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How many are there between each region.
How many are there between each region.
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Kanto: 5
Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, Mewtwo, Mew
Johto: 6
Entei, Suicune, Raikou, Lugia, Ho-Oh, Celebi
Hoenn: 10
Kyogre, Groudon, Rayquaza, Regice, Registeel, Regirock, Latias, Latios, Jirachi, Deoxys
Sinnoh: 14
Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, Uxie, Azelf, Mesprit, Regigigas, Darkrai, Cresselia, Heatran, Phione, Manaphy, Shaymin, Arceus
Unova: 12
Reshiram, Zekrom, Kyurem, Cobalion, Terrakion, Virizion, Keldeo, Landorus, Tornadus, Thundurus, Meloetta, Genesect
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Seals promoting American nationalism.
Nationalism is defined as being devoted to your country, or the feeling that nations should act independently instead of working together.
An example of nationalism is the Made in the USA campaign.
- devotion to one's nation; patriotism
- excessive, narrow, or jingoist patriotism; chauvinism
- the doctrine that national interest, security, etc. are more important than international considerations
- the desire for or advocacy of national independence
- Devotion, especially excessive or undiscriminating devotion, to the interests or culture of a particular nation-state.
- The belief that nations will benefit from acting independently rather than collectively, emphasizing national rather than international goals.
- The belief that a particular cultural or ethnic group constitutes a distinct people deserving of political self-determination.
Related Forms:
- na′tion·al·ist
- na′tion·al·is′tic
- na′tion·al·is′ti·cal·ly
See also allegiance.Anglo-Saxonism a belief in the innate superiority of the "Anglo-Saxon race." chauvinism a zealous and belligerent patriotism. —chauvinist, n. —chauvinistic, adj. civism 1. the attitudes and behavior of a good citizen. 2. Obsolete, devotion to the cause of the French Revolution. ethnomania a fanaticism favoring ethnic or racial autonomy. — ethnomaniac, n., adj. Gaelicism the characteristic of being Gaelic. jingoism extreme or eccentric national loyalty that is hostile to the interests of any other nation. —jingo, jingoist, n. —jingoistic, adj. Junkerism the militaristic, authoritarian spirit or character of the East Prussian aristocracy. —Junker, n., adj. matriotism devotion to one's mother country. nationalism 1. the spirit or aspirations of a country. 2. a devotion to the interests of one's own country. 3. a desire for national advancement. 4. the policy of asserting the interest of one's own nation, as separate from the interest of another nation and the common interest of all nations. —nationalist, n., adj. —nationalistic, adj. nativism the custom or policy of favoring nativeborn citizens over immigrants, as in the awarding of government jobs. See also philosophy. —nativist, n. —nativistic, adj. overpatriotism excessive patriotism. Pan-Teutonism the idea that all Teutonic peoples should be joined in a union. —Pan-Teutonist, n. —Pan-Teutonic, adj. patriotism a devoted love, support, and defense of one's country; national loyalty. —patriot, n. —patriotic, adj. superpatriotism excessive patriotism. —superpatriot, n. —superpatriotic, adj. ultranationalism excessive or extreme nationalism. —ultranationalist, n. —ultranationalist ie, adj.
(plural nationalisms)
- Patriotism; the idea of supporting one's country and culture.
- Support for the creation of a sovereign nation (which does not currently exist).
- Basque nationalism, Kurdish nationalism
- Jingoism; the support of one nation's interests to the exclusion of others; the hatred of other nations.
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ma: A mother. (N5)
maarif: The domain of the mysteries of God (the domain of Divine Knowledge). -Sufi. (1a)
madar-zad: Born a mast, q.v. (N2)
Maghribi: Literally, western, from the west. A Persian poet (Muhammad Shirin Maghribi) of Tabriz (1349-1407 A.D.). -Arabic. (Du)
Magi: Members of ancient Persian priestly caste. (L)
Mahabaleshwar: A hill station resort area with many spectacular vantage points about 125 km (78 miles) southwest of Pune. The photograph of Meher Baba standing with His arms outstretched in front of mountainous terrain was taken here at Arthurs Seat. Pratapgad, a nearby fort, is associated with the warrior Shivaji. Meher Baba lived and worked in this area on a number of occasions, including significant periods of the New Life. The meeting on October 16, 1950, in which Meher Baba stepped out of the New Life for one day and gave a talk entitled "Babas Sermon", was held in the Aga Khans stable (Florence Hall) in Mahabaleshwar. Elevation: 4,710 feet. (A location within Maharashtra State. -Ed.) (EBF)
Mahabharata, the: See under Krishna. (1b)
The great epic poem of the Hindus by Vyasa. It mainly recounts the war between Kauravas and Pandavas. The Bhagavad Gita is a part of this epic. (N5)
mahabubi: A mast who wears articles of feminine attire. (N2)
mahachaitanya: Super-consciousness. Full consciousness fully evolved as conscious Consciousness. -Vedanta. (1a)
mahakarana sharir: The Universal Body. -Vedanta. (1a)
Mahal: Mahal translated means palace. (Ka 2400 )
mahant: A chief of an ashram or a sect. (N5)
mahapralaya: A great dissolution of the universe at the end of a cosmic age. -Vedanta. Sufi: qiamat. (1a) -Sanskrit. (Du)
The great dissolution of creation at the end of a cosmic cycle. Vedanta. Sufi: Qiamat. (1b)
It might be interesting to know a little bit about angels. They seem always to be pictured with wings. When we do not have to travel in our gross bodies, but live in our subtle bodies in other dimensions, we can transport ourselves as fast as we can think. I presume the only way this concept could be conveyed to people was by painting wings on the angels. Birds in the skies provided the analogy. In the same
way, they are shown playing harps to indicate the celestial music always sounding in the spheres.
On a cold, wintry day in places where the snow falls you will notice that as a person exhales, his breath begins to be visible a few inches from his mouth. The breath forms a vapor of minute droplets when exposed to the frosty atmosphere. With this in mind, you can understand why many ancient writings portray creation as having been blown out from God's mouth in one mighty breath, and that one day He will inbreathe the whole manifestation and have another sleep. This inhalation is referred to in literature as Mahapralaya, or the day of Quiamat.
Following this concept, the angels comprise that portion of the great breath not yet visible. They never did get far from the source of their being. They are "unembodied" souls who are pure and uncontaminated with physical embodiment. This is why the Bible states that man is higher than the angels, because man has to wrestle with all the temptations of the gross world and still surmount them and ascend back to God. Neither angels nor arch-angels ever suffer -- they always enjoy God, although they do not "see" Him in the way a spiritual man of the sixth plane does. Instead of wishing to be an angel, one could feel a little sorry for them, that they cannot reach the seventh plane, but we have to keep remembering that there IS only God, and the angelic soul-rays are all part of His being, just as we are.
The concept of Mahapralaya is interestingly set forth in a translation, as follows: "A spider weaves a web out of its saliva. It does not require any outside help for it. Similarly, God does not require any outside help in creating the universe. The spider moves on the fibre from one end to the other, or it hangs by it in the middle. Even so the Jiva -- the worldly soul passes from one birth to another. But it is all his own making, his own creation. At the end the spider takes its web back into its own mouth, and there is an end to its play. Likewise, at the end of the sport, at the time of the Great Destruction, God re-absorbs the whole universe into His own consciousness, and nothing remains but Him." (Translated from Kalyan, Spiritual Stories from India, edited by Chaman Lal, Charles E. Tuttle Co., publishers.) (Du2, Pages 47-48)
mahapuja: Special worship (puja) on a grand scale. (N4)
mahapurush: See wali. (1b)
A fifth plane saint. -Vedanta. Sufi: wali, abrar. (1a) -Sanskrit. (Du)
Literally, a great person. A fifth plane saint. (N5)
maharaj: "Upas" means "fast" and "maharaj" means "great king", so Upasni Maharaj means "the great king who fasted". He was given this name because He fasted for a very long time before He received God-realisation from Sai Baba. (I pg.43)
Maharashtra State: Some places in Maharashtra State are significant because of Meher Babas visits and work there. A few of these spots can be visited on one days trip from Ahmednagar, but others require overnight visits. For example, Happy Valley and Imampur can be visited easily in one morning. Toka, Khuldabad, Daulatabad, and Ellora can be seen in one day. A more extensive visit to Ajanta and other spots around Aurangabad would require an overnight stop. Rahuri, Sakori, and Shirdi can also be seen in one day, but Nasik would require an extra day. A trip to Mahabaleshwar, Panchgani, and Satara would take two to three days. (A state within India on the central west coast; includes Mumbai and Pune. -Ed.) (EBF)
maharishi: An advanced spiritual teacher. (C)
mahatma: A great soul. -Vedanta. Sufi: akhyar. (1a)
A great soul. A fourth plane Master. -Sanskrit. (Du)
Literally, a great (and noble (N5)) soul. (N2)
Mahavira: See also Jainism. Ed.
