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Bond University, a private institution located on the Gold Coast of Australia has found a new way to collect and efficiently analyze qualitative feedback received from student surveys and course evaluations.
The institution is using EvaluationKIT, a Web-based course evaluation system. The solution's newest feature, EvaluationKIT Text Analytics, is designed to analyze write-in comments submitted by students on surveys and course evaluations. Instructors choose the survey questions to be analyzed and the system produces a report. The institution's goal, according to Shelley Kinash, associate professor and director of learning and teaching, is to collect feedback that can't be generated from standard survey questions.
"Qualitative feedback from students is extremely useful in identifying common thoughts and viewpoints across large numbers of students," said Kinash, in a prepared statement. "Using EvaluationKIT Text Analytics, our student feedback data has become so much more powerful and meaningful. The students are the stakeholders who are best placed to evaluate the quality of their education. Through applying qualitatively analyzed feedback, we have made significant improvements to learning, teaching and the overall student experience."
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From the Logan County Department of Public Health
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12, 2012]
Seasonal influenza has started to
circulate in our community. Most healthy adults can infect others
one day before symptoms develop and five to seven days after
symptoms appear. Some people, especially young children and people
with weakened immune systems, might be contagious for a longer
period of time.
There are steps you can take to help
keep from spreading the flu when you are sick:
Wash your hands
often with soap and water or an alcohol-based hand rub.
Try to avoid close
contact with people.
Cover your nose
and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the
tissue in the trash after you use it.
If you are sick with flu-like illness,
stay home for at least 24 hours after your fever is gone without
the use of fever-reducing medicine.
The Logan County Department of Public Health has a limited supply
of flu vaccines still available. The hours for vaccines at the
health department are 7:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
No appointment is required. The influenza vaccine is also available
on the HOPE Mobile during its regularly scheduled stops.
The cost of the seasonal flu shot is $25 for adults, $16.75 for
children 6 months through 18 years of age who have no health
insurance or health insurance that doesn't cover vaccines, and free
to those with a Medicaid or Medicare card.
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For more information on the seasonal influenza vaccine, call the
Logan County Department of Public Health at 217-735-2317.
For more information, visit
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You never realize how tired you are until you fall asleep at ten with the TV still on. I woke up at 6:30 and realized I had left it on all night. I turned it off, went back to bed for half an hour, then couldn't fall asleep again. Mom and Dad came home today, which I'm grateful for. This week was a riot, but I'd rather have my parents home. Special thanks to Lona for visiting me and chasing away Torry's 'bro'friends. We went and saw the play Pops cameo-ed in, "Dearly Departed." Of course me and my short attention span, the thing I remember the most was he was wearing green suspenders with trains on them. Oh, and the fact that his death brought the family together. On the way home we listened to a CD where blues singers sing Bob Dylan's Blonde On Blonde. Blues isn't exactly my thing, so when we got home I put on the actual album. You might be a Carlson if you do the cancan to Rainy Day Woman with your mother. Mom then showed me things she saw and bought in Philly. I won't say what they are in case they pop up in someone's mail slot soon. I'm so tired I'm going to bed after I'm done typing this (or at least when the record ends)
Saturday, August 29, 2009
What a Week!
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Monday, August 24, 2009
First Day of High School!
My first impression of high school was scary. When I got to the bus stop, I saw so many more people, some of them I didn't even know, that I got so frozen from the unfamiliarity of it that I didn't go to the stop sign, I just stayed across the street. The bus was crowded, too crowded. When walking to the cafeteria, where the freshmen were supposed to go, I got a dizzy spell, like I couldn't believe I was doing this, and I had to wave my hand in front of my eyes. In homebase we got our schedules (again, in case you lost yours since orientation), and the papers you need to fill out to get your locker. First block was government. The teacher was kind of crazy in a in-your-face way, but he's a coach, so he has an excuse. We spent about five minutes going "Kapeesh?" "Kapeesh" "Kapeesh?" "Kapeesh". Second block was Geometry. He jokes around a lot. He told us a really lame joke. "What did the tree say to the other tree?" "Gee, I'm a tree (geometry)." He says he gives a lot of homework, but he gives a lot of time to do it in class. There were lots of sophomores there, which was kind of intimidating. Next block was French. Since I was in French II, there was older kids there, too. French was fun. Most of the time we learned about the teacher, who was a hoot. After French was lunch, which I had most of my friends in. What was surprising to me was that lunch was with other grades too! I was shocked! Same with health, which I had after lunch. I'm so used to the structured classes and lunches of middle school, where the different grades have their lunches and electives at certain times. I don't know how tomorrow will go. Tomorrow I have theatre arts, earth and space science, honors English, and chorus. I have to say that today was okay. A lot better than I thought it would be. Now I'm home, and Torry randomly handed me fries and a chicken sandwich from Wendy's. Not my favorite meal, but at least I won't have to cook dinner.
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
Home Alone!
Well not really, since I have Torry. I just got home from grocery shopping with Pops and GangGang. Torry is currently gone, and something tells me he had a party last night, since there's beer cans in the bathroom trash can, which I will transfer to the recycling bin later. One good thing about having no one around for a week is I can blast my music! MWUHAHAHAHA! I put a record on when I got home, but the sound wasn't working, which scared me. Then I plugged in a random cord, and it worked again :D
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Oh what now?
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Saturday, August 15, 2009
Back from an awesome week of Camp CEO!
Camp CEO was a blast! Everyone got paired with a CEO, and I got paired with Karen Howze, a DC magistrate judge. She was a lot of fun, and we went synchronized waterfront watching, underwater basket weaving, and making potpourri together. Camp CEO is the strangest, most interesting girl scout camp ever. Monday and Tuesday were a blur, but Wednesday was when things really started to pick up.
Wednesday was when my CEO buddy came, since the CEO's only stayed for one day and came and went throughout the week. When they came, we'd sing:
We're mighty glad you're here
We'll send the air reverberating
With our mighty cheer RA RA!
We'll sing you in, we'll sing you out
To you we'll give a mighty shout
Hail, hail the gang's all here
And welcome to Camp Coles Trip
Hats off to you
Camp CEO is proud to say
Hats off to you
We're glad you came
We'll shout your name
Hats off to you *insert CEO name here*
Hats off to you!
Thursday was groups again. I went to the waterfront again, and instead of kayaking I did underwater basket weaving. Now let me tell you, the stairs to the waterfront are steep and long, and it is hell getting back up. Thankfully we took a shortcut, so it wasn't as bad. After that people came and taught us modern dance. Why? I don't know. Then we went to the amphitheatre to listen to two CEO's that work at universeties talk about college. The amphitheatre is also the place where we have 'Dreaming Your Future', where after breakfast every morning, the CEO's that are there sit on a panel and tell people about their careers and take questions.
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Saturday, August 8, 2009
I'm going to Camp CEO tomorrow, and I'm über-excited! Andelle went there, and says its really fun. For a whole week I will be learning about being a CEO, eating awesome camp food, and swimming in a river. And I'm going to bring my buddy, Gumby. I decided to no pack Agent D, the Fabulous Snail, and Kylie since I won't be able to pack a plethora of plushies. Besides, gumby's my new buddy. I will miss all of you greatly, especially Andelle (she's beautiful soul)
Smiles! :D
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Venus Express and the transit of Venus
While astronomers around the world looked to the skies last week to witness Venus move across the face of the Sun, ESA's Venus Express took measurements of the transiting planet from its unique viewpoint.
Venus Express is currently the only spacecraft orbiting Venus, but of course could not tell that the 5–6 June transit was occurring from its location.
Instead, it watched the Sun setting through the planet's thick atmosphere towards the end of the transit as seen from Earth, a technique used to reveal the concentration of different gas molecules at different altitudes.
