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I dropped by Good Food Conspiracy on Big Pine Key yesterday thinking a psychic fair/intuitive arts event was underway. I was a day early, it is today. I thought yesterday was Saturday.
Asked by one of the women who work there, if I was coming to get my aura read today?, I asked why would I want to do that? How would having my aura read help me? She said I would get a read on where I was. I said, a reader reading a reader?
A woman customer who works at Looe Key Tiki Bar said maybe it might help. Maybe I should have positive thoughts. I said I get up each morning and put one foot in front of the other and do the best I can with each step. I said I'd been through the positive thoughts thing many times when I lived in Boulder, Colorado and Santa Fe, New Mexico before that. I had seen many people use that approach, it got better for a while, then all of a sudden they were in hell and didn't know why. I told them they were in hell because they had run away from what they really needed to deal with. What was that? What I had been talking to them about for six months. Oh, that.
I told the Looe Key employee that they wanted Jesus to fix them, but I did not find that Jesus; I found the Jesus who makes me work.
I had told Marnie Brown, the owner of Good Food Conspiracy, two weeks ago that I would be glad to set up there for the fair, and I would not charge anything. She said it was just for readers. In about five minutes talking with someone who really wants help, I usually can get to the next step they need to take, and it almost always is not a step they want to take.
Later yesterday, I drove down to Looe Key Tiki Bar and ordered a grilled fish Caesar wrap and fries, and a ginger ale since I can't drink beer anymore, it makes me really sick. Attorney Lee Rhoe came in, and he joined me.
He asked what I thought about the contract for murder story in The Key West Citizen yesterday (also in today's edition). www.keysnews.com. I said I thought there was more to it than had been reported. Lee agreed. I said I thought there was more to the charter high school principal in Key West killing herself than was reported yesterday, and again today. Lee agreed. I said the students of that school deserve to know what is in the suicide note, because they probably are wondering if they somehow caused her to do what she did. Lee agreed.
We talked about other stuff, including my running for office being a theatrical performance (Lee's label), which gave me a bigger audience. I agreed. Lee said he was going to send me something about Emanuel Swedenborg, who held forth that the crucifixion of Jesus was not a blood sacrifice as Christianity maintains. I said Christianity mostly is superstition. Lee agreed.
I did not yet receive what Lee said he would send, so I provide this link to Wikipedia's report on Swedenborg, who caused quite a stir in Christianity in western Europe.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg Emanuel Swedenborg (listen ; born Emanuel Swedberg ; 29 January 1688 – 29 March 1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, theologian, …
Here are the first few paragraphs from Wikipedia. The last sentence of the last paragraph, which I highlighted in italics, caused me to burst out laughing.
Emanuel Swedenborg born Emanuel Swedberg; 29 January 1688[1] – 29 March 1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, theologian, revelator, and, in the eyes of some, Christian mystic.[2] He termed himself a "Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ" in True Christian Religion,[3] a work he published himself.[4] He is best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell (1758).[5][6] Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. In 1741, at the age of 53, he entered into a spiritual phase[7] in which he began to experience dreams and visions, beginning on Easter weekend of April 6, 1744. This culminated in a 'spiritual awakening', in which he received revelation that he was appointed by the Lord to write a heavenly New ChurchDoctrine to reform Christianity. According to the New Church Doctrine the Lord had opened Swedenborg's spiritual eyes, so that from then on he could freely visit heaven and hell, and talk with angels, demons and other spirits; and that the Last Judgement had already occurred, in 1757, although this was only visible in the spiritual world, where he had witnessed it.
[8] New Church Doctrine states that The Last Judgement was followed by the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, which occurred, not by Christ in person, but by a revelation from Him through the inner, spiritual sense of the Word[9] through Swedenborg.[10] Swedenborg then argued that it is the presence of that spiritual sense which makes the Word Divine.[11] However, he tells us that at this day it is very dangerous to talk with spirits, unless a person is in true faith, and is led by the Lord.[12][13]. For the remaining 28 years of his life, Swedenborg wrote 18 published theological works, and several more which were unpublished. Some followers of the New Church believe that, of his theological works, only those which Swedenborg published himself are fully divinely inspired.[14] New Church Doctrine rejects the concept of salvation through faith alone, since he considered both faith and charity necessary for salvation, not one without the other, whereas the Reformers taught that faith alone procured justification, although it must be a faith which resulted in obedience. The purpose of faith, according to New Church Doctrine, is to lead a person to a life according to the truths of faith, which is charity, as is taught in 1 Corinthians 13:13 and James 2:20. However, he made no attempt to found a church.[15][16]
A few years after his death – 15 by one estimate[17] – for the most part in England, small reading groups formed to study the truth they saw in his teachings.[18] As one scholar has noted, New Church teachings particularly appealed to the various dissenting groups that sprang up in the first half of the 18th century who were "surfeited with revivalism and narrow-mindedness" and found his optimism and comprehensive explanations appealing.[19] In Earths in the Universe, it is stated that he conversed with spirits from Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Venus, the Moon, as well as spirits from planets beyond our solar system.[20] From these 'encounters' he concluded that the planets of our solar system are inhabited, and that such an enormous undertaking as the universe could not have been created for just one race of people; nor one 'heaven' derived from it.[21][22] He argued: "What would this be to God, Who is infinite, and to whom a thousand or tens of thousands of planets, and all of them full of inhabitants, would be scarcely anything!".[23] Swedenborg and the life on other planets question has been extensively reviewed elsewhere.[24]
A variety of important cultural figures, both writers and artists, were influenced by New Church Doctrine , including Johnny Appleseed, William Blake, Jorge Luis Borges, Daniel Burnham, Arthur Conan Doyle,[25] Ralph Waldo Emerson,[26] John Flaxman, George Inness, Henry James Sr., Carl Jung,[27] Immanuel Kant,[28] Honoré de Balzac, Helen Keller, Czes?aw Mi?osz, August Strindberg, D. T. Suzuki, and W. B. Yeats. His philosophy had a great impact on the Duke of Södermanland, later King Carl XIII, who as the Grand Master of Swedish Freemasonry (Svenska Frimurare Orden) built its unique system of degrees and wrote its rituals. In contrast, one of the most prominent Swedish authors of Swedenborg's day, Johan Henric Kellgren, called Swedenborg "nothing but a fool".[29] A heresy trial was initiated in Sweden in 1768 against New Church writings and two men who promoted these ideas.[30] In the two and a half centuries since Swedenborg's death, various interpretations of his theology have been made, and he has also been scrutinized in biographies and psychological studies.[31][32]
Of note is that, just as Jesus Christ, with his new teachings, was considered insane by some (John 10:20, Mark 3:21), so Swedenborg, with his claimed new dispensation, has been considered by some to suffer from mental illness.[33][34][35] "While the insanity explanation was not uncommon during Swedenborg's own time, it is mitigated by his activity in the Swedish Riddarhuset (The House of the Nobility), the Riksdag (the Swedish parliament), and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Additionally, the system of thought in his theological writings is considered by some to be remarkably coherent.[36] Furthermore, he was characterized by his contemporaries as a "kind and warm-hearted man", "amiable in his meeting with the public", speaking "easily and naturally of his spiritual.experiences".[37][38][39]", with pleasant and interesting conversation.. An English friend of Kant's who visited Swedenborg at Kant's behest described Swedenborg as a "reasonable, pleasant and candid man and scholar".[40] Of note here is Swedenborg's statement that he was commanded by the Lord to publish his writings and "Do not believe that without this express command I would have thought of publishing things which I knew in advance would make me look ridiculous and many people would think lies."[41]
Carrying forward that theme is a recap of Erika Biddle's and my recent Facebook conversations re shamans, listening to angels and so forth, followed by a somewhat different revision of Christianity, which came to me by revelation. All of which I was told in dreams yesterday and last night to cover today. All the while, I am being ripped to shreds internally, as the poison in the spirit realms fights tooth and nail to keep humanity right were it is, in hell.
Erika Biddle Have you ever read Doreen Virtue's "angel therapy" ? I didn't but yesterday I overheard a conversation about clairaudient people like yourself ….
Sloan Bashinsky have not heard of Vitrue's book, will google it in a bit, see what virtual says about it … I wonder if Virtue is her birth name? If so, a heck of a name to wear thru life … clairaudient as in crazy, I have heard said from time to time
Erika Biddle It's not crazy – it's a special gift (according to overheard conversation ) some people who have the gift get so frightened that they anything to shut it off… Missing the word "do"
Sloan Bashinsky found this on D. Virtue – "Everyone has guardian angels, and these angels perform God's will of peace for us all. When we open ourselves to hear our angels' messages, every aspect of our lives become more peaceful."
