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January 2014
The Solar Sacrum
Lisa Renee
Dear Ascending Family,
Since the bifurcation of timelines began, the Universal Cosmic Clock is undergoing a Zero Point recalibration throughout each of the planetary chains that are a part of our Solar System's evolution. The Solar System recalibration to Zero Point is changing the four main directions of the true North, South, East and West nodes, as coordinate location points within the constellations. This is saying the constellations that are directly a part of the multiple millions of stellar bodies that interact with our planet are changing distance and moving position, from what may be considered a gravitational fixed point in time. These constellation coordinate points are time vectors responsible for electromagnetic energy placement within spin points, both counterclockwise and clockwise, and rotational axis. This controls the rate of spin of electrons, protons, and neutrons that exist in both matter and anti-matter. The rate of spin and axis of rotation at microscopic scales are the quantum mechanics, which govern the measurement of time and space in our harmonic universe. This year our planet will access sequential spirals of zero point consciousness sourcing from the corridors of the God Worlds, the Seven Higher Heaven Universes. The Universal Founder Source fields are opening to us in an omnidirectional way, so that we are able to freely access the Eternal Living Light, which illuminates and brings to the surface where all shadow and falsity had remained hidden. This is a very big year in the evolutionary direction of Ascension for humanity and the planet. Many lives will be changed permanently.
During this cycle, the Founders are altering the holographic structure of the Universal Tree of Life, and that recalibration to Zero Point impacts our personal Tree of Life. Everything contained in the instruction set is recorded in our personal Tree of Life, which is our spiritual consciousness blueprint. Those of us on the Ascension timeline have begun to experience deep alterations to our second internal layers, the areas of the sacral-sexual chakras and the 2nd dimensional blueprint of our personal Tree of Life. The Universal Founder Gold Ray, of the Rishic Suns, is sequentially merging into the 2nd dimensional gates and timelines of the origin of the planetary consciousness field. The Universal Gold Ray is a Solar principle, which is completely shifting these areas from the control of lunar based forces or Moon Chain lineages, into Solar based forces. As the quarantines are lifted beyond the Solar System ring-pass-not in the future time fields, those holding enough light quotient are undergoing a complete reconfiguration of their sacral energy centers from lunar influences to solar influences. This is the beginning stage of the birth of The Solar Sacrum for human beings on the earth.
2D Fiber Optic Upgrade
The process of synchronization with the ascending spiral of time is based upon this personal Tree of Life reconfiguration and its solar light upgrade in the sacral-sexual energy centers. During this year we will be facing the issues required to heal our lightbody in our sacral-sex center, which impacts our entire Hara complex and Krystal body. For our monadic body to hold the Avatar Christos liquid light within the seat of the hara complex, our sacral-sex centers must be healed into small plasmic solar suns. Many of us will experience direct spiritual sexual healing and rejuvenation to our sexual organs this year during the sleeping state. This is a part of the Aurora re-encryption of our elemental-emotional body, which shifts our lower chakra centers from carbon density resonance to silica based resonance. Silica is formed as a crystalline structure which allows a higher resonating quality of light and frequency transference. Currently, most fiber optics that transmits telecommunication over extremely long distances are made from silica. This is similar to our elemental bodies getting a fiber optic telecommunication upgrade. As we undergo this reconfiguration, this has a direct implication on our relationships, marriages, sexual intimates and everything imaginable that is directly related to our sexual energies. This reconfiguration completely shifts our 2D elemental body and all of our inner space chakra centers. The elemental-emotional body is the part of the lightbody which opens into the inner quantum realms of our consciousness.
This may be a difficult time for those feeling pushed into inquiring on the nature of our deep sexual urges and energies, and exploring how we feel about ourselves, our partners and others in this context. In our current society, we have been wounded terribly to feel ashamed, guilty or scared of our sexuality, especially in coming to terms with the true nature of its sacred purpose. There is a tremendous underbelly of dark sexual manipulation through designed secrecy programs, which are promoted to keep humans sexually miserable and marriages emotionally unbearable.
This year we will be facing the sexual misery mind control programs and their influence upon us from the past, in order to terminate their influence on us in the future.
Once we comprehend the sexual–spiritual basis that connects us directly with God, then we know we have the ethical responsibility to heal and take care of our bodies sacred sexual and creative energies. When we do not know how to lovingly care for our sexual organs and sexual energies, we may feel painfully confused about self-love and self-acceptance. This results in many sexual distortions as well as sexual transmitted diseases, which impact our psycho-emotional state and wellbeing. As we move into the reconfiguration of our sexual energy center from lunar control into The Solar Sacrum, we must come face to face with our buried sexual fears and deepest instinctual motivations in raw transparency. This is happening for both genders, although males and females may have unique sexual issues to bring to the surface, this healing event will remove the walls of separation between the sexes. This is an incredible spiritual healing opportunity for those who consciously participate and desire truly loving sacred unions!
Shedding the Lunar Woman
Humanity has been in a dark cycle of separation, which dedicated the female principle as made in the image of the Moon Goddess, as the stages of being a woman were matched to the shadowy reflections and phases of Lunar light. Being equated to the secondary reflection of the male solar light, was the set up for descending the female image to be linked with monsters of darkness and hidden mystery, where the seeds of misogyny on earth began. The fear of the spiritual womb power inherent in females was robbed through rape, humiliation and menstrual disgrace. These fears feed the Dark Witch Female archetypes, such as the Black Widow Mother promoted by the voodoo superstitions in the moon chain lineages. This hell spawn Mother would eat her young and decapitate her husband, if she was not put in her place, kept barefoot and pregnant and commandeered by her husband. The fear of menstruation as evil, dirty, or a punishment for sin, the fears of the female sexual organs swallowing up the male, are still being massively fueled by the dark ignorance promoted to subjugate women to the status of breeders or prostitutes. In many places in the world today, women are told the only life purpose they are good for is as brood mare or for the whims of male pleasure.
With the solar sacrum upgrade, the female principle and instinctual-emotional body within us must learn to be illuminated from within the radiant light of solar forces. The moon represents the mirror which reflects the mysteries of God, as well as the hidden shadow side of the solar light. The lunar force hides what we cannot see inside ourselves. Many times, we refuse to face our inner shadow from the primal spiritual fear of falling into the watery abyss of dark nothingness. Now in this cycle, we will see what was buried as our Sacral Center is gradually filled with the radiance of solar light. This means many moon based rituals that are directly associated and implicated as a part of the female principle, are changing their meaning now. This may create confusion or pain in women as they come to the realization of the necessity of leaving behind moon based rituals. The sense of the connection to the Moon Goddess and its mythos will begin to naturally fall away as one listens to the earth. Many women and men, have been taught to feel empowered through the many ancient lunar teachings of cycles from the moon lineages. As those who deeply connected with the moon as a source of ritual may begin to feel estranged from the past ceremonies, which once had felt empowering and supportive.
It is time for the High Priestess to enter between the Pillars at the Temple of Solomon, embodied with a full wedded garment of light, forever dissolving the crescent moon and shadows underneath her feet. For she is the Wife of the Lamb of God Jesus Christ and it is her destiny to build the holy architecture of the New Jerusalem on earth, in perfect love and sacred marriage with her husband.
We are leaving the lunar influence behind as these lineages have been inherently responsible for the gender separation and sexual schism, which stole humanities right and ability to live in sacred spiritual marriage. The Moon Chain lineages history with the earth hold the hidden meaning behind the sexual misery programs and the main reason for extremely mismatched and unhappy marital relations promoted upon the human race. The Moon Chain lineages entered this planet through the Asian gates, and as such the epicenter of these Moon Chain belief systems will be highly concentrated in the cultural beliefs observed in the Asian regions of the planet, like China, India, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia.
The following is a summation of the hidden historical reasons contributing to these sexual distortions and why humanity must depart from the Lunar cycle and influence of the Moon Chain lines.
Moon Chain Beings
Moon Chain Beings are soulless entities, like the Greys and Zetas that have been engineered or cloned by the Annunaki, Draconian and Necromitons whom have placed these beings as workers on various planets. Moon chain lineages are also cast offs from other cycles of evolution between multiple planets in our Solar System. These are beings that were not rehabilitated in past cycles when they lost their capacity to incarnate as a human soul. The Annunaki have shaped this planet in the last 50,000 years as a type of prison for undesirables and allowed Orion groups to send their criminals from other planets to incarnate on the earth. For this reason, the earth became a type of galactic way station for wanderers. The moon chain lineages have been directly involved both karmically and technologically with purposely creating the Sexual Misery program in the human race during this Dark Age. One reason is that the human sexual energies which connect into the soul body matrix are by far the easiest to manipulate and have a high yield of energy to harvest from. Soulless entities require an external energy source to exist for long periods of time and as such they harvest human and planetary life force energy. Some of these soulless entities became the housing for the collective spirit of Luciferian forces and for Satanic Forces. This is what it means when the term Luciferian Annunaki or Satanic Draconian is used as a descriptor. It defines a being that made a choice at some point from actions taken, that allowed an agreement with the spiritual forces of those levels of consciousness to use or possess the body or entity.