The measurements will be compared to those made from Earth at the same time, to refine details of our sister planet's atmosphere.
The same method is also used to probe the atmospheres of planets that orbit stars outside of our Solar System to determine their potential habitability. The results from the transit will help scientists refine these techniques to study rocky Earth-sized planets.
In addition, the last available images from before the transit have been returned from Venus Express.
The movie tracks cloud motions in the planet's thick atmosphere on 1 June, initially looking at the southern hemisphere. As the spacecraft moves closer, cloud structures are seen around the planet's equator, before moving to high latitudes by the end of the sequence.
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Waterloo Police Investigate Robbery of Auto Parts Store
On Monday, November 24, 2008, at approximately 5:47 PM, Waterloo Police responded to a report of a robbery at the Auto Zone located at 1430 Logan Ave. The suspect was described as a black male wearing a black mask was armed with a handgun. The suspect demanded money and then left the area on foot with an undetermined amount of money.
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Viking Football Finalizes 2013 Recruiting Class
MARSHALL, MO -- The Missouri Valley College football coaching staff is pleased to announce their 2013 signing class. Below is a list of student-athletes that have signed their intent to enroll at Missouri Valley for the Fall 2013 semester and join the MVC football program.
"The whole coaching staff is excited to bring in such a diverse and talented group of student-athletes," said Head Coach Paul Troth. "Everyone feels confident these young men will help to continue the great tradition of Missouri Valley Viking football and build upon our recent success as a program."
Missouri Valley is coming off a 2012 season that included an out-right Heart of America Athletic Conference championship, undefeated regular season, appearance in the NAIA Football Championship Series semifinals, and a 12-1 record, finishing No. 3 in the NAIA.


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Pitch yourself like a Pro would!
Contact: Wendy Guzman
Networking is a huge part of a successful job search, but it requires skills that most of us need to work hard to develop, like the ability to succinctly pitch your qualifications to relative strangers at a moment's notice. Get feedback of your efforts and support from others looking for work in a new Networking Club that will meet at the Central Library on February 29th, 2012 from 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. The North Cities One Stop's Job Club will have off- site meetings every other month in the third floor Community Meeting Room of Berkeley's Central Library at 2090 Kittredge Street (at Shattuck Avenue). Folks who attend will have an opportunity to practice their elevator speeches, learn networking techniques from professionals and connect with other job seekers. Bring business cards, any job leads that you would like to share with others and be ready to practice the fine art of self-promotion. This is a Workforce Reinvestment Act funded program that is hosted each month in various locations across Berkeley by North Cities One Stop Development Center. For more information on this program and to RSVP (required) contact Wendy Guzman, Employment Specialist, at 510-809-1330. Berkeley's Central Library is open Monday 12 noon until 8 p.m., Tuesday 10 a.m. until 8 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. until 6 p.m., and Sunday afternoons from 1 p.m. till 5 p.m. For more info please call 510-981-6195 or visit www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org. Wheelchair accessible. To request a sign language interpreter or other accommodations for this event, please call (510) 981-6195 (voice) or (510) 548-1240 (TTY); at least three working days will help ensure availability. Please refrain from wearing scented products to public programs. Networking Flyer
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I was in San Francisco for 24 hours last week and had one hour free time so they took me to Chaat Cafe, an Indian Restaurant on 3rd and Folsom next to the Mosconi Center. Highly recommend if you are in a hurry or not.
6AM flight out of Boston and I had the starboard view of Cape Ann as we turned west. From left to right, the Essex River complete with Cross Island just inland which is the turn around for the Essex River Race. Then Annisquam River cutting off Cape Ann from the mainland, Folly Cove, Halibut Point, Hoop Pole Cove, Andrews Point Sandy Bay, Straightsmouth Island and you can just pick up Thacher and Milk Islands. A tiny bit of Salt Island on the photo's edge.
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June 24, 2014 - Glasgow and London (UK)
Tagetik is Selected to Support Aggreko on Its Journey to World Class Finance
Global FTSE-100 leader in temporary power generation and temperature control solutions implements leading financial consolidation, reporting and planning software integrated on Microsoft technology infrastructure
Tagetik, a global provider of enterprise software solutions for performance management, disclosure management, financial governance and business intelligence, today announced that it has been selected by Aggreko Plc as its software provider of choice. The Tagetik software will provide Aggreko with industry leading financial consolidation, reporting, analytics and planning functionality and mark a distinct improvement from the current solution.
"To support Aggreko's growth strategy, the requirements of the finance organisation to provide the business with right first time reporting that is insightful and fast is becoming ever more important," says Carole Cran, CFO at Aggreko. "During a six month selection process, Tagetik demonstrated the product's capability to meet our complex statutory and management reporting needs and Tagetik will provide us with the means to step change the insight and speed with which we disseminate ever broader financial and non-financial information."
"We are honored to have been selected by such an important organisation," adds Alice Allegrini, sales manager at Tagetik UK. "The selection process was tough but very accurate and this gave us the chance to be evaluated in depth for our unique proposition. Being recognized as the perfect fit into a Microsoft infrastructure also contributed to make Tagetik the right choice rather than the safe choice for Aggreko."
"We are very pleased to welcome Aggreko to our growing list of global customers," says Manuel Vellutini, executive vice president, chief operating officer at Tagetik. "Our product partnership with Microsoft, again, has proven to be a win-win relationship together with our robust financial intelligence and experience from the field that we have been able to strongly embed within our software solution. At Tagetik, we are eager to see Aggreko benefitting from our product and continue supporting them in their journey to world class finance."
About Aggreko
Aggreko plc is the world leader in the supply of temporary power and temperature control solutions. Aggreko employs over 6,000 people operating from 202 locations. In 2013 Aggreko served customers in about 100 countries, and had revenues of approximately GBP 1.6bn (USD 2.5bn or Euros 1.9bn). Aggreko plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange (AGK.L), is a member of the FTSE-100 index, and is headquartered in Scotland. Aggreko provides power and temperature control solutions to customers who need them either very quickly, or for a short or indeterminate length of time. Examples would be the supply of power to an industrial site which needs to service its permanent power supply, supplying a whole city in times of power shortage, or providing a major sporting event with power and cooling systems. Aggreko serves our customers either through our 202 service centres, called the Local business, or globally through the Power Projects business. For more information: www.aggreko.com
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What you eat can help lower your blood pressure and reduce your risk for stroke and heart disease.
One such diet, the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet, has been shown to reduce blood pressure. This diet is low in saturated fat, cholesterol, and total fat. The diet emphasizes fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy products.
According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), your blood pressure can be unhealthy even if it stays only slightly above 120/80 mm Hg. The higher above that level, the greater your health risk. Over time, high blood pressure makes your heart work too hard. This can cause stroke, hardening of the arteries, heart failure, kidney disease, and even blindness.
Why this diet works
Why is the DASH diet so effective at reducing blood pressure?
It combines many nutrients that have been shown to be beneficial in reducing blood pressure. Those nutrients include calcium, potassium, magnesium, protein, and fiber, as well as lower total fat and saturated fat.
The DASH diet is naturally low in salt. The DASH diet recommends menus containing 2,300 mg of sodium and 1,500 mg of sodium a day. (One teaspoon of salt contains 2,300 mg of sodium.)
Further, following the DASH diet may delay your need to take hypertension medication, and may even keep you from needing to take it at all. And if you're already on medication, it may help you reduce the amount you take.
Doing the DASH
The DASH diet is a 2,000-calorie diet that includes:
- Six to 8 daily servings of grains and grain products, such as whole wheat bread, cereal, oatmeal, crackers, unsalted pretzels, and popcorn. A serving size is 1 slice of bread, 1 cup of ready-to-eat cereal, or a half-cup of rice, pasta, or cereal.