mahayogi: A fourth plane yogi. -Vedanta. (1a)
A yogi on a higher plane of consciousness. (C)
Mahesh: = Shiva: the Destroyer. -Vedanta. Sufi: Fanakar. (1a)
Shiva. The Destroyer (in the Hindu trinity Creator-Preserver-Destroyer). -Sanskrit. (Du)
maja: A delight, fun. (N4)
Majhul-un-Nat: The unknowable and undefinable. A designation of the Beyond-Beyond state of God. -Sufi. (1a)
Majnun and Layla (also Majnu; Laila, Leila): The Islamic tale of Majnuns one-pointed love for Layla has its origins in Arabia and is thought to be based on a true story. (1b)
The story of Majnun and Leila is a famous Persian tale of the height of human love. Majnun (meaning "possessed by a jinn" or "love stricken", actual name Qais) and Leila (meaning "sweetheart", actual name Laila bint Sad) loved each other profoundly. They were from different tribes and were never united in love, and because of that pain of separation Majnun nearly went mad with grief and his love saw Leila in everything. His love intensified to such heights that he came into contact with a Qutub who bestowed God-realization on him. (Ka 2121 )
majzoob(s): Literally, absorbed in. One who is absorbed in a plane of involving consciousness. -Sufi. (1a)
For an explanation about the state of the God-Realized majzoobs or brahmi-bhoots refer to God Speaks, pages 137140 and 196197. (Ka 2383 )
Literally, absorbed in. One who is absorbed in a plane of involving consciousness. Also, sometimes used to denote one who is God-merged (more correctly called Majzoob-e-Kamil). (N2) -Arabic. (Du)
Literally, overpowered. (N4)
Majzoob-e-Kamil (also Majzub): The God-merged soul (of the seventh plane). -Sufi. Vedanta: Brahmi Bhoot. (1a)
(sing.;pl.: Majzoobs-e-Kamil) God-merged souls of the seventh plane of consciousness who are divinely absorbed and overpowered but who retain the gross body for a time. Sufi. Vedanta: Brahmi Bhoots; Videh Muktas. (1b)
One who is God-merged. (N3)
One who is merged totally in God. (N5)
majzoobiyat: The eighth state of God, that of the Majzoob-e-Kamil. -Sufi. (1a)
See Videh Mukti. (1b)
The state attained upon God-realization. (N2) -Arabic. (Du)
Majzoob-Salik: A Perfect One whose Majzoob-like qualities are dominant. -Sufi. Vedanta: Paramhansa. (1a)See Paramhansas. (1b)
makan: Literally, a house which is constructed with mortar and lime. (A)
mali: Gardener. (I) -Hindi. (Du)
mama: Mothers brother (maternal uncle). (I)
man dar hama am: I am in everything. -Sufi. (1a)
Man-God: A Perfect Master. Sufi: Qutub. Vedanta: Sadguru. See also: God-Man. (1a)
man-become-God; a Perfect Master (q.v. for full definition). Sufi: Qutub, Salik-e-Mukammil. Vedanta: Param Mukta; Sadguru. See also God-Man. (1b)
Some God-realized souls not only possess God-consciousness, but are also conscious of creation and their own bodies. They take active interest in the souls who are in bondage, and they use their own bodies consciously to work in creation, in order to help other souls in their Godward march. Such a god realized soul is called a Salik, Sadguru, or Man-God*. (A)
*see also Perfect Master, Mukammil, Qutub (Ed)
man hama am: I am everything. -Sufi. (1a)
manas (also mana): Literally, mind, also the mental body. -Hindi, Marathi. Sufi: jism-e-altaf. Vedanta: manas. (1a)
(sing.) literally: mind; the causal or mental body; the seat of the mind. Vedanta. Sufi: jism-e-altaf. See also karan sharir. (1b)
manava: See: insan. -Vedanta. (1a)
mandala: Literally, a circle. Sometimes applied to rangooli (q.v.) designs, geometric designs or stylized drawings of an animal or flower, often drawn on the ground before ones door, for auspiciousness or on festive occasions. Also, a temple or other painting showing a portion or all of a pantheon with mystic symbols often arranged geometrically. -Sanskrit. (Du)
mandali: The members of Meher Babas circle. -Hindi. Vedanta: mandala = circle. (1a)
A circle of intimate disciples. -Sanskrit, Marathi. (1b)
Close ones who, without aiming for any material or spiritual benefit, serve the Guru and obey His every whim. (A)
A sanskrit word meaning a group or company of people with similar interests; referred here as close companions of Avatar Meher Baba. (AJ)
Intimate disciples. (CJ pg. 2)
Literally, close ones; used to describe Meher Babas disciples. (Gr)
Literally, a Sanskrit word meaning a group or company of people with similar interests; it is a term Meher Baba used to refer to His intimate disciples. (I)
Derived from the Sanskrit word mandala, meaning a circle. Hence mandali are the close and intimate disciples around a Perfect Master or the Avatar. (N1)
The intimate disciples of a Sadguru (Perfect Master) or Avatar (God-Man). (L)(N2)
Literally, a group associated with a common activity. (N7)
(see also Circle. -Ed.)
Mandali Hall: (Part of Lower Meherabad, Ahmednagar, India. -Ed.) A newer building constructed in 1948 and used as a meeting hall and quarters for staff or visitors. (EBF)
(Part of Meherazad, Ahmednagar, India. -Ed.) Meher Baba met daily with the men mandali in this room. Originally it was a garage and stable, but later brick walls, a roof, floor, and windows were added. Besides Babas chair, the room also contains a number of photos and paintings. (EBF)
A large room in Meherazad, originally a make-shift structure used as a garage and later a stable which was later used by Meher Baba to conduct His day-to-day work with His men mandali; the same name also refers to a hall in the main bungalow at Lower Meherabad where Baba met with His mandali. (I)
mandir: A Hindu temple. -Sanskrit. (Du)
mano bhumi: The mental world. -Vedanta. (1a)
mano bhuvan: The mental sphere. -Vedanta. Sufi: alam-e-jabrut. (1a)
See mental sphere. (1b)
manonash: Annihilation of the Mind (self). -Vedanta. Sufi: the final fana. (1a)
See Nirvana. (1b)
Literally, the annihilation of the Mind (self). The final fana, q.v. -Sanskrit. (Du)
Literally, the annihilation of the mind. The annihilation of the false, limited, miserable, ignorant, destructible "I", to be replaced by the real "I", the eternal possessor of Infinite Knowledge, Love, Power, Peace, Bliss and Glory, in its unchangeable existence.-Meher Baba. (AJ)(Gr)
Literally, "annihilation of the mind"; it is the name Meher Baba gave to one of the phases of His work* during the "New Life". (I)
Annihilation of the mind (self). (L)(N4)
(see also Fana. Ed.) *(in reference to said New Life phase, Manonash is capitalized. It began October 16th, 1951. -Ed.)
Mantiq-ut-Tayr: The Conference of the Birds, an allegorical tale by the eleventh - twelfth century Sufi, Sheikh Fariduddin Attar. -Sufi. (1a)
mantra: A sacred name or phrase given by a master to his disciple as a spiritual discipline. -Vedanta. Sufi: wazifa. (1a)
A sacred name or phrase given by a master to his disciple to be repeated as a spiritual discipline. (C) -Sanskrit. (Du)(Gr)(N2)
A sacred name or phrase repeated to invoke God. (N6)
manuka: Raisins. (N5)
Manzil-e-Meem: Literally, the house of M (Meher - compassion, love). The residence which Meher Baba used for work with His mandali in Bombay in 1922-1923. (Gr) -Arabic. (Du)
Literally, "the House of M," in this case meaning "the House of the Master"; the residence in Bombay which Meher Baba used for His work with His mandali in 1922-1923. (I)
maohib: Given; a gift. Compare kasb. -Sufi. (1a)
Marathi: Indian language spoken primarily in the Indian state of Maharashtra. (I)
mard-e-Khuda: Gods fearless lovers, especially the masts of the fifth plane. (N5)
mardood: Literally, (adjective), rejected, thrown back, repulsed, excluded. (noun) Apostates (former believers who have rejected Islam); also, divorced women who have returned to their fathers houses. -Arabic. (Du)
marefat: Divine Knowledge. -Sufi. Vedanta: chit, dnyan. (1a)
marefat-e-haqiqat: The Gnosis of Reality. The gnosis of the Perfect Master or Avatar, who has duty in Duality. -Sufi. Vedanta: satyanubhuti. (1a)
Marwaris: The Marwaris are a community mostly engaged in commerce and business. They aquired their name because they hail from Marwar in Rajputana. (Ka 2007 )
masaji: Mothers sisters husband (maternal aunts husband). (I)
masala: A mixture of freshly ground spices and other seasonings. (I)
mashuq: Beloved. -Sufi. (1a)
mashuqiyat: Literally, the state of being the beloved. The epiphany of beauty in the first manifestation (tajalli-e-avval), wherein God is the Lover and man the beloved. -Sufi. (1a)
masi: Mothers sister (maternal aunt). (I)
Masi, Freiny: Freiny Masi formerly lived in Poona and was closely associated with Hazrat Babajan and would visit her daily. Her house was very near to Babajans abode under a tree. After Babajan passed on in 1931, Freiny Masi became more and more closely associated with Meher Baba. She moved to Meherabad and lived a semi-cloistered life with her sister, Daulatmai, who was observing silence. Besides Padri, Freiny Masi had one other son, Rustom, who by Babas suggestion moved to America during the 1920s and worked as an engineer in Arizona. (Ka 2225 )
Masi, Homi: Homi, Kharman Masis son, had been a student in Meher Ashram with his two brothers and was now helping in Babas work. (Ka 2023 )
Masi, Kharman: Homi, Kharman Masis son, had been a student in Meher Ashram with his two brothers and was now helping in Babas work. (Ka 2023 )
Masnavi, The: The major literary work of Jalaluddin Rumi. See also: divan. -Sufi. (1a)
mast: A God-intoxicated soul on the Path. -Sufi. (1a)
(rhymes with "trusts". sing. mast; fem. sing. mastani): souls on the spiritual path experiencing the state of God-intoxication (masti). See also unmatta. (1b)
(pronounced must) Men intoxicated in love for God. They are overcome "by an agonizing love for God," says Meher Baba, and are "drowned in their ecstasy": only love can reach them. (AJ)
A God-intoxicated soul on the Path, usually on a higher plane of consciousness. (C)
A word Meher Baba used to designate a God-intoxicated soul on the spiritual path. (Da)
(pronounced must) One whose mind is completely absorbed in God and who is not conscious of his worldly surroundings. A God-intoxicated soul on the Spiritual Path who has embarked upon that journey without a Master. (Gr)
A masts mood a mother can understand. A mother can imagine it as trying to dress her baby who resists being dressed and kicks the clothes away every time she tries to dress the baby. (Ka 2236 )
On other occasions, Baba mentioned that Ram, while in exile, did much work with masts in the jungles. Such God-intoxicated persons as masts always exist on earth, especially in the East, and during Avataric advents they are contacted by God personified. (Ka 2243 )
Meher Baba revealed on other occasions that there were a few masts scattered throughout the East Afghanistan, Pakistan, Persia, Arabia, Syria, and some in Africa but the majority were found in India. There were no true masts mentioned by Baba in either Europe or North America or South America. (Ka 2483 )
(pronounced "must") A God-intoxicated man on the (spiritual (N6)) Path. (N2)
see also ghous; Nijinsky, Vaslav. Ed.