These anti-life energies purposely distort, through patriarchal domination mind control, which severely damages the natural energetic balance that exists between the male and female principle. This has emotionally devastated and spiritually stunted all human beings to some extent. Some of the most traumatizing events are those painful memories from distortions existing between men and women being forced to sexually abuse each other, over and over. These gender principle distortions have been used to propagate some of the deepest levels of spiritual abuse and sexual misery that could occur to a race of beings. For this reason, there is an unconscious terror around accessing the heart center because the soul wound is so painful for so many on the earth.
Sexual Misery Programs
In order to separate humanity from accessing true sacred marriage during the course of natural spiritual development towards hierogamic divine union, the NRG Grids promote sexual misery mind control, which is designed to influence spiritual disconnection through all means sexual. The NRG grids are supervised by the Annunaki, who also direct its energetic resources to the Moon Chains that are working for them.
The sexual misery program is to intentionally distort, manipulate and abuse the creative life force of the sexual energies, therefore abuse the spiritual body energies, in all human beings incarnated on this planet.
Upon hijack of these 2D-4D energy centers, false white light or false Christ consciousness grids were eventually used on planet from the astral plane, to misguide and trap human being's spiritual energies. The damage promoted in these centers also resulted in emotional distortions and extreme aberrant accumulated energies in the lower bodily energy centers of the collective. This was taken advantage of by the negative alien's anti-christ spirits to splinter the collective soul energies rather than integrate and heal them, by controlling and abusing humanities sexual energies. By promoting painful distortions around the sexual act through religion, judgment, misogyny, gender roles and corrupting our relationship to our mother and father parent, our race descended into sexual misery and marital incompatibility. This is known as the sexual misery program propagated and hierarchically distributed by the Moon Chain lunar lineages. These lineages are not indigenous to the earth but came to extra-dimensional control through the process of invasion, deception and parasitism. There are multiple layers of inorganic architecture and mind control that have been artificially created to control, deceive, separate, confuse, torture and steal human being's sexual life force and it is a violation against the human soul. These violations wound the soul body, as the trauma level in events such as rape or sexual torture, fragment the soul into near destruction. When the soul fragments from any kind of intense trauma, it shuts down the soul connection, heart connection and systematically splinters the layers of the mental bodies. If this is not healed, the soul fragments are unable to embody at all, and exist in fragments strewn across the planetary consciousness grids. The physical result is a disconnected soul from its incarnated human body. The soul is outside the physical self and may exist in fragments, rather than energetically integrated to be embodied.
This spiritual disconnection is the result of most all human diseases, brain dysfunction and related psycho-emotional distortions, many with clinical references to schizoid, narcissism, and psychopathy. Once a soul is fragmented the body is very easy to control through addiction or to possess by reversal life forces, such as Satanic forces. Obviously to feed the chain of hungry ghosts, to possess a human body in order to gain access into its energetic source is desirable for them. One way to incite influences that will shape belief systems for possession is to use mind control on the human population. One main collective mind control archetype that is used to reverse the Christos female attributes, is through the holographic insert use of the Princess Code.
The Princess Code or Reversal Mother Forces
To instigate the sexual misery mind control program, archetypal filters to control the minds of the collective were installed in the planetary consciousness. The Princess Code is a collective planetary archetype filter that was inserted technologically by the NAA, into human consciousness to purposely distort the female principle and female gender roles. As a result, this archetype can also be referred to as stemming from the dark female or dark mother forces that are manipulated by the Satanic and Luciferian spirits in their ritual alchemy to impose their timelines and future probabilities upon the current earth consciousness. The dark female archetype and reversal female forces can manifest within a male body and a female body, and is designed to distort the female spiritual principle in both men and women.
The unhealed cellular memories in the timelines that are used to feed this false female archetype on earth are related to the painful histories of Tiamat. This is a False Mother consciousness program designed to inflict pain and suffering upon the earth. When the NAA invaded the planet during the Atlantian cycle, the consciousness program installed in the Planetary Logos was designed to enslave the inhabitants of the planet, based in Orion Patriarchal Domination through a persistent strategy of shaping mind control through Archontic Deception Behavior. This began the planet's dark age of misogyny. The Orion group was aware that to manifest creation they require both male and female consciousness counterparts to merge with each other. Just as the reversal electrons were manipulating the male mind principle into controlled tyrannical thoughts, the protons were manipulated at the subatomic level, changing chemical elements to compact down the female heart feeling principle energies into the underworld dimensions.
To keep the reversal mother energy and heart trapped in the lower dimensions, the Princess Code hologram was installed at the atomic level to be used by the NAA forces as the counterpart to the controllers for the False King of Tyranny. The False King of Tyranny archetype mates with the Princess Code archetype, who grows into adulthood into the Ice Queen, to maintain the control through the Power Elite and their belief systems promoted throughout media, society and as an inherent part of grooming both boys and girls to adopt this abusive behavior and belief system as adults. This dysfunction further promotes the sexual misery program and the Moloch related soul abuse, so that children will not grow into well balanced adults capable of creating truly loving, healthy, happy spiritual marriages. Sexual misery manifests genetic distortions, which are generally known as sexually transmitted diseases and other genetic related abnormalities.
Princess Code Narcissistic Profile
This collective archetypal identity filter is used to manipulate both males and females in the instinctual 2D body. In its extreme ego dominating identity, this dark female archetype becomes a thoughtform possession used for satanic based manipulation. One may notice that in western culture, all the little girls are conditioned to react and adore pink princess related images, cartoons and toys. Just try to get a girl a toy that is not pink! In the Asian cultures girls are conditioned to westernized designer labels, sexualized cartoons, pigtails and stuffed toys. Generally, this teenage princess image is used to titillate white western men. This princess conditioning begins as early as possible even as a baby. Once the princess archetype is conditioned to the point of ego identification, the following beliefs and behaviors are reinforced in a child into adulthood.
- Astral fantasy that the Knight in Shining Armor will ride in on his white horse and will sweep her off her feet, saving her from doom, poverty, low status and unhappiness.
- Superior beliefs that she is a Princess and then deserving as a Queen, thus she makes demands of self-entitled treatment and expectations.
- Believes she has to manipulate the male target of her Knight Fantasy, into marrying her and then he will become the King. Sexual manipulation, seduction and deception to get power or material goods are common.
- Generally feels that she is deserving of wealth, jewels or status symbols and will blame or use others to get these designer material goods.
- General disregard for others, even those she is close with, in the relentless pursuit of her storybook fantasies and personal goals.
- Cosmetic surgery or extreme manipulation methods to make her appear to be that of a beautiful princess to others.
- Spin doctors the reality, creates self-promotion stories, to suit her image of perfection or image based on her reality bubble, which is built upon delusion and deception.
- Narcissism through emotional fracturing and immaturity is masking her outward superiority complex and potentially tantrums, hysterics and upheavals.
- Refuses to listen to accurate assessments or facts and may lash out when her delusion or reality bubble is being threatened.
- Key themes: manipulator, seducer, jezebel, femme fatale, fantasizer, Victim-Victimizer, lasher/slasher, guilt trip punisher, man-eater, strings attached, conditional.
These destructive ego behaviors are the basis of promoting severe addiction, sexual disconnection and narcissism, which are disastrous emotional habits when desiring to create a happy, healthy marriage, relationship or family based on love and trust. When highly habitualized, it is very difficult for the female to change her sense of identity without comprehending the emotional damage it is creating in her life and in the lives of others. The inner addictive void creates a never ending cycle of emptiness, of great longing and loneliness which feeds into the mind control manipulation of the moon chain lines.
As an example, at this time the Asian grids are feeding Princess Codes as well as sexual robot fantasies to disconnect men and women from intimacy and heart based relations. Anime and Manga violent porn cartoons of sexual robots, have extensive architecture powering into the NRG networks as a battery source. These items are being exploited to shape trends or beliefs, which create massive deviations that are imbalanced and unhealthy for the human being who is unaware they are being negatively manipulated through these mind control systems. During this time, many young Asian girls have decided to have radical cosmetic surgery on their features to appear like their favorite or adored anime or manga cartoon character. Affluent teenage girls are asking their parents for elective breast and vaginal surgeries while their sisters in Muslim countries are having their sexual organs forcibly mutilated from barbaric religious beliefs. Both of these destructive acts are designed for sexual-genital mutilation, which distorts the natural vital energies from running harmoniously in the sexual organs and is influenced by the Princess Code.
Tiamat, the Wounded Goddess
The phantom energy generated from the exploded planet Tiamat is used to power up reversal female archetypes on our planet, used by the moon chain forces, such as the Princess Code.
Tiamat is the collective consciousness of the dark goddess, wounded, enslaved and abused female archetype in the holographic architecture, which is the source of energy used to currently distort women and the female principle on this planet today. Tiamat was a planet in our Solar System that exploded into bits and is congealed in a false phantom body.
Tiamat was the ancient living Goddess of the 10th Gate, Iran-Iraq, when there was an Eden, and she was the living intelligence gatekeeper to the Christ-Buddha-Avatar consciousness matrix. She was exploded into bits by the Moon Chain lineages that used her essence to recreate lunar forces to replicate her female essence into reversal formats. The destruction of Tiamat like a heaven and earth principle living together in perfect harmony, is synonymous with the destruction of sacred marriage or union of opposites, the split in the wall in time and the shift to patriarchal domination and its electron distortion.
