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Dara O Briain once stated in one of his shows that nostalgia is basically, "heroin for old people…. Oh the good old days." I know what you're thinking, what has this got to do with, if anything, the new version of Stepehen King's IT? Well dear reader if you will allow me to indulge for a bit, I will explain. When news broke of this reboot in 2009, I was actually quite happy. Calm down Tim Curry fans, chill the beans. I saw the original miniseries years and years ago. It terrified me, mostly because of Tim Curry truth be told. The miniseries riveted me to the spot and I lost sleep for at least a fortnight. But I re-watched it upon hearing the reboot idea and well meh. The first half of the series stands up but it loses direction for the second half and that ending? Jesus. Woeful. So how does the remake stand up?
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They also have to deal with the terror of the high school bully, in this case there are four and are led by your average local sociopath, Henry Bowers, seriously that boy ain't right! And this is the heart of the story. These kids have a lot to deal with in their everyday lives, terrible adults who should know better, adolescence, puberty, bullies and the clown. Now let's clear something up here. IT is not Pennywise, there that had to be sorted. It is merely the form the entity, or Bob Gray takes as it is primal fear and very alluring to young kids and even bigger kids! It is merely a face of fear that moulds to fit a person's particular fear.
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Alchemy Academy archive
April 2004
Back to alchemy academy archives.
Subject: Help with Zoroastrian context for 18th C alchemy
From: Adam McLean
Date: 3 Apr 2004
I am at the moment trying to grasp some of the ideas
that helped shape the late 18th century alchemical
allegory the 'Most Holy Trinosophia', usually attributed
to the Comte de Saint-Germain though his authorship seems
very tenuous.
What one finds in this text is a fascination with Persian
and what appears to be aspects of Zoroastrianism.
The question I need answered is - what sources for
Zoroastrian ideas would someone writing this work
have had access to in the last half of the 18th century ?
Possibly it would be best to restrict this further to sources
in French.
Did Cagliostro, another contender for the authorship of
the 'Trinosophia', have access to Zoroastrian material,
however imperfectly understood ?
Adam McLean
Subject: Help with Zoroastrian context for 18th C alchemy
From: Eugene Beshenkovsky
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004
Dear Adam,
It was most probably Du Perron:
Anquetil-Duperron, Abraham Hyacinthe *1731-1805*
Zend-Avesta : ouvrage de Zoroastre; contenant les idées théologiques,
physiques et morales de ce législateur, les cérémonies du culte religieux
qu'il a établi, et plusieurs traits importans relatifs ŕ l'ancienne histoire
des Perses; traduit en François sur l'original zend, avec des remarques; et
accompagné de plusieurs traités propres ŕ éclaircir les matičres qui en sont
l'objet / par Anquetil du Perron
Teil: T. 1,2: ; qui comprend le vendidad sadé ( c'est-ŕ-dire, l'izeschné,
le vispered & le vendidad proprement dit), précédé des notices de manuscrits
Zends, Pehlvis, Persans & Indiens ... ; & des sommaires raisonnés des
articles ... & de la vie de Zoroastre
Paris : Tilliard, 1771. CXX, 432 p.
Eugene Beshenkovsky
Subject: Help with Zoroastrian context for 18th C alchemy
From: N J Mann
Date : 6 Apr 2004
Dear Adam,
Athanasius Kircher uses Zoroastrian ideas, particularly in *Oedipus
Aegyptiacus* and *Obeliscus Pamphilius*. These are often linked to
Orphism and Pythagoreanism, as well as Egyptian and Hermetic
ideas, and linked to his demonstration of an imperfect pagan
understanding of the Christian Trinity, along with his interest in the
dualism of light and dark.
(See for example Oed. Aeg. Vol. 2, Tom. 1, Cap. 3, [p. 150] which
"Atque ex his omnibus patet, dicta symbola Zoroastris nihil aliud
esse, quŕm hieroglyphicam quandam symbolorum texturam.
Verům eům de hisce suis locis fusius simus desserturi,
superuacaneum esse ratus sum, ijs diutiůs inhćrere;
quare ad Orphei symbola procedamus."
- From all these it is clear that the symbols of Zoroaster are nothing
other than a kind of hieroglyphic web of symbols. Since we shall
go into these more fully in their own place, I have judged it redundant
to dwell on them further, so we shall go on to the symbols of Orpheus.)
I don't have a reference to hand for the fuller treatment referred to.
In Obeliscus Pamphilius and Turris Babel, Kircher identifies Zoroaster
with Noah's son Ham, and therefore very close to the pristine true
religion preserved by Noah, while Zoroaster/Ham's grandson
Nimrod and his Tower of Babel were largely responsible for the
descent into polytheism.
Since these works are in Latin, they would have been accessible
to most educated people of the period, including presumably either
the Comte or Cagliostro.
Best regards,
Neil Mann.
Subject: Franciscan and Dominican friars
From: Viktoria Persdotter
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004
Hello All,
Does anyone know where I can get information (preferably in English,
German or Scandinavian languages) on the practising of alchemy
among Franciscan and Dominican friars in the Middle Ages?
V. Persdotter
Subject: Franciscan and Dominican friars
From: Adam Mclean
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004
Try this article :
Theisen, Wilfrid.
The attraction of alchemy for monks and friars in the 13th-14th centuries.
The American Benedictine Review, 1995, 46:3, p239-253.
Adam McLean
Subject: Meaning of an alchemical symbol
From: Viktoria Persdotter
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004
Hello All,
Does anyone know the origin and meaning of this
attached symbol?
Viktoria Persdotter
Subject: Meaning of an alchemical symbol
From: Adam McLean
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004
Dear Viktoria Persdotter,
This is from Rudolf Kock's 'Book of Signs'.
He labels it Copper saffron.
He probably took it from the comprehensive list of
alchemical symbols in
'Medicinisch-Chymisch- und Alchemistisches Oraculum', Ulm, 1755.
where it appears as 'Crocus veneris'.
This is probably the oxide of copper Cuprous Oxide, Cu2O
made by calcinining copper in air. It is an insoluble red powder
and was used to impart a deep red colour to glass.
Adam McLean
Subject: Alumphume
From: Adam McLean
Date: 8 Apr 2004
I have been contacted by someone who is trying to decipher
the recipe for the 'Everburning lights of Trithemius'.
One ingredient is proving difficult to identify. It is called
"alumphume" in the manuscript.
Now 'Alum' is easy identified, but what is 'Alumphume' ?
The suffix '-fume' or '-phume' I think refers to something taken
from the chimney of a furnace, thus a substance which is
deposited in the cooler area of a furnace when some material
is calcined. I seem to recall this is how Zinc was originally
collected - from the chimneys of lead and tin smelters.
'Alum', however, when heated does not give rise to a product
that could condense in the chimney.
Does anyone know what 'alumphume' could be ?
Adam McLean
Subject: Alumphume
From: Chris Pickering
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004
Perhaps you could take "fume" to mean airborne particles.
I assume that alum (aluminium sulphate) decomposed by
heating forms aluminium, aluminium oxides, sulphur and
sulphur oxides. The fumes could be sulphur.
Alternatively the fumes could be sulphur oxides, which form
sulphuric acid on reaction with water.
Do any of these fit the context ?
Chris Pickering
Subject: Alumphume
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004
From: Pierre Stibia
Dear Adam
"Alumphume" sounds like "alum de plume". A reading mistake perhaps ?
Best regards.
