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I am sitting on a hill over looking the Kai Iwi Lakes. The sun is piercing hot, view unbeatable and have managed to get enough coverage to dial up and write a reflection to see 2008 out. What a year it has been, it has passed with great speed and I continually tell myself that more focus should be spent living in the now, living in the moment. Being present. Instead ones mind darts to the future and over analyses the past. Obviously need to work on stilling the mind into 2009. One place that does that beautifully is Omamari Beach. No shop, dirt road, fabulous small community, plenty of fish to eat and guitars to strum. As I have unwound from the year at Omamari Beach it doesn't take long before thoughts leap into planning for the future year to come. Hoping the balance is right. Ensuring there is the right amount of challenge, happiness, learning, leisure, etc.
The big challenges I feel we face in Education is keeping that balance right between the front and back of the new curriculum document. In the endeavor to unpack and teach content we must not loose sight of building students competencies, capacities to learn and confidently face the demands of their future world.
Getting the assessment right - valuing what is powerful learning and effectively communicating relevant evidence with all stake holders.
Doing less well - embedding what works and abandoning what's out dated, irrelevant and often unquestioned as to it's value add.
Nurturing and developing cognitive, thoughtful teachers have have scope to innovate and become true difference makers.
Well the list could go on and on and that's where prioritizing and being strategic is just so important.
Here's to a fabulous 2009!


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The patent filings themselves list a wide range of uses for such a device, including "dual homepages, mode-switching capability, a pocket mode homepage screen, a gallery map, a task manager, a private broadcast, a clipboard, an electronic book, a video conference, a cooperative game, a calendar, a phone conversation, a camera...."
But one of the patent applications covers even more innovative user interfaces, whereby one of the screens is held steady and the other is moved, so that the two screens swivel relative to each other, and at the same time the user touches or swipes on one of the screens. This UI mechanism truly leverages the uniqueness of the dual screen.
Would such a device take off? Recent indications are that e-book devices are effectively displaying paper books even among non-early-adopters, including in older age markets. The heavy involvement of Amazon and Barnes and Noble has sped up what seems to be a steady transition from paper books to e-books.
But many people indicate that they still like the "feel" of a real book. And let's face it - most of us prefer relaxing on the couch or in bed with a paperback than with a pad of paper. So an e-book reader that mimics this feel more closely would appear to be a real winner.
The idea of two-screen devices certainly isn't new - other devices are already on the market. But they're not catching on significantly.
But Samsung, with the strong success of their Galaxy line, including the Galaxy Note and the Galaxy Player, might be uniquely poised to succeed with such a device. Might these patents be showing us the soon-to-come Galaxy Reader?

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ESET Knowledgebase
Create a firewall rule to allow/disallow use of a certain application in my Windows ESET home product
The ESET firewall acts as a network traffic filter that regulates communication within the local network or internet. Using predefined rules, the firewall analyzes network communication and decides whether or not to allow it. You can configure your firewall to make exceptions for certain applications.
Version 8.x users: Click here for step-by-step instructions
Press the F5 key on your keyboard to access Advanced setup.
Click Network Protection → Firewall, expand Advanced and click Edit (next to Rules).
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Type a name for the rule into the Name field and select your desired options from the Direction and Action drop-down menus.
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Click the Local tab → Browse (...).
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- Click OK → OK → OK to save your changes.
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Review: Junipers: Bonsai Today's Master Series
Book of the Month: Junipers
Bonsai Today Master Series
After liking the Pines book so much, I was eager to check out this new purchase by our Club Library. The book itself is similar in style and size to the Pines book and a few of the contributors are the same, such as Kimura and Kobayasi. But I was put off at the start when I read that all but one of the junipers in the book was collected stock except one that was from a nursery. I don't know why that put me off, but it did.
This book notes that junipers are easily adaptable to bonsai culture and are commonly available at local nurseries for a reasonable price. Most varieties take to pruning, wiring and carving. These traits make them a favorite from beginner to master artists. There are 60 (or so) species of junipers; 15-20 are commonly used for bonsai. The or so is because they note that some say 62 and some say 56 species – botanical sciences are always evolving. Procumbens Nana, Shimpaku (Sargentii) and California Juniper are features in the styling chapters of this book. California Juniper are hardy to Zone 8; most others are hardy to Zones 2,3,4 and 5, so we can grow them outdoors. John Naka's "Goshin" appears in the gallery at the back of this book. He used eleven Formina Junipers; they have a rigid upright growth habit. Blaaw juniper are noted for their vase shape and European popularity. This was one of John Hill's award winning trees at our 2011 show. Blue Rug junipers and Juniperus prostrata are useful for semi-cascade and cascade.
They cover Juniper Care and Maintenance in the second chapter. Juniper can handle direct sun with a little shade in the hottest part of the day. The authors also recommend protection from strong winds. With the exception of two to three days when you may place your juniper on display they should remain outdoors. The authors also say, water only when your juniper is thirsty and then water thoroughly, making sure that all the soil is well soaked. They recommend watering the foliage, including the underside. They say this help prevent insect and disease problems. They recommend feeding regularly, using two or three types of fertilizer to ensure a balanced range of nutrients. If your tree is stressed, use ¼ strength fertilizer solution. The book shares a poo ball recipe.
Pest treatments mentioned are for spider mites and juniper scale. Other pests may include; bagworm, webworm and juniper tip midge. Fungus and root rot can be treated with a fungicide containing copper (not recommended for pines). Repotting and soil are discussed. Most junipers prefer a pH of 6.5 and a mix that drains well. It says that a mature tree can go three to six years between repotting. Here in a cooler zone they say early spring is best. Pots used are traditionally unglazed browns to grays. The use of a metal root hook is discouraged and placing a piece of rubber under the wire holding the tree into the pot is recommended.
There is an extensive section on wintering junipers. The key seems to be "keep them dormant to prevent damage."
It includes both written and visual guidance on thinning foliage and the importance of continually pinching back new growth that extends beyond the silhouette you are maintaining. They say that the pinching will encourage back budding and prevent bare sections on branches. If you miss removing wire before it cuts in; you are consoled by a note that the tree will heal over in two to three years. At the end of this chapter is a detailed chart showing a variety of horticultural items over the 12 months of the year. For cold climates only August did not show fertilizing. (I guess my fall-winter use of poo balls covers this.)
Ramification is a seven-page chapter. Despite being short on text it seemed important to me. The authors say that a bonsai is not considered "mature" until it has achieved tertiary ramification. They also say not to pinch to late in the year when cold weather is approaching or the twig may die. In the second year of training they say to let the new growth extend 3" – 4" before cutting it with scissors back to a few sets of needles and then wire the twigs. After that it should only be necessary to pinch new growth as the foliage pad has been established. Take care not to let the top growth become to heavy, robbing strength from the lower branches.
The next six chapters show styling or restyling collected plants. The focus is on jin and shari selection and development. They also show foliage thinning and wiring. Just beyond the midpoint of the Juniper book is a chapter on Layering. To me the technique seemed similar to taking a cutting, but leaving it attached to the trunk. In the layering pot they use 2 parts sand and 3 parts sphagnum moss.
Emergency Treatment is a must read chapter. It explains that if you discover a condition such as root rot or severe pot bound conditions effecting drainage and its not transplanting season, make holes using a chopstick to improve drainage. Fill the hole with river sand. If you discover root rot all dead or damaged roots need to be removed and even the pot will need to be disinfected. Water afterwards using a fungicide and rooting hormone such as SuperThrive.
The chapter following Emergency Care showed Urban Salvage followed by a chapter on creating a cascade. Wiring and raffia techniques are shown. They remind the reader to pinch the apex of Cascade style trees to balance the energy to the cascade branch.
The final chapters show Rock Plantings and Collecting California Junipers from the wild. California Junipers are Zone 8; too bad. ~ Ken Schultz


