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More people are taking action in their communities to meet their basic needs because of government corruption at all levels that protects the status quo when urgent change is needed. People are moving on many fronts to challenge the system and create the world they want to see.
On Earth Day, another step was taken to challenge elite rule. A new alternative government was announced. It is an extension of the Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala Green Party campaign for president and vice president. The Green Shadow Cabinet currently consists of more than 80 activists, scientists, lawyers, advocates, economists, health professionals, labor leaders and artists who are independent of the corporate duopoly and are actively working on solutions to the crises we face. These top-level people in their fields have taken on this responsibility as volunteers. (Full disclosure: Margaret Flowers serves as secretary of health and Kevin Zeese as attorney general, and both serve on the administrative committee of the Shadow Cabinet.)
The cabinet comes at a time when people are increasingly ready to leave the corrupt two-party system. With President Obama supporting cuts to Social Security and Medicare, drone-bombing countries with which we are not at war, and appointing Wall Street and other big business interests to his cabinet, many voters are searching for somewhere to go. Even the former head of the Democratic Party, Howard Dean, is talking about leaving the Democrats.
The cabinet will serve as an independent voice in US politics, putting the needs of people and protection of the planet ahead of profits for big corporations. Members of the cabinet will demonstrate what an alternative government could look like. However, creating an alternative form of governance will depend in large part on what people do at the local level.
Another World Is Possible; Another Government Is Necessary
Shadow cabinets have existed in other countries throughout history. They are usually created by opposition parties as a way to show what they stand for as they work toward regaining power. This Shadow Cabinet is different in a few aspects.
First, the Green Shadow Cabinet is a response to the corruption and dysfunction of the current economic and political systems. There are real solutions to the crises we face and majorities of the public support these solutions, but both parties in government are not considering them and are, in fact, doing the opposite.
The people could rule better than the elites, and that is why it is time for the people to take matters into our own hands. As cabinet member Christopher Cox explained on the day of the announcement, "There is no time for slow incremental change." Cox also affirmed that "We have the possibility of addressing these issues at the level of humanity." The Cabinet is not waiting, but is taking action now to encourage people to build a government that is really of, by and for the people.
And second, because political debate in the United States is limited to what the two corporate parties allow, the Cabinet will bring attention to real solutions to our crises that are not being discussed. At present, there is no discussion of full employment, even though that is a critical ingredient to creating an economy that works for everyone. There is no discussion of ending the carbon-nuclear–based energy economy, despite the crisis of climate change, the risks of carbon-nuclear energies to air, water, and life, and the obvious end of the cheap oil and gas era.
One of the goals of the Shadow Cabinet is to inject these issues into the US political dialogue. For example, here are excerpts of statements some cabinet members released on the day the Cabinet was announced:
Two members of the economic team wrote statements. Richard Wolff, who chairs the Council of Economic Advisers, calls for tax fairness with progressive taxation, more higher income tax brackets and increased corporate taxes consistent with the successful policies used when the United States built a powerful post-World War II-economy. Labor economist Jack Rasmus points to the failure of fiscal policy and will be urging a makeover of the Federal Reserve into a transparent and democratic agency that responds to the needs of the economy, not to the banks.
Steve Breyman, environmental protection agency administrator, points out that if the Green Shadow Cabinet were in power, "We'd be hip deep in a struggle over radical ecological-economic restructuring in the US." He points to failures of both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama presidencies to confront the urgent needs of the environment. His views are shared by Christopher Cox, the political ecology adviser, who emphasizes that, "Those who are in the business of environmental degradation for profit have been at the control panel of ... 'spaceship Earth' far too long."
Leah Bolger, defense secretary, urges a truly defensive military and calls for an end to the Afghanistan War, a 50 percent cut in Pentagon spending, cessation of the drone program and operating within the rule of law. David Swanson, secretary of peace, highlights the militarization of US foreign policy, which sells record numbers of weapons and spends nearly as much as the whole world combined on war. Noting he has no counterpart in the current government, he urges the United States to work for peace every day and asserts that investing war dollars in job creation at home will do more for the economy than spending $1 trillion on war and war preparation.
David Cobb, chair of the commission on corporations and democracy, begins by acknowledging that corporations have become the most dominant institution in America who rule over us "as masters once ruled slaves and as Kings ruled their subjects." The solution to corporate power? "We must educate, agitate and organize. In other words, we must change the culture of this country."
Roshan Bliss, the assistant secretary for higher education, says "Education is a human right, a public good, and a critical infrastructure without which no society can prosper." As a student, he sees how outdated, underfunded and increasingly controlled by unaccountable private interest groups higher education has become. His top two priorities: empower students to be all they can become and equip schools to uplift society and be integrated in their communities.
Steve Chrismer, secretary of transportation, notes that when he went to Texas to join the Tar Sands Blockade, he thought about how few jobs were created by the pipeline compared to how many jobs would be created by a new mass transit and rail system. He believes we need to recreate the transportation system and build infrastructure that will serve the nation for generations, rather than pipelines that hasten our destruction.
Mark Dunlea, secretary of agriculture, calls for a new food system that is sustainable, affordable and not based on pesticides or other chemicals, but produces healthy foods and fair profits for farmers. The current food czar is a former Monsanto executive whose policies favor corporatization of farming, subsidies that result in overuse of water, widespread use of chemicals and allowing genetically modified foods. Dunlea's views are echoed by Maureen Cruise, assistant secretary of health for community wellbeing, who promotes urban farming to bring food to the people who live in food deserts.
Sandy Perry, secretary of housing, points out the moral failure of governments that sequester funds when people's urgent needs are not being met. Corporations are seeing record profits and have record reserves at a time of rising homelessness and poverty. He says we have to "move beyond our single-issue silos and build the independent political networks necessary to confront power."
The Shadow Cabinet also recognizes the importance of culture, and commissioner of the comedic arts, Lee Camp, put out a video for the announcement, as well as a statement which satirizes the government, writing, "We live in a country where reality has lapped satire and surpassed humor altogether" - that is, "Reality is comedy."
We published statements, too. Margaret coordinates the health council and advocates for Medicare-for-all as part of the solution to the health crisis in the United States. Kris Alman and Patch Adams join her in calling for breaking free of corporate medicine, and Adams urges communities to act now to build community-based health centers, calling for "revolutionizing health care delivery by replacing greed and competition with generosity, compassion and interdependence."
Kevin, who coordinates the justice council, emphasizes the need for rule of law, which includes holding corporations accountable for both environmental damage and for collapsing the economy; rule of law also means ending the torture of confinement without charges at Guantanamo. Cliff Thornton, administrator of drug policy, calls for the end of the war on drugs and highlights the problems of mass incarceration, crime, violence and urban neglect, all made worse by the drug war. Their immediate task is putting forward policies to respect the will of voters in Colorado and Washington who voted to legalize marijuana, as well as of those in the 16 states and Washington, DC that allow medical use of marijuana.
In addition to publishing statements, Cabinet members are involved in advocacy and activism. Last weekend, six members participated in the anti-drone protest at the Hancock Air Force base, and a few days earlier, three participated in the protests at the Bush Library. Cheri Honkala is preparing for the May 18-24 Operation Green Jobs March on Washington. And the cabinet includes activists like climate justice's Tim DeChrisotpher, labor leader Richard Monje, economic democracy advocate Gar Alperovitz and others. Many Cabinet members are working to build the nonviolent, transformative mass movement that is needed to bring real change to the United States.
While the cabinet evolved out of the Stein-Honkala campaign, it is not a project of the Green Party and is not limited to the Green Party. It is open to anyone who is independent of the duopoly and supportive of the Stein-Honkala Green New Deal platform.
In some ways, the cabinet is structured similarly to the current system, with a president, vice president, secretary of state, and heads of various government agencies. This was felt to be important at this stage so that media and the public would recognize that whomever was speaking on a given issue was acting as an alternative to those who currently hold these positions. When someone in power makes a statement or puts forth a policy, the corresponding cabinet member will respond with an alternative view.
However, the cabinet is structured differently from the current system in that it is composed of six branches: Democracy, Ecology, Economy, Foreign Affairs, General Welfare and Justice. Within these branches, in addition to traditional positions, are councils and new positions, so it is larger and less hierarchical than a traditional cabinet. Over time, we anticipate that more new positions will be added, the councils will grow and the structure will evolve.
If the people of the United States put another government in place, the mistakes of the past should not be repeated. It is time to truly create a participatory democratic structure where people have greater control over and benefit from the policies that affect them. An alternative system must be protected from becoming another top-down structure that ignores the voices and desires of the people.
The United States: A Managed Democracy That Protects Plutocrats
It was necessary to create the cabinet to break out of the mirage democracy of managed elections. Although citizens have the right to vote, the choice is restricted to candidates who are selected by large corporations and the wealthy elite. They represent political parties that are dominated by Wall Street, the military-industrial complex and other big business interests. Third-party candidates are at an extreme disadvantage, and our most vulnerable populations are losing the right to vote.
Efforts to build parties and run independent candidates outside of the duopoly encounter major obstacles, especially at the national level. Ballot access laws vary from state to state, and it is not unusual for third parties who have done the work of collecting signatures and registering voters to see the legitimacy of their work challenged by boards of elections, state legislatures and judges from the duopoly. Third-party candidates find themselves spending so much time and energy to gain ballot access that there is little left for campaigning.
Since the United States does not have public funding of public elections, another obstacle is finances. The cost of running a campaign in the United States, especially at the federal level, is prohibitive. The Center for Responsive Politics reports that in 2012, the corporate duopoly presidential candidates spent $2 billion. And that doesn't count the money spent on their behalf by super PACs, nonprofit political organizations, issue advocacy organizations and "shadow money." Incumbent senators raised $11 million, nearly ten times what their challengers raised. And in the House, incumbents raised $1.5 million, more than six times what their challengers raised.
A third major obstacle is media and debate access. Media access depends on how much a candidate can spend or whether the media chooses to provide coverage. In general, there is a media blackout of third-party candidates, including in media polls on presidential preference
Third-party candidates are largely excluded from public debates and entirely excluded from the presidential debates. The League of Women Voters officially withdrew from the debates in 1988 because of excessive control of the debate format and lack of transparency by the corporate duopoly. In a strong statement, the LWV president said, "The League has no intention of becoming an accessory to the hoodwinking of the American public."
In 1987, the corporate duopoly and their big business funders created a private corporation to sponsor the debates. They gave this debate an official sounding name, the Commission on Presidential Debates, so most people think it is a government commission. Each election, the duopoly negotiates a contract that determines who can participate, who will moderate, who can attend and what questions will be asked. The rules are set up to keep non-duopoly candidates out. And the corporate debate commission ensures that discussion remains within a narrow confine of what corporate interests allow.
In 2012, the Occupy movement and others exposed and protested the sham presidential debates. The Naked Emperor created this animated video to illustrate the political charade that is the presidential debates. People held rallies at each of the debate sites and Green candidates Stein and Honkala were arrested for trying to attend the debate in New York. As a result of these actions, three corporations withdrew from sponsoring the CPD, and independent media outlets and organizations held debates for third-party candidates.
While these were positive steps, the reality is that current restrictions to third party candidates completely prevent the election of a candidate that represents the will of people rather than large corporations. The ability of people to express their will through elections is further impeded by barriers to voting.
In many countries, registration to vote is universal. When citizens reach the legal age, they are automatically registered. In the United States, there are barriers to registration resulting in 70 million eligible voters who are not registered to vote. It is also becoming more common for voters to be erased from registration lists. And voter suppression through disenfranchisement and Election Day shenanigans is common.
The Sentencing Project estimates that 5.85 million Americans have lost the right to vote because of felony convictions. An astonishing number of African-Americans, 1 out of 13, no longer has the right to vote. As we wrote in" A Forest of Poisonous Trees: The US Criminal Injustice System," the current economic and criminal justice systems result in the incarceration of massive numbers of people, which creates a vicious cycle such that those who are oppressed lose their ability to affect the system.
Over the past three years, more than 250 laws have been passed at the state level to suppress voting. These laws primarily target the elderly, young and minority voters, as documented in this March report by Project Vote. In addition to legal challenges to voting, tactics are used in minority communities to prevent people from voting. These include underequipped polling stations, moving polling stations without notice, and leafleting neighborhoods with misinformation about voting days and voting requirements.
This is the US managed democracy: a system that only allows the election of corporate duopoly candidates backed by great wealth. The current system is designed to exclude third-party candidates and low-income and minority voters. And the system is designed to hinder building the grassroots movement that is necessary for social transformation.
A System That Favors Corporate Profits Over People and the Planet
If there is any question about whether the current political system favors the wealthy, one need only turn to recent events. Last week, in an awesome display of bipartisanship, Congress repealed the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge, Act, known as the STOCK Act. This was a bill signed into law last year with great fanfare by President Obama. The law required that members of Congress and certain executive staffers publish their financial investments online in a searchable format. It was touted as an important step towards transparency and the rule of law. Remember that last year was an election year.
This year, it took all of ten seconds for the repeal to pass in the Senate and 14 seconds in the House. The unrecorded unanimous consent vote meant not a single member of Congress expressed dissent. The president quickly and quietly signed the repeal into law.
Now it will be more difficult for the public to know when elected officials are supporting policies that benefit them financially. For instance, when former senator John Kerry was appointed Secretary of State, it was revealed that he had investments in TransCanada, the company that is building the Keystone XL Pipeline. The State Department has authority to approve the pipeline, which is being protested by people in the United States and Canada because of its environmental impact. Indeed, Kerry had to divest nearly 100 stocks in order to avoid the conflicts of interest between his investments and his duties. Of course, the same conflicts of interest existed when he chaired the Foreign Relations Committee.
Another example is the deficit and austerity charade that was exposed last week. A doctoral student, Thomas Herndon, at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst analyzed an economic study published by Reinhart and Rogoff. The results of the Reinhart-Rogoff study were cited widely by politicians and pundits to justify cuts to social and other government programs. Herndon found significant errors in the study that make the findings inaccurate.
Reinhart and Rogoff are linked to the Peter G. Peterson Foundatio,n which has a mission to promote policies that end our legacy social insurances - Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. The Peterson Foundation has been heavily involved in the federal budget process for most of Obama's presidency. It provided staff support and funding to the deficit commission appointed by Obama in early 2010 and funded national "town halls" called "America Speaks."
The chairs of the deficit commission, Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, have also played an important role in the ongoing effort to cut social insurances, including leading the new Fix the Debt campaign composed of more than 80 tax-dodging CEOs who are starting with a budget of $60 million to lobby and build public support for their austerity proposals.
Solutions Exist; Transformation Depends on You
The Shadow Cabinet will not change the world; that task is up to all of us. Transformation requires a combination of education about solutions, resistance to stop policies or projects that are causing harm, and working together to create solutions to our urgent crises.
One of the greatest obstacles to change in the United States is the Democratic Party. While it is true that the Wall Street agenda of the Republican Party is dangerous, the Democratic Party is even more dangerous because it can act on the same agenda without much more than a whimper by many of those who would protest if the Republicans did the same thing. Fortunately, more people are opening their eyes to the duopoly.
The urgency of our current crises demands that we break from the current structure and create something new based on principles such as community, cooperation, participation and sustainability. Most people recognize what must be done, and many communities are already taking action.
The Shadow Cabinet seeks to join and amplify those efforts and encourage more people to come together in their communities to form structures that solve problems through community-led initiatives and pressure on local governments. This can happen at the level of neighborhoods or through coalitions of organizations, or some communities may choose to form local shadow governments.
The people of the United States have the wisdom to do what needs to be done. The answers are part of our DNA. It is time to recognize and manifest our power.
You can listen to our interview about the Announcement of Green Shadow Cabinet with Cheri Honkala, Christopher Cox and Sean Sweeney on Clearing the FOG.


