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Ba has been on top form for the Magpies this season, scoring 11 goals to add to the 16 he bagged last term. Toon boss Alan Pardew admitted on Thursday that Ba would be sold if he did not remove the ?7.5million release clause in his contract.
"I like Demba Ba, yes," Wenger said ahead of his team's match against Newcastle. "I don't think [this] is the right place to speak about that, because he plays against us. I wouldn't like to put Newcastle or us or him in an uncomfortable position. If you ask me 'do we sign Demba Ba?' I say no."
Wenger has been linked with a host of strikers as they try to cement a top-four finish in the second half of the season. Top of Wenger's to-do list remains securing the future of Theo Walcott, however.
Walcott's contract expires next summer and he has so far refused to pen a new deal, but Wenger insists he is confident about keeping the forward, who has played in his favoured position of striker in the Gunners' last two games.
"Yes [talks are ongoing]. Yes [I remain optimistic]," Wenger said.
Wenger refused to comment on claims he is interested in Barcelona's David Villa, but he was more forthcoming on the possibility of re-signing Thierry Henry for a second loan spell.
Wenger earlier this week played down reports he would sign the New York Red Bulls striker during the Major League Soccer off-season, but he appeared open to the prospect of re-signing the Gunners' record scorer, who has been training with the Londoners for the last few weeks.
"I've not lost interest in him," Wenger said. "He's still coming today (Friday) to practice with us. We have a close relationship. I think he has had a second spell at the club that was very successful. You have to be cautious that it's not one time too many. I have not completely (ruled out a second loan spell) but I haven't spoken about it with him at all."
Wenger confirmed that Olivier Giroud and Tomas Rosicky have overcome illness and are available for the home game against Newcastle.
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WildDuke wrote:Yeah, love the VX! I'd prefer it if there was slightly less bar pressure, but that's what I say about all kites. Not sure you are correct about the Y on the front. The 2013 smartbar doesnt have a Y, it has a V and it said to be completely compatible with older kites.Westozzy wrote: Like the VX? Yeh the stopper is a prob on the smart bar, also don't Ike the stupid two handles for power depower. Just one thing to pull thanks. Stupid idea. Be aware though the Y on the front lines is built for the quick release to pull the kite down gently and roll forward on its leading edge.
I wish the north bar had a V on the front lines. It would be easier to fix lines if kite inverts. Also, I think 5line is dangerous. I will never own another one. I was kiting a downwinder from one atoll in the south pacific to another, when I kited into a partial wind shadow produced by coconut trees and some higher terrain on the island behind me. My kite fell from the sky and rolled through itself. If I had a 5 line kite, it would have been game over. I was a couple of km's from the atoll that we were going to and floating in shark infested waters. Luckily I was flying my 4 line kite and able to relaunch and kite myself back to our meeting point. But that's beside the point.
Enlighten me what's the difference between the a V and a Y, where it bifurcates.
Tried the VX on the light bar setting. ? Man that is too light I reckon. I come from rebels though so the bar pressure on the medium setting is still light for me.

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UH Manoa student wins Soroptimists awardUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Chancellor's Office
HONOLULU - University of Hawai'i student RaeDeen Keahiolalo-Karasuda, a doctoral candidate at the Mānoa campus in political science, has received a $10,000 award from the Soroptimists International.
Keahiolalo-Karasuda received the Founder Region Fellowship Award earlier this month in San Ramon, California. It is a monetary fellowship award recognizing her work in a field of social significance. She is one of six award winners from the Northern California-Hawaii region and the only one from Hawai'i.
Her dissertation examines the consequences of mass incarceration in Kanaka Maoli families and communities. Beginning with Queen Liliuokalani's imprisonment, Keahiolalo-Karasuda links the neocolonial project of over-incarcerating contemporary Kanaka Maoli to her analysis of the political economy of the war on drugs, use of private out-of-state correctional facilities by the state, and media representation which enables the native identity to be criminalized.
Keahiolalo-Karasuda formerly worked as a community educator and victims' advocate in the anti-domestic violence area before enrolling in Maui Community College in 1993.
The Soroptimists is an international women's organization with 211 members in Hawaii and about 90,000 worldwide.


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Zahir Ebrahim's Open Letter to 9/11 Truth Chiefs
To: Steven Jones <email@example.com>, Kevin Ryan <email@example.com>, Frank Legge <email@example.com>, Niels Holger Harrit <firstname.lastname@example.com>, Richard Gage <email@example.com>, Kevin Barrett <email@example.com>, Judy Wood <email@example.com>
Cc: Salem-News.com newsroom <email@example.com>
Subject: Zahir Ebrahim's Open Letter to 9/11 Truth Chiefs
Dear recipient,
Peace be with you. I am resending this revised and final version of my Comment on Judy Wood's 'New Hiroshima' to the addressed recipients as an open letter because in it, I am explicitly expressing my humble 0.2 cents worth of opinion on the credibility of Steven Jones et. al.'s work. Please be advised that I have no affiliation with either Judy Wood or with any of the recipients of this email, nor have I ever met her or anyone else from among the recipients. I don't know any of you personally. What interests me as an ordinary justice activist suffering the largesses of "imperial mobilization" are two aspects of your public role in this HOW topic of 9/11. Specifically,
1) evidence which betrays motivation of its exponents ; and
2) authenticity of evidence-stream which you publicly bring to the fore in your respective exponentiations which directly impact public opinion.
Anyone who impacts public opinion is of interest to me. I always examine both the aspects noted above simultaneously. I drew this inspiration from the famous Bernard Lewis of Princeton who wrote in his book "The Crisis of Islam – Holy War and Unholy Terror" the following shrewd sentence as justification for writing his vile book with that equally vile and specious title: "Terrorism requires only a few. Obviously the West must defend itself by whatever means will be effective. But in devising means to fight the terrorist, it would surely be useful to understand the forces that drive them."
I have ever since been inspired by the idea that it is always "useful to understand the forces that drive them" in order to examine the forces which drive anything, any mantra, and every individual who brings a mantra. The work of any individual or group or organization or institution is not divorced from the forces which drive them if Bernard Lewis' prescription is correct. The British Svengali and former OSS operative used this notion to seed falsehoods in the form of fabricating motivations to make the "clash of civilizations" believable to the ignorant public in America and the West. I employ it, judiciously always, to unlayer and uncover deceit of people like him who shill for empire, either overtly or covertly.
Since the remains of 9/11 are no more preserved as crime scene evidence, except in copious images and videos, those who bring their eruditeness to the fore as either self-appointed crime-scene experts, or as experts appointed by the establishment, are part of the evidence themselves. If they stand discredited, or if their motives are suspect, so is their evidence stream unless other unimpeachable sources for that evidence-stream is found. If they are incestuously the only source, the evidence lives or dies solely by the credibility of its exponents. One is not separate from the other, and those who separate them in innocence, may, I hope, become better informed by reading my article below. This is a well known rejection criterion to reject evidence from those who commit fraud, or have committed fraud in the past, or are known to be allied with those whom they purport to give evidence against, or are known to promulgate deception.
If anyone has ever been on Jury selection, they would have surely observed the emphasis by the prosecution team as well as the defense team to discredit the other team's witnesses. HolocaustTM is entirely about blanket acceptance of witnesses and testifiers without examining their integrity and motivations, and not about evidence. Whereas, 9/11 has uncannily become entirely about blanket acceptance of evidence without questioning either the validity of that evidence, or the motivations and integrity of the testifiers who bring forth that evidence, just as in the former case. I find that similarity very intriguing.
Because, if one were to ask cui bono, one is not surprised. Each case serves an agenda which is other than uncovering what really happened in those respective crimes against humanity. The former, with the TM, serves the agenda of sustaining the legitimization of Zionism in the mind of the goyem, and the endless extortion of both sympathies and restitution monies from them. The latter serves the agenda of sustaining "imperial mobilization" one way or another. From certain vantage point, it can be rather hard to distinguish between the two monumental crimes of recent memory the import of which continues to direly resonate globally today.
Of course, it is also obvious that passing the aforementioned rejection criterion of discrediting the witness does not automatically constitute an acceptance criterion for the evidence-stream, and that is also a universally accepted practice. Acceptance and rejection criterion are two distinct and separate things.