- Four to 5 daily servings of vegetables — the darker in color, the better. A serving size is 1 cup of raw leafy vegetables, a half-cup of cooked vegetables, or 6 ounces of vegetable juice.
- Four to 5 daily servings of fruit. A serving is 1 medium fruit, quarter-cup of dried fruit, half-cup of fresh, frozen or canned fruit, or 6 ounces of fruit juice.
- Two or 3 daily servings of low-fat or fat-free dairy products. A serving is 8 ounces of milk, 1 cup of yogurt, or 1½ ounces of cheese.
- Six or fewer daily servings of lean meat, poultry, or fish. A serving is 1 ounce of cooked meats, skinless poultry, or fish.
- Four to 5 servings per week of nuts, seeds, and dry beans. A serving is one-third cup or 1½ ounces of nuts, 1 tablespoon or half-ounce of seeds, or half-cup cooked dried beans.
- Two to 3 small daily servings of fats and oils like olive oil and low-fat salad dressing. A serving is 1 teaspoon soft margarine, 1 tablespoon low-fat mayonnaise, 2 tablespoons light salad dressing, or 1 teaspoon vegetable oil.
- Five or fewer servings per week of sweets like maple syrup, sorbet, or gelatin. A serving is 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 tablespoon jelly or jam, half-ounce jellybeans, or 8 ounces of lemonade.
Although the DASH diet isn't designed for weight loss, it can easily promote it if you reduce the number of servings you eat. Most of the food the diet features is low in energy density. This means it's big on volume and low in calories.
Still, there are parts of the DASH diet that may not be easy to follow. For one, it's packed with dark-colored fruits and vegetables, so be prepared to be choosier at the supermarket. Also, if it's very different from what you normally eat, it may be hard to adjust.
If you're serious about following the diet, it's a good idea to work with a registered dietitian (R.D.) for support and guidance. (For the names of R.D.s in your area who know about the DASH diet, visit the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.)
Moving forward
If you decide to go it alone, adopt the DASH diet gradually. By doing so, you'll be more likely to stick to it long-term.
For example, add 1 more serving of vegetables at lunch and dinner if you eat only 1 or 2 servings a day now. You might also add fruit to meals and snacks if you now only have juice for breakfast. In addition, slowly increase your dairy products to 3 servings per day. Try drinking skim milk with lunch or dinner, instead of soda, alcohol, or tea.
To get the most out of the DASH, lose weight if you need to and exercise regularly. Thirty minutes of moderate exercise 4 to 5 days a week is recommended.
More dish on the DASH
"The DASH Eating Plan" is a 24-page online guide published by the NHLBI. It offers a reader-friendly explanation of high blood pressure, detailed daily servings charts to help you plan your menus, a week of suggested DASH menus, plus tips to reduce sodium.
For more information about diet and other lifestyle factors to reduce hypertension, visit Your Guide to Lowering Blood Pressure.
Courtesy of Baptist Health System. See original article.


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Based on the original GPG authentication and OTC Rating System guides.
- Generate a GPG public/private key (for example, here is my public key)
- List the keys, and look for a line starting with
pub. The 16-character code is your key ID:
$ gpg --list-keys --keyid-format long ... pub 2048R/ABCDEF1234567890 2013-01-01
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The State Department is probing shocking allegations that guards at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan guzzled booze, engaged in hazing and hired hookers as attacks intensified in the capital city.
E-mails, photographs and interviews paint a sordid mosaic of a "'Lord of the Flies' environment" at the Kabul-based camp in which private security guards from the firm ArmorGroup downed vodka, stripped naked and harassed the locals during raucous parties, according to a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from the nonprofit watchdog group Project on Government Oversight.
"These are very serious allegations and we are treating them that way," a state department spokesman said.
Clinton has "zero tolerance" for the behavior alleged by the watchdog group and ordered a "review of the whole system," the spokesman said.
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Spring Equinox, Reincarnation, and The Great Cosmic Year
By Curtis Lang on Mar 20, 2015
The Spirit of the Year is Reborn
We are now entering the zone of the first great Solar Festival of 2015 – The Vernal Equinox, celebrated on Friday, March 20 this year, when the Sun enters the sign of Aries the Ram. This is a day to honor the Norse Goddess Frigga, Queen of Valhalla, whose chariot was drawn by two rams.
The Spring Equinox is a time of equal day and night, striking a cosmic balance between the feminine and masculine forces of yin and yang.
One of the four pagan cross-quarter festivals and a major Sabbat for witches, the Spring Equinox is the day to celebrate the reunion of the Earth Mother Kore with her long lost daughter Persephone, who has been languishing in the underworld throughout the long winter nights. This is the Greek version of the ancient pagan celebration of the coming ascendancy of the Sun, and the rebirth and renewal of plant life.
In upstate New York, this week, where the snow is thigh deep in the woods and patchy on the fields, the farmers at Roxbury Farm in Kinderhook are artfully nursing a warm, moist greenhouse full of trays of tiny onion sprouts, celeriac seedlings, collard starts and lettuce, and seedings of peppers, leeks and eggplants, in preparation for planting. \
For millennia the Spring Equinox has been celebrated around the world as a festival of Resurrection, and it marks the start of the astrological New Year.
For the temple priests of the Egyptian dynasties, Osiris, the dying and reborn god connected with the morning star Venus, was known as "the heart of the renewed sun". Lord of the Underworld and King of the Dead, in his role as the resurrected God, Osiris represented light, life and consciousness, the ever-renewing power of the Solar Disc.
Osiris was also the god of vegetation, often depicted with green skin. Egyptians created wood-framed barley seedbeds in the shape of the god, known as "Osiris gardens". These sacred seedbeds have been found in tombs. Clearly, the plants which sprouted from these beds symbolized the resurrection of life after death.
The soul of Osiris was said to rest in his sarcophagus during the winter season, and the spring equinox marked his resurrection.
Osiris represented the eternal soul that incarnates into the physical world, dies, and yet is reborn into spiritual realms, only to reincarnate again and again in a cycle of transmigration transcending the lifespan of mere empires.
All great spiritual traditions that have left written records behind, from the Sumerian, to the Egyptian to the Greek, tell the story of seasonal cycles of birth, growth, decay, death and rebirth, corresponding to the spiritual cycles of the immortal gods and of the immortal souls of men and women living on planet Earth.
In the Neolithic age, prior to any written records, ancient scientists and priests, shamans and priestesses searched the night sky to find "fixed" reference points in the dance of the stars. This map would provide a structure reflecting the harmony of the universe, and provide an understanding of the orderly procession of seasonal change, rain and sun, that governed the yearly agricultural cycles upon which Neolithic communities depended for survival.
This was the origin of both astronomy and astrology, magical and scientific studies that were simultaneously a source of agricultural guidance, divinatory and ritual powers.
The knowledge of the Equinoxes attributed by many scholars to pre-literate Neolithic societies, and evidenced by structures such as Stonehenge, rests upon very careful, long-term study of the heavens and a sophisticated understanding of the Earth's shape and movements throughout the year.
The Earth wobbles in its orbit around the Sun. This is the source of our seasonal cycles.
The North Pole of the Earth leans toward the Sun for half a yearly orbit, then leans away from the Sun for the rest of our Earthly year. Twice a year, on the Vernal Equinox and the Autumnal Equinox, the Earth offers half its face to the Sun, and day and night are of equal length.
After the Vernal Equinox, the North Pole swings toward the Sun, which appears to be climbing higher in the sky day by day to observers in the Northern Hemisphere, as the season of summer progresses. In the Southern Hemisphere, the Vernal Equinox signals the onset of autumn, as the South Pole swings away from the sun, and the sun appears lower and lower in the sky, day by day. (Clearly cultures of the North named the Spring and Autumn Equinoxes.)
