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Elon Musk Wants to Take you Anywhere on Earth in One Hour, Sees First cargo Mission to Mars by 2022
Elon Musk, the founder of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), is planning to create rocketship capable of traveling anywhere on Earth in under an hour, while he also remains confident about a human colony on Mars in the next decade.
Musk spoke at the 68th nternational Astronautical Congress on Sept. 29 in Adelaide. He unveiled plans to create "BFR", a large rocketship that will travel from New York to Shanghai in about 30 minutes.
Musk said that SpaceX, which has launched 13 rockets so far this year, aims to complete 30 missions for customers next year. SpaceX has many commercial satellite operators as customers, and the revenue from those contracts will help fund the development of BFR, which will also help set up a base on the Moon.
Musk also unveiled a new plan for the first BFR to land on Mars in 2022, followed by crewed missions in 2024. Some years ago he was promising to send an unmanned "Red Dragon" spacecraft to the Red Planet by 2018.
Obviuosly, human colonization of Mars won't be easy. Getting to the Red Planet is a 155 million-mile journey and would take several months, with unknown risks to the human body. Once anyone land there, he would face a hostile environment in which he would have to create a habitable atmosphere and produce the fuel needed to propel the rocket ship homeward. Science fiction? Possibly yes, at least with the current technology.
Musk, who's also CEO of electric-car maker Tesla Inc., founded SpaceX in 2002 with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets. SpaceX flies its Falcon 9 rocket for customers that include NASA, commercial satellite operators and the U.S. military. SpaceX's rockets are designed for reuse, with rocket reusability now seen as key to making space travel affordable.
Later this year, Musk promised to demonstrate the first test flight of Falcon Heavy, a more powerful rocket capable of heavy payloads and sending paying space tourists on a flight around the moon.
100-Day Race to Start the world's largest lithium-ion battery system in South Australia
In related news, Tesla's boss announced a contract to build the world's largest lithium-ion battery system in the Australian outback. The project had been signed with South Australia's power distributor, triggering a 100-day self-imposed deadline to install the electricity storage system.
"It will help solve power outages, reduce intermittencies and manage summertime peak load to support the reliability of South Australia's electrical infrastructure," Tesla said in a statement. The system will provide enough power for more than 30,000 homes, approximately the number that lost power during the state's blackouts in 2016, the company said.
Tesla's massive energy-storage facility,will be equipped with battery cells from Samsung SDI instead of main supplier Panasonic. The decision to use Samsung SDI is obviously the Tesla's intention to meet Elon Musk's self-imposed deadline of 100 days.
Musk's battery system is designed to overcome one of the main obstacles to greater reliance on renewable power sources -- they can store up power produced while the wind blows or sun shines, and then release it steadily to the grid later when generation stalls.


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"I was a daisy-fresh girl, and look what you've done to me. I ought to call the police and tell them you raped me. Oh, you dirty, dirty old man."
Lolita, chapter 32.
Lolita, chapter 32.
Why do I love this song ?
Maybe cause I smile everytime he says "I'll fuck the freckles off your face
bitch". I guess it's just a nymphet thing to like bad boys and dirty talk...
Why do I love daisies so much ?
Cause no one care about them although they are so cute and pure and innocent...
Yes, I'm such a big contradiction haha. Oh well, feminists won't forgive me ;)
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How do I uninstall Wordpress from my Ubuntu Server?
I installed the server and wp on it.But when i try to login it fails.
When i try to recover thorugh email it says not possible.It says
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So i want to completely remove my wp install how to do that?
If you are using the WordPress image (and have not manually installed it), I can confirm that logging it doesn't work even when entering the 'correct' password. Digital Ocean should take a look at this!
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How did you install WordPress? Did you use one of our 1-Click app installs? or did you follow a guide to install manually? Also, which Linux OS are you using?
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Likened to Amaryllis' passion over Alteo as the legend has us knowing, this particular arrangement conveys a strong sense of dedication for a love object. Hence, the use of the crimson Amaryllis standing tall in pride and radiance, gets footed well at the base with red sands, inside a bowl glass vase. The center of attraction in the arrangement dominates and projects determination, as the curled and trimmed Monstera provide a strong background and support to it.


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TORONTO, CANADA – October 1st, 2014
FreshBooks, the #1 cloud accounting solution designed exclusively for service-based small business owners, today announced it has added its own online payments to the FreshBooks platform. Designed to create a hassle-free experience for users, this new offering allows customers in the United States and Canada to quickly and painlessly set up and accept online payments. Funds collected using FreshBooks are received within one-to-two business days at competitive rates.
"Here at FreshBooks, we believe small business owners shouldn't have to bang their heads against the wall to accept credit card payments," said Mike McDerment, CEO and cofounder, FreshBooks. "One of the biggest frustrations with online payments is that it requires too much time and work: from initial setup to tracking payments to updating reports. With FreshBooks, we are taking the headache out of the payment process to improve cash flow and save time by eliminating the need to manually track payments, deposit checks, and update account records."
FreshBooks uses the WePay payment processor, giving users a secure way to accept credit cards online with the added benefit of viewing payment status within their FreshBooks dashboard. Once a payment is made, the payment information is automatically updated across the FreshBooks account, marking invoices paid and inputting relevant expense information. FreshBooks also automatically records refunds and chargebacks.
FreshBooks improves the user experience by simplifying the sign-up process and helping small business owners get paid faster. During the beta program, FreshBooks customers experienced firsthand how easy and seamless it was to collect online payments. In fact, 52 percent of invoices issued with FreshBooks' payments offering were paid within the same business day, and more than 70 percent had been paid within the first 48 hours.
Unlike other payment offerings, FreshBooks is backed by award-winning customer service. All FreshBooks users have access to live support, quick response times, and the peace of mind associated with being able to track the status of their payments. With FreshBooks, customers know exactly where their money is at all times without having to contact multiple companies for assistance with payment-related matters.
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Mariah Carey Reunites With Nick Cannon + Dem Babies for Halloween (PHOTOS)
Putting aside their own differences, exes Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon reunited over Halloween weekend for their children Monroe and Moroccan. AKA "dem babies."
"Mariah and Nick got along great and were super friendly towards one another," a source squealed of their interactions.
While Roc and Roe were Batman and Batgirl (respectively), Cannon came dressed in a Hulk mask.
Also on hand? Carey's new boyfriend James Packer, who was dressed as some sort of lazy Phantom of the Opera. Carey chose a classic witch outfit.
