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"In summary, if you are a fan of RTS games, you must get this game. If you already have the iPhone version and want an even better gaming experience, you must get this game. If you don't have an iPad and you're an RTS junkie, you must get an iPad… and then you must get this game." - iPhoneLife Review
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Fortify your base with turrets, SAMS, torpedos, and cannons. Next create factories to pump out vehicles, aircraft, and ships, you decide what to build! Form groups and airlift units to prepare for an assault on the enemy! Finally execute your strategic battle plan and enjoy the immense carnage that ensues. With unique explosions, wreckages, sound effects, and animations for every unit the carnage is as beautiful as it is deadly. Discover and mine unique resources to build gigantic mega units which can turn the tides of war instantly!
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Disfarmer: The Vintage Prints is the first exhibition in Switzerland of the vintage prints of Mike Disfarmer (1884-1959), one of America's greatest portraitists. Posthumous prints, created from a cache of glass-plate negatives salvaged from his studio after his death, have been the subject of several books and numerous museum and gallery exhibitions since 1976, but original prints have been unknown until this time. The debut of Disfarmer's original vintage photographs is the culmination of an unprecedented two-year historical reclamation project in which a dedicated team of researchers scoured family albums in every home along every road in Cleburne County, Arkansas.
A true American eccentric, Disfarmer was born Mike Meyer in 1884. He legally changed his name to Disfarmer to disassociate himself from the farming community in which he plied his trade and from his own kinfolk — claiming that a tornado had accidentally blown him onto the Meyer family farm as a baby. Despite his quirks, as the resident studio photographer in tiny Heber Springs, Arkansas, Disfarmer captured the faces of the American heartland at a defining period in history. He documented the families of the farmland as they struggled through the Depression and World War II. He captured the post-war boom and the optimism of the 1950s as well.
Disfarmer is often compared to Walker Evans for his powerfully rendered Depression-era Southern subjects, and to August Sander for his rendering of "people without masks." In turn, Richard Avedon acknowledged Disfarmer's influence when he created In the American West.
In his essay on the artist in the book Disfarmer: The Vintage Prints, Rick Woodward writes, "Disfarmer is not cruel, patronizing or sentimental about [his subjects'] plight. But neither is he a friend or pastor…he is like a crime scene photographer, determined to record the details because the details are what ultimately will exonerate a person. The reality of their condition—the hats, creases in their jeans and dresses, lines in faces and hands, bad posture, dangling cigarettes and arms, staring eyes—can be preserved in a photograph and serve as existential evidence."
American Studies scholar and Yale professor Alan Trachtenberg writes of the work, "The Disfarmer images are strong pictures of strong, vivid, magnetically intriguing people. Their lives reside in their faces, their appearances. But even while bespeaking time and place, they do so as distinct individuals, each untranslatable in his or her distinctiveness, each performing the communal ethos in an individual way. Disfarmer so profoundly captures the normalcy of life in his place because he understands from within its deepest psychoses. We are mistaken to think that documentation battles with art in these pictures. A distillation of an acerbic, perhaps tragic view of life with something quirky, homespun, and deeply intuitive, it's the art of Disfarmer which puts him in touch with time and place, which gives his portraits their power as singular documents."
It is the pleasure of Galerie Edwynn Houk to provide the first public viewing in Switzerland of these magnificent photographs—the original evidence of Mike Disfarmer's vision and record of the rural American community of Heber Springs in the period between and just after the World Wars.
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text: Persian Rugs, Persian Carpets & Oriental RugsPersian carpets and rugs have always been and still are an intrinsic part of Iranian culture and its people's daily lives. Indeed, carpets and rugs are in many cases the most valued possessions, and they are an integral part of an Iranian home. Thus, it is not surprising that current production levels throughout Iran equal those reached prior to the Islamic Revolution of 1979. In fact, rugs are now even produced in areas where weaving was heretofore not practiced. To look at a Persian carpet is to gaze into a world of artistic magnificence nurtured for more then 2,500 years. The Iranians were among the first carpet weaver of the ancient civilizations and, through centuries of creativity and ingenuity building upon the talents of the past, achieved a unique degree of excellence. To Trace the history of the Persian carpet is to follow a path of cultural growth of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever known. From being simply articles of need, as pure and simple floor entrance covering to protect the nomadic tribesmen from the cold and damp, the increasing beauty of the carpets found them new owners - kings and nobleman, those who looked for signs of wealth or adornment for fine buildings. Many people in Iran have invested their whole wealth in Persian carpets - often referred to as an Iranian's stocks and shares - and there are underground storage areas in Tehran's bazaar that are full of fine specimens, kept as investments by shrewd businessmen. And for many centuries, of course, the Persian carpet has received international acknowledgment for its artistic splendor. In palaces, famous building, rich homes and museums throughout the world a Persian carpet is amongst the most treasured possessions. Thus, today Iran produces more carpets than all the other carpet making centers of the world put together. A Contemporary Persian Carpet Museum - Master Carpet Weaver Resam Arabzadeh Other Info; | The Timeless Appeal of the Persian Rug | Persian Rug Designs | The Future of Persian Carpet | The Largest Persian Carpet In the World | Persian Rug Portraits | Samples; | Baluch (Saghi) | Isfahan (Saghi) | Mashhad | Kashan Silk (Yahuddi) | Rug Market | Repairing Rug | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Copyright © 1998-2024 FarsiNet, Inc. All Rights Reserved. (011199 580762 ) |


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Erasmus + project "LEarning GenOmics for food safety" The kick off meeting of the Erasmus+ funded project (Action KA2, Higher Education - Cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practices) "LEarning GenOmics for food safety" (LEGO) was held in Teramo at the International Centre for Veterinary Training and Information of the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e Molise (IZSAM) on January 22 and 23. LEGO bridges a growing educational gap in the field of high university education by defining, training and promoting the recognition of an innovative and interdisciplinary professional curriculum, called Food Microbial Bioinformatician. The creation of this new profile will allow to meet the new research challenges in the field of genomics applied to food safety. Indeed, despite the recommendations set by the European Commission and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO, 2016), recent developments in scientific research in the field of whole genome sequencing have not been accompanied by updates of the university curricula aiming at training highly specialised professionals with transversal skills in the fields of genomics, food microbiology, statistics, epidemiology and bioinformatics. Therefore, the main project beneficiaries will be European students enrolled in 2nd and 3rd cycle degree courses in Veterinary Medicine, Bioinformatics, (Micro) Biology and Biotechnology, Public Health, Agriculture, Biomedical Engineering and Medicine, as well as professionals willing to measure and certify their skills to increase their chances of mobility within the European area. Given the transversal nature of the proposed new profile, the project targets also students enrolled in 2nd or 3rd cycle degree courses in Statistics, Computer Science and Mathematics, having at least three years of research or professional experience in the microbiology sector. The project will last 30 months with a total budget of approximately 350,000 euros. The partnership is composed of three universities (University of Helsinki - Finland, University of L'Aquila - Italy, University of Life Science and Technology - Poland), a Spanish research centre (Asociacion de Investigacion de la Industria Agroalimentaria - AINIA) and a Italian company specialised in new technologies applied to training and scientific communication. Other international "associate" stakeholders will support the project activities, especially for what concerns the dissemination of results and their scalability. The IZSAM Training and Project Unit will lead the Consortium, with the scientific support of the National Reference Laboratory for Listeria monocytogenes and the Italian National Reference Centre for Whole Genomic Sequences of microbial pathogens: database and bioinformatics analysis (GENPAT). February 5, 2019
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The Supreme Court's decision Monday saying that "closely held corporations" do not have to abide by the contraceptive coverage mandate in the Affordable Care Act may not give those firms the ability to stop providing that coverage after all.
More than half the states have "contraceptive equity" laws on the books that require most employers whose health insurance covers prescription drugs to also cover FDA-approved contraceptives as part of that package. Unlike the ACA, those laws do not require that coverage to be available without deductibles or co-pays.
The court's decision Monday does not directly affect those state laws, several analysts say.
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which the court used to say the closely held companies don't have to abide by the federal mandate, "doesn't supersede state law," said Marcia Greenberger, co-president of the National Women's Law Center. "They stand as independent protections."
Many of those state laws have religious exceptions similar to the one the Obama administration has granted to nonprofit religious hospitals and universities, but only two, Arizona and Illinois, extend those exceptions more broadly. Two other states, Arkansas and North Carolina, do not require coverage of emergency contraception, which is among the products that were at issue in the Supreme Court case.