Joël "Pierre Stibia"
Subject: Alumphume
From: Hereward Tilton
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004
Dear Adam,
The only idea I can come up with is that it is a corrupted rendition
of Alum Plumeum, which according to Schneider's Lexikon
alchemistisch-pharmazeutischer Symbole is "originally a form
of alum crystallised in very fine threads, which nevertheless
was always substituted by the 16th century with asbestos
(chiefly magnesium silicate), which is similarly crystallised in
white fibres." Resistance to fire is of course one of the chief
properties of asbestos, so perhaps one could make a 'top' (i.e.
a kind of wick?) with it which could draw up the flowing sulphur
preparation described.
Subject: Alumphume
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004
From: Anke Timmermann
Dear Adam,
You will find a similar quotable definition to the one Hereward
just sent in the OED, s.v. alum.
Subject: Alumphume
From: Mike Dickman
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004
I'm afraid the French word for alum is generally alun and not alum.
According to Pernetty, for example (he does not have an entry for
alumphume, unfortunately), alumboti is calcined lead and
alumonodig sal armoniac, which he follows with a list of various
aluns, which are salts of various description.
Sorry for the cat among the pigeons!
Subject: Alumphume
From: Adam McLean
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004
Having taken up Hereward Tilton's suggestion for the
identification of 'alumphume' which makes complete sense
in the context of the recipe for the 'Everburning lights of Trithemius',
Sam Van Oort has now written up a description of the original
recipe in modern laboratory terms.
I find this really interesting and I hope that other alchemical
recipes might be amenable to such investigations.
Adam McLean
Subject: Alumphume
From: J. Plattner
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004
Dear Adam,
There is a similar expression in G.W. Gessmann's "Die
Geheimsymbole der Alchymie, Arzneikunde und Astrologie
des Mittelalters", plate XVI:
German: Federweiß
Latin: Alumen plumosum
French: Craie Briancon
Spanish: Soap Stone
Italian: Allumo di piuma
Figala and Priesner (Alchemie - Lexikon einer hermetischen
Wissenschaft, pag. 19) supposed that the expression "Alumen
plumeum" is referring to mineral asbestos, at least this should
has been the case since the 16th
Arthur Edward Waite in his "The Hermetic and Alchemical
Writings of Paracelsus", Appendix III, A short lexicon of Alchemy,
writes at page 352:
(...) ALUMEN ENTALI is identical with Alumen de Pluma or
Alumen Scariola. It is said to be Gypsum and Asbestos.
I hope this will help for a better idenditfication.
J. Plattner
Subject: Alumphume
From: Guy Ogilvy
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004
As-Salaam 'Alaikum,
Rather than 'alum', it's possible that the suffix could be the
Arabic 'al', as in 'al-kali', 'al-khem', 'al-kohl' etc. Then we
would be looking for, probably, an Arabic word that sounds
something like 'umphume'. I have only just started learning
Arabic and my 50 word vocabulary does not include anything
remotely similar I fear.
Guy Ogilvy
Subject: Paracelsian Sword
From: Hereward Tilton
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004
Dear Academy,
I've heard it said (by Franz Hartmann amongst others) that
Paracelsus described cutting an anvil in two with a sword.
Does anyone know _where_ in Paracelsus' work this description
might be?
Hereward Tilton
Subject: ACADEMY : Albertus Magnus quote
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004
From: Rafal T. Prinke
Dear Academy,
There is a reference to Albertus Magnus in the Treatise on
Sulphur by Sendivogius. At the very end he says:
Albertus Magnus says that gold was once found to have developed
in the teeth of a dead man
in Waite's translation/edition - which is abdridged in this place,
as the original mentions that Albertus quotes Morienus as his
authority for explaining that phenomenon.
Does anyone know which genuine or spurious text by Albertus
contains that statement? Unfortunately, I do not have access
to the English edition of:
Albertus Magnus. Book of Minerals Translated by Dorothy
Wyckoff. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.
so would be grateful for checking the index (if there is one)
whether it lists Morienus and thus the "gold in teeth"
Best regards,
Subject: Paracelsian Sword
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004
From: Rafal T. Prinke
Dear Hereward,
> I've heard it said (by Franz Hartmann amongst others) that
> Paracelsus described cutting an anvil in two with a sword.
> Does anyone know _where_ in Paracelsus' work this description
> might be?
It is in _Astronomia Magna_ where he says:
such virtues produce knives and swords which can hew
an anvil in two and cut through any metal as if it were wax;
this art is called _gladialis_ or _incusiva_
[from: _Paracelsus. Essential Readings_, ed. by Nicholas
Goodrick-Clarke, p. 132]
Best regards,
Subject: Albertus Magnus quote
From: Mike Bispham
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004
Dear Rafal
From a complicated discussion on the origin of gold, and the
'mineral power' in human hair...
"... in my own time a human skull was found and seen to have
many bits of gold dust embedded between the teeth of the
suture in the tops of the cranium."
Book of Minerals p.232:
The translator suggests that Albertus "believing that all gold grows
in situ, seems to suppose that the material in the sutures, which
in life would have grown into hair, was here converted into gold."
From the bibliography:
Morienus: Liber de compositione achemiae quam edidit Morienus Romanus Calid
regi Aegyptiorum ..., see Magnet, Vol 1, pp. 509-19
That is:
Magnet, J.J., Bibliotheca Chemica Curiosa, Geneva 1702, 2 vols
Best wishes
Mike Bispham
Subject: Paracelsian Sword
From: Hereward Tilton
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004
Dear Rafal,
Thanks so much for the information. I ordered the Astronomia
Magna but unfortunately my copy doesn't include an index...
is there any indication in Goodrick-Clarke's book of which chapter
or page of the Astronomia Magna it might be?
Subject: Albertus Magnus quote
From: Rafal T. Prinke
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004
Dear Mike,
> >From a complicated discussion on the origin of gold, and the
> 'mineral power' in human hair...
> "... in my own time a human skull was found and seen to have
> many bits of gold dust embedded between the teeth of the
> suture in the tops of the cranium."
> Book of Minerals p.232:
Thank you so much! Could you also tell me if Morienus is
indeed quoted by Albertus as an authority for explaining
of this?
Best regards,
Subject: Albertus Magnus quote
From: Mike Bispham
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004
>Could you also tell me if Morienus is
>indeed quoted by Albertus as an authority for explaining
>of this?
Dear Rafal,
Not as far as I could see - from a quick skim. I stopped at the
first sight of 'teeth' in the context of gold. It seems likely to me
that your reference is a misreading of the paragraph I posted -
but you'd need to read the whole book carefully to be certain.
The index contains 22 instances of gold, several covering a
number of pages.
Morienus is not listed in the index - though its not a huge index
for that book, and he could have been missed.
There is a further complication; Albertus says (immediately
prior to the paragraph I quoted)
[the mineral power of hair] "...is to be explained in the science of
But, the translator notes;
"This curious statement is not, so far as I can discover, elucidated
in any of Albert's books on animals..."
Subject: Paracelsian Sword
From: Rafal T. Prinke
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004
Dear Hereward,
> is there any indication in Goodrick-Clarke's book of which chapter
> or page of the Astronomia Magna it might be?
I have not got the book but checked it on Amazon - they now have
a nice feature where you can search in the text (uncorrected OCR)
actually see scanned images of a few pages of a book. But because
of the limit, I cannot see the editorial explanations etc.