Not my main experience with angel therapy, which I have received steadily since 1987, although sometimes there is peace, repose, it mostly is quite steep and grinding, and was the same for people I knew getting similar angel therapy, but then I was told in the beginning, "This will push you to your limits but you asked for it and we are going to give it to you."
This day is going to have to change plenty for it to be cool or peaceful, last night was super rough, still underway, at end of today's post I told that I had told the angels yesterday, several times, that what I wanted for Christmas was not to wake up today, for it to be over
Erika Biddle That would be too easy…your purpose in this life might not be fulfilled yet… Your personal struggle might end as soon as you find how to be of service.
Sloan Bashinsky Gosh, I thought being of service was, is, most of what I do. I found myself thinking a bit ago, bite my tongue perhaps, but I was thinking it, I am given the heavy lifting to do, because I was trained to do it and most shamans either don't want to do it, or don't know how, to do what I do. Not that they don't do very rough work, but it seems different to me, what I hear/read of them doing, and what is given to me to do.
Erika Biddle regarding Bat(shit)crazy Shaman, yesterday I learned that the bats were the guardians of the underworld…spirits that could communicate through the Shamans and fly into the heavens. Very respected by the different pre Colombian cultures because bat shamans were able to journey through the middle, upper and lower worlds, linking all their beings..
Erika Biddle I just read this and I thought you might enjoy this quote: "When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." ? Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey
Sloan Bashinsky Somethings else about bats is they sleep most of the day and their natural sonar allows see great in the dark and they eat small flying insects. I told the angels a while ago, while out for a walk near the water, that on a scale of 70 (I'm 70), 70 being the most intense, this Christmas day, today, is a 69 of the Christmas days I have experienced. A younger woman friend in North Georgia, who often absorbs and carries what I am doing, called today to say she felt like she was maybe dying, her gall bladder and liver were fouled up, she had a big head ache. I said, same for me. She asked if I saw friends yesterday, I said no, and maybe not today either, given how I feel today. She said same for her. When someone is in acute distress, there is little that can be done but be therefor them, care for them physically, if they cannot do that for themselves. Although I know they mean well, Although I know they mean well, it is not comforting when people, after receiving what I wrote today, messaged me saying they hope I have a good, merry, nice Christmas. Most people I know would have been at the emergency room already. I read more about the Virtue Angel Therapy lady. She's made it big time, it seems from her website. She stuffed her spirit gifts for years, pursued conventional success and did very well. Finally, the angels got her attention. She then She then went with the angels. I sent her something I wrote yesterday to a Christian website that had scrutinized shamans unfavorably. Said a woman friend of mine had told me about her. I envy you and Joel being down there, having what seems to be a great time in what I imagine is a very interesting place. My next to last wife spent some time there, before we met. She was the female companion with me in the taxi coming in from female companion with me in the taxi coming in from the Mumbai airport, as described in today's raving. XOXO
Erika Biddle Travel is my way to connect to the cosmic. I was looking for a special place to ring in the anticipated Mayan Armageddon. Met these perhaps pseudo or real Shamans who were tripping on 'Auyuhasca' to connect with their inner selves. Or as William Burroughs described it to Allen Ginsberg, "a Yage session is space-time travel. The blood and substance of many races, Negro, Polynesian, Mountain Mogul, Desert Nomad, Polyglot Near East, Indian-new races as yet un-conceived and unborn, combinations not yet realized passes through your body…." I was on all fours convulsed with spasm of nausea and pain…"
You are not alone Sloan to go through this…XOE
Sloan Bashinsky The Cosmic comes to me wherever I am, unless I'm in a killer dark night of the soul, when there is near total disconnect from the Cosmic. Pain comes to me wherever I am, it is in the spirit realms and I absorb it. I doubt any real shaman has to use any drug to travel in the spirit realms, I never did it that way. And mostly the spirit realms came/come to me, there was/is relatively little travel to other realms when I was/am not asleep. Sorry for your writhing in pain, Ayahuasca induced or otherwise. I thought you went down there to have a vacation. If Christmas never comes again, it will be too soon for me. I only started coming out of hell in mid-afternoon, and I drove down to Key West because I had picked up an interesting young fellow walking that way on US 1 carrying a guitar in a case. While down there, I saw "Django", which puts an entirely different spin on slavery in the Old South. I don't figure it will be a smash hit with Confederate old times in the land of cotton are not forgotten buffs, but I bet blacks will flock to see it. Driving back up to Little Torch Key, I stopped by to see Todd German and and his lady Lesley Salinero at her home on Summerland Key, where I got quizzed about my next political action and got told I was not permitted to leave the world just yet, God and Todd had too much left for me still to do, most of which centered around Key West's homeless people. I told Todd I needed a bigger audience, such as Bill Becker and US 1 Radio, articles in The Citizen based on journalists interviewing me, me writing guest editorials for The Citizen, just to educate. I said my websites and candidate forums do not reach a wide enough audience. I dread running for mayor again. Key West is seriously bogged down in several big spots: homelessness is one; Truman Waterfront is another; Bahama Village is another; North Roosevelt construction (perhaps a misnomer, perhaps deconstruction fits better) is another. Well, if that was my Christmas present, like I said if Christmas never comes again, it will be too soon for me.
Sloan Bashinsky I sent this by email to Doreen Virtue:
A woman friend told me about you today, Christmas, hoping I somehow might get relief from the load angels keep me under. I told her my experience with angels is very different from what she said of what you do. I publish something new daily (usually) to goodmorningfloridakeys.com. Here's something personal I wrote to a Christian website yesterday, after reading something they had put up scrutinizing shamans unfavorably.
I looked over some of your website after finding your online commentary on modern shamans. I was raised a Southern Baptist until I was 12, then my mother converted to the Episcopal church and took me there with her.
Many years later, early 1987, Christianity seemingly having failed me, as had my searching elsewhere, I prayed, "Dear God, please help me. I do not wish to die like this, failed." I paused, said, "I offer my life to human service." Maybe ten nights later, I awoke in the wee hours and saw two etheric white-ish beings hovering above me in the darkness. I heard, as if spoken into my mind, "This will push you to your limits but you asked for it and we are going to give it to you." I recalled the prayer I had made. Then, my body was jolted by what felt like lightning, and there was a white flash with it. I once had been knocked down by a near lightning strike on a golf course, and it felt something like that. Then came another lightning jolt. Then came another. What I thought were two angels dissolved and only darkness remained. I'd never had such an experience.
The changes began slowly on this world and internally and in spirit. The pace quickened, and as it quickened my perspective of everything changed, and kept changing, and kept changing. Some of the earlier phenomena were spectacular and very emotional and uplifting, and some of the later phenomena were horrific and terrifying. There were several dark nights of the soul, the first was horrible, the second was far worse, as described in the commentaries of St. John of the Cross. There were later dark nights. Eventually, I came to understand the two angels who came with the message and lightning were Jesus and Archangel Michael. Ten years into it, Melchizedek joined them in a way I understood consciously.
The internal changes sometimes were violent and terrifying, imposed from the spirit realms. There was a great deal of healing of horrific soul wounds inflict on me by other people and by myself, and of horrific soul wounds I had inflicted on other people. Not everything was healed, there is karma I might live out my days with. I knew a few other people who were brought into much the same experience, two were brought very deeply into it, but it did not seem they were locked into it in the way I was. I was in it first, and they followed, voluntarily, invited by my spirit handlers named above, and not by me. I probably would not invite anyone into this experience today after how it has gone for me. Steep is an understatement.
Your website suggests you hold yourselves out as being very knowledgeable about spirit phenomena and practices outside of Christianity, and you seem dedicated to proving non-Christian practices are not really okay, nor safe. For sure, spirit experiencing is very different and very prone to getting lost and worse. I can't begin to imagine what would have become of me if I was not ridden hard herd on by my spirit controllers, who have rescued me many times from blunders I brought upon myself thinking I was doing okay, or great, when nothing was further from the truth. For all I know, they will spank me, or worse, for even writing to you.
Sloan Bashinsky
Little Torch Key, Florida Keys
Erika Biddle hi Sloan we are now in Cartagena… different climate from 64 to 94 within 1 hour flight yesterday I was quoting something I read. It wasn't me who experienced the pain… I wonder if Ms. Virtue will answer your e-mail
Sloan Bashinsky I received back from D. Virtue and email touting her books, workshops, etc. Not responsive to what I sent to her. Can't say I was surprised.