This fact is especially important in the forensic unraveling of a crime whose hard evidence has been rapidly removed, a monumental crime which is a priori known to be wrapped in layers of deceit, false clues and red herrings to serve imperial agendas, one whose import is so "transforming" that it must not be unraveled within the time frame that its obfuscation is needed to accomplish all faits accomplis seeded by it, and whose continued obfuscation is required in order to complete the intended transformations. I don't think anyone can sensibly disagree with any of this.
Nor can anyone sensibly disagree with the fact that 9/11 was one such monumental crime which fits the aforementioned attributes to a "T". A supreme crime analogous to Hitler's 'Operation Canned Goods' used as pretext to commit the supreme international crime of aggression, to "goosestep the herrenvolk across international frontiers" (as noted at Nuremberg) for the exact same purpose of acquiring a "greater Lebensraum". Just that in this case which plagues us today with an even greater tour de force of evil, Lebensraum is "world government".
All this is brazenly obvious today and surely known to everyone of the recipients. If anyone denies any of it, please deny it publicly (and leave me a pointer to it) so that the public can also judge your knowledge of the world, your sophistication and objectivity in analyzing current affairs and the historical chain of events that has brought us here, and your inherent biases in which you cradle your worldview and thus your pursuits. Which ones among you are exponents of Zionistan I would surely like to know. Who among you seeks World Government, I would also like to learn that (see footnote [19]).
Therefore, henceforth, as presumably entirely genuine and objective scientists pursuing a hard scientific inquiry into a crime which, one ab initio accepts, is wrapped in layers upon layers of deception by its very nature, let me know why anyone should believe Jones et. al.'s evidence-stream, or disbelieve Judy Wood's evidence stream that is entirely drawn from public-domain sources which challenges the former and spotlights some new aspects which were hitherto unknown (at least to many people like myself).
Please make the case – and this is an entirely different case from that which any of the recipients have ever been called to make, namely, it is an ab initio case of why should one believe the evidence-stream and analysis being presented. But do try to not bring my humble limitations into the mix by calling me ignorant, or lacking in due diligence. Therefore, If you wish to respond henceforth, I enjoin you to make your arguments in public and publish them – my article is published here ( http://www.salem-news.com/articles/april262011/woods-hiroshima-ze.php ).
And I thank you in advance for a useful public response, especially one that shrewdly examines why one might rationally accept anyone's evidence stream, and specifically addresses fig 5 vs. fig 6 issue noted below. Namely, which figure is fraudulent, and which is authentic, and consequently, on what basis might one determine whether 9/11 destructions were a low temperature or a high temperature event. Something seen flowing from windows, and/or glowing in an image/video, is not evidence of heat, only of low viscosity and its color temperature. I am sure the recipients as scientists and engineers are aware of this and know the difference between color temperature and heat-content. In Photoshop for instance, one can produce any color temperature – as you all know – and make things vicariously look hot or cold. We interpret these color temperatures based on our everyday experiences on what we expect looks hot and therefore can easily be fooled even if deception is not the purpose. Therefore, from that flow of some fluid and/or its color temperature, to leap to "hot" as in heat – please provide the evidence if you are Jones et. al. (or their partisan with any technical expertise), and why one might disbelieve Judy Wood when she says "not hot" based on all the photographic evidence-stream she presents, if you are among her many detractors.
Is Judy Wood's evidence fraudulent? Is her reasoning specious? How – when firemen are seen in public-domain photographs walking around in traditional work-boots on what is supposed to be very very hot molten stuff? As I understand it, Judy Wood has shown that the Jones evidence is fraudulent, at least in that one instance of fig 5 vs. fig 6 (see footnote [17] for details). Which is it? Please prove by evidence and the logic of the observation which can address both supporting as well as contradictory evidence, and not by assertions, not by suppressing what isn't convenient, and not by disparaging the inquiring minds who want to probe further beyond the polished credentials.
Prove everything ab initio – no assumptions – beginning with authenticating everything you bring to bear as evidence. Why should one believe Steven Jones et. al.'s private experimentation and their un-authenticated material evidence acquisition published in a pay-for-peer-reviewed journal in which anyone can publish pretty much anything if they have $800 to spare? Evidently, most consumers of Steven Jones et. al.'s work believe it because of claims to being "peer reviewed" in Bentham Open's online publication. Unfortunately, it can also be a nice scam – if one wanted it to be – since it remains unverifiable, because one can always claim peer-reviews are done anonymously! I also simultaneously recognize that publishing anything which goes against the ruling powers and the establishment's mantras is very difficult indeed, while gibberish can be trivially published if it supports the agendas of empire (see footnote [25]).
Therefore, genuine researchers must seek out other ways of venting their discoveries. And, knowing how hard it is to publish for any would be Galileo, it is also obvious that the Machiavelli will insist on bringing peer-reviewed scientific publications to them (as was the case with Noam Chomsky) before they would even look at the idea that anyone other than Osama Bin Laden could have done 9/11 (see my letter to Noam Chomsky when Steven Jones' "peer reviewed" paper came out, sending a copy to him). It is the false attribution of being genuinely peer reviewed as is done for instance in an IEEE journal, to bring the research respectability which is the new problem for me in Steven Jones et. al's work. I will openly state it here that in the absence of evidence to the contrary, I now suspect it to be false projection in order to gain respectability. I clearly see the Hegelian dialectic: publish first before I take you seriously (Chomsky) vs. I have published so now I must be taken seriously (Jones). So let's see the process behind "publish" and also authenticate what was "published".
Because the mantra of "peer reviewed" appears everywhere on Steven Jones et. al.'s websites and it is their claim to credibility, I wish to dig deeper into this "peer review" business which their research underwent. It is evidently the primary basis for their claims before the public that it is genuine scientific research that they are doing which proves "thermite". I must admit that I accepted this claim in the past myself without scrutiny. Not any longer. And I hope I may be forgiven if I now wish to scrutinize that claim. Their peer review process to the first order now appears exactly the same to me as climategate's so called peer reviews: incestuously assembled. I don't trust anything establishmentarians, former or current, have to say in their analysis, in this case of thermite. Additionally, I am puzzled that Steven Jones et. al. also do not assert thermite presence in any of their submissions to NIST. Please correct me if I am wrong and do point me to the submission to NIST which asserts their thermite discovery. As far as I am aware, and I am not all knowing, Steven Jones et. al. have only asserted thermite in their copious "peer reviewed" promulgations before the lay public. I am still awaiting to be corrected on this count, and I thank the recipients in advance for pointing me to an official NIST submission, to any official submission before the establishment's federal institutions, in which the discovery of thermite, nanothermite, and its assorted brethren, have been asserted by Steven Jones et. al.
This is on top of the fact that it is possible that elements and remnants from traditional "controlled demolition" may have been found on the crime scene if the purpose was to establish "controlled demolition" in the mind of the detractors of the official NIST narratives. I want authentication of that counter narrative to NIST. This is most essential because almost all of 9/11 Truthers have been blindly assembled around the second narrative, while all the mainstream is gathered around the former. Pleading that thermite evidence before a federal agency increases the confidence in its authenticity, as doing so fraudulently is to commit a grievous federal offence which has severe penalties associated with it. But as we all know, lying to the public is for free – bigger the lie, greater the expectation of bigger prizes. Richard Gage on his website ae911truth.org had even pitched the Nobel prize for his confrere Steven Jones (see footnote [2])! Perhaps it was just the exuberance of the innocent at having discovered the wheel (see footnote [26]). Who is deceiving the public – if anyone – the public would like to know.
I remain fully cognizant of the fact that pitching unverifiable mantras couched in the gooblydook of science is also a game as old as empire (see footnotes [24] and [25]) just like striving for hegemony. By that token, I have no a priori reason to accept Judy Wood's evidence stream, except for the evidence she has gathered entirely from public sources and explicitly sourced as such. Then the burden shifts to that source from the one who has compiled it. It is possible that this evidence-stream itself was doctored at the source, or misrepresented by the compiler. Please feel free to provide cogent evidence to that effect. This is primarily the basis for my inquiry into the aforementioned fig 5 vs. fig 6 as it potentially separates the chaff from the wheat very neatly. In one shot, one can know who has mala fide intentions, who is mistaken, who was themselves deceived, and why should anyone believe him or her after that determination!