Said yet another source, "He feels as long as his kids are in good hands, he will support any decision Mariah makes."
"Mariah will always be in Nick's life that will never change. It makes Nick happy that Mariah is in a great place in her life between work and love."
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An array of new bridge refurbishment and repair solutions are available – Mike Woof writes
Around the world there are many bridges requiring repairs or refurbishment, and there is a ready market for novel solutions to upgrade existing structures. New developments offer quicker and more efficient ways to improve bridge surfaces and structural performance and add new life to ageing designs.
is broadening the availability of its novel precast building solutions worldwide by offering these to the bridge construction market in India. In a partnership with SP Precast Solutions India Private (MBIPL) and MAAD Building Innovations Group, Spancrete has supplied the first Spancrete Production System in India.
The MAAD Building Innovations in India features the Spancrete GT-120 precast production system. The new plant provides Spancrete Brand Hollowcore slabs and other precast elements to residential, commercial and industrial development projects for the MAAD Group's Realty Development department as well as other companies. The plant is owned and operated through a joint venture company established between MAAD Building Innovations (MBIPL) Group and SP Precast Solutions India.
The MBIPL factory has incorporated the Spancrete GT-120 production system, featuring six casting lines, 200m each, ensuring high volume and the efficient output of Hollowcore 1.2m wide slabs and wall panels in thickness ranging from 10cm to 40cm. Additional precast construction forms were provided by Spancrete to deliver a total structural solution to the India market.
The GT-120 machine system is capable of operating outdoors and is self-feeding, requiring no additional automated material delivery systems and other costly infrastructure. The plant is designed to be mobile, allowing the owners the flexibility to move the entire operation when required. A novel feature of the MIBPL plant is the minimal infrastructure required to achieve high volume production.
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To assist Indian customers, Spancrete transfers knowledge from its USA operations, including engineering, estimating, plant operation, quality control, transport and installation capabilities. Spancrete has teamed with Precision Precast Solutions (PPS) to provide support related to ensuring precast design compliance with local Indian building codes.
Meanwhile a £1.5 million project to refurbish and repair Putney Bridge in south-west London has incorporated advanced materials from waterproofing specialist,
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The Grade II listed bridge that crosses the Thames has undergone extensive renovation to protect it against the water penetration that had contributed to poor road and pavement surfaces. Once all the original asphalt surfacing had been removed, assessment of the bridge structure by Wandsworth Council's in-house engineering consultancy revealed that the existing polyurethane waterproofing system had de-bonded and delaminated from the concrete substrate that was in very poor condition and leaking. In addition, once the in-situ granite kerbs were removed, areas with loose, friable material were exposed that needed to be replaced with a robust, concrete detail.
Stirling Lloyd Polychem offered an immediate, cost-effective solution for both the waterproofing and these areas. It recommended the use of its Metaset Concrete, a rapid cure concrete repair material for the damaged areas and deeply textured substrate, and its Eliminator system to provide a seamless bridge deck waterproofing. These products were subsequently specified by Wandsworth Council and Metaset Concrete was applied to some 1,000m² and Eliminator to the 4,000m² deck.
Metaset Concrete is a high-strength, multi-purpose material that cures rapidly within two hours across a wide range of temperatures and is ready to accept loads within two to four hours. The Eliminator is a cold liquid spray-applied bridge deck waterproofing membrane based on Stirling Lloyd's advanced resin-based technology.
On-site, the existing surfacing and waterproofing, along with the kerb detail, were removed by main contractor, FM
. The extensive bridge repair work and spraying of the waterproofing required was carried out by Metrail Construction, one of Stirling Lloyd Polychem's Eliminator Authorised Contractors.
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Initially, until the excavation and removal works had taken place, there was no way to ascertain the full extent of the repair works required and the additional time and cost implications these would have on the project. With Putney Bridge being a major route across the Thames, minimising inconvenience and disruption to commuters and tourists was imperative and, as a consequence, the repair and waterproofing systems' ease of application and rapid cure times were key considerations in their specification.
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Amazon rolls out new cloud offerings as IT pros make wish list
Amazon unveiled new instances for EC2 and a Data Pipeline this week, but IT pros say there are some additional features they hope to see.
LAS VEGAS -- Amazon previewed a new Data Pipeline service and made available new EC2 instance types this week, but enterprise IT pros said there's still room for improvement with its existing offerings.
Specifically, attendees at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent conference here said they're looking for live migration of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances between availability zones and regions for disaster avoidance.
"Right now, moving workloads around to avoid outages is pretty cumbersome and manual," said Jason Deck, senior operations engineer for Atlanta, Ga.-based LogicBlox. "I want to know if it's something they're working on."
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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings brought up the topic of live migration within Amazon's cloud during a keynote presentation this week.
"VMware does this today with vMotion and has done this for many years, so it is technically possible," Hastings said. "But it's extremely demanding to be able to do that at scale."
Attendees at the show also said they hope to see further service automation. This would include automated selection of instances for different workloads, which was also called for by Hastings.
"We're really still in the very primitive first assembly-language phase of cloud computing," Hastings said. "When you have to pick individual instance types … you know something's wrong."
Over the next five to ten years, Hastings expects EC2 will develop to select instances based on the type of workload being deployed and move workloads among instance types as they scale using live migration.
IT pros looking for more automation also envision an automated "lights out" function for EC2, so that they don't have to manually shut off their inactive EC2 instances.
"Why don't they have a timer to turn the lights on and off automatically?" said Matt Lipinski, architect for Reed Elsevier Technology Services, based in Miamisburg, OH. "Why not have a checkbox for shutting down instances as a group or individually outside of business hours?"
Right now, moving workloads around to avoid outages is pretty cumbersome and manual.
Jason Deck, senior operations engineer for LogicBlox
Other wish list items cited by IT pros at the conference include geographic expansion of Amazon's regions to more parts of Asia and Russia, more cities supporting the Direct Connect service, simplification of provisioning and operational workflows in Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud, and more reference architectures and documentation.
Data Pipeline service automates data analytics workflows
Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels revealed during his keynote this week that the company is preparing a new workflow orchestration service for data analytics called Data Pipeline, which can be used to set up data movement policies among repositories of data, including Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Block Store, Amazon's new RedShift data warehouse, and on-premise data repositories.
"It doesn't come within a country mile of replacing real [Business Intelligence] job management," said Carl Brooks, analyst with 451 Research, based in Boston, Mass. "But it works for a significant portion of the AWS audience, i.e. giant Web properties and online services with lots of raw data to process."
