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The Twitter of the Blue Bird
The Twitter of the Blue Bird
Thursday, May 28, 2009
The Red I Of The Blue ONE
Synchromystic video highlighting an intimate relationship between the Red I/Eye of Blue SpiriT and the highlighted palm.
The Blue/Red play highlighting the palms of Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus.
Morpheus is another name for the Lord of Dreams or The Sandman.
The Sandman's glasses reflect the Blue/Red highlighted palms giving our Guru the most interesting Seeing Red (and Blue) I/Eye.
If we plug what happens in this video back into Fishburne's charachter in "Event HoriZOn"...
In "Logan's Run" Micheal York 'sees red' (above) just before revealing his flashing palm to the audience.
He is called a Sandman as his job is to hunt people down who try and run away from "renewal" (which is basically getting zapped to death by a funky crystal), 'putting them to sleep'.
Funny enough there is a 2010 remake coming down the pipes.
Holy sheizer I didn't make the Morpheus/Sandman connect while making the video... Too perfect.
Both Morpheus/Fishburne and Sandman/Logan with highlighted Red SpiriT palms!
The Sandman is also an awesome comic book character I grew up on created by writer Neil Gaiman.
Logan/Sandman interacts with the ankh allot in "Logan's Run" here seen around the neck of Jenny Agutter.
Again extremely susynct as the comic Sandman's sister Death, bears the ankh as necklace.
This is floWing nicely, perhaps I will pop back in here during the day and go through some more of the video adding stills and words.
Charlton Heston as Moses (probably in reality an Egyptian Pharaoh/Priest) becomes the Red Spot/Eye/I amidst the Blue of Red Sea and Sky in "The Ten Commandments".
The hand is highlighted as Moses says : "Behold His mighty hand!"
Once SpiriT parts the RED C, a play in KKonsciousness on Seeing Red, we hear this dialogue.
Israelite Boy: "The Wind Opens The C!"
Isrealite Man: "God opens the C with a blast of his nostrils!"
This reveals the relationship between SpiriT (God), wind and air (symbolized by T).
Then WE/ME jump to the Artificial Intelligence Red Eye pattern. The term A.I helps unravel this mystery. A I/Eye or A Self.
The computer or machine becoming human and intelligent is the symbolic drama of the human organism - or better yet, all life as DNA program - becoming conscious of consciousness (KKonsciousness or the "I-I" as Ramana Maharshi puts it).
Still the idea of machines becoming self and even Self aware could very well be on the table. Further yet, WE acknowledge that all is a Union and already Self aware.
The Tinman's quest for the Heart/Centre tells this same story.
The SchwarZENEGGer displays his Christ resonance with his wounded arm. Some crucifixion depictions favor the wrist above the palm area as location of The Mark, leaning towards this depiction of the androids highlighted arm.
His single Red Eye mimics HAL 9000 above from "2001" and the Third Eye/I of Shiva. He sees himself in a cracked mirror. The mirror reflects form self, the crack distorting the reflection and symbolically the braking up of limited identity.
See Jennifer Jupiter for JC Jennifer Connelly, a Jesus Christ resonator, dramaticly displaying this same pattern as well as JC Jim Carrey (lobbing a saxophone into a mirror in "The Number 23") In Robin Sparrow.
More JC (Keanu Reeves as the NEO/ONE) mirror syncs in Live From The Logosphere's ARTifacts of Millennial KKonsciousness Video Project
Christ Consciousness (note the CC or KK) is the process of moving beyond the mirrored reflection and realizing the Self.
Christneggers StarGlasses brand is "Gargoyles".
See Midnight On The I(Eye)sland of Atum and StarMummy for groovy Disney "Gargoyles" syncs.
The Red Ball resonating the Red Eye becoming a synchromystic 'Red I/Eye Ball' signifies a future murder in "Minority Report".
Tom Cruise as a "Pre-Crime" officer handles the Red Eye Ball, having them even in the palms of his hands resonating the "Logan's Run" and "Matrix" highlighted palms.
This is followed very shortly by another exciting highlighted palm as he manipulates a futuristic computer screen with his hands.
This unveils the recurring pattern of finding the Red Eye/Dot/Spot/Ball in close association with the highlighted palm as traditionally depicted on Lord Shiva.
The blueness of Cruise's highlighted palm and the scene (hell, this entire film is blue..) in general also evokes the flavour of the blue SpiriT/God/Being.
This didn't make the cut as it takes us a little off focus but above we see Neal McDonough handle the Red Eye Ball in the presence of Colin Farrell.
Farrel relates back to the Third Eye (the red spot on Shiva) as character Bullseye (with target over his Ajna Chakra) in film "Daredevil".
McDonough plays the Tin Man - Tin Being interchangeable with Jupiter, the location of the solar systems own Red Eye - character in Mini Series "Tin Man".
Tin Man/Jupiter's roles the red eye ball right over the balls of his palm!
Strangely this is not the only Philip K. DicK based film that would be featured in this video. I didn't realize this until after making the video and consider it to be another example of 'sync strange attraction'.
Things are associated in Consciousness far beyond the scope of the mind. When my mind makes a connection you can bet there are infinitely more associations in Consciousness.
This was already seen with the Sandman connect between "The Matrix" and "Logun's Run". Two movies I placed directly sequentially in the video only to discover they sync up through Morpheus/Sandman. This is an entirely natural function of Life just a little invisible to the conditioned mind until NOW.
When I start to put syncs together I am picking media that resonates each other closely. Without exception more association jump out and others go unnoticed.
That I would make a video about red spots, third eyes and blue spirit, only to entrain with Philip K. Dick means Dick is strongly associated to these themes in Consciousness.
No doubt if we decided to find these themes in his works we would be flooded by connections with all the other material covered in this video.
Next up we see the blue light radiate from behind Spocks' famous Vulcan Salute.
A pop culture highlighted palm already found to resonate the blue color of Lord Shiva. Does it then associate with the red spot/ball, to complete the pattern being investigated?
Indeed, dramatically so, as this big red blob is the material used to open Black Holes and cause the characters in the film to Time Travel.
In Consciousness all time/space distorting phenomena - time travel, warp speed, teleportation (jumping), psychic phenomena, inter dimensional travel etc - are closely associated. I call them StarG8's.
They are symbolic of the realization of Cosmic Consciousness.
The realization of Cosmic Consciousness can be no more dramatic then sitting calmly, right where you are and just reflecting on the fact that you are Conscious of your own Consciousness.
There is a misconception that being enlightened means being in some super human state all the time. This is a limitation as every state you are (or were) ever in is already this Cosmic Consciousness, we are just aligning with this insight right NOW.
Of course the intensity of Cosmic Consciousness waxes and wanes due to context of Life situation. Sitting in a coffee shop, movie theater or doing the dishes in the state of Cosmic Consciousness can be very calm and low key, while jumping out of an airplane or taking ayahuasca can be extremely exhilarating.
The point of becoming aware of awareness, of realizing the already realized 'I-I', is that It Is always present, regardless of your state of mind or context of environment.
2010 The year of the Tiger (an orange and black striped animal (kinda mashed Zebra)) in Chines Astrology, a system derived from the 12 year orbit of Jupiter.
Note the play here between the numbers 012 comprising the syncnificant dates of 2001, 2010 and 2012 (not forgetting 2011 (the year of the rabbit)).
Out of the gate we catch up with the events of 2001 and are told about the discovery of the black monolith on the moon.
Its location is the Sea/C of Tranquility. The C shape resonates the act of Seeing or becoming aware, awareness or Consciousness implies joy and tranquility.
A quantum leap of C-Ing is taking place on Earth which is leading to Tranquility. Is 2010 to be a key year in this realization of Peace On Earth?, the syncs are suggesting just that!
The film 2001 already entrained with the Consciousness manifesting events of 911 through the Milleneum Hilton Hotel at Ground Zero.
The building intentionally designed to visually mimic the black monolith from "2001 a Space Odyssey" was flush with the Twin Towers that fell on September 11th 2001.
That a real life monolith oversaw the 911 StarG8 silences the mind in awe.
Perhaps this suggests the 2001 and 2010 dates and films as uniquely syncnificant and relevant to realization of Cosmic Consciousness.
The future and playful ideas about it are perfectly harmless if you live in the NOW, the location of the future to begin with...
See Jim's the Inside Job video for more on the Milleneum Hilton 911 StarG8
Bob Balaban as Dr. Chandra puts his hand on a Red identity scanner. His radiating palm appears in Blue above this. The play of Red and Blue, repeating also as we see what this identity scanning device is protecting.
SAL 9000 the new improved female HAL with Blue Eye. We could suggest that progress has been made from the 2001 angry Red Eye of fire to the calm Blue Eye of Water/SpiriT/Tranquility in 2010.
This Blue Eye also resonates the look of the exploding Second Sun/Jupiter and the Super Nova/Black Hole explosions in "Star Trek". "Angels & Demons" also had the Blue Sun explosion as key plot device.
I interpret this Second Blue Sun as Being aligned with SpiriT or Cosmic Consciousness. That the Second Sun pattern might also have some kind of 'external' reality seems entirely likely.
We could suggest Sirius/Jupiter/Galactic Center as potential Second Suns.
The Sun/RA/RE is also a big Red Eye/I. Thus the awareness of a second Sun/Eye/I becomes the symbolic realization of "I-I".