Chatti Baba: In a similar manner to Mast Mohammeds connection with Germany, Chatti Baba was spiritually connected with France. At different times, as the war in Europe continued, Chatti Babas mood would be of intense anguish. (Ka 2474 )
Gulab Shah: The mast Gulab Shahs words when referring to "He" meant Baba; "Homeland" meant God. (Ka 2410 )
Qabrinstanwala: The mast Qabrinstanwala reminded Baba of the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates because of his comic face and short stature; hence his nickname. (Ka 2387 )
Mohammed: Mast Mohammed would refer to Meher Baba as "Dada". (Ka 2387 )
In a similar manner to Mast Mohammeds connection with Germany, Chatti Baba was spiritually connected with France. At different times, as the war in Europe continued, Chatti Babas mood would be of intense anguish. (Ka 2474 )
mast tour: An extensive journey undertaken by Meher Baba to seek out these Lovers of God who have given up everything in this world in their search for God. They become so dependent on God that God in His compassion eventually comes to them and helps them in their spiritual journey. (Gr)
mast work: Meher Babas mast work was most significant and important. This work started from the days of the Rahuri ashram, and it continued in full force for the next twenty years until 1957. After that, Baba did some mast work for a few more years by keeping one or two masts in His care. For a full account of His mast work, read William Donkins book, The Wayfarers. (Ka 2034 )
see also toilets. Ed.
Master (also Masters of wisdom): The term most frequently used throughout the text for Perfect Master (q.v. for full definition), Man-God, or Sadguru. (1b)
Masters of wisdom: See Master; Perfect Master. (1b)
Masters Prayer, The: See: Parvardigar Prayer
mastani: A God-intoxicated woman on the Path. (N4)
masti: See: suluk. -Sufi. (1a)
"If in the midst of enjoyment (masti) you remember the Beloved, then that is love. At that time you must have your head on His feet." There is no exact word in English for "masti". It means being engrossed in something you love doing seeing a beautiful film; enjoying good food; talking happily with someone. It is that feeling of happiness that does not have to do with the Beloved. So the song says, even if when you are enjoying yourself your head is on His feet, then you are loving Him. (I, pg. 68)
Literally, intoxication. (N2)
Matchabelli, Princess Norina: Born in Florence, Italy. She became famous for her portrayal of "The Madonna" in Max Reinhardts unique pantomime spectacle called The Miracle, which opened in London in 1912. She gave two thousand performances, and her great classical beauty and moving performances won the hearts of all. Norina always had close contact with prominent personalities and leaders of the cultural European world and lived a truly glamorous international life.
In 1916 she married Prince Georges Matchabelli, a distinguished diplomat from Georgia, the Caucasus, Russia (since the fall of Soviet Russia, this area has reclaimed its independent status as an independent country. -Ed.). In 1924 they moved to New York and Prince Matchebelli established a famous perfume company named after him. Norina met Meher Baba in 1931 at Harmon-on-the-Hudson, New York; thereafter she followed His every command, spending some time in His ashrams, lecturing about Him, and in 1941 she was directed to return to the USA with Elizabeth Patterson to locate a property which would meet Meher Babas specifications for a spiritual Center. The Princess saw her Beloved Master for the last time when He visited the Center in 1956. She died in June 1957; her remains are buried on Meherabad Hill, India. (Du)
matha banu: A square piece of white muslin folded into a triangle which was once used as a hair covering by traditional Zoroastrian women. (I) (see also same volume, pg. 49)
maulavi: A doctor of Islamic law, a judge or magistrate, an assistant lawyer, a learned man. Also, a dervish. -Persian. (Du)
mawahid: A unitarian; one of the ahl-e-tauhid. -Sufi. (1a)
Maya: Literally, illusion. False attachment. That which makes the Nothing appear as everything. The root of Ignorance. Shadow of God. -Vedanta. Sufi: mejaz. (1a)
Illusion, Ignorance; the shadow of God. Cf. Bhas. Vedanta. Sufi: Mejas. (1b)
The principal of Ignorance. (CJ pg. 29)
Literally, illusion. False attachment. That which makes the Nothing appear as everything. The (root (N2)) principal of Ignorance. The shadow of God. (adj. Mayavic. (C)) In a general sense, false attachment. (N4) -Sanskrit. (Du)
...that which does not exist. The principal of Ignorance which makes the Nothing appears as everything. (N5)
mayavic: Of or pertaining to Maya, the divine illusion; the power of obscuring or the state of producing error and illusion; the "veil" covering reality, the experience of manifoldness, while only the One is real. (A)
Arising from Maya; illusory. (N2)
Pertaining to Maya. (N5)
meelas: Such gatherings of sadhus, sanyasis, and yogis are called "meelas". The profession of sadhus and sanyasis is as common in the East as the profession of priests and preachers in the West. (Ka 2372 )
Meher Baba Journal: These discourses were subsequently published in the periodical Meher Baba Journal, between 1938 and 1942. Years later they were formed into books. (Ka 2083 )
Meher Babas room: (See: Babas Room. -Ed.)
Meher Babas Samadhi (Tomb): Known for many years simply as the "Dome", this small stone structure contains Meher Babas physical form. It began as a small hut erected over a pit where Baba spent a number of months in seclusion. Later the stonework and dome were erected, and Helen Dahm of Switzerland painted the colorful murals which adorn the walls on the inside of the Tomb.
The Tomb is open for darshan from 7:00 am until 7:45 pm. Those who wish to help clean it may come at 6:30 am. Meher Babas prayers are recited and His artis sung each day at 7:00 am and 7:00 pm. Visitors are asked to maintain silence in and around the Tomb. (part of Upper Meherabad, Ahmednagar, India. -Ed.) (EBF)
Meher Health Centre: A free clinic serving the local villagers, first opened in 1974. (part of Lower Meherabad, Ahmednagar, India. -Ed.) (EBF)
Meher Hospital: When finished and equipped, this building will serve as a free hospital for the area. (part of Lower Meherabad, Ahmednagar, India. -Ed.) (EBF)
Meher Manzil: The name of a house in Ahmednagar which originally belonged to Adi Irani (Babas brother); it is located near the Parsi Tower of Silence. (I)
Meher Nazar Books: Books by and about Meher Baba are available for sale on Monday through Saturday, 10:00 am to 12:30 pm and 3:00 to 4:30 pm; and Sunday, 10:00 to 11:00 am. (part of the Meher Nazar Compound, Ahmednagar, India. -Ed.)(EBF)
Meher Nazar Compound: The Meher Nazar compound, formerly known as Khushru Quarters or Adis compound, has been associated with the life and work of Meher Baba for many decades. The compound is just off Kings Road, near Deepali Cinema. (EBF)
Contained within the compound are the Avatar Meher Baba Trust, the Pilgrim Registration Office, Meher Nazar Books, Caretakers Office, Ahmednagar Avatar Meher Baba Centre, Meher Babas room, and Joy Meher. See also: Khushru Quarters. Within Ahmednagar proper; India (which is between Meherabad and Meherazad.). -Ed.
Meher-parivar: Literally, the Meher-family. -Hindi. (Du)
Meher Retreat: Originally a stone water tank used by the British in World War I, this building has served a number of uses throughout the years. In the early days Meher Baba spent time here in seclusion. Later doors and windows were added and the Prem Ashram boys slept inside. When an upper story and tower were added in 1938, it housed many of the Eastern and Western women disciples who lived in Meher Babas ashram.
Today the building is used as a museum, study hall, and library. In the museum are many things connected with Meher Babas life and work. These include His bicycle, samples of His handwriting, and items of His clothing, including the famous patched Kamli coat. Also in the museum is the original oil painting of the "Ten Circles" chart which was painted by Rano Gayley under Babas direction. The study hall, formerly the womens dormitory, has charts drawn under Meher Babas direction and a number of maps of the blue bus tours. The Meherabad library has books, pamphlets, and periodicals by or about Meher Baba. Those staying at the Meher Pilgrim Centre may check books out from the open sections of this library. (part of Upper Meherabad, Ahmednagar, India. -Ed.) (EBF)
Meher Spiritual Center (Myrtle Beach): Situated in Myrtle Beach (South Carolina, USA), Meher Baba described this as his "home in the West". The property comprises 500* acres forests, lakes, beach, gardens and numerous cabins for pilgrims. Founded in 1943, the centers purpose - as designated by Baba - is "rest, meditation and the renewal of spiritual life." Meher Baba stayed at and visited various buildings and spots within the property several times during the 1950s. (Ke)(* it is belived this has since been reduced to 200. -Ed.)
Meher Theater: Theater in Nasik, also known as the Circle Cinema. (Da)
Mehera J. Irani (also Mehera): It was not until the late 1960s that Mehera J. Irani was permitted by Meher Baba to come out of her seclusion and meet some of the men mandali from a distance. On the porch at Meherazad, she simply folded her hands to them out of respect to their love for Baba and saluted them with "Jai Baba!" (Ka 2220 )
Mehera J. Irani actually was born in January, but Baba changed her birthday to December. Sometimes her birthday celebration was on December 22nd or 23rd; these date changes were according to the Zoroastrian calander. (Ka 2353 )
(See also Meheras Shrine. -Ed.)