Erika Biddle it's a whole industry out there. I never relate to anyone who hawks their "gifts". However, it was still cool listening into the conversation about people discussing hearing "angel voices" and dropping names
Sloan Bashinsky I was taught not to charge money for trying to help people with what I was taught how to do, perhaps the only exception, perhaps, is books I wrote which were published, I could take royalties on the books. Virtue's photo on her website looked pretty staged and vampish to me. I still wonder if she took Virtue as a last name, to promote herself.
Erika Biddle my battery needs juice again soon. I need to recharge my computer…Virtue or not she looks like a movie star. I understand she lives in Hawaii…
Sloan Bashinsky She reminds me of people I ran across when I lived in Santa Fe and Boulder, starting 26 years ago. Charlatan came to mind earlier today. Your friend, Jonathan H. hawks his gifts online, I have seen him do it several times
Erika Biddle So what? If I would judge and dismiss everybody that does things that I don't necessarily agree with I would be a just ending up as a self righteous lonely person…I try not to judge. I just laugh and go on with my own mostly agnostic Philosophy: life is service…find your own truth and follow the Golden Rule…now my phone needs juice too. Good night XOX
Sloan Bashinsky You wrote – it's a whole industry out there. I never relate to anyone who hawks their "gifts".
Erika Biddle perhaps the money raised through the workshops and selling books is spent not to self indulge, but to redistribute to people in need? Perhaps that might be true for Ms. Virtue as well. I don't know and try not to jump to conclusions so fast…XOE
Sloan Bashinsky I don't know either, because I don't know D. Virtue or J. Horwitz. What I do know is I sent something very serious to Virtue and she sent me back an invitation to buy her products. Jonathan did not do that when I approached him. I don't know what he does with the money he makes teaching shamanism, and I don't feel I know him well enough to ask him, or that it's really any of my business. What I do know is he seems to have been connected to a shaman school in America with which I have had earlier dealings, founded by Michael Harner, who I think I recalled trained under South American shamans, then opened his shaman school in America. I knew one of them somewhat, Sandra Ingerman, who lived in Santa Fe, who treated me twice with no apparent effect, and she told me what I was involved in was beyond her range. After I was getting to know Jim Hendrick, he introduced me to his sister, thinking there might be a match, as I understood it. She said, on learning that I was a shaman, that she couldn't go down that road again. She had been with a shaman in the northeastern US, who had trained under Michael Harner. She'd seen all the dark birds she wanted, it exhausted her. Then, she same to KW and I met her and Jim and his family briefly over dinner, because I wanted to meet her. Later, I told Jim his sister didn't look well to me. He said her cancer had returned somewhat. By the next day I knew the cause of her cancer, which was being with that shaman, who was from a school that was short in female essence, long on doing and commercing in shaman training and work, and in all the inner circle being on the corporate letterhead, including Sandra Ingerman. I told Jim the shaman and drained his sister of her female essence, not intentionally, but that was what happened, and that had caused her cancer. I told her that later. I told them she could get help from the angels, but they apparently ignored me. She seemed to me to be under Jim's spell, he knew what was best sort of thing. I see Jonathan encouraging people to engage their causes to save this or that in the world, including the environment, but I do not see him encouraging them to look in the mirror, deal with their own shadow. That approach is not a big seller, hard to make a living at it, probably impossible. That was the shaman Jesus' approach and what he taught others to do. I told you when you first approached me about Hidden In Plain View that I only could participate, if nobody involved was hawking their wares. Judging is not the same thing as observing what people say and do, and what they don't say and don't do. People tell a lot about themselves without knowing it. There always is the voice of the soul and the voice of the ego, and they can and often do use the same words with two entirely different meanings, and the ego is not aware of it, while the soul is. I hear both most of the time, and it for sure results in a lot of loneliness. I imagine Jesus was the loneliness man in the history of this species, until he met Mary Magdalene. I received two transmissions about her, the first around 1991-92, from far, far away it seemed:
Melchizedek … Melchizedek is an order of angel that comes to a planet in trouble … Melchizedek comes to a planet to prepare it for the coming of the Christ … Christ does not come to a planet without Melchizedek … Mary Magdalene was of the Order Melchizedek …
The second transmission came in late winter 2004:
Rosa Mystica
Sweet Mystery
Bride of Christ
Living water
without which God is dead
and there are no rainbows
I later came [with the help of my sixth wife] to understand, Bride of Christ was Blood of Christ
Christianity has created a male Trinity – homosexual by practice and definition.
This species humanity is so skewed into the masculine, the women as well as the men, that there is no hope of the species turing around without a serious infusion of the feminine essence into the species and nearly all of its members, women as well as men.
That was the prayer I was asked several months ago to make for the United States of America: a divine intervention of the feminine into USA. I made the prayer, and wrote about that and said my experience with her intervening into me was very rough and I didn't see it being different for USA.
She destroys plenty, ruthlessly if necessary, to rearrange her habitat. Hurricane Sandy and Sandy Hook School were some of her handiwork. She is fed up with war, guns. She is fed up with the worship of idols: money, military might, guns, power, drugs, cosmetics and plastic surgery, social climbing, striving to prove self, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual abuse, brainwashing, copycatting, …
In the Gospels, Jesus told his disciples that they could blaspheme him and they could be forgiven, but if they blasphemed the Holy Ghost, they would not be forgiven. He knew the Holy Ghost was the feminine side of God, which the Christian church has repudiated. As has Islam. As has most of Judaism, even though in that sect's scriptures Wisdom is assigned the female gender and the spirit of God is called Shekinah, gender female.
Jesus beat his head against a wall many times trying to bring his disciples around, and they were still raving monkeys when he left them. But he had planted seeds, which the Holy Spirit came into them and grew them into men. Real men. And grew women into real women.
The greatest love story in human history is Jesus and Mary Magdalene, and the Christian church has obliterated it, in practice and in the New Testament; but it's hidden in plain view there, if you have eyes that see. I don't feel like explaining again what is lying in plain view in the Gospels about Jesus and Mary Magdalene, whose story is just as important as Jesus' story without Magdalene, for their mating union was an effort to undo the fall, which was the loss of the feminine in this species, the rift between men and women.
Alas, Jesus and Magdalene did not complete the mating ritual. When Jesus left Palestine, how that came about also is hidden in plain view in the Gospels, Magdalene declined to go with him, because she did not wish to leave her culture, which is not in the Gospels. So Jesus headed east, alone, with a very heavy heart. Ironically, Magdalene had to leave her culture anyway, after being a follower of Jesus became a capital offense under Roman law for Christians who did not recant Jesus.
Magdalene fled, with her and Jesus' child, to southern France, as reported in the book, Holy Blood, Holy Grail. Some of that love story Dan Brown hijacked and twisted to make a lot of money off the The da Vinci Code. Brown displayed zero knowledge of the Holy Grail and real Grail Knights and their Ladies.
I was provided five women with many spiritual gifts, in succession, to attempt to complete that ritual Jesus and Magdalene started. Each woman was different. Each relationship was different. We were torn every which a way but loose. It was beyond human comprehension. It was driven by Jesus and the Melchizedek Order, in which Jesus is High Priest, says the New Testament Letter to the Hebrews, with the agreement of our souls, our egos' druthers notwithstanding.
That is The Second Coming – the completion of that "paradise mating" ritual, but you would never know it by reading the New Testament or listening to the Christian church. Or to aura readers, psychics, or anybody I know, except one young woman I met in Key West, who became known as Aphrodite.
It was clear to me that she and I were supposed to pair up, the sensations were blatant, but she was not able, or was not willing, to set aside my being 40 years older. It occurred to me maybe a month ago, if she had gone with it, she would have conceived a child the likes of which this world had not seen since Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Probably, a girl child.
There is no way not to be very lonely with all of that, and a whole lot more, inside of you – unless you are paired up with your paradise mating partner. Then, the two of you, Adam and Eve, hand in hand, began the paradise return through the purifying fire swords wielded by the two Cherubim to protect the Tree of Life and its ways. God never told Adam and Eve they could not return to Eden, but to return, they had to be purified and wise, their time of innocence in the Garden a historical event not to be regained.
That is the Grail journey.
That is the Second Coming.
