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Archangel Metatron via James Tyberonn | Earth-keeper.com
Greetings Masters ! I am Metatron Lord of Light ! I greet you once and always in a vector of Unconditional Love.
2012 now quickens and the Ascension of 12-12-12 and the birth of the New Planet Earth on December 21st is ever closer.
Take a moment to breathe and feel the incredible pulse of the events that will soon be at hand !
The Earth will shift in astonishing ways very soon. It will truly be 'born again' into a new and magnificent field of 12 Crystalline dimensions. This will in kind spawn the rebirth of the Firmament.
Energies are literally bombarding the planet from your Sun, and indeed the Sun itself is shifting in benefit to both humanity and the earth. Special points on the planet are receiving and disseminating this energy.
And so we speak of one such place, the Umbilical of the Planet, the Peridot Stargate of Easter Island – Rapa Nui.
Easter Island is unique on the planet. As we have told you previously it is one of the most powerful Vortexial Portals on the planet. Indeed it has been recognized as such for millennia. It is absolutely a potent & benevolent 'Umbilical of the Earth'. In a true sense, the 'wormhole' that is located there, brings in massive amount of coding and sustaining energies for the entire planet.
The gateway provides a dynamic balancing & nurturing energy that supports the Earth, its Elemental Kingdoms and indeed Humanity. It is soon to vault into a new and very important role. One many of you have waited for.
The basaltic volcanic earth of Easter Island, Rapa Nui, is absolutely laden with crystallized minerals of feldspar and quartz silicate, giving it the energetic- affect of an enormous gemstone.
It truly is a projected field of precious multi faceted peridot. Indeed there are massive crystalline pockets of olivine quartz, peridot, in its volcanic formations as well as chrysolite.
Your geologists are aware of these massive olivine crystal formations and deposits. What is not recognized is that these powerful crystals have a tremendous influence on the energy of the island and its portal. But this was recognized and understood by those of LeMuria that once lived there. These olivine crystals are why it was called the Peridot Stargate.
The land that is Easter Island in your present is indeed the remains of a pristine mountain top of LeMuria. It carries the original imprint of LeMuria perhaps more than any other location on your planet both in physical and nonphysical terms. It is a multi-dimensional stargate and functions in that aspect for myriad worlds and realities.
Multidimensional reality is not subject to the restrictive constraints of linear space-time. And Easter Island projects facets of reality that are utterly astonishing. Because of these facets, Easter Island is a 'Time-Gate'. Here time is fluid and other epochs of time 'programs' co-exist more tangibly than in other such points on your planet, specifically because of its combined cosmic and telluric energies and terrestrial grid placement.
There are energetic stones, calderas, ceremonial sites, and caverns on Easter Island that lead to different worlds, worlds that are known and unknown to you, worlds that many of you experienced in your past.
The realm of the LeMurian Utopia was an idyllic paradise that most of you experienced, and most of you have forgotten. For those of you that were LeMurian, Easter Island is a gateway that offers this remembrance. Indeed it is much easier for those of you versed in esoteric disciplines to experience such alternate realities, in the 'Peridot Stargate'. But because the triangular island is now but the top of an ancient mountain, and relatively quite small, it may not seem to be the Paradise that it once was, but we tell you, all that was ever there, remains in place within the complex facets of multi-dimensionality.
Zipped Space
The energy of this Sacred Island is 'zipped' space. (Only Mount Shasta is its equivalent in this category.) Within its succinct field are far more than 12 dimensions, concentrically condensed. And as we have said, the visiting pilgrim with the developed expansive vision of the third eye can more easily 'see' past and future versions within the facets of this multi-dimensional vector. The grand Temples and Pyramids, and lush vegetation that once were here, are still quite present in simultaneous epochs of time.
Original Entry Gate
Most humans experienced LeMuria as their first sojourn on Earth, entering the Earth-Plane thru the Arcturian Stargate of Easter Island.
The land that is now the small island of Rapa Nui was then a Sacred & Holy mountain at the southwestern corner of the massive continent of LeMuria.
But we wish to make an important clarification. It is essential to understand that LeMuria existed on the earth in two very different phases. The first was a utopian realm, which may be more accurately described as a hologram of light. This was before the Earth shifted into duality, long before the purposed break-up of the original Firmament. At his time LeMurians were in luminescent manifested 'projection' forms, not truly physical, but these light forms utilized the 'elements ' of the Earth in their expression. Accordingly their vibrations were' faerie-esque'.
That is why many of you so relate to the elemental kingdoms of earth, air, fire and water, for the LeMurians experienced life as projections of the earth elements and kingdoms. They were the original shape-shifters ! Capable of flying as an eagle, swimming as a dolphin, running like a jaguar ! Harmonically melding at will with every aspect of the planet, including the mineralogical crystal-beings and the benevolent fire-dragons of the earth's kundalini leys. .
In this state life was an adventure, not one of duality challenges. It is of this phase of perfection and joy that we now speak.
The hologram of the original LeMuria was indeed anchored at Easter Island to the physical earth, but that physical Earth was quite different in its dimensionality and expressions than the Earth you now live upon.
The land that is there is the same you once walked on and there are still some of the enormous statues and ceremonial sites. But the surface land area is now much reduced. Sea levels are much higher. Below Easter Island is a massive chasm of hollow Earth, and it is teeming with lifer and adorned with grand Temples and Pyramids, as extraordinary as the ones that were on the surface eons ago.
And the original gateway, the Stargate is absolutely still there. It cannot be shifted.
That is because the Stargate of Easter Island is a purposed coordinate of energy, deliberated placed with a unique arrangement of particalized light. And while the mineralogy of the island embellishes its energy, its location is based upon its geometrics and cosmic angular alignments. Its placement on the geo-spherical earth grid has a direct connection to Arcturus.
Paradise Is Not Lost
The LeMurians always knew that an opportunity to transit into a different, more physical dimension would come…and that it would present defining choices. Some would remain and enter duality; some would return to other realms, others would enter in the frequencial chasms of inner earth. And it is not paradoxical to state, that all within multidimensionality maintain a great aspect of self within the original Island of Paradise. It is not lost.
And to make an important note, that may be in contrast to the conjecture of some, the transition into physical matter within duality, was not a degradation of downward spiral. It was not the 'Fall of Mankind'. No ! Rather it was an optional choice of decision that was offered. Physicality was chosen by some and not by others. It allowed for a greater challenge and the freedom to experience will within duality and polarity. To experience linear time and polar magnetic earth, while very challenging, is a great path, and noble one.
Hologram of Light
T he LeMurian Utopia of the initial phase was a specialized hologram of light inserted within the Omni-Earth. It was a vast hologramic of nonpolar frequency and coherent light. The original LeMurian utopia covered the entire planet. But it was entered into via the Stargate that is now Rapa Nui.
Within that Utopia all movement was by thought, and communication was telepathic.