In mid-summer, the North Pole's tilt reaches its maximum point, and for observers in the Northern Hemisphere, the sun has climbed to its highest point in the sky. This is the moment of solstice, which means "sun-stop" in Latin. From this point on, the sun will appear lower and lower in the sky, day by day, to Northern Hemisphere observers.
The Autumnal Equinox, the onset of winter, and the winter solstice follow in sequence, as the North Pole tilts increasingly away from the sun.
The fact that the Earth wobbles on its axis as it spins through space also creates the conditions giving rise to the much grander cycle of the Great Cosmic Year, a cycle intimately related to observations made on the Vernal and Autumnal Equinox by ancient astronomers.
The ancient understanding of the cycles of the Great Cosmic Year, reflected in the calendars, mythologies and mathematics of Mesopotamia, India, Egypt, and Greece were all founded in a seminal conceptual breakthrough – the knowledge of the Precession of the Equinoxes.
What is the Precession of the Equinoxes? In simple terms, it's another aspect of the Earth's wobbling motion in its orbit around the Sun. The combined gravitational effects of the sun, the moon, and the planets on Earth's equatorial bulge trigger a slow clockwise swaying motion of the Earth's axis. Picture a spinning top and you'll get the idea. It takes about 25,800 years for the Earth's axis to complete one wobble, sway or circle of rotation.
The sun's apparent path around the Zodiac as viewed from Earth, called the plane of the ecliptic, crosses the equator each year on the day of the Vernal Equinox. At the exact location where the sun's plane crosses the equator, the sun is directly overhead, and no shadows are cast. In this context, it is perhaps interesting to note that as a result of the angle of the sides of the Great Pyramid versus its latitude, it casts no shadow at noon on the day of the Spring Equinox.
The ancients perceived the Earth as the center of the Universe, and took the Sun as their obvious fixed reference point. The astrological New Year began on the first day of spring, the Vernal Equinox, and many of their festivals, designed to invoke beneficial forces that would sustain the universal order and life in their communities, took place at that time.
Naturally, they looked East at dawn on the day of the spring equinox to find which star constellation would "rise with the Sun". This might give them insight into conditions that would pertain during the upcoming year. What a shock to discover over time that the constellation visible just before dawn was actually moving away, and another constellation was coming into view, very slowly. This process of "moving" from one sign to the next took more than two thousand years. Multiplying the length of time this took by the 12 signs of the Zodiac, they could calculate the exact length of the Cosmic Year, some 25,800 years.
It is interesting to note that the earliest known Mesopotamian cultures used a sexagesimal system of calculation, based upon the primacy of the number six, to define both astronomical and astrological cycles, such as the Great Cosmic Year of some 25,800 years. Even more interesting, the astrological and mythological structures found in ancient India, Egypt, and Greece contain significant sexagesimal components.
Some scholars say that knowledge of the precessional wobble and the changing Zodiacal cycles of the Equinoxes predate writing and the civilizations whose written records constitute our recorded histories.
". . .Sometime in the Neolithic age astronomers became aware of the slippage of the equinoctial sunrise, which threw the invariance of the solar year awry and, in time, invalidated ritual devices, such as Stonehenge, which were based upon it," says Dr. Thomas McEvilley in his ground-breaking book "The Shape of Ancient Thought"..
The knowledge of the Earth's wobble introduced an element of instability, unpredictability and disharmony into a universe that was seen as potentially deadly, intimidating, full of cosmic forces that threatened the ability of human communities to grow crops, plan irrigation cycles, and feed themselves. In these societies ritual sacrifices made on a regular basis were the guarantors of life's continuity, and substantial efforts were expended to create predictability, regularity, and harmony in both the natural and social spheres.
Some scholars propose that the discovery of this minor irregularity in the Earth's rotation, this wobble, and the precession of the signs of the Zodiac, is the seed and source of all mythology, calendars, astronomy and astrology. These scholars say that many of the ancient rituals enacted in cultures around the world were designed to manage the irregular, unpredictable, subtly changing and extremely threatening seasonal, yearly and multi-yearly cycles unfolding on Earth, seemingly in synchronicity with the complex cosmic patterns revealed by knowledge of the precession of the Equinoxes.
In fact, the Earth's wobble, the seasonal cycles that result from that wobble, and the Cosmic Year unfolding as a further result, were all seen as evidence of fundamental flaws in creation that triggered disharmonious events such as droughts, floods, earthquakes, crop failures, social upheavals, diseases, and even the natural action of aging and the restrictions imposed by life in the material world, structured as it is by the limitations of space and time.
It was a short step from this view of reality to the notion that humanity was living in a "fallen state", that there had been a prior Golden Age characterized by a continuous growing season, long life, social harmony, preternatural clairvoyant abilities and spiritual grace. In short, humanity pictured a time without the wobble, a time of complete cosmic order, reflecting its desire for a timeless state of predictable, eternal bliss, immortal life in a material universe that would be completely orderly, perfectly harmonious, and unmarked by sudden disruptions, complexity and outbreaks of chaos.
Then another short step would bring humanity to the notion that the current sorry state of affairs must be the result of either a flaw in the Divine Architect of the wobbly Universal creation, or a flaw in humanity itself which triggered the onset of imperfection, aging, disease, death, and intermittent disaster.
"The universe was conceived as an armature or frame with four fixed points: the equinoxes (where the ecliptic intersected the equator) and the solstices (where the ecliptic was farthest from the equator)," McEvilley says. "'The sliding of the sun along the equinoctial point affected the frame of the cosmos. 'This slippage of the frame was a kind of cosmogonic original sin whereby the circle of the ecliptic (with the zodiac) was tilted up at an angle with respect to the equator, and the cycle of change came into being.' The passage of the seasons, which is to say the year, would not occur if the equator and the ecliptic had not slipped apart; this was in effect the beginning of time as history, or time as change."
According to some scholars, the primal mythic motif of the Separation of the Parents of the World, Father Sky and Mother Earth, relates the story of the discovery of the Precession of the Equinoxes, the beginning of measurable time, the moment of the descent from the timeless Golden Age of universal unity, harmony and constancy. In the Golden Age there was only one long season of endless growth, but now we have fallen into the present unhappy world situation of duality, conflict between the primal masculine and feminine principles, irregular seasonal cycles, and variable yearly weather patterns affecting river's flows, rainfall, crops, animals and all human endeavors.
"Every two thousand years or so the original sin is repeated," McEvilley explains, "when the equinoctial sunrise enters a new sign, having passed through thirty degrees of the zodiac. From this arises the myth of periodic destructions and recreations of the world: At the end of every age the world frame slips, accompanied by disasters such as floods which destroy mankind. . .When the frame shifts and the established world order is ended, a cosmogonic hero is needed to adjust it."
Examples of such heroes include Marduk, the hero who sets out to put the heavens back into order in the Babylonian Creation Epic; Ram, the Hindu Hero and Avatar of the Hindu Creator God Vishnu, who presided over the destruction and re-creation of human society in the epic Ramayana; the Sumerian hero Gilgamesh, and the Greek Odysseus.
Plato and the pre-Socratic Greek philosophers of the centuries just prior to the birth of Christ, at the cusp between the Age of Aries and the Age of Pisces, believed in reincarnation and the Cosmic Year, and their systems of astronomy and music reflect the ancient Mesopotamian and Neolithic sexagesimal mathematics and Near Eastern mythological motifs. Xenophanes and Plato anticipated partial apocalypse in their own societies' near future, while the Stoics and Manu envisioned complete world destruction coming soon.