Anyway, this section ends two pages later (134) and is signed
I.12.75-101 which I guess refers to some (which?) canonical
But I remembered there is Sudhoff's edition now available
on line in Digitale Bibliothek Braunschweig - and I have
found this quotation! It is in vol. 12, p. 98, the bottom
paragraph. Here is the direct link to the page image:
Sudhoff's canonical pagination seems to be X,84 - so not
the same as in Goodrick-Clarke's book.
Best regards,
Subject: Scotti Catalogue of manuscripts
From: Adam McLean
Date: 18 Apr 2004
Some years ago while in the Wellcome Institute library I met
by chance an Italian scholar who was going round various
libraries in Eastern Europe looking at alchemical and
magical manuscripts. I lost touch with him, but now I found a
reference in an article by Joachim Telle in Aries to a typescript.
Scotti, Andrea, Catalogo dei Manoscritti alchemici, occultistici
e magici delle Biblioteche della Boemia e della Moravia,
Mailand/Prag 1988/89 (Typescript).
Has anyone seen this ?
It could be an invaluable source of bibliographic information.
Adam McLean
Subject: Paracelsian Sword
From: Guy Ogilvy
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004
Dear Hereward,
I have a copy of Goodrick-Clarke's 'Paracelsus. Essential Readings'.
The reference that Rafal gave you relates to the part, volume
and page numbers in the Sudhoff-Matthiessen edition of
'Paracelsus. Saemtliche Werke' (Munich & Berlin, 1922-33).
This particular passage appears to come from Chapter 4
of Astronomia Magna.
Best wishes,
Subject: Paracelsian Sword
From: Hereward Tilton
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004
Dear Rafal,
Absolutely brilliant! I've been hunting this blasted quote
for a while, so you've saved me quite some trouble.
Subject: Albertus Magnus quote
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004
From: Rafal T. Prinke
Dear Mike,
> Morienus is not listed in the index - though its not a huge index
> for that book, and he could have been missed.
Thanks a lot once again. I will have to find the original Latin
text, anyway, to compare the two. But at least I know it
is genuine Albertus rather than one of the many alchemical
texts ascribed to him.
Best regards,


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Doubt is one of the strongest forces in life that will hold you back from achieving what you want to do in life.
Whiter it is going for a new job or leaving everything behind for the one you love. Doubt will always be there to hold you back. If you let it hold you back from what you want it will always play on your mind as a huge regret in your life.
I am currently filled with doubt when it comes to certain aspects of life, and I am trying to overcome it so that I won't have more regrets in my life. There is only so many regrets that one person can live with.
The doubts plaguing me at the moment are big ones, the first is about being a father, I love my daughter more than anything else in this world, but there is still the doubts creeping in the back of my mind that I'm going to fuck up and do something to ruin her life. I know that this is a stupid thing to worry about but it's the voice in the back of my mind that keeps saying these things to me, I call him Harvey.
He's a malicious bastard that keeps pointing out things I'm doing wrong; he lives in the part of my brain that hates me. He is the one that, when I'm having a hard time decides to compound it by whispering in my ear "Hey, you haven't thought about this for a while. Here is a huge reminder of the things that you have fucked up before in your life." (and believe me there are a lot of them)
So when it comes to my daughter, last night is a good example of this. She wouldn't stop screaming, and no matter what I did she just wouldn't stop. But my wife took her off my hands, and she settled down immediately.
Enter Harvey, telling me that it's all my fault, that I'm the reason that she was screaming all the time and that its always going to be this way. It's not an easy thing to deal with, and last night I gave into this feeling and gave up and went to my bed.
It's not a good thing to have given into, but that's the way it is.
Anyone with children will be able to tell you how heart-wrenching this can be and just how easy it is to give into this feeling, it's horrible.
The other thing that is plaguing me right now is about my book. I have finished writing it and as far as I can see is ready to be submitted to agents/publishers. Nothing is holding me back now.
Enter Harvey, the prick, he's going a dance on the grave of my confidence and singing a little song telling me that my book is shit and that no one is ever going to want to pick it up and that I have wasted my time writing it in the first place.
This is actually a little ironic considering a big part of my book is the main character overcoming self-doubt and getting the confidence he needs to…. well I won't finish that sentence. Spoilers.
So, on the one hand, I have had everyone who has read anything I've written telling me that its great and should be read by more people. On the other, there is Harvey, telling me that they are just being nice and really I'm wasting my time, that I have no talent. He also keeps echoing the words of the Careers Advisor I met with at school when I was 15, "You are the type of person who will only write as a hobby, you will never make a career of it" Well fuck you too person I had never met before in my life. I admit that this has always been in the back of my head and it took 15 years before I started writing again. That's what doubt will do to you.
So this voice of doubt is something that everyone has, and it's the determination to get passed it that is the challenge.
At the end of 2015 I was in a dangerous way, I was in the throes of depression and anxiety and seeing a therapist, (after a friend of mine gave me I kick in the arse and told me I needed help. If you are reading this, you know who you are, I can never thank you enough for that, and you really did save my life). At that point I was really in a bad way, and I have written about this before and won't go into the details again, but the therapist I was seeing told me to imagine a different voice in my head (who ever heard of a therapist wanting to put more voices in your head????) to battle Harvey and tell me that I am not useless and that things will work out.
I chose the voice of the same person that helped me see I needed help. This is something that has contributed to battle the doubt in my mind caused by Harvey, but there are times that when Harvey is a lot louder and convincing.
It's an uphill battle that will always be there.
So there we go.
How do you deal with doubt and that voice in your head? I'd really like to hear others thoughts on this.


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Something I threw together a couple of days before registering - I'm painfully aware that it could well be viewed as a carnivalian combination of dog + mirror + (averted) ice-nine (all topics I've since learned we've got about six billion of), so thought I might as well post it here for pointers. If people think it's suitably original I'll put it in - otherwise I'll consider it a learning experience for SCP writing style. The general theme behind it was something that would pose a security threat to the SCP Foundation specifically and pose some containment challenges without being a terrifying fleshbeast. It's not really horrorific (apart from some mild Eye Scream) but I note a lot of Safe SCPs generally aren't, instead just being curios that the Foundation doesn't want at large in the outside world. The designation was free when I put it together, but now seems to be reserved, so if this does end up going up it may need to be changed.
Points I'm seeking feedback on:
- Formatting: I've tried to base it on established entries but I'm hoping to get feedback on whether it feels suitable SCP-y.
- Class: is Safe actually right? In the 'backstory' I have it upgraded to Euclid as the contagious potential of SCP-1151-2 is discovered then downgraded again with new procedures; but the guidelines suggest that if you can't walk away from it and be sure there'll be no more problems it's not Safe. If SCP-1151-1 were turned loose it could cause a lot of damage (glass turned into SCP-1151-2 is effectively opaque, so it's likely to cause more crashes like the one that led to its containment).
- Tone: suitably authentic? The italic snarky comments by administrators seem to be fairly common on the site. Hopefully the Foundation takes a justifiable stance on containing SCP-1551-2; Incident 1551-████-1 could be toned down if people think it's too harsh - though part of the idea for this SCP is that the worst thing about it is what it makes the Foundation do to protect itself.
- Someone with a better grasp of physics than myself might be able to tell me whether there's a formula that allows conversion between albedo and gloss units, as right now the threshold equivalent is more or less a guess.


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American Flags in Whick.
Proudly Made in America!
How did the American flag grow into exactly what it is today?
Folding up the American flag.
The American flag is a solid symbol of American identity as well as nationwide pride. Likewise called Old Glory, the United States flag has a colorful history and also has actually undertaken numerous modifications from the first main flag of 1777.