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The city of Clarksdale, situated on the Sunflower River in Coahoma County, Mississippi, is on the northern side of what was the most densely populated area of the Mississippi Delta. At the time of The Great Migration, Clarksdale was the first to welcome Delta farmhands, as well as their musicians and entertainers, on their plight out of the oppressive sharecropping system of the rural plantations and farmlands. Some went no further North, preferring to stay closer to home, seeking refuge and less agrarian employment in Clarksdale.
During the 1920's, 1930's and 1940's Clarksdale was home to Charlie Patton, Bukka White, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker and Ike Turner, to name just a handful of great bluesmen who staked their claim in Clarksdale.
By the 1950's Clarksdale was also host to a now-legendary down-home radio station, WROX, which, like other stations in the region, hosted a number of popular bluesmen. Sonny Boy Williamson, most well-known for his King Biscuit Flour program on Helena, Arkansas' KFFA, often broadcast on Clarksdale radio, as did Dr. Isiaih Ross and so many others.
Consequently, Clarksdale became the first urban center of the blues and it makes the most of that fact even today. The Mississippi Delta's first blues museum, The Delta Blues Museum, and one of its first yearly blues festivals, The Sunflower River Blues Festival, are both located there, as is the Delta's first motel made from discarded farm laborers' shacks, The Shack Up Inn. If you believe in the Crossroads myth, between the town of Clarksdale itself and the site of The Shack Up Inn, there is a rather grandiose marker at the intersection of Highways 61 and 49 where the dubious deal was deemed to have been devined.
A great deal of blues activity has occurred in Clarksdale in the last few years. In addition to all the above, there is a grand juke joint in Morgan Freeman's & Bill Luckett's Ground Zero Blues Club. It features blues and other forms of music many nights a week and plays host to some of the South's great entertainers.


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There is an ongoing debate as to whether the quality of accounting information influences firms' cost of equity capital. Much of the debate centers around the existence of a priced risk factor related to the quality of accruals. In an influential set of papers, Francis, LaFond, Olsson, and Schipper (2004, 2005) (henceforth, FLOS) argue that accrual quality affects the cost of equity. FLOS base their conclusions in part on a significant positive correlation between the returns on AQ Factor (the accrual quality factor) and contemporaneous stock returns.
However, using conventional two-stage asset pricing tests (e.g., Fama and MacBeth 1973), Core, Guay, and Verdi (2008) (henceforth, CGV) show that the loadings on AQ Factor, although positive on average, do not explain the cross-sectional variation in returns. In addition, CGV document that accrual quality, as a characteristic, does not predict future (one-year-ahead) realized returns. Taken together, the findings in CGV are inconsistent with accrual quality being priced by the market. Resolving the debate on the existence of a priced risk factor related to accrual quality is important given the large number of studies that implicitly or explicitly rely on the existence of AQ factor.
In this paper, I argue that CGV are unable to find an association between accrual quality and future realized returns because their inverse measure of accrual quality—the residual accrual volatility measure proposed by Dechow and Dichev (2002), henceforth the DD Measure—is negatively correlated with future cash flow shocks, that is, firms with low (high) accrual quality experience more negative (positive) cash flow shocks in the future. Due to this correlation, the higher (lower) expected returns associated with poor (good) accrual quality firms are systematically offset by negative (positive) cash flow shocks, thereby leading to no association between future realized returns and accrual quality.
Prior research provides evidence that indirectly supports the conjectures above. Both FLOS and CGV use DD Measure to measure accrual quality. The DD Measure is estimated as the standard deviation of the residuals from a regression of working capital accruals on past, current, and future operating cash flows, so that higher levels of DD Measure represent lower accrual quality. The DD Measure is correlated with several characteristics that are likely to be associated with future cash flow news. For example, high DD Measure (i.e., low accrual quality) stocks have higher sales growth in the past (Doyle et al. 2007), are likely to have higher bankruptcy risk due to a high frequency of losses (Dechow and Dichev 2002), and have more volatile earnings and sales (Dechow and Dichev 2002). Each of these characteristics has been linked to systematic future underperformance in the stock market (Lakonishok et al. 1994; Dichev 1998; Mohanram 2005), possibly as a result of adverse cash flow news.
Accrual Quality, Realized Returns, and Expected Returns: The Importance of Controlling for Cash Flow Shocks


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Chesterfield stalwart Jack Lester will leave the club at the end of the season.
The veteran forward is the Spireites' top scorer this term with nine but has been unable to tie down a regular first team spot under manager Paul Cook.
The 37-year-old said: "I was told by the manager in February this will be my last season at the football club.
"I was disappointed, I would have liked to have stayed. I think that's a natural reaction by anyone who is told they are no longer wanted in employment at a club."
Lester joined the club from Nottingham Forest in 2007 and quickly became a fan favourite.
The former Grimsby Town, Doncaster and Sheffield United man has scored 92 times during his six years with Chesterfield.
He said it will be difficult to say goodbye.
"It's been a real special part of my life being here and something I'm very proud of," he said.
"I'm just so thankful for everyone at the club for giving me the opportunity to play. It's been brilliant and I look forward to the next stage of my career."
Lester played a pivotal role in the 2010/11 promotion season and captained the side to victory at Wembley in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy 12 months ago.
Chesterfield manager Paul Cook added: "He's been a fantastic stalwart for this football club and that will never be forgotten. "Every game between now and the end of the season people will have the chance to show how much he means to them, that is reflected by the sentiments at the football club.
"We all wish Jack the very best for the future."


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Kings XI Punjab will take on Northern Knights in the 2014 Champions League T20 Group B clash at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali on Friday.
Where to Watch Live
The match starts at 3:30pm BST. Live coverage is on British Eurosport 2 and British Eurosport 2 HD. Follow live updates of the match on ESPN Cricinfo. Click here for the live streaming link.
Kings XI Punjab come into this game after registering their second victory over Barbados Tridents last weekend. The win on Saturday came after sealing four points in the opening match against Hobart Hurricanes.
With two wins and eight points, Punjab sit second in the Group B table and are level on points with the Hurricanes, who have played three matches so far. With a victory over the New Zealand side, the 2014 Indian Premier League finalists will edge towards making it to the last four of the Champions League T20.
Meanwhile, Northern Knights saw their four-match unbeaten run in the ongoing competition come to an end with a defeat against Hobart Hurricanes. Daniel Flynn's side made it to the group stages after winning all three qualifying matches.
They also sealed their first four points of the group stages with a victory over Cape Cobras by the Duckworth–Lewis method. The Knights are aware that a defeat on Friday could possibly put a dent to their hopes of making it to the semi-finals of the Champions League T20.
Betting Odds (888Sport.com)
- Kings XI Punjab to win: 7/5
- Northern Knights to win: 28/17
Team News
Kings XI Punjab
Possible XI:
Virender Sehwag, Manan Vohra, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Glenn Maxwell, David Miller, George Bailey (c), Thisara Perera, Akshar Patel, Karanveer Singh, Anureet Singh, Parvinder Awana
Northern Knights
Possible XI: Anton Devcich, Kane Williamson, Daniel Flynn (c), BJ Watling (wk), Daryl Mitchell, Scott Styris, Scott Kuggeleijn, Tim Southee, Ish Sodhi, Jono Boult, Trent Boult


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Days One and Two - Travel from Minneapolis to Paris via Reykjavik
We took off from Minneapolis International Airport on schedule at 4:00 pm and landed in Reykjavik in the early morning hours, time rapidly accelerating on the Eastward journey. Our flight from Reykjavik to Paris was delayed, allowing for a more leisurely pace through customs and a quick nap for some, then we were off by breakfast time on a plane full of choir boys from Philadelphia all wearing red blazers and grins ranging from the angelically excited to the mischievous. Icelandair proved to be a wonderful airline. The three younger kids each received complimentary meals and fun packs, the movie selection made it easy to keep the kids from getting squirrely, and I was introduced to Iceland through the delightfully strange indie film, Summerland.
Landing in Paris with five children, each faithfully toting their own suitcases and backpacks, we made our way through the Charles Charles de Gaulle Airport airport, by train to Gard du Nord (where Dietrich was able to get in a little Taxicab geometry), and treacherously by foot to our apartments on the Rue Buchardon and Passage du Marche -- the girls following Jen like a line of little ducks, Dietrich and I usually bringing up the rear, with Gramps leading the way and Grams following behind.
Honest First Impression of Paris: A sad city. A press and bustle of people, grime and rush. The stench of stale urine and grease.
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Singer/songwriter returns to Clondra
Liam McLaughlin returns to the Camlin lounge in Clondra, having just returned from a two week music festival in Portugal.
Liam is really looking forward to seeing all his friends in "The Camlin" on Sunday night October 28. The Co Antrim man recently win an award for his song-writing and is currently riding on the crest of a wave with his classy new self penned single "one good reason"
Liam says, "I just love playing in the Camlin. Great atmosphere, friendly people and the owners make me feel so welcome. I would say the place to be next Sunday night for the Halloween bash is "the Camlin" in Clondra."