Meheras Shrine: Babas beloved Mehera passed away in May, 1989. In accordance with Meher Babas directive, Meheras final resting place is by His side, adjacent to His Samadhi. (part of Upper Meherabad, Ahmednagar, India. -Ed.) (EBF)
Meherabad: The place established in the 1920s by Meher Baba as His headquarters, near the village of Arangaon, Ahmednagar District, the site of many phases of Babas work. Avatar Meher Babas Samadhi is located atop Meherbad Hill. (I)
About five miles south of Ahmednagar (inland from Mumbai), this place is the focus of international pilgrimage. It contains Meher Babas tomb-shrine, a large number of buildings (mostly associated with the earlier decades of Babas work), the graves of disciples, and a range of pilgrim accommodation and charitable establishments. Major festivals are held here. Many Baba lovers work or live in the vicinity. (Ke)
Meherastan: Literally, the threshold of compassion. A name sometimes given to buildings which are used as Baba-work Centers. -Hindi. (Du)
Meherazad: Meherazad is the private residence of a number of Meher Babas close disciples. It is open to visitors on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm, and Sundays from 10:45 am to 12:30 pm. (EBF)
Nine miles north of Ahmednagar, Meherazad was Meher Babas home for the last twenty years of His life, and is now the private residence of His close disciples. The complex features buildings, gardens and vehicles pertaining mostly to Babas later phases. Of special interest is Babas Room. Seclusion Hill, where Baba did much work, rises behind Meherazad. Meherazad is the usual place for baba lovers to meet Babas disciples. (Ke)
Meherazad Gardens: A tribute to Meheras loving care, beautiful flowers flourish in the gardens surrounding Meherazad, despite chronic water shortages. Every day Baba would pass the gardens as He went from His room to Mandali Hall and back again. Many of the films taken of Baba in the later years were filmed here. (EBF)
Mehersthan: A place of worship dedicated to Meher Baba. (AJ)
mejaz: = Maya. -Sufi. (1a)
See Maya. (1b)
mela: A religious or social fair. (N4)
(perhaps related; origin of the English word melee is old French. Ed.)
Memo: Shireen would usually call Him His childhood nickname "Merog" and not Merwan or Meher Baba. Baba, in turn, would refer to her as "Memo". (Ka 2312 )
mental body / form: The causal body, which functions in the mental sphere; the seat of the mind. Sufi: jism-e-altaf. Vedanta: karan sharir; manas. See also ego-mind. (1b)
mental sphere / world: The sphere consisting of the fifth and sixth planes of consciousness as experienced by the mental body through ones mental impressions, which are finer and more feeble (i.e., much less dense) than the subtle impressions. Sufi: alam-e-jabrut. Vedanta: mano bhuvan. (1b)
Merog: Shireen would usually call Him His childhood nickname "Merog" and not Merwan or Meher Baba. Baba, in turn, would refer to her as "Memo". (Ka 2312 )
Mertens, Walter: Walter Mertens knew Carl Jung and had undergone psychoanalysis with the famous psychiatrist. (Ka 1924 )
Merwan Sheriar Iranis birth: As dawn broke on 25 February 1894, Shireen painlessly gave birth to Merwan (Persian: "Sunlike") Irani - the future Meher Baba - in David Sassoon Hospital, Pune. Sheriar felt that this was the child of whom the voice had spoken.
The baby proved unusually attractive. Many people felt drawn to visit him often, sometimes going to great lengths to do so.
Meher Babas birthday is celebrated by local gatherings at 5 am (Babas hour of birth) and by joining in various forms of birthday entertainment. A birthday cake is often shared. (Ke)
Messiah, the: The expected Savior; the Avatar (q.v. for full definition). (1b)
The Incarnation of God, the Infinite in human form. The God-Man, Christ, Avatar, Rasool, Saheb-e-Zaman. (N1) (see also Avatar; Ed)
Mevlevi: See: Jalaluddin Rumi. -Sufi. (1a)
Mikaeel: The archangel Micheal. -Sufi. (1a)
Minor Advents:
Shankara: The mast was referring to the philosopher Shankara. Shankara was a minor advent of the Avatar in India (A.D. 788 820) who revived Vedanta with his nondualist teachings, meaning that spiritual liberation is achieved not by ritual and rites, but by the eradication of the ignorance that believes that the illusory multiplicity of the world is real. Shankara taught that man can only achieve absolute knowledge of himself through the attainment of the knowledge of Paramatma the Absolute Self, the Soul. Bhagwan is a Hindu name of God. (Ka 2390 )
mojeza: A miracle performed by the Avatar or Qutub. -Sufi. (1a)
moksha: See: mukti. -Vedanta. (1a)
Ordinary Mukti, or the Liberation achieved by most souls, i.e., the release from the cycle of births and deaths (reincarnation). Vedanta. Sufi: Najat. (1b)
moksha-marga: See adhyatma-marga. (1b)
money: Meher Baba had once explained to Adi K. Irani that he did not take money from certain persons because of the sanskaras of greed, lust, deceit and other forces that went to obtain that money. In other words, the sanskaras that went into obtaining the money would come along with that money when given. (Ka 2211 )
See also dakshana (also dakshina). -Ed.
Muhammed (also Mohammed; Muhammad, the Prophet): The Prophet, 570-632 AD. (1a)
The Rasool; the Avatar (q.v.) whose teachings come to us through Islam and the Koran. (1b)
The Avatar born in Arabia known as the Prophet, 570-632 A.D., whose teachings come to us through the religion of Islam. (Du)
The Avatar known as the Prophet, born in Mecca, Arabia, about 560 A.D., whose teachings are embodied in the religion of Islam. (L)
Muhasibi of Basra, Abdullah Haris: Early writer on hal and muqam. Died 857 A.D.. (1a)
Muinuddin Chishti: See Chishti, Muinuddin, Khwaja. (1b)
mujaddid: Apparentists. Adherents of the doctrine of wahdat-ul-shuhud. -Sufi. (1a)
mujahida: Practice; striving; endeavor. -Sufi. Vedanta: sadhana. (1a)
See sadhana. (1b)
mukam-e-afasan: See muqam-e-afsan. (1b)
Mukammil: The Supremely Perfect One. The Perfect Master. Also called Salik-e-Mukammil, Qutub. -Sufi. Vedanta: Sadguru. (1a)
The supremely Perfect One. A Perfect Master. (N4) (see also Man-God.)
Mukta: One who is Liberated (from the cycle of rebirth). -Vedanta.
Videh Mukta: The God-merged soul = Brahmi Bhoot. -Vedanta. Sufi: Majzoob-e-Kamil.
Jivanmukta: The Liberated Incarnate. -Vedanta. Sufi: Azad-e-Mutlaq, Salik-e-Kamil.
Param Mukta: The Perfect Master = Sadguru. -Vedanta. Sufi: Qutub, Salik-e-Mukammil. (1a)
See under Mukti. (1b)
One who is Liberated (from the cycle of rebirth or Illusion). -Sanskrit. (Du)
Mukti: Liberation. Release from the cycle of births and deaths (i.e., reincarnation). -Vedanta.
ordinary mukti: = moksha. The liberation achieved by most souls. -Vedanta. Sufi: najat.
videh mukti: "I am God" state without consciousness of duality. -Vedanta.
jivanmukti: "I am God" state with consciousness of duality. -Vedanta.
param mukti: "I am God" state with God-consciousness and Creation-consciousness simultaneously. -Vedanta. (1a)
Liberation; the release from the cycle of births and deaths (reincarnation). There are four types of (1) ordinary Mukti; or Moksha; (2) Videh Mukti; (3) Jivanmukti, of the Jivanmuktas; (4) Param Mukti, of the Perfect Masters. Vedanta. Sufi: Najat. (1b)
Liberation; identification of oneself with the ultimate reality, eternal, changeless, blissful. (A)
Liberation. Release from the cycle of births and deaths (i.e., reincarnation). (C)(N2) -Sanskrit. (Du)
mulhid: Atheist. -Sufi. Vedanta: nastik. (1a)
mullah: Islamic priest. (I)
Mumbai: (Sometimes still called this, -Ed.) Bombay is the destination of most international flights to India. It is also known by its Marathi name, Mumbai. Sometime in the future the name may change (to Mumbai, and it has. -Ed.). Those flights arrive at the new international terminal in Sahar, about sixteen miles north of downtown Mumbai. (EBF)
mumkin-ul-wujud (also mumtan-ul-wujud): See: wujud. (1a)
muni: Literally, one who practices silence. A holy man, hermit, ascetic. (plural: munis). -Vedanta. (1a)
A great sage. (N4)
Munqata-ul-Izharat: The state in relation to which all indications are dropped. A designation of the Beyond-Beyond state of God. -Sufi. (1a)
musiff: A district or village judge, or a subordinant judge. A title given to Dr. Abdul Ghani of Poona * (* now Pune -Ed.), a Sufi and one of the mandali. -Urdu. (Du) (see also: Munsiff, Dr. Abdul Ghani. -Ed.)
Munsiff, Dr. Abdul Ghani: Longtime disciple of Meher Baba. Died August 20, 1951. (1a) (see also: munsiff. -Ed.)
muqaddar: See: prarabdha. -Sufi. (1a) (1b)
muqam: A station, or plane, on the Path. (plural: muqamat) -Sufi. (1a)
See under muqam-e-afsan. (1b)
muqam-e-afsan (also mukam-e-afasan): Abode of delusion; the illusion of being at the end of the spiritual path when one is still traversing it.(muqam: a station or place.) Sufi. Vedanta: sthan. (1b)
muqam-e-furutat: The Divine Junction. -Sufi. Vedanta: turiya avastha. (1a)
muqam-e-hairat: The Place of Enchantment. A station on the Path intermediate between the third and fourth planes, where the aspirant can get long delayed in his spiritual advancement. -Sufi. (1a)
A place of enchantment - a station on the Path between the third and fourth planes of involving consciousness. (N5)
muqam-e-Muhammadi: State of God-consciousness and Creation-consciousness simultaneously. -Sufi. Vedanta: vidnyan bhumika. (1a)
murdoom: See: dholak. (Du)
mureed: Literally, one who is desirous or willing. A disciple of a Murshid or Murshida. -Arabic. (Du)
A disciple or follower. (N4)
Murlivale: Murlivale is another name for Krishna and means "the Flute Player". (Ka 2374 )
Murshid (m.) Murshida (f.): The spiritual director of a Sufi order; (lowercase:) Sufi religious teacher, advanced spiritual guide. (C)
An illumined spiritual master. -Arabic. (Du)
musarrat: Bliss. -Sufi. Vedanta: anand. (1a)
Museum Room: One of the rooms created on the ground floor of Meher Retreat on Meherabad Hill which was originally the West Room where some of the women mandali resided. It now serves as a museum for articles used or worn by Meher Baba. (I)
mushahadah: Spiritual enlightenment. -Arabic. (Du)
Muslim: A follower of Islam, the religion founded upon the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed. (I)
mutawassit: Advanced soul. -Sufi. Vedanta: sadhu. (1a)
mystic powers: See occult experiences / powers; siddhis. (1b)
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Conroy and Hamill Confirm they "might" Not Be Done Voicing Batman and Joker for DC
Well, well, well…either enticing the fans or teasing of things to come, Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill announced that they are not done voicing Batman and Joker respectively for the Animated Universe of DC. Here is the report by Evan Saathoff for birthmoviesdeath.com:
As everyone here likely knows, Mark Hamill and Kevin Conroy have been voicing the Joker and Batman since forever, most famously during the Batman: The Animated Series run, but they probably do it a lot in their spare time as well. Recently they teamed up again for that ill-advised animated The Killing Joke movie.