Firms like Hobby Lobby, the nationwide arts-and-crafts chain that was the lead plaintiff in Monday's case, aren't subject to state insurance laws, because they self-insure their workers and don't buy state-regulated insurance. Their plans are subject only to federal regulation.
But they are still likely subject to a ruling issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the year 2000 that employers that fail to cover contraception as part of their health insurance benefit package are discriminating against women in violation of the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act. That law was itself an amendment to the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
So what happens now? "It depends," said Brigitte Amiri, senior staff attorney at the ACLU.
Employers that don't want to offer some or full contraceptive coverage could sue to block the state contraceptive laws, "but that would be harder given how long some of those laws have been in effect," she said.
Meanwhile, others have suggested that female employees of Hobby Lobby or other companies that stop offering contraceptive coverage could turn back to the courts for relief themselves, charging gender discrimination.
"There will be no shortage of exciting moments in the coming months," said Amiri.


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Two days ago I thought I would make my way to either Girgaum Chowpatty or Juhu on Anant Chaturdashi today, the last day of Ganeshotsav, usually the tenth or the eleventh day of the festival but this year it was the twelth day, to watch brightly painted Ganapatis converge on the beach by their hundreds, maybe by their thousands. No one has ever dared count how many. The numbers, like Mumbai, continue to swell each year.
Later that night images from two years ago reeled out in a slide show, transporting me amidst legions of devotees as they cried out hoarse, 'Ganapati Bappa Moraya, Phudchya Varshi Lavkar Ya', exhorting the elephant-headed god to return soon next year as they prepared to immerse him in the seas off Juhu in Andheri.
That monsoon day garlanded idols of the elephant-headed god in all conceivable sizes came from near and far, in auto-rickshaws, in cars, in tempos, in trucks, on bicycles, on hand carts, and on foot. Emotional at the send off families wiped their tears away as male members of the family waded into the sea to immerse the deity who having been given the pride of place in the house graced their lives for eleven days while festivities centered around him. Under overcast skies as competing cries of 'Ganapati Bappa Moraya, Phudchya Varshi Lavkar Ya' rent the air I found it difficult not to be overcome by emotion watching scores of families send off the deity into the seas off Juhu in 2006, and off Girgaum Chowpatty in 2005, the latter a sight without parallel for the sheer drama of the festive canvas.
It was at Girgaum that I first saw the Lalbaug cha Raja make his way to the beach late in the evening. I was in the thick of it those two years, hanging onto my camera as I jostled through dense crowds for vantage points. To be swallowed by the multitudes thronging the approach is to be released from the present for a foray into the future as chants rise with the breeze 'Phudchya Varshi Lavkar Ya' (Return Soon the Next Year).
The next year, 2007, I could not make it to the seas on the last day of the Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations much as I wanted to. The year came and went and I stayed home on Anant Chaturdashi, the day when offices close early to enable employees to reach their homes before festival crowds bring vehicular traffic to a standstill. There were urgent matters that needed sorting out in those uncertain days when I wondered if the overcast skies would ever part anytime soon to let some sunshine in. They did, coinciding with the end of the monsoons in late September.
This year was no different for I didn't make it to the seas today either, the last day of Ganesh Chaturthi, to watch animated throngs of devotees as they wind down the approach to the beach in their hundreds and thousands, carrying idols of the elephant-headed god decked in flowers. It was pouring outside so I stayed back home.
However I've had my share of the atmosphere each day the past eleven days on my way to work and back, passing pandal after pandal at various street corners, home to the elephant-headed god. Put up by political parties these street-corner pandals are public affairs, more an expression of political presence than religious but they serve an additional purpose as well. Everyday folks with no access to private installations of the god and not having installed one themselves back home, step up to these Sarvajanik Ganapati pandals and pay obeisance at his feet for wisdom, good fortune, and prosperity.
Large hoardings plastered with faces of political functionaries graced street corners by the pandal. With street corners awash with hoardings of competing political parties no one was quite sure who had organized the street-corner installation of Ganapati. It mattered little to passing folks who paused for a quick prayer before going their way. Most street-corner installations last until Anant Chaturdashi, the last day of the festival, usually the eleventh day. However, this is not so with many private installations of Lord Ganesha.
Many families immerse the idol in nearby water bodies after one and half days. The duration varies between one and half, five, seven, ten, eleven, twelve, and "even twenty-two days," a taxi driver informed me the other day as he bypassed an inside lane to avoid groups of festive revelers. "I avoid driving much during the festival week," he said. "There're too many traffic jams caused by revelers."
Passing Matunga he pointed out a Ganapati pandal set back from the road and said, "That's Nana Patekar's," before continuing, "flowers worth 5,000 – 6,000 rupees are delivered to the pandal each day for use in prayers and decorating the pandal."
"Does he live here?" I asked him, curious to find out if the Bollywood star, known for the temperamental roles he's essayed over the years, felt at home in the bustle of the street away from tinsel town.
"No, but during Ganesh Chaturthi he is said to come here for the duration of the festival to the Sarvajanik Ganesh pandal he organises, after all this is where he used to live before he became a star," the taxi driver replied.
I've fond memories of the festival growing up in Goa. Schools broke for vacations on the eve of the festival, lasting the entire duration. It was a time to make merry, visiting as many Ganapatis as one could and accompanying an equal number on the days they were immersed in wells. We kept a count of the Ganapatis we saw. But it was in Mumbai that I saw the festival at a scale I had not previously imagined, down to an actual elephant making rounds of the town outside the local railway station this weekend.
Within moments it drew the attention of commuters, one of whom thought nothing of feeding it the lot of apples he must have purchased only a little while earlier.
Children gathered to watch the elephant bless those who sought its blessings, raising its trunk and touching them lightly on the head.
Still others offered the elephant coins which it expertly deposited into the hands of the mahout riding it. As I reached for my shirt pocket to see if I had some change it followed me with its trunk, knowing pockets to hold money. Alarmed as much by the unexpected proximity of the trunk as by its 'understanding' of where people carry money I drew the first note I could reach. It turned out to be ten rupees. No sooner had I drawn the note I deposited it in the offered trunk and watched as it expertly steadied the note before curving the trunk up and depositing it in the mahout's outstretched palm.
A Ganesh pandal lay only a few metres away, to one side of the entrance to the local railway station. The significance of the presence of the elephant during the festival celebrating the elephant-god was not lost on passers-by as they folded their hands in prayer to the pachyderm.
Public installations of the deity, also know as Sarvajanik Ganapati, are not restricted to street corners alone. They are also to be found in housing societies.
Members of individual housing societies in Mumbai and outlying suburbs usually come together and install Ganapati in their housing complex, holding collections within their housing society to finance the effort, with members contributing to it. Last week we chanced upon one such housing society on the second day of the festival.
We were in time for, within fifteen minutes of our paying obeisance to the deity, the society members distributed saffron bandanas to everyone in the backdrop of drummers at full tilt before carrying the idol of the deity from the platform where it was installed only a day before, to the back of a tempo carrier where women from the society had gathered to prepare the deity for immersion, having chosen to host the deity for one and half days. There after lighting lamps and placing offerings on either side of the deity society members broke into a celebratory dance to the beat of hired drummers attired in the uniform of their band, their names printed in bold letters to the back. The drummers were local Maharashtrian lads.
In the days leading up to the Ganesh festival this year it was not uncommon to find groups of local youths by railway tracks practicing drumming for the impending festival. I kept a watch for them as the train neared where they were usually to be found. They rarely missed a practice session. They were to be found on city roads as well, going their way. On one such 'immersion day' in Dadar, the fifth day of the festival if I recollect well, a taxi laden with drums ferrying drummers to their designated spot pulled up alongside at a traffic signal. I'm not aware of the price they charge to accompany the deity to where it is immersed.
Night had fallen by the time the tempo carrier inched its way forward. We followed behind to the sounds of firecrackers going off and youngsters from the housing society dancing merrily in the lights of the vehicle. The band of drummers would change their beat, speeding up as the dancers caught on to the rhythm, and slowing down to give the dancers some respite before upping the beats again. It would be some time in the night before they reached the spot where they would immerse the deity before returning home. A light drizzle fell outside.