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Woohoo! Brooklyn Based have chosen Indeedy Musical Bingo to head up the Tuesday spot in their Ideal Week segment, and we're featured in their newsletter!
Our New York launch is described as a 'British import worth investigating this week… known across the pond for their quirky selection of middle-school dance music and kitschy prizes'. You're advised to 'come and see if you can name that tune sans Shazam' – no cheating now!
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The X Factor romance rumours strike again: Ben Haenow and Lola Saunders 'acting like boyfriend and girlfriend'
Another day, another rumour...
At least she has a supportive boyfriend...
He just likes a hug.
Lola Saunders blogs for us on SImon's words of wisdom, and not having the foggiest on what's coming next
Two more down and Stevi is still in the competition.
Lola had a bit of a technical nightmare on Saturday night.
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Crawley Town goalkeeper Darryl Flahavan has left the club after he took too long to agree a new deal.
The former Portsmouth and Bournemouth stopper, 37, has been Reds' regular keeper since joining in October, making 16 appearances.
His short-term contract expired on January 16 and last week he was offered an extension to remian at Crawley until the end of the season.
However he delayed signing it and eventually manager Mark Yates withdrew it when another experienced 'keeper became available who he is hoping to bring in on loan.
Yates said: "We offered him a deal, we (were) to-ing and throw-ing for a little bit and I had to cover my back and I made the decision to withdraw that offer.
"I'd like to thank Darryl for his services, he's been a real steadying, solid pro' for us.
"Sometimes you make these decisions that you don't always get them right but we want to go in a different direction.
"Something came up which potentially could still happen in the next couple of days or week and I'm excited by that prospect.
"I had the worst phone call I have ever had to make to a professional footballer yesterday afternoon (Wednesday) to tell Darryl I had decided to look elsewhere.
"He wasn't best pleased and I wouldn't have expected him to be and I thanked him for his service here.
"If we don't get anything before Saturday, obviously Callum's playing and I have no qualms about that.
"He's done great and was perhaps a bit unlucky to lose his place against Portsmouth when we went for a bit of experience with Darryl when he had done well in the two previous games.
"I want two keepers, of course, but I'm more than comfortable with Callum."
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013
In a rut
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It's hard to get dressed when it's cold.Inspiration flies with te cold winds.ReplyDelete
Absolutely. It's all in the details and accessories in the bitter cold! I love the vest and the pink blouse!ReplyDelete
The earrings kicked it up a notch too. :o)ReplyDelete
I feel the same way. It gets cold and I'll I can think is I need to wear jeans and be comfy!ReplyDelete
Chic on the Cheap
The outfit is super lovely and looks so cosy ! Love the vest. xxReplyDelete
It may be a rut, but it's a cute rut!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 12, 2013 at 7:44 PM
I hear ya! All I've been wanting to wear has been baggy jeans and cozy sweaters! Hopefully sping will come quickly for the both of us!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 13, 2013 at 6:56 PM
I need a vest like this...it looks so versatile and fun to style!ReplyDelete
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I'm the same with wearing jeans and sweaters, Stacey - winter's such a pain! But I love the interesting layers and textures you've got going on... plus the boots are fabulous. It' a perfect wintry look, hun!ReplyDelete
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Stacey...its been DAYS, where are you?!!! LOLReplyDelete
I have recently been awarded the coveted "Liebster Blog Award"...which among other things enables me to share the love with other bloggers. And I choose you!!
Check out my post today for all the details, K? There is a bunch of stuff for you to do but it is pretty fun!
- AnonymousJanuary 18, 2013 at 3:25 PM
I keep hoping you'll put up a new outfit post with a really stellar warm jacket...because I can't seem to find any pretty jackets or coats to beat this Oregon weather we've been having. The catalogs are all "Spring, spring, spring!" right now, and Boden even sent me their SUMMER catalog today. Yikes.ReplyDelete
Thats a pretty awesome free steal! Lucky Lady!ReplyDelete


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We came home, two days earlier than planned. It is great to be in the mountains. Being outside skiing every day. Going to the pool. Watch movies every night. Popcorn. Ice cream. Wine. Snacks. But after 5 days or so something happened...
Luca Bo turned into a a bundle of anger and frustration. Arguing about everything and nothing. Grumpy guts, we said... The whole world seemed to be against him. He couldn't stand his sisters, his Mama or his Papa. Everything was just wrong. The girls got provocative. It is fun to make the only brother mad and angry. Right? Mama and Papa called for peace. Non stop. Their voices getting louder and louder and more and more aggrevated. But the war between the kids went on.
Luca Bo got headaches, terrible strong headaches. He didn't want to go skiing anymore. Today he fell apart during the preparation for skiing. The tears were all over the place. The girls and Jay left skiing. I stayed. Holding Luca Bo tight, letting him sob it all out.
We talked. It was a good talk. He was sad. Tired. Exhausted. He felt pressured to go skiing because that is what we do when in the Alps. He missed his Lego Ninjago. He wanted to go home... He thought that a few days of skiing is good but not a week. He said "I wish I could have one week for myself. I want to be on my own for a while". I thought to myself that we all need some alone time. Some space.
Luca Bo rested until his headache was gone. I packed up. We took a long walk to get some fresh air and talked more. I realized that this kid needs more of me. More quality time. He thinks I am on the computer to much. To busy with my "business"... He wants to play Uno. That says something, right?
We went home this afternoon. We came home around dinner time. Luca Bo ran upstairs in his room to play with his Lego Ninjago. Nelly Bo sat down by the piano to play her favorite tunes. I quickly emptied bags and took care of the laundry. Jay started on dinner with his shoes on. Emmy Bo? Well, she hugged and cuddled Charlie the cat, and filled up his food bowls with fresh food. We lit the Christmas tree and the stars in the windows. We have agreed to leave them up for one more week, because we missed our Christmas tree and decorations. Vacation is good but home is better. Home sweet home it is. And I have some stuff to think about after this day with Luca Bo... Less computer time and more Uno games has to be written down on my New Years Resolution list for 2013.... Maybe you need to write that down too...
PS Sorry about the picture in my last post... I wrote it on my new iPad (took forever...) and I couldn't figure out how to add a photo to my post. Will try to add it now when I am home with my sweet big stationary Apple friend. :D
PS 2 A Summery of 2012 is updated with pictures and dozen links... Enjoy.