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text: Meta Rate My Team PokéBase - Pokémon Q&A Login Register All Activity Questions Unanswered Tags Users Ask a Question Rules Chat What are some of the best move combos in Pokemon you have found? 163 votes 86,403 views I breed pokemon in the game and am pretty good at IVs and EVs and such. I have thought of a few good tactics, such as Safe Guard and Outrage/Petal Dance/Thrash (avoids confusion ailment) Mimic and Imprison (permanent Disables last move) Swagger/Flatter and Psych Up/Haze (either gives you upped stats or resets theirs) Defense Curl followed by Roll Out (makes roll out stronger) Rain Dance and Thunder (Thunder never misses) Belly Drum and Rest (works best with a chesto berry. Maximizes attack) Sunny Day and Solar Beam (solar beam no longer needs to charge) Endure and Flail/Reversal (makes the attack moves really strong compared to normal) What are some of the best move combos that you have found so far? :D Explain your choices, and why they make good combos. Please read all the answers before posting, to avoid duplicate answers. Yes, all 100+ of them. And no full on movesets either, there are separate questions for that :-) moves combos asked Apr 28, 2010 by uberchrisp edited Apr 7, 2014 by Pokemaster Show 27 previous comments Oh. Thanks. (So it *is* a "combo"!) commented Jun 5, 2013 by Mega Evolution Guru Wow I never thought this would pass 110... commented Jul 1, 2013 by Flare Exactly 150 upvotes. o3o commented Mar 2, 2015 by Mr. Castform I think a snorelax with rest and snore (you can keep hp up and still attack) supersonic and thunderwave (makes it hard for them to attack) commented Jan 28, 2016 by Pokemon X Player Wait?You got 164 votes by only posting a question! So,Why your point is only 200 now? It should be 1640. commented Feb 9 by Helix716 Please log in or register to add a comment. Please log in or register to answer this question. 187 Answers 2 votes I thought of a pretty good one for an atk/def ev trained snorlax: Try having: Rest Sleep Talk Hyper beam Any other overpowered move.....for hyper beam an your other op move, scope/zoom lens would be a pretty good thing to add just in case. Only downside to this combo it that sleep talk has a chance to use rest again which would be useless.lol answered Jan 27, 2013 by OrionRey Giga Impact is better since Snorlax has higher Attack than Sp. Atk. commented May 3, 2014 by Pimplup Please log in or register to add a comment. 2 votes Well I LOVE this set with a Pokemon with like Weavile or something Moveset is Swagger, Psych Up, Punishment, and a plain solid attacking move like Slash or Ice Punch. First, use Swagger, Then use either Swagger Again or use Psych up, Third use Psych Up if you used Swagger Last turn or go with Punishment makes it DEADLY on a Pokemon like Weavile lots of Pokemon can use it which makes it nice so yeah answered Feb 26, 2013 by ☆Frostily∞Froslass☆ Please log in or register to add a comment. 2 votes Absol + Super Luck + Scope Lens + Slash/Night Slash/Psycho Cut Absol's critical-hit ratio raises to 1 of 2 with a Swords Dance he's even much stronger answered Mar 16, 2014 by Mew2 Please log in or register to add a comment. 2 votes I forgot this one: taunt + sucker punch + prankster = total annihilation answered Apr 14, 2014 by Electric Z Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote this really works as double battle combo have 2 zebstrikas or any pokemon with the abilty motor drive and discharge have them use discharge on each other it rasies there speed stat alot answered Nov 20, 2011 by Pikamaster edited Nov 22, 2011 by Pikamaster Species clause. commented Nov 24, 2011 by Speed freak Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Swagger/Flattter+Defog answered Dec 10, 2011 by Kameko That is totally unnecessary; you could always use Confuse Ray to match with that combo way better. Also, the point of Swagger is that when they are confused and hit themselves, the +2 Stage Attack will deal more damage. commented Dec 10, 2011 by Sam Sam Sam Sam first off what about Pokemon who cant learn confuse ray.Secondly what about when they snap out of confusion they will have +2attack and you don't want that.Thirdly they don't always hit themselves so its still going to hurt.This is mostly for Pokemon who cant learn confuse ray commented Dec 11, 2011 by Kameko Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Venoshock+Poisoning move = PAIN!!! answered Jan 7, 2012 by PokeGirl Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote How about fling + theif. It works good with a poison heal pokemon when your using a toxic orb. You get the poison heal and you toxic a pokemon when you fling then steal their item and make it gone by flinging it. answered Jan 7, 2012 by grasspokemon Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Here is a trick I found you can use in a double/triple battle. Get a Preferably Tauros and Vigoroth, give Vigoroth focus energy and fury swipes, also maybe give it a scope lens, and after you use focus energy, use fury swipes on Tauros, Anger point will activate, And tauros will be at +6 Attack! answered Jan 7, 2012 by Chikyrocks10 But surely then you cut down on Tauros' HP massively by giving him a critical hit move... commented Jan 7, 2012 by Pokemaster Naw, give vigoroth 0 ATK EVs and 0 ATK IVs if possible, and maybe give Tauros some defense EVs. commented Jan 7, 2012 by Chikyrocks10 Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Will-O-Wisp/Confuse Ray/Thunder Wave/Toxic/etc+Hex=More Painful Than Pain Toxic Spikes+Spikes+Stealth Rock=Poison+Pain+Pain answered Jan 8, 2012 by Haxorus1997 Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Bulk-up+Drain-punch and priority if you can. Gallade, Conkeldurr, and Toxicroak work well with this answered Jan 9, 2012 by Speed freak Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Possibly the greatest combo in all of Pokemon. Credit to DT: http://pokemondb.net/pokebase/10312/i-may-have-a-plan-for-shedinja and Pwnyta. Ok, so start in a double battle with Shedinja and a Pokemon (Preferably Porygon2) that can has Trace. If that Pokemon is Porygon2, It can use Conversion2 as well and then pass it to whoever. Shedinja is used for Trace making the ability Wonder Guard. Infact, you could have any ability. Pass it to a Pokemon with a weakness and start sweeping! I do not know if this will work on Spiritomb or Sableye. ![][2] NORMAL - (68) NORMAL GHOST (0) WATER GROUND (9) WATER DRAGON (2) ELECTRIC - (26) POISON DARK (3) PSYCHIC DARK (0) BUG STEEL (6) Some Dual types that have one weakness. [1]: http://pokemondb.net/move/role-play [2]: http://media.nscdn.com/uploads/cache/images/1295047220-920647-159x140-1295046549troll_face answered Jan 28, 2012 by Ninja edited Jan 28, 2012 by Ninja Wonder Guard can't be role played, only traced. http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Wonder_Guard_(ability) commented Jan 28, 2012 by Pwnyta Still, status things such as poison and burn would affect the pokemon. Weather would also affect them as well. Really cool, though. commented Feb 29, 2012 by NuffSaid Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Double strategy. Have two Pokemon. Have one know Skill-swap and the other have the ability Intimidate. When sent out they will cut the opponents Attack. Then use Skill-swap and they will lower there Attack again. You can repeat this process again and again thus crippling users of Rock-slide, Earthquake Etc. + Note: This strategy can work with any pair with Intimidate and Skill-swap, Scrafty and Alakazam are not required. answered Feb 3, 2012 by Speed freak edited Jul 25, 2012 by Pokemaster I would recommend having one of the Pokemon that you use being able to take on Special attackers as well to make it more effective. commented Feb 3, 2012 by Speed freak multi hit moves: EQ, surf, have their power reduced by 25% in doubles/triples commented Feb 4, 2012 by Pwnyta Earthquake and Rock-slide are still very common, they can still be fairly strong Intimidate really helps sometimes. commented Feb 6, 2012 by Speed freak Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Give Blissey Simple. Calm Mind yourself and have some fun. Pwnyta: Simple Manaphy with Tail Glow. Simple Volcarona with Quiver Dance. answered Feb 12, 2012 by Ninja edited Feb 12, 2012 by Ninja Simple manaphy with tail glow in rain commented Feb 12, 2012 by Pwnyta Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Best Way to beat Josh? In a Rain team the lead is usually Politoed so, lead with a Cofagrigus and get them to attack you thus making their ability Mummy. Switch to an Instant weather Pokemon. answered Feb 12, 2012 by Ninja I am making a team with Cofagrigus as it's lead! Although I think that Mummy is only passed when the user touches the Pokemon with Mummy; correct me if I'm wrong. commented Feb 12, 2012 by Fate Itself I run specialtoed 90% of the time :D commented Mar 15, 2012 by Josh Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Here is a deadly combination for defending! Set a Zoroark to the first slot of your party and set a Giratina (Origin-Form) to the sixth slot of your party! In a battle against a friend, Zoroark will transform into Giratina using it's ability Illusion! Zoroark's only weakness is the Fighting-Type, but the opponent will think that Zoroark is the real Giratina!!! So if the opponent tries to use a Ghost or Dark-Type move on what they think is Giratina, it won't be very effective! Also, they know that Fighting-Type moves don't effect what they think is Giratina, so they won't use Fighting-Type moves on Zoroark! It's also a bit funny if you think about it because your tricking your friend!!! answered Mar 2, 2012 by Megajed Dark type pokemon have also weakness to Bug ;-) commented Mar 10, 2012 by Mr.Bombastic yea but bug is not very effective on ghost so no one would use it commented Mar 15, 2012 by uberjackel97 You could also use gengar with 4x resistance to bug and fighting immunity + people wont use earthquake because of levitate EDIT: if they use psychic attacks because they think its super effective but i doesn't have an effect on Zoroark commented Apr 13, 2012 by Heatran507 edited Apr 20, 2012 by Heatran507 Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote After you + any attack that is stronger if you were hit first answered Apr 2, 2012 by omg698 Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote When up against a Ditto, use the move Imprison. Foe Ditto keeps using Struggle. You can also use Substitute, to not take damage from Struggle/ This will always work, for Ditto's only move is Transform. It's Hidden Ability is Impostor , which is almost same as Transform. Happy Foe-Ditto-Annoying! :) answered Apr 20, 2012 by Empty Boxes Always work, unless Ditto uses imprison on you first. commented Apr 20, 2012 by Speed freak And since that Ditto user would most likely have enough of a brain to see imprison and have equal speed, you've got a 50% chance of it counter-trolling you. commented Apr 20, 2012 by Josh Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote In front of Ditto, use aPokemon with the ability Pressure. This way, when Ditto uses Transform, and gets 5/n PP of our moves, we can quickly end the foe Ditto's PP supply. This makes Ditto start using Struggle faster, and the recoil finishes it off, if you do not. Good Pokemon for this : Spiritomb, which can resist most of its own attacks. Beware of Leppa Berries. Happy Ditto Annoying. :) answered Apr 20, 2012 by Empty Boxes This is not a very good strategy as most Ditto run imposter. commented Apr 20, 2012 by Speed freak Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Hex + Nasty Plot + Will-o-Wisp Good Candidate: Ninetales answered May 7, 2012 by Danny Mismagius for some low tier bossin. commented May 7, 2012 by Ninja Not Bad :D commented Aug 2, 2012 by Hyper Flares Please log in or register to add a comment. Page: « prev 1 ... 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 next » Related questions What are some good combos? What 2 move type combos have at least neutral coverage on the most types? What are all the move combos? Does Razor Wind have some sort of a helping move? Banned move combos? What are some good Combos for Sun and Moon in double battles? What are some good combos with substitute? what are the item combos Cheren has for his starters Useful Meta Posts How to change your username How to add a user avatar Why was my post hidden? 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Nasa has publicly insisted that the supposed apocalypse, theorised to occur on 21 December 2012, will not take place.
Conspiracy theorists, internet trolls and the very anxious have been convinced for years that the end of the Mayan calendar will also result in the end of the world.
But while it is true that on 21 December a calendar cycle called the 13th b'ak'tun will end, that doesn't necessarily mean all life on Earth will die, sceptics have insisted.
Funnily enough Nasa agrees.
In a Google+ Hangout held on Wednesday, David Morrison, an astrobiologist at Nasa Ames Research Centre, said there was no reason to worry.
"There is no true issue here," he said. "This is just a manufactured fantasy."
However Morrison admitted that many people were genuinely concerned - and said he constantly receives emails and calls about the date.
"While this is a joke to some people and a mystery to others, there is a core of people who are truly concerned," he said.
"I think it's evil for people to propagate rumours on the Internet to frighten children."
Nasa has long maintained a page explaining why the world is probably not going to be destroyed for several billion years.
Getting specific on various end-of-the-world scenarios, Nasa said there are no nearby asteroids or other objects that could hit the Earth on 21 December.
Neither is there any chance of a dramatic solar flare attack, even though the Sun is currently in a period of high activity.
Other rumours that the Earth will suffer a blackout between 23-25 December took even Nasa by surprise, and Space.com said it recieved a collected "What?" from the researchers in attendance.
But that doesn't mean we're completely safe. Mitzi Adams, a heliophysicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Centre, said that at least one major threat to life on Earth does exist - us.
"The greatest threat to Earth in 2012, at the end of this year and in the future, is just from the human race itself," Adams said.