The ancient unhealed pain of Tiamat is part of the construct used as a phantom system to artificially inflict these painful memories and its sexual misery upon the human race. They squirreled parts of her wounded body bits in 2D, and used her consciousness to move in and out of time portals. To keep this pain hidden and the female enslaved, the controllers keep excessive war and misogyny circulated in the previous areas of Eden, in the areas of Iraq and Iran.
This phantom body is connected to the NRG Grid feed line in Stonehenge, and is something that holds the Vesica Pisces harness through this construct, which distorts our true sacred spiritual marriage of divine equals. Nibiru the Annunaki planet has used the female planet Tiamat post explosion as the female balance to power its artificial machinery. This keeps its movement to and with this earth in an artificial orbit. The Leviathan races were systematically evicted from the 2D gates and Tiamat the wounded collective goddess is being systematically reclaimed into her wholeness through the Solar Consciousness of the Aurora Mother. For collective humanity this event means that the wounded female memories in the elemental-emotional body that were trapped in reversal, will start to unwind and 2D emotional healing will happen in ways that were not previously possible. This is occurring on the ascending spiral of the bifurcation of time transpiring on the earth now. Some of the population will leave this earth to complete their spiritual development on another planet or they will do it here now. This Guardian project was commenced during the Sarasota Gridwork project, last September and early October 2013.)
The Moloch Battery
As much as people would like to ignore the dark consciousness that exists within the satanic forces or luciferian spirits, these forces do have vast implications for human beings on this planet. Therefore, it is wise to seek greater awareness for improved personal discernment, only if one has a clear comprehension and dedication that one's complete spiritual authority is with the Eternal God Light in Christ.
Moloch is a soul binding entity and energetic container used in SRA rituals. Many times, Moloch is used in the satanic ritual to collect and disperse the human being's vital energies to hierarchies of Satanic spirits. When a percentage of the human being's vital forces and spiritual energies are collected by satanic spirits, the person is high risk for soul binding, mental fragmentation or schizoid, dark manipulation and possession.
The Moloch is a type of siphoning construct that is used by the Moon Chain entities as well as Satanic forces to mark the children of earth with the Moloch signature as early as possible. Some of the accepted common ways this begins as early as possible is through genital mutilation, such as circumcision. Sometimes a pregnant mother will dedicate her unborn child to the moon in a ritual that feeds Moloch. These are called moon children, whose rituals were started by Alistair Crowley. The purpose of this is to cultivate the children of the earth to feed the sexual misery program into adulthood, and to give up their sovereignty and sexual energies for continued parasitism by these forces.
Moloch is also the entity called upon for accumulating personal wealth in SRA. This entails making a covenant with Satanic forces in order to have use over the collective forces attached to the Moloch tank, in order to manifest material goods or wealth on one's behalf. This means one is stealing other people's life force in order to use that stolen life force to manifest wealth, power or status for themselves or their groups. This has been demonstrated in the Bohemian Grove Rituals with a mock child sacrifice to the statue of Moloch. This is done because the person or group believes they are superior, elitists, and that they do not want to do the work to generate that life force on their own personal merits or character and ethics. When you make a covenant with Satanics you are binding yourself to feed energies to that entity in exchange for a material or other earthly and temporary privileges. There is always eventually, a consequence of great pain and soul suffering. The deal one may make is to give up your child, to sell your soul, so that one gives away their sovereignty to the entity who feeds off of their life force. In Africa, there are black magicians who steal orphaned children and kill them at the site of one's business, in order to accumulate wealth for the business owner. Where did the belief that when one kills a child, they will receive personal wealth originate? This is a Moloch mind control program to set up blood and sexual sacrifice of the children on this planet. When one is allowing consent to the authority of Satanic or Luciferian spirits, the God force will not interfere with your choice until you renounce that authority.
Moloch is defined as both the receptacle battery tank and the quality of collected satanic force. It intentionally promotes sexual predators that perpetrate the use of victim-victimizer software, in the form of any kind of violence and abuse, especially sexual abuse focused upon the soul capture of children. This is why one can observe with common sense that pedophiles, child pornographers and sexual abusers, are hidden in the power elite and do not get any real jail time unless there is huge media frenzy. This program starts at childhood and remains as an attached Moloch software that can infect the multidimensional bodies, especially with genital implants, a device that takes sexual energy into adulthood. In the UK, a high degree of genital implants such as uterine brands in girls and women, have been observed over the years. The purpose of this etheric brand was to commandeer the uterus ownership away from the female and give it to the entities and humans who use the Moloch battery tank to stay in power.
A child that is infected with Moloch will grow into adulthood and in high probability, exchange roles from the victim to the victimizer to perpetuate the Moloch sexual energy capture program. Various levels of child abuse will exacerbate the perversion of addiction to the Moloch program into adulthood. The Moloch abuse directly results in sexual misery programming, where the child's sexual confusion, gender confusion, marital confusion, deviant fetishes, traumatizes the emotional body. Therefore, this traumatizes the soul propagating abusive types of relationships both interpersonal and intimate, based on the learned patterns of dysfunction and abuse.
The Moloch worship mind control is related to the Moon Chain lineages that are karmically responsible for the sexual misery programs, which have stolen sacred marriage sexuality away from the general population of earth. This has been greatly accomplished through the NRG network and promoting hatred, guilt and shame upon all matters related to sexuality, as well as promoting addiction related sexual release, fully disconnected from the sexual partners as objects.
Satanics and Luciferians are well aware who controls the mind controls the soul. By starting sexual trauma as young as possible, they hope to fragment the mind as well as the soul. When a person is sexually traumatized it is the worst damage one can commit to the soul, and that act alone can fragment the personality into schizoid disorder. When this occurs, the satanic entity can bind or use the person much more easily, and so the goal of sexual torture is mental fragmentation as well as soul fragmentation. CIA programs test the use of sexual domination or torture, such as in MK Ultra and Monarch programs, and use orgasm as a form of mind control as they are well aware of the power over the individual body and collective humanity to controlled subservience through acts of sexual abuse.
At this time when and if this resonates with you, we can reclaim sexual parts as well as recognize levels of trauma committed to our innocence, especially through sexual experiences. If this feels complete for you personally, then this is an impact you may observe more in the world around you, and you may be called upon to help release Moloch programs.
Some suggested tools:
- Resign From Moloch Matrix.
- Consecrate your genitals as holy objects dedicated to the purposes of God/Christ.
- Practice conscious loving sexual acts and be loving and appreciative of your genitals.
- Bless all children as Children of God, claimed in the Christ or Krystal Star.
- Clear all implants or structure you become aware of on your genitals and sacral areas.
- Send all beings bound to Moloch in SRA to Mothers Aqua Portal, set up portal for this specific reason.
Even though this is very difficult material, this shift to reveal the Moloch's is very optimistic in that the structures of energetic containment are being revealed, so that they can be dismantled from use. This is extremely positive news for humanity. This is a longer term project to stimulate self-awareness, so allow this information to settle at your own pace and do not feel pressurized. This is for your discernment if it indeed becomes relevant in your life.
Healing Inner Violence
No partner or casual relationship that one has intimate relations with either sexual or platonic, is accidental or by chance. We are ending casual relationships and all relationships will be first and foremost about personal transformation and spiritual development. Relationships that have been entered into on the basis of deception or pathology such as addiction, fantasy or sexual misery using Princess Code, Hero/Savior, Tyrant King, and Ice Queen, will crumble hard and fast. We are being taught to move away from destructive archetypes that play mind games and delude our perception between our intimate relations and sexuality.
Once it is realized that all relationships are about spiritual growth through applied life lessons, you can participate with that comprehension in order to easily graduate to the next level. Applying non-attachment and unconditional forgiveness in your relationships will allow you to skip the harder more painful lessons. Eventually through your balanced self-mastery, you will have access to create the most loving, spiritual marriage you ever could imagine. This year we have this possibility and it will continue to grow stronger as more of us wake up and remember to live our divine purpose and love again.
Take steps to clear and heal your emotional state, as well as mind, body and spirit, when you recognize inner pain or inner violence towards self or others, and inquire on the nature and source of the pain or fear. Continue to develop a skill set to transcend pain and fear and improve communication skills and lifestyle habits. We have a bevy of tools here in ES to help with that process. When these skills are mastered as a way of everyday life, they are much easier to apply in husband-wife, partner/spouse or boyfriend/girlfriend or Alchemical union. Some changes that are unique in these types of Christos based partnerships extend further to extremely deep transparency, honesty and intuitive knowing in the evolving dynamics of the relationship. This new type of Christos based relationship is ever evolving and peacefully, ever loving!