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Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Moving Forward
How could you possibly make the holiday season any more hectic?
On December 20th, a 25 foot long moving truck arrived at my home in Port Norris, the home where we raised our kids, the home across the street from my dad's house, where I grew up. It's a long, complicated story as to why we had to move during the holidays, but the bottom line is, we sold the house to someone who needed to move immediately.
The moving process forces you to take stock of what you own. As a new year begins, it seems like a fitting thing to do; assigning a new space for the necessary and important things, discarding the obsolete or unnecessary things, and sometimes saying goodbye to an item with a sentimental attachment.
It's the letting go part that is the toughest, but also is the most freeing. Possessions can become traps, preventing you from moving forward, tying you down as a curator of your own personal history museum. I think it would be a very cool custom where, just as you receive new possessions at Christmas, for New Years you let go and embrace the future.
So what do you think? Ready to clean out the attic with a hangover?
Happy New Year! -Steve
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An Apple a day keeps the doctor is what we hear since childhood but do we know the actual meaning of this one sentence. This commonly overlooked superfood protects the body from nuclear fallout, kills a wide range of cancers, and keeps the arteries unclogged – to name but a few, experimentally confirmed ways in which the apple awakens your inner physician.
Apple consumption has been the subject of quite a few studies on colorectal cancer risk reduction. Other cancers that apple constituents have been studied to kill in pre-clinical research include:
Liver Cancer:
apple juice, apple pectin and apple peel has been experimentally confirmed to kill liver cancer,
Breast Cancer:
apples have been found to both prevent and to suppress mammary cancers in the animal model.
Multi-Drug Resistant Cancer: carotenoids extracted from apple have been found to inhibit drug resistant cancer cell line proliferation
Esophageal Cancer:
An apple-derived procyanidin has been found to suppress esophageal cancer.
Stomach Cancer:
One of the ways in which apple constituents prevent stomach cancer is through their inhibition of Helicobacter pylori, one of the main infectious agents linked to both ulcer and gastric cancer. But apple procyanidin has also been studied for its ability to directly induce programmed cell death within stomach cancer cells.
Nuclear Fallout:
Another proven way in which apples reduce the risk of cancer is through their ability to remove carcinogenic radioisotopes that have accumulated in our bodies as a result of the fallout from nuclear weapons, depleted uranium munitions, and nuclear energy and disaster-associated pollution, e.g. Chernobyl and Fukushima.
We could, therefore, modernize our apple aphorism by saying "an apple a day keeps the nuclear fallout away."
Apple, in combination with chamomile, shortens the course of unspecific diarrhea in children.
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Remarkably, a procyanidin, labeled B-2, from apples promotes hair growth, in the cell model.
Staphylococcal Infections: Apple pectin has been shown to inhibit synthesis of types A and B staphylococcal enterotoxins, which can cause profound bodily damage.
Influenza Infection:
Over 60 years ago researchers found that the complex carbohydrates that make up apple pectin inhibit the infectivity of influenza A virus in chicken blood, as well in embryonated eggs, indicating its potential anti-influenza properties.
Apple Pies are too delicious.
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January 16, 2011
Dear Chairman Schapiro and Commissioners, I will no longer purchase gold in any form until you complete your job. If you can't, we have millions of people our of work here in the US that we can replace you with, you are all expendable. Do your job, or hit the road. McDonalds is hiring, maybe you could empty their garbage, that appears to be all you are qualified to do. Finish this bs and go find another job, you aren't working for the 99%, I'm sure DeBeers has a check with your name on it and a job as a propagandist. Take it.
I'm writing you with deep disappointment and concern. I understand that the final rule for Section 1502 (conflict minerals) has been delayed once again and is yet to be released. I'm calling on you to release a strong, final rule as soon as possible, and no later than the end of January. I also call on you to ensure that there are no additional delays or phase-in periods built into the rule itself.
The rules for implementation of Section 1502 were to be completed within 270 days of the signing of Dodd-Frank Act, or April 2011. As we enter the New Year over 530 days have passed, nearly double the allotted time.
Significant steps are being taken to ensure conflict minerals no longer line the pockets of armed groups in large part due to the passage of Section 1502, but the delay of the SEC rulemaking is a threat to this progress.
For investors, who have already stated that this is of material concern to them, delays in issuance of the rules limits their ability to have access to critical information regarding companies' management of risk in their global supply chains.
Most importantly, for the Congolese people, further delays mean armed groups can continue to prey upon and draw financing from the minerals sector, while fuelling instability and committing human rights abuses against civilian populations.
This is why I am urging you to release a strong, final rule no later than the end of January 2012 with no additional phase-in periods or delays included in the rule.
It has been nearly a year and a half since President Obama signed the law; it is time to put this law to action.
Sincerely,Lorraine Layton


