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TOPEKA, Kan. (July 2, 2018) – Registration is now open for the 2018 Tire Rack SCCA® Solo® Nationals taking place Sept. 3-7 at Lincoln Airpark in Lincoln, Nebraska. Early registration for the 46th edition of the event is encouraged as it may very well sell out this year and the entry cap is set at 1,350 entrants, including those participating in Junior Kart classes. Additionally, competition numbers will be assigned on a first come, first served basis.
The cost to register from July 2 until Aug. 13 is $190 per entry, and just $85 for Junior Kart classes. After the August deadline, the cost of registration increases to $300. August 22 is the last day to register online or receive a refund on a registration from prior to August 13.
While Paddock Group Registration has already closed, participants can join existing paddock groups during registration until July 23. Registration for individual paddock spaces opens August 1.
Along with registering to participate in the event, it is also time to sign up online for Solo Nationals contingency programs. Many opportunities require pre-registration with SCCA and/or with sponsoring companies. It is the responsibility of each competitor to make sure they are in compliance with each program for which they would like to enroll -- including registration, product use, and decal placement. Once competitors have reviewed requirements for specific contingencies, registration for the various programs can be found at a special MotorSportReg.com webpage. Competitors may add or subtract contingency programs up to Sept. 3 at 11:59 p.m. Central Time. Late changes can be made upon arrival at the Solo Nationals venue.
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Over all, 42 percent said the United States had a responsibility to do something about the hostilities in Iraq, and 50 percent said it did not.Anyone who is even casually familiar with the role of the United States in Iraq over the past several decades knows that its actions have played a major role in creating the problems Iraq is suffering from today. For more than a decade before the 2003 US War on Iraq, the US punished it with air strikes and sanctions that wrecked the economy and killed hundreds of thousands. That was followed by 8 years of war and occupation in which more than half a million people were killed, the country's infrastructure was destroyed, and the people were set against each other in the usual pattern of imperialist sectarian rule. The sectarian Shiite government against which the Sunni minority is now revolting was put in place by the United States. So to claim that the United States has no responsibility to do anything about the current state of affairs in Iraq, represents the same immoral denial of responsibility that has given Los Angeles a 48% hit and run accident rate.
This is not to say that the US has any business bombing anyone or that there is anything positive that the US can contribute through the use of military power, but that was not the question. The question was whether the US had a responsibility to do anything about the hostilities that the US has played a major role in instigating. To answer that in the negative is to take the selfish road of shirking responsibility for one's actions when they imperil innocent people.
This is the reason far too many Americans don't want to spend one thin dime, let alone risk an American life, trying to fix what we have broken or help innocent children that aren't their own. This attitude is the result of the backwardness and chauvinism of the people of an imperialist superpower. As followers of the imperialist mindset, they will oppose any intervention, even that which is truly humanitarian, unless there is something in it for them. Naturally the 50% that feel this way are opposed to military or any other action in Iraq or Syria and are for these reasons opposed to any US military action in Iraq or Syria.
This is a problem that can only be overcome with time and education. The more immediate problem is that rather than trying to teach these people why they should care about people that aren't even Americans, much of the anti-war movement is opportunistically welcoming their opposition to doing anything in Iraq and attempting to build so-called Left-Right unity on this basis.
During Obama's saber rattling after Assad's use of "a whole bunch of chemical weapons" 21 August 2013, there was a lot of talk in anti-war circles about building a right-left alliance in opposition to Obama's promised military response. Much of this unity was based on some of the most backwards and selfish instincts. This was articulated by Democratic Congressmember Alan Grayson of Florida, member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, when he was on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now, 6 September 2013. He listed four reasons Congress seems overwhelmingly opposed to this or any military intervention in the carnage in Syria:
According to the New York — The Washington Post whip count as of this morning, there are 19 members of Congress in favor of this resolution and 174 against. And the reasons are simple: It's not our responsibility, it's not going to do any good, it's expensive, and it's dangerous. And those arguments are winning the day among House members, both Democrat and Republican.I think it is safe to say that these are also some of the reasons behind a much broader right-left alliance to pretty much act as if a hundred thousand people in Syria weren't being slaughtered by their own government on YouTube.
Now the conflagration in Syria has done what ignored fires tend to do, it spread. For anyone familiar with imperialism and the role of the US in it, and especially if they were aware of our country's role in putting the Assad's in power, the "it's not our responsibility" angle fails even when applied to Syria. It is an abomination when applied to Iraq.
War may not be the answer but neither is washing our hands of the situation.
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The girls were all friends, police in Charlestown say. Then, one evening in February, three of them attacked a fourth. They punched her, pulled her hair, and as she lay defenseless, prosecutors said, one of the girls, 17-year-old Samantha Owen, stole $30 from the girl's purse.
It was just one of a roster of violent crimes by girls in recent months, punctuated last week by horrific allegations that 17-year-old Samia Jones used a butcher knife to repeatedly stab a young mother in the Savin Hill section of Dorchester.
City officials, alarmed by a string of high-profile cases and by what they say is a worrisome climate of fear among girls in some neighborhoods, are launching a public service campaign aimed at girls who may be headed toward violence.
"This is an issue," said Marie St. Fleur, a top aide for Mayor Thomas M. Menino on urban issues who is leading the campaign. "We are trying to get our arms around it."
The effort involves a marketing blitz of positive messages in neighborhoods such as Dorchester and Roxbury that will include billboards and posters, as well as posts on social media.
The main perpetrators — and targets of youth violence prevention efforts — have long been at-risk boys in troubled areas; a $10 million statewide antiviolence measure announced two years ago specifically targeted males ages 14 to 24.
Local ministers and youth advocates say some girls have been fueling gang feuds and staging fights that are posted on YouTube and Facebook. Recent surveys of teen girls by officials looking to address educational gaps and health issues, such as sexually transmitted diseases, discovered girls in some neighborhoods named violence as a key issue.
Boston police data show violent crimes among females 13 to 24 fell from 408 in 2008 to 217 in 2012. And the state Department of Youth Services had a peak of 514 troubled girls in its care in 2003, but just 190 in 2011 and 100 so far this year, said commissioner Edward Dolan.
But officials and advocates who work with girls say that on the street, they are hearing a different message.
"If you talk to young girls they will tell that there is violence,'' said St. Fleur. "I don't walk in their shoes on a day-to-day basis, but they have to navigate the communities they are in right now. . . . When we talked to the girls, public safety and violence were among the top things they talked about. "
Recent examples include a 15-year-old Hyde Park girl who was arrested last month after police alleged that she was among a mob who beat up an MBTA driver at a bus stop on Columbia Road in Dorchester.
And last year, four young women were shot in a car on Harlem Street in Dorchester. Only one of them survived.
Mercedes Reyes, 17, said it is tough to be a girl in Uphams Corner. Not only does she have to deal with the indignity of catcalls from boys driving by in cars, but she has to walk a fine line with girls as well. "Sometimes they just . . . mess with you for no reason," she said.
And some girls, said 17-year-old Precious Natal, "like to threaten other girls."
Girls have traditionally committed fewer crimes than boys, but some youth advocates say that girls have been the source of jealousy that has caused violence between rival teen males.
"Males in conflict will use the girls as pawns,'' said Sheri Bridgeman, director of programs at the Center for Teen Empowerment, a local nonprofit. "They are being used and are caught in the middle."
St. Fleur said fights in Dudley Square, the triple homicides last year, and the stabbing near Savin Hill train station are all examples of the need for youth advocates to unite around girls to keep them out of trouble. Here the city is mobilizing 30 community groups that work with girls to help in the effort.
The girls' campaign, still in its infancy, is focusing on the so-called "Circle of Promise," a city-designated swath of Dorchester, Roxbury, and other neighborhoods long mired in poverty, crime, and teenage pregnancy.