The Red Spot on Jupiter becomes associated to the Red Eye/I of the Blue ONE. This is extremely fitting as Jupiter is sometimes associated to Shiva (with his red third eye) and Horus (with his single all seeing eye).
Spock uses his Red Ball of matter to open a black hole in an exploding star or super nova.
This is then compared with the events of the film 2010.
In 2010 Jupiter forms a giant Black Hole on its surface. It shrinks, explodes, goes nova, becoming a Star and Second Sun.
The Red Eye/storm on Jupiter and of HAL 9000 syncs with Spock's Red Ball, both films entraining with the themes of black holes and exploding stars...
67 comments:
- A Few Shots to Shaman said...
Hey, homie, have I ever told you that your fucking crazy.... I've been researching the symbolism behind the Red Sea lately....
"The Red Sea is a water of death for those of us that are "Unconscious", but for those that are "Conscious" it is baptismal water of rebirth and transcendence. By "Unconscious" are meant those who have no gnosis, ie, are not enlightened as to the nature and destiny of man in the cosmos"-Jung
Think Red Blood of Jesus
in red
- May 28, 2009 at 9:17 AM
- A Few Shots to Shaman said...
I meant Einstein crazy and not trying to bite your own ear crazy... Just so we're clear.
- May 28, 2009 at 9:36 AM
- Atareye said...
Loved the sound track fo sho.
Killer signoff.
WV.....not shitting you...in red....
Oh botha
- May 28, 2009 at 10:16 AM
- Arrowsmith said...
Red Ball. Red Eye. Red Eye-Ball.
You blue this one right out of the water. Home run. Superb.
- May 28, 2009 at 12:36 PM
- Jake Kotze said...
Red Eye/I-BaLL!
Didn't C it..
Thanks Mr Smith and aLL.
- May 28, 2009 at 12:42 PM
- Marco said...
Jake, do a research on the purple colour (the union of red and blue) you will be amazed.. i give you a link of an old post write by me on the subject, it's written in italian.. but maybe you will sort something out with wordlingo automated translator.. or maybe not.
cheers, and keep it up!
- May 28, 2009 at 12:49 PM
- Cosmic Ti69er said...
killer vid. so strong.
jim 2k
- May 28, 2009 at 1:30 PM
- Ed said...
Slightly off topic, but I thought of you when I read this newstory.
An interesting topic in this post. It reminds me that when I am photographed my blue eyes often become red.
The Sandman is indeed one of hte coolest comic book characters ever created.
- May 28, 2009 at 2:25 PM
- Benni said...
Love your posts! Great video also!
Just started a blog about Sync yesterday... I intended to start with the blue / red color releationship first just because of it's meaning to deciding whether there are coincidences or not = truth (matrix - blue pill / red pill). I think the next level is reached, when blue and red finally join - red being the agressive but necessery step to start that process (pretty ugly for neo after taking the red pill, also hal is seeing red and getting violent, same in star trek with the red matter causing much harm and also the same thing about the red seeing terminator) - but finally (when the blue and red join) mankind has reached a higher / better level in onness and piece in matrix, 2010, terminator salvation - i'm not quite sure about star trek ^^
- May 28, 2009 at 3:17 PM
- soundlessdawn said...
Great Syncs my friend! Remember that quote in Minority Report? "In the Land of the Blind, The One Eyed Man (All Seeing Eye) is King" ~ Some awesome stuff in that new Nightmare Before Christmas styled flick "Coraline" as well ~ Look for the Broken Oz Snow Globe over the Fireplace with Dual Eastern Stars towards the End. Loving it.
- May 28, 2009 at 3:33 PM
- Jake Kotze said...
Thanks for the joy.
Cool Steve.
Saw Coraline, lovely film with groovy syncs. Another Neil Gaiman joint..
- May 28, 2009 at 7:03 PM
- Particleion said...
"In the Land of the Blind, The One Eyed Man (All Seeing Eye) is King"
Whoah, eerie stuff, ive been picking up on the same vibe.
Deeper we fall into the rabbit hole will it end nobody knows.
- May 28, 2009 at 10:46 PM
- Benni said...
let's twist it:
you take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe what ever you want to believe (=your personal freedom!=)
you take the red pill, you stay in wonderland (=not reality) and i show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remeber! All I am offering is the truth, nothing more...
- May 28, 2009 at 10:54 PM
- Indras Net said...
Right on! I was just studying Chesed and Geburah today, Red=Change/Challenge Blue- Stability, Nurture. Then watched this great video, and caught my brother in law watching the Cleveland Cavaleirs VS Orlando Magic game, Featuring Labron James #23 with the Red C of Cavaliers on his back, with a bolt connected. And the Orlando Magics are blue, the score board on the tube looked like a half red and half blue pill hehe. Namaste brother be very well
- May 28, 2009 at 11:20 PM
- Dennis/87 said...
Really liked the last Soundgarden rendition of Burden in my Hand. Mind's eye vibe. Dennis
- May 29, 2009 at 12:07 AM
- Benni said...
i found a connection to our blue mother planet earth in the fifth element:
the blue one (the opera singer) singing with the blue earth in the background...
would love to see your visit over at NexusOfSync.blogspot.com
- May 29, 2009 at 1:21 PM
that's great, I love the slow soundgarden
- May 29, 2009 at 1:37 PM
- Benni said...
the 33 is chasing me recently... can u tell what that number means?
In your video we see tom cruise with his glove covering 3 fingers of each hand in black (=33)
- May 29, 2009 at 7:12 PM
- Jake Kotze said...
I can't know what anything means in its totality as it has infinite depth.
Sometimes we speak as if we can as it is a matter of convenience or habit.
WE can give 33 context by associating things that also resonate it or are associated to 33.
This gives us clues as to what its general flavor is.
We can always discover new associations to 33 meaning it can infinitely grow in meaning.
Like saying 33 is CC alphabetically which resonates KK and cosmic consciousness.
We could also rotate the 3's as they are WE3 Spinners. 3 can be E,M or W, meaning 33 can be MM Eminem etc..
33 is the number of vertebrae in humans, degrees in Masonry etc.
No doubt its a great number.
Use Your intuition and trust your Self to provide the specifically tailored dynamic meaning for You.
The purpose of symbols are to point.
We must learn to look at what is being pointed at and not the finger that is doing the pointing.
- May 29, 2009 at 8:35 PM
- Saint Santiago said...
Jake, I hope you can catch The Soloist in the theater before it's gone. Great C-ing Red and OZ synchs with the tin-man Robert Downey Jr.
Best use of Beethoven's music since A ClocKworK Orange. Peace!
(Saint) Santiago
- May 29, 2009 at 8:47 PM
- Benni said...
i don't know why... but it seems like we / i connected. You being my Sync master just like Richard and Jim // don't ego yourself when not mentioned... you / we 'll be. I felt like starting with blue and red, i did just had some notes about that theme... you had a video and i love it (it = i = you = we).
I feel red about u (and the red is connected with love = one).
- May 29, 2009 at 9:37 PM
- Benni said...
Spock is spreading his hand...
Live long and prosper!
We see the fingers of his hand: 1&1 (=X), 1&1 (=X) and his thumb (=one)
XX 2 become 1?
- May 29, 2009 at 10:18 PM
- Jake Kotze said...
Yo Nexus
My comments are general and intended in good faith.
Your blog looks gr8.
I love personal syncs from ones own environment.
Be well
- May 29, 2009 at 10:19 PM
- Mike Clelland! said...
Jennifer Connelly (JC) steps on a nail in HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG.
- May 30, 2009 at 3:18 AM
- Gate Keeper said...
Awesome post!This made me think of NASA's latest photo of the 'Blue Hand' nebula that looks like it's reaching out to a 'Red Ball' galaxie. Some have entitled it the Hand of God?! You can google (Nasa hand of god) Thanks Blob!
- May 30, 2009 at 5:06 AM
- Amanda said...
Very cool post! The Rune called Kenaz or Ken (written < ) is the equivilent of English C/K. It means "a Torch", (that by which we see). It is also the source of the word ken, which means "knowing". In magick, the runes are traditionally written in red.
- May 30, 2009 at 11:00 AM
- Benni said...
just found something new about red and blue:
Seems like red + blue = truth
Remember Morpheus:
"All i am offering is the thruth" - with the blue and red pills in his hands
Also found a connection between Jake and blue (Connection found in the blues brothers)
Keep up your outstanding work Jake! Thank U
- May 31, 2009 at 6:43 AM
- E. T. Hansen said...
as I recall Total Recall also have a red pill that will enable Terminator to go back to his fake reality. But he doesnt swallow. Neither should anyone else...
- May 31, 2009 at 8:10 AM
- The Secret Sun said...
Russ Tamblyn wore red and blue glasses on Twin Peaks. Apparently this was his own wardrobe choice. He explained that the red stimulated the left hemisphere and that the blue moderated the right hemishpere. The point was to keep the hemispheres in some kind of harmony.
- May 31, 2009 at 2:41 PM
- Atareye said...
CK - I guess this adds new meaning to classic 3d glasses eh?
- May 31, 2009 at 4:00 PM
- Jake Kotze said...
Thanks for the comment CK.
Reminds me of the red and green glasses of the dude I always see on the cover of the comic book Transmetropolitan.
Never read it..