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The neocons embrace the politics of celebrity
|by Justin Raimondo
The Palin-mania that is sweeping the GOP reminds me of the publicity surrounding "American Idol," the popular American television program that catapults complete unknowns on to the national stage and gives them a chance at stardom: the anticipation, the gossip, the frenzy (and partisanship) of the fans. In the last days of the old Republic, this is what American politics has degenerated into: "reality" TV.
Prior to being plucked from obscurity by the neocons who run the McCain campaign, Sarah Palin was a complete unknown. Today, she is the object of a burgeoning cult that proclaims her to be the virtual incarnation of the Republican renewal. And never did a party require renewal like the GOP. What with G.W. Bush's bottom-of-the-barrel poll numbers, after eight years of nightmarish mismanagement on the home front and frenzied recklessness abroad, dispirited conservative intellectuals and activists have been asking themselves "What went wrong?" Now, they don't have to bother with such worrisome introspection, their identity crisis has been indefinitely delayed, all due to the appearance of a messiah on the horizon – Sarah, the new Wonder Woman of the Right.
So where did she come from, and why has such an obscure figure – formerly mayor of a small town in Alaska, and only lately elevated to the governorship – been raised up so quickly, and mysteriously, like Venus sprung from the sea-foam?
McCain really wanted Joe Lieberman, the last surviving member of the Scoop Jackson wing of the Democratic party, whose neoconservative credentials, electoral appeal in certain key areas, and ability to provoke the Obama-crats made him the natural choice. Karl Rove, however, is too smart for that: he knew there would be a floor fight over it, and the McCainiac-neocon faction could very well lose – torpedoing the campaign before it got out of the harbor.
How they prevailed on the headstrong McCain to back off is not known: perhaps the candidate suffered a sudden spasm of common sense, or even diplomacy. He did back off, however, and then they were left with – nothing. Romney, Pawlenty, or some other boring white guy wasn't good enough for the McCainiac high command: no, they wanted something more.
They knew they had to secure the base, while retaining the cross-party ideological punch Lieberman would have delivered. Their task was to capture the Clinton Democrats, who, prior to Hillary's late conversion to the antiwar cause, were defined ideologically by their more cautious, and even hawkish, approach to the Iraq war issue. Obama staked his claim to the antiwar franchise early on, and Hillary's refusal to second-guess or apologize for her "yes" vote in the Senate on the war question cost her the nomination. By the time she got on board the get-out-of-Iraq train, it had already left the station. The Democrats promised "change" in the foreign policy realm in the 2006 congressional election: they won, but didn't deliver. Obama reminded Democratic voters of that promise: whether he'll keep it, if elected, is another question altogether.
Yet there are still all those Clinton voters out there, who weren't put off by her unapologetic stance on the war, or her more bellicose statements on Iran: these are the old Reagan Democrats, whom the neocons regard as their natural constituency. Hillary's butch persona, especially during the latter days of her doomed campaign, when she became a veritable street-fightin' gal, is another major theme the McCainiacs latched onto. By some alchemy of ideology and identity politics, the grand strategists of the McCain campaign came up with a formula and then looked around for someone who fit the bill.
McCain and his top advisors are ideologues who care about one thing and one thing only: war. The glory of it, the utility of it, the necessity of it. It's the McCain panacea, like "free silver" was to William Jennings Bryan and socialism was to Eugene Debs. It's his answer to everything: it solves all problems, and, more importantly, stifles all criticism. If you doubt his veracity, question his good intentions, or point out his inconsistencies, you're attacking a war hero, doubting the divine wisdom suffering is supposed to impart.
Religion also played an important role in the choice of Palin: she's a member of a dispensationalist sect, within the Pentecostalist tradition, a "born again" Christian who believes in the Rapture and the centrality of Israel in world affairs.
This latter belief is a theological verity with the dispensationalists, who make up the rank-and-file of the GOP's electoral machine: after the Rapture, when the anointed are raised up to heaven and the rest of us are left on earth, the church will be represented by the Chosen People of God – the Jews. According to the biblical prophecy, they will gather together in the land of Israel, their historic home, and this signals the coming of the End Times. Israel, for the dispensationalists, is the key issue: its interests must be defended at all costs, even above the national interests of the US. Israel is, in short, a non-negotiable item, and it's easy to see how this fits very neatly into the neoconservative agenda.
According to news reports, Palin was diverted away from a fundraiser for a pro-life group headed up by Phyllis Schlafly so she could attend a grilling session conducted jointly by AIPAC and Lieberman, but this hardly seemed necessary. After all, the woman has a little Israeli flag in her office. I'm sure, however, her interrogators gave her a few useful pointers. Maybe they asked her about that pastor who came to her church and delivered a sermon explaining that Jews were doomed to suffer eternally from terrorist attacks in Israel until and unless they accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Yes, the lady has her own Jeremiah Wright. As Rachel Maddow remarked the other day – in between bouts of panicky hysteria over Palin's instant stardom – the parallels between Palin and Obama are pretty striking.
The McCainiacs chose Palin out of jealousy: they wanted an Obama of their own, and since they couldn't have one, they settled on Palin – the Bizarro Obama. Yes, she's fresh, new, a self-anointed outsider in this Year of the Maverick – but she's the complete opposite of Obama in every other imaginable way. She's aggressive, even a bit snarly, while he's soft-spoken and calm, a reversal of gender roles well-suited to Bizarro World – albeit one the writers for Superman Comics in the late-fifties and early sixties never imagined.
Oh, the irony! A campaign that put out a television ad comparing Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton has now created a celebrity candidate of its own: Sarah Palin, the Caribou-hunting tough-talking feisty little lady from Alaska, with the showgirl legs and the spine of steel. The Brits are already likening her to Maggie Thatcher.
Sarah, who looks – and acts – an awful lot like Xena, the Warrior Princess, is the perfect messenger for the GOP's credo of unmitigated militarism. Her speech to the Republican convention was, in large part, a continuation of the theme of the previous night: aggressive nationalism rationalized by religious fervor. The references to God were interspersed with worshipful references to all things military along with a full catalogue of all the current neocon targets: not only Iraq, but Iran, Russia, and "dangerous enemies" who are oil-rich (the Saudis?). The anti-Russian trope has been taken up with special alacrity by the McCainiacs, who are touting Palin's position as commander-in-chief of the Alaska National Guard and her proximity to the Russkies to highlight her readiness to take the helm in the Situation Room. I wouldn't be too surprised to hear tales of Commander Palin's derring do when confronted with previously unreported Russian incursions across the Bering Strait.
The Palin choice is really all about the internal politics of the GOP, as much as it is about the hubris of McCain's handlers. With the party led over the cliff by the neocons, whose Iraq adventure has cost them control of Congress and likely the White House, it was necessary to start anew. By reaching back into the party grassroots, and playing the gender card, the neocons could retain control of the GOP instead of being blamed for its demise – and, perhaps, hold on to the White House.
It's a big gamble, because Palin's unreadiness to be President, in the event of McCain's untimely demise, is all too apparent. Far from injecting a youthful note into the campaign, Palin's physical presence next to the Old Man only underscores his advanced age – and the prospect of President Palin staring us in the face. If that doesn't scare voters, then nothing will.
Palin's role is the traditional one assigned to the vice president, as candidate and office-holder: she is the attack dog, in what will be a campaign very much concerned with foreign policy issues. Expect her to be the point-woman on the alleged threat represented by Russia: after all, it wasn't so long ago that the Alaskans suffered under the Czars' yoke, and, to add insult to injury, were sold to the Americans for a truly paltry sum. If I were an Alaskan, I'd resent that, and there's evidence Palin did, too: at least that's one explanation for her flirtation with the Alaska Independence Party, which advocates secession from the US. But her secessionist days are over, I believe: in the future she'll be attacking the sucessionist Ossetians as Russian agents-of-influence and defending US intervention there, as in Iraq, as a mission divinely ordained.~ Justin Raimondo
Source: http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13412
Don't count the Greater Evil out yetfrom The Greanville Journal
by Norman Solomon
Why does God insist on making pretty Republicans? Who's he trying to kid?
The "all-American" family ideal in Palin's parents TV room, literally covered with animal pelts and carcasses. Killing animals profusely comes naturally to these types who, as diehard dominionists, regard nature as something to exploit utterly for the benefit of "man."