This could prove useful for aggregating and storing log files in the cloud, Lipinski said.
EC2 Cluster High Memory and High Storage instances
The two new instance types also unveiled by Vogels focus on workloads at the ends of the spectrum, the CTO said.
The Cluster High Memory instance, also known as cr1.8xlarge, will offer 240 GB of RAM and two 120 GB solid state drives (SSDs) for high performance.
The High Storage instance, also known as hs1.xlarge, packs in 117 GB of RAM and 24 hard drives for a total capacity of 48 TB. The high storage instance is suited for highly distributed Elastic Map Reduce workloads, Vogels said.
Beth Pariseau is a senior news writer for SearchCloudComputing.com and SearchServerVirtualization.com. Write to her at email@example.com or follow @PariseauTT on Twitter.


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Jun 17, 2016
One on One with WWE Supesrtar KANE
Hours before making his return to television this past Monday, WWE Superstar Kane took time to talk with our resident wrestling expert, VP of Digital & Brand Strategy Jeramie McPeek.
The 49-year-old, real name Glenn Jacobs, has spent more than 20 years in the WWE ring, and wrestled more than a dozen matches in Phoenix over that time. In fact, the 7-footer is one of only two wrestlers (Chris Jericho) to have performed in every WWE pay-per-view to have ever been held in Arizona.
Kane and the WWE return to Talking Stick Resort Arena this coming Monday, June 20, with a live broadcast of Monday Night RAW.
McPEEK: Thank you for taking a few minutes for us. I've got to ask up front, should I call you Kane, or Glenn or Mr. Jacobs?
KANE: You can call me Mr. Jacobs if you want, but Kane is fine.
McPEEK: I've always wondered, what do you guys call each other backstage? Do you go by your wrestling names or real names?
KANE: It depends. Sometimes, just like in other sports, it's nicknames that no one outside of the arena knows. So it really just depends.
McPEEK: I know you've had a lot of names over your career. What's the first thing that comes to mind when I say Christmas Creature?
KANE: It looked like the Swamp Thing. You know, it's funny. Because of the internet now, you do something for a week or two weeks, which is what that (gimmick) was, and all of a sudden it's your "first thing." Back in the day, it wasn't like that, but now days, everybody knows everything about me, in fact things that I've forgotten. And there are things that I would prefer to forget too (laughs). On the one hand, it's really cool because I can go back and look through, and say, "Oh, that's really neat. I did that?" And on the other hand, it's like "Ugh, I wish I hadn't been reminded of that."
McPEEK: I went back and watched some of your old matches and found the Christmas Creature, as well as a match you had against Sting in WCW
KANE: (Laughs) Yeah, my one day in WCW.
McPEEK: How about Isaac Yankem? What do you think of when you hear that name?
KANE: Unfortunately, when I came to WWE and that was my first character, it just didn't work very well because it was at the end of an era, and the beginning of a new one, which was the prelude to the Attitude Era. So, it just didn't work and it wasn't something that I was a really fond of either. It wasn't something that, pardon the pun, I could really sink my teeth into. So that's one of those deals when I look back, I'd rather forget about that one.
McPEEK: I've got to ask you about "Fake Diesel." Did you and Kevin Nash ever talk about that character you played for a brief time?
KANE: No, we never have really, because it's just business. That was something that I think actually could have worked, but it just kind of went off the rails. Jim Ross was going to turn bad guy and try to prove that he could run the company by bringing in imposter superstars. But I think part of the problem was that JR just wasn't cut out to be a bad guy. The audience liked him too much to buy into the bitter, mean JR. So that was, unfortunately, probably doomed from the beginning, as well.
McPEEK: I've got a 15-year-old son, who is a big WWE fan and he wanted me to ask, what were your thoughts when you first heard that you were going to become Kane, the brother of the Undertaker?
KANE: Well, of course, that was very exciting because it was an opportunity to wrestle the Undertaker. What's interesting about the evolution of Kane is that it really went from something that we call a "hot shot" (angle) in our business, sort of a one off deal. And then I think Vince (McMahon) liked the idea so much that they decided to build a lot of equity into it, and really go with it more than just, "This is the Undertaker's next opponent."
So then you saw Paul Bearer talking about Kane, but you don't see Kane for months afterwards. And when you finally do at the Hell in a Cell "In Your House" pay-per-view in St. Louis in October of 1997, it was amazing. It was just great storyline because the seeds had been planted long before that, and people had almost forgotten about it by that time, because they'd gotten wrapped up, rightfully so, in the Undertaker-Shawn Michaels story. It was one of those surprises where, in the back of their mind they might have known if was going to happen, but WWE had done such a good job of not showing their hand that the pay-off was great and, frankly, might have been the best debut ever. I come out in this brand-new match, which had never been done before, rip the door off the Hell in a Cell and go in and destroy the Undertaker with his own move, the Tombstone Piledriver. IT doesn't eraly get much better than that.
That's the long version, but nevertheless, it was very exciting to know the potential of what the character was going to be able to do.
McPEEK: I read your Wikipedia bio to prepare for this interview and I was amazed at how many twists and turns, and chapters their have been to the story between you and Taker over the years. Have you ever gone and read your Wikipedia bio?
KANE: I've read parts of it. You know, parts of it aren't accurate, but parts of it are. The WWE stuff is pretty accurate, but the early stuff is hit or miss. But again, the people who have edited the Wikipedia profile know more about me than I do, I think, which is disconcerting in some ways.
McPEEK: What is the craziest storyline that you were ever a part of?
KANE: I've been in a quite few. The whole Lita, Edge, Snitsky storyline was something else. It turned into Days of Our Lives combined with like a fantasy storyline. It really took some twists and turns, and part of that was because of the real-life twists and turns with what happened between Lita and Edge and Matt Hardy. So it wasn't just the in-ring stuff, but things that were happening outside of the ring impacted the story that we were telling inside of WWE.
McPEEK: Do you know how many championships you've held over the years?
KANE: I think someone told me 18, but I'm not sure.
McPEEK: That's right! I know some guys keep replicas of their championships. Do you have the belts that you've won, or any mementos that you've saved over the years?
KANE: I don't. I'm not really a sentimental person, by that I mean, just keeping stuff. I used to collect all my figurines and that stuff, but after a while, it felt like I was very self-centered because I had this room downstairs where I had all this stuff. I mean, just filled, because WWE has all this stuff. So it was a room filled with action figures and toys, and all this different stuff. I was like, "Wow, I feel like I am promoting myself in my own basement."