In the next few weeks, St. Fleur and aide Ramon Soto will hold community meetings, brainstorming sessions, and talk with girls about how to shape the campaign's message. Girls involved in Girlz Radio, a Dorchester-based Internet station, and at the Holland and Marshall community centers are also helping.
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When you're Pink's daughter, you're not going to be a shrinking violet.
And indeed, the singer says her little girl Willow already has a strong personality – and that's just fine with mom.
"She's fierce. We need our girls to be fiery," Pink, 34, said Monday at the Los Angeles premiere of Thanks for Sharing, in which Pink – credited as Alecia Moore, her real name – makes her movie-acting debut.
Willow turned 2 in June. So, would these be the terrible twos?
"Oh, I don't call them terrible. I think she's tender," says Pink. "She has opinions. And my challenge right now is, 'Don't laugh,' because she gets pissed when I laugh. She means it, and I'm laughing. I'm, like, downplaying her emotions. She's so cute! 'Don't look at me, mama! Don't talk to me, mama!' Okay!"
Willow isn't quite old enough to appreciate her mom's music, but she's getting there.
"She likes 'Try' and 'Just Give Me a Reason.' The rest, take it or leave it, she doesn't care," Pink reveals.
Meanwhile, the pop star is still pinching herself that she got a role in Thanks for Sharing. "Tim Robbins and Mark Ruffalo and Gwyneth Paltrow and Josh Gad, Joely Richardson. I'm like, okay, why me?" she says. "You want me to do the soundtrack?"
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(Editor's note: It's Women's History Month, so this month, all of our Famous Speech Fridays will look back to historic famous speeches by women.) Fifty years ago on Valentine's Day 1962, major U.S. television networks aired an unprecedented public speaking tour de force by a woman, when First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy led a televised tour of the White House and its just-completed $2 million renovations. Her audience: 56 million Americans viewing at home, making it the most-watched television program ever, at the time. Her script: Nonexistent. Advance rehearsal time with the cameras and reporter's question: Only on the day of taping, when "we would go to a room and sort of talk it over, and she would tell us what she wanted to do, and then we'd just — we'd shoot it, and then the next room," according to the CBS producer in charge of the production, interviewed recently by On The Media. She was 32 years old.
Kennedy, who shot the entire tour in one day from 11am to 7pm with the CBS crew a month ahead of its airing, belied some signs of nervousness, according to the producers, who noted her speaking voice was different than usual:
There's nothing more than cues for her to speak, "And now, Mrs. Kennedy, can we go to the next room" and that sort of thing....she was not a professional. Her voice was a little constricted....It was not her normal speaking voice. But that's where the tension was shown, but not that much....It was astonishing, how much she knew.She might well have been nervous, since she'd originally thought she'd write a coffee-table book about the renovations and leave it at that. But President Kennedy, convinced of the power of television, encouraged her to do it as a TV show--one that outstripped his own ratings, as it turned out. She later won an Emmy for the program. Here's what you can learn from this famous speech:
- Preparation lets you take the ball and run with it: This tour--an hour on television in its finished form, but an eight-hour tour in reality--couldn't have happened without all the time Kennedy spent with the curators and renovation committee, learning about the provenance of individual pieces of furniture, or which Presidents had made which changes to the house. No teleprompter, no cue cards, no handwritten notes were used here, because she already knew her subject well. If that's not a case for knowing your topic before you speak, I don't know what is.
- Pauses and silences can keep you on track: The clip below is full of pauses and silences on Kennedy's part. She does the right thing when she answers questions by pausing, answering and stopping--that lets the interviewer get a word in edgewise, but also ensures that she doesn't go rambling on too long. And for a nervous speaker, pauses help you to collect your thoughts and your emotions before you continue, a smart speaking strategy.
- Tours are a speaker's test: Leading a tour may be one of the most challenging extemporaneous speaking opportunities you'll ever have. You need to know your subject, be ready for questions to pop up out of sequence with what you're showing, keep the tour moving, and remember your details to make the tour more than a dry recitation of facts. Here, Kennedy's enthusiasm for the project shines through as she describes the sad state of some artifacts or the stories behind others, a reminder that your listeners can't be interested in a tour if the guide herself is bored by it.
Today, this type of program is more dynamic, in color, faster-paced....and more routine. But this tour, unprecedented as it was, set the tone for what was to come. I've posted a short excerpt below that includes some of the good examples noted here. What do you think of this famous speech?
Looking for famous speeches by women? Check out The Eloquent Woman Index of Famous Women's Speeches, with a wide variety of women speakers, types of speeches and topics to inspire your next speech. Each one comes with lessons for speakers, plus video or audio and a transcript, where available.


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Postby peppe88 » 19. September 2011 19:12
hi guys, i've problem. i've to connect my emulator's android with localhost apache xampp (than i've to conncect to a web application with php)
-android side is correct
i do i webview with my ip address
-xampp side
new xampp security concept
acces forbidden.....setting the file "httpd-xampp.conf"
i changed the file with
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The information in this post will help you download and save video files that are hosted on sites like Youtube, Supernovatube, Youku, Megavideo, and linked to by sites like SurfTheChannel.com, free-tv-video-online.info and watch-movies-links.net. It is a good idea to read the entire post before using any of these methods, as host sites have changed from time to time, and so have the methods you can use to download the streaming video files.
Seen the latest cool video on Youtube? Want to save it on your hard drive so you can watch it again at your leisure or share it with your internetless friends? Well, it's simple – if you use Linux. Everything I explain in this post was done on a computer running Ubuntu 8.10, but I think it will work with any distro.
Okay, let's start with Youtube videos. First, watch the video. Then, before you navigate away from that web page, go and look in your system's /tmp directory. You should find a flash video file, named something like Flashbt0cVD. That's the file you want. So move it to your home directory (or wherever you keep your videos) and rename it something more descriptive.
This trick will also work with the movie and TV videos files streaming over the internet via sites like www.surfthechannel.com, www.free-tv-video-online.info, tv-video.net and www.watch-movies-links.net.
There is a problem. One or two of the video links sites (like tv-video.net) delete temporary files when they have finished playing. This means you can't move the file out of /tmp after you've watched it. The solution is to link the temporary file to one in your home directory before the temporary file is deleted. So you start to play the video, then go look in the /tmp directory. You'll find a randomly-named video file there. You need to link it to your home directory. Do this by running this command in terminal:
ln /tmp/Flashuh4G6s ~/video.flv
Now you have got the video file in your /home. You have to make sure that the name you give to the new linked file does not already exist in the directory. So in the example above, you would first check that there is no file called video.flv in your home directory.
But there's another problem. If you watch a video via the links sites that is hosted at Youku, the video will be delivered as a series of small files (12-13 MB each). But this isn't a serious problem. When they've downloaded you can put the randomly-named files into the correct viewing order by checking the properties of the files, looking at the time when the files were created.
If you have any queries, feel free to leave Comments.
UPDATE: If you are a Windoze user and you want to learn how to save streamed media, you should check out this site. There you'll find info on how to capture and save video from lots of websites, plus audio files from last.fm and other internet radio stations. I only use Linux, so I can't verify the accuracy of the info. But it looks good.
Here's info about a couple more tools for downloading video from the web. One for grabbing BBC TV (and radio) content, and one for those Youtube videos we all know and love.
For some time now, users of any operating system have been able to watch BBC TV shows streamed over the internet by BBC iPlayer. But if you wanted to download programmes, you used Windows or you were shit out of luck.