- May 31, 2009 at 4:04 PM
- Benni said...
again found something interesting:
black and white are strongly resonating with time = checkerboard-theme
when we become one we are beyond space and time (first ego needs to die after seeing / facing red, then we can give true love to the female = XX = fifth element)
the place beyond time is oz where we have superpowers and become true x-men (blue + red = one / love = the ultimate power)
- May 31, 2009 at 7:13 PM
- The Secret Sun said...
That's Spider Jersualem, JK- probably a tribute to Twin Peaks...
- June 1, 2009 at 10:03 AM
- Benni said...
CHRISTopher Knowles is recently resonation strong with ONE:
Note green = ONE and also the electric connection (movie "Short Circuit", Johnny 5 is alive (5 resonating with the "Fifth Element"
also the black / white = time connection here
Will be watching his blog closely... seems like you are about to find something big.
- June 1, 2009 at 10:18 AM
- Marco said...
red and blue is also used in many superheroes themes
super mario
wonder woman
optimus prime in transformers (optimus prime = The first and the best)
the virgin mary sometimes wears red and blue
and many others..
and now.. here's the big ones
(the last one is the adam kadmon)
to me blue&red are the 2 polarities 1 and 0, man and female, we have to trascend the binary system and become "christ", and that's when the purple archetype comes in.. purple related to the "dimension of dreams" where the man in "nightmares in the witchhouse" of HP Lovecraft goes when he dreams..
also, with red we can identify isis, and with blue osiris, both giving birth to Horus the purple one, alesteir crowley talked about the horus age..
sorry for my crappy english.
- June 2, 2009 at 6:01 AM
- Benni said...
i think i found the most important message - it's all clear to me NOW
i feel strong connected with u jake, please help me to spread the message and help me to proove it is true - i think there will be a lot of resistance
please read the message, challange it to proove if it is true! and if u will - help spreading it:
- June 2, 2009 at 6:32 AM
- Benni said...
the last challenge has begun.
Please mark my / I am words:
ISS / Isis Space Station will be coming down soon
(because truth always comes twice - the coming down of MIR = Isis being the first sign for the begin of the end of time, keep also in mind that the good guys used dressing black [always])
after this it'll get pretty rough. but take your time for preparations. KK is with us, so don't worry.
- June 2, 2009 at 7:19 PM
- Benni said...
There are 2 messages to be delivered...
The I am is directing me = I am to unleash the powers with the fifth elements around her. The powers unleahed are strong.
- June 2, 2009 at 7:49 PM
- Mike Clelland! said...
Leonard Nemoy has a special cameo in the TV show FRINGE. He has his office in a alternate reality World Trade Center.
- June 2, 2009 at 8:15 PM
- Benni said...
peter parker = pp = peter pan = the fool becomes spiderman
isis = fifth yelement= madonna = mary = mary jane = kirsten dunst
note the movie history of kirsten with connections to star trek, vampires and mother mary
guess what spiderman 4 is all about: the wedding in connection with a parallel dimension 'x'
to be followed...
- June 4, 2009 at 6:04 AM
- Benni said...
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- June 4, 2009 at 9:58 AM
- Benni said...
just one note about osiris, isis, seth and horus
osiris = black stars = ONE
isis = fifth elemets = angels
seth = clow = ego
horus = x-men = daywalkers
the story will end in another way as before this time.
osiris and isis will win being successful this time. i am ready to give away my life to proove it.
it is the death of death (resonating with brad pit and other ego resonating man (rocky = silvester stallone))
may the I am be with u.
open your third eye = way to true love = one, the third part of trinity: isis, the child and true love.
avoid eating flesh, aspertame and fluoride, mobile phones and your third eye will open. it's your choice - free will and free decision.
- June 4, 2009 at 10:03 AM
- Jake Kotze said...
Hi Nexus
When filled with SpiriT one becomes Joy itself.
The Self is eternal, infinite and realized regardless of what WE/ME do.
Peace Of Mind=Peace On Earth
- June 4, 2009 at 11:21 AM
- A Figure Eight said...
Wow. The videos keep getting more beautiful and more joyful. And the crowd keeps growing too. : )
Soooo. This new video is referring to the Lucifer Project, no?
As in the secret project that was planned to blow up Jupiter and turn it into a star? Its on the internets. Just hearsay sort of...
But the synchs are pointing to it. Hmm...perhaps its like a synch echo of what might have been. Kind of like when they made those two asteroid movies at the same time, they really tapped into our collective consciousness and almost washed us of that fear. Some new age books says that was supposed to happen but we changed our course.
And then.... there was an interview on Project Camelot with a Russian boy who claimed to have been in a past life on Mars and could describe his life there. He said they were trying to turn another planet (Saturn?) into a star as well but failed.
Also, could 33 as CC be like another 11 synch? As in Ch(K)ristopher C(K)olumbus, the discoverer of New Worlds?
Well done, as always. : )
- June 4, 2009 at 3:03 PM
- Benni said...
jake... i am very proud of u. helping us so much to get everyONE of us to the next stage.
thank u from the bottom of my heart.
i would like to get deeper into those themes sync is delivering to us... but the main message is delivered. i have to act now, there are many friends and angels needing some help. i'll post only further insights if i can on the nexus blog.
never forget everyONE - it's all about us.
- June 4, 2009 at 3:15 PM
- A Figure Eight said...
and then there's the new lexus ad campaign:
2010 Lexus IS C Commercial: "Hop In"
Lexus is C. : )
And the synchs just keep on coming
- June 4, 2009 at 3:16 PM
- Ezra Sandzer-Bell said...
JAke - Great work as always. For what it's worth, I noticed your connection between Sun/Ra/Re and the color red. In musical Sol feg, Re is associated with the second note... as in do RE mi fa sol la ti.
When the Natural Major mode is anchored in the Key of C, "Doh" is associated with the C-Note and color red, according to the majority of esoteric tone-color systems.
[RE], then, would be associated with the [D]-Note and color oRangE.
This can be clearly understood in the following visual diagram:
- June 5, 2009 at 3:05 AM
- Benni said...
angry ego death = samuel l jackson as mr. glass (-breaker) elijah in unbreakable (resonating elijah wood in the lord of the rings - where gollum is ego death in the end) vs. bruce willis (protector of fifth element) = LEOnardo dicaprio
what happens when a sun = star = angel is dying? we get a white dwarf or a black hole = black star. as above so below. seems like the white dwarfs and black stars are acting like spiderman and venom - they can work together of fight each other. (pulp fiction, man in black)
white couple: blues brothers, ...?
also there are couples of black stars (bad boys, coming to america)...?
will chase it when i got a little time
- June 5, 2009 at 9:38 AM
- Particleion said...
Everything else is just child's play
The One eye man is king
- June 5, 2009 at 11:26 AM
- A Figure Eight said...
Love the Bill Gates one-red-eyed pic, Particleion. Incredibly odd synch. ; )
- June 5, 2009 at 2:52 PM
- Particleion said...
An Unholy Alliance
Thunder cats
This synch is so intense.
- June 5, 2009 at 9:03 PM
- Benni said...
Sync will be most intensed on full moon tomorrow. Try something which might sound crazy:
dress in your favourite colors today (look at the simpsons which colors they wear and dress like your favourite of them) Have a silver coin or something out of silver with you, best is next to your heart.
Don't eat today and drink beer this night until you got enough, then relieve yourself throwing up when drunk - or tomorrow morning.
you know you will feel really bad tomorrow, but sync / I am will be with you like never before, if your third eye is already opened.
the colors use the law of attraction, silver is the bridge to bring them together and the yellow beer helps you to get ego out for some time (remember that you have to stop and get it out)
every full moon you can repeat the process, when it's most intensed.
when 2 become 1 = wedding
have you noted that today there are many weddings? and today is SATURday (SATURN-day). 06.06.09
today is very very important. open the starg8.
- June 6, 2009 at 7:27 AM
- Benni said...
tonight is the night of all nights. please give your toughts and energy to el = elijah = son of mary and mary self. they need u most tonight. tonight is the night of change.
please trust and give your energy to them.
mary has to face ego death tonight. she has to let got of her son - it is his decicion: coming back here or going home. please support her and him. respect free choice
- June 6, 2009 at 3:11 PM
- Benni said...
g8ors... busting will u feel good! post it.
- June 6, 2009 at 5:18 PM
- A Figure Eight said...
"Red Ball" ~
- June 6, 2009 at 10:02 PM
- Benni said...
thank you if you had decided to help and also thank you if you did not choose to do so (why? thank you 4 being you)
the turning point was reached and now the powers are unleashed for change coming in really hard.
open your heart (you'll feel it pumpin like crazy when it is unchained - Joe Black singin' the song for this process) and you will see (Synchronicity too obvious). then open your third eye. then connect by activating it.
elia and mary will now become one. the balance will be restored - in anyway necessary.
- June 7, 2009 at 7:23 PM
- Benni said...
yin / yan = white / black = blue / red = I / I = Eye / Eye
- June 8, 2009 at 10:00 AM
- Benni said...
have to snooze for some time... i scared too many people close to me and need to wait for the dust to settle down. in order to stop i had to take many third-eye closing substances like fluoride and have been eating flesh for the first time since november (really kind of missed it sometimes). sync is still around, but it's under a level of being annoying now (like i might have been to some of you ^^).
please don't forget: it's okay to eat flesh, but it won't help opening the third eye.
keep up your outstanding work! thank you! will be back for sure.