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Thursday, April 24, 2014
Next three survivors done... and some WIP
Hey all!
Okay, three next survivors complete! From left to right... my version of Michonne (already finished), my Rick Grimes, a guy with a baseball cap, work boots, and a few tattoos, and an older gent in a sweatshirt with a pretty nice light wood AK. All kitted out with plenty of gear (and each one with at least one canteen, of course!)
I am still figuring out what I am going to do, basing-wise. I think I like the wood, the dry looking grass... I'll add a few more details here and there, including doing some yellow road lines and the like. Overall, I'm happy with how they have come together (even if I am struggling with taking photos of them, for some reason.)
Here are my next two; a more military-style, practically-posed badass, and then a little nod to the hot woman heroine, albeit while double-gunning it.
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As a reminder, this is what the room looks like:
Yep, it's pretty plain, even though you can't see much from this photo. My favorite thing about this room is set of french doors that open to the room, I love how they add separation, but don't block the light. I think they will be a great feature when the room is a sitting room/library, because you can sit and read in quiet, even if there's something else going on in the house.
I have a big Pinterest board on living rooms here that I've used to collect lots of ideas for this room. I also have made some collages of specific furniture pieces that I like and would like to use to bring this room to fruition. I'm think I want to make the wall across from the french doors book shelves and I'll have a love seat or sofa and two arm chairs in the room for seating. As for the color scheme, I want it to coordinate well with the other colors we have downstairs, but I want something a little bit different. I'm hoping to bring in some new colors with fabric on curtains or pillows.
Here are some of my favorite living rooms and details that I've collected. If you're interested in a source, see my Pinterest board.
That was a lot of pictures! As you can see, I have a general idea of what I like, but I think actually choosing the pieces I want is going to be tough! There are a lot of similarities in these pictures:
- creamy, natural color palettes
- mix of seating: chairs, sofas, large ottomans
- feminine chandelier or statement light fixture
- gallery wall of large square frames
- pretty bookshelves and storage
- bright and airy window treatments
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Three beasts on a sofa
Here's Felis Domesticus, looking especially elegant as she licks herself with her legs splayed. The more attractive creature with its tongue out is by Youngest Brother, who now has his own blog, Campus Crafts. The room he's living in just for the summer looks more put together than many middle-aged, two-income homes, and you can also check out his other sock creatures and bizarre stitched projects for school and fun.
I'll post some updates on my own projects soon, I promise!
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- Bugsy said...
What a great picture! Its amazing that as graceful as cats can be, they sure can act unlike a proper lady!
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Radia Tapes: (20090629_153059) Tata Executive, Radia
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From this call with a Tata Executive whose name is not clear, it is evident that Radia is very much into prospecting for minerals outside India also and she is in active touch with the Tata executives about it. But what is intriguing is that the Income Tax authorities who tapped her telephone, in one of the secret documents which was put out on this site, in May 2010, suspects her of getting into mines business herself. The later conversations with Jeh(as part of this Tata series) throws some more light as well as throws up more questions.
(phone rings)
(phone rings)
Radia: Yes (? inaudible name)
Tata executive: No… I was ah… I saw your mail to Mr. Muthuraman,
Tata executive: and in the mean time I heard from my colleague Mr. Baijal who is in Jamshedpur about this Africa opportunity.
Radia: haan haan...
Tata executive: toh Sierra Leone he seems to have looked at that in the past and doesn't seem interested in that
Radia: hmm.. hmmm
Tata executive: but Guinea and Senegal are something which can be examined this we have a more information on that
Radia: ok… ok..
Tata executive: so what I'm going to do is to write two line mail to you anyways saying the same thing copying Mr. Baijal also on that.
Tata executive: Mr. Baijal is the Group Director of Global Minerals. He looks after all the mining site of all these.
Radia: ok.. great
Tata executive: so.. so I am going write these mail to you
Tata executive: and then after that you can get more information on these two deposits
Radia: ok
Tata executive: in dealing with the Senegal
Radia: ok
Tata executive: than that I think those two can be pursued
Radia: ok.. now that'll be interesting because what I will do then really is just waiting get it,
Radia: you know the inputs from you before I really take it further although it didn't make sense for me to take it further.
Radia: So.. if I'll.. if you could sent me the mail than certainly that will be good then
Tata executive: In the next five minutes the mail will be with you and your other one on the Brazil
Radia: Haan...
Tata executive: Mr. Muthuramman is traveling I think he will speak to you on Monday
Radia: hm.. hmm..
Tata executive: by that time I think we will give him also some input
Radia: ok
Tata executive: I think he might be back to Mumbai on Monday and than he might speak to you
Radia: ok. fair enough
Tata executive: ok
Radia: ok, thanks.
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HIGHLIGHTS #1310 Sunday, January 5, 2003 Edited by Gloria Lee
by Leonardo DaVinci
Mace Mealer
Observing one place flowers
at a headstone,
may lead to a speculation
of profound loss,
unknown circumstances,
or undying love.
However, speculations
do not necessarily
produce an accurate
affect of reality.
And one is left,
quite simply,
with an observation,
which, as a component
of awareness
may prove ultimately
more valuable
than speculation
in the apprehension
of reality.
Harsha Satsangh T
The Direct vs. Gradual Approach
The dichotomy suggesting
that there are two approaches to the Truth (gradual
versus direct) is illusionary.
Vedas declare with authority, "I Am That."
Sri Ramana has said that the Truth of the
Self Is Simple and is within everyone's grasp. However, the spiritual effort needed
in terms of meditation and inquiry to make the mind subtle and to refine the
intellect cannot be dismissed as trivial. If some people feel that they do not need
such efforts and can grasp the Truth immediately by hearing someone restate or
paraphrase what the ancient sages have said, that is wonderful indeed.
The state of the Self is
natural. Sages called it the Sahaj state. It means easy and
natural. So, you have to see what is easy and natural for you and what comes
natural to you. What practice and path are natural differ according to the needs of
people. You need not seek or follow some "advaita expert or master" as such a
person may simply be a novice. It is not difficult to sound like an advaita master. So
do not focus on whether a path is direct or gradual and be in a rush towards
enlightenment. It is all silly talk.
Wedded to either the
"direct" approach or the "gradual" approach,
one misses the
obvious. Both the "direct" and "gradual" depend on each other for meaning and
have no basis in the Reality of the Self. The Self Always Is. It is not seen by
"another" Directly. Neither is it approached by "another" gradually. Self Reveals It
Self Alone to It Self.
You Are the Self.
Love to all
Million Paths
Bhagavan- That is where you fail.
Q: I am an inmate of
the ashram. Nevertheless,
it does occasionally happen that something
disturbs for a while, why do such interruptions
come? Does it mean that I have ceased to have
Bhagavan s grace at that time?
A: You crazy fellow! The
trouble or want of peace comes only
because of Grace. You people are glad and grateful to God
when things you regard as good come to you. That is right,
but you should be equally grateful when things you regard
as bad come to you. That is where you fail.
Million Paths
Bhagavan: ...People began to pester me
I never knew of these
philosophical conundrums and controversies and problems
until I came to Tiruvannamalai and people began to pester me. Up till then I have
never concerned myself with them. I never knew any system of philosophy. All
these systems have evolved out of the one simple fact of realization. Therefore,
seek realization, practice vichara, and do not worry about philosophies and systems
and problems.
Vichara: Enquiry This snip from Conscious Immortality
A Net of Jewels
A Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar
The source of Consciousness is Consciousness. Consciousness is all there
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
The universe goes on its merry, mystical, magical way until you start
observing it and you, by observing it, create problems. The working of the
universe has no problems.
Amrita Osborne
Daily Dharma
"I have
stilled my restless mind and
my heart is radiant,
for in Thatness I have seen
beyond Thatness,
in company I have seen
the Comrade Himself,
Living in bondage, I have set myself free,
I have broken away from
the clutch of all narrowness,
I have attained the unattainable, and
my heart is colored with the color of love."
From the book, "The Mystic Path," compiled by Amrita Nadi, published by
Brevard Community College.
Blessings to all. May peace and peace and peace be everywhere.
Anthony DeMello
Arriving at Silence
A great German
philosopher and theologian wrote a whole book specifically
on the silence of St. Thomas. He simply went silent. Wouldn't talk. In
the prologue of his Summa Theologica, which was the summary of all his
theology, he says, "About God, we cannot say what He is but rather what He
is not. And so we cannot speak about how He is but rather how He is
not." And in his famous commentary on Boethius' De Sancta Trinitate he
says there are three ways of knowing God: (1) in the creation, (2) in God's
actions through history, and (3) in the highest form of the knowledge of
God -- to know God tamquam ignotum (to know God as the unknown). The
highest form of talking about the Trinity is to know that one does not
know. Now, this is not an Oriental Zen master speaking. This is a
canonized saint of the Roman Catholic Church, the prince of theologians for
centuries. To know God as unknown. In another place St. Thomas even says:
as unknowable. Reality, God, divinity, truth, love are unknowable; that
means they cannot be comprehended by the thinking mind. That would set at
rest so many questions people have because we're always living under the
illusion that we know. We don't. We cannot know.
What is scripture, then? It's a hint, a clue, not a description. The
fanaticism of one sincere believer who thinks he knows causes more evil
than the united efforts of two hundred rogues. It's terrifying to see what
sincere believers will do because they think they know. Wouldn't it be
wonderful if we had a world where everybody said, "We don't know"? One big
barrier dropped. Wouldn't that be marvelous?
Trip out, man, but my favorite is still "The Mystic Nature of Life: Good, evil and donuts"
Matthew Files
from "One Taste" by Ken Wiber
student: I was
discussing an integral view with some other students and
they said
that because I was making judgements I was showing real lack of compassion. I
didn't think so.
kw: Yes, there is
probably more confusion about this issue than any other in
spiritual circles. Basically most of the trouble comes from confusing compassion
with idiot compassion, which are the terms Trungpa Rinpoche used for this crucial
distinction. We in this country-and especially in new-age circles- have a type of
tepid egalitarianism and political correctness that says no view is really any better
than another, and therefore all views are to be cherished equally, as a sign of rich