At the initial phase of ancient LeMuria, Easter Island was part of a super continent. Easter Island was a beautiful mountaintop, with sloping velveteen sides. It was indeed the original Garden of Eden, with lush flowers of scintillating perfumes in vibrant colors of every hue. Incredibly beautiful trees were lined along crystal clear cascading streams.
All Kingdoms of the planet were in harmony. The Faeries and Elves of both the planet and mineral realms were totally visible and intermingled with Water sprites above the gurgling brooks. Carpets of iridescent moss and lichen brought in amazing colors. Winds were soft and gentle. The shifts of temperature and sometimes turbulent weather you now know did not fluctuate in ancient Mu.
The entire weather conditions of the entire planet were modulated to one consistent temperature even in the Polar Regions. Rainfall occurred in the mornings and late afternoons in soft mists that generated astonishing rainbows. The higher Divine aspect of the animal kingdom walked in amazing arrays, living on water and light, and communicating clearly, gently and clearly telepathically. Lions and tigers lay beside luminous human and lamb.
Memories of Eden
All of you have deep memories of this Eden, this lush paradise. It is a place you return to in dream state, and it nurtures each of you, filling you sensuality and vibrantly with the original passion and joyueaux de vivre, which is oft hard to discover within duality challenge. But it is there, and land of beauty and dream scape, one you visit more than you know. These mornings in which you wake feeling strangely rejuvenated, feeling something wonderful just happened, though you can't quite put your finger on it , cant lucidly recall it in detail as the mist of dream gives way to waking mind, are indeed the magical times of having gone thru the Rapa Nui Stargate back to the living hologram of Eden
And this paradise was a time in which locomotion was by thought projection, indeed you could be anywhere on the Earth by mere focus. Dreams you have of the passionate exhilaration of fearlessly flying high above vast distances over shimmering waters, vibrant mountains and color collages of myriad landscapes in fact are often 'dreamscape' very real reconnections to the Eden of Easter Island, for you did that so many times.
And because instantaneous travel was so easily achieved, the LeMurians remained somewhat based in Eden; the luminous stargate of Easter Island, for there was no place more beautiful or more potent. The LeMurian infrastructure was thought manifested and fluid, self evolving through thru magnificent harmony of combined group mind. It was an Eden of creation.
The land was adorned with Pyramids gilded in golden layers and Temples of white alabaster marble. A ray of visible light beamed from the apex of the Pyramids. And from the Temples, beautiful artistry of dance and music was performed.
The night skies were a kaleidoscope of color, as the Firmament glowed in the iridescent hues of the Aurora Borealis, covering the entire sky in a dynamic swirling energy that was stunning to observe. The energy of the stargate atop Easter Mountain glowed in a luminous radiation filled with light burst that shined like suspended micro stars.
And the amazing plant life, all of the members of the Plant Kingdom were vividly conscious expressions of what the Druids referred to as 'Greenman'! The trees of LeMuria were conscious, exquisitely expressed and articulate. There were groves of trees as tall and majestic as the California Sequoia & Redwoods. All exuding energy of strength and tranquility. The vines of green ivy were animated, braiding and twining at will to the rapturous delight of all around.
There was no fear, no anger, no sadness, only joy, only LOVE – Unconditional Love.
The actions the LeMurians made did not require a consensus of council, for all was in harmonic perfection. But their thoughts and creations were not frivolous, rather in the frequency of highest good. This was Utopia. Manifest reflections of highest vision and elucidated wish. A mindscape of lively spirit, adventurous vitality and creative animation in an inspiring stream of infinite and resplendent life-expression.
It is still and ever there !It yet shines above (and in chasms below) Easter Island, and at times amidst the benevolent volcanoes and amazing statues it can be seen for a fleeting moment, and felt for a timeless instant of eternity.
Shangri- la of Joy
LeMuria was a Shangri-la of play, of laughter and joy. When one laughed in joy & bliss, all felt the love. Luminous souls were not limited in the wholesome expression of any loving emotion, there were only expressions of light in which souls merged and expressed ravishing ecstasy, spiritual sensual bliss of Beingness in complete sharing.
Pilgrims to the Island absolutely have lucid visions of this memory, for the Garden of Eden is timeless. It is the once and future Camelot of beauty and harmony. We tell you it is there, the stargate and dimensional field of this living hologram will ever project eternal magic.
The land & the standing stone statues of Easter Island subtly, yet dynamically project the energy-keys. It is not conjecture, rather thru multidimensional laws of physics. The land does indeed upshift the vibration of past and present LeMurians, and allows all to enter into the Living Rhapsody of Love.
Paradise was not lost. ..just forgotten in the challenges of duality, but always there in the refuge of lucid memory.
Question to Metatron: You have previously mentioned that vertical and horizontal octahedronal gateways exist on Easter Island. How does one enter the portal to the 'Inner Earth'?
Metatron: Your bodies are conduits of the planets currents within the third dimensionality. At specific powernodes, particularly volcanoes such as the ones on Easter Island, earth currents contain the circuitry of other dimensions within the earth. This embellishment is a result of mineralogy. Easter Island is composed primarily of the mineral olivine (when in its crystalline phase is also called peridotand chrysolite), is an octahedronal magnesium iron silicate. The entire island is a projected energy of peridot and chrysolite! Now you may understand why it is such a unique place of healing, serenity and expansion.
Indeed the crystalline deposits of the crystalline gem aspect of peridot, being an olivine of silicate quartz provides an incredible energy to Easter Island. Feldspar also occurs on the island. Both add to the octahedronal 'as above so below' geometry of the island. The crystalline and magnetic (iron basalt) minerals combine to amplify the ability of the Moi stones and AHU Pyramid to assist each human in traveling lucidly to other realms.
We also emphatically add that being in the concentrated magnetic energy found in the caldera of the volcanoes and lava caves assists entry into the hollow realm of inner earth, but it is important to be in the specific locations. Not every part of the island offers the gateway to the hollow earth chasms
Question to Metatron: You mention that the 'standing stone statues of Easter Island' hold energy keys that allow for entry into the original Utopia. Can you speak on this ?
Metatron: The stones are of the Earth, but the energy embedded into them is celestial. It is activated by harmonic 'Om' sound, just as are the keys in the hallowed chamber of Giza, and the circuitry of mounds at Newgrange stargate.
We add that the Utopian field is etheric, in your terms. The Utopian field is held in place by a nexus, a series of inter-connected spirals of energy that carry associated particles of matter / non-matter between the hologramic layers of the physical / non-physical dimensions. But the stones act as the catalyst of the frequencial keys, their energy works with the Mer-Ka-Na, the crystalline light body by induction to upshift those that have the ability of light-quotient to enter.
Vector of Choice
Easter Island represents far more to humanity than is recognized, and especially so for the many who experienced life in its first 2 phases. When Earth shifted into duality, it was chosen as an Island of Light for LeMurians selecting to experience life in the more dense eras of physical matter. It was chosen for its incredible energies and proximity to higher dimension…but also for the gateways above and below, and for its role in the future.