These types of apocalyptic predictions are characteristic references to the shaking of the world framework during the epochal movement from one Equinoctial Age to the next. This view offers a firm foundation for the argument that the scientific and mathematical skills necessary to understand the phenomenon of the precession of the equinoxes predate all human writing, extending far back into Neolithic times, according to McEvilley, and that the mathematics involved has conditioned spiritual and mythological systems ever since.
In a little over a week, it will be Easter, when Christians in the west will celebrate the mystery of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Christ is the Christian Avatar, who incarnated into the world, died as a sacrifice for the original sin of Adam and Eve, and for the sins of all men, descended into the Underworld, conquered Death itself, was resurrected on Easter Sunday, and later ascended into Heaven.
Clearly, the story of Christ's triumphant resurrection echoes the early vegetation festivals of death and renewal celebrated at the Vernal Equinox, which existed for thousands of years before the birth of Christ in cultures both literate and pre-literate around the world.
Eggs are dyed with all the colors of the rainbow to symbolize the imminent birth of new life, in the fields, and among the plants and animals. Christ's resurrection signals the transmission of Divine Grace that can trigger the re-birth of the receptive human soul at a higher level of consciousness, in more complete harmony with the web of life and the cycles of Earthly and Cosmic Change, as a result of Christ's sacrifice and conquest of Death itself, which paid in full man's debt for humanity's original sin.
At this time in history, on the day of the Vernal Equinox, the sun appears to us to be located between Pisces and Aquarius at dawn on the first day of spring. This is the scientific explanation behind the expression "the dawning of the Age of Aquarius".
Today, at the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius, at the Spring Equinox of 2005, we are surrounded by apocalyptic events and here in America, we live in a country where roughly a third of the people believe in the imminent literal end of the world, as foretold in the Book of Revelations.
Esoteric science, as developed in the mystery schools of the East and West and handed down through oral traditions and direct experience of spiritual worlds, indicates that the time has indeed come for a new world hero to emerge.
In the Age of Aquarius, that world hero is no longer a solitary individual god, goddess or Avatar. The identity of that hero is represented by the image of the God and Goddess in rapt, loving embrace. The Divine Lovers represent not only the balance between men and women that will characterize the new Aquarian society, but also the balance between the male and female aspects of ourselves as well as the equality and participation of all men and women in the heroic project of rectifying humanity's monumental disruption of environmental systems, traditional social structures, and spiritual and religious traditions.
We (Curtis Lang and Jane Sherry) invite you to read our article on "The New Age of the Divine Lovers", which discusses this transitional time in history. "Our task in the New Age is to return to the Garden of Eden within us," this author explains, "and to restore the Garden of Eden planet around us."
You may also want to read my article on "The Dark Night of the Planetary Soul", for more information on this pivotal point in world history. "The social structure of this society is a reflection of this moment in evolutionary consciousness, highly structured, hierarchical, and driven by mental considerations of perceived self-interest on the part of small elites who govern on the principles of fear, greed and obfuscation. However, the next evolutionary step for human beings is to re-establish conscious ancient connections with the web of life, with the extended consciousness of the human over-soul, and with the multitude of spiritual beings in higher worlds, to offer in self-sacrifice their highly developed individuated consciousness to the Higher Self, and to establish the Kingdom of Heaven here on Earth."
Jane & I wish that you and your loved ones may greet the dawning light of this astrological New Year with fearless joy, fierce love and a playful Trickster child-mind this Sunday, and may the coming seasons of growth provide you with opportunities to reach your highest spiritual goals.
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Satya Center contributor Dr. Joie Power, owner of Dreaming Earth Botanicals, home of Soma Therapy brand essential oils, discusses various ways of "Exploring and Balancing the Immune System". Dr. Power offers very specific advice on using aromatherapy for immune system support, including several specific mixtures of essential oils that can be beneficial in times of stress that manifest as physical, emotional, mental or spiritual imbalance.
Tania Ahsan, Editor of Britain's "Prediction" Magazine, discusses the myth of the egoless spiritual seeker in her important article "Meditation: The Divine Ego", and argues that a strong ego can be a valuable asset in spiritual practice. Tania also explores the three selves found in Polynesian shamanistic tradition, and how you can resolve difficulties and overcome bad habits by communicating with the "carnal self" in meditation.
Green witch, wise woman, author and Satya Center contributor Susun Weed offers recipes, springtime gardening anecdotes and wise woman ways of creating "Herbal Vinegars" that will delight the palate, entertain the cultivator, and entrance the forager within each of us. "A pantry full of herbal vinegars is a constant delight. Preserving fresh herbs and roots in vinegar is an easy way to capture their nourishing goodness," explains Susun. "It's easy too. You don't even have to have an herb garden."
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Special Equinox Meditation Focus
GlobalVisionaries, by Jean Hudon, March 2005
"The following two suggested meditations for the coming equinox on March 20 - one, the Solar Wave, to be done preferably at sunrise, the other one, the Golden Water Activation meditation, to be done preferably at 8 p.m., local time - will evoke an inner resonance within many people and are inspiring formats through which a global unification of souls, in common purpose for the Highest Good of All, can be furthered."
"At this juncture where so much is at stake and when global awakening and concerted spiritual activities fostering true unconditional love in all relations, absolute integrity in all human activities and inner and outer peace wherever humans live, the unique opportunity offered at this time of the year, when both the southern and northern hemispheres of our planet are receiving the same amount of solar energy, is the perfect moment for such a global celebration of Peace, Love and Harmony on Earth."
Globalize Liberation, Part 1
Rachel's Environment and Health News, 3/03/05
By Patrick Reinsborough
"The system we are fighting is not merely structural, it's also inside us, through the internalization of oppressive cultural norms that define our worldview. Our minds have been colonized to normalize deeply pathological assumptions. Thus, oftentimes our own sense of self-defeatism becomes complicit with the anesthetic qualities of a cynical mass media to make fundamental social change seem unimaginable.
". . .Our revolution(s) will really start rolling when the logic of our actions and the appeal of our disobedience are so clear that they can easily replicate and spread far beyond the limiting definition of "protester" or "activist." To do so, our movements for justice, ecology, and democracy must deepen their message by more effectively articulating the values crisis underlying the corporate system. We must lay claim to life-affirming, common-sense values and expose one of the most blatant revolutionary truths of the modern era: The corporate-rule system is rooted in sacrificing human dignity and planetary health for elite profit, and it is out of alignment with human values."
Globalize Liberation, Part 2
Rachel's Environment and Health News, 3/10/05
By Patrick Reinsborough
"Our movements need to contest the corporate monopoly on meaning. We must create point of assumption actions that go beyond merely jamming the control mythology to actually substituting transformative, life- affirming stories. Culture jamming has largely been applied like a wrench to disable the brainwashing infrastructure of corporate consumerism. We must supplement the wrench with the seed by planting new, transformative stories that use the information-replicating networks of modern society to grow and spread. Our actions must create image events and launch designer memes with the power to supersede the controlling mythologies of consumer culture, the American empire, and pathological capitalism."
The End of Rational Capitalism
Monthly Review, by John Bellamy Foster, March 2005
". . .No economic system, particularly capitalism, left to follow its own logic unrestrained can possibly survive, as Schumpeter stressed. In the end it will undermine itself. The idea of "free market capitalism" is a dangerous illusion in a time of growing class polarization, monopolization, speculation, militarism, and imperialism. The politics of the right, lacking any substantial or rational basis, has increasingly turned to a predatory culture of open barbarism: the resurgence of open racism, war, imperialism, sexism, religious fundamentalism. Eventually such a society, trapped in stagnation and left to follow its own downward logic, will destroy itself and everything else within its reach—not through economic breakdown but through an intensification of barbarism on a global scale."