Birthing the Solar Sacrum
The second internal layer of our Tree of Life is the elemental-emotional body, which operates as the instinctual layer of the ego which generally remains a hidden part of the unconscious mind. The first part of spiritual healing is to be willing to pay attention to emotional and sexual drives and one's motivations though dedicated self-awareness. The second layer is directly impacted by the first layer to the degree the painful memory is experienced in the person's hard drive. (See last month's newsletter). This second layer could also be called the pain body. It is the location where unresolved pain memories will manifest as instinctual drives within the person's ego. If the 1D storage memories are not identified or cleared, the pain of these memories creates walls of separation in the 2D layer as a pain body. The pain body further creates walls of separation, which manifest in the ego as seven primary mental and emotional states identified above. These walls of separation isolate the ego self in the person and as the person identifies with that ego state they become disconnected from their inner spirit. This disconnection from the inner spirit creates a wall where another part of the ego identity may split off and may hide itself from pain. This identity could have been created when one is a baby, a six year old child, a teenager or even in other timelines. This phenomenon is called ego sub-personalities. The goal of our inner spirit is to find and locate these sub-personalities to heal them, reclaim them as Children of God so that the spiritual light can be reintegrated and brought back into wholeness.
Using this chart below may be helpful to identify and participate with the reconfiguration transpiring throughout this year in one's sacral centers and inner space chakras. Intend and ask Holy Christos Golden Ray to help heal all the walls of separation in one's 2D elemental-emotional body and to bring the sexual-sacral areas into balance with unified loving patterns of inner sacred marriage.
Tree of Life Branches |
2nd Tree and Sacral Chakra |
Grounding Ray Sacred Marriage (HG) |
Merging with 14D Rishic Sun and 8D Gold Ray |
Balancing Archetype |
Sovereign Son and Daughter |
Negative Archetype |
Martyr, Scapegoat |
Negative Archetype |
Addict, Fanatic, Seducer |
Tri-Wave Unified Pattern |
Strong Core Self Identity, Emotional Competency, Letting Go, Harmony with Relationships and Sexuality |
Fear Thoughtforms |
Codependent Relationships, Addictions, Betrayals, Abandonment, Rejection, Guilt, Shame, Sexual confusion |
Love Thoughtforms |
Healthy Relationships, Creativity, Loving connections, Acceptance of Self and others, Sexual clarity |
2D Unconscious Pain/Separation |
1. Unworthiness |
For additional tools on developing practical communication skills to help enlighten current relationships into Christos heart based relationships, this week's blog may be supportive in the sacral center shifting to evolve our behaviors within intimate relationships. See Krystic Relationships here.
This year our consciousness will be focusing on reclaiming the Radiant Light for the birth of the Solar Sacrum Center as a God-Sovereign-Free being. Be very gentle with your heart and gentle with others, as this sacral center reconfiguration will Rock our World around the Cosmic Clock. Congratulations to our Ascension Families and to all a very Happy New Year.
Until next stay in the luminosity of your Avatar Christ heart path. Please be kind to yourself and each other. GSF!
With a Loving heart, Lisa


text: This study reports on the development of bulk single-scattering models for ice clouds that are appropriate for use in hyperspectral radiative transfer cloud modeling over the spectral range from 100 to 3250 cm-1. The models are developed in a manner similar to that recently reported for the Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); therefore these models result in a consistent set of scattering properties from visible to far-infrared wavelengths. The models incorporate a new database of individual ice-particle scattering properties that includes droxtals, 3D bullet rosettes, hexagonal solid and hollow columns, aggregates, and plates. The database provides single-scattering properties for each habit in 45 size bins ranging from 2 to 9500 μm, and for 49 wavenumbers between 100 and 3250 cm-1, which is further interpolated to 3151 discrete wavenumbers on the basis of a third-order spline interpolation method. Bulk models are developed by integrating various properties over both particle habit and size distributions. Individual bulk models are developed for 18 effective diameters Deff, ranging from Deff = 10 μm to Deff = 180 μm. A total of 1117 particle size distributions are used in the analyses and are taken from analysis of the First International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project Regional Experiment (FIRE)-I, FIRE-II, Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program intensive operation period (ARM-IOP), Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Kwajalein Experiment (TRMM-KWAJEX), and Cirrus Regional Study of Tropical Anvils and Cirrus Layers Florida-Area Cirrus Experiment (CRYSTAL-FACE) data. The models include microphysical and scattering properties such as median mass diameter, effective diameter, single-scattering albedo, asymmetry factor, and scattering phase function. The spectral models are appropriate for applications involving the interpretation of the radiometric measurements of ice clouds acquired by infrared spectrometers such as the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) on the NASA Aqua satellite and the Cross-Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) on the upcoming National Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) platforms.

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text: Target's BOGO Sale February 8, 2013 Hello Friends, I hope your week ended well and you are now home safe and sound. After work I stopped at Tar'Jay to make a return and of course took a detour to the shoe department. Winter is not yet over and the North East is being hit with a major snowstorm, however, retailers are busily stocking their shelves with Spring apparel. Target is having a BUY 1 GET 1 50% OFF on their shoes and accessories and my tootsies were getting excited in anticipation of being free again. The details on Mossimo shoes are getting much better, check out some of the latest styles currently on display. There were still a few clearance items on the shelves including boots which will be needed for at least another month. However, the Cap Toe heels and loafers were no longer available and most likely were shipped to Goodwill stores in the area. Target, being a good Corporate Citizen donates a lot of their unsold merchandise directly to Goodwill where even better deals can be had. Enjoy the rest of your evening – Smooches! TweetShare this:MoreTweetEmailPrintLike this:Like Loading... Related Tagged with: accessories, animal print, animal print flats, ankle straps, BOGO, boots, Buy 1 Get 1 50% off, Cap Toe heels, clearance, clutch purses, colorblocked, cork, cork wedges, Corporate Citizen, floral, Goodwill, leopard print, loafers, Merona, Mossimo, North East, open toe shoes, oxford, platform shoes, Polka-Dot, purses, Sale, sandals, snow storm, spring apparel, studded shoes, tar'jay, Target, wallets, wedge shoes, xhiliration, zipper back Categorised as: Uncategorized


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Note: Anne Petermann, Executive Director of Global Justice Ecology Project, was featured in a press release by the Institute for Public Accuracy on the link between Typhoon Haiyan, climate change, climate justice and the upcoming UN climate conference in Poland. The link below is to one of the interviews she gave.
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The typhoon that laid waste to parts of the Philippines last week struck just before the 19th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change got underway in Warsaw, Poland on Monday. But while there is general agreement that global climate change is a major factor in the increasing number and intensity of storms worldwide, there continues to be little progress toward limiting the emission of greenhouse gasses. We speak with Anne Peterman, executive director of the Global Justice Ecology Project.
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Born January 23, 1854 in London, England, Justice Greenbaum was the son of Louis and Rachel Deborah (Schlessinger) Greenbaum. He came to the United States with his parents when he was three years old and attended New York City public elementary school. Justice Greenbaum graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1872 and obtained his law degree from Columbia College Law School in 1875. While he was a law student and until 1877, Justice Greenbaum also taught grammar school.
From 1877 to 1900, Justice Greenbaum practiced law, first alone and then as a member of the firm of Hays & Greenbaum. In 1900, he was appointed to fill an unexpired term in the New York State Supreme Court. In November of 1901, Justice Greenbaum was elected to his first full fourteen-year term, and was re-elected in November, 1915 to another full term.
In 1920, Governor Al Smith designated Justice Greenbaum an Associate Justice of the Appellate Division, First Department, where he sat until he resigned in 1923 to resume private practice.
Throughout his life, Justice Greenbaum remained active in many professional, civic and charitable organizations. He was president of the Educational Alliance from 1912 to 1926. Justice Greenbaum had also served as president of the Aguilar Free Library Society; had been a trustee of the New York Public Library for many years, as well as a trustee of the League for Political Education, Jewish Welfare Board, and Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He was also a member of the Society for Medical Jurisprudence, Civil Service Reform Association, Free Trade League, and many bar associations.
Justice Greenbaum married Selina Ulman on March 13, 1888 and they had four children – Lawrence Samuel, Edward Samuel, Grace and Isabel. His wife passed away at 25 years of age.
Who's Who in New York – Ninth Edition [Winfield Scott Downs, ed.], Who's Who Publications, Inc., New York, 1929, p.690-91
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In this exclusive audio interview Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson talks with Vanessa Domico, Founder and President of Outcast Films, a distribution and production company which is dedicated to the fair and equal representation of media made by or about our LGBT community. Outcast Films is also an educational and activist-driven organization and in that pursuit, they provide a vehicle for voices that may not otherwise be heard. When asked what she would like to see accomplished in the Obama administration for our LGBT civil rights, Domico stated, "I have to say I'm losing patience with the Obama administration. I mean he was elected because of his promises of change and hope and we've seen very little of either of those things in his first year of office. You know he had so much support going in that I'm miffed as to why he didn't use that wave of support to push through the many needed changes in this country. I mean, that said, I think "Don't Ask Don't Tell" should be repealed immediately. There's simply no rational reason to have it continue. There have been over a hundred Admirals and Generals that have come out in favor of ending it. And the majority of the public thinks it should end. I also think that all rights should be given to all people, whether you're gay, straight, married or not. If the state is truly separate from the church, then I don't understand why it's so closely connected, why there are over a thousand more laws and rights given to those married than those who are not married. That's a long battle."