- June 9, 2009 at 6:05 PM
- Benni said...
can't investigate this one on my own, but please someone do:
- sphere of the world trade center
- the movie "sphere"
- the recent air france airplane crash
-connections to the movie "the day the earth stood still"
- June 10, 2009 at 8:07 AM
- Unknown said...
have you thought about The Fifth Element in relation to this? The gargoyle-looking henchmen wear red-eye combat specs, Milla Jovovich's christ-like character is reconstructed from a severed hand, and the stones are hidden within a blue diva / shiva character. I recently watched this movie, so it may come to mind only because of that, but I would love a Kotze-ing of Luc Besson's film sometime. I've always felt like it was attempting to say more than it seemed to.
- June 11, 2009 at 8:31 PM
- Chris said...
Jupiter's storm as red/white yin yang...?
Great vid/post, Jake.
- June 14, 2009 at 6:28 PM
- alistair mackinnon said...
also check on the function of red mercury and the clour red in alchemy...
red mercury is particularly interesting.. not as its purported use in fission but that fission is used to create it.
its older use is here:
- June 15, 2009 at 5:54 PM
- Unknown said...
Was to lazy to check if anyone mentioned this but Henrik had helen sewell on and she was talking about the upcoming astrological climate. She felt that 2010 would result in a more focused Aquarina/uranian energies. Being an Aquarius I felt like things have been more focused, spiritually stable, and anxiety becoming something of the past(most definitely c-ing red in the Chicago). That holy spirit of rebellion that tsarion speaks of is well on it's way in my humble opinion and the false's expiration date is here.
- June 18, 2009 at 4:28 AM
- Unknown said...
Oh and about the blue eye sync and the seeing red aspect i.e. other meaning like anger I think can be positive. Tsarion has a concept of the blue flame of anger which resonates with me personally. The blue flame being a repersentation of the manisfestation of anger from K2 cosmic consciousness an instinctual feeling of lack of appreciation for the lie and falseness that keeps us from the self(Makes me think of the Mama bear analogy for positive anger that is in the tao de ching, u know protecting the cubs or i.e standing by what one loves). I noticed that the opening sequence of the dark knight uses the blue flame and of course there is that Dark Knight poster with batman standing in front of the Tarot tower card like burning building. just more of my two cents
- June 18, 2009 at 4:43 AM
- Benni said...
- June 18, 2009 at 8:39 PM
- Mark David said...
Just found your blog today it's wonderful. This is a very entertainment blog. After watching this video again I saw a commercial for spreadable butter. They were doing a comparison with some kind of imitation butter and they had the disguise of glasses on the other butter. Where the eyes would have been were two logos, one was red and the other was blue. I am very happy to visit your site. thank you for posting and sharing it.
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my site
- July 30, 2009 at 5:56 AM
- Squidward said...
Hi. Watched the vid. The thing which jumped out at me was the 3D written on Shiva's hand with the crescent and star above it. Maybe the crescent and star sitting above the third dimension represents the 4th dimension?
Keep up the interesting work.
- September 1, 2009 at 9:14 PM


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The surveillance video then shows the suspect trying to use a luggage cart, but the machine was too heavy.
The suspect then entered the main office and stole $500 and two laptops.
Police say Schultz has stayed at the hotel before, and ask anyone with information about the suspect to call in.

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It wasn't too long ago that NASA's experimental robotic lunar lander was busy crashing and burning after liftoffs. Fast forward a few months and Morpheus has started to come into its own. Just watch what it can do now.
The February 10, 2014, 74-second trial run saw Morpheus soar 467 feet (142 meters) above the ground. That's more than 160 feet (48 meters) higher than its previous test. The lander then flew forward 637 feet (194 meters) in a half minute before descending and landing right on target. NASA writes:
Initial data indicated a nominal flight meeting all test objectives. The vehicle flew its pre-planned trajectory flawlessly, reaching a max ascent velocity of 13 m/s, and landing with no appreciable deviation from its intended target 74 seconds after launch. The Morpheus Team again demonstrated engineering and operational excellence, relying upon training, discipline and experience to ensure today's success.
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Friday, 2 February 2007
New code
Each 'Task' is actually a GtkDrawingArea, which is then made transparent, and the Task's icon is drawn onto it, using with necessary padding for the effects. Speaking of effects, moving to Cairo for the rendering is allowing much more freedom regarding what effects you can do. I will be demoing some ideas later on, but for now:
This is the current open and close effects, the idea being that the icon 'pops' in at the bottom of the screen, and then 'evaporates' away when you close the window.
P.S. Excuse the jerkiness and the redrawing you can see of Gtk, lets just say I am not developing on the fastest of machines, just be sure that it is not as jerky in real life!
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I just tried it. Pretty nice! Keep the work going.
I got it today from the svn repo. The "active icon" does not work properly. The icon of the active program disappears. Starting awn with the "-x" parameter does the trick, but then the icons themself are not ok:
**AWN-X** : Getting icon from X failed for avant-window-navigator
(Maybe this is not the best way to post a bug, but I am short of time)
- 2 February 2007 at 15:29
- Neil J. Patel said...
Hi there,
I am glad you like it!
The **AWN-X** is just some debug code, its there so I know when I can't get an icon from X.
However, everything else should work properly, let me know if it doesn't!
(btw I know reporting bugs is a bit of a pain if you don't have a google.com account, I will try and sort something out, until then, reporting on the blog is fine :)
- 2 February 2007 at 15:39
I'm testing awn on ubuntu feisty herd3 beryl and AIGLX.
I've compiled last version following the istructions on ubuntuforums.
It works even if some problems with selected icons.
- 2 February 2007 at 19:02
- Neil J. Patel said...
Hi Claudio,
I am glad you like it!!
The best thing to do to solve you problems with the icons, is to download and install the svn version. It has new code to get icons from the window manager, so you will have larger icons, and a better experiance!
- 2 February 2007 at 19:12
great work ;-)
i really like avant, nice job :-)
- 2 February 2007 at 19:50
The whole bottom part of my screen blacks out when I start avant window manager (from SVN). Is this a known bug?
Screenshot: http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/4721/screeniegu6.jpg
Errors printed on terminal:
(process:23328): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_theme_get_for_screen: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
Ohhh yeaaah!!!
(avant-window-navigator:23328): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_cairo_create: assertion `GDK_IS_DRAWABLE (drawable)' failed
**AWN-X** : Getting icon from X failed for avant-window-navigator
**AWN-X** : Getting icon from X failed for avant-window-navigator
**AWN-X** : Getting icon from X failed for avant-window-navigator
**AWN-X** : Getting icon from X failed for /opt/avant/bin/avant-window-navigator -x
- 3 February 2007 at 05:20
- Neil J. Patel said...
Hi Prashanth,
You need a composited environment, such as Compiz or Beryl for Awn to work (and do its magic).
This normally can be started by the "Desktop Effects" program in the "Preferences" menu.
- 3 February 2007 at 09:35
With the -x option. The icons are glitchy.
Sometimes they are just a jumble of random colours. Most of the time the icons are all replaced with the icon of the window in focus when I mouse over them.
- 3 February 2007 at 23:11
- Neil J. Patel said...
Hi Rob,
I am getting reports of this from a few people, I am looking into it ATM. Its either a bug in the new icon-retrieval code, or setting the active icon code.
Can I just ask, does this happen without the -x option, and also which revision of svn were you using?
- 3 February 2007 at 23:25
Revision 63. It did not happen without the -x option.
Here's what I am running:
Ubuntu Edgy
x1900xtx fglrx 8.29.6
-With the patch described here:
I noticed in 64 you have the new code on by default. Is it still possible to use the old code?
- 4 February 2007 at 00:23
- Neil J. Patel said...
Hi Rob,
Sorry about that, I committed without changing main.c. If you grab the latest code, you can started the old task manager by the '-o' switch.
I am still trying to find out why there is a problem, its more of a pain because I can't reproduce it on my system!
What I am going to do is make a small test program for the X code, and see what it doing on your system. I will post it on my blog as soon as I get round to it.
- 4 February 2007 at 01:07
- Rob2687 said...
Okay cool...
I just tested and it happens in the regular xserver too.
- 4 February 2007 at 03:30
- icon manager said...
its a good blog.
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A meal
Comedy club
A public place but where its quiet enough to talk
My idea of a great first date is a ride to the local chapters, then off to a movie, then followed up by a visit to the local pet store then off to a play at the local theatre or off to a friends bonfire.
Smile's, Beverage,good Drinks,live Tunes & a Ride worth Repeating...
Ride n the wind, hills and valleys, where the front wheel leads us.
I think this formula stuff is stupid .I do not need prompts to share some thoughts. If we get there we will.
maybe hit a metel show and eat some greasy burgers afterwords.hold hands and walk around...
Check out some local theatre stuff followed by coffee/tea & dessert.
I am a romantic, so candle light and wine fits me fine. But I also believe that both should decide on an activity or place that is comfortable.
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Harrington writes like a storyteller. Her words flow beautifully when shared aloud. She has reworked a classic fable from the Nkundo people of Central Africa and throughout has woven in Lunkundo words from their language. She has also added lots of sounds to the book, so there are wonderful patterns that emerge as the hen and her chicks move through their day. She clearly enjoys wordplay and creating rhymes and rhythms, all of which make for a great book to share aloud.
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A great pick for spring story times, don't be chicken to share this one. Appropriate for ages 4-7.
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ASHEBORO — Martha Claire Crossley Spoonamore, née Zapf, of Asheboro, N.C., passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013.