Every now and then on the road outside cars made their way past us. Through the window we saw colourful idols of Ganapati resting in the arms of family members in the bucket seat. Others carried the deity in the open boot of the car, the door raised up. In the days that followed, Mumbai and the adjoining suburbs reverberated to festivities until today, the day of the last journey of the elephant-headed god.
As I sit at my desk keying in this post fairly late in the night, I can still hear the last lot of firecrackers marking the last journey of Mumbai's favourite god while fervent devotees accompanying the deity chant 'Phudchya Varshi Lavkar Ya', exhorting him to 'return soon the next year'.


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Although it may seem paradoxical to some, your timeline—your life—is only one of many simultaneous possibilities. And it is quite possible, indeed it is your birthright, to alter your timeline and the potentials of your life.
Your culture, for various reasons, has hypnotized you into believing that you are limited to one timeline. In this message we shall endeavor to discuss our understanding of timelines and how you can change them.
Whenever there is an increase of chaotic events, there is a convergence of multiple timelines. Due to the fact that your planet has entered a Chaotic Node and is experiencing ever-increasing levels of chaos, there is also an increase in what we call time nodes.
Time nodes occur when two or more timelines converge. As a result of their close proximity oscillation effects sometimes occur when the realities of one timeline bleed through, or are psychically perceived by those on a neighboring timeline. Strong timelines can also literally affect the possibilities and/or probabilities of other timelines within a time node. In other words, creative and novel effects often occur within timelines when they enter a time node (proximity to other timelines).
These are evolutionary jumpstarts that hold tremendous possibility for accelerated evolution if you understand how to utilize them. As a result of the volatile nature of events on your planet, there are multiple time nodes emerging. This is a very complicated and complex affair, and we shall endeavor to break it down into its smallest segments, for we believe that this information has vital significance for those of you engaged in the ascension process, and for its sheer survival value. Let us turn our attention to the larger picture first and then to the individual strategies we suggest.
Your planet is poised on the brink of utter transformation. The form of this transformation has multiple expressions, and it is you—the collective—that will affect these outcomes to a greater or lesser degree.
Some of these outcomes, these possibilities, fulfill the prophecies of planetary destruction and purification. Other timelines, other expressions, reveal a different outcome. A sudden unexpected shift in human consciousness could bring the Controllers, who have so negatively affected your destiny, to their knees. And there are hundreds of other possible timelines between these two polarities. There are vested interests in your society who wish you to remain hypnotized, which wish for you to continue in the delusion that you are limited to one timeline, one experience of life as they so deem it.
But you have, within your nature, the ability to change timelines and probabilities at the last moment of any event—whether it be personal or collective. We do not say this to be "positive." We say this as a matter of fact concerning your evolutionary potential. Whether you will collectively reach this potential or not remains to be seen, but the path of an Initiate is to reach upward for the highest potential, regardless of what may or may not be happening around him or her. Thus, in this message we shall discuss what you can do, and how you do it.
From our perspective, your collective destiny is the summation of individual choices that you, as persons, make. This is combined with evolutionary and terrestrial forces that are far beyond your and your fellow humans' abilities to control. This collection of forces also involves cosmic patterns of energy and intentionality from areas of the cosmos beyond your local solar system, for you are a part of a complex cosmic matrix that is your universe.
If we were to use a metaphor, we would say that you, as humanity, are on a great ocean vessel. But many of you are asleep, and there is someone at the helm directing this vessel that should not be there. For many historical and trans-historical reasons, which we won't go into here, various beings have commandeered your ship.
But, ah, how the tides are turning. More and more of you are waking up, though some, still half-asleep, stagger across the deck as they watch the tempestuous storm of their world changing before them. The Controllers know that many of you are waking up—too many for their comfort.
It is, indeed, an interesting time to be alive!
The current ecological situation in the Gulf is one example of multiple timelines. In spite of your media's grand attempt to dismiss the situation, many are sensing how dire the situation is, and indeed, there are complications in the Gulf region that are beneath the surface, both literally and figuratively.
In our previous message we addressed several possible timelines for this event. Which of these possible timelines will unfold into your three-dimensional reality is not written in mud or concrete, but is a changeable event or outcome. In this message we wish to discuss how you, the individual, can jump a timeline into a different destiny at a moment's notice. This can be extrapolated to your civilization also jumping timelines, but that is a topic for another time.
For the moment we wish to turn our attention to you, the individual human and how you can jump from a disastrous timeline—from an outcome you do not wish—to something more benevolent, life-friendly, and full of evolutionary potential.
For the record, there are technological means to jump timelines, but our information here deals with human consciousness, and how you, through the power of your own awareness and intention, can jump timelines. For this endeavor, you already possess two of the greatest treasures in your very own nature—your sovereign will (to make choices) and your capacity to feel. These two, when combined properly will allow you to jump timelines as you so desire, as co-creators of your reality rather than being mere pawns on a chessboard.
The Fundamental Principle
The fundamental principle, for jumping timelines, involves the coordination of a few significant fields of intentionality.
1) You identify the timeline you wish to move into.
2) You shift your vibrational state to match the timeline.
3) You lock in the vibrational state so it does not waver.
4) You take an action that is an expression of the new timeline.
5) Persevere.
In this fifth stage, you must hold the vibrational state of the new timeline you have chosen, making choices coherent with the new timeline and persevering with this despite sensory information to the contrary.
This last phase of perseverance is important, because your current timeline is an accumulation of your beliefs and intentions. Depending upon the strength of these beliefs and intentions, you may have to accumulate a vast amount of energy in order to overcome the set pattern of your life.
The information we are sharing can be used to address any timeline or expression in your life, down to the most mundane situation. In this message however, we will be addressing this methodology for jumping timelines in regards to the ascension process and how you can move into timelines different than the timeline of the culture you are currently residing in.
This is, for some, a revolutionary idea; but for us it is simply a truth about your nature. You are creator gods and goddesses, and this information we are sharing is simply your birthright. We offer it to you at this time with the anticipation and hope that many of you will jump timelines and tilt the keel of the ship you are upon and take the vessel into safe and prosperous waters.
Enough of the metaphors now, let us get to the nuts and bolts of how you jump timelines.
The ascension process, from our perspective, involves the energizing of your second body, your KA, and its elevation in vibration so that it emits more light, eventually becoming the SAHU, the Immortal Energy Body. There are many ways to raise the vibration of one's KA. Most of your spiritual traditions have their own methods for raising your vibration, unfortunately, many of them are also riddled with dogma, taboos, and quite honestly, interference patterns from thought-forms placed by those who did not and do not desire your freedom, but who profit by your imprisonment.
And, yes, it is sad to say that some of your spiritual traditions—and especially your religions—are insidious traps, and if you are to rise upward in the ascension of your own being, you must separate truth from falsehood. Only you can undertake this task, for it is one of the necessities of mastery. This is a line in the sand of consciousness itself for those who have chosen the ascension of their own being. They become masters of truth and do not step aside from ferreting out falsehood from reality. They are not slaves to dogma. They bow to no one but their own divinity.
From an energetic standpoint, the ascension process begins when your life force, called Sekhem by the ancient Egyptians, begins its ascent up the Djed, or sacred pathway of the chakras. This is ascension in its simplest form. It is the expansion of consciousness and awareness. As your life force enters your higher brain centers and as your KA body becomes energized, you enter another phase of ascension. At this phase, you begin to metabolize light itself. By light we refer to spiritual light, a light that exists in the spiritual realms. This light feeds the KA body and increases its vibration. When the KA body reaches a certain amplitude, or strength of vibration, without wavering, it ignites with a type of etheric fire, turning it into the SAHU, or Immortal Energy Body. This could be viewed as one of the final stages of this particular form of ascension. But what we wish to make very clear is that any movement upward in consciousness and movement of life force up the djed, regardless of the method used, is part of the ascension process.
We wish now to discuss some basic concepts and training strategies that will impart a basic method for jumping timelines. We will then turn our attention to how you can create a new probability for yourself, even in the midst of what appears to be great difficulty. And most importantly, we will explore a significant evolutionary opportunity that exists within your current time node.
One of the first tasks facing you if you are to jump into a different timeline is the transcendence of fear. Most humans fear the unknown, but there is a much more insidious element involved here. The Controllers, those who wish to control your destiny and profit by it, are masters of the projection of fear and they are using vast resources of mind control and hypnosis through the media to convince the masses that there is much to fear. And while there is, quite frankly, some truth to there being reasons for fear, the higher truth is not being revealed.
