones most affected by HIV are the lymphocytes.
Immune Cells You Need to Know About
Lymphocytes are very important immune cells. At any given moment, a healthy person has about one trillion lymphocytes in the body. Below is some information about key lymphocytes and macrophages, another group of cells that are strongly affected by HIV disease:
B cells are lymphocytes which make and release antibodies. These are proteins that can lock on to bacteria or viruses. When an antibody locks on to a germ, it acts as a signal for other immune cells to destroy the invader. Each B cell is programmed to make one specific antibody. For example, one B cell will make the antibody that blocks the common cold virus, while another makes an antibody that locks on to the bacteria that cause pneumonia. Antibodies are generally not useful in fighting HIV.
T cells are lymphocytes which carry out a number of different functions, depending on their type. The different T cells can be identified by proteins, called receptors, on their surfaces.
CD4+ cells are T cells that have a protein called CD4 on their surface (also referred to as CD4 positive or helper T cells or T4 cells). CD4+ cells lead the attack against infections. They release chemical messengers called cytokines that stimulate other immune cells to make antibodies or to destroy infected cells. CD4+ cells are sometimes compared to the quarterbacks on a football team or the conductors of an orchestra, because they direct the body's immune response.
CD8+ cells are T cells that have a protein called CD8 on their surface (also referred to as CD8 positive). CD8+ cells which recognize a specific antigen (like HIV) differentiate into what are called cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs), often referred to as killer T cells (but not to be confused with natural killer cells, discussed below). These CTLs monitor the cells of the body and kill altered cells (such as virus-infected or cancerous cells) or stop them from producing HIV.
Natural killer (NK) cells are lymphocytes which kill virus-infected and cancerous cells, both in response to CD4+ cell signals and on their own, without direction from other lymphocytes. NK cells are important in the regulation of lymphocytes and other immune cells and, although they have been far less studied by AIDS researchers, may contribute substantially to the body's suppression of HIV. It is thought that they work to check the spread of infection by destroying HIV-infected cells; they also kill opportunistic virus-infected and cancerous cells.
Macrophages are a group of immune cells that perform many functions, including warning the immune system about invading microbes and helping to attack and destroy HIV-infected and cancerous cells. Macrophages can be infected with HIV, and HAART does not work well in HIV positive macrophages. Researchers are trying to design new drugs that can work in them.
HIV and Your Immune System
In a nutshell, HIV prevents the immune system from working properly. When it infects and destroys CD4+ cells, their ability to direct the body's immune response is compromised. Although the body fights this by constantly producing new cells -- up to 2 billion new CD4+ cells daily -- over time the virus tends to win out, with the body becoming less and less able to suppress HIV. In addition, as the immune system becomes ever more dysfunctional, the body may become unable to control the organisms that can ultimately cause potentially fatal opportunistic infections. It may also have less ability to control the spread of cancerous cells.


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The fast depletion of natural and non-renewable sources has led mankind to search for different highly effective and by no means ending sources of energy to meet its wants and demands. Wind power or wind vitality is a type of energy sources that is used for producing electrical energy and serving to us as much as a big extent to deal with our increasing needs and demands of electricity. Global warming could be due our energy craving lifestyle, so we should look into more environmentally friendly energy sources.
Main advantages of wind power:
Wind energy is friendly to the surrounding environment, as no fossil fuels are burnt to generate electricity from wind energy. Wind generates electricity, but does not release any harmful pollutants or gases as by products. This therefore makes it a safer and cleaner source of energy.
Wind turbines take up less space than the average power station. Windmills only have to occupy a few square meters for the base, this allows the land around the turbine to be used for many purposes, for example agriculture.
Newer technologies are making the extraction of wind energy much more efficient. The wind is free, and we are able to cash in on this free source of energy. Wind energy is also one of the cheapest forms of energy available today and therefore it can be used by everyone, including poor farmers from rural areas.
Wind turbines are a great resource to generate energy in remote locations, such as mountain communities and remote countryside. Wind turbines can be a range of different sizes in order to support varying population levels.
Another advantage of wind energy is that when combined with solar electricity, this energy source is great for developed and developing countries to provide a steady, reliable supply of electricity.
With the use of larger electric grids, higher amount of electricity can be generated, which thus makes electricity accessible to a larger number of households in the vicinity.
Farmers can not only use the electricity for themselves, but can also earn income out of it, by providing electricity to several homes.
Wind energy does not involve the use of any fossi fuels or non-renewable sources of energy like natural gas, coal or oil. This proves that it is an efficient renewable energy.
Wind is a never ending resource, therefore power cuts and power failures are almost non-existent in areas that rely upon wind power to generate electricity.
Wind energy will forever remain a 'near to perfect' source of energy for us, yet due to its disadvantages, the conquest of finding out a perfect alternative continues. So let us hope for its emergence in the near future and handover a better planet to our future generations.