diversity. If we don't make any judgemennts about better or worse, then we are
showing real compassion So we have judgemental versus compassion and that is
the common understanding. But, you see, that stance is a massive
self-contradiction. On the one hand, it says that all views are equally part of a rich
diversity, and thus no view is better than another. On the other hand, it strongly
claims that this view itself is *better* than the alternatives. So this "compassion"
states that no view is better than another, *except its own view*, which is superior
in a world where nothing is superior at all. It is a ranking that denies ranking and a
judgement thtat all judgements are bad. That hypocrisy has nothing to do with real
compassion; in fact, that is idiot compassion. Idiot compassion thinks it is being
kind, but it's really being very cruel. If you have an alcoholic friend and you
know that one more drink might kill him, and yet he begs you for a drink, does
real compassion say that you should give it to him? After all, to be kind you should
give him waht he wants, right? Who are you to impose your views on him , right?
Giving him the drink would therefore show compassion yes? No, Absolurtrly not.
Real compassion includes wisdom and so it makes judgements of care and
concern: it says some things are good and some things are bad and I will choose to
act only on those things that are informed by wisdom and care. Zen calls this the
difference between "grandmother zen" and "real zen" In order to awaken from the
dream of samsara, the ego itself must be really kicked around, often severely.
Otherwise you will simply continue to play your favorite games. Grandmother zen
doesn't challenge you. In order to be "kind" grandmother zen will let you sleep a
little late if you want, and stop meditating early if you don't like how it is going,
and allow you to wallow in you. What most people mean by "compassion" is:
please be kind to my ego. Now maybe you and I aren't accomplished masters, and
so maybe we don't always know what is real compassion and what is not. But we
must start to try to learn to exercise real compassion instead of idiot compassion.
We need to learn to make qualitative distinctions. These are hierarchical
judgements that involve the ranking of values.If you don't like hierarchy, well
fine, that is your hierarchy: you hierarchically value nonhierarchies more than you
value hierarchies. Just be honest enough to to correctly label what you are really
doing. If you don't like value rankings and want to avoid them, fine, that is your
value ranking-you rank nonranking as better than ranking-and that itself is a
ranking, your ranking. At least be honest about this. The fact is, ranking is
unavoidable in values, so at least do it consciously,honestly, and above board, and
stop this hypocritical stance that you are being nonjudgemental which is itself a
colossal judgement
student: But isn't choicless awareness without judgements?
k.w.: Choicless
awareness accepts absolutely everything that arises,
including both
judging and not judging. You see, nonjudgemental, is itself a choice between two
opposites-judging versus not judging-which is why "nonjudgemental is not at all
the same as choicless awareness. Choiceless awareness is the absolute mirror that
effortlessly reflects whatever arises- it does not try to choose not-judging versus
judging. Choiceless awareness really refers to what the bBuddhists call Absolute
Bodhichitta, or Emptiness; whereas making judgements is refered to as Relative
Bodhichitta or compassion. This means ral compassion, not idiot compassion and
real compassion uses wisdom to make judgements. So in neither case, absolute or
relative, is "nonjudgemental" a wise stance. In the absolute, we rest in Emptiness,
which doesn't care if we make judgements or not since both arise equally in pure
Emptiness. In the relative, we make judgements based on wisdom and
compassion, and that means judgements based on qualitative distinctions, value
rankings, and depth.
The Conscpiracy of
I hope everyone here at least reads it. It is a long one, this is just an
excerpt. If you don't think it applies to you, well..you're wrong LOL!!
The Conspiracy of Mediocrity
Ken Wilber: Let me just say that in a student who's got a really bad
case of boomeritis which is to say, pretty much any cultural creative
out there, all fifty million strong the internal stance is, "I'm
holding on to my position and nobody can tell me what to do. My
state, just as it is, has the same worth as any other." And that
stance effectively aborts any real transformation.
And so, for example, most of the people involved with what I call
Boomeritis Buddhism even deny the importance of satori or
Enlightenment or Awakening. Because that's saying some states are
higher than others and we shouldn't be judgmental. But guess what?
Some states are higher. And so the entire raison d'etre of Buddhism
gets tossed out the door because it offends the pluralistic ego.
Andrew Cohen: So the whole point is that with boomeritis, real
radical transformation is against the rules.
KW: Yes. Well, it has to be.
AC: To dare to even speak about radical transformation, let alone
call other people to a higher level, is against the unstated rules.
And of course, one's definitely going to be put in one's place for
doing something like that. But unless the possibility of genuine
transformation is actually declared, unless one is willing to
demonstrate it publicly and to call other people to the same, no one
is even going to know that it's possible. And then unknowingly,
everybody's going to be participating in the conspiracy of
Thanks, Matthew.
What you send in these two posts is from the current issue
of What Is Enlightenment. Like all issues, it's very interesting. I enjoyed
it. The next issue will about something else altogether, like just another
post to just another email list.
Whatever structure is set up is in the path of the tide. Andrew Cohen and
Ken Wilber, a hundred years from now, and the rest of boomers will be long
washed away. Only the photos will survive. Does the above have the ring of
eternity? Does it sound locked in time? Is there a sense that these guys
open a void? Is there an attempt to do some convincing? Is the back door to
the theater open? Are we forced to pick a flick?
just some questions,
What is it about this stuff that is appealing? It almost sounds like certain
people bother Wilber and that he's set up this fantastic intellectual system
in order to isolate them and show them how wrong they are.
He says, "We in this country-and especially in new-age circles- have a type
of tepid egalitarianism and political correctness that says no view is
really any better than another, and therefore all views are to be cherished
equally." Really? Cherished? In my life I've never encountered any of this.
Where are these people? I'll write a book so they can cherish it. Anyone
within the sound of my voice cherishing all views equally? Anyone beyond the
sound of my voice?
It sounds like something really bothers Wilber, et. al., and they're dead
set on doing something about it.
Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against it. Here, I'll make Ken happy.
Ken, I cherish your views.
Lobster wrote:
Real Teachers find those worthy of transmission and do
INDEPENDENT of any need to engage in spirituality. This is because they are
transferring qualities - not information.
****What i've
written below describes a scene from the film Forrest Gump.
i dont see it necessarily as a spoiler for the movie, if you havent seen it, and would
rather not know anything about the movie, you may not want to read this.
For some reason,
the above statement of Lobsters made me think of a scene in
movie "Forrest Gump", where, right after Forrest's love, Jenny, takes off, he
seems to go into shock. And then......he just starts running. For no other reason
than because he feels like it. He ran from one U.S. coast to the other and back
again, for over three years.
He slept when
tired, ate when hungry, voided when necessary, and answered
questions with whatever came into his mind first.
Being the unusual
activity that it is, Forrest drew the attention of
reporters and
media, who assumed he was running for some reason, that his running held some
meaning. They asked him, "For what cause are you running? Hunger, peace,
women's rights?" He told them, "No. I'm running because i feel like it."
A young man,
almost too timid to say something, came up alongside him
and said,
"Oh my god, i cant believe its really you! You, who have all the answers and have
it all figured out! I will follow you anywhere!!"
And so, an army of
followers began to follow and run with Forrest, and a Guru
was born. But Forrest had never said anything. He didnt even wonder why these
people were following him. He was focused only on running.
One day, Forrest
just stopped running. The crowd behind him stopped and
"Shhh...i think he's going to say something.
All Forrest Gump
said was "I'm tired and i don't want to run
anymore. I want to
go home."
Maybe he wasn't a
Real Teacher, because he didnt know what he was doing, but
it sure did seem like he was transmitting something.
The narrative
voice-over (Forrest's voice) said, "Mama always said
you have to
put the past behind you in order to move on. I think all that running was my way
of doing that."
(fan of Forrest Gump and Lieutenant Day-in)
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Technology - Making Dragons
By Curtis
On the day of technology I screamed to my mum, "It's technology day!"
It was exciting, Mr Rankin took us to technology to learn how to sew. We needed lots of things. We needed to get a needle, a piece of paper, some buttons, scissors, an iron and material. Next we ripped the material in half. We used more material to cut some wings out and we used some triangles. Then we used some web glue to glue it with an iron.
It was the most greatest thing I ever saw!
Technology - Making Dragons
By Tyler
WOW! I said to myself, it's technology day. So off I went to school.
At technology day we were learning to sew. Did you know what? We got to iron! I thought to myself that sewing would be hard but it was easy when I started doing it.
We ripped the material and cut out the wings. Then we put glue on the wings and then ironed it on and then they stayed up. Next we sewed on the buttons and then we sewed on the tail and put the toilet rolls on.
I had a great day especially as I have never ironed before.
Technology - Making Dragons
By Ronan
In the morning I busted out of bed and rushed out of my house because I was excited! I never knew how to sew a dragon and today was the day we were making dragons.
In the morning in class I was waiting so hard that I couldn't wait for the roll! Well, finally Mr Rankin came! So Room 14 walked down to Mr Rankin's car because he had some material waiting in the boot.
First we got some material it was a little hard for me to rip but I did it!. After that we ripped two wings out and it was still a little hard. After that we glued the wings on, well it wasn't ordinary glue, it was web glue! We had to iron it so that it stuck better. After that we sewed the wings. I kept getting it wrong but I still had fun. Later on Kelvin's grandma did all the sewing for me because I was stuck. Then I went to the overlocker and Mr Rankin made a big hole so then we could put more chopped up teacher in faster. Next we got two toilet rolls - one for the mouth and one for the bum. Finally we coloured the toilet rolls.
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Hey everyone! It's time for a new challenge over at Loves Rubberstamps! As usual, every Tuesday we have a new and exciting challenge for you to participate in and today the theme is "Use Lace"! This is MY kind of challenge because I have tons of lace so it's perfect to get my mojo going!
Here's my card, it's another take on the file folder card. I think I'm addicted!
Stamps: I Heart Sweaters from The Greeting Farm and Hero Arts (sentiment)
Ink: Memento in Tuxedo Black
Tool: Envelope Punchboard from We R Memory Keepers
Coloring: Copic and Finecolour markers
Dies: Spellbinders
Embossing Folder: Swiss Dots from Cuttlebug