Jesus and Mary Magdalene understood that. But Christianity does not. Nor does Judaism and Islam. Nor does the New Age. Nor does any other religion on this planet, although within each religion and outside of religion a few people understand and are trying to live it consciously.
I doubt anyone known to me would pay money to hear or read what I wrote today. I doubt more than a handful of my readers read this entire post. But it's published now, on the World Wide Web and in the Akashic Record. And it's free.
Sloan Bashinsky


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Chautauqua Lake Central School District
Chautauqua Lake Central School District has announces its High Honor Roll, Honor Roll, and Merit Roll for the second quarter of the 2012-13 school year. The students listed below are recognized for their outstanding academic achievements during this 10-week period.
High Honor Roll
12th Grade: Erica Homme, Mary Schmitz, Luciana Sena
11th Grade: Emilie Christie, Cheyann Doud, Molly Hindman, Megan Stahlsmith,
10th Grade: Hannah DeFries, Joshua Ivars, Abigail Jantzi, Michael Parker, Alex Rosage, Kara Tenpas
9th Grade: Alan Christie, Brianna Dudley, Amber McKenery
8th Grade: Brittany Fardink, Taylor Phelps, Joel Vinciguerra
7th Grade: Sara Corwin, Hannah Gilmore, Joshua Janicki and Sydney Lachajczyk.
Honor Roll
12th Grade: Bridgette Akin, Allison Courtney, Anna Gerber, Jessica Latimer, Jeremy Lesniowski, Andrew Pezzulo, Hannah Rauh, Sam Snyder
11th Grade: MacKenzie Byerly, Ian Clute, Benjamin Lawson, Joshua Lucas, Charity Ludwig, Mariana Mathewson, Jordan Mulholland, Jessica Parment, Sean Peterson, Samantha Robbins-Welty, Calista Smith, Lindsey Stow, Heather Sullivan
10th Grade: Laiken Biekert, Ashley Crandall, Kirsten Elliott, Robert Hoitink, Forrest Hunter, Chloe Kilmartin, Gina Sena
9th Grade: Alan Anderson, Abigail Andriaccio, Rachael Fortney, David Gerber, Bree Girdlestone, Bridgett Marsh, Abigayl Novak, Jenelle Senske, Benjamin Stahlsmith, Abby Whipple
8th Grade: Kristen Akin, Dakota Barrows, Samantha Bauer, Allison Cummings, Jaclyn Doyle, Rachel Fisher, Mitchell Gleason, Samantha Gleason, Lakin Gustafson, Nathan Hammond, Amber Jusko, Hamzah Khalil, Jordyn Majka, Maximillian McKee, Analise Mellors, Joseph Parker, Sarah Russin, Maddison Webb, Madison Woodis,
7th Grade: Evan Blakeslee, Jenna Briggs, Joseph Dombek, Jr., Corinne Elliott, Sara Godfrey, Stener Homme, Mikayla Martin, Jared Raynor, Anna Sena, Garrett Snider, Autumn Shuskie, Logan Studley, Ryan Wilson, Collin Wood and Jesse Zenns
Merit Roll
12th Grade: Kelsie Breads, Jeremy Gilbert, Leanna Harp, Sarah Harp, Amber Ludwig, Anthony Pezzulo, Angelique Schalk-Ruff, Amy Smith, Hayley Tracy
11th Grade: Thadius Arthur, Raymond Fortney, Callie Girdlestone, Elijah Hall, Tara Hunt, Joseph Marsala, Mathew Miele, Ashley Moulton, Colton Mulkins, Heather Sampson, Sarah Sowinski, Miranda Williams
10th Grade: Alexa Anderson, Chandler Baker, Danielle Barrows, Sarah Biekarck, Todd Boberg, Kathryn Doyle, Jenna Einink, Gregory Harkay, Courtney Hewes, Lilyan Kates, Cody Latimer, Jessica Lewis, Chelsea Messinger-Hardwick, Roger Williams,
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Barbara Undershaft, a Major of The Salvation Army, is dedicated to converting lost souls. But when her father presents a proposition that may undermine her moral compass, can she accept? Is it better to save starving souls at any price, or share the message of salvation with those who already have enough? Join us for George Bernard Shaw's masterpiece, a witty social commentary wrapped in the complex story of a father's love for his daughter.
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Official *What did you get in the mail today?* Thread!!!
My DAVIDs order. Yay for new travel mugs. And my 3 samples are the new yeas, coconut grove, mint julep & mango fruit punch
Wow I have tea everywhere!!! It makes me happy. I got THREE orders in the mail today:
Fusion Teas: I ordered 9 teas and they threw in a sample size (10 cups) of Good Morning Mate. Thought it was quite a generous sample. Well packaged. Love their labels.
Verdant: I ordered the 5 for $5 and 5 others. They also included a sample of Flowering Green Jasmine. Love the personal note and tea information/history/instructions that were included. Top notch company.
Mandala: I ordered 2 pu'erh cakes, a pick, and 3 teas. They included a personal note and 2 samples. There was a slight address glitch when I ordered, and they have been in contact, asking if I got it, keeping in touch. AMAZING, AWESOME, FANTASTIC customer service. I haven't even tried their tea yet, but I KNOW I will be ordering from them again.
I love Mandala tea! Which cakes did you get?
Wild Monk and 2009 Meghai Purple Rhyme. Phatty cake is on my list to get next. Sigh…. so many teas almost don't have enough time to drink them all.
Wild Monk is amazing! At least pu'er you can let it age if you can't drink it right away. That's how I justified when I bought some, my tea collection is dangerous bouncing around 200.
LOL ok let's go with that theory, it will get better with age. I really need to narrow down what I like. I seem to be ordering all different kinds, flavored black, flavored rooibos/honeybush, mate, pu'erh, oolong, dessert teas, fruit teas….. it's out of control. I think I like everything. OK I may not be at 200 but if this keeps up it won't be long until I get there. Cupboard is showing 84 and I have at least 50 samples/swap samples that aren't in there. Need to drink more tea.
My swap from Kallieboo arrived! YAY for new teas…thankfully i sipped some down today heh
I got a wonderful swap from ysaurella, which really brightened my day (and my daughter's, as these are all teas for sharing!). We needed it, as our old dog took a substantial turn for the worse yesterday, and the moment of calling the vet is a lot closer now.
Also got my order from Pure Aroma Tea, and those great guys have managed to maintain the record of sending me samples I haven't tried yet, which is getting increasingly difficult! :) They also had the perfect sale, as it was on all their unflavoured black teas and those don't count as ordering tea. Lalala, can't hear anyone disagreeing
Yesterday, my sheng pu'er sample came from Misty Peak Tea!
Hopefully my Verdant order comes soon – the preorder oolong was held up in customs. However, i'm more excited to try Verdant's sheng pu'er!
I got my order from Georgia Tea Company and the pu'er sample from Misty Peak Tea.
Though I'm wary about the sample since it was just tossed into an envelope that was barely sealed by just a piece of packing tape at the corner of the flap. When I got it it was mostly open and coming out the seams. As much as I appreciate the opportunity to give it a try, I'm not sure I trust the safety of the tea at this point which is unfortunate. /sigh/
ditto on mine, my piece was pretty smashed and I lost some to stuck on packing tape.
The Della Terra order. :) I'm having the Apples and Mango now.
Yesterday I received my swap from Kaylee
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One big problem is local governments derive much of their revenue from selling land.and other building materials are staggering; one ton of the cement that is the substrate of this new urban infrastructure equals at least one ton of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, another reason China is now the world's leading CO2-emitting nation. In addition, shoddy construction means that many buildings will have to be torn down and rebuilt within a decade or two, and that new homes and offices often are not energy efficient.
Millions of laborers throw up dormitories and apartments, only to see them torn down less than a decade later.new housing for the millions of recently urbanized Chinese.
Simply improving existing building codes would have a bigger impact than any new eco-city.bid to restrain this unsustainable growth. It has also begun to consider mandated efficiency measures for new construction. China's central government hopes ultimately to build an "ecological civilization" via a "circular economy" of recycling and sustainability. Tianjin Eco-City, scheduled to be completed by 2018, exemplifies many of the proposed attributes: minimal waste, wise water use, and power generated mainly from renewable sources such as the sun, wind, and geothermal wells.
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The Blu-ray players have been getting more and more affordable for some time now and the consumers responded with increased adoption rate. With even advanced Blu-ray disc (BD) players now available at $199, an analyst from NPD Group believes that basic devices can be obtained for as little as $49 on Black Friday.