". . .This takes us back to the essential truth that the problem is capitalism. The only solution, as difficult as this may be to contemplate at the present time, is socialism; socialism, that is, as the socialist movement always meant it to be: revolutionary, democratic, egalitatarian, environmental, necessitating mass participation and mobilization."
The Lean Economy: A Vision of Civility for a World in Trouble
Feasta.org, by David Fleming
"The coming oil shock is not the only reason why the prospects for the global market economy and for civilisation as a whole look poor. A complex system, such as a car or a human body, tends at the end of its life to fail in many different ways at about the same time. A second sign of systems failure is climate change. Thirdly, there is the complex and still poorly-understood issue of how a mature market economy can, even under ideal conditions, sustain the perpetual economic growth which is an essential condition for its stability: along with Richard Douthwaite and others I argue that it simply cannot do so. Fourthly, there is the increasingly intense phenomenon of disengagement a failure of participation, consent, shared values, social cohesion in short, a failure of social capital which ultimately matures into insurgency, both from dissidents on the outside of modern society and from within it. The system is failing in many other ways: soil fertility, water, hormone disruptors, the collapse of fisheries but that is enough for now."
"If we put all these together, then we find ourselves looking at the climax of the market economy, followed by its comprehensive failure, very high unemployment and an atrophy of government revenues, leading towards what could be called hyperunemployment - that is, unemployment so high that government cannot fund subsistence payments and pensions. Unemployment on this scale means no income. No income means no food. No food means the collapse of urban populations on the scale experienced by former civic societies the Romans and some two dozen other accomplished civilisations in the closing phase of their life-cycles. I hope I am wrong or, rather, that it doesn't come to this. But it does seem obvious to me that the opportunity is rapidly passing in which it will be possible to avoid the high levels of mortality that have been associated with the collapse of other civic societies."
". . .8000 years ago there was an evolution in human society when many human groups gradually began to turn away from being hunter-gatherers. Instead of going out, foraging and taking what they found, they began instead to bring animals and plants within the perimeter fence - domesticating them, taking direct responsibility for the fulfilment of their own primary needs. It was the start of something big. It was the first domestication. What I suggest lies ahead now is the second domestication when, instead of relying on industry to do the work and then foraging in the market, households and local economies bring industrial insights and technologies within, so to speak, the perimeter fence - bringing it under their direct control. The new domestication, then, can be seen for local economies as a process of growing-up, of evolution - not just a means of survival in the midst of global economic catastrophe, but a vision of civility."
Sustainable Development, Spiritual Economics and Wise Use of Our Cosmic Inheritance
Prout Journal, by Roar Bjoness
". . .Economist E. F. Schumacher wrote that 'no system or machinery or economic doctrine or theory stands on its own two feet: it is variably built on a metaphysical foundation, that is to say, upon our basic outlook on life, its meaning and its purpose.' The 'metaphysical foundation' of economic liberalism is motivated by self-interest, individual property rights, and the fulfillment of our material or economic needs."
"What, then, should be the basic outlook on life of the new economy? The spiritual conception of wealth, as described by Sarkar, expresses a common sentiment among many alternative development thinkers: 'This universe is created in the imagination of the Supreme Entity, so the ownership of this universe does not belong to any particular individual; everything is the patrimony of us all. Every living being can utilize their rightful share of this property...This whole animate world is a large joint family in which nature has not assigned any property to any particular individual.'
"Sarkar termed this concept of wealth 'cosmic inheritance', and made clear its implications for economic theory: 'The system of individual ownership cannot be accepted as absolute, hence [economic liberalism] too cannot be supported.' With a spiritual worldview as the basis for a new economy, the psychology of greed and selfishness is replaced with the psychology of collective welfare and cooperation."
Meditations on Collapse and How to Make the Best of the Fall of Oil Based Civilizations
MuseLetter, by Richard Heinber, 02/04
". . . Efforts to manage the collapse might take several forms. Initial work along these lines might be indistinguishable from actions taken to try to prevent collapse-the sorts of things many people have been doing at least since the 1970s: the active protest of war, the protection of ecosystems and species, the defense of indigenous and traditional cultures, and the adoption of lifestyles of voluntary simplicity."
"Then, as fossil-fuel-based support infrastructures began to disintegrate, other strategies might come to the fore: efforts to re-localize economies, to build intentional communities, and to regain forgotten handcraft skills. Like the European monks of the Middle Ages, forward-thinking groups with useful knowledge and abilities could build cultural lifeboats-communities of preservation and service that help surrounding regions cope with change and stress."
"It would be foolish to assert that such a program could avert all of the potholes on the road down to a sustainable level of societal complexity; however, if we do not make efforts to manage the process of economic and societal contraction, it is easy to imagine collapse scenarios that would be hellish indeed."
The Looming Water Conflict Between India and Pakistan
UK Guardian, Randeep Ramesh, 03/16/05
"The Himalayan state of Kashmir is the divided heart of the subcontinent, with ventricles beating in both India and Pakistan. Both sides feel incomplete without the other. Cut in the aftermath of partition, Kashmir continues to bleed, though more slowly than when war between India and Pakistan appeared close. Those dark times may soon return, according to a study by the Mumbai-based Strategic Foresight Group entitled The Final Settlement."
"This time, whether Kashmir, as a Muslim-majority state, rightfully belongs to the Islamic republic of Pakistan or validates the secularism of India is not the reason to return to battle. Instead, the study concludes that north-western India and the neighbouring Pakistani region, the breadbaskets of both countries, are drying out - unless the two nations act soon, they will trade blows over water, not land."
London "Economist" Airs Apocalyptic Concerns as Dollar Dives
The Economist, 03/16/05
"It is possible that, this time around, OPEC and other oil exporters will channel their windfall profits through the Treasury¹s books. But what will happen if a significant portion of countries decided not to add to their dollar holdings? More than the dollar would weaken. Big foreign buyers of bonds have been keeping interest rates down, perhaps by one percentage point, as Alan Greenspan suggests. That would change, for a start. Without this support, the yield on the ten-year benchmark Treasury bond could rise to more than 5%, pushing up interest rates on mortgages. That, in turn, could prick America¹s house-price bubble and prompt a general deleveraging, with implications for economic growth both in America and elsewhere. Standard & Poor's, a rating agency, warned on Monday that a weak dollar would substantially increase concerns about credit quality."
"This is perhaps not the week to air such apocalyptic concerns, though they are much on Buttonwood's mind. In the end, what foreign central bankers have it in their power to do is to reveal before all the world that the mighty American economic empire has no clothes -- not even a pair of little fuchsia-coloured shoes."
British National Health Service Appoints First Reiki Healer to London Hospital
UK Independent, Julia Stuart, 03/13/05
"Graham King stood last week at a hospital bed and placed his hands gently on the head of a 12-year-old boy suffering from leukaemia. He slowly moved his hands to the boy's chest. Using the power of cosmic energy, Mr. King was helping to heal him."
"In a ground-breaking move to complement conventional cancer treatments, Mr. King, who has no medical qualifications, has been appointed the first paid National Health Service healer to help Britain's sick children. With the blessing of the hospital's senior consultants, Mr. King was laying his hands on the body of Martin Johnson, who in 2003 was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia that can prove fatal. He was being treated with reiki, a type of healing which is believed to have originated in Tibet thousands of years ago. Practitioners claim to channel energy into recipients using their hands placed on particular areas of their body."
The Amazing Firestorm Sparkplug: Technology to Manage the End of the Era of Cheap Oil
Nexus Magazine, Robert Stanley, February-March 2005
". . .Let's look at what Krupa's FireStorm spark plugs give an internal combustion engine:
• More horsepower;
• 44–50% increase in mpg;
• Dramatic decrease in emissions.