She was born in Trenton, N.J. on April 11, 1953, to the late Martin L. Zapf and Doris Hart Hunt. Prior to graduating from Trenton Central High School in 1971, she lived in a number of locations, including Hopewell, N.J., Philadelphia, Penn., Royal Oak, Mich., and Lorsbach, Germany. She attended Trenton State College and received a BA in Sociology and Anthropology from Stockton State College in 1979. After discovering her passion for teaching English as a second language while living in Hong Kong in 1999, Martha moved to Australia's Gold Coast, where she received her TESOL certification from Bond University in 2000. Following her love of bluegrass and pottery, she moved to North Carolina in 2001. While residing in Concord, N.C., she taught ESL at Lincolnton Middle School for five years before meeting the love of her life, Carl R. Spoonamore, in 2004. They were married on Aug. 12, 2006, and resided together in Asheboro, N.C. She continued to teach ESL in the Asheboro City School District; at Lindley Park, Guy B. Teachey, and South Asheboro Middle School, until her illness in 2013.
Martha loved to travel, having lived on four continents and visited over 23 countries. She loved art, collecting original oils and watercolors; and music, including classical, blues, and rock. She had a deep reverence for nature and tent camping in the woods. She was an avid volunteer, a voracious reader and was deeply passionate about making a difference in the lives of her students. She loved life!
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I know this is probably not something that is very hard, but I want to make my site as efficient as possible. currently, this is the psuedo structure of what I want to accomplish
I want to check if the part is already in the system
if exists, check if the field is blank
if blank, insert data
else if userdata != field data
update data (most likely across multiple tables)
field didnt change, move onto next
create record
insert data (definitely across multiple tables)
Presently I would need to do this for every single field separately, I was wondering if this was the most efficient way possible, or if there was a more efficient way.
Also, when I update the data and even more so when I insert new data I would need to access the part id of the part being created... would I need a second insert statement for the additional tables being affected.
example being
I would create a new part ( C ) that would be in assembly ( A ) however obsoleting part (B) from the assemblies latest parts
There are a lot more complicated queries I would need to perform, and while I do not have a restriction on the maximum number of connections I want to keep it to as little as possible. An example of a more complex would be when I select part B and I put it under a new assembly. I would need to check every field for partB across 2 more tables than the 2 tables I am using in this example for changes, updating the changes and inserting new data where applicable. Some of the tables have 7/8/ even 10 fields so thats a lot of queries to check each field individually for changes, hence my concern for abundant connections.PHP Code:
[b]create part ( C )[/b]
INSERT number, description, status INTO Parts VALUES ('partC', 'description', new);
[b]get assembly part ( A ) id[/b]
$partA = SELECT part_id FROM Parts WHERE part_id = partA
[b]get partC id and make it a subpart of part ( A )[/b]
$partC = SELECT part_id FROM Parts WHERE part_id = partC
INSERT assembly_id, sub_id, generation INTO sub_parts VALUES($partA, $partC, generation + 1);
[b]update partB status to older generation[/b]
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Face it: your numbers suck. Don't blame it on anything else but your ability to take a standardized test and get good grades. If you suck at doing this now, you will most likely struggle in law school. You aren't a special snowflake. You aren't suddenly going to excel in law school when during undergrad you were merely adequate. Law isn't your calling, so turn off Law & Order and find something more suitable to your talents and skills. Everyone has a place in life, but this isn't yours. Law schools are a business, and they see 'sucker' written across your forehead, guaranteed by non-dischargeable loans. The market is much different, akin to, ahem, real life. It's all about competition. The cream rises to the crop. Those who have connections and went to highly ranked schools are the ones who get the jobs.
I created this thread for indivudals who actually attended a T4 and transfered to a T2, not for someone like you to post rude and uncalled for comments like the above quote. I understand my numbers are low and certainly do not need someone I do not even know to remind me and I am not expecting a hand out as you mentioned above. Not that this is any of your business but, I am well networked as the majority of my family are attorneys. This is my calling and I am not going to let a standarize test prevent me from attending law school even if that means attending a lower ranked school with the goal of transferring. Agian, refrain yourself from commemts that you made in my post to others. Nobody needs to be labeled as you labeled me. There is a difference from constructive criticism and rude comments. Thanks
First law school is not that easy to get into? It is easier than medical school you need a bachelor's degree, which only about 30% of American's have and globally that number is far lower. Then you need to get basically a 145 to get into Appalachian or Cooley two of the easier to get into schools in America, but even to do that you need to be in the top half or higher of LSAT takers. You state 30,000 people did better than OP on the LSAT, but there were 130,000 test takers http://www.lsac.org/lsacresources/data/lsats-administered.asp therefore he did better than 100,000 people who have bachelor's degrees, which is quite good.
What I don't think most law students realize is that if you attend law school you are good at school. I played sports in college and know many people are not capable of pulling a 2.0 to any law student that seems like a joke and I got a 3.3 drinking, partying, and putting in minimal effort in college, but school simply was easy for me. It is not simply work ethic either I played basketball in College I could probably work 100x harder than every NBA player right now and not be anywhere near their level. I remember watching a documentary of Allen Iverson saying he never lifted a weight in his life yet he was an NBA All-Star somethings just come naturally to people. So getting into law school and scoring well enough to get into any ABA school is an accomplishment in my opinion.
LAW SCHOOL A WASTE?Do some people was their law school experience? Yes. There is no mandatory requirement to take the hardest courses, bust your ass to find a paying internship, etc. Plenty of people I went to law school with routinely missed class, took easy courses, and were rarely involved with anything. Yes the third year of law school was a complete waste for these people, but any educational experience is what you make of it. During my Third year I was on a journal, I took numerous writing classes so I would have good writing samples at graduation, I participated in two mock trial competitions, and got an internship (paid) that lead to my first job out of law school. My classmates had the same opportunities to do what I did others did not. Undergrad or any other school is no different. In college I knew plenty of people that smoked pot all day, missed class, got a 2.0, and did jack over their 4 years in college. I could have done more in college personally, but I played basketball, made friends, held several jobs, was in school politics, etc. I got a scholarship for basketball, but my stoner dorm mates had the same opportunities I had , but they never utilized them. My point is law school is no different than any other form of school you make it a worthwhile experience or not. If you want to sit in the back of the class, take Yoga for lawyers 3L, or some other fluff thing nobody is stopping you just as nobody is stopping you from taking the difficult courses, befriending professors, participating in moot court or mock trial. The choice is yours no matter what school you attend.


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Posted: Thu Nov 18, 10 5:55 am Post subject:
I personally beleive that some species are under threat from over fishing and if we are lucky the powers that be will do something positive about the situation before it's to late.
It is often put across that fishermen are gready and to some point they are, as they are paid a share of value of the catch, no fish no money,they have to be at sea to make a living and there is no dole money if they are stuck in for a month or sick pay if you are taken ill.
Taking that into acount they also pay the highest N.I stamp of £7 a week and don't see much for it.
The other thing fishermen are well documented of doing is earning £900 a week and getting away without paying there taxes ,This is not true as more fishermen are leaving fishing due to lack of money than any other reason,and my last years wages as a mate on a 90' trawler on 12% share was just over £10,000 before tax.
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Posted: Thu Nov 18, 10 6:12 am Post subject: Conservation is a beautiful word !
I love this word as it mean putting less pressure on the fish stocks for future generations to have more fish and bigger catches, there is not a fisherman in the world who would not disagree with this statement , including myself.
Here is the delemer , we are an island that has joined other nations in a fishing policy where we have the majority of the fishing grounds but the smallest of fishing fleet to fish it,with the only protected ground inside the 12 mile limit set aside for small UK vessels.
To conserve fish all nations must agree to stop fishing for a certain time / species at the same time to make it work,but in general this never happens.
Take in the 80's the UK goverment came up with an idea to save the cod by banning all UK registered vessels from landing any cod at market as that would take the preasure of th stocks,all that happened was the french made a small fortune selling us cod they had caught of our coast in the first place,
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Posted: Thu Nov 18, 10 6:30 am Post subject:
To put the fishies in a land point of view. you own a piece of land and in the middle off this land is a forest and you say to all the local gun clubs you can all shoot on my land but not in the forest.
Give them about 6 months of shooting the surounding area and it will get to the point of nothing left so they start to look towards the forest where all the animals are hiding in safety.
Now all it takes is for one of these hunters to be short of money and is hunting for his tea but there is nothing outside of the forest , the point now arises of do i enter the forest to bag my dinner or go home and have no tea. (This is what the fisherman faces at sea every day ,no fish no dinner)
Sooner or latter someone will poach into the forest to get a bigger bag because that is human nature and then there is no stopping the destruction ( and by the time the land owner spots whats going on and trys to stop it the damage will be to far gone to be reversed) And this is what is happening in UK waters every day of every year.
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Posted: Thu Nov 18, 10 6:49 am Post subject: What has to be done
To control conservation in UK waters we must first take back the seas around britian and reinstate the 200 mile limit on fishing for UK registered boats only.
Second the goverment needs to find out the true state of the fish stocks from the people who catch the fish not the logbooks they fill in , as they only tell them what the goverment wants to hear.
Third , a conservation based on scientific fact that will be seen to work by all parties not just a means of making the goverment look good on there green credentials.