I have some pictures that are special to me. I have one that is signed by (Stone Cold Steve) Austin, which is really cool. That's the stuff that really appeals to me more. Like you mentioned Wikipedia, just going back and reading, and remembering some of the stuff, and the people that were a part of it. That's the stuff, the memories that's what's important to me.
McPEEK: You've worn a number of different masks over the years. Do you have a favorite?
KANE: I think the original mask was my favorite. It wasn't my favorite to work in, because that was the one that covered my entire face. That one was a little more uncomfortable. So I liked it when we got to where the chin and mouth were open, and I could breathe a little better. But over the years, I've changed. The mask used to be leather. Now it's a latex mold, so it's more comfortable than the original one was. But, I mean, the original, it was the thing. It was really awesome!
McPEEK: It was awesome, but I imagine being made of leather, it probably smelled after a while.
KANE: (Laughs). Yeah, yeah. Especially, you know, we're on the road a lot. We probably work 250 days a year, so you can imagine. It would take its share of abuse, unfortunately, especially with the leather one, because there was only one place that made that. With this latex one, I can just call the place. They've got the mold and they can basically pour it in, paint it and send it to me. That one was a little different. The production process was quite a bit longer and more intricate. So it wasn't like I could call and just have one shipped a week later. Point being, I never really had that many of them for that reason. So the ones that I had, let's just put it… they were well worn.
McPEEK: I did a little research and realized that you are one of only two superstars who have wrestled in every single WWE pay-per-view held in our building or in our state, if you include WrestleMania in 2010. Do you have memories of any of those events, or do they all just blur together?
KANE: Oh my god. I didn't know that. I have a couple. One, I don't think it was pay-per-view. I think it was just a Monday Night RAW, but I gave the Phoenix Suns Gorilla a tombstone piledriver. Were you there for that one?
McPEEK: I was there.
KANE: I love the Gorilla, by the way. I'm sorry about that everybody, but you know, it was back in the day.
And then also, I can't remember if it was for a championship or not, but I just remember Rey Mysterio and I had a match there that I thought was really well done, and I was really happy with. It might have even been a street fight, actually.
Phoenix is a really great destinateion for us. We have done a lot of RAWs and a lot of SmackDowns there over the years, as well as a few pay-per-views. If you feed me some stuff, I can remember more. But those are the two I remember most.
McPEEK: There was SummerSlam (2003) vs. Rob Van Dam. You defended the tag titles with Daniel Bryan at the Royal Rumble in 2013, and you were in the Money-in-the-Bank match at WrestleMania 26 out in Glendale.
KANE: Oh yeah, yeah. I wasn't even thinking about that, because that was out at the Cardinals stadium. Which, by the way, I grew up in St. Louis and I was a football Cardinals fan, so when they moved to Arizona, we never really got over that in St. Louis. So that (Mania) was bitter sweet (laughs).
McPEEK: The Gorilla is actually a personal friend of mine, so I was actually going to ask if you regret giving him the tombstone at that RAW.
KANE: Nah, because it was pretty entertaining, and everybody liked it. It was also on SportsCenter, so anytime you can make SportsCenter, it's okay.
McPEEK: Was that some sort of revenge for your own basketball career not taking off? You played hoops at Northeast Missouri State, right?
KANE: Yeah, yeah. Well, the reason my basketball career didn't take off was because when I got to college, I started lifting weights and I couldn't take off anymore because I weighed like 290. So that was the end of my basketball career.
McPEEK: You've been wrestling since 1992. How much longer do you plan to wrestle, or have you even started to think about retirement yet?
KANE: Not really. It's still fun. I have a lot of fun now with the younger guys and just being in the position that I'm in, as more of a mentor at times. I've also been very fortunate that I haven't had many injuries. So my body still feels good. I can't say it feels as it did when I was 25, but it still feels good and I can still do most of the things that I used to be able to do, and I still think that I perform at a high level, even when I'm in there literally against guys that are half my age sometimes. I think they still have to keep up with me.
There are some, guys like Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns, they challenge me seriously, because they are great performers, but I think I can still keep up with them. As long as I can do that, I'm going to continue doing what I do. As I've found over the last several years, the real reward of being a WWE Superstar is the people that we touch. And all the time, people come up to me and tell me how they watched me, and their kids watch me now, and thank me for doing what I do. And I always thank them for watching and allowing me to do what I do. So that's a feeling that is hard to describe and not a lot of people get to do that, so that's something that I really relish. So I'll probably keep on doing it until I feel that the time is right and whatever factors stop me, or I just don't feel that I can perform up to my standards any more.
McPEEK: Before I let you go, I want to get your quick thoughts on a few current events. First of all, one of your former rivals, Shane McMahon, and his return to WWE?
KANE: Ha! I think it's great. Shane O-Mac has a passion about our business that is pretty rare, and just the reaction that he got on his first night back, I think the WWE Universe missed him and it's good to have him back.
McPEEK: Former Suns center Shaquille O'Neal was in the WrestleMania battle royal with you. What do you think of the Big Cactus' potential as a future WWE Superstar?
KANE: He ain't gonna have a future if I get my hands on him, because what happened to me was absolutely wrong. He came out unannounced. No one had any idea that he was going to be in the match and there he was all of a sudden. Then him and Big Show team up and double choke slam me. So I'm glad that we got rid of him and I don't want to see him back.
McPEEK: Brock Lesnar returning to UFC for a one-off match.
KANE: Well, I think that's good for both brands, frankly. Brock Lesnar is one of those guys, like the Rock has done in movies, Brock has done the same thing in UFC and MMA. He has transcended WWE and that sport, and I think he helps bring UFC and MMA fans into WWE, and vice versa. So anytime someone has crossover appeal like that, I think it's good for everybody.
McPEEK: Last one and I'll let you go, what are your thoughts on the upcoming brand extension? The first time WWE split the superstars into two unique rosters, you were drafted to the RAW brand.
KANE: Right. I'm very excited about it. I think it's going to give guys a lot of opportunity. I think it's going to give us flexibility and variety in the shows that we don't have right now, which is going to be good for everybody. And creatively, hopefully what we'll be able to do is create products that stand alone, and in many ways, have audiences that are fans of both but for different reasons. If we're able to achieve that, and be able to compete against ourselves in that way, I think it's going to be a winner for everybody.
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The Imaginative One's birthday went great except for the Wee One not understanding that it was his brother's special day. Here is a picture of his cake. He did all decorating on the cake except for the icing.