As we mentioned earlier in this channel, the Utopia of LeMuria was and is a nonphysical realm of ecstasy and joyous adventure. Approximately 800,000 years ago in your linear time The LeMurians moved onto specific sacred points within the Earth's energy grid that aligned favorably with cosmic influx. Easter Island represented the major point, with secondary communities dispersed throughout LeMuria, notably in regions around what now remains as islands including, Hawaii and Tahiti.
LeMurians were not bound to the Earth in the utopian field, but as the Firmament dissolved, and Earth transitioned into polarity, most remained for a time, experiencing the denser bodies in which souls were tethered to physical forms. No longer could they travel by thought or fly in luminous bodies of light.
Requisite Frequencial Separation
In the flow of linear time and duality there came greater challenges, and knowledge of impending cataclysm…an understanding that the continent would submerge. This brought to the forefront a difficult crossroad, a perplexing decision. A defining point of separation was at hand. The LeMurians individually choose either:
1) ** Total physicality in duality cycles of reincarnation (primarily into Atlantis , Egypt & Rama)
2) ** Withdrawal from the physical EarthPlane
3) ** Movement into frequencially higher 'Inner Realms' of the Earth.
Approximately 65% moved into Inner Earth, the greatest numbers below Easter Island, and others below Mt Shasta and the crystalline energy beds of Arkansas and Brazil.
These would be held in place by the Codes of Light and retained by Wisdom-Keepers for many millennia. The LeMurian age was at a seeming end, and as duality increased a separation fell for a season. The Inner Earth LeMurians headed for a completion, and for a time there was little purpose in interfacing with the density of the Earth's surface populace. This was innately understood. But the purposed separation was only for an age and a season, as marked in cosmic cycles of the Omni-Earth. Special LeMurian Emissaries remained upon the surface and Inner realms. Carrying codes and retaining wisdom as the surface populace moved into greater densities of duality and faced challenges that were not chosen by Inner Earth LeMurians. And so accordingly the sojourns of Inner Earth LeMurians and surface Earth populace, moved into vastly different vibratory dimensions.
And although the Inner Earth beings progressed in a very different cycle from those on the surface Earth, there have always been special emissaries connecting both. Indeed the 'Law of One' of Poseida in the Golden Age of Atlantis were also Elders of LeMurian Codes. The Law of One were in fact family members of the original Utopian experience.
A Grand Reunion
It was deeply understood by all LeMurians that there would in time be a re-merging. That time is coming.
Easter Island carries an important role in that process. It is now being prepared to anchor the New Firmament. And beyond the anchoring in the not too distant future it will be a re-emergence point of the LeMurian family of inner earth. And the reunion will reunite all LeMurians, of surface & Inner Earth and those of Sirius and the Pleiades.
In the interim, Easter Island, Rapa Nui-144 is ever a Sacred Portal of Healing, Balance and Remembrance…of that which you once knew and will be again.
Easter Island now calls to you, calls to those of LeMuria to come and receive the codes of remembrance. It is a place of the nurturing energy that is in the perfection of balance. It holds a unique alignment to Mt Shasta, Arkansas, Newgrange, Giza and Brazil (Sao Tomas des Letres in Minas Gerais). It is in fact axialtonally connected by underground hyper dimensional 'tunnels' to all of these.
It exudes the energy you term Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine. It is the perfect equation of both in balance. Accordingly it provides the energy necessary for those that are in imbalance to receive the flow of what is required for balancing. For a male in over masculine frequency, feminine influx occurs, and vice versa. It will in 2013 pass this energy axialtonally to other such locales on the planet, and there are 11 receiving this energy. Those of you receiving the codes of this will become living carriers of such codes to pass them forward.
Easter Island is indeed a Crystalline Light of Peridot, and the light of this energy, which is richly embedded across its land, offers the Green Ray of Healing and Joy.
It was and remains the first Temple of the LeMurians. And most of you know this energy, perhaps far more than you realize. It exudes the energy of home!
The Clarion Call
The Stargate opens to those who are called. Each of you in Divine Self know, in deepest truth that you are still there. It beckons and it is visited often in dream, lucid dreams of euphoric exaltation and zest. It is a buoyant heavenly place of evermore where dreams come true.
Your travels have taken you far, and the path now leads you home… and the light is left on for your arrival.
I am Metatron and I share with you these Truths. You are Beloved.
…And So it is…And it is So
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There are mounting signs that the right-wing Israeli government may think the timing is right for an attack on Iran, with growing alarms inside Israel about alleged Iranian progress on building a nuclear bomb — and with President Barack Obama fearing loss of key Jewish political support in 2012 if he doesn't go along.
On Sept. 26, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated Iran's alleged progress, telling interviewer Charlie Rose that "time is short" before Iran obtains nuclear weapons and poses a direct threat to Israel and the rest of the world.
Yet the key factor in any Israeli decision to send its aircraft and missiles to Iran is the degree to which Netanyahu and other hard-line Likud leaders believe that President Obama is locked into giving blanket support to Israel — particularly as election 2012 draws near.
The Israelis might well conclude that the formidable effectiveness of the Likud Lobby and the knee-jerk support of the U.S. Congress as well as still powerful neoconservatives in the executive branch (and on the opinion pages of major American newspapers) amount to solid assurance of automatic support for pretty much anything Israel decides to do.
If Israel translates this into a green light to attack Iran, the rest of the world — even Washington — may get little or no warning.
Netanyahu and his associates would presumably be reluctant to give Obama the kind of advance notice that might allow him to consult some adult political and military advisers and thus give him a chance to try to spike Israeli plans.
Consequences of blindsiding? There would be a strong argument in Tel Aviv that past precedent amply demonstrates that there are few if any consequences for blindsiding Obama on Israeli actions.
There is also the precedent of how an earlier generation of Likud leaders reacted to a possible second term by a Democratic president who was suspected of having less than total loyalty to Israel.
In 1980, Prime Minister Menachem Begin was angered by President Jimmy Carter's pressure that had forced Israel to surrender the Sinai in exchange for a peace treaty with Egypt. Begin made clear to his followers at home and abroad that Carter, if freed from the political pressure of facing reelection, might push Israel into accepting a Palestinian state. So Begin quietly shifted Israel's political support to Republican Ronald Reagan, helping to ensure Carter's lopsided defeat.
Similarly, some Israeli hard-liners suspect that Obama in a second term might be liberated from his fear of Israeli political retaliation and thus renew pressure on Netanyahu to halt Jewish settlements in the occupied territory of Palestine and to reach a true accommodation with the Palestinians.
Under this analysis, a second-term Obama might add to Israel's growing isolation in the Middle East, which even Defense Secretary Leon Panetta noted Sunday, telling reporters that Israel must restart negotiations with the Palestinians and work to restore relations with Egypt and Turkey.
"Is it enough to maintain a military edge if you're isolating yourself in the diplomatic arena?" Panetta asked. "And that's what's happening."
A Very Bad Year
Indeed, 2011 has been the worst year in recent memory for Israel, ushering in a highly unfavorable sea change in its strategic position.