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This two hour interactive workshop encourages pupils to consider what life would have been like for immigrants to London at the end of the Victorian period. They step back in time in the gallery History: A British Story and meet the Jablonsky family, who migrated from Poland to London's East End in the late 19th century. They handle objects relating to the home and typical East End trades and consider how they differ from those used today. Pupils relate the displays to their own family backgrounds to gain a greater understanding of the challenges facing immigrants today. The object in focus is a pair of shorts worn by a Jewish Olympic boxer, used to highlight the popularity of boxing in the East End.
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here is some of my code:
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mysql_query("INSERT INTO members (username, password, email, IP, confirm)
VALUES ('$uname', '$dbPassword', '$email', '$IP', '$confirmCode')");
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$confirmEmail = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['confirm_email']);
$uname = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['uname']);
$pword = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['pword']);
$confirmPword = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['confirmPword']);
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NVIDIA today announced the first ever GeForce eSports World of Tanks Open Tournament, where combatants will compete to win NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600-series graphics cards and a shot at a $100,000 total prize pool awarded at a spectacular grand finals event. Preregistration is open today with team and player registration open starting March 28th for two weeks. World of Tanks is a team-based, massively multiplayer online game dedicated to armored warfare in the mid-20th century that has more than 55 million registered users worldwide!
"World of Tanks really strikes a chord with players looking for that ultimate competitive gaming experience, thanks to its team-based gameplay and strategic action," said Kevin Van Ness, Head of Community at Wargaming in North America. "We're looking forward to combining our world-class community with the world-class expertise of NVIDIA for this exciting event."
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Published: 2012/11/05
Jeff Chimenti to Sub For Rob Barraco in Dark Star Orchestra
Keyboardist Jeff Chimenti, who has performed as a member of Grateful Dead family bands The Dead, Furthur, The Other Ones, RatDog and Phil & Friends, will sub for keyboardist Rob Barraco in Dark Star Orchestra this fall. Barraco will miss DSO's shows from December 5-8 while he performs with the reunited Phil Lesh Quintet at San Rafael, CA's Terrapin Crossroads from December 6-9. Chimenti and Rob Barraco shared keyboard duties in The Other Ones in 2002 as well as The Dead in 2003.
Chimenti's upcoming dates with Dark Star Orchestra include the band's stops at Albany, NY's The Egg (12/5), Portland, ME's State Theatre (12/6), Wallingford, CT's The Dome at Oakdale (12/7) and Lowell, MA's Lowell Auditorium (12/8). DSO's fall tour kicks off at Toronto's Opera House on November 15.