Or, at least be bold enough, and scientifically accurate enough, to suggest that this matter may remain inconclusive because the first-hand evidence from crime scene is gone and the only evidence is in the photographs. In that latter case, all evidence explanation which presumes either "hot" or "cold" is at best speculative and only resolvable indirectly by the logic of other evidence. If firemen are seen in the images walking around something which is presumed to be very very hot without burning and scorching themselves, and are attired in their regular firemen's clothing without any special heat protection which can withstand the high temperatures that is being asserted, then the logic of incongruence automatically indicates the faulty conclusion of heat, and hence identifies the fraudsters. Does it not? Alternately, it indicates that some of the public image-evidence is itself fraudulent and/or misperceived, leading to incorrect conclusions. Which is it? Please prove your point with some cogent analysis which is empirically supported without conjectures or "trust" by way of appeal to authority. I am unfortunately all out of faith in "credentials" as sufficient proof of either authenticity of claimed empiricism, or veracity.
I sincerely believe that any genuine exponent of truth in search of what really happened on 9/11 and seeking to inform the public will appreciate this straightforward challenge from an ordinary person from among the public to authenticate whatever they assert is evidence, rather than be miffed by it. Please begin by authenticating fig 5 or fig 6, as I have already spent considerable time analyzing this and come away completely befuddled on the very basic issue of whether or not this was a high or low temperature event. I am inclined to believe Judy Wood's evidence stream as authentic. Am I being deceived?
Thank you very much for your time.
Zahir Ebrahim
Dated: April 30, 2011 – In the tenth year of 9/11 and none are still the wiser!
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Zahir Ebrahim's Open Letter to 9/11 Truth Chiefs April 30, 2011


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Hello from Paris you all friends, i'm happy to show you the progress on tops i've started a long while ago.
I worked on the beach of Granville where we stayed four weeks in july, with Elisa.
The hexagons are made from french decoratorfabrcis and i put lots of Toiles in it.
The more of them, the more vibrant it becomes. The biggest part is done and the top will cover a french double bed. I think that an embroidered border would be lovely, or some applique, but in the mean time i suppose that this can be a very time consuming solution.....
I am very happy with the little baskets, 3 inches each. You may remember that i didn't want to applique the handles and yes, i'm glad i choose the red ric rac, fun and so easy to appliqué.....
The third one is very different: lately i saw an antique quilt and fell instantly in love with:
i made 50 blocks of 25 squares, 2 inches by2.
four of them in the middle of each outer row in off white shirting of conversation print and the one in the middle is RED, i mean RED girls. Don't do this by hand, it would be just never ending.
The intermediate blocks are from off white muslin of a very nice quality i found in my junk shop.
Most of the fabrics are repros of the civil war kind, from beige to dark brown, here and there some pinks, burgundy and dark brown.
Once more, easy peasy on the machine and the bold red in the middle seems to be Necessary.
The layout for the blocks was done one sheets of paper stocked in a pile, then i sewed in rows.
I can't tell you much about the vacation, but i must say this:
you know i'm not much telling about our private life, but on the 15 of July we lost our dear brother in law Henk B, who had a very important place in our lives, stood by us with my sister 42 years ago, when i introduced my future husband to my parents saying i would live in Paris and no longer in the Netherlands, leaving them scared and angry.
In his house was always room for strangers, refugees, homeless, old friends and traumatised cats.
His wife, daughters, sons in law, grandchildren and we will dearly miss him.
I promised another posting about the linenfestival, next time.
Take care, my thoughts go to the American coast, where people prepare for a scary meeting with IRENE.....


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Beyond the State of the Union, Battles Loom
Readying a re-election campaign, the president will largely stay above the fray.
President Obama scored big thematic points in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, but the glamour and pomp will soon give way to renewed political division.
The spending and policy battles ahead will be more defining in the run-up to the 2012 presidential election than anything said last night. Still, the address is important, as a marker in time.
Obama highlighted ambitious goals for job creation, investment infrastructure, education, basic science research, tax code reform, export promotion, expanded small business development and being arm-in-arm with Republicans on deficit reduction. All were applauded, but all were absent details, as wish lists often are in these annual speeches.
The divide was made clear moments after the president left the chamber and lawmakers spilled into the halls to share responses that were nearly as rehearsed as the president's remarks.
"Fine speech. We all agree in American exceptionalism," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY. "Now what? Will he be with us on deficit cutting? Will he be exceptional there? There's trouble ahead in real terms, not in the lofty terms of national pride we all agree on."
Rep. Stephen Fincher, R-TN, a freshman backed by the Tea Party and insisting on large spending cuts this year, wasn't swayed either. "The president's proposed freeze on domestic spending, which has already run wild since he took the oath, won't do it. We're united tonight on being civil, yes. We're divided tomorrow on the course of the country and the public dollar," he said.
Even Democrats, while embracing the president's words, see trouble on the horizon.
"I don't see an easy budget year ahead," said Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota, who chairs the Budget Committee. "Generalities are easy. Specifics can be killers. There'll be stalemate and no budget if the Republican idea is to cut $100 billion right away in domestic [spending] and if they don't bend. It would derail the recovery. They know it. They won't say it. I just did."
For an hour in the House chamber, though, there was general agreement in tone and adherence to civility, underscored when Obama recognized the empty seat of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-AZ, who is recovering from an assassination attempt earlier this month in Tucson. But even in that moment, Obama pointed to the difficult road ahead. "What comes of this moment will be determined not by whether we can sit together tonight, but whether we work together tomorrow."
Obama soon turned to jobs and the economy, with a nod to the verdict delivered by voters last November. "With their votes, they've determined that governing will now be a shared responsibility between parties. New laws will only pass with support from Democrats and Republicans. We will move forward together, or not at all -- for the challenges we face are bigger than party, and bigger than politics."
Obama was in a comfortable position addressing deficit reduction. He knows the battle over the dollars will be fought in Congress, not the White House.
Look for disunity and division on many spending fronts, not only between Democrats who rule the Senate and Republicans who control the House, but within the GOP caucus as lawmakers try to determine the best way to move forward.
The president's budget proposal for fiscal 2012, which starts Oct. 1, will be one area of contention. By releasing it a few weeks later than usual, the week of Feb. 14, the White House will have some extra time to trumpet the general themes of Obama's address without having to lay out specifics. That, says budget scholar Stan Collender, "will make it far tougher for the GOP to criticize what the president talks about and push them to find creative ways of changing the discussion back to the Republican agenda."
Raising the federal debt limit is a second flash point. That decision will come in late March or April -- not enough time for Republicans to agree on specific spending cuts to tie to a debt level increase that is necessary to keep trust in the dollar, Treasury bonds and U.S. commitments. The GOP will balk and will insist on a nonbinding commitment to cut tens of billions of dollars in the next budget. But in the end, enough Republicans will support the move.
Extending current federal government funding is a third stumbling block. The debate will spill out in March, when federal spending for all agencies must be reauthorized for the rest of this fiscal year. And a federal budget resolution is another. An agreement between parties whose proposals will be billions and billions of dollars apart is unlikely.
While all of these fights play out on the floors of the House and Senate, Obama will quietly prepare to campaign for a second term in the White House with one comforting thought in mind: Americans care far more about the economy and jobs than about Washington and congressional bickering.
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House of Memories brings a 'Sense of Summer' to local care home residents
From left to right - A resident at James Dixon Court, Moira O'Shaughnessy, Partner at FPC, Martina Barr, Service Manager from James Dixon Court and Emma Riley, House of Memories Marketing Officer. Image courtesy Sefton New Directions.
For the summer of 2018, House of Memories has developed a new range of seasonal 'Sense of Summer' memory baskets to enable carers and people living with dementia to enjoy sharing summer time memories together, and to stimulate communication about the past.
The items in the 'Sense of Summer' memory baskets have been inspired by the great outdoors in the summertime, bringing together items related to gardening, home-grown produce and summer picnics.
Inside the baskets, there are objects for reminiscence, garden-themed activities, and information about planning gardening and outdoors projects to improve the health and wellbeing of people living with dementia.