Israel has lost the support of formerly friendly governments in Egypt and Turkey and finds itself increasingly isolated internationally, as the occupation of Palestinian territory begins its 45th year and the plight of the Palestinian people garners more and more attention — and sympathy.
As Netanyahu and his right-wing advisers look at the new constellation of stars, it is a safe bet they discern an imperative to readjust them in Israel's favor.
But by attacking Iran? Okay, I know it sounds crazy. It is crazy. The question, however, is whether it sounds crazy to Israel's leaders, accustomed as they are to a reality in which the tail can wag a large dog at will.
Besides, the Israelis are sounding increasingly desperate, and the notion of attacking Iran and involving the U.S. might well be seen by desperate leaders as a way to stem further erosion of their strategic position — or at least to show that they still have a very powerful supporter.
In my view, an attack on Iran would have a two-fold purpose: (1) to set back Iran's nuclear development program and infrastructure, and (2) to mousetrap Washington into an even closer military relationship with Israel. Let's put some context around these one by one.
First, the bugaboo about an Iranian nuclear weapon. Let me say at the outset that I could readily believe that Iran is working on a nuclear weapon. There are all sorts of reasons why one could understand Tehran seeing this as a reasonable course of action.
(As has been pointed out, Iraq had no nukes and we know what happened to it; North Korea has a handful of nukes and we know what did not happen to it.)
Trouble is, it doesn't matter what I — or anyone else — might believe. For substantive analysts, faith-based analysis is not an option (or, at least, it didn't use to be). Empirical evidence is the coin of the realm for us.
Unlike Israel, which has refused to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty and has some 200 to 300 nuclear weapons, Iran did sign the NPT and insists it has no interest in nuclear weapons, only enriched uranium for medical research and energy. Unlike Israel, Iran has allowed U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors in to verify compliance with its commitment not to build nukes.
Still, there continue to be "beliefs" and suspicions that Iran, for example, may be laying the groundwork for an eventual breakout capability, and Tehran has not always fulfilled all its obligations under the safeguards regime.
Yet, despite the spin often applied to IAEA reports by the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM), particularly The New York Times, the IAEA has never detected the diversion of enriched uranium from declared sites for the purpose of building a nuclear weapon. That is fact.
Intelligence Analysts Thwart War
Beyond that inconvenient truth, some other recent history may be worth bearing in mind.
In 2007, President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, with full-throated support from Israel and the FCM, were drumming up support for countering what they claimed was Iran's determination to build a nuclear weapon. On Oct. 22, 2007, the Israeli ambassador to the United States insisted publicly that "very little time" remained to keep Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
Really? Even if there had been a nuclear program hidden from the IAEA, no serious observer expected Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon until several years later. Actually, truth be told, every other year since 1995 U.S. intelligence had been predicting that Iran could have a nuclear weapon in about five years.
It became downright embarrassing — like a broken record. The repetition was punctuated by the likes of former CIA Director James Woolsey, a dyed-in-the-wool neocon who kept warning that the U.S. may have no choice but to bomb Iran to halt its nuclear weapons program.
In mid-2006, Woolsey, who has called himself the "anchor of the Presbyterian wing of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs," put it this way: "I'm afraid that within, well, at worst, a few months — at best, a few years — they [the Iranians] could have the bomb." That was five years ago.
The Russians Get It Right
In early October 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin, unencumbered by the Likud Lobby, which enforces Washington's neocon-dominated "groupthink," publicly mocked the "evidence" that had been adduced to show that Iran intended to make nuclear weapons.
Then, during a visit to Iran on Oct. 16, 2007, Putin sprinkled salt on the wounds of "bomb-Iran" neoconservatives. He warned, "Not only should we reject the use of force, but also the mention of force as a possibility."
This brought an interesting outburst from President Bush the next day at a press conference.
Q: "Mr. President, I'd like to follow on Mr. — on President Putin's visit to Tehran … about the words that Vladimir Putin said there. He issued a stern warning against potential U.S. military action against Tehran. … Were you disappointed with [Putin's] message?"
Bush: "I — as I say, I look forward to — if those are, in fact, his comments, I look forward to having him clarify those. … And so I will visit with him about it."
Q: "But you definitively believe Iran wants to build a nuclear weapon?"
Bush: "I think so long — until they suspend and/or make it clear that they — that their statements aren't real, yes, I believe they want to have the capacity, the knowledge, in order to make a nuclear weapon. And I know it's in the world's interest to prevent them from doing so. I believe that the Iranian — if Iran had a nuclear weapon, it would be a dangerous threat to world peace.
"But this is — we got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon. I take the threat of Iran with a nuclear weapon very seriously."
Honest Intelligence
Just weeks later in November 2007, the U.S. intelligence community completed a formal National Intelligence Estimate in the best tradition of speaking truth to power. The NIE was the fruit of a bottom-up investigation of all evidence over the years on Iran's nuclear activities and plans.
But the NIE's conclusions bore no resemblance to what Bush, Cheney, their Israeli counterparts, and the FCM had been claiming about the imminence of a nuclear threat from Iran.
The following is from the paragraph introducing the Key Judgments of the NIE of November 2007 that headed off war with Iran:
"A. We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program; we also assess with moderate-to-high confidence that Tehran at a minimum is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons. …
"Tehran's decision to halt its nuclear weapons program suggests it is less determined to develop nuclear weapons than we have been judging since 2005. Our assessment that the program probably was halted primarily in response to international pressure suggests Iran may be more vulnerable to influence on the issue than we judged previously."
Having reached these conclusions, it is not surprising that the NIE's authors make a point of saying up front (in bold type) "This NIE does not [italics in original] assume that Iran intends to acquire nuclear weapons."
There being no guarantee that, even with an honest Estimate, reason would prevail in the White House, Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen and other senior officers like CENTCOM commander Adm. William Fallon took the unusual step of insisting that the Estimate's key judgments be declassified and made public.
They calculated, correctly, that this would put an iron rod into the wheels of the juggernaut then rolling toward a fresh disaster — war with Iran.
Recall that Adm. Fallon, who became CENTCOM commander in March 2007, let the press know that there would be no attack on Iran "on my watch." He was fired in March 2008.
His senior military colleagues, while not as outspoken as Fallon, shared his disdain for the dangerously simplistic views of Bush and Cheney on the use of military power.
Bush and Cheney Aghast
What is perhaps most surprising is the disarming (if that is the correct word) candor with which George W. Bush has explained his chagrin at learning of the unanimous judgment of the intelligence community that Iran had not been working on a nuclear weapon since late 2003.
Bush lets it all hang out in his memoir, Decision Points. Were one to assume that he and Cheney were genuinely worried about a threat from Iran, a long sigh of relief — or at least some follow-up questions — might have been reasonably expected in reaction to the NIE's judgment.
Instead, Bush complains revealingly that the NIE "tied my hands on the military side," noting that the NIE opened with the "eye-popping" high-confidence finding that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in the fall of 2003.