And it doesn't sound like they're done yet. The two were on a panel together at Canada's Fan Expo and when asked if they were ready to hang up their Batman and Joker voices, both answered with a resounding "no", after which Conroy joked that next they might do Hush, after which Hamill suggested A Death in the Family.
While these titles were obviously lobbed around as jokes to get the audience excited, it does seem like something is brewing between these two. If it is another animated movie, neither Hush nor A Death in the Family seem outside the realm of reason. What do you think? Are there other Batman stories you'd prefer an adaptation of next? Please feel free to shout your suggestions at the first person you see!
And I have to say that thou the news are interesting, after the disappointment with the Killing Joke and his prologue plus some technical aspects of the movie makes me very cautious of another DCAU adaptation. If they are going to adapt a masterpiece of comic art and writing, they should have a better sense on what would work best to IMPROVE the story, not sink it. Still the idea of an animated version of DEATH IN THE FAMILY (and who knows, maybe DEATH OF THE FAMILY…hint, hint) could be very interesting to see…


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2008 Public Eye Awards
Which are the world's worst multinationals? Which are the best? These are questions CorpWatch gets asked practically everyday. Just to clarify, we do not rank good corporations or endorse any of them, for several reasons: today's idols sometimes turn out to have feet of clay. And we see our job as investigators of malfeasance. For those who want to do the opposite, there are plenty of groups out there who promote "socially responsible" businesses, and we encourage you to look them up. (We don't have a list of these groups for the aforementioned reasons, but we do have a guide to the principles that we believe good businesses should follow -- and we leave it to you, our gentle readers, to apply this criteria to evaluate corporations.)
(We strongly believe that it is very important not to take corporate claims at face value, because sometimes these companies are not telling the whole truth. This is known as "greenwash" and to see a history of this phenomenon, we urge you to check out our short history of the subject, in this handy guide written by Josh Karliner, the founder of CorpWatch.)
Today, there is an opportunity for you to get your favorite (or maybe, least favorite) multinational nominated for an award for corporate malfeasance -- the Berne Declaration and Friends of the Earth Switzerland are holding its fourth annual award ceremony in January 2008, to coincide with the annual gathering of Fortune 500 chieftains in Davos. You can take part in this contest by clicking here.
(Previous winners from 2005, 2006 and 2007 are available online.)
If you have questions, contact Oliver Classen who is coordinating the awards ceremony.
In case you are wondering, how do you find out whether companies are telling the truth? Well, here's a tip -- there's a group in the Netherlands that collects these reports: the Global Reporting Intitiative. You can even search their database to look up your favorite/least favorite company. GRI is about to launch a tool on October 1st, 2007 that will allow you to rank these reports -- if you are so inclined.
Read the reports, search our website and that of Multinational Monitor, and then contact groups on the ground to see if these companies are telling the truth or not.
Remember the deadline to nominate a company for the Public Eye on Davos award is September 30th, 2007!
Accounting for Errant Auditors
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) brought charges against 69 accountants for failing to register with the Public Company Accounting Board (PCAB) earlier this week. This somewhat obscure action is the latest ripple in the wave of crackdowns that followed the Enron accounting scandals in 2001 -- to break up the all too cozy relationship between auditors and the multinationals that they are supposed to be policing.
Governments allow companies to close their financial books at the end of the fiscal year, if a qualified accountant has signed off on it. The problem is that both the companies and the auditors are private entities whose ultimate motive is to make a profit, so there is potential for one or both of the two not to report any cooking of the books, unless they know that a regulator might catch them and discipline them. And in the last two decades, as favored accountants have been rewarded with multi-million dollar non auditing consulting gigs (such as tax planning or management consulting), the worry was that they were looking the other way in order to win more business.
Following the Enron scandal, which showed that Arthur Andersen, the company's auditor, had failed in its public duty, the U.S. Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley law in 2002 that replaced the accounting industry's own regulators with the Public Company Accounting Board with subpoena and disciplinary powers. Auditors are supposed to register with the board, but clearly not everyone took this seriously.
The SEC's enforcement director, Linda Chatman Thomsen, said that Thursday's action showed that the agency "is committed to ensuring compliance with the regulatory framework Congress established for auditors of public companies." A total of 50 of the errant accountants settled the charges with the federal agency the very same day.
This action is an important warning shot across the bows to let the auditors know that the SEC is checking up on them. But the jury is still out as to whether the SEC will go one step further and prosecute auditors who fail to report companies that are cooking their books.
In related news, a new study from the University of Nebraska suggests the whistle-blowers who report violations of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to agencies like the PCAB are not properly protected. The study looked at 700 cases where employees experienced retaliation from companies for whistle-blowing and found that a mere 3.6 per cent of cases were won by employees.
Richard Moberly, the study's author, argues the findings "challenge the hope of scholars and whistle-blower advocates that Sarbanes-Oxley's legal boundaries and burden of proof would often result in favourable outcomes for whistle-blowers."
The Financial Times reports that Louis Clark, president of the Government Accountability Project, a non-profit organization that lobbies for whistle-blowers, calls the law "a disaster." Jason Zuckerman, a lawyer at the Employment Law Group, a law firm that represents Sarbanes-Oxley whistle-blowers, says: "Part of the problem is that investigators misunderstand the relevant legal standards and believe that a complainant must have a smoking gun -- that is, unequivocal evidence proving retaliation."
The debate is still on
over whether Sarbanes-Oxley is effective five years after the law was
passed, although all appear to agree it was a step in the right
direction. The proof of the pudding, they say, will be in the eating,
so we eagerly await the day that SEC puts errant accountants behind
Will the Pope tell Gucci and Prada to please pay their taxes? (Mick Jagger and Microsoft too!)
In the next few days Pope Benedict plans to issue his second encyclical the most authoritative statement a pope can issue which apparently will focus on social and economic inequity in a globalized economy. In the statement, he is expected to denounce the use of tax havens as socially-unjust and immoral in cheating the greater well-being of society.
According to the Times (UK) newspaper, the statement may have been inspired by a recent request to the Vatican by Romano Prodi, the Italian prime minister, who urged church leaders to speak out on tax evasion.
Prodis government plans to seek taxes on undeclared earnings of 60 million ($84 million) by Valentino Rossi, the world motorcycling champion. How about also asking Gucci and Prada, some of Italys best known fashion designers, to move their tax headquarters back to home turf (from the tax-saving Netherlands, see below) and contribute to Italys budget deficit?
As global capital has progressively unbound itself from traditional national constraints, excessive off-shore wealth seemingly knows no shame, with wealthy individuals and corporations setting up front companies abroad to avoid paying taxes, supported by a new class of financial services specialists.
While Caribbean island resorts are often assumed to be the places where the wealthy stash their money away for retirement, some European countries (and I don't mean Lichtenstein) have also newly seen the light.
A favored location is the Netherlands -- check out the November 2006 report by Dutch-based SOMO, "The Netherlands: A Tax Haven?" The report is the first comprehensive analysis of the complex system of double tax treaties, tax incentives, the relationship with the Netherlands Antilles and the now 20,000 and counting mailbox corporations operating within the borders of this small European nation. According to SOMO, "examples of companies with tax-induced headquarters in the Netherlands are Volkswagen, IKEA, Gucci, Pirelli, Prada, Fujitsu-Siemens, Mittal Steel, and Trafigura."
The issue has been in the news, mostly because big name musical artists (like Bono and Mick Jagger) and famous athletes (think David Beckham) have also been getting in on the act. When it comes to evading taxes on lucrative licensing and royalties, the Netherlands is fast emerging as the hip tax haven of choice because Holland levies no tax on earnings royalties.
In an article titled Gimme Tax Shelter, the New York Times reported on this in February 2007 as newly public documentation surrounding the assets and wealth-transfer plans of the Rolling Stones demonstrated that the wily rockers have paid a mere 1.5% (as opposed to the British tax rate of 40%), or $7.2. million, on $450 million in earnings routed through the land of tulips with the help of their company Promogroup.
"The Caribbeans are thinking about trading profits, not royalties, so the smaller European countries like Holland have had to be creative, tax-wise,'' David Pullman, an investment banker in New York who caters to entertainers and athletes told the New York Times. ''They are going for the high-end stuff and don't want to be seen as shady like some Caribbean haven.''
More scandalous was the 2006 revelation that super-rockers U2 had transferred their song-publishing catalog from Ireland to Holland's Promogroup, in order to avoid a change in Irish tax law introducing taxes on royalties earned in excess of 250,000 Euros per year. Much ado was made of Bono's unwillingness to pony up his share of the tax obligation in service of the global debt relief and poverty eradication for which he so famously advocates.