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Recently the Killinarden angling initiative had a raffle and we provided one of the prizes which was a trip out with Kit Dunne and ourselves. Joe Radford won the trip, and we picked him up around half seven yesterday morning for his day out with Kit.
The weather was amazing and with Kits help we knew he was in for a good day. Joe proved to be a gifted young angler and able to eat a crazy amount of jellies! The tope were slow recently on the usual marks, so Kit brought us to a mixed mark first where we were into fish straight off, with Joe having a fish a drop, catching his first ever smoothounds and bull huss. If he wasnt eating a wine gum he was winding in!
It was mostly small to medium smoothounds and huss with the ever present doggies.
We really wanted to see Joe get his first tope, so we decided to up sticks and move for the last couple of hours to another mark. We were soon getting more bites and the tide was pushing again. Although we were getting many snatchy bites, the fish were dropping them as soon as picking them up. We tried a variety of presentations and different weights, the tope were being very shy and dropping them straight off. With limited time left the ratchet on Joe's reel went again and this time a much more positive take. Joe was now feeling the power of his first ever tope and with that Aidan's rod was now also bent into another. Kit was soon netting Joe's fish before doing the same for Aidan. Joe was over the moon and with pics taken it was mission accomplished.
We fished on with just one more dropped run to Joe's rod. It was now time to head back to the harbour. We said our goodbyes to Kit and dropped Joe back to his house.
Hope you had a good day Joe and thanks as always to Kit for putting us on the fish. If you would like a great days charter get on to Kit as it still early days for the summer….


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Wildlife photographer Steve Parish went from mansion to shed, but has found a new focus
In the 80s and 90s he was the man whose iconic Australian photographs graced postcards and calendars around the world.
He did as much for Australian tourism as Paul Hogan, Steve Irwin and crocodiles combined.
He ran a multi-million-dollar business and lived in a mansion in a prestigious enclave at Upper Brookfield in Brisbane's west.
But the 2011 floods in south-east Queensland and a major bout of depression washed it all away.
Steve Parish, now 73, lives in a shed on the Sunshine Coast hinterland and couldn't be happier.
He said it took losing it all to work out what was really important.
"We were declared bankrupt in 2012 and had to hand over the keys to the house, all the cameras, the photo library and everything we owned except $3,000," Mr Parish said.
"I had 125 staff and a $15 million turnover but we lost everything, that's a very refreshing pathway."
Mr Parish said he was now focused on using his passion for photography to help people overcome mental illness and deal with the stresses of life.
Steve's top 10 tips for taking wildlife pictures
- Know your camera — learn what it can do and how it can amplify your creative voice.
- Shoot in the 'golden hour' — the hour before and after sunrise and sunset provides the best light for wildlife and wilderness photography.
- Watch the weather — overcast days have softer shadows and are good for photographing the bush; sunnier days are better suited to more open environments.
- Get down — getting closer to the ground can give your picture a compelling setting and puts you at eye-level with animals.
- Always be very quiet and move slowly.
- Zoom in and fill the frame with your subject. Focus on the animal's eyes.
- Take a picture immediately and then wait until the animal does something interesting, then take another one!
- Play with colour, texture, form, tone and shape — they can enhance the story you tell with your photographs.
- Explore the possibilities of editing — it can help your work better reflect your creative goals.
- Find your passion — know what story you want to tell with your photography.
"I've been extremely unwell, struggling with depression and gone through multiple divorces, cancer and the complete loss of the business, but I have been able to prove to myself, that having a life purpose has a huge impact on your mental health," he said.
Mr Parish is now an ambassador for the Mental Illness Fellowship of Australia.
"We are all struggling with change, heightened anxiety and depression — so I am mainly driven with showing people how their mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing can be enhanced with being part of nature," he said.
"There is not enough joy in the world — not enough celebration — so I have taken it upon myself to spread some joy."
Mr Parish is a self-confessed "odd character" and these major changes in his life have also dramatically changed his approach to his own photography.
"When I take pictures these days it is for the joy within — if it sells, it sells, if it doesn't, it doesn't," he said.
"I am not into recording what I see, I want to create art."
Looking to the masters
He now finds inspiration in the masters — from Picasso to Turner, da Vinci and Rembrandt — and isn't afraid to edit and enhance his pictures to tell a story.
"For me the idea of being able to generate art with new technology is mind-shifting," he said.
"We've now got software that will allow people to do what Picasso was doing."
It is a dramatic departure from the wildlife and landscape pictures of the 80s and 90s, but Parish is unapologetic about his change in direction.
"I don't show anybody my art and ask them what they think," he said.
"I do it for me, I don't care what anybody thinks."
Mr Parish is about to embark on another new chapter, joining academia to teach an online photography course at Brisbane's Griffith University.
"One hundred and fifty people have signed up already — 15-year-olds to 80-year-olds, which is thrilling," he said.
Mr Parish has offered unconventional advice for those seeking to become better photographers or even build a career out of photography.
"You need to do more work on yourself than on your creative skills — you really need to know who you are and where you want to go with your photography," he said.