Fourth , all uk caught fish to be landed into the UK, as this will make a demand on fish by are EU partners as spanish flag ships would have to land in the UK instead of taking back to spain where we see no financial benifit in the fish been caught by our neighbours.
And the last thing is to ditch the species quota for a total tonnage quota with no disguards , we no there is a market on the continent for small fish so lets use this to make money from the millions of tons of dead fish thrown over the side each year
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Posted: Thu Nov 18, 10 7:11 am Post subject:
What is your definition of "overfished"?
The definition of a species been over fished is when more fish are killed than the estimated fish population can breed in each year.
This is based on the amount of fish been killed been inaccurate (logbook entries) and scientific studies taken aboard fishing vessels afew times of the year.
It's a bit like trying to set a quota of the amount of bunnies in a field , ask the shooter and he will give a small figure , send in a scientist to study them and depending what time of day will give diffrent results.( just like fishing the full picture can never be know as it will also depend on male to female ratio)
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Posted: Thu Nov 18, 10 8:11 am Post subject:
Really interesting to read your views on this subject Carlseawolf. I have been watching a channel 5 series on maritime matters recently and am now able to understand the background issues that are in place when fishing boats are boarded and catches checked.
What is coming across to me from this whole thread is that fishing, rather than being an honest form of providing food from times immemorial has become a largely political issue, with a bit of environmentalsim chucked into the pot and is a right muddle.
Sad times for our fishermen.
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Posted: Thu Nov 18, 10 9:43 am Post subject:
The politics started back in 1971 the EU was first formed and the common fisheries policy was dreamt up.
In 1971 it was post codwar in britian and the fishing fleet was at it's lowest with very few boats at sea and no offical body speaking for the fishermen, This is when the goverment body now know as DEFRA went to the EU to talk fishing and farming quotas.
This meeting is why we are such a state as the fishing fleet was a small player in british industary so the goverment used the fishing groundas a lever to get a better deal for there farmers .( after all there are more farms owned by members of goverment than fishing boats) and so did the rest of the big players.
This proccess of sorting out the common fisheries policy only took 2 weeks to complete , where as the for mentioned logbook has 5 diffrent coloured pages to be handed in to certain goverment bodies depending on where you land took them about 2 years to decide the 5 colours.
To put it simply the fishing industary was sold out to save the farmers as they where deamed more important.
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Posted: Thu Nov 18, 10 10:05 am Post subject:
Policing the seas around britian!
As with any police force they can only prosercute you if they catch you do something wrong.
You may have seen the tv programmes where the fisheries are boarding boats form rubber inflatables and looking like they are saving the seas around britian , but it's all a show to make the general public feel good that something is been done.
This is how it realy is , it's not a stealth boat that sneaks up on the fleet and catches them doing bad , instead it's about 150' long built like a block of flats and pours smoke out of it's stack that can be seen for 12 miles on a good day.
To counter this the fisherman has radar that can see up to 60 mile that is smart enough to tell him the course and speed of a vessel long before you can visually see it, they talk on radio and phones to update the movement of the vessel so they know where they are at all times.
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Posted: Thu Nov 18, 10 10:20 am Post subject:
The main thorn in the side is the planes as you don't see them ,and because you have to put your position in your log book each day there is a chance of been caught out if you say your somewhere you never went to.
The fisheries police are like any other police in the fact if your get boarded to many times you can claim harasement if they find nothing wrong , this intern allow you to do what you like for a small amount of time as they don't want to be in court on an harasement charge as it doesn't look good on the public image.
Every local seafish area out to the 6 mile limit has it's own rules as well as the ones made by DEFRA so quite often the two will be diffrent on the same subject.
Many of these small seafish areas run what we call an inshore boat to check up on the smaller fishing craft , but only run them for a few days a month due to budget cuts..
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THE SCOTTISH Fishermen's Federation has welcomed the new 'FishFight' campaign launched by food campaigner and celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall to end the practice of the discarding of fish.
Responding to the launch of the campaign, SFF chief executive Bertie Armstrong described the discarding of fish as a 'madness' that highlighted the need for urgent reform of regulations in the Common Fisheries Policy, which are at the root of the problem.
He said the difference between this campaign and a plethora of previous initiatives is that this one recognises the real underlying problem of unfit regulation. The problem does not lie in the behaviour of fishermen but rather with the detail of the regulations - which must be complied with to stay within the law.
"We wholeheartedly agree that the discarding of fish is madness and we welcome this exposure to the public of the problems embedded in the present CFP rules, which completely fail to take an ecosystem approach to a mixed environment such as the North Sea," he said.
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Posted: Fri Nov 19, 10 7:51 am Post subject:
There could well be a mixture of motivations at work here.
First from Hugh, as he seeks more publicity in his attempt to become the official UK saviour of all things foody. Secondly from the fishermen as they basically look for ways of landing more fish than they are currently allowed to.
If we believe in quotas as a way of helping to save our fisheries, why not allow the fisherman to land and sell the under sized fish but then take that weight away from their total quota ?
The CFP is obviously not working. Its a great shame that the UK is not allowed to police its own fishing policy.
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Posted: Fri Nov 19, 10 11:46 am Post subject:
I agree hugh will feather his own nest during the publicity of this cause , but without food champions like him who has the ability to turn heads and start asking questions the cause would never come to light .
I agree that no more tonnage of fish should be landed than at present but the type of fish landed should be changed to all disguards , and where possible find a market for small fish and anything else put to fish meal backed by a goverment minimum price.
This fish challenge if hugh does it right will save what is left of the british fishing industary for the future , but if done wrong and he gets no public support it will just make the fishermen lawless pirates in the eyes of the general public.
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Posted: Fri Nov 19, 10 10:59 pm Post subject:
Feel compelled to write something on this as I know a bit about it. Discards occur for two reasons -the fish are either undersized or over quota. The known targeting of undersized fish is unforgivable but with red diesel at 45 pence per litre i can assure everyone that fishermen do not target fish they cannot retain if they can avoid it. Large mesh nets (130+mm) are now the norm as not only does it let small fish escape it reduces drag in the net and therefore reduces fuel costs. Over quota discarding is an entirely EU made catastrophe that basically affects fishermen depending on where they come from within the EU. Interestingly enough around the same time as cod became an issue for the EU it was considered hake was also in trouble. The cod recovery plan has been ongoing for almost 7 years whilst the hake recovery plan lasted one until hake made a supposed recovery. Everyone within the industry would sign a sworn affidavit that cod recovered at almost the same time but funnily enough the EU's scientists didn't agree with those that caught cod but did with those that caught hake. Who catches the bulk of the hake - Spain, cod - UK. Go ask a Spaniard how much hake they discarded before they landed home in Vigo. If this sounds far fetched also consider the deep water species blue ling which is one of the totem species of the green team and a species of great importance to France. Go check out the quota recommendation for this species next year as opposed to the species caught by the vast majority of UK fishermen. The industry is being taken to the cleaners for no more reason than it is of no great economic importance to the UK and is expendable in negotiations with our European partners. This becomes a much easier sell to the general public when those who work within the industry are portrayed as rabid lunatics who will not be content until they have plundered the sea of all life. Think about it no fish, no livelihood. We're maybe out in the styx but we're not that thick!
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 12 1:26 pm Post subject:
crofter wrote:
Despite what most people believe, cod are not endangered, in a year or two even the fisheries scientists will agree with that.
What do you base that on? It may well be true for all I know, but I'd quite like to see some sort of evidence.
Cod stocks in the North sea have increased significantly in the past six years, according to a new report.
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 12 1:50 pm Post subject:
First from Hugh, as he seeks more publicity in his attempt to become the official UK saviour of all things foody.
How could he attempt such a task without publicity?
Is he doing it just for the publicity? Does it matter why he is doing it if he gets results?
Secondly from the fishermen as they basically look for ways of landing more fish than they are currently allowed to.
Are they?
I understood the idea was that they aim to catch less fish and land the same amount.
If we believe in quotas as a way of helping to save our fisheries, why not allow the fisherman to land and sell the under sized fish but then take that weight away from their total quota ?
Flipping big "if" for a start.
Secondly, the best way to kill a fishery is to start catching immature fish.
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'I have no idea how that could happen,' general manager says of leaked reports of Alain Vigneault's ouster
Vancouver Canucks president and general manager Mike Gillis addresses the media in Vancouver on Wednesday May 22, 2013, after the team announced it had fired head coach Alain Vigneault, associate coach Rick Bowness and assistant coach Newell Brown.
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VANCOUVER — Wednesday was a bad day for Vancouver Canucks coach Alain Vigneault. It continued a poor season for general manager Mike Gillis.
Fifteen days after the Canucks' second straight first-round exit from the National Hockey League playoffs, Gillis fired Vigneault and top assistant coaches Rick Bowness and Newell Brown. But even that job went poorly, as Vigneault learned of his dismissal from media reports before Gillis had spoken to him.
"I have no idea how that could happen," Gillis told reporters summoned to Rogers Arena for a Wednesday afternoon press conference. "I had a meeting scheduled today … at 10 o'clock with our ownership group. I was in that meeting until two o'clock. I came out of it and I phoned Alain at 2:15. Then I found out that someone in Quebec had said this had happened.
"I think it's terribly unfortunate. I wish that wasn't the case. But it's completely beyond my control."