Now, Linux users can download BBC content via the new iPlayer Desktop application. But I don't like it. The content is crawling with DRM. And the player doesn't work properly on my EEE PC. It might work okay on a better-specified computer. But iPlayer Desktop is compatible with just Intrepid and Jaunty and my desktop machine runs Hardy (I'm talking Ubuntu here – the app works on other distros too). Anyway, I don't like the app so I'm not supplying a link to it. It's my blog so blah! If you really want to try it for yourself, check out the "Labs" link on the iPlayer web page.
Anyway, if you want to download BBC TV and radio shows and you use Linux, there is an easy solution – get_iplayer.
This is how it works: Steve Jobs was desperate to sell his crappy iPhones in the UK. So he turned on his diabolical charm and convinced the BBC to offer iPlayer downloads to iPhones. This happened many moons ago, when only Windows OSes could download the content. But some dastardly fellow created a program that pretended to be an iPhone. Oh, and get this: the DRM that infects all the content downloaded from iPlayer is absent from the .mov files sent to iPhones and consequently computers running get_iplayer. It's a command-line utility, which might put some people off. But as far as I'm concerned there isn't much wrong with command-line utilities in Linux. So check it out!
The other video download solution I want to present here is the excellent pwnyoutube.com. The way this site works is simple. When you search for or go to watch a video on Youtube, you get an URL something like:
To download this video, you type that URL into your browser's address bar, then add the letters "pwn" like this:
Go to that URL and you will find download links for the video in question. You can download the file in .flv flash format, and most are also available in mp4.
If you have an unreliable internet connection, you can marry pwnyoutube with wget to great effect. Let's say you want a video of The Clash playing London Calling live. A search of Youtube may turn up this video URL:
So, you run the edited URL in your browser:
This brings you to a web page offering 2 download links. You want the "high quality" mp4 version. But your network connection is lousy. If you set the browser to download this file, chances are the connection will drop before the download completes. But this is no problem. Just right-click on the download link and select "Copy Link Location". Now open a terminal and paste the download url into the following command:
wget -c http://deturl.com/save-video.mp4?http%3A%2F%2Fv18.lscache5.c.youtube.com%2Fvideoplayback%3Fip%3D0.0.0.0%26sparams%3Did%252Cexpire%252Cip%252Cipbits%252Citag%252Cburst%252Cfactor%26itag%3D18%26ipbits%3D0%26signature%3D7ABACC132F8C18AAF6A0649B1669DB89EDFF0B83.AB3039808ECB20B7124585313CB75A55C2C7E4A1%26sver%3D3%26expire%3D1250665200%26key%3Dyt1%26factor%3D1.25%26burst%3D40%26id%3D21dc226f0d3e95be
Wget will download the file, and the -c flag means that if the connection is broken, you can run the same command when the link is resumed and wget will start the download where it left off.
Hope this helps.
UPDATE OF THE UPDATE: OMG they have ruined PWNYoutube!!! 😦
Back when I first wrote the review of PWNYoutube, it was simple, and great in its simplicity: you found the video's URL, you added "pwn" to the URL, browsed to that URL… and you were given a couple of download links. I liked to right-click the link, copy it, then paste it into a wget command in the terminal. Brilliant, right?
But now, you do all that adding "pwn" to the URL stuff… but when you go to that URL, instead of getting a couple of simple download links, you are confronted with a bunch of complicated ridiculousness. "Use one of: SaveVid | YouDDL | ClipNabber | KeepVid…" etc etc etc. No simple download link. No simple wget. Just a bunch of downloading utilities/services/whatevers that I know nothing about, and which I want to know nothing about. Ruined, man. Ruuuiiinneddd!!!
I cast my weary eye over the options, and finally decided to try the bookmarklet. Dunno why, I guess maybe it sounded simple, or maybe unthreatening in its diminuitiveness. I successfully downloaded an mp4 (high quality) image file by using the bookmarklet – what you do is browse to a webpage that includes a Youtube video (it doesn't have to be a web page actually on Youtube.com – many bloggers and webmasters have Youtube videos embedded in their own sites) and click on the bookmarklet. The resulting mp4 file played well in vlc, so I've got no issues in that regard. But changing the PWNYoutube interface so you no longer get a simple download link – that's just bad. Shame on you, PWNYoutube!.
So, what's the new PWNYoutube like? Well the bookmarklet works; I don't know about the other utilities, if I get round to trying them I will post my verdict here. And I really should make an effort to try it all out. That's what this blog post is all about, after all. But I'm so pissed off with PWNYoutube at the moment, I just don't feel like doing it. If PWNYoutube can't be bothered to provide me with a simple download link that works with wget, maybe I can't be bothered to give them publicity. Fancy shmancy download utilities just don't do it for me. I like wget. But PWNYoutube don't like wget. Which makes it feel like PWNYoutube don't like me.
Here's a couple more things relating to online video. First of all, some of the sites I have mentioned previously have become pretty crappy. Surfthechannel.com is terrible nowadays. All it seems to offer are links to buy videos from Amazon or watch videos streamed from Megavideo – and if you don't sign up to become a member of Megavideo, you can't watch anything longer than about 56 minutes.
But it's not all bad news. It has become easier to download videos from tv-video.net, and these downloaded files are in mp4 format and much better quality than the streamed flash videos. To download these files, you need to use Firefox, and the Firefox add-on Video DownloadHelper. When you've installed Firefox and the add-on, go to tv-video.net and navigate the site to watch the video you want. When you click on "Play", you'll see the DownloadHelper icon change colour and start moving. Click on the icon and you'll get a drop-down menu with a number of options. Choose to download the file. Once the download has started, close the tab which contains the playing video: the download speed will increase considerably, and you won't need the crappy flash version.
That's all for now; but I'll update this post as and when new video downloading methods come to light.
6 JUNE 2012: ANOTHER BLOODY UPDATE – but its not really a bad update:
The stuff I told you about at the start of this post, about grabbing video files out of the tmp directory, does not appear to work anymore. Grr! BUT: If you are using Firefox and have the DownloadHelper add-on, go to Project Free TV and select the TV show/movie you wanna save. Start watching it; when it's started properly, the DownloadHelper icon will become all colourful and rotating. Click on that, and select Copy URL. Now, go to a terminal and type in something like wget -c -O movie.flv then, before hitting Enter, right-click and select Paste. That will paste in the actual URL of the movie you want. Hit Enter, and wget will start downloading the movie.flv file (or whatever name you chose) to your Home directory. Note: in that wget command, the -O is a capital letter O, not a zero. This seems to work with all the sites Project Free TV link with. Dunno how long the trick will last, so get going while the going's good! Oh yeah, one you've got wget downloading the file, close the Firefox tab that's playing the movie. Otherwise the download will take much longer. Good luck!!


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The best-selling console football management series, LMA Manager, leaps the generations with a massively expanded edition of LMA Manager™ 2007 for Xbox 360™. LMA Manager 2007 is a thorough evolution for the genre-leading series. Utilising a new game and database engine, a Transfer Market system with greater depth enabling more complex contract negotiations, and a detailed 3D match section, it's the most powerful edition in the series ever. It's the gaffer!
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Good Samaritan, two friends hit by car in Hempfield Township
Good Samaritan is volunteer firefighter who stopped to help after wreck
Three pedestrians were struck along Route 130 near Pin Oak Lane on Monday in Hempfield Township, police said.
Jessica Doerr, 28, from Illinois, was driving along Route 130 when she hit a deer, police said. Neither she nor her passenger, Kirstie Koricich, 24 of West Newton, were hurt in that crash.
Police said the two women got out of the vehicle right after hitting the deer. That's when Matthew Roach, 27 of Youngwood, stopped to help after noticing the women in distress. Roach is a volunteer firefighter.
Doerr and Koricich live with hearing impairments, so police said Roach called Westmoreland County 911. While all three stood outside their vehicles, police said Sean Roche, 19 of Harrison City, drove westbound on Route 130 and swerved to avoid the deer in the road, hitting Doerr, Koricich and Roach.