The former president adds that the "NIE's conclusion was so stunning that I felt it would immediately leak to the press." He writes that he authorized declassification of the key findings "so that we could shape the news stories with the facts." Facts?
Sure. New and different "facts." Did not the experience on Iraq prove that the "intelligence and facts" could be "fixed around the policy," as the famous Downing Street Memo of July 23, 2002, put it regarding the need for the U.S. and U.K. to cook the intelligence and facts to "justify" attacking Iraq?
On Iran, though, a crestfallen Bush writes, "The backlash was immediate. [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad hailed the NIE as a 'great victory.'" Bush's apparent "logic" here is to use the widespread disdain for Ahmadinejad to discredit the NIE through association, i.e., whatever Ahmadinejad praises must be false.
But can you blame Bush for his chagrin? Alas, the NIE had knocked out the props from under the anti-Iran propaganda machine, imported duty-free from Israel and tuned up by neoconservatives here at home.
How embarrassing. Here before the world were the key judgments of an NIE, the most authoritative genre of intelligence report, unanimously approved "with high confidence" by all 16 intelligence agencies and signed by the director of national intelligence, saying, in effect, that Bush and Cheney had been lying about the nuclear threat from Iran.
Quid Est Veritas?
In his memoir, Bush laments: "I don't know why the NIE was written the way it was. … Whatever the explanation, the NIE had a big impact — and not a good one." Spelling out how the Estimate had tied his hands "on the military side," Bush included this (apparently unedited) kicker: "But after the NIE, how could I possible explain using the military to destroy the nuclear facilities of a country the intelligence community said had no active nuclear weapons program?"
Well, bummer!
Thankfully, not even Dick Cheney could persuade Bush to repair the propaganda juggernaut and let it loose for war on Iran. The avuncular Cheney has made it clear that he was very disappointed in his protégé. On Aug. 30, 2009, he told Fox News Sunday that he was isolated among Bush advisers in his enthusiasm for war with Iran.
"I was probably a bigger advocate of military action than any of my colleagues," Cheney said when asked whether the Bush administration should have launched a preemptive attack on Iran before leaving office.
And it is entirely possible that the Iran-war juggernaut would have been repaired and turned loose anyway, were it not for strong opposition by the top military brass who convinced Bush that Cheney, his neocon friends, and the Israeli leaders had no idea of the chaos that war with Iran would bring.
Regrettably, Adm. Mullen just retired, and Adm. Fallon was fired in 2008 for speaking truth. It is far from clear that their replacements will be as able to act as counterweight to the neocons who continue to wield extraordinary influence in official Washington.
For the record, despite the periodic alarums being raised among the usual suspects about the growing danger from Iran, U.S. intelligence analysts and top officials, to their credit, have continued to play it straight, so far as I can tell.
Although they have pretty much worn out the subjunctive mood in their testimony to Congress, the bottom line is that there is no new intelligence information that would warrant significant change in the judgments of the NIE of November 2007.
There is still no intelligence to "justify" a preventive attack on Iran (as if preventive attacks are ever justified under international law).
And this time senior intelligence officials should be called to testify under oath about the evidence and analytical conclusions, before Israel gets the U.S. embroiled in another catastrophic war that would make Iraq and Afghanistan look like a skirmish.
Mousetrapping the President
I promised, so many paragraphs ago, to address how Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu might see an attack on Iran as "mousetrapping" Washington into an even closer military relationship with Israel.
My own sense is that, despite his recent bravura performance in Washington — which included a speech to a joint session of Congress in which Republicans and Democrats competed to see who could jump to their feet fastest and applaud the loudest at every phrase uttered by the Israeli prime minister — Netanyahu is running scared.
I believe he thinks he needs the U.S. now more than ever. And on that I would have to agree.
This shone through his answers to David Gregory of NBC's Meet the Press on Sept. 25. Gregory could hardly get a word in edgewise, but that was good in a way, since a loquacious Netanyahu provided ample grist for analysis. The prime minister seemed to be reaching — and came across, at least to me, as defensive:
Gregory: "Israel is arguably as isolated as it's ever been in the midst of Arab spring. Turkey has turned against you, the Arab world has moved away from dictators who supported Israel, had peace treaties with Israel, and is now more negative towards Israel. In this day and age, at this particular moment, despite Israel's well-known and substantial security concerns, how can you occupy Palestinian territory at this moment?"
Netanyahu: "Well, you've got two assumptions in your questions, and I want to parse out and actually suggest that they're wrong. The first one is that we're isolated. Well, we're not isolated in this country, which happens to be the strongest country on earth.
"I walked yesterday in the — in, in Central Park. You know, people met me. Jewish-Americans, but many non-Jewish-Americans, and they said, 'Keep the faith. We're strong. Be strong. We're with you.'
"A former lieutenant colonel in the Marines who's now a teacher met me in a restaurant in New Jersey, great view of the United — of New York City. He said, 'We're with you all the way. Stay strong.' A New York NYPD policeman, he says, 'I'm not Jewish. We support you. Stay strong.' America supports Israel in unparalleled way, unprecedented ways, number one. …
"Every one of the U.S. presidents represents and acts on the tremendous innate friendship of the American people to Israel. And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike.
"And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, 'Thank you, America.' And we're friends of America, and we're the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East."
However, there can be little doubt with Israel's loss of key allies in Turkey and Egypt that its strategic position in the region is more tenuous than it has been in recent memory. Grassroots movements are also taking root in America showing sympathy for the plight of the Palestinians, even if official Washington continues to march in lockstep behind Netanyahu.
Yet what matters most, in my view, is how Netanyahu and his associates read Obama; specifically, how afraid is he of diverging one iota from the pro-Israel stance he has adopted. There is quite enough evidence they feel he is putty in their hands, and it is hardly necessary to rehearse that here.
Let me instead try to draw a lesson from my experience last summer as a passenger on the U.S. boat to Gaza, The Audacity of Hope.
Activism Exposes Cowardice
When we made a break from Greece for the high seas on July 1, it was a mere 33 minutes before a Greek coast guard boat intercepted us. After a standoff of well over an hour, black-clad, black-masked commandos showed up in a black rubber boat, climbed onto the coast guard boat, and pointed their machine guns at us.
It was more than a little bizarre: not one of us 37 passengers, 12 media journalists, or five crew flinched, much less hit the deck. When our captain discerned that his delaying tactics would not prevent us from being boarded, he acquiesced to the Greek coast guard orders to return to Piraeus, where The Audacity of Hope was (and is still) impounded.
We later learned that on that same day, the government of Greece issued a directive without precedent in that legendary seafaring nation. The order prohibited any boat from leaving Greek ports bound for Gaza.
It was clear that the Israeli government was pressuring Athens, in private and in public, to stop the 10 boats of this year's flotilla from setting out for Gaza. It is unlikely, though, that Israel alone would have been able to reverse four millennia of Greek history and embarrass the Greeks so pointedly.