Another European country that has figured they can make money out of tax evasion is Ireland -- whose Celtic Tiger growth is largely the product of charming huge corporations like Dell, Google, Microsoft and Sun Systems to move much of their intellectual property patents over to subsidiaries in the land of Eire -- where the corporate tax rate is 12.5%, but no taxes are charged on royalties.
Microsoft has been a major beneficiary of this scheme for the last four or so years -- it slashed billions in tax receipts to the U.S. Treasury -- by setting up subsidiaries Round Island One and Flat Island Company in Dublin. Recently Microsoft took things a step further by re-registering the two patent-holding entities as unlimited liability companies which have no obligation to file their accounts publicly.
Indeed, the Sunday Independent (Ireland) reports that Ireland was the most profitable location for U.S. multinationals between 1998-2002, during which the the profits of US companies with Irish facilities doubled.
The Irish law exempting patent income from taxes also provides a sweet loophole for corporate executive pay. In November 2005 it was reported that Dell Irelands top executives were reaping the fruits of sumptuous pay, and saving the company taxes: between them the senior management shared nearly $3.8 million in tax-free dividends since 2003.
These corporate tax breaks have earned Ireland the distinction of being hailed the worlds 7th freest economy in 2007 by the conservative, DC-based Heritage Foundation, which says that Irelands economy is 81.3 percent free.
Most of this tax evasion, is sadly, quite legal. But ordinary citizens around the world who think that Microsoft and Mick Jagger should pay taxes, can take heart from the fact that some members of the global elite have been punished -- take the recent conviction of media mogul Conrad Black of Hollinger International. In July, Canadian and U.S. press reported on the lawsuits, corporate and civil, that are following his conviction for obstruction of justice and mail fraud, seeking remuneration from assets, including purported millions stashed in the Caribbean:
"Not satisfied with receiving $20 to $40 million a year in excessive management fees, Black and the Ravelston insiders then directed significant portions of those fees to Moffat Management and Black-Amiel Management, which were empty shell companies registered in Barbados," a special report from Hollingers board stated.
"Even though these entities did nothing to earn fees, and did not have either employees or real operations, paying management fees to them on the pretense that they performed services allowed the recipients the prospect of transforming a portion of the enormous management fees that would otherwise most likely have been taxable in Canada (where the payments were received), or possibly the U.S. (where services were largely performed), into dividends received in Barbados (where nothing occurred)," the report stated.
NOTE: For more good examples of what tax journalist Lucy Komisar calls the corporate bag of tricks called profit laundering, check out the Tax Justice Network, and the Komisar Scoop -- who just revealed where did Rupert Murdoch get $5 billion to buy up the Wall St. Journal? (Answer: A collection of 800 offshore companies that helped him cut corporate taxes to 6%!)
Iraq Wounded Fight for Insurance Coverage
CBS Evening News and ABC Nightline are both working stories about wounded civilian contractors fighting for insurance coverage from their employers.It's a very rich story. The Pentagon's privatizing of military support services may or may not save money, but it certainly does privatize the human toll of war.Civilians are coming home by the thousands with injuries sustained in Iraq. Whenever the Pentagon and the news media report US casualties -- the 500 dead (or more) working under US contractors are ignored.The story is also a nightmare for many civilians serving in Iraq. A good number of them went to Iraq because they were making good money -- and, as the president told them, "major combat is over."Thousands are suffering from battle fatigue -- once known as soldier's heart and now even more widely known as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).Veterans struggled with the Pentagon and Department of Veterans Affairs for years to get the acknowledgement and support for the debilitating condition. PTSD is one reason for the huge homeless problem among Vietnam vets.Now civilian contractors are fighting the same battle -- not to mention the struggle to get coverage and disability benefits for physical injury.(The first story to tackle the issue of civilians fighting for their insurance payments, Adding Insult to Injury, appeared under my byline. Just one of many stories framed by me that set the tone for major news organizations to follow. Anytime you guys want to send a check or share some credit, please do.)My understanding is that both CBS and ABC are relying heavily on two fabulously strong sources for their insurance angles: Jan Crowder and Houston attorney Gary Pitts.Jana runs several Web sites to help support contractors working in Iraq and their families, most notably Contractors in Iraq. Gary Pitts represents dozens of clients suing companies for their coverage. Jana, me and CorpWatch regularly refer potential clients to him.While ABC and CBS will undoubtedly focus on KBR truck drivers (some riveting amateur video of insurgent attacks shot by truckers is available -- and in the hands of CBS), there are plenty of other companies in the same pickle, including Titan, which provides translators to the Army in Iraq. The San Diego Union ran an excellent series on the issue.
Mine Tragedy Spun as Profit Opportunity
Spectacular. Bad-boy investment celebrity Jim Cramer, host of CNBC's "Mad Money with Jim Cramer," actually recommended today investing in "mine-safety" stocks. Not because it is important for us as a country to pick up the slack left by a "paper tiger" federal mine safety agency, but because there could be lots of dough in it.
According to the blog Crooks and Liars, Cramer actually said ""we're not partisan here... we're just looking to make money, and the Bush Administration has been negligent." And why on earth not cash in?
There is simply something obscene about the very suggestion.


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I have been so burned out on comic books, Image is the only company that has anything that looks even remotely interesting.
Being Catholic (and being the guy who introduced you slugs to the Battle Pope), I had to include the link to the trailer for "Loaded Bible." Unfortunately, a vampire-slaying Jesus is just not as interesting to me as a philandering pope with super strength and a bumbling Jesus as his sidekick. I so LOVE the bumbling Jesus.
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Baby, it's cold outside! I mean seriously… can't just about EVERYONE say that. Even us hillbillies down in Texas are freezing our boots off. I'm sitting at home today thrilled to have a day off due to freezing rain, sleet and light snow. So I'm slow-cooking a roast with potatoes and carrots and finding time to catch up on all kinds of things. Including a recent project!
A little over four years ago I knew this project would happen, I knew how it would look, and I knew I would love it. Now I can finally say IT'S DONE!
I'm talking about a tiny little nook or what was an open style closet at the end of our hallway in the studio area. When we moved in, there was a simple bar across the top of this "nook" and we assumed it was a place to hang coats as the previous owner met with clients for his architecture business. Since I already have a coat closet I certainly didn't need another one. HELLO we live in Texas and you get to wear a coat about 10 times a year. (DEFINITELY today!) If I could have turned it into a swimming pool I would have. A little small for a pool though, so lets put some shelves in it!
First I painted the inside a nice gray color to match the grays throughout this space. I thought it would be nice to have a pop of color, even if it was kind of dark. There's so much more light in this space now I felt like I could get away with it. Especially since this nook has a skylight right over it.
I decided on the height and how many shelves I wanted and marked them with tape for Richie. He then cut cleats for each side of the wall to hold the shelves. Using a level and some help from his lovely assistant he got them nice and even. Lets face it, nothing in this nook was square so we had to fake it a little.
After getting the shelves in I realized that I hated being able to see the cleats. I felt like we could do better and I was planning on painting the front edges black so I decided to add some fake fronts.
I didn't want to attach anything to the front of the shelves because they're solid wood and that would break my heart. Instead, we attached thin strips of wood from cleat to cleat giving the shelves a chunkier look. This also tricked the eye and made the cleat less visible. I stained them and the edge of the shelf black and gave everything two coats of clear finish.
I couldn't be happier with the results. It's now a great display for books and baubles.
Yep, those are left over embroidery hoops that i just stuck together. I always think of my friend Alex over at Northstory when I see hoops. She's the queen of hoop crafts. No reason to throw away the part you're not using, right?!
Awwwww my baby shoes!!! I've been saving them for so long and I was determined to find a special way to display them. I smile every time I walk by. The little photo next to them is of me and my sister Lori. (I'm on the right). You can see a better picture of us in MY PHOTOS. I don't have very many pictures of me as a baby since I was adopted but the few pictures and items I do have mean a lot to me.
The shelves were really hard to photograph since it's such a tight area. You get the idea, though. I think it's a much better use of the space. I pulled the door closed a little so you could see how much natural light that skylight gives us. Love that!
I'm really pleased the cleats are no longer obvious after adding that front piece. Richie always makes my ideas come to life! Such a good guy.
I'm imagining a nice stain and polished concrete floor as I look at these and I'm really diggin' the hallway. Once more thing checked off my list. This was one of those really fun projects that I so enjoyed. The best part of course will be decorating and changing things from time to time.
Excuse that ugly door frame. Haven't gotten to that yet. UGH! So many things to do.
My main goal today is to stay warm, eat well, and enjoy a day off. Hope yours is happy and thanks, as always, for checking in on us.


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Gelsey Bell is a singer, a songwriter, and a scholar. She has been described by the New York Times as the "future of experimental vocalism," an "imaginative," "brandy-voiced," "winning soprano," whose performance of her own music is "virtuosic" and "glorious noise." She performs regularly as an vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, culling from a wide range of techniques and styles to create her own performance works, to literally voice those of contemporary composers, and to explore improvisation.
After many years as a singer-songwriter, during which she released two studio albums, Under A Piano (2005) and In Place of Arms (2010), Gelsey began to bring her songwriting into the experimental world through song cycles and collaborative works. These include Prisoner's Song (2015), created with visual artist Erik Ruin; This Takes Place Close By (2015), a collaboratively composed opera by thingNY; Airs and Interruptions (2015), originally composed for CNDC-Angers/Robert Swinston's performance of Merce Cunningham's choreography, with music by John King – this became the album Ciphony (2017); WIFE (2015), which was commissioned by Avant Media; the song cycle Our Defensive Measurements (2013) for five performers, which was commissioned by Roulette and the Jerome Foundation; SCALING (2011) for piano and two vocalists; and Bathroom Songs (2010), which has been performed in bathrooms all over the world. Her smaller pieces include Spent Horizon (2015), first performed with vocalist Odeya Nini; "Weight" (2014), which was commissioned by Ne(x)tworks; and Locker Room Duet, created with fiddler Cleek Schrey. She also composed music for choreographer Kimberly Bartosik's You are my heat and glare, which premiered in Paris in 2013. Currently she is developing an opera for thingNY called Rolodex. She received a 2017 sound/music grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and both a residency (2015-2016) and a commission (2013) from Roulette and the Jerome Foundation. She is the Exploring the Metropolis Ridgewood Bushwick Composer-in-Residence for 2018.