Vanessa Domico has served as a member of the Board of Directors for both the Pittsburgh and New York City LGBT Film Festivals and is an authority on distribution of LGBT films. She has represented both festivals as well as Women Make Movies and Outcast Films at countless festivals, panels, and other events. Outcast Films award-winning titles include "Pills Profits Protest: Chronicle of the Global AIDS Movement", "Rock Bottom: Gay Men and Meth", "Tying the Knot", "She's A Boy I Knew", winner of 16 jury and audience awards, the complete collection of films by acclaimed, avant garde filmmaker Su Friedrich and Jean Carlomusto's latest documentary Sex in an Epidemic, their newest release.
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Testing the intimate intersection of audience, object, and event, Nina Canell's work has been described by curator Fionn Meade as "tethered to fragmented and often partially withheld narratives [and] comprised of choreographed indirection and relay." Published in relation to the exhibition "Stray Warmings" at Midway Contemporary Art in Minneapolis, this new monograph brings together writing and reproductions that extend beyond this particular context. The book documents the broader framework that has defined the artist's practice during the past years, considering how intuition, corners, and a stratification of the transparent have formed Canell's understanding of sculpture and its dissolution.
The text contributions are comprised of a conversation between Dieter Roelstraete and Monika Szewczyk on the topic of communication, followed by an essay by Steven Connor on the consistency of words, imagination, and thought itself.


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TITLE – Juniper's Princess
SERIES – Angel Crest Trilogy Book 1
AUTHOR – Chelsea O'Neal
GENRE – Urban Fantasy/Paranormal Romance
PUBLICATION DATE – July 2, 2013
LENGTH (Pages/# Words) – 256 pages 126,174 words
PUBLISHER – Mirador Publishing
COVER ARTIST – Mallory Rock's Art
Daniah is different, she always has been and now her dreams and visions of the future are increasing, she knows her life is changing. She just doesn't know by how much...
Jaiden is different, but he knows why and he knows his responsibilities. He must find the savior of his race, the angel human half-breeds who are fighting a war for humanity's souls.
If he can't convince Daniah she is more than just a little different - she is a princess of their people - they are all going to hell.
Unfortunately Daniah doesn't have many reasons to trust Jaiden, especially when he is caught in a web of his own lies. In a world where half-breed angels walk among us, fighting an evil for our souls, Daniah must find the strength to become the princess we all need.
Chelsea O'Neal has a unique voice in storytelling, threading the characters lives together intricately to give us a complex web of good versus evil in a world descending into chaos...
I round the corner to the living room and I see Trev lying on the sofa, asleep. I stop and stare; I've never noticed how incredibly handsome he is. I mean of course he is cute, but Jaiden is closer in age to me and I have hung out with him more than Trevor. I study him as he lies perfectly still, the only movement coming from him his chest raising and lowering with each breath.
He has strong features, a square jaw and smooth skin, with high cheekbones. His hair is short and mocha colored, his eyes, if they were open, are a stunning sky blue. Jaiden's eyes are green, if I remember correctly. Trev is a little taller than J, probably six foot six or seven, and built.
He may be a Secret and not a Rector but we would be evenly matched if we were to fight. His chest is broad and muscular, his biceps are huge, and in the t-shirt he's wearing it looks like they are trying to break free. The bottom hem of the t-shirt has ridden up and his skin is tanned and chiseled, with just a slight trail of hair disappearing under his jeans. While I'm staring at his abs, I notice his breathing has changed. I bring my gaze back to his face and he is looking at me in a demure, almost coy way. If I were to have been standing here checking out Jaiden his face would have been full of arrogance with a haughty smile, knowing he's gorgeous of course. With Trev, he's almost asking with his eyes if he is good enough.
"Um," I say clearing my throat, feeling my face heat. "I knocked, but you didn't answer, it was unlocked," I say, gesturing at the door. "I'm early, so I thought I would just come over. I'm sorry to have woken you."
I look down, feeling bad for not thinking of his need for sleep, he still has dark circles under his eyes. I should have walked back out instead of ogling him while he slept.
"Cord," he says, waiting for me to look up. I finally meet his eyes and he continues. "It is okay, really, you don't have to apologize." He stands from the sofa. "I was just waiting for you, and I apparently fell asleep."
For some reason my belly flutters when he says he was waiting for me. Don't be stupid, I tell myself; of course he's waiting for you, he told you to be here at four. I mentally chastise myself and answer him.
"Yeah, okay. Do you need help carrying anything?" I ask, trying to steer the conversation elsewhere.
"Nope, I'll grab my bag and be right back, we can get going early," he says, smiling at me then leaving the room.
I sit down on the sofa to wait for him, and sift through the feelings that are floating through me. I haven't really noticed Trev before, he has always been around, but I have always been so focused on J that Trev never stood out. He sure does now. I feel my cheeks heat again and I duck my head to hide it even though I'm alone.
Chelsea O'Neal lives in her fantasy world where people can fly, vampires could be real, money is never an issue and the romantic meeting of your true love is a normal happening. When not relaxing in Chelsea-ville, she enjoys talking with animals who talk back and taking long walks with her prince charming.
Actually Chelsea lives in the United States in Nebraska, where she was born and raised, with her black lab Daisey, who hasn't spoken actual words to her but she is pretty sure Daisey understands her. She is yet to meet her prince charming, though she is quite sure he is out there. Chelsea enjoys working as a youth librarian. She is an avid reader and writing has always been her passion. Chelsea has written 3 novels and a novella, she is working on her next book now.
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An attacker with a large kitchen knife killed two people and wounded six others in stabbings along the Las Vegas Strip before he was arrested Thursday, police said.
Three people were hospitalized in critical condition and another three were in stable condition, according to Las Vegas police, who said they began receiving 911 calls about the stabbings around 11:40 a.m. across the street from the Wynn casino and hotel.
Las Vegas Police Dept. via AP
Yoni Barrios, 32, was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on two counts of murder and six counts of attempted murder, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement.
It wasn't immediately known whether Barrios had a lawyer who could comment on his behalf.
Barrios, who is not a Las Vegas resident, was detained by Sands security guards and Metropolitan Police officers while running on a Strip sidewalk, police said.
"This was an isolated incident," Metropolitan Police Deputy Chief James LaRochelle said in a statement. "All evidence indicates Barrios acted alone and there are no outstanding suspects at this time."
Police said they were continuing to investigate the motive but do not believe there was an altercation before the attacks.
The Clark County coroner's office identified the victims who were killed as Brent Allan Hallett, 47, and Maris Mareen Digiovanni, 30, both Las Vegas residents.
The names of those wounded in the attack were not immediately released.
The initial stabbing was unprovoked and on the eastern sidewalk of Las Vegas Boulevard. The suspect then headed south and stabbed others, LaRochelle said.
The man fled and was followed by 911 callers before he was taken into custody, authorities said. Police recovered the "large knife with a long blade" believed to have been used, LaRochelle said, calling the case a "hard-to-comprehend murder investigation."
There were no other suspects in the case and "the Strip is secure," Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said.
Witnesses told Las Vegas TV stations that some of the victims appeared to be showgirls or street performers who take pictures with tourists on the Strip.
The suspect told a woman that he was a chef who wanted to take a picture with some of the showgirls with his knife, but he started stabbing people when the group declined the man's offer, the woman told KTNV.
Jason Adams told KLAS that he witnessed the attack on a showgirl.
"This guy came, ran up, and started stabbing this lady in front of me and she ran around the escalators and she tried to get up under the bridge and her girlfriend was trying to help her," Adams said, adding that the attack happened very quickly.
Pierre Fandrich, a tourist from Canada, told KTNV that he did not see the stabbing suspect as he was walking along the Strip. But he said he thought he heard "three or four showgirls laughing," and it turned out to be screaming.
Fandrich said he saw "a lot of blood" as one woman ran across a bridge, one was on the ground, and another had a stab wound on her back as she tried to help the fallen woman.
Fandrich also told KTNV that he thought one of the victims fell from the bridge because there was so much blood on the ground.
Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak posted a message on social media saying, "Our hearts are with all those affected by this tragedy."
"At the State level, we will continue to work with partners in law enforcement to make resources available on the ground and ensure the Las Vegas Strip remains a safe and welcoming place for all to visit," Sisolak said.
Additional reporting by The Associated Press.


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LPI to launch new LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 certification programs
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) has completed an update of the exam objectives for its popular LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 certification programs. New versions of these exams will be published and available on April 1, 2009. Exams taken before that date will continue to be based on the older, current objectives and materials.
"This update of our LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 certification program is a significant milestone in LPI's history and exemplifies our extensive, ongoing and transparent communications with industry leaders and the Open Source community on what are the necessary skill sets for a Linux professional," said Jim Lacey, President and CEO of the Linux Professional Institute. Mr. Lacey noted many of the changes to the exams are the result of extended consultations with partner organizations in the field and others that support LPI's certification program: "As an example, we have broadened the scope of the LPIC-1 exams to appeal to a wider range of Linux professionals while focusing in-depth system administration and networking skills in the LPIC-2 certification."
Mr. Lacey also indicated that the increasing global relevance of the LPIC program has made it necessary that these new exams are much more sensitive to non-English exam candidates and include a greater number of questions around localization, internationalization, and accessibility issues.