Neither Roche nor his passenger, Melissa Gaertner, 19 of Irwin, were seriously hurt. Roche's vehicle ended up in the eastbound lanes.
Roach's girlfriend, Amanda Weightman, witnessed the incident and was not hit by Roche.
"There were four people outside the vehicle and only one of them wasn't struck. That female got to see it firsthand, which is a very traumatic thing to have to endure and watch," Trooper Steve Limani said.
Weightman said over the phone Tuesday Roach was awaiting surgery at Forbes Regional Hospital in Monroeville.
Police said Doerr was airlifted to a Pittsburgh hospital with serious injuries. Koricich suffered minor injuries.
The state police accident reconstruction unit will investigate the crash and determine if Roche will face any criminal charges. Limani said Roche was not under the influence of alcohol during the crash.


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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Update on The Vintage Laundress
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Under the cover of night, The Vintage Laundress ran away from her shop in Austin and is now hold up under a circus-type tent at The Texas Rose Antique Show during Antiques Week. She loves treasure hunting in overstuffed markets like this one and is under the impression that she has a lot of self-control when it comes to purchasing vintage goodies and that she looks good in skinny jeans (sadly, neither is true.) Amazingly this is her tenth year to participate in this event. The show began Saturday, September 24th, and will run through Saturday, October 1, 2011.
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Unfortunately, all of that can be jeopardized with the compromise of just one password. Remember what happened back in 2013 when the Associated Press' Twitter account was hacked? The posts uploaded by hackers caused a national scare and managed to affect the stock market.
Although not all social media account hacks have that outcome, a compromise could still cause a huge headache for your team, damage your reputation with your online communities, and even put critical company assets at risk. With digital theft now surpassing physical theft for businesses, there's more at stake in protecting your online accounts and communities.
If you're a Social Media Manager or oversee your company's social media communities, here's your security action list today:
1. Scan your computers: Do you have the latest, up-to-date security software running on your computer? Perform scans, check all browsers for updates, and reboot your computer if you haven't in ages. This is the best defense against viruses and malware.
2. Implement password security basics: If you don't have a company password policy, consider implementing one with LastPass Enterprise. You can then require strong, unique passwords, without the usual hassle it creates for employees. If your whole team isn't quite ready to get on board, you should definitely get yourself started with a password manager. Eliminating password reuse and weak passwords is an easy way to prevent hacked accounts.
3. Protect your smartphone: Your mobile device likely contains access to company accounts or networks. Protect your devices with a passcode or PIN, especially if you use social media apps on your phone to access company accounts.
4. Revoke access by unknown apps: When was the last time you reviewed the 3rd party apps that have access to your LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and other social accounts? Only allow access to apps that are trusted, and regularly review your settings to remove unneeded apps. In Twitter, for example, go to your account's Application page and click "revoke access" for each app.
5. Avoid clicking suspicious links: As you actively monitor conversations about your brand and industry on social media communities, be careful with what you choose to open. If a follower has DM-ed you a link with no context, or if someone you follow posts about some weird diet trick, do not click the link. If you're unsure, respond to them and ask for more details – it can't hurt, and they may not know that their account has been sending spam.
These are just a few simple action items to get you started with better protecting the accounts you manage.
If you manage any social media accounts for your company, what are your tips for locking them down? Please share in the comments below.


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I am the daughter of William James Boyle born Australia 1909, his father, John Boyle born Australia 1862, Johns Father my great grandfather William Boyle was born in Donegal, 1832. I am trying to find out more about my great grandfather Williams family, as far as I can find out he iwas the only one to come to Australia, other members were suposed to have gone to America.
: My birth name is Kimberlee Amanda Boyle, born 5/20/67 in Chester, PA. Married Patrick Duron 3/8/97 currently residing in Dallas, Texas.
: My father is William R. Boyle, born 3/23/41 in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. to John James (?) Boyle and Lillian Boland. My father is the oldest of nine children of John and Lillian, followed by John Jr., Richard, Frances, Denis, David, Aileen (married James Nardella), Daniel, Robert.
: Am beginning to look into Boyle history. Let's share other info as it becomes available.
I am trying to trace any information about my grandfather JIMMY BOYLE who apparantly came to Australia in 1921 after meeting my Grandmother in Scotland. Apparantly he we a fitter and turner during WW1 and made quite a bit of money, using it to travel to Australia where he lost it, and returned home to the UK and took up with my Grandmother. Before too long, she fell pregnant, realised JIMMY had a terrible temper and threw him out of the house, and no-one heard anything of him after that.Perhaps someone might know of him? Maybe he came back to Australia?
Am I really going to post this to a WWW site of complete stranger, united only in the common name of Boyle?
Well, I guess the answer is yes. I just want to know what happened to him, and to be able to reclaim a grandfather I never hd, and a father my father never had...
Any information, please bounce me a note.CHARLES BOYLEAustralian Institute of Tropical Architecture,James Cook University,Townsville QLD4811AUSTRALIAFax +61 747 755 975
: I am seeking information about the history of Boyle, sources regarding that and : of course the Boyle branch of our family tree. I didn't hit the lotto last week, so I must do this from: my home/office and not the Boyle library in Boyle!
: I would appreciate any information regarding the history of Boyle, Ireland: and any Boyle ancestors in/or around Wyoming, USA from 1850 thru 1950.
: This is my first attempt at bulletin boards. Any advice would be helpful.
: Anxiously awaiting the outpouring of information to follow this message!!
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Hi Gary,
I'm Linda Pennington born Boyle in Lyons, Ks. in November 26,1950. My father is Freddie Leo. He was the 5th child of Robert Boyle and Minnie Huffman Boyle. His father Robert had already left the family before he was born. His brothers and sisters are Tom, Irene, Clifford,and William.
I was told that Robert was born in ireland and came to the US when he was a child.
I'm looking for our link to Ireland. My grandfatherwas Amadee Claude Boyles from Point Pleasant WV who married Alice Taggart. His father was I believe John Boyles who was a Dr. He married a Milby or a Proffit.
I'm just starting out and need any info related: Boyle of County Mayo, moved to Chicago around the turn of the century. My mother's name was Anne Mary "Micky" Boyle. Her father was Patrick Boyle. Thank you, and good luck to everyone.


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It is with deepest respect for you, Planet Earth that I profess my love to you on Valentines Day. Your heart beats a special rhythm, representing the nature balance that provides for the world's habitat.
From the highest mountaintops to the deepest currents of the oceans, natural forces working together are apparent in each moment of time. I am humbled by the beauty you show as your face changes expression, from calm seas to the fury of the storms. You are deserving of the attention you seek.
Through the ages, there is an awareness growing of how to use the materials you provide in a fashion that will support replenishment. Choosing renewable resources keeps your infrastructure intact as you constantly reproduce to sustain our needs, ensuring the continuance of sustenance for all living things. PlanetCare™ is priority as we collectively move toward the days to come…
Few who walk your beaches know that the glass in my warehouse starts with the tiniest grains of sand beneath their feet. This is just one isolated example of how manmade materials are made from natural elements.
Workers within my Company are eager to learn the best practices to protect your delicate ecosystem. Careful consideration is given to products and materials that come into and leave our facility for what impact they will create. Clearly, our operation is a very small piece in a gigantic puzzle. Our customers, the recipients of our products, match the values we practice. Together we teach by example, spurring new ideas for sustainability that encourage others to make individual decisions and bear responsibility for conditions that will be prevalent through the years.
My vision consists of a future bright with hope for your oceans to sparkle in sunlight, free from the harmful plastic gyres that threaten marine life. Fresh air and clean water, for all to breathe and to drink will be plentiful. I picture roadsides and trails that are undisturbed by litter accumulations caused by thoughtless acts of leaving trash behind. I see a Universe where all living things thrive in harmonious existence.