Today the flag is composed of thirteen horizontal stripes, 7 red alternating with 6 white stripes. The shades of the flag are symbolic as well: red signifies hardiness as well as valiance, white symbolizes purity as well as innocence and also blue represents vigilance, determination and justice.
Over time, some have actually attributed a little different definitions to the three colors, for instance, the color red symbolizing the bloodshed spilled to maintain our liberty, but the essence of the original definition has actually been rather consistent since 1782.
How did the American flag become what it is today?
It is so much greater than the 3 shades or a "design". Consider the areas around the globe that the American flag has flown, think of the improvement it has undertaken throughout the decades on American soil. It is truly humbling to think about all that was offered as well as given up so that the American flag could fly freely across this country.
The flag that began with only 13 stars expanded to 50 with the addition of new states to the Union. The number of stars on the flag progressively rose to its existing number today in which a new star would certainly be included in the blue field on the 4th of July after the date of each new state's admission.
The variety of rotating straight red and white stripes has stayed at thirteen except from 1795 to 1818 when fifteen stripes appeared on the flag to show the admission of Kentucky and also Vermont to the Union. In 1818, it was agreed that adding a stripe to the flag for each and every new state would no longer occur as it will make the flag appear crowded and also it would make the flag unwieldy. It was decided then that the flag would go back to consisting of only thirteen stripes to stand for the initial colonies.
The American flag is a symbol not just of strength, valor, purity, virtue, vigilance, determination and also justice; it is a sign of freedom. Liberty that has been fought so hard for over the decades. Freedom that has cost this nation and also the families within so much, and yet it is still a beacon to those wishing they had the liberty that the country has.
Folding up the American flag.
Standard flag etiquette prescribes that before an American flag is kept or flown, its handlers must two times fold it in half lengthwise; then (from the other end opposite the blue area) make a triangular fold, continuously fold it in triangles up until the other end is reached. This makes a triangular "pillow" of the flag with only heaven starred field showing outside, as well as it takes thirteen folds to produce: two lengthwise folds as well as eleven triangular ones.
The flag isn't folded in this way because each of the folds has a special symbolic significance; the flag is folded in this manner because it offers a dignified ritualistic touch that identifies folding a flag from folding a common object such as a bedsheet, and also due to the fact that it results a visually pleasing, easy-to-handle shape. This thirteen-fold treatment was a common method long before the production of a ceremonial assignation of "meaning" per of the actions.
An intricate flag folding event incorporating these definitions has actually from then on been designed for unique occasions such as Memorial Day and also Veterans Day. These connections are "genuine" in the sense that they indicate something to the people that participate in the event, however they are not the reason why a flag is folded up in the traditional thirteen-step way.
This is America as well as its icon is the American Flag. Even though many Americans near Kentucky state happily fly the flag outside their houses and also companies every day, it is suitable that we, as a country, have actually established apart one specific day each year to recognize our flag and to bear in mind that it stands for the suitables and also worths that we must aim to support.
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Re: "The bag brigade" (Our Opinion, Jan. 17).
The "we know what's better for you" legislative brigade as usual is only operating with the facts that pertain to their agenda.
For the record: I've been in the packaging business for over 25 years and hence it is my life. I believe in judicious use of our natural resources. I believe that conservative and efficient manufacturing practices are the principles that drive the effective use of raw materials used for the manufacture of any and all products, including polyethylene (plastic) bags.
� Polyethylene is a derivative of natural gas. Natural gas is abundant, efficient and costs are at alltime lows, because we know how to harvest and process it efficiently.
� These reusable "cloth" bags, that are indeed manufactured overseas, are for the majority, in fact, plastic. Woven polypropylene. Polypropylene is a derivative of oil. Hardly a more effective and cost efficient alternative? I encourage the skeptics to read the information tags that each bag must have.
� Polyethylene (plastic) grocery, retail bags, etc., are 100 percent recyclable and can be recycled into plastic bags an infinite number of times.
� Cost and carbon footprint for recycling is 30 percent improved over virgin material manufacturing; harvesting and processing the raw material into "plastic" is removed from the equation.
� Plastic bags are sanitary and help ensure safe food handling. Personally, I really don't want to follow someone in my grocery store carrying around numerous "cloth" bags that who knows where they've been or how they've been handled.
� Plastic bags ship more efficiently, 50 percent more per truck load. More trucks on the highway or less, what's a better use of our resources?
I could continue with more, like the City of San Francisco's plastic bag ban creating a 10-fold increase in truck traffic into the city to deliver the required "cloth" bags needed for retail demand.
In addition to your editorial's conclusions � with which I concur
� remember that someone, we the consumers, have to pay the costs of legislation that bans proven, effective and environmentally sensitive methods.
Bill Davis
I rarely write into this newspaper but after reading this I had to give another side to the "bag issue".
I use reusable cloth bags. I purchased most of them for about 99 cents or less, and I have been using them for years, in fact. Some of them are homemade from cloth scraps. I keep some in my vehicle, and some in my home.
Years ago I did trash pickup in the desert at the El Mirage OHV area. The item I picked up most that frustrated us? Plastic bags. But they weren't easy to get, in fact they disintegrated into a million pieces and blew all over the desert. Our desert is full of plastic bags and more fly there every windy day.
Plastic (bags) end up in our oceans and cause harm to the creatures in the oceans. They only last one use for groceries and then most people throw them in the trash, not recycle bin.
It's honestly about time we got with the rest of the countries.
Robbie Walton
With all the talk about banning plastic bags, it's probably only a matter of time before we in this area are deprived of them. With that in mind, I shall guard very jealously my stock of colored plastic bags that are stashed in my garage.
Why do I save these bags? Well, as it happens, they are the material for the crocheted purses I make from time to time � a good way to recycle something that would otherwise end up in the trash. Friends, who are on the lookout for colored bags for me, have generously contributed to my supply.
So let the bag police go ahead and crack down on us, I have my stock, stored safely behind a locked door.
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A Canadian study, as reported here by the Sydney Morning Herald, seems to show that young children that learn to play an instrument have better memories than children that don't and that their brains are "getting wired up differently".
Somehow, given that Bugs has a mother who plays and teaches piano, violin and singing and a father who plays guitar and a smattering of piano/keyboard, has a djembe and waltzes around the house singing and dancing like life is one great big musical, I don't think this is likely to pose any developmental problems for the lad.
At the very least, we should save a fortune on music lessons.


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Over at Slate a couple weeks ago, Juliet Lapidos wrote a column entitled "Chauvinist Pigs in Space: Why Battlestar Galactica Is Not So Frakking Feminist After All," in which she explores the widely-lauded feminism ostensibly on display in the show. Lapidos calls it "conventional wisdom ... that the show takes a strong stand against misogyny," citing Elle, Wired, and a scholarly collection of essays on Battlestar called Cylons in Americaa. Allowing for some advances, especially over previous depictions of women in science fiction, she ultimately identifies any perceived advances as "attention-grabbing," with "plenty [remaining] to make a feminist squirm." She devotes the rest of the column to exploring the ways in which Battlestar—particularly as belonging to the peculiarly misogynistic genre of science fiction—fails the feminism test.