Revised exam objectives for LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 are available on LPI's public wiki: https://group.lpi.org/publicwiki/bin/view/Examdev/WebHome.
The Linux Professional Institute also announced in December improvements to its growing training partner program. LPI has more than 220 approved training partners in 35 countries around the globe. In the last six months alone, LPI has added training partners in Belgium, Canada, Hong Kong, Italy, Korea, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, and the United Kingdom.
New Fedora 10 Adds Security and Virtualization
The Fedora Project, a community-supported open source collaboration project, announced the availability of Fedora 10 in late November.
Fedora 10 is the tenth community release in five years. It features substantial virtualization improvements for remote installation and management of storage provisioning. These features will make system administration of virtual machine hosts and guests easier and more capable of automation, especially as they are integrated into Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Additionally, Fedora 10 includes NetworkManager connection sharing, allowing laptop users with an Ethernet or mobile broadband connection to provide Internet routing to others through the laptop wireless interface, for instant collaboration anywhere, anytime.
This release includes the premiere of a new graphical boot system called Plymouth, designed to speed up the boot process by taking advantage of a new kernel mode setting feature.
Fedora 10 also features a new security auditing and detection toolkit called SecTool, and a brand-new set of Python bindings that allow programmers to use the FIPS-140 validated NSS library for rapid development of secure applications. The distribution also extends the Live USB persistence feature that was pioneered in Fedora 9, adding support for a separate user data area with optional encryption for the ultimate experience in secure, portable computing.
Among its new features, Fedora 10 includes the new OpenOffice.org 3.0 and GNOME 2.24.1; a rewritten audio system for faster response and lower power usage; a full set of appliance building tools; and support for more PC hardware.
For more information on Fedora 10, to download the distribution or to join this community effort, please visit http://fedoraproject.org/.
SUSE Linux Real Time Sets Performance Record
In independent tests performed by the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC), SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time delivered the lowest mean and maximum latencies ever recorded with the Reuters Market Data System (RMDS), as well as the highest RMDS throughput for a two-socket server. These impressive results for Novell were significantly better than similar benchmark tests performed by STAC on other Linux and UNIX operating systems.
In its newly-released report, STAC measured the performance of a market data stack based on the Reuters Market Data System when running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time and compared it to the same stack using a general purpose operating system and gigabit Ethernet technologies.
According to the independent tests performed by STAC, SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time delivered 10.1 million updates per second, the highest throughput ever recorded on their standard benchmark test for a two-socket Linux or UNIX system configuration - more than 670 percent higher than an alternative solution using a general purpose operating system and gigabit Ethernet technologies. In the same tests, SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time achieved the lowest mean RMDS latencies recorded to date by STAC on Linux or UNIX systems at nearly all throughput rates. SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time was able to maintain under 0.67 milliseconds of mean latency at rates of up to 750,000 updates per second and maximum latencies never exceeded 3.01 milliseconds.
The tests were conducted using the latest HP blade servers and Intel Quad-Core Xeon processors, along with Voltaire InfiniBand hardware and Voltaire Messaging Accelerator (VMA) software. The specific solution independently tested by STAC is available for customers to purchase and implement today and is fully supported by Novell and its partners.
Flash Security Patch
Adobe has issued critical security patches for the Linux version of its Flash player. Older versions have a vulnerability can be exploited through a specially crafted SWF file. The vulnerability affects Adobe Flash Player versions 10.0.12.36 and earlier and 126.96.36.199 and earlier.
Linux users are urged to update the Flash Player on their systems to version 10.0.15.3.
More information about this update can be found on http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-24.html
Oracle Contributes Data Integrity Code to Linux Community
To advance Linux use in enterprise, Oracle contributed block I/O data integrity infrastructure code to the 2.6.27 Linux kernel in December. This open source code, in part developed with Emulex, exposes key data protection information to the Linux kernel. This can enable subsystems for the first time to utilize crucial data integrity features - and now extend protection from applications to storage to Linux operating system - for comprehensive data integrity capabilities across the entire software stack. This can reduce system downtime and provides cost savings to end users while meeting more stringent government regulations.
Oracle and Emulex are also working together to conduct an early adopter program where a select group of customers can test the end-to-end data integrity features in real world environments.
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* This code contribution includes generic support for data
integrity at the block and file system layers, as well as support
for the T10 Protection Information Model (formerly known as DIF)
and the Data Integrity Extensions.
* The Data Integrity Extensions, developed in collaboration with
Emulex, augment the T10 standard by allowing protection
information to be transferred to and from host memory, enabling
end-to-end data integrity protection.
* The Oracle-developed code is the first implementation of the T10
Protection Information Model standard for an operating system.
The INCITS/T10 "Protection Information Model" will help provide end-to-end data protection for block devices. Read more at Oracle's page: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/017754_EN .
MySQL 5.1 GA Boosts Large-Scale Database Applications
In December, Sun Microsystems announced general availability of MySQL 5.1, a major new release of the popular open source database. Designed to improve performance and simplify management of large-scale database applications, the production-ready MySQL 5.1 software is available for download now at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads.
MySQL 5.1 was downloaded more than 250,000 times in first the ten days it was available.
The MySQL 5.1 release is available via three models to serve different
- MySQL Community Server - An open source version of Sun's MySQL
database. Licensed under the GPL, this full-function software is
targeted to a technical user who does not require commercial
- MySQL Enterprise Server - Available as part of a MySQL
Enterprise subscription, this is the secure and up-to-date version
of the MySQL database, targeted to corporate IT users. Subscribers
receive monthly rapid software updates and quarterly service packs
along with access to proactive monitoring tools and 24x7
production technical support.
- MySQL Embedded Server - This commercially-licensed version of
the MySQL software allows ISVs and OEMs to embed or bundle a
high-speed, small-footprint database with their own products,
without the free-distribution requirements of the GPL license.
For downloads and more information on MySQL 5.1, go to http://www.mysql.com/51.
Toshiba, IBM, and AMD Develop World's Smallest SRAM Cell
Toshiba Corporation , IBM, and AMD have together developed a Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) cell that has an area of only 0.128 square micrometers (µm2), the world's smallest functional SRAM cell that makes use of fin-shaped Field Effect Transistors (FinFETs). This cuts the size of SRAM cells by more than 50% while improving memory stability. The technology positions FinFETs as an attractive structure for SRAMs in the 22nm node and beyond.
SRAM cells are circuit components in most systems-level, large-scale integrated circuits such as microprocessors, and smaller SRAM cells can support smaller, faster processors that consume less power. The technology was announced on December 16 in a technical paper presented at the 2008 International Electron Devices Meeting (http://www.his.com/~iedm/general/) in San Francisco, California.
Researchers from the three companies fabricated a highly scaled FinFET SRAM cell using HKMG (the high-k dielectric and metal gates process). It is the smallest nonplanar-FET SRAM cell yet achieved: at 0.128µm2, the integrated cell is more than 50 percent smaller than the 0.274µm2 nonplanar-FET cell previously reported. To achieve this goal, the team optimized the processes, especially for depositing and removing materials, including HKMG from vertical surfaces of the non-planar FinFET structure.
The researchers also investigated the stochastic variation of FinFET properties within the highly scaled SRAM cells and simulated SRAM cell variations at an even smaller cell size. They verified that FinFETs without channel doping improved transistor characteristic variability by more than 28 percent. In simulations of SRAM cells of 0.063µm2 area, equivalent to or beyond the cell scaling for the 22nm node, the results confirmed that the FinFET SRAM cell is expected to offer a significant advantage in stable operation compared to a planar-FET SRAM cell at this generation.
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- January 9 - 11, MIT, Boston, MA
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- 2009 SCADA and Process Control Summit
- February 2 - 3, Disney Dolphin, Lake Buena Vista, FL
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- Black Hat DC 2009
- February 16 - 19, Hyatt, Arlington, VA
http://blackhat.com/html/bh-dc-09/bh-dc-09-main.html - February 16 - 19, Hyatt, Arlington, VA
- Gartner Mobile & Wireless Summit 2009
- February 23 - 25, Chicago, IL
http://gartner.com/us/wireless - February 23 - 25, Chicago, IL
- Next-Gen Broadband Strategies
- February 24, Cable Center, Denver, CO
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February 24-27, San Francisco, CA
Learn from Leaders in the Storage Industry at the 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09)
Join us in San Francisco, CA, February 24-27, 2009, for the 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies. On Tuesday, February 24, FAST '09 offers ground-breaking file and storage tutorials by industry leaders such as Brent Welch, Marc Unangst, Simson Garfinkel, and more. This year's innovative 3-day technical program includes 23 technical papers, as well as a Keynote Address, Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPs), and a Poster Session. Don't miss out on opportunities for peer interaction on the topics that mean the most to you.
Register by February 9 and save up to $200!