Planet Earth, my commitment is to practice care and make wise decisions as I learn to value the mysteries within your atmosphere.


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Day 8 is here and we are back to the land of toys!
Toyjeanius is the lovely company that is putting forward today's prize. Toyjeanius is family run toy shop specialising in wooden toys from the leading brands around the world and was created by a Mum of 3 who had so much fun playing with her own kids and their toys, she opened a toy shop!
Toyjeanius today are offering this fabulous Makedo find and make doll's house. This kit provides hours of fun and also encourages children to learn about recycling. This fantastic reuseable connector system is used to create amazing objects from boxes and household packaging that you would usually throw away.
- Resuse makedo to make anything!
- Kit includes 26 2 piece re-clips, 4 lock-hinges and safe saw
- Also includes dollhouse stickers and instruction sheet
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- Suitable for ages 5 years+
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Weddings, Memorial Services,
and other Group Activities
The general public is free to conduct small wedding ceremonies, other group activities, or have their wedding photographs taken on the Arboretum grounds. ALL EVENTS ARE LIMITED TO 40 PEOPLE, and we do not reserve or schedule specific locations.
We do appreciate being informed about event plans. Please call 617.384.5209 or email to inform us of the date, time, and intended location of your ceremony as well as a contact person and phone number.
The Arnold Arboretum offers a unique, beautiful, and safe environment. Please help us keep it that way. There is no fee for group events but donations are welcome. Donations may be made by check made out to the Arnold Arboretum or by cash in person in the Hunnewell Visitor Center.
Memorial services: The policy of the Boston Parks Department, which reflects the General Laws of Massachusetts, is that the spreading of ashes is not allowed in the parks. Since the Arboretum is a public park of the City of Boston, we must comply with their regulations.
In addition to the general rules, the following restrictions apply to group events, ceremonies, and photography:
- Vehicles are not allowed within the Arboretum gates or anywhere on the grounds; guests must walk to the ceremony; vehicles must be parked outside the Arboretum gates.
- Food and drink are not allowed on the Arboretum grounds, nor can the Arboretum provide indoor facilities; wedding receptions must be held elsewhere.
- Any trash generated must be removed prior to your departure.
- Furniture is not allowed on the Arboretum grounds.
- No event or directional signs are allowed. We suggest that you specify the exact location in the invitations and place an attendant at the nearest gate to guide your guests. Download a map.
- The ceremony must have no impact on the Arboretum grounds or plants.
- Areas cannot be roped off, and other visitors to the Arboretum cannot be prevented from entering the area of the ceremony.


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Meningitis outbreak toll: 386 cases
An outbreak of fungal meningitis has been linked to steroid shots for back pain. The medication, made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts, has been recalled.
Latest numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
Illnesses: 377, including nine joint infections.
Deaths: 28. (A 29th death in Virginia, reported yesterday, was a mistaken report that has been removed from the tally.)
States: 19; Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.
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The 15th UN Climate Conference concluded late last month with the ambiguous adoption, or noting, of a Copenhagen Accord. This political document was delivered at the end of two weeks of tense and often confusing negotiations. Its exact legal status and hence its implications - remain the subject of debate and it leaves unanswered many of the difficult questions that have bedeviled climate negotiations for much of the past two years.
Despite this, the Copenhagen Accord represents an important milestone in international efforts to address climate change. For the first time, the US, China and all other major economies have committed to take concrete and verifiable action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; new money has been put on the table; and a long-term objective keeping the average global temperature increase to below 2 above pre-industrial levels has been adopted.
While many details are still to be determined, the Accord contains the seeds for a new, country-driven, bottom-up approach to tackling climate change that could potentially offer an effective route to accelerated global emission reductions. The risks, however, are considerable. In the absence of any internationally agreed medium- and long-term emission targets, backed by a legally-binding agreement, much will depend on whether governments embrace a race to the top mentality or succumb to lowest common denominator climate policies. The next 12-24 months will be critical in determining which path countries choose.
The remainder of this paper is divided into the following four short sections:
- A summary of the key events during the two week summit
- A brief overview of the core elements of the Copenhagen Accord
- Our assessment of the Accord
- Our assessment of the impacts and implications for the US, China, the EU and India.


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I am wrapping up my re-reading of War and Peace, and have reached the Epilogue in which Tolstoy gives us a peek at the settled lives his characters lead after the tumult of 1812. He starts off with another round in his demolition of Napoleon and The Great Man Theory of History, and then descends into rather tedious domestic relations, before returning to a lengthy essay on causation in history. A few years later, Tolstoy would begin Anna Karenina with one of literature's most famous first lines:
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
but in his Epilogue, he hasn't realized this yet, and he is quite boring and almost sentimental in his description of the endless happiness of his happily married figures. It's only a few false steps after a journey of a thousand miles though, and they are preceded by one of Tolstoy's wonderfully condensed valentines to young lovers on the brink of joy as Pierre and Natasha get together:
She glanced back. For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable. . . . . . . . . .
What could be the stuff of soap opera melodrama is nothing more than this. The two lines of evenly spaced dots are in the original.
Tolstoy then goes on to dissect and discard the myth of Napoleon Bonaparte, treating him as an egotistical, short-sighted, vainglorious man, with "childish boldness and self-confidence," (which echoes Tolstoy's description of Prince Andrei's sally at Austerlitz), who managed to be at the right place at the right time to ride the crest of historical waves, and then be crushed beneath them as they broke. He was certainly making a valuable correction to the romantic hero-worship of people such as Carlyle, but he goes too far, confusing and conflating the moral and historical meanings of the word "great."
He describes the invasion of Russia in 1812 in pseudo-scientific, metaphorical terms as waves of migration moving one way and another, causing backwashes, as though he is discussing the great Asiatic migrations of the 5th or 12th centuries, that gave us the barbarian invasions of Rome and the Mongol Hordes. He never says what causes those waves, and he doesn't entertain the idea that perhaps a "great man" is simply one who knows when he is at the right place in the right time. He sees it as simply chance upon chance. He refers mysteriously to the "purposes" of history, and uses metaphors of the theatre – the last act, the script, the role figures play – and so on. Perhaps he thinks that God is the director, but it's a short jump from Tolstoy to Karl Marx who thought he had scientifically described the same laws of history that Tolstoy mystifies.
Perhaps history is bunk, or just one damned thing after another. Or perhaps there are causes to be discerned in history, but they only hold true for specific instances, and are never universal laws. Or perhaps causes only exist in retrospect…Tolstoy seems to prefigure Lichanos' Iron Law of Historical Causation when he says:
Why did it happen this way and not otherwise? Because this is how it happened.
Tolstoy did his historical debunking of Napoleon some fifty years after the fact, but James Gillray was onto the same ideas while Boney was in his glory. One of his caricatures is at the top of this post, and another, a comic strip political cartoon nearly two centuries before Doonesbury, is shown below. It illustrates several of the episodes alluded to by Tolstoy in his acid recounting of the rise of the Great Man.
For more Gillray images of Napoleon, visit this excellent site: Brown University Digial Library


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What is the Divine Plan for Life? – Part 1/2
(Continue to Part 2 .)
I think it helps to have a grasp of the fundamentals of life, especially at a time when we know that all aspects of our understanding are going to be called into question, renovated, added onto, as soon as the galactics can walk freely among us.
Brief Review of the Purpose of Life
I've already gone over the purpose of life at some length, both from God's standpoint and from ours. (1)
God created forms from His/Her/Its own Being, placed a spark of Its Divinity in them, and sent them on a path of spiritual evolution so that these sparks could one day realize their true identity as Him and in that moment God would meet God. At that moment, God, for His own enjoyment, would experience His own bliss.