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Custom Exhaust Headers - Build Our Own Headers
We Learn Best By Doing. Watch As We Attempt To
There are certain things in the car building world that are considered black arts- jobs that seem to require mystical powers to accomplish. Making headers is one of those jobs. This month, we stepped into the void and attempted to make a set of headers in-house. In last December's issue, we chronicled our experiences at Lincoln Electric's welding school, where we got a solid foundation in the basics of TIG welding. We certainly put our skills to the test with this job, too. No one will ever call what we made a masterpiece, but we learned a whole lot during the process. The next set of headers we make might actually end up on a car.
The PremiseThis may seem overly "green" of us, but we decided to do some recycling this month. Though you will never catch us in Birkenstocks and hemp tunics, we do find many occasions to adapt or re-use old parts. Not so much to save the planet as to save our wallets. With that in mind, we attempted to build a set of custom exhaust headers from two pairs of old ones we had lying around. The goal was to make them work in a front-mounted turbo application. We started with a pair of 1 51/48-inch shorty headers, mounted them to the block, and decided on the best place to drop the turbocharger.
Mock-UpRouting all the plumbing for a turbocharger can get really complicated, so in an effort to keep things simple, we decided to hang the turbo in front of the engine, just behind the radiator. This allows room for an air inlet duct and plumbing from the turbo to an intercooler. We flipped the headers upside down so all the tubes faced forward. Then we stared at if for a while trying to think of what to do next. To better visualize how everything should be routed, we cut the collector off using our 14-inch chop saw. Then, we rigged up a bracket out of scrap steel bar to support the turbocharger. We secured the bar with clamps, suspended the turbo with zip ties (use strong ones), and bolted the collector to the bracket.
Filling HolesWelding is all about managing heat. You have to get the base metal hot enough to liquefy and join with the molten filler material, but not so hot as to burn right through it. This can be a very delicate balancing act because different areas of the same workpiece can require different techniques. Edges are especially susceptible to burning through because there's less of a heat sink at the edge than in the middle of a panel or tube-heat is more concentrated at the edge because there are fewer places for it to go. So, a heat range that will make a nice-looking weld on the middle of a panel can blow right through when you come to the edge. One way to fill a hole is to build up the surrounding area with extra filler material one pass at a time until you've created enough of a "bridge" to close the gap. To prevent creating holes in the first place, back off the heat as you come to the edge of a panel if you're using a TIG welder. With a MIG machine, you may want to stop the bead before you reach the edge, wait a few seconds for the weld to cool slightly, and add a couple of tack welds to finish.
Lessons Learned*Clean the weld areas thoroughly. The wire brush on our angle grinder did a pretty good job of cleaning the rust and old paint off the header tubes, but it still left stuff behind. Any oils, paint residue, or rust can cause scaly, porous welds. In an exhaust system, this can cause blowouts, but in a structural piece, like a rollcage, it can cause total failure at that joint. Take the extra time to clean all the joints until they are shiny. The pros use separate grinding wheels and wire brushes for the different metals they are working with.
*Make your joints as square as possible. It's much easier to weld two pieces of metal that meet together with no gaps between them. Take extra time figuring out the angle you need to cut to make the pieces fit flush.
*Use smaller bends to make better transitions. You don't have to admit it to anyone, but look at how some of the import guys make their exhaust systems. Some of them use nothing but straight pipe cut into hundreds of pieces at really shallow angles to make all the bends in the system as it travels from the headers back. That would involve a lot more welding that even the average enthusiast would want to tackle, but for headers, especially in a naturally aspirated application, make all your as bends smooth and gradual as space permits.
*Test your heat settings on scrap pieces first. It's less annoying to blow holes through junk tubing.
*Practice your technique. It takes a lot of practice to make good-looking welds. Practice as often as you can.
How The Pros Do It. We talked to the guys at Stainless Works, no strangers to making custom headers for unusual powertrain combinations. When faced with a one-off application, they start by bolting a flange to the exhaust ports, and mount the collector where they want all the tubes to meet. Then, they rough in the overall shape using straight tubing cut at angles and tack welded together. Once this "template" is complete, it's taken over to a machine called the Romer that scans the pipes and determines proper mandrel bends needed to assemble the header.
Stainless Works' Scott Harrison says they feel that this is the best way to design a set of headers from scratch. When you have a starting and ending point, it's just a matter of cutting the bends, and welding everything together. Stainless Works sells "you-weld-it" kits for a variety of applications for the guy who wants to build his own headers, but isn't interested in blazing new trails. Harrison also recommends that when you are planning to make your own headers, use stainless steel if you can afford it, whether or not you buy it from them. "It's a very time consuming process, and you want them to last once they're done," he said. We can attest to that.
Though not entirely successful, this was ultimately an exercise in welding something real. Recently, we've gotten some readers' email expressing concern of the tone of some of our "make-it-yourself" articles. Some readers may have gotten the wrong impression-we do not mean to imply that if you don't build every square inch of your car, you're not a true car crafter. Our intention all along is to show that there are a lot of things you can do yourself. It takes a lot of practice, but this is all stuff anyone can learn to do if they want. And the benefits are satisfying-you're constantly learning new skills, and you can stand to save a lot of money, too.
In addition to our chop saw, TIG and MIG welders, we could not have done this work without these additional tools. A good bench grinder is an absolute must. We used the wire brush attachment to clean up the areas to be welded. We also liked the electric angle grinder behind it. With a 36-grit flap disc attached, this thing removes a ton of metal in a hurry. Be careful not to grind through any areas like we did! Also essential was the right-angle attachment on our other bench grinder. We used that to true up any odd stuff left behind by the chop saw. If your can swing it, these locking pliers and a set of copper strips are also very helpful, though not necessary. Especially considering when tack welding sections of tubing together, you'll wish you had about six extra hands. The Eastwood Company sells these locking pliers specially made to hold tubing in place. The copper strips, also available from Eastwood are very useful when filling holes. Molten steel doesn't stick to copper, so you can back up a hole with one of these copper plates and weld until the hole disappears.
To make the headers we used a TIG welder almost exclusively for welding the tubes together, mostly because heat is easier to control than a MIG. You can use a MIG welder, however your weld beads will be larger than with a TIG machine. For both welding processes, we used ER70S6 filler wire, but we used pure argon as the shielding gas during TIG welding, while the MIG torch was blowing out a mixture of 75% argon, 25% carbon dioxide-standard stuff for welding mild steel.
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U.S. Marine vet: Employing veterans is not charity
The gap that exists between veterans and employers during the job hunt is a continuing issue, but offering positions to former service members shouldn't be considered charity work, Sgt. Dakota Meyer told msnbc on Tuesday.
"You can't just step in this and do it like a charity," the veteran U.S. Marine said during a greenroom interview. "It's going to better you. It's going to better your company on top of it, plus you're giving a veteran a job…but you can't just step into it and say, 'I'm going to halfway do it.' "
Sgt. Meyer served in Iraq and Afghanistan and was awarded a Medal of Honor—the country's highest military recognition—in 2011 for repeatedly running through enemy fire in Afghanistan to recover the bodies of four Americans. He ultimately saved the lives of 36 American service members and Afghan civilians.
As a spokesperson for "Hiring Our Heroes," he helps veterans and military spouses find meaningful employment. Recently, he helped launch an online tool that provides users with the language needed for a pitch to possible employers.
"The big problem is that they don't understand what they're getting in a veteran," Sgt. Meyer said on Morning Joe. "We don't come out and talk about what we're good at and translating what we did in the military to civilian workforce. It's hard to do unless someone teaches him how to do that."
Upon returning from his deployments, Sgt. Meyer began working at a construction company in his home state of Kentucky. He also co-authored a book, "Into the Fire: A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War," which is now sold in paperback.
"If I come in and you're an employer and I say, 'Well I was a sniper in the Marine Corps. Do you have any sniper positions open?' 'No,' " Sgt. Meyer said. "But if I told you that I was good at communication, good at leadership under stressful environments, team management, personnel management, leadership, being prompt, are stuff that I can bring to the table."
The unemployment rate for younger veterans who served during the recent wartime era was 7.3% in May—down from the 12.7% rate recorded during the same month in 2012, according to NBC News.