"It's conceivable we could see a $49 Blu-ray player on Black Friday, but I think we'll see more $99 deals. Anything is possible," said Ross Rubin, NPD Group's director of industry analysis, in an interview with Video Business web-site.
At present many Blu-ray profile 2.0 players with BDLive, BonusView and video streaming support already cost $199, substantially less than back in 2008. Moreover, since large manufacturers would like to sell off their previous-generation BD profile 1.1 players, it is highly likely that on Black Friday those players will be available for $99, whereas first-generation BD profile 1.0 devices may cost just about $49.
According to Consumer Electronics Association, Blu-ray disc playback devices sold 3.3 million units through the first three quarters of 2009, an increase of 13% over same period last year. Through the first three quarters of 2009, Blu-ray Disc set-top player sales grew 112% over same period last year. Blu-ray playback device households are nearly 11.7 million and include PlayStation 3 consoles. Approximately 80% of Blu-ray devices are BD-Live capable.
"We've seen very strong growth in Blu-ray players this year. It has been a bright spot in a very gloomy industry landscape. Nearly all other electronics device categories have been down, such as digital cameras and MP3 players," said Mr. Rubin.
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - Text by Stuart Borrie | BWF
The Badminton World Federation is preparing to launch new anti-doping initiatives next year, following the WADA World Conference on Doping in Sport last week.
These initiatives will start the process of the BWF and badminton adhering to the enhanced WADA Code adopted in Johannesburg, South Africa, and due to come into effect 1 January 2015.
The conference endorsed the Johannesburg Declaration (linked here) which describes the current position on the fight against doping and the role the enhanced WADA Code and International Standards will play in supporting International (Sports) Federations (IFs), National Anti-Doping Organisations (NADOs) and governments in the collective goal of having "clean sport".
The declaration reads: "The Johannesburg World Conference on Doping in Sport reaffirms that the ultimate objective of the fight against doping in sport is the protection of all clean athletes and that all concerned parties should commit all required resources and resolve to achieve that objective by intensifying the fight."
Governments, NADOs and IFs, who have worked with WADA for two years on the review, adopted the declaration and approved the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code and the four International Standards. The enhanced Code will strengthen and harmonize anti-doping programmes globally.
Changes to the WADA Code include:
* Longer periods of ineligibility (four years) for real cheats – and more flexibility in sanctioning athletes in specific circumstances.
* Increased importance of investigations and the use of intelligence in the fight against doping in sport. This requires signatories of the Code to vigorously investigate potential doping cases and to search out and use analytical (from testing) and non-analytical evidence in prosecuting drug cheats – athletes and any entourage members.
* The ability to prosecute athlete support personnel who play a role in doping in sport.
* An emphasis on "smart testing" strategies – and to improve cooperation between IFs and NADOs in their testing programmes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
* Statute of limitations increased to ten years.
* A requirement for enhanced values-based education programmes where IFs work in closer cooperation with NADOs.
In 2012 and 2013, the BWF has been working on a project with a Danish anti-doping expert who is providing advice on implementing enhanced anti-doping programmes which are in line with the WADA Code 2015.
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Don't let holidays be happy for crooks
During the Christmas and holiday season people are often busy, excited and a little careless. Unfortunately it's a time when they should be extra careful. This season don't let the spirit of giving lull you into giving burglars, pick-pockets, purse snatchers and con artists a better chance to do their dirty work. Crooks love the holidays as much as everyone else.
Here are some tips on how to celebrate this season and make the holidays a safe and happy time.
At home:
1. Be extra careful about locking doors and windows when you leave the house, even if only for a few minutes. Also lock garages and sheds.
2. Don't display gifts where they can be seen from a window or door, leave only a few presents out and store the remainder.
3. If out at night turn on a radio or TV so the house looks occupied.
4. If you go away for a few days get an automatic timer for lights and TV. Have a neighbor watch your house, shovel snow, pick up mail and newspapers (or have them held until you return) and park their car in your driveway from time to time.
5. Be wary of strangers coming to the door, asking for donations or a courier delivering a gift. Ask for ID and if you don't feel comfortable don't open the door, call the police.
6. Be wary of scam and con artists, be very careful who you give your personal information and bank account or credit card information to. Your bank will not call on the phone or come to the door asking this information. Ask for and check on references, don't be afraid to ask for help if you feel you are being pressured or don't understand. Remember if it sounds to good to be true it probably is.
7. Check electronic items and mark them with a unique identification number.
8. Use only fire-resistant ornaments and check lights to make sure they are safe. Teach children not to play with lights and electrical connections and avoid overloading outlets and using extension cords. Remember to keep live trees watered and do not leave tree lights on overnight or when away from home.
9. Test your smoke detector and if you have guests let them know about your security and escape plan in case of an emergency.
When shopping:
1. Stay alert and be aware of what's going on around you.
2. Shop before dark if possible and coordinate with a friend or relative if you plan on being out late.
3. Park in well lighted areas and be sure to lock car doors and close windows. Secure items in the trunk and have keys ready to enter your vehicle and check the interior before getting in. Once inside lock the doors and don't open them or get back out. Use your car panic alarm if you are being followed or feel uncomfortable.
4. Avoid carrying large amounts of cash and deter pick pockets and purse snatchers by carrying your purse under the arm and keeping wallets in front pockets.
5. Teach children to go to a store clerk or security guard if they become separated or lost. Teach them to stay close and avoid contact with strangers.
6. Be careful with internet purchases, use reputable sites and secure payments such as pay-pal or a credit card. Avoid using a debit card on internet purchases.
If you have celebrated a little too much at a holiday party or out with family and friends and you can't safely and responsibly operate your vehicle please don't. Be a designated driver, find a designated driver or call a taxi. If you really care you won't let your friends or loved ones operate a vehicle when you know that it can't be done safely and responsibly. Please take the needed steps to avoid the senseless tragedies that occur on our highways as a result of drinking and driving or reckless operation.
Also please make sure that everyone in the vehicle wears a seatbelt and children are in proper child safety restraints. It's a proven fact that seatbelts and child safety seats save lives. Make sure you clear snow and ice from your vehicle, keep an emergency pack with items such as blankets and a flashlight in your car and plan extra time on trips to allow for changing road conditions.
Also we encourage anyone who sees or hears anything suspicious or out of the ordinary in their neighborhood to please call the Police Department Desk at 366-2266 when it is happening. We would much rather send a car to check the situation than to find out at a later time that something happened and we could have had immediate information. We also advise residents to not open their doors to anyone unless they know who it is, again please call 366-2266 or 911 and have a patrol car respond.
Make time to get together with family and friends and think about reaching out and helping senior citizens or those who are less fortunate. Take a little time to make the Holidays a safe and happy time for everybody. On behalf of the Dunkirk Police Department please have a safe, happy and joyous Christmas and New Year Holiday Season.
David Ortolano is chief of the Dunkirk Police Department.


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Last week, I had the privilege of attending the 2012 Girls' World Forum in my home town of Chicago. This exciting event, hosted by the Girl Scouts of the USA, brought together member organizations of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) in the last of three events that began in the United Kingdom in 2010 to celebrate the centenary of international Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting. There were over 500 girls ages 14-18 who joined from around the world to discuss global issues and commemorate the 100th Anniversary of Girl Scouts of the USA. This five-day program was developed by an all-girl planning committee.
I met with nearly 300 girls and young women in a series of listening sessions. These inspiring young people shared with me the "take action" plans they've created to implement project plans in their home countries. All of the "take action" plans focus on the Millennium Development Goals of eradicating extreme hunger and poverty, promoting gender equality and empowering women, and ensuring environmental sustainability.
I heard about some amazing project ideas. In India, two of the girls are working together to craft a project that focuses on feeding the extreme poor in large urban areas. The projects from Uganda and Burkina Faso focused on youth empowerment through education. Girls from the Dominican Republic and Venezuela came up with creative recycling programs in their countries. Another group of girls in Venezuela are coming up with a plan to promote eco-tourism in their country.
We brainstormed on how to creatively fundraise, how to get people interested in their projects, and how the State Department can support their work. I invited them to participate in our embassy's youth councils in their home countries, where we seek to engage young people from a variety of backgrounds on the issues they face. I am always grateful for opportunities to engage with young leaders and I look forward to remaining in touch with the girls on their projects!
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Ingelow, Jean
Jean Ingelow 1820-1897
(Also wrote under the pseudonym Orris) English poet, novelist, and short story writer.