"If you want to bring some sort of refocus to humanity, then you are already successful, but if you go along the path of 'look at me', you will just be one of 1.6 billion people uploading to social media everyday … and best of luck to you.
"We all really need to be in charge of our own joy."
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Tucked away in the Leeward Islands of the Pacific Ocean and surrounded by turquoise lagoons and a barrier reef is the Island of Bora Bora - a popular choice for those who wish to while away their days in none other than paradise.
To say that this island will enchant you is an understatement, picture white sand beaches, an ocean so clear you will have the perfect view of the coral reef and tropical marine life, world class luxury accommodation and island restaurants that are as famous as the island itself.
Bora Bora can certainly provide the ultimate luxury package for you and your loved ones.


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BEIJING: China has overtaken the US as the world's largest ice cream producer, according to figures published at an industry expo in north China's Tianjin City.
In 2016, China's major frozen drink producers yielded over 3.3 million tonnes of frozen drinks, ringing up nearly $6.6 billion in sales, a spokesperson with the frozen food committee of China Association of Bakery & Confectionery Industry was quoted as saying by the Xinhua news agency. The report did not provide the US figures.
Taking the output of smaller producers into account, China's total production of ice cream last year surpassed that of the US, the spokesperson said.
China's per capita consumption of ice cream has grown from one liter 20 years ago to 3 liters in 2016.
"Compared with developed countries, ice cream industry is still young in China and has a lot of room for growth," said Zhu Nianlin, director of the association.
This year's Ice Cream China hosted nearly 400 exhibitors, with more than 1,500 booths in an area covering 35,000 square meters.
(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)


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The Andalusian Chord Progression
The Andalusian cadence is a term adopted from flamenco music for a chord progression comprising four chords descending stepwise.
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The Andalusian cadence is a term adopted from flamenco music for a chord progression comprising four chords descending stepwise. It is otherwise known as the minor descending tetrachord. Traceable back to the Renaissance, its effective sonorities made it one of the most popular progressions in classical music.
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The upper tetrachord of minor scales varies: in C minor, the sixth may be Ab or A while the seventh may be Bb or B. To avoid confusion the chords of the progression may have accidentals added. The Andalusian cadence may then be notated **I bVII bVI V** rather than simply I VII VI V. The bVII note and chord is called the subtonic. In the final chord V the leading note replaces the subtonic.
Example in C major: C Bb Ab G.
Example Songs
- Maui, Hawai'ian Sup'pa Man
- Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - by Led Zeppelin
- Basketball Jones - by Cheech & Chong
- Believe - Elton John
- China Girl - David Bowe
- Feels Like the First Time - Foreigner
- Fever
- Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
- Guitar Tango - The Shadows
- Happy Together - by The Turtles
- Hey Joe - by Deep Purple
- Hit the Road Jack
- I Will Survive - by Gloria Gaynor
- I'll Be Back - The Beatles
- Layla - by Eric Clapton
- Love Child - by The Supremes
- Maneater - Hall And Oates
- Pipeline - by The Ventures
- Runnaway - Del Shannon
- Science Fiction Double Feature - Richard O'Brien and Richard Hartley
- Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson
- Stray Cat Strut - The Stray Cats
- Walk Don't Run
One progression and lot of songs.
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Wishing each woman across the globe a very special Mother's Day!
Being a Mother is not an easy task and so on this Mother's Day I want to pray for all mothers across the globe. Almighty God my prayer is that you Lord continues to strengthen us and give us what we need to do our daily task as being a mom. Lord meet us at that very hour let us not slip on the task that is set before us.
Lord I ask that you give us a tenacious spirit within us. Lord I ask that you cover these moms in your glory that the words we speak and the thing we do be pleasing in your sight from this day forward.
Let our families be blessed by the directions that you are leading us mothers. Let your guidance and wisdom be worn around our necks. I pray this prayer in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ. Lord I thank you now for answering prayers. AMEN, AMEN and AMEN


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Friday, December 23, 2011
Freebie Friday - Legwarmers!
Created by Stephanie Japel, these are quick and easy legwarmers. It seems like a good seasonal idea, no doubt in part because I'm wearing a skirt today, and it's darn cold out there. These are extremely easy, and will look terrific in variegated, boucle, or even eyelash. The simple patterns open you up to a world of stash-busting possibilities. Click on the photo caption to be connected to the original patten on Knitty.com.
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There are some talented people in this world in many different areas. Sports, singing, dancing, writing, management etc…we all have gifts. Recognizing talent, and respecting it, is what makes a general fan. Following someone in their career is what makes a loyal fan.
Loyalty to different celebrities has become an extremity. Loving everything about them and not seeing any wrong; Arguing with someone who isn't a fan. Hating a critic because of opinion. Rivalry becomes unhealthy. Does being a loyal fan mean you agree with or like everything they do? Is there no room for critique? Can a true fan no longer be called a loyal fan if they dislike or disagree with some of the actions taken by their "idol". Its almost as if it's a since of worship. Being a fan doesn't mean you have to idolize a person. Be happy for their achievements, respect them for their talents, and support their endeavors.