"You get a veteran and you turn him away," Sgt. Meyer said. "It's unfortunate."
Related: Col. Jack Jacobs: Troops are better qualified job seekers
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Community Gardens, Food Justice, & Gentrification
at the Saturday North Oakland Farmers' Market, 942 Stanford St, Oakland 94608 @Lowell
Start Time: 11:00 am
Ends: 1:00 pm
A workshop to examine structural disenfranchisement in Oakland connecting public space, private property, policing and resistance. Participants will leave with an understanding of how land privatization has shaped Oakland, knowledge of historical tactics to reclaim and reuse land for communities, and how resisting gentrification can build healthier and safer communities.
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Smoked Salmon with Shrimp, Horseradish Cream and Lime Vinaigrette Recipe
Your source for quick recipe every single week day.
Isn't smoked salmon good enough to be on its own? That's the question I asked when I gazed upon this recipe from the BBC, which paired smoked salmon with shrimp. Though it seems a little unnecessary at first, the two items actually play well together; the thinly sliced salty salmon complements the plump sweet shrimp.
Along with two kinds of seafood, there are also two sauces: a horseradish and crème fraiche mixture, and a honey, ginger, and lime dressing. The former is dolloped on the seafood, while the latter is mixed with the greens. While I wasn't worried about any of these elements ruining the dish, I did wonder whether there was too much going on. But by the end, I had intentionally mixed everything together, hoping to scoop up bites with all the different elements.
- Yield:serves 2
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:30 minutes
- 20 large shrimp, with shells on
- 2 tablespoons crème fraiche
- 2 teaspoons horseradish sauce
- salt and pepper
- 2 limes
- 2 teaspoons honey
- 1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 ounces thinly sliced smoked salmon
- 4 handfuls small leaf lettuce
Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add the shrimp and cook until pink, one to two minutes. Drain shrimp in a colander, and then toss in a bowl of ice water. When cool, drain again. Peel off the shells, leaving the tails on. (You can remove the tails if you'd like.)
In a medium-sized bowl, mix together the crème fraiche and horseradish. Season to taste with salt and pepper
Using a microplane, zest one of the limes. Then juice both of the limes. Add the zest and juice to second bowl, along with the honey and ginger. Whisk until combined. Continue whisking and slowly drizzle in the olive oil. Season the dressing to taste with salt and pepper.
In a large bowl, toss the lettuce with about half of the dressing. Add more of the dressing if the lettuce seems underdressed.
Lay two ounces of the salmon on one plate. Top each with ten shrimp, a few dollops of the horseradish sauce, a handful of the lettuce, and a drizzle of the dressing. Repeat process on a second plate.
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Gov. Rick Scott says jobs on rise in Florida
Gov. Rick Scott says Florida is making strides on the jobs front.
Scott appeared on WESH 2 News on CW18 to talk with Meredith McDonough about Florida's battle against unemployment.
"We're doing well. Unemployment has had the biggest drop of any state in the country in the last 21 months, since I became governor," Scott said.
Scott touted the new Nemours Children's Hospital, which was dedicated at the Lake Nona Medical City on Thursday. The hospital brings about 750 new jobs to the Orlando area.
He also announced that Accuform Signs, a manufacturing company in Brooskville, will be expanding and adding more than 270 new jobs in the coming years.
"We need more jobs, but we're headed in the right direction," Scott said.
Scott also pointed out an uptick in tourism and consumer confidence which he said will help with unemployment.
While the number of jobs may be on the rise, the amount of money Floridians are bringing in is $1,000 less than two years ago.
Scott said his heart goes out to hurting families.
"We're headed in the right direction, but we still have a lot of work to do," Scott said.


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I admit I had high hopes of this book. Someone had told me it was their favourite book on the Apollo programme, and the identities of the two authors promised much. Perhaps my expectations were too high…
Moon Shot covers the entire Space Race, from Sputnik to the Apollo Soyuz Test Project. It is an accessible read, written by two astronauts, Alan B Shepard and Donald K Slayton, who were important to the American effort. With the help of journalists Jay Barbree and Howard Benedict.
But. This is non-fiction, it is documented history… so I fail to understand how the authors can know what the Soviet Ambassador to the US was actually thinking when he heard of the Apollo 1 fire. Throughout the book, the authors imagine themselves in the heads of various people. Such "fictionalisation" of real people and events may make Moon Shot easier to read, but it also undermines its authority. How can it be an accurate depiction of events if it makes things up?<
But then the prose-style itself also undermines the book's authority. It reads like a bad Kevin J Anderson novel:
Flying backwards with their faces parallel to the silent and airless surface below, they glanced at the glowing numbers of their timers. They were minutes from the moment they would ignite the engine beneath their feet and descend to the moon's surface. Time seemed to stretch endlessly.
They are about to land on the Moon – we know it is "airless". And if it is airless, it must by definition be "silent" – sound, after all, cannot travel in a vacuum. And, "Time seemed to stretch endlessly"…? What does that mean? Moon Shot is rife with these meaningless sentences, which attempt to evoke mood but actually add nothing of verifiable substance to the story being told. It is possible to write readable gripping non-fiction without resorting to such cheap tricks.
This penny-dreadful style spoils what could have been an interesting history of Apollo and its precursors. Sadly, Moon Shot also offers very little to the documented history of the Space Race. There is very little technical detail, and remarkably few anecdotes which have not been used in other works on the same subject. It is not wholly devoid of insight, however, and some good points are made regarding various aspects of the US space programme. Of course, given its authors, it's no surprise that Moon Shot privileges the astronauts and the role they played.
If anything, in fact, the book also has a tendency to whitewash its subjects. When Gordo Cooper's Mercury flight is almost given to Alan Shepard, there is no mention of Shepard's behind-the-scenes politicking to make this happen. Some of the astronauts come out of Moon Shot considerably better than others – it's easy to spot who Shepard and Slayton liked and admired, and who they had very little time for. Their own role in almost every aspect of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programmes is also inflated somewhat. As are the personal qualities of the astronauts. True enough, they were clever men. But they weren't geniuses. If they had been they would have been Nobel Prize-winning scientists, not fighter pilots.
Throughout Moon Shot, Shepard and Slayton refer to themselves in the third person – unlike Stafford in his We Have Capture (see here) – which makes you wonder how much they contributed to the book. From the prose-style alone, I suspect Moon Shot was actually written by Barbree and Benedict. Shepard and Slayton likely added a participant's dimension to what would have been a history written by observers. They may well also have provided much of the information – although both journalists have reported on space matters for decades – as well as approving the final text. And, of course, their names on the cover allowed the book to be subtitled "The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon".
A disappointing read. There are better-written and more informative books available on the subject. Tom Stafford's We Have Capture is a much better "inside story", and Neal Thompson's Light This Candle (see here) provides an excellent study of Alan Shepard and his career.
Moon Shot, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton (1994, Turner Publishing, ISBN 1-878685-54-6, 365pp + index)


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July 21, 1918 ~ August 12, 2014
OGDEN – Mary Elizabeth Jonas Coley passed away on August 12, 2014 at the age of 96. She was born on July 21, 1918 in St. Paul, Minnesota, and attended school in Owatana, Minnesota.
Mary married Sgt. Irwin J Jonas on June 17, 1943 in Rochester, Minnesota. He died at Normandy, France, on July 11, 1944, while serving in the U.S. Army. She married Arthur C. Coley on May 3, 1946. Arthur passed away on April 19, 2004.
She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and homemaker. She loved her family dearly and was always there for them.
Mary volunteered in the PTA. She was employed at the Defense Depot Ogden, American Sportswear, and Brigham Apparel in Brigham City. She was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Mary and Art enjoyed fishing, hunting, camping, and traveling together. Mary loved to cook; she also enjoyed doing puzzles and embroidery.
Mary is survived by her two sons, Robert I. (Janet) Jonas, Roy, and Stephen G. (Julie) Coley, Roy; daughter, Sandra K. (Loran) Schnaidt, St. Louis, MO; daughter-in-law, Shirley Coley Larson, Farmington, NM; stepson, Lorus Evans, Hackensack, MN; six grandchildren, Rebecca, Christine, Dawn, Karla, Marne, and Kerry; 17 great-grandchildren; and seven great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by both of her husbands, Irwin J. Jonas, and Arthur C. Coley; son, Ronald G. Coley; and grandson, Robert I. Jonas II.