The higher truth, as we view it, is your capacity to change your reality, your innate ability to use the two treasures of your sovereign will and your capacity to feel as a means to navigate into new timelines. Let us be specific here.
As we mentioned earlier, the type of ascension we are speaking about begins with the simple movement of your life force up the djed, or spine, into your higher brain centers. As this takes place, the energy wheels within your KA body, called chakras, become activated in new ways. This opens windows of new possibilities, and new insights, new forms of inspiration and creativity blossom. But if consciousness is locked into fear, it becomes imprisoned by the lower centers, the impulses for survival, sex, and power.
For various historical and trans-historical reasons, as we alluded to earlier, there has been and continues to be, a collusion to keep humanity locked into the lower centers, to perpetuate fear as a means to control destiny. Thus for any master who chooses the upward path, one of the first hurdles to pass through is the Valley of Fear—the projected thought forms of one's culture. You must then pass through the portals of limitation that would confine you, to recognize the lies that have been perpetuated, even by some of your most sacred religions.
But let us say that you have the courage and fortitude to undertake such a passage, and let us say, for the sake of example, that the timeline you wish to live in is one of benevolence: loving kindness. Here is how you would do this, remembering that the same principal applies to any timeline you wish to create for yourself.
Preparation and Training
The first step is to identify the timeline you wish to create, that you wish to live in. In this case it is a timeline of loving kindness. The second step is to move into the vibrational state that matches the timeline. In this case, it is the feeling state of loving kindness, so you would, yourself, reside in this state as much as you are capable of. By this we mean you would exhibit loving kindness to others and to yourself.
The third step is locking in the vibrational field, so it does not waver. This is an important aspect of jumping timelines because the old vibrational state has a life of its own. Just because you have chosen to create a new timeline and have stepped into a vibrational state that matches the timeline, is not a guarantee that the timeline will manifest or continue. You must lock the vibrational field in place, for this is what sustains your access to the new timeline.
The first two steps involve your sovereign will. You choose a timeline you want to experience. You choose a vibrational state that matches the timeline. And in the third step—locking in the vibrational state—you use the second treasure of your nature: your capacity to feel.
By feeling the vibrational state you wish to be in, you amplify it; you strengthen it. And if you also include a coherent emotional state such as appreciation or gratitude for the vibrational reality, you will hasten its birth.
This simple act of appreciating, or feeling gratitude, for the new timeline catalyzes its reality in ways that boggle the mind. So it is that the two treasures of your nature are joined together in these three steps. The next step requires your sovereign will again. You must persevere, to hold the vision of the new timeline and the vibrational state, regardless of what your senses are telling you. This is the passage where many fail.
The manifesting of a new timeline into your three-dimensional reality requires accumulated energy. If you persist in holding the vision of the new timeline, with the vibrational field (or feeling of it), along with gratitude for it already existing, you will accumulate energy.
The task here is to be true to your vision while paying attention to what the current reality is showing you. It is not about pretending. It is about facing reality as it presents itself to you while simultaneously holding a higher vision. In other words, you deal with the reality of your life while simultaneously holding the vision of a different life. This is the art.
Using our example, if you desire to create a life with more loving kindness, you would move into that vibrational state by exhibiting loving kindness to others. If you were able to also feel gratitude for this vibrational state, it would accelerate the creation of the new timeline.
In reality, there will be a period when you will recognize that not everyone is capable of loving kindness, nor of receiving it for that matter. Your vision will then be refined by the realities of life, and this maturation of your consciousness will take place naturally, as you deal with the realities of your current timeline along with the emergence of your new timeline.
One result from this way of proceeding is that you will become a master of loving kindness and a master in dealing with those who cannot express such vibrational states. Eventually you will experience a life of more loving kindness, where more people express that quality to you and you to them. And when you encounter someone unable to express this quality, you will be more able to deal with him or her without losing this quality in yourself.
Thus would you seed the new timeline and new reality for yourself.
Let us now return to the collective timeline.
As we said earlier time nodes are juncture points where multiple timelines converge, and you can jump from one to the other if you understand how it is done. We just explained the basic principal as it applies to individual timelines. Now let's discuss how you can jump to a different timeline than that of any given collective.
As paradoxical as it may seem it is quite possible to live a separate timeline, having a different experience of life than those around you.
Let us say that again another way. It is possible to live in heaven while others are living in torment. At the deepest levels of consciousness it is simply a matter of choice.
We do recognize that you have been, and are continuing to be, manipulated by forces that desire to keep you imprisoned. But our choice in this communication is to give you keys to jump out of that imprisonment, not dwelling on the history of it, or the identities of those involved. For, in truth, the true Controllers are unseen by you. They are the Puppet Masters.
As chaotic events escalate you will have many opportunities to jump timelines. Our suggestion is to remember the steps we discussed earlier. You might experiment with this method by choosing to conduct an experiment. Choose something that you would like to unfold as a reality in your life and using the steps we discussed, see what you can create.
Physical and Spiritual Survival
Our essential reason for imparting this message involves something of greater consequence than creating personal desires. This "something" literally has to do with your survival, both physically and spiritually.
As chaotic events escalate, your powers of intuition will be more important to you than ever before.
Some people call them "hunches." Without knowing how you know, you suddenly know what to do in a situation.
This is how intuition works. In these moments of intuition you are at a juncture point—a time node—where you can jump into a different timeline and a different outcome.
This increase of intuitive receptivity is one of the hallmarks of personal ascension, or the movement upward in consciousness. A more developed intuition has obvious physical survival benefits.
A moment ago we said something that may be paradoxical to some individuals. We said that the ability to jump timelines had both physical and spiritual survival benefits.
What we meant here is that the ability to jump a timeline into a different outcome can result in physical survival in certain situations. By spiritual survival, we mean that there are threats to your spiritual awakening. If you lose track of your own truth, if you lose the two treasures that you possess in your nature—your sovereign will and your capacity to feel—then you are spiritually in danger. Do not lose sight of these treasures in yourself. As chaotic events increase, and they shall—for this is the birthing of a new world—the Controllers will increase their efforts. Be leery of mind-control and of any thought form that limits your sovereign will and your ability to feel, regardless of its origins—even if it comes from one of your "sacred" religions.
Any thought form, no matter how dressed up in sacred garb or political correctness that would limit your sovereign will to choose or your capacity to feel should be avoided. This is a vital necessity for those of you who wish to survive this passage spiritually intact.
The Convergence of Timelines and the Alteration of Probabilities
Let us now turn our attention to the primary reason for this communication. Everything we have said up to this point is background and suggestions for the training of your own consciousness to jump timelines.
But now we turn our attention to two highly significant timelines that exist independently of your creation. They are of a different order of existence. They are not created out of your personal choice. And they exist in diametric opposition to each other.
You exist, as we have said on numerous occasions, in multiple timelines and probabilities simultaneously. One of the timelines you and humanity are living in at this moment is a fulfilling of the prophecies of doom and planetary destruction. This is a very real timeline. But, this is only one possible timeline. You are at a convergence point, a time node, where it is possible to jump from the doomsday probabilities into a new type of Earth and a new order of existence.
This timeline, which we call the New Earth, is a very different dimension of experience than your current reality. In this timeline, Earth is deeply honored and held in gratitude by the bulk of humanity, which understands and appreciates the truth that all life is interconnected.
Here, Earth is not ravaged and exploited for the sake of profit—at the detriment of her very ecosystem. Technologies have been transformed through the elevation of human consciousness. Gone are the life-threatening technologies and life damaging mindsets of your current era. Wars are a thing of the past. The Controllers who exerted negative forces upon your destiny through their manipulation of religion, economics and international affairs have relinquished their power. Life itself is held as sacred, and a new understanding of the sacredness of matter is embraced by humanity. There is no war between Heaven and Earth in this new world.
There are more things that we could say about this timeline, but you have a sense, we hope, of the difference between this timeline and the other that ultimately leads to doom and destruction.
There is one more thing we wish to say about this timeline of the New Earth. It is an attribute that we particularly appreciate. In this new timeline, the veils between the worlds are thin, and there is greater interaction between humans and intergalactic beings—such as ourselves—and with what you might call the devic and spirit worlds.
It is here that we must say it is not our intention to sway you, for we believe in non-intervention. We will not interfere with your free will. However, we are free to point out to you what we see.