Here is Sri Ramakrishna, himself an Incarnation of God, putting out this view: "It is the Godhead that has become these two [that is, God and the devotee] to enjoy Its [own] bliss." (2) And here is Hazrat Inayat Khan:
"The purpose of life … is that the only Being makes his oneness intelligible to Himself. He goes through different planes of evolution … to make clear to Himself His oneness. And as long as this purpose is not accomplished, the one and only Being has not reached His ultimate satisfaction, in which lies His divine perfection." (3)
You can read more about the purpose of life in the articles mentioned in footnote 1. Now I'd like to turn to discussions of the Divine Plan created to fulfill the purpose of life.
That Divine Plan can be put in two words: spiritual evolution.
The first part of this article looks at short references to spiritual evolution in the various spiritual traditions and the second part (to be published later) looks at what certain teachers have said in more detail about it.
Part 1: Spiritual Evolution in the Great Spiritual Traditions
Terrestrial Spiritual Teachers
We know about the Divine Plan from the testimony of saints and sages who have seen it in a moment of enlightenment. Here Krishnamurti, from the standpoint of Theosophy, which he later left to emerge from the shackles of all religions, describes his vision of it.
"The really important thing is … the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution. When once a man has seen that and really knows it, he cannot help working for it and making himself one with it, because it is so glorious, so beautiful, so, because he knows, he is on God's side, standing for good and resisting evil, working for evolution and not for selfishness." (4)
White Brotherhood master Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov described it, saying "the law of life is evolution, that is, development all the way to perfection." (5)
Theosophist Madame Blavatsky, channeling the ascended masters, used a mixture of Hindu, Buddhist, and Christian terms to describe it.
"No purely spiritual Buddhi (Divine Soul) can have an independent (conscious) existence before the spark which issued from the pure Essence of the … OVER-SOUL … has (a) passed through every elemental form of the phenomenal world of that Manvantara [round of life], and (b) acquired individuality, first by natural impulse, and then by self-induced and self-devised efforts (checked by its Karma), thus ascending through all the degrees of intelligence, from the lowest to the highest Manas, from mineral and plant, up to the holiest archangel (Dhyani-Buddha). (6)
We can go back through the ages and hear whispers of it in the teachings of numerous great masters.
Here Jacob describes a vision he had of an evolutionary ladder that reached to heaven.
"And [Jacob] dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
"And behold, the Lord stood above it." (7)
Jesus hints at spiritual evolution when he tells his listeners: "God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham." (8) After all, God has already raised stones to be children of Abraham and we are they, as St. Peter suggests: "Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house." (9) The spiritual house we are build up is probably all the bodies we have as part of our entire makeup.
If we evolve, then at some point, having gone beyond mineral, plant and animal inheritance, we should also go beyond the human. Here is St. Paul implying that Jesus has gone beyond the human and entered the angelic realm.
"For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
"Saying, Fear not, Paul: thou must be brought before Caesar." (10)
The wonderful Christian non-dualist, Pseudo-Dionysius, agreed with St. Paul that Jesus had become an angel:
"I do not need to remind you … of the fact that because of [Jesus'] generous work for salvation he himself entered the order of revealers and is called the 'angel of great counsel.' Indeed, when he announced what he knew of the Father, was it not as an angel?" (11)
Whether or not Jesus actually did become an angel, the remarks of St. Paul and Pseudo-Dionysius show that they believed in notions of spiritual evolution.
Beinsa Douno, a Christian master of the White Brotherhood and teacher to Omraam Michael Aivanhov, suggests how the process may work:
"If this tree … understood the Law of Cosmic Love…, it would gradually be transformed into an animal; and if the animal … applied Cosmic Love, it would be transformed into a human being and the human being – into an angel." (12)
These more modern masters, even Krishnamurti, could loosely be described as part of the western intellectual tradition. If we look to the east, we find a similar assortment of masters who describe the Divine Plan of spiritual evolution.
From antiquity, Zarathustra captured spiritual evolution in a phrase when he said that "Ahuramazda … created the creatures for progress, which is His desire." (13) Paramahansa Yogananda, speaking after death, held that "life is but an opportunity to develop along certain lines." (14) The Sufi sage Al-Ghazzali,
also sees life as the journey of a soul through successive stages of evolution:
"Level after level he traverses the seven spheres and comes down into the Globe of Fire, then Air, then Water, then falls on earth; after that to the Minerals, Plants, Angels, then visits Mankind and the Jinn.
"Until he reaches the degree of human being he passes through many tribulations at every level of his descent; he meets with difficulties. Sometimes he rises; sometimes he goes low; and half a circle is completed till he is lodged with … mankind." (15)
Al-Ghazzali speculates that the realm of angels lies beyond the human: "By means of the 'alchemy of happiness,' [man] rises from the rank of beasts to that of angels." (16) Here Rumi talks about his own evolution as a soul. In his review of the stages, he includes the angels, above humanity.
Noticed he says "I died as mineral. Does that not support Jesus and Paul in suggesting that we pass through a stage of consciousness as a stone?
"I died as mineral and became a plant.
I died as plant and rose to animal.
I died as animal and I was man. …
Yet once more I shall die as man, to soar
With angels blest; but even from angelhood
I must pass on: all except God doth perish.
When I have sacrificed my angel soul,
I shall become what no mind e'er conceived.
Oh, let me not exist! For Non-existence
Proclaims in organ tones, 'To Him we shall return.'" (17)
Reaching the degree of human being adds to our understanding of something David Wilcock said when he speculated about souls throughout the universe that:
"The human body shows up in the galaxy on every planet where life can form. It's a natural evolution. Some might get there by an insect; some might get there by a lizard; some might get there by mammals like we do; some might get there by cetaceans; some might get there even by vegetation, apparently." (18.)
So all is evolution, but not just physical evolution, as Darwin suspected, but spiritual evolution as well.
Terrestrial Post-Mortem Spirit Teachers
Notice that life does not skip a beat with death. The Divine Plan for life carries on; we continue to evolve on the spirit planes.
It's easier to learn and evolve on Earth than it is on spirit planes exactly because of the hardshps we encounter here, as the unammed spirit teacher of Betty Bethards makes clear.
"It takes many, many hundreds of years on the other side to gain … knowledge [of God and the nature of existence]. Men must gain it in the body to be open to it from the other side." (19)
"This is why many souls will incarnate when they really don't need to, because it would take a thousand years out of the body to do what you could do in one short sixty or eighty-year life period on the earth plane. So many will choose to incarnate to speed it up, but it is more difficult because you don't have the awareness you have when you are on the other side." (20)
There are many great teachers who have left the body and communicate back to us from spirit realms. White Eagle and Silver Birch are two well-loved British spiritual teachers who assume the purpose of educating us on the Divine Plan of spiritual evolution.
White Eagle describes the total process as the evolution of consciousness: "The whole purpose of incarnation is this slow evolution of the spirit, its awakening in matter, to self-consciousness and God consciousness." (21) He says it is the duty of each of us "to help forward the spiritual evolution of all life. " (22)
Silver Birch put the process of spiritual evolution this way:
"You are forever climbing a mountain, ascending one peak, only to behold another to be scaled. Knowledge, progress, development, unfoldment, advancement, all these are eternal processes." (23)
"It Is an infinite evolution," he says. "There is no summit to be attained. As the spirit unfolds, so it is realized there is more to be achieved. It is like knowledge. The more you have, the more you realize there is further knowledge to be gained." (24)
South African Clifford McLean describes life as "a process of gradual refinement." (25) His relative Jim McLean thinks that "Divine Mind has conceived of a perfect plan of gradual advancement, a plan that banishes all conceit." (26) He amplifies:
"Divine Mind has perceived the necessity for a gradual awakening of the soul in diverse schools of experience, the rate of progress of which is controlled by the individual, according to his desires. In this sphere, the crystal clarity of thought penetrates the darkest recesses of the mind, revealing all hidden faults, coupled with an overwhelming desire to atone for one's shortcomings." (27)
American Judge David P. Hatch says that "wisdom is a tree of slow growth; the rings around its trunk are
earthly lives, and the grooves between are the periods between the lives."