Funeral Services will be held Monday, August 18, 2014, at 11 a.m. at Lindquist's Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd. Friends may visit with the family on Monday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the mortuary.
Interment, Lindquist's Memorial Gardens of the Wasatch, 1718 Combe Road. In lieu of flowers, please send a donation to your favorite charity in memory of Mary Coley.
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The Nets' toughest opponents next season might not be the Pistons and the Pacers but purse-strings and the payroll.
If Martin receives a maximum offer from another team - Atlanta and Denver are among clubs with available room for a max proposal - a strong chance exists the Nets would not match. Because Martin is a restricted free agent, the Nets can match any offer he receives. Martin can get an offer of 25 percent of the salary cap with a 12.5-percent increase each year for seven years from the Nets or 10 percent bumps for six years from other teams. Figure the Nets, based on a cap of around $45 million, could offer a deal worth $103 million while competitors can give about $85 million without a seventh year.
Kidd's knee injury may keep him in New Jersey as not even he is secure in ownership's eyes, sources said. But nothing can be discussed until the status of his surgery-requiring knee is determined. Kidd signed a $103 million, six-year deal last summer. Prospective ownership apparently sees a large salary, not a player who revitalized a franchise and directed two trips to the NBA Finals.


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Jeff the dinosaur steps out of the stone age on Twitter
CLIVE Palmer's controversial dinosaur Jeff has joined Twitter.
@JefftheTRex is the Twitter handle for Palmer Coolum Resort's life size robotic Tyrannosaurus Rex.
It's the first of at least 160 Jurassic beasts who will take up residence at the resort.
The account started up today, ahead of the resort's last go at the Australian PGA Championships, which kicks off tomorrow.
Jeff described himself as "10 metres tall, known to roar, love golf and Professor Clive Palmer".
His location is listed as Palmer Coolum Resort.
Jeff's first tweet to the world, posted earlier today, read "Hello world. Great to be at Coolum this week. Big shout out to my man @clivefpalmer Thanks for the view of the 9th green big fella#rahhhhhh."
It's unsure who is running the account.
Follow Jeff on Twitter here.
- Hey Pete Senior, you're not the only Dinosaur here this week. Great win last week #rahhh
- Also big shout out to @pgaofaustralia and all the guys on the course this week. Love your work. #rahhh
- Can't believe they're turning me off for the tournament. Why can the crowd roar when a putt drops but Jeff is silenced #rahhh#freedomtoroar
- Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr #rahhhh
- So, what's the deal with the ice age? #rahhh


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We started gigging, at first parties at such environs as North West London anarchist squat hideout Centro Iberico, where one William Orbit was residing in the lodge. We soon graduated to supporting better known bands such as Bauhaus, The Cure and Charles Shaar Murray's excellent blues combo Blast Furnace And The Heatwaves.
A slightly awkward thing was our reluctance to play White Night, which at that time just didn't feel like something I wanted to play, it seemed from the dim and distant past, and in any case was rather hard to pull off without Hywel's guitar. Naturally, a lot of people who came to see us were hoping to hear us play that song.
Before long it became obvious that, with or without White Night, we needed another guitar, and so a new member was added in the form of Mick Linehan, Alternative TV refugee and general poet of sound.
We did a heck of a lot of rehearsing, and Mick fit right in immediately, as evidenced by a John Peel session in January 1980 which really shows us gaining tightness and confidence.
Then a couple of months later we checked into Alaska Studio on London's South Bank, with Pat Collier of Vibrators fame at the controls. In one day we threw down every song we had at the time, one of which was Blisstability. Although the vocal is ropey, and the Talking Heads influence perhaps a tad too obvious, I think this illustrates quite well the heights of tightness we were able to attain by intensive rehearsal.
Of course, having attained that, we soon got bored with it.
Blisstability was re-recorded once, at our second John Peel session. "Cumbersome title" opined Mr Peel, sounding uncharacteristically irritable, not without reason I suppose.
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Scarlet Raiders Second Half Comeback Defeats Rams
Rutgers-Newark - 3, Farmingdale State 1
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The visiting Rutgers-Newark Scarlet Raiders defeated the Farmingdale State Rams today, 3-1, in non-conference men's soccer action in Farmingdale, N.Y.
Senior midfielder Thomas Mueller (Babylon, N.Y./Babylon) scored just four minutes into the game for a 1-0 Farmingdale State lead and the Rams held Rutgers scoreless in the first for the one goal edge at the half. But Rutgers-Newark used the second to make their comeback using a 10-1 shot advantage and three goals to take the victory.
Scarlet Raider goals came from by sophomore forward Jeff Vazquez (New Milford, N.J./New Milford), sophomore midfielder Estiven Benitez (Warren, N.J./Watchung Hills) and senior forward Joe Caamano (Linden, N.J./Linden). Sophomore goalkeeper Kyle Perdelwitz (West Orange, N.J./West Orange) made two saves in the win.
Junior goalkeeper Patrick Gubbins (East Patchogue, N.Y./Bellport) made seven saves in defeat for Farmingdale State.
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Does this sound like you?
"I've tried meditation but it never worked for me. Why? Because whenever I sit and relax and close my eyes, I get too conscious. That is, I start thinking that I'm trying it because "I'M NOT OK," and that I'm sick to the point that medicine and western science is not capable of healing me. A lot of these negative thoughts invade my mind and scare the hell out of me! So, instead of feeling relieved, poorly-practised meditation makes my situation worse and worse!! Can you help? If there is anyone in the world who needs this, it's me." –from a reader friend (who is a competent professional in his field)
This post is to give some quick, practical help to anyone who has tried meditation in the past, and who has not been successful at it, yet wants to try again. After trying meditation unsuccessfully, on and off, for 30 years, I had a sudden breakthrough. I want to help my readers have this same, quick breakthrough success. If you are short of time, skip to the bottom of this post, where I explain what worked for me.
Meditation, and Techniques of Meditation, are TOOLS
The thing to understand about meditation is that it is not an end, in and of itself. Meditation, and the techniques of meditation, are TOOLS designed to help one achieve a certain state-of-mind, which can later be induced at will. Meditation practice is practice USING THE TOOL. This is the essential point which is often not explained in many books; this is why many people feel like they are wasting their time attempting meditation, because they are told to do it, without being told what they are doing it FOR.
Here is an analogy. Suppose you live in an area far from civilization and a storm destroys your house. You need to rebuild. Suppose someone hands you a hammer, and you have never before used a hammer. When you pick it up and try to learn how to use it under conditions of extreme duress, it is difficult to be successful. A hammer is much easier to use under duress if one has already learned how to use it, and practiced with it many times before. So, too, with meditation. Through short daily practice, one learns to USE the tool, so that when situations of duress arrive, one can pick up the tool and use it effectively.
One type of meditation is like a hammer, another type is like a screwdriver, and another type is like a set of pliers.
Three Essentials
1.) Many styles and types of meditation work if you know what you are aiming for (turning off the left brain). These styles can include sitting and chanting, sitting and watching one's breath, walking meditation (done in a certain style), Tai Chi (moving meditation), among others.
I recommend starting with sitting meditation, watching one's breath, until you have success (discussed below), before moving to one of the other styles. Moving meditation is more difficult to start with to achieve the right state, but once you have achieved it, and know what you are looking for, then it is possible to achieve it with the moving meditation styles also.
2.) Don't get confused by rules; they are flexible.
—Do you have to sit in a lotus position? NO. Can you sit in a chair? YES
—For those unable to sit up, can you lie down? YES. (but it is more difficult to do it without falling asleep)
—For those who cannot sit still at all, are there types of moving meditation? YES. (Actually, even monks recommend periods of moving meditation to be interspersed with periods of sitting meditation.)
—Is it necessary to chant a mantra? NO. If using a mantra, is it necessary to use a Sanskrit-word mantra? NO.