Talent has no respect of person; At what point do we separate the person from the talent? Everyone has room for improvement, and if a fan thinks otherwise, what are they truly a fan of??
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Right now, I'm having some psychological trouble — we get paid once a month, and literally since the end of last month I've been counting the minutes until I get paid *this* month, so I can throw a lot of money at the student loan. I just want it GONE, and it can't be until I get three more paychecks.
This is weird, because, like, in the meantime I'm supposed to be living my life — doing my job, not just waiting for a check to come in! It's been hard to focus on anything but my net worth this month, though.
(Although that is not going to look pretty at the end of April, for two reasons: I decided it was silly to count my car, since that just doesn't seem to qualify as an asset. It's not like I'm going to sell it, after all. So I took it off mint.com. And second, I just put a ton of stuff on my credit card: I had to book movers, and nearly all of that will be reimbursable, but in the meantime it's going to sit on my card (which luckily has an 0% rate for the next year) and look ugly, until at least the end of July. And also I bought plane tickets for my May/June expedition to the West Coast, so there was a bigger expense than I usually have in a month, here. We should be in positive territory anyway by the end of the summer — debt paid off, moving expenses reimbursed, plane tickets paid down — but things are going to be weird for a while.)
But, psychologically, I'm going to have to get over just sitting around waiting to get paid, or realistically, I won't get paid for much longer!


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About Castleton
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Communication, '12
Kyle Turner started his educational journey at Castleton University with the intention and drive to become a reporter for a newspaper. As a Communication major, he worked closely with Journalism Professor Dave Blow to make his dreams a reality. The former athlete and sports enthusiast then fell in love with the medium of video around his junior year.
"Castleton sports teams were becoming better and better during my time there. My love for sports and video combined to bring me where I am today as the Director of New Media for a Division 1 mid-major conference in the NCAA," said Turner.
With the help of Communication and Video Professor Bob Gershon, Turner and a few classmates had the chance to channel this video-focused energy into creating the Spartan Sports Weekly, a show based around Castleton sports and a side project that prepared him for what he does today.
"Dave Blow was also a big influence on me during my time at Castleton. He pushed me to do better and even though I did not want to be a journalist in the traditional sense, he was there to help push me in the right direction when I knew I wanted to work in video," he said.
After his time at Castleton, Turner continued his education at the Long Island University of Brooklyn to achieve his Master's degree in Media Arts. With the trade from rural to urban learning environments, Turner now works as the Director of New Media at the Northeast Conference in Somerset, New Jersey.
Since his graduation in 2012, he still keeps in contact with the two professors he credits with helping him get to where he is now.
"I exchange e-mails with both Bob and Dave on a regular basis. Usually we talk about sports or what is going on back at Castleton and how my job is going."
To all current and future Castleton students Turner advises to, "Make the best of your time at Castleton, it will go by way too fast."


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Remember when singers were predictable and gave fans at least six months notice before releasing new music? Not anymore! There's a new album release game afoot in 2013 apparently and it's not for the snoozy.
We're barely into March and so far Drake, David Bowie and Justin Timberlake have all announced surprise new music. MyMusicCloud is bringing you all the details here to keep you in the know:
Drake: This week, everyone's favorite Canadian rapper announced on Twitter the release of the second track, "5 AM in Toronto," from his upcoming album due out sometime late summer. On the Grammys red carpet in February, where he won Best Rap Album for Take Care, Drizzy also casually revealed the title for the new album, Nothing Was the Same.
David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust took the Webiverse by surprise in January when he announced on his Website that he'd be releasing his first album in 10 years called The Next Day. "Today he definitely has something to say," his website read, revealing the single "Where Are We Now." Bowie's The Next Day comes out March 11 in the U.K. and March 12 in the states.
Justin Timberlake: After making the cryptic announcement, "I think I'M READY," on Twitter Jan. 10 before posting a link to a YouTube video which showed him walking into a studio, his new album, The 20/20 Experience, finally drops on March 19. But first, JT is hosting "Saturday Night Live" again this weekend, March 9, on NBC.
Could that mean another surprise spoof video with "SNL" alum and music video collaborator Andy Samberg? Justin has actually won four Emmys for his "SNL" appearances, and his wild parody videos with Andy, like "D*** in a Box," "J*** in My Pants" and "Mother Lover," are always a hit on YouTube. See his funny "SNL" promos below and tune in Saturday night to find out.


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Feature Articles
Comparison Tests for LX3 and LX5
Video Interview with senior executives from Panasonic Corporation
As promised, here's our video interview with senior executives from Panasonic Corporation in relation to the announcements of the five new LUMIX cameras and four new camcorders we reported just a few days ago.