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mhf, as you type in the bookmarks editor you can see the word forming in the title bar, the backspace key works normally here. If you type "k-mel" it jumps to the first link with k-meleon in the title, you can then press F3 or TAB to move forward (but not backward as far as I know) through other links with k-mel in the title, or you can keep typing. No url search unfortunately.
This has nothing to do with editing but you can also bookmark the bookmarks.html in your profile folder (it's just a webpage), load it in the browser and use Find (Ctrl-F) to search by titles but not by url. Refresh the page after adding or editing bookmarks. This could be handy for browsing your bookmarks, with highlighting and all. No url search unfortunately.
You could also download NirSoft FavoritesView: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/faview.html
Set it to open the K-Meleon bookmarks.html then create a menu or button macro to launch it. When launched you can click the binoculars icon to search through your bookmarks by title OR url (yes, url, tell your friends). You can sort the main listing by any criteria (title, url, dates, folder, etc.). You cannot edit or delete bookmarks but you can open them in the web browser. You can find duplicates, and more. It's probably worth having in the toolbox, someone should probably write an extension to launch it.
!&Bookmarks{ NirSoft Bookmarks=macros(NirSoftBook)|3 }
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If this imam were around today, CAIR would be slandering him and aiding in his demise. via Killer of Arizona Imam Who Found Satanic Verses in the Koran Brought to Justice.
It took 22 years, but Glen Francis, an African-American convert to Islam, was finally convicted of the 1990 murder of Arizona Imam Rashad Khalifa.
Khalifa's body was found in the kitchen of an East Sixth Street mosque on Jan. 31, 1990. The imam had been stabbed 29 times, beaten and doused with a flammable solvent by a killer who turned on a gas stove's burners in an apparent attempt to destroy the crime scene.
Attorneys for both sides agreed Khalifa, 54, was likely killed because of his religious teachings. After studying the Quran for years, he found a mathematical code and came to believe two verses were satanic. In his English translation of the Quran, he removed those verses. He also taught that people should follow the word of God and not that of human beings.
"His attacker was filled with anger and he was filled with rage and he was filled with the want and desire to kill," McGinley said.
McGinley told jurors the evidence showed Francis moved to Tucson under an assumed name with the express desire to kill Khalifa. He rented an apartment, got a job and a driver's license so he could easily join Khalifa's congregation and get to know the layout of the mosque and Khalifa's schedule.
Satanic verses is more than just the title of a Rushdie book, it's an Islamic theological debate over which verses in the Koran were the product of Satanic suggestion to Mohammed. Khalifa had apparently determined that two other verses in the Koran were also the product of Satanic inspiration and was killed for it.
Khalifa had come to the United States from Egypt, and was a biochemist with a Sufi father. His version of Islam rejected the Hadiths and the Sunnah as fabrications. When he made his announcement about those two satanic verses, he received threats from all over the world.
The most serious of these threats was a Fatwa from the Islamic Legal Council of Saudi Arabia targeting both Salman Rushdie and Rashad Khalifa. Rushdie is still alive, after going underground, Rashad Khalifa chose to believe that he was a messenger of Allah sent to reform Islam, and refused to go underground or even lock his doors at night.
Glen Francis, using the names Benjamin Philips and J.Q. Walls, infiltrated the mosque, carried out the murder and then escaped to Canada which imposed a sizable delay on the case, as Canada is often unwilling to extradite to countries which employ the death penalty. But Glen Francis was finally extradited, tried and convicted, but like all Muslim terrorists, he was only a weapon in the hands of Saudi Arabia, enforcing Islamic blasphemy law in the West.


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Death Match Will Return to Age of Armor
Death Match, will return to Age of Armor soon. In the last CB test, we found that there were some bugs in the instance, but the debug is always under running, and this whole Match system will come out in a few days.
However, if one wants to join in the match, he should at least get level 21, and geared up with excellent equipment. Or he would be the mobile honor points.
Here are some basic rules for the Death Match:
1. There will be bonus Exp per second according to the players level
2. Each kill will gain one 2 honor points.
3. Each kill will gain one lot of experience according to the rivals level.
Here are the Prize set for the weekly Winners.
Rank Prize
Third HonorPoint+300 EXP=30000000
Second HonorPoint+700 EXP=70000000
First HonorPoint+1000 EXP=100000000


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Release Notes: Thie version fixes a SQL crash when encountering incoherent permissions, and a CSRF security issue introduced by API methods. The new user manager now displays groups and privacy level in the main table. Nine languages were updated.
Release Notes: This version introduces new features for users, especially administrators. The mobile theme now has important improvements. The user manager has been redesigned from scratch. The new plugin "Admin Tools" will let you edit albums and photos from the gallery. A new mail system presents clean graphical themes and a robust engine. This version also introduces technical features including simpler coding for plugin creators.
Release Notes: Eight bugs were fixed in the Web API, authentication, and mysqli database connector. Kannada (?????) and Norwegian (Nynorsk) languages were added, and 18 languages were updated.
Release Notes: An advanced setting for protection of original photos has been added, to make Piwigo an even safer place for your photos. Piwigo becomes more social with email and website fields for user comments. External authentication with the oAuth plugin lets your visitors connect with their Facebook, Google, OpenID, or Wordpress.com account (and many others). The new Web API explorer will help developers know how to communicate remotely with Piwigo. Piwigo 2.5 brings 30+ new features and is now available in 51 languages.
Release Notes: This stable release fixes a vulnerability for Piwigo installed on Windows platforms. The Plugin LocalFiles Editor has been improved for security. Ten languages have been updated.
Release Notes: In this stable release, several bugs were fixed along with a minor security issue related to JavaScript injection in EXIF/IPTC photo metadata. Six languages were updated, and a Lithuanian translation was added.
Release Notes: In this stable release, several bugs were fixed and a minor security bug was fixed. 12 languages have been updated. A few new minor features were added, such as quick links for each tag on the tag administration screen.
Release Notes: This stable releases fixes a few minor bugs and adds minor features. An animation is displayed while Piwigo generates the resized photo. Plugins can easily add tabs in core administration pages. 34 languages were updated and "Hong-Kong Chinese" was added.
Release Notes: In this stable release, several bugs were fixed in automatic thumbnail generation and compatibility with old versions of PHP or ImageMagick.
Release Notes: The new, on-demand "multiple sizes" feature allows Piwigo to display your photos in nine sizes, from XXS to XXL - ideal for mobile devices, laptops, tablets, desktop computers, and HDTVs. The new default theme "Elegant" is designed to be refined and modern. The intelligent mobile theme, introduced in this version, is automatically loaded for visitors on iPhones, Androids, and other smartphones. Your photos can now be imprinted with watermarks, a highly anticipated feature by professional photographers.


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He purchased the fouque property when it was sold by Pierre Rougon.
There is a beautiful moral in one of fouque's miniature romances,—Die Kohlerfamilie.
Now you learnt it for love of fouque and Max Piccolomini, and you have kept it up ever since.'
It was sent to fouque by his friend Edward Hitzig, with a request that he would compose a ballad on it.