To an extent, of course, Lapidos is right. The show rarely focuses on the naked or hypersexualized (much less gooed-up and reborn) bodies of the male Cylons; the show is made largely by males and for males, and it follows that the attractive women of Battlestar have their sexuality explored, visualized and, yes, exploited. In no way excusing this facet of the show, it is somewhat difficult to hold this against the show insofar as every other contemporary form of visual media, including those made by and for women, engages in this very same practice. That is, the hypersexualization may not be okay—much less something that honors women—but for television in 2009, it is simply par for the course. Regardless: point taken, and noted.
The rest of Lapidos' points may be grouped into five categories, all of which are highly flawed criticisms. I will engage them case by case.
1. Cally as ultimate retrograde woman.
Lapidos examines the character of Cally (Nicki Clyne), and specifically her relationship to Chief Tyrol and the context of her death, with the final conclusion that Battlestar presents Cally as "a Victorian hysteric ... driven to desperation [not] by a sexist social order but [because] she can't contain her feminine irrationality."
The examination is fair and careful, but the conclusion is seriously wanting. More than anything, Lapidos misses the point of Cally's hysteria: it is not Tyrol's (Aaron Douglas) poor parenting or (lack of) marital presence—such that it would of course make sense for her to seek divorce—but, rather, the devastating revelation that her husband is a Cylon and thus her own child is half-Cylon. This woman who was willing to sacrifice her own future on the Galactica in order to murder the saboteur Cylon who shot Adama, who partook in the insurgency on New Caprica, who lived for years in rabid hatred of all things machine, this same woman, Cally, discovers her husband and son are themselves machines, and the floor drops out. Who knows how crazy any of us would become in the discovery of such a life-altering and game-changing truth? It certainly has nothing to do with her "feminine irrationality." Her sanity is her insanity at this atomic explosion of news.
Furthermore, there is no "message" about "the way to a man's heart [being] through his fist," as Lapidos states concerning Tyrol's waking up from a dream and beating Cally to a pulp, precipitating their eventual relationship and marriage as a central event. The first rule of strong drama is that radically imperfect events happen in the context of radically imperfect human life, as lived by real, flawed, recognizable human beings. We know that, horrific as it is, in real life this event happens all too often. We have even seen it recently in the news with Rihanna and Chris Brown. My wife is a social worker and confirms the sad reality: Men beat up their wives or girlfriends, and separation comes, but promises are made, and then they reunite or even become "closer" (metaphorically or literally, as in the "deepening" of the relationship through marriage). Sometimes this is due to a lack of options, resources, or community; sometimes it lies in the past of either or both parties; sometimes it simply happens for no understandable reason.
Regardless, Battlestar Galactica is a truly great television show precisely because it explores and allows for these kinds of radically imperfect realities. As a male I do not receive a message from the story of Cally and Tyrol that endorses violence toward women; rather, I shudder at the terrible tragedy of real abuse in real relationships.
2. Every woman is dead, dying, or Cylon.
The argument here is deeply confusing. It is wholly unclear to me how the fact that every woman on Battlestar is dead, dying or non-human somehow contributes to the notion that "[w]omen—the human ones, anyway—just can't hack it when the going gets rough."
Some of the examples are flawed. Let us remember that by tonight's series finale, we shouldn't be expecting many of either gender to be left standing. The show is realistic about death, and we come expecting untold casualties in this gritty story of survival. Thus, to use Dee's (Kandyse McClure) suicide as an example of "just one more woman dying" (my false quotes, not hers) is unhelpful and irrelevant, because she has been a main character from the very beginning in the miniseries, and she killed herself in the 10th-to-last episode. She "lasted" almost the entirety of the show's run!
Taken along with Roslin's (Mary McDonnell) illness and the revelation of other female characters as Cylons, this leads to a larger mistake made by Lapidos in her analysis: We must understand sickness or non-humanness not as weakness or an inability to "hack it" but, rather, as an investment in the powerful complexity and depth of these female characters.
Think about it: if the great majority of the dead/dying/Cylon characters were male, we might make the opposite argument, that "only" the male characters were interesting enough to be the "important" Cylons or "worth" killing off. Instead, we have utterly arresting portrayals of a cancer-ridden President leading her people home, of a confused potential half-breed who can't find balance between heroine and screw-up, of an Admiral so consumed with power and authority that she is assassinated, of an intelligent machine utterly caught up into the drama of the future of human and Cylon alike—all played by incredible actresses who more than answer the call! I am at a loss for how this might in any way be to the detriment of women.
(At this point, it is becoming clear, and will become more so later in this post, that Lapidos and I surely share differing views about what might constitute "feminism" in a television show, and/or what might demonstrate a show like Battlestar faithfully taking a "stand against misogyny." It is difficult to discern what Lapidos' expectations are coming to the show: if it "takes a stand against misogyny," so to speak, does that mean all differences between the genders or problems resulting from gendered humanity disappear or have been solved? No other such social problems seem to have been solved in the world of Battlestar; that is the value of the show in a nutshell. This is not Roddenberry's Star Trek: The 12 Colonies of Kobol are no utopia. And going on the run from a hellbent genocidal enemy does not add to social cohesion. Battlestar Galactica explores issues of class, race, war, authority, governance, genocide, religion, politics, violence, revolution, prison, patriotism, torture, and the face of the Other. How could it not explore the twin issues of sex and gender? What would it mean for Battlestar's universe to be "gender blind" as she mournfully requests later in the article? Battlestar Galactica is a gender-full world constituted by the rich variety of male and female that form what it means to live as human beings—both genders treated equally with the profound respect, honor, time, and richness they deserve. To do or be otherwise would be unfaithful to the reality of life as it is lived, and Battlestar is, if it is anything, a product of the artistic attempt to be faithful to the messy glory of lived life.
(In such a way do I potentially (likely) disagree with Lapidos. I state it only to make as clear as possible the potential differences beneath our analysis and understanding of the show we each obviously respect and (hopefully) enjoy, assumptions that make all the difference. I hope that, in my continued critique of her below, those differing assumptions will not make the conversation impossible, but rather guide and illumine the ground and depth of our disagreements for the sake of better communication.)
3. Friendship as sole possession of men.
Lapidos may be onto something in her recognition in the show of male friendship set over against female friendship. On the other hand, it is difficult to find any real core friendship explored in the series other than that of Adama (Edward James Olmos) and Tigh (Michael Hogan), which may imply that women are not being ignored, so much as all other friendships take the backseat to Adama and Tigh's.
Beyond that, it is important to recognize the cross-gender friendships that populate the show, entirely (to my reading) ignored in the column. I hope Lapidos would not want to claim that for Battlestar to be somehow "truly" or "properly" feminist it must meet a checklist of demands for some arbitrary number of positive portrayals of women. To my mind, the point would rather be to create a world in which men and women are written, acted, and portrayed as the equally complex, particular, imperfect, and wonderful creations they are. In that sense, there can be no doubt that Battlestar Galactica succeeds triumphantly.
Thus we see Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) and Helo (Tahmoh Penikett), odd pair that they are, walking through life as old friends and constantly seeking and finding in the other a corollary, known point of contact. We see Adama and Roslin in adversarial respect, then in mutual friendship and only then in some kind of romantic relationship. We see Baltar (James Callis) and Gaeta (Alessandro Juliani) begin in scientific communion, transition into mutual respect, move to broken betrayal, and conclude, quietly, in redeemed confession. We see the intimate evolution of Adama and Athena's (Grace Park) relationship grow to the point of respect and trust, and ultimately a uniform bestowed. And we see the transition from Roslin's relationship with Billy (Paul Campbell) to one with Tory (Rekha Sharma), both unique and interesting in their own ways.