Gelsey is a core member of new music ensemble thingNY and performance collective Varispeed. With thingNY, she has collaboratively written and arranged music for multiple projects including This Takes Place Close By, IN HOUSE, TIME: A Complete Explanation in Three Parts, and the many SPAM extravaganzas. She has also performed in Vinko Globokar's Un Jour Comme Une Autre, and Paul Pinto's minis and Erin Roger's Trajectories and Chronolinea (released on the album minis/Trajectories in 2016). As a founding member of Varispeed, Gelsey collaboratively arranged and performed in their critically acclaimed adaptation of Robert Ashley's Perfect Lives and John Cage's Empty Words. She has also taken the lead in arranging their three-person rendition of Robert Ashley's "Love is a Good Example" and Kenneth Gaburo's Maledetto.
Gelsey has also had the honor to have worked with a wide range of performance creators as a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, including ; composer Dave Malloy, originating the role Princess Mary in Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (from Ars Nova to Broadway), and as a co-arranger and Pearl in Ghost Quartet; composer Robert Ashley, in his final opera, CRASH, in a part that was written for her, and the revival of That Morning Thing; visual artist Matthew Barney and composer Jonathan Bepler, as part of the vocal trio in the Wake Ensemble in The River of Fundament; composer Kate Soper, in her opera Here Be Sirens; composer John King, alongside Joan La Barbara in his Micro-Operas, as well as Impropera; with Fast Forward and Chris Cochrane, in their band the Chutneys; choreographer Yasuko Yokoshi, for BELL; composers Rick Burkhardt and Brendan Connelly and the Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf, for their opera You, My Mother; in various projects with composer and fiddler Cleek Schrey, as well as composer and glass player Miguel Frasconi; composer Anthony Gatto and sculpture Chris Larsen in their opera Wise Blood; Avant Media, for various performances of the music of John Cage; Panoply Performance Lab, for the recording of their opera Institute_Institut; composer Tom Swafford, who she worked with to develop "This is the Real Me"; and composer Jay Vilnai, for his recording of Shakespeare Songs.
In January of 2015, Gelsey received her PhD in Performance Studies from New York University. Her dissertation, Voice-Acts: Performance and Relationality in the Vocal Activities of the American Experimental Music Tradition, traces the stories of five experimental composers writing music for their own performing voices during the 1970s. She was awarded the Monroe Lippman Memorial Prize for her dissertation and the 2012 NYU Stefanos Tsigrimanis Artistic Scholar Award. She has published articles in Tempo, TDR/The Drama Review, The Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, and Movement Research Performance Journal. She is the Critical Acts Co-Editor for TDR/The Drama Review and the Reviews Editor for The Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies.


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SACCHET, Teresa and SPECK, Bruno Wilhelm. Financiamento eleitoral, representação política e gênero: uma análise das eleições de 2006. Opin. Publica [online]. 2012, vol.18, n.1, pp.177-197. ISSN 0104-6276. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0104-62762012000100009.
This article compares campaign revenue of female and male candidates to the positions of Federal and State Deputies in the elections of 2006, in Brazil. Based on analysis of disaggregated statistical data by sex, provided by the Superior Electoral Tribunal, it was considered if women and men raise different amounts of campaign revenue, and the extent to which this might constitute an explaining factor for women's low electoral performance. Data provide evidence that women have campaign revenues significantly smaller than men and that given the existing high correlation between campaign finance and electoral success, this may constitute a central element in explaining their low performance in elections.
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Encyclopedia Brown author Donald J. Sobol has passed away. He was 87 years old.
This GalleyCat editor will never forget the hours and hours he spent devouring this Edgar Award-winning mystery series. In addition to these books, Sobol also wrote the Two Minute Mystery series from 1959 until 1968. He launched Encyclopedia Brown in 1963, and the books are still available today from Penguin. Here is more from his biography:
Each book in the series contains ten mysteries presented in readable sentences and enhanced with witty puns and other verbal jokes. Solutions to each case are printed in the back of the book, but readers are encouraged to solve the cases themselve, reading carefully, and using a variety of methods, including deductive reasoning, psychology, and careful observation of physical evidence. Ten-year-old Leroy Brown is called "Encyclopedia" because he is so smart that he seems to know everything you would find in a set of encyclopedias. Sobol once said, "Readers constantly ask me if Encyclopedia is a real boy. The answer is no … He is, perhaps, the boy I wanted to be — doing the things I wanted to read about but could not find in any book when I was ten."
The books inspired all sorts of cultural responses: a comic strip, a TV show, a Simpson's parody, an Onion article and an awesome list of the 10 Most Ridiculously Difficult Encyclopedia Brown Mysteries. Flickr user jl.incrowd has collected some classic images from the series, including the book cover embedded above.
UPDATE: If you wish to donate in memory of this great author, follow this link: "Gifts made in remembrance of Donald J. Sobol, author of the beloved Encyclopedia Brown Series, will benefit Children's Services at The New York Public Library. The New York Public Library will send The Sobol Family a card acknowledging your generosity." (Via Sarah Weinman)


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Sithu Aye has always been a shining star in the instrumental progressive scene, standing out from the crowd for his unique flair. Oh, and that's right– he just received his master's in physics too. So on top of all the music the man's released (and in only the last few years,) he's been busy climbing the rungs of academics. The alleged romanticism of musicians devoting all their time to their craft has always rung a little hollow to me, anyways, which is why I think there's something to be said for artists that pursue their work while tackling life's challenges. The end product feels more urgent, since the artist went utterly out of his way to create it. So maybe that's why Sithu Aye's music has always struck a chord with me, because I know it doesn't come easily. He must've spent days upon days fine-tuning his production methods, saving up for the perfect guitar and drum program, and writing such intricate music. That's right– he does all this by himself, if you weren't aware. And while he was getting all of this done, he didn't need to put his other priorities on hold– he plowed straight ahead with them, and still came up pretty damned far in the Bandcamp metal scene. Color me impressed.
So when Aye posted about a new release on his Facebook page, I was pretty surprised. I mean, this specific brand of progressive seems like it would take awhile to brew, right? And yet, in just a few days, he posted the link for the release. Naturally, I had quite a few questions for Sithu– and maybe I wasn't the only one. If not, then this interview should be fairly illuminating– I had the opportunity to speak with him about it, and to ask him a few things to boot, regarding where the album came from, what Aye's been listening to lately, and more.
Thanks for talking with us, Sithu. First things first– would you say that there's a particular concept behind 26?
There really isn't a concept in the EP– it didn't really exist as a thing until a few days before release. Basically, one of my good friends and fellow guitarists Plini released a single on his birthday, and as I had a birthday and was graduating with a masters degree in physics 4 days after that, I thought it was a cool idea to do a birthday single as well (which ended up as 'Mandalay' on the EP.) However, I felt the urge to write more music, so I ended up deciding to try and write an EP during the weekend and release it on the 26th. Being so haphazard, there really isn't a theme on the EP like on my previous releases, but it's more just a collection of songs.
Overall, I spent about a day on each song! Some of the ideas had been there for a while, like the intro to "Mandalay" or that weird melody in the title track, but the majority of the EP is new ideas I came up with in that weekend.
How is the release stylistically different than your recent releases? Do you hear major changes in your songwriting, or are the adjustments more gradual?
It's definitely a lot less heavy than my previous releases, which were more defined by their riffs for instance, as well as that characteristic 'djent' sound that I've avoided a bit on this release. As well as that, I think I focused a lot more on melody. Because of the short timescale in which I wrote 26, I ended up humming melodies as opposed to figuring them out on guitar, which simplified everything down and shifted the focus towards melody. Also, I've always defined my music as 'happy progressive metal,' but this is some of the cheeriest music I feel I've written. In terms of adjustments to my writing, I don't think I've changed my approach that much, but I just wanted this release to sound a bit different.
How did you think fans would receive 26 at the end of the day? It's always hard to predict such things, but maybe you had some type of expectations.
I'm never sure what to expect so I try not to think about it too much. I knew that it was different enough to maybe throw some people off, but I hoped there was enough of what defined my 'sound' that people wouldn't be completely alienated by the changes.
In the span of your career, is there a single release you're most content with? I can imagine your standards change with the more music you make, but maybe one of your releases holds the most sentimental value to you.
I have a sentimental attachment to Cassini, because I was completely unknown when I wrote it and it had every chance of falling by the wayside, like a lot of independently released records.
However, for some reason or another, people got into it– and with a fanbase, it's easier to release something with at least some sense of certainty that people will listen to it. Incidentally, Cassini was also released on the 26th of September which was one of the reasons I called this new EP 26.
Tell me about "Hypatia." What's the story behind the track, and why does it sound so familiar?
I wrote "Hypatia" back in May of 2012 one night when I should have been studying for exams, and it's been on Youtube and SoundCloud for a while now. It never really had a home on a release, and as one of my favourite songs out of all the ones I've written, that was a bit of a shame to me. Although it had more distorted guitar than the rest of the EP put together (probably!), I felt it shared a similar focus on melody and thought it would be cool on 26. All I had to do was re-track the bass and it was good to go!
What musicians have been your biggest influence lately? I ask because I've been disappointed in progressive metal lately– if I can tap into what you've been listening to, my faith might be restored.
I've been loving the hell out of the new CHON EP Newborn Sun, Altered State by TesseracT and Other Things by my buddy Plini. CHON and Plini write such happy music as well, so it's sure to get your spirits up. And I always have faith in this music scene because someone, somewhere out there will release something that will blow you away. It's already happened several times to me over the past few years!
I'd like to thank Sithu for talking with me, and to wish him good luck in the physics field– something tells me that if he pushes through it the same way he has through his music, then I'm sure he'll be just fine. Also, it's worth noting that Sithu's entire discography is "pay what you want" on his Bandcamp. Go take a listen, stream and download his music as you see fit.