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Crab Island Excursion
Cruise to the popular hangout "Crab Island" aboard the SunVenture in Destin. Go where the locals go to relax. Enjoy a narrated tour and scenic view on the way to crab island. Once you arrive at Crab Island feel free to relax and play in the pristine waters.
Activity Highlights
→ 3 Hour Excursion to Crab Island.
→ See dolphins and other marine wildlife.
→ Socialize and relax with the locals and other tourists while wading around the sandbar.
→ Enjoy the scenic views to and from Crab Island.
Holiday Weekend Cruises last an additional half hour! They fill up fast so make sure to check the schedule and book while there is still space
Booking Details:Please bring with you the provided confirmation number (located on the voucher e-mailed to you after online purchase) and a valid drivers license for verification to receive your boarding pass. Please arrive at least 30 minutes prior to the scheduled cruise time. Please confirm the cruise time at least 24 hours in advance!
Departure Details
Tours depart daily through the Summer tourist season. Cruise times will vary during the year so please click the "Book now" button above for current departure times.
Duration: 3 Hrs
Public parking is available at 314 Harbor Boulevard, Destin, FL 32541.
● 3 hour tour
● Gratuities (optional)
● Food & Beverage (optional)
● Children under 18 must be accompanied by a paying adult.
● Only emergency life preservers are on the boat. If you wish for yourself or your child to have a life vest while on the boat please bring your own.
● Large parties over 15 are asked to make reservations at least 24 hours prior to departure.
● Glass bottles are not allowed on the boat.
● Please be aware that this trip requires a minimum number of people in order to go, if this minimum is not met you will be called to reschedule.
Additional Information
● Customers are asked to bring a camera, suntan lotion, sun glasses and a personal cooler for food and beverages.
● While at crab island customers can get off the boat and walk around the sandbar so dress appropriately, bring a towel for drying off.
● Snacks and beverages are available on-board for purchase(cash only).
● Alcoholic beverages are allowed on the boat, but glass is prohibited.
● The tour is wheelchair accessible. Please call ahead to let the crew know so the ramp can be setup.
● There is a restroom on the boat
● The tour boat has a maximum capacity of 49 passengers.
● Children under 2 are FREE, but need to be accounted for during booking.
● If weather or wind is unfavorable for your tour, another day will be scheduled or the customer may receive a full refund.
Cancellation Policy
Customers may cancel at least 48 hours prior to their arrival date to receive a full refund minus a $5 service fee. Customers that cancel after the 48 hour period will not be eligible for a refund. If the captain calls off the tour due to weather, the tour may be rescheduled for a later time/date or a full refund will be issued. Customer may make changes to the reservation without any fees as long as it's outside the 48 hour cancellation period. No-shows will not be refunded.
Read what other TripShock! travelers think about the Crab Island Excursion. What they loved, what they liked and what they think could be improved, it's all here to help you make the most of your next trip. Only TripShock! customers may leave reviews. Please login to your reservation to post your review.
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Review of Crab Island Excursion
Bria Hines
May 14 2018 12:47pm
Great experience! Everything was nice and clean. The entire staff was very helpful and a pleasure to be around!Verified TripShock! Traveler Review
about 8 days ago
Such a beautiful area. The staff was really nice and funny! Everyone got back into the boat a little early so they took us on an extra trip to find dolphins. If you're wanting an even better time go on this trip during the weekend. Weekdays a lot of the businesses and activities on crab island are closed. Also- be aware of the jellyfish swimming around and don't step on the crabs!Verified TripShock! Traveler Review
Bria Hines
about 12 days ago
Great experience! Everything was nice and clean. The entire staff was very helpful and a pleasure to be around!Verified TripShock! Traveler Review
Kathleen Mansfield
about 9 months ago
Highly recommend this way of getting to Crab Island. Everyone that works here are very accommodating.Verified TripShock! Traveler Review
about 9 months ago
Staff Mark and Larry were easy going, went out of their way to make sure everyone had what they needed. Absolutely 'no pressure' schedule. Pleasant afternoon experience.Verified TripShock! Traveler Review
about 9 months ago
This excursion was fun! The excursion says its 3 hours but you have to take into account the 10-15 minutes to get there and we had to get back on the boat 30 minutes prior to 5...so it's not really a full 3 hours, nonetheless we felt it was enough time to experience the island for the first time. The boat crew were very helpful and explained all the rules. They made it very clear if you're not back on the boat 30 minutes prior that you will get left. We brought a cooler with drink and floats to lounge around in and btw they can blow them up on the boat for free. Crab island was very fun...definitely more fun if you bring floats and fun accessories to play with. All of the floating stores/bars accept cash and credit. Next time we go, we'll rent a pontoon to get the full experience but... read moreVerified TripShock! Traveler Review
about 9 months ago
We booked this not knowing what to expect and ended up wishing we had more time to do it again! We had an absolutely blast! Crab Island is a must see for all! Never seen anything else like it!Verified TripShock! Traveler Review
Donnie Warren
about 9 months ago
Great way to spend 3 hours on Crab Island...Verified TripShock! Traveler Review
Tammie Miller
about 10 months ago
The pontoon drivers was very rude and behaved as if we were wearing on their nerves. They were rude to a mother who daughter was freakin out because of the jellyfish in the water. We wondered if they were suffering from hangovers because they definitely appeared to be annoyed since they ignored our questions. One of them even cursed when asked a question. Very unprofessional and disrespectful. Awful excursion!Verified TripShock! Traveler Review
about 10 months ago
We boarded the boat and cruised at a slow speed to Crab Island. When we got there the boat captain gave us a 5 minute history of the island. He also told us about the vendors etc. We walked around in waist deep water for a few minutes and then decided to rent a paddle board as we didn't know what else to do. We purchased overpriced snacks, $2. per snack bag and $4.per fudge pop. and then we were taken back. I don't think that this area is ideal for snorkeling because most of the marine life is scared away by the crowds. I would suggest bringing extra money if you want to do anything besides walk around. The main activities available are eating, jet skis and paddle boarding. They also have an inflatable area for kids that's $20. Per person. Beware that the inflatables may have barnacles... read moreVerified TripShock! Traveler Review
Rebecca Perez
about 10 months ago
Had a really good time at crab island, people are friendly, the water is shallow and it's just a good place/time to drink. The crew was friendly, get there early to get a spot in the shade, the boat can be hot. They aren't able to park close enough so the walk back to grab beer or drinks is pretty annoying. I'm sure taking a tube to carry your cooler on would be smarter. The crew took us to look for dolphins which was nice and did their best to keep the floors cool.Verified TripShock! Traveler Review


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Warmack is the best OG to come out in over a decade. It's debateable as to whether Patterson is even the best receiver in an underwhelming draft class.
On reflection I'm confident reading comprehension is not an issue on my part.
You are of course entitled to your opinion
If somehow the Jets can find a unicorn and do a trade down, I could see taking him somewhere at low 20's. I like his size and speed. I also really like his crazy cutting ability. With our crappy QBs, that is invaluable. A hard skill to develop. He could end up a great pick. I am impressed with how much he gets done on his own after the catch. Again, with QBs like ours, that is a more desirable and sadly necessary ingredient. Come April, I bet Paterson goes middle of Rd 1.
After watching some of his video i think he has great vision, game speed, and xcellant Stop & Go ability 4 a man 6'3 205 lbs... Cordarrelle Patterson is lookin like the real f'n deal... Looks like a mix between Brad Smith & Amani Toomer... I would draft him in the 2nd rd.
Warmack's a "sure bet" and Patterson is a project. I get that.
But most successful teams swing for the fences on draft day.
I am not even begging for the Jets to pick Patterson at 9... but I'd be happy if they did (if that makes any sense) because it shows they're trying to add some explosive talent to put points on the board.
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text: Registration is underway for artists wishing to participate in the fifth annual Lexington Open Studios in the spring. Artists who live, work, or are affiliated with the local community are invited to take part in the event, which is slated for April 27 and 28 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The program is a collaboration involving several local organizations, including the town's Council for the Arts and its Tourism Committee, Lexington Arts and Crafts Society, Munroe Center for the Arts, and Lexington Chamber of Commerce, as well as local artists. The registration fee is $45 and the deadline is Jan. 15. More information is available at www.lexingtonopenstudios.org.


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Tuesday October 4, 2011
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM Come join us as we discuss Operation Redwood by S. Terrell French. Clandestine e-mail exchanges, secret trips, fake press releases, and a tree-house standoff are among the clever stunts and pranks the kid heroes pull in this exciting ecological adventure.
Copies of the book are available in the children's room for you to borrow and read before coming to this event.