Such examples, among others, ought to disabuse us of any notion that friendship—that is, complex relationship that is gender-inclusive and non-sexual—is limited only to the males of Battlestar Galactica.
4. Rape as unexamined casual threat.
Here is one of Lapidos' most potent critiques: what she calls the "insidious ... casual threats of rape made throughout the series." And when she says that "[r]ape is a trope on the show," she is absolutely correct. Here, to her credit, she recognizes that the show does not condone rape, but she laments "that the writers drop sexual violence into the script so often without comment," as well as the fact that the threat is only directed at women, which to her mind "negates the idea that Battlestar conjures a gender-blind universe."
Again, I am unclear what it might mean for Battlestar to be a "gender-blind universe" and remain a compelling drama, to the extent that being "gender-blind" would in all likelihood entail characters being less imperfectly human than they are. If by the term she means a world in which men are threatened with rape equally as much as women, or that the show could offer more comment on the reality and violence of rape, I am not sure how to reply. Certainly in life, men are not excluded from the threat and horror of rape, and so a complete lack of attention to that fact could be construed as gender bias in the show. Two responses, however.
First, it seems odd, at least to me, to ask for a "balancing" of rape to both genders. The request sounds bizarre. Its oddness stems particularly from my second response: Rape is not a random human-on-human act in Battlestar. It is tied intimately with the fact that two opposing civilizations/races/forms of life view the one as somehow inferior in value to the other. Thus nearly every situation where rape comes into play is borne out in the context of human-Cylon hatred and violence. The human Admiral Cain (Michelle Forbes) orders subordinates to rape the Cylon prisoner; a human interrogator attempts to rape Sharon the Cylon (Park) to extract information (and simply for the torturous "fun" of it); a mutineer tells Helo he plans to "frak" Helo's wife, Athena the Cylon; and the Cylons do their best to impregnate Starbuck, regardless of the effects on her, finding any violence done to the merely "human" subject negligible for the gain of furthering the evolution and progeny of the species.
Here is an extraordinary account of the depths of human depravity when viewing the Other as inhuman, monster, or without value. We think of Abu Ghraib or of eugenics. We know that this horror exists, and that it is so often done by men against women, or at least against "the enemy." Is it somehow chauvinist that the violence has been perpetrated solely against women? I am sure that is possible, but it certainly seems to be missing the point.
5. General inequities between male and female depiction.
Ultimately, Lapidos finds no reason to excoriate Battlestar's writers, as if they have been "sit[ting] around inventing new, technologically advanced ways to denigrate women." Yet because, she writes, we still live here and now and not "then" in the world of Battlestar, "chauvinism creeps into the show." Gender inequities remain.
I have no interest in putting down Lapidos' wonderfully thought-provoking column, so allow me to make abundantly clear how much I appreciated her careful approach to the subject and grateful attention to the show. I similarly appreciate her critical, sensitive eye to the ongoing, tragic inequities between men and women that continue to live on, both in our world and in that of Battlestar Galactica.
I only hope to show that most, if not all, of her concerns are misplaced. I realize, of course, I am the exact demographic she names as Battlestar's key audience: an 18-29 year old male sci-fi fan. Nevertheless, my small hope is that she might see in this phenomenal show not a mere rehashing of an old story that, explicitly or not, elevates men over women but, instead, a compelling, powerful and truthful story about real men and real women in the complex and disputatious struggle of human survival, which, here, happens to be named Battlestar Galactica.
Brad East is the publisher of the blog Resident Theology where he talks about more than just the title including, yes, Battlestar Galactica.


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Top US civil engineers warned of the dangers to New York City from a huge storm-surge at a conference in 2009, only to have their recommendations for Thames-style tidal barriers largely ignored.
Participants in the seminar – ironically held in New York City itself, and including speakers from the NYC Office of Emergency Management and the US Army Corps of Engineers – saw detailed warnings that a devastating storm-surge in the region was all-but inevitable. These included computer simulations of the threat and detailed engineering designs for flood defences, according to the papers from the conference, which were published earlier this year.
Other organisations, such as the Storm Surge Research Group at the State University of New York, had been recommending barriers for even longer and some engineers and scientists involved in the area now say there are parallels with the years of unheeded alarms before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005.
The biggest problems look to be funding – the necessary several miles of barriers would probably end up costing several tens of billion dollars – and the glacial speed of city bureaucracy.
According to reports in the New York Times, the city hired a Dutch expert in 2009 to assess flood risks and protection in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene, and is looking into a number of possible counter-measures. However, the paper also quoted city mayor Michael Bloomberg pooh-poohing the idea as recently as Thursday last week.
"I don't think there's any practical way to build barriers in the oceans," he said. "Even if you spent a fortune, it's not clear to me that you would get much value for it."
Of course, even if barrier construction had started in 2009 it is unlikely it would have been complete by now. The much shorter Thames Barrier took around eight years to complete, for example, while the 9km Oosterscheldekering (Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier) in the Netherlands took 11 years.
Current estimates for the cost of Hurricane Sandy to the US economy from organisations such as risk modeller Eqecat I are running around $50bn, although given the extortionate cost of constructing infrastructure in Manhattan, the final bill for fixing the physical damage element – initially estimated at $10bn – could end up much higher.
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This paper describes a portion of an experimental and computational program (ADLARF), which incorporates, for the first time, measurements of all aspects of the forced response of an airfoil row, i.e., the flow defect, the unsteady pressure loadings, and the vibratory response. The purpose of this portion was to extend the knowledge of the unsteady aerodynamics associated with a low-aspect-ratio transonic fan where the flow defects were generated by inlet distortions. Measurements of screen distortion patterns were obtained with total pressure rakes and casing static pressures. The unsteady pressure loadings on the blade were determined from high response pressure transducers. The resulting blade vibrations were measured with strain gages. The steady flow was analyzed using a three-dimensional Navier–Stokes solver while the unsteady flow was determined with a quasi-three-dimensional linearized Euler solver. Experimental results showed that the distortions had strong vortical, moderate entropic, and weak acoustic parts. The three-dimensional Navier–Stokes analyses showed that the steady flow is predominantly two-dimensional, with radially outward flow existing only in the blade surface boundary layers downstream of shocks and in the aft part of the suction surface. At near resonance conditions, the strain gage data showed blade-to-blade motion variations and thus, linearized unsteady Euler solutions showed poorer agreement with the unsteady loading data than comparisons at off-resonance speeds. Data analysis showed that entropic waves generated unsteady loadings comparable to vortical waves in the blade regions where shocks existed.
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JUST ENTERPRISE/FIRSTPORT - 2 FREE WORKSHOPS IN WICKJUST ENTERPRISE/FIRSTPORT - 2 FREE WORKSHOPS IN WICK Monday 23 October - Telford House, Williamson Street, Wick Planning & Delivery 10.30am - 12.30pm Branding & Marketing 1pm - 3pm Full details and how to book can be found on the website These workshops are FREE and places are still available..
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Do You Know Anything About This Go-Cart?Long shot here but I'm desperately trying to locate a old go kart that I sold a few years ago. A lad from Caithness bought this kart along with two other karts.
Ken Butler - Died 5 October 2017JOSEPH KENNETH 'KEN' BUTLER. Born 14.05.1939 at Warrington- Died 05.10.2017 at Thurso Caithness .
Basic Food Hygiene Course For Voluntary GroupsCaithness Voluntary Group. Basic Food Hygiene Course, Telford House, Wick.