It became obvious to me that it was Washington that brought the most decisive pressure to bear on the Greeks. Why? In short, because Obama has far more influence with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou than with Netanyahu. And this despite the $3 billion the U.S. gives Israel every year.
Before leaving the United States, I was cautioned by a source with access to senior staffers at the National Security Council that not only did the White House plan to do absolutely nothing to protect our boat from Israeli attack or boarding, but that White House officials "would be happy if something happened to us."
The way this happy message was phrased was that NSC officials would be "perfectly willing to have the cold corpses of activists shown on American TV." Former U.K. ambassador Craig Murray was told essentially the same thing by former colleagues reporting what they had learned from senior State Department officials.
In other words, senior national security and foreign policy officials in Washington were claiming they viewed with equanimity the possibility that we would meet the same type of welcome given by the Israeli Navy to last year's flotilla to Gaza — though, on sober reflection, it appears to me that the Obama administration's preferred outcome was that we simply be bottled up in Greece.
In last year's attempt to break the Gaza blockade, Israeli commandos attacked the flotilla on the early morning of May 31, 2010, in international waters. The commandos killed eight Turkish civilians and a 19-year-old American, Furkan Dogan. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan protested — and Turkey continues to demand an Israeli apology, compensation, and an end to the blockade of Gaza.
In contrast, not a whimper came from President Obama. Actually, it gets worse. The White House and State Department did their level best to duck any responsibility to protect American citizens; instead, official Washington spread the erroneous notion that Dogan was not a red-white-and blue American but rather some sort of hybrid "Turkish-American."
They knew that was incorrect. He was born in Troy, N.Y.; he never applied for Turkish citizenship.
Blockade's Legality
As for the legality of the Israeli blockade, happily, there remain at the State Department some sticklers for international law, apparently with the courage to quit loudly if State were to give its blessings to the outlandish notion that the Israeli blockade is legal.
There are enough recalcitrant professionals — experts on the Law of the Sea and international conventions — to put their weight down behind the notion that all countries, Israel included, should abide by those laws. Thankfully, their professionalism prevented even further embarrassment from U.S. behavior vis-à-vis international law.
That stubborn professionalism may account for one of the most bizarre State Department press conference I have seen. On June 24, AP reporter Matt Lee and some of his colleagues decided to be more matter-of-fact than diplomatic with State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, the wife of Robert Kagan, a neoconservative national security adviser to Vice President Cheney from 2003 to 2005 (and now a Washington Post columnist).
Asked directly, three times, whether the U.S. government considers the Israeli blockade of Gaza legal, Nuland would give no answer.
"I am not a Law of the Sea expert," she insisted (four times). Her talking points were that the U.S. boat to Gaza should not be a "repeat of what happened last year" (four times). As though last year's flotilla was responsible for the attacks by Israeli naval commandos and this year's flotilla would be considered responsible as well.
It seems likely that, however discreet we passengers on The Audacity of Hope tried to be with our messaging, U.S. officials became aware that we were on the verge of making a break for the high seas and Gaza (damn the torpedoes and commandos).
What seems clear in retrospect is that, whereas macho officials at State and the NSC would have been comfortable, as they claimed, seeing our cold corpses on U.S. TV, Obama had the presence of mind to consult his handful of adult advisers who understood that something had to be done — and quickly — since a PR disaster was in the making.
An attack on a U.S.-registered boat endangering us passengers, including author Alice Walker (not to mention the journalists on board from The New York Times, CBS, CNN, Democracy Now!, et al.) was to be avoided at all costs.
Mr. Milquetoast himself could not match Obama in pandering to the Israelis. That said, the president does try to keep to a minimum those times when it is acutely embarrassing to defend the kind of Israeli behavior the rest of the world finds heinous.
If there were a "repeat of what happened last year," it would prove more difficult this time to avoid criticizing Israel (though, when push came to shove, Obama could probably summon the political "courage" to remain silent again).
However, if President Obama could not summon up the courage to ask Prime Minister Netanyahu to ensure safe passage for The Audacity of Hope, that display of timidity would not be lost on the Israeli leaders; one can imagine them being amused by it.
But if he did ask Netanyahu, Obama apparently received the gesture that seems to have become Netanyahu's trademark in reacting to entreaties from Washington (right thumb on nose, fingers flapping).
In that case, Obama would have been forced to recognize that his influence with Netanyahu is nil, and rather than risk a dust-up with Israel, the safer course would be to put the screws to the less formidable Greeks to bring us back to shore and keep us there.
Fortunately for Obama, considerable leverage was available on Greece since it was in dire economic straits and in need of another fiscal bailout. With bigger fish to fry, so to speak, Greek Prime Minister Papandreou did what he was told and kept us ashore.
The middle-level Greek officials, including some of the coast guard, whom we encountered, were very apologetic, virtually holding their noses as they forced us to comply.
So put yourself in the position of Netanyahu and his colleagues. Try to see Obama as they do and reflect on the various political equities and strategic considerations mentioned above. If you were Netanyahu, would you worry very much that Obama might get in the way if Israel decided to take a whack at Iran?
Reprinted courtesy of ConsortiumNews.com.


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You know what? I did it! I freakin' did it!
Ladies & gentlemen, I successfully made profiteroles! You may have read about my failed attempt at making profiteroles and since, I had attempted two more times and failed :(
# – Crispy, creamy, chocolatey profiteroles. Woohoo!
However, last night, the time felt right. It was late, yes it was 12.30am in the morning and I thought to myself, "Hey Kimberly, I feel like some profiteroles and I have a feeling the choux pastry will puff up this time". And so, I decided to make them, eventhough I was supposed to be already in bed.
And boy, did they puff! I was so overwhelmed with joy, I did a dance and screamed joy in my kitchen. The BF thought I had gone nuts, but then he too saw the puffed up pastry in the oven and subsequently joined in my awesome dance.
I think the success of this attempt had to do with me implementing a tip I had picked up from Masterchef Australia where the challenge in that particular episode was to make Croquembouche, a complex dessert that can be summarised as a tower of profiteroles bound together by caramel.
During the making of the choux pastry, the Masterchef's voiceover was saying that the choux pastry of one of the contestants did not rise because she did not cook the flour thoroughly. So this time, I made sure I cooked the flour mixture through. You probably have no idea what I'm rambling about, so lets just go straight into the step by step :D
The ingredients:
- 65 grams of flour, sifted twice
- A pinch of salt, sifted twice
- 150 ml of water
- 50 grams of butter
- 2 eggs, well beaten
For serving:
- 100 ml of whipping cream, whipped till double in size
- Chocolate sauce (you can buy or make yours but watch out for tomorrow's post for my homemade version with rum!)
# – First of all, sift the flour and salt twice and set aside in a bowl.
# – Then melt the butter in water in a pot on low heat.
# – When butter have thoroughly melted, turn the heat up a little to get to a gentle boil. Most recipes would ask you to remove the butter mixture from heat at this point, but please don't. Now, dump in the flour and salt mixture.