The following entry presents criticism on Ingelow from 1897 through 1998. For additional information on Ingelow's life and career, see NCLC, Volume 39.
Highly esteemed as a poet in both England and the United States during the late nineteenth century, Jean Ingelow celebrated nature, romantic love, and childhood in her poetry and was most often compared to contemporary Christina Rossetti. Though Ingelow's verse is not widely known to modern readers, its popular appeal during the Victorian era was second only to that of poet laureate Lord Tennyson. Ingelow's poetry was held in such high regard by some nineteenth-century American scholars that in 1892 they appealed to Queen Victoria to name Ingelow as Tennyson's successor to that post. Most modern critics, however, consider her to be a minor poet while acknowledging her achievement as a skilled and popular writer. Today she is most often remembered as the author of the children's fantasy novel Mopsa the Fairy (1869).
Biographical Information
Ingelow was born in 1820 in the coastal town of Boston in Lincolnshire to Jean Kilgour and William Ingelow, a banker. The eldest of nine children (some sources say eleven), Ingelow was schooled by her mother with the occasional help of tutors. At home Ingelow learned several languages in addition to studying literature, history, and geography. A shy child with a fanciful imagination, Ingelow experienced an early inner conflict triggered by her strong desire to express herself creatively and the demands of conformity upon which her parents insisted. This internal quarrel would inform some of her later works. Ingelow began writing while still a child, composing songs and verses reflecting her appreciation of nature. When she was fourteen, she relocated with her family to Ipswich and eventually moved with them to London in 1850. That year her first poetry collection, A Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and Feelings, was published anonymously. Although the volume was dismissed by many readers as overly sentimental, it drew praise from Tennyson, who, in a letter to a mutual friend, indicated that the work showed promise.
Extremely reserved, Ingelow was encouraged to continue writing by her family, who provided both financial and moral support for her career. Over the next decade she published Allerton and Dreux; or, the War of Opinion (1851), a novel about religious controversy and tolerance, as well as several children's stories under the name of Orris in The Youth's Magazine. In 1863 she published Poems, hailed as the work of a talented new poet and eliciting recognition from such literary giants as Tennyson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and John Ruskin. The collection's popularity prompted more than twenty-five editions over the next several years, and Ingelow soon became one of the most famous poets in England and the United States. Ingelow, however, shunned publicity, preferring instead to remain quietly at home as her Victorian upbringing dictated. Moving with her mother and two of her brothers to Kensington, she rented a flat near the family's home to use as a studio and began to earn a living as a writer. She published the children's novel Mopsa the Fairy in 1869, adult novels including Off the Skelligs (1872) and Sarah de Berenger (1879), and a second and third series of poetry collections. By this time she had made the acquaintance of virtually every American and English writer of note, including English art critic and writer John Ruskin, who, scholars speculate, was attracted to Ingelow's poetic and narrative renditions of innocence. Ruskin, who began quoting Ingelow in his works as early as 1866, met frequently with Ingelow and remained her close friend throughout the rest of her life. After the death of Ingelow's most beloved brother in 1886 she stopped writing, and although she continued to publish some of her remaining manuscripts, her works gradually declined in popularity. Ingelow died in Kensington in 1897.
Major Works
Ingelow's works reflect her overall acceptance of the prevailing moral and social order. She was branded a conformist by those who rejected the confinement of Victorian society. Nevertheless, Ingelow's verse has been praised for its clear and simple language and musical rhythms. Her poems most often celebrate the English landscape, particularly the pasturelands, the changing seasons, the wind, the birds, and the seashore. "The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire," which critics almost unanimously describe as her finest poem, evokes the seascape of her childhood in Lincolnshire. Published in the 1863 volume Poems, "High Tide" describes in ballad form the events surrounding an enormous tidal wave that swept over the peaceful pasturelands of her native village in 1571. The poem rejoices in the beauty of nature while expressing awe at its destructive potential. This narration of a story in verse typifies many of Ingelow's works. Her allegorical poem Gladys and Her Island (1867), for example, turns on the desire of the title character, a young governess, to discover her inner self. As Gladys allows her poetic imagination to roam free, she is able to embark on a fantastic journey to such exotic locales as the Garden of Eden and the ruins of ancient Egypt. Among Ingelow's most ambitious efforts (although dismissed by critics) is the epic A Story of Doom (1867), which centers on the fictional conflict between the biblical Noah and his wife, Niloiya, who strongly opposes his involvement in his religious mission.
In general, Ingelow's novels center on family life and the emotional and imaginative lives of children. Her celebrated fantasy Mopsa the Fairy involves Jack, an ordinary boy, and the title character whom Jack first encounters in a nest of fairies. Jack, a mortal, kisses Mopsa, and as a result she does not grow into maturity but remains a child along with Jack until eventually she becomes the powerful ruler of a fairy land. Sarah de Berenger depicts a young mother's struggle to provide her children with a stable and loving home despite the fact that their father is a criminal. Off the Skelligs traces the moral development of two intellectually precocious children who are cared for by tutors and a nurse while their mother pursues a literary career.
Critical Reception
Ingelow's fame as a writer was long in coming: she was forty-three years old before she earned the respect of such esteemed critics as F. T. Palgrave. Initially her poetry was praised as charming and simple, expressing love and delight in natural landscapes and revealing beauty in an obscure and unintelligible world. Her works began to fall out of favor around the turn of the century, however. Critics have theorized that the emerging emphasis on the self toward the close of the nineteenth century caused many readers to rebel against what was viewed as submission on the part of Ingelow to the established religious and social order. Her reputation was damaged, too, as a result of Eric S. Robertson's 1883 critical biography of her included in his English Poetesses. Emphasizing Ingelow's intense interest in "homely subjects," Robertson claimed she was inferior to her male counterparts, who in their writings ventured far beyond simple family matters. Critical discussion of Ingelow ceased until 1940 when Gladys Singers-Bigger published an essay regarding Ingelow's poetic imagery. By the mid-1950s, American scholar Edith Hamilton had considered Ingelow's role as a forerunner to the modern school of poetry, focusing in particular on how Ingelow's poetic method and technique foreshadowed that of Dylan Thomas.
A thirty-year critical silence ensued until 1987 when Brian Attebery briefly looked at the initiation rites of Ingelow's Mopsa the Fairy and compared them to similar circumstances in the works of major modern fantasy writers such as Ursula Le Guin, Patricia McKillip, and Suzette Haden Elgin. In 1992 scholars Nina Auerbach and U. C. Knoepflmacher pointed out the unconventionality of Mopsa the Fairy's ending: the male character returns to ordinary domestic life while the female character becomes the powerful leader of an entire nation. However, unlike Jack, whose memories of his escapades fade quickly, Mopsa is haunted and saddened by memories of her lost childhood. As Auerbach and Knoepflmacher have contended, Ingelow was demonstrating the danger of the female imagination, since it has the power to cause women to most acutely feel the intense separation and loss of freedom upon becoming adults. Jennifer A. Wagner further explored Ingelow's emphasis on Victorian social and economic conditions in her 1993 study of Gladys and Her Island. Finding that Gladys's imagination offers her a psychological release from her figurative imprisonment, Wagner concluded that Gladys's inner vision also provides her with a source of power against the confines of reality. In 1998 Knoepflmacher returned to the question of cultural confinement in Ingelow's writings, claiming that Ingelow revealed not only her resentment over her inferior and restricted position but also her acceptance and even encouragement of the status quo.
Principal Works
A Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and Feelings [anonymous] (poetry) 1850
Allerton and Dreux; or, the War of Opinion (novel) 1851
Tales of Orris (short stories) 1860
Poems (poetry) 1863
Stories Told to a Child (sketches and prose poetry) 1865
A Story of Doom, and Other Poems (poetry) 1867; revised as Poems: Second Series 1872
Mopsa the Fairy (novel) 1869
Off the Skelligs (novel) 1872
Fated to Be Free (novel) 1875
Sarah de Berenger (novel) 1879
Don John: A Story (novel) 1881
Poems, Third Series (poetry) 1885
Poems of the Old Days and the New (poetry) 1885
John Jerome: His Thoughts and Ways (novel) 1886
A Motto Changed (novel) 1894
Jennette Atwater Street (essay date 1897)
SOURCE: "Jean Ingelow," in The Citizen, Vol. 3, No. 10, December, 1897, pp. 224-25.
[In the following essay, written just after Ingelow's death, Street presents a brief overview of Ingelow's life and works, finding her writings "charming" but restricted in scope because of her limited life experiences.]