- DrupalCons 2009
- March 4 - 7, Washington, DC
http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/ - March 4 - 7, Washington, DC
- Unconference for technical product managers
- March 14, Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, CA
Register here - March 14, Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, CA
- Orlando Scrum Gathering 2009
- March 16 - 18, Gaylord Palms, Orlando, FL
http://www.scrumgathering.org - March 16 - 18, Gaylord Palms, Orlando, FL
- Forrester's IT Infrastructure & Operations Forum
- March 18 - 19, San Diego, CA
http://www.forrester.com/events/eventdetail?eventID=2372 - March 18 - 19, San Diego, CA
- EclipseCon 2009
- March 23 - 26, Santa Clara, CA
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2009/home - March 23 - 26, Santa Clara, CA
- ApacheCon Europe 2009
- March 23 - 27, Amsterdam, Nederlands
http://eu.apachecon.com/c/aceu2009 - March 23 - 27, Amsterdam, Nederlands
- Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco
- March 31 - April 3, San Francisco, CA
http://www.web2expo.com/ - March 31 - April 3, San Francisco, CA
- SCALE Returns to LAX, Expands Tracks
SCALE 7x, the premier Open Source Community conference in the southwestern United States, will be February 20th - 22nd, 2009. It will also return to the Westin LAX Hotel, site of last year's 6th Expo.
For 2009, the main weekend conference has been expanded: in addition to the three main tracks, a Beginner's track and a Developer's track have been added. SCALE will also reprise the Women In Open Source ("WIOS"), and Open Source Software In Education ("OSSIE") specialty tracks on the Friday prior to SCALE.
DOHCS, the Demonstrating Open Source Health Care Solutions conference, has spun off on its own but will be co-located with SCALE on the Friday prior to SCALE. See their Web site at http://www.dohcs.org for info and to register.
A Full Access conference pass (Friday - Sunday) cost only $60. Register for SCALE 7x at http://www.socallinuxexpo.org.
Distro News
Jaunty Jackalope Alpha 2 released
Jaunty Jackalope Alpha 2 is ready for testing; this release will in time become the Ubuntu 9.04 release.
Alpha 2 is the second in a series of milestone CD images that will be
released throughout the Jaunty development cycle. The Alpha images are
thought to be free of show-stopping build or install bugs. The current
snapshots can download it here:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/jaunty/alpha-2/ (Ubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/jaunty/alpha-2/ (Kubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/jaunty/alpha-2/ (Xubuntu)
Please refer to http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/jaunty/alpha2 for information on changes in Ubuntu. Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 3 is planned for mid-January 2009.
Good OS Announces gOS Cloud Operating System
In November, Good OS, most known for its gOS Linux that debuted in Wal-Mart computers, announced "Cloud," a new operating system that boots into a browser with Google and Yahoo! in seconds and optionally boots into Windows.
Good OS previewed Cloud on a GIGABYTE Touch-Screen Netbook at the Netbook World Summit in Paris and online at http://www.thinkgos.com. GIGABYTE Touch-Screen Netbooks will be preloaded with Cloud and Windows XP together early in 2009.
Cloud integrates a Web browser with a compressed Linux operating system kernel for immediate access to Internet, integration of browser and rich client applications, and full control of the computer from inside the browser, and features an attractive icon dock for shortcuts to favorite apps and tabs for multi-tasking between Web and rich client apps.
"Cloud is my favorite gOS product yet," said David Liu, Founder and CEO of Good OS. "Just seconds after I power on, I'm Googling, Yahooing, and truly Living. I am very excited about the upcoming GIGABYTE Touch-Screen Netbooks with Cloud and Windows. I think the GIGABYTE Touch-Screen Netbook's forward thinking hardware and software will make it the best Netbook to hit the market!"
More details about Cloud and GIGABYTE Touch-Screen Netbooks will be released on January at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
openSUSE 11.1 Improves User Experience
The openSUSE Project, a Novell-sponsored and community-supported open source project, announced the release of openSUSE 11.1 in mid-December. The new release delivers a richer user experience with enhancements to desktop productivity, entertainment applications, and software and system management.
openSUSE 11.1 was entirely developed using the recently released openSUSE Build Service 1.0, a new collaboration system that enables contributors to work closely together on Linux packages or solution stacks. This allows quicker developer contributions to the openSUSE project.
Updates to openSUSE 11.1 include:
- The new 188.8.131.52 Linux kernel which also adds support for a
number of new devices and improved video camera support;
- An improved remote desktop experience with Nomad;
- A simpler license that eliminates the EULA and removes software
which previously made it difficult to redistribute openSUSE;
- Improvements to YaST, openSUSE's system administration and
installation suite, including an improved partitioner, new printer
module, and a new module to check system security;
- Latest versions of major applications including Firefox 3.0.4,
OpenOffice.org 3.0, GNOME 2.24.1, KDE 4.1.3 + KDE 3.5.10 and Mono
- Most recent versions of GNOME and KDE.
openSUSE 11.1 can be freely downloaded now at http://www.opensuse.org. A retail box version is also available for $60 at http://shop.novell.com and includes 90 days of installation support, commercial applications not on the main DVD, and the popular "Getting Started Guide," a printed manual for new Linux users.
Mandriva presents new Mandriva Flash 2009
Mandriva announced Mandriva Flash 2009, the new product in the popular Mandriva Flash family. It enables mobility of an entire desktop and can be run from any PC in just a few clicks. It is a fully operational system requiring no installation and which fits into any pocket.
Mandriva Flash is a complete work station with the following software
for Linux:
- Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird;
- Ezboot, to boot into Mandriva Flash from Windows;
- KDE 4, the advanced, attractive and efficient Linux desktop;
- Java and Flash help in Web content;
- Skype for phone calls over the Internet;
- Google Toolbar to make searching easier;
- OpenOffice.org - compatible with most widely used office suites.
This new version comes with a migration tool enabling you to import Windows settings and documents.
Mandriva Flash 2009 is available in several languages. The new 8 GB model is available now for $55 US and can be found on http://store.mandriva.com/.
Slackware 12.2 now out
Slackware 12.2 was released in December with many improvements over Slackware 12.1. Among the many program updates and distribution enhancements are two desktop environments: Xfce 4.4.3 and KDE 3.5.10.
Slackware uses the 126.96.36.199 kernel with support for X DRI (the Direct Rendering Interface) which brings high-speed hardware accelerated 3D graphics to Linux.
Here are some of the advanced features of Slackware 12.2:
- The 220.127.116.11 version of the Linux kernel;
- System binaries are linked with the GNU C Library, version 2.7;
- Installs gcc-4.2.4 as the default C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran-77/95, and Ada 95 compiler;
- Apache (httpd) 2.2.10 Web server and PHP 5.2.8;
- PCMCIA, CardBus, USB, IEE1394 (FireWire) and ACPI support;
- New development tools, including Perl 5.10.0, Python 2.5.2, and much more
- Package tracking to help upgrade from Slackware 12.1 to Slackware
12.2. The slackpkg tool can also help update from an older version of
Slackware to a newer one
- Includes KDE's Konqueror 3.5.10, SeaMonkey 1.1.13 (this is the
replacement for the Mozilla Suite), and Firefox 3.0.4, as well as the
Thunderbird 184.108.40.206 email and news client with advanced junk mail
Get Slackware 12.2 here: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.2/
Software and Product News
Adobe AIR 1.5 Now Available for Linux
"The release of Adobe AIR 1.5 for Linux builds on our ongoing commitment to the Linux community and our legacy of creating technologies that work consistently across operating systems," said David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president of the Platform Business Unit at Adobe. "Using Adobe AIR, millions of Web developers can now be Linux developers, and with little effort and no additional costs, companies can now target emerging markets and a broad set of new devices where Linux is growing in popularity." The graphical capabilities of Adobe AIR, along with its access to operating system functionality, give AIR applications the capacity to provide unprecedented user experiences and brand differentiation for the developers and companies creating them.
Adobe AIR 1.5 for Linux is available as a free download at http://get.adobe.com/air/.
Ubuntu on Amazon EC2 Beta Released
The Ubuntu team is now offering a beta release of Ubuntu 8.10 Server Edition on Amazon's EC2 cloud computing service. This is the first beta release of an Ubuntu Server Edition image optimised for EC2's cloud computing environment.
This service allows users to create a fully running instance of Ubuntu Server on EC2 in just a few clicks. All the applications, such as a Web server, E-mail server and common development frameworks, are available. There's no charge for using Ubuntu on Amazon EC2, it's provided without charge complete with maintenance updates. However, Amazon will charge EC2 users for their usage of the service.
Canonical has fully tested the images of Ubuntu Server Edition on Amazon's EC2 service but they want wider testing from the community and also want to learn how user interact with EC2 so they can make improvements.
Apply for access to the EC2 beta program here: http://www.ubuntu.com/ec2.
New VirtualBox 2.1 Improves Virtualization Performance
Sun Microsystems released a new version of Sun xVM VirtualBox, its free and open source desktop virtualization software in December. This new version offers improved support for VMware's virtual machine disk format (VMDK) and Microsoft's virtual hard disk (VHD) file format, allowing the transfer of critical business information. To download the freely distributed xVM VirtualBox software, visit: http://www.sun.com/software/products/virtualbox/get.jsp.
Users of xVM VirtualBox 2.1 software will benefit from significant improvements in graphics and network performance, easier configuration, hardware platform support for the latest processors and additional interoperability. The update allows users to run a 64-bit guest OS on 32-bit host platforms without the need to upgrade the host OS. VirtualBox now offers improved performance on the new Intel Core microarchitecture in the Core i7 processor family (codenamed Nehalem).