Second, let's see what FireStorm plugs eliminate:
• Smog pump;
• Catalytic converter;
• Radio frequency interference (RFI) and the use of resistors in the centre electrode;
• Gap growth;
• Exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) systems;
• Misfire/hesitation/detonation/stutter and stumble.
How, you may ask, is all this achieved? In a word, plasma. The revolutionary design of FireStorm spark plugs creates an electric plasma that fills the entire combustion chamber like a firestorm. It allows you to take an internal combustion engine from the standard 14.7:1 air-to-fuel ratio to an incredibly lean 24:1. At this ratio, all the air/fuel mixture is burned much more efficiently without increasing heat, thus giving an engine more power and fuel economy while creating much less pollution. That's the good news."
How Bell Phone Company Skunkworks, Sock Puppets and Astroturf Groups Have Harmed the Public Interest
Teletruth Alert, 3/05/05
"If you care about broadband, the Internet, Wi-Fi and wireless, municipalities wiring cities, the cost of phone service, VOIP, open access to content, or anything else related to your Digital Future, you need to read this."
". . . There is an underground network of political deceit in the telecom and broadband industry. It is made up of very well funded fake or co-opted consumer groups, research firms, lobbying groups, politicians and PR firms throughout the United States, that are out to fool reporters, state legislatures, Congress, the public and the FCC that they represent the public interest."
". . . And the impacts? They have helped to raise your phone rates, they've blocked fiber-optic and Wi-Fi initiatives in various states, they have helped to close down investigations of wrong doing by the phone companies, including audits of the companies showing customer overcharging and cooked books, and have helped to put competitors out of business. The phone companies, through these groups, have also been able to shape or control new state laws or public service commission actions, as well as federal legislation and FCC actions."
Meditation of the Week: Ipalnemoani
Not ever
Oh, not ever
Will it come
To an end:
The drum of,
The song of
The Giver of
We come
To the magic water.
Your word
Goes over the water
With the water bird.
Oh, not ever
Not ever
Will it come
To an end:
The drum of,
The song of
The Giver of
Your flowers, this earth:
Do they go
Like shadows go
When we go
To the Ghost Place?
Oh, not ever
Not ever
Will they come
To an end:
The drum of,
The song of
The Giver of
The good trees, the old:
Under the branches of,
Among the roots of
The ancient cottonwoods
Will we wake?
Oh, not ever
Not ever
Will it come
To an end:
The drum of,
The song of
The Giver of
(Credits: Weekly Meditation found in "The Jewel in the Lotus" published by the Theosophical Society. Art & Photos by Jane Sherry. Vernal Equinox illustration by Andrew Raymond from "The Platonic Year")


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Bring your rain parka and an umbrella if you are among the thousands of people expected to attend a Green Day concert tonight at AT&T Park.
Rain is not only possible, but probable, according to the NBC Bay Area weather department.
Concert organizers said the show will go on rain or shine.
The "Concert For Kids" is a benefit for the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital and Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland.
It's the fourth year for the benefit, which is part of this week's Salesforce.com Dreamforce conference.
Green Day isn't the only headliner. Blondie and MC Hammer are also scheduled to perform.
Previous concerts have raised $10 million, and this year's event has already garnered $6 million in sponsorships, according to Juliana Bunim, Senior Public Information Representative at UCSF.
In addition to raising funds for current programming, money generated from the concert will also go toward building a new state of the art home for UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital at the university's Mission Bay campus, slated to open February 1, 2015.
"This is a dream come true to know that we are going to have a six story building completely dedicated to children, and I think that it's a building that's going to suit the incredible care that's given here," said Kim Scurr, executive director of UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital. In addition to treating children with a variety of illnesses, and preparing them for their procedures, the hospital also strives to provide a high level of comfort for them and their families while staying there; at the new campus, which has been in the works for more than a decade, the staff are planning on being able to offer even more specialized care.
"You can cure a child of their illness-but you can also rob them of their childhood. Our Child Life Specialists normalize the hospital experience for kids, they normalize what is an abnormal environment; so kids go to school here, there's a play room, and we have an art and music therapy program that helps kids to express how they feel about having an illness in a way that they might not be able to verbally articulate," said Scurr.
The new children's hospital will have 183 beds, and will be part of a 289 bed integrated complex for children, women and cancer patients.
The Concert for UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital takes place on Tuesday, November 19, at AT&T Park, 24 Willie Mays Plaza, San Francisco, starting at 6:30 p.m. Tickets start at $250. For more information visit www.theconcertforkids.com or call (415) 476-6400.


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It's that time of the year again; the Holiday season. And smartphone's are a popular gift choice. But, with so much selection, it can get tricky to figure out which model to purchase.
Rich DeMuro is breaking down his top picks of smartphones for this year!
Apple is king of smartphones because it just works! It's a great form factor and offers fast LTE speeds. In addition, the Apple ecosystem provides the best selection of apps and accessories.
The Samsung Galaxy S III is a favorite in the Android market. It's the full-featured Android answer to the iPhone.
The S III is loaded with the latest features including Near-field Communication for sharing files to other devices nearby and multi-app support so you can run more than one app at once. It's a great phone but it's big and more complicated, so it's best for power users.
Nexus 4 and the Motorola's RAZR M are two other excellent Android choices. No LTE on the Nexus 4, but it's unlocked so it can be used on any GSM carrier around the world.
Motorola's RAZR M offers the Android experience in a comfortable comfortable to hold size. Android phones offer seamless integration with Google Apps like Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Picasa, and Google Voice. Plus if navigation is important, Android provides the best turn-by-turn guidance.
Finally, Windows Phone 8 is new to the scene, but it's worth giving a serious look if you're looking for a simple smartphone experience.
The HTC 8x is great for first-time smartphone buyers. Facebook and Twitter are tightly integrated into the Windows Phone operating system and live tiles keep you up to date.
For a more highend Windows Phone experience, check out the Nokia Lumia 920. It comes with a free downloadable music software through Nokia Music and an excellent camera. All the features come at price though–it's bulky.
For more information on all the top smartphone picks for the season and more tech stories go to RichOnTech.tv.


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Over the weekend, I met up with my mom who I gave a Kindle Fire HD 8.9 tablet as a Christmas present last year. Well, it turns out my mom who lives in South Korea, wasn't really using the tablet much as she couldn't download any apps nor play any flash-enabled Korean dramas.
One of the culprits of Kindle Fire tablets is lack of support for users outside the U.S. My mom could not download any apps (due to the fact that her account address is set to South Korea and wouldn't work even when the address was changed to her U.S. address) nor did Amazon App Store support any Korean apps (while Google Play Store has a ton of them).
So, my mom had been carrying her 8.9 HD brick for the last 9 months or so, I felt really sad that she had to put up with Amazon's stupidity for the last 9 months. Don't get me wrong, I love Amazon OS but when it comes to installing non-U.S. apps, it's completely useless.
Luckily, she had a son who was very high on Android and into rooting tablets with custom ROMs. Also, XDA user Hashcode has finally gotten a very stable version of CyanogenMod 10.1 custom ROM working flawlessly on the Kindle Fire HD 8.9.
So, I did root and convert my mom's Kindle Fire HD 8.9 into a full-fledged Pure Android tablet. Now, my mom can watch a ton of Korean dramas using Flash Player and also download thousands of Korean apps from the Play Store, allowing her to ditch her laptop and use Google apps for everyday things like checking her bank account.
I knew I should have this done earlier but at the time I got her the tablet, there was no stable ROMs for it. Anyways, here's how to root and convert your Kindle Fire HD 8.9 int0 a 100% Pure Google Android tablet!
Before we begin, this was done on Amazon OS version 8.4.3, it also works on 8.4.6 and perhaps future versions too.
Step 1. Go into Settings->Device and make sure "Allow installation of Applications" is checked ON.