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text: Hi! [Sorry if it is too late for SoC, but I was unexpectedly busy last 3 days and couldn't finish this text earlier.] This is a proposal for ipfw improving ideas and architectural changes. Some of them are independent of each other and could be implemented without ABI breaking in STABLE, but, whether all of these will be a SoC 2008 candidate or not, should be finally implemented in FreeBSD. The only question is what should be corrected, so please discuss it :) This text also includes slightly changed and/or generalized ideas from: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ipfw/2007-April/002931.html All syntax examples are only to give idea, this should be discussed. 1. Major changings (ABI breaking is necesary). 1.1. Dynamic rules reorganizing. Description: Current ipfw's dynamic rules are not suitable for several advanced tricks. For example, it is not possible to use saved information about current state of connection in the firewall rules elsewhere, and it is not possible to change that state from firewall also. Wanted features: * Ability to create/delete dynamic rule in any state via some API or ABI from all parts of system: userland, ipfw rules, other kernel modules. This can be useful for: a) Creating dynamic rule in the middle of connection, not only setup: ipfw add pipe 1 ip from any to any tagged 412 keep-state-middle This allows to change handling of connection after some event, e.g. L7 filtering by ng_bpf + ng_tag discovered that a connection belongs to some class by analyzing packet payload, and from now on connection should go directly with dynamic rules, but never sent again to expensive L7 processing. Currently you can use just "keep-state" for this, but ipfw will not see SYN's and rule will be subject to sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_rst_lifetime - by default expires after 1 second, which is undesirable for many cases. b) Ability to save/load dynamic rules in userland with files, e.g., to continue after reboot. c) Ability to exchange with rules state with other machine with ipfw, e.g., two firewalls in a CARP failover. d) Creation of rule with specified state and parameter before actual connection would be established. E.g. imagine a by-default-closed firewall with a netgraph(4) module analyzing FTP control connection and giving commands to ipfw to open dynamic "holes" for data connections, thus elimanating current practice of opening ports in the entire range 1024-65535 (insecure, yes). One can think about providing direct exchange between libalias(3)'s alias_link and ipfw dynamic rules, but that's a subject for further research. * Additional fields in dynamic rules to keep arbitrary info for specific connection, and opcodes for loading and storing that values from other parts of firewall or elsewhere. This will allow to implement a pf(4)'s "scrub" maximum TTL enforcing on connection, but not only that - generic data storage allows any future extensions. * Ability to change dynamic rule's parent rule "on the fly" (just changing a pointer to which static rule's ACTION_PTR to jump, yes). The latter will allow aforementioned distinguishing of connection packets before/after L7 processing in the case where packets are always classified to flows before any processing takes place - that example with "keep-state-middle" assumed that main firewall is stateless, only L7-matched packets are subject to be dynamic. And this allows to reassign an action for dynamic rule: ... ipfw add 100 check-state ... ipfw add 200 skipto 500 ip from any to any keep-state ... ipfw add 500 netgraph 41 ip from any to any ipfw add 600 change-parent 800 ip from any to any tagged 412 ipfw add 700 allow ip from any to any ipfw add 800 pipe 1 ip from any to any * More types for dynamic rules system would allow not only "keep-state" and "limit", but rather be extensible to something more. E.g., current "limit" rules just drop packets if limit is reached - but user possibly wants an option to process them with another rule afterwards. Possible implementation: * For arbitrary info: add a union of one uint32_t or two uint16_t's or four uint8_t's two each dynamic rules and operations to load/store those values (or may be an uint64_t and two uin32_t's and so on?..). Also add one void* to allow to store more data if one needs to. * Make a special netgraph node (or extend ng_ipfw) which will broadcast every change in dynamic rules to all it's hooks (how many to bundle into one mbuf should be customizable). Every input with structs of the same format will result in addition or deletion of dynamic rules in ipfw. A netgraph node method of work provides flexible and extensible way to manipulate dynamic rules: you can connect to it protocol-trackers which will insert rules for secondary connection (e.g. FTP); you can connect to it userland tool which will log all dynamic rule changing or will do load/save of rules in a file; you can connect to it an ng_ksocket(4) node with UDP to broadcast to someone or TCP to connect to another machine with the same setup to provide CARP failover. Note that node should not do delivery/retransmission checks as pfsync(4) does, because this is a task for someone other (to keep modularity), but two such nodes on different machines connected to each other should provide automatic rules synchronizing without additional actions after initial setup. 1.2. Userland (and other subsystems) interaction, modularity, rulesets. Description: Currently /sbin/ipfw2 is a custom-made parser which communicates with the kernel via setsockopt() calls. It is sometimes hard to extend with new features due to complex code. Using a socket instead a /dev entry means you always need to be root (uid 0) to both read firewall configuration and to change it. In-kernel protocol is also sometimes hard to extend, while some addional entire-ruleset features are useful. Wanted features: * Parser's code (sbin/ipfw2.c) should be reviewed and possibly rewritten using lex(1)/yacc(1). Syntax is ocmplicated, however, and it may be not possible to not implement all of it exactly. This should be further investigated. * It may be desirable to give some other user ability to at least read config and may be to write, as /dev/bpf* permissions allow it for tcpdump(1). * Device entry could also improve modularity: currently to add a new IP_FW_* socket option, you have to modify netinet/raw_ip.c, which means you can't just recompile /sbin/ipfw and ipfw kernel module. * The same applies to other ipfw-related facilities: dummynet, divert, NAT. It can be good to keep them configurable by some other means rather than tweaking raw_ip.c. It can be useful to separate dummynet and divert to it's own facilities to be able to use them without ipfw, e.g., from netgraph(4). Related to this is a problem with IPSEC interaction - if you use it with divert(4) on output, then on return from divert packets will be IPSEC'ed again because in ip_output() IPSEC is called before pfil(9). It could be useful to add an option for user (in addition to existing behaviour, to not break POLA) to call IPSEC processing from specified place in ruleset just like all others: ipfw add ipsec ip from any to any out * As patch about using rule counters is currently discussed in ipfw@, it is useful to add ability to change rule counters to arbitrary values rather than providing the only "zero" action. This is closely related with an option of restore ipfw's static ruleset without losing counter values. Currently you can save "ipfw list" to file, do an "awk '{print "add " $0}'" on it and then load it again (e.g. after reboot). It must be possible to do the same with "ipfw show". Syntax example for providing counters with "ipfw add" - all cases are distinguishable (current syntax allow only first two): ipfw add allow ip from any to any # select next rule number ipfw add 100 allow ip from any to any # exact rule number specified ipfw add 1234 76845 allow ip from any to any # counters without rulenum ipfw add 100 1234 76845 allow ip from any to any # rulenum and counters * Static ruleset loading and saving is closely related with ruleset precompilation and atomic commits. Imagine a rulesets with thousands of rules: if a packet arrives in the middle of ruleset updating, strange effects can occur. Of course, you can achieve the same results with sets, by disabling new set and atomically swapping them later, but that is not always comfortable. Precomplilation of the whole ruleset and then atomically installing it ("transaction commit") requires an implementation which will also