Panasonic Shooting Tour with LUMIX DMC-FX5
After the announcements in a press seminar, Panasonic took us on a shooting tour to the town of Otaru, which is about an hour's bus ride from Sapporo. It's a quaint, harbor-front town, with touristy shops that sell everything from confections, soft serve ice cream, glassware to music boxes and trinkets. We had both an LX5 and the FZ100 hybrid camera with us. We also brought along the older LX3 so that we can take side-by-side shots.
Basically, while we used to shoot one camera one after another, conditions may change (light, distraction, positioning). We decided to take the cameras and shoot them side-by-side simultaneously using Intelligent Auto mode. If we shot them on manual, it would be mentioned. Here are the results.
Since we were in Hokkaido and walking the streets of Otaru, we figured we should capture some of the local delights. Here's a comparison shot of Hokkaido crab with both the LX3 and LX5 set to the Food mode (accessible via the SCN indicator on the mode dial). We wanted to see if the cameras were intelligent enough to decipher what we're shooting and compensate for low-light, over saturation and so on.
Quick Experiment with the LUMIX DMC-FZ100 Hybrid Camera
We were also given the hybrid camera -- LUMIX DMC-FZ100 -- to test. This camera allows you to shoot Full AVCHD HD videos, comes with a 60 frame per second high speed burst shooting function (3.5 megapixels) and 11 frame per second (for its full 14.1 megapixels) as well as the Intelligent Zoom function up to 32x. Here are some sample shots from the camera.
Well this concludes our event coverage of the Panasonic Digital Imaging Seminar 2010 in Hokkaido, Japan. We hope you've enjoyed highlights of our coverage. Do look forward to our full reviews of these products when they arrive on our shores soon.


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National Archives Posts Online 1918 Flu Exhibit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Staying inside to avoid the flu? Or perhaps you are not convinced yet that a pandemic would be scary. Either way, the U.S. National Archives has a solution.
It has posted an online exhibit about the 1918 pandemic of influenza, the "Spanish flu" that took the lives of anywhere between 40 million and 100 million people, depending on the estimate.
"In this room were all stages of Indians lying dead or dying or advancing well to the conditions which followed the Flu," Dr. D.A. Richardson writes in one letter to the Bureau of Indian Affairs describing the conditions at a reservation in New Mexico in October 1918.
A nurse from Kansas, "As many as 90 people die here every day with the 'Flu'."
So far the H1N1 swine flu virus has not been anywhere near as deadly, with 176 suspected deaths in Mexico, one in the United States, and mostly mild cases in nine other countries.
The exhibit, here also has photographs of policemen, typists and nurses with masks and a trolley operator keeping unmasked passengers from boarding.
(Reporting by Maggie Fox; editing by Mohammad Zargham)
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By Wodensson
An objective study of history will show beyond dispute by rational men that religion has been a major, if not the major, force in shaping our conditions and destiny. A religion can preserve or destroy a people, depending primarily on its structure and the motives of its agents.
Fundamental to any religion is its Gods, God, or Goddesses. They are what distinguish the religious entity from the secular. The belief that one serves the will of whatever higher power the "Gods" represent is a motivational force that has inspired both men and women to perform acts above and beyond the ordinary. Indeed, many have made the ultimate sacrifice, their lives, in service to the will of the Gods.
As one who has made his reason for existence the preservation of his own race, I've given literally thousands of hours of study and reflection to the religious teachings affecting the Aryan race. In this treatise, I'd like to show why I believe in a higher power which men call "God", and why Odinism is the best representation of that power. In other articles I've shown why a biblical religion is incompatible with racial survival, so that won't be the subject here, other than to briefly summarize:
First, prior to biblical, the Aryan race was secure in its nations and existence, as well as dominant throughout the known world. Today, after nearly 2,000 years of biblical religion, including inquisitions, the dark ages, the slaughter and murder of millions in the name of Jesus, the Aryan race faces near certain extinction. The effects must now outweigh the "could have beens" and "would have beens".
Second, a Folk preserving religion must follow a God of the whole Folk, not a personal God of personal advantage.
Third, a Folkish religion must teach fertility, not "sex is sin" and woman hatred (as Paul in I Corinthians 7:1, John in Revelation 14:4, and Jesus in Matthew 5:2 . I could continue, but the purpose is to promote my religion, not attack others.
I've been asked why, considering my judgments regarding biblical religion, that I don't endorse the atheistic concept known as the Church Of The Creator. I've expressed admiration for those portions of COTC teachings which seem valuable, but I'm not an Atheist anymore than a Theist or biblical religionist. In the tradition of the ancients, and of many great thinkers of our race, I am a Deist. Echoing the words of far greater thinkers than myself, I see an intelligent motivating force throughout the universe and behind Nature's Laws.
Our Norse Forefathers, in uncompromising intellectual integrity, admitted that there are things as yet beyond our understanding. Eternity, infinity, the origin of matter, energy, and species, are still subjects of inquiry today. As in other religions, nations, and teachings, our Odinist Forefathers used symbols to represent abstract concepts. Allfather represented the unknowable mysteries of infinity and eternity.