When Tennyson died, when Morris and Stevenson, Lowell and Holmes laid their pens down for the last time, there was such a sense of activity arrested, of immediate loss, that we look even yet for this to be made good to us. Far different, however, is the feeling with regard to the English poetess recently deceased. Her death seems rather the loss of an earlier...
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Mabel C. Birchenough (essay date 1899)
SOURCE: "Jean Ingelow," in The Fortnightly Review, Vol. 71, No. 287, March 1, 1899, pp. 486-99.
[In the following essay, Birchenough offers an enthusiastic review of Ingelow's major works, focusing on Ingelow's love of nature and natural landscapes, the simplicity and sensitivity of her writings, and the light-heartedness of her family stories.]
In the summer of 1897, two remarkable women writers slipped away, quietly, and with as little observation as either would have desired, barely noticed indeed during the absorbing excitements of the Jubilee. The public had delighted to honour each in her day, but it had already passed into the stage of half-forgetting, for...
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Edith Hamilton (essay date 1955)
SOURCE: "Words, Words, Words," in The Ever-Present Past, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1964, pp. 151-58.
[In the following essay, originally published in the November 19, 1955, edition of the Saturday Review, Hamilton reflects upon Ingelow's influence on modern poets, particularly Dylan Thomas (1914-1953).]
Nearly one hundred years ago a novelist and a poet, quite forgotten now but highly esteemed in her own day, whose name was Jean Ingelow, wrote:
Amorphous masses cooing to a monk; Some fine old crusty problems very drunk; A pert parabola flirting with a don, And two Greek grammars with their war paint on. A lame black beetle singing to...
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Brian Attebery (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: "Women's Coming of Age in Fantasy," in Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Vol. 28, No. 1, Spring, 1987, pp. 10-22.
[In the following essay, Attebery discusses Ingelow's fantasy novel Mopsa the Fairy and its emphasis on the coming-of-age of its title character as a forerunner to the rite of passage novels by modern fantasy writers such as Ursula Le Guin and Patricia Wrightson.]
An orphaned young man discovers a destiny, true love, and his identity. A wizard tests his powers and learns his own limits. An amiable young hobbit grows into a heroic and somber figure. A youth wakes up in a room transformed into woodland and undergoes a...
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Nina Auerbach and U. C. Knoepflmacher (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: "Jean Ingelow: Mopsa the Fairy," in Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers, edited by Nina Auerbach and U. C. Knoepflmacher, University of Chicago Press, 1992, pp. 207-13.
[In the following essay, Auerbach and Knoepflmacher examine Mopsa the Fairy against the backdrop of Victorian notions of the domestic role of women, focusing in particular on the novel's ending.]
Jean Ingelow (1820-1897) had, like Christina Rossetti, already achieved a high reputation as a poet before she began to publish children's fiction. Indeed, her 1863 volume, Poems, was so favorably reviewed that Rossetti, "aware of a new...
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Jennifer A. Wagner (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: "In Her 'Proper Place': Ingelow's Fable of the Female Poet and Her Community in Gladys and Her Island," in Victorian Poetry, Vol. 31, No. 3, Fall, 1993, pp. 227-39.
[In the following essay, Wagner explores the theme of the female imagination in the allegorical Gladys and Her Island.]
Eric S. Robertson's notoriously condescending "critical biography" of Jean Ingelow in his 1883 English Poetesses locates the cause of her immense popularity in her "domesticity": "these [lyrics] deal with homely subjects described in good Saxon language. … Homeliness of subject and place are natural to Jean Ingelow."1 These remarks,...
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U. C. Knoepflmacher (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: "Male Patronage and Female Authorship: The Case of John Ruskin and Jean Ingelow," in Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 57, No. 1, Autumn, 1995, pp. 13-46.
[In the following essay, Knoepflmacher uses the many letters John Ruskin wrote to Ingelow between 1867 and 1882 to explore the personal and professional relationship the two shared.]
Highly popular as a poet in late nineteenth-century England and America, Jean Ingelow (1820-1897) has not regained her former reputation. Although a few of her verses are finding their way back into recent anthologies, she has hardly fared as well as Christina Rossetti, the writer to whom she was most often...
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Heidi Johnson (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: "'Matters That a Woman Rules': Marginalized Maternity in Jean Ingelow's A Story of Doom," in Victorian Poetry, Vol. 33, No. 1, 1995, pp. 75-88.
[In the following essay, Johnson studies Ingelow's portrayal of feminine spirituality and the role of the woman within the patriarchal world of Christianity in her poem A Story of Doom.]
And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
Genesis 7.7
He looks back to the past grieves not over what is distant. I mourn the wrack, the rock under the blue sea, our...
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U. C. Knoepflmacher (essay date 1998)
SOURCE: "Sundering Women from Boys: Ingelow's Mopsa the Fairy," in Ventures into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity, University of Chicago Press, 1998, pp. 270-311.
[In the following essay, Knoepflmacher presents an in-depth examination of the ways in which Ingelow, in the short tale "The Life of John Smith" and the fantasy novel Mopsa the Fairy, both acquiesced to and resisted the patriarchal authority advanced by such Victorian counterparts as Lewis Carroll, John Ruskin, and George MacDonald.]
Yet—to gaze on her again (As my tale has taught thee), Potent Fairy, I am fain, Therefore have I sought thee— Through the forest,...
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Further Reading
Woodworth, Eliza. "Jean Ingelow and Her Writings." The Ladies' Repository 3, No. 4 (April 1869): 279-87.
Offers a general overview of Ingelow's early life and her body of works.
Griffith, Reverend T. M. "Jean Ingelow's Poems." The Ladies' Repository 25, No. 12 (December 1865): 740-43.
Praises Ingelow's Poems primarily for the poet's insight into natural phenomenon.
"Jean Ingelow." Appletons' Journal VIII, No. 195 (December 21, 1872): 681-83.
Reflects on the musical quality of Ingelow's verse,...
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'Making' Is the Biggest Tech Merger Ever
But there are bigger technology mergers on the horizon in this decade. The biggest may be the coming merger of computing with manufacturing.
Chris Anderson, perhaps the best tech writer of my generation, recently quit the scene to join a start-up, 3D Robotics, which he told The Atlantic is at the center of all this. He calls it a "natural outgrowth" of the "maker" movement he began covering five years ago.
For investors, that movement may be a mystery, but it's simply this: Instead of producing virtual goods from computers, makers produce real goods. "Making" is where personal computing itself was 40 years ago, a hobbyist niche looking to become a mass movement.
Think of 3-D printers as being the computers of this new movement. Companies including 3D Systems (DDD) and Stratasys (SSYS) are what Intel (INTC) and Texas Instruments (TXN) were at that time, and their printers are at roughly where the Intel 4004 chip was then . Their best printers are capable of creating dental implants from wax molds or aeronautics parts from metals.
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) had a private labeling deal with Stratasys but ended it amid speculation it would get into this business on its own.
General Electric (GE) recently bought two high-end 3-D printing outfits, Morris Technologies and RQM, through its aviation unit, as 3Ders, which you might call the Datamation magazine of this field, recently reported.
Both 3D Systems and Stratasys have been great investments over the last few years.
There are short-term worries about 3D Systems, Seeking Alpha writes, which is increasingly going to court to protect its niche. Those will work themselves out.
The uptrend in Stratasys seems more secure, as it seems to have a better handle on differences between the prototyping and production areas of the business, but both companies should do well.
The real excitement is on the low end, with start-ups like MakerBot, which is based in Brooklyn, N.Y. The company deliberately focuses on the consumer market, producing both hardware and software, encouraging the growth of the hobbyist market and doing demonstrations such as a 3-D "photo booth" that produces small sculptures of your head from a photograph.Its Replicator 2 can turn plastic filament into finely detailed parts for about $2,200.
Think of these, however, as being like HP calculators back in the day. They're cool, and if you're a college student or an engineer you're going to be jazzed. Events like the Maker Faire have the vibe of the old West Coast Computer Faires from the 1970s, complete with young long-haired geeks speaking a language their parents don't understand.


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Boards plan meetings this week
By The Daily News staff
The Dickinson County Board of Commissioners will meet at 6:30 tonight in the circuit courtroom of the courthouse.
The agenda includes a report on building permit activity in 2012 from the Dickinson County Construction Code Commission.
The Breitung Township Schools Board of Education will meet today at 7 p.m. in the board room of the administration building, 2000 Pyle Drive in Kingsford.