allow saving and loading precompiled ruleset in binary form - good for routers where 20K-rules script can be processed for several minutes. * Precompiled binary rules can also be used for the same rule setting from both other kernel subsytems and other machines (CARP again). Thus, generic binary rule format/protocol (not only for /dev) might be invented. Moreover, compiled ruleset format may be different from current linked list, which has disadvantages of both initial "skipto" (and planned "call/return", see next section) and disabled-set-rules are still traversed. Precompiled form of opcodes-only allows to do quick jumps, easy running of cross-rule optimizations (and even possibility to compile ipfw opcodes to machine code like BPF_JITTER for bpf(4) for more speed). This has disadvantages of separate rule counters keeping and not-so-transparent need for user to recompile every time, so should be further investigated. * About several rulesets, for different interfaces (or hacks like per-interface setting of rule number to jump to on it): I think that this is unnecessary and unfriendly to user - having one rulesets is simpler, and you usually need common checks on packets. So "commit" precompiled rules, "call/return" actions (see next section) and stack virtualization via "vimage" should serve all practical purposes. Possible implementation: General view is clear from features description. One also can think about netgraph(4) node for this (again) and/or something like shared memory pages between kernel and userland, to not allocate memory in kernel twice for big rulesets. 2. Independent (minor) changes, which can be possible without ABI breakage. 2.1. call/return rule actions. Description of feature: A "skipto" rule is known as a useful tool to optimize packet flow through ruleset, also able to assign several actions to a dynamic rule (because dynamic rule on match simply jumps to action part of parent rule). But it can only jump forward, not backwards, for the same reason as bpf(4) assember instruction: to prevent infinite loops in packet flow which will cause machine to hang network operations. This can be addressed by introducing a pair of instructions, call and return, which remembers position to return in the stack of some kind. Because return is always done to the next rule after calling one (by number, as with divert/skipto), it is guaranteed that infinite loops can't occur, even in case of calling one rule many times by simply proceeding to next rule after stcak overflow. Thus call/return pair allows to organize some kind of subroutines, with the trick that issuing actual number lets to jump to the middle of subroutine, as in assembly language: ipfw add 100 call 600 ip from any to any in recv $internal ipfw add 100 call 700 ip from any to any in recv $external ... ipfw add 500 allow ip from any to any ipfw add 600 deny ip from any to any not antispoof ipfw add 700 deny tcp from any to any 135,445 ipfw add 900 return // for both those calls It should be noted again that calls are made by rule numbers, so in the following example the first "call 700" will pass control to rule 301, not second rule 300. ipfw add 300 call 700 ... ipfw add 300 call 800 ... ipfw add 301 count ip ... Allowing to use "tablearg" in "call" would be very useful. Parser should allow both version of "return", with some conditions (ususal rule body) and without them (like "check-state"). Possible implementation: Relatively easy. Allocate a mbuf tag for a stack of uint16_t rule numbers and a stack top pointer on first "call" for mbuf. The only thing to care are divert etc. calls, and distinguishing input and output passes (firewall can be called several times for each), thus stack underflow and overflow should be carefully analyzed. May be two tag types, one for input and one for output. It is difficult, however, to get this performing well, because of linked-list nature of ruleset and inability to cache pointer to skip destination, as done with "skipto" currently, because there can be several locations (even tablearg). Possible solutions may be to keep a cache to, say, 256 points in the list (rulenum / 256) to reduce looking after this point (effectively equivalent to hash on rulenum). Or to have compiled rulesets where offset to jump is easily calculated (see previous section). 2.2. Tables and tableargs. Tables are very powerful way to both increase processing speed and conveniently reduce rule maintaing cost for user, especially with tableargs. Tables, however, are currently limited to IPv4 addresses/masks as keys and uint32_t's as values. Table keys should be extended to another data types: IPv6 addresses, interface name strings: ipfw add allow ip from any to table6(1) in recv stringtable(2) or ipfw call tablearg ip from any to any via stringtable(3) The latter will be very handy for routers with e.g. 2000 VLAN or ng* interfaces, with separate client and rules for each. Tableargs should also be expanded to 16 bytes, to be able to store IPv6 address ot uint64_t for checking e.g. in rule counters. It is questionable whether tableargs could also be short (< 16 bytes) strings like interfaces' names. Due to implementation difficulties of distinguishing whether action parameter is a valid value or a tablearg (you usualyy have only one invalid value out ouf 65536 which is get assigned as tablearg indicator), I suggest adding operations like "settablearg" which will set tablearg without actual table used, e.g., from saved arbitrary info from dynamic rules (see section 1.1) or even packet header. So, values for "computed goto" or something like registers still be used by tablearg (just generalizing definition of table), or, at least this should be so in opcode level - user could be present with some other keyword, but I don't see any point in hiding this details. Number of tables of all types should be configurable via sysctl or at least loader tunable rather than current hradcoded number (128). 2.3. Time limit counter. An opcode for a token bucket and/or leaky bucket should be introduced. This will have a one counter changed with timer and other changed by actual packets. We currently have O_LOG opcode looking similar to this, but O_LOG has nothing to deal with timer. Proposed opcode must be useful at least for limiting a number of connections per second, but any other possible use is appreciated, from simplest shaping without dummynet to more exotic like counter "price" coefficinets allowing to build an in-kernel billing solely on ipfw counters. It is questionable where values of counters should be stored, due to locking optimising - directly, as with O_LOG, or separately addressable space like tables. 2.4. Action rules and parameters. Change ACTION_PTR handling in kernel and preparing in compiler to allow actions and their parameters to be placed in any order (except for opcodes where order is required, e.g. prob). This would easily allow placing several opcodes of the same type to action part, e.g.: ipfw add count tag 1 tag 2 tag 3 ip from any to any and using actions and their parameters interchangeably, like having a rule without actual action opcode (only parameter instead), e.g. use "tag" or "altq" as action too (equals to "count"). 2.5. Just to mention: modip, counter limits, fragments. These patches are already currently discussed in ipfw@, but included here just to not forget. These are "modip" action, allowing to modify IP header (DSCP, ToS, TTL) and corresponding match rule options, and a rule option to match when rule counters are less then specified number packets or bytes (possibly from dynamic rule's counters), may be a tablearg. This is also related with mentioned in section 1.2 ability to control rule counters. Adding a few keywords for O_FRAG more fragment matching (not only non-first fragment), e.g. for sending to specialized netgraph(4) reassembling module, is also desirable. That's all for today. Any comments, additions, corrections are welcome! -- WBR, Vadim Goncharov. ICQ#166852181 mailto:vadim_nuclight at mail.ru [Moderator of RU.ANTI-ECOLOGY][FreeBSD][http://antigreen.org][LJ:/nuclight]


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The Stillness of Nature
I gazed longlingly at the branches upon trees as though there is a difference between the branch and the tree. I know that within these "things" my mind has intellectually separated into "things" for the purposes of knowledge there are innumerable actions taking place. There are the olecules, atoms and other countless-yet-to-be-discovered particles all converging and contending with one another in constant motion.