Step 2. Go into Settings->Security and set "Enable ADB" to ON.
Step 3. Connect a micro-USB cable from your Kindle Fire HD 8.9 to your computer.
Step 4. Download KindleFireHD89Root.zip and unzip, you should get a folder called KindleFireHD89Root with all the files you need.
Download KindleFireHD89Root.zip
Step 5. Go to Device Manager on your computer and make sure to install the drivers. If you don't have drivers installed, see the video tutorial that shows you step-by-step.
Step 6. Enable hidden files and folders.
Step 7. Copy the adb_usb.ini file from the usb driver folder to your user .android folder. If you don't get it, watch the video tutorial.
Step 8. Open up a command prompt and type:
cd Downloads
cd KindleFireHD89Root
cd stuff
cd devices
adb devices
You should see something like below, then you are good to go!
Step 9. Go back to the KindleFireHD89Root directory and double-click on RunMe.bat to start rooting your Kindle Fire HD 8.9.
Step 10. Type 1 and hit Enter.
Step 11. When you see a message to look at your device, go to your tablet and hit "Restore my data".
Step 12. Your Kindle Fire HD 8.9 will reboot once and let it sit until everything is done, DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING!
Step 13. You should now find an app called "Superuser" app, your Kindle Fire HD 8.9 is fully rooted. You can stop here if you just need root for your tablet but keep going if you want to install TWRP recovery and CM10.1 custom ROM.
Step 14. (Optional Backup) I skipped this part in the video but if you are paranoid then you can enter the following to backup your current system:
adb shell su -c "dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0boot0 of=/sdcard/boot0block.img"
adb shell su -c "dd if=/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/boot of=/sdcard/stock-boot.img"
adb shell su -c "dd if=/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/recovery of=/sdcard/stock-recovery.img"
adb shell su -c "dd if=/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/system of=/sdcard/stock-system.img"
adb pull /sdcard/boot0block.img
adb pull /sdcard/stock-boot.img
adb pull /sdcard/stock-recovery.img
adb pull /sdcard/stock-system.img
Step 15. Go back to command prompt and copy & paste the following line-by-line:
adb push stack /data/local/tmp/
adb shell
dd if=/data/local/tmp/stack of=/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/system bs=6519488 seek=1
mount -o remount,rw ext4 /system
mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.sh.bak
mount -o remount,ro ext4 /system
reboot bootloader
Step 16. Your screen should now say "Fastboot mode".
Step 17. Next type:
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash bootloader kfhd8-u-boot-prod-8.1.4.bin
Step 18. You will most likely get "waiting for device". You need to install drivers again like you did earlier so go ahead and install drivers for "Jem-PVT-Prod-04″ in Device Manager. Watch the video tutorial if you have trouble.
Step 19. Once drivers are installed, the command should go through.
Step 20. Next type:
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash boot kfhd8-freedom-boot-8.4.3.img
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash recovery kfhd8-twrp-22.214.171.124-recovery.img
fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot
Step 21. Now your Kindle Fire HD 8.9 should have rebooted. We've just finished installing 2nd bootloader and TWRP recovery. If you don't want to install CM10.1 custom ROM, you can stop here. Otherwise, download and copy the custom ROM files you want to install on your Kindle Fire HD 8.9.
Download CM10.1 for Kindle Fire HD 8.9
Step 22. Turn off your tablet then Power on. Immediately after powering on, hit the Volume Up button and the "fire" should turn to blue, this will enter you into TWRP recovery.
Step 23. You can make a backup of your Amazon OS before installing a new custom ROM. This will allow you to easily revert back to Amazon OS if needed later down the road. Simply use the Restore function on TWRP recovery if you need to restore later.
Step 24. To install CM10.1, choose "Wipe" and do a factory reset.
Step 25. After that, choose "Install" and install the CM10.1 ROM zip file.
Also install Gapps after installing ROM so you get Play Store and other Google apps.
Step 26. Reboot your tablet and you should see CyanogenMod boot animation.
Step 27. After about 5 minutes, you should be welcomed with the welcome screen and once you get here, your Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9 tablet has been fully converted into a pure Android tablet, congrats!
If you want louder volume and also have ability to tweak the sound, download and install Viper4Android FX APK file. Choose "Cortex A9 with NEON" for installation" or "Cortext Ax" and reboot. (Credits)
Credits goto XDA user Hashcode for making TWRP recovery and CM10.1 possible. And also for rooting here. Also see CM10.1 thread for Kindle Fire HD.Want to stay updated on latest Kindle Fire Root news?
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Video: The Price of a 'Cheap' Tomato from Immokalee, Florida
This short film was made in Immokalee, Florida, where one-third of the tomatoes in our grocery stores are grown. The Perennial Plate spent a day with Lupe Gonzalo, a tomato picker and organizer for CIW (Coalition of Immokalee Workers). The Coalition is fighting to change the way our country's tomato laborers are treated.
They've largely ended the slavery conditions that existed in Florida up until recently, and are working to raise laborers' wages by implementing a one-penny per pound increase of picked tomatoes. Many companies, such as McDonald's, are working with CIW, but some are holding out (Publix, Chipotle). Watch this video to get a glimpse of Lupe's life. Most likely there's a wonderful person just like her picking the tomatoes that end up at your supermarket.
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The youngest NASCAR driver to ever win the Daytona 500 now hangs his helmet in Mount Holly.
A deed recorded on March 6 lists 2011 Daytona 500 winner Trevor Bayne as the new owner of a three bedroom, four bath home on Willow Spring Trail. The 3,435-square-foot home is at the end of a cul-de-sac and although not waterfront, is near Mountain Island Lake.
Knoxville, Tenn., native Bayne, 22, drives the No. 6 car in the NASCAR Nationwide Series for Roush Fenway Racing of Concord. In the Sprint Cup Series, he races the No. 21 Wood Brothers Ford.
He paid $700,000 for the home, built in 2008. The property and home is valued at $830,585, according to Gaston County tax records.
Walt Israel, director of Gaston County Travel and Tourism, said to his knowledge Bayne is the first NASCAR driver to call Gaston County home and hopes it will become a trend.
In past decades, motor sports icons including Dale Earnhardt and Rusty Wallace called the Charlotte region home but tended to settle in the areas of Lake Norman, Huntersville, Cornelius and Mooresville.
But it�s becoming less important to younger drivers to live in those set areas, Israel said. He hopes Bayne�s move to buy a home in Gaston will encourage other drivers to seek out local property.
�I think it�s incredible. We welcome him,� he said. �In years past, they all gravitated toward Lake Norman. If you were going to be somebody in NASCAR, you had to live up there with the big boys.�
He said more people are beginning to see that sections of Gaston County are often more accessible to points in the Queen City including Charlotte-Douglas International Airport. And access to I-85 allows for a direct drive to Charlotte Motor Speedway.
�One of the things we promote about Belmont and Mount Holly is that it�s less than 18 minutes to downtown Charlotte,� he said.
Bayne, 22, was unavailable for comment.
Gazette reporter Wade Allen can be reached at 704-869-1828; twitter.com/gazettewade.


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LATHRUP VILLAGE (AP) -- The Lathrup Village City Council has voted to add sexual orientation and gender identity to its civil rights ordinance, banning discrimination against gay and transgender people in the Detroit suburb.
The council made the change at a meeting Monday night.
Michigan's civil rights law doesn't cover sexual orientation, making it legal to discriminate against gays in hiring, housing and public accommodations.
The Unity Michigan coalition says Lathrup Village is the 32nd Michigan municipality to outlaw anti-gay bias. The advocacy group says 10 other communities have adopted gay rights laws in the past year.
Published: Thu, Feb 27, 2014