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LaQuisha Jackson
Although Jackson won another state championship and finished second in two events, by her own standards this year's Spring Fling state meet was somewhat of a disappointment for the Howard junior. Although she dominated the 100-meter individual event, winning her third straight state title, Jackson did not break her state record time. And with two freshman members of the sprint relay teams, Howard also failed to win the 4x100 event for the first time in three years.
Jackson's anchor leg in getting the 4x200 team to a second-place finish left her unable to compete in the individual 200. That typically is her strongest event, and one she had won the two previous seasons.
"I know my time in the 100 wasn't bad, but I expected to break my record," said Jackson, who still ran it faster than any other girl, regardless of classification. "I hate to say I'm disappointed, but that wasn't my best race. But I've got next year to get better and hopefully come back and do something really special in my last high school races."
Howard finished fourth in the Class A/AA state team standings.
Bill McMahan
Capped by a fourth consecutive Division II state championship, McMahan coached his 20th set of Lady Red Raiders to an undefeated seasons, which included winning the Optimist Championship, the Mid-South Championship and the D-II East Region title. Baylor won three events at the state meet and had 14 athletes finish in the top three of their respective events, winning the state title by 39.5 points over second-place GPS. The Lady Red Raiders also finished fourth at the prestigious Vol Classic, the highest of any Tennessee team.
"We won three events, but our depth was the big key in helping us win the state," McMahan said. "I knew GPS would be our chief competition, and we had a lot of girls who came through with really good personal races. They really bought into the team concept. We had a lot of really good athletes who did whatever it took for the good of the team.
"Four years ago we had a really good group of athletes. Several of them were really young, and they have set the pace for what we expect every year now."
Simone Busby
She had the area's top discus and shot put distances and finished second in both in the Division II state meet.
Amber Dandy
Red Bank
She won her second consecutive long jump state title and was second in the Class A/AA 100 and 4x100.
Dianna Eddington
McMinn Central
The Mississippi State signee won the Class A/AA state 3200-, 1600- and 800-meter individual runs.
Tenley Godfrey
The Florida signee finished third in the Division II state 3200 and also qualified in the 1600 run.
Rebecca Greenwall
The Georgia Southern signee won the Division II 800 and helped Baylor claim its fourth straight state title.
Hannah Jumper
The Vanderbilt signee was first in the state in the 1600, second in the 800 and third in the 3200.
Tory Kemp
She won the state triple jump and was second in the long jump and 100 hurdles and third in the 300 hurdles.
Destinee Lansden
She finished second in the Division II state meet in the 400 and was fifth in the 100 and 200 dashes.
Nuqeilla Robinson
She was the Class A/AA state 200 runner-up and also helped Howard's 4x200 relay team finish second.
Sally Warm
She was second in the state triple jump, third in pentathlon, long jump and high jump and fourth in the 100 hurdles.
The Lady Red Raiders again were dominant as a team, winning every meet they entered this season, including the Division II state for the fourth time in a row.
With six second-place finishes and one state champion, the Bruisers finished as runners-up at the Division II state meet.
Despite a disappointing finish in the 4x100, which they had dominated the last two years, the Lady Hustlin' Tigers finished fourth in the Class A/AA state meet.
Qetuwrah Abdullah-Muhammad Cleveland Freshman
Abbie Dill Baylor Senior
Rachel Greenwall Baylor Senior
Jeshayla King Howard Sophomore
Chelsea Mills Red Bank Junior
Tiana Mills GPS Sophomore
Alex Mullin Notre Dame Senior
Jeneh Perry GPS Junior
Deroneasha Smartt Howard Sophomore
Haley Ward McMinn County Sophomore


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Propaganda and manipulation: Between Palestine and South Africa
The mere insinuation that there can be any kind of similarity between the former apartheid regime in South Africa and the struggle between Israelis and Palestinians over the same territory, is absolutely abominable. And the comparison is rendered even more crude when a buffoon such as Arafat is compared with a leader of Nelson Mandela's stature. Perhaps the world media is becoming a bit less susceptible to these chronic liars.
Edward Said is far from my favorite intellectual; and he probably would not be the first choice of the majority of my readers. But, whether we like it or not, Said continues to be the most outstanding Palestinian voice in the Western world, despite the successive revelations regarding some less than truthful embroidering of his past. This Professor of Comparative Literature in Columbia University in New York is the Palestinian with the most extensive contacts in the World Press, being himself a well-read columnist. Apart from appearing as music critic and permanent collaborator in the East Coast magazine "The Nation", he publishes regularly in the British paper "the Guardian", in France's "Le Monde", in London's Arab "Al Hayat" and in Cairo's weekly "Al Ahram". And his articles reach an even wider audience, far beyond these titles. The South American press, in particular that of Mexico and Uruguay, are also numbered among the faithful. In one of Said's latest offerings in the Mexican press, affectionately titled "The Israeli debacle", Said draws an interesting comparison between Guy de Maupassant and Israeli voters: Maupassant sat under the Eiffel Tower drinking coffee and ignoring its ugliness; the Israelis voted for Sharon to ignore the ugliness of the conflict which they themselves created with the occupation of Palestinian territory, rather than stare it in the face: under the tower, so to speak.
One of Said's latest articles published in "Al-Ahram" mentioned a visit taken to see the Minister of Education in South Africa, Qadr Asmal, whom he had met when he lived in exile in Ireland. Said traveled to take part in a conference on the state of values in education worldwide. He recounts that Asmal persuaded the 83 year old Mandela to come out of retirement and give a positively spectacular speech on education in the African homeland. Mandela did not shrink from attacking controversial themes, including the abject state of misery and deprivation in which the overwhelming majority of his countrymen live. But what inspired Said the most was Mandela's reference to the anti-apartheid struggle as a battle which had "captured the world imagination", and its use as a "uniting factor for all of humanity." It was far more than a fight against racial inequality. . . .
Said asks: Why is it that the Palestinian struggle has not captured the world imagination in the same manner? Why is it that it does not enjoy the near unanimous support of virtually all rational political denominations across the spectrum, as Mandelas struggle did?
And in attempting to answer these queries, the Palestinian-American intellectual admits that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a more complex issue and the Jews too are a people burdened by a tragic history of persecution and genocide. He writes that, as the Jews were joined with the land of Palestine in their ancient religious faith, their desired return to that land appeared to be justified in the eyes of the West, in particular, of the British who promised them that return. And the west saw that return as justified reparations given to the Jews, for persecutions suffered. Not that any of this transforms Said into a defender of Zionism and its consequences. On the contrary, he lambasts the Western Christian posture that turned a blind eye to gross injustice committed against the Palestinian people, all the while singing Israel's praises. All this to atone for Western Anti-Semitism and its excesses.
All this is usual par for Said's course, the admonitions regarding Jewish power, USA support for the Jewish state, and the usual litany of propaganda. He does confess, however, that PLO motives were sadly overshadowed by acts of terror, hardly an eloquent elegy to the Palestinian cause. In Said's opinion, this is the underlying reason for the fact that the love affair between the Palestinians and the Western press never really got off the ground. The Palestinans, said claims, never really understood the weightiness of the intellectual discourse in the West; hence, they never learned how to present themselves as victims of the depraved actions of the Jewish State. It should be clarified, however, that Said shies away from the more blatant extremism associated with the PLO in its halcyon period: he does not believe that all the Jews should vacate the territories, Crusader style. Instead, they should remain as one of two peoples in a single state, with the solution of universal suffrage, one, man, one vote: emphasizing the common human link. Said rejects the idea of a military campaign against Israel on the part of the Arab world: he does not preach bloodshed. Rather, the somewhat unrealistic solution of including all Jews within a greater Palestine, where they would ostensibly be granted equal rights with the Palestinians.....this is what Said has in mind. In a nutshell, a bi-national State.
Said fully accepts that Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews are locked in a Sraetrean circle of unceasing hatred and the demonizing of the "other." The only hope for breaking this deadly routine is, in his mind, the adoption of moral vision and not merely pragmatic necessity. In order to do this, Said urges his people to capture not only the world imagination but also that of their oppressor, the Israeli. To do so, he begs that the Palestinians' actions be guided by the highest moral values and sentiments. Principally, democratic attitudes.
And however trite the old canard of the bi-national state has been proven to be-and however dreary his resurrection of it, it is indubitable that his proposal to South Africanize the conflict is somewhat preferable to the blind stubbornness and excessive bloodshed that is propelling it along at the moment.
But it is indeed a challenge for the Palestinians to speak of morality in such a way that the world believes them. Arafat is far from Mandela. When one is a chronic liar, the world's trust evaporates rapidly. Precisely for this reason, Said's own credentials are here thrown into sharp relief. as is well known, Said once again captured world headlines when he was photographed last summer on the Lebanese border, throwing rocks at Israeli soldiers. Interestingly, Said himself took care to disseminate the photo. He seemed quite proud of it. At the moment, however, that precious little picture has become something of an embarrassment. In fact, Vienna's Freud society recently canceled a lecture that Said was scheduled to deliver, regarding Freud's fascination for the ancient cultures of Greece, Rome, and Palestine. That ugly symbol of violence, said with the stone in hand, did not fit in well with the agenda of the Freud society. Its President, Johann Sculein, offered the following statement to the press by way of explanation:
"The Freud society honors a great Jew who was persecuted by anti-Semites. Inviting an anti-Semite to Austria is hardly necessary-we possess enough Jew-haters of the home-grown variety."


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Mert & Marcus' Love Editorial Stars Supermodels, Hints At Bestiality & Necrophilia… But Is It Beautiful?
Love magazine is making quite a splash with its August issue: rolling out a bunch of different covers, featuring established top models (Lara, Mariacarla), up-and-comers (Daphne G), and young Hollywood muses (Hailee Steinfeld, Elle Fanning). The covers are all striking and moody (each star is crying, after all) but none of them so much as approach the darkness of Mert & Marcus' editorial within, What Lies Beneath. Starring a cadre of major models–Lara Stone, Mariacarla Boscono, Saksia de Brauw, Kristen McMenamy, Guinevere van Seenus–and alludes to sex, death, myth (Leda & the Swan!), and a nightmarish mix of all three.
Also, it's full of nudity, so be warned.
All images from Fashion Gone Rogue.
(As a sidenote, I think I like this ed because it reminds me so much of an old favorite from Vogue Italia, starring Gemma Ward and shot by Mario Sorrenti. You can see all of it here, but just to give you an idea…)


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|Reprinted from my 1979 negative, March 7, 2014
The book I had with me was bought at an Yosemite Falls gift shop in May 1978, and I just now looked at it again. Ansel wrote the date (bless him) 9-9-79. Perfect documentation. The day was an overcast Sunday afternoon, a little after 4. I don't think I forgot a thing about that afternoon.