However, unlike the practitioners of priestcraft in biblical religion, Odinists did not, and do not, pretend to speak for "God". The Gods speak to man or woman directly through the evidence of Nature's Laws. The whole purpose of priestcraft is to allow the priest, or the people he represents, to control or have power over others. The power of the pulpit and of "Divine Right to Rule" rests on the words "God said", and a claim of superior access to God. Odinists denounce the whole philosophy of one man having power of compulsion over others.
To Odinists, the Gods and Godesses with names such as Woden (English version of Odin), Thor, Frigga, and Sif, represent forces of Nature, fertility, and noble ancestors. They provide linkage between past, present and future. Their deeds are parables teaching courage and other Aryan virtues. Even a treacherous God like Loki teaches a lesson in the dangers from internal subversion.
Regarding "belief" in a God, or a motive intelligent force throughout the universe, let's again define the word belief. Belief can be blind faith, which is a mark of ignorance, and which allows the adherent to be led anywhere like sheep to the slaughter. A constructive belief is a conclusion based on the best available evidence, where such evidence is insufficient to warrant a statement of fact. I "believe in the God of my understanding, but to make a statement of fact or demand that others conform to my belief would be intellectually dishonest.
The biblical religionists (sometimes called creationists) and the evolutionists have quarreled for many years over their beliefs. As usual, no one considers other alternatives such as intelligent guidance in an evolutionary process, or a kind of genetic engineering, or other possibilities. To the limits of my capabilities, I've tried to find a possibility of evolution as an answer for all life. But, it simply won't work without intelligent intervention. I've read many volumes on evolution and biology. Nowhere can I find an adequate explanation for the development of male and female of the same species. Throughout all the lengthy dissertations on cellular divisions and the growth of ever more complex organisms, there is never a rational acceptable explanation of when the first man fertilized the first woman , or how they developed separately, yet complimentary and in need of each other. Furthermore, modern geneticists tell us that a race of people cannot descend from one couple because the inbreeding would destroy them. So, we are faced with the necessary premise that numerous couples of identical men and women evolved at the exact same period in the eternity of time.
Darwinian evolutionists tell us that White people are merely Negroes who migrated north from Africa eons of time ago, and there, in the cold northern climes, we evolved light skin, hair and eyes. Yet, by their own teachings of natural selectivity, the first thing we should have developed is fur to protect us from the cold. Blue or green eyes, fair skin, or light hair are not profiles of needs or characteristics developed as defense against cold climate.
One could continue almost endlessly on the problems with the theory of evolution as a random circumstance guided only by natural selectivity and survival of the fittest. But it seems the evolutionists have become as doctrinaire as the biblical religionists, so why beat one's head against the wall. We should all agree that we are subject to Nature's Laws.
There are many other reasons to consider Odinism, some concrete, some abstract, some esoteric.
Having studied the works of Carl Jung, I believe the old Gods are a potential colossus within our collective subconscious. The old Gods and the old religion were exclusively ours, and thus, relate to our race-soul. Through the myths and legends we find a link to our past, and a rudder for our floundering racial vessel.
We shall find it necessary to use the vehicle of religion to expound our message of racial survival. It is exceedingly difficult for our enemies to deny that the worship of the old Gods is a bona fide religion, since it has a history of at least several thousand years. Here one might also consider that in the courtrooms of the occupational government a "religion" without a God will soon be judged not to be a religion, and outside the governmental guarantees of religious freedom.
Odinism has the authority of antiquity. Despite 2000 years of persecution, such as Charlemagne's beheading of 5000 Odinists before the Pope, Odin yet lives in our hearts. The rich and powerful symbolism stirs our racial souls.
Odinists are not intolerant. Like others, we expound our beliefs, and that naturally involves pointing out the errors in the beliefs of others. But we do not excommunicate kinfolk of other beliefs from our company, as long as they share our goal of racial preservation. We would not "slay all those who would not have our God reign over them" as the followers of another religion have done to us and our kinfolk by the millions.
Robert Jay Mathews was an Odinist, and the finest man I've known. In Valhalla he waits for those who fight for the life of the Folk. I don't think he cares if you are a Creator, a Christian, or an Odinist, but only that you are White and Proud.
But for my part, his Gods are the Folk's Gods, and they are my Gods.


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We are used to the gold market being controlled by vested interests but their ability to manipulate is now being seriously strained as Central Banks are lining up to buy the lows. In the case of the latest pullback from the $1800 level, the London Trader has pointed out that "We were within a hair of a major price explosion, and disorder in the gold market." Checkout some of the comments from a series of 3 interviews given on King World News.
Physical demand is huge.
"In the past we have seen waterfall type declines when small speculators are heavily leveraged. But the market has changed. When the physical market was not as strong as it is now, these corrections would go $200 to $300 in gold. As an example, we went from a previous peak of about $1,900 down to around $1,500, or roughly $400 in that case."