"Who grieves that an acorn is slow in becoming an oak? It is equally unphilosophical to feel that the truth which I have endeavoured to make you understand—the truth of the soul's great leisure—is necessarily sad. If a man were to become an archangel in a few years' time, he would suffer terribly from growing-pains. The Law is implacable, but it often seems to be kind." (28)
We can see, so far then, that disembodied spirits share the same point of view on the Divine Plan for life that embodied spirits do. Now let's look at ce;estials and galactics.
Celestial and Extraterrestrial Teachers
Archangel Michael calls Ascension "an ever-evolving, continuous, on-going evolutionary process and not a destination." (29) He tells us that there are many levels and stages of evolution.
"There are many levels and stages of ascension: personal earthly ascension, whereby you gradually balance and harmonize your chakra centers which in turn triggers the process of clearing your physical vessel and your auric field of discordant energies. …
"Ultimately, we will experience the universal ascension process together. This phase of ascension will take place in the far-distant future; however, we in the higher realms of existence have had glimpses of this prodigious cosmic event and, we assure you, it is so magnificently complex and awe-inspiring that it is beyond your present comprehension." (30)
SaLuSa, a spokesman for the Galactic Federation who hails from Sirius, informs us that "life is infinite… It is part of your spiritual evolution."(31) This evolution will "never cease until you return to the absolute Source." (32)
He reveals that everything is "mystically attracted to the Source, where you will finally reach the ultimate completion of the return journey. The Creator draws all back into its Being, only to again commence further great cycles of experience." (33)
However "there is far to go and many experiences to be had, before you reach the ultimate goal." (34) Ascension, his Sirian colleague Atmos tells us, " is but a step towards achieving full consciousness, and taking your place with the Masters." (35)
SaLuSa agrees: Evolution is "a never-ending journey." (36) The object of working our ascending in 2012," SaLuSa tels us, "is to move into a state of enlightenment and continue to evolve." (37) "The purpose of living many lives," saLuSa says, "is to follow an overall plan that leads to your spiritual evolution. It is the only way to advance and leave the cycle of re-birth behind." (38)
Ascension "is simply the commencement of another journey that will open up the Cosmos to you." (39)
So the celestials and galactics agree with the great spiritual teachers of Earth, whether embodied or disembodied. Spiritual evolution is the Divine Plan for all life, to work out the purpose that God should meet God.
(Continued at Part 2.)
(1) John Smallman's Saul put the purpose of life this way: "The sublime Intelligence … created you in Love to experience eternal bliss." (Saul, Oct. 2, 2010, at http://johnsmallman.wordpress.com.)
For more on the purpose of life, see SaLuSa and the "Greater Picture", Life No Matter Where, No Matter When, To Know God is the Purpose of Life, The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment, Ch. 3 The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment For more on the Divine Plan for life, see Ch. 2 Is There a Plan to Life?, at https://sbeckow.wordpress.com/16244-2/the-purpose-of-life-is-enlightenment/ch-2-is-there-a-plan-to-life/.
(2) PR in Nikhilananda, Swami, trans., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1978; c1942, 305.
(3) Hazrat Inayat Khan, Way of Illumination. Delhi, etc.: Motilal Banarsidass, 1988, 237.
(4) J. Krishnamurti, At the Feet of the Master. Adyar: Theosophical Publishing House, 1974; c1910, 17.
(5) Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov. Aquarius. Herald of the Golden Age. Part 1. Vol. 25 of the Complete Works. Freju: Editions Prosveta, 1981, 19.
(6) Blavatsky, Helena P. An Abridgement of the Secret Doctrine. Ed. Elizabeth Preston and Christmas Humphreys. Wheaton, Ill: Theosophical Publishing House, 1968, 13.
(7) Genesis 28:12-14.
(8) Jesus in Matthew 3:9.
(9) I Peter 2:5.
(10) Acts 27:23-4.
(11) Pseudo-Dionysius in Luibheid, Cohn, trans., Pseudo-Dionysus, His Complete Works. New York and Mahwah: Paulist Press, 1989, 159.
(12) Beinsa Douno, "The Cosmic Love," Lectures, 24 August 1919.
(13) Zarathustra in Duncan Greenlees, trans. The Gospel of Zarathushtra. Adyar: Theosophical Publishing House, 1978, 141.
(14) Paramahansa Yogananda in Robert Leichtman, Priests of God. Atlanta, GA: Ariel Press, 1997; c1980, 120.
(15) Muhyidden Ibn Arabi, Kernel of the Kernel. trans. Ismail Hakki Bursevi. Sherborne: Beshara, n.d., 20.
(16) Al-Ghazzali, The Alchemy of Happiness. trans. Claud Field. Lahore: ASHRAF, 1971; c1964, 32.
(17) Rumi in Anne Fremantle and Christopher. In Love with Love. 100 of the Greatest Mystical Poems. New York, etc.: Paulist Press, 1978, 58.
(18) Project Camelot Interviews David Wilcock, Part 2 of 4, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bz9YPriDLo&feature=channel
(19) Unnamed spiritual teacher to Betty Bethards, medium, There is No Death. Novato, CA: Inner Light Foundation, 1976; c1975, 11-2. John Heslop, resident of the Christ Sphere, agrees:
"It is far easier to acquire this knowledge [of lessons unlearnt] in the earth surroundings than on this side, just as it is easier for a child to receive the groundwork of education, than for a man, when he tries to learn what was taught him vainly in his youth." (John Heslop through F. Heslop, medium, Further Messages Across the Border-Line. A Continuation of "Speaking Across the Border-Line." London: Charles Taylor, n.d., 28-9.)
(20) Ibid., 9.
(21) White Eagle, White Eagle, Wisdom from White Eagle. Liss: White Eagle Publishing Trust, 1983, 49.
(22) Ibid., 80.
(23) Silver Birch, Silver Birch's Teachings. Located at http:/www.angelfire.com/ok/SilverBirch/Tcon.html, n.p.
(24) Silver Birch, Light from Silver Birch. Comp. Pam Riva. London: Psychic Press, 1983, 19.
(25) Clifford McLean in Lesley May, med., Letters from Mother. A Family Biography in Two Worlds. Ed. Edmund Bentley. London: Psychic Press, 1964, 100.
(26) Jim McLean in ibid., 112.
(27) Ibid., 113.
(28) Judge David Patterson Hatch ("X"), Letters from a Living Dead Man. Elsa Barker, med. New York: Mitchell Kennerly, 1914. Ebook downloaded from http://www.earthlypursuits.com/LtrLDMan/LtrLDMan.htm, 28 August 2008. Letter XXXVIII.
(29) Archangel Michael, May 2010, through Ronna Herman, at http://www.ronnastar.com/latest.html.
(30) Archangel Michael, May 2009, through Ronna Herman, at http://www.ronnastar.com/latest.html.
(31) SaLuSa, Nov. 24, 2008 at http://www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/First_Contact/Channeled_Messages_by_Mike_Quinsey.htm.
(32) SaLuSa, March 26, 2010.
(33) SaLuSa, Feb. 26, 2010.
(34) SaLuSa, Sept. 18, 2009.
(35) Atmos of Sirius, May 18, 2009, at http://www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/First_Contact/Channeled_Messages_by_Mike_Quinsey.htm.