In ancient Egypt there was a goddess called Maat, who held a set of scales, and upon death the heart of an Initiate would be placed upon the scales, and a feather would be placed on the other side. If the heart was as light as a feather the Initiate would be given entrance to the heavenly worlds—meaning higher states of consciousness. But if the heart was laden with negativity, regret, and sorrow, the Initiate would have to return to the lower worlds.
In a very real way humanity is at its meeting point with Maat. Every person who believes in the timeline of doom, destruction and horror will add to its reality. Everyone who holds as real the timeline of the New Earth will add to its reality.
You are not powerless in this situation. You hold in your very nature the power of radical change for yourself and the planet—especially for humanity. If you feel a resonance with this timeline of the New Earth, and if you choose to live in this new order of being, you will be adding your weight, so to speak, and helping to tip the scales.
We wish to say something we said earlier, for it is of vital importance. It is possible to live in heaven while those around you live in torment. This has little to do with your location in time and space, but more to do with your vibrational state.
If you feel the truth of what we are saying and choose to align with this New Earth, we welcome you to a new timeline and a new destiny.
Our suggestion is to go over the steps of how to jump timelines we gave earlier, and to begin the grand experiment. Enter the timeline of the New Earth and prepare yourself for the miraculous.
Finally—let the Earth speak to you. Let her caress you and transfer to you her deepest knowledge and wisdom. She shall be a great ally in the coming changes.
We shall give further information about jumping timelines and the New Earth in future communications. But for now, we hope you have a basic understanding of how to proceed.
As always, even in the midst of such great difficulties as you now face, we hold a higher vision for you, the human family. We see your hidden greatness, even though you may not see it yourself. We hold a light in this hour of darkness. It is just a reminder of the great light you hold within yourself. It is time to free this light within you. Future generations will be blessed by your ascent. May it be so.
The Hathors
August 3, 2010
Tom's Thoughts and Observations
Several things caught my eye in this communication. First of all they used a term, trans-historical, which I had never heard before. When I asked them about this, they said it described a way of looking at certain types of intergalactic influences that transcend linear time. Thus, the influences they were speaking about were generated outside of time, as we understand it, but then showed up in our time line from pre-history until the present moment. I don't completely understand all of what they are saying here. I am just passing it on.
Since they emphasized the significance of time nodes so many times and belabored the point of how to jump from one timeline to another, I asked them what the duration was for this current time node. According to them, this time node is highly significant because it contains multiple convergences of possible/probable timelines that will affect our planet and our destiny as a species. Two of the timelines they specifically mentioned were a timeline that fulfills the prophecies of planetary purification and destruction running along with a timeline that leads to a new more benevolent future, a timeline they referred to as the New Earth.
So when did this time node begin and when will it end? According to them, this particular time node of polar opposite destinies emerged into our 3D reality in July of this year and will continue in various permutations through July of 2013.
Please note, they are not saying that the New Earth timeline came into existence during this time node. In point of fact, according to them, this benevolent timeline has been going on for quite some time. But the polar opposite timelines of planetary destruction versus planetary renewal are now moving very close to each other (the time node aspect). Thus, if one knows how to jump timelines, it is much easier to do when the timeline you desire is so close to the one you are on.
The significance of this time node is that humanity is at a choice point regarding which timeline it will experience as a collective reality. And according to the Hathors, the reality that will prevail is being anchored through the choices we are now making, both as individuals and as a collective.
In this message, the Hathors have imparted a basic method for jumping timelines, which, as they indicated, is primarily information for those of us who choose to live in a different and more benevolent reality than the increasingly surrealistic and life-negative reality that humanity is currently living in.
The Training and Preparation section of their message can certainly be used as a method for personal manifesting. Indeed, those who are experienced with these types of matters would most likely consider this information to be Manifesting 101. But the simplicity of the method belies its profundity. The Hathors are masters at simplification of complex concepts and techniques, and this one is no different. However, their reason for sharing this basic method is not for manifesting desires, though it will work for this purpose; it is rather to present a method that will allow us to radically shift planetary realities— if not for the greater collective of our human family, then at least for ourselves.
I loved the metaphor they chose to describe our current situation—as a ship at sea. Indeed, our situation reminds me of what happened on the Titanic as it was sinking. The ship had hit an iceberg and the lower levels of the vessel were filling with water. At first they tried to hide the danger from those on the upper decks. And so the party went on, complete with orchestra, until the end was obvious.
In the manipulated media-hype of our consumer obsessed culture, few are pointing out that our ship, the S.S. Western Civilization, is severely listing to one side, or that it is sitting dangerously low in the water.
The Hathors believe that if enough people jump timelines, leaving the prophetic timeline of planetary destruction behind, and instead, enter the more benevolent and life-affirming reality of what they call the New Earth, many of the disastrous prophecies regarding our planet will not come to pass.
But they are also clear that even if the collective does not shift into a higher destiny, something remarkable will happen for those of us who have the courage to live a different reality than the one that is being impressed upon us by our current culture. "It is possible to live in heaven while those around you live in torment."
There is something else in this latest message that I consider to be of vital importance—especially for those of us who are actually going to attempt jumping timelines. And this "something" has to do with our human capacity for delusional or "magical thinking." In case you aren't aware of that term, magical thinking is a thinking disorder in which the person believes that just by thinking something, it is real or can be made real without any effort on his or her part.
There is, in my opinion, a highly toxic element in New Age thinking that encourages denial as a means to cope with certain difficulties in life (i.e., magical thinking). And to be sure, the current and escalating insanity of our world is increasingly difficult for many of us to cope with. But if someone reading this thinks that denial is an acceptable means to deal with the realities of our current timeline, I wish to point out that the Hathors are saying something quite to the contrary.
Part of the art of jumping timelines is to hold the vision and vibrational signature of the timeline we wish to experience. But at the same time, we need to pay attention to the actual realities of the timeline we are on. This is living between the worlds, and this is the type of mastery the Hathors are calling us to.
I suspect that many of us who choose to jump timelines (myself included) will encounter a learning curve, where we fall short of being able to leap to the new timeline and/or fail to sustain it. This is completely normal when learning a new skill, and yes, this is essentially a new skill—albeit a profound one. So my advice to all of us neophyte timeline-jumpers is to be gentle with ourselves, leave self-judgment behind, and enter into this type of learning experience with a good sense of humor. After all, the whole thing is, from at least one perspective, a grand cosmic joke.
How we navigate the realities of a transforming (some would say dying) civilization, while keeping our hearts and minds on the timeline we wish to live in, will undoubtedly become an art form.
And so… to my fellow Artists of the Living Mystery, to those of you who are enamored with the vision, and who have the courage to jump, I raise my cup to you.
I salute you and the great undertaking we are about to engage, which is nothing short of the ascent upward into our own highest qualities as spiritual beings living a human experience.
Blessings to you and your loved ones,
Tom Kenyon
© 2010 Tom Kenyon All Rights Reserved
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — China's military sent 103 warplanes toward Taiwan in a 24-hour period in what the island's defense ministry called a recent new high.
The planes were detected between 6 a.m. on Sunday and 6 a.m. on Monday, the ministry said. As is customary, they turned back before reaching Taiwan. Chinese warplanes fly toward the self-governing island on a near-daily basis but typically in smaller numbers. The Taiwan ministry didn't explain what time period it meant by a "recent" high.
China, which claims Taiwan as part of its territory, has conducted increasingly large military drills in the air and waters around Taiwan as tensions have grown between the two and with the United States. The U.S. is Taiwan's main supplier of arms and opposes any attempt to change Taiwan's status by force.
The Chinese government would prefer that Taiwan come under its control voluntarily and last week unveiled a plan for an integrated development demonstration zone in Fujian province, trying to entice Taiwanese even as it threatens the island militarily in what experts say is China's long-running carrot and stick approach.
The recent actions may be an attempt to sway Taiwan's presidential election in January. The governing Democratic Progressive Party, which leans toward formal independence for the island, is anathema to the Chinese leadership. China favors opposition candidates who advocate working with the mainland.
The presidential candidates had no immediate comment Monday on the latest Chinese military activity.
Taiwan's Defense Ministry said 40 of the planes crossed the symbolic median line between mainland China and the island. They included more than 30 fighter jets as well as midair refueling tanker planes. Taiwan also reported nine Chinese naval vessels in area waters in the previous 24 hours.
The ministry called the Chinese military action "harassment" that it warned could escalate in the current tense atmosphere. "We urge the Beijing authorities to bear responsibility and immediately stop such kind of destructive military activities," it said in a statement.'