"We are not going to see that this time. It's not going to happen that way this time. Back then, the central bank buyers and these sovereign buyers were quite happy to sit and wait for a lower price. Now they are not. These buyers want out of their dollars and euros and they want physical gold and silver.
In the past, central banks have had the luxury of sitting back and waiting for the price to come to them. Right now you have different central banks and different sovereigns competing with each other to buy gold, and in some cases silver as well.
There are simply too many buyers right now, and the competition to buy physical is extremely fierce right now….
"We are continuing to see the bids get raised in these markets. This has become a competition for the central banks and sovereign buyers to get rid of their dollars and euros as fast as they can, and swap it for something of real value.
How will the physical orders be filled?
Meanwhile, the bullion banks run the COMEX and they are not stupid. They are going to ring the register on this managed money. The commercials have been doing extremely heavy short covering into the weak-handed longs which have been selling, but they are also covering into fresh shorts from speculators and managed money.
The question now is, where is the inventory going to come from to fill all of these physical orders? The physical market is already tight as a drum. I would be surprised if there is much more downside in this environment. Yes there is this game of the commercials covering into weak-handed longs, and fresh shorts, but there is reality here, and reality is the physical market, and these buyers have moved their orders higher, and will continue to do so.
In the past India was the largest buyer of physical gold and when they didnt like the price they would sit back and wait for the price to pull back. Now plenty of buyers are lining up including China and Central Banks.
India would just say, 'We're the biggest gold buyers in the world, so we will just step back and wait for our price. We will wait for our price because we already have plenty of gold here.' But now you've got too many competing entities all trying to acquire physical gold.
Suddenly China has overtaken India. So India doesn't have the luxury of sitting back. India is back in the market now. India is back buying in the mid-$1,700s. India was back yesterday. India is back today. They need to buy gold and they are stepping ahead of other entities and becoming a large buyer.
The Indians are not stupid. They know the commercials harvest the weak hands on the COMEX. Once they see open interest get to a certain level, they fully expect a reaction in the price. But your readers have to understand that there isn't going to be a 'correction' this time, there will only be a 'pull back.' There is a big difference between a pull back and a correction.
The reasons for this is there are just layers of central bank and sovereign physical buy orders in here right now. Some of it has already been filled. There has been tonnage filled at higher levels than we are currently trading. As soon as we went through $1,760, we started to see central bank buying.
Bullion Banks had to stop the latest price rise
"Why do you think the bullion banks threw everything they had at the gold market at the $1,800 level?" The answer, "We were within a hair of a major price explosion, and disorder in the gold market."
"As gold was heading up to the $1,800 level recently, we were very close to a situation where we were going to see a commercial capitulation. Some of the weaker commercials were already starting to bail out of their shorts."
"You have to understand that some of these bullion banks are more than happy to turn on these less powerful commercial shorts. They view them as weaker hands. Yes they are all commercials, but some of them are a lot weaker than the bullion banks.
But there does come a point where the bullion banks say, 'We've got to protect those stops.' We had already gotten to the point where some stops were being tripped from those weaker commercial shorts….
"It got to the point where the vast majority of stops were located near the $1,810 level. If gold would have pierced $1,810, that would have tripped the vast majority of all of those weaker, underwater commercial short positions out of the market. This would have created enough of a short squeeze that we would have seen new highs in gold very rapidly.
This would have been a literal failure by these commercials (commercial signal failure). The gold market got to within $10 of their stops. Why do you think the bullion banks threw everything they had at the gold market at the $1,800 level? We were within a hair of a major price explosion, and disorder in the gold market.
They (bullion banks) wanted to protect those stops, even though they weren't their own stops. They needed to do this in order to stop those weaker commercials from capitulating. Now everyone is getting bearish, and when the physical market is closed, we are seeing some shenanigans such as after hours price drops in access market.
So we are seeing more weak hands entering the short side of the gold market, and the commercials have been covering not only into the small speculators liquidating, but also into these fresh shorts. The commercials are doing this in a very, very calculated way.
hat readers need to take away from this, is we were dangerously close to a commercial signal failure and a major price spike in gold. Even though the commercials have alleviated that concern for the time being, the possibility still exists that we could see a major price spike when the $1,810 area is pierced on the upside in gold."
LBMA is a massive Ponzi scheme.
On July 20th, the 'London Trader' told King World News, "The LBMA's price fixing scheme is coming to an end." Gold quickly rose $200 after that interview. Today the source now tells KWN the LBMA has, "… incredibly large quantities of paper silver and gold being traded each day, but the real problem here is there is virtually nothing to back this up." The source also said, "This is all part of the LBMA Ponzi scheme."
"The physical silver market is extraordinarily tight. It's insanely tight right now. In other words, there isn't any for sale. We are seeing large premiums in places like Shanghai. If a buyer wants size in physical silver, you are going to have to wait a long time."
"When the commercials see a large order enter the market, they just turn the market around. They don't have that quantity of silver in inventory. Every day the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) clears 5,000 tons of silver, and between 600 and 700 tons of gold through paper trading. When you think about it, that is a ridiculous amount.