And yet what I see is still. I see their grand picture they have created. I see from the point of view as an outsider; which enables me to see their Grand Truth of Stillness. For that is the way this universe works. On one level, we appear to be very bubsy, going about our days in-pressed for time, rushing to that next meeting or being late for our responsible job. We're always moving, and if not bodily we are moving with our minds. and thoughts Sometimes…
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Born in London on 25th June 1963 Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou became an idols of the 80's when he and school friend, Andrew Ridgeley, formed the pop group Wham! in 1981. He later went on to forge a successful career as a solo artist. Sadly George Michael died at his home on Christmas Day 2016 aged just 53 years. His publicist said in a statement. 'The family would ask that their privacy be respected at this difficult and emotional time. There will be no further comment at this stage,'.
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Sunday, June 25, 2006
Tea Recipes
It's time to share a few tea-related recipes I've run across recently. Actually, this first one is not so much a recipe as a nice picture and some information. It's a Green Tea Opera Cake featured at the Nordljus site. In response to the many commenters, the site owner has promised to try to get an actual recipe online.
I recently (yesterday) mentioned some iced tea recipes posted at the Sacramento CBS affiliate's page. That article also includes a recipe for Elegant Garden Teamisu, which is made with French Caramel Fudge Brulee Tea.
Chocolate And Zucchini recently featured Langues de Chat au Thé Vert, which are "classic French cookies that fall into the category of petits fours secs (dry petits fours, as opposed to miniature versions of pastries with buttercream, pastry cream, etc)". They're made with matcha and you can read all about them here.
Here's an article from one of the Australian papers about a Brisbane restaurant called Augustine's. The owner and chef there recently came up with a degustation menu that featured a different Twinings tea in each course.
As the article notes, "the dishes range from Queensland-farmed barramundi poached in lemon juice and green tea, to seared king prawn cutlets tossed in honey and chai, to duckling braised in Twinings raspberry and peach tea."
Scroll down to the end to see the recipes for Braised Duckling in Twinings Raspberry and Peach Tea and Oven Baked Pork Fillet Marinated with Twinings Blackcurrant and Apple Tea.
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After months of whispers and rumors, finally, it was announced last week that Harold Varmus, MD will become NCI's new director this summer. It's the first time a former director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) takes over an NIH institute. It's a good thing. Dr. Varmus understands NIH,… Read More
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It's pretty surprising that I haven't reviewed about True's Tea, especially when I tried their food more than 20 times. I'm pretty sure I get their delivery service at least twice a month. Maybe because we always order the same dishes over and over again, I wasn't eager to blog about this place. Anyways, I decided to write a review about this place since we got some NEW dishes today (other than chicken nuggets and pork dishes....)
I also had a Chocolate Slush ($4.95), and it actually tasted better than the Oreo Slush and Japanese Green Tea w/ Red Bean Slush that I used to get.
I don't have all the pictures I've tried so far but here are some information:
Deep Fried Chicken Nuggets ($6.95): Has been always good. Can't be wrong when chicken is deep-fried to be honest.
Marinated Pork Intestine ($5.95): Way too smelly. Bad quality. The first time I tried about a year ago was alright, but since after that this typical dish is getting worse. We don't get it anymore.
Fried Pork Intestine ($5.25): Better than marinated ones.
Assorted Marinated ($10.95): Can be good for drinking snacks. I kinda liked it.
Pork Chop in Black Pepper Sauce ($12.95): I always get this one for dinner. This dish is very oily so you definitely need some rice and spicy side dish. If you order Pork Chop in Black Pepper Sauce w/ Rice under Special Combo Rice section it only costs you $9.95.
Chocolate with Condensed Milk Toast ($4.50): Worst dessert ever.
Club Sandwich ($8.50): Came with some fries. Wasn't a good idea for delivery food as the bread got all soggy.
Beef with Stir Fried Rice Noodle ($9.95): 2.5/5.0. This dish was lacking some meat and flavours.
Overall, True's Tea's food is not toooo bad, but I wouldn't say it's good. It's funny that we keep ordering food from them regardless of how bad their service has been in the past. It's because they have a late-night delivery service with lots of food choices. Delivery hours sometimes get really really bad, as like today it took more than 1.5 hour to get our food - any notifications received from the restaurant regarding delays. If you are really hungry, it'd be not the best option to order delivery food from True's Tea, as you get your food way faster if you go out and eat.
+ Free delivery service (minimum order $20)
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+ Lots of food options (desserts, bubble tea, sandwich, Chinese snacks, rice, noodles etc)
- Service is consistently bad
- Takes at least 1.2 hours to get your food (delivery)
- Food is average but sometimes it gets really bad
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President Donald Trump played through the greatest hits of his first year in office before a receptive audience at the 99th Annual American Farm Bureau Federation Convention in Nashville: tax reform including the estate tax, regulatory reform including the Waters of the U.S. rule. Then he brought two new pieces for his farm and ranch audience, a pair of executive orders to expand rural broadband access.
Earlier in the afternoon, USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue provided the preamble to President Trump's speech with the release of the Agriculture and Rural Prosperity Task Force Report, a joint effort of 22 federal agencies charged with improving the rural economy. The executive orders signed by the President deliver two of the more than 100 recommendations by the task force. Both measures ease the way for cell tower access on federal lands.