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning, asked about the reported military activity, said there is no such thing as a "median line" because Taiwan is part of Chinese territory.
China last week sent a flotilla of ships including the aircraft carrier Shandong into waters near Taiwan. The drills came shortly after the U.S. and Canada sailed warships through the Taiwan Strait, the waters that separate the island from the mainland.
Taiwan and China split in 1949 when the Communists took control of China during a civil war. The losing Nationalists fled to Taiwan and set up their own government on the island.
Only a few foreign nations give the island official diplomatic recognition. The U.S. among others has formal ties with China while maintaining a representative office in Taiwan.


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Since the beginning of March, the three Working Groups of the Campus Sustainability Council have been meeting to discuss the current state of energy/emissions, water, and waste policies and practices at Tufts, and to create new policy measures in these areas.
The Waste Working Group met for the first time on March 12th and reviewed its roles and responsibilities, which include collaborating to create university-wide solid waste reduction/avoidance goals, presenting goals to the main Council for feedback and approval, and creating strategies to meet the goals, including implementation planning.
The group reviewed how Tufts manages its waste as well as consumption data. They learned that causes of waste output variations are usually hard to determine but that waste increases noticeably during a strong economy and times of high consumption, and that reduced consumption and reusing materials could impact waste output considerably. The group reviewed the waste breakdown for the past several years on the Boston and Medford campuses. Finally, the group looked into strategies for waste reduction. The waste management hierarchy follows, from most preferred to least preferred:
- Source reduction and reuse
- Recycling/composting
- Energy recovery
- Treatment and disposal
In the second meeting, the Waste Working Group decided to break down into smaller sub-groups, and the third meeting was spent working within those groups. The groups, along with their objectives, are:
- Waste Management
- To identify gaps and weaknesses in current waste management and address gaps, and to achieve uniformity in waste management practices wherever possible
- Group will cover practices and metrics
- Source Reduction
- Group will impact waste reduction and responsible choices through purchasing contracts and client interface
- Labs and Hospitals
- Group will focus on laboratory and hospital waste management including animal facilities
- Marketing and Education
- Group will raise the level of awareness for waste reduction across all Tufts communities through behavior change
The working group members are now in the process of brainstorming goals and areas of policy change within their subgroups. Once this process is complete, the sub-groups will discuss their findings and the Waste Working Group will make a report to the Sustainability Council. The working group is co-chaired by Gretchen Kaufman, Assistant Professor of Wildlife Medicine in the Department of Environmental and Population Health and Director of the Tufts Center for Conservation Medicine at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, and Dawn Quirk, Waste Reduction Program Manager in Tufts Facilities Services.
As always, Tufts community members are welcome to add their own suggestions for the working group through the easy, on-line form available on the Office of Sustainability's website.


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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Monet Inspired
38 comments:
- Dawn said...
The colors are sooooooo breath-taking! So looking forward to seeing what you have put together -- from the looks of it -- it promises to be positively beautiful!
- October 21, 2008 at 12:43 PM
- Katherine said...
Amazing. I love all that floral goodness. What an inspiring idea, Jacquie - I may have to try this out using sheets from my stash...
I love it! - October 21, 2008 at 12:51 PM
- Abby and Stephanie said...
LOVE the colors! Isn't it wonderful to have a place to audition your pieces and stand back and have a look. I have not worked with sheets yet but it could happen in my future with all the inspiring projects I'm seeing.
- October 21, 2008 at 12:59 PM
- Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson said...
Try a size 70 Microtex or denim needle when you are sewing the triangles and grab hold of the thread behind the foot to get the first pair started through. Most people start out with a fatter seam allowance at the beginning of the seam and let go of the fabric too soon at the end, and it makes the end of the seam narrower. Concentrate on hanging on right to the end and you won't have any problems.
- October 21, 2008 at 1:11 PM
- Lunden said...
Gorgeous! And so inspiring. I can't wait to see the finished product.
- October 21, 2008 at 1:23 PM
- Amy said...
It looks pretty spectacular to me - I can't wait to see the finished quilt.
- October 21, 2008 at 1:30 PM
- Melanie O said...
Oh, this will be so pretty, and well worth the effort, I'm sure!
- October 21, 2008 at 1:33 PM
- Tine said...
It looks really good! I like all the different florals together.
- October 21, 2008 at 1:40 PM
- em's scrapbag said...
What a great idea. I can't wait to see your finished product. It is going to be lovely.
- October 21, 2008 at 1:52 PM
- Purple and Paisley said...
how absolutely fabulous...i am in awe of the things you create...=)...thank you always for the inspiration...that's a fancy way of saying i want to be your copy-cat!!!!!
- October 21, 2008 at 1:54 PM
- Julie said...
What a cool idea!!! Looks to me like cutting/sewing parallelograms are about as challenging as triangles - maybe I'm missing something. Would triangles give a finer point to the color splash? I think it looks magnifique as Claude might parle.
- October 21, 2008 at 2:03 PM
- Unknown said...
Terrific quilt! Really beautiful. Isn't it great to be inspired by something your really love.
- October 21, 2008 at 2:04 PM
- dutchcomfort said...
WOW! It's becoming a wonderful flower garden quilt!
- October 21, 2008 at 2:09 PM
- Elizabeth said...
Thanks for the shout out! I love the fabrics you've chosen. I also want to second the suggestion to use a Microtex/Sharp needle to sew sheets. It really makes a difference on the thinner cotton/poly blends.
- October 21, 2008 at 2:20 PM
- Nanette Merrill said...
We are so alike Jacquie. I've wanted to do a Monet Garden type quilt for a while too. I'll let you go first! I spent some weekend time on those blocks. I did some unpicking and some cutting. I don't want you to regret giving them to me!
- October 21, 2008 at 2:24 PM
Gosh, I am always so inspired when I visit your blog. You make me want to spend all of my hours quilting!
- October 21, 2008 at 2:52 PM
- MichelleB said...
It is certainly looking lovely! But the thought of sewing all of the triangles together . . . ugh. But I know YOU can do it! I might have to try exuberant color's tips.
- October 21, 2008 at 3:03 PM
- ellen said...
There is such a vibrancy in his paintings, and for me, a lot of lovely liquid movement. What a perfect inspirational piece for one of your quilts. I know that you will create a beauty, deserving of its magical seed of inspiration!
- October 21, 2008 at 5:11 PM
- Alissa said...
Can't wait to see what you end up making. Those vintage sheets are so so beautiful!
- October 21, 2008 at 5:48 PM
- Bonus Mom said...
Oh I recognize a lot of those florals :) It looks beautiful!
- October 21, 2008 at 7:35 PM
- Victoria said...
Looks beautiful! I can definitely see the Monet inspiration!
- October 21, 2008 at 9:24 PM
- Cathi said...
I love how this looks -- can't wait to see it all together. It really does look very dreamy and definitely very Impressionist!
- October 21, 2008 at 10:37 PM
how lovely.
I can't find flowery sheets here in england... not thrifted ones anyway. only horrible synthetic ones in shades of orange and brown. or grey and black (grey and black bedding? how depressing!!)... yuk. - October 22, 2008 at 2:59 AM
- QuiltedSimple said...
This is so pretty! I'm still looking for inspiration to use my fat quarters from that swap - will have to remember this!
Kris - October 22, 2008 at 7:32 AM
- Ashley said...
This looks beautiful! I love the florals and those colors - wow! I can't wait to see it finished!
- October 22, 2008 at 8:29 AM
- audreypawdrey said...
This is gorgeous. What a great way to use the sheets! I have been looking around blogland trying to figure out how to use my sheets, and this is great. I may copy you...that is the highest form of flattery, right?:)
- October 22, 2008 at 9:53 AM
- fridastar said...
I LOVE Monet!!!
Arent his paintings just. - October 22, 2008 at 10:32 AM
- Jodi Nelson said...
You constantly amaze me. It's beautiful. ooxx`jod
- October 22, 2008 at 1:26 PM
- Nikki Schreiner said...
Oh, my goodness, this is beautiful! I can just imagine how soft it will be, it's wonderful.
- October 22, 2008 at 2:46 PM
- Rebekah said...
this looks wonderful! You are totally inspiring me to start playing with my fabric from the vintage sheet swap :)
- October 22, 2008 at 5:38 PM
- Kate said...
I have never found sheets like that anywhere. That quilt is beautiful! Can't wait to see what you do.