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The Dougall Fraser Show: Don't miss today's show with Guest Host Dougall Fraser and Danielle MacKinnon talking about relationships with our pets during the holidays.
12/20/2011 11:00 am PST
How does Fido really feel about your in-laws visiting? We will also be announcing our biggest sweepstakes yet, just in time for the holidays.
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By John Wolfe on Dec 12th 2014 08:59 PM
Australian technology start-up opens first office in New York.
We are thrilled to let you know that Geronimo has acquired Tapit. Read about it here http://www.geronimo.co/thought-leadership .
99 Wuxian and Tapit entered into an agreement to form a JV on 8
September 2014. The JV aims to revolutionise Chinese m-commerce and offline media by integrating Near Field Communication (NFC) enabled interactive offline marketing campaigns with 99 Wuxian's platform. 99 Wuxian will own 55% of the JV.
An important announcement for the broader acceptance and adoption of contactless communications.
Shoppers at Woolworths can now use their smartphone in isle to get recipes thanks to a new innovative collaboration between Tapit, TorchMedia and Nestle.


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- CurlyCue
- 4 years ago
- Wedding: September 2010
You plan a event (bday party, shower- whatever) and pick the restaurant that happens to be in area that is mostly metered street parking or paid parking lot.
Do you pay for parking? Coordinate w/ restaurant to do so or hand out cash & coins at the event.
Do you inform guests of the parking situation w/ the invite? Include the actual dollar amount.
Do nothing except invite your guests out. Guests may or may not know the parking situation in the area.


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last sunday me and my sister did another fashion show, instead of 5 outfits we showed 9 outfits. the show was rather unusual, because we didn't walked on a normal catwalk/stage (like we used to do). but on a catwalk above the water. it's was very very very cold, and we did 3 shows that day... i'm actually having a terrible cold right now. well here are some pics to show the location.
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ETC > NSA Home > Foreign Languages K-2
Sign Language: Students will learn sign language by using online resources and technology tools.
Spanish Concentration Game: Students will learn the Spanish names for ocean animals by playing a concentration game on the computer.
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Before becoming a mama, I definitely imagined the ins and outs of raising a child. But I never pictured speaking to a baby who understands table is also mesa and tafel. A couple years in, I've mastered sticking to my mother tongue while answering bilingual toddler queries. In fact, it's become as natural as dressing him or giving him a bath. Once the Dutch kicks in, we'll be totally incomprehensible to the outside world!
Here are some code switching gems from the past few months, complete with translation (every two-year-old needs that anyway, right?). Mama and Papá are self-explanatory. Nene is what he calls himself.
Mama la agua de Nene está right there en la mesa! (Mama, Nene's water is right there on the table!)
Aquí hay some people. (Here there are some people.)
Bye, Mama. Nene leaving to Nueva York. See you the next day. (Bye, Mama. Nene is going to New York. See you the next day.)
Papá, me voy un poco de agua. Ahora come back. (Papá, I'm going to get a little water. Now I'm coming back.)
This is para to eat? (This is to eat?)
And my personal favorite, when pointing at a London double decker bus:
Hay people abajo y up! (There are people below and up!)
I can't wait to see what he comes up with next. Below is a video of him describing his experience at the New Year's drink with the neighbors (the subject of my last post).


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Traverse City, MI. Walking with special hiking poles (Nordic Ski Walking Poles) is the fastest growing fitness activity in Europe and free Nordic Ski Walking Clinics are coming to Traverse City's Hagerty Insurance Health And Wellness Fair. The Nordic Walking Clinics are open to the public on Tuesday, November 18th from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Participants will learn about the many benefits of walking with real Nordic Walking Poles. Participants will also have the opportunity to demo real Nordic Walking Poles that will be sized specifically for each individual's height - all sizes will be available to test drive. One-piece poles are safer, lighter and much more durable than cheap twist-locking adjustable length/telescoping/collapsible poles.
These Nordic Walking Clinics at Hagerty Insurance will be hosted by Glen Arbor, Michigan's Pete Edwards - owner/founder/coach of the American Nordic Walking System and SkiWalking.com. Edwards' Nordic Walking Clinics are open to All ages and All fitness levels. Successful participants often include athletes, runner with knee issues, seniors, individuals with balance issues (including MS, Parkinson's, Neuropathy and Post Polio), individuals with weight issues and individuals with shin, knee, hip and/or back issues - including new knees, new hips, rods in the back, arthritis, scoliosis, osteoporosis and other challenges. Individuals that use canes and/or walkers often find that Nordic Walking Poles are much more comfortable and stable than their cane or walker. If you feel comfortable pushing a shopping cart, then Nordic Walking Poles typically provide even more support and much improved balance, stability and versatility.
Over 6 million Europeans are walking with poles. Walking with the correct length poles and proper technique burns up to 40% more calories than regular walking.
Perfect length poles help us to automatically walk with a super straight back - better walking posture is biomechanically a good thing. This improved walking posture when combined with the unique 4-Wheel-Drive type action of walking with poles radically reduces the stress to the shins, knees, hips and back. Nordic Walking is low impact.
Real Nordic Walking Poles are equipped with comfortable fingerless glove type straps, durable metal tips (for use on trails, the beach, snow and ice) and special rubber tips that are removable and designed for use on pavement and other hard surfaces.
According to Nick Mahood, SWIX USA Nordic Walking Director, "Pete Edwards, of the American Nordic Walking System and SkiWalking.com, has single handedly introduced thousands of Americans to Nordic Walking through his enthusiastic Nordic Walking Clinics! I have no doubt that Edwards is the #1 retailer of Nordic Walking Poles in the USA! You can quote me on that!"


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FV contributor Jen Gassiraro's [ artINSPIRES ] series to inspire us with design, home, artist and style images. She will also feature her new, an amazing paintings and such from time to time.
Visit her inspirational sites:
ART jengassiraro.com BLOG/inspiration jengassiraro.blogspot.com PINTEREST/inspirationpinterest.com/jngassiraro
Images via:
1· ARTIST Beatriz Milhazes via durhampress.wordpress.com
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4· HOME alnoordesign.com
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So I just unpacked my new portable scanner and I think I'm in love! I'm bought a Canon p-150m for going paperless and scanning all my docs directly into evernote. It is soooo fast and works flawlessly for me! The scanner auto detects page orientation, single or double sided (it scans both sides at once by the way), and skips any blank pages! It also scans up to 20 pages per minute!!!!
I'll update this post as I get to use it more but so far based on the 30 minutes I've spent with the thing I would totally recommend!!
The folks at Fraunhofer IPMS have done it! After years of tireless research and promises of Borg-like eyewear, the group has delivered a prototype of the world's first bidirectional, eye-tracking OLED microdisplay (got all that?) at SID 2011. The rig is much like a monocle, except with a transparent OLED display inside, which overlays digital information on top of the reflected light that usually hits your eyeballs.
This technology is so cool and I've been fired up about it since reading a book called "Rainbows End" by Vernor Vinge. I would highly recommend that book if you are looking for some reading that will open up your eyes to the possibilities that the future holds with this (and other) technology…. much of which has already had research and development work done on it since the book was written!