Caithness Access Disabled Panel Questionnaire For BusinessesThe above panel have been working over the last few years to build a website which would benefit people living in and visiting Caithness, in relation to visiting/using "accessible" services for people with disabilities. http://www.caithnessaccesspanel.co.uk/ We are now at the stage that we need information of local businesses that provide services to the public to input onto our website.
Caithness Heart Support Group handed over equipment to Wick GP surgeriesCaithness Heart Support Group handed over the latest equipment it has funded, to the medical practices at Wick GP surgeries. Accepting an ECG machine from group member Janice Macgregor (right front) is Pearson practice nurse Shirley Macleod.
CHAT 100 Mile Helper kits READY TO GOCaithness Health Action Team (CHAT) have now put the 100 Mile Helper Kits together and wil shortly be distrubiting them to Hositals and GP practices. The 100 Mile Helper kits are good to go! First batches going to hospitals today.
Wick event to focus on health and wellbeing servicesTHE county's second Health and Wellbeing Market is taking place at the Pulteney Centre in Wick on Saturday, 21st October 2017. There will be 23 stalls offering information on health and wellbeing services that can be accessed in Caithness.
Caithness Soup - Local Crowd Funding (with soup)Thursday 26th October 2017 7.30pm Mr C's Bar, Thurso What is SOUP? A Crowdfunding initiative for Community Groups or people looking for start up Business or Project costs. The idea is to provide an evening of food (SOUP) and entertainment for an entrance fee, groups will present their project, the audience vote on which they feel is the best and the winner takes home the proceeds of the evening to help them get going on their project.
Living Better with a Long Term ConditionBoccia Group meets monthly on Saturdays - date varies..
Wedding Dresses Display Cash Handed Over To CHATRev. John Nugent the minister at St Fergus Church handed over £794 from the Wedding Dresses display by the ladies at St Fergus Church, Wick.
St Fergus Bowling Club Donates £300 to Laurandy Day Care CentreSt Fergus Bowling club in Wick recently donated £300 to the Laurandy Day Care Centre in Wick. St Fergus Bowling Club Chairman Malky Mackay handed over a cheque for £300 to Laurandy Centre chairman Bill Fernie.
Wedding Dresses Display At St Fergus Church, Wick in aid of CHAT FundsThe ladies of St Fergus church rallied round to help Caithness Health Action Team (CHAT) with yet another fund raiser. Each year they choose a cause to support either abroad or local This year they decide to help CHAT in their efforts to stop continued reduction in local health services by NHS Highland.
Highland Archaeology Festival - final weekend and conferenceIf you have been inspired by all the archaeology news stories in recent weeks you will love the spectacular finale to Highland Archaeology Festival which has provided a packed two-week programme for 2017; the Scottish Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology. The final weekend promises a great way to learn more by providing opportunities to dive in, meet the archaeologists and share your own local knowledge and research.
Wedding Memorabilia Display in aid of CHAT at St Fergus Church, WickSaturday 7th October 10.30am - 3.30pm Call in to see the display and support CHAT..
Viking parliament site in Caithness may have been foundA site where Norse leaders gathered for parliamentary meetings may have been discovered in Caithness. Archeological work is to get underway at Thing's Va Broch near Thurso after "faint features" of such an assembly point were discovered.
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An amazing and effective way to turn around a life of struggle and strife.
March 26, 2014
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When life feels challenging and hard, we find ourselves feeling victimized by life and unsure on which way to turn. This week's show Janese and Anne Millman discuss ways to change the hardships of life to a healthier and more empowered view. They also explore what happiness means and various types of happiness. Come listen in and gain greater wisdom and insights that are shared here with this dialog. When life feels challenging and hard, we find ourselves feeling victimized by life and unsure on which way to turn. This week's show Janese and Anne Millman discuss ways to change the hardships of life to a healthier and more empowered view. Also explored is the meaning of happiness and the two types of happiness. Come listen in and gain greater wisdom and insights.
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Living the Best You with Janese Derrough is a show about living an empowering life, and living the life that you love! Janese will share insights and wisdom that she has gained through her experience as an Intuitive/Empowerment Guide. She'll interview acclaimed guests, and she welcomes you, the listeners, to call in with questions or share your empowering stories. We all learn from one another, and We are the show. The tools and techniques shared will help empower you in your life so you can move forward in a more harmonious and productive way. The show will also help you to listen to your intuition and to develop clear intentions. Each show will inspire you, energize you, and guide you to bringing the real you into your life. When the real YOU shows up in life, miracles and amazing opportunities become apparent to your conscious mind. Each show will help bring clarity and tools to guide you courageously into the amazing life that you deserve to live.
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Janese Derrough has embraced the gift of life. As a child she was mentored to use intuition as a guide in life for herself and helping others. For the past 30-plus years Janese has utilized the skills of intuition, life experience, and practical wisdom to help guide thousands of individuals, couples, and groups to live a more empowered life. Although Janese believes in fate and free will, she feels that it is our free will that we really have power and choice to work with. Her focus is on how you can move into the life that you really are meant to live. Janese's life experiences are extensive. She herself has overcome many life challenges that give her a no nonsense wisdom that is priceless with her guidance. Growing up in a confusing childhood, she has learned to love herself more with tools that are helpful with every new challenge. She has fostered 17 children, adopted five children; wrote a weekly column for three years in a local newspaper, has taught workshops nationwide, and is nationally acclaimed as an intuitive/empowerment guide. For Janese the joy is in the journey. Her latest adventure is hosting Living the best you, live internet radio. Janese aspires to share with her listeners the tools that have helped so many live a more enriched and empowered life!


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General cargo vessel NEWZENBERG disappeared UPDATE: found
In the afternoon Oct 27 Russian Emergencies Ministry issued press-release stating that freighter NEWZENBERG asked for assistance after it seems, 5-day long drift, cuased by mechanical failure. Crew tried to fix problem by own means, but failed. Salvage tug Kaliningradets (IMO: 8227630) left Nakhodka port at 1535 LT, ETA to disabled NEWZENBERG 2200 LT Oct 27.
General cargo vessel NEWZENBERG was reportedly troubled in Japan sea en route from Busan Korea to Nakhodka Russia, on Oct 26 or earlier. Last known position dated Oct 22 in vicinity 40 24N 131 50E, some 150 nm due south of Nakhodka port, Russia. Vessel may reach Nakhodka several days ago (ETA was Oct 22), AIS could go off and that's why vessel disappeared from AIS websites, but the problem is, no call of NEWZENBERG to any Russian Far East port is yet recorded by Russian Port Control System, which is registering all calls Russia-wide online.


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I stand in her room and gaze on this child, so innocent and beautiful in sleep. And the tears gather in the corners of my eyes as I feel every wrong decision and failure as a mom. I love this child more than life itself, but I stand there and I wonder when giggles and tea parties were replaced with power struggles and frustration. When did wonder give way to 9-year-old cynicism? When did this parenting thing get so hard?
I stand and I pray, and I ask God why He ever thought I was equipped to parent this child. I watch her sleep and wonder what happened to my curly-headed imp with the laugh that simply forced you to laugh with her. When did she turn into this strong-willed, frustrating tween, and what am I supposed to do with her?
I look at my past decisions, and I feel the weight of every single one. Did we do the right thing? Did we make the right choices? What could we have done differently? Will it always be this hard?