VirtualBox 2.1 features a number of new enhancements, including:
- New Accelerated 3D Graphics: Uses the industry standard
application programming interface (API) for high-performance
graphics, Open Graphics Library (OpenGL), allowing users to run
applications like Google Earth and CAM-based software used by
industrial designers, architects, etc.
- Improved Network Performance: Makes network intensive
applications like video faster. Bridged networking configurations
on Windows and Linux platforms makes it easier to deploy server
applications in virtual machines using Web stacks like LAMP or
- Better Storage Support: Comes with built-in iSCSI support to
connect to storage systems and enables easier management and
sharing of virtual disk images.
xVM VirtualBox software has been growing in popularity, surpassing 8 million downloads worldwide since October 2007.
JBoss Application Server gets Java EE 5 Compatibility
After launching its JBoss Application Server 5.0 release from the JBoss.org Community in November, the JBoss team has officially confirmed that the JBoss Application Server is Java EE 5 Certified.
Read about the Java EE certification here: http://java.sun.com/javaee/overview/compatibility.jsp
Enterprise support for JBoss Application Server 5 will be included in JBoss Enterprise Application Platform v5, the enterprise release expected early in 2009.
HP expands Linux offerings for business and education
To provide customers with more cost-effective and secure computing options, HP has introduced a new desktop offering with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop from Novell on the HP Compaq dc5850. This joint solution delivers a tightly integrated suite of essential applications, including OpenOffice.org, Web browser, multimedia tools, and email with collaboration and instant messaging software to drive productivity for business customers.
For education customers, HP is working with Novell to develop and maintain a repository of more than 40 applications, including math, art and word games, to improve student learning. In addition, applications for school administration and instruction will be available for teachers and administrators.
The HP Compaq dc5850 with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop available Dec. 15 in North America at a U.S. street price of about $500.
Zmanda Launches Advanced Backup Based on OpenSolaris ZFS
Zmanda released both Amanda Enterprise and Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL for the OpenSolaris 2008.11 platform, which was announced by Sun Microsystems in December, and will be available in OpenSolaris repositories.
The combination of Zmanda's backup solutions with Sun's ZFS file system, creates an advanced backup-to-disk offering. Specifically, the snapshot capability of ZFS enables fast and scalable backups of demanding workloads.
ZRM for MySQL is a mission-critical backup and recovery solution designed specifically for MySQL databases. ZRM includes unique, enterprise-grade features such as MySQL storage engine and snapshot intelligence, replication support, and integration of backup operations with MySQL binary logs. ZRM comes with the Zmanda Management Console - a powerful Web-based graphical user interface that lets DBAs control backup and recovery across all MySQL servers from any browser enabled device.
For more information about Zmanda, visit http://www.zmanda.com.
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Predict the NCAA selections with "You Are the Committee"
Monday, March 17th, 2008Once again this year, CHN presents John Whelan's terrific tournament prognostication tool, "You Are the Committee". Have some fun playing around with it and post anything interesting you find out. We'll be keeping an eye on it throughout the week and as the weekend results come in here at YATC Central. Load it up on your iPhone when you're at the rink Saturday and amaze your friends as you tell them who's going to make it before the games are even over.
Of note, if all the favorites win this weekend — of course, that never happens — then you can take the current top 13 and they're all in, along with Princeton, Niagara and Air Force.
Can you find a scenario where Wisconsin gets in? The Badgers presumably want all the favorites to win, but Notre Dame looks like their biggest rival for what could be the last at large bid. If all the favorites win, except Notre Dame loses the CCHA consolation, then the Badgers sneak in ahead of the Irish. I'm sure that's not the only way they can get in, but it does look like it may come down to those two teams.
How about a scenario where Minnesota State does not get in? I'm thinking the Mavericks are sitting pretty right about now, but I'm not ready to write that in stone yet.
Aside: Get well Tom Pohl.


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Jon Pardi Is Beyond Excited for His Joe Diffie Tribute at the CMA Awards
Jon Pardi lights up talking about his upcoming Joe Diffie tribute at the 2020 CMA Awards performance like you'd expect a man to light up talking about winning the Entertainer of the Year award.
As long as there are no technical issues, it should be an easy night for Pardi, who is also nominated in the Album of the Year category.
"Gonna sing a bad--- song from an awesome artist that I grew up listening to. Dang! That's easy," Pardi tells Taste of Country Nights. "That's like honky-tonkin' we talking about. That's an exciting performance."
Diffie died at age 61 in March, after a short battle with the novel coronavirus.
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Before moving to Nashville and finding success with songs from his Write You a Song album (2014), the 35-year-old Pardi played clubs and honky-tonks in California. However, he compares this performance to performing for tips along Lower Broadway institutions like Tootsies Orchid Lounge.
"That's like being downtown Nashville, being up there, 'Oh, you wanna hear 'Pickup Man'? Alright, $100 in the (tip) box,'" he says.
Come to think of it, a tip jar isn't a bad idea.
"Hell yeah I'm gonna bring a tip jar out there," Pardi says of the CMAs, presumably joking. "Like, 'Luke — Luke Bryan, pass this around, man.'"
Pardi's Diffie tribute is one of three honoring country artists who died in 2020. In addition, Little Big Town will tribute Kenny Rogers and a collection of stars led by Jason Aldean will remember Charlie Daniels. There are more than 20 performances announced for the 2020 CMA Awards, which begin at 8PM ET on Wednesday night (Nov. 11).
Pardi was one of nearly 20 artists who talked to Taste of Country and Taste of Country Nights radio prior to the show.
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text: What Would Jesus Do...with this incredibly holy yet stupid pacifier? For anyone in need of a pacifier, look no further than this majestic piece of plastic which comes equipped with a silicone orthodontic nipple suitable for 3 months plus. You can let your Baby rock out with the man above as he or she suckles to the tune of "Yes, Jesus Loves Me" and strums his stuffed teddy like a guitar. In no time, he'll be a spiritual rock star and you'll be a proud show mom or dad. Just make sure he's not still suckling the Pacifier at that point.


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Floor-to-ceiling windows provide views of the Indian Ocean. Dark wood walls are offset by white linens and floors. All rooms and suites include private balconies or terraces with sun loungers to create an indoor/outdoor atmosphere.
Seasalt serves up fresh Japanese-inspired seafood along with ocean views. Enjoy a poolside cocktail and international fare at The Beach Bar. Order an Espresso Martini and light bites from the Coffee Bar.
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Scenic bicycle rides around Pererenan conclude with a beach picnic. Make an offering at the Petitenget Temple and experience a purifying Balinese prayer ritual. Cruise though the area in a restored 1980 Volkswagen Kombi, visiting rice fields and a 17th-century fertility temple.
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President Obama Says 'Thank You' to Civil Servants
Letter kicks off Public Service Recognition Week.
President Obama and leaders in his administration thanked the country's civil servants for their work and dedication as part of the commemorations kicking off this year's Public Service Recognition Week.
Obama said in a letter that public servants played an instrumental part in helping "lay a strong foundation for our nation's progress."
He added: "Our dedicated public employees are committed to a cause greater than personal ambition, and each day, they tackle many of our most urgent challenges and help move us closer to a more perfect Union."
A separate letter signed by the Cabinet secretaries reiterated the oath of office taken by all federal employees, and said that all public servants were "united by this common pledge to serve and protect our great country."
Public Service Recognition Week started in 1985 and is managed annually by the Public Employees Roundtable, a coalition of government employee advocacy groups. This year's events include a public town hall meeting featuring Cabinet secretaries, a 5K Run, and the announcement of the year's finalists for the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals, also known as the Sammies.
In an April memo to agency and department heads, former Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry said the week was especially important in a time when government budgets were becoming tighter while the challenges facing public servants continued to become more complex.
"Now more than ever, government employees need our support, encouragement and appreciation for their dedication to making a difference for others," Berry wrote.


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I like to use physical demonstrations when teaching mathematics (putting physics in the service of mathematics, for once, instead of the other way around), and it'd be great to get some more ideas to use.
I'm looking for nontrivial ideas in abstract mathematics that can be demonstrated with some contraption, construction or physical intuition.
For example, one can restate Euler's proof that $\sum \frac{1}{n^2} = \frac{\pi^2}{6}$ in terms of the flow of an incompressible fluid with sources at the integer points in the plane.
Or, consider the problem of showing that, for a convex polyhedron whose $i^{th}$ face has area $A_i$ and outward facing normal vector $n_i$, $\sum A_i \cdot n_i = 0$. One can intuitively show this by pretending the polyhedron is filled with gas at uniform pressure. The force the gas exerts on the $i_th$ face is proportional to $A_i \cdot n_i$, with the same proportionality for every face. But the sum of all the forces must be zero; otherwise this polyhedron (considered as a solid) could achieve perpetual motion.
For an example showing less basic mathematics, consider "showing" the double cover of $SO(3)$ by $SU(2)$ by needing to rotate your hand 720 degrees to get it back to the same orientation.
Anyone have more demonstrations of this kind?