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Panama City Beach - This week's Golden Apple award winner teaches 7th grade math and science with the ASPIRE program, as well as a new robotics class at Breakfast Point Academy. Not only has Kelley Roberts embraced her new role as a middle school teacher, she is also leading students on the basketball court.
Dribbling is a new skill for Gabby Looker, who, before this year, had never played basketball. Thanks to Ms. Roberts, she has a chance to shine in the classroom and on the court. "She teaches math, science, and a new robotics class, but she has also played a huge part in our athletic program this year which is brand new to Breakfast Point Middle school," explained Keri Weatherly, the assistant principal at Breakfast Point Academy. "She coached our very first girls basketball team, many of our students have never played," said Weatherly. "We focus on academics first. I'm one of the first people who gets to see their report cards. We are very focused on grades first and athletics second," said Ms. Roberts.
"Do you look forward to her class?" asked Meredith. "All day, she makes it fun and exciting for us," said Gabby. In the classroom hands on and engaging activities get her students excited about learning math and science. "She explains it very well. She will do the activity with you instead of just telling you," said student Lyndon Tinch, a 7th grader. "I love teaching because it gives me the opportunity to come here every day and work with these kids and try to inspire them the way they inspire me every day," said Ms. Roberts. "She is just phenomenal and she is a wonderful rolemodel for our middle school students," said Ms. Weatherly.
Congratulations to Ms. Roberts, this week's Golden Apple award winning teacher. "She is just amazing, basically," said Gabby.


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2007 Softball
Bluffton vs. Denison
Bluffton drops two to Denison in Battle of the Bruders
April 17, 2007
BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University softball team was no match for the Denison University Big Red on a sunny Tuesday, April 17, 2007. The Beavers dropped the first contest by a final count of 8-1 and the second game by a score of 6-1. With the losses, Bluffton fell to 6-12 while the Big Red improved to 17-11.
Game one - Denison 8, Bluffton 1
In the opener, Denison took the early 1-0 lead in the top of the first when Mackenzie Breeding crossed the plate on a fielder's choice.
The Big Red took advantage of four singles and a slew of mental errors in the field to paste three runs on the scoreboard in the second inning.
Sophomore captain Lindsey Miller (Wapakoneta/Wapakoneta) found her pitch in the bottom of the second and drove it over the right center field fence for the Beavers' only run of the game, a solo home run.
Denison tacked on unearned runs in the third and sixth innings before the Big Red put the game on ice with two more runs thanks to three errors in the top of the seventh.
Kellie Kenney (Toledo/Emmanuel Baptist) took the loss, giving up six runs, three earned, on eight hits. She fell to 5-6 on the year as her defense made nine errors in the first game.
Jen Anthony scattered six hits over seven innings with nine strikeouts in upping her record to 4-4 on the season.
Miller was a perfect 3-of-3 at the plate with a solo homer. Freshman Laura Brown (Sullivan/Black River) rapped a pair of singles in the loss to the Big Red.
Game two - Denison 6, Bluffton 1
The Beavers threatened to take the early lead in the nightcap with five baserunners in the first two innings, but a pickoff and three runners left on base kept Bluffton off the scoreboard.
Game two starter Brooke Babcock (Findlay/Findlay) set the Big Red down in order in innings one and two before Denison used three hits, two for extra bases, to take a 3-0 lead after three innings.
A leadoff walk to Gretchen Handley (Ashland/Ashland) paid dividends for the Beavers in the fourth. She moved to second on Jenna Mayer's (Lima/Shawnee) single up the middle before a free pass to Brown loaded the bases. Katie Ammons (Findlay/Findlay) picked up the RBI when she worked a bases loaded walk. Rachel Thomas struck out Babcock with the bases juiced and induced Jayme Marbaugh (Ohio City/Parkway) into an inning-ending lineout to the shortstop.
Four consecutive hits to open the sixth, including three doubles, provided all the insurance Denison needed as Bri Scrofano limited Bluffton to a pair of singles over the final three innings for her first save of the season.
Babcock (1-6) went the distance and took the loss for Bluffton, giving up six runs on 10 hits with four strikeouts.
Ammons went 2-for-3 in the second game with a run batted in. Handley scored the lone run for the Beavers who managed only five hits in the contest, 11 for the day.
The Beavers return to action on Friday, April 20, 2007, when they welcome Heartland Conference rival Mt. St. Joseph for a doubleheader on Strike-Out Cancer Day at Bluffton. The first game is scheduled to start at 3 p.m.


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A light that dazzles the eyes may dim the brain. How else to explain the flounder-like confusion between "aura" and "aurora."
The orthographic similarity of the two terms hides deep etymological differences. "Aura" comes from a Greek word for "breeze," "aurora" from the Latin word for dawn (or the goddess thereof).
In modern English "aurora" is most typically a term for the electrical phenomenon at the earth's poles that gives us the spectacular northern and southern lights. "Aura" has left its meteorological sense behind and is today applied to an emanation, visible or invisible, from a body. It can also be the impression conveyed by such emanations (e.g., "an aura of mystery"). There is, obviously, some shared radiation between the two semantic realms. The radiation opens up a portal that allows one term to invade the space of the other
Examples of "aurora" for "aura:"
Forum post+: "The computer display now actually looks bright and also has an aurora of mystery"
: "According to the writer, time and time again Custer and his troops had taken on an aurora of invincibility."
: "The Federal Reserve under the tenure of Alan Greenspan always carried an aurora of power that whenever things got silly in the market, the maestro Greenspan would quickly take center stage in D.C. and calm the markets. "
Annnnnd the other direction:
: "Can we see the aura borealis from Ohio? i would like to see it and have heard of someone who supposedly has but don't know if it's true."
: "This is a very interesting program,it talks about the aura borealis, and they laugh and joke about all that free energy up there, they also briefly discuss the methane on mars and on the size of our galaxy which is bigger than first thought and moving faster than thought "
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Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
Nicely evocative imagery. And serendipitous, given the light buzz around . Among the conceivable origins of the hapless arts reporter's temporary aphasia is 'migraine aura'. Lots of potential there, that is not disappointed.
I was really botherd too earlier since driving home I was having the severe aurora's with all the lights
The first time that I got one and saw a migraine aurora, I was so scared and then proceeded an awful throbbing headache.
And now, we see "areola" thrown into the mix: http://www.chacha.com/question/what-is- … a-borealis


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WASHINGTON — Robert Griffin III gets credit for everything except the ability of geese to migrate in winter. Now, he's going to get credit for one more virtue. In big games on big stages, Griffin inspires his teammates to play up to the level of their hopes, not down to the depths of their fears.
Just three games ago, Griffin had a 153.4-quarterback-rating in a rout of the Eagles. Then he passed for four touchdowns on Thanksgiving Day in Dallas. Now, he's completed his three-game sweep of the NFC East with a win head-to-head over Eli Manning and the Super Bowl champion Giants. After a dead even, all night battle with New York, Griffin finally pulled out a fourth-quarter come-from-behind victory, 17-16, with an eight-yard touchdown pass to Pierre Garcon with 11 minutes 31 seconds left to play.
Griffin has the aura of victory. That inspires. That elevates. And, as the Redskins rebuild their franchise, that changes every aspect of their future.
Or as the loudest crowd at FedEx Field in years, a total of 80,246, put it so pithily with their victory chant: "RGIII, RGIII, RGIII." You do it three times, of course, then pause, then start again.
At 6-6 the Redskins' playoff hopes, presumed near death until Griffin rallied the team with a get-on-my-back speech during the team's bye week, are now more than realistic. With Griffin, the Redskins are now the hot team, the momentum pick. And they're just one game behind the Giants in the NFC East and one game behind Seattle for the second wild card.
Even if the Giants' final fourth-quarter drive had not ended in a punt, even if Griffin and the Redskins had not run out the clock for victory, the whole feeling of this game — the Redskins' ability to make few mistakes in a nerve-wracking game, then overcome the few that they did make — marks this as a turning point.
For 20 years, the Redskins have tended not to play up to reasonable expectations — their own or their fans' — in many of the games that mattered most. There were exceptions. But few veteran Redskins or long-enduring fans have failed to note the pattern of "being flat" on big stages, including 10 straight losses at home on Monday night.
Redskin team leaders and coaches bemoaned the mystery of "not showing up," being too tight or too nervous, making too many penalties or simple mental blunders. Any pattern over many years has more than one cause. But a constant through those years was the absence of an inspiring quarterback. The bigger the game, the more a team responds to a special player at the most important position in any team sport.
Everyone identifies this truth in Conference Championship or Super Bowl games. Of course, Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers or Peyton Manning gives his team more poise, more confidence that it can come from behind and, perhaps most important of all, an unconscious desire to play up to the level — to be worthy of — their leader.
Now, the Redskins have gone into Dallas on Thanksgiving Day, then played the defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants 11 days later in consecutive high-visibility games on national TV. Those were occasions that, for so long, brought out less than the best in the Redskins.
Not any more. And maybe not for a long time to come.
The Redskins finally have a quarterback, like all of the best ones in the NFL, who makes his team want to play up to his standard and capitalize on the gift of getting to play with him. The NFL always has at least half-a-dozen quarterbacks at that level. Now the Redskins have one of them.
The point is not that RGIII must win every game — run the table in the NFC East in consecutive games — but that the Redskins now think they can if they play their best. The last three weeks are about a shift in the entire NFC East. It's far from completed. But notice has been served.
On Monday night, Griffin made his usual breathtaking plays, like a 46-yard option run and the pass to Garcon to give the Redskins a 17-16 lead early in the fourth quarter. Early in the fourth quarter, he broke the NFL rookie record for rushing yards. All of that, you expect.
But a corollary in sports, one that hardly seems fair, is that the better you are, the luckier you seem to get. Griffin even fumbled for a touchdown.
At the end of a 12-yard first-quarter run, RGIII lost the ball just before he hit the ground. The Giants were so focused on him that wide receiver Joshua Wilson picked up the ball in mid-air and ran the final yards for a Washington score. In such a close battle, the luck of Griffin counted, too.
If you're the Giants, that play may make you wonder about the shape of the next decade, especially since the Redskins might have won their previous meeting in the Meadowlands had it not been for an unforgivable 77-yard touchdown bomb to Victor Cruz with less than two minutes left.
This was a game when, in other years, the Redskins might have been blown out, or never gotten a whiff of a lead in the final minutes against a team with the Giants pedigree. The Washington pass rush was non-existent. Eli Manning could have rolled up his sleeve and had his annual flu shot while he stood in the pocket.
With so little resistance, Manning led the Giants to a 13-10 lead at half and a slim 16-10 margin early in the fourth quarter. Yet Griffin came back with an 86-yard scoring drive capped by the pass to Garcon.
Unlike those other years, the Redskins did not crumple when they failed. After that 46-yard Griffin run to the Giant 15-yard line, on a basic option when his speed exposed a seam in the New York defense, rookie star running back Alfred Morris made one of his rare mistakes. On the same night when he passed 1,000 yards rushing and set a new Redskins rookie rushing record, he lost a fumble at the Giants 15-yard line.
Those three (at least) squandered points hung over the game. It was the night's only turnover in a battle between two teams with exceptional turnover ratios — the Redskins plus-11, the Giants now plus-14.
As the Giants began a drive with 6:06 to play and the Redskins leading just 17-16, a four-point lead would have seemed like worlds more of an advantage. But, after bending all night, the Redskins held, thanks in part to a Giant holding penalty.
The last harrowing gasp came on a Giant punt with 3:51 to play. The Redskins' Brian Kehl ran into the punter — a five-yard penalty, but not an automatic first down. By that narrow margin, the Redskins got the ball back, and, naturally, Griffin completed a final clock-killing drive.
His last completion left him at 13-for-21 for 163 yards and no interceptions. He rushed for 72 yards in just five carries.
In other words, Griffin had a pretty good game — for him — and beat the defending Super Bowl champions on national TV.
It was — you know the word, though Washington hasn't applied it to a quarterback for decade — inspiring.