(36) SaLuSa, April 20, 2009.
(37) SaLuSa, April 6, 2009.
(38) SaLuSa, Oct. 4, 2010.
(39) SaLuSa, Feb. 23, 2009.
(Continued at Part 2.)


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It is Necessary to Direct Zakat Money to Eradicate Poverty
"Direct"; xref: So, it is up to you, each muslim, [[[thnk\]]] to decide (direct) what portion of Zakat to pay directly to the poor person (s) of your choice, and what portion of Zakat to contribute into your mosque (s) funds to be used [[[thnk\]]] for larger investments and mosque directed personal charities [[[whum]]]. Is that right?
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Abd Al-Hafiz Al-Sawi,
And {xref: need for color coded spelling corrections which print in black ink} [[[whum]]] Abd Al-Hafiz Al-Sawi
Abd Al-Hafiz Al-Sawi (the duty to learn names which are offered and the choice to not be aggressive about finding out names so who can keep his, or her, privacy; xref; city hall screen names.
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an economist
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with the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP),
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'Freedom'; xref: Independence; xref: the 100% Independence, God.
'Justice'; xref: constitution; xref: 'stand with' – whose choice? to what degree? vs. independence [Whn whn whn [whn whn whn whn] '/. '/.
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Independence; xref: 'stand alone' in regards to making the decision about how close to (or far from) whom who is willing, or able, to stand.
Constitution; xref: 'stand with' whom in regards to making the decision about 'How close, or far?'; xref: after prayer circles, consensus, majorities, minorities, consensus.
So, [thn/] Independence (Freedom) and Constitution (Justice) can be about the decision making process as well as the proximity (nearness, or fairness) being decided upon;
xref: your question to the Italian astronaut whose Mother had recently died, Benedict, and you, the astronauts answer, "It made you feel both closer and further,"
xref: the answer, 'Whoever is closest," given by our prophet Mohammed, may peace be upon him and all who follow him, when who asked, "Who should we follow after you are dead," [[thnk/]]
Abubkr was closest to our prophet Mohammed, may peace be upon them both, in the way he thought. Ali was closest to our prophet, Mohammed, may peace be upon them both, in his physical presence.
Both ways are important and we should follow both, may peace be upon all who follow the 100% [thn//] consistent, unbiased logic to and from the 100% Independence, the one God…
The one God, Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, The Great Spirit, Brahma, The Great Tao,
Who, or why, can stand alone, or with any;
Who or why, does not need any – including not needing to 'not need', and who is therefore ready, and willing – to create, sustain, welcome, perfect, return, and invite – ANY; [""'whu]
Who, or why, needs no key; [thn/]
Who, or why needs [thn/] never…O.K., who might reasonably misunderstand…
Who, or why never needs to leave –
These are nine (9) of the ninety-nine (99) names of the one God
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{Also xref: 6, 6, 6, the mark of the beast; xref: vertical dyslexia}} –
Alawackbarr! (100% Independence, aka, Freedom, is greater (less dependent, more eternal, more powerful, more able to create, sustain [thn/] welcome perfect, return, and invite any)
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Abd Al-Hafiz Al-Sawi, an economist with the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), in an interview in the BBC's 'Open Agenda' program, discussed use of Zakat (giving of alms) as a financial instrument to alleviate the suffering of the poor. This raised some confusion as certain newspapers circulated 'news' of the Muslim Brotherhood seeking to impose compulsory Zakat on every Muslim.
Sawi said, in a statement to IkhwanWeb: "Clearly, we seek to reduce the glaring inequalities in society and to eradicate poverty. Zakat is a financial tool that can ease the burden on the state budget and meet the needs of the poor. It is not only a type of charity, but a duty imposed on rich Muslims by our Islamic Sharia, too."
He added: "Zakat funds should be distributed among all Egyptians, Muslims and non-Muslims, because Islam demands it."
Sawi went on, saying: "The use of endowment and Zakat funds – properly linked to State general plans – can supplement resources for the state budget deficit."
He stressed that this proposal is supportive of the economics of any country seeking real progress and development. It is an economic vision applied successfully in some countries such as Malaysia. There are many powerful economic studies about it. It is also a fundamental part or our faith, rooted in the teachings of our religion which helps us fight , even eradicate poverty.
It is worth mentioning that the FJP's economic program seeks to identify the responsibility the state, as well as the responsibility of financially-capable members of society, in the process of distribution and re-distribution, and through "investments of Finance", ie taxes, according to the standard requirements for providing a good life for the poor and needy.
The party's economic program aims to maximize the role of community-based economy in the economic system by establishing more NGO's and allowing them more freedom, while emphasizing the role of institutions of Zakat, Waqf (endowment) and all acts of voluntary giving, and their strong participation in economic life, leading to the strengthening of community participation and fostering a climate of solidarity and compassion in society at large. Needless to say, such role of community-economy must remain in harmony with the requirements of the State's general plans.
The party's economic program also stresses the importance of establishing independent investment funds for a part of Zakat and endowment funds to finance health services, education and social services for the poor, hence saving a part of their already limited incomes, which helps them to lead a better life, and perhaps even get into investment.
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Another long day of classes.. 11-6.. But at least this is my last long day until next Wednesday! :D Yesterday my fiance and I did some shopping for the apartment, but was unsuccessful. Boo. I did pick up an adorable cupcake pillow-thingy.. lol Hard to explain. But I'll take photos of the things I did get, and post them later or tomorrow. Depending on how rough today is. haha.
Anyway, I wanted to show the outfit I'm wearing for more classes today. It's comfortable yet cute.
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Many women with healthy pregnancies work right up to their due date. For some, it's a choice. For others, it's a necessity. If you're going to be working during your pregnancy, these simple tips can help you stay safe and comfortable — and get your work done.
Managing morning sickness — all day long
The good news is you should start feeling better in your second trimester. Until then, try these tips for relief:
- Sip water, juice, or other caffeine-free drinks throughout the day.
- Take plenty of healthy snacks to work. Try to eat something every 2 or 3 hours.
- Have something with ginger in it, like ginger tea, ginger ale, or gingersnap cookies. Ginger is a natural remedy for nausea.
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Being pregnant is exhausting — especially during the early months. Try these tactics to keep your energy up:
- Keep a water bottle with you and drink from it all day long.
- Take breaks when you can.
- Rest during your lunch hour.
- Keep up your exercise routine — it will help boost your energy.
- Get to bed early.
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Staying safe
Listen to your body. If you have a strenuous job or work around anything that could be toxic to you and your baby, you'll definitely need a temporary reassignment. Talk to your doctor first, then talk to someone from your HR department to come up with a safe, workable solution. No matter what:
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- Avoid tobacco smoke.
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Pisces Productions was founded in 1977 by Michael Gillotti, R.N. and has since become an industry leader in the creation of high-quality massage tables and chairs. With the mission to maintain and develop peace via the healing and calming power of touch, Pisces Productions is pro-active in their interactions with customers and massage professionals. Pisces Productions continues to stay at the forefront of its industry by investing considerable research and development efforts, constantly looking for better ways to add upon and advance their already innovative product line.
Pisces Productions Guarantee:
Pisces Productions guarantees their New Wave II Massage Tables for a full 5 years. The tubular frame of the table is guaranteed for Lifetime to the original owner. The Dolphin II Massage Chair is guaranteed for 5 years. These guarantees are for defects in materials and workmanship under normal use. This is limited to repair or replacement of the item and does not include damages resulting from improper set up, misuse or neglect.
If you are not totally satisfied with your Pisces Productions product, you may return it for a full refund, including freight, within the continental U.S. The item must be returned within 15 days, in the original or equivalent packaging, and in new, undamaged condition. All returns must have prior authorization. This policy does not apply to special order items.