3.) Just like learning a foreign language, the beginning is the most difficult; the easiest way to overcome this hurdle is to reduce practice time to only one-to-two minutes (once or twice a day), in the beginning. This will keep you from becoming overly frustrated.
What Did NOT Work for Me, and Why
1.) Attempting a lotus position. Some of us have far less flexibility than others, and the way we are raised in the West often does not promote the same kind of flexibility that other lifestyles promote starting in childhood. Yoga practitioners or others can sometimes develop more flexibility as adults.
2.) Sitting still and chanting a mantra. The mantra is often given by a teacher, which I did not have. Books suggested different mantras such as "om," or "Om mane padme hume," (which means "the jewel of the lotus flower"). So, I did not really find it useful to attempt saying the Sanskrit words, even knowing the English meaning. I spent more time wondering about what those English words meant. What IS the jewel of the lotus flower?
Indian meditation masters also suggest in their books for Westerners that one can use the name of God (in any language or religion) as a mantra to chant. They say the most common question, is how does chanting the name of God over and over help anyone? They respond by asking us to look at the question in the negative. Suppose you heard that someone was taking the name of the devil and chanting it over and over. Nearly everyone agrees that would be harmful. Therefore, chanting the name of God has to be seen as a positive energy. Nevertheless, this will not work for atheists, even though atheists, also, can benefit from meditation.
As a neophyte, trying any of these chanting methods left me feeling silly and frustrated. Now that I have had success, I understand how this method works (see below), and could get it to work for me now.
3.) Sitting and focusing on my breathing. This was another method which did not work for me in the past. Yet, this is the method with which I had my breakthrough, and the method I would recommend to others now.
The reasons it did not work for me before is that I just felt silly sitting and focusing on my breathing, as well as that it was just so BORING!! I couldn't focus on that for more than about five seconds without finding myself thinking about something else, or ruminating on my problems if I was in a time of stress. This was not useful at ALL.
4) Lying down to meditate. I kept falling asleep.
5.) Moving meditation. I did not attempt this in the past, but can see it would not have worked at all because I did not yet know what state I was aiming for. It will work once you have had success with sitting meditation.
What WORKED for Me, and What WILL WORK for You
Sitting and focusing on my breathing (but in a NEW way). The most recent book I read on meditation, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Zen Living, has turned out to be the most helpful of all, in that it gave a REALLY good description of what happens when most people try to meditate, as well as WHAT YOU SHOULD DO when those things happen.
If someone told you, "Empty your mind of all thoughts," most people could only do that for about two seconds before thoughts would come in. The reason meditative practices have you focus on ONE THING (whether it is the breath, or a mantra) is that by focusing on that one thing GENTLY (not forcefully), you have a point to bring your mind back to each time it wanders.
So, focus on your breath, in and out. I recommend closing your eyes. Don't worry about HOW you should be breathing. Breathe normally (if your nose is blocked, breathe through your mouth). Each time you find your mind wandering, or thinking about something else, just bring it back to watching your breath (mentally, if your eyes are closed).
Within ten seconds, you may start to feel very bored. Your mind does not like to stay still and concentrate on just one thing. Just keep bringing it back to your breath. If you find it very frustrating or difficult, just try to do one full minute and stop. Just keep practicing (in different sessions) until you can get to one full minute. Once you are able to do that, try to get to a minute-and-a-half, and then later on, to two full minutes. Then try for three minutes. For me, it took me 30 years to get to two minutes (because no one ever explained that it's normal that the mind keeps wandering–this is called the "monkey mind"–and that you just have to bring it back). If I had known that I would have been able to persevere through the boredom.
For me, at somewhere between two and three minutes, I found my brain made the switch from it's normal left-brained mode to the right-brain mode (some call this the switch into alpha waves). In previous years, I did not know that this was was what I was looking for, and I also did not know that it would happen relatively quickly, if I could just get to that point. See Part I of this series for a description of what this shift feels like.
From The Complete Idiot's Guide to Zen Living, here is a description of "Breathing Through Boredom."
As you relax and your thoughts begin to slow, YOU ARE GOING TO GET BORED. You start to itch. You start to squirm. Your mind starts to tell you that you must just get up and just DO something. I can't stand it! I have to move! I can't just sit here wasting my time! (This feeling of boredom will evaporate the minute your brain switches into the right-brain mode.)
Or if you are extremely stressed (loss of a job, or work-related problems; family or personal problems; getting divorced, or breaking up with a girlfriend or boyfriend), you may instead have thoughts like my reader friend shared at the top of this post–thoughts which are causing you to worry and panic. You mind attaches to these thoughts and runs away with them instead of being brought back to focus on on your breathing.
In other words, Your brain is having a tantrum when you get bored and frustrated with sitting. Your mind just wants to keep jumping and flitting from thought to thought, activity to activity. At this point, hold firm and stay consistent. Refuse to attach to your mental tantrum. It will stop. Simply be aware, "Now I'm having the feeling of boredom." (use the bubble technique, described below).
The Bubble Technique
This technique REALLY worked for me, both during my normal day when I found myself overcome with anger, and during meditation when I found feelings getting in my way of concentrating on my breath.
If something is bothering you, either as you sit in meditation, or even in your daily life, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Zen Living says:
Imagine your distraction is enclosed in a bubble. Give the feeling a name: anger at __________; stress about ____________; sadness because of ____________; physical pain in my ____________ (you fill in the blanks); OR, just plain anger, stress, sadness, loneliness, frustration, irritation, confusion. Watch it float around, imagine the feelings banking around inside it. Concentrate on your breath, and when the feeling seems to have played itself out, take a deep breath, and poof! Imagine blowing it away.
Other thoughts and feelings will surely come up. Imagine them in bubbles, too. Watch them and name them. See them for what they are: just thoughts, just feelings, not necessarily reality or anything that defines who you are. It doesn't have to control you. Just sit and watch, and blow those bubbles away when you are done observing them.
My main problem was remembering (when I was upset) to use the technique. The first few times I had the intention to use it, I only thought about it hours later. Then one day, I became extremely angry, and remembered to try the technique. I was pleasantly surprised to find that within three minutes, my anger had totally dissipated! Now I don't have any trouble remembering to use the technique.
Some Final Thoughts
Once you have had success switching into right-brain mode with meditation, it will no longer take two or three minutes to do it. Within three or four sessions, you should be able to switch into right-brain mode within 15-20 seconds. You can feel the switch take place over about five seconds.
Also, I am personally unable to do the walking mediation, which should be done in a certain way (because I am on crutches with a long-term condition). However, I do swim, and found after reading descriptions of the walking meditation, found I was able to adapt it to swimming, and move right into the right-brain mode while swimming laps.
I usually swim laps in the breast stroke slowly and gently, without putting my head into the water. I found that I was able to focus on the movement of my hands in front of me, in the same way I focused on breathing when sitting in a chair. I find that within 8-10 strokes, I'm able to move right into the right-brained mode. I now think many athletes are doing this unconsciously, such as when you hear them say, "I'm in the zone," or "It's a natural high." That's just what it feels like.
Once you are successful, don't jump into meditating too long each day, or you will get burned out and stop. Start with five minutes in each session (up to twice a day, such as morning and evening) and add ONLY ONE MINUTE each day (use a timer, if you have one) . In about a month you will work up to two 15-minute sessions (if desired) or to a maximum of two 30-minute sessions (hard-core people). Even if you only do five minutes a day, and stay at that level, this IS ENOUGH to see positive benefits in your daily life.
Lastly, I now see that the purpose of meditation is to be able train the mind so that it does not run away with upsetting or disturbing thoughts, like rough waves on a pond. When these thoughts happen, and when we find ourselves in difficult situations feeling strong negative emotions, we can take control, shift EASILY and QUICKLY into right-brain mode (because we have practiced in advance), and calm the waters of our mind. We come the masters of our minds, rather than the slaves of our minds. Meditation is especially good for gaining control over obsessive thoughts.
I'd be interested to know if any of these practical suggestions help anyone else. Good luck, everyone!
–Lynne Diligent


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Print and digital reference publisher World Book Inc. is launching World Book eBooks, a subscription service that offers librarians and educators access to an online interactive platform of digital reference products. The subscription service will launch with 29 titles, and librarians can offer unlimited simultaneous access to the entire World Book reference collection.