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Discussion in 'General MMA discussion' started by PsychoIcon, May 8, 2013.
Yeah loads of times. Mushrooms and LSD though. Didn't have to go to Peru for that I had them in my home town everytime.
Many, many trips. LSD, Shrooms, Peyote, MDMA, Salvia, THC...
Fun fact if you eat enough THC like in cookies or brownies you will have hallucinations.
Says who? I'm ate a boatload of edibles plenty of times. All that happens to me is nighty night time.
It depends on how strong the butter is, and then how much you eat. I have a few friends that are on medical, and grow there own. Sometimes when they make food, and I eat to much I will have small hallucinations. Nothing like a real trip, but it is still there.
No sh*t! I wish I could tripped off em
Yeah I totally believe it, Pots Catorgoized as a Hallucinagen.
You do Laugh off of it like LSD.
And some people freak out a little ,Like LSD
Just curious here
do you get more bad trips than good or vice versa ?
Or does it really depend on the person
It depends on the enviroment.... Who your with, where you go.
Also your state of mind plays a big part.. If before you take LSD or Shrooms all your worrying about is having a bad trip... You will. Your mind is almost 90 of what kind of trip you will have.
That is why I would not take LSD again, after being through the things I have it would not be a good trip.. I would do Shrooms again, but only a very small amount for the body high and minor hallucinations.
LSD and Shrooms is their a big difference ?
I dunno drugs like that scare the s--- out of me incase I have a bad trip but the hyawaska (sp) I would give it a try it seems pretty cool but I can't find a place where people do it
It really matters on the day....going into it....
If you slept well, and the day is good, and you are around good happy free loving people who give you good vibes, not empty stomach but not full, if you do it when you are full, you'll throw up and then trip balls! I honestly believe its your energy. LSD can be random and controlling, and harmful so is peyote, you can go on permatrips.
I suggest Shrooms, DMT -Dimethyltryptamine.... I havent done DMT yet, but I know a lot about it and met a few people that have, and its actually reverse tolerance, the more you use it the more powerful and closer you get to the "spirit molecule" Shrooms is completely safe. Dont do xtc, you will feel like ran over dog s--- the next day or two and its horrible for you, and can lead to perma damage. Eating THC is a good mellow trip too if you get it right, it can be intense and feel sort of like anxiety. Im really looking forward to my first DMT experince, but I have eaten close to an ounce of shrooms at once, and that was powerful.
You can also extract the medicine that makes you trip in Robotussin, its called "Agent Lemon" its super easy and clean and safe. It last for 8 hours, hardcore visuals, not so much body,
Shrooms to me nothing compares because of how safe it is and LOVING everything is on it, and you can sense peoples vibes and bad energy and you just want to smile at them and make them smile. It can be overwhelming, but good. The more you eat the more you trip, so slowly just munch away.
Remember, Shrooms are natural, and LSD is not, your forcing the mind.... can lead to places you dont want to go..... Make sense?
Merge this thread with the one from a few months ago
both your posts make alot of sense bro
its a shame its only since I was 17 that I really realized some drugs are not as bad as the main stream media portray them to be
There is a big differance, but it is hard to expalin.
If you have never done either, I would not do LSD. It is more intense and is harder to control the first few times. Plus on tab, is one tab, or two is two. With shrooms you can take less, and build it up.
Shrooms I think you would be OK with as long as you didn't over do it. If I was you and really wanted to do it.... I would do it with one or two very close friends, hopefully one of you has already done them. Then go camping, away from other people. Take a little and build it up from there. You may just want to stop at the body high, and laugh a lot. To much to fast could be a problem for some. Shrooms are a lot like drinking IMO, if you do it right and safe everything will go fine.
The first time I did shrooms I was 18, just moved into a trailer with four other guys. I came home from work one day and one of my roommates was weighing out around 20lbs of shrooms. After he was done, there was all this purple powder in a wok he was useing to seperate the stems from the caps. I ask if I had the powder if I would get high... I had done lots and lots of LSD and others but never shrooms. He laughed at me, weighed up a quarter powder and I took it all at once. This is probably like doing close to half an oz or full oz of shrooms. I had a great time, and was hooked... I jond the Army a year later and in that year I did shrooms at lest once a month. And twice while in Germany.
This is very true. A few friends and I took shrooms in Amsterdam, we each downed an eighth and started to walk around... We could feel the bad vibes coming off people in that town. We went back to the hotel and finished the trip, but could still feel it.. Was a lot of fun, but a crazy trip. The next day we took more and went to a better part of town to find a bar, or coffee shop... Was a lot better then... But Amsterdam is for sure the city of the Damed....
I grew up in Louisiana, and the cow fields there were full of the magic mushrooms. One particular trip my younger Bro, (who was a virgin) and I partook in a batch and went to a conv. store where this beautiful girl, who had one green eye and one blue, worked, half hour goes by and I think the batch is no good so we leave. Walking home,near the docks, all of a sudden there's thousands of fireflies and we both say simultaneously " Oh my God" It was like hitting warp drive in a Star Wars movie. We get to the house and he turns and goes in while I remain at the fork in the road contemplating how insignificant I am compared to the stars and Huge Oak Trees surrounding me. I calmly sat down and wilted like a flower. Finally find my way back to the house and find my Bro staring at the wall mumbling to himself. The comedown was mellow and all the party goers sat in a circle and came up with solutions to all the worlds problems. I always kept a lighter in my pocket which I named "Reality" in case Sh!T got too weird. I don't regret tripping, I swear it opens the 3rd eye
Yeah LSD is a no go, I like the idea the of building up your own trip how much would you take to start off so to speak ?
Just eat a few caps, wait 30 minutes , feel the tingles, eat some more. No more than a half your first time I would say, Just depends how much you like it, its your call but DONT MAKE IT A WORRY IF YOU DO....
Oh and drink plenty of water
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 26th Jun 2013 13:03 UTC
"Market trends in Western Europe are not looking good for Apple's iPhone. 'Apple's iOS continues to lose ground as market share declined to 20% from 25% in 1Q12 [first quarter 2012]', IDC said Tuesday. Android, meanwhile, is gaining operating system market share, up 14 percent year-to-year in the first quarter. 'Android continues to dominate the smartphone landscape', according to IDC. In the quarter, Google's OS shipped 21.9 million units and market share increased to 69 percent in the first quarter of 2013 from 55 percent in last years' first quarter." On top of that, Apple got knocked out of the top five in India, where it's also bleeding market share. The America-centred large technology sites that dominate our reporting often fail to spot this huge problem for Apple: the company is only doing well in the US. It's losing everywhere else. And just in case you don't know: 'everywhere else' is 95% of the world, and that's where future growth is to be found. The fact that Apple hasn't addressed this yet is exactly why its shares aren't doing stellar anymore.
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RE[5]: Why?
by Laurence on Wed 26th Jun 2013 21:12 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: Why?"
The maximum number of processes, and what happens to a process that is evicted from memory, is inconsequential to the question whether there is "true multitasking" or not.
Yes and no. When one discusses "true multitasking", you don't generally imagine an application cap. But I do take your point.
What I forgot to add -which does have a bigger impact on whether you'd class Android as "true multitasking"- is that applications are paused when they're backgrounded unless they're registered as a service (it's actually a little more complicated than that, but it's been a couple of years since I've written my last Android app so I need to revise the details myself).
As a whole, Android doesn't do true multi-tasking in the sense that WinCE users were -and PC users are- acclimatised to. But it's a damn good close compromise.
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