News of Vigneault's firing broke in Quebec while Gillis was still meeting in Vancouver with Canucks chairman Francesco Aquilini and the owner's family. More than 90 minutes after the initial report, the general manager called his coach to say he was being fired after seven seasons that represented the best spell of sustained excellence in franchise history.
Vigneault's 313 wins in Vancouver, six Northwest Division titles and a 2011 charge to within one game of the Canucks' first Stanley Cup wasn't enough for the 52-year-old to keep his job.
Gillis said Vigneault was fired because of the Canucks' playoff failure the last two years.
But a factor also was Vigneault's long tenure and the need to change coaches to achieve what Gillis said two weeks ago was his plan to "reset" the organization.
"That's the most immediate and logical change you can make, I believe," Gillis said Wednesday. "But I also think we need to do more as well for where we're headed as a group and an organization. When things like this occur, it isn't one person. It's all of us.
"We're in a results-oriented business and if you look at the last two playoffs we've been in, we were the higher-seeded team but lost. There comes a point in time where the message has to change and we have to be better. We simply didn't get the result that we expected, and in this business you have to get results."
After the Canucks were swept by the San Jose Sharks 4-0 earlier this month, Gillis acknowledged he had wanted to do more as a manager but found it difficult to improve the roster in the "messed up" lockout-shortened season.
Other teams, however, found ways to improve.
The Canucks, fast and skilled, have been left behind in the NHL trend towards big, brawny teams. Gillis was unable to trade backup goalie Roberto Luongo, planned poorly for the anticipated loss of injured centre Manny Malhotra, and at the trading deadline in April managed to acquire only five-foot-eight centre Derek Roy.
The Canucks also purchased from the St. Louis Blues their own minor-league affiliate, but so far don't know if or where it will operate in the American Hockey League next season.
Gillis has much work to do beyond changing coaches.
"This has been a draining season for a lot of us," Gillis said. "I'm looking forward to the next chapter in this organization. I think we're well-positioned to continue to improve and get better and I'm excited about where we're going to go from this point forward."
Gillis said he has no timeline to hire Vigneault's replacement.
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Sentience in Farm Animals: Pigs
Sentience in Farm Animals main introduction
Many times I've looked into a pig's eye and convinced myself that inside that brain is a sentient being, who is looking back at me observing him wondering what he's thinking about."
Dick King-Smith, the author of The Sheep-Pig upon which the film Babe was based.*1
Sentience in Farm Animals main introduction
Many times I've looked into a pig's eye and convinced myself that inside that brain is a sentient being, who is looking back at me observing him wondering what he's thinking about."
Dick King-Smith, the author of The Sheep-Pig upon which the film Babe was based.*1
Pigs like all animals are sentient, truly aware, they posses many of the abilities and indications of sentience described here: Sentience in Farm Animals
Fact. Pigs are more intelligent than either your cat or dog, they are placed as the fourth most intelligent creature on earth. Yet few people know very much about these much maligned and misunderstood animals.
Pigs are clever creatures with an intelligence way beyond that of a three year old human child. Pigs have good memories, they can recognise and remember up to thirty other pigs. Did you know that pigs have a good sense of direction and are able to find their way over long distances? They can remember where food is hidden and by watching each other they learn where food is located. Scientists at the University of Bristol found that showing one pig where food was hidden could benefit others in the group; instead of looking for their own food the other pigs having noticed that their companion had located food would follow his lead. Pigs can respond to their own given name within 7 days of birth.
Most amazingly you may be surprised to know that pigs can learn to play, and indeed excel at using joystick video oriented games. Researchers conducting a study of farm animal cognition hope to quantify the cognitive level of pigs by encouraging them to play video games. They use their snouts to operate the joy stick and have over an 80 percent rate of accuracy. Candice Croney a doctrinal student in animal science involved in the research says:
"The computer screen has a series of different icons, or shapes, on one side and a single shape on the other. First, we try to get the pig to move the single shape across the screen to touch the one that matches it. Once the pig accomplishes that, we move on to more complex tasks. Pigs are known to be smart animals, and we expect them to do more than recognize symbols. Our tests are similar to many used in child cognitive psychology. They'll give us an idea of how advanced pigs are in mental development."
Having pigs play video games may sound frivolous at first, but we have a very serious goal. We have to know what an animal's needs–including any behavioural needs–are in order to meet those needs. We do know that pigs can be trained to turn the lights off and on in their housing facility, but what kind of lighting do they prefer? If we can better understand how pigs see the world, maybe we can learn how they think and feel. These experiments may help us start to get the information we need to make better decisions and judgments about how to care for animals."
In a Pig's Eye Fall 1997 - Penn State Agriculture Magazine
During similar research it was found that pigs can respond to verbal communications.
Indeed they are remarkable creatures, insightful, curious , fastidious, inquisitive, social, companionable, compassionate, intelligent and ingenious.
Capable of considerable ingenuity they can problem solve better than your dog. Research has discovered that Pigs also have what psychologists call a theory of Mind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, they seem to have an understanding of what is going on in the mind of other pigs and make decisions and act accordingly. This type of thinking is usually thought only to exist in man and apes. Pigs it seems are masters of deceit and, according to researchers at Bristol University, pigs deliberately mislead other pigs so as to gain more food.
Referring to studies concerning the intelligence and emotions of farm animals Mark Townsend environment correspondent for the Guardian writes this about pigs:
"Scientists claim such findings are increasingly challenging the belief that farmyard animals have no 'sense of self', a notion that could have profound implications for the way Britain's creatures are farmed. Pigs were similarly found to have a cerebral capacity beyond the popular preconception of a farm animal. Researchers at Bristol University found that pigs are masters of deceit, deliberately misleading other pigs if it would result in more food for themselves."
Sheep might be dumb ... but they're not stupid | UK news | The Observer.
Pigs are highly social animals, they sleep together huddled in nests and while they sleep they love to cuddle up close to one another nose to nose. Pigs also greet other pigs whom they know by rubbing noses much in the way we would shake hands. Pigs are highly co-operative in social groups and show affection by grooming each other. Very much like us, and indeed other animals, they establish social groups and are capable of evaluating the behaviour of other members of the group understanding which of their number are more aggressive and dominant.
In the wild sows form stable family units led by a matriarch with her children and female relatives. Pigs are excellent mothers with a deep affection for their piglets, the bond of a mother and her offspring is as strong as that of any human. In her natural habitat, before she gives birth the mother pig builds a large nest to protect her young, she is very careful about both the quality of the nest and its location, in some instances she may walk for three to six miles to find a suitable place to construct her nest, taking as long as six hours to do so. Here in this carefully selected secluded place she will give birth to her piglets and protect them after they are born for about two weeks, after which time the new family leave the nest and return to the rest of the herd, over the following twelve weeks the piglets are gradually weaned and begin to eat solid food.
Pigs are very vocal creatures and have a wide range of communicative calls consisting of grunts, squeaks, snarls and snorts. These are not random noises with no meaning as many people are apt to think, although incomprehensible to us these noises communicate a variety of emotional states, intentions, warnings and other messages important to pigs and what is central to thier way of life. For instance a lactating sow has a special call which summons her piglets to suckle, piglets keep in contact with each other and their mother by grunts and squeals. Pigs are affectionate creatures, if you observe closely you will see pigs greet each other, gently touching snouts sometimes accompanied by soft grunts of friendliness or fondness but sometimes more amorous.
Many consider that individuality is the prerogative of the human animal. In reality this is yet another erroneous misconception and one which many people have about other animals, particularly farm animals. It may surprise you that pigs, like humans, are unique individuals. Pigs like ourselves come in a whole range of emotions and characteristics, some are playful while others are more serious, some my be timid while others are more bold, some pigs are more resilient than others while sadly just like us some are highly sensitive and suffer with depression.
Generally though pigs are highly sensitive and emotional animals and can like us suffer with depression. Many pigs confined in the cramped spaces of factory farms become seriously depressed, because they are intelligent creatures they are aware of their awful plight: the cramped space in pens where they can do nothing and can barely sit down nor turn round with nothing to occupy their intelligent active minds.
As highly sensitive creatures pigs experience both positive as well as negative emotions and like us they are capable of feeling both happiness and sadness.
"As happy as a pig in mud" is a saying often used to express how much fun someone is having. Pigs wallow in mud to keep cool and to protect them from sunburn but they also seem to enjoy the experience.
Like all animals pigs experience pleasure and are playful. It is piglets in particular who love to play, in ways very similar to those of human children, such as frolicking, chasing one another, running in circles, squeaking and grunting in sheer delight, pretend fights and general rough and tumbles and exploring their environment. Play is for piglets as it is for children an important part of their development. Pigs also like "toys" such as an old blanket, cardboard boxes. Pigs will however soon tired of the same toy very quickly.
Contrary to popular misconception pigs are clean animals they prefer bathing in fresh water rather than mud. Yes, pigs do wallow in mud as has already been mentioned above but this is done because pigs do not sweat, so in order to cool they take mud baths. In the wild pigs defecate away from their nests. The fact that pigs are forced to live in filthy conditions in their own excrement is amongst the many reasons pigs suffer with depression, along with confinement and lack of mental stimulation, when they are forced to live in factory farms and other conditions that deny them their natural inclinations. So when you hear any of the derogatory remarks often made, such as you are a filthy pig or this place looks like a pig sty, know that this is a misconception, for pigs are very clean animals. In fact pigs are so clean that they can be kept indoors like your cat or dog and make good companion animals.