I know you've stood there, too. At some point, every mom wonders, "Why did you choose me for this child, God?" When our patience is gone, when we feel like we're fighting the same battle over and over and over and over again, when we want to throw up our hands and walk out the door, those are the moments when God steps in. Those are the moments when He whispers, "I chose you because you are perfect for this child. I don't expect you to do it alone. I'm here."
Many times, the choices we have to make for our kids aren't easy. They aren't clear-cut. There's plenty of room for second-guessing. And sometimes we choose wrong. We make a decision that doesn't yield the rewards we thought it would. We find ourselves standing in a dark room wondering what we could have done differently as we gaze on our precious child.
But in those moments, the hope is this: We aren't raising these kids alone. I'm not smart enough, strong enough, or patient enough to handle all my daughters throw at me. But God is. He is our strength, our comfort and our hope. He is the One who will see us through even when parenting these precious gifts from Him gets so much harder than we ever thought it would be. He loves the child in that bed so much more than I ever could, and He holds her in His hand.
And He holds her mom in His hand, too. Psalm 56:8 says God collects our tears in a bottle. Every tear I've shed over these children of mine, God has seen and He has kept. He knows my heart. He knows how much I love them. He knows every hope and fear I have for them. And He is in control -- even when I am not.
So, dear moms, if you're struggling with a child today, if you're wondering why God ever chose you to be your child's mom, know this: You are not alone. God is at your side. He's got your back. Rest in His love and strength and let Him remind you how much He loves both you and your child. Because He loves you both more than you can begin to imagine, and His love is enough -- even when parenting is hard.


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Descripción en inglés de Apples to Apples
The party game Apples to Apples consists of two decks of cards: Things and Descriptions. Each round, the active player draws a Description card (which features an adjective like "Hairy" or "Smarmy") from the deck, then the other players each secretly choose the Thing card in hand that best matches that description and plays it face-down on the table. The active player then reveals these cards and chooses the Thing card that, in his opinion, best matches the Description card, which he awards to whoever played that Thing card. This player becomes the new active player for the next round. Once a player has won a pre-determined number of Description cards, that player wins.
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This picture is part of a series of pictures taken by me during the summer of 2007.
This photograph was taken in Four Corners, which happens to be the only place in the United States where four states come together at one place. Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado meet at the Four Corners. Theres really nothing special about this picture, but I did think it would be appropriate to upload it here since I was one of the places I visited on my trip.


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The small town of Kurri Kurri, in the NSW Hunter Valley, copped the brunt of the wild weather today as strong winds ripped the roofs off buildings and homes.
A brutal storm that swept across Sydney and the east coast left behind damage that would normally be caused by a tornado.
CCTV footage of the main street shows the chaotic storm at Kurri Kurri lasting just two minutes at 2pm.
Winds of more than 100 kilometres an hour hit the town where washing machines were sent flying, roofs collapsed, cars were crushed and trees uprooted.
Two people were taken to Maitland Hospital to be treated for minor injuries after the roof of a community library collapsed in Lang St.
NSW State Emergency Service received more than 70 calls in relation to storm damage and power outages with many reporting loss of house roofs.
Hundreds of homes are still without power at Kurri Kurri, Cessnock and Maitland.
Locals took to social media to post shocking photos and videos of the aftermath of the storm.
A blue Mazda 3 was destroyed when a large tree fell down on it, causing significant damage.
The Kurri Kurri Hotel was reported to have a hole in the roof.
The shell of Kurri Kurri's ambulance practice hall was the only part left standing.
Weatherzone spokesman Ben Domensino said the storms developed along a trough of low pressure that was crossing the state from west to east today.
"Dry westerly winds in the wake of the trough forced warmer, moisture-laden air ahead of it to rise rapidly, producing violent storms," Mr Domensino said.
"A particularly dangerous storm cell caused extensive damage in Kurri Kurri early this afternoon, with reports of roofs torn from buildings and uprooted trees.
"A weather station at Murrurundi Gap in the Hunter District registered a wind gust of 100km/h shortly before 2pm, around the same time a different storm cell produced 11mm of rain in 10 minutes at Cessnock."
Mr Domensino said for the second day in a row, large hail had fallen in NSW.
"Hailstones measuring 4cm in diameter - roughly the size of a golf ball - slammed into the ground at Narrabri shortly before 3.30pm," he said.
"The band of severe storms will continue to move through the state's northeast this afternoon and tonight."
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Oakfield 1st XI v Aston Manor 2nd XI
Oakfield suffered a narrow defeat on Saturday as their recent poor form continued.
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Toora (61) and Malverniker added a century partnership to put the visitors on the front foot at 140-2 before skipper Richard Burnett removed Toora.
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Stewart Burnett joined Mobbs and the pair added 20 more runs before Mobbs, suffering from illness, finally fell for an excellent 64.
This instigated the all too regular collapse as Oakfield fell to 160-6. Stewart Burnett held firm and was well supported by Jamie Brightwell, the pair batting sensibly to put Oakfield back in with a chance.
At 210-6 with 5 overs to go, Oakfield were in the driving seat when Burnett drove a slower ball to cover to fall for a patient 40. The 8th wicket went down next ball as the momentum of the game regularly changed hands.
Brightwell took Oakfield to within 10 runs of victory before he was bowled for 18, before the final wicket fell next ball, Malverniker adding the final four wickets to his earlier century to seal a nine-run victory for Aston Manor.
A disappointing result and Oakfield will be looking to get back to winning ways at Bablake this week.
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Hunningham 2nd XI v Oakfield 2nd XI
Oakfield travelled to promotion-chasing Hunningham on Saturday and claimed a hard-fought draw. Will O'Rourke won the toss and elected to field, but his side were thwarted by opposition skipper Stuart Bird, who made a century.
Wickets fell regularly at the other end with Frazer Grant (2-13), and O'Rouke (3-43) the pick of the bowlers, well supported by Adam Barby (2-36), and Alex Ray and Werno Claassen who picked up a wicket each as the hosts closed their innings on 211-9.
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Newdigate 2nd XI v Oakfield 3rd XI
Oakfield's 3rd XI suffered a heavy defeat in Bedworth. The hosts batted first and racked up 231-8 from their 45 overs.
Veteran spinner Bryan Acford picked up 2-34 as was well supported by youngsters Sandev Hingulage (2-38) and Amit Patel (2-54), while Joey Green and Jack Watts picked up a wicket each. Unfortunately things didn't go well with the bat as Oakfield were dismissed for just 52.


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DESIGNBYBECCA.com --- sounds cheesy
THERSNYDER.com --- I love signing R Snyder, but in case I get married at some point before I die, it would be nice to not have to change my website. But let's be honest that event will not be happening anytime soon.
Those are the normalest ones. But since I will probably be making a logo for myself, I thought maybe I could do something with imagery. I really like bees and the way they look and beehives and the connection with Utah and all that- so I could do BEEBECCA.com
Somewhat odd. Or I was thinking of how in high school people would yell my name like it was a bird or something. I love love love birds. And my friend Sarah Jane thinks it is the animal that is most similar to me (don't know what that means... I will take it though, because I love birds.) So along with that idea I could do BECCAW.com or BECCAAH.com
Problems- I don't spell my name like the Bible and that is how it kind of looks or that my last name starts with a W. So I would for sure have to include some bird imagery.
Last option: In high school my US history teacher would raise his nostril and say "snide snyder." I don't really want that be my nickname for the rest of my days, but it is an option.
Or I could just stay with Beccabury.com but it's weird. I don't really know how to explain it and my design friends tease me all the time about it. So I am trying to avoid this.
Please help.


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