This is all part of the LBMA Ponzi scheme. You have these incredibly large quantities of paper silver and gold being traded each day, but the real problem here is there is virtually nothing to back this up….
So if I turn up to the LBMA and I say, 'Out of your 5,000 tons of silver that you clear every day, I just want 300 tons.' It shouldn't be a problem. It shouldn't even cause a ripple. But when you think about it, and that physical silver is leveraged 100 to 1, that's more than the annual mine production of silver for the entire year when you do the math, including the leverage implications.
Of course they can't deliver the 300 tons. They don't have it. So when you actually go and send a Brinks truck to go and pick this silver up at the back door of Scotia Mocatta, you aren't going to get it. An order like that takes at least two months to get filled.
Too many large physical orders waiting to be filled.
The problem right now is that there is such a large overhang of orders in both of these markets, and specifically silver. Every day there are people turning up at the fix to buy physical, regardless of price. As the markets are taken down, it exponentially increases the amount of physical silver that needs to be filled.
I would also add that the local traders are heavily short now. So we are seeing a large short position building in silver on this price decline. And don't forget, the COT reports are groomed. I don't trust them.
So when they see a large physical order enter the market, that's the point where the commercials start covering. Remember, the gold and silver markets on the COMEX are all about chasing out leveraged longs. That's all that market is about right now.
But we will see a day when silver can no longer be capped through paper trading and various games being played at the LBMA and COMEX, and in the end, it will be the physical market which will be the deciding factor. At that point you will see the real price of silver for the first time, and it will leave people in disbelief."
- London Trader – Competition To Buy Physical Gold Is Fierce,
- London Trader – Bullion Banks Had To Halt Gold's Advance
- London Trader – The LBMA Is A Massive Ponzi Scheme


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For this drink I wanted to go classic and gin-based, so I've gone back to pre-prohibition days for the classic Clover Club cocktail.
There are a few variations of this one around, and mine is a bit of a combination of these. It works out beautifully to my palate.
It's very different to my normal drinks, much smoother and certainly less of a slap about the chops!
I hope you enjoy.
- 5 fresh raspberries
- 50ml gin (I've gone for Rock Rose gin, which is a current favourite of mine)
- 10ml dry vermouth
- 10ml red vermouth
- 10ml grenadine
- 10ml freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 10ml sugar syrup
- Half an egg white
Prepare a chilled martini or coupette glass.
Give your egg white a whisk for 30 seconds – you don't need to do this, but as a top tip it absolutely gives an edge to the lightness of the end drink.
Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker.
Give a good shake for at least 30 seconds without ice – this will emulsify the drink.
Add a good handful and a half of ice, and give another good hard shake. The cocktail shaker should be freezing to hold by the time you are done. Double strain into your chilled glass.
Twist a piece of lemon zest over the drink to get a little spritz of the lemon oils over your drink.
Enjoy! It's a light and fruity glass of goodness.


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17 February 2009
Kosovo's Independence: One year on (in English)
Twelve months ago Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia and since that time it has had a battle on its hand gaining recognition from the international community - particularly Serbia who is challenging Kosovo's new status in the International Court of Justice. So how is this small Balkan state surviving?
Verena Knaus, ESI's Kosovo Analyst in Pristina and Tim Judah from the Economist discuss the situation one year after Kosovo's declaration of independence. Interview: Phillip Adams (Late Night Live).


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What small-business owners think.
Today's Question
What small-business owners think.
One of the most debated changes was the move to first-to-file. Before America Invents, patents went to the person who invented first, which had to be proved using "prior art" — documentation like dated sketches, notebooks, academic papers and models. Starting next year, patents will be issued according to who files first, aligning the United States' system with Europe's.
Bryan Pate, co-founder of ElliptiGO in Solana Beach, Calif., said the change will force his company to file quickly, even if it is not ready. ElliptiGO, which has about 3,000 customers and more than $5 million in revenue, sells a bicycle that uses an elliptical motion to propel it — essentially an elliptical trainer that can be ridden on the street.
Mr. Pate and Brent Teal had the idea for the fitness device in 2005 but did not file a patent application for 14 months. "We needed the time to experiment and develop a proof of concept," Mr. Pate said. "If it had been first-to-file back then, a bigger company with an engineering staff and money could have heard about us doing this and filed before us. If we rushed our filing to prevent this, we would have ended up with a much less valuable set of patents."
But Nick Blitterswyk, chief executive of Urban Green Energy in New York, thinks moving to first-to-file will make his company less vulnerable to infringement.
"With this change, you will know what else is out there because inventors will file as soon as possible, and so you'll see their prior art," Mr. Blitterswyk said. His company makes vertical axis wind turbines, which are smaller and quieter than the more common horizontal axis turbines used in wind farms.
Mr. Blitterswyk said it would be reassuring to potential investors to know a business has filed first, which will "make it easier to secure investment."
What do you think?