Furthermore the reference to pigs as a metaphor for gluttonous behaviour is also way of the mark. In fact given the opportunity pigs are very picky eaters, they dislike monotony, preferring variety they soon set aside food if the same food is offered to them each time. The idea that pigs eat anything without even savouring the flavour as is eluded to in the common expression"giving pigs cherries" is a misconception. Actually unlike a dog, pigs do not gobble up their food, rather they nibble, sniffing carefully to ascertain if they would like to eat the food or not.
In the wild pigs spend a lot of time foraging for food, rooting for food with their highly sensitive snouts they are able to obtain a huge variety of foods including fruits, mushrooms, roots, snakes worms and even rodents. Again very much like ourselves a pigs body is composed of one to two thirds of water and therefore water is an essential part of their diet.
Pigs are compassionate. This is an aspect of farm animals few ever know about, this is because we are now so removed from them.
In the book the The Pig who sang to the moon by Jeffery Masson There is a delightful story told to him by Gene Bauston from Farm Sanctuary, an animal sanctuary in California that tells a tale of friendship, compassion and emotional relationship between two pigs, Hope and Johnny. Hope had a seriously injured leg, for which sadly nothing could be done, and as a consequence her mobility was severely restricted. She had been rescued from a stock yard. Johnny and Hope formed a close bond.
"Able to scoot round on the barn on her three good legs, she could not walk. Johnny, who was much younger than Hope, bonded closely with her . At night he would always sleep right next to her, keeping her warm on cold nights. In the morning Bauston would bring Hope bowls of food and water, Johnny would stay with her to keep the other pigs from interfering with her or taking her food. During the day Johnny would spend most of his time hanging out in the barn with Hope. When Hope died of old age, Johnny was still a young and healthy pig. Maybe he knew about death. The death of his closest friend seemed to devastate him; he died suddenly and unexpectedly within a couple of weeks after Hope, perhaps of broken heart."
It may surprise you to know that pigs are not only compassionate but they are very forgiving, and even badly abused pigs rescued by farm animal sanctuaries appear not to hold a grudge and as you will see in the story below, are gentle caring sensitive creatures despite their mistreatment.
Judy Woods, Director, Pigs Peace Sanctuary writes this about a very special pig.
"As I sit and write this I gaze out the window and see Libby the pig in the pasture. Her nose is deep in the earth in search of a tender root. She walks off snacking on bites of sweet clover and having a care free day. From the moment she wakes up she is off deciding how her day will be spent. On hot days she is either close to the pond or in the early morning she makes the long walk through the meadow to the cool and lush woods to spend the day.
If you came here and met Libby you might notice how calm and gentle she is; you might gaze into her eyes and see the look of a special friend. You might find that particular spot behind her eyes she loves to have scratched and then you might see her smile.
Read the rest of this moving story about a lovely gentle pig rescued from a pig farm
Libby's Story: Judy Woods, Director, Pigs Peace Sanctuary
Pigs are very much like us in so many way, they even dream and see in colours
When you really get to know pigs you will be pleasantly astounded at what remarkable animals they are. It may very well surprise you that Pigs like music
There is yet another remarkable story of a very sensitive pig told in the preface of The Pig who Sang to the Moon, where Jeffrey Masson gives account of a remarkable pig who lived on a beach in New Zealand. Piglet as she was called was immaculate, well mannered, sensitive and intelligent friendly to everyone. Famous in her locality she was popular amongst school children who liked to sit at her side and give her tummy a rub. She enjoyed music, in particular the violin, especially on the beach at night when there was a full moon.
"One of her guardians took a picture quite recently of her making the sweetest sounds during a night of the full moon, as if she were actually singing to the moon. The picture of Piglet singing is photographic evidence of her special affinity for music, water, night and moon.
It is another reason to believe that many animals — pigs foremost among them — may have access to feelings that humans have not yet known. Perhaps if we listen carefully enough to the songs that Piglet and her cousins sing at night to the moon, we may yet learn about emotions that could bring us a new and utterly undreamt-of delight. "
The above book is an excellent account of farm animal emotion, it includes information and anecdotes about pigs and other farm animals which after reading you are left with no doubt that pigs and other farm animals are truly sentient beings.
Here is a delightful poem:
Big Earl and Me
When the trailer pulled up and they dropped the gate
I knew his arrival was more than fate
One look in his eyes and I could plainly tell
His life with us would go very well
A special bond there soon would be
Between this pig, Big Earl, and me
He came as a companion for the big pig, Babe
But she don't care for this big white knave
She chases him and runs him ragged
And bites his butt 'till his nerves are jagged
He's a gentle old man as all can see
We're the best of friends, Big Earl and me
He's long and tall and very sweet
He's a lot of things, but not petite
He's as laid back as a pig can be
Like me he's clumsy as can be
Can't neither of us climb a tree
We're two of a kind, Big Earl and me
To read the rest of this poem please click: Big Earl and Me: Richard Holye, Founder, Mini-Pigs Sanctuary
I hope you will agree that pigs are amazingly complex animals capable of a whole range of emotions, they are gentle intelligent creatures who deserve to live out their lives according to thier natures, in peace and in freedom from fear and pain.
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Every Second Counts ~ Local Business
Posted on February 20, 2012
I happened upon a small boutique in the back of Hilltop Plaza Shopping Center one day by chance. I'd seen the sign from Old Chapel Rd but had never ventured in. It read "Every Second Counts Consignment Boutique". I had a half hour to kill and anyone who knows me knows that I can't resist consignment…boy, did I luck out!
As soon as I walked in I was intrigued by all the unique and colorful items. I found way too many things I wanted (I was able to leave with only 5…will power!) and I met Dina Bennett who was a warm and friendly face. (Come to find out that Dina also is a hair stylist and she is now MY stylist, yay!)
I wanted Dina to give me a little background of their store (she co-owns it with Karen Whitney) for my blog post, and what an awesome story it is!
"This was a dream come true for us. About two years ago I had this idea to open an UPSCALE consignment store in Bowie, Md. As luck would have it, I read that they were having a contest for unique ideas for new businesses at Hilltop Plaza. So I wrote down my ideas and wrote a letter to the Owner Mr. Frank Storch. Less then 24 hours later he called me personally and wanted to meet with us. So we put together some pictures of our dream store and met with him. Wow, everything was happening so fast, so I could not believe it when he called me the next day and told me that we won the contest and received a YEAR of free rent! Every Second Counts Consignment Boutique is now starting our third year and growing everyday!"
Owners Dina Bennett and Karen Whitney have created a beautiful store where you can bring your like new (gently used) items to sell and make some extra cash. With the feel of an upscale boutique, Great prices on brand name items, customers love to drop in regularly to see whats new. Whether your looking for that unique gift, redecorating on a dime, or de-cluttering, we can help. You never know what you will find with new items arriving daily and in this economy everyone can use some extra cash. So hurry in because Every Second Counts!
Karen Whitney and Dina Bennett
This is my most favorite sign in the WHOLE WORLD!!! 😀
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It's been a while — far too long, really! — since I put up something I've cooked, and tonight was time to rectify that. Having picked up my latest basket and seen some baby bok choy, I wanted to do something with that, and a scrounge online turned up this really fantastic recipe — seriously, check it all out, lots of photos, plenty of detail, the works.
My big change here was to use udon rather than the thick rice noodle indicated, in that no such noodle as described was available in my local Japanese market (I could have easily have missed it). Other than that I went at it, adjusting portion sizes down for a single-person dish. (I used some minced ginger I had to hand as well rather than julienning, FWIW.)
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Olivia Munn is setting the record straight.
The actress and her NFL beau Aaron Rodgers made headlines recently after reports claimed they got engaged, but it turns out, that's not the case. And instead of just making a public comment about her personal life, Munn decided to have a little fun with her denial.
The (fake) engagement reports were brought to her mother's attention, who sweetly sent her daughter a text message to congratulate her on the happy news. That's when the 35-year-old explained that the stories weren't true, and she decided to share the conversation with her mother with all of her Instagram followers to make sure everyone was on the same page.
The hilarious conversation started with Olivia's mother giving her blessing but also giving her famous daughter a hard time for not telling her the big news first.
"Oh gosh Mom no. You know you shouldn't believe the gossip on the Internet. If I was engaged, I promise you'd be like the 8th person to know. Maybe 9th. But definitely way before the internet," Munn joked back to her mom, who quickly then changed the conversation to her excitement over her daughter appearing on "Live With Kelly and Michael" and meeting with Stephen Colbert (or "Colberto" as she called him) for her press tour.
"Answering yes or no to personal questions can be tricky because if you say 'No' it means whenever you say 'No comment' that kind of becomes your default 'Yes,'" Munn captioned the screenshot. "But since I'm doing press for the next few days, I didn't want to have to answer the same question over and over. So instead, I'm going to let my text conversation with my Asian mom help me out. #Colberto"
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Although Rodgers hasn't put a ring on it yet, it wouldn't be a huge surprise if he did.
A source close to the Green Bay Packers quarterback tells E! News, "Olivia and Aaron have discussed they want to get married eventually and their future together. All of his friends know she is a great fit for him."
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The insider continues, "They are very much in love but they want to make sure it all happens naturally, they always said. She is a big sports fan and a guys-kind-of-girl, so whenever she is out with Aaron it seems very seamless between them. Aaron supports Olivia with her acting and is a very proud boyfriend. There is always non-stop laughter and humor between them when they are out."
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