Agenda items include an interactive projector bid award and request for unpaid leave.
The Iron Mountain School District Board of Education will meet today at 6 p.m. in the media center of the high school.
Action items on the agenda include approval of a band trip, electronic vendors and approval of a resolution.
The Dickinson-Iron Intermediate School District Board of Education will meet on Wednesday at 6 p.m. in Conference Room A of the district office, 1074 Pyle Drive in Kingsford.
Under new business, the board will accept an employee resignation from Early Childhood Education, fill the position of Early Head Start home visitor, approve the self-assessment report and action pan for Early Head Start/Head Start, give permission to obtain roof replacement, carpet, and boiler replacement bids, and approve System Management Appliance as a Technology Consortium purchase.
The Florence County School District Board of Education will meet today at 3:30 p.m. for a negotiations committee meeting in Room 215 of the high school. It will be a closed session regarding staff compensation.
At 4 p.m., the committee will receive a presentation of initial wage proposal to the Florence Education Association and go back into closed session to discuss staff compensation again.
Following the meeting, the buildings, grounds and transportation committee will meet to discuss bus routes and general transportation issues.
The North Dickinson County School Board of Education will meet today at 7 p.m. in the high school library.
Business items on the agenda include senior class trip information, discussion of 2013-14 schedule and a closed session to discuss negotiations update and attorney-client privilege information.
The Breitung Township Board of Trustees will meet today at 7 p.m. in the board room of the township offices in Quinnesec.
Agenda items include the floodplain ordinance and Michigan Department of Transportation refund of deposit casement pipe on U.S. 141 as well as a request from the county board to support the 9-1-1 millage.
The Norway-Vulcan Area Schools Board of Education will meet today at 6 p.m. in the board room of the school.
Agenda items include information on the Safe Routes to School, Integrys natural gas provider, bond sale resolution, approval of bond projects as planned and a closed session to discuss negotiation strategies and legal council advice regarding the Norway-Vulcan Education Association and support personnel and the superintendent's evaluation.
The Iron County Board of Commissioners will meet Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the commissioner's room of the Iron County Courthouse in Crystal Falls.


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This week's reviews: Historically great story underserves viewers
The Columbus Dispatch - August 16, 2013 10:35 AM
Inspired by a Washington Post story by Columbus native Wil Haygood, The Butler tells the story of the White House butler (played by Forest Whitaker) who served under eight Presidents. The cast is a virtual assemblage of Oscar nominees and winners, including Oprah Winfrey, Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave.
There is no doubt the cast is loaded with talent, and the story of The Butler is amazing. Unfortunately, the scope of the story covered seems to be a little bit too much to fit into the confines of a feature movie, according to critic Roger Moore.
"As a movie, The Butler is ungainly. It covers too much too quickly, with clunky, pointless narration and soap-opera-ish melodrama taking attention from the sweep of history," Moore said in his review.


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Henderson scraps CIO role in equities revamp
Henderson Global Investors has announced a wide-ranging revamp of its equities team, which includes the scrapping of the role of chief investment officer and the departure of its retail sales chief among others.
The restructure follows Henderson's internal consultation on staff-cuts of about 9% of its workforce, as reported by Financial News in December.
The most senior departure announced today was Mark Skinner, who has left "by mutual consent". Skinner was global head of retail distribution, having joined as part of the acquisition of New Star in 2009. According to a spokesman, Skinner "basically relaunched Henderson in UK retail" following the deal.
Henderson will fill his role internally, with European retail distribution chief Greg Jones and global commercial director Stewart Cazier taking on new responsibilities. Both will report to global head Phil Wagstaff.
A spokesman for Henderson said that the firm wanted to move away from being a "jack of all trades" in equities and focus on its strengths. The company will create four broad divisions: global equities, European equities, multi-asset funds and absolute return.
As part of the change, Henderson will also scrap the role of chief investment officer, and move David Jacob, who currently has the position, to become vice-chairman of Henderson Global Investors with responsibility for overseeing "special growth projects".
The spokesman said: "The main roles of a CIO are to form a house view, and to steer the ship on big acquisitions. We no longer form house views, and we have done two big acquisitions in recent years, buying New Star and Gartmore, and we're less likely to do any big deals right now."
He added: "David, who was formerly head of fixed income, has done a great job of building our fixed income team, and he is very good at building and integrating things. He will be working on identifying the teams we might hire and the gaps where we can grow."
Meanwhile, Stephen Peak, one of Henderson's best-regarded and most senior fund managers, has been handed a new role as head of global equities. However, he will relinquish control of his £439m UK Alpha fund, which has been underperforming since the summer of 2011.
The fund will be taken over on February 1 by Neil Hermon and James Ross. Hermon is head of UK equities at the firm, specialising in smaller companies, and Ross is a junior member of the European equities desk who has been assisting Peak on his European Absolute Return hedge fund. Peak will retain responsibility for this fund.
Peak will also in future "concentrate on Henderson's US mutual funds business". He is portfolio manager of the $570m European Focus mutual fund, and the $2.5bn International Opportunities mutual fund - both sold in the US retail market.
Henderson has closed down its specialist financials team, led by former Gartmore manager Simon Peters, who has left the company. Its funds will be run by managers on the newly-formed global equities desk.
Hermon's UK equities team will now form part of the European equities unit, which is led by another Gartmore alumnus, John Bennett. Henderson also said its Asian equities desk, under John Crawford, has been combined with emerging-markets, led by Chris Palmer, to form a new global emerging-markets team, under the supervision of equities head Graham Kitchen until a permanent chief can be found.
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Thought this deserved its own thread....not really NCAA Tourney related...
Lots of talk about what OSU has coming back...including optimism about what Craft, Ross, Thompson and Scott can accomplish.
It's widely assumed (and a lead pipe cinch according to certain informed people) that Thomas is gone...whether or not he's an NBA player at all, let alone a 1st round pick. I agree he's neither an NBA 3 or a 4, and that makes him a player in Europe probably, but a guy can make a nice living in Italy or Greece, even if he has a family to support.
Coming next year to join the Buckeyes are two kids, both of whom can probably help as freshmen...
Mark Loving - http://ohiostate.scout.com/a.z?s=145&p= ... id=5020003
Loving is arguably the top player in Ohio...a 6'8" forward from Toledo, who looks to me to have a game similar to LQR...slender and long, with an outside shot and the skills to take it to the rim...more of a 3 than a 4. From the highlights, he looks like he may be a bit more of a defensive presence in the paint than Ross was this year, but again, they're highlight reels...so FWIW...some video...first junior year, then sophomore, then LBJ camp film...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... H2g7Sm34rw
Second is Kameron Williams (so there will be a Cam/Kam Williams on both the football and B-ball teams)
Kameron Williams - http://ohiostate.scout.com/a.z?s=145&p= ... id=6062414
a 6' 2" shooting guard from Baltimore...a "scorer", who will clearly have to get bigger (165 lbs?) for a Big Ten career, but can put the ball in the hoop, by all reports...video...first from the LeBron camp...then at Nike camp...then a quickie highlight rell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... JkiC1tCTFE
Then for 2014-2015, they already have three commits:
http://ohiostate.scout.com/a.z?s=145&p= ... bb&yr=2014
Dave Bell, a 6'9" big from Garfield Hts. - http://ohiostate.scout.com/a.z?s=145&p= ... id=6753356
3-stars...rated nation's 20th best center as a junior...not well-known nationally due to injuries and having not played as a freshman
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbjFRrIg_JM
Jae'sean Tate, a 6' 5", SF from Pickerington (also offered by Michigan)
http://ohiostate.scout.com/a.z?s=145&p= ... id=6289882
4-star player...#1 rated player in Ohio in this class...a southpaw...
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GflRCRgQu2g
lots more video at YouTube
Keita Bates-Diop, a 6' 9" PF from Chicago - http://ohiostate.scout.com/a.z?s=145&p= ... id=5506232
also a 4-star, and more of a power forward, with more of a mid-range game...
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Question for AOL users. We have a new user trying to get into the chat room and they are using AOL and their default browser which I believe to be AOL's version of IE.
Is anyone using AOL that also visits the chat room and what if anything did you have to do to get in? There may be other issues but we would like to rule out what works in order to get to what doesn't.
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Topic: @ flash[:notice] ??
What is this state ment for?
I know that flash is for errors and error reporting. The exact meaning is Its a container into which you can store stuff as you process a request..
How did :notice come into it. where can i find the notes/documentation on flash.
Please help me in this reagard.
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