# – Turn the heat back down and stir and stir and stir and stir.
# – Stir till everything sticks together and forms a soft ball. Then continue stirring over the low heat for about 5 minutes more. Yes, this is the part about cooking the flour through I was talking about.
# – Now dump the dough into a mixing bowl to cool down for about 15 minutes.
# – In a pitcher, beat 2 eggs well.
# – Gently pour the egg into the dough while you're beating it with an electrical mixer. Beat till everything is combined and form a soft peak.
# – What's a soft peak? This is soft peak, where the dough sticks to a spoon and very, very slowly droops downwards.
# – Now, stick the dough into a piping bag. Of course, you can use a makeshift piping bag with a freezer bag, just nip the corner off and voila!
# – Pipe the dough into half of your desired profiterole size onto a greased baking tray, because when cooked they're going to double in size!
# – Dip you hand into a bowl of water and lightly sprinkle water all over the tray, like this. This is another way to help the choux pastry rise.
# – Stick it in a preheated oven at 200 degrees celcius for 20 minutes.
# – Watch them puff up. You may now do a dance.
# – As you can see, I made some eclair shapes too so yes, I made eclairs too with this batch…hehehehe.
# – Immediately after you take the pastry out from the oven, use the skewer to poke a hole through the under of each pastry. This is to release any pressure built up inside.
# – Split each pastry into half with a knife.
# – When they've cooled down completely, stuff each with as much chilled whipped cream as much as you can :D
# – Lay them all on a plate and drizzle generously with warmed delicious homemade chocolate rum sauce (will blog about this tomorrow).
# – Bite into a piece. And there, profiteroles, DONE!
These profiteroles were light & crispy on the outside, with a hollow inside perfect for cradling a good dollop of yummy, milky cream.
The combination of the pastry, cream and rich chocolate sauce is seriously something bordering perfection. What can I say, they were absolutely perfect. The BF and I hoovered up everything at one go, we were quite naughty really…
My apologies while I swim for a little while more in pure self-satisfaction.


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The Clovis Point and the Discovery of America's First Culture
Beautifully crafted blades point to the continent's earliest communities
When Edgar B. Howard heard that a road crew in eastern New Mexico had stumbled across a cache of big ancient bones, he dropped everything and grabbed the first westbound train. At the time—November 1932—Howard was an archaeology research associate at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. He had been working for a few years in the Southwest and had seen his colleagues in this intensely competitive profession snatch discoveries from under his nose. Days later, he was in Clovis, New Mexico, persuading the landowners to let him excavate.
Howard launched his field project at the site the following summer, soon uncovering what he called the "matted masses of bones of mammoth." Mixed in with the bones were slender, finger-long spear points—Clovis points, as they are called today—which Howard carefully left in place. Eminent researchers quickly converged on Clovis and bore witness to the discovery.
Clovis points are wholly distinctive. Chipped from jasper, chert, obsidian and other fine, brittle stone, they have a lance-shaped tip and (sometimes) wickedly sharp edges. Extending from the base toward the tips are shallow, concave grooves called "flutes" that may have helped the points be inserted into spear shafts. Typically about four inches long and a third of an inch thick, they were sleek and often beautifully made. After discovering Clovis points in New Mexico, Howard and others looked for traces of them in collections of artifacts from Siberia, the origin of the first Americans. None have ever been found. Clovis points, it seems, were an American invention—perhaps the first American invention.
More than 10,000 Clovis points have been discovered, scattered in 1,500 locations throughout most of North America; Clovis points, or something similar, have turned up as far south as Venezuela. They seem to have materialized suddenly, by archaeological standards, and spread fast. The oldest securely dated points, discovered in Texas, trace back 13,500 years. In a few centuries they show up everywhere from Florida to Montana, from Pennsylvania to Washington State.
Care must be taken: Dating stone objects is difficult, and the results are subject to controversy (the timeline here is from a widely cited 2007 article in Science by Michael R. Waters of Texas A&M and Thomas W. Stafford Jr., who then operated a private archaeological lab in Colorado). Even when dates are established, they are not easy to interpret. Because artifact styles—forms of pottery, tools, spear points—can change arbitrarily, one can't say that a particular style necessarily represents a particular society. The near-simultaneous advent of Clovis points might represent the swift adoption of an improved technology by different groups, rather than the spread of one group. Still, most researchers believe that the rapid dissemination of Clovis points is evidence that a single way of life—the Clovis culture—swept across the continent in a flash. No other culture has dominated so much of the Americas.
So quickly did Clovis proliferate that researchers imagined it must be the first truly American culture, the people who took fire and spear across landscapes empty of humankind. But others kept offering data that the Americas were inhabited before Clovis. The vituperative debate ended only when strong evidence for a pre-Clovis settlement turned up in Chile in the late 1990s. Other pre-Clovis sites followed, notably a cave in Oregon with fossilized human excrement identified by DNA analysis and dated by accelerator mass spectrometry. Little is understood about these early peoples. Clovis may no longer be the oldest American culture, but it remains the oldest American culture we know much about.
Initially discovered between the rib bones of large, extinct mammals, Clovis points were long viewed as hunting tools. Similarly, it was thought that the Clovis culture focused on hunting big game—"Pleistocene megafauna." To this day, countless museum dioramas portray doughty paleo-Indian men thrusting spears in the faces of mammoths, mastodons and saber-toothed tigers. Women and children lurk at the edges, hoping the hunters will survive. Later archaeologists questioned this picture. Chasing after giant beasts with sticks and sharp stones is dangerous. How could any group base its subsistence on something so risky? It would be like a society in which the majority of adults made their living by disarming land mines.
In a study published in 2002, Donald Grayson of the University of Washington and David Meltzer of Southern Methodist University searched through data from scores of Clovis sites for evidence of humans killing big animals (butchered bones, for instance). In only 14 did they find evidence of hunting—or, possibly, "hunting," since at several of the sites people seemed to have killed animals at water holes that were already near death. "Pitiful," Meltzer joked in First Peoples in a New World, his history of America's first colonization. Today it appears likely that Clovis people depended mostly on foraging for plants, hunting small mammals and, probably, fishing. Along with scrapers, blades, drills and needles, the Clovis point was part of a generalized tool kit—the Leatherman of the ancient world—that human beings used to flood into a still-new land.
Clovis points were made for three or four centuries, then disappeared. So did the culture that created them. As Clovis people settled into different ecological zones, the culture split into separate groups, each adapting to its own separate environment. The end of Clovis marked the beginning of the enormous social, cultural and linguistic diversity that characterized the next 10,000 years. Of the brief florescence of Clovis, only the tools, notably the points, remained—the last physical traces of America's first and most extensive cultural imperium.
The author of the recent best-selling books 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus and 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, Charles C. Mann sees our country's past in the light of events that stretch back at least as far as 13,500 years ago, when people first began to fabricate the stone tools known as Clovis points.
"The Americas have a long and fascinating history before Columbus," he says. "I think everyone should know it—it's the history of half the world, and it's part of our human story."