The World Book eBooks subscription service features educational and reference titles enhanced with multimedia content, including video, audio and games. The service will allow librarians to offer 24/7 access to patrons with unlimited simultaneous access. (Librarians are often required to loan e-books as if they were print titles.) The service also eliminates the need for holds, or waiting. While World Book is launching with 29 titles, it eventually plans to offer up to 80. Included in the fall 2013 collection are such titles as Animal Lives, Building Blocks of Mathematics, and Inventions and Discoveries.
Users access the World Book eBooks platform via Web browsers and a customized online viewer on a personal computer or table; the platform supports Apple and Android devices. All titles also support ePub3.
World Book, Inc., president Don Keller said: "The launch of our e-book platform is a necessary and exciting expansion of our current format offerings. Our users increasingly require access to information in digital form that can be conveniently viewed on various devices. World Book is meeting these needs by significantly broadening accessibility to our content while continuing to create trustworthy, quality educational products that are fun and engaging for readers—and in the format they want."


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NEC 400.8(1) says "...flexible cords and cables shall not be used... as a substitute for the fixed wiring of a structure. This has generally been interpreted to prohibit the use of extension cords in data centers.
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Power cables, communications cables, connecting cables; interconnecting cables; and associated boxes, connectors, plugs, and receptacles that are listed as part of, or for, information technology equipment shall not be required to be secured in place.
Power supply cord sets on listed equipment are permitted in data centers up to 15 feet (4.5 m) per 645.5(B)
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Garage Door Monitor with Cayenne
Using the HMC5883L magnetometer sensor of the GY-80 module from ICStation to monitor a garage door and notify when it has been opened or closed. The Cayenne service provides much of the monitoring and notifying functionality. A major feature of this project. Cayenne takes care of all of the complicated work behind the scenes, making it easy to connect your Arduino to the cloud and allow you to monitor your garage from virtually anywhere.
This project was created specifically to monitor a garage, but you will soon discover that this project could be used to monitor a whole host of other things. Monitor your front door, your back door, your bag, your chair, your cookie jar.
Monitor for peace of mind, or catch someone in the act of stealing your stuff. This project has got you covered. Let's see how:
Parts Required:
HMC5883L DataSheet:
You can find the datasheet for the HMC5883L pretty easily by searching on the internet.
HMC5883L datasheet - Sparkfun
Arduino Libraries and IDE
Here is a link to the Arduino IDE download. The IDE is required to upload code to the Seeeduino Cloud.
You need the Cayenne Library installed in your Arduino IDE.
You can find the Cayenne library here:
Cayenne Libarary
There are libraries on the internet for the GY-80 module, however, it is relatively easy to use the magnetometer on this module. And therefore no libraries are required for the sensor. If you would like some more information about using the magnetometer sensor, and how to get the most out of it, then please have a look at my previous tutorial which goes into much more detail.
You need to make sure to insert your OWN Cayenne token into the sketch above. You will get this token when connecting your Arduino to the Cayenne service. Watch the video for further explanation.
Fritzing diagram
Cayenne Widgets
Please make sure to watch the video to see how to connect the Seeeduino Cloud to Cayenne and how to create the Cayenne widgets. Cayenne widgets are necessary to create the dashboard on your phone or browser. They will also interact with the Arduino sketch, and will also be involved in creating the notification system. The following links will take you to the relevant part of the video:
- Master Switch Button
- Request Calibration Button
- x, y, and z Axis display
- Door Status
- Creating a notification trigger
The Master switch button is used to switch monitoring from OFF to ON (and vice versa). Therefore you can choose when to monitor the garage and when to stop monitoring. When first installing the project onto your garage door, and turning the Seeeduino Cloud on, it will automatically calibrate each sensor to a value of 1000.
If you experience any drift away from 1000 for whatever reason, simply press the Request calibration button, and each sensor will be recalibrated back to 1000. The x,y and z axis widgets are there so that you can see the readings coming from the magnetometer sensor. And when any of the axis variables breach the threshold away from 1000, it will trigger the Door Status widget. This is how we can tell if the door is open or closed.
We also use the Door Status widget to help with the notification system. When the Door status changes from "Closed" to "Open", a notification trigger will be activated, and a message will be sent via email or SMS. This notification is useful for monitoring when the door was opened. If you happen to recalibrate when the door is open. You will get a notification when the garage door closes.
Concluding comments
This project is relatively simple, and quite easy to set up. What I liked about this project was the versatility and alternate uses. You can use the same setup to monitor many different things. It is not just limited to monitoring a garage door. But being able to tell whether my garage door is opened or closed, especially after I have driven away from my house , is really cool. Now I don't have to drive all the way back home to check. Let me know if you have replicated this project, and also what kinds of things you decided to monitor with this project.


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Phase 2 of Chicago campus renovation rolls into action
by Mark Donahue
Work is underway on the next phase of the second floor renovation at NLU's Chicago campus — a major effort by the University that will help in its goal to provide an unparalleled student experience.
The renovation, which originally began in summer 2011, is now moving smoothly into phase two, with a projected finish date in mid-March. NLU's effort is being underwritten by an Illinois Independent Colleges Capital Assistance Program grant, as the University received a second set of funding in August 2012 to help it launch the final work.
Marty Mickey, Vice President of Finance for NLU, said the benefits of the project are threefold:
- Creating a centrally located, student-friendly space for Advising, Enrollment and Student Finance services in Chicago.
- Enhancing financial sustainability by bringing the Institutional Advancement office into the main Chicago building — a savings of half a million dollars a year after the lease at the 200 S. Michigan annex expires on April 30.
- Deeply linking Advancement to the greater NLU community for better alumni and donor engagement.
Other highlights of the renovation include: a second transactional window for Student Finance to alleviate congestion at the front desk in the lobby; a coffee and food room next to the atrium; a "wall of distinction" outside the Advancement office honoring significant donors to the University; and a "history room" in which legacy items from the old Evanston campus will be displayed, including a writing table and chair used by University founder Elizabeth Harrison.
All work is being done by Newman Architecture with new contractor Leopardo Construction being brought in for phase two after it put in a more cost-efficient bid, Mickey said. He added that the Enrollment and Advising departments, which were temporarily moved into other spaces on the second and third floors, have been very accommodating of the project knowing it will improve services to students.
Departments will move into the new space after the project is completed in March. Mickey knows when all is said and done, the work at Chicago campus will be worth it.
"We're giving it a fresher look and making the students feel like it's a better environment, somewhere they'd like to come," he said.


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The Central Connecticut women's track and field team opened 2014 at the Yale Invitational on Saturday. The Blue Devils were led by seniors Shelby Tuttle and Krisztina Dearborn as well as junior Ronea Saunders.
Tuttle broke the CCSU record in the 60m hurdle finals with her time of 8.90, good for fourth place overall and besting her own record of 8.91 which she set last season. Tuttle was followed by freshman Melissa Wolliston in seventh (9.29).
Saunders claimed second place overall in the high jump, registering a new season-best height of 1.75m and Dearborn finished third of 33 in the 3,000m run with her time of 10:15.41.
Dearborn also competed in the one mile run where she registered a new career-best time of 5:08.45 for eighth place of 46 runners. She was followed by junior Shannon McBride who crossed the line 16th in her own career-best time of 5:20.84.
In the 400m dash, junior Chantelle Deer finished ninth out of 52 competitors with her career-best time of 59.29 and was followed by classmate Jenean McCalla (34th, 1:02.99).
McCalla also helped Central to a seventh place overall finish in the distance medley relay, crossing the finish line in 12:41.27. She was joined on the squad by sophomore Ally Gates, junior Taylor LePage and freshman Brittany Mendelson.
The Blue Devils also competed in the 4x400m relay where they placed eighth of 21 squads. Central's team featured McCalla, Wolliston, sophomore Alyssa Gonzalez and freshman Alleah Red and crossed the line in 4:06.34.
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A Taylor Swift fan who allegedly jumped a fence and rushed on stage during the pop star's concert at Petco Park in August will return to court Monday.
Christian Ewing, 26, appeared in a San Diego court in September, pleading not guilty to two felony charges, a misdemeanor and a municipal code violation.
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