President Trump noted he was the first sitting president since George H.W. Bush in 1992 to speak before the Farm Bureau, and he riffed on the 99th anniversary of the event noting, "You understand that 100 is so much cooler. So I'll be back, I think, next year. I'll come back."
Over the past year, the President has made repeated threats to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) raising concern from the Farm Bureau membership. President Trump only briefly mentioned the ongoing trade negotiations in his remarks.
"To level the playing field for our great American exporters, our farmers and ranchers as well as our manufacturers, we're reviewing all of our trade agreements to make sure that they are fair and reciprocal," the President said. "Reciprocal… so important on NAFTA. I am working very hard to get a better deal for our country and for our farmers and for our manufacturers.
"It's under negotiation as we speak," he explained. "But think of it when Mexico's make it all of that money when Canada is making all of that money. It's not the easiest negotiation but we're going to make it fair for you people again. Now we want to see even more victories for the American farmer and for the American rancher."
Farmers like Nicholas Kenny of Mesa, Arizona welcomed even a short mention of the ongoing NAFTA talks. "He made a step in the right direction to acknowledge that trade is a big issue in agriculture," he said.
President Trump appealed to the base that supported his White House aspirations. "I used to call them the forgotten men and women," Trump explained. "And then when everyone saw them coming into the polls the other side said how do we get some of them. They were unbelievable. They are forgotten no more! Remember that you're forgotten no more. We're fighting for our farmers. Thank you. And we're fighting for our country and for our great American flag."


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by Kate Magic
In 2006, when raw chocolate really started to catch on in the raw food movement, Paul Nison wrote an article stating unequivocally that cacao is not a health food. Similiarly, the Hippocrates Health Institute often express their disapproval of this latest food fad. We get asked about the reputed downsides of cacao so often, we thought it best to make clear where, in our belief, this negative opinion stems from.
Cacao, like many of the superfoods, blurs the line between food and medicine. It has such a remarkable transformative effect that is highly powerful. We have seen people overdo it on cacao, and abuse its magic. It should be treated with reverence, and valued for its sacred attributes. A sustainable raw food diet is about balance, and too much of any one food is never good. The basis of a holistic diet should always be plenty of alkalising vegetables, local, seasonal, and organic wherever possible. Certainly a diet where cacao is the main food is not advisable.
The main issue I feel with eating too much chocolate is the fat and the sugars. Sure, raw fooders use healthy fats and low-glycaemic sweeteners, but it's still best not to overdo these foods. That's one of the main reasons I'm passionate about getting superfoods into your dinners: sprinkle some cacao nibs onto your salad or blend some into a tomato sauce. It's a lot more effective way to get your cacao quota and removes the need for excess sugars in sweets and smoothies.
Excess cacao can stress the adrenals, but that would only be after repeated binge eating of the food, and if you were eating that much cacao, you would be aware that your diet was out of balance. Also in my experience, if you have been raw a long time before you start experimenting with cacao, you have a much solid, cleaner foundation. People who eat lots of cacao when they still have a lot of detoxing to do are more likely to be adversely affected by it as the potency of the food brings up emotional and physical issues.
To me, one of the greatest joys of the cacao revolution is how many people it has brought to raw foods. I have seen so many people get into raw foods through the back door, as it were. They discover raw chocolate because they are looking for dairy-free or sugar-free treats, and then get turned on to the whole raw foods movement that way. It has also enabled a lot of people transititioning to stay on a high raw diet. When you have cacao to fall back on, why bother with potatoes or bread?
All cacao being sold by raw food companies in this country has passed strict tests for mold and fungal growth. Yes, it can be a problem with raw cacao nibs, but not with the high quality the UK distributors ensure is being offered. If you want to research the nutritional properties of cacao further, Naked Chocolate by David Wolfe and Shazzie covers this subject in extensive detail. No-one is suggesting cacao is a perfect food; we are just excited to share our experiences and the potential we believe it has to help transform humanity at this critical time. If you ended up listening to everyone, and taking on board the negative potentials of absolutely all foods, you would end up eating nothing. Except you can't even do that, because then you would have the anti-breatharian lobby on your case.
People often ask is cacao addictive, and I find it interesting to bring up here the whole question of what is addiction? To be human is in its very definition to be imperfect: if we were perfect we would be up there with the angels and ascended masters. And as imperfect beings, we all have crutches that we depend upon to get us through the challenges of life. For most people, these are unhealthy dependencies: as well as the obvious ones like alcohol, nicotine and caffeine, people get attached to the TV, or develop unhealthy patterns in their relationships. When you choose to live a conscious life, you start to swap these damaging patterns for ones which help you grow and raise your vibration. So your crutches might be yoga, or a particular meditation class, or a certain guru: these are things you need to have in your life every day, to feel you can sustain your lifestyle. As we are all addicted to something, we might as well have beneficial addictions which assist us in becoming more of who we really are. Sure, I eat cacao most days, and I also do yoga and cuddle my children and listen to music. I would miss the uplifting effects of cacao in the same way I would miss my children if I didn't see them all day; to me, that is not an addiction, that is an awareness of what tools work for me and an intelligent desire to utilise those tools to the maximum.
Anything powerful draws negative reactions as well as positive. If there is a new wave in music, don't older generations moan about the awful racket? When you were a teenager getting into the latest fashions, didn't your mother tell you how awful you looked? Mine did. People feel threatened by something that breaks down their existing paradigms, that challenges their consensus reality, and cacao, as the "you can have your cake and eat it" food, does just that. It is not about denial, it is not about strict adherence to a regime, it is about celebration and some people are not ready to embrace that fully. We are all exactly where we are meant to be, doing exactly what we are meant to be doing, and some of us are cacao lovers and some of us are not. That's what makes life interesting, our unique differences. Cacao is a food of the heart; rules come from the head. Cacao is about breaking all the rules, and to me, that is a good thing. It pushes me to live in my truth, in the moment, it is fun, it is exhilarating, and it is what life is really all about.
Paul Nison sells cacao through his website, with the justification below. I'll leave you to decide for yourself if you trust his logical processes or not.
"Many people have told me if I had it on my site they would buy other products as well. So I have decided to sell it for the simple reason that if I didn't, I could not keep my site open anymore. I am not selling Cacao to make money off of it or to promote it, I am selling it so people will get other products from my website and they won't have to worry about an extra shipping cost from another website. Please note this warning I have put on all Cacao products on my site!"


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