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Notice the two portable altars?
One in front of the throne where the ordinations were held and one in front of the confessio, both where daily Masses were held.
And notice, too, the curtains pulled in the baldacchino?
Such reverence that only the popes could celebrate Holy Mass atop the main altar.
Let Catholic youth know these, our traditions.


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In September 2019, the provincial government made some changes to the legislation that sets out how school divisions charge school fees. Our school fee schedule reflects these changes.
The school fee schedule below includes every fee that might be charged, for every grade. It is important to know that you may not have to pay for every item. In September, your school will tell you your fees and explain what each fee is for.


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Andy Frasco & the U.N.
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From the venue:
It felt like time to switch gears.
In 2017, Andy Frasco reached a fork in the road. Renowned for a jubilant jambalaya of rule-breaking rock n roll his career kept rolling ahead at full steam. To date, he had released three independent albums, chronicled a German gig in front of 15,000 screaming fans on the recent live opus Songs from the Road, made jaws drop at festivals such as Grandoozy, Firefly, Mountain Jam, Summer Camp, Rock Am Ring, Rock Im Park and Electric Forest, generated millions of streams, launched Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast, and performed at festivals alongside icons such as Peter Frampton, Gary Clark Jr., The Revivalists, Snoop Dog, Dr. Dog, Joe Walsh and Kendrick Lamar, to name a few.
After a string of wild shows (and wilder nights) on tour somewhere in the heart of America, one morning sounded a very loud wakeup call for the singer, songwriter, performer, and namesake of Andy Frasco & The U.N.
"I woke up after a five-day bender on cocaine," he recalls. "This relationship I was in didn't work out. I bought a house in the Midwest to be close to a girl, but she didn't trust me. I wouldn't trust me either, because I was fucking chicks and doing drugs every night on the road. I would take ecstasy just to get out of bed. I was sleep deprived, losing all of my friendships, and fucking overworked. I decided to make a change in my life. I realized that I'm getting older; I couldn't only be the party guy. I wanted to chronicle my life. I wanted to capture my feelings. I wanted substance in my life and music. I decided to take a step back from this wild life for a second and reevaluate, so I could genuinely enjoy the ride I'm on for the long haul."
The ride ramps up on his third full-length album, the aptly titled Change of Pace. Andy approached recording from a new vantage point encouraged by iconic Widespread Panic bassist and producer Dave Schools.
At sessions in a remote Sonoma County mountain studio in a converted chicken coop of all places, Schools challenged him as a songwriter and lyricist.
"Dave sat me down and asked, 'Who do you want to be? What do you want to be remembered by?'," recalls Andy. "I never really thought of it that way. He dialed things back for me. He's become a huge inspiration to me as a musician and a friend. The album began there."
Cutting six songs with Dave, he embarked on something of a "studio tour" to finish Change of Pace. He tapped the talents of Ben Ellman in New Orleans, Charles Goodan in Los Angeles, and Caleb Hawley in New York at Lady Gaga's Atomic Studios.
As a result, the songs reflect the respective regions.
"There's a grungy Bourbon street feel, hard-working and moody New York energy, and that indie California vibe," he goes on. "I'm a traveler at the end of the day. I became a musician to travel and give people therapy through music. As part of this revelation, I realized I don't need to stay at home when I'm off tour. I decided since I'm most comfortable on the road, so I might as well make this record on the road."
The first single "Up/Down" slips from a simmering beat and bass line into a horn-driven swoon. Produced by Goodan, its undeniable refrain proves immediately irresistible as he sings, "Your love is up and down."
"I was just getting through my relationship with that girl from Arkansas," Andy goes on. "One day, she was happy. The next day, she wasn't. I speak on the bipolar nature of a relationship. This was the first time I felt that. Normally, I'd be in the next town before things got any further. The song came from an outside point-of-a-view by a guy who never had a real relationship before this in his life!"
Meanwhile, the boisterous "Waiting Game" features Schools' touch and thrives on delightful proclamations such as "I wanna be the man you can tell your momma about!" The theatrical piano chords, cinematic accordion, and barroom chant delivery on "Don't let the Haters get you down" takes dead aim at "online trolls talking shit from their parents basements."
The title track "Change of Pace" gallops ahead on tambourine and organ as Andy's voice stretches to the heavens and back on the admission, "I'm looking for change of pace. Then, I'll be on my way."
"Everyone has an idea of how you should live your life," he states. "If you're dealing with something that you're not into, try something the complete opposite. Instead of always pondering what you could do tomorrow, do it today."
In the end, this change elevates Andy to a new level.
"I'd love for people to connect to the songs in addition to the live show," he leaves off. "I'm a philosopher and a musician at the end of the day. I want to emulate those aspects in my work. I'm also just a guy trying to find happiness like everyone else is. It's about being okay with the lows, not getting too high with the highs, and being comfortable in your own skin."


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European Psychomotricity Journal
Antonis Kambas, Democritus University of Thrace
The European Psychomotricity Journal (EPJ) is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal devoted to enriching the scientific knowledge of the broad psychomotricity field: adapted physical activity, exercise psychology, motor control & learning, nutrition, physical activity & health, physical education, psychomotor development, psychomotor therapy and rehabilitation.
Only studies involving human subjects will be considered.
We would like to thank all those who took the time to review for the European Psychomotricity Journal in 2022-23. Your generosity is much appreciated, and we hope your collaboration with the journal continues in future.


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If you often use tools with particular settings, presets are for you. Presets are saved settings for a tool that you can easily restore when needed. You can give each preset its own name to make it easier to choose the preset you need.
Four buttons at the bottom of all tool options dialogs allow you to save, restore, delete, or reset presets.
An overview of all tool presets is available in the Tool Presets Dialog. From there you can select and update individual presets.


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Digi Embedded Yocto provides different mechanisms to generate signed and encrypted firmware images. We distinguish between the following environments:
Development, where keys are exposed to the development team. A development environment should not generate production images.
Production, where final signed/encrypted images are generated with one of the four available keys.
Manufacturing, where the signed images and public keys are programmed into the devices.
Development environment
In a development environment, your project can be configured to generate signed and encrypted images providing a PKI tree and a Data Encryption Key (dek.bin) directly on the development machine. Developers have direct access to all four (main and backups) sets of keys used, so Digi recommends you separate the development and signing of the firmware so the keys are not exposed.
Production environment
The production environment is a secure environment with access to just one of the four available keys. If this key is compromised and revoked, the production environment must be updated with the new key. See Revoke a key for more information.
A production environment can be set up in one of two ways:
The production build server is a secured development server that uses a TrustFence-enabled project that generates signed and encrypted images ready for deployment.
The firmware images are not secured and are generated by a development server, but are signed externally in a secure environment using the standalone signing scripts.
Manufacturing environment
In any case, the manufacturing facility will be provided with:
Signed firmware images.
Plain text Data Encryption Key (dek.bin).
The manufacturing facilities need to make sure that the Data Encryption Key is properly protected.