- October 22, 2008 at 6:06 PM
- MightyMom said...
well, to me it looks busy...but I'm not sure how to make it better....well, actually I am, but you'd HATE IT so I won't say it.
I think the triangles are nice....They're not toooo hard to sew together... - October 22, 2008 at 10:13 PM
- Amanda Jean said...
what a great idea to make a monet inspried quilt!
- October 23, 2008 at 9:20 AM
Wow Jacquie this is going to be gorgeous! I've started collecting old sheets to make a sheet quilt but you are really taking it to the next level. I can't wait to see more of it. x
- October 23, 2008 at 10:12 AM
- Michaela said...
I think you are on the right track. It is beautiful. I've done some colorwash quilts before and I thought that technique reminded me of Monet paintings.Great for using florals and designing landscapes.
- October 23, 2008 at 10:14 AM
- susan said...
sigh, thats beautiful
- October 25, 2008 at 6:39 PM
This is such a great idea! I took part in this sheet swap too and I don't know what I'm going to do yet...this is inspiring me to get started!
- October 26, 2008 at 8:49 AM
- Alice Grace said...
I love this quilt! You are an artist with fabric!
- October 27, 2008 at 8:41 PM


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At a Glance:Paintball games have never been the talk of the town. Maybe it's the idea of making a game to simulate playing a real life game that is itself a simulation of a real life activity. You play paintball because you can't actually empty a clip full of hot lead into some high school kids in the woods and expect to get away with it, but you can play Soldier of Fortune II all day if you want and the only thing you'll lose will be your job and potentially your dignity. This logical disconnect may account for the lack of good developers producing paintball video games, but nothing short of satanic conspiracy can account for Redfire's "Gotcha Babes X-treme" which combines possibly the worst paintball simulation to date with virtual nudity and lame video clips of strippers. Developer: Redfire Software Publisher: Redfire Software |
The graphics astound!I often lie in bed at night wondering why more mundane things can't be combined with bad softcore pornography. I would like to see oiled strippers working on PC case mods or a moaning Shannon Tweed doing taxes at H&R Block. Until someone realizes my fantasies, at least I've got "Gotcha Babes X-treme" to fulfill my need by combining the intense sport of paintball with the unsatisfying titillation of topless unattractive women prancing around stairwells. Well, it might if it weren't one of the worst professionally produced games I have ever played.
Gotcha Babes X-treme is a failure on every conceivable level. It's a paintball game that features graphics straight from Ken's Labyrinth, is locked to a 640x480 resolution, has a view range that makes seeing an entire tree something of a rarity, features the worst enemy and ally AI I have ever seen in a game bar none, and is supposed to be erotic on top of all of that.
The geniuses behind Gotcha Babes X-treme have tried to sex-up their horrible paintball game by having the crude player models be topless blond women. I've played paintball before and women running around with no shirt or bra on is asking for a blister scarred torso. Not to mention you would be amazed what a horrible shot-trap the underside of a woman's breast is. There are two player models, by the way, so expect to get "turned on" by the same woman a lot. The low polygon count of these topless player models will have you looking at the comically crude sex modules for Neverwinter Nights in a whole new light.
Cry havoc and let slip the dongs of war.There are a total of five play types, ranging from "arcade" to "assassin", and all of them are practically identical. For example, the difference between "assassin" and "capture the flag" is that in assassin one team's flag is replaced with a PRESIDENT (just another sharp-titted blond) who you can "assassinate". There are a grand total of three sound effects in the game; footsteps, gun firing/hitting, and a loud annoying voice that shouts "hit out!" whenever a person is shot. There is one musical track, played when the game starts, played at the menu, played in game, and played during the "erotic videos". And no, the music is not good.
The computer players are completely incompetent and usually spend the first minute or so of a match desperately battling with the extremely basic terrain trying to move forward. Frequently they will lose this battle and end up running into the first wall that crosses their path until they are shot by you or a luckier AI player. I don't totally blame the AI on this one either since the levels are inevitably full of impassable terrain features that you can't see. People who bitched about taking damage running off a curb in "Grand Theft Auto" need to spend five minutes trying to walk up a one inch high step in Gotcha Babes to put things in perspective. Chances are they'll get stuck on a tree like the crude AI players and go running back to their PS2 begging for forgiveness.
Combat in the game consists of charging to within 20 feet of an enemy and then firing until you hear "hit out!" repeatedly. Any attempt at long range shooting is pointless - you won't hit - and it's so easy to run up to the AI that you might as well haul ass at top speed toward their base. Terrain is almost useless for cover, although it's interesting to note that the nearly invisible bush sprites work best because they have enormous hit boxes that shield you completely.
Military training is not as rigorously physical as it once was.The only time you're really in danger of being shot is when the AI runs into a corner as a group and turns into an immobile death-dealing polygonal hydra. You'll round a corner and there will be a ten armed beast with a jumble of letters above its head that kills you instantly. This actually happens more often than you would expect and you never know what crazy corner the team collective will be lurking in. Incidentally, if the real president of the United States ever finds himself pursued by assassins the best advice I can offer is to run to a corner with a half dozen Secret Service agents and allow them to merge into his body.
The real treat of Gotcha Babes X-treme is that when you win a match in any mode other than "arcade" you will get to view an "erotic video". Even these fail miserably. The videos are of such aggressively low encoding quality that it's as if the editor responsible had a goal to include the most obvious interlacing lines possible. It doesn't help matters that the videos are displayed full screen even though the original file (which sits on the CD as an AVI in the data folder) was much smaller. This means that the videos achieve the impressive double K.O. of being both really blurry and really jagged.
Not that you'd really want to see the videos anyway. There are a total of five of them, featuring three different girls. One woman looks like she's been depression binging on ice cream and has enormous breasts that flop over her bra and sag to her puffy stomach. Chunky gets two videos all to herself; one to showcase her droopy mom's tits and a second to wriggle her thong-clad ass for the camera. Another woman looks like a gangly teenage boy with some sort of wasting disease and a chromosomal learning disability. The third woman is attractive in a "put enough makeup on a horse and it'll look good" sort of way. She's got the body for porn and the face for a Soviet-era propaganda film about the strength of the proletariat in industry.
Camo paint by Revlon.The vague lesbian scene that accounts for the final piece involves the slightly good looking woman and the emaciated Dachau escapee rubbing and touching each other. These scenes have the same sort of disconcertingly coached feeling you get from watching trained animals perform on film. You know there's a guy just out frame telling them to rub each other while he holds Livah Snaps up tantalizingly, inspiring them to overcome their animal flight instinct long enough to briefly press their stomachs together. Though there is full nudity in these sequences the thoughtful filmmakers go to great lengths to conceal the women's genitals. "Yes, please walk down the stairs sideways human toothpick, we can't let the children see your block-like vagina."
If the videos and incredible paintball action haven't left you with your fill of Gotcha Babes X-treme you can spend almost three seconds browsing the "tactics" section of the game. This allows you to view the stats of the various paintball guns and size up your two identical opponents repeated twenty times with comical names. Oh Speedy Gonzalez has a higher speed! She will be a real threat to me on Ghettoville when she gets stuck running into that ten polygon shipping container.
One last shout out has to be given to the hilariously inept Hilltop Village map. For some reason the map takes place in a circular arena with a huge pedestal in the middle. This column is apparently the developer's idea of a hill and it includes ramps that curve up the sides so that you can do battle in the village at the top. The thing is, the computer opponents are either incapable or unwilling to go up the ramps. In the rare event that they don't get snared on the starting bunker they'll either scamper past the column or make it maybe six inches up the ramp before becoming entangled on the handrail. With no multiplayer option this means the hilltop village serves as a big obstruction that you avoid on your way to the enemy base.
Sex and videogames have been anything but a happy couple for much the same reason that sex and cartoons have walked a rocky road. Video games are generally regarded as juvenile and something like Gotcha Babes X-treme is not going to shake up anyone's preconceptions. Even good games like "Mafia" that include sex as part of their story end up embarrassing the gamer with crude simulacra and wooden animation. Attempts at focused eroticism in video games usually meet with more approval when they draw on slightly more established media like illustrations (hentai) or video (American DVD sex simulators). Unfortunately, sex in video games still resides in the uncomfortable ground where it is either somewhat dubious masturbatory material or a joke. Serious efforts to incorporate sex into the mainstream usually results in painful misfires like the aforementioned Mafia sequence.