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Re^2: fetch row or fetchallby steves (Curate)
|on Nov 10, 2004 at 13:37 UTC ( #406671=note: print w/replies, xml )
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Note that the DBI RowCacheSize database handle attribute can often help you balance your memory/speed tradeoff for large queries. But it depends on the underlying database -- not all can make use of it. In practice, I have found some significant differences in query time/memory when changing this for queries that return large numbers of rows.
For significant database applications I find it nearly impossible to write SQL that works across all. I always end up having to make use of database-specific functions or other constructs. If your application is only going to run on one database it's probably fine to make use of LIMIT, TOP, or Oracle's ROWNUM. It depends on whether your priority is speed and function or portability across databases.
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I hope this is not too late in time.
Alexander Cattanach was my great grandfather's brother, he being Hugh Cattanach.I have found them both listed in the 1881 census lodging together in Stirling where they had come down from Kingussie looking for work as masons.Hugh also signed as the informant for Duncan Cattanach's death.
If you have any other info about the rest of the family in Canada etc I would be interested to hear.
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Re: Need help comparing 4 datesby ww (Archbishop)
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"When i actually return the dates from oracle and compare 2 dates date_cmp works fine. I'm explaining this because the real issue is that i'm struggling with the concept of how to compare 4 dates..not that __DATA__ doesn't recognize the date formats i added for this sample. "
Returning to Date_Cmp, the doc (perldoc Date::Manip)tells us:
Also in the doc, and directly relevant to your desire to compare four dates,
"Compare two dates" is relevant. Comparing two dates is one of the things Date::Manip does; comparing four (without more help from you) is NOT. Since you want to do more, you'll need to change your approach.
For example, you could convert all the date_times to seconds and sort those values, then assign ranks, based on the order in which they sorted (Tedious, but straightforward). Or you could use another capability in Date::Manip, the ability to determines deltas, by comparing each date_date in each row to the date_time of execution, and ranking (ordering) the deltas. Others will undoubtedly suggest other approaches, some of which may be superior to anything here.
Update: Likely irrelevant portions stricken. My bad for failing to consider OSen (happened to be on a Win32 machine at the time) and vintage of said machine's modules.
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Pre-Show Match: The Motor City Machine Guns vs Lethal Consequences: It surprises me that the MMG tag team has not actually been booked on the PPV, as they are one of the most over acts in TNA right now, and having said that, I don't see Lethal Consequences coming out on top here, nor should they. Jay Lethal is in bad need of a gimmick overhaul, and with every new WWE reject that TNA hires, guys like Consequences Creed get pushed further down the ladder of importance. At this point Lethal Consequences don't mean much to the TNA Tag Team Division, so I expect to see fun match here with a predictable outcome.
Nick's Pick: The Motor City Machine Guns
Who Will Win: The Motor City Machine Guns
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|Gold is one of the most valuable of all the metals.
Primitive man prized gold above all other metals.
From it he made rings, chains, and other ornaments
that appealed to his vanity.
Gold, whose chemical symbol is Au, is malleable, ductile, and sectile, and its high thermal and electrical conductivity as well as its resistance to oxidation make its uses innumerable. Malleability is the ability of gold and other metals to be pressed or hammered into thin sheets, 10 times as thin as a sheet of paper. These sheets are sometimes evaporated onto glass for infrared reflectivity, molded as fillings for teeth, or used as a coating or plating for parts. Gold's ability to be drawn into thin wire (ductility) enables it to be deposited onto circuits such as transistors and to be used as an industrial solder and brazing alloy. For example, gold wire is often used for integrated circuit electrical connections, for orthodontic and prosthetic appliances, and in jet engine fabrication.
Gold's one drawback for use in industry is that it is a relatively soft metal (sectile). To combat this weakness, gold is usually alloyed with another member of the metal family such as silver, copper, platinum, or nickel. Gold alloys are measured by karats (carats). A karat is a unit equal to 1/24 part of pure gold in an alloy. Thus, 24 karat (24K) gold is pure gold, while 18 karat gold is 18 parts pure gold to 6 parts other metal. Please be sure to visit www.goldtester.net for gold testing equipment and supplies.
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A jewelry item that is stamped as 10k, 14k or 18k does not
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reality that fakes exist in the gold market, particularly
since gold jewelry has virtually no regulation or oversight.
Sometimes a lower quality of gold will be stamped with a higher
grade marking, or other times it may not be gold at all, but
rather layered with gold in such a way that it is not immediately
apparent that it is a plated item. To protect your investment
against forgeries and to make sure you are getting the gold you
pay for, it is important to test the purity of the gold. There
are simple methods you can do at home without sending your gold
away to an assayer's office.
Procedures For Testing Gold, Platinum & Silver Using A Gold Testing Acid Kit:
To test for the karat value of gold, platinum and silver, you will need the following materials and tools:
Testing For 10K, 12K, 14KScratch the gold piece to be tested on the stone. Next to this position, scratch the appropriate needle (10, 12 or 14K). Place a drop of the appropriate acid on the stone where the gold was rubbed off. If the gold is the same karat or higher, the color of the scratch mark for the gold piece will appear the same as the mark from the needle. If that gold piece is a lower karat, the scratched deposit will become fainter and eventually disappear.
Testing For 18KScratch the test piece on the stone and apply 18K acid. Any gold that is less than 18K will disappear in less than 30 seconds. Gold that remains on the stone is 18K or higher.
Testing For 20K & 24KScratch the gold piece on the stone. Next, scratch any item of known karat (coin or needle) on the stone. Apply one drop of acid to area. The material that starts to disappear first has the lower karat.
Testing For PlatinumScratch the test item on the stone and apply one drop of acid to the application on the stone. If the material is platinum, it should keep its white, bright color.
Testing For White GoldThe same procedure for platinum can be used for 18K white gold. The material on the stone should start changing to a light bronze in about three minutes. For 14K white gold, the material on the stone should disappear in 15 seconds.
Testing For SilverPlace a drop of acid on the object to be tested.
90 to 100% silver, the acid will show a creamy color.
77-90% silver, the acid turns a gray color.
65-75% silver, then the acid will show a light green color.
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Halloween is all about scary. Haunted houses, witches, ghosts and goblins are all the rage.
For most people, the least scary part of Halloween is the bag full of treats that is collected on Halloween night. Not so for parents of kids with food allergies. If your child has a peanut or tree nut allergy, trick-or-treating is an especially frightening activity. That's because so many candies have peanuts or tree nuts in them or are produced near nuts in the candy factory. For many peanut and tree nut allergic kids, even a trace of the allergen can cause a serious reaction. That's why we parents are so on edge on Halloween night.
How do we cope? Here are 5 things you can do to have a Happy Halloween with food allergies:
Happy Halloween!
For a delicious Halloween dessert, check out the Pumpkin Bars recipe in the Recipe Index.


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Well, well, well….
Conservatives remember the things that Hillary said to then Senator Barack Obama, but Democrats and Socialist may need a flashback reminder.
Here is Hillary Clinton scolding Obama about false and discrediting information in a campaign mailer. Funny, I thought that she just did this very thing to socialist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. She also had her daughter Chelsea join in on the lies against Bernie Sanders. However you see it, it is a clear case of blatant hypocrisy by Hillary Clinton in 2016.
H/T The Right Scoop ~ Soopermexican
Ugh if Bernie or the Republicans don't beat her we're gonna have to listen to that high-toned harpy yell at us for four years.


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Filter Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt through Korean director Park Chan-wook's off-kilter sensibilities, and the result is Stoker, Chan-wook's English language debut feature. It's a nicely shot thriller that's very well-acted, but methodical pacing, a nontraditional story, and some intense violence could easily alienate audiences unfamiliar with the director's prior filmography.
India (Mia Wasikowska) is an overly serious high school girl whose father dies in a car crash on her 18th birthday. As friends and neighbors gather at her mother's (Nicole Kidman) gothic mansion to mourn the family's loss, India is surprised to meet an uncle she never knew existed, the perfectly-groomed and handsome Charlie (Matthew Goode). He's mysterious, well-traveled, and India's mother seems to be taking an inappropriate interest in him while he stays in their home. Charlie, however, is more concerned with India; he shows up at her school, follows her around, and fixes his steely gaze on her at every opportunity. She avoids him at first, but over the course of the movie she finds herself drawn closer to him as secrets are revealed: Charlie is a killer, and India kinda digs it.
Wentworth Miller, star of the former FOX series "Prison Break," makes his screenwriting debut here, and I must admit, the film is a lot more layered and sophisticated than I gave Miller credit for on first glance. He peppers in references to works of classic directors like Hitchcock – the film could almost be considered a remake of 1943's Shadow of a Doubt – and Fritz Lang – Uncle Charlie whistles throughout the movie, a motif that was used to signal guilt in Lang's 1931 serial killer murder mystery M – while also crafting a compelling (if extremely strange) character study of India.
Chan-wook's stamp is all over the movie, from the amazingly detailed transitions (Kidman's hair fades into a shot of a meadow, a door opens in one sequence but someone entirely different walks through, etc) to tension-filled quiet moments around the dinner table. The sound effects are ramped up to mirror India's seemingly superheroic hearing abilities, and when death could be around any corner, even the sound of a light switch turning on can cause a jump scare.
While the film features plenty of blood and some gruesome murders, it is more of a coming-of-age tale than anything – albeit a bizarrely sexual and incestuous one. India's growth into adulthood and her kaleidoscopic relationship with her mother becomes the focal point as the movie comes to its unexpected climax, but some of the character motivations lost me as the suspense came to a head. Having only a few hours to reflect on Stoker, I can't quite pinpoint the film's overall message; once the wave of blood ebbs, I'm not sure if there actually is one. That'll be fine for some, but for a film that so clearly has a lot to say (and definitely has interesting ways to say them), I just wish the final piece came together a bit more clearly in the end. Until next time…