If you want to read about why a Poser model is scary and Sailor Moon makes people pop boners you should read up on Dr. Masahiro Mori's "Uncanny Valley" robotics hypothesis. It sounds dull, but it's actually pretty fascinating. It goes a long way towards explaining why the generally Western aims of realism in gaming can make sex and other things a terrifying component while sex in more stylized and less realistic worlds can still be unthreatening and arousing. I don't actually think Dr. Masahiro Mori is entirely correct, but it's still interesting stuff. Although I am looking forward to playing Redfire's Chicken Poppen 2
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Sokha Angkor Resort Launches Free WiFi access in Limousine and hotel cars
Siem Reap, 05 Jan 2014: Sokha Angkor Resort's guests now can enjoy extra benefits from its services; as the best 5-star resort has taken step to provide FREE WiFi benefits to all its hotel cars, including the only luxurious limousine in town.
This extraordinary service is a key to enhance guest accessibility with the ability to stay connected with their love ones, work or play anytime, whenever, wherever!
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All raw materials of the LEAFLING are sourced and processed in the EU. All the natural fibres come from France and are shaped in northern Germany.
The seeds come from Austria, which is where production also takes place - in the middle of Vienna in fact. This ensures short transport routes and sustainability.
The packaging is mostly made of paper/cardboard. The viewing panel is made of recycled plastic.
Your LEAFLING is of course perfectly environmentally friendly and fully compostable.
Natürlich ist Ihr LEAFLING 100% ökologisch and kompostierbar.


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Extendable Space Saving Table Transforms Console to Seat Twelve, Sienna
MiniMax Decor Extendable Space Saving Table transforms any room with its innovative design and functionality without compromising on quality and affordability. Created for small or limited spaces, the alluring minimalist design exceeds expectations for multi-functional furniture.
Whether you need a side table or desk, a dining table for up to twelve people, or a conference table for meetings, this diverse table will be a great addition to any space – home or business. The stunning geometric shape is equipped with five additional leaves for maximum versatility and adjustable leg slides for extra support. Each piece is made from sturdy medium-density fiberboard (MDF) wood and is available in a plethora of finishes and colors, ranging from black wood with wooden veneer to sienna wood-wrapping.
As popularity and demand for minimalist and multi-functional furniture increases, the market is overwhelming with options. The MiniMax Decor Extendable Space Saving Table eases the mind and provides a solution for any budget, helping to save hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars and offers a perfect choice for any interior design layout or preference.
The results of design, function, and affordability has easily made the MiniMax Decor Extendable Space Saving Table a favorite and in great demand. The conversations surrounding this truly remarkable piece of functional art will lend itself to life-enhancing benefits.
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The table is 37.4 inches wide and 29.5 inches high.
The length changes depending on the number of leaves,
Each leaf is 20.2 inches
0 leaves: 17.6 inches: It can be used as a small desk or console table
1 leaf: 37.8 inches: Seats 4
2 leaves: 58 inches: seats 6
3 leaves: 78.2 inches Seats 8
4 leaves: 98.4 inches: Seats 10
5 leaves: 118.6 inches: Seats 122
Five canvas bags to store the leaves are included with your purchase.
What is the material of the table?
It is made from strong MDF (medium-density fiberboard) wood. There are three different finishes depending on the color: wooden veneer (black wood) wooden-wrapping (sienna, driftwood and concrete) and a lacquer (white gloss and grey gloss).
Is the table sturdy?
It sure is! The center adjustable leg provides maximum support. Two fasteners on each section ensure that they latch firmly to the table.
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The unique slide rail bearing allows for the table to be extended without any effort. It takes approximately one minute to extend or put away.
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It has five sections.
How are the sections stored?
Five heavy duty canvas bags are included with the table for convenient storage.
How is the table shipped?
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Just found a brilliant resource, Papers Past, an online archive containing more than 14 million articles digitised from over 238,000 New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The collection is from 1839 to 1932 and includes 52 publications from all over New Zealand.
Papers Past is part of the National Library of New Zealand and allows searching by a word or a phrase. The results can be sorted in different ways.
Alternatively, you can browse by date, region or title.
The articles are displayed as they appear in the newspaper, with highlighting, one can select an article and download it as a printable PDF or as a high resolution image, or even have it converted by Optical Character Recognition into a text document on the web page.
And, even better, it's free !
In the very first issue of the New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator for 21 August 1839, I found ads for potential emigrants as well as 'Regulations for labourers wishing to emigrate to New Zealand'.
This article stated that free passage to the colony was available for agricultural labourers, shepherds, bakers, blacksmiths, braziers and tinmen, smiths, shipwrights, boat-builders, wheelwrights, sawyers, cabinet-makers, carpenters, coopers, curriers, farriers, millwrights, harness-makers, boot and shoemakers, tailors, tanners, brickmakers, lime-burners, and all persons engaged in. the erection of buildings, as well as their wives. Children under 1 or over 15 also went free, but the fare for other children was £3 each, a huge cost (about 4 months wages for a Borders farm labourer). The port of embarkation was London, and of course, there would be the cost of getting to London, too.
The advertised on-board diet for adults seems pretty generous and included daily: 1 lb of ship's biscuit (a hard biscuit often with extra protein in the form of weevils), half a pound of meat, 4 oz of flour, a quarter pint of peas, 2 oz of rice, 6 oz of potatoes, and 6 pints of water. The only fruit was raisins - 4 oz, twice a week. On Sundays, a quarter pint of pickled cabbage (presumably to prevent scurvy). Each adult was allowed to take up to half a ton or 20 cubic feet of baggage; but they also had to bring their own bedding.
Why is Borders Family History Society interested ?
Lots of Borderers emigrated to New Zealand, some just went for a visit; and there and a few modern-day Kiwis that came from New Zealand to see the places from which their ancestors came, fell in love with the Borders (very easy) and have decided to stay.
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- Anonymous said...
I haven't tried this before. I learn a lot about new OCR software at www.ocrworld.com but most of them are quiet expensive.
- March 29, 2010 at 5:33 PM
- Peter Munro said...
For this site you don't need OCR software - it's done for you on the Papers Past website. - March 29, 2010 at 5:54 PM
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A burgeoning California morning. An abundance; fields actually, of colorful blooms. A camera. Thus began a promising day.
The homeschool field trip to The Flower Fields in Carlsbad left me with time, while my children were attending a workshop, to take in and attempt to capture–in my psyche and in my camera–the intoxicating beauty surrounding me.
Click, click. Smile. Click. Smile. Click, click, click. Smile.
Arriving home, exhausted but happy, I could hardly wait to view my shots. I loaded them up, hit "Import," and waited. It would be a while. There were hundreds. I pulled up the internet to check out the photos of an award-winning photographer I had met that day, Donna Pegakis.
I was tired. Too tired. Way too tired to view amazing photos expertly massaged into fine art; photos worthy of the awards they had received.
I clicked over to my photos, now loaded, to see if any were keepers. I didn't get very far before a wave of creative deflation hit me. What had I been thinking? Me, a potential professional photographer down the road? Who was I kidding? Her shots were amazing. Mine paled in comparison, despite the brilliance of the flowers. I took a nap.
Weeks passed. I received an e-mail from Donna with her newly updated site, and I ignored it.
This. Is. Not. Like. Me. At all. In case you don't understand. I am not a jealous person. I used to be, but when I decided that being insecure was NOT an option, I eradicated jealousy–seriously (it took many years). I am the kind of person who will compliment a drop-dead gorgeous woman on her calves, her stunning low-cut blouse, or her form-fitting capris. So this fresh round of envy, in response to Donna's amazing work, depressed me. Still, I ignored it, until I finally decided to look at my shots; not to see if I could out-do my new friend, but to see if any of my shutter clicks matched my vision for them. Lo and behold, since I wasn't comparing my work with Donna's; wasn't letting the atrociously ugly green monster control my thoughts about my aspirations, I found some I loved.
Today I will contact Donna and share this post with her. I will apologize for not responding. I will tell her how her work has inspired me to keep my own creative vision alive–versus comparing it to someone else's and deciding to quit, or to settle for less than my progressive best.
As for those demons I thought I had wrestled into oblivion? I've realized that they are always waiting to rear their formidable heads–especially when I forget to remind myself that my dreams cannot be touched by someone else's accomplishments. In fact, if I am smart, I will let other people